SPORT ADVTS.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1930.
22nd, 24th, 25th, 26th and 20th February, 1036,
On Saturday, 22nd, Monday, 24th, Tuesday, 25th, and Wednesday, 26th February, the first bell will be rung nt 11.00a.m., and the first race will bo run at 11.30 a.m. On Saturday, 20th February, the first bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m., and the first race will be run ai 2.00 pm.
The tin interval will be taken after the fifth race on the first four days.
MEMBERS BADGES AND
ENCLOSURE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHL WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 19, 1936.
HEALTHY CONDITION OF
THE SPORTS CLUB
CHAIRMAN MAKES AN APPEAL
FOR MORE MEMBERS
AT YESTERDAY'S ANNUAL MEETING
The annual general meeting of the Sports Club was held yesterday afternoon in the club premises, presided over by Mr. T. A. Mitchell, the chairman. A large gathering of members attended the meeting, at which Mr. Mitchell commented on the healthy state of the accounts and said they had been able to turn the year with a profit.
In moving the adoption of the song, Ng Sum-chuen, Ngon Shing Members are reminded that they report and accounts, the chairman kwan, P. G. Plb and Yung Hia-chlu. and their ladies MUST wear their said the present committee had start The following non-voting noi: badges prominently displayed through-ed operations in the last few days of Chinese members were also clected out the Meeting.
No one without a badge will be ad- April, and he was very pleased to temporary vollar members.Messrs. any they had been able เล hold II. Arfax, II. F. Bunje, Dr. F. Dunje, mited to the Members Enclosure.
monthly committee meetings, which V. E. Duclos, E. G. Dale, D. K. Badges admitting non-members to he recommended to all incoming Kharas, J. Lowrie, T. A. Martin, the Members' Enclosure and Club
committees as the only means T. R. MacDonald, Dr. M. Nicolson,
of Rooms at $10.00 per day including tax being able to check expenditure and D. L. Newbigging, J. J. Paterson, M.
or $40.00 including tax for the
Rafeck, 0. A. Smith, W. A. Stewart, Meeting (ladies $0.00 and $20.00 Ree to the well-being of the club.
The membership lind decreased by J. R. Swales, A. C. Wilcox, M. M. respectively) are obtainable through 72, but last year the absent members Watson and II. Wiele. the Secretary upon introduction by amounted to 61, and theso now The following were elected to serve member, such member to be respon-tetailed only ten.
on the general committee for the sible for all chits, etc.
During the year they had found it a ennuing year-Messrs. H. Arfas, H. Badges admitting to Member En-non-paying proposition to carry on Bunje. Major V. E. Ductos, M. H. Lo, closure will NOT be on sale at the with the catering, and arrangements S. Y. Liang and H. C. Pik, and mem- Race Course.
were made whereby the secretary,bers elected for the ballotting com- Mr. Bitter, was entirely entrusted ittee were Mr. Dale, Dr. F. Bunje, with the supply of flus, teas and Mr. W. A. Stewart, the Hon. Mr. dinners; and as it
was only an M. K. Lo, the Hon, Mr. T. N. Chau experiment Mr. Bitter was allowed to and Mr. L. Lam-sang, Mr. T. A. take all the profits therefrom. It Martin was elected auditor at a feo was the intention of the committee, of $100. once it was on a really paying basis. to claim a percentage of the profit from Mr. Bitter, but until support was forthcoming this could not be looked for.
The Secretary's Office, 1 floor. EXCHANGE BUILDING, (Tel. 27794) WILL CLOSE AT 10.00 am. ON THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, and at 12.00 NOON ON THE FIFTH DAY.
A limited number of tifine will be obtainable each day at the Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy, Telephone No. 21120.
On no protext will children be per- mitted in either enclosure during the Arst four days of the Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
price
Tho
the
of admission to Public Enclosure is
is $2.00 per day including tax for all persons including ladies and is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted to the Hoblie Enclosure at
pur day including tax. Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc. will not be permitted to uporate within of The Hong Kong the precincts of Jockey Club during the Raco Bleeting. Tim will bo obtainable in the Restaurant in the Publle Enclosure.
$1,00
BERVANTS PASSES
Passes for Servants will be issued on application to the Secretary, 1st floor, Exchange Building.
