THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, JULY
Looking back on a century of golf
By HENRY LONGHURST
century ago Willie Park, of Musselburgh, won the first Open Golf championship, from an entry of eight, with a score of 174 for two rounds. The entry for the Centenary cham- pionship at St Andrews this year was 410 and the last of the 100 who qualified had to complete two vastly longer courses in about twenty strokes fewer than the score which won in 1860.
The game might, I fancy, have gone on in very much the pattern it had reached by the turn of the century when a man carrying a bag of clubs was an object of public notice and a certain Cambridge captain had a whip-round to find anyone who could play at all, as he was one short against Oxford-had not two events conspired to change it.
have let them change the whole character of the game."
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One was the invention by a clubs to fourteen. This number Mr Haskell of the rubber-cored became, human nature being ball; the other the tours of the what it is not the maximum Freddie Trueman, I see, great Harry Vardon, which but the standard, so that players one into the top of the Pavilion spread the game like a prairie who cannot adequately manage the other day at Lord's, IL half-a-dozen clubs now possess through changes bat and ball, fre across the United States.
Since then golf has grown at fourteen and have to buy an a similar hit "came to carry the a phenomenal rate, so that there expensive trolley, or perambula-Pavilion and to pitch in the are now two tournaments, the tor, on which to pull them adjacent, blocks of flats-which Is what, in effect, has happened Eisenhower Trophy for amateurs round.
in golf would they move the and the Canada Cup for profes- sionals, in which players from
Pavilion and the stands to ac commodate the new bat and no fewer than thirty countries assemble to compete.
A travesty
Golf is now played, as against
At the same time, over the ball, or tell the inventors of the This growth has been years, improvements in tech-new bat and ball what to do spectacularly ⚫ reflected in nique and changes in club with them?: America, where golf has become shafts and balls have defeated Big Business, not only for the tough and perhaps over-idolised professionals who compete for more than a million dollars in p.lze money every year, but also for the equipment manufac- turers, whose sales exceed those of the two next biggest games put together.
Expensive
the ends of the original golf watched, by not fewer than architects and completely chang-seven million people, to whom it ed the, courses they designed, at brings intense personal pleasure. any rate for the more proficient You can play it at any age, all player, who, though he may the year round, and-unique the "backbone of the among games with people much not be
con- worse or much better than your- game," must surely be sidered.
self, to the equal, enjoyment of both.
Championship courses' measur- ing 7,000 yards, plus three- quarters of a mile of non-playing walking back to extended tees, are now done in sixty-five. This by any standard, seems travesty.
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When Willie Auchterlonie, who won the Open in 1893 used to play St. Andrews, he reckoned to take a wooden club for his second shot anything up twelve times
In 1958 they sold 711,405 bags: 1,718,281 wooden, clubs; 4,041,220 !ron
and clubs; Today 41,040,686 balls.
their total sales, from what used to be a cheap and simple pastime of knocking balls into holes for the fun, fresh air and good company, are running al million dollars a year,
Golf, long said, erroneously, to be a rich man's game, las now become ludicrously expen- sive for rich and poor alike.
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Happy
Still under medical care after his recent stomach operation, Peter May, Britain's greatest batsman since Sir Leonard Hutton,, last Monday picked up a bat and donned pads again for what is almost certainly his only innings of the season.
He made just 16 runs for his own Stars' XI against Cranleigh Cricket Club in a charity match for the club's new pavilion appeal. fund.
Photo shows May scoring a boundary with one. of his majestic strokes-Times photo.
YESTERDAY'S VESPA CLUB HILL CLIMB
one
Yu Chee-kwong does
0.55 time
the
mile in record of 57.8 seconds
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
The highlight of the Vespa Club Hill Climb yesterday at Golden Hill, Kowloon, was the spectacular showing of a young mechanic who drove a GS scooter over the course of 0.55 miles in the absolutely incredible time of 57.8 seconds.
