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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1933.
ZOUZZE
Refinements
Feature
Rockne
Six
Models
4-Point Cushioned Pow
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
Stubbs Bond
Happy Valky
be unduly hampered by
conditions which tend materially THE ITINERANT JUGGLER The Very Idea!
to increase the ordinary hazards of fire.
Amateurs in Sport
27
By CHAS VAN-LEO.
day a troupe of to a crescendo of sound,
SPEAKING OF SPEAKING By Eddie Kelly, Good Sport.
Hongkong can sit back and Titinerant juggiers and acro-effect becomes magical. A head MALKING of Tuesday's tennis
age-
to
But a vast amount of pre-
more
Tennis and talk were the feat- ures of the afternoon.'
This holds good for the lady who arrived at 4 pm, opened a discussion on the stupid naval fites of firing guns every time they met, and was still at it when she left at 6.30 with the parting. declaration that tennis was not what it used to be
animated conversation with him- Cassumbhoy carried on an self.. When things went wrong Cass said "Tch". In Kowloon tenais circles "Tch" is hissed only in mixed doubles, when the head ache misses an easy one.
If the girl friend is playing instead of the wife, the correct observation is, "Good attempt, darling."
The whole thing confirms Ein-
detachedly reflect on the latest bats passed under our window, is put inquiringly out of a door finals, you must also talk re-introduction of that
With a sublime indifference to way, to be followed by the rest of of talking, if the day's activities traffic needs, they selected the 4 small individual. He carries a worn subject, the relationship of middle of the roadway as a pitch, child hardly smaller than himself are to be fully reviewed. amateurs and professionals in and proceeded to give a per strapped in the usual Chinese sport, brought about by the dormance. As was to be expected, fashion to his back. At the same American Lawn Tennis Associa- before long they were moved on time he leads a second child by tion's decision to organise a joint by a turbanned policeman, and the arm. That, in turn, is linked open championship for these so passing on to be caught up by the up with a third. The whole called separate classes of sports swirl of humanity eddying around younger generation of the house men. Although this Colony is at the bottom of the street, hold are prepared to land their self-contained and boasts its own were carried away and lost to interest to the show. In similar managing and controlling "as-view. The diversion was momen-manner other diminutive specta sociation in almost every branch work with no mind for the in-ed. The performers now have
tary and we returned to our tors appear. Soon a circle is form of aport, the direct issue of pro-cident other than the interest their audience, and the fun starts. fessionalism and amateurism ne- fleetingly given to any other of the Here is "Art in the bringing of the ver arises, because in every in many queer angles of life in this audience to one, and we respect stance allegiance is given to cosmopolitan efty.
fully take off our hats in saluta- amateur rules and regulatious. And yet if we but patise a mo- tion to genius. Nevertheless the subject is of ment for reflection, what a vieta WHEN WORK IS PLAY, Smoothness is assured in the interest. Certainly the moment of thoughts and possibilities can be opened up as the mind specul- Rockne Six by pillowing the is timely for some real effort on ates on the origin of the people of liminaries and preparations are powerful six-cylinder engine in the part of national and interna whom these strolling players are seen before the performance com- live rubber at all four points of tional sports associations to deal living types. They are to be monces. There is not much in the
once and for ever with the vexed seldom seen in Hongkong, and stage paraphernalia; no suspension.
question. It has to be recognise then mostly on festive occasions than can be conveniently moved See and drive the New Rockno ed that national sport in most like the period of the Chinese Now about on long treks; but there is stein. It's a matter of relativity.
countries has become strongly Year. Although Six to-day!
the un-a considerable putting-in and Rumjahn took himself into his commercialised, making the practised eye of the grifin, one taking-out, much humming and confidence several times during rules defining an amateur and his Chinese gentleman is very much hawing while the audience, their the first set. He must have been like another in appearance, yet curiosity aroused, is worked up to pleased when he talked himself status distinctly illogical, and there are distinctive features at a pitch of feverish expectancy, into beating Cass. anomalous. The question is not once discernible which proclaim Here again is true Art and Real We are all in favour of this so much that the mixing of pro- them as of a class apart.
