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Athletics.
It is officially stated
that Lord Burghley is not going to re-
tire from the truck, but hopes to carry on with his hurdling until the Olymple gumes at Los Angeles, next year. The 1929 season did not see him at his best, but last Summer be
OLYMPIC RUNNER
HONOURED.
WELSH TWICKENHAM.
stored as brilliant a series of sac. George Voigt to Invade
cusses over the fences as any in the history of athletics. Quarter-mile and 120 yards hurdling are not sup poser to go together; nevertheless Burghley won both events not only in the A.A.A. championships, but also in the Empire games.
His amazing courage at the finish of the A.A.A. 440 yards event will never be forgotten. Facelli, a really great Italian hurdier, was a couple of yurda up as he landed over the last hurdle. Burghley went after
Britain.
SCHNEIDER CUP SPEED.
ing the usual receptacle. Volume and weight of increased quantities of fuel became very serious fae-
tors.
Д
han said that the ancient athletes Would have made poor show against modern athletes. Nurmi, Lowe, and Burleigh would, without any question, show a finet Agure if only their statues were perpetuated.
Sir Harold Bowden. chairman of the British Olympic Council, said; that it had always been our watch- word that a good sportsman was a good loser, but that was not enough. It was quite an excellent thing to be a good winner sometimes.
EASIER
GOLF
-by-
H.STUART HOBSON
9
KEEPING YOUR DRIVES DOWN THE MIDDLE.
THE CORRECT PIVOT.
1.
Drive A Long Putt. That is why I emphasise that a drive is a long putt-the principle of the swing is the same,
Mr. George Lansbury, First Golfers who hit a long ball-but and smoothly through along Commissioner of Works, said: "The not always in the right direction-grooved line. joy of living to-day lies in that young people are getting
are far more often met thon golfers oppor. tunties for sport which formerly whose strength is the knack of A representation had were enjoyed by rich people alone. "keeping 'em down the middle." Golf, been made to Bobby We have also got rid of that old
Jones by A
section of Mother Hubbard notion that a boy members of the Royal and Ancient and girl or young man and young
Your golfer who goes into the rough with his tee shot, comes over the other side of the fairway with
him to get home by the thrust of his chest. It is this refusal to recognise defeat which has made Golf Club, St. Andrews, of which woman should not bathe together his second, and finds
Burghley the great athlete he is.
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Jones is a member. It takes the in London baths and streams." form of a miniature in silver of the British amateur championship cup. which was won by Jones last year, and the miniature bears the follow- 'ing inscription:-
Welsh Rugby Football Rugby. enthusiasts and sporta- теп generally are
a bunker
guarding the green with his third,
What is the erratic bitter to do about his swing? That A the
paint, for practice must follow on theory.
A certain way to gain added direction to all shots is to make them more slowly. Another way is to keep the body dead still, as with mashie-chip or putt, and swing with a minimum of arm
At the annual general meeting of the Amateur Athletic Association, held at the London Polytechnic re- cently, Mr. D. G. A. Lowe, the Bri- "To Robert Tyre Jones, golfer, urging the Welsh Rugby Union to match play he is apt to go to pieces movement and with no wrist move-
tish Olympic record holder for the matchless in skill and chivalrous in 800 metres, was elected hon. secre-spirit, from some fellow-members of tary. in succession
to Sir Harry the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at Barclay, who has held that position St. Andrews."
since 1915.
Vis
The nomination
carried unanimously with applause, and Mr Lowe, in Kiving thanks for his election, hoped that his extrema youth would be considered if he should fail to emulate his pre- decessor.
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There is eager curio Aviation, sity in Italy, France, and England as to
the speed of the machines which are being prepared for the 1931 Schneider Cup contest, and 400 miles per hour is discussed as ล probability.
This, however,
ton miny prove optimistic an estimate. The de- signers in all three countries are faced by the same problems, and the fact that the engines will give note power, consume more fuel, and need more cooling surface, im- poses conditions which will make it extremely difficult to surpass by more than
a trifle the speed of 13291 m.p.h. of the winning 1929
scapiune.
