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BY

THE ARMCHAIR

CRITIC

DAY BY DAY..

AN EDUCATED PERSON IS ́A MAN WHO CAN READ A MODERN NEWSPAPER. WITHOUT

HUMBUGGED John Ervine.

other, an ameriasn' experimanter built a flying-machine wizich met with a mishap on its first trial;] despondent, he put it away, and others succeeded where he had apparently failed; years after his death, someone took his machine out of the lumber shed where it| had been lying, and tried isand it flew beautifully. The un-

This week, the twenty-two At the best of times they have night assuming men come, and go, and gentlemen whose particular job not a strong attack; they have joften enough are unnoticed and it is to amuse and interest me no fast bowler, and no really

soon fargotten; but the world for three and three-quarter hours good slow, owes a great deal to the ranks of on Saturday afternoons, exerted;

themselves a little more on my be- these silent workers, the men in half, and mollified my previously the background.

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outraged feelings. In short, the Pra-war. versus Post-war match on the Club ground was distinctly antertaining, although there was nothing of a very high order to Specifications on Applica the Pet Tram lower terminus entertainment is all I seek--not That bach-discussed barrier on be seen. But I forgive them:

tion to

Peak

am Muddle.

might as well never have been installed for the value that it is.

display.

We had an idea, when the scheme Claxton, who apparently has was first mooted, that the con-2 1oving cricket commission MUSTARD & Co trivsace was to be so worked from Singapore to Shanghai.

Distributers.

17, Connaught Road, Central.

TelCentral HSS

BIRTH.

PEREIRA-On November 29.

that sufficient passengers would opened the day with his usual be let through the gate to fill up shaky start. He ought to have the incoming car and then the been run out in the first over, but gate closed until the car was St. Andrew was kind to him, and despatched. Thas would have he survived to make a noble 32. been the common-sense way of

Paffard followed. He was ob- doing things. What actually viously out to break something Inceurs, however, is that the gate and enjoy himself. He hit 'em good remains shut whilst the cars are and hard in the middle of the bat in motion and it remains so until with that implement at all angles, the down car is emptied of its and gave a marvellous display passengers. Then the gute is of dropping skiers just between flung open and if the station is or beyond fielders. The watchful fairly fell of passengers a mad Sayer contributed 34. This com rush is ade to get through.pleted the Papa's innings. No offort whatever is made

at 208 Dixwell Road, Shanghai. check the number, and to Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Pereira, z

the consequence is that, daughter: and to Mr. and Mrs. very frequently. many more F. F. Pereira, a son.

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 5th Dec., 1923.

than can be accommodated on the car pass through on to the platform. a goodly number of whom bave to return to their seats in the station. So far as regulation of traffic goes, the System is useless-it merely

be

causes two scrumbles instead of one: first for the gate and then for the car. These facts can be verified any evening during the IN THE BACKGROUND. busy hours of travelling. The process of "Brst come, first served" is not operated at all only last Whenever an unassuming math evening we witnessed a case in dies there is something good one which 8. resident who Was can find to sag of him, and crammed out of one car got

squeezed ont of the next also! following the precept de mortuis because he did not happen to be aff the newspaper Press has near ending to the gate when it always a reference to his good as opened. The only sensible work. Ditea enough one sees is to have a

method of operating this barrier man stationed at the phrase "he was of a retiring the wate. whose business i disposition." and this means that should

ler through if the deceased was engaged in

only ધ sufficient quota of some commonplace employment car, then shutting the gate anti! passengers to fill the incoming

he was known to comparatively that car has left on its upward few persons, and had few friends.un. The process would then be But often enough his death has would be simplicity itself, would continued t Jahnitum. This closed a useful life, were it caly mean that everybody would get a given scope.

The unassuming fair chance and, above all, would men are usually the thinkers-absolutely do away with any necessity whatever for undue sometimes they & re termed scrambling for seats. dreamer, and scorned as such

Deformed Beggars. but always they are the uphold- ers of ideals and the weavers of the beautiful in life. If chance has given them talent, and the

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REDIG

BY IT-Mr. St.

The A.D.O are giving a dres rehearsal of "RUR" to-morrow

Major V. R. Barkhardt, D.So, Most of their stuff RA has been appointed G.S.O 2nd Grade.

000

THE POST-WAR

is medium pace, lacking contrast. And on that particular Saturday they were all distinctly

off"

There was no business of public' interest at yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board.

