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SPORT IN
IN 1933
1933 The Very Idea!
By JAMES H. FREEMAN
"A WET MONTH
By Edward "Congorilla". Eally. We were more than interested
With a swiftness in marked pearance of the runners for the customed to grass courts. With to hear that two events of para- The 'Davis Cup draw, the ap-meeting begins to get himself ac- contrast to its handling of the Lincolnshire Handicap, the ac-him will be those two youngsters mount importance to Sino-Japanese dispute, the ceptances for the Grand National of exceeding promise A. Merlin and Admiring Public will come. our Great League is proceeding to action Steeplechase, discussion of Amer- and M. Bernard, France cab under Article XV in an effort to ica's Ryder Cup golf team-these look ahead with some equanimity
off this month. secure a peaceful settlement of are reminders that we are fast with men like these in the offing. We refer, of course, to the the Peru-Colombian imbroglio. approaching the great change. The time of our women players forthcoming Hongkong University The machinery of the League over in sport.
may not be yet. Mrs. Helen Coming of Age celebrations, and. and the anti-war treaty is dir- Oxford and Cambridge. Cricket-equal in any country. But her
Boat race crews are active at Wills Moody is still without an the opening of the Hongkong ected toward Peru. It was the era in the West Indies are taking successor two
Brewery. or three years overt action of Peruvians which, stock of the position in view of hence may be one of three young
We were at the Annual Meeting on Sept. 1-2, 1982, wrested their visit to England this sum- English girls whose play just now of the Brewery on Wednesday. Leticia from Colombian control. mer. In every hunting district in Riviera tournaments is show- Realising that we were one of the Now a Colombian force is advan plans are being laid for the ing development on the right best potential assets in Hongkong. cing along the upper Amazon to point-to-point meetings that end lines. Miss M. Scriven, Miss the Company reserved a seat of recover the area, and it is to so pleasantly the season of thrill Kathleen Stammers, and Miss prevent a serious clash that ing mornings spent in the chase of Sheila Hewitt are boldy pursuing
the fox.
their a policy of aggression" in action has been taken. Though
court tactics. Too often in the the "two nations directly con- Keen students of world econo- past have our players of both cerned have been
engaging mice are permitting themselves a sexes been beaten before, the
in
er.
New Inventions.
Better Sport
yents of 1919 and 1920.
a
་་
honour for us.
An interesting feature of the celebrations -in', connexion with both will be the throwing open of
During the celebrations laborà--
tan
finer
Aay
a complex wrangle over little optimism in their survey of preliminary knock-up by a, tame many of the departments to the the means of arbitrating their the future. They are, by in-surrender of the initiative.
public. dispute, the essential facts seem stinct, more guarded than the Those who are "inside" our In the Biology Department of clear. In a boundary treaty hopeful band of racing people golf councils are quietly confident the University and the Bottleology signed in 1922, Peru ceded the who see in 1933 a restoration of that the new season will be one Department of the Brewery there.
real accomplishment. The will be on view several wall-stock- area to Colombia, although the prosperity to the Turf that will be of
less spectacular but will have professional tournament at Rae-ed marine and fresh water hic! inhabitants were thoroughly Peruvian, and had been since more stability than the tinsel hampton in April and the Dunlap-|(pardon!) aquaria, while in one Southport and Yorkshire Evening room will be found snakes, lizards, earliest colonization. Precisely Not one of the gloomy forecasts News tournaments in May are, and other well known reptiles why Peru took this altruistic of the 1932 season was fulfilled. more than likely to produce an intimately associated with both action is variously explained. Better attendances, improved rac- "unknown" youngster of supreme departments. But the action was taken, anding, a higher average price for ability. Those who have watched the area was legally made over yearlings, dispelled the shadows the numerous Alliance and other to Colombia. Now Peru claims which the clouds af falling world tournaments during the winter tory processes will be demonstrat- that it never should have been, trade seemed to cast over the months have been amazed at the ed in the Chemistry and Physics horizon. The signs for the new consistently sound scoring and Laboratories, including experi that the action of the then
season are encouraging.
