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Lieut. (E.) Berlyn (R.N.)... R.Q.M.S. Ottley S.I.M. Sheen Fte. Green, J.

Dis- 1st tance Qr.

2nd 3rd Qr. "QT.

4th Last Qr. Qr.

King's

Jubilee and

King's

11

Warden

Spinaway

Snowy River

1 45 1 44 1.22.4 1.56.1 #33.4. 1.04.4 1.33

1.30.4 2.09

1.38.2 29.2

2.26.3 30:2

28.1

Soldier of Victory

43 1.20.3 1.52:3

32

Bay View

1

35.3 1.08.3. 1.41.4 2.13 31.1

What's The Time

2 44.1 1.23

1.55

32

Valorous

1 37 1.09.3 1.42

2.13.3.31.3

(Special Air Mail Service

London, Sept. 25.

There they are, hanging on th: wall before me, the faded photo graphs of my old School Firt Fifteens for the seasons 1885-1888. Yes, there we are, three full teams and of us. very self-conscious "chesty. Fifty years ago.

TRAINING GALLOPS

In preparation for the coming race meeting the following ponies were sent over the full distance yesterday when the fol- lowing times were clocked.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1935.

SCHOOL RUGBY THE HONG KONG RIFLE

Fifty Years Ago

ASSOCIATION

Practice And Spoon Shoot

The following are the leading scores made in a practice shoot and spoon shoot competition fred on the Army Ranges gester- day afternoon.

Rifles.

The conditions were:-Seven shots and one sighting shot at 200 yards. 500 yards, and 600 yards. H. P. S, 105 points. S. R. (a), and S. R. (b.

Ythan and Pontiac Bay

1

30 1.10.1 1.42.4 2.14 31.1

High West

35.1 1.09.1 1.44

34.4

The Tiger

31.3 1.03.3 1.34.2

30.4

Soldier of China...

$

43.1 1.22.4 1.54.2

Tin Ho ...

3

35

1.08.2 1.40,1

33.3 31.4

Pride of Tsingtao

41.1

1.20 1.57

Halycon

3

37.3

1.11.2

Plain View and Harvest, View

1

34

1.08

Wembly Stag and 17th of Sept.

4.

33

Sylvandale

1 38 1.11

1.38.4 1,40 1.11.4 1.42.4

1.45

West Parade

39.2 1.15

Soldier of Peace

3 42.4 1,20

King's Parade

1

Mayflower

gency Cali

? 39 1.16

2.29.1 32.1 27,2 2.12.2 32.2

31 2.18.2.33.2 1,49 2.22.4 33.4 1.50.4

30.4 48 131.3 2.09.2 2.40.2 31

1.49.2

33.2

The Rain Gauge and Emer-

י

Mistake Bay

High Speld and Gold Coin

Wadebridge

43.1 1.20 43.3 1.24 1,59

30.4 1.02.. 1.34 42.1 1.21.4 1.55.2 2.26.1 30.4

1.58.1 2.27.3 31

2.31.1 32.1

32"

FoxBridge

I

Sadku ....

1

40.3 1.19.4 1.53.1 2.24.4 31.3 34.11.09.1 1.43.4 2.16.4.33

fact

The Deemster

Liberty Bay

1

Limelight

Vetoria Hall

1

Gold Bullion

1 39 1.15

35,1 1,09,1 1 35.1 1.10.1

Tillicum

2 40.4 1,19

1-33,3 1.13.3 1.50 2.23.1 33.1

35 1.07.4 1.39.2 2.01.2 30

1.49.1 2.20.2 30.1 1.41.4 2.12.1 30.2 1.42.4 * 32.4 1.51

32

Gold Picker, and "Propitious

Time

3

40:2 1.19

1.52

33

Shooting Star

3 35

1.10.4 1.43.1

32,2

Flying Tourist

1

42

High Honour and Pacific Hall

1.23 34 1.05 1.31,1

'1.58.3 2.32

33.2

Heart's Glory

3H 1.14.2 1.48.2

31.1 3:2

PUNJABIS WIN FAST GAME

On the Marina ground yester- day, the Punjab's defeated the Indian Police in a friendly hockey match by 2 goals to n!!. The game was played at a fast pace throughout with the Punjabis do milnating the game.

The Police would have been beaten by a bigger margin, but for the stout resistance of their

We wear knee-breeches, buckled over knitted stockings. woollen jerseys Atting ghtly round the neck to frustrate "scragging." and nondescript boots still muddy from the Geld of hongur. The back row stands, with folded arms, manly and martial; the cap- tain sits in the centre of the front row. holding on his knees the ball with the date on it in white, while the proud winners u the silver edged, silver-tasselled *distinction caps" sit beside him chestiest of all

LWO.

