SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1930.
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SPARED SHOTS WITH THE NIBLICK...
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Consider this spared shot from a sand trap, when the danger is that you will overrun the green,
THE CHINA MAIL.
SHANGHAI MURDER “A GOLDEN MEAL
TRIAL.
Intention to Kill Admitted,
TWO COOKS' STORIES.
With the presence in court of Mrs, Goddard, the Cantonese wife of the Customs officer who was murdered in his apartment at 959, North Szechuen Road on July 19,
TICKET."
H.C.L. Does Not Worry Him.
EVERYTHING OF THE BEST.
"He entered the dining room of a Shanghai hotel at tin-time jast week-a large, well-built and wall dressed man nearing the age some- times called the sunny side of life. Being a stranger he was guided to a comfortable table, swept by a
ant head waiter.
Assume, first, that the bunker has / by an assailant who attacked him fan, by an attentive Russian assist- |
A golfer was asking the other day whether modern champions compare with the great ones of the past.
My own view is that they cannot be compared, because they are play an overhanging lip, so that you ers of two different games. Golf cannot putt the ball out, or run it with a gutty ball and a few clubs up the face of the sand and over used for every purpose, and regulat the mound with an lorn. If this ed by the player himself for pitch can be done, of course, there is no and distance, is not the same game point in taking the risk of using as golf with the ball of to-day and a niblick, which requires consider clubs carefully Fashioned for varyably more judgment. ing loft.
"That is why I am surprised that modern golfers still keep to the heroies of their grandfathers...
It is not necessary!
The Spared Shot. Nowadays everything, favours the consistent swingera As long as he chooses the right club, he need bother about nothing else but his swing.-1
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Golfers are apt to overlook the
fact that good judgment is half of niblick play.
You are faced with the problem of lifting the ball out of sami, and stopping it dead the other side of
mound.
That implies the need for eut on the hall. How is cut to be secured without aftering the swing? Quite simply, by changing the stance in relation to the ball, Got
the right heel opposite the Sall, and the left foot in an open position. Your standard swing will then draw the face of the club across the ball, producing cut,
Take More Sand. How is the left to be secured
without overrunning?
By hitting just as hard as if to send the ball the you wished
maximum distance, but by taking more sand.
Many golfers endeavour to skim the ball off the surface of the sand. This can be done if you are trying to run up the face of the bunker
ping shot.
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In the dark with a chopper, the trial opened in the Shanghal Special District Court of the deceased man's cook and assistant cook. Several
witnesses were called before the case was adjourned for further hearing.
Interest was centred on the first accused, the assistant cook named
Casually he glanced over the balanced menu. Said he:
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"How is the porterhouse steak?" The assistant head waiter smiled
Home Mail. and dwelt on the loveliness, the To-day-Inward from Europe via tenderness, the beauties of Д
Siberia (President Garfield); from porterhouse steak at the hotel. The Europe via Negapatam (Kashima stranger was impressed.
Maru).
"I'll have one," said he, also
Peu Tsuh, a youthful Cantonese, ordering other viands which atamp- who, from the first, declared his ed him as a man adept at ordering guilt and implicated the cook, Sihtasty dishes. Zung, a 54-year old Cantonese,
Statement of Accused.
The large man was apparently hungry. He ate slowly, apprecia- topped off with a light drink and tively and well. His meal was
a mild cigar.
"Bring the chit," said ho, when finished.
The first statement made-by-Peu to the Court was: "I slashed at the arm of the foreigner with a chop- per. I was concerned with the second
We were looking for the chit, accused, money and discussed the affair the night before the murder. We thought about chopping the for- eigner because we had not received
our wages and I wanted money to bay a pair of shoes. We wanted to steal a ring, a watch and some money belonging to him. I chopped the foreignes twice. The chopper was later found by the police. The axe with which the second accused armed himself has not been found
Swiftly the table boy brought The atranger barely glanced at it. Money, evidently, was of little importance to him.
From his pocket he extracted not money but a gold card. Yes, gold. Silently he tendered it to the boy.
The card meant nothing to the boy. Came the assistant head waiter. but was puzzled. He examined the card with interest,
The card was taken to the
manager of the hotel. The latter recognised it at once. The card, gold mind you, bore the name of the "International Hotel Owners*
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PASSENGER LISTS
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Spared shots, the pride of an older generation, play small part in the game to-day. Leading golfers of the new school swing always not but not if you are playing a drop I chopped the master once near the And Restaurant Men's Association." Dampier, Mr. Z. Fukuda, Mrs. S.
ly with the same action, but with e same force. The spared shot Examine the sand carefully, and hether with a putter or niblick-is decide its texture. Then mark a full shot made with a shorter spot behind the ball, and as far backswing.
away from it as you estimate is the This is where many. long-handi-amount of sand required to deaden cap golfers fail with spared shots. the blow to the necessary extent. A spared shot, for them, is a shot Then hit with all your accustomed hit with reduced force. In re- verve.