generally high standard of play.ments on Edward Kelly and the government violated Peru's
Racecourse executives are be. And so far as team matches are production of XXX-rays, fundamental rights, and in effect coming alive to popular needs. concerned the Ryder Cup match. This will be followed by a officially defends the overt ac- The installation of loud speakers will be held at Southport in demonstration of the effect of tion of its nationals. In such in enclosures at Kempton Park, June-Percy Allis, back from gaseous matabolism on the hu- circumstances, Peru seems and Doncaster in order to in- Germany, will atone for the loss man body, the experiments taking palpably to be the treaty break-form the public of the details of of Henry Cotton, now in Belgium; place in the Anatomy Depart-
Thus it is that the stric-a race while in progress have and A. H. Padgham and A. J. ment. tures are laid at the doorstep of greater significance than that of Lacey have made such progrese
As the author of this column, mere local innovation. The that the disaster of last year in Lima, although it is Colombia's totalisator, after the inevitable America is not likely to be re- our association with both the
advancing. set-back due to a troops which are
University and the Brewery may too grandiose peated.
Our Women Golfers
be termed an intimate Factually, the incident seems a beginning, is now feeling its way
one. So repetition of the Vilna affair, carefully and surely, and its The level of play among our intimate, in fact, that we received when Polish troops under Mar- methods of betting are becoming women golfers is too, higher advance copies of the speeches to for many years. Miss be delivered at both celebrations. BETTER THAN FORCE. Ishal Pilsudski took the town gi-a settled habit with the recegoing than
Wethered and Miss Leitch to Addressing visitors to the Bre- public. ven to Lithuania by treaty, and
Healthy Racing
wered above their competitors.wery the Dean of the Faculty will Direct negotiations between have hung on ever since. If the
The encouragement given 10 Mias Enid Wilson cannot touch lightly upon the evolution the Anglo-Persian Oil Company League succeed in getting Peru racing by men of the type of Lord be persuaded to take part of beer, and will describe its as-
out of Leticia-should this ac- about to be resumed in the hopestructive way and the Persian Government aretion prove to be the most con- Derby-whose Hyperion is the in competitive golf we have. Miss Bociation with the Biology Depart-
present Derby favourite-and Diana Fishwick, Miss Wanda Mor-meat.
"One of our greatest con. of "settling the Lord Lonsdale-owner of the gan, Miss Pauline Doran (a girl of securing a satisfactory set-dispute, which is open to doubt fleet-footed Myrobella-and by of infinite promise), and others of tributors to this section has been tlement of the dispute over the-they will restore some of their Miss Dorothy Paget, Mrs. Hollins, the young generation, who will my pal, Eddie Kelly," he will say
(applause). "I doubt whether. D'Arcy Concession. In its early lost prestige and may learn and Mrs, Chester Beatty among the not besmirch the national flag.
I hope the coming cricket sea- there is any man. in the world to- stages, this dispute had all the something to aid them in their women, is being backed up by a
son will allay my fears that we day who has collected a elements making for a very
future handling of the Man-less prominent but equally neces dangerous state of affairs be
churia dispute. Such experi- sary band of smaller owners of are lacking in talent and bank-variety of reptiles, his pink and both sexes. The past year has rupt in ideas. Our championship vermillion dotted snake (Juniperus ments are needed. As long as proved that when business suc- system has been our cricketers antimacassaris) creating a scienti- tween the two countries. In-League policy follows the quickeceds the country possesses many greatest handicap. It has stifled fic controversy when it was first
were action this method, reinforced by people who delight in finding an enterprise and strangled daring. produced. I think we involved, and there was talk of important addenda such as non-outlet for their sporting activities The individual successes of Lar with pride that, thanks to Mr. protecting these even to the ex-recognition, arms embargoes, by purchasing bloodstock and wood and Verity and Paynter and Kelly, our collection is one of the indeed fortunate in numbering as tent of a resort to force. For no assistance to aggressors, and encouraging hard-working train-G. O. Allen have been won in spite finest in the world. Hongkong is
of rather than because of it. tunately, both sides agreed to so on, it is important to knowing stables. "
In May, a week or so before aúr one of its worthy citizens this The promise of our lawn tennis) refer the matter to the League of just how effective the method is. quticok twelve months ago was Test players are back from great contribution to lepidoptera Nations, with the result that a
not realised in the simmer. No Australia, we shall begin a new and science generally, and I have provisional agreement hus been
a season with an old method-ano doubt that, with the opening of Engifeh player carried off
03 an this great institution, his efforts reached which is satisfactory to
Wimbledon title, and it does not method that was killed Britain and Persia alike.
