THE
CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1956.
The greatest day of their lives
RYDER CUP CAPTAIN DAI REES TALKS TO GEORGE WHITING
H
AVING raised ♫ respectful hand to the bronze statuette of Harry Vardon in the leathery South Herta clubhouse at Totteridge I came upon the present in- cumbent-one David James Rees- dark little · man with the build of a rugby scrum-half (which he once was) and the kind of voice That sings to the world through the mists of the valleys of Wales,
Dul tees. Now here, I said lo myself, is the real golfer, the accomplished persuader of mall ball in Britcin, the fight- ing man, the belligerent ban-
the globe-trotter,
tam.
the
THEY SAID
HE HAD NO
CHANCE...
came
A
when
htt
year," shid Hees. "In a way it was a wonderful honour for any golfer, and made me feel very proud.
started fornia, last
44
1
and halves are not much use when you are five down and 14 to play.
"But then, my
I
pults began
going down us never before from every conceivable angle on each successive green. I holed the lot. Long ones, short ones, tram-rides everything
down,
to and I begin have the greatest day on the greens my golfer could wish
wont
for,
"Fron the Bfth to the 11th
I sonk putta that gave me a FUR of threes to reach all- Aquare, Dad WDS speechless with excitement.
"Then we came to the 12th. where the green is in a kind of with amphitheatre, doll. An the spectators looking down you like Romans witching lions mauling Christians.
од
"I play golf**
the about the game. I vrompt reply, "because my
one club that baffle of with Dad, who was the pro-
my Dad's fessional at Basry, gave me
"A ten, I was caddying for throw-bnek to the hickory
chilling round, plus Д (wooden spoon) Ituol. the ex-caddie whose baffle
"Bul told me to
man's peak achieve- I behaved Lip threepenny
"Ernie be the one
Whitcomb played a grassy exploits have brought I was six, and
myself.
andment must always Those one
good second shot, 20 feet from threepences made me feel rich, he brings off first, and I'm no
The Frealest the hole, My second was fair, "Which reminds me of but they kept me out when I exception..
fe of my
was that but I was only just on the little froc ckivice you might applied to play in the boys moment
day In September green, a good 30 yards from the like to pasa on. People championship. Too experienced, beautiful
when I won the match- hole. they have think
to have 1
So I turned pro- 1930 I was told.
championship to my play
at Oxhey, to start
assist: pit urmoury complete
was then playing golt. Very foolish. fother at Aberdare when I was Herts. I
new assistant at Gives everybody wrong ideas 15.
tum fane and forture, the res- anything I came ACTOSS, pect of opponents, the envy of week-end
whackers, the ilek- spiltle of lordlings.
Would
Mr Rees be so good 01 to define the greatest day of his golfing Hie? And why does he play golf, anyway?
fessional
as
22, the "That 12th green-1 can see Surbiton, li now-had a stigl fall from
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WELL WHAT D'YOU KNOW!
THE MIRACLES OF MAGNETISM
E
VERYONE likes to
play with a magnet.
The Greeks (who
for the ling downwards of a compass needle.
Due 10 this Influence, magnet suspended north of the towards the
coined the very word, mag- equator will dip
south. A
the the
net) dreamed of suspending worth, and on suspended south an iron object in midair of the equator will dip to the equator, with no visible means of magnet does not dip at all, and support.
over elther magnetle pole tt will stand upright ir ; is fre; to do
Dinocrates, 41) architect. so, designed a temple to the
Like the earth, magnets have ther end.
at
wife of Ptolemy 11, in which their "ootes"
opposite poles attracting and
steel
came
for
GOLFER DAI REES IN ACTION.
by
left to right, and I had a 'bor-
"In 1932, when I was 10, I and this was my first big win he hoped to suspend her similar poles, repelling. Industry
up to South Herts as a pro. An unforgettable day. row of some 10 to 12 feet on the <asistents'
"I championship. statue in space. His iden has found many uses for mag-
had tried several times the pult. But the ball travelled repulsion to separate
the before All 10 beat
without
a perfect qualifying for in
arc, disappeared was to have lodestones netle
they sheels so
сал be Being able
thought the final stages, end 1 had gone down the hole, and put me in members back home, I (pieces of mugnatic ore) picked up easily, for example.
the but through
week winning front for the first time in the to myself the cat's whiskers, built into the roof.
Electro-magnels are used
matches-as much
Every- match after 30 holes. collect fron and steel particles there must have been 50 scores odd
body seemed to go mad. Caps factory floors, to Bort better than mine, and I return-
in the fir-all that kind of and scrap,
to ed home with my tail between
thing. my lesson and I'd seen Harry Vardon!
little thought that, one day, I should follow him here as professional."
trom Mare mixed
even
The Greeks found lodestone in Magnesia, a district of donio, and so gave the name remove metal splinters from the my legs. However, I had learned **magnetism** Loree
10 the mysterious human eye. which the Chinese had been tinkering with since 27 "FISHING" BC.
