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EXHIBITION TENNIS.
LUM AND ARAGON BEAT LOCAL CHAMPIONS.
DOES GORDON LUM FOOT
FAULT?
GOLF NOTES.
[BY WRYNECK."]'
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1930.
Miss Helen Hicks is making her. first visit to England and is an 18-year-old girl from Long Island, where she is known as "Hard- hitting Helen." She is credited with perfect golf temperament" and hits the bali prodigious dis tances.
Ia winning the Canadian Cham- pionship, last year she was opposed
I noticed, playing over the hofito Miss Collett in the semi-final and days, that the grass had been ent apparently playing against her re- short in front of sine of the owned opponent, as she had de feated her on three occasions. The greens, notably at the Armchair. thus extending the area of the men's par for the first. nine. holes
at Ancaster-where the champion-. greens.
ship was played-isa dirult 30 whilst the women's par is 41. Miss
the greens at Fanling has been to make them heaply square or it anything, to make them wide and shallow.
Fast exchanges were the order of the day when Gordon Laws and
This is a move in the right direc- Francisco Aragon met the Rumjahotion, as the tendency in designing cousins in an exhibition game on the Stand Court of the Hong Kong Cricket Clab yesterday. The visi tors won by acts to 1, but after taking the first two with compara- tive case, they met with stem re- sistance from the Indian paff, lost the third set and were taken to swenty games before they could elaim the fourth one. The final scores in their favour were 6-2, 6-2,
3-6 and 11-9.
The nature" of "the fallways is all against a pitch-and-run shot, as you may get a horrible, kick, at the fourth, for instance where I am glad to see the same treatment has been applied-so we should give players as much true surface to pitch
un as possible.
The shot that is a little short should not be penalised unduly, whilst the shot which in off the line does not merit sympathetic treat
When the fourth is remodeled, I should like to see the width of the green kept down, making a fairly long, narrow putting area...
Long before the watch started. the grandstand was fell, as were the chairs, and henshes on the Naval" Yard end. Behind these, people were standing about ve or six deep and altogether the crowdment. was the largest seen on the ground for many long day. None of these fatis went away disappointed for they were treated to a spark
ing exhibition of really clever and
The ninth is another green which, just tennis. Gordon Lum. played better than he did in the singles in the unfortunate absence of any maich the day before; be smash-guarding bunkers, could be cut ed, volleyed, loobed and drove with down in width and perhaps long great accuracy while Aragon played thened a little with advantage. his usual hard-hitting game, flash- ing driven past the Indians time I went down to Deep Water Bay and again while his overhead work the other day to see if I could make was a delight to watch. They com- the acquaintance of our friend the bined Very well together, and though perhaps, they were caught Monkey and was pleased to find the once or twice with the wrong foot plenty of grass on it.
course in. sucli good condition, with forward, they played a very clever game, working their way up to theme what a magnificent opportunity net where they effected some bril liant kills," or, as occasion de manded, dropped back to the base Han, and from there directed some wall played shots.
The Local Pair.
Deep Water Bay.
Playing the second hole, it struck
thers is for making it an island green" by bunkering is right across the front. There is plenty of sand on tap, and at present you can get Lonto the green by taking a putter
off the tee.
Hicks was out in a marvellons 33 to Miss Collett's 37, and the latter was never able to recover the lust
ground. In the final Miss Hicks won by 7 and 3. She is the youngest player to have won the title.
י
ried of our tennis honours and it An American Helen has ear looks as if this golfing Helen will make a bold bid for the gold honours at Formby this month."
and Miss Leitch, it will be inter-
In the absence of Miss Wethered
esting to sea how our other women golfers fare in repelling the in vaders. I should not be surprised to see Miss Enid Wilson go a long ago she came to the front with a way toward the final. A few years
rush at a very tender age, but she seems to have stuck at a point just short of a very first flight.
Amateur's 72's at Weybridge.
won the 38 holes amateur stroke W. L. Hope (St. George's Hill) competition for the St. George's Hill silver trophy over that club's course at Weybridge with two rounds each of 72 and his aggre- gate of 144 was seven strokes ahead of his nearest opponent, W. L. Hartley. Hope's figures were all the more noteworthy as the condi- tiols were by no means easy. Show- ers of rain in the morning and rendered the greens extremely dif Eculty yet strangely enough it was aninis sore superb putting that enabled Hope to achieve his two
fue rounds” ·
The winner's best golf was in the second nine holes of the morning round, when he came home in 33. He started the "fireworks" at the Deep Water, suffers us a golf 30th, hole measuring 428 yards, course from its shortness, but this where he followed up a fine iron can be offset to a great extent by shot by sinking a three-yard putt cunning "trapping," and, nobody for an "eagle 3. He placed a wants to cover miles" "during the mashie shot dead for a "2 at the course of a round during the aum- short eleventh, and continued to play without the semblance of a
The pace at the start was per- naps a trifle too fast for the local pain, but once they get down to it, they put up a fine exhibition, and were particularly brilliant when it came to sharp volleying at the net. In this department of the game they more than held their own At the same time, it is the happy mistake, his figures home being, 3, against the visitors. S. A. Rum-hunting ground of our lady mem-2, 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4.
mer.
jabu gave
hers and, dare I say it, the in- RWAY a few points different performers. For this very through being too anxious to re- turn shots which apparently would reason we ought to make it a good
Iron Shots,
Charles Whitcombe, writing in
have gone outside, but apart from schooling ground for the develop one of the London dailies, says.
this he played a hard game.
