WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1931.
GOLFING
SINS
THE GOOD PLAYER suitably sympathetic air, at the
AND THE BAD.
The One Sin Player.
There was repeated to me the other day a saying of one of the of all golfers of most illustrious this effect: a man may always slice or always book and yet he a good player, but if he sometimes slices and sometime hooks then he can. not, be a good player.
day, we can as a
quick hook, and he answered wearily "No, a slow slice." In fact, we turned out both to be wrong, for he hit every ball as straight as an arrow right down the middle of the fairway, while 1, who had been propared to shed toara, had to demand them for myself. It was one of the most truly pleasant of all surprises, and I trust that he will now go on hitting straight for ever and ever.
The obvious advantage of a single besetting sin is that the sinner has only a certain number of first-aid remedies to keep in his "It may be," wrote, the au head. thor of "The Golfer's Manual" in 1857, "that the golfer finds some difficulty in keeping his ball on the course; that, stand as he will, play eyer so coolly, one stroke shouts to the left, another to the right, in the most unaccountable fashion. He may safely conclude there is something rotten in the state of his play."
THE CHINA MAIL.
'AQUATIC SPORTS OF
SOUTH CHINA A.A.·
First Day Produces Five New Records,
LADIES PROMINENT,
The following were the full re- sults of the first day of the South China Athletic Association's annual aquatic sports yesterday:
BCCB.
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50 Metres Free Style (Ladies).— 1, Yeung Shau-king. 40 secs. (re- cord); 2, Yuen Pul-cheung, 47.6 Shau-chun, 49 8, Yeung
Accs.
seca.
50 Metres Free Style (Boys and Girls under 16 years of age)-1, Li Yu-kwong, 52 mins, 6 sec.; 2. Iu Po-mun, 63 min. 8 sec.; 3, Leung wing-hin, 56 min. 2 sec.
RUGBY FOOTBALL. RESULTS.
Harlequins Beat the Wasps.
Bath
COVENTRY WIN,
4 Cardiff 36 Manchester
5 Bridgend
3 Lydney. 16 OR
Old Blues Swansea
16 Northampton
Balo
&
23 Briton Ferry
of
RENE LACOSTE SPEAKS OUT.
France Need Not Fear
Britain.
ZENITH REACHED.
Rene
AMERICAN STYLES
SUPREMACY OVER BRITAIN.
Methods Compared.
of first-class awlinmors that Amori- As for our man ca produces. swimmers, their are conspicuous by their,abyonce and with the possible axception of marathon swimmers, we havo not a single swimmer like- ly to reach the final of an Olympic According to
Lacoste,
One of the first things that na
ovent. Our divors are even worse. France should have little to fear
Seeing that we are an Island race from Britain in future Davis Cup American child has to learn is how
te swim, It la more than a boy and entirely surrounded by water, 3❘tics.
Rene, who is more frank than or giri's life is worth at school If this is a remarkable fact, but none complimentary regarding our play- they cannot do so as they are sub-the less true, and until to swim and ers, says that both "Bunny Austin jected to taunts and giber of every to dive is in the curriculum of every The result of this is school child's education wa shall and Fred Perry (in spite of his description." youth) will never play better than that there are very few citizens of not improve, and will have to be the United States who cannot swim, content to remain as we are probab they did in the recent Davis Cup
whether they liked ity the worst nation. of all at the Anal, and adds that he does not see
OF not they were ns much sport. any likely to become champlona
to compelled among our many excellent young English child is taught to read and players.
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London, Sept. 13. The following were the results to-day's Rugby Union Games. Harlequina. 8 Wasps 200 Metres lavitation Relay Race Bristol (Open to Chinese)--1. South China Headingly
Coventry A.A., 2 mins, 1 seca. (record); 2,
Gloucester Chinese, Bathing Club, 2 mins. 4.2 Lelcester
Plymouth Bradford Абегатов Burton on Trent 3 Rosslyn Park
PARACHUTE RECORD BY A DANE.
Makes Seven Jumps in 33 Minutes.
HEIGHT OF 1,000 FEET. Mr. John Tranum, the Danish
acroplanes, set up jumps from what is claimed to be a new world record at Hesson Air Park recent- Handicap)-1, Ching Siu-ki,y, when he jumped seven times Yeung Kau-wah; 5, Ching Siu- from a height of 1,000 feet in 33 The previous
hour, record was four descents in an
for
do so as
AM
So far as the French "stars" write. As a consequence there of American are concerned, Lacoste is convinc- are many thousands ed that Cochet will not forfelt his men and women who take up swim- amateur status, and will be as good ming not only as a hobby and a if not better than he has been for pleasant recreation but also as the last few years. Brugnon, also, sport. may be relied on for one or two more seasons.
