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GOLF NOTES.

[Br R. H. H.]

LAWN BOWLS.

CIVIL SERVICE BEATEN BY POLICE.

YESTERDAY'S LEAGUE

MATCH.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,

CRICKET OVER- SPECIALISED.

PLENTY OF ONE-PHASE PLAYERS.

TOO FEW REAL ALL-ROUNDERS.

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GOOD PLACE FOR BUSINESS.

PICKPOCKET TELLS WHAT HE SAW.

NEW YORK.

The work end has pot resily been very kind to gollers, and one «can have a fairly legitimate grouse at the heat ** the wet, though at the wet in the latter

Visiting the Civil Service C.C. part. AB matter of fact, ground yesterday afternoon, the Fanling was playing amazingly Police R.C. won by six shots in a

In America the botel lounge is well on Saturday, The grecs postponed senior division fixture in

the public's rendezvous. If you When the M.C.C. last sent a team have an appointment with a girl especially were beautifully true and the Lawn Bowie League, being up to Australia there were seventeen

you arrange to meet in the lounge; the turf looking and feeling just on two rinks and losing by one players. The captain and the man-if you wish to transact business about its best. The grass was both shot in the third. A little rain ager agreed that it was a mistake with a man you meet him there. damp and thick, and putts had an shortly after the start stopped play to have six men who were inactive All day long people pass in and annoying way of stopping just an for a few minutes and made the during the progress of every match out of the spacious room, the inch or two short. but they would ground heavy. The Civil Service But why were seventeen cricketers majority, not residents, but the ebb drop all right if they were given have thus played six matches, or chosen? The only convincing an- and flow of a city's life.

half the season's programme, with-swer to such a question is that to day the majority of players are specialista. A man is super-excel. lent either with bat or ball. This seventeen could be classified into batsmen and bowlers,

the chance.

The thing which spoilt Fanling out a win. was the sudden and very heavy Of the bone Club's rinks, Hol rain which descended on one direct-idge finished one shot to the good ly one got well away from shelter.in neck and neck race siter the Not only did it soak one to the fourth head when West squared a skin, but it ruined one's grips and deficit by scoring a six. spoilt the playing of the course.

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had

Taylor

There were very few who were of a" lead of six shots in the the Test Match standard in both eighth head and Moss pulled up capacities. The bowlers made a A soaking wet shirt must be more with a five. In the sixteenth head long tail in the batting order. Roy of a handicap than the thickest of Moes was 7 up (18-11), but a four Kilner with 74 and Freeman 50 not coats and pull-overs. One is by Taylor brought them close again ons were the only men who could hopelessly paralysed by a thing and the final score went in favour bowl a good ball and yet were able which sticks firmly all across one's of the visiting rink by three shots. to score 50 in one of those ordeals, shoulders, and absolutely eliminates Grimmitt had "a hard struggle The reader may reply that it is any chance of taking the club back with A.. Clark's rink where the unreasonable to expect contribu- in a reasonable and human-way scores also ran very close. The tions of this magnitude from Neither a coat

Ponce skip Enished with four shots a pull over to the good, three of which came nor

bowlers. Such 1.2 answer is could ever develop auch qualities in the last head."

natural, because most modern play- of adhesion and resistance as s

theirere are specialiste and not complete shirt. Vader auch circumstances respective rinks carried the jack on or all-round cricketers. The greatest several occasions to their advan anything over a moderate length

Test Match, or in any 1.39et in tage. Path became a bit of a farce.

other game, is he who can be eminently useful all the time, the, player who is always doing some- thing'

as a renowned Australian cricketer put, the matter to me.

Has England ever had cricketers of such attainments that they could assert themselves to marked effect

West and Grimmitt on

P.R.C.

Hargreaves

Teame and scores were:- 0.8.0.0. Fanting was uncomfortably wet, Archibald but presumably

playable West.ake throughout the last three or four days. Even there it would not be

Was

very surprising to hear that the

Deakin Grimmitt (S.) Eccleshall Gregory

New Course was flooded in parts. Oswick But Happy Valley has been abso-Hollidge (S.) lutely unplayable with standing Luck

water, apparently about

foot ཐ 'deep, almost all over the course. That is a little hard on

a Bank Holiday, especially as the course is playing quite beautifully at present. The course never will be and never sould be really exciting in itself, it is too completely fat for that, but at present, in spite of rather frequent inundations, the turf is really wonderful, and it is a real "joy to play a shot there. There in very rarely any excuse for missing

Hassey Alderman Taylor (S.)

