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THURSDAY, OCTOBER
IS OVERLOADED WITH TIPS.
THE TWO Y.M.C.A.1⁄2 ÎN -
OPPOSITION
"SCRAP THEM."
A billiard team from the European
RUGBY FOOTBALL.
SCOTS GUARDS DEFEATED BY CLUB.
A close and interesting match at
A. C. M. Croome writes in" ja Y.M.CA. met the Chinese Y.M.C.A. Happy Valley yesterday afternoon re Home paper:
on Tuesday night, the former winsulted in the Hongkong Rugby Foot One of the Golf's many peculiarining by 660 to 70. The winning ball Club defeating the Scots Guardi ties is that incompetence is not an Brown, 150, W. Cresswell 150, T. drop goal, one try (seven points).
team's individual scorers were: W. by 1 goal, tries (11 points) to one absolute bar to the regular play Richards 111, R. Ponsford 150, W.in the first half. They attacked at The Club secured all their points" ing of it. A man must find ten Walker 150, and, A. Lench 146, others willing to endure his com- The European Y.M.C.A. proposes the outset and held the upper hand pany before he can get a game at to hold billiard matches each fort for a considerable time. From a bont cricket and this he shall hardly night on Tuesday evening. The next of passing, Pritchard secured and do unless he can persuade them match will be on Oct. 18, when re-scored a good try, which Scott failed to convert. There was a splendid
that on his good days he may hit,sidents and non-residents will be in struggle between the two packs which catch, or throw a ball reasonably opposition. well. This dictum applies, mutatis break "spoun" competition is being try of the match came from Wales. "At the present time, a monthly were fairly evenly matched. The best mulandis, to al team games, ran, a condition being that the winner who, securing from the scrum, kicked One must possess some congenital provides the speon for the following over his opponent's head, secured the capacity for playing them before month. In the near future it is hoped ball again, and swerved past the back he, or she, ear find opportunity to give an exhibition billiard match to score fairly well in. to take the first step towards when the Army champion, who, is The Club led by eleven points at seburing initiation into their now in Hongkong, will be one of the half-time. After the interval, the esoteric mysterios.
players.
Guards had more of the game and established a definite superiority for ward. They were rewarded with a clever drop goal and a try, and al- though they tried hard to equalise matters, they eventually had to retire defeated by four points, the gume..
LeComdr. Herbert had charge of
scene on
on
scores at the finish of it.
Curable Cases.
The Weeks Great Thought.
Many of those who have studied the science of golf assiduously, but, The most skilful of golding fall lamentably in the practice doctors must dismiss as hopeless thereof, will be well advised, if the cases of the above-mentioned they can humble themselves to Headmaster and his kind. Even accept the advice, to scrap all the pity would be wasted or them.tips which they have laboriously
1927.
It is not so at golf. One of my earliest recollections of Sby his boys for many reasons, but Andrews recalls
the not for his hitting; they professed that it made no difference whether "first teeing-ground of the Ol Course, when Mr. Fred Tait and was trying his best or not, and Mr. Edward Blackwell were waitwith him did not materially affect tentath length of an Interview ing to strike off in a foursome which had roused a good deal of the painfulness of it. There are preliminary discussion. A. ceramong the frequenters of golf golf requires this order of activity. tain pumber of highly sophisticn courses some who share his con- For be it from me to under- ted persons had assembled to genital disability, and cannot estimate, the value of theory. In watch the play and to see for bruise the paint on a golf-ball by respect of Golf, as of other prac themselves which party to the dis-strenuous tops with a sharp-edged tical arts, the theorist helps the cussion had taken the right view niblick. These are not altogether process of evolution by showing unwelcome on the courses of the the naturally gifted artist,how he of the probable result.
One of the players in the match Riviera in the high season, when may put the final polish on to his which started immediately in front section of the regular players performance. But it is idle to of the big foursome required four derive satisfaction as much from paint and polish the shell of an strokes to make her ball leave the the number of couples that they clifice which lacks solid founda- tec, and before she had crossed can pass in the course of a round tion. the road her score was woll
as from the excellence of their the way to double figures. Yet she was equipped with a full set of clubs, and there was no evidence to show that all the constituents of it had been purchased that morning.
A Simple Game. It is Unthinkable that any ether. But there are countless others acquired, and to concentrate for play-ground than the links could whose inefficiency is is really pitia while on one fundamental prin produce phenomena similar to able, because they are desperately ciple. In the Jubilee Book of these. The reasons are
not farkeen to play well, and neglect no Cricket the Jam Sahib summed up to adek. The golfer, unlike the pportunity to practise. Never the art of batsmanship in three batsman at cricket, is not con- theless their game continues to be short sentences. "Find out where strained to relapse into inactivity anything from a third to a half the ball is. Go there, Hit it.". It as the consequence of a single mis-worse than it should be. The may be at once granted that much take. The right of the most prime cause is that they are con- special knowledge is required for], persistent duffer to complete the vinced that the golfing stroke is the fulfilment of the third re- round is as inalienable as that of infinitely complex. It is not commendation. But the other two those who reckon their stores by Really, it is quite a simple matter can he obeyed by anybody." When the average of foura. Secondly, to pass the clubhead through the applied to golf they become one: golf is essentially a simple gameball' accurately enough to avoid "Stand to the ball conveniently." The cricketer must be born to disaster. But in order to do so it The golfers who aim at a style cricket if he is to play at all. is necessary to aim at it...
show that they have absorbed A golfer can be made out of The pitiably. inefficient aimmany and various tips about nothing but the universal charac- rather at a style. Jostantly stance. Their contortions as they teristics of the genus home, and meet people capable of discussing address the ball betray them, for among them a sense of mobile learnedly the question which part tips produce contortion. Let them balance, and an instinct for keep-of the human anatomy starts the endeavour so to place themselves ing the left shoulder over the ball back-swing, and find that I, who that the duplicate members of when playing forward are not in-have not the slightest notion their anatomy, feet, knees, thighs, cluded. These and other natural whether the commencement of the are equidistant from the ball. gifts are required for the hitting stroke flows from the great toe The hands and shoulders must be of a moving ball. But it might be of the left foot or from the crown excepted. The right hand must be supposed, if there were not abund- of the head, or from some point below the left on the handle of ant evidence to prove the contrary, between the two, must concede a the club; therefore the right that any human being nct disabled half, or win the match incon- shoulder must be correspondingly by deformity could deliver some-veniently from home. It depressed below the left-the thing remotely resembling an seems to me that the stroke just distance works out at from six to effective blow at one stationary begins as Topsy just growed, and nine inches. The appeal to Na- and conveniently situated.
that, if one muscle or one joint ture is calculated to quicken the
far
I have, however, known at least takes precedence" of another, it ia sense of balance, and without bal- one Headmaster, deeply respected because the nature of man and of lance there can be no true hitting.
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