GOLF NOTES.
[Br R.H.H]-
YACHTING.
5TH LADIES' CHAMPION. SHIP RACE
In the IG & Y class, Speedwell was again first past the post and winner on corrected time.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15th, 1929.
THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR.
AN ASYLUM FOR THE AGED AT KOWLOON,
The
CELTIC SALVAGE IMPRAC
TICABLE.
OWNERS ADVISED TO SAVE
FURTHER EXPENSE.
The text of the superintendent's message is as follows:-
The draw for the Junior Cham- pionship has not come out very The 3th Championship, Ladies' At the foot of the mountains was leated on her bed crying quiet
In "Poor old thing," we were evealy, and most of the likely race was sailed yesterday afternoon
London, December gist: tele choices are in the bottom half. It the course being 1--Channel Racks which rise behind the new aying told, "She wont blind only yester is artwise to give too much atten(P), Kowloon Rocks (P), 3-ground at Kai Tak, where Tele day. She has always helped with gram stating that the salvage of the washing and now she is weeping the stranded liner Celtic is imprac tion to the qualifying round in Channel Rocks (S), 4-Cust Rock graph Path begins it's ascent, is a
because she can't wash any more!! ticable was received by the owners. making guesses at the winner of Bury (P), a distance of 81 miles. high wall round a garden.
"Yes," added another Sister, “Iyesterday from Commodore Bart- wall, the garden it encloses, and found her going to the laundry and the subsequently matchplay, but Colleen won the Handicap class Leach, who qualified first, four being first past the winning post abota ahead of everyone else, is and retaining this position on car the single storey building inside, when I told her to go back. I would lett, their superintendent with the -bound to be a strong candidate. rected time.
were prepared by a wealthy Chinese do the washing he was quite vessel. He has as a matter of fact, already
for you but for God, what can I do joined a ranks of those with single
gentleman as a home for his six- angry she said I am not washing figure handicaps, so that if he
teen wives, but over the doorway if I am not allowed to wash for wants to win the Junior Champion-
to-day is a notice Home for the Gad.' ship it is now or never. Beamish,
Aged Poor." Less conspicuous sed who, if all goes well for them, wit meet Leach in the second round, is apt to be a danger to any oppoa: or other of these ent, and one ought to be the ultimate winner. It is not very easy to choose the finalist from the top half of the draw, but Gilmore is the only qualiber who also qualified for the big Championship. His rounds then were 80 and 88, and in the first round of the match play he took de Rome to the last green before The Losing a very close match.
Diann Colleen Rolls La Linds Dorothea
THE RESULTS." The full results were:-
Handicap Clas. (Start at 3:00 p.m.)
Finishing Corrected Timo. Time 4.33.37 4:30.03) 4.22.38
4.90.041 4.04.20 4.34.98 4.35.45 4.33.12 4.34.52. 4.31.18 I. G And Y. (Start at 3.05 p.m.)
Finishing Corrected Time. Time 4.52.15
4.3.15 4.51.03 4.49.19 Pierrette rum. Josa 4.56.37
4.47.880 4.51.09 Why Wonder 7.. 4.53.04. Wings
4.51.12
4.49.10 Bluenose
4.54.51 4.52.49 4.48.13 4.48.11 4.47.21 *4.45.19
first round of the Championship has to be played on or before, next Ailsa Sunday.
LOCAL FOOTBALL.
INTERPORT TRIAL GAME.
Next Sunday also marks that great event, the annual Battle of the "Blues. as by long standing tradition one apparently has to call Boojum CVDZY encounter between Oxford Speedwell and Cambridge. This year Oxford looks, to hire a good chance of refuting the accusation of decad ence, but with only a very sketchy idea of whom the Blues" are to be and what will be the order of. play, it is not very easy to sce how things will really stand. Owing to the unfortunate fact that other people also want to play over the Old Course, so that the match would be rather at the mercy of the draw for starting times, the morning singles will, I believe, be played over the New Course, though
To-day at 4.30 put. Kong Football Club Ground.