seem probable that Wimbledon satisfactory and buried without will be increased two-fold" But Many marvellous inventions next June will see either F. J. tears years ago. At the end of for the existence of the League, are stored away in the research Perry or H. W. Austin successful August or thereabouts, the county At the University, members of this dispute could not have been departments of manufacturers, in the face of competition that that has a greater percentage of the Anzac Company will form a dealt with so promptly or so it is said, awaiting only the re will be sterner than ever.
than losses in matchesguard of honour for their Com- effectively. The League has turn of better times to be put
But J. Crawford, the Austra- against carefully selected oPmanding Officera, who, as Secret- reponents will be hailed as chamary of the Brewery, will formally been blamed for many short on the market. Happy prospect! lian, may be good enough to
declare the Coming-of-Age ex- comings, but the real handicap The world has so many curious capture & championship for the pions,
It will not be much of a pre-hibition opening. to its work has been the
During the un-needs that the promise of a rival is likely to be Ellsworthparation for the summer of 1934, willingness of its members to sunburst of inventions leads to vines, the tall American who when the Australians
will visit course of his speech, which will be illustrated with lantern slides, use its machinery for the pur-speculation as to what they may deservedly won the honours last England. If there is any youthful the Secretary of the Brewery will pose for which it was created. be. For instance, will one of year. Jean Borotra will not be talent in the counties that awaits In international disputes, half earth's most ancient causes of seen in the singles, but Henri discovery, the M.C.C's advisory the battle lies in getting the anguish be forever removed by Cochet is planning to be in England committee have found an effective students and the members of the disputants to see reason. That the supply of a "ripetometer" is where the value of the League an instrument which will tell to comes in. When it does not a millimeter whether the water- succeed, endless complications melon, peach, plum or pear in arise, as in the Sino-Japanese ripe or green? When the. in- crisis. When it does succeed and ventions panting to be used are the whole matter fizzles out, put into production, what cheer most people are inclined to for-they will bring if only they get the part played by Geneva. contain such solaces on these: In the case under notice, it something that will keep the would have been perfectly easy weeds from growing in the gar- for hot-heads on both sides to den; a forecaster to tell you, at work up feeling in favour of a the restaurant that the apple resort to force. But the very ple is made of dried apples so fact that International ma- you can order something else; chinery for peaceful settlement automatic windows that will had been set up since the Great close themselves in the winter War gave the British Govern half an hour before you have to ment a better card to play. get up; wireless sets that will The outcome was the appeal to automatically pick out the good the League Council. Before at stuff, if any, like a pointer dog; tempting to hear both sides, the a gas tank on the car that will League pacified the situation by ring a gong when getting getting from the two countries empty; a pockethook that will do promises not to aggravate the ditto; business men's luncheons situation. This gave a chance without soup; goldfish that can for angry feelings to subside, do something besides aimlessly and by the time the Council paddle-maybe sing or whistle; really got down to business, all styles which last through two threats of force had been bani seasons; noiseless street cars; shed. The League appointed odourless onions; silk stockings one of the most trusted of that won't run; a better namo European statesmen to talk for cellophane; oysters that will first with the British representa work in the months, without"TM” tive, and then with the Persian.in them, or else a new set of It did not take him long to find months with an "r" in every out what was in the minds of one. After the slump is over, both parties, and to pave the just like after the rain, it will be, way to a settlement by negotia- a wonderful thing to see what Hon. The barriers of hostility the landscape looks like.
Empire. His
most Termidable:
wing
week before the Wimbledon smoke-screen to hide It
I feel terrible about this, Hele n. I must have been short- changed somewhere_to-night.”ə
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demonstrate to the assembled
Anzac Company the injurious effects of fermented liqours: After the opening address, the assembled students and the mem- bers of the Anzac Corps will. partake in the grounds of the University.
Special arrangements have been made by the Police to cope with the large crowds expected at the University on its coming of age and the opening of the brewery,
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