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SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1927.

SPORTS

LOCAL CALENDAR.

Full Programmes To-day

And To-morrow.

TENNIS CHAMPIONS. "SPLIT" BASEBALL 'FORCES.

Jones' Wonderful Golf Victory.

HOME CRICKET REVIEW.

By. "Stalwart."]

for the The sports calendar week-end is, a full one, and with apparently nothing to fear in the way of tricks from the weather, we may

count on making the

on

his brow as the crowls carried him to

jubilant the club;

THE CHINA MAIL.

WONDERFUL BOBBY JONES.

Again Wins British Open Golf Title.

RETURNS RECORD SCORE OF 285.

Unprecedented Excitement at St. Andrews.

St. Andrews, July 15.

For the second year in succession R. T. ("Bobby") Jones, the house. Going back to 1898, which young American professional, has won the Open British Golf Cham- pionship. Playing on the famous St. Andrew's course, he returned I think is far enough, I only know a score of 285 for 72 holes, a record. At St. Anne's last year he of one instance when Jones' win-won the title with 291. ning score of last year, which was 291, was equalled, and that was in 1908, when Jimmy Braid won the championship at Prestwick. Aubrey Boomer and Robson, who 285. tied for second place this year, for second place with 291. were six points behind Jones, and Whitcombe and Kirkwood returned

xt were Whitcombe and Kirk-293. wd, with 293, a score generally god enough with which to win a championship.

in winning at St. Andrews, want The British Open Golf Champion-you to keep the Cup in the club.. ship over 72 Koles was won by Individual scores were:-

Jones the American "Bobby" hoider, with record score of

Bobby's previous 291 which, as have said, was tied by Braid most of it. The bowls happenings jaway back in 1908, has been most were fully set forth in rester-nearly approached in recent years Mail" by our by Taylor, Ray and Havers, all of day's "China worthy "Short Hend." In tennis whom have won the coveted title for to-day there are four "B" with scores of 295. J. White in division and three "C" division (1904 at Sandwich returned a 296 matches, and to-morrow, it is and got the Cup as did “Jock" understood, one of the two out- Hutchison at St. Andrews in 1921, standing "A" division matches. Vardon. Taylor, Massey, George that between the M.B.K. and the Duncan, Hagen (twice) and Jim,

Aubrey Boomer and Robson tied

There were

unprecedented scenes when a crowd estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000 breath- Jessly watched Jones putt the ball to the lip of the final hole from 30 yards range and softly tap it down.

Boomer Robson

Kirkwood

Vickers

73 and 72

69 and 74

75 and 74

E. Whitcombe

*73 and 73

E.

C. Whitcombe

71 and 75

Hodson

297

-Havers

297

Cotton

298

Rodgers (St. Annes)

300

300

Heswall

HOO

Perkins

300

Tom Williamson Allia Herd

(Notts) 300

300 300

Torrance

300

301

302

303

306

307

Then in a torrent of enthusiasm, they mobbed the American and shouldered him to the clubhouse,

"Greatest Moment." Jones, waving a putter trium- phantly, in a speech later said. "It is the greatest moment in my life. have achieved my life's ambition

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HOME GOLF.

THE NEW AMATEUR CHAMPION,

D.

Вагин

Stevens

Compston.

Kennett (U.S.A.) Tolley

--Reuter.

BIG SCORING.‘

Kent and Notts Win Easily.

SIX CENTURIES.

London, July 16. Rain again interfered with the County games.

The Gentlemen v. Players match, at Lords, was drawn.

dine 123).

The Gentlemen scored 270 (Jar-

The Players made 182 for two (Holmes 50, Sutcliffe 64).

Young's Century.

At Taunton Lancashire took first innings points from Somerset.

Somerset made 205 and 173 for five (Young 109 not out).

Lancashire scored 297.

Yorks Win.

Yorkshire at

Leeds defeated

Essex by seven wickets.

Essex scored 100 and 175. Yorkshire replied with 186 (Nichols taking seven wickets for 72), and 91 for three wickets.

Not 6 Hours Play,

The Sussex v. Hampshire match at Eastbourne does not count in the championship competition.

Sussex magle 135 for six (Wensley 127).

Glamorgan Draw.

Glamorgan, at Swansea, drew with Warwickshire,

Warwick scored 233 and Glamor- gan 140 for four.

Points for Leicester. Leicester gained first inninga points from Gloucester at Cheken-

ham.

Leicester scored 238 and 102 for eight and declared.

Gloucester made 187 and 52 for

Kent beat

at

Big Kent Victory.

