THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, · MONDAY, JULY 11, 1938.
LAWN BOWLS SINGLES TOURNAMENT STARTS TO-DAY
44 MATCHES IN FIRST ROUND OF CHAMPIONSHIP
PRELIMINARY GAMES ARE LIKELY TO BE DULL
(By "Abo")
With 108 competitors in the Lawn Bowls open singles cham- pionships, 44 matches will be played altogether in the first round, which commences this afternoon with a heavy programme of 24 tics. All cluba placed their green at the disposal of the Hongkong L.B.A. and to-day's matches will be decided on six of the best greens in the Colony,
All the first-round matches have been arranged to be played off by July 20, and it is hoped that if the weather does not interfere with the Association's plans the nocond round will be started on July 25.
As probably to be expected, the first-round ties contain little of really great interest. Few of the "giants" of the tournament have been drawn together yet, and the matches to-day are likely to produce little over which to enthuse.
On the Police green, the best match seems to be that between J. F. Me- Gowan and A. R. Dallah. The Indian It. C. skip
Is playlos: particularly well at the moment and seems
to have overcome his uncertainty which has been
his In several of so patent Longue games. Therefore, unless the Civil Service player can play at the top of his form Dullah should enter the recand round,
B. W. Bradbury, of the Crigen- gower C.C., has been drawn agunist
tea
team-mate, A. J. Coelho, a steady Judging by experi- drawing man. ence and recent forra, a win for Brad- bury is clearly indicated, "Joss" plays such a part in lawn bowls
anything may happen.
that
Four matches have been fixed for the Talkoo green, but 1 doubt whe- ther anyone of the eight is likely to go very far in the championship.
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INTERESTING TIES
Old Trafford Lives Up To Its Reputation
Manchester, july 11. Rain fell the whole day long here and the whole day §
p.m.
Mancunians consider it un- likely that the waterlogged pitch will be fit for play to- morrow in the Third Cricket Test
Not a ball has been bowled so far in the match, which was to start last Friday-Reuter,
Three Rink
Games Played
Off Yesterday
grand
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FOUR LENGTHS AHEAD-Dwving forward in a pouring rain, here is Bols Roussel, bred in France, but owned by Peter Beatty, son of Britnin's famed World War Admiral, winning by four lengths the 159th Derby at Epsom, England. Nearly 500,000, including King George and Queen Elizabeth, saw the 20-1 horse capture the classic. Far behind him is Scottisli Union, second,
I
was
W. W. Radiophoto
a Shamateur
a
(For obvlona reasons this article makes a lot more money than the remains unsigned.)
pro. No wonder a bitter wit called
We are. That complicated arrangement of us "Shamateurs." carefully chosen,
scientifically- For, take note; we we may not multi-coloured. กรด spilved wood
give lessons; we may not make films. criss-cross cat-gut with which one
with course, stay slashes balls uver (or intol) the net We may, of is a fit emblem for the game of lawn "friends," Give them practice; and tennis. It is a racket.
take a tip on Change.
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No wonder Fred Perry was re- Many of us amateurs who happen to have gift for tennis-or golf or ported from America as saying when cricket or footbull-and are not pos- he turned professional: "I am mak
I could sessed of large private incomes (anding £20,000 year now.
have mude
tkan few are) make it not only our lives never
£4,000 a year as Bu amateur." but our livelihoods.
Making £4,000 as an amateur. A contradiction in terms? Certainly. But within the law.
It starts when we are young. If we are good lawn-tennis (or golf or cricket) players, we get invited to affluent houses to which, but for our gift, we should never be bidden at
of
How do you make money as an amuleur? Let me tell you.
A certain man was wanted to play for his Domulon in the Davis Cup. A patriotic local magnate made him the following proposition. "If you come to England and play for us, I will give you a Stock Exchange job which will guarantee you £1,000 a year."
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Britain Said Lagging In Athletic Training
Unprepared For European Games To Be Held In Paris In Autumn
GOLF
THE NEW CHAMPION
London, July 2 Takes an athlete just on three months to get racing it, and in a little more time than that the Euro- pean games are to be decided in Park, writes "Slip" Saxon, the 1830 Powderhall sprint Champion, in a
article,
sped did not support the first
games four years ago," he continues, "but now that they have given the O.K. to the French fixture it would
YATES'S STYLE AND be interesting to know just what the
METHODS
SOME SIMILARITIES TO
R. T. JONES
TURN OF THE HEAD AS
SWING STARTS
British Athletic Association Board intend doing about getting a team
Oh was made to look particu-
arly silly at the Olymple Games in Berlin a couple of years ago, and with the sting of that lesson still lich- │ing our hildes, it would be foolish to walk right into another blunder, Saxon declares.
