1929-08-02 — Page 9

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1929.

Sport Columns

BILLIARDS

EASY VICTORY FOR ST.

PATRICK'S CLUB

WARDERS DEFEATED

An interesting friendly match took place at the Prison Officers' Mess (Victoria Gaol) between the

CHANNEL SEASON

ENTRIES EXPECTED FOR DOVER GOLD CUP

TWINS LEAVE FOR ENGLAND

With the advent of summer con- ditions and remarkably smooth water in the Channel (says a Home

THE

· RECONSTRUCTION

DAIRY FARM TO HAVE LARGER BUILDING

ORIGINAL PREMISES TO GO

CHINA MAIL,

MACAO'S PROGRESS THE VOLUNTEERS

AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES NEARLY READY

SMART PERFORMANCE

...

MUSKETRY PROGRAMME

DETAILS NEN

AT STONECUTTERS RANGE

This week's orders for the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, issued today by Lt. Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E Commandant, read AG

December, 1929. Table "T" machine Musketry programme. September to gun and rifle at Stonecuttors:

The Dairy Farm Company's pre- The Siemens China Company are mises in Lower Albert-road are being to be congratulated on a very quick reconstructed in order to meet the re-performance in connection with quirements of the Company.

the installing of the automatic tele- follow:- Demolition of the original building phone system at Macao. Work bas is in progress. The portion now being now commenced on the Anal stages pulled down is the central part. Work of the Installation and it is expect will be carried out in two sections. and it is estimated that the work will operation all over The rear portion will be completed rated that the new system will be in the colony of take seven months to complete.

Macao within two or three months. Immediately this section has been re-

The contract between the Gov-Gun).

has provided for the setting up of thousand lines; but of this number a Pervice capable of carrying two only one thousand will come im-

Sept. 1. Portuguese Co. (Rifle). Sept. 8. Battery and Signals (Ride), Sept. 15. Machine Gun Co. (Machine.

Warders and St. Patrick's Club, the paper) interest in Channel swim built, the second half will be demolish-ernment of Macao and the Company Sept 22. Scottish Co. (Machine.

scores being as follows:-.

The Warders

Lacy Jillott

00

118

130

Gowland

03

Brimclecombe

80

Jayce

134

665

St. Patrick'a

P. M. Da Cruz

150

E. Barros

150

C. F. Vas

150

H. Painter

150

E. A Remedios

150

W. Finch

150

900 Breaks: Pilé (50), C. F. Vas (42), E. A. Remedios (33), F. M. Da Cruz (29) and E. L. Barros (27).

H.M.S. "CASTOR" DEFEATED

H.M.S. "Castor" v. Stonecutters

Wireless

The Telegraphista defeated Stonecutters by three points.

Castor

Mitch Spong

Spry

Forches Dowas

ming has again been revived.

The questions of the moment at Dover are: Will the Dover gold cup be annexed this year? By whom will it be won?

od and reconstructed, and when the en- will conform to the architecture of the tire building has been reconstracted it

remainder of the premises.

The ground floor, after reconstruc From various sources it is believ❘tion, will be used as a garage for the ed that there will be numerous as company's motor vehicles, and the up. pirants competing for the cup. Mr. per floor to accommodate the office Harry Luscombe, the Devonshire

staff. The butchery and milk depart- cripple, who last year was unsuc-

ments will remain where they are ut present. cessful in his attempt, has written to say that it is his intention to try again for the cup at an early dato.

The American twins, Misses Berenice and Phyllis Zittenfeld, have left. New York for Dover, where they will shortly start training. Others expected to compete for the cup are Mr. E. H. Temme, the Lon- don clerk, who last September, owing

to adverse conditions, was compelled to give up after 2 very fine struggle; and Miss Ivy Hawke, who was successful last August in swim ming from Cape Grisnez to Dover in 19 hours 16 minutes.

It is not yet decided whether Miss Joan Brunton, the 11-year-old Dover school girl, who last year Dover to Deal,

will

go in for Channel cup honours, but at the first favourable

150

150

75

150

Jess

Swam from

20

69$

Stonecutters

Sorbie

82

Giles

150

Pomeroy

76

Campion

159

Jarghes

Myers

150

691

HIS LAST INNINGS

S. E GREGORY DIES IN AUSTRALIA

Sydney, Yesterday. The death has taken place of the former Australian Test Match cricketer, Mr. Sydney Edward Gregory-Reuter.

[One of the finest cover-points the game has ever known, S. E. Gregory (New South Wales; was born at Sydney on April 14, 1870, a nephew of D. W. Gregory who captained the first Australian team in England in 1878. He first went to England with the 1890 team and retired with an exzellent record in Test, State and other first-class matches.]

