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RAIN THE SPOIL SPORT.

SCOTTISH "AT HOME

TO-MORROW.

All outdoor sport was cancelled in the Colou yesterday owing to the heavy rein.

The

At Home arranged by the Hong Kong St. Andrew's Scriety at Happy Valley has been postponed until tomorrow, when it will take place, weather permit ting, on the Hong Kong Football

Club ground at 2 p.m.

The apecial Scottish Concert ar ranged to be given at the City Hall last evening has also been put off until to-morrow evening.

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MACAO RACES.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER

SATISFACTORY ENTRIES.

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GOOD SUPPORT FROM HONG KONG.

SOME SELECTIONS.

(BY RAPTER).

The entries for the shore Meeting to be held this week end are quite

GOLF.

ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB.

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LADIES SECTION.

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A medal competition on the New Course, Fanling was held on Tues- day and was won by Ura Whyte- Smith with a score of 100-9-91. The prize for members with han satisfactory. There are seven inces dieaps of over 20 was won by Mrs. on Saturday and six on Sunday, Leggatt and the Consolation Prize and the following riden hope to Fothergill. The latter nike the journey from Hong Kong prizes were presented by Mrs. namely,

Boylan Smith.. Mears. Pollock, Wong, Bulterl, Reidy, Stanton, Gordon, loza, Usher, Wolfe Murray, and the star performer in Mano, Bob Cheels. Mrs. E. P. White, L." Dabar, F. Sutton, Ho Kom Tong and Ho Kwong are, I understand, The Bace Club also going over.

are arraged with the Steamboat Company to 10n the Zungshan on Saturday morning leaving here at and for the Taishan to leave t the same hour on Sunday morn

The Annual General Meeting of the Section will be held at the Helena May Institute on Monday the 17th inst, at 10.30 a.m.

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The bowls match between Shang- hai and the Police also want rent." The interport, is sed for to-day at the Craigengawer Cricket Club green, will not take plave, but should the condition of "ground permit the Interport Team willing both vessels arriving in good A BANGKOK REMINISCENCE.

play the Police.

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time for the races. Given decent wenthar ahrge crowd will no The Hockey match between the doubt make the journey to Macao Club and the Queen's Regiment, atins it is a very pleasant way of the IS. T. C. ground was cancelled yesterday, and alec: the football "match between the Royal Artillery

MR. CECIL HYNES' TURF SUCCESSES.

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It is twenty-five years ago in spending a week end or a day January 1902, that Mr. Cecil

with the attractions especially offered by the Race Clab. I believe Hynes (the new Chief Manager of that Mr. Chan is still willing to the Hong Kong and Shanghai and the Queen's Regt. in Division Dragon Bont despite the fact Bank) unfurled his blue, red cuffs,

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BOWLING.

THE INTERPORT MATCH.

The interport match with Shang- hai will not take!place, to-day owing to the inclement weather but, weather permitting, the Shanghai Interport Teah will play the Police.

The date for the interport match cannot be fixed until the weather is more favourable, but it is hoped that it will take place next Satur-

day or Monday,

THE WELSH.

KACE AND RELIGION.

CHARACTERISTICS ANALYSED

BY A PROFESSOR.

of the Hong Kong Footbal that it did a well last week end collar and cap livery on the Banz eyes, long heads, and small statute,

League:

THE LATEST CHANNEL

VICTOR.

MISS MacLENNAN'S FEAT A RECORD FOR WOMEN SWIMMERS.

WINS £1,000 PRIZE.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Oct. 12th.-

Miss Maclennan's record swim

Ch Saturday it went outsice and Fan second to Dubbin, on Monday it won a race, and carrying 107 lbs. it finished eccond to City Hall.

have

kok Race Course, on his Australian gelding called Boreas writes Checure in the Bangkak Times, was transferred to Bangkok from Singapore, and be had brought his borse along with him.

The following selections been forwarded to us by a member of the Macao Club. They are not by Rapies. but we give them trust- ing that they will bring many | Ho.. rods his own horse every time. He could easily ride then at 8'stant successful wagers to our renders

+ lbs. In those days racing was con-

First Day.

