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SPORTSMEN IN THE NEWS
THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1959.
Harry Weetman-The Naughty Boy' Of Golf
By RICHARD BERRY
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A British golfer was once playing at South Carolina Golf Club when
American spectator offered him a hundred dollars if he could reach the thirteenth hole in two strokes.
The flag fluttered 540 yards away but the player casually accepted the bet and proceeded to reach the centre of the green with a 310-yard drive and a beautifully-judged iron shot.
The
man-dynamic.
brond- shouldered, GfL tall Horry Weetman-has long been known the biggest hitter in British gulf. But more recently he has bern building up interna- tional reputation as the hordest hting talker in the world of Foll.
п
Fred: contral,
major SUCCESS:
Creat international
has playext a The golfer must see it in terms part in her husband's af hard cash. And Weelman in fact, Weelman gives hor believes that the Cup could credit for 90 per cent of it. have bern warth around She me him take his game She en- £3,000 to him if he had not touch more seriously. missed selection, -
!couraged his training by
five-mile It WOR double disappoint- jcompanying lem on
She became his also missed the g-trots.
severest eritic and his mast It started with that famous ment since he
Cup through row during the 1957 Ryder Previous Canada
bis susperson. And that your
companion at tourna-
Weetman Cup match when exploded after his omission from the singles and snapped: t
of suspension. almost certainly ments. Julm several thousand
"I shall never play again in a. pounds in lust prize money.
Wils
$217
Own Club
Harry Weelman was born at Onwestry, Shropshire, Jn 1920. His home was a cutinge over looking the local gulf course and young man he built on his as muscles doing; heavy work on
the home farm.
Ideal Partner
C
With shrewd ttle Freda as the idea! business partner. rey Weetman worked to ive-year plan to reach the top And wisely uf tournament golf.
a session on this plan included the American tournament cir cut, the toughest golfing school of all.
that trip the British professionals serined far less formidable," he says,
How it is Weetman's aim to
*After
uf British triaphs at the app and complete Tus (winning c iveted Open Championship. So far he has
labber
team captained by Dai 17%." He
suspended For 12 months by the Professional Gol- fers Association- decision unprecedented in its 30 years' history. But it was eventually
recently forgiven and
Husky Hairy Wertman not only played under Dai Rece but actually served
vice-captain 15
His parents had no special Britain's Ryder Cup team,
ལ་མ། ད New outspoken Wertman has i interest in golf, but Harry explodest again, this time 21 these eager to play that he made PGA annual meeting where he is own club. From the age of doubted that he complained that he was robbert | 10 he never
#professional, month's would become place in Engiand team for the Canada and at 14 he went as pesistant afth. Cup by a charge the selection tn, the local profesional
Has he the right tempera- several 3 ፒ 32 2 Weetman ild to "S sytem.
meat for such a testing event? tetrtaments when the war inter- down and behave yourself."
Those who know him well be rupted his career with five years
leve he is quite capable Ariny service. Then it too!
achieving that highest prize. him another four years to shar-
For
2 while he in ferocious pen his game before he won the
from the ter, he hilter assistants championship in 1949
show an amazingly dellextr and 1930, the match-play cham-
touch around the greens. it?
and 1951
the pionship
Other experts Orgue that Masters tournament in 1962.
phenomenal driving But
greatest Weetman's Weetman's progress dates from his meet can be his greatest
of a
Je Wiss
His Living
Such outbursts
have earned label Weehran tie
of the British "hughty boy" of golf. tradition decrees that sportsmeni good lowers and, as should be
true-blooded Englishman aby knows, it is the height of bed inste to turn against one's leader whether on the playing held or the battle Beld.
But golf is much more than a game er battle to Harry Weet- and his 11: life
man. Jeving
never
Anished
than
of
can
handic p.
drive which LOUS puts him deepet intu
ing with his pretty wife As Max Faulkner has said: "A Freda, She came to take golf: Weetman Jessons from him in 1951 and astray three months later they were trouble than a shot of average engkred
power."
