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THE CHINA MAIL,
OVERHANGING WOOD TO BE CONSIDERED “ALIVE"
A KNOTTY POINT
"The Skip" in the "Daily News" states
GOLF RULES
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COMPLICATED TANGLE
Of the many puzzling situations constantly arising in golf, writes
SOVIET RAIDS
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BOMB AND MACHINE GUNS
·USED AGAINST CHINESE
FORCED TO RETREAT
Harbin, Yesterday, The Sino-Soviet clash on October
an "Observer" correspondent, the 2 was one of the worst so far. one recently brought to my notice
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1929.
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Soviet 'planes made three separ is not only more than usually intri-ate attacka 41 Manchull, and cate, but is certainly out of the dropped six bomba. They also used ordinary run of things. The caso machine guns on the Chinese, is interesting because it concerna
The Chinese authorities the out-of-bounds rule of which issued a statement saying that the nothing in golf causes more mis- clash originated in an attack by On demand understandings. In the case under the Suviet on the evening of Octo-Credits, review the facts are as follows-
In the final of a match-play abated on the morning of October ber 1. The severity of the fighting tournament, A's drive Is.seen to
On Paris-
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On demand
drop close to a boundary, fence, but, but the Soviet resumed the offen-On neither he nor his opponent is able sive with redoubled vigour in the On New York-- to say whether the ball has gone afternoon. out of bounds. In these circum- Owing to the serious situation in Credits, 60 days" sight 46% stances, A tees up and drives a pro- the Manchuli vicinity. the Customs On Bembay→→→ visional ball, which drops in pre- officials and residents have left for Wire cleoly the same spot as the first, Hallar.. though tranquillity was on demand and again. neither player la able restored this evening when "the On Calcatta- to tell whether the ball is on the adamant defence of the Chinese Wire .... course or has gone through the troops," forced the Soviet forces to On demand fence. When the two playons ar rive at the spot, one ball is found out of bounds and the other in bounds.
The curious point about the situa- tion is that both balls are new ones, of the same typo and bearing the same number. The player is unable to any positively which of two bails
retreat
On Singapore- The statement puts the casual-On-demand ties of the Chinese troops at 200 On Manila- dead, while the Soviet is believed On demand..... to have suffered heavy losses. On Shanghal- Reuter.
On demand 180 day's sight (private
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he drove Arst, but is inclined to DELEGATE'S PROTEST on demand think, because of an *indefinable something about it, that the ball in bounds is the one.
"Tangible Proof"
DELAY IN SENDING LABOUR OFFICE. REPORTS
INTOLERABLE SITUATION
IN PA
The opponent, who naturally wants tangible proof, says this will not do at all; in fact, he is of opinion though unable to put his belief into concrete shape, that the ball in bounds is the second tco body of the International Labour shot. Moreover, B contends that as
Geneva, Yesterday.
At a meeting of the governing
LONDON EXCHANGES
London, Yesterday,
128.94
A is unable definitely to any which, Sir Atul Chatterjee strongly Chinese Sub. Coin ball was driven first, he cannot protested at the delay of com- Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par. continue to play with either. This munication of the Labour Office's view A, of course, atoutly contests, reports to overeas countries, and and proceeds to play with the ball declared that if this intolerable in bounds, and treats it as his first Bituation continued, such countries
might have to abstain from· parti-· drive.
cipation in European conferences of of the whole proceedings. When this kind. He urged that the the circumstances were referred to Governments henceforth be furnish- the Tournament Committee they ed with an agenda fwo years ahead, ruled that, as neither player was to enable them to instruct their able to say which ball was driven representatives. first, A was disqualified for that
Now comes the astonishing purt
A reader in Middlesex writes:- "Will you kladly give me your ad- vice upon a question which arose during a club match? The jack had been driven close to the string and a player bowled his wood on to the next rink. The wood came to rest on the next rink, clear of the string, but the bulging side looking perpendicularly down on it, was overhanging on to the playing rink. The opposing skips were of the opinion that the wood was dead, but the secretary of the home club, to whom the point was put, decided that the wood was alive, and award- ed it the shot, his argument being that by Rale the wood was not reating wholly outside the rink. hole, and, therefore, lost it. Per-gate supported Sir Atul Chatterjee "That is the point we are seeking sonally, I know of no grounds on as also did Mr. Lawson,. Parliamen Four advice upon. Does it wholly re- which the player could be dis tary Under-Secretary of the British fer to the point of rest (or contact) qualified as regards the hole in Labour Ministry, who sat on the with the green, or does it refer to question, though, apparently, the governing body for the Brst time.
