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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1933.
that the war debts be paid in this metal, whilst it is practical- ly certain that silver will figure. on the agenda of the World Econ- omic Conference. Quite con- ceivably, something definite will emerge from these develop- ments; with favourable rene- tions for the white metal. Apart from these expectations, however, it would seem that the chief hope for silver lies in à raising of general commodity prices.
LICENSE THE AMATEUR The Very Idea!
IN SPORTS
Says A. M: CRAWLEY
the Orford and Kent cricketer
2.
ON BEING FUNNY By Edward Clark Gabbla Kelly.
There's nothing funny about trying to be funny. Ask us. As one who tries to
(This interesting article is apropos the detailed re- port published in the sports columns of the "Telegraph" be funny six times a week, with yesterday setting out the details of the American L.T.A. bed and breakfast thrown in, we scheme to organise an Open Tennis Championship for are in a position to tell about it, Amateur and Professional tennis players, and the re Short-sighted Editors are what Divorce Law Reform.
action of the rest of the tennis world to the project.) do it. No one is better qualified than us to write a leading article, That shrewd observer of The American Lawn Tennis A games mistress at a school is or a treatise on the psycho-analy- New beauty distinguishes the social affairs, Mr. Justice Me- Association, by deciding to hold not a professional so long as she tical relation between moths and 1933 Rockne Six, Bodies are Cardie, has again raised his an "open" championship next teaches French or music or aome monthly "chit, accounts. lower and more richly appoint: powerful voice in a demand for year in the United States, has other subject.
offered the International Lawn The whole panoply of amateur- We told our Editor that one day. ed: Features include. Free the reform of the divorce law. Tennis Federation in particular, ism in sport has become a sicken- "Don't be funny," he growled, Wheeling with Synchronized In a lecture before the Eugenics and the whole sporting and athleing sham. The remedy is perfect."you're only suitable for the Ed- Shift and silent second speed Society he said that "the existing the world in general, a golden op ly simple, and has already been ward Kelly column."
70 horsepower six-cylinder divorce law was unworthy of the portunity to put the very vexed adopted under the National Hunt And what about our womenfolk.
civilisation we claim to possess." question of amateur statys on a rules of racing. So long as an engine.". automatic starting
Here we are, God's gift to Woman, Such a statement is not too sound footing.
amateur rider is unsuccessful no electro-fused steel bodies
In 1930, when Great Britain pro-one takes any notice strong a comment on the present
of him. surrounded by a glorious halo of safety. glass. windshields closed models wired for position, writes a "Daily Mail posed that each country should When, however, he has won seven glamour, possessing a motor-car, annual races, and his name as a jockey and every time we try to get fresh commentator. Though it is over be allowed to hold an twenty years since a Royal Com- "open" lawn tennis championship, is worth money, he has to apply they titter, "Ob, Eddie, you are the International Federation turn- for a licence to go on riding as mission made recommendations See and drive, the New designed to protect those whose the proposal down by a large an amateur after his tenth win-so funny. We ask you.
majority. Rockne Six to-day!
matrimonial adventures had been
No good reasons for this de- unfortunate, there has been only cision were given at the time, and one radical change in the inter-none has been given since. The The National Hunt Stewards vening period. Three times Par suggestion was circulated and has then make a careful inquiry into liament has rejected matrimonial been widely accepted that various his circumstances, and if they are National Lawn Tennis Associa satisfied that he has an adequate
We are a cruelly misunderstood causes Bills, and there is one tions thought that to allow ama-income from sources entirely in by calling us "Eddie, dear", nor man. Nobody touches our heart even now awaiting the attention teurs to play professionals in dependent of racing they grant have we any pals whom we can of the Commons. Eventually, tournaments would increase the him a licence. There is no quib- touch.
radio.
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
Stubb Bond
The
Happy Viray
Thongkong Telegraphe
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1933,
PERQUISITES.
ner.
NATIONAL HUNT SYSTEM.
for hire.
Our newspaper orations abould be 3 Force in the land. (Shouldn't that be "Farce?"Ed.) Editors should fall on our neck. (They will soon.-Ed). Say, you, who's writing this story?
constant turmoil of emotions which I can see no reason why this cannot be allayed but by frequent system should not be introduced the public pays to see, or at which into every game and sport which
there are international competi tions.
administrations of iced water. we want sympathy, not simpers.
