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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925..
DAY BY DAY,
PLAY AND PLAYERS.
""CHINA UNITED SOCCER ASSOCIATION.
By⠀ "Wanderer."
scarcely worth the saving. It was in order to convince tho.Home leaders of that fact that last"
THE BUSINESS OF ORATORY IS night's meeting was held, and the
TO PERSUADE PEOPLE; AND YOU $1,200 telegram ought to do a lot EASILY FEEL THAT TO PLEASE of educational good.
PEOPLE IS A GREAT STEP TO- It was pleasing to note the WARDS PERSUADING THEM. --
Lord Chesterfield. presence of quite a number of
When a man has mado a reputa-courts with all the grace of Chinese merchants at the meeting, ] ·
tion as a humourist it is interest-bounding elephant. Professor and Mrs. Danenborging to find how much of his bright Meanwhile there will be much and that ought to be made known loft by the s.s. President McKin-wit he distributes In his personal indignation amongst Home golf- FIRE,at Home just in order to con- loy.
relations and for that reasoners, but while there is a law alone, we should very much like against the burning of heretics, boycott and nonsense is no part Liout. R. C. Chalmers, R.E., to meet Mr. P. Juster, of the they may have to console them
Associa-selves by burning his favourite of any Chinese animosity against has been promoted to the rank of "China United Soccer
Captain.
tion." If the man is really on clubs. ! Britishers but is an extraneously,
inspired fun-maker, be his lettore fed and fanned display of insen-
LIFE,
KILLS
Protect
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your
Home
by
| Davis matter tha
vince the folk that the Canton
on
to the English Football Associa- tion and the Now Zealand Foot-
Baseball Posers.
ball Association would indicate.) Poaer, No. There is a run-
one, The
Capt. E. Hall, C.M.A., has pro- Bate hatred against the existing ceodod to North China on in- Installing
social and industrial order. The spection duty. blight of the Moscow politicat PYRENE school will assuredly settle
"Dovonian and Lancastrain."; us here just na it has settled-We do not think any useful TO-DAY
purpose will be served by publish upon Russia to her economic ruining your latter. unless a short and sharp fight`is | Inspection
put up against it. We are right Yesterday's hoalth return shows Invited
on the latest battle-ground of one case each of typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever, both suf- two contrary ideas, the one
erors being Chinese. which believes in the present or-: der because of its possibilities
Two Chinese dock passengers for the achievement of the great- died on the s.s. Van Overstraten 16-17, Connaught Road Cantral.est good of the greatest number on her last trip to Hongkong and the Association which Is In The first baseman called for
at
MUSTARD & CO.
'Phone Contra) 1186.
The Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.
LAST NIGHT'S MEETING.
we might possibly solicit a week-ner on third base, two out and
three and two on. ly letter to this, column, *-
the batter.
wild It will be very interesting to The next pitch is a read his "explanation" of those making the fourth ball. letters, if explanation he deigna plich got away from the catcher to write. Of course, he is under and rollad to the grandstand. no obligation to reply to the latter scored on the wild pitch. The The runner on third easily of the local Association, but wa are sure that everyone would like bateman, realizing the ball was to hear more about the team that certain to travel to the grand- by its wonderful trick, passing plate to second on the fourth stand, went all the way from the and stupendous speed, would amaze the continent of Europe, ball, which was a very wild pitch. The amateur team which gots & just ahead of the catcher's throw, The batsman reached that base substantial bonus for games won, being called safe by the umpire: a position to keep the wives and the ball. It seemed, the batter, families of their players in com- fortable affluence while their in going from the plate to second,
through the development of in- They were buried at een! |dividual worth, and the other which
would destroy individualism and Attention is directed to an ad-menfolk are away doing yaloroug. make all things subsidiary to avertisement regarding the supply deeds on the football fick would of teas and tiffins at the Ladies not suffer by further elucidation common standard. And the me-Club House, at Fanling on Sun-of whom and what they are. thods of fighting adopted by the day, 30th, instant.
Mr. Juster evidently possesses exponents of the latter school.
a keen imaginative sensed we recommend him to apply it to are now exposed as being ruth- The Observatory reports that the thought of the monotony which less, soulless and inherently the southern typhoon has moved often permeates a meeting of the evil. Free men and women have and Long. 127 E.; the northern consideration will no doubt bring slowly northward to Lat. 22 N., local Football Association. Due to fight a sinister creed of domina-contre is not definitely indicated to the surface his unconscious tion' and dictatorship and we pi this morning.
