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FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1925.

TAMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERY,

AND SURVEYORS Public Auctions

THE

"HR Vadesigned have mostved in. strustions to 1) by"Päblu Auction

AR

SATURDAY, 18th Aprli, 1995. at 10.40..m..

at Godown No. 21 Lowar, The Hong. kong & Kowlon. Wharf & Godown Co, Ltd, Kowloon.

(for neomat of the concerned) 148 Bandies Galvanized Wire of

Assorted Gauges

Terma-Cash on delivery..

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

SATURDAY, 18th April, 1925. emencias ut i am

at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.

#4 Cases Sweets

20 Casen shoe Polish

#

2 Canon Cotton Thread

13 Care Table Salt

3. Bales "bra

39 Dox. Singlets

14 Doz Woollen Capa-

33. Doz. Dinner Platon

2 Grinding Machines.

*3 Transformere.

also

Bronze and Muntz Metale, Snadries And

A Quantity of Bocashold Furnitur On View from Friday, the 17th April, 1995.

Terma-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

MONDAY, 29th April, 1995,

commanding at 2.48 p.m. nt No. 8 Broadwood Road

a Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.

Comprising:

Tenk batstand: Chanterfild couch ard chair Tables, Desks, Pictures, Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, Ceiling Fand and lights, Arass ornamenta, Bram fenders, &c., e

Teak Dining table Chairs. Over- mantel, Hidabord with bevelled mirror, Dinner waggon, Tosk silver esbinet, Dinner service, lineware, Cutlery, -&a, &e.

Monumental Department. 96A. Wanchal Road,, Hongkong

Monumental Work neatly executed in Italian or American Marble, Polished or Fire Punched Hongkong Granite,

Marble Fireplaces supplied and fixed to own or selected design.

Estimates and Designs" sub- mitted free on application at the above or at our Head Once

OHINA BUILDING (Facing Queen's Theatre) Artificial Wreaths in Stock.

FOR SALE.

POSTAGE STAMP

CATALOGUES for 1925.

Stanley Gibbon's Part 1

"

Yvert et Tellier's Scott's..."

#

41.

@ $3:25 5.00

*

4 00: 4.00

GRADA & CO., Doslers in Postage Stamps, Fbila- telio Accessories Boligloos Gooda, Garden Seeds, Toys, ko No. 10, Wyndham Street.

Hongkong!

P.O. Box 620.

SHOEMAKERS (Japanese Hand Made) Every Kind of Footwear MADE TO ORDER.

Bram and iron bedsteads, Single and CHERRY & CO., double wardrobes with bevelled glass doors, Bor coach. Tressing table with bevelled mirror, Chests cf drawers,

Marble top waabatand, Toilet Einger's Sawing washire, an, &c.

sota,

Teak Ice caset Cooking stove, Utensils, &c., &*

$100.

A Largs Quantity of Plants in pats. Cataloguse will be seized

On View rom the 18th April. 1925. Terms: Cash on delivery:

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

HONGKONG HEIGHTS.

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For the information of viadferent the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published :--

ISLAND.

Fol

Signal Station

1774

Mt. Parker

1784

Mountain Lodge

1720

The Evrie

.1728

Peak Hotel

1808

Taikoo Sanatorium

1008

Mt. Davis

877

Bowen Rd. (Alterbeds) 297

MAINLAND.

Taimoshan

8124 1971

6. 'D'AGUILAR STREET,

Opposite Kayamally & Co.. Telephone Central No. 491. Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

TUNG

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WORLD OF SPORT.

FOOTBALL."

́CAN PLAYERS BE MADE!

Although the curtain will soon be rung down on the football season, a few of the hints given by Alex. McNair, of Celtic, Scottish Cup winners last Saturday, may be stored up by local players for next season. He says:-

pretty picture, but it will not work. Think of the number of junior players who step up every season and who drop out of the game, as suddenly as they came into it. If they could be "made" players, it surely stands to reason they would be in the game for life; or rather as long as nature allowed them to carry on

Why do clubs employ scouts to go talent-spotting? If players could be turned out by any system the talent-hunter's job would be gone. He would be on the dole. is just because players are born But it aand not made that these scouts are required. Their job is to spot a lad who has it in him the indefin. able something which will carry him through to success. More often than not the scout's judgment is at fault. His" swans" rum cut geese." The lad who is not a naturally gifted player can never Frise above the mediocre.

What a silly question to ask, I can hear the reader saying, "Why, of course they can."

But can they? Give a second thought and try and recollect

has been player of note who #made." I make mention of "player of note, because it must be understood I am referring only to players who have made their mark in the world of football, and not to those who can perhaps kick a ball or command a place in any

"team,

Any lad can be made to learn how to kick a ball, and perhaps become a fair exponent, although he takes up the game pretty late in

the day.

