BLARNEY
TO
GOOD
STONE
START
HONOURS TO CLUB-CONQUERING
RECREIO 'A' IN OPENING GAMES The Blarney Stone Sevon-a-Side Rugby Charity Tournament got away to a fine stort at the Club Stadium last night. Despite the "South Wales" type of weather the first-round games were watched by a good crowd, who were given their money's worth in thrills, if not in spectacular rugger. The sight of such a number of supporters must have been heartening to the organisers, who, however, are hoping for more support for the other two sessions to be played tonight and on Saturday.
O'Neill hits
112 runs in
up
130
Test batsman
hit
up
minutes
runs
Launceston, Mar, 15,
Norman O'Neil in 130 112 minutes when the Australian
cricketers
England to Lour began
a three-day game against a Combined XI here today.
The Tour side totalled 383. At the close, the Combined XI, made up of Australian Test players Bob Simpson and Ron Gaunt
Tasmanian und mine players, nad scored 28 without
Joss,
Richle, Benaud and his team will play-two Lames in Tas- mania and then retums to the mainland for a match in Perth before salling for England on March 29.
O'Neill and Bin Lawry, who will be making his first tout put on 129 in 83 minutes in their second wicket partner-
took 30 minutes, ship. Lawry
4ils Arst four runs, but for then hit 60 more In 68 minutes. -Reuter.
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1961.
'SEVENS'
is
Main credit in last evening's "Sevens" rugger, which matches must lie given to the only to be expected from such! young lads Iroin the Club deja relatively inexperienced side. Recreto, who astounded the!
win
critics and the Club, to
By "PROP"
Wayfrong which is scheduled for 0.80 Tn this evening should be a very good game and conid casily produes ER quarter- 'Anelist!
OFF GOLF
0.10 pm-14th Fld Regt vs Recrelo "A".
0.30 pm-Dragons VA St Brides Bay.
0,50 pm--Wayfoong II V5
7.10 pm-Police "A" V3 Woodbridge Haven.
7.30 pm--RAF "B" vs Royal Warwick Regt.
Dixon is probably one of RAF. the best "Sevens forwards in the Colony, and Weavill in a better place-kicker than any the Wayfcong side can raise, but even this slight edge may not be enough against a wide which last night produced the most intelligent football that way scen.
7.50 pm-Woodbridge Haven "B" vs RNF.
Results
"
In the opening game tonight
Results of last night's games Royal Signals
will meet the were: Stanicy Stragglers,
team R. Signals 3 32. Med Rezi which contains a number on RA 0. the Colony's "whistlers! referee selected to handle this game will have to be on lop from the word gol
Fancied side
The RAF "C" 3 Stanley Stragglers
Wood- hondur
the win- RAF-Wayfoong 1
5.
Wayfoong JI beat IIKRNA, W. O.
Police "B" 3 Club "" 9.
14 Fid Regt RA ↑ Club de Recreio "B" 0.
Club de Rversio "A" 6 Club "A" 5.
Club "C" 0 Dragon: 13. IIMS St Brides Bay 8 HMS Tamar 0.
32 Med Regi HA 0 Wayfoong
-RAF "A" 13 14th Fid Regt
114.
At 7.10 pm another fancied ride take the field, the Police The most impressive sides on "A". They meet HMS by the, odd point in eleven.
show last night were Wayfoon bridge Haven for the Gaink into the lead in the and the RAF "A". Wayfoong of doing battle with first half with a penalty well had a very convincing victory ners of the Taken by Manuel Xavier they over last year's winners, 32 held on to their lead gamely Medium Regiment RA.Their clash. anti, following heavy Club seven is very well knit, and i This gamo will be followed pressure on their line. Tancuck its rength seems to be in by the appearance of the
in winners of the recent stole "round the corner" from Pite's hooking and speed
Army a serum near the line to score. the loose and the smooth half-Sevens, the Royal Warwick HA 0. Moore, with an exceptionally back combination of Kennedy | Regiment. This last named side. line kick, put the Club in front and Robertson. Lust night has a very solid look about it. at the Interval.
there three players were res- The forwards are good and After the brief respileponsible for the whole of the me
speedy. Hextall is to deford Wayfoong score, made up
of average nt scrumhalt and Recreio were forced
one goal and three tries. as fest Wilson
Cresswell on the wing is fast. strongly
ind
RAF "B" will have their hands en Kelly threatened their live.
Full gainst this side.
Winning try
Pushing the Club back into their own half the Portuguese boys produced the waining try following a splendid mave among the backs, Orthodox
the
passing gave bali to Dantly Figueiredo who found Manu Xavier him the extra mon.
outside Xavier
I was able to pull away from the Club defence and score half- way to the posts, but he could nct produce the goni points.
The BAF found fairly stiff 10- sistance in 14th Field Regiment RA but good trics by Raw and D.xom and a runaway effert from the speedy Dolg won them a place in the second round. The clash between the RAF
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Club started to panic and nearly gave away another try. They then pressed hard and all bat scored, but Recicto wil some truly splendid tackling stood firm and that was that.
Recreio
well worth were their win but
the were not outstanding side from the point of view of playing the best pm.
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BY MADDOCKS \MAJOR }
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above
The Anal
game of the the Royal evening features
and Northumberland Fusiliers HMS Woodbridge Haven "B".
The later stages of the (cursament will undoubtedly show more even ploy. In the draw, Club second half of the
de Recreio should go through to their second successive final, but the other finalist can come from
of the following: my Wayfoong 1, RAF, Police Royal Warwick Regiment.
Tonight's programme
CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
P&
A
or
Tonight's draw and starting times are:
5.30 0.30
pm-R. Signals Stanley Stragglers.
