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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1925.

"CHINA MAIL" SPORTS PAGE

INTERPORT BOWLS.

FRIENDLY

GAME

KOWLOON DOCK.

SHANGHAI DEFEATED.

AT

!!

POLO CLUB.

GYMKHANA TO OPEN SEASON,

At-3.30 p.m. a 4 chukker match will be played Civilians v. Ser-1 vices.

Subsequent events are:-Vic- toria Cross Race (5 pm.), Polo Ball Race, Ladies' Nomination, Musical Chairs, Balaclava Melee. The "Hermes" Band will be in attendance.

AN ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME,

[By "Short Hend."]" On Saturday, October 31, the Polo Club will hold a gymkhana, Almost straight from the weather permitting, on the Cause- steamer that brought them from way Bay ground, in lieu of the Shanghai the Shanghai inter-interport match with Shanghai. port bowls team visited Kowloon Dock yesterday afternoon, and engaged in a friendly roll up with the local rink. It was evident that care had been taken to ensure the game being played on the best available turf, the condition of which surprised some of the local

•League players who had not been there for some weeks. Stiil, it was tricky for strangers, and it was no surprise to find the Shang- hai team lose half a dozen points in the first two heads. This, of course, is nothing to players of interport calibre, and once they commenced to find the green and get. the length they gradually re- duced the leeway until at the eleventh head they were only a aolitary point behind, the score reading 10-9 in favour of Kowloon Dock.

I was fully anticipated that after the tea interval the local score would be passed, but the opposite was the case. und the garve ended in favour of the Dock by 20-13. Lapsley was in superb for, and was well backed up by Gourlay, whilst neither Puncheon nor Goodman were in any sense of the word medioere against players of greater, renown,

At the same time, when it is pointer out that of the 21 heads played, the visitors scored on ten occasions and the locals on cleven occasions, it will be conceded that it was not altogether a runaway victory for the Dock,

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WATER POLO.

LEAGUE RESULTS OF THIS WEEK.

TABLE TO DATE.

the following games were played at the C.R.C. this week :---

H.M.S. Carlisle" beat Hong- kong Electric Co., 5 goals to all

Kowloon British School Former Pupils' Association "A" team beat "B" team by 9-2.

RUGGER ITEMS,

CLUB ACTIVITIES THIS WEEK.

TWO MATCHES FIXED.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MANNA RETIRES. 2000 YEARS AGO.

MR. MORRISS SENDS HIM TO STUD.

TURF CAREER ENDED..

(Reuter's Service.)

London, October 6. Mr. Henry Morriss (of Shung- hal) has arranged to send Manna

to Howard's stud at Oxton:

(Manna won the 2,000 guiness and the Epsom Derby. He lost at Ascot and was beaten in the St. Leger (Doncaster) where he was injured.]

Yesterday the rugby section of the Hongkong Football Club-or the Hongkong Rugby Football Club as some please te call it had a practice at Happy Valley.

To-morrow afternoon the Club will play H.M.S. "Hermes." It is not anticipated that a very strong team will be chosen but the NEXT YEAR'S TESTS. "Hermes" hope to be at greater when they last strongth than

One played on the Club ground. or two new forwards will be given & 'trial in the Club aide. Mackenzie is being tested on the

halves wing and the reserve Summers and Ralph-will be on duty.

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DISCUSSION AT HOME ON THE TEAM.

WHAT THE PUBLIC THINKS.

IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES. IN SUSSEX.

VILLAGES OF BRONZE & IRON AGES

On a lonely slope of the Sussex Downs, to the north-east of the well-known prehistoric fort of Cissbary, there have just been discovered the remains of villages of the Late Bronze Age period and of the Iran Age, or Keltic period,

in

HUNTERS OF SKY,

STAR-TRACKING: MARVÉLS AT GREENWICH.

THE WORLD'S CLOCK.

convenient timekeepers as wrist watches. The great telescope - Þave added a billion miles to man's vision, and the achievement is har 4th had to the needs of the skipper

by The wind write down its own The rain as it falls tells its depth movement with a stump of peril. iringheall by means of a fơm

wooden lower.

A young man ljusum a kalender wich, gazing intently through a tiny eye-piece, writes A.3.C.

the "Weekly Pantelickwerk muclines in & amal Alove him, sweeping away into the shadowy roof, Where s long. narrow, opening shows a streak of shaped tube of iron, complex with pule night sky. riss a strange

writes a "Sunday Times" corres-levers and little wheels. ponderit..

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There is, moreover, adequate evidence of a Keltic tribe which persisted right through the period of the Roman occupation, absorb ing Roman culture, finally to be destroyed by the Saxon.

