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FINE HOCKEY OUTLOOK. CHANGES IN THE LAWS.

[BY THE HOCEAN CORRESPONDENT OF THE OBSERVER."

LOCAL: SPORT".

GOLFERS LEAVE FOR SHANGHAL.

SUGGESTED ALTERATION IN. DATI

OF. MATCH..

IN SHANST, Kweichow is one of the interior pro- Notwithstanding the introduction of vinces of China, bounded on the east by motor bus services into Shanai, maule Hunan, on the south by Kwangsi, on the carts, hitherto the only means of freight

The slow evolution of the laws of The Hongkang gelt team, which is to west by Yunnan and on the north by transport in the province, still hold their hockey over the years make quite fascinat-play Shaugani in interport golf, left the Szechwan, Although the province is ground by reason of their cheaper costing history. It is to be supposed that port yesterday morning on the sa. Nu-

the first primitive and washer barbaric press of Axias, large in area, 87,182 miles, it is says the Chinese Economic Bulletin. To rula of hockey was analogous. **Get The match is down for decision on extremely mountainous, with only the bulk of the Shausi people travel by little over 10 per cent. of level land suit-motor bus is a luxury, in which only the able for cultivation. The total popula, wealthy classes can indulge. tion amounts to about 11.000.000, one- Up to the present three main highways, third of which is composed of the desthe Taiyuan-Yuncheng in the south, the cendants of Miao an aboriginal tribe Taiyuan Tatung in the north and the inhabiting the mountainous regions:

Taiyuan-Tsikowchen in the west have Kweiyang the capital city, is centralebeen built. There is also a branch road located. It is over 1500 metres above. the from Siuchow to Hopien, about 100 h; enthusiasts.. these have passil through the Capt. L. W. Bennet, A. K. McKenzie, sea-level and enjoys pleasant climatic

HOOKEY. conditions. The mountaincus character long, in the northern part of the pro- sive Hockey Boards, the creation of the vitice. Motor bus services are now being Hockey Association, by suggestions sent of the surrounding country makes com-

sentence hero or removed wording there, H.K.H.C, 2s X1, v. ROYAL ARTILLERİ munication with the outside most difficult, operated on each of these highways. "On in by qualified associations, have added a the Taiyuap-Yuncheng road, a motor bus until some of the original clauses vern Of the four main routes of travel, the ervice is being operated between Tat. rather mangled in the operation and This game played at Sukanpoo, on`

one connected with Hunan is most fre-

goals, without manslaughter if possible, Thursday and Friday next, but a cable but get goals. From the early English has been forwarded by the Royal Hong- days, when the goals were then, composed kang Golf Clab.suggesting that the dates. of four conts thrown to the ground, the of the match be altered to Wednesday and. ball merely a common cork bang, and Thursday, so as to give the visiting team all players with full licence pinyed on an interval for rest, as the Open Cham to the ball," to the days of handed pionships for China is to be played on forward, offside," spliced sticks, and November 1st and 2nd. so on, what a wide gan!

The team which left for Shanghai was. Since the modern laws of hockey were as follows:-Messrs. A. H. Ferguson originally framed in 1888 by a few keen (cap.), W. Shewan. R. 4. Camidge usual stages of gradual evolution; sueca and N. L. Smith.

MODERN NEEDS.

Hitting, throughout the game was as hard as the referee's whistle would per- mit, but the coalition of the ground was. not such as to allow of hard shots being, taken accurately on the ran, and many passes which might have given forwards, the wrong side of the touch line. an opportunity to break away ended on. Next week the Club 2nd XI. is playing:

sort of tough, Gordian knet. Vagueness for the Club by two goals to one, quented by trade. The journey takes yuan and Linfeng (Pingyang fu), abontere hopelessly involved and became a Wednesday evening, resulted in a win. The speed of the game was distinctly. eight days overland travelling on pack00, li, on the Taiyuan-Tatung rond, bit of meaning or intention in the rules of animals from Kweiyang to Chen Yuan tween Taiyuan and Yangmingpao about a popular game like hockey was obviously affected by a tendency to raise the stick not at all essential for its continued above the shoulder. a. apart from the where small junks may be used to go

300 l, and on the Taiyuan-Tsikowchen health and progress. Consequently, the delays caused by frequent free hits, this down the Chen Yang River to Chang-te road, between Taiyuan and Fengyang Hockey Board, fully realising the extra practice made it somewhat difficult for and then by steamer to Changsha. The (Fengehow), about 230 li. Passenger fare ordinary anomalous position, appointed defenders proparing to "clear" to bo a small sub-committee last year with in-approached, with safety as close quarters.

