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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1929.

SPORT AND

SHOULD AMATEURS BE PAID?

ATHLETICS:

AN "INTERNATIONAL " INOIDENT.. Controversy is likely to rage for Gone are the days when a man ser time over the incident in the was mug enough to chuck up his Asaciation international match at future for amateur sport. A cehen. Glasgow last month, when Mr. A. Toth, the referee, puzzled every- will have to be launched whereby body by awarding a free kick about amateurs can be compensated lovsis yards out when it was generally

broken time "

An extraordinary condition of affairs in Australian swimming circles is revealed by the above statement, by Andrew Charlton, the finest swimmer ever turned out by Australia.

LEGISLATION RUN MAD. After the Aumsterdam Olympiad the International "Amateur Athletic Federation complained to

the

A. of the number of active exploiting athletes who were their athletic ability for proft" by writing for payment in the press. The A.A.A. replied that in their supposed that the whistle bud been opinion journalism does not affet biowa to give a penalty against the amateur status. Genuine journ Meiklejohn, the Scottish half-back, lists themselves had. however, who appeared to handle the ball something to say about the matter. after Harkness had fumbled Bufell's There is, and has been for long past, a feeling that the athlete who wins shot. Perhaps a penalty was Mr. Joseph's first idea and then be an Olympic or English champion- thought it too drastic punishment ship and then makes a bee-line for of an offence that might have been Fleet Street, his normal calling decidental. But the official version being something other than joura- that the Scottish goalkeeper wasalim, is trading on his athletle peralised for carrying the ball be- laurels to make money.

Charlton refused to compete at a gala organised in Sydney in honour of Arne Borge the. Swedish wonderyand the legitimate two steps finds swimmer, who is touring Australia, support, for Harkness did not properly field let alone hold Raffell's whereupon it was freely suggested shot. that the local man did not etre to

risk a defent. These suggestions, allied to a sense of personal injury, provoked Charlton to an extra ordinarily bitter outburst.

The reasoning is perfectly sound.

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The remedy suggested that reject Directed by the ed) at mouth's meeting of the General Committee of the

The more serious aspect of the is ungenerous and absurd. They, it finir was the rough-riding of the seems, would ask the genuine press- laws that followed. A goal cannot man to turn his other cheek. The be scored direct with a free kick idea is that anyone who has ever for carrying." but although with written för payment, under his own all free kicks, "the kicker's oppon- name, is to be declared a profes sional athlete and may neither com- ents shall not approach within ten Chariton makes a number of acards of the ball until the kick is pete nor hold office in amateur Thereby many honest cusations regarding the selection of taken, unless they are standing on athletics.

(law 10). the amateur sportsmen would be driven the Australian Olympic team, and their own goal-line

Scotsmen swarmed all round the right out of the game they love for their welfare from the day they left bail, and while it is announced that the sake of a few young gentlemen. (barristers, doctors, and the like) for Amsterdam until their return Wainscout, did actually take the und ` after accusations which the kick- side-tap to a colleague who who have used their athletic reputa althorities cannot ignore in justice had the right to score the ball was tions already to rob the real journ immediately booted away by an op-alists and enrich themselves Hardly to themselves and the reputation ponent, Mr. Joseph's error here is a good example of British sparta- of Australian sport. Charlton also clear: "Il opponents persist in en manship!

SUSPENDED FOR FOUR croaching act promptly and caution!

MONTES. makes some pungent remarks about them," is the F.A. instruction. The the Australian failures at the Olym-ironical part of the affair is that Mr. pic Games. He says the men them-Josephs as a part-time journalist, seires should not be blamed it was frequently indulges, in counsels of simply a case of wrong selections.. perfection.

Naturally, Charlton, has a word to Ha about compensation for "broken

time.

"I cannot afford to con

tinuo in competitive swimining with out some compensation for loss of, time. That's the modern trend, the Australian Association offered me training and travelling expenses to swim Borg, but the offer came very late in the day and would have given me ne chance of getting pro- perly fit."

The case of Ted Sandwina, the heavy-weight boxer, who was dis qualified for fouling Charlie Smith At the Albert Hall, was heard by

recently. the British Boxing Board of Control

The board decided that Sandwina forfeits his purse, and suspended him for four months from March 22

WOMAN'S SHOOTING RECORD. Miss M. E. Foster, the Jamous Bisley shot, shooting at Bisley in a King's visit stage match with the, service rifle, made the highest posto July 21 sible score nt 200, 500, and 600 It may be recalled that Sandwina yards. This is the first time since alan suffered disqualification in his the diameter of the balls'-eye was contest with Phil Scott "at the reduced to five inches that a highest Albert Hall on January 31. He was possible first stage score has been ruled out halfway through the fifth made by any shot, man or woman. round for hitting low,

MAINLY FOR THE MEN.

also his kinsman Lord Leigh with his wife, and Miss Marie Tempest and Miss Peggy O'Neil, both of whose plays were criticised in odg to their evident amusement.

the

Mark Twain

was America's Those who think of sailing small greatest bumorist, but he could beats as a child's amusement have never see that it was a joke to be their eyes opened when they see the lieve that Francis Bacon wrote the beautiful model yachts, built to plays of William Shakespeare. He scale, which are raced by expert

and was a furious Baconian, and Mr.grown-up,

sometimes even James Montgomery Beck, formerly elderly owners, Solicitor-General of the United

When walking down Denmark States of America, in D foreword The word "marvellous' must Street (by the Bristol Hippodrome) 10 "Links Between Shakespeare have been uttered at least a thou-a stranger passed an oyster and and the Law," describes how Mark

Displayed in sand times during the two short shell bar." Twain fell out with him because entr'actes during the first perform window was a dish of small brown Mr. Beck doubted the Baconian

ance of Porgy" last month in snails priced at eightpence for a theory.

