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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1927-08-18, Page 6INDIAN POLO PLAYERS TO REPRESENT . BRITAIN Maharajah of Ratlam Assists in Financing India Officers Now in America After Winchester' Cup OUTSTANDING PONIES America Will Have to Look to Laurels to Hold Champ ionship Prom now until September the which would have a tendency to slow princely and royal game of polo will• up their play. ' be the chief topio in ;the sporting Both :the Maharajah of llatlem and India Egypt, Australia, China, Argen- Colonel Beresford are much pleased tina and practically all parts of the with polo eonidtions. The game is g United States and t,aroada. getting better and faster all the time. As a sport, ,polo probably tae no For soune years after the war there. equal foe spectacular achievemonte, was such a shortage of ponies the skillin heti omanship or aconrate hit- Players we're forced to use troop ting of a vein -bounding bah from all horses to keep the amity game alive. angles, As for speed, the game is But with many Australian and conn- played as fast' as the fastest ponies try -bred ponies, plus a few from Eng eau Carry their riders over the grassy land, fast polo is expected in India turf, • from now on. Every one of the In There are two other features that dlan team, including the grooms, felt a cal to the true spouting public: that because India, is representing pPEngland in the international tourna-. First, the game is played absbu y on. met, this year will do much to boons been the square. The sport has been kept the sport, of only in India and' her free from icemmerelalism and is in the other Asiatic possessions, but in overs handle of true loving sportsmen ratheu part of the British Empire, than the professional promoter, and, A Splendid Team tionsecond, polo, especially an interum - al tournament between England - The. first practice "revealed that and' the United States, is the Mecca of .Colonel Tomkinson had spoken the the social set from all parts of the truth when on, his arrival he said: world. "It will be a good team, probably When the curtain is rung up on the mounted better than any English famous Meadow Brook field at West- team on this side since the war. It bpry early in September, and the ref- will be a real team and not merely area blows his whistle sending eight four players." of the world's greatest exponents of They displayed some excellentteam- anything his, Milburn his a9soci- the game into friendly combat, 'the gi- work, excellent hitting power. driving any enjoy it is a real andnrd andahrill- gantic stands, holding fully 10,000 the ball for long distances. They ing game with a close score and extra spectators, including princes, mature- laity a are- chukkar to thrill the crowd.. jabs lite as well as there great the roe- : nt Ponies in rine Fiddle Tally Bate as rl pomasses 4 ' What has been roost gratifying to i ill �' t' ... ,,. ; , •: loving people, w _ .. . r. ort yew , e condi- hag 4 amateur s g P p a fine co o P �• r� the visiting players is the again feast their eyes on simply truelspore ; s` at is played simply for the s:� �� ? �< tion of the ponies which have come lag e s s t11 p Y • the way from India via England, all. Y game's sake. m; ` India Represents British Empire a disance of 20,000 miles. Accord - Genedlen ryptlonat FOS per.d;tor, eAG� FIRST,sa ,gtit^f00la8 y0„�p•P�E�'v �oR ALL.K51a S� ” YnP.ln I• a ^• Toro &a .... ., Largest Locomotive Hauls Royal Train One of the 6100 Northern Type _ locomotives, recently placed in service by the Canadian National •Railways for hauling -their 'fast passenger and manifest freight trains, was the first locomotive to haul a. train into the new eUnion Station at Toronto, do the occasion of the opening of this station by H.R.H. the "Prince of Wales.. On this occasion also, the that ticket issued from the ticket booths of S was one entitling the new His Royal Highness to • passage "Between • All Stations" on the Canadian National System for all time.. Immediately after, declaring the new depot open, thePrince Proceeded to the Clanadian Nation al ticket windows where -he was is- sued "Ticket', No. 1.". ,Tickets num- bering two, three and four were issued to Prince George, Premier Baldwin and. Mrs. Baldwin respec- tively. Por of the monster em tive y, ty •nes oP the type which hauled the Spsdal issue to eommemerete the opening .of New Union Station , !TORONTO at r Ontario' CANADA August 6, 1927' royal train aro being constructed in Canada for handling the fast passenger • ant manifest freight trains of the Ntftlonal System: smile: He, too, is anxious to get in the game on Am�erlcan fields to test Map' Making, Pattie of Slogans NOW Rages in China Moderate