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MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1921.

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THE CHINA-MAIL.

INTERPORT CRICKET.

DINNER IN SHANGĦAL

HONGKONG CHALLENGES AGAIN.

bad, in fact almost dangerous. It had crumbled badly and the little drop of rain overnight helped to make matters worse. 'Had Hong kong won the toes and scored 150 to 200 runs there is little doubt Shanghai would have had to work hard to win. Shanghai although stronger in batting had no fast bowler of the class of Havelock Davis but this was counterbalanced by O'Hara who is easily the best bowler, on either side. In fact be is probably the best left hand bowler we have seen in the Far East during the last 20 years,

There was a merry gathering, the Shanghai Club on Saturday even ing, (May 27), when the President and Committee of the Shanghai Cricket Club entertained the Inter port cricket teams. scorers and umpires to dinner, the opportunity also teing taken to make a presentation to Mr. A. P. Wood, on his departure from Shanghai, in

SHANGHAI'S BATSMEN, recognition of the great work he has

Shanghai's large score was chief- done for the sport locally. Sir Everard Fraser, KCMG, British Con- by due to the batting of Capt. Barrett sul-General, presided and about 100 and Ollerdessen. In compiling what is said to be the record individual

sat down to dinner.

was

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The speeches were all commend-score in these matches the former THEATRI ably brief, being confined to genuine made few mistakes and did not give Strong liquors are of modern in expressions of good comradeship, an actual chance until he had mače vention for the ancients knew nothing punctuated with much real humour 140. He was guilty, bowever, of at more powerful than lightly ferment- which kept the gathering in the most least one stroke which should have ed wines. Alcohol was not discoverjoyous of moods, Mr. G. R. Sayer, sent him back to the pavilion. The substitution by the Foreigned until the seventh century, and the the Hongkong captain, showing a Ollerdessen's innings was delightful Office of a pocket-book passport for distillation of spirit from wine was special genius in this way. The after as ever to watch. He is prone to the present cumbrous document will unknown until the twelfth century.

dinner programme opened with a tast drive the ball over mid-off's head be very welcome, and it is hoped that

to His Majesty and silent recognition instead of along the ground but his it will become the accepted inter

of the memory of departed sportsmen, bitting was crisp and timeing excel- national form. Besides its con

after which the Chairman proposed lent, Muriel also played a splendid venience, it has the further advantage

the health of the people who came innings and his defence against of being much more difficult to forge,

to get topside of Shanghai and Havelock Daris

as good for no leaf can be withdrawn without

didn't." He said, what with as anything seen in the match. the extraction being immediately

Shanghai first selecting Barrett, HONGKONG'S BEAUTIFUL FIELDING obvious. The suggestion of the

then Hongkong losing the toss and League of Nations that the cast

The Hongkong bowlers had a long finally the weather. going against of visas should be reduced has

them, he felt sorry for the visitors and trying ordeal. Havelock Davis bees accepted.

and it was not surprising they were was untiring and bowled with little beaten. "Yet

the luck. A lot of runs were scored off for a year

they played game to the very end and, though him on the lex side, and it seemed as unsuccessful, were not disgraced. if he were trying to bowl the out- Mr. Sayer made a most joyful swinger whereas he appeared to response, with many allusions to the swing in slightly on occasions. Reid absent Hancock from whom he said bowled very steadily and always reA he just received the following quired watching, telegram: "Cheer up; we love you Devertheless. Heartily congratulate Shanghai. Invite them for next year and tell them we will have our revenge."

Whereas 2 visa) has hitherto cast S1, the charge will in future he and the fee for a transit, visa (mere a pass through the country) reduced from 10s. to 10d. The Air We Breathe.

According to the Neues Weiner Tagblatt. Leopold Wolfling, the former Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria, who renounced his rank, has joined a music-hall troupe which is to tour Europe. The ex-Archdake, who was once an admiral in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, will make bis first appearance on the stage in Berlin, wearing admizal's uniform.

The report recently issued of the in- vestigations carried out by the in- Board dustrial Fatigue Research should give the death blow to the

A problem that is worrying church common belief that the depressing feeling people experience when in a officials at Oxford is the engagement badly ventilated room is due to an of choir boys. "An allegation is made excess of carbonic acid gas in the air. that boys have been induced to leave Very careful analysis of such air has one church for another because of proved that there is rever sufficient the extra money offered. The rector be of one of Oxford's poorest parishes carbonic-acid gas present to harmful. The trouble is due almost says it was a most ungenerons and entirely to the temperature and unfair thing to do to entice boys moisture content of the air in away without compensation. such places, and the capleasant smell usuall; attributed to the presence of poisonous" gas, arises from minute particles of matter exnded from the body and furniture under such con- ditions.

