Clubhouse Chatter
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, MARCH 23, · ́1937.
By "Veritas"
BADMINTON SEASON DRAWING TO A SUCCESSFUL CLOSE UNSUITABLE COURTS STILL
OFFER A PROBLEM
BUT GAME CONTINUES TO DEVELOP
HONGKONG'S badminton sea-enabled one new club to "put itself son, is reaching its climax on the map" so far as badminton is concerned. Chinese Y.M.C.A., enter- and before the end of April the Association will be able to write discovered before Christmas
ing originally in the Junior division, tinis to a winter of encouraging they were of "A" Division standard
that
achievements. The steady and
and made successful application for growth of the game has been the senior teams have been some of transfer, Their achievements among maintained, additional impetus the features of the sensen, and it is being lent by the successful or-Isafe to predict that the team will ganisation of the Colony's first become an even more important fac- tor in local league badminton in the open championships, Though, future. when this tournament was first mooted, players appeared to be Better Courts Needed slow in giving support, the final entry list was highly satisfac-UNFORTUNATELY
the problem tory, while the onthusiasm with been omnipresent and has caused a of proper playing facilities has which competitors have fulfilled certain amount of worry to the A3- their ties has done much to sociation. On the other hand it in cement confidence in the hope pleasing to note the efforts made by that this will become an annual ditions. Recreio for example, adopt
some clubs to improve existing con- sports event in the Colony. ed new lighting at the beginning of the season and vastly improved their League Continues
court. Recreto only ind higher celling it would be a first-class court, Strongly
Chinese Recreation Club have also taken the plunge and have gone in for "cluster" lights from the centre
N
TEITHER has there been any fall-of the court, but the court otherwise ing off of interest so far as the is still far from satisfactory, girders league is concerned. The Associa-and electric fans continuing to tion actesi wisely in splitting the vide unhappy impediments to high the only regret of the season is that sen gymnasium at the University insumcient teams were to be found badminton was hailed with pleasant to continue the Indies doubles league. anticipation, but
men's doubles into two divisions, and shola. The use of the new Eu Tone"/
One sincerely hopes that next season awaited players, who disintment!
It will be possible to resume this the whitewashed
cast walls
that
dis-
event. Recreio hovo already won tressing glare over the court, making the mixed doubles league (for the it third successive year), while King's extremely difle
dimeult to follow the fight of smashes College, with their one big threat shots. In
ashes or overhead drop In every removed Chinese
Y.M.C.A.-coin“
Ori gymnasium provides Ideal
the
other." -
can
fortably annexed the "B" Division ments for badminton. It title, though they were surprised by hundreds of spectators comfortably,
and adequate lighting. If only the
'OCEAN WINNER--Bending to the breeze, on her 184-mile occan course in the fourth annual Miami-to-Nassau race, hero la Stormy Weather, 64-foot yow! officially declared the winner. She is owned by Robert W. Johnson, New York Yacht Club, and was skippered by Roderick Stephens, Jr., of New York City. She was niso the winner of the trans-Atlantic race to Norway last
year."
HOW TO IMPROVE
YOUR GOLF
A Few Useful Tips From Jack McLean
IN
a talk with John Grime, of the Daily Express, Jack McLean ex- pressed opinions and gave hints on play which may help many golfers to improve their game. The interview is reproduced in the form of question and answer.
St. John's Cathedral who beat them has a roof which is almost impossi-/ WHAT HAVE YOU COT TO SAY at the Cathedral Hall by the odd ble to hit, has a good wood surface, ABOUT STANCE AND SWING? game.. University BA" are virtual and champions of the "A" Division. walls could be distempered a darker They need
ced but to beat Chinese colour! Y.M.C.A. on Friday next to win the mude attempts to improve their con
also championship, and that they will do ditions with better lighting, while this is a certainty. If the league has Kowloon Tong's agitation for u less
Jus
as been rewarded.
