'The Chairman's Shield Competition A 'The ninth annual athletic sports: competition for the shield given by' Sir Edward Pearce took place last week in the Hongkew Park. Despite the showery weather very large crowd of Chinese school-boys and friends of the pupils lined the track. A number of foreign friends also were present.
Three schools took part in the competition, viz., the Public School {for Chinese' (Elgin Road), the El Kadoorie School and the Nieh Chih [Kuei School. The wet state of the track prevented anything in the way of records, but some very fine performances were made, and the items were contested with a keen spirit which did credit to the forjeign masters responsible for train-ting the boys.
'The 100 yards race was run in' 1114 seconds, the 220 yards in 262 seconds, the 440 yards ind the high jump was 4 feet 10 thes, The final results were: Nieh Chih Kuei School, 181} points; Public School for Chinese, 1614 points; Ellis Kadoorie, 117 points.
"The handsome shield was present-jed to the captain of the winning school by Mrs, E. S. Benbow Rowe who was accompanied by Mr. Benbow Rowe, Secretary of the BMunieipat Council.
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