Yu Chee-kwong established a new record for this particular event which will be hard to beat for no other contestant was timed in under a minute.
" The Ave million Americans are happy with it as it is, for most of them have known no In the 150cc section, George other. They play four at a time, Huntley made a splendid re- all holing out every shot, and covery in the second run of the the cheerfully take four-and-a-half day to deservedly take or even five hours to go round. honours afer a rather poor show- Their Influence is naturallying in the earlier run. The two strong but to my mind should be stop-watches caught Huntley in resisted
66.5 seconds, just fast enough to nip Arthur Olaes at the post.
Quite accidentally one of the entrants for the 125cc class was unavoidably detained, so only two drivers in this division faced starter Jimmy Foo, Olly Vas was a couple of seconds ahead of his rival, C. C. Wong and recorded a time of 72.8 seconds against Wong's 78.7.
When Snead won at St An- You cannot put back the drews in 1940, on a far longer clock, it is said. I should like to. course, he did not require I should Ake to put it back to.
four
rounds.
club
in once
say, the early twenties, when courses played, as the architect designed; when seventy-two was a fine score over a course of 5,500 yards and a man needed artistry as well as force and a grooved swing to compile ; and when two rounds in two-and-a-quar- ter hours apiece, using every In other words, instead of club 'in the bag and with plenty controlling changes in the Impic-of time for lunch, constituted a standard rate of income tax,ments, which would be easy, we day's golf.
few
I have a bill of Robert Forgan's wooden dated April 26, 1870, wherein he charged the customer 4s. Willie, in his day, had to be a each for three clubs, 5s. for an- other, and 59. 6d. each for two great golling "artist" It is no fault of Snead's that, beautiful more. This, with fifteen balls at 8d. each, totalled £1 18s Today six clubs and fifteen balls would cost you anything up to £35-which means, even at the
earning £56.
Between the wars
1
- enthusiasts began carrying, or
getting caddies to carry, twenty clubs
or more, and this fed,
logically but, as it proved, dis- astrously, to a limitation af
Baseball results
New York, July 11. Results of yesterday's baseball matches are:
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stylist though he may be, he is hardly called upon to be an artist at all.
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Serious accident to top
cyclist mars Tour De France 14th stage
Avignon, July 10.
The serious injury of ace French cyclist Roger Riviere, professional 5,000 metres pursuit world champion for the past three years, marred today's 14th stage of the Tour De France.
Riviere, who lay second to Italy's Gastone Nencini in the overall race classification be o fore today's 217-kilometre (135 mile) Millau Avignon
stage, crashed over a parapet when his brakes failed on thể 01,028 metre (3,370-foot) Col De
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STANDINGS
Major League standings, in- cluding games of Sunday, July 10 ore
Nencini and French rider
Louis Rostollan were the only
two riders with Riviere at the
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France still leads the overall team placings with an eggregate time of 220:53:57-Reuter,
Bangu keeps U.S. Soccer League lead
Twenty-one machines took part in the Climb which be gan at 11.80 am. There were 11 GS scooters, eight 150's and a pair of 125's.
A transistor telephone was used by Jimmy Foo at the starting line, and Paul Kwok, at the other end some... nine:: hundred yards away, kept his ears glued to the phone as Foo's "Three, Two, One
Go!" sounded loud and clear. Simultaneously with the Gỡ" their respective stop-watches started ticking to record the individual times for the uphill | sprint.
Only lady
Ho Kam-wah, driving a GS was the first to take off and was
umed in 614 seponds. The next man up, Lee Kam-woon, also op a "GS, recorded a better time. Then Claes turned" in "a 88.1 performance which was actually class in the milial run. the best time recorded in the 150
David Low, driving a 150cc machine was apparently out for the ride only for the watches caught him in the very slow time of 82.2 seconds the first, time out...
The only Indy competitor Miss Anna Ding, did quite well to be timed in 77.1 seconds.
The nearest anyone came to a minute was Ricky Souza on a GS with a time of 62.4.
