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FRIDAY APRIL 13, 1823

HOUSING PROBLEM.

AN ARCHITECT'S VIEW.

CRICKET.

NOTES AND COMMENT.

FINAL STATISTICS..

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would make the -runs on each | occasion. Judging by results, Rumjahn was ahead of all the others. Except in the first match, he got into double figures evory WHY COSTS ARE BIGU,

time. He exceeded the his!f- century. on three gecasions, the This morning a China Mail re-

scores being, 69, 6 and 70, porter sought expert opinions on the The University, H.K.G.C., Next to him comes the Rev. invitation issued by the Hon. Mr. R.G.A., Police and Kowloon 2nd Quick who, however, was not H. E. Pollock, as Chairman of the XI completed their league pro-as consistent. Yeoh, Roffey and Housing Commission, for angges-grammes last Saturday. The teams Balhotchet were more than tions in connection with the offort that finished previously have ordinary batsmen, the fast bowler that is being made to solve the already been discussed. Exclud showing promise of developing ing the Infantry, who withdrew, into a very steady bat. Yeow did only two fixtures have not been well in his four innings but

viz Kowloon played,

v. Redmond was below form. The Craigengower and the return matchVarsity could always claim the the R.E.'s and the advantage of being able to rely on between University juniors. The standing a regular team. Six of the team played in all six 'matches, three of the clubs is as follows:-

turned out in seven and one in six.

· Colony's housing problem.

In one quarter, it was suggested that the Government should erect now houses and let them at a rental of 6 per cent, on the outlay. This suggestion," said a local architect, is unworkable from the point of view that the Government would probably fallow its present line of policy and crest hovies at prices that oven on the 6 per cent. basia

University would prevent, the inoderate wage H.K.C.C. carnar from occupying them."

"I think, ho sdded," that it will bo found that the Government pay at least 25 per cent. more for build- ing than the civilian builder."

Many Obstacles.

L.R.C.

FIRST LEAGUE.

Civil Service

R.G.A. Kowloon Navy

2 2 3 2 2 4

Craigengower.... 7 2.0 5

The civilian architect and build-C.R.C.

ing contractor, it was asserted, have)

many obstacles placed in their way.

Instances were quoted of applica-

W. D. L. P, The Club have scored more runs Io 22 than any other league team. They 5 12 16 beat CRC, R.GA, and IR.C. 3413 comfortably and got home against 4 3 13 Craigengower by 32 ruas and Civil 2 3 3 Service by 20 runs. They got the

2

better of a draw with the Navy. 8 Their two defeats were at the 61 hands of Kowloon acicl the 3 University, both by snall margins. On three occasions they declared with over 200 runs] and once they made 309 Their 26 smitallest total was 99 against the Varsity. For this they are prin- Icipally indebted to Owen Hughes to who scored more than a quarter of 8 the runs. He made in succession

8 1 0 7

SECOND LEAGUE.

6 1 2

19

0

3 2 4

Police

.10

Civil S. 2nd XI......10 Kowloon 2nd XI...10

2 4 4 2 2 6

tions having been sent in, accom-IR.C. 2nd XI 10 8 2 0 panied by a sketch, traced from the University zad XI. 9 Govorunent plans, of the turi re. R. E.

The reply was that the quired. applicant must make a contour

3 6 6 60*,48, 128,43 and 54.. A 1 innings survey of the land, and then the

of 108 is also recorded to Iris land would be sold by auction.

Webster was prevented Thus, it will be seen that applicants By virtue of last week's games, credit. for land for building purposes are Owen Hughes and Major are in-from playing as often as he wished required to go to the exponges of a cluded in the list of those with 20 but he got into double figures every contour survey and in the risk at wickets to their credit. Quick and time. He hit up scores of 78 and being outbiddon at auction. The Alexander passed the 200 runs 5. In the (now ignored) match Government was decused of wishing, mark. The complete select list is with the Infantry, he was top-scorer

with 73.

