TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1927.
SPORTS
LOCAL CRICKET.
CIVIL SERVIVE CLUB AVERAGES..
.
1ST ELEVEN.
HOME SOCCER.
RESULTS OF MONDAY'S MATCHES.
Port Vale 6, Bristol City 1.
Division III (S.)
Charlton 0, Merthyr 0.
Division III (N.) Halifax 2, Darlington 1.
A STRAIGHT BALL.
HOW TO DRIVE ONE OFF THE TEE
THE CHINA MAIL.
A
FAST BOWLER.
HOW TO BREAK THEIR HEARTS,
U.S. AIR DERBY.
THREE CROSS COUNTRY RACES.
INDIAN JAILED. SEQUEL TO A CALCUTTA RAID.
INDIAN GUARDS.
AVOIDABLE WASTE OF
WE MONEY.
`SUBVERSIVE OF DISCIPLINE.
MONEY & SHARES,
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS,
On London- Bank Wire
1/11/ 1/11 18/16
1225
48
182
1824
85%
96%
78%
42 MACHINES ENTER. EARLY PROMISE SQUASHED. BY WALTER HAGEN,
Roosevelt Field, Yesterday. In November, 1924, the Gov- Bank on demand All golfers strive to hit a straight!
sometimes asked why I am
Forty-two aeroplanes assem ernment of Hong Kong appoint- Bank 80 day's sight bail off the tee, and I am able to English cricket produces so few bied for the Spokane air derby, ed a committee to investigate and Bank 4 months' sight 2/ give a tip which may be of some fast bowlers nowadays. In my consisting of three trans-contin- report upon the whole question Credits 4 months' night 2/- 4 service, as it will fit the swing of opinion, several causes have con-ental races, the first for light of the protection of British ves- Documentary 4 months
sight
2/-% London, Yesterday.
any player in the great effort to tributed to this state of affairs aeroplanes over 2,850 miles and sels against piracy. The Com
On Faris Following are the official averages"
the second for heavy machines mittee, well leavened with Gov- place the drive down the middle. Division I.
-80 very different from my for members of the Civil Service
over 2,275 miles. These involve ernment officials, held a number On demand..... Cricket Club for the
Before teeing the ball, make 1926-27 Blackburn R. 9, Manchester U. 0.
number of swings and notice the early days in cricket, when no compulsory stops, whereas the of meetings, but no report of Credits 4 months' sight 1800
On Berlin- season:
Bury 5, Liverpool 2.
Division II.
mark made on the grass by the team was complete unless it had third race will be a non-stop one the Committee as such was ever
are made; or, if one was made, it On demand sole of the club-head. Tee your a man who was capable of break-in which the competitors
free to take any route. was never accorded publicity. On New York-- ball over the spot which appears to ing the stumps.
Reuter's American Service, On January 10, 1925, however, On demand.. In the last season or two we
there was issued a Minority Re- Credita 60 days' sight 49% have been most frequently touched
port, signed by three members of On Bombay-- by the club in passing. You should have heard a lot about the "doc-
the Committee-Mr. Neilage S.Wire county. get a straight ball if you
follow toring". of pitches' on
Brown, representing the Hong On demand this instruction...
grounds with marl, and I must
Kong General Chamber of Com On Calcutta- Be certain that you do not change say that the pitches of to-day
merce; Mr. T. N. Chau, repre- Wire:. the position of your feet before have been made so good from the
Calcutta, Yesterday, senting the Chinese Chamber of On demand Two Bengali youths, G. C. Das Commerce in Hong Kong; and On Singapore- making the actual drive.
point of view of the batsmen that the fast bowler has to be and S. C. Dhang, who were ar- Captain T, T. Laurenson, repre- On demand
combined China rested on August 9 after the senting the
On Manila- gin at a big disadvantage.
discovery of arms, ammunition Coast Officers' Guild ad Marine On demand In the old days, when the and proscribed documents in a Engineers' Guild of China. The
On Shanghai- house in a suburb of Calcutta, signatories to that Minority Re-On demand wickets to play on, they bowled were sentenced by a special port were fully representative of 30 day's sight (private
paper) with only one idea in their heads tribunal to seven years' rigorous those who were chiefly concerned
On Yokohama to hit the stumps and they imprisonment on a charge of un- with piracy and its effects the got most of their victims in that lawful possession of arms and commercial and shipping inter-On demand way. Occasionally, of course, ammunition and criminal con-ests, and the interests of the Gold Leaf, 100 fine they got their men
(per, tael) out with
officers who man the ships. The spiracy.-Reuter.