These Important additions to the knowledge of early British history have been made possible by the excavations carried out by Mr. Garnet Wolseley, a relative of the late Lord Wolseley, whose Mr. Reginald A. Smith, of the

He is watching a brilliant spek move over a gliss screen crise crossed with lines fine as hairs,

As the glowing dot reaches one of the lines the watcher, with a gwift, decisive, action, tape, a but ton. The tan comes again; and then again, turning into a rapid series, until the vivid atom of light has travelled over all the lines and vanished, and the screen is dim before him.

BULA PROM 'BORATS.

well rank as an historic joke.

Tho-creation of Greenwich may

was made out of leavings.

The world's greatest observatory

Charles I. ir 1675 for the im The Observatory was founded by provement of the art of navigation and to dovise a means of finding the longitude at sea, & problem fo which a solution had long been sought.

The King and his officers were it lavish

The observatory- which has been visited by all the great astronomers of all the great couch nations which regulates every off- cial watch and clock used by the taken as the standard of longitude and time throughout the world- coat well under £1,000,

The young man on the watching the passing of a star Greenwich Observatory; and his finger taps are setting the time for the whole world.

On Saturday afternoon, the year's Test Matches with Australia. operations were supervised by through the great transit telescope British. Noty; which has long been

given a trial and a fairly strong forward line will be fielded. In the last match the Club had two forwards in the three-quarter line.

A further letter on the subject of next

appears below:---

wickshire), Kilner Hammond, Tate, Macaulay, and Parker, with Watson as twelfth man.

British Museum.

THE BROKEN WINĘ CUP.

סטן

SAMETT OF THE SEAM.

Club will play H.M. S. "Ambrose" for the third time this season.

To the Editor of the "Athletio News,"

Charred remnants, now The sides are each one up and all

They Wanted' wood. An old gate- will be keen to win the third time. Sir-The young players should covered from the kindly turf In the local water polo league, The "Ambrose" will have their have their chance next year, and where undoubtedly the Romano-] That is one of their chief taske ut bricks. So they took them from any house at the Tower was pulled which hid them, show the site)

down to provide it. They wanted available

and they there are plenty of them. Present British fought their last fight Greenwich. Those steady tracker old Tort at Tilbury, best men should do even better than last choice suggests as the side: A. Wagainst the Saxon, and met the of the stars, the staff of trained wanted money so they sold some Also, they Saturday.

Carr (captain), Hobbs, Sutcliffe, For the Club, Plummer is being Hallows, Holmes, Smith (War fale that the Saxon chronicler soustronomers, do not spend their spoilt gunpowder formatter of tersely ascribes to Anderida: nights inxuriating in a vision of 1500; added another £20 from some Not one Exit was left." great suns, ringed planets, and other source, and-created Green- streaming comets. They do not hunt the heavens for new worlds, wich. The Rev John Flamsteed of fairy tales. It is the greater £100 a year. He had to assistant Their romance has not the glamour nomer, Regal, and his salary was was installed as the first Astro

once of real life,

For the work of those quiet menments.

and had to provide his eva instra

Upon the nceuniey of their observisible things, to the present ing thousands of lives at sea struggling on a mittance to do im Yet since the day of Plameed. tions, made in the dead of night, Astronomer Royal, depends the safety of our ships, Dyson, Greenwich Observatory has Sir Frank. from the great Atlantic liner to gris to be the foremost, astro the grimy, hump steamer.

nomical and meteorological: centre

V.R.C. "B" team drew with H.M.S. "Ambrose" 2 goals, all,

The league table stands at:-

Gonin

Many members of the county clubs would like to see such a young side as G. T. 3. Stevens, E. W. Dawson, Leyland, Watson;

P. W. D. L. For Agt. P. be over. There were a fair num- Hammond, C. H. Taylor, G. R.Tagments of walls with coloured telescopes is the means of sav

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3

Kowloot A... 5 4

0 24 7 V.RC. A... 4 3 [ 0 14 2 7 V.R.C. B.... 5 3 1 2 20.6 7 Car Isle 4 3 0 1 13 4 6 Hermes 4 1 1 2 8 13 Kowlooo B... 4 1 1 2 6 16 Surreys * 4 0 3 12 32 Amurose...... 4 0 1 3 4 9 Blectric Co... 4 0 0 4 3 21

LEAGUE JUNIORS.

LOCAL SOCCER ENTRIES

ACCEPTED.

"B" SECTION, DIV. II.

