FOOTBALL NOTES.
BY QUIDNUNG.
4th December. The followingis a table of results of games played during the week. I wish to make this table a regular feature of these notes and I - hope secretaries of teams will assist me to keep it correct and complete by forwarding the re. sults of the matches in which their teams take part.
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ASSOCIATION.
Monday, Nov. 27th
Hongkong F.C., 3 goals, A Co. R.W.F. nil H.M.S. Barfleur 2 goals, 25th S.D., R. A. I goal
Wednesday, Nov. 29th
H.K. F.C., A team 1 goal; Fame, Whiting I goal
Saturday. Dec. 2nd
Hongkong F.C. 2 goals, H.M.S. Barfleur nil. Engineers Institute F.C. nil, Royal En-
gineers Rec, Clab nil,
RUGBY.
Thursday, Nov. 30th
Hongkong F.C. 5 goals 18 points, Royal Navy
1 try=3 points
All interested in the Association game in the colony will be sorry that the Barfleur team will not be competing in the Shield ties. It is a good team, and good teams are not plentiful bere; also, as the Victorious will not be here to compete, the naval element will be altogether wanting in the competition, so the occurrence is rendered particularly unfortunate A good many, including myself, would have been pleas ed if the Shield Committee's decision had been other than it is, but for all that there is no dis. puting the justice of that decision. The Bar. fleur team's own carelessness is the cause of their misfortune and the Shield Committee's firmness on this occasion will doubtless save much dis- pute in the future. The naval representative on the Shield Committee might have put in the entry. I see it is stated that there was a simil- ar case with the R.E. in the first year of this competition, but this must be a mistake. The Shield has been won three times and the Royal Engineers have competed on each occasion, so probably the incident referred to occurred during the season of the Cup competi- tion, before the existence of the Shiel l.
In their match with the Hongkong Football Club last Monday A Co. R.W.F. were aufort- anate in having to play a part of the game with three substitutes. During the second portion of the game they had quite as much of the play as the Club and taken altogether they were better than the score against them would in- dicate. Still, they were not so good as I had been led to expect. The Club defence on this occasion was very "4
rocky." Hay is not yet good enough for the first eleven. He requires plenty of practice with the A team, until he acquires experience and accuracy in kicking. In the meanwhile, as remarked elsewhere, Pinckney cannot be spared
All that I have to say about the A team's game on Wednesday is that they are showing improvement in play though not in appearance. They still make a bad imitation of a rainbow. Why they should not appear in white shirts like their first team is not at all appareat to me. The Rugby match, Club versus Navy, on Thursday was an excellent contest and attracted a large number of spectators. The game how ever, has already been reported in these columns. Saturday's Association game, Hongkong Foot- ball Club versus H.M.S. Burfleur, I give a special report on.
The polo ponies spoil the turf at Cause way Bay and the soil they turn up when. ever there is much rain becomes mud. In consequence, the rain on Saturday, which only deteriorated the game on the Hong- kong Club's ground, utterly spoilt the match at Causeway Bay. The encounter between the Engineers Institute and Royal Engineers de- veloped simply into mudlarking. No goals were scored by either side and some idea may be formed of the nature of the game when it is stated that neither goalkeeper had a shot to stop throughout.
The match arranged between the V.R.C. and H. Co. B.W.F. was put off on account of the rain and was re-arranged for Wednesday at 430
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
CRICKET,
H.K.0.0. V. THE NAVY.
This matob was commenced on Saturday, but had to be abandoned in the afternoon on account of the rain, when the scores stood as follows:-
THE CLUB.
K. W. Mounssy, b Paul Langhorne, o sub, b Franklin T. J. Wild, o Moreton, b Strong A. G. Ward, run out
28
4
14
Lieut. Johnson, R.W.F., b Elliott Rev. G. R. Vailings, b Elliott
23
A. Mackensie, o Wood, b Tuck.. Lieut. Hill, b Paul
40
2
A. Woodgate, o Strong, b Elliott Major Buttenshaw, not out
24
10
Dr. Atkinson, o Strong, b Elliott
Extras
Total
0
13
.170
THE NAY
Mr. E., Smith, not out
.18
Mr. Franklin, o Wild, b Mackenzie.
