i ¢ & * game--the general scheme of what it "4 T~The game proper consists of :-- are #Cireles," "Bamboos" and "Char- any last discarded THE DAILY. BRITISH WHIG Yolo By © G. M. LE HAIN Copyright by the RENOUF PUBLISHING CO. of Montreal. (This is the first of a series of arti- cles on this very popular game. The Whig strongly suggests that interested readers cliprand keep each article as it! appears, It will be impossible to supply | cither single article or complete sets | after publication. | i. "Mah Jongg" is not difficult to] learn, The one thing to avoid at the! outsetiis confusion of ideas. (Let us be reasonable. Suppose you took a pack of cards and threw them higyly-pigaly ail over a table--and attempted by the aid of a score-pad to explain to a Chin- ese how to. play "Bridge"! © A "Mah Jongg" set when tumbled out off your bor. + an appalling mix- up, and if you only have some fear- some looking dragon-bedecked instruc- tions, your troubles start forthwith. We will avoid confusion. We will go right mastering eae For convenience we will divide up the instructions into sections: Section Neo. 1.--The principles of the is all about. What you hive to do. No. 3--The procedure in playing the hand, No.-3.--The score. No. ¢.--Farns, No, 5--Penalties. No. 6.--Limit hands. No, 7.--General observation on the playing of the game. 3.--First of all, spread out on the table all the contents of your "Mah Jongg" set; and arrange the "tiles" Just as you see them in the illustra- tion. Keep this illustration as your key to the game, it might be well to have an extra copy' pasted on cardboard for . reference during learning, * "4~Now that you have the tiles in order--consider them well. You must get so familiar with them--that at once the rules of the game, | step, as we go along, and places the completed "three" on his right, face up. He ten discards. 23.--~""Mah Jongg": Any player can claim any last discarddd tile to com- plete his hand, whether to fill his ne- cessary pair, or to complete a "Pung" or a "Chow," He calls "Mah Jongg"! --and that hand is finished. 24.--"Calling™: When' a player is waiting for a tile to complete his hand, he is said to be "Calling." (There is only one exception to this rule, and in duegcourse it will be shown, It is a sort of thousand-to-one chance which pro- bably never happens, but still the rules do cover that one chance. You will find this point covered when you come to it.) " 25.--Note: In claiming a discard: "Mah Jongg" has precedence over "Pung" or "Chow," but "Pung" has precedence over '"'Chow. Example: -- Suppose. East has a "four" and *'six" circles, South has a pair of "five" cir- cles, West has his hand complete ex- cept one "five" circle, North discards a "five" circle; East calls "Chow", South would have preference with "Pung", but West gets the tile with the call of "Mah Jongg" and wins the hand, 26.--It happens sometimes that tivo players can call "Mah Jongg" on the same tile,--in which case the player nearest to the discarder (counting con- tra-clockwise), has preference. It is not , first, It is not a question of whether one player calls 'Mah Jongg' by filling a "Pung," or whether to fill a "Chow", or a pair--the scoring value of the play has no bearing on the mat- ter at all, The position of the players around the table decides this point. East and South each have one "five circle" to match up to call "Mah you know where each tile fits into the ; Same. 5--Note: Your will learn all the fun-| damentals of the game with the tiles face up in front of you. Do not tarn the tiles over at all until you have gone right through this first section. 6.--You see that you have-- One set of four tiles: Flowers, - One set of four tiles. Seasons. * Forget all about these for now. "(Better put them back in the box. At the end of the lessons I will deal with' them) One set of four: Green Honors. One set of four: Red Honors. . One set of four: White Honors. One set of four: East Winds. One set of four. North Winds. One set of four: South Winds. s~8~You have three "suits" which acters" These are numbered from one to nine, 'and there are four of each number in each suit. 9-+-The "ones" and the "nines" are called rminalé They "have the same face-Valud.as the Honors and the Winds, Now let us consider--The whole game is before us. . i 10.--There is a "Wind-Box"" and an indicator for each of the four winds. *11.