A fine study of the popular and the game he loved and played best of all, for jetting into the front rank of [sports led him to give assistance in a variety of ways, until he be-Jcame" an official time-keeper at. Shanghai on training mornings, and Jo starter at the two suburban Jcourses, For a man who made no pretensions to being a horseman, he iwas a remarkably efficient starter, principally owitig to hi fon "playing the game' starting level, Harry Ollerdessen for many years iwas one of the keenest members [the American Company, S.V.C,, and, Ino sooner did his country enter the war than he posted off to join the. colours. He secured a commission and remained with the \meriean forces until the end of the war. By profession he was a stockbroker and for some years he acted as secretlary of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, OF course, he was a member of very many sports clubs, prominent amongst them being the Recreation Gib, which, by his timely death, will suffer one of the severest losses any of its present members can remember.
He was married some few years ago and the grief of his wife will be shared by the major portion of the foreign population of Shanghai and many in the outports and Japan, besides numerous Chinese. Fox: hhonters hope their departed friends have gone to good hunting. Of] Harry Ollerdessen one can hope that he has gone to a good wicket, for he always played the game.
Sporting people—for there were very few of the hundreds present: who are not prominent in' some branch of sport—paid a fitting tri-bate on February 28 to the memory of the late Mr. H. B. Ollerdessen, on the occasion of his funeral in' the Babbling Well Cemetery, where his remains were laid to rest in the family plot. "Had the chapel been times its size, it could not have secommodated all those who desired by their presence to show a mark of respect to one whose prowess and personal qualities they had-so much admired, whilst seldom have there been so many wreaths. Every path in the vicinity of the grave was lined on both sides with handsome floral tributes.
The big gathering was. distinctly cosmopolitan, both in its constitution fend its attitude, There were present western people of all nationalities and a large number of Chinese. and Japanese, practically the entire membership, of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and leading members of almost every sporting association in Shanghai. They attempt-
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