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Canton, Yesterday. According to Information secur- When the history of this year's ed from the National Athletic As-
Britain
friendly golf in
football to be sociation, Comes
in it match between the Hong Kong written, the blackest page
Police and the Canton Police, has will tell the story of how our ama- teurs were overwhelmed by the re- been arranged to take place this presentatives of the United States coming Saturday at 4 pm, at the in the match for the Walker Cup Tal Fat Temple Recreation Ground, at Sandwich.
Canton. Gate tickets' are $1 each and receipts will go to the Home for the Poor.
Tennis.
A veteran who might himself have been chosen for the encount er if he had been Afteen years younger remarked to me the other day that, so far as he could gather (and he had made inquiries), no plan was in contemplation by the authorities for helping this coun- try to make a better show in the next context. He thought it would be a scandal to send to America
team chosen in the same haphazard manner ns in the past. and wholly unprepared for such an engagement. When a side of this sort had been virtually anni- hilated a home,
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The tennis finals in the Singles Tournament for the American Challenge Cup will be played at 3 p.m. on May 2, in the Central Wire Park. The contestants are Profes---On demand sor Ma Chi-huen of the Lingnam' On ValeurTM University and Professor Li Man Wire cheung, of the Kwangtung Indus- On demand trial College. A very interesting match is expected. At the conclu-On demand sion of the match, the presentation The Maradon of the American Challenge Cups for On demand ........ ladies and gentlemen will take
what could be } place--Canton Gazette,
the hopes in an American strong- hold?
It is true that the next match is due to take place two years hence. but I agree with the critic that the time to begin thinking about it is now, for the right type of players cannot be discovered and developed in a few months.
Amateur championship, results. undoubtedly sway the selectors very considerably, as, indeed, they should do in normal circumstancea. But I fear they are often mislead- ing as evidence of the men who ought to appear for Britain. this match against America.
in
They must always be so while the games up to the final consist of eighteen hotes-games which do not afford the proper opportun- ity of recovery.
On the strength of form shown in the Amateur Championship. some obviously hasty and happy- Fo-lucky selections
beer have made for the British Walker Cup team. It would be unfair to men- tion the names of the players. They have felt it a duty to res- pond to the call, although it has been as nearly certain да дпу thing could beat any rate in a good many minds-that they would be crushed. And they have duly suffered that tribulation.
Our Sports Diary.
LOCAL
LAWN TENNIS-To-day- Open Doubles at H.K.C.C. (Semi- final).
CHESS To-day - Kowloon Chess Club Junior Championship. FOOTBALL-To-morrow--Divi- sian --Borderers v. R.A.; South Chinn A.A. (Chamoions) v. Rest of the League on Club ground at 5 p.m.
HOCKEY — To-morrow - Hong Kang
Ladies' Hockey Club (Champions) v. The Rest of the League.
RACING TO.orrow Fourth Extra Race Meeting.
LAWN BOWLS-To-morrow---- Opening of League Sennor.
May 1-Entries close for Open Singles Championship.
HOME.
LAWN TENNIS-To-day-Bri tish Hard Court Championships at Bournemouth (Finn).
CRICKET-To-morrow-Open- ing of English Cricket Senson.
RUGBY FOOTBALL-To-mor- row-Rugby League Cup Final.
thing else to take. The Americans have long since abandoned such frivolities in first-cfass golf, writes Harry Vardon in The Sports Dis-
Flash-in-the-Pan Choices. Other players would have been necessary choices, judging by pre- cedents in the methods of selec-patch. tlon, if only they had timed their We might have four teams of prominence in the Amateur Cham-eight players a-side, each team to
meet the other three on consecu pionship for the right year.
That would involve tive days, only one long week-end, and would as to afford a better indication the right men to represent Britain than has been obtained in all the championships. Such tests could
Captain R. H. Jobson, for in stance, defeated five international golfers in succession when that event was last held at Hoylake. I am not discussing whether he ought to have been picked for a Walker Cup match, but there can he not the slightest doubt that he would have been chosen on the spot if the contest with America had been imminent. As it was not taking place that senson, he was promptly forgotten.
be held on several occasions and
courses.
Fighting for Places.
A golfer, usually has to do a lot more to gain his place in an im- portant team match than has been necessary on the part of some of the choices for the Walker Cup contest-the most Important event of all.
In other instances he truly has to earn his distinction. It does
of a
That is the whole weakness of the system. Nothing is systema- tie save for the inclusion of a few stock members of the company, who are picked without regard for the ability that they may be show not come of transitory brilliance, ing either at the moment or which is often the reward throughout the season. That is day's uncanny putting. It is only the reason that the Americans after a player has been tried week beat us time after time.
by week for four, months that he They nominate their players on cppeara in the Oxford and Cam- the basis of sustained merit in-bridge match. The Dublin Uni- stead of opportune flashes in the veralty Club used to have (I do They are not influenced by not know whether they retain it) who appear suddenly, like a sporting practice by which any
hody who did not secure a place shooting stars.
in the team could, if he felt so' disposed, challenge a member of the side and play him for the place.
Jan.
men
It would surely be a fairly simple matter to collect about thirty of the best British amateurs on a centrally situated seaside course, such as Hoylake, and set I think they had to contest three
their them to show
relative matches, and, if the challenger abilities in matches of thirty-six won all three, he deposed his vic- holes,
tim. Similarly a man who was in It is the essence of the problema lower position in the team than
to discover the best players in this he thought he ought to occupy length of game. There are palp- could challenge someone higher ably too many fluky results in up, and take his position by gain championship matches of eighteen ing three consecutive victories holes, but this country has to ac cept them as a guide, to form for the reason that it has virtually no-
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glories were precarious, but it must have been an excellent means to efficiency.
Trial matches for places in the British team would provide a healthy ayatem of promotion by merit, and would certainly be more valuable than the Amateur Cham- plonship as a guide to form.
YACHTING.
THIRD MID-WEEK RACE RESULTS.
The third mid-week yacht races were sailed yesterday, the course being:-Channel Rocks (P), Mark on Line (3), Rumsey Shoal (S), a distance of 4.3 miles.
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