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PROFESSIONALISM & THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
POSITION OF "PROS" IN
SPORT
NEW MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD
FOR BOYS
(By Frank M. Carruthers)
This was
in the House since he defeated M-7OULD you like your public, day whispered to me that he had J. B. Cirnes at the General Elec- chooibor son to become a 22,000 in the bank. Sion. He is never seen in a söft? collar, out of a dark suit, or with- out his top hat.
professional games player?
the sum he had saved in five
It is perhaps not generally years. He was an international. The secretary is Mr. Cliford realised that public schoolboys he had received a benefit of $650, fare beginning to turn to sport-as and he had earned money from Glossop. He, too, dresses conven-
the many sources outside the ja means of livelihood. tionally and immaculately.
I confess I am old fashioned, game which are open to the star- He once secretly took a sample jand, although the antipathy player. His case is exceptional. lof House of Common's milk for which has existed against pro-but it shows the possibilities of janalysis; be has produced samples fessionalism in all games is the career, and with ordinary of poisons in committee. He is rapidly being dispelled. I was luck he ought to have amassed hard worker and an earnest politi-brought up to play for pleasure 56,000 when the time comes for Most dubs help their players
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HISTORICAL, LETTERS
(and not for gain."".
him to enter on a new one.
I recognise. however, that for the boy who has been beneficent to save Each week deductions ly endowed with the talents of are made from the wages and When the fine collection of auto-the star athlete there are con- paid into the Post Office Savings graplis in the possession of Jeremy siderable possibilities in the Bank The Arsenal have their
„Career.
Earning Possibilities
Jown bank, into which the men
pay regularly and are allowed 6. per cent. interest.
A Coaching Scheme The Football Association have
Bentham: came to be overhauled, twelve letters of considerable hia-|| torical interest, were discovered.
A golfer may earn $1,000 a They were from the famous Giron- din, Jean Pierre Brissot, who was year if he is attached to a first- class club, and probably twice, as guillotined.
These, it is understood, were in- much if he is also successful in never given any encouragement collection the tournaments. The cricketer, to players to turn professional. cluded in Bentham's which came under the hammer at with his activities restricted to There are more than a hundred four months, unless they are thousand amateurs under their Sotheby's recently.
There were
also letters from extended by tours abroad, is not banner, and I do not think more Lafayette, Dumont, Fouchet, Count. So well rewarded, but football is than five thousand professionals Garat, Romilly, Leigh Hunt, Disjan all-the-year-round job and the It was mainly because they were assisting to make professionals- of the year without any sensa-raeli, Gladstone, and other cele pay works out at little less than afraid of a charge that they were tional disturbance... Cash spent brities of Bentham's period.
The opportunities which games that they hesitated so long it Bentham died just over a sex-to-day afford and the lure of an adopting the coaching scheme BRITTON-On May 3, 1933, sud-on the arts, or on festivities, or
denly, in England, Frederick anything that breaks the mono try ago. His clother skeleton, open-air life are a big attraction for schoolboys which has been Arthur Brition MA Senior tony of life, is "waste" Life is with waxen face. is preserved in a
to the public school boy. Henry introduced this season. Besident Master of St. Stephen's supposed to run on for the bene-glass case at University College in Cotton, the British golf cham-But it has been most enthusi
educated atastically acclaimed by masters plon, who was College, Stanley Hong Kong. fit of statisticians and auditors. Gower-street.
It is a profound psychological His utilitarian philosophy is also Alley as School Dulwich has and boys, and the association ΕΥΤΟΣ Mussolini and Hitler now in a glass case. Yet no man proved the possibilities of a life have opened up a new field of floated into power
2 pro- had more influence in moulding the spent on the links. Now I hear activity which, I believe, will be gramme of processions and de-Eiberalism of the 19th century.
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LOCAL NEWS. BREVITIES
that a boy at Charterhouse, with of great national service monstrations, banners and hands
the approval and wholehearted what we are pleased to beheve that had no economic justifica
encouragement of his father, is is the home of all games we lag far behind other countries in tion except that money exists for
to become a professional life, and the least satisfactory! Ir your husband sticks his feet on P. F. Judge, the old St. Paul's physical culture sort of life, is a life of boredom the table, don't worry, it encourages boy, is to take the plunge in
How far does the Jubilee cele loose change to ship down behind the cricket. Last summer he played even in football there is ar bration show that the antagon-chair cushion.
for Middlesex as an amateur, and awakening to what may be There can be no doubt about ism of 1925 has worn itself out?
this summer he is to appear in accomplished in this way.
understand that the starting of a what was the outstanding sac-To a large extent that trouble
a profes "So you lost your job in the city the county team as cess of the Jubilee celebrations.was the work of secret societies because the washer didn't agree will sional. F. T. Badcock, a Repton summer school for club trainers, It was the lantern procession acting on instructions from the you. What did the climate have to do boy, is now a professional in and I hope, the school coaches It was a wonderful show precise.mainland which they scarcely with
In another case a headmaster ly because the Chinese popula-understood, and still less sup tion of Hong Kong had been left ported. Ten years is a longish
has recently advised one of his to organise according to the time for artificial movements sleepy when addressing a gathering pupils to earn his living through dictates of their own imagina- though it may be only as a day Ee should star cotton-wool in his ears football, and the plan has been
the skilled when there is a real resentment. tions. Certainly
Japproved by his parents. designers were imported from The present situation seems to A London chef declares that half the‡ Whether this choice is wise, Canton, but the impulse to make be that there is no active illwilljoy of eating an egg is lost if it is depends on the ability of the boy, a great, show came from Hong against the Englishman, though boiled too long. Or too late.
