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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- omnie Conference. Quite, con ceivably, something definite will emerge from these develop- ments, with favourable, reat- tions for the white- metal. Apart from these expectations, however, it would seem that the chief hope for silver lies in a raising of general commodity prices..
LICENSE THE AMATEUR
*IN SPORTS
Says A. M. CRAWLEY
the Oxford and Kent cricketer.
The Very Idea!
ON BEING FUNNY. By Edward Clark Gabble Kelly,
There's nothing funny about trying to be funny. Ask us. As one who tries to be funny six times a week, with bed and breakfast thrown in, we are in a position to tell about it.
(This interesting article is aprópos the detailed re- port published in the sports columns of the "Telegraph" yesterday setting out the details of the American L.T.A. scheme to organise an Open Tennis Championship for Amateur and Professional tennis players, and the re Short-sighted Editors are what. For 1933
Divorce Law Reform.
action of the rest of the tennis world to the project.) do it. No one is bettor qualified than us to writą a leading article. That shrewd observer of The American Lawn Tennis A games mistress at a school is or a treatise on the paycho-analy- New beauty distinguishes the
social affairs, Mr. Justice Me-Association, by deciding to hold not a professional so long as shetical relation between moths and 1933 Rockne Six. Bodies are Cardie, has again raised his "open" championship next teaches French or music or some monthly chit accounts. lower and more richly appoint-powerful voice in a demand for year in the United States, has other subject. ed. Features include Free the reform of the divorce law. Tennis Federation in particular, ism in sport has become a sicken-
offered the International Lawn The whole panoply of amateur- "We told our Editor that one day. * "Don't be funny,” he growled, Wheeling
Synchronized In a lecture before the Eugenics and the whole sporting and athle- ing sham. The remedy is perfect-"you're only suitable for the Ed- Shift and silent second speed Society he said that "the existing tic 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 voxed adopted under the National Hunt And what about our womenfolk.
civilisation we claim to possess." question of amateur status on a rules of racing. So long as an engine... automatic starting
amateur rider is unsuccessful no
Here we are, God's gift to Woman, electro-fused steel bodies Such a statement is not too sound footing."
|strong a comment on the present In 1930, when Great Britain pro- one takes any notice of him, surrounded by a glorious halo of safety glass windshields position, writes a Daily Mail posed that each country should When, however, he has won acven glamour, possessing a motor-car, closed models wired for commentator. Though it is over be allowed to hold 'an annual races, and his name as a jockey (and every time we try to get fresh" radio.
twenty years since a Royal Com- "open" lawn tennis championship, is worth money, he has to apply they titter, "Oh, Eddie, you are
the International Federation turn- for a licence to go on riding as so funny." We ask you. mission made recommendations ed the proposal down by a large an amateur after his tenth win- Sco and drive, the New designed to protect those whose majority. Rockne Six to-day!
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The
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1333.
ner.
Our newspaper orations should be a 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?
matrimonial adventures had been No good reasons for this de
NATIONAL HUNT SYSTEM. unfortunate, there has been only oision 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- auggestion 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
We are a cruelly misunderstood National Lawn Tennis Associa-satisfied that he has an adequate man. Nobody touches our heart causes Bills, and there is one tions thought that to allow ama-income from sources entirely in- by calling us "Eddie, dear", nor even now awaiting the attention teurs to play professionals independent 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.
one
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PERQUISITES.
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The inner nature of the real Ed-
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I can see no reason why this constant turmoil of emotions which
the public pays to see, or at which we want sympathy, not simpers. system, should not be introduced cannot be allayed but by frequent
administrations of iced water. into every game and sport which
We are no frivolous harlequin. there are international competi-
Our heart bleeds for human un- hand touches our brow, or derstanding. No loving woman's alms our passionate nature.
Applications will be received at this office between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 pm, Sunday excepted. All communications should 1 ac- companied by photograph and par- ticulars of applicant.
8000 28
with the means of livelihood..
men who now play games in public adopted the honourable title of game, of professional. The course, applies to women.
TIME FOR ACTION.
EVE WITH CLAWS.
in deference to a public opinion facilities for amateurs surrepti-bling. A jockey can either afford 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 al freedom, it will find its way on game.
for hire. to the Statute Book, No wants to undermine the sanctity of married life, but there is pre- groundless. In golf, cricket, foot That suggestion is absolutely cious little "sanctity" in being ball, rackets, and squash rackets, tied for life to a certified lunatic, | amateurà compete with profession_ an habitual drunkard, or a crim-als, and in none of these games
If a player wins two or three SILVER PROSPECTS.
inal condemned to a long term has an "open" competition
golf or lawn tennis tournaments, of imprisonment. In proposing to any suggestion of scandal,
Scandals, however, do exist, and his (or her) name alone has a The future of silver is a mat- auch misfortunes as reasons for in almost every sport the absurdi- commercial value. As ter of vital concern to the Far divorce, the sponsors of reform fles of so-called amateur status are that is the case the governing East, and Hongkong merchants are on the wide ground of com- doing untold harm. Golf and lawn body of the game in question mon sense which lies between tennis provide the most glaring should at once notify the player and financiers, in common with mediaeval ideas of marriage and examples. Apart from the win that he must apply for an amateur those in other parts of the the legalised licence of the Com-ning of a golf championship licence. If the player has an in- Orient, are always on-the look-munistic matrimonial system.
