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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1913,1
The Pagal Gymkhana.
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DAY BY DAY......
nublet motive is lie
-The-Malia,
After having been twice post-it, poned, the first pagal gymkhana was brought off very successfully on Saturday. It did look, a week public good."— Virgil. or two ago, as though the Tates wern against the holding of the event, but it proved none the woreo for keeping. It is to be hoped that events such as that of Saturday will be held with fair frequency. It demands from the competitors not a little "skill; promotes all the rivalry one associates with a sporting event, and gives the spectators a con siderable amount of genuine amusement. A sporting meeting with these qualities should be made beartily welcome in Hong kong. We have remarked before
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THE ART OF BUNNING.
Further Hints to Budding Athletes.
[SPECIAL ARTICLE]. In a previous special article something was said about train ing. A word or two may now be said concerning style. Let not 9.8 young runnere regard style in rnnuing as of little consequence Itia of Brat importance,if a runter
Siberian Mail-espatched per 9.8. Liaquat midnight on Saturday. Australian Mail.Arrived per 8.8.
Coblenz this morning. Americau Mail-Due per Persia to-morrow. Departed.
Tea
SAVING A SUICIDE.
Young Men's Plucky Divo
from Ferry
PAGAL GYMKHANAJU
Striking Succosa of a now. Sporting Fixture;
A novel departure which it is Passengers by the ferry steamer which left Hongkong at 3.35 understood is to be a monthly P.m. yesterday witnessed an ex-fixture, in the form of a Pagol. oiting incident. Just after the Gymkhana, took place under the ferry had left tho piar a Chinees auspices of the United Services was seen to jump overboard, from Recreation Club, at the Club the lower deck, evidently with grounds on Saturday afternoon. he intention of committing These was a fairly good attendanos suicide.
including, H.E. the Governor,
No sooner had the alarm been Major General Anderson, Sir W. Judge Thayer was among the is to make his mark. Those who given than Mr G. W. Sewell, who and Lady Rees Davies, Col. Mrs have bad the fortune to see men was on the upper deck with a Misa St. John, Mr and the Missen passengers who left by the
friend, clambered over the rail- Tomes, Mr H. P. White, and many yo Maru" on Saturday.
like A. F. Duff, R. E. Walker,
ing and, without diveiting him- others. The various iteme in the or the inte A. R. Downer running self of any of his clothing, dived programme were of a fresh and
Left by the Monteagle.
Mrs. Basil Tarlor, Mira Osgod and Mrs. Robert Sutherland-and
now in these columns that we are children were passengers by the over one hundred yards, M W.into the harbour after the man. I decidedly interesting nature, sa
Father a dull people in Hongkong We do not go so far to take our pleasures eadly, but we have too fow pleasures. Indeed, there are those who say that we have very little opportunity of discovering how pleatures are taken. Oriental Competition.
Monteagle on Saturday..
For 'Consigness.
Consignees of cargo by the e.. Tenyo Maru-are, reminded that goods remaining undelivered after 6 p.m. to-day will be subject to storage charges.
New Hostel
Coronation Anniversary.
Longa matter years ago
A Fine Effort,
of thirteen Mr Sewell swam towards the new to Hongkong as the name of“ Chinese and soon got hold of him, the gymkhans itself, Through when 1:0 Came
but the latter, boat on taking his the kindness of one of the from America and broke the lile, rea-nted the European's Officers we learnt that Pagal wild *or foolish, while neither word. British quarter mile record-or efforts to rescue him, and for s meant Lieutenant Halswelle who took a time the two straggled together and little of Long's figures, five years in the water. In the end, bow is a particularly free translation, ago, know what style is. It was over, Mr Sewell managed to over- they give a very fair idea of a an education, again, to see EC power the would-be suicide. By rather bizarre function. The Chinese Y.M.UA. andent Bredin running 610 yards or ball the time the ferry-boat had been "Telegraph's representatives hostel and playground, at Bridges a mile, a matter of eventeen years stopped and had steamed back to The bending race which opened. Street, Taipingshan, is to be ago, and F. E. Bacon or Hugh the spot where thatwo men were the programme was a test of opened by His Excellency the Welsh doing a mile inside 4 mins. A lifebelt and a rope were thrown horsemanship; as the rider had All these men knew the out, and in a short space of time to pilot his steed in and out of a Governor at 5.45 p.m. on the 18 secs.
value of style. of cultivating & both men were pulled aboard. course marked with whitened balance of body while running The trouble did not end then, bamboos. Bat perhaps the most 30th inst.
