at 2,30, 5, 7 and 9,15 p.m, 25.50
Power rampant outboard motorboats streaking the Hudson in a flurry of spume and spray. These midget cockleshells lift their noses with a snarl and dart away to attain speed of anything up to sixty miles an hour. Something might be done in this line in Shanghai during the next floods Kiaochow Park Closed It was announced yesterday that Kiaochow Park will officially be closed today, irrespective of the weather. The "B"
Division schedule of the Ladies Softball for this morning has been cancelled. end of sport, fail to see why this highly-entertaining method of transport should not be used in Shanghai during the next spell of floods, And its not such a bad idea. at that The next time this cosmopoliran city starts transforming itself into a second Venice some sportsman with real zeal might organize a series of races up one of our more navigable canals. There's usually a good stretch of water at the top of Bubbling Well Road in the vicinity of St. George's.
At the present time, the latent possibilities of our ephemera' water. ways are entirely unexploited. Buses forge their way through them like unwieldy barges, cars churn down them in a spatter of spray to the chagrin of unfortunate passengers in rickshaws, and small boys go bathing. But this isnt enough. There ought to be fleets of boats floating round. After all, if the town wants to play at being Venice. why shouldn't we join in and get the spirit of the thing? We might even import a few gondolas to get some rea) atmosphere.
The idea is fraught with possibili-
TO-DAY at 10,30 a.m, Dorothy Lamour Ray Milland
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