Badminion Colony Junior finals et INC, 730
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WORRIES OF
MY OWN
5.50 pm-Wayroong Club "B".
WELL, WE MAY AS WELL GET GOING,
YEP! IT'S COOLER WALKING
AT NIGHT
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By BOBBY
JONES
Jr.
St Andrews
-the British
Amateur
In the first round of the British Amateur I was drawn against a player from Nottingham named Sid Roper. About all anyone seemed to know of Roper be yond his habitat was that he was a very ordinary golfer. And I was told by one of my friends who professed to know him that
he would most likely not play any hole better-than five.
At the very beginning of play for the Grand Slam, I had one great stroke.
of good fortune. Lstarted my first round 3, 4, 2, 4 against par figures of 4, 4, 4, 4, 5.
Holf
This must have taken the gallery stewards by surprice, for suddenly they rushed over and begun "moving spectators off the edge of the green near the road.
I holed a good putt for a 3 at The natural conditions under of the bag and stepped up 10
match was played play without hesitation. the st. pliched almost dead, which this for a three at the third, holed a
most were the
severe have shot of 120 yards from a bunker
<ver encountered 01: A at the fourth for a double-engle course. 2, and reached the long fifth in two to pick up another birdle.
The greens were hard and fast and the wind was blowing Roper played each one of the toward the sea at something Rve holes very precisely in
more than half a gale. Sand rach; so at the end of five holes. was being whipped from the I was 5 under par, and only 3 bunkers and spectators and up. What's more. my op-players alike were seeking ponent and not turned a whisker reture behind the dunes and and playing line golf shots ቤና whins whenever a lul in the though he would keep an doing play developed. so forever.
After this blazing begin- ning, it was only humanly expectable that I should fat. ter some. The very fortunate thing is that I did not falter much.
Played myself out
The angle that appealed 10 me as funny was that the rush of the stewards Jind been so spontaneous and ingenuous that it was quite obvious there was no ulterior purpose of up- setting me. I could appreciate that with the turid history of the hole, it was unthinkable to them that
a man should allowed to play from the Road Having every Bunker without
the opportunity to play into
!
I could not suppress a smile
When I finally won on the first extra hole, where Tolley left himself open to a stymie, I had played myself om-road. pletely out that the only feel- ing to which I was sensitive as I stepped back from my ball was one of utter exhaustion. to allow the stowards to com- plete their work. Seeing my close anile,
the crowd and the one with Jimmy stewards,
too, caught the Amerienti
humour of the situation and ail and the had a good laugh.
I had two more very matches.
With a Ave on the par-il:ree eighth hole, occasioned by being laid an unmakable stymie, I was out in 33. And when the minich ended on the sixteenth green, i had two 's left for 68, which, Johnston. even with the stymie, would Amateur Champion, have equalled the amateur other, which i should have lost,
record carller,
the
I had set three years with my Walker Cup teammate, Had our fun
Golf's uncertainties
George Volgt.
be
against
a bitter disappointment.
It was
When we had had our fun The nat. however,
and things had quieted down, Roger Wethered, went as nearly I popped the ball onto the occording to play as any match green and watched it trickle Jever played. Although my
down the slope and stop four Mr Roper, who had been ex-golf had not been devastating feet from the hole, whereupon pected to play few holes under to play thirty holes at St. I missed the pult and acquired five. had actually required that Andrews in 2 under 4's could my first 3 of the round. many strokes an only one, the certainly
regarded อง sixteenth, which he three- satisfactory. The figures on the putted. The other fifteen he card or five 3's, three 5's and played in 4 each. On the basis twenty-two 4's were 3 falr of comparative scores, I think he refection of the play, with would have won from any other nothing stolen and nothing player in the field in that round. thrown away, I know he would have beaten me on any other day of the tournament, except possibly on the morning of the final match.
And there you have one of the major uncertainties of a golf tournament. In order to win, you must play your best rolf when you need it and play your sloppy when you can afford it.
most. stuff
I shall not attempt to explain. how you achieve
timing.
this happy
mat- Sever elghteen-kole ches, four of them gruelling, and one at thirty-six holes. represent a fairly busy week of golf. The Briksh Open was coming up in two weeks.
Someone had told me that the Old Course had nover
Winning the British Amateur been played In competition had meant a lot to me. Even without at least one 5 on the if this should be the only cham- card. As I neared the finish of pionship won during the year, the morning round of the with it I had now won, at one final with nothing but 4's and time or another, all four major 3's. I began to have an am-championships. I should, there bition to be the first to a fore henceforth feel no obliga- complish this feat.
to continue playing In competition unless I felt it,
Took a chance But at the famous Road Hole, |
tion
Finally, the Inescapable fact with my opponent safely on the was that I could not win all Teen with his second chat, I four without the orat one, and Even before play commenced, had to take a chance, and so this first one had always been everyone around St Andrews put my own second into the for me the most difcuit. This scemed to be looking forward Road Bunker. My bail was ly-one tournament had put to the possible meeting of Cyriling quite cleanly on the white, more than one-quarter of the Tolley and on Wednesday powdery sand, and the hole, cut distance on the way to afternoon. This was very de- between the bunker and the goal Anitely one eighteen-hole match roud, was only a short distance into
me
which I went with the away. It was the one shot in complete realisation of its vast golf I could play better than any import and difficulty.
olher.
been
A
no
Cyril had always
Since the shot required fearsome competitor in this study and no preparation, as championship. He had won it soon as I saw the position of the
ball; for the second time the year
pulled a nibile bal before, and SO would carry with him the very considerate prestige and responsibility of the defending champion. He was a bl, powerful fellow with an exquisite touch In the shorl game, and, in my opinion, the most dangerous man could possibly meet in an eighteen- hole match at St. Andrews.
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