TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1931.
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TENNIS COACHING BALDOCK UNDECIDED
PRACTICE NEEDED NOT TUITION.
NATURAL RESOURCES,
Stereotyped Play Must Be Abolished.
THE IDEAL "COACH, {
[By Stanley N. Doust.]
I have comie to the conclusion that lawn tennis players can be over-coached, just as they can be overtrained.
I have travelled as much as most people, and my business being to
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For example, if the backhand is
ABOUT FUTURE.
wenk-some backhand practice. It Parker Equals Hearne's
the forehand is not functioning |
well, then the professional is to hit the balls to the forehand, and 10 003
rich unless they realize the fact
Professional players will not get
Bowling Record..
LEACH'S BAD LUCK.
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At Shanghai on June 28, D. W. that it is the natural player at all Leach, the popular Shanghai all- ball games that excels. So if he rounder, had the misfortune to sec would sink his own individuellly the Inst wicket fall when he him- and develop the pupil's
own self required but one run for the natural instinct, he would thrive as a successful teacher.
Stock Phraees, There is a woman player-ong who has won at Wimbledon-who has written a book, in it she de- finitely lays down the rule
century. Thanks to his fine effort the Armoured Cars casily defeated the Shaforce.
Teddy Baldock is newly married, that and in his own words "wants to you must have the head of a rac-settle down." His wife has told write on games. I naturally have|quet above your wrist for volley-him, "You have done enough box- been somewhat observant and the ing-even low volleyIng. nhovo conclusion was arrived at
after weighing the pros and cons and taking due notice what is done in other countries,
Lawn tennis coaching must be a scientific study.
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my eye was
I was looking up some photo- Baldock, too, is concerned about graphs the other day to illustrate the sight of his injured left eye. an article of hers, and to my sur-"I am going to see à specialist, prise the photo I selected was anjand if he advises it 1 shall retire netion photo of this woman netual-from the ring," he said.
Three years ago ly taking a low volley, and the head of her racquet was below injured in a contest at Blackpool her wrist,
and in the third round against All I give this lustration because it Brown at Olympia I felt it trouble, so often happens that some play-me again. I seemed to be quite ers and some teachers have stock blind in my left eye, and after. phrases, writes Stanley N. Doust Brown had hit me on the face in In The Illustrated Sporting World. (the twelfth round I could not They use them glibly without un-oven see him in the ring. derstanding the reason, and also not knowing whether they prac- tise what they preach in actual
Experience Required, There is so much atmosphere; 50 mitch that is psychological about lawn tennis matches that it is necessary for the teacher have “experienced such situations that arise in a tense match to be able to impart restraint and to help to improve temperament and temper two different things-18 play. well as, to teach strokes.
Losing Oneself.
The woman
I have mentioned
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Newcastle United show a loss of nearly £10,000 on last season's gures, which are startling even in these bad financial football times.
£7,000, but this is over-balanced The expenditure was down over
Our Sports Diary.
LOCAL
WATER POLO-To-morrow...--- Division V.R.C. v. Royal Navy,TMTM 0 p.m.; Division II.-V.R.G. “A” V. Kowloon 8.30 p.m.
V.R.C. B Kowloon "A"
Fridny-Division I-Kowloon v. Borderers, 6 p.m.; Division II- 12th Heavy Batty, R.A. v. Univer- sity; 20th Heavy Battery, R.A. V. Borderers, 0.30 p.m.
SWIMMING Today Entries close for S.CA.A. Night Fote.
Saturday 9.C.A.A. "Night Feta (North Paint).
LAWN TENNIS-To-day-Mix- id Doubles League-Indian R.C. V. Ludles' R.G.
V.
