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BY THE WAY.

FRENCH D113985.-Powell's have just received a consignment of delightful Paris dresses amoog then a distinguished model in a Warm rosewood brown georgette. The material is

the dress is pleated all over and finely knife trimmed with deep vandyke insets of gold lace on bodice and skirt. It is finished by a vetres ribbon to tone. At the waist. I noticed also a black georgette evening gown with a deep flounce of gold lace in a fishing net design; and a very lovel ly Aame coloured dress with an interesting skirt cut in three wrap over aprons,

stones

GIVE HER A RING-A drawer in a blackwood desk in the Sign of the Lantern, holds many charming little boxes covered with gay silks Inside the boxes are rings. The

are semi-precious-jade, amethyst, coral, turquoise, clc. Some are engraved, some cut like cameos, and some relying solely on their colour for their beauty. The settings are Chinese silver quaintly chased, and shaped, and you can buy these delightful little gifts from 82.50 upwards.

RELIABLE DOLLS are unbreakable and yet neither rag ner dull card board composition. They are not dressed in hideous underclothes or

unnatural garments but just charm ing lifelike dollies such as every little girl loves and her mother loves to buy. There are baby dolls, with just the little crumpled face of a new born, baby, and other alder children as beautifully modelled and simply and prettily dressed. These dolls are not expensive at about $5 each, the larger ones are a little more.

AT THE GRAND SILE STORE the sale is still in progress, and a new

cocsignment of Haeri coats from 892 has been included: As on my visit last week I found many lovely ilka at very reduced prices, and I was especially struck by the brocade tinsel shoe materials. These really are amazingly cheap at 82.75 a shoe length, a gorgeous balt of stuff thick As leather and yet souple, was wover of silver threads

with a small lea! pattern in pale, green.

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12th,

BASEBALL TOPICS. VISITING BASEBALL TEAM, FAR EASTERN OLYMPIAD.

PLAYERS GRIEVANCES.

SOME SPECTATORS' 'VIEWS.

[BY HONOLULU KID.)

The baseball world of this Colony at the present moment has plenty to talk about. Speculation is rife as to how the Hawaiian Chinese

ENTERTAINED AT CANTON

AND HERE

The Honolulu. Chinese · baseball players spent Monday and The day at Canton, where they were en- tertained by the Chinace Y.M.C.A. and the Canton South China Athletic Association."

THE HONG KONG CONTINGENT.

LEAVING HERE SOON.

athletes to the Far Eastern Olym

The Hong Kong contingent of

pind, including the Honolulu Chi- nese baseball team which qualised, Mr. Mok Wing Yu, of Messrs. Hong Kong residents according Butterfeld & Swire, vice president to the rules of the Hong Kong base will shape in the Far Eastern of the South China Athletic Aseball Association by having been Olympic Meeting at Shanghai, and ciation in Hong Kong, entertained here two weeks, will sail for Shang. in this connection I have obtained the visiting Honolulu Chinese hai on or about August gond, reach- the views of many ball fans. There Athletes at dinner at the Tunging there about the Sith. is also a certain amount of interest | Ting Restaurant, West Point, last centred on the outcome of the pro-evening.

test made against the Dragons by Mr. Lee Hysan was host at s the Filipinos. And I have also dinner and thestra party to the been the unwilling listener to many Honolulu visitors last Saturday complaints by local players.

evening. Mr. Lee is president är South China Athletic Association.

This (Friday) evening the Hono

The Hawaiian Chinese players have failed so far to impress the local fans. Opicion is almost un animous that the Japanese were a better, team despite the fact that they lost the game by a wide mar- gin.

Had the game lasted caly seven innings, the Japanese would have come out even..

Ahother fan pointed out that the

lulu Chinese will give & Hawaiian concert at the Chinese Y.M.C.A., and among the items will be typical Hawaiian music and dances with which many Chiness born there are also familiar.

-BASEBALL-PROTEST

The contingent will comprise more than 80 athletes and officials, including tennis players, footballers, swimmers, and baseball players,

The baseball tram will be picked by Mr. Richard Shim, Chairman, of the baseball sub-committee of the Hong Kong Chinese Amateur 4th-

letic Federation.

