THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH
1988, 1
FINDS A PARADISE FOR PRO GOLFERS IN THE ORIENT·
Sarazen Suggests Circuit Embracing Hongkong
New York, Feb. 15.
Not far from me in this particular night spot was a face that I knew. I ankled over to his table and said, "Hello Gene -Long time no see." He replied, "That's right I've been gone about six months---I've been around the world."
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Geng Sarazen, U.S. open golfing courses, where the greens are much champlon of 22 and 32 and British too large. This puts a premium on
had returned | slugging-regardless of slicing champ in '32, open from a trip
the world. I booking-so that the long driver around asked, "What have you been doing makes the green on his second in your travels?" He said, "I've been exploring golf exploring","
What did he find in his explorn tlon? He found a new paradise for professionni golfers in the Orient. "Listen," sald Gene, "I just got off the liner Rex. And I'll give you my Arst impressions of that globe cir- cling trip. The thing that hits me hardest is this-There's a brand new circuit for golt professionals in the Pucifle, Golf is sweeping the Pacific. There's a new circuit out there. The golf professionals can sail from San Francisco; go to flonolulu; then to Japan; on to Hongkong, China; next to the Philippines; Singapore; Aus tralia; New Zealand, and the home."
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stroke. That's how the long drivers make their birdies. There are about four of those par-five holes on every 18-hole course.
"No, the way those par-five holes are made now do not benefit the duffer. They work against him, The duffer usually isn't the long who driver, but he's usually a guy
the tries to keep to the centre of fairway. Decrease the size of those par-five greens, so that the pluggera will have to keep on the fairway to make them-even with their third shot. And we won't have par mur- dered any more."
On his return to New York from a round-the-world tour, during
suggested a Pacific
Genç and his altractive wife, which he visited Hongkong, Gene Sarazen, above. Sazaren, the middle-sized Italinn Mary, went around the world with circuit for American professional golfers. According to him the Orient is farmer from Brookfeld Centre. Albert
E. Lasker, on advertising "uts about golf." The circuit which he suggests is San Francisco, Hono- Conn., looked just about the same usual in his brownish-gray tweed Sarizens, Wout ocurre trip for lulu, Japan, Hongkong, Philippines, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand
the "but of course, I played and hour. sult. Except that he seemed a trifle golf every time I got a chance-or
and possessed of more noticeable jowls. Gene is around 36 any place they wanted me to give
an exhibition, and he explained, "I put on now quite
a bit of weight during my trip. Those long boat rides do it Nothing to do but ent. Guess I weigh about 170 pounds. Next week I'm going out to Battle Creek, Michigan, and pare down to around 100-So that I can play in the tourneys again."
OLYMPIC TEAM
the
But what about that Pacific cir- cult? The dark-haired, round- faced explorer was eager again. "They're nuts about golf in Orlent," he emphasized, "particu- larly in Japan. They want me to organise an Olympic team of Ameri- can golfers to compete in the
1940. games in
Japanese
no
(Sarazen passed through Hongkong
at the end of last year, but did not give any exhibition in the Colony),
Support For 'Open' Tennis Tournaments
Don Budge Would Like To See Pros Play With Amateurs
London.
Lawn
League Football Game Cancelled
The football match in the First Division of the League arranged between the Club and Kowloon for this afternoon has been cancelled by the As- sociation. The game will now
be played on Saturday on the Club ground.
TABLE TENNIS LEAGUE
Wins For Wah Yan
And Confucian
GRAND
Golf
CAMBRIDGE LEADING OXFORD
At Conclusion Of Foursomes
Londen, Mar. 22,
At the end of the foursome to-day, Cambridge University led by three matches to two in the fifty-Afti Inter- Varsity golf match against Oxford University, played on the Royal North Devon's links at Westward Ho!
All but one of the matches were one-sided, the closest being that in which Langley and Golban (Cam- bridge) defeated Physlek and Bond by one up,
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The matches were over 30 holes. Scores: Scott and Lawrlo (Oxford)
beat Carter and Winton (Cambridge) 10
and d.
Langley and Goodban (Cambridge) beat Physick and Bond (Oxford) one
.up.
CAN AUSTRALIA WIN THE DAVIS CUP? They Have An Excellent Chance This Year
A writer in the Sydney Referee belleves that Australia has good prospects of victory in the 1938 Davis Cup competition, despite the many handicaps facing touring aides which have to travel long distances in search of the Cup.