which ensured that they cired however, inasmuch as the Chin-interesting was the Affinity the maximum of pace with the eas, who was evidently demented, Race, Telegram Stakes" Geule- made farther atempts to jump men had to ride to lady, partners, overboard. In the end he was who on receipt of a word, had to minimum of exertion,
The Value of Style.
tied up with ropes, and later write a telegram each conscutive One saw a print race won given into police custody, word of which began with a cor- in Hongkong recently by a man Me Sowell's set was an exceed-responding letter in the word who has fair pace and plenty of ingly plucky one and all who question. Mrs. Walton made "A Chinese of the labouring grit in him. Indeed, sheer deter-wituessed it were loud in their remarkably fine effort with Pay yot, however, they have not olaes collapsed in Queen's Roamination won a 100 yards race praise of the promptitude with chological" turned their attention to the this morning and fell into the side for him. He ran the greater part which be planged into the har- wrote. Please send your cheap He was carried into of the distance with his head hour to save the life of the would-bat or land one; going into camp On any channel. machine-made article large scale, but there is ample the Police Court buildings by thrown well back. Now, no man be suicide. evidence to bear out the belief some police officers, and was later can be a good sprinter who handi- that, when they do so, it will be taken to the hospitul in the caps himself in this fashion.
serious matter for Western ambulance.". manufacturers. Labour is cheap
The interview which one of the had on Saturday with a leading official of one of the biggest boot and shoe,macbinery manufactur willing firms in the world raises some interesting speculations., Chief
Yesterday was the anniversary if there is the question of Oriental competition in the manufacture of of the Coronation of King George footwear. We all know that and to-day ships in the harbour Chinese and Japanese alike are were dressed for the occasion and extremely adept in all handiwork, salutes were fired. To-day is
shoes Bre
concerned, teenth birth-day... and, so far as hand-made boots also the Prince of Wales's nine- and
Collapsed in the Street. they have long since demonstrated marked proficiency and skill. As
a
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1913.
THE PRESS AND CRIME,
The New Laurente,
One of the questions of - the hour is: Who will encceed
More Coal Pilfering,
DYNAMITE AND -DETONATORS.
Collection::
Walker and Downer, for instance. hardly seemed to keep their
during thepright
Mental Concentration.
said:
THE NIPPON.
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arrive.
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from which she
*were
The dismounted Lloyd Lind Bay, was by far the most-in: teresting item Gentlemen -ran heads clear of the cinlere during Hongkong Surveyor and Divers with their partners to a spot
where piles of stones in the Orient, and when we'
A woman who had half a ton a
the first fifty yarde. And
placed and the ladies tried to bear in mind that, by the new coal in the hold of her boat could they never were American tariff, the duty is
With regard to the balving of break a bottle by throwing not give a satisfactory account of
It stands
it. While most faken off footwear, it would ap- how it came into her possession
to reason that a man who sprinte the s... Nippon, the "Cablenews stones at
man's expectations as to their pear that "America will have to when asked by Sergeant Wills with the upper part of his body American of June 20, has the of the ladies fulfilled mare seek means so as to be able to At the Police Court, this morning thrown back, is putting a drag on
following
powers as markswomen, Mrs. "Theway, the work is going on meet competition,
Mr Melbourne sent her to gaol his legs, and no man can be a Ι fir six wooke.
to her task and broke her bottles. really good sprinter until he don't believe they will ever get Hastings proved more than equal learns the art of running with the Nippon of said Captain in fine style, Miss, Hettie Tomes Victoria Theatre. The new programme presented the head and shoulders thrown Breckwaldt yesterday after hav- Mr Alfred Austen as Poet on Saturday night at the Victoria slightly forward. This is less ing returned from a trip to Sear- being a good second Laureate? (According to Cay-Theatre consisted of a most ex important in a distance race borough reef where the salvage Last Past the Post Wins, Jon wires, Mr Austen died on cellent selection of films, Special where balance of body is the work on the stranded steam. The Uitspalta" race on June 2.) When Tennyson died in mention should be made of "Love first essential Balance of body, ship Nippon is being carried mules, was a topsy turvy affair, 92 it was a popular newspaper and Wars coloured historical of course, is intended to include on by Erlanger and "Ga. the last past the post winning. belief that Rudyard Kipling picture of great dramatic power balance of movement between linger. The steamship Batan- An excellent start was scoured by would succeed him. That was and romantic interest and a two-legs and arms; and that is where gueno returned yesterday from discharging orackers behind the over twenty years ago and, to our part Dutch story Through Trials many athletes fail. That, in the Nippon with the party repre- mules, but the riders who were Eggert, Captain Hessel, gramme concluded with the We notice from American exchanges that the question of the way of thinking, Kipling stands to Victory Miss Norah Moore fact, was proved to be the seating the underwritere and mounted hare-backed had, by no sensational treatment of crime by newspapers has again sprung into as much chance which is there was in good voice and her songs weakness of British athletes at the owners, consisting of Captain E. means enviable tasks. The pro abouts no chance at all of attain-received their customary measure Olympic Games at Stockholm.