--Dice, and Counters (Chips), We will deal with the Wind box of the chips when we come to use them. The, dice of course, you understand, 13.--"Mah " is'zx game of Jongg," and North discards a five cir- | cle, both ll "Mah Jongg" but Eist gets the tile and wins the hand. If three players call "Mah Jongg" on the same tile 'when discarded by the fourth player--the game is a draw. Nobody scores and the Bank passes to the next player, This is hardly ever likely to happen--still this rule covers the play. You will grasp the idea at once, how a hand is completed, if you look at the key of the game. For instance in the "suits"' take four sets 'of. three tiles, from any one of the three suits, in any direction, and any pair, and you have a completed hand. Examples: "chance and skill combined. 13.~It7is played by four players, cach one of whom represents one of the ds, . 14~You do not play "partners" each player plays for himself. h | of the e $i Ex: "four-fivessi be as, "our-fivesix 17.--A sequence must not be that three tiles, 18.~In order to go "game" (calk "Mah Jongg"! )--You' must have a the tile mare ° pair in Sou hand. 19--The hand is co ted players, in turn, ie » from the wall. or claiming a tile. If the drawn tile fils his hand it is retained, and a useless tile discard- ed. If the tile does not fit in, it may be ; scared, or not, as the player sces t. -------- 30.--A player can claim another player's discard under certiin condi- but it must be claimed immedi- uly discarded. Only the last tile may be claimed, and if not that hand. Figure 1 SB [En 7|7|% oil 4 © 00 00 \ a4 : 00 00 ° ° ,at once it becomes dead for 31. --"Chow";: tile to complete a sequence, buf only if the tile is discarded by the player on his left. In this case the player calls Chow" and places the three tiles on his right, face up. He then discards, ' + 33--"Pung". Any player can claim tile, to make up 3 of have a pair already in player claiming under these calls "Pung", takes the tile A player can claim a Oo o y : 'Figure 2 These are quite the simplest hands and are of quite low scorifig value. + If you include Honors and Winds in the hand, there must a be three (or a question of who calls "Mah Jongg" | '| ment. which the old 100th Royal Cana-| {silver from the Officers' Mess of the T = a four) of the same Honor or Wind, Your one necessary pair may be a pair of any Honor or Wind. | MASSA SN ANNRRSRRS Figure 3- In learnirig the game you had better start using the correct word for each play. (Avoid confusion.) . A "Chow" is the word used in de- claring sequence of three tiles (con- secutive numbers of the -same suit) completed by a tile discarded by the player on his left. A "Pung" is the word used to de- clare "three of a kind" when complet- ed by a tile discarded by another play- er. i « "Mal{ Jongg" is the call declaring the player's hand is complete, Flowers, 4 A Character Suit 'Bamboo Suit. Circle Suit ~ of fo] | f Wl mM | om W m |m mo mM oo Won co? oo (of Blof fo of Rn ® id 0 ao cow fv of oof wl] of of fof § 3 of >| SOON ON DDDPVDNN NN (To Be Continued) GLORIOUS HISTORY Some time 'during the months. of April. and May in the year 1858 there was raised at Quebec, as an expres- sion of loyalty on the part of certain officers of the Canadian Militia, a battalion for service in India during the Indian Mutiny. The first com- manding officer was .Baron de Rot- tenburg, at that time Adjutant- Gen- eral of the Canadian Militia, and he had for his second in command Ma- Jor Dunn, of Toronto, who had won the Victoria Cross at Balaclava. The unit was known as the 100th Prince of Wales' Royal Canadian Regiment, The 100th Foot, as it was then known, proceeded to Shorncliffe wheré King Edward VII, then Prince qf Wales, presented it with | colors bearing the honor 'Niagara' in commemoration of the deeds dofie by a previous regiment of the same number, the 100th (H.R.H. Prince Regent's) County of Dublin Regi- ment, which was disbanded in 1818. This regiment, although raised in Ireland, had spent most of its time in Canada where it built up a great record, The honor of bearing the | title of tie Prince of Wales having been conferred on the newly formed regiment it took his title and was clothed as a royal regiment, namely, scarlet with blue facings. and bore the crest of the Princé of Wales as a badge. In the reorganization of the army in 1881, when infantry battaliops of the British Army were allotted to de- finite