Selected Team Army XI., Hong
PING PONG. FILIPINO CLUB ». HONG KONG
MUSICAL ASSOCIATION.
the fourballs Are on the Old Course. Even though the match is perhaps not quite as serious as an Interport, it is always a pity to The return match took place be be driven from the Old Course,tween the above clubs. on Sunday but I suppose even the new scheme at the premises of the latter and of joint booking for fourballs might resulted as under produce all sorts of complications if the times turned up hadly.
Filipino Club:-V. Fernandez 4 E. Shuster 3, D. Leonardo 3, P. H. Buho 1, S. F. Bamsey 3, T. Leonardo 1. Total 17.
The Government Medien (Kirk
H.K Musical Association-3. and Newton) have reached the final Damatol 1, E. Sabinano 0, C. Fajar of the Governor's Shield, but only do 2. M. Dandan 4, J. Silverio, after a thrilling match with the Education Department (de Rome. Cheras 4. Total 13. and Wood) which finished at the 10th The Education Department stood 3 up at the turn, 1 think, and
Do you try to convert them?
reply.
"Have had thorough pumping test machinery spaces, which de finitely proves extensive bottom
STEEPLECHASES.
After careful consideration of FANLING HUNT all here we recommend that - any further expense towards salvage of ship is not justified, owing toi, ax- posed position and difficulties of approach for craft. Even under best conditions the discharge of cargo will be slow, and, in our opinion, should be continued with arrangements of less expensive craft,
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY · CLUB.
ANNUAL RAUR MERTING. 25, 26TH, 27TH FEBRUARY, AND 2ND MARCH, 1929.
BAFT
D PROGRAMMES and ENTRY FORMS STE Now Ready and may be obtained at the
placed lower down is another notice we asked and got, a characteristic damage, the inaccessibility of which COURSE, HONG KONG CLʊn and
which reads "The Little Sisters of the Poor."
PT
makes salvage of ship impracTM | CavisWAY BAY STABLES
"Poor old. things, they are so ticable. tired, so old. If they want instruc tion we give it them, but they know we look after them for God's sake. In the women's sitting room is a decorated crib with a figure of the Divine Baby to give the message the Sisters are too tender to worry tired old minds about.
Beautifully Situated.
The door way with its two inscrip- tions tells a true story of what you will and inside. There is nothing cold or institutional about the home; the aged poor, 104 old Chinese people, 63 women sad 81 men, one first in the consideration of the
The Home is beautifully situated, Little Sisters' rules, discipline and
behind the mountains and in front "efficiency well second. The mes-the sea, and close around them the sage of the Gospel is not allowed to quiet garden. The whole atmos be a burden to them in their old ) phere is one of peace, happiness and age. though they come, many of security. These old people ask for very little but everything they want them, to accept it as children do is given them if it lies within the They wear their who are brought up in Christian Sister's power, homes, because it is the belief of own clothes, if they possess any, care- fully washed. and mended for them. those who are kind to them and care They are treated not as inmates of for them.
an asylum, forced to live according to the rules which make for the easiest running of the place, but rather as though they were the dearly loved parents of the little Sisters.
WES
From the
gate which opened to us by one of the old men, we passed up through a garden with plots of vegetables, an orchard, brought from Canten by the original
Some of these old people are sent. owner for the sixteen wives who never lived there, and flowers. A to the Home from the local Hos long low building with an archway pitals, it, when well enough to leave, in the centre houses the old people, it is discovered that they have no men one side and women the other. money and no one to take care of in various dormeteries having half them. Others are brought by their to a dozen beds each. In each block, relatives who know of the Home. too, there is a sitting room and There are, of course, unfortunately refectory. Behind this are other always more applicants than room buildings a chapel, wash and cook can be found for. houses and a large round "summer parlour" where the guests of the Little Sisters can enjoy a smoke. The Sisters themselves live in a small building near the gate.
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The Wine Sistara.