8
Dr. Tack, b Woodgate
25
Lieut. Strong, b Woodgate
0
24
Lieut. Wood, not out
Extras
Total for 3 wickets
80
THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
BEST SCORE POOL FOR NOVEMBER,
There were 11 entries during the month and 7 down rec: 9 strokes H. L. Dalrymple ... 10. CAPTAIN'S CUP AND SILVER MEDAL FOR DECEMBER.
the following returns sent in. Mr. E. A. Ram...
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If
量管
Owing to heavy rain during the early part of the meeting the entries were not as numerous aa usual, but some fair cards were returned.
CAPTAIN'S CUP.
Lient. Field, R.N......
97 14 83. Major Luke, R.M, L.I
95 11 84 Mr. G. Stewart
88 4.84 Comd. Davison, R.N.
103 13 90 Lieut. Rotherham, R.W.F.... 103 13 90 Dr. J. Ball
112 16 96 17 entries.
POOL.
;
Above members made same returns for the
Pool as well as
Mr. J. H. T. MoMurtrie Mr. H. D. Dalrymple
88 0 88 103 11 92
10 entries.
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THE TRANSVAAL WAR.
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TO T.LE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS.
SIB,-Io your able leader of the 1st instant. quoting from the London Times, you remark that the Boers had been arming for years, and that it could only have been directed against Us. But surely there is nothing strange in the fact that they, in common with all other nations, should have armed to protect themselves against any possible, and in one case, very probable on- emy. The idea that their object was to drive as out of Africa is a very far-fetched one, and probably no more true than that everybody would like to do the same to everybody else every- where if they got the chauce. As to the asser- tion that few Britishers dispute the justice of the war, I am inclined to think that you are somewhat mistaken on this point, and that there are many who are not blinded by race prejudice who consider it one of the most unjust and iniqui- tous wars ever waged, and if a plebiscite had been taken the war would probably have never come off. But given a statesman eager for present power and future glory-(or shame!)—a cap: italist class mad with the lust of gold, and a barbarian populace, and it is not dimeult to get up a war. It was remarked by a certain paper recently that all killed in this war should have for an epitaph "Butchered to make a Rhodesian dividend," for it is for the “root of all evil" that men are slaughtering one another to-day in the Transvaal, the only pity of it being that those who make the wars stand no chance of being called upon to fight them, in England,
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as they would be in some other countries Europe.—Yours truly,
VERITAS.
Hongkong, 2nd December, 1899.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ·DAILY PRESS,”
Sir.-Will you kindly allow me a few lines to reply to your leader of the 4th in reply to mine of the 2nd re the Transvaal War.
No doubt there is much truth in your argu- ments; but it is only one side of the question There is at least as much to be said on the other side. Equal voting rights would have meant the subversion of the Transvaal as completely as by conquest. Let anyone read the history: of our recent dealings with this state, as 30 ably set forth by Mr. Stead in the October Review of Reviews, and unless he is a Jingo, or a rampant Imperialist, 1 fail to see how he could form very high conception of the political morality which led up to the war, a policy which, to quote the above gifted writer, "if it had been promoted by pirates with no other object than plunder, the only difference would have been that the pirate would not have said his prayers or masked his greed for plunder in the ostentations garb of the Phar- isee." It requires a pretty strong faith in human- ity to believe that were there no gold fields in the Transvaal millions of money would be spent, and thousands of lives saorificed merely for the sake of a wretched lot of Outlanders, the ma
jority of whom, I believe, are not even British; and perhaps you will forgive me, Mr. Editor, for saying that I doubt whether you, or any of your readers who look below the more super- ficiality of things, conscientiously believe it, al- thongh, of course, it is natural in this virtuous and sensitive age, that we should endeavour to persuade ourselves that everything is just and proper, otherwise we should not accomplish our ends and satisfy both our pockets and our son- science at the same time..
However, should this war, by some obance, lead up to conscription, there will be something gained besides gold, and those who make the wars in future will have to do some. thing more than merely sit with thumbs up or thumbs down as spectators of the combat,;; Yours truly,
VERITAS.
Hongkong, 5th December 1899.
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