FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1932.
ABERDEEN SURPRISE
· KILMARNOCK.
Celtic Defeated By Partick.
MOTHERWELL'S FIRST WIN.
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London, To-day.
The following were the results
of yesterday's games in the Scot-
tish Fuotball League:
Aberdeen
7 Kilmarnock
1
Airdrie
1 Cowdenbeath
2
Ayr
4 East Stirling
2
Celtic
1 Partick "
2
Dundee
0 Motherwell ".
&
Falkirky Hamilton
1 St. Johnstone
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3 Hearts
-Reuter.
LEAGUE TABLE TO DATE
Smith Should Rise to World Fame.
Revelations of a Morning Practice.
TEMPERAMENT AND SKILL
(By Riso Levi).
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2In my last article I gave reasons With extremely rare exceptions, why Sidney Smith, the young Don-the rising young professional has caster professional is fully entitled to contend with the difficulty of get-. to be considered Britain's fourth ting engagements. He has to make best cueman. Also, how vastly his his living with his cue, but, as the position will be improved. If, inränk und „file of players will only FW. L. D. F. A. Pts order that professional billiards may pay to see the world's greatest cue be made brighter and infinitely more men, he is seldom afforded the 6 attractive to the general public, on opportunity of playing in public.
whose putronage our leading cuemen l'
.Goals
Cowdenbeath 3 20 18
St. Mirren .. Hamilton
3 3 0 0 3
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7.
Celtic
Rangers
Morton
Hearts
Ayr
Motherwell.
St. Johnstone
Kilmarnock Clyde
Aberdeen ...
Queen's Park
Airdrie
Partick
"Falkirk
2 1
0. 2. 1
63 5 13
11
Third Lanark 403
East Stirling 03
Dundee.
CHINESE R.C. TAKE THIRD PLACE.
Beat Recreio Mixed Doubles Team,
The last match in the Mixed Doubles Tennis League. Was decided yesterday when the" Chinese Recreation Club beat the Club de Recreio by 61⁄2 Hely to 2%.
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have to depend for a large part of Three Years' Contract, « their yearly income, close-cannon A few years ago we had three 4play is severely restricted "next promising young professionals— Donaldson, a young Scotsman whom
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THE CHINA MAIL"
SWIMMING EVENTS FOR THE HANDICAP
AT V.R.C.
South China Command Sports Meeting.
COLONY CHAMPIONSHIPS.
The Stroke Out
Of The Rough
By CHARLES WHITCOMBE
golf, and the extent to which it in The following swimming activi
practised should be governed by ties will be taking place in the rough beyond the fairways should: But recovering from the rough
The plea of the golfer that the the capacity of the player, Victoria Recreation Club bath dur-be kept down to reasonable length depends not merely on the choice of ing next month:
has been considerately met at most club. In the some cases so well Is August 31 and September 1:-
clubs and it has done much to re it achieved that it seems an art in
20th
Aquatic Sports.. September 13 (Tuesday)
GOLFER
CONFESSIONS O
BOROTRA
A Near Breakdown
Against Vines.
FRANCE'S FUTURE,
Jean Borotra, who is, of course, Heavy Battery, Alieve congestion on busy courses. itself. I believe it was Harry a business man as well as a tennis Besides no one likes to lose a ball Vardon who once said that he likedar, was back at his office after his that hus strayed only slightly off to see James Braid in a bunker in great victory over Ellaworth Vines Garrison School Aquatic Sports the true line and when the grass is order to have the pleasure of watch. In the first singles of the Davis left knee high this is unfortunately ing the shot out. Edward Ray, too,
Cup challenge round, possible.
has accomplished some mighty feats I felt very nervous at the begin "I must confess," he said, "that
September 14 and 15:—
Royal Artillery Aquatic Sports. September 21 and 22
South China Area Command
Aquatic Sports; " September 24:-
Hong Kong Police and
Dept. Aquatic Sports. September 29 and 30%-
Open Championships
Colony.