territorial areas, the Prince of Wales 100th Foot, in view of the place of grigin of the 100th H.R.H, Prince Regent's County of Dublin Regiment, was assigned to Leinster under the new name of the 1st Bat- talion, Prince of Wales' Leinster Regiment, (Royal Canadians) and was linked with the 109th (B&mbay Infantry) Regiment which became the second Battalion. After service in India and elsewhere, where it won distinction the 1st Battallon Lein- ster Regiment, as it was then com- monly called, came to Canada and was stationed at Halifax until the 'South African War, when it was re- lieved by the Royal Canadian Regi- This was the last occasion on | dians were on the soil of the coun- try of their birth. During the Great War the Leinster won distinction as fighters in the manner of all Irish soldiers. In 1922, on Southern Ireland becaming a do- minjon of the British Empire, re- sponsiblg for its own defense, to the great regrot of King George V the disbandment of the Leinster, Regi- ment had to be ordered, -------- Trophies to Candida. In 1923 the beautiful collection of 1st Battalion wag offered to the Canadian gove mnt in token of Written In Sliver in the Marvellous Collections of the Old 100th Prince of Wales Royal Canadians Which- Is Now at Royal Military College. ls esteem for the couniry of its origin. 4 OF OLD REGIMENT - The Canadian government gratefully actepted the gift in trust for the regiment in the earnest lope that some day reorganization of the army of the empire may find a place for the unit to be revived and carry on the traditions of the old 100th Prince of Wales' Royal Canadian Regiment. The following year, through the influence of the Minister of National Defence, the Hon. E. M. MacDonald, and at the suggestion of Major-Gen- eral J. H.-McBrien, Chief of Staff, the government consented to this sil- ver being placed in the care of the Royal Military College where it ar- rived a few days ago. and is now on display in an alcove especially fitted up for the EE At a date which he himself will name, the Hon. E. M. MacDonald, Minister of National Defence, will make a formal presentation of the silver to the College. -- 'Wonderful Collection. The tollection is one of the finest that could be seen anywhere. It would require a corps of experts to estimate the actual' value of the col- lection from an intrinsic and artistic point of view. It is doubtful if its historical value could be successfully computed by any living man. The different pieces--and there are. one 'hundred and five of them all told-- are of a pleasing variety and yet there runs through all a strain of the great traditions and accompligh- ments of the officers and men of the regiment and strong reflections of nearly every spot in the vast British Empire--for it was the lot of the regiment to serve in almost all the domains sheltered under the Union Jack. Some of the largest and most outstanding pieces are enumerated below, -- Outstanding Picces. The Commander-in-Chief's Shield ~---in India; for shooting; beautifully worked silver shield with figures in relief; black frame; inscribed "Win- ners of His Excellency Sir Donald Stewart's, Commander-in-Chief in India, prize, 1881-1882. © 3 Bayonet Fighting Shield--a silver maple leaf on copper background; five points of leaf plaques represent. ing shooting, bayonét fighting, cric- ket, tug-of-war, football; eleven little maple leaves are placed around the edge with inscriptions of the win- ning companies of the battalion. The Leicester Trophy--a Corinth- ian pillar, surmounted by a figure of victory; on either side are figures of soldiers in silver; it is a truly mar- vellous trophy; on the four sides of the square base are represented a lion, the crest of the Prince of. Wales, an Irish harp and two crossed maple leaves; at the base of the trophy is inscribed "This trophy was purchas- ed with I the legacy left by the late Lieut, Henry Claude Leicester matinee dnd ni Wind Indicators. Tree ™ West. | for the benefit of the 1st Battalion, Leinster Regiment, and is to be in- scribed each year with the name of the company which, in the opinion of the officer commanding, has done most forthe credit of the battalion during the year." Eleven companies' names are inscribed on the pillar. Large Candelabra--with nine candle burners and pink = shades; height is three feet six inches and whole design is of ornate silver; three regimental crests