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Aviation.
The death of Flight- Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, A.F.C., winner of the Schneider Trophy in 1929, from injuries received when his noroplane crashed at Farn-
PASSING OF A GREAT AIRMAN.
LADIES' "WALKER CUP.”
borough recently, was the forty-Two second R.A.F. fatality this year.
Flt.-L. Waghorn was only 27 years of age, and his reputation as a brilliant airman had been estab- lished in the short space of nine years' membership of the Royal Air Force.
the
exclusion of Cardiff City, Brighton and Hove Albion, Hull City, and Reading. These four teams' are among those excused, only until the first round proper.
Notts County and Chesterfield
Cricket Strategists are the promoted teams from the in Opposition.
ARSENAL TRANSFERS.
the not
two sections of the Third Division, while Exeter City und Southport will be remembered for their fine displays in last season's competi- tion. Ilford, winners of Amateur. Cup in 1929-30, are shire match. Yet it was the pre again in the list of clubs exempt ludo to the most chivalrous and until the first round proper, Alder- thrilling cricket perhaps ever seen shot taking their place. in the county championship, for
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EASIER
GOLF
by
H. STUART HOBSON
"PUSH SHOTS" TO THE PIN.
USING TILE CLEEK.
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Golfers were talking the other, behind the ball as sharply down at day of the 'push shot.
Every mature player knows of this shot, but few could define It exactly a fact that is understand
about a push shot.
after two declarations Gloucester- The Arsenal, Champions of shire made the winning hit with Division I, have secured the transable, for there is little visible push seven men out and only two minutes fer from Scarborough, the Midland left for play.
League club, of Reginald Stockill, The first sensation came shortly an 18-year-old inside left, at a fee after the luncheon interval, when i said to be about £500. A school B. H. Lyon declared Gloucester-boy International, Stockill has shire's first innings closed at 175 nesisted York City as an amateur for 7, arrears of 83 and a supreme and played for Scarborough during gesture of contempt for anything the past season. so trivial as the five points award-
When that team of brilliant pilots, High-speed Flight of 1929, moved from Felixstowe to Calshot for the last strenuous month's work before the Schneider Trophy contest it was at once obvious that Waghorn possessed exceptional qualities. He was a man who "flew with his head" in an uncommon degree for a pilot who also possessed amazing dash.
Waghorn flew the 350 kilometre Schneider race at an average speed of 328.63 miles per hour, and dur- ing it set up a 100-kilometres re- cord of 330.1 miles per hour. In ed for a first-innings decision. Waghorn's machine Squadron-Lead- There were ofteen at stake. Not er Orlebar afterwards made the since 1908, when E. M. Sprot de- present world record over the speedclared twenty-four behind North course of 357.7 miles per hour. ants and led Hampshire to a great After the Schneider Trophy vic-| triumph has a county captain done tory the King conferred the Air anything so daring. Force Cross on Waghorn, "to mark the nation's
of pride gratitude."
sense
Lincoln. City have transferred to
Liverpool Edward Savage, their right half-back, who played in every Northern Division game for his club last season. Savage join ed Lincoln City straight from school three years ago. The trans- fer fee is said to be a record for the Lincoln club,
Walton, Huldersfield
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P. G. H. Fender, the Surrey
W. and captain, took up the gauntlet thus R.
flung at his feet. In spite of the Town's reserve goalkeeper, has quick dismissal of Hobbs for a been signed on by Swansen Town.
was the order, "duck" quick runs and when six wickets had been lost
A series of matches he tween British and Ameri- in making sixty, Fender, in hie turn. declared Surrey's inninga
can women, on the lines closed and left Gloucester 110 min utes in which to score 145 runs if they were to win.
The need for unified Boxing. international control of boxing was exem- plified at Manchester recently, when Lucien Popescu, the recognised fly- weight champion of Europe, was supposed to defend his title against Jackie Brown, the British fly-weight champion.
1 is to
the discredit of those responsible for the Roumanlan that he should have turned up no less than half a pound over-weight and that, after an official of the British Boxing Board of Control and given him an hour in which to get rid of his "extra" weight, he should have refused to take the scales again.
The fight was promoted and an- nounced as being for the European title, but what actually occurred was a mere travesty. After a good deal of andignified discussion and confusion, it was declared on behalf of Popescu that he was not pre- pared to pay the £50 forfelt which had been stipulated in the articles of agreement, and it was not until Brown's manager had agreed to waive the forfeit that Popescu en- tered the ring.
Jackie Brown properly regarded this fight as a stepping stone to- wards a championship fight with Midget Wolgast, but his win on points has brought him no nearer
Gloucestershire, having burned their boats, could play only one game now. Having scorned five points they could hardly make a grab at three.
Golf.
of the Walker Cup have been ar ranged to be played in England
next year, according to H. H. Rain- sey, the president of the United States Golf Association.
