SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1929.
Sport Columns
LAWN TENNIS
RESULTS OF MATCHES FOR
DAVIS CUP
S. AFRICA BEAT SWEDEN
The promulgation of theories about golf methods has surely gone altogether too far. It has become
for all the world like an unregu- lated output of patent medicines, made of anything in which the ven- dors may have faith, but not proved good by public experience, and pos- sibly capable of doing harm-espe- cially when taken in boundless
variety:
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Stockholm, Yesterday. In the Davis Cup contest (second round) L. Raymond (South Africa) beat M. Malms- troem (Sweden), 6-2, 6-3, 6-2, will try any Robbins (South Africa) beat M. Oestberg (Sweden), 6-2, 6-1, 6-1,
Italy v. Ireland
Dublin, Yesterday. Italy eliminated Ireland by three matches to nil. Morpurgo and Del Bono beat IIolmes and Rogers, 6-4, 7-5, 7-5,
U.S. v. Canada
Montreal, Yesterday. The United States eliminated Canada, winning two singles and doubles matches.-Reuter.
RACING
WINNER OF SHANGHAI
CHAMPION SWEEP
According to a Shanghai report the lucky winner of the Shanghai Race Club's Sweepstake is stated to be a Japanese resident of that city,
It is further rumoured that a
Russian paid $1 for a tenth share
in the winning ticket and later sold
:
There are plenty of people who cure. Fortunately. there are safeguards against the distribution of drugs that might do damage; but there are no safe guards against the pushing forward of pet theories which the most fan ciful of fanatics have ed for the cure of golfing weak
nesses.
conceiv
It is arguable that no physical detriment can be inflicted on the golfer even if his trial of a dozen
different ideas, far from improving him, destroys the last element of what he once called his game. But that is not the point.
It must do harm to golf as a national recreation by causing a good many of ita converts to think that there is a lot in it which they
THE
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AT A DINNER
A WITTY SCOT
Lord Dewar, the famous after-
dinner speaker, invented a new game during his speech at the din
The French airman, M. Rohbe, who is making a trial flight with the view of determining the feasi- bility of an air mail and passen-ner ger service between Saigon and other towns of French Indo-China, is due here this afternoon at three o'clock.
!
He is making the flight in & Briquet seaplane, and the aurvey is being conducted on behalf of the Compagnie Aerielle Fran- Caise, who is behind the organisa
tion.
Mr. Robbe left Kwong Chow Wan yesterday and in the ordin- ary course of events would have arrived at Kai Tack at 3 p.m. The local offices of the Asiatic Petroleum Co. made all the neces- sary arrangements at the Kai Tack anchorage and, after waiting the whole of the afternoon, their representatives were compelled to
return.
Latest advice received from the airman was that he had left Kwong Chow Wan yesterday but, owing to bad weather, it became necessary for the 'plane to return. A start was again made this
of the Royal Institute of Pain- ters in Water Colours at the Princes Galleries.
"You have no doubt observed that inquisitorial questionnaire column in the Press, headed, 'How much do
you know?
'I think I could Emprove on that ton
column-the-questions seem complex I should bring them
down to the mentality of the cross- word puzzle-ist, and enshrine them in simple simplicity, such as:—
"Why did Nero say, when he saw
Rome burning, what an artist: am
11?
for
"Why would it have been better
some self-made men to have |
consulted an architect?
"Did the inventor of the bag-
pipes get the idea from stepping on a cat or when strangling a dog?
"If money makes the mare go, what makes her stop?
"What is the correct name for kleptomania?
"What is polite word for stolen?
Who was the first to make the
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will never be able to understand i morning, and the Airman is ex-ttle paper trousers worn by lamh |
and possibly inducing them, to give it up in despair.
Spoiling the Charm
It would be an excellent thing to
get back to the original influences of golf, which made it a very allur-
ing pastime without this solemnly
scientific side which appears to de-
a tenth of his share to another, mand, as a first essential, a com
Russian for ten cents "big money," The second Russian received $2,000 for hia small investment. The second prize is reported to have yone to કોં prominent Shanghai Irishman.
THEORY AT GOLF
plete knowledge of the human ana- tomy.
It was the more alluring because it looked so simple that its devotees went on in the belief that one day they would conquer it. Those who were adapted to it did master it, as they do now. The modern fly
A MEDLEY THAT IS NOT GOOD &
FOR THE GAME
By Harry Vardon]
It seems to me that we are suffer- ing from a surfeit of theories on the part of people who have no particu- lar responsibilities to the game. Their abundance must be very dis- tracting, and almost terrifying to anybody who is just beginning to take up golf.
