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TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1928.
THE WORLD SPORT
A GOLF SECRET.
THE STARTING GATE,
PROVES SUCCESS AT THE
SHANGHAI RACES.
Commenting on the use of the starting gato at the Shanghai Rucos, a writer, in the N. C. Daily News says:
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MINISTERS AS JOURNALISTS.
MR. BALDWIN ON THE CABINET · RULE.
THE DIVIDING LINE.
Thero cant-no-question-but that it was a most pronounced Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in the success, despite the fact that House of Commons recently, mado INTERPORT CRICKET. there were occasions when some
THE CLASH OF THE SEXES. SOME SHANGHAI COMMENTS. Writing before the choloo of the team, a sports contributor to the N. C. Daily News stated:
AUTO-SUGGESTION.
[By A. C. Ma Croome,}"
THE FUTURE OF TRIPOLI,
NEW GRANARY FOR ITALY.
Tripoli, April 18.
The present visit of the King of Italy to Tripolitania" is something more than a nore ceremonial tour. It is the complement of Signor Mussolini's visit-two years ago......
aggeration it can be asserted that. Without the least historical ox- of the jockeys did not do all they a statement with regard to the the coming of Signor, Mussolint might have done to help the starter, conditions under which Ministers marked the awakening of Italy's whilst the latter also made some might publish literary contribu- consciousness that she is a Colonial Power with Colonial responsibill- mistakes which were quite excus- tions.
ties. That awakening. lias" been able, considering how little time he has had in which to get thoroughly The Prime Minister said that followed up by two years of inten sive labour and progress. It is ac- acquainted with the gate. The In what direction will the ideas greatest mistake was in allowing Mr. Churchill, had informed him cordingly, as a witness of the ac Is here to-day; and the nation ne- of Shanghai's Interport selection, the flags to be used in conjunction that anything he might publish complished fact that King Victor committee. differ from those who with the gate. Actually, the races while in office would strictly concepts the ceremonies of this week Until last Saturday I had never contend that the task of finding a were started on the flag, and form to the conditions which he as a token of still more labour and
winning team to meet Hongkong on Jockeys were at a loss to know in bodily presence assisted at the the 26th of this month is a matter whether they had to watch the (Mr. Baldwin) had laid down. progress to come.
He admitted, however, that n "It is in her own Colonies that annual match between the Ladies of only a few minutes? The evid-flag, the gate, or both. Fortunate. and the Men at Stoke Poges, Butence of the past three weeks is ly, the Stewards saw the absurdity singla. article from Lord Birken-Fascist Italy is urging penetration I contributed in two ways to the responsible for the affair being of this combination and took the head's pen appeared to touch the time granary of the Roman Empire
It is in the reclaiming of the one firat victory of the Mon. I am called a conundrum, but those who flags away. There has now been
that she is making her expansion properly proud of my share in that are familiar with recent Interport drafted a set of rules which, if fringe of current controversy.
and is directing the flow of her victory in so far as it was caused events and current form need not followed by all concerned, will Mr. Johnston (Soc, Dundee) ask-Continental population. by my refusal of an Invitation to be puzzled by the problems which make all starts as good as were ed the Prime Minister whether his play in the match.
appear to exist to-day. There are those on Saturday.
attention had been directed to the It is something to have been two factors in the situation, as it
the writer:
The "Shanghai mind" came contributions to current journalism asked to do so. The fact that appeals
somewhat prominently into the being made or announced from the was myself largely responsible for' (1) The nucleus of the eleven picture. Some of the comments the issuing of the invitation is no is in being and all that is required made only went to show that many pens of the Secretary for India and more than testimony to the wie is a final dressing in one or two people's actual knowledge of rac the Chancellor of the Exchequer dom of the Selection Committee, places.
