WEST END OFFERS TO BAER
FIGHT DATE BIG PROBLEM
PLAYBOY ONCE AGAIN
The demand for the services of. Max Baer, the American heavy- weight boxer, from entertainment. promoters of the West End since he arrived in London, on Tuesday has been so overwhelming that Mr. Sydney Hulls, the boxing promoter, is faced with. : the possibility of. postponing Baer's first fight.
"I decided on Tuesday,” “Mr. Hulls said last night, "that Baer would box at Harringay on April 15 against the winner of next Mon day's fight between Foord-and Farr,
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"But I am also acting as agent for his services as an entertainer. To-day I have been bombarded with requests for contracts for films, cabaret shows and the like. One of fer is of £500 for Baer to talk for ∙∙10 minutes each 'evening for one
week at a West End restaurant.
"Baer is here to earn money. He is also very serious about. boxing. He wants to start training at once. and he is afraid that if he takes up entertainment work before box- ing he will be called a "playboy” again. I rather fear that myself.”
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 7, 1937,
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FUTURE OF THE
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35 MILES WALK TO WIN TITLE
SOME COMMENTS BY PLAYERS
(By HENRY LONGHURST) Henry Longhurst, one of Bri- tain's soundest golf critics, re- views, in the London “Evening Standard,” comments by players and others in regard to the golf ball of the future. It is appar ently inevitable that a change will be made. When, is another matter, says Longhurst.
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Cyril Tolley's able comments on slow play and "marathon" courses have led various profes- Cotton's contribution to the ball well taken, since there is at the it is a pleasanter ball- for ey sional golfers to publish their question was the statement that moment scarcely enough difference class of golfer to play with, excent views on our old friend the the game was difficult enough for between a perfect shot and a by- in a strong wind; it goes every whit modern' ball. And very interest him as it was, the value of which no-means-perfect one. This differ-as far as any other ing they have proved to be.. is-to my mind entirely discounted ence is, of course, accentuated by Experiments in wind tunnels Tolley himself is a firm ad- by the mere sight of him in action a lighter ball that responds more have shown that the best method. vocate of some form of shorter-until he comes to the putting readily to a hook, a slice or a of limiting the flight of the ball ball, if only for the pedestrian green.
"top."
may be concerned with its exterior reason that he objects to being
I still believe that legislation marking. As a direct prophecy I compelled to walk, five miles in · RESPONDS. MORE. READILY
with regard to the ball will come venture to predict that - the new order to get a reasonable game. "Sandy" Herd made the enlight- within a couple of years. It is im- ball, when it comes, will weigh Padgham, as he points out, had ening observation that if a lighter possible to have "inside informa- 1.62 oz., as at present; will be in- walk 35 miles to win his open ball were introduced, requiring a tion" on the subject at the moment. creased in size from 1.62in to 1.65- 31 Ampionship. “That was partly a higher degree of skill, most of the If anyone tells you he knows what's in. (the American ball is 1.63), and leg-pull, of course, he says, professionals would need to re going to happen, don't believe a will have a compulsory pimple,, or
Charles Whitcombe fell into the ceive a handicap. It is obvious, how word of it, for the Royal and An- "bramble," marking.
and said that 35 miles was ever, to anyone watching them in cient themselves do not know yet. urate--but he forgot the ex-competition with each other that
AMERICAN BALL qualifying round that was they need handicaps with any ball. The American ball has its sup vashed out by the rain.
"Sandy's" point, all the same, is porters at St. Andrews, but though
And the sooner it comes, the sooner we shall get a game golf in the space of three and miles again.
half