At the moment England is quite. (By a Special Correspondent) unprepared and it would not be a blind guess to suggest that little Because of being regarded as thought had yet been given to or- one of the weakest members of ganising a team for an onslaught on the United States Walker Cup the honours going in Paris. team, the victory of Charles has long ago taken the course of Nearly every other foreign country Yates in the British Amateur instituting organised training for the championship came as a surprise men taking part in athletic meets. In not only to his colleagues, but to fact, the setting up of national train- Personally, in camps before big athletic meet- the golfing public.
ings has become such a menace that Important Tennis Tie his success did not surprise me, the International AA. Federation has
forced to though his style and methods are been
investigate the situation and is to take steps to not, at first sight, impressive.
Indeed, the converse is the case, curb the enthusiasm of the worst and this, I think, is where most offenders. people went wrong. Forming a judg- ment of a player's worth from style alene is often misleading, Don Brad- man is not the perfect stylist, but he gets the runs; Yates's swing is not ideal, but he produces the figures After all, that is the acid test in elther game.
Postponed
Owing to the sodden state of the Causeway Bay courts, the deciding match in the "A" Division of the Tennis League between the Chinese R. C. and the Indian R. C. was not play. ed yesterday as arranged.
The tie will probably be played this week-end if wea- ther permits.
Valley Golf Semi-Finals Completed
NEED FOR SKILLED TUITION
"The ancients who serve in officiul capacities in this country would be sure to kick, and kick viciously at that, against any suggestion of or ganised national training."
writes "Slip," "probably on the threadbare
In the matter of style, we cannot score that a scheme of that nature all be a Jones or a Cotton, though would be carrying sport beyond the in their case each has a totally differ-realm of the game."
But It is lock ΟΙ really skilled tuition ent swing-classical of its type.
what does it matter so long as the and the inability to obtain the neces results are the same? By compari-ary Impediments that is holding up zon, Yates's style is inelegant, and Progress ond not from any want of because it lacks something of smooth- enthusiasm on the part of the athletes, ness and rhythm faise conclusions Saxon maintains
Admittedly progress has been are drawn.
Fundamentally, there cannot be made of a kind in recent years but very much amiss with the methods of a very sluggish kind. There are isolated instances of budding genius, of a player possessing so good but the official attitude that "we are record as that of Yates. He has been doing very nicely with field events, the national inter-collegiate chamthank you," reminds Saxon of the
and Western pion, Georgia State
д
W. J. Dyer (17) and F. C. van champtona major title and lead- ostrich sticking its silly head into the
not allow him to appear regularly in andrink cut down this advantage get "taken up" by social sets into broker, you know-he's in the last petition as the result of
pro-
the semi-
Of the four quarter-final matches all. Perhaps some wealthy player arranged for yesterday in the Lawn the nineties scos us and thinks that On the Recreio green, A. Hyde-Lay, Bowls Rink Championships, only anyone who hits so true a ball or has a former champion of the Colony, will three were played. The game be- such a phenomenal back-hand might be seen. in nction against FRN. tween the rinics led by A. R. Dallah, bring victory to his old University, Cornelly and should get through and L. A. Gutierrez was postponed and offers to pay our fees. fairly comfortably. The best game as a member of the latter's quartette
So we got up to Oxford or Cam- this
that was in mourning. seems to b green
bridge, and we know that our only between II. Overy and J. S. Logan.
