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WATER POLO.
KOWLOON AND CHINESE
ATHLETIC DRAW.
FOUR GOALS EACH SIDE.
the Water Polo Lengue yeator y the senior game between, Kow- on and Chinese Athlotio... war
atelied by a large number
ectators who were treated to a st and thrilling game which end- Fin a draw of four goals each, Kowloon were under a slight dia. yantage in playing without impson and Rodger, but they reed the game from the beginning
SPORTING GOODS FACTORIES.
HOW THE RACKET IS "SHAPED AND STRUNG.
"COOKING" A CRICKET BALL
that
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1931.
"VARSITY JOTTINGS. WORLD'S GREATEST
SOCIAL AND SPORTING
EVENTS.
SWIMMING CLUB PICNICA !!
day.
RACE MEETING.
·KING AND QUEEN TO ATTEND.
HOW NOVELISTS OW CREATE. OFT
MR. GALSWORTHY'S METHOD.
THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND.
FINANCIAL STRAITS
OF GERMANY
DUE TO AGRARIAN POLICY.
GENERALOMARKETS??? STRANGLED UI
EX-ARMY OFFICERS AS TEACHERS.
SPANISH MINISTER'S PRO. POSAL TO ABSORB THEMİ
Madrid, June 9.7Speaking at Valencia, Foreign Minister Lorroux. made the surprising proposal that the thousands of officers dismissed from the army owing to the reduc
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Borlin. It la still fashionable The Hong Kong University Swim-
RUGBY, June 15, "ming Club held ar launch, picaie at The Royal Ascot Race Meeting Oxford.—Mr, John Galsworthy hero to attribute Germany's econotion of the country's military for- mic straits exclusively to the animation should be employed as ten- than chers in the 30,000 now schools Repulse Bay on Saturday afternoon, opens to-morrow and Their Majos criticised-the-modorn navel when nual payinent of leas when more than 60 students took ties the King and Queen, who are ho delivored the Romanes lecture £100,000,000 in reparations. But which the government desires to part. The launch loft Blake Fier
La residence at Windsor Castle, are on "The Creation of Charactor in Prof Karl Brandt, of Berlin open in the country
Agricultural University, declares The electioneering campaign for at 2.30 p.m., with the South China to day receiving guests who will Literature" in the Sheldonian that the Government's agrarian the Constituent Cortes is progress
policy is costing the nation being with very activo participation launch (to Clear Water Bay) at a remain at the Castle throughout Theatre last month. distance, and returned at 7 p.m. the week. If the weather con As one who has been trying to tween £150,000,000 and £200,000,000 of the Republican groups, The a year; is cramping the domestic Communista also show the greatest Millions of people play games No members of the staff were on ditions are favourable their Majes-write novels of character cver a market for industrial products; activity in Madrid where big de monstrations acclaimed the pro without knowing how the imple-board as they are away on holities will drive daily during the period of more than thirty years," and in stangling its export trad
In addressing a conference of the
gramma for the distribution of the ments of their favourite pastimes
four days' meeting to the course, he gave an inkling of how bogo National Federation of Wholesale arge estates among the peasants
fine about it, of Wellmanen be
Provision Dealers at. Karlsruhe the the relentless fight against clerical are made. How many lawn tennis
Football' and Basketball Practice, which is approached by n
avenue through Windsor Great The vitality and freedom of professor, said that by import influences and the creation of an
dutins, monopolies, and interfer armed guard of workmen players know how the delicately-
Although the summer vacation Park.
character creation derives, as a balanced racket is mad? Or how
ment has raised the price of bread, Racing will, as usual, be of a rule," he said, from the subcon ences with the marketa the Govern many erickotore are aware of the has started, the few who still ro astonishing amount of care
Good Trade Returns, conscions mind with the cent, above the world's level. The object of these monaures was to
The April returns of Germany's trade, however, show in races for which the prizes are material it requires. In attempt rescue thirteen big estates in East the heaviest offered at any race ing an illustration of that process Germany, where-according to the foreign
of exporta (including irremediably in debt value
deliveries in kind) meeting. In aggregate the actual you must forgive my being per latest established data-5,000 worn a good development. True the pries money exceeds £40,000,, and, sonal for a moment.
On the other hand, the rise in the reparation:
dropped from £43,330,000 to prices of feeding grains mennta
But this decline is with the value of the sweepstake
Subconscious Inspiration.
gravo danger to the 5,000,000 pen- £40,900,000, contributed by the owners of com-
"I sink into my morning chair, sant farms which were the back peting horses, the value of money
a bletter on my knee, the last bone of German agricultural pro words or deed of some character induction, but which were devoted mainly to the raising of pigs and is catimated at over £80,000.
