WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1929.
Sport Columns
GÓLF IN CANTON
RESULT OF PRESIDENTS. CUP FOR MAY
[From Our Canton Correspondent.]
Canton, Tuesday.
ed by handling new clubs, as any long handicap man. An angler let loose in a fishing tackle shop has the same bovish delight.
THE CHINA MAIL,
American club members count as part of their programme continu- ous bouts of practice either with a professional or alone. That sort of thing is apt to pall, but it is fer- vently adhered to in an anxiety to master the game.
RACING
SHANGHAI SPRING MEETING CONTINUED
SECOND DAY `.
Yesterday, the Shanghai Derby Day on the second day of the Spring meeting, was won by Messrs. Law and Hickling's Glen Dochart.
The full results of yesterday's racing. kindly supplied by the
In the President's Cup for "bunch of American profession-greens made approaching easier Hong Kong Club, follow:
Muy, which was played for an Sunday, over 18 holes medal play Mr. E. B. Anthony (14) returned the best card with a score of 69 net, thus qualifying.
In the Socony Cup, 36 holes match play against bogey, in which L. H. Ruffin (15) tied for first place with B. R. Anthony (14), both being 3 down, Ruffin beat Anthony in the replay, being 2 up at the 15th hole Anthony was 7 down, and is thus
Easier Scoring Scoring од the whole, he thought, was casier than in Scot land. Yard for yard the courses When I remarked to Cruick were just as long, but clearer at shank on his enjoyment, he re-mospheric conditions and a ten- plied that to see a real display of dency towards run were an aid to such enthusiasm. was to watch a
long bitting, and good holding als" having an off-day in a club- These observations, he remarked, maker's shop. They would stay applied only to the inland park there from ten till four, "having courses. The best of the seaside a whale of a time."
courses, such as the National Links, Long Island, were bit as, difficult as the champion- ship courses in this country. In that connection Tommy Armour's recent performance at the Nation- al Links, where he won a tourna. ment with a total of 302 for four rounds, was regarded good scoring.
Gee, he continued, they buy so: many clubs that if there were a job going as clubmaker to 300 professionals, a fortune could be made in a year. As Cruickshank tried club after club, one noted with some surprise the smallness of his hands. Large hands are a great asset. Vardon has them. Indeed, speaking from memory, mest of the first-class players are LOVE OF THE LINKS similarly equipped, while Tommy
the winner of the cup.
while
BOBBY CRUICKSHANK AT
GULLANE
Armour, according to Bobby, has "the best pair of hands in the world." Cruickshank, too, has short arms, but he implements I'm just crazy about this game. the power that lies in a broad pair said Bobby Cruickshank, the well-of shoulders, by using a slightly known Scottish-American golfer longer shaft than the player of as he surveyed the rolling links of average build. That adds, of Gullane sparkling in a warm glow course, to the difficulty of control, of unusual spring sunshine. That but the brilliance of his record is wind-swept hill overlooking the the best evidence of the sustained waters of the Firth is infinitely accuracy with which he harnesses dear to every golfer who has trod his powers. its springy turf and wrestled with
Young Home-Breds.. its pleasant problems; how much
In the course of our journey more so to the returned exile? back to town, Bobby spoke of The wonder courses of Miami, the American conditions and experi- palatial playgrounds of New ences. Since I went out a few York's millionaires, and the gar- years ago, he said, there has been den courses of sunny California a great change. Young home- were forgotten as Cruickshank bred golfers are now competing surveyed the links of his not far eagerly for professional jobs with distant youth and again felt the the result that there are fewer glamour which is the peculiar openings for young men from the heritage of East Lothian greens, old country. That competition is Perhaps the occasion and ob- bound to be intensified. Golf ject of this pilgrimage demands course construction is still pro- explanation. As all Edinburgh ceeding, but still there is a de.. golfers ure. now aware, Bobby mand for more and a very in Cruickshank returned to Edio-sistent demand for public courses burgh on a two and a half months' that will provide opportunities for holiday, linked, of course, with enjoyment of the game at e-com- Championship intentions." But
paratively cheap rate. he arrived with only two clubs, a niblick and a putter--the former an old and tried friend of 15 years' servitude, and the latter the fa- yourite of the moment. Obvious ly such a scanty armoury called for instant replenishing, and it was the privilege of the writer to accompany Cruickshank on a visit to Jack White at Gullane with that object in view.
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Questioned as to his Muirfield prospects, Cruickshank was ex- reisely modest. Some of his re- cent performances have encour- aged him in the belief that he has regained his best form which eluded him for a time after an operation last year.
Pari-Mutuel Cup-1 mile.
Mr. Wolfe's Zizi 158 lbs.....
