SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1931.
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MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR HONG KONG NOW
IRON SHOT.
How to Suit the Swing to the Conditions.
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CHALLENGING.
Victory.
WATER POLO 'WIN.
game he has got to learn to vary If I am taking timber from that shot, not for different clubs,close lie and want to cut the bail L. Roza Pereira's Fine but to meet different kinds of lies ap 1 stand the least bit open and and different conditious of wind take the club up a trike more up and weather. There are times when right. That auits me, because my at pays to play a course shot and own stance always slightly open, fimes' to try a real ariisle effort. but if you play with a square stance
For instance,
Winter and want to cut one up all you GOLF IN THE WIND.s a lot of the pleases out of have to do is to cut out the body The yame for the handicap golfer, turn in the.up-swing, which will but it is all right for the turf.gome to the same thing. You do not get the run on your However, that is getting away driver that you would in a good from my subject which is the tar- Suminur, when the falways uretics of modifying the swing with 100 Yards free styfc);— taked hard, "because," as the Irish the irons to suit varying conditions.
1. Feeney (Tientsin). given-keeper explained, “ol the You have not only variations in dry spells coming between the the fie to consider,,but variations,
of the wind, and this last point is draughts."
But, by way of corupersation. the fuot so easy as you might think. ball zits up on the rich turf simps
By ARCHIE COMPSTON,
"Look here, Aruhle?'t said a, very} keen gober
Labis the water day, why wom, gou lét as have a series ¦ of actres gealing with every club
in ng or the driver down le I am sure it is the the suit. sort i thing, that tots ut plople would ke 1. rend.".
At leg I thought is nie a good iden, ust the more |,ulugnt adout at the more certain du "L become That would not do You, you do it play ten dilleren: dubs in ten different ways,
with the driver.
The
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The
Cheating The Wind.
CRICKET LEAGUE
MEETING.
Changes in Junior Division.
BORDERERS DEBUT:
The annual meeting of the Hong Shanghai, Yesterday, The following were the full re- Kong Cricket League was held sults of the second evening's pro- yesterday afternoon and was pre- ramme in the Triangular Swim-sided over by Mr. H. R. B. Hun-
Cock, ming Gala:—
Mr. Hancock was re-elected Pre- sident of the League, with My. 6. R. Sayar Vice-President and Mr. W. C. Hung as Hon. Secretary and Treasurer.
2. C. N. Brown (Shanghai). 3. C. J. Grk (Shanghai). Time: 62 sees. Won by a touch.
680 Yards:-
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1. L. Roza Pereira (Hong Kong),
2. Dr. Laing Hong Kong).. 3.. Wheeler (Shanghai).
1. Coneoff (Shanghai). 2. Berthel (Shanghai), 3. Karatzas (Tientsin). Distance, 72 ft. 1 in.
Team Race (Team of 4 swimming
60 yards each):
1. Tientsin. 2. Hung Kung Time: 2 mins. 4/5 secs.
waiting to be hit, and makes it rasy for your serund shots.
In playing into the teeth of the givens themselves are comparative wind or through a strong cross- I slow, and you can pitch your ap-wind, it is natural énough to think Time: 12 mins. 62.5 secs. proach right up to the pin without that this is a case for knocking the Won by 90 yards. uny fear of your ball taking a false hall down, so as to keep it low, and hop and sliding off "into the eheat the wind" as much as pos-Long Plunge- bankers, writes Archie Compston in ille. But knocking the ball down the Evening Standard.
nes not of itself produce a low In these conditions you want to hot. The shot that squeezes the The swing with the briste, for sweep the ball away with your hall out from between the blade of instance, there is gian rugn, iron clubs, keeping your weight the club and the turf puts on 'n lot is exactly the same as the swing back a shade more on your right of hack-spin that helps the ball to The only reason fool than you would, ordinarily do, draw up quickly, but the back-spin a teacher wiuld want to devote aand gather the bull up without itself tends to make the ball climb
The shot, separate chapter 10
brassie taking turf at alk
in in the air. wound be in order to deal with the fact, is played more like a driying
wooden clans from shot. V way to plug a akward stanges and lies.
When The Ground. Hard. **But, surely,"
Aaid the player When the ground is baked hard when I pointed this
"your and the ball is lying close you stance must be different for a No have to alter your tactics and knock sirin from that for a No. Don't it down, keeping the weight for to the ball and ward a shade more on the left foot you, stand closer
gets Personally, when I want to hit the mura
ball down, 1 put my weight a bit shorter?"
shade farther from the ball and Well of course, as the shaft of more on the left in the address, and pulling your right foot back a n. No. 1 is a trifle shorter than a keep it
keeping the face of the club shut.) No. 3 and au on, 1, perhaps, stand a
the right hand does the hitting little nearer to this ball, but, I do
against the resistance of the left stand any mera gpen. matter of fact; 1 stund slightly open for all my shals from a diver downwards, but I do not vary the degree of openness unless special shut,
not
בן!
the shut
As
for a
Nowadaya the tendency is to play the same swing for all the irons and leave the club to do the rest of the work. We are becoming one shot gulfers. But it is still true that if a player wants class to his
SCHMELING IS NOT AFRAID.
