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 wook- and upset most of the golf competitions that were to be played. A few 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.
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Incidentally, with regard to ticipation in as many tourna-
but ná possible, 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 handicap.
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 bag of balls on to the ground and try every club in their bags. Then they wander to the putting and try sinking them from all green angles.
Greek Wins
Light-Heavy
Wet Weather Softball PROBLEM Second League Pennant
UFS)
Canuckettes In Line For
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 Redbirda.
Ella Chinn's Chung Hwa]***
Maroons played true to form,
keeping ahead "down-under", League Standing
with a 14-5 dofent by Baby!
Panthers. In the Junior loop]
GIRLS
W. L. P.C.
Cosmopolitans tamed South Canadian-Chinese
China 12-7.
Wildcats
The sparks that the Canadian-Wahoos .... Chinese cuties have been giving off Baby Panthers as they sizzle in their steady dash to Cardinals ward their second straight pennant, Las Florinas
turned into red-hot confingrailon, out
Recreio
there in the ball park Sunday as they Chung Hwa Maroons played masterful ball to
to whip Dixie
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Behind the steady hurling of ace Hong Kong Baseball Mary Ng, who rationed Walker's
Club
wandering willow-heavers to two St. Joseph's ncaaly hits, the defending champions Indians RING BRAWLA Policeman has to restrain angry, ty as they blitzkrieged laky Redbird
looked every inch like softball royal- Cyclones
Recreto pain-wracked Fritzie Zivic, right, welterweight champion, Zimmern from the mound in the Chinese Baseball Club from taking a punch at Al Davis, after the referee had fourth frome with a barrage of Filipinos
Davis was disqualified on fouls, timely baschits. stopped the New York bout.
Lone Tally
Basketball
Championship Women's Open
Salica Retains Title
To most people it seems obviously most fair that the latter should be the course to adopt, for in a con- petition such as the Captain's Cup. the Qualifying Rounxis extend
over several montlu-usually six at lens!
Following the recent Anthracite and there is every likelihood that a player would reduce his handicap Open Tournament at Scranton, Para- dena, Sam Snead left the 18th green between the time of qualifying and after his first round match and went NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (Reuter). the time for playing the matches.
atraight to the practice ground where Antoine Christoforides, 23-year-old The Royal Hongkong Golf Club, 1
went at the ball for two and a Greek, be
became light-heavyweight understand, have ruled that a A player
half hours-correcting what he champion of the world at Cleveland In the match play stages of the Cap thought was wrong with his swing. to-day when he outpointed Mello of New York, a former Ife had just shot. a 5-under-par. 65, Bettina, tain's Cup plays at his handicap at the time of the draw for the first
champion, in a 15-rounds bout for the This, too, I belleve is the
Dick Chapman, winner of the 1940 file, which was declared vacant by round. procedure at the Kowloon Golf
US. National Amateur Champlon- the National Boxing Association re- Club,
and it has been adopted at the ship prepared for the tournament cently.
Club.
The The Greek gained a well earned County, the problem had never some months ahead of time. Tolf unanimous decision.
tool
arlsen, before at the Country Club, Club, N.Y., and Chapman joined the and the Committee had recently to Club several months before the make a ruling on the matter.
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tournament to familiarise himself with the course,
His victory, incidentally, was by the widest margin since 1895. Duff McCullough of Philadelphia, lost eight of the last nine holes to be 11 and D in the 30-holes final This is
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Chung Ha V. R. C
THE Cards scored their lone tally R. A.
in the first stanza when Betty Recreio B. Clarke, stylist first sacker, rounded Cosmopolitans the bags and came home as a result South China
League fa widely be in bar tabs to get
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 February 8.
TWO matches in the Captain's Cup were played off at Sheungshui, T. Ý. C. Lee (10)
Physical Instruction director, Salica, Philadelphia, Lou beat E. J. M. Churn (13) 3 and beaten 1s the stunt of which present weight championship, by cutpointing entries will be received between Brooklyn, retained the world bantam Mr Sek Chen-tack states that 1, while A. W. Ramsey (8) beat
dny champlons are made. The ataa- Tommy Fort, a local youngster, in 15 January 21 and 31, at the Club- W. C. Hung (13) 4 and 3.
are to high-made so by rounds. Salica, whose left eye was The final of the women's Clam-dards plonship was held over until the nodern clubs and balls that only closed in the sixth, fought a savage house in Waterloo Road. coming week-end. Misa A. Sequeira with the most assiduous practice and finish and narrowly gained the verdict 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 foal of the Ladies Cup which was survive in the top tournaments, won by the Tormer on the 19th
AT the entrance to a South- west London Golf Course
THE prodigious 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-
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"Will members please pick up any shrapnel on the course. micht damage the mowing ma- chine."
KEEP CLEAR OF KARLOFF. HE'S CURSED WITH A MONSTER ́S IR- RESISTIBLE IMPULSE TO KILL!
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The blood of a hanged murderer courses made.
