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TO-DAY'S FOOTBALL | C. B. A. DEFEAT ST.
AT CAROLINE HILL.
Chinese Interport Fixture.
The first of a series of Chinese Interport Football matches will be played on the Caroline Hili ground int 4.30 p.m. to-day when a team representing the Combined Hong Kong Chineno Clubs will be in op position to a Combined eleven selected from the Canton Police,
Navul and Air Force teams.
It should be an interesting en- counter and it will act as a fore. runner to future Chines: Interport
engagements.
SPORTS NEWS IN BRIEF.
The following will represent the "Incognitos" in their Mamak Shield hockey match against the Radio Sports Club to-morrow at Caroline Hill at 11.30a.m.
H. A. Barros, F. M. Silva,'A, M. Rodrigues, N. Beltrao, W. Reed, F. G. Barros, F. Remedios, C. E. Barros, E. V. Reed, R. C. Reed and A. P. da Eca Silva.
Reserve. A. de V. Soares, The following will represent the Radio Sports Club.
A. Spary, Parduman Singh, Joginder Singh, Surfin Singh, Atma Singh, Mohinder Singh, M. Hanib, 4. Sigh, A. E. P. Guest, Kalwant Singh and F. A. Kemp..
Reserves: Jaggeet Singh Attar Singh.
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ANDREW'S CLUB.
Goal in First Half Proves Decider.
WELL MERITED WIN.
TENNYSON'S TEAM FOR WEST INDIES.
Evenly Divided Eleven.
Lord Tennyson, the Hampshire Playing a friendly game of hoc captain, la to take a team of cric-|| key on the home ground at King's keters to the West Indies early in Park yesterday afternoon, the the New Year, and ho has got to- Central British Association defeat-gether a strong side. Among the od St. Andrew's Club by the only amateurs who are to accompany The home team him is A. P. F. Chapman, and goal scored. the first half. C. C. Francis, accept seizes the opportunity to play him- dominated play throughout, and in every one will be delighted if he ing a neat pass from Hirst, netted. self back into form and favour with The second half saw a ding-dong the authorities at Lords. He show- struggle for the major part, and St. ed some improvement towards the Andrew's came dangerously near at end of last season, making his one times, but they found the C.B.A.) and only century, but until he defence solid.
Result:-
C. B. A.
St. Andrew's
Teams:-
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0
begins to score more consistently
I am afraid he cannot hope to be considered for next year's tour in Australia, writes a correspondent]
The In the Ceylon Daily News. C.B.A.-C. L. Gregory; S. Mac-claims to the captaincy by D. R. Nider, A. Philippens; E. MacNider, Jardine are strong, but he has not T. S. D. Whitley. J. J. King; M. Chapman's arresting personality. Weill, J. White, C. C. Francis, B. Another amateur to go to the West Blekford and W. H. G. Hirst.
Indies is Kemp-Welch, and his form will also be closely watched during the tour.
The professional is bound to
St. Andrew's Clüb:-R. H. Wong; E. H. P. White, F. V. Wong; H. Landolt, A. B. Hamson, N. Broad- bridge; N. A. E. Mackay, R. H. A. make the most of his chances dur Woolley, A. W. Bliss, R. A. Carrolling the winter, but it is notable and E F. Fincher.
COOK AND ELLIOTT OMITTED.
SHANGHAT'S SELECTED
ELEVEN.
When interviewed carly this morning Donald Leach, the
stated" Shanghai captain, and
Sydney, Yesterday. The South Africans to-day acor ed 384 for 7 wickets against New South Wales, H. W. Taylor con- tributing 110 not out, H. B. Cameron 74, and E. L. Dalton 87.
Taylor and Dalton established a South African fifth wleket record against an Australian State, their 170 runs beating the 166 made by Zulch and Nourse against Tasmania in 1911-Reuter.
that he had decided to omit H. J. M. Cook and R. S. Elliott in to-day's eleven against Hong Kong.
The Shanghal team will therefore be as follow:-D. W. Leach (captain), A. J. Barson, R. Booth, H. A. Coward, J, A. Isaacs, S. R. Kermani, P. Madar, B. V. W. Murray, C. J. Merritt, P. V. Simpson, and T. W. R. Wilson.
. Play will commence at 11 a.m. and not at 10.30 a.m. 48 carlier stated.
EASIER
GOLF
-by- H.STUART HOBSON
THE RUN-UP SHOT WITH AN IRON.