1.-The Saturday Norkes Race: fined here to Siamese ponies only,

13 furlangs.

Chin Shan, Chick To..... Perversity.

2.-The Second Selling Plate:

4 furlongs.

Wai Chow,

Six Handred. Castle..

3.-The Siangwan Plate:

for lady of 13 hours und 10 minutes surprised even her mother. "Her landing caused a commotion mile. on the beach where there only fifty people, all of whom rushed to her assistance, but she was as fresh as a lark”

were

It was a victory "of stamina nad determination, favoured by warm wilter and brilliant moonlight, She ate only & little bugar and mait extract.

name

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Mayfair (late Sunburst Rose). Chow Taze Lon. Baccarat.

one.or two races being thrown open- to Australian horses, with amateur riders, in each meeting..

The Nordic type in the Welsh population is characterised by en terprise and initiative, but does not sem to excel in intellect. Mr. J. E. Daniel, of London, maid in an address to the British Association on the relation of religious de nominations in Wales to racial and soxdal factors. In Wales, as in England, this type is predominant among the landed aristocracy. The largest in the Welab population was dark people with dark hair and the Mediterranean. type, the little

They are acquiescent rather than assertive, although imbued with qualities. streng imaginative and emotional The physical charac teristics of Wales rendering inter- communication difficult, prevented the development of any permanent cultural centre or political capital, and led to the disappearance of Welsh Inward of Welsh indepen- dence. It was this that had made Welsh nationalism turn toward's spiritual rather than political

ends.

13th, 1927.

LOCAL AQUATICS.

NIGHT FETE FOR AUS- TRALIAN SWIMMERS,

FIXED FOR NEXT TUESDAY.

Besides the Harbour Races next week, the long anticipated Aus- tralian night fete will be held. According to print arrangements the Harbour Races take place on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday when the Chince, Ladies and Opën Championships, respectively, will be decided, but with the expected return of the Autralians on Tues- day morning by the s.s. di Jozu, the Victoria. Recreation Club has said the opportunity to fix the night fete, potponed early this month, for Tuesday night commenc- ing at 9 o'clock to accommodate the visitors who will leave again on Wednesday,

A special display by the champion swimmers will te. given during the feto.

The programae fixed is as fol. lows:-..

30 yards Members' Handicap. 30 yards Ladies' Race Handi- wap."

Display by Australion Champion swimmers.

Fancy Diving Bindfold Race.

EXPLORER AND

MESMERIST.

SISTER'S STORY OF COL.

FAWCETT."

INDIANS SUBDUED BY HIS WILL.

Politics And Religion.

Extraordinary stories of her Dealing with Calvinistie Hethod-brother's prowes and his deter- ism, Mr. Daniel said that many miration to find Inca treasure, of In January 1003 Boreas won for features of Romanism and Roman which he believed he knew the him, his first race but by that time ritual which had found their way whereabouts, were told to a Daily bis stable had been added to by into that organisation in Wales Jail repertar by Mrs. Isacker sister indication of the hold of Cal. P. H. Fawcett, when shown some Siamese ponies. Mr. Hynes were did not stay long in Siam. He medieval Romanism had exercised the report that the explorer, who years ago and of left England was a fairly good rider but ab- over them. The Methodist Seidau solutely failed on a Siamese mount, were but a Ettle removed from the whom no news had been heard, was and the said to be living in a clearing in A failing which I have noted in Roman confessional,

everal good riders, amateur or "Ewy" itself was a reminder of the heart of Brazil (63 miles from professional accustomed culy to the Roman Gregorium. The prea- Diamantina] with his son and an- 4.-The Governor's Cup: 13 miles. horses. I think the pace and chers who successively dominated other young companion.

stort strides of the Siamese ponies the denomination" stood largely in the eyes of their followers as the Pope to the Romanists. But indus- trial revolution had resulted in The old spiria of great changes OUR "SLIM SUBMARINES. acquiesence was no longer exhibit ed on the other hand, it was the gospel of discontent with the pre- sant scheme of things that held the greatest sway. Trade unionism bad become a more vital power than religious denomination, while the political lodge was increasing in popularity, especially among the younger generation, at the expense of the religious institution.