To-morrow "B" Division-Chin- ese R.C. v. Indian R.C. Craigen. gower C.C. v. Kowloon C.C.; Army T.C. v. M.B.K.; South China A.A. Hong Kong C.C.: Nippon Club v. Civil Service C.C.: "C" Division- Hong Kong C.C. v. Y.M.C.A.; Civil Service C.C. v. Craigeagower C.C. Radio S.C. v. Chinese R.C.; Kow loon indians v. Recreio: Kowloon v. South China A.A.; Deut- C.C. scher Club v. Indian R.C.; Mixed Double Chinese R.C. v.. Univer Eity.
Saturday-"B" Division-Hecreia v. Chinese R.C.; Indian R.C.. v. Nippon Glub; Civil Service C.C..v. Kowloon C.C.; Hong Kong CC. v. Craigengower C.; University v. Army T.C.; "C" Division-Y.M.C.A. y. Civil Service C.C.; Craigenzower C.C. v. Deutscher Club; Indian R.C. v. Chinese R.C.; Reerolo v. Kowloon C.C.; Army T.C. v. Hong Kong C.C.
FOOTBALL Friday - Hong Football Association Annúni
LAWN BOWLS Saturday—' Division I-Civil Service C.C. v. Kowloon Dock R.C.; Club de Re- crelo v. Craigengower C.C. Kow- loon C.C. v. Police R.C.; Kowloon B.G.C. v. Taikoo R.C.; Division II. Craigengower C.C. v. Club de Recreio; Hong Kong Electric R.C. v. Civil Service CC; Yacht Club v. Kowloon C.C.; Talkoo R.C. v.
BASEBALL Sunday-Japan- ese v. Chinese 'Athletic.
It is a physical fast that we are not all bullt the same, and there plays naturally, and loses herself fore it is impossiblo BЯ well as in her matches. Therefore, it i absurd for any leacher to say to not surprising that in a quick vol- every one of his pupils, "You mustleying bout she forgot all about bold the racquet this way and hit those phrases, and the ball that way," etc. Every promptly and to do so she had to pupil, should be taught or develop- lower her racquet. If she had ed on this own natural lawa. kept the head of her racquet ab ve. Charles Parker, Gloucestershire's Some teachers. would make their her wrist for this low volley she left-arm slaw bowler, won a close pupils automatons. AŬ their would have been, tag late by seronds race against Freeman, of Kent, for strokes would be mechanical and for the shot.
the distinction of capturing his every time they missed a shot they
No, we are over conched, or, to hundredth wicket first. By taking would be trying to think what they put it in other words, we are not six for 34 and two for 28 against had done wrong.
coached along proper and scient-the New Zealanders at Gloucester fie lines.
reduction in gate drawings nearly £20,000, which shows at
Kowloon B.G.C. acted very glance the position and the cause
of it.
Self-Conscious Evil.
Now to all beginners i say with- -out fear of contradiction that you,
cannot ever rise to be a groat player if you are made to feel cop-. scious of faulty stroke production during a tenze battle.
The only way is to play natural- ly and lose ennsciousness as far. as how you have to hit the ball is concerned. It is often seen on lawn tennis courts especially when theorists or cranks are tak ing part-players, after losing a shot will make a shadow stroke with the racquet, trying to remedy what they thought was the reanori they missed the ball.
The true reason why they missed the ball never enters their head and that it is not humanly possible to play without making mistakes. Eye and hand are not working well and perhaps the other fellow" has something to do with you missing shots.
Take the great players in the world; past and present.
Strengthening Strokes.
on June 12 Parker reached three.|. figures, with Freeman only three wickets behind, and thus equalled the record of 'J. T. Hearne, whọ
WATER POLO LEAGUE obtained his 100 wickets by June
RESULTS.
KOWLOON DRAW.
At the V.R.C. last night a very weak Kowloon side held the Chin ese Bathing Club to a draw of one goal all in the Senior Division of the Water Polo League.
12 of the 1896 season. Gloucester- shire were all out for 132 but they dismissed the tourists for 89 in their Arst innings.