Any persons found loitering with Servants' passes in their possesion will forfeit the mo and will he removed from the Enclosure. ·
By Order,
C. D. BROWN,
Secretary Hongkong, 17th February, 1930.
SPORTS CLUB.
NOTICE TO MEMBERS.
Wednesday.
19th February, at 5.30 p.m. Lotteries ench day will be on:-
The Valley Stakes,
The Hong Kong Derby,
club'R
nt
VOTE OF THANKS
Before the meeting closed, Mr. Mitchell thanked the committee for the support rendered him during his year of office. Without their assis tance, he said, it would have been
n THE SPORTS CLUB CUP
imposible for him to carry on. Their Hon. Secretary had done his utmost. the After dealing with
and special thanks were due to him, Premises and furniture, the chair to the efforts of their treasurers, and said that this year they were puto Mr. Biller, for the nerangements to re-inaugurate the Sporta Club Cup,
After a vote of thanks had been and they looked forward to a large made for the entering. assembly in the Sporte Club but he proposed to the retiring the races when the Cup would be won, he hoped by one of their men: Mr. Mitchell, the meeting closed. the He also appealed to bers. Chinese members of the club to bring There was a falling off in the Chinese membership, and he thought it could not all be put down to the depression. It was possibly owing to the secretary not being able to talk "handicaps",
The etc. (Laughter). club could, however, offer much more than that: it could offer friendship and mutual understanding, and he earnestly appealed to the Incoming chairman, who in the ensuing year
the support from his
more of their friends along to join. Corinthians
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE
And The
League
(Continued from Page 8.)
players
Huddie,
Boxing champions in the making. Swedish schoolboys being in- structed in the art of boxing and self-defence
RACING AT FANLING
SPRING MEETING PROGRAMME
SIX EVENTS ON
MARCH 8
TAIPO TRAGEDY
PARENTS AND THREE
- CHILDREN DEAD
morning
BIG TRANSFER FEES A SIGN OF PANIC
Wider Promotion Scheme the Remedy
Dy ARBITER (Frank M. Carruthers)
from was omitted
the team
Recently an official, acting on the Sunderland are prepared to accept instructions of his directors, visitou offers for Galinchor, their inside left, a club and in a calm, matter-of-fact who way said, "We'll give you 17,000 the other day. for two of your players."
Arsenal, too, are very interested The offer was so startling that it in young Englishman, Leslie was not at first regarded seriously. Miller, outside left of the Racing but it was insisted upon, and the Club de Paris, and a transfer may directors of the club approached were be effected. hurriedly consulted.
Their decision was: "We dare not let the players go. Our supporters would never forgive us." That was the end of the matter.
REAL FOOTBALL
On the several occasions when I have suggested that football would be a far more entertaining spratacie I may not recount the details of have been charged with being "soft," f physical force wero eliminated, I the proposed dent, but the story as and of trying to rab the game of its The shoulder I have told it is true, and I think manly character. li representa the
of its record transfer charge. It in arid, is one offer. A few years ago it was re- grandest features.. ported that Millwall had bid £20,000 for the complete forward line of Raith Rovers, but the story was nover substantiated.
THE HIGHEST
The shoulder charge!
How often
is it used? The charge to-day in one in which the man as well as the ball is taken and the double purpose la, merely destructive.
The highest offer I know to have; Again it has been said that it would been made by a club was that by be impossible to deny the strong ma Liverpool when they were prepared the use of his physique and to make to give Sunderland £14,000 for the the game simply one of ball play, two inalde forwards, Gallacher and I have always realised difficulty, of Carter.
this, but the frozen grounds during A tragic discovery was made at
the past week whon men have had Talpo Market yesterday
I talked with Mr. George Jobey, a proper regard for the dangers have when a husband and wife, and their the Desby County manager about shown that the game is the better three young daughters, were found the reckless spending of money on for the absence of force. drad on the first floor of an unplayers. In his view they are a numbered house in the town, and positive danger. "The fees do not where they had lived for some represent the value of the players," time pant.
he said. "They only tell of the panie of the clubs, of directors who when they are assailed by critics clutch at straws and burden the club with a debt that is bound to Paris,
The bodies were those of Wong Ki-she, the husband, Tam Yu-so, his wife, and the three daughters aged 12, 10 and 8 respectively.