Total

Glendinning

Holiants"

16 A. Clark (S.) 20

Wiltshire

XcLeod

Mair

77

22 West (5.).... 2 in all phases of the game! A G

Oram

Stoel, F. S. Jackson, William Barnes, of Notta, Len C. Braund,

A. N. Other J. Clark

... 17 Moss (5.)

Total

58

...... 6t

LAWN TENNIS.

SEMI-FINALISTS AT

WIMBLEDON.

FRENCH SUCCESSES.

[THEOUGH AXUTER'S AGENCY.]

20 J. Briggs, G. Ulyett, of Yorkshire, Wilfrid Rhodes, Frank Woolley, and J. W Hearne have end hit over 100 runs in one innings of) a Test, and everyone has a promin eat place in the annals of the game with the ball"

The Gallery Of The Great, There are others like R, G. Bar- low; W Bates, George Hirst, Robert Peel, William Lockwood, George Lohmann, and gentlemen like J. WH. T.. Douglas and Frank R. Foster who have an un- deniable claim to a place in any gallery of first-class all-round men who have done well for England against Australia.

shot, while the feel of a well played shot, whether it be a full brassie or a 20 yard chip, is

The weather was dull for the pure joy. The divote one takes continuation of the Wimbledon

The catalogue of those who were there are so crisp and meat and meeting yesterday, but a large highly expert that they com- workmanlike after the coarser and CTDwd turned up to watch players ably extended. Seventeen men went manded selection could be consider fighting for places in the semi- tougher turi of the Fanling fair-finals. The winners in the follow- to Australia in 1924 because of the ing matches have reached this posi-dearth of thorough cricketers who were artista whatever, their hands found to do. There is too much of duty in the game as played to-day. what may be called departmental

ways.

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tion.

Man's Singles.

One of the saving "graces of. Happy Valley is that the greens Lacoste beat de Morpurgo 8-2, аге so small otherwise things Corbet beat. Hennessey 6-4, 6-1,

6-3, 6-4.

would be too easy if one was, putt- 5-7, 6-3, ing well. The greens at first do

Ladies' Singlea.

every ground enthusiasts are

The season is very young, but on ready bring off such questions as these: Who is going to bowl the

dot look as good as the fairways, Miss Ryan beat Mme. Nicolo Australians out 你 their own there is a hint of woolinees about poulo 8-4, 4-6, 6-2,'

them, and they appear to have suf- fered more from the periodical floods. Actually, however, they. play extremely true, though some of the holes are a little flattering. The caddies are not always quite as careful as they should be with the pin, with the result that the hales alter a day or two are rather over regulation size.

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The main criticism one might pass on Happy Valley has to do with the present 3rd hole. Just to the right of the green there are two or three ludicrous little bunkere which look like imitation flower beds, with pimples of turf inter- sected by narrow channels of sand. Here, though it is only about 18 or 20 yards from the pin, one can pick an enormous number of almost Impossible lies, and get shots which, though" part of the game. on one's own private lawn, are neither wanted nor expected on a golf course, Those little bunkers always strike one as a survival that might well not have done so,

PRINCE DOES NOT

OBJECT."

HIS NAME IN A REVUE SONG.

written by Mr. Herbert Farjean This is the chorus of a song and Mir. Harold Scott and sung by Misa Mimi Crawford in the revue Many Happy Returns," produced at the Duke of York's Theatre." " I've danced with a Мар who's

danced with a girl Who's danced with the Prince of

Walca

..

Beneath their apparent smart ness strange characters are hidden if only one could pierce below the there may be drug seekers, there surface. There may be crooks, may be pickpockets Now pickpor kets have slang vernacular as picturesque at any in the world of crooks. They themselves are known as "canuous," and there are" can-. and others who are nons" who work for big money sneak dimes and nickels.

content to

JULY 3rd, 1928..

THE PRINCE "FLIES AGAIN.

CHEERING CROWD'S

SEND-OFF.

"Y MAY TAKE UP FLYING.”

LONDON, May 31st The Prince of Wales yesterday made a five-hours tour of Norwich to full a number of engagements At 4.37 he left in an aeroplane for Northolt Aerodrome, Middlesex, where à parfect landing was made at 5.16.

Parachute Thrill Hefore Flight.

