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CRICKET NOTES.

SLOW BEGINNING TO LEAGUE.

THE HONG KONG

HOME FOOTBALL.

F.A. CUP AND LEAGUE MATCHES.

TO-MORROW'S FIXTURES...

Third Division teams in the English League have a curtailed programme of League football. matches to-morrow owing to their engagements in the second round of the FA Cup Competition. Fix- tures are as under-

The First League is indeed slow in getting off the mark, but I have: noticed that-this-happens-very aften in Interport years. A natural renetion I suppose. However, two League matches were disposed of, and went very much as was expect ed. The Indians do not seem to have last their knack of drawing matches. and are a very slow bat- ting side, unless the two minus get going-(Minus should, perhaps, read plus!) I have seen them score very fast especially A.R., I think. that The surprising thing was Anderson apparently only scored half as fast as Kermani. I hear the latter is a vastly improved bat and am looking forward to seeing him plas. Last year, if I remember Northampton rightly, he captained the second.

ENGLISH CUP,

Second Round,

V. Crewe.

Barrow.

Carlisle Stockport Clapton O.. Coventry Newport Brighton Manch. Cen.

Leyton

The Kowloon game "wx a League Doncaster fixture, and as I anticipated Kow. Chesterbeld - loon won very easily. Apart from Carnarvon

Southend Willie Hung no one could do much with the bat, while the Fincher Bristol R.

Scunthorpe brothers took tea with a not very

Queen's P.R. daidly attack.

Watford

Friendlies.

r. Northfret.

r.

2.

Bath Cilty. Walsail

. Barry,

T'.

Wrexham,

Margate.

"Fulhan

e. New Brighton Port Vale Bournemouth.

L'.

1. York City. 1. Accrington r. Rotherham, r. Lincoln. T. Plymouth

ENGLISH LEAGUE.

Division L

The Civil Service got another beating on Saturday from Craigen- gower, and I confess I was very surprised. It seems that no one, except Baker, could find a length Arsenal and that the fielding (on both sides) Aston Villa was very poor. The Club does not Bolton seer able to shake off a certain Burnley amount of staleness, and it is, I Derby suppose, casily at the top as regards Everton ag average. However, by the time-Leeds U. they get round to the League fix-Manchester C. tares next yeny this should have a Portsmouth fair side-Sayer, Richardson. de Wednesday Home, Evans, Baker, A. E. Wood, Sunderland Hamilton, Holdman and Kelly make a fair nucleus and though Ling may be absent (I think he will ho, Reed may be induced to turn out occasionally, and there are rumours of one or two useful now Rules.

men.

It is interesting to glance through that rather rare book, a copy of the rules. Ral six would, I think, by better if amer.ded by the words or subscriber after the word member in the last line but one.. Again it would be interesting to know if Rule eight, which provides for player playing for more than one team in League matches in senson, is always complied with. The wording, of course, would. serm to cover both playing for different Cluby and playing in different teams of the shma Club. The latter point is most important now, owing to the formation of the Seconil Longue.

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It has usually been accepted, I think, that there is a zone in which about three players are concerned, when one day the first eleven ma want then, and one day not. It would, of course, be absurd to pre- vrat these men playing in the segonil eleven when not wanted by

the first and the point is usually left to the honour of the Club in question to work the exchange fairly.

Result of the Formation of an Army Team:

Bradford C. Bristol C. Cardiff Chariton Hull

. Huddersfield r. Sheffold U.

r. West Ham, e...Middleshro'

v. Grimsby

Manchester U. Newcastle.

".

v. Leicester

Birmingham Blackburn.

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21.

t. Liverpool. Division 1.

v. "Blackpool.

r. Oldham

2. Chelsea.

v. Tottenham

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West Brom Millwall

% Notts Forest.

1. Southampton

*. Bradford.

:

t. Bury.

Notts C. Preston N.E. Reading Stoke Swansea Wolves

u. Barnsley. Division III. (Southern).

2. Merthyr Crystal P. Gillingham r. Torquay.

Division III (Northern), South Shields. Nelson.

