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ROYAL NAVY
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THE R. A. F's Rugby reputation Tax shattered, at Twicken-
ham. In the first of the Services'] Triangular Tournament matches they were beaten more heavily than ever before in the compati-
RAF
SEVEN-A-SIDE RUGBY
Lion. Their previous worst was a Tournament Commences 33 points to 3 defeat by the Navy in 1921.
This Afternoon.
They were outplayed by a side higher class entirely forward. It better in most positions and in a FIVE MATCHES ON PROGRAMME
was seldom that the ball came out The 1984 Seven-A-Side Rugby, on the R.A.F. elide of a scrum and Tournament, won by the Club "A" the Naval pack were almost equal-for the last two seasons, will com ATly successful in the line-out, while mence this afternoon at 4.18 p.m. the Club
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they used their feet and hands with five matches on effectively in open attack. On the ground. Ma top of all that their tackling was such that the airmen were given little scope to develop ganised offensive.
an or
The following is the programine: H.M.S. Cumberland "A". S.W.B. "B", referee Dr. Selby;
H.K.F.C... H.M.S. Cumberland "B" referee Maj. Gottwalts;-
H.M.S. Adventure v. R. A. Stone: cutters, referee Maj, Gottwaltz;
H.K. & 8. Bank v. H.M.S. Temar and S.S., referee Maj. MacIntyre;
S.W.B. "A" v. R. A. Lyocmoon, re- feree Dr. Selby.
GOSLING VERY SAFE Occasionally Elt. 0. J. G. Lie- welyn, the R.A.F. stand-off half, managed to pounce on the ball and tried to open up the game, but it was seldom that the Navy's line was in danger, and on such rare occasions C. G. Gosling, who has Kowloon, H.M.S. Cornwall, and been seen in action in the Colony, the Lincolns have drawn byes into was always in the right place to the Second Round.
savc.
Only Flying Officer R. N. Mc- Kern, at full-back, of the Air Force side deserved medalo. Un- der the beaviest pressure he, ap- proached perfection, and he also went out of his way to give scre By needed aid to the attack.
At half-time the Navy had gathered 20 points, and after wards they, continued to score with a regularity that became monotonoua.
CUP RECEIPTS RECORD
Should Reach £50,000 More Than 1933
SEMI-FINALS ON SATURDAY
Mrs. Stewart, who holds the record of 145 miles 1,645 yazils an hour for a lap of the Montl hery track, and who has been presented with a cup by the Automobile Club de l'ile - de France in commemoration of her feal(8. & G.).
TENNIS NOT
FAVOURED
FOR OLYMPIAD
Paris Games Of 1924 Recalled
DAVIS CUP SUBSTITUTE
FORECAST OF BRITISH WALKER CUP TEAM
CYRIL TOLLEY IMPROVES GAME IN AMERICA
MeLEAN A CERTAINTY
BRITISH golfers are bury pick-Melniny, Andrew HeNair, Leseis
ing Britain's team to meet the Garnett and Eric McRuvie.
Two Certainties at St. Andrews on May 11 and 12.ered as certainties by most of the United States for the Walker Cup.
Tolley and McLean are consid
Tolley, a
veteran
Their efforts have been intensif-"picksters." ed by the official announcement of Walker Cup player, showed last British hail as not so formidable United Stater the American team, which the year that his long visit to the had considerably as it might have been.
Improved his game. One of tho How or when the official British stylists of amateur golf, he drives team will be chosen is not known. a tremendous length, McLean is It is possible that the same method rated as 'the best young amateur as in the selection of the Ryder in the country. He will probably/ Cup team will be followed. This be matched with George Dunlap, was the Belection of 22 possibles, whom the British consider the whose achievements in the early most formidable of the Americans. watched, and Rex Hartley and Tony Torrence
tournaments were
from whom the final team of ten are two more veteran Walker Cup Įwere chosen.
