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HONGKONG, 24th Oct, 1923.
THE INTERPORTERS.
guarantee success, coveted Shanghai banger already re Our men lack nothing in these two respects. They are out to win. but, like all good sportsmen. they prefer to
SO
H
friendships; they cement others
of long-standing. They encour-f"
DAY BY DAY.
A GREATER COWARD OF A MAN
age a spirit of healthy rivaly ;|-| they help sportsman to strive NO ONE THING IN LIFE MAKES towards a better and higher TRAN DEBTS-Coleman Car. standard of skill. Above all where teamwork is involved, discipline and the sinking of per- sonal views and selfishness are
There were aight Chinese cANOS of small-por notified yesterday in Hongkong.
CRICKET NOTES
BY
THE "ARMCHAIR.
CRITIC
engendered. Sport for sport's Mr. Ho Fook was amongst the sake is the underlying ides of passengers who left by the s.s. Saturday. The basic day of balls which merit it, unless your these contests between the men President Cleveland for Shanghai.my week, to which all days lead. footwork is right.
of various Eastern settlements.
Because of the cricket I shall sae.
All War Department roads and And, therefore, your indulgence. May they long continue. And paths in the Colony are to be sirs, while I pour my venom on if our men deserve it, may they closed for 24 hours from 9 a.m. the genie or sprite who guided my return the proud possessors off on November 7. another Interport flag.
Germany Wobbles.
It is becoming more and more
errant footsteps to the Hongkong Club ground, to see the Club and the Indians do battle, which they
The Bogey Pool Competition.did, right hastily. played at Fanling on 20th, 21th. and 2nd. October, was won by Mr. E. Grimble, 1 up.
evident that "there is something the troopship Derbyshire, with Command Orders show that motten in the state of Germany: the new regiment for Hongkong, to vary our great dramatist a bit.
All the fears expressed during the is due here on November 29th. past few months, that the break-
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During my meanderings round the various buzzing nets of this little Isle of ours, I have carefully watched the would-be's, has been's and never-waser's, and I shuddar to remember the number of ear nost strivers who were blunder. ing down blind alleys simply I went with an open (and because their brains never went slightly uplifted) mind, prepared below-wall, where the belt goët. dissect the Indian team. At the Astraight, good length ball comes to observe and if necessary gently it's really pathetic to watch them. end of an hour, my senses were withitseye on the off-stump Awa
soothed by the caressing goes their left leg in the direction methods of the Indian batsmen of mid-on..
.they knock
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up of the German Republic might | The military authorities are that dissection was our of the the stump in and toss the ball be imminent, seeat to have been evidently expecting cool weather. justified, and the hopes entertain Command Orders state that the ed of a recovery, falsified. When use of fans will be discontinued the mark slumped so sensation as from November ist. ally there was talk of its being
question. When two hours had back. And to think that a whis- dragged their weary limbs through pered word of advice, if it fell on the allotted span, even observation | fruitful ground, might change was difficult, and-if I must con- fess it somewhat fitful.
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due to a "wangle" by the Berlin Pleading guilty to breaching authorities in order to evade par-¡cargö and stealing 3 lbs. of] ment of reparations. When news almonds aboard the Cheongshing.is a serious business, and fraught I grant you that a League match leaked out concerning the serious a cargo coolie vas sentenced by with dire consequences to the los unrest in the country, nobody Mr. J. R. Wo J, at the Police ing team: but 99 in two hours seemed prepared to take matters Court this morning, to fourteen and twenty-five minutes. well, as very seriously. The frequent days' hard labour.
our after-dinner speaker would re- reports of the appalling conditions: of privation which the people in Thess. Tai Way Foong, which mark "I ask you. gentlemen: I ASK you" Not even Webster's Germany were facing this winter.is to be a British depot ship in mythical bowler to relieve the were scouted as nothing but Yokohama for at least six tedium. When Curreem rapid march of recent events, the this morning, and will call at Press that I stirred slightly. sat exaggeration.
Now, with the months, left the harbour early batting it was observed by the coffers are likely to be proved Kobe on her way up The boat up, and took a mild interest in the Wrong. Bavaria is not overy fully provisioned and should game which quickly faded on his out for separation be of great service to British departure. And then, to fill my from the rest of Germany business men in Yokobama pend.
much
Was
as for separation from the woes of ing the reconstruction of their cup, the rotten ending. Tis best the Republic, and we suspect the offices. Rhineland movement
one can
based on
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passed over. If this is League cricket, so hell with the League!
