THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 5, 1938.
OUR LONDON AIR MAIL SPORTS NEWS
Test Teams At Dance
Members of the English and Aus- tralian teams playing in the First Test match at Nottingham went to a dance. They visited a dance hall in the city to watch a presentation to the Aus- tralian team manager, Mr. W. H. Jeanes, who is a native of Nottingham, and whose parents emigrated to Aus- tralia when he was two years of age. The hall occupies the site of the house, --demolished
some years which he was born.
ago-in
Mr. Jeanes was presented with a silver cigarette case from the people of Nottingham, and with a mantelpiece clock from cricket supporters of the city and county.
Presenting the clock, Sir Albert Ball, an ex-Lord Mayor of Notting- ham, said that Mr. Jeanes was a Town- Clerk in Australia, and added humor- ously that the Australian authorities had apparently thought it necessary to send a legal man in charge of their team.
Mr. Jeanes, in reply, said: "I am particularly fortunate in having in my charge, some very charming fellows like Don Bradman and all the others. There is really not, a man in the side who wants managing."
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Padgham 32 Out ··
But One Down
Percy Alliss was key man of the play in the. Professional Golf League tournament at Sandy Lodge.
He met in turn the two leaders, beat Reggie Whitcombe but could only halve with Bert Gadd, who headed the table by one point at the end of the day.
Scoring was again brilliant. Take, for example, Reggie Whitcombe's two matches. True he lost by 3 and 2 to Alliss, but the winner, though patting beautifully, needed an average of four under 4's to make sure of victory,
This was a mere candle light com- pared with the "fireworks provided by Reggie Whitcombe and Aff Padgham in halving their afternoon match.
Padgham, out in 32, was a stroke to the bad and turned one down, but sav- ́ed the game after being two down with
three-to-play....
Great golf on both sides. Scratch score is 75. Both players went round: in 65. They had between them five 2's and only one of these 2's won a hole.
From Brazil For Diamond Sculls
For the fifth consecutive year, E. C. Branco, champion sculler of Brazil, competed for the Diamond Sculls at Henley. If he had won (Burke, of America, won) 'it would have been a costly win as he has paid all his own expenses for the five years and has bought five new boats. He visited Britain earlier this year to get accustomed to the climate, and was trained under the able, guidance of Ted Phelps, whose father built the latest boat. Branco thinks he is the first sportsman from Brazil to visit Britain to compete in anything. Our photograph shows Ted Phelps giving a few hints to Branco before the latter set off on a trial spin at Putney. (Copyright, Fox).
Penfold League Golf Tourney
Percy Alliss Beats R. A. Whitcombe In Thrilling Finish
(By AIR MAIL).
June 18.
ALLISS (Templenewsam) won the Penfold. Professional
P.Tournament from ft. A. Whitcombe (Parkstone) and B. Gadd
(West Cheshire), at Sandy Lodge yesterday, by a point.
A disappointing day for Henry Cot- The finish was exciting, for at the end of his round Alliss was ton, at "outs" with his iron shots when beaten 2 and 1 by veteran Abe leading by only a point. He could only halve his match, so giving Mitchell, whose golf had the greater Whitcombe an opportunity of winning. Cotton, however, proved steadiness. Cotton halved with Dick the stumbling block, for he beat Whitcombe 2 up. Gadd then had a Burton in the afternoon, both players chance of tieing with Alliss, but R. Burton held him to the end to
halve.
round in 69.
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Mme. Mathieu Wins
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FINAL TABLE
The final table
P. Allies
R. Burton
A.-J. Lacey
T. H. Cotton
W. H.
Pts.
16
R. A. Whitcombe 7
15
B. Gadd
551
15
12
#12
12
S. L. King
11.
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A. H. Padgham
11
W. J. Branch
9
C. A. Whitcombe 3
A.. Mitchell
3
8
P. J. Mahon
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a seven-yarder for an eagle 3 at the fifth. Gadd also lost his chance when the match finished square.
GREAT DUEĽ.
