HENRY LONGTHURST òn GOLF
RECORDS AND RULES
Before enjoying the luxury of riding two of my favourite hobby horses this week, namely faster play and the rules of golf, let me congratulate Roberto de Vicenzo on what even he may not know to be a very unusual achievement.
In winning the French Open Championship recently with 72, 70, 68 and 65 - he had four rounds each of which was lower than the one before.
In 100 years of our own Open Championship this has only been accomplished by the winner three times by Jack White at Sandwich in 1904. Ben Hogan at Carnoustie in 1953, and Gary Player at Muirfield last year.
After diligent search through a maze of figures I can find only half a dozen others who, though not winning, have achieved four rounds on a descending scale: Roger Wethered, when he tied in 1921: Ted Bay; Arthur Havers: Tony Cerda; Gene Surazen (at the age of 52).
Jane in history, so far as I can discover la baying bad four rounds, each of them one stroke below the one before,, was Sam King with 74. 73, 72. 77 at Carnoustie in Hogan's
year.
Tilt at the rules
I always enjoy an occasiona! tt at the Rules of Colf, which occupy 93 pages, logether with a vast volume of case law in the shape of Decisions and which I had no difficulty in condensing, to my own satisfac tion anyway, to i comfortably on the back of a score card.
The present case comes from the Bedfordshire Club, where "A" is addressing his ball on the 13th leg while "B" is play- ing his second to the 12th green. Missing the green on the right -it always
slicer's course! "B" contrives to lodge his ball against "A's" at the precise moment of impact and "A" hits both together.
was a
Absurd?
"A" hits quite a good shot with his own ball, but the luck- less "B's" is lost. By "A" of course, not by "B"-but nothing that I can find in 93 pages absolves "B" from going back, playing
anothe and losing stroke and distance for losing his ball. It I am right, this is manifestly absurd. If I am not, where am I wrong? Will some keen links lawyer please oblige?
From the same club comes news of a new "record."
It is the custom after the match between the Old Bed- fordians and The School - I do not know who started it but it is rather fun for the boys team of 12, each armed with three Irons, to see how
Richards drops
of forced Cup entry next season
drops hint
By ROY PESKETT
quickly they can propel a ball round nine holes. They station themselves round the course and the boy whe holes out runs and drives off the next lee. eigh! This year, they broke minutes for the first time and The School hall did nine holes in 3 minutes 50 seconds, or rather less than it takes four players in the Canada Cup to putt on one green.
I hear, too, of' fun and games at Frilford, where the Brase- nome Golf Club, known as the "Sockets," held an invitation knook-out competition for 16 players, to be completed in a single day.
Everyone, win or lose, played four rounds. The first match drove of ut 6 am, and the last finished at 7.48 p.m. and the event provided yet another the triumph for Australia, in person of Bill MacKinnon, a 9 handicap player from Pembroke.
Nine balls lost
The winner, who had four rounds in the 70s and in the fourth went out in 38, pulled a full set of 14 clubs round on a trolley. The runner-up, on the other hand. David Carruthers, of Brasenase, carried his own, as did six others, including the anonymous all-time loser who, I was beaten in every round.
One fellow lost nine balls. another, who has more than once represented the University, Look 51 for nine holes, and it is perhaps not surprising that form
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1950,
Britain's best woman sprinter Olympic Games means
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Colony Championship: Men's Open Singles fourth round match KDC, KEGC, KCC, Bezel, HKỰC,
Ladies' Singles on the whole, as my correspon-matches at KFC, dent puts it, was "very fluctuai- KBGC, KCC. ing."
On the other hand the average time per round was 24 hours and the fastest-the last was 14 hours. We are not all in the
of full flush of youth. Nevertheless, If these spirited young fellows can play four rounds in two and
com-
season
It is likely that the League, angered by the refusal
six big clubs to enter the new League Cup petition, will make it compulsory next Answering a question at last week's general meeting, president Joe Richards said significantly "It's not compulsory....this year."
