H. COTTON'S GOLFING TRIUMPH
BRITISH OPEN WON A SECOND TIME
AMERICAN THREAT AN EMPTY ONE
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 10, 1937.
NORTH CHINA CRISIS
(Continued from Page 1)
guards posted at strategic points troops completed withdrawal yes- have been reduced..
The replacement of the
terday.
....
troops at Wanping by General Shih conferences,
Chinese It is reported that after several verbal agreements, Yiu-san's Public Safety Guards was without any demands from either carried out smoothly under the side, were reached yesterday morn- supervision of Chinese and Japan- ing between the Chinese and Ja- ese authorised agents yesterday panese authorities. Accordingly 'the afternoon.
troops started to withdraw at 8.00 Further Sino-Japanese negotia-am- yesterday and completed their Carnoustie, To-day.
withdrawals at 1.00 p.m. tions will be held at Peiping.` Henry Cotton, of Ashridge It is now revealed that scores of The Chinese troops withdrew to Club, and formerly of Waterloo.
Yungtung Club, Belgium, repeated his suc-houses in the walled city of Wan- the right bank of the cess of 1934 when he won the ping were destroyed partly or whol-River and were replaced by the British Open Golf Championship ly by Japanese artillery fire, while Peace Preservation Corps under the bridge at Lokouchiao was General Shek Yau-sam.Our Own yesterday over the Carnoustie
The Course
of seriously damaged.
exact Correspondent. with an aggregate 290, after lying third in the Third number of civilian casualties is not Round to Reginald and Charles known yet.
Whitcombe, who were first and The roof of Government House second, respectively.
jat Wanping was holed by a shell. Britain secured the first four -Hua Nan. places, Reginald Whitcombe be- ing two strokes behind the win-
ner
AMBASSADOR'S VIEW
Tsingtao, To-day.
CHINESE TROOPS ON RAILWAY
Tientsin, To-day. It is learned from military quar- ters that the entire line of the Peiping-Tientsin-Pukow with 292, while Charles
Railway, Lacy, a newcomer who was very
which links Nanking and Peiping, On his arrival here yesterday is now heavily guarded by Chinese much in the shadows, came third with an aggregate of 293. afternoon, Mr. Kawagoe, the Japan- forces, who are prepared to meet
by Charles Whitcombe, the British ese Ambassador, interviewed
any eventualities.-Da-Dao. the Ryder Cup Captain, was fourth pressmen, expressed regret at
Lokouchiao Incident and said he with 294.
Weather conditions were terrible hoped the affair would be peace- goodwill and during the third round, a drenching fully settled with rain falling throughout the morn- sincerity on both sides. Hua Nan. YANKEES
In
ing and afternoon and conditions were getting worse and worse. spite of these adverse conditions, the Americans were fairly consis- tent and were well bunched at the conclusion of the Third Round.
THIRD ROUND SCORES Scores at the conclusion of the third round were: Reginald Whit- combe 216, Charles Whitcombe 218,
TRUCE WITHOUT
CONDITIONS
Withdrawal Finally Completed
It is
Henry Cotton 219, A. J. Branch 220, both the Charles Lacey 221, Ed. Dudley
(U.S.) 222, Alfred Padgham 222, Densmore Shute (U.S.) 222, Byron
Henry Picard (U.S.), Ralph Guldahl
Peiping, To-day. officially confirmed that Chinese and Japanese
Nelson (U.S.), 222, A. J. Lacy 223, GERMANY'S (U.S. Open Champion) 223, Sam DAVIS CUP Snead (U.S.) 224, A. D. Locke (S. PROGRESS
Africa) 225, Percy Alliss 226, D. J. Rees 226, Horton Smith (U.S.) 227, James Adams 228, A. J. King 228, Arthur Havers 228, Bobby Cruick- shank (U.S.) 229, A. J. Busson 230, Marcel Dallemagne (France) 232, A. A. Dailey 232, Jack McLean 233, Ernest Whitcombe 233, W. A. Mc- Minn (Ireland) 233.
