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ROYAL HONGKONG | GOLF CLUB'S LOSS.

WELL-KNOWN GOLFER LEAVES

** FOR "HOME TO-DAY.

By the departure for Home today the se. Matur, of Me. B. D. Crayford Morgan, the Royal Hongkong Golf Club loses one of its most energetic aml help ful members...

"THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,

SIR ROBERT HO TUNG'S

CONFERENCE PROPOSAL. LETTER FROM DR. WELLINGTON KOO.

Sir Robert Ho Tung has received the following letter from Dr. Wellington Foo, the Foreign Minister at Peking:-

Waichinopu, Peking,

September 3rd, 1921.

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Sie Roueur Ho Tuxa,

Illowild, S. Saygiour, Rond,

Hangkong.

principal lenders in China with the obit of renching a common understanding towards modus ricendi. Your sugges, tion made a favourable impression dere at the time.

THINGS GREÄT AND SMALL.

SERMON BY THE REV. H. COPLEY

MOYLE

Following is the sermon preached in by the lles. H. Copley Moyle, M., thu St. John's Cathedral on Sunday morning

SEPTEMBER 218TH, 928.

There may be many reasons why British people as a whole are unpopular, but I think oue reason is certainly the contemp tuans way in which we are apt to spenk of others, a way "which is unch like an

thank thee that. I am not as other men echo of the Pharisees prayer "God, I

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Senior Chaplain

are." A native of Africa writing recently But wor unto you Pharisees for yer the modern Englishmän abroad said, tithe mint and rue and every herb and "In the good old days and with the type pass over judgment and the love of God: of Englishman who came out then, raen but these ought ye to have done, and not pride was unt six vanipant, race prejudice to leave the other undone. S. Luke X, not so acute, race feeling not so high and the line of segregation not so marked. Jesus Christ came into the World to To raise the brother of a darker hue and live as car example and to die for our to show him the light took a more pro- redemption. We need constantly to heminent position in the programme of the recalled to His example, in the words Englishman then than now.” Is this we have heard went as the second Lesson criticism the of ust we see the stern side of the character af

I quite see that if such a conference Christ. He could he stern and severe can be brought about it will go a long when the circumstances demanded it, way towards solving the problem of and the thing which most frequently national reunification. I gladly give it

Mr. Crawford Morgan is one of our best golfers What he does nt know,

MY DEAR SI ROT,-I have received about the theory of golf is not worth your interesting letter of July 30th it "knowing, but while he is one of those I saw in the Tcent papers the telegram very few local golfers who can call them of your interview to the Reuter's Hong- selves gueul at the game, he has not been correspondent, wherein you advo ested a round-tableconference of the over-blessed with "luck in actual play, Mr. Morgan has made several good fights for the Fauling Championship, but never succeeded in gaining the honour. Bad *"joss." seemed to shadow him in his greatest efforts. It was most noticeable in the last Interport match between Hongkong and Shanghai. In the second day's play, during the foursome "match. he went rousil in (one over the recont For the course). He had extremely hard luck in not actually breaking the reveril on that occasion. At the 17th hole his ball lodged in a fir tree and it took soven for him to hole out. But his general play has been very consistent. He is the holder of the nine holes record at the Happy Valley Course, with a score of 35, which is one under fours and five under hokey.

(84) V.K. WELLINGTON Koo.

WELL-KNOWN EUROPEANS

Our Blessed Lord blamed the Pharisees for ignoring justice and the love of God. He taught men mow of the love of God than they had ever known before, so there

neglect the love of God; than there was for the Pharisees. If you were asked about the character of God what would you say? Would it seem riatural to you to mention as the first and most striking characteristic of Gol, His Love? If not surely you are again falling, into the Pharisaic sin of ignoring the Love of God.

my personal approval and I am hoping excited His sternness was not the wicked is far less excuse for us Christians, if we

your efforts will ultimately beness of open siniers, but the hypocrisy of that crowned with success-With kindest - the Pharisees. The Pharisees were the gards, Yours very sincerely,

religious people of their day. But they regarded religion "as'n matter of outward! observance rather than as a matter of the heart and the life. They were punctilious in keeping all the minule regulations which the Rabbis had neded A Chinese pleaded guilty at the Magis-to the Law of Moses, hut the things which

To insist upon the love of God is the tracy before Mr. J. R. Wood, yesterday were really essential and fundamental morning, to the theft of one overcoat, the they neglected. The tradition of the essence of the Christian message to the property of Mr. Hodge, of 15, Conduit Rabbis so turned and twisted the law of world. Our Lord wanted to give us an In the mixed foursomes "Mr. Road; a desk Jock alleged to have been Moses as to make it express in many idea of God's nature and how God felt Crawford Morgan at his wife were untoleu from Lugard Hall, the property cases the exact opposite of its mean towards man, and He used the expression · equalled. As far as we can gather they of Mr. M. E. Roffey; and a desk locking.

hold the records for mixed foursomes on

both the old and new courses at Fauling.