There are only nine Sisters to take charge of the hundred inmates. and two of these go out all day begging for alms to carry on their On Every Face A Smile.
good work. The Sisters are from All these old people are over 60, all countries, we were introduced to many of them are bed ridden, and one from Spain, another from all old and weary. Those who are Belgium, Chinese Sister, and a able to help the sisters, the men fresh faced girl from England, but Filipino Club"B"-V. Zafra 1, working in the garden, the women
differd widely, they all shared the J. M. Cruz 3, M.-J. Rull 5, F. in the washhouse, and in every ward though their nationalities and ages Gozalez 1, 1. S. Castro 0, W. those who are stronger than the same happy kindliness which makes others help to tend the sick. Alla visit to the Home so inspiring and Field 0. Total 9. then won the 10th, but Kirk and
H.K. Musical Association "B":-old, all penniless, all weary, and restful. Newton came back with a rush. Blaz, O. Guzman 0, M. Palome playing for golf. Still, de Romeo, H. Dumatol 2, M. Espeleta 3, T. and Wood got a 3 at the 16th to put them 2 up and then thei: op. Jansalen 3 Total 10.
ponents tock hoth the inst two holes. The doctors appeared to have all the worst of the play at the 19th, but a long putt, want down for at and that was just good enough.
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LESSON SERMON, FIRST CHURCH OF CERIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.
yet on every face was a smile as the In the linen room, scrupulously Sisters took us round. Not a smile of servility or politeness, but of peat and clean, liko every corner of genuine pleasure. The women burst the Home, we were shown how into eager chattering. bowing and various gifts of old clothes, men's shirts, etc.. were converted into laughing. All of what they said was incomprehensible to us, and little of garments for the old men and it understood even by the Sisters, women. Most of them had one decent jacket and trousers to come but there is a common language to their new home in, but very faw
no dictionary, and had anything to which spoke plainly of the attitude of these old people towards the Sisters who had given them peace, security, and comfort such as they had never known before,
European Comfort,
which needs
A
I hear that Smith was up in Sacrament" was the subject of Canton last week and holed his the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches tec-shot at the 4th hole at Tung of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday ahan, which I am told is just over January 13th. 200 yards long. The first four boles The Golden Text was, "Let us cost him 11 shots, and he was finally keep the feast, not with old leaven, We noticed that they had Euro faced with getting a couple of neither with the leaven of malice pean style beds, They do like bogies to break the record of the and wickedness; but with the un-them, said the Sister. "Espe
However, he hooked a leavened bread of "sincerity and cially those that are bedridden.' COUTSC. drive into trouble and the record, truth" (1 Corinthians 6: 8).
Chinese bed must indeed be wear just escaped him.
Among the citations which com- prised the Lesson-Sermon was the ing to old bones and the strange- The Exture list which has just following from the Bible:And ness is Hoon forgotten in the un- been issued shows that yet again as they were eating, Jesus took accustomed comfort. One old woman the cicing date for entries for the bread, and blessed it, and break it, Championship, the Jasper Clark and gave it to the disciples, and Cup, the Governor's Shield and the said, Take, eat; this is my body. G. 1. Young Cup has been fixed And he took the cup, and gave more than three weeks before the thanks, and gave it to them, say Championship qualifying round is ing, Drink ye all of it" (Matt.
96: 26, 97). played. It is not of course a very The Lesson-Sermon also included important point, but so far as one can are such arguments as there the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, Science of postponing the
are in favour
DOCKYARD R.C. PARTY. ENJOYABLE TIME FOR CHILD
REN AND PARENTS.
The Royal Dockyard Recreation
Year beneath.
Gifts of old clothes and of shoes are always very welcome, and it is in accordance with the spirit of the Home that the Sisters give many hours to converting such gifts into garments which will be familiar to their guests Pearl buttons and button holes are replaced by the Chinese fasteners to which they are accustomed because' They like them better." In that simple rea sening lies the difference between an institution and a Home.
E.M.B.
THE PLAZA JUNIORS." ORCHESTRA OF SEVEN JAZZ
MIDGETS.
A jazz orchestra composed of seven lads, none of whom is over
closing date for entries as long as and Health with Key to the Scrip: Club held their Annual Children's fourteen years of age, will soon be possible. It, is hard to believe that tures," by Mary Baker Eddy: Party on Saturday the children, making its debut in the Colony.
