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RUGBY FOOTBALL
Final Irish Trial
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London, Jan. 30.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1936.
GOLF AND GOLFERS
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Move For Restriction
London, Jan. 29.
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The final Irish Trial match was played yesterday at Lansdowne Roud. Dublin. From the Selectors' woint of view the game was he.p- iu in Sont respects, but they
Much golfing good and evil has must have had some trouble after-
Golfers wards in deciding on the three- come out of America. quarter Ine. The Whites beat the from the United States have hep
to
game Blues by three goals and three
make the tries (24 points) to a goal and colourful and more internationally three tries (14 points),
intense; they have introduced new Though the teams were describ-dubs and new clothes, as well as both It was
personalities, "Whites and Blues
But taken for granted that the former amateur and professional,
for team represented the Selectors perhaps the best suggestion
rather idea of the probable Irish team for
the improvement, the match against England, but restoration, of the gume came last they were compelled to take an week in the report of the United other view at half-time.
States Golf Association. till then the Blues had the betra of the game and led on their *merits. Several changes were then made, and V. A. Hewitt. F Meran, H. J. Sayers, and J. Rus-
to Iransferred
the sell were Whites team. The result was tightening up of the play of the side, and although the Whites did means not have things by any their own way they won In the end very comfortably.
for up
THE FULL BACKS Three full-backs were tried,' R R Davey, of Queen's University. ame on in place of R, H. Pratt at half-time. A played well. but .
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Mr. John Jackson, president of the Association, has evidently some of the characteristics of his great namesake, "Stonewall," for his re- porn was the challenging to degree, especially that part which declared that American tourna- ment players carry too many olubs and take too long over their shots. The association has accordingly intimated that unless those players ilghten their bags the association may restrict the number of clubs which a player may carry. and golfers who are excessively de- liberate in their play to the point may be of slowing up a match disqualified.
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must Morriss's safer tacking surely have enabled him to keep
THE MECHANICAL ELEMENT A. Fils place in the Irish Leam. The object of the threatened Baljey, without being very obrestriction on the number of cubs trusive, was always sale and c's
which may be carried is to prevent criminating in his play, and ha
the game from being made as the best of six centres (J. H
mechanical, and from being rob- and L Malcolmson also bed of all the skill which makes Jewell played in this position. Or th
it such a fascinating and elusive, others, it may have been a toss-up pursuit. The other reasons are the!
increased cost, and the unreason- huge ably heavy burden which bags stuffed with clubs place on the caddie: but these may be dis- regarded, however important they may be of themselves, in four of the more aesthetic reasons..
soven
tell, but he was immediately suc- tessul on has arrival here, so he found
clubs must have enough for his purpose.
Of course I am well aware that thousands of to-day there are golfers who would scorn to carry even as many as seven clubs. For my own part. I know at least one man who does all his pitching with a No. 5 iron, and would be with ashamed to use any club more left. But he had the great advantage of seeing and knowing John Ball in his prime, when the greas Hoylake goliers could play a leng pitch with a
and stop the ball as quickly as if he were using a modern Range-soled mashie.
mid-iron
HOCKEY TRIAL
Game For Sunday
Poor Racing Conditions
Cash Sweeps
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Nos. 1507, 188, 1085, 714, 1081, 521,
The following have been invited to turn out on the R.N.R.C, ground on Sunday, March 1, at 10.30 a.m. for another Interport Hockey Trial: Probables (White):-A.B. Owens (Navy), B. H. Souza (Radio): A. E. | Cruest (Radio) Pte. Cox (Army); Lt. 34. 1303 get $50. Williams (Captain) (Army), W. A. ¡ Reed (H.K.H. Club), Alaf Din
Army); Lt. E. Robinson (Army),; Sarnagat Singh (Radio), Awtar Singh (K.LT.C.), D Carey (HK.H. Club, Pte, Nolan (Army).
(Colours): "Possibles
--Sapper Howlet (Army), Lt. Com. Garwood (Navy); J. E. Potter (Captain) -
Clubì, Kishen Singh HRH Army): Lt. Spencer (Navy), Sap- Brown (Army). Lt. Davies per
(Navy); G. E. R. Divett (H.K.H. Club). Lt. Dawson (Army), Gur- bachan Singh (Radio), L. Burch- (Navy), Lal Singh (Army).
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AUSTRALIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Durban, Feb. 24.
