THE CHINA MÄIL, SATURDAY, JUNE
19, 1954,
LEAGUE BOWLS
Crucial Matches Today In All
Three Divisions
By
“TOUCHER”
A number of crucial matches in all the three divisions will high- light the week-end Lawn Bowls League matches this afternoon.
Claiming most interest in the First Division will be the encounter at the Valley between the current Champions, Recreio “Blues", and the glant-killing Police Recreation Club,
The Recruo bowlers are still twens to be slightly the better | The Third Division will see Beklug the wrands of their 2-3 siklo and will I expect, bring the clash of all the four top
her four points,
(01
Avfeat by
KOY Last week and this aft PITY will often pay- chological moment for the todius of the law to lengthen the serving of brilliant BUCCISMO they have achieved thus scarvit
The
Patters
bowlers'
Further
4-1
WILH
"White" the Recrei www striking a downward trend, Kowloon Cricket Club shod And little difficulty a malntain- ing their unbeaten record when the two teams clash at Recreio,
of
triumphs over the Itcerria A 5-0 margin la not unlikely. und the Kowloon the fifth point depending on the Bowling Green Vlith are ampleuidity of Hong Sling's" runk to
roof that they are
th better capable of have
thear anything
Bet own greenponents, stick the Chartspots will have to be in ten tomm to avond dis- funt.
FRONT MEN WILL COUNT
The
Must Bod depend ON ability of the Police frmar un T We heard her own against the a
2 protave spponents.
The Brerena Loworry
Jay PX
tremtie 4411 when they rid the but haver a totalem 3 to mark when forced on the defensive
The Puller fowlers will peut- ubly find it more profitable not to matchi their opponents safe and careful piny bmit to ge
for high scoring wheney they
have the chatice.
ir they manage to
The renting First Divialon match between Filipino Club and Kowloon Dock Club of
Kine Park
will
probably
Il Filipino bowlers chalk up their Best win of the seasoUI.
SHO
The Duckmen will undoubted- ly be greatly handicapped by the shorter Binn normal green un which they will have to play and this may prove to be the main factor in what may turn out fo narrow victory for their
hosts.
SECOND DIVISION
In the Second Division, two |
the
contenders, strongest
Hecreio and Indian Recreation | Club, will clash ng Sookunpuro. chack up This is expected
teams. Lengue-leading IRC should, however, have the better of Hongkong Electele by a 4-1 KCC and FC may be much more margtu, but the game between
closely emtested with the final decision going to the Club.
TODAY'S GAMES
First Division
PRO V
Cricket
Recreio Blues" Recreto "Whites" v KCC THC v. Ce
KV KIX
KUGC (Bvei
Second Division
SHC v. ROC IR Recreio HKCC v. HKP KBGC v. PRO
Third Division
HIKER v. IRC CCC v. USRC KCC v. FC UKFC v. PRC
LEAGUE STANDINGS
P W D L Pu 340
First Division
be all
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Murs"
Whites
Khúc
F
<2014 of the Reerrio rink. there extremely close game with the
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Their
istue depending on the form of coming through with a 3-2 win
the day. Green advantage will - otherwise it may mean a 3-0 probably ve the Indians
slight edge and a 3-2 win.
defeat.
A match with a non tant a
At Talkoo, the gradually
bearing on the final destination | improving Taikoo rinks will kuc of the Divison Championships | take on Craigengower in another
Etern
is thut between the two pread blose moth. The Valley howICTS Valley Club Craipenyewe and sturen a good 4-1 win over KCC] NREC Indian Recreation Club,
last week-end but still have to show improvement in adapting th themselves to away greens.
Both are well in the runum for the 1 and a deviseve defent for either world praefically all "Ansh" to all their aspirations, On Custeni
Jorm. Cruisang
There's never been
a soap like
WRIGHTS!
UNRO TC
the Taikoo kee Playing against
also knoë squad, they will probably
**T*
Second Division
have to contend with another factor-and that is not to be auf- talked by their opposing opponents or skips!
Third Division
Production of their last week'sixEnr form shaald enable the Craigeti- | VS8C Lower howlers to come out at PRC
Cr heart with a 3-2 win.
