THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5th, 1928.
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LEAGUE.
TO-MORROW'S 'FIXTURES,
LAWN BOWLS.
CRAIGENGOWER BEAT BOWL, ING GREEN.
SPEY CUP TIE
The first match in the Spay Club Competition was "played yesterday
CHUNG SHAN AND MACAO,
DISTRICT OF GREAT POS- SIBILITIES.
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The district of Chung Shan, sự
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A fall programme of football on the Kowloon. C.C. ground be the Fragrant Mountain" (Heung Weekly Trans-Pacific Service
matches will be played to-morrow in all divisions of the English League and the Scottish League (Division I.), Celtic and Third Lanark, who recently played" a drawn game in the Glasgow Cup
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semi-final tie, will probably post- pone their engagements and play each other instead to decide which team is to meet Queen's Park in the final for the trophy.
The fixtures are as under:-
ENGLISH LEAGUE.
Division L
*. Derby.
Birmingham Bolton. Bury.
Burnley. Manchester U. Cardiff v. Leicester, Everton v. Arsenal. Huddersfield v. Blackburn. Manchester O., Sunderland.. Newcastle v. Leeds U. Portsmouth v. Wednesday. Sheffield U. 7. Aston Villa. West Ham v. Liverpool.
Division II. Bristol C. v. Southampton. Clapton v. Blackpool. Grimsby e. Bradford. Middlesbro' e. Notts C. Notts Forest v. Barnsley. Oldham r. Wolrea.. Prestonu. Millwall. Reading . Port Vale. Stoke v Swansea, Tottenham e. Kuil. West Brom. v. Chelsea.
Division II (Southern). Brighton v. Exeter. Charlton v. Merthyr. Coventry Brentford. Fulham v. Walsall.. Gillingham . Crystal Pal Luton. Bristol R. Northants v. Bournemouth. Norwich v. Southend. Plymouth. Newport. Queen's Park v. Watford. Torquay & Swindon.
Division. III. (Northern), Accrington . Halifax. Barrow. South Shields.. Bradford C. e. Lincoln. Carlisle v. Tranmere: Chesterfield . Nelson. "Doncaster v. Ashington.
Hartlepools v. Stockport. New Brighton v. Southport. Rochdale v. Wigan. Rotherham v. Črewe. " Wrexham. Darlington.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE.
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· Division I. Airdrie v. Queen's Park Ayr . Cowdenbeath. Celtic v. Hibernians. Hearts . Falkirk. Motherwell v. Aberdeen. . Partick r. Hamilton. Raith . Dundee.
St. Johnstone . Kilmarnock. St. Mirren v. Clyde. Third Lanark v. Rangers.
FOOTBALL.
KOWLOON 1st XI CHINESE ATHLETIC.
The following have been selected to represent the Kowloon Football Club 1st XI. v. "Chinese Athletic on the Kowloon Football Club, Ground, on Saturday. Kick-off at. 4.45 p.m.-Angus; Guest, East- man; Hedley, McKelvie, Bliss; Pile, Spary, Sims, Miles, Hayes. Reserves: Hawke, Allen (Naval Yord).
tween two former winners, the Kow- loon Bowling Green Club and Craigéngower C.C., and ended in a win for Craigengower by, 10-shots,
A substantial lead was established when the score stood in their favour by' Craigengower carly in the game
at 10-1. The Bowling Green team then made a recovery and reduced the deficit by, two shots, but Craigen gower ran away again and had a majority of 10 shots at the close.
"Teams and scores were:- Nish
Basa Bennett Omar Bradbury
· Magill ·· Russell Holland
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(Skip) 22 The winning team now meete Taikoo (cup holders), Semi-finalists
Shan), is now called, was in ancient times proverbial for ita fertility, and after Macho was established it attained considerable
political aminence. It is a beauteous spot
with gently rising verdant hills, streams and miles and miles of cultivated plains.
Within the last century its re- putation has spread over the whole
world for thousands of its sons
have scattered the globe over in search of wealth, and there is no
in the top half bracket will be the village in the district that cannot winner of this tie and the winner of j
the East Point RC. Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club tie.
TO-MORROW'S LEAGUE
GAMES.
The junior teams in the lawn bowls League will carry out to marrow, if weather permits, the last of the matches in their official programine. The last two weeks' ixtures, however, still remain to be played to complete the season.
