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A GLIMPSE OF OLD CHINA.

Sir Aurel Stein has brought back some strange Chinese antiquities from bis third Central Asian expédition, which he conducter at the request of the Indino Government. The curiosities are now to be meet at the British Museum, and are attracting a good deal of attention is learned circles in London. He travelled

and the extreme West of China and across the Pamir region to North-Eastern

Persia

LONDON, July 18th.

THE PALACE OF WESTMINSTER.

BIKE. HULTON'S KORSES,

ATHLETICS IN MIDDLE AGE A WARNING TO FOLK

OVER FORTY..

TRY' F. A. M. WENSTER].

Willian Borneman, the Scandinavian

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Bacing circles have plenty to talk about in respect of the sale of the late Sir Edward Hulton's bloodstock at Now market which has occupied nearly a week. Outside his newspaper interests Sir Edward cared for little else besides long jump record holder and Olympic caring; and he, had bäilt'up a magnificent champion of 1920, came to spend a week- stud. All his horses' were dispersed this end with us a little while ago. He arrived week, and the total amount realised, on Friday evening in time for dinner, after came to the enormous figure of 88,380 which we danced until the sky was. The condition of the stone-work of the guineas. I hear that this is a record for turning grey. After breakfast next Houses of Parliament, to which I refer

one owner's horses, as well it may be,morning we took him down to the paddock red in a recent letter, turns out to be but at the same time it is said there are where are the junaping pits. throwing more serious than first reports indicated, other racing studs in this country which circles, and a miniature hardle earn Sir Frederick Baines, the architect of are of greater worth than that which We spent the morning throwing and jump- the Board of Works, considers that at has just been broken up. The gross reing, and incidentally, we watched the least a million pounds sterling will have turn of well over a quarter of a million children, aged right, sis, and over great portions of Eastern Turkestan to be expended to put the building in sterling would have assuredly astonished years respectively, practising their athletic

a state of repair. It weens that awing Sir Edward Hulton had he lived to wit-evolutions. The whole afternoon to the action of the London atmosphere

occupied with hard tennis, and after ness the dispersal, the gargoyles along the roofs and the

A considerable proportion of the money dinner we danced again until midnight,

Besides being the great long jumper ba delicate stone carving which is such a

paid this week for the Hulton bloodstock feature of the architecture have crum-has been put down on behalf of foreign is, Wiliam happens also to be a fine bled. There is no other course but to

buyers. Breeders abroad are always exponent of javelin and discus throwing, replace the parts that have yielded to

anxious to secure noted strains of horse-shot putting and pole, vaulting. the climatic conditions.

flesh from England. This is sufficient Sunday morning all the keen athletes of answer to people who are apt to talk the neighbourhood turned up to see what toolishly about the extravagance of main bis could teach them, and we had a pretty The breeding of hectic" morning. In the "afternoon wo. many buildings of that period in London bloodstock is the one industry in which played more tennis, and in the evening which are apparently none the worse for we may be said to have a monopoly. again danced until the small hours, wear; but the ornamental detail of The biggest buyer at the Hulton sale Barry's masterpiece has been an easy was, it is interesting to note, Mr. H. Ely what he considered, the host ngs for prey to the weather. Picors of masonry | Morriss, of Shanghai, alrendy famous as continue to tamble down; in fact a notice the owner of the Derby winner this year. In Scandinavia, on the Continent, and has been posted up on the Terrace warn He bent off opposition for certain in America," he said, "u athlete, ing members not to sit or walk within animals he wanted, the price, apparently generally speaking, reaches his prime in being no object. He paid 9,200 guineas the carly twenties and retires altogether for Sample, a bay filly, and for n sistar from active participation in athletics long

before he is thiety. of this animal, Soubriquet, ha went to

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Some of the most interesting dis- coveries were found or the ancient trade route which ran between China" and Western Asia from the second century B.C. to the fourth century AD. when the way became impracticable owing to the drying up of the rivers. In the vast region which is now waterless and wind-Swept waste were found relies of this remote trade activity." Among the most interesting, recovered from the graves of these ancient Chinese mer-

chants, were elaborate silk fabrics, being the earliest yet known. I am told that they throw a new light on the history" of Chinese decorative art. They have heen marvellously preserved by the ex- treme dryness of the climate. Another

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find” was a large haul in one place of well-preserved Chinese manuscripts.

