THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1936.
NEW L.B.W. RULE MUST BE UNANIMOUSLY KING'S
GOLF CONTROVERSY
OUT OF THE RULES
WIPING THE BALL AND TEEING UP
ARE PRACTICES PERMISSABLE?
Is it permissible for players competing in a tournament played under the rules of the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews to contract out of the rules by mutual agreement?. The answer must be in the negativo. The question was raised by a famous player who is a member of the R. and A. during the Oxford and Cambridge Society's tournament for the President's Putter at Rye.
that the shots one plays have some relation to those played when the ground is dry and clean.. I seo no fun in trying to force the ball out of a mass of squelching mud, but I do get some pleasure in hitting from a lle that presents the whole of the ball and not a small and undistin guishable part of it.
USE OF PEG TEES
SAILING MATCH OLYMPICS
Yacht Club Against SPRINTS
Karlsruhe
In their salling match against the German cruisor" Karlsruhe to-day, the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club will be represented by the following, who will sail in the boata as Ilst, ed and have with them one mem- ber of the visiting team:
Red Fleet
Hi Major Dixon
H2 LL Commdr. King HS, N. V. Croucher
At
Major Booty
A4 Mr. Ervine-Andrews Ad Major Gill
Y1
A10 Wing Comdr. Keary A12 Mr. Portman
Col. Bilderbeck Y5 L. F. Nichokon
Blue Fleet
H3 Major Postta
H7 T. C. Fairburn 10 Col. Kirko
A2 H. S. Rouse
A5 LA. Commdr, Stewart
AD W. B. Cooper All G. G. Wood A14
TALENT
NEGROES LIKELY TO DOMINATE
"WHITE HOPES" PROBLEM
New York, Feb. 11. The heavyweight boxing division doesn't need a white hope nearly as badly as the cinder path.
After all, James J. Braddock still retains the heavyweight crown and Jou Louis in only the chief conten der. But ប
the einder path on the Negroes have a monopoly
The main sprint champlonships.
about the 100 and 200 question meter races at the Berlin Olympics seems to be which Negru will win- Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe or Eulace Peacock,
ADOPTED
Dangers Of A Split
RESPONSIBILITIES FOR UMPIRES
BY "WATCHMAN" (of the London "Observer")
In the hal, both players-K. II. Wethered and blafor W. H. H. Aitken wiped the ball on the putting green, a contravention of the rules of golf which, it was urged, called for the of both players. By disqualification
other players in previous agreement, rounds had followed the same prac tleo. Sticklers for the law declare that there is far too much tamper- ing with the rules; alliances, clubs, rules committees, and players making to please themselves until the game bocoraca
a farce. Surely, nothing can be more farcical than attempting to putt with a lump of mud sticking to the ball, or in hacking at a ball deeply
the members, myself included, und embedded in a soft patch of ground writes a Sunday Observer. Corres. Per tee for shots through the green, pondent. We must be tolerant when concluding that the practice, because Lurf conditions make the playing of nothing is said to the contrary, in races, the second to commence 10 supremacy of challenge the speed; opinión would occur if the rule were the game in the winter vastly differ. Permissible. By some we are regard: ent from what it is in the more as pariahs, and as a law-abiding
seasonable periods.
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GREATER PLEASURE Besides, what on earth does it mat ter if two players mutually agres to contract out of the rules-always, of cour, excepting styles-in order to counteract the factor of luck, and to render the game mare reasonable and more pleasurable for each? Where contracting out obtains the practice should be officially approved
and sanctioned by those directly respon- otherwise there is the dangor of abuse of the fundamentals of a centuries-old sport. I am asked. by
correspondent:
"There is one other point. While nothing is said in the notice as to how the ball shall be teed, is it im piled that peg tees, now in common use shall not be employed? Some
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subject with a golf handicap that has no relation to aeratel, though credi bly informed that I belong to the backbone of the
thing,I am anxious to do the proper
An I do not habitually play on, courses where in winter it is neces sary to tee up the ball after each shot, I can only express a general opinion. But I have been to courses the conditions of which have been no deplorable that nothing on earth would induce me to play on them, even I permitted to tee up and to carry round a mat on which to stand for every shot.
At the same time, I recognise that
Major Edwards
Y3 Sub, Lt. Winter YB Sub. Lt. Grace
Members are requested to be the Club by 2 p.m.
at
The match, which will start at 2.00 p.m., will be a series of two
boat in the first race, the helmsmanj minutes after the finish of the last changing over for the second race.
The course will be:
Start:-West to East
Quarry Bay Mark (P) Channel Rocks Mark (P) Holts Wharf Mark (P) Finish:-West to East. Distanco.5 miles.
LOCAL HOCKEY
Team To Represent Hongkong Club
not everyone is fortunate enough to "Do you agree with the practice be in a position to play on a firm, now obtaining in many clubs round dry course where teeing up is not
The following will represent the London and the big provincial cities only wholly unnecessary, but would of teeing up the ball after each shot? be considered as a crime. In these Hongkong Hockey Club against the circumstances, I see no reason why, H.K.S.R.A. on the Marina ground at In the club of which I am a member
Why B p.m. to-day: if golfers must there is a notice to the effect that
can only play, and
H. F. Shields; J. E. Potter members are requested to teo up on do so on soddened courses, they should the fairways in order to minimise not tee up if only to prevent damage (Capt.), G. Sommar; J. L Cotes- damage to the turf. The course of to the course. Certainly, there must worth, R. A. Bates, J. L. Telley: which I belong has suffered consider be more satisfaction in hitting a ball. A. Fowler, L. Procht, G. E. ably by the recent heavy rains, and that is sitting up than in attempting Divott, D. Carey and. D. L. Neos. on the fairways a reasonable lie is to squeeze it out of a mass of slime. Just a gamble, and a bad one at that.