Worcestershire Worcester by an innings and 169 runs.

In Previous Years. The British open championship was inst played at St. Andrews in 1921. when "Jack" Hutchison win the title with a score of 296. Pre- vious to that J. Braid was the win- ner of the championship on this Dr. William Tweddell, of Stour-historic course. This was in 1910, University, will be played off. Barnes all took 300 or over for bridge on the Britse Howlake totul never beaten until 1912; when when he returned eard of 299, a

six. Championship, on Competitive interest has gone the 72 holes.

links, in the most decisive manner. Ernest Ray, at Muirfield, took the from this division, of which the

defeating in the final Mr.

title with a score of 295, last year, The county cricket results Eustace Landale, of the Royal at St. Anne's, R. T. (Bobby) Jones, Chinese Recreation Club were

cabled through Lo-day from Liverpool Club and Sunningdale, by of America, eclipses this perform easy winners. This combination

ance with an aggregate Home reveal play as we like to 7 and 6. It WAH a depressing The 1925 championship was played also looks like taking off the other

match, devoid of all semblance of see it inasmuch as there is two championships. To-day they shown some high scoring by lessly entelassed that he never had Barnes (300) in

a fight. Mr. Landale was so hope- at Prestwick and won by Jim 1924 Walter meet the United Services and Tai-teams, some collective low scor- ghost of a chance, and he made Hagen won at Hoylake (301); in 1923 A. Havers was first at Troon They should win bothing. it fair number of centuries depths of his worst possible, form with 295, and in 1922 Hngen ob-

matters worse by plumbing the matches. The Chinese during the one or two declarations, and It is, indeed, astonishing that a

tained his first British open cham-

Northants Swamped. week went along way towards re-some-though not much good man who has fought his way to the pionship at Sandwich with a score Notts won by an innings and 69 final of a championship on a links of 100. George Dunen was cham- runs from Northamptonshire at gistering the longest points vic-bowling.

of which he knows every inch, and pion in 1920, scoring 303 on the Nottingham. tory of the season when in a "C"

where, in ordinary circumstances, Dent course. There were no cham- he would have cause for serious pionship games between 1915-1919. division match they swamped the K.B.S.F.PA. to the tune of 76 to 26. The "Former Pupils" only

koo.

won one encounter,

*

*

*

•

taking seven wickets for 45 rung; of 201. Worcester made 130. Freeman

and 75, Freeman taking five for

our

The second encounter between the Gentlemen and Players, at reflection if his score was more Lords, might have shown some thun 75. should take 90. This is interesting cricket if the rain might even have been higher if Mr. A ball on the course is worth more only an approximate figure; it but he will drive much straighter. had kept off. As it was the Lundale had holed out on every than one twenty-five yards farther Gentlemen were dismissed for green, which he did not. None on, but somewhere in the rough. of the two baseball games, 276, which looked an easy mat was more keenly disappointed than This is so elementary a truth that

Mr. Landale himself. because it the wonder in that some of scheduled for the week-end that ter to deal with seeing that the was impossible for him not to know dashing young players do not pay the Filipinos and the Players had made 182 for the that of the hortes of spectators it more attention. The inference Japanese on the Happy Valley loss of only two wickets and who swarmed over the sandhills is not that Dr. Tweddell is a short like an army of unta, the vast driver; that would be ridiculous in Diamond this afternoon at 4 still had their Yorkshire cracks, majority had come there hoping to the extreme. Inther has he got o'clock promises to be the more Holmes and Sutcliffe, at

the see him bring the championship all the length neeiled by any per interesting. The Sunday match wicket, apparently set, when the back to Hoylake.

son other than those who 'imagine Mr. Landale found he, could that the substance of golf is in is between the "Tigers" and the game was stopped. The appear-neither drive nor putt. 1 The hitting the ball "o mile;" in what "Dragons," teams from the ranks ance of the rain at Eastbourne "coffin"-headed patter, a strange- direction is immaterial. In normal

was particularly unfortunate looking instrument which

he conditions, Dr. Tweddell will reach of the South China Athletic Asso-

usually wielda with such devastat-most long holes in two shots, and

between

ciation. At the beginning of the for Sussex, who had knocked up ing results to his opponents, be-no man can possibly wish for more.

season, it may be remembered, the S.C.A.A. split their forces into two camps, for playing purposes only: but the experiment. from my point of view, has hardly proved a success. One team seems very strong and the other very weak, as the standings in-

