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GOLF..

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR MEETINGS:

FANLING ARRANGEMENTS.

The following is the programme of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club for the next month- Dec. 17TH-19TH :-

Bogey Bool.

DIC. 18TH-

R. H. K. G. C.

Final Round.

DEC, 24TH-26TH----

YACHTING

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY DECEMBER 13th, 1927.

THE FIFTH CHAMPIONSHIP

RACE.

POINTS TO DATE IN RACING CLASSES.

Owing to pressure on our space yesterday, the results obtained in the fifth championship rate, for the racing yachts classes, tailed on Saturday afternoon, together with the points to date in these classes, We publish Championship, had to be held over.

them below,

Christmas Meeting. DEC. 31ST JAN, ND ----

- New Year Meeting.

JAN 7TH-8TH. : ---

Captain's Cup.

JAN, STB :-

Qualifying Round Junior Cham- pionship: (Open to players with handicaps of 10 or over).

JAN, 15PM-

R. H. K. G... the Army. Particulars of the Christmas and New Your tastings are as follows;

Christmas.

1.-Dec. 24TH-E7TH (****

*Members and Subscribers; Old Course. Bogey Pool, $1 co- entrics, trance. Unlimited

10 per cent, to Club, 60 Per cent. to winner, 20 per cent. second. No second prize `ua. less 30 entries.

2-D.

-DEC. 4TH-2718 :-*

The course sailed was:-Mark in Quarry Bay (P); Channel Rocks (P); Mark on Club Line.(S); Kow. loon Rock (S): Channel Rocks (S).

MR. CHURCHILL AND THE MARY ANNS OF THE On each ocasions, as the drifters

BETTING TAX.

SUFFICIENT TO PAY FOR

WIDOWS' PENSIONS.

SPORT NOT INJURED.

Speaking at Waltham Abbey in the Epping Division, Mr. Churchill said he was quite impenitent about the Betting Tax.

We are going to get three or four millions this year from it." be added," "and I do not know what great antional interest is going to be injured by that. At any rate we have got three or four million which will almost exactly equal the amount of money which the Government has to provide to establish a universal system of widows' pansions for the whole year. There are ways in which the Incidence of this tax can be made more agreeable to those who are spezially concerned in betting and they will be studied. It is far from my wish to handle any n dustry or class of people in such a way as to injure them in their Times. livelihood. The raising of taxes

a disagreeable business, but I al ways endeavour to consider very much the case of individuals who are hardly pressed by any new pro posal which I have to make

The distance was 8.33 miles,

The results follow:- Handicap Class: Start at 3.26 p.m.- Finish Correct

ing Times. 3.55.34

ed

Dinna (4)

Colleen (2)

3.68.42

Holin (5)

3.53.02

3.53.40 3.31.43 3.34.02

Falcon (8)

4.13.58

.... 3.59.45

La Linda (3) Dorothra (1)

... 4.00.04

4.05 38 3.33.30

*I” and “G” Classes: Start at 2.31 p.m.

Finish Correct-

ed

ing

Times 4.12.01 4.19.50

Daphne (4) Allen (5)

Times,

4.12.51

4.12.39

Haleyou (7)

4.15.56

4.15 56

Gael (8)

4,25.19

4.18.05

Pierrette (3)

415,20

4.11.5)

4.23.06

4.13.99

Members and Subscribers; New Course. Mixed Bogey Round 3/8 Combined Handicap. 81 entrance per pair. Unlimited entries. No restrictions as to whether lady or man drives at odd or even tees. A prize to Adanac (2) winning lady if 10 entries-A-Gephyr prize to wiuning man if 23 en-Lola (4) tries.

4.20.30

DNF

4.10.13

D.N.F. 4.17.21

4.25.16. 4.19.49

I am told that the one class of sporting men who have been affect ed by the tax are the professional backers, that they have found it hard, but so far as sport is con- cerned it has not been injured in the least, because the attendances at the race meetings are excellent in spite of the bad wather. Epsom best all records this year for the Derby, and the prices realized for bloodstock sales have surpassed overy record in every sale that has been held since the imposition of

the tax.

NAVY.

HOW DRIFTERS FETCH

AND CARRY.

AN ILL ASSORTED FRIEND. SKLP.

set out on their adventures, the feet of Mary Anna is commanded by the senior lieutenant, whoj aa 100D as higher authority has steamed below the skyline, becomes known officially by the self-styled title of A.Č.D,” or admiral commsading drifters.

