SPORTS GOSSIP.
SCHOOL FOOTBALL
(BY: WANDEREŇ. "']"
casual game here and there for the next fortnight 'ör so and paraphernalia associated with football will be stowed away for the coming of yet another season. It will bo agreed generally that the season just reaching a close has been a successful one in al- most every way-we won the In- torpórt with Shanghai convincing 1y, honours in League and Shiold Competitions have gone round, and though sometimes it bas boen difficult to follow the meander- ings of the committee responsible for the colection of our ropre- 'sentative sides (certainly they have not been models of con- sistency) one realises that their object has been to give everyone a chance.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY APRIL 17, 1925.
NEW P. AND 0. STEAMER.
The "Razmak's Maiden Voyage.
within both the upper and main deck, ranges of cabins, the provision of bath-room and lavatory accommodation is on a generous scale,
Midway on the main deck is the second-class dining saloon, ex- tending through the width of the ship, naturally lighted by sixtoon
with
The P. and. O. Company's now e. s. Razmak ran a Bories of The standard of football has, on successful official trials on Fob the average, been law, unfortun-ruary 26th in Belfast Lough stoly, and it is difficult to see and was taken over from the how an improvement in this builders, Messrs. Harland & direction is going to bo effected. Wolff, Ltd., by Mr. Frank Ritchie The chief failing all through has joint managing director with been ineptitude, in the vicinity of Lord Inchcape) on behalf of the
large goal, and the prettiest combina P. and O. Company.
The Razmak has been specially tables arranged for large or
square windows. tion or footwork in the world will
small parties. Forward on not give satisfaction when players designed for continuous service
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the samo dock, beyond get within three yards and take in Indian waters, and will be their choice of skying the ball employed on fortnightly trips kitchens and service rooms, is over the top or showing, their auch way between Bombay and the first dining saloon, seating, at Aden, taking, on the Adon-Bom-tables for two, four or more pas- contempt for the corner flag.
bay voyage, mails and passengers sengers, 146 persons. This salcon. for India by transhipment from also extends through the entire It is to be hoped that more will the outward-bound fortnightly width of the vessel and derivee be heard of the Association's Australia steamer, and transfer from twenty-four windows
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desire to tako over the control eling, on the Bombay-Aden trip, to fural light and air. The ship hasLANE, CRAWFORD, LTD
school football in Hongkong, for the homeward Australia steamer, been, installed throughout with until boys are given the opportu-mails and passengers from India mechanical ventilation for use in nity of practising the game in the ter Egypt, Marseilles and London. the tropics, and every cabin is days of their youth, the standara She will alternate on this line provided with natural light and will never get its initiul start on with the fortnightly direct steam air from its own porthole. There the up-grace. Mr. J. MoCubbin, ers in each direction between is a separate wardrobe for each the President of ine Association. London and Bombay, thus main passenger, and the cabins goner- at the annual dinner of the Linting the weekly frequency of ally are amply furnished in all Kowloon Football Club, mention the Indian mail service.
other respects. ing that school football was at á Her principal dimensions aro: standstill took the view that, it-Length, 518 feet 6 inches; failed through lack of interest. breadth, 63 foot; moulded depth, If by lack of interest be mean 37.9 she has a straight stem and apathy so far as those responsible elliptical stern; and is fitted with for its control were concerned, two sets of quadruple expansion think Mr. McCubbin hit the right engines of the balanced type nail on the head.
developing 12,000 i. "h. p. and burning oil fuel with forced Talking on the subject some draught under Scotch boilers.
Accommodation 18 provided on time before the Kowloon diner, and expressing the opinion that the bridge, upper and main decks there was room in the Colony for 142 first and 142 second class
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The Razmak, as Lord Rawlin- the Occasion recalled on
launching, is after a remote Indian military station which Lord Inch- caps visited during a tour of the North West frontier, at the con- clusion of his work as chairman of the Indian Retrenchment Com- mittae. She replaces the Salsette, of 5,000 tons, which was withdrawn from the Aden- Bombay Line dur-
enemy submarine în
for a Schools League of que passangers, and the dining saloons ing the war and which was eünk! large dimensions, lack of grounds are arranged to seat simul-by "an was put forward as an argumentaneously the whole of her the Channel on July 20th, 1917, Arat saloon The Razmak's arrival on the Aden- against the possibility, Bui passengers. The surely it is not anticipated that music room, lounge, smoking Bombay station simultaneously! school football would be played rooms and vorandah cafe are with the resumption of fortnight- Une placed forward amidships on they sailings of the P. and O. on Saturday afternoons. ground alone would do sufficient bridge dock, while towards the Australia mail line, is among the for the playing of twenty matches after and of the same deck are the final steps towards restoration of por week, it necessary, unless second music saloon, verandah the company's services to the our education authorities are so and smoking rooms. The de- pre-war level. A part of this keen to erum algebra or some corative and colour schemes, of operation has included the as- similarly useful and practica, the Razmak's public rooms have signment to the through fort- subject to the hoads of been designed from suggestions nightly line to the Far East of to raise by Lady Inchcape and the Hon. the large mail stoamers formerly the scholars, as strenuous objections to the boys Elsio Mackay and carried out employed in the Australia service, and these again have been re- being given two hours on one under their supervision.
