1934-11-08 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH.

"Veritas" Replies To Critics

(Continued from Page 8).

The plea is put forward (officially and by the correspondents) that it li Impossible for a club to guarantee the Impeccable behaviour of its players I agree most heartily. But has the committee demanded

such any guarantee? I don't think so. It asks that the club shall do ità utmost to sec that their players do nothing to cause them being sent off the fold.

NOT DEFENDING THE

ASSOCIATION.

Actually my suggestion was quite Ifferent. I put forward the pr. osition that it seemed the Youn. ndians had not learnt the lessons o uspension last year, seeing the

within a month of restarting football, ney wore again before the emergenc, .ommittee.

Until any new facts concerning this .380 are proved I shall stick by my iginal articit, for it is based, not on what I heard second hand, but on 1 omcial letter from the Young udlans. The veracity of my artlelo 03 not yet been officially denied, and

critica

may disagreó sua cau cunclusions drawn therein, I

although my

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, · 1904.

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Y.M.C.A. TURN DOWN MOTION

Many interesting points were raised at the European Y.M.C.A. last night, when a debate of great current interest was held. The motion before the house, "that international sporting contests are imperilling international friendship," was defeated by a narrow margin.

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May I here any that I do not mysis no reason to amend anything, ex entirely agree with the committee'

spl merely to reiterate a hope, ex- decisions over this matter, and at n

ressed all in good will in the original Now It not enough merely to be stage have I stood as defender of this

article, that, the Young Indians will incurred in an "incident" to merit the Association

ot mako basty decisions, but will regarding them. But extremo penalty of being sent off the knowing the futility of taking such

econsider the whole question in its fold, and consequently "put on the | drastic steps as withdrawing from the

roper light. carpet" before the Emergency Con-eague, and realising that the Young mittee; and a passive victim of an indians have the means of securing y treated, by all means make an If they feel they are being unfair. attack by another player cannot be re-hearing if they adept proper con appeal. That at least can be guar-assisted by Mr. E. IL Price, while ought to think that international The proposer was Mr. 8. A. Gray, motion and to show cause why they so harshly treated. The committee's stitutional methods, I have, and will intesd fair hearing. But these per- for the opposition was Dr. E. I Allen, sporting contests were not imperiiling warning applics quite obviously to a continue, to protest against such ann.ptory withdrawals are unually supported by Mr. S. Dinsdale. Mr. international friendships. The case where a Young Indian is sent off action and attitutie na they adopted highly ineffective in result, and tooT. J. Price presided over the function, cond was to "unninak" Mr. Gray and the fold, and he can't be sent off un- I must emphasise something which often become reactionary.

in proposing the motion, Mr. Gray to show why controversies had arisen Jess ho has done something to was apparently not made sufficiently

Bald that ten years ago, it would have in international sport. deserve it.

clear in my original article. I am

boon laughed at, providing as it would The speaker claimed that rivalry essential aim and ideal of inter-nry but also a vital element in human have done, a direct negative to the between nationa was not only a neeca. national sporting contests However, life.

a spur to bunian: nation-wide or world-wide proper nations, they must have rivalry, he like most movements which reached endeavour. As long as there

characteristic. tions, it had developed a reactionary submitted.

I am accused of alleging, or at not attacking the Young Indians as least inferring that this warning to the Young Indians. To me they are meeting of the Chinese Chamber of It was announced at the monthly the Young Indians was bacil largely Just a football team. I am not even Commerce yesterday afternoon that on the bad recurd of the club. the correspondents have failed to add, record." I am attacking what is un-establishment of the Chamber wil be What concerned about any past "dark the twenty-second anniversary of the but what added, was that the club doubtedly an unconstitutional act, and culebrated on in its official letter admitted this I would do the same no matter what tea party and reception to members November 22 with a record.

elub had been guilty of such an action. and their friends.

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Tracing the trend of International Dr. Allen further submitted that sport, he described the world of 1918 International sporting contents which was groping for 'a common themselves did tend to draw nationa denomination by which a more solid closer together. If they saw another structure of .pence could be bailt, nation putting into an athletic field a Under the conditions prevailing a. team capable of beating anything the time, it was not unnatural that they themselves could bring against most of the countries should, turn to them, they were then prepared to sport to provide this new cementa-look upon that nation s An equal. tion of International friendship and It was necessary and better for goodwill.

nations to prove their worth in the football field, in the boxing rings, and on the tennis courts than in question. able means.

