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Wednesday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 21, 1938.
M. C. C. PLAN
A New Method To Be Used Not Always
To Pick The Best Golfer
WISE DECISION MADE
BY THE P.G.A.
When the next ranking list of Britain's golf pro- fessionals is drawn up, it will be victories only, and not ability to get round in a low score that will influence the Professional Golfers' Association."
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of the secre ne point. If he is 20th The P.G.A., controllers Vardon Trophy competillon, which (dreadful though) he will be credited with 20-and te player with the settles the professionals' champion-
their amaties! agregate will of course, Le bard hitherto ship. have
the viclor. findings on average stures.
The competition concerns major tournaments, such as the open cham- pionship, the Dalig Malt's
£2,000
FAIRER WAY
On that basis, a golf expert worked event, the Silver Kibit," and theit aul that last season's winrer mant contest, therefore the year's best policr......
News-Chronicle's
£1,000
rank
pu points. The P.G.A; note the scores eturned would, fittingly enouge, have been
Reg Whitcombe with Terry would have been second with 30 and Coon third with 79.
In
these competitions
players accordingly.
lie also pointed out that one im- With the following rather extra-
weather. A ordinary result last season: Iteuryportant drawback to the "average Cotton, who played fine golf but was score" system is the dogged by the worst of fuck, did not score of, say, 73 in perfect saaminer win a single major tourment, yet conditions is surely not to good as when they worked out his average 76 returned against blustering wind they found he was the winner of the and driving rall? Vardon Trophy and therefore the champion of the yeart
When Reg Whitcombe, the open champion, heard this he felt that he lund been bunkered out of turn, and ns for All Perry, wha wan mark tournaments than any other player, he said more than a few words.
ANOMOLOUS
Do not think-Colton is going to apologise for going round in fewer strokes on anyone else. He isn't. He played the required minimum of 10 rounds, and won the trophy fair- ly, according to the rules of the com- petition.
At the same time he will admit that it is a bit anomolous that neither Whitcombe, the open winner, nor
most events last 1 Perry, who won
stunmer, should not be the champioe of the year. The result actually was Cutton (average 72.87) 1, Whi combe (73.35), Perry (73.4) 3,
This only goes to show that a golfer's scores are not a dependable guide to his tournament -winning powers.
averages,
No one can quarrel with a record based on results. That's why the! League football system always works so well, and why the county cricket table, so long as it is governed by will always lend to percentages. arguments,
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The P.G.A. have made a change. Being placed among thef nest 12 professionals is a matter of great importance to British golfers, should be above criticism. and it is as well that the ranking
AMERICAN
SCULLER'S
SUCCESS
The final of the Colquhoun Sculls on November 19 at Cambridge was won by an American oarsman. Hugh Parker, of Tabor Academy, Concord,
Safe To Do This Thing
30-HOUR TEST MATCHES
FIVE-DAYS
the clarity An Incident In This is not always a safe thing to do, but in the present case the goal-keeper. Pau Ka-ping. of the Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation, is wide-awake and no harm is done. soccer match on Sunday when the Chinese defeated the Hongkong F. A. by four goals to nii. The Assocla- tlun forwards tried hard to score in the second half without success, and Lee Tin-sang is here seen heading the ball back to Pau witen harried by Fowler.--Photo by Jaffer.
Here And There -With "Abe"
POPULAR MEMBER FAREWELLED
A. A. Aziz Leaving
Readers Want Box-Scores Of Colony On Sunday
Softball Matches
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received
LIMIT IN GAMES IN ENGLAND
London, Nov. 23.
England wants standardised Test matches with Australia. Limit them to thirty hours is the idea. Forget about timeless Tests and all the other things which puzzle or irritate the en- thusiast.
IL
that
Cricket An Australian writer, quoted by The Advisory County Committee think Tests would be Reuter, anticipates a £25,000 share better in this country it they con- for Australia, Final figures will not sisted of five six-hour daya, Aus- be trulla couk carry on with six five- our days. The committee, meeting In London yesterday, decided to put the proposal before the Australian Board of Control.
known until Manager W. Jennes reports,
proposal Worcestershire's every first-class county should have equal representation on the Board of Control was defeated.