to is Exed at two cents per li with anstructions HAL

be pruning knife Intercepting was good or both sides, activity of bandits makes travelling un- safe unless in, caravans escorted by allowance of 30 cattics of luggage free for vigorously and re-write doubtful ren- and Piercy and Remington for the Club. soldiers. In view of these difficulties, each passenger. An additional one centteners where simple comprehension was in stemmed several, forward attacks at their the least involved. So coupled with source. Edmonds was safe at back nad inter provincial trade is very restricted. Per li is charged for excess luggage these important revisions the Roard have prevented the Gunners forward play,

The mountainous character of the pro- from 30 catties to 60 catties and two cents also added two or three sound proposals from becoming threatening.

submitted them by qualified British A vince makes it unfavourable for agricul. for excess from 6 to 100 patties.

sociations and have presented to the turq, but the land abounds in mineral A flest of motor tru ka are also operate game a code of playing rules which ought; "resources. Deposits of coal are found ined on these lines for goods trafic. Freight to meet with approval. " scores of districts n the nortr western is fixed on a sliding scale nccording to part of the province. The best grade of the nature of the goods, which bear five objective of the Hockey Board by the Throughout lucidity bus txen the chief rich coal is to be had for the picking classifivations. Gooda classified as "dan-liberal use of simple English_wording Nobody cares to take up mining as gerous" including paisen and explosives which may be grasped by all. The revis a Navy side, who will, no doubt, put up. business, as everybody has plenty for his are charged eight cents. per lì per thon skill shown by the Hockey Board. They the department in which the team play

ed code is a real tribute to the zeal and a strong opposition. To an onlooker. use, and there is no way of disposing of sand catties (10 piculs), goods of the have now made the rules live up to the ing on Wednesday might showed tho the surplus owing to the lack of means of

"special" class, or articles of special modern, requirements of the ever-spread-greatest improvement is in co-operation. transportation. The coal found in Shui- chen is especially rich in volatile oil. value, are charged seven cents, ordinarying game by the expunging of ambiguity. between defence and attack. Apart frota. The outstanding changes effected in the the sometimes too-hard passing referred. The deposit also covers a large area goods of the first class, six cents, of the rules may be summarised as follows: The to, and the Club side were not the greater, Iron ore is found in several places and second class, five cents, and of the third Board have thought it correct to suggest. followers of this error. There was occa

that in Law 1. the usual constitution of sions during the game when one of the is miaed for local use. No attempt bas class four conte. A fre of three cents a team os five forwards, are half-backs, Club forwards might have extricated been made to ascertain the extent of the per picul is charged for loading or un- two backs, and a goalkeeper, thus erasing himself from. a. dificult position without the word "correct." This is a clear turning by means of a pass back to biz. deposits. The only minerals produced loading the cargo.

cognition of the right to other tactical half. There is a whole season before us,. in commercial quantities are mercury and

Business prospects of the Shansi Motor playing formations being utilised in the however, nad. if everybody played perfect. vermillion. These, being semi-precious, Bus Service Company, which is run by "Beld, Reference, too, to the kind of ball Hockey with an infallible referes the to be used, viz.. a leather painted cricket game would fade away from very bore- are exported every year, constituting a the Provincial Government, are not too hall, has suggested that, in snowy weedom. And, by way of consolation, a large percentage of the world's supple bright. The Shansi. public, especially the ther, when grounds are more white than game that couldn't afford endless food Aside from the manufacture of the middle and the poorer classes are not green, the red leather cricket ball may for, criticism by those interested enough

be used. Always done in the past, in wouldn't be worth playing most simple household utensils and daily eager to utilise this innovation. They or sell to have it clearly so laid down. necessities, there is no industry to speak prefer the primitive mule carts, mainly, The bully-off rule has been entirely re

To worded. rendering its sense'now_crystal.|. of. They only factory worth mentioning owing to economic considerations. is the paper mill recently started by the travelling by mnie carts is almost clear, while Laws 10 and I have been re- written with the some objective. Both,

