OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND!
By HENRY LONGHURST
It is my confirmed bellef that, according to the oficial system, the average golfer does not play within six strokes of his handicap. In defence of this rude assertion I wish I could venture a modest wager- say a bob a nob: proceeds to the National Golf Fund on the results of all handicap competitions posted on club notice boards.
For the sake of argument let us say that the bogey of your course is 71, which is a fair average. Then for overy not acore of 76 or better you win one point. For every net score of 78 or worse I win a point.
Mine include, of course, the many a member has not put in "NRs" who had not the moral a "bnek bees....ele.." core for has not the courage or physical endurance 20 years and
Norallgtitest Intention ever of doing
to make a return al all
סופרת!
those playing the ITC BU again. merciful form of points-systemn Their system, however, peEMIS compileated tournament Inverted by the if possible
our own tunci though good Dr. Stableford rape the than not. Thirty-one points ur better recently, simplified, still takes count on your side: 20 ur worse into account ten of the player'a (I had been Cast 25 soUTER,” on mine:
about, at this point, to add an ironical reference to slide-rules, had better when I thought 1 make sure of my facle. On referring to an American publi- eation 1find "a slide-rule device will be issued by the USGA 10.
work for simplify handicap committees"!)
There is, of course,, as you may have suspected, a personal axe being ground here, for Labour under a handicap which bears no relation to fact and which could only be an object of derision were I to reveal it, However, there is nothing better for glosing over one's awn to draw than Inadequacies attention to those of others, and that we 1 therefore polal out
gileitu 10 club gelfers are not this matter.
The Back Tees
some
time past I have been assessing the handicaps of based on their professionals as
in tournaments performance when playing from the back of the back tees in fair conditions And I can share you ....etc." that none of the most illustrious of them. Whom it would be un- kind to name, play to no better than five.
for-
I see also that "a player who return scores for all does not
18-hole rounds may be penalised by arbitrary reduction Two thoughts handicap." occur to me: first, that by this Loken most of us in this country would soon be crbitrarily back to plus one; and second, re wonder the Americans taka such
a devil of a long time about it.
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1958.
Peter Waterman Announces His
Retirement
London, Apr. 16. Peter Waterman, the British and European Welterweight Boxing Champion, today an- nounced his retirement from the ring.
The 23 year okl Champlon took savage beating in five from rounds
Dave
Charnley, British Lightweight Cham. pion, in a non-title con- test here last night.
Waterman WBA to have defended his European litle in Italy In June against Emilio Marconi, of Italy. Reuter.
HOME SOCCER RESULTS
London, Apr. 10,
The latter is a familiar subjeel Results in tonight's football in this column-and willoutmatches were:
pology-but I
venture
Dne
further reference to it.
The Slow Play
oul
The US Seniors, I fee, at their annual dinner camé with a vigorous condemnation of slow play and, in clair 90, divided the offenders into four categories. They bear the stump of vintage P. G. Wodehouse and
Nature are the
Lover, the Debater, the Waggler, and the Surveyor-the last-named being deserited as "one who can make Federal Project out of lining up a 10-foot pult."
England P.S.-Oh to be in
it Leurns taw that 'April's here! that my own handicap at least is not to be exposed this week- end after all, for, since writing to find the above, I wake up the snow four inches deep and still falling. I must be sume- Lo do with these torn thing
scientists bumbs, whatever the system of
To the Americans, of course, card-und-pencil golf, so bidding to the club golfer over as second nature, here, comes
Indund, They do itll the time. from the very earliest days American golfers have regarded The name not as a match, but, Jogically enough, as a matter of playing 18 holes and seeing how take. No caddle mway you would think of going out with out a carti and penell, and in one Los Angeles club was told they were setoally dismissed if they did not return, their em- ployer's score.
On the basis of all these peores one would have thought
the American hundicepping would be a piece of ente beside our own, where
That
say.
