GREATEST GOLFER ALIVE
Fine Tribute Paid Byron Nelson
He's admired by every person who knows the difference between a brassie and a niblick.
Fellow pros call him the greatest golfer alive. Newspapermen write about his competitive spirit, his powers of concentration on the course.
Yet he is a "stranger" to all,t
An American Correspondent re- fers
Byron Nelson, 1939 champion, Open
to
National
1940
P. G A. titleholde.. and recent off the Miami $10,000
Winner
Open tournament Nelson, for three years
professional at the
Reading Country
Club, now
located at Inverness Country Club, Toledo, 0.
Nelson probably is the most misunderstood professional TA the big time erreu They say he Is uppish, they say $1 Tacks
colour, they say he makes a bad
impression me
the gallery.
Not Uppish
The Janky Texan is anything
but uppish.
got
In a small city like Reading. where Nelson really
his start, 1 sports writer gets to He know the golf professionals.
rounds with plays a
of couple them very month,
Members of the Reading club
COLONY TOURNEY DRAW
Following is the draw for the Colony Tennis Championshups and| Cub Championship.
The Tournament will start next
week.
Open Singles
Byes
saw hum develop from a pro- Tor, SA Rumjahn v C. Dunne
mising
golfer to the young
that National Open champion in
When he left Reading, period. he was the same Byron Nelson
to the who came
city in 1937, flushed with his Arst important victory, the Augusta Masters.
There's a good story back of Nelson's rapid rise to fame, Four years ago they used to say the
lacked angular youth down.
MOXI
Stanley Giles, chairman of the greens committee at the Reading club, took Byron aside one day in 1937 in the pro shop.
"I've seen
Lee
VA
1. M A. Razack v S. Y
or Lt. Shields Goodinats. First Round: ( S. Crawford; George Choa v T. J Gould Tsui Wai Pui v O. Răm-
Ka Lan v K. H. Yipi Jahn. Ho Capt. R E. Guest v Pang Of Lam, S. T. Chau y Wei Chung: 0. Ume- tani & M. Pagh: W. J. Howard v HD Rumjahn; Fung Yer Pur or Kenneth Lo v Paul Kong.
Bye Tsu Yan Pui v C. H. R Oxinde.
Open Doubles
Byes M. Pagh and Lt. Shields every leading pro Goodman v Ho Ka Lau and K. H. in the country play and right Yip; B. O'M. Deane and A. T. Dow now I think you're the best v W. J. Howard and A. Kitchell.
Belleves. Self
shotmaker in the game, Giles First Round:-George Choa and told Byron. There is no reason A. V. Remedios v A. H. Harris and why you shouldn't win every H. J. Armstrong; O. Umetani and tournament in which you parti T. Imura v T. C. Monaghan and cipate.
Theobald You con beat any ofT. J. Gould; Lt. J. S. these stars."
and Capt. P. J. Skipwith v I. M. A. Razack and A. R. Minu; Ken- neth Lo and Lee Ming v H. D. and S. A. Rumfaln; F. H. Kwok and T. E. Ling v/Paul Kong and Fung Yee Pui; W. C. Hung and E. C. Fincher v Wei Chung and S. T. Chau; C. H. R. Oxlade and Dr. A. H. Barwell or Tsul Yan Pui and Tsui Wai Pui v Capt. R. E. Guest and B. C. Fay.
and Lee
Giles kept drumming that in Nelson week after week until he had Nelson believing it himself. No longer was he a flash in the pan.
WEEK-END SOCCER PROGRAMME
Saturday
SCRIBE ASTOUNDED AT ANTICS OF
U.S.A. OFFICIALS
By Charley Paddock
(Publisher, The "Pasadena Star-News," One-Time "Fastest Humɑn")
than less rather But it was done, [
the
After all the years I have been before 100,000 n amateur sports as a competi- than 20.000, tor and as an observer, I shoul-assure you, all in the interests of dn't by rights be surprised. by amateurism.. anything any of the officials do. Finally, that the boys might be Following are the soccer fixtures But i guess r'n never grow up. looked atter in the "right" way, for the week-end:
The antics of the amateur officials the conference decided that those
players who continue to amaze ing.
competed in Let us consider that dignified Rose Bowl might be given $50 for the opinion group known as the Pacific Coast their services, if in Conference. The boys got them- of the college officials they would To have lost that much by not hav- selves a high commissioner, make sure no one would haveing a Christmas vacation job.
Al Masters, graduate manager why they aise illusions got him and what kind of police of Stanford, an A. A. U. official duties he was
to per- of many years standing, could He knew orm, trey hired a former G-man, not accept that one.
of that this constituted out-and-out
and professionalism
would be
FIRST DIVISION
V Kowloon (Sookunpoo, 4:30 p.m.)
Royal Scots
St. Joseph's
Club
V Navy (Navy ground, 4:30 pm)
Eastern (Club. 4.30
SECOND DIVISION
V
Kwong Wah
Club Chatham Road, 4:30 pm) Service Corps V Kowloon Joseph's, 4:30 pm) St South China
Royal บ
Scola (Caroline HIB, 439 p.m ) Kit Chee
Middlesex
V
(Club, 3:00 pm) Engineers
*
30th R.A. (Sookumpoo. 300 p.)
