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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1928.
THE
WORLD SPORT
PING PONG LEAGUE.
SOUTH CHINA V. CHINESE ATHLETICS
RUGBY FOOTBALL.
ORGANISATION OUTLINED FOR COMING SEASON.
Club,
COOLIE'S INGENIOUS
EXCUSE.
NOT BELIEVED BY MAGIS-
TRATE HOWEVER,
An ingenious explanation wis offered by a Chinese coolio when he was charred, before Mr. W. Scho- field at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with unlawful pos session of a bag of 'rive,
GERMANY TAKES
TO SPORT.
WHAT GOETHE SAID 100 YEARS AGO,
A SLOW PROCESS."
The enthusiasts had to contend With more than they knew. Pro fessors saw spectre of the do- elinu and fall of learning and cul ture in Germany "If time was to be wasted from the pursuit of knowledge; students denouncoa this "terror" against their, tradi- tional freedom to bo physically Inzy, and there was a veritablo Sturm und Drang....
The Idén nevertheless took root.
"We can only wait and see,One University after another be added Goethe with a smile, "what gan to exercise pressure by re- The defendant told his Worship a century will, do for us Germans,cording on students' leaving cer that he was a street coolle and and whether we shall have betificates whether they had takon while he was loitering on the wacome human beings instead of an adequate part in sport. Fin tor-front near Mongkok yesterday abstract scholars
and philo. ally, the Prussian Minister of Education Intervened and com he was ordered by a man wearing sopliers."
philological pelled able-bodied a sun hat, to carry a bag of rice.
That was in 1828. Goethe's students to prova that they had This person also employed another coolie to carry a further bag of sceptical smile was well justified officially devoted two hours a rice. They were proceeding along by a profound knowledge of his rock to sport for two terms before employer as well as the other coolic estimate of the interval of time aminations. Argyle Street when suddenly his countrymen, and his prophetic being allowed to take their ax- Efforts are being made to get look to their heels. The next mo- required to dispel his well-found-
than probably he himself dared to this decree extended to all bran ment defendant found himself ac-ed peasiniam has proved truor
ches of every faculty, and a It was stated by the police that imagine. costed by a Chinese constable.
"Faculty for Bodily Exercisos" is defendant had been given, an op-
Nor could be foresee that no-aven being widely demandodi portunity to find his employer but had been unable to do so. No claim thing less than the upheaval of a Evory University now has a world war would be necessary in "gymnastic and sports teacher"" one, but, it was possible that the
"Bodily Exercises" Bureau. loss had not yet been discovered by his prophecy at the eleventh hour. For more has been done in the the victims of the theft.
Inter-University championships His Worship imposed a fine of last decade towards the realisa-i $10 or in default seven days. In tion of the miracle he desiderated in all forms of aport are held every year, and dignifled with the regard to the rice, the Magistrate than in all the preceding nine.
If Goethe were alive now he title of an Olympin" overy ordered that it should bo kept for seven days, at the end of which would, no doubt, be agreobaly im- fourth year. Each term there la time, if no claim was made for it, pressed with the fruits of the "dies academicus," when
hundred years, though one might lectures and intellectuni activi- the police were to sell it..
hazard the guess that the smile tios cease, and the professora, wou'd still be lingering upon his headed by the Rector in his In lips.
down to the aporta " signia, go "Germany had, indeed, before the war already began devoting her-round to watch the students at
play. self to sport but, as all the world knowa, is only in the last few The whole sports movement is years that she. has begun to win directed and organised by the for herself a respectable place in "Garman High School Bureau for the international arena.
Bodily Exercises," assisted by a
A meeting was held last evening Playing in the Sentor Division of the Ping Pong League, the Union Building, by members of Chinese Athletics, last year's the Hongkong Football Club and Longforce to defend their titlegger action In connexion with League champions, turned up in others, for the purpose of organizing against the South China team last Mr. S. Jontain, after referring to evening. A change was made in the past vicissitudes which the old the Chinese Athletic team by the rugger section experienced, spoko, in inclusion of W. P. Lam, who secur-optimistic terms regarding the coming put ed the highest individual points season when it was hoped to for his home team and was to a ruggor once more in its old place and great extent responsible for South make a success of it. In this they China's big lead being reduced,hoped to have in the valuabio nesist- had been made for the rice by any order to retrieve the accuracy of with a staff and & budget.
ance of #n experianced rugger player It was impossible to finish the in Mr. J. Ralston. Mr. Ralston was match before set time and, an older man than him (the speaker), mútually agreed upon beforehand, therefore they could not claim any the remaining games would be more of him than that
aliould uld father tho and
game played off on Saturday evening.
