1927-08-13 — Page 9

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1927,

SPORTS

PROFESSIONAL GOLF. HOME FOOTBALL.

C. WHITCOMBE WINS CHAMPIONSHIP.

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Blackpool, Yesterday. The northern professional golf -championship over 72 holes was won by Charles Whitcombe, of Crews

Hill, with an aggregate score 280-Reuter.

F.A. COUNCIL AND 7% PER

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BOXERS & FILMS.

DEMPSEY'S SUPPRESSED

DESIRE.

MALAYAN SUCCEEDS.

When Jack Dempsey was still the heavy-weight | champion of the world he confessed to me

(writes Mr. Trevor C. Wignall) that one of the regrets of his Ounafdoration of the right of

life was that he had been 60 companies to borrow money at in successful as fighter. It was his terent beyond 74 per cent. without ambition at this time to become the previous consent of the F.A.& celebrated film actor. It will council be remembered that about three Com- years ago this desire prompted mittee, as also was the right him to sink some of his fortune in Lowest Aggregate.

tickets a film company, to undergo an Whitcombe's is the lowest ag-

covering a number of years. operation on his nose so that it gregate for 72 holes ever returned Football League to play the Irish and to blossom out as a "movie" Permission was given to the could be made more presentable in a major championship in Britain. League on September 21 and the star. It will also be recollected He wins £350, the biggest cash prize Scottish League on October 22, but that as a rival to Valentine and in British professional golf. He this latter date aubject to revi-others he was a failure.

The council decided that it is not when I read that Victor Mc- All this returned to my mind permissible under the constitution of the F.A, that a representative of Laglan, one of the most disap- a raferees' organisation be elect-pointing heavy-weight boxers ed to the council.

even. Britain has known, had Torquay United were granted swept the United States into permission to withdraw from the enthusiasm, and was in the act of Cap competition without prejudice similarly sweeping London by his to their position next season and the entries of Taunton United and Wavertree Athletle were nat accept- d.

C. Whitcombe.

went round to-day in 70 and 69. Davies, of Prenton, was second with 280.

Melhorn took 74 and 67 and with Barber of Cavendish aggregated 287:

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Compston took 288, Duncan 290.

aton.

The application from the Man- chester and District Federation for a grant in aid of their funds was declined.

The president in handing the Huband (Division IX) referred to long-service medal to Mr. II. J. the services of that gentleman ns a member of the council for 20 yeara,

Nabhoitz 302, HI, Gaudin, Wanstead, SINGAPORE BOXER.

with 291, broke the course record

with a 60 including two twus.- Reuter...

KEEPING FIT.

BUD WALLEY DRAWS WITH

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and crude fighter, and with a

take, for me, anyway.. If I walk beautifully broken nose — a

along like an Indian, concentrat- feature that Was a grief to

ing on the next shot with an Dempsey - 28 a portrayer of human emotions climbs to heights

eighth of a mile to tramp before that are only accessible to the

reaching the ball, I am tired out A TENDENCY TO WATCH. very few. 'Life, It seems to me,

when I stand up to the ghot. 18 full of old and romantic The season of holiday golf is at or two with the man I am playing Lately, I have found that a word twists.

hand; the season when lightness with, or the referee, or may be Yet there was a time when of heart asserts itself on seaside some friend in the gallery, re- McLaglan, the son of a bishop and links as though foozled shots had Nieves the tension. Then, when I one of six massive. brothers, ceased to trouble the conselence, get to the ball, I can turn on the looked like setting the pugilistic and when conversation on ex- concentration as hard as I need." Thames on fire. It was just be-traneous subjects breaks out as fore the war, and the venue, I though adversity had no vexa- a law unto himself in this mat

In a large degree, everybody is think, was the West London tions, writes Harry Vardon, ter. Mr. John Ball, the most Stadium. McLaglan, fresh from ли. not going to some revolution or another (he that this is the proper spirit in ever lived, was

Say successful British amateur that was, in his own words, always which to pursue the game. The player, for whom, apparently, A very quick looking for trouble and excite- whole lure of golf, the supreme the game had no cares or pro- ment), was matched with Dan quality that makes it attractive to blems, but he certainly wanted McGoldrick, a Scot who was close business men and brain-workers, nobody to speak to him during pions. McLaglan defeated him; ficult than most things they at-ways engaged a caddie who hap on the heels of some of the cham is that it is so much more dif- the round. At Hoylake, he al- but it was not bis victory so much tempt that it diverts their minds pened to be deaf and dumb. Mr. as his massiveness, his tremend- completely from all the other pro- Ball was as accurate and skilful features that captured imagina-ing, it demands and exacts ex-putting, as Mr. Jones is to-day. ous earnestness, and his fighting blems of life. During the play-a striker of the ball, except in On demand tion.

