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HOW BOLSHEVISM WORKS IN HONAN.

MONDAY, MARCH - 29, 1926.

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TOKYO BUILDING COST Y.1,600,000,

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LA QUESTION OF HANDICAPPING,

Mr. A correspondent, says: Sinyangehow, March 10. A now building of the Tokyo. Reuter's correspondent, during a Y. M. C. A. to cost Y1,600,000 will James Braid, writes to ask if I journey from Hsinyangchow to be erected on the present site can explain exactly what is meant Chengchow, and back saw many of covering 2,500 tsubo of land at by a phrase which he saw recently the so-called Red Spears, who are Mitoshirocho, Kanda, before in a newspaper: "Sunningdale reported to have killed General, January of 1927. This was decid-handicapping." I think it is pos Yueh Wei-chun, the Kuominchuned at the meeting of the executive sible to enlighten him.

The term refers to a rather Tupan of Honan. They are just committee of the Board of Recona- country folk, armed with weapons truction of the Tokyo Y.M.C.A. entertaining way of ensuring of all descriptions from old match-held recently at the Kogyo Clab, close match when two players are locks to meat axes, but all carry Marunouchi, Tokyo, on Wednesday of very different degrees of ability one perhaps, about scratch and a spear of home manufacture from afternoon.. six to seven feet long with a tuft Twenty two prominent men in the other long handicap-and do cluding Viscount Shibusawa, Baron not fancy the ordinary system of of. red material affixed to it.

Certain it is They make extravagant claims Sakatani, Governor Hiratsuka of giving and receiving, strokea nt to the share they have had in Tokyo and others were present at prescribed holes.

that, under this latter method, the Marshal Wu Pei-fu's victories but the meeting.

interior golfer often finds that he these should be taken with a grain According to the plan of cons- does not secure full value for his of salt. They are probably quite struction for the new building strokes.

Some of them аге good at defending their villages which was sanctioned by the wasted, because he loses the holes against bandits but as a military executive officers of the YM.C.A.so badly that his allowance at force they are at present of no it will be a 6 story iron reinforced them is of no avail. value except possibly for scouting concrete modern building with a Precisely why Sunningdale, ap basement covering, an area of Important and serious-minded It will have an club, is held to be the sponsor of 2,500 tsubos. auditorium on the ground floor the scheme.. to which my corres- providing seats for 1,200 persons:pondent refers I do not know. 21 class rooms on the 3rd floor Anyhow, the name serves.

The idea is that the player who They abandoned most of their laboratory on the 4th floor; 4 heavy artillery, the largest of social rooms on the ground floor; is "up" has to concede at the hole which were 76's. There were, all dining halls in the basement; which is about to be played a 7 rooms for children, 2 libraries, number of strokes corresponding told, 15 of these guns abandoned and many others down to a bat and 2 conference rooms on 2nd to the number of holes by which floor; and 87 rooms on the 6th he is leading. Thus, if he wins tery of mountain guns.

After the fall of Chengchow, floor, all of which will be fully the first hole, he has to give a General Yueh Wei-chun's forces equipped with up-to-date accom-stroke at the second, were reduced to 20,000 men and (modations modelled after various secures the second hole as well, i ARNHOLD & COMPANY, LTD. there seemed nothing possible for leading Y.M.C.A. buildings in the he has to give two strokes at the third. It stands to reason that he these but surrender. as their re--

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The Kuomlachun in their re- treat from Honan appeared to have little fight left in them after the fall of Kaifeng.

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The inhabitants of Chengchow had lived under a reign of terror for several weeks before the flight of the Kuominchun.

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of trained troops in the province was already spent on the recons-that he has given an extra stroke

work against Marshal Wu's four, but truction

of the Tokyo at every succeeding hole, the sum many of the Kuominchun were Imperial University and the tem- total of his performance must be apparently tired of "Red" rule and porary building of the Tokyo tu land him in an awkward pre- The remaining dicament for he has to concede were glad to surrender at the first Y. M. C. A

Y1,000,000 will be used for the five strokes at the aixth. opportunity.

Assuming that he loses the new building according to the above plan. The Executive Com-sixth and has his lead reduced to mittee of the Tokyo Y.M.C.A. four, he still has to give four Reconstruction have decided to strokes at the seventh.