Swimmers will possibly include Ah Kong Pang and Charles Fung. two members of the Honolulu basc ball team, who arrived and joined

South China Athletic Association on August 1st, but the Committee of the Federation will have fiat say in all selections. So far the follow. ing have been accepted as swimming candidates--Leung Shiu Man, Tan Chin Hin, Wong Ping Hin, Lo Chin Hing, Wong Ping Fan, Wen Kwong Ting, Wong Kam Fan, and Ho Pak

visitors were almost playing with a On Monday the Hong Kong Base- three ball Association, is holding a meet fresh team after two or cantos. This is true. The Japanese ing to consider the protest of the sadly lacked substitutes particu-Filipino Baseball Club against the larly a pitcher to take S. Hachiu-"Dragons" playing Abe Lin in men's place after the seventh frame. the game of August 7th. The meet-Ping. The visiting team played no fewering is at 5.30 at the American Con- than three pitchers, where Hachip-sulate-General me dished the pill out for his side throughout the nine atanzas.

As to how the visitors will shape

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LOCAL FOOTBALL.

Probably all who have been men- tioned for the football team will be able to go, they are: Pau Ka Ping, Lau Mow, Lo Wai Man, Ho Cho Yin, Lum Yuk Ying, Ng Po Lau, Bee Bing Tong, Suen Kam Shun,

in the Olympic games, I agree with PREPARATIONS FOR ANOTHER Wong Pak Chong, Choy Fing Fan,

the

many of the fans that they will be beaten either by Japan or Philippines. I have personally wit-

No MENDING-YOR fan boy guaranteed hole proof stockings at the Pioneer Silk Store Downessed many ball games at Tokyo,

Tebilla" silk stockings are made in fine mash and replacable if they ladder before six months.

BARGAINE-Just a few more bar- gains. I discovered at Whiteaway, Laidlaw's this week. Sample Celanese andies from $2.75"a gar- ment, which sounds incredible. A

pair of strong sheets for 88:95 and sheeting by the yard for $1.25. There are voiles and ginghams, organdies, maslins and cretonnes, for less than one dollar, a yard. Upstairs. I found polishing-cloths at four for a dollar and stout Turkish bath mats for $1.95. There are really charm- ing little coloured shoes for the babies reduced to $3.50 a pair, and small sized men's mackintoshes for

Yokohama und Kobe, and from the high standard of play there, I think the Hawaiian Chinese would hardly have a "look-in."

With regard to the grievances of the local players I have not per- sonally investigated the matter and

SEASON.

Preparation is under way for the opening of the next local football

season.

Applications for admission to the Hong Kong Football League must reach the Hon. Secretary, Mr. W. E. Hollands, by August 31st, accom- panied with the entrance fee of $20. No club can be admitted to the League unless affiliated to the Hong

I, therefore disclaim all respon-Kong Football Association, and sibility. But in the interest of applications for affiliation to this

The Officers and Committee of

1927

KISS IN THE DARK."

COMMANDER. BYRD AT THE NORTH POLE.

AILEEN PRINGLE'S INTEREST- ING ACTING.

[SY OUE FILM CRITIC]

One of the most interesting of screen pictures is being shown at the Queen's before "A Kiss in the Dark" to-day and to-morrow. The North Pole has exercised a fascination over the minds of men for many generations and even after it was first located by Pearcy there have been memorable expeditions to the root of the world. Comdr. Byrd's flight in a Fokker aero-" plane in which he circled the pole, bna au interest of its own for during the whole of the flight from Spitzbergen either he himself or his. comrade-were taking cinemato graph pictures. The scenery is not perhaps so romantic as much which the film camera has shown us, con- sisting of great sheets of brokeh ice flows, snow covered ranges, glaciers and black sea water, but the romance lies in the deeds of heroism which those wastes recall. It is a picture of desolation, and one realises the terrible loneliness which must daunt the heart of the explorer of this vast trackless land This picture should be of world wide intèrast and we are priviledged to sec it here in Hong Kong,

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French Farce-Amusing In Parts.

"A Kiss in the Dark," is the usual Hollywood version of a French farec. It is amusing, in parts, well acted, luxuriously stag Ng Kam Chuen, Fung Man Kit, ed, and quite uninspiring. Adolphe Chan Woon Yia, Cheung Kam Menjou, is the type of the tradi Chuen, Chang Siu Hong, and Lau tional stage Frenchman not quite Hing Chong.

Told enough to be called a rož but the Hong Kong Chinese Amateur getting on that way. Despite the farewell reception to the athletes on sibly among the most respectable Athletic Federation will give

fact that he acts well, and is pos Monday evening next at the club room of the South China Athletic of Hollywood citizens he is not a Association.

very attractive central figure espo cially when he is in his favourite role of Indy killer. This is not because he ever offends our susceptibilities, but be just fails, where Valentino is supreme, in

SARSAPARILLA AND JELLIED EELS.

