1935-09-21 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1935.

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President. Quezon

Here There

and

SPORTS THAT LACK TEAM SPIRIT

Everywhere. LAWN TENNIS

RATTLE AND WHIP

The Stewards of the Jocker Clib have to decide whether: a rattle constitutes a whip within the meaning of the Rules of Racing, because the horse Speed On was urged with a rattle to extra speed—and to a win-at the Folkestone meeting.

RISE OF

AND GOLF

SOCIAL PHENOMENON OF THE.

PRESENT DAY

(By Harold Stannard)

NE of our national boasts is,Dr. Samuel Smiles's "Self-help"

The rattle is now at Newmarket ONE of our boasts is Dr. Samies about playing, the Speed On, wants it back for senti-world to play games. So game and denounces self-seek- mental reasons. It was the ane secure is the position of sporting carried beyond limits justi- with which he used to persuade in the British mind that it does fied by the struggle for life as Ballyscanion, the horse who would not readily occur to us to ask "not cricket.* only go his fastest when whether this is truly anything Cricket itself is a remarkably

.....

to boast abont.

thoroughly scared.

clear illustration of the relation Another unconventional form of Confronted with the ques-between games, and the general encouragement was used by Mr. tion. the average Englishman tone of life. It is the ideat Boydie Davis, the racing owner would probably reply that team-game, giving each "îndivi- who is now back in Australia. He games taught a fellow to play dual player his special function considered that the best way of for his side and to keep his and making that function con- getting speed from a horse was temper, win or lose. If he hap-tribute to the strength of the to whistle raucously to it

pened to be familiar with the side.

*

*

MOVABLE SHUTTERS

As most of the other people on terms of modern psychology, he It originated among English the grand stand also whistled the would express himself more country folk, those same people effect was altogether starting

technically and say, that games whose ancestors stood so solidly were a stimulus to the social together that they assimilated instinct and that aggressive their Norman conquerors and impulses, which might. if reafterwards were so conscious of Among other horses who res pressed. ··become social their solidarity that they found ponded to musual inducements is menace, were given a sublimat-jit natural to send a representa- recalled a hurdler who declined to ed and controlled release in the tive to Westminster But cricket, when it st emerges start in races when he could see playing field. jabout him.

Definite. Change

into the light from its Hamp-

Your Daily Smile!

Deed."

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doesn't

Vacation Plans "Your vacation problem

“No;'" you see, my boss tells me

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individualistic colour.

A hood with. movable shutters Both these explanations hold shire nursery, has taken on an was fitted over his head. The of the two national games of shutters were controlled by a 19th-century England cricket

Term Game string In theory, the jockey, and football. They fostered It is still a team game, but an with his horse on the move from the team spirit. while giving aristocrat owns the team. The The China Mail rorism backed by assassina- the start, could release the shut the individual the chance to dis- Duke of Dorset backs his eleven tion; and nothing so completely ters and the now amenable horse tinguish himself. But since for a thousand guineas against reduces Parliamentary Govern-woold race on

Queen Victoria died there has the side put into the field by Hong Kong, Saturday, Sept. 21, 1935.ment to a farce as the secret

The game In practice the shutters jammed been a definite change in the another nobleman. society that is in control of the with disastrous results at the first public taste in games

is the aristocrats' sport with fostensible Ministers. That hurdle

In the summer cricket is the men under their control those Ministers are making a

rivalled, and some would say Two generations of industrial gallant struggle to win back

surpassed, in popularity by revolution change the quality The election of Senor Manuel control we know, but the issue

tennis; in winter the primacy of cricket. The countryfolk of Quezon to be President of the is still uncertain

of football has been encroach-the South take it with them as Philippines by a larger majority

We are even more closely in-a country road when she spied a

A lady motorist was driving aloured upon by golf. Of these new they move North towards the than was expected is a milepost terested in the development of couple of repair-men climbing tele games it may fairly be said that sources of power.

But they on a very interesting journey the Republic of China: but graph poles.

ther teach the lesson of good leave their aristocratic patron that began with the battle of strangely we know, even less “Hamph!”” she exclaimed to

her temper more emphatically than beh d, and when the game re- Manila, and will presumably go about it We know the names companion, "they must think I have ever. The individual player appears as an organised sport on to complete self-government of the Commanders of the

never driven a car before.”

knows that all eyes are upon we find that players and their at some future date. It is in principal armies, but what is

him and his opponent.

supporters have put into it that line with the main current of their relationship to the civil

Just a Baying. Trip :-

But these games no longer strong feeling of local patrio- development of our period in the authorities? Where does the afternoon."

Wife: "I'm going to town this leave any room for the team tism which could no longer ex- direction of "nationality" and law-making

spirit. It is indeed, not alto press itself in their lives when power reside? Hubby Shopping """ "self-determination" which is What is the relationship be- Wife: "No: I won't have time. Igether excluded. There are they had been uprooted from still sweeping round the world tween Nanking and Peiping and just want to get some things I doubles as well as singles. But their traditional homes. in illogical contradiction to the Cantont

the teami spirit has been It is, by the way, a curious advance of science and trans- It seems that we must look

whittled away to the mere in de ul that Association football port and communications which elsewhere than to a complete

dividual partnership, frequent reflects a narrower patriotism would seem to indicate the change of temperament if we bother you?***

ly with a player of the opposite than cricket. The unit of the formation of larger rather than would find an explanation of the

