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Malaise in Malay...
...Drohan, a noted soccer player and all-around athlete, will coach the Freshmen this year. Coach Drohan has had 25 years' experience in Europe and America as a soccer player, and has coached teams in Singapore and Penang in the Malay States as an agent of the British government. He has studied physical education for the last few years and will stress conditioning in the early part of the season...
...plantation home of Manuel Quezon, president of the Filipino Senate. Like Caesar in triumph, Mr. Thompson's august entourage proceeded down a flower-strewn path between 3,500,000 coconut trees over 100 feet high-slowly on, on to Lucena, capital of the province, where eager little Malay schoolgirls dressed all in snowy white, held up an immense placard: "Welcome, Mr. Thompson; we are confident of your sense of justice...
...Racially, Filipinos and Moros are homogeneous, both springing from Malayan origins. But in the migrations from Malay there were many distinct tribes, of which the Visayan is now preponderant in the Philippines. The Moros were the last tribe to migrate, after their Mohammedan conversion. They are still classified among the Islands' "wild" tribes and their frequent uprisings against the Visayans are due as much to tribal as to religious animosity...
...trainer and "brother," a Malay lad named Ali, is with him through thick and thin, from the night the bellowing tuskers mill and trample in their first stockade after crushing the life out of Ali's father. Together the two weather a Pacific typhoon; a plunge from a railroad trestle in their boxcar; a 100-mile race against an Arab horse; a pulling-match with four draft horses; a cinema tiger-hunt that turns serious...