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TEES-SIDE TONNAGE.
Seven ships, of a total of 59,350 tons, were launched from Tees during September.
LONDON SALE OF JAPANESE SHIPS.
THE DAY OF THE GAMES SPECIALIST.
An All Round Review, [By F. B. Wilson formerly Captain of Cambridge University C.C.)
It is quite obvious that cricket On the London market there is in Australia, as viewed from this a rush for Japanese ships that side and from over there, holda are being offered for sale, bur differences of opinion. Over here, prices offered
fun lit atisfactory in the opinion of the sellers.
SENATOR JONES AND SHIPPING BOARD.
are far
WAS more or less taken for granted that if Warwick Arm. strong were fit and well, as we had every reason to believe he was, and that if he would accep; Senator Jones. parent of the the captaincy of the Australian now American Merchant Marine side. he was the round psg in the read the Act, has expressed his determina-round hole. But we tion to oppose confirmation of the other day that most people "down that H. L. recent appointments to the US under expected
Collins would have been selected Shipping Board.
for the job.
AMERICAS FAILURE The failure is announced of a combination of eight American shipping concerns, which had been trading on the Atlantic under the title of the Morse The failure is ascribed Lines." to falling freight rates.
OUT OF WORK.
In consequence of the increas ing depression in shipping, the number of unemployed seamen in Japan is increasing rapidly, a return completed by a certain company stating that of a total of more than 62,000 seamen, 3.100
have no means of livelihood.
A French engineer has just patented ย
合w system of
ADVANCE OF LAWN TENNIS.
Pelled
Fin it alons. In that case one of the best four amateur racquet players who ever lived, and probably one of the two best Acsiour tennis players would bave been lost to those two great gamos. But a man of his tem- perament would have specialised anyone we have ever known, if he had made the lawn tennis game his buiness.
OFF-SIDE AT SOCCER.
out.
Max Wooanam, a reat all-round ball game player, has become [extremely good, but he has onls played when and where he could, so to speak, instead of twelve months in, the year. The "da- vilish accuracy." as someone called it, of the game demands incessant practice. Without it, it is like playing billiards with no chalk on the cue. Lawn-tennis is a game that can be taught. without any great natural ability, In 1919 Collins captained to a point; and can be played by the Imperia! Forces Teama man with a wonderful eye, in England and ** Wisden's knowledge, of ball games, and paid him a high compliment est quickness, to almost an AS thus:-"C. Kelloway wasqual extent without his devoting . he dropped his life to the game. But to be- captain, but out, the leadership being given to
come championship class the H. L. Collins. Collins proved mitture of the two is absolutely quite the right man for the past, necessary. I feel I have been led and was also, as batsman and away to an indecent-lenath on bowler, one of the mainstays of the subject through a most torrid the side. Collins was second to argument that raged about it the the batting average of the re-otber day. Put briefly as it should ular players with an average have been. "If you want to enjoy of 38.45 for 44 innings; and he games, play all you can, if you beaded the bowling averages with want to be a champion specialise, 106 wickets for 11.55 apiece. This sal then ten to one you will meet AMERICAN MOTOR VESSELS.
shows an all round player of real some better than yourself One of the largest shipbuilding firms in the ... the Moore ability, and the success of the side soon afterwards!
under his captaincy exceeded Shipbuilding Company of Cali
all expectations." The Australian Because M'Cracken has shown | formis has decided to equip itself for the production of mo o:-shipsggestion of 8 balls to an over is how easy it is to pat people of- one that needs a tremendous side at Association, that is if they on a standardised scale, and plans
amount of letting alone. persist in not watching the other, have been made which will enable Obviously it is a good scheme inside and the ball, some folk bare the hulls and machinery of twelve Australia or they would not agitated for the abolition of the mator ships to be built each year. But whether it is a off-side rule. The firstclass players
PROPULSION OF BARGES.
good thing "all round "is another whose opjaions I have beard up matter. "Thanks be we're got to dato are all against the rule & M.C.C."
