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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1928.

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GOLF.

SHOTS THAT HAVE GONE.

CHAMPIONSHIPS' BALLS?

[By Harry Vardon:] There is a remarkable diversity

of minion is to the degree of

the country with whom I was re-

until he was 17 years of age, and it

indicates how varied may be the views of future generations, as to the changes that have come over

the game.

CONFUCIANISM.

PAPER AT CAMBRIDGE

MR. Lo Tung-FAN, B.A.

THE CHINA MAIL,

;

If a full second shot happens to/(The substance being that of a expression of the moral conscious- the people resulted. in a gradual | Confucian teaching, the pride and Bank, 4 months' sight 2/-

loss of respect for the Confucian conscience of the nation never al Credita, 4 months" teaching.

lowed any more drastic measure than the reservation of the Con-Documentary 4 months'

be required, as at the fourteenth hole in the Open Championship at St. Andrews, the player usually takes his driver for it, because ho has forgotten the feel of the brassio.

Expectation and Effect,

In the days when golf was climb.

Paper read before a Study Circle of Trinity Hall, Cam- bridge University, on March 1, 1928, by Mr. Lo Tung-fan, B.A.)

VIIL CONCLUSION.

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TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS. BY their capacity of morally develop lectual reform by its contact with

ing their own natures.

the new ideas of the modern West-Isolated cases of reactionary move Bank, on demand... 2/8 /16 The teaching of Confucius is the ern world. The great reaction of ments for the suppression of the Bank 80 day's sight..

nees of the Chinese in all ages. The plain, matter-of-fact system of Confucius, whose principle is to

Brief Survey. form man not by doctrine but by Now I think I have kept you too fucian teaching in the form of the

sight his contact with man, exactly fit long, and I shall conclude this Four Books and the Five Classica On Parla ted the mind of the people. He paper with a short survey of the for the study of the senior classes On demand has expressed the best thoughts of position of Confucianism in China in a high school. To me this is Credits, 4 months' nearly every age, and incorporat at the present day. As we have an improvemont in the educational sight ed them into his system of ethics. seen, the teaching of Confucius system of China. For the past | On Berlin- Now I shall try to give some ex- Confucius is not only a teacher has its historical background in the twenty years, China has been ex-On demand ...... ing to greatness as a world's pas-planation of and reason for the in- of ethics but also a compiler of old Chinese patriarchal system of periencing a radical transforma- On New York- length that the modern ball has time, the brassie had to be used for fluence of Confucianism in China. the early Chinese classics. He government. At the time of Con- tion in its social, political and in-On demand

the second shot even by a player of As it is not a religion, it cannot was the first organiser of Chinese fucius, China was still an isolated tellectual life. There has been a Credits, 60 days' sight added to the shota in golf.

One of the best-known players in the front rank, at probably nine of be said that it has inspired a faith literature, preserving the purest empire. The family, not the great upheaval in which traditions. On Rombay.

the eighteen holes in the round. In the people, Confucius claimed national traditions and the best in individual, W&S the basis of customs, beliefs and thought have Wire cently discussing this subject in You would see him tip-toeing as he no special divine power in his Chinese literature. One of his society. The standard of their all been shaken to their root. On demand sisted that the average first-class neared his ball to ace if it were teaching, nor did he appeal in his sources of strength is that he has morals was based on the traditions What the result will be is surely drive of to-day is no more than sitting up sufficiently, well-he discourses to the popular mind firmly organised the national life and customs of the past ages. In- of world-wide interest. While reWire twenty yards longer than the equi- could tell from the measure of its during his life time. Yet he has through his literary work. The stead of taking antiquity as the cognising the value of Confucius' On demand

above the grass-to been regarded as the greatest Chinese have one written language childhood of the race as Bacon did ethical teaching which, will ever be valent stroke made in the era of the countenance gutta-percha ball. This is the low suggest the taking of the brassle.. teacher in China, and his teaching for the whole country, and the in Western philosophy, Confucius an inspiration to every moral be- On demand...

On Monlia- That situation has disappeared has exercised an unparalleled influ- Four Books which are compiled exalted it as the perfection itself ing, I cannot attach too much im- est estimate that I have card as to

At most of ence on Chinese life. How is this? for his disciples and the Five which can only be equalled but not portance to his political ideals. On demand ......... the disparity, but it came from a from first-class golf.

