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between the Club's lat XV and the Navy. Few better played games have been seen of late in Hongkong! The Club team his distinctly advanced on its standard of 1901-02. A mest marked improvement has occurred in the three- | quarter line, which was very poor last year.
A better man in this position than Graham could not well be wished for. Pearcy, who is a more showy player, is also a tower of strength,.bat a little selfish. Jordau and Stephens on Saturday made plenty of openings for the men beh nd them, and with a goud lot of forwards and a safe back the Rugby team looks as good as any we have seer here for some time.
The reported hitch in the join! Regatta arrangements appears to have been smoothed over-if it over oxisted-and I hear that all arrangements have been completed amicably. A challenge has been sent to the English crew practising for the International, and this will occasion à prelimin.ry race between two | English crews to-day at 4 p.m. When I say English I am not quito correct, for Humphreys, who, until it was abandoned, stood for the Welsh crew, is in the challenging crew. How this inconsistency has been got round is not quite clear. However, the probable reason of the challenge looks to be not an honest wish to enter the best possible English crew, but to further some individual interests. All the crews at the Boat Club begin to show improvement, but the absence of so many of the rowing members of the Club is making itself felt, and it is found imposs ble to raise sufficient men to comp'y with the condition attaching to the Lusitano Cup, viz., that at least four crows must enter; and so the Boat Club has not entered for this race.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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work has been done yet, at all events by the walers, but no doubt some of the forward ones will be sent along in the course of the next week or two. The big race of the Meeting seems quite an open affair, and opinions vary con siderably as to who is the owner of the lucky As far as I can gather. Colonel Ingkos's (late Major Denny's) Brilliant is the most fancied, and rot a bad selection e:ther, for the animal has plenty of substance and is a com- paci, strong little horse and reems to move very true.
I believe quite a big figure was given on the tran-fer of ownership, which shows that there are people who are not afraid of paying for a good horse in the Colony, and I wish Col. Hughes good luck in his birgain.
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Major Langlands kns a nice brown mare, with a lot of qualtity, and must be in the first flight, | Mr. Rennie owns a bay mar which does her work very qu'etly and well and seems to be | improving us fast cs is 1ossible: she is One to be reckoned with. Mr. Master has been very unlucky, as two in his stable have been on the sick list for
some time now, and both of them were well forward in condition when they gave up work. I am sure everyone hopes that such a keen sports man may be able to bring them out again shortly. Mr. Master has another in his stable which belongs to Mr. Morgan Phillips, but although I believe she is spoken
of 88 “a possible." I can't fancy her, as she is all abroad when she gallops ard doesn't seem to go at all kindly, besides which she lacks quality, which can't be dispensed with altogether. Yr Huuler of the lank has a very nice-looking pony, and may turn out another Bay Ro, ald little and good. General Gascoigne's last year's The conditions attached to the inter-clublu k has not stuck to him this year: Int Mr. challenge race are raising som discussion. It Cruickshank has had a lot of practice in bring- | seems that last year the V.R.C. challenged the ing them to the pos', and the General still has B.C. to row in their Regatta in a ince to be Tey, who is looking wonderfully well and is in called the Challenge Race, each club to enter charge of the same gentleman, so that with last two crews: this was acordingly done, and the year's Derby winner and his own grey mire Mr. two crews put in ly the Boat Club rowel home Cruickshank should ace nut for some of the a long way in front of their adversaries, bat so races not confiued to griffies. Among the nearly equal that only a length divided them. China polis I fancy Mr. Ballech's to be as good This was of course a substantial victory, but what a sort as most of them and Messrs. Lewis and would be the verdict if one club were to put in White's combination stable is undoubtedly a one crew so good that it wins and the other streng one. Mr. Morris works very hard at so bad that it is last of all? Surely there can his pair, and they are coming along nicely and be no point in entering two crews from each club Mr. MacDonald's slit-ea:ed ene looks as if he unless an average of the times is taken and might do anything. victory awarded to the best average. There is a crew composed of R.G.A. men in pr etice, but as they put their work in earlier than the other crews I have only been able to catch glimpses of them; but from the little I have seen I am inclined to think that they will do well, and they certainly look fit,
The Hockey League Competition is to start next week and Mr. T. C. Gray is to be cau gratulated on having obtained twelve entries, five of which are naval, five military, while the Club will enter two teams. The Club's first XI has won its last four matches, and is playing very well together now, so it may have a chance of securing the Challenge Cup in its inaugural year. Out of eleven matches played before the competition begins five hare been won, five lost, while ono was drawn, so the team cannot be said to have disgraced itself. The Competi- tion is to be run on League principles, ie.. two points for a win, oue for a draw.
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It is rather late in the day to congratulate Messrs. Wolfe, Barues, Bosostow, Cooper, Gaskell, and Humphreys on their winning of medals in the six-a-side football competition this year; but I am glad to see the keenpiss with which Wolfe's team played suitably rewarded. As Dr. Atkinson said on Saturday, at the presentation of medals, these six-a-side matcles are very useful in bringing ont new blood and encouraging the younger players, aud are iustrumental in keeping the standard of the Club football to the excellence it has
up tained of late yours.
(Daily Press, 13th December.)
The training on the race-course is begianin to get interesting now that the drudgery of the slow work is over, and there is quite a crowd on the rails on Wednesdays and Saturdays, when the grass track is open. No really fast
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I am glad to publish my correspondent's cor- rection and to acknowledge that the match a fortnight back was the first between the Club and the Navy. Today the Rugbyists play | another naval team, drawn from H.M.S. Glory. A very good side has been got together for the homesters. Jordan and Heath bid fair to make an excellent pair of halves, though it must be confers d that mest naval teams aro faster in this line. Hallett makes his debut among the Club three-quarters, in the place of Rutherford, and Boyd appears for Crake forward.
