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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,

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THE WORLD SPORT

CRICKET.

56TH. COY R. E. BEAT

DIOCESAN SCHOOL.

The 56th. Coy R.E. won easily ia their match yesterday against; the D.B.S. on the Club de Recreio ground.

The D.B.S. batted first, and were six wickets down för 47 whên a

collapse occurred, and they ended with 47 for 10. Horspool took 6 wickets for 17 runs, and 2 wickets

for 19 runs. Young Saye scored 27 runs..

For the R. E's, Major Playfair,

who was missed three times, scored

48. and Lindsay 24 not out. The

total was 119. Anderson took 3 wickets for 14 runs.

The School certainly had an 'off' day; their ground fielding was good but far too many catches were missed...

For the R. E's, Major Playfair with the bat, Horspool with the ball and Brown at the stumps were in good form.

The, details, scores were

41

Diocesan Boys' School.

D. J. N. Anderson, 1.b.w. b.

Horspon]

W. H. Kwan, e. and b. Dure

A. T. Lee, stumped Brown, b.

Horspoel

F. R. Zimmert, l.b.w. b. Dare.

J. L. Young Suye, c. Kellett, b,

Horspool

A. S. A. Kyun, c. Playfair, d.

Horspool

J. A. Fisher,, c. Kellett, h. Hors-

pool.....

F. K. Lee, not out

G. A. Lee, b. Horspool

A. Prata, 1.b.y. b Horspool

Extras

Totals

1

INTERNATIONAL CHESS.

LONDON TOURNAMENT

CONCLUDES.

London, Oct. 25. The international chess tourna October 10 hus concluded. ment which opened in London on

The Pole, Dr. Tartakower, and the Dane, Niemzowitch, are first, with eight games .each. American, Marshall, is third, with

seven and a half games,

out of eleven games.

He

OCTOBER 26, 1927.

RAILWAY LAND SLIP IN MALAYA.

ENGINE BURIED IN SEVERAL· FEET OF MUD.

Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 17. The following details have been supplied in connection with the railway mishap at Sungel Buloh on Friday night, by the F.M.S. rail- way authorities:

"SHANGHAI MIND" CONTROVERSY.

„AN ACCUSATION, AND A' REPLY.

MUCH FEDLING AROUSED.

WALKING OVER FIRE IN SINGAPORE.

REMARKABLE CEREMONY AT HINDU TEMPLE.

There were huge crowds of Hindus

at the Mariamman Temple in South Bridge Road on Monday evening last week, and We take the following" letter not a few Europeans, to witness from the North-China Daily News: the fire walking ceremony which

Sir,A correspondent in the is held every year.

There was heavy rain in the Sungei Buloh district and a long issue of October 19, signing him- For the visitor the sight special, coming into Kuala Lum-self "O.D.R." lays claim to being becomes almost indescribable and pur, suddenly ran into several feet the originator of the phrase most of the residents of Singapore of mud which covered the line for "Shanghai Mind," He goes fur-make an effort to see at least once a considerable distance.

ther. He defines what he means what is undoubtedly very re- Investigations showed that theby the phrase, and of all the markable scene. hillside which is about 50 feet high, had slipped on to the line. The engine was buried in the mud up to a depth of about four feet.

Quick Work.

pieces of effrontery that the citizens of this long suffering town have had to endure, this is one of the worst...

I produce his definition so that it may be thoroughly appreciated

The precincta, of the temple were packed to overflowing and there were crowds on the road who were unable to obtain admission, Before the ceremonies commenced everyone seemed to be occupied much noise as

When the matter was reported to by the members of the Shanghai with making as The

department set out to the scene of deal with one in their midst who the waves of heat proceeding from headquarters, officers of the loco community, who, having appreciat possible, and so great was the ed it, will doubtless know how to volume of sound and so intense

and after a great deal of work the this kind and a betrayer of the that waiting for the devotees was, the mishap with gangs of coolles shows all the earmarks of a traitor the long broad bed of hot coals, engine was moved on to solid community out of which he gets to any the least, a most uncom

round of Satirday afternoon.