Kent and dieute. The "Dragons" have

Nottinghamshire played two matches and won secured substantial wins, the

a fine golfer of infinite resource,"blow" I do not mean just a thump both. The "Tigers" have played former at the expense of Wor- but because he is a typical English with the club-head stopping short, three matches and lost them all. cestershire and the northerners sportsman, a man of courage and a method favoured by many of the of extreme modesty. At ne stage modern school; rather is it a I understand that for to-morrow's at the expense of Northampton of the match did he display the con- "swinging blow" with the club game an agreement has been shire. Both had an innings to cueror's spirit; rather did he up-following on and finishing well were pear to be genuinely sorry for his round, as exemplified in the iron 'reached whereby the teams ex- spare when the games

finished. In the first-named hapless opponent, whose repeated shots of Mr. Bobby Jones, change players. This, as has

efforts to pull himself and his golf Worcester

Dr. Tweddeil's power of concen- collapsed together met with auch scant res- tration when putting is remarkable. been pointed out, will not in a way lamentably before the trundling ponse. It can be truly said of Dr. The shoulders are bent, the head affect the other clubs in the of Freeman, who took seven for weddell that he is a new force is over the ball, and when all pre- league, and perhaps will add to 45 in the first innings and five in British golf; not a golfer whom liminaries are properly adjusted we shall rarely hear of again, but not a muscle of the body moves. the value of the game from the for 30 in the second. All Wor- one who has come to stay.. A man Only when the stroke is being made spectator's view-point.

cester could score for the 20 who can bent Mr. Wethered, and do the hands and the forearme wickets was a total of 185. This holes from him, and defeat other swing, rather shorter and sharper Incidentally, capture the first five move. It is a perfect pendulum match brought Freeman his 100 illustrious people as well, is a than that adopted by the Ameri-

Parker, golfer to be respected' and to be can players. wickets for the season,

To Anyone who reckoned with. Besides possessing might be led to think that Dr. too, is now among the elect.

most of the shots Dr. Tweddell has Tweddell's triumph is something of the ideal temperament-calm and the nature of a flash in the pan," perfectly collected, and confidence a sultable and proper reply would be that since becoming a member

the tidy total of 435 for six haved in the most impish manner. Dr. Tweddell's Iron Play. wickets when the game had to It positively refused to hold the Most of all, I am attracted by be abandoned. As there was putts. As for the driving. Mr. the quantity of Dr. Tweddell's iron less than six hours play, Sussex clubhead down square to the ball; and the fine sense of judgment dis- Landale never once brought the play. The execution of the shots. will get nothing in the way of the face being generally turned played, are the most delightful points for their performance. over, resulting either in a half- things I have seen for some tiine. and. Hampshire may consider mothered shot, or one that flew There is no attempt to perform ominously to the leg side. It was anything scientific; just a plain, themselves lucky.

all very, very sad.

| straightforward blow that induces A Worthy Champion.

the ball to fly straight at the ob- Dr. Tweddell is a worthy cham-jective, chiefly by the "all-air" When employing the word ion; worthy because he is not only route.

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The Chinese Athletic Associa- tion, who are keenly interested in promoting football matches with Service teams in Hong Kong,

a sensible time at which to com- Bogey pool mence hostilities. golf ia fixed for Fanling for this and to-morrow afternoons, and there will be the usual bathing and launch picnics.

match

has over

have arranged another game for city I hear that the Women's in himself.

Although gaining little publi- this afternoon. A Chinese team Cricket Association is steadily He set out to win this champion-of the Stourbridge Club, which he; will meet the Queen's Royal Regi- developing the game among ship with a fixed plan of campaign joined a short while ago, he has ment at Sockunpoo at 5.45 p.m., girls at Home, and this year produce the figures at each and won a pocketful of medals in scores

many, matches have been played. every hole, and ignore the opponcat. always round the 72 mark. Formed in October, 1926, the Tweddell confesses, because.

