SWIMMING.
THE CRAWL STROKE MADE EASY.
IMPORTANCE OF CORRECT BODY POISE.
The following in the first of a aeries of articles on swimming by Miss Joyce Cooper, the famous swimmer, reprinted from the Low don Morning Port.
For those who can already swim correct body poise in the water hould come quite easily, but to
beginners I give the following
advice:-
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A SHANGHAI BOY GOLF CHAMPION.
DEFEATS VETERAN HOLDER OF N.S.W. TITLE.
WINS ON THIRTY-SIXTH GREEN.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931,
STAGE STAR WEDS
"SPANIARD.
CELEBRITIES 'ATTEND MARA RIAGE OF MISS & MOORE,
Cannos, July 16-In the presence of those of the great. Um world who are now on the French Riviera, Misa Grace Moore, of the Metro- Jim Ferrier (the sixteen-year-old the finest golfers ever resident in married to-day at the Bon of Mr. J. Forries, one ofpolitan Opera, of New York, was .local Shanghai, and now secretary of "Mairie " to Mr. Valentine Parers, the Manly Golf Club, New South
a wealthy Spaniard, after a court- Wales), whose amazing progress at golf has been followed with the ship of seven short weeks, that grontest interest by the many friends of his father still in Shang-
started on an Atlantic liner.
Miss Moore has always said, in
Money and Markets
NOTES ON BRITISH INVESTMENTS.
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BIG BANKS REDUCE DIVIDENDS.
The reductions in the interim
dividends of some of the "Big Five banka came as rather a disappoint
high standing of the stock and the considerable time before it ma- tures, redemption not being antil: between 1989 and 1988. The holder is therefore assured of this income for at least 23 years.
The Corporation has the support of most of the chief banks of the
country and of the Government, advances to it or interest payments. the Treasury having power to make
hai, not to mention the associates the way that "stars" have, that ment to the market, more especial. The debenture stock is therefore of
all his previous porformances by winning the stats Chainpionship, The North-China Paily News re Ported recently that the young man, who is freely spoken, off by the best erities in Australia as a coming world champion, had caus od an additional sensation by do, feating another shampion in the semi-final, which brought him up, Against the veteran holder of th title, and now the news has been received that he has captured the amateur golf championship of Now South Wales,
for mind, also in the way that got married, but she has changed "stars" have, and is proposing to alternate between opera and the talkies," accompanied by her hus. hand, after they return from their honeymoon in Venice.
gilt-edged
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Th Corporation's second repert. correspondent of the disclosed a profit of £40,070, after London Straits Times. The substantial de- clines in the 1930 profits revonled
meeting debenture interest pay- ronts, which compared with earn- last January, when Lloyds reducings of £33,038 in the "preceding Among the various celebrities'
edits Anal dividend, were a warn pericd of fourteen and presont да the caremony were
a half Charlie Chaplin, now in serai ing that banks could not to, im months. Only about one third of retirement in Junn-les-Pins, Missmuno from the consequences of this was distributed, however, a Gloria Swaneen, M. Maurice Do trade depression. kobra, and also a member of the
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Wade into the water until you are nearly out of your depth. Stretch your arma out sideways just under the surface of the water; let them relax. Then wave them about slowly, always feeling the water pressure on the palms of your hands. You will find that you can gradually take your feet off the bot fom and begin to read water. Keep ap this leg and arm action, Allow the fect to float up behind. Bring your hands under your chin and make movement as though pedalling a bicycle with the fore arma and hands,
down Press stendily and hard on the water, The
handy although he youth very pull the hand towards you, relax that arm, bring it up under
nearly ran down long putt for the chin at the same time press
win. Same idea of the younger man's composure in the face of down with the other hand.
Having learnt to dog paddle wa
critical onlookers was seen at the will now try the crawl poise.
12th. There was crowd round th Lie ne much on the surface of the
green, making it difficult for Fer rier to see the flag and judge the water as possible, with the body in straight line; shoulders square
distance. So the crowd was part with the end of the bath; head fair high, with eyes front about a
rier won the 12th Angerly's a The new champion is a cham. proach being too strong, but Fer- water level; back slightly hollowed;
rier's second nove moved after leg straight toes pointed and pion by the accident of circum. turned inwarda.
twisting into the green! This position is stance and environment, states the maintained throughout the execu-ney Mail. At a time when tion of the stroke except for the football and the alhor more vigor head which is turned to one side for inhaling. The legs thrash up And down from the hips and arin rotate alternately from the should I will deal with these move inents in detail in subsequent articles.
