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=ERNIE BUEMMIKNERS APRIĄ
Cotton Beats Compston In Golf Replay
Sonja Henie "Fans" Will Be Pleased
"My Lucky Star"
Her Best Film
Sunja Hente fans will wiltfont doubt vote "My Lucky Star" as the best of her pletures. The Alm, dominated by the superlative skating of Sonja Henle, will be shown abortly at the King's Theatre.
It is a collegiate romantic comedy- denina. The story, which is rather poor, deals with the adventures of Christina Neilson (Sonja Hente) a department store worker who is sent to Plymouth University as an un- official mannequin to boost the sate of the departinent's winter clothes. She falls in love with a student (Richard Greene) who stands by her when she is involved in the boss's motrimmalal scandal.
The pour story is commensated for by the varied ratertainment in- giedients. Joan Davis and Buddy Elsen provide the corrudy and prove themselves a comically gayche dance dluc
The highlight, of the film is the final "Alice in Wonderland" ballet -on lee. It introduces the well-loved characters from Lewis Carroll's masterpiece.
Sonju Henie's
grandl skating assists the audience to forget that she -is not a polished actress. Richard. Greene plays the college student role,
in a straightforward manner, whilst Cesar Romero capably handles his
Prize Of £500 Won By Four Strokes After
An Adventurous Match
By George Greenwood
London, Apr. 3.
Henry Cotton, 32, of Ashridge, Herts, beat Archie Compston, 46, of Coombe Hill, Surrey, by four strokes in the replay for the first prize of £500 in the 12,000 pro- fessional tournament, at Queen's Park, Bournemouth. For the 36 holes Cotton's aggregate was 141 (70 and 71), Compston's being 145 (74 and 71).
FINE "COME-BACK"
In a tle it is generally the practice | holes, reducing the delict from six for the two players privately to to three shots, with six holes to play. agree to pool the first and second
But that was the end of a gallant prize-In this case LG50-and share equally. There was no pooling ar effort on the part of a man making rangement on this occasion Cotton bir Grst appearance after a long and making it perfectly clear that it was trying illness, and, moreover, with a a straight fight for the £500.
difference of 15 years in age. As a "Not only do I not agree with the "come-back" on the part of one of splitting principle, but I prefer to the most popular and striking figures stand or fall on my skill and judg-in world golf nothing could have ment," said Cotton.
been finer or more agreeable.
"Do we look like a couple of guys who would split anything,' was
Two who love recklessly in a land aflame: Warner Baxter and Arleen Whelan, sensational new star discovery, in a lavish 20th Century-Fox Compston's characteristic reply. production of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped." The picture la being shown at the King's Theatre.
Tennis Fixtures For Week
port the happy-go-lucky son of Following are next week's matches | Yue-wing and fo Ka-lan (stand the boas, Louise Howick (Gypsy in the Colony lawn tennis champion-court). Rose Lee) takes a small role as a ships: scheming wife.
An entertaining film well worth | seeing.
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STRAIGHT FIGHT
At the end of the first round, Cot- ton had gained a lead of four strokes, a credit balance so substantial as to make the possibility of it being wiped out remote. The respectivë scores for the first round were:
Colton-Out: 5, 2, 4, 4, 3, 4, 6, 3, +-35. In: 4. 3. 5, 4, 5, 3, 4, 3, 4- 35. Tutal, 70.