Mr. Grover Clark, managing editor of the Peking Leader, is.on a brief visit to the Colony.

Amongst the passengers who • arrived by the Hakone Maru were the Hon. Mr. A. R. Lowe and Mrs. Lowe, and Professor. C. A. Middleton Smith.

We have received very affective calendars from the Pharmacy and also from Mr. C. M. Wilson on behalf of H. and T. Vaughan, Ltd.. lock manufacturers of Willenhall.

We are informed that the final rasult of the "Rose Day" sffort was a total of 85,467,03, and that the best individual collection was made by Mrs. Emil Danenberg, namely, $236.35..

Suffering from injuries received by being knocked down by a a complaint which may at any Dragon Garage car, an old wo time sad without reason attack a man was taken to the' Govern- whole side. Incidentally the ment Civil Hospital yesterday. pitch was dull, and gave them no Her leg was fractured.

assistance.

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A formal remand was given Attractive cricket cannot be this morning when Inspector Ogg gauged by the number of runs charged the man arrested on obtained in a given time; there Monday subsequent to the bold- too many other factors to up of a P.W.D. coolie near the be taken into consideration. A No. 3 Bailway Bridge, Kowloon. brilliant bat, playing a de-

Are

fensive game when the team are

Lieut-Colonel E R. Fitzpat+

in a bad way and the opposing rick, C.B.E. D.S.O., of the Loyal bowling is good, is always at Regiment, has gone on retired pay tractive. though his rate and is granted the rank of Colonel scoring may bo slow. On in the Regular Army Reserve of the other band (as in Officers, with the hon. rank of the present instance) can you Brigadier General imagine anything more soul-

destroying, my "Amateur" than *Orphans of the Storm" enters the Club accumulestor on one ofjupon its last two days at the bis rather-worso-then-usust days, Coronet today. To those who scratching about like a decrepit have not seen it, only one thing old rooster and executing scythe pood be said, and that is not to shots from all angles, completely leave it too late. Big crowds are disregarding the generally accept-Jaure to be the order.

ed rules of decent batting? What?

You shudder to think of it? Well, In the first half of the match I shuddered to see it; hence my lin the Hongkong Billiards

mildly disapproving remarks last League between the Club de week.

Recreio and the Catholic Men's Club, at the V.R.C, last night,

I cannot but think that the batsman who had scored 49 and was apparently 1.b. w. would get the benefit of the doubt from the umpire at the bowler's end!

Y&R

Club de Recreio

Before ye look upon the red

Wine, think.

As falls the Wins the average

will sink:

If one ball beats you, how

shall two be played? Better a straight Bat than the ..

longest Drink.

A friend 'o mine bas lent me a the latter club had A THE PRE-WAR very amusing little book, publish absent. The

ed way back in the two-stump won the other two games 250-60 After the first fifteen minutes, era. I herewith regale you with and 250-223. the Babies fielded extremely a few extracts which I feel should well, as might be expected from not be missed. The first relates to In addition to the officers and a nippy lot of youngsters. Mr. the formation of "The Cricketers 824 other ranks of the 1st. A. C. I. Bowker did some Of deformel beggars who infest especially good work on

Inning: Insurance Co. Ltd." It Battalion East Surrey Regiment, is a well-known fact that county there arrived on the troopship our streets we have written on harbour boundary. The Club clubs encourage their players by Derbyshire Major J. C. L. Hings- more occasions than we care to coolie, evidently inspired by the recall. These

payment of "talent money." That|ton, R.A.M.C., and wife; Capt. C. sorry looking adequate water supply. had isto say, cach batsman who scores F. T. Haigh, RAO.C. Capt. I. opportunity to display it, they spectacles of humanity still paster deluged the pitch and render- 30 for his county in as innings Moss, RAS.C. and wife; Reva.

the public, none the less. Of late ed the bowlers' task charm the world with their imwe have seen quite a number of ficult one, but Webster, ignoring his usual pay. The company as well as the wife of Major A dif- receives £1 in addition to W. T. Beckerson and C. W. Smith; mortal poems, they fire the im-these folk importuning passers little difficulties, disposed of proposed to insure the player who E. B. Jones, R.A. MO. agination and desire of future by with a persistence that is only Paffard, Sayer and Mitchell in

got, for example, 47, against the generations with their wonderful equalled by their anxiety to dis-his three overs. Good work!