For most of us, who are beset by .so many more sins than one, it is a depressing dictum, but if it is
it is. not taken too literally think, painfully trus. When we Homo aquestionably are told of good player that he has had a bad rule picture the disaster to ourselves pretty clearly, If, for instance-and it is a most unlikely contingency-I heard that my friend E, did not drive well, I
He assuredly may, but the do not waste tims and Horrow in imagining a high, sley ball float- field of that something is so de- ing into the rough on the right, spairingly large, whereas the man know precisely what occurred. As with one sin need turn out only a n rule his ball flies sone 6ft. from few mental pigeon-holes in order min. 17.7 secs.; 3, Yeung Hang-wah parachutist, who has made 1,400 Borotra's poor form this season is
the ground and on 'alighting runs rather to the left in the manner al or not ways attributed, whether with scientific accuracy, ta seald-
In
rar
be
one
to find what he wants. In his biography of Mr. F. G. Tait Mr. John Low wrote that when Tait was off his putting he naked one question: Am I moving my body or am. I taking the club back crook- ad?"
He knew that so far as he
100, Metres Free Style (Men's Handicap)-1, Leung Yun-hang; 2. Leung Lal-song; 9, Lam Sing-to.
100 Metres Free Style (Men) — I, Chan KI-chung, 1 min. 8.6 seca, record); 2. Cheung Wing-kwong, 1
1 min. 18.4 secs.
50 Metres Free Style (Ladies
wah.
Water Polo Ball Throwing-1, Chan Ki-chung, 75'7"; 2, Wong Ki
chau, 62'; 3, Yeung Hang-wah, 59'4".
100 Metres Ladies' Free Style (Continued on Next Column!
minutes 45 seconds.
Thousands of people attending. an air pageant to celebrate the opening of a new public enclosure at the air park watched him breathlessly as he, landed neatly within thirty yards of the centre of the aerodrome.
As for Borotra, Lacoste does not agree with the French critics of the "Bounding Basque." He thinks
simply due to lack of confidenco in himself.
HELEN WILLS AND THE LOOP-SHOT.
A
The question will be asked promptly by those who always decry any attempt to put England on the map whore sport of all kinds is concorned. "What does it matter if we cannot swim across a bath as . fast as an American or a Fronch- And herein lies the case of man or whatever nationality the America's aquatic superiority. 'man may be 7" That is the cry of all Such challanges as she has to that those who would let England lose supremacy come from France, Ger- ¡any prestige that she may have had
Dominions.
It matter?" It is a waste of time many, Sweden, Japan and the in the sporting world. "What does
In fact, almost every country except Great Britain.
|to argue with such people but there In England, for a child to be is in swimming something else to able to swim undor ten years of be considered apart from the sport. age is regarded as something start-of the game and that is the health- ling. In America, were he or she giving propensities that it pro- unable to do so it would bo duces, Swimming le without rarity. Naturally then although doubt one of the finest exercises we have one or two first-class swim- possible as it gives play to almost more such as Joyce Cooper and every muscle. In the body while the fact that the body is exposed, to the Celia Wolfenstone, we cannet com- pare with the quality and quantity health-giving propensities of the
water is another thing in its. favour, especially should that water be salt.
A
On this occasion it met ed cut. some obstruction about ft. high and sat down. Take a rather more complex case, that of my other was concerned those were the only
Soft Answer Turneth friend R., of whom I hear with un- two putting faults that counted-a
Away Wrath. affected grief that he has spent truly enviable piece of knowledge.
The advantages of sinning only the day in, the thickest of the heather. 1 hazard the suppost-in one direction may be carried a
MIXING HER· · GAME.
make their own speed. As ita The latest swimming prodigy tion that he was hooking too magni-step farther, though it is a step
at alt. of which every one may not up in no way in which to play a game, ficently, and am toid not
Not for nothing has Mrs. Helen name implies, it gives the net a from America is a fourteen-year- The player is so constantly that we should rejoice in the blue
Moody (Helen Wills) been practis wide berth, passing high above It old girt from Hollywood, Katherine that his ball was Invariably to the prove.
It usual-Rawls. She is indeed but a slip right. "Ah. I see," say I: "he was on the look-out for his one fault he sky while it lasts and not put on trying for his hook, then, but he can almost correct, it in advance makintoshes for one tiny cloud on 1. Yeung Shou-king, 1 min. 36.8 Ing in far Califorinia away from at slow to medium pace.
tennis. Apparently ly carries top spin to keep the ball of a girl as she only weighs seven At the horizon. Some of us, however, secs. (record); 2, Yuen Pui-han, 1 competitive wasn't getting it." Superficially before he has committed it.