We are no frivolous harlequín,
in deference to a public opinion facilities for amateurs surrepti- bling. A jockey can either afford The inner nature of the real Ed- ever more favourable to individu- tiously to make money out of the to ride solely for fun, or he rides ward Kelly lies hidden under a al freedom, it will find its way on game. to the Statute Book. No one wants to undermine the sanctity That suggestion is absolutely of married life, but there is pre- groundless. In golf, cricket, foot cious little "sanctity" in being ball, rackets, and squash rackets, tied for life to a certified lunatic, amateurs compete with profession.
Our heart bleeds for human un- an habitual drunkard, or a crimals, and in none of these games
If a player wins two or three derstanding. No loving woman's
hand touches our brow, or SILVER PROSPECTS.
inal condemned to a long term has an "open" competition led
golf or lawn tennis tournaments,
our passionate nature. of imprisonment. In proposing to any suggestion of scandal,
Scandals, however, do exist, and his (or her) name alone has a
Applications will be received at The future of silver is a mat-such misfortunes as reasons for in almost every sport the absurdi- commercial value. As
this office between the hours of 9 the governing ter of vital concern to the Far divorce, the sponsors of reform ties of so-called amateur status are that is the case
in
am, and 6 p.m., Sunday excepted. question are on the wide ground of com-doing untold harm. Golf and lawn body of the game East, and Hongkong merchants
mon sense which lies between tennis provide the most glaring should at once notify the player All communications should be ac and financiers, in common with mediaeval ideas of marriage and examples. Apart from the win. that he must apply for an amateur companied by photograph and par- those in other parts of the the legalised licence of the Com-ning of a golf championship licence. If the player has an in-ticulars of applicant. Orient, are always on the look-munistic matrimonial systern. (which is said by the present hold come entirely independent of the
may be
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cannot
TIME FOR ACTION.
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er of an English title to be worth game, and if he plays solely for out for pointers on which sound
about £10,000), any international the love of the game, he will na- conclusions
The completely fashionable wo- based. Motorcars of To-morrow.golfer can make the equivalent of turally have no desire to exploit There was a marked decline in :
£300 or $400 a year from the re- the value of his name in any wayman, Hongkong model, is, says the Pote, ndw being equipped with production last year, but this True purpose is needed for bates he gets from hotels and whatever in connexion with
conviction in design, whether it firme of sports outfitters, and a game, and will accept the rules of artificial finger-nails. was offset by the falling off be in a house or an automobile. good deal more from hiring his amateur status and receive a 1- These are tinted, polished, and in consumptive demand, particu- And in
detachable. They will not only the automobile shows name for advertising purposes and cence.
accasional journalism. from
If they have not a sufficient in-save her the trouble and the ex- larly in the case of India, whose which opened the 1933 motor know personally one English ex- come from other sources, people pense, of repented visita to the offtake is estimated to have been season, design is as much a cen- champion who is dressed for no-who play games in public must manicurist; they will also enable a mere seven million ounces, tre of attention as is the very thing by a tailor in order to popu-depend upon those games to pro- her to pluck her eyebrows more
of plus vide them directly or indirectly effectively. compared with over sixty mil-evident mechanical excellence of larise a particular cut
with the means of livelihood.
Still, we don't like the idea at all, lions in 1931. Hopes that silver the year's models.. "Streamlin- fours on the golf course.
Lawn tennis players, with not- ing" is the word on nearly every-
There should be no loopholes of Fighting cocks used to be equipped might benefit from official ac-one's lips, yet manufacturers re-able exceptions, follow
these any sort. All idea that profession with artificial spurs so that they tion were also doomed, so that cognize that true streamlining practices. It is not merely that aliam at games is degrading would might the better tear one another to pieces. Hitherto women have very uncertain conditions, in is something to which the public they get their clothes, rackets, and automatically disappear. The ab which speculation played a big eye has yet to become accustom-living at reduced rates, but the Burd convention that as soon as
fact that they openly trade on a man receives money for a game been content to tear one another part, prevailed during the year. ed and probably will do so only their fame as games players to be ceases to deserve the prefix to pieces with their tongues. These Regarding the future, it is not by a gradual education. Thus make as much money as they can Mr. would be very speedily de- battles, though deadly, have had
of the the advantage of being, bloodless, easy even for experts to in- the more carefully spoken motor which rendere amateurism such a spatched if 50 per cent. dicate the likely trend. So much makers call it "styling" when discredited farce.
men who now play games in public Now, if women are to be armed if the depends on factors connected they describe the addition of There are innumerable rules in adopted the honourable title of with talons, it seems as
Bame, of quietly cattish atmosphere which with world economic reorganisa- aprons on the mudguards and regard to amateurism which are professional. The
has sornetimes enveloped the after- tion. Messrs. Samuel Montagu beavertail effect on the rear of anomalous to a degree: A man course, applies to women.
