THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY, 8, 1936.
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WHY GERMANY HAS SMALL
HOPES OF OLYMPIC SUCCESSES
Berlin..
Chances for German athletes to win medals in track and field sports at the coming Olympic Games at Berlin are slender.
of
This brcomes evident by a parison
the marks Fatherland's beat Bebieved
com-the ten timber-toppers leading the the German were nine USA. athletes. Fast AB. however, the U.S.A. (like my senam with those of track and field rather nation) can enter only three stars in other countries,
dombled.
1hr 100 metres
1.2 four
na dication.
New Problems Confront English F.A.
PROBATIONARY SCHEME AND EMPLOYMENT
The first task of the F.A. Ceşinc‡). after the summer meeting at the end of this' month, will be the soly- ing of two new problems, viz., the employment of boys by professional
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YESTERDAY
R. Burton (Hooton) beat A. G. Matthews (Rochampton) by 3 and 2 in the final of the £750. golf tournament at plenewsam, Leeds, last month. The winner, four down at the end of the first round, played an inspired game in the after- noon, squaring the match in the first four holes and never -looking back afterwards, Rain fell heavily all through the match.
SMART WIN FOR GUTIERREZ
Maklug two fine recoveries from Ibad positions L. A. Gutierrez defeat- Matthews, who is thirty-five years N. J. Bebbington by 21 shots it 18 on the 26th. head in their Lawn of age, did not begin his profes-Bovis singles championship tie ou sional golf career til after he had the Kowloon Bowling Green Club won the artisans' championship in 1930,
He was then a plus 6 player,en yesterday afternoon. having learned the game at bis birthplace, Seaford, Sussex,
Bebbington was, leading Gutierrez
by ten shots to five on the 12th. head, bit was overhauled and the scores were levelled at 12-ull on the 17th.
Matthews was weak in his put Ung--his strong point in his pre-head. Then, as a result of Vitus matches and this lost him
year.
year.
years
low-hurdles glubs on their grounds, and a new though Burton usually outdrove;
WOFO
men at the Olymple hurdle event,] Germany's chances are advanced by 'Last year's achievements are 4sulte a considerabie mareln. Nevor- fairly safe standard for comparison theless, whether this will be enough of Chaners at this year's Olymple for garnering T medal oust be Games, Athletes who did not figure among the fret Afty lost year con Jurity be expected to be among the top-nutchers this year. Sports, figures again are a good enough in-probationary scheme for young play- too, have become so specialized
fuster era when they become profesionals. to exclude Miracles". The story of than the fastest German, Moreover, Daving the last few months the F.A. the country hey who, on passing an times recorded for that event last have precived many reports of boys War of thirteen years of age and upwar-in, where eliminations for Olympie year are rather mediocre with Gama were in progress, shed his first seven or eight fairly closely being given employment on the pro-hotes. He well deserved his four hob-nalted bonts and, in als stock-bunched at Rat,
fensional clubs' grounds, with a view inged fert, raced against, and beat the assembled clite, is a myth,
No comparten shall be attempted to them sipping professional forms with regard to the 300 metres ob- When they reach the age of seven-
Mtera, la necordance with rule 30. SOME COMPARISONS
stacie mure and the Marathon.
oval
Con-
loter
hales lead at the luilf-wậy stage,
HARD WORK
plus. Bebbington again urged ahead
un
gent chance of victory.
when he scared two threes in nuc- Burton.
twenty-nine
cossien on, the next two heads, but are, Is a Lancashire-born golfer,
Gutierrez, slowly but surely caught who has held the Northern open m
levening title, and has played in the Ryder him up again, and, after Cup,
He was runner-up in the scores of 18-all on the 24th, head, Dunlop Southport tournament last scored a two and a single to win the
mutch.