"BOBBY" JONES'S WAY.
Maximum Run
Is anything in golf more ex- hilarating than to watch a man who The secret is, I think, that he really can play run-up shots doing chooses the club that will give the 180?
maximum run.
Recently I found a partner who
It is not every green, and every knew no fear of any approach of weather, that permits of a pitch thirty yards or less. Sometimes he and-run shot. Sometimes the golf. lipped the hole. Always he left or is compelled to attempt to stop himself a putt. The certainty with the ball.
which he could be depended upon But when you come to a reason-
to do one or the other brought a ably flat green, in adequate condi- glow of comfort into a cold, hard tion, why attempt to stop the shot?
game.
Undoubtedly this ability minimise the need for putts is one of the marks of real class in a golfer.
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Knack Acquired.
Let the ball do the work!
This implies pitching it so that it will escape the coarser grass of the fairway, and drop on to the edga of the green with enough momentum
that none of the men Lord Tenny- son has chosen is likely to be pick- ed to visit Australia.
Maurice Tate has declined two invitations to go abroad on this ac- count, and I understand that Sut- cliffe is also to stay quietly at home. But both Woolley and Hendren ore to go to the West Indies. As batsmen they are al most as capable as ever.
Lord Tennyson's team is as fol- lows:-
Lord Tennyson (Hampshire), A. P. F. Chapman (Kent), G. T. S. Stevens (Middlesex), G. D. Kemp- Welch (Warwickshire), A. E. G. Baring (Hampahiro), Captain G. N. Scott-Chad (Norfolk), Woolley (Kent), Hendren (Middlesex), Geary (Leicestershire), Bowloy (Sussex), Brown (Hampshire) and Nichols (Essex).
The party will leave England on February 2 aboard the Bayano.
ago the very sound advice that the greater the loft on the club, the greater the chance of missing the shot,
He hated the mashie niblick. The niblick, he said, suggested trouble; the mashic-niblick made it where none need exist.
It is a good idea to cultivate the knack of the run-up shot played with an iron.
Stereotyped.
Many golfers habitually take a mashle for anything under 70 yards, and an iron for anything over. An iron club without much! loft, however, has very great value for the shortest of approaches. If the nature of the shot does not in- sist that the ball lofted and stop- ped, there is no point in complicat- Ing it by adding loft and stop:
Consider a fairly level approach in which the ball is about as far from the edge of the green as the pin' itself; in other words, a shot that is halved by the edge of the
green.
A pitch with an iron that just drops on the green should run the rest of the way.
Once acquired, this is an easier shot than the same shot played with the mashie.
The Crisp Blow.
The golfer is well aware that with
to run up to the pin. This should a mashie he must strike a crispi
Yet how is the knack acquired-be absurdly easy. If you took a blow, Very few golfers can piny a
who knew nothing about mashie-shot at slow-motion pace for it undoubtedly is acquired? This person
in not a feat that demands anything golf, and showed him how to play and there is no reason why they exceptional in the way of wrist or just this shot, he would do it with should. But, unfortunately, if they eys. The judgment and the man-out difficulty after a few attempts. top the ball, the effect of their crisp ner of stroking the ball will come I do not say that he would find the blow is to send it scuttling over the green. Knowing this, they ap- with practice.
pin every time, but he would make a better attempt than a good many proach the shot nervously. They are much too taut. They emphasise golfers.
the work of a few muscles, instead!' of using all normally. The result is seldom happy; even fairly good shots are consistently short.
Running-up with an iron is much more natural.
I said in a recent article that golfers who can play these shots And them peculiarly easy; the rea- Bon, I have decided, is that so much depends on confidence with them,
.
Knows Too Much. The golfer knows too much about golf.
Study Bobby Jones as he floats
He knows all about the risks of the ball up to the pin. Floats is "right hand," and the tricks of the word. There is no tautness backspin, and socketing and top- anywhere in his frame, and no ping, and the evils of raning over crouching. He stands up easily and the green. He has a nervour out- naturally, takes a fairly full back-look on this simplest, of all shots. swing, and then, with marked slow-Nine times out of ten he takes a ness drops the ball so that it will club with too much loft. run where he wants it to run.
Whatever happens, the golfer knows that he cannot go too far. He pitches the ball half-way with a simpla stroking motion, and relies on it to "peter out" by the pin without any help from him.--(China An old professional gave me years Mall Copyright)
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