A new totaliaator, which is the ink before my eyes, a pen in my poultry and the growing of fruit largest in the world, has been erect and a pipe in my mouth, and and vegetables. The rise in the price of foodstuffs, the professor said, meant a further lowering of the real earnings of the mass of the German populace at a moment when necessary reductions in their money wages had already drastical ly contracted the nation's purchas- ing power.
id Paget opened with a fast shot 300s into the making cf every batmain. in, the University are not high order as the best, thorough:scious mind instinetively supply corn, and fodder grains to 250 por to the corner of the net, N, Wo will tell you. First of alt.neglecting spurt." They are having breds in the world are competing ing the conscions.
allton sent them further ahead. he Chinese got in a goal at this age, but Railton followed up with Wo more goals. Kowloon marked me with the four goals while the hiness helpod themselves to a econd goal before the interval.
The second half was marked by ser play in which the Chinese howed considerably improved form nd adopted more successful tac tes. They lost no time when with
scoring distance, and they scored heir third goal half way through. he second half. There was 5 vation from their supporters when he Chinese scored their fourth goal aequalise, and there was an ex- iting struggle for the mastery. Then the final whistle sounded.
The team's were-
Kowloon:-0. Angus, Meadows, Witchell, E. Railton, N. G-Rail-- on. Stoker and Paget.
Chinese A A.:-Chan Sck Pui,' Lee Yee Long. Ng Kam Chuen, Tam Chi Keong, Yeung Man Kit, Choi Chok Lau and Chan Tam Cheung...
Argylle ». Royal Artillery. In the junior game, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders gave ovidence of their capabilities by
the 31 runaway Victory over Heavy Battery, RA While the Artillery played a better game in the second half they were, unable to control their opponents who (as ad with perfect understanding
The Argylls scored five goals in the first half and added three later aking a total of eight goals to
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The teams were:-
take the tonnis racket.
Like all stringed instruments, A tennis racket is a delicato articlo, Ash is the most popular wood for the making of tennis rackets. Boech and hickory are used at times, and sycamore, mahogany, walnut and chestnut wood are all necessary adjuncts, but the main structure, round which a racket is built is generally wood from Eng fish ash treca.
The trees are cut into lengths and then strips are taken from these lengths, which, under steam heat, become pliable and yield to manipulation which transforms the straight length into its first stage, commonly known as an ash bond. Thosa aro left to genson. It
is many months before they are passed as being fit to work on
Reducing ProcGES.
football practice every Tuesday and Thursday, and a basketball practies every Wednesday. Cricket practice is held almost daily at the Pavilion,
Athlete Returns to Malaya. Mr. Leo Chwee, Moke, of Eliot Hall, who was to participate in the Kwangtung Athletic Meet, which has been postponed indefinitely, hus returned to Malaya, where he willed on be married at Malacca. Mr. Lee is a good pole-vaulter and broke the University record in this event in 1999, when he cleared 0 feet ol inches. Since then he has battered his record by a few inches on several occasions.
course at a cost of over
£280,000 and will be operated dur-nothing in my head. ing the meeting by over a thousand men.
Their Majestics the King and Queen, who drove from Bucking ham Palace to Windsor Castle on Saturday, visited Ascot en route and viewed the preparations which are being made for the races, and At the last annual general meet-were greatly interested in tests that were being made on the totalisator.
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Medical Society,
When they are properly seasoned they are handed out to thoing of the University Medical So- makers fos transforming intociety on June 2, the following were rackets, The first stage in this process is the glueing of wedge elected office bearers for the session and inset, all in the rough, and the insertion of a piece of wood between the ends of the bond in order to give form to the handle The bond ja of the racket to bot then subjected to a general redue: ing process.
President Prof. W. L. Gerrard, Chairman-Mr. V. Enok.
Hon Treasurer-Prof. L. T. Ride. Hon. Secretary-Mr. Lain Kow
Cheung.
The following wore elected to re- present the students:-Mr. Lim
TOURIST TROPHY RÁCE.
RECORD FOR ONE LAP BROKEN
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Ruday, June 15,
"I sit. I don't intend; I don't expect; I don't even hope. I read over the last pages, Gradually my mind scoms të leave the chair, and be where my character is acting or speaking, leg raised, waiting to come down, lips opened ready to say something.