The true sense is spiritually lost,
brighter, with views" (p. 32).
approximately one hundred
These boys gave
a capital rehearsal
the preliminary work for the Jasper if the sacrament is confined to the Clark Cup and the Championship takes twenty-four days, the time uso of bread and wine. The dis. number aad of ages varying front the residence of Mr. and Mrs... between the closing date and the 'ciples had eaten, yet Jesus prayed 14 days to 14 years, being enter Abraham, at Ho Mun Tin, on Sun-
Committee including playing date, this year, and there and gave them bread. This would tained by a
preciative audience. is no other very obvious reason for have been foolish in a literal sense, Mesdames Bickford, Budden, Gull day night, before a large and ap- This band of musicians who are this space of time. On the other but in its spiritual signification, it Hollidge, Hughes and Jones with "hand try golfer arriving in the was natural and beautiful. Jesus Messrs. Bickford, Vice-Chairman members of well-to-do Portuguese | Colony during the firas few days of Prayed; he withdrew from the Cavanagh, Honorary Secretary families, have been learning music | November might well feel it a little material senses to refresh his heart Guest, Hollidge, Hughes, Brown since they were eight or nine years with spiritual and other members of the Club also old. Every one of them showed Mesars. Johnson and Hopkins a real skill at their instruments and clowns.
they are very versatile, most of The amusements included aerial them singing and dancing well.
To mention two of them, the glide, chute, aunt Sally, etc. About 100 children and parents sat down violin solos of little Freddie Abra to ten, after which the sound of ham were loudly encored, and the an electric motor was heard and eccentric singing o of Eddie Alves Father Christmas (Comdr. Philips, provoked much laughter.: R.N.) arrived in the midst of & The Plaza Juniors will not play Know storm and presented a gift for money but their services will to each of the delighted children no doubt be available at private who gave three hearty cheers for parties and for charity. Father Christmas and Mr. Maci The following are the members kenzie who assisted him to present of this midget band: Horatio the prizes.
Ozorio (piano), Fred Abraham (fat Messrs. Badden and Luck who violin), Eddie Alves (2nd violin), were responsible for the stage Robert Xavier (Ukelele Banjo), effects are to be congratulated on Richard Laurel (Ukelele Banjo), the success of their efforts.
Domingo Fuertes (Ukelele Banjo), Amongst the guests were Mr. and Silvio Souza (drums); Tickner, Chief Constructor; Engr.. Captain Mitchell; Mr. Yapp, Super-
hard that, while there were still three weeks or so before play start- ed, he was nevertheless debarred from entering. Furthermore the order of play in the qualifying feast allows one to hope that a round is published long before the new consignment may soon arrive. playing date, and consequently Actually the hardship of playing there are almost bound to be a the drives off sand is not so very certain number of scratchings and great, and most of the difference a consequent re-arrangement of a due to individual idlenes. A pairs. No one would suggest that man who likes to tes his own ball, the whole list should be re-drawn when it only means taking & pes every time a player scratches, but out of his pocket and sticking it on the other hand the arrangement in the ground, will not always take of the paire does count for some. the trouble to fetch sand from the thing, and, the draw ought to re-box and dirty his bands, and so main intact as far as is humanly the duty is delegated to the cad possible. The most obvious way of die. Apart from this there really bringing this about seems to be seems to be very little difference in that the draw should not be made the feel and flight of a ball, whether until the last moment in fact, at it is played off wood or off sand. the same time as the ordinary start. ing times are drawn.
The great tee famine, bas by now assumed alarming proportions and there are not many golfers who still have left any of those blessed little pegs. It seems to be a very long time now ainces one could buy A box in the Colony, but that at
Continued on r next. Volumn).
ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF intending Electrical Engineer and
CLUB,
CAPTAIN'S CUP (JANUARY 1929) PLAY OFF.
A Leach..... 84-10-74 wina E. D. Lawrence 85-9-76,
Mrs. Yapp; Mr. Hayward, Naval and Lewis. The various items were Store Officer. and Mrs. Hayward; much enjoyed, particularly the Lan Mrs. and Miss Mackenzie and the cers which allowed the elder. mem! Bey. G. E. Hewitt, Naval Chaplain bers present to show the youngsters
whist Vim really meant. and Mrs: Hewitt..
In the evening a dance was, beld, the M.C.'s being Messrs. Jacobson (Oontinued at foot of nezt column)
The singing of, "The King" brought an enjoyable function to a close at 11.45 p.m.
Bong Kong, 16th Dec, 1928. [7109
SATURDAY, 19TH JANUARY,
FIRST RACE -3,00 PM.
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