Wild Fellow.

Hen Sin,

Baccarat.

-The Third Selling Plate. farlongs.

Her real

is Dorothy Cochrane Logan, and she is doctor of medicine. She has ren- dered brilliant service at several round. hospitals, and is now a popular medical officer at King's College

Hospital

Wu Chang.

Yee Yurn (late Jolly Kid). Sutherland.

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6. The Macno Siae Plate: Once

Sutherland.

Shanghai Friend. Solarday,

Second Day. 1.-The Whang Ho Pate:

This was her third attempt. The. Brat was rande last year, and she retired aimoet unconscious a mile from the English shore, after a longa.

Two months! hours in the water.

ago she failed when seven miles from England, after a terrific fight! with cross-curentă. She now wins

the prize of £1,000 offered by thelo Kew of the World, for heating

Miss Gertrude Ederle's time.

Miss Edlerle took 14 bours and 31 minutes.

HRITIS WIRELESS AKRVICE.).

Her Third Attempt.

RUGBY, Oct. 11th. Another Englishwoman has swum

Festive Eve.

Mayfair late Sunbaret Rose). Funchal flate Duwell).

unbalance them.

QUEER AMERICAN FEARS.

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ANTI BRITISH BUNKUM BELIEVED

Same queer ideas regarding the fur-British Navy appear to gain cur- reney and credonce in the United States. Of course, we are by now well used to the ingenious allega. tion that our battleships have gala- ed a great and unfair advantage of being able to flood their blister bilges, take a list in consequence, and so increase their angle broadside fire. The idea that these blisters are designed simply as pro 4-The Fourth Selling Plate:ection against submarine attack is Half mile.

3.

The Hong Kong Visitors' Cup: furlongs.

Hoo Sin. Ma Kau Siac: " Leaf.

Wuchang.

Chin Shan.

Yee Yuen (late Jolly Kid).

the English Channel. Dr. Dorothy Cup: 1 mile. Cochrane Logan, a medical special ist, accomplished the feat to-day

in 13 hours, 10 minutes This was her third attempt..

fter time is a record for women swimmers, being one hour, 27 minutes lees than the time of the American girl, Miss Gertrude

Ederle. She is the fourth woman, and fourteenth person, who has] swum the Channel.

She entered the water at Grisnez at twenty minutes to eight yester "day" evealcg. and landed st Folkestone at eight minutes to mine this morning.

Dr. Logan uses the pseudonym of Miss Mona Maclennan for her swim ring, and has always surrounded

Baccarat.

Leaf.

ECLIPSE OF THE SUN

SURPRISE.

ANOTHER 7 YEARS HENCE,

Great Britain is to see another total eclipee of the sun forty-five largely eyewashi. Now comes as years sconer than the scientists ex- other example of our hypocrisy. | pected: "

At the very time that we are urging It was stated at the time of the the abolition of the submarine we

solar eclipse in June that there

5. The Steamboat Company's are carrying out experimenta de would be no opportunity of view.

signed to add to the minister charac Mayfair (late Sunburst Rose),ter of the underwater boat. Insteading another complete eclipse of the

of visual attacks carried out by 11th, 1996.

zum in this country until August means of the periscope, and there- Dr. A. C. Crommelin, the famous fare at least giving the objective of astronomer, who recently retired Half mile.

6.The Sunday Novices Race. the attack a chance to see his om Greenwich Observatory, has enemy, we are said to be develop by mathematical calculations prov- ing system of torpedo ringingered that a total echipes of the sun tirely by directional sound. The will be visible in the Shetland submarine does not reveal herself Islands on June 30th, 1954. at all. She lies doggo" and lets ship her missile entirely by the aid of the hydrophone.

Chick To Chin Hoi. Valour.

AMERICAN BASEBALL.

THE FINAL POSITIONS.