As a worker as well is a player Mr. Crawford Morgan is perhaps best known

ROBBED.

and a pair of brown shoes, the property of Dr. D. V. Stoavenson, of 85. Kennely Road.

Prisoner was sentenced to two months' hard labour.

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Committee, whereas the average commit tee man puts in a tremendous amount of work, Take the case of Mr. Greenhill, I know that he gives up any of his Saturday afternoons to go out to Fanling to work. Having done that, what do the

The worse grousers' go on there what once a month, and because they happen to get into some bunker or other, or have one or two bad lies, they give vent to their wrath on the poor Greens Con- mittec. If they want to help they shoul,

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Religion had become with them. mechanical observance, a man might be very religious and get absolutely depraved and immoral. The teaching of the pra. phets who had demanded internal God liness, was slighted and the staily of the words of the prophets was neglected while all their attention was centred on the Law and what the Rabbis had added to it by way of explanation. The Pharisees as a party had in their early days been fired with zeal for God, but by the time of Christ they hail most shamefully degenerated.

Father as the one which best represented what he wanted as to understand. He told us the story of the Prodigal Son to show the Father's love for us, and He continually spoke of God's fatherly eare for our bodies as well as our souls. The knowledge of the love of God is the greatest revelation the world has ever received, and we may well doubt whether at would ever have found out that God is Love if Christ had not revealed the fact. If we had only the knowledge of

God which we derive from nature we

might never have known it, for though

The prisoner was arrested in the street to golfers here for his untiring efforts to whilst carrying the overcoat. A number improve the Happy Valley course, He of pawntickets were found on him, and was chiefly responsible for the care of the with these the articles mentioned in the course there, and he devoted a consider charge were redeemed, being anbsequently able amount of his spare time and energy identified as belonging to the gentlemen to it. He was mainly responsible for named, the new bunkering scheme at Happy Valley which, despite the restricted area at the Club's disposal. is generally re

there is much in nature which speaks of garded as a great improvement on the

Dr. Weymouth in his New Testament the love of God, there are things which old conditions. Particularly will he be

in modern speech thus renders the words sometimes almost seem to deny it, and blessed by the "makes learn fidgin

of the test: But alns for you Pharisees if we had only the revelation of God in golfer," for it, was he who organised the

you pay tithes on year mint and rue and nature we should not have been able to Junior Section of the Royal Hongkong

every kind of garden vegetable, and are spenk with certainty of the fact that God Golf Club. When this section was first

indifferent to justice and the love of God is love. If you believe in the love of formed its membership was limited to 50.

There are the things you ought to have God it must be the centre of your faith Later it was extended to 75 and the mem. Hongkong golfers do-or some of them attended to; while not neglecting the and of your life. For it will lead you to hership is usually up to the limit. The

others." It is to be noticed that our Lord!

formation of the Junior Section has done

commends the careful attention to what feel that your life is "in God's hands and might seem trifies while He demands that He will do with it as He sees best, much for golf in Hongkong as it has

proper recognition of the ali important so you will not worry about the needs of encouraged many young people to take up golf who would otherwise not have

things. It was no good to be so interned this world, for God knows what we need in trifles as to neglect the important better than we know ourselves, and if we trifles have their value. They are not to shall find life, a much simpler thing than be neglected. Trifles go far to constitute any of us do. It would be a good thing the lives of many of us, and we must not for all of us to spend five minutes a day underestimate their value, while not for a week thinking over those three allowing ourselves to be engrossed hy words, fiod in love." The time would not be wistel, especially if we can do it them.

Justice to our fellowinen and the realisa. on our knees, and if we once realise all tion of the Love of God for all His child that they mean life will be a greater. ren, these are great truths which must ohler thing for us than we have ever rule and dominate our lives. To think found it yet. Let us learn this morning about them takes us at once out of our from the words of the text to give to the selves and gives us large views of life really great things of life their proper Aa Christians we value and place, while we do not neglect and wide sympathy. are bound to seck and maintain justice the things which' may seem trifles, but amongst all men. It is one of the boasts which have an importance of their own of the British Empire that impartial These ought ye to have done and not justice is always to be found under our to leave the other undone." flag and that our Empire throws its weight on the side of justice in interna.

done so, But a record of Mr. Morgan's in the first place, make sure that their things, lait still Christ teaches us that eau make the great act of trust in Him. we

notes for this paper.

criticisen is" constructive. Golfers in

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golfing history in Hongkong would not be complete if it was not stated that he has been the author of many interesting golf Hongkong have to remember that we have no professionals here and what the com- He has now NA objection to his nom de plume being disttee has done has had to he learned closed. Some time ago he wrote a series in the hard school of experience.” of interesting golf zetes for the Daily Presi "STANDARD OF GOLF POOR, under the pseudonym of "Zodiac," and latterly contributions from his pen have

Taking of the standard of play in heen appearing under the pseudonym of

Hongkong, Mr. Crawford Morgan said: "On the whole the general standard of "Dreamer.". "

Mr. Crawford organs first played" on

golf in Hongkong is very poor. There are the Fanling Court as far back as 1015ly about 20 really, first class players in Hongkong, who could hold their own on a course at Home, After these there is a very bad tail.

but he did not settle in Hongkong until! 1920. Now that his brm-Messrs. Carters have closed down their Hongkong office, of which Mr. Crawford Morgan was man- ager, he is going home.

