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NOTES OF THE DAY SHOULD There be
The fate of Europe may very well hang upon Herr Hitler's re- sponse to tho Franco-British do- marche drawing attention to Ger- many's undertakings to respect the territorial integrity of Austria. The representations aro couched In the friendliest terms insofar as unasked for advice can ever bo friendly, but it la nevertheless im- possible to hide the fact that a vory important principle is at stake. Once again, Herr Hitler's statesmanship, is being tested; again he is invited to reveal the
A RETIRING AGE FOR
SPORTSMEN? -
ASKS ROBERT LYND
I found
The Very Idea I
Our highwAYS By E. Kally, Roads Scholar
IFE is just one darn
La thing after another, as
Lord Burghley's retirement from thing that I never even began to the hen said to the rooster. athletica at the age of 28 naturally achieve. I retired from tugby leads one to reflect in the tradition- football simply because al fashion how sad it is that the physical powers begin to decline long before men have begun even to be middle-aged.
Last week we had to write that, when I played, 1 merely got about a coal dump. This in the way of the other players. Both the players on my own aldo week, we've got to write and of the other fell over me, often about the asphalt roads. According to Lord Burghley, he in heaps. If our fastest three-
It makes us feel tarred of life. already finds that it takes him quarter--then called a half-back-
In fact, the only thing longer and longer every year to was racing towards the line with an real nature of his foreign policy. train into perfect fitness. The excellent chance of scoring. I would that's keeping us going is The answer will be regarded as a stiffness of age begins, however be sure to be somewhere where he clue to the future. An ill-consider- faintly, almost in youth. Men bo would trip over me or, at least, the opening of the Browery ed step may easily causo an alarm-come veterans in many sporta at would lose a yard or two in trying on Wednesday. Probably the an age at which they are promising to miss me. Similarly, if a three- P.W.D. will get to hear about it young men in business or politics. quarter on the other side was run-
On the whole, I do not think we ning like a demon for our line, I though, and we'll no longer be need be excessively saddened by was contantly found, much against able to keep going. this carly decline of physical vigour my will, in the way of the man
by the fact that the eye becomes who could have tackled him.
I realised before long that my less sure, the body less agile, the limbs less swift while men are still afde would have a much better chance of winning with 14 men than if it had 15 Including me. Hence, I withdrew to a position behind the touchline from which I afterwards helped many a team to victory by an inordinate use of lung-power. How i
ing reaction. Strain and friction will be exacerbated. Any feel ing of confidence still exist Ing will disappear. Herr Hit- to his ler cannot be insensitive responsibilities. Continued threat to Austria can only provoke anxiety
in every country whose borders touch upon those of Germany and the creation of that atmosphere would be disastrous.
ITALY'S CAUTION
Italy's disinclination to join with Britain and France in their
young.
THE PRICE
OF PROGRESS.'
We probably owe to this loss of vigour the intellectual progress of the human race. If men continued to enjoy complete physical fitness till the age of 80 or even of 70, we should see three-quarters of the middle-aged and aged population neglecting their duties in order to ap-get into form for Saturday's foot proach to Germany is easily under-ball match or for next week's big stood. Italy ia definitely an inter-cricket match. DIRTH.
ested party and no official action by Rome could fail to be interpreted MCBRIDE.-At the War Memorial
except as a clear indication of that Nursing Home on the 5th August, 1933, to Mr. and Mrs. A. Interest. Mussolini is in the rather 11. MoBride, a daughter.
curious position of being an out- and-out nationalist whose last de- sire is to see the development of
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1933,
BRITISH TRADE WITH SOVIET Negotiations for a new com-
his own type of supra-nationalism so uncomfortably close to his own boundary-line. Ho 16 definitely with Britain and France In their the objective, but has learned prudence which, quietly, ho urges upon Herr Hitler.
DANZIC PEACE
GAVE UP CRICKET.
Once the P.W.D. gets to hear about things, it doesn't take them long to dig up the ronds. With most of our roads in Hongkong it's "Here to-day and gone to- morrow."
Motorista have to put up with a lot in Hongkong. We know it, because we're a motorist, when we have enough money to buy an occasional gallon of juice.
About the hardest people in Hongkong to get credit from are the bowser gangs.
It's julce too bad the way they turn us down.