On the Kowloon B.G.C. green, a Two Recrelo men, C. F. Remedios Recrelo rink, A.F. Noronha, C.A. function there is to play tennis or golf or cricket. We must, of course, Shanghai chainpion>
Noronha and C.G. Sliva a little work but that does not (a former
and Lopes, JE
It was not charity, although it was J. J. Basto, will probably provide the defeated W. Mulcahy, T. W. Carr,
patriotism. Quite a lot of people arr, signify. best match on the Kdwloon B.G.C.
would be glad to buy shares from a W. Greg and J. Fraser by 20-14.
amateur in the famous Masters' green. Remedios is an extraordin
The losers started off in
If we are a little later in matur-man whose name was on everybody's Reede (21) will contest the final of
tournament; and he is only twenty- lipss; delighted to does style, taking a four on the Bret heading, we miss the university; but we arily steady player, but work
refer to "my the Happy Valley golf singles com-four years of age. Yates is the play- a single on the second, buti Lengue games and
ing partner of R. T. Jones, and just his form is immediately on the
otherwise never eight at Wimbledon." There is more final matches played. Silva's
which we could
before leaving for England the new certalo. Nevertheless be should
next end by dream of penetrating.
snob value to a champion at any po-
champion accomplished A score of pulor sport to-day than to anything ville fine opposition for Basto even if chalking up a four. However, It was
34-eight strokes under par--at East he is not able to win.
not until the eighth head that Silva
short of a Royal Duke,
Lake, Atlanta. Another good match on this green was able to take the lead, a three should be played between B. Basto, giving
D-7 advantage, of the Club de Recrelo, and H. G. Following up with two singles, he led Cooper, of
of Kowloon
11-7 at the end of the tenth, Docks. Both
When Fraser took three
to be a game. Probably (since everyone en- popular player enters for a tourna ng game is in store for spectators.
ding-ddag affair, but this hope did foys doing what he does superlativement, the resort will be crowded out not materialise us Silva went on to ly well)
we are faced with the by people who want to see him or win two singles and a four to lead certainty that if we choose the job, her play and who will go for food game and drinks to the hotel lie or she is on several we shall be cut oft from our heads after this, but he was unable except for a little exercise on Satur-staying at in the hope of scraping an to take more than singles.
acquaintance. day afternoons and Sundays. The winners were successful
Even 11 heads against the
lasers' nine. It takes a bit of doing to refuse
more remotely, Birms are One head was dead,
the flesh-pots (for which, by now, quite interested in having "blues" The Police quartette, W. McLeod, we have acquired a taste), the af- or "aces" on their boards or in their W. Cameron, E. G. Post and A. E. fluent surroundings, indolent
com- employ. Carey, overcame the Recreio four, J. pany, the flattery, the lionising. So A. Lüz, A. P. Guterres, F. X. Soares | most of us fall. and B. Busto on the Civil Service
him LE
It is not very long before we are faced with a vitul choles; to take a job suited to our class, our tradi- to tions, our ordinary abilities; or
Hotels will gladly give discounts amounting sometimes to 50 per cent. of the bill to "aces" at sports. They
Dyer defeated R. Young (0) by four and three, while van Reede beat A. McKellar (8) by six and five.
It is a safe assumption that if there
sand.
.
P.W.D. CLUB-HOUSE TO BE OPENED
The opening-of-the-club-house-of
had been anything radically wrong the Public Works Recreation Club The Happy Valley foursomes with Yates's style it would have been at Causeway Bay will be performed matches in the second round Saturday afternoon,
were
are versatile players and an entertain- | eleventh, the game promise on the capitalise our genuine gift for our know, for example, that if a renity not completed owing to the storm on Forrected by Jones. The fact that it by Mrs. Henderson, wife of the Hon.
Though he has only just recovered from inness, A. E. Coates, the 1936 champion, should beat C. Vas at Dock, white
Kowloon
C. G Silva also should enter the next round at the expense of H. F. Harper. The full programme to-day is as follows:
J. Cook
POLICE GREEN
J. A. R. Selby M-Y. Adal
v.. G. I Sherriff v.. W. J. Bagley
V. B. Bostock
J. F. McGowna V. A R Dallah
CIVIL SERVICE GREEN
E. Tuck
M. I Abbas
A. J. Coelhe
v. 8. Lulicrap
V. R. Channing
V. B. W. Bradbury
A. Steven
S. M Humjalin'. ‚v.
TAIKOO GREEN
F. A. Broadbridge v. W. GHI
A. Warr
7. K. Gilling
W. J. Burling v. J. F. V. Ribeiro
E. de Souza
V. I. Ellia
RECREIO GREEN
G. C. Norman
Y
C. J. Tacchi
F. R. N. Cornelly v.
L. Jack
H. Overy
V.
A. Hyde-Lay
D. W. Waterton
v. J. S. Logan
KOWLOON B.G.C. GREEN
C. F. Remedios
V. J. J. Basto
J. A. Luz
V.
