The members of the above Club held their annual general meeting on Wednesday evening in the Shipping Office of the U.S. Consulate. There was full attendance.
The Rev. C. E. Darwent, M.A., who resided, said he regretted to state that Ir. Goodnow had been compelled to leave only " few minutes Defore on urgent Dusiness. Mr. Goodnow had left behind a few notes of what he intended to say, and he, the speaker, thought he could not do better than read them.
"Gentlemen, th: report and accounts have been in your hauls for some your permission we wi them as read. The members no doubt have felt geatified on receiving that report, whic record of yood sport during the past twelve months and affords goo. hope for the tutu You will no doubt be all pleased to see th: the Rang: ye male such excellent progress, for it will be in the memory of most of fou of the hard uphill fight the Club has experienced, and out of which it may now be considered to have emerged successfully, and to have now b-come established on a' firm Lasis, Turning to the Cricket part of the report we find that the Clab has not done mich that can be construed by the most enthusiastic in the way of a triumphant. success: and that indeed was not the hope of the mem: Lers. Football ranks foremost in the sports of the Club and it was decided to include cricket to keep the men in form and to pro-jo recreation fur these members who peter th's form of sport.
With regard to Football Tthink the most sans Il be satisfied with the results, nomely 15 vietovies out of And here it may rest. the lub has not only nto the mewllers as " body Tut also to vi tors to Shanghai, Letters have been rs of the Eamof the Us. flagship Olympia, 1g the warm time they had at Manila, had time to write and Rangers. On lea of the hes! il as the other club a few lessons la jon football, wrote on behalf of the team and the ship's company and wished us all success. The Committee trust before next season to mal rangements if possible for a shield competition amongs: the varies The members will no doubt appreciate that portion referring to the Tustitute scheme and if there is one necessity a Shanghai for young men it is that of pro-I and liberal ted In-Committee will take this. y in hand and when a definite s been formulated the matter will brought forward in the form of a resolution ata special meet ing of the members."
The Chairman, continuing, said he fole honoured in the Club asking him to become sident, as he had not been in months and had scarcely got his lind legs. As he had been elected to that position, for which he thanked them very heartily, he would do his utmost to promote the best interests of the Club. He w ghd to see, according to the report, that the members desired an Institute for mental as well as physical rei ation. The Institute, if it was founded, would give them recreation during the evenings, for cricket and football, after all, could only be enjoyed at special times. Now, he came there asa preacher, glad to take the Vice-presidency of the Club, because it was. his business to help forward the good work yoing on in the community, "The Gospel he preached was a good one: that man, body, soul and spirit wanted caring for all round. He wished to emphasise this because some narrow-minded people thought he was out of place in taking up that yx mn, but he could look bad to the of the Old Testament, ai when he bell ved David could give points thing of a physic nature. He, the round in runn about and in any-
speaker, came from England, from an athletic county, the County of Yorkshire, where they took great interest in every kind of sport. Now that Yorkshire had done so well at cricket in the county matches, they. felt a kind of elation when travelling through Surrey or the other counties that Yorkshire had beaten. Yorkshire, too, was a very great football county, ud at the town of Hull, sometimes, they had as many as 40,00) people gathered to see a football match and they often used the Hull tean victorious. Now ed thoroughly that, as athletics wed in Englund, they were equally needed in Chi He' remembered that when he first arriv told that for have a riesha of his own, and as he always liked to do as he was requested he got one, But after a while he began to Wonder if he on once getting in would be able to get out of the riesha for he begun to get prodigiously And there, tov, was the man eating his head off, and he seriously thought by and by he would unable to woddie at_all. (Laughter.) he hal to ta ever, he was not der." When he wases young ts many of those present he was captain of an Association team, and as centre forward and having ight it venerally fell to him to. do the charging. (Laughter). He was often cricketing, and mietimes got the balk down well but being left-handed he not a very reliable member of the team.
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