(Bank's catches, but by far the greater
Minority Report contained many Sovereigns
buying rate) proportion of their wickets were
strong and pertinent remarks SWAT THAT MOSQUITO,
25% and recommendations, but among Silver (per oz.) obtained by hitting the sticks.
But as the wickets came to be TO FILL' LOW-LYING LANDS the strongest was the reference Bar Silver in Hong
14% prem to the Indian guards who are Chinese Copper Cents nom "doctored," so the fast bowlers
OF MANILA. point to the clubhead should not be began to discover that it was
compulsorily carried on ships Chinese Copper Cash 0%pm more than eleven inches, and with next to useless to go on bowling The Bill prepared for legisla- coming under the provisions of Rate of Native In-
Anti-piracy the iron clubs the distance should at the stumps, for without that tive consideration providing for the Hong Kong
7%p. be shorter. If your putter shows little bit of help that they used a bond issue to create a revolving Regulations; and there is not the Chinese Sub. Coin. 28% dis. six inches from the balancing line to get from natural turf they fund with which to pay for the slightest reason for thinking Hong Kong Sub. Coin par
found it quite a problem to get draining and filling in of low lands that the comments then made are to the head, it is a good club.
Distance Off the Tee.
H. E. Strange 5
252 82 823 N
ROUND MANHATTAN ISLAND,
New York, Yesterday.
A Californian named Byron Summers made what is believed to be the first non-stop swim
His round Manhattan Island. time for 40 miles was 636% minutes. Reuter's American Service.
Batting.
Kame
No. of Total No. Innings Rune Average
G. R. Sayer 12
. 453
41.18
Reuter.
E. C. Fincher 11
280
36.00
F. J. Ling 8
136
27.20
F. Baker
12
262
25.20
F. J. de Rome 12
217
24.11
RECORD SWIM.
B. D. Evans 10
-208
23.11
A. E. Wood
11
224
20.36
F. E. Law-
rance
.. 14
195
*13.92
Less than 50% matches:-
20.00
F. H. Hold-
man
5
R. S. W. Pater-
Son
6
v
E. W. Hamil
ton
7
31
R. C. Witchell 4
28
64 13.50
6.28
5.16 14.00
R. G. Robert-
.son
#
30
16.00
T. W. Carr
3
20
8.33
A. W. Grim-
mitt
36
17.00
H. F. Harper
2
14
7.00
A. 1. Oswick 2
25
12.50 MILITARY SWIMMING
2
22
2
2
.11.00 2,00
THIRD ANNUAL GALA ON THURSDAY,
Bowling.
G. R. Sayer
E. W. Hamilton 192
13
F. J. Ling
315
21.
B. D. Evans
252
13
Runs Wkts. Average
212
12.47 17 368 25 14.62 14,76 15.00 17.84
F. S. W. Pater-
San
110
4
27.50
R. C. Witchell
4
14.76
p.m.
R. C. Robertson
71
7
10.14
E. R. Reed
+
8.66
F. J. de Rome
14
3
14.66
F. E. Lawrence 81
3
Catches.
Name
E. W. Hamilton
T. D. E. Pen-
dered
E. B. Reed
Name
F. Baker
F. Baker
G. R. Sayer
E. C. Fincher
F. II. Holdman
F. J. Ling
DOIN BY CI
A. E. Wood
F. E. Lawrence
T. W. Carr
A. Kelly
B. D. Evans
A. W. Grimmitt
R. S. W. Patterson
R. C. Witchell
+
R. Jones
Name
الأن
The South Chinu Command third annual swimming gala will be held in the R.A.S.C. Camber on Thursday, commencing at 3.60 p.m. There are 11 interesting events, the Services Relay Team Championship race being held on Friday, at 5.15
LOCAL GOLF.
