SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1931.
EASIER
GOLF
-by- H.STUART HOBSON
CHANGING VIEWS ABOUT THE WEIGHT IN THE SWING.
WHAT FILMS REVEAL
Stow motion films have changed bady balanced well forward, over ideas about the golf swing.
the ball."
The camera, which, it is aaid.) cannot lie, seems to prove that the professional does not always prac- tise what he teaches. The expert teaches, the beginner to do and not to do certain things in the swing; the camera appears to have caught the expert out in the set of ignor- ing his own advice-ignoring It quite ugrantly.
The "super-speed" camera-a new development has come to emphas- ise the point still further.
One fret about the awing Is quite definitely proved by the newest series of photographs I have seen, That is that all the bodyweight of the galfer is NOT back on the right foot at the beginning of the down ward swing. On the contrary, the classic swingers are seen balanced by left leg as they "lean against" the right. Others have the weight equally distributed between the two
feet.
Hardly a single photograph of
Body Continues Balanced.
THE CHINA MAIL.
RECREIO MAINTAIN
THEIR LEAD.-
Kowloon Surprised Away.
LEAGUE TENNIS.
In the "B" Division of the Tennis League on Thursday, the Kowloon Cricket Club lost to Craigengower C. C. at Happy Valley by 7 sets to 11⁄2.
Scorea:
"
W. J. Howard and Y. Hachiuma (C.C.C.):-
As the ball is struck, the left lost to P. M. Pinguet and heel is lowered and the right is
R. B. Hambly raised, but the body-continues beat F. Zimmern and Y. balanced between the two all the
Segnien time.
Careful examination will reveal that as the ball is addressed the. weight of the body is evenly
beat W. Brown and F. Skin-
ner
3-6
6. 2
6- 1
G. Lai and A. Kitchell (C.C.C.):- balanced, or slightly back on the drew with Pinguet and right foot. As the club is taken Hambly
6- 6
back, the right foot accepts more offbeat Zimmern and Segalen 6-2 the weight of the body. By the beat Brown and Skinner ... 6-2 time the top of the swing is reach-
6- 4
ed, however, the body is rather E. Zimmern and F. Zimmern more forward than it was in the (C.C.C.):- address; neither leg is rigid, and beat Pinguet and Hambly the weight may be said to be beat Zimmern and Segalen "cushioned" against the right foot, beat Brown and Skinner... 6- 2 with the left to add the necessary touch of balance.
In fairness to the professionals of another generation, it must be said at once that this is probably exactly what they intended, to imply by saying that the weight should be transferred back to the right foot
the upward swing.
any
value supports the almost universal theory that the weight|on goes on to the right leg as the club is taken back, and comes forward on to the left leg as the club comca through.
Cause of Vice. Painstaking attempt to follow this faulty principle is the under- lying cause of nearly every vice in golf,
It leads both to slicing and to hooking, to topping the ball and to digging underneath!
The yards of distance lost by golfers in falling back from the ball would be sufficient to ciréle the earth so many times as to make the whole world dizzy.
Bobby Jones hue summed up the truth.
past
"Although I have in the inclined towards a different view," he says, "It is now my definite opin-
What Golfer Understood. What the golfer understood, how ever, was something different.
He thought that the body itself, not the weight of the body, should be taken back.
Recreio Victory.
6- 4
In the same division, the Club de Recreio, playing at home to the Civil Service, won by 7 sete to 2.
Scores: Gosano
and Barretto (Re- creio) :- beat D. J. Valentine and
J. R. Pengelly beat V. H., Freeman and
G. W. A. Tufton ... beat F. W. Bradley and
J. A. Bendall
6- 3
G-0
6. 2
Sousa and Remedios (Recreio) ;—:
He acquired through this habits beat Valentine and Pengelly 6-4 that marred his golf for a lifetime beat Freeman and Tufton .. 6- 0 -swaying, falling back, lunging lost to Bradley and Bendall at the ball, and a number of other faults.
Barros and creio) :-
4-5
Yvanovich (Re-
lost to Valentine and
Pengelly ... beat Freeman and Tufton bent Bradley and Bendali
League Table to Date...
Sets.