LA D. Skinner ··
J. L. Stovan
7.
W. K. Way
1 Basto
V.
II. G. Cooper
KOWLOON DOCK GREEN
C. H. Dasto
E. Zimmern
A. E. Conten
II. F. Harper
V. G. Perkins
v. L. A. Gutierrez
19. 0. Vaa
v. C. G. Silva.
BUDGE WINS ANOTHER TITLE
17-10. Fraser
green by 21-15.
scored
Be we do not turn professional. At Kowloon Docks, F. Machado, Dear me, no! If you turn professional
C. M. Silva, J. F. V. Ribeiro and at a game, you do not live so well er
F. X M. da Silva beat E. V. Searle, make nearly so much money as you
K. C. Hamilton, G. C. Norman and do as an amateur. If you quote one J. G. Meyer by 13-11 after an or two super-aces, such as Perry, Vines, Tilden, well, they are the ex- exciting gume.
ceptions who prove the rule. They make their money out of giving exhibition; not as the usual rub of proa.
CRICKET BOWLERS
SHOULD BE
PAID MORE
London.
This season all English Test match professionals will receive £50 per match. But this seems to be out of proportion to Patsy Hendren.
the famous Middlesex and England cricketer, wrling in a sporial article.
The proper proportion at pay, as
I see it, writes Patsy Hendren, Is
to give the batsmon £40 per match and the bowlers £60. Thus, even under present conditions, might encourage. the bowlers produce more of thom.
we
And
Such a suggestion, that the bowl- ers should get more than the bats- men, is logical from another point of view. Bowlers do not last as long as batsmen, continues Hendren. "The one batsman that I know really wall-Patsy Hendren-lasted until he was 49. Jack Hobbs stayedi in the game even longer, and Frank Woolley, now past 60, is still getting run,"
But have we any bowlers of
pace
Prague, July 11. The world tennis charaplon, Donald Budge, added another crown to his Impressive series yesterday when he won the Czechoslovakian champion. ship defeating, La Hecht 0-1, 6-4, 6-4, who have lasted as long as that?
•
* Although the Lawn Tennis Aaso- ciation divides the sheep from the goats so sharply that, unless an am- teur is paying a professional to play with Tilden, Vines, Perry, Cochot even for charity!) the amateur
*
Then there are tours abroad. It has been stated that the ITA, reckons to pay £20 a week for each member of a touring team. Not many first-class players could afford to travel half across the world and live at the rate of £1,000 a year, Do you blame them for taiting the chance when they have it?
"
It was sald by someone with taste for truthful epigram that the average M.C.C. XI. consisted of:
Five "players" who were not gentlemen;
Five Gentlemen who were not players; and One Pro.
In America the "sharnateur" recognised. He is called a "ringer." He is a man sent to a school or a university by an alumnus or group of alumni with the avowed intention of helping their alma mater to win some coveted trophy.
The system has many defects, but
at least it is honest.
But the system in Britain la cor- rupt
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There is no more reason why a mian with a gift for sport should not turn it to account than the man with a head for figures or violin Angers. But he can make only a very men- gre living if he is honest enough to turn professional.
A tennia pro, makes a few hun- dred year; a golf pro. Is lucky if hemaltes £4 a week; a cricketer overages £400 a year with (if he is popular) a £1,000 benellt once in his
career.
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It is the amateur who joins a wing firm on the strength of a "blue" or a tobacco frm on the strength of a century; the whirlwind volleyor who
gate half-rator at hotels and
ADAMSON CUP
11 card
of
J. Stevenson, with 70-1063, qualifies for the Adamson Cup (July). Other scores were F. Groves 60-5-04 and N. J. Bebbing ton 90-21-89.
Southern California's,1938 grid- from foes are very much "con-
who helped the Trojans set a cerned about the track activiller of Mickey Anderson, the sprinter
He is now American, Austrailan, Eng naks Hendren. They get into the ball from Rhodes lodged in unves at the LA's expense for lith, French and": Czechoslovakian middle thirties and then, as they Chiampion.cpving leges come to the wicket, to bang thom she died at six months of the year, world recped of 40.5 in the 440-
With his
is partner, Gene Mako, he down You Hear la decides strun match played afst the Ovaliant
Falso won the doubles championship. and they don't grunt for nothing month between Harrey, and Derby- - § Shamateur is right-si But), unin
defeating Hecht and Drobny 6-3, Their limbs are beginning to protest
en here rez sport fil denibacalled; and purged.
