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RUNS GALORE FEATURE XMAS
HOLIDAY CRICKET
Richardson Hits Fast Century At Chater Rd.
BY "BARNABAS”
SEVERAL CRICKET MATCHES WERE PLAYED DURING THE XMAS HOLIDAYS (ON HOXING DAY TO BE EXACT) but the most enjoyable from the spectator's view point, at least, was the one at Chater Road between the Cricket Club and the Wanderers. The onlookers were treated to a 'merry exhibition of hitt ng. galore. For the loss of only 11 wickets 561 were scored. ....
Runs came
Dickie Richardson, who opened the Club innings with T. Knight war rather on the slow side at first but as soon as he got his eyɑ in he hit well and truly anything that was not a good-length ball. The speed with which runs came off his bat can be gauged by the fact that he scored his century well before lunch.
Arthur Perry too scored his runs kets when stumpa were drawn. at a lively, pace. In his short stay both being not out.
at the wicket. he hit 48 runs which, I believe, included a six With the help of 44 from Professor Ride and 31 not cut from Harry Owen- Hughes, Club declared at 308 for 4 wickets.
C.S.C.C.-RECREIO DRAW.
XMAS GOLF
RESULTS
Christmas meeting results of the RH.K. Golf Club are as follows:-
Old Course.Bogey par, pool won by Major W. G. Harvey (10) one up. There were 43 entries.
Old Course - Medaj round, wen by T. Low 82-12-70. There were 30 entries.
New Course-Bogey par pool wuzi by A. J. Dennis (10) one up. Four- teen entries.
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$35 from entrance fees goes to the S.CMP, War Fund.
THREE WEDDINGS".
AT REGISTRY
Mr. J. Reynolds. Deputy Regis- trar of Marrlages, officiated at the following weddings at the Registry yesterday:
SPORTS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1940.
The Emergency Unit of the Hangtong Police Reserve, winners of the D.C.P. (R) Cup for Squad Drill. Seated from left to right:---Insp. (R.) J. A. Bendall, Offser Commanding the R.U, (R); Mr. 1). Eager||B.C.P.` (K.); Hon. Mr. C. G. Perdne, Commissioner of Police; Mr. Ts'o Tsun-on, Adjutant, H.K.P. (K); and Sub-Insp. MA.R. de Sousa, Instructor of the winning sund. (King's Studio).
H.K. POLICE RESERVE
Orders by the Hon. Mr. C. G. Perdue. Acting Commissioner of
Police
The match between the Civil service and Recreio at the Valley was drawn. The Portuguese lade Mr. Cheng. Tung-choy, Govern- scored 183 all out, thanks to some ment teacher, residing at No. 4, U consistent batting by their earlier Lam Terrace and Miss Carmen With this huge total before them, batsmen. Jerry Gosano was top Lee, of No. 132. Cheung-sha-wan ́ the Wanderers set about their task scorer with 34. F. Baker was again Road... in determined fashion. Though John in form with the ball and took Mr. Mak Kam-chuen, of No. 31, Pearce lost his wicket early on, D. four Recreio wickets for 46 runs. Bonham Road, and Miss Lau Wan- Grose and Alec Pearce defied the The Civil Servants would certain-sheuns. teacher, of No. 9, Tonno-be Club bowling and took the score 1 have lost had it not been for hy Road. to 142 before the former, was well Dickie Richardson who again came caught near the leg boundary by to the fore with a not out 55. and 1. Kilbee
F. Baker whose 48 runs certainly Four runs later Alec Pearce un averted defeat for the Civil Ber- fortunately played the ball into ivants. All the rest of their Bats- his, wicket off the bowling of men falled. "When light Became Knight. His contribution was 12. too bad for further play, they had A. H. Coombes who came in tourth scored 128: tor 4.
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'cket down played very aggressive cricket and was still batting when
The Craigengowe - university stumps were drawn. He had made match at the Valley was another
77 which included a six.
UNDEFEATED CENTURY
drawn efair. Going in first, the home team had 176 runs on the The Club ground last Saturday board for the loss of wickets was the scene of yet another cen- when their innings was closed. To tury. This time it came off the this total, A. J. Hulse contributed bat of Harry Owen-Hughes who 77 and Arthur Hamson 33, both scored a not out 103 for the Club innings being undefeated.
against the "Army. This match, The Varsity replied with 140 for which was a draw, (though the 4 wickets, to which K, Y. Tam, C. Army batsmen tried desperately to N. Matthews and Ser Gupta a force a' decision produced big contributed useful scores.
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Mr. Chow, Long, Staff Radio- graphic Assistant, Queen Mary's Hospital, and Miss Cheung O-yee, teacher, of No. 201, Apllu Street.
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CHINESE COMPANY Patrol Duty. Patrol duties will
carried out as ordered.
INDIAN COMPANY
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN MACAO
Children Entertains With Drill Displays
(Our Own Correspondent) MAÇÃO, Dec. 26-As in former years. Christmas passed away quietly in Macao but foremost among the celebrations were the parties given by the schools, among which the Escola Infantil fand the Liceu Infante D. Henrique
were exemplary,
At the Escola Infantil, Ton Monday, Dec, 23, the little tots entertained their parents and friends with displays of fure drills and "singing.
