Superb golf by Carr in British Amateur Championship
By HENRY LONGHURST
J. B. Carr, of Sutton (Dublin), won the Amateur Golf Championship for the third time here when, after a superb display, he defeated the 47- year-old American J, B. Cochran by 8 and 7 in the 36 holes final, Carr was round in the morning in 69 strokes — a magnificent performance
and went in to lunch six up.
The winner is too well known in Britain to need much fur ther description.. The mainstay of many
Walker Cup team, he now becomes the first man to win the championship the third time since Hilton in 1911.
Stiff wrists
for
Harold
With his huge length he re- duced this wonderful course almost to a drive and a pitch.
The longer
you are, the straighter you have to be, and last Saturday Carr's drives, often 40 yards ahead of his oppon- ent, bisected the narrow fair ways
where ordinary mortals might be taking a long fron, or even a spoon, he was knocking
the ball on to the green with a short sharp crack with a B-icon.
and
His opponent is a most in- teresting golfer, from whom all young players could learn a 'great deal.
Nelson in his prime-and having two down. As it was, he was shared the lead after three afx down-even though he had rounds in the recently abandon-been one up after three holes. e so-called world championship at Tam-a-Shanter, Chicago.
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If he had not suffered buck ailment, all too familiar in golf, which necessitates his playing in a kind of strait- Jacket and sleeping on boards, and if the loss of his wife had not meant that he had to spend so much time in recent years in looking after bly two sons, I suspect that he might by now have been a world figure in golf.
to
while he might from time
He gives the impression that, time make a bad shot, he might go live years without making an unintelligent one.
Though the final Was one sided. Cochran made a strong impact on all present and will always be a welcome visitor to these shores.
Carr relaxed and confident, put up a merciless Hapisy and it made me more sorry than ever that he was not chosen to play for Ireland In the Canada Cup, which is Botntccusarily confined professionals.
to
seems
Looking back, there little to say about his game. He hit his drives an immense distance down the middle, put his second shots on the green and took two putts.
Dormie 10!
He missed one very thort one at the seventh and holed no long anes, yet despite
this he was round in 60 allowing him two puiis from 10ft, on the sixth where he was conceded the hole. Let his wonderful figures speak for themselves—4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 5, 4,4-35; 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4,—34
The first thing you notice 18 holes is enough 69.
about him is his hands. He takes great care with his grip, and once his hands are settled
One
In the afternon it was clear when Cochran was
THEY
CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1960.
Jos Carr with the British - Amateur Golf Cham- pionship trophy which he has now won for the third time in succession.
Timandra wins the
Prix De
De Diane
Chantilly, June 5.
The favourite, Timandra, today won the US$44,583 Prix De Diane race for three-year old fillies. Notch was second and Noves third.
The
Timandra, of Baron Guy De, heavy storm clouds. Rothschild's stable, has never weather was hot and damp. been beaten in her four races Barquette, a 40-1 underdog, for three-year-olds, She was
won the French classic last ridden by J. P. Boullenger, year, She also won the Pule D'Essa! this year, the French equivalent of the British 1,000 Guineas, The odds today were her.
11-5
on
the
bunkered Timandra, out of Court Mar-
gotial and Brief Candle, won 1.3 mile race in 2:13.1.
and lost the first hole to seven down, that no change was
on In brilliant summer sunshine the club you have the impress this venerable and much vener- ion that they are glued to it.ated links-pictures in the lock This is especially true on the er room show Lady Margaret to be expected in the general green, where arms, hands and
Scott winning the Ladies club appear to be all in
Sierra Delta led at the start, Championship here
pattern of the game, and so it in 1895-proved.
but at the half-way mark piece.
showed up to great advantage
Poword took the lead. She hold and there were many who were Level fours for eight holes, it right up till the stretch even
excepting Carr found himself in the en-though she had never saying that, always
raced viable position of being dormie more than one mile. Timandra, 10 under bright blue skies on
Notch, and Noves swept past the loveliest Afternoon of the
her in the East few yards. year.
any
Like most modern Americans he has obviously concluded that it is stiff wrists that pay the golfing dividends and one feels that from
distance his pults, if they do not go in must inevitably go somewhere
very nepr, the club head remaining absolutely square to the line of play.
The long handle
the Old Course at St Andrews, this was the greatest champion- ship links of them all.
The final showed once again that 36 holes is, more often than not, a waste of time and all was decided by lunchtime.
Notch was half a length be Timanda and Noves a length and a half.
He is, of course, the worthi-hind est possible champion but there was no one who failed to give a
In many a year Cochran might | cheer for a very game runner- have been no more than one or up.
Nineteen fillies started. The track, was dry, but there were
2
Four D. Jones BY MADDOCKS
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BOAT. WAS THERE
HOOP
NOTHING LEFT
WAS ONE THING
Joe Carr has spent many long winter's hour in practis- ing his putting but it is fair to say that, while he was on the whole effective in the final dear, he still did not give quite the same air of certainty as his opponent.
Some years ago he used to use a short putter, straddling down to it like a giraffe preparing to drink. Then he took to putting with a 3-tron-and very well too. Now he stands upright with his feet tegether and gives it the long handle.
Cochran, a thinnish,
spare figure looking rather older ihan his 47 years, was on the fringe of the United States Walker Cup team just after the war and has one or two notable performances to his credit, having won the Western Open-ahead of Byron
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
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The Prix De Diane is con-
sidered the equivalent of the British Oaks.-AP.