Bobby Jones has stated that he has arranged to pair with Walter Hagen for a four ball match with Henry Cotton and Jose Jurado on the Scioto Course, Columbus, Ohia, after the Ryder Cup matches, the In the Second Division the Uni-results of which contest will be versity beat the Borderers by nine cagerly awaited. goals to nil.
The following are the League tables to date:
Division I.
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The engagement of Dr. G. V. the famous · Irish Stephenson, Rugby international, to Miss Mary '. Goals.. Burns Fraser, the younger daugh- W. L.-D. F. A. Pta-ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fraser, 5,5 0 0 30 1 10 Chinese Ath..5 3 1
of Chesterfield Gardens, Hamp I 24 5 2 1
stead, is announced. 2 17 15 Kowloon Chinese B.C. 5.2 2.1 G 19 Navy
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V.R.C......
Borderers
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5.0 5 0
4 30
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Division II.
Goals.
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The Renshaws, the Baddeleys, Pim, the Dohertys, Norman
P. W. L. D. F. A. Pu. Brookes, Wilding, Tilden, Lacoste, University 4 301 24 Berotra, Cochet, Parke, McLough- V.R.C. "A" .. 3 3 0 24 ¡in, Patterson, Schmidu, to name
19th Batt. 4 3 1 0 18 Argylls I have yet to lear? Chinese Ath. 9 2 1 0 18 3 2 0 1 19 but a few.
2 that any of these were ever taught Kowloon "A" 210
0.10. 11 how to play.
V.R.C. "B"
4 2 2 0 14 19 20th Batt.
7 Borderers
326 124
What they have done is to en- gage some professional player- not to teach them-but to give them practice.
2 2 0
R. Signals Kowloon "B" 3 31st Balt
3 0
4 0
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Generally reckoned to be the finest centre three-quarter of the post-war era, Stephenson was first capped for Ireland in 1920 against France. Except for two matches which he missed owing to illness, the was capped for every subse 8jquent match until he decided to retire from the game last year, soon after the announcement that
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CRICKET-To-day- Kent v. Sussex. Essex v. Hampshire. Lancashire v. Middlesex. Somerset v. Glamorgan: " Northampton v. Gloucester." Notts v. New Zealand. Yorkshire v. Surrey. Warwick v. Worcester. Leicester v. Derby. To-morrow, Thursday and Friday. Oxford University v. Cambridge University.
Surrey v. Glamorganshire. Sussex v. Derbyshire. Kent v. Hampshire, Yorkshire, v. New Zealand. Lancashire v. Warwickshire. Somarsetshiro v. Middlesex. Northamptonshire v. Worcester-
shire,
Leicestershire v Notts. Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.
Eton v. Harrow.
Sussex v. Essex)
Gloucestershire v. Middlesex, Kent v. Surrey.
Lancashire v. New Zealand. Yorkshire v. Notta.
Warwickshire v. Northampton-
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Hampshire v. Derbyshire. Worcestershire, v. Leicestershire. SHOOTING-To-day-National Rifle Association Meeting Bisley,
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POLO Saturday-Subalterns Gold Cup. Final at Ranleigh.
LAWN TENN78 Sunday- Davis Cup European Zone Final to be completed.
HEROES OF WORLD GOLF DIFFICULTIES
OF SPORT.
Physical Disabilities Overcome.
INTERESTING EXAMPLES.
Sport, as well as the Arta, has its heroes men who have triumph- ed over physical disability and suc-) ceeded in spite of the loss of a limb or some other serious handi- cap..
THE IRON WITHOUT THE HOOK
JONES IN TROUBLE. Human Element the Stumbling Block.
GOLF CHANGES.
