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LAWN TENNIS PROBLEMS DISCUSSED
Annual Meeting Of The Association
London, Dec. 20. One of the most peaceful annual meetings on record was that of the L.TA last week" Marly all the rejolutions proposed by the Council were carried by instant and unani- mous consent: and the one which was expected to rouse some opposi- Won-that enacting that the ae- counts of tournaments should be submitted within three months of the end of the tournament---only succeeded in finding one solitary representative is vote against it.. The only resolition which caused much debate, was the question of admission of the Public Schools Old Boys LTA, to affiliation, with
OFFICIAL CORRECTITUDE. The humorous aspect of the question arises from the fact that it is apparently to come into the forefront of lawn tennis politics. nt the very moment when the re- solution regarding tournament combatttee accounts, which is ob- vously aimed at tightening up the exising. rule, has just met with such complete support.
But the argument of the players that the restrictions of a regulation made a great many years ago have, Inrgely lost their real significance
has a good deal to be said for it. A player may not have his railway are to and from a tournament
a seat on the Counell; this obtain-paid for him but he may have n ed a good deal of support, and the voting upon it was fairly even, but when the proxy votes were cast there proved to be a two to one majority against the proposal.
car sent to bring him from London to any tournament, north, south, east or west. And there is very little difference between that and ay generous host who wishes tu So the Old Boys" must continge; entertain prominent platers, but. their kood missionary work, if not. Ands his private house insufficient unrecognised, at least unaided, forly elastic to accommodate all his the present. The "haves" were, as might have been expected. once again too strong for the "bave
nots:
SIR SAMPEL HOARE·· Sir Samuel Hoare's speech, moving the adoption of the report of the Couric, emphasised the determination of the Council to "leave no stpue unturned" (and presumably. no avenue unexplored) in the endeavour to restore our
lost prestige In International ten-
prospective guests, taking rooms at a hotel for the overflow..
INTELESTING QUESTIONS But it is easy to foresee that many interesting questions will arise the eight weeks rule comes into torce. For example, will a player be allowed to have his ex- penses paid at half a dozen tourna inents early in the season by hos pitable committees, thus using up six of his eight weeks, and then be able to be sent abroad on a Day's Cup of American championship But quite as valuable a pro-trip at the. L.T.A.'s expense into nouncement as any of the others that the president made was that It was the business of the Council to look after the interests-of-the tens of thousands of "ordinary" players and not to think only in terms of "crack" players.
nis
This duty has been so often advocated that. It pleasant to find So complete an endorse-
ment of its necessity com- ing from the highest authority in
the L.T.A.
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"EIGHT WEEKS" RULE During the debate
the Q21 "tournament accounts" resoluton, -the question of the "eight week's Expenses' was brought forward but an amendment proposing the adoption of this form of assistance to prominent players. was ruled out of orner.
It was stated that at the recent
· meeting of the ranked players with
the Council, the players had strongly urged that this country should bring itself into,line win nist foreign countries in adopting the "eight weeks" rule, by which
players are allowed to have their expenses paid for eight week in each year.
There is very little doubt that, in due time and probably before very Inng. his system will be adopted here, for is perfectly obvious that some of our best players can- not afford to spend all thely time playing tennis and continue to pay all their own expenses.
the bargain?
And what players will be licensed have the expenses paid? All?
or only say those in the ranking l'sts? And will such players only go to tournaments where their ex- penzes are paid? And how many tournaments will be able to afford i
to pay then?
And, lastly, will not players who are fond enough, of competing in tournaments, but not sufficiently prominent to be ari attraction to the public, come to the conclusion that t le scarcely good enough to zo on entering against players who are not only "secded so that they shall carry off most if not all, of the prizes, but are actually paid (in effect) to come and play as well?
LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER
There are remarkably few cases -far fewer than one would have expected--where first-rate players of either sex have produced sons
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ARMY-NAVY FOOTBALL MATCH
The above picture was taken during the Army-Navy footfinil match on Sunday which the former won by 5 goals to 1.
