THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1998.
DALLAH ELIMINATES WATSON IN QUARTER-FINALS
£500 GOLF PRIZE WON
BY COTTON AND
R. WHITCOMBE
Locke and Brews Beaten 2 and 1 After Great Fight To Save Match
By George Greenwood
London, July 28. Henry Catton and Reginald Whit- combe, the Open champion, beat Bobby Locke and S. F. Brews, the South African players, by 2 and 1 in the 72 holes £500 aside challenge match at Walton Ifeath yesterday.
With the last round to play and the Englishmen holding the slender Jend of one hole pretty desperate. There was
the position was instinctive feeling that one side or the other must make u supreme effort, und, moreover without delay.
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LOCKE SAVES HOLE Whitcombe alone drove the first
Cotton and Whitcombe took £250 each-no money Was ever more deservedly earned and as a gener-
as gesture to the lusern Sir Emsleyreen, but Locke saved the hole withi Carr, the Englishmen's backer, pre- sented the losers with £100 each.
More than 0,000 people witnessed the final stages of A match of be- wildering fluctuations and thrilling incidents, and as an entertainment, for which there was nothing to pay it was almost deal except for the time taken.
In this respect all records were beaten the morning round occupying +++++++÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷
NOCKY FOR COUNSE-18
Hole Yards Bogey
Hole Yards Bogey
I
305
4:45
3,503
203
+
3.000 30
good pitch and a putt. Once again his pulter was functioning in deadly fashion, a condition which did not augur well for the opposition. Had Brews been as effective us his part- ner this department of the game there would have been a different. story-to-tell.
At the second Brews was left with pult of about three feet to win the hole and square the match. Much to the relief of the Englishmen he infused. It was squared the match, and he did the who trick with a masterly deassle shot at the fourth-a draw from right to left over the heads of the crowd.
Laeke
Both Cotton and Whitcombe sliced to glory among the heather, and the best they could do was. 5. That was not good enough. Cotton saved
fifth, where he pitched from a bunker for a three.
the
dead
UFS
BRITISH OPEN CHAMPION-Meet R. A. Whitcombe, the British golfer, who won the British open championship recently. He and Henry Colion, a former open champion, defeated A. D. Locks and 8ld Brews in a £500 Challenge Match last month
FOOTBALL
PROSPECTS
AT HOME
No. 1- Plymouth Argyle
FC. have made no
For two reasons Plymouth Argyle close-season captures, the only additions to the It was a case of Locke playing sters in the first pince, the club's playing stot being promising young-
to over £10,000, the directors did not feel justified in em- + young man competing in his Arst barking on a costly recruiting cam-
great challenge match and against paign. two of the world's most distinguished golfers. Moreover, the youth carried and conducted himself
as if the playing for a combined stake £1,000 was an everyday occurrence.
of
the better-ball of the Englishmen, a indebtedness remarkable state
affairs for a of
three hours and 50 minutes, of an average of about 13 minutes per hole.
was
Locke was again the sinner. He positively refused to be hurried; in- deed, his concentration
such that if a bomb had dropped in the neighbourhood 1 doubt very
much diing unusual. It was all very ex- asperating, because the delays, were wholly unnecessary,
COTTON TO THE RESCUE
At the seventh, against the wind, Cotton again came to the rescue of
Then again,
It was remembered that the team, after hovering at the bottom of the Second Division table second half of the campaign, during for so long, struck great form in the which time they picked up us many points as any other team in the to- ble. Therefore the directors felt with some confidence that they had
whether he would have noticed any- the side. From a sliced brassin shot suflicient material at their command
MUST SPEED UP GAME
ful pitch to within a yard and holed into the heather he played a beauti-
the putt for a half in four. But for Cotton's great recovery work the side would
an to make a bold bid during the com- Argyle now start under the control
now secretary-manager,
Mr. Jack Tresader, formerly
of tha
If Locke in to become a poputur | pilan" by now have been in a sorry) Spurs, and it is hoped that with his
figure among the great golfing public I would strongly advise him to speed up his game. However, I will pay hin the tribute of putting up a magnificent Oght in clrcumstanets none too encouraging.
It was Locke who shouldered the burden of the side, and for a long time he was playing the better ball of the opposition and doing it suc cessfully.
Locke is a wonderful golfer-in his way, a genius-and though he failed to carry the partnership to victory his reputation has not suffered one bit; rather has it been en-
little hanced.