The following will represent the long- Hwa Tse-Hung in Kweyang, To, being 100 per cent. cheaper. A male cart for are admirable specimens of lucid simple

kong Club in their League game, with, tho the local financial magnate, organised the passenger traffic can be hired at a dollar English. inill single-handed. The mill is well day. It can carry one phesenger and The general details of the game to be. A on the Club ground tomorrow at found under Law 12 have been in the 4.45. p.:-Angus; Howard and Bishop: equipped with modern machines opera over 100 catties of luggage. The rate of peat a rather hopeless muddle, even not. Muir, Stewart (capt.), and Hill; Watson, ted by several Japanese experts and travel is about 90 li a day. The hire to say involved, and the sentence which, Forsyth, Jones, Evelyn, and Key, Chinese students specially trained in of a bigger cart, specially constructed for relates to obstruction has been splendidly serve: Buxton,

re-moulded in form: One old controver Japan. Several grades of fine paper are goods traffic and drawn by

sial point in other days produced two 50W100N RESERVES. UNIVERSITY, produced. But the arganiser oferlooked two or more mules, costs about $2.50 a schools of thought that, in dropping the the shortage of raw materials and the day. It is capable of carrying a load he ball perpendicularly to the ground it! The following have been selected to meant that the ball could not be hit represent the Kowloon Reserves in their lack of markets in his calculations; and tween 100 and 500 calties and covering again by the same player until it had 2nd Division League fixture. University As a result, the mill turns out but à 90 lì a day.".

actually touched ground, though, at the to-morrow, al Kowloon, kick-off at 3.15 same time, an opponent was entitled to "p.m.-J. Beach; B. Rasmussen aed T. limited amount of paper in spite of its But the other bus has many advantages his the ball before it reached the turf Knight; A. W. Brown (capt.), W. E. large capacity, and aise has to meet ex- over the mule cart and it will win its This has been simplified by erasing the Brown, and S. Randle: A. Latham, G. cessive, transportation costs in selling its way when the Stansi people realito ita word to," and substituting the ward White, B. McBride, H. Prowse, and W. best grades outside the province. The advantages. To travel by mule care is after dropping the ball perpendicularly Kirby.

"towards," thas meaning that a player Hiliger Reserves: V. Hast ani: 4. Era is steadily losing money, but the decidedly cheaper when only a short dis to the ground, may again hit it befor The 1st XI match. South China owner has made it as hobby, and to it tunce is to be covered. But for long dis- it touches the turf.

has been postponed, at the request of the Chiness,

has not been shut down.

the

dealers in furs from Shensi. These are

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CURIOUS INCIDENT." The commercial acvities of the pro- drawbacks. Even from economic conside The curious incident last season of a Vince centre around Aweiyang. Among rations, the motor bus is preferable. A ball lodging in the pad of a goalkeeper,

wholesale merchants, there ひどく

and involving him in possible penalties, dealers in piecegoods from Hankow, journey, say, from Taiyuan to Kichsiu. has now been adequately legislated for. dealers in imported goods from Shang about 30 Ii, can be covered in a day by as a resolution seat in by the Irish The following will represent the "Indian" tal, dealers in salt from Szechwa, mutor bus, the fare being $5.80. If a Unios and agreed by the Board now Recreation Club to-morrow at Sookun poa dealers in porcelain from Kiangsi, anu mult care is hired, it would take three enacts, that, in the event of the ball so Valley at p... sharp in the above all importers. The hido dealers the days, the hire being 3. However, the lodging in the pad of a goalkeeper. Or match:-A. H. Midar (capt.), J. 8. A. Curreen, F. M. et Arculli, C. II. Bhoors, Principal exporter. Other dealers are passenger would have to spend two nights in the clothing of a player, the game mostly retailers and peddlers of daily on the way, during which his inn bills at once suspended and the ball ballied. A. Moosdeet, S. A. Ismail, S., B. necessities. The province does not pro-and other incidental expenses would off on the spot where the incident occur ismail, S. D. Ismail, S. H. Ismail, O. duce any fabric aside from a small quan- bring up the total outlay possibly to $4 red, except that Rule & bas still to be Ismail and H. D. Ranjahn.

complied with in that an ordinary bully tity of course hemp cloth woven by the to to. To this must be added the cost in the circle must not be taken nearer Miao people. The high price of the of the time unnecessarily spent en route. thin ve yards from the goal-line, Thus happily, the latter incident is rare in imported material makes it hard for the while the tedium and discomfort involved with a bald also lodging in the open shirt hockey, and almost unknown. poorer classes to keep their bodies pro-in mule care travelling should also be of a running player, the latter cannot discussed one for years. Throughout the The roll-in law. has also been a much- porly covered. Children in the country considered. In the transportation of Dow be penalised for carrying the villages go about absolutely naked, while goods, the mule cart cannot be cheaper ball.