"
6
5
i won. Capt. E. W. Morris finished,
5
If you wish to know whether your clubs are properly balance, find the point on the lower part of the shaft at which the club balance, bowlers had and mensuse the distance from this line to the clubhead. The shorter the distance, the better the balance and hitting power. Use the blade of a pocket knife to find the balanc- ing point on the shaft.
For the driver and other wooden clubs, which are usually 42 inches,
the distance from the balancing
good
a ball past the bat.
"OP" Theory.
natural
turned
Kong.....
terest
109
9.76
THE SHARE MARKET. -
Stock.
in Manila was endorsed in princi- not applicable to-day. We read ple on September 9 by the executhat "neither owners whose pro- It is possible to decrease the dis-i
And so the "off" theory came tive committee of the general perty is at stake nor officers tance between the balancing line) and the head of the club by re-into being, for the bowlers, han- committee recently appointed by whose lives are at stake have the Governor general for mos the slightest confidence in them (the Guards). Their training is placing the wooden plug at the dicapped as they were, end of the shaft with cork, and by their attention to trying to get quito eradication,
The general committee on mos- inadequate and their discipline removing the padding under the
quito eradication on September 7 is bad, and their bad discipline T.T. on London grip; putting over the shellac. This rising ball an inch or so away endorsed the proposal for legisla affects the other members of the TT on Shanghai grip, putting on shellac and wind- the batsmen to nibble at the fast,
Whilst in port" the tion for filling the low lands and crew will lighten the shaft above the from the off stump.
Nowadays it is very seldom instructed the sub-committee on Indian guards consider them Hongkong Bank balancing line, and force the line
that a fast bowler intentionally legislation to study the bill.selves as being off duty and take toward the clubhead.
Distance off the tee is regulated
Banks.
Stock
Hong Koni
Exchange.
1/11%
784
$1135
Lon. Beg.
2120
£20%
$32
$137%
£0%-
$68
. 2010
do.
P..&O. Bank
· Marine Insurances.
27.00
In the Royal Hong Kong Golf Catches Club's September bogey competi-
Held
on board. It is the Blercantile A & B. tion at Fanling on September 17-19. by speed. There is talk of hard aims at the stumps. You have E. A. Perkins, as chairman of the no part in searching the people Chartered Bank Capt. F. G. le Gros (all square) hitting by people who really mean only to look at the array of slip sub-committee on legislation, on who come
fast hitting. In a shop in New fielders that he sets to see what September 9 reported that his unanimous opinion of shipowners
elec- is at the back of his mind. committee had studied the bill and officers that the guards could East Asia two down. There were nine en-York, a man has devised an
All the improvements that and approved it in principle. As and should be dispensed with trial device which measures the tries.
have been made in cricket have representative of the committee from the ships." In an appendix Canton Insurance ... been improvements to favour on mosquito eradication he will to the same report, the then Chins Underwriters.. $1% the batsman. The marling of work for the passage of the Senior Naval Officer in Charge of North China Insurance T148 the wickets has made batting a measure.
West River Patrols also indicted Union Insurance.... $298 a $290 us
Yangtze Insurance... $48 M. much simpler job than it used The meeting of the executive the system of the employment of Fire Insurances,
committee was held to hear re- Indian, guards; while another China Fire Insurance $210 Then at the universities and ports from sub-committees and to appendix contained a damning H.E. Fire Insurance.. 2800 schools there is hardly a bowling make further plans for a drive list of serious derelictions of Shipping. coach at all. All the cricket in-against the mosquito. struction at these institutions
HONG KONG GARRISON WATER POLO LEAGUE.
Final Table.
Unit
P. W. D. L.
31st Hy. Bty, R. A.
€ 5 1
Goals. F. Agst. Pts: 84 0
12at Hy, Bty. R. A...
6 5 1
12 0
3 11 2 11
Remarka Winners Runners Up
20th Hy. Bty. R. A.