They had not studied the solence Captain Breckwaldt and Leonard Pardah Nashin" Stakes in which prominence in many parts of the States in consequence of a protesting to the Laureateship as he did of applause.
of running as American and Con- Breton, who made a very gentlemen had to guess ladies'. by Mr. Choate, former Ambassador to London, against the evils of
timental athletes had done, and, complete 'inspection of the identities, being only allowed to crimes unpardonable in the eyes of
with one or two exceptions, they When asked his opinion on
stranded vessel see their feet. paying undue attention to purely criminal news. Coincident with then; for he has committed two
At the concinaion the prizes Mrs. St. this well-timed protest one of the Senators has brought forward a British readers in general and
knew little or nothing of balance
how the work Was pro were distributed by Bill to forbid newspapers in certain districts placing glaring Radical Administrations in parti-
and style. headlines over reports of crime. This latter is, of course, rather a cular he writes the truth in
gressing Caplain Breckwaldt John,
it
The officers in charge of the drastic remedy, and one which must be repugnant to those who are jealous for the liberty of the Press; and we are not surprised to read both poetry and fiction, and he is a genius; wherefore he is
A Chinese flections are During a sprint race something thorough examination of the ship programmé were Major General neither liked nor understood. that the sponsor of the measure frankly expresses the view that it
more than pace and style are and there seems to have been very Anderson, Major A. L. Barrett, Hon. Secretary, Colonel Walton, will not receive the assent of the Senste.
Government ciroles have never
Sergeant Wills charged a man wanted, however. It is a fact little work done since I was out
Robertson, and Lieutenant Wilt There is no doubt that in this particular matter causs for com-forgiven the scathing sarcasme plaint is far greater in America than in Great Britain, though it has which, as a mere boy of one and before Mr. O. D. Melbourne, at the well known amongst good eprin- last time. There is still a good Colonel Rowlandson, Captain I'don't see how they expect. to ac-shire. During the afternoon to be admitted that in recent years the evil has become intensified twenty, he bestowed on the mud- Police Court, this morning, with ters that concentration of mind amount of cargo in the holds and in British journalism. It must not be assumed, though, that the dling of the Indian Government being in unlawful possession of counts for much during a race.
cleaned out. There are apparently Rajputs. Proms of Arrega bi on top to bottom, of the senentional type: far while the superficially educated 31 sticks of dynamite, and 100 All the pace in the world will complidh anyhing until this is of the 8th Elpuddy to hand from it." To publish the details of revolting crimes is a ghostly individual in the street is angry detonators, a Yaumatic hardly carry a man to victory ex-
The defendant spid a friend" cept he can keep his mind clear plenty of pumps on board but no offence. That is an extract from one of the leading New York at the mere mention of one who
tion to resol the tape as speedily were out there, the pumps, were follow journale in its comments on this question, and it clearly shows that is too great for his puny compre gave him the articles, but he of everything but the determine steam; during the whole time we The prize winners were as
as possible. The slighter in lying idle. The water in the holds Bending Race
; Lieutenan among newspapers of the respectable, and, happily, influential kind, hension; the more so since he could not find him,
A fine of $100 was imposed.
attention during a race in almost rises and fall with the tide show. Morgan'; 21 there is a high conception of public duty. The same journal has begun to suspect that among observes that for newspaper to make a practice of scouring the the great writer's many gifts le
certain to prove fatal. I remom-ing that there are some pretty-Affinity Race Teleg ber reading an article by Mr. C. big holes in the bottom some- Gentleman to ride, diampan country for criminal news which can be worked up" in lurid that of the most subtle leg.
