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FOOTBALL NOTES.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE EASTER PROGRAMME. (To the Editor. "Hongkong Telegraph.")

" A "Times Picture.

CRICKET.

K.0.0. MATCHES. Kowloon moot Hongkong in s {BY "WANDERER,")

Longue match on the Hongkong ground on Saturday. Tho Bir,-In your issue of yesterday following will represent the K.C. At the time of writing, romoto indoed would soom to be you reproduced a Times photo-O-H. Overy, J. C. Lyal, F. the prospects of any improve- graphantitled" A. Jesuit Prisoner Goodwin, A. W. Ramsay, J. C. mont in the weather conditions showing an inscription in the Salt Fletcher, S. Jox, K. R. Maonskili, now prevailing and we must, 1 Tower of London, "carved by Gen. Loo, A. R. F. Ravon, R. C. supporo, rosign ourselves to an Henry Walpole, a Jesuit priest, Witcholl and B. Potheram, Easter programma decided on who was alleged to be concornad heavy grounds with good football in a plot to rub polson on the

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K. O, C. "A" v. G. §. C. C. “A” or lode discounted. The pommel of Queen Elizabeth's on the K. C. C. ground. The On Saturday those teams moot principal matches will be the saddle."

following have been selected o postponed match hotwoon Scot-

Articles and comments in the ropresent the home Club:~W. land and the Rest in the Sunday Times are usually as accurato and F. J. Gorvin (capt.), A. J. Kow. Herald International Charity woll-informed as they are inter [L. A. R. Duncan, E. G. Ronton, Cup game, and the annual fixture eating, but in the issue in which J. C. Long, W, Hill, J. Smith, E between the Longue Winners (the this photograph appeared (Batur-O. Murphy, W, A. J. Taylor, H. Surroys) and the Rost. Both day, 21st February) that paper G. Hallam and C. L. Evans. matches will be decided on the blundored badly in an article in FOOTBALLERS v. Club ground, the first to-morrow which this particular inscription

CRICKETERS. and the League Ct ampious game on Easter Monday.

is described as possibly that of The following team will re- "the Jesuit priest who was banged presont the Kowloon Football! in 1594 for bribing a groom to Club, in a cricket match voraus Full comment was mado on the smoar poison an the Queen's the Kowloon Cricket Club, to be International Charity Cup ganaaddle," The illustration was played on Monday, 13th inst., on A wook ago and it is only entitled "A Josuit Poisonor"; the Kowloon Club's ground. посолкагу to reiterate that am glad to see you havo altered commencing at 10.30 am.-F. the Rost, with tho nucleus the last word to "prisoner." Read, M. Howarth, W. Auston,

of Q strong. Interport side

prisonment of Henry Walpole. A. W. Biles Scorer:-C. Bond, But Walpole was a more school- boy at that time, having boon; born in 1559.

LORD BALFOUR AT DAMASCUS.

In their ranks, should win com-the inscription is given as 1579/A. W. Turner. A. Fitzgerald, A. In the Times article the date of 8. Randle, J. Davis, S. G. Hayos, fortably. The tosma are Scotland: Clarko (Police); Me.and it is supposed to have been pary, C. E. Millard, F. Whooler. Resorvo -C. Lako, Umpire :--- Kolvio (Kowloon) and Dewar made during an carlier im- (Police); Mair (Club). Stowar (Club) and Duncan (Kowloon) Johnstono (Club), Forsyth (Club), McBride (Kowloon), Dr. Valen tino (Police) and Kay (Club). The

Another blunder in the article Rost: Wavish (Tamar); Wheelor is that neither Henry Walpole (Kowloon) and Wynno (Polioe) nor any other Jesuit was exocutod Leung Yuk-tong (Southi China). at Tyburn in 1594. The only Mitchell (Surreys), and Cheungpriset executed there in that year Wing-ahing (South China);

William Harington, Charlesworth (Surreye), Eaton seminary priast," (Surroys), Johnson (Police), Li Wal-tong (South China) and Mackleworth (Surreys).

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Damascus, April 8,

Honry Walpole

Lord Balfour has arrived hore. was put to death, not in 1594, but on 7th.