TWO UMPIRES

"Queer how one remembers-and torgets. I recall the trivial that our boots in those days were! "barred." studs being unknown, to us; but I had forgotten that our football matches were governed not only by a referee but also by umpires; and I should not know that now had I not before me the school magazines for my three seasons and can fill the gaps In my memory by quotations from the text of the artless school re- purter. Very quaint reading they make, too... "A try which the re- feree at first allowed. but after wards, on being challenged by the opponents' umpire, refused to give defence who were playing splen- | us"; "Though palpably oftside, A; did, game.

-grounded the ball between the the umpires. curiously enough, allowing the try." So the referee was not omnipotent, and with such divided authority dis- putes were inevitable

The first halt ended with the posts, Punjab's one goal up.

In the second half the Police forwards" attacked strongly but the Punjabla backs were in form and broke up their repeated at- tacks..

"A win" by one goal to a din- puted goat reminds me of" a The second of the Punjabis' famous contemporary quarrei goal came just before the end which suspended the Ehaland ver- the game, when a misunderstand-sus Scotland International for

I can st: sce, vivid as a ing between the backs allowed year them to score their second goal picture for I was present

PURE PAPER FOR CHESTERFIELDS

They use 300 gallons of fresh water a minute to purify the clean flax linen pulp that Chesterfield paper is made of

· Slitting and winding

wide rolls of cigarette_

paper into reels

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

!!

S.R. (b) Rifles 200 yds.

500 yds.

600 yds.

Total

31.

31

29

91

23

32

29

89

29

31

29

89

NOTE-Figures in parentheses indicate number of letters in the

29

30

29

88

L/Sgt. Stephens C.P.O. Black

20

31

28

88

#29

31

28

88

*Across

words required.

Dickens described in a book long ago ()

S.R. (a) Rifles

200 yds.

500 yds.

800 yds.

Total

1-This puts a lot in Idleness

(3)

31

31

23

90

30

30

28

88

21

+25

27

BO..

L/Cpl. Peters

29

27

24

80

Adml. S. M. McConnell

29

23

77

L'Sgt. Ellis

25

27

23

78

17.

27

29

73

19

26

27

72

L/Cpl. Gooch Lieut. Pattullo Pte. Hempsted

Sig. Robinson Spr. Courtice'

Blackheath on that day in March, off the bai and ther to burst 1884), a golden-haired young Scot, through with it at their feet. for The exercise andheeling, though officially ruled not glowing with flushed with dignation. refusing legal was generally condemned to go venind his ine while the and by as. In 1885, was "not done," English kicked their disputed goal. Those scrimmages! Kipling writes of one at Westward Ho! which lasted 20 minutes by the college clock.

DEAD BALL LINE

Playing 30 minutes

14

that 1

each way. we set the ne.d with one full back.

OUR HEROES three three-quarters, two halves both "scrum halves,, though, the Throughout there is no mention word "scrum" never appears in the of the referee blowing his whistle school record: "scrimmages" and or of a penalty goal, so

"fraud run" (whatever that was) "scrummages" are given, with a preference for the former-and escaped scot free, "C-, by nine forwards. Behind the goal fraud run, gained 1 try," Dia was no "dead ball line": has not C, who was, no cubt, a balf- a famous player of those days back, emulate Rotherhim's famous autobiographical y declared that "bounce

out of touch" and nip the he nearly broke his nçek blind'y over line? The mercuria' overrunning the ha-ha in "Rich-

Alan was one of our heroes," with mond Old Deer Park?

Stoddart, of Backheath, and + Tristram, of Oxford; just as Black-

were heath and Richmond champion clubs whose great doingy We followed with tinmense in terest.

毖

Ge

The ball being dead,

had to be formed; scrummage there was no kicking-on of a dead The forwards' first duty wai to shove; to shove their opponents

ball.

sterfield

LICCETTA MERA 1024000 en

Over and

the

4 One has to come down LO

mat this 19).