"Suddenly my pen jots down a movement or remark, another, an- cther, and goes on doing this, hait ingly, perhaps, for an hour or two. When the result is rend through it surprises one, by scuming to come out of what went bofore, and aort of by ministering to acme possible future,
"Those pages, adding tissue, to character, have been supplied from This is carried out with the aid
the store-cupboard of the subcon- of an ordinary draw knife; but sometimes it is found necessary
In the Tourist Trophy Motor-scious, in response to the appeal when the manufacturers are in a large way--to reduce it by the aid Nget Sieu (6th year), Miss L. Todd Cycle Race, in which fifty, com ef one's conscious directive sense, of specially constructed machinery. (5th year), Mr. A. Rodrigues (4thpetitors are taking part to-day, and in service, to the saying grace
P. Hunt on course, P The thickness of the frame is ro-year), Mr. Goh Teik. Wah (3rd over the Isle of Man mountain duced considerably and the handle
Norton motor of one's theme, using that word in
Anderson, Ferguson, Gray, McPhen is shaved almost to a point. This year), Mr. J. A. Gutterez (2nd cyclo broke the lap record by travel-its widest senso. The creation of
Argylls: Christie, Fairbrother,
And Jackson.
Royal Artillery Lt. Christian, Lowis, Lowen, Phillips, Moore, Fail
and Scott.
LEAGUE
TENNIS.
allows room for the handle slips year), and Miss H. Taukasaki (1stling at an average of 73.27 m.p.h. which are now fitted to each side and glued securely,
At this stage the racket looks a very rough and ready. article, but it is now possible for the maker tc start serious work on the racket, as there are no more additions to make, and from now onwards it ia merely a question of reducing, with the aid of rasp, plane and. CLUB LOSE TO KOWLOON, sand-paper the rough frame as it now is, to the finished. article ready for polishing.
On their own ground, Hong Kong Cricket Club lost to R.C.C. by 7 sets to 2 in the "A" Division of the tennis league yesterday.
The scores were:-
C. E. Holmes and A. I Sulli-
van (H.X.C.00
lost to E C. Fincher and F.
Grose
beat W. Hyde and T. Lay
loat to A. E. Guest and C.
E. Millard *ས་མནནཨཽདེས་
H. J Armstrong and A D.
Humphreys (H.K.0.C.)
Jost to E, C. Fincher and F.
Grose
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7
4-0
6-4
1-0
2-0
lost to W. Hyde and T, Lay
30
beat A. E. Guest and C. E.
Millard
4-1
3-6
GW Sewell and R. H. Wild
(H.K.C.C.)
lost to E. O. Fincher and F.
arose
loat to W. Hyde and T. Lay lost to A. E. Guest and C
E., Millard
KOWLOON GOLF.
0
Grent card has to be exercised in this process. It is necessary to turn out a well balanced frame, but the maker must judge for him- self how much wood he can také away and still leave the racket strong encugh to stand the strain put upon it by the stringer.
Once satisfied that the racket can be reduced no further, and having smoothed off the surfaces with the aid of sandpaper, the maker marks off with dividers the
positions in which the holes must be drilled. Having performed this cperation on a special drilling machine and neatly cut the slots for the strings on the outside of the frame, his task is over.
Polishing:
year).
Dr. Au Compiles & Book, Dr. Au Tai Tin, Haulin, reader in Chinese at the University, is now compiling a Chinese history book with maps and illustrations, which will be published soon. 'He is daily at work at the Chinese Library, with a few of his students:
The Jordan Library. More book shelves are being made for the University Jordan Library; the popularity of which is increas ing daily, A large amount of new books will soon be added.
The University Library. During the summer vacation; the
University Library is opened in the morning only (0.30 am to 1 p.m.).
TAKE CARE OF YOUR RACKET.
A Tennis Racket is almost as delicate an Instrument as a violin and should be treated with as much care.
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DAVIS CUP TENNIS.
AUSTIN BEATS KAWACHI:
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, June 13.
character, however untrammelled and unconscious, thus has ever the guidance of what, perhaps, may bost be called the homing instinct
Lack of Individualism,
The last few years have shown A tendency in the novel, to forsako individualism for a kind of com munism, to abandon the drama of At Eastbourne Austin beat Kawa-individual character, exhibited chi 6-1, 06, 96, 62.
MOTORING GRAND PRIX.
SIR HENRY BIRKIN SETS UP
NEW RECORD.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
under high light and high pres- sure, in favour of a well-nigh scientific exposition of the species, human being.
"The specica as a whole has he come the novelist's love, or object of detestation, rather than selected specimens of the species. The ex- periment is extremely interesting especially to those who are mak ing it. It has a vogue. Yet there. are certain primary reasons why the creation of individual charte ter as the chief motive and function LE MANS, June 14. Sir Henry Birkin, accompanied of the novelist may never be ade. by Earl Howe, driving an Alfa quately replaced by the subtle expositions cf the generalised: bu Romeo, won the 24 hours' motoring Grand Prix here to-day, establish- man soul.
"There is a deep craving in most ing a new record of 3,017 kilometresf us to have interest in oneself and 855 metres..
