THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE
1950.
Five Shots
SPORTS
To
Take You On To
SCHOOL The Green
Today, in his third and final
golf lesson
DAI REES
-professional of
South
Herts illus-
trates and explains the secrets of a round
in 70
JATCH your feet-und in the five
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pictures on this page watch my
fect. If you have taken a lot of trouble with your grip, then stance is just as important.
your
Today's first four shots-which could carry you from tee to green-are taken at the top of the swing. Study them shot by shot.
THE BALL in teed up in line with the inside of the left heel. Eye ritht on the ball: left shoulder under the chin; right elbow tucked in. Naw dwing back with the In one food clubhead, hands and hips all
should be straight
zre.
arm The left throughout the shot.
NOW THE Wood shot through the green. Notice the ball is dead in the middle between the feet. It the ball more on the down wing: it helps to keep you plumb on the fairway.
The approach, FOR THIS, you need the 1, 2, 3 art iron. Feet are more square to the ball and the stance closed. The ball is So maice central. The club is shorter,
that your swing is also shorter. FOIL the 5, 6 or 7 iron, the ball is right foot. towards the further back
U
Sure:
More than ever you are hitting the down swing to give it check when it reaches the green. The last two fingers of the left hand are taking most of the strain.
the ball on
FIRST shot-07 the tre
SECOND-through the green.
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Under the uld rules when he insist that offenders odiere to ball on the green because, the
Walting players should petently and firmly. sew he would have to forfeit the rules and etiquette of the player can strike it more com- two points, he used to think game.
smaller "The twice before he decided that a pass through rather than accept
advantages because FUTTING styles can
ball was unplayable. I think there long delays.
question that is individual, but this there is no
WOULD the long handicap affected on a windly Jargely
rule encourages I have new is recommended.
to evade the player find the larger American personally 1 described it in detail alonitride players who wish
ball raster to tolt and to putt larger ball. true spirit of the game.
with?
one
the picture.
NOW for today"--
those
DUES Whe Interlocking erly
It is less
day, but
to use the:
case In any Wrong! to
and
srems American
rive greater control of king larger ball has a quicker differences
JOT necessarily, I suppose I
QUESTION TIME NO
with as much power
as mybody io this country,
FOURTH-hort approach
And Finally
hnve thee THE
I think
nu a
tendency to soar, no matter, that we agreed who is hitting it. It is a better ball.
tring a two-handed grip. But John Macadam's Column
IS A WEDGE too difficult a don't affer any loss of contre!
club for the medium player?
handicap in direction with this.
WITHOUT expert advice, yes.
the
But with guidance wedge is well wore to value in You will quickly see results.
DO YOU FIND that there is a more sensitive feel with the bickory-shafied putter than the
Nieel-shafted pulier?
YES, undoubtedly. Probably
most good golfers would m hickory putters if we could get really good hlekory, these days. I always used my own hickory And ↓ putter until recently. large number of players still ure
Locke Bobby
certainly one. favours it.
DOES PLAYING on a heavy the winter clay course during upset our's summer game?
I HABITUALLY balloon my drive--what am I doing wrong?
THIS fault can arise from the
ressions: (1) You are givlyt Insufficient width of area to the back swing: (2) Your club is coming up too steeply after the hall. In other words you are not following through far enough; Study these fundamentals, and you will stop that ballooning.
DO YOU MAKE the hall spki when you putt?
I de slightly spin the ball. But my advice le others is always to keep the putt straight and follow throwth fairly and squarely.
PERSONALLY,
British
it is time standard
WORLD SOCCER CUP
SERIES EXPECTED TO NET £500,000
THERE'S NO NEED FOR NERVES
WHEN YOU ARE PUTTING THE man who is never
nervous on a put- Line
Ka the luckiest man alive. But do your best to fill your- self with confidence, and you're well on the way to sinking that pull.
to method, there are two things to member-krep the body still, and never take the On the clubhead back
whatever outside line,
with your you clo Shoulder and body. The stroke is made with the arms and hands.
Take the club back a short way, keep the left
end wrist braced,
isp Brazilian football executives lay it down that World the ball firmly with the
right hand. to wind up the
Let unch The grip? Soccer Cup teams will not be allowed series with exhibition games....This forestalls the individual decide.
I use the reverse overlap here.... Argentine move to get England, Italian, and Spain teamssonally,
The Index finger of the to play in Buenos Aires before they go home....
placed over left hand the second finger of the
Estimation is that Brazilian and imported sports fans will spend nearly £500,000 to ace 13 World Cup teams operate in Rio in the tournament that starts on June 24....