Civil Service are not playing to morrow, so the matches that have a bearing on the championship are
lay claim to be the birth place of at least one Chinese well known to the world of commerce.
And is not Chung Shan the mother of ad- ministrators, diplomats, commer- cial magnates, engineers, some world-famed? Chung Shan, so re- named in honour of the Great Re-
former is the loving mother" of not only Sun Yat Sen, but of Tong Shao Yee. Chan Chek Yee, Lew
the ones in which the Recreio "A" Yuk Lin, Chan A Fong, "and many team and Taikoo are engaged. another, some of whom have come Recreio "A" may be expected to home to husband out life's taper gain the points 200 the K.C.C..
ground, and of the three Clubs in and its close."
the running they are generally In lovely Chung Shan we, have favoured for the championship. the results of their toil taking Their "B" team has not done any- thing wonderful since they beat their Club mates and it remains to be seen whether they can now do them a good turn by defeating Taikoo !
on." time goes
The shape as splendid trank road that is to link Bhekki City, the capital of Chung Shan, with re-awakened Macao is
To-morrow's fixtures are as un-progressing rapidly from day to
der:
Craigengower C.Cc. F. Bowling
Green.
Kowloon CIC.. Recreio "A”- Recreio "B" e. Taikoo. East Point . Yacht Clubs
LEAGUE TABLES. The positions in the League date are:~~
Division II.
Civil Service ... 14-10
ddy, and already reaches to Koo Ho, ten miles from Choi Hang, the ancestral home of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. And the work is being sc complished by unremitting toil and care by the young men of Chung Shan who now apply to their own.
to home land the results of years of
study and preparation.
F. W. D. L Pts.
1 091 Recreio "A... 13. 10 D 3 .20 Taikoo R.C. .... 12 90 a 18 Kowloon B.G.0.-14 7 16 15 Craigengower 14 # 0 8 19 Kowloon C.C.... 13 Recreio B... 13 4 East Point R.C. 13 4 Yacht Club 12 3 0 9
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Thus we find Mr. Cheng Tax Sheung, Mr. Chan Wing On, sad their collaborators toiling on, sed from Canton Mr. Pang Hwai and from' Macao Mr. Hee Cheong con- tribute encouragement and advice. The road progresses, and each new step reveals some hidden beauty. At Wong Mao Chesh is the ances- tral temple, home and garden of the late Mr. Chan A Fong, with
The manslaughter charge brought the quiet burial-ground close at against Lam Shiu, a Chinese beggar
Farther on, by a branch woman of the Central Magistracy Highest open-air Temperature, arl:79 hood.
Lowest open-air Temperature, 4th:76 yesterday, as a consequence of a road, one comes to Tong Ea and fight on the waterfront on the
B-Blue sky; O Cloudy; Da Mr. Tong Shao Yee's picture gar. morning of September 21st which
ended in the
F-Fog; L-Lightning; death of her Drizzle; den: there is nothing like it the antagonist was adjourned until M-Mint; O Overcast P-Passing wide world over. Farther afield Saturday morning. Major C. Will showers; Q-Squalls; B-Esin; T- there are other beauteous shrines son stated that he wished to con- Thunder, which the new highway will serve sider the medical evidence. to popularize.
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Recreio "A". 816 512, 974 Civil Service.... 906 791 189 Kowloor B.G.C. 896 750 146 Taikoo R.C.
0 ... 713. 699 14
209 Kowloon C.C. ... 753 Craigengower 754 920 Recreio "B"
... 840 736 Yacht Club ...... 561 673 0: 122 East Point 758 10340 978
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JOHANNESBURG A CITY.
