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"Both Bromis are Feneficial" FINEST LONDON OLD TOM FINEST LONDON UNSWEETENED

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, AUGUST 20TH, 1923.

SCOTTISH SPORT |

LIDDELL OUR GREATEST SPRINTER.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

EDINBURGH, July 11th. Although Eric, H. Liddell, born as he was at Tientsin China, on January 15th 1903, enunot be claimed as a product of Scotland, every drop of bloot in his guing is Scottish, for his father, who was him self a gymnast and fencer of trist ability before going to his life's work as a mix is bound by stomary in the Far

and Jock ties to strong Lomendside alike, while his mother was born in the Scottish borders, Liddell, hin- self was sent home when quite a young boy to be educated at Eltham and there he in due

A DERBY ""SWEEP" PROSECUTION.

21208 LETTERS STOPPED IN THE POST: FUNDS AND CHARITY.

It was stated in a case at Marlborough- trees Police Court that 201,968 letters in connexion with a sweepstake had been stopped in the post by the authorities.

W. Darki Charles, Oberst, clerk, Rox. well Road, Shepherd's Bush was sum- moard for publishing and eireninting swrypstake at Regent street, W. in con nexion with Duggan's, Dublin sweepstake Regent street, W. on June & last. Afr. Barrington Matthews defended.

Mr. Howe, for the Director of Public Prosecutious, nid defendant was a clerk to Mr.

at

course, sureveiled bookranker Staurt the well-known

Mr. Men (Magistrate)-I- he employ. ing defendau in this matter?

Mr. Rowe No. "Mr. Barrington Matthews Ho - hás nothing whatever to do with it.

4. L Gracie, and his own brother, "R. V., as captain of the school, and laid the foundation of a truly remarkable athletic career. There he proved him weli

more than useful cricketer and

Continuing, Mr. Rowe said the anisuut earned highest praise by his displays on of the prism totalled £20,000, and it was the football field, either as a centre or said that the sweepstake was in aid of the wing-three-quarter, while at the sports in Dublin feath Hospital. But what became his last year he practically swept the

of the hundreds of thousands of pounds .boards.

which had been collected, in excescof the Scarcely a whisper of his wonderful prize money? There was no balance sheet: athletic precurity preceded his appearance and audit, A limited amount would as a student of paro science at Edinburgh go with a great Hourish of trumpets to the University, but he straightway gave Dublin Menth Hospital in the name of taste of his quality by winning the 100 char

charity What about the encrmous sur @ CO., LTD., yards at the 1931 Edinburgh University plus? That would be surreptitiously poc-

sports in 10 2-3 sets, and in doing so beat ing that sterling sprinter, G.1. Stewart to the general surprise.

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At Belfast, in the triangular Interna. tional he cleverly bent W. A. Hill, the 1919 A.A.4. champion, in the 100 yards (10 9.5 wea), and would also have taken first place in the 29" had he not had the illfortune to draw the extreme out side position pa an unstringed track round two awkward turns. Suecares fol- lowed success all that year and during 1929. He had a partial breakdown, but on removering tone closed the season is a blaze of glory

keted by

be no

promoters there would Dourish of trumpets over that. To invite people to gamble to benefit a meritorious institution was not real charity, but a prostitution of charity, and no exense for dagrant breach of the law. It was said that the prize money bad been lodged by the acting Lord Mayor of Dublin in the Munster and Leinster Bank" Altogether a total gi 291.988 letters in connexion with the sweepstake were stopped with the post of three 80,648 were poitel in Ireland and $10,602 in London and the provinces, 'and this probably represented but a fraction of shows that thom

through the post. got

At a large room in Regent-street defendant en- loved 43 to 47 girls to address envelopes. Towards the latter end of March the letters had necumulated to such an extent that ten Daimler cars were hired, at `n cost of £102, to take away the accumulation so

So far, as the present season has gone he has even improved upon his fust's Year's running as his electrifying furlong in the International City Relay Race at the Queen's Park F. C., sports, his record 20 of 21 343 sets, and his quarter mile of 30 1.5 seca, at the International sports, he pested over the whole Metropolitan his 21 3.5 secs, furlong in the Champion, and four of the cars went down even pionship Relay Race, and his 12 ser, 120 as far as Bath and other places to post yards handicap, eloquently prove., He, the letters. The offenes was against the was again to the fere at the British Amateur Championships at. Stamford Bridge at the end of last week. He won the 100 yards flat veco in 9 7-10 sec., and the 220 yards in 21 3-5 secs.