being touched, and those opiniocs; propulsion for shallow draught
include that of Cock, the famous barges and other vessels for inland
Of course, it Lawn tennis at the public centre-forward. waterways. In brief, the new
must be maddening in a big match really system consists of two propellers, schools is becoming a
We elderly to be pulled up for offside when placed very close together and serious question. revolving in opposite directions, gentlemen are sometimes im the big chance comes and bes to uzue strenuouslyou" know you are onside at the with a projecting vane abore
moment the ball is kicked. Very them. The propellers are but against its adoption. It is a
the referee makes อ partially submerged, only the proof that the matter may be often blades below the bosses being in serious. In the old days prople mistake-and a bed one. Often the water. The converging action said. "Lawa tenais at public spectator in the exact position to of the propellers revolving in schools: Patball Oh, my sainted see can detect a grass blunder, and often another spectator, ogly opposite ways permits a very high sunt, how futile!" or words to rate of speed to be developed, that effect. The veterans blew some fifteen yards from him, will The value of the invention lies their noses out like Stalky" when swear blind that the referee was not only in the speed it develops, he was bullyin' a faz" (this has right. but in the fact that it can be no reference to smoking.) Battis ao old saying that there applied to vessels of extremely when the meeting at Wimbledon are twenty good players at every shallow draught.
this year and the plans for the same to one good judge; in the SHANGHAI FREIGHTS. future of lawn tennis are taken word "judge is included referee Messrs Wheelock and Co.'s in conjunction with the fact tha:or umpire. First-class boxers are
take
notoriously bad referens. Inter. visitors Freight
English fortnightly
Marke: ou:
national Rugger players have: Report, under date Shanghai, 18th "lawner" hardly seriously, or November, states:-The situation something like it, the thing is been called "Sinful" referees; st in our Outward Freight markets serious. A specialist will always cricket the best players do not is EN follows:-To United bear a general practitioner at his make the best umpires by any! Kingdom and Continent:-This particular subject; and, mark means; ask lawn tenals and market has been decidedly firmer Tou, the specia it bas a bent or racquets referees if they are ever since we last wrote. There has his particular subject before height. How they manage to get been a strong demand for space puraues that alone. One of the so many referees to do so well,
in ETOOS23" the University on the average, at "Soccer" is a for sesamum seeds to North Continental Ports and for beans sports, for instance, is that Oxford marvel. Of course, when Pat and peas to Liverpool and will always, or nearly always, win Harrower takes a game it looks so simple that one would imagine Glasgow, while other commodities the hammer and weight owing to
any fool could do it. Bot very are also offering ia fair quantities. Rhodes Scholar specialists. Altogether we should say that
Things are differant from what few people want to be that fool!
twice. the market is in a more healthy they used to be. Some 20 to 25
you indicated
A GENERAL ELECTION TIE state than it has been since last years ago, Тар who To United States via Spring.
player practically The general election to the A "Soccer" Pacific and via Panama and all games.
player Legislative Assembly of the Pro- Suez:-There is no change to
expected to play vince of New Brunswick resulted
Golf was in
the Foster Government eport on either of these berths Rugger, of course. since last writing, and, except for hardly a serious game to the (Liberal) securing 24 out of the some special shipments going young in the south. Some of the 48 seats. The half of the House "all-rounders" included which if opposed to the Ministry forward by mail-boat to Van- great couver, there is no general cargo golf in their category of import consists of 13 Conservatives, nine offering worth speaking about. ant sports, but that was later in Farmer, and two Labour mem- Coastwise:-This market has life. Most of them, one presumes, bers. There is thus a tie between Ministerialists and the been quiet in the interval, and, played lawn-tennis at one time the except that there is a slight or another, but they never shone Opposition. In the last House "rushTM on from Newchwang at the game that I can remember. Mr. Foster, the Premier, had 31
H. L. Doherty was a criketer supporters. Mr. owing to the near approach of
Tweeddale, the closing of the port which is of merits when young, but a Minister of Agriculture, was expected about the 25th inst.,-law-tennis player when younger defeated by a Farmer candiste, there is not much going on the still. A. Wilding was a useful and Mr. Veniot, Minister of cricketer, an honest Rugby for-Public Works, also failed to word, but only a really class secure re-election. Mr. Barter, player at Iswn-tennis.
the recently appointed Leader of
coast.
AERIAL MAIL SERVICE. Telegrams from Key West report that an aerial mail and passenger service between the Duited States and. Cuba has been 'insogurated.
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A GREAT "ALL-ROUNDER.” the Opposition. was returned. Had the game been twenty-St. John City, which voted over- five years ago what it is to-day, whelmingly Conservative in the it is passible that E. M. Beriain recent by election for the Federal would have specialised in it, and Parliament; went solidly Liberat. H
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