Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH ^^
August 22, 1940.
PHYSICAL FITNESS CAMPAIGN
ON SPORTS GROUNDS
Home Movement That
Would Go
Go Well In Hongkong
(By "Tinker")
MID-WEEK SCENES at the Hongkong Cricket Club are reminders of what is going on on similar grounds at Home. I mean the Physical Fitness Campaign that started some little while ago and to which thousands of young men have flocked to make themselves fit to render service to their country.
Not that you can see people on the Cricket Club; ground doing things such as are shown in the accompany-I ing picture. Little groups sitting "at esse" taking instruc- tion in rifle or gas drill are the only ones making use of the ground.
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At Home, however, football sort of tram-work will be needed in official status when football grounds were thrown open to and cricket Clubs have closely Hongkong.
associated themselves with the
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schemo and have thrown open EADING football Clubs In their grounds for the benefit of England that have given men and their country. And their grounds over to the Fit- something on similar lines would ness Scheme Include Charlton, not be amiss in Hongkong. Fulham, Reading, Coventry We live in a laty climate where City. Bradford, Blackburn lovers,
man is more inclined to degenerate than in most places else and it 12 to figment of the imagination. The
Newport, Plymouth, Watford, Queen's Park Hangers, Hartlepools, fromley, Hull and Chesterfield.
Army . T experts have taken hal, humid days of summer are too over command of the drill program- long, and after such long days work-mes, and cluster are rapidly name
·ing in offices, na mont of us have, ing the proportions of demonstra- une Is, physically, as timp un a
rag.
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brief sojourn in any of the artificially cooled or air-conditioned: bulidings in the Colony, and then stroll out into the streets is die most convincing proof of the Condillars) under which Hongkong's people live
tions.
SPEAKING of Football Clubs
nt Home, among the points
discussed at the Football League
BRITAIN'S BROOMSTICK ARMY came into being with physical training under « scheme announced by the Central Council of Recreative Physical Training. All men over 16 are eligible. It's the duty of all men to make themselves fit to render service to their country,
WARNING TO SOCCER CLUBS ́INTENDING
TO CLOSE DOWN
HERE'S A WARNING to Football League Clubs Meeting was the launching of a who are thinking of following the lead of Bolton Wan. junior competition under their derers and closing down.
On a particularly hot day the blast control next season.
gering.
down; Everton are considering shut-
of hot air from the streets is stag- Bolton Wanderers have closed The Wanderers say: "The Such violent changes of temperating up shop for the duration, while serious position does not war. ture, too, occur under normal con- the Wolves also contemplate closing rant the continuance of foot-
Big league soccer was An
Maybe. But this is a bail," ditions. It was only last week al
undertaking for the days were so hot that noth Clubs last season, and though it has and then for the Football Asso- all the matter first for the Government short of sitting on ice seemed the
been announced that the League only way of getting cool, yet after a Fleepless and perspiring Best half will continue next year it is to be ciation and League to decide. of the night I was grateful early the wondered how many Clubs will en following morning for the blanketter. folded at the bottom of the bed.
Aš Inexorable as time, vitality, and in many cases health, are being undermined. And the short
fully compensate.
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It is becouse of this that the in- expensive "starlet" plan has been forward. Many Clubs have put hundreds of talented young players, unpaid, could carry on the spate of winter activity does not. The League have encouraged
who,
this to the extent of allowing Clubs to retain boys of even sixteen years of course, provents YESTERDAY, I saw a screen of age. This,
preview of Joe Louis beat-"poaching, and if the League runs
a competition there will be a stipu ing Godoy in a world heavy-ation that players must be obtained weight
bout. locally. No championship
transfers will be al- After neven and a half hectic lowed. rounds with the Chilean cham-contained tness
This competition would be a self- movement, and pion, Louis walked as non-{ would also
provide relaxation for chalantly and breathed as nor-the public. mally an when he first entered)
the ring,
Everton's action is more suitable They are asking the shareholders to support the directors desire not to have competitive football next sea
on, but the warning to those who are thinking of closing down without waiting for a lead from the national authorities is this:
If a seems probable, competi- Uve football by the League is ruled out, there still remain the youngsters under military ago on whom many League clubs have been expending such energy and care in their coaching schemos.
Lawn Bowls
Teams For
The Week-end
The following teams have been selected by various Clubs for lawn bowls league matchen thin week=" end:
CLUB DE RECREIO
"A" Y. "D"_thorne, 4 p.m.) --.
L. J. Silva, P. X. Soares, it. F. Lur and I A Alver
L.. Xavier, C. M. SilvŔ, r. V. Ribeiro and . X. Silva
JA Lut, C. K. Marques, J. F7. Ribeiro
foundation for the game's resumption and C. G. Filra. when peace comes.
REASON TO CONTINUE
why quiet,
Juniors should not continue?
crowd-limited matches for these Is there any reason
The Government will decide-and such training and playing, remember, is in itself a keep ft movement. Given such permission, many League clubs will run ich junior teams, and many prefer to do so under a Football League plan of campaign.
Ilow, then, will the clubs who have, closed down emerge? They cannot expect to be allowed to re- Lain such players 'when they are not giving them opportunities to play. They run the risk of foxing Hoores
of promising youths on whom diey had founded their future.
