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Lord Hawke on Failings of Young Batsmen.
Per a TANDA for Shanghai. -Mr. A. 8. Underhill, Miss E. S. Underhill, Miss MacAlister
The great fault of English Brown, Mr. R. Waters, Mr. cricket since the war is that our Wakford Cox, Mr. M. Lymbery, young batsmen have never met Mr. G. C. Willes, Mrs. F. Tant- any really fast bowlers, except|zireff, Mr. K. Kortoweki. the Australian Gregory.
NOTICE Is Hereby Given that the Colonial (Hongkong)
This criticism was made by Register of the Company will be Lord Hawke recently when pres- closed from Tuesday, 13th. Marchiding at the annual meeting of 928, to Wednesday, 11th. April Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1923, both days inclusive.
last year's cricket champions. By Order of the Board of Directors.
W. E. ROBERTS.
Secretary. Hongkong, 5th. March, 1923.
NOTICE.
WILL clients please send copy
There was a time, said Lord Hawke, when every first-class | county possessed one good fast bowler, and that was when the standard of batting reached its bigbest.
The inability to play express bowling was the Achilles' hael in
the batting of young England.
for 1923/24 Annual? Back
Cricket itself had not deteriorat- page of Annual is still open fored, but we were short of the stars acceptance. Apply International rade Developer. Ltd. 8 Des Voeux Road,
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22nd and 23rd March, 1923.
U.S.B.C. Ground. Kowloon.
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T the above meeting there will be a mile race open to the Services and all British Residents in the Colony.
we had 15 years ago. The time would come, however, when Eng. land's supremacy would be again marifest
"For years," continued Land Hawke. "I felt it a pleasure to captain the side without another amateur. The scarcity of ama teurs in our team is a matter our friends below the Trent appear to dislike.
PASSENGERS ARRIVED.'
Per 8.5. PRESIDENT GRANT from Manila-Miss P. Armen- dariz, Mr. R. G. Abbott, Mr. (1, W. Brown. Mr. & Mrs. W A. Burnside, Miss Gabrielle Bous- caren. Mr. Hattie L. Christian- son, Capt. R. M. De LaSala, Rev. Cayo Franco, Mr. J. Fred Gale, Mr. Jas F. Jones, Dr. & Mrs. D. Little, Mr. P. M. Luce, Mrs. Johu L. Lincoln, Miss Natalie
incolu, Miss C. E. Lincoln, Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Morton, Mr. & Mrs. O. F. Maltby, Mrs. Susie Matteson, Mr. F. A. Pope, Mr. E Romero, Miss C. V. Rogers, Mr. & Mrs. J. J. Strable, Master Frederick Strahle, Miss Teress Suarez, Mr. Frederick R Stanley, Mre. Diana Stanley, Miss Edith E. Sparks, Hisa Anna W. Sawyer, Mr. & Mrs. Wm. H. Sawyer. Mr. Chester W. Smith, Mr. & Mrs: J Yorkshire is a grat commer-
Wallace, Mr. E. W. White, Miss cial county. We have not the Ethel Wright, Miss Beatrice public school boys coming on Woods, Mrs. A. A. Bryan, Mr. The Race is timed for 3.20 p.m.good enough or with the time & Mrs. E. S. Cunningham. Mr. on the 23rd instant.
necessary for the game.
Mrs. F. A. Diekhoff, Mrs. V. "Further, and still more im- | M. Dorval, Mr. Chas A. Edwards, portant our excellent selection | Mr. & Mrs. Arthur English, Mrs. committee always chocses the H. S. Honingsber, Miss E. L best players, irrespective of Horan. Miss N. L. Horan, Mr. whether they are amateurs or & Mrs. T. A. Mills, Mrs. Chas. professionals. The public want Mille. Mr. Lewis A Pick, Miss the bast.
C. F. Schurman, Miss C. C. Stimson, Mr. G. M. Velaso, Mr. & Mrs. A. Montinola, Mr. & Mrs. H L. Pulford, Mr. R. R. Agner, Miss C. L. Avery, Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Allen, Mr. & Mrs. O. D. Fisher, Mr. T. S. Holt, Mr. Wm. S. Heston. Mr. F. A. Kraudelt. Mrs. Ede Lopez, Miss M. Lopez, Miss Mary F. Led- yard.
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The professional cricketer, Leslie Solbe Green-asset to English cricket."
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hill has this day been Last season, he added, was one appointed Acting Secretary to the of real triumph for Yorkshire's bove Companies. Vice Mrbowlers. Wilfrid Rhodes again Mowbray Stafford Northcote beaded the bowling averages, and risigned. Peuding Mr. Greenhill's for the sixteenth time ia bis bril- return to the Colony Mr. Herbert liant career captured over 100 Austin Rodgers will act as Secre- wickets.
tary..
By Order of the Board Directors.
D.G.M. BERNARD,
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Hongkong 7h. March 1923.
THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY OF ANIMALS.
Yorkshire had no fewer than of five bowlers in the first 13 of the English averages, and he believed it was the first time in the bistory of county cricket when four howlers of the "beam had each explonder than 100 wickets
HONGKONG DOC. CAT, POULTRY AND PIGEON SHOW..
BY kind permission of the Officer Commanding The Hongkong Defence Corps, a Show will be held at
FIVE RACES WON IN A DAY, Mr. Charles N. Manning, who died at Milton, Northamptonshire, recently, at the age of 72, was one of the best known farmers in the eounty and a former famous sest in of exid dating cross-country rider. His greatest The championship had hen mag- achievement was the winning of gested, and he hop dir would be five races in one day on his own
•ntrode-d I woul do away horses At Grafton Hunt with 1: Rm of percentage, Steeplechase meeting at Eastern which was so bated by everybody. Neston.
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