1928-08-30 — Page 9

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1928.

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HOME SOCCER,

NEWCASTLE WHACKED AT

HOME.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.

Division I. Arsenal 1, Derby County 8. Everton 0, Sheffield W. 0. Newcastle 2, Burnley 7. Sunderland 5, Blackburn R. 1. Division III (S). Gillingham 1, Torquay 1. Plymouth 3, Swindon 0. Division III (N). Wigan 1, Halifax 1.

-Rester.

LOCAL SOCCER.

GARRISON League reADY

TO START.

The Hong Kong Garrison Foot ball League will commence its fix. tures on Monday, September 3.

The following are the fixtures for next week.

Monday, 3rd: 12th. H Bty, R.A.

INTERPORT BOWLS.

་་

LOCAL PLAYERS LEAVE FOR NORTH.

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"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL.

The Hong Kong team of Interport bowlers left for Shanghai yesterday. Five of the six players, Mesars. A. M. Hollanda (Capt.), J. C. Brown, A. Chapman, W. Mair and J. Laing, departed by the s.. "Shantung" at daylight, whilst the remaining man, Mr. A. W. Grimmitt, left by the "Empress of Russia."

GOLF.

THE CHINA MAIL,

MONEY & SHARES.

THE SHARE MARKET.

THE HANDICAP PLAYER'S

COMPENSATIONS.

[By Harry Vardon.] Which is better-to be a hopeful handicap player at golf, or a full- fledged scratch man? M

At frat blush, this may seem an' absurdly easy question to answer. What is it that every golfer seeks to be? Even is it like asking a person whether he would rather be a millionaire or a merely ordinary mortal Nobody would expect to get full marks if he plumped for the merely ordinary mortál. And yet I have heard of a sugar-planting millionaire who cannot sleep o nights unless his attendants prop The match with Shanghat is to him upright in an armchair, and of man in the world take place on Thursday, September the richest 6. and it will be umpired by Mr.who always exceeds the legal five minutes in searching for a lost geif A. McAllatur.

ball, and goes home full of gloom if he cannot find

The Shanghai team ta to be com- posed of Messrs. N. Harrison, A. McLeod, H. Gordon Wright, and A. A. Malcolm (akip), with Messrs. R. P. Phillips and F. J. England as reserves.

Shanghai newspapers state that Hunkow will be unable to send a team.

v. H.Q.. Wing, 2nd Bn., K.O.S.B. special correspondent in Shanghai. Referee: L/Cpl. Shead, 1st Bn.. Queen'a B.R.

Wednesday, 6th: H.Q. Wing, 1st Ba. Queen's R. Regt. v. R.A.M.C. Referee: B.Q.M.S. Hutchins, R.A.

Friday, 7th: M.G. Coy. 2nd Er. K.O.S.D. v. M.G. Coy, 1st Bn.

Referee: Queen's 'R.R.

Gunner Kinsella, R.A,

All matches are at the road, Kowloon, Ground. at 4.30 p.m.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

On London

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On Bombay-- Wire ... On demand

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Similarly, I know plus and scratch golfers who are unhappy. Some- times their driving is not exactly as it should be. Or every now. and again they are socketing a mashle shot. It is disturbing.

From the paychological point of The Interport game will be de-view, the main difference between scribed in the "China Mail" by our the bad player and the good player seems often to be that the bad player goes home deliriously happy if he has hit three good drives, and

buying rate) the good player goes home worried If he has hit three bad ones, -Sliver (per oz.) .... 26%

I wonder sometimes whether Bar Silver in Hong

Kong

4% prem. there is anybody quite so lucky as the duler on the links. If famous Chinesa Copper Cash nom. golfers could enter completely into Chinese Copper Cents 6% prem cuffordom for a week, they might Rate of Native In-

7% p.8. be immensely interested. They are Chiness Sub. Coin 30% dis as retired milionaires; they know Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par. comparatively little of the hope, expectancy, apprehension, and other influences that help to make life exciting to ordinary individuais.

HONG DOUBLES, ̈*

THE CONTESTANTS FOR THE

FINAL

G. W. Sewell and H. Owen Hughes entered the final of the Chathamong Doubles tournament yeater- Kick-off day by defeating A. D. Humphreys and R. K. Valentine by 6-4, 6-3, the winners now having to must R. Gordon and W. D. Fiddes Wilson in the final.

CORRESPONDENCE.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

(To the Editor of the, “China Mail.")

Sir, I am directed to request you to give publicity of the enclosed copy of farewell letter from the East China Baseball Team in your esteemed paper on the eve of their departure from Hong Kong on the 20th inst, and oblige.

O. W. Luke, Esq.,

Yours, etc.,

K. WONG.

The Chairman, South China

Athletic Asscn., Hàng Kong.

Dear Mr. Luke:

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WOMAN'S QUICK HALF MILE.

Dundee, Yesterday, Miss Clasie Stewart won a half. mile freestyle swimming race in 12 min. 33 3/5 secs., clipping 3 3/5 seconds from the American, Miss Norelius' world's record.-Reuter.

BASEBALL..

SHANGHAI CHINESE

DEPART.

doubt,

I once saw a famous player slice This drive over the railway wall at

an

the sixteenth hole at St. Andrews in the semi-final of

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Minister the Prime

suddenly stood on his head in the House of Cammons. And yet why should not a famous player slice a drive ter- railway ribly and finish

track?

on the

It is unfortunate that, in first- class tournaments, the dullness of seeing people perpetually address- ing the ball on the teeing ground and hitting it down the middle of the course becomes" oppressive. It seems absurd that they should be bothered with such a formality. It would be just as reasonable for a champion swimmer to be tipped out of a boat in a small pond, and for the spectators to be asked to find a thrill in the thought that he might be drowned.