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2

For the visitors Main was un- doubtedly the most consistent player, the next being Marshall after the first four or five heads. Johnson did not seem too com- fortable at No. 1, and us a result he and Marshall will exchange places in the interport match Of the 13 entries for the "B" against Hongkong at Taikoo to-section of the 2nd division, Hong- day. Phillips was rarely brilliant kong Football League, ton were yesterday, although he was con- accepted by yesterday's meeting. apicuous for one great effort, They are Reserves of the matching a single point after his East Surrey Regiment Drummers, opponents were lying five.

Kowloon Football Club, St. Joseph's College: "A" and "B" teams, Club de Recreio, Moslem Club"A" and "B" teams, Univer sity FC South China Athletic Association "A" and "B" teams.

Summed up, it may be said that the result in actual points was a fair criterion of the afternoon's play. Judged on this standard, and provided that the Hongkong team rise to the occasion to-day as the Kowloon Dock did yester day, we predict a win for Hong: kong at Taikoo to-day.

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Yesterday's teams were:- Shanghai. Kowloon Dock.

F. Goodman

G. Johnson

F. L. Marshall

T. G. Main

R. Phillips

(Skip)... 13

G. Puncheon

C. Gourley

R. Lapsley

(Skip)... 20

The details of the scoring by

heads are as under:-

Duck.

Shanghal.

1- 9

2-

6

D

3

4.

6 8

7- 9

8- "9

9- 9

10-10

11- 10

9

12-12

9

13- 12

10

14-13

10

10- 16

10

16 17

10

11

18 19

11

19 10 20- 20

12

12

13

17-17

21-20

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Delegates of the League are to

At 6 p.m. the match will start on Saturday when the soccer will bere spectators last Saturday but it is expected that there will be more this week as an improve- ment on what was an excellent game is promised.

The Club teams are:- V. H.M.S. "Hermes" morrow, kick-off 6.15 p.m. :-

to-

1 Stewart (back); 2 Mackenzie, 3 Bowker, 4 Gardner, 5 Lammert three-quarters): 6 Summers, 7 Ralph (halves); 8 Foster. 9 Smith, 10 Moodie, 11 O/Conror, 12 Millar, 13 Andrews, 14 Billing- hurst, 16 Curwin (forwards),

V. H.M.S. "Ambrose" on Saturday at 5. p.m.

Jackson (captain), Lilley, G. O Allen, Wensley, and Larwood got together for a trial. Yours etc.. G. A. Bristol:

THOSE FIGURES.

AVERAGES IN CRICKET AT HOME.

Littered about under the ac cumulated loose soil and turf are Roman tiles, Roman tile nails,

large amount of fragments of distemper, Romani glass, and a

Experts declare that these pots herds reveal a gradual progress from the purely Keltic type to native attempts to imitate Romam ware, and, indeed, to pure Roman.

pottery.

ware.

A broken wine cup' was found of the finest Samian ware, de- licately ornamented. Among the! mass of miscellaneous fragments: have been identified portions of the classic Roman amphore, used, averfor importing wine from Italy.

WHAT DO STATISTICS TELL?

First-class Home cricket ages up to and including. Friday.. September 4, were

Batting.

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Day after day it is their duty to on earth. measure und plot out the infinitader

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'of space with the help of great | It is to-day the world's time-

optical instruments of which the piece. weight is calentated in tons.

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England's largest telescope is Madrid. October 6.-H. M. sh here--the Great Equatorial. 28 feet King has signed a decree ralievi # long, and with an object glass 28 ptain General Weyler, of the inches in diameter. Then there is finctions of Chief of the Army. the Zenith telescope, a complex tienen Staf - Reuter. Other evidence yielded by the structure floated in a shimmering spade, and interpreted by Mr. Take of mercury, to keep it perfect. Reginald Smith and other experts, ly vertical finger's touch will is considered as establishing can set i Awaving, yet it weighs 73.50clusively that this particular several hundredweight,

Keltic tribe invaded England some even Kundred years before the Saxons came, and Hrst brought into England knowledge of iron.

1 Gawler (back); 2 Buras, 3 Somerfelt, 4 Plummer, 5 Lami

Inns. Total Avge.. mert (three-quarters); 8. Morri-Hubbs

43 2793 son, 7 Gordon (halves); 8 {Holmes

46 2874 62:47 Foster, 9 Millar, 10 Smith, 11 Hendren

2466 61.70 Curwin, 12 Lee, 13 Groves, 14 Sandham 44 2128 56.00 Ralston, 15 Fochen (forwards). Woolley

41 2022 54.64 Both matches will be on the Hallows

47 2192 53.46 Club ground, Happy Valley, and A. W. Carr 44 2122 63.05. will be refereed by Mr. D. Sutcliffe 43: 1920 49.23: Fitzgerald.