Leading scores at 4 p.m. were:
combe
Czechs Lose First Two Singles
Berlin, To-day. Germany yesterday made practi- cally certain of her Davis Cup |European Zone Final match against Czecho-Slovakią when she won the
*H. Cotton (G.B.) 74, 72, 73, 71-290 first two singles matches.
Reginald Whit-
73, 69, 74, 76—292| Heinrich Henkel (Germany) had 76, 75, 70, 72=293 an easy victory over L Hecht. win-
ning by 6-1, 7-5, 7-5.
Charles Lacey
*Charles Whitcombe
(G.B.)
*Byron Nelson
(U.S.)
STILL SMITING THEM HARD
Gehrig And Dimaggio Clout Homers
of
New York, To-day. The following were the results yesterday's major League baseball en-
counters:-
St. Louis
American League
R. H. E.
7 14
1
Bell hit a homer.
Chicago
11
18
1.
Walker hit a homer.
Washington
2
10
1
New York
16 17
Lou Gehrig and Joe Dimaggio” (2) hit homers.
Cleveland
$ &
1
Solters hit a homer. Detroit
10
14
1
York hit a homer.
Boston Philadelphia
12 17
*11 19 4
Twelve innings were played.
"National League
73, 71, 74, 76=294; Baron Gottfried Von Cramm (Ger- Philadelphia 75, 76, 71, 74-296 many) beat Roderick
Menzel in a Boston *Ed Dudley (U.S.) 70, 74, 78, 75-297 match which went the full five sets New York *Alfred Padgham
-- (holder) (G.B.) 72, 74, 76, 76–298 by 3–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–2.——— *A. J. Lacy (G.B.) 75, 73, 75, 75-298; Reuter.
*Horton Smith
(U.S.)
*Sam Snead (U.S.) 75, 74, 75, 76±300
*Ralph Guldahl
(U.S.)
W. J. Branch
*Densmore Shute-
(U.S.)
*Henry Picard
(U.S.)
.77, 71, 79, 72=299|
BRITISH
77, 72, 74, 77-300
72, 75, 73, 81=301 DAVIS CUP
73, 73, 76, 80-302 TEAM SURPRISE
76, 77, 70, 80±±±303
*Percy Alliss (G.B.) 75, 76, 75, 77-303 F. H. D. Wilde Replaces
A. D. Locke: (S.
Africa)
James Adams'
Arthur Havers
74, 74, 77, 79—304
74, 78, 76, 76-304
77, 75, 76, 76–304
*W. J. Cox (G.B.) 74, 77, 81, 78–305 *D. J. Rees (G.B.) 75, 73, 78, 79-305
*Walter Hagen
(U.S.)
76, 72, 80, 81=309
G. P. Hughes
London, To-day. Considerable surprise has been
J. H. Busson 74, 77, 79, 76=306 caused in British tennis circles with the announcement that G. P. Hughes, M. Dallemague 78, 75, 79, 77=309 who was to have partnered. C. R. D. *8. L. King (G.B.) 79, 74, 75, 82=310 Tuckey in the. Davis Cup doubles
Edward Whitcombe 76, 76, 81, 77-310 challenge round, has withdrawn. Andrey Boomer 79, 72, 77, 88=811|
The reason for his withdrawal is *Johnny Revolta
(U.S.)
́76, 76, 83, 76=311 given as doctor's orders. Hughes
76, 77, 79, 79–311 will be replaced by F. H. D. W Jack McLean 78, 74, 81, 79-312 who last year reached the final
the Wimbledon Doubles partnered (V,8.) W. A. McMinn 72, 81, 80, 81314 by Charles Hare. —RA
A. A. Dailey.
Bobby Cruickshank
#78, 75, 77, 85314
NGO
CT & GT
221
5
2
McCarthy hit a homer. Brooklyn
15
20
Chicago Pittsburgh
1
7
2
13
19
2.
Cincinnatti
7
10 3
Myers, Lombardi
and
Davis hit
homers.
St. Louis
8 10
1
-Reuter.
Joe Medwick hit a homer.
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