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SATURDAY'S MATCH AT KING'S PARK.

On

The following will represent the St. Andrew's Y.M. Club in their match with the K.B.S.F.P.A.,

N. A. E. Mackay (Capt.), D. J. N. Saturday next at King's Park: Anderson, A. T. Lee, E. A. Lee, HP. Lin, R. Lee, S. Macnider, H. D. Gregory, S. Edgar, R. Bates, W. Brown.

The Shanghal Chinese (East China) baseball team, headed by On behalf of the East China Mr. W. Y. Char, captain, and Mr. Baseball Team, I am directed to Albert Llu, manager, after a stay thank you most heartily for your in Hong Kong of two weeks as kind hospitality and successful en-guests of the South China Athle- tertainments shown towards tic Association, departed yesterday during our stay in Hong Kong. We by the as. "Empress of Russia."

SYMPATHY. feel that you have been an exceed-

The team was seen off by a

Uncertainty is the salt of life, and ingly excellent host, lavishing on number of members of the local

it is the fact that the us your many kindnesses which baseball clubs, consisting of,

duffers at golf. havo auch have made us feel that this has been among others, Mr. Harry H. Sling a lot of it that makes them so A very happy and enjoyable trip. manager, and Mr. Richard Shim, We cannot thank you enough for assistant manager, of the South lucky. They never know what is what you have done for us and we China Baseball teams; Mr. Wong coming next. There are people who dare not promise you what we can- Kum-ying, Mr. Soo Huen-yau, and think that the state of dufferdom is not fulfil in our present mood of Mr. Loo Hap-fos, of the social unhappy-like rheumatism or in grateful appreciation. We only committes of South China Athle somnie, which is often advanced as

: Association; and Mr. Hin its cause. hope that we may have the oppor- tic

It would be a great good thing for

The confirmed bad player mesta tunity of repaying to some extent Wong, hon. secretary of Hong Kong

the golfing world to realise that the one friend and then another, the your kind treatment to your Dragon Baseball Association. Baseball Team when they visit us Before sailing, the team was in individual who executes a lot of bad gravity which settles upon their In Shanghai. next summer.

formally entertained by Sir Shou-shots taps the sweetest pleasures of faces soon after he begins to talk We have learned many things in son Chow, one of the honorary pre- the game in his occasional good shows plainly that something dread- ful has happened. The melancholy Hong Kong, one of which is your sidents of the South China Athleones.

tic Association; and Lady Chow

It is perhaps time that he saared spreads....at length everybody organisation of the

He has missed Junior League. Your keen interest and other ladies went on board the into the seventh heaven of delight knows the facts.

Empress" to see the team off. about his condition, and, in a de- three drives, and can't think what of developing the Chinese youths to

The visitors were taken across licate and decorous manner, proffer he was doing wrongly! be future baseball "stars" of China the Harbour by a launch special-ed his sincere sympathy to the BLISS PERFECT BLISS.

ly engaged by the South China people who seem to be physically Let us leave him alone with his and we take back with us-your-fden Athletic Association, and the and mentally incapable of playing a sorrow, and turn out attention to of organising baseball teams among launch followed the "Empreas" really bad round.

the player whose Incompetence is the young people in Shanghai. We until she was clear of the Har- think that it would not be amiss to bour. Cheers were exchanged beed the humble handicap golfer into

Assuming that we have now gonda by-word.

He begins with a little preamble way that your Association is the tween the departing team and Its father of baseball in China, and hosts, while firecrackers, including state of satisfaction, let us pro- about the result of the match. Then ceed to`ram home very sharp pelats he gets to business. During will be the recognised authority en baseball therein.

for the enlightenment of plus of the round he has hit three absolute- scratch men: The player who wins ly perfect drives! At the second; he scratch medals in the ordinary way, was 20 yards past the zareba and on and breaks the record for the course the green with a mashie-niblick At The whole office will know about when he feels that he simply must the seventh, he was up with a drive them in the morning. do something new, is often of the and a mashie. At the fifteenth ho And the plus man is going home type who makes his way from the drove past the green. At the finish and and perplexed. He also re- last green with sadness written of the recital, his face is aglow with members three drives. I suppose upon his countenance.

pride

it is possible to be too serious about golfor at any rate, about one's bad shots Sports Despatch."

wonderful

la an example worthy of admiration

long, one, were let off. The visitors did very well dur- We wish to express again ouring their stay in Hong Kong, win- aincerest thanks for the successful ning five and losing only one game. ending of your difficult task in The team carried off the cap pre- making our sojourn here a most sented by Sir Shou-son Chow. pleasurable and memorable one. The Chinese Y.M.C.A. assisted

Cordially yours,

throughout the short sojourn of the visitors by opening the hostel (Bgd.) W. Y. CHAR,

to them under most favourable Captain,

conditions, owing to the courtesy East China Baseball Team, of Mr. Y. H. Tsao.

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He la worried. His caddie, wrap- He la going home to tell his wife ped in that impenetrable gloom and family about those three drives.

FOR GOODNESS SAKE- JUSTAS. I START TO DO A LITTLEWORK- MAGGIE HAS TO START PRACT- (SIN SINGIN BY GOLLY, HERİ VOICE ID GITTIN' WORSE K

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