The Club required 100 and had seventy-five minutes in which to do it. "Not an impossible task on small ground. The four left- handers were, of course, sent in at intervals, which super-strategy succeeded in wasting many pre- cious minutes in the constant changing over of the field.
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It
Din
water
the same fear of being involved An oiler, employed at the in the Enal crash. This possible Cement Works at Hok Un, mer breaking away of component with a terrible death yesterday. parts is likely to expedite the Whilst working at one of the break-up of the central organi-machines, he was caught up by a sation. It will mean "united driving belt and carried between A little group of Hongkong
we stand unsteadily, divided we the gear wheels. By the time sportsmen will be leaving come down with a great crash."the accident was noticed and the |morrow for Shanghai in quest of Any such eventuality might mean engine stopped, the man had been another Interport flag Where the utter disappearance of all crushed to death. The remains the tennis players failed. the spects of obtaining adequate were removed to the Mortuary.
reparations payments, so that the Joarsmen hoger to succeed. We wont forebodings "{ British Mr. W. B. Walker, general Altogether a beautiful day.
wish them, every success. If statesmen will be justified. If manager of the local office of the might well have been Eriday, the enthusiasm and concentration one can hope at dll, at this stage Standard Oil Company, left yes- hut hope that an terday by the ss. Hosang, en the seriousness of the task can eleventh-hour miracle will pull route for New York, where he has
But every day has its com- then the Germany out of the quicksands been appointed a director of the pensations, which in this case
before she has become too deeply Company. He was given a warm took the form of naive obser involved.
send-off by many friends. We vations by Helen and Psyche. understand that Mr. P. W. Parker Said Psyche, as Gunga. is temporarily in charge of the lumbered out with the Greece Again.
local office, and that later Mr. bottle "Oh, look! they are taking Observers must be wondering D. H. Cameron will be made out drinks." "Yes," said Helen, leave the prophesying until whether Greece is not drifting general manager.
informatively, "I expect that's into a state of chaotic govern- after the event. In conteststoff
for the referee." And later, as ment more like tbat of Six armed men entered 231 Des the Indians came out to field this kind there are
many Mexico than of an old European Voeux Road Central Festerday in a blaze of sartorial splendour factors which can intervene to nation. Apparently elections morning, and. following the usual What pretty jumpers!" upset even the shrewdest calcula-among the Greeks are to become procedure, trussed up and gagged more exciting even than those of the inmates, escaping with Duld Oireland. with, a slap-up money and jewellery amounting A local enthusiast was talking military revolt as a preliminary to $2000 in value. The police feature. Less than a year ago, were not apprised of the occur- to us the other day on these the world was piously horrified rance until two hours later, by Interport rowing contests, and he when a number of Greek Minis- which time there not much hope expressed a doubt whether mysters were executed because their of effecting BITY immediate folk realised what sacrifices are administration had failed to see arrests. However, the wharvest the evantry successfully through and trams were watched in the men make in preparing for an
a war with Turkey. The Italian usual manner. event of this kind. He told us appear to have gouged the Greek that for months now. Interport temperament better than other The man arrested in connection
Powers, so that they put down with the murder of a paint aspirants have been training for the conting struggle, giving up spiracy at Athens.
the Albanian massacre to con-scraper at Shaukiwan on Monday One begins night was charged before Mr. J. many of the pleasures of life and to wonder whether they were not R. Wood, at the Police Court this putting in real hard work. For fully justified. The latest events morning, when it was stated by disclose a remarkable pugnacity the prosecuting police officer that what? C'ertainly a back-ache,
amongst the different factions in the hatchet with which he was and maybe a "split heart." as fireece, with a strong Royalist alleged to have done the deceased he put it. The honour of win-element ever ready to rear its to death was in the possession of
head. ning is, of course, the inspir-
Apparently the "father-the police and was now having ing of this Near Eastern State the stains on it analysed. Formal ing thought. It is the hope be the big Powers has made the remand until Saturday was which has kept Greek politicians turn greater ordered by his Worship. The these young fellow- pegging attention to internal affairs, feel-Crown Solicitor will he appearing away at their training and subing safe from outside aggression. in the case.