TANKS GET FIRST.

hor Channel attempts with secrecy. New York Her success was a complete sur Combs cl prise, only those accompanying her Koenig .. in a fishing boat and a few of her Ruth r.. intimate friends knowing that she Gehrig b was trying again. At one point,

Meusel L. though she saw the cliffs of England Lazzeri 2b. through a haze, she seemed to be Dugan 3b. making so little progress that the Coline c. suggested to those in the boat that Hoyt p she should give up. But her trainer persuaded her to continue, and she succeeded, to her great delight..

LEAGUE CRICKET.

LR.C. (B) UNIVERSITY.

On the University Ground at 2:18 p.m. sharp on Saturday,

The L.R.G. Sirdar Klan (Capt.), M. P. Mador, A. S. Suffiad. V. Mans, D. Mohamad, A Rahmin, V. T. Thad A. Butt, J. M. Raw- jahn, S. A R. Bux, A. K. Isinal) and reserve M. R. Abba

Mooro p..

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He has also amplified our pro spective knowledge of the total eclipse that will take place in 1990. Of course, this sort of bunkum is the totality belt on this occasion not believed in the United States will be sixty miles wide, and will Navy. But the unfortunate feature rum from St. Ives, in Cornwall, is that it undoubtedly effects its.

over the southern half of that anti-British. purpose as

a slice of the Precounty, embrace paganda. How many torpedoes. would be wasted in sound-direction von and Dorset coast, and will leave England somewhere near firing, or whether the sounde may Portland Bill.

£ not just as easily come from

friendly as hostile ship, the

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Dr. Crommelin.

Mrs. Isäcke declared that it was the most likely thing on earth" that Col. Fawcett would be settled where he is rewrted to have been found. She added:

He is a terribly determined man, and act his heart on finding the Inca treasure, which he was convinced lay in a district of which he knew. He would never return till he found it and would

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New Way Of Bolling Eggs. Mr. J. L. Hodgson, M.I.Mech. E. enggested in 1 paper that instead of cooking our eggs, washing our 'faces, driving our machinery, and

never admit even partial failure, HELP SCIENCE ADVOCATED, providing our light through the

and he also did not want zayone to follow him, and that is why he did not communicate with the outside world.

I spoke to his wife only a week go, and she was convinced that "Don't worry he #13 sale. about him," she said, "he's safe enough, and I don't expect to hear from him till he succeeds. Mrx.. Fareett believes in telepathy, and regularly feels that she is in touch with him.

The last letter I had from him was in March, 1925, written from Cayaba, and he was then leaving for the unknown. He was heart and soul in the business, and so vere his two young companions, bis son Jack and a school friend

of this.

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THE EARTH'S HEAT.

medium of heat obtained from the buraing of coal, we should instead tap the internal heat of the earth. Scientists young and old Estened Upponents of vivisection would with interest to the advanced ideas have been interested to hear the of Mr. Eodgson, who had worked argument put forward by Dr. out in detail his scheme for obtain G. Douglas, at the British Associa-ing heat from the hot rocks beneath tion. He contended that in the in-us instead of destroying a highly terests of knowledge man himself, elaborated substance such as coal. rather than on animal, should, be experimented upoo,

A very simple calculation show. ed, he said, that a cubic mile of "We are bound to admit frank-

hot rock, cooled down by 1000 de ly," he said, "that direct opeervs-grees Fahr., would yield as much tion by methods involving opera heat as the burning of two hundred tive procedure on the anesthetised million tons of coal, and, if used Pacifying Cannibals, Col. Fawit knows the Indians animal cannot by itself give us the at twenty per cent, efficiency, would .. In maintain fifty million horse-power thoroughly, and they like him. full answer we require.

his life he has been the study of, normal physiology for one year. And this horse- mesmerist, and studied the sub-

man is in many instances a "faz power was only alightly less than ject. He has a tremendous will power, which seems to awe them. more advantageous subject for in- the output of all the Though they come to attack him, vestigation than are the lower stations even of America. they are on overcome by his

All

will and give him hearing, animals."

Man rather than an animal could conform to requirements, for he could give the subjective impres sions of the person on whom the

experiments were being made. By confining themselves to the lower animals in the making of experi- ments they limited themselves con

Then he doctors their wives and looks after their children till be guins their confidence. After that he says it is easy and that they scout for him and tell him of the difficult country he has to go through. You see he under stands their sature.