My retirement from cricket did not occur till later. Is it a day- dream, or did it really happen that at the age of 15 I scored five runs 2nd Ballency against 2nd Ballin- Not that pedestrians haven't teer? I think it must be a day got a strong case. Most often it dream, because I very seldom scor-is made of polished oak with Silver-haired clergymen woulded five runs. Many a blind swipe silver fittings, again and again forget to turn up took at the ball, which would often for the marriages of their parish have gone for a full six if the bat ioners because they were on the had hit it. But the bat hit the river tugging at the car like demons ball with extraordinary rarity. so as to be fit for the annual re-
As a fielder at mid-off again, I
I
gatta. Doctors' telephone-belle found balls hitting me on the chest, would often ring in vain because the head and other parts of the the doctors, even the
sep body, when everybody else thought tuagenarians, would be tackling and I should have caught them. When tumbling each other on the Rugby 1 bowled the batsmen complained practice-ground.
that I hurled the ball at their heads, Many an elderly judge would be though my only fault was that I found missing from the Bench be- was not very good at aiming at the cause he was away playing cricket wicket. for his county under an assumed name. Big business men, instead of discussing business with their clients, would be constantly inviting them into the next room for a bout with the gloves.
be- every young man
pedestrians when we are driving We are always careful about Matilde, because you can never tell whether one of them hasn't got a bottle in his hand. If it broke it would puncture our tyres, In view of the present wide- world financial crisis, which has already hit Edward Kelly, this would mean Matilda going into immediate retyrement.
Fish. "I'Eustace," she said, "be kind to our herring daughter."
We are always careful with girls in our car, too, No girl has over Here, too, I soon realised, grace-had to walk home after accepting ful retirement was the only course an offer of a lift in Matilde. open to me, and I felt both happier and more efficient keeping the Editor's note: Sounds a bit shy to score-sheet for my elders and hand-me!
Eddie's note: Yes, it reminds us of ing round bottles of stout to the the remark Mrs. Fish mado to Mr. I do not mean to suggest that players during the lunch interval. mercial treaty between Britain The Danzig situation meanwhile
Fortunate though my early re- sport is quite so absorbing as this and Soviet Russia are proceeding has undergone a distinct improve-to-day, even among the enthusiastic tirement from sport was for me, smoothly and there is ground for mont. Unfortunately, it would not young. But the chief reason why I do not suggest that my example Speaking of flah reminds us how hoping that they will soon lead be accurate, to observe in the it is not so absorbing 18 that should be universally followed. dry we are. We've got to do some- to the conclusion of an agree-negotiations now proceeding
knows that The retiring age that is good for thing about next Wednesday. So one man is not the retiring age we'll have a whiskey soda. In ment much less one-sided than tween the Nazi Volkstag and the physical fitness does not last a
life-time and, that he must find that is good for another. One fact, we'll have two whiskies. that which the British Govern- Polish Government, an era of sweet something else to do besides play- loves to think of Grace playing And while we're about it we may ment denounced nine months reason among the Hitlerites. The ing games in order to occupy his cricket at 60, and Woolley has ago and which came to an end removal of the bitterness which later years.-----
shown this year that a cricketer of as well have a third. genius is not too old at 47. Most we'll have a fourth.
Just-as-a-night cap we think. on April 17: The old agreement has been caused by Poland's de- had been made on the model of velopment of Gydnia as a rival port
Rugby men do not feel fit for the And soda bed. the agreements with other coun- to Danzig will ease political ten-The realisation that a time will rigour of the game much after 30, though there have been great tries, where, as with us, buying and selling are matters of indi-sion in the Corridor appreciably. vidual judgment and inclination. This is not Hitlerite policy. It is It took no account of the fact merely confirmatory of the claim that in Russia all trade and in- of Dr. Rauschning, the Nazi leader dustry is a monopoly of the in Danzig, that he owes State. There was less excuse allegiance to Berlin. for this since the leaders of the Communist Party in Russia had!
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The Canadian loan floated
WHY I LEFT
FOOTBALL
་
come and will come fairly soon players several years older than THAT DACTO_THING
The Editor has handed this when they will no longer be able to that. As for golf, Mr. Michael Play cricket or fi cholt is a great Scott showed that he was fitter than insult to us instead of throwing it spur to intellectual effort. Without any of his juniors the other day into the w.p... that spur many men would be temp- when, at the age of 65, he won the Dear Sir-I must strongly pro- noted to postpone till a much later British Amateur Championship. test at the proposal to cage Ed-
period than at present the time for It is well, as I have said, how-ward Kelly and exhibit it at an. beginning to take life seriously.