United Kingdon there are again two the grown-ups wear only scanty rags dur in the long run. If a Taiyuan merchant, Perhaps the most contentious point is in favour of the adoption of a hit-in active schools of thought; there are many ing the day and cover themselves with sends a shipment of 2,000 calling of firat straw mats during the night laas ordinary goods as specified by the hockey in recent years has been tha from touch, while others, have strongly scoop streke; that is to say, the ball denounced it and desired to see, the roll- The annual yield of cercals is quite Motor Bus Service Company to a con- that is lifted or flicked up into the air in retained with some slight modification sufficient to supply local needs in an or signee at Kichaiu, the distancs being Much heated controverty

has raged dinary year, but in case if severe foods about 280 li, it would cost him six cents around this stroke, a infamous A happy compromise has been effected

drought, much hardship is felt, as it par li per 1,000 catties, or in total $33.60 is most difficult to obtain external aid. by motor truck. If he forwards the has been termed), and there have always by the Hockey Hoard without indulging Thus, in the fall of 1921, the price of rice cargo by mule carts, he would have to The Hockey Board have altered the rule with and from the side-line, instead of been two opposite schools of thought in line is now placed seven yards parallel in any revolutionary change. The roll jumped from few dollars to 836 a picul hire three carts at $2.50 per cart per regarding it and placed the scoop" and as a result voer 50,000 persons died diem. It takes four days to reach the entirely under the control of the umpire for two or three years with the hit-in, five Experiments have been proceeding if starvation. Among the other articles destination instead of one as in the case If the latter thinks in certain circum of food, salt is hardest to procure of the motor truck. The total expenses stances, the stroke is dangerous in itself would seem that in extending the and modified rolling-in, andit Coming overland from Szechwan, its would be 830 for cart hire alone. To this or likely to result in dangerous play, he and it would seem that in extending the abnormally high; and mus be added the wages of an overseer can penalise it. For example, the roll-in distance from five to seven yards. recent disturbances in that province have employed to accompany the carRVÁD.,

scoop "might be regarded as dange it will please most players and umpires.

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so reduced the supply and increased the Some minor losses owingto Bilfering or rous when a hall is lifted high into the From general experiments which I have cost that many persons have to go altogether without salt. Other imported dated one to the cargo must also be air into the circle crowded with waiting already seen with a seven yards cell-inen foods such as sugar, wine, oil, eta are by male carts. The advantages of motor players. Accidente havé ocenrred through I think it is a wise improvement that

expected when the cargo is transported all high in price and must be used in transportation are thus very obvious such over-eagerness to got the ball, and should work admirably in practice. Clubs moderation even by the well-to-do.

justly, the umpire is given powers of will need to see that the seven yards in Although silver dollars are current on But as a matter of fact the business of anti-scoop" school, for it has been made, affective in the remarking of their the market, all articles are priced in the Shansi Motor Bus Service Company terms of silver taels, of which the Finis pot prosperous, and it will continue one of the great topics of the game for playing pitches for the start of the on-

the last twenty years. Yin or Ta Tien is accepted as the stand improves its economic state and changes in the condition until the population. ard fineness. Every business man carries

The law dealing with the free hit has weighing scale in his pocket in going it mode of living. At present the ser- about, the town. The isolated state of vices is patronised by only the official been re-cast to obvious advantage with the province leaves the standard and and wealthy classes of the province, out the alteration of its meaning, while manner of living very much the same as

Note The passenger fare of two cents the penalty bully law has been re it was hundreds of 3e11s ago. Modern per i charged by the Shansi Motor Bus phrased, though retaining its old sonse. influences are scarcely felt. The people, Bervice Company is by no means high There is now power to the offending side da a rule, are very frugal, indulging in In Shensi a company has been organised to nominate another player other than scarcely any luxury at all. But they live to operate & motor bus service between the offender, should the latter become happy and contented tires-Chinese Sianin and Tangkwan, 23 cents per incapacitated or sent off for misconduct, Economie Bulletin.

li præenger faze being proposed.

(Vontinued on nest column.)

A slight alteration has been effected in Law 20 relating to the taking of penalty corner hats, and it is now cssential and necessary to take the corner hit from the nearer goal post, so that the old option, to the corner bit taker is dispensed with,. The law relating to umpires and their duties has been entirely re-written with much credit to the draughtsmen, and every umpire should know now exactly what are his primary dutica,