On Sunday it was re-railed and the line was made good for traffic thought of a man who supposes he can "By Shanghai Mind' I mean the

The First Signal. at 4.30 p.m. meanwhile the pas continue, forever to enjoy, under sengers were transhipped at Ke- obsolete sanctions, the comforts and monies were about to begin was The first signal that the Cere- pong and brought into Kuala Kum-safeguards of his home land 10,000 or the raking up of the bed of coals

did not lose once, but drew seven The nearest British player is w. Winter, with five and a half tied for sixth

games, who has place.-Reuter..

OUR FOOTBALL COMPETITION.

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PRIZE OF $60 WEEKLY.

The "Hongkong Telegraph" offers a prize of $50 to the readers who send in twelve correct fore- casts of the results of the English

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pur.

The accident could not be avoid ed because it occurred so suddenly in very heavy rain and the spot being a corner the engine driver could not get a long view and rat into the slip practically as soon as he could see it,

his living. "O.D.R." says:

more miles away; who thinks those

fortable business.

concessions are foreign territory in and immediately afterwards a which Chinese live by sufferance; goat was brought into the Temple whose knowledge of Chinese is con- yard and, after water had been fined to compradores', boys and coo-poured over it, its head was taken lics; whose social contact with Chinese off with remarkable despatch. is limited to staff dinners in native Body and head were then dragged restaurants; whose cards and brass round the bed of coals to the plates benr nonsensical Chinese accompaniment

of an ever- characters obtained from uneducated increasing chorus of shouts and. compradores and effice boys; whose yells. Then one by one the fire

matches (to be played on Saturday "MICHAEL STROGOFF" philosophy, is summed up in the next, October 20th) set out in

the Coupon below. No goal scores

are required; only forecasts show-FAMOUS JULES VERNE STORY comfortable income; who cannot tell ing. wins or draws.

In the event of no reader fore. casting all twelve matches, a prize of $25 will be given to the reader who sends in the greatest number of correct forecasts; and in the event of two or more readers and 11ing in an equal high number, the

prize of $25 will be divided.

The competition is in accord- ance with the rules published in the Telegraph. during the weeks August 29-September 24,

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O. M. R. W. 16 7.17 8 15 8 ID 2

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH” FORECAST COMPETITION.

Matches to be played on Oc- tóber 29th's

DIVISION I.

گرام

Cardiff Birmingham །, Newcastle DIVISION II.

Bowling Analysis.

Homapool

Dare

56th, Coy R.. E..

Chater Road.

Sergt. Brown, c. F. K. Lee, b.

A T. Lec

Dare, b.w. b Kwan

Lieut. Kellett, h. A. T. Lee

10

Horspool, e. Anderson, b. A, T.

Lee

G

Major Playfair, b. J. L. Young

Saye...

49

Leicester

Sap. Barton, e. and b. R. Lee Lindsay not on

$

Sheffield U.

V

24

Aston Villa

Corpl. Pritchard, b. Anderson.... Gibson, c. A. T. Lee b. Anderson

Extrus

Notts. F.

0

Fulham

1-1

DIVISION II. (SOUTII),.

Totals

119

Coventry Newport

Y

Y

Bournemouth Brentford

Bowling Analysis.

DIVISION III. (NORTH),

0.

M. R. W.

Doncaster

A. T. Lec

5 34 3

Lincoln C. T

W. H. Kwan

1 32 1

3 20 1

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UNIQUE SPORT IN JAVA.

WILD EXCITEMENT AT ANNUAL BULL RACES.

Batavia, Oct. 14. The Sourabaya newspapers report that on Sunday, October 2, the great annual bull racing was held on the island of Madura and was attend-

ed by a large crowd of natives and by many Europeans who crossed over from Sourabaya especially to witness this very spectacular per- formance.

Address

Grimsby

y West Brom.

Durham Nelson

FILMED.

phrase: I'm not out here for my walkers passed the test. They health' whose ambition is to retire were first scourged with ropes and to his homeland at an early age with a then walked through the bed of coals carrying, with their hands his friends at home anything about above their heads, some sort of true Chinese culture; who knows plant. Some walked and some nothing of Chinese painting, music, ran, others started with a fine dis- baric court of the Grand Khan of ciples in an understanding of another reached the end of the bed, the fire The splendour of the semi-bar- drama, and literature-the first prin play of stoicism, but ere they Tartary, depicted in beautifully und allen people; and whose present had prevalled and they ran in real tinted colours, is one of the notable comforts are largely based upon good earnest. At the end of the settings in "Michael Strogoff," the satisfying glimpses of powerful gun- remarkable film coming to the boats lying beyond the Bund, fore bed, a ditch which had been filled Queen's Theatre next week as an-share gunboats there for quito de- with water and milk awaited them nounced by special advertisement in finite humanitarian reasons, but net and in this they cooled their this issue.

for the enforcement of privileges scorching limbs. which rightly do not exist."

