LONDON TO BRIGHTON
RELAY THRILL
Mitcham Beat Holders By A Second
SOME BRILLIANT RUNNING
(By REVIL RUDD)
London, April 19. There was a dramatic finish to the London to Brighton relay race on Saturday, D. Brickwod `racing past A. Allùm in the last few yards, to give Mitcham A. C. victory by a second over Belgrave Harriers, the holders, in 3h 52min 5sec. It was Mitcham's first success.
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Birchfield Harriers were third,
er intervals, followed Surrey A.C.,
M. Chang, above, will be seen pitching for the Chinese against the Hong Kong Baseball Club this afternoon..
70 yards behind, and then, at long-JOE DAVIS’ Achilles Club, and Polytechnic THOUSAND
Harriers.
It was a thrilling and sunny eli- BREAK
max to the 45.7 mile race that be- gan in biting rain at noon from the "News of the World" sports ground at Mitcham.
U.K. Professional Title Final
Only the first two of the 10 re-LEADS NEWMAN BY
lays corresponded exactly to pre vious races, but as over both those distances new records were set up by I, Brown, of Mitcham, and then
BIG MARGIN
London, April 21.
J. Davis, the holder, last night
by J. Parker, of Belgrave-it is pro-made a break of 1,191—the second bable that Saturday's time will of four figures in two days-in his need a lot of beating in future years final match with T. Newman for the if the same route is followed. PARKER GIVES BELGRAVE LEAD
to
Each of the three leading teams owed their final prominence honest, sustained team-work. I. Brown led for. Mitcham at the first change-over, Birchfield were next, followed by Reading, Queen's Park, Achilles, North London and the Polytechnic.
United Kingdom Professional. Championship at Thurston's Hall, London. Davis led at the close by 2,177.
In the afternoon. session the
champion scored 888 points for an against Newman's average of 222 total of 788 and an average of 197. A feature was a break of 720 by Newman. Davis made 496 and 390° (unfinished). Interval: Davis (in play), 2,878; Newman, 2,168.
A. F. Furze, for Polytechnic, and F. Close, for Surrey, ran brilliant stages, meanwhile, the three lead-
Davis took his unfinished run to ing runners had gained an unas-550 at night, and then came his big sailable lead and the gaps in the break, which included 32, 31, 24 rear steadily widened. A, A. Roland 32 close cannons.. bertson, E. C. Weir, and finally. W. Davis had another break of 230.. M. F. Hudson once more brought He scored 1,581 and averaged 527. Achilles in front of Polytechnic, Newman, who averaged 57 for 114, but S. G. Scarsbrook secured and had a run of 92. Close: Davis 4,459; then increased Surrey's advantage Newman (in play), 2,282, in the run.. in of 3.6 miles from
Patcham to the Brighton Aquarium. {up, to within 40 yards of Belgrave.
MITCHAM'S CHALLENGE
Nevertheless. Allum went off on C. T. Carter and H. W. Shields, the last stretch very confidently. running the seventh and eighth re-He was too fast for C. Whitehouse, lays for Belgrave, were at times al- of Birchfield, and gradually in- most a minute ahead of Birchfield creased his lead, ́but Brickwood and Mitcham, who were frequently first came up on Whitehouse, then
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1937.
[UNITED STATES'
RYDER CUP GOLF TEAM
13 Players To Compete For Last Places
+30.
SIX ARE ALREADY SELECTED
New York, April 16.
Snead, a 24-year-old player, who has been one of the surprises of the winter tournaments; Victor Ghezzi, Harold McSpaden, Dick Metz, Ray Mangrum and Jimmy Hines,
ALREADY SELECTED
The Professional Golfers' Asso- The players already selected are ciation of America to-day named 13),
Gene Sarazen, Densmore Shute, players to compete for the remain-
Tony Manero, Horton Smith, Henry ing four places in the United States
Picard and Johnny Revolta. Walter
a Hagen, Ryder Cup team which meets Great 5%
former American and Britain at Southport on June 29 and British Open champion, will act at
non-playing captain.
The last four places will be fill- They are Craig Wood, Olin Dutra,ed by the players with the best Paul Runyan and Ky Laffoon, four averages during the 36-holes quali of the side in the 1935 contest; Ed fying round of the P.G.A. Cham- Dudley, who competed in the 1933 pionship at Pittsburgh on May 24 match: Byron Nelson, winner of and in the 72 holes of the Ameri- the recent Augusta national tour-can Open Championship at Bir- nament; Ralph Guldahl, second in mingham, Michigan, on June 10- the masters' tournament; Sam Reuter.
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