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CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP
WHY PLAY GOLF?
Fallacy About Golf Unchallenged.
EVERTON GOINGFIELD OF ELEVEN FOR
GREAT GUNS.
POMPEY DEFEATED.
Fulham Register An
|
Away Win.
That golf is an agreeable and
CELTIC UNBEATEN.
ily Capt. A. E., Grant.]
admirable pastime-some, I am
told, even enll it a sport-that
ST: LEGER.
Take My Word Entered
But Later Scratched.
FINAL ACCEPTANCES..
London, Yesterday.
The following are the final ac- London, Yesterday. ceptances for the St. Leger which
should be not only tolerated but The following were the results will be decided on Wednesday, Sep- even encouraged is one of the ac- of yesterday's Home League foot,tember 9:-
cepted fallacies,"
This fallacy about golf has for so long passed unchallenged and has so seldom met with contradic- tion that to-day it la proclaimed with conviction and hoard without protest.
ball programmes as cabled by Reuter:-
ENGLISH LEAGUE.
Birmingham Roots of This Error. Let us examine the truth of this Liverpool Derby C. wholly uncalled-for, but littlePortsmouth suspected, mistake.
Sunderland
That section of society which earns sufficient money between Monday morning and Friday even- ing (or does not spend too much during that time) wakes up the next day with the prospect of hay- ing to enjoy itself as much as it can on the Saturday and as far as is meet on the Sunday.
First Division.
Newcastle Un 1
2 Manchester C. 1
2 Bolton W.
2
0. Everton
3
2 West Brom. A. 1
2
Second División. Bristol C. 3 Notts Cty. Manchester U. 2 Southampton
Third Division (South). Exeter C. Gillingham
..0 Fulham
1 Reading Swindon T. 4 Watford Torquay Un. 1 Bournemouth
Third Division (North). " Accrington S. 5 Carlisle Un. Darlington
0 Barrow
This difficulty can be dealt with in several ways. Those who are rich enough apend their Saturdays Wigan Boro"; in summer-whatever the boredom Wrexham -in. racing, and their Saturdays York C. In winter-whatever the risk-in hunting. Some men and find pleasure in gardening or quiet country walks, A third school of thought, and one by no Aberdeen means to be scorned, lles late abed Dundee -till luncheon perhaps and sits Falkirk quietly on, taking pleasure in talk. the rest play golf.
women in
Why? And why again? These poor fellows (1 allude to the rest) will pour forth when provoked-or even unasked-an endless stream
3 Hull C.
1 Chester
1
2
1 Southport'
SCOTTISH LEAGUE.
First Division.
1 Leith Ath.
0
2
Ayr Un.
2
-1 Rangers
2
1 Morton
Kilmarnock Partick T Third Lanark 3 Celtic
Table to Date.
Rangers
of excuse, and protest that it la Kilmarnock good for their health and their Celtic purse. They even maintain that Motherwell they enjoy this fantastic game, in which no blood is shed and only money is lost.
Healthy and Cheap.
Aberdeen
Birthday Book Goyescas
Suze Convoy
Salaam
Cameronian'
Kharsheed Sandwich
Orpen
Inglesant
Sir Andrew
Take My Word,
Take My Word was subsequently
scratched from the race.-Reuter.
Our Sports Diary.
LOCAL
HOCKEY Saturday Y.M.C.A. Trial.
Third
PING PONG-To-day-Singles Championship-Li Tat-loung V. Mok Hing-wood at Empress Hotel. Saturday-Singles Championship -Siu Siu-kow v. Wong Hok ming at Empress Hotel.
LAWN BOWLS-Saturday— First Division-Civil Service C.C. V. Craigengower C.C.; Second Divi- aion H.K. Electric R.C. v. Club de Recreio, Kowloon C.C. v. Tai- koo RC, Yacht Club v. Craigen- gower C.C.
5. Cowdenbeath H.K.F.A. Council Meeting at 6.80
FOOTBALL — Tucsday-
Goals.
P. W. D. L. F. A. Pt3. 7 0 0 1 21 8 12
7 G 0 1 16
7 5 2 0 20 511 18
8 12
9
6
0
40 3 9
7
8
3:03 99
8 4 1 19
4 1 2 15
Third Lanark Partick T Hearts Clyde
Hamilton A.