noon tea-cups will give place to and Co., in their annual bullion the car. For, like the false who has once been a professional
Nature red in tooth and claw, or letter, express the view that beams in certain architecture for footballer, even if he become a
müllionaire in later life,
The only people who have any something of that sort a situs- although the price of silver has houses, beams serving no pur- shrunk to a very low level, there pose except that of decoration; play in an amateur lawn tennis cause to shy at the proposal for tion which will call for the drastic tournament. Once a professional the extension of "open" champion- Intervention of the League of seems, at present, little to en- these alterations suggest rather footballer, always a professional ships are the professionals them- Nations if it is not to have another courage hopes of a substantial than achieve streamlining. A footballer-and no professional at selves. They know that amateurs Manchurian affair developing at improvement in the near future. single G.$10,000 car at the recent any game can play in amateur lawn who play with them benefit from its very doors.
the higher standard of play they We have purposely refrained As a result of the poor consump-auto shows has been developed tennis.
A plumber cannot row in an introduce-and that is as true of from mentioning the case of the tive demand, stocks have become with genuine attempt at
eight at Henley; a bank clerk can; lawn tennis as of any other game husbands of these women who are excessive, and to bring about a streamlining, though even
nine completely equipped with detachable healthy recovery an improved leaves much to be attained. But no manual labourer is allowed to and they know that in
af cases out of ten the amateur will claws and a pull an oar under the rules
liberal supply of off-take is essential. There are as the eye scans its clean lines, the Amateur Rowing Association. make more money in consequence. "spares." some who advocate the raising which are there for a genuine of the quality of subsidiary sil-purpose, a sense of flowing ver coinage in order to increase strength and honest designing consumption, but the view takes effort is felt. True streamlin- by Messrs. Samuel Montagu and ing calls for a raindrop or pear Co. is that whilst silver coin shaped car, with the narrow remains merely token currency, part and consequently the mo it is open to argument as to how tor-at the tear. This is very any advantage to be gained by unorthodox, but the eye quickly this would be sufficient to coun- becomes accustomed to such ter-balance the loss incurred by things,. as can be shown by the extra expense of coinage.comparing Cars of to-day On the question of bimetallism, with those of ten years it is pointed out that those in- ago, at which time to-day's timately acquainted with condi" models would have seemed ex- tions in the Far East hold treme. The inherent feasibility strongly that no benefit would of the "raindrop" design is ap accrue to trade with China by parent in the exceptional vision its adoption, and that it might, it would offer the driver and the on the contrary, have the re-greater amount of passenger verse effect. The conclusion room possible on a given wheel-! reached is that if silver be left base. Location of the motor at to work out its own salvation, the rear not only would eliminate more settled conditions, both po- the long driving shaft but the litical and economie, may short-heat, noise, and fumes would be ly prevail, so as to facilitate a out of the way. This whole revival of trade, to which silver question goes beyond appear- would doubtless respond. This, ance, for true streamlining is incidentally, is in accord with said to mean cutting fuel cost in the view expressed at the annual half at the modern cruising meeting of the Hongkong and speeds of fifty to sixty miles an Shanghai Banking Corporation, hour. To-day's car is still slowly that the cause of silver is best struggling out of the limitations served by operation of the law of the past. This year offers of supply and demand. The great opportunity, due to the fact, of course, must not be changed thought of the times. over-looked that there are strong to loosen the bonds of automo- | interests in America working for tive heritage and start the mo- the rehabilitation of silver, the torcar on a path of design par- schemes including a proposal ticularly its own.
FROOM CLERK
"We want a nice, quiet room."
They, poor fellows, have come through many a scrape in the past, but this, we fear, will be too much for them that fs, if nothing is done in time to chreck this new phase of the eternal feminine
menace.
A WARNING.
We regret having to warn un- scrupulous members of aur Great » and Admiring Public against at- tempting to sign our name to chita. Those who do this will only get thrown out of the Hotel just as we do.
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BARE-FACED ABOUT IT.
The order that cavalry are to wear moustaches reminds one that the soldier's face has always been | nearly as important" in winning battles as clean buttons. At one time the idea was to grow the fiercest whiskera possible, as method of intimidation, although the barbarians almost wrecked Caesar's empire by grabbing his soldiers' beards, and then tickling them in the ribs,
Our own colonel during the war once intimated that he liked to see his officers look a little more manly, and we tried hard for three months to grow a mouet- ache,
And the only girl wo ever loved 'said, "Darling, don't you think. you're getting old enough, to share. now? When you stand sideways your upper lip looks quite dark."