(Mr. Haimovitch) Mr. Dixie's Smouldering Fire 152 lbs.... (Mr. Herzberg)
Victorious Venture. H.M.S.'s
158 lbs. (Mr. Bairnsfather)
Time: 2 min. 18 secs.
Chu-Ka-Za Cap.--% mile. Messrs. McBain's and Sokoloff's
Veteroff 152 lbs.
(Mr. Collaco) Powhattan Club's Sahara · 155
Tbs.
(Mr. Bowling) Mr. Eve's Election Eve 155 lbs. (Mr. Haimovitch) Time: 1 min. 32.2/5 secs. Grand Stand Stakes-11⁄4 miles. Mr. Eve's Settling Eve 158 lbs.
(Mr. Haimovitch)
Mr. Allen's Three Cheers 155
lbs.
.(Mr. McCann) Messrs. Mollers
Ltd.'s Army. Light 152 lbs. (Mr. Bowling) Time: 2 min: 55.4/5 secs,
DON'T WASTE WATER!
All the boys over there, he said, work, work, work at the game and they take no chances as far as physical fitness is concern- ed. Bobby is in complete accord with them in that view. Part of his preparation has been to sup- plant steel shafts with hickory. during recent months in order to be completely at home with wood before the championship begins, as the change-over means a good deal. In the matter of physical fighting fit, and as far as practice Mr. Day's Dare Devil 152 ha, condition, he is already almost Peking Cup-f mile. is concerned, probably his chief difficulty will be to travel moder- ately. His enthusiasm is irre pressible; it is a joy and an in- spiration, Niblick in "Evening Dispatch".
SPORTS CLUB
OPENING CEREMONY IN BILLIARD ROOM
The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, C.M.G., has kindly consented to officiate at the opening ceremony of the Billard Room at the Sports Club (table kindly pre- sented by Mr. Ho Kom-tong, O.B.E., to commemorate the win- ning of the Hong Kong Derby, 1929, with "President Hall")_on Thursday, May 16, 1929, at 5.30
p.m.
How much attention is paid to couses is indicated by the im- portance attached to what is vir tually the office of head green keeper. He is more than that deisgner, landscape artist, and various other things-and com- mands a salary of about £1,000 per year. Frivate courses are on a more lavish scale than in this country, and for the best of For Cruickshank the road held them entry fees are as high as many memories. The ancient round about £2,500. For many glory that was once Mussel-good courses entry fees average burgh's still shines, if very faint about £75, and the American busi- ly from behind a barrier of race- nesa man considers that course posts, but to Cruickshank money well spent. He is a great it was chiefly memorable for a enthusiast, and extraordinarily EGYPT BEAT FINLAND IN battle-royal he had with his bro- keen to have something on his ther, who fell in the war, in the match to quicken the interest. final of a school championship. His brother was four up at the end of the first round, and al- though he almost lost his lead in the second nine holes, he saved the match with a great left-hand shot to clear his ball from a post, and relegated Bobby to the posi tion of runner-up.
- Keener Than Ever Longuiddry was a new interest for him, and one that readily com- manded his appreciation, but it was the sweep of Guilane links that set his pulse racing and his heart afire.
Till now, he exclaimed with something of a schoolboy's rap- Lure, I've been more or less indif- ferent, but this, with a sweep of his hand, makes me want to step down and begin right now. I'm crazy about this game, he con- ti ed.. and I believe I enjoy it
even more than when I was an amateur.
The ardours of tournament playing, the joys of conquest, and, perhaps not less the disappoint. ments that come to every player, have fanned the flame of his enthusiasm to fever heat,
That enthusiasm found an out- let for the moment in rummaging through the professional's stock. It was refreshing to find that one
of the world's best players has the same capacity for being thrill.
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it is
There is one great difference between the club members of the two countries; continued Cruick shank. At home here one plays a match or a round, or perhaps two, and it is left at that.
The
LAWN TENNIS
THE DAVIS CUP
Helingsfors, Yesterday.
In the first round of the Davis
Cup Egypt beat Finland by four matches to one and now meet Holland in the second round. Reuter.
Wins America's Richest Purse.—“Golden Prince," with a blanket
of roses, after winning the classic Coffroth Handicap and the $108,900
prize America's richest turf purse. The horse tied the track record
of 2.02 1/5 for 1 miles. J. Parmelee is up.
Messrs.
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"Forty years ago any man in the City was looked down upon. and to-day any man who is a lawyer, a dentist or a doctor still has considerable difficulty in get- ting into many West End clubs." Lord Castlerosse in the "Sun- day Express."
Although it nowadays than
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is much easier in our grand- fathers' time to become a member of a West End club, there is still a small, exclusive group
among masculine strongholds 01 Piccadilly and St. James's, which pick and choose their members.
