THE CHINA MALA TEMBER 22, 1937.
WHAT OF THE BRITISH WALKER CUP?
TOPSY-TURVY FORM OF THE
BRITISH AMATEURS
YOUTH MUST BE GIVEN A CHANCE
(By "NIBLICK")
THE sands of the golf season are running fairly fast now, and in next to no time the interna- tionals and the Irish Open Amateur Championship will be over and done with and we will be into the winter days of retrospection..
IT HAS, TAKEN ALL OVER, BEEN A RATHER TOPSY- TURVY SEASON, WITH VERY FEW “HORSES” RUNNING TRUE TO FORM. HENRY COTTON, WITH HIS VICTORY IN THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP, IS ONE OF THE FEW, AND SINCE HIS SUCCESS AT CARNOUSTIE HE HAS SIMPLY GONE HIS EFFORT IN THE FROM STRENGTH TO. STRENGTH. GERMAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP WAS A SENSATIONAL ONE, AND AT THE TIME OF WRITING I SEE HE IS MAKING A GREAT BIÐ TO CAPTURE THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN TITLE.
Without any doubt Cotton is our man of the year, just as we expected him to be. He is the star above all other stars in the Bri- tish golfing firmament. It is a pity that we have no amateur shar- ing the honours with Cotton.. With Robert Sweeny winning the British title at Sandwich, we are without a leader, or appear to be, for the Walker Cup match next year.
The British side for the en- of counter with the amateurs America is going to cause a lot of speculation in the winter months. Personally I find it hard to place even four players more or less certainties for the team.
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Much regret has been felt at the non-entry of Wilfred Lawrence, Colony swimming champion, above, in the annual championships wh will be held under the auspices of the V.R.C. in the near future.
ENGLAND STILL SEEKS
AN OPENING PAIR? BARNETT'S EXPERIENCES IN AUSTRALIA WASTED
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(By "NOT OUT”).
SYDNEY, AUGUST: 26. INGLAND IS STILL ENDEAVOURING TO CREATE AN OPEN- ING PAIR FOR THE TESTS WITH AUSTRALIA NEXT SEA- SON." "THE LOSS OF C. F. WALTERS, THROUGH ILL HEALTH, AFTER HIS 1934 EFFORTS, WAS RANK BAD LUCK TO THE MAN AND TO ENGLAND. HOWEVER, AUSTRALIA IS NOT OVER SANGUINE ABOUT HAVING AN ESTABLISHED OPEN- ING-PAIR. FINGLETON ONE WHO IS THE OTHER?
In J. H. Fingleton there is one tried and successful in every condition of cricket. We had thought that W. A. Brown was de- finitely: his mate on form in South Africa. But inexplicable stone- walling last season has provided him with something difficult to shake off -a sort of hoodoo.
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If Brown succeeds in that task, perhaps, a bit jumpy against the ed with George Roberts as his part- he will regain his position as col-real fast stuff.
"Folk tell me (writes the "old "LAST YEAR'S SIDE
ner in a foursome. My advice on league of Fingleton. But no one the point is the old typewriter line can be sanguine on that score. Middlesex champion) "that Barnett Just take a look at the men who
"Now is the time for all good men His cricket was so utterly illo is not the ideal No. 1. I am inclined last year. went over to America
for it is not unlikely that the pair gical that it became the surprise to agree, at the moment, but a Jack Hobbs can't be produced like à con- Jack M'Lean, has turned profession-will find themselves bracketed toge of the season.