Sing Tao Navy ground. 3.00 p.m. }
Navy
V
THIRD DIVISION
V
Air Force
V 20th R.A. (Chatham Road, 3.00 p.) 35th R.A.
บ 24th R.A. (Stanley, 3.00 pm.) 7th R.A.
Engineers Military, 4.30 pm)
36th R.A. (Military, 3.00 p.m.) International V 12th R.A.
(St Joseph's, 3.00 p.113)
V Shell (Kowloon, 3.00 pm.)
R.A.M.C.
A.S.A.
น
Sunday
GOVERNOR'S CUP
บ
Amateur
Hong Kong Football Association
Hong Kong, Chinese Athletic Fédération. (Causeway Bay, 3:30 p.m.)
CIVIL SERVICE CRICKET
to
As
expected
IL
wus all in the interests mateurism.
and
To make sure everyone had proper grounds to bar any athlete. the money us worst suspicions realised, the whether he accepted
barred or not, so long as one player on out :-man went
the field did, from open amateur most
promising ul the Some
the competition either in this country players young tootball
from west
U.C.L.A., or abroad. attending California and Southern Califor- nia.
So Stanford, thanks to Masters. is safe, but that does not excuse the
Pacific Coast
are
of course.
in
the interests
of
Of course these youngsters the action of
They were no better and no woh se un Conference officials.
moving along their hundreds of other prep stars be still merrily
trail of inconsistencies, always, "rushed" ing
by over-eager alumni of these particular su tutions of higher learning, as well amateurism. as all the other members of the Pacific Coast Conierence. What has been accomplished by mak- ing "examples" of these boys and these particular colleges has not yet been explained. But it was all in the interests of amateurism,
Wrong Move
GOLF GOSSIP
(Continued From Page 14) The veterans' rubber-cores out- distanced the gutta-percha balls by 50 to 60 yards down wind, and by 80 to 90 yards against the wind, Bolger found his best drives, us- The Los Angeles Coliseum isually near 300 yards, reduced to the only stadium in that city large less than 200 yards. enough to stage outstanding athletic events. Professional ro-
and deos, ice carnivals
other play-for-pay shows are
Fairway Of Ice
often When records were produced,
held there.. But the conference | showing that one D: Rolland had refused to let the best profession- hit a gutty ball 235 yards in 1894 al football teams in the world use and that Edward Bliss had smack- the Coliseum even for a relief ed one 445 yards, Richardson sug- show. Why? Officials said it was gested that Bliss must have driven. not right for the amateurs to use down a fairway of ice. the same field as the professionals In flight, the balls' behaviour. even on different days, weeks and was irreproachable until they be- months. Yet conference teams gan to lose shape after a dozen play elsewhere throughout the holes. Then they wobbled, ducked The payoff came in the 1939
land on fields where professional and dived like snipe, especially National Open
against the wind; at Spring Mill,
football teams also cavort.
The real answer, of course, is Gutta-percha balls have only Philadelphia. It was during the Byes-Pang Oi Lam
following will represent
U.C.L.A.
the
the modern type: and
one thing over second round of
72 holes. Kam Ming v B. and I. Agafurofl: Civil Service in a First Division that U.S.C., the Nelson had been having trouble T. A. Martin and E. G. Matthias League cricket match against In-conference teams which annually No matter how gashed and mis- nt the Los Angeles shapen they get, plastic surgery closing G. W. Sewell and D. M. Mac-dians on Saturday: J. E. Richard- meet them Wes
professional can restore their good looks. All Dougall. fraction of a
son (Captain), K. J. Attwell, F. Coliseum are afraid
that has to be done is to soften second too soon, Work on the
Baker, W. H. Colledge, T. V. N. football might be popularised in practice tee disclosed the fault.
the expense of them in hot water, put them in a Fortescue, R. H. Griffiths. B, C. K. the southland. at
and repaint them.- Following Nelson, Ed Dudley and
Hawkins, D. McLellan, A. E. Per- college pay if the pro teams had mould,
a chance to show their Henry Picard that afternoon, we
wares (Christian Science Monitor). ry, N. Whitley, A. M. J. Wright.
with his irons the blade just
a
Club Championship
H. Van Leeuwen v G. W. Sewell;
spoke with the big buy at the T. A. Pearce e C. H. R. Oxlade;
seventh tee.
V. R. Gordon v A. K. Mackenzie; M. A. Bierens de "I found the trouble; nothing F. W. Carter v will stop me now; I'm going to Hann; P. J. Elder v T. C. Monag- win this tournament,” Nelson han; R. E. Guest y J. Stirling Lee: confided. And from that point! H. J. Armstrong V A. H. Barwell until the final putt on the last T. J. Gould v M. Pagh. hole in the playoff with Craig Wood. Nelson hit every shot like
a champion,
To-day the experts admit Nel- son is the greatest competitor in golfdom. It took a long time.
Nelson is big news in Reading al-
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team, not yet nominated:-Walk- den; Needham, Carruthers, Mil ner and Didsbury; Aitkenhead and Morgan; McEwan, Dunnett,!" Moodie, Dalziel, Attwell, Castle- ton, Godfrey and Olsen....
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