Links between Shakespeare and London, but it was not applied balf pint.

solely to the play and the produc- The good dame within said that the Law written by Sir Dunbartion. Three famous beauties, each the snails, were picked off the Plunket Barton, formerly a judge of dazzling fairness, were general-hedges in the country round about. of the High Court in Ireland, ly declared to be looking marvel- They are very nourishing, and pre- urges that, while there are many lous." "They were Lady Diana vent consumption, and are eaten not by legal allusions in Shakespeare's Duff-Cooper, the Marquise de Casa by the working people,'

Recently plays-regarded by some Bacanians Maury, and Miss Nancy Beaton, any particular workers. us proof of their theory-such who gazed downwards from a box they have been difficult to obtain allusions were the commonplace of

Oliver

Messel, this being the first lot for about dramatists of the time. Entertain-containing Mr.

in month but they should be plenti- swathed Was

face whose

ing instances of litigation of the bandages, Sir Basil Bartlett, and ful in the future months. day are cited, and Sir Dunbar Mr. Peter Hannen. Mr. Noel taste like winkles shows how Shakespeare dressed them up in his plays for the amuse- ment of the lawyers and the theatre going public.

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Mark Twain

fanatically Baconian, and in 1000 he invited Ms. Beek to visit him at his home at Stormfield to discuss the question.

Coward greeted Miss Edna Best with a hearty embrare, and Miss Megan Lloyd George was wrapped in ermine to her eyebrows.

London has lost one of its well known "characters" by the passing of Alfredo Nardi, the blind musi cian, who played his violin re- When I reached Mark Twain's gularly in different West End horne," Baya Mr.. Beck, and my streets and squares and also at one baggage had been taken by the of the entrances to Kensington vales, Mark Twain took me into the Gardens. Years ago Nurdi was library and went at his favourite topic as abruptly na Hamlet made the players give a taste of their quality"

his

They

They are eaten raw by children, the shell being first removed, and they are supposed to eat up all the germs in the body." They are képt alive for long periods in a closely packed mass underneath an inverted flower-pot, and must be covered by a sieve weighted down by flat-irons."

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was austere, it was completely lack-

The more I special corner, and then, carefullying on glamour. The walls, floor

placing his violin

CASC On

talkies" mean the end of temperament-that sometimes cost- well known in musical circles, and sometimes priceless prerogative of film stars? It is going to be ex- Mascagni conducted some of

mental in a talkie" studio. compositions in Rome, but of inte tremely difficult to be tempera be was forced to exist on the few

A Press representative was shown As the discussion, proceeded," shillings which he earned by play over the new temporary talkie says Mr. Beck, I naturally suging from memory in the streets. studio of British International gested some of the many arguments Wearing a widebrimmed black hat, Picturce at Elstree. It was cold, it which if documentary, history has he need to grope his way to a any value, support the claims of

the the Stratford poet, submitted the arguments for his ground, he would commence to play and ceiling are made of a sound- consideration, the more passionate pathetic figure, over seventy proof material that looks like cork. his temper became. At first I re- years old. Passersby who paused White blankets are draped like garded this with amusement, but to place a coin on his instrument curtains down the walls as a fur- later with some concera,

Finally, when I advanced some relating two

mees could readily draw him into the precaution, and the floor is covered with brown fibre matting. of the proudest argument to which he could not

the camera room. It is painted give even a plausible answer, he moments of his life: how Tschai-A little Noah's Ark on wheels is kowsky had once played his accom-

white, lined with lead, and has a suddenly burst into a volley of paniment, and how the King ac profanity worthy of his early days cepted one of his compositions at movable table to hold the camera, which photographs through a win- on the Mississippi, and cursed and the time of his Coronation.

dow. It is like a refrigerator. reviled Shakespeare with a coarse-

Another ark on wheels holds the nes of phrase that, would have

sound receiving apparatus and um- done justice to Falstaff and his

plißer, and is also like a refrigera companions.

tor.

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The wittiest idea in cabarets that has been seen for some time is the Next morning Mark proved a playgoer's guide episode, written

Every scene will be rehearsed for delightful companion, but neither by Mr. Rowiey Leigh for the hotel he nor Mr. Beck ventured to refer in Piccadilly which the inde- days before the actors take the floor. again to the authorship of Shake fatigable Luigi, of the Embassy They will have to be acting and speare's

Club, has just acquired. Four word perfect before the camera and playa,

pretty girls appear in charge of a microphones start recording, for there can be no corrections and no Devotees of the Round Pond, I man, who asks anyone in the room

alterations. It will be more like Kensington, are much perturbed to name a current play. He then

the first night of a play, without over the news that pirates have inquires who will criticise it, and

an audience and without even the been known to dash away with sail-immediately one of the girls steps ing ships under the eyes of the forward and singa an amusing reassuring presence of a prompter. There will be no director with a owners and their families, thereby critique in verse of the piece that

Thinking to megaphone to bawl encouragement, to piano to discourse soulful music expressions of grief ill befitting catch the author out,

out the title of a play of which the lure emotions to the surface. Once the stage is set, the camera first performance was barely over,

man and the microphone men retire Nothing daunted, however, one of the girls had an aptly rhymedte their soundproof arks and a red epigram ready, Mr. Rowley Leigh light flashes over the door, declar

ing that no one may enter, was himself in the room, as was

reducing some of the small folk to. has been named. man called stout sailormen. Bad as this may

be for the children, it is worse from some points of view if dishonest persons try to annex the model yachts which are sailed on the Round Pond on Sunday mornings

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