8-6 6- 0 6- 1
A first essential of the gulfing swing is to keep in mind the fact that the body must be balanced over the ball ALL THE TIME in the swing, from start to finish. The transference of weight murt take the form of “leaning" against first the right foot and then the left-
P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts. leaning against, and not dropping (C.S.C.C... 8 4 13 32% 40% 1 Recrelo .... 7 7 0 0 44 16 14
Univeralty 6 4 0 2 30% 14% 8 Indian R... 6 4 0 2 20 24 H.K.C.C._... 6 4 0 2 284.254 Chinese R.C. 3 3 0 8 20% 8% 0 Army TC. 6 2 0 4 4 23 28 4
.40.. Kowloon C.C. 7 2 0 23
on.
If this principle is mastered the ion that there need be no shifting golfer will find that he seldom of welght from left foot to right lapses from the true groove of his during the backstroke. amined numbers of photographs of the very best players. and I have been able to and no case in which
have ex-swing and that he adds both dis-
tance and direction to his shots. (China Mail Coypright.)
a chifting was perceptible."....
The emphasis is on the word "perceptible."
Redistribution of Weight. Actually, there is a redistribution of the weight, but it is not obvious.. And it is the weight that goes, not the body. This is difficult to ex- plain, and is best illustrated by con Bidering a tripod. You can, make a tripod of three clubs that will stand upright on the putting green. Each club will be leaning on the others, and part of the weight of each one will be also against its own base, but no club will be leaning back wards. The so-called transforence of weight back to the right foot is actually a leaning-forward of the body, accompanied by a pressing against the right heel. At the same time, the left heel is ralacd.
C.C.C
4 2 0 2 18 17 M.B.K.
6.10 411 SCA.A. ..... 0 1 0.521
LAWN BOWLS AT Nippon C317
CRAIGENGOWER.
SOCIAL EVENING.
"A" Division.
8
8
91 2
324 2
*30
1
The match between the IR.G. and the H. K. C. C. was postponed oiving to the wet condition of the 1. R. C. ground yesterday.
"B" Division. The postponed fixture
between
Members of the Kowloon CC. the Indian Recreation Club and the were entertained by the Cragen-Chinese Recreation Club will be. gower CC. on Thursday evening played off to-morrow. In the bowls game, that was played the Kowloon CC. won on both rinka.
E. C. Fincher, C. £."Taschi, J. C. Lynland A. Hyde-Lay of the Kow- loon Cricket Club beat K. Modi, W. Ward, W. Field and R. Basa (Craigengower C.C.) by 20 shots to 17, while H. Hampton, P. T. Farren, L. J. Blackburn and A. E. Silkstone, (K.C.C.) beat D., K. Kharas, F. Neves, M. Souza and C. S. Rowselet by 21 shots to 15. Both matches were played at Happy Valley.
The other day I picked up "Taylor on Golf”—a manual pub- Very enjoyable games of bridge: lished twenty years ago. The and billiards were played after photographs of the author In action dinner, which was served in the showed very clearly this movement | main hall. A return encounter of pressing the weight back against will be held at the Kowloon the right foot while keeping the Cricket Club in August.
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British Players in Better Form.
ALLIS SHOWS UP WELL.
Toronto, Yesterday. All the British players here are well to the front in the at- tack upon the Canadian Open Golf Championship. Spectators were aroused to great enthusiasm by the display of Percy Allis, who returned a first round of 67, after Walter Hagen and Tommy Armour, the American players, had each turned in a record breaking score of 68.
Our Sports Diary.
LOCAL.
CHINESE ATHLETIC TO TOUR JAVA.
Two Trial Games for To-morrow.
TO-DAY'S MATCH.
The Chinese Athletic Association intend making a tour of in the near future, and as a preliminary two Java trial games are to be played at the North. Point Stadium to- morrow.
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THE ROULETTE FACE
Denis 'Weaver
How Spectators and Players Acquire It. THE LURE OF THE GAMBLE
At 1.15 am."a proposed touring Carlo the one mana Briton elevon will play a Combined Army Several people at various times have -who has ever bested the Casino. team.
"broken the bank," few, so it is
Teams.
