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BOXING.
BANTAM WEIGHT CONTEST IN ALBERT HALL,
"PRIDE OF POPLAR" BEATEN
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HOW LADIES' GOLF HAS CHANGED-
BUT, NO GAIN ON MAN,
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HARRY VARDON, SIN TIMES OPEN CHAMPION.]
Not the least interesting feature of the present season's golf has been the rise of an entirely new genera- Lexpos, October ath. tion of first-class lady players. It The principals in to-night's seems to be definitely established Bfreen-round bantam weight con- that Miss Joyce Wethered and Miss test at the Albert Hall, Teddy Cel Leitch have retired from Baldock (Poplar), who claims the championships, and the standard World's title, and. Willie Smith now is set by a galaxy of young (South Africa), are both and stars, of whom Mlle. Somone de la coaldeut. Both weighed in under Chaume, of Paris, the new cham- the stipulated eight stone eight. pion; Miss Dorothy Pearson of INTER Tunbridge Wells; Miss Enid Wi- Smith has won over Baldock, on sou, of Chestericid; Me. Manette points.
The Albert Hall was crowded, there being many Colonials among those, present. '
It was
a "clean, keen, up-standing and typically English fight, ably refereed by the ericketer, Johnny Douglas,
Fight Described. The opening rounds were fought at a tremendous pace. quickly established his superiority. Smith he being the more scientific fighter. He played on Baldock's moderate in-fighting qualities with great skill. and displayed a masterly defence and tremendous stamine, outboxing Baklock almost throughout the con- test, not allowing him to force the fight. He floored him momentanly with a right clip to the point in the eighth round. He skilfully and in. perturably stalled ali Baldock's desperate efforts to knock him out in the closing stages, though he was badly cut on the mouth.
Bian, of Lille Miss Betty Inglis, the new Scottish champion: and Miss Hilda Cameron, the run- ner-up for the Scottish title, are notable examples. I suppose the average age of these six. is about 20. so that events in the higher walks of feminine rivalry on the links saght to be full of interest for a good many years.,
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How the players mentioned com- pare with Miss Wethered and Miss Leitch is difficult to say, because these hitherts dominating figures T CONTON ir amended from Date in ladies' golf have given up strenuous competition when vir tually at the height of their powers, It is possible that a new generation possessing so many players of talent who have started to distin guish themselves very early in life even will transcend the glories of there'
enthusiastic scenes. their predecessors, At any rate, Smith was besieged by
South already they have opened the eyes Africans and kissed by
several of those righteously cautious women. He states that he weighed critics, who, seeing them competing two ounces under the lantam limits children in the girls champion- and therefore intends to claim the ship, declined to spoil them with world's title. He remains in Eng praise, and preferred to say that, land, hoping for a match against after all, they were only good in Bud Taylor, to win, he said, the the kindergarten class. world's championship, for South Africa and the Empire.
The verdict was most popular and
were
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having amited, Consigness of Cargo by Miss Wilson has yet to be more landed at their risk into the hazardous ber are informed that all Goods are being than a semi-finalist in a champion- and/or extra-bazardous Godowns of Holt's ship for grown-ups,, but she has Wharf, whence Delivery may be obtained. shown that she possesses the at- No tributes, that make for success in
Claima be admitted after the Goods hars big golf-pretty much
and the at Goods the Godowns,
undelivered after 11th tributes of Miss Leitch-for, if she Oetboer, will be subject to Rent, lacks the delicate artistry of Miss All Claims against the Steamer must Wethered, she hins remarkable be prevented to the Undersigned on ar power of hitting with every elus. before 18th October, 1927, or they will and equally great power of not be covery from difficult situations.
+ be recognized.
There is no need to blink the fact that, with unusual height and weight for a girl of seventeen- I think she stands about 5 ft. 10 in, and weighs something like 11 stone she has as good a chance as anybody of winning the English native championship in
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America Eehlad. Of Mlle de in Chaune it is suit- cient to say that, at the age of eighteen, she has jumped from the Some, 30 years ago, Mr. Horace juniors into the position of the Hutchinson, the amateur champion world's lady champion. Her first of his day, found that he could give rent step towards that distinction nine strokes in a round to the best was to beat Miss Leiten in the final of the Misses Orr, of North Ber- of last renson's French open chamwick, three sisters who established that resuit in the semi-final of the reaching the semi-final and mono- pionship. Miss Leitch reversed the remarkable family record
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received this allowance in her committee's aplendid work.