[By C., Macfarlane.} Just as painters, deprived of the
Every golfer knows that the iron use of a hand, have learned to pro-shots are the most difficult to play duce masterpieces by wielding and the greater the loft the moro brush with their toes, so have difficult is the stroke, writes C. B. aportamentutored themselves to Macfarlane in the Evening News. excel at various branches of sport So great an authority as Bobby in the face of difficulties which Jones himself says that his irons most people would regard as in-bave always been a trouble to him, surmountable..
and it is a fact that some distances, Classic Cases.
notably one of about 160 yards, There are many classic cases. often catch him "napping." Andy Wilson, Chelsea's famous for-
For generations all irons have ward, for instance, has only one been made with the top of the blade who have played against him would running at a different angle to the bottom edge. Thus we often pick up an iron which has the bottom
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hand that is of full use, but those
At first sight the iron or maslie looks as though the ball would cer talaly be driven off to the right, but although I have not yet Tested this for: myself I am assured that the ball flies straight. "
To get the two edges running together the makers have hollowed out the blade at the heel.near the socket, which has been given a
light kink.
When it is set down to the ball the blade faces the green, and there is no necessity whatever to turn out the face.
-The Parallel Set.
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the irons of long ago were made "I seem to remember that some of somewhat in this style, but these new irons have the heel hollowed out more. Certainly the new irons and mashica do set to the ball In parallel, and that being so it la claimed for them that the player is better enabled to strike a straight-through shot and is not worried as to whether the ball will fly to the right or the left. With the club face straight he is less.":
he sets about the important busi.edge- well hooked in, so giving the liable to take up a faulty stance.
never guess this from the spirited and very efficient manner in which
top edge the appearance of being ness of scoring goals or paving, the out of line; and with such a club clubs Invented to make the playing There have been hundreds of way for them..
It may be argued that feet or correct angle to the green..
it le none too easy to set it at the of the game easier. Putters by the lega are more important in football
There is no question that this been guaranteed to get the small score have been made which have than hands, but the argument cer- two-angled-blade upsets the eye, golf ball into the hole, but, alas! tainly does not apply to billiards occasionally, and many profession the human element is the stum and goff-two games at which
als, including Arthur Havers and Andy Wilson is particularly adept the great J. H. Taylor, lay off the bling block, and until we can rule
No Brooding.
faces of their, mashies when play have a-yard putt for the half-crown
out that shaky feeling when Wilson will beat, more. golfèra than will beat him, and 1 should, in a pitch shot. certainly say the same about his This is done to get the bottom and the match. I foar billiards, saye Eric Martes in the edge of the blade at right angles "gadgets" will not be very success Daily Erald. With the philoso- there will be little danger of the to the green and to ensure that phic outlook of a good Scotsman, ball being hooked away to the left
Wilson, instead of brooding over his disability, set about making his one sound arm do the work of two. How well he has succeeded those
of the green.
Too Far In. Some mashies have this bottom
ful.
Wonderful Faith.
we
that such
the golfer has in certain aids to
But it is a wonderful faith that
the game. One man swears by the steel shaft made in England. An-
face.
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who have met him on a billiards edge set in more than others, and other Hkes the American variety..
I have found that when the bottom One golfer likes the aluminium table or a golf course will testify edge is set inwards too much one putter, while another-and I am
Mention of billiards naturally conjures up thoughts of Walter able to push the ball out to the one wears by the old style put- the Lindrum. He, too, suffers from. a right for very fear that it may be ting cleek with some loft on
pulled. physical disability, even if his op
But I know that many golfers But if some new irons which I not ponents have
noticed it.
will welcome. thèse new irons. Lindrum's digit Anger on his right claimed for them, then shall wo have seen recently do all that is
iPoor iron and mashfe play are hand-the hand he, makes his bridge with, as he is left-handed be no more in two minds as to how stumbling blocks which keep many
to place the clubhead behind the golfera': has been reduced to negligible ball; for these new frons have the proportions as the result of an at bottom and the top edgee running cident. Lindrum, however, is able at the same angle.
to make as firm and perfect &
bridge as-ary player could wish. war, would undoubtedly have taken
Davis' Handicap.
