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GREYHOUNDS
BREAKFAST TIME
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HABITS
London, Nov. 15.
Most people are not wakened by alarm clocks; their| 'average time of rising is 7.40 a.m., and over half an hour
passes before they sit down to their first meal.
These facts are based on an investigation which has just been made into the breakfast-time habits of 276 adults and children,
Only 27 dress at once on awaken ing. Seventy-two go to sleep again, 23 read books or magazines, and 150 remain in bed for another three- quarters of an hour.
WHAT WE EAT
Only 88 people made a sel meal of breakfast.
HOW MUCH WE SMOKE The Inquiries were conducted by Mass Observation, which now pro- mises the result of an analysis into smoking habits and the contents of 600:
Thirty per cent. of the total cook|muntelpieces. their own breakfast, one half eat with; It is asking for a detailed-account *The rest of the family, but the remain- from over a thousand observers
Ing 50 per cent. breakfast in shifts. what happens between 10.30
11.30 his morning, At this mest
For every 40 who have porridge, 60 have cereal;
For every to who have toast,
* have bread;
For every 20 who have jam honey, 80 have marmalade;
of
and
The instructions for to-morrow are: "Describe the morning in detail from the end of breakfast to the end! 50‡of lunch.'
or
"Include details of your working routine, if you are at work; of house- hold routine, if you are at home; or of shopping. if you go out to the
For every 20 who have coffer, 80 shops," have tea.
In the case of any "national emer
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1937.
ΤΟ RUN
Flying Officer A. E. Clouston and Mrs. Kirby Green bidding good-bye to mechanics when the couple Started on their record-brenking tight from London to the Cape and back.
Golf Club's
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"Hole-in-One"* Reform
An CEK, fish or meat dish was geney" all observers have a standingOLFERS who dream of doing eaten by 60 per cent. of these; 30 per request to make a detailed account of
a "hole in one," but dread
cent. had bacon and eggs; 18 per cent. what happens to them and the re-the consequences of their feat a holled egg. Very few ate fish. actions of those around them.
Herr Hitler Wants To
Meet
Marlene
drinks all round the club and a bottle of whisky for the caddie— may take heart.
Cumberley Heath Golf Club com- mittee has ruled that the player doing a hole in one on their course shall himself be entertained-up to $s, at the bar.
Brigadier General E. Napper Tandy, captain of the club, described news- the old custom as a "tyranny."
Herr Hitler saw Marlene Dietrich's agency to several German latest picture, "Angel," a few days papers including Jew-baiter Julius, "I should like to see the principle ago, writes the Daily Express Berlin Stretcher's Der Stuermer, for attuck-adopted by golf clubs throughout the
ing Marlene when she decided to be country," he said. come an American citizen.
correspondent.
He liked the picture, liked Marlene, and expressed a wish to meet her when next she visits the land of her; birth.
A stir rebuke was Inter through the offein! German
"The greatest menace of the old Herr Hitler has been told that custom is to the young and proficient Marlene may soon come to Germany golfer who is least able to bear the issued on a business trip. He has indicated imposition and too difdent to pro-
news that he will invite her to meet him. test.
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Left-Handed Racing Makes Them Lop-Sided
London, Nov. 15.
Convinced that regular racing on the present left- handed (anti-clockwise) plan will produce a strain of lop-sided greyhounds, Brigadier-General A. C. Critchley, managing director of the Greyhound Racing Association, Ltd., is intoducing the wright-handed (clockwise) races to keep the dogs straight.
He intends next year to institute a £1,000 race for the right-handed championship. The change is to be brought in gradually. First there will be two right-hand races a week; later, two a night.
is too
formities into the strains great to be ignored, A greyhound, he told the press recently, turns two half-circles, al- ways (up to now) to the left, at an average speed of 35 miles an hour white he is ruclog. He does two turns every 30 seconds. So that he Is constantly using one side of his body more than the other; develop-
After a practice earlier this week, which proved that the
dogs race round a right-handed track with as much zest as they do round a left- handed track (although they look 3/5th of a second longer on the right-hund run), the first public ex- |hibition of right-handed racing was given at the children's party in aid of the Mount Vernon Hospital for Cancer at the White City track lasting powerful shoulder muscles on the right side and compressing (there- fore shortening) his left foreleg ench time he turns.
night.
There may be difficulties in the 13" of establishing right-handed racing, but General Critchley thinks-
the dogs than by the fans who do they are less likely to be raised by
the backing.
NEW FORM PROBLEMS At the 60 licensed tracks in this country backers put in 26,000,000) attendances a year. They are con- servative souls; right-hand racing) will present them with brand new problems of form.
But General Critchley believes that the danger of breeding de-
Subaltern
Who Took Togoland
HOW
GERMANS WERE BLUFFED
A remarkable story of how a young Irish subaltern "bluffed" the Ger- mans Into surrendering Togoland during the Great War was told re cently by Major-General Sir Regi-| nald Hoskins and Lord Davidson. They were speaking at the Ashrkige Fellowship reunion at the Bonar Law College, Berkhamsted,
Sir Reginald said that he and Lord Davidson, in the early days of the
the
herped in the handling of code messages
ges at the Colonial Office. One day they received a code message from 21 young
subaltern in Cameroons who probably, Sir Regi- mald said, had under his command two men and a boy, announcing that The was goi
to take Togoland, could reply another
Before
cable arrived. This rald that be had made
a reconnaissance of the enemy's position and Intended
nitack,
Next morning another message slated that he had attacked and that all was well. "I I do not know what his name was," added Sir Reginald, "but I hope that
he is a a General now"
Lord Davidson, taking up the story, sald that this young officer converted 1:15 his "two
two men and a boy" into a "stage army." Actually he split his tiny force into little parties, marched them up and down the country, and arranged with natives to run into Kamera and report that there were enemy forces all over the place.
RIFLE BOLTS REMOVED
The result was that the Germans were led to believe that there were 1,500 men instead of "two men und a boy." They were persuaded that a half-company of the West African Frontier Force were the Advance part of a great army, and decided that the best thing was to surrender. The young officer made it a conul- tion that they should plle their arms on the alde of the town by which he proposed to approach and that the Germans should retire Into the cen- tre of the town. During the night he had the whole of his
force
practising how to extract the bolts from rides so as to render the weapons useless. Next morning he found the arms plied as he had commanded. He and |his escort advanced further while the remainder of the force removed the bolts from the riflca.
It is understood that the officer concerned is now Lieut.-Col. F. C. Bryant, says the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post,
Muzzle Loaders Tried Out
Lewiston, Mont.
The muzzle loading rifle club of | Montana residents held a rifle shoot here in which the contestants cram- med shot down the muzzles of their antiquated weapons, Competitions in shooting the old Kentucky rifle, the flintlock and percussion types were heli.
"It might be six or seven genera- tions before any noticeable change appeared,' General Critchley said, "but it would be certain to come. We should be breeding deformed dogs.
"INEVITABLE DISTORTION" "Greyhound racing, now 12 years old, bus reached the fourth and th generations of scientifle breeding. We are now breeding between 300 and 400 dogs a year. We are now eliminating of the fighters und all the barkers. We are producing pure racing strony.
"I feel is up to us to prevent what would otherwise be an in- cvitable distortion of the dock' bodies. I am so convinced about st that I Intend to establish right- handed racing against any sort of opposition. I think it is our duly." Ultimately, he believes, the two forms of greyhound racing, right and left handed, will flourish side by side, and when that happens the nor mal development of greyhound breeds will be assured.
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