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THE FILM SUCCESSES

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ALSO

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SWEDE

AND

LEATHERETTE

MONDAY, Nov. 18, 1935.

By

S. A. GRAY,

Sports

Editor of

the

"Hongkong Telegraph"

question to be flung at the Englishman 10 the Englishman at home the all-important returned from abroad is: "What impresses you about the Old Country?"

This is not to be regarded as an invitation to express an honest opinion or criticism. whether constructive or caust'e.

The motive of the question is to obtain a lyrical culogy of the country, people, government, mode of living, idiosyn- crasics and so forth, for, as Renler points out in his delicious contribu- tion to modern literature the Englishman is already convinced that the English are Best.

An

be in the WORLD

REATEST The WORLDS Football LARGEST POOL ORGANISATION Nothing Barred DIVIDENDS PENNY The GREATEST

ALREADY PAID THIS SEASON

POOLI (B RESULTS).

POOLS

that COUNT POINTS POOL

POOL 2 (10 RESULTS)

2270 3 DIVIDENDS

1675

POOLS (4AWAYS) ·

4650

POOL 6 ( ǝ DRAWS)

12 Matches only

SOME

ALREADY PAID THIS SEASON AUG.

PENNY POOL DIVIDENDS

SEPT

42504414

from

But being unaware of the ulterior motive behind the ques tion, and having, in fact, gained cortain impressions, I replied, adver "Football pools and pontoons, tisement Belisha Beacons, unintelligent a London evening pedestrians, simple but sublime newspaper.

SEPT.

SEPT.

£1505 for l £555 for

3 £1346 for!"

$28£965 for

faith in the National Govern- ball season subjugate news ment, improved transport, bel- of the day to make room ter street lighting, atrocious for Up-To-The-Minute Pon- licensing laws, and garden toon Tables, and their posters cities. But above all, football have little space for world

events, no matter how i'm pools and pontoons."

Usually the posters portant.

Pontoon read "Full Scores and Tables."

*

After the game O v. ory second per-

son purchas..

ed an evening

· paper contain-

ing the com- plete results, and then produc- ed duplicate cou- pons from

their

pockets (in most cases crumpled and Boiled, but still legible). Bumping into one. an- other no they plodded along the streets, they

checked up on their fore- casts.

As this was going on in Lon- don, the same thing was happen- ing in Manchester. Livepool, Leeds, Hastings, Torquay: from John O'Groats to Lands End. It is the Englishman's Satur- day Soccer Ritual.

it is To me it made one thing palpa-

1 tried to figure out why this game of chance-for nothing more should have such

A NEW INDUSTRY More than commercial possi- FOOTBALL pools, the lay man's ingenious retort to the bilities, great as these will be, legal ban on other types of foot-

ΠΟΥ The Man-In-The-Street snat- are involved in the opening of ball competitions, have the big petrol-from-coal plant invaded something like 70 per ches at the evening paper, not cent, of the homes in England. because of his urgent desire to erected in England by Imperial Promoters of the pools are buy- discover whether Ethiopia has Chemical Industries, Ltd., re-ing as much advertising space surrendered to Italy, or to be able to develop to such pro- football. It is impossible to,

SPORTS JACKETS

FOR

GIRLS & BOYS

IN

VARIOUS STYLES

AND COLOURS

FROM

$675

NOW SHOWING AT

news-

secure

bly clear. The nation-wide a wide appeal. Why it should appeal of this gamble depends largely on its association with

cently. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in the leading daily

on portions as to allow syndicates imagine thousands of people all' în performing the opening paper

as the huge multiple follow the Geneva debate

the and private individuals to ravel over the country crashing into and trading the part stores

con- Sanctions, but to ceremony, stressed

And in the most remunerative form one another in the streets as complete football results. which might be played by the cerns. London newspaper every dozens can be seen walking of fortune-making outside of they study the result of last

about the streets checking up selling non-existent gold mines. week's cross-word competition! their football pool coupons.

But it also seemed to em- Was it because of an innate phasise another point-that Or partly whereas before the playing and gambling spirit?

watching of football stimulated because it is associated with a

an interest in forecasting.com.

home manufacture of oil in the defence of Great Britain. He stated that a command of oil

Saturday

during the

was essential to British defence, NOTES OF THE DAY

tween Canada

and the

term

+

+

'this pastime there can be nɔ

it might take,

Iri the meantime it can be noted that the Arsenal lost home and thereby destroyed my 3,000 to 1 chance!