Tar KOC FC
SKIPS
K. Budi
(PRC)
KFC
TABLES
FIRST DIVISION
J.A, Luz (Ree. "B"1
Shots
Shots
P
W. D. L
T A (1 D
Pls
4
0 0 97
01 36
3
0
2 121 67
34
A. E. Conte (CCC)
J.P.V. Ribeiro (Rec. "")
5
Q 2 113 70
34
3
3
0
89 72
17
E. Baker (KCC)
£1
42
J. N. Wong (KCC)
13
0
48
33
15
A. A. Lopes (Rec)
45
14
A. M. Omar (IRC)
07
J. E. Noronha (Ree. "B"
Q
48 37
A. E. Elliott (KDC)
£4 75
J. McKelvie (KBGC)
1)
40 56
0
2
78
60
0 1
04
21
0 2 72 82
2
4
3
0 2
71
BU
17
2
S. Landolt (CCC)
GOAL TAR
BOAP
C. R. Rosselet (CCC)
R. Basa (PC)
C. A. Danenberg.
(Rer. "W")
SECOND DIVISION
Place the peg
This idea is surprisingly effective, two to three inches in front of the ball. If you are striking "down and through" properly the club will take the ball and the peg every time.
If you are doing that your shot isn't far wrong. If you miss the peg you are hitting the ball too much
on the up swing. Keep your eye on the ball.
First Man Ever To
Play Test Cricket
For Two Countries
By ARCHIE QUICK
When Hafeez Kardar led Pakistani's cricket eleven at Lords for the first Test Match between his country and England he became the first man ever to play for two countries against England.
His original appearances were as Abdul Hafeez for India under the captaincy of the late Nawab of Pautadi in the 1946 series, and, incidentally, it was in that match that Alec Bedser began his great Test Match career with a debut of eleven wickets to his credit, Kardar was one of his vletims —–—– for a "duck".
for
Get Down To The Ball
-How Not
To Top It
By BERNARD HUNT
The topped shot is one of the horrors of all bad golf. We all know it and we all hate it. For most long handicap players—especially Jailen–the main reason la psychological the fear of not being able to get the ball up. 'As a result the right hand is brought into the shot at the very last minute to attempt something like a scooping action.
That scoop immediately throws the player's weight back on the right foot and nine times out of ten the head of the club comen up so quickly that the leading edge strikes the ball somewhere about half way up. The shot we all know as the "thin" one is in the same category as the badly topped shot; It is merely lucky not to be very badly topped.
But all of this
class of shot | They feel they will drive it Into | my Irons, at the address, I have have the same basic fault-hit- the ground or tear 11 into two my hands slightly ahead of the
pieces, Bellove me, you will ball.
ting the ball on the upswing. have already referred to the not the anything of the sort, psychological cause which pro- Junt
watch how your pro- duces much of the trouble. But fessional tears into the ball he there are a number of common hits. The way to ruin and out physical causes too. Bad timing your ball is to keep hitting I
onc. Then there is the silly on the upswing. but easily acquired habit of hli- ting the ball from too much of important thing. 1 simplify
The position of the buil is an
* | by hitting every
merely move my
um
the left foot. You might even be standing loo far away from the ball at address,
Or swaying On the backswing. Or, the "scoop" hitting without the proper transfer of weight-in other words hitting off the back Σουι.
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shot play from opposite my left heel. I right foot it little closer to my left as the shots and cluba become shorter.
the
A little idea which has help- ed endless friends of mine to get over their topping problema
shown
When in this picture. you are practising skols off the fairway, put a tee peg into the
About Iwo
threo ground inches in front of the ball,
to sweep Idea then should be the peg away as well as the ball when you play your shot.
or
The
'Don't look at the peg: keep But it I know that eventually, when your eye on the ball.
you are striking properly and om playing a short pitch, bail seca
club through to be dead between making the
the right properly you will take the peg my feet or even oll PRACTISE BEFORE MIRROR
beel. But that is merely
Blu-automatically. With your steep-
The best
sion and because the right footer irons it will probably be in way to inf your
has been brought up. I think your divol. If you achieve particular fault, and the cure,
1 helps to simplify an already That you is to try a self analysis by going
will find that your through your swing. with
difficult game to hit constantly weight and other striking prob- club, in front of
from the same point. With all lems won't be far out. #mirror. You might be very surprised at the of your sway, O be Amazed to see how far
forward the ball is when you address it. If you And these fault, you can surt them out. For it is easy enough to swing and pivot without that sway once you are aware of the fact that you are doing it.
