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WEDNESDAY, 1st Apr}), 189s,
commencing at 2,30 p.m.
at No. 5, East Point Terrace,
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A Quantity of ‚Valuxble Household rarniture,
Comprising
Teak Bataiand, Chesterfeld Coach and Chalis, Piotares, Ruge: Curtains Carpata, Teapoys, eis, etc,
Dining Table, Chait Sideboard, Dinner Waggon, Glass Ware, Dinner Service, Brass Ornament Marble Washstand, sto, otoy
Brass and Iron Bedsteada, Single and Double Wardrobes, Dressing Table, Chest of Drawers, Toilet Bots eta, otci, Also
Ons Victrols IX and Records.
One Piano by John Brimemond and Sona
One Iron Bale.
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One Ice Chest
And
Cataloguion will be issued..
Oa View from Tuesday the 31st,
March 1995
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers.
MER Undersigned have received in
Auction
Ox
SATURDAY, 4th April, 1925.
e lumea sig, at 1030 mm..
At No. 1 Planton Villas Kimberley Road, Kowloon
A Quantity of
Valuable Roziehold Fornitura
Comprising:-
Teak Hatslands, Easy Chairs, Black- wood Desk, Carpet, Curtains, Tables, Broan orosanta, &c.
Dining Table, Chair, Pictures, "Oraaments dc.
Bedsteads Teak wardrobes. Teak dressing tables, Washstands, Chest of drawers do, do.
Also
One Cottage Piano by F. Geiger, Berlin.
On View from Friday, the 3rd April'
1025
Cataloguea will be issued-
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Rongkong „28th, March, 1995.
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Album of Harkong Somes
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Hongkong, March 30, 1914,
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arly Bird writes in the
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OF SPORT
When, about a couple of years Liself in mar ago, drastic alterations were bude strange ways. inted to the qualifications
BOXING
WHY FIGHTS BECOME MERE SCRAMBLEES.
and the spirit.POWE
That superb boxer the late Charlie Mitchell hated training: Ho did Corbett. As for the great John L. Sullivan, it was unsafe to Pproach him during the first few But in those days boxers really days of his preparation, trained so that they might be able to come through a test of endurance that would break most
the boxer who is pre- for a big fight takes a daily of calisthenica, and because the feels well he thinks he is ft;" usury to render poules eligible comes on suddenly, without warn but if he were put to the test he faxren at the meetings of the two ing, and nearly always at a would not last eighty minutes of rude clubs in Shanghai, there were critical stage; sometimes the strenuous match at Rugby foots amy who expressed the hope that symptoms are spread over a longNo man who has not trained the Hongkong and other race club period, growing more pronounced seriously and systematically for Iwould follow suit. It is obvious,
however, that the Hongkong Rive at each step, until they end in an athletic contest, such as a Club does not intend to do so and complete collapse. So far as great boxing ranteh, can have any, Idea as the recent meeting in the golfers are concerned, the most the strain that the work im- Colony many ponies were ruced that had been registered by the remarkable instance of nerves Poses upon the temper, the body Inspection Committee here and that has been under my notice branded as rejected. Not only are writes the golf correspondent of ponies coming within u definite the Observer) is that of Mitchell. measurement accepted, but the Here was a man who, at Deal in racing is not being confined to 1920, had the championship in geldings only. A mare which had the hollow of his hand and yet he previously need in Tientsin was was destroyed utterly by a species started at the meeting and two of fright that to this day has mares, understood to be purchased remained a mystery. While in for racing in Hongkong, have been the grip of the malady he com- at exercise on the Shanghai track plained that the whole of the left our modern pugilists and put whilst there is another here also side of his body had become numb them out of the business for good. purchased for a Hongkong owner, and that he scarcely knew what he months to getting ready for his Corbett devoted two whole The attitude adopted by Houg was doing. His golf was certainly epic battle with Peter Jackson, kong may prove Very beneficial to symptomatic of his condition.' 'I racing if it is maintained fog a few feel convinced that ever since that which lasted sixty-one rounds and years whilst other clubs are pre Mitchell has felt the effects of such a glutton for preparatory fended in a draw.. Fitzsimmons was pared to stand aide and watch that terrible and tragic experwork that he had to have trainera results. the present time there ence. Twice he has quitted in a in relays. are not enough of the type of pony championship, once in America
Dempsey, the present world's. being rejected to go around to land once in this country, while on champion, stated when he was the race clube and if accepted clse numerous occasions he has admit last in London that while he where the prices become prohibited that "nerves" have got the enjoyed the hard work of train-
re and only a few owners would better of him.. be able to afford them whilst other What further proof do we re-chance of defeat at the end, was ing, the monotony of it, with ever menite being unable to compete quire of the tremendous, often extremely difficult to bear. would probably give up participat overwhelming, part that nerves, ing natively in seeing
As Corbett who was, barring play in golf than the facts sup-Peter Jackson, the cleverest: big I have always been in favour of plied in the case of Vardon. For man that ever put up a hand- enciraging the bringing down of several years, the greatest golfer attributes Dempsey's present these new types but realise that that ever lived has at intervals high position to his fine physical unless some satisfactory method of been attacked by what is known condition rather than to his classification of ponies can beas putting paralysis. Vardon be boxing ability, the value of the adopted racing inust suffer, at lieves that some wayward muscle right kind of training is made probably has done to some extent in the right forearm is responsible recently. If Hongkong accepts for the distressing condition. them and the experiment is con fined to that one club there will
be
no need to worry about classification and some mire definite infonantion may become available in to the numbers of these ponies that ire obtainable.