Per-
right
neutralises This effect
Ilio's municipal stadium will seat 120,000, with 30,000, stand
this situation so tastened up that Feet should it is not possible....
until August, clearance
Anyhow, Charles, with a dicky heart, cannot get a medical and,
The more squarely you hit then, and 5,000 workmen are on ball the more likely it is to keep the job night and day to have it
hole. ready for June 27.... running and go into the Spinning the ball seems to be a
in golf. YES, unless you make a putut god thing in billiards, but not
ALF PANGHAM
always to tee the ball up. 1 would make this an inevitable
finds that local rule during the winter for all clubs. Otherwise when you retalning weight on the right are playing from a bad lie you fost gives additional force to the By drive: Have you found this so, start dipping and ducking. April or May these bad habits or does the theory differ with have taker such a hold that it different golfers? needs almost the whole sutniner to eradicate them.
Those new rules
Ure
Jimmy
of since Savold is committed to the coach Hogan,
Is in London defence of what we regard as Glasgow Celtle, undecided about his future.... his title by September, Jimmy declares that the must match is not on....
thrill- in St Peter The only trouble is that Joe rilling moment of a packed life was
the Anglo-U. S. Rome, when, with his green- Louts may decide to return, in blazered players, he heard the which case Pope extent a hearty welcome to boxing war would be on again in "that grand team. Glasgow full blast....
the in probably Celtle."....1t FOR the drive it is best to stay Best time that a football team back on the right fool, get has been named within these ting in behind the ball. It is noble preciuela.... the same principle that you see in a child throwing a stone-the thing is to get underneath and
NOW THEY ACT
HOGAN RETURNS
tho strong of that right hand taking over. be about 10. apart, with the right
foot forward, and
elbow
the right side just to keep it in
heck.
And keep your down until head
that the ball scrise well on its way towards. the flug.
you
A
-(London Express Kervios)
EXPENSIVE
SUCCESS
A. L. Valentine, West British golf players, please
slow bowler, cost, note: Ben Hogan, the new Us. Indies Open colt
champion, signed his country's cricket about rteently for his tenth year as a £1,000 by taking eight play profesalonl with the wickets for 104 runs in the DO YOU THINK
Country Our demand for a return to Hershey the new behind for the host throw. This rules
improvement theory works best for the longer boxing in the smaller halls of the Pensylvania-his first visit to first innings of the First!
It applies to Particularly the rule about an hot, and
ก. "unplayable ball." (These rules players, whether big or small, only ho had an immediate his home club in three years.... Test Match at Old Trafford effect....The Boxing Promoters'
surely poor reward for on Junuary 1 tal or short. are on trial for
rar into force
this pear and
two years)
MIE rule that puts the onus on
THE
Too slow?
Club,
Association mean to organise Bunny Alcame, secretary of nation-witle search for boxing the British Ice Hockey Arsocia- bowling virtue,
talent, and Jack Solomans backя tlon, arrived in Ottawa the other
The reason was
the
that in a little over the idea with the suggestion that day, and told Canadians he was match ended
of live and there should be £100 prizes in not signing players because the three days instead
Indians missed two booths in British Association has 2,000 of the West an Individual
deelde Lo
days' GOLF cash of the boxing TOURNAMENT
takings. From the first He is prepared its own.... eight areas. whether he thinks the ball
day of the match. when the to bring the area champion to Terry Allen, the London World attendance was 10,000, unplayable means that it now getting too slow for the ordinary
the London, and offer prizes of £500 ryweight Champion, headed atte leaves him only one point forfeit, player's temperament?
at each weight to a total prize team of British boxers on a visitors took away £750; from I do not like this rule because it
(wo-week exhibition tour
they derived to the second day's money of £4,000....
£500; they did much better Germany....No money for the fighters and no-see
for the than that on the third day.
For the two Landon games, Germans, who were not allowed
at Lords and the Oval, the
have bookings
been on Test scale. At Old were lots of
Lives so much room for players SAY quite emphatically that who rely on the rule book to players in tournament games
The Americans are still play 1tke
advantage ot their these days are taking far too opponent. A player has only to long. It in time the off rulers ing with the idea of matching shown up. It could be Ezzard Charles with Lee Savold feel a twig in his back now to were
the for the world heavyweight title, decide without hesitation that done quite simply if only
behind would | Lut of course, Solomons has got he will forfeit a point.
players waiting
K. O. CANNON
In.
-(London Express Service)
WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
BRYTER GET HEM TO HOSPITAL VIDOCO? WHO HAD A STRONGER MOTIVE THAN SHE? IN LOVE WITH ZUCCH FOR YEARS UNTIL CHARMAINE KILLED HERSELF ON HIS ACCOUNT. WHO BEST KNEW HIS HANDWRITING, AND COULD JORGE THE SUICIDE
NOTE*
YOU HAVE BEEN VERY ONIGHT, MSIEU CANNON, BUT I STILL DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW YOU KNEW THAT CARESSE \FINED A BLANK CARTRIDGE.....
Australin Trafford there seats to spare.
After the thrashing the West Indies Have Lancashire more of the local folk ought to have come to ace them faco All- England.