ing does not go beyond the kinder- whether these contributions, actual I suppose I ought to be ashamed
garten stage. To hear well-known owners, regular attendants, and and prospective, were a violation even prominent officials from the of the pledge announced in reply other two courses tall about the to questions on June 18, 1925, and gate as "a farce," "useless." and. when one considers that it has been what steps, if any, he proposed to ridiculous" was a trifle sorrowful amplified on December 7, 1926, and in regular use in England since take in the matter, 1900, in some other countries even before that, and that there is no suggestion of abolishing it. It
While Count Voipl was Governor his industrial and financial genius reconstructed Tripoli as an up-to- date port, an outlet for the new found commercial productiveness of the Tripolitan area, and a starting- point for the traffic routes into the African hinterland. Without abán- ernor, General de Bono, pins his doning such gains the present Goy- faith in the agricultural future of the Colony, and to-day he is show-
for productive efforts. Ing to King Victor the work al- ready done in reclaiming the land
of my subsequent activity in the (2) The condition of the wicket organisation of the affair. But on the day of play should be the am not. I consider that we, Mr. deciding factor in the final consti- Hugh Alison, the then Secretary tution of the team. of the Stoke Poges Club, and I showed a most commendable pro-surprising, but what are the facts? Perhaps the latter statement is science, and with equally com- Capt. Barrett, Leach, Dr. O'Hara, mendable courage did our duty by Lieut. Melsonic, Isaacs, and Stokes aur fellow-golfers of the mascu- must be regarded as certainties and line persuasion. We knew that with the pressing matter of In- they could not give these girls a creasing the batting strength it is half.
impossible to ignore the claims of was unfortunate that three of our the Exchequer informs me that any hand with the new settlers at the Gillespie and Palmer. The choice best riders, once were tangled up
ship.
Į
The Bowlers.
Mornis, Sergt. Freshwater, All-
son, Mádar and Divecha fur-
Room for 30,000 Families. Mr. Churchill's Position.
Apart from the already develop. Mr. Baldwin-The Chancellor of ed cultivation in the oases, the Italian Government works hand in
Think what a half means! It
of the wicket-keeper rests between in the tape, owing to an admitted literary contributions which he task of getting the best out of bio denotes that there is a difference Barnes and Dunkley and here there mistake, but an occasion can be may publish while in office will soll Farm land is not given out- of at least four classes between is likely to be a pause in the recalled when Danny Maher on a strictly conforma to the conditions right to the newcomer, but is vest- the giver and the receiver of the selecting chamber, although it is classic horse was similarly situat-I laid down in my statement on form of concessions, which carry ed in him and his family in the odds. The correctness of this es tulerably certain that the vote willed, with Mr. Coventry at the lever. timate can be proved by reference be accorded to the former, whose Mistakes are bound to happen this subject on March 3, 1927. In an obligation on the part of the to the list of National Handicaps sound rather than brilliant keeping sometimes, even with the best that statement i gave a full and Government to train the settler and his farm workers at experimental laeued by the Championship Com-is not impaired with the turning people, but one or two mistakes do carefully considered account of the agricultural stations, to give ad- mittee. The considerable golfers of a few more hairs.
not prove a case when there is conditions which should be observed vice and practical help in the deve whose names appoar in that list
overwhelming evidence on the by members of the present Ad-lopment of his land and to furnish are those whose handicaps are
ather side.
ministration.
him, under special conditions, with four or less. The others may be Two more links in the chain must
Where the public were right I drew a clear distinction be-the requisite seeds and implementa left ant of account because they be found and here, as things are was on the several occasions when tween journalistic articles on ques-fin keeping, with the quality of his may not enter for the champion-seen, Mansel-Smith, Wilson, Dr.they voiced their protest because tions of current party controversy concession. The settlor in return a start was delayed on account of and departmental matters on the is bound to give an account of his stewardship. If he has failed by Championship Classes. nish higher credentials than other one or two ponies being eideways onu band, and literary, historical, the end of each year to show ade-..
on to the tape, but with their or philosophical writings on the Those who are privileged to candidates and, if the wicket pro-heads towards it. Provided they other; and I had also in mind the quate progress, the acreage of his concession is relatively cut down; compete divide themselves into mises to be a sticky one, Mansel- three classes. Class 1, is a select Smith must be included as a spin can get off without interfering difference which clearly exiata In if he has made good use of his op body. It consists of what may be bowler' of proved merit.
with any others, that is a perfectly practice between publications In called the Walker Cup players, case, there is the feeling that this fair start and does not impose any daily or weekly newspapers and portunities further lands are added any one of whom might win the player should be in the team and handleap on the pony off the line, publications in books or magazines, to his boundaries.