This is how a man with a wide knowledge and experience of London's clubland explained it in mail week:-
"There are about six or seven clubs in existence to-day where members of the professions Lord Castlerosse mentions
be welcomed.
would not
"There are, of course, excep tions, and solicitors and medical to be found among the men are 1 members of most of the best clubs. But as a general rule
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(Mr. Dallas) Bailey and Heard's Castle Diamond 158 lbs....
(Mr. Springfield) 2 Mr. W. H. S. Davis's Engage-
ment Eve 158 lbs.
(Mr. Davis) 3 Time: 2 min. 15.4/5 secs. Shanghai Derby-11⁄2 miles. Messrs. Law and Hickling's Glen Dochart 158 lbs.....
(Mr. Needa) 1 Messrs. Law and Hickling's
Finnan 158 lbs.
(Mr. Springfield) 2 Mrs. Speelman's Le Corsaire
155 lbs.......(Mr. Harris) 3 Time: mins.. 28 secs. Shanghai Stakes-11⁄2 miles. Mr. Jonathon's March Tree 145, lbs. (Mr. Wells Henderson) Mr. Juda's Meadow Green 165
Tha..
(Mr. Juda)
Mr. Beaufort's Tabby Cat 145 lbs. ... ...(Mr. Bowling) Time: 8 min. 31.2/5 secs. Shanghai Club Handicap-11⁄4
miles.
they are not popular as clubmen. Family Skeletons "A group of clubmen were dig- cuasing this very point some time ago. And the reason: they give is interesting.
“One possible pbjection to solicitors and doctors. it wag pointed out, was that it might be distasteful for members of a club to have as colleagues men with an intimate knowledge of their family secreta.
"It was not suggested that the solicitors or doctors would discuss fallow members' affairs in the club, but still it was felt that it would be more harmoninns for a club if they did not join,
"Barristers seem to be regarded
in a different light from solicitors, and I have never heard of objections being laken to a barrister on account of his pro- fession.
"As for dentists, I do not think they would be admitted to at least half a dozen clubs.
Blackballing Rare To-day "Blackballing generally is much less common nowadays than be- fore the war.
"One reason that many clubs are so anxious to increase their membership to meet the increased running costs that there
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"Another reason is that the method of election has been al- tered in recent years at many places.
Mr. Day's Umpqualand 158 lbs. (Mr. Dallas) Mrs. Little's Alverbank 152 lbs. (Mr. Maitland)
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Mr. Cemos's Crossfire. 155 lbs. (Mr. Hill) Time: 2 min. 67.2/5 secs.
"Formerly the members used to of have control of the election new candidates, and two black- balls were sufficient to bar a man. "Now in many clubs the elet- tion is in the hands of the com- 3mittes. And as there are generally
fewer faddists and cranks club committee men are readily turned down."
Shanghai R.C. Handicap-14
miles.
Mr. Inverkerthing's Bing 152 lbs. ......Mr. Maitland)
Mr. Veitch's Bantam 149 lbs. (Mr. Needa)
on a
not so
Forty-six miners are known to
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Mr. Knight's Cherry Brook 15%
lbs.
of the mine explosion at Parnassus Pennsylvania, U.S.
(Mr. McCann
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Time: 3 min. 01.4/5 seca, Siccawei Cup-14 miles.... Mr. Eve's Busy Rée 158 lbs. . (Mr. Brand)
Mr. Day's New Zealand. 158
ibs...
..(Mr. Dallas) Messrs. White and Maitland's
Buster II.
Time: -2 min. 48.2/5 secs, Scurry Stakes-7 furlongs. Messrs. Law and Hickling's
Glen Gyle 152 lbs.
(Mr. 'Needa) We Two's Snuff Box 155 lbs.
(Mr. Maitland).
Mr. Pash's Blue Blazes 152 lbs. (Mr. Bowling) Tientsin Plate-1 'mile.
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Mr. Kingjoy's Apple Leaf 158
lbs.
(Mr. Brand)
Mr. Dixie's Copper 153 Ihs. .. (Mr. Harris)
Mr. H. le Moulec's Spark: Hill 152 lbs. ...(Mr. Herzberg) Time: 2 min. 16.3/5 seca. Hankow Handicap-14 miles. Mr. Toeg's Spearmint 158 lbs.
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Out of 25,000 persons in Halego- wen (Worcs.) licensing area, four were convicted for drunkenness 1 last year.
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Mrs. Wilson, of Cheltenham, was 100 recently, bringing the number
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four.
About 11,000 boxes of flowers, the largest export for the season, 1 left. Guernsey for the English
markets on a recent morning.
Mr. Shenderikoff's Zohlen 161
Ibe.
.(Mr. Jack) 2 Mr. G. H. Wright's Jill 158 lbs.
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Time: 2 min. 45.2/5 secs. Wachang Cup-3⁄4 mile.
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