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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 16th, 1929.

SPORT AND ATHLETICS.

SLATE DUST FOR CRICKET PITCHES?

Fartmados Cricket Club, as their annual meeding discussed the ques tion of treating the wickets with slate dust instead of mari. A de- cision was deferred pending a care ful survey of the effect of slate dust at practice matches.

Groundsmen expressed the opinion that slate dust would tend to kill the grass, and would not be such an effective turf binder as marl.

NOXING AT THE N.S.C. ENGLAND'S AMATEUR LEADER

JOINS SOUTHAMPTON,

Andre Regia, the Bantam-weight Champion of France, met. Billy

S: T. Gorman, the Gospert centre- Cain, of Birmingham, in a 15-round contest at 8st. lb, at the National forward, who led the England attack Sporting Club last month.

against Wales in the amateur inter- The spectators Baw match national match, at Brighton on. have been eye-witnesses of a mas-! where, on paper, they might well, February 25th, has signed amateur

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sacre. Cain stood up and punched forms for the Southampton F.C, so hard most of the time that it He was to make his first appearance was only when Regis was at his for the club in the London Combin very best and quickest that the fight became anything but an even and ios game against Queen's Park exciting struggle, Cain probably Rangers, had the better of the three open- 9000FE NURSERIES. A sub-committee was also apkept down the speed of the fight- ing rounds, when mutual caution.

Tondon's football clubs have got pointed to consider à proposal to ing. Then, although Cain was 1ogether with the idea of develop- charge for admission to matches.never unduly upset or discourageding their youthful talent.

The Arsenal club has hopes of forming by the fact, Regis speeded up No charge has been made in the matters considerably and captured mid-week league between them- past, but it was urged that the most of the next eight rounds, the selves. standard of cricket at Portmadoc 11th particularly being a bad one for was high enough to justify a change. | Cain.

THE MOTOR BOAT

ASSOCIATION.

tion teams, and they were getting no experience.

Again, he said, amateurs were constantly being recommended, but it was at the moment impossible to see what they wore worth.

Sir Samuel paid a great tribute to the London Combination, saying this competition was now so serious that they could not afford to try out unknown players in it.

Sir Samuel Hill-Wood emphasised that the Arsenal were not suggest- There followed, however, an effec-ing this competition for a stunt, and tive rally by Cain, who used would be glad for the London Com- steady left to stop alf the French bination to handle it. They had The Motor Boat Association, man's over-confident rushes, and young professionals who rarely got a chanee in the first or Combina- which has recently been formed, has refused also to be intimidated or as its objects the encouragement burt. by the latter's occasional use and development in Great Britain of the head at close quarters. Cain, and Northern Ireland of motor indeed, now suddenly appeared the boating and the use of the internal stronger man and more accurate hitter, and the French champion combustion engine for marine pur- poses, the provision for its members became distinctly wild, when, hav- of information and advice on all ing felt a stinging left to the matters connected with the sport, stomach, he rushed bang into three and the giving of active support in straight lefts to the mouth. In the the protection of the rights of its last round, however, Cain could not members. To attain these objects quite go the Frenchman's pace, and the association will undertake to his slight lead on the first three provide technical advice, and legal rounds and his gallant recovery in and insurance facilities for its mem-

the 12th, 13th, and 14th were not bers. Among other services on be enough to gain for him the referee's half of its members the association decision. Altogether, it was an ex- will compile a list of hotels, re-cellent, if not brilliant, 6ght, and pairers, and boat yards approved by the spectators loudly applauded them, and will issue a distinguishing both men at the finish badge. It will also provide touring facilities and will arrange itineraries of cruisers at home and abroad.

Applications for membership. which are invited, will be accepted from owners and all others interest- ed in motor boats. For the Erst 1.000 members the entrance fee and annual subscription is one guinea, Afterwards the entrance will be one guinea, and the annual subscription two guineas. Life membership is obtainable on payment of £21.

At the inaugural meeting, which was held recently, the following officers were elected:-Lord Howe, president: Mr. F. May, chairman Mr. W. Hill Hunter, hou. treasurer; and Mr. C. Horton, secretary; Messrs. A. Bray, M. Brooke, W. D. Fair. Fordyce Jones. H. E. Julyan, B. Syiers-Hallett, C. V. Mackrow, A. Perman, Reginald T. Wild, H. Scots-Paine, and Count Johnston- Noad, provisional executive com- mittee.

again."

Stadiums, Limited, of Sydney, an nounce that they have accepted Bushey Graham's, terms to fight Fidel la Barba for the World's

Another question was that club directors could not go to watch the juniors on a Saturday, whereas they would gladly ace them in mid-week.

