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JULY TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,
1938.
BUSSON, BURTON & COX LEAD GOLF FIELD
37 Qualify For The Final Stages Of British Open
BREWS SETS A
NEW COURSE RECORD
Brilliant 68 Is Hit By Cyril Tolley
THE DETAILED SCORES
Sandwich, July 7,
Only 37 competitors out of 120 qualified for the final stages of the British open golf championship here to-day. The qualifying score was 148 for 36 holes, and among prominent players who failed to return this, or a better score, were James Bruen, the 17 year-old Walker Cupper, Eddie Whitcombe, who was one of the leaders in the early qualifying rounds, Arthur Havers and James Braid.
J. J. Busson, Richard Burton
of Sale and W. Cox led the fiel
at the close of to-day's play, euch
returning an aggregate of 140
for the two rounds.
Colton's score was not includ- ed in the curly returns.
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beaten were equalled during the day. Brews, in shooting a 70 to aggregule 146. did the homeward nine holes in 38 strokes which is a record for the championship links.
Cyril, Tolley, former British amateur champion and Walker Cup player had a 68 to total 145 and to equal the amateur record for the course.
The following were some of the day's scores:
QUALIFIERS
J. J. Busson
W. Cox
R. Burton
B. Gadd
Adams French, West
Surrey
Dallemagne Black Alan Dailey C. Tolley Fallon
A. Perry
A. Padgham
Shankland
Haydock
Wallt
71 and 60. 140
70 and 70, 140
71 and G. 140
71 and 70, 141
70 and 71, 141
72 and 71, 143
70 and 74, 144
72 and 72, 144
73 and 72, 145 and GR. 145
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70 and 75. 145 71 and 74, 145 74 and 72, 146 74 and 72, 146 74 and
and 72, 146 74 and 72, 140
Charles Whitcombe 71 and 75, 146
Lacey
Brows
Pennink
Haliburton
Sutton
King
76 and 70.
70. 146
TEST OUTLOOK
IS GLOOMY
Lots Of Rain At Manchester Affect Wicket
Manchester, July 7. The outlook for the Third Test is gloomy.
It has ruined intermittently for several days and it rained all night long on Wednesday and again before the forenoon to-day.
the
Those downpours prevented
glish and Australian players from practising at the nets.
ה
wicket The Old Trafford
13 beets natural wicket and has not "doped" with muri for four yours. It is therefore certain to be very soft.
In accordance with the rules the wicket will be covered at 11.30 in Palice the morning, until the start. will guard the wicket during the night.
The majority of the Uckets have been sold, and the authorities hope that weather permitting, the crowd will be i the region of 30,000,- Berater.
Rain Stops County Cricket Games
74 and 72, 146
74 and 72, 146
72 and 74, 146
72 and 75, 147
Rain affected
London, July 7.
soveral
the of county cricket matches In England the to-day,
following games:
75 and 73, 148
Glamorgan v.
Kent
.78 and 72. 148
74 and 73, 147 Earnest Whitcombe 70 and 77, 147 Bullok, Sonning 73 and 74, 147
Greenlagh, Prest-
wick
Beck, Sherwood
Forest
Ballingal, Balmore 76 and 72, 148
Fasting ....
73 and 75, 148
Stopy, Sunningdale 77 and 71, 148
FAILED TO QUALIFY
Eddie Whitecombe 77 and 74, 151 J. Braid
A. G. Havets
J. Bruen
TELEPHONE
NOS. 25313,
25 33 2.
74 and 78, 152
78 and 7, 157
70 and 80, 150
-Reuter.
and prevented play in
Derbyshire v. Sussex
Hampshire v.
Cluse
Middlesex Warwickshire v. Sussex Worcestershiro v. Yorkshire
of play scores in the other matches were:
Northants 119 and 147, cashire 110 and 20 for 0
Notts 452 for 9 declared against Leicestershire.
-Reuter Bulletin,
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Lan-
AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN
Dear Tommy
Farr-
SHALL be at Southampton.
meet and greet you, and to hear from your own lips an explanation of your surprising defcats at the hands of
the two boxing veterans, Jim Braddock and Max Bacr.
Those shocks have surely shaken your confidence. They did mine.
People you know what gossip means-are say- ing that you are back here for a few weeks because helther America's fight dictator, "Uncle Mike " Jacobs, nor its hard-boiled fight-loving pubile, is now. interested in your future!
Three fights and three defeats don't help bally- hoo. You know this as well as I do. Neliher in America nor Britain.
