1924-03-07 — Page 7

LAWN TENNIS

FURTHER MATCHES

DECIDED. C

HOCKEY

THRER INTERESTING

GAMES,

MISSING LAUNCH,

AN ARMED EXPEDITION? The local launch mystery still Farther matches were played} At the U. S. R. ✪ the Club met remains unsolved. Despite all off yesterday orening in conneo- the Grenadiers on Wednesday the enquiries that have been tion with the HK.CC tennis again and made ample amends made, the ressal has not been tournament. There was quite a for their defeat of the previous traced, and the relatives of the good number of spectators present, weak. From the bully-off they passengers aboard are now almost to witness the games,

dashed down the field and in the without hope of ever hearing, Three ties were played off in first five minutes dominated the from them. the Singles Championship, in one game to such an extent that they Fung Dawn, brother of Admiral of which Worthington" added were three goals up chiefly Fung Siu-ming, who is in com- another win to his local tennis through Dyer Ball's work. mand of the river Batrol boats at career by defeating C. Willson in

All the forwards were working Kongmoon in succession ta three straight seta 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 in perfect harmony and showed Admiral Chan Chak, samo back He had the advantage all improvement. However, as the so Hongkong this afternoon through and did not loor game went on the Grenadiers from Kongmoon with an inter- Tika losing at any time began to get going and for a time esting report that he had O. Rumjaho made his first they were all over the Club, and, seen the Admiral who has pro- appearance against E. de Sousa with their scoring two goals, it misad the use of two gunboats for and succeded. in winning by began to look as though they special search service amongst three sets to one,6-0, 6-3, 4-6 might lose the match, but in the the river creeks and 62, though the game was more second half Evans dat da two ways, at one of which it even than the scores suggest, more goals and this settled is believed the, Kwong Shun Sousa placed well at times, but matters. As said, the forwards may be hidden. Er. Fung Dawn. was not oqasistent. His fore-played well. The backs would whose, interest In the case hand and backhand chops were do well to clear barder and with is due to the fact that his fatheri his chief assets. Rumijahn's playmore expedition instead of is a shareholder in the Hongkong was patchy, but he regulated attempting dribbling to such an and. Taumati Ferry Company. himself when the occasion extent: Result Club. 5: Greas-will consult the Manager on the demanded. He won the first two diers, .

sets pretty comfortably, but CLUB 2ND v. SURREYS,

Sousa made him work a lot for

more consistant play at 6-2.

At Sookunpoo, the Club met a team from the East Surrey Regt,

water-

question of coal supplies for the special service boats, after which he will return to Kong-

moon to lead an armed expedition CANTON COMMENT, Commenting on the matter, the

Yaumati Ferry Company's launch Kwong Shun. Till late as yester day no trace of the missing launch

could be found though police and

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them. The third set was very Gren and there were many long and a fast game took place, the gainst the pirates. rallies, Sousa winning it by East Surreys in particular swing- means of forceful play. Rumjaha ing the ball about freely from won the fourth and last-set by wing to wing. In the first hall Caston Gazelle saff;

Rumour is rife in Hongkong A poor game was witnessed Club forwards did not combine to disappearance of the Hongkong they put on three goals and the with respect to the mysterious between N. Trambitzky and the best affect, nor Assümpaco, which, after a long shooting of the best. was their and dull struggle. ended by the

In the second half, the Club former winning by three sets to

were at times all over their op-

THE YEAR'S PROFITS. two 6-2, 3-6, 7-5, 2-5, 6-3.

5.E. and D.S. Green (owe : 6)ponents but only succeeded in

detectives were hard at work on

The report of the General had to play their hest to defeat scoring once through Meacock.

Managers of Messrs. A. S. Watson, Of the Club forwards Webster,

the case. One rumour says that H.R. Reminington and WA. Meacock and Holdman were the Mr. Chow Lo, the former Com- English history wait behind an31st October, 1923 shows net Nearly a thousand years of and Co., Ltd., for the year ended Nowers (plus 4 5) in the Doubles most prominent and Evans and missioner of Finance of Canton open door in Chancery-lane. From profits of 8373,863.83, to which Handicap by 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. The

Dean were useful pairs were very evenly balanced Result:-East Surreys. 3: Club. 1. Chow Lo has

was travelling on the launch. Monday to Friday, between 2 and has

10 be added $44,495.14, This is pure humbug for Mr.4 in the afternoon, you may get balance brought forward from with their respective handicaps.