Heart Ralpha Stanley Birkin, from time to time replaced by in- who was born in 1893, is the only torest in the solf of another. This son of the late Sir Thomas Birkin, praving is satisfied by the creation Bart, and is the third Baronet.cf character in fiction much more Both Earl Howe and he are keen frequently an soothingly than by racing motorists and have entered real folk, even one's own friends
had relatives.!! for several International contests.
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A Tennis Racket should never be GARAGE MECHANIC FINED Galeworthy said: "If Shakespeare
The racket is then sent to the polishing department where a 4-0 startling change occurs. It goes in a very ordinary, Icoking piece of wood and comes out at the end a shining object brilliantly polish ed and showing the grains and markings of the woods used. Tho secret of polish is to have a smooth surface. This is obtained in the
If a Lawn Tennis Racket gets first process "called filling in." After this, it is a question of much
Over hard rubbing, coupled with the damp it should be rubbed i addition of a small quantity of with a soft cloth and be allowed polish to avoid undue friction. Ne to thoroughly dry in the air in coating of varnish will ever impart the surface that this method is press, and never put away, in a waterproof cover until every trace able to obtain.
Wilson and Thompson, And Mundy and Hillier are the finalists in the Kowloon Golf Club Open Foursomes, which will be played af on Sunday week...
Last Saturday, the former pair best Russell and Buxton, while Mundy, and Hillier defeated; San- derson and Stoker in, the semi-
inal tica
The racket now complete anve
hang against an outer wall;
for the strings. While stringer of moisture has gone. Never dry inserts the main strings into aby artificial beat zacket a billiard in fixed to tho
Brcken strings should be repair top and the bottom of the inside od at once, otherwise the Racket perative for the stringer to watch of the frame to keep the racket in the shape of the racket he is place while this operation is going will go out of shape, and when. stringing. A "bump" here, or non, and thus all danger of the once the Racket bocamon warped head pulled down" there, besides frame being pulled down? under it is useless. causing an undue strain on the tension is avoided. gut will tend to become more up parent in time and impart an ugly and unfinished look to an otherwise Sewell made racket,
by
Arolding Bumps.
ATTEMPT TO RIDE Ac..
MOTOR-CYCLE
Charged before Mr. Schofield at Central Magistracy yesterday with driving a motor-oycle without a driver's licence and also without the owner's permission, & garage
Shakespeare bad in, hira the mak ings of a great novelist before as it were, the novel was born, Mr. had not chaneed to be an Actor or at least intimately connected with dramatic, enterprise, he might well have innovated the character novel in this country and taken precedenes of Cervantes n the first great realistic novelist."
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BIGGEST NEGRO IN NEW YORK.
A mechanic tendered the excuse that be was running the machine, down.. bill without working, the engine.
Inspector Stimso informed his DEATH OF FAMILIAR FIGURE, der power at the time? Defendant
New York, May 16. James Finch, Worship that the machine was un- side and take a dangerous bend in familiar Agure to hundreds of Har was seen to wobble from side o
way which would have result in lem residents and believed to be an accident had there been a vehicle the largest negro in New York, has coming in the opposite direction died of uremia at the age of 20. defendant was scut with another mandwich man, weighed 678 pounds. The offer further stated that Finch, who was best known as atter to bring the machine to the He was given seven feet six inches garage on the instructions of the in height and broad in proportion,
A Backet should never be rested head downwards on a tennis court Once, the main strings are pulledas, apart from the damp, getting tight it is ap easy matter for the through the holes, the chemicals Thithen, briefly, is the method experienced stringer to thread the of making tennis rackets Like all grazing in and out of the main used for the upkeep of the court trades where machinery takes only strings. He uses an awl to step will ruin any gut.
all part in manufacture, it is each hole as he pulls these, pross difboult one and one which chlla hings tight. Bosides obtaining forr great experience and care on high tension it is absolutely im
oratious Column "Continued on the part of the Eperative.
Min dailiewher, but instead of washing it and with the addition of the silk long he thought he would try to top hat which he invariably wore side it.
Open yette his gigantic stature soon made him $15 on the popular institution among the
Pair of biegroes in the region.
The life of gut used on hard courtan is very tauch akorter than when used on grass courta, hirf
| Defendant" wad'
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more than accounted for by the fact that in consequence of the Easter holidays last month contained two fewer working days than March. Moreover, April, on an average, shows a seasonable drop of por vent.in exports, and this year the decline, was only 6 per cent. A fur- ther slight correction in the figures is required by the fall in the price
Imports show a substantial rise, index from 64.6 in March to 34.3 in April (1928 equals 100). from 539,200,000 to £33,030,000.
In contrast to the world mar-The increase which is normai *at. ket," said the professor, "we are this time of the year-is mainly in unmistakably inflating prices, and raw material and hard Bnished in that way industrial
gradually become impossible, will goods. The excess of exports over
(Continued on next Column.)
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