Consul-General, who is succeeding Sir Herbert Phillips in the Shanghai post, commenced his term of office with at least one auspicious circumstance.
In the golf meeting with the Japanese Consulate-General at Seekingjao on Sunday, Mr. George was the only British Consular official to win his game, his victim being Mr. Y. Miura, the Japanese Consul-General.
In the other matches, the Japanese Consulate-General definitely proved their superiority, Mr. K. Tsurumi beating Mr. A. T. Cox; Mr. Y. Isono beating Mr. G. V. Kitson, the Superintending Consul; Mr, A. Uyama and Mr. Y. Kimura áchieving similar results in their matches with Mr. Ww. H. Williams and Mr. E. W. Jeffery. It was left to Mr. S. Ishiguto and Mr. A. J. Evans, the Shipping Vice-Consul, to preserve the status quo in their game, which was halved.
The Kimura-Jeffery match was quite good, the British player losing by missing a two-foot put, while Mr. Evens distinguished himself and minimized Britain's glorious defeat by sinking a six-foot put.
'A correspondent reports, unreliably, that the British team did much better later at liar dice, and it is proposed to have a return match on February 4.
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