Nationalists Turn Their Own Verbal Guns Against the Communists CALL REDS FOGS OF LABOR General • Chiang' Kai-shek Seeks Trade Union Siippoxt in Fighting Peking and Hankow In the war being wagged upon tile communist elements in the Kuomin- tang' Party' by the more •moderato Qhinese Nationalists, slogans closely modeled after the "stns! and'. downs!" used so -freely by Communists the world over. aro- playing a big part, according to reports found in tate copies of th•e. Carnton. Gazette received here. It appears :th1at, in addition to ex- pelling many Communist; leaders from the organization and using armed force against some of the most recal- citrant, the Special Kuomintang, Com-. mittee •in the Province of Kwang-tang got up a summary of the •party's atti- tude toward the Communists in the shape of twentytwo slogans, which the newspapers of the' province are obliged to print in every issue. The Antl-Communist Slogans them out and compare them with those at home. At tee first practice One 'of the principal map making match recently, he watched the boys establishments of, the Dominion Gov - go "warming -up" periods ernment is the Topographical Survey, go with a keen and critical interest. Department •of.the Interior, at Ottawa, published " e —4.e----- 9° topographic maps covering widely where are prepared and p 1 grin3 s Progress" scattered portions' of this Dominion. Accord- Amid the bustle and turmoil of our In publishing a new map all available Mg to Colonel Beresford the Forties modern :torid, that old stand-by tife information of the country is; of seemed to thrive on their long • sen "Pilgrim's -progress" may seem nut ,course, secured and where sonic of voyages,, as they seem to be in better of date'. to a generation who know lit- this has eeen obtained a other. -sur condition to -day than otter bet el, tis more of it. than its title. vel organizations, credit' is given sur - The team's mounts, says Colonel :, Written during the twelve years n the publishing note. Beresford, consist- of twelve Iivdiati, Bunyan's imprisonment 'for norco The' rinting of a map involves sev- thirteen .Australian, eleven English formity In Bedford goal, i tithe 'six- ural Processes. It must first be and three Argefttlue ponies, making a ties and 'seventies of the seventeenth eral onro good . It preferably t be string of thirty-nine in all. These do century, and published by him after ed so as not to stretch sluinlc with ck- net include those of Captaiu Roark, • his release, the book had already gone eda80 5 of weather or or moisture If who will be monute•d by the lion. Cap- i through thirty editions by 1768, tits more than one color ie. to be used. in tain Frederick E. Guest, of the Hurl- date of the .volume that lies betoro the printing -a separate 1 sheet is drawn Ingham Club, London. I me now. It was a volume dear to our for the information represented by In most Instances the Indian army fathers, dourer still to. our grand -par. each color. These sheers are then team's mounts are small compared to eats; butnow, for half a century, it photographed and the negatives Print - those ridden by MIlbnrn and Flitch- has lain rattier dusty on our shelves.ed on zinc plates or in some cases on cock, yet it is claimed that Indian and • Apart from the truth, dignity, rood - lithographic atones. These plats or Australian ponies have .equal speed Oration; and simple imagery of the stones are put fthe printing press and stamina. As for speed the potties work, we read It breathlessly became what happens to Christian seems and the map is printed from them, gave a good account of themselves in Where more than one color is used, Ire short chukker played recently, actually to be happeltiug. to ourselves, the neap has to be run through the t longthe ponies could The individuality of the traveler press. for each color and it• is very ea � -^-• _ but just how 1 �. .a -s _,makes a Personal appeal. We walls d.�—� keep it up will be known only with theg important ottani that the sheets flu the beThe Sportsman Rajah test. At any rate, they looked good if Colonel Hie Highness Sir Sajgau and, like their riders, should improve P tl time Using V. ate tronal colors on the man iu tie Singh, Maharajah of Ratlam. as the days go by. Per places For instance g The _Indian players were evidently It will be of unusual interest to polo lovers to know that this year Great. Britain's team will not come from Eng- land,' but from India, the land where the game first came into prominence. The team will be composed of British officers in the Indian army, who have I asked permission to represent the em- I pare this fall, as England had found it practically impossible to assemble a team that stands a reasonable chance of refeatfug the Americans, who