Signs Articles Against Larry Gains.
TITLE FIGHT FOR LONDON? London, August 20. There is a prospect of a light for the world's using champion- ship being staged in London, prob- ahly in September. Larry Gaius having challenged "Young" Strib ling to a match in London and the Intter having refused owing to the colourban, Mr. Harry Levine. Gains's manager, yesterday signet articles in the office of a Landou lawyer to match Gains against Max Schmeling, the holder of the world title.
there all through
the
the
swing. But if you like you can get the same result by shifting weight on to the left at the top of the swing.
With the long second shots,
The way to keep the ball low is to play it well back towards the right foot, and as the club comes to the ball use the roll of the wrists to keep it down.
deal the
The most difficult wind to with is a wind blowing over back of the left shoulder. The way to tackle it is to alter your stance
houlder.
If the left shoulder is képt firm,
if the ball is lying close, the and does not "give.", it is practi- average golfer will often find that eally impossible for the
very
it pays him to knock the ball down strongest wind to knock the ball off of the right with his spoon instead of trying to the line. The roll
play a brassie. The greater loft of hand over the left at the moment the spoon makes it easier to get the of striking tends to swing the ball ball up, and gives him more con- to the left, and so it lights.its way idence in his ability to play the through, the left-hand wind hav
ug no power to-affect it. hot.
HOME FOOTBALL.
To-day's League
Arsenal
Matches.
ENGLISH LEAGUE.
First Division.
**
v.. Sunderland Grimsby T. Derby Cnty.
Aston Villa v. Blackburn R v. Blackpool Bolton W. Everton
V.
V
Birmingham
Portsmouth
A
V. Manchester C. Huddersfield v. West Ham Leicester C. v. Liverpool Middlesboro' v. Wednesday
Chelsea Newcastle Shefeld U. .. West Bromwich Second Division.
V.
v. Swamea. T.
v.
Notts Forest
V.
Barnsley Bradford Bristol C.
Millwall Charlton A. Y. Burnley Manchester U. v. Tottenham Notts Cnty. v. Leeds Un. Oldham A.
v. Port Vale Acting for a London syndice, Plymouth A. v. Bradford C.
Southampton v. Bury Mr. Charles Luper arranged Stoke City v, Preston N.E.
V. Chesterfield leave for Germany immediately to Wolves
Third Division (South), make the offer of £20,000, to
Bournemouth v. Exeter C. Schmeling for the match, with the
Brentford Y Coventry C. alternative proposal of a percent- Brighton
"1 am Crystal Pal, v age, of the gate receipts.
Fulham
v. Luton T. not prepared to divulge the name
Mansfield T. v. Torquay U. of the syndicate behind the fight Norwich C. v. Swindon T. at the moment," said Mr. Luper to Reading a reporter, "but I shall guarantee Southend U.
Thames that tho whole of the £20,000
Watford which is Schmeling's end of the
Third purse will be deposited immediate Barrow ly he signs articles for this fight" Chester
Schmeling, the German holder Crewe A.
V. Clapton 0.
Queen's P.R.
THE DEATH OF THE PANTHER.
Horse Which Cost Public £1,000,000.
DERBY UPSET IN 1919.
London, Sept. 3.
1919
over
The famous racehorse, The Pan- ther, whose defeat in the Derby cost the public £1,000,000, dlest at Newmarket to
day.
"The Panther, which was owned
the by Sir A. Black, won 2,000 guineas
and Buchan . from Dominium In 1919, and was after- wards made a hot favourite for the
Water Polo:
Hong Kong beat Tientsin by 5 goals to 2.
The present standings are:-
Points..
Shanghai..... Hong Kong' Tientsin
28.
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---Reuter.
GOLF BUNKER OF QUICKSAND.
Exciting Experience for Player.
CONSIDERABLY SHAKEN.
To step into a bunker only to And it a treacherous patch of
quicksand was the unpleasant ex-
The senfor division of the League wil comprise, this year the follow- ing teams; Indian Recreation
Cricket Clubi Hong Kong
Club, Craigengewer C.G.. Civil Service Kowloon C.C.. University, 0.0., Navy and the Royal Artillery, The junior division will include: I.R.C., HK.C.C., C.G.Ç., - CS.C.C., K.C.C., University, Police R.C., Club de Rrelo, Royal Signals and En- gineers and the South Wales Borderers.