Premiums loss of his bonus! canvases, They stir the souls of little fellow who literally crawls play their deformities. One poor

were to be based on the batsman's thousands with their magic about has been much in evidence Sayer gave the Infants a reason-

A very sporting declaration by average for the past three years, music, or the point the way too late on Battery Path, quite able chance of getting the runs.

and. furthermore, umpires were to be appointed agents. close to the seat of Government and but for the bad light I opine the great discoveries of medicine authority, and although Chinese that they would have succeeded. and science. They are the men police are often in the vicinity. They certainly who often draw apart from their nothing is done to let it be known them. Jotham remembered 75 fellows, for they are able to that begging is against the law. per cent of his old form and got weave a fanciful environment for much as the appearance of these lies in style, execution and polish. We do not mind the begging so 83. The remaining 25 per cent. themselves, where they prefer to poor creatures, which is often I doubt not that we shall see be undisturbed: they are the men utterly sepulsive. These witches the complete 100% before long. whom one finds wandering alone out to be permitted to He was out to the most desperate expose themselves as they domow shot I have seen for many amidst the wilds, living most hapit would not be tolerated in pily and finding full companion-hardly any other place than a day.

More collected 30. Just that. ship in the surroundings which Hongkong. We are not without

The bowling of the Ancients sympathy for them in their sad was not very formidable, although Nature provides. And. as it lat; indeed, we feel that it would that wily old bird kept pitching happens, the world cannot do be doing them a service wete without them. When we read they removed from the streets on the off stump and breaking more deeply of the great truths conditions, being given some there been more time and they and placed in more congenialway, which ruse lured four eager batsmen to their doom. Had that mankind has learned. of the form of employment if that were less eager. a different tale might marvellous inventions and dis- possible. At any rate, we again have been told; and of course a coveries that the hustlers have suggest that some of our Chinese different ball might have been developed or exploited, we find at take the question of the care of charitable organisations should the very root of it all the obscure needy mendicants originator, the dreamer, whose sideration. dreams others have made a

into

con-

bowled

And now, my "Amateur," wa |will let you down lightly; in fact,

deal very gently with you.

We will first consider the

reality. Two of our greatest WHAT IS AN ENTERTAINMENT ?| Craigenzower ground. On only There is humour in the law one side is there anything like a modern inventions exhibit the

case brought by the Crown to real four boundary, and I doubt truth of this-wireless

and make all people paying for seats very much whether you would aviation. In the one C280 sat shows also pay Entertainment even get three if you had to run comparatively obscure British Tax, says a London paper. You them. On the pavilion side, the scientist sent a message through following is an

can decide whether say of the boundary is scarcely worth one, entertainment." given a couple of smart fielders. the air across his laboratory A State Funeral; A Lord Mayor This, you will admit, 翘 table, and was content; his and Council going to Church; A conducive to fast scoring. dream had materialised. In the Royal Procession.

Now the Craigengower bowling,

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Then Omar Khayyam dis text from the real Rubaiyat: courses on batting. taking his,

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"The ball no question makes off

Ayes and Noes. "But here or there as strikes

the Player goes."

Not "as the player strikes **:

alas! Not so

The batsman inds the ball is

apt to go:

But as the wind, or break, or

chance directs,

And of its falling no man may

foreknow.

We turn to hit to leg a certain

four, Rejoicing in the mounting of

the score:

We hit beneath it, and the ball.

mounts high

Among the slips, and falls to

Earth no more.

Nor serves your counsel to

frustrate the plot

The Bowler plotteth, nor to stay.

a Rot:

For, though, you praise the

Tavern and the Vine, Who seeks the Tankard surely

gove to Fot.

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Finally, a few extracts a.t random:-

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"Some bitters there were--I

am forced to admit it- *For instance, that couple of

ducks in one match; That long-hop which bowled

me. I ought to have hit it; "The groan of the crowd when

I 'buttered' that catch! "Then I ran out our captain. He scowls when he meets me,

"And talks of it still in a

mortified tone."

"Thomas Hearne,

A famous cricketer tho' rather heavy in the stern.***

(Anyone tell me what rhymes with "Tam"}}

Conscious of a name, The new man plants his weapon with profound

Long-practised skill that no mere trick may scare,

Not loth, the rested lad r sumes the Fame;

The flung ball takes one mad- ding tortuous bound,

And the mid stump three 'somersaults in når.