Confucius had a wonderful per- Classics, which are compiled by excelled. In the light of subse- China should learn a great deal On Shanghai- man who had himself beer reared the other holes the cleek would be in golf with the help of the "gutty" a necessity for the accond shot. Mr. senality. His virtuous life, his himself are studied by every Chinquent history, we see that this is from the West to meet the needs On demand...

Society is necessarily of the age, but she should never 80 day's sight (private Bail could place the ball as close to moral perfection and his wide ese when he is young, and applied a mistake.

Every age has its turn destructively upon her past paper) the hole with a brassie as the mo-knowledge must have been, as per- by him throughout his whole life. progressive.

On Yokohama champions do with a fect as those of the Superior Man It is thus that what Confucius own needs and its own Ideals, which holds much that la precious. dern mashie-niblick. Braid and Taylor that was held up by him as the taught represents the culture of Thus at the present day, there are With the deepness and fineness of On demand

Ideal for self-culture, He had the Chinese in totality.

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"From the birth of the of which he lives, but also an in- have for championships a lighter now, there has never been another

Intro Confucius."

Manchu Dynasty. Entrance into telligent moral being who mankind till now there has never

SMALL-POX DEATHS. duced for such events, the innova-been another like our master the civil service was obtained by think, feel and will. The ideals of tion might well appeal to the mul- Although Confucius himself was not passing four or five of these ex- both man and society are based on

aminations the papers set for the progressive movements of the Last week's return of notifiable titude.-"Sports Despatch."

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Booka. The

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Tersonally, I should say that the distance of the full drive has been increased by at least 60 yards. It was a very good shot of this kind that travelled 190 yards in the time of the gutta-percha ball. Nowadays, the average of a first-class player's drive under normal conditions la

about 25 yards. Similarly, the mushic was formerly a club to take ut no greater range than 100 yards from the hole. Something like 80 yards was considered the limit of real safety for anybody who could not force the shot without.endan-

ball than the present one.

IN THE RING.

gering the rhythm of the swing. SHARKEY'S SURPRISE VICTORY

People now bang the ball up to the green with a mushie from distances of 160 yards..

These considerations are import- unt in their bearing on the long-

discussed question of limiting the power of the ball-a question which, although quiescent this aer son, is by no means dead. The United States Golf Association have now perfected a machine de-

to

OVER DELANEY.

were

They

known as the

of the Carnegie Institute of Tech-

to show that, in the matter of tech- in which he stands to the people. nology, Pittsburgh, for measuringnique, they can lose many of the He has ever been the resilience of the ball, They feel that, if the degree of resilience youngsters. Johnny Summere, for Greatcat Sage and Our Teacher.

instance, who sparred with Matt can be restricted by a rule under wells, has not, in appearance at which each make of ball must pass the test of this machine, then the problem will be solved without re- course to limitations of site or weight.

days.

boxing as he did against Frenchman. Mancini con-

the notion to

to theatrical-

me

iterary examination system of the traditions and customs in the midat

Each of the old champions did would not have been so popular if man. There are thinking golfers in this much to make the night a memor- country who, in spite of the diapoal-able one. But the really great tion among golfers in general to let

thing was to see Alf Mancini bis everything go on as usual, are as

against the French welter, the determined as ever to see some new Laffincur. The London-Italian was yeyed restriction on the power of a ball the winner on points at the end that he inclines brought into effect. Certainly it is worth while realising just how greatly the game has changed, and worth while considering whether it has changed for the better.

St. Andrews Up-to-Date. In last year's Open Champion- ship at St. Andrews there was only one hole, the fourteenth, at which Bobby Jones had to play a full second shot. Thus he had precise- ly four full second shots in four rounds-a very sparse provision of what was once regarded as the most testing stroke in golf. The same remark could be applied to dozens of the competitors, although they did not accomplish the intermediate atrokes and the putte with the same

akill as the winner.