and in this more than natural skill
taken Kong, and no crowd anywhere there is a certain remanent of
should be
into Reasoning It Out could have exceeded the good suspicion which clusters round
"Young man," said the city merchant account. Has he the essential nature and orderly enjoyment of the banishment laws and occa-severely, "I notice that you are almost physique and stamina? Has he Singapore next Tuesday afternoon. the multitudes that thronged sional sentences in the Courts invariably from 10 to 20 minutes late a stout nerve and what is known Queen's Road when the proces-The process of "expatriation" or in getting to the office."
as the big-match temperament?
The RMS. Empress of Japan is Without these qualifications due to arrive in the Colony at 1 pm sion was passing, and after it repatriation" may be used with had passed. It was a sight to impartiality, and no doubt it is.
would never advise a youth with to-morrow, and will sail for Manila be remembered. Shoals of illu-but it does lend itself to miscon-
other attainments to become a at 11 pm the same day. minated fishes, some of which instruction, and there is a general
professional in any game. It is jdicated а minute observation unwillingness to express opinions that might be taken as "educa-which is due to a fear that the tional." followed by fearsome law will be used for political Our law is not easy for dragons, the product of a night-jends.
to understand. mare: cars built up with bamboo other people structures and banks of flowers, though they may be conscious and silk drapery, and fairy lights that it usually works out towards! In these matters it shining on pretty young girls; justice. clowns resuscitating the spirit of must always be remembered that jold "Momus" and the humbler there are sowers of tares, and
that exhibits of the poor, carrying a
apparent differences -- of
have the best but the
worst!
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Scene In Corridor Of Supreme Court
UNSUCCESSFUL PLAINTIFF ASSAULTS OPPONENT
A scuffle which occurred in, the
The ss. Santhia is due here from.
a. melancholy fact that not one
An extraordinarily good “short,” in a dozen who show promise taken by the Globe Film Company. first-class players ever reaches a Chinese concern of the local Sil- the top class
There is somever Jubilee celebrations with par- flaw in their mental make-up ticular emphasis on the Chinese which keeps them in the ordinary procession, both in the streets and class, and unless they can rise
The Prospects
above it, and by their own ability at Government House, is now be dictate their future, the career iing shown at the King's Theatre. (not worthwhile.
Banished for life from Singapore and from Hong Kong for 10 years small litter on which some judgment and sentences will not corridor of the Supreme Court yes- The life of the footballer islín January last, Leung Kan Shing: household treasures were carried; then the giraffes, bears, interpretation put upon them terday at the conclusion of a money specially precarious and it is was his morning sentenced to six lenders action had its sequel this supposed to lead to a dead end months" imprisonment by Mr. A. W. lions, and tigers: thore cars. But all oriental peoples under-morning when Narain Singh was though in these days there is an G. H. Grantham at the Central more fishes, more gardens of stand the principles of
fined $100, in default two months encouraging future for the man Police Court for returning to the flowers; then some khaki clad monarchy, and the past history imprisonment, by ML. A. W. G. Hof average education beyond its Colony. police on cycles: Surely that of our Empire, not only in the
Grantham at the Central Police span of 12 or 15 years. So far must be the end? Nothing of East but elsewhere, has sur-Court for assaulting and causing as the professionals of to-day the sort; that was only the van-rounded the throne with a pres bodily harm to P. Partabai lare zoncerned I believe that 75 guard. Another procession tige which inspires the general
Detective-Sergeant Davies said per cent of them are earning came afterwards, with the piece concept that the King only wants de resistance in the silver dragon, justice to be done, and that any cessful party to an action at the as they could hope to do in any that the defendant was an unsuc- twice as much through the game whose hundreds of scales are to failures are due to his servants. be distributed as mementos of a who are more noticeably human Supreme Court yesterday. He ap- other work.
A boy may become a profes great occasion. And after that In India the demand is "We want Parently thought that he had been more illuminated fishes and lions a fulfilment of the pledge given unfairly treated and aired his signal on reaching the age of 17, and fairy gardens in a third pro-by Queen Victoria when she was grievance by attacking P. Fartabai and one in Lancashire recently cession that never caught up to crowned Empress of India." In with a iron rod after they left the joined a League club at £5 a the others. No wonder, for the Africa it is the adopted slogan courtroom. Complainant had to week It was not pretended that bearers before setting out on of the most intellectual section of run into the Judge's chamber for this was his present-day valne. but keen competition for his ser. their four-hour tramp of the the Natives: "We want the laws safety.
evening had already done seven of Queen Victoria back again" Complainant, who received in-vices enabled him to demand this hours hard work under a hot It is a mistake in dealing with juries to his head and abrasions on amount sut Even the dragon sat down large masses of simple people to his arms, was sent to the Govern- In fact, he can scarcely be every now and then for a few expect them to understand the ment Civil Hospital, where he was worth so much under the most mimites rest, when there was intricacies of finance or changes treated. welcome block of traffic
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