When sprinting ons is higher in the water than when travelling Howly,
Beginners' Dificullies, Many beginners find that their "legs sink, thus making the poise 1 have described impossible. There are two chief causes for this; (3) Insufficient arching of the back, and (2) over-arching the back. Thes may appear to. contradict one aní ether, but the one is sa common a fault as the other.
Dealing with the first: If the head is forced down and shoulders dropped the result is buckling at the hips, causing the feet to sink Remedy-Force a hollow back and lift the head. "
Since th conditions have cer- tainly not improved. Moreover, with the progressive cheapening of money, the earning capacity of the unuks assets has fallen. This de- alle, however, has been mitigated. by the maintence of the ratea on overdrafts and advances.
He is the youngest player whe has ever hold the title, and his play throughout the championship. held at the end of June, revealed rare norve and courage He de of the championship, at the time frated E. L. Apperly, the holder (and also co four previous occa sions) by one up. Faced with the task of sinking an eight-foot patt on the 38th green te win. slater the Sydney Morning Herald, Fer. rier rose to the occasion in magni.ed. They halved that hat. Feed as having fully necessitated the ficent style.
Ferrier was forced by an injury to cus sports, claim most bays, young. his leg to forswear them, and has devoted himself exclusively to golf: His father, Mr. 1. B. Ferrier, a fine player himself, who is scere tary of the Manly Golf Club, has He has not only taught him gulf, given the boy every encouragement. but also self-contro, and the two, in combination with a fine physi que, have made him a champion. For a sixteen-year-old Ferrier is n remarkablo physical specimen. He stands six feet two inches and weighs about 14 stane,
Account of the. Game. The Sydney Morning Herald's report on the game follows:
Forrier Icoked like winning the
game earlier, as he was dormy three, but the old war borsa," as Ap- perly is popularly known, staged a characteristic finish, winning the next two holes, and then being within four inches of winning the last hole..
Ferries played grandly, but An- perly made many mistakes, parti- ularly on the greens. On a couple of occasions he missed two and, strange as may appear, he showed signo. cf strain. thari
The second fault is common with those who do not like to get their Inces wet. They are afraid of swal lowing water and choking, so hold their heads as high as possible and Brow them back. Result.-Legs foot putts, forced down. Try it! Lie face it down on the water, armi out to more ise, force the head back and you his younger rival, whose composure will find that your legs will in front of such a crowd was amaz- gradually swing right down and up
ing. the other side until you are floating
One of the features of the battle It was en your back. Remedy.--Relay, let was the enormoue gallery mouth drop below surface until eyes estimated at 5,000, and, as it was are at about water level, and alow impossible for all to see the on- iv press down with the front hand. lookers divided into four sections. This should keep you sufficiently on while the other sections thronged two watching play from the tees the surface to preven drowning!
[To-morrow: Afore about the the greens. But at all stages the Crawl Stroke.].
crowd was excellently controlled by the officials. Indeed arrangements gave complete satisfaction.
HOME FOOTBALL.
SECOND VICTORY FOR GLASGOW RANGERS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
In a
The Morning Round. The pair gave a display in the morning that has seldom been equalled. As a rule, for several reasona, finalists rarely produce their best golf, and the "play is generally scrappy. But Apperly and Ferrier were both at the top of their form. Some idea of their brilliance may be gained from the fart that, under trving conditions -the crowd and the occasion-the- playora were one and two strokes
LONDON, Aug. 11. Scottish League football natch played to-day, Glasgow respectively more than the record Hangers, on their own ground figures standing to the credit of infented the Airdrieonians by two Ive. Whitten (Victoria) and the "goals to one.
Now South Wales professional, S. Richardson.
MURDERER PAYS PENALTY,
The decline it profits which must have been felt over the past six months cannot in itself be regard
"Grocer's Ordinary.
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3, 183),.