are engraved on the base; another~beautiful piece. Silver Mounted Horse-hoof Snuff Box---one of the most interesting of a collection fairly teeming with stories of great deeds; made from the hoof of '"'Chatsworth;" silver model of horse jumping is engraved on the lid; it is inscribed. "In mem- ory. of Chatsworth, winner of Grand Annual Hurdle Race and | Tall-ho Plate, Calcutta, 1886; Hastings Plate, Cachar, 1887; and many other races in Australia and India." Pair of Elephant Tusks--inseribed "These tusks were given to Capt. Shdkespear by the Luker chiefs as a token of submission, The Bengal government allowed Capt. Shake- spear to retain them in recognition of his services as Assistant Political Officer, South. Lushai Hills." The tusks are supported by silver shields and across each shield a pair of spears are done with sliver tassels hanging therefrom. The inscription is on two p ites on the ebony base. Comma Jer-in-chiet"s Bowl in India--t) s is one of three or four most aw ging pleces of work; it is of beaten .ndian silver; no handles; Burme : work is done on the plinth; inscri' 4d on the cup may be found "Cop. pander-in-chief"s Prize, 1888." On f é plinth is inscribed "Presented by "is Excellency Sir Frederick Rob- ert, VC, G.C.B, GCIE, Com- m Ader-in-chief in India, for compe- t lon in India by the British regi- fhents of all India and wom by the 1st Battalion Prince of Wales' Lein- ster Regiment (Royal Canadians) under the command of Lt.-Col. D. W. McKinnon." Wooden Silver Case--containing sash and drum stick. The inscription reveals the story: "Sash worn by Sgt.-Major Dempsey, 100th Royal Canadians, during the 1812 campaign including the storming of Niagara, Drum stick etl in the same campaign." Box Containing Two Swords and Scabbards--these swords gt into a glass case; one is inscribed *"Present- ed as a mark Of respect to Capt. Neuralgia Conquered Its Pain Destroyed Mr. W. T. Greenway, formerly connected with the Guide news- papér staff, has written: "For ' in our home, and not for the world would we be. without it. As a remedy for all pain, earache, toothache, cramps and disordered I know of no. prepara« Mounted Glass | modities included, shows a drop of George MacCartney, commanding the Paris Volunteers Rifle Company, by the officers, N.C.O.'s and privates on the occasion of his appointment to a captaincy in the 100th Royal Cana- dian Regiment, Paris, Canada West, 1st May, 18%8." The dating of it with the phrase "Canada West" is particularly interesting. The other sword is of great historical interest. |} It is the sword carried by Sergt.- Major Dempsey of the 100th Foot at the storming of Fort Niagara, Pec. 19th, 1813. | It would be inipossiMe to give a description of the complete collection without us™g a book to do so. The Inventory book, & beautiful thing | done in blue with the silvenggrest of | the Princg of Wales raised on the cover, is printed on parchment and | contains short and terse descriptions, and yet it is full. - In the display are cups and tro- phies of all sizes for footbal], tug-of- war, shooting, bayonet fighting, rid- ing, obstacle races, "Hockey, military tournaments, hurdle races and mounted events, athletic events, be- sides a large number of pieces donat- ed by officers on appointment, trans- fer, retirement or promotion. One trophy is for ice hockey, with a skate and three hockey sticks in attractive design. The only explanation is that it was won during the time the regi- ment was quartered at Halifax be- fore the South African War. 4 There is a canoe design, a Cana- dian sleigh, champagne bottles (what pathos), a beautiful little mortar, a model of a modern field gun, loving cups, giant bowls with handles and without, large silver lamps, four-handled Irish loving cups, a photograph album, a solid mahogany letter rack, an autograph- ed photograph of the present Prince of Wales, and all manner of silver prizés and remembrances big and small. . Truly it is a wonderful acquisition for R.M.C. General Macdonell, that grand old warrior, haunts the alcove where it is on display and he will never be satisfied until he has identi- fied each plece and knows its history. He is immensely proud of the collec- |! tion, as he has every right to be, and is to be congratulated on having secured it for Canada's great mili- tary imstitution with the co-opera-| tion of Hom. 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