New York, July 10. Bangu of Rio De Janeiro re-
The crowd of enthusiasts, in- nined the lead in the US cluding a goodly number of International Soccer (Second Section) today with the progress of the competition League camp-followers could follow 3-2 victory. over Rapid
of as each time was chalked up on
Vienna, Austria, before 19,084 a blackboard by Foo's charming fans.
The game was played in 80 Souza looked like having an lady assistant Miss Julia Chan. 2 time of his accident; and both degree temperature at the Polo excellent chance to repeat his
stopped to assist in his rescue Grounds, before riding on.
The half-time score was 2-1 earlier in the year until Yu first Hill Climb victory at Stanley The sage "g won by in favour Bangu.
Martin Belgian rider
Chee Kwong went over the Geneupden. He
SPORTING CLUB WIN arrived
course. Yu had a flying start In another game on the same and, cornered beautifully In fractionally in front of 58 other riders who were all given the evening the Sporting Club of ful sight of the spectatore, the made a successful "click of his gear shifting same time of five hours 60 Portugal
debut in the League, by beating from second to third being minutes 35 seconds.
Nencini retain his overall Norrkoping of Sweden 4-3. audible even at a distance of race leader's yellow Jersey with The score was deadlocked at 100 yards, just at the first of the 1635 an aggregate time of 73:13:241-1 at ball-time UPI,
hairpin bende he had t
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negotiate. When, his time was chalked up it was a foregone conclusion that he would run away with It in the GS Class, Second run
first run so it was decided there and then to hold: the second run a few minutes later in order to enable every one to have the rest of the
afternoon to themselves
Arthur Olaca drove nicely the With only a few exceptions, frst time out and his 68.1 after the experience gained in seconds for the 150cc class was the Arst climb, much faster the best registered then. Eddie times were recorded in the Rozario, winner in this section second run and when rain fell at Stanley put up a disappointing for about ten minutes, making
second show the
tline aul the course slippery, the remain- left to and it was
George ing three competitors were ask- lower Huntley to
Olaes ed if they wanted to carry on time which he did even- but one look at the blackboard tually as Olaes could im- and the wet ground was suf prove on his original timing by
clent to deter them and they only 0.1 seconds widle Huntley passed up the chance for, the.. cut down his from 71.2 to 65.5 second run which they were
C. C. Wong knocked off almost 3 seconds in his second run but Everything went well in this 11 was not enough as Vas was Second Hill Climb and only 5.3 seconds. faster than he was.
one false start was made. Of all *." "It was only. 1280 p.m. after persons this had to come from all the scooters had had their amateur jockey Mac Roža who was seen to urge on his GS at the finish!
Two women's
entitled to.
Dinner
At the dinner held at the Shatip Inn the Club's Vice"
world records President Joe Botelho congratu
in one day
Vienna, July 10, Iolanda Babe, the 28- year-old Rumanian, beat her own women's world high Jump record in Bucharest today when she citared 1.86 · metres · (six feet one inch) Bucharest Radio reported.
Mim....... Balas's'. previous, best jump was 185 metres *(six feet 834 inches) in Bucharest last month, She first cleared the 1.30 metres (five feet 10 inches) mark in 1958 and and has since beaten they' several times-Beuter,
Maastricht, July 19. Dutch swimmer Ria Van Velsen toddy, bettered her own women's world record for the 100-metre back- stroke, making it in one minnie, 19,5 seconds,
Four weeks ago niso set the world's fastest time aḥ 1:11,0. "Germany's Helgs Behmidt finished second in 1:12. beiting a new Ger man national record. M. The new world record was established during s two-day swiming meeting between Holland and Ger- many, held in the Jekerdul 50-metre open wwimming pool
THE GAMBOLS by Barry Appleby
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lated the winners and all those who took part for their keen mess and also thanked the
donors of the three prizes, Caltex (Asia) Ltd.