But I have found that it is leas get the easy to get people to "feel" of correct weight trans- ference if they have been letting their weight fall back fut tou long. But has to be dune. For In good shot it is essential that
your weight should be over braced left side at the point of Impact. Never, nover, never should you be back on your right fool.
ม
Technically I believe this is
governed by your hip position. you must pivat on your LEFT leg and hip and
As you come through in the shot
Love And Putting
By HENRY LONGHURST
Amid the recent notable events at Muirfield nothing the sight of the so much intrigued the watchers as Amateur Champion trying to retain ble title-and very nearly doing so-by putting with a number three fron.
The only comparable instance which I can recall was when Mr Bernard Darwin, aided, it is true, by a lady partner of some distinction, won the Worplesdon four- somes putting with a mashie, grasping it down by the neck and urging the ball forward in a series of hops, as in tiddlywinks.
It was he, incidentally, described Tony Armour liot un your "non-chalantly" holing
three-and-a-half-foot putt win the 1031 Open ut noustle.
thrt
who
It has been proved beyond as reasoriable doubt that the most lils deadly pulter is on ordinary to carpenter's Hammer. It's, alos, Car-Illegal, but with this perhaps in mind many people have tried little one-handed putters,
Armour himsoli, however, writes in his book that he does
not so much as recall the putter hit the ball, his wife, who WBS 10
RIGHT or, with less technical- ity, especially for your iron shots, have your weight rather more on your loft foot than your right all through the shot, Siner then the Paktiskan 1 stand-in) were metaphorically
Another way to help you skipper has played for Oxford rubbing their hands with relish prevent the fall-back is to get University-three times In the at the possibilities.
the feeling that you have to hit
ball It was announced thuring the down and through the loter-Varsity Kunicand Warwickshire, but he is still day that the players who toured as indeed you have instead of gallery, said that he "went up bent double over their putts.
to the putt, laid his putter be the West Indies last winter hed | attempting to pick it up. only 28 years of age.
received
hind the ball, changed his grip He was captain
yet of the team
good the idea into your raind that conduct bonus. which won the Test Match at
It is a private the club is there to get the ball from the putting grip he had Madras against the MCC in the affair, of course, and will never into the air and if you attempt used on every other green winter of 1051-52, and then he be made publie, but I wonder to scoop you merely defeat the the championship, stiffened up.
whole
club and rolled the But if all of them wil get it
object of
the maker. So resolve to hit down hole," and through, waking n divot AFTER striding into the buck of the ball, and you will find a new joy in your whole game.
DOWN AND THROUGH
announced his retirement. he has come back.
He is a lecturer of history at the Pakistan Air Force College at Risalpur, bus scored 3,000 runs in English county cricket and taken over 250 wickets with his spinners.
ONE OF YOUNGEST EVER
not
their
Their Work Is
Never Done
it
I know that some people get afraid of this instruction to hit down and through the bull.
20 ROUNDS
AGAIN?
Joe Turnen won the Metro- seeing politan Open this way and for while a while had half the golfing the population of New York State
Many will know how in- fallible it is, for a while, if you look at the holo instead of the No sooner has the ball appeared within one's sphere of vision than it pops into the hote. Bobby Cruickshank made this great discovery, years ago and BEYOND GOLFERS
opened
a tournament with 67 and 08. In the third round he Infinite is the number of com- did an air shot with his first binations of putter, stance, grip putt, hit the ball twice with his
brull
in to
the
and method by which even the second mighty have tried to overcome ave putts. the simplest stroke in
more one
Bolt
and Anished up with
BRIGHTEST IDEA
The
more one see of them, the
to inclines Armour's belief that "Love and Then there was Harry Cooper, putting are mysterics for the who had perhaps the brightest philosophers to
Both idea of all. solve.
He had a pair of glassos modo that caused the and hole to appear elliptical and as
subjects are beyond golfers."
Some play
Periodically there is Abo in the visiting party in Khalid Hussan, a leg break and stir in the Soccer world over for the google bowler, who, at sixteen | repeated demands years of age,
of the removal of is one
the Football youngest cricketers ever to play League Headquarters from in a first class match at Lords. Preston to London.
