the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuma Dany News"
Sim—I om un avid reader of your agony columns and sometimes silke snag. Why should an intelligent lady, born In Pomerania, anda good housekeeper, want to meet a young any student make full man with a' view to friendship? To the best of my observation Shanghai girl friends do not keep house for their beaux, T am aware that in the Spring a young lady's fancy turns to thoughts of housekeeping, but why should she want to involve a young man?
Shanghai, Mar, 24.
Germans' Fine Performance To the Baltor of the "Nonmu-Ciaxa Dany News"
'Sm—Coincldent with the announcement that a jumping gymkhana will be held on March 27 comes the news that the German "win riding events at Geneva by huge margin'
After witnessing their outstanding performances in jumping contests at London Olympia in 1096 1 commented on them in this paper on my. return to Shanghai, These comments were taken cum grano salis, However, the subsequent Berlin Olympiad the home team swept the board. 30 thoroughly that they were justified, 'Again, later, Comte clu Rivau, himself a' winner of the King George Cup at Olympia on a former occasion, confirmed this opinion after witnessing what he considered their unsur~ assable performances in Paris in 1987, And now we read of what is termed another "brilliant victory" today, Surely there is a reason, besides horseflesh, for this unbroken line of {International successes, When referring to their uniform style in my remarks some three years ago, I noted that, Individually and collectively, their representatives assumed and maintained a selentifc or mathematical form of balance which, in results, appeared to place the burden of the rider's weight in that position on the horse where It handicapped movement and efforts 40 the least degree possible, Furthermore, if any movement of this burden became necessary, vit Was made in Jexact synchronization with that of the horse, thereby assisting him rather than impeding him as was the ease with the competitors whose necessary movements were ill-timed and therefore more against their mounts than with them. A lack of ce-ordination, in fact, which instantly placed them' outside' the "champion" class, to attain which perfect timing {Is admitted to be one of the highest essentials in all branches of athletic competition. "And, being s0, how very Urgent must it be where two are eoncerned—the man and the, mount—when the slightest error on the part of the former may entirely offset the gallant efforts of *he utter, Of course there is a scientife "form" to be acquired in order to develop the capacity to reach these heights of perfection, and it will be Interesting to observe whether, at the forthcoming gymkhana, the: structors of the "academy" at which it Is to be held will prove their advertised claim to be able to teach the correct method of controlling the horse by means of a "perfect seat."
Haves, Shanghol, Mar, 22,
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