The admiral" is generally a young man, who owns his first razor, and has not broker himself of the midshipman's love of good During the

It is sometimes his touching cigarettes. +

first real command. "He amuses friendship sprang up between the himself by sending out Boet orders

and battleship

the Yarmouth to all the other smooth-faced young drifter. Such ill-assorted friend- men on the bridges, of his disre

www.**

ships sometimes exist between Great Danes and fox terriers of doubtful parentage.

The Yarmouth fishing smacks were invariably soca in those days nestling beneath the grey danks of 25,000-ton battleships, engaged in light badinage or in transactions connected with potatoes and letters from home and beauty, or both. It is a true saying that you never know your friends until adversity raveals them to you; and the Fleet found its friends, suddenly sad unexpectedly, in these wise little taxicabs of the sea, always ready to wheel on a roaring, hissing swell, and do something useful for the big grey ladies.

It seems to me a romance that the Lords of Admiralty, who are not, as a rule, touched by senti- ment or given greatly to generosity, should have decreed their that the battleships and friends in adversity shall not be separated in these times of tem- porary pesce, So you will find that each battleship now has at tached to her for discipline, tions, and every kind of duty a Yarmarth drifter, whose official capacity is that of a maid of all work. The drifters are the Mary Anns of the Navy.

putable squadron-

manding officers," he runs up ou

Admiral wishes meeting com

the mast-head.

If the seas would make it impos able for a seal to keep an appoint ment with an iceberg his trusty commanding officers inay indulge in back chat, pointing out that, fuiling wings, the meeting is in possible, whereon the admiral " may hoist the signal:-

VICAR'S SIXTH PUBLIC SCHOOL.

"FINANCIER IN A

SURPLICE":

Per

PASSENGERS.

Arrivals.

Empress of Bussia, from Manila, da December 19th-My and Mrs. Burgess, Mr. P. E.

The vicar of Monkton Combe, tha Casions, Mr. Chan Lay Tang, Mr. Rev. P. E. Warrington, who has and Mrs. A. Cutton, Mr. M. D. been described as "a financier in a Dixon, Mr. L. J. Gibson Dudley, surplice," has just completed his fr. M. Garcia, Mr. and Mrs. 3. sixth dea! in the acquisition of large buildings for school purposes. He has bought Seaford College. Sussex, which is to be rebuilt at a cost of £10,000,

Mr. Warrington, who is still comparatively young man, has the only $105 a year, and a cure of 500 living of Monkton Combe, worth souls, but in the past six years has been responsible for the conver sion of a number of famous man- sions to public schools.

His record is:-

1991-Acquired Wrekin Callege,

Shropshire, for £110,000 as a Church of England public School:"

All right. Only wanted to know1022-Bought Stowe House, Bucks, who's got the beer,

In the morning, when the drifter fleet sets out on its journey, tha

admiral" instead of ordering. single line ahead," bas,bean known to greet his squadron with:

Good morning, my children! Follow father?

This has exactly the same result. If by chance a drifter, owing to the hazards and perils of the sea, the misjudgment of the

OJ to

young man on the bridge, grazes the stern of the one ahead, the "admiral" becomes immediately curious.

"Did you, or did you not kiss that girl?" he signals

"I did," comes the aaswer. asks the admiral."

"Are your intentions serious?"

the home of the Dukes of Buckingham, and directed its conversion into & public school:

Heckscher, Mr. E, Heckscher, Mr. Wm. Hodgkinson, Mr. Lao Kit Sang, Mr. Lim Kim Chi, Mr. Liong ......

Pun. Mr. P. Yu Singre, Mr. K. Soy, Mr. H. Nakni, Mr. Ng Yin Sanada, Mr. and Mrs. W Warren, S. Carpio, Mr. and Mrs. S. Foronda Mr. J. P. Braga, Mr. and Mrs. A. and two infants, Miss L Foronda, M. Yan Foong.

.'

*Departures.

Pet 3.3. Siberia Mari, for San 11th-Mr. M. H. Varn, Mr. Shiine, Francisco vid parts, on December

Mr. Ellis T. Basha, Mr. L. Wedder- buro, Mrs. R. Shade, Mr. M. S. Mrs. Yum Hon Son, Mr. Y. J. Mok. Lum Mrs. Kac Mok Shee, Mr. and

rs. Wei Wai Ching, Mrs. Wei Lan Tai. Mr. Chu Leung. Mr. Kakada, Mr. N. Sato, Capt. C. Minamikumo, Mr. N. Shima, Mr. K. Kashiwada, Mrs. Shoji, Master A. Shoji, Master H. Shoji, Miss K. Shoji, Mr. G. Taguchi, Mrs. A. Walker and Junior. Mr. J. W.