England pald Pakistan the compliment of fielding their
Through it all, the authorities strongest available side at Lords
in the County Palatine remain (less Bedser through indispost- tion), but it is understood that unperturbed and manage boxing contest to prove modern twitch"
and Aghters stamina. It may arouse their affairs
efficiently experiments will be made now
without fuss, as is instanced by nostalgia in old flatic faps but that the first Test has been won their well-organised preparations modern school. It is nearly 28 Ittle enthusiasm among the
art
the
Allied with a
play right-handed putt left-handed - and vice big as the proverbial bucket. versa. Some rely on the pendu Unhappily it remained but four lum stroke, while others know and a quarter inches and the A New York promotor is enld that if they break their wrists glasses are no more. to be staring a twenty rounds they will immediately get
natural sym- pathy at seeing a soul in tor- ment there is a certain fiendish Some use the ordinary grip joy in witnessing the missing some clasp their hands over
af a short putt by a great man, each other os in prayer, while Young men are to be blooded for a new season's football,
Sarazen swears by the "after- Here we are today, almost years ago November 1928 to be for the Australian tour to come,
40 finger-the right index
Within 20 minutes Bulla. the echoes of the old exact-when the last champion- and established stairs will stand before
Cotton and Locke all missed the finger pointing down the shaft. in the Soccer season have entirely died ship 20-rounder was fought in nside. The MCC
down, with fixtures of the Foot-England and that was when Kid
Others, as a glance at some dame pult of less than a yard on dilemma of wunting to give
Pattenden knocked out Young for 1954-55 for
of the instruments
which the last green at St. Andrews. younger men a trial, but at the ball League
Johnny Brown in the twelfth people have sent to the Royal Even the mighty Hogan missed same time they do not wish to general perusal.
round at the NSC for the ban-
and Ancient to "see if they are American
a three-footer to tio, for the the run
risk of losing to
They are complete except for tamweight title. The Board of
legal and which now lle in the more, never looked like, touch-
Open and further Pakistan.
the gaps to be filled in after the Control was instituted the next
museum will show, pin their Most disappointed man annual election of clubs for the year and restricted champion-
faith in eccentric wespons Lords was Bedser. He had four vacancies in Division III, ships to 15 rounds. withdrawn through lack of and this is virtually a formality.
One bright Inventive "genius I would give much, to have match practice after injury and
even produced one with a sort been present when Archie Comp then the first day's play was
of periscope on top, for sight-
one in 'missed n'short Bodser said that washed out.
ing the hole.
some tournament, I believe at schoolboy broke Armour himself invented the Leeds, and had an additional day's rest, he settled and clubs promoted and the Yorkshire and England all
silence with пл would have nominated to play.
of its day, the awed "I am practically alright" he relegated become known.
and now cannot hit his hat with audible "Coo, I could Hole that the only
myself," sald after stumps had been volved if varying local cond!- cricketer-golfer who swings a
Striding across the green and drawn for the day, "and this is tions, such as half-day closing, golf club the
opposite
way He won the US. Open with towering enormously over the just the wicket I would have ancient customs peculiar to an round to which he hoids one he had borrowed a few wretched boy,
* Compston Is liked to bowl upon."
B.. Bickford (HKFC)
#
1 130 18 32
A.A. dos Remedios (REC) A
1 100 70 27
S. L. Leonard (CCC)
84
02
22
3. B. Buxter (T.C)
03
34 49
103
If he had known he would have
40
110 68 63
130
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was certainly the most area and holiday habits, are to ticket bat? Brian bats left- | days before, and a fortnight alleged to have hauled' hair to be considered for the particular handed, bowls right and is a later was so bad with it that he his feat, thrust the putter Into 2 bedraggled scene the great convenience of the clube con- Ighthanded golfer. Also in the cricket enclosure had ever pro- cemned. Quite a work of art is Yorkshire team this season are sonted. The wicket was almost the Preston headquarters' neat two other ambidextrous players, a quagmire and bowlers Laker, | avöldance of fixture clashes by Victor Wilson and Willie Wardle and Tattersall: (Bodser's neighbouring rivals:-
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