The programme for the Spring Meeting of the Fanling Hunt and Race
Geneva.. cripple them for years. Club, on March 8, is published below:
Berlin Handicap.1% miles. A hurdle raco Taipo Station states that the bodies to-day are disliked by the public, Athens,
Ilace No. 1--2.30 p.m-The Spring
A police report circulated from "The fees which are being paid Milan for China Ponles. Winner of the
in an nilvanced state of de- and they are ruinous to the clubs. Shanghai.. Fanling Grand National this year were barred. Winner a Cup or $50; 2nd composition and were removed to the They ought to be stopped, and they New York.
Kowloon Public Mortuary, It is might be by the simple expedient of
Amsterdam $30; 3rd $20. Entry Fee $3.
Race No: 2-The Ban Wat Handicap thought that the tragedy occurred opening the League door a little Vienna wider. Make it possible for a club Prague Steeplechase-1 miles for China three or four days ago.
to say, 'If we go down this season Ponies. Winner of the Fanling Grand
Letters found in the house and ad- we can get back next, and at once Madrid.. National this year barred. Winnor a dressed to the Hongkong Police the cause which drives directors to Cup or $50; 2nd $30; 3rd $20. Entry point to a case of murder against Feo 83.
14 miles. A hurdlo race for China
Race No. 3-The Tally Ho Plate-children, and a suicide pact on the their position will be removed. Ponies that in the opinion of the Com- Part of the parents. mittee are bona fido hunters. Winners It is learned that Wong Ki-sho this season of an open hurdle race was a shoemaker in Austin Road,
"A" Division barred. Catchweight
Fee $3.
Race No. 4-The March Ladies' Race Over a country course of about 3 miles finishing on the Race Course. For China Ponies. Ponies that have won or been placed in Country Raco this season barred. To be ridden by ladies. Catchwelght 105 lbs. Winnar A Cup or $50; 2nd $30; 3rd $20. Entry Fee $3. A souvenir will bo presented to the winning rider.
Race No. 5-The Chairman's Cup- Over a country course of about 3 miles finishing on the Race Course. Ponies that have not won or been placed in a Country lace this season
$40; 3rd $30.- Entry Fee barred. Catchweight 168 lbs. Winner a cup presented by the Chairman; 2nd
$3. Race No. 6-The Brisbane Plate- 5 Furlongs. For Australian Ponies that in the opinion of the Committee are bona fide hunters, Catchwelght 160 lbs. Winner a cap or $50; 2nd $30: 3rd $20. Entry Fes $1.
Entries close to the Secretaries, Messrs. Thomson & Co., York Build- ing, Chater Road, at noon, on Tues. day, February 25.
were
EXCHANGE RATES
Feb. 14. .74.41/04
15.09
Feb 18. 74.47/01
15.10
12.28
12.28
.62%
1214
.517"
515
.7.20
11/10/
.1/2% 4.00
2014 .11834 .449 .36.3/32
1/3% 23.20
1/2.0/16
4.98.11/16
7.20
20
110
669
36.1/16
1104
110%
1/3
1/04%
20.284
.39.0/16
3956
217 4.98% .1/2.1/32 ..4%
4.08%
1/2-1/32 44
19.15/16
19.15/16
106:13/18
Bucharest
Lisbon. Hongkong Bombay
"I believe that more and more Brussels. clubs now realine the cogency of this Manto Video. reason, and when my, chairman, Mr. Belgrade Bendle Moore, again makes his pro- Montreal. posal to extend the promotion and Yokohama.
system to four up and Rio relegation four down,
think it may be ac- Silver (Spot)....10.13/10 Silver (forward).10.11/10 cepted."