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HONGKONG GOLFERS CHIEF FAULT.

THEY OBUBBLE TOO MUCH.

In an interesting interview yesterday morning. Mr. Crawford Morgat was very

Asked as to the reason for this, Mr. Morgan said: “Oh its just lack of en- thusiasm, the usual Hongkong feeling

no keenness shown at all"

But if Mr. Morgan was inclined to be Jespondent over the standard of play he

tional politics. On the whole no doubt CHINESE AVIATORS KILLED. there is truth in that statement. But we It is announced that Mr. Yang Sin-yat, ust remember that if it is to remain Chief of the Aviation Bureau at Canton, true it can only be because each member and several other famous aviatore " of our Empire personally does his part to have been killed at Mei-wu on the East maintain the ideal, and attacks injustice River. On the 20th inst, they were trying wherever and whenever he finds it. Wo to bolib a motor-boat, but a bomb ex- dare not shelter ourselves under the ques ploded and destroyed the aircraft, caus tion of Cain, and say Am I my brother's ing the loss of several lives. Mr. Tang's

SAIGON RICE MARKET.

The Compagnie Ja Commerce et de report dated Saigon, September 11th, Navigation d'Extreme: Orient, in their

was very much the reserse when he spoke of the prospects of Hongkong winning

· reluctant to speak of his own work his back the Interpart honours at Shanghai own achievements on the Hongkong Gloff this winter. "I see no reason," he said, course. He was, however, only too "why Hongkong should not send up

to talk about, golfing generally ten to Shanghai capable of bringing in Hongkong. He said that since he first back the cup to Hongkong. It all lekeeper." Wherever we learn of cruelty hody was recovered from the river after layed on the golf course at Fanling in pends on what the Selection Committee and injustice we are bound to stand a long search and the funeral took place January 1915. there had been great im- does. In choosing a really representative against thems, even if it be an unpopular in Canton on Sunday. provements On that occasion he was team they want to give the younger play thing to do. There is often a real danger| greatly impressed with Fanling. It pre-ers a chance of playing. They want to of our accepting custoins because they are sented splendid opportunities for being try the younger men out in a series of generally accepted without asking our- Leonverted into a really first class course.. trini matches. In trial matches they | solves the question, “ Are aley just and In view of this it was a great disappoint would get used to playing in interport right? There is a real danger of our ment to him un arriving in Hongkong in thatches, and a few matches against, the permitting ourselves to accept a lower 100 to find that Faniing had not im Services for instance would do no harm.” standard of conduct out here in the Far state proved. "It was no better than it was in As to the younger pinyers Mr. Crawford East than we accepted at home in Eng Prices have continued their upward 1915. Since then there had been a great Morgan remarked on the very fine pro land. There is a danger of us who are trend in sympathy with the Hongkong

Kress made by the 'brothers A. K, and

market. The supply of paddy is still many improvements and the course to day W W. Mackenzie They were altout the British regarding burselves as superior to rather poor and the holders of stock are is 50 per cent. better than when he first pick of the younger players and they people of other races, and in consequence looking for higher prices, same here, He thought the people re, should certainly he watched and encour-looking down upon others who may really Then Makong's waters have been rising. aged." They were young and up to the he mentally, morally and spiritually vince of Chaudec has been almost entirely sponsible for these improvements were present they had never played in any

during the last fortnight and the pre- 3. Greenhill and the Superintendent at match, nor had they played in the Cham superior to ourselves. That was the cha Booded. Some fears have arisen concern- Fanling (Mr. Kerr)," Having served on pionship. Both players had a variety of acteristic sin of the Pharisees and weing the provinces of Long-Xuyen and the General Commitee, Alt. Crawford strokes and they should turn out to be need to be on our guard against it, the upper river that the waters are fall. Cantho, but advice has been received from Morgan, went on to say, "I realize the really first class playera vast amount of work they havo done," In closing the interview Mr. Crawford you find yourself speaking of the great inger This leads me on to my chief grouse expressed his deep regret at having to and ancient nation amongst whom we live The total amount of rice exported from against Hongkong golfers. They are leave the Colony. We scarcely need add as "chinks"you may know that you are January 1 to August 27th, 1923, is always grumbling. They are much in that a wide circle of friends shate that far advanced in likeness to the Pharisees, 876,005 tons against 738.75 tons-in 1922. clined to demand everything, and to give regret, and wish him the best of fuck at and you had better question yourself No. 2 sifted, Japan quality, Hongkong, nothing. The average golfer in Hong home in his business associations as well

We quote to-day-White Saigon rice, kong never does anything to help the as in his favourite recreation the royal severely as to whether you are following $0.80

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