The Home and Colonial Stores, venient for small investors on af Ltd, ta ordinary shares aro count of their law denomination. They are now obtainable to give return of about. £7 2. per cent. dividend which has now been regu on the basis of the 25 per cent. larly paid for several years. There in now C1,955,000 of these sharea in issue, which compares with a reduced distributions: In past total issued capital of £4,071,442. good years the banks have regu- larly placed large sums to both this amount as
The issued capital was raised to. disclosed and internal reserves and fusion with Liptons. Profit for the a result of the these should now be available to year ended January They halved the lots to the give that stability of income which amounted to £534,038, as against 15th tee, but the Ferrior played bank shareholders have the right to £838,189 the year before. The earn a delightful pitch and rug stroke expect. as a result of their pastings on the ordinary capital, al- to within three feet of the pancrifices, Tipping his oppoespt's bail, which
Tho lower interims are general for some years past, were, nt the though proportionately lower than was near the pin, Ferrier got his ly interpreted as a reminder of the rate of 28.3 per cent, so that the porly should have won the next. of us and the consequent need for ed and in view of previous high four, and was thin two un An critical peripd which lies in front 25 per cent. paid was fully cove but with Ferrier's third just on the caution. It is to be hoped that the casings quito justified. played a weak chip and was almost practice and issue half-year profit pany whoso own provision stores edge of the green, the veteranbanka will depart from their usual
The Home and Colonial Cem- as short. Apper's won the 17th, and loss accounts, for in their nbare well known, na's large interests where Ferrior's pushed out shot sonce the decline in banking pro-in similar companies, including from the tee struck an onlooker, fits may well be exaggerated by Meadow Dairy, Maypole Dairy and and he took a four. Arperly had public opinion.".
Pearks Dairies. even greator luck at the last hole.
These companies His long second sailed over the
now form a unified group in the green, the ball striking a youngster"
provision trade, controlling altoge en the leg and aving deflected on
ther same 3,300 shops. The "group to the grass at the side, otherwise
also owns numerous warehouses and is seemed as if the ball would have
factories run into a deep bunker. An nd
mirably judged pitch and run stroke put him within three feet of the pin, but Ferrier's eight-foot lip and he had to be content with nutt for a three just rested on the
a four and a half, Ferrier had carried the flax with bis drive here a risky stroke, but the old gen- eral Apperly placed and played for safety. Ferrier was then one up with an appoximate stroke round of 71,with Apperly's at 72.
Afteroon Round.
Home Corporations. For safety first and a steady yield investors can hardly find botter se. curities than those of British muni- cipalities and corporations. The stocks have behind them
BC-
Allied Suppliers, formed in curity of the rateable property of 1920, acts ne entral buying o the area. Moreover, before ́an ta-
ganisation for the group. Besides this fusion, Home and Colonial is sue of this kind can be offered to. amination. the public it has to pass an ex-itself controlled by Unilevers Ltd.
The local authority raising the loan has to satisfy the Ministry of Health that the money of the loan is for a desirable purpose and, secondly, that the finances ci the area can support the Ican. It is clear, therefore, that corporation atocks are a safe investment. "
Most British corporation stocks are trustee securities, but some, usually because they are short dat
not. These non-trustee stocks usually give a slightly high- er return than the others, and they are equally safe investments:
Fow could ask for more thrilling, happenings than those in the dying moments of the game. Taking aded, are vantage of every mistake by his opponent and aided by his cwn superlative play, Ferrier turned for the last nine holes with an
Two recommendable non-trustee advantages of two holes. He had stocks are Birmingham 6 per cent. escapes at the 21st and 28th, Ap (1938-40) yielding about £5 12. por perly unaccountably missing two cents; and Lanarkshire 5 per cent. foct putts. Fercier was playing (1033-35), yielding about £28.82. per grandly now, and it was Apporly's cent. It will be seen that both kill in recovering that saved him stocks are liable to redemption at from losing other holes. The youngan early atte. ster was by far the sounder "in the earlier stages,
be
Well Secured Debanture," There were shots that will always
Agricultural Mortgage Corpora recalled. Apperly in thick tion Ltd., 5 per cent doventure grass on the way to the long 13th, stock is now quoted at about 102. got out splendidly, the ball going At this price a purchase. returhe through the green. The at the Approximately £4 188 per cent, al- 15th, Ferrier, in a desperate posi-lowing for prospective Blight le tion after a hooked second, played on redemption. This is quite a a grand niblick anot from 40 yards satisfactory yield in view of the out, the ball finishing two inches from the pin Apperly here show- ed his courage by sinking a four- foot putt for a half to keep, tho game going.