The strong appeals to the six | rebel clubs Arsenal. Wolves, Spure, West Bromwich, Luton and Sheffield Wednesday---have not been heeded. The draw will be made at the League's
Lytham
new headquarters near Blackpool, about Aug. 4 with the original 86 starters.
Not even the bonuses for pro- gress in the Cup will tempt the players of these clubs to try to force a change of mind.
Slim chance
One club captain told me yes- terday: "We feel that our club has made a wise choice. We want to win the League cham- pionship, and we always like to make a run in the FA Cup. A prolonged stay in the Longue upset ou mala Cup might hopes."
The League Cup bonuses are slightly more
generous
than
those allowed in the FA Cup, but talent money is less,
The new Cup is aith in line importance. President cf 'Richards says it takes preced- ence only after internationals. representative games..FA Cup- tles, and League games in that order.
The two-legged final will be the played on the grounds of competing clubs some time in April.
The situation between the League and the Professional Footballers Association is still delicately balanced. I don't think the chance of the players getting any immediate satisfac- tion to high:
their demands is very
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extraordinary that some people
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Working at her job as a tracer for the National Coal Board is miner's daughter Dorothy Hy. man, 19, of Cudworth, Yorkshire, Britain's No. 1 woman sprinter, Holder of both the. 100 and 220 yards AAA titles for the past two years, and best performances of 10.8 and 24 seconds for the 100 and 220 yards, Dorothy has an ambitious eye, on higher things at Rome this summer. Incidentally, Dorothy is no relation to long-distance runner -Mar- tin Hyman, who may also be in Rome.-London Ex- press photo.
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London, Aug, 1.
To many countries, the Olympic Games means not only a struggle for athletic supremacy but a struggle to find enough money to send their top sportsmen, to compete against the world's best. Although the Games are less than four weeks away countries like Malta and Canada are still trying to raise funds and South Korea is still uncertain of how many competitors it. can send until the government decides the amount of its grant,
move
Many nations are assisted by build the new Olympic venues reach the top and the government grants, but two of and village for the competitors, from sea to air travel, costs the most powerful, United States Finland, Holland and Hungary have risen so much that smaller and Britain, rely entirely on the also used football pools." generosity of the public,
State-financed
In 1958 the American public oversubscribed the Olymple ap- peal to send its team to Mel. $1,663,302 (about
bourne by
Only through the generosity of the Italian committee will the Chilean flag be flown Rome.
After the recent earthquake disasters, Chile announced that It had withdrawn from the
countries must be wondering i
it is worthwhile to compete when there is little chance of success.
Typical of today's training schedules in that adopted by the crack Australian swimming team.
For the past month they have been in
Comp In £650,000). This year, however, Games as all available money
sunny an appeal for another $1,500,000 was needed to help restore the
devastation. had to be
Italy replied by Townsville, North Queensland, (about £535,700)
offering to pay all expenses of and they will stay there until made
just before they leave for Rome. the Chilean team.
In contrast, America's main rival in the race for Olympic medals. Epal, has no mich problem, with the state pro viding for all expenses.
Other countries which will be clirely state-financed to Rome are France, Japan, Belgium and Austria.
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In only one country, Australia. has the public really failed to get behind the appeal for funds. The estimated cost of sending
the team to Rome was £67,000. but the appeal realised only
£20,000 sterling.
Malta is still £1,300 short of its target, and its yachting team faces the prospect of sailing' in an eight-year-old boat..
Football pools
Football pools have played a major part in the raising of Anance. The Italian Olympic the which runs Committee, country's national football paal, is one of the world's wealthies! sporting bodies. Apart from its team's expenses, the Italian Committee had to provide a
Rising costs
Other countries have sent their top athletes on extensive European tours.
and Hungary, Rumania Columbia relied on special) Japan; however, has already stamps for funds. Hungary ended all the headaches of for the 1964 and Columbia issued a special money-raising Olympic sel, but Rumania Gatnes which will be held in issued a stamp to be sold with Tokyo. The Japanese Olympie every soccer and rugby match Committee has announced it ticket.
will cover all transportation With the more intensive costs of the competing nations. training schedules requined to Reuter.