These are among the signs that matches against first-class golfers The Asscociation strongly sup of the best quality, and it seems to very well with it, since she beat the young blood in ladies's golf is in the maculine ranka. She did ports the committee's view of the be better in Europe than in the the late Tom Ball, one of the best importance of rural training for United States. There are probably professionals of his time, by one immigrants into Australia wishing far more women players in America hole on his home green. West Lan- to take up work on the land, but than in any other country, but, for cashire, and defeated Mr. Harold points out that British conditions seine reason, they do not develop Hilton by 9 and 1 in a match of. e so widely different that it is all at the game in the same ratio holes at Walton Health and Sun. preferable to educate immigrants as their brothers. They have a ningdale.
qa Australian training-farms. The brillant representative in Miss Association has already approach Glenna Collett, but her visits to ed the Government, with a view to Britain fase been unlucky.
Touch And Temperament, obtaining a farm for British ads,
Miss Wethered, possessed of the comprising 20,000 virgin
If there is one weakness which, gift of striking the ball with ex- tyrieal of the country where it is itself in ladies' golf, it is a slack done well enough to justify the acres, excent in rare instances, manifests traordinary accuracy, may have intended to settle immigrants, and nees in mashia play. The observer belief that no man could give her similar to the farm on which many cannot help being impressed by the more tha, six strokes, and that, members of the Association made frequency with, which lady golfers unless her opponent played at the between £10,000 and £20,000 in a with obviously inborn abilities at top of his form, she would not need few years.
The Association wishes to know The outstanding players are these anybody else has the ability to re
the game scoop their mashie shots, that number, but it is doubtful if. whether Lord Lovat's Committee and whe- with this club.
this propozal interests whe swing firmly Carough the ball fute the old-established theory of ther it will be able to co-operate majority fail with it! Is it just to the best of the feminine golfers. Why do the man's capacity to give nine strokes in any way, ts such a farm would the
feminine be capable of absorbing a large daintiness, or it is lack of resolule a matter of physical inequality instinct towards Why is itt Certainly it is far less. number of British immigrants a wrists? nually, who would be given a valu.
than it used to be. Presumably the able opportunity to understand the adies's championships of 20 years perament, the sexes will always be To the person who remembers the reason is that, in touch and tem conditions governing their future ago, there is no more impressive as dissimilar as they have been holdinga. If necessary, the Aa phase of evolution than the build since the Garden of Eden, and that sociation is prepared to take up and stature of the modern players. a certain extra length which women management of the farm it finan-Without loss of grace, they have have acquired in driving the golf cial arrangements can be made gained so much in height and ball is not sufficient to affect the under the Imperial scheme,
power, as compared with the lady balance, crested by more abstruse One Year's Training, golfers of the previous generation qualities in a game which somebody One year's training would be that, by all the laws of logic, they has described as being "aine- ample in most cases, and if the ought to be steadily nearing the tenths mental various Governments were to cooficiency set up by their male operate with the London commit-examplars, who present very much golfers are splendid drivers. Why Some of the present-day indy tee, they should be able to guaran- the same physical appearance as is it that feminine gollers do not tee every immigrant aquitable their forebears. Yet the truth is excel in shot that call for delicacy block ca leaving the farm. There that the Indies are not doing it. of touch These, by universal con- is no reason, states the letter, why fome do, indeed, phay passing well sent, are the most telling strokes in thousands of Britain's sons should on courses designed to test the skill the game, and one might expect not be able to avail themselves of and hitting power of man, but ex them to be woman's province. It such an opportunity, and an effi- cept, perhaps, in the case of Miss is indisputable, however, that, in elently managed farm should soon Wethered, they remain, so far as the short approaches to the hole, ray and produce a surplus in a concerns golfing ability, in much man is superior. few years. The Association in the same position in relation to the ball with a delicacy of touch and, He strikes the tends to discuss the matter with male creature na they occupied in at the same time, a firmness, that Mr. Amery when he reaches the dim and distant past. Adelaide, The Times,
seems to be outside the range of woman's many divine gifts.
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