Certainly you could not very It had been quite. impossible for raise Y600,000 which will be added

to the American endowment, well have a one-sided match under anyone, foreign or Chinese, to

this principle of handicapping. leave his house after dark. What making Y1,600,000. in all. the native inhabitants suffered is Besides the main building, there Personally I am rather chary of Robbery and sheer will be a new gymnasium covering these contests in which, the longer winton murder are. said to have an area of 160 tsubos at a cost of the lead you obtain, the more you been so common as to pass almost Y195,000 which will be built at the have to give your rival. The idea! unnoticed. The citizens declare back of the main building by Sep-looks all right on paper. If you right away from your that not to proclaim loudly tember this year. It will be a sun adherence to Bolshevism was story iron reinforced concrete opponent at an early stage you tantamount to signing one's own building, consisting of 2 depart- ought to be able to increase yOUT death warrant, while to carry a ments, having 2 physical training concession to him if you are so bundle which looked as though it rooms, a swimming pool accommo- far animated with the sporting might contain something lootable dating 200 persons, a running spirit that you want to engage was equivalent to an invitation to track, a shower bath and in a close finish. Only you are any passing soldier to shoot you. Japanese bath room, boxing, apt to be caught, as I was once

People were shot for their fencing, wrestling. basket-ball, by an amateur in Yorkshire." clothes on their backs and not volley ball facilities and various only shot but mutilated in a meeting rooms. shocking manner.

When the new Tokyo Y.M.C.A. The literature supplied to the building is completed, the officers Kuominchun troops was Bolshe- in charge say that it will be the viam pure and simple. Many largest Y.M.C.A. in the Fur East. thousands of booklets were taken from the prisoners captured and many of the arms in their posses- sion are also stated to have been manufactured in Soviet Russia.

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I was 6 up on him at the turn. I had arranged to give him a stroke a hole all the way round, and, in addition as many bisques coming home as I stood holes up at the 19th. Thus I had a pretty mill-stone round my neck for the homeward half, and only just managed to finish all square.

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He had been a ringer for 60 years. I have nothing, to say against the four-ball match when those In a telegram to the Wai-who take part in it are skilful and chiaopu, the Shanghai Amalga- experienced players who know mated Street Unions say that, their own powers and are not like- according to their calculations of ly to be misled by what happens, Tokyo, March 5"A vision of the losses sustained by the Chinese but I am sure is a hindrance loveliness in the form of merchants in Shanghai as a result to less advanced golfers. Japanese maiden appeared to me of the May 30th tragedy, these it is played the best way is for when I was in Australia and

amount to not less than Tls. the two persons constituting a beckoned to me. So here i am in 3,670,000 and: $7,750,000, and so side to decide between themselves Japan," declared the Rev. Mr. they request that a claim should from time to time when one shall James Highett to the vernacular be lodged with the British Minis-jattempt a brilliant shot in the press. Mr. Highett will be re-tor for indemnity. "in order to hope of winning the hole, while membered as having "prophesied" pacify the indignation of the the other shall play steadily with dire tragedies and cataclysms for people."

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Part of the European continent will also be submerged, according to this Prophet of Doom, who goes on to say that the same thing will affect America."As a matter of fact," he declared, "I know New York is slowly sinking."

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seldom introduced; as a rule, each quality would be of inestimable the one with the shorter handicap of the four participants ploughs value to him. He has become so should give half the number of e more or less lonely furrow until used to playing the shots in an bisques that he would concede in the putting green is reached, irresponsible frame of mind-strokes. Thus, if the ordinary whereupon everybody concerned hoping that, if his efforts come to allowance were six strokes, he reckons in the terms of having grief, his partner will retrieve the might, give three bisques. Where," "this for a 4," or whatever the situation-that he does not know however, a great disparity exists figure may be. There is scope what to do when he has to between the players, the short- for real co-operation in the four-shoulder all the responsibilities. handicap-man, can usually give a ball match, but very little advan Bisques-the system of giving larger proportion of blaques. tage is taken of it.

strokes wherever the recipient Thus, if he would have to concede For the moderate player, prob-may wish to take them instead of 16 strokes in the ordinary way, he. ably the worst form of practice is at certain prearranged holes are should be able to give ten bisques. If I were in receipt of bisques, the four-ball match. It is more creeping steadily into favour, but likely than any other kind of con-no definite comparison between I would use them early if they tent to induce him to attempt the relative value of bisques and would win holes. The temptation things that are impossible to him ordinary strokes has yet been to keep them up one's sleeve for As one can use a close finish may be strong, but and also to cause him to depend established. upon a partner instead of upon bisques anywhere, it follows that often it is fatal. I once played a himself. The medium-handicap the better golfar can concedo man who, through not spending golfer who constantly takes part fewer of them than he can give some bisques early enabled me to in four-ball matches is not in strokes which have to be taken keep level with him. We arrived think, such a sturdy rival as the at holes indicated on the score on the last teeing ground all event man who engages chiefly in card and which may occur at He then had four bisques in hand. singles. He is not so self places where they are not needed. But from his tee shot he rellant, and frequently he la lack- But how many fewer? My ball and with it the mate ing entirely in judgment when he experience is that where the was a lesson to him, wh is in a tight corner, and that players are fairly evenly matched, not forget in a hur