SCOTTISH LEAGUE.

Division I.

Clyde- Dundre Falkirk Hamilton Hierniaus Kilmarnock Morton Queen's Park Kangers St. Mirren

Ayr United · 1. flearts.. 7. St. Johnstone

v. Cowdenbeath.

. Dundee L.

v. Celtic

2. Motherwell

v. Aberdeen.

e. Airdrie, 2. Partick

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

CLUR "AWAH.M.S. KENT.

DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1929.

"MAN'S SECRET ENEMIES."

THE MICROBE WORLD: ITS NATURE AND FUNCTION.

DR. M. B. OSMAN, M.D., UNFOLDS WONDERS OF BACTERIOLOGY.

Dr. H. B. Orman, M.D., acting professor of pathology ant bacteriology, ai Hong Kong University, broadcast on Wednesday night, frum the local studia the following lecture, revealing in vivid " und "nonstechnical language, the great world of microbe and pro- -toplasm revealed-to-modern scientists by the microscope.

The nature of these germs and the diseance which they inflict are dealt with at length.

NATURE, THE GREAT MOLOCH.

Good evening, everybody. I want to introduce to you for your consideration some of the secret enemies which surround us all the time, with the reminder that Man that is born of a woman bath tut a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is He fleeth cut down like a flower. away as it were a shadow and never continueth in cae stay." "Those few simple words ferin the pivot upon which the whole of the philosophy of life revolves.. Truly," in the midst of life we are in death." The poctic assurance of its non-existence and the poetic consolation that what areins so is merely transition, give small comfort when that pale horse and its rider comes prancing by.

really with the invention of this instrument that the study of germs as producers of disease began to take shape.

In 1871, a Jesuit priest named Kircher, invented a very crude microscope and with this he ex- amined decaying meat, milk and cheese. From this time onwards various scientists began to improve the microscope and doctors of many countries worked hard to find the causes of disease." The last century saw great advances along this line, Pasteur, that great Frenchman, proved definitely that fermentation and various processes of decay, were due to germs. In 1863, Devaine and Follander proved that anthrax, a disease of man and animals, was due to a definite and a special germ. This is the first disease in which the germ was actually found.

In those days, wounds were very Most of us perhaps, are only dangerous. They became pussy very rarely associated with those mem-easily and people died of blood poi bers of the grizzly troop "like eoning in great numbers. Then Birth, Life, Disease and Death came the work of that great surgeon Lord Lister. By applying the work Dread for them, we may perhaps, of Pasteur, he discovered a way of have. Yes, dread! but in a merei-killing the germs that infected fully vague and misty way. Mer-wounds. His brilliant studies ex- cifully, also, the tragedy of life erted a powerful influence on the though, sometimes seen is seldom doctrine of bacterial infection; in realised; and it is only until the deed they laid the foundations of ministers of human fate" drag modern surgery. Lord Lister was us, or worse still, drag those near British surgeon and be will be and dear to us that we become remembered for all time as one of acutely conscious of the great drama the greatest benefactors of the ot human suffering.

sary;

The Dark River.

But those of us who have been so much by the dark river, so near to us all, and have seen so many em bark, that the dread of the old boatinas, has in some measure dir appeared-disappeared, net because cf contemp; bred of familiarity but because of an understanding bred of acquaintance of Nature and its ways. Nature, we have long re cognised as Man's greatest adver- Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither the young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from the babe, the father from the family. Is it strange then, that Man, unable to dissociate a per- sonal element from such work, has incarnated an evil principle the devil? And so sacrifices and burnt offerings are made to placate him; jess-sticks had ineense are burnt to, amase him; the children are given amulets and silver hoops and other tokens of weird and mysterious im- port to frighten him; the big tree ad the broad ground are beaten with awe-inspiring. vigour to frighten him.

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Nature's Inexorable- Law. ' If we have now so far outgrown this idea as to hesitate to suggest,

human face.

More Garms Discovered.