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C. F. Vai, A. r, Noronha, J. C. Remedion and J. Noronha,
7. Machado, J. R. Boares, C. Roxa Pereira and D. Blasta.
D. C. Alves, C. 11, Basto, A, P, Guterres and J. 2. Bato.
Tad Div, v. K.B.G.C. (xway, 3.30 p.m.).— F. X. Monteiro, 11, R. Pinna, F. Yvand- vich and D. P. Remedios.
Xavier. J. A. Remedion C. M. S. Alves, and A. M. Rodrigues.
J. Usmund, P. M. N. Bilva, A. AL
Xavier and E. Sousa.
INDIAN R.C,
1st Div. v. Coalgongawer (away, 530 B.M.)
D. M. Khan, K. M. Runjaha, A. M. Rumjan and M. R. Abbas,
Ilonsen, A. K, Sumo, A. h. Mina and A. K. Minu.
AIL tumpahn, 3. Yusuf, M. Y. Adal and A. IL Dallan.
3rd Div. Y. K1.0.C, (home, 3.30 p.m.)~~ M. U. Talack, M. B. H
Bumad and A. M. fumjahn.
5. M. Badick, M. Haman. V. A. Rumjahn and A. It. MadNT.
-PUT, MA. Ramjaḥn, M. P. Madar, A. 0.
Suffad and A, Bakar.
Maybe the League Management In order to prevent poaching of Committee will be considering this these products, the League has ex- question. tended its permlis and allowed even In any case, a leading legislator amateur players (under seventeen said: "Where clubr cloao down, | years of age) lo be placed on the these lads would be perfectly right in
retained lists of the clubs. There are
ELECTRIC RC. ́
7. Hongkong PC. (away, 3.30 pm)- A. F. Paul V. Gorby, W. H. D. Muskett and 3, P. Lunny.
AP. Tarbuck, R. A. Owens, 5. Deacon and K. Blown.
W. Bloker, C. E. Gahagan," C; T. Pad
Reserve, W. E. Macfarlane.
Well has he been called by his LAI TSUN-V.R.C. GALA hundreds of them, including scores asking for their registrations to be reit and G. G. 8. Thomson.
cancelled, and there would be no doctors "the most physically fit man
justification for refusal."
in the world."
on some clubs lists. They represent The return swimming contest be- more than one year's arduous work I know! We aren't aspiring to between the Lai Tsun Swimming Union by clubs and coaches.
Victoria Recreation Club, world heavyweight champlons, but and
in all forms of sport a laggard or scheduled to take place last night in
the Chinese Y.M.C.A. pool,- Bridges Street, was
are
If, as is likely, this happens, pro- fessional coaches who will be heart- They have responded to tuition, broken-and that's the right word. an under-trained man can upset the
postponed owing to the and of exceptional promise. So advice to clubs who are concerned working of 1 whole
team Inclement weather. The contest may They are the clubs' footballers of the about the situation and anxious to and who knows if or when some¦ be held to-night
future--an important part of their do the right thing ls to wait for a
lead from headquarters.
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ROYAL SCOTS' GALA
Three Invitation Events Will Be Featured
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Royal Scots will hold their annual swimming championships in the new Army pool at Victoria Barracks on Saturday, August 31, commencing st 8 pm, when three invitation events will be featured.
The three events are the 440 yards free-style (one swimmer), the 200 yards back-stroke (ome swimmer) and the 200 yards medley relay (teams of three, back-stroke, breast- stroke and tree-style, each swimmer covering 00% yards).
Victoria Recreation Club, Euro- pean Y.M.CA., Royal Corps of Signals and Lai Taun Swimming Union have been invited, and the first three have already accepted.
TO-DAY'S WATER-POLO
Eight Teams In Knock-
Out Competition --
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Omelal Summary issued yesterday says:
The typhoon threat increasing soon after the market, opened drove en- quirers to shelter, prior to which a number of counters had been in de mand.
Buyers.
H.K. Fires $136 Providents $3.65 H.K. Hotels $314
China Lights (old) $6.40 China Light (new) $3.30 Electrics (old) $37 Telephones (old) $21 Telephones (new) $8.05 Cements $15
Dairy Farms $17.50 Watsons $8.40
Sellers
Underwriters .10cts China Lights (old) $5.00
· Cements $15
Sales.
Electrics (old), 5371⁄2
THE TURNING POINT IN CONVALESCENCE
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decisive factor in that quick recovery is good food. When patients. cannot take solid meals and have -k disinclination for most kinds of food, doctors give them Horlicks. Horlicks is so light, that the most delicate stomach can assimilate it, so delicious. "that the most finicky appetite res
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The Royal Scots will hold an in- formal gala this evening at 7.30 pari. in the new Army swimming pool at Victoria Bartsoks when eight teams will participate in a ·ftvn-a-side! knockout wales-pole tournament, sti Innovation for the Colony,
The teams participating ore Air Force (KakTuki, HMB Thracian, 8th Heavy Regtz R.A." (two teams), Mkidlesex Regt. Royal Corp of Biguals, European YMCA and Bogal Seals
As this is the first time a five-a-side tournament is being held in the Colony B... large pumber of swimming and water-polo enthusiaria aré, expected to be present.
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Beep Horlicks in the house always. You can get it to-day at your store,
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