It would require at least 5 per cent of carbonic acid gas to render air poisonous, and it would be necessary

The experiment of supplying white gloves instead of black to policemen regulating street traffic is being tried in London for the first time. The authorities believe that white makes the upraised hand more conspicuous. especially at night-time, to drivers of vehicles. If the experiment succeeds

to make a room absolutely airtight, all policemen on traffic duty in so that co fresh air whatever could London will be supplied with white enter, before that percentage would gloves.

It was the excessive be possible. heat and not the poisonous air which Killed the victims of the Black Hole of Calcutta. Fortune-Telling.

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The visitors' fielding 'on the first day was first class. Sayer, Bagnall and Webster saved many runs on the off side and did a lot of work which was really worth watching. Curiously enough on the second day both Sayer and Bagnall dropped easy catches but these mistakes luckily made very little difference to the

The Chairman then presented Mr. A. P. Wood with a massive silver bowl, beautifully ornamented with a hieze design, as a token from the Cricket Club. He said they had to score.

they limit the subscriptions, for found that otherwise no trunk would have held the present they would have had to buy, for "everyone loves | A.P."

Mr. A. P. Wood, in response, said in part.

"Grear changes have taken place and, from small beginnings, the Club is now one of the most in portant institutions in Shanghai, but this is due to your Committees and Secretaries, who have given up so much of their time to promote the best interests of the Club and the willing assistance they have always given to me.

Nearly all returning liners from the United States bring back pas- "I am very pleased the Committee sengers who have been refused entry has chosen the Interport" dinner to there for carrying false passports. A make the presentation, as it allows That it is illegal to tell, or pretend search is being made for the quarter me to welcome and renew associa to tell, fortunes for money is admit from which these papers are obtamed- tions of Interport cricket dating ted, but the courts have occasionally weise passengers arriving there to back to 1899. The first Interport distinguished between the offender sail by the "Mauretania" for New matches were played in 1856 and who interds to deceive and the York, furnished with false passports, 1867, and after a lapse of 32 years believer in the alleged art. That is were brought before a magistrate were renewed in 1899, when Hong-

and examined.

kong visited Shanghai and, with the now all swept away by the decision

exception of the interval during the of the Divisional Court, under which

A d'minutive monkey, with a jet-war, have continued pretty regularly. it is held that anyone professing' --not merely "pretending to tell black, au facious face, and an imma fortunes docs in fact intend to deceive. culately groomed brown body, cloth, That is plain common sense. Aparted in a coat of relow and white material, appeared in Piccadilly on from the philosophical objection the shoulder of well-dressed man that 2 future actually foreseen would not be 2 future at all, it is obvious that anyone who really possessed the power to foretell it would not waste his time in extracting small fees from gullible people he would speedily make a

Everard R. Calthrop, breeder of great fortune on the Stock Exchange or the Turf. The desire to pry into Arab horses, was summoned at the future is so strong, in human Epping for rates amounting to £58.

"I am unable to pay,” he said, “a mature that people of a certain tem- perament carrot bring themselves toy income is less than my rates and believe that there is no way of grat-income-tax. I am the unfortunate

the Guardian Angel The toast of "The Umpires and ising it, and they must be protected Linventor against those who seek to play upon parachute and have spent £12,000 Scorers" was honoured on the call a weakness which is perhaps more experimenting.

Moving among the throngs of fashion- able snoppers, monkey and master attracted so much attention that at one point pedestrian trafic was held

up.

"I love cricket and I hope I have always played the game, It is very hard to say good-bye to so many good friends, whose memory and the happy days spent on the Cricket ground will never he forgotten by my wife and self. I thank all who are present and many who are absent for all your good wishes, and the beautiful souvenir which will be for ever our greatest treasure and will be handed down to our son as an heir. loam."

Mr Wood added that he wished particularly to thank the ladies. who had sent him such a very kind message.

My claim against of Captain E. L. M. Barrett. He common in women than in men and the Air Ministry was substantially remarked that Shanghai had al is more frequently exploited by admitted, and I shall be asked to the luck of the game and batted on them. Nothing is the decision, of compromise later." the court forbids genuine psychical was allowed.

research.

