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PLAY AND PLAYERS.

RESIGNING.

THE SELECTION OF „HONGKONG INTERPORT

TEAM.

(SY "WANDERER".)

Though it is but a month before; the Hongkong Football Association, sends its team to Shanghai, where, It is hoped to prove Hongkong's right to retain for another year the Hongkong Telograph trophy, 'the Association has up to the pre- sent mado no intimation regarding the probable eleven, or, for that matter, even the possible selec-1 tions.

It sometimes occurs to one that! meetings of the Council of the As- sociation are not called with that frequency which permits of full. attention to all mattera in hand. One can appreciate that a long session spent in enquiry Into some alleged misconduct on the field. or some subject of like nature, does not encourage the expendi- ture of further time in discussing. matters which on the surface do not appear to be of paramount im- portance.

The selection of the Interport) team is, I suggest, one of real urgency, and I say so because it does not follow that a player? 'selected, automatically makes the

trip North.

All players will need

Tuan Chi-ní. Chief

China's

Executive, who is rosigning his office.

DEBTS TO AMERICA.

THE LATEST

PRONOUNCEMENT.

Washington, Jan, 6.

Mr. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, in a report to the Fin- to secure at least a fortnight's ance Committee of the House, on leave, and the sooner the players obts to the United States, de- ars given the opportunity of put-clared

that the Committee of ting the question to their taipans; Debts does not favour the repay- mant of debts in full. The condi-

the better.

The position at present, I am tions of repayment, according to given to understand, is that the the capacity to pay by each debtor, Interport selection committee has will largely concern the rate of yet to be chosen.

interest. The claims of the United

The team will not present States on foreign nations are difficult problem except in regard not worth more than the friend- to the left back position and the ship of a prosperous Europe.- wing half-backs. It would do

Indopacifi the Association no harm were they to inform those players who

Washington, Jan. G.

The Ways and Mouns Com-

are regarded as certainties in their mittee of the House of Represent- respective positions that they will

atives has recommended the ac-

be asked to accompany the team. I am not by any means endeavouring ceptance of the war debt agree- ments with Belgium, Czecho-

to make the point that the mem- Slovakia,

Latvia, Esthonia..

Several

bers of the Association have been Rumania and Italy. treating the question with total members opposed the acceptance unconcern that they have been of the last-named settlenient. watching play and players with Reuter's American Service

one eye for now blood, and with the other for the form of past in- 'terporters, I have not the slightest doubt-but they do not appear to have made any definite move to- wards the selection of the four- teen players who will be expected to embark for Shanghai on Febru- Bry 9th.

DISARMAMENT.

Ú. S. PARTICIPATION,

Washington, Jan. 6. The Foreign Affairs Committeel My team selected a few weeks of the House of Representatives back has for varied reasons under voted unanimously in favour of the gone trifling changes in the half- resolution authorising the partici- 'back line." On current form, the pation of the United States in the team which, in my opinion, is the preparatory disarmament confer- best Hongkong can put into the ence ni Geneva. -Reuters Ameri-

cun Service.

field is:

Clark (Police), goal Wheeler (Kowloon), right back. Wynne (Police), left back. McKelvie (Kowloon), right half. Simas (Kowloon), centre, half. Bristowe (Surreys), left half. Charlesworth (Surreys), outside

"right.

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LATIN UNION.

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Another rare book is to go to Amorica. Shokespeare's first edition copy of the two parts of "King John

sold at Sotheby's the other day to Dr

were

and If Chinese are allowed to be The Government announces that Rosenbach, of Philadelphia, for taken Suen, Kam-shur (forward), by the end of 1926, it will adhere £1,850. Only two other coples of Whilst on the tople of the Hong-to the Latin Monetary Union.-"The Troublesome Reign of King kong Football Association it fadopacifi.

might be considered the right time

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ral practice of county football

John" are known-one in the Capell collection at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the According to a report of the other, an imperfect one, in an

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FLAPPER FANNY says

GARA

associations at Tome in regard to Austrian Minister in Constan- suspensiona. It appears to be tinople the Austrian scholar, Huntington. their considered view that publica Colonel Dr. Georg Veith, was tion of the list of suspensions murdered while travelling alone after each, meeting is part of the in the neighbourhood of Zela," in punishment to the player for his Asia Minor, where "crime." The names are publish- pursuing historical studice. Two ed riot only by county associations, persons suspected of the deed but The Football Association also have been arrested. The Turkish, intimates, to the Press, the deci- Minister has called upon the sion in regard to any player order- Austrian Foreign Minister to ed off the field, or in regard to express the sympathy of his any player who has been reported Government, and declared that by the referee.

Turkish authorities would do

This practice for some reason everything in their power to olu- which I have been unable to ascer-cidate the occurrence and to tain is not followed here, and it punish the murderers.

There were six thousand odd

would no doubt prove most in- ..teresting if an answer could be supplied. I mention the matter to-day because I understand that spectators present at that game at the last meeting of the Associa-Including a large number (five tion, held this week, the councilor six hundred) Europeans, and delved into the referee's report it would not injure the Associa- relating to the match between the tion were those spectators shown Chinese and the Navy and which that it is doing all it should be ended in ftasco. I understand doing in the way of keeping the that Lau Hing-cheung the goal-game as clean as human nature. keeper was suspended for some permits 'it to be, and in convinc- period at present unknown to me,ing clubs and playera that it is and that action in respect of the controlling body of football in other players was also taken. the Colony.

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