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Mr. K. Suzuki, the Champion billiard player of Japan, is on a visit to Shanghai, saya the North China Daily News, having arrived after visiting Seoul and Tairen where he played several matches, Three other Japanese experts of
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The Now Assistant Judge at Shanghat.
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THE LATE DR. GRACE.
The "Times" Sketch of his Cricketing Career
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appointed successor to Mr. F. B. A. W. G. Grace, the Times stated Bourns, O.M.G,, asistant Judge
William Gilbert Grice was of BM, Supreme Court fer China, born on July 18, 1848, and at the
Joatkertin secrred 112 runs, and the Gentlemen won by seven wickets. Well might an estate judge of the game who had baok- ed the Players say he would never again back the opposite side to Mr. Grave,
A Blacksmith's Strength. In describing Mr. Grace's style and method as a bateman it may be conceded shat in elegance in light
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likely to be in the fatale. From an enormonaly powerful physique And About Time, Too !
observer was force, muscle,To The Government auditor at frat to last he played cricket for and hoge frame, what struck the
Park Road, contining 9 home has refused to sanotion some 48 years, and up to his 60th year weight, and all that goes to make TLET Ravenhill East, of the war allowances voted by he would have been chosen an oNÉ local authorities to mon who have of a representative cloves of Eng "P. Power. The fascinating rooms, 3 bath rooms. servants Apply Do.com Looker, enlisted, contending that rate. land. In 1908 he scored 74 on layer to ach is the bitter who quarters, &c, vacant 1st Novem- FOR SALE-The residence be payers should not be expected to his 58th birthday for Gentleman makes the ball travel with little ber. pay the unreasonable oms that against Players at the Oral; this Pparent effort, and this "the Deacon & Haraton. in some cases gave to the house was his last year of first-class doctor" never did. He seemed to holds of soldiers twice as much as cricket, but he played club oricket they had before the war, The an- till the year before Ins!. ditor has discovered; osses where To give here anything like an
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WAR AND HEADACHES.
Have you noticed that your eyes are much more tired and that you have headaches since the war atarted! Everyone is reading two or three times as many papers as usual. Their additional reading causes eyestrain in eyes which had been previously capable of doing all the work they were asked to do. If your eyes were perfect, or if you had correctly fitted glasses, you could read all day without tiring your eyes,"
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don and Tennis Court Pply all the strength of a black-TO LET.-A House in Knuts-Electric installation. Large gar ford, Terrace, Kowloon. smith's arm united to the massive
particulars apply :- weight of back, shoulders, and which never played hire false now with their families receiving faste is impossible, for such a re- and a power of timing the ball oord would require a volume, However great a crickeler may be which no other player has up- prosobed. Eo out, drove, and in Poking, November 29.-The there is always a golden era in his his younger days hit to leg, bat/ TO LET.-"La Hacienda "E.. Budget gives the Ordinary Replay, and "W. G." was so great he did not, as many modern
Chater's Bungalow, No. 66 venue as $428,237,146; Extra- that he played first-class cricket players relying on perfeot wickets Nathan Road, Kowloon, ordinary Revenus $45,709,710 many years after hin golden era and the Ordinary Expenditure as had ended. For the purposes of do, pull and hook straight balls. Apply to CHATER and MODY, $238,138,564; Extraordinary Ex-brist cricket biography of Mr. Mr. Grice to auch balls would in Queen's Road Central. penditare $135,808,146, The Grace it will be convenient to be a way fall on them, and with principal items of Ordinary Ex-gia from 1865, when he played astonishing accuracy path them panditure are Ministry of War bis first match for Gentlemen and somewhere in the direction of $135,818.386: Ministry of the Players at Lord's, and in end short leg where there was no field. his right foot except to out, Interior $40.805, 490; Ministry of 1899, when he closed the series fast bowling he never moved Finance $58,673,691; Ministry without a break, for this grest
when they were of an awkward of the Navy $17,101,779; Minis-match has slways been one of the neither did he leave off-balls alone try of Education 12,817,582 great tents of a cricketer's capa and Extraordinary Expenditure: city. Daring thie period of 35 length. He had in his younger Ministry of Finance $175,756 years he played no fewer than daya played too often on difficult 907; Ministry of War $6,438,727. 1,252 innings and scored 49,300 and dangerous wickets to be dia- Mr. Grace's bowling was Oplum Smuggling at Shanghai, runs, with an average of nearly aayedon good wickets at any hall,
A foreigner named G. Christo 36 rana per innings, while as a appeared at the Mixed Court, bowler he scoured 2,011 wickets auique; no one else placed his nobody looked an uglier or s Shanghai last week, obarged with at an average of 23 runuper wicket, field as he did, to the spectator attempting to smuggle 61b. of
Hi Golden Era.