REGISTRATION SCHEME
It does not mean that thirty hours' crickel must be played if there is This time lost by the weather.
The Middlesex proposal that the would be getting back to the time-
registration scheme of county crio- less Test Idea," said a prominentiteters should be prepared for con- legislator last night. we had sideration of first-class counties was rain, that would mean so many accepted. M.C.C. will choose a sub- hours of the thirty lost. All we commitice to get on with the job. want is to be on par with Austra-
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It's Australia's move now. Australia's tour in this
country
The Board of Control have de- no Test trials will be elded that played in 1039 or 1040.
The selection sub-committee, in- last season resulted in a profit of creased from three to four, luctud- £42,000. Those counties which bad ing two first-class county captains, the Tests (Yorkshire, Lancashire, is to be continued on an experimen- Nottinghamshire, Middlesex andtal basis. Sir Pelham Warner is not Surrey) and the M.C.C., each recklog nomination again. Iceive £3,350. Other counties will Two vacancies for trustees caused (receive £1,600 ench. Each minor by the death of Lord Hawke and the county and the universities will get retirement of Mr. A. J. Webbe will
be filed in the sprint. £220.
rc-
£42,000 PROFIT ON AUSTRALIAN TOUR Counties' Large Share
in on tour
By the same rule you can- Bunting Howell, who won the Wing-and the other from a visitor from makes their matches really interesting to his native Malnya after a stay it was announced at the Board of Major H. A. Henson (Glo9.).
not judge a cricketer's valtie by his
one
So next season the PG.A. will employ a new system. They will cross- the
used in borrow country running.
this testing pastime the winner of race scores I point for his team, the second man 2, the third 3, and so on.
That is how this golf wil he work- ed. If Cotton wins the open he will
that
pilfer
Knowles
Ison and
A.
Parker gained an early lead and Ladies' League. "Couldn't you best.ruis being so, every endeavour will the many sterling qualities of Mr.previous Australian visits to this Town (Now Lancashire), H.
Non?
wide
The distribution of profils was
Some 50 members of the Indian Recreation Club gathered together in
Pelham Warner and R. W. V. Robins the club-house at dinner last evening
London, Nov. 23, to say tarewell to Mr. A. A. Aziz,
The net profit on the Australian (Middlesex), Rev. H. R. N. Ellison one of their most popular sportsmen,
England fast summer (Derby), Lt.-Cmdr. V. J. Robinson is leaving the Colony two, local girls have not yet attained the who
Mr. Aziz is return-mounted approximately to £42,000, and
N. Riley and W. L. (Sussex), A. J. Spelling (Essex), the first American champion of the VESTERDAY
IL. D. G. Loveson Gower and A. F. Cam in the long series of winners. I letters, one from a fair readersame degree of proficiency which Christmas Day
Although not a record, the profit Davey (Surrey), T. A. Higson Mr. A. el Arculi, President of the
Howard
Col. Sir Stanley fields in 1898, was a Cambridge man Shanghai, asking why local news-ing; to watch, some of the men's en- of more than ten years in Hongkong. Control meeting, also at Lord's, but records do not show him as ever papers do not publish the box-scores counters now contain a great amount of softball matches played in the of skill. Indications are not locking
come to stay, Club, was in the chair and spoke of compares favourably with that of R the game has having won the Colquhouns.
steal or otherwise
Test at Manchester, where not a ball topherson, R. H. Twining and W. won easily. Iis opponent lost dis- borrow,
could be bowled, all past Bgures Lindsay Everard (MC.C.), at those elusive box-scores from the be made in future to publish box-Aziz, whom he described an one of the country, and but for the washed-out Jackson, Col. C. Haseline, S. Chris- steering through funce
would have been beaten easily. Grassy Corner, Result: Back Sta- many coaches, trainers and scribes scores whenever space permits.
II. Parker (Tabor, Acad., wearing out their Everhard Fabers these U.S.A., Trinity Hall) 1. Front Sta-at these matches?" asks "A Lady Now Rules
do watch tion: E.
Sherwood (Mart-Fan." "If you G. P.