That this piece of impertinence

The bizarre effects of this setting present a striking contrast to the magnificence of the Imperial Palace at Moscow of Alexander II, Czar of all the Russias in 1850, another of the scenes presented in full natural cularly

colours.

Children Carried on Shoulders.

is meant to be an affront to the One or two changed their minds whole community is evident, when they saw all that was expect. since, having painted a partied of them but they were not

odious picture of a jallowed to withdraw after having certain type of mind, which gone so far, and were conducted The story of Michael Strogoff, exists in its entirety only in cross by a priest who ran over taken from the immortal book by his own mind, he dubs it "The the bed time after time with the Jules Verne, deals with the perilous | Shanghai Mind," thereby inferring greatest unconcern. journey of a secret courier sent by that it is the mind of the greater

Some carried children over on the Car to warn his brother, the part of the members of the Shang. their shoulders. The women were Grand Duke, at Irkutsk of a Tartar hai community. Elsewhere I have allowed to walk round the edge of plot to assassinute him..

taken up the defence of Shang-the fire though even that was no The way of the courier across hal's mentality, and shown it to small undertaking having regard Siberia is held by Tartar rebels and be anything but what "0.D.R." to the intense heat which could he meets with many thrilling ad- has described it as. Here I would be felt yards away. rentines before he concludes his like to ask whether the type of

The last to pass over were those. mission.

mind depicted by him is peculiar with silver arrows passed through their bodies OB which light to Shanghai, and if not why it

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"Michael Strogoff" has been pro- diced on a mangificent scale, over should be called "the Shanghai canopies had been erected. These 6,000 players taking part. The mind." It may further be said

were greeted with still greater acclamation. surging, battle scenes are really that your wonderful and the burning of a city truly formed such an opinion of THE “RED TRIANGLE.” at night is a splendid piece of real-the mentalities at the Shanghai)

ism. Altogether the picture is one of the big achievements of the screen and should create a deep im- pression in Hongkong.

CLEVER FARCE.

AN AMUSING FILM AT THE QUEEN'S,

correspondent has

A BRIGHT OCTOBER ISSUE.

Acme-

people he can be familiar with But an extremely small circle, and one would like to know how that ex-

In the current issue of the "Red tremely small circle, presumably Triangle,' which has just been consisting of friends of his, likes issued, the authors have produced a his description of it:

very readable magazine, crammed The picture "O.D.R." paints full of material which will interest simply is not true, and the fact both Y.M.C.A. members and the that he gives publicity to such a general public. picture places him with that dis-

The activities of the Association, reputable class of newspaper cor- past, present, and future, are dealt respondents, with a few of which, with, and there are anappy articles Beginning with a cheerful riot in their living by purveying misin-of the Y. M. C. A's. interests here ning, Shanghai ja cursed, who earn which will appeal. The several sides Ja cafe to celebrate a football victory, formation and by a betrayal of are touched upon, and whether in

the new picture at the Queen's

their fellow nationala. It is time cative sphere, there is

sport, music, literature, or the eđu- Theatre to-day, "Let's Get Marri- ed," is

men of his type were muzzled, and thing to read with profit. One of farce full of lively incidenta.

since, doubtless, they are within the most interesting contributions, Adapted from the stage success,

the protection of the law and can perhaps, is an article on the Chinese "The Man From Mexico," the story not be pitched out of the com-language, with illustrations of how relates the droll adventures of a munity neck and crop, the only the characters in Chinese are built young man who is whisked off to weapon left to the community, is up on a pictorial, representation. It gaol for a wild escapade just as he social ostracism.

gives one food for thought, and has become engaged to a charm- ing girl and his amusing efforts to explain away his absence of thirty days.

When the young lady a visits the All claims must rench this office gaol, of which her father is war- not later than Wednesday followden, matters become acute and the ing the date on which the matches hero only escapes detection by drop- are played. No prize will be ning down the laundry schute, to a awarded for which a claim has not further series of comical adven

Lures.

