WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1932.
IMPROVE YOUR GOLF
Hints for the fandicap Players.
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"Handicap golfers" is a phrase that covers a very wide range of
sufficiently to show two knuckles,
The right thumb lies slightly across the shaft; its middle joint exercises the firmest pressure. Thus the V of this hand points past the right of the chin. Naturally, you
and.
can
every if
must be easy and comfortable, with players. These hints are intended a feeling of relaxation in
but muscle; primarily for the legions with fair-joint
with this grapple
club ly long allowances those who have you
the style- of holding
suffering any
gense
become struck in their progress without after a few years' ardent pursuit of strain. I am sure it is the best of the game, and others, who, after for all classes of players. Every- body with moderately long fingers a much longer apprenticeship, should try it. have grown more or less accustom- ed to a condition in which improve- ment never manifests itself.
These two classes constitute the vast majority of golfers, and the chances are that, in nine
cases
Many golfers have faulty stances. Even when they think they are standing well, they are often badly stationed, as a professional can prove to them by pointing out the situation if circumstances warrant his intrusion.
a
Take, for instance, the driver. out of ten, an appreciable advance As a general rule, the ball ought| could be made by attention to a to be opposite the left heel, or, at few details concerning clubs and any rate, not more than about an
and
half to the methods, writes C. A. Whitcombe, inch
heel. of that
That in the Sports Dispatch. It is some-right times said that golfers are over- enables the hands to be slight ready to try new ways of achiev-ly behind the ball in the ad- And ing their purpose. This may be dress, as they should be: true of some of the younger players, yet how many players there are who but my expertee of the more mel-stand with the ball in no relative lowed battalions who provide the position at all that can meet with backbone of the average club mem-success.
I am all in favour of a fairly bership is that they are too dis- posed to go on struggling in the close stance so far as concerns the! For a rat of mediocrity. They seldom distance between the feet. stop to consider whether they are drive, I like the right foot about tackling the problem in the right two inches in front of the left, but I would set down 14 inches as the For the player who has attain-maximum distance that should be ed a rather chequered standard of allowed between the heels. ability and cannot make any head- way from it, I think the best way for start is to concentrate on the
manner.
use a few clubs.
He will need the driver, spoon, No. iron, mashie, mashie-niblick, and putter. With these he can achieve very nearly all the shots that any golf course demands, and
his limitition to this comparatively small armament will make the game cast for him. He will not often be in doubt as to which club to take, for there will usually be number for only one of his
the purpose.
In thus averting confusion, he
The average among golfers in The general is very much more. result is the physical impossibility of turning the body at the hips on its own axis and the profusion of swaying that causes so many bad shots.
YANKEES INCREASE
THEIR LEAD.
Beat Detroit As Athletics Go Down.
will become on more confidential AL SIMMONS HITS TWO HOMERS.
China Mail
Sports Diary.
TO-DAY.
LAWN TENNIS-League Pro- gramme.
"C" Division. Hong Kong 0.0. v. South China
A.A.
Indian R.C. v. Army T.0. Craigeligower Co. v. Kowloon
Indians T.C.
Recreio v. Filipino. Clab. Kowloon C.C. University. Chinese R.C. v. Radio S.C. Graduates Assen, v. Y.MC.A.
Mixed Doubler.
Ladies' R.C. v. United Services
R.C.
Indian R.C. v. Kowloon C.0. Chinese R.C. v. Recreio,
FRIDAY.
CHESS Open Championship- A. C. Ridlington v. C. M. Sequeira. D. E. Carvalho v. 1. A. Boulanin. H. W. Randall 7. B. W. Paul.
SATURDAY,
LAWN BOWLS-League Pro- gramme.
First Division, Kowloon Docks v. Taikoo R.C. Craigengower v. Civil Service. Kowloon HG.C. v. Police R.G.
Kowloon C.C. v. Recreio.
Second Division. Recreio v. H.K. Electric. Taikoo R.C. v. Kowloon C.Q. Civil Service v. Kowloon, BG.C. Yacht Club v. Craigengowet.