LOCAL GOLF
Captain's Cup At
Fanling-
S. Johnson, returning a card of 82-12-70 qualified for the Cap- Course, at Fanling, during the past tain's Cup competition over the Old
week-end, from a field of 53 en- tries. Other scores were: H Overy 91-18-73 and B. J. B. Morohan 90-17-73.
Júnior Championship:-Fanling. Old Course.
The following qualify" for- match play stages
89-T. E. Peace and H. R.. B. Hancock.
90.-B. J. B. Morahan. 91.-H. Overy and H. H. Mundy, 92-T. Low. E. G. Smith-Wright, GS. Archbuti.
93-R. G. Gray, N. K, Littlejohn,
Sporting
Fixtures
TO-DAY
Golf Ladies L. G. U Monthly Medal (Fanling);
Meeting Kowloon Chess Club, at St Andrew's Hall, 5.30 p.m...
TO-MORROW
Badminton. "B" Division, "Ków- loon Tong v. Recrelo; Chinese R G. V. Free Lancers.
Rugby Club "A" v. Army Xy (Club ground) 4.45 p.m.
Shooting. Hong Kong Rife Association Weekly Spoon & Prac- tice Shoot, Army Ranges, Kowloon
LADIES' YACHT City. 2 p.m.
RACING
Artemis And Sirius
Successful
Two ladies' yacht races were decided yesterday when Artemis (Miss M. Whitham) won the event for "A" boats and Sirius Mrs. K. Trenchard Davies that for Mixed Classes Details follow:-
5
"A" Class-Started at 1445
Finished Corr Pos. Pts. Carpenter.. 16.08.05 16.08.05 8
(Mrs. P. R. Richards). Artemis
16.04.11 16.04.11 1 13 Miss M. Whitham). EVC .....
16.04.50 16.04.50 2,11 (Mrs. J. Bader). GoB
16.06.50 16.06.56 6 - 7 (Mrs. L. Stanton).
(Mrs. M. J. Hopkinson)
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W. Woodward, W. W. C. Chewan,,Redshank. 16.00.08 18.08.08 4 9 R. E. H Nelson and R. & Johnson.
95.-R. K. M. Simpson. 96.-J. L. C. Pearce.
REFEREES'
ASSOCIATION
At the annual general meeting of the Hong Kong Football Re-. terecs' Association, prealded, "over by C.P.O. Smythe, it was decided In future to hold the apoual geh- eral meeting of the Association on the second Monday in September Instead of during the active sea- son as hitherto,
The following were elected once bearers for the season: Chairman, Mr. Stokes; Hop. sec. and treasur- er, Mr. D. Kossick; Committee,
Messrs. C.LH. Martin, R. M. Omar and S. MacCormac.
DRAW - · FOR JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP
The draw for the Junior Cham-
pionship (match play stages) of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club is as follows:
1st Round
and daughters of equal capables. But a case which has just happen- ed is of considerable interest-that of the daughter of a very great player rivalling her mother's feat
E. G. Smith Wright v. T.. Low; of winning a championship in a foreign country at the Arst time Hancock v. E. S. Johnson; B. J. B. N. K. Littlejohn v. H. Overy; R. of asking and on her first, adven-Morahan v. R. K. M. Simpson: H. ture beyond her
shores. Thirty-two years ago M'ss May
H. Mundy v. R. E. H. Nelson; R. G Gray y. T. E. Pearce: G. 8. Button invaded England from the
Archbutt v. W. Woodward, J. L. C. | U.S.A. and carried off the ladies' singles championship at Wimbledon
Pearce: V. W. W: C. Shewan. the first time of either of the singles championships falling to any foreign player. Last Monday we read of her daughter, Miss Dorothy Bundy, winning the Vic- torian championship in her first tournament on Australian soʻi.