a big part in English County cric. Another famous billiards playerket. This ambition has been denied"
in Joe Davis, the British cham him, but he gets lots of enjoyment pion, is one who has made good out of life umpiring. in spite of the loss of one eye. Ati first glance Davis appears to have
Denton's Wooden Leg.
handicaps in double figures, and if these irons do all that is said for them then I know
some among my friends who will rush to buy them in the hope that one of their troubles is ever at last. But although they will try them out for a time I am sure that their
trusty irons, even though they have let them down in many important games, will be placed safe- lockors for fear
A. D. Denton, who lost a leg in in their two very good eyes, but only one the war, actually turned ont for that after all it is Dot of them is a 100 per cent. one. The Northamptonshire and made rune been the trouble as the man be- soy | 80° much the clubs that have other is practically useless, but too, in spite of his wooden leg,hind them.
"Contraptions."
with one eye Davis can play bil- Wicket-keepers sooner or later liards better than anybody in the bear the mark of their calling in world except Lindrum. ;
the shape of deformed hands: Fashions change, in most things' Only the expert would notice the The nature of their work behind and golf has been no exception. handicap when watching Davis at the stumps plays havoc with the In the past twenty years we have the table. Instead of aiming his hands as a glance at Dolphin's or
seen the wooden Peg tee come in
cue along a line between both eyes Strudwick's.quickly shows, but this almost to the entire exclusion of as most players do, he sights with does not discourage them, and the pinch of sand, although Harry la sidelong glance. However, be when they get too old for the job Vardon will have no of the new
gets the shots just the same.
contraption and always places his they usually become scorers, Arthur Groundrill, the referee, Jack Harrow, who used to play ball himself on a sand tee. even who justly describes himself as the full-back for Chelsea, lost the for a short hole.net one armed billiards champion, can sight of an eye through a splash We talk of "birdies" and play billiards far better with one of mud striking the ball of the eye, "engles" - "drift” and "draw arm than the majority of people can However he continued to play and Instead of pull and slice, and, with two. He lost his arm through keep opposing forward from acer- worst of all, "numbered Irons" this gories of matches and the getting in the read of a bit of flying.
Instead of the intimate and· fami- 179th of his career.
ing shrapnel when he was in the There are many instances of liar Mid iron and light iron. Hussars.
men with a wooden leg playing These things have come to stay. The 56th annual report of the
Cricket's Examples.
tennis, and one of the most They do little harm, for the game Aston Villa F.C states that in Cricket also has its heroes, courageous boxers I have ever seen itself is unchanged.. I wonder i apfte of a general falling off in H. G. Deane, who captained South-Harry Jennings-has a leg that these new irons will oust the style "gates" throughout the country, Africa against England in the is certainly, not normal.'
which has been in general vogue splendid support had been given accond T. match played at Cape I am no moralist, but if anyone since the first. iron was made? 1 to the Villa Iast season, and towe, lost a number of fingers of likes to read a moral in my article am hoping to test them soon and "gates" were exceedingly good, one hand through an accident, but it is that you can't keep a good to find out all about this parallel The balance of income over expen- in spite of this drawback he can man down.
type of meshie:" ditare amounted to £10,181, and feld a bait as well as most great the directors recommended a pay. cricketers and make plenty of runs, ment of a 5 per cent. dividend.
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tlemen at the Oval on June 10 Jack Hobbs beat another of W. G. Grace's records. At the age of 47, the Grand Old Man knocked up a century for the Gentleman in 1895 which, was regarded as a wonder- For the first time In 24 years Another great sportsman has not ful feat for his age. Now Jack the balance sheet of the Swindon been so fortunate. I refer to Hobbs at 49 registers three figures Town Club shows a deficit. The Chester, the Test match: umpire, against the best amateur eleven: loss on last season's working who, had he not lost an arm in the This was his twelfth century in amounted to £1,984.
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