SATURDAY, AUGUST 2,′′ 1930.
EASIER GOLF,
by
H. STUART, HosSON,
UC035035533350300000000300000)
WHY SAFETY SHOTS ARE DIFFICULT TO PLAY.
FIRMNESS NEEDED.
"He only needs fn notch a seventy-
five this round to be certain of the Championship. That remark was made. recently about a very Ane golfer who was leading the fold in
very important Championship. It looked as though he had the coveted prize in his pocket, for he had gone round, the course in 68 in the previous round, and this round eguld take seven strokes more with- out fear of losing first place. His actual figure for that fatal final
round, was something over 80.
Many golfers cannot give their best when all they are asked to do is play safe.
A strong drive from the tee will be necessary if the second shot is to carry the bunker. If five for this hole will serve all purposes, any golfer would be foolish to attempt to carry, the bunker in two. He should aim to play short of the cross hazard with his second, in a position for an easy third shot of seventy or eighty yards to the più. "
If the tee shot leaves the ball, say, 180 yards short of the hazard, the golfer hne a choice of second
shots.
to the hole. That, however, is
THE
CHINA MAIL.
9
FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY
COUNTY CRICKET RESULTS.
Test Players in Good Form.
PEEBLES 13 72.
London, Yesterday, There were again a number of elass programme, Middlesex being unfinished matches in the first- the only county to force a win. For their victory, the county, was indebted to a fine bowling pe formance by Peebles, who took wickets for 48 runs in the first innings and 8 for 24 in the secon innings,
It is encouraging to see-that- Hammond has regained a little of his batting form. He scored 162 K. S. Duleepsinhli also distin- not out in a total of 203-8.
1
He can aim to be really short of where he scored 188
guished himself at Portsmouth
out of the bunker, and leave himself a total of 400-8. Probably the approach of as much as 130 yards best performance of the pro- Pawky" play. The golfer is show-amme was witnessed at North- ing fear of the hazard, and his ampton, where Sandham played
not out innings of 125. spared second shot does not help his approach third in the least.
bunker.
(Sandham is an opening bats-
Ourselves and Difficulties. A golfer who sees that he has to achieve a three at the last hole to halve a match is more likely to get the figure than another. Is to secure
A good golfer here, I think, hav-man for Surrey, and as he was the bogey four at the same hole to
not out in a completed innings, he win the match. There is some truthing decided that nothing was to be
must have carried out his bat, a in the belief that we ourselves make gained by carrying the the difficulties of golf. One caddy would have aimed to be only just rare feat even in county cricket.]
short of it. at a club I know claims that he has put a thousand, golfers on their game in the last thirty, years just by repeating the sage advice, at every shot. "Now you just be sure you hit the ball; il watch where it joes,"
Below are appended the most noteworthy batting and bowling feats performed in the matches. just concluded.
BATTING.
Naturally, he would allow himself a margin of error depending on his form, but if he aimed to place the ball 10 to 15 yards short, he would consider that to be a shot as safe as any shot could be, and it would leave him an approach of seventy or eighty yards to the pin-a very comfortable maskle shot, as easy as if the bunker had been carried with the second, shot, and much easier. Jackson (Australians) than if a pawky second shot bad D. G. Bradman (Australians)
Bowley (Sussex) been played thirty yards or more shorter.
Don't Hit Slackly. The tragedy of the average golfer with the spared shot is that he for- gets the need for hitting crisply.
He may be justified in his claim, for hitting the ball is all that matber of fair ters with most shots.
That is certainly true of safety shots which are the shots that battle champions and novices alike.
Bobby Jones Again.
K. S. Duleepsiahji (Sussex) Hammond (Gloucester) Holmes (Yorkshire) Sandham (Surrey).... Tyldesley. E. (Lanes)
Not out
ROWLING.
I A. R. Peebles (M'sex)
188
162*
132*
125-
124*
118
117
NEW -ADVERTISEMENTS.
TAXI!!
always available
at the
STAR FERRY WHARF, HONG KONG.
:.
STAR TAXI CO. 'PHONE 26748.
"Wally" Hammond (Clou,
cester and All-England) who
yesterday scored 162 hot out
against Yorkshire,
At Nottingham:-
Drawn,
8-24
548
C. V. Gemmell (Australians) 233 Larwood (Notts.)
1-57
Warwick: 144 and 179-3. Notts: 258-9 dec.
7-63
S-71
Drawn.
G-86
5 33
I have watched an enormous num- to fairly-good golfers play safety shots, and they all seem | Macauiny (Yorkshire) to do the same thing; realising that Parker (Gloucester)
all they have to do is to avoid hit-Langridge (Sussex) ting the ball too far,, they hit
slackly. ¿
But no shot in golf should be slack. Even a putt of three feet must be hit firmly. A chip of ten
I have long held a theory about Bobby Jones, whose latest achieve- ments show what a phenomenal golfer he really is, that he canyards-must have its-full-share of
"shoot a round of under seventy seven times out of ten if he cares to take a few risks when doing it. But it is seldom necessary for him to take risks. He plays the safety shots, and is content with figures that are just about good enough to be better than the next best.
