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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1927.
SPORTS
HOLIDAY GOLF.
R.H.K.G.C. STARTING TIMES ANNOUNCED.
TWO DAYS' PLAY.
The Royal Hong Kong Golf Club starting times for New Your Day and January 2 are as follows
New Year's Day,
9.24 a.m. A. R. Cox and J.
H.
E. D.
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CENTRE FORWARDS.
WHAT ARE THEIR REAL DUTIES?
SCORING OR LEADING.
THE CHINA MAIL,
Now, discussing all that, ist us ROWING PROBLEMS."- HOLIDAY CRICKET.
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DIFFICULTIES,
SWIVEL & FIXED ROWLOCKS.
GAMES FOR TO-DAY AND MONDAY.
MANY "FRIENDLIES."
tures for the week-end holiday
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assume that the contre-forward's 'main job is to acore goals. Is it easy to get goale? Defences these THE ORTHODOX OARSMAN'S days are not giving much away and they always have the pull over the attacker; they can kick the ball any- Of course, Mr. Jones has an ex-
where when clearing, but the for- collent chance of winning, because
ward has to get the ball into a he is an excellent golfer, but there Not so very long ago, writer Jack space, 8 yards wide by feet high are a score of British professionals Fowler, Swansen and Wales centre and to do that he must. beat a Daily Telegraph" on October 14 I In an article published in "The who have an equal chance-but who forward, I was a compulsory lis- goalkeeper. And that is the most wrote of the impetus that has been do not start level. The confidence tener to two football supporters difficult job in football.
given to the desire to use swivel- of the holder is supported and who wore discussing the relative We are thinking at the moment led rowlocks by the fact that the buoyed up by generous praise while merits of the various positions on that the leader's job is only to get Thames and London crewa, which Now Is he to wait until fought out the final of the Grand our own confidence is undermined a football field. They did not know goals. because we are told that we have me, and I did not join in the con- someone makes a mistake; go and Challenge Cup at Henley this year, not the faith of our own people. versation, though I was sorely fetch the ball for himself or rely both made
British golf is very good indeed. tempted when one of the enthusiasts upon his colleagues to give him the pointed out that college and club, use of them, and I could name a dozen young players made the startling statement that ball? I'll dismiss the first case and captains should give very whose shot production is as good the contre-forward berth was one of deal with the second. Just picture consideration to the matter before deep as that of any of the mastere, Eng- the easiest in a team and certainly for a moment, a centre-forward they decide to drop the use lish or American.
the easiest in the forward lino. rambling all over the field fetching axed rowlocks, writes
of But where the critica are. right Unfortunately, the conversation the ball for himself and trying to Blue. The first consideration is, An Old Kthere is in what they say about our ceased before explanations were score.
of course, one of expense, for not lack of training. We do not take made, but it has given me cause for
He would soon be labelled a poor only would so seriously as game
the wonder.
new riggera Now is the centre-for-player, for he would never be inquired, but new sets of cars. Dr. Americana; we have not the same ward berth cagy? That depends on position, and, I fear, he would soon Bourne, to whose, book most so. capacity for infinite pains, but that what a centre-forward is supposed be labelled selfish.
called orthodox oursmen to do?
would is a national trait.
Thus, he is left to rely, to a great turn for guidance, is allemt on the Many people have the idea that extent, upon the support he receives subject. Mr. Fairbairn, on the a centre-forward has one job and from his colleagues, and especially other hand, has A couple of para- UNIVERSITY 2ND XI v. POLICE one alone to do, if he wishes to be from the inside forwarda and the graphs on it, in which he not only successful-that is to score goals. centre-half-back. When he is given praises the swivel, but derides the the ball and the opportunities orthodox finish. The chief con- by the ati ar players, it becomes a tribution to the solution, how-day at 2 p.m. on the University This League match takes place to-
Or Yokohama- matter of skill whether he succeeds ever, is contained in the heading ground.
