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GOLF NOTES.
(By R.HH)
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full November "this year is month in the gaming calendar, which will please most people, for
cannot help looking forward} to matches and competitions, even though on the actual day one inay thousand tear the card into a pieces and finish the round in a raging fury. There is something booked for each week-end through out the month. Last Sunday was the Captain's Cup, leaving only one more chance next month for those who have not yet qualified. Then
GOLF.
ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF
CLUB.
CAPTAIN'S CUP-FANLING.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6th, 1928.
LAWN TENNIS.
U.S.R.C. MATCHES.
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The United Services Recreation Club who were successful the pre vious week over & strong local combination beat a ripresentative November 3rd and 4th, G. E. Ellams, 9-1968, quali. side of the Lawa Tennis Association over the weekend on, their own Other scores
fies.
M. G. Mills ******* 80-19-71- J. Smith
83-11
D. J. Gilmore ....... B-11-15 J. W. Franks
A. S. Robertson
C. U. Stark di
$1-9-75
81-8-75
82-0-75
L, S. Dodwell, 81- 576.
.. Clerk 89-9=70 There were 40 ́entries.
JASPER CLARK CUP.
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Robertson,
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9.45 a.m. A. B. Stewart and K. S. A, worth and G. E. 1. Marion. Y. L. Smith, and Capt. le Gros.
9.30. "
3.35 .
9.40
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Sinjor Beamish and H.
U. ireland.
A. Dugan and R. H. Hollis.
next Sunday is Armistice Day, and there is a special bogey competition running for three days The following is the draw for with unlimited entries. On the sth the Jasper Clark Cup and qualify St. George's and St. Andrew's ing stage of the Championship to Societies play their annual match. be played at Fanling on Sunday, The teams are 16 a side, and there] November 25th over 38 holes medai should be some fine goit played in play- the top matches as almost all th better golfers in the Colony will be playing. The arrangement, I be lieve, is to play four balls over the New Course in the "morning and singles on the "Old Course in the afternoon. As the sixteenth match counts just as much as the Arst in the final score, it would be a diff-! cult thing to make any authorita- tive prophecy of the result, especi ally as the teams have not yet been disclosed. St. Andrews, how 10.03
strong ever, can put some very mea at the top of their team, and Shewan, Stewart and Ferguson will 10.13 take a lot of beating. On the other hand St. George's with Marton. Pendered sud Dodwell are
If capable of doing the trick. Marton and: Shewan meet in the singles the match should be worth 10.35 watching.
9.45
+
9.50
U.55
10.00
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C. B. Johnson and R. K. Hepburn.
CORRESPONDENCE. CIVIL SERVICE BONUS CUT.
LAWN BOWLS RECORDS.
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(TO THE EDITOR OF TAX
DAILY PIX"]
RONG KEO
Siz¬Ân naique "stunt" in lawn bowls performances, according to your report in to-day's paper, was courts. Five matches in all were brought off by the Deckyard Recrea
tion Club for which they deserve hearty congratulations.
played-three doubles and two singles of which the home side won two doubles and one singles, thus gaining the issue by three matches to two.
A feature of the series was the sparkling perforthaaces of Wing Condr. Hunter who played in both On Sunday singles and doubles. he beat S. A. Rumjahn by three sets to one, forcing the play on the
defensive most of the time. The local player who was put on the winner set a tremendous pace and hot for many years did localtenbis fans witness such hard hitting.
The results were as follows:-
Blagles.
Hunter (U.S.R.C.) beat S. A Rumjan, 6-8, 6-0, 6-3, 6-3.
Hale (U.S.R.C.) lost to M. W. Lc, 6-9, 2-6, 9-7, 38
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Doubles. "Tottenham and Lucas (U.S.R.C.) last to S. A. and H. D. Rumjahn,
5-6, 4-8, 16, 2-6.
Hunter and Hale (U.S.R.C.) beat
Lo and Lo. 6-2, 6-3, 6-4."
Alexander and MeEachran (U.S. R.C. beat Redmond and Sousa, 6-4.
H. Young and D. J. Gil-6-3, 6-4.
more.
A. D. Humphreys and
J. S. McEachran.
J. S. Alagbaren and F. A. Reumond.
10.10
L. G. S. Dodwell and J.
M. Walker.
LOCAL FOOTBALL.
TO DAY AT 4.15 P.M.