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The R.A.S.C, have not yet sign-" fied their latention of participating in the League, while the Royal En- gireer and the Royal Signols, which were two distinct teams lnst year, have how joined forces. In all there will therefore be eight teim in the senior and 10 teams in the junior.
It was suggested that is Longue matches, stamps should be drawn 10. minutes before the scheduled times as in
many instances last yeir matches were finished in semi- Jarkness.
This suggestion was put to the meeting and it was agreed to draw
before stumps 10 minutes
the scheduled times, and dispense with the tea interval, which, the Pre- sident said, was not necessary. WOMAN'S CRICKET TO
STAY.
Their Mastering of Technicalities.
Sydney, August 20. Lending Australian cricketèrs do not agree with critics who say that women will never be able to play real cricket and look un- natural and awkward on the field. W. A. Oldfield, for instance, most emphatic. He says:-
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"First-class girl cricketers are In fact, they are rather graceful on the field, keen on their game, and not bad bowlers, at all. I saw one of the Inter-State matches played in. Sydney and was agreeably surpris ed at the standard of play."
perience of a golfer at Rose Bay.
Mr. E. J. Bayly Macarthur, a leading member of the Royal Syd- ney Club, was playing with Mr. N. H. Pope, when he sliced his drive from the 10th tee into aarything but awkward. bunker. When he entered the Bunker, Mr. Macarthur found that [he began rapidly to sink into the Realizing the danger, he tried vainly to scramble out, but he could make no headway.
He called for help and Mr. Pope and the two caddies ran to his aid, but their efforts were of little avail. held its own against a men's team. Mr. Macarthur, who weighs more girls' cricket has come to stay, than 14 stone, gradually sank
and the players have shown great deeper into the sand,
aptitude in mastering its tech- nicalities. He adds:-
sand.
Mr. Pope then appealed for help Derby, but Lord Glanely's Grand and two naval men playing nearby Parade, with F. Templeman up, ran across to render assistance. By this time Mr. Macarthur was came home to pay 33 to 1.
The horse was 16 years old when up to his armpits in the wet sand
while a woman's team could not
M. A. Noble considera that,
"It's all a matter of practice,
coaching, and experience. We
must not forget that a girl takes up the game much later, in life than a man, who usually starts
it died. After its inglorious show-and was still steadily sinking. The with kerosene tin cricket' in his ing in the Derby, it was sent to the arrival of reinforcements, however, early horhood." Argentine but later found its way turned the scale, and Mr. Macar- back to England.
thur was hauled to safety, con- siderably shaken by his trying ex- perience.
NEW GOLF BALL TO BE Officials of the club immediately
DISCARDED.
UNPOPULAR MOVE.
The New York Evening Post de
toop steps to prevent other players from stepping into the treacherous bunker, from which a quantity of
stone had recently been removed.
clares that the United Sintes Golf HORTON SMITH IN
Association has decided to listen to
v. Northampton T.
v. Cardif C.
the wall of the duffer and discard
the new ball. The paper states
that the governing body has al
v. Gillingham
v. Bristol Rovers Division (North),`
v, New Brighton v. Halifax T. v. Wigan Boro Doncaster R. v.. Wrexham
v. Darlington
V. Gateniend
of the world title, won it from Hartlepools Jack Sharkey in Now York last Hull City year, and successfully defended it Lincoln City v. Walsall
*v. Carlisle U. against "Young" Stribling recent Rochdale
v. Accrington S. ly. Gains,' a 28-year-old coloured Southport Canadian, born at Toronto, claims Tranmere R. v. Rotherham the British Empire championship. York City v. Stockport Cnty. He is 6 ft. 12 In in holght and weighs 14: at. 9 lb, He has lived
SCOTTISH LEAGUE. First Division,
v. Leith Ath.
at Leicester for about two years Airdrieonians v. Hamilton A... and during that time has bentea Ayr United v. Kilmarnock most of the heavyweights' in this
Celtic d Queen's Park country, including Phil Scott. He Cowdenbeath has also knocked out Schmeling in Dundee two rounds (that was in 1926) and ho beat Pierre Charles, the heavy Motherwell. weight champion of Europe, in
one found. He claims to be in defeated since 1927,
v. Dundee Un.
Aberdeen.
Hearts
v.
Partick T
St Mirren
Va Falkirk VRangers von Morton. Third Lanark v. Clyde"
GREAT FORM.
Strokes Under Par.
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ball but has not yet declded whe-
ther to return to the old 1.82 oz.
ball or maintain the present 1.68 alze and increase the weight from 1,56 to 1,620%,
GOLF.
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