height, but this freckled little I may have appeared to be wrong the very alightest symptom he can are less happily constituted and are min. 48.2 seca. 3, Yeung Sau-chun. this world champion, who is re-, in court, and the bounce is fairly stone, and is barely five feet In
100 Metres Freo Style Handicapnowned for her hurricane hitting, high.
In English lawn tennis Eric youngster
can swim. There is at first, but in principle 'I had been apply the right remedy, just as, at uneasy if we do not at least carry
Be (Boys and Girls under 15 years).-has developed her slow 'loop ahot," our very first anceze, the domestic our mackintoshes with us. right.
trilling with the ter-deities done us with cinamon and sides, we dare to hope that they will 1, Yuen Che-kok; 2, Chin Wal-which she used with disconcerting Peters, the only Englishman to beat strength in this slim boyish-look- effect in her Wightman Cup W. T. Tilden, is the best known ex-ing figure as she proved when she He may cheat a malicious Providence Intocheung.
smashed two American recorda in libel
had to ammoniated quinine.
400 Metres Men's Free Style matches, writes Bruce Harris in ponent of the "loop" ahot.
Mrs. Moody has many shots to the national championships, beat- careful, and.
therefore, seem to his partners or his adver thinking it not worth while to send
To such people it is al- Championship-1, Chan Ki-chung, the Evening Standard,
I do not believe foring such world-famed swimmera as have chosen as examples two hook-saries to be playing perfectly, but the rain.
The "loop shot" is the soft her locker. ers and will not hint at a slicer, he feels what they cannot see, that most inconceivable to play a round 6 mins. 18 secs. (record); 2, Cheung
Ahe was within an inch of over- of golf with no recipes to remom. Wing-kwong 7 mins. 4.1 secs.; answer which turneth away wrath one moment that she is going to Eleanor Holm and Margaret Hoff- Its chief use is to abandon the fast drive which is man. Katherine first achieved even under fictitious initials, slicer might have the law of me,balancing after that last drive, that ber, no signs and portents to look 8, Yeung Yuen-wah, 7 mins. 13 at lawn tennis.
break up the game of hard hitters usually the main ingredient of her fame as a diver, being only sur She may use on. cc-panned in her excellence in that man really objects to the right hand only came over in out for-nothing but jovial, un-seca.
alogging. They
200 Metres Ladies' Breast Stroke: like Miss Betty Nuthall and Misa (own game.
casions the "loop" shot at Wim-spot by the celebrated George Cole. being called a hookeri tn his heart the very nick of time to prevent the apprehensive
to the right. would be quite unable to enjoy (Championship)-1, Young Shau- Phyllis Mudford.
Both these players thrive on bledon next year, ne' she used slow man but she has now shown. that he thinks that there is something ball sailing, away virile and aplendid, about it, and The White Queen, it will be re- themselves. If they must have king, 3 mins. 14 secs. (record); 2,
speed. When an adversary hits stuff when Mrs. Holcroft Watson she can also hold her own with the naturally he thinks so more than membered, screamed because she something to worry about, it is as Yuen- Pui-han.
hard at them they can give the ball menaced her in their Wightman best swimmers in the world even.
But at her tender age. She will be ever nowadays when we are taugh had not picked her finger yet but well that they should have as few
Games-and especially cricket-its "about 'turn" at compound in- Cup game here a year ago,
The "loop" drive is de she will not desert the tactics which watched with considerable Interest that we are utterly, beyond the ale soon should; when she fasten- things as possible, and so, you see, pale if we do not hit from inside ed her shawl ngain the brooch there is something to be said evon are not made, they grow.-Maurice terest.
signed to force such hitters to entitle her admirera to call her in the Olympics in which she is ox- "Take care!" for, a slice-The Times.
"Hard-hitting Helen." Why should pected to credit America with at Qut.". There is as much differ would come undone.
Bho?
Idast one event. ence as there is between a flatter tried Alice. You're holding. It Ing accusation of having sown wild all crooked." But it was too late oats and an insulting suggestion of and the finger was picked. The one-ain golfer is rather like the having none, to sow.
White Queen, but if he can say to himself in time, "You're holding it. crooked" the mischief may a averted.
whereas no
Now and again, of course; one can be wrong in one's guess, and I was delightedly wrong the other day. I was about to play in Foursome against, an old friend, a very fine golfer indeed, of whom and stories had been told me, and he himself declared that he could not hit the ball. I hinted, with a
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be
No doubt the prophylactie at- can be titude towards the game overdone, and In any case, nice, cheerful people may say that this (Continued in next Column.)
Tate.
. For our English players there is this obvious mornl. If the world's When receiving you must not champion is keen enough to go on wait for the ball to begin dropping. perfecting new strokes ought not You must not wait any longer than they to learn to mix their game the top of the bound, and as thài up"? And the proper place for may be too high, it is best to get learning is not the open tourna- the ball before-Senorita Lili do ment but the practice court. Alvarez,
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