Claxton, made two big to profiteer out of all reason. as follows:-

It Double feat of scoring 200 runs innings and bis departure consider was myposted that applications and taking: 20 wickets (or more)ably weakened the team. Davies, might be reerived for available First League, Owen Hughes the wicket-keeper, showed hitting sites, which should be dealt with in (H.K.C.C.), 445 runs and 21 wickets; proclivities in an innings of 72". the order recrived, the Government | A. A. Rumjahn (Varsity). 332 runs hearing the cost of contour surveys and 24 wickets; Second League, when these were insisted upon.

Enhanced Costa.

With regard to the enhanced cost of building nowadays, the following juinta were made by the arch

tret

I

Tom Pearce, without doing any- thing brilliant, was always con- H. D. Rumjahn (LR.C. 2nd) 245 mind that he usually assigned

sistent. It must be borne in! runs and 30 wickets.

Scored 200 runs (or more)-Firsta lower position to himself than he Counter-attractions League, Fincher (C.S.), 248; Sayer is used to.

Taken 20 wickets (or more):

(C.S.), 215; Quick (U.), 2:2; S. H.necessitated twenty-five men turn- Ismail (IR.C.), 206 and Capt.ing out in the eight games, eleven Chinese contractors-can-de-Davies (R.G.A) 203. Second bowling McNicoll had the best League, Alexander (Police), 273 average but Owen Hughes was the and such high pries H. Y. Lam (U.), 225 and D. Rumjahn makastay of the bowling. He took Government jobs that theR C. 2nd.) 223.

21 wickets at an average cost of, leading new have cornered a

13.24 runs. Webster did not come large portion of local skilled First League, Balhetchet (U.), 28;

up to expectations in his bowljag. labour.

A el Arculli (LR.C.) 23: Maior (2) The importation of hard-wood | (Craig.), 21. Second League, is the nonopoly of two firnis Peterson (U.), 38; F. M. Arculli (L.R.C. 2nd) 37 Townsend (R.E.) 35: C. Earnshaw (Police), 34; R. Taylor (C. S. 2ncl), 22,

in the Colony.

The R.G.A have lost Captains Davies and Oliver and the cleven is considerably weakened. Tir wards the end of the season they created surprise by beating Civil Service and then losing by 133 runs to Craigengower. They were also beaten by the University and the Ciuh and drew with the IR.C., Navy and Kowloon. Their highest innings was one of 175 and the low- est 90. Against them the biggest and smallest scores were 231 for 3 and

13 The cheaper kind of wick and alt China felt comes from Weielow and Cantan respec» tively. wing to the con-

The totals, etc of the teams that timus trouble there during have completed their fixtures, recent years imports to Hong-given in the following order, -kong-have-practically

number of matches played, runs Though an attempt was made scored, runs against, average per to import timber from the wicket (scored) and average per Philippines,its found too wicket (against) are brittle for building purposes.

Univerdiy..... 1,202-1772, 90,50—10,00; (5) The greater employment of HKG. 199-- 981, 2577-1258 As announced in Wednesday's) Jabone saving machinery ROLA. 8. 11:70, 13.40-1024 China Mail, the interport at Shang- would never go down" with Police... 18, 974-1,287, 1994-1-LC|| hai has been fixed provisionally for Chinese entracions of the Kowloon 2ad 10, 1,183–1,480, 12,67–17.31 May 17. The nucleus of a strong present day.

(0) When it is not the P.W.D.

hampering the grunting of sites, the naval authorities re- main adamant as garls sites being granted beyond Repaire Bay, where land is available for week-end bungalows for those that can afford them.

