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HERMES WINS TEAM BOXING.
Splendid Sportsmanship Displayed.
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The City Hall was packed last night on the Gecasion of the Finals of the China Fleet Boxing Cham- pionships when fifteen bouts wore programme. Excellent sportsmanship was the characteris- tic of the evening's entertainment and high tributo must be paid to the sporting instincts of the Bri- Itish Navy.
At the conclusion of the pro
Sir Admiral
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Kelly, Commander-in-Chief of the China Fleet presented the trophies to the wlanels and runners-up.
The following was the order in which the teams finished up:
H.M.S. Hermes ... 20 H.M.S. Berwick
26
H.M.S. Suffolk
18
H.M.S. Kent
16
H.M.S. Medway
1'6
II.M.S. Cornwall
H.M.S. Tamar
10 6
TAMAR FORCE A DRAW WITH CLUB A. Rees Gives Club Lead with Great Shot,
DALE OUTSTANDING,
SERVICES BILLIARD
TOURNEY.
Hermes Defeats Bruce by Narrow Margin.
NG SZE-KWONG CUPS.
The annual Services billiard In a friendly game of hockey
the home ground at tournament for the Ng Sze-kwong! played on King's Park yesterday afternoon, Challenge Cups commenced at the the Hong Kong Hockey Club "A" Sailors' and Soldiers' Home last drow with H.M.S. Tamar, each side, evening, when H.M.S. Hermes met acoring one goal. The scoresheet H.M.S. Bruce.
Scores:- at half-time was blank, but in the latter part of the second half, G. F. Rees, scored for the home team, with a magnificent shot from the at a difficult left, when placed angle.
The Navy replied through their centre-forward, and from then on both teams strove hard for the win- The Club, for whom ning point. Dale was outstanding in defence, played two CB.A. mon.
Club "A" team-R. W. Sapsed; L. A. R. Duncan, L. F. Nicholson; E. MacNider, E. G. Dale, H. Owen Davies; S. MacNider, W. A. Nowers, S. HI, W. H. Smith and G. F. Rees.
All the fights were scheduled for live two-minute rounds and Davies (Hermes);- Stoker Harry jone three-minute. Full results (Kent) outpointed A.B. Gahagen (Kent); Final-Warnes outpointed Harry,
were:--
Flyweight. Stoker Rowlanda (Cornwall) outpointed 0.5. Seddon (Suffolk).
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H.M.S. Hermes,
150
150
L. Stkr. Stafford .. C. E. A. Hainsworth C. E. A. Greenwall
136
126
190
Total
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H.M.S. Bruce,
107
.114
160
150
150
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C. Y. S. Stevens Shpwrt. Houston
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The next game is between H.M.S. Kent and Stonecutters Wireless Station, and will be played next Monday, commencing at 7 pm.
Middleweight Semil-Ainala.-A.B. POLICE BEAT H.K.S.R.A
AT HOCKEY.
Perkins Scores Only Goal of the Match.
Thompson (Cornwall) knocked out Bantamweight.-Stoker Donaky Stoker Hudson (Hermes) in the (Berwick) knocked out Stoker first round; Sig. Morris (Sucolk) Williams (Berwick) in the second knocked out A.B. Barber (Med- !round,
way) in the third; Final-Morris Farrar gained a technical knock out over Featherweight. -- A.B. (Hermoa) outpointed A.B. Thomas, Thompson in the third. |(Suffolk).
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fast and exciting game of hockey was witnessed on the Marina ground, Chatham Road, yesterday
A Light-Heavyweight.-A.B. Rowles Lightweight Semi-finals-Stoker (Medway) knocked out A.B. Ree-, Lake (Berwick) outpointed Stoker man (Bruce) in the first. Jobbins (Medway); S.P.O. Robin- Heavyweight Seml-dnals~C.P.O. | afternoon, when the Hong Kong son (Hermes) outpointed Marine Francia (Medway) outpointed Brown (Kent); Final-Lake out, Marine Marah (Hermes); A.B. ¡pointed Robinson.