Crowds later demonstrated April, 1595, not at Tyburn, but at outside

botol, and the rushed York. He was found guilty on manager

into The Roat oleven to

Lord the Surroya

room, olored the on Monday has three charges, none of which had Balfour's yet to be chosen, or, at lonat, anything to do with the absurd shutters and turned off the lights. has res to come to hand, but poison story. Those charges The crowds hurled stones on to It is reasonably certain that oro, that (1) he was a Jesuit, (2) the balcony, hitting a dragoman. the Surreys will be able to field he had gone abroad to bo ordained The police forced the demon rather in favour of change than It would seem, however, that And the change that the Liberal of Soville is unduly full strongth. Without know.priest, (3) ho had returnod to Sirators back from the hotel otherwise. lodge of

squaro opposite newspaper laments is eno that passimistic and that builfighting the opposition, and, England to exerciso his priestly Lowards the

whore fiory Beccchos were affects the most sacred of Spanish is not so near death as it thinks. remembering the Lomewhat

delivered.

institutions, the bull-ring. "Todo Indeed, to judge from the Madrid Several persons were arrestod. se transforma. Esto matara

journals, it must be very much Quiet was restored by this | aquello.' evening.

("Everything changes, alive, and kooping up, too, with and one thing kills another"), it the spirit of the times. For the Numerous police are remaining wails. Seville, the Mecca of toreros have now a trade union! in the vicinity of the hotel.bull-fightore, is now become the of their own like all other work- Reuter.

temple of "futbolismo." Who ing mon; and, naturally, tho im- Who buys preaarios of the bull-ring have their picturos? Who follows also formed themselves into an thom on their daily walks? They association. The consequence is have been abandoned; utterly and a very pretty quarrel that attracte completely, in favour of the foot quito as much attention as futbol baller-futbolisa, We should nows. The question involved is say. And the strange and droad-too technical for full explanation, ful thing, says the Liboral, is but the sermon addressed by a that the same people who eporting newspaper to toreros onco lived only for the suspected of blacklegging-of ono are now living for the other-signing

for tho Bolection of

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yagarious committen responsiblo The Vonorable Henry Walpole led for his priesthood and his faith after he had refused the offer of his life on condition of his apostasy.

representative sides, not choosing to risk a forecast, it is useless to attempt to suggest which way the game is likely to go. At the same time it should be possible to get a sido together sufficiently strong to defeat tho military oloven with a little to spare.

Three days after the publication of the absurd prison atory, tho Times printed a brief correction, but it was hidden away in an obscure paragraph, while the Saturday's league fixtures Scandalous charge against this

follows:-

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DIVISION 1.

Surrey Club-Club, China "A" Kowloon-Soo. kunpo.

Kick-off 4 30 p.m.

DIVISION II.

Catholic martyr had been given a prominence that

must have called the attention of every reader of the newspaper to it.

The whole ignorant slander would not have been out of place in the No-Popery gutter DIONS, China "A" v Surreye II-Soo-bat is a disgrace to tho Times. kunpo.

St. Josoph's "B" Drume— Chinese.

St. Joseph'7"A" v Club Res— Chub.

Kick-off 3 p.n.

Little interest tarhas to any of the games though it will be interesting to see how Kowloon omergo from their game with China A.” The Chineso wid naturally be all out to avenge their defeat of some six wocks ago. The Surreys should defeat

the Club without unduly affect ing their possibilities in the game on Monday, after which, by the way, the cups and medals will be presented to the winners and runners-up in Division I and the runners-up in Division II.

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Yours, etc..

A. M. D, G. Hongkong, 9th April, 1925.

CHINESE AFFAIRS.

PROVISIONAL ADVISORY

ASSEMBLY,

Peking, April 8. The Cabinet are considering the establishment of a Provisional Advisory Assembly, the function of which will be to adviso the Chief Executive,

According to the regulations submitted to the Cabinot yester

VON HINDENBURG YIELDS.

Berlin, April 8. Von Hindenburg has yielded 10 stand for the Presidency, Reuter.

SADOUL GETS OFF.

Paris, April 8 Sadoul has been acquitted of the charge of desertion during the war.-Router.

"FUTBOLISMO."

talka of tororos now?

never find a public accept him

he will only end in hanging him- self again. Judas could not bo long to the union of tororos."

So that's that. On the whole,

contracte inconsistent the aficionados themselves. Lis- with the rules of their union- ten to them; no longer do the doservos a wider publicity if only names of bull-fighters fall from as evidence of the serious side of their lipa, No; with the same bull-fighting. What is known as passionate eulogy they celebrate the quite in the bull-ring is the the merits of Herminio and Kinke act of drawing off the attention (fulbolista of renown it may be of the bull, sometimes at con- supposed). No longer do they talk aiderable personal risk, from a of medias wronicas, pases nutur fallen man or horse. "El quito,,' ales, and molinstas. All their says the journal, is the symbol conversation to-day is of of the torero, the very essence of

'penaltios," "ebuts," and "orsais."