That is what many players will not do play an easy ahot when that is all that is necessary.
Play Safe..
Safety play in golf is not to be confused with "pawky" play. The 'pawky" shot shows an inferiority complex. The safety shot, properly played, shows that the golfer is sufficiently on top of his game to be able to simplify it for himself as he goes along.
distance you
wrist action. If you take a wooden. club with the intention of hitting) the ball twenty or thirty yards shorter than the normally get, the difference in the swing is only one of degree. There is no distance that calls for a flop at the ball, Instead of a swing through it.
Play Easily But Firmly. The head of the club must come through, and the awing must be complete, even if shorter.
A safety shot needs to be taken seriously, too, but not fretted over. The golfer should make up his mind what he intends to do, and then play easily to the mark, but firmly,
I am convinced that if the long- handicap golfer would chart out for himself the easiest road to the pin, and then not fall into the temptation of being slack when he had made Consider a hote 420 yards, eny, himself" an easy shot, he would in length, with a bunker across the quickly become a..short-handicap course 60 yards short of the hole. | golfer.-(China Mail Copyright).
That is the secret of safety play simplifying the next shot.
PIED PIPER WANTED. progress, exterminate everything
EMIGRATION OF RATS FROM SIBERIA.
Shanghai, June 29. Millions of rats and other radents are crossing the Siberian borders and invading the adjoining parts of Mongolia and Manchuria.
Passing to the south of the border river Argun, the invading madees of rats moved in the direction of Chalalnor and their vanguards have been reported to have been seen within 87 miles of Hailar. But
and do not even hesitate to attack the people they encounter.
In order to make them change their course, buah and grass are set afire. It is also planned to culti vite some rapidly spreading ezidemic diseases among the rats.
This ruigration of rata explaina real cause extreme misery, and starvation-of the recent uprisings against the Soviets In the districts of, Ussuri and Amur and serves as a warning of a terrible, famine. which is forecast for next autumn.“
He: I don't understand why a handsome boy like that. could marry The authorities of the latter city an ugly woman twenty years hla are hurriedly organising special de-senior.
-tachments and improvised means to Sho: When you want bank notes fight the Invaders, which, in their you don't look at their year of issue.
Ront (Worcester) Slater (Derby)
Mayer (Warwick) Young (Somerset) Geary (Leicester)
J. C. White (Somerset)
5-26
5-63 5-70! 4--32
RESULTS AT A GLANCE.
Australians won by an fanings and 159 runs, At Taunton:
Somerset: 121 and 81. Australians: 860.
Middlesex won by 187 runs.
At Worcester:-
Middlesex: 221 and 158-8 dec. Worcester: 95 and 117.
Drawn.
Sussex 400-8 dec. and 77-7. Hampshire 220 and 281.
Drawn.
Derby: 134 and 114-7. Leicester: 144.
At Portsmouth:
At Buxton:→→
At Hull:-
Drawn.
Gloucester: 108 and 263-3. Yorkshire: 207-9 dec.
At Northampton:-
Northants: 255. Surrey: 282.
Drawn.
At Manchester:-
Lancashire: 236-2 dec. and 55-3. Glamorgan: 207.
-Reuter.
TO-DAY'S MATCHES..
At Swansea-Glamorgan v. Aug. tralians.
1st August to 15th August. DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE.
SUMMER SILK SALE
WONDERFUL BARGAINS ALL GOODS GREATLY REDUCED.
·LADIES' ATTENTION.
Printed Georgette Printed Crepe Printed Art Silk
Patel Chine
Plain Georgette Spun Crepe Plain Crepe de Chine Crepe de chine Printed Georgette.
Pearl crepe
.36" 32.25
.27" $2.00
MẸ” $150 s v .36" $1.50 to 32.00
27" 31.40 a yd.
.H. Qrt. 27" $2.50
10" $3.00
27" $1.40 to $1.90
.92" $2.75
Pedder Street.
ייד2
Palace crepe
.27" $1.45
Crepe de chine
36" $1.80
Plain chiffon
$1.60
Majci crepe
$2.90
Carded Fult
.29".$1.50
Radium Sik
27H $2.25
Striped span
.$1.30
Plain Fuji
.$0.70
Plain Satin and Satin Crepe
.$1.50
...31.30
20
27" 83.00 a yd.
Plain Jap. Silk
$1,80 a yd.
Printed Fuji
Taffeta ...
Charmeuse. Crepe
Plain Crepe
D. CHELLARAM
POPULAR SILK STORE.