C. Blaker and G. W. Sawell

not left the through to them. It is easier last year. Instead of turning out another College at all. and yesterday, the telephone. You just turn in, leave dividend of 10 per cent..

campus of the Higher Normal than ringing up a friend on the. It is proposed to (owe 1/6) met and defeated. R. Ë

CT. Williams full Club second team, the Secret-writer bimself had an interview your stick, sign your name, and bonus of 10 per cent.. place (plus 56) in the same event 63ary raised a

team to play the with him. Central British School at Happy

are free of the Museum of the $100,000 to Reserve Fuad. Valley. The school were usually the boasts of the Hongkong

Despite all the precautions and Public Record Office, says the write of building improvements well on top of their opponents and papers respecting the efficiency

1530.000 pay to Staff Provident only some desperate work of Hongkong, cases

Only a few hundred people Fund $10,000; pay to Chinese the latters defence, aided by occur with perhaps more fre There is an impression that this 000, and carry forward $83,358.97. of crime every month seize the chance: Staff Superannuation Fund $10,- stout work by Patton in goal, quenes in Hongkong than in most hospitable of treasure-houses! kept the score down. The only Canton. and with peace and goal of the watch was obtained normal

Campbell and

63.

The match between T. Honda and T. Lay originally fixed for today has been postponed and will be played on Wednesday.

To-day's Matches.

Matebes to be played today aro.

P. E. Barker (15) v. 3.

at back.

BRITISH SCHOOL WINS.

condition

is a fortress which must be

pay

8

B

suit or of the learned counsel.

AND TERROR TOO.

the

--Kwek Po-kwany. F. Wheeler by Matchin for the School in the Hongkong at that. Thus one can For some reason, it awes men the fight and the execution. Other prevailing stormed before it will capitulate days, wiled it away. by drawing Open Singles: Forster V.

first half. For the Secretary's readily appreciate the enormous he have been known to smile inscribes contented themselves with mington, Club Singles. Hung and Hung Hedmont and Worth Chan at back and Patton in goal, to maintain order and prevent other games than chess in the personal habits of parties to a

side, Faers was useful at forward, task of the Canton authorities Somerset House and to talk of reflecting in dog-Latin on ten, and Grace and Raworth v. Hwhile for the School Rowell and crimes, and the fact that Canton British Museum. D. and O. Rumjahn. Open Doubles: Bond were most prominent in the enjoys comparative peace

Stevens attack and Whitley played a good security despite these warring

sad If getting through to the cen- owe 5. Handicap Single game at back. Result: Central smes, speaks volumes for the turies meant finding them on the Terror expresses itself in a British School, 1: A. Bower's efficiency of the city administra.countless shelves of the Public more hurried form. It is evidenti Team. O.

Record Office, where. their the supremely characteristic "Nevertheless we sympathize until the industrious American or with his own hand for the travels o'er, they take their ease, "interrogatories prepared by James with Hongkong's discomfiture and Chinese investigator needs them,lexamination of Guy Fawkes-a losses and we trust our Police then, indeed, there would be an manuscript which, with its scrat Department will lend every aid The following have been select- to Hongkong wherever and when excuse for this shyness. But the chings-out and scrawlings-in, its ed to represent the Kowloon F. Cever possible.

manuscripts we are privileged to preference for Scots over plain The two places

Ladies Championship. Playing in the Ladies Singles

the Championship at

Ladies Recreation Club yesterday after- noon Miss P. tirace beat Mrs. Mit- chell in two straight set.

Miss. Grace had no dilewits

in obtaining the first set. In the

serond, Mrs. Mitebellarted well.

LOCAL FOOTBALL.

tion.

leading by 3.1. Miss Grave to in their match in the semi-final off should co-operate heartily in sup- have been selected with an ad-tags.

look at without a ticket English, its love of Latin

the next five games in succession

and won the Set 6-3 thus win. 'ning the match 6-2 and 6-3.

The prize were distributed by Wheeler, T. L. Knight: A. Turner, Mrs. Grace after the match.

LOCAL CRICKET.

The following will represent the Indian Recreation Club 2nd XI in a League match against the R. A. M. C. on the latter's ground on Saturday at 213 p.m.-D. Rumjahn (Capt), Sirdar Khan, E. A. Muosdeen, O. Rumjahn, Y. A Wahab, I. Hassan. E. Moosdeen, M. P. Madar. A. Kitchell, J. S. Ackbar and A. H. M. Samy.

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quite obviously

the Hongkong Shield, versus the pressing piracy and preventing mirable judgment of what inte-written by the chief character of R.G.A to be played on Saturday, crimes. Both authorities should on the Sookun pou ground, kick-off spare no efforts to increase their rests ordinary folk or such The Fortunes of Nigel." Hat if 4.15 p.m.: - A. Duncan: F.jefficiency in this line of work."

ordinary folk au actively realize James suffered from a "gun- that neither England nor the powder complex," he will be world was born yesterday. And excused after we have studied so, in the Museum, history shines the borrid details of the Kirk-o'- forth with a lively humanity, Field affair so graphically drawn from Domesday Book to the in another exhibit. "Guido Scrap of Paper.

Frawkes's signature betrays signs of the pressure of a more Some of it glows and glitters./mechanical rack.

The anony-

J. McKelvie, H. Wheeler: A. Latham, K. A. Mason, A. Roberts,, R. Nash and J. Muir. Reservas: -M. Howarth. S. Hayes and J. Morton.