FRANCE AND CHINA

The Palace of Westminster is not an

completed and opened in 1539. There are old building by any means. It was only

five or six feet of the walls. The notice ia religiously, obeyed. No M.P., anxious to cause a bye-election in his ́own constitueney!

A STOCK EXCHANGE "BOOM"

Stories bordering on the romantic

The French Ambassador in London, I am informed, at a reception a few days ago give a clue to French opinion re-platinum are at present going the rounds garding the disturbances in China. He in the City. In the classical Throgmorten Street phrase there is a "boom" in this was emphatically in favour of main- taining the trenties. The treaties,'

"particular class of investment. It has he said, cannot be touched without the occurred since the news came to hand greatest risk to foreigners in China, When someone talks about altering them and making concessions to a Chinese Government which has no real authority in the countryshe lives and property of foreigners are thereby imperilled." He added that the agitators who are stirring up well-disposed Chinese against foreign- ers would not go on with their intrigues if they did not receive fuil encourage

ment from outside.

SPORTING JOURNALIST OF NOTE.

taining racing · studs.

12,300 guineaR,

CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS.

"In spite of all the publicity given to

On

Before he left I asked William difident-

an athlete.

"But you British-good heavens! You are different. Here in Englund your children perform like Olympic champions almost as soon as they can run, it seems,

**We others, grow old and fat when wo

about the appreciation of shares in the ways and the wiles of confidence you practise sport all day and dance all tricksters visitors to London continue to night, and then do it all over again the be victimisan. A wealthy Egyptian who next day and the next, and yet never arrived herd a few days ago" has been scem fatigued. But your old men-or relieved of £7,500. This is the biggest what we should call old men-they are

literally marvellous coup that has been brought off for some that platinum has been discovered in the time. Usually the sum involved does not Transvaal, The shares in the leading exceed hundreds of pounds. In this case companies holding big areas in the pre- the chief trickster joined at Marseilles isus zone where the reported-deposits the liner on which the Egyptian was were toented have suddenly increased in travelling, and so gained the latter's con- value to the tune ni hundreds per cent.fidence before he reached" London. Op Hitherto they have not been worth the arrival he seems to have entertained the price of waste paper.,

stranger well, and three other men who were in the swindle came on the scene according to plan. The money was "ob- tained ostensibly to buy horses and cattle

One enn wall imagine the rummaging there has been in strong boxes by those who vaguely remember that they possess

2 few hundreds or few thousand for a joint venture. The Egyptian is platinum shares, and how closely the described as a careful man, sharp over quotations are watched on 'Change money matters, and he was well warned every day by holders who have heard against swindlers. that the properties may be richer "than a goid mine-where, in fact, about half

One of the best informed and most popular sporting journalist in this enun- try has passed away in the person of William Allison, who was the "Special Commissioner of the Sporting Life and Sportsman." He was 74 years of millions' worth of platinum has been age.. Fluented at Rugby and at Oxford, discovered in a patch the size of a tenuis he was called to the Bar, but preferred sporting journalism and acting as adviser to breeders of bloodstock: His know. ledge of pedigrees was unrivalled. It is merely stating a fact to say that he could tell you the pedigree of any horse

that had ever done anything worth men- tioning on the Turf. For years he had a great deal to do with the purchase of stuck for South America, which he had Allison was a visited several times. lovable man, belonging to a type that has now almost died out of Fleet Street.

CASH-ON-DELIVERY POST.

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court.

SHIPPING FACTS.

This confidence trick and the way it was, carried through shows that it is becoming the rule to sink money in such ventures. It goes a long stretch beyond the old dodge of showing a bundle of bank notes Bank of Engray-

94. NOT CUT.

CANON THEOBALD STILL HALE

AND HEARTY.

stop playing games, but you British people never grow old.. Look at your fox- hunters, your tennis players, youz cricke- ters, and the old athletes who run in the veterans' races."

That, in a nutshell, is what the majority of foreigners think of us. They give us a magnificent re station; and yet, are we really wise to hang on to our athletia.. ability in reery branch of sport as long as we do t

Those veterans' races, for example. In most of them a man has to be forty years of age or over, before he is entitled to take part. At forty a man-as a man, but not necessarily as an athlete or player of galesis in his prime. But bix maximum efficiency is not going to lask long The road along the heights a short one, and there is a long slant into the valley below.

a lot, and seemed unable to make himself ·

wish I'd taken the advice in that bock of yours and trained steadily for a monti. I ran in a veterans' race a week ago. I'm ati still, and I don't seem to have any energy left."

