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From Our Own Correspondent) interest throughout the Empire
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and the fact of our having one Empire team for the Games London, June 4.
would be of political value as gradually learning well as improve our prospects. details of what transpired Perhaps sportsmen will considerare authoritatively said to be Causanne when the Interna-this idea and help it along.
Olympic Committee met and decided in favour of holding a meeting at Antwerp in Septem- ber of 1920.
Tobacco supplies in the shops worse now than at any period during the war, especially the
brands of: aupply of popular cigarettes.
LAWN TENNIS, There have been many signs of late which indicate how very The expectation carty in the would have popular lawn tennis has become year, that there Most of the fixtures nowadays been ample supplies by now, hás are international in character not been realised, says the To- and this naturally adds zest tobacco Trade Journal. Tobacco has the play.
It appears that the delegates present were given, to understand that the Scandinavian countries are vary keen on an Olympiad and that failing a regulation fixture, Sweden is prepared to get Undoubtedly the presence of the cracks is. apan International meet on talented Australian
to do with Olympic lines. It was partly baring a lot
interest the game is cwing to this that the delegates the
G. L Patterson decided to support the Antwerp creating. games. We are also now inform-bas fairly caught the fancy of ed that those present were in the public and in spite of his favour of dropping the Marathon surprising defeat by Capt. O'Hara TBCE..
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been arriving at the ports in large quantities, although its delivery to manufactories has taken an interminable time Labour' bas been in better supply. Machinery bas been the weak link, but some, few additional cigarette machines This driblet does not. however, bave been secured here and there. replace the machines incapacitat- Wood at the Inter-Allied Anuyed more or less by the excessive already been tournament in Paris, he is looked strain of running night and day Mention has made of the fact that there is on as the most likely player to
the win the world's championship. The number of machines arrix- considerable opposition to Olympic Games among English The two men named, with Lycetting is insuficient to relieve the sportsmen. It comes from two and Thomas, are worthy repre- sections, one being the University sentatives of Australia and their congestion, and any great im- element where athletics are not form at the tournament under provement in delivery cannot be
four months. really popular and the other notice certainly shows that the expected during the next three or being those followers of sport who holders of the Davis Cup are are bad losers. The latter cannot very strong. get over our defeats and as they cannot feel sure of winning, would, prefer to stay out of the Games.
Personally the writer has no sympathy with either section. He thinks it a reflection on Oxford and Cambridge men that athletics should be forced aside and the season confined to February and March.
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men want to see one of our own men erase the memory of that It is plain that England will no longer be able to count on her contest at the National Sporting veterans when it comes to Inter-Club five years ago when the Youth will be young Frenchman made Welis national play. served at lawn tennis as in other look so small... games and though we now and then have examples of veterans As to the opposition from those ke P.M. Davison beating Patter who want to win or else won't son it will not do to count on this play, these people are not worth sort of thing happening very often. considering. Only one nation McLaughlin of America and can win and it will do us good to Patterson of Australia are two have to strive for honours. The striking
examples of young day is past when we lead the players doing brilliant things. world in sports and the sooner we recognise that those who learnt from us have gone ahead in some particulars, the sooner we shall regain ground.
Athletics have so proved their value during the war that our schools and Universities ought to now place track and field athletics grounds where training and con- petition would be possible all the year round. As matters are now. foot racing can only go on when the calls of certain other pastimes permit.