H. H. Lennox and T. L HONG KONG LEAGUE-DIV, 1.: Christie.
Club de Recreio. Kowloon F.C. ground. Referee S/Sgt. Gilbert.
10.20
quite 10.25
G. Murray nad F. A. Merry.
Hong Kong Police
EU. Matthews and ..
+1
D. E. Pendered:*
10.30
+
G. Bennett:
1. H. Andrewes and T.
A. G. G. MacDonald and
E. b. Lawrence..
A. T. Lay and. A. Leach.
A. H. Ferguson and Forbes.
$1
10.40
10.45
10.50
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10.55
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1. Sewton and C. Black.
C.
On the last week-end of this busy month is the 30-hole qualifying i round for the championship and the Jasper Clark Cup. Unless we bave rather more than last month's
11.00 allowance of .38 inches of rain there is likely to be some surpris 11.05 ing scoring, for the course is play. I
11.10 ing very short now but it is 50 hard that almost anything is rather 11:15 more than likely to happen. If one of the better players can only master the secret of the greens, thing which takes some doing, there is a possibility that the com- petition record of 72 might be lowered by a shot or two.
The draw for the Jasper Clark Cup has just becs made public, and reveals nothing very starting, As ons of the early choices are drawn together. There sa big entry lor the Jasper Clark Cup-16 competitors with 4 of them try ing to get within the first 16 and quality for the Championship. Murray and Pendered, who have entered for the Jasper Clark Cup afone, will not be in the Colony when the Championship is played.
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C. C. Stark and 1 W.
Влежда.
H, C. Sheldon and F. J. de Rome..
F. S. Harrison and J. W. "Franks.
W. J. Clark and Colonel Bostock.
K. K. Valentine and A. E. Lissaman. Not entered for championship. Alterations in starting times on accuunt of scratchings (if any) will be made on Friday, November 23rd. All Competitions will start at the times allotted.
The order for the
afternoon
round will be that in which players complete the morning round.
It is requested that scratchings be reported to the Secretars before November 23rd.
Tiffins will be ordered for all competitors unless instructions are given to the contrary,
G. M. YOUNG CUP.
Bye:-A.P.C. (R. Young). Dodwell & Co. (L G. S. Dodwell)
M.C.C. v. VICTORIA.
ABANDONED OWING TO RAIN,
[THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]
MELBOURNE, Nov. 5th. The match between the M.C.C. and Victoria has been abandoned as a draw. There was no play to | day owing to rain.
MEN STUDENTS ONLY.
SEX JEALOUSY IN MEDICAL
SCHOOLS.
Women students are now shut out from nearly all of the London medical schools, A committee of inquiry appointed by the National Union of Societies for Equal Citi
nip says in its report:-
From the figurer given in the re- port it would appear that the L.R.C. have done a hat trick" in local bowls records. A tota score of 108 shots in an ordinary three-rink game, a win by 83 shots, or a single rink score of 32-0, are done in the Colony within the re- collection of old bowlers, and per- performances which have never been haps not in any other place. In the last case the writer has in mind a score of 40 shots on one risk, but the other side scored one shot.
Referring to the Club de Recreio match, I 2nderstand they scored a total of exactly 100. against the East Point Recreation Club this season, and their winning margin was 63 shots. I believe that the papers at the time stated that a total of 100 shots was a record, and tas margin of 83 shots would ap-
QUESTION OF GOOD FAITH.
CROUPIER'S TALES OF THE CASINO.
CHAMPAGNE TOASTS.
M. Paul de Ketchiva is an ex- croupier who, in his retirement,
A
Primarily, he explodes the legend that it is possible to devise
system" that will break the bank," though he admits that this
north-country feat was performed once at Monte Carlo, and by Englishman named Jaggers, who in a few days relieved the bank of £120,000.-
The staff side of the National Whitley Council are awaiting the reply of the British Treasury to the request that a meeting should be arranged with the official side to discuss the question of the Septem has taken to telling tales out of ber bonus eut, The terms of the the Casino, and, in "Confessions Treasury offer to the staff side have [of a Croupier," he gives a truth- been published, and the counter-ful, and therefore entirely unat- tractive, picture of public gain- proposals of the staff side are now known to be as follows:-
That the principles of the pre-bling on the Continent sent agreement be maintained; that the figure of 87 (suggested by the Treasury to operate for a period of 16 months) be increased to 70 that all Civil servants receiving £3 10s. (inclusive) or leas be exempted from any further fal!; that there be adjustment and improvement in the percentages of compensation for all receiving remuneration exceed ing £1 s. per annum; that the
One of the few women who have be abolished; thut in super-cut
ever broken the bank was. Baroness all other respects there be no
She worsening of the conditions under Gironer, who is connected by the 1920 agreement; and that no marriage with the Kaiser." Civil servant receive less under any broke the bank twice in three and was placed in the middle of the new agreement than is due under 't half hours, and the first time she the existing agreement.