LOVE IS BANNED Love hus been abolished in America-by the Professional Lawn Tennis Association, In
coring.
Hafore the national profes- sional tournament at Cleveland, Ohio, it was decided ometally that the term will be dropped,
In a future hypothetical match between.
say. Kramer and Riggs, the scorer will say "Kramer, Afteen," And -not
Fifteen, love."
-BRUCK HARRIS
----(London: Express. Bervice)
SO THEY WANT TO PLAY IN BOGOTA?
By HAROLD PALMER
Underpaid British soccer stars who want to try their luck in Colombian football must be sure of their cash and consider the climate before they fall for offers that look very attractive on the surface.
I understand that the agreements provide for the payment of signing-on fees in American dollars directly the players rench Colombia. Then they get more American dollars in settlement of salaries of £100 a month and match bonuses of £40 for · a win ́ and £20 for á draw,
Why Britain's Packs Do Not Get The Ball
By HYLTON CLEAVER
Thuit way the cash ja all right, but if they get paid ut the loun! peroa (547 to the £) they will and the export rate la 835 to the £, not to mention a 30 percent tax on money taken out of the country.
An Englishman just" home after four years in Dogota a sures me that lack of oxygen in the high altitudes and troplent infections will be a real menace to the hurdiest players,
COOL RECEPTION
Then there u the good chance
A lively game In Bogot (0,000ft) he tells me, is likely Although most of the in to be followed by a two-hour juries which have hit Bri-aeroplane journey to play next tain's rugby team in Now day in the tropical heat of one Zealand have been suffered of the const iawns. [by the backs, the impression!
given by those writing that the local reception will be home from New Zealand cool. Fellow players will be and, indeed, by Press cut-jealous of tho British players tings, is that our forwardsalaries, well above the usual £60 a month paid to loenls, and are the disappointment. the crowds have quite a' dif-
This means that our bucks are|ferent idea of the game. having to spend the afternoon The fantastically high cost of tackling, and are not rezu 10 Nylag in Dogola will at once advantage by attack through not offset a Kroat Har of the getting de bali.
players increased earnings, With all the strength of the Still, it looks as though Jock Welsh park available, this news | Dodds, who has been acting as Is astonishing.
agent for the Millionarios Club One explanation is that our of Bogota, is prepared to sample men are out-weighted by a pack the fare he is offering to other of prodigious size, which they playernderstand he is likely to knew they would be up against
when they went: another is be leavin soon for Bogota, that the new type of 1:4, 1 not to play-because at 37 he formation
the which
New probably feels that the climate Zealanders learned in South would be too much for him- Africa and have adopted, is but to ausis the club in come something we apparently another capacity. not cope with.
Dodds has not re-signed for As the South Africans will be Lincoln City, although he has offered terms, and it tooks coming to England the season
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after next, we may as well start ag though he will now end his
what this pinying career. understanding system is and how it operates,
IN THE SHOVE
In the meantime he is work-
ing up a good business supply- ing bags of nuls to cinemas and
So far as the packing is consweet shops in Lancashire, and cerned there is no difference. particularly
round Blackpool,
The recret lies in the shove, and where he lives. He will leave in the duties of each forward. manager
in charge of that
Firstly, the main shove is not while he is in Bogota. applied to the hooker, but to
the two prop men left and right
Jim, who thus weight off the hooker.
take the
To this end the quiside men
London, Express Service)
Agland Turns Pro
Yet another baxing inter- of the second row, pack at an
try national bon decided to angle, giving an inward thrusts luck as a professional after the prop men, and to balance winning nearly every honour this the two inside
of the MICTI recond row shove outwards.
The
loose forward left hoves only for one Vitui breaks as fast as moment, and
"one,
open to him in the ranks.
amateur
This time It is Roy Agland 23-year-old Cardiff dockyard shunter from the Tir-y-berth He is not concerned (BC, ADA and Welsh middle- with the heeling, for the ball weight champlon in 1947 and - does put come out by way of Great Britain's
representative and Den- Switzerland
Agland, a slim "southpaw"- his right with rather more elegance than
his feet at all.
With the loose left,
for example, the hooker
head on mark.
against
will
gels the ball foot, mends it between the feet most right-foot-forward boxers
welter -
of
to
the prop mut on his left, anks
join his successful diagonal direction fellow-countryman, away in a between the left und man of weight champion Eddie Thomas. the second row who is outside, in the squad managed by Sam
hoving in, and the man next Burns.
to him who is inside, shoving
out.
IN
In amateur circles, toy will best be remembered for his cur
The gap between their feet prise selection against Switzer- the angle land at Wembley three years wide because of and the heel is thus swift. The ngo. Ho won, became a cham- used in Bri- pion, and stayed in the inter- orthodox heel, as
more national site until sinovitis in many tain, introduces
his right hand put him out. feet for the ball to negotiate.
-London Express Service) (London Express Service)
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