Refr. Jordan) and The scores at the close showed success.
promised to back Mr. Ralston up as 45 to 40 in favour of South China,well as he could, and so had also Mr. who need only ten more points to Wales. With all the work that was contemplated for the re- win the match, the number of being
organization of the rugger section, games unplayed being 24,
they could look forward to a very successful season. lie proposed Mr. Halston to the chair, from where he would be able to tell them what arrengements had already been made for the ground, etc, with the long- kong Football Club.
Junior "Division.
•
In their return match South China again defeated the Chinese Athletics by the narrow margin of four games the scores belug 56 to 52. Both teams fought strongly for each individual game and the decision was uncertain until the last match came to an end.
DRASTIC CRICKET
CHANGES..
he
it
GREEK LEARNT IN WORKHOUSE.
PAUPER'S LOVE OF
LITERATURE..
In order to atave off the depres
work
?
all
In accepting the invitation to take the chair, Mr. J. Ralston said that he was delighted to be called upon to preside over such a meeting, as it
The birth of sport in Germany "General Committee for Bodily was the first time for many years that he had seen so many delightfulsion usually associated with living has been no easy one; evidences Exercises" at each University. looking faces gathered around in a workhouse, an elderly innate of a spontaneous impulse for The "Corps" students, who before
table. Tugger The new season started of the St. Pancras Poor Law In-sport are only now beginning to the war had no time for anything under better Rapless
than it had for stituation has taken up the study become manifest; sports festivals but the "Mensur" and alethal, are 18 national institutions have still now among the most lively pro Bone time, and it was hoped that of Greek. when 1020 enme round, the bight
Unlike many paupers, he is no to be created. But it is encourag-moters of sports. And University which had fallen on rugger here for
lover of his surroundings, and is ing that sport is beginning seri-sports clubs are at last beginning en-to maintain an independent oxfat M.C.C. PROPÓSALS TO CHECK the last two seasons would have been
entirely obliterated.
anxious to secure any kind of ously to invade those inst
trenchments of die-hard resistence against the "town' clubs.
The movement is in full awing. SEORING.
The arrangements for the playing
The main obstacle at present is of the game at first had been in the House, the Rev. J. F. Caithness, in
The Chaplain of St. Pancras ance, the Universities.
the lack of funds. At Berlin, nature of experiments, perhaps un-
High School Regatta. London, Aug. 12.
with 10,000 students, the sports Drastic changes with the object successful in a way, but the results
To find, the other day, a news-teacher has only £1,000 per annum of assisting the bowler to check had proved their worth. There had heavy scoring are suggested in un bon indecision as to the choice of
paper devoting two columns to a at his disposal to pay his staff, An ideal ground and the season in
Berlin High School Regatta" hire grounds, buy materials, and M.C.C. cireulur, usking the opinion which the game should be played
was something of a portent. The defray all incidental toponses; of all county Committees on the here, but this year they were going and an acquaintance with history 18 events, indeed, were not of three-quarters of this amount la proposed alterations of the rules back to their old ground of the parent and literature much greater than cafelent public interest to merit obtained by a compulsory levy of of cricket which may become effec-Cluk under the same conditions as that of the ordinary graduate. any detailed account of the ruc-six shillings
Lefore. A velvet ground and ideol
"It Is, I think, sufficient to showing or results. Nevertheless, we student. weather were not the sins qua nan to rugger, for it was not under those what he le," Mr. Caithness adds, were told that it was the fourth conditions that rugger was bred in that he learned Italian to study gathering of its kind, that it was junction with the high schools, 4
a Danto in the original."
comparatively successful, and sports ground, which, however, the bone. They were golug Into
This lover of good literature re-that,, though it left much to bois so far away that it takes over brand-new club house and a ground enclosed. Onco they had completely
called on him in the tiny space for the future. activities, in
live in 1929.
The alterations propose that a batsman be given out law., firstly, to a ball pitching straight and which, though first touching the bat or hand, would have hit the
letter to the Morning Post, do- scribes the inmate in question as "a born, student, possessed of a keen critical faculty, and having a knowledge of music and painting
on each a year
The University owns, in con-
ance, and is apparently mainly wicket but for the intervention of Bot in, they had to keep up their ceived a Press representative who desired, it spelled much promise an hour to reach by publi convey...
in getting into one game that the Chaplain has been able The struggle to get sport re-used for sun-bathing. The hired the bateman; secondly, to a ball after another, for in this alone would to set aside for his use behind the cognised at the Universities has ground near the centre, on the
for pitching on the offside, but which lie their claim and justification would have hit the wicket but for the retention of the ground, The organ in the workhouse chapel.
Here it is that he keeps his little been of the hardest. It began other hand, is crowded between the intervention of the batsman if Football Club was at their disposal he be then standing in a direct line us a rugger section so long as they library, which includes the works, with a bold initiative by the the hours of soven and nine in the
took advantage of it.
in the original, of Horace and students themselves at their con-morning with students conscion- The Chairman dwelt on, the pros- Virgil, Goethe and many French ress in 1920, when they de- tiously practising football, tennis, number of manded the introduction of com- or athletics or hockey under the pects of the coming season and urged authors, as well as a
pulsory sport.
supervision of instructora, those prescut to make a big effort to English books. capture the rugger trophy in the in- terport match with Shanghai which was one of the things planned for the
between the wickets.
