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July 4, 1939.
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R. Whitcombe's Collapse In Golf Match
BEATEN 6 AND 5 BY BOBBY LOCKE IN £1,000 CHALLENGE
By George Greenwood
London, June 2.
Bobby Locke, the South African champion, beat Reginald Whitcombe, the Open champion, by the decisive margin of six and five in the 72- holes £1,000 challenge match at Coombe Hill, Kingston, yesterday. Two up at the end of 36 holes, Locke was six up with nine holes to play and won at the 67th,
A good deal of money changed him he could not make full use of hands, but except for those finan-them. There was a moment when I cially interested the match did not seemed that he had got his game into excite the measure of enthusiasm and some kind of working order, and his interest usually associated with con-opponent on the run. Starting the tests of this kind. Perhaps it was day two down, he was actually one that the standard of play produced up at the wintl.
one
by two such distinguished golfers on This was the time to rub it in, but a course lending itself to bursts of instead of going hammer and tongs brilliance was of a very mediocre tor his man Whitcombe collapsed like character.
La pack of cards. Or the next nine The
and statistics are revealing, hofes he lost seven, won Against a liberal bogey of 75, Locke,finished the round in the perilous In the third round, was one stroke position of Ave down.
сал No man in the world
give below, while Whitcombe equalled the
holes' start in 18, and ngure, the score of each, moreover, Locke Ave being not only approximate but zen when he began by winning the first
genuine scratch erous. Any
mon hole of the final round Whitcombe's However, he playing reasonably well would have plight was hopeless. given either of the players a good has not lost faith in hiraself, for he is willing to play Locke # return run for his money.
at Bramshott in Whitcombe was particularly dis-match, probably appointing; indeed, I cannot recollect Hampshire. an accusion In the last dozen years when he has given such a tame and
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Their confidence in Locke is ruch that his South African supporters are prepared to put down £600 against
£100 by the Whitcombe party. sounds tempting enough, but if Whit- combe is to win he will not only have to play infinitely better than has been the ease in this match, but will require fight with greater purpose fand sternnes!.
A bitterly cold wind swept the course during the morning round, causing-the-players-to-put.on-extra clothing-Locke wore mitiens-while Fome of the women spectators were wrapped in furs and others put rugs +++++++ | round their shoulders. Hating the unconvincing display. For the Open cold it was, perhaps, not altogether champion to take 75 in any round and surprising that Locke took 40 for the in any conditions at Coombe is nt-first nine, at which point he was one most inconceivable.
down, having lost three holes,
FIT OF SLICING
It was not that Locke was playing super-human golf against which t was useless to contend; on the con-
At the start Locke had a fof trary the South African was very slicing which lost him the second little if any better in this particular hale, where he was out of bounds. stretch of 18 holes. The cold, un-Ife should also have lost the atthi pleasant fact is that Whitcombe play where he was in two bunkers, but ed down to the other fellow's level, whitcombe let him off by missing a isure sign of an inability to take putt of less than two feet-u costly command and forge ahend.
mistake. MISSED CHANCES
At the 7th Whitcumbe savad hirm- Whitcombe had his chancesa self by holing a putt of 12 yards handful of them but for the life of after being in the trees on the right
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Marcus Show's
First Change
Of Programme
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Baseballers Celebrate July 4
(By "Bingle")
The Marcus Show, which has been New York, July 3. such great attraction
A
at the The following were the results of Queen's Theatre-during the last few matches played in the Major Base-days, presented its Arst change of bull League to-day:
programme in the Colony yesterday The Glorious Fourth is no day when the troupe introduced a set of at all without a ball game, and entirely new numbers which proved there was one this morning when E. Just a3 entertaining
locs!
a Hongkong team subdued U.S.S. St. Louis
2 (audiences as the first progromme, Batteries, Cooper, Bowman, Davis-Hongkong seldom-has-un-upper-Tulsa's nine, 3-1,-at-Caroline-Hill-
tunity of sceing such FLA first-rate to a sparsely-packed stand. and Pagett.
Ishow. Those who have seen
Unable to all a full squad, the Marcus Troupe in their present visit Hongkong gong used three of the to the Colony will probably agree Tulsamen in Bum Rope, Hallisey and that in almost every respect they are Mack.
Chicago Batteries, Lee and Hartnelt.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
3
8
Cleveland
M
Hemsjey
Batteries, Feller and Detrol!..
2 G Batteries, McKsin, Coffman Tebbetts.
the
Jan improvement on the Mareus Show 0 of some six years ago.
2
of
Hongkongites jumped
ahead in two runs
the
but
the second stanza with Apart from the splendid way in when, first racker Barney, of which the whole show is presented, Tulsa, miscued on Halliscy's bingle. and one is impressed by the speed with Scoop Smith laid one. down
which number succeeds number-Hallisey got safe There certainly is no waste of time, Smith also safe on first. In an effort to second with and the two hours one spends in the to throw Smith out at first, the ball theatre represent 120 minutes continuous entertainment.
caromed of Barney's glove and both Hallisey and Smith advanced baso. Nip Lum also dumped one, and had the sailors playing ring-around-rosy trying to tag him when he wns trapped between first and second, with the result that Halilsey and Smith crossed the plate for a ment sacrifice,
Chiengo
& 17 Batteries, Marcum and Tresh. St. Louis
3 10 Batteries, Harris, Lawson, Gill and Spindel.
No other games scheduled in either League.
-United Press.
from his drive. But he won the next Connie Mack Shows
two, each of which Locke played badly, to turn one up.
