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EIGHT UNDER 4'S FOR
19 HOLES
Martin In Brilliant
Form At Rye
(By GEORGE GREENWOOD) Rye, January 8. Frank Pennink, 24, the English champion, and one of the foremost players of the younger school, gain- ed a brilliant triumph in the Ox- ford and Cambridge Society's tournament for the President's Put- ter here to-day. In the second round he beat John Beck, the holder, a former Walker Cup player, and a possible captain of this year's Bri- tish team, by 2 and 1. ·
MIXED DOUBLES "DAVIS" CUP?
Indian Proposal
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 19, 1938.
¡SCOTTISH
BOYS GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
To Be Played At North Berwick In April
THEY SAY
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|| How did I ever lose to that man? I don't see how I could Glasgow, January 15.
ever have been that bad.——Joe The fourth annual Scottish Boys Louis, after seeing Schmeling's Championship is to be played over fight with Harry Thomas. the West Links, North Berwick, Sydney, December 30. during the week commencing Mon- If H. Lind were an English- One of the questions that will day, April 18, and the indications man, I wonder if he would come up at the left next meeting are that this year's events will be pining in the international. of the International Lawn Tennis prove as popular as any of the pre- wilderness? But this is just an- Federation will deal with the est-vious championships. During the other mystery that the S.R.U. ablishment of an international winter the greenkeeping staff have will hand down to posterity. contest in mixed doubles for the tightened up the course, which is A Dundee Courier and Advertiser "Pithapuram Cup.”-
now în excellent trim.
writer. Beck, a golfer of vast experience,
The suggestion and offer of a Although no definite entries havê
* who, curiously in these days of match-
I hope to make up my mind about ed sets, carries a mixed bag of hickory cup is put forward by the Yuvara-yet been received, it is confidently and steelshafted clubs-each a favour-jah of Pithapuram, president of the expected that last year's entry of the Davis Cup by March. By play- ite-could not shake off his young op- All-India L.T.A.
69 will be passed. It is likely that ing in the Riviera tournaments I ponent.
He says that the Davis Cup caters R. G. Inglis, Kingston Grammar shall be able to see how I am shap- It was an affair of life-saving re-
At the sixth hole of the for men's singles and doubles, and School, London, who won the title ing. There are, however, a lot of covery shots. match, starting the wrong way round, the Wightman Cup for women's last year, and who also captained things to be taken into considera- Beck hooked a brassie shot round his events, but there is no world mix-the Scottish boys' international tion before I can decide about the neck, then played a wonderful pitched doubles event. He suggests that team, will be forward to defend his future.-H. W. (“Bunny") Austin. from the jungle, and, holing the putt for a 4, won the hole, which he seemed the tournament should be on modi- title. almost certain to lose.
MAGNIFICENT SHOT
fied Davis Cup lines with an inter- This tournament, which has al- national elimination tournament to ready proved an excellent nursery Then, at the short 17th, Pennink, be played in the country of the ground for budding Scottish golf who took a No. 1 iron, was bunkered holders and in which each countryers, carries with it the Addie on the left of the green. Playing સ
Championship Cup and gold medal. magnificent explosion shot a yard from could enter its team. the pin, he won the hole in 3. Again The mixed doubles event in the The runner-up receives a silver at the 9th (actually the 18th) he push-national championship of the hold-medal and the semi-finalists bronze er would be recognised as the world mixed doubles championship.
holes in four under 4's, and won four of them. In the boisterous wind this was a great effort
ed his drive into a nasty place on a hillock, but a wonderful iron shot pro- duced a 4 and an invaluable half.
Fortune favoured Pennink, for when the match had become desperate he laid his opponent the cruellest of stymies. Pennink was thus 1 up for the first time, and there were four Martin's golf was even more stupen- holes to play. Missing the green at dous in the next round, in which he the short hole, Beck was beaten 2 and beat J. F. Blackwell by the big margin of 6 and 4. His figures for the match
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GREATEST GOLF of all
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A dazzling performance was given Out, 3 5 3 3 4 4.5 24; in, 44.8 5 3. by D. H. Martin in beating J. Barring- Therefore, for the 19 consecutive ton Ward by 5 and 4. Martin, another holes, including both matches, Martin player of the younger generation, and was eight under 4's. Without
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for entry forms Applications should be sent to G. A. Boothby, Golf Club, North secretary, New Berwick, on and after February 15.
who
Another badminton player will be missed during the Champion ships this season îs S. A. Gray, form- er hon, secretary of the Association, who appears to have given up the game. Last year Gray played an im- portant role in organising the first championships held in the Colony.
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One thing I particularly admire'· about table tennis administration in this country is the strict adherence of the officials to the creed that table tennis is, first, last, and al- ways a sport, and should not be ex- ploited as a medium for any theatri- cal kind of entertainment, nor for any forms of cheap publicity.-Clif- ford Webb.
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It the authorities are convinced that the best interests of the game will only be served by restricting hooking to the middle man's far foot, they must say so plainly, and have done with it. The present con- fusion is harmful, and, more than...... that, absurd-Howard Marshall.
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* You cannot call bowls a sport, be- cause it is not a sport. It is merely a game for those who are not so agile as they used to beAlderman T. V. Reb- beck, Bournemouth Deputy Mayor, who is a golfer.
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Of all living players in that posi- tion (stand-off half), H. Lind is the one who moves fastest and most directly to his objective. His start- ing and acceleration are those of a track sprinter. Jinking and swerv. ing play small part in his artifice, Only an occasional side-step lends evasiveness to his darting penetra- tion. The punt ahead he rarely em- ploys. The widely popular crime of punting to touch to the plaudits of the ignorant is anathema to him. His mind works faster than any play I have seen.-Peter Lawless.
SPORTS CHATTER
(By "REFEREE")
E. Souza, brother of George Souza, the brilliant young Grafge gowe cricketer, has been under medical advice to refrain from playing cric- "ket. He has now improved ? con-
siderably and hopes to hesable turn out for his team, Craige juniors; In the near fil
C. N. da Silva, of Club de Recreio and former Victoria Recreation Club badminton player, gave a bril- Hant display in the A2 Division of the Men's Donbles Badminton Loa gue last week, when he substituted for M, A. Oliveira in the matcli against King'a: College.
K. S. Liew and €. H. Soon, bads. ** minton pioneers from Hong • Kong University, will be missed → the Colony Championships this season They are sitting for their final ex- aminations shortly and are spend- ing most of their leisure hours with textbooks instead of badminton". rackets.