clusive attention. Still, the He played very quickly-some- Wire ... Out Like Snuffed Candle, golfing holiday frame of mind times, it looked, carelessly--and that the heavy-weight England sense that it provides a holiday atmosphere of concentration that He did so well as to suggest may be a useful factor in the yet wrapped himself in such an had so long been pining for had from real golf. I sometimes nobody could think of talking to I at last been found.

wonder, too, just how far & him during the round. leavening of ita modest touch

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Stopping and Re-starting. of it would be helpful in the The surest sign that a player solemn seasons, when golf is is given to over-concentration is sought as a relief from the provided when he stops his pre- worries of a work-a-day world. liminary flourish of the club- The majority of players are 80 head at the ball after having ap engrossed in the possibilities of parently worked himself up improving at it that in many in-for the stroke, and be- stances they bring upon them-gins the selves the tribulation of over- again,

operation all over and

one sees this concentration. The symptoms of not infrequently. When a golfer trying too hard are clear to any finds himself falling into such a body who has had a large mea- habit, he ought to make up his sure of experience at the game. mind to speed up his address. To They begin with a long drawn-out be sure, it is better to stop than process of waggling the club to hit the ball in a state of over- head at the ball, a process which concentration and physical con- merely amounts to procrastina-striction, but it is best not to tion. It produces an affliction wait long enough to have to stop, of its own, it promotes inevitably By this, I do not mean a tightening of all the muscles, commend undue hurry. A prac- and nobody can swing properly tice swing just, before taking up Bud Walley, the well-known

when his muscles are taut and his the stance often is a very good Singapore. flyweight and brother

grip of the club is so tight that means of loosening the joints and of the famous "Boy," fought in

the blood flees from his knuckles, muscles, but once, the ball has his first main event at the Manila

a condition in which you may see been addressed,

five or six Stadium on July 16. His oppon-

numerous people trying to his rhythmic waggles of the club- ent was Joe Alexander, whom he

long shots,

head at it ought to be enough. had met on two previous occasions

Making It Difficult. Often I have to

To me, it is a worry rather say to than help to walk forward a TT. on London twelve furious rounds was declar-

a pupil:You make too hard long way sizing up the lie of the TT on Shanghai on how to acquire that state of ed a draw.

work of it. Don't try so hard, land. I have seldom gone more Hongkong Bank representation

Then came the war. McLaglan just swing the club easily." general fitness which is necessary Mr. Kim Lin, manager of Bud character in the film "What was caught up in it, first as a

I than a half-dozen strides forward in order to excel in any game. The Walley, writes: "Bud trained only Price Glory?"

am certain that in many instances to examine the outlook for & shot, Chartered Bank.

rio. Lon. Reg. following

subaltern, then as a staff captain, the first vital necessity is to point and always slightly ahead. I are taken from the two days for the fight, which was article:--

then as an Arabic expert, and out the tendency towards over- have an idea-it may be only P. & Q, Bank

Mercantile A. & B. put on at short notice as a sub- I take 45. strides in which to stitute for a main event which

de. It is stated that McLaglan finally as a provost marshal in concentration. Possibly a few fancy that one can judge the East Asia cover a hundred yards. Now, an fell through, and to last twelve to-day is one of the highest-paid Mesopotamia. When he has de people of rare disposition manage situation better from gett error of only one inch per stride three-min. rounds of fast fighting film actors in the world, that his mobilised he returned to boxing to thrive on it. would mean in the aggregate nearly means a lot. I am confident that and he is on the smooth road that ise expectations that he passed Sherwood Kelly, a V. O. of the

than by standing in the direct and so completely failed to real- salary is over £20,000 a year;

I am told that Lieut.-Col. J. line: tenth of a second. That is only an properly handled, Bud may be

out like a snuffed candle. -error of about one and a half per come even better than his leads to millionairedom.

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And now, as "Captain Flagg." player in the Seaford Links Club #2 "Alexander has defeated such thanking his stars that in 1919, ican Marine (a distinction he a club for the first time surely raised-from-the-ranks Amer- within four months of swinging tween BULCERS and failure. A slight cold or a late night could good boya as George Montanez at the National Sporting Club, easily account for such an error, and Jack Silva, and he held Frank Goddard knocked him out shares with Lieut. Gene Tunney, the most rapid progress that any-

the present heavy-weight cham-body and it will be seen that the man Speedy Dado to a draw. He is a in three rounds, and that in the who hopes for international distinc-pure and simple slogger, who de following year, in the same build-pion of the world), he is piling the

pends on his strength and tough. ing. Arthur Townley deposited up riches and fame.

him on his broad back in the seventh round.