B. Fry: on this very asubject and where I understand though, hand a given word ays, although of no real interest to its immediate readers, is a clear pulling. pandering to morbid tastes. We here come into touch, however, Kipling as a Poet.
be told how, during a hundred concluded Captain Breckwalds the latter to write out s with a point of some importance. There may be casea of murder,
yarda 1800 between Oxford and with a broad grin, that the sal cach, conseantive, word. Cambridge, It occurred to him to vore expect the Nippon into will commence with the com be inter interested. This is more especially, so when the Cockney pritic judges Kipling
wonder what bad become at Jor-morrow fall speed ander her own ponding letter of the element of mystery comes in, or, may be, when some problem of areThe Absent Minded Bog
ledao, the Oxford second string. At steam and I am afraid that Manila gagation. Gentlemen to rem
is in danger of being run down.", and return to winding human psychology is presented. Cases such sa these may well be garau avowed pot boiler writ of genuine hitan interest, and there in little reason why large et ace ten to raise funds for the widows dificulty in bringing a man who the moment he was leading and was Captain Henry Thomas Gordan Marks for time and lägenui ebould not be devoted to them in the Press, assuming that the of the soldiers who fell in the was charged with returning from nearing the tape. As a matter of
Hongkong, Walton 2. Dr. and Mrs Hasting treatment of the affair is not repulsive, and that the writer confines Boer War, and incidentally a sop banishment, to the Police Court. fact he was the fastest man of the Brayfield, a well known marine 1, Lieutenant Torrio and Mrs
to British literary understanding He lay down in the street, and four and had hia race won. Yet surveyor from himself to a sober account of the happening. The avil is that many and the poem in which he three men had to carry him to a in that brief space of inattention accompanied by three Chinese Dismounted Lloyd Lindsay
in Manila Partners to ran a distance where a newspaper has seized hold of modern Press facilities to present, in word and in piotore, almost every conceivable detail of crime, speaks with justifiable contempt chair and convey him to the be unconsciously slackened and
steamship.. Sambia. Captain, gentleman to hand stones to lady has been encouraged in this way, for it has been amply proved that athletos higher in the scale of im- said he was ill, collapsed, and had him. He finished last. In any Brayfield stopped en ronte at who will break borde j. and and there can be little doubt that the committal of serious offences of those who set access in Court. Inside the building he the other three runners passed Wednesday afternoon on the piles of stones will be provided
Scarborough, reef, to ako su then both to return suggestion " plays a big part in crime. The danger is aggravated, portance than military fitness. If to be taken to taken to the race from one hundred yarde lo
e hall of the post holding hands too, by the notoriety which some papers give to criminals, often our Cockney friend had the in-hospital furlong, and even up to a quar- Scar) ont
telligence to realiso ons-twentieth On enquiries being made, the concentration of mind is near-
Nippon for, underwriters bat and Mrs making a "hero" out of a blackguardly ruffian.
of the meaning of a poem like police found that the clothes he the first quality to be cultivat
Captain Taylor Crawford d
nt Pegging (Oa "Tomlinson" or of two sich woa wearing were stolep, and that And until a man has learned it is alsted perfect geme as "The Conn drum'
am he had been banished last year to glue his mind on the tape the charge of the
would not ; allow
the Chinese Subedar Sher Mah of the Workshops and the pre for twenty years. The hospital most of pace dennot be secured. alone for Erlanger and
out of fan for the actual running divers to fade to "They," he might per authorities turned the chance realise that Kipling has the hospital saying that there was of a race, advice is usually wasted, written stronger things when nothing wrong with him especially in a distance me, Tow those which have revolted he He was brought before Mr can never tell how it will be run the superfine sense of postry. Yet the Hazeland, this morning, and and you must adapt yourself to Whi general belief seems to be that sentenced to one month's impi- the circumstances during the race fook of
shorter races there is but one Hey, he is a hybrid between a cheap sonn pat for the larceny of the
andreix months' impg-rule. In Bay,
the was its ballad-monger and a writer of clothin
(as) fast as you rather funny tales about the army sonment and four hours stocks Brat 300,
ment, can
then key to ran the last which any Tommy Atkins cunld, for returning from; ÞEM have written muca better,
The sentences to run convec
for instang in which the whole eommunity may quite legitimately
a
The sell being admitted, how is it to be combated? In maiter of this kind much power lies in the hands of the public. strong public sentiment could soon make short work of a newspaper which persis
sensational news. Readers and their suppo from such a journ advertisers con
follow wou
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paper deserved
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opportunity
in every community
prefers: brimina eup for its delectation regard for the common weal has
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now merely because it wantsik is om better than the man for a consideration would poison a city's water supply.
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The two works on which your
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Sergean Brown bad no
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Prize-winners.