Mr. Herbert Chapman, manager of the Arsenal, said sport and the future of the game were the keynote of this proposed competition, and, while they would try to win, they would lose no opportunity of trying out solta

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ROWLAND HILL MEMORIAL

The memorial to Sir Rowland Hill which the Rugby Union propose to erect at Twickenham will combine acility with sentiment. The scheme taost in favour is the erection" of a new main entrance of ten turnstiles in a, granite setting which is likely to bear a portrait of Sir Rowland, in relief. The cost will run into thousands, but the Union have the money, and it is fitting that few should be able to enter the ground without being reminded of the man who did invaluable work for the Rugby game.

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matter of the registration of play- era.", he pleaded He added that genuine competition-not a series of Iriendly matches-was necessary, in order that the players should take the maximum interest in the game.

The question was thrashed out by many club representatives, and shortsightedly talked around by others, but eventually the resola- tion to form the competition was agreed to by representatives from Arsenal, Fulham, Crystal Palace, Rangers and Brentford, while the Spurs, Orient and Charlton and con

West Ham, Chelsea sidering it. and Millwall were alone definitely against the idea.

It was decided to form a sub- committee to go on with the idea i and form a Icague next season. ·

MAINLY FOR THE MEN.

Cambridge cannot and will not meet the increasing demand. It will be the function and duty of

Here are some yarns from home about the recent cold snap. "D'you months. A friend then told me know?" said the first man on the about the Herbalist, Yee Poo Lun, tram, "it was so cold this morn- the provincial university hot mere- and the Poo On Chinese Herbing that the lather froze on myly to fill in the gaps but to provide Treatment. I had no faith in chin while I was shaving, and I a competitive product. treatment of this kind, as I have bad to stand on my head before I tried so many kinds of treatments could get my blood circulating and doctors in vain, but in despera "My boy Jenis was in bed tion I decided to try the Poo On euffering from fever and chills, he Chinese Herba. At this time water was treated by physicians for two was running from her eyes exces weeks with what they called sively. I gave her the Poo On typhoid fever, he could not eat and Chinese Herbs, an ointment, and had severe pains in the stomach; some wash. At the end of a week delirious, stomach was bloated; be the matter running from the eyes was kept in ice packs and rubber stopped and almost at once ice mattress and attended by a marked improvement took place. trained nurse; he did not show any improvement but became worse so other doctors were called in for consultation. They all insisted on removing boy to the hospital and did not give much hope for his re- covery.

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games. When we are rid of the old gentlemen of 30 and 40 and learn to trust the young men of 20 with the spirit of adventure and dar- ing, games will become more lively and inspiriting both for player and spectator.

A debate on the question "Åre the Claims of Christianity Valid !" took place at University College, London, recently, between Bishop Gore and Mr. Bertrand Russell.

The choice of three young men, each about 20 years of age, to re- That's nothing," said the

present Australia in the cricket second. As I came by Piccadilly Test Matches, and their remarkable yesterday the students were tossing success on the field of play, are a pancakes. One of them froze in welcome sign that youth is likely the air; it fell on a man standing at last to have those opportunities close to me, and gashed his face in sport which have been frequent validity, said that Christianity was Bishop Gore, in support of their something horrible. "It wasly denied to it in recent years. & religion which professed to sup worse till for us," said a third. The wiping out of a whole genera ply an answer to the inquiry of "Yesterday was our kid's birthday, tion of young men in the War left the plain man for the means of and of course we had a cake with many vacant places on the fields living a good life. Religion was candles on it. Mother tried to of sport when peace came, and essential to man to enable him to many men, who were old as sports live in accordance with God, and men go, and who in ordinary times if the religion of the good life were would have been driven into retire true, the background must be some- ment, continued to play their thing more enduring than that life. chosen games and win fresh laurels Fifty years ago we were faced with which ordinarily would have fallen the dogmatic sciences, which said to the lot of younger men. quality and standard of play views. There had been an astonish

The that they had proved materialistic suffered considerably, yet a ten- ing change in the last 20 years, too dency arose in almost every sport deep and complete to he merely, a to despise the young man, and most passing phase, in the direction of of the honours went to those who

the Christian point of view. He were advanced in years. In such felt sure that the public were being. a lack of opportunity young men taken in by biblical critics, for failed to "develop as they should, Christianity had very trustworthy and thers were probably some historical documents on its side.. reasonable grounds for the neglect which they suffered.