For the first time since they started the tour, the Australian, cricket Test team were led on the here to-day, when Natal, in response to the Austra- hans' score of 256, responded with 272
Nos. 2431, 1742. $271..2629, 238, first innings 902 get $50 each.
Heroes of the innings were Harvey who hit up 138,in 264 min- utes and helped himself to a six and ten fours, and H. F. Wade, who contributed 75. O'Reilly was again the most successful bowler returning figures of 5 for 80.
The
Australians in their first
$1,497.30 427.BO 213.90 Nos, 2950, 1014 3083, 2070, 642, innings which started last Satur- day, aggregated, 256, of which Richardson scored 74. In their second attempt the visitors had
ten without loss scored
when atumps were drawn,- Beuter.
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Race 6
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Rose Evelyn (1st)
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The Here
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Unicorn
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(05). (349)
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There are, however, thousands of
Reserves-Lt. Com, Gush (Navy), thass more who carry golfers
Cpl. Kennedy 1Army); A. Silva seven clubs, and feel that the Recreio), Tara Singh (Army): Lt. more they carry the better they wraith (Navy), S. A. Fowler (H.K. will play. They may score better H Club), Khuda Bux Army). J.
Pinto and A. B. Souza (K.I.T.C). and reduce their handicaps ac- cordingly, but there is very much
Players who cannot turn out are more in golf than having a low
to inform Hon. Sec. handicap. There is, for example, requested the exalting knowledge that one KHA, as soon as possible. has played a snot in the correct. one might say, the grand manner. with body. arm, wrist, hand, and head all working in harmony to whole, The produce an artistic
the pin ball may go no nearer than if it were heaved there with a club buit for the purpose, but the player, has the advantage of knowing that his way would have been, say, John Ball's way.
EFFECT OF STEEL SHAFTS' There are some apostles of the doctrine of hosts of clubs who Justify themselves by saying that the advent of the steel shaft has made artistle shot-making an im- They contend, that possibility. with a steel-shafted club the half- There is no doubt that a bat-shot cannot played, that the lofted tery of clubs does make the game pitch cannot be played merely by Iuch laying off the face of the club, but" easier. It is, for example.
full shot requires a cub with the face set less difficult to play a with a mashie niblick thar. a half-back by the maker. shot with a' mashle; and it is de-
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between Malcolmson and L. B. McMahon, though both had their faults. The wing three-quarter who come, best out of the match was F. A. Moran, the Irish sprint champion. He used his speed and -strength well on a few occasions, but showed weaknesses in defence. CA. Böyle played very soundy Lut he has hardly enough pace to get far in attack. V.A. Hewit proved a much better link with
A plague o' both these excuses: the three-quarters than J. J. Bal-
play 12y, and his kicking was as intel'initely casier to play a long shot The really good golfer can gent as ever. G. J. Morgag "wa
.rom bad e with a No. 4 spoon half-shots as well with steel
And in with hickory, I have seen "Cyril than with a No. 2 tren.. the bags of the tournament players Tolley grip his No. 2 iron down delightful more there
the shaft and play con- for every are clubs
carries 3 half-shot into a head wind; and tingency. Hagen 'even selection of drivers, one being I have seen Lawson Little himself, deep-faced and with a markedly faced with a torcing" shot from required great height rounded sole with which it was a which he physical impossibility to hit the and distance, take a No. 5 iron, bal high in the air It was delay off the face, and hit the ball signed for driving into a stronges high as he could with any of wind, and was used by Hagen' at his pitching clubs.
Such a club It may not be so easy with steef 'St. Andrews in 1933.
the to play half shots in a cross wind min/mise undoubtedly does
with hickory shafted skill required to hit a low drive as it was with top spin. the ideal shot, into clubs, but then these were never easy shots except for the masters. a wind. With the Hagen club any reasonably good player need not And the modern masters could, if try to keep the ball low; the club they chase, or were forced to by dces
work for
some such restriction as is fore... shadowed from America, play just has a swing at all.
as artistic shots as. Vardon or So it goes on, right through the range of equipment which can be Taylor, Ball or Hilton, Required by the tournament player. There are whole series of pitching clubs Lawson Little carries no fewer than eight--and other iron clubs, while some first-class players having six think "nothing of wooden clubs in their bags.
t at his best, and A. F. Turner και the ball away better, but Morgar, was decidedly the constructive player.