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THAT'S THE
GANG HIDE-OUT, MANDRAKE, BUT WHERE'S LOTHAR:
I WONDER IF NE
GOT HERE?
FERDINAND
NANCY
SLUGGO--- I'LL TAKE YOUR PICTURE
OKAY-- GO AHEAD
NO--- STAND OVER THERE
INTERNATIONAL MATCH
Whites
1 Ireland (Played at Cardiff) LEAGUE ONE
Porinth 3 Manchester U.
LEAGUE THREE SOUTH
Crystal Palace
Exeter City, Gillingham
Norwich City
Southend U. Torquay B.
Akkenfiot
2 Queen's 1..
Strewlity. T".
1 Bournemouth
6 Newport C
2
Plymouth A
1 Northamp T
2 Culchneter U.
LEAGUE THREE NORTH
Chester Chesterfick
Wrex
SCOTTISH Aberdeen Clyde
East Fife-
JObernJan Motherwell Bauer Queen of South Third Lannyk
2 Hochdale
• Southyat
3 York
ty
LEAGUE ONE
0 Hearts
3 Kimmock
2 Falkirk
1 Dundee
4 Queen's Park
Halth Roverz Celtic
3 Airdrieoniana
SCOTTISH LEAGUE TWO
Ayr United Carienbath
D Berwick
Dundee United Esat Stirl Forlar Athletle -0 Montrose Stirling Albion
3 Arbrith
Alton Athletic Bariton Dunfermline Morton Stranraer
THIS WAY YOU LOOK TWICE AS. HANDSOME
Heuter.
WHY THE RUSSIAN SLOWDOWN? They Can No Longer Take Their Opponents
Nominate YOUR
Hongkong Footballer Of The Year
Members of the public are invited to nominate Hongkong's. Footballer of the Year for the current season.
It is a popularity poll organised by the China Mail, and nomination coupons will be accepted until the closing date to be announced later.
The two qualifications for nomination are:
(1) Footballing prowess.
By Surprise
By PETER UEBERSAX
London,
Russia's world-beating athletes seem to have worn out their
seven-league boots.
After years of spectacular successes that carried thom to
victory in the last Olympics, they are slowing down. In · some sports they are already regressing. Why?
Are rising living standards softening up the Russians? Is mags recruiting of talent and assembly-line production of record-breakers, in the end, inferior to the Western idea of free individualistic develop-
ment in sport?
(2) Sportsmanship on the field of play. Nominations should be addressed to the Editor, China Mail, Wyndham Street.down was only
To the Editor, China Mall,
My nomination for Hongkong's Footballer of the Year, taking into account his playing ability and his sportsmanship on the field of play, id;
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Stadium.
TODAY
Athleticn
TOMORROW
Tennis
Graechurt Tennis Slagles Final. 6.30 p.sh.
(Signed)
Club,
PARAGUAY TO MEET ARGENTINA ON APRIL 20
"Russian coaching is at fault,
Some of Europe's top experts, Track-their only true cham-
on a mass boals. That's boen interviewed by United Preas, pion in men's events, Vladimir Its aim was to produce athicles think so. Others said the slow-Kuts, was disastrously beaten in
But before the a "breathing the Spo Paulo, Brazil, New achieved.
athletes can evolve any further, spell after years of unlimited Year's Eve Roco, and has at-
must coaching system comeback, yet re- the effort," a "lemporary recession." | tempted
"In totalitarian countries portedly suffering from a evolve,"
nilment. In women's sports progresses by leaps and stomach
said Gaston Meyer, | events,
A Mass Basis the once-dominating bounds," editor in chief of L'Equipe of Soviet girls are on top only in Paris, the world's biggest sports distance running. and shot-put. Sizze Bergman, president of the the Swedish Skl Federation; daily. In the Free World, pro- The Austrailani dominate
"Russian coaches do not choose gress is slower, but continuous." sprints, a Pole and an Ameri-
But others, pointing at umaz can are tops in the jumps, and their athletes from the right
in succer, Czech in discus,
social level. Although sports is ing Russian selbacks
on a mass basis in Russia, top ever women's Gymnastics Spaniard, Jon- skling, rowing
the the quim Blume, won the European athletes usually belong to track
gymnastics,
Intelligentsia. Why don't they the Olympcis title. sports that wan
Swimming and rowing have more lumberjacks and for them, see deeper reass.