The question of the abolition of draped table (a table temporarily the "super-cut" has been imported out of funds is draped in crepe), into this settlement, although for and a couple of dosen bottles of some time past it has been pressed champagne were brought, and the beautiful German was tousted on upon the Treasury as a separate her good fortune.”. matter for settlement. The higher grades of the Civil Service have since 1921, had a grievance against the authorities with regard to this "super-cut." In July of that year, a bare 1 months after the agreement between the Government and the National Whitley Council in regard to the basis upon which cost of living bonus was to be calculated, the Government of the day, without any discussion or con sultation, imposed the "super-cut scheme, under which the bonus pay. able to higher grade Civil servants was reduced by from 10 to 60 per cent. Negotiation, failed to achieve any change in the attitude of Ministers, and recourse was had to arbitration under the machinery of the Industrial Courts Act, 1010.
Bonar Law smiled ruefully it The case was beard in the autumn of 1928, and the Industrial Court, A. Poincaré, who said jokingly,
The wheel is fickle to-night.' in its award, found ai a fact that before both the Committee and the Council the official side put forward with respect to salaries up to £1,000 a promise or honourable under- taking which both parties thought More than 500 tailors and and intended should be implement tailoresses employed at the Edmon-ed to the full." The Court express ed the opinion that "it was only toa factory of Bega Clothiers, Ltd., came out on strike because one. of natural in the circumstances of the "present case that feelings of resent the girls had left their union.
ment would be aroused when the super-cut was put into force without consultation on the Whit- ley Council."
pear to have been exceeded by some- our shots by the same Club, but having no records available I am unable to verify this.
The performances appear to be almost impossible and I was in doubt whether they were correct, but on enquiry 1 and the figures to be quite true-Yours, etc..
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SHORT. HEAD.
Hong Kong, 3th November, 1829.
STRIKE CAUSED BY ONE GIRL.
600 CLOTHING FACTORY WORKERS IDLE.
TOWN HALL SONGS,
LONDON, Get. 8th.
The fact that, the works have recently been moved from shore- ditch to Edmonton was represented as another grievance.
The girl worker, Miss Elizabeth Gald, a coat machinist, of Bethnal Green, stated that she had been in Arrents with her union subscrip on, but had told the union she did
bot wish to continue as a member.
She is still in the firm's employ-
ment."
The strikers, most of whom are girls aged between sixteen and twenty, marched in fours to the town hall, carry attaché cases con- taining their lunches. They spent the day there singing popular songs and listening to speeches by union leaders.
Mounted Police,
The Arbitration Court, however, were unable to find "any auch im provement in the financial situation of the country since 1921, when the
super-cut was imposed, as would justify them in removing it now," and they, therefore, gave their award against the claim of the applicants.
With commendable altruism, the staff side of the National Whitley Council for the Civil Service, al though not at the present time re- presenting some of the most im- There is at present one medical
portant sections of the higher school, the London School of
grades, has come out in support of Medicine for Women, reserved
The claim:-(2) That the promise refer- exclusively for women students. Free refreshments were provided or bonourable undertaking University
College Hospital and police reinforcements, includ-red to in the Industrial Courts medical school permits not more ing mounted men," were called up award ought not to have been than 12 women entrants ́per an to control the crowds.
broken by the Government of the Mr. Frank Broad, Socialist mem- day. (b) That if the Government The medical schools of St. ber of Parliament for Edmonton, desired to alter the agreement the George's, the London, and St.addressed people in the courtyard representatives of, those concerned Mary's Hospitals, which for some adjoining the town hall, and after should have been consulted. (c) years admitted women students, his speech, in which he urged the That the Government should con- have now. closed their doors to
strikers to hold out for 100 per Bent to reopen negotiations with cent. trade unionism, the workers those affected for the substitution entered the town hall and indulged of a new and agreed scheme of bonus payment which will remove in an impromptu concert.
the hardship imposed by the abroga- tion of the agreement of 1920.
num.
thum Chartered Bank (T. L. Christio).
