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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
HONGKONG WINS.
EXCITING INTERPORT BOWLS MATCH,
(Our Own Correspondents)
Shanghai, Sept. 6.. Hongkong avenged their defeat In the Interport match last year, by defenting the Shanghai Inter- port team in an exciting game played to-day by 20 shots to 19. It was a great match, followed with considerable interest throughout. At the 20th head, the score W08 19 all, and in the moa-
sure for the shot at the 21st Hongkong received the dates and an inch. A thrilling contest end- ed with loud applause for each side.
At the final head, Hongkong were lying. Malcolm, the Shanghai skip, Just failed to draw the shot with
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
LOCAL BOXING.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
-ASSOCIATION. "
The annual report of the General Committee of the Hongkong Boxing| Association for the year ended Juno 80, which has just been issued, states:
1928.
SOOTIEST TOWN IN BRITAIN.
NEWCASTLE TWICE AS DIRTY
AS LONDON.
WOMEN MEDICAL
STUDENTS.
REPLY TO HOSPITALS' BAN,
The "peaceful war" declared on To Newcastle-on-Tyne belongs those hospitals which are closing the dubious distinction of being the
It is declared to be twice as dirty:
The Tournament Account shows a profit of $660.60 and the General sootlest place in the country. Account a profit of $124.66, and the the Association in the Hongkong and as London. amount now standing to the credit of Shanghai Banking Corporation is $2,430.08.
·300 STUDENTS WIELD BATONS.
LEARNING THE ART OF CONDUCTING.
There was a wild, clashing of con their doors against women medical ductor's batons at Oxford recently, students has been carried a stage when. Dr. Adrian Boult, musical farthor by the issuing of director of the Birmingham City pamphlet by the Committee of
Women in the Service of the Orchestra, lectured on conducting These facts emerge from the re-the most influential of the women's ing the summer course in music Hospitals," representing sixteen of an orchestra to students attend.
Lake, H.M.S. Durban, won the Light Visory Committee set up by the
During the season, Stoker Percy Port, issued recently, of the Ad-associations.
Dr. Boult flow by four different The Committee makes short weight Belt by defeating Ple. Nixon, Air Ministry to investigation the work of one of the chief objections aeroplanes from Munich in order to 38th M. T. Co., and A..B. Bennett,
put forward by those opposed to give his lecture. co-education, namely, the sense One of the three observation of delicacy" felt by men medical
Ho gave a demonstration of how a conductor's baton should be Signalman Morris, H.M.S. Argus, won stations in Newcastle revealed that students. the middleweight belt outright by carbonaceous or sooty mattor de-
ILM.S. Witherington, won the Weltor atmospheric pollution.
wolght Championship by defeating Gunner Hornsey, H.M.8. Hermes.
defeating Joss Pintos da Silva, scended last year at a monthly "If men cannot bear, to recolvo wielded, and batons were served his first wood, and was not up won Portuguese Transport Pero do Alen-average rate of 2,846 metrle tons instruction in the ward or the lout to the 300 men and women at
his accond,
Grimmitt was the outstanding player on the green. At every and he was drawing beautifully: Har rison proved to be the most con- sistent player for Shanghai, though Malcolm was positively brilliant in the latter half of the game,
I
Later in the season, Marino Frazer, ILM.S. Tamar, won the Welterweight Championship by defeating Whitey Roberts, USS. Black Hawk.
quer and Stoker Morroll, HLM.S.per 38 square miles. The other class-room with women medical the lesture. Vindictivo.
two gave the mean monthly aver-students, how can they co-operate
in the intimate offices of the sick- Many of them were wielding: a go as 808 tons and 1,962 tons.
room with women nurses?" the baton for the first time in their The lowest deposit occurred at Committco asks. Rothamsted, in Hertfordshire,
lives, and when they began to boat where the mean monthly averagej "And how," it adds, "can they as time at Dr. Boult's direction many, was at the rate 360 metric tons per sure those women patients who received raps on the head and arma 38 square miles.
hositate to employ a male practi- tioner that their attitude is purely from too-enthusiastic performers. posita of sulphates, and Southport ped from the consciousness of sex?" Burnley' recorded the highest de scientific and humanitarian, strip-
Diflcult to Control, the lowest.
.
The General Committee also notice with much interest that several Naval ratings, who had been prominent in
menta.
Under the Rules of the Association
all the officials (except the President and Vice-Presidents) and the mem
bors of the General Committee retira at
Suffering from Nerves. At the commencement, the ex- contests promoted by the Association hihition was indifferent, the play-have given very good account of ers appearing to be suffering from themselver in the Service Champion nerves, but once they had warmed testifies to the high standard of boxing ships at Home this year, which up they gave a fine exhibition...
to be seen at the Association's Tourna- Hongkong started off strongly, scoring a single at the first head and then two and another single. At the fourth, Shanghai got two, but Hongkong ran away at the fifth head by claiming five, thus making their score nino to two. They went further ahead at the sixth by scoring two, aind at this point it looked as if they were going to secure a fairly easy victory. Shanghal, however, made a bril- llant recovery. They reduced the lend by one at the seventh,
Mr. John Fleming has very kindly they scored three at the eighth audited the necounts and offers him and brought the score level self for election as Honorary Auditor at eleven all at the ninth by get-of the Association, ting fivé.
A Close Fight.