On demand or not; but no player, centre-for-of a paragraph which reads, University:-F. Hiptoola (capt.),] Gold Leaf, 100 Ene ward or anywhere else, can always "Swivel rowlocks are best for W..M. Gittins, Dr. M. B. Osman,
(per tael). good watermen." The italics are. B. Sulleman, B. N. Sudan, K. T. Savereligna mine,
And when I add that Mr. Loke, A. Chan Fook, S. R. Kermani, ing rate) Fairbairn has not hitherto given B. H. Schroter, S. F. Chen and Silver (per oz) swivels to his junior crews, the H. T. M. Barma. Reserve: G. E. Bar Silver in Hong heading becomes more instructive Yeoh. than ever.
Kong
2% prem. Good watermen are
Chinese Copper Cash nom.
9.28
Bottomley,
Wood and
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Matthews.
S. T. Butlin and
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Littlejohn,
F. M. Ellis and
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E. C.
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W. C. Clark and W. A. Weight.
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9.48
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9.50
R. S. Smith and F. Syme Thomson.
10.00
10.04
10.08
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Sir Joseph Kemp and
E. R. Hallifax.
H. L. Mackenzie and
F. G. Fowle,
H. Spicer and G. W.
Gardiner.
C. C. Stark and K S. Robertson:
A. O. Brawa and T. C.
10.16
Monaghan.
10.20
W. Ironside and
A. E.
Lissaman.
10.24
T. D. E. Pendered and
L. G. S. Dodwell.
10.28
G. Murray and R. War
10.32
10,36
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L. Yates and J. Coút-| thart.
R. M. Finlayson and II. F. Farr.
Monday, January 2, 1928,
1.24 .m. F. S. Thomson and A. D..
Humphreys.
W. Ironside and G. S.
Archbutt.
J. F. Kennedy and A. Morley,
F. A. Ferry and F. Cow- herd.
W. L. Dunbar and A. Leach.
the
We, as a nation, are less pain- staking than our opponents, be- Cause we are naturally more pro- ficient. The machine made golfer
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succeed,
His First Thought. Emphatically, a centre-forward's first thought must be to keep the line moving, by being the connect ing link between the two wings, and, if he is to become the goal- Acorer-in-chief of a team, it is up to the other members to give him the chances.
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scarce; they are seldom barn, and UNIVERSITY "B" v, CLUB DE are generally the product of years of oarsmanship. There are ad-
RECREIO. vantages in both forms, but I do not tifink they have
This friendly match takes ever been on Monday, at 2 p.m. on the clearly thought out or that the versity ground. right conclusions have been drawn. For if there is one position where The chief difference between the Chan Fook, A. B. Sulieman, University: S. R. Kermani, foraging on one's own account, at two forms lies at the finish of the Hoshimi, S. F. Chen, B. H. Schroter, least leaving one's position, is stroke. Only the most perfect A. A. Aziz, K. T. Loke, P. L Tan, dangerous, it is that of centre-waterman could obtain what is de H. T. M. Barma and A. N. Other. forward.
manded in an orthodox finish if he
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After all, if the centre-forward used the swivelled type, and even does get many, or most of the goal-ho would have to make some slight
oar against the aft, or stopping, scoring chances, there is a logical concessions.
The orthodox oarsman is taught thole. The only thing that can be reason for it. He is between two wings, and it is, most often, their to finish the stroke by keeping upcited in its favour is that the noise on the oar handle it makes gives a valuable aid to. principal job to put the ball into the pressure the middle, and I will admit that until the last possible moment, the crew in attaining uniformity. many times when they succeed the that is, until the hands have come This I doubt. That an centre-forward has an easy job to in to, or to my mind, better. still, rattle can annoy the coach on the score. But what if they don't get have been stopped by, the chest, bank I am sure, but I do not think the ball into the middle; what if The blade is to be kept immersed it is of the least assistance to the the wings or the inside men are off to its full depth until that moment, crew in timing the finish. form? Who suffers? This I will so that every ounce of work done comes too late. The Hon. J. W. not anawer.