Ten of the holes were drives and chips, or, as the contemptuous old- timer terms them, "Kicks and spits." Then there were two, the second and fourth, that called for a drive and a moshie; two others. the thirteenth and fifteenth, that demanded a drive and a mid-iron; and another two, the eighth and eleventh, that lived up to their the course.

of twelve rounda. Many thought ism-at least that he gets infinite that he was fortunate to be given joy in showing that he can miss a the verdict; that at the most he had blow by a, hair's breath, and in al-: done no more than earn a draw. If most an effortless manner. honours had been declared easy, the He can duck and dodge with the result would have been more in ac- best of them, but he will be wise cordance with the ideas of those not to take the risks which he ran who looked on.

against Laffincur when he comes to At any rate, there was practically try to take the belt from Hood. The nothing in it. This was the first fight between Hood and Mancini time I had seen Laffineur. Of him should be one of the best we have I formed a favourable impression. had since Johnny Basham was one Rather on the crude side at pre- of the welters.

Was

over Jack

for the latter, when cruisers of the, himself as a xe accomplished fighter

sent, there is no doubt that he has I must say that I was not pre- a considerable relish for fighting, pared for the quick victory which

Sharkey won Also, like all the boys from the Jack Continent, he is as tough as they Delaney, make them. Laflincur I should he say, has not been taught the trade established of fighting in a systematic way. In and most many respects he is wrong, and in almost every particular a there is an awkwardness about him, worthy champion. And there were and the fellow is so persistent, and more than whispers that Sharkey so game, that he makes ample was none too determined of heart. atonement for lack of polish. To That Sharkey knocked Delaney cold me he was a pleasant surprise. I at the beginning of the necessary doubted that France had such a viciousness to put him in the run- welter.

ning for the title.

I see that Tom Heeney was at He must have the ring-side.

Hus He the Punch? Mancini, to those who had spe- cially come to see him in view of chortled to himself that he had won The sole remaining hole, the his pending match with Jack Hood, frat chance to tackle Tunney. 1 fifth, was a drive and

I form can well believe that, if Sharkey spoon. was scarcely convincing. A And this with the ground soft and holding, so that the run on the ball was a small factor in the securing

of distance,

reduce the game virtually to a test

of long first shots and short second shots, supplemented by that "game within a game," that shuttlecock of momentary fandles and inspirations which is known as putting,

od the idea-I may have been had met Delaney a few months ago, wrong-that for the most part he Rickard would have had the Ameri was disinclined to go all out, be- can public with him if he had put lleving that he always had the full Sharkey against Tunney. Lucky for:

Too Confident.

And yet I do not know. When

It is truly a very nice problem as measure of his man, I should not Heeney! to whether classic competitions have been in the least surprised if ought to be decided under condi- Lafneur had knocked Mancini to tfons (born of the ball), which defeat. Not that the Frenchman the New Zealander met Sharkey has a great punch, but he possesses there was only one in it, and that one calculated to do much damage, was Heeney. The fact that Heeney outfought and out-boxed and he is a fighter given to bring.has.

makes his chances' ing blows from all sorts of angles. Sharkey

In the matter of aggression he is against Tunney, anything but hope- From the first less. It is a fact that Heeney, who quite remarkable. It is salutary to remember that, gong he went after Mancini. Not is anything but a hot-air merchant, at one time, the long, and second once did he give him any rest. And believes that he will spring a sur- testing shot was the keynote of I think if only for his aggression, prise on the champion. At all .golfing efficiency. John Ball's the Frenchman deserved to catch events he has proved that he is the brassie shot that beat Mure the judge's eye. However, there is master of Sharkey, about whom the Fergusson at the seventeenth hole no doubt that Mancini is a particu- Americans are now raving. Jack in an amateur championship final larly clever boxer. He has a wori Kearns, when he was over here last at Hoylake; the brassle shots and derful eye, and he can wriggle out summer, told me that if Sharkey *the cleek ahots of Taylor and Braid of a tight corner in 'n way almost was not so "cocky," he would get

these are remembered before any amazing. There is this that I am to the top of the tree.

The trouble with Sharkey, ac- others in connection with the first sure about he can hit harder than class golf of a comparatively short he led us to suppose in his contest cording to Kearns, was that he was Just a trifle too sure of himself. time ago. So far as concerns big with Laffineur. events the brassle and the cleek Perhaps he was not for showing Sharkey has obviously come into have virtually disappeared from the his real hand that Monday night, favour, but he will have to walt at game. They may still be carried but I would warn him that, against least a year before he has an op- for the sake of tradition, but they, Hood, he will not be able to afford portunity to fight for the title. are hardly ever needed.

to concern himself with colouring Sharkey, for the time being, has missed the boat. Sporta Despatch.

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