THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1931.
THE CHINA MAIL.
I
I
KNOW
KNOW PUTTING IS
NOT
GOLF
DO OUR SPORTSMEN TOMMY ARMOUR OUT
OVER-DO IT?
TRAGIC TALES
MANY ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO
ILL-
HEALTH.
UNNATURAL EXERCISE
Lily Plegan.)
FOR "DOUBLE.”
Leaves England in Optimistic Mood.
SOME CONSOLATION.
IT IS SUI GENERIS
AN UNFAIR RECKONING OF
At the start
STROKES.
TRIAL
REQUESTED
"Well, good-bye. I'll be back next year to defend the title," said Tommy Armour, the new British. open champion, to a Press Associa tion reporter when he left London) far Southampton, enroute for New York.
I disarm all with a fair shot, is 40yds. short. There is something peculiarly sport in the world. 1 feel that "It's great to be British cham-
criticism-I am no golfer. I play Both have moderate lies. "B" distressing in the toll that death has clever Rugby player, cricketer, orpion:. It had been my greatest what I call golf, occasionally, for hardly gets hold of his second, but
tennis player to suggest merely a ambition to win the cup, and now I pleasure. few who excel at sports-can easily have succeeded I mean to kavo un lady who beats me five times out of Löft. from the hole. "B" again I play mostly with a "A" plays a perfect Iran; and la runs up to the edge of the green. be misled by his prowess. He goes other shot. I have had a fine time six on levels. Of the hundred playing the odd, does nothing to on and on during his leisure from here, and now I am going after the reasons why I am so bad, one work, and hardly, a decent rest does American open. What a double, that, through humility, I am so he get from sport. When Rugby is ch?" over, he is preparing for cricket or
pleased when I get a sweet shot He was born and learned his golf that I cannot forget it and think tennis. There is a slight full bein Edinburgh, turned professional that that is quite enough for one tween seasons, so he puts in a bit in 1926, and won the American and hole. But though I cannot play, of amateur "soccer" just to keep the Canadian Open Championships two in the 30 odd years since first I ball a-rolling.
years lator. There is a little con started I have thought a dickens sulation to weigh against the fact of a lot. So please forgive me for that once more the eup will cross writing. I have thought. the Atlantic.
taken among our young sportsmen in the last few years. I am not .talking about war casualties, but about those young men and women who have yielded to ordinary ill nesses. A number of outstanding players in various spheres of sport have, been removed from our midat in that way. These notabilitles in their own sporting lines have proved a great loas to sport, but the tragic fale does not end with their passing. From all British centree, one hears of young people being taken. It is a common feature in local news papers to see the sudden death. an- nounced of So-and-eo, 'who has dia- tinguished himself in various fields of recreation.
Three Questions.
Danger of Staleness.
He is bound to get stale sooner or later. That is where the danger Res. There is nobody to tell him that he is in such a condition, and, in ninety-nine cases aut of a hun dred, he will not admit such a thing.. has occurred. If he is with an: Ox-
ford or Cambridge eight, it is a dif- to ease up, and he is given relaxa- ferent matter. The order goes out
tion-and champagne.
A thoughtful survey of these hap penings prompte a question, or, rather, questions. Does sport lead to the fitness and the healthinese of
It is when a man is state that he the subject to such an extent as wo
lo most open to illness. He has. make out? Do our participants, taken so much out of himself in an who excel at games, over-do it? Are other direction that he has not the our players tempted to avoid ordin- stamina left with which to with- ary precautions owing to a tempor-stand the Insidious attack of nasty ary feeling of physical well being?
In considering the first question, we must remember that all sports are by no means natural. The most natural exercise of all is walking, und the muscles all over the body are exercised in proportion when we indulge in this activity. Much the same thing can be said about swim- ming,
little germs, which, however, are very dangerous.
It may seem ridiculous to suggest that our sportsmen do not look after themselves sufficiently. "We don't make our players by coddling them, by gad!" I hear them saying.
Rugby Ailments.