No, 9.

Date

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Mark your envelopes "Football" on the front and write your name (without address) on the back of the envelope. ¡

Strike out the teams which you think will lose, but make no marks think will be drawn. in respect of matches which you

'been made:

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Just as a challenge to "O.D.R."might well be the means of urging and his definition of the "Shang and encouraging those who hesitate hai mind" I will ask him to name to take up, the local tongue, and its one man in Shanghai who amounts written characters, as a serious to, anything to whom his definition study. can apply. I guarantee he cannot A fine do-it.

programme has been " drawn up for the winter, and the The average Shanghai man has appeal fo all tastes assures a very more of the Chinese than can be a keen intelligence, knows far successful season.

Before sending in your coupons,

rained from compradores, boys gunboats, one would like to ask The featured players in "Let's and coolies or from dinners at how long "O.D.R." would stay in Bull-racing-or Kerapan, as it is copy the list of your forecasts. Get Married" are Richard Dix as cheap restaurants, is willing to Shanghai if that protection were called---in the favourite sport of the Compare this later with the pub-the young scapegrace, Lols Wilson

meet the Chinese half way in any: withdrawn. Madurese. In a rough and ready lished results of the matches and as his confiding sweetheart, and thing that is for the common good In any case it is time the kind way it may take place at any time if you find that you have eight or Edna May Oliver as the skittish

of both foreigners and Chinese; of thing that "O.D.R." has written either in Madurs or among any of more correct send in a claim for plaster who precipitates the second and is more than willing, provided should stop. We Shanghai resi- the numerous colonice of Madurese | the prize.

cafe riot which lands the hero in he gets a square deal (not special dents have our backs up against in East Java, But the annual race

gaol.

Lo revise what the wall. We are surrounded by meeting is a gorgeous affair at him in retaining his position. He shown for two days only, giving".R." calls obsolete sanctions, unscrupulous enemies

"Let's Get Married" will be privileges), which the animals are resplendent can lean over and urge on his beasts with harness and trappings of many by hitting them or by twisting the place to "The Tower of Lica" on although they are actually in force bent on our surrender and destruc- colours. The "march past" which taile.

Friday, and it is sure to draw large and have never been legally tion, and we cannot afford to allow Fabrogated. A large proportion any of our number of indulge in precedes the contests makes a most The races are usually conducted houses at all performances.

of Shanghai residents go in for such ill-timed criticism. It is bad imposing spectacle. For the actual in heats of two or four teams. The

making collections of some branch enough when visitors, who have, races every vestige of unnecessary bulls are eager and seem thorough-

or other of Chinese art, of study been entertained by this com equipment is removed and then ly to enjoy the sport. As soon as strength and speed of the bulls the language or some phase of munity, go away and write dis- donned again for the prize-giving. The driver mounts his footboard makes it a risky task and, as I have Chinese culture. Others show in paraging things about us, but it The method of racing is as fol- they know it is sign that the race seen myself, accidents are not in fnterest in some branch of the is ten times worse when one of lows: Two bulls yoked together will soon commence; they become frequent.. draw a vehicle which has no wheels very restive and are held in check

natural history of the country, or our own number, who draws his When the race is over the owners delight to travel to various places life, and sustenance from the com and which is shaped somewhat like with difficutly.

of the winning teams get into a de-of interest. That a large propor munity, does so, and I trust that a plough on the lines of which it It is quite beyond the capacity of lirium of joy and wildly dance betion of them look forward to the public opinion will so assert itself was no doubt designed.

the driver to restrain an excited fore their beasts to native music.day when they will retire and in such matters as to make such The driver of the team stands on team and keep them behind the A Kerapan is one of the most vehicle; in front of him is an uphold the bulle heads; and when the ever seen, and as far as I am awareontural, and is no reason for being a footboard on the tail of the starting line. Several of his friends interesting sporting events. I have settle down to a comfortable old men as O.DR. efther, sauf up

age in the homeland is only or get out. right pole with a crodebar-round signal fe given they get out of the lit lids never been seen outelle these which he twines one leg to assist way as quickly as they can. The islands.

pratigmatized as "OD.R." has done,

And na for the protection of the

¡ARTHUR DE 0. Shanghal, Oct.

who are