German supremacy in local hockey prevails, The German "A" eleven have won the knockout tournament by defeating a doughty set of opponents in the final and, as victors in the League have thus secured another "double". The victory went to the better team, but the Harlequins "are to be warmly con~ gratulated on the very fine display which they gave during the second half of the game. If it was not suf ficient to rectify a position which an uncertain start had allowed to develop, it certainly prevented the Germans from adding to the two goals scored in the first twenty-five minutes. The popularity of hockey in Shanghai is increasing and the two finalists can take to themselves considerable credit for justifying the support given to what is pre-eminent amateur game—tong may remain sol. It is to be hoped that the standard of English hockey will improve so that the present German predominance may be paid the compliment of meeting sterner opposition than in the past. The Harlequins have chown that such @ consummation is not necessarily remote.
On Friday Mr. E. Oxley Cumming celebrated his sixtieth birthday. Even more remarkably Mr. H. J. Clark records the fiftieth anniversary -of his arrival in China. Thus two British Shanghailanders who, each in herr special fashion, have greatly influenced the life of the community; here, indulged in the luxury of retrospect, Looking back is sometimes dangerous performance, as Lot's wife found, Mr. Clark and Mr. Cumming can go to it gracefully and confidently. Whatever regrets may find! Passage into their respective memo-Ties, they must, on balance, be com-[pletely eliminated by the strong ties of friendship and personal esteem which the two veterans have succeeded in forming by service to the City where they have lived so long. Mr. Clark is revered especially by: that great fraternity over which he now rules with all the authority of a District Grand Master. It is not possible in a lay journal to refer to his Masonic eminence and achievements, in more precise terms. Yet, perhaps, it may not be indiscreet to observe that Mr. Clark's benevolent activities and his personal example have been of intense value to the whole community and have created standards highly to the credit of " the {oreign sojourner in this country. Mr. Oxley Cumming, as an incomparable J—almost incorrigible—discoverer the good in every one of his fellows, lias been a strong force maintaining those social amenities which in taels best expression are great solvents of racial differences. He has hosts of friends amongst foreigners and) Chinese and thus his sixtieth. birthday receives the honour of a general
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