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1. Stewed Shark's fins with Crab Meat.
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CONTROL OF GOLF NERVES.
Perhaps It was that he felt too content with having gained the lead in the morning, and the know- ledge that he was the only British player for ten years who had de
'Sensitive Condition of livered so inspiriting an attack
Bobby Jones.
TEMPERAMENTAL CONTRASTS:
[By Harry Vardon.] It is something of a tradition that the cold, phlegmatic, tempera- ment is the best disposition for golf. "Tramping over the course like a mute at a fünéral” is an expression that I remember vivid ly in regard to James Braid and his stoicism at the time he was winning many championships. In point of fact, Braid aimply had great control over a high strung nature.
upon the Americana
He was wound up to-concert pitch then. If he could have gone straight on without a break, I am aure he would have won. In the two hours-interval ho developed an uncanny calm,
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"I felt as though I had just to go out and play a practice round at Coombe Hill," he said, "When am going to play well in a cham- pionship I'm shaking with nerves On demand at the start of a round." It may have been reaction that made him on demand. so tranquil in the interval, His Grudita, 60 daya' peace of mind was certainly his
sight undoing. The championship was his for the taking, with all the other competitors throwing it at him, and he was too placid to take it[-
*
I have long since come to the conclusion that complete tranquil lity in a desperate situation is the, |greatest' handicap that can over-
Jones an Exception. take anybody in this strange pas Jones was the one great golfer time, and the belief was never so who could play badly and win. definitely emphasised as during He could do it because of the sen the final round of the Open Cham- aitive condition which produces planship on the Royal Liverpool brilliant shots in emergencies. links at Hoylake last season. He had two sevens in the last There is something about golf that round of an American Open Cham appears to demand that a player, pionship. He ought to have gain shall be sensitive to a degree when ed an easy victory, instead of the excitement is reaching Its which he had to play a shot out climax; that all his nerves shall of a pit and get down a putt of be as easily affected as open four yarde nt, the last hole to tie wounds, and yet under entire con with Al Espinosa before winning trol when the shot comes to be in the replay. accomplished.
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The man who can keep on sav-Copper Cath ing situations in this way must be I suppose nerves govern the aub as finely made as a piece of ar conscious finger-work which makes tistic china. I am told that when or mare the stroke, for, in the end, somebody asked him whether ho it is the Angers that direct the would bring up his newly-born club-head into precisely the cor- son to be a golfer, he replied:- rect position for atriking the ball "No; I-wouldn't like him to go: and it is certain that they can be through what I've suffered winning guided only by a 'mind which is championships." execedingly susceptible.
They cannot be manoeuvred even like the raising, of the left heel, the pivot of the hips, and other readily described details that play- ¿ era are enjoined to master. They are agents that must operate sole- ly on the player's own sensitive- ness, and I am certain
that no. thing is more important in a golf- er's methods than bia fingerwork; on the club.
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who per forms on the piano or the violin. The nearest thing to reducing it to a practicable formula is ex- pressed by the discovery that led me into practising the overlapping grip.
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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following programme broadcast to-day from Hong Kong Broadcasting Starin Z.R.W, on a wavelength of 865 metres.
6-8 p.m.-European Programme of Victor Records supplied by Masara. S. Moutrio & Co.
! 6.6.25 p.m. Iberia-...
In the Streets and Byways, Odour's of the Night,
The Morning of a Fete Day, L'iste Joyeuse (Debussy),
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18.16
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Hong Kong
Silver Spot & For-
ward
Symphony Orchestra
(M-77).
I found that the circumstance of the little finger of the right, hand riding on the forefinger of the loft, prevented that little fin: 6.25-6.54 pm-A Concert: ger from exercising too much pres Song- sure. It is capable of asserting a At Dawning (Eberhart-Cadman),
Mary Garden, Soprano (1216), tremendously tight hold, as any. body may learn merely by grip Piano Solo-
Album Leaf (Grieg), ping a stick strongly in the right hand.
£
Song
Karold. Bauer (1418).
Song of the Flea (Moussorgsky),
Peter Dawson, Bass-Baritone (C1679).
Allemande (Croft), | Choral---
Cuarteto Aguilar (9397).
(a) Ezekiel Saw de Wheel (b) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (c) Keep Yo' Hand on the Plow,
Hold On.
In Spite of Himself. Thare can never have been more striking contrast in tempera- | Flute Quartet~~ ments than that provided in the championship last season by Bobby Jones and Archic Compston. Jones was high-strung almost to breaking point. He went out in that condition for every one of his four rounds. Each time his first, three holes were crowded with ad-Violin Solo ventures. Many of the shots were bad for him even when he secur. ed' the correct "figures. Several were lucky, but luck has a way of coming to the aid of a man who
| fights hard against adversity. *.
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Hall Johnson Negro Choir (36020).
Rondo (Schubert-Friedberg),
Jascha Heifetz (6691). ̈6.54-7.27 pm÷Bawaiian" Music: Alohn, De,
"... The Rosary,
Ello Hawaiian Orchestra
...(20518).
**
In round after round he was the Hawaiian Nights, very embodiment of sensitivity. | Aloma
Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra (21110).
Lisbon
Athens Bucharest Rio-
11.
12 3/16 British Wireless Service.
The Happiness Boys (22087). Organ Solo-
Just a Memory,
Jesse Crawford (21053). Humorous Song-
Cooking Breakfast for the One I . Love,. Whet a Woman Loves a Man,
Fanny Brice (22310). p.m.-Local Time & Weather
Report.
8.03-8.15 p.m.-Chinese Recorded Programme.
8.15-10.27 p.m.-Chlaese. Stadio Concert.
10.30 p.m.-Close Down.
Monthly Report for May.
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Tending
Actual hours of transmission Lane Crawfords totallad 252.75 of which 143 were Mackintoshs..... devoted to European programmes Sinceres ......... and 109.75 to Chinese programmes, Wm. Powell Hilo Orchestra (21424), } as follows:-
Miscelaneous. 3:27-8 p.m.-Variety.
He was never so often in the Lou'siana Lullaby, rough as on the final day. Once My Bird of Paradise, he was out of botinde. He kept on recovering by means of shots, de cisive yet delicate, which were de pendent upon his nervous rather than his physical' constitution; shots of a hundred yards and less | ́.
generally less. The knuckle of Male Chorus-
Song-
Always In All Ways, Beyond the Blue Horizon,
Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano (22514).
his right forefinger would stick The Birth of the Blues," out to obtain that Arm yet dainty hold of the club which seems to promote perfect judgment of length and direction. It was long drawn-out battle of the spirit against an unwilling body."
Uncanny Calm,
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Monthly percentages
During the month the following *Speculative shares. "Sales to Shanghat. (22348).items were broadcast:
Thomas Waller (22108).
The Revellers. (20111). Song-
Lazy Lou'siana Moon,
***Johnny Marvin Plano Solo
Sweet Savannah Suo, Ain't Misbehavin',^ ; *^)U
Song Take all this against the lot of Compston. I never knew anybody who went out so serenely for "a last round as Compston did" on this occasion.
BRINGING UPA FATHER
OOP!
It's a Habit of Mine,
Mag Maurice Chevaller (22007). Vocal Duet
Who Cares Anyhow, She Has a Little Dimple on fer
Chin,
Running Commentaries Dance Programmes ***** European Studio Concerts
European Relays ......
Chinese Studio Concerts Chinese Relays
European Lectures
Chinese Children's Programme New licences issued during May, 1931-42,
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