6 4 11.14
Airdrieoniana
10 4 8 13
3 16 18
23.
It is hard to understand this St Mirren peculiar ideu that a means of pass-Cowdenbeath ing the day which, for the sake of Dundee.****. argument, may be healthy and Falkirk cheap, is consequently 0 game Dander Un. which all men should enjoy. Ad-Morton mitted that several hours of Inter-Leith Ath. mittent walking, probably in a hur-Ayr Un. ... 7 0 2 ricane of wind, possibly in a down-Queen's Park 7.0
•12 10
5 15
2 0 5 12
4 11 6. 13
·TO-DAY'S MATCHES.
ENGLISH LEAGUE.
Third Division (South).
pour of rain, are a healthy tonic for middle-aged, men who have spent the week in a comfortably furnished office; admitted that the membership of a golf club, the pur- chase of the necessary implements Thames and the customary fees paid for greens, and caddies, and all the rest of those who get fees, are cheaper than the keep of two good horses and the subscription to a pack of hounds; admitted, then, that this so-called game is healthy and cheap, why, for that reason alone is any consequent enjoyment! involved?
It is yet another sign of these penniless days that men must pro- fess to enjoy what is cheap, be- cause it is cheap, and ignore any- thing else. Far be it from me' to blame this wise conduct, or sneer at those men who make the best of bad times-and even bad games, By all means take the rough with the smooth, accept cheerfully the gifts of Heaven, proclaim the world good but there are limits. Do not class golf with the smooth, do not say that. It. Is Heaven-sent, do not call it a genuine game.. That is going too far.
True it is, perhaps, that there are men who acquire from golf some curious state of mind which at moments they belleve to be hap- piness, and which at times (though not at all times) they Imagine to be content. And so these men say, "Look at us, our health, so robust, our pleasure so cheap, our peace so profound; golf mast be a good. | game.
Looking Smug---
v.. Brentford
p.nt.
ABROAD.
CRICKET-To-day and To-
morrow-
Gentlemen of England v. New Zealand at Eastbourne.
Yorkshire v. borough.
M.O.C. at Sear-
Saturday, Monday and Tuesday,
An England XI. v. New Zealand at Folkestone.
Gentlemen v. Players at Scar- .borough.
GOLF-To-day to Saturday— U.S. Amateur Championship at Boverley County Club,
Thursday and Friday-Welsh Closed Amateur Championship st Aberdovey,
Saturday Ireland v. Scotland. RACING-To-morrow--King, Ed.
ward Handicap.
FOOTBALL — Saturday — Full English and Scottish Programmes. MOTORING — Sunday Italian
Grand Prix.
ATHLETICS — Sunday-Frence
v. Germany in Paris.
HELEN JACOBS HUMILIATED.
Seabright, New Jersey, August 1. Mrs. Helen Moody beat her" féllow Californian, Miss Helen Jacobs, 6-0, 6-0, in the final round of the Seabright tennis tourna- ments to-day..
In this photograph, Mrs. Willa. Moody is seen on the right of· Senorita d'Alvarez,” another tennis star in the Indies' tourna- menta,
I
One more flaw in an argument a consequence, is surely no reason every man has his nightmare of founded on error and built on in favour of golf. Nor can it be Hall, Some of us, who imagine too Illogical ground. It might as just argued that golfers have charm well (or too wisely, perhaps), com- ly be said, "Look at those cannibals for the rest of the world. Those bine both eventual worlds. In that cage what splendid phy Raddened golfers with whom I dream of a Paradise where the sique, how they dote on their food have often been doomed to spend elect (that is to say, my friends and (It costs next to nothing, you week-ends arrive late for lunch and myself, and perhaps a few others) know), how well and contented then bore other people with long, will hunt and shoot, and cat and they look; yes, cannibal diet ie the tiresome tales of bad luck or with drink, and make love, and not thing," writes Capt. A. E. Grant in highly improbable boasts, aing, and read and write, and talk The Evening Standard,
Every man has his dresing of the a great deal. The rest will play future, of his own Promised Land, golf.
Looking amug, feeling, emng as,
THURSDAY,” SEPTEMBER 3, 1931.
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