Gadd and Burton had a great duel. Burton became 1 up for the first time at the eighth and turned
With six holes played, Alliss, ping dead from a bunker. The was all square with Mahon. Alliss next four holes were halved in 4, 3, won the first with a birdie 44. 4. It was a grand struggle, and Mme. R. Mathieu beat Mme. P. Landry 6-0, 6-3 in the final of the against a 6, and Mahon missed a the position was the same with nine women's singles in the French lawn short putt to lose the third. It les played. Halving the next with that advantage. Gadd squar- was Alliss's turn to make mis-four in 4, 3, 3, 3, Whitcombe was od length was accurate and of a takes at the fifth and sixth, and out in 32 against Cotton's 33 anded at the eleventh and won
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1.up.
COTTON'S WIN.
the
Cotton deprived R. A. Whitcom-the thirteenth: Gadd was nicely on
tennis championships.
good and her retrieving, was
next to regain his lead. The tur- also strong. Mme, Landry forced Mahon won both holes to square. her to run on many occasions, but Alliss took 34 for the first nine
ning point of the match arrived at Mme, Mathieu was ready to return the ball from every angle. She kept a holes to be 2 up. He took the
be of success, the Open Champion
the green in 2, while Burton was perfect length all through, while Mme, lead again at the seventh with a winning 2 up, and so Gadd had to over, but to the surprise of all Gadd Landry was either short or overdrove. birdie 2. when he holed a five-beat Burton in order to tie with required three putts and lost the Henri Pelizza created a surprise by feet putt, and he also took the Alliss for leading place. Whitcombe hole to be all square, instead of 2 beating R. Abdesselam 6-8, 6-2, 6-4 in the final of the junior singles: ninth with a birdie 3, again became. 2 up at the tenth after up, Burton fluffed a chip at the Donald Budgo (U.S.A.) beat R. getting from nearly two driving the green, and getting down fourteenth, and Gadd had another Menzel (Czecho-Slovakia), 6—8, 6-2,
in a bridie 8. yards. 6-4, in the final of the men's singles
He lost the twelfth opportunity, but Burton got on more, holing from seven and was stymied out of a half at Mahon reduced arrears at the the next Cotton took the lead at
holes were halved, and "both
round in 693
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ARREARS
terms
Northern Province, Sudan, who re- but at the fifteenth Alliss was still Whitcombe ruined any chance, he ceived the C.B.E, in the King's Birth-1 up. Mahon squared at the next, had by overhitting at the home day Honours, is a formier Scottish Rugby Internationalist. He was educa- and then pulled two shots into the hole where his tee shot finished at ted at Fettes College and at Cambridge rough at the seventeenth to be the back of the Green, and Cotton University. In 1909 he captained the dormy one down. Allies was | down Cambridge University XV against bunkared short of the home green the Oxford University. occasions for Scotland, and his brother and Mahon snatched a win to halve
W. D. C. L. Purves, Governor of tenth, holing out with a birdie 2, the sixteenth with a win in 5, and the dam sixteenth. The last
He played on six
A. Purves, was also an internation, the match. Ailise thus gained only tom silat.
Lou Ambers, the
one point, leaving R A. Whitcombe the
to beat Cotton in order to win the six oxing tournament.
thi
match blow
Whitcombe got the first
champlon of the world, cond"; do no
more than fight
at Los Angeles!!
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won the hole, for
THE FINAL SERIES
p. Alliss (Templenewsam), and Mahon (Royal Dublin), halved. TH. Cotton(Ashridge) beat Whitcombe (Parkstone), 2 up..
went ahead when Bur-
ft, for a half at Mitchell (Verlure). boat C.- hey were level with Whitcombe (Crews, Hill), 4 and 2.
A. J. Lacey (Berkshire) beat S. L Burton squared at the King (Knole, Park),.. birdle 2, and although Burton (Sale) and B. Gadd (West took the lead at the Cheahire); halved.
* W. J. Branchí. (Leicestershire) bes Burton-knocked in A. H. Padgham (Sundridge Park), ball," Burton Holed Jand 1.