PLAY AND PLAYERS.
TWO OPEN LETTERS.
By "Wanderer."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
PEKING PARLEY.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1925,
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GATHERING OF INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES.
Peking, Oct. 20-The Tarif Conference opened to day.
Ideal
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for
TO "ON" BUX:-With reference attitude being essentially control- Chinese delegate introduced in the
of the led by the fact that any seaman has to your acceptance Поред to all" challenge of been permitted to box professional-opening session a demand for tariff
C. P. 0. Jim Cartlidge, I have ly if he so desires with the result autonomy.
to inform you that he has signified that except amongst the officers his willingness to meet you if the Hongkong Boxing Association will stage the contest.
there is scarcely an amateur in the Senior Service worthy to represent the Navy at the I.B.B.A, meeting.
Mr. Bioki, explaining Japan's viewpoint, said tariff autonomy should be based on the Open Door Principle and suggested that China should lay before the delegates the process by which tariff autonomy As the final tribunal, the Royal is to be attained. He averred that lenges. You are, perhaps, aware and Ancient Club at a meeting held
ar
It would probably prove interest- ing if you could inform me, some time or other, the exact pro- cedure adopted by boxers in the Issuing and acceptance of
chal-
NO CHANGE IN GOLF BALL.
that Cartlidge issued a general at historic St. Andrews recently, Japan is taking China's industrial challenge to the Colony through the rejected the recommendation of the welfare into consideration, but that columns of the Telegraph, are fur-Rules of Golf Committee that a ball her sympathy is not for one faction or chique, but for the Chinese ther aware that Stoker Morris and slightly larger and lighter than the A. B. Ewen accepted that challenge one at present in use should be through the Telegraph, and, of adopted for next season's cham-nation in its entirety, and conse- The question had quently, her attitude will undergo course, know that your personal pionships. challenge appeared in the Tele- aroused considerable comment in no change, whoever may come into the Home press and on the links: graph.
Is it customary, it would be in-and the decision of the R. and A. triguing to know, to look into the is in accordance with the views The city of Peking was gaily heflagged from early this morning. Timbuctoo Gazette, or some other of golfers generally.
ours for con- A plebiscite was taken shortly Shortly after nine o'clock, automo contemporary of firmation" Or is that merely the beforehand for instance and a biles carrying delegates, advisers, method adopted when one has been urged to make some form of reply when witted with inactivity-- "Wanderer."
TU C. T. 0. JIM CARTLIDGE-My attention has been called to
the
majority of five to one in favour
of the old bull was reached.
power.
and newspaper men began to arrive
The new ball was designed in at the Siyuanmien gate of the Chu- America, and, if present intentions jentang hall, where the conference are carried out, it will be intro-is in session. duced there next year. When this
ball was first proposed it Avas re-
At 10 o'clock, the Chinese com
fact that the columns of a centem-jected by the Rules of Golf Committee men showed the various desi porary contain & Jetter written by mittee on the ground that it did legations into the conference room, you accepting a challenge publish- not go far enough in reducing the ed in the Telegraph, and replying length to a friendly criticism also publish- ed' therein.
To pass over a small peint like that, I would ask, first, whether, assuming for the moment that you are correct in stating that it is not your place to approach the Hong-| kong Boxing Association, you have adopted the alternative you mention and endeavoured to come to some terms with arrangement as to either A. B. Ewen or Stoker Morris? Secondly, whether you are not well aware that it is tremely unlikely that the long kong Boxing Association com mittee would consent to "stage a contest between yourself and Iron
THE DISUNITED SERVICES.
which is carpeted in crimson.
of shots. Experiments
One of the walls is decorated proved that to the first-class player meant the loss of from six to ten with the 13 flags of the countries in the conference. yards down wind and slightly more taking part against the wind. The differenec Seats of the plenary delegates are) in the case of the handicap player, arranged in the shape of a "U." however, was as much as 20 yards. The order is the same as at the The decision which was arrived Washington Conference, particular- at by a large majority of merabersy in the urrangement of seats, on the ground that the champion-which is as follows: ships should not be used for the purposes of experiments-will come as a great relief, to the ball manu- facturers, whose trade would have been thrown into a state of dis-j organisation by a contrary step.
