1935-07-17

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1935.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

TO-DAY THE

FAT

WHITCOMBE DISPLACES HERR HITLER'S

COTTON

Padgham Scorns

The Wind

(Special Air Mail Service:

Saw

Lendon, June 29.

'Cotton's comparative failure The 10,000 crowd' which surged was a big disappointment to the over Muirfield yesterday

enormous crowd he took out with Henry Cotton, Champlon and him. At the first and last holes favourite, displaced. from his the fairway was lined from tee to leadership of the field by Charles green. Notwithstanding the size Whitcombe, whose 68 put him of his gallery, he went round three strokes ahead. Cotton playing all his shots with charac- tight-lipped and stern-eyed, but-}teristic swiftness in mather less tled round in 174, which makes than three hours. him, joint second with Alf "Padg- ham, writes a correspondent.

Between the two leaders, and their nearest American rivals there is a sold wedge of British professionals-Branch, Perry, Ken- yon, and the young Scot, Laidiaw, as well as the leading amateur: R Sweeny, who is an Anglo- American. The qualifying aggre- gate, remarkably low considering the conditions, was 153, and St players will embark on the two testing final rounds to-day.

A fancied player who just Scraped into the short leet was Syd Brews Jack M'Lean and Hector Thomson qualifted with a couple of strokes to spare, and are now only two "shots behind Eric M'Ruvie.

Right from the start it was evident that he would have to pull out all his reserves to get, the better, of the wind. He got the worst of the weather for a gale was blowing up when he went out. and there was a threat of renew- ed rain.

He had, a struggle to get his 4 at the first hole, where he rammed down an eight-yarder after find Ing a bunker with his second, and that struggle continued for the rest of the round,

Here and there he produced a masterly shot. An iron covered the "pin at the second, and another Laid his ball" "dead" at the seventh

But the farther "he went the 'worse grew

his tendency

to hook, and even on the greens he developed a curious little cur with his putter. He had three putts at successive holes, and just scraped a 5 at the long and difficult ninth after again catching a bunker with his second. "On paper his outward half of 35 was a #

good achievement.

Henry Ficard neads the Ameri- cans, and it must be recognised that with an aggregate of 145- six snots behind Whitcombe-he is not yet out of the running. "Mac" Smith, who collapsed yes- terday, is bracketed with Lawson Iittle at 146,

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BURDEN

Germany's Internal Debts

(Special Air Mail Service

London, June 29. From a source of exceptional re- lability I learn thar the interrat. Enances or Germany are causing much more anxiety to the authorit- ies than the public is allowed to know, writes a correspondent.

The unfunded internal debt for

rearmamen, and for Hitler's sche- NOTE--Figures to parentheses indicate number of letters in the

mes, including new motor-roads, to Alght unemployment, has now reached figure equivalent to $1,800,000,000 at the present rate of exchange.

The Budget of the Air Ministry alone fere current year has been, overstepped by £58,000,000,"

The Budget of the Air Ministry alone for the cürrent year has been overstepéd by £58,00,000.

When called to order for this ex- travagance by Dr. Schacht and the Finance Minister. General Goering replica hat the financial side of his Ministry was not his business and did not worry him in the least.

RIBBENTROP RISING Meanwhile, in order to bolster up their shattered self-confidence. the Nazis are making great capital out of the political success of the Anglo-German naval agreement.

The effect has been to increase enormously the prestige of Herr von Ribbentrop, and his further advancement is considered inevit-

able. two

PUTTING LAPSES Coming back, he found it more difficult to get his figures. Fives down on his card at the tenth and twelfth, where he was bunkered, and he dropped another stroke at the fourteenth, where he pulled a chip and failed to get down from two yards.

Whitcombe's Was curiously uneventful round. He had to play only one shot from the rougli, and he steered clear of all Muirfield's dreaded bunkers untu ne came to the last hole, where he was trap- ped. the edge of the green. Here is his card:---

Out 4 3 3 3 4 6 3 44-39

In 4 4 4 3 4 4 3 5 4-35-68 The secret of his low seure was the perfection of his second shots. A stful breeze from the

A 2 at the sixteenth would have west had made the conditions

been useful, and he had a putt of entirely unlike those of the arst

three yards for it. But the in- three days, and he showed ex-spiration had gone out of his golf, cellent juagment in allowing for its vagaries.