I understand there is likelihood of War Loan.......100% another big deal being put through
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FINEST QUALITY CREAMERY
would be a Chinese, to see that ematch. Several of the better-known and the winners of the Jerrocks Plate Kun Chung district. souls get section,
168 lba. Ponies that started in the to-duy-including
It is understood
that the family Continuing, Mr. Mitchell said he Joy, Shearer, Fabian and Riley Jorrocks Plate "B" Division and did were in dire poverty, and that poi-
before they were not place allowed 5 lbs. Casuals
Winner a son was used to put an end to their was sure the thanks of the members Corinthians. This difficulty,
were
Entry lives. No marka of injury would
xo out to Mr. Stanton for might he surmounted by an however, Cup or $50; 2nd $30; 3rd $20.
found on the bodies. kindly donating a radio set to the tion between the two clubs. Thirty club, and to Major Manners for the years ago such a union was suggested lovely pictures he had loaned the club
by Mr. Wreford Brown and only until his return. An attempt had Selling Lotteries will be held at but the response had not been, what
been made to bring back old members, defeated by a very narrow margin. Then there is the question of the Club na
was anticipated, and he appealed to suitable ground. I believe Informal all members, who knew of their negotiations for a pitch at Hurling friends who had resigned, to talk with ham have fallen through. To compete them and bring them back his in the League Corinthians would need club must go on-it being the only ground with accommodation for at
20,000 people Until a least
favour- Men's International Club In the
ablo nito
site for building such a
n ground Colony," said Mr. Mitchell.
is found they might share a ground with one of the leading amateur clubs, Leyton's
for instance, is ground, Subscription Lists are available at ture, the chairman said that they had under cover, and another 16.000 on Turning to the income and expendi- very accessible and holds about 16,000 the Club.
been able to turn the year with a tho terraces. A suggestion that V. E. DUCLOS, profit. The expenditure had been Corinthians should share the ground halved, although the income was con- might to favourably received by the Hon. Seercary.siderably down, both with regard to Leyton committee. Nearly all the Hongkong, 12th February, 1936. subscriptions and bar sales. Lot younger element in the club
teries were conducted last year, and tremendously keen to get into the abowed a profit of $600, and thanks League, and 1 believe a reorganised wero due to Mr. Priestley for Corinthian side would be welcomed by organising them again this year, and the professional clubs. They would to Mesars. T. A. Martin and F. G.jcertainly be a bigger draw than are Maunder for their assistance. The some of the clubs at the bottom of the accounts appeared healthier and table at present. those long suffering gentlemen who had kindly come to their assistance by taking up debentures free of interest, could possibly see that their hopes of ever getting their money back were decidedly rosier.
The Rooty HII Derby
HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB
REMINDER
Entries for the Annual Tourna- ment will close at 6 p.m. on "Thursday, 20th February, 1936.
A. IL MACKENZIE,
Hon. Secretary.
WHEN AT HOME
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
MAY BE PURCHASED
AT
SELFRIDGE'S
ELECTIONS
DISCUSSED IN SCOTLAND
WORLD POLITICS TO BE DISCUSSED
The second of a series of Fireside Discussions open only to membera of the European Y.M.C.A. will be held to-night at 0 o'clock, when the subject
The idea has been more or less in the air for a long time, but was not discussed seriously until January 2, when the team played so well against Queen's Park at Glasgow that the Scottish amateurs asked them after After the report and accounts had wards, "Why not apply for member- been carried, the following members ship of the English League? An "Is the World Alright?" will be con- szero elected as voting members to the informal meeting was held there and tinged general committee: Messrs. W. T. Stanton, H. H. Friestley, T. A. Mitchell, Lam Ming-fan, Wong Sik- chung and U Sze-wing-,
Contemporary world politics will Major Jack
be considered, and the discussion is Stewart, honorary
to be set in motion by Mr. E. R. Price. secretary of the Arthur Dunn Cup The first of this series hold a fort Competition, believer that The following Chinese non-voting plenty of Corinthian talent; what the hoped that more members will turn there is night age was very successful and it members were then elected temporary club want is a raison detre. This voting members.Messrs. II. S. Chan, they would certainly have if they be un. this evening to take part in this Chan Yiu, Kenneth Chan, Chan Man-came
members of Football Interesting and topical debato chi, H. K. Hung. Ip King-fan, E. League, and there is no gainsaying R. Robertson of Hongkong University It is worth noting that Professor Sven-kong, S. L. Kong, M. H. Le, the fact that a successful Corinthian has kindly agreed to lend the discus- H. Lo, Liang Sai-yen, Liang Chl-hao, side in that competition would give sion on "Finance and Economics" at Li Shiu-pang, Li Lam-sang, Lee Y-the amateur game a tremendous fillip. the next meeting on March 4.
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