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sentatives of America and England, what we may term international. The various cclebrities of the two nations have met in friendly warfare on the racecourse and the river; the prowess of the old country and the might of the new have tested their powers on the running path and in that

rapidly downward into a deep valley, so that the horses run on ground that slants up toward the outside rail, From the bottom of the valley, the way up on the other side is very steep, and where the track runs along the crest of a ridge beyond it must be 400 or 500 feet higher

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LOCAL AND GENERAL, Suddenly, half way down the stretch, a chestnut colt, as clean of limb as a statue, and with a coat as glossy as a piece of We are informed that the Hongkong, Canton satin, dashed out of the crowd with a bound and Macao Steamboat Company's now steame like the spring of an antelope. Not a hair Honam leaves Singapore to-day, for this port.

THE „Egeas undocked at Kowloon this mom had he turned, and not a vein was swollen from the exertion up to now, in spite of his ing. The Tannis will leave the Cosmopolitan magic circle, the 24ft. ring; and the skill, than it is where we sit. Up toward the cumbersome rider. As. Sachem dashed Dock to-morrow moming, making room for the

Canopus. energy, and daring of the yachtsmen onbeginning of the homestretch is the place ahead, with that rare, burst of speed, I both sides of the Atlantic have added many they call Tattenham Corner, and all thought he had the race. But the jockey an interesting page to the history of sport. England tells you what a terrible place it had given him his head too late, and hu In view of all this, does it not seem a pity is for a horse to come around. But that, finished a length behind Shotover, and a that the kindly feelings which sport always is taffy. There are worse turns at Jerome head behind Quicklime. Fifty yards more engenders in the hearts of worthy rivals Park and Sheepshicad bay. The only would have brought the blue ribbon UN KAI CHI, a coolic, for unlawfully gambling should be so ruthlessly sacrificed by the difficulty about this one is that it occurs again into Mr. LORILLARD's stable. It was debased character of a prejudiced press? where the horses are coming down a slight a race lost through miscalculation and bad in the Streets on the 8th instant, was sent to History tells us how generously the sports- slope. The Derby racers begin part way riding, but lost just the same. All the gas for seven days, with hurd labour, as a rogue men of England welcome their rivals from around t'e course, as the distance they Americans lost heavily. They backed all parts of the world in the vast republic run is about a mile and a quarter, I believe. Lorillard to a man. If Lorillard had sup- FELLOW'S SYRUP. of sport; how scrupulously fair they ever They start on an upward slope to the crest plied himself with riders to compare with have been in their contests with foreigners; of the distant ridge, come down around his horses he would have furnished a great "how"manly-and-true in the face of victory, Tattenham Corner into the straight stretch many of his countrymen with their Derby and how loyal in the hour of defeat. We home, and end on a down-hill part of the day expenses. I am told the day-cost him have seen these characteristics exemplified, track. The course is turfed, and not individually about $20,000.” times out of number, in all branches of turned up like those in America. Much sport. And in all-matters of this descrip- of the space down in the valley inside tion the British press has reason to be the track and up on the hill beyond is proud. If English journals have ever crred taken up with refreshment tents, Punch in their comments on international contests, and Judy shows, those machines that send it has been on the side of the foreigner: wooden horses around in a circle, parties And who shall say that this is not the acme of men with blackened faces singing and of true sport! Who can ever forget the dancing without time or tune, jugglers, hearty receptions accorded by British acrobats and a surging mass of people. many heroes of sport sent over to do battle cach direction, outside the track, there is for the Stars and Stripes on English ground the same sort of thing, added to a tremen- and in English waters! The Englishman's dous crush of carriages, from which the miration for the pluck which had brought day. A third of the people present want Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele- the representatives. of Harvard across the tu sell you something that is of no earthly graph will always be open for the lair discussion by correspondents of all questions affecting public ocean to contest the question of supre- use and that you wouldn't be found dead interests, it must be distinctly understood that macy with the crack oarsmen of Oxford with, and the other two-thirds want to steal the Editor does not in any way hold himself res-University, made the Americans, the pop. whatever you may have around your ponsible for opinions thus expressed.