Од the 'apper dock, placed by the Mooltan and morning or afternoon each week!
forward three Maloja (21,000 tons,) and tho Naldera. Narkunda, Mongolia the deck are ugcupied by large first-class and Moldavia (16,000) tons, to cabins arranged on the tandem which will shortly be added, also
for service on the Australia line,; principle, approximately every
in order to play a game of beneath, infinitely more service ta them in quarters their moral upbringing..
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Apart from the pleasure it fourth one boing a single-berth the Cathay. Chitral, and Comorin affords, football teaches self cabin. The first class accommda- each of 13,000 tons gross. Other control, one learns from it the tion includes four pairs of four steamers, Rawalpindi,) meaning of the words "play the cabines de luxe, oach arrang. Rajputana, Ranchi and Ranpura, "game", and, further, in a smaller ed for one or two passangers and for the Bombay mail service, degree it teaches the community each including privato each of 16,000 tons, are in various spirit. Football in the schools bathroom. “
stages of construction. must be encouraged, and it would The after parts of the upper and The Razmak left London on be a splendid move if the local main decke are occupied by her maiden voyage on the 13th Association took the reins inte second saloon cabins for two, or March with passengers for their hands.
threo passengers, with one or Gibraltar, Marseilles, Adon and. two four-berth cabins to meet Bombay, embarking mails and Our Portuguese cuoista leave passongera occasional especial overland passengers at Mar- for Bhanghai probably on May Doeds in this respect. Amidships sailles a week lator. 1st for their billiards interport with Shanghai Portuguese. Soven players will go.six to
of the International Variety humously to mark the heroism form the side, and A. J. Osuad
Company which had a vory of a 13-year-old Chinese boy. and Yvanovich will be included.
Buccessful season at the same Scout Fred Gsell was a member It is hoped that during their
theatro two years ago. On this of the 1st Tiontein Troop, When sojourn in the Northern City a
occasion ho has brought with his home caught fire recently ha match will be arranged between
him a boy of comely artistes, gave the alarm. His father was Osmund
and Johason, the
Parents are often worried to: amongst whom the pretty trio of stupefied and unable to move, and champions respectively of Hong- Recently we word indebted to the Morales Sisters have featured the boy plocted to remain with now just what to do when the kong and Shanghai. Osmund is Manila for sending hero anum in many successful bill. In him rather than follow his little ones suddenly fall sick, are in brilliant form just now and ber of accomplished vaudeville addition there are two other good mother to safety.
feverish, restless, sleeploss, and} his habit of gotting century artistes whose appearance in a singers, and an individual who
obviously in pain. It is just to breaks. has become almost locsi thoatre has helped to con- extracts rafinad music from B
meet these times of emergency siderably brighton the theatrical bamboo cello. All these artistes outlook of this Colony. The are well worth
The garrison of Hongkong is that Baby's Own Tablets have Kopt ready at soeing, and to bo maintained at the follow-been devised. The antries for the annual latest to arrive when no one should miss the opportun-ing strongtr this year:-Royal hand in the home, they quickly infantile indigestion, athletic mosting of the V.It C. on Floradora Company, whose cun. ity now afforded at the Star Artillery, three batteries, 311 of romady the programme for to-morrow, tributions of the latest popular Theatre of hearing some of the are well up to average and in- songs and dances deserve the latest popular songs sung in real all ranke; Royal Engineers, eight colic, constipation, reduce fever- officers and 37 mon; Royal Corpaishness, chook diarrhoea, relieve clude the names of many new fullest measure of support from classy stylo. At to-day's above of Signals, one officer and 14 men; croup and colds; allay toothing] Cetraits with distinct possibila discriminating theatre-going there will be a complete change infantry, one battalion of 881 of pains as if by magic, expel worms, ities. The naval and military public. Having opened for a of programme.
all ranks; Royal Army Service induce peaceful sound sleep in a contingents are strong in all the wouk now at the Star Theatre, tho
Corps, three officers and 17 mon; perfectly natural way. And they overts and no doubt with the the Company has boon
Sentence of three month's hard Royal Army Medical Corps, seven are guaranteed absolutely pure advantages of training and abmeane of a considerable in- solito physical fitness many of flux of patrons into the theatre labour, and twelve strokes of the officers and 37 men; Royal Army and perfectly harmless even to from Kowloon birch, was imposed by Mr. E. W. Ordnance Corps, five offices and the youngest infant in arme. Your the prizes will be ourried off by not only
but from the island as Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magis- 32 mon; together with Colonial chemist can supply you with BABY'S OWN TABLETS tre Servico men. DD. Urquhart, the holder of the 100 yards char- well. We recognize amongst the tracy this morning, on a Chinoge, and Indian troops, Gif officers and plonsbip of the Colony, compotes company an old friend in the who was convicted on a charge 1,553 and various detachments, once rain, his rivale numbering person of Professor Madariga, of snatching a hat from a small making a grand total of 3,014 of
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