It is equally well known that the regulation : wh'ch 'permits players at 'a tournament to accept hos- pitality only át a private house. and does not allow them to be put unat u hotel or to have their travelling expenses paid for them. has for years past, In the case of several prominent players, been although "eight years ago, as a quite inost a dead Jetter.
young girl she accompanied
custom
We have not yet seen Mb Bundy as a competitor at Wimbledon.
her
before January 23; second round, First round to be played on or
Feb. 6; third round, Feb. 20; final, Feb. 27,
ENGLISH RUGGER
TEAM
True Blue 14.05.07 16.05.07 3 10
(Mrs. G. D. Adams):
Kittiwake. 16.07.40 16.07.40 7
G
(Miss P. M. King).
Jean 16.08.15 18.06.15 5
Mrs. V. M. Gowlland).
8
La Linda... 16.08.30, 16.08.30 9
Mrs. D'Arcy Evans). Tesi 16.09.03 18:09.03 10 3
(Miss V. A. Buckley).
Mixed Classes-Started at 14,50
Diana
5.
Finished Corr. Pos. Pts. 16.04.35 16.04.35 8.4 (Miss B. Fair).' Dorothea... 10.05.35 16.03.03 5
(Mrs. L Drummond). Eryl. 16.13.10 18.01.14 4
(Miss O. Prechett). Feron
8
16.12.10 18.50.00 2
Sirius
(Mrs. Hodgkinson)..
"
rt
16.14.17 16.27 1 10 (Mrs. K. Trenchard Davis) Widgeon.... 16.12.22 16.09.20 "3 7
(Miss Crawhall Wilson).
SATURDAY, JANUARY 15
Racing. Entries Close for the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Annual Race Meeting, at 3 p.m.
SUNDAY, JANUARY, 16. Racing-Fanling -Hunt & Race Club's January Race Meeting, at Kwanti.
"CLUB, HOCKEY XI
:
The following team will repre- sent the 1st XT of the Hong Kong Hockey Club against the 8th Des- troyer Flotilla on the Club ground to-morrow
at 4.45 p.m.-V. M. Benwell R. L Wallace, E. V. Reed; R, A. Bates, W. Reed, J. E Potter: 8. Fowler, T. S. D. Whitley, G. ER Divett (Capt), B. L. Bickford and A. N. Other.
CHINESE ART SHOW
Since last year's Chinese Exhibi- tion at Burlington House, Mr. George Eumorfopoulos, the famous collector has acquired several im- portant treasures..
"
He has consented to show them to the public in an exhibition of Chinese art which is to open in London in January, in aid of Chi- nese medical relief.
The Eumorfopoulos exhibits will include a fine pottery goblet, carli- er than 200 B... which is one of the earliest known examples of Chinese pottery, and a tenth cen- tury painting which is said to be finer than the Sung work shown at Burlington House.
Lord Lee of Fareham and Major- general Sir Nell Malcolm are others who are lending recent acquisitions. 13
Change In Earth's Size
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EXPLAINED BY RESEARCH
EXPLORATION ADDS TO US. TERRITORY
Philadelphia-Mathematical verification of his theory that the earth expands and contracts rhythmically every three or four years, increasing its diameter anywhere from 10 inches to 12 feet, was presented to the American Philosophical Society by Dr. Ernest W. Brown. Yale mathematician and world authority on lunar motions.
This means that the earth is the answer to the search for the mysterious force which acting upon the moon causes il, up- parently, to be retarded or speeded up along its orbital journey. This is the answer, for example, as to why the moon is some- times early in keeping its appointment with the sun during, an eclips.. **
Dr. Brown spent 30 years comb-systematically throw the astrono ing the records of lunar move-mers qut of position and introduce ments' recorded in the last 200
a periodical system of errors into years, publishing his' results 10 their calculations, he inferred that
and 1907 revisited, England after an International match against Wales ycam ago. Last year, "with the aid the, disturbances must come from
new
interval of more than twenty Jears. - and, playing at the Wimbledon defeated one of our best English girls who was not even born when Mrs, Bundy had last played at the old ground.