Norwich, May 30th. The Prince's departure was chear- Lieut. Webster, the winner of the ed by airmen, who included Flight- Schneider Trophy, and by a crowd of about 30,000 excited men, women, and children, swarming in the ad- joining fields and roads, kit, including a brown leather jacket The Prince, who donned his flying and goggles, on the local aero club's premises, waved first his right arm, then his left, then both arms as the Bristol Fighter from Northolt taxied over the ground. It was piloted by Flight-Lieut. Don and escorted by another machine with the Prince's

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business, and a New Orleans paper picture of a gives the following entertaining the lounge watching the people ments in a language that cannot. come and go and offering his com be understood without

a transla- tion."

Taw Honest People, First, let us give what he sees, and then his own description of the people

cannoa seated in

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am sitting in the corner of an hotel getting a thrill out of watching the crowd idling in the lobby. Most all of them are crooks of some kind, but a few are honest people. Two women on my left are berating their pro- tectors as I listen in and trans- late their talk. They are naг- cotic addicts looking for drugs. Their protectors are pickpoc kets plying their trade on the street cara, and this is the place where they meat. They motion to man and he sits down. Ho holds dice in his hand, and he is practising working on a pair of loaded ones. He is a dice sharp waiting to take somebody's money: His suit gives him away. His hat is good and he has a cigar between his teeth. He looks all right and soch walks out of the door.

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A policeman enters and speaks to the clerk...The clerk and the policeman talk for a while and the latter leaves. I notice the clerk needs a shave. Then two detectives tell me I'm wanted somewhere and I go along. This is a bad town to come to.

Bottles And Stoppers,

Now we have the loquacious pickpocket's own version of these incidents

I'm sittin' it out in the Jackie Horner of a flop gettin' a drive out of casin' the mob goopin' around the lobby. Most everyone is a hustler of some kind, but few of them are sharp-shooters. Two twists on my left are slicing their daddies They are hypos lookin' for junk.

Their daddies are cannons workin' shorts and this is the meet. They rap to a geezer and he flops right by. He holds some rats and mice in his dukes and. he is practising

switch. He's dico bustler waitin'

..✡ wickets 1" "Where is

for our beft-

play. Fia fiddle hand bowler?" "Who is to be the

and Aute give him

Away. wicket-keeper now that Strudwick The lean and the fat is the real has packed up!" and many more

M'Coy, and he has a Spanish such queries. Time will offer solu guitar between the uppers and tions of these problems, for such

beneath. He looks Annie Oakley they appear at the moment.

and so cops a sneak out of the grocery store.

Doubtless the M.C.C. Committee who are pondering these things will for men who are not likely to be anxiously watch our playing fields dead-weights to carry if they should happen to fail in one phase. For this reason they will rejoice to see that a batsman like Hammond has taken ten wickets for a fraction over 13 runs each agaiast Sussex, even at Brighton, which has been described as a paradise for bate!

I'm crazy with excitement-com-men. As he delivered 32 overa n

pletely off the rails; When he told me what she told

For

bim

The Prince remarked' to 'her,'

It was simply grandi

one innings and 29 in the second and the highest total in either was 202 he could not have relied for guccess on the newness of the ball...

Mr. Bottles and Stoppers comes in and raps the clerk. The clerk china for a while with Bottles and Stoppers and then the law lams. I notice the brothers" and sisters are pretty strong on the clerk's chip and chase. Then my reverie is broken up when a guy tapa me on the shoulder and anys:We got a reader for you. .... Come on."" And I goes out with two fusses. This town it's bad steor.'

Newman, and Astill may be taken complete A examples of the

Some folks have been alarmed be cricketer. They are not quoted sa cause. Larwood hit the Gloucester of Test Match calibre, but they And she said, “Delightful, Sir."shire bowling for 101 runs of illustrate the point that England

He said, "Topping band."

Glory, glory, Hallelujah.

I'm the luckiest of females, I've danced with a man who's danced with a girl Who's danced with the Prince of

Wales..

course they wish to see him take needs men who feel that they can wickets Everyone would be de render excellent service to their lighted if he captured ten wickets side with either bat or ball; and in a Test, but surely their pleasure perhaps with both implements in would be intensified if he could be company. relied upon to give strength to the batting, after No. 6, let us say.

