THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1928.
Sport Columns
IRISH GOLF.
WHITCOMBE'S TWO GOOD ROUNDS.
has the opportunity of watching
OLYMPIC GAMES.
ARTICLES BY FRED W.
·PARKER.
SWEDEN'S TURN.
THE CHINA MAIL,
that hero play, the chances of him Continuing his series of articles grasping the essential principiop of on the history of the Olympic the game are great.
Games, which he is writing speci-
TEASERS.
Answers to To-day's Questions.
2. The food rained down from
3. One of the segments or faces
On the other hand, the late-aily for the "Athletic News" in
1. John Dunmore Lang, who ar starter is much lesa receptive to vlaw of this year's festival at rived-in-May, 1829.-- auch influence, and his introduc- Amsterdam, Mr. Fred W. Parker Newcastle, Yesterday.
tion to the game should be by tui- deals below with the great 1912 heaven for the children.of larael in Whitcombo accomplished an altlon. That is too seldom done, and Stockholm Olympiad, and reveals the wilderness. most unprecedented feat by rounds the services of a professional, as the true story of Britain's relay into which the surface of a gem. is of 68 and 69 and leads sixty qualif- often as not, are sought only when triumph; t ers with an aggregate of 187 in the bad golfing habita have been ac Sweden has undertaken to atage Irish golf test.
quired and included in the learn-the Afth Olympiad on a somewhat Ing the new, is the dificult taek less lavish scale than the. London of a complete discard of the old.celebration: but circumstances are
F Keen Americans.
occasionally stronger than the
Other Scores.
Compston 69-144.
Mitchell 71-144,
Duncan (holder) 77-153. Havers 76-159. Ray 75-150. The foregoing scores count for the championship together with the 86 holes final to be played to- morrow.
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I had a letter the other day from best intentions. Again we had a young Edinburgh man, who went
cut to Increnso its brilliancy.
4. Moses. 6. The Titanic. 6. Jpb.
twelve full days in the Stadium, a ITALY'S GRANARY. out to the United States a year magnificent and costly structure ago to enter the game professional that could challenge comparison FUTURE OF TRIPOLL, ONE-TIME ly. He had not long to walt for a with any of its forerunnore. job, and he writes to say that he There was no Sunday "break" at GRANARY OF ROMAN EMPIRE. bas, been truly amazed with the Stockholm-indeed, the Sabbath demanda made upon his time for programmes were particularly full ones. The daily start at 9.30
A PROPOSAL FOR PRACTICAL | tenehing:
FACILITIES.
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ITALIAN KING'S VISIT.
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Early and late during the sea-proved a trifle too early for some Italy to Tripolitaala is something The recent visit of the King of san he is kept busy, and the of the men; they were absent at more than a mere ceremonial tour. majority of his pupils are middle the roll-call,
It is the complement, of Signor aped business men. They are not
And twelve hours later, on cer- Mussolini's visit two years ago.
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THE SHARE MARKET.
A correspondent, who takes his content to remain potterers; they' golf very seriously and is keen to have an eye on the possibility of tain daya, we were watching the. Without the least's historical ex- effect some improvement, writes to becoming "birdie shooters," and closing stages of the football aggeration it can be asserted that suggest that extended facilities sooner or later they mean to attain matches. "Strenuous, Stockholm," the coming of Signor Mussolini might be offered by Edinburgh that distinction.
would have been a suitable tele- marked the awakening of Italy's -Corporation for learning and de-
Of course, the average business graphic address.
consciousness that she is a Colonini veloping one's game.
man in the United Statea has more. A Sweltering Sabbath. Power with Colonial responsibili- He points out that since the money to spend on his pleasures The Marathon was run on the ties. That awakening has been fol publie putting course became popu-than the golfer in this country." second Sunday. There was no lowed up by two years of inten lar, his work on the greens has im- There is something more than that, extra half-hour in bed" for some, sive labour and progress. It is ac proved enormously, and his two however, in this determination to, for the middle-weight wrestling cordingly as a witness of the ne- children, who have now ambitions acquire skill-something essential-final was at 8.30 a.m. that day. towards the long game, are start-ly American.
