THE CHINA MAIL.
FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1931.
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"Once in-you're never
out," says the gang.
That goes for fove, too!" says Cooper,
Then love rune against the gangsee what hap- pena!
GARY
COOPER
SYLVIA
SIDNEY City Streets
a Paramount Picture
All they want is each other-und the king of crime forbids them to love! A man and a girl who fight for love -with their lives menaced every moment. Their story is drama-swift, tense, emotional drama!
NEXT CHANGE COMMENCING SUNDAY, 19th JULY.
RUTH
CHATTERTON Unfaithful"
A Paramount Picture
with PAUL LUKAS ‹.
Directed by John Cromwell.
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K. FUJIYAMA
PHOTOGRAPHER
ANNOUNCES HIS REMOVAL
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CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP
CONCENTRATION AT LANCASHIRE ARE
GOLF.
Penalties of Over- Doing It.
A GRIM MISTAKE.
[By Harry Vardon.] Somebody suggested to me the other day that one of the common- est faults in golf is excessive con- centration.
VICTORIOUS.
SOMERSET DEFEATED.
Sibbles in Deadly Form at Taunton.
WELLARD BOWLS- WELL.
Judging by the tense counten-. ances and constricted physical con- ditions which one sees so often on
· London, Yesterday. courses, I should say that he is Lancashire gained fifteen points right. The exact degree of mental at the expense of Somersetshire at application that helps a player fa
Taunton to-day. Splendid bowling as much a gift or cultived art as. his swing. In truth, the one makes by Sibbles, who took 9 wickets for the other.
64 rums, gave the northern county
marks about a hundred and one
"
THE INSURANCE 'GAME."
County Cricket Clubs Getting the Benefit.
rain
AGAINST THE WEATHER.
How many of the cricket an- thusiasts in this Colony realize that insurance policies against¦
are taken out by counties participating in the County Cham- pionship? Nevertheless It is true. News from home tells us that Mr. Robert Gambles, manager of the Pluvius Department of the Eagle Star and British Dominions In- surance Company, has not been too
No rational person can bear with victory by nine wickets in a very pleased with weather insurance the individual who makes breezy re-low scoring game. Only 448′′ runs recently, as there has been a con-! topics all the way round or keeps were scored during the match forsiderable amount of rain during on telling you that he only plays the loss of 31 wickets. for the fun of the thing, and doesn't mind whether he wins or loses. He is as bad as the chatter-box at the card-fable.
Over Balances.
At the same time, concentration can unquestionably reach the stage where it over. balances, and vents calm determination into miserable apprehension.
the
Somersetshire took first use of wicket and fared poor- ly against the bowling of Sibbles (4 for 26) and Hopwood (5 for 48), and were eventually dismissed for the paltry total. 'of. 116.
Wellard, bowling at a fine pace, caused anxiety in the visitors bat
I sometimes think that its perfect ting order, but dogged batting exemplar in golf was James Braid. snatched a lead of 64 runs on the He would walk along enveloped in |
concentration, and looking like first innings. Wellard returned nothing so much as a mute at a the fine figures of 5 wickets for 39 Funeral. And yet it never made runs. him anxious.
the last few weeks.
Mr. Gamblea was unable to say what amount had been paid out on weather insurance in England al- together, but an estimate obtained from another expert placed it at approximately from £20,000 to £30,000. Apparently this insurance business is world wide and usually when weather is bad in one coun try it may be fine in another. Bad luck has continued all round this This company season, however, insured the International Tennis Tournament in France-the French Wimbledon-and two days after It was over, they handed over a cheque for more than £1,200.
At one period in the Somerset I remember the occasion when he won the Open Championship at second innings. it appeared prob- Prestwick after having taken eight able that the home county would strokes at the third hole, which is go down by an innings, but, with known as the Cardinal's Nob in
Apparently all classes insure, token of the vast sand-hill which the "tail" wagging, Somerset were confronts the shot to the green. able to set their visitors the small from vacationists to shopkeepers. When Braid came to it in his next task of scoring 43 runs for vic- Mr. Gambles says that weather in- round, he was rosolved not to re-tory. Lancashire lest one wicket wurance was now being largely peat that disaster. A huge crowd
taken up by shopkeepers in in scoring the necessary runs.
the was scurrying all over the slopes
Full results as cabled by Reuter provinces, where there is a large and their environs, and he waited exactly fourteen minutes until were as follow:-
Saturday trade. Week-ends have everybody who could possibly affect
Lancashire beat Somersetshire been so consistently wet that an his trend of thought had been by nine wickets at Taunton.
Increasing business is being done moved out of the way. He looked
Scores: as patient as if such an ordeal was
Somerset: 116. (Sibbles 4. for 26, in this direction. only to be expected. I believe he
Hopwood 5 for would have waited a day without
48); becoming in the least, degree per turbad.
