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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1937.
Mainly About Golf
HENRY COTTON'S NEW BACHELOR HOME
YOUNG AUSTRALIAN'S RECORD
SWIM
Robin Biddulph, aged 17, amash- ed an Empire Games swimming record by 42/5 sec, recently and was not extended.
He
WIJ competing in Manly Famous bachelor golf profes Club's 440 yards championship. sional, Henry Cotton, has gone one and recorded min. 58 3/5 sec. better than the people in the film The Empire Games record was "Dost Horizon," who found Shangri-5 min. 3 sec made by Noel Ryan La. the land where nobody is ill or at the 1934 London Empiad. warried and nobody grows old.
He has designed his own Shangri- La. That is the name he has given to the 1950 model house he has had built on the edge of Ashridge golf course..near here, where he is professional,
He has embodied in the house Ideas picked up in houses where he has been a guest in Britain, on the Continent and in America, at housing exhibitions and In hotels.
"The name 'Shangri-La' was an afterthought." he explained, as he showed a visitor through the light oak front doop and Into the primrose-coloured tiled ruom at one side of the entrance hall, where guests may wash, powder noses, and remove all traces of Rolf.
"For years I have been planning an ideal home. I never thought about what it would look like from the outside.
You might say I designed the rooms, and then had walls thrown
up around them. I worked out the Idea while I was professional at the
Waterloo Golf Club.
Belgium.
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"Big establishment for a bache- lor, you say? Well, I like comfort, I like people to visit me, and 1 keep a fair-sized staff.
"Planned the kitchen myself-not so bad for a bachelor?? he said.
All the cupboards and wardrobes In the house have an electrical device which. when the door is opened. switches on a light.
Cunningly-designed windows en- sure that each room has the 'max- Imum amount of sunshine.
Most striking are the bathrooms --one for Mr. Catton and one to each of the three guest bedrooms. Mr. Cotton's own bathroom has plateglass walls, backed with pewter. He switched on the Bght. It lt up the walls with a moonlight effect.
"After a day on the links. I'll be able to have moonlight bathing in my own home." he chuckled,
The other bathrooms are as luxurious. Mr. Cotton is going to have a hard job staying a bachelor.
KINDNESS REPAID
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It was close to the Australian record of 4.55 2/5, made by Andrew Charlton:
it at that age, his best effcrta being 5. 11 4/5 and 5.6 when 18 years of age and 4.56 4/5 when 19 years.
"It is only a question of Bid- dulph holding his form to gain Empire Games selection, and that will rest with his coach."
Biddulph stands over six feet, and weighs around 11 stone. He is still growing. He has never been defeated in an age event since be began competitive swim- "Excepting a Japanese, no youthming five years ago. of 17 has ever equalled Biddulph'a Noel Ryan, who swam second to time." Mr. Dudley Hellmrich com- Biddulph was satisfied with his mented.
own time of 5.5, just two seconda outside his Empire record.
"Even Charlton couldn't equal
EYSTON'S SPEED
TRIUMPH
CLIMAX OF SEVEN
YEARS WORK
Capt. G. E.T. Eyston has realised the dream of every racing motor- land speed record at 311.42 m.p.h.
This is the culminating triumph of seven years' intensive work, into which Capt. yston has crowded more record-breaking than any
in
other man a lifetime. In a types and sizes of car, both petrol
and heavy oil driven, he has broken nearly 250 records over distances ranging from one kilo- metre to 24 hours.
This last effort the blue riband of motoring-has needed all his determination.. Arriving at the Utah Salt Beds at the beginning of
HOME FOOTBALL RESULTS
Aston Villa's Fine Victory
London, Dec. 28. Aston Villa rounded off their Christmas holiday programme with a decisive victory before their own supporters to-day when they beat. Barnsley 3-0 and so displaced Coventry for second place in the second division of the English Football League.
Queen's Park Rangers assumed the leadership of the southern section of the third division when.
they beat Swindon on the latter's ground, and Watford helped them- selves to a couple of important points when they soundly thrashed Octobef. he found that strange Torquay, scoring four times with-
out reply.
course, one of the lonellest spots In the world, almost useless for record attempts. Persistent rain had so softened the crust of dried salt that his six-ton car Thunder- bolt sank into it and ploughed up deep furrows.