To conclude, congratulations must be extended to one of the Club's oldest members, Benny "Smiley Look who has never missed taking part in any
and also another competition extremely kéén driver Mila Anna Ding who ended up mid- way in the 150 e.c section. A very enjoyable outing Indeed
CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN ·
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Athletics match
Siena, July, 10. Italy beat Yugoslavia by 1115 prints th 965 may athiedes meeting which exted here today. Reuter,
Johnson, Yang both break decathlon world record
Eugene, N
July America's Rafer Johnson « and Formosa's C. K. Yang
· both » smashed the Rus- stan-held world decathlon record after a tense duel here yesterday.
Johnson, a 24-year-old” aft 3in. Negro featured in a great comeback after a road smash to run up a total of 8,683 - points for the ten events at the AAU and Olympic Trial: Decathlon Championship Meeting."
C. K Yong, a. Formosan student at the University of California at Los Angeles and a close friend of Johnson "was 237 Points behind at 8,426, 12 recognised world record of 8,357 points set by the Soviet Union's Vasily Kuznetsov in Moscow in May last year.
Both were far in front of the
TIMES AND DISTANCES
Times and volato A VARI
put up by Johnson and Yang here, and
by Kuznetsov in setting the previous world record, were:.
100 metres; Long ump: Shot put:
High Jump: 400 metres: High hurdles
JOHNSON 10.8.sec 24ft 91⁄4 ing 12 feet
5 ft 10 ins 48.5 secs. 14.8 secs 170'ft 8% ins 18. 04. ips
Pole Vault: · 233 ft. 3 ing
Javelin Total points: 8,683
1,500 metres: 5 min 9,8 secs
YANG 10.7 sec9 25 ft 5 ins
48 7% ins
5 ft 6 ins
48.0 secs
14.1 sacs
138 ft. 6 ins 13 ft 10 ing 239 215 in 5:09.3 8,428
KUZNETSOV -10.7 sec
24 11.1% fas 48 ft 2 In 6-
24 ins
49.2 seca
14.7 Becs
189: 101⁄2 ins
13 ft 0 ins 21361⁄2 izs 5:04.6 8,367
Beuter,
DYSON PREDICTS
ARTHUR ROWE
Throw discussed
GEOFF DYSON. Optimistic
ROME WILL SEE BRITAIN'S BEST
By TERRY O'CONNOR
Geoff Dyson, Britain's chief Olympic coach, survey- ed the encouraging, recent athletics perform- ,ances with this confident statement: "We will do even better than at Melbourne four years ago when we won 13 medals,
to
[
said ympic
Our team for Rome will be the stronges
leave this country, although the opposition will be even Dyson while coaching sprint, relay team:
"The public do not appreciate the strength of British athletics, which, has been achieved
out proper facilities or the train- ing centres now common in mout
3o and mot Empressed,”
erforza
“which; ranka: Rowe, scontid
the American Bill Nieder
He must achieve these dis- bla best foria ho lances in a proper competition. could win a medal in both Rows is capable of great things sorinia. I am also optimistic even winding an Olympic title, About our sprint relay team but he must be more com which is capable of running operative.. OF
139.8 seconds, which stood as booked
world record for 24 yeaSTY.” Brian Kent Smith, the | Dyson was even
farmer's on who might have. more optimistic when he talked about given up athleiles but for any the brilliant crop of youngsters invitation to compete at April who are now coming up to Glasgow during the Scotland- challenge the seniors Therezland Soccer International were many signg of this during "howed the way back for British the last fortnight/
|miling at Motspur Park with a
winning life of unin 0.7a0c.
Top class
He owed a gre of to the | distance, rundër
Michael Hildrey, en 18-year who old Bcottish schoolboy, won his the country's two sprint tiles with 2 Bes the Impressive me of 0.8ellers can ru
seconds for 100 yards and 215
seconds in the furlong
Tony Harris ran third ki the Southern
Xunities
while". 10-yeIT. showed the clas by Herb Bai
Har