The Committees furthermore are asked to consult groundsmen as to the effect of, leaving longer grass or the pitches.
RACECOURSE BETTING CONTROL BOARD.
VISCOUNT D'ABERNON TO BE CHAIRMAN.
London, Aug. 17.
season.
Keeping His Soul Alive. "Without this space," he said, "1} cacaoimmune should not be able to own a thing, Mr. Prydo and Mr. Wales also for we have not facilities for keep- spoke, warmly supporting. the Chairing our own possessions. As for man's remarks. The former said
that it was useles to play three grimes my studies, without them in this at a stretch and then have a long place, I should not be able to keep period of inactivity before resuming, my soul alive."
n
again.
They had to keep the ball' One constant and well-marked rolling, and the Club would then come companion is a volume of Epictetus, back to its ow
from whose philosophy of self- Those present promised their supabnegation he derives much con- port in the arrangements proposed solation. for the coming season.
He has been allowed to attend the The Daily Telegraph under- The Rev. Mr. H. V. Koop and Mr. stands that Viscount D'Abernon C. D. Wales were proposed for the Working Men's College, N.W., three will be Chairman of the Race-allous of Team Captain and Vice evenings a week, the fee for which course Belling Control Board, Captain respectively. This proposal he has found by doing a little which will supervise the introduc-will be submitted to the general meet: French translation.
ing of members of the Hongkong That has now fallen through," tion of the totalizator.
Football Club to be lield this even-he said, "and I shall be puzzled how ing.
to pay for the next session, which
The Earl of Ellesmere and Lord Dalzill will represent the Jockey Club.
Brigadier-General Sir Loftus Batos will represent the Race course Association.
t
There will be sight other mem-
·bers.
It is not expected that the totalf zators will be ready before the opening of the 1929 flat racing season, but it is probable that the Pari-Mutuel will be used for the Winter steeplechasca.
GERMAN AMATEUR
TITLE.
The appointments made yesterday starts in September. If only for were those of Mr. W. R. Andrews this alone--although, naturally, I and Mr. G. P. Lammert as Team and wish to get out of here altogether- Fixture Secretaries respectively, and I should be glad to get work. Per- of Messrs. S. Jordain, W. Beveridge hups some of your readers could and H. F. Akehurst as members of help me?"
ger.
the unofficial sub-committee for rug- This workhouse student, who is
This concluded the business of the meeting, the Chairman being, accord. ed a vote of thanks.
LOCAL BASEBALL.
DRAGONS TO MEET CLUB
ON MONDAY.
VICTORY OF SURNEY PLAYER.Hongkong Baseball Club
Berlin, Aug. 16.
In the final of the German Ama. teur Golf Championship, W. A. Murray (West Hill Club, Surrey) beat Jung Nickel by 10 and 9.
The baseball gamo scheduled for Saturday at 4pm. between the Ad the South China, Dragons has been postponed to Sunday, September 2nd, at p.m.
65 years of age, was in Canada be fore the War. He came to England to serve in the R.A.M.C. and was in the Army from 1915 to 1919. He has been an inmate of the work- house, off and on, since 1921, dur- ing which time he has vainly en- deavoured to get permanent work.
BIG FIRE AT HOME.
MILKMAID
THOUSANDS OF TONS OF TIMBER DESTROYED.
HARK
London, Aug. 12. The Junior Division game scheduled for the 2nd at 4 p.m. between China barges on the Thames, and thou- A publie house, a cottage, eight Athletic and Y.M.B.A. will tako place on Saturday at 4. p.m. This sands of tons of timber were des change is necessitated by injuries to troyed by fire which started in a players of the Hongkong and South timberyard at Kingston-upon- || China clubs, who hope that the Thames yesterday morning. Berlin, Aug. 3.--According to extra day's rest will enable them to There were no. casualties, messages from Sofia, serious fires play. have broken out in the forcats
though the occupants of the des
Five firemen were injured.
It is understood that a champion-troyed buildings narrowly escaped.
teame fron and helds in several parts of, Bul-hip game between garia, owing to the auvero hunt ... Asheville and U.S.S. Sacra
Saturday which has prevailed. for the past mente will be played on few days. King Boris of Bulnstead of the usual League fixture.
This
game is in the nature of a
The ss. Antung, of the China Company, arriving
garin and his sister took part in play off for the Fi
Fleet Championship Navigation stopping the fire which had brokoli of South China and opportunity is gut near his country seat at being taken of both vessels being from Singapore and Amoy, reports Zamkorfe. The King was lightly in harbour together to
Atago Injured by the flames,
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