'Only the other day I met in Monte players with a lynx-eye, although he has not staked himself, is a keen- who will tell you quite seriously faced elderly man in evening dress that he has played every day for 22 C.A.A.-Chan Sex-pui: Ng Kam-related, have (financially) lived years. At his home he will have chuon, Lee Ling: Chan Pok, Mak to tell the tale. He, however, after piles of exercise books Alled with Kwok-tung Wong Pin: Chan going "Into the gaming rooms with records of numbers, calculations of Kwong-iu, Li Yi-sun, Lal Kwok-five france some years before the probabilities, aystenis of attack upon chiu, L4 Hung-ching and Suen Tee-War, came out again with three the laws of chance which he has ac- king.
hundred thousand of the same, and, cumulated and kept with care and what is still more remarkable, has with which he would not part for twice the money he has won in the time. At his meals, in his walka and motor-rides, during every fres hour of the day or night, he will think of endless numbers and groups of numbers, jol down formulas and calculato permutations. And he will be perfectly happy.
re-
since.
Later, Hagen, the first man home, returned another 68, and leads the field with an aggregate of 186. Johnny Farrell had rounds of 89 and 68 for a total of Army: Osborne (R.A.0.C.); 137, and Allis, the second time Gray (Argylls), Naughton never get foot inside the Casino out, had a 71, coming third with | (Argylls); Hastie (Argylls), Grant 138.
(Argylla), Fretwell (R.E); A. N. Anyone who has ever gambled will Eleven British players quali- Other, Dolan (R.A.O.C.), Lamont recognise that the Casino never fied, those competitors who were (Argylls), McQuade (Argylla) and gives you money; it merely lends it. more than twenty strokes behind Campbell (Argylla). Moran, Cotton, Ninety-nine people out of a hundred, the leader after the 36 holes auto-Davidson and McDonald are having won something from the matically retiring-Reuter, serves. Referee, Sgt. Parker. tables will return and eventually At 5.90 p.m. the probable eleven lose it. It is almost impossible for will meet another and stronger and leave while he still belloves he a winner to change his money back Army team..
C.A.A.-H. H. Chow; Fung may win some more.. Man-yau, Leung
The Spinal Thrill. Yuk-tong; Ho Cho-yin, Wong Sul-wa, Lam. Yuk-] Adventure breathes in the very ying; B. Gosano, A. Gosano, Chan of the Casino is more than a con- air of Monte Carlo. The glamour Kar-chew, Suen Kam-shup and Chan Chun-wo.
vention fastered by the films and by Army: Hunter (Argylls); innumerable novels; the germ of (Argylla), Henderson gambling grows and gives forth in Blackburn
the smoke-laden atmosphere of the (Argylls); Grosvenor (R.E.), Jackson (R.A.0.C.),
Yeoman gaming rooms. (Argylls); Hughes (Argylls), McTavish (Argylls), Gillett (R. Sigs.), Grimwood (R.A.0.C.) and begins to spin, even though your Ianson(R.A.M.C.). Referee: Ser-stake be a mere ten franca, lying modestly beside the piles of hun- geant Caswell,
To-day's Game.
dreds spread every minute on the To-day, a match is to be played green numbered squares in this at the Stadium between the Royal amazing place. Navy (Hong Kong) and the Can-roulette Here, watching every Familiarity breeds fascination at ton Navy. The kick-off is at 5 p.m.
movement of the croupiers and the IT UNITED STATES AND coffee daily. Balzac, Beethoven, Congreve, Wycherley and Dryden THEIR RECORDS. were all excessive coffee-drinkers... To-day, even in the Balkans, coffee-drinking is not what it was. Enthusiasm Roused by True it is that Mustapha Kemal, that miracle of energy, conaumea Coffee Drinker.
vast quantities of stimulants. The cubic content, however, is not coffee bat champagne.
LAWN BOWLS-To-day--Divi- slon L-Civil Service C.C.. Kowloon Dock R.C.; Club de Re- crelo v. Craigengower C.C.; Kow- loon C.C. v. Police R.C.; Kowloon B.G.G. V.
Taikoo
R.C.; Division II. Craigengower C.C. v. Club de Recreio, Hong Kong Electric R.C. v. Civil Service G.; Yacht Club v. Kowloon C.C.; Taikoo R.C. v. Kowloon R.G.C.