bull-fighting. It is risking one's) These wonderful sportsmen, re-life for a comrade. The torero New Rival to Bull Fighting. marks another newspaper, in makos a profession of the most scorn, "these beroes of a hundred unselfish, the most humanitarian More than thirty years of hotly contested disputes round action in the world. Judas could absance sro apt to blunt the the arena of the bullring, are now not make a quite. Judas could memory of former visits, making become the Messiahe of a new not be a torero. Don Quixote, it difficult to say how much Seville and exotic sport, writing and talk yes, But not Judas. Judas could has changed in the interval. ing of nothing else, and spread never

A quarter of a century musting the fame of its exponents, before the public as a torero; be have presented himselt have had some effect on the "very oven to Chile and Peru.

would have boon driven out of noble, very loyal, very horoic, and

the ring. It is useless for him to unconquered city," but the change KINKE AND HIS "CHUTS.** is hard to find, and most of its Shades of Bombits and Zapat eign treacherous contracts; he day, the Assembly will consist of characteristic fostures remain atillo ! Has it really come to this? The following have been select-one delegato from each of the unaltered, writes a Times corres- Are the great expudus and their ed to play for the Kowloon Club military and civil authorities of pondent. The smart carriages of exploits forgotten in favour of a in a 1st division League match the provinces, one from each of former days, with their gaily Kinke and his "chuts"? By the the spacial districts, namely, harnessed mules, have given place way, "chut" is apelt differently as Vorsus South China "A"-A. Dun, an, F. Wheeler, F. Read, Metropolitan Area, Johol Sual- to motor-cars quite au Cosity a verb, as, for instance"Kinke oue is inclined to agree. A. W. Turner, J. McKelvie (Capt), Yuan, Chahar, and Haikang, and Gaitely loen picturesque; but the shoota infalibemente," or, in our J. Pasco, A. Latkan, S. Hayes, one from each of the Tupans streets are as ill-paved as evor, own poor language, Kinko took

of tho Frontier J. McBride, W. Austen, J. Mutr. Force, and also from the Com-tower of the Giralda-wildfowl but careful research has not re- Defence Aeroplanes may circle round the good shot and scored a goal";

manders of troops under the undreamt of by its Moorish and vealed the meaning of an orea), The following will represont direct control of the Central Catholic buildors--but Holy Faith unless it has come to Spain by the Hongkong Football Club Governinent, 16 delegatee from the Giralda, still confiding in any of France and moans a "try. Reserver in their League fixture Mongolis, Tibot, Chinose Turkes Justa and Rufina, hor guardian ut is this transformation bewail- with St. Joseph's "A"-F. Argus, tan, the Chinose overseas and saints displays ber banner undieod by the Liberal possible? It is E. W. Railton (Capt), E. Hanlon, the Chairmen of the Provincial mayed and turns lightly constant true that one may walk many P. Richmond, G. Puncheon, S. H. Assemblies, one dolegate from to the changing breeze,

times a day up and down the Garrod, B. Bell, E. A. Roberts, A. each of the Provincial public But in the Giralda there · could | Starpas-thonarrow thoroughfare Forguson, J. Douglas, J. Dixon.

(bodies, and 10 to 15 dologates be no change, nor in the great that is generally thronged with spacially employed by the Chief athedral at its sido; though it is toreros and aficionados-without Executive.

pleasant to REO that at last,acing either one or the other. The Assembly will discuss the after many years, the lattor But for the matter of that one will is free from scaffolding. St. Paul's not moct a futbolista other, at resolutions of the Reorganisation is not the only church visited by least net to recognize him as such. Conference regarding financia]

affl'ction. The Cathedral of Soville Also, it is not yet the bull-fight-! and military readjustment,i

ta only now recovered from the ing season It is curious, however, alea mattora connected with ship of the Colony at the Victoria tho national treasury, nation-double collapso that bofell ite what a largo spaco futbol is' Recreation Club Innt night, H. Cal taxation and foreign troatles, dome towards the end of last beginning to occupy in the Kwok beat P. 8. Long by 500 to and it will also attempt to change in the rust of the city, also say in Spanish strests and And there is little Spanish nowapapers. One might 785. It was a mont interesting promote provincial self-govern whose daily life seems unaffected open places, for no longer doon gamon and the inane was in doubt mant pending the completion of by what has changed the aspect the small boy ape the matador right up to the end. The chief the national and provincial con- of grost cities elnowhere.

with a dirty handkorobief and breaks were: Kwok, 40, 33, 32, 31, aitutione.

BILLIARDS.

THE COLONYS' CHAMPIONSHIP.

Playing in the Billiards Champion-

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century.

The roturned traveller may lay his charging comrade, To- think Soville unchanged, but that day he is occupied in kicking 30 (twice), 31, 32 (three times), 35, 28 Speaker, a Vico-Spoakor and does not soom to be the opinion imaginary goals with an old and 27.

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