SCOTS FUTT BALL

SUNDAY GAMES IN ENGLAND

[From "The Last--Years of a Frontier." By D. L. W. Touch. Oxford: "Clarendon Press."

Price 188. net.]

The legends about "Merrie Eng- land"

On

the

are not applied to the Marches even by the most romantle pseudo-historians.... There is no evidence that English nobles play. ed football but the Scots lords did, and the game caused feuds. May 29, 1583, R. Rowes wrote, "some quarrel happened the ather day betwixt Bothwell and Master of Marishal upon a stroke given at football on Bothwell's leg by the Master, after that the Master had received a sore fall by Bothwell It took James VI some time to reconcile them. Bothwell kept up the game and was "oppinly On Dak with other traitors "playand at the fatt ball" in Octo ber 1592.255

The game was sometimes played six a side, and followed by hard drinking. A Scots team might come

to play Bewcastle, but would hard-

The entire work will take about a year to complete.

TO-DAY'S RADIO

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W.

ON 350 METRES

BOORD'S

GIN

IS THE BEST,

mediately into operation, thereby leaving a reserve of one thousand lines for future needs of the colony. Lines to all points in the colony were laid down along the The following programme will be principal routes by subterranean broadcast to-day from the Govern-cables some months ago, since ment Broadcast Station ZB.W. on when work has been proceeding 350 metres.

with the making of connections and wiring at the Exchange. This work is still proceeding..

Programme of

5.30-6.30 p.m. --- Chinese Music. ~

7.48 p.m.--Evening Weather Report. 8 p.m.-Evening Programme. (Vic tor and H.M.V. Records supplied through the courtesy of Messrs. S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.) "Martha" (Flotow), Selection,

The Band of H.M. Goldstreara Guards.

opportunity she will essay the task "I'm Blase" (Harry Taylor},

of swimming from Dover to Rams-Prophecies," Humerous Talking by gate Harbour, a distance of about 20 miles.

No doubt there will be several others to make the attempt to swim from this side to France, as the in- terest in any effort from the other side has dwindled considerably, hav- ing regard to the successes already!. achieved. It is a much stiffer pro- position to accomplish the feat from the English side,

Bill Melhora, or "Wild Bills he is

ly venture farther into England, known among American golfera.

The chief riders used to attend

matches, and there was no close season, games being played on

Sundays in June. The meeting of to stop Sunday games during ser- undesirable spectators gave op- vice time, by keeping players in jail portunities for the plotting of mur for a week and then making them ders, such as that of Sir John do penance to the parish church. Carmichael.

The game was very rough and had no regular rules.

In England attempts were made

Norman Long.

"The Desert Song" (Romberg),

Vocal Gems

"The Blue Mazurka" (Lehar),

Vocal Gems,

Gun).

Sept. 29. M. I. Co. and Armoured Car Co. (Machine Gun).

Oct. 6. Engineer and Reserves Cos. (Rifle).

Oct. 13 Portuguese Co. (Rifle). Oct. 29. Battery and Signals (Rife). Oct. 27. Machine Gun Co. (Machine

Gua).

Nov. 3. Scottish Co. (Machine Gun). Nov. 10. M. I. Co. and Armoured Car Co. (Machine Gan).

Nov. 10, 17, 24 and Dec. I and B. Camp.

Dec. 15. Engineer and Reserve Ces. (Rife);

Dec. 22. Casuals (Machine Gun). Dec. 29. Casuals (Machine Gun). The Battery will be in camp on December 15 and 22.

Athletic Sports Meeting There will be a meeting of the Wedacsday, August 7, at 5.45 p.m. at Athletic Sports Sub-Committee on Corps Headquarters.

Holiday

Monday, August 6, 1949, will be ob served as holiday. No parades will be held on that day.

Corps Bend in mufti at Headquarters at. 5.30 p.m. There will be a full Band practice

Tuesday, 6th, and Friday, 9th August, 1929.

The Battery On Tuesdays commencing Tuesday, August 6, at 5.15 p.m. a series of six lectures will be given by the Staff the Captain I. G. While attendance at these lectures is voluntary and will not count as parades, it is hoped that a large proportion of members will at- tend.

Preparations for the final stages of the work at the "Exchange" have been going on for some months, and a few days ago the last part of the machinery and equipment ar- rived from Europe, and there also came the expert engineers of the Siemens China Company from North China to carry out the final and most complicated connections at the Exchange to enable the system to commence operations within the shortest time possible..