Some of the forwards played very well, and though the Whites" pack in the second half played something ke an Irish pack should do, they had very little to spare. H. 3 Sayers. making his Brst appearance of the season in 5. Ane form. Ireland, was in Walker, S. Deering. J A. Siggins. and C. R. Graves showed up very prominently in the Whites' park. and H. Kennedy. J. S. Irwin, W. A. Pike, C. V. Boyle, and J. Layrock were very prominent for the
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ONE OF THE RUGBY PLAYING SAILORS
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London. Jan. 15, When the All Blacks previously played England, the brothers Hamilton Hill were schoolboys · the crowd. The elder, who was at Dulwich, was debarred from further Rugger soon after leav- ing by an injury at polo. "Twelve months
the ago
younger playing for an "A" team."
This
H one, E. Hamilton
from learnt the
W. game Marun-Lake, the internationa. 01 1891. headmaster of Dulwich Prep. There he was captain of football and cricket He later went to HMS Conway. training-ship on the Mersey, where he became. captain of football and cricket, heavy-weight boxing cham- pion. runner-up for the King's Gold Medal, and chief cade cap- tain.
From 1925 he was at
sa on cargo boat, and not until 1929 did he get any Rugger, when he played for the Harlequins under W. w. Wakefield, and showed enough promise to be chosen for Surrey. The sea claimed him again, this time for thre
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"WE ARE SEVEN"
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It will be "casier to restrict the Hme the number of clubs than that players are to be allowed-- although drawing the ine of de- marcation, will require a judgment of Solomon in either case. player who asserts that he needs I the rubs themselves could 15 or 20 cuts to score a 70 may speak their favourite quotation with justice he told to brush up might well be Wordsworth's "We his game, until he can achieve the are seven," for that was the sum same score with seven clubs or ten. total of clubs carried by Joe But the same player does not de- Kirkwood, the Australian-born serve to be told that he must take professional, when he first visited no more than, say, two hours and this country 15 years ago. Nor is a half to complete a round
sufficient argument against eighteen holes in a championship. arrying so few clubs that Kirk- He may with every reason reply wood was even then a trick golfer that he is temperamentally unable who could play shots with a mid- to play at the same speed as, say,
or George Duncan, tron, as was the nomenclature at Sarazen,
most players Alfred Perry. that time, which
A man's clubs may be restricted would have required a mashie to match. Just how tong Kirkwood but not his conscience, and there are some golfers who cannot do carried only seven clubs I cannot
unless they themselves Justice study the shot quietly and care- fly and then have a few waggles before despatching the ball Why, Hngen himself has been known to take a full five minutes to play one shot, the time being computed from the moment he arrived at the ball until he actually struck the shot.
he is 27. Both Hamilton Hils (the other is in the HA.C.) were born Both are good cricke- in Canada. ters. Teddy is fast over the 106 and 220 yards, and showed va- years. By 1934 satility by finishing twelfth out of of 300 competitors in the Home some had forgotten his early form
Inver at the game, and when ne nex: Fleet seven-mile race at had the chance to reappear for gordon
when a midshipman in
the 'Quins, it was in the "A" XV. Resolution. What he might not have achieved had he spent suffi- Not till this season did he emerge
thre: clent time ashore is mere conjec-- triumphant. In the last months be has not only played ture. He is now on a special ser- regularly for the Harlequins, but vice course at Chatham for how for Surrey in all matches except long is uncertain. Should he go that they lost to Hampshirr, for to sea again next season he wrl London in the return with the All Blacks, in the final English, trial, and for England as one of a great back row in a match that already 1s historic.
at least have reason to look back with contentment on all the fun and fury he with an effervescing sense
cr
He studied the lie of the ball intently, walked forward a full 100 yards to study the le of the land, walked slowly back to his ball, made up his mind about distance, direction of the wind, and the hazards to be avoided, and then chose his club. The actual shot was played in a flash, and it was a good one, too, to the Road Hole at St. Andrews in his first
of humour and great round of 68. In the 1933 Open physical fitness, packed into 1935-6. Championship; but he held up the No doubt he will add a Navy the only season he ever had at couple behind by his preparation, and, according to the new recont mendation, he deserved to be dis- qualified.
cap, and will shine in the seven-home that offered a proper chance
to show what he could do. a-aldes. And yet his Rugger has been so spasmodic that few realise
NO CRICKET
up
Craigengower Cricket Club were their not allowed to follow promising start which they made two-day their on Monday in fxture with the Kowloon Cricket Bad weather prevented Olub. play and the match had to be cancelled.
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