27" $0.50 eta.
27 $1.40 a yd.
Opp. Hong Kong Hotel
Dispel Constipation, Biliousness & Correct. "Liver"
Get
the
PINKETTES Smile
At the Oval-Surrey v. Netts. TERRIFIC STRUGGLE. [yellow mouth agape, hissing, the a tough branch with an ugly
At Canterbury-Kent v. Hamp-| shire,
At Brighton-Sussex v. Middle- sex (Tate's Benefit).
At Birmingham-Warwickshire v. Derbyshire.
At Clifton (College Ground)- Gloucestershire v. Somerset
shire v. Leicestershire.
ing.
MEN WHO FIGHT'
PYTHONS.
mighty coils slithering and sound that told us how hard our writhing-truly an awe-inspiring friend was hitting.
"That seemed spectacle of reptilian-ferocity!
to decide the "I honestly believe I should first round, for our snake have fallen out of that tree with dently thought the tree was alto sheer fright. Without a gun,gether too hot to hold him. He
evi-
I wouldn't have ventured within uncoiled himself and dropped into An astonishing account is given striking distance of those hideous the water. Then the real fun by Mr. Fred D. Burdett, the jaws not for all the orchids in started. Six sturdy Dusun went Borneo. But my little Dusun after him and grabbed him in six At Manchester-Lancashire v.
orchid hunter, in the June num-lashed out with his parang, three places at once with their bare Yorkshire.
ber of Pearson's Magazine, of blows in less than a second of hands and arms. One put a At Northampton-Northampton- the native sport of python hunt time never saw a cat strike stranglehold on him, just below quicker. And every blow went the head. The others hugged straight to the mark-thud! him at intervals of a foot or so, Mrs. Burdett, who accompanied thud! thud!
between head and tafl. Dusun python hunters up river "The big snake's head jerked "The strength of an enraged sideways, oddly like a boxer who python is prodigious. Though in dug-outs, writes:
had been socked on the jaw, and held tenaciously by six strong "My dug-out stopped. The the full length of his sinuous men, his convulsive struggles Dusun in the stern shipped his coils went mad. In spite of his dragged them in all directions. paddle, but he had never taken fearsome appearance and great But the Dusuns hung on grimly. his eyes off the branches over-size, it was clear that he didn't Strong as he was and his body- head. He flung up an arm, like what was coming to him. was as thick as a man's leg-his *pointing.
At Worcester-Worcestershirev. Елвек..
THE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP TABLE.
Yorkshire Lancashire Notts Sussex Kent Gloucestershire Derbyshire Surrey Essex Glamorganshire
· Leicestershire' Worcestershira Warwickshire
Northamptonshire. Hampshire Middlesex
Somersetshire
W.
1st Inas. L W. L. 3
-No. Result Pra 4. 109
100
106
5 7
08
21 392
The system of scoring is as follows: 8 points Tar right win, 5 points for Win on first fnnings, point event of a lie and a no real match, and 8 points. which has lost on first inpings.
"Ula!" he yelled. "Ula?". "Ula! Snake!
い
In the language of the ring, the captors were stronger... Warily, Dusun's whirlwind attack had they prevented him from hitch- got him groggy. That failing ing on to anything with his tail,
"The boatman grabbed a low parang was all over him-thud! and they dragged his head over
branch and swung himself up into thud! thud!
Leaves and bark the thwart of one of the dug-
the tree. Getting astride of awere ripped from the boughs and outs where another Dusun was gnarled bough, he began to work littered the still surface of the waiting with his parang poised. his way outwards towards the river. de
[· "Thud! thud! thud! middle of the stream, drawing "In our dug-outs down below his parang.
"The back of the heavy parang.
we were yelling with excitement. not the cutting edge-was useu "There was an instant up The python peered at us wicked-throughout this combat of man heaval in the densely-clusteredly, and just in that fraction of a versus reptile. leaves and winding tendrils. second he stopped another whiz “Thud! thud! thud! Terrifically, the follage woke to zing clout on the head and visibly
Using the dug-out as a kind of
life, and a 10-foot python's long, wilted, so that the follow-up butcher-block, he bludgeoned the flat head reared up, the big missed him and whanged against glant snake to death,"
DO YOU KNOW that by paying $130.00 down,
and $23.00 per moath for a limited period
you can become the proud owner of a
GENERAL ELECTRIC
BEL, REFRIGERATOR
BONZO
YOU HAVE AD
WITH THE GIRLIN
THE CASTLE
SURROUNDED BY LIONS: "GET BUSY.
'on view al
Hong Kong, Electris, Ca...
Elétrie Co. Ltd.
Tark & Co, Ltd
SAID
OVER:
EXPIRE!
I'VE GOT A DATE:
WITH YOU
By George Studdy