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Space will not admit of our dealing at length with the above piece of inventive genius. The opinion of a sporting writer who believes that the Derby distance is is "about a mile and a quarter" cannot FIE, for shame, Apollo: You should be the last be of much account. Tattenham Corner is one in Hongkong to abuse and throw mid at Sir undoubtedly the most dangerous corner on John Pope Hennessy. You used to haunt Go any first class race course in the world, vernment House like a shadow. At pubile re- Dangerous on account of the sharp and ceptions, afternoon at homes," and quiet tennis of the slippery turf and its being at the You were "my lady's lackey, and as obsequinus bottom of a steep incline down which the to the beck and call of His Excellency as if you horses thunder at almost lightning speed, beriain. And now you see fit to revile the man scrimmage which took place there. the guest you delighted in being-and why? You be year when Aldrich won the City, and lieve that Governor Hennessy will not return to SUBURBAN for Lord ROSEBERY; and it is Hongkong, and as it has become the fashion undoubted that Pero Gomez lost the in certain circles to abuse His Excellency, you Derby won by Pretender in 1869, and become an ingrate and a toady for fashiou's ular idols in that famous contest, and the clothes. They are the most accomplished | Rob Roy the same race in Silvio's yearsnake? Fie, for shame! heartiest applause of the assembled thou-thieves I ever struck, and they will steal (1880) through coming down in making sands was freely showered on the defeated anything they can lay hands on, no matter the bend for home. Instead of ending on strangers. And so it was in a subsequent whether it is worth anything or not. 1a downhill part of the track" the Derby match between the rowing clubs of New have seen some pretty big and some rather course from the Bell to the judge's box is York and London, which also ended dis. promiscuous crowds in America, but this up a stiff incline which has sorely tried the one certainly captured the prize in all stamina of many a gallant racer struggling astrously for the Americans, Jouy CARMEL HEENAN was a popular idol in English respects. There must have been 600,000 home under the whip. The correspondent sporting circles after the great fight at to 1,000,000 people there. Nobody can of the Boston Herald wishes his country

men to believe that Sachem ought to have Farnboro; and the fact that HANLAN was convey a notion of such a crowd with mere a Canadian, and Trickeit an Australian, figures. It was at least ten times as large won the Derby, and that, as a matter of apparently increased the popularity of these a gathering as I ever saw at a race before. fact, Mr. LORILLARD's colt only lost the Mr. TOMPKINS and I struggled up the race through being ridden by a clumsy victors over the pick of England's rowers. It was reported in the London sporting course to the grand stand inclosure, where and inexperienced jockey. Now all this papers that a greater and more enthu- we had to pay $2.50 each in addition to the siastic demonstration was never witnessed $10 we had already been made to lay out in entering the course. The space in front on Epsom Downs than when the American

sake. You remember the fable of the frozen

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1882. I'r would be difficult to fairly estimate the great extent of the debt due by the civilised Lead-world to the enterprise of American journal-red colt Iroquois was led back to scale

Ism. Men of the stamp of GoRDON BENNETT after winning the Blue Riband of the turf cupants were bookmakers. Many of them glossy as a piece of satin," the noble animal vert which made him dash away at such a rapid

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of important news; they have made a bold bid to take the first place for their country in the newspaper press of the world; and they have raised American journalism from a state of comparative degradation until it now proudly rears its head, and can fairly claim to rank second to none. this, as we have already stated, has been mainly accomplished by the energy and enterprise of the two men named above. Making every allowance for the difference in style, which of course is necessitated by the difference in tastes, habits, manners, and education of the two peoples, there is not the slightest doubt that the leading American journals attain as high a literary standard as their English contemporaries. As news mediums they surpass even the most popular London dailies. This is high praise; and it is richly deserved. But for the foresight of GoanoN BENNETT the telegraph cable, as a principle factor in newspaper

for Mr. LoRILLARD; and the scene was repeated at Doncaster when the St. Leger was added to the Derby triumph. When

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The Zulus were too open and brave foemen to

·ONCE upon a time, says the Word, there was a King of the Sandwich Islands, a polite gentleman who affected clothes and eschewed missionaries in his creuse this antoreschowed

gazed at him through smoked glass; and the work of art so gorgeous that weak-eyed people Star of his Order of Kamehameha was bigger and shinier and more chevalleresque than the of Heralds. His palace was Italian, his morals badge of any knighthood known to the College French, and bis champagne the best there ever