While, far from agreeing that it mother when the champion af 1905 Es better to change a law rather than to enforce merely because certain players are able to break it. with impunity. It would appear to be better to legalise the than to go on winking at it. Ex pediency is a comforting word: and, after all, the point which our players make is a strong one, vis: Why should we not do what every other nation does?
Mise Bundy played for the U.8.A. in the Wightman Cup this year. and will almost certainly be, a member of their team in the com-
GIRLS MEET BOYS AT SOCCER
Girls took on boys at football at Caroline Hill on Sunday. The
boys won--but only Just,
the interior of the earth, changing the rate of revolution by as much as one second during the course of a year. As to the cause for such contraction and expansion, Dr. Brown asserted he could 'make some guesses, but preferred not to. "The geologists can carry on from here," he said.
London, Jan. 9. England's rugby team, for, the
at Cardiff on Saturday, January of a grant from the society which 15. is now complete with the selec-enabled me to buy business cal- ton of B. C. Gadnes, the famous culating machines, I was able to go over all my figures, assisted by Leicester international player.
The team is as follow:
Dr. W. J. Eckert, and though it may lad your credulity, we found not a single mistake. I was never sure that my maze of calculations was correct, and knowing no one else would have the patience to
The addition to the United States go through them as I did, I was of several hundred square miles of most happy "Indeed to have this new territory in Antarctica as a opportunity. I hope, though, that result. of finds made by Lincoln before we are through one or two Ellsworth in 1829, now confirmed little mistakes will be found, for it by the British Rymill expedition, will make me feel less like a bul-was formally recorded in a paper ness machine." f
delivered by William H. Hobbs, pro- i fessor emeritus of geology at the finiversity of Michigan.
H. D. Frenkes; E. J. Unwin. P. Cranmer: F. B. Nicholson and H. 8. Sever; E. J. Reynolds and B. C. Gladney: R., J. Longland, H. B. "Töft. HF. Wheatley, A. Wheatley, TF. Huskisson, W. H. Weston, D. L. K. Milman and R. Bolton-
Reuter
CRICKET IN INDIA
Calcutta, Jan, 6,
Dr. Brown, who compiled the Lord Tennyson's touring team standard tables of the moon used to-day defeated the Maharaja "of | by every astronomer, investigated Kutch-Blbur's team" in a three-every known force suspected of in day match, by 187, runs.
| Auencing moon motion, carefully Boores:
working out the gravitational ef- Lord Tennyson's XI: 316 and 121 Yects of the earth, sun and planets,
får 1 dec.
It has been possible to chart the Kutch-Bihar's XI; 167 and 83. course of the moon for long periods with great accuracy. The excess speed which the moon shows at one time is counter-balanced by slowness at another," so that it apparent erratic behavior does not affect long-range predictions.
ing summer, when the match be played in this country. So that then, and In the championships, those who remember Miss May Sut ton's play here in 1905, arið. 1007 will be able to compare that of her daughter with it.
SYSTEM OF ERRORS Finding no possible, disturbance of the earth's crust which would
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Professor Hobbs declared, "British Antarctic Continent, and not, as
*Professor Hobbs at this point in-authorities have insisted on nam- shown; on current maps, an ar- troduced Col. Lawrence Martin, ing this salient of the Antarctic chipelago separated from the Chief of the Division of Maps at Continent Graham Land, because mainland by Stefansson Strait. the Library of Congress in Wash- a limited section of its coast was This means,” he said, "that ington who confirmed this asser-seen in the distance by Capt. John' maps of the region must now he tion by producing a rare mop Biscoe, a British sealer, in 1832, 12 revised with an opportunity being published in Hartford in Beptem years after Palmer's discovery and given for correction of names bec, 1321. Where present maps 11 years after he had. shiled along. which in many casér are wrongly | show "Graham Land,” the Hartford | {tà coust."/Christian- assignedTM
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