fewer students in their teams?" One is freedom-the lack of stagnation.
ok Joseph Areover, manager freedom for Soviet athletes,
the Austrian national Cycling. Agure skating, yacht- "Soviet athletes lead an al- most military life," said famous Ing, tample, riding the Russians team "In soccer, their German couch Dr Denno Wie- are still trying, but not succeed- schmann, having pondered the ing. question with some of his colleagues,
and
Little
Freedom
ure
The Russians, however, #tili dominaling weightlifting, the Pentathlon, wrestling, shoot- Ing and a number of "secondary told ports which either only require sheer physical strength and con- dition, or are little practiced outside the Soviet Union, or are particularly suited to Russian conditions, like speed skating.
littla
"They are continuously what to do. They have personal freedom, if any,
"Now this regimentation might produce results if you got to turn a farmboy into a good athlete. But to become truly great, an athlete must have spontaniety, fun in what ha does-in short, the opposite of regimentation."
Buenos Aires, Apr. 18.
football international The match between Argentina and Army Athletic Championships, HK Paraguay, which was postponed to diplomatic last week owing tension between the two cour tiles, will now be played on April 20, It
announced W15 today.
Both countries qualified for the final round of the World
A frequent line was that ris Football
Cup to be held in ing living standards are gotten
the June-France- ing u Sweden
Russians. Sports, it seems, is no longer the only Fresse.
medium-apart from a party carcer-lo secure well-being for Ivan Smith from Omsk.
"The training of Russia's top athletes is so hard that it
ntwcomers," frightening away sald Chris Brusher, Britain's only winner in the 1950 Olympic track events and now the sports
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So let's look coaching.
soccor tactical conching is wrong. It's an at- tempt to copy foreign styles, in- stead of trying to develop system that takes into account
of the mentality
Russian players,
they BOCCET
that if the
"The result ka system doesn't work, or if the Russians are confronted with a style they've never seen before, ponle. In the Olympic the Rus- tournament, nt Russian siang were held to a scoreless tie for 120 minutes by the lowly Indonesians simply because the Russians did not know how to react when facing a system they had never heard about before. United Press.
Zatopek Method "The Russians should learn to relax," said Brasher,
orc
"they
overdoing their training. Everything is patterned on the Zatopek method of training. training, training, Too many repetitions. Too much specialisa- tion. Physical resources are overtaxod. An athlete is not al- lowed to be anything else then on athlete..
"The result is a mental tired-
and
edlior of London's respectedness, a lack of fre. It's the same as with American businessmen- The greatest Russian sport they work 24 hours a day, and Buccesses were in the years when at 45 suffer from ulcers the Cold War was at its most heart attacks."
"Mass recruiting and mBIS treezing, added former Finnish
is good long jumping champicut Aaro training of athletes Laurie, now the sports editor of for improving the general sports his country's biggest nowspaper, standard of a country," added "In the early 'fifties, the Italy's former Olympic Discus Champion Adolfa Consolini. world was in a state of inner- tainty and of anxiety. It was a "But to tarn an athlete into a climate Ating the Hussian-type champion, he needs coaching on strictly individual basis. athlete.
Champions do no! roll off Assembly lines,"
Living Standard
I
Emile Cleme,
FIFA Asked To Suspend Algerians
Paris, Apr. 16.
French football officials said today they will ask the International Foot- ball Association (FIFA) to declare Ineligible the 10 Algerian football stars · who left their French tearns.