T

fascinating to the other sex. Aileen

sport, I think the management con- Association must reach Mr.. Hol A GOODWOOD RACE PARTY convincing his audience that he is cerned should pay some attention lands also by August 1st, accom to one matter. The complaint was panied by the necessary fee of $2 made by several players that they Newly affiliated clubs will be have been refused admission into charged $1, with the entrance fee

extra.

player's pass.

83 which would be excellent also forthe stand although they held a A school girl. There is a large stock which must be cleared in every department and some really amaz ing bargains in small lots which will go quickly.

DINNER-JACKETS LESS POPULAR.

BACKLESS WÄISTCOATS.

Last week end the management

Application from qualified re- ferees for affiliation to the Hong Kong Football Association have to

The misfortunes of an sel mer-Pringle who plays one of the lend chant's party on a motor trip toing women's parts is a very beauti- Goodwood races were described during the bearing of an accident ful woman and acts with grace, if claim in the High Court before not with very remarkable skill. We Mr. Justice Avory.

should like to see her in a rôle which would give her more oppor

Mr. Morris Crom, of Garden place, Middlesex-street, Aldgate,

street, E, alleging negligence, which was denied.

was entitely in the hands of the reach Mr. Hollands by August 31st, E., sued Mr. A. Myers, of Buxton tunity, as she has a good deal which

Accompanied by the annual sub scription of $1.

PING-PONG.

South China Athletic Amociation, and their own officials were employ- ed at the gate. If what the play- ers complained of is true, then it is a great pity that the S.C.A.A should be so unsportsmanlike as to refuse admission to fellow members of thde local Baseball Association: I quite understand. "that Convention with regard to even-8.C.A.A have gone to great ex- ing dress for men is evidently grow ing much stricter than it has been penses to get the Hawaiian team August 10th, 12 organisations have einer before the war. Ever since down here and no one blames them joined the league whose tournament the armistice the tail-coat for even for trying to re-coup-some of the begius on the 17th. The following ing wear has had a hard fight to

money from the gate receipts, but clubs have entered teams:-Chinese regain the position it held before. this ought not to be done by keep. Recreation Club, Chinese T.M.C.A.,

the

The Hon. Secretary of the newly formed Hong Kong" Ping Pong League, announces that up

to

many film actresses lack." A beanti- ful carriage, an air of refinement, Mr. Martin O'Connor, for Mr. and very lovely handa. We wonder "Cross, explained that his client that her director has not noticed hired a vehicle from Mr. Myers to those hands and made more of take a party to Goodwood races. them Hands express almost as On the second day when Hailemere much as faces and are more pro- Hill was reached the engine be minent on the screen than on the came overheated. The driver told stage where make up and the actual all the passengers to jump off. The colour and glitter of jewels, dresses vehicle gave a sudden jerk and Mr. and scenory distract attention. In Cross, who had his leg over the the black and white of a photograph tailboard, was thrown into the the shape and texture of the bands read with the tailboard on top of is clearly seen, and alas, many him After the mishap, his arm highborn ladies" betray their ached and he felt sick and dizzy.origin in plebian hands..

On the way back in another vehicle owned by Mr. Myers the driver shouted as the vehicle was

My brakes have given way." once. I am travelling in danger. Cross jumped off and fell into the road. The police declined to allow the vehicle to proceed and he had to spend the night in it in the rain.

Men could not be troubled to put ing out players in the local league Chinese Athletic Association, South going downhill; All get off at SLAUGHTER AT A PASSION

on more than a dinner jacket, so that it gradually became tolerated for even quite formal occasions, while for dancing it was practically universal.

The S.C.AA management, on China Athletic Association, Old the whole, has not been tactful A Boys' Club of Wah Tan College, local contemporary commenting on Chinese Catholics Young Men's playing members, of the local league Club, The Shen Ying Sha, St. Now it is losing ground very not being admitted, as usual, on Peter's Young Men's Club, The rapidly and will soon be back in its their passes, blamed the Hano Hong Kong University, The Tutorial old place that of the informal lulu Chinese who were also criti-Thstitute, The St, Louis Club, the dress when men are alone together. cised for sending & man to check Club de Recreio, Even there the double-breasted the number of Pressmen present. dianer jacket which, together with | Actually the official in question was Its lounge brother, has been so a member of the 8.0.AA The

popular these last few seasons, will visitors had nothing" to do with "- COST OF STRIKES. no longer be much noticed; it be this.

came all the rage in a short while, and its very popularity has killed

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A few days later, added Mr. O'Connor, Mr. Cross had a ft and it was 15 weeks before he was able to resume his business

PLAY.