at the handle has its correspond. Fremantle in some notes on row- Let us consider any outstanding ing weight at the blade held against ing, published soon after the war,
as solid a fulcrum as contre-forward-a man who hne
possible. compared the effect of 80lb. weight scored a great number of goals. in a sharp downward movement of stopping thole to that which would Immediately the hands have come of oars slipping back against the Analyse the team with which he has the hands depresses the oar handle, be caused by a giant with an 80 lb. played, and I am certain that you and consequently raises the blade sledge hammer hitting the bows of will find he has two clever inalde square out of the water. It is then the boat at the end of each stroke. without months of arduous train- Division side. That is, in a team forwards to back him up. There turned on the feather, and if the Of course, he was wrong, for the C. W. Jeffries and A. O. ing and dieting. The same with the that prides itself upon playing foot. 18 certainly credit due for his downward thrust of the hands is sledge hammer would not be part
C. B. Brown, and N. K. Littlejohn.
A. E. Lissaman and K. 3 Robertson.
is a dangerous factor in champion- ship play, because of his precision, and I am in agreement with the critics in their denunciation of our rather careless methods.
What We Want,
9.28
0.32
J. H. Little and W. R. Mansfield.
9.36
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9,40
9.44
9.48
9.52
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9.50
11
10.00
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E. R. Hallifax,
10.04
10.08
Brawa.
10.12
F. Taylor and E D. Matthews.
annual boat race.
10.16
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10.20
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R. M. Smith Davidson.
arid
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P. P. J. Wodehouse and
G. Murray and J. L.
Shellshear.
A. P. Bungey and Mayes.
10.24 S. S. Ferry and
1
Ellis.
10.28 J. W. Robertson
Of course, we should train for championships. Why not? Every other athlete denies himself by way A boxer does not go into the ring of preparation for the big thing.
At once, let me say that scoring goals is, of course, the prime object of a centre-forward, but so it is of any forward or half-back for that matter, if he gets the chance.
But I am insistent upon this; the centre-forward who concentrates solely upon scoring goals, to the exclusion of other duties that are hold his place long in a Second necessary to the position, will not
Have you ever heard the centre-
forward referred to as the "leader"?
It may not be necessary for us golfers to be quite so thorough in That means the leader of the attack, our training, but I am certainly of and adequately sums up what is ex- E. C. the opinion that we should focuspected of a centre-forward; he must our minds on the championship at lead the forward line. He must be F. M. least a month before it begine, and the connecting link between the two set aside all other considerations in wings of his team in attack. and preparing for it.
Scoring Only.
but he has been greatly dependent on this assistance.
-Personal Experience.
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THE KING'S YACHT. danger of a "crab" is incurred. [oars are. That is, I think, a fair description The only way in which the DOUBT IF HE WILL EVER of the finish as postulated by Dr, rattle of the oars can affect the
GET RID OF "BRITANNIA." Warre and all the great orthodox pace of the boat is by setting up As a centre-forward. I know teachers, and, but for one point, vibration in the boat's skin, thus whether it is caay or not,
London, Nov. 14. I have on which no stress has been laid, increasing the friction of the water had some success both in goal it could be practised with fixed or against the bout. But riggers and
"Nobody loves a ship as His scoring and keeping a line together, swivalled rowlocks alike, if suffi- boats are not so rigid as all that, Majesty loves Britannia," said and, am not likely to belittle men cient quickness were attained. and I doubt if much jar is com-Major Hunloke, the commander That Is one of the things that
who have done so well in the same What Teachers Stipulate.
municated to the skin of the beat. of the King's yacht, replying at and we want. Another, is a little That is not scoring goals. It is position, but at the same (me, I
And it must be remembered that the Press Club "Seafaring Orthodox and sympathy where heretofore we keeping the attack going, After cannot overlook the fact that I have
unorthodox it is only the bad oarsman wifo, by Night" dinner on Saturday night J. have had more of destructive criti-all, you don't score many goals from my inside men to thank for much preacher all stipulate that the pushing the loom of the our sharp-to the toast of "Sail"
body shall be swung past the per-ly against the stopping thole, forty-five yards; the majority of. of my success,
"I doubt if he will ever get rid pendicular. Mr. Fairbairn would causes much noise or jar. When am quite sure that this goals are scored from less than ten When Swansea were doing so
seem score well a few seasons ago, we had back than Dr. Bourne. supremacy of Americh golfers is yards; and before you can
to prefer a greater swing hard pressure has been kept of her " he added. 1. A. MacKay and no more than a passing phase. In you must get the ball
"The King, too, likes a yacht on But the against the pulling thole to the to within Deacon and Thompson in the inside hands, if they have been brought very end of the stroke, the sudden which he can take a large num J. H. M. Andrew, defence of our own showing, one scoring distance. If you agree positions and Joe Sykes playing at into contact with the body, cannot sesaation of power will cause the ber of guests, and "Britannia" en- 10.48 T. Low and J. Bentley, might draw attention to the fact with that, and I think you will, then centre half-back. You may take it be dropped vertically if the body spring inherent in the rigger to abled him to do this. To build a
that golf in America is practically what is the use of a centre-forward from
that no three men in the past the perpendicular. MANY OF THEM SHOULD modern and the American people who cannot take his part in the at- country could make it so easy for must be dropped towards the stern have arrived at the stopping thole now cost something like £40,000, They flick the whole oar aft, and it will new boat like "Britannia" would BE BUMPED.