3
1 2
18 15 7
2ND ELEVEN.
B. Coy. K.O.S.B..
3
0
3
13 7
G
D. Coy. K.O.S.B.
3
6 21
4
.H.Q. Coy. K.O.S.B..
6
4
10 21
A, Coy. K.O.S.B.
6 8 27 0
Batting.
No. of Total
Innings Runs Average
II. E. Strange
10 152 16.88
C. Sara.............
10
74 14.80
R. S. W. Paterson 13
164
13.66
H. F. Harper ... 16
193
12.06
J. H. B. Nihill
12
122 10.16
P. J. O'Niell
13 48
H. F. Westlake
10 88
4.77 0.76
Remainder less than 60 per cent.
matches:
R. R. Davies .... 9 205
T. W. Carr
R. G. Robertson
31st and 12th Heavy Bly: R.A. played, off for the Winners of the League and the game resulted in a win for the former by 3-1.
HOME RUGBY.
LEICESTER SWAMP HARTLEPOOL.
London, Sept. 10.
Hartlepool Rovers sustained a
7.71 heavy defeat in their second
live wires, standing up at intervals)
to be.
At the Nets.
there has
do.
Minlas
Tronoh Mines
$98
$21
02/
354
$17
$18
$30
$1.70
68/9
19/8
On instruction of the executive duty on the part of these same Douglases has the making of good batsmen committee Justice C. A. Johns, guards from February to De H.K. Steamboats
Indo-Chinan (Prat) ......... $30 as its end. That is why the uni- as committee chairman, appoint cember, 1924. But nothing was HK. Togs & Lighters $1. versities have produced so few ed a sub-committee on finance. done and the guards still are Br
been since
aStar Ferries good bowlers of any sort during Those appointed were W. J. Shaw employed; and the fact that Shell Transports the last few years.
(chairman), Albino Sycip, Walter
Refinerics. 2. Smith, Brenvenido Tan and large number of piracies in Water-boats
which the guards have emphas China Sugars Antonio Ossorio.
ised their uselessness from Malabon Sugara I have known more than onc Mr. Shaw also was made à
every point of view seems to promising fast bowler have his member of the sub-committee on have had no real effect in high Benguets heart broken at the nets. As publicity.
quarters. Approximately 900 Kallan Mining Ad. speed of the club head for a dis-
Passage of Bill Urged. tance of several inches before the all cricketers know, batsmen are
total annual cost to the shipping Langkats (Combined). T17 (Single) T84 elub hits the ball until the club apt to take all sorts of liberties
In compliance with the request Indian guards are employed at a Shanghai Exploration. 13.15 head has passed several inches be- at the nets and make shots that yond the spot where the ball was they would never think of going of Acting Governor Gilmore, companies of about $900,000. Shanghai, Loans... T
says the "Bullelin", Delfin Ja- Shipping men and shipowners Raubs teed.
for in a match. The record is made by a series of Well, I have known a young ranilla, attorney general, sub-are of opinion that the expendi-Ural Casplans of one inch in the path of the club fast bowler have his best de-mitted on September 9 his com-ture of this huge sum fe an Docks, Wharves, head. A club with a brass head is liveries hit all over, the shop at ment and recommendation on the avoidable waste of money. When, used for experiment, and this makes practice by unorthodox batting Governor's proposed bill authoriz-if ever, will the Hong Kong Gov- H.K. & L. Wharves
Apart from their Hongkews......... a contact with each live wire as it of that kind, and the bowler has ing the city of Manila to fill its vernment come to their way of HK & W. Docks passes through. The contacts are gone away with the firm inten- lowlands, to charge the cost there-thinking? recorded by dots on a roll of paper. tion of never bowling fast again. of, including interest, as an cost, the Indian guards are sub- New Engineerings 45 11.25. Plymouth Albion were also and it is remarkable much More than one promising young-annual assessment against the versive of discipline and are con- Shanghai Docke
24.66 visitors in their second fixture closer together these dots record ster has been broken in that way property filled, to issue bonds sidered a downright nuisance by H.K. & S. Hotels. 21.99 and they were beaten at Bath Witte ayer known to be a long and has changed over to medium for the purpose of raising funds practically every ship's officer Hongkong Lands 11.33 by 18 points to nil.
tacts, than when an ordinary hitter stuff of the spin or swing kind, for the filling of low areas here, who has dealings with them. Harlequins and the Wasps tries the brass headed driver. Runs Wkts. Average
manner increase the danger from Humphreys Estates But at the root of the trouble and for other purposes. Mr. Their elimination would in no Hongkong Realty.