B. & S. (H. U. Ireland) r. H.K. Bank (E. P. Streatfeld). Bye-J. M. & Co. (B. D. F.
Reith),
The manager of each team is shown in brackets. To be played under handicap, as on the date of playing. Teams may be changed from day to day. To be played over 18 holes match play, singles And foarballs, each match counting one point, and each match to be
new
Three others, the Westminster, Charing Cross, and King's Col lege, have decided to admit no women entrants, while al- lowing those at present in train- ing to complete their courac. In 1996-97 the number of women students at these medical schools
Mr. B. Sullivan, London - secre- tary of the Tailors and Garment Workers' Union, said that the work-people had struck although the union had urged them to wait and see what negotiations might effect.
This week Mr. George E. Smith, the professional at Lassiemouth, arrives in the Colony, and will be available to give lessons from next Monday. Mr. Smith is coming out on his own responsibility, and his visit has in actual fact no connec tion with the Golf Club. However, Smith is a brilliant player and teacher, and members will have only themselves to blame if they do not take advantage of his pre sence. The Royal Hong Kong Golf Olab is giving him every possible facility during the stay, and he
There is an increasing demand will have free use of all the courses,
for women doctors by local au- and a pied à tere in the Secre- played out. difference of handi- thorities, in child welfare and tary's office in York Building. The caps in singles, 1 (bisques) in four-maternity clinics, and in maternity last professional who came here
balla
hospitals, says the report. There made & very good job of it for
If a match goes beyond the 18th is the same increasing demand in himself, I believe, though I gather green, in the singles strokes will be private practice for women doctors that his methods did not meet with taken as in the first round, in the by women who from feelings of de- universal approval. Of Smith's four balls difference of handicaplicaey delay consulting men docend as quickly as it started. ability, and experience there can be (after the 18th hole) will be taken tort until it is too late. no two opinions and one can only in strokes. wish him the best of luck.
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1st round on or before January Until he himself arrives presum-oth, 1020, 2nd round on or before ably such mundane questions 35 January 27th, 1929, final on or be las charges will remain unknown, fore February 17th, 1929 except that his fee will be $5 for
half-hour Jessoa, I believe.
It will be greatly to his own
allow him
at the Loudon School of Medicine for Women.
The decision has been arrived at to make this really serious question of good faith a part of the negotia tions now proceeding it regard to was 654; of these 208 were studying Mr. A. G. Rossiter, the managing-the bonus cut" generally. There is, director of Rego Clothiers, Ltd., re- of course, no question of any breach of agreement in regard to the" turned from the country to discuss the situation with the Tailors and genetal cut now operating; on the contrary, the Treasury have offered Garment Workers' Union officials
A meeting of the directors of the to depart from the agreement by trade union making a concession to Civil ser- company and the officials will be held, when the whole vants generally estimated to be question of union registration will worth £750,000 per annum. be discussed.
It is expected that the strike will An offer of conciliatory action by Ministry of Labour was rejected.
Opinions are divided, it is stated, as to the merit of co-educa- the tion. The objections are given us
a sense of delicacy, that women are
NOVEL.
unable to contribute to the athletic LEGAL FIGHT FOR BANNED life of their school, that women are keener in their work, and that there is an instinctive sex jealousy which makes men dislike to he brought into direct competition with women.
"WELL OF LONELINESS" APPLICATION.
WOMAN TO RULE 1,000,000
PEOPLE. DAUGHTER TO SUCCEED AN INDIAN PRINCE.
The Nawab of Bhopal, the second. greatest Mohammedan prince in India, has decided that his State shall revert to its tradition of rule by women, and has nominated his daughter to succeed him.
Bhopal, with its million subjects, There is to be a legal battle for is the only State in India where, the possession of the copies of Miss until the accession of the present Radclyffe Hall's banned novel, Nawah, Mohammed Hamidullah The Well of Loneliness," which Khan, women ruled uninterrupted- fact this is likely to be difficult, as decision of those medical schools were seized by Customs officers at ly for nearly a century. Sundays for the next few weeks which have excluded women. Dover.
are rather heavily booked.