LAWN TENNIS-League Pro- gramme.
"A" Division. Kowloon C.C. v. Chinese R.G. Hong Kong C.C. v. Indian R.C.
"B" Division. Army T.C. v. Craigengower 0.0. University v. South China A.A. Hong Kong C.C. v. Civil Service
C.C.
V
Recrele v. Kowloon_C.C. Chinese R.C. v.. Indian R.C.
Division. South China A.A. v. Army T.C. Hong Kong C Indian R.C. Filipino Club vi Kowloon I.T.C. Recreio v. Craigengower C.C. University v. Radio S.C. Kowloon C.C. v. Chinese R.C. Follce R.C. v. Graduates Assen
RACING-Eighth Extra Race Meeting at Happy Valley at 2 p.m.
THE CHINA MAIL
"Don't say again that Ian Smith is finished!" I told myself after the Twickenham game. His incredible speed saved several tries, and the lone chance he had saw him score brilliantly. As for Wood, at left centre, he is a football genius like Ralph, of Wales; tricky with his The Brooklyn Dodgers to-day cut-through, but never selfish. It big when he has gained this con-uncontionally released Waite and was the best international of the Hoyt, their pitcher, and the Cin-five I saw this season.Polaris in cinnati Reds followed suit by un- the Star. conditionally releasing Harry and Heilman,
terms with these clubs than ever he had been in the past. It will be time to take other clubs into his
Allance.
STEEL SHAFTS.
New York, Yesterday:
both of whom are
I recommend steel shafts for the driver and spoon. They promote
Some veterans. both length and accuracy.
There was little change in the people say that they only help to gain distance, and others that their major League standings as the re- sole virtue is that they assist insult of to-day's games, with the straightness. I feel convinced that exception of the advance of the they do both where the club with Pittsburgh Pirates to third place wooden heads are concerned, but in the National League as the re- I do not press their claims for suit of their win over the Phillies.) irons. For these, a good stiff hic kery shaft gives comfortable feel that has yet to be heateh.
After this question of equipment, the first point that the ambitious golfers has to consider is his grip.
Al Simmons, the brains of the Athletics batting squad cracked) out two four-baggers, and shared with Ott the honours of the day.
The following were the results of to-day's Baseball games as
Brooklyn
National League.
9 Chicago Hartnett hit a home run.
4 Cincinnati New York
Ott (2), Lombardi and: Grant- ham hit home runs. -
This is a matter in which countless cabled by Reuter's American Ser- golfers go on practising an old vice: method without ever pondering whether it is suitable. In fact, think it is the most neglected of all essentials. Fearful and wonderful is the number of players whom one sees with manners of holding the club which are sadly ill-adapted to Philadelphia the purpose.
4 Pittsburgh American League.
Cleveland.
2 New York
4 Philadelphia 3) Al Simmons hit two home runs. Chicago:
5 Washington Berry hit a home run in the
eleventh innirigs. ⠀ 6 Boston Goslin and Burns hit home
runk.
I always advocate the Vardon, Detroit overlapping grip when a person's hands are adaptable to it, although personally I do not utilise It. prefer the interlocking grip int which the little finger of the right hand alides in between the first St. Louis and second fingers of the left and then locks over the first finger of that hand. A fair number of lead- ing players in both Britain and America favour it but probably it is only effective for a good golfer wito has grown up in the service of it. In his case, it keeps the hands work- Ing in unison better than any other Chicago.
Boston system I know,
TABLES TO DATE.
National League."
The overlapping grip is mainly Pittsburgh a finger grip, in which the thumbs St. Louis and forefingers form Ve look- Cincinnati ing down the shaft, and the little New York finger of the right hand rests on Philadelphia the forefinger of the left.
. It is a splendid grip for any
body who has reasonably long fin-
gers and hands that are on the
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to trust to the aps
the
onday touch
CONNOLLY
DIES,
Tragic End to Boxer on Eve of Success.
BRITISH FLYWEIGHT.