CANTON MILITARY

REPORTS.

POST FOR SHUM HUNG-YING.

GILDED NOTES.

PYTHON IN CITY STREET.

It is reported from Canton that We meet bere with politics, gesimous letter to Lord Monteagle Recently, a python found its an order issued by Dr. Sun Yat-and even law, gilded and encarn-advising him of the plot completes way into Mansoor Street, off High sen has appointed the Kwangsi adined. A treaty between Great the brief abstract of the strange Street, Singapore. and attacked General, Shum Hung-ring, as Britain and Persia, dated so story.

OUR HEITLESS STREET.

and injured a boy. On receiving commander-in-chief of Kwangsi recently as 1812, might, from its Kirk-o-Field takes us straight the report of the matter Inspector province. It will be recalled that illumination, be a millionaire's to "your richt asured good frind. Hemsworth of the Central Police General Shum first came to Can- copy of Omar Khayyam. "These Marie R." Dare one say that, Station went to the place where ton in co-operation with General happy leaves," it declares. "are a even for her time, she was a bad he shot the snake after it had been Yeung Hi-man, the Yunnanese nosegay plucked from the thorn-speller, that Queen of Scots over driven out of its hiding place. commander at Dr. Sun's request less Garden of Concord, and tied whose memory, chivalry still in order to help in custby the hands of the plenipoten-quarrels with common sense? ing General Chan King-ming, tiaries in the form of a definitive Something of a scholar, if not so but later, in consequence of dis-Treaty, in which the articles of sound as Elizabeth, she confuses agreements, went over to the Friendship and Amity are blend-her Scots and English with her North. It is stated that he will. ed. No wonder diplomacy used French. But here is her letter AS SOON 15 a certain sum" and to be thought a romantic occupa-jand her signature-the Very ammunition have been received tion: The State poet and the State signature on which Anatole from Dr. Sun, return to Kwangsi artist must both have assisted when France wrote his sonnet?- and contest with General Lak Amurath III., Sultan of Turkey. Cette relique exhale un parfum Wing-ting the control of the wrote to Queen Elizabeth, re province.

fulgent with splendour and glory, A report from Wachow states most sapient Princess of the that General Luk Wing-ting, in magnanimous followers of Jesus. compliance with a request by Wu most

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Smooth-voiced in greeting

Hearty in meeting.

Buttonholed gentry, immaonjatë, spry:

Exoding quotations,

(Not classic orations)

Shedding disdain on diminutive fry.

Keen to a fraction

Thoir satisfaction

Depends on the shift up or down of a point.

At the day's ending

Hark to them rending

The air with the curses of times out of joint.

Heed not their tipping,

Always they're slipping

Something across you before you know how:

A sheep you're appearing

All ready for shearing,

They have the clippers and their time is now.

The street's name is chilly,

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JINGLE

controller serene

of

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Car la reine d'Ecosse, aux

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missel romain,

Y mit en la touchant un peu de

sa magie..

J'y retrouve l'ordenr et les

refiets roses

De

Pei-fu. has issued mobilisation all the affairs and business. orders and that one of his of the people and family! Generals, Hon Choi-fong, is on of the Nazarenes, most grateful the way to Wuchow with a strong rain-cloud," &c. The titles oli force.

16th-century plea-rolls are richly

ces doigts anjourd'hui It is reported that General decorated; not otherwise must

maots, decomposes, Chen King-ming's force recom-the prose of business be trans

Changes peut-etre en fleurs menced an attack

on the formed by the poetry of "art _in] dans un champ solitaire. Hunanese force in the Pok Lo fairylands forlorn of costs,

"Ces doigts aujourd'hui muets, district early on the morning of Fuck was at his mischief, too,decomposes. Changes peut-etre.“ the 4th instant and that the com- His hand is evident in the mar-

It is the last word. mander-in-chief, Tam Yuen-ho,gins of many old legal documents the last thought in one's mind. has been ordered by Dr. Sun to The fragment of a plea-roll of Whether the signature be Marie direct the fighting there.

Henry III.'s reign contains an R or Philip Sidney, Geoffrey It is rumoured that negotia-entry relating to a theft of clothes Chancer or William Shakespeare tions are proceeding between a at Winchester. The Court order. Walter Ralegh or Nelson and representative from Generaled the matter to be decided by Bronte, Daniel Defoe or Samuel Hung Hak-mu, who is in judicial combat, after easy man-Pepys, Eugene de Savoye pr Noel Szechuan, and Dr. Sun whereby ner of our forefathers. Walter Byron, the fingers that wrote are the former's troops, who have Bloweberme being the victor, still, dissolved, changed perhaps. recently been defeated by the Hamo le Stare. was found guilty But the memory lives in these Northern forces, can take refuge of larceny and hanged. The trace, and the men and. in Kwangtung.

scribe, having an idle hour, as women, for a moment, are scribes often had in those good vázy nasr."

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