Last night's meeting at the City Hall passed off very much as was expected. In spite of the op- Hongkong are going to fight for pressive heat; nearly one thop-our
humour and we can assure him
that his reply to the request for an explanation will be received
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very right of existence The forthcoming wedding is sand men and women gathered to- against those who are
announced of Mr. Walter Hun-with a deep sense of gratitude. working
rick Knoku, of Tung Shan, Can- gether to endorse, with enthusi- through the pliable medium of ton, to Miss Johanna Auguste
Thorough Mr. Tolley. Something which all Scotsmen asm, the lengthy telegram to the unsuspecting Chinese and turn-Faula Berendt, who will arrive Prime Minister appealing for ing friendships into hatreds and burg.
in the Colony by the s.s. Olden- and most supporters of the royal ancient game will regard as a immédiate direct action against workmen into strikers. This is
ease of almost punishable, heresy the Bolsheviks of Canton. The no time for kid-gloved diplomacy
has occurred at Home: Cyril Tolley, twice endorsement was made unmis with powerless Peking; it is time
amateur takably plain when one member for a directly correcting hand in of the gathering ventured to as Canton itself. sert that it was wrong to have [any dealings at all with Canton
On Cycling. and that the only channel
The fine inflicted yesterday on a for negotiation and action was by way
Chinese who was riding dangerous- of Peking. The loud dissently in Nathan Road, recalls the
nesc.
had missed first base at # foot.
least
the first baseman and the base The error had been noticed by
on that base by the first sacker umpire. When the ball was held for umpire called out the batter, who was now reposing on second. This was the third out, retiring the side.
play that made the third out Did the run that scored on the
count?
ly counted... The failure of the The Answer. The run positive- batsman who received a base on balls and failed to touch first in his mad dash to second does not field contended. erase the run, as the team in the
On such plays the contention is raised that a run cannot score on a play in which the batsman- failed to reach first base. Such Last wook's health return shows four cases of onteric fever champion, has announced that above play.
a claim is always made on the with two deaths, one, Chinese, one is his intention to give up golf. Japanese, one Indian and one and to take up tennis." A severe batsman is entitled to first base on Such is not the case, as tho Philippine (imported, and one blow. to golfing circles, but it is the four balls, and it is impossible case of paratyphoid fever, Chi-a change which should have the to take that right away.
One death from influenze effect of stimulating interest in when he failed to touch first in bis However, is also reported."
tennis.
Tolley is a man who concentrates liable to be put out, but his act in no. dash to second, he made himself A Shanghai ricksha boolie who the moment. He does not
all his energy on the pursuit of way affected the run that had cross- which this statement evoked epidemic of "trick cycling" which discovered that a male passenger leve in starting out and stopping retired for the third and final out." be-ed the plate, long before he was had left a package of jowellery halfway. During the late war served to emphasise that those at the police had to contend with a worth $2,000 in his ricksha, last it is said of Tolley that he was the meeting had grown impatient few months ago. Fortunately. week, took the package to Sinza entrusted with the command of with the apparent inactivity of there has been
The Army At Play. a distinct abute. Police Station whore the owner one of a group of tanks. After
of it appeared later. He gave the
Matches played in the Garrison those at Home and in Peking and ment of this nuisance, but every coolie $150 as a reward for his attack the other tanks weut Tennis League last week resulted as were out to demand some direct now and again it crops up, and honesty. The coolie left the
home to bed but not, Tolley's. follows: R.A.0.C. Heat Small Units interference with the political finds a sequel in the police courts. the money as he went.
station in bewilderment, counting He had started towards Berlin by 71 to 28; H.Q. Wing, East
and was, it appears running a Surrey Regt beat evil centred in Canton-an evil On the whole, the roads of the!
through service, for paying no at- Surrey Regt. by 60 to 89.
"A" Co., East peculiar to the South at present Colony do not invite the use of the
tention to signals, he was well The marriage took place at on his way when finally upset scratched to R.A.S.C., and the "B" Co., East Surrey Regt. and one which makes Hongkong's "push bike," which is being pushed Holy Trinity, Sloane Streat, on by a large and hastily organised R.A.M.C. scratched to R.E. "B" probleni, separate and distinct off the streets here just as else-July 27th of Viscount Suirdale, wrecking crew.
At the time he One point' was awarded to the lat oldest son and heir of the Earl was busily engaged in annoying ter team in each ease. from that of Britain with official where, before. the advance
and Countess of Donoughmore, to some very high headquarters and China. Mr. Fitzroy might be an-swifter and noisier traffic. Miss Dorothy Jean Hotham, hindquarters with a machine gun lead the way with twelve points in In the League table, R.E. "B" xious to preserve the precedent motorcar has not only made cycling daughter of the late Mr. J. B
At golf Tolley gave his whole twelve games, every match having of having no official" relations less attractive as a relaxation, Hotham and Mrs Hotham. As undivided attention
Viscount Suirdale, Lord Donough-down to the core of the ball, and on their heels with 11 points out
to getting been won. owing to the fumes and dust left more was A.D.C. to Sir Henry indeed he has proved time and of a possible twelve and next in with a belligerent part of
The R.A.0.C. are close
ters in the game. If he can be E.S.R., with seven of eleven points, taught to hit the tennis ball with equal force he may make
a
of
The
?
friendly country, but when, to In its wake, but the congested] Blake when Governor of Hong-aguin to be one of the hardest hit-1 the list is Headquarters Wing
dangerous.
to
kong.
the
Tolley
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
A HUGE ARMS HAUL.