Jaranilla, in part, said: R. S. W. Paterson 217
10.85 were each playing their opening
is the fact that the wickets have recommend the early appro- pirates; it would relieve the "Speed Muscles" Asset, H. F. Westlake.. 367, 20 12.31 match on the Harlequins ground,
This experiment demonstrates why been made perfect for bats-val of the bill. It will mean minds of the officers of the ships; Prince's Bulking C. Sara
16.69 a well contested game resulting
I venture the opinion that better living conditions for the and it would stop a drain on the Rural Lands well developed "speed muscles" are men. Remainder loss than 60 per cent in a win for the home side by a great asset, and why many men on the wickets of the present
It may be coffers of the shipowners. Is it, city inhabitants. of less than 150 pounds can outhit day even such great fast bowl-enacted under the police power therefore, too much to hope that Orientals ... In their first match of the men of 180 pounds or more. It is ers as Richardsen, Lockwood, of the atate. The drainage of when the new regulations which hal Cottons (Old) season Northampton entertained
a matter of speed.
C. J. Kortwright, and Walter the city in the interest of the we understand are being brought Buses, Trams, še, 15 7.00 Edgeware and registered A It is almost a safe wager that a Brearley would not have been public health and welfare is one into being in Hong Kong come up China Bases
golfer who is twenty or thirty half so successful as they were of the most important purposes for discussion and decision, the H.K. Tramways yards longer off the tee than an in their own time, for which the police power can Government, in this one instance, Peak Trams (old) opponent, can likewise run a hun- Then, too, something ought to be exercised.""
will take notice of the opinions dred yards faster."
of those who probably know Singapore
41.00
7 54
G
27
R. C. Witchell
6.
83
W. F. J. Corvin .
5
€2
A. W. Grimmitt..
4
T. D. E. Pendered 3
A. R. Sutherland 2
H. G. Hallam ... 3
Name
matches:-
P. J. O'Neill....
74
[
75
34
20
434 26
4.50 match of the season, for on their 13.83 visit to Leicester they were 12.40 beaten by 40 points to 8.
81 7 11.57
A. W. Grimmitt, 131 1
R. G. Robertson, 100
8 points to 6..
G. H. Hallam ... 70
· 3 23.33 14 3 victory; while Bradford
C. R. Spittey....
40
3
13.33 opening the season with a match
T. D. E. Pondered
89
7
12.71 against Northern, drew 12-12
J. H. B. Nihil....
70
3. 23:33
I
W. F. J. Gorvin. 102
12.78
No. of
Name
Cathes
Held
H. F. Westlake
10
R. S. W. Paterson
7
H. F. Harper
Б
H. E. Strange
J. H. B. Nihill
T. D. E. Pendered
T. W. Carr
H. G. Hallam
S. Randle
J. Armstrong
R. R. Davies
G. Gull
A. W. Grimmitt
A. R. Sutherland
W. F. J. Gorvin
P. J. O'Niell
W. Sayers
McLaren
LRC. v. DES.
In the above friendly cricket match to be played on the I.R.C. ground at 2 pm on Saturday, the September 24, the following will represent the IRC...
Birdar Khan (Captain), J. 8. Ack ber, M. P. Madar, A. 8. Sumad, D. Mohamad, S., A. Hussain, A. Bah mis, R. Nazarin, J. M. Rumjahn, NAM Buy A. Butt, T. Hamet (Reserve) ANTIG
when
how
.
Of course, this might not apply if he done to teach the younger
Godowns, &c.