much worse bowler, but to the Siberi a opium into Shanghai by
What we have called the golden bataman he was very difficult. railway, the opiam being valued era of Mr. Grace's cricket life He was slow, with a most ungain- at H.K. Tis. 300. The accused would be probably the 18 years ly action, but he could bowl on told the Court that several year ended 1880, and some idea of his either side of the wicket, ago he was registered in the Ger man Consulate in Tientsin. He greatness may be realised when it did not object to being hit, soon found out the la remembered that 20years later, and he claimed to be an Albanian. The in 1900, he represented England weak points of su opponent. case was remanded, the defendant in the rat Test match against What made his bowling" difficult to be released on $500 bail. Australia. What he was during was his length and direction. security could not be found, the there 13 years baffi sa description. The ball dropped down from a defendant was to be kept in Up to 1868 victory of the Gentle great beightand frequently looked custody in the British gaol, the men over the Players was a very like a hall-volley till the batai expenses for which were to be paid rare event; during the years of man tried to hit it, then it was by the Custom
Mr. Grace's greatest powers the found to be a good length. He ant of feeling "on top." "Can't of meeting them as he grew older Sad Fatality in Singapore,
Players at Lord's only won one had a long arm and often bowled have this, they're boaling too and slower. In fact he was most A most dirtressing fatality ot aired last week at the residence match, while they were beaten ten round the wicket, so that his ball well," was his comment to his disconcertingly satule. Talee of times, and the main cause was Mr. looked to the bauman a beauty to partner after the two had found his canniness are the common of the staff of Raffles Girls School Grace. The ammlents had very hit to log; the hiteman tried to runs hard to get at the beginning change of cricket pavilions'on wet Singapore, when Miss Olive Ethel Finkeston, who was ap fins players, but they would not do so, but misjudged the length of a certain Test match. Add alternoons, for he loved to make sporting match; and, moreover, pointed European mistress of the have been what they were without and missed it and was astonished thereupon he hit two fours, his Institution May, 1913, was shot him; it was, for instance, to find himself given out leg-be- partner did the like, and the total even in his lifetime he became in the mouth with a revolver. Paratively easy to coure when Mr. fore wicket. He used to have a reached 400. And another in the homms leyendaire the man Miss Buckle, the head mistress, Grace, who always went in first, deep aquare-leg fold and many a stance of his cricketers cheerfall- to whom are attributed deads he at once communicated with a doc had smashed up the bowling time used be to get hatamsz out ness in adversity in his "Want the has never done." tor and he ordered Miss Pinker-Gloucestershire as a country did by bowling for catches. He was heavy roller over this" ton's removal to the General he took command, and then for being in his prime a fast runner
not exist for first-class cricket till also a splendid fold anywhere, aleamar began pitching on leaving Paver, Epidemic in London.
London Ustober 23-According Bydney: Hoedo,
|to to-day's returns of the Mstra- Hospital where she expired from
Moreover he waswart many politan Aylums Bard, the abook. It would appear, says the years the occupied foremost and a long thrower,
4 Que athlete is not a great number of fever one under Straits Times, that shortly before place;
Of the national game one likes match player; he knew how to trestnent is now 1,080. Like retiring for the night, the young ladyshe was only 20 years of men. Flayers match as Lord's to think that no one could win turn his skill and strength addiction during ila lani four sgewas handling's small revel in 1872 ons very different wicket such great renoun at it without courage to account, Karer has days have totalled 30).", 093 01 ver which by some means, not from those seen in those days, being something more than, an been botter obenga bowlers and the thirty London boroughs there yet disclosed, went off with fatal when the Gentlemen had to score athlete. And Mr. Grace was much he was just as calck to airoume were only three who did not rand 228 rues to win the match. If more. His mighty frame held out a sucommial bowler. In his patients reriorday 10:00 Anlamı records were searched for 50 years the stoutes of benitsy bowling long Innings of 35 yests, gears: Board' hospital. Wandsworth.
ilons of bowlera were put on very few instances up to that date at his body was the surest way
affooted district, and, lan gous would be found of wide proving of prescating him ich & four to "gainst him and all of them he column to be the most sortowaly lalaket zpooked out that le, not only did ributed 10' osans in four days, IF you have lost your sppetite successful in these circumstances, 17and the bowler
one of the big variety of but Mr. Grace went to, and found him all the rondler with be withstand the villes of while Tallngton has sent 43 in dire
He would new soboði of altsek as is arose, dafaty dishes at the ALEXAN-against the bowling of A. Shaw, his counter-stroke. DRA CAFE la sare to tempk d. 0. Shaw, Milntyre, and never allow the towler the stimal bat be devised different zanthoda #ame period end Bi, Yasorar 80,
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