Although they only carry knives he has succeeded in pacify ing even carnibals before now. Colonel Fawcett set out early insiderably, 15 to explore the Brazilian jungle expedition had the approval of the be search for lost cities. His Royal Geographical Society..

general public in America cannot The work of Dr. Crommelia be expected to inquire.

They simple conclude that Albion proves that total eclipse of 1954 will

visible in be

Great Britain is as perfidious as ever, and that Hitherto astronomers had reckoned evan the repeated assurance that we that this country would have been regard war with America as un-missed by the atto shadow: The thinkable." is merely bluff. It may finest observation of the eclipse, on FILM OF CORONEL BATTLE. be worth while pointing out that that occasion, will be in the Sbet- the blister list is merely a silly land Island of Unst.

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an official Greenwich Observatory to a Daily

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power

Only 33 Miles Down.

·At a low estimate the host stored in the earth's interior was at least. thirty million times the heat avail- able in the world's coal reserve.

The problem of getting at that internal heat did not seem to trou bie Mr. Hodgson unduly. He com pared our present position to that

the What We Have Learned.

eighteenth century who got his coal We had already learned much from the surface Heat bore holes from investigations, on the human would be put down four or five subject. Through them we had miles apart over most of the land found how greatly the oxygen re-areas of the globe. quirements and the energy output Mr. Hodgson, discussed two pos

saried with changes in occupation. sible types of bore holes. One, Jo We knew because of them that the said, thirty-three miles deep and energy output when walking at a foot in diameter, would be cap four miles an hour was five times Table of a continuous yield of ar as great as during rest, and that least 1,500 B.T.U. per second, pro- the trained athlete might, for a ducing at twenty por

an efficiency about 4,250 hp. The capi number of minutes maintain

cent.

cunard; and that the latest sub Whatever Dr. Crommelin says WITNESSED BY KING AND

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marine story is apprich confuses in the way of scientific netheial of sult of ignorance which cal calculation,

LONDON, Sept. 17th.. Pittsburg.

Bound detection with some.inister ab. rih po.

Their Majesties the King and L. Waner cf. 4 2: 1- 1

development in submarine attack. Express representative yesterday 0 Barnhart. f. 5 0 1 3 0 But what if these stories had not the whole scientific world will ac Queen at Balmoral Castle witness P. Waner .f. 4 4 4 0 Wright 5.5.

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1050 challenging the reproach of

Coronel and Falkland of twenty times the resting value.tinuous heat yield in the main Traynor 36.

But much more human experi- steain pipe of a modern power 1 1 2 1 faith in devising any new scheines It was Dr. Cromanelia, with Pro- islands for the first time. The film Grantham bi

was shown at Balmoral at the ment was required in other direc- station was approximately £500,000. 04 31 in naval warfare? We are not fessor P. H. Cowell, who worked

The whole pro tions, and he confessed that if he On the other hand, the cost of the charged with forging any trash out every minute of the progress of Royal command. Harris 1. Smith c.

weapons, but with trying to use to Halley's comet from the year 240 ductions with orchestra was brought wanted to understand the facts of high temperature heat bore hole more subtle advantage those which B.C. to 1910.

specially from London Besides physiology, he bed to think of what would be £8,000,000, when the Kremer p. Milijua p

all the rest of the world employs. He was not fraction wrong the Duke and Duchess of York and they might mean to him in his own technique of making such bore holes. The allegations happen to be un through all those centuries. His Prince Arthur, there were many person; he could not think easily has been adequately worked out" Brickell

true, but the implication is really work in that respect. is accepted as distinguished spectators and two in terms of the lower animals, and although in volcanic areas the cost a rather silly-Noval and Military unparalleled in scientific mathema hundred of the tenantry sad ser-he did not believe he was peculiar would compare favourably with

Record.

vants of Balmoral were invited Lin this.

any other method

been mythical? Is there anything sept. His

dispute, calculations are beyond ef hem not far this ana

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