THOSE PRESENİ
Among those attending were H. E the Governor of Macao, Cmdr.
DR. PURCELL SEES MUCH Gabriel Mauricio Texeira; His
Lordship the Bishop of Macao, the
TO DEPLORE IN SOCIETY Rt. Rev. D. Jose da Costa Nimes;
"I find that there is much to lament in the state of modern England,” said Dr. Victor Purcell, chief of the Department of
• Information and Publicity, in a talk entitled "Thoughts" of":"an Englishman,”. broadcast from the Singapore Station. And, from the lament he passed to a eulogy of some aspects of English lite ...and character that have avoked the ́ ́ admiration of people" all
over the world
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the Chief Judge, Dr. E. F. Mas- carenhas; the Postmaster-General, Mr. Luclame Martins; the "Coloniai Secretary, Dr. L. de Menezes Alves: the Harbour Mastër, ... LA M. Zannatti, and others;
PRIZES DISTRIBUTED
Me Cristina de Melo. Directress, of the Escola Infantil, assisted by Patrol Duty. Patrol duties will
"From lament I have passed to England. We fought a grim war friends, was responsible for the be carried out as ordered
rhapsody, and the two are not in-a quarter of a century ago for our entertaining display given by the FLYING SQUAD
consistent. We are often most survival and after the sacrifice of youngatera. Patrol Duty. Patrol duties will critical of the things we love," be a million of our youth, this war ANNOUNCEMENTS
added. be carried out as ordered.
won But we did not fully
At the Liceu Infante D. Hen Dr. Purcell in the course of his realise the responsibilities of our Forthcoming weddings anoun- EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE speech said that one of the curses victory.
rique. on Monday, Dec. 23. eed are:
Training Course-Part II. Con- of the modern age was narrow
scholastic prizes for 1940 were Mr. Ng Hin-hong, accountant of stable R492 J. Mugford qualified in nationalism the
FELL BACK Refugee Camp. Old Kowloon Ma-Part II of Training Course on think in terms of self-sufficiency, might have played in erecting a
We did not play the part we distributed to winning puplis. by
E the Governor. Shuk December 20, 1940, gistracy, and Miss Tam
of national sims that took no at- (new international order," Other
Prize winners were Ivone Borges ving, No. 4. Plikem Street.
Parade. All ranks will parade count of the well-being of man-nations were indeed at fault but Dr. Oliveira Salazar" prize), Mr. Ip Yiu-cho, merchant, of No. at No. 2 Police Station on Friday. kind as a
Wing Lok Street, and Misa Shiu January 3, 1941 at 17.15 hours had been growing for about three struggle on the old rough and Pinto" prize). Maria de Bousa whole. The tendency we fell back after too feeble Clarisa de Sousa ("Fernao Mendes: k-wa, of No. 187, Peihe Street. sharp. Dress-Blue Uniform for hundred years and had now found ready idea Mr. James Percival Whitham. "A" Company, and optional for its
of the balance of Afonso ("Infante D Henrique" Insurance manager, residing at No: "B" Company.
extreme expression in Na power.
prize), Jose F. Rodrigues (Physical Germany. Shek-O, and
Nor did we recognize that the Culture prize). Miss Beatrice Patrol Duty. Patrol duties will Lenola" Brouwer, secretary. resid- be carried out as ordered.
Continuing, Dr. Purcell saldi:
internal structure of England was Followig a short entertainment To the Nazis, Germany is the fall of timbers rotted by age and of singing and recitation, ing at No. 4. St. John's Apart-
O, EAGER ments.
beginning and the end of every
we were called upon by our sense mccessful dance given by the D. C. P. (R) thing; nothing that is not Ger- of security, if nothing else, to re-senool alumni, was held until a Hongkong. Monday, Dec. 30. man is worthy of consideration build our English social order. Walate, hour,
To bolster up this recrudescence relapsed too ready into the old Three German cultural and Himmler, Gestapo Chief, broke of primitive tribal prejudice. Ges-game of party politics,
In its religious benevolent centres in Buenos Aires the first sod for the erection Inman science has been turned intu
Chil tmas. 23. usual, featured This was partly the result of our special. midnight services at all. Batting Arst, Club put up the The Volunteers last Sunday had have been raided by order of the the Cracow district or police bara pariot. She is forced to prosti- English tradition or compromise churches which were crowded.
tute her integrity. to repudiats we have always been, opposed to measure against Nazi anti-Argen-that part of Poland tine activities.
veal. in paying lip-service to throur remarkable faculty to accept spurious theory · "of "Rlont and so much change as will avert re- Race.
volution. This was our tolerai.co. But our tolerance, resistent at the Now Morality herself, nothing if same time to new ideas, has in not-universal, has been shown the some respects led us astray. We door. Her spirit had long been have been too much inclined to exiled from Nazi Germany, but up laissez faire.