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and 1906
A push shot is essentially a shot that brings the ball sharply sp into the alr, sends it travelling almost in one plane, and then brings it down as sharply as it rise to come to rest virtually where it dropped. The effect is achieved by backspin.
The term "push shot" is mislead. Ing; the true sequence of the shot is lift ... control.. stop.
Of the advanced shots of the
the back of it.
Take your stanco closer to the ball than for the usual iron or cleek shot, and more forward.
Your hands should be in front of the ball as you address it. The backward swing is compact-about a half or three-quarters, and as upright as you can make it while keeping it easy and fluent.
Your eye. is well over the ball as you bring the club down; the gaze is not just vaguely directed behind the ball, but is glued on the exact spot on the back of the ball that you intend to hit. As with alf shots intended to lift the ball game, it is the one that deserves sharply, your first thought must be most attention from the golfer. The to beat it down. A golfor noeda reason for this is that the push shot little experience before he learns is not so much a single shot as a whole technique of hitting iron shots. Everything that a first-class golfer does with an Iron has come thing of the push shot about it. The need to stop the ball on the pin is always uppermost in the mind when approaching.
Making of a Short Game. the making a golfer's short game.
The knack of stopping the ball is
Good approaching saves putt after putt. The bad habit of play. ing short-a fatal handicap to many players should never be acquired when the ball can be pitched up of overrunning the without fear green.
that to attempt to scoop the ball upwards is to send it scuttling along the ground, while the way to be certain of lifting it is to, báng hard down at it.
Bhythmic But Sharp.
So with the push shot. Your ac- tion is rhythmic but sharp, as though you intended to beat the ball down.
The effect is to "pinch" the ball UP on to the face of the club, and lift it sharply into the air. The divot will be taken, or the ground will be grazed, in front of where the ball was lying, and not behind. Wrists must be firm, but not locked.
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Distance can be added to the
shot by letting the body go, through
The matches will be played for the Curtis Cup, the gift of two Bisters, Misses Margaret and Har- Lyon led the way, and although rict Curtis, of Boston, who have he was out at eight, Hammond and held the United States women's
Stop an the ball, especially when Dacre put on 77 in 45 minutes of championship in 1907
a few inches with the club-head. blazing batting. Disasters follow-respectively. It is expected that playing to a tight, closely-guarded a `trappy
You should aim to drop the ball ed Dacre's dismissal. When Park the cup will be competed for in grean, may easily rob
short hole of its terrors. Britain and America alternately. er, number eight, joined Hammond
Golfers who do not devote their well up to the pin, relying on the the last over was signalled and
mornings, their afternoons, and backspin imparted to stap the shot. Ham-
their evenings to the game
The shot cannot be acquired three runs were required.
once mond opened his shoulders
wise if they ignore what are col-without practice but then, no shot more, and hit a majestic boundary
why I off Allom-and Gloucestershire had
loquially called the "pro, shots." in golf can. The reason The push shot is one to master, though, no matter if you play only one round a week. The reason is that this is a method of approach- ing that will strengthen your iron play all round, and give greater
won..
At a meeting of Ox- Rowing, ford University cap- tains C. M. Johnston (Shrewsbury and Brasenose) was elected president in succession to E. D. Tinne (Eton and University), and L. Clive (Eton and Christ, church) was re-elected secretary.
It will come BS a Tennis. welcome surprise to British lawn tennis
The Football Asso- Football. cirtion has issued the list of clubs which will be recommended for exemption from certain rounds of The sub-committee the Cup Competition next season, enthusiasts to hear that Dr. J. C. will report Gregory has arranged with I. G. these to the Council at their meet-Collins to revive their partnership ing on Monday.
at Wimbledon this year. It is in The most important feature of teresting to recall that this pair the list is the fact that Cardiff | have never been on the losing side City, runners-up in 1925 and win in Davis Cup matches. ners of the traphy in 1927, figure A short while ago it was official-
cluba among the forty-three
exly announced that the pair would cused only until the first round have to break up their famous proper. The Corinthians again ap- partnership purely on account of Such was the unpro- pear in the list of clubs exempt to business activities and British Cricket. mising notice on the the third round proper, Other optimism as regards Wimbledon telegraph baard at changes in this section are Notts received a Revere check. Now, Kennington Oval on the third and County, Chesterfield, Exeter City, however, there is a different story last day of the Surrey-Gloucester- and Southport, who come in to the to tell.
to that ambition. This fight will no doubt he discussed at the Inter- nailonal boxing conference shortly, to be held in London.
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confidence.
Ara
No joy in golf is greater than the feel of this shot off the club. Your cleek is the club for the or niblick will respond. purpose, though: mid-iron, mashio, Export golfers will sometimes achieve a considerable degree of stop with a
-wooden club..
urge the importance of studying this shot is that, apart from the saving of strokes achieved by good approach play, there is a very rea! pleasure in being master of the ball to the extent of being able to stop it at will. This pleasure and mastery will strengthen all iron- club shots, and probably the golfer's whole game.