have gone almost crazy on it. tacking work, but is only good for a centre-forward as they can when Already it rivals baseball as the finishing it off? Very little, I ven- they are at the top of their form. of the boat. Then, if the loom of by the time the hands have drop- although she was
bullt for national game.
But I should be very bold if I said pulling thole, as it is in a swivel, and very little noise and no jar will
the oar is held fast against the pad and before they shoot away. £9,000. the position, playing with thers the blade of the oar must move result. For these reasons it does the crew, as few young men now "It would be difficult to replace even, was the easiest position on towards the bows, and if the blade not appear to me that the field.
atarts from a fully immersed posi- ability of the fixed rowlock lies at
the dis-go in for yacht spiling. All the
I
M. H. Ivy.
10.32
1
J. D. H. Crawford
J. W. Alabaster.
and
cism,
10.40
C. B. Johnson and L. R. Andrewes.
10.40
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W. Adamson
Coulthart.
DISCOURAGING PROFESSIONALS.
very Billy,
I
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There are immense money prizes for the professors who receive very much more encouragement than do ours, The wave of enthusiasm which has spread over America has
ture to say.
British triumph-it might occur in this present championship-will act
It is not, writes Jack Smith, at all encouraging to the young golfer to be told that British golf is on the wane, that the Americans are
object of scoring goals, and no is clear. The least of the resultant is its chief advantage over the came from, with the exception of No position is made with the sole tion it must back water before it this point, but that, in fact, here fishing boats, where the men our masters, that we ought to be swept along in its path the right as a goad and you will see British position can be really easy if evils will be the checking of the run awivel,
the boats from one port, have ashamed of ourselves. I suppose atmosphere for achievement. golf climbing to its former pre-has to rely upon the good form and of the boat. our crities are sincore, but they are But the tide will turn. A big eminence.
motors:”AR work of players in other positions.
Loss from Friction. But in the fixed rowlock there le
The point, to my mind, at which
Major Hunloke 'added that the a provision, originally accidental, the ewivel is immeasurably superior "Britannia" was thirty-five years which overcomes this backward is in the pulling. thole. With the old, had sailed 319 times, and had The two fixed thole- fixed pattern, however well-greas won 187 first and 64 other prizes. pins have to be placed far enough ed the button, the friction between apart to prevent the oar locking the leather and the wood thole pin said
"So far as I am concerned," when the carsman is full forward, must be far greater than that be- Domvile, Director of Naval Intel- Rear-Admiral Barry and as the oar makes a smaller tween the moving metal part of the ligence, "I can assure you every- angle with the line of the eill in thole and the steel pin on which thing possible will go to the Press, the forward position than it does it turns in the swivel, for in this I hate secrecy myself, and I be at the finish, the distance between type the button does not move in lieve there is a lot of undue the thole-pins has to be greater relation to the moving metal thale,
What sort of assistance do they think they render us when they do the "Dismal Jimmy" business and tell us before the start that we are beaten. They create a wrong at- mosphere. It is written that golf is a temporamental game, that the mental side of it is very important, and how and again you will find the lich extended to the point of "unnecessary rudeness.
I once saw it stated that the average British professional was lacking in mentality.