SOME HINTS BY H. M. ABRAHAMS.

Harold M. Abrahams, the sprin- ter, writing in the "Royal Mags.in semi-finals, and the result of zine" for July, gives a few hints

four feet difference-over

one.

tions can leave nothing to chance,

Only Possible Decision,

Jack Sharkey, who recently knocked out Jimmy Maloney,

the Boston heavyweight. He was then knocked out by Demp-

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Lucky Defeats.

80 he must be

The golfer, lawn tennis player, ness to win." swimmer, or runner must realise that the good athlete has to super- impose on a really healthy body the specialised training of the particu- lar art. It is useless to attempt to says: "A draw was the only po8-had given up boxing then-was become an athlete until you are a alble decision. Gray matter help- healthy individual first.

ed Walley overcome the big lead ready as a matter of fact, to Alexander took over-him in the admit that he was no good at

The last time I met him was The "Manila Daily Bulletin" in a restaurant in Piccadilly a little more than a year ago. He

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'ever has made at game and that he did it by devoting his time Delhi cinema during the showing of entirely to golf as a rest-cure, the film, "Moon of Israel." He played two rounds a day film, which is taken from the Book Star Ferries with a professional, starting very Israelites under the brutal Egyp

of Exodus, depicts the story of the Water-boats early, so as to have a clear course tien rule. It is

Refineries. SINDHI MERCHANTS v. and, whenever he made a mis-American production, and it was Malabon Sugars

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take, he practised the shot again claimed by the indignant Moslem

Mining and again until he could accom-audience to contain mutter outrag Beagnets will play a cricket match with the four months he did nothing but cinema manager declined to with- Langkats (Combined). T18 The Hong Kong Sindhi Merchants plish it satisfactorily. For ing their religious feelings. The Kailan Mining Ad. 45/- Don't make a Lenten penance of Singapore lad took things easy at to state that his adventurous life on latter's ground to-morrow morn-} for his handicap, he was placed tions being taken. A serious situa-Raubs

first stages of the match. The it and it is betraying no secret Hong Kong Univeralty 2nd eleven this, and then,' returning scores) India for two years without objec-Shanghal Loans

draw it, saying it had been shown in Shanghai Exploration. Ta do, (Single) 19 going into training, and see that first, reserving his strength for had given him so little in the Ing at 7 a.m. you never get into such a ghastly the last rounds, when he weaken- way of compensation that he was

The following players will repre- state of unfitness that you require ed Alexander considerably with wondering what on earth he sent the Sindhi. Team: G. P. Dae- a revolution in your everyday acti- hammering blows to the body. should turn to next.

wani (captain), U. T. Thad, H. vities in order to be reasonably fit. Bad pulled a boner, however, in

Pritam, F. Thawardas, F. Gehimal, A man or a woman should always the last canto. He tried slugging

N. T. Utam, S. V. Karani, S. D. Tharani, M. H. Moorjani, P. Shewa be "in training," though he or she his opponent, which nearly cost

rum and C. H. Bedi, need not always be fighting fit,

As for smoking and alcohol, him the battle.

Always In Training.

opinions are an divided as they can "That there is no love lost be bé, but everyone seems to agree tween Joe and Bud was evident (except the-fanatic) that sex-from the manner in which they cess that is harmful, and that hit each other, even after the bell moderation never. did anyone any would ring for rest. Going over harm.

the 12-round limit for. the first

No training-will make a Molle time, both lads surprised the Lenglen-or a Harry Vardon unless crowd by keeping lively during "the potential ability exists. Train the last stages of the contest and

ing will do a good deal, but all the tuning-up in the world would not apparently feeling fresh.

enable a ten-ton lorry to defeat

Rolls-Royce at Brooklands.

Don't get too rattled by the per-

First Half for Alexander.

"From the start up to the mid-

formances of your opponent. Idle of the fight, Alexander had .you have done all the training you things his way. He connected

should, and he is really the better rather often with Bud's face and man, that's your parents' fault and not your own.