committee came to the conclusion Reuter. any part of the wood?"
that as A could not place the two balls in their propet sequence of striking, he had no further interest in, the hole.
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HAINAN ISLAND DIRECTOR VISITS CANTON TO
Now, according to a sketch, the bowl seen with a certain part of it hanging over the string is in count, even although, as our reader
As a matter of fact, the most that proves, its point of contact with the turf is on the next rink. The law could have happened to him was No. 1X., Section 4. is clear upon in bounds as the second tee shot, that he be required to treat the ball the subject It rends:--
"The jack, though driven to the adding the appropriate penalty to Still remaining, how. side of the rink, if not wholly be-hia score. yond its limits, may be played to ever, la the major point: "Which on either hand. outside the limits of the two drives was in bounds?" of the rink. A bowl played out As there is no direct evidence to go: aide the limits of the rink which, upon, it would seem that as A was tor
under the impression that the first cabled
DISCUSS INDUSTRY
RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEM -
App
Canton, Yesterday. General Wong Keong, the Direc
of Hainan Island, who was for by the Chairman, General
in its natural course (if not inter shot was on the course, B should/ Chan, Mingshu; in order to discuss
have acquiesced in that sporting the industrial problems and recone- split in which golfers are suppos
truction of the island, arrived in: ed to regulate their conduct.
Paying for Negligence
Canton on October 3, and interview-
ed the Chairman soon after his arrival-Canton News Agency.
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fered with outside the rink), comes to rest within the limits of the rink shall not be counted dead, but any bowlso played which, when it comes to rest, lies wholly outside the rink shall be counted dead." In the same way. A should have Again, are the old Laws of the said, "As it is impossible for me Game proved very Indefinite. As to say definitely which ball" was this bowl does not lie wholly out driven first, I shall treat the ons Radyr Club, the victim has only of Bank Notes in circulation and Dairy Farms...... side the rink it must be considered one in bounds as the second drive himself to blame. He plays three of specie la reserve in Hong Kong, Watsons "alive" I have heard hundreds of As A displayed a certain measure balls from the tee, the second being during the month ended Septem- Der A. Wings decisions given as the secretary of carelessness in playing two balls out of bounds and the first doubt ber 30, 1929, as certified by the Lane Crawfords mentioned rendered his.
identical in every particular, with ful. Having searched for the first Managers of the respective Banks Mackintoshs out being able to say in what rota-ball, he gives it up, as being lost are as follow:- tion they were driven, it is only out of bounds, and continues play
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often a pick than a drill. It simply to his surprise, he finds in bounds, minutes, the player's frat ball Concluding that it had struck should have been presumed to be
rete foundations of roads, and hammers away incessantly at the tree and rebounded onto the out of bounds, and the player course, be continues play with the should have at once continued his securities, lodged with the Crown these hammer blows make the din, first ball. After holing out how game with the provisional ball. As india, Limited, against their notes is a practical impossibility. One...
Agents by the Mercantils Bank of That is why an efficient allencor ever, the player was informed by the player did not do this, he loses in circulation, is published for gen has been invented which lessens the nother member of the club that the hole in match play, and is dis-eral Information under Section 5 of shock of the piston upon the chill arching over the wall for qualified in stroke play for holing the Mercantile Bank Nota Issue Ored steel anvil" which hammers the own ball, he had come across out with a wrong ball. (2) A com dinance, 1011, (Ordinance No. 65 of pickpoint home, But the sound of As ball bich he threw back on petitor who has wrongly concluded 1911) —
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