CONFIDENCE IN CREED. So firmly convinced was everybody that in international sporting matches lay the path of true world peace that The speaker instanced the caso of social reformers, ministers of the "Ranji." who was the idol of every church, politicians and Journalists English school-boy. In his young days. rane in a body to announce their The fact that "Rani" was an Indian. sublime confidence in the creed. The did not matter at all; it was his pro- bellef in the power of the new move-wess with the cricket bat that was ment amounted almost to fanaticism, Important. Frenchmen had carried and despite the disillusionments of the off innunierable prizes from Wimble- last decade, a large number of people den, but it did not prevent the were still clinging to it.

English crowds from admiring the

to

Unfortunately, the speaker went French nation. In China, he had seen on, that from which so much was ex-trouble being smoothed over by sim- pected, very little of benefit had ply sending a team of sailors ashore. come. The Intense rivalry between to play football with the populace. the nations and the desire of Japan might be anxious to show the participants achlove in that she was an equal to other na- dividual faino were contributory tions. Sho showed it by military an- factors to the fallure of the aim, he nexation, but she also sent her ath- said.

letes to other countries to show her Although this began to manifest worth in the fold of sport. itself nearly ten years ago, the gener al public did not begin to appreciate the development until 1932 when tho

CONTROVERSIES EXAGGERATED.

World Olympics, the first big inter- Dr. Allen contended that the con- national sports meeting since 1028,

were held at Los Angeles. At that troversies quoted by Mr. Gray had meeting, all tho bitterness which been grossly exaggerated by every. could only be generated when sports body. It was a case of making a specialists came into opposition, was mountain out of a mole-hill. A thou manifest. There were free

sand couples happily married would fights,

receive no attention at all by the disputed results, water polo teams Press, but if only one of this 1,000 leaving the swimming batha дв couplex went to the Divorce Court, gestures of protest against oficial rulings, Bickerings

the Press would be shouting it out word common with shrilking headlines. They would among the teams, and there were nover hear anything about a thousand reactions of intense nationalism among plance crossing the Channel safely, the general public. The World but. If ono were to meet with an ac- Olympics of 1932 were made niemorcident, everybody would know about able by two things the number of it in a short time. new athletic records established and

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the loss of faith, goodwill and friend- not arouse hatred, jealousy and ill-

Sporting contents, he continued, did ship between the loading, nations of will between the nations. The trou- the world.

ble generally was that the ill-will was TEST MATCH CONTROVERSYĮ

nirealy thore when the contests wore Hurd upon the Los Angeles Incident was picked out and magni- hold, with the result that every_tiny_ aquabbles camo the Test match con-fied. troversy, which had put a mother country and one of her most valued|

Dealing

tho with

dominions at loggerhoads, ever since. era Games, the speaker said

Far East-

the hostility between The rights and wrongs of the con-

China and troversy were not of great purport to Japan was not the outcome of the the discussion, but the effect of the brought to the Games and certainly Games. The initial hostility was "misunderstanding" was of paramount not the outcome of them. Importance,

The speaker then quoted London spoke, after which several membera Messrs. Price and Dinsdale also pressmen's experiences to strengthen of the audience voiced their views his nrgument, and drew attention to on the subject, the Intrusion of political influences

Contrary to the impression given

in the Far Eastern Olympics of 1934. by the views of the audience, the The unfortunate episodes of the voting resulted in the defeat of the Games and the constant bickering motion by a narrow margin, between the competing nations finally

led to the disbandment of the Far

Eastern Olympica Federation.

After commenting on the recent

In a friendly hockey match `played. America's Cup contest, Mr. Gray said at King's Pork yesterday afternoon, that from all these squabblen one was the Hongkong Hockey Club mentors forced to the conclusion that aport defeated the South Wales Borderers had been made too important a factor by one goal to nil. The point was In national and international life. obtained in the first half through A. The present position appeared to be T. Lay, who scored with a fast rising that the public, and not the selected shot from a pars from N. A, E athletes and players, were the par- Mackay on the right wing. ticipants.

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