have a strong combination of Players, in- cluding Milburn, Hitchcock, Webb, Stevenson and other noted poloists on this side of the Atlantic. With this request granted ,the In- dian army o1Hcers immediately started to practice, No sooner than the sol- dier players got under way than Colonel H. H. Sir Sanaa Singh Baha - slur, � dur, Maharajah of Ratlam, lately Re -1 gent of Rewe, one of the hest known and most popular players in all India,' came forward, offering to aid the In- dian army players financially, and also offeredsome of his best ponies to the We map re cause. ' seemed to have mastered the art of impressed with the Australian -bred along with him all Lhe way he goes, t i he bald sending it long andpony.' That fact that one-third of The charm of, the work lies in its ly to the right Places. So also for greedy gentry and unscrupulous met.his highnest Such sportsmanship on the part of raising ug t a h over came from the blue color In which water features chants. added to high, Nearly all the backhand Shots their number brought individual application, immediately aro shown and the brown for contours '"18 Be on guard against those who rs' enthusiasm,. and had plenty 06 power behind them. the Antipodes speaks well for that These slegans, .as given in the' Can- ton Gazette, are as follows: "1 Down the Chinese Communist Home ` Art and Radio Canadian Composers May Now Broadcast' Their Works Through C.N.R. Invita� .' tion SI-IOULD STIMULATE EFFORT, Amongst Canadians there liar been a glowing •consclousness of ability in many. directions% At first, the pioneers were busy 'laying the found..,.. ations, Thou followed the blinders and these two classes had. but .scant leisure for enjoyment of the arts.q Now• that the spado work has bees fairly web completed, there i5'a de- sire in many parte of the Dominion for a wider kuowlsdgo of the fuer 5ocoui' plishm,ents,all'of which aid in malting the .complete life. Canadians have' contiibuted• to literature fairly in pt'o- • • portion to, their numbers and writers in two langetagee have done quite well in placing the' stepping stones towards a national school. To a greater ex- tent, perhaps, the painters and the etchers have advanced and quite .a number of names of native artiste have become known beyond the bound - tales of Canada. In the field of ` music there docs not appear to have been similar progress,, yet a survey. indicates' that there is a considerable body of. Canadian musicians• and com- ;posers and that thee; placed an imposing number of worke before the tribunal of public judgment. . - - It is probable that the average man: will be surprised when told that there. - on record aPproXimately 200 .Cana- dian composers and that they have published a total of nearly 2,000 pieces of various character, ranging oratorio, through religious composition to songs and works of'lighter moment. It is with a desire of encouraging such native talent,and also those tom - posers who have taken up residence in Canada, that the Radio Department of the Canadian National Railways is completing arrangements to provide a greater number of Canadian composi• tions fa the musical programs offered through' the eleven broadcasting •stye tions operated across the Dominion by the National System. - Already, the Radio Department of the Canadian National Railways has • done a great dual- to further the_, T, knowledge of good music by arranging good programs in which the serious music of the past and present has a fair share, and also . by procuring the services of sallied musicians and ' qualified groups of .band and orchestra players at Its carious broadcasting centres. In this, connection the Hart o House String Quartette has been< - heard from practically every station of the broadcasting chain during the Past two seasons, a most important contribution in the spread of know- ledge of the.choisest chamber music. It is now planned to devote a sec- tion of each program to Canadian music and whenever possible com.- .posers will be invited ' to play, or direct, their own compositions from studios of . the radio • department. Special attention will be given to new works found to possess merit and com-{ posers now resident in the Dominion are invited to communicate with the headquarters of the Radio Department, Cnadian_National Railways at Mout- real. Party,. which is :treacherous to our late director, Dr. ,Sun Yat -sent "2 Down with the Chinese Com- munist Party, which is against the San Min Chu I (Three 'People's Prin- cipals)! "3 Down with the Chinese Com- munist Party, which is destroying the People's revohition! "4 Dowel with the Chinese . Com- munist Party, which is undoing the work of the Northern expedition! "5 Down with the Chinese Com- munist