Showmanship, and we add another modern way of winning tourna- fessionals and amateurs in the
measure of praise to the first. menta. Speaking as an authority. WANDERING NOMADS. same competition is likely to con-
We have remarked that these on all forms of sport, we can tell.. taminate the amateurs. Too Who they are it is difficult to strolling players are not over you lots about talking. On many amateurs have already be- toll. They have strange ways burdened with equipment, but occasions we have listened to it come "contaminated" in that, and in speech and habits are not what there is of it fulfils a dis- for six hours on end. under the cloak of their achieve-lar. Certain it is they have come which can be sustained for as in consonance with the vernacu-tinctive" part in progranumme ments and the quite incompre from afar, perambulating from much as a couple of hours. The hensible rulings of amateur village to village, careless of time carryhug-pole becomes a spear or sports associations, they are, in and distance. Some have arrived trident that is thrown into the air varying forms, receiving re- here from Kiangsi, others from with amazing dexterity, to muneration. This position has Hupeh, and yet others from the describe A geometrical pattern to be accepted by the authori-hinterland reaching back as far as before being neatly caught. A FIRE DANGERS
ties, and adequate legislation, Szechuan, Yunnan,
even stool comes is useful for balanc- encouraged by a wider sense of Tibet. In all cases, the journey ing. A mysterious-looking bundle One marked feature of the proportion and perspective, in- been one of many hundreds of in the last is unwrapped, to dis-winning goal in the replay at St.
leagues, performed it is to be close the counterpart of the activities of the Fire Brigade troduced to meet the situation. believed, on foot, excepting for "three shell" game, or other small authorities in Hongkong in re-
The desire, and, in many in-intervening stretches of water objects. essential to the stances, the necessity, for fa- Hardy folk, their skin browned by formance of vanishing tricks or cent years has been the steady mous players to make money out sun and corroded by the blast of illusions. Plates are dexterously campaign which has been, and of their games, may, when view the cold uplands, they still twirled on sticks, and at intervals is still being, carried out with aed in the idealistic light of "sport preserve a cheerful temperament smaller members of the troupe other night. The "Headache" view to reducing fire risks in for sport's sake," appear rather and deserve well of the people contribute further divertissement. says she doesn't mind us taking congested areas to a minimum. revolting, but there has never amongst whom they temporarily To lads of their age, work is still this one occasionally because she
aojourn. been any serious indication that
just play: and balancing, turning is such a In regard to the construction of sport in any form has suffered with the wanderlust, a craving for ar body contortions in a variety of Which shows that even ma-
Can it be that they are stricken catherine wheels and somersaults,
nice quiet girl. new buildings, in requirements through decent and above-board travel, for new sights and environ- seemingly imposible forms, find trimonial attachments are not al- concerning places of public en-exploitation of professionalism. menta, inherent to nomads? May consonance in an exuberance of ways correct ipso facto. tertainment, and in precautions
it not be that in these wandering youthful spirits. regarding storage of fire-crack-
artistes we have come upon the ers and other dangerous goods,
verge of a great discovery, name- DUMB PARTNERS. ly the prototype of the Western But for certain other members of in ordering soup. Our worst this work has been made ap- In their constant war with an gypsies, people given to mirth and the troupe work is not all fun, and souperstitions were borne out. parent. Onerous as many of underworld armed with "every music? We discover almost one's sympathy goes to the animals Even our gentle references to dumb partners in the show--the Niagara Falls failed to prevent the requirements are, they com- modern means of offence, the similar traits in both. In the
spooning English police are hampered by one an all-possessing passion for sheep the dog, and the monkey her from widespread approval.
music and rhythm. In the other pressed into service-perhaps taking through a raging torrent of an out-of-date idea of what con- the obsession is in jugglery. The sheep has had its wool in mulligdaway in souperhuman
major
portion of the work, The public still bears in mind the stitutes the duties of the sleight-of-band, and acrobat eliciter, and terrible disaster when the King stabulary. Attention is drawn In either case an innate sense' is
unthinking style. pulled
Red by and the monkeytraditional Of course the dinner, as a din- Edward Hotel fire occurred, to the need for a change in sys-detected in art. And who can butt for naughty young cisner, was a souperb success, be-
had to ba watchful against
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1933,
mand
ti
were
Wasted Police
made on the matter, something thut official comment has been
may be done, and not before it was time.
Examiners To Be:
Examined
and
on the me
per-
When it comes to talking, our wife is one of the leading sports- women of the Colony.
We have also studied sport in the Encyclopaedias, and as a final proof of the authority with which we speak, friend of ours knows a man who stonewalling for an hour, scored the once threw the ball back after Tilden,
Andrew's Club.
Now you think of a better one.
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'SOUP TO NUTS. 、
We took the girl friend out the
We were all for a quiet dinner, but the girl friend would perist
her
Way
We saved the situation by ask- on dusty streets. Yet that attaeling her the following conundrum: ment is indissoluble with their task- "If it takes a man a week to walk masters, It is attachment between a fortnight, how many apples in fellows in adversity.
a box of grapes". She is still. trying to work it out according to
an ONE RECENT NIGHT.
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Euclid and the first chapter of Genesis.
WHEN WE ARE ILL.......