Atkey (Berwick) outpointed, A.B. Welterweight Semi-finals.-A.B. Judge (Cornwall); Final-Francis Warnes (Hermes) outpointed LS. forfeited to Atkay.
EASIER
GOLF
-by-
H.STUART HOBSON
GETTING DOWN TO THE BALL WITH A BRASSIE.
DIFFICULT LIES,
ovory
"Get down to the ball!" is advice hurled at the golfer from angle.
What the critics so often over look is that while getting down to the ball is essential in every shot at golf, that desirable quality does not in itself make the shot.
You can get down to the ball when the He is downhill, or when the lle is uphill, but if you use exactly the same shot as you would use when driving off the tee, you will and that your effort to get down to the ball has the effect of digging the clubhead into the ground behlad the ball for a downhille, in front of it if the lle in uphill.
it is desirable to achieve.
More Heroic. Most golfers take to an iron at once when they see the ball lying close, even though they know that they cannot achieve, the distance. The professionals are more heroic; they will take the brassie to any lie that does not imperatively demand another club. There are "cupped" lies that call for a niblick, or for a mashie, or for an iron, but so great a player as J. H. Taylor held, at the very crest of his fame, that it was impossible to use the brassle too frequently.
Consider the ball that is lying very close, or where the lie is slightly cupped.
The "Pro. Shot". The "pro, shot" is a brassie shot. That is by no means the result that The less skilful player will take a
spoon. The spoon is not so favour ed by the great ones of golf as the brassie, but I am certain that any golfer who acquires the knack of using either club to a difficult Te wil be agreeably surprised at the effects
With Run of Ground.
The thought in mind when deal ing with a tricky lle must be to ening the clubhead with the run of the ground.
Get the weight well back on the that the run of right foot-60
he can achieve..
And the kanck of the shot, to all the ground does not pitch you for intents and purposes, is simply in,
ward, causing a "digging" shot-- and keep the eye an inch or so to the rear of the ball. Make the swing very deliberately easy, as though the ball were suspended on a string, and allow the are of the club' to conform to the slope down which or up which you are playing, just as the normal driving are conforms to fat ground.
But, the golfer will ask, what of the ball that is lying close in on á level surface? Or, more difficult still, what of the "cupped" lie. g
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resisting the impulse to get down to the ball."
The club must touch the ground, but it must not dig into it. The "pro." achieves distance with his shots from a bad lle by turning the wrists over hle ball with a consider able jerk at impact. Even without this finishing touch, however, the golfer should be able to do better: with a wooden club than with an iron,
Must Be Well Over,
The golfer must be well, over his shot for a low-lying ball.
His loft foot should come further In front of the ball, with the stance; generally a little closer. The swing should be rather more upright than for the drive-a flat swing makos brassic shots difficult. The swing should be a "low hit through," but never a downward stab. The "low hit through" effect is most easily achieved by fixing the eye on the ground an inch or two behind the ball. If the eye looks directly down on the ball, the shot may be topped.
Where there is a distinct cup, the head of the club must be "nipped, into it," but the aim is not so much to get down to the ball as to nip through underneath It.
Loft In Clubhead.
All the loft is in the clubhead; it is not necessary to attempt to pick the ball up by scooping--which is fatal-or by "driving the bali Into the ground," which is the approved manner of securing extra ft The "low hit through" will achieve every result that is needed, and make light of the lle,
The more cuppy the lie, the more apparent the need for a break in the smoothness of the swing-the
greater, in fact, the need for wrist action-but the good golfer -mini- mises this and, carries through as smoothly as he can.
There is nothing wrong with tho advice to "get down to the bail” ex- cept that, if you have been wire In your choice of a club, there should never be any need to d'g with a brasale or a spoon. Either
of these clubs will give remarkabl lift from dificult les so long as the clubhead follows the run of the ground and sweeps low through the ball(Ching Mall Copyright.)
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