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It looks as though Leicester shire has a remarkably fine bow- ler in Benskin who took 8 wickets for 86 runs in the recent match against Derbyshire. As the turf just now is favouring batsmen the performance is all the more pote assembled for the worthy. sympathy from all the Nations
sportsinen concerned that perfection will be
Another excellent bowling per- parpose of seeing their two attained. The first big necessary talented countrymen do battle formance recently was the taking step is to put the International for the £1200 at stake and there of 6 wickets for 45 runs by Rich Committee on a proper footing. was not a dull moment through-mond when playing for Notts It cannot be said that the present out the twenty rounds. Though against Sussex. body is really representative of eighteen years older than his the sporting bodies of the Nations. rival, Driscoll showed wonderful
6 tamina What the writer favours is a big speed and Olympic movement throughout the opinion of most people the British Empire. Each part. present did enough to gain that is England, Scotland, Ireland, the decision but the referee Wales, Canada, Newfoundland, thought otherwise and declared
were eight amateurs in the Essex PRINT INSTEAD OF SCRIPT. Australia, New Zealand, South it draw. Driscoll is anxious to Africa and India should
come back into the limelight and side which beat Lancashire and be represented оп the try to win another championshipfive of the M.C.C. representatives
There is on foot a Empire. Council" and an so that it will not be surprising against Yorkshire were also Empire Olympiad should be held a should be challenge Tancy Lee
This is a healthy movement, with influential sup- few weeks in advance of the of Scotland, the present feather-sign and ac example which might port to abolish scriptwriting and International Olympic Games. weight champion.
well be followed. The Yorkshire replace it by print-writing. The This would serve as a base for The great British public is men were 368 runs behind M.C.C. handwriting of many children of for it is to be hoped we shall now eagerly awaiting the match on the first innings but a score of to-day develops in later life into never again see the Empire split between Joe Beckett (the con- 528 for eight innings in their an illegible scrawl: The present up for Olympic Games purposes queror of Billy Welle) and second venture led up to a credisystem far too frequently will not Fred Goddard. The latter is able draw. Hirst 180 and Kilner tand the test of commercial life. as in the past. The writer raised his voice against this before and the holder of the Lonsdale chan-120 were the big factors in this Hence arises a great loss of time The characters used in this after the 1908 and 1912 Gamespionship belt whilst Beckett beat whilst Holmes only missed his and labour. and pointed out that on the battle. the recognised champion of century, by a single run.
England's premier batsman-system are the ordinary printed field the Empire would be one. England, so that there is good That all parts of the Empire reason for the interest. The man Hobbs of Surrey gave one of his letters, known as Roman block
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a" and "g" which are simplified PARTICULARS AND CON. should meet in friendly rivalry who wins, will qualify for a match best displays during his not-out letters, with the exception of the in an Inter-Empire Olympiad is with Carpentier and needless innings of right and proper, but we want to to say the victor of the latter Australians, He opened the bat- into a and These charactersDITIONS of the letting by Public pull together when opposing contest will be in a position to ting for Surrey and batted are by no means new. They were Auction Bale, to be held on seek a go with the best America throughout the innings in his employed by monks long before Monday, the 28th day of July, foreigners and Americans.
can fad, and such a bout will characteristic style, his hits in-script-writing came into fashion, 1919, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of Some critics tried to find fault a fortune to the winner cluding a 5, and nineteen 4's. and can still be seen in ancient the Public Works Department, THE WEST POINT BUILD-
manuscripts, from which, in fact, by Order of His Excellency the with the writer's suggestion of an Goddard won his contest against Empire Olympic team and raised Curphey by the aid of his great Gobert of France created some- they were first copied by the Officer Administering the Gov-
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Print-writing possesses many Land at Kennedy Road in the impossible to get together an punching. He was really slow Inter-Allied Lawn Tennis Tour advantages over ordinary hand-colony of Hongkong, for a term Dollars. per share for the six eight or football team composed in his movements and showed nament by defeating Capt. of cracks from different parts of little boxing ability of a high O'Hara Wood of Australia by writing. To the teacher it is. an of 15 years, commencing from months ending 30th. June 1919 the Empire. That, of course, was class save in one direction. In sets to mil.
immense aid. The need to teachd. October, 1965, with the will be payable on Monday 28th. Another unexpected never in the writer's mind. We fighting however, he is right result was seen in the doubles alphabets vanishes; one only option of renewal at a Crown July on which date Dividend is necessary. To the child, also. Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor Warrants may be obtained on could however Hold inter-Empire to the fore
An Interim Dividend of three and such wherein Washburn and Matthey Garnes and make our selections an excellent judge as Jimmy of America defeated Patterson it is of great assistance. As the of his Majesty the King, for one application at the Company's
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