Sites Hard To Get,

In regard to the available sites for

Hopean residengua,

-88-------

who

eleven has been picked and if a tail can be obviated the team should put upa good fight. Without intending to influence the selectors, invariably have a thankless job, I would stress our need of good bowling against the strong Shang-

University started off by gaining four decisive victorics. They beat in tura, the Navy (home) by 99 runs, Craigongower (away) by 14f runs, Kowloon (away) by 4 wickets and 51 runs and C. R. C. (away) by 96 runs. Against the R. G. A. they hái butting. won by the narrow margin of S

LEAGUE BATTING

runs, thanks to determined efforts Appended are the league batting: by Balhetchet and Ng who, without (20 runs and over) and bowling (less the Chim scoring much kept up their wickets than 12 runs per wicket) averages of Mail an was told that in most while Rumjahn and Roffey made players who have participated in a instances the civilian architect and the runs. In February they dis- minimum of half their team's buikter was hampered by the pre-missed Civil Service for 121, engagements: Hent system of selling these sites by Winning another close game by 12. auction. "If the Government is runs as they batted first and only really anxious to help in the nutter, scored 133. Against the T. R. C. it should fix the price and deal with they could only draw although the scores were very much in their applications in the order received.**

favour. Their victory over the From this, it is to be understood that provided the original applicant was prepared to pay the upset prics, he would obtain the site asked for.

MISS MAY MUKLE.

TUESDAY'S CONCERT

PROGRAMME,"

The programme for Miss May Makle's Concert on Tuesday, March 17, at 5.30 p.m., will be as

follows:

VIOLINCELLO SOLO.

.Boccherini..

Sonata In A

Adagio. Allegro.

1 RIO FOR „PIANOFORTE, VIOLIN

AND VIOLINCELLO.

Du eiky.......... Dvorak:

(In four movements.). VIOLINCELLO SOLO.

1) Bois Epois. Lily-Mukle, Guitare Moszkowski. TF30 FOR PIANOFORTE, VIOLIN AND VIOLONCELLO.

Cok niat Song..... Percy Grainger VIOLINCELLO SOLO.

(4) Idylle Baras.

Swedish

Falk Tmic...

(c) Elfin Drace. Popper. Violincoln May Mukle. Violin Rebecca Clarke, Pmotorte Gertrude Watson, An Aillson Grand Piano from the Anderson Music Co., Ltd., will

fa usede ölt

*

AVERAGES.

FIRST LEAGUE,

Hughes

Aggregate.

Highest

Score.

Average.

H. K. C. C. in the deciding game is too recent to need any comment. The highest innings was made against the LR.C., 191 for 5 and the lowest 133 against Civil Servicc. Turning to the other side, only four teams have recorded three Owen figure innings against them, the

(H) 8 446 1286 89.20 higbest being 145 by the Gunners.A. A. Rumjahn ...** The Navy and Craigengower could

(U.)...... 8332 70 41.50; only manage 46 and 48-respective Fincher (CS) 8.248 80 41.33 ly against their bowlers. Without Capt.Davies (RA)5 203 75 40.60 in any way attempting to disparage Com Wood (N.). 8. 193 68 38.60 their batsmen, I am of the opinion Webster (H) $181.78 36.20 that the bowling contributed their Sayer (C. S.) 215 49 30,71 main strength. Balhetchet, parti Mid. Evans (N.)... 6 183 61 30.50 cularly during the earlier part of Quick (U.).... 8 212 81* 30.29 the season was in great for Bradbury (Craig) 6 120 61 30.00 although he was not so successful S. H. Ismail (IR) 8 200 63* 20.43 in the last four matches, this pro- A.H. Madar (LR) 8 113 42* 28.25 bably being due to staleness. As L. J. Davies (H) 5 84 72 28.00 a fast right-hand bowler, who Pearce (H) 6138 35 27.60 varied his speed and length with Oliver (R. A.) 6. 158 46 26.33 real understanding he was well | Capt. Spinks (K) 7 152 40 25.33 backed-op by Kunjalu, Quick and S. D. Ismail (LR) 8 173 51* 24.71 Yooh, their different styles being A. E. Wood (C.S.) 8 172 77 2457 of great assistance to one another, Sutherland (C.S.) 5 120 60 24.00 They finished up at the head of T. O, Yeaw (U.) 4 48 22 24.00 the bowling averages and their O. Isman (LR) 4 95 33 23.75 figures in detail speak for them Besson (K.) 7:138 50 23,00 selves