In-
True, but players ask for trouble by falling about after strenuous Sudden Strains on the Body.
periods of play. If they took alight, precautions, they could avoid some In most other recreations, move of the indisposition and ailments ment is spasmodic, and sudden which attack them. strains are. thrown upon various parts of the body. At times, the heart is called upon to withstand a good deal of strain. That is parti- cularly so in such sports as Rugby, Association football, athletics, raw ing, hockey, and tennis. With the exception of rowing, one is called upon in all these sports to leap about in displays of violent energy Rowing is notorious for the heart weaknesses it produces, and the other sports may produce equally unfortunate results in other ways. These may not be found out until it
ja too late.
Not the Case.. One would think that sportsmen would be more immune than others from ordinary allment, but that is not the case; writes "Plegan" in the Sports Dispatch. We hear on all sides of well-known men and women being unable to fulfil their sporting engagements owing to Il-health.
I think that fact answers my accond question. I definitely be lleve that our clever sportsmen over-
One would any, for instance, that Rugby is a game which would fit anybody to defy any sort of illness. Well, is there a recreation that pr duces more susceptibility to fluenza, colds, and coughs? It is one of the most common things during the Winter months to read that certain players cannot take their places in trial games or in their club fifteens awing to the fact that they are victims of "Au.""
կր Sensible Precaution.
The matter of precaution is not a childish, flapperish sort of idiocy. It is really very sensible. I know a man who thinks he has the great preventive for colda. He walks everywhere he can. Whenever he gets wet, he sees to it that he walks home. Last Winter he neglected that precaution but once, and the result, was the first cold he had known for years. He got soaked through at the Murrayfield "sevens,” and then accepted a ride home in a friend's car.
I think our sport might be taken
do it. By that I do not mean that ❘ a little more easily. Players should
I am throwing in my lot with those good people who are for ever an- nouncing that there is too much
learn that, fit as they are, they are still open to the weaknesses of mány: of their fellow human beings.
LOCAL LAWN TENNIS CELTIC IN AN UGLY
LEAGUE RESULTS.
(Continued from Page 6.)
lost to W. H. Choa and Y, K.
Mow
lost to T. H. Lau and T. W.
Lau
4- 6
品
lost to F. H. Kwok and H. N.
Chau
5- 7
(K.L.T.C.) :-
FOOTBALL SCENE.
Another Game Lost in American Tour.
Our Sports Diary.
LOCAL.
WATER POLO-To-morrow- Division Royal Navy v. Chin- ese Athletic, 6p.m.; Division. II.
12th Heavy Battery, R.A. v. V.R.C. "D", Kowloon "A" v. Kow- Tour". 30 p.m.
LAWN TENNIS-Saturday- "A" Division-M.B.K. V. C.R.G... LR.G. v. H.K.C.C.; South China v. K.C.C. "D" Division-Recreio v. C.S.G.G. IR.G. v0.0.0.0.R.C.
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ATC; HRC.C. v. University; Nippon Club . U.S.R.G.; "C" Divi- aion-Y.M.C.A. v. LR.G: 0.0.0, v. RS.C: K.C.C. v. C.R.C.; Recreio Y. Army T.C.; University v. South China; Deutscher Club y. II.K.C.C.; C.3.C.C. v. Kowloon Indians.
LAWN HOWLS-Saturday- Division I. Civil Service K.D.G.C.: Police
Craigen- gower; Kowloon Bock v. Club de Rearele; Kowloon C.C. v. Taikoo RC Division II. Craigengewer v. Civil Service: Tulkoo R.C. v. Hong Kong Electric; K.B.G.C. v. Yacht Clal-Club de Recreio v Kowlum C.C.
V.
BASEBALL - Sunday South China v. Chinese Athletic, 4.30.
n.m.
HOME.
CRICKET-To-day and To
Borrow
M.C.C... Oxford University. Mr. 1. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI. v. Cambridge Univercity.
Easex v. Kent. Gloucestershire v. Lancashire. 'Yorkshire v. Somerset, Glamorgan v. Sussex. Hampshire v. Northamptonshire. Derbyshire v. Surrey, Warwickshire v. Middlesex, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.
Kent v. SuaSCX,
Essexv. Hampshire. Lancashire v. Middlesex. Somerset v. Glamorgan. Northampton v. Gloucester. Nolts v. New Zealand. Yorkshire v. Surrey. Warwick v. Worcester, Leicester v. Derby. LAWN TENNIS-To-day to Saturday All England Champion- chips at Wimbledon.
