THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1959.
Leave These Tennis Laws Alone What Best in Kowloon
IT IS THE AVERAGE PLAYER WHO WOULD SUFFER BY COURT-SIZE CHANGES Says JOHN DEREK
London.
I am delighted to report that experiments with a shortened lawn tennis
service court have been quite inconclusive.
In Britain, exhibition matches were played between Christine Truman
and Pat Ward and Mike Davies and Billy Knight.
The service court was short- ened by a foot, but there were few faults even though players served with usual strength. All the players agreed that if they had not been told of the change they would have hardly noticed it.
A lilar experiment bad been carried out in Paris with
Blum-bang Kurt Nielsen
uristie Bucks. Patty
guinea-pigs. Despite Be
ened court, Nieken the
Ind
than mess about with the court
measurements.
Soccer They couldn't stop hin in the Beki so they bent him in But the new the boardroom.
However, I say; leave the laws offside rate did not make Soccer any more entertaining, and in-alone. When one kind of player vitive players developed new gets on top It's the less fortun- winning plans to fit in with the ate kind of player who must
And the answer-on the court. now rules.
More recently Rugby Jaws The big nerve em be master-
have been changed in an effort
to open up the game and breaked and turned to advantage by #eveloping better service relum, the domnice of forwards, But,
have the when peersary, a team can still keep the gasas forward and that
ut the backs.
-
Glea
Dare unerf in nine aves and
gained a vessat victory.
A
It is clear that star players Are so becurate, that they can use their old penver and hit smaller taget. It is the averte play-for-fun elab player whic would suffer by a chonge in the length of the service court
The Old Story
A Softer Ball?
The truth is that any spori is as entertaining
want in make
114 119 players 11. Legislation
alone cannut male tractive,
a game ut.
Now it's argued that the bl server has too much advantage in lawn teals, that the 15- | bang serve-volley
Why make a elong? it's trade the game less entertai old, old story of trying to hatin
The current professionals shown this can be done; no did the "Four Musketeers-Buro- tra. Brumon, Cochet and Lacoste-when they came up against th thanderbolt-mer- chants of America boek in the twenties.
CHESS
hns
by LEONARD BARDEN
Billy McCracken upset oppan
This is true. But it legislation should be taken I would prefer
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to make the ball softer
rather
the successful player With selence,
ents with his off-gida trap
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BOXER BITES OPPONENT TKO Win For
London, Jan. 26.
A professional boxer was disqualified in a fight at Leyton Baths here tonight after the roforce had rufed he had bitten his opponent.
In one of the most unusual disqualifications in a British ring for years, refereo Jack Morris stopped tho welterweight bout botwoon Londonderry Peter Anderson and Arthur Murphy in the fifth round, alleging that Anderson had bitton Murphy. Murphy camo away from a clinch protesting and pointing to his loft arm, which had a crescent- shaped bruise.
Anderson said Inter: "If I did it, it was quite accidental. His shoulder must havo slipped into my mouth."--Router,
Terry Spinks
London, Jan. 20. Olympic Byweight champion Terry Spinks scored by Brot victory in the professional featherweight Livision when he stopped Liverpool's Ede Burns in the Afth round of their scheduled 10-ruund bout $1 Leyton Baths, London, 10- night.
The relerce halted the fight after Burns had taken a lot of punishment from Spinks's two- fisted attack.-France-Presse,
Henry Longhurst On Golf ARE WE SLAVES TO THE
IMPLEMENTS OF THE
GAME OR THEIR MASTERS?
I
HAVE read, with a certain degree of cynicism and alarm, that we have with us a magic new golf shaft.
I forget what is magic about it, except that it enables the "whip" to be put in just the right place, thus ensuring the maximum, etc., etc.—a feat which one would have thought to have been within the resources of science some time before now.
Naturally, it is to cost rather, ests must with its consequent, more than the old outmoded cesnomies in the costs of pro- lead inevitably to I kind with which professionals duction could do no better than 62 sharp decrease in the price of Sumingdale and 63 at Lytham, Rolf balls. Or must 1, 1 won-
der?
On the other hand, we Tray look for 2
other saving in directions, since the likelihood of two of the leading golf-ball nakers amalgamating has been widely publicised and denied,
According to the compulsory researches which resulted in my
able being
Lo add U.A.Econ. (Cantab) after my name-with- (Third Lout necessarily adding
Class) such a fusion of inter-
by MADDOCKS
„WHO TRIES TO MAKE HIMSELF SCARCE. THIS IMPING
THIER
SHOOT
HIM
SCUM
BULLETS THEY WANT BLOOD... I'VE GOTTA HIDE... HEY! WHAT
THE ?...THIS THING.
IS HOLLOW!
CONFUSING, ISN'T IT?......
By Erale Bushmiller
I NEVER SAW ANYONE 50 HAPPY TO SEE ME GO
By Mik
Hope Eternal
new that
The introduction of
means not shaft, however,
thousands who are in possession of £50 and a simple belief that new instruments bring new skill will be buying a clubs.
new set
of
They have, of ecurse. been doing the same thing for years
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in
and going steadily worse, but this will not deter them. In no breast does hope spring eternal than that of the golfer. It prompts me to ask, though, In the same simple fashion | which I habitually put the quez- Hon to my friends in Detroit when they boast of making seven million motor-cura in # single year: "Where do all the oki enes go?"
We know motor-cara go in England. They thus making stay on the road, it quicker and less painful
nes to penetrate London by bicycle or on foot. But where do all the old golf clubs go?
where the all
in
There must be millions of them lying about somewhere, yet the only second-hand clubs, I seem to see, are in the railway lost properly shops, together with an array of brand new suitcases, camping outts, bino- which culars and what not, seem to indicate ibal the Bri- tish railway traveller must be
in forgetful
the
the most world.
The Arst man lo rel up a kind of central Gulf Exchange may aggravate the manufacturers but must surely make a fortune.
Two Ideas
I will not harp upon the old theme of how ridiculous is the now accepted custom of buying whele sets of clubs instead of, as In the old days, a single club at a time, except to pass on two Ideas for a solution of thla problem, one practical, the other theoretical. The latter is to abandon the 14-club limit altogether.
No one who cannot afford or obtain a caddis would think at carrying 14, if it were not "the thing to do," and the chill wind of ridicule would soon cut down to size the fellow who carried 16 while at the same time proving Einself incapable of using six.
1 agree that Walter Hagen did at one time carry 32-but so, I dare say, if you were being paid 500 dollars per club per year, would you!
The practical idea comes, as always, from America, whence a friend sends nie details of a set of clubs in completely new tonn.
You have the shaft, together with a belt round the waist acting as a sort of quiver in which you carry as many 43 eight separate heads, verewing on the appropriate one in a mut- ter of records.
'Head-On' Sot
The whole set, which goas by the name of "Head-On," weighs less than 10 h. There is nothing, of course, to stop you carrying two shafts of different lengths,
The more I see of the changes in the character of golf the more it seems to me that we
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