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THE

CHINA MAIL.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1932.

KINGS THEATRE

TO-DAY ONLY

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HER LIFE

OR HIS SILENCE

Does this man offer

himself a living

sacrifice that a great

love may live!

SILENCE

a Paramount Picture

A Paramount Picture

from Mas Marcia's

Play

Directed by Louis Gasnier- Max Marcia

with

CLIVE BROOK Marjorie Rambeau Peggy Shannon Charles Starrett.

COMMENCING TO-MORROW-

Tilly of Blomsbury

IAN HAY

Directed by JACK RAYMOND

Starring SYDNEY HOWARD, PHILLIS KONSTAM ELLIS JEFFREYS & EDWARD CHAPMAN

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DWINDLING ATTENDANCES.

London, December 8. The most important effect of the prevalent industrial depression, In} so far as the world of eport is concerned, has been the emphasis į which it has laid upon the fact that the commercialisation of cricket and Association football in England is not likely to prove a successful ven- ture in the future. writes a Lon- don correspondent.

TO GO TO SHANGHAI.

Leave from University

Unobtainable.

TEAM LEAVE ON JAN. 30.

IN GOLF.

Bobby Jones Tells a Good Story.

"O POND" WINS.

Comedy and pathos are never far distant in golf. Manifestations of unrestraint can, of course, be ex- tremely tiresome when they directly concern ourselves.

It was revealed at the monthly meeting of the Hong Kong Football Association Council, held last evening, that A. V. Goseno, the Inter- port footballer, will not be able to secure the necessary leave to make the trip to Shanghai with the local team which sails on the P. &. 0. Naldera on January 30.- Wherever the two games have

The chairman read a letter from been backed as business propoal-Sir William Hornell, who express tions, they are falling into decayed his regret to Mr. R. M. Dyer The cricket clubs who employ large in not belag, able to obtain from numbers of professionals have been, the Registrar of the University every member of the committee, in fer the most part, struggling undar the necessary. leave for A. Vaddition to the titled president, my

Many years ago my progress In a medal round, when bappened to be performing unusually well, was brought to a sudden close by an exhibition of uricontrolled temper by my partner, a highly-respected City man who might have known better, Having driven two balls Into a pond, which he declared, should be em- ployed for the purpose of drowning

a burden of penury for years, Gosano to make the trip. though there have been brought into Arrangements for the local team the game all sorts of fantastic rules are not yet complete, but it has which were designed simply with been decided to send fourteen the intention of making play more "spectacular" and a greater "draw." The "soccer" managers have over reached themselves in their frantic endeavours to increase the popa- The team laaves by the 8.8. back to the clubhouse. "Well, I'm larity of their teams with the public Naldera on January 30 and is due blowed; that's fair done us," said and, as a result, we are peatered to to arrive at Shanghai on February my caddie, staring in the direction watch matches solely on the plea 2.

The Hong Kong players will of the retreating figure. It most that the players in them were return by the P. & O. Kashmir certainly had. There was nothing "transferred" at enormous prices, which leaves the northern port on for it but to return to the club, "Come and see our £10,000 centre- February 9. Mr. R. K. Duncan where, later, I received the profuse forward," is the modern equivalent intimated that he would not be apologies of my late partner. But I

able to travel with the team as ever played with him again. of "Sixpence to see the fat lady!"

Many of the best elements in manager, and Mr. W. E. Hollands, football and cricket have been sacri- Hon. Secretary of the Association, ficed in order to satiate the public was asked to make the journey. taste for "some new thing" and the | natural result is that that, taste has become soured. Both games have been made more and mure "artif- cial" and have so lost their main appeal which, after all, is to the primitive instincts and emotions.

enraged partner snatched his clube from the cadde and hurled the lot, including the bag, into the water, writes George Greenwood. players and a manager to Shang- "Have these as well," he shrieked hat for the match which is to be livid with rage, and with that turn- played at the Canidrome on Satured his back on myself and the two day, February 6: JE

astonished caddies, and marched

The Dogs Have It.

As a result, attendances have dwindled, gate receipts are but a shadow of their former selves, and many thousands of people who were formerly cricket and football "fans" are now giving their attention to. dog-racing or amateur sport, where) the game is played for the game's sake.

Or, to say the same thing in another way, those who have grown weary of watching professional "sport" are now devoting them selves to games or to gambling, the latter being the real attraction for most of the followers of horse and greyhound racing.