SL Andrew's have
This is very important-which is pro- A lot. Let's talk about stance first
One of commonest is to stand with bably why there are so many theories. your feet the width of your shoulders apart. That is why you see so many tall, thin men adopting a nerrow-
done nothing else, it has this season slipperyention to the matter by stance and big, heavy men a very
FOR THE SPORTSMAN. Sup a tin of She-ko into your bag, it will come in handy for the treat ment of cuts, scratches, bruises and the many other minor injuries which are invariably the sportsman's lot.
There is no more useful adjunct to
with some
the committee. It
King's
had slightly stronger lighting it make an incomparable court, where
us Chinese Y.M.C.A., though spacious, well lighted and excellent underfoot,
floor
wide staance.
WELL, WHY SHOULDN'T THEY?
There's every reason why they
is completely ruined by its maze of shouldn't. It's a hundred to one that markings which include Lad- they are not properly balanced on minton, volleyball, basketball and a their feet. few other indoor pastimes so much
Tavoured by the Chinese. The posi- WHAT-IS-YOUR METHOD,THENT
tion is that the ideal badminton couri has yet to be found in Hongkong.
May Yet Be Found
It's very simple. Ridiculously sim- ple. Suppose you are walking along the street at your normal stride. | Stop with your left foot forward, then turn on both heels. There you
ND this particular court may be have your stanee, ready made. Your Ain-existence--in--few-months body is as perfectly balanced-as-it
time. I hear that Kowloon Cricket can be. Club definitely have badminton In mind in connection with a
new
IS THAT ALL?
scheme for the extension of sports Hardly. The next thing to do is facilities. Firat to receive attention, to square up to the hole. The things however,, is lawn bowls and tennis. you have to think about are toes. If after these requirements have hips and shoulders. It may not been satisfied it is
to posalbic
do sound sense, but it is quite possible
a first aid outfit. Composed of a something for badminton, something for your shoulder to be out of line blend of the finest curative, antisep will be done. Several ideas have with your hips. Toes, hips and tic ingredients, She-ko cools, soothes been placed before the committee and shoulders must all be at right angles and rapidly heals,
matter is receiving serious con-to the hole.
Equally good for skla complaints sideration. If anything does mater-
such as ringworm, eczema, itch, pim-falise it will mean that a court will WHAT ABOUT DISTANCE FROM ples, boils, ulcers, sores of all kinds be constructed specially for badmin-
SHE-KO
to
THE BALL?
and external piles. Medicine dealers ton, and due attention can be pald Remember not to strelch after it. everywhere can supply
the necessary requirements for an That makes the arms rigid. I just Ideal court. What is more, Free Lances, the former Fire Brigade let the arms hang naturally from the players, who have participated in the shoulders, with the elbows about two league this season without a cours dentally, that's another fault about inches away from the sides. Inci- .Antisepile.. Soothing .. Healing.. their own, are negotiating for the use the interlocking grip; it makes the of a new hall for next season. I am left arm too tense and straight, even told that If things are satisfactorily arranged, Free Lances
nees will boast when you are addressing the ball. some of the best playing conditions WHAT ABOUT THE RIGHT ARM? availabic In the Colony All
EDDIE HEADS
THE FUN PARADE!.
LET'S MAKE A MILLION"
LOWARD EVERITT
HORTON Charlotte Wynters
Porter Hall.
Mungiant Sechiun Monture » A-We?
QUEEN'S
TO-MORROW
of
which is sufficient indication that The right arm should work so that badminton has definitely established the elbow remains very close to Itself as one of the most important the body. You can be sure then of winter games here, and that its hitting inside-out, which will keep development is now, almost auto-the ball straight, Instead of outside-in, matic,
which will result in a hook or a slice or anything.
