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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1937.
REFRESHER COURSE WOULD
HELP GOVER
I suppose some day the truth will out about the Thump- Bumpers? You'll find their names in the averages, so I need
Golf
TENSE
not particularise further than to say that I am referring to the FINISH AT
fast-medium bowlers who never pitch a truc length.
the
I have nothing but admiration for
pertinacity, the never-say-dle i spirit, of such na Gover, Voce, and the not physically strong Copson, but that does not blind ine- to the fact that they are not bowlers .In the sense.
I regard them, and their like, us badly taught.
Thirty or forty years ago Gover would not have been allowed to burn up ils ne energy and big physique at the Oval in the style which he now affects.
OLD-TIME GIANTS
Says
Four Counties
CAR PARKING OFFENCES
SEVERAL EUROPEANS
FINED
FULWELL
Close Win For Chevalier
The replay of the tie in the Daily Mirror £800 Assistants' tournament at Fulwell last month, which was won by A. 3. Chevaller (Reddial Vale), with a searn of 145 against 146 by E. E. Whitcombe (Meyrick Park), very nearly became another tie as the result of a remarkable finish.
Cheveller came to the last hole-
over short one
lake-three up and an almost certain in three overs and the seams fiat-rd before Mr. W. Schofield at the the Central Magistracy this morning for in six by any pair of
winner. But he hooked his tee shot following: C. B. Fry, Hanji," Ar- parking offences,
P. C. Walsh, owner of car 3387, was out of bounds and, having played a chle MacLaren,
got down in Amuly
WAR over the George Hirst, John Tyldesley, Pereyra
Bowling us they do dally, Gover Vore would have had the maker's none removed from the ball
tened
Severn Europeans were suminan-
a
strokes
Tom Hayward,
Pined $3 for leaving his car in provisional ball,
Perrin, "Pinkle" Burnup, A. J. Pedder Street park between 9.34 and, Whitcombe, who
on August 10, A shnilar green from the tee, chipped up well,
Turte, David Denton, A. P. Luens 12.1 --and would rarely have got a ball penalty past Grace's bat at all.
I watched closely one recent game In which in half an hour Gover" sent down 17 "gift"
fours, twelve at least of which should have been cut or hooked for fone.
011
A. J. guilty to between 2.15 and
Inflicted Was Hargreaves, who pleaded 14.45 m. on August 2
the same offence
G. W. Sewell and E. T. McMullen Wern eneh also fined $3 for parking in excess of the time limit allowed HA Commatlight Road on August 10, The former left his car there between 12.55 and 1.50 p.m. and the latter for six hours from noon.
three
(1)
and then failed with a yard putt for
ree and a
a tie. Chevalier had rounds of 72 and 73 and Whitcombe 75 and 71, the win- and ter playing superior golf
Whitcombe's put- about the greens. ing failed him in the afternoon just when he seemed likely to wipe out the morning
ing deficit of three strokes. PERFECT SHORT GAME Going
ing out in the
Cheva- morning Bier
played ve holes, wa
Two Chana Moter-Bus Companying perfonasnificently and, put-
"
having
allowed excess
chip shota stone dead at six strokes to the
If Gover, or Voce for that matter. had been brought up on right lines both would have been world-beaters It is tou late now for Vore to re- form-is a fastish bowler under-conductors. Loo Hung, of Bus No. stood, though he might, if red
if reducing 74 and
and Tam Chung-ming, of Bus his
imalis,
at develop into a
a really No. 622, appeared to answer sum good after the 7th. Coming home
the good medium-slow round-the-wicket
chips were not played with such spinney--but Gover should be taken persons on their vehicles on August underclubbing crept in, and his lead deadly precision, the old error of in land at once by somebody who la, Sergent Clarke, provebuting said dwindled in
to three.
The morning can put him right.
at 150 p.m. he saw the frst bus He should bowl to two ships and
Ogures were: 1 Peak Tram Station in
Chevaller: Out: 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, Rullies, a cover fairly deep, a Garden Road carrying 12 standing, 35. In: 4, 4, 5, 4, 6, 4. 4. 5. 37 two mid-off, a deep third one short-ien passengers.
Later
[ti The some Total. 52. and one only, except on a kicking day he saw the second vehicle. Whitcombe: Out: 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, wicket, and no long-leg.
alses in Garden Road and it had eight 4. 4, 40. In: 4, 4, 5, 3, 4, 3, 5, 4, 3, persons tonding,
Total. 75. the Sergeant, on the No. as if determined to put the issue be $$} Route, which served Caine Read
yond doubt before the turn, holing
A long-leg for a fast Bowler in d public confession of lack of com- mand of the ball.
Having placed this flet, Gover
bowl.
That is to say, bowl for the punch
past cover.
THUMP BUMP
Bowl to make the bat come for- ward at him, and for the batsman to spar about like a boxer who can't- box.
Overcrowding appeared very tres 39,
Alter lunch Chevalier went away
would have to forget all about the fittal its environs. Fines of $5 and $4 four, six and thrre yard putts at the
were imposed. stuif he has been serving up, and respectively wer
Chan Pui, driver of lorry 2248, was Whitcombe
(1st, 2nd and 4th respectively for 3's. fred $10 for speeding in King's Read from
nbe replied with 3. 3. 2. 4, the third-four holes in 12 at 3.30 pm. on August 9. Sergeant shots--the 2 coming through a best- Fryer said defendant was doing 30 tiful chip at the short 5th. miles per hour. There was no dan-
Whitcombe turned fa 33 to 34, one per.
bow...
The man had one back, and then came a chapter of Ponviction for a previous
minor putting accidents at the 11th 12th, jiraffle offence,
13th, and Chevalier was four strokes Mr. A. el Arculli appeared on be- half of Chow Choj, a taxi driver, who Whitcombe won the 14th, where his up with are holes to play. But was stumoned for falling to carry opponent missed a holeable putt for has altered the cricket fact that his licence dise in such a position as only the second time in the day, and to be visible through the left-hend the 15th, where Chevalier was bun- bottom corner of the windscreen at kered. The 16th was halved, 4.25 p.m. on August 0. Mr. Arculi Chevaller plended not guilty and Tuesday. came August 31, at 12.30 pm. was fixed for hole. The hearing. Traffic-Sergeant Wass pro- were: secuted in this ense,
Nothing done in post-war cricket fast bowler is bowling best when he ir sometimes being hit post mid-off
and cover.
The fact that no first-wicket part- nership against Surrey this season has yielded 50 runs leaves me cold. As against his supposed feather in Gover's hunnel, how many genuine first pairs are there in England to- day? Further, if there are three, has he opposed them yet?
Far be it from me attempt to be little the prowess either of Gover or Voce. But, to an ancient: It is very galling to see such useful material wasted by the hurting down of Thump-Bump stuff of the soft that the New Zealand tail laughed #t. That showing-up will never forgotten at Lords.
OUR GUIDE TO THE
CINEMAS
"Slave Ship" (Queen's and Alham-
•
won the 17th, and then the excitement of the Inst second round figures Chevaller: Out: 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4. 35. In: 4, 4, 5, 3, 5, 4, 4, 4, 8, 39, Total. 73.
Whitcombe: Out: 4, 5, 3, 3, 2, 4, 4, 5, 3, 33. In: 4, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 4. 3. Total. 71.
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