FAMOUS SPORTS STARS
THE ONLY MAN TO PLAY
IN FIVE CUP FINALS
By ARCHIE QUICK
major part of the finance to The only man to play in five Cup Finals, Joe Hulme
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As always
Joe
would never be recognised today as the slim, flying winger of his Arsenal days whose great speed and terrific cross shot were the bane of all left full-backs and goalkeepers.
up
has matured inlo а He played county cricket for genial, rotund sports journalisi, Middlesex for twelve years but it says much for the en- to the outbreak of the last war thusiasm of this great player of as a change right arm bowler, a most ball games that now ul middle of the innings bat, and, the age of fifty-four he can as can be imagined, a brilliant still make a hundred break at out-felder. billards, run up a good snooker score and his only handicap, Ave
at Muswell Hul Golf Club.
Over 11 years
He has always been a star on the billfards table, and when he was younger he was a scratch golfer.
He was also placed in the Powderhall Professional Sprint.
Joe still roams the highways Now Joe lives in North London,
father of proud
twin and byways of football and the cricket for his national news- daughters whom he grudgingly paper, but, as he says, he is a admits are now thirty-two years little more now than the fleet of age!
tan stones he was in his heyday Prior to going to Arsenai and and considerably more Borld Huddersfield Hulme played for than the pale young man of the his home town York City and county. cricket grounds and then went to Blackburn Rovers. League football enclosures of the lite twenties and early 'thirlios.
Hulme made his appear- anges at Wembley in 1927, 1936, 1932, 1936 uzid 1938, ♣ wonderful record extending as it does over eleven years, but he was on the winning side, only in 1990 and 1936 when Arsenal defeated Hud- dersfield Town and Sheffield United.
Two All-Star baseball games next year
Baseball
Frick
New York, Abg. 2. Commissioner Ford has announced the Major Leagues will again play two All-Star games next year, but in the 1962 season and thereafter the Learnce will revert to the traditional one rame. The 1961 games will bea month apart.
Both teams from the York- shire of which Joe is a native. And, of course, it was with Hud- dersfield that Huline went to Wembley the fifth time in 1938. Something sensational always seemed to happen at Wembley when Joe was around. The 1927 Final WAS the occasion
The first game in the 1981. when poor Jim Lewis. Arsenal's
sesiacin will be played in goalkeeper, let slip through his Candlestick Park, home of the arms the only goal of the match
San Francisco Giants in July. against Cardiff City from the The second will be in an late Hughie Ferguson. That Eastern American League city, was the only time the prized the exact site to be determined trophy has ever gone to Wales, later.
and as Lewis was * Welshman
Frick Bald today the players,
he came in for some calumny. by 8-1 vote) were in favour
County cricketer ·
of the two games next year, and permission was given by Then in 1932 there happened the 10 Major League clubs, the much-debated, goal, troi Frick said added television Newcastle United's Tominy money after the 1961 on Allen when almost everybody would make unnecessary. except referee Harper thought second game after 1961. the ball had gone over the The second game, first played backline before it was centred in 1959, was requested by the back to Allen by Johnny players in order to provide their Richardson. It cost Arsenal additional money for draw.
persion fund-P
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Finally, when Hulme had been fransferred to Huddersfield and that dub wate playing Preston
North End at Wembley, the Beirut soccer XI Best Town's ventre halt. All Young
bepught down inside right lose in Shanghai
George Mutch with the last
kick of the game and referee
Jewell extended the match for A football team computed of Match himself take the Shaoghal payers penalty and, convert the only Berrut Bacing Club Foal of that hectic Final team from Lebarion 5-0 in a
siderato seven occasions.
generally in collaboration
opposite wing
Tootball!
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