"TOMMY ATKINS" writes: With regard to the report in your issue of the 4th inst, in which it is stated that two soldiers of the "Grand Old Buffs! were frightened by Civilians playing "panther," who were hidden in the culvert leading to the vicinity at the time, and bearing the noise made barracks, I have to say that I was present in the by the "panthers," was under the impression that a couple of monkeys had escaped from their keepers. When the two soldiers referred to lobed into the culvert to see what caused the row, owing to the darkness they were unable to discem anything. However, they did not run. is what the Boston reporter would ele-away as your reporter states, but presently saw a gantly express by the word "taffy." To member of that gallant and distinguished for speak the plain truth "the chestnut colt, as the Hongkong Police, coming past the culvert in:

what soldiers call "double time;" but whether it was the noise he heard proceeding from the cul- of the stand was fenced in, and half the oculean of limb as a statue, and with a coat as wore white-silk beaver hats and the most that had galloped the Derby course at pace, is query open to conjecture. The asser and WTELAW REm have by indomitable

outrageous checked suits of clothes you racing pace without turping & hair, or tion that the soldiers tried to induce the guard to energy and at a tremendous monetary out- lay, opened up many fields to the news

ever encountered. Some of them shouted having a single vein swollen with exertion, tum out and go panther-hunting was quite un• that good colt Foxhall won the Cambridgë. | out their odds in voices that would have was actually never in the hunt from start to founded. I think that if a few more of the Hong. A Mass of interesting information on various paper correspondent which were pre-shire, carrying the unparalelled burden made their fortunes before foghorns were finish. Sachem had not at any part of the kong would-be-panthers would try and frighten viously a sealed book; they have conferred \ of ost, old fashioned Newmarket fairly invented. Others went about quietly book-race the faintest chance of winning; he the "Grand Old Buffs," they would have cause vast benefits on the world at large by in- troducing new methods of obtaining and rose to the American three year old, and ing bets with people they knew. Off to never once got on terms with the leaders, to remember the attempt for some time to come laying before the public every description no racehorse of modern times has been the right of this inclosure was another one, and instead of being let out too late and slink under drains for the purpose of attempting more lionised, or so enthusiastically eulo- occupied by the Tatiersall's bookmakers. finishing a head and a length behind to frighten British troops. Your correspondent gised. And so it always has been, and Tattersall's, innocent and guileless reader, Quicklime and Shotover respectively, he is must have had panther on the brake when he always will be, we sincerely hope, in every is the place where all the high-toned buying described as having "passed the pulling wrote his report." "Tommy Atkins must have- thing appertaining to manly sport in Eng- and selling of horseflesh in London is done:up Bruce, on the post, and finished a bad grim action of humour, and a very faint percep land. We have frequently met defeat, and There the betting men do congregate be-third." Shotover won in a canter, and tion of the meaning of badinage. to the credit of the old country be it said, tween times and offer to let you in." On Sachem beaten lengths was third on suf- Englishmen have invariably taken their the course at Epsom they have a little yard ferance. This is a true account of the per reverses in manly fashion, without sugges-all to themselves, and one must be sup-formance of the American champion, the ting foul play, or inventing the numer-plied with a special ticket if he wants to equine wonder "that had the course been £40 on Sachen, £5 against £100 on Gerald Blue Riband again into Mr. LORILLARD'S ous other excuses which tend to make get in. Mr. Tompkins booked £5 against fifty yards more would have brought the sport contemptible."

and £s against £30 än Dutch Oven, He stable." And who is the cumbersome backed the first two because they were rider, who sat heavily in the saddle" and Americans and the latter because he was whose bad judgment threw away the race? to be ridden by Archer, the famous jockey. Only Fred Webb, one of the finest horse Sachem I had great faith in myself. I saw men the racing world has ever seen; none him run a magnificent race at Sheepshead other than the celebrated jockey who won bay last year, when he crowded Onondaga the Derby on Doncaster, and the Two all the way around: and I still think Sachem Thousand guineas on Peregrine, and is the best anin.al of his years in England, whose magnificent finish on Hampton for After we had been jostled about for a for the Northuniberland Plate five years while, we went back to the carriage and ago, when he completely out-rode Archer on Glendale, was universally allowed to be one of the most marvellous perform ances of modern times. If Sachem lost is too well known to require detailed ex-representatives of Messrs. SANFORD, LOXIL

the Derby through bad riding, why has he LARD, and KEENY did not win the races for

not won a race since? Tristan, Sweet planation.