(which is said by the present hold come entirely independent of the out for pointers on which sound
er of an English title to be worth game, and if he plays solely for about £10,000), any international the love of the game, he will na- conclusions may be based. Motorcars of To-morrow. golfer can make the equivalent of turally have no desire to exploit The completely fashionable wo-, There was a marked decline in
£300 or £400 a year from the re- the value of his name in any way man, Hongkong model, is says
and whatever in connexion With True purpose is needed for bates he gets from hotels
the Pete, now being equipped with production last year, but this was offset by the falling off conviction in design, whether it firms of sports outatters, and a game, and will accept the rules of artificial finger-anile.
These are tinted, polished, and be in a house or an automobile. Rood deal more from hiring, his amateur status and receive a li- in consumptive demand, particu-And in the automobile shows name for advertising purposes and cence.
detachable. They will not only larly in the case of India, whose which opened the 1933
from occasional journalism. I If they have not a sufficient in-save her the trouble and the ex- offtake is estimated to have been season, design is as much a cen-champion who is dressed for
know personally one English ex- come from other sources, people pense of repeated visits to the no-who play games., in public must manicurist; they will also enable ja 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 compared with over sixty milevident mechanical excellence of farise a particular cut of plus vide them directly or indirectly effectively. Bons in 1931. Hopes that silver the year's models. "Streamlin- fours on the golf course.
Still, we don't like the idea at all. ing" is the word on nearly every-
There should be no loopholes of Fighting cocks used to be equipped Lawn tennis players, with not- might benefit from official ae- 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 allem at games is degrading would might the better tear one another
disappear. The all- to pieces. Hitherto women very uncertain conditions, in is something to which the public they get their clothes rackets, and automatica which speculation played a big eye has yet to become accustom-living at reduced rates, but the surd convention that as soon as been content to tear un have
fact that they openly trade on a man receives money for a game part, prevailed during the year. ed and probably will do so only their fame as games players to he 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 easy even for experts to in the more carefully spoken motor which renders amateurism such a spatched if 50 per cent. of the the advantage of being bloodless. dicate the likely trend. So much makers call it "styling" when discredited farce.
Now, if women are to be armed depends on factors connected they describe the addition of There are innumerable rules in
with talons, it seems as if the quietly cattlah atmosphere, which with world economic reorganisa- aprong on the mudguards and regard to amateurism which are degree. A man
has sometimes enveloped the after- tion. Messrs. Samuel Montagu beavertail effect on the rear of anomalous to
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, expresB
the view that beams in certain architecture for footballer, even if he become
millionaire in later life, cannot The only people who have any something of that "sort_a_aitus-" although the price of silver hus 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 dric 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 As a result of the poor consump-auto shows has been developed tennis.
We have purposely refrained tive demand, stocks have become with
A plumber cannot row in an introduce and that is as true of from mentioning the case of the a genuine attempt at excessive, and to bring about a streamlining, though even it eight at Henley; a bank clerk can; lawn tennis as of any other game husbands of these women who are healthy recovery an improved leaves much to be attained. But no manual labourer is allowed to and they know that in nine completely equipped with detachable pull an oar under the rules of cases out of ten the amateur will claws and a 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
They, poor fellows, have of the quality of subsidiary sil-purpose, £ sense of flowing
through many a scrape in the past, ver coinage in order to inercase strength and honest designing
but this, we fear, will be too much consumption, but the view taken effort is..felt. True streamlin-
for them-that is, if nothing is by Messrs. Samuel Montagu anding calls for a raindrop or pear-
done in time to check this new Co. is that whilst silver coin shaped car, with the narrow
phase of the eternal feminine menace. remains merely token currency, part-and consequently the mo- it is open to argument as to how tor-at the rear. 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 economic, 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 incidentally, is in accord with said to mean cutting fuel cost in the view expressed at the annual half at the modera 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 ↓ proposal ticularly its own.
is
"We want a nice, quiet room."
CLERK
A WARNING
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come.
We regret having to warn up- scrupulous members of our Great and Admiring Public against at- tempting to sign our name to chits. Those who do this wil 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 fierceat whiskers possible, method of intimidation, although the barbarians almost 'wrecked Caesar's empire by grabbing his soldiers beards and then tickling them in the ribs.
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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 moust- acho,
And the only girl we ever loved said, "Darling, don't you think you're getting old enough to shave now? When you stand sideways your upper lip looks quite dark."