complished fact that king Victor ing out on their golfing careers us
As-was the case in London, came hare; and the nation accepts Such tenacious devotion, how-Marathon day was by far the hot- the, cermonies as a token of still remarkably sound putters,
The value of the putting greens, in fashioning one's self ao relent-glass in the deep shade of
ever, may be carried too far, and, test of any during the Games. The more labour and progress to come. quite apart from the quiet enjoy-lessly, one may miss the real ea- stadium arch hovered about
the It is in her own Colonies that{ the Fascist Italy is urging penetration. ment they provide, is not likely to sence of the game-true enjoyment. 100 degrees mark.'
It is in the reclaiming of the one-
[By Edith Shackleton.) be denied, and he asserts that the Corporation might well consider
Probably the heat suited the time granary of the Roman Em-
After many years of steady toil the provision of a golf practice!
South Africana, who finished first pire that she is making her expan- a woman had reached a minor. al- net in some of the open spaces in
and second. Perhaps it was forsion and is directing the flow of her tunate the stalwart M'Arthur' Continental population, writes altitude at which she became visible coveries about the overyday life of Chartered Bank the city, or at the Braid Hills ifj it were thought desirable, where) wonden club play in particular} might be practised. It's position
is that he has little or no oppor- tunity of visiting the private club
of which he is a member except popular times, when the
at the
possible.
I am not at all sure
"should imagine that the request | would not be difficult to meet by! any club executive.
The First Rawness.
"Sports Despatch."
DOG RACING.
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THE BENEFITS OF CONTROL.
[By W. H. Clarke.] It is pleasing to note that the powerful influence of the Fress is being used in favour of the con-
govora professional sport, or per- The self sacrifice of P. J. Baker, haps it would be better to say the and the splendid way in which he principal minor sports, such as "nursed" and sheltered his rival whippet racing and pedestrianism."blue" and compatriot, A. N. Jack Scotland took a similar step, and son, is too well known to need en- later Wales followed suit.
larging upon new.
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proved the winner. Big man, he cial correspondent from Tripoli to the compilers of a certain bio- the town. I still remember the de- Marcantile A. & B. was he visibly faltered under the
to the "Morning 'Post."
do. graphical reference book, and so licious luncheon I ate with the White Count Volp! was Governor burden of the huge garland of his industrial and financial genius they sent for a form
local big-wigs at the only hotel. to fill up.
"Then there are the ducks you evergreen thrown over his should reconstructed Tripoli as an, up-to-Being a truthful and tidy woman,, try to keep secret because every-unton Insurance era as he entered the stadium. He date port, an outlet for the new-she replied carefully to all the body says you are a complete idiot Union Insurance.... 1324 b &' managed to carry the incubus past found commercial productiveness of questions about. parentage, up to allow yourself to steal them-Yangtze Insurancs... 350 the post before falling, but course is busy, and in these cir- tral of sport, and particularly smaller man might have found it point for the traffle routes into the and, with equal care; when she some of the same breed themselves! China Fire Insurance $230 the Tripolitan area, and a starting bringing, career and heir to title, though I daresay they all steal China Underwriters $214 cumstances practice is almost im-! greyhound racing. The matter was like the "last straw" at the end of African hinterland. Without aban-
discussed with regard to the latter a long struggle in that killing heat. doning such gains the present came to the
sometimes. They are the sudden H.E. Fire Insurance. $740
Shipping. space opposite "Re-bouts of house-painting, of uphol- Douglaser that the last year, but there was not the Our two wins at Stockholm, the Governor, General de Bono, pias creations," she wrote "Stealing stery or dressmaking I have now K. Stewmboats Corporation would consider the'|
$964 project feasible, even with a small same necessity then because it was 1,500 metres and the short relay, his faith in the agricultural future Ducks."
