Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 15, 1941.
Around The Courses
SOLUTION TO HANDICAP
Assiduous Practice By
Which Professionals
Maintain Standard
Grooving The Swing
(By "Birdio")
THE BEASTLY WEATHER of the past week- and upset most of the golf competitions that were to be played. A fow of the hardier souls braved the elements and went around, but everything was far from pleasant.
The Captain's Cup competition of the Country Club was postponed one week, as were the first round matches of the men's Foursomes..
Incidentally, with regard to ticipation in as many tourna- as possible, but the these Captain's Cup competi-ments tions, there arose an interesting grooving of a swing by repeated question on handicaps. Some shots off a practice tee. were of the opinion that a player played through the whole com- petition at the handicap, with which he qualified, while others held that he should play in the match-play stages at his then hündicap.
To most people it seems obviously most fair that the latter should be the course to adopt, for in a com- petition such as the Captain's Cup the Qualifying Rounds extend over Beveral months-usually six at lens! --and there is every likelihood that
There is not one of the American professionals to-day, It seems, 'who does not spend more time on the Boxing practice pitch than on the course. They even go as far as playing a whole round before starting on a championship match (match play, of course),
They get to the practice area, drop their ing of balls on to the ground and try every club in their bags. Then they wander to the putting green and try sinking them from all angles.
Following the recent Anthracite
a player would reduce his handicappen Tournament at Scranton, Pasa
in
Greek Wins Light-Heavy
Wet
Weather Softball
Canuckettes In Line For
PROBLEM Second League Pennant
UFS
Cardinals Blitzkrieged
By "Ball Fan"
WITHERING RAINS which put in its belated ap- pearance last Sunday forced a postponement of all but three games, scheduled in Hongkong's softball leagues.
However, besides the damp, inclement weather, fans were treated to a real shower of basehits dished out by the Maple Leaf lassies as they overwhelmed sailor Dixie Walker's chug-chugging Redbirds.
League Standing
Ella Chinn's Chung Hwn) Maroons played true to form, keeping ahead "down-under", with a 14-5 defeat by Baby Panthers. In the Junior loop Cosmopolitans tamed South Canadian-Chinese
Wildcats China 12-7...
The sparks that the Canadian-Wahoos Chinese cutles have been giving off Baby Pantliers
Recreio
as they sizzle in their stendy dash to Cardinals ward thole second straight pennant Las Florinda
turned into red-hot conflagration, oul
thero in the ball park Sunday as they Chung Hwa Maroons played masterful ball to
Walker's Red-legged Cardinals into
to whip Dixie
line, to the, lunc of 14-1.
Behind the steady hurling of ace on Kong
Club Mary Ng. who rationed Walker's
St. Joseph's wandering willow-heavers to two Indians menaly hits, the defending champions Cyclones
Recreio
Filipinos
RING BRAWL-A Policeman has to restrain angry, looked every inch like softball royal-
ty as they blitzkrieged lanky Redbird Chinese Baseball Club pain-wracked Fritzie Zivic, right, welterweight champion, Zimmern from the mound in the from taking a punch at Al Davis, after the referee had fourth frame with a barrage of Canadian-Chinese stopped the New York bout. Davis was disqualified on fouls. timely baschits.
Chung Hwa
Basketball
Championship Women's Open League
Salica Retains Title
Sam Snead left the 18ti green) · after his first round match and went NEW YORK, Jan 14 (Reuter), straight to the practice ground where Antoine Christoforides, 23-year-old
became he went at the ball for two and a Greek,
light-heavyweight
between the line of qualifying and the time for playing the matches.
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club, understand, have ruled that a player init hours correcting what he champion of the world at Cleveland
the
match play stages of the Cap thought was wrong with his swing, to-day when he outpointed Mello tain's Cup plays at his handleap at He had just shot a S-under-par 65, Bettina, of New York, a former the time of the draw for the first too?
champion, in a 15-rounds bout for the round. This, too, I believe is the
Dick Chapman, winner of the 1040 title, which was declared vacant by procedure at the Kowloon Golf U.S. National Amateur Champion- the National Boxing Association re- Club, and it has been adopted at the
prepared for the tournament cently. Country Club.
chip soine months ahead of time. Thei The Greek gained a well earned Peculiarly, the problem had never venue was the Winged Foot Golf unanimous decision. arisen before at the Country Club, Club, N.Y., and Chapman joined tho and the Committee had recently to Club
the Club several months before make a ruling on the matter.
tournament to familiarise himself with the course.