It Of women, qualified between 1223
His mother, the famous Begum
of.
advantage if both he and the Club further it is only natural that Smith will make a full statement of the himself should wish to have a position. For instance, should a occasional round over the finest
"The last three motives," say member wish to play him at Fan- course that he is likely to see for ling on a Sunday, will the Cab the next few months at any rate. the report, have been represent a starting time! Fur I believe he bas ideas of playing ed to us so often that we are com- ther the incidental expenses of an exhibition match to introduce pelled to believe them to have been day'a gpit at Fanling-railway himself to the public, but in actual serious factors in determining the fares, tins, etc. are not negli gible, and if Smith will make it quite clear bow these things are to be arranged I am sure it will be might perhaps be arranged on a and 1925 only 18 per cent, married Publication of "The Well of Bhopal, ended a long succession of am and only 10 per cent. retired from Loneliness was discontinued by able and enlightened queens who the London publishers after the at- by public choice, supplanted men plessiner for all concerned. The Saturday afternoon, but I greater part of his work will no afraid that the attendance would practice. The report adds:
Women students trained in a tention had been enlied to doubt be done at Happy Valley, almost certainly be small. As a
hospital where all the more im- character,
Messrs. Hubinstein, Nash & Co., but down there Saturday, when general rule people who have taken
portant appointments are held the afternoon is given over, to the trouble to go all the way to
by men, develop a sort of in-solicitors, of Gray's Inn, stated that football, and Sunday, when most Fanling have a perfectly reason-
feriority complex, lack self-conf-the Pegasus Press, the Paris pub people are playing friendly games,able desire to play, rather than to
dence, and become imitative. lishers of the book, have retained wil, probably be comparatively watch other people play, which
We urge that whatever changes Mr. J. B. Melville, K.C., and Mr. blank. The majority of those who may in this case be foolish, but is
are made to provide further Walter Frampton to appear before wish to play with him, rather than nevertheless true. It will anyhow
training facilities for women the commissioners under the Cue ahall be made in a large minded toms Act 1876 to show cause why to repeive a definite lesson from be interesting to see what Smith
the book should be released. him, will be playing at Fanling, and will make of the hard and fiery
and ungrudging spirit. (Continued on next Volumn). Fanling course.
its
claimants to the throne and ruled the State with a strong authority and progressive ability
The strong personality and able picading of the Begum induced the British Government two year ago to break age-old tradition by con- senting to her wish to alter the suc cession from her grandson to her own surviving son, the present Nawab.
Most of the royalties in the world seem to have passed before 1. de Ketchiva's eyes in one casino or another, and he has an especial ly grateful memory of King Ed ward VII. in connection with the exposure of a chent,
Famous Names. The author gives full measure when he is reporting conversations of the famous, and it is probable that nothing approaching the fol lowing has been seen in any book of memoirs. He claims to have had Bonar Law, M. Poincaré, M. Clemenceau, Sir Basil Zaharoff, Mary, Pickford, Queen Sophia of Greece, and King George of Greece all at his table in the Cannes Casino,
the Dowager
HAD NO PEACE NIGHT OR DAY Terrible Rash On Body. Cuticura Healed.
"A terrible Irritating mah broke out on my body, itabs, arma, and hande, Ths akin wum InƐarned' and I got no peace sight or day. Lcould not work, sleep or eat; in fact I had to atzy to bed for weeks. The trouble lasted a year and three months.
**I tried several remedies but they did not help me.. 1 read an adver- tisement for Cutiici Boap and Ointment and sent for a fren sample. After using it I purchased more and now 1 am completely healed." (Signed) Mr. Mary K. Sibley, 4, Sunningdale Cottages, Hillingdon, Mada. Eng.
Use Cuticara Soup, Ointment and Til for daily toile: purposes.
Soap and Ointment sold throughout the WorkFurple usab free sédren: F. Be Joy à Bonn, Lily 23, Basher Eng London, 1, 01 Abia fie tatali neumes with prios.
Try the Cuticura Sharing Stich,
HATS, GOWNS.
& NOVELTIES
"Felix."
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"Tut-tut,' said Mary Pickford. & woman is what a man maker her."
"Nonsense, broke in the Dowa ger Queen of Greece, a man doe not get much chance of saying any thing to the modern woman. She does what she wants and tells her husband afterwards-if she remen bebers!
The two most uncertain quan- tities in the world are gan M. Clemenceau.
Women and a roulette wheel. I was the low voice of Sir Basil Zaharof that finished the sentence for the Tiger.
(Continued on nezi Column.) ·
"You are a cynic in your old age, murmured King George of Greece, finishing the discussion."
One can only gasp at this, and congratulate M. de Kotchiva on a marvellous memory.
He knows they'll be taken care of
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