United States, continues to alter borough, Christ's) 2. Won by 11 Ladies' softball tits-but then I sup-E game, it is reported from the
Sports Editors are too pose most busy (sic) to give much attention Its rules to make them more like the see. in 8 min. 11 sec..
of its big brother-baseball. to this new-born infant-you must code have noticed how this modified game Clarence E. Brewer of Detroit, chair- of swat has taken on; so what about man of the joint rules committee of the box-scores for those Sunday the Amateur Softball Association. morning games?" The visitor from has announced that the only major Shanghai says, "I really do believe change for 1039 will permit the scor- that the box-scores of these gamesing of runs on a wild pitch, passed are the meat of the whole story, as ball or throw-back from the catcher! from them one can gather many i-to the pitcher. In the past runners forced to stay on third escape deserved wise This "new-born infant" having de-throwbacks, although they could go veloped into a lusty kicking babe, Ifrom first to second or from second was not entirely surprised to receive to third when these plays developed. two such letters; it was inevitable Brewer anys the latest move to make that time would come when the softball's rules similar to those of game's adherents would demand baseball was needed to help the of
1937 the sacrifice was inore attention to it, and consequent- fener. In
voted into the softball rules. ly more space in the papers.
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" attention.' base on wild pitches, passed balls or
It Has Caught On
Team For Saigon
Players Selected To Represent Colony
Four players have been selected to represent Hong- kong at the Far Eastern tennis championships from January 7 They are to 14 at Saigon. Tennie Kwok, Lai Kwong- tsun: Chan Chai-kung and Szeto Bick.
The team will leave early in January.
£3,350 to the M.C.C. and each) bounty on whose ground Test matelies were played.
£1,000 to each county on whose ground Test matches were not played.
£220 to ench Minor County and
University.
It is estimated that over a period of four years the counties who stage: Test matches on their grounds have received an average of £1,400 per annum towards the cost of mainten- ance and improvements.
TEST TOUR CHANGES INDICATED
M.C.C. Secretary. On Present-Day Bowling
Malertal
London, Nov. 30. changes in the pro-
For next summer, when the West gramme of future Australian teams Indles will be in England, three Test Visiting this country were indicated matches of three days each have by Lieut-Colonel Ralt-Kerr, secre- The been arranged. The hours of play tary of the M.C.C, in a speech to most cheerful men he knew. Club knew him well as a cricketer-will be 11.30 to 6.30 on the first two county secretaries yesterday.
If the Australian Board of Control he has only just. relinquished the days and 11 to 6.30 on the last day.
accepted the formula that Tests in
PPEARING elsewhere in
ths captaincy of the Junior Eleven--but The price of admission will be 2s, HAT the game has caught on in
also in other forms of sport he was
The board decided that the new England should be of five days' duration, it was obvious, remarked nures of four Hongkong there can be no doubt issue ore the
the Selection Sub-Committee to be the M.C.C. secretary, that the Aus-
pointed next spring shall be continu-
throughout
at all. A visit to King's Park any players selected to represent Hong-well-known not only in the com- Sunday morning will convince even kong in the Far Eastern tenni munity but also
ed on the experimental basis of four tralians would not be able to carry the most sanguine of that. Person-championships to be held at Saigon Colony.
It way an- He did not, however, suggest the ally I have not been able to whip from January 7 to 14. As none of
Mr. Arculli expressed the regret members, including two county cap-out such an extended programme; myself into the same degree of en- the four can be ranked within the of the members at Mr. Aziz's de-tains, an last year. thusiasm for the sport is some of my first five in the Colony, the team parture, especially as there was little nounced that Sir Pelham Warner did manner in which it would be cur- friends have; but then I cannot ex- cannot be said to be a representative possibility of his relum in the near not, wish to seek nomination on the falled pect these same friends to reveal the one; but as most the leading future, but he assured, Mr. Aziz that committee, and a hearty
same keenness for the games which players either cannot obt
obtain the
vole of Colonel Rait-Kerr had something
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if ever he did return there would thanks for his services and those of I find so enjoyable. It's just a mat- necessary icave or are not keen to always be a welcome for him at the the other selectors was passed. ter of taste. Except to those who take part in the championships, it Club (Applause). Mr. Arculli con- understand the intricate system of is probably the best team we can cluded by wishing Mr. Aziz good luck scoring and not every softballer. 1send in the circumstances. When
There will be no Test Trial
Buy on the highly controver- sal subject of wickets. Ite could not And any evidence that wickela to- mat-day were enormously different from
what they were in 1010.