•
TWO matches in the Captain's Cup were played off. at Sheungshui, T. Y. C. Lee (10)
His victory, incidentally, was by the widest margin since 1895. Duft McCullough of Philadelphia, lost) eight of the last nine holes to be
Challenged Defeated
In Philadelphia, Lou Salica, of
Starts On Feb. 8
"Y" Court Enlarged To Accommodate Spectators
THE HONGKONG Women's Open Basketball League under the sponsorship of the Kowloon Chinese Y.M.C.A. will open their schedule of matches on February 8.
Physical Instruction director,
beat E. J. M. Churn (13) 3 and beaten 11 and 9 in the 36-holes final, Brooklyn, retained the world bantam Mr Sek Chen-tack states that 1, while A. W. Ramsey (8) beat; This is the stuff of which present-weight championship, by outpointing entries will be received between W. O. Hung (13) 4 and 3. day champions are made. The stan- Tommy Fort a local youngster. in 15 January 21 and 81, at the Club-
high-made so by rounds. Salica, whose left eye was The final of the Women's Cham-dards are so pionship was held over until the modern clubs and balls-that only closed in the sixth, fought a savage house in Waterloo Road.
finish and narrowly gained the verdlët. coming week-end.. Miss A. Sequelta with the most assiduous practice and and Mrs F. E. A. Remedios meet by the utmost cold concentration in again their last match being in the matches do the top-notchers hope to final of the Ladies' Cup which was survive in the top tournaments, won-by-the-former on the 10th
•
AT the entrance to n South- west London Golf Course THE prodiglous amount of
practice that goes into the there is a black-board on which making of a professional golfer is this notice: formed the subject of a very interesting article I read recent- ly. Practice does not mean par-
"Wll members please pick up any shrapnel on the course. It might damage the mowing ma.... chine."
KEEP CLEAR OF KARLOFF...HE'S CURSED WITH A MONSTER'S IR- RESISTIBLE IMPULSE TO KILL!
BORIS
The blood of a hanged murderer courses mad. ly through his veinst
KARLOFF
BEFORE I HANG
www Evelyn KEYES : Brace BENNETT
Screenplay by hubárt D. AndiECENT Directed by NICK GRINDE
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
TODAY
AT
THE
KING'S
Billiards
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Win Volunteers
Soldiers' Club
Tournament
Medical Corps Annex Challenge Cups
Four Years?
Chess Match
Lone Tally THE Cards scored their lone tally R. A. F
In the first stanza when Betty Clarke, 'styllst first sacker, rounded
GIRLS
W.. L. P.C;
0 1.000
,075
.800
.000
100
77
300
B
.111
0
10
.000
* MEN
First Division
W. L. P.C.
Baseball
.777
.777
.607
.000
,571
420
.128
,000
Second Division
0 1.000
.033
714
3
.025
3 .625
,500
3
500
.420
$250
7
125
Inter Hong.
.000
L. P.C..
0 1,000
1 .750
.667
.067
2
.500
.000
.000
V. R. C. Recreio B. Cosmopolitans
the bugs and came home as a result South China of n wild peg by Mabel Bunn, Alice Liga Portuguesa. Mar, with three hits in four trips to Royal Scots ... the plate and Ulian Khoo with a Royal Artillery circuit clout and two singles, led the C. B: A. power brigade of the champs in their Royal Engineers ninth win of the season.
Playing in a continual drizzie, the
Baby Panthers retained their hold in Hong Kong Bank the first division of the girls major Shell lengue by subduing Ella Chinn's Lacas Maroons, scoring seven runs in the Texaco third frame to clinch the issue. Chartered Bank However, the Chung Hwa lassies Greenspota celebrated what amounted to almost Cables. a minor miracle at the ball park. when they led the Baby, Panthers |2-1 at the end of the first inning.
Surprise Start PLAGUED all season by a weak respondingt number of free passes.
sticks, allowed the weak willow- holding Panthers only two hits, but issued eight passed balls and a cor-
Ladies' league scores→→
mound staff and labelled as just about the weakest lineup ever to appear in local organised ball, the Canadian-Chineso Chinese belles started off in surpris-
R. H. E.
251240 14 13 2
ing fashion, but quickly reverted to Redbird Cardinals their normal routine of issuing pass-
ed balls and free walks, finishing, as
100000 1 à 10 batteries: Mary Ng and Dot Loute;
usual, at the short end of the scor- A. Zimmern, Eale Babida (5) and, lag, after the final round-up. May Marie Rosu.
Nears Its End leaving for Oakland, California next Baby Panthers
LONDON
Many of the Colony's leading quintettes are expected to enter, including South China A.A., Fong Lam Girls' School and the South Sear Girls Academy
Two doctors, There is a possibility that the one in Nottingham and the Canadian Chinese softballers will other in the U.S.A., have been enter an aggregation, together with playing a gama of chess by a team composed of Portuguese post for four years.
girls.
