CENTRÁL BRITISH SCHOOL. A SWIMMING INTERPORT.
GYMNASTIC DISPLAY.
The Gymnastic Display given by the boys of the Central British School, Kowloon, yesterday after noon on the School playground was most interesting, and each item was carried through without a hitch.
included Mr. Thore Nightingale (School Headmaster), Mr. E. Ralphs, Acting Director of Education, and a goodly number of parents.
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All swimmers and those interest. ed in aquatics will no doubt hope, for an interport this year as it proved very popular when held in Hong Kong before.
Tea boys, the 'pick of the School went through a series of extremely difficult gymnastic exercises, under the direction of Sergeant Mills, of the Somerset Light Infantry, who tas tralaed them for about six Weeks. Twelve exercises in all were given of which tableaux were perhaps outstanding, while the dis plays on, both parallel-bars and
horse were faultless, Little Ian OPEN TO LADIES AND SONS Black, especially won plause.
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At the conclusion of the display, Mr. Nightingale thanked Sergeant Mills and the boys, and remarked that he had never seen a finer set of scliblars. Great praise was due Sergeant Mills who voluntarily undertook their tuition. Those who took part in the display were Masters E. Butler. J. Smith, F. Fowler, M. Russeau, F. Grasburg, R. Blyth, A. McFarlane, R. Wood, B. Phillips, and Tan Black..
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LESSONS DEFERRED OWING TO MR. HEARD'S ILLNESS.
The Sports Club's riding school. which was to have held its first lesson on Tuesday, June 4, has had a setback due to the illness of Mr. A. J. F. Heard, riding master, who, was in hospital for a we learn, week.
Mr. Heard is now out and about understood that again, and it is those who intend to take lessons from Hong Kong's "star" jockey There was a good response to the will be able to begin next week.
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Baseball Notes.
THE GROUND QUESTION
STILL UNSETTLED,
THE JUNIOR OUTFITS.
[BY CENTRE FIELD."]]
JUNE 7, 1929.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE WATER PROBLEM.
[TO THE EDITOS OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRES3"]
SIR,The Government has, I be lieve, a certain number of water- carts. usually employed for water- ing the streets. It occurs to me that if these were filled with fresh water, and regularly paraded along
LAWN BOWLS.
IRISH GHOST STORY.
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE TERRIFYING APPARITION'S
LEAGUE.
TO-MORROW'S FIXTURES.
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Interesting facts are revealed in on analysis of lawn bowls doings. Taking the results to date, not one Club has shown consistent scoring
LUMINOUS FACE.
STORY OF FIVE YOUTHS.
The Irish Independent recently published details of a ghost story which has been startling a large part of County Wicklow for a con- siderable time. All attempts to solve the mystery have failed, and
It was good to see that my last certain routes, like milk-carts, this on all thres rinks. Obanging of different investigators have had to notes aroused the enthusiasm of one might assist many poor people and skips has been the rule rather than
confess themselves beaten by the
circulars for novices to enrol in the ball fan-" Play Ball." "Atta Baby, help to relieve congestion at the the exception, particularly in the strange visitant.
BRIDE AGED 15."
AND HER BRIDEGROOM OF 7.
Mr. Darrell, a seventy-year-old landowner, of Hillfield House, Dartmouth, and Miss Dorothy Yabsley, aged fifteen and a half. kitchenmaid, of Gaza Bridge, have been married at Kingsbridge, South Devon,
The bridegroom has been mar ried twice previously, and has six children.
Perhaps this is Second Division, and there has "Play Ball," I thank you for the street fountaing. letter sau wrote to the Daily Press, already being done, but I have not been much shuffing about of play and your suggestions were good. I repeat, and make no apolo-
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noticed it.-Youre, etc.,
SMALL IDEA.
gies for the repetition, that it is. "Hong Kong, June 6, indeed tough luck that out, foot-1 ball fans cannot be induced to let
the baseballers have the use of their AIRMAN CONSULTS MAN ON ground, but the proposal as regards the South China plot is, to say the feast of it, good, so why not!
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Some Clubs experience dif. ficulty in getting the same mea to play week after week, and another trouble is experimenting with skips, which has proved costly in some
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Two years ago a distinguished Dublin citizen purchased a house and fishing rights in a desolate part of County Wicklow. When he went to reside there during the summer months, weird occurrences began by night. Bells rang without apparent cause, doors supposed to be locked were heard slamming, and ghostly figures flitted through rooms and
corridors.
Five Clubs in the Senior Division
Lighted Candlas. have succeeded in keeping their re- The wife of the owner of the house. cognised skips on the job all the awoke one morning to find three time. In the Second Division only lighted candles arranged around her one Club (Kowloon B.G.C.) did so. | bed. A few mornings later. BIN We have therefore five, and even lighted candles, similarly arranged. six, skipa who have at one time were found round a maid's bed. led the fortunes of their respective This was more than the occupants Clube. One team in each section of the house could stand, and they could be picked out for special men- promptly returned to Dublin. tion in that they have been con- asistent with their skips and made the minimum of changes in position of players or personnel. These are Civil Service seniors and Bowling Green Club juniors.