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Bux? And thirdly, whether you! If Jack Dempsey ever fights are aware that the permission of your Commanding Officer would be again it will be in the autumn of required before the H. K. B. A, 1926, though in this connection the would be permitted to do so? reminder that it is easy to get a man to sign on the dotted line but "Wanderer."
more difficult to get him in the ring. is necessary. By the summer of 1926 the ring's most gifted There is a big difference of elocutionist will have held the opinion in the fighting Services at heavyweight championship of the Home as to professionalism in box-World for seven years, the impor- Ing; more especially has the con-tance of this, if there is any, being troversy arisen in respect of the that he will have set a new record. Imperial Services Boxing Champion. No champion in recent times has ships. Hitherto both amateurs and held the laurels for more than six professionals have been eligible years and some odd months. hut the Army and the R.A.F. are now, it is understood, agitating for the exclusion of paid boxers. The Navy wants to leave things as they
arc.
The Army insists that all young Foldiers shall start as amateurs and fight their way up as such, though: should he develop to such an extent that he is obviously in a class by himself, a boxer may then be per- mitted to turn professional with the consent of the Army B.A.
The Army B.A. appears to adopt the attitude that while quite pre- pared to assist professional boxers in the ranks of the Army, they are difinitely excluded from Army cum- petitions and championships of every kind, while the R.A.F.B.A. adopts the same attitude though up
Jack Johnson. the negre. who made gold fillings a Queensherrian fad, is the present record holder. He beat Jeffries in 1910 and lost to Jess Willard, six years, three months and a few days later.
Dempsey won the title on July 4th, 1919, and for two years he has carefully avoided according anyone an opportunity of prevent- ing him from passing the record] of Jack J. Of course the "record" will not be recognised by ring his- torians unless he fulfils his promise) to fight next year. On the con- trary his retirement will date back to the time when he beat Lais Firpo.
Front:-
China
Shen Jui-lin, Foreign Minister. Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister to
Washington, (absent). W. W. Yen, Dr.
C. T. Wang, Dr. Tsai Ting-kun, Admiral. Huang Fu.
Left:-
The United States John V. A. MacMurray, Minister. Sitas Hardly Strawa, lawyer.
Denmark Henrik Kaufmann, Minister.
Britain
Sir James Wm. Ronald Macleay,
Minister.
Lieut.-Colonel Steward.
Peel,
Japan.
Eki Hioki, chief delegate. Kamukichi Yoshizawa, Minister. Norway
J. Michelet, Minister.
Right:-- Belgium
Le Maire de Warzee, Minister. France
De de Martel, Minister. Tripier, chief secretary of the
French Legation.
'Italy
1. Cerruti, Minister. Netherlands
W. J. Oudendijk, Minister.
Bianci.
Portugal
Sweden
0. Ewerlof, Minister.
Baron C. Leijenhufoud, council-
lor.
Spain
Don Justo Garrido, Minister.
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Jeffries, of course, would have In the centre are the seats of YOU NEED FIRE PROTECTION been well to the fore, had he not Tuan
and
rose Chi-jui then retired in 1905 after coming to the stenographers. Advisers sit be- to the present they have not conclusion that no logical opponent ind enforced such rigid rules as those existed.
plenipotentiary delegates.
for
The
He had been champion Nearest the wall are seats appertaining to the Army B.A. In for six years, and had be decided newspaper men and guests. Hongkong the Surreys boxers are to stay in the ring and mingle total attendance is 500.
all amateurs and barred from fight facetiously with the round-heeled
ing professionally,
J.
and loose-jacketed lads of the few period, would have added a more years to his total.
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TUAN DELIVERS 'ADDRESS. The conference opened with the Chinese national anthem. Marshal Tuan Chi-jui then
and
rose
The Navy and Marines think dif. ferently and put forward the argu
When Jeffries did come back delivered an address in Chinese to ment that a Service boxer competes in the 1.S.B.A. Championships as a 1910 lured by a pot of gold dangled the effect that China deeply appre member of a team representing his enticingly in front of his retrousse ciated the action of the Powers in Service, regardless of his status, by Tex Richard it was in the role sending special delegations to take for the benent of his side.' Each of challenger and not as champion. Service should put the best avail- Based on the careers of the six part in the Tariff Conterence cou-
ton Conference. able men into the ring regardious men preceding Jack Dempsey the yoked by virtue of the Washing average life of a world's heavy- of extraneous considerations..
There is something to be said for weight champion is four and a half said he hoped the Powers would grant China's wishes and that the viewpoints,
Navy's years,
conference would be successful.
both
the
Marshal Tuan
The chief secretary translated Marshal Tuan's address intr Eng- lish. Foreign Minister Shen Jui-
the
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