SHOOTING--To-day to Satur- dayArmy Bleeting at Bisley.
ATHLETICS-To-morrow and Saturday A.A.A. Championships at Stamford Bridge.
POOR DECISIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Rowdy Scenes at Boxing Matches.
HOSTILE CROWDS.
is
Only Inspiration. And I know that putting is not golf. Putting is sui generia; it is Inspiration; it is billiards; it la howls; it is croquet; it is what you like. But it has, in essentials, nothing to do with hitting a ball as hard as you can with a driver, or with an "Iron, or even half as hard as you can with a mashie. Ir. it is a part of golf, then I say it should be a part, not a half. If a man (or his caddie) carries round the clubs, and plays 72 strokes," I want to know why half that num bor of strokes should be played with ong club; why 36 of the strokes should be of the sort that a paralytic could play as well as an athlete—why, in short, a foger whose corporation does not allow him to take more than a half-swing should be enabled to "win on the greens." Putting is at best a despicable business; it is a thing he-men should be ashamed of. For loaven's sake, if we must have it, let it in all humanity be reduced lo decent proportions.
Inequitable.
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side "A" to within 2yds. of the write home about, but he gets in- hole. the cup, and is dead. "B." holes "A" playing the like, lips
his putt and the hole is halved.
Luck And Skill.
time and again that "A" is up all That is only an imaginary exam- ple. In actual play it happens
the way on "B.", but "B." halves." Let us look a little more closely at the example. The reader may say "B." deserved his half. He fought) all the
Sway and gallantly holed his missable putt, Yes; but' the point is: "A" did not have such a puit to hole. "B" played three second-class shots and a putt; “A." played three frst-class shots, and he never got a chance of showing what he could do with his fourth. Even if "E." had been so far behind that his fourth shot was a 20-yard putt and he holed it, it would still be unjust that' ona shot should out-balance thres, especially as the difference between that holing and lying dead from distance must be admitted to be a good deal a matter of luck, and ospecially as "A" never made fourth shot at all.
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The Proposal.
proposal? writes Leopard Inkster What then, is my epoch-making. in. The Morning Post.
I pro-
pose half.
that "A's" tap count
I propose that round the hole a white line be drawn. In 8 cirele, the circle to have diameter of 8 inches from the centre of the hole. Any ball lying
a
I know well that that wise and reverent body which lays down to the golfer the laws of the Medes and the Perajans will hearken toon or within the circumference of nu revolutionary proposal. Other- the circle is to be dead. The wise, I should say: Make your player must hole out, but his hole, as big as a crator; keep your stroke counts as only half-a stroke. putting competitions as a separate This would be fair; it would save pastime for retired Colonels and many members from being heart- let me slog-on! But I will
it run broken-y would едве maby to no extremes. I intend in the re- mainder of this short article to be quite serious. The proposal I put forward has been approved by a Professor of Physical
An Example.
I am shifting a little my point of attack, I ask anylgolfer, con- servative and reverend, if he thinks it in keeping with the general Gitness of things that to tap a ball, which is dead, into the hole ought to count the same as a 250yds. drive? Let me bring out what I mean by describing a hole played by "A." and by "B."
"A" has a great drive; "B."
INTERNATIONALISM IN GAMES.
Keeping Flag of Idealism. Flying,
FURTHERANCE OF PEACE..
►
On their recent visit to Geneva, Johannesburg, June 8. members of the Scottish Football FRAYED TEMPERS. Overruling the referee, the two Association party attended a ser fudges gave Dick Corbett, the Lon-vice conducted by the Scots Providence R.L.), June 7. dan boxer, the decision in his 16 chaplain, the Rev. T. M. Watt, Celtic, the Scottish League team, round bout with the South African, M.A., who in the course of his ser were beaten yesterday. In a rough Willie Smith, at the City Hall here, mon made reference to the part H. Mahan Singh and M. A. Khan game with Pawtucket by 8 goals to The spectators became, hostile played by games in international
when the result was announced, andiam. Several players lost their tempera flung bottles, chairs and newspapers
Some of the things I have said and came to blows, which caused into the ring after the boxers had this morning, he remarked, I have many of the spectators to rush on to left.
aald because of the presence of the the field and join in the fray. It was a close fight. Most of the members of the Scottish Associa Policemen were forced to disperse critics thought. that a draw would then football team, who expressed the crowd and restore order. have been a better decision.. a desire to worship with us to-day Corbett thus repeated his victory They are on tour in Europe, play A. D. Humphreys
68 over Smith at Olympia last yearing friendly matches with teams Rowdy scenes also marked the representing Austria, Italy and 4-fourth and final encounter between Switzerland.