Giving the American press the credit which they were fancied, would have led

bread, and Poulet lost this Yankee wonder which we consider its due, we must admit strangers to believe that England was a

in the Hardwicke Stakes at Ascol, he that in some respects at least the newspap- den of sharpers and swindlers. The spor

never saw the way Comte Alfred, Battle ers of the great cities of the United Statesting reporters of our American contempor-head, cutting out the running. So far, so field (glbs, extra) and Dutch Oven went have something yet to learn from their aries may be men of ability, but a most good. This we knew was the Lorillard for the Sussex, Stakes at Goodwood, and English contemporaries. The Americans extraordinary prejudice against anything programme. Sachem, we had information, he could not even beat the roarer Laure. are unquestionably a sporting nation, English appears to have a universal exis- was heavily backed to win, and he was ate and the moderate Limestone-the latter adepts at almost every branch of sport; tence amongst them, and this is made a going along beautifully under a jockey, conceding 19lbs. for the year in the Sing equally at home in horse racing, yachting, leading feature in all their reports, which who sat heavily in the saddle and did not leton Stakes. If Sachem lost the Derby rowing, base-bail, cricket, athletics, pugil are consequently partial, misleading, and help the colt a penny-weight. As the by a fluke he ought to win the "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY, ANDism, and the thousand and one items worthless. We will give one example of animals came down around the corner the St. Leger "in a walk." Joking, apart, HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST"- offers which go to make up the catalogue of mod, the class of literature which we consider Americans were both going well. Bruce's more unlikely things have come to Special Advantages as an Advertising Medium.

ern sport. Is it not therefore strange disgraces the sporting journalism of the tall went up, and his Jockey put the whip pass than this, although he will have It will have an extensive circulation in all Port's between Singapore and Newchwang, and the that there are so few sporting papers in United States. The article, from the pen on freely. The favorite was done. Archer to improve on his public form about scale of charges has been fixed at an exceptionally the States with the slightest pretensions to of the correspondent of the Boston Herald, was riding Dutch Oven beautifully but two stone to give him even an outside low rate. Terms can be learned on application, high class we had almost written-re is supposed to be a description of the last hopelessly. A better jockey nobody ever chance. The victories of Iroquois and spectablility? We cannot well see our race for the Derby. It is written with saw. He sits as.lightly as a feather, and Foxhall last year appear to have given Suggestions for the Improvement of this work way out of the humillating confession that some ability; but in the main is simply a he knows how to lift a horse at every stride. Americans generally, and the correapon were

the majority of American journals which tissue of contemptible lies. The correspon. But the race was not in Dutch Ovendent of the Boston Herald In particular, the

Shotover, the winner of the Two Thousand somewhat insane idea that they deal with sport-and their name is legiondent writer

Guineas a couple of weeks ago, was in the Derbies and, Leger |-degrade rather than elevate it. They are almost without exception, bigoted,

lead, and running well under a pretty rider they failed to achieve partial and unfair In their ideas, and

named Cannon. Then came Quicklime, characteristic Imp grossly inaccurate in their detalls

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Now for a glance at the other side of the picture. Was there ever an American pugilist, athlete, or rower defeated fairly in England? If the sporting press of the States may be believed, not a single one! It was plainly asserted that HEERAN was swindled out of the Farnboro fight; that HALL was dragged when HARRY KELLY lost him in their rowing match on the Tyne; that both the Harvard and New York crews were unfairly treated in their

work, might probably have not been avalled matches with Oxford and the Londonate and drank and tried to be merry, of for years to come. The part this great R.C.; and the extraordinary statements The 3 furlongs race was finally disposed agent plays in the world's modern history made by American papers when the equine

In recent years rivalry in sport of almost every kind has become, between the repre-

of, and after the longest hour I ever re- member, the Derby was begun. The first we saw of the horses they were scuttling along the top of the distant ridge... Bruce, who was a hot favorite, was in the last batch, and Gerald was close up by the

"The course is entirely different from anything we have in America. There are not fifty yards of level ground anywhere in the vast Inclosure. I should say that a

viewing run of the whole circuit must be about two some distance behind, the others all in a, whose hand! miles long. On this side the ground slopos bunch.

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flowed from the vineyards which flourish in the

cellars of Judenstadt. Ho held levées "and drawing rooms, received Admirals and globe. trotters, and had accredited to him Plenipotens tiaries from the Great Powers. In brief, Queen Emma's husband was a model ruler, as Poly

of dining out where a good cook was kept and nesian monarchs go. He could read, and some- umes wrote was a hospitable sovereign, sond

if

he did on rare occasions exceed in brandy pegs, he took care to drive home before his tongue revealed the condition into which his sacred Majesty had been betrayed. But all this civica!: tion was only skin-deep. The restraints of Hono lulu society choked him, and the old savagery of his race would, at intervals, well up through

Cordon, and the other paraphernalis of Royal the scarlet uniform, the cocked hat, the

Hawaiian conqueror, drove to his cour Then Kamehameha the Fifth, grand stripped of his loud coat and all that donned a blanket, ate, pol' with got pay on trade rum, danced that wild Hula

of which good men youth By and

plumage of fore clay door, wash,

mind, and, drive back

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