Russell

43 1942 48:55. Tyldesley (E.). 24 1010 48:09 Payton Mead

A BRITISH TOUR? -

A Home paper learns that "con-

be present at to-morrow's Asso-versations" are taking place with ciation meeting when the Associa tion v. Services grounds dispute will be discussed.

SUZANNE'S PLUCK. PLAYS AND WINS WITH CUT

THUMB.

view to a British Rugby team visiting the Argentine at the end of the present season.

44 1854 48:35"

VILLAGE ON A HILL TOP.

BAKING.CHRONOMETERS,

New Shopwalker (until recent y employed by a fire engine company) What would you like to look at, madam?”

Customer: "I would like to look at, some hose."

New Shopwalker: "Here, hey, conduct the lady to the fire department."

If you are walking through the Observatory groands you will come to meer little building, with a graceful Easter dome and an Arabian Nights name. It is where Jack Dempsey, apropós of a they house the Altazimuth, a spe-movie queen's recommendation of Armed with their superior al kind of telesnopeused for 37 toilet soaps, told this story:- weapons, they exterminated the double calculation that 37 1218 46:8T

Inhabitants of

only There was a professional golfer a Bronze Age astronomers understand.VE villige, of which the most definite

one day who entered a golfing The Admiralty is well represent competition. He won it. Further- remains have been found, and ed established a villago of eèir own.

my more, he broke a lot of recorde You enter large, octagonal

#1 about a quarter of a mile from the room and immediately, faney, your triumph. Well, of course, for long drives and solon. It was 14:63 Bronze Age site at the top of the well surrounded by ten thousand when the golfer came back to the

hill known as Park Brow

The excavators to-day are dig-But it is only the ticking of huned around him, They all "had;

clubione a crowd of fans gather--- ging out the floors of their houses, dreds of Navy chronometare, left at just one question. to ask him. the deep pits in the chalk used for Greenwich to be tested.

900 45.00

Proceedings have not passed Tate the preliminary stages, so far, but Parker. it ja understood that close friends Macaulay of the Rugby game in the Argen- Tyldesley (R.). 140 tine have thrown out a hint that J. C. White they would welcome another visit Kilner (R.)

the last was paid in pre-war M. Louden days.

Freeman

H. J. Enthoven. 24'

Bowling. Wicketa. 214 206 192

Avge.

14:75 15.20

15.23

121

16:53

128

51

16.79 16:98

146

133

17.46

207.

116

17:59 17.62'

84:

92

96

17.79 17.98 17198.

Paris, August 27, Mdlle. Lenglen, the woman lawn tennis champion of the world, it It is also understood that the Ryan now transpires, accomplished an Scottish authorities-apt. o look Root unusual feat when yesterday she askance at tours and tourists, Richmond played and beat Miss Boyd, of and not exactly overflowing with Clark Australia, by 7-5 and 6-1. Just funds until Murrayfield is paid Durston before she left for Deauville she for-are not averse to supporting Geary cut her thumb. A small acar had the trip provided always that the not completely healed, and blister- right man is in control. ed up very badly during the course of the match. Mlle. Lenglen, how- ever, refused to abandon despite the pin she was suffering and won the two sets. To-day she has had her thumb" lanced by the doctor and is wearing a neat bandage on it.

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LOCAL NOTES & COMMENT.

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[BY CROSS-BAR:]

BIG LEAGUES.

futic insects..

stores, and the curious little holes Those chronometers have a hurd What ball had he been using? that must have been made for time. An eagle-eyed young man hearing that question he 17.42 cupboards, some still containing constantly empires them with a frowned. He. hemmed and haw

the pots they were meant to hold standard clock, which beats out the ed a bit. Then he said: "Well, I

Abundant evidence has been sonds with a loud. metallic haven't decided yet." found of the milling, the weaving,luck." And they are baked in and the feasts of this earliest how they will stand a trip in tropie Betrically heated ovens, to see

HOW THEY STOOD A WEEK AGO!

Including results up to Septem-

Last Saturday's game betweenber 29, the tables in the U.3. major the H.K.R.F.C. and H.M.S.baseball leagues were:---

The big yacht race at Dart-Ambrose" was, on the whole, a mouth Regatta under the auspices well contested one and it is dif- of the Royal Yacht Club and the ficult, with one exception, to single town committee, resulted in a out any particularly good player. victory for Sir Thomas Lipton's All did their bit. Some did more yacht Shamrock, which finished and others did less but one must 49sec. ahead of the King's yacht take into consideration that "be. At the conclusion of the match "Britannia." Lord Waring a cut- ginning of the season feeling Mr. J. Garraway, the President of ter White Heather, was third. which usually prevails after long the Kowloon Dock R.C., presented Mr. H. Wells's Lulworth and. Mr. absence from the game. souvenir forks to the members of Davis's schooner Westward also the Shanghai team. He referred competed.