Always has this game put every other into the shade in its produe- tion of ideas on the subject of play- ing principles, but never has there been such a complexity of recom- mended systems as at the present time. Recently I met a man who announced radiantly that he had! solved the whole problem.
in the ointment is that players have been forced to understand that it is not so simple as it looks, and so certain element of its natural charm has been lost. In just the same way has the natural confidence of its devotees been shaken.
Those who refuse to be thus shackled by theories have gone to the other extreme, and they play their games every week. without much regard as to whether they im- prove or deteriorate. All that they want is a pleasant round with old friends, and the physical recreation | and mental diversion from the workaday world that comes of the outing. This is no better for golf than the over-weighting of it with ponderous and arrestingly worded theories.
I suppose there is still a lot to be said for the carly formula which once constituted practically the en- tire range of golf teaching. "Slow back and keep your head steady." It produced as good players as any seen to-day.
He placed his hands together as though gripping a club, made two mystic movements which seemed to consist of relling the wrists and arms backward and then forward, and said triumphantly, "There you are! That's the entire thing. You don't need to bother about body-
Sussex believe they have discover pivoting or leg pressure, it all hap ed An unknown fast bowler of pens automatically." He added quality. It is a village boy in his
pected to arrive here at 3 p.m.
"Bulls-eye Jerry" Shelly of Kansas University has won practically every rifle competition in which she has en tered. She has attained the high aver age of 96. in 24 matches with girl teams from all over the United States which is all the more remarkable when
sitting and kneeling positions, the last two usually reserved for men.
chops!
"Why is it that no man is a hero to his own mother-in-law?
"Why is a one-way street like a Scotsman's pocket?
"Why is it that a cow on a road never has any definite ideas of her intentions?
"Why can love and sea-sickness be be felt but can never be described?
"Why is it that it is not the size of the dog in a fight, but the size of the fight in the dog that counts?
"Why does love break more bank- ing accounts than hearts?
"Why are some cheques without honcur in their own banks?
"Then will follow the editor's note.
This competition will now stop; we have had énnigh of it." Lord Dewar made art the butt of his epigrams.
"You can pick out the successful portrait painters at a banquet,” be said. "They are the ones who are not making sketches on the table- cloth.
"A candidate seeking parliamen tary honours was addressing a large audience of the new elector- ate. He began by saying: I am delighted to see so many bright and shining faces before me to-night," and before he had finished his next - sentence sixty-five power-puffs were
at play."
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May, 19, Whit Sunday, 1929 Choral Eucharist 8 a.m. Children's Service 10 a.m. Peak Sunday School 10 a.m. Mating 11 a.m.
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The church af St. Ethelburga dates back to the 14th a.m. Century, and it was' in this church that Henry Hudson the navigator, Anstey. who gave his name to Eadaon's
before he sailed.
that he had learned the glorious, teens, who stands over six feet and you consider that she fired from prone, Bay, attended Communion Service
secret in half an hour at a place in can "sling them down."
the West End of London. It had
cost him 15s. 6d., and he regarded
it as wonderful value.
It can be said that every doctrine which is put forward on the subject has its interest for golfers, just as every straw has its hope for a drowning man. Even great players live in constant apprehension of going under indeed, the greatest are sometimes the most anxious on an important occasion.
The ordinary mortal lives in the faith that one day he will alight on a method of hitting the ball better than any he has known in the past, just as James Braid has related that he went to bed one night a short driver and woke up the next morning a leng one. Still, & per- son eannot achieve
of exaltation by the
eeas of going to bed.
that kind
mere pro-
It he could,
the dance clubs would close very early.
The
Evolution comes of ideas. wish may be expressed, however, that those who devote themselves to
the working out of, golf science would relate their discoveries to us
in simple language. A great deal has been heard in recent times, for instance, of the "pronation and supination" of the hands as vital factors in the accomplishment of the swing,
We are told that, at impact, the right hand is in attitude of mid- į aupination. To be sure, these are perfectly good terms, but somehow they do not create the right atmos- phere where the playing of a game is concerned.
Making Science Simple Other learned and excellent play- ers tell us to cultivate a "roll of the arms" during the address, and s "lateral movement of the hips" dur- ing the swing.
Indeed, the complexity of theory and the choice of language have be. come so profound that many a be- ginner who studies even a small proportion of the advice which some experts consider necessary for him must wonder whether a pastime that entails all this worry- ing out of details is really worth pursuing.
Holy Land Seen From "Graf Zeppelin"
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Subject: "The Spirit in Action." Evening: 6 p.m. Preacher: Rev. J. . Knight
Anstey.
Subject: "Fellowship in the Spirit."
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Sunday: 8.15 p.m., Service Men's Hour.
Wednesday, 8.15 p.m., Fellow- ship Meeting, for Service Men and Civilians, to be conducted by the Rev. J. C. Knight Anstey.
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