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sent home some stinging left hooks. But Alexander bluffed the crowd once in a while. In the fourth canto he had the obrero section in an uproar when he started swinging at Bud while his punches reverberated through the house like the booming of cannon. Yet, those in the ringside seats did not see him land a good solid punch that round. While the A meeting of the Hong Kong Fing galleries thought he was murder- Pong League was held at the Ching Bud, his punches were falling nese Y.M.C.A. on Thursday evening, mildly when representatives from nine different clubs were present. Thir- teen teams have joined the League,

MEETING OF HONG KONG LEAGUE.

on

Walley's elbows.

Walley Catches Up. "From the seventh up to the After the minutes of the last 11th, Walley doubled up Joe with meeting were passed the following wicked punches to the body. He were unanimously elected on the Committee Chairman, Mr. Ng Tai- started boxing and had Joe guess- ping, (Wah Yan Old Boys' Union); ing what it was all about in the Vice-Chairman, Mr. Chan Kwok- eighth, ninth and 11th rounds, chuen, (Chinese Catholle Young and hammered his rival to his Men's Society Hon. Secretary, Mr. heart's content. The last canto, Chan Wal-ming, (Wah Yan Cal- however, nearly proved to be his lege-: Hon. Treasurer Mr. Ko Yau- Waferloo. After starting fine, he cheong, (Young Men's Christian made the mistake of thinking Association); Business manager, that he could outslug Joe. Alex- Mr. Wong Tung-hol (South China Athletic Association.)

ander simply pasted him with Another meeting will be held this some corking wellopa that had evening when rules governing the Bud's face bobbing up like's cork "League will be drawn up.

on a stormy sea,"

Beautifully Broken Nose, Dempsey, a great boxer, failed as a film actor. McLaglan, a poor

Upper Mil-Gift Fireplace in memory of a late pupli, e the schol Upper righThe W Beatty Gr Impound W. Betty. Predáme of the Canadian Pacific. Lawar cicki-Briman tibles designating the giết Another step forward in the interests of the wel fare of bays was made recently at Shawbridge Quebec, when a modern gymnasium, completa in every dotali was formally opened by EW. Beatty, Chairman and President of the Canadian Pacifle Railway Company. The gymnasium which has be come the property of the Shawbridge Boys' Farm and Training School, is the joint gift of Mr. Beatty and J. W. McConnell, of Montreal.

at scratch. This, perhaps, is tion arose, and the police just ar-Tronch Mixes diligence rather than over-concen-rived in time to prevent the machin-Ural Caplans tration on any one shot.

ery being wrecked, and the theatre Mr. Bobby Jones declares that being burned by the infuriated mob, "the habit of grim concentration who succeeded in destroying poster throughout the round is a mis-advertisements and the film.

CONGO ATROCITIES.

CYMNASIUM WAS DONATÉO TO THE YBRIDCE BOYS FARM AND TRAINING, SCHOOL BY EWBEAT? Y ESQUIRE KGANU. WMCCONNELLESQUIRE OF MONTREAL AND WAS CRENCO FOR USE ON THE NWENTY KIF TH’DÀY, DE JUNE 1937),

The Gymnasium was erected during the past year. and was done so at a considerable expenditure on or library. This room is finished" in chestant and the part of the two interested parties Mr. Beatty's, furnished throughout with generous leather chairs commection with the Boys'- Farm at Shawbridge bas and solid oak writing desks. Predominating one' long been estabBabed and were it not that he was end stands an immense stone fireplace which is seen the guiding genius of the greatest transportation in the photograph. | This, fireplace, according to system is the worki, he would be a national figure the inscription, “was erected with funds left to the for his interest in the welfare of boys,"

Boys' Farm by Private Harry Barry, who was A The Gymnasium is known as the "E. W. Beatty pupil in this school and gave his life in the Great Gymnazium," a nama that was given to it at the

War 1914-1918.” Da rosest of the boys of the farm. The structure is "After the opening ceremony this tablet was un- of solid stoc, quarried about seven miles from yelled in the presence of about 800 guests who the Farm, which Bes in the first range of the had been invited by Mr. Beatty and Mry McConnell, famous - Laurentian Mountains. No detall har-Been A Exblet, on abe outside of the building, renda forgotten in its construction. The main floor in whim gymnázium was donated to the Bhawbridge. taken up with the gym proper where many an Boys Farm and: Training School by EW. Boatty exciting game of basketball wil take piace. Below Esquire, K.C; and J.-W. McConnell, Esquire, af taja fine swimming pool with showers close by. Montreal and was opened for use on the twenty On the muse floor is what might be termoda, dan fifth day of June, 1927,"

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