The Cairo bulletin., 1911-11-19
AMERICAN GOLF
FANS CHARGED
WITH ROWDY|SM
English Papers Accuse Crowd At
International Match. Of
"Rattling" Players
MANY BRITISH CHILDREN SICK
Royal Commission Fail, To Find
Solution for Briton's
Labor Troubles
MANY BRITISH CHILDREN SICK

Hilton won the golf championship in
America the English papers have ac-
cused American crowds at golf
matches of lack of sportsmanship,
being rowdy and boisterous, and try
ing to rattle foreign players. Mr..
Hilton writes to the Westminster
Gazette to correct these decisions.
He says:
'"rhc crowds were we'll conducted;
perhaps made little too much noise
to he in keeping with the goli
matches, but this was due to their
enthusiasm and patriotism, for they
never did anything with the slight
est intention of interfering with my
chances of success.
When the championship was over
no srowd could have given a player a
more enthusiastic reception than the
American crowd gave me at the Apa-
wants. The American, If more dem
onstratiye, and perhaps on the whole
a good deal more ignorant of the
game, and it's traditions, than the
average Britisher, certainly knows
how to take the defeat as sports
man quite as we'll as the golfers on
this side.
"The reports have heard of noisy,
disgraceful behavior of American
spectators are grossly unjust and un-
fair AS true American golfers are
quite unaware, the crowd at their
own meetings does not Denave itself
with quite the same dignity and
restraint that is found in our better
class crowds on this side. But they
are doing their utmost to educate
the masses to the customs and tradi
tions of the game as played on this
side"
Mr.. Hilton strongly advocates the
adoption of the American system of
using megaphones to keep the corw
Apawaimis was managed infinitely
better than most Of them over here.
According to the annual report
just made by Sir George Newman.
chief medical officer OF the Board ar
Education. a very large proportion
of the children attending the British
elementary public schools suffer from
more or less serious diseases. Out
of the 100000 elementary school
children of England and Wales-I0
per cent. suffer from q serious de-
fective hearing; 6 to per cent. have
adnoids or tonsils sufficiently en-
LACED to require surgical treatment;
40 per cent from extensive decay OF
the teeth; 80 to 40 per cent from
unclean hands or bodies; per cent
from tuberculosis in readily recog.
nizahle form; | to per cent from
heart disease, considerable percent
age Of the children are suffering in
greater or less degree from malnu-
triton. aIl ist,ilite III #r8s
Sir George Newman deducts the
moral that state cannot effectually
insure itself against disease unless
it begins with the children. An in
teresting feature OF the malnutrition
cases was that in many cases it was
the quality and cooning of the food
which was at fault and not lack of
sufficient foodstuff.
After an elaborate and involved
report by specially appointed Roy
al Commission, the railway labor sit.
uation seems no nearer solution
than when the trouble began. The
obvious disappointment or the ral:-
way unionists on hearing the report
of theCommission has grown into ac-
tive denunciation OF its terms, and
are openly advising their organida-
tions to disregard its findings
The companies did not receive the
report with any great amount of en-
thusiasm and 1t is well known that
the partial recognition of the unions
embodied in the recommendations
was received with ilf-conceaIed as
taste.
The report has been followed
shortly by rumors that several CON-
papies are almost ready to announce
raise In the wages Of their en-
ployes and this fact may cause some
delay in the execution Of campaign