For thle latter class, as I pointed To-day there are roughly three championship without causing on a wicket that might be of the Indeed, jockeys have been heard to general surprise or the suggestion hard-baked variety it would be say that some animals are more out, there are numerous respectable hundred major concessionari who long period of cultivate over a hundred thousand that his victory was in the nature Coolish to despise the claims of easily handled in that position and precedents over a
time and under many Governments, square miles of land. Among these of a fluke. Class II. is larger and Sergt. Freshwater, whose pace on can be got away much better.
I see no reason to modify the state- are many native landowners who contains those who might beat one auch a pitch would provide the de-
ment which I then made.
have proved their title to the land by inheritance, acquisition, or member of the first class, but issired element of surprise and
With reference to the Secretary not likely to repeat the perform variety to the attack.
agricultural ability. The present for India (Lord Birkenhead), his scheme of expansion aime at settling ance at the expense of a second. swerves, which have often proved
articles on the subject of crimino-30,000 families of selected contadini A member of Class III, does well 50 disconcerting in Hongkong, as
logy fell within the class 1. de-on' the land, and for these, divided. well as in Shanghai, may influence
fined as permissible. I understand into groups, there are lots awaiting
In any
Wilson's
AFTER INTERPORT HONOURS.
if he takes one of his betters to his choice and the peerless fielding the last hole, or even to the seven of Dr. Morris is worthy of consi- CRICKET AND TENNIS TEAMS they will be shortly published in of about a thousand acres each. By teenth,
deration for any team, but the
It is very right and proper that truth must be told that Divecha has
the third class players should be proved disappointing in the bigger allowed to enter. There must be, events.
a beginning to everything. It would be stupidly unfair to deny
DEPART.
By the s.s. President Grant, the Hongkong Interport cricket and tennis teams left for Shanghai this morning. The cricket team, which le captained by Mr. R. Han cock, will play its first match on Saturday.
to golfers of distinctly respectable teeing-ground, or the back, or one capacity opportunity to develop it of the several intervening between by experience in competitive play. the two, ia usod. It was not But if the championship com-difficult to arrange the round so
Hongkong is sending both ladles mittee, whose members know the that the lady, conscious that her game and are assiduous students opponent could get up with a drive and gents' tennis teams. The for- mer comprise Lady Stuart Taylor. of form, find that a margin of and a controlled fron-stroke, was four strokes suffices to cover three tempted to hit harder than she Mrs. R. E. Tottenham, Miss Enid classes of players, it follows that could, and to go for carries which Lo and Mrs. Miles.
The gents' tennis team is com- any golfer of either sex who must were a trifle too big for them. receive a half from the reigning The scheme worked admirably for Posed of Dr. R. E. Tottenham, Pro- Amateur Championship cannot be several years, long enough to de-fessor F. A. Redmond, Mr. Yow placed in a higher class than the velop something like an inferiority Man-kit and Mr. E. C. Fincher. Afth, or sixth,
Complex in the minds of the Ladies.
Which is absurd, as Euclid says
Robins have laid eggs in one of at frequent intervals in his horrid By what must be admitted to be a pair of leggings which had been book, sometimes for reasons which Retributive Justice, I was made left in a conservatory at Bath. I could not fathom when I was to suffer for the quite minor part obliged to read it. In this case which I played in the stimulation
the form of a book. A single arti October of this year it is hoped to cle upon the subject of the post-have 2,000 new families in the tion of women in modern life ap. Colony pears from its topic to touch the fringe of current controversy and to touch it in a sense different from the general, view of the Govern-words: "The prohibition is per- fectly clear. It is a prohibition against writing articles in the Presa?"
ment.
My noble friend informs me that it treats the subject in so general a form that he had not expected- laughter)-exception (Socialfet would be taken to it on this ground.
A Fine Distinction.
Mr. Baldwin-I do not consider that this is an article in the Press. distinction is fine. There has been (Opposition laughter.) I said the a practice of recent years which is the modern practice, that when Mr. Johnston-Is the Prime books are being compiled, portions Minister aware that one of Lord of those books often appear before Birkenhead's Berleş which WAS publication of the books. That is brought to a premature close in
a state of things which did not exist 1926, as a result of the Prime many years ago. This particular Minister's ban, is exactly on the chapter which has appeared is an some character and for the same isolated chapter of the work on periodical as those that are now which Lord Birkenhead has been appearing; and is he further aware engaged for some time and which that in his two pledges to the he may have time to complete at House, the second one, which he did some future date in his leisure, not quote, namely that of March but if there has been in this mat- 7, he said: "The prohibition ister an error of judgment on his- perfectly clear. It is a prohibition part, that is the worst 1 can say. against writing articles in the Bir C. Kinloch-Cooke (C. Cardiff, by his Majesty's recollect the fact that the late Mr. Gladstone contributed to the
(sec.