Tragedy marked the passing of Harry Connolly, a promising. British flyweight boxer. Two days before his death at the Highgate Hospital from the effects of poison he lost to Bert Kirby, the former British champion, on points. That night Mr. Syd Hulls, the promoter, tele phoned to Mr. Victor Berliner of the Blackfriars Ring requesting a return fight. Mr. Berliner agreed and also decided to stage the return fight as a top-liner. But the night the letter to Connolly was on its way Connolly died.
"This was Connolly's big chance," Mr. Berliner said. "He was on the way to the highest class, and was a fine type of youth, whom I was always glad to engage."
Connolly graduated from the Mary Ward Boxing Club, and was runner-up for the national amateur title three or four years ago. He was only. 24.
He had had a suggestion of eye trouble-a cause of increasing an xiety in boxing to-day-and was very concerned, as a young man with married responsibilities, about the opportunity to make, good.
Now it has come-too late.
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SCOTLAND-DEFEAT Harvey Can Be Champion
FRANCE.
Dewar's Hat-Trick in Paris.
MORTON PLEASES BIG CROWD.
Paris, May 9.
.
Of The
World
Go-Ahead Methods That ance, the brazenness to set him
Beat Johnson,
self up as a pugilist.
Convincing Champion, I have seen and taken stook him in each of his most importan contesta.
... It was not until last night
Harvey convinced me that he a tradesman in the ring, his sical condition as near to perf tion as it could well be, his her big, his determination to win.
that feared wes whatever cost unyielding,
has been hispra would wait; }
London, May 12. A hat-trick by the Third
Len Harvey, our middle-weight Lanark centre-forward, Dewar,
champion, won his match with Len gave Scotland victory over
Johnson at Albert Hall last night, France by 3 goals to 1 before
at the end of 15 rounds, on points. 20,000 spectators at the Colom
Of his superiority there was no bes Stadium here to-day. All the players wore black arm doubt: he was the clever, the more lets, and before the match they and aggressive fighter, a new, almost an the spectators stood to attention amazing Harvey, For, so it seemed, for one minute in memory of the in a way strange, perverse and as if late M. Doumer, the French Presi- to confound his erites, he fought re- hitherto
5 lentlessly, at times viciously, with tice, he dent.
Scotland had much the better of all the spirit of a fighter-and not his opponent had exposed the play in the first half, when all after the manner of a philanderer, hand before drawing to the
In the as he himself had sometimes led us upon his admitted ability; that
would consider it enough if he be three goals were scored. second half they appeared to ere to believe he was.
Trained to the minute, bright, Johnson in a game of pugilist up, and the Frenchmen consequent
alert, venturesome, Harvey, to me, chess. ly had more of the play.
It
A revelation, writes E For once in a way, and to
Dewar gave a brillant display at whe centre-forward, scoring in the Bennison in the Evening Stan- everlasting credit, Harvey, thou
I had come to suspect much of a spinx-not a flicker Afteenth, twenty-eighth, and forty dard.
was little, fire in an eyelash did. ho indulge first minutes, He received able sup- that there
a strode forth into battle, carry, port from McPhall and particular him, that he had the mind of jy from Morton, whose tricky runs machine rather than that of a real high and bravely his colours down the wing delighted the spec-a pale-faced lad, he had the assur-stead, as has been his wont, of tators. The French goal was scor-ance, the brazenness to set him-ing content to play the role of
sniper, protected by an iron defer ed from a penalty given for handa self up as a pugilist.
I remember Harvey ever since as of his own creation. against Miller during a hot French
a pale-faced lad he had the assur- attack: The Scottish team was:
Harkness; Crapnell. Niblia; Massie, R. Gillespie, Miller; Craw- ford, Thomson, Dewar, McPhail, and Morton.
Under tragic circumstances Britain lost one of the most promising flyweight boxers of the past five years
Harry. Connally,
Theyre still the best
More than 50 years old yet as modern Three Castles still as they make them
leads among the leaders of high-grade
ettes. Even now there is no
eter
conies from Virginia and no brand than the Three Castles:
THREE CASTLES
CIGARETT
MOUS I
K.B.G.C. BOWLS TEAMS
· FOR SATURDAY. Against Police and the Civil Servants.”