Lum started the service and after two games all had been cailed, he and his partner took three running dropped, the next and then annex-
nient of golf shots, and of these, one of the most useful is that which goes high in the air. Besides which there is no reason why there should not be ladies tees and, incidentally, we could do with a lot more of
[
ed the niath, and the set. Aragon them on the Old Course at Fan- his very hard and accurately while
ling." Luo, after driving his opponents Women's International Golf. back to the baseline, dropped a "sliced" ball just over the net
At Sunningdale to-day a team of time after time. The Rumjahns put British women golfers, led by Miss up a gallant fight and brought off Mollie Gourlay, will meet a team sone very fine recoveries. The selected from the American women pace, however, proved rather too nach for them and they lost the second set alter taking the third and seventh games.
who have come over to compete in the championship, captained by Miss Glenna Collett.
The match is to be a friendly The third set saw them at their informal affair and is the outcome best, and they ran away with a 3-0 of a suggestion put forward by lead. They maintained this advan-Miss Collett, when she found how dage throughout the set and claim-many of her countrywomen were ed this stanza at 8.3.
coming over this year to play.
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"Some golfers get a reputation for putting and others for driving or approaching, but everyone would like to be known as a great player with the iron clubs.
"I used to think that my iron play was good enough; but sud denly it left me. Try how I would, the ball would not fly straight.
"The queer thing about these errant "shots 'was that it was the long ones which troubled me. was puzzled until one day I noticed that for the short shots my stance was different from that for the long ones.
"So I made my stance the same for the long shots as for the short, end the "ball Hew its 170 yards straight to the green.
"What I discovered was that for the long shots I had placed the hall too much in a line with the right heel, while for the shorter shots the ball was more nearly opposite the leit heel.
The fourth and last ect was the Since her thrilling tussle last best of the match. The local boys year with Miss Wethered at led at 4 games to nil, but nothing Andrewes, Miss Collett has retained daunted, Aragon and Lum brought her American title and will be mak the score to 5-4 their favour, and ing her third bid for the British from this stage ding dong Championship. struggle ensued. Each side won a Miss Virginia Van Wie is another game, in turn until 9 gaines all was member of the team and ranks as called. Then the visitors asserted the Number One golfer of Chiengo. themselves and annexed the next She was running-up in the US two games, the set and the match. Championship in 1929 and shared It was indeed a splendid set and top medal honours with Mias Helen the standard of play was excellent. Hicks in the 1999/erent, with ball, All of the players with the excep- score of 79
over the Oukland tion of Lum appeared to be feeling Court Club's links in Birmingham, the strain a little, and there was a Michigan.
sigh of relief when the battle was. (Continued on next Column.) over. Our champions last, but they lost gallantly though in fair ness to our visitors, it must be said that they put up one of the clever- est exhibitions of tennis seen on the Stand Court for a very long
Does Lam Foot-Fault?
time.
Watch Your Stance!
"A change of stance worked wonders. The loft on the longer clubs had magnified the effect of the Wrong stance: and when club met the ball was somewhat the squeezed pinched into ground before it started off.
OF
"I must not boast, but since I discovered and rectified this trouble my long gaine up to the green bas given me no qualms. I have since met other golfers who have lost stance and could not understand what had happened to their game. They still felt comfortable, and it was only when the ball went off the line that they knew "something was wrong
Our representative also saw Fran- cisco Aragon, and when asked what he thought of our courts, the Fili- pino champion said they were very Rood indeed." Grass courts are As there seems to be a general the thing in tennis, that is if the grass is good. Back in my home, faults every time, or almost every they are much faster, I would your stance! Make a mental note of time he serves, our representative rather play on grass every time." your position on the day when interviewed-him-aftor the match Mr. Aragon is leaving for Manila your iron shots are going well, and.. and asked what he thought of the on the 4th inst. When asked if he then if anything goes amisa later matter."Well," he answered with was not going to Japan, he said on see if you have changed that a careless shrug of the shoulders, that he would have to take Mrs. position. It is long odds that you
I have had the opinions of the Aragon home firet, as she was not best judges on that point, both in feeling too well. Then maybe
Australia and America, but all that I'll go to Tokyo," he added.
impression that Gordon Lum foot-we play on clay courts and although "My hint, therefore, is: Watch
has been said of me is that my
nction, when I serve, is exactly like
"
A Return Match,
Gerald Paterson's." Then, as an A return match has been arrang the Stand after thought, If anyone thinks I fed to take place on foot fault let him watch me very Court, H.K.C.C. ground, on Satur
then that my foot does not go over Another sparkling exhibition the baseline until immediately after should be in store for all followers the moment of impact of the ball of the game, and those who were and my racket. Mr. Lum conclud- not fortunate enough to get away. ed by expressing the hope that he from their offices carly enough to would have a few more games be- get a seat yesterday, will apprecia lore Jeaving the Colony, wyek this step taken by the Cricket Club ** (Continued on next Volumn.). authorities,
have."
HOME FOOTBALL.
LEAGUE MATCH RESULT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]..
LONDON, April 29. Playing in Third Division (Northern) League match, Rochdale were successful on their own ground by two goals to nil against Carlisle.
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