Moreover, a brief taking-off and navigability test this year must
be included in the same flight as | the speed test, a condition which demands the carrying of still more fuel, which has to be accommodat- ed in the machine, the floats bei
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The four premier golf trophies- the British Amateur and Open and American Amateur and Open Cham- pionship Cups-won by Bobby Jones last year and which, together with the Walker Cup, have been on ex hibition at the Atlanta Athletic Club, of which Jones is a member, have now parted company.
ia usually a worse match player than his shots should make him. He cannot depend on his game and unless he is gifted with an excep- tionally good temperament for procced without delay with the work of establishing a
when pressed, Welsh national Rugby ground at Bridgend. His adversary who keeps to the Followers of the gume
ex-fairway need have no fear of the preas dissatisfaction with the ae-big hitter. commodation at Cardiff and Swan. A player asked
ather me the sex.
day, "How much length should I lose if I devoted myself to Keeping the ball down the middle?"
The Welsh Rugby Union has now completed the purchase of the Brewery Field at Bridgend and has secured a bargain for £2,400. An architect has visited the site and plans for the layout are in preparation; moreover, the union has entered inte agreement with
I asked, "Why should you lose anything?"
Some of the bigger hitters are Junes and Abe Mitchell particular- the straightest drivers "Bobby"
ly and it is quite certain that
The British trophies are NOW back in England in readiness for the Bridgend Rugby Club, to whom length without direction is futile! this year's championships.
they have rented the ground within golf. Your first snot should the reservation that it may be
make your second ahol easier. used for international and trial Straightness will do this, where a matches.
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George Voigt, of the North Hills Club, Pennsylvania, has announced bis intention of competing in the
Amateur Golf Champion British ship at Westward Ho this month.
Voigt is rated second only to Bobby Jones in. American amateul golf. He played for America against Great Britain in last year's Walker Cup match, and defented Sir Ernest Holderness by 10 and 9. In the British Amateur Cham pionship at St. Andrews a year ago he reached the serai-final round to be beaten by Bobby Jones on the Inat green, after a memorable con. test.
mere big hit will more often than accond shot by giving you a poor not add to the difficulties of the
lie or a difficult carry.
Straightness.
Yet, strangely enough,
seen
ment at all. I have
elderly golfers. unable to swing, get both length and direction by "batting" the ball in this way.
But your younger golfer is not satisfied unless his is a wristy shot that sends the ball whistling well over 200 yards. How can direction be added to such a swing?
My advice is get out of your head this idea of transferring the weight from foot to foot.
Swaying and Lunging.
The notion that weight is trans- ferred during the swing is the cause of more downright bad swinging than anything else. It causes swaying and lunging, and it leads to hitting too soon. body has heard about against the braced left side of the
Every- hitting
body. That sound idea means that the clubhead should swing on a frm post; it urges the player not fow of to attempt to hit the ball with hips or knees but to let the clubhead do
it.
Negotiations have also been opened with the Glamorgan County Cricket Club in the hope that they will use the site in Summer, and it is also suggested that the Glamorgan County F.C. shall use the ground for occasional matches. the golfing experts have anything
Bridgend is in the centre of to say about straightness. South Wales, and within a radius
They will tell you how to add
I suggest that the player should of 35 miles there are a million yards to your swing, but not how
begin the backward swing by brac- people interested in Rugby foot- to keep the ball down the middle.
ing his left hip. ball. It is believed that 100,000
In doing this, he should not fall more strange, the back on his right foot. And, even can be drawn to international
the secret of accurate direction-if it should do is to brace, or streng- What he matches, and as Wales
is a secret is far easier to appre- then, his right leg to take champions of the four countries
ciate than any other secret in golf. strain of the bracing of the left and next year's crowds will bo At the annual dinner greater than ever before,
It is simply that you must keep hip. it is
the club swinging for the longest Olympic of the British Olym urged that they must be accom- Games. pic Association inmodated at a Welsh Twickenham possible time along the intended
London, Lord Moyni- or a Welsh Murrayfield.
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HONG KONG LADIES' | co-operation and splendid support.
ARE DEFEATED.
(Continued from Page 8)
This is the first defeat that the Hong Kong side has sustained dur ing the present senson and they met their waterloo against a superior eleven.
Fine Coaching. "The Rest" are in no little way in- debted to Mr. C. Francis, for their success, for, besides coaching the selected eleven, he arranged all the practice games against men's clevens, and it is really due to his untiring efforts,
that "The Rest" shaped so well as a winning team yesterday.