A good idea on testing how close you are keeping right elbow to your
WIMBLEDON PROFITS side is to place a letter or a postcard
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underneath it. I keep my elbow so tucked in that not even a stamp would fall to the ground until after the ball has been hit, and sometimes
not even then,
Japan Wants Olympic Winter Sports
Tokyo
Declaring_that."Japan lacks neither good slopes nor an en-- thusiasm for skiing." officials of the Japan Olympic, Com- mittee expressed hope that the Federation of internation- al Skiing, now meeting at Chamonix. France, would choose Japan as the site of the 1940 Winter Olympiad,
LOCAL YACHTING
Owl And Gull Win
Ladies Resail
The resall of the 6th race of the Ludies Scound Series took place yes- terday and resulted in wins for Gull, sailed by Mrs. L. Stanton, in the A class and for Owl, sailed by Mrs. D'Arcy-Evans in the Mixed classes.
The course, over a distance of 0.1 miles was Kowloon flock Mark (S), Channel Rock Mark (5), Rumsey Shool Mark (P), N. Mark 'on line" (P), Channel Rock Mark (S), Club line.
The results were:
Lobo
Eve
Joss
"A" Class Started 14,45 Yachts
Finished Corld. Pan, Carpenter .... 16.36.35
(Mrs. F. R. Richards)
.. 16.32.03 (Mrs. E. R. Edwards) Artemle
...... 16.33.35 (Mrs. G, Sheldon)
10.32.57 (Mrs, M. Hopkinson)
10.35.44 (Mrs. B. Ackroyd-Hunt} Gull........ 18.30,50
(Mrs. L. Stanton) True Blue .... 10.34.30
(Mrs. G. D. Adams) Kittiwake
...10.31.51
3
5
(Miss P. M. King) · "Mixed" Classes Started 14.55
Dorothea
16.38.29 10.38.20 (Mrs. D. H. Reid)
(Miss H. Crowhall-Wilson) Widgeon 18.54.30 10.41.28 Zephyr... 10.30.08 10.42.20 4
(Mrs. E. Sharp)
ISN'T THAT OVERDOING IT? diMcult to defend, especially us
Not a bit. It results in a really foreign associations can well: afford to provide full expenses for their compact swing. Of course, you can hit further by giving the right elbow Leams.
Even now there is a dispute going more freedom, by letting it go, but
that would mean on over one of the Dominion teams, more margin for error. And you longer swing with The Australian woman players who plan to play at the next Wimbledon wouldn't be sure of keeping the ball have
been offered a grant of £250 straight. I could put another fifteen Lola or twenty.yorda on my, drive if I.Ow! by the LT.A
The Australians re- chose to. But I don't choose. tort that unless the offer is incr
1 increased 肉 they are unlikely to make the trip.
DO THE AMERICANS SWING Now the Australian. association is
LIKE THAT? not rich like the L.TA, but their
Yes. When I' last balance-sheet showed them to be worth over
0. So they can af- some of them if my style was too tight. Bobby Jones, Shute, Horton Smith-all advised me not to change. They all hit past the chin, too.
WHAT 15 "HITTING PÅST THE
NAG CHIN?HERE
ford
to pay.
was over I asked
If these grants to visitors were stopped the need for economy....... at horne would disappear. But the stars from abroad might then start a boycott, and in a year or two Win-
It is the result of the compact bledon would deteriorate into a minor tournament.” Sonbetter swing I have been explaining to you method possibly might be to arrive combined with looking at the ball at un equitable expenses arrangement with the left eye.
That is, to say, keeping your hend
an between country and coughly turned to the right so that
There is clearly no justification
Britain to pay both ways, and
the left eye is, immediately over the
bau?
3
D.N.F. 10.57.52 18.37.24°/1 (Mrs. D'Arcy-Evans)
Yes. Then your head is once, In this position it is most important that you don't move it. As the club begins to come down your right shoulder passes underneath your chin.
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THE HONG KONG "JOCKEY. CLUB.
The Second Extra Race Meeting will be hold (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Saturday, 27th. and Monday, 29th March, 1937, commencing at 12.30 p.m.
The First Bell will be rung at -12-NOON-on both days.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hongkong, 22nd March, 1997.
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