CLUTCH FAILURE On Oct 28, the salt, having dried enough to give him straight run, he made a first test a 10-mile
of the car, which previously had never moved at speed under its own power. On one run he attained 309.6 m.p.h.. but was forced to take his foot off the accelerator pedal in the middle of the return run, owing to" fallure of the dog clutches which kept the top gear in engagement.
To remedy the fault entailed many days of hard work, during which Eyston went out with his other car, Speed of the Wind and recaptured from Ab Jenkins, the American, the world's 12-hour
This a gulf story of kindness re-record. warded: It concerns Ryder Cup On Nov. 6 he tried the Thunder- player Bill Cox, who won the Bur- rey open championship at St. George's Hill, Weybridge, and pro- ved himself a putting friend in need to his amateur partner, Count John de Bendern.
Cox had a good round of 71 in the morning. Count John's score ran up to 78, chiefly because he took forty putts.
bolt once
more, but again the clutch failed, though not before a speed of 310.685 m.p.h. had been, recorded in one direction only: The mechanics reported that the clutch could be repaired in 10 days, and Eyston went off elk- hunting.
Dally a break-up of the weather was expected which would have ended all hopes of the record until next July. Luckily the rain held
After the round Cox showed his partner what was wrong. Count John had been swinging his putter off. too slowly, back and forward. No fe in the stroke. Cox's advice was to give the ball a smart rap.
·A MÜNSTER CAR - Thunderbolt is a monster car of unconventional design, incorpor- The sequel was a happy part- ating Eyston's own ideas. It has nership in the afternoon. Each six wheels, ali Independently player appeared to inspire the sprung. The rear pair are driven - ther.
by the engine without a differen- tial. The car is steered by the four wheels in front, the leading pair having a
narrower track than those behind.
Each broke 70: Cox round in 68, Count John 89. to equal respectively the professional and amateur re- cords for the course.
Effect of the putting lesson was that Count John took only 32 putts
The car is driven by two Rolls- Royce 12-cylinder engines, moun-
all told, and holed three nine- ted side by side in the centre of footers. And Cox, with his aggre-
veteran Frank Frostick.
the chassis; each engine develops
gate of 139 for 36 holes won the about 3,000 h.p. The chassis was county title by a margin of two built at Tipton. strokes over the local professional, Capt. Eyston, who was 40 last June, is married and has two 'GOLF MARATHON
daughters. He has been interested Stan Gard, of North Brighton
in motor racing ever since he left Club, New South Wales proposes to Cambridge. and he has been attempt to break the world's mar-breaking records year in and year athon golf record, on that course.
out since 1931. He is going into training for the attempt right away.
As far as can be ascertained, the record is held by an American, who played 240 holes in 21 hours on the Purchase County Club's course in 1931. He walked 70 miles. Damaged Packages must be left in the Gard will start playing at 2.30 Godowns for examination by the Oana.m.. and he anticipates playing 16 signees, and the Company's Surveyors rounds (288 holes) by nightfall. Messrs, GODDARd & Douglas, at 10 am, on Mondays and Thursdays, within the Free Storage period.
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Agasta. Hong Kong, 28th Dec, 1917.
TENNIS BALL KILLS HIPPO
Auckland, New Zealand. A tennis ball has killed Chaka, în adult male hippopotamus at the
Auckland zoo."
lously died
After the animal had myster- a post-mortem ex- amination revealed that it had This will mean f walk of about swallowed, a tennis ball. This had 44 miles if he hits all his shots lodged in its stomach and caused straight. Bix years ago Gard broke its death. holes) by two holes on the North ball the world's record (12 rounds two
Brighton course,
On that occasion he walked 41 miles and averaged 86-strokes the journey. round. He lost four balls during
The par of North Brighton course bas with a total yardage of 4,777, -[6851 2.317 out and 2,460 home,
REAL
Zoo oficials believed that the thrown into Chaka's mouth by a visitor several days before it died..
The hippo was born 17 years ago in a German zoo. It was taken to London as a "youngster" and was acquired by Auckland Zoo in 1925 at a cost of £350, excluding freight and other charges.
The complete results and the up-to-date league tables follow.
SECOND DIVISION Aston Villa 3 Barnsley Notts F West Ham 3 Norwich
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