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She continued to improve very fast and her eyes began to clear up. A short while after I started strike a match, but every time it giving her the Poo On Herbs she lit up the fame froze, so she stack was entirely cured from this disease the fames round the cake for de- and her eyes were back to normal corations, and very pretty too. so that she should see as good as But the cake badn't been on the "I was recommended and insist-ever I am certainly thankful to table five minutes when mother the Herbs and the Herbalist and tarned her back, and the kid bad ed upon by Mrs. De Lemos to try the Poo On Chinese Herb Treat positive that Poo On Herbs one of the flames in his mouth. It Absolutely cured my child's eyes. ment, as she had been cured of a")

melted, of course, and fair scorch complication of diseases by them.

Thousands suffering from catarrb,

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a gentlemen," "I made up my mind to give bronchial and lung trouble, throat, the POO ON CHINESE HERBS cough, asthma, hay fever, malaria, fourth. Our pipes were frozen a trial; after the first day's teent-stemach trouble, indigestion, con this morning. I telephoned for the ment the fever was very much re-

round in five stipation, gastritis, piles, diarhoes, plumber, he was duced and he began to have an Gstula, heart disease, eczema, sero- minutes, and now our system is appetite and slept well at night.

fuin, female trouble, hervousness, working perfectly."" After five days treatment the insomnia, obesity, kidney, bladder

Mr. Bertrand Russell said that fever was cured and after a few trouble, Bright's disease, diabetes,

Sir Charles Grant Robertson,

bo considered Christianity 'was er more treatments the boy was ab rheumatism, neuralgia, dropsy, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of solutely well and playing around Pyorrhea, epileptic fits, paralysis, University of Birmingham, in the It is interesting to note how ceedingly harmful. If one believed

in God, he was forced to the con. the yard and eating heartily, and mors, ulcer, pimples, dizziness, course of the report on the past opinions have changed since the was able to go back to school, and headaches, and many other chronic session, predicts that ten years War sa to the age at which a

clusion that that Omnipotent Being diseases, have been restored to hence there will be very few posts sportsman reaches maturity. In world. We now knew that a very was responsible for the evil in the feels as well as he never did. ·

health and happiness without poi of Teal importance in any sphere cricket a man would probably now sonous drugs or the knife, by the. which will be held by non-univer-be considered at his beat when near- great deal of what formerly passed Poe On Chiness Herbs.

Till two or ing 30; no one could imagine young which were physical, such as bad as sin had all kinds of sources, sity, men and women. THE POO ON CHINESE HERB three years ago, he says, business men of 18 and 20 being chosen to blood, bad nerves, and various the notable exception, but represent England in Test Matches, kinds of diseases. In short, the COMPANY.

that is rapidly altering. The yet there must be those of that age simple doctrine that sinners de- YEE POO LUN, Chinese Her- demand of business to-day for in England who could hold their balist, Managing Director, over the university product, ether own with the chosen of Australis. served to suffer was the root basis twenty-five years practical ex on the technical or the air In former days it was no unusual of the objections to the Christian perience in America curing the ing and administrative side, thing for a freshman to get his doctrine. Mrs. G. A. Bayes, 011, Third sick with Chinese Herbs Main literally cannot be satisfied, and Blue, and very few who failed to Street, Modesto Calit, U.B.A.; Office: Modesto, Calif, U.8.A. what is true of "big business" lo so were successful afterwards. A miniature pipe. fashion has Hong Kong Office 624, Queen's now will be true of "small busi- Nowadays it is most unusual for been set by the Prince of Wales for My little girl, 8 years old, in Rond Central, 1st floor. Entrance, ness to-morrow. The Civil Ber- the freshman to get his place in a amokers in England. Finding that some way contracted a disease of CB, Queen's Road Central. Office vice and the liberal professions so university team. He has to wait the ordinary sized" pipe took too the eye that was gradually making Hours: Daily 0 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., far have enjoyed a monopoly and | till his elders, give way to him. We long to smoke, the Prince of her blind, I immediately took her 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays, 10 a.m. a privilege of selection. Before have come largely to admire only Wales ordered his pipe-makers. to an eye specialist for treatment, to 3 p.m. Evening Hours: 0.30 long business is going to be a very experience and the craft which it to manufacture a tiny model, but there seemed no way to stop p.m. to 8 p.m. by appointment formidable competitor, and the re- brings. on to the field of play, but more resembling a betoy

pipe. the approaching pain and blind-only. European Lady in atten- warda that it can offer will appeal experience only breeds caution, and The stem is about two and a half

ness I also tried a specialist in dance,

to every kind of ambition in the caution is the death-knell of all | inches long, while the bowl has the university graduate. Oxford and that is best and most manly in circumference of a wedding ring.

Mrs. G. A, Bayes says: "I am Positive That Poo On- Chinese Herbs and Ointment Saved My Child's Eyesight Because I tried Beveral Eye Specialists Before Going To Buo On The Cure Was Blaply Wonderful and I Am Yory Grateful.

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