At the Kowloon Dock Iterreation Club
green, another Club de Recreio by anything up to twenty-player C. B. Basto defeated J. E five yards in the first round, the Henson, the conqueror of U. M. Omar Ruchampton man played his brasse last week, by 22 shota to 15 on the and iron shots with marked precision 21st head. Henson at one sluge and was more steady on the greens, held a commanding Jend 10 shots despite a few lapses at the
to two, but Basto gradually caught him 17 and the scores were levelled at 14-all on the 16th. head Basto then never looker back, but con- A mashte shot placed his hall tinued to pile up the points und won within two feet of the pin at the first
wioner the 21st. head. The hole which he won in three. Burton seared on 14 heads. and the loser filone whereünster, inorks have been The Commrit, after considering
10 squared at the fourth, but hnd on eight heads. Let us, therefore, see where Ger-¦achieved for, these two events are these reports, believed there was
hole from three yarda to save, the man athletes stood last year in eum too different to permit application of breach of this rule by the clits, and th, and was behind again when A., Coates qualified for the next parison with the dirty best neturve, the fore used method. Suffice it to. ments of the 1945 season the world say unt Germany, so far, has failed posed an addition to the rule per-short in two at the sixth.
runt by beating W. Mair by 21 mitting boys fifteen years of age Barton, who failed to get his three shots to 18, the game terminating to produce an outstanding athlete to be registered as professionals on
at the short seventh became two!
on the 23rd hend. Coates took an for these events,
a two years probationary basis down, but Matthews failed in his early lead by searing six shots on As to the track events proper; In the Century three were faster
puting at the eighth which he lost the first five heads, without conced- For the rest, Trying to prediet the This solutim, which would have been
and turned one up. than, and eight as fast as, the fastest outcome of Marathon, or even by detrimental to the
on the next Ing a point, but German; in the 200
Matthews, however, went clean Mir registered eleven inetre there ing to weigh the charwes of probeats, was rejected by the General
in- shots, Meeting, and the Whole hazardous Men
matter re- were seventeen faster and sine as ble contestants, seems a
away from his rival by winning cluding a four and a three to lead four holes in a row from the
by 11-. Coutes recovered and drew fast, moreover only one more Gier-undertaking for this event stoubtles: ferred back to the Council. When
the
Pleventy
level at 14-14 to win after his op- man placed among the Orst 50, has proved the surprise feature of the question is reconsidered the FA.
will fully into new suggestionsT for limiting the number of boys to
ponent scored another two shots.
J. Shepherd had a narrow escape The employed on clubs grounds-and
C.C.. Craigengower en the
green the duties they must perform to e71~
where he beat J. D. Thomson by 21 insure such employment is genuine and
shots to 19 on the 27th head. After leading for the first 20 heads, Shep- herd conceded a four on the 21st and Thomson made the score 15-15. Thomson then scored two successive twos but collapsed later.
over.
the 400 metres als seventeen were every Olympic Games yet held. faster thun, the fastest German white! four were as fast with only two morvi Germans among the first 50.
FIELD EVENTS
Now as to Germany's chamers
of
unateur Inter-
In the shot, middle-distance, the the feld event... Fo begin with, not in consideration of the boy even. 880 melcés, Germany fared as battly they are far better than in the tracknally becoming a professional with as in the sprints. Fourteen athletes, events, except for the polevant) the club. were faster than the fastest German.where Germany actually is ns here. It is true. nine more Germans were as the best. German fired at 251h 1 among the first 50 over that dis-mung the 50 best of the world. tance, But they were all fairly
_n .
MatillesOut: 3. 4. 3. 5. 4. 4. 3, 1-35. Home: 4. 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5; 4-37. Total, 72.
Burton-Out: 4. 4. 3. 4. 4, 5, 4, 3 4-35. Home: 4, 6, 5, 4, 5, 4, 4.
11. Tutal 76.
EAGLE, THEN BIRDIE
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in the Civil Service C. C. green
ve
#L marvellous Burton made SHOULD NOT BE DIFFICULT'
envery in
round. He | AD the second The probationary scheme for young started by winning the first hele with
Burlon lost the tenth, where he In the high-jump nine athletes professionals should not be so disan "cale" three and won the second
"birdle" three. Then Mat- took six, after slicing his second
· Ger- | nchieved better marks than the best cult to formulate. Each year, play-with a three punts at the third badly into the trees and taking four
12201718-4/ra_58_102 ut hul in the broad-m the hest Ger- it
ti
Very
after two
again by winning the short bir- teenth, and finished the match at the sixteenth, which he won,
The figures for the rounds were
were as fers, after advancing us amateurs, thews took
the accept engagement with professional and missed the green with his second to the green. He became two up
few ever suerred,, and at the
losing; both holes and fourth. three 01
cons seasons the the match was square. unable to obtain em-
The rainstorm was more violent list-ever-it hit ilage, but a crowd. of nearly 1,000 followed the play.. Burton-Out: 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4. 3. 4. The fifth was halved in four and 4-32. Home: G. 5. 5, 3, 4, 3, 4-30 par four at the text hole gave the(holes). Total 62 110 holes). Hooton professional his fifth win inj Matthews.-Out: 5, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4.