At the second and third nes, where his seconds rolled up deside the pin, he gave us an indication of what we might expect He did nothing spectacular on the out- ward naif. but only one of S shots was not played according to book, a Drassie which he ran through the green into the rough at the sixth

He told me that the ninth (490 yards) was the hole that pleased him most in mis round. He had reason to be satisfied, for very few players.covered its 490 yards in two shots, and the wind sweep seconds into the treacherous wall on the left.

tended to

and he could not get the ball to drop. On the next green he took three putts.

His drive between the hedges of spectators at the eighteenth tailed off into a bunker. He recovered well enough, and stopped a run- ning chip two feet from the pin

Without hesitation he address ed himself to the putt-and missed. He stood rigid for a moment as though unable to believe that he had failed. then shook he head and walked with

from expressionless face

tha

green.

NOT A BAD HOLE

spectacular golf, Padgham is shap

Though he has played до

ing like potential champion. Ke scorned the wind yesterday and had not a bad Hole in his round. He was one of the few orthodox choice, was justified by had "birdie" 3's at the tenth and who got a 4 at the ninth, and he the result.

eleventh

At the fourteenth, where he had to smash his shots into the wind, he did not scruple to take a driver for his second, and that 1111-

BALL HITS SPECTATOR When he came to the seven- teenth he required a brace of 4's .to shatter Cotton's record, His drive was slightly cut, and he required a spoon for his second. The ball duly landed on the green, but he was left with a longish putt. His run-up was two yards short, and his putt for 4 struck the back of the hole and stayed out. The crowd sighed its disappointment.

100

Denise throngs waited Whitcombe round the last green and it was a rusn, through the ropes after he had played his second that prevented his hall from finishing in the rough. It bound id through the middle of the crowd and ricocheted from a man's shoulder into the bun ker. With his habitual calm he

From a Scottish point of view, the most encouraging ngure op This lanky Perth youth has come the score-board was Laidlaw's 71.

right to the forefront since ne went as assistant professional to a club in Surrey.

No one was hitting the ball the first hole ne planked an irou farther in yesterday's wind. At shot in the middle of the green

and

then missed his 4 through taking three putts. He holed only three-yarder at the second. The que long putt in the round a

worst figure on his card was 2.6 at the fourteenth, where he cut his drive and found a bunker in a vazi attempt to play for safety.

He was greatly helped by his deadly pitching at the four short holes, which he negotiated in 10

strokes

whipped the bail from the sand. T MACMITH FALTERS

The German Foreign Office is being relegated more and more into the background. Baron yon Neurath no longer counts for any- thing, and does not even dare to appoint Dew . Ambassadors, and Ministers to the seven diplomatic posts that are now vacant. There' may be more vacancies shortly.

The position of Herr von Boesch. the German Ambassador in Lon- don, is also the subject of much. discuss'on. Those in the know are drawing conclusions from the fact that, contrary to diplomatic custom, he did not accompany Sir John Simon on his Berlin visit. and was not asked to sign the Lon- don agreement with Herr von Rib- bentrop.

"wise-cracked" round the course in 75. With his usual flair for stage management, he kept one of his snappiest putts for the last green, and threw up his arms in when it vanished into the cup. response to the crowd's cheers

I Uke the modesty of these Americans.. Not long after he had come in with a 71, Lawson Little was not taking lessons from George Duncan. He was much happier yesterday with all bis clubs, and at last he seems to have found his touch with his putter. "Anyway, he rolled in some us ful ones from the crucial distance of two yards. But It has to be recorded that he missed a putt of a yard at the sixteenth and another of 18 inches at the seventeenth.

Little gave an impressive de- monstration of the power he puts behind his strokes when he took à No. 1 Iron from the tee at the

the ball farther than most men ninth (490 yards), and smacked

reached with their drives. He followed that with 2 terrific brassle shot against the wind, and

arrowly failed to get down from three yards for an "eagle" 3.