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It appears pretty obviour that the Chim pony as understood three or four years ago cannot beat these newer types whose superiority must be accepted.The general opinion
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But is it not a want of proper little walking and running on the The modern boxer does very co-ordination between mind and roads, whereas the men of Corbett body that is responsible for the and Mitchell's day did far more of symptoms? Only the other day their work in the open than they a London scratch golfer told me did in the gymnasium. Rightly that he had encountered a strange enough, they felt that they did Ephenomenon-a hiatus, a kind of
mental blank when he should have perfect physical fitness.
not require boxing lessons, but been in the process of performing It Is no unusual thing nowadays definite action in the golf stroke to see a boxer, supposed in In other words, what he really tracing on a big post to be an OPEN DAILY FROM NOO E out from the brain was not picked music-hall in the evening. In the meant was that the mange sent himself at a dance palace or a
way.
with theme that they are-mare-up by the body motor muscles. tractable and very much nicer to I daresay that in na sphere offered it simply suicidal to let
old days a trainer would have con ride, vaca ve strong points in life is the problem of the relationis man "off the hooks in this their favour
experiment of mind to matter presented in now being tried out at Hongkongors acute shape than on the golf may eventually prove very beneficial course. golfer who to racing if it is confined to one would not have I could, club and others are prepared to would now that it is no watch results for a year or two: a lack of stremor always
want of skill, that prevents as doing that of which we are ca able. The mind-is, at fault. But
THE GRAND NATIONAL why is it that the mind cannot or
A STIFF TEST:
National won last Friday by Double Chancel is the most run
tie borse-ruce in the world-certain-
will not make proper use of our strength and our skill? Braid has said that the optic nerve, works
There would be much less cause to complain about the poor quality of modern boxing were our-pro- fessionniste pay more attention. to training. The reason why we see so many unsatisfactory fights is that the boxers know them- quently they try to struggle selves "to-be, unfit," and conse-- through anyhow. They have either the conflderce nor the pugnacity which perfect physical
In any respects the Grand more quickly than the mind, and fitness, gives,hey are afraid of|
that, in consequence, disturbing elements are often introduced into being hurt, and resort to all sorts. the shot. I do not know on what of disgusting subterfuges to avoid | punishment." Result, more often ly it is the most thrilling and the authority Braid makes this state-than not a scramble that would most dangerous. To enumerate thement perhaps it is based on long number of accidents the steeple ably askede Why is it the mind There stands out in my memory
experience but it may be reason disgrace two.schoolboys. chase has been responsible for since does not control the eye?: Hagen a case in which perfect physical it was inaugurated would make a very long list.
may in all this find a satisfactory itness produced one of the great- The element of uncertainty in the explanation for his sudden attack test displays of boxing I have ever of "cold feet Anyhow he has seen. That was the encounter race makes betting distinctly been singulasly unsuccessful in between. Dick Burge and Eddie more exciting game than it is in the his encounters with Dunden and Connelley at the old Olympic Club ordinary flat race, I saw a magni ficent 60 to 1 chanes come off in Mitchell, Twice in four months, Birmingham, many years ago. the Grand Nation of 1908. This with large issues at stake the The police stopped it after eleven was Rubio, and his price was not British combination has triumph-rounds. improved when the news got about ed. Hagen and MacDonald Smith Burge, who hated training as that his owner had discovered that are to make another attempt in a much as most men in his pro- he had weak legs and was trying to week or so. strengthen them by the singular
method of harnessing him to a cort.
and letting him pull it around on
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fession, was compelled to come at 10 stone or forfeit. £500, The Lask of getting his superfluous "flesh" "off" . made a new man of
hard roads. The method was suc- with a brook on the other side of Burge, and he fought that night cessful, however, although Tow it bit in wide. Beecher's as he had never fought before people had sufficient faith either in accounts for any spille for there and Burge, it must be remember- it or the horse to take even a 66 to 1 is a drop there of some ax feet toed, was the leading light weight chance,
add to the hazard, while running of his day.. Beecher's Brook close is Valentine's Brook,
Defence seems, to be almost a
lost art with the modern boxer,
I wonder how many people know that only three horses have won the great steeple-chase carrying 12 The eighth jump occurs at the stone 2 lbs, or over? They were Cand) Tito, It has a big ditch on Jerry M in 1912, Cloister in 1999, the take off side, and it involves, the blows aimed at him. He pre- and that wonderful and remarkably twist that brings many how to intelligent horse, Manifesto. Mani, grief, A
feeto corried 12 atone 2 156, . And many who do not come when he won the ovent in 1890, but grief there fall at the water jump when he won three years previously a fifteen 'fost jump., «
he was carrying only 11 stone-81]bá,
It will be long ere we see such
Another home as Manifestó ruG der the sticke?
Thoundstof people know Grand Nations course, but no one can real
diboulties for
Tn the full four and a halfal
a horse who makes the cou
take successfully, no
all of the
Mer
to
As a rule he knows little about footwork and the art of evading fers to adopt the stupid American
crouch--the Americans
have
almost discarded it which roba him of his balance, his judgment of distance, and his ability to deliver a blow with all his weight, and strength behind it.
Il never regain our lost. ét, boxing until the
tyle a practi Bowker, Jo
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