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“RETREAT” BY

ULSTERS

PROGRAMME FOR

TO-MORROW

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. · WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1936.

TO-NIGHT'S DEBATE ON BILLIARD TOURNEYS A POSSIBLE OXFORD COX ***CER

DAYLIGHT SAVING

AT Y.M.C.A.

The Band and Bugles of the Injecta-Daylight Saving-is to be de

The most topical of all local sub- Battalion the Royal Ulster Rifles will bated at the European Y.M.C.A. to play Retreat to-morrow (Thursday) { night. commencing at 0.15 p.m. on Murray Parade Ground. This will be Anal appearance of the Band and Bugles on the Murray Ground. The programme will be as follows:

Local Championships Now

DISCUSSED IN TERMS

Being Organised OF HEIGHT AND WEIGHT

In view of last year's success, the second annual championships of the Hongkong Amateur Billiards Α Mr. P. S. Cassidy, who will open sociation are now being organised. the discussion, will ask whether the

Entry forms have already been Hongkong really needs Daylight Sav-sent out to the publle and the ing. The meeting which starts at various clubs which are Interested. 9 o'clock, is confined to members They are reminded that the entries only of the YMCA,

close on December 20, 1930. Individuals joining the

yent, which entitles Women's Auxiliary of the Junior Cup free of charge, them to join either the Senior or

to join the Associa~ | decision.

Band und Bugles. "Les Pollus,” Bd. "Onleer of the Day,"

3. Bugles, "44th DurhamEN,"

4. Band. "Regt. Murch of

Connaught Rangers."

5. Bugles, "Austria."

d. Band. "Irish Alms."

the

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(By Conrad Skinner)

MOST people with a heart have been interested, by the picture and attendant publicity of the cheerful nipper. who is already spoken of as Oxford's possible cox for 1987. He stands 3ft. high, weighs 3st. 181b., and looks as bright and jolly as they make them. Everybody will wish him, and Oxford, good luck if the matter comes to a favourable

John D. map is $3 and the Juniori the apparent resurgence of the old

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and a typical cox at something round 120lb., the total dead weight of 1,920lb. is going to undergo a saving of 60lb, owing to the poten- tial treasure Oxford has unearthed --a saving of one pound in every thirty-two.

The entrance fee for the Senior I am, however, more, interested in

weight bogey, and I should like to discuss the Inatter theoretically, without any reference to the gifts H. P. Massey (of Balllo!), whom. 1 have not yet had the pleasure of and personality of the winsome Mr.

If speed were going to vary pre- meeting. I shall do no more then clsely in inverse ratio to dend than dispassionately use his measure-weight (that is, if the extra 60lb, of ments and weight, trusting that he dead weight were going to be so dis- will grant me that much llcence. posed as to increase in exact propor- First, then, here is a candidate four ton the air and water-resistance, brakes on speed of any given crew) to five stone short at the normal cox- which consitute the chief known we should expect a speed-increase roughly equivalent to the sald frac tion, or some 700ft, from Putney 10 Mortlake-approximately 11 lengths, in fact.

At a meeting of the Hongkong

College on December 17 at 5.18 p.m.

Teachers' Association at St. Joseph'sing weight, and that invites a crude by generously contributed to the various

stalls, and to the Press. European Dr. Hargreaves will, lecture on "The sum in mathematics, "ant

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Taking a good average crew al 1.400lb, boat and oars at 400lb..

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But although my mathematics will not rise to n true assessment, I am aware that it would amount to noth- ing like so much as that. The addi-. tion of 6Gib. to Mr. Massey would not increase water-resistance in

that precise proportion, whilst the air- resistance of any coxswain At olt

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order to minimise the liability to roll. For this reason they sank my sent nearly to the keel of the boat in 1012 a scheme which defeated its pur- post. My useful inches—consider- able for a cox-had given me nor- mally the advantage of easy vision over the heads of the crew they "scissored" and I lost that by being lowered, having to get my view first on one side and then on the other. This tended to produce boat-osellla- tton, the very thing to prevent which my sent had been sunk!

If Mr. Massey, Is so short that he has to be perched on cushions, as I read, in order that be may see where he is going, up goes his centre of gravity, and one of the advantages of his size forthwith vanishes in this in- creased liability to roll the boat.

The precise saving in speed hand- сар

which may be involved in the reducing of coxswain-weight I can- not estimate. Let us suppose, how- ever, for the sake or argument, that by making up crew of eight and n half men, instead of nine, we are going to ve six lengths. Of what value is that if we choose for this purpose a cox who, by reason of short stature, cannot see adequately before him, or one selected simply for lack of weight and then trained. on to be a cox in the hope that genius may spontaneously sprout within him?

Surely, primary account should be

made of the positive gifts which go to make a helmsman and crew- controller.

A man may be worth 6-lengths for- his lack of dead-weight, but he may lose the six lengths quite easily, even before Hammersimth and none but an expert the wiser-if he has not the fair for tide and channel- understanding, and the capacity to judge when, and when not, to pull his strings this way or that,

He should be the kind of man in whose experience and coolness.n crew can wholly trust and to whem Stroke dures to leave the responɛl- bilty of advising on the kaleidoscopie panorama of the race, with its mo- mentous decision to spurt here or hang on there, the man who will know, when it arrives, that here and now is the unique opportunity crock the enemy with a double ten and steer Into the favouring water ahead of him.

to

Whilst I think it was rash and ill- advised of a president once to offer to take a certain cox up to ten stone a very flattering moment for him, of course I do think that mere weight is discredited as a decisive factor. On the other hand I do also think that the obsession may have a psychological effect on a crew,

For this reason, all against my will and belief, I did train down by seven pounds in 1912, but I was anything but completely fit for my Job after it.

Anyhow, it was disheartening that that should be the year when we shipped 14 tons of water between Putney and Hammersmith to render vala my sacrificel

Mr. Massey may prove to have all the gifts, save inches, that the ideal cox should have. It is, at any rate, on the possession of some at least of these positive factors that the deel- sion should turn.

SPORT ADVTS.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

The Thirteenth Extra Raca Mooting will be hold (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Saturday, 19th December, 1936, commencing at 2.00 p.m.

The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.

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