But, as I shall try to prove presently, those who have become personalities in the football field were certainly not "made." How often do we hear the expression Born foothaller"? That's the crux of my argumentina nut-shell. In all my twenty years'-and a bit experience of the game, I know of og one who has been at the top of the tree in the football profes. sion who did not have their genius born with them.

that.

Mind you, I am not to be suppos. ed to say that; football players cannot improve their play. That would be nonsense. They can-ind very often do. But the lad who is a bad junior will never be a first class senior, no matter what course of training he goes through. One can learn a lot through experience.

confess I have learned quite a lot since I came to Celtic Park twenty odd years ago, but it was by experience. Nobody taught me taught myself, and I could not explain if I tried how or why that development came. All I know is, that I found a way out for myself.

I

CRICKET ALL BLACKS.

MAY GO ON AN ENGLISH TOUR NEXT SEASON.

the New Zealand cricket team Consequent upon the success of against Victoria, the feeling is consider sending an All Black growing that New Zealand should cricket team to England next sea- son to play the minor counties. Emphasis is laid upon the fact that England and that the New Zealand the West Indies send teams to cricket standard is higher than theirs.

RUGGER LEGISLATION.

A meeting at Edinburgh of the International Rugby Board has approved the bye-law forbidding. the opposing side charging whes a penalty is being taken.

New Zealand's Invitation to a British team to tour New Zealand in 1926 has been referred to the Union,

to be a Sam Hardy or a Jimmy from raw material n Jesse Penning- Brownlie? Could you produce tob, a Bob Crompton, or a Nick Smith: a Meredith or a Bobby

Walker: a mercurial playez like Bobby Templeton; a schemer like Jim M'Menemy; or a dashing, dare-devil, never-say-die centre like Jimmy Quinn? These are names, which just occur to me, and

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are only instances which could be

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My methods of hack play have been described as of the "icicle type but no one taught me how to Play that way. It seemed to me the most natural game to play-multiplied by dozens These and there you are. Forgive me if players were never made" foot- who knows me well enough can I seem a bit mixed, but anyone ball experts.

youch that I am no conversa. tionalist.

let me tell you one against my Just by way of an interruption, self in that connection. We were playing an international match in London a good few years ago, and

It was in them.

If anyone could teach fads to "emulate the feats of those famous players his fortune would be made.

But you will say, we have to-day. Of course, we have, and as great players as these playing will have, I hope many more com

They possessed that indefinable "something" which simply could not be obtained by instruation: Round about international time we hear a lot about a something which the critics call the "international temperament. Some people scoff at the critics. I don't. I have seen too many failures. fort Rightly or wrongly expressed, there is a "something" which is wanting among players who can. under ordinary circumstances, put up a splendid' exposition of foot in the evening after the match one ing in the future for the sake of ball. And it is that "something" which cannot be taught..

Leaving the international side of the question out of it altogether. let me follow my argument a little

Let me take an instance. Say in the ball of the hotel if anyone but he will never make a player if he inquired anxiously of a crowd last two are taught very often), gets hold of half-a-dozen was travelling by the same train promising young lads who are fair as he wanted a pal." "Yes," said

it is not in the person himself. players in junior circles. They are someone; " Alec MNair is going taken in hand by the same club home to-night. He'll be a chum trainer, undergo the same system, and play alongside, the

same for you," players..

closer.

club

of the Scots. party- Pressman- the game. But no one will have a night by the had to return to Scotland that hand in the making of them. A Not

midnight train, trainer may train a lad to run, wishing long journey to Scotland alone, although I very much doubt if the do the to head a ball, or to shoot

"Alec M'Nair;" echoed the Pressman; "he's not much good

I do not wish these words of

mine to be a discouragement to young lads who have a notion of the game. Far from It. Iwant thèm to try and find out if they have a 'bent" (as we say in Scotland) for

How many of the half-dozen as a travelling.companion. Td be the game. If they have; let them to be kept by the club at the end the talk I'd get out of Alec." of the term. Perhaps one, maybe two, if the club has been lucky.

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We did travel together, and I If you could make a footballer, often wondered why I could not why, the job of running a success- get a word in edgeways. I only ful team would be easy, and there heard the story the other day. would be queues waiting to take a Now to get on with my argument. hand in such management. It is a Could you "teach" a goalkeeper

And there is always plenty of room for the others. We cannot

all be at the top of the tree, and

even if Honours are not for them, they can still "derive a lot of pleasure not to say profit-from just playing the game.

Experience

M. A. VAZ, Manager.

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