1.
lost to W. H. Choa and. Y. K.
Mow
...
1-6
lost to T. H. Lau and T. W.
Lau lost to F. H. Kwok and H. N..
Chau
1-6
4-
Capt, Gorg and S. R. Salleh (K.LT.C.)-
lost to W. H. Choa and Y. K.
Mow
16
lost to T.H. Lau and T. W>
Lau lost to F. H. Kwok and H. N.
Chau
1-6
36
MIXED DOUBLES.
Chinese R.C. Win! The Chinese C. mixed doubles team defeated the Ladies Recren tion Club by 5% sets to 3%, nt. Causeway Bay yesterday.
Boores:AANED Miss E. Lo and M, W. Lo
omes and D
lost to Mr and Mrs. E. CON
Etherington
beat Mrs. Stafford Smilth and
W: Railton.
drew with Miga Thomas and
A D, Humphreys
tempers.
I ask the Royal and Ancient Secretaries of Clubs, friendly couples, to give this a trial. It is sound in mathematics, and in abstract is just. Just one little doubt aasails me: Do we want golf to be billiards or bowl? Do not the rub of the green, the luck) of the game, the gods aiding the desperate putt, add to the charm? Shall I not say, in twenty years' time, when I have recovered my putting: "Ah, yes, the young fel low could hit 'em a bit, but..... experience tells.. and I wor at: the last hole.... on the green?" :
BRITISH ENGINES TRIUMPH.
Air Race Round
Sweden...
TWO WINS.
Both the seroplane and seaplane events in the 1,300-kilometre Air Race round Sweden were won by plots using British aero engines,
The race was flown in three days and drew forty entries. The land plane class was headed by Lt. Erik Rasmussen, of the Royal Danish Navy, who flew a Dankok machine fitted with a 885 hp. Siddeley Jaguar engine, and the seaplane class was won by Capt. Bremer in a Junkers Junior fitted with an 80 hp. Siddeley Genet engine............
play spirit of sport reigns over in ternational affairs, the cat force which rules there now will shrink away and human life emerge 'for the first time, from the jungle." I entirely share in this view.
Donald McCorkindale, the South This rivalry in games is surely African heavy-weight champion, who part of the modern international leaves for England on June 19, and movement. Perhaps one of these.
The section of the League which Mrs. Chiu and Iu Tak-chauk Jos Woods, of Los Angeles, who days there will be a "games" nec doala with minorities might find (C.R.C.)
fought a draw over twelve rounde tion or Commission attached to the hero food for reflection, and in at Capetown,
Secretariat of the League of dead, for action in promoting Rooing end hissing greeted the Nations, as a further means of friendly games between the com drew, with Mr. and Mrs. E. CARS referee's decision, as the South Promoting goodwill among the plaining minority and, the over-
Etherington 6 6 African lad definitely gained the nations, even as there is already a bearing majority, as lost to Mrs. Staffford-Smith.
But I am proud to know that advantage in nine of the twelve Commission to promote intellectual and W. Ballton
deep co-operation. Games, and sports Scotland is taking its share in tāls ps are playing all increasingly impor international work. - A work which NOTTS CRICKETER'S DEATH. tant part in the siffe of the modern is based on the sense of fair-play world, and it may be agreed, with and rivalry without enmity,' is in much show of reason, that those line with a true internationaliam, who-have played toge ier in by which I mean an International friendly rivalry will lightly fem which expresses itself In tam to ware for a solution of poll friendly rivalry and itical difficulties
between
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The death has occurred of the Notts crickete Mr. John Dixons.
He was
70 years of age
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operation
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