A difficult thing to do, as Dr. A to the final itself little need association now

no be said, because after Dr. Pweddell 300 matter how hard you school your had captured five, all in a row, of playing members, and a Malvern self, you are greatly tempted to see the first nine holes, much of the Cricket Week for girls will be-how the other fellow is faring, and interest evaporated. He won three gin on August 29 and conclude to regulate your shots accordingly. moré, and finished the first round 8 on September 3. The teams It is the plan adopted by the great up, with a score of 76 as against will stay at the Malvern Girls' master, Mr. Bobby Jones, and in a problematical 90 by Mr. Landalė, College, and the matches will be hia, ceng we all know how extra-who put shota into orchards, into played on the college ground and grdinarily successful it has been. ditches, into bunkers, in fact into Well done, Bobby Jones! To the two grounds at Colwall. In other respects, too, the new avery sort of place, conceivable and win the British open golf cham- Many girls schools are now play-champion seems to have copied the inconceivable. When Mr. Landale American. For example, Dr. won a couple of holes at the start pionship is a feat. To win it two ing cricket matches regularly, Tweddell stands with feet fairly of the second round there was a years in succession is a greater and the association hopes to see close together, with hands down, flickering hope that he might, after a number of clubs formed in and arms touching the sides of the full, make a fight of it, but the hope one. And to win it with the mar- the near future. The last few body. There is no reaching out for was quickly extinguished when at vellous score of 285 is the great-years the standard of play has the ball, and no stretching of legs the sixth he put two driven into est feat of all in golf history. greatly improved, and there are wide apart like a contortionist; just a private garden. Gloom settled now several quite good women a natural attitude such as one down again on the proceedings, Smiling, chubby faced Bobby

cricketers. The Women's adopts' when standing with back to only to be intensified when Dr. could well afford to grow very ex- Cricket Association feel that a the fire engaging in ordinary con- Tweddell, winning hole after hole, cited at St. Andrews when it team game is needed in the versation.

became dormy 9. Playing the next was all over, and I imagine that in the winter, for girls, and He will not drive so far as either finished the match- and 6-with "Rhythm rather than force" Is two holes rather casually, Dr. summer, like hockey and lacrosse . Tweddell's guiding principle. Tweddell lost them both but he wayward forelock of dark brown efforts will be made to form Mr. Tolley or Mr. Wethered, and a great fron shot to the twelfth hair must. have bobbed joyfully clubs and county associations. I am not sure that he wants to, green.

30.

Kent scored 354 for nine and declared (Ashdown 139),

Notts scored 430 for five and declared (Payton 143 not out, Flint 100 not out). '

Northanta made 84 and 277 Freeman and Parker in this mitch both secured their 100 wickets for the season-Reuter.

Shadows Before,

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED-

IN THE "MAIL.”

Entertainments.

TO-DAY'S FOOTBALL. This is Paris."

CHINESE v. THE QUEENS,

The postponed game between the 1st Bn, The Queen's Royal Regi-. ment and the Chiness Athletic Association will be played off this afternoon at Sookumpoo nt 6.45 June 21 and was called off on p.m. This game was arranged for

account of rain.

The Chinese line-up will be: Pau Ka-ping; Lau Mow, Lo Wai man; Ho Cho-yin, Lum Yuk-ying (capt.), Ng Po-lau; Lee Bing-tong, Suen Kam-shun, Wong Pak-chong, Choy Ping-fan and Ng Kam-chuen.

DAVIS CUP TENNIS.

EUROPEAN FINAL AT

COPENHAGEN.

Copenhagen, July 15.

In the European Davis Cup final Denmark and France are" playing

July 16 Queen's Theatre; "86

July 18-World Theatre: "East, Lynne."

July 16-Star Theatre, Kuwloon; "The Sensation Seekers."

July 16-Tea Dance Cafe Res taurant Parisien, 4.30 p.m.

July 16-Janko's Cireus, Now Re- clamation Ground, Wanchai, 9.16 p.m. Matinee: 4 p.m.

July 16-Grand Concart at City Hall 6.30 p.m. for the Services,

Lammert's Auctions. July 18-Household furniture, at 719, Nathan Rond (top floor), Kow- loon, 2.45 p.m.

July 20—A valuable collection of curios, etc., Sales Room, Duddell St., 2.30 p.m.

July 20-Alont 2,000 postage China, stamps comprising Old Hong Kong, etc., at Sales Room, Duddell S., 5.15 p.

Meetings.

July 20-Meeting of Portuguese Co., of the H.K.D.C., at Club Lust- tano, 5.30 p.m.

July 21-Meeting of Scottish Co., of the HK.D.C. ai Corps Head quarters, 5.30 p.m.

Miscellaneaus,

July 17-Band of Queen's Royal

at Copenhagen on July 21, 22 and | Regt, plays at Evensong, St. John's 28. The probable Danish team is | Cathedral, 6 p.m. Ulrich and Peterson. Reuter.

WATER POLO ASSOCIATION MEETING.

A meeting of the Hong Kong Water Polo Association will be held at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 22 at the V.R.C. All teams in- terested are invited to send re- presentatives.

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