Colton was in much the same position though, in fairness to Whit- combe, it must be said that at a time when things looked terribly black for the side he came gallantly to the rescue. Without his help in the closing stages it would have been a case of touch-and-go,
BEST-BALL FIGURES
The best-ball figures for the four rounds of this extraordinary match are illuminating. In the case of Cotton and Whitcombo they were; 67, 05, 87 and 06 (for 17 holes).
sense,
one
come
training last Monday!
hot
where he and Locke were the only
But Cotton threw away the eighth, new ideas of coaching und training the club will have a successful sen- two on the green. Locke, of course, for
son. The players putted to within a hairsbreadth ofarl
reported the hote
a week to get a 4. Colton, so it earlier than usual. Manager Tresa- dern announces that this was to appeared, went for, a 3 in the deter- mination to put an end to this non-nt for the matches,
ensure that the men are thoroughly missed the return,
in He ran four feet past and weather usually experienced as. 6000
the
as the football season opens. The Englishmen were now down and fighting desperately to keep their end up. The next three holes were halved, and then the 12th, a dramatically played hale if ever there was it is n dog-legged from left to right with a sea of bracken up to your
леск to carry if the short cut is taken.
Having falled to make any impres sion on the enemy, Cotton decided that it was now a case of do-or-dle. Playing down wind, he went for the carrying, one of nearly 300 yards- a gambler's shot you like. To the astonishment of the crowd it came off- truly glorious shot which, on the uncut forward part of the green, Cotton chipped the ball up to the holeside for 3- and squared the match.
one.
was again in the melting-pot.
With six holes to play everything
WHITCOMBE'S EFFORT
That Cotton's great effort struck
the next hole..
Locke and Brews who concluded an encouraging note was shown by the first day's play with a lead of the side's piny at
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two holes, lust and then regained Having been out of the picture for are Thomas (Inside-forward) from The only newcomers in this list their advantage. With seven to play too long a time, Whitcombe lasted
Romford,
and Duhig (inside-for-
they were one hole to the good, but two wooden club shots to the green ward) from Sheppey United. then came a dramatic turn in the and won the hole in 4, to put the fortunes of the game. The English-side one up at a critical stage of the inen won three holes in a row and,
held on grimly to their precious but! slender lead.
Two drives by Colton, both at the same hole the 12th-will long live in the memory of those who were fortunate enough to see them.
PRODIGIOUS HITTING
match.
None of the four was on the 15th wits
his second, but it was Whit- combe who holed the vital pult to win the hole in 4. It seemed like Doomsday before Locke played his chip a surprisingly weak effort and struck his puit.
In
had
the last three holes the game the Englishmen, and two up with full circle in favour of
As examples of prodigious hitting and perfect control I have never four to
seen anything to equal these two
abols,
FLJ
yet winning
a good deal of;
German Woman Swims The Channel
Calais, Aug. 25.
The German swimmar,- Frau Wendell, who left Cape Gris- nez last evening, succeeded in swimming the English Channel“| in 15 hours 25 mins., accord- ing to information reaching the port authorities here to-day. She then returned to Calais in a fishing-boat which escorted her during the swim.--Renter.
Swimming Entries Satisfactory
Wilfred Lawrence Participating
Entries for the Colony swimming championship which will be held in the VR.C. pool on September 5, 6,8 and 9, commencing each day p.m., are regarded by officials extremely satisfactory,
British Ladies Lose
WINNER STARTS
In U.S. Tournament WELL AND KEEPS
Brooklyn, Mass., Aug. 25.
In the semi-finals of the American women's tennis dou- bles championship, Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan and Miss Alice Marble, of America, the haldars, to-day defeated the British pair, Miss Kay Stam- mers and Miss Margot Lumb, by 6-2, 6-2.-Reuter,
ESSEX DEFEATS DERBYSHIRE
Two County Cricket Matches Conclude
NOSE IN
IN FRONT
PLAYERS TROUBLED BY A CHANGING GREEN
(By "Abo")
A. R. Dallah, of the Indian RC, became the third player to enter the semi-finals of the Lawn Bowls singles championship of the Colony yesterday when he defeated John Watson, of the Kow- loon B.G.C., by 21-14 on the Club de Recreio green after 23 beads.
with 18. He might have gone oven further ahead but for a good last wood by Watson on the 16th when he was lying four. Watson came up heavy, rested on two of Dallah's woods and took third shot.
Considering the difficulties which the contestants bad to contend, the game was of a high standard, and there were some good heads played. Rain fell after two heads and caused an interruption of about a quarter of an hour, and when the rame was resumed the players found the green considerably heavier than it was before. The sun then came Loudon, Aug. 25. Two matches in the County Cricket out and the green was getting drier Championship were concluded to- the match progressed, with the
result that day.
both men had to re- adjust their
weight after almost Essex defeated Derbyshire by six every head. wickets.