XMAS EVE BUT NO REST
FOR THE SOCCER PLAYER
prin LAST
But if the SATURDAY
SAW
critics want to do the thinking for us, should it not occur to them that there is quite a lot in "maas suggestion" and if they create an impression that we are no good, then that impression haunts and affects our play.
THE PLAY
WAS THERE
AND.
Incidentally, it is all wrong. Better golf is being played to-day than at any previous time, and TRE- among the best golfers in the world
are young Britons whose careers. Ife
MOSTLY
ahead of them. It is not for me THERE
to suggest ways and means of en couraging young golfers, but I can, and do, protest against discourag- ing them
Championship Forecast. This is being written on the eve of the Championship, and already the experts have aired their know ledge in print. They have said; 1 expect, that Mr. Bobby Jones will go very near to the retention of his title, and that if not he then some other American will walk away with the Cups
If we professionals are not men tally proficient, isn't that the very stuff which makes jus, go into the field as though we were engaged in a hopeless quest, Burely it would. be much better if we were able to read that we have a very fine chance. of.......... avenging ourselves! on ~ the #Americans, "That would make us
feel as if we could "do the trick
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INTERPORTERS THE NAVY HAD THE
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BALL TO KICK OFF WITH.
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THEMSELVES HOST OF THE GAME
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movement.
than is necessary to prevent lock-and there is no friction here. With secrecy,"
ing at the latter position. So there the fixed thole the oar is not only Commodore Sir James Charles, is freedom of movement at the rubbing round the wooden pin, but, Captain of the "Aquitania re- finish, and the whole car can move by the action of the button on the sponding for the Merchant Ser- aft in a parallel position for some inner side, is being drawn against vice, with which he had been.con- 2 in. During this movement aft at the face of it. Here the friction nected for 47 years, said he did oarsman with only reasonable must be very great.
not think anything had progress-
quickness has time to extricate his blade without the danger of back-xander, who has made deep scienti- passengers by sea.
Oddly enough, neither Mr. Ale ed so much as the carrying of
ing water.
It is strange that. Dr. Bourne and pressures on, the oar, nor Dr. fic researches into the action of, should not have made this point, Bourne, who follows him more or
it
for it is important, whether the less closely, even mentions the prevents freedom at the finish, with rowlock is being discussed or not. existence of this friction. Yet it) a friction producing fixed pulling Mr. Fairbairn, however, pats must be there, and the more powerthole, their only advantage being quite plainly, and,adful the crew the greater it must that they keep a fixed clll. "I was miting that ад orthodox be, and although I have not the unfortunate enough to be a mem finish cannot be obtained with the scientific knowledge to calculate its ber of the Oxford crew on ch swivel, advocates the turning of amount I am sure it must be far Colonel Fletcher tried his dekn the wrists before the dropping of greater in the fired than in the Conched for an orthodox Allah. the hands, and the dropping of the swivelled rowlock In spite of this, which it was impossible to mr the hands before they come in to the the swivel has not shown any vast whole crew was forced to wash- body. In order to turn the. wrists superiority. It supporters would out, and never attained even the before dropping the hands, it is say that that is because it has semblance of pace. Colonel Flet necessary that the top half of the never been given a sufficient trial; cher never used them again, and 1 blade must be already clear of the I think, however, that it is he was very much surprised to find level of the water behind the blade, cause the gain in the matter Dr. Bourse recommending them to otherwise it would be at once more of friction is counteracted the Christ Church four last year. deeply immersed and the oarsman's by a loss of power at the The Lowe pattern, which they used, difficultles increased. Obviously, finish, when the oar fr in the hands had a litog moré platy then the then, he is advocating a wash of any but the most perfect water- Platcher thes, out, and his only method for mani MIT am right in my come nelous, minimising this evil is by demand-As an alternative the remain the phyldes solution, ing "good watermen, for good the rowlocks designed by Colonel tions for the orthodox waterman will extricate, his blade wAL Fletcher and Mr. F. 8. to have
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with less "wash-out than a bad Lowa; which, though varying ping one.
A slightly in design, are founded on ing The Rattle in the Rowlock similar principle. To my mind, Now I come to what has always they combine the worst features been considered the chief fault of of both
that they have sw
the fixed rowlock, the rattle of the
whose wor
as that part
am having a set made test their end