BEATEN BY WIND

The first man to break 70 yes- returning 69 he gave a quaint terday was Aubrey Boomer, and in demonstration of how to hole and miss putts. He had three putts on four greens, but he ran down yards on the inward half. An four putts of from three to eight

eight-yarder on the last green made, a fitting climax to his round. Details:

Out-3 4 4 4 5 4 3 35--35′′;

In-5 3 4 3.5.3°3584-69 The wind played havoc with

removed it while his partner I Jolied the throng of many cards, and on of the not- putted, and then ran it down for sympathisers, round "Mac" Smith, sbles who crashew Was Eric his 4.

who appears to have lost his Ruvie. He never recovered Half an hour earlier W, Cox, the chance of a title, once again, with ] from a shattering experience at dark-haired big-shouldered Add a return of 77 His iron shots the first hole, where he was in ington professional, had handed were so loosely struck that only two bunkers, and then required in a card of 69, which might easily once, at the eighth, did he catch four putts-total 7. The last hole have been 85. Details: KY

the green"with his second,

cost him-6, and his aggregate of Out-5-33.4:44 3 3 5-34

149 put him four strokes behind Sweeny, the curly-hatred · Anglo- American, who had returned as 73,

The diner Americans fared better. Henry Picard, no longer the mysterions, and now revealed as a good but not brilliant golfer, returned a corețul 13, which in

of 34. He

In 4 4 4 38.5 3 3.4-36-69. He missed no fewer than four putts of a yard, but, on the other hand, he laid his seconds hard up ngainst the pin at the second, cluded an third, eighth, and seventeenth holed an eight-yarder at the

He lipped the hole for another eleventh for 3 and picked up at 2

birale" at the tenth, and just missed his 2: from five feet at the short sixteenth

sixteenth

Tozas Joe, as the irrepressible Ezar is nicknamed laughed and

Paddy Mahon, Muvie's partner and another of the kiw scorers in the first round, also blew up and required 7p. A Perry, who was one stroke behind Co Wednesday, lost his place with round of 78,

words required.

Across 1-May "Indicate a disregard of|

one's proper station, but one shouldn't go by that (7). 5A term that's frequently ap- plied to enmity; and wound- ed pride (5).

--This is used to praise (5).

That sinking which foretells the end of one's days.. (7). '12-Quarters (5). 14-What many may do when..

one bids (4).

15 From stem to stern, in other

words.. (10).

18-Is of short duration,

like 1 meteor, "or tiny star" (ana- gram) (10). 21-"I'll be your-Laertes,"

Hamlet says (4). 22-To set a thing the right way

up (5). 23-This poor fellow is evidently

wandering (7), 27-Th depart with a final fare-

.well (5),

28-A haven which is small, com- parative to this place (5). 20-No doub; you' solve this

properly (7).

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6-A part assigned to each (5). -What we may put in either

this or in any case (5). 10-Is of a dark and dusky colour

(8).

11-The senior ambassador at a

court (5).

13-A pirate, or perhaps his ship.

(8).

16To yield to another's wishes

we may have to put off to another time (5).

17-Or to pretend we have to do

it (5); 18-This is anything but tender.

(5). 19We should try to

(5),

keep off

20 Getting to walk like a crab!

(5).

24-One can travel in this on land

or sea, as (3).

25-May be suitable (3).

26--The last clue is a mere tride

(3)

The following is the solut ion of yesterday's puzzle:-

Across-1. Rising: 6. Vir-ago: 10, Integer; 11. Du-enna; 12, Ro- bust: 13. Otto-man; 18, Elin; 17, Scent; 18. Knell; 19. Slang; 22, Sepia: 25, Laconic, 29, Tandem: 30. Cornet; 31, Bili-jen; 32, Dished;" 33. Net-her.

קני

Down 1-Some say it's a hobgoblin.

but is not according to Spen ser (3). 2-Some call this sister and she

"gets up and comes down (3), „Down.-1, (par)-Ridge; 2, Shears; 3-A thoughtful beginning.. Ninon 4 Gnat; 5, Zero; 8, (a)-

though incomplete (3).

Versa-(ge); 7, Irons; 8. Azure; 9. 4-What some say a cooper's | Octet; 14. Tunic: 15, Milan; 19.

real value is (8).

Sited: 20, Aunts; 21. Glebe; 22. 5-It's not coloured, that's evid-Scone; 23, Punch: 24. Attar; 26.

ent (5).

Antid; 27. Owls; 28. I-con.

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