The Prince of Wales will open the absurdity is patent, as the of it. Three or four years ago the new bridge across the Tweed Ordeal by Wager shall show. the Ladies had something like at Berwick on May 16. Supposing that Miss Wethered or their best team out, the Men's Miss Leitch should enter for the side was anything but representa- Amateur Championship at, Pr tive. However, the moat, persist- wick next month, what sane man ent lady-killer among them. pro- between the Oxford and Cam- Press?" Is, that still the position East)-Does the Prime Minister before the draw appeared would fessed a confidence in the result bridge Golfing Society and the maintained lay even a shade of odds against which I considered unjustified. Royal Liverpool G.C. will be start-Government?
Mr. Clynes (Soc. Platting)-Nineteenth Century" during the either of them winning her first The argument was conducted in ing at Hoylake. In this fixture match?
the normal fashion; and some the visitors, like the Ladies at
Dons the Prime Minister not con- time he was Prime Minister arti- ve later I had to pay. Those Stoke, have for an indecently long sider that the reply given this after cles which were non-political?
Mr. Baldwin-That is one of the, In the Confessional.,
noon considerably modifies his. Kira utterly declined to putt period been handicapped by an money. And I over-developed Inferiority Com-
own former statements on this sub respectable precedents to which I Hugh Alison and I, being like straight for my other eminent philosophers, ahead had taken pains to let them know plex. But I really do think we fect--(Socialist cheers) and that alluded.
shall win to-day.
the statement of Lord Birkenhead. *Mr. Pethick-Lawrence it was at stake. of our time in knowledge and
Being in prophetic mood I'ven-indleates a real difference between Leicester, West)-Does the Prime judgment, realised that the men After the debacle of last Satur-
politics?
of the indirect nature of Lord had taken on a task beyond their day it is idle to rely on auto-sug-ture to suggest that Compston is him and the Cabinet on current Minister realise, when he speaks powers, and would require all the gestion or low cunning for victory more likely to beat Hagen than to
Mr. Baldwin-With regard to the Birkenhead's contribution, that in assistance which efficient staff in the future. The mon have no be beaten by him in their chal- work could give. I happened to chance at odds of a half, and the lenge mtach at Moor Park Here first part of that qucation, the dis- this article he definitely refers to bo at Stoke Poges when a letter Ladies know that much of truth. a word of warning may be ad- tinction, of course, really la: What an occasion when he spoke against was received from the manager of They may as well know the rest, dressed to both of them. The is journalism and what is dot? the enfranchisement of women, and Mr. Baldwin--Doubtless Mr. the Ladies' team asking whether videlicet, that they have been in winner will be well advised to There is a very fine distinction, said he stands on those views? the medal teeing-grounds would the past angaliantly treated by hank the stake-money and leave and. It is a very difficult thing to Pathick-Lawrence will recollect that
decide on. The answer I have be used for the match. We re-scication of teeing-grounds, This Mitchell unchallenged,
given is clear, and is in the terms in the time of the Coalition Govern- plied with diplomatic vagueness time the hoot was on the other At the start of the Champion- the considered answer, on the ment Lord Birkenhead introduced a Franchise Bill in the House of that the course would be set as it lag. The back teeing-grounds ship season I also suggest to ordinarily is for daily play. were used, and, with the course them, and to all others who will subject which I gave on March 8 Lords which gave votes to women.
Lord Birkenhead,
Mr. Skelton (C," † Perth)—Is It Now, Stoke Foges is one of the through the green slow, the holes ba in the limelight that they
not the case that those with even should carefully study Hulo: 415,. most spacious and elastic of in-were too long for the Men.
-Mr. Johnston---May I press the the most elementary knowledge-of- land greena. At each of the
And note that permisalon longer holes the problem present-
ground the club in the "rough" Prime Minister to say whether he literature are aware that monthly Jed to the player yaries almost in- A few hours after these re-does not override the provision still holds to the opinion or deel-or quarterly magazines are never
sion he announced in the House on described as "the Press.” finitely according as the front marks appear in print the match that nothing fixed or growing may March 7, when he used these. There was no reply.
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