Bed, to the average man, is a place he is very reluctant to get out of. But there are times when it fa a prison in which you are- confined" when you are naughty enough to be ill."
The doctor tells you it is be- cause your temperature is push- ing the end out of the thermo- meter, but we don't belleve it When we are ill we don't feel any. better off in bed. For one thing, all we've go to do is to lie there and feel sorry for ourself, which makes us wOTBE.
whilst the storage of highly in: tem by two inspectors of con- gainsay there is not such in the pranks and be ready to dodge a cause the girl friend was too busy flammable goods in tenement stabulary whose annual reports presentation and performance of ous
lusty kick
limbs. to talk issued recently! Bag- the show given by our Chinese Unkind policemen have moved them
from
Youthful
Afterwards houses has been the major cause snatchers, bandits, and smash-friends under our window the from pitch to pitch. Sunny fields and dance, but the girl friend coyly We suggested," a of quite a number of other ser-and-grab raiders are still prac- other day?
shady woods have receded long ago replied "rd LOVE to, but I am ious outbreaks. The Colony tising shock methods on a large BENEATH THE WINDOW.
into the memory (that is to say if not a very good dancer, he-hel"
memoryShe was right. will, of course, never be wholly scale with almost complete im- free from the danger of serious punity, while the police, under art. The street is quiet and tropical sem beating down, pitilessly
Consider the performer and his creatures. have a
way to sweltering heat of a risk in the congested districts Present regulations, spend much deserted. The stream of traffic of the city until much of the old of their time serving summonses gathered into the main channels or orders relating to swine fever hardly eddies into it, and for a property of the shop-tenement and foot-and-mouth disease. show to be pitched hereabouts you type-veritable death-traps in Attention has been repeatedly would look in vain for most cases-is either condemned drawn to the need for reorgani- audience. That is what you will I met a couple such-a boy and or falls into disuse. In the case sation so as to eliminate this, but stay! With the first a monkey-one recent evening
swelling, with the cymbals grad- (Continued on Page 4) of new building, however, much waste of trained men. Now quick rapid tattoo on a tom-tom, sheltering under the verandah at can be done by insisting on the use of fireproof material and the making of adequate provision for escape in case of danger. One source of danger in the businces part of the city which has been brought to our notice is the presence of bonded liquor ware- Hundreds of thousands of houses close to offices and hotels, young people sit at examinations some of them at the base of every year, and the vast major- buildings in which Chinese sleep ity of them are "turned down." Hitherto it has been carelessly, at nights. A carelessly-thrown
assumed that for these disastery cigarette-end, not necessarily in only the examinees, and not the the warehouses, but near hand, might conceivably start a Now, however, the boot is in pro- at examiners, have been to blame. fire of disastrous dimensions cess of being put upon the other were it to spread to the stocks foot. Examiners are going to: of liquor housed in such pre-have the roughest time of their mises. The most stringent rules hitherto sheltered lives. They are now being enforced in the are to be ruthlessly examined. matter of the storage of fire-That many of them will be turn- crackers, and it would seem thated down, or turned over, most of there is an equal necessity for all possible preventive measures man. factor has been at work us will earnestly hope. The hu- being taken in regard to pre among them. Startling discrep mises in which alcoholic liquor is ancies and variations have been stored. More particularly is the discovered between individuals need emphasised in the case of of the s ecies. Some will pass such establishments situated in 50 per cent. of their victims, close proximity to hotels. Our
some 25 per cent,, and some Fire Brigade is now, we are glad none at all. The examiner who to think, at a higher stage of efficiency than at any time in its cannot show a fair percentage of passes must be removed to #1 history-witness the remarkably prompt and effective work it did post of greater ease and less ir- in the case of the recent outbreak responsibility; or else be boiled alive. The latter, no doubt,
in Powell's Building. But it is would come nearer to fitting the only right that its work should punishment to the crime.
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"We had to separate. Dear George was always running
into things."
The real reason lies in the fact that it is not only your own personal ilness, as you fancied. It belongs to the people who are nursing you, and they have much more control over you when you „ are in bed. If they feed you on barley water, you can't get up and go out to have a steak and a pint of bitter, because they have hid- den your trousers,
If you give the many back- answers, they tidy you up, and nearly strangle you with the top sheet. If you try to do a CгOBS- word puzzle, they snatch it away, and you are at a disadvantage in any hostilities because you are on your back. Every five minutes they tell you to lle still and keep quiet, just because you want to wriggle into a more comfortable position, and the heaviet weapon you have handy is a medicine spoon.
Animals know better how to be ill They crawl into a corner and. clothe themselves with curses. until they feel well enough to stand up for themselves again,
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