The Very Idea!

EXES FOR HIS EX. Kelly Will Be A Reception Committee On His Own

By Ed. Kelly, Receptionist

Mr. Edward Kelly, the local entertainment expert, is frankly in censed at the fact that he has not been asked to become a member of the Reception Commilies to the

Meet any fellow on a Satur- day evening and one of his first questions is. "Any luck with the and, in referring to the increased

Pool?" Women are partici- national sport? Or because of petitions, the gambling in- the employment which

new TRUMPS FOR TRADE plant would give, he pointed out

Mr. Mackenzie King, Canada's pating in this weekly sporting its attractive stakes (which per- fluence, encouraged by nowk-

gamble as avidly as the men. i that a thousand men would be new Prime Minister, or rather met more than one who weekly mit as small a sum of one penny paper propaganda, is slowly immediately employed, with Prime Minister back in an office lays out ten shillings, hoping for to be invested, thereby brining becoming the predominant fac the tor, and is to-day enjoying the questionable. distinction another thousand on other re- he filled with some distinction five a return of anything up to £500. it within reach of even

unemployed? Or was it even stimulating an artificial interest quirements, whilst the plant's years ago, has started his

It was IE industry behind the or- the Englishman's reaction to the in football as a sport. consumption of 60,000 tons of with a burst of energy.

One hesitates to suggest coal a year would mean work to be expected that the Litgral_ganisation and operation of legal ban on sweepstakes? For

One there is no doubt about it that whether there will be any reac for two thousand miners. It is Government, free traders always, these pools is enormous. of interest to note that the plant in policy if not in practice, would firm of printers and lithograph the football pool has become tion to all this, or what fortn is the first in the world to make take steps to demolish the tariffers in Edinburgh alone turns very nearly as profitable an in- petrol on a commercial scale by wall which has been erect:d be-out no less than eleven million vestment as the big race sweep- United Coupons each week, And this stakes, and is equally as popular.

colossal figure represents only the hydrogenation of bituminous States in the past few years; but the Scottish type of coupon coal. A valuable future for even the most sanguine tariff re- which in many respects is dia- F the nation-wide uppeal in home-produced petrol is envis-

visionista acarcely expected the tinct from that of the English aged by the great combine which reciprocal trade treaty to be af- concerns. Literally millions of question. The very odds which has entered upon this venture. fected before the first session of coupons are used throughout the are paid out each week--some-

lithographed At present, Britain is dependent Parlament was summoned. For British Isles each week. They times as much as 3,000 to 1—is or a sufficient barometer: futher on supplies from overseas, and is one thing América did not appear are either

to want it. Nevertheless it has printed on machines which issue more, it is highly improbable at the rate of 100,000 copies an that London daily newspapera very likely to remain so for a

hour. Hundreds of clerks, would devote so much space to considerable time. The con-been accomplished. As a matter sumption of petrol in a modern of fact, Mr. Mackenzie King, only chiefly girls, are employed in the "assisting competitors unle

the administration of these pools, there was a very big public de State is enormous and ever. completed the work which

previous Government, led by Mr. and the remarkably high stand- mand. increasing. But dependence on R. B. Bennett, started. But it ard of efficiency and masterly Nevertheless, if through these the oil tanker would inevitably was fitting that Liberals, always organisation behind these con- pools the Englishman is giving be a source of grave national the champions of reciprocity in cerns can be better appreciated expression purely to his love of weakness in time of war, and it Canada, should be the party to when it is revealed that spon- gambling, that love has been radio stations such as stupendously developed during is therefore desirable that the perfect the machinery to extend sored

Luxembourg and Paris actually the last year or two. Popular We intercourse. nation should, as far as possible, commercial

new Governor. the dividends to be opinion hitherto has been that be able to fend for itself should rather think that the ringing paid out to winners two hours the Englishman, compared with

chorus of some American politic-

the football results are other people. the oceanic life-lines be at any ans,

and especially who have claimed a large after

Orientals, is somewhat dis- time severed. Besides this, and measure of what credit in due for known.

interested in gambling. or giving extra point to this latest the treaty, are somewhat out of

ALTHOUGH throughout the that, at any rate it has never enterprise, is the necessity for tune when it is remembered that