Having put an
entirely different complexion on the game the question was: Could Whitcombe keep up the pressure? The answer in the nega- tive cumie swiftly. His driving break-
An Improvement
SERIOUS FIGHTING BREAKS OUT ON MONGOL BORDER
. (Continued from Page 7.)
Another tally in the next came in on two errors, Barney's and lett- and Manchukuo forces on Sunday fielder Peterson's bobbles, scoring afternoon,
Charlie Horton for the last marker Early this morning, the Japanese of the game for the local organisa Philadelphia, July 3. Roy Mack, son of Conale Mack forces which advanced their positions tion.
Khalha of the Philadelphia on the right bank of the
In the fourth, the Tulsamen scored ing down, and the putts refusing to manager
when of the Outer Mongol Miles rapped s í bardment
rightfelder drop, Whitcombe was coon in the music, sold his father has shown hiver opened flerce artillery bom-ther be fourth,
improvement in his gall- throès. In the trees at the 10th und clothes bunkered at the next, he lost both bladder ailment and is expected to be/ Positions on the opposite side of the third sacker Lum
"up and around" in a few days- With a beautiful run-up shot stone United Press. dend Locke won the 13th in 3, but lost the 14th, where he hooked his drive round his neck out of bounds. You can be as. A wild tee shot at the long 15th, which finished un an adjoining fair- sured of correct way, and a hooked drive behind a him another tree at the next lost
the smarter his VERY
appearance.
holes.
grounder through and leftfielder River.
Mack, The Japanese Yamagata, detach- On the mound for the sailors was ment repulsed a mechanised unit of Dago Castello, who fanned four; and Vie Outer Mongol forces which Horton hurled for the local side, also penetrated the Khatho River bank HAMILTON, Calif., July 3. from Nomonhan. Ten Outer Mongol and Horton ene, while Dago allowed whiding four. Costello walked three, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh tanks were captured by the same four safeties and Horton only two. arrived here to-day in a private pur-Japanese raiding unit.
In an
There were no runs earned off the sult plane on an undisclosed mission.
outflanking movement, a it is reported that he plans to con-Japonese flying coluran advanced to pitchore. tinue to Seattle to inspect avlation Chinnganobo, about 15 miles west of A superb tee shot at the 17th, factories there-United Press.
Changchunmino, at 5 pm, on Sunday besides гемоп-
and repulsed the Outer Mongol forces out at the park, this being yard from the pin. gave Locke an-
from the vicinity. About 20 Outer Fourth of July and most of the able prices at other hole, and at the 18th Whit-
Mongol tanks were disabled in the squad were celebrating. Yesterday
was the day the ghost walkedi engagement.
Units of the Japanese air force But, it was a good game while appeared over the Outer Mongolt lasted. artillery positions on the Khatha River, about 25 miles from Chang- chunmlao, at noon to-day and re- lentlessly bombed them.
01 and styling couple of holes.
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Corrigan To Marry? |
combe's second shot, wholly mis-tempt at a recovery was short lived, Judged, fell a long way short.
fer at the short sixth he was 30 yardz Of the incoming nine holes he had, over the green on a steep bank with in a lamentable display, contrived to's tee shot.
One of the most remarkable alois lose seven, win one and halve one. The figures for the round were: of the match was played by Locke Locke Out: 4, 6, 4, 5, 9, 3, 4, 5,
Home: 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2
the ninth, where his tee shot fin- Total-74. Ished in deep undergrowth on the
The Outer Mongol artillery were Whitcombe. Out: 4, 4, 4. 5. D. 2, 4, 4, 3—30 hillside at the back of the green silenced later in the morning. About
SAN ANTONIO, Home: 6.5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4 cleverly played, pitch down the slope 100 trucks on the bank of the Khalha,
Tex., July 3. Tolal-75.
Miss Elizabeth Marvin, who says two feet from the pin enabled Locke River were also strafed and damaged, she is Douglas Corrigan's childhood REMARKABLE SHOTS
to win the hole and become a up. In neid dispatches further claim. sweetheart, sakd she is going to the nine holes he had a total of only
About 11 am, to-day 12 Soviet marry the 13 putts- striking testimony to the planes appeared over the Japanese July 17-United Press.
wrong-way uirman brilliance of his putting technique. positions on Meregeno Height facing Whitcombe became 7 down when Nomonhan, while another 20 Soviet he pulled into the rough at the 10th, planes came to bomb the same
Starling the final round with the pleasant lend of five holes, Locke proceeded to consolidate his position by winning the first in 3-a lovely pitch a yard from the flag. Hooking but the inevitable end was delayed Japanese positions at 11.40 am. Sub- so wide at the next, Whitcombe lind when Locke's tee shot at the 12th Jected to intense anti-aircraft fire, to carry a small forest of beech and overran the green. A hall in 3 at the Soviet planes on both occasions Faroe, but he played a remarkable the 13th gave the South African a fled Domel, shot, and finally holed from seven well-deserved victory--6 and 3. yards for desperate half in 4.
This success seemed to instit new life into him, for he won the next two holes. Locke saved the fifth by a deft chip from the back of the green and a good pult. Whitcombo's at-
Second round Agures: Locke-Out: 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3-34. Home: 4 4 4 3–15. "Total 40 (for 13 holes),
Jewellery and money valued at $95 whitcombo-Dut: 4,445, 443 was stolen from the realdence of Mr. flame: 8, 4. 5. 3–13. S. Narain, 21 Robinson Road, between Total 60 for 15 hotes), two and three o'clock this morning.
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