England's experiments in the New jurer produces an egg from his al; Hector Thomson has never once ther when they go out to do battle
Zealand Tests have not been satis-elbow. Barnett did quite well in touched his top form; Gordon Peters
at Portmarnock...
at factory. Barnett was not tried as Australia, and should be given gave us a glimpse of his for a spell
During the week I was out at Sandwich, but since then has been
Davidson's Mains watching practice the man to open. And the York-every opportunity of improving. He a fading light, J. M. Dykes has not
in progress for the Boys Cham-shire colt, L. Hutton, has yet to be hits the ball hard, which is a very taken part in anything of note apart pionship, which begins over the come salted in this class of cricket good thing in an opening batsman. from a few tournaments in the West
course of the Bruntsfield Links So His century in the second match "T'll explain why-because this is of Scotland
ciety on Tuesday, and once again I was heartening to the selectors-a point frequently overlooked. was amazed at the c confident ability But his other four innings were Hean, viz., Q 1, 14, and 12. He'll make good, no doubt. But until he does, the position will remain cloud ed
And
These four Scots were all mem- bers of the Walker Cup team. what of the Englishmen who crossed the Atlantic? What of Lucas, Lang- ley, Hill, the Irishman Ewing, and -the others? Have they done any-
thing? Not to my, knowledge.
MOST PERPLEXING
of these youngsters
“I WAS AMAZED”
HARD-HITTERS WHO WON An old and successful idea was to partner a brilliant attacking batsman with one of slower type.l
When I was sitting out at the ninth green three successive games went past in each of which one mem- It is all a most perplexing busi-ber of the party was out in 34. Now -ness, and though some may hold that those who know Bruntsfield Links light may be shed on the subject know just what kind of golf that The combination was often success- at the internationals in Ireland next represents, and it was not a case
"A batsman who hits the ball hard takes the polish off that new ball quick-
than the batsman who pats it
Barnett, as No. 1, would have got on with it, and the effective spell of the opening bowlers would have shortened."
been
MEN WHO HIT BALL There has been only one Hobbs for England. One of the opening batsman should be a punisher. When Hobbs-a shade past his best and Sutcliffe opened for England. and were wonders in combination,
whether fast or slow, Hobbs was always attractive.
ful. HH. Massie and Alick Ban- month, the fact remains that after of practise golf with putts being nerman, at the Oval in 1882, and Jack Lyons and Alick Bannerman, the series and the Irish-champion- conceded. The boys were playing in Sydney in 1892, were outstand-they did not make runs fast. But, ship there is a long spell when no a card and pencil round in connec- one's form can be taken on trust.
tion with the international trials.
Unlike many people I have always In the internationals I think Scot- land will hold her own with any had a soft side for the Boy's Cham of the other countries. The team, pionship. The actual championship although not all some people would may have points that are open to have had it, is a well-balanced one criticism it does not do some boys many ways and, man for man, any good to get more than their on the should be able to account for any share of publicity but,
whole, I think it is a good thing. the other countries.
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ing examples in the Test field.
With wickets so greatly improved England since the war-end, there no reason why pottering should be indulged in to the extent that pre-
Barnett, as the dasher, and Hut- ton as the plodder, might developin into the right blend against Austra lia next season. Barnett's innings Tests out here were 69, 26, 57.
vails there. Out here wickets are 11: 23, 129, 21, 18, and 41.
with his opening partners failing to no better than they were forty years keep him comnany for any time worth ago, mentioning, his form was splendid;; Along the years England posses- more so for a first tour in Australia.
sed many opening batsmen of the KNOCKS SHINE OFF BALL highest standing and fighting spirit. Patsy Hendren, in "Reynolds' W. G. Grace, A. E. Stoddart, and A. Regarding Edinburgh's two re- In the first place it brings these News," specifically-advocates Bar C. MacLaren were great men." C. F. tatives in the side I was boys together for a fortnight the nett. One thought he had become Walters and Tom Hayward were amused to see someone writ majority of them have almost a established on the Australian tour splendid. Though Hayward could that they would make a very week's practice and they form as one of the opening pair. He be as patient as Sutcliffe, he did not useful ready-made partnership. I friendships which last a long time. looked the part here, aggressive, wait for the long-hop, and did not asked David Wemyss about it, and Take, for instance, the case of a confident, and not afraid of either push the ripe half-volley. He
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his luck, or the bowling though, cracked it. he told me that he had never play-
WEMYSS AND ROBERTS
VALUE OF BOY'S CHAMPIONSHIP