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MOTOR CYCLE TRIAL AWARDS.
PRESENTATIONS AT LAST NIGHT'S DINNER.
The awards won in the recent"] motor cycle reliability trial were!
OBITUARY.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1930.
DEATH OF SIR ALFRED
FRIPP K.C.V.O.
London, Feb. 26.
The death has occurred of Sir.
presented at a dinner at Mesars Alfred Fripp, who has been pro- Lane Crawford's restaurant last minent in connexion with the night, the majority of the com-"Frothblowers". movement-Reu- petitors being present.
.. ter.
It will be recalled that the event.
[The late Sir Alfred-Fripp, who was organised by the Motor Cycle Section of the H.K.V.D:C. and held was made a K.C.V.0. in 1906, and on January 31 when a very satis was Surgeon in Ordinary to the factory proportion of riders finish- King, was born in 1865, and his ed a somewhat arduous course. carear. has been a remarkable one. The gathering last night was He. was founder of the organisà- presided over by Major H. B. Ltion which, by the institution of
presented Dowbiggin who
combined the the "Frothblowers," awards and who said that the fraternity (and beer) with sub- recent reliability trial was
scriptions to charity. accond held in Hongkong, the first, two years ago, also being organised by the Motor Cycle Section of the H.K.V.D.C.
the
It was in August, 1925, that Guy's famous hospital lost its familiar and honoured figure, na
He pointed out that a high pro-well as a brilliant personality, in portion of riders finished the course, Sir Alfred Fripp's retirement. He which was roughly 225 miles in was one of the Big Four in West length, and said that the majority End surgery and had many emin- of competitors had had their first ent patients, but though a popular experience of lengthy night riding. Society babitue had many more It spoke much for the keenness of poor ones in the slums found where the hospital local motor cyclists in competitive Bankside, events that riders only gave up radiates its splendid public ser- when forced to do so by reason of vices, Sir Alfred possessed in breakdowns or similar causes.marked degree that genial, easy Several riders had deliberately bonhomie that so often charac thrown up their chances of qualify. terises the great doctor and sur- ing for an award by rendering as-geon, and may be a valuable part alstance to other riders who were in of his professional stock-in-trade. trouble, thus showing the true The Guy's students, always the mast athletic Bob Sawyers in sporting spirit.
London. knew him solely as "The Baron."
Awards Presented.
Mr. Dowbiggin presented the He was formerly honorary sur Motor Cycle Section Cup, present-renu to King Edward as Prince of ed by the Texas Co., to Mr. Rogers, Wales: and extracted the Boer and pointed out that he had only bullet from Charles Hands, the lost six points, these being forfeit-war correspondent, after the ad- ed at the secret check placed at vance on Mafoking. Sir Alfred the 82 mile point. He also pre-figured in a good story of the Boer sented Mr. Clarke with the premier War, admirably narrated by him- rward and said that he also lost self. He was going round the Militia- his six points at secret checks.. hospital, and came to a
Presenting the next award to Mr. Smith, Mr. Dowbiggin said he had lost a total of eight points at three open checks and Mr. Davies, who came in
man, (convalescent enough to sit un and read about the great "hospital scandal" in the news- papers), from whose hip .he had extracted a Boer bullet. He con fourth. lost eleven points, all at gratulated the man on his good
recovery, and, handing him apen checks. Mr. Williams, who bullet and a bent sixpence, said: qualified for the next award, had "You may like to keep these lost a total of 18 points, six at one souvenirs. I took them out of secret check and 12 at another.
your wound." The Militiaman The team award was presented to turned the bullet and sixpence Messrs. Rogers, Clarke and Wil-over in his big palm, and then. cleared his throat for speech.
liams.
as
In conclusion, Mr. Dowbiggin waid that the riders who had met "Ere," he said, full of aggressive with trouble on the road deserved suspicion of all hospital people sympathy, and he expressed the after his newspaper studies, "I ad hope that they would take even art a quid in my packet that day. more trouble in preparing their ma- None of your blinking tricks with chines for the next trial. It was me! Where's the other, nine-and
six?"] to be hoped. he said, that their non- success in the recent trial would not deter them from entering any future event which might be ar- ranged.
Club Suggested.
Mr. H. Ollerdessen.
Shanghai, Feb. 26.
The death has occurred of the well-known Interport cricketer, Mr. Harry Ollerdessen, from peritonitis,
Mr. H. G. Swinburne, Secretary of the Trial Committee, expressed-Reuter. thanks to the observers who had worked the checke in the recent
[Many in Hongkong will remem- trial and suggested that competi- ber the veteran cricketer, Harry tive motor cycling events might, in Ollerdessen, and will regret his the future, be entrusted to a motor passing. If memory serves aright, eveling club, the organisation of the last played down here for Shang. hal against Hongkong, in Novem- which he proposed.
ber, 1922, when his younger brother He pointed out that there were was also in the team, then captain- well over 400 motor cyclists in ed by the famous veteran Interpor- Hongkong and suggested that a ter Billings. Of late, Harry Oller- guarantee of future trials, dessen had not been doing anything scrambles, paper chases, gymkhanas of note in the cricket field, but the and such like competitive events memory of his prowess of some would only be assured if a new years ago remains. He was a body was organised to be responsible broker by profession. Apart from for the same.
his abilities as a cricketer, he was. a genial personality, and will leave in the a large circle of friends northern port.
According to the "China Who's who," the late Mr. Harry Bertram
There was, he suggested, scope in Hongkong for such a body, and proposed that the summer months would give ample time for the or ganisation of a club as he had suggested.
Ollerdessen was born at Shanghai References to the success of the in 1886, and was of American na- trial were also made by Messrs. tionality, seeing war service in H. G. Williams, H. Williams and 1918-19 as a Lieutenant in the U. S. H. C. Shrubsole, the latter propos- Army. From 1311 to 1917 he ser- ing a vote of thanks to Mr. Dow-ved in the American Co., Shanghai biggin for presiding and distribut Volunteer Corps. He was educated ing the awards.
at the Shanghai Public School; then became a stock broker, and joined the Shanghai Stock Ex- change. He married a Miss Louisa Cooke.]
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