the! of
almost
But the rough must always be in the rough. Both these players had with us unless the wayward shot is the knack of being able to applying of the match. to go unpunished" and in those cir- their tremendous striking power not played this season on hard "I was hot trained for it. I had Prison Cumstances golf would not be the with wonderful exactness and
same. And the rough at this time effect.
courts, where I am not so... good generally. I had made up my of the year, even when it has been There is undoubtedly a right and mind long ago not to take part in mown, is tough and unsympathetic.
wrong way of playing from rough the Davis Cup singles. In fact the wise golfer does not take grass Indeed I may
"You know, I was called upon at much liberty with it. If he has the describe it as a stroke apart from few days' notice to replace Lacoste. right philosophy he says "There the the rest. First of all I suggest that I felt I could not refuse, but I had ball lies and I had better get it the player should not attempt to put a great spprehension. out. So he takes a club fitting the club down behind the ball in the played well, I must say; but the conditions, it may even be address in the usual manner be the whole affair preyed |niblick, and cuts his loss.
There is, I know, always a strong try to keep it out of
cause, as I will explain, he should nerves terribly, and if when I was the grass, or leading by four in the last set I temptation to attempt samething avoid as much of it as possible, had lost my last match point, I more heroic. Suppose a player has
felt I should have à nervous break- down.
CHING WU VOLLEYBALL TEAM FOR WUCHOW.
on my
I have never had the pleasure of Joe Davis is a great player largely meeting, Joe Earlam, and Willle because he has the correct billiards Leigh. These English cuemen
Due Back On Tuesday, temperament. He is a cuemen of know very well. Earlam, after a
It is in having to force the head dauntless courage, and never allows long struggle, had to give up A volleyball team representing landed in the rough from his drive. of the club through the grass to get himself to feel crushed, ne matter billiards and go into business, and the Ching Wo Athletic Association He will probably have walked for at the ball that the recovery is diffi how magnificently his opponent may Leigh is now running a billards left for Wuchow yesterday toward with his club in his hand and cult. It obviously requires a firm at Wimbledon and his service did "Vines did not play as well as be playing..
engage in a series of games against on reaching "the ball his first
grip and a good deal of power, but not trouble me much. He tried to Ching Wu members of that part, thought and hope if he wants length one should guard against holding hit the ball as hari as he could, How true this is was strikingly Sidney Smith has been much more They are expected to return to will be that he may use a wooden the club too fiercely, for in that case but he made many double-faults in demonstrated when Lindrum made fortunate. A...: celebrated firm of Hong Kong on Tuesday,
club, a brassie or at any rate the muscles of the arma will be con- that way. He is like me--prefers record break of 4,137. tablemakers. gave him a contract his world's
spoon. He wants to escape the tracted and it is almost certain that the grass of Wimbledon to hard In no way disheartened, and full of two years ago—I believe for three
punishment which may be his due. the swing will be too stiff to be courts." confidence in himself, the great years--to play on their tables at so
Many a time I have seen a player in properly effective. For you must Chesterfield player went to the table much a year."and during the last
"I hope that next year Lacoste this situation and he has put the swing. It la no use merely thump will be able to play after a good when the applause had subsided, "and two seasons I dr. not think Sidney
driver which he still carries down ing the club down as if it were training and that we will have new jactually "played out time with a has missed "playing, matches or ex-
behind the ball to discover what hammer. The pressure of the hands men in the team." great break of over 1,000 hibition games for three days.
chance he has of getting the ball up ought to be no greater than is need- tunfinished)..
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and away from the unpromising lie.ed to keep control of the club when The shot is very similar to that All too often he dismisses the obit comes in contact with the grass exploited when the ball is exploded vious doubt which, exists and risks and its follow through is resisted out of it only to regret his venturesome-
The Right Stuff.
