Had that rousing old Auccat Sir Francis Drake, been alive in th days, and in Shanghai, say, for instance, as skipper of a Jardine coastal steamer—in Which case membership of the Yangiszepoo Bow!ing Club might be assumed—probably he would have settled the question out of hand, He would have sworn on his odds: odikins, his gadzooks, his halidom, whatever happened to be the 'Wodehouser" of the moment, that the game was the thing, no matter what tangible' or rhetorical rewards might follow. Tt is on record. that the swashbuckling old shellback post= oned the mopping-up of the Spanish Armada and the consequent guarantee of the continued existence of the English as a nation—leaving the Scots, Irish, and Welsh to defend themselves la their own peculiarly competent manner—so that he could Gnish a game of bowls, and it Is to be presumed that it was only the average Tuesday evening sort of 0 friendly, and not an Interport between Bideford and St. Ives, for his: tory does no: mention that, Dour old lawn bowlers have been heard to rumble in the last few days. that Interport rules have got to be changed, because it is not fai that any one port at the same time should have fo take on two ports. There is an extraordinary process of reckoning, which only a town bowler can understand, by which Shanghai and Hankow have finished level, ving a straight run of such ses over Shanghai, and the Settlement the same over Hongkong this being written before the Hankow-Hongkong match, which it is said does not count). Averages seen to be the big thing in modern sports, and on aver= ages it would seem that Shanghai is only 50 and Hankow 100. However, Sir Francis Drake was not easy to understand, and lawn bowls is as simple as trigonometry. Yet once again, what does it all matter? Was Rot that one thrilling finish with Hongkong worth all the ngs, cups, fabular statistics, and anything like that? "The game' is the thing! and its many consequent malady competent to ply any prescrip lenses. Prescriptions filed in 21 Hours, We are thoroughly in alternative tinted
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