<to the excellent game they had put

"up, and expressed the opinion that

once they had had time to settle

To-day's Match.

The player I refer to as the only exception is Mortimer, the Ambrose" full back. Every de- partment in his game was good and he seldom made a slip. His

National League.

Fitz

Pittsburg 93 58 615 New York 87 63 580 Cincinatti 78 78 517 St. Louis

75 75 500 Brooklyn 7079 450' Boston

69 83 464 Chicago

-67 84 444 Philadelphia' 62 86' 419 American League.

Washington Philadelphia St. Louis

Chicago Cleveland 'New York,. Boston

W.

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96 52 649 87: 68 580 82.70 540 79 72 623 76 76 508: 70 81 464 68 84 447 44.105 2954

Lord Wodehouse, who has until

sens.

known of Keltic tribes in England.

Af a point on Fark Brow, Interearing all those forces that man At Greenwich they specialise in mediate in position between this normally regards as beyond his earliest Keltic village and the grasp, and they work strictly for Romano-Keltic village, are the practical ends. beaten floors, the crumbled wattle

The sun and moon for them are and daub walls, the primitive patient, well-behaved clocks; stars. pottery of the late Bronze Age invisible to the naked eye are period.

All the indications point to a pastoral unskilful people hun ters of the red deer and the wild boar, keepers of goats and sheep- -being overwhelmed by in vaders, their village burned, and Its site ploughed. over by the Econquerors.

CONTINUOUS CHAIN OF HISTORY.

The relicts of the Bronze Age period are confined to one alte, They show no sign of develop ment; they are mixed with no thing else.

The Keitic remains show con- tinuous progress from what is re cognised as Early Iron Age cul ture to the Romano-British culture Experts state that this is the first evidente yet discover- ed In England of this Early In Age, and that there is no other site known in England" giving a continuous history from the Bronze Age to the Saxon destruc-

down, the combination would be a out to Repulse Bay by Chief touch kicking was in a class by very Hard one to beat.

Detroit Inspector Kent, Chairman of the ftself. Gawler, at back for the The souvenir forks were grace-Lawn Bowls Association. To-nignt Club, was not a conspicuous but fully presented by Mrs. McKelvie. they will be the guests, at a he got through a lot of useful Mr. Phillips thanked the Kow- Chinese dinner, of the Craigen- work and saved his line time and loon Doak R.C: for the very hearty gower Cricket Club. reception they had received: They

pagain, Mada had done their best but bad failed.

The two sets of halves were As indicated above, Shanghai's pretty well matched. Thanks to his Whilst not attributing that alto-team in the interport match at forwards, Cowley (Ambrose") recently been playing polotion gether to the good time and the Taikoo to-day will be the same as saw more of the ball than did Deauville, has left for the United The chain can be carried fur many good friends they had yesterday, only that Marahall will Morrison. Cowley was therefore States to take part in the open the Not far from the site of had on board ship coming down, revert to his usual position at in a position to provide his threes championship tournament of the destroyed Romano-Kel they had found the green very No. 1 and Johnson. will be No. 2 with good service. America. He will play in a team village to the present-day strange to them but he could pro Main will be No. 3 and, of course, The threes on both sides with Mr. Stephens Sanford Mr. of Sompting, which still mise the teams they had to meet Phillips will be skip

handled poorly and many a good E. Stoddard, and Capt. CTL the tower built by the pass was fumbled through eager Bourk hese but Improvement is bound to come with each matchu BIEL

in the future very good games. Hongkong select comprises C. On the call of Mr. Garroway Atkinson, A. Clark, C. Green, and three cheers were given to the J. Ferguson (skip)." -22, Bhanghai visitors, who, togetherShangbal v. HankowEvenly matched, the opposing with the numerous tors from Yesterday afternoon,

My forwards played with plenty of

From & Sp

other local Clubs, were most hos Phillips, the Shanghai, skip, to win "If paything, the Club pack view pitably entertained during the

Fanno atternoon

tankow had beater Sha

team were taken forva motor run

cihad it for wairat but they were match

well bästen for possession in the Any mun

Starts on the game.

It is with a strange one puts one's apader Bakes of the fires landledko bodies of slain

Saxons of

Badger stil

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