The Goal That Shouldn't Have Been
mich
have
Hove at bren. Great
brai Fire 3-2 in the Olymple qualifying Britain Great -and the first of their three goals wan a goal that should never
The Irish Britain's captain D'Arey won the bee, and waved down the field to indicate the direc- ⚫tion of play. But his centre-forward Hanty misunderstood and kicked off.
were caught unprepared, and so was referee M, Blavier of Belgium. Within 20 seconds the ball had gone from Hasty' to Ward, on to Brown and Devine, then back to Nasty and Into the net, to put Britain on the winning read. Said Irish secretary Joe Wick- ham: "Bewn (Irish caplain) should have protested at once."
Photo shows Hasly (behind goalpost) scoring before an Irishman bas had a chance
Foals, to touch the hall. Ironically, Hasty, who scored all the British Northern Ireland-Times Photo.
comes
from
Sports Diary Will Joe Erskine
Entries
for
TO-DAY
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Suspended For Life
full for
A Liverpool emateur been suspended life for butting a referee. The official and thren teeth knocked
The player out and had to have all the re- mainder removed. was also fined £5 at the locat police court for sault. Banews Service.
But no une can safely forecast back has Since their marriage in April,
ዒና 32 overy where Harry Weetman is con As he developed into a dour 1952, Harry has
At heart he is great Britain cerned. professional he kept on his toes major tournament In by repeating to himself: "Every except the Open Championship, Gelter, but as a performer he is director of a jak once one of the most inspiring mised putt costs £5 and every land has become
sports manufacturing firms. They and one of the most unpredic missed drive £50."
and table. sporting public have two children, Jay While the
(All Rights Reserved) looks at the Canada Cup as a 'Keith.
HIST..
FOUR D. JONES
MADDOCKS
MAN YOU'RE GONNA TAKE A LITTLE TRIP ALL ON YOUR LONE SOME
PUT ME DOWN I'VE
GOTTA GO,
I MUST RESCUE
MY FRIEND FROM
THE RUSSIANS. HE'SÄ
A MOSTASE
"TOO BAD
MAN I'VE GOT
A MOON TO
FERDINAND
NANCY
EROARRA
BRICK BRADFORD
KRIS KREG, SCIENCE VIRITER, ARKIVES
AT DR. EASTLANDS LABORATORY TO JOIN BRICK AND PAM IN THEIR SEARCH FOR THE CRASIN OF "THE SOUND”
I THINK THE
GIRLS HAVE GONE BATTY
AIRPORT
AGAIN!
AND I'M
GUNNA PUT THAT TROCKET ON THE MOON
BEFORE THEM REOS
MAN
JONES SCARS SKYWARDS...
TAKE
\EASY MAN)
Retire Now?
By ARCHIE QUICK
The paths of two ex-Army pals took widely diverging roads at Earl's Court, London, when Henry Cooper thrashed Joe Erskine and
PEN SKETCHES OF MCC TOURISTS
Keith Andrew-The
Quiet Man Of English Cricket
Keith Andrew is the quiet man of English cricket. He goes about his job of keeping wicket with the unhurried, unflurried calm of the crafts- m'an.
So much so that you often don't notice he is there. Then you think back on how few mistakes he has made and you realise that he has been do- ing a pretty good job.
In
among season,
fact, in
a poll County cricketers last Androw would probably have topped the wicket-keeping list. But his batting has never in- spired and this has probably en him further recognition by The electors.
to break
the
25 stampings County record,
Andrew's other claim to fame Is that he must be the No. 1 among profes- mathematiclan
He has cricketers. sional letured on electrient engineer- it and often spends his spare At om time It seemed that lie in the dressing room Im- he was destined to take over mersed in the complexities of the wicket-keeping spot when | Higher mathematles, Godfrey Evans retired.
Understudy
In 1954, after only one aton the sur- in red-clas orleket, prised Antirew was picked to go to Australia as Evans' deputy. He was a surprised that he had to re-arrange the date of
weeding.