CRICKET.

Bad weather prevailed over most of the East of Scotland two of the Conny Cham pionship games having to be, aband oned. The Western District Union, Championship was, however, Advan- ced a stage, the outcoms being to establish Eddingston more firmly at the top. Scattish Counties Championship.-- Perthshire, 90 for 7; Forfatshire, 84

for 1.

Stirling County, 135: Fito-hire, 85 for 3. Club Jutcher.

Kelburne, 16; Polor, 110 for Uddingston, 140; Ferguslic, 107. Kilmarnock, 181; Ayr, 165, Brunswick, 62: Clasgow High School F.P.'s, 13.

Clydesdale, 238; for 3, closed: Glas, Acnd.,

118.

Royal

val High School, 96; Selkirk. 171. Drumpellier, 141; Clackmannan County,

125.

School Championship,-

Lotteries Act, 1823, Section 41, Detective. inspictor Hugh Hunt, New Scotland Yard, served the summons on Oberse, who said. “I mimit doing it, but I did not know it was against the law." If this excuse were thue, said Mr. Rowe, it would be po defence, but it was obviously mit true. The hearing was adjourned.

AMERICA'S DRINKING

MENACE.

THE LATE PRESIDENT AND PROHIBITION.

President Harding, on his way to Alaska, spoke to an audience that packed the great Blunicipal auditorium at Denver (Colorado), on June 29th, interest in his speech baving. been augmentell by the announcement that he would discuss the prohibition issce.

The President by saying

begun

that those who thought the Volstead law

would ultimately be repealed were laboaring under delusion, as there were several reasons

this way b irst place, the President said the vast maj ority of the people were in favour of

out of the question. In the

Fetten, 14 and 30 douxi; Loritta. 160 prohibition, in spite of the noise that was

and for 3.

CHIEF STUDY OF TRE

EDUCATED. ·

CLASSICS REPLACED BY PHYSICAL SCIENCE.

Dr. G. M. Trevelyan read a paper on The Relations of History and Litera ture

to the Arg-American Historical Conference at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London), last

month.

being made by certain persons and organisa- cities. These printer the larger.

largely by selfish motives,

tions were he said:

Aside from that, the President continued, it did not require more intelligence than a school-boy possessed to understand that constitutional limitations made a repeal of the law out of the question, as twelve out of the forty-eight states could defeat Bay flort to rescind the law and no one doubt. ed, he added, that at least that many States were absolutely opposed to even changing the law, to say nothing of repealing it. "The legal difficulties of repeal, therefore, were insurmountable.

The president then discussed the attitude

Physica! lenee, il Dr. Trevelyan, of various States chiefly New York and had replaced classics as the chief study Wisconsin, which had passed laws that of the educated, while the plain people" shifted the burden of enforcement from of all classes, instead of being soaked in their own to the federal government's the Bible and very httle else, were sanked shoulders. This presented a new and ex- in the Unity Yelp and the Hlustrated tremely difficult problem and one that the Reach-r-Dorn(laughter) the alumin government had not yet devised a method ous Sunday papers, and trushy, stories.

of solving. He did not doubt, however,

Be that

the new situation. There was

If literature and history could not hold when Congress met some way would be found their own in the academic world, both in of numbers and quality, then the Universi-

ties would become mere laboratories of etish of course, that should the

setence.

government undertak

undertake the organ-

History and literature, if they isation of a vast police system to enforce were going to survive, must not be the dry law the old conflict of States

પા ushomed their

reraus federal authority would be special mission, and they must not line, touch one of the other revived, and while this would present, new In the days of our grandfathers the and tremendous difficulties there was little likelihood of a revival of passions sufficiently classical lucation of the few and the strong to cause another American civil war, Biblical education of the plain people were satisfying to many of the hest rainds of as some of the wet

the day, because I kept history, and prophesying.

literature in close connection. That was

adherents had been The situation

Lom

become

the president auid, but there was no why the Bible and the classies were such real danger of its becoming tragic.