The general meeting of the Gar- rison Recreation Club is to be held
items on the ajenda is the election on Friday, when amongst other of officers to the sub-committees for football, qugby, cricket, hockey,
At the Magi
take the present instance as the nature of traffic in all populous best example, Peking has abso-regions has rendered the old
In connection with our story of American game look like a goods lutely no effective control over pastime, once looked upon as a
the trip by a number of Americans train in comparison, while in any Cunton it is obviously useless to
route to health, positively
to Canton by junks, Messrs. 0. negoliate with Peking for the
retains much of its attractions for Stroot, Yaumati, write informing carrying his 240 pounds round the tennis, water polo and boxing.
Yet the pedal bicycle Charles and Cu, of Chiu Woase. It should certainly prove
most interesting to sec remedy of certain hostile acts being committed
us that the arrangements wore Canton. those unable to afford, or unwilling made by them for the chartering by Surely, it is better to drop the ride, the motorcycle. In of the junks (which were armed old diplomatic habit of ignoring Kowloon, one observes the popu- with the usual muzzle-loading
in the bunker. Ropes were the existence of factions which larity of this former favourite guns), whilst the engagement of
this
attached to one bag. Other bags a gunboat from Guneral Li Fook-
containing arms were found in the have no de jurg status, and get among threo classes of people:- lum was also negotiated by them,
bunker below, where another man busy in telling the self-appointed The Chinese worker, the visiting
was found. Prisoner was arrest- officials" of Canton that unless sailor, and the youth of the
A Chinese named Chunk Muk ed in another part of the ship. At least P1,300,000 is needed appeared before Mr. they conform voluntarily with residential population, of both by the Cebu Portland Cement Wood at the Criminal Sessions have nothing to say here. I shall Justice When he was charged he said, "I Treaty obligations they will be sexes. Occasionally there are Company to purchase and develop yesterday, charged with, the pos- say it in court made to conform by force or be flagrant breaches of regulations in the Uling Naga coal mines in ac session of thirty-four revolvers stracy he said, "I know nothing
cordance with an option it holds and pistols and 5492 rounds of about the arms." kicked out, It may be all very the absence of proper lights, the on the property, it was learned ammunition on irregular from the strict view-keeping to the wrong side of the yosterday, suys the Manila Bul- Benyrachi on June 21 last. story was called and Mr. Green--
board the 8.6.
Evidence bearing out the Crown^- letin of August 19th. Without pleaded not guilty, point of a lawyer like Mr. Fitz-road; and attempts at trick stunts. controlling and operating the The Crown case was conducted wood, the Police armourer, gave roy, but the procedure appeals It is marvellous sometimes that mines, which are close to the to the ordinary man in the street there are not very serious accidents, cement plant and from which all by Mr. Whyte-Smith who explain new and had not been used, yea the plant's fuel is obtained, the because of its practicability and But a special providence, seems to company's plans for the devolop on the day in question a party of possibility. By the time the de-guard the Kowloon cyclist, who ment of its business to the extent ship to search for arms. In the vicus route of diplomatic action appears in his (or her) element competition will never bo realized, upper tween deck bunker on the
of being able to meet keen foreign with Peking has been traversed after the shades of evening have it is declared. Of the total ad, starboard alde a Chinese revenue sufficiently far as to cause any fallen; and no doubt the care ditional aid being sought by the offer found the prisoner helding interference with Canton toven exercised by other users of the which amounts to P2,800,000, the offeer he dropped the bag company from the government & bag in his hands. When he saw assuming Peking's ability to in-road,
Amongst the passengers who particularly motorists, only the amount of P1,500,000 is and ran from the hold, whereupon departed by the Blue Tunnel liner terfere successfully) Hongkong provents the push bicyclo usos from intended for extensions in the the officer fired his revolver, Antonor vore Mrs. Paul Hodgson, might very well be in the slough commonly coming to an untimely being intended for the acquisition soner dropped contained arms and and Mrs. D. Timmins, Mra D. W cement plant propor, the residue giving the alarm. The bag pri Mr. and Mra. Remington, Mr. of a commercial debacle and end.
another bag was found on the coal Munton and Mr. G. B. Hett.
of the mines..
ed to the court that at 4:30a.m.
revonuo officers went on board the
evidence that all the arms were
After retiring the jury returned: a verdict of guilty and prisoner was sentenced to three years in prisonment with hard labour.