AMERICAN PRACTICE
"Because, as they contend, it is not If the principle of teeing-up is golf to toe up after every shot, some admitted to meet special conditions of the members, mostly the good there is no reason why a peg teo plays, ignore the request, whilst should not be used, if the players others obey it faithfully. Personally wishes, for each and every shot, ex- I welcome the des, for the reason
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Match Cancelled
The hockey match arranged for yesterday between the Hongkong ladies Interport team and the test was cancelled on account of the weather. It has not been decided whether to play the game future date..
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Wednesday, 12th Feb.
The calendar says February; the trees are leadiess, and the football season is nt lis height—but cricket will keep creeping in. It finds way to us by cablegram from lands where big matches are in progress, and it is debated in the committee rooms of English counties. Not femet In, Impurtance of live cricket news in the M.C.C.'a appeal to clubs to adopt the new Lbw, rule, The Club Cricket Conference, which represents thousands of south coun- try players, voted
the against change ar; but many country men who last year; hated the new rule in theory became Right now that trio looks like converted to it when they had prac the most formidable group of sprintical experience of its effects, Con- tors this country has ever had to demnation changed at least to tolera- admiration. represent it in the Olympic games. tion if not always
a similar alteration of But every now and then a white And probably a hope" bobs
the black race and one put into operation by the clubs,
Now that we know that the now Eddie
O'Sullivan, a Wall Street 1.b.w. penaltics will almost certainly of them might get hot at Berlin. clerk, is the first white boy to show pass from the experimental stage into enough speed in the early winter indoor meets to warrant consider ation as a rival for the honours of the three Negro aces."
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fixed law after next reason in first- class cricket, club men will be acting directly against their own interests and the interests of the game at large If they still decline to sanction the BEAT PEACOCK TWICE
change. If county matches continue to be played under one set of rules O'Sullivan, who like Ben Eastman and club cricket under another a and Charlie Hornbostel runs in dangerous situation must presently spectacles, beat Peacock the Temple arise. No game can flourish if dif Negro, twice in one night recently inferent classes of it play under differ the K. of C. games in New York.
teams
He first beat the national champion ent laws. Batsmen and bowlers do at 60 meters by a foot in 7 seconds. not drop into the county Many spectators thought that Pen- straight from the skies. It is, of cock had loafed and was besten by course, as club players that they learn carelessness but when O'Sullivan the
the game. They are club players one bent the Negro decisively at 100 week and county players the next. fantastical situa meters in 10.8 seconds, tying the And it would be world indoor record there wasn't any doubt about his supremacy over Peacock for the evening.
"That white boy sure
move
tion, as well as a chock to progress, if the youth promoted to first class cricket had suddenly to reconstruct the technique of his batsmanship.
UNFOUNDED FEARS
The new rule would be unlikely to affect club players of the humblest class for the reason that they are not in the habit of moving their legs-in front of the stumps. Their efforts
with ball
world, the
And
the
the
bat
to
and play best
his dogs." said Peacock afterward. TAP DANCES IN TRAINING The Negro didn't alibi his defeats bat explained that he was under going a long course of training to got. into shape for the Olymple are concentrated upon an attempt team. He does a lot of his work”, in | 945 a gym, practicing the tos and heel bar pe place in their exercises, and other movemente to class of club matches seems to b build up his legs. He also skips based upon the assumption that it rope and tap dances.
would lead to bad decisions. But ex. O'Sullivan has been running about actly the same view was expressed in two years, and has won a medium regard to first-class cricket when the share of success in the metropolitan matter Was first discussed. It is area, where he captured the outdoor curious how little faith players have 100-meter champlonship last year,
to the change in
Of course the new rule adds to the
He didn't take up running seriously in the capabilities of umpires. But the anticipated injustice to batsmen until a couple of years ago, and has did not occur. Neither were the received most of his training from dicted farces seen on sticky, pltches. pre- his father, who was an athlete with Surely it is permissible to believe that the old Pastime Athletic Club.
His case is similar to that of Bob the same kind of apprehensions would MoAllister, "The Flying Cop." who prove groundless in club games also. became one of America's greatest sprinters while a member of the New responsibilities of umpires; but the York police force. McAllister won men who wear the white coat of office the 100-yard dash in the final Olym-in good club matches have
generally ples tryouts in 1928, and was one of been practical cricketers in their the leading contenders in the final time; they know the game, and pre- at Amsterdam. He was running sumably they have eyes in their heads well up among the aders when he and a reasonable amount of grey mat started to make his move at 70 tor in their brain cells. A large meters and pulled a tendon, which caused him to break down.
number of them are paid for their services, and it is hardly likely that they would have been given the Job If they were half-wita.
THREE SEEMS BEST NOW
There is another point which in a Although Owens, who is having different direction has a bearing upon scholastic difficulties at Ohio State; umpires. Time after time most of Metcalfe, who is training at Mar-
បទ have heard batsmen declare, after quette, where he is a law student, being
given out 1.b.w, that the and Peacock apparently will be America's chief hopes in the sprints Under the new rule that ancient
"didn't pitch straight by a foo at Berlin, there is always a chance grievance becomes almost an Impossi that some comparatively unknownbility at least so far as an off-break sprinter will develop overnight.
is concerned.
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