$284 and then in defiance of good sense K. Tags & Lighters $21 charge, but if there were a demand hoped all the new grounds would were both due in a great measure of the Colony, and he has shown
"Why, you never stole a duck in are less highly paid than I am can Shell Transports-
and economy. I know experts who Indo-Chinas (Prat) from a body of club members e afiliated with the Manchester to careful planning. The tactica to King Victor the work already
do. (Def.). 305 Greyhound Company."
to be adopted by our two "hopes" done in reclaiming the land for your life," said an indignant, make dining-room curtains. or Water-boata About Ave years ago a meeting in the longer race had been the productive efforts.".
literal. friend who saw the form, paint the doors yellow, or make a
Minlog. was hold in Manchester and it was theme of many a long confab in
Room For 30,009 Familles. but another with a better memory striped slk. dinner-gown better Benguate....... $1 decided to form an association to the privacy of their bedroom.
than I can, but if I couldn't dabble Kalian Hining Ad. 30% cultivation in the oases, the Italian quotation from
Apart from the already developed supplied the rest of the familiar -Certain it is that for a novice
Government works hand in hand English Grammar: "God has given! "Perhaps it would be better," Shanghai Tomos ....
in other people's-work-new-and
Langkats (Combined), T12.20 Whatshismame's then I should burst."
do (Single). T5,00 course is not always the most con
with the new settlers at the task
Shanghal Explorations T2.80
T34 venient place to learn the rudi-
of getting the best out of the soil you health and strength, instead one of the friends suggested, "to ch ments of the game, but almost in
Farm land is not given outright to of which you go variably that is where the first
about stealing make it Instead-of-whiching." It Docks, Wharves, 'steps in golf are laboriously made.
the newcomer, but la vested in ducks.”
doesn't do to be too .obscure." "
Codawnx. &E. If practice nets existed, the first tion progress was slow, but it was As in all matters of this descrip-
him and his family in the form of "I should have thought there it doesn't."
"No," agreed the duck-stealer, H.K. & K. Whatver rawness might be rubbed off be sure, and gradually the
Similarly, the relay win was concessions, which carry an obliga- would be lots of duckstealers," said; pen through her first entry in the Hongkows
And she drew her K. & W. Docks Ching. Providents Dssocia-earned by careful planning, There;tion on the part of the Government the woman who had become an in- "Recreations" space and wrote: New Engineering fore a beginner launched himself on i course, a start which might tion spread. To-day there is hard-were several conferences in the to train the settler and his farm have a better effect upon subse- a whippet ground in the coun- bedroom jointly occupied by E. H. workers at the experimental cipient, "Who," but when she "Tennis. Golf. Walking." "Even- Shercha Tonka quent play than that I have in-ry which is not run under the Pelling and myself-there was no agricultural stations, to give turned over some pages of the book
ing Standard." dicated.
rulen of the English National Pro-place for a quiet talk in the Stock- advice and practical help in the to which she was to contribute she The best of all entrances in to fessional Sports Association, of holm hotel except in one's sleeping development of his land and
The Cambridgeshire County be virtually reared on a golf which I have the honour to be pre- apartment.
found that all the celebrities nent- A.A.A. have decided their first 10- Order of running, furnish him, under special con- course, but then not all of us have aident; nearly every promoter, the better men round the curves, ditions, with the requisite seede ly played golf or travelled abroad, mlite road walking championship, R. & Hotels: 89.39 9% golfing, parents, and many never handicapper, and slipper is a mem- and along the straights, best he and implements in keeping with or, with a fine, healthy air, confess which was won by C. Morley, of Hongkong Lands 503 feel the glamour of the game until ber, and over 4,000 dogs are regis-ginner, best finisher: all were fully, the quality of his concession. The ed to "Walking."
the Cambridge Walking Club, in comparatively late in life.
thrashed out before daily practis- settler in return fs bound to give "All the same,"
1 hr. 28 min. 22 sec. the mused, "I ing the approved order com- an account of his stewardship. If don't believe it. Celebrities may menced.