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Perhaps no game requires such Intense concentration as billiards Sidney Smith, fortunately for for long-sustained correct play, and himself, is endowed with the same consequently, worry of any kind, or temperament. I know him well even thoughts of anything outside [quite apart from billiards, and it is, the game, have 1 deteriorating
this intimate knowledge of him that effect on one's play. convinced nie, some years ago, that
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As the result of their victory the C.R.C," advance, to third place in he is built of the stuff of which I know this well from experience the table, displacing the Kowloon champions are made.
in my own play. at home. I may Cricket Club. The Recreio have'
have crossed the hundred line and again experienced a very lean sea- About three years ago, he gave be well on for a 200 break when, for sun, not even securing the one utterance to these words during a some anexplainable reason, my mind victory they gained last year. conversation I was having with wanders to the question of some
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Thim:
newspaper contract which is under consideration. Shall I get the hoped-for order, or "not?
Miss E. Lo and Yew Mun-kit' (C.R.C.):
bent Miss E. da Rocha and
A. V. Remedios beat Miss C. Botelho and H. H.
Noronha
6- 2
6- 0
bent Miss M. Alves and J.
Gonsalves"
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"They may beat me, Mr. Levi, but they can never break my heart."
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China. Mail Sports Diary,
TO-MORROW:
LAWN BOWLS—
Senior Division. Kowloon Docks v. Civil Service. Craigengower Recreio. Police R.C. v. Kowloon C.C Taikoo R.C. v, Kowloon B.G.C.
Junior Division. Club de Recreio v. Craigengewer. Civil Service v. H.K. Electric. Kowloon C.C. v. Yacht Club.. Kowloon B.G.C. v. Taikoo R.C.
SHOOTING-Hong Kong Rifle Club Open Meet (Kowloon Tong), 2.30 p.m.
SUNDAY.
LAWN BOWLS-Spey Royal Cup Final Club de Recrtio r. Kowloon Docks (Taikoo R.C.), 3.30 p.m.
SHOOTING Hong Kong Rife Club Open Meet (Kowloon Tong), 10 a.m.
I remember being very much No Side Thoughts, struck with this remark at the time. I I may get the shot I am about to it showed the" grit and determina- play, but some slight lack. of eon- tion of the youth he was only centration-indefinable in words fabout 20 jor 21" then--because it is cause me to play it Incorrectly, (Continued from previous Column.)
- 2 ja, heart-breaking, experience for a perhaps with just a little too much little daughter, who, he will tell you,
Mrx, Ho, Kd-lao: and Ho Ka-lai įreally good player to be, hopelessly pace or with not quite enough, is the bunniest little lassie in all (C.R.C):
Beat Miss de Rocha and
Remedios
beat Miss Botelho and Noronha 6 3
overwhelmed by £ still greater
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Yorkshire. And, finally, he has a In order to play billiards really nice little house, which belongs to well, even a great cueman has to be him, and fixed, and certain yearly The first time I saw Sidney at very much like a machine, with not income. Think of what that" means beat Miss Alves and Gonsalves 6-1 the table was in March, 1929. He a thought outside the game.
in these times! was having some morning practice, į Ho and I witnessed him make
F two Sidney Smith has no worries of With everything in his favour, I breaks of well over 200 and one of any kind. He is young and healthy. shall be greatly surprised if young close on 400, and I quickly realised He is happily married and has one Smith does not cause a stir in the what a very great player he was (Continued in next. Column.) billiards world next season destined to become in the
G. Lo and Mr. H. Miss (C.R.C.): lost to Miss da Rocha and
Remedios:
5.7
lost to Miss Botelho and
Noronha
drew with Miss Alves, and
Gonsalves
TABLE TO DATE.
Mixed Doubles League.
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Sets
F. W. L. D. F
A. Pts.
U.S.R.C.
5.50 0.40
Б
10
1.R.C
6 31 1 24
21
C.R.C
5 3 2 0 25: ··20.
L.R.C
C. de R.
5.2 2.1 2542 1935.
+514 012 982 5.050 8% 86.
CRAIGENGOWER'S BID FOR THE TITLE.
To-day's Big Game.
What promises to be one of the best matches in the Tennis League season will be witnessed at Happy
near.
It was not so much the size of the breaks as the manner in which they were compiled which appealed to me. A few days later, in a Fress article, I wrote of the Doncaster professional as follows:-"
"Sidney Smith's style is perfect.