Evidently this fathering business jecting themselves to hardships can be overdone.
tion-
success
in the prOCESS. There may be.
some people who will question
whether the end in view is INTERPORT
really worth the sacrifice in-
vived whether. after all. it
into
**LA.C.
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SARTORIAL SPLENDOUR
She ought to see Wahl's cap!
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isn't a fool's game." Well the INVITATION TO SHANGHAI, the shop he slyly picked up a subject of footwork.
"FOOTWORK"
their whole outlook. So, my old hands. if you see a struggling youngster, whisper. Of course, f hold out no hope to the Roof Gar- den slinkers who need a gramo- phone held by the wicket-keeper and a pretty girl at silly point in order to make their feet function."
On Criticism.
A delicate subject, my friend, and a difficult.one. Contrary to popular superstition, there are three kinds:
the one you
1. Constructive always stick to.
2. Destructive --which theother fellow invariably offers. valuable of all.
3. Well just Nc. 3, the most
But I fear I am a little beyond you. so I will explain. For example. the diffident batsman who comes to you for counsel. Bah!" you say, quaffing the "other half" of his 6s. 8d." you play every ball with a cross bat.” Destructive: purely destructive, Not one single constructive sug gestion. Nothing to indicate an alternative to a cross bat. But the germ of an idea is implanted in his brain, and by means of a procesa known as elimination he finally makes his OWN constructive suggestion that a straight bat covers a multitude of stumps. And. mark you. because he dis- covered it himself he remembers
it.
Highbrows and blowhards call it auto-suggestion."
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So much for the difficulty. Now for the delicacy which sub- divides these three kinds. First the just criticism which is usually A chief visited an iron repair-
so obvious as to need no elabora- ers shop at Portland Street Yau-
tion. Secondly, the malicious, a. nati yesterday. He brought
nasty business. A sneaking the shop
insinuation & piece of
whispered to HOCKEY. hoop-iron, and asked that it be.
kindred spirit in the hope that leut in two. as he needed some
it will lose nothing in transit, edgings for his trunk. In leaving And now we approach the thus involving no risk to the So im-originator. So rotten that it jacket. The article was missed portant that I unhesitatingly merits nothing but a passing men concerned don't think so. Recently, the Hongkong a few seconds later, and the bracket it with & straight bat reference to its too-frequent They regard rowing as a fine. Hockey Club sent to the Shanghai owner ran out in the direction in You raise your eyebrows question-existence.
Hockey Club an invitation to which the chief had disappearedingly. Well. I am quite aware And, thirdly, the gently con- manly British sport: and they send down during the present He caught up with the latter in a that, like myself, during your templative kind commonly known want to uphold the honour and season an interport hockey team pawnshop and banded him over development as a cricketer the as the sly dig. The product of s traditions of this Colony. That to play Hongkong. Mr. A. Bower, to the police. Sentence of fourteen question of a straight bat was keen perception allied with a is all they can possibly get out Hon. Secretary of the Hongkong days' hard labour was passed by demonstrated, viewed from every kind humour-which offers no of it. If they lose, they may be from the Captain of the Shanghai
Hockey Club, has now received Mr. J. R. Wood to-day.
angle, discussed by learned old offence-which is entirely devald gentlemen who were then your of personal malice-and which criticised, but, win or lose, they Hockey Club a letter thanking
betters, and generally given the is generally received with appre- will have the consciousness of Hongkong for the invitation and COUNCILLORS AND WAR TANK serious consideration it deserves. ciation of its justice by the
saying that the matter would The decision of the having done their best.
Goole Perchance you mentioned foot- victim. receive attention at the Club and Urban District Council to sell its work. "Oh yes I of course that's And so, sincerely believing These Interport
Hockey Association meetings to presentation tank for scrap iron important too." they remarked that I have none but the third be held in Shanghai this week is to be reconsidered. The offer whether they be in rowing, ten-and that their Hon. Sec. would was advertised, and the best offer Bagely, and left it at that. Im-kind to offer, I feel myselfprivileg
portant! Why it's almost aed to" say to this man "You are nis, bowls, or football serve a communicate the result in due received was one of £20, from a physical impossibility to play a not clever," or to that, "You do good purpose. They create new course.
contexts
Sheffield firmn.
straight bat to the majority of not make runa!"