At the end of the day the visit teants were guests of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club at a dinner held on the Hongkong Hotel roof garden. The speeches were humorous and met with acclamabut the outstanding feature of them was the proposal to turn the four-ball foursomes in these Interport matches to'twoball foursomes and there is no reason to doubt that this wil be a fait accompli by the time the next contest ce ber played. "Mr R. G, Macdonald our "veteran captain" according to the Hongkong press—also made the suggestion that the Amateur Championship of China, not having been the success which Shanghai anticipated, should be: put under the mis of the Far Eastern Golf Association, whose headquarters were in Hongkong, and the competition then might meet with the success it deserves. He would like the Association to take up the matter.
After the speeches the real business of the evening began and we were hugely entertained by the racy stories told by Mr. E. J. New of the Manila team. Malcoisn eon-tributed his little bit by a verse or two of song in various keys. The Fanling trio—Showan, Bruce and Walker—also shyly gave usa quaint old-world ditty. "We went on board the Empress of Australia that night and the next morning various members of the Hongkong and Manila teams came to see us off. Mr. 0, H. Blackburn, who accompanied our team, kindly put up a bottle or two of the best to cheer our drooping spirits and thus ended a tour that was continuous enjoyment from beginning to end.
'We thank you again, you Royal Hongkong golfers, for making our ish your wish and when you come to Shanghai next October we shall consider' we have accomplished something if we can entertain you one-tenth as royally as you have entertained us.
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