Various steps had been taken to A resolution which received ap-
that inhelp the bowler, yet as far as the proval by the board was future, as often as can be arranged, game was concerned the most un- lle appealed to bowlers to pay the 12th man in Test matches should satisfactory aspect was the bowling.
am sure, docs understand-the- lum spoke to him a fortnight ago, Tsui and prosperity in his new sphere of/ches in 1039 or 1940. ble of Agares conveyn little to most Yun-pui was almost certain of being people. It's not like cricket scores, able to go to Saigon, but apparently
many rims a batsman has mode.
activity.
where you can tell at glance how he has changed his mind. in the members for the honour they had One doesn't necessarily have to boCupper and Colony champlon, was in the Cricket League, which starts be a player on the staff of the club i
Mr. Aziz suitably replied, thanking
brother, Taul Wai-pul, the
Davis done him and wishing them success in cricketer to be able to understand
**** ¡never at time certain of being next month.
any cricket scores; but one has to know neve quite a great deal of baseball in or- able to make the trip, and because der to tell how a game went by the of the uncertainty in his case all box-scores. Even as it in, some along, his declination of the invitation people are of the opinion that enough does not come as a surprise now. space is already being devoted by the All the same it must have been local papers to the sport. One very blow to the Hongkong L.T.A. Uint in Saigon expenses keen cricketer was extremely dis-even with hotel gruntled when the cricket scores on and return passage guaranteed, a recent Saturday were not printed stronger ade has not been available. in full the following day. "It's To have our leading players pitted scandalous," he snorted. "Columns against men like Yvon Petra, Kho and columns of softball and any one Sla-kle as well as the Filipino stars column of cricket" That's the would have done Colony tennis an worst part about upsetting an esta-immeasurable amount of good. blished practice! Usually there are
three or four columns of cricket
scores every Sunday morning. This Lou Nova
Fillip To Game
TIS' ability to beat, and nearly Hknock
Farr out, Tommy stamos Lou Nova as a most promia- TF anything was needed to fan the ing fighter. A husky Californian, he flomb of interest sweeping over believes in carrots, beef juice and the Colony, the visit of the Ameri-sugar, and the sober American cri- can girls provided it. These girls iles who saw him knock out Gunner act a new standard of play in Hong-Baerlund believe he is more promis- kong with their splendid pitching in at the sve of 25 than was Gene and spectacular fielding. Before Tunney. And this is saying plentvi their exhibition at Caroline He is also somewhat of a Bombastes noftball here was well, it was Furiuse, if the story is true that, on just softball. But the visitors toughtontering his dressing-room before a 14 how softball could be made to be 4ght, he sniffed the air, found it not W. A. H. Duff, splendid support in played like baseball, and consequent-o his liking, and said, "rlve this the final of the Colony mixed doubles
Miss Ann Tylor gave her partner.
ly with the new technique the game room to my opponent." Whatever tennis championship against Commdr. has needed up considerably, es- he hasn't got, the man certainly has Kennedy and Miss Madge Grimihs.
-Photo by Jaffer. pecially in the men's matches. While i nerve.
on whose ground the match is play-Kreater attention to accuracy, and ed, and the M.C.C. will definitely instanced the success of O'Reilly. carry this out at Lord's. The reason whose greatness he maintained was
to the due to his accuracy. is to lessen any handicap county teams.
Owing to the death of Lord Hawke und the retirement of Mr. A. G. Webbr, who asked to be relieved at the end of the year, two new trus ters will be appointed at the Spring Meeting.
Boat Race Date
THE annual Inter-University Boat Race will take place over the historie Putney-to-Mortlake cource on The state of the Those present at the meeting Saturday, April 1.
tide on that day will necessitate a were:
Earl
A start from the University Stone at Baldwin (chairman), Sellers and J. H. Nash (Yorks), Sig about 10.30 nm.
Here's Luck!
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