Make the sand your ser- ducing the force they allow them-¦ vant, and it will not master you. selves to flop with the wrists, and Aim for a point to the left of the to follow pin, relying on your cut to bring
often they through
neglect
the ball round.
They change the style of the swing, instead of its length-spared shot with a niblick. fatal error.
This is the way to make the
Firmness.
Playing Out of Sand Traps. You use the conditions prevailing Even in sand traps, where swing when the shot is played to save you is hardly at a premium, it is vital the hazardous adventure of chong- not to lose firmness when playing a ing your swing. That is the judg- spared shot. The shot at which | ment of the modern player contrast- most players are weakest is ined with the heroics of his grand- playing to the pin over a mound father. He has all the loft he from sand trap below. The golfer realises that if he gets the ball out good and true on to a fast green he is likely to be worse off than if he just manages to scuttle it to the top of the mound so that
it rolls down the other side,
I have seen reifers hole cut from bunkers many times by scuttling the ball. It much more rare to see the ball drop into the hole when a more stylish shot with loft is play- ed.
is
MISSING BRITISH CONSUL.
needs thoughtfully provided for him by the clubmaker. He has all the deadening effect that the shot calla for in the amount of sand he takes behind the ball.
He can secure stop by putting on cut, and he can do this not by changing his swing but by changing his stance.
elbow and once near the shoulder. The other accused was standing by but did nothing. We arranged the murder between us. I cannot say how many persons there were in the apartment at night. The other ae. cused was in the habit of returning to the apartment at night. I did not know where he was when the police arrived and cannot say where he was arrested."
Prisoner went on to relate that the other accused was the man who got him work in the Goddard house. hold about two weeks before the murder. He admitted that it was his intention to kill the foreigner.
The card, in smaller type, atated that the bearer, Mr. H. G. Goodrich, was an honotar life member of the Association and entitled to dins and drink at any time, in any part of the world, at the expense of any other member. The card, it was learned, is the only one in existence and was presented to Mr. Goodrich at an international convention in the United States in recognition of his service of more than 40 years for the organisation.
The hotel manager, who is a member of the Association and also of the International Greeters, world-wide hotel men's organisa- tion, gladly honoured the card.
AMERICAN'S SWIM.
DIDN'T LIKE PASAY JAILS.
TWO HOURS IN WATER,
.. Innocence Protested. The following statement was then made by the second accused: "I did not discuss the murder with the first prisoner. God knows that I am innocent.. I left the apartment at 7.15 the night before the crime and did not return till 5,30 or 6 the next morning, when it was all over. I could not get in through the front The secret of shots with the door, as it was locked, so I went niblick, as well as with the mashie, round to the back door to see if I Camp Nichols, who took the water is firmness. Always hit the ball a could find my assistant. I was ar at one end of Pasay and swam to firm blow-a blow as hard as the rested upstairs. My assistant lived Fort San Antonio Abad in the mid- amount of back-awing will allow. In a small room near the kitchen. dle of the night only to find him- (China Mall Copyright)
He was introduced to me for em-self arrested at the end of his two- ployment by a friend."
hour swim.
A BROKEN ROMANCE the Swiss giri, intimated her inten- tion of breaking off their engage- ment.
An earlier message, dated July 12, stated: Rewards are being offered to supplement the police efforts to trace Mr. Reginald Lee, British Acting Consul-General, who disap- ber 4, after carefully arranging his peared, leaving no trace, on Novem- rooms in anticipation of a visit by his mother from London.
London, July 17. Paris.-Romance is now believed to be responsible for the disappear ance of Mr. Reginald Lee, the Bri- tish Acting Consul-General at Mar- seilles, who has been missing since
November 4.
Le Matin's correspondent at Mar- seilles says that the police have found out that Mr. Lee often used to spend Sundays in the company of a young Swiss woman friend of his family at a village 180 mile
Manila, July 30. Secret service oficials failed to appreciate last night the nautical prowess of John Hancock, 22, form- erly of the United States Army at
A second statement was made by Police investigation. revealed that the assistant cook varying from his Hancock left early last night in a origins! one and denying that the carromata, accompanied by a F- cook had taken part in the murder.pino friend, for Pasay. When he He said: "The cook was present left the carromata, Harcoal stated when chopped the deceased and that he gave his friend P2 to pay escaped through the window. I got the driver, but that instead of do- Into my employer's room from the ing so, the Filipino took the money but he jumped up from bed and yelled kitchen. I intended to chop his neck, and rin away with it. Hancock the blow struck his arm. He did couldn't understand," with the for a policeman, who
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