Fortunately, the number of those who have turned their attention from professional games to amateur is far greater than that of the recruits to gambling. Interest in Rugby football, amateur "soccer," fencing, amateur boxing, lawn ten nis, skating and ice-hockey is now!

Our Sports Diary.

HOCKEY-To-day-Sim Shield -Hong Kong Club v. Navy' nt U.S.R.C. at 4.30h.in. Recreio v. St. Andrew's Club

Friday-Radio "Sports v. gt.; Police v. St. Andrew's, FOOTBALL-To-day Interport

Regt.;

Trial

DI

Jat

Satu Division-Bor-

ground-at-4-p.m.

derers

v. St.

Argyllst Kowlph's Police v.

Argylls:

* Club v. Navy

v. Recreio; Second Division-Kow

v. University: Borderers v. Club V. NAVY. Twelfth Battery Y. R.A.0.C Chiness League South China: "A" Chinese Athletic "A"; Sung Ching

v. Eastern South. China “B” v.. Chinese Athletle "B"

GOL

Rali- of way Cup

ATHLETICS Saturday - En- tries close for Volunteers Sports Saturday First

NEV

(); University v. Kowloon C.C. (1) Craigengower C.C... Hong Kang C.G. (L); Royal Artillery v. Police B.C(F); Becond Divi- sion-Kowloon C.C. v. University (L); Hong Kong C.C. v. Craigen- gower C.C. (L),

An Authority Speaks. Bobby Jones is an authority on the side-sport of club-throwing as a convenient kind of safety valve to ward off more serious explosions. He tells the story of a national champion at Oakmont heaving his putter into an adjoining wood 'and sternly forbidding his caddle to re- cover it. I have seen Jones, in his younger days, during a champion- ship at St. Andrews, putt between his legs on the classic Eden green ́as an expression of complete and utter disgust.

"When you feel so extremely a fool, and a bad golfer to boot, what the deuce can you do except throw the club away?" asks Jones. What, indeed? There is one other alter- native, and that is to throw the lot away, as in the case of the gallant colonel at Westward Ho who, care-i fully stripping, waded out to sea and then hurled beyond the line of the breakers the whole set of his offending clupa.

The father of two illustrious golfers, Mr. H. N. Wethered. In his new book, The Perfect Golfer (Methuen, 75. 6d.),

one goed better with the story of an actor

“who' put. his first and then his second shot Into a pool in front of the first tee and cried, 'Give me

greater than it has ever been before HONG KONG LADIES' all the balls, caddie, and fung

in Britain, and the clubs are finding!

it to difficult to provide accommoda-

tion for the great mass of active]

HOCKEY TEAMS

supporters they are gathering to Playing Against Kent

themselves.

In these developments, many knowledgeable people profess to see the doom of professional football as

This Afternoon.

A friendly hockey match has been arranged Hetween the Hong

it is played to-day, and the downfall Keng Ladles Bockey Club and

of cricket in the business sense. I

H.M.S. Kent for this afternoon at

Sookunpon at 6 pm. when the following will reprefent the ladles team

them in. "Take these balls, O Pond!' he declaimed, loudly. Then the clubs followed And these clubs, O Pond!". Unfortunately, at this crisis the caddle laughed and was thrown in as well-And this caddie too, O Pond! This may be described as an BX- "ample of simple, honest, dramatic,

but not necessarily vindictive,

temper. "

Instinctive Habit: - There le danger of the instinct for personal violence becoming a

prefer to put it in this way the Lesgués. and the County Cricket Championship will have to be organ- Ised on new lines in the years to Bird M. Gray, J. habit. Mr. Wethered also tells of Smalley; E. Hong, A. N. Other, M. the player so keenly prejudiced Wallace;y A. McHiney, M., Allan against enecessful long putts (when

come.

HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB TEAMS: League Matches with Craigengower C.C. The following have been select ed to represent the Hong Kong> Kong Cricket Club in their League the Craigengower

Jones, E. Bonna C. Ferguson and

E. Blackburn

executed by an opponent) that it

was always considered advisable, if HADE ODE wis the offender, to fall dat on

INCOGNITOS TEAM FOR TO MORROW.

the ground as soon as the ball went

ddwn as a club immediately came hurtling through the air at one's head with the rupark, "I can't stand thes long stekis):

Mamak Shield Match Nonsens

Against R.C.S.

The following will

klemant to be Bobby

ber: ant

that

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