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Mr. William C. Bullits

Mr. William C: Bullitt's appoint ment as the first American Am- bassador to Soviet Russia is logical, if not inevitable.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1933.

BRITISH SPORTS CROWDS CRUEL?

PUBLIC DEMANDS ARE BECOMING GREATER

SPORTING ATMOSPHERE

GOING

There were many Democratic candidates for the post, and près- sure was brought on President Roosevelt in favour of one or other!

We have reached a stage when Paris in September 1922, when 50,- of them...

and women of his own Much has been said and writton the demands on our leaders in,000 men about Mr. Bullitt's secret mission every field of sport have become so country turned from frenzied adul- to Russia in 1919 as the represents exacting that only those with jation to horror-struck silence or tive of President Wilson.

brains of ice and bodies of steel shrieking abuse.

"Yes, there was a young man and relentless fight. who came to see us and said he re-i presented Wilson. But we were in England? very busy with other things"

After 14 Years

Curiously enough, very little im- and whipcord can hope to stand the They had witnessed their idol battered Into unconsciousness by a portance was attached in Russia at strain. the time

Our cricketers, and those of Aus-Senegalese dishwasher, and until to the visit. Several']

moments returned they years later the Incident was re- tralla, were very near the verge of calmer

more than were ready to deprive him for ever called to M. Tchicherin, then Soviet complete breakdown

jonce during the last series of of the laurel leaves he had word Commissary tor Foreign Affairs.

Test cricket so gallantly for France. M. Tchicherin looked puzzled. Tests in Australia." Finally he said vaguely:

is no longer a game. It is a stern

Test Match Tension What is to happen next season It is not everyone who is gifted with the temperament that will Gordon Richards. our champion leave him calm and imperturbale Jockey, is now approaching the in an atmosphere charged with end of a season that has taxed his electricity.

In the famous Test match at the Mr. Bullitt returns to Mostow exceptional physique to a point! after 14 years, during which he has when only grim resolve made life Oval in 1902, G. L. Jessop scored a been successively dlm producer, endurable. I believe it is strictly century in England's second in- portrait painter, novelist, mag true that in the last fortnight he- nings. an innings that is compar azine-writer and assistant to the fore he broke Fred Archer's recordable with the triumph of Hobbs and Secretary of State.

(of 246 winners in a season he was Stucliffe on a glue-pot wicket at the

Oval in 1926. He is 42, was born in Philadel-,"living on his nerves,”

But the story of the 1902 game I Iphia, is bald, clean-shaven and un- With the Davis Cup in England's

assuming.

possession, our tennis players will like best is that of George Hirst, Ten years ago he married a have to be keyed up to the highest stolidly resisting the wiles of

Trumble and Saunders and Noble. beautiful New York Journalist, effort.

When Rhodes went in last wie- Louise Bryant Reed. Her first hus- The Wightman Cop (lawn ten- band, the American Communist nis), the Walker Cup (golf) will be ket with 16 runs needed. Hirst went poet John Reed, is buried under the fought for in this country in 1934 up to him: "Don't worry, Wilfred," in an orgy of sport that will be in-lie said; "we'll just sit tight and sistent in its demands on

those get these runs in singles." They

did. who take part in it-and only a lit.

wall of the Kremlin in MORCOW.

The China Mail

of physics, are of their way thinking. Both sigh for the day be when cause and effect will

Your Daily Smile.

Hong Kong, Friday, December 22, 1933 enthroned again and the universe will move along in the old pre- determined groove.

a

The Nobel Laureates

Bertrand Russell once remark-

ed that a mathematician does not

The Tariff Truce

Great Britain's recent with-

GORDON. Richards Coeur de Lion.

' *

*

Proof Positive

"Who's in that fowl-house? Come on, speak."

bave to know what he is talking drawal from the international 'cept us fowls." about. In honouring Professors tariff trace is largely sentimen- Problem

tle less so on those who watch.

The tension of these ordeals has

I would not have any of our ath-increased as the years bave passed. letes in any feld approach their A recent meeting of the Australian task without every necessary quali-

Board of Control put forward · a fication of physical well-being and suggestion to the M. C. C. that

skill and endeavour,

But our crowds have grown Įprodigiously as to make the plans

drinks should be served on the field at fixed periods only.

It was the outcome, I bellove, of

"There ain't no one, guv'nor, and forecasts of ten years ago for the crowd's irritation at frequent their accommodation appear feeble delays on the field of the Test and ridiculous, and the psychology matches of last winter.

But what the spectators did not

Dirac, Schroedinger and Heisen-tal in significance. At no time Q. If a herring and a half cost of these multitudes is undergoing realise, particularly at Brisbane,

berg the committee that awards since it was first proposed by the three halfpence, what is the price ja subtle change, the Nobel prizes la physics have American Government, on the of one in a restaurant) recognized what has been achieve eve of the London conference,

ques away

A.:

Fifteen shillings and

"Breakfash!"

