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16 Limited Racial Inclusion, St. Paul's College (), an Anglican school, was the first Protestant mission school in Hong Kong to introduce Scouting for its Chinese boys in early 1920s, following three other schoolbased troops, namely the Catholic St. Joseph's College, and the government schools Ellis Kadoorie and Saiyingpun. The annual report given on the college's speech day in March 1924 noted briefly the formation of 10th Hong Kong, probably in Shortly after, the non-conformist Protestants joined the movement, with 13th Hong Kong at Ying Wa College (), originally founded by Dr. Robert Morrison, the first missionary to China from the London Missionary Society and a renowned translator of the Bible into Chinese. The school magazine, Ying Wa Echo ( ), reported in 1924, on "the forming of a Boys' Scout Troop" which was making promising progress under Scoutmaster B. T. Lewis and Patrol Leaders Kan Man-hon and Tam Kim-hing. Though Lewis returned to England in 1925, the troop remained active under the Chinese deputy headmaster Lo Kwun-yuen (), who led the troop in the banner competition in March 1926, and often took the boys to outings (Figure 10). Chak except some of his senior scouts had any training at all." His caution proved justified, when soon 15th Hong Kong ran into difficulties, and 14th Hong Kong became inactive. In 1928, both 8th and 14th had to be reorganized under new Chinese Scoutmasters. Given the athletic traditions of the SCAA, it should come as no surprise that their Boy Scouts tended to be athletically well-trained. In fact, boys from these troops won honors in a variety of sports. In the ping-pong competition organized by the Boy Scouts Association in , 8th Hong Kong was the champion. In the colony-wide swimming and softball contests, 14th Hong Kong won top honors. Well-known swimmers like Wong Gay-leung (), Wong Gaychou (), Lee Kwong-kun (), Ho Bing-gay (), and Chan Sai-tin () were all Boy Scouts. In these early years, the South China Boy Scouts Football Team was an independent team in Hong Kong's open football matches. Grade-A footballers like Yip Buk-wah (), Leung Wing-ming (), and Chu Kwok-lun () all came originally from these troops. As an aside, Wong Gay-leung and Yip Buk-wah later played for the national Chinese football team at the so-called Nazi Olympics, 11th Olympics in Berlin in 1936, as the goalie and a forward, respectively. Yip's distinguished career in football in China spanned many decades, until his retirement in the early 1970s. Shortly after, Taikoo also decided to sponsor troops for Chinese boys. In June 1925, Waldegrave reported on the 16th, 17th and 18th, which were "three divisions of one troop formed from boys of the Chinese employees at the Taikoo Dockyard." This is indeed an interesting extension of Scouting. One might think that Chinese dockyard employees were mostly blue-collar workers who could not afford to send their children to a Boy Scout Troop. After all, most Chinese boys who participated in Scouting at this early phase were from elite families, attending the best schools, or belonging to the leading churches or clubs. But there were definitely quite a number of Chinese employed in white-collar and better-paid jobs at Taikoo or its sister company, Swire, led by its Chinese Comprador, first Mok Cho-chuen and then his son, Mok Kon-sang. Furthermore, evidence suggests that blue-collar Dockyard workers at this time were definitely not members of the "coolie" class, but relatively well-off. Skilled Chinese labor at the Dockyard had struck in 1920 and 1922 and had obtained significant pay raises. An interwar report on labor conditions by R. H. Butters contains details on Taikoo Dockyard workers who were earning rather good pay, living as principle tenant of a floor, subletting to others, and even sending their son to a private school. In China and elsewhere many had linked Boy Scout training with tiyu () or athletics. The Chinese South China Athletic Association (SCAA,) sponsored two Chinese troops, 14th and 15th Hong Kong, which appeared in the 1924 banner rally, and eventually also took over 8th Hong Kong, originally associated with the Chinese Wesleyan Church. From 1925 onward, 8th was based at the Hua Ren Hang building, 14th at the Caroline Hill sports grounds, and 15th at the Yiu Ting Free School in Saiwanho. All in all, these troops had over one hundred boys. In April 1925, the troops, all under T. K. Chak, had a joint inauguration ceremony at the garrison football ground. Waldegrave was present, as were Chow Shou-son, Li Yuk-tong and Liang Chi-hoo, the patrons of the three troops, respectively (Figure 11). However, privately, Waldegrave had expressed some reservation with this rapid growth in Chinese troops and especially the over-extension of Chak, which occurred in his absence. He concluded that he would not have permitted this extension without more trained Scouters, as "none of those helping (Part 4 of 5) c 2009 Paul KUA, all rights reserved

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