THE CHINA, MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1952.
GREAT INTERNATIONAL BATTLE FORESHADOWED FOR BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
Lytham, Lancashire, July 8.
A great international battle for the British Open Golf Championship is fore shadowed by the performances in the 36 holes qualifying Teal which ended on the Royal Lytham and St. Anne's and Fairhaven courses today.
Ninety-six players with aggregates of 152 or better survived for the Cham- pionship proper which atarts tomorrow morning at Lytham where four rounds will be played.
After the second on Thursday, a maximum of 50 players forward for the final two rounds on Friday and only scoren in these four rounds count for the Chiamplonchip.
Those of yesterday and today we washed out, having served their purpose of reducing the original entry to a maximum of 100.
There were 14 players, in cluding the Egyptian Champion. Hassan Hassanein, on the 133 mark, but as they would have made a total of over 100 all had to be eliminnied.
The line form displayed by so many of the
With 60 at Lytham today he been thankful, but few if any
deliberate at finished with an aggregate of have made any 134, two strokes ahead of Harry tempt to "burn up the course",
that Bradshaw, Elre's main hope, knowing so long as who, in turn, was closely fol- qualifying place was gained the lowed by the reigning Open score was of secondary impor- Champion, Max Faulkner, and the Match Play Champion, Hurry Weetman, locked together at 134.
Tben, Reg Horne (Britain) and 50-year-old Gene Sarazen (United States), who won the le 20 years ago, are a stroke BWBY with Antonio Cerda (Argentina), and Peter Thomson (Australia) both at 139.
Lance.
Tomorrow, with every stroke
counting, it will be different,
LEADING SCORES
Leading scores in the qualify Ing rounds follow:
134-John Panton-00 (Fair- haven), 68 (Lytham).
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130-Harry Bradshaw (ot
(Fairhaven), (Lytham).
Elre)-65 International
stors with many scores in the 60's pugura well for sume "hot" scoring from tomorrow.
Qualifying SCOTES mean nothing apart from revealing the men In form, but the honours went to John Panton, the Scot, who not so long ago hind successful tour in South Afrlea,
Not too far away were Bobby Locke (South Africa) and Flory (Belgium) to add Van Donck strength to the thought of the thefiling many-nation battle
which la promised.
Many competitors have ob- viously played sale in these two qualitying rounds. It good scures have come they have no doubt
"L" For Learner
By HENRY
LONGHURST
London.
For the first time in England a golf tournament has been shown on television. True, we have had one or two the short "made-up" programmes before, but this was first time that the experts had been shown netually in the process of earning their daily bread.
My suggestions that those of us concerned in this episode, at Wentworth, should carry a large red "L" on our backs was turned down by the authorities.
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big-fight From the golfers point of sport. If I were 1
Inclined vision it may be said to have promoter, I should be
full, the
to say: "It every sent is whole, not been, an failure. What were the re- televise my fight for a nominal
infee. If it in not, pay for octions of the housewives the subsidised houses from empty seats." which television
nerials seemi
to sprout like asparagus, only listeners' research will show. I
should imagine them to
been bored,
On the other hand we hoping that we may
managed at least 1
PGA DID WELL
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the
have The PGA did well, I am
sure, both for their
members
and for the game, to allow this
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137Max Faulkner (holder)... G9 (Lytham), 68 (Fairhaven)- and Harry Weetman-08 (Ly- tham), 69 (Fairhaven),
138 Reg Horne--71 (Lytham), 67 (Fairhaven)--and Gene Sara- zen (United States)-00 (Fair haven). 09 (Lytham).
130 Antonio Cerda (Argen- line) - 68 (Fairhaven), 71 (Lytham), Peter Thomson (Austraila)--09 (Fairhaven), 70 (Lytham),
142 Bill Shankland — 89 (Fairhaven), 73 (Lytham), Std Ser-70 (Fairhaven), 72 (Ly- tham), Dobby Locke (South Africa)-70
(Lytham), (Fairhaven); and Norman Sut- 1972 (Lytham). 10 (Fair- haven)
72
143 P. Mills-71 (Folr- haven), 72 (Lytham)—and Eric
Brown-73 (Lytham), 70 (Fair- haven).
144-H. W. Myers-72 (Fair- haven), 72 (Lytham), Ken Beckelt-73 (Fairhaven), 71 Von Donck (Lytham); Flory (Belgium)71 (Fairhaven), 73 (Lytham).
145-Norman Von Nida, Fred Daly and three others.-Reuter.
Governing Body
are tournament to be televised It For Hong Sports
have will have done much to stimu- establish late Interest in golf.
for
Perhaps
I
the principle that such events may quote as an example two as the Walker and Ryder Cup of the technicians operating the matches and the Open Chum-vanloads of cabies, tubes, valves, lonship, with vastly bigger screens and other unintelligible crowds than
at Weni- worth, will in future rate television.
were
for
of
THE DIFFICULTY
The difficulty golt; course, as against cricket, lawn tennis and the Boat Race, is to maintala continulty. At Went- worth the producer. Craxton, gat round
this
by
enter-
Suggested
the
A meeting to discuss formation of a representative
unphernalia
of television. It Council of Business House to be a lovely place. Sports Associations is being they said, and a most
called by Mr J Strachan of the talning game and,, as anyone Dairy Form Sports Association could apparently play it, they and Mr H. van Echten of the intended to start. They
ca Royal Inter-Ocean Lines (RIL)
Sports Club. hardly have been alone in this reaction.
On
д
Thursday evening Anthony special competition was laid on though for half-an-hour and, a long hele followed this was not the real thing, and oft, like the execu- entirely
"without
at
a short one. and, with the did not go by a puire starting
six-minute intervals and with long-range
Owe were grateful to the
A
It is the view of these two
past many
or
nort
★ ☆ ☆ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★ ★
Mr & Mrs TV Explain
Why The Family Fad
Booms In Show Business
By DAVID LEWIN
Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy London....and (TV-screened (above) in
viewing below) as America's
millions see them "washing their clean timen in public."
THE current fad for putting
the
not
on
family into show business, is confined to Britain. In America it is. zooming at an alarming rate.
A sample "bride and groom act" New to London last week to show how It works British TV and at the Pailodium. Their names. Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, betler known here for records like "Life Gets Teejus." With a long list of other professionals at the "Mr and Mrs" game (Lucille Ball and hus band the Steuart Erwins, the Charles Ruggles) they put the family on porade weekly on American TV.
Husband Peter keeps getting into mischief;
and
is chided by wife Mary for the benefit of the
millions. They sing a bit, too, Wie saurie impersonations give
Why did they deelde to work together? Frankly, Mary Healy-blonde, 34 years old --- says: "After the war we were just emotionally apart. Had we not made a team there would no Innger have been a marriage."
Flynn-style
BEFORE ANYONE includes
Errol Flynn
In the Danny Kaye ("We know all about him") class, let me present a side of the Flynn character suspected but not reported in the records of his more bizarre activities: The man is just loaded with charm.
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