Unnoticed

disappointments hace

When six-come, the shadow of bitterness and

acrimony has crept a little farther and farther over the sun of [laughter and cheerfulness.

you

bear

I

don't

tragic failures.

1

was the effect of the tropical heat on England's bowlers.

The men could not eat their lunch. They had to be sustained by sipa of champagnes Four of them in a day accounted for only three, parfs of a bottle. It proved' beneficial but it meant much bar- racking.

from which neither Georgen Car-were awept away and 50,000 more pentier nor Joe Beckett permanent-people than could be given their ly removed him. I always felt that allotted places were inside the the worship of the crowd was a arena. The vivid green of the primary cause of some of Wells's grass was blotted out by a seething Įmass of black. Only the presence I did not go like wine to his of the King and the miracle work- head; it Alled him with too great a ed by a policeman on a white horse sense of his responsibility. "I had saved the first Cup Final at Wem- ja wonderful publle,” he told me the bley from disaster.

other day: "I cannot think of any

Bolton Wanderers defeated West

ed by men who care not what has the truce been genuinely ef- peace halfpenny. their X's and Y's stand for. The fective. Sixty-one nations agreed

Morning Murmur three new laureates are young. to it, pledging themselves not to

"What are you coming home for They adopt "any boid and imaginative.

Temperamental Athletes initiatives": new

ar this time?" either reject determinism, 25 which would create further ob

There is no one quicker to re-act Heisenberg does, or ignore it stacles to trade. But they re-Heartbroken

to "atmosphere" than the highly after the fashion of Schroedinger tained full liberty of action to

The history of the Wembley Scenes Recalled The vegetarian whose son boast-trained athlete. and Dirac. In short, a new perfect such controls aa

The present system of an ́ all- were ed he had a steak in the country. past is full of instances-grave und

gay..

ticket F. A. Cup Final was a sequel method of studying the cosmos already in existence. How little Matrimonial Murmur

The British public placed Bom- to the extraordinary scenea at has been inaugurated, one which the truce meant, in these circum- A wife should be like stainless

with strictly causal stances, is suggested by the fact cutlery always bright.. but never bardier Billy Wells upon a pedestal Wembley in 1923, when barriers law, whien substitutes chance for that the United States, despite cutting. certainty and which therefore its authorship of the plan, is nullifies the time-honoured belief entirely free to levy additional

Policeman: "Madam, didn't expressed in Omar Khayyam's duties or put "quotas” on foreign dictum that "the first Morning goods, if they are need to protect set me hold up my hand?" of Creation wrote what the last the domestic codes established Lady Driver: "1-did not.” Policeman": "Didn't you Dawn of Reckoning shall read." under the N. R. A. It was the me blow my whistle?? An old-fashioned

truce determinist do-nothing nature of the

Lady Driver “I didn't.” might reason that because people which persuaded the Nether Policeman: "Well, I guess break their fast on rising they lands to renounce it in Septem- might, 'as well go home. I

one who had a better.” And if a Ham by two goals to none, but Jobey a law of nature. The new ber. Other countries, including seem to be doing much good here." miracle of science could give him there are men who took part in the

school narrowB the study, dis-France and. Sweden; followed

back twenty years, the public match who would not have played covers that the "law" falls to suit. The action" of the Britisti

would be behind him again.

again under similar conditions for hold the fewer the number of Government means a further loss A rubber mat and tes with a soft Happily, he did not have the soul-|£1,000 aplece. people involved, and fails utterly of prestige for it. That 1938 ball fastened to it by an 'elastic staring experience of George Car- for single men and women who has been a bad year for interna cord may be obtained for indoor golf pentier on the dreadful Sunday In refuse to eat, breakfast at all. Sotional collaboration is apparent practice, Now, if some genius with the predictions and regu- from the record. The tariff truce could invent a sympathetic larities of the universe," "Laws" has disappointed those who saw complacent attitude for the wife in the universe are simply ex-in if the promise of a real armis the practice could proceed. pressions of mass behaviour, tice in the unremitting WET Electrons in an atom turn out to which the nations of the world be rugged individualist.. Mathe-still wage on one another's com- matics 18 essentially pragmatic. merce. The World Economic A theory need not be true. Bus Conference was a flat failure, it must work. And how the new Little more can be said thus far theories do work! Schroedinger for the Geneva conference on ar tells us that an electron is both namentas Both Germany and a wave and a particle--some-Japan, pursuing separatist poli thing which would have made cies, have announced their inten-. Kelvin and Maxwell shudder. But tion to withdraw from the For night lights's 'tiny bulb has the experiments prove it, in so. League of Nations. The elabor been invented mounted on a plug Dirac talks about a mathemati-jate Washington conversations or containing a transformer that steps the current down from 110 volts to cal hole which is the direct op Last Spring seem now: In retros:

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China has extended berg décides that a particle can. Public opinion in both creditor, service by estab not have position and velocity at and dan countries still, blocks iso carries pan

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