He plays easily and quickly, and hef
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Foxx Should Shatter Ruth Record
has at his command all the strokes If the sentimentalists among more than 400 feet from the plate. which are the prerogative of the world's greatest cuement sports fans have to live to see Babe He has driven the ball clear out Ruth's home run record shattered of Fenway Park, Boston, and has "And when the day comes, as they'll have the consolation of duplicated Babe Ruth's feat of assuredly it must come, when he is knowing it wasn't accomplished by driving one completely out of the our professional champion. I do a pop-fly artist with a short right lot at Comiskey Park at Chicago. not think Sidney Smith will suffer field fence for a farget, writes Babe's went over the right field from a' swelled head, because he is Loren Disney, the Associated Press fence, Jimmy's over the left. The well aware that the highest pop Sports Editor.
stands are 362 feet away at each larity is only attained when great- mess is allied with modesty."
corner.
And that one Jimmy Foxx of the Philadelphia Athletles, stands an The majority of Foxx's long And what I wrote then, I can excellent chance of passing the drives are to left feld or left centrs.
Valley this afternoon at 5.10 p.m. repeat with still more when the Craigengower "Cricket to-day,
[Club' entertain the Chinese Recrea
tion Club in the "B" Division. -
confidence
Bambino's hitherto believed up- Ball players are pretty generally touchable record of 60 for a session agreed that Jimmy it as powerful, a is becoming more evident every right-handed batter as ever lugged day.
a bat up to the plate.
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The winners of this match will in Heights Unknown
Al Simmons, Jimmy'a big slug. Jimmy in his great assault on the all probability become the 1932 title-have closely studied the play of holders." The home team have won great professionals for more than homerun record has hit some orging playmate on the A's, frankly all their aeven matches and the 40 years, in addition to having made the mightiest blasts ever seen, those admits that he can't equal Foxr's Chinese, the holders, are
of Babe Ruth not excluded. On power in hitting to left fold. a serious study of the game myself: going on the Courts for their last game with It will, therefore, be readily granted several occasions this season he has To the other fields perhaps, but -an unbeaten record behind them. that I am well able to appraise cleared the double-tiered pavilion in not to left, always. He would like
Shibe Park, the ball landing in the to know who can. Sidney Smith's play at its com ¿Craigengower — who are Mớt re presented In the premier leagu
value after having "watched him at strent offert a severs challenge to the the table 80 times, and it is my holders, and on paper look to be well-considered opinion that, given the
the batter
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nation
correct
continued good health, the Doncas
onal will in time rise to chte undreamed of to-
ness.
Cutting Losses.
If the ball is in long grass another
bunker and unless some. An Upring Swing
weight is kept back on the right" Now as to the swing. I have foot the club will go up and down in stated that the aim should be to cut much the same way as a pump To the handicap golfer I would through as little grass as possible handle. stress the wisdom, of cutting his land hence the club must come down Josses. In the new golfing world "of acutely and nip in close behind the trouble is that the strands may Japan such a teaching would appar-ball. So you want a more upright twist themselves round the shaft. ently be regarded as cowardly. The swing than usual. In making this This is not easy to prevent, but the Japanese, we are told, are not even the tendency will probably be to put danger le lessened by the upright permitted to "play back from a most of the weight of the body for-swing. Some players prefer a nar- bunker. But in these sters com-ward on the left leg, but if this is row-bladed club such as a' jigger to petitive days we cannot hold with done the direction of the club will make these recovery. strokes. this quixotic view, and though I be too straight and the effect will Others choose one with more left, a always believe in going boldly for simply be to jab the ball out. You mashle or even the powerful niblick. the shot, it is sheer folly" to attempt{not "unty want the ball to come out I think the selection must "depend more than can reasonably be accoms but to carry forward and to attain on the type of stroke that has to be plished. The principle of "safety this result the impetus of the follow played. For a bad lie I should pin first"
must inevitably enter into through is required.
my faith to the niblick.
easing
to the taste and also to the throat!
Embassy