נו!
Since then he has been passed
by and so on this West Indica
tour h: pens once more as an
understaly-this
time to Roy
Swe.mm-Evans' succes Dr.
But
mistake. business
no make Andrew knows his behind the stumps. He fields the ball well and brings off a deceptive slumpings will ease. In his fiext season for Northants-in 1954-be made
TOMORROW: Ken Barrington
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
retained the British and the Empire heavy-Underworld King Siz
weight boxing championships,
For the Londoner there opens up the vista of a world title fight with Ingemar Johansson; for the Welshman it can mean oblivion, even retirement.
share
These two when they were ning Service ules used boxing for the Army and win- "wads and char" in the Alder
shot NAAFI.
SHEAFFER'S
Of Boxing Sent
To Prison
New York, Nov. 30. Frankie Carbo, known as the underworld king of boxing, was two years' im- sentenced to prisonment today after he had Erskine Cooper beat
there pleaded guilty to undercover times, but when they both
turned professional boxer operations in professional box- ofing. Erskine proved the muster fighter Cooper in two champion- ! ship contests.
on
*SHORKEL"
Skrip
By Mik
By Erale Bushmiller
DON'T WE LOOK CHIC ?--- THIS IS THAT NEW CASUAL HAIR-DO
ITS GOOD TO ESK YOU TWO
WE CAN VISIT
COME ON, LET'S
IN THE TIVE-TOP!)
KEEP
IN "TOUCH WITH ANE BRICK!
MILLER
By Paul Norris
I WILL DR.EASTLAND (F THE SOUND" DOESN'T ÜROWN USCUT) ALL
ASCARD!
NOT 60 FAST)
THAT CLO "SOUND" WILL KEEP UNTILI PICK UP BOME EXTRA CLOTHES!
PENS
Skrip
WRITING FISIO
ales Managers prefer
SWISSAIR
THE AIRLINE OF
SWITZERLAND
ROWNTREE'S
AERO
THE
MILK CHOCOLATE THAT'S DIFFERENT!
You can be SURE
if it h
Carbo pleaded gulity October 30
of to charges turned conspiracy, acting in a boxing Now the wheel has
without # full circle, and such has been match as a manager
licence, and acting as a match- the
Cooper Improvement of
a Bcence.- that he actually outboxed the makor without ex-champion before colag in Router. for the kill in the twelfth round.
That after nearly
winning in the first.
Not The Best
Cooper may not be the best heavyweight champion we have ever had, but he has done come extremely good jobs of work lately, and the way he de- molthed Erskine was a carbon copy performance of his victory over Brian Landon for the title.
Cooper's immaculate left hand after Erskine's initial durry cut the Welshman down 10 size, and, although his right hand joined in the job of execullon water the halfway stage had been reached, It was gula the left hand, employed
booking. now for which finished off Erskine and left him complete physical wreck draped helpless over a lower Tupe.
Erskine, I feel, has lost his relish for fighting, and, although his manager Benny Jacobs would like hin to continue, I would not be surprised to hear of his retirement any day now. In fact, with his great love for Rugby football it is not beyand the realms of possibility that he may turn to the handling code another W. sh champion, Jerry O'She), did before him.
Worthy Champion
Cooper is дож E worthy champion, although little over 2 year so he looked as though he too was Ад the downward paih. **
His docisive wins over Lon- don, Dick Richardson and Zora
Folley, the American tavo given him a new polsc and The has matured into a much
different fighter than the or exnediously disposed
JAMA.
I do not say that he would
even last the distance with the champion, but on his showinga against London, and at Earl's Court his "now" left hand would give the Swede an awful fot to think about.
The Erskine camp enare a lot of furs about a ganch Соорег landad of log the bell at the end of the nth round. I do not think it made any difference to the Bnal
Then 130 matter what the official version may be, everyone at bg ring- sida agreed that the terith round. isatied only two mimados.
(No. B127)
Here is a position from netoni play: Black to move and win.
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