He bases his conclusions on the fact that Australian teams invariably. do better in the season following visits of overseas teams to the Common- wealth,
The Davis Cup went in 1837 to a truly worthy holder in America, af- ter an absence of many years. But, says the writer, it in unquestionably due to the brilliancy of one man, Donald Budge.
As Perry was for England so also Is Budgo for Americn, a great cham- pion. While Budge remains an ama- teur I feel sure the Davis Cup will remain with America.
However, in these days, chal- engers for the Cup are not the only danger to the nation bolding t Anatlier danger-perhaps the more potent of the two-is the lure of professionalism,
It is therefore conceivable that America will have a very big obsta- ele to overcome to maintain the Booth and Wilhlaw (Cambridge) į present outstanding prospects beat Foster and Harvey (Oxford) 7 success in 1930.
and 0.
and 3.
Walker and Pether (Oxford) beat Dalley and MacGregor (Cambridge)
Howe and Cassson (Cambridge) beat Plimpton and Garrow, (Oxford) fi and 5.
The singles will be played to- 'morrow.-Reuter,
NATIONAL A PAINTED PROSPECTS HORSE-SHOE
FOR. LUCK
No Outstanding Horse In Race
London, March 22. There is no really outstanding horse in this year's Grand National Steeple-; chase which will be run at Aintree on Friday, March 25,
The firm state of the going may give the faster and younger horses better chances. The
conditions should result in a larger number of horses completing the race and un- usually fast going.
Helped Braddock In
Recent Fight Discussing the fight between the 32-year-old Jimmy Braddock, former heavyweight champion of the world, and Tommy Farr, the Welshman who holds the British and Empire heavy- weight titles, the American news- magazine Time had this to say:
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Whether seasoned Jim Braddock had deliberately conserved himself during the early rounds, saving his energy and hanging legs for
ash-bang wind-up, or whether he momentarily rejuvenated had been
rate will-to-win, aided a desperate and abetted by the exhilarating en- from the galleries, no couragement two fans seemed
to agree. But in his dressing-room
after the Bradduck probably
Mr. Herbert Myth, trainer of one of the younger runners, the seven- year-old Blue Shirt, fully expects his Ane stayer to
to win. Indeed at weights, he seems an excellent bet, but French supporters think that Takvor Pacha will repeat Lutheur's success of 1900 and be the first six-year-old to win since Allystoper in
in 1915. A large contingent
of prominent Jim
Arst all-Irish victory since Troy Town in 1920. Delachance and
and Rockquilla considered to have excellent chances, while other fancied horses
are
light, the
und
and
for
Much has been written about (1) Australia's 1937 defeat by America; (2) what Australia's future prospects are; (3) what is being done about Australia's young potential Davis Cup representatives.
POSITION "NOT 30 BAD"
A survey of the various matches, and a glance at the scores, cuggest an absolute debacle, Perhaps when one rel
reconsiders the
whole position, it is not so bad after all.
I always reckoned the match against America as the virtual Anal round-the winners would wrest the Cup from England In the challenge round. This, of course, is what actually happened, so really Austra- Ra's defent, although overwhelming, is not quite so distasteful as it might
scem.
Then again only our second team looks the court against the brilliant Americans, and even these players -the inexperienced Bromwich with Crawford could not have been at their best, particularly in the at- mosphere of uncertainty with regard to their health which perve
pervaded the minds of all the
team immediately preceding the match.
They must have been dejected and upset at the bad luck which had be fallen them, atter such a serious preparation over many weeks.
the
I am not suggesting that this was reason for the success of the
Americans. They played magnif- cently, and doubiless would have accounted for our best team, yet not so convincingly.
figures golf should be an Olymple sport. They've got more than 50 big time courses over in Japan. II they
put golf on the Olymple W. T. Tilden and Donald Budge, schedule, maybe I'll help organise the American and Wimbledon cham- a team. They're playing golf every pion, both strongly support the In- place I went in the Orient, except troduction of open tournaments for on the Island of Ball. That's the lawn tennis players, in which only place I didn't give an exhibi- amateurs and professionals would be tion of some sort. They have able to compete against one another, course on Ball.
as in golt. But
the rest
of the Orient is
Tilden, anozingly Interested in the game.
in his day the world's And that interest offers new possl- most eminent amateur, and now the blities for American professionals best-known professional, said that
of the Indian to make annual tours, it provides a the decision
Wah Yan College beat Sai Nam Tennis Association to press for the College by four games to one and now winter circuit.