1992-Purchased Canford Manor, Lord Wimborne's Dorset seat, and turned it into Wimborns College for 300 boys;: 1924.-Bought Harrogate College for Dickinson, Mr. Y. Yourle, Mr. J. Girls for £10,000, on behalf. Fenn, Mr. M. E. Hazzlett, Mr. of the Church of England and Mrs. I. Hakman, Master N Trust;

Hakman, "Miss E. Hakman, Mr. « 1927-Bought Weston Girt, in Glou- cestershire, from Sir George Holford as a public school for girls.

He bought Stowo and Weston Birtį after they had been offered by auc tion and had failed to find a pur- chaser.

Wong Yok Fun. Mr. Bimn Kitsu Chia, Mrs. Lee Chun Mai, Mrs. Chun Yut Shui, Mr. M. Look, Mr. C. J. Chu, Mn Leung Ock. Luen, Mr. Au Check Kan. Mr. and Mrs. Tang King Sang. Mrs. Tong Fung Sze, Mr. Yu Po Ying, Mr. Pun Ka Shuen, Mr. Ho. Shee, Mr. Foo 'Tak Sun, Mr. Wong Shee. Miss Kong Lai, Mr. Tang Ling, Mr. Young Fook. Mr. Gong Kay. Mr. and Mrs. C. K. L; Mr. Sit Lau Shee. Mr. Frank Lee, Mrs Tem. Hong Ling. "and Mr. Ho. Gum Sing.

45-MILE WALK; AT: 69.

TH÷27TH : ---- Members only: Old Course. } Thecia. (6)

Medal Round. 81 entrance.| Viking (9) 4:18:364.09 34 Unlimited entrie Prize to Juan" (1)

4.14.11 4.07 58

They are not," is the reply. winner if 10 entries. A cond

"Y" Class: Start at 2.38 p.m

Government's strength.

Then kindly observe the pro-

TOAST FATTENS { prize if 40 entries.

priclies," orders the admiral." Finish Correct- Earlier in his speech Mr. Chur-

ing ed

chill said there was no doubt the

The least pleasant task which Now that the drifter has enter-falls to the drifter is to tow the HORRIBLE NEWS FOR SLIM. Times.

Timea. strength" of the Government had Why Wonder! (3) 4.19.39

LINE SEEKERS. 4.18.39 become more apparent in the pasted the Navy she has been smarcen- target for gun practice. She goes Wings (5)

Her off to the horizon towing, at a 4.20.30 12 months. If at the end of a yeared according to regulations. Bluenose

DNF they could say they felt themselves sloping, villainous, piratical-look-respectful interval, a large black

The hopes of women who seek ta. Boojum (1).

4.16 15 stronger in public opinion, that ing fo'e'sle no longer shines silver canvas screen mounted on Boats.

preserve alim figures by eating toast Adele

D.N.F. was a remarkable fact and a de- with fish scales, and she no longer Her friend the battleship on the No Govern- turches into harbour ke a Christ other horizon then prepares to

instead of bread were shattered by SIR FRANK BENSON'S FEAT. 4.17.91 finite achievement,

It must be Professor B.. H. A. Plimmer, Pro- D.N.FD.N.F. ment had held power for three mas. tree hung with mines and send over heavy stuff.

years with less loss of support and other flotsam of the deep. Her unpleasant but not bad enough fessor of Chemistry in the Univer-Sir-Frank-Benson, the Shakes strength than the present adminis brass (though this will be contra for "bard-lying" money!

sity of London, when he lectured on tration. In three years only five-dicted in high quarters) shines When the driftar hauls down her. Common Errors in Diet" at the pearean actor, who was 69 last month, in addressing a Rotarian- by-elections had been lost The (what there is of it), her wood far the big 13.3 guns in the battle-New Health Society's meeting at gathering at Kendal, Westmor past three months had been the work is scrubbed white (or as ship try to hit the target. Some-St. Thomas's Hospital Medical land, disclosed that on the pre-

School, S.E. most quiet and peaceful-which the white as possible), and the hold, times the drifter's flag is shot up

vious Sunday he walked from Car- t "Toast," be said, "is worse than lisle to Kendal. 45 miles, between country had known almost for a

once sacred to herring and now with amazing siserity, and the fol generation. There was no serious sacred to a young lieutenant or lowing dialogue, takes place over bread for fattening. The mere fact breakfast and supper. assault made upon the policy, sub, is known with absolute solein- the ocean-

that we see steam arising from the In an "aterview Sir Frank Ben- character,

Battleship. or reputation of the nity as the wardroom.