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BEFORE I HANG
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Screen play by Robert D. Andrews
Directed by NICK GEHDE' “
A COLUNDIA PICTURE
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Medical Corps Annex Challenge Cups
THE FINAL of the Soldiers' Club billiards tournament last
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of peg by Mabel Bunn, Alice Liga Portuguesa Mar, with three hits four trips 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 hinth win of the season.
Playing in a continual drizzle, thej Baby Panthers retained their hold in Hong Kong Bank the first division of the girls major Shell league 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 Greenspots celebrated what amounted to almost Cables ............... a minor miracle at the ball when they led the Baby Panthera *** 2-1 at the end of the first inning.
Park
sticks, allowed the weak willow- holding Panthers only two hits, but Issued eight passed balls and a cor-
Ladies' langue scores→→→
Surprise Start PLAGUED all season by a weak responding number of free passes.
mound staff and labelled as just about the weakest lineup ever to appear in local organised ball, the Canadian-Chinese Chinese belles started off in surpris-
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usual, at the short end of the seer- A. Zimmern, Effle Babida (5) and ing, after the final round-up. May Marie Rosa. Chung, hard hitting shortstop, play-Chung Hwa Maroons ing in her farewell game prior to leaving for Oakland, California next Baby Panthers
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batteries: Fungle Law and Lily —LONDON. Two doctors,. Rookie__lab_artist_Fungle Law. Cheung; L. Xavier and Theresa More.. There is a possibility that the one in Nottingham and the drafted up to the majors from the ques. Canadian Chinese softballers will other in the U.S.A., have been- enter an arreration, together with playing a game 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 at one of DR C. T. Wang, former Chinese the American universities has been Ambassador to Washington, has pre-in dimeulites against Dr W. B. sented a real classy cup for competi- Blandy, of Nottingham. Dr Blandy tion, and will also net as one of the can now mate in two moves, but
the American refuses to resign. honorary patrons of the League,
The basketball court of the "Y" has been enlarged to the standard univer-
Three weeks per move was about
night resulted in Volunteers sity size, and new stands have been the average in peace time, but since defeating Signals 1,600 to 798. erected to accommodate spectators.
Allen, 133, Pitcher 136, Langley 40. Brakenbury 72. Hutchison 130, Liley
107, Pearson C1. Blount 110. Total 200. Gunners' Rugby Team
Rakusen 200, J. Remedios Hickman 200, Silva 200, J. D. Remedios 200, Sequeira 200, Pereira 200, Baptista 200 Total 1,000.
the outbreak of war it has been more ilke six or seven weeks.
Latterly all the letters have been censored, and on one occasion Dr Weber wondered if a move -KR3 would be passed.
He thought the censor
The following will represent Artillery against Club A in a rugby match to-day at 4.45 pm-Licui, Skipwith, itlebards; Capt. look. Lleut. King's "Road!" Wedderbum; Leut, Smith, Lieut. Delder-
Pereira scored 27, 26, 20 and 30 and] Lomax; Marthe Baptista had three breaks over 20.
The best break was 65 by Hickman. on the Club T. A. Pearce, Capt. Possibly read into
Challenge Cup Final
For the third year in succession, R.A.M.C. won the Garrison Challenge Cup this year by beating Miltary T'olice 783 to 642 points at the Soldiers' Club on Monday.
The winning team comprised Dixon, Terran, Wyre, Harvey, Whybro and Howe. The losers were, Wills, Hyde, Whitton. Thomson, Teggarty and Clift The winners won four of six games
"Y" Beat Customs
might "Bomb on
field, Evens. Cooke, MeDermolt, Turner, Dr Blandy has just made his Lleus. Banner, Ülek, Reserve, Garforty-fifth move and his opponent Both Army Large Unit matches sche-is in check-Our Own Correspon- duled for yesterday were postponed, dence.
Keeble.
Exiled Free Frenchmen Will Live To Conquer
LONDON, Jan. 14 (Reuter).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 alde they are and for whose-victory they pray.
At the European YM.C.A last night, the home team beat Chinese Maritime Customs 810 to 128, Chiu He spoke of evidence from Sze-po won the only game for the Chinese Customs loam, beating do that in France despair had given sources of "absolute accuracy,"
Caster 150 to 100.
Eager, Sykes, Champelovier, Ingleby
Tribute To De Gaulle
to Free Frenchmen and their lender,
The YMCA, team comprised Jones, place to hope, resentment to ren- Mr Duff Cooper paid high tribule and de Castor. The Customs fearn was son. People there saw that the General de Gaulle, lle said, "They Kemp, Cheuk Sul-nan, Ogden. Tang only hope for the future of a have given up all for a cause which | Mul-ying, Whiltmore and Chiu Sze-po. France free and independent was meant more to them than all the
in British victory.
world: it is the principle of honour deeply implanted in the souls of
COUNT THE
"TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
all
Mr Duff Cooper told of à French soldiers which has made them refuse boy who built an aeroplane in a to surrender; it is love of ilberty coushed and on a stormy day when deeply implanted in the souls of all few German aircraft were about, took Frenchmen which urges them to off and landed safely in England. He continue 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 the This boy, sald Mr Duit 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."
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