men. Torrence captained the 1932 team Both are steady and relf- able, particularly in their short
Not Enough Tournaments For the amateurs, however, there game. They did not shine last Jare not enough important tourna-year, being eclipsed by new comers. ments before May on which to base Woollam "Dour Fighter" an opinion. It is probable, there-
John Woollam was little-known
goma 'Scott is a
International Lawn Tennis Federa-mittee of the Royal and Ancient until he won the English native A proposal from Germany to the fore, that the championship com- outside his own native Cheshire, tfor that iswn tennis should be Club, at St. Andrews, will do the championship last year. He is a made a part of the 1936 Olympiad choosing. in Berlin finds few supporters in
dour Aghter. lawn tennis circles in America that the choice should be made "grand-daddy" of the team at 56, Golfers in Britain are advocating. The Hon. Michael Scott, the (states a New York message). early, Ifke that of the Americap is the British amateur champion. The executive committee of the team, so that it can practice to- He accounted for Dunlap in the. United States LT.A. has already gether. It is more likely, however, semi-final last year, with voted unfavourably on the pro that with its fine disregard for phenomenal putting. posal, and it is expected that the outside opinion, the R. and A. will former Walker Cup man, but until general meeting will instruct the delay until one or two weeks belast year showed no signs of a American delegate to the interns-fore the match. tional meeting in Paris to oppose
comeback in his former skill, In the meantime picking the team Fit
Eustace Storey is another · ex- # on paper is a fascinating pastime, Walker Cup player. A lengthy much more difficult than it was illness has kept him in the back- to pick the Ryder Cup-team, last ground for the last two years. But year. Then the United Preis's he has been practicing hard, and own forecast, made six months be-reports indicate that his steadiness, fore the match, included eight of particularly with the iron clubs. the ten members of the team. is returning. Another factor working against
Forecasted Team
Fiddian's Decline the proposal is that lawn tennis al-
Fiddian was in the 1932 team, There are about twenty ama- in which year he was English, na....... ready has a yearly International tours who have a chance of betive champion, and tnalist in the competition in the Davis Cup ing picked, and from these the Amateur Open.
United Press forecasts the follow-of the year, and grost things were He was the find ing team:
expected of,him. They failed to Cyril Tolley (captain)
materialize in 1933, but he 'lastil! Jack McLen
one of the amateur stars at the early age of 24.
The last time lawn tennis was on the Olympic programme was in 1924 in Paris, and the conditions under which it was played there were criticised by American officials and partiel- pants,
The hooking of Schoolmaster D. J. Tarr contributed largely to the
When the Serai-Final Round of effectiveness of the Navy in the the Football Association Cup is serummages, and in addition he played on Saturday the atten- dribbled well and handled like a dances will have exceeded Inst three-quarter. Sub-Lt. . S. w. season's total for the whole com- Walsham and Midshipman G. H. B. petition, including the 92,000 Cup N. Hunter worked well together at Final crowd. There will still be half-back, and the pace of
Mithe final to be taken into con-f shipman J. P. Kirby on the
left sideration. wing and the adaptability of Able
The interest in this, season's Seaman C. R. Knapman at left tournament has been ao enormous centre provided the chief attack-that in the four earlier rounds, ing force of the "threes." The with replayed matches were the at- one weakness of the side was place- tendances were 2,371,500 people, 127 MILE RACE ON Rex Hartley
kicking.
came
+
who were paid £154,624.
In the eight rounds (including.
In the first half Kaapmat dropped a goal, while tries, two of the semi-finals and final) of 1932-33 which Gosling converted,
the total attendance was 2,461,292 from Walsham, Lt. R. f. L. Ham- and the receipts £180,400..: Of thus mond, Tarr, and Midshipman P. D. sum the semi-finals and final ac- lewis. Later tries were scored by counted for £33,400. * Tarr. Walsham, Able Seaman J. Based on last season's figures, H. Bailey, and Knapman, who sue the total receipts by the time the ceeded with two of the place-kicks. Final is played on April 28 next, should excead the 1932-39. total of
It is a fine all-round team, a £180,400 by not less than £50,000. typical of our strength and the colourful characteristics
of Aus-
tralian cricket as any that could
CURTIS WITH CARDIFF
be chosen. It will be a proud hour Transferred to Birmingham the
tournament.
SKATES
Holland's Greatest Winter Sport.