Had Gene heard of the terrible the first
definite
step in the right Yee College by five games to nil in things that American professionals on the Lorida-California golf trail direction, but he was afraid that the the Men's Table Tennis League last! had been going to
old man par? Yes, already he had been informed. And he said it was just as he pro- phesied before.
The 14-club rule has made for better goir," he pointed out. When contestants packed 25 or 30 clubs. they spent
so many time figuring out which club to use that they couldn't concentrate on the game. With only 14 clubs, they became famillar with those clubs Just like good friends And they learned how to use them Accurately for various shots. It really helped overyone's game."
ievalising of open tournaments was the Confucian Society defeated Wah al-Irish runners give rise to the hope answer: a rabbit's-foot charm Cup. This has a very upsetting cl
accepted. The strongest opposition lo such a proposal, he said, would come from the English Lawn Tennis Association.
proposal had le chance of being cAH YAN Y. SAI NAM
DONALD BUDGE'S PLAN
Budge would like to see an open tournament between the world's four leading amateurs and four leading professions to take place in New York and the proceeds to be given to the Heart Milic Fund.
His suggested amateur team is: G. von Cramm (Germany), A. Quist (Australla), H. W Austin (Great Britain) And D. (U.S.A.).
Lok Ping-yu 2-1.
of the
of
I would refer to the visit of Menzel, Maler, De Stelant, Kirby, Brugnon and Boussus.
All these were brought to Austra- lia, to compete in the Victorian Cen- tenary championships, and played in the various States of Australia. They were all outstanding players, widely
travelled and experienced, who had many outstanding per- formances. The writer played with and against many of them, and was closely associated with them off the court.
Continually they were lamenting Inabliity to strike their best form. They repeatedly drew, attention to the dimculties encountered with re- gard to light, court surfaces, mokes of ball, method of racket stringing, clc.
Not at any time was any of them satisfled with his display.
It was almost impossible after sec- ing them in action against Crawford, McGrath, Quist, etc., to imagine they could ever offer serious opposition to our
best players. Their form was too bad to be true, having in mind their performances overseas, and particularly victories over our own men. I therefore arm that the ever-changing conditions which con- front touring players are a severe handicap.
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HOW AMERICANS DID IT
Many critics have said that Aus- tralia, does not
prepare and courage her younger players. Quist seems to be the only one who has escaped criticism. Maybe it was lucky for him in this regard that he was ill.
Did America get panicky when we bent them in 10387 No sir, They just set about a methodical rear- rangement with regard to their out- standing players and the 1037 series show the result, and this is what has been done in Australia.
Unquestionably McGrath,
and
for
Quist,
Bromwich have proved their worth. It seems that an intonalvo coaching scheme should be arranged these players they have the ability. They are all young. They now have experience, and that which is tacking with regard to faulty stroke making would soon be recti- fed.
The 1937-38 visit of the Germans and the Amerleans will do much to help these lads along. The visitors will have varying conditions to cope and will find our players very with much more difficult to defeat under their home conditions.
I feel sure that von Cramm and Henkel are going to find it most difficult to defeat Quist, McGrath Bromwich-Budge alone may prove outstanding. His team mates will find the same difficulty as the
and
"MOST UNFORTUNATE"
The Australians are most unfor- tunate in having to travel so far and so often in their quest for the Davis
fect on touring teams. The different a painted horse-shoe. To his merry,
erry, climates. people, food, surfaces milling
admirers the homies he explained that tennis courts, types of balls, meihods
Germans. been presented of stringing rackets, light, etc. all before the fight by John him just mediary Condon, onetime inter- In the Lindbergh kid- napping case, who had received it from onetime world champion Bob Fitzsimmons, who had fashioned with his own hands in 1800. "And," added Braddock, "It's been lucky ever since."
arc
to him
F.
Cheng Wing-tat (Wali Yan) beat Dominick Cross, Frobisher, Lough Cottage and Red Knight.-Reuter Ip Sik-ming (Wah Yan) beat Sin Special. Po-kan 2-0.
Ng Pui-ho (Wah Yan) beat Leung Wing-cheong 2-0.
Ma Yin-wah (Wah Yan) beat Yik Clice-woon 2-0.
Hut Sul-chung (Wah Yan) lost to Yue Yok-lcai 0-2.
CONFUCIAN v. WAY YEE Cheng Sue-kwang -
Sul Shui-nang (Confucian) bent
Pu! Cheng Budge
(Confucian) beat Mo Man-kin 2-0.