The Arst recorded route inquiry from an airman who had lost his bearings was recently addressed to in R.A.C. Guide' on duty at some cross roads near. Darlington.
In his letter or perhaps her letter-Play Ball" mentioned the reclamation at Praya East. There certainly is a lot of space on that tract of land, and if the authorities
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As promised in my notes last Friday, I shall "analyse the Colts Outfits and will "pick-on " the South China buach for a start, so here we go! They have a num- per of rookies" in their ranks and as Father June told me when we were chewing the rag some days back, the boys are a keen pack.
They have a lot of pep in them and sock-why, one or two of them will make the ball look like a pill! That's straight, and with as we call him, pitching, the batters on the other sides will have to be pretty fast to be able to connect even, a bunt! Then our catcher, Tong Kwan, has improved wonder- ftly. Yes, air guess we'll carry away both shields this time, and listen here, I wish they'd make a start quick, what d'yer say 1"
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Two Rinks Still On Top. A prominent fact which emerges from, my investigations is that there are only two rinks who can claim the honour of being unbeaten, and they are both at Kowloon Dock. F. Cullen's rink played five matches) and, with the exception of a draw, While on the subject of sliding,
J. Pun most of the local players will do they have been up every time, their
total credit being 38 shots. well to see how "Tommy" China cheon's rink played four matches I believe he is turning out for the Kai Ora's this year-does it. As and won all with a total credit of far as I can remember I have not
Taikoo comes next in order of seen any local player.. who works
to have all done well but for the the oracle nearly as well as "Robert merit, and their skips may be said Dollar" Tom. Some players I have fall of two rinks in the only match seen do more of a dive" than lost last Saturday. N. Drummond anything else, and more often than lost one match in four, but this rink not they miss the base through has been the asset in the matches travelling too far! Another good won by the Club. J. Ferguson's man at sliding is "Jackie" Curreem, who first played baseball rink lost two matches, but apart for the Indian Recreation Club and from the position on paper, his later joined the Filipinos when the first named Club stopped putting in a side.
Abdul.
carries the better record.
Last Christians the son of the owner of the house set out with four friends resclved to solve the mystery, Nothing happened till one of the party left the house to re cover something he bad left behind in the motor-car outside. Then from- a dark window overhead he saw an
old-fashioned blunderbuss pointing at him, and as he crouched for shelter be observed & cowled figure leave the house and go toward the out-offices.
He got the impression that the leaving the dwelling. stranger did not open the door on
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While the young man and his puzzling manifestation there came companions were discussing this loud reports as of gunshots dis ture falling. charging, doors banging, and furni-
Pelted With Bottles, Then the cowled man appeared before them, a terrifying appari- tion described as having a luminous face, malevolent expression, and ghostly gaps between his teeth, two The startled investigators Saw of which were exceptionally large, J. Gibson's rink has been respon the cowled man go upstairs. Deter sible for the initial successes of mined to get to the bottom of the Kowloon C.C, but met disaster mystery, they endeavoured to fol- when they encountered Taikoo low, but were driven back by bottles Why doesn't the LRC. enter E. Lammert's rink has been fairly and other missiles, which clattered an awful dia. team? Way back in 1924-25 they successful in that they gave away downwards with had a pretty useful side in the League and they made a good show very few in two matches and show- Eventually they procured lights, and worked their way to the top of the tool With men like Abdul-Cured a credit balance in the third."
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The is that the
side in the Big League." trouble, however, majority of the Indian lads take to tenais, and I will say here that if tennis was not played in summer, we'd see yet another useful com- bination in the League-the Portu- 'guese
menn.
of skips here.
One suggested explanation is that Club de Recreio did not start the strange figure is what is known very confidently, but I am pleased in Germany, as & poltergeist-an to see that they are coming back to evil spirit full of malicious tricks. their own. R. F. Luz'e rink, I There are many more stories of the notice, are prominent in the vic strange doings of this queer mani taries against the two"Docks, and festation, but this one is especially the other rinks also rendered useful worth recording. One of the youth- service in this direction.
ful investigators made as soon as I hope next Friday to be in he got home a sketch of the cowled His com- position to offer some comment on figure, with the intention to show- skips. !
panions agreed that it was an ex- the doings of the Second Divisioning it to his father.
sellent likeness, and he put it in his pocket.
When, however, the youth later took the sketch from his pocket the
The Kai Ora's are an uncertain lot. By this I mean that their make-up Club de Recreio in the past pro- will, depend on how things go with vided followers of the game with their "Big League" side. As far some sparkling exhibitions of clever as I can learn, the team will be in-field work, while they also had made-up of nine little snappy quite a few who were no
To-morrow's Matches and Prospects. boys" who will be out for blood. sluggers "Dick" Alves waN &
The Folice will be out at Taikoo The outfit is already hard at work, rather speedy pitcher and others
"Vase-to-morrow, and I fancy that they and they are very businesslike about who helped the side were their training too. The one good line" Alvares also a twirler whom are in for another defeat. Craigen
paper was blank. Other people in- thing about it is when they have I guess will be in the box for gower meet Kowloon seniors. It is drawing had disappeared, and the tent on solving the mystery have work-outs the senior and junior the Filipinos this season-Gosso, noteworthy that last season it was sides go to it at the same time. Noronha, Barros and Remedios: Kowloon who at the last moment From what I am given to under Atta Boy! Rees, lets see you on spoilt the untarnished record of the since visited the house, but the stand, they have a trick of two up the diamond again this time. You champions. their sleeves which is calculated to can't raise a side! Applesaucel upset all the other teams' plans "about finishing right on the top.. Go to it, Kai Ora's, and let us have some real ball games.