he has failed by the end of each do all these things, but I doubt if
T. Goddard, tho Abaurd rumours were current year to show adequate progress, they recreate themselves thereby. Wagon Works and Gloucestershire the days of his youth. His father, and purifying it of such offences thode" of our winning relay team,
of his conccasion is I daresay they all have to steal bowler, has obtained a six-months a keen angler, would have him pur-, sue the gentle art, and all, his holi- as "ringing-in" dogs was soon re- but the above are the actual facts: further. lands
of his opportunities have time to play golf and tennis at Lord's. days, short or long, were spent in cognised, and how this was appre- piscatorial pursuits. Anglers may ciated was shown when Lord Long-still stand were put up at Stock-Today there are roughly three was a child, and a game was some are added to his because nobody any longer plays Three Olympic records which
these games as people did when I say "Lucky man," but he himself dale offered to give two cups if the holm. J. E. Meredith (America), hundred major concessionari who thing done for fun in which any now admits that he was never real- "Sporting Chronicle" would run 1 min. 51 9-10 sec. for the 800 cultivate over a hundred thousand body could join without previous ly keen, and now that he has taken their whippet championships at metres. M. McGrath's 177ft. 7 in. square miles of land. Among these experience more ardently to golf, with the Ranelagh. Sir George Hastings
highly-specialised first suppleness of youth long since repeated the invitation last year, Goulding's time in the walk
in the hammer, and the Canadian,
jare. many native landowners who 'costume or intricate time-tables, gone, the task has not been as easy Lord Lonsdale again gave the cups, not approached either at Antwerp by inheritance, acquisition, or organised and fiercely played that wan have proved their title to the land". "All games, are now so highly
Singapore Tractions, as it would have been fifteen or, and the Duchess of Newcastle on
Trdnetrimin, DR. WILLIAMS" PINK PILLS. twenty years ago,
China, Sposte both occasions acted as referee.
agricultural ability.. The present those who play them must return Sweden came out top with
Mahon Supare Dog racing was never so popular total of 136 pointe,
a scheme of expansion aims at set to their work with a sense of re- Mr. Alexander Beuther, of 1111 Canton Teep Golf annals contain many in show is the extreme value of com-with, 76. Those are the official divided into groups, there are lots rules and conditions.
as it is to-day, but what I want to second with 124, and Britain third contadint on the land, and for these, humour, and, in the flexibility of its marine engineer by profession, and
America tling 30,000 families of selected lief in its comparative fantasy and Hanbury Road, Shanghal, is a Cements (comb.)
do... (ald) stances of high honours, and even
has been serving on ships on the Rones fald) championship rank being attained, trol. There are from 600 to 800 figures. by "late starters," but the propon; racing whippets In London, but of
awaiting of about a thousand acres "If one has a hardish life one's China coast for the past seventeend derance of evidence in favour of course the great home of the sport volver shooting should count
say, re each. By October of this year it recreations, must have a flavour of years. It was a very serious mat- United Arbortes success is all the other way.
is in the north, Since the English many points as Meredith's world's in the Colony.
as is hoped to have 2,000 new families indulgence and delight. Turning ter for him when acute rheumatism Rioren, &c.
out to a dally job year after year incapacitated him What really matters, however, I association was formed over
Dairy Farms from work. Watsons*** record performance or MeArthur's think, is that late starters as dozen grounds have been opened
teaches all one needs to know about Now, thanks to Dr. Williams' Pink A, Wings often as not lay up endless trouble in Liverpool, the Cheshire side of Marathon win la possibly open to FUTILITY OF STRIKES of tennis and golf matches. Read-states
keeping fit without the discipline Pills he is cured. Mr. Beuther Iene. Crawforda
Tackintoska for themselves by drifting casual- the Mersey, and North.
ing is not a recreation in the Who's "For more than a year I was a interes DR. A. BESANT DEPRECATES Who, sense of the word, because it terrible
Wm. Powells sufferer from Bcute Miscellaneous. POSITION.
tered with the association.
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Whippets at Ranelagh.
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Wales,
ly into the game rather than taki while numerous fresh enclosures INTERPORT TENNIS. ing the direct course of seeking in- have been opened out in Yorkshire,
struction at competent hands.