Octori
Award Jolay,Anderson, a half- Acke probably will lead them o
has not leads one to suppose that, Mr. R. M. Henderson, Director of
than p.m.
to-morrow at 5.30 Tea will be served at 6 pm.
in the main essentials, the swing is Public Works, sound. None knows better Jones that no two people can swing the club alike, and that to attempt to make them do so is asking for has reference to the position of the trouble, Bolled down, all that matters head during the swing. At the 'mo- is getting the clubhead square to the ment of address the head is turned ball at Impact, and hitting with the to the right with the chin pointing maximum of speed and power of to a spot at the back of the ball, and which the player is capable.
is kept rigidly in this position unti after the shot is made.
FASCINATING ANALYSIS
for
In the case of Yates the American
In the case of Yates, these require- maxim, "Hit post the chin," is strict- ments are met, but they are achieved ly adhered to. If you can do it you in a different way from that of Jones. are on the road to better things in To me, the methods of a new cham- golf. The other point of similarity plon are, a fascinating subject
concerns the use made of the Index analysis, for there is always some Anger of the right hand. thing to be learned. In this respect Yates is no exception; indeed, he is more Interesting than a good many previous champions.
HIDDEN SOURCE OF POWER The shaft is gripped firmly in the Let me at once dispel the notion crook of the finger, which not only helps to guide the club in its proper that, because Yates and Jones learn-
ed their game on the same course and path in the backward swing, but play a lot together, there is much in ussists materially in increasing the comman in their styles and methods. Speed of the clubhend at impact, and In a general sense there is little or fall to realise that in the first Anger also the power of the blow. Golfers nothing in common, but in one or two of the right hand is a hidden source particulars which I regard as not
unimportant there is a distinct simi- of vast power, larity.
A notable feature of Yates's style
Many golfers have had an oppor- is the use made of the left shoulder. tunity of seeing Jones in action and In his case it is the beginning of the have marvelled at his glorious swing back awing; the shoulder, moving --the slow, almost lazy backward first, is followed by the hands, and movement with the hunds carried used to say, "Unless you get the the clubhead. George Dunean high and the wrists perfectly
the clubhead taken below shoulders out
below
of the
ณ
"cocked" point; the full turn of miracle can save you from hitting a:
the
way, only the shoulders, und the winding-up of rank, bad shot," There is a good the hips; the unhurried downward deal of truth in this dictum. Yates swing and the sweeping away of the most certainly gets his shoulders out ball with a long, beautifully-timed of the way.
to finish in an un-
A characteristic feature of Yates's movement interrupted follow-through. All this style is the pronounced dip of the makes the perfect pleture.
knees at Impact, a dip very similar to
Mowing
There is little of beauty in the ple- that of James Braid ture presented by Yates. Yates
Hla
Brald when bitting. his concentrated ferocity.
with all his swing,
of the modern three-quarter variety, In my view, the main strength of the
is
suggests venom and aggression. He new champion's
the bold, swashbuckling attacker rather than the subtle artht. One lotted
game Iles in his iron
10 particularly with the more clubs, such as the range of is saying, "Take that, you blighter," the shot off the right foot, he mashier and mashe-nibileks. Play-
"By your leave."
coaxing, says, ing
while the other, the result, how-thumps the ball with the divot taken ever, is more or less the same. In front of it-the true way of play
The blow delivered by Yates is of ing an
Iron shot-straight at the
the crashing type, and because of its. The ball drops like a poached egg... ferocity the follow-through is some Whether the green is leiding hor what curtailed, the hands inishing hard, Yates seems able to stop the close to the chest near the left shoul ball at will. It is a great shot, une der. It is a finish reminiscent of that that pays hir
him handsomely.
Gonial
the smooth. Yates lids més SEIN
great H. Yates does not Taylor, except that good-humoured soul, who, wie on
as if rooted to engaging, smile, lakon the હાલ વાધવાણી the grounds open
There are two points of similarity first-class golf in front of him, a in the methods of Jones and Yatea; I should not wonder if he wide more though not absolutely, vital, they are | champlorship,iboford: his competitive matters of considerable interest Ons. days are over it
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