A new phase of life is in sight, and it is marked by more rigid arteries and more brittle bones; the physique has become set in accordance, with one's mode of life, victim and, above all, one does not recover from

Iatigue a quickly as one did formerly.

Only yesterday I met an old school- Lloyd's annual shipping figures which ing notes with a real pote on top--and fellow in the train, once a great sprinter, have just been issued show again in telling a colourable story of riches in now a bit grey about the temples, and increase in world tonnage. Steam and store if only he will participate. In this more than a little bald. He shifted atont motor tonnage of steel and iron is now case at least £40 must have been laid comfortable. At last he hurst out: " over sixteen millions in excess of the out by way of beit.-H.B. tonnage of 1914, while the reduction in sailing tonnage is about 1,718,000. The rise in the past year is over 600,000 tons. despite a fall of 579,000 in the United

That was because be had departed frou his usual mode of life and had imposed a States tonnage. Of course, despite the recent fall, the United States tonnage

serious, if not actually dangerous strain - upon his set physique. "When you'ru It is said-on-good-authority that the has increased enormously since 1914-for

That great cricketer, Canon Charles forty," a great trainer once said to me, Postmaster-General has put a scheme be-

steam and motor ships from under two Theobald, still hale and hearty, cele-live at about tenpence, even if you feel million tons to over eleven and a half brated his 94th birthday on July 4th. fit for a shilling, "have the whole bob's fore the Cabinet for the establishment British tonnage of the same type bas

worth and you'll probably go bust." In 1848, when W. G. Grace was famous. In athletics the sprinters, hurdlers and of an inland cash-on-delivery parcels risen since 1914 by only 100,000, and the only in his home cirete as a remarkably jumpers enjoy their heyday from abont post. The proposal has been referred British share in world whipping has ane infant, young Theobald played for twenty to twenty-ave. There are, how-

fallen from 443 per cent. to under 23 per Winchester against both to the Home Affairs Committee of the cent.

Etan and over, exceptions Bike Georges Andre, the Barrow. He is a living link with Alfred jumper and hurdler, who represented Cabinet with a requeat to give it careful France, Holland, Italy and Japan show Mynn, Fuller Pilch, and other gianti af France and figured prominently in insis consideration and to report.

very large increases. German tonnage the past whom he knew in the flesh, but at the Olympinds of 1909, 1912, 1920 and The jdes is not new, but it has never has fallen by over 40 per cent.; but who to the rest of us are only names of 1984. Javelin and discus throwers seldom before got to the stage of serious 'con- every other country of importance has glory.

reach their prime until they are over kideration by the Government of the day, had a larger relative increase than Great His playing days are long over, but thirty, and discus throwers are good for I believe, however, that although legis, Britain. I need scarcely point out that this grand old cricketer still keeps up international honours until they are thirty- lation would not be necessary to give in face of these figures it is dor fifficult his wicket, and his love for the game is five or thereabouts, while the hammer effect to the schéme it is extremely un- to account for the slump shipping yet strong,

throwers often do not produce their best likely that it will be adopted. For one freights. Less, merchandise is being car-

It is impossible, owing to changing twenty years and have passed their for-

until they have been at the game for....... thing there are Ministers who are averge ried, and there are more ships to carry to stirring up the opposition of proving it. In addition to this, by the scrapping conditions, to compare the cricketers of tieth birthday. cini retail distributors-the butcher, the of old ships, an increase in carrying the toptat era with those of to-day, but

The broad we hope that Canon Theobald, looking mature late. A. G. Hill was an example Middle distance runners, too, sometimes baker, and candlestick maker who are capacity has been secured ruffer, enough as things are by the fierce fact emerges that other countrica having pon the present generation of players, of this. He won the AAA. Four Miles competition of the great London retail- increased their mercantile fleets are finds them good."

Championship in 1810, but, did not blas On the other hand the Post Office using British services less for the carry-

Certainly to this foe old sportsman it som out as a world heater at the balf and authorities are understood to be keen on ing of their goods both to us and between must be a pleasure to know that the great fape mile distances until 1920, when ho the matter. I hear that public meetings foreign ports." Hence the alump in the traditions of his beloved game have been bad fought all through the war, ha are to be held in London in the Autumn shipping industry concerning which so worthily upheld and that the true spirit · Marathon runners seem to reach their to demand the inauguration of the ser- much in heard in this country at the pre of cricket is as strong to-day as it was prime between thirty, arid, "thirty-fwm.

I sent time.

in the forties and fifties of last century years of age.

vice.

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