Only & few Shanghai-landers have been in the vicinity of Washington recently. John K. Davis, American Consul-General at Nanking, spent several days in the city last work, in conference with Score tary of State Kellogg, Nelson T. Johneon, who is now Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, and other State Department officials, He has now gone on a various relatives and friends but now' gone on a trip to sce various will return to Washington for several weeks before returning to Nanking' in February.
One day last week your corres-Pondent had lunch with Jack Spunt, Shanghai cotton broker, at the New Willard, and afterwards went down the Washington Monument grounds to seo a. football game. The outcome was that Spunt returned to New York with glowing plans of some day bring the Shanghai team fora tour of the United States. There are a dozen or s0 good teams in the east and Spunt. fs certain that matches with a team from Shanghai would draw big. crowds and be a financial as well as a sporting success. He has already selected Golding as one member of his Shanghai All-Stars but wants to have another look at them all before really picking a team!
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Pomeroy and their daughter, Miss Josephine Pomeroy, have also been spending several "weeks in Washington, where they have a home, and have now gone on to Cleveland, fr. Pomeroy's home, for the Christmas holidays. Miss Pomeroy, it will be. remembered, has been' studying music for the last year in Bilan. While they were in Washington they were handsomely entertained by old friends and Miss Pomeroy. especially immediately become the centre of interest in a set' of butantes and debutantes of ast year or the year before she was {intimate with when they lived here.
Two former Shanghai journalists are now on the Pacific Coast, Dinny Doyle being on the staff of the Oakland (California) Post, and Arthur West, better known as "Westa," being on the stof? of the Chronicle in San Francisco. "Westa" has not forgotten his golf and has been writing a series of articles on golf that have attracted no little atten-min newspaper circles because of the new ideas he has put into writing about the ancient game.
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