BRITAIN BUYING IMPERIALLY
THE APPEAL OF HIGH QUALITY.
Those Last Holes. Then came those last holes. Ap- perly showed his generalship by Conditions wore ideal when the placing his shots carefully, but the nair stepped on to the first tea, youth, with victory in the grasp. There was a nip in the air, but made a couple of mistakes, and there was absence of wind, and the Apperly was one down. At the The report of the Empire Mai greens were in perfect order. 33th Ferrier pulled his tee shot. keting Board for the period May, with the veteran sitting "pretty." Ferrier had to negotiate a high 1930 to May, 1931 states that the bank, but once again he nearly people of the United Kingdom are holed out, and had a chance for proving themselves steadily morn three, Apperly clansed the door when he ann a 30-foot putt for willing to buy from within the Eu
Apperly had the honour at the
a two,
pire. On to the 30th tee, while the cffi- cials cleared the fairway. Apper?
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and cheese, and thirteen other dif ferent products of the Empire..
It is further stated that many factors have combined to bring about this encouraging
result, principal among which is that more scientific attention is being paid to- day than ever before by Empire producers to the need for support their goods by grading and orderly ing the natural high quality of marketing in all its branches, while consumers in the United Kingdom, Two hundred local authorities men and women, are brooming more ly played down the centre, but the have responded to the Board's sug-aware of the excellent and wide youth had the nerve to drive the gestions to consider the increase of range of Empire products and of fax. Apporly was 15 feet from the Empire purchases, and will have the importance of Empire buying. pin with his socônd, hut. Terrier
them pulled his shot, the ball finishing the Board's advice before A regional sales drivo" in sup- at the back of the green. Then it when their tender formas are report of home and overseas Empire looked as if the match would go to vised.
Sell butter. had been undertaken in the 37th, but Ferrier chipped in and when Apperly did not get his
Lancashire, in conjunction with the In 1930, the report continues, re- three, sank the eight-foot putt for cord quantities were imported of Australian and New Zealand Dairy Produce Boards in London, and the It was a glorious finish. and, as New Zealand lamb (0,923,167 car results of the campaign, had been Bounded Out of Bunker. predicted. The game was well cases), Catadion apples (2,002,000 remarkably successful. Out of 6,020- worthy of the occasion. The play cwt), British West Indian Encanasshops.visited 2.340 were selling Exo- in the morning had never been ex (5,920,000 bunches), Indian bacco pire butler when the campaign be celled in a final. It was not so (12,998,000lb) South African vinoa gan, while, before it closed, the good after lunch, but the fininh (5500 ganbul), Allstar 888. Ulimber Tad meil to 1005, 40- 10. compensated for the occasional (5,000,000 dez), South African eggs crease of 2,000 shops selling Empire. Japses of the playera.
|(4,630,000 dez.), New Zealand bitter butter,
́ÍRISHMAN'S APPEAL FROM
first hole which he won following a fine chip stroke to within 2 feet CONVICTION DENIED.
of the pin, Ferrier has never, yet bottered a four here. and he was Dublin, August 4-A Cork one down. He soured matters at county farm Jabourer named David the third with a 20-foot putt for a O Sheva was executed this morning two. The lad won the next. An.. in Mountjoy gool for the murder of perly failing on a 3-foot putt, The Ellen O'Sullivan, a young dairy veteran, however, put his approach maid. It is understood he made no three fent from the pin at the fifth Confession.
and on his sinking, the nutt they The English executioner, Pierware all square. Apperly had a pont, was brought over to Ireland slice of luck at the song seventh for the execution, |-.
when he sliced his drive into the After O'Shea's appeal to the rough, only to find it teed un. They Irish courts had failed an applica halved that bole, and also the next tion was made on his behalf for two, boing all square at the turn, permission to appeal to the British Both were out in dertling golf Privy Council, the fint application for such an 'écenush, of the kind since the formation of
7.
the Irish Free State. This applica Apperly was again fortunate tion however was refused, the Irish when playing to the tenth, as his nuthorities considering his guilt second bounded into a bunker and clearly proved
aaront again and inkta) low his mass, shortly before the arrival of escape, he put bin next stroke
(Continued on nézt (oluma)
The condemned man attended
the executioner.
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