Che treaty

alA was originally

British Isles there are dozens been an outstanding character- finding now uses for coal. Canadian "baby" and was literal- Britain's subterranean riches, ly crammed down the throats of of concerns in competition, they istic. which contributed so greatly to section of politics on both sides also work, to a certain extent. the industrial rise of the nation, the other day that we read a des-only safeguard against

of the task of entertaining the are now more or less a drag on patch from Washington,, quoting debts. In order to circumvent the the murket. It was a great con- an American official, who said, in law (and thereby proving be- ces or influences to account new Governor on his arrival.

for this phenomenal growth of All we want is a bit of cash to effect, that the example, set to the yond all reasonable doubt the ception to transmute coal into rest of the world by the United truth of the adage that the Law interest in such a pursuit. A do the thing in style. Let us

to Highbury, where the explain our schedule. oil. The process is vast and ex- States and Canada in achieving it is an Ass), the competitor must Arsenal were playing Manches- First of all, the landing. No need pensive, and the product would feast partial reciprocity, might be not send any money with his followed advantageously by other cost more than imported petrol, fans. It seems that this of forecasts. But if one fails to ter City, seemed to suggest one for salutes from the forts and war

that his win on that coupon, the stated were gathered in that ground

Sixty thousand people ships, or any but a preferential duty bridges fcial has forgotten the gap and creates a "business Government led the way in build-amount invested. has, to be sent with the interest of one and all off Repulse Bay and we can then both

Laritr the following week. Thus is proposition." The probability ing up enormously high is not only that production will walls and effectually throttling gambling made legal in Eng-centred completely on the game travel to Hongkong in on then both Then, as vided the Gov. stands his reasonable scores from other grounds were whack of the shouting, this shouldn't steadily increase, until a sub-trade between Canada and Ameri-land.

ca after 1929, and between tho stantial proportion of Britain's United States and the rest of the THERE is, of course, the dan- tion ran rife as to the probable than fifty or sixty bucks at the pro- flashed on the bourd, specula- cost the Hongkong Government more petrol consumption is supplied world, to a large extent. Wo

disappointed outcome of forecasts made in from native resources, but also suggest that far from setting an punter refusing to send along the football pools. that the price will be reduced. example, the United States has his stakes the following week, What has been done so far is learned a costly lesson in econ- especially as he is under no legal * One young fellow sitting close only a beginning. This "fairyomics, and that in order to save tale of science" may stride with its own commercial skin it has obligation. To deal with such by, whose earlier conversation seven-league boots through the elected to trump tariffs with a an eventuality the various con- clearly indicated that he was in generations. It is a new:in. reciprocal trale treaty in order to cerns supply each other with out-and-out Sheffield Wednes-well, and should be able to get dustry that leads the world. It correct a policy which has been black lists, so that the punter day, partisan, forgot his di Singapore gin sling or two before poved mistaken. The "example" who has failed to meet obliga appointment at his favourites proceeding up the road to the Hong has possibilities of indefinite with respect to fres trade, If we tions to one firm finds himself being two goals in arrears in kong Hotel. If we spend a couple of

here. It will leave us plenty

t expansion. It is for such in- are not mistaken, was set a num barred by all the others and can the happiness that his footballme to go up the Peak, where we dustries that, with anxious ber of years ago by a very com- do no more pool gambling until pool was working out the right propose spending the_night" at the insistence, the nation calls. petent gentleman of England.” he has honoured his debts.

way!

(Continued on-Page 5.).

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

CHILDREN'S DEPT..

announce

there must be some other

of the boundary line. It was only in co-operation. This is their IF popular opinion is right,

ger of the

bad

visit

answer.

-until half-time.

Stricken with compassion for Str Andrew Caldecott, Bir. Kelly has decided to write to the new Gover nor and ask him to jump overboard from his ship at Lycmoon and swim ashore rather than be met by all those bigwign on Dlake Pier.

Mr. Kelly's ideas about entertain- ing the Governor are simple hut

triking. They follow:

Whave decided to relieve

Official Reception party

excitement on Blake

It is our idea to land the Governor

Pier.

Rent

rate of

That fixes By now the Governor will have learnt to sign his name, so

so we'll be

be able to chit up a Hotel car at Repulse Bay to bring us into town. Coming into town first step will be at the Gloucester,

our

where we know the Manager pretty