So it was a straight fight between two of the most forceful personalities in the game, and the big crowd who shy the fun certainly had their Compston.--Out: 4, 3, 4, 4, 2, 4, 5, money's worth. Rarely have I seen 4, 4--34. In: 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 3, 5, 3, 6— a keener struggle, n ́finer exhibition 10. Total 74.- of selentifle golf, and more frilling
With only nine holes to play, Col- incidents.
lon had increased his advantage in live One will always memory. It occurred in the first six strokes, bat, making a temporary
Compston recovery,
DIT knocked round at the long 12th hole, where Compston had hooked a brussle shot three shots. It was all to no pur- into a clump of pine trees. The ball pose, for Cotton, with a two at the 15th, virtually locked and bolted the COURSE SCRATCH SCORE-74
tole Yards Scr.
door. Thus came to an end one of Itole Yards Ser.
of the most thrilling encounters modern times. The scores for the second round were:
383
143
403
405
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447
in
18
my
3,196
3,444 was perched in a branch high above his head, a situation which gave him the choice of pleking out and in- curring the loss of two strokes ar playing the ball with all the aften- dunt risks.
Colton-Out: 5, 2, 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 4, 4-34. In: 4, 5, 6, 4, 4, 2, 5, 3, 4- 37. Total 71.
Compston-Out 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 5,
4, 4-30. In: 4, 4. 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, -35. Total 71.
Social Items
Mrs. M. Steel, or Messrs. Shewan Tones & Co., Ltd., will be going on Choosing to play the ball, Comps- Home leave to-day aboard the Can- ton remarked as he almed a blowton, and will visit her daughter, Mrs. into the trees; "Here goes £500.
of the Vicar
As luck would have It, the ball fell Audrey Banks, at Malia. clear and, playing a scuffling shot between an opening in the trees, Compston not only reached the green bui was left with a putt for a 5. which he duly holed amid tumul tuous cheering,
and By courtesy Council of St. Andrew's Church, a Christ jumble sule, organised by Church, Kowloon Tong, was held in St. Andrew's Hall yesterday.
It so happened that the same hole
The wedding will take place short- played an important part in the second round. Aguin Compstoniy in Hongkong between Sergeant hooked into the trees, and again John Carley, R.A., of Lyemun Bar- fortune favoured him. Finding un racks and Miss Annie Shaw, nurse, opening he pitched on to the green of 1420 Aston Old Road, Manchester, and rammed in a putt of seven yards England. The forthcoming wedding for an amazing 4, which gained him is also announced of Mr. Kong Yat- the Lih Pao to #couple of strokes as Cotton missedtching, reporter on
Miss Au Yeung Wal-kwan, of 17 Sui a short putt and took f.
These were not Compston's only On Street, Taipo Market, N.T. wiventures in the woods, and it was
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not surprising that at the close of The wedding took place last week the game Cotton was led to observe: at the Union Church, Shanghai, of "Iain bound to say that he is the Mr. Donald Hammond, son of the greatest golfer for wriggling out of late Mr. Erust Hammond and of irees I have ever met.”
Mrs. Hammond, of Lincolnshire, England, and Miss Kathleen But Couston also had his thare Newcomb, daughter of the late Mr. of I-luck, an incident at the 18th A. C. Newcomb and of Mrs. New- costing him a couple of shots. A comb of Shangnal. The honeymoon alightly pulled drive finished on the will be spent in Hongkong. hillside, where a careless spectator
SHARE OF ILL·LUCK
trod the ball deep into the ground.
Compston's mightiest
blow
Even could only move the ball a little way, and In the end he took to Cotton's 4 serious loss at a vital stage.
Even though Compston gained a stroke at the frat hole, and still held this slender advantage at the 9th, it was perfectly clear that he was unable to make any lasting im- pression on Cotton, who, with one or Two notable exceptions, has never played better or more relentless golf In the whole of his career.
Except for a couple of missed short putts he gave an almost Baw- less exhibition-long und super- latively accurate driving on narrow and treacherous fairways, beautifully controlled fron shots, and perfectly judged putting. On the form dis- played I could Imagine no player. not even Bobby Jones and Walter. Ilogen in their prime, beating him.
And yet so splendidly did Comps- ton play, and so magnificent was his courage when the gap between them Howly but gradually drew wider. that not for one instant could Cotton afford to relax." At the .first aim of #slip Compston pounced, and so effecilvely 18 110 leap that he knocked off three stroites in two
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