Dallab was perhaps sistent than his opponent; he scored Derby scored 190 (Ray Smith 4 on 14 of the 23 heads played. But for 48) and 180 (Peter Smith 5 for "joss," which so often plays a part 55) and Essex replied with 173 in a bowls match, definitely did not (Mitchell 7 for 51) and 178 for four. favour Watson, who
on several Somerset defeated Kent by 27 runs. do what he intended to do. Once missed by inches to
only Somerset made 225 (Lewis 6 for
second shot 70) and 177 (Harding 5 for 51), and trying to drow Kent scored 215 (B. II. Valentine Dailah up for the shot, and inter in
with his last wood, he
pusled 114, Wellard 7 for 85) and 160 the game he failed by a fraction of an (Wellard B for 50, Hazell 4 for 00) inch to push out Dallah's shot-
CLOSE OF PLAY
Scores at close of play to-day were: Gloucester 300 and 214: Leicester- shire 202 and 41 for 0.
Hampshire 82 and 180; Surrey 133 and 65 for 6.
Lancashire v. Middlesex 332 (No | play to-day),
Occusions
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more con-
which if he had succeeded would have given him two or three,
on
ALWAYS AḤEAD
After scoring a brace and a three
the third and fourth
heads. Dallah led and thereafter he kept his nose in front all the way. AL the end of the Notts 364; Worcestershire 73 and
tenth, he led 0-0, and 250 for 8. Bad fight stopped play, on the three succeeding heads he Sussex 514 for 0; Glamorgan 278- to 12-6. But Watson came back with scored singles to increase the lear Yorkshire 139 for 3: Scotland 193. No play fo-day.-Reuter,
from the Colony. He is at present on a South Seas aquatie Lour.
It is understood that the Army will be nominating entries at the con as clusion of the Area Aquatic Sports to
Numerienily, the entries for this. year's events are the highest for several years, the Chinese contingent being particularly strong. Wilfred
Wilfred Lawrence
taking part again
be held next week.
Full entries are as follows: (chung Sing)
100 Yards H 81yle-Ng Teun-man YM.C.A.), Wang Yat-hunt (KU) and Chan Wing-kol (Chineso W. Lawrence (V.R.C.).
100 Yards Back Stroke-Lau Fo-hei 1.K.U.), A. K. Rumjahn (V.R.C.), Kwok, Hon-ming (8.C.A.A.), Yrung u-kwan (Chinese Y.M.C.A.), Wang Yat-hung (HK. University), A. Ho (HK.U.), Chan Kai- him (C.1.C.), Lau Yiu-ting (Lai Tsun Swimining Union) and W. Lawrence (V.R.C.).
100 Yards From Stylo (Ladies)---Missen D. Hunt
(V.R.C.), TAB11_ Fung-kwan (B,C.A.A.). Irene Lapes IV.R.C.), Yeung Chiu-ktu Chinese Y.M.C.A.) and Sa Wal- ying (C.B.C.),
880 Yards Free Style.-Emmanuel da Roza (V.R.C.), Wong Chiu-xing (Chinese YM.C.A.), Mak Wai-ming (Chinese Civil Bervants) and Robert Chan (C.D.C.).
Team Race (200 Yards men) BL.A.A., Chung Sing, Chinese Y.M.C H.K.U., C.B.C., Lal Taun Swimming Union
and Victoria Recreation Club,
100 Yards Free Style (Boys).-Ng Shiu- man (Chung Sing) and Ng Kam-fun (Lal Tsun Swimining Union},
220 Yards Free StyleWong Yal-hung (K.U.), A. Ho.UI.K.U.), Tang Hun-tak (H.K.U.. Mak Wai-ming (Chinese Civil Bervants) and W. Lawrence (V.R.C.).
100 Yards Breast Stroke. Nazarin flechu Trang busting (S.C.AA.1. Tang Leung Kuk-wa H..U.), Samuel Ling (f.K.U.), Lau Kat-j ming (I.K.U.), Mak Wat-ming (Chinese Civil Servants), Tanng Ho-took (C.H.C.). Fong Chung (Let Taun Swimming Urion) and Work Chising (Chinese Y.M.C.A.).
50 Yards Fiem Style. II. Taylor. (VILC.). L. M. Remedios (V.R.C.), Ng Taun-man (Chung Sing), Chan Cheung- wing (Chinese Y.M.C.A.). Chen Wing-kal (Chinese Y.M.C.A.); Wong (HK.U.), A. Ho (HK.U.), Robert Chan Yat-hung (CB.C.), and Fong Won (Lai Tsun Swim ming Union).