LAWN TENNIS--To-day--"B" Division-Club de Recreio v. Chin- ese R.G: Indian R.C. v. Nippon Club: Civil Service C.C. v. Row- loon C.C.; Hong Kong C.C. v. Craigengower C.C.; University v. Army T.C.; "C" Division--Y.M.C.A.. Civil Service C.C.; Craigengewer C.C. v. Deutscher Club; Indian R.C. v. Chinese R.C.; Recreio v.
V.
Kowloon C.C., Army T... Hong
Kong C.C.
SWIMMING-To-night-South China A.A. Night Fete (North Point).
· BASEBALL—To-morrow- Japanese v. Chinend Athletic.
HOME.
CRICKET-To-day, Monday and
Tuesday
Eton v. HarrOW,
Sussex v. Essex.
Gloucestershire v. Middlesex.
Kent v. Surrey.
Lancashire v. Now Zealand.” Yorkshire v. Notts.
Warwickshire v. Northampton-
shire.
No thrill is quite like that which runs down your spine as the ball
HISTORY RECALLED.
Let it not be thought that all Another record has gone West. drinking records are held by Amer Mr. Gemaock, of Cleveland, has an icons. Europe has feats to her nexed the coffee-dricking champion-credit which no American will ever ship of the world. His score for 12 hours was 85 large cups.
Miss Napoleon: "play to win. The game is every- Those gamblers do not exclusively
thing and the chance the spice of risk we all seek either in our lives or our imaginations.
chic, red-lipped, beautiful, playing Here, at his side, is a young girl, with hundred-franc plaques. Her face is intent: her decisione aro Napoleonic.
You cannot tell whe ther she is losing her all or striving to double her winnings. To loge after having won is a more bitter disappointment than to lose at the start.
Inevitable Expression Bored old ladies, soldierly men, sphinx-like girls and youths-the most mixed collection of types and nationalities imaginable sit or where there is little talking and few stand all day round these tables,
smiles. Moralists have spoilt the subject by over-emphasis, and novel- fats too often have.invested it with a melodrama it does not really possces. As a spectacle, a roulette table at Monte Carlo is uniqoe.
which differs from the poker face" You notice the "roulette face" in being valneless as far as the chances of the game are concerned
even assume it unconsciously yourself, writes Denta Weaver la the News Chrontale. Before you have watched a game for half an hour you will find certain facial muscles tensing, the corners of your mouth will turn downwards, your One of those was recently com-eyes will half close and your nerves To our weak-stomached genera memorated, when the German town will be twice as rapid as usual in tion the quantity seems staggering of Rothenburg celebrates the 300th their functioning. and the attempt itself nauseating anniversary of its deliverance. at
Glamorganshire V.. Somerset-
shire.
Hampshire v. Derbyshire. Worcestershire v. Leicestershire: SHOOTING-To-day-Nationni Rifle Association Meeting Bisley.
POLO To-day-Subalterna Gold Cup Final at Ranleigh..
LAWN TENNIS-To-marrow- Davis Cup European Zone Final to be completed.
equal,
but to the giants of the eighteenth
Souls at Stake." In 1631 Rothenburg, which sup- The gamblers are so many adven- and ninteenth centuries the feat would not have been greatly beyond being besieged by a Catholic army strength, or speed, or brains, or ported Gustavus Adolphus, was turers who have changed their their normal consumption.
under Tilly. The town, desperately quick wits temporarily, into coun- Voltaire drank 60 or 70 cups of defended, fell only after a longters, and concentrated--all-the- resistance, and Tilly, furious at the episodes of a lifetline Into 35 delay, ordered the mayor and all his squares. It is not, at the bottom. Councillors to be beheaded, writes money that these people pit against "Londoner" in the Evening Stan- each other at roulette; it is them dard.
selves. Every time the ball is spun The executioners had raised their they set out,- psychologically, on a axes when the mayor's, daughter buccaneering cruise, a murder in- came forward, and, offering Tilly a vestigation, a marriage, or any glass of Rothenburg wine, begged other of the adventures they have for mercy.
read or dreamt about. The In- The wine wae good, and Tillyferiority complexed ones comfort Hiked a brutal jest. He offered to themselves with the unusual cénsa- spare the councillors if one of thêm tion that their chance is as good as could empty the Rothenburg wel the next man's, and most of us like come cup in one, draught.to think that
The mayor himself performed the People don't go into the Casino feat, and Tilly kept his word. The only to make money. They go bumper held twenty pints.
there to realise their dreams.
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