I know there were doubts about the correctness of the official decision when you were declared the loser against 33-year-old Braddock.
As you know, Jim was pugilism's "Cinderella Man even when he was matched with fleshy Max Buer for the world heavyweight title three years ago.
Yet after the punishment Joe Louia inflicted upon "old man Braddock before slapping him in eight rounds, I was confident you had the speed, stamina, ability--- and Youth--to account for Steve- dore Jhin,
I want to turn back a few leaves of the calendar. When I met you. on the Queen Mary after you had temporarily paralysed American boxing writers by lasting 15 "Brown Bomber" rounds with Lauls, you confided in me that you were sure of winning the workt title.
It doesn't look that way now. Tommy, does 117 Nothing less thau miracle will put you on the championship track again. What is the more puzzling to me way Bauer's decisive victory.
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OU had made
" has appear 11 good been with your con- vincing win over him in London during the April of 1937.
Yet the ring at Madison Square Garden, New York, Baer did something that Loule failed to do-sent you crashing to the can- vas; not once, but three timest
I'm not
that he forgetting couldn't keep you down for the full count. None of your opponents has been able to do that.
Which reminds me: British box- ing prestige--there is still some that you left is justly proud showed those 100 per cent. Ameri- can sports writers that you were not just another British horizontal heavyweight.
Yes, I am pleased you will be in Britain again. Mellowed, I feel aure, after the rebuffs and, not in- frequently, adverse criticism that has greeted you in America.
I believe that I know the real reason for your return, You are anxious to fight once more in Lon- don... the city that gave you your first big chance.
You want a return, I understand, with the burly German, Walter Neusel, whom you sensationally
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AN OPEN LETTER from
James Butler
"Three fights and three defeats
don't help...
defeated i June.
three rounds Inst
I don't know whether this match will make much of an appeal to the cash customers of the ring. For the actual result does not mean a thing.
Then there is another important situation that is sure to affect you. You will be asked to explain to those Rugust legislators, the stewards of the British Boxing Board of Control, your personal ideas with regard to the defence of your two tities-the British and Empire crowns.
You will know as soon as you
haven't. arrive-if you already
the information-that Ben Foord, the South African whom you defeated for those two titles. In matched to oppose Eddle Philips. in what is known as the final elt- minating championship climi-
nator,
This does not sound very cxell- ing or alluring, does it? For who- ever is victor I must confess that I am not acquainted with any pro- moter at the moment who will offer several thousand pounds for the championship proper contest.
I may be wrong or misinformed. but I seriously doubt whether there is now lots of money in Lon- don for heavyweight matches, There was last year. You can give first-hand evidenca confirming my statement.
That was before you sailed away to meet Joe Louis, after you had turned down an offer of some £5,000 and a few extras to meet the Nazi boxer, Schuneling, at the White City.
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B I have written carller in this letter, dear Tommy, three success- Ive defents in New York haven't increased your drawing powers at the box office: the only genuine register of any boxer's financial valuations.
Had you beaten elther Braddock or Bnet, it wouldn't have been too bad. You see, it is the general opinion is opinion-and publle usually fairly correct that you have dropped back into the place you occupied before you tackled Louis.
Still, I must admit that you are still the one drawing card in the British hoavyweight division. I will go farther, and add that if you decide to have a fight in the im- mediate future, either in Cardiff or Swansen, the largest football grounds available would not be big enough to accommodate the thou sands of your countrymen who still
League Tennis Results
Cralgengower lost to Kowtoon 3-6 in, jahn_and_ T. All 6-2; lost to M. Hassan the Division of the tennis league and D. M. Razack 4-6; beat 8. L. Hum-
Jahn and T. Hamet U-1. yesterday:
A. Zimmern and A. R. II. small lont IT. Tang and T. B. Wang lost to A. to B. Soltau and R. S. Copell 1-6; beat M. Rumiahn and All 2-0 Jasi to Hassan W. M. Gitting and R) Broadbridge 6-3; and Razack 3-6 ¡beat 5. M. Rumjahn and Jost to F. Broadbridge and A. Duncan Hamet B-4.
-6.
2. T. Läe and C. II. Boon drew with
G. Winch and II. P. Lim lost to Soltau A. M, Rumjahn and All 6-0; lost to Hos*: tuzit
and sun and Razack 2-0; lost to 8. M. Rum- Capail 0-0 lost to Gittins Broadbridge 1-0; lost to Broadbridge and Jahn and lamet 2-6,
Duncan 0-6.