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She wears coloured raiment and

germa. To some it is absolutely would be impossible without them; paints those parts of her anatomy necessary to others it is harmful the manufacture of vinegar, bear which can be exposed (without risk while to the majority air supply is and alcohol depend entirely on ing unkind remarks, that is) with a matter of indifference..

them. They eat up all the "dead rouge, lipstick and all the rest of The food supply of many consists | bodies of men and animals. Count- ir. Now this is also the process of dead animal and vegetable mat- less millions of men and animals which we bacteriologists use to renter, a few requiring living tissues have died since the dawn of time der the germs more conspicuous while a small number can exist and thousands are dying daily and amongst their surroundings. I wholly on mineral salte or oven the the earth would be full of thes don's mean we powder their noses nitrogen of the air. The range of remains if bacteria did not dispose nad rouge their lips. We dye their temperature suitable for the ma- of them in their own inimitable bodies in much the same way jority of germs lies between 60 and way. No matter how strong the bank 104, body temperature being most coffin may be, germs will get at the dye silk of wool. We refer to the dyes suitable for discase-prolucing bac bodies. They can produce sufficient use as stains and there are teria. Light, ordinary diffused gas to explode the strongest lead- now many methods of staining, each daylight or its absence is of no lined coffin: so you see, it does not staining method colouring the germs į moment to most germs but direct matter what we do with our dead, in 1 special way.

Curiously sunlight is a destroyer of all germs, these germs will still do their work. enough, germus react differently to

In fact, they keep the world young. some special staining methods

They turn useless lumber into now sources of life. They feed the world and keep it going Without them, no form of life is possible. I should really have entitled this paper: "Man's secret friends and

we

Resping the World Young. -The-study-of-the-lives and be Shapes and Powers,

haviour of these minute organisms Having thus made them stand out cannot but excite the wonder of clearly by means of these dyes we those who make observations on can study their shape much more them. It is truly marvellous to thoroughly. We find that their know that these bactéria can accom- forms, though simple enough, have plish in their short lives of possibly some variations which lend therus- a few hours or days, feats, which to be grateful to bacteria because I" selves to some convenient mode af would baffe the cleverest chemists classification. Some of them are if given years of a lifetime to work more or less spherical and these we upon. They give to the farmer the Call micrococci; and these may exist good quality of his crops, to the singly, in pairs, in fours, in clua-dairyman superior butter and ters or in chains The bacilli are cheese; they assist in rod-like bodies of variable length There are others which have spiral forms and to these the name spiritla

group may appear in much shorter given and some members of this forms as to resemble a "comma." There are, in addition, long forms which resemble cork-screws and

There are

foes" and I mention a few of the numerous things for "which we have wish to emphasise that although a few of the types are fatal enemies of mankind, innumerable others of their kindred contribute to our wel- fare in countless ways.

2 large But to-night we are limiting our- measure to free our fakes and rivers salves to those that are dangerous from harmful pollutions; the tan- to us.

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After this other workers found out the germs which cause pacu- monia, diphtheria, lockjaw and plague. It is interesting to note that it was in Hong Kong during Alte terrible epidemic of 1883-54 that Kitasato and Yersin at the same time, discovered the plague germ.

Having glanced very hastily at the history of bacteriology let us consider some facts about the germs themselves. They are the smallest of living things yet known. They belong to the vegetable kingdom and consist of a jelly-like substance called protoplasm, which is covered and held in place by a very thin but well-formed. sheath.

If nature had provided us with, eyes one thousand times as powerful as those with which we are present obliged to be contented, we should form a very different idea of the living world around us. The living creatures, both plants and animals with which we are familiar, would fall into utter insignificance, as re-

How They Multiply,

Under favourable conditions bac- terin are able to multiply at an enormous rate. It has been calcu- lated that a bacillus, dividing once every bour, would at the end of 24 hours have increased to 17 millions; and if the division continued at the same rate we would find at the end of the third day an incalculable number of billions, which would weigh nearly seven thousand five hundred tons! Some-varieties mul- tiply even faster than this.