I may sound a little un-English countenanced it not revered, Now my critical approach to the will be held from Jan. 6 to 11, 1941,
scores on both sides.
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ONE-SIDED AFFAIR
huge score of 202 for 3 wickets de-a very strong team out against the Argentine Federal Court as a racks, to be named after him, in the truths she has helped to re violent change, and it has been
clared, thanks to Oven-Hughes' Royal Scots and in consequence century and T. Knight's 51. These the whole-day match at Sockunpoo two batsmen between them nearly turned out to be a one-sided affair, put up a bundred on the board be- the Volunteers winning by 2001 fore Knight was caught by Tropp runs. off Murphy.
Donald Anderson who has been Army attacked the bowling from a great form with the bat this the word go vand soon lost both season came off with yet another Major Grose and L/Cpl. Logan century. He scored 117 not out with only 32 runs on the board, and enabled the Volunteers to de- Alec Pearce and Sgt. Webb, how- clare at 278 for six wickets. ever, stayed long enough at the Against the deadly bowling of wicket to score 81, runs before the McLellan who took five wickets for latter was clean bowled by Dewar, only 13 runs. the Royal Scots baf-1 Deface Pearce soon after was caught by ting collapsed. They were all out Kilbée off Disley. He had scored 54 for only 78 runa.. Major Godley runs, including a six, which he hit was the only batsman who was able Into, Des Voeux Road. When to cope with the bowling. He stumps were drawn Army had 176 scored 32.
on the board for the loss of 8 wie-
kets, Captain Skipworth's contribu-
tion being 26.
FINE WIN FOR B.C.C.
porated in the Reich.
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The Kowloon Cricket Club, on the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club 17 Simpleton their own ground, scored a
fine sailed yesterday afternoon result- victory over the Indian R.C. Faced, ed as follows:-
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in just over the hour, the K.C.C. True Blue batsmen collared the Indian bowl!
ing so effectively that they put up Redshank the required number of runs on the board In just an hour.
!The Indians batted frst but they soon last A. H. Rumjahn who was brilliantly ran out by Reggie Broadbridge, and Khasa Nazarını, A. H. Madar, however, dug himself in and refused to take any chances with the bowling. However, his
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batting did brighten up a bit to- SPORTING FIXTURES 30 Extreme in
wards the end when a declaration
competition.
TODAY
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was imminent. He was bowled by GOLF-Entries close for Ross Cup 32 Therefore Anderson for 60 runs fust before the IR.C. Innings came to a close. with their score standing at 139 for 7 wickets, Fatty Minu helped with a breezy 31.
J BOWLING ATTACKED Donald Anderson and Duggle Hung opened the K.C.C. innings, The former immediately attacked the bowling and 50 was on the board in a little over 15 minutes.. Then Duggle Hung, too opened out his shoulders to such good effect that he hit a six of Minu, a ra“ markable feat considering the size of the KO.C. ground and the short- of the batsman's stature. Incidentally, that was the first' six which ever came off Hung's bat.
When Hung left, the KC.C. total stood at 110 which had been scored In 45 minutes. Hung's contribu-
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Charity Match in 39 Mint
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 5
Fynie
Fincher and Francis Lay then car- ried the score to 154 for two wie-
Practice Shoot at Kowloon City Rine Association Spoon and 8.30 a.m.
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UNIVERSAL WEEK
PRAYER
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The Universal. "Week of Prayer
The services will be conducted.
pretence is dropped. English scene. even that She is banished by, official edict for this very reason I am able to when there will be services at St. Gorgon with the face of see the virtues of Englishman in John's Cathedral daily at 5.30 p.m. hell, the new German Morante pläiner colours than the more desecrates her apandoned altar. typical Englishman with his ready severally by the Very Rev. J. L. "Good is what is good for ter acceptances.. and his innate Wilson, Rev., J. R. Elggs, Rev. many." proclaims that well-named modesty is able to do. Let me Frank Short, Rev. 8. Hinchliffe. Priest of Falsehood, Dr. Ley. "Bad then presume.
8.C.F. Rev. T. E. Sandbach, Rev...
is what does not suit Germany's I have travelled in many coun-Charles Strong, R.N., and Rev. E. Lend,**
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kindness
and
hospitality, but On Sunday, Jan. 12, at 6.30 p.m., nowhere have I found a country there will be a United Service at where kindness and good manners the English Methodist
are
Church so much the fabric of the which will be conducted by the wandered freely to " common nature as in England. Dean and Mr. Sandbach.
Europe, a Europe where once
Erasmus
spread his liberal doctrines,
where
Pascal, Diderot and Voltaire were once honoured.
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from the Baltic to the 'Medi- terranean, and where students once journeyed from the Ear-- pathians to Paris, from Brit tany to Bonn, to imbibe the aniversal learning.
I firmly stand by the idea of
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cept a man as a man or a woman
MARTELL'S BRANDIES
V. S. O. P.
BOTTLED IN
as a woman by the mere fact that CORDON ARGENT
they carry a British passport.
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Prejudices we have and cannot wholly escape from but they are no guide to judgment and, if we
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