From this point onward, it was a very close tussle, with Shanghai, for the most part holding the lead.
· Honkong secured two at the tenth, only to ace Shanghai bring the score level again at the thirteenth.
A Forward Policy.
Dr. Boult said that control of the with the report show that in Lon- General deposit tables issued
baton was one of tho, most difficult There is also likely to be an in- things to acquiro. don pollution, by solids occurred creasing demand for women doctors with a mean monthly average ofIn the future; it is contended by "It is impossible to pick it up in 1,367 metric tons, according to the Committed, because all politia day," he said. "You will shed as the gauge
Archbishop's Park. 864 tons at Finsbury Park. 1,549 tons Golden-lane, 1,000 tons at Kensington. 002 tons at Ravenscourt Park 841 tons at Southwark Park. 690 tons at Victoria Park, and 610 tons at Wandsworth Com- mon.
this meeting. Mr. R. M. Dyer and Mr. J. Scott Harston offer themselves for re-election as Chairman and Vice- Chairman of the Association respec- tively. Mr. J. Brook offers himself for re-election as Manager, Mr. T. G. Bennett offers himself for electlan as Hon. Secretary and Treasurer. But since 1914 there has been
gradual improvement in London atmosphere.
“GHOSTS" OF OLD STEAMSHIPS.
DECK.
One of the most interesting dis- coveries Is that, only a compara- Lively amall amount of smoke in the air will cut off the whole of the ultra-violet rays.
cal parties are committed to a for-many tears and go through as many ward policy in relation to child wei- labours as will a violinist before ha fare and
maternity clinics, obtains perfect mastery of his in-
strument. maternity hospitals, &c.
The Committee thinks that it is' "It must be practice, practice, almost a certainly that, within a practice.. Keep a stick everywhere. few years, either the system of always have one lying on my National Health Insurance will be desk, and I pick it up at all sorts extended to cover dependent wives of odd moments and fool about and children, or a National Health with it so that the handling of it Service covering these classes will becomes almost second nature. bo set up. This would lead to "Even when people come in to demand for medical advice from talk I invariably twiddle the thing many thousands of women and about in my hand. It is quite good children, and the Committee is of to do this and practise with it on. opinion that much of this demand the desk, and also on a friend, too, will be for women doctors.
sometimes," (Laughter.)
"There lias," states the report, In claiming full equality of op-
Deep Breathing Tip. "been a great increase in the portunity for women in every part Dr. Boult anid that there was quantity of coal gas consumed for of the hospital and medical Bernothing like deep breathing for heating and cooking, and this has vice, the Committe states that it making conductors feel really calm, ON a profound effect upon the amount does not do so merely as a matter collected and happy.
of sulphur emitted. Roughly of Justice to women doctors but,
Shanghai took the lead for the first BAKERY AND COW-HOUSE Ume at the twelfth head, where they were given two. Then Hong-
speaking, when gas is substituted perhaps, even more, in the in: "Besides deep breathing," he kong reduced it by one, followed by
for coal, to evolve the same amount teresis of the publle. "Where said, "I recommend walking before "One might guarantee Shanghal scoring another at the
they of heat, the sulphur produced by Issues of health or sickness, of life conducting a concert. Even if it fourteenth. The fifteenth saw long would furnish a tough contingent the gas burned is about and or death are at stake, nothing but is only a walk across the road or kong obtain a single, but then the of ghosts, those who had trod her twentieth of that which would have the best is good enough,"it is con-round the corner it has a calming visitors did not score on the next scarred decks and listened to the been produced by conl"
tended.
effect," three heads. Shanghai were lead- crash of the tumbling sens in the ing the eighteenth head by 10reeking atmosphere of her shots to 15. It looked ns If Shan-foc'sle." hai now had the game in hand, but Hongkong were not beaten by any meatis, and as Shanghai had done carlier in the game staged a won derful recovery,
If no Mr. A., G. H. Macpherson says In this introduction to "Mail and Passenger Steamships of the XIXth Century," the men who trod the decks of those curious half- ways, the steam-sailing ships, and
Hongkong Finish Strongly. Two at the nineteenth brought them within a couple of the Shang are now only a "tough contingent the diminutive paddle steamers hat scare, and they succeeded amid of ghosts," the ships themselves the greatest excitement in claiming whith trod the Beas with a new another two at the twentieth, thus found certainty of arrival and de making the score 19 all, with the final head to go.
are parture
ghosts equally "tough." The atmosphere was electric. Hongkong early laid the shot, and Their histories, related by Mr. that was the position when the Frank C. Bowen, and their ghost skipa went up. Malcolm made a pictures reproduced from the Mac- great effort to draw and only justpherson collection of maritime failed, but with his second wood prints, recently acquired for the ho was not up. The measuring natlon, are to be found in the Lape was got out, and the proceed- beautiful volume edited by Cap- ings were followed with the closest tain II. Parker. (Sampson Low, attention. The measurer'a verdict £3 J.) was that the Hongkong shot had It by an inch.
Hongkong were represented by Laing at No. 1, Grimmitt at No. 2, Brown at No. 3 and Holland Skip, The following are the detailed
scores:
Hongkong
J. Laing
Shanghai.
No. 1. N. Harrison A. W. Grimmitt No. 2. A. MeLeod. J. C Brown No. 3. H. G. Wright. A. M. Holland Skip A. A. Malcolm Head. Shots. TU. Shots Tu.
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