But fortunately for our welfare, th epossibility of such a happening is entirely, beyond the slightest chance of realisation owing to the lack of food and the accumulation: of poisonous waste products.

The conditions governing their growth are somewhat complex but few of the chief factors concerned are moisture, air, food, temperature and light. All bacteria must have moisture or else they die sooner or later; and none can multiply with

The formation of an Army team

A match is arranged to-day for has led to the presence of all unit teams in the Second League: Ia Club Aside H.M.S. Kent understand it has been decided that at 4.13 p.m. Club side as follows:- 4 similar principle shall be adopted Back, S. J. H. Fox, three-quarters, that offers, whether regular Holines, G. . . Plummer I. A. Ross, A. D. Coppin; half- shall be eligible to play for their backs. J. D. A. Hutchison, I in seasons of epidemic" peril, that gards their number, by the side of out. it. A supply of air is by no

Grant: forwards, E. R. West, A unit teams. As all Second League D. Suttill, Laidlaw, T. Marshall, garaes with civilian tears take place on Saturday, as do the First F. R. Burch, B. P. Massey. B. L. League games, it will be impossible Stock, E. R. Gordon.

Referee Capt. E. B. Deakin.

members of the Army side or no,

for anyone to be a regular member

of two sides. Even the "Ubique "

of the Gunners, docan't mean that.

they can be in two places at once.

Rain

Rule twelve provides that in case a game is not finished on account of rain it must be replayed. Nüm- hers of players seem to think it is

it is for our sins we suffer the countless millions of very, very when we know the drainage is bad; amalt living particles which would

we no longer mock the heart pro-thon come into view,

Myriad Multitudes of Living Creatures.

strate in grief with the words "whom the Lord loveth He chas- teneth "when we know the milk should have been sterilised; if we The minuteness of these creatures have ecased to console with the ex-jis,auch that their size baffles des hers of the side went in the Ber-pression that He hath done what cription in the ordinary terms of wick-possibly more. Therefore the sermith good in his eyes-when we measurement. Thus, without going result of their match with the know the child should have been by any means to the smallest known forms, it was found that a common C.R.C. will be very much in the vaccinated; if, I say we have in a balance as the Chinese are not very measure, become emancipated, be- length of such germs is one-twenty- strong. It depends a good deal if come free from such doctrines, such five thousandth of an inch or a the Navy can get W. C. Hung out beliefs, we have not yet arisen to thousandth part of a millimetre: a a true conception of Nature. figure which conveys no definite ím. cheaply.

I cannot imagine why the Army Cruel, in the sense of being in pression with it. Perhaps it may I have already written last week fixed their last two games, as they exorable, she may be called; but we help you. to realise it better if. I can no more break her great laws tell you that no less than 400 of the closure hour, but Rule four-must have known most of them teen provides that each match shall would be in Camp. I assume they than we can the lesser laws of the millions of these germs could be begia, not later than 2.15 p.m. will be turning out tomorrow. I state. The pity of it is that we spread over one square inch in a There is no reason why should not know the K.O.S.B.'s are back. (The do not know them all and in our single layer; that nearly 900 mil- lions can cover a ten cent piece with be kept, though it entaila a bit of Peak Tram might put up notices ignorance we err daily, and for our

to of out-lying troops are going to be moved

contain 10 less than 640,000 grounds. Indeed I would almost in but, so that our could must error we pay, a blood penalty ease; and a solid cubic inch would

millions. one's, time to catch a car !), and

to be scored as a draw.

Time.

like to see the word "must" sub- stituted for the wory "may" (and italicized) in the rule.

To-morrow's Games.

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The Club are to play the Univer- sity in a League match and they have a very weak team out. Owen Hughes, Hancock and Mitchell are all off the side. I.soe West is play ing which means, I suppose, thit Pearce will not be keeping. They have pretty strong bowling, but thair batting is not up to its usual strength. The University should give them a very good game, unless that extraordinary paralysis which the Olub ground sometimes exercises on visitors, should descend on them. I rather expect a draw

What the Microscope Has Done.

LAND. Lessons,