Edouard Pochopet, President of the French Football Assocla- ilon, cold they will, afk"the FIFA ̈ to take all necessary measures to prevent the North African stars from playing anywhere
"Legally it will be the same
Former Olymple 5,000 Metres "But life is easier now. Living Champion Gaston Rel of Bel- alandards are raising fast al-, gium: "The Russian athletes had
to progress taster and farther else. moat everywhere. These are the tipes for athletes who are full than any athletes before them. of enthusiasm, who have fun in There's nothing wrong with problem as the one raised by simply the Hungarian players who were sport. Countries where sport their coaching-they've
declared ineligible and prevent- has become something mechant, reached their celling."
secretary-ed from playing after they left eal, where it locks joy and in-
general of the Belgian Athletles their clube and country," apiration, are falling behind."
sald. Col. Fritz Erb, the chief of League: Switzerland's milltary ski tron- In ing and a respected voice Olymple matters, stressed other psychological aspect.
"The Russians can no longer sur- take their opponents by prise," he said.
on-
"Years of study and effort went into their sports build-up before they came out into the open. Their initial successes gave
and other athletes the fitters, in some ca103, a veritable in- feriority complex.
ho
the
-French cfficials Baid players, who vanished from their French teams cariler this week, could not form a team of their own that would be re-
Northern Ireland
Share Honours cognised.
With Wales
Cardiff, Apr. 16. Northern Ireland made sura
The Algerian National Libera- lion Front announced in Turis yesterday that the players would form their awn toum, with Algerian colours. But French omelols said that since Algeria
of at least sharing the part of France, there cannot be an Algerian and a French International Soccer rational team-United Press. Championship of Britain when they drew 1-1 with Wales horo today.
One example were the Cana- dián hockey players. Suffering tom just this kind of complex, they dropped the world title to thei Russians in the very year that the Russians first appeared on the international hockey scene.
"If Saturday's match between The Canadians have since pro-
and England ot vided for one of the Russian Scotland selliseks by taking the title back. Glasgow is drawn, Ireland will
*Now
Western athletes know I become outright winners of the that the Russians are human Champlonship for the first time | too." sold Col. Erb, "and in 45 years.
Russian progress has awakened many people who never much
sports,"
Before crowd of 38,000, cared Wales who were on top for about International | most of the match, equalised when all seemed lost and The string of Russian setbacks Ireland had to be satisfied with seems to suggest that something a draw." is wrong with Soviet coaching, too. But before going into that point, lel's look at what exact- ly these setbacks were;
Now the
Ireland were given a gruelling time in the Bocond built. and, well as the defenco fought, they might have conceded two or three goals had Wiles accepted
65
Secret Fights To Gain Experience
New York, Apr. 16, World. Heavyweight - Boxing.
Floyd Patterson Champlon fought 22 "ecret" Sahls since he took the world Ulje in 1850, review "Sports the American
claimed in Its Illustrated" publication here today,
The review said that this enabled Patterson to gain ring Experience.
Because of the private war Gus D'Amato, นาง between champion's manager, and the International Boxing Club, Patterson has fought only twien in public since 1950,
great Boccer--Russia had a unbeaten record for two years easy chances before France and Hungary
Ireland, who had been on the shook its confidence. Ruslans have reached the last defensive for a long Ume, broke
scored after away and 18 In the World Cup-but only
Taalde sight minutes.
Cush after a rubber game with lowly
across the goal Poland which beat them. last centred high
Jack Belsey' evor goalkeeper October,
Skling--Tho Russians have bead and contre-forward Simp
eddid, that on Boveral oc- just suffered their biggest de un nodded the ball through,
Inside-right Ron Hewitt casions, these "secret", nights feat over, at the hands of the Finn, the World Nordlo Ski scored for Wales after a move were held without the "know- of In ment in which forwards Ivon odgo Championships ni Lahti. Alpine skiing, they are back at Allchutch and C Jones were Patterson's where they started from-REIN prominent-Reyter,
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