|A. H: Rumjaha yan Balheichet. 78.4 18 21828 (LR) 7 149 18 21.29 Runjan 58 7 207 24 GV Hall (K) 6 103 40 20.60 Quick ...........51.3 10 140-14| Purcell (N.) 8162 49 20.35 Yeou 23 258 G

SECOND LEAGUE

With a scientifically placed field jaid zeverybody keen, it was 110. "*"

wonder that runs were difficult to H. D., Rumjahn get against them. Of the batting. (LR) 8-245 it must be said that although the Alexander (P.), 10:273/~ tail was weak, there was always F.-Y. Tam (U) 225 somebody forthcoming to make Rumaho (LR) & 223- stand with one of the mainstays Ackber (LR) 6 to 1 and (RE)71:100 They had the happy knack of die covering at least one batsman who Pett

a

Ham

35.00

Wahup (LR.)....5 80 36 26.66 Redpath (RE)... 7 164 55 23.43 Pearson (RE) 7:132 40 22,00 E. J. Edwards (K) 9 173 35 21.67 Peterson (U.)....9 193 94 21.44

* denotes."not out."

LEAGUE BOWLING

AVERAGES.

FIRST LEAGUE.

Balhetchet (U.).........

No. of

of Wickets.

TO-DAY'S

• ADVERTISEMENTS.

NEW GARDEN CITY. SPORTS,

(HOMUNTIN).

THIRD-ATHLETIC MEETING," THE Committee has much pleasure in laviting the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Colony to their! Sports at Homuntin on SUNDAY, the 15th April, commencing at 2.30 pm.

By courtesy of the management there will be special trains.

Average.

¡

28

7.79.

A. A. Rumjahn (U.)... 24 T.E. Yeoh (U)..: Quick (U.)

6

8.63 9.66

Wallace (N.)

18

Baker (C.S.)

14 10.00

11.00. 11.00

|

Capt. Davies (R.A)... 19 Ling (C.S.) McNicoll (H.)

10

B. D. Evans (K.)...... 19

SECOND LEAGUE,

E. P. HYNDMAN,

Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, April 13, 1923.

HONGKONG WAR MEMORIAL.

11.68 A Meeting of Subscribers will be held on MONDAY, 16th April, 11.80 11.89

1923, at the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. at 4.30 p.m. 8.40 8.46

H. D. Rumjaha (LR.) 30 F. M. Arculli (I.R.)... 37 Peterson (U.)

38

2.58

R. Earnshaw (P.).... 9 T. O. Yeow (U) ... 18

8.67

8.94

9.59

22

9.91

13

10.08

Townsend (R.E.)..

Jacobson (R.E)...

Gardiner (C.S.).. Pearson (R.E.)

13

13 10.15 35 10.46 9 10.67 11.38 11.82

C. Earnshaw (P.)...... 34 R. Taylor (C.S.) Wenser (K.) Cowan (C.S.)

46

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All Subscribera are invited to attend.

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.25

Local and Genoral

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.25

Keen On Hongkong

7.

Our Volunteers

.20-27

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7

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.27

Peak Affairs

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For Small Investors

.27.

Hongkong Tramways.

9-10 Shot in Chair

*28

Education...

.10-11

De. Black's Boreavement

.28

Engineers and Builders..

..11-12

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28

Company Reports

.12

Late Captain R. Y. Anderson 28

Housing Problem

Local Crima

.12

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24, Haiphong Boad, Kowloon.

Hongkong Women's Guild...13.

Seaman' Wages Dispute.

.29

V.B.C. Tiffins..

.13

Electrio Workers' Strike

.20

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.20

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