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The Flag Pin and the Penalty.
FAITHLESS PUTTING.
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H. W. ("Bunny") Austin, Bri-
THE STIPENDIARY SYSTEM.
Adoption in England Now Definite.
FIRST THING IN 1932.
The adoption of the stipendiary A Sydney "Referee" reader writ-tain's Davis Cup player held a
stewards' system has been definite- ing from Dunedoo (N.S.W.), raises gathering of Toc H sportsmen spell. a point that is of interest to most bound while he talked about lawn ly decided on by the English Jockey golfers:
tennis and the leading personalitics Club, and, according to London ex- "In playing in a golf stroke com- in the game. To an historical out-changes, it will be in vogue at the game's progress he first flat racing meeting next year. petition a player holed a long puttine of the (but less than 20 yards), with the brought a wonderful gift of humour, flag pin in the hole, but did not hit and then in reply to a stream of the pin.
questions, he picked up a racket and demonstrated the styles, mannerisms and idiosyncrasies of the world's. great players. This was a new and much appreciated side in the make- up of the most magnetic figure in modern lawn tennis.
The pin has A leaden Dane that fits in the hole to hold it up, RG the
ball dropped on the pin base. Does the ball dropping on the base constitute striking the flag pin, and does the player incur a penalty?"
ABB: SR13 (1) provides that
when a ball is played from within
20 yards of the hole and strikes the
Bagstick or person standing at the hole the player shall be penalised
two strokes.
It should he noted that this penalty is incurred whe- ther the flagstick is held Dr has been removed by any person either before or after the player commences his stroke and even if it be lying on or is stuck in the ground.
However, the stipendiary stowards are not to be known by that name, but as "paid secretaries." They will not have control, as in Australla, but are to act in an ad- visery capacity, much in the same) fashion as in New Zealand.
For a long time there was strong) SCHOOLBOY SCORES 17 opposition to the stipendiary sya- GOALS IN ONE GAME.tem in England, it being regarded
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Makes Football History in Shield Match.
TWO "HAT TRICKS."
London, October 22. Norman Catlin, a schoolboy, made football history yesterday,
Playing in the English Schools Shield competition, for Southamp ton Schools against Wareham and District Schools, on the ground of the Southampton Football Club, he scored seventeen goals. His side won by 21 goals to 0.
The abject of the rule and penal ty in this case is to prevent a player from putting, or playing within 20 yards, with the flagstick in the hole. The correspondent says the ball in the Dunedoo case did not strike the fingstick, bui rested on the base of the stick at the bottom of the hole According to a ruling given by the Rules of Golf Cominitice of SL Andrews, in the case of Sutton Golf Club, the fact that the ball did not strike the flagstick itself does not appear to save the player from the penalty. This ruling makes it clear that the penalty is incurred just the same although "the bill does not strike the fingstick until it reaches the bottom of the hole."
Logical Ruling,
as a reflection upon the honour of
owners, trainers, and jockeys. Well,
in England, as in Australia, there aro owners and trainers who 1e-| quire watching,
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Some owners shelter themselves behind their social position just as they do in Australla, even with stipendiary stewards in charge.. do not see A non-trier in every beaten horse, but some of the most palpable I have noticed have been! from "respectable" stables, and the property of men who should not have countenanced that sort of
Catlin, who is a schoolboy inter-thing. national, did the hat-trick in the first seven minutes, and ended the game with another hat-trick in five minutes.
seems to us the rule quoted would apply and the penalty would be in- curred by the player.
The belief, they would not do anything improper made it easier for them to do so without' danger than it would be for any "battling" owner. In future England's "clever" stables will have to be! more careful than in the past.
No matter what may be said to the contrary, the stipendiary steward system has made racing very much cleaner in Australia than in the "good old days" when the staunch friendship of a committee- man of any club gave an owner or} trainer a deal of latitude..
This is a matter, by the way, which is rather carelessly regarded by no end of even experienced golfers. Repeatedly one sees them The object of the penalty being to "taking a chance" in this way, prevent anyone from playing while That is to say they do not trouble the stick is in the hole that is to to have the flagetick removed, when say within a distance of 20 yards) they are 20 yards or less from the the penalty seems both logical and pin. The idea, no doubt, is that reasonable. In the particular case there is only a very slight risk of under notice the base would, for the hitting the flagstick-a view which, purposes of this rule, constitute a of course, does not flatter the play part of the fingstick. If, then, theer or suggest that he is confident who were not out to see too much, ball reached that base, even though¦ in his ability to play an accurate" and carefully refrained from doing! it did not touch the flagstick, it shot.-"Brigalow.”
Stipendiary stewards cannot see everything, and occasionally miss things that really call for inquiry, but we rarely see happenings as "hot" as those which were common in the days of honorary stewards,
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