Party, which is utilizing bandits and labor usurpers' to oppress the peasants and laborers! "0 Down with the Chinese Com enunist Party, which is: insulting and disgracing our late director, Dr. San! "7 Down wth the - Chinese Com- munist Party, which is plotting the downfall and ,destruction of the Kuo- mintang! "8 To be against the Three People's Prdnclpals is to be a coltnter-revolu- tionary. "9 To be against .the Kuomintang is to be a counter-revolutionary. "10 All power and authority belongs to the Kuomintang. "11 Alt true and loyal comrades, of the Kuomintang must unite and rise! "12 Down. with all counter-revolu- tionaries! n P "13: Down with all opportunists! d de our o as o we al were lection be- Colonel own continual reflection in a Dlates correcbly ao sa to get the addi- "14 Concentrate' the powers of the lido 0 their pro- Kuomintang. "15 Dowm with the Fengtlen clique of militarists! "17 Eradicate all corrupt officials, mirror, For the mo main high- ways Christian, and. we fall, rise, stumble trays are 'usually printed in red; on again, rejoce, suffer, and struggle } these red lines must'be exact - when the maharajah agreed to accom It was a treat to see the visitors part o Paul the team, acting in an advisor} • accu,rate%y hit for the goal. The for- capcity to Colonel H. A. Tontkinsou, wards did a fine bit of goal shooting, Among the Indian Princes and other manager of the British Army -in -India, ;especially the No. 1s—a position that Public spirited I ianp princes in India, grouter confidence tl}an ever was seems to be causing Milburn much nothing in all the sporting world gLven the players. concern. would bring greater joy than having Now, just how the Indian forwards Team Starts Practice I , a team representing the Orient wiu In December, 1025, India's A tenni will make out against such a wonder the famous Winchester Cup, now held ful defender as Milburn remains to be consisted of Major Vigors, Major Wil- that never yet failed to hurl a defense nearly V0,000, most of which was he is disposed to: bear hardly, it is the s that will sooner or later stop any sot•t [ princes, 1tYPooritieal fanatics ..those who making the next The "Pilgrim's ground for is a com- or form lines. Hereindiesthe chief lean toward the Right Wing.. mon meeting round for all types; in �� calla strike agahrst. the an issue of several thousand Kuomintang is counter-revolutionary, f the world. g g Wants to Lift Cup, its pages, as im he Bible, alt religions difficulty iu panting maps m colors, 19 To India seen The veteran American back by America. hs allant Indian sportsmen raised Where tete copies is being run, it is necessary, to 1 "20 Those who refuse to come und -print all. the .copies- in one color at a ; the direction. and guidance.. of!the time, and while these' are dryng the . Kuomintang are revolutionaries. Ink is washed off the press sed the "21 The masses of the People must If the •weather • rise and clean up the eonnter.revoln- next color got ready. chanes, "especially it the air gets • tionary Chinese Communist Party. g d' thesheets of parer stretch or "22 The masses of the people must. glen l and Captain Denning taking r the style and were but for vain glory and praise, Georgep g may be reconciled. There, is a: not- able absence of that fanatical hatred of 'other churches so characteristic of the sour Puritanism of the period, Bunyan, indeed, was more concerned to sot his own house do -order than to meddle with anyone else's, and; if there can be any party upon whom !lame; Major Atkinson 1 Captain Anderson. In. February, amp. s re hr'in c and trouble is encountered in tlse and support the. Chlneee I' uomht- team was reconstructed mut color fit exactly ;Caug." ary, 1926, the with Captain of offense, but from yl f bythe generous Ind sit p where it should 1 The ig speed of the visitors' play—with the who follow and Play the game. i Hurlingham Club, of London, also aid- rho talltatives, and such as Blends, the places of Major Vigors and Cap- expected daily improvement between. who made their religion a "stalking horse to get and enjoy the world." Bunyans message to his own genera- tion was to leave all these miserable Naturally the coming Pretences of religion and live the true Bess the Maharaja of Ratlam to Christ -life' mer3 were to be doers of America, with the players is an ince*- the Word, not hearers only. What tive to stir the players into the point mattered was "a new life." Material of giving ther very hest efforts, Cer- Possessions or hardships were" to tag g count as nothing in the great adveri- wuly the presence of His Highness tura to win something far more pre- cious re- will prow an excellent Stimulate for c•ous-than our earthly emolument; to wit, Eternal Life. The only warfare that counted was the warfare of the spirit against the flesh, not merely of one form of religious belief against' another.