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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, MARCH

1927.

200,000 FROTÉ BLOWERS.

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CHEERIEST "ORDER" IN THE BAD COURSE WITH A SUPERB

WORLD,

Membership of the Ancient Or- der of Froth Blowers recently renched a total of 200,000, and fresh blowers are being recruited at the rate of more than 2,000 a day.

With the almost universal adop- tion of the Froth-blowers' Anthem "The more we are together the merrier we'll be"--the A.O.F.B. has become in a few months a na- tional institution...

PAVILION.

The. Riviera boasts one of the raost. remarkable golf clubs in the world. It is hard to find and harder still to enter.

Que must possess a motor-car with unbreakable springs," much patience, and a well-developed bump of locality to And the club which is hidden away among the hills at Mougins, and

can be ronchod only by a track which is known by the, courtesy title of.

Discoveries.

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The order had a romàntic origin. | road. " The skill of Sir: Alfred Fripp, the When the club has been found surgoon, saved the life of Mr. Bertone cannot enter unless one pos- Templo, a City man, and the lattor,sesses great riches, for the mya- in token of thanksgiving, sought tery club la known as the "Million- means, to help a charity for East aires' Golf Club," and to become End waifs and strays, in which, one of the three hundred member- Sir Alfred und Lady Fripp were of the club one must be a million". Interested. With that object the aire, Froth-blower's order came into be- Ing two and a half years ago. ..

Its progress was slow until the idea was taken up by the Royal Navy in June of last year. Sinee, then it has spread with amazing rapidity through all classes and all climes. There are 300 "Vats" of the order, as the local branches afe known, in Great Britain, and more in every corner of the Em- pire, and even in Patagonia and the Cocos Islands.

£16,000 for Charity. £13,000 has been given to Sir A. Fripp for his charities, and an- other cheque for £3,000 is rendy for him.. Part of this money has been expended directly by Sir Alfred and his wife in the charity for which they were personally responsible, and part has been given to the funds of other Enst End charities. A very large bul-i anec remains to be disposed of under a new, scheme to be an nounced by Sir Alfred shortly.

It is stated that an American named Mr. W. U. Illes, during an exploration of the neighbour-1 hood, onec discovered a three- hundred-year-old olive mill and a building which was formerly shooting box belonging to one of Napoleon's generala, who used it when he hunted, wild boar.

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Mr.. les decided to form golf club the 2, and 150 million- aire founder members each tech- a share of £200.

Those shares to-day are quoted | at "four times that figures. but well-informed persons who have played on the course tell me that unless it improves the shares will fall, because, although it is as difficult for a non-millionaire to enter the club as it is for a camel to pass through, the eye of a nee dle, the course is bad..

A description of the luxurious club-kouse would be idle, because all one has to do is to think, of what such a house might be and Most of the income is derived then unitiply the result by ten. from the entrance fee of 69, which

The greatest difficulty was ex- confers membership for life, to-perienced in laying the course. "gether with an amusing book of Hocks had to be blasted in order rules and a set of silver and to provide a fairway, and bunkerg enamel cuff-links marked "A.O.repose on oak beams. F.B.," which are the insignia of. Hundreds of pounds were spent the Order.

fon, bringing grass seed from Eng- Blowers not wearing the cuff-land, but army corps of ants held inks when greeted with the order: the field and defied all comers. Men "Shoot your linen“ are subject to used to watch the ants carrying the penalty of standing drinks to away the seeds on their backs. all other blowers present, but this

No Green Fees. may sometimes be commuted by The club knows of no such paying a fine--there is an elabo-things as greenfees. The only Pole system of fines-into the Lon-members who are allowed to "Oast Box" all the contents of play are those who obtain a pink) which go to charity.

In future loval vats are to be allowed to devote some of the con- tents of the local oust boxes to local charities; a proportion, as hitherto, will go to Sir Alfred Fripp:

Banks of the Order.

oucher from a founder member. and even founders are not allowed to give more than two vouchers per senson. This rule sometimes leads to comedy:

When the daughter of a man who once owned Cannes Casino and the Curele Nautique arrived in a motor-car with her golf clubs and wanted to. play, she was re- fused.'

The A.Q.F.B. claims to be "the cheerlest order in the world," and everyone who can answer "Yes" to She protested that as she was the question, 'Do you gallop your the daughter of the man who beer with zest?" la entitled to pay owned Cannes, surely she could 5s, and become a member. An or play. The secretary was ada- dinary member is a Blower; who-mant, and the daughter informed ever recruits 25 new members be- her father, who threatened to ex- comes a Blaster; 100 new mem- clude from the casino all the 300 bers a Tornado; and there are millionaire members of the golf higher risks such as Typhoon, elab, but fortunately for the peace Breeze Vertical, Cyclone, and of the Riviera, the threat was Grand Hurricane, Women mem- never fulfilled. hers, who are now being added. aro known as "Fairy Bells."

The head offices of the Order are at 145, Cheapside B.C., where Mr. Bert Temple said yesterday that applications for membership are now coming in so fast that the rules and insignia cannot be issued without an average delay of ten days.

POOR BOYS AS ARMY OFFICERS.

CHANCE OF SANDHUEST AT REDUCED FEES

The War Office will this auturan introduce a scheme whereby bright boys in poor circumstances may become officers in the Regular Army.

A number of enndidates at cach entrance examination will be ad- mitted to the Sandhurst at reduc cd fees, the reduction to be deter. mined according to pecuniary need...

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These reduced fees will be £7A, £50 or £25 a term for sons of civil ians, and £45, £30, or £15 a term for sons of oeers and men of the rogular Army,

be awarded at each entrance ex- amination and will be of the val of £25 tenable irrespective of the pecuniary need of the candidate.

The charge of uniform, books etc., will not be remitted in the case of the winners of prize cadetships heretofore.

Golfers know how impossible it is to "drive" with energy or "put" with accuracy if the vision is blur- red or the brain hazy as the re- sults, of bitiousness, disordered The normal fee is £160 a term liver, or a congested intestinal for civilians sons and £60 for the tract. You must keep it to feel children of Regular Army men. fit, and Pinkettos, the gentle little Moreover in the cave of civ. laxatives and liver regulators, help Han's zona admitted at reduced keep the eye clear, the system fees a proportionato "ent" will be clean and healthy, the brain ac- mudo in charges for uniform,tive, in every duty and pleasure of books, otc.

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