Cup For Competition
From the start Dr H. F, Weber, a Professor of Philosophy one of DR C. T. Wang, former Chinese the American universities as been Ambassador to Washington,. has pre-in difficulties against Dr W. B. tented a real classy cup for competi-Blandy, of Nottingham. Dr Blandy tion, and will also act as one of the can now. mate in two moves, but honorary patrons of the League, the American refuses to resign.
THE FINAL of the Soldiers' Club billiarde tournament last The basketball court of the "Y" has been enlarged to the standard univer- Įdefeating Signals 1,600 to 798. erected to accommodate spectators.
night resulted in Volunteersity size, and new stands have been the average in peace time, but since :
Allen, 133, Pitcher 136, Langley 40, Brakenbury 72. Hutchison 130, Liley 107, Pearson 64, Blount 119. Total 796
Hickman 200, Silva 200, J. D. Remedios 200, Sequeira 260, Pereira 200, Baptista 200 Total 1,000.
Hakusen 200, C. Remedios 200, Gunners' Rugby Team
The best break was 55 by Hickman, Pereira scored 27. 20,.20 and 30 and Baptista had three breaks over 20.
Challenge Cup Final
.
For the third year in succession, R.A.BLC. won the Garrison Challenge Cup this year by beating Millitary Police 783 to 642 points né the Soldiers' Club on Monday.
The winning team comprised Dixon, Terran, Wyre, Harvey, Whybro and Howe. The losers were Willis, Hyde, Whitton,.Thomson, Teggarty and Cilt The winners won four of six games.
"Y" Beat Customs
Three weeks per move was about
the outbreak of war it has been more like six or seven weeks.
Latterly all the letters have been censored, and on one occasion Dr Weber wondered if a move B-KK3 would be passed.
on
The following will represent Artillery
He thought the censor might against Club A in a rugby match to-day on the clus ground at 4.45 pm-Lleut possibly read into it "Bomb Lomax; Marsh, Lieut. T. A. Feares, Capt Skipwith, Richards: Capt, Hook, Lieut. King's Road!" Wedderburn; Llaut, Smith, Lieut. Delder« field. Evens, Cooke, McDermott, Turner, Dr Blandy has just made
Banner. Kicks. Reserve,
Gnr forty-fifth move and his opponent Keeble.
Both Army Largo Unit matches ache is in check-Our Own Correspon- duled for yesterday were postponed,... · [dence.
Lieut
his
Exiled Free Frenchmen
Will Live To Conquer
LONDON, Jan. 14 (Router)The remarkable growth of pro-British sentiment in France to-day was the text of a broad. cast by Mr Alfred Duff Cooper, Minister of Information, this evening.
an opportunity to show upon whose side they are and for whose victory they pray.
As the European Y.M.C.A. last night, the, kome team beat Chinese Maritime Customs 850 to 528; Chid Ho spoke of evidence from Bre-Do won the only game for the sources of "absolute accuracy," Chinese Customs team, besting de Casler 150 to 100.
that in Franco despair had given
The YM.C.A. team comprised Jones place to hope, resentment to rea Eager, Sykes, Champelovier, Ingleby
Tribute To De Gaulle
Mr Duft Cooper paid high tributo General de Gaulle. He said, "They and de Caster. The Customs team wason. People there saw that the to Free Frenchmen and their leader, Kump, Cheuk Bni-nang Ogden Tung only hope for the future of a have given up all for a cause which Muirhng. Whitmore and Châu Đu-pa. France free and independent was means more to them than all the
a British victory.
world; it is the principle of honour deeply implanted in the souls of all Mr Duff Cooper told of a French soldiers which has made them refuse boy who built an aeroplane in a to surrender: it is love of liberty cowshed and on a stormy day when deeply implanted in the souls of all ம். low German aircraft were about, took |Frenchmen which urges them off and landed safely in England. He conluih to fight. Theirs is now the was now fighting for the cause of the hardest of all lots to bear, but in the Allies in the Free French Force, days of victory, theirs will be This boy, said Mr Duff Cooper, was greatest of all glories when exiles will able to give effect to the desire latent come home as conquerors, restoring In the hearts of millions of brave to their own people the freedom they Frenchmen to-day who only awaited had forfeited.".
COUNT. THE
"TELEGRAPHS”
EVERYWHERE
the
Chung, hord hitting shortstop, play Chung Hwa Maroons ing in her farewell game prior to
20201 5.30
week, made two of the losers three
1517x-14 2 7 basehifts.
batteries: Fungle Law and Lily Rookie slab artist Fungio Law, Cheung; L. Xavier and Therese Mar- drafted up to the majors from the ques
Jel. 28151.
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