The S. Andrew's Stakes at Shanghei, usually held on the Saturday following the ball, were this your postponed for a week owing to the
few entries received. The result on the 6th
inst. was :- · Mr. Cire's Dover Castle (Mr. N. E. Moller), ; Mr. Toog's Suoroqualmie (Mr. E. U. Reid), 2; Mr. Donnachie's "Inggis (Mr. P. Dietrich), 3.
OMPAX.
HONGKONG REGATTA.
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Fairly favourable weather, if not blessed by sunshine, marked the opening on the 10th inst. of the acunal two-days' rogatta-the forty-fifth up fill the present-promoted by the Victori、 Leèreation Club and the Hongkong Boat Club, H.E. the Governor, Sir H. A. Blake, 6 C.M.G., was President of the regatta, and the other offices connected th rowith were filled up as follows:—
The Hongkong Regatta has come and goue and the Hongkong Boat Club a d V.R.C. are to be congratulated heartily on the success of the entertainment and the racing. The Boat Club rather monopolised the prizes, but as the motto of all sportsufen is May the best men win." I am sure no V.R C. members grudge them their victories. The coxes, I notice, camo in for the usual berating, but these light-weight gentlemen only suffer the usual fato attached to their post. Speaking from a fairly extensive acquaintance with rowing criticism, amateur and otherwise, I have known very few cases in which the losing cox was not blaned or in which it was thought necessary to praise the winning cox. Such is the invidious nature of ¦ the post.
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The newly instituted Hockey Shield com- petition is on the era of comme cement. The Hockey Club's first match in it comes off on Thursday next, the 18th instant, when the team from H.M.S. Glorg will be met.-A correspondent who wrote to me two weeks ago says: "I am glad to find that the Ladies' Hockey Club took my advice and did not keep out the mere man.' I am sure they will gain by their d cision. In the first match under their auspices this island of ours gained a signal success, the Kowloonites, who should have formed the opposition.. unt venturing to face Hongkong and the elements rombined."
A correspondent writes to me to remonstrate against my statement that the Rugby football math on the 29th ult. was not the first encoun- ter this season between the H.K.F.C. and the Navy. He points out that the Club's record of matches so far is :-
Nov. 14, v. Albion and Cressy Nov. 20, u Cressy ... Nov. 22, v. The Navy Dec. 6, r. Ocean
Drawu Won
Drawn Wen
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Sewards:H.E. Major-General Sir W.| Gascoigne, K C.M.G.; Sie W. Meigh Goodman, Chief Justice; Dr J. M. Atkinson, Mr. P. J. Badelay, Lient-Col. L. F. Brown, R.E., Col.| W. Birdwood, 4 h Bombay Infantry. Messrs. T. P. Cochrane, G. de Champeaux, Hon. W. Chatham, Mesra. W. B_Dis m, E. Getz, Dr. O. Gumprecht. Me sra. F. A. Hazeland. E. A. l'ewett, W. & Humphreys, J. J. Leiria (Vice- Consul for Brazil), G. C. G. Mastor, H. M. Medy. E. Ormiston, H. E. Pollock, K.C., Com- medore C. G. Robinson, R.N.. Mr. A. G. Pomino (Coa-ul-General for Portugal), Hou, Coramander R. Murray Rum ey, R.N., Hon. R. Shewan. Dr. G. Bateson Wright, D.D. Lien-Col. II. Wyl'y, Sherwood Foresters, and Mr. M A. A. Souza,
Commi:tes: -ln. F. H. May, C.M.G.Į Chairman; Mr. Thos. II. Reid, Vice-Chairman, V.R.C. Mr. Basil H. Taylor, R.N, Vice Ci airman, H.K B.C.; Mes rs. W. Armstrong, W. S. Bailey, H. L. Bingay, P. C. Barlow, G. A. Caldwell, W. A. Cr ke, E. W. Carpenter, A. Denison, J. D. Danby, E. M. Hazeland, H, W B. Kennett, M. McIv. r, and G. Pappier.
Judges of the Rowing Races:-Messrs. E, W. Mitchell and A. Chipman, and Lient. A Cochrane, R.N.
Umpires and Starlers-Starter (Rowing), Mr. W. Hutton Fotts; Umpires (Rowing), Messrs. C. H. Grace and G. Stewart; Yacht and Open Sailing Boats, Mr. C. H. Gale,
Time-keeper:-Mr. Geo, P, Lammert, Hon. Treasurer: -Mr. R. HI. B. Mitchell, V.R.C.
Hon. Secretaries: Messrs. Frank W. White, V.R..C, and C. H. Galo, H.K.B.C.
The arrangements in connection with the Regatta were marked by the thoroughness and attention to detail characterising the fixture in previous years. The sailing ship Daylight hal been placed at the disposal of the Committees as a flagship by Captain Reade, and here ́tifia was served the while selectious were discoursed by the band of the 33rd Burmi Light Infantry. The flagship flew bunting aloft and fore and aft, and chairs were provided at rautage points for the numerous guests witne-sing the Regatta. Niue rowing races and three sailing races comprised the day's programine, and provided enjoyable sport. It was regrettal le, however,
to the that owing
uapnuctuality of the competitors in
races in getting to the starting-point. it was found impossible to start the ninth race ou the card, the Lusitano Cup, which will take place probably on Saturday. Te Sculling Ch-mpionship, open ti amateurs i the East, should have been rowed to-day, but as the conditions looked favourable it was decided to finish the race at
once.
One unfor unate featura was the failure These of crews to compete in the naval races. are always interesting, and the apathy displayed in respect of them robbed the sports of an
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