D. Lung and W. L. Hapley drew with Soltau ad Capali 6-0; drew with Gittin
and Broadbrligo 6-6; brot
and Duncan 0-3,
BroadbridgO
. UNIVERSITY v, INDIANS University lost to Indians 336-04.
P. C. Yu and Y. W. la beat it. ftum-
FINISH for the Ascot Gold Cup, won by Flares, from Buckleight and Senor.
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have faith in your ability and who want to are you in the ring in your native Waica.
The purse money would not You have not to be fantastic. be told why.
You yourself have known what it is to feel hungry in the Rhondda mining villages, Do you remember the many quiet talks we had in a small room in Flect-street, when you longed for the nights when you might be fighting for a £100 pursei
D
O you remember how you said that often your only meal before a fight In Wales was one kipper? Since then you have reached stardom-- mainly through your dogged ways, and. shall I say it?-super-con- fidence.
You have tasted the luxury that Is associated with a successful in-. ternational boxer. And, I am assured, have saved a substantial fortunc.
I am glad, and hope that you will have it behind you when the in- evitable time arrives when you must destroy your fighting kit as being of no further use to you,
That time may not be so far off as you may dream at the moment. For unless new heavyweight talent is quickly discovered and developed. I can tell you that public interest in your class will evaporate.
is
There no room in the sport for the veterans, That understand- ing individual, the Man in the Street, demands action, destruc- tive punching, and Youthful Endeavour if he is to continue his patronage.
R
ECENT affairs between various heavyweights have not contributed to an increase in enthusiasm. You can restore this fading interest it you can reproduce that dynamic form you so brightly displayed when battling against Baer, and Neusel, at Harringay; Joe Louis, In Now York,.
If you can do this, then there will be no need for you to return to America seeking matches or long- ing for a fight. with the winner of the Louis-Schmeling world cham- plonship battle
You had better destroy this pipe dream, Tommy.
Because if Louis retains his title-notwithstanding that the Nasl knocked him cold in twelve rounds on June 19, 1936-the American public will prefer Max Baer to you.,, for they have longer memories than we have.
B
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EFORE concluding, Tommy, I shall be in- terosted
with the inside story of your romance with Miss Elloon Wonzol, the £18,000 Now York showgirl.
Will she really and truly, no tho atory books say, become Mrs. Thomas Farr and visit your old friends in Tonypandy--and else where?
Also I nearly forgot... and have you forgotten your faithful trainer, Tom Evans?
Will be seeing you.
Yours fraternally,
BRADMAN
IS IN REVOLT
Demands Removal Of "No Wives" Rule
THREATENS TO STOP PLAYING
London, July 7.
Don Bradman, illustrious Aus- tralian Test cricketer and captain of the present team now touring England, is in revolt.
According to a Reuter Special message, Bradman is at logger- heads with the Australian Cricket Board of Control, which rofused his application to waive the rules to enable Mrs. Bradman to visit him in England.
The Test cricketers' contracts forbid players contact with their relatives during the tour.
It is understood that Bradman threatens to refuse to participate in future tours unless the "No Wives" rule is removed,
Neither Bradman, nor Mrs. Bradman will comment on the
situation, but the Australian newspapers are giving headlines to the subject.
The Sydney Sun, dealing with the question, refers to "Our sporting dictators."
Islington Corinthians Count Cost
Lose £750 On World
Football Tour
Islington Corinthians, who on the World's tour, travelled 35,000 miles to play ninety-ave matches in China, Japan, Canada, India, Italy, Switzer- land, Holland, Egypt the Philippines and the U.S.A., have lost £750 on the trip. As the seventeen amateurs mostly Athenian and Isthmian Lea gue team players won sixty-eight of the matches, lost only eight, and. drew nineteen, they fully deserved tho
of the F.A. congratulations President, Mr. W. Pickford, when he met them at Southampton, and sald "You have carried Association foot- ball round the world and we are proud of you."
As throughout the tour, the Irling-. ton Corinthians - performed excellent missionary, work, it is expected the FA, will make grant towards the
Jimmy Butler wood, the top scorer, has now
PB-How are you getting on
with talkative Jae Gould, Brad- dock's manager-now yours?
club's loss. Ono player, J.-Sher- signed. professional forms for Reading: | thirteen of the others have returned, to their usual work, but throe, un fortunately, find themselves out of employment.
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