Fancy Diving.-L. Roza-Pereira (V.R.C.). Fa da Roza (V.R.C.). Len Yau ic.n.c.i. Lawrence, who holds so many of the CL Su-luen 11.3.U.), Tang
Bun-chi (C.A.C.), Wong Kwok-ki Colony's records, 18 unce again Hung-tak (K.U.), and Lam Yu-shini? participating. but Norman Lee, who (ILK.U.). won the 100 yards free style last.U.), Mak Wal-ming (Chinese Civil 440 Yard Free Style-Tang Hung-tuk year, Is not taking part as lie, is away Servants) and Robert Chan (C.D.C.).
County Cricketer Is Worst
Paid Of All
Sportsmen
London, Aug. 5.
4
able though not
they were in a confort- WHILE the world awaits the decision of Denis Compton whether to play football for the Arsenal position. On the first occasion Cotton drove
or cricket for the M.C.C. in South Africa this winter, I can give some interesting facts on finance slightly to the left and alghtly pust nearly did. After
A lot can happen in four holes. It of the two games as it affects the player, saya Trevor Simpson. the level of the flag. On the second fumbling about on the part of all cricket is the better career, but hav- There is a general impression that occasion he carried a jungle of the players Whitcombe had a putting sat among a group of cricket pro bracken and heather and reached of six feet-u nasty distance to hole fessionals yesterday and heard their the confines of the green-the most for a half in 5. Much to the relief side of the story, I begin to feel it is dramatic shot Imaginable, because, of the Englishmen's backers he holed necessary to add to the indictments in my opinion, it proved the turning it. point of
of a mulch hanging in the
against county cricket which were balance.
mado a few days ago. Cricketers of the day was of a far less devastat bad certainly justified himself.
In the last few holes Whitcombe Are Indifferently treated in a finan-
clal sense.
As Locke's golf at the beginning
EXHAUSTED PLAYERS
Africans
of
selected, he loses his match-money. of his benellt match a few weeks Insurance on this point is very heavy, ago. and many players take the risk themselves.
And suppose an Essex player had Some players, after half a lifetime chosen for his benefit the match service, get a. beneft match against Worcestershire, in which the From the receipts of that match, in weather was so bad that the receipts most cases, aro deducted the expenses amounted to only £30 for the whole
players' wages, amateurs' expenses, cost him over £100.
three days? is benefit might have wages for gatemen and all the other incidentals, and, in
addition, the ex- penses for the corresponding away county-how many aro wealthy to
Of course, a player with a wealthy Axture.
day7may do much better than this. Here again Insurance against wea- A Hobbs, a Larwood, a Sutcliffe can ther is very high and is complicated make a great deal of by all sorts of conditions regarding Compton stays in Test class, he, too, money. If inches of rainfall and times of rain- should do very well. That is his
money over their benents. The case idol of the local crowds, looking very
gamble. Players have been known to los But the average county cricketer, of Jack Russell, of Essex, was a splendid out there in his flannels, is classic case. Berryagok, Leicester, very nearly the worst pald of all our could have got little or nothing out sporting entertainers.
ing character the pendulum swung Two up with three to play was in the Englisismen's favour, though infinitely better and, though
Most counties pay match-money. not to any violent extent. With 10 South
the This averages 26 for a home match, holes played their overnight deficit supreme effort they could not make paying their own hotel bills, but not mudo one last £10 for an away match, the players of two holes was wiped out, and at any impression. With halves at the their fares. In addition, they get they were two up. The next two holes, the Englishmen ground-staff pay of about £2 a week positions of the sides had, thus been emerged victorious by a
atır 1. completely reversed,
through Everybody, including the leg-total Income of a professional would fall.
the year. Therefore, the The South Africans won their only weary and exhausted players, was average about £300 or £350 Lt) hole of the round at the 180, where thanked that this long-drawn-out played in every match, loss his hotal he Locke, following a beautiful iron affair which, for the last two rounds expenses... shot over the deep-guarding bunker, had occupied 72 hours, had come holed a pult of ning feet for a 3.
If a player is injured or ill or for any reason is unable to play or is not
to an end at last.
three on the 14th to reduce the deficit.
cit. Actually, Watson had a good chance of registering the only four three with his last wood to go, he of the match on this head. Lying was afraid of being up.
Dallah then ran away, again with two braces and two singles to reach
18-0
at
WATSON RECOVERS the end of the 18th, the fight was
Although the score was by no means over Watson obtained a single, following up with two twos, "sin and the
Core
tried to finish the match-on-the-21st-
was 18-14. Dallali head when Watson was lying the shot. He had three back woods, and if he had succeeded in carrying the kitty, he would have got three or pushed out his second shot to give even four. But he was wide and
his opponent two,
22nd head and terminated the match However, Dallah had a two on the
with a single on the 23rd.
Scores:
Watoon
Dallahı
1
Sykes
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