RECREIO RINKS.
Soon Into Action
The belli and Harvey jumped to action, shooting out a left ha that had a magnificent, generat muscled body behind it, and cutt
a road for a powerful and timed right..
Johnson, drawn so fine as to
gest that he had "burned" himi to get down to the strict mid weight limit (11st, Gib), was m to quiver, and his big, saucer to tell of apprehension. G Johnson, however, at once th The following teams have been off the effects of whatever shoo selected to represent the Kowloon felt, without breaking ground Bowling Green Club on Saturday only so, but he drove home next.
1st Team v Police at 4 p.m. at Kowloon.
R. Duncan, D. W. Phillips, R. S. Nichol and A. M. Holland (skip).
H. F. Stoneham, A. K-Taylor, H.. Nish and W. Russell (skip).
short and snappy blows to thi of the stomach, that a less fit than Harvey would have buckl at the moment of contact.
Harvey, however, did not wince, until the last round
On went Harvey to what I
G. N. Mitchell, H. H. Rose, R.der the most notable victory
Hall and E. W. L. Hogbin (skip)
his career. For not on any sion has Johnson bored or fo so well and with such persiste "Never, if he may be judged his tensity, his eagerness to war, has Johnson, drawn sa greed
battalions..Hith upon his whenever he has appeared in S. Ashworth, F. V. Whitta, T. London ring, he has spread Gooding and V. Petherick (skip).pression that he favoured f at half speed, casually, wit
2nd Team v Civil Service Cricket Club at 3.30pm. at Happy Valley
G. H. Sherriff, J. S. Logan, W. E Hale and W. S. Drake (skip).
W. Venables, C. Hatt J. C. Meyer and F. L. Rapley (skip).
Recrelo Teams,
The following will represent the talising indifference, cocksur
More Adventure Club de Recreio in the Lawn Bowls League on Saturday:
Last night there was ver First team v. Kowloon Cricket pose in all that he did. He Club (away) at 8.80 p.m.
box with meticulous care.
F. A. Xavier, R. R. Roberts, A. Sed with his usual self-he Gomes, and R. F. Luz, (SHp)adventurer in the sense by
FV. Ribeiro, J. M. M Alves, not make it his first bust L. A. Gutierrez, and C. E. Marques, catch and parry bloway he (Ekip)..
to give a Roland for eve
FX M. Silva, C. A. Lopes, And, more, he meant to L.. C. R. Souza, and G. G. Silva, knock-out If possibley (Skip)
What captured me was
than Harvey was he a
Kong
vey rather than being leth
Second team .V. Hong Electric Rec. Club (home) at 8.80
[p.m
studiously cautious, fough
M. A. Carvalho, F. I. Soares, sparing her himself
J. G. Ozorfo, and C. EL. Basto, ponent.
| (Skip), ".
F. Frata, LF: Haviet, J. J fight that permitted of no Basto, and A. H. Basto, (Skip).sures. I have never know A. A. Xavier, J. M. S. Rosario, be so pugnacious; and lo E. H. Remedios, and Dr. R. A certain that Harvey has Basto, (Skip) W
Bad Johnson, for his part, wel
BRITISH PLAYERS
FOR FRANCE Nimes Giving a Trial to Wilson & Cheyne,
London, MA 18: Three British” football- Wilson, formerly of Cha Queen's Park Rangers, Alec Cheyne, the Chelsea forward, and Harry Wilder: of Ramsgate" who had re- cently appeared on sever
lons in the Queen's Park reserve side yesterday don for France, where stood, they will neg Nimes club with s
Li
son
endents
aver, been made to realle least faltering would ha his defeat.
Against a less craft vey would have pro the contest, before half the distance, ald ke equi Yet, paradoxical seem, h
stars that outt for sal of ke stood the
were frequently stal
Johnson is much