ever, that aupreme physical fitness auction of radioe. It might be
in
but
I feel that if I myself had not re-does not last nearly so long for the argued that the interest of the tired from sport at an early age I ordinary man. It is a good thing public must be maintained and never made any secret of the THE CANADIAN LOAN should have found it very difficult, that nature forces us quite early satisfied, and certainly, Sir, this advantages in international in-
if not impossible, to make a living in life to concentrate our ambitions argument might possibly succeed tercourse which they hoped to
in later life. Shamefully on something besides games. Who if the exhibit were interesting, secure from this monopoly. The
London last week with spectacular neglected my work, I should have would be a Prime Minister if he will admit, Sir, that a Dactotidi- "Soviet, Encyclopaedia," for ex-
neglected it still more shamefully had a chance of being an interna- dormus sounds interesting, ample, writing on the monopoly success, the lists being closed in because I should have done nothing tional footballer? Who would de- what's in a name? of foreign trade, boasts that one minute, is considered of great but play and think about and talk vote the chief part of his energies It allows us to increase or de- political and financial importance about football and cricket the whole to sitting in a court judging thieves and blackmoallora if he had a chance crease our trade with this or since for twenty years past Can-
It was not, I may say, however, of being chosen to play for his that country, to influence the ada has always borrowed from owing to a decline of physical fit-country in a Test Match? world market by withholding or New York. In consequence, Can-ness that I rotired from Rugby dumping upon it enormous con- ada has been importing goods to football. Physical fitness was a desperately distracting." signments of export goods, and the equivalent value from the facilitates manoeuvring when we United States. By borrowing in.. are placing our orders abroad.
supports the British Empire," stability of Emple currencies and contributes to the amelioration of unemployment in England. Both Britain and Canada have reason to feel pleased with the result.
stend in London, Canada nc- With a candour which is not un centuates her "solidarity with the common in Soviet utterances in- tended for home consumption, is adds that "fluctuations in the placing of our orders are often dictated by political motives." Tho need for special safeguards in trading with a gigantic State monopoly run on these prinel- plea is now recognised by ali ex-
cept the few who still hold that THE BEST IN TENNIS the only economic wisdom is to buy always in the cheapest mar-
Although their final defcat will
ket, no matter how temporary leave Englishmen with a feeling of that cheapness is likely to be or how ruinous it may prove in the disappointment, the fighting quali- long run, and no matter, as in ties and the brave recovery made by the case of Russian timber, at the English Wightman Cup team what price in human suffering against America during the week- that cheapness is purchased, end takes the edge off the defort. The trade agreement with the Nobody will dony, the American Russian monopoly in any caso re- players the merits of their success; quired to be thoroughly revised a success which became assured and recast, if only because it na a result of Friday's matches. had become a complete anomaly In fact it will be generally re- In prosent circumstances. The cognised that in face of one or two new organisation of home mar-upsetting incidents such as the en kets and the adoption of the forced withdrawal through sickness quantitative principle clearly of Mrs. Wills-Moody and Miss Alloo ontailed some such changes Marble, the winners displayed a was in view in the negotiations that are now in progress. If tenacity which brought its own re- they succoed in balancing monoward. Thus the encounter-pro- poly advantage on the Russian duced the best in tennis. Good Sportsmanship,, courage, and deter- nido with equitable marketin
mination to do the utmost for the arrangements on this side, they kne
time.
Sport is glorious, but it is
That each new age brings fresh brutalitics is a truth, and is amply evidenced by this entirely ignoble effort to procure, and provide onsation and interest for the bloated aristocracy and fish-ayed. gentility in our midst.
Far be it for me to cavit in any- thing like an unseemly manner, but the fact is, Sir, that we pay · far too much consideration to the bleary-eyed, over-cating, boozing, long-cared, misshapen, pot-tum- mied, generally-ghastly-looking, foul-smelling, animal-minded, hopeless people about us... Words fail me
Moreover, if I were not an Eng lish gentleman with the traditional Englishman's love for fair play (hvho threw that raspberry, Sir?) I would be compelled to express my feelings at this fresh brutality, How many humans (ordinary), know that the Dactotfäidermus has no mother? Think of it-- no. mother! Does not that make your heart go out to poor Edward? Righteous indignation, Sir, is failing to find expression except from ranily great men, most of whom are dead, and between our- alvos, Sir, I am seriously ill. But I cannot lot this opportunity pass without making some endeavour to save one of the few specimens of n-feature of animal life rapidly becoming extinct.
Do.
I appeal to Mr. Lammort! not let this go on. If Edward. Kelly has to be caged, let it be in natural surroundings. DAO TOTIDIDERMUSSE'S FRIEND.
We took this letter along to the B.P.C.After the Editor handed:
it to us,and they have a
the proposal in the ikit par Pa ako aništim out to the