They are too old to possess that Hertfordshire.
Staffordshire... Nottingham, and
Now a new step has been taken, How for the English, Scottish, and
TWO MORE SHANGHAI SUCCESSES,
Shanghai, Festerday.
tennis
imitative faculty that is the price- less possession of youth. many great golfers have confessed, Welsh associations, together with
good use
boundaries.
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la not really an "extra" Likó most rheumatism. My feet and legs EL Amusemente was $28 b 20 people, I have to read, just as I were so swollen that it was only HE. Constructions was $IK 63% Madras, May 10. have to eat and sleep with great difficulty I could move B Ind. G. Banda -...
5% Prem./h HL. I. Govt Loans .... A strong plea against the strike "A good dinner is a recreation, about. In bad weather the pains was entered this afternoon by just as, a good book is, but. nobody grew worse. The ligaments and the Rheumatism had disappeared Dr. Annie Bosant at a crowded thinks of putting 'eating with their joints of my left foot were so atiff entirely. I am now able to walk that their golf in boyhood was the Northern Trotting Association, Rasmussen beat Redmond 6-0, 6-, Labour Union meeting at which other recreations. Even music and ly drawn that I could scarcely freely and without pain. Besides moulded into a pattern for Hfe by, the Racing Association, which con 4-6, 6-4 and Doctor Duck beat she warned the audience of the plays scarcely count as re- bend the foot without great suffer this, my health has been fully re-i
futility of strikes, giving the in creations. They are too much in- ing stored stance of the British general stop terviewed with the general fabric "I consulted a number of doctors
In the Interport
watching an outstanding player? trols galloping, and also the ProFincher-6-1, 6-3, 6-4--Reuter Bobby Jones fashioned himself as fessional Wrestling Association,
a boy by following Stewart Malden, have formed
an International
the professional at his home Federation, with the Intention, possible when their own board of follow America's example input The real recreations are the things ointments, and lotions they proven in its most severe and chronic
page, and urged Indian labour to of even a moderately cultured life. and used the various medicines, As a remedy for rheumatism, forms, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
'course.
In another way, the same thing
is apparent in the typical school
contres:*
among other things, of strengthen control la formed, as I believe it ting up their earnings for starting that come by accident or by a described, but all failed to bring me Pale People are famous through ing professional sport, fighting its will be, they will become affiliated industries on a co-operative basis liberate stepping aside from the permanent relief. Then I had out the world. Their remarkable of style, relative to certain golfing other's suspensions, so that wrong one common object to keep sport Referring to the Moscow ald she my recreations, but one of the best also did me no good for when 1
enemies, and recognising each with the federation to work for the under Labour auspices.
usual pathgoda post treatment at the Shanghat General record of cures is due to the fact "I would not put Sailing among Hospital for over a month, but this that they eliminate the poisons Who can measure, for example, doers cannot drift from one sport pure,
doclared that the system there was ducks. I ever stole was on a day, left I was In the same bad concr. Which cause rheumatism from the the full extent of the influence to another.
Much good work can be done breaking and that they were try when I was left ashore by a small tion as before
blood and at the exerted on young players on the Those at the head of the biggest and welching" could be considering to get money from European yacht crew on account of over-At last on advice, I began to. strengthen Cheshire seaboard by the example greyhound company, which con- ably decreased, because with all capitalistspelpomp of such outstanding personalities | trols Manchester, London, etc, bodies working together the man
crowding, and, I consoled myself take Dr. Williams, Pink, Pills. tem as John Ball and Harold Hilton? are, at any rate, in sympathy with warned-off one ground would getting money from Moscow with are round the point to the next
She added that those who were with making a perfectly good roy. When
"DIAWI had taken 8 battles I not
post Every boy golfer has his hero, and the alms-and object of the Interna- not be allowed to operate on any, a view to instigate labour would harbour in a dinghy by means of but all over my entire body, It may be assumed that where he tional Federation, and it is quite other under the general control. let down the latter.
astravelling rug tied to an çar. continned with the treatment.
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