Cleck A Dificult Club. Many players find the cleek a dimcult club..
A chief reason for this, is over- swinging; the tendency is to swing with the clock as you would swing "Push Shot."
with a wooden club. This is Where the shot differs from iron mistake. A three-quarter swing shots aimed solely at securing dia- should be the maximum with a tance and direction is in the more cleek; the shot in more directly direct downward hit, Here, per "up and down." There must be hups, is the reason for the term control from beginning ta end, "push shot." The action is the ac- with no drifting of the club-head tion of pushing the ball into the at the top of the swing(China ground. The swing is not so much Mail Copyright.)
FINE RECOVERY IN RUGBY LEAGUE CUP FINAL
London, May 2. For the third time the Rugby League played their Challenge Cup final at the Wembley Stadium, London, to-day, the teams being Halifax, winners of the trophy in 1903 and 1904 and runners-up in 1921, and York, who have never reached the firfal before.
by their forwards. it come as a cracking pace which they had set great surprise to find York getting up; indeed, towards the end, they the better of the acrummages In could scarcely raise a gallop; and the first half; and when he Hall-though they lost the services of fax defence was pierced for the Thomas towards the end of the first time in the competition it was game, the lesue was then beyond regarded by some as an omen.
doubt...
Previous winners at Wembley are get down as follows:-
success
as
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But after the interval Halifax After their forwards, Halifax were transformed. Their forwards owed their
inuch to their work with a to Haigh as to дву other His strong will and scrummaged in real earn- individual player. 1929-Wigan bent Dewsbury. est, and the tables were turned. swerving runs, were a feature of 1980-Widnes beat St. Helens. Whereas previously Thomes, the the game, and led directly to more The third-and easily the fin- York captain and stand-of hálf, i than one of the tries: Adams, est of the Rugby League Cup had dominated the situation, who came in for Brown, thorough finals played at the Wembley Sta- bluffing the Halifax halves timely justified his inclusion, for, be- dium was won by Halifax, twice after time and getting his three-sides kicking four goals, he co- previously holders of the trophy. quarters in motion, Hanson and operated splendidly with Haigh. who defeated York by 22 points to Ivor Davies were "how repeatedly The try-getters were Bland; Higgs, 8, after a most remarkable and in possession, and though at first and Higgins (two). thrilling contest.
the Halifax backs did not.display
The two tries scored by York in The winners made an amazing the same sparkle that the York the first half were obtained recovery in the second half. At men had done, they gradually gain-Harry Thomas, and Pascoe kicked the interval York led by three ed the upper hand, and in the a penalty goal. points (8-5), and had given a closing stages: they were absolute- much better exhibition than their ly irresistible.
To those who were opponents,
The stamina of the Hallfax men
Result:
22 points 8 pointe
by
Halifax York aware that Halifax's triumphant was the decisive factor of the York: E. J. Owens, H. Thomas, path to the final had been paved match. York falled to stay the M. A. Rosser, W. J. Davies, Billy
Davies; W. Thomas, A. C. Lloyd;ing.
Under the thirteen-a-side W. Davis, E. Myers, D. Pascoe, | code, after putting the ball into Hector Davies; E Layhe, and W. the scrum the serum half retire Johnson.
behind his pack and stay there, Halifax-R. Davies: F. Adams, even though the opposing side ob- This rule eli- tains possession. minates apolling and a great deal of scrummaging. The ball must come out from behind the front row of forwards.
the
A. J. Higgs, H. Haigh, L. Higgins; 1. Davies, H. Hanson; H. Bland, A. Rawnsley, W. Ronton, D. Rees, E. Norcliffe, and A. 'Atkinson,
How the Game is Played.. The differences between
When a player is tackled he rules of the Northern Union and must be allowed to rise with the those of the Rugby Union are:- ball in his possession, and only There are thirteen instead of one of the opposing team may fifteen men in a side, the icrum mark him. The other players on being formed of only six men, both sides must not stand within packing 8, 2, 1, the bacic-row play- five yards. as being a "loose head." other positions are the same.
The line-out has been abolished. In its place a scrum is formed five yards from the point where the The scoring is slightly different. ball crosses the line. The ball. In the thirteen-a-side game a try except in the case of penalty kicks, stfil 'counts 3 points, but a goa must bounce in the field of play of any kind counts 2, while a try before going into touch, otherwise converted counts as a try and a a serum is ordered at the point goal, 5. points, and not, as one from which the ball was kicked. goal, 5 points, as in the Rugby
The half-back rule is interest-Union gamo.
The
"Marking" the ball may only be done for defensive purposes. No goal may be dropped from A
mark."
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