ROMANCE OF URBAN
DEVELOPMENT. -
The commercial wealth of Chung Shan might be phenomenal. There Johannesburg, which has a white are places where four crops are population of 220,000 and some gathered in a year; the paddy 130,000 natives, has attained the fields extend for miles and miles dignity of a city. The occasion was
as far as the eye can see, and the marked a ceremony at the Town Hall which took place shortly after rotation crops of bean, ginger, midday on September 5th. A fan-melon, and vegetables are gathered The following have been selected fare by trumpeters opened the pro-daily, the year round; as the soil to represent the Kowloon Football ceedings and then Mr. Hofmeyr, Club 2nd XI. . Eastern on the the Administrator of the Transvaal, yields richly as it has done for Kowloon Football Club Ground, on read the proclamation raising the thousands of years. But the future Saturday. Kick-off at 2.15 p.m.:-town to the status of a city to the is blessed with even happier Angus; Moore, Hast; Nicholls, assembled Mayor and council and Easterbrook, Dannett; White leading citizena
visiona, visions of factories and in- Davis, King, Hanaan, Baldwin Ia offering his congratulations dustries, filatores and bydro Reserves: T. S. D. Whitley, J. Mr. Hofmeyr dwelt on the signi- electric plants, and other modern Hurst, Seddon.
H.K.A.D.C.
feance of the occasion and describ-
ed it as setting the seel upon one works to contribute their quota to of the greatest romances of urban the China of to-morrow. And, development in all history the at close by, it is Macao's privilege to tainment of Johannesburg in 42 years from the days of rocky bare assist in the shaping of the ridges and a few scattered home-destinies of this wonderful six IAN HAY'S BACING FARCE.
steads to the highest rank that any bundred square miles. And Macao, arban community can enjoy. A ONE PERFORMANCE AT THE quarter of a century ago the area particularly under the able ad- STAR THEATRE: of Johannesburg was only nine ministration of a broad-minded square miles, to-day it is nearly 82 governor like Senhor Artur Tamag The Hong Kong Amateur Drama-quare miles. The city includes nini Barbosa, has drawn to itself
more than 100 townships and 800 tic Club are hard at work on re-miles of streets and roads. Ap the gratitude of the people of the hearsals for their first production proximately 40 per cent of the place......
On the occasion of the celebra-
Kings." Whout the middle of ground, and 39 per cent is agricul- tion this year of the Portuguese
tural land. A
All the speakers at the promulga-
Acting Sub-Inspector Andrew was in charge of the case, while the de- fendant was not legally repre- sented.
A. S. I Andrew said that defen- dant and the deceased were beggar who managed to keep body and sour together by casual needle work and collecting the grains of rice which were spilt in the course of loading and unloading jacks from the boats.
Weather... Hain
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the same wharf on that particular They were collecting grains on
aght was started over the gleanings. morning (September 21st) and a Fri. The deceased was seen to fall hut it was not realised at the time that she was already dead.
Bat.
Sun,
From October 5th to 11th, 1923. - HIGH WAYK
The daughter of the deceased, a Mon. girl of twelve, slowly described each movement of the fight. Her Tass Mother she said, reproached the de fendant who then grabbed her by Wad. the neck and right hand and pulled her to the ground. Her Thur. Mother lay still and the defendant kicked her and stood on her body three times. She then said Get up and don't shum,” but her Mother lay still. The defendant kicked her Mother again and tried to pull her up. Then she saw what had happened but before she could get away, she was arrested. The little witness said that her Mother was in good health prior to the incident
Macao a
The
witness
of the season which is to be lan municipal area is laid out in town- Hay's racing farce "The Sport of ships; 21 per cent. is mining
Medical Evidence, Dr. Alexander Cannon, who made The first performance will be
post mortem said that the „Republie⠀ anniversary ... at November in the Theatre Royal,
primary causes of death were and it has been decided to give.tion ceremony paid tribute to the the Chinese merchants in the Fortu- the rupture of a main artery and an extra performance one night in wonderful progress made by Johan- guese Colony, for the first time in intercranial haemorrhage. the Star Theatre, Kowloon, before nesburg and to the labours of the ita history, will erect big illuminat-
said that he the final performance at the Thespioneers who made such strides posed triumphal arches throughout the of the artery due to any act did not consider 'the rupture tre Royal
sible. Johannesburg, was extolled The play had a considerable suc for the part it has played in the streets of the city, in grateful ac of violence on the part of the cess in London and will be a development of South Africa in knowledgement to the Portuguese defendant for the artery showed novelty far Hong Kong. The cast was congratulated upon acquiring and to the man, who has encourag rupture was due to excitement. In signs of premature senility The is an able one but we have not official recognition as a city, ed so much towards the realisation his opinion, the deceased had died learnt whether it includes any its future was referred to in terms. China: Ponies.
of unbounded optimism.
of a model Chung Shan.
from natural causes.
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