Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 21, 1940.
MIGHTY ONE TO LEFT FIELD
Around The Courses
MEDAL OR MATCH PLAY?
Which Is The Better Method Of Scoring In Championships?
Accepted Conditions In H.K.
(By "Birdio")
THE PROS AND CONS of medal and match play have proved material for many a Club-house discussion, and it was quite recently I walked into one of them myself. It wasn't a long argument, and after several pithy and irrelevant references to personal play had boon bandied back and forth, it died out, but it sowed the seeds of thought..
To those who have bothered, to give the matter a thought, beyond noting the obvious differences in the methods of scoring, avenues of conjecture are opened up all along the road.
It is interesting to note that in practically all Amateur and Professional (and Open) Cham- pionships, the first named are conducted under match-play conditions and the latter two under stroke--or medal-play.
The most uulalanding departure from these lines is in the Australian Professional Championship-which is governed by match-play rules, and, as far as my resentch led me, it la the only one in the world.
The Irish Professional Champion- ship was conducted by similar rules
up to 1909 when they changed over
medal play.
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The South African Amateur Championship was medal piny up to 1024 when it was altered to match play. The India Amateur Cham- pionship made a similar conversion in 1805, but the most recent was in the Japan Amateur-their change being made in 1920 (from medal to mulch play).
Sam Sneed Wins
Canadian Open
TORONTO, Aug. 20 (Reu- ter). In the play-off over 18 holes to-day, Sam Snead beat Harold Jugs) McSpaden by one stroke, the score being 71-72.
Snead had visions of the match going to the 19th when McSpaden had a two-foot putt on the 18th to tie the score. but the putt was missed!
tensity of which might be painful to the normal player.
The Grat difference, then, Is There is a story of Jimmy Demaret that the professionals seem to pre--newest of U.S. stars. One of his fer medal play.
opponents once complained after a round that he (Demaret) was one
Sign Of The Times
LONDON, Aug. 20 (Reuter)--The Jockey Club announced to-day that following consultations with the Gov- ernment racing would be resumed on September 14.
ANOTHER WIN FOR YANKEES
Dave Leonard gets his shoulders behind one in the Britain- Portugal Baseball match at Caroline Hill on Sunday in aid of This the "S. C. M. Post" and "H.K. Telegraph" War Fund. was the first game of the International Series, and was won by Portugal 7-6.-Ming Yuen.
Macao Racing
Programme Of Events For September Meet
THE PROGRAMME of events for the September Mecting
of the Macao Jockey Club has been announced. The races will be held on Sunday, September 15, and the first saddling: bell will be rung at 2.30 p.m.
The programme is as follows: 1. 3 p.m.
"MA KAU
Class
Club since January, 1940, No En-
5. 5 p.m.-"THE STEWARDS' SHEK CUP" A Handicap. A forced entry for Chica Ponies "y" Class that have HANDICAP (First Sector). Fox started at a Race Meeting of this, China Ponies classified by the Hong kong Jockey Club Jockye allowance,
Winner $200; trance Fee. A Cup valued $500 NEW YORK, Aug. 20 (UP)-New Second $125, Third $100. Entry $5, kindly presented by the Stewards to be won twice in succession by u York Yankees scored another grFive furlongs. win 10-day when they beat the
Jockey Allow- Vetroit Tigers 4-3 in the American
ance. Winner $160; Second $100; Baseball League.
Scores were: Detroit
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Battery: Rowe, Melain, Sullivan. New York
Battery. Ituming, Dickey. Chicago
allery: Smith, Tresh.
Battery: Ross, yes.
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of the most uncompanionable people Philadelphia... with whom to play. This was be- cause of Demaret's continued failure him.
answer to remarks addressed to
Demaret confessed that he had never heard them!
that
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World Records At Japanese National Meet
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Note. One entry only will be pony or ponies belonging to the same OPENS FRIDAY
made for the "Ma Kau Shek Handl-owner or owners.
enp" (Races i and 3). Entries will Third $75. One milc.
be divided into. First and Second 8.. 5.30 p.m.TAI SAM BAK Sections at the discretion of the HANDICAP For Chino Ponies Handicapper.
by this Club as "X" Class,
Winner
For
China
classified
$160;
2. 3.30 p.m"PARK KAP CHOW Jockey Allowance. HANDICAP"
Fonles Second $100; Third $75. Entry $5. classified by the Hongkong Jockey Six furlongs.
Club as "D" Class, Jockey allow
ance.
NB-Starters must be declared on Winner $200; Second $125; the forms provided in the weighing Third $100. Entry $5. Half mile.
before 2.15 o'clock for the first 3. 4
room
p.m.-"MA KAU SHEK race and for ali subsequent races 45 HANDICAP" (Second Section). (See minutes before the scheduled start-|
Ing time.
Race No. 1).
4.30 p.m.-"MA LAU CHÓW!
Entries Close to the Secretaries, Martin and Co., HANDICAP For China Ponies Messrs. TA classified by this Club as "Y" Class. Prince's Building, on Thursday, Sep- Winners since January, 1940 barred. tember 5, 1940 at noon.
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THE second difference is in the preference shown by the American golfers for the medal system. The U.S. Amateur, it is true, is conducted under maich-play conditions, and the U.S. Professional Golfers' Asso- ciation Championship is one of HOWEVER, it is acknowledged the match play, too. But apart
medal-play is
To be ridden by jockeys who have Ponies will be transported from these, nearly all their tour-harder of the two systems under
not won ten races anywhere at any Macao on Friday, September 13, re- naments and State champion-which to compete.
Winner $150: Second $100; turned on Monday, September, 10, -pionships-are-medal-play- That, perhaps, is why the TOKYO, Aur, 20. (Domel)-Tetsuo time.
Is there anything in the latter professional and Open tourna Ilamuro, of Nippon University, set Third $75-Entry-$5. Six furlongs, and kept at Macao without charge. sistem that has contributed to the ments are stroke-play competi- the best time of the world in this year for the 200-metre breast-stroke world renown American golfers have rained for consistency and
when he negotiated the distance in bril- tions. Ilance?
Conforming with these apparently mins. 43.4 secs. at the National Swim- I think there is in that the con- necepted conditions, the Colonyming Championship Meet on Monday. Kunio Tsuda, of Nippon University. centration necessary over 72 holes Open Championship, too, is medni-
Tanaka, of Từng da Elsaku It play. while the (as over the 18 holes or less in knock-out match-play competition) Championships are match play University, also set the best world re- and the care that must be taken over (though the qualifying rounds are cord this year for 1,500-metre free- style by covering the distance in 19 each stroke when every stroke counts
Imins, 31.0 secs.-Domel.
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play wherein one
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Though time is not much of a that consideration out here, in
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The Fourth Tokyo Prefectural Girls' High next inake things all could be sald for conducting The School, catablished a new Japan re- ning the square) have tended to build the Club champlonships on a medal-play cord for the 200-metre tree style event a player of basis. Two week-ends of 36 holes when she covered the distance In 2 Ainerican golfer. Inte great concentrative powers--the in-per Sunday would complete the mins. 44.8 secs.
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competition instead of having the preliminary round, the first round, and the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final strelching over weeks.
Mind you, over all these days one maintain consistent form, must though that, perhaps, is the better. criterion of a champion.
Personally, I think, medal-play is championship play, and match-play, implies, for matches as the name where there ure two or more singles or foursomes.
Club competitions are inclined to be numerous. There are the Club and Junior championships, the Mixed: Foursomes, the men's Foursomes, the women's competillons, and the Captain's Cup qualifying matches for which are going on unceasingly -and added to these are the regu lar medal and bogey pool competi- tions.
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