At the conclusion of the game, Mr. A. A. Dand (Captain of the Hong Kong Hockey Club 1st XI) said that, as a player with twelve or thirteen years experience, he felt it was a great honour for him to say a few words on behalf of Mr. Caer Clark, the donor of the trophy. He had watched nearly all the matches played in the competition, and he thought the standard of ladies' hockey had improved considerably.
The Hong Kong Ladies' who had gone through the competition with- out defeat, with the exception, of course, of yesterday's match were to be congratulated, and owed the the success of their achievements to their splendid team work. Names of players of the team who had szered goals were outstanding in the newspaper reports, but their indivi-
·dual success was mainly due to good
¡
(Applause).
(Laughter.)
the
As this is done the body pivots and the clubhead goes slow- ly back. It comes slowly down again, and it is only as the ball is Many players pull in the hands being hit that the left fast is at impact, or just before. Others, braced to take the tension off the
line of direction of the ball.
the Hong Kong Ladies' Hackey whose wurst fault is lack of direc- to receive the Cup
was pre-
one, and he felt sure that although hit too soon. Many fail to follow right. Hong Kong lost, the defeat, would
through.
The club-head and the arms Runners-Up.
do them some good.
The majority of these, and simi- should follow through not the Speaking of St. Andrew's Club, On behalf of Mr. Caer Clark, the lar faults in the swing, cause the whole body. The entire left side Mr. Dand said that they had done speaker had great pleasure, in call-player to hit from the outside in, is braced as the club-head finishes remarkably well in their first ap-ing on Miss E. M. Gray (Captain) and so cut across the face of the its swing. pearance in competitive hockey. They were to be congratulated on
If you watch any player on behalf of ball.
Swing From A Fulcrum. You should swing from a ful- being the runners-up. (Applause). Club. (Hearty applause.)
tion you will find that his club-
crum of your right leg, bracing The runners-up Cup
head is hardly at any moment' in your left leg at the end of the sented to Miss M. Woolley (Cap- the swing really travelling along swing so that you do not fall for- tain) on behalf of St. Andrew's the line of flight of the ball. It ward. Club.
goes back behind the line, swings The teams lined out as under-cut in front of it, and makes ira-
drew's
The Rest.-R. Rose (St. An- pact with the ball while travelling
(K.B.S.FF.A.), P. Woolley (St.
Club); A. Fowler across It.
If you put in this way you can Andrew's Club): E. Booth instantly compare the weakness of (K.B.S.F.P.A.), M. Alves (Club de the method with the putt that Recreio), S. Dalziel (K.B.S.F.P.A.); takes the club-head smoothly back C. Botelho (Club de Recreio), 1. Woolley (St. Andrew's Club), M. Alvas George (K.B.S.F.P.A.), A. (Club de Recreio), and P. Gittins (St. Andrew's Club).
The speaker, congratulated the Club de Recreio and said that they were the only team which secured a point from the champions. (Ap- plause). The K.B.S.F.P.A.-or Kow- remarked, had finished up nearer loon Ladies' se they are known-he the bottom of the League than the top. but their standard of hockey had also improved greatly.
The Diocesan Girls' School, the must youthful side in the League, although last in, the competi- tion, had nothing to be ashamed of, for they had played against superior teams. Mr. Dand remark- ed that with a little more self- confidence in each other, and a little less reliance on one or two individual players, he felt sure that in the next season the Dioce san Girls' team would spring some surprises on the other teams the League. (Hear, hear.)
in
H.K.L.H.C.-G. E. Little; E. M. Gray, J. Smalley, J. L. Whyte, B. M. Wallace; I. C. Bell, J. Dalziel, E. M. Donelan, C. M. Ferguson, and M. Bishop.
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We know that Dempsey at his The speaker ventured to give | best would have slaughtered some advice, and said that with Carnera just as easily as he did the continual practice, and the deve. † gigantic Jess Willard. Unfortun- lopment of team work, he felt sure that in the near future the Cup would not go over to the island but would be kept in Kowloon,
(Applause.)
ately for Dempsey he la now in the sere and yellow. He has no more chance of beating the Italian than did Jim Jeffries have of licking Jack | Johnson or Jem Mace of vanquish- ing the younger Charley Mitchell. Youth will be served. -
Trophies Presented, Concluding, Mr. Dand said that} the match was a very pleasant Butler.
A golfer who masters this prin- ciple, and refuses to think for a moment that he "transfers" his weight from one foat to another will hit a long way and he will hit straight. You do nat transfer weight. You transfer strength. (China Mail Copyright.)
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