131 (7 holes). the first time in the match.
Total 70. (18 holes).
121. with five are genericly unable to flyers six holes. He thus took the lead for 4, 4-39. Home: 5, 5, 5, 4, 6, 2, 5-
In the jump the best la
came
to the bottom of the list, close
Far more
more encouraging for many
are conditions for the 1,500 German and three more metre stretch. Here a German, good. But Gustav Weinknetz. Fritz Schaumburg, may be expected athlets holding tenth place, las enn-club. to win a medi.
He held third place siderably improved since last year.
my are 15 minutes man placed shed, rant them perdite behind Glen Cunningham one better if one of the four Ameri- stances the F.A.
to play amateurs. This is of little U.S.A., and Luigi Becall, Italy.ean athletes ahead of him is chiminto
being ineligible fur Ama- Also the other seven Cermans rank-ated for Olymple competition. The value for
Heur Cup-Ties or Isthmian or
Athen- ing among the Brst 50 were for next best German ranked tenti.
League matches. permit better placed them in any of
clubs of German above recorded events.
Japanese among those ahead of him. any standing to assist, and they scon altogether. The picture is again eversed for "At the end of the jumps, may it be drop on of the the 5.0 Here the fastest German said that also here surprises endeavour to formulate a probation-
ave Eager to prevent this.
this, the
will ranked twentieti. Six more Ger- been the order of the day in pre- muns figure in the list of the first has Olympics, especially so in the ary scheine which gives players who been n sucers after, say, for this event. But they are. High-jump which, outside of Harold have not be
professionals, must of them, close to the bottom. A. Osborn who won in 1924 at one or two seasons as profess Nevertheless. Germany fared much parks, none of the presumptive can- the right to apply for reinstatement better than the United States as the didates has ever won to my knows amateurs, If this scheme, which been needed, is even- enly American athlete figuring on edgy,
Germany's Qually adopted, the rules of the the list is McCluskay who is recorded: Best. however, seem ns twenty-third,
Amateur Cup competition and the chief amateur Leagues would doubt- making reinstated less be altere furateus eligible for all competitions. it is realised that only in this way ean players, failing to make good after a probationary period as pro- fessionals, be kept in the game.
$0
BETTER IN 10,000 METRES.
In chances are
has so
Jong
chances in the weight section of the Olympic field events. In the discus a German ranked first, and two intre the 10,000 metres Germany's of his countrymen placed among the beiter. The first ten. In the shotpul a German fastest German ranked fourth, the ranked second-next to Jack Tor- next Germans 14th, 18th, and 33rd, rance-with a fair margin ahead of with live more among the first 50 the third and fourth, while in the
German athlete ranked The question being raised at the Here at least, is a chance for a Javelin also
for a gold good second-40 centimetres be- F.A. General Meeting why an amount though hardly medul: medul as the two Finns leading the hind the redoubtable Matti Jarvinen of £975, as being due to the German to F.A, appeared on the balance-sheet, Salminen and Askola, made of Finland but with 215 metres
Besides there brought the following interesting times over twenly seconds fuster spare of the third.
were two more German athletes in reply than the German.
the shol-put among
list.
The German F.A. desiring Eng- lish clubs to continue to visit them, Several subsequent articles are to requested the F.A. to retain this sum athletes made faster times than the fasiest German and three were as deal in detail with the whys and so that all guarantees could be paid- fast.. But here, for the first time in wherefores of Germany's chances in out of it to English clubs on elr this. survey, more figures decelve. each of the various track and field return owing to the difficulty of them for better events at the coming Olympie [taking money out of Germany under Germany's chances are
Games-United Press,
present regulations." than indicated by them, for among i
In the 110 metres high-hurdles ten one in the faveli" he first ten and
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