Dinocrates's temple was never
luck as by judgment.
"Then, on that lovely Friday morning, I found myself In the the redoubtable ngtinst nal
no Ernest Whitcomb, and in time at all everybody could see that the occasion was too big for this exuberant but in- experienced Welshman.
"Whitcomb played me At lunch, 1 How was slapped-down Det the ground.
There's just no end to the had
his spotted
@gressive could
"Fishing" mugnets are used in
built. But some people believe oil wells to retrieve broken the Arabs succeeded with D shnilar project.
There is sald drills, and we sometimes read THE STRANGER
of the pollee using them
to be a magnetic vault next to the Grand Mosque in Medina, locate weapons in ponds Arabia, in which Mahomet is rivers. Suspended in a steel coffin.
to
and
"At the 18th I was two up. I lost the 17th, but a safe half in a par three at the 18th gave
the me
match. The crowd surged round in though I had won the Cup for Arsenal. I and lifted and was chaired into
Dulled
and pushed und was choved about-and there was what
to know that Immortal Vardon five down after 18 holes, and Ernie Whitcomb saying
tee no possible way of a fine start I'd made and telling kind of m to keep going. Grand
the steady In 1804, an American visitor
miracles of magnetism, It is Welsh-valley golf, singled it beating claimed he had succeeded in
usted in radio and TV, tele-out from the ruck of lesser golf Ernest was playing. geting Inside the vault and mak
phones, deaf aids and in those men's play, end tipped him as actually passed his sword around
ingenious devices which can Dfuture front-ranker? the floating coffin. I vibrated bring a train to a
halt Auto- much, he wrote, that Mahutnet
almost turned in his matically, when the signals are alry grave.
30
"REPELLANT" TOYS
at the danger.
Perhaps the most Interesting
sportsmen, the Whitcomb
"Oxhey
wis famous for its family. lunches, and despite the state of the game I did full justice
the roast beef and York- A PARTY
5) much for the Rees foundations - the fashioning
shire pudding. But it was. of a golfer who was to run-
pretty lonely lunch-nobody three times for the British up of all these modern marvels is Open rplinter records, chip wants to sit with the potent Only my ded and a few the transmission of torque, the chunks off averages, win the
close friends shared mation of twisting, when it
is malch play championship
rows. four times, and become the imposible to have a direct con-
Briton unly
ever to play in "Half to suspend an article in midair neetion between a driving shafl
Whether the vault exists or not, I
i is a theoretical possibility
loser.
never
my sor-
the
TAT
"Later that night we had on imprempit party back at Surbi ton. A wonderful day for a Itd of 22. Yes, a wonderful day, man, I felt like a millionaire." through way one that is driven. By
A Welsh millionaire. For Dat by balancing the force of gravity anxi
six Ryd:r Cup matches meal, a man whose identity 1 And means of magnets, this motion against America.
all the way to the a repelling force. against
came discovered
over Rec be transmitted into A magnets can, of course, repel us can
chamber
and said, 'Never mind, tonny. Post Office Savings Bank with towering sum, Better luck next time.'
bis £300 prize money. After vacuum or pressure well as attract,
a man have!
"That did it. Put my back all, a little man from Barry tough AD
up a bit, and I am reputed to who used to carry lesser men's clubs for a shilling a round can have told my unknown sym-
be
to know a thing expected play would con pathiser that this match
Dr
about safe stowage two used to make permanent sider iny greatest moment Anal was by no means over. which attracts the kiddies is a
four when tho real money begins to times more came when I was pleked cs "I managed the first magnetle police car which never magnets
than the best of the captain of
after Junch in
par trickle in Ryder Cup holes quile catches the bandit's car in powerful
older, carbon-steel ones, and a keam
Thunderbird, Call figures, but so did Whitcomb, lot of force is now packed into magnetism was a Dr William Hittle metal.
Among the work's oldest toys from the outside through a wall mits must such is "King Tut," the "corpse" of glass! which won't le down until the
foot of its coffin.
alloys or aluminium, cobalt have been
How MEDY
after 60 climbed apprenticeship?
people "Most
New given inp.
novelty nickel and
Another "repellant"
Irunt!
One of the first experts on
many
Gilbert, medical adviser 10 Americans have put ministure Good Queen Bess. He pointed
magnets to a really "snappy" use as cuff-linkst
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out that the earth itself is huge magnet--which
accounts
ot
our
POKING FUN
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at a stuffy old world (with test tube faces) is a favourite occupation of PAUL ATROSHENKO, 19-year-old former Hongkong boy now making quite a hit in Australis, Two of his 'cartoons are reproduced here.
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