Mr. Harding then went on to any that education, not

yes satisfactorily lawless drinking in America had become

evil that it Amounted to such an

靄 nation- Major-General Sir George Aston 'spoke al meance. This was a grave problem the man of action and the mae of that Congress would have to consider and words,

and of the relationship between he did not doubt that some way would be them. Words used by a statesman were found to control the I. the

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for their far-reaching effects in the loss of who were opposes would jor

germis

a far more dangerous item in the world time public pinion both for and against history than the high explosives used by this sort of law breaking was crystallising the Soldier or the non, ou account Mr. Harding Lad no doubt that those

were in the Vast life in the human race,

ity, and that their Literary skill," like oratory, was a dan prevail: The President concluded by

Bay. gift.

Literary skill had the ing that those State legislatures which were danger of currying conviction. He did thinking of repealing their enforcement not know, if the real truth were told by laws did not realise the seriousness of their the historians, that it cull de very much action, or that they were adding fuel to the harm to the world.

fires of "wlessness that had grown out of To the early days of the war, when the liquor situation. He hoped that they Sir. John French was sorely tempted to go would consider the effect of such repealing behind the defences of Maubeuge, a sec- laws very seriously. tence flashed across his mind from Si

Edward Hamley's book on "Operations

of War":"A general in distress with

retreating army, if he retires into a It is computed that in New York alone fortress, is like the captain of a ship sink there is in abortage of 100,000 homes. ing, who clings to his anchor for protes There are plenty of dwellings of an ex- tion."

The effect of that sentence on pensive class, with rentals ranging from Sir John French's subsequent decision £20 yearly for three rooms and a bath testified to the enormous value of the room, but there is an absence of middle historiaji to the man of action.

class or working men's homes.

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THE HONGKONG HOTEL

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ANNOUNCEMENT.

CO.,

Owing to the receipt of numerous complaints from patrons as to the incivility of various members of the Staff of the Hotels under.. the Management of this Company in Hongkong, such complaints. being to the effect that "Cash" has been demanded in satisfaction of Liquors supplied. and patrons thereby inconvenienced by not. being allowed to sign "chits", we beg to draw the attention of our clientele to the terms of the Liquors Ordinance, 1917, an extract. from which is hereby given:-

2.-in this Ordinance

(r) #Cash" means guy coins or notes current

the Colony,

(6)

"Sale" includes any transaction in which intoxicating liquor is supplied for any con- sideration whatsoever, direct or indirect.

3-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) of this, section, no person shall sell any intoxicating liquor for consumption on or at any licensed premises. except for cash.

(2) Sub-section (1) of this section shall not apply to

the following:-

(a) any sale by the proprietor of an hotel to a

person residing at the hotel;

(b) any sale the proprietor of an hotel of liquor to be consumed in the dining room of the hotel at one of the regular meals of the hotel or of liquor to be consumed in conjunc- tion with any other bona fide meal for which a charge of at least thirty cents can be rea sonably made;

(c) any sale in accordance with the conditions of his licence by the holder of a restaurant adjunct licence.

4-Where any intoxicating liquor is sold by a servant or employé in contravention of section 3 of this Ordinance the employer, whether a natural person or a body corporate, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance unless he proves affirma tively that the sale was against his express orders. and without his consent or connivance.

5-Every person to whom any liquor is, to the knowledge of such person, supplied in contraven- tion of this Ordinance shall also be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance."

The co-operation of our Patrons, with a view to assisting us to carry out the provision of the Liquors Ordinance, is respectfully requested,

For and on behalf of

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Hongkong, 15th August, 1923.

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