A Bird Aeroplane. ·

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Three months the best fast wicket he had ever

played on here. If Hongkong

had "played on it Shanghai would

A man who was unable to find the bave had a hard task. Referring to necessary threepennies got a telephone | the troubles of the selection com

It Professor Nimführ's new "pulsat-† call through at a public office on his mittee, he said, that they were so ing" wing is a practical substitute word of honour. When he asked for hard up for batsmen that they had for the existing plane he has solved the number required he found he had to consider leaving out the best the problem of the mechanical bird only two pennies. He asked the wicket-keeper they had had for years, The plans of a flying-machine, as operator if he might put two half-but the graceful way in which Brook so far evolved, has realised only one pennies in the box. "I can't cheek retired in favour of Deeks showed of the two actions of a bird in flight. halfpennies," he was told, but if the best spirit in which the game It can glide, but it requires an you give me your word to put them is played. engine to send it along. In a wind a in I'll put you through." The caller Mr. M. Silas amused the company bird inclines its wings-kite-like-to placed two halfpennies in the box and the rapid motion of the air. The air was connected. flies the bird. In a calm the wings

actions two

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probably more than even he had

ever done before, particularly with

O'HARA HARD TO MEET. The batring of the Hongkong team failed badly against O'Hara

who, on a bad wicket, made the ball come very quickly off the pitch and frequently popped up pastily.

He kept a perfect length and would have bothered the best of batsmen. The Shanghai fielding in this inn is surprised everyone and was quite above the average Muriel. O'Hara and Ollerdessen all made excellent catches and the ground gelding was safe, if not brilliant.

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June

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THURSDAY, Jane 9th The Popüla: Operetts by the celebrated composer LEHAR *THE MERRY WIDOW”

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THURSDAY;

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Des Voeux Road, Comer of

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A quantity of Silver Plate & Ornaments)-

Curios.

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Terns :---Cath.

Including a variety of 5-coloured and.

and

The above recently arrived from the North and includes pieces from the

HUGHES & HOUGE, Auctioneers to the Governm nË.

Hongkong, June 6, 1921.

OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

a parody or "They wouldn't believe (3-coloured Vases, Wall Flates, Table act as screws, or propellers. They After practising for twenty-two me," dealing with high finance in Screens, Blue and White rases and twist in one direction during the nights, Mr. F. H. Pearse, of Flymouth, Shanghai. Songs were also sung by

burners, old bronze fincense - down stroke and in the opposite caused a commotion in the streets Messrs: H. E. Muriel, S. J. Deeks, monce, Lacquered. Ware, Ivory, Jade, TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND

brass figures and. Vaser Kake. direction during the up stroke: by driving a motor-car from which James and Lieut. J. B. Franks, and The bird flies in the air. Instead of the engine had been removed and Mr. Kay did some very clever card Agate and Crystal Ornaments having the

of which he propelled by a pedal bicycle manipolation. An extra tern, was flight separated, as they are in an In getting uphill Mr. Pearse had the the presentation, by the Hongkong aeroplane-gliding in the planes, assistance of a crowd of boys. When team to Mr. Deeks of a wonderful propulsion is the engine-Professor be had reached the garage, almost bouquet of flowers that must be Nimfuhr's conception is to endow breathless from exertion, Mr. Pearse cultivated in Hongkong alone. the plane, as a real wing, with the explained that his object was to offer. power of dual action which a flying a silent protest against the increased bird exercises. It should prove an tax on cars. immense advance in bûman aviation.

It seems clear that the concentration

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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE RECENT MATCH.

Commenting on the recent Cricket

In searching for the £500 worth Interport at Shanghai, a N. C. Daily of fight power in the actual plane radium which recently disappeared News correspondent says-On paper, as in a bird's wing, must also effect from the Royal Infirmary, Sheffield, Shanghai gained a somewhat over "an enormous reduction in the engine and which is thought to have been whelming victory over Hongkong in power now needed in driving an thrown among ashes, an apparatus the Interport Cricket match just con aeroplane. Aerial "runabouts" using will be used called an electroscope. cluded. It must be admitted, how no more power than tutor cyde, generally used for testing the strength fever, that Shanghai had most of the as well as monster air transports carry of radium. The electroscope con- lcclf and the winning of the toss un- ing 500 passengers and displacing sists of a lead box, containing andoubtedly meant winning the match. steamships, Bre possibilities which aluminium leaf with in oblong The wicket during the Shanghal first the professor's mechanical bird, as an aperture through which the leaf innings was as good as any fact actuality, will bring bearer than they buy be seen moving as soon as it is wicket is likely to be on that turf, have ever been before,

affected by radium rays...

tht on the second day it was very

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