Amongst all these hundreds of players locally, I thought there must be seme with interesting memories of the old days. The younger players did not interest me; it was the old hands—not youngsters of sixty—but the real old hands of three score and ten, to four score and more. Immediately there came 8 my mind such hale and hearty old players as Col R. E. Trueman, "Wullie" Thompson Archie Sinclair, Archie Sharp, Gavin Wallace, W. J. Edwards and a number of others with forty or fifty years' residence or more in China, 1 hunted around and came across recor of seventy years' residence in the Far East, which made my own forty-five years, look like a dog Watelh, The record holder is William James Edwards, a popular member of the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club, who still enjoys his regular evening games W. J. Edwards is a real China hand the eldest son of the late James Edwards of the then Imperial Maritime Customs, he was born in Kiu ki. 1867. Yesterday marked his birthday, we all wish him, 2 day belated "Many happy returns. He was the first white male child to be born in that Port, as his sister Was the first female child, She has been dead now many: years but left number of strapping sons to carry n, The British Consul at that time was Mr. Hastings, afterwards Sir Patrick Hastings,
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