'On Wednesday afternoon last'the [Cathedral Girls' School held their an-
[nual sports in the school grounds.
Despite. a few minutes raia, the latter noon was a very enjoyable and successful one, the final heats of the 14 events being rub off in an hour The programme with the winners the two of them out of it. Even at that, however, they all got away. fairly well, the Sprite leading and the Banshee last... Thereafter, the Commodore sat in comfort on the Foam and chortled at such a series of mishaps to his faithful followers 'a9 seldom has been seen in any race, They got round the first buoy all right, with the Sprite heading the Gnome and the Hobgoblin and Spook following practically together. From there, the ordinary restrictions as to limits in Harbour races! ig withdrawn, they all went inside the line' of yachts and blanketted each other, but got roand the second mark without any change in the order.
At the Creek faark-buoy, the! Gnome became the first casualty, touching the buoy on a gype and: dropping out of the race. Taking the Evelyn on the way up, Capt.
palmer failed to-allow enough for tthe drift on the flood and became hopelessly hung up, also delaying' the Spook and Pixie, who followed him, Shortly after this, the Spook's port stays carried' away, fand, to save her already tender mart, her canvas was brought down with a run, and the had to crawl home By this time, the Sprite was be-' figures do not include the two unofficial matches we had with the Police Lawn Bowls section.
The Interport"Team In a few days, Shanghai will be despatching a. team to pity Hongkong. You all, know the composition of the rink selected by the association to play in the actual interport match and I think you will agree that at last we have a ood sporting chance of creating a record by annexing and bringing back the Hongkong flag to Shane Our best wishes go with them and to Mr. \Witkenhead their capable skipper.
The Captaincy of the Club this season has been in the most eapabl our friend "Freddie Large, who has worked trojan and kept the members eager ard keen for all competitions, Mr. Large, I think has scarcely "been absent from the greens during the whole season and has proved +him-elf to be one of the most popal and one of the most capable captains the club has ever had. His successor. next year will find it difficult to emulate Mr. Large's energy.
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