Why did you dip hread when it is being toasted son said he walked for amusement, Government.

serious

should prove to us that the result: leaving Carlisle at 8.30 am and your black flagi

Drifter (pathetically): Because ant toast is only concentrated reaching Kendal at 10.30 at night. you nearly hit me.

brend. People are apt to eat two He spent three hours on the way slices of bread in the crisper, more] in_sightseeing and taking meals. concentrated form, and so are worse Two members of his company, off from their point of view than if each about 25 years of age, started they only had one slice of ordinary from Carlisle with him, but fell bread."

out at Penrith after, 18 miles.

New Year. 1.-DEC. 31ST JAN, 20-

Members and. Subscribers: Old Course Bogey. Pool. 81 en- trance: unlimited entries 10 per cent to Club, 60 per cent. to winner, 20 per cent. second..

2.-Dec. 31st-Jas, 2NDIM

Members and Subscribers: Old Course, Medal Round. 81 pn. tránc; unlimited entries. 10 per cent, to Club, 60 per cent. to winner 30 per..cont. to ,second.

3. DR. 31ST JAN, 2ND:--

under:-

TOTAL POINTS TO DATE.

Total points to date afe

Handicap, Class.

Dorathen

31

to

Colleen

25

Argulla I

24

Rolla

23

Diana

97

Falcon

3

"I" and "G" "Classes.

Pierrette

39

Daphne

Joan

24

21

Halycon Viking

20

20

Ailau Garl

18

16

"y" Class,

Why Wonder? Boojum

43

35

33

33

25

Members and Subscribers; New Course Mixed Medal Com- petition. 12 Combined handi.. crips. Entrance $1 per pair;} unlimited entries. No restric tions as to whether lady or man drivs at odd, or even to Prize to winning lady if 10 entries: Prize to win- ning man if 23 entries. Can be played for on the same round, but separate cards must be taken before starting. The same card can only win one prize and a competitor. can only take oné, prize in ench avent:

Mixed events as regards men will be played on proportional Handicap, and the Bogey Competition on Men's cards,

KOWLOOS CLUB CHAMPION

SHIP.

THE SEMI-FINALS.„“

Thecia

Adanac

Lola.... Bluenose

10

as

Adele Wings Zephyr Oul There are no more Championship races until January 7th, next week's race being for Challenge Cup.

LADIES 3RD CHAMPION- SHIP RACE.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.

moet The

criticisms they had were not from the Opposition but from the popu-

lar Press.

He had been occupied avoiding inflicting extra burdens on the country, and for the present his ambition did not go beyond that. The Government had succeeded in maintaining the foreign exchanges intact, and the pound sterling overtopped the dollar at a period

When you see something tossing violently on the bosom of the waters you can be sure that you have seen the drifter. You can

од

If you have ever seen anything nearly hit by a 13.3 shell you will realise that a drifter's life is not all jam H. V. MORTON in Daily)

see her most days reeling and buc keting through a head sea with a her lieutenant green Fale bridge, a grimy stoker petty off- Express. cer coming up for air, and, if you could see into the alleged ward- room, you would observe an apple-

of the year when our purchases snotty rolling from side to from Amerien of cotton and wheat side in the top bunk, wondering were necessarily very great. They why be ever went to sea, and how even Eritannia can be said to rule had also succeeded in promoting a

the waves. steady diminution in the cost of living. which

inherent element in the policy of returning so the gold standard

Was

NEW AMERICAN BOXING RULE.

COUNTING A MAN OUT. SEQUEL TO DEMPSEY-TUNNEY

BOUT.

That much-debated "court" over Gene Tunney in the seventh round of his battle with Jack Dempsey af Chicago has brought into exis tence a definite rule to cope with

The duty which endears the dritter to the Navy is that of post- man. She brings the mails. It is perfectly amazing how she brings the mails; but, as a matter of fact, her Efe would not be worth living if she failed to bring them, for the mail is the most exered thing in the Navy. When she comes alongside with the mails a fringe of varied heads appear high up on the battleship, and a number of people look down to marine standing in the reoling drifter beside two precious sacks.

At this moment the drifter in. indeed, sacred. She is a link with wives and sweethearts. Those bags contain the lettera which in half

beautifully in the Navy.

The Ladies' 3rd Championship similar contingencies. At a meet an hour will spread a dead silence face of the Royal Hong Kong ing of the National Boxing Com-in wardroom and gurroom, in Yacht Club was aniled yesterday, mission, which was attended by re- every part of the ship. In the the course being Channel Rockpresentatives. from twenty-four dritter at that moment is news of (P), Kowloon Rock (P), Channel different States and four foreign homes and children, photographs- The semi-finals for the champion-Rocks (S), Cast Rock Buoy (P), auntries, the question of counting everything that, in fact, hurts so

of approximately 8.1 out fallen boxers was examined ship of the Kowloon Golf Club distance

miles.

from every angle.