Trom No. 11 To No. 2. Wilfrid Rhodes used to go in No.

requires a wicket-keeper who can Just in the same way England

bat as distinct from a halaman who can keep wicket. Think of "Dick" Lilley, the Warwickshire player, who was worth playing for his country as a batsman when he did not keep wicket. Call to mind the

When the revue was privately It will be good news to those put on at the Arts Theatre, which who regularly keep their clubs at does not come under the Lord Happy Valley that 36 new lockere Chamberlain's jurisdiction, it was have now been provided, so that felt that the Prince of Wales should 11, but he lived to be No. 9 and the unsightly tangle of clubs near be asked if he objected to this song make first-wicket records. In the the door need exist no longer, I being sung. The Prince is a mem-ame Australian tour that Rhodes imagine that no man who takes any ber of the Arts Theatre Club, and took 15 wickets in a Test he did Test Match when Lilley kept wicket. intelligent care of his clubs would I understand that the song was tally go first with Tom took off the big gloves and secured Allow them to form part of such a submitted to one of his secretaries Hayward during the last encounter. a wicket as a bowler, and then hit heap he could avoid it. They by Mr. Lionel Barton, managing that Larwood will lose his elective

It is not an inevitable consequence. 65 not out, jalak are always being handled in the director of the clob,

this versatility that we search for other clubs and not A verbal message was, it is a bowler because he develops should aim at in the development of

England always handled very gently at that stated, sent back to the effect that a bateman any more than that cricketers. Both while the weight of other bags of the Prince did not object to the Hammond will deteriorate na Australia have had such men, clubs resting against them is a bad BORK.

scorer if he takes wickets.

Surely the race of thorough

etrain on the shaft. When one has When the revue was in prepara collected a satisfactory set of clubs tion for public production the song it is not wise, to expose them to was sent to the Lord Chamberlain ricia than is abrolutely į with the rest of the material” and

passed without comment.

more necessary.

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End

Today V. W. D. Jupp is an ex- cricketers, upped at all points, ample of the value of an all-round has not died out. The departmentai player, and G. T. 8. Steyns, J. aspect of the game is nothing C. White, B. E. S. Watt, Kennedy, less than a disaste Evening

(Continued on next Column), Standard."

sengar,

"May Take Up Flying" Previously the Prince eagerly dis- cussed flying with local officials.

When asked if he intended to take up flying as a pilot, he said, "I prefer, riding and golf, but Í may take up flying later."

He inspected a Blackburn Blue- bird machine, and said he was having a machine built at the Black burn works for his own use.

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Just before starting the Prince saw a parachute descent by the American, Mr. John Trainham, who jumped from an aeroplane at a height of 7,000 feet, and fell 2,000 feet before releasing the para chute.

This old cathedral city gave the Prince five crowded hours and several pleasant surprises. As he was passing the Prince of Wales lon a Mrs. Rix threw a bunch of lilies of the valley which the Prince caught and then waved his thanks.. At the Jenny Land Hospital for Children founded by the great: singer, Gordon Brown, aged 6, hold- ing in both hands a bunch of sweet peas said emphatically, "These are for you, sir," and the Frince said

"Thank you very much."

Among Disabled Soldiers. The most touching event of the day was the Prince's visit to the delightful war memorial homes at

(Continued in next Column).

Visiting hours from 10 am. to 1 put and from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

♫

THE SECRETARY,

Patchio Label, SAVOY HOTEL, Hong Kong,

Rooms No. 38 and 39.

[8401

Mousehold, on the heather-clad heights above Norwich. These are occupied by 19 disabled ex-soldiers of the Norfolk Regiment and their families.

2nd July, 1928.

THE

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PRINCE LINE NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FOX NEW YORK Proudly exhibited on a chair out- side Bartram was a silver bowl which is having arrived from the abaya Port

the home of ex-Corporal Motor Youel

CHINESE PRINCE? awarded for the best garden on the estate and which ex-Corporal Bat- are hereby informed that their Goods on 2nd July, Consignees at Cargo tram had won for two years. The as being landed at their risk into the Prince had a look at this and then, Godowns of the Hong Kong and with Mr. and Mrs, Bartram and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company," their two children, entered the Limited, Kowloos and stored at house.

risk and expense Consignoea

Chat With V.0. The Prince visited the great new power, station at Thorpe, and and Day. He then had Incheon with a chat with a local V.C., Corporal the Socialist Lord Mayor in the ancient Guildhall, and laid a wreath on the city's war memorial.

The workmen who made the magnificent new Eaton Park were inspected by the Prince before he declared the park opan to the public."

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