9-What this workman under-

takes to make things (7) 10-A pastora; staff (7) 4 11-One has to keep a level posi-

tion to be a star (7) 12-Is anything but watertight

--(0)

of

15-This admits of an answerable

solution, anyway (8) 17-Kind of horse or ape (7) 21-Takes a hurried view

things (7) 22--It's fish, that was! (7) 23-Trains run, this at given

times (9) 24-which is indeed fortunate (5) Down

1-Sallory are better out of this

bay than in it! (4) 2-Being haughty, shows AITO»

gance "or a big nerve"! «iana- gram) (11) 3-Consequently we may get this

(5)

16-18 often seen sporting a bul

tonhole (5)

18-One is quite enough to make

a quarrel fb:

19-Float (4)

The last clue is now Your quarry! (4)

The following is the solution of yesterday's puzzle:- Across-1. M-ascot; 6, Black; 10; Avenue: Orifice; 11. Breeze; 12. 13 Eyes-ore: 18, Lurid: 17, Roost; 18, C.i.d.-er; 19, Ghoul; 22. Start: 25. Eye-wash; 29, Geneva; 90, Orc- hid; 31. Era-sure: 32. Tureen; 33. Twenty.

Down.. Mabel; 2. She-ar; 3. Oozed: 4 Trey: 5. Efts; 6. Scar; 1, Lever; 8. Congo; 9. Swee-t; 14, Exile: 15, Omega; 19. Gl-got: 20, Owner; 21, Levee: 22. Shrew; 23, As-hen; 24, To-day: 26. Yarn: 2 Wash: 28, Sort

A PRISON BLACK-LIST

now.

11

The treatment of prisoners has grown steadily worse over the 4-Is probably apt to worry 18). greater part of the European 5 This turtle as no she.) (4)

Continent. The reason is that 6-A place for spirits (5) .. revolution

more ferocious 7-Describes in this manner, a than war and with the col- rule of the wealthy (11) lapse ot religious and ethical BAs time goes on. It seems to standards political" offences are

slip away (6)

condemned more severely than 13– Mixing this with a lager, will | ordinary crimes. Hungary unce

tür the all sour (6)

led the world in prison reform, 14 Here's a name yiu wi; know but political remand prisoners are for the Joseph or Joe, that rw treated there in a way that wou'd have outraged the Hun- garian reformers. In Russia the Red Terror has been incomparably worse than the White Terror un- der the Tsars, and political priso- - ners and convict Jabourers - were, much better off then they are But it is in Germany that the contrast is harshest; the thing that go on in German prisons to-day would have been. inconceivable. under the Hohen- zollerns. Miss Horsburgh, the Br 'tish delegate on the Socia; Ques- tions Committee of the League Nations Assembly, s therefore entirely right when she proposes. to "black-list" practices that should:: not be tolerated in prisons, She and the delegate of the Irish, Free State, Mr. Herne, gave examples cf these practices: extorting evidence from prisoners—by „Little: less than torture," so Miss Bora- burgh said, understating. rather than overstating the truth,—eop ditions worse than slavery, under-

All feeding, and so

these things are' amongst the common- places of prison life east of the Rhine. Certainly resolutions and proposals will not put an end to them, but they will help to bring about the moral isolation of the countries in which they prevail and to set up standards which these countries may in time teal- compelled to emulate.

Champagne Paper Co., mill kubere Chesterfield paper is made.

over again they boil and wash the pure flax linen shreds before they are rolled out into thin crisp paper and cut into rolls for Chesterfield cigarettes.

Every step in the manufacture and everything about the big modern factory where Chesterfield paper is made is spotless and clean.

Before the paper is shipped to the United States it is tested for three things-

Purity

Right burning quality No taste or odor.

There is no better paper made than that used on Chesterfield-another thing that make it a milder, better-tasting cigarette.

Litter & Myaks Tosacco Co. (China), LTD.

PASSENGERS ARRIVED

The following passengers arri

ed by" the B. "Talma on Tues day:

Miss G. E. Haddéia,

Mr. and Mrs. Thim Kok Kheang

and infant,

Mr. Ha Kim Lên

Mrs. Eng Twe Ngan and infant.- Mr. Chữ Yoby Eol

Mr. Cheang Fai Chack.

Mr. Fong Weng Pew

Br. Font Tan Bang

bar. and Mrs. Hank Aln Thời Mr. and Mrs, Fu Wah Ming and

mfant.

Madam Kuan Choe Kee Miss Woo Wel

EMPRESS OF BUSSIA The following passengers arrived here by the RMS. Empress or Hussla yesterday: Mr. F. E. de Sousa, Dr. H. F. Smith. Dr. and Mr. R. H. Walker, Major Ho Char Man. General Kwang Yep, r Tung Tsung Pol, Prof. E. M. Bax ter, Mrs. M. M. Hammontree, Mrs. D. J. Pineda, Miss M. Peck ME, Wong Man. Miss B. Go, and Meż A. Go..