cricket team, and to a great smaller units of government changes we see going on under when, and my wife where.” It coincides with the passing of our eyes and it is chiefly to the the new constitution for India economic motives that we must which ensures that the forms turn. The modern Empires are of self-government "Of: the Empires of industrial States. people, by the people and for the and what they want is markets It is notified in the Government peopleTM will be observed for their manufactured goods Gazette that the names throughout the greater part of They may fight a rival who Dixie Amusements, Ltd, the Can- Soc

of the

would exclude them from a ton Trading Association. Itä, Nothing could be more para- market; but they have no and the Paracel Guano Co. Ltd., attitude towards games a deve little artificial about these units. doxical than the fact that this motive for fighting a customer have been struck off the register.lopment of any deep social im- Why should the Londoner who development coincides with a Practical experience. soon

portance? The point may be lives out on one of the new European stream of tendency teaches the lesson that trade The Ben Line as Beruyris, taken that it merely illustrates housing estates and who works that is running in the opposite cannot permanently be one from Leith Middlesbro, Antwerp, the advance of

in the City take the Arsenal or democracy. direction. Germany, Italy, sided, and that if they would London and Straits, left Singapore More people want to take part Chelsea under his wing? Why Russia, Poland: Austria the sell manufactures they must via Manila on Thursday and is in games nowadays and are not should he trouble about Surrey's Balkan States and the Baltic buy raw materials from their due to arrive at Hong Kong next content merely to watch them. fate when on his week-ends he States, Hungary, Portugal are customers. who otherwise can-Thursday.

less Tennis requires much all under one-man rule. The not continue to pay. And the

room than cricket: Fields are whole trouble in Europe just exaction of tribute in the style now is that Mussolini and some of the old Assyrian or Persian ciation have arranged an outing to to play something play tennis

The Diocesan Old Girls' Asso-scarce, while lawns

mon; so those who feel the urge of his imitators are not content Empires is also uneconomic, it Shatin on Saturday next. The The argument holds for the with having acquired hold of impoverishes the customer, and party will travel by the 2 pm summer, but breaks down in the the strings of control, but take inflates the currency

of the rain. every opportunity of showing Treasury that receives it. The

winter Golf takes up. more their contempt for any system next lesson of experience is that

room than football, but golf is based on election and discus-as tribute cannot be collected, it Paisne Judge, left by the Empress has many devotees among the M Justice R E.. Lindsell, becoming a popular game. It Thirty years ago it was is not worth while to be bother-of Asia yesterday, for a short miners. an axiom that the peoples ofed with the local affairs which holiday in the North He is ex- Asia were by temperament and}} the men on the spot are anxiouspected to return to the Colony inwards golf is surely significant

Asia

sion

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

the middle of next month.

sex

So little store does the world extent of the Rugby team, is the now set on the gospel of play-county; the football unit is the ing for the side, that it actually town, and even the suburb. Iz appreciates jeers at the old cricket the Londoner favours school tie As the 19th-cen- Surrey, Middlesex or Essex; in tury sportsman would have said football the Arsenal, Chelsea or it isn't cricket.

the Spars.

Artificial Units Already there is something a

Social Importance Is this change in the general

are com-

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STRANGE TALE OF PUNISHMENT

Returned Banishee's

Allegations

FLESH CUT FROM FOOT" FOR THIEVING

This inclination of miners to tradition unsuited for Parliato manage for themselves. It mentary Government; and that is more convenient to grant

No group of men lead lives so the people of Europe were not self-government

dominated by the team spirit. When Pun. Pat, aged 50, was content with anything else. Is There still remains the neces-

There will be a dinner dance at Their loyalty to their union is charged before Mr. Macfadyen at it to be inferred that these sity of protection from marand Repulse Bay Hotel this evening, proof against hardship and de- the Central Magistracy yesterday racial characteristics have sud-ing rivals. It is worth while last bus leaves Repulse Bay at social convictions. Is it sur-before the expiry of his term, an and a tea dance to-morroW. The feat and shapes most of their with returning from banishment denly been reversed? All his to keep them off, and the means tory is a witness against such of doing so was clarified once 100 am, and there is a half prising that in their leisure they extraordinary story of punishment. a sudden revolution:

for all by Admiral Mahan's hourly bus service on Sunday seek a game which exhibits the alleged to have been inflicted in The first Oriental people to

famous book The Infinence of afternoon.

individual's personal capacities 2 China was told by Acting Sub- adopt the principles of what Sea-power on History" There

Compensating Balance Inspector Smith. was at the time called "Pro the Washington Treaty and of Kong University Education So- we may find the explanation of Under the auspices of the Hong

The conclusion which sug man was suering from a sore A SL Smith stated that the gress was the Japanese, but the existence of a Royal House realisms will condone any lapse a lecture on "Basic English" in the compensating balance between statement he went to the country its renunciation by Japan Nociety, Mr. A. B. Reynolds will give gests itself is that there is some foot. According to Pan-Pats that was regarded with univer- sal reverence made the transi from the broad principle that University Union Assembly Hall on are denied scope in the one mitted two or three thefts and for

life and games, impulses which when banished. There he tion much more easy than it

overseas trade needs a Navy to Friday next at 8.30 pan. All are being released in the other. It each he had a piece of flesh. cut would have been had a Republic protect it.

is certainly true that, in the of his heel XIXth century, as life became The Magistrate remanded the

welcome.

been proclaimed Whether a policy is originated by the The annual Battery Dinner of Of particular interest to Service more individual games became case for one week in order that Prime Minister or the Army the HKVD.C. was held last Men is the Bathing Headquarters, it is exec in night at Volunteer Hea

beld the name of the Empero and Speeches were made by the Officer

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more collective.

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to the

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