ELEVEN TOWNS ON COURSE
M. A. de Vries completed the Frisian 11-towns' skating race in Bha, 2min, which is 51min. less than the previous record made many years ago. In the race, which is the great-
T. A. Torrance John Woollam
Hon. Michael Scott Eustace Storey Eric Fiddian Harry Bentley Leonard Crawley
Harry Bentley just missed in. clusion in the 1992 team. Es was {French amateur champion in 1981, and is a particularly good match player. Leonard Crawley, another old Walker Cup man, is the school- master cricketer-golfer,
whose
Others who stand most chance best year was probably 1932. Other of inclusion are: Lister Hartley, activities prevented him from play- Roger Wethered, T. A. Bourn, ing much golf last year, but his John de Forest, John Steut, two known abilities earn him inclu- youngsters, P. L. Risdon and S. Lion, L. Percy, United Press
Staff Correspondent.
GALLANT SIR AND RECORD
(Continued from Page 4.)
for all of us when the chivalry of year after he helped Cardiff City est winter sport event in Holland, the cricket field is revived between to defeat the Arsenal in the 1927 competitors have to make a trip England and Australia in the Cup final, E. R. Curtia has now through 11 towns in Friesland, be Testa. I have faith in the M.C.C. re-signed for the Welsh club. ginning at Leedwarden, and going and its sponsorship; it la our Curtis, who was discovered in through Socek, Stavoren, Harlin- cessors from Britain, Challenger guarantee that all will be well in Cardiff schools' football, figured at gen, and Dokkum back to Leeu-II and Boy Painter. He was 'a nice the coming Test matches-Aubrey outside-right in the team which warden. The course covers a dia stake winner in England before Oxlade, chairman of the Austra-look the F.A. Cup to Wales for the tance of 205 kilometres (over 127 crossing the Atlantic with R. Gel- lian Board of Control.
first time in the history of soccer. miles). There is a prize for the letly, of -Vancouver, B.C., his new
competitor who completes the tour owner. [in the shortest time and another prize for those who complete it in jone day/79.
SNOOPING AROUND |||
SON THE LIGHTER SIDE OF SPORT-
N American is walking round | The public's right of say runs round
the world backwards.
every ground.
One hopes his head is screwed on the right way.
Helen Wille Moody is getting |{for tonnie by swimming,”
Practising the backhand stroka!
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Joyce Gardner, the, women's pro- fessional billiards champion, is to watk
Mrs in baulk,
New Resolutions.
THE SWIMME head above wante "THE BOXER, own fost:
THE REFEREE other peopl
No fewer than, 188 persons entered for the race and 361
DIFFERENCE IN BALLS IN WALKER CUP
Americans Not Playing With British Ball
TWO WEEKS PRACTICE
~Dramatic Friskes Recalled. Dramatic
been
The golf balls used by the Eng- running of the Mexican race. In Walker Cup content at Bt. Andrews written more than once during the fish and American pla
\players in the
for the one-day tour."wheth 1924 there was a three-nose finish. on May 11 and 12 will differ in size. The weather was favourable. A. B. Spreckels, with tear-dimmed Mr. Herbert " Jacques, president - Some 120 of the entranta reached eyes, greeted his California-bred of the United States Golf Associa Fifty years ago rackets was play-Leeuwarden again by the after Runstar achieving the happiest motion, announces that the Americans ed among the debtors in the Fleet noon, number never before ment in his life. Finishing as if ball, 1.6z oz. in weight and 1.68 in.
known. Among them was
lashed to the winner were Osprey, will play with their regulation The scratch man owed quite a lot, man, who was presented with sent by August Belmont to the diameter, since the use of the Bri The Scottish F. A. has a "deteo-ganising the event.
bouquet from the committes or coast, and Baron Long's Cherry Hish ball (which is the same weight Hoke Tree, The gallant Exterminator, but...06 in, smaller in diameter) tive corps", which records the mia Among the competitors was then near retirement, ran and was might upset the Americans' play,
Prison
deeds of playera, ----
48-year-old farmer and Allegations of "hande" will pre-year-old son; the father sumably, coms: before the singer, an hour before the son [print" section,
It is true that the more spa
fourth.
́arrived
The American team sails on Perhaps, the 1922. running was April 21, and thus will have two even more dramatic" Muleiber, a weeks for practice before the c blackVulcain horse from New
Xork, secured the
seeded.
ace from Rife
SHUTE & ESPINOSA TRIUMPH.
Four Ball Holders Beaten One Up.