Macao's will be housed in the new Post Telephone Exchange Office Building which is itself under construction. The telephone department will occupy a special ex- tension of the original plan to the edifice. This service at Macao is an official undertaking and comes under the direct control of the Postmaster General and has, there- Recruits' parade will recommence on fore, been installed in the new Friday, August 8, at 5.30 p.m. at building which is now being built Corps Headquarters, dress mufti, belt De Groot and The Piccadilly as the headquarters for the postal and sidearms.

H.M.V. Light Opera Company. "The Chocolate Soldier,"

Duet:-Winnie Melville & Derek

Oldham.

"Martial Moments,"

The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards. "Invictus" (Huhn), "Trees" (Rasbach), Baritone,

"Midnight Bells," "One Way Street,"

John Brownlee.

Orchestra.

"Spring Song" (Holline), "Grand Choeur No. 2 in C major,"

**Organ Solo,

Reginald Goss-Custard. "Captain Harry Morgan," "Cargoes" (Shaw), Bass-Baritone,

Peter Dawson. "Iliawatha" (Moret), March, "Liberty. Bell" (Sousa), March,

The Band of HM. Coldstream Guarda. "An Autumn Serenade," "Poem" (Fibich), Organ Sold,

"Neapolitan Nights," "Allah's Holiday,"

Victor Salon Orchestra, "Dawn with Her Rosy Mantle," "If My Name You Would Know,"

Tenor,

Reginald Foort.

..

new

Mounted Infantry Co. Riding School at 6,30 pm.

Thursday, August 8, 1929, Parade at

Machine Gun Company N.C.O's Instruction classes will re 5.30 pm at Corps Headquarters in commencé on Tuesday, August 8, at mufti. Platoon and Section Comman ders are asked to see that all their N.C.O.'s turn up, also any other ranke interested.

Scottish Company

Portuguese Company Friday, August 2, 1929. N.C.O.'s Class will be held at Corps Headquar ters at 5.30 p.m.

Strength

services at Macao.

The system is completely automa-will parade at Corps Headquarters at Pipe Band. The Pipes and Druma tic in every way, and each.caller 6 p.m. on Wednesday, August 7, for. will "dial" his own number, with practice. out being in any way interfered In order to bring the Band up to with by "Central." From the de strength, arrangements have been mand for now telephones it would made for holding classes in Piping appear that the public are anti- under Piper Major Mackié. cipating a good service, and the,

Will members of the Corps who Siemens Company's name is sufiwish to take advantage of these classes cient assurance that the equipment please send in their names either to will satisfy all requirements.

Captain Alistair Mackenzie or the Ad- Prices for rental of the

jutant as soon as possible. telephones are exceedingly moder- ate. In the case of phones to private residences only 35 monthly will be charged, while telephones to commercial establishments will be called upon to pay slightly more No distinction will be made where the subscriber lives at a great distance from the Macao The Band of H.M. Coldstream Exchange in the new Post Office takes over command of The Battery: No. 1574 BEM. E. P. Streatfield Guards, NE "Bertram At The Rotary Dinner,"

building that the cost

from Lieat. C. Peake Anderson, M.C., "Bertram Addresses. The Tenants,"

It is stated that the cost of as from July 10, 1929. Humorous Talkng by Will Kings, machinery and the work of installa- "Etude Tableau,”

tion will be covered by an inclusive "Dance of the Gnomes," Piano Solo, price of $100,000, which is the Sergei Rachmaninoff. | price at which the Siemens China "Worryin" (Fairman),

Company is prepared to accept for "Happy" (Lee),.

the complete ayatem covering two thousand phones as well as the machinery and other devices at the Exchange. This works out at about $50 for each telephone, which is believed to be an exceedingly moderate price.

Tito Schips.

"La Garde Republicaine" March, "Wipers," March,

De Groot and The Piccally Orchestra.

"The Bells of St. Mary's," "Ever of Thee I'm Fondly Dreaming," Soprano, Frances Alda

"Aldershot Command Searchlight

Tattoe,"

Mawed Pipe Bands of The Aldershot Command.

-10.30 p.m.Close Down

A verdict of suicide was recorded at a Whiston (Lanca.) duquest on Joseph Warren, 21, a collier, who was found hanging in a wood three days after his marriage.

Mrs. Weller, of Hellingly, Sussex, received a congratulatory telegram from the King and Queen on her 100th birthday.

The following recruit has been taken on the strength and posted as under: No. 1488 Pta. S. MacNider, No. 3 Platoon, as from 30.7.29,

Corrimand

Transfer

Captain T. Addis Martin is trans- ferred to the Reserve of Officers, as from July 1, 1929.

Leave No. 1852 Pte. S. M. West, No.-1 Platoon, from 1:8.29 to 30.4.80,-

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MURGER

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BRINGING UP FATHER.

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