Poon Sai-fong (Confuelun) beat Li Ka-hang 2-0.
SLIP-SHOD ARCHITECTURE But did Goue figure that the 14. club rule alone was responsible for The best professional team, he; the recent murderous assults on par? says, would be F. J. Perry (Grent No, he didn't. He figured that the Britain), H. F. Vines (U.S.A.), H. chickens were just coming home to Nusslein (Germany) and W. T. roost on slip-shod golf course archi- Tilden (U.Š.A.). tecture.
(The proposal to hold open tennis
"We are about 10 15 years be- tournaments for amateurs and pro- hind in course architecture in this fessionals was rejected at the meet- country," he said. "The worst faulting of the International Federation
on the par-five holes on most last week).
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Sui Shui-kow (Confucian) beat Li Chang-kwong 2-0.
Lau Kwok-chu Shul-ping 2-0.
Ho
(confucian) beat
ENGINEERS BEAT
AIR FORCE
Attractive Badminton Promised
Wong And Hui In Men's Singles Final To-day
In an interesting friendly table P. H. Wong (holder) will meet P. tennis match played at the Cheero K. Hui, of the University, on the Club last night, the Royal Engineers Taikoo court to-night in the final of defeated the Royal Air Force by six the men's singles badminton games to three.
championship.
Full results were as follows:
With both men playing in such Land (RE.) beat Harris 21-12; fine form, a splendid game is assured. 21-14, Gill (RE.) beat Her 21-10, Ench has played only two matches 21-15; Keefe (R.E.) beat Nicholas to enter the final. Their records to 21-12, 21-10; Pharaoh (RAF) beat date are as follows: Bateman 22-21, 21-10; Sowerbutts (R.A.F.) beat Howlan 21-17, 20-24; Muiten 21-7, 21-7,
Hier and Pharaoh (R.A.F.) beat Land and Gil 21-12, 21-14, 21-19: Bateman and Keele (RE.) beat Harris and Nicholas 21-7, 21-10, 23-13; Muffen and Howlan (RE) beat Moffat and Sowerbutis 21-10, 21-14.
Acilon ploture of Naranjan Singh, who won the senior shot-put at the Queen's College sporía Iasi" Saturday. (Photo: Ng Sul-dhing).
WONG
Beat 5. W. Clark 15-4. 15-4. Beat 8. Y. Hon 15-8, 15-5.
HUI.
an
Braddock entered the ring B-to-5 under dog but won the ten- round bout on points.
The film of the fight is being shown al the Queen's Theatre to-day,
FORMER GOLF CHAMPION TO GET MARRIED
London.
Miss Helen Hicks, the former United States women's golf cham- plon, is to be married to Mr. Whitney Harb, of Liltic Arkansas.
nock,
Mr. Harb, who is in the motor- car business, 13 д well-known amateur golfer in Arkansas.
cern.
Miss Hicks, now a professional is employed by a sporting goods con- At one time or another, she ibns held virtually every major women's title in America and now holds the Western Open Champlon- Beat F. Trang 15-1, 15-5.
ship. She expects to defend this Bent O. Au 8-15, 15-13, 15-5. title next June In Denver, It will thus be seen that Hu! haa Colorado-Reuter. had the harder task in reaching the final. Up against Au, onc of the best players in the Colony, Hul look- ed all but beaten in semi-finals. He fought back splendidly, however, and pulled the game out of the Arc, proving that Wong this evening will have an opponent who will contest the Issue right to the end.
LADIES' PROGRAMME
A Indles knock-out programme will bo an added, attraction this evening. The entries and draw are as follows:
Miss M. Silva and Miss O. Ribeiro v. Miss W. Cheung and Miss U. Khoo; Miss A. Remedios and Mrs. M. Wagstaff v. Miss N. Eardley and Miss B. Pollock; Miss R.. Summers and Mrs. 9, W, Clark v. Mins M.
Frazer and Miss I. Cunningham; · Inviation relay race in progress at Mas S. Remedios and Mrs. N. Castro the Queen's Collere sporia, The v. Miss M. Xavier and Miss M, 1 ovent was won by La Salle College. Ribeiro;
(Photo: Ng But-ching), ynd
tend to make it difficult for the mem- bers of a touring team to produce their best form.
ting Infuence of the different condi- One has to experience the upset-
tions to understand fully how dif of tennis while on tour as one does ficult it is to produce the same brand
in one's own country.
To illustrate the point further, I
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