30 PERSONS KILLED NEAR BAGDAD.

Mr. Nathan Cohen, a street trader,, who was one of Mr. Crow's party, said he went to the races The

Mr.parilla.

ENGINEERS LOSS OF £128,160 | to sell.

LAST YEAR.

BAGDAD. been killed and many injured in & Thirty persons are said to have desperate fight between civilians Bagdad during what is known as and Iraq soldiers a few miles from the Shish Moslem" passion play." customary lamentations, I was present when the gentle,

Avory: What is the tenth Moharram Day proces headcutting, and breast-beating of it for the man who wishes to pre-man came up to the so-called

that 1-A soft drink which is a very sion, celebrating the martyrdom of serve his own. style. Every male" 'press table to say that he wOI

beautiful thing. (Laughter.) pak chorus, and nearly every male requested by the &C.A.4. to check secretary of National Union of Myers): Does sarsaparilla go with years ago, became a fierce riot.

Mr. J. H. Thomas, MP., general

Mr. Cartwright Sharp (for Mr. Hussain at Kerbala twelve hundred dancer, was seen in it, so that it the number of Fressmen present Railwaymen, cently stated that jellied eels like mint sauce with famous Golden Domes of Khadi- became almost a craze, and is going His tone

When the walling mob reached the was not particularly owing to last year's general strike lamb-No sir; them that wants the way of nearly all crazen By

* sportsmanlike

or even civil and and the coal stoppage the union sarsaparilla has sarsaparilla, and Iraq army soldier and a civilian. next winter I doubt if it will be I offered to leave the game.

main"& quarrel arose between an spent £1,800,000 of a balance of them that wants jellied eels has The crowd of religious enthusiasts, seen any more.

would suggest that officials of the "When in doubt, wear tails, is a Hong Kong Baseball Association 1,000,000 standing to its credit on jellied eels. (Laughter.) maxim which can now safely be should have the management of the The Amalgamated Engineering

A Scotch! followed, as, whatever the occasion, stand at all games played at the Union was also badly hit. In the A driver, Mr. Wm. Richards, one can be certain of being at least Happy Valley

This Anancial report for the year ended who brought the party back from prevent misunderstanding December 31st last, it is shown that the races, told the court that ground in the majority, Since an enter- prising outätter first introduced and bad feelings.

the loss on the year's working to policeman, sat beside a scotch in The mob, with swords--ased backless evening waistcoats he has

the general fund amounted to the lorry m When the brakes failed the head-cutting celebrations- been widely followed, and this

the policeman jumped out with the sticks, and anything they could lay style is undoubtedly the most wom

eneral fund at the end of scotch, of, g at the moment. It is certainly

1925 stood at £205,239 i was he gaplained, was block, to put on the unarmed soldiers who cooler than the complete waistcoat

£179,063 at the end of 1998, ˆ« | under the wheela.,

fought with their fists and belts and is also claimed to give a better

Many fell on both sides, soldiers fit, while retaining comfort and

being stabbed, kicked, and tram- freedom of movement. Incidental

pled -ly this style has also been used this suminer by different makers for the

would

Diamond,

which had reached a high pitch of frency took sides, and the pre- cincts of the holiest of holy mor ques became furious battle-

Some interest centres on the out- | £126,160. come of the protest made-as regards last Sunday's game against the Dragons by the Filipinos. I would not like to comment ou it either In January 1990 the total mem Me Justice Avory: We all way until the Protest Committee bership of the union was 234,223 thought you meant & Scotsman hand out their decision. I would By the end of the year the águres (Laughter.) however say this that bad the sug had dropped to 2,619-Nineteen Mr. Cartwright- Sharp

Their colocel managed to get the gestion made by "Whitesor been branches were closed during the thought he meant a bottle of men outside the precincts of the funey Waistcoats worn with acted upon by each club registering year, and the number of unemployihary found for the plaintiff are said to have fired on the crowd. _________ shrine, and then reinforcements morning coat, so that there is their players before the commenced members, which was 17,216 in

vidently merit in the claims made ing of the League matches, such May, was never less than 20,000 for and awarded £23 damages. Judg. The exact number of the carna]-- for-itDaily Mail.

Controversy would not have arisen the remainder of 1925,

tuent was entered accordingly. Wieses REMOresent unknown.

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