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In Shanghai, as in other places, Dock, and a victory is indicated for CIVIL SERVANT'S SUICIDE, spectators at ball games give them the visitors. On the recent form of selves full-heartedly to the fua of Club de Recreio, I expect them to
A verdict of Suicide while of the sport. It would be well for beat the Civil Service when the
unsound mind" was recorded at a "I reckon we'll go pretty far," some of these would-be dignified latter visit King's Park.
Civil Service juniors receive Paddington inquest on Mr. Ed- said Mr. Leung Yuk Tong; of the gentlemen who attend the local ball- China Athletic side, when asked games to remember that " In Rome Taikoo. The Dock team does not as ward Tudor Owen, O:B.E., aged a rule do well away from home, and fifty-five, a civil servant, who was what he thought about their chances they must do as the Bomans do." in the League. They will have the Our American friends, whether they I doubt their ability to take the killed by a fall from a bedroom services of Leung Wai Chun, be heads of departments or "gover points. At North Point, the Yachts- window at an hotel in Westbourne-
The terrace, W. pretty useful man in the box. The cors" of business bouses, always men should defeat Recreio.
Mr. Owen was in charge of the position behind the plate will be join in the fun-Atta Baby! After Electricians have been scoring two
the Ministry at taken by Catcher Kwok, a heavy all baseball will sure be dry if there remarkable successes at home, and Housing and Slum Clearance De
до occasional shouts of from what I understand they are partment batter with a safe pair of mitts. were This side did not impress me very "Change that pitcher !" Oh batter; confident of another victory when Health, and had been absent from much last season, but it has been I bet you won't see first," and they receive Craigengower. I should, work since he was involved in a said that they have improved be "Say mister, who said you could however, predict the game to be a motoring accident. Mrs. Owen, yond all expectations. Anyway, play ball", atc.. they, like the other teams, are put to give ball-fans some exciting mo
ments and as far as support from the bleachers is concerned, this side will bold its own against any ather combination in the League.
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I was very much paused at a ball- Kowloon Bowling Green, playing ident her husband was slightly away, should beat their neighbours, cat on the head and had concus
Kowloon C.C.
LEAGUE TABLES. Division T.
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P. W. D. L. Pts."
4 3 0 1 0 430 I
2 0 24
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game last season when I happened to be sitting next to two gentlemen, who on occasions, condescended to make feeble attempts at clapping. However, towards the end of the exciting that At the moment of writing, itgame things became
Taikoo B.C. cannot be confirmed whether the St. one of them-forgot himself for a Joseph's College or the Hong Kong moment and let a remark go-Bonte- Baseball Club will put in entries thing after the style of give him Craigengower in this division. However, it is a basket when one of the heiders Kowloon D.R.C. 8 3 0 2 6
His companion Kowloon B.G.C. 4 hoped they will, for the League cer- dropped a catch. tainly deserves more support than was chocked, and anid: Have you Club de Recreio 42 it actually has as far as entries taken leave of your senses, man? Civil Services... 42
3 Police R.O. go. The College ought to be able This sort of thing isn't done!" Kowloon 0.0... 42 to put out a good side-as a matter Act yourselves, bo's, and when you of fact, that is where the Leonards: go to a ball-game, just remember Bautista and many more local ball- it's a ball-game and not a funeral! players first learnt how to use a baseball club. The Leonards and Bautista were all members of the Filipino crew that carried away the shield last year, and I believe some of the present boys can give their more experienced friends a point or two in base-stealing and sliding. (Continued on next Column).
Several cricket scribes in the local Press have at one time or another written about the way baseball ruiné cricketers who take up the game. As one who has played both games for years I hope to have anmething to say on the subject in my notes next Friday.
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For Agst. Up. Dr. Kowloon D.R.C. 321 201 Taikoo B.C. 230. 922 Craigengewer 269 237 Kowloon B.G.C. 237 248 0 1 Club de Recreio 230 243 Police R.C... 286 289 Civil Service Kowloon C 205 210 0
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sion of the brain. He had since complained of constant pain in his head.
Division IL.
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30 Electric R.C. B 302 8 Taikoo R.C. 3 3 0 1 2013
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EHOTS VON AND AGAINST.
For Agst. Ep. Da Taikoo B.C..... 205 189 Yacht Club ..... 300 268 Civil Service 248 216: Craigengower 225 215 Kowloon B.G.0. 287 298 Electric R.O.... 293 303 Bowlbor CO-167 207 Club de Recreio 208 331
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