The Tight Grip.
The lure of golf the supreme quality that makes it attractive to business men and brain-workers, is that it is positively much more dif- fault than anything else they at tempt in life. Consequently, It diverts their minds completely from all the other problems. During the playing, it demands and exacts exclusive attention.
There are
a great many, In- stances, however, in which it truly seems to assert Itself a little too strongly as a 'aoleran ritual. Play- ers are so engrossed in the pos- sibilities of improving that they bring upon themselves the tribula- tions of over-concentration, which are quite as bad in their effects as the pleasantries of under-concen. tration.
The symptoms of trying too hard are clear to anybody who has had a large measure of experience at the game, They begin with a long- drawnout process of waggling the club-head at the balla process which merely amounts to pro- crastination. "It produces an affliction of its own; It promotes Inevitably a tightening of all the muscles. And nobody can swing properly when his muscles are taut and bis grip of the club is so tight that the blood flees from his knuckles condition in which you may see many people trying to hit long shots.
Swing Easily.
To this type of pupil I always BayYou make too hard work of Don't try so hard; just swing the club easily,"
it.
One man retorted that it was all very well for an ex-champion to give this sort of advice, but I sup- pose one has to make some sort. of, stand against the tendency towards. over-cencentration, DIEARLY
Possibly a few, people of rare dis- position manage to thrive on it Lieutenant Colonel Sherwood
Kelly a VC, of the Great War, be came a scratch player in the Ben- ford Links Club within four months of swinging
for
Surely
that any
:
106 (Sibbles 5 for 88). THE END OF A TURF Lancashires 180 (Wellard 5 for
30);
46 for one wicket.
Our Sports Diary.
LOCAL
WATERPOLO-To-day—DIVI- sion I-Royal Navy v. Borderers.
LAWN TENNIS-To-morrow--- "B" Division Indian R.C. V. Army TC Kowloon C.C. Y. Chinese R.C MBK Civil.
Service C.C. Nippon Chub v.
v. Uni
versity; South: China
China TAA. V. Craigengower C.CC Division- YMCA, Ny Kowloon C.C.; Craig- chgower CC. v. Kowloon Indians; Chinese R.C. v. Civil Service 6.0; Recreio v. Indian R.C. Hong Kong C.C. v. University; Deutscher Club 7. South China AA Army TC. v. Radio S.C.TAC
LAWN BOWLS-To-morrow-- Division 1. Talkoo v. Kowloon Dock; Civil Service.v. Craigengo- wer: Policov. Kowloon B.G.C.; Club de Roerela v. Kowloon C.C.; Division II. Hong Kong Electrle vi Club da Recrais; Kowloon B.G.O... Taikoo: Kowloon B.G.C. v. Civil. Service C.C.; Yacht Club v. Craig- engower C.C..ON
Baseball Sunday-HK. Enap- Sall Club v. Chinese' Athletic.
ABROAD.
CRICKET To dayalı Gentlemen v. Flayers. Burrey Worcestershire, Sussex Nortlemonship. Notts v. Gloucestershire. Yorkshire Eas Warwickshiruv Leicestershire v. Hampshire.. Glamorgan v. Middlesex. Scotland y. New Zealand: Tomorrow, Monday and, Tuesday,
Surrey V.
Hampshire Somerset. Glamorgan v, Worcestershiro. Northamptonshire - V. - Warwick-- shire.
Notts Yorkshire Kent v. Middlesex Derbyshire. v. Gloucestershire, Darham v. New Zealands (Two?
BIOOTING — To-day and To morrow--National EA Meeting at
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"ATHI
the
nd To-
CAREER.
Mr. Alexander Scott's Racing Life.
GLASGOW BANK SMASH.
Mr. Alexander. Scott, an illus- trious figure in the world of horge racing, died at his home in Kinga Road, Norwood, S.E., at the age of eighty:
.
He was born in Scotland, and was a great authority on the turf: He had attended fifty-nine Derbys, but this year illness prevented him from going to Epsom.
He was proud of the fact that he knew the jockey who rode the winner of the first Cambridgeshire În 1889, nevem kod A
One of his storica was of Fred Archer. "In 1872,” he would ́re- late. "I remember seeing a well- backed horse, called Salvanos, win the Cesarewitch, ridden by a thin, lanky boy of Afteen at five stone seven pounds.
"It was the boy's first big win- ner and, although he rode an ex- cellent, race I never thought for one moment he would achieve un- That dying fame on the turf. -.. boy's name was Fred Archer”
In 1876 and 1877 Mr. Scott won aamall fortune," "backing, Hamp ton, a horse which won a number of big races. It was owned by one of his friends. The following year he lost every pound of bla Hamp; ton winnings in the City of Glas- gow Bank smash,
Mr. Scott was the author of Turf Memories of Sixty Years."
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AN ERNST
LUBITSCH
1930