The wives of the Navy have, of were played off on Sunday and

Ultimately it was decided that course never seen the drifter edge resulted as follows:-""

the timekeepor shall rise when a up with the mails. They have boxer is floored, and immediately never seen the face of the man who begin to count the seconds. In the stretches out his hand foras-letter meantime the referee must conduct which is not there. He makes a the standing boxer to the farthest bad joke, whistles, and disappears neutral corner and then return to for, a bit, until the other fellows pick up the count with the time- have "read their letters, and then Correct-keeper. Should the standing boxer he wanders in and orders a pink

leave the corner to which he has gin. (Perhaps to-morrow 1) been conducted before the count is inished, the timekeeper and re- feree are to stop counting until he returns.

J. D. Thomson beat J. McLag- gan by.. 0 and 5.

F. E. Remedics bent FLickley by 2 end 1.

Were'

For "H" class boats the start was made at 3 p.m., the first to cross the line being Colleen. Other class boste started five minutes later, Boojum securing first place The results in order of finish

Handicap Olass.

Finish-

ed ing

Times. Times. 4.15.11 4.10.06 4.12.04 4.11.03 4.18.45

****** 4.23.20

D.N.F... D.N.S. ....... D.N.S.

ed

The drifter can hurt like the devil.

and

When the feet makes a move the drifters attached to each ship form

their own, a little fleet on

proceed" constwise in a manner known to them, avoiding, rough weather if possible (which is not often), and following the battle. ships us rapidly as they can."

The final between Thomson and Remedios should be a match worth going a long way to see. Remedios has won the Championship on two Previous occasions and is looked Colleen upon as the favourite but Thomson Diana can be relied upon to upset"cal La Linda. cutations, as he is capable of pull Rolla

This ruling should benefit the ing off some heavy stuff when hard Falcon .....

sport, for if the referee and time put to it

Argulla 11.

keeper join in the count, confusion The first round of the Hong Dorothea.. .....D.N.S.

will be prevented. In this connec tion the Gunboat Smith-Georges Foursomes competition will be

*1," "Y" and "G" Olasses.

Carpentier fight is recalled. In Finish Correct that contest there was a misunder

ing

standing between the referee and

Sometimes, in recompense for Tinies. Times. timekeeper, as each was under the discomforts endured, the crews of 4.96.12

4.24.10

impression that he was in sole con- drifters draw, what 14 termed 4.33.15 4.25.37|trol.

"hard-lying money (those who 4.97.41 4.97.41 What happened was that, when receive this are naturally known 4.27.54 "Gunboat was floored in the as "hard Hars), but what de- 4.28.28) second round, the timekeeper rose, gree of adsery qualifies a dritter's 4.99.27

and with his eyes fixed on the crew to this doubtful benefit is not, 4.31.84

seconds hand of his watch, be made it seems, laid down in aaral pro-

In the meantime the cedure. the count. referee was similarly engaged with his back to the timekeeper. The latter finished his task first, and going to be sick which is a re- was leaving his seat when Dick que sometimes heard on the Burge came up and said, "What's bridge, does cot, as far as I call the matter "Nothing," replied see, establish hardship. You must, the timekeeper, "save that I have it appears, have an incomfortable

bed! counted Smith out." So actually

(Continued on next Column.) Carpentier won his fight twice.

played off on Sunday next,, Al- together sixteen couples have "cator

ed for this competition.

Boojum

HOCKEY,

Thecla Halcyon

Wings

........ 4.29.58 Piorvette 4.30.58

Adele

Adia Adasia.c

Y.M.C.A. DEFEAT CLUB DE WAY Wonder... 4.30,29

RECREIO..

In their hockey match with the Daphne Y.M.C.A. at King's Park yester Gact day, the Club de Recreio had Filing a weak side with several sood Jou team men filling vacancies.

Bluenose ... This was reflected in the result, Zephyr, which was six goals to nil in | Lola favour of the Y.M.C.A.

4.33.58

4.32.57 4.32.57

4.37.22 4.05.20

D.N.8.

D.N.B.

D.N.8.

D.N.S..

•D.N.S.

D.N.S.

D.N.F. D.N.S.

1

** Please také lover from me--I'm

"He that is of

a Merry Heart

hath a Continual Feast.”

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