—Alice 'Law, in The- Empire Review. tain Anderson, Games And tourna- now and the opening game—one would ed, and in so doing let it he known nients were played in various parts of judge that the American captain will that the whole of the sucBricess Empire India,' including Calcutta., Poona, Delhi, are "pll 111g" for the success of the iathore,Murut and smaller cities, be given plenty to do taking care of Indian_Army players. his own bailiwick, without much i 1 1 of His Flight "In India the fields are much like chance of wandering too far afield. those to be found over here," says Colonel George de La Poer Beresford, Harmony of Indians Perfect 7 ho 1or•arY secretary of the Army -In- Another thing noticed with keen In - India Palo Association. ''The field -s terest was the confidence the players are hard and fast, but with not so had in each other. Harmony is the much grass. I might also add there 'keynote of the Indian officers: The is more dust and more bad language." team play, the team spirit, must be But 11 is the opinion of both the preserved above all else, and no in - Maharajah of Ratlam and Colonel terual strife has been caused by the Tomkluson that the Indian fields are utter.coliapse of the 1924 team. The even faster than the American, be- Iuclian officers are •out to win. cause Lh•ey are dryer and the grass is; If they are not equal to the task they not so thick. Practice on such fields at least hope to pat up a series of polo soon put she players in such excellent battles worthy Of their undertaking, oondition they tool( no chances upon In this respect they have the best their arrival in England of playing wishes of every member who will play on soggy, wet and heavy grounds, on the American team, for if there is those keen brown eyes and winning any big undertaking. The, Maharaja of Ratlam is one of the best players in India, and has been ranked high by experts of the game for twenty years_: or more. This In- dian soldier -prince is a .great student of the game and as an 'advisor to Colonel Tomkinson every player on the visiting team feels that Ills Iligh- nes.s holds some lucky charm behind REG'LAR FFI ERS—By Gene Byrnes. (iiICK JIMMIE1 THE CULLENS ARE COMING FOR DINtJSR: RUie1 OVER 'TO SM1GG5 AND GET A BTG CAN OF His GASAPta t'�Au,noNN. HLE AIg PAW' WE MUST GTRETCN OUT OUR SALAD GOIAS WAY I. 8E GORE TO I SAY 1T5 FOR 1x945 CAT! The future of air travel Is largely in the bands of the youth of the coon- iry.—Daniel Guggenheim. SORRY BUT 'WE'RE CLEAR OUT ALE• 64fAte0. HERE'S { 'STHE • "suD9We PRICE!n A dist of the maps, plans, and pub- lications of this organization may be obtained upon application from; the Topographical Survey, Department of the Interior, Ottawa. Man -Made Forests It will be many a year yet before any crop can be looked for from man - planted forests. Man -planted forests, however, are coming, There- is no doubt of that. We have some of thele growing up in British Columbia, and there are others in the Provinces fur- ther .east, We must. have forests, Commerce and industry demand that we shell Climate depends on them.. 'rhe flow. cf our rivers is regulated by them. They protect our lands from erosion, and they satisfy our/aesthetic cense.-Vancouver PrOvinoe•. Shaking Quakers. "Yes, sir, I'm front pure Quaker ':tock," . "So am I—!et's shake" There's a Lot in a Name. t5- VA AFRAID To ;i"AKE •PATI CAT OtdSY L KE5 PALE BRAND! gena ^5.0.1.1es New Style Caravans Western machinery threatens to sun. Plant the camel on the ancient trade. routes of Asia. A fleet of motor trucks' will soon be In operation on the road from the Caspian Sea to Teh- eran, the capital of Perste A motor caravan may oust the traditional ships of the desert from the rough Trebizon-Tabeiz .trail, over which Zenophon led his retreating tou thousand. Nota little of the romance of old Asia will vanish if this wanes to pass, Lts:trails have been worn d2ep by the hoofs of •theleeiled camels and donkeys which Cor centuries hi +e plodded westward with their bus'dens of the wealth of Hindustan, rags, silk and saffron from Persia and copper anal silver from .Pastern, Anatolia. Centuries' before Amerlea was discov- ered this .commerce was adding to the wealth of the Roman Empire. But It rill lend startling emphasis to the achievements of the New, World if a product of American inventiveuessie- comes'the carrier of'tilie ancient trade. -Philadelphia Public hedger; 9¢y. Vcry Satisfactory. "Mabel, did your polo les, sue' turn lent ettccessl'uliy7," I 'should say they c1!d! 1 married my instructor this morning." 1 q Love at rr t sight if yeti tike—but 1 don't marry till the second.