Spanish Soccer Cup results
Madrid, June 3. Results of the first games of the quarter-finals of the Spanish Soccer Cup Champion- ship today were:
Valencia 0, Atletico Де Madrid 1.
Barcelona 3, Atletico Bilbao 1.
Olympia will again be site of 2,700-year-old ceremony of Lighting the Olympic Torch
Athens, June 5. The Olympic flame will he kindlad again this year at ancient Olympia, in South Greece, to be taken to Rome for the Olympic Games next August.
The ceremony, re-enacting an ancient ritual, will take place in the ruins of the sanctuary where, some 2,700 years ago, the first Olympiads were held.
At sunrise, 13 days before the | storm lantern. This will be pre-first modern Olympiad, held in Olympic Games actually. open in sented to an Italian naval cadet. Athens in 1869. A monument to Rome on August 25, behind the The lantern, escorted by a the late baron has been erected marbled portico sill standing | guard of honour af Greek in gratitude by the Greeks at over the ruins of the ancient athletes and Italian naval cadets the gates of the all-marble stadium at Olympia, a Greek will be taken to Phaleron, Bay, Olympic Stadium in Athens, The maiden dressed in traditional three miles away and placed on Baron's hearts 1 buried in the costume will place a torch near board the Italian navy training serene landscape of Olymple. the focus of a powerful concave vessel Amerigo Vespucci. mirror and light the same from the concentrated. rays of the
sun.
The 'Vestal'
A group of costumed maddens, chanting ritual hymns, will meet | the "Vestal" in the front of the
Partico They will bear the flane in an earthenware pot, marching slowly through the ruins of the
Temple of Hera, to a field beside the river Alpheus, where the flame will be transposed in the white marble bowl of the altar.
Revived
In the ruins
of ancient
The ship will sall at once for the port of Syracuse, in Sicily. There, the first Italian' runner will light the torch again from the lantern and start on the Olymple, the Olympic flame is relay run to Rome, reaching the now revived every four years stadium there in time for the and taken to the remotest parts opening of the Games on August of the world, wherever the 25,
modern Olympic Games are held.
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The flame was carried Olympia, where the Olymple Garnes Were Born some 300 Berlin in 1936 when Hitler today staged the Olympic Games at an years before Christ one of the most alirsčtivo artistic show arranged by the places of pilgrimage for the well-known German cinema pro- thousands of touriate ansducer, Len! Riffenstahl.. Äfter scholars who visit Greece World War II, for the Olympic Games held in London in 1948. the athletes who went to light their torch at Olympia had to be escorted by armoured cars of the Greek army because the area was infested with armed Com. munist guerillas.
DYLTY JOKE.
It is from here that yontis from the modern village of This small valley, rich in Olympia will light the torch natural beauty, between the and dispatch it, în relays, où river Alpheus and the torrent the first stretes of the 195-of the Kladeos, was for the an- mile run to Athens across the cient Greeks "Holy and inviolate Isthmus of Corinth.
ground", dedicated to the wor ship of the gods and the high ideal of bodily and spiritual contest.
The torch will be carried by youths from village to village to the outskirts of Athens, where athletes from the capital will take it to the all-marble Olympic | Stadium on August 19.
Olympia
Before Christ
Athletle contests. at Olympia are traced back in time to the frat millenium before Christ. The Games, at first local, scon
At the stadium, especially became regional, and them pau- bulli i 1896 for the Arst modern Hellenic. The ancient Olympic De Olympic Games, the 20-year old contests took place every four Crown Prince Constantine of years at Olympia for nearly 1,200 Greece, as chairman of the years, from the eighth century Real Greek Olympic Games Com-betare Christ to the fourth cen-
mittee, will transfer the same tury after Christ, from the torch to a paraffin-fed
Elche 1, Mallorca 0.
between The game Madrid and Gjon was to be played at night-P
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It was at Olympia that the "Sacred Truce" was born. For the duration of the Games, there was a truce in all hostilities, a first step, perhaps, towards "in- ternational" understanding be- tween the major cities of the ancient Greek world,
to Helsinki, in Finland, and in In 1952, the flame was flown 1958 a special Australion aircraft took the fame to Melbourne,— China Mail Special.
Boxer
drowned
in rescue
attempt
"Louisville," June 5, Rudell Stitch, regarded as one of the top contenders for the world's weiter. weight boxing title, was drowned today in the Ohlo river when he tried to rescue a fellow-fisher-
man.
Both
The decline of Olympia which began with the Roman conquest was completed under the Byzan- tine Empire. The Emperor
the boxer and the Theodosius forbade the holding unidentified man he tried to of the Olymple Games (899 A.D) saved irst their lives in the tur and Theodosius I ordered the bulent, water below the Clarks- complete destruction of all en-ville dam at Louisville. clent shrines including naturally, those of Olympia.
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Finally, the elements of nature completed the desiruo Liveness of man. Violent earth. quakes, in the middle of the sixth century after Christ- razed such ruins as had been spared by the earlier restruo« tots.
Stitch's manager, Bud Bruener, told police that he and the Bghter were fishing from the dam with a third man whose" name Bruener did not know.
Bruener said the other man slipped. Rudell tried to grab him and both went over,
Dragging operations were the US, coast guard, state police underway below the dom by and volunteer groups. Neither body has been recovered.
For 1,500 years, the Olympic Games were forgotten. It was only in 1893 and 1894 that the Olympic ideals were revived; by Baron Pierre De Couberten, the Stitch was married and the Frenchman who promoted the father of six children,-
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