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[$115 a
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$85
$142 $4%
1924
Lands, Hotels & Bldgs.
$8/2
$65%.b $66 s
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$12
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$05
$14
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do.
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Tractions
$19 b $19% sa
$6.50
the player with good speed muscles generation to bowf fast. Ifa One hundred fathoms of three much more about piracy and Miscellaneous...
But man like Walter Brearley could inch Manila rope worth $150 was piracy-prevention than the aver- EK. Amusementa carried too much weight. show me two golfers weighing virgo to the schools and show those yesterday reported. stolen from age Government arm-chair ser- Canton Ices tually the same, and of the same boys who have it in them how, the a.s. "Skuld" in harbour. vant 7"Shipping and Engineer Gements (comb)
(old) do. age and general health, and if one to bowl a good fast ball it would
ing."
do (new) consistently outhits the other off
Clothing worth $43 was yes-
China Lights (comb.) terday reported stolen from the staff's cloak room in the Com pradore's Department of the Chartered Bank..
the tee, I will wager he can beat be a godsend to cricket. "Billy"
the other in a hundred-yard dash.
Williams in "Evening News."
I have seen Babe Ruth stand on
a tee and hit the ball a great dis
tance. He does not always know
Just where the bail is going, but it clubs, and not one in five thousand goes. Babe swings with terrific can tell the distance between the Mrs. C. J. Cooke, (iving at No. speed. When a player can get balancing line of his driver and 9 The Peak, has reported to the such speed, and at the same time the clubhead. A perfect set of police the theft from her house can make the clubhead stay in the clubs, fitted properly to the player, sometime between 9 p.m. on Sat- proper grooves,, he is bound to be will take strokes off the
a long hitter any golfer.urday and 6 pm, yesterday, of It is important for a golfer to hit There are many scientific facts in a quantity of jewellery worth with just as heavy a club as he can golf, and the golfer who under-116 and Yen 45. The Jewellery ewing at the maximum of his speed stands these and applies them plays were contained in a case which possibility. If a golfer could swing strokes better than he would, other was kept in an unlocked drawer a sledge hammer fast enough
in her room. could knock the ball a mile.et
Care In Choosing Clubs.
he
I am perfectly willing to agree with that oft-repeated statement: of the player who made a 68, and
Most golfers do not use sufficient in answer to many questions how
care in selecting clubs. It pays to he did it,
spend, considerable time making a
study of the length and weight of "It's a Gift?
But most players unfortunately,
clubs they get best results with,
Oslo
Chins Prov.
Dairy Farms
Der A. Winge
H.K. Electrics
Macao Electrics
Mackintosh
LONDON EXCHANGES,
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(old) (new)
Paris New York Brussels
London, Monday,
124
| H.K. Constructions
4.8611⁄2:
.84.99
Geneva
25.22
Amsterdam
12.18
H. Ropes (old)
Milan Berlin Stockholm Copenhagen
89.32
dos
20.43
Lane, Crawforde
(new)
#18.08
18.16%
Binceres
18.41
Vienna Prague..
34:50
United Asbestos Patrons
164%
HATA Tele
Helsingfors
4/1937
Nanyang
28:11
Liabon
27/16
Bucharest
155/64
the
Buenos Aires.
starts (2) Bombay, blanca
way
Shangha
ls Hong Kon
1/11
Yokohama
$10
Silver
CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BAEM BASES PAIN Miss Martha Norelius, inter
Rub Chamberlain's Pain Balm nationally-known aquatic star, added “new laurels to her already large col-
painful spots. It is penetrat when cabe created "afi naw
the congestion-and International swimming records, for and to do a great deal of expert do not have the gift, and they have up the circulation which carries
Capturing the 100 metreing. But the urge of most golfers to do the best they can only thot the pain. Tart le bo
sands of them are not doing the e and the mile races the by to use what time they have best they can, because as I was re- thematic pains, Jamberok, back
1 at is
Iseldors find players who can ported to have said in Great Bri- muscle Fold and tell me the length of weight of their tein,they are too lazy,
Madrid
Athens
POLAR
CAKE
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