1929-06-12 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929.

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GOLF

RESULTS IN BRITISH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

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London; Yesterday. At Sandwich to-day there were ideal conditions for the British Amateur Open Championship,

In the test round T. Perkins (Castle Bromwith, the holder, beat G. Man- ford (La Ness) 6 and 5. Perkins. who is favourite for the championship, was one under fours at the sixth bole, and tune four up.

Chris Buckley, the old England and Aston Vila footballer, beat Major Hezlet, former Irish champion, ohe

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Roger Wethered (Worplesdon) bent R. Hambro (Addington) 5 and 3. Although he won easily, Wethered at times was erratic, and was frequently in the rough with his drives.

How ever, he made fine recoveries, and turned four up; and although out of bounds at the thirteenth he finished the

match at the fifteenth hole.

A feature of the play was a retur match between Tolley and Sutton, the hand-hardened and toil-bowed Cheshire; nil worker. The latter put up a gallanti fight against the aristorral of the golf links in the second round. Tolley wan by one hole.

AUCTION BRIDGE

CARD. SENSE AND GOOD BIDDING

LESSONS FROM CONTRACT

Contract is now being regularly the Portland, the St. played at Jamesis, and Crockford's, while several other London clubs are try- ing it. It is also being given a good run at private card parties, where it is being very well re ceived, as the length of time then, occupied by the rubbers is not such a serious consideration as in the case of players who go into their clubs of an afternoon, only for a couple of hours or so, in the hope of playing four or five rubbers, be- fore leaving for dinner.

Up to now, the provinces seem to be satisfied with their old love, Auction, I do not hear much of their having taken to Contract. Still, card-players, like other people, like a change, so you never can tell.

That Contract is a very good game there is no doubt, and in re-

gard to the bidding, at any rate, it affords more

scope For the

Andre Gisbert, the late French Davis eap tennis player, beat Pardee Erdman exercise of the judgment of play- (America) by one hole.

card lense in the first round Dr. Gardiner Hers with a fine

than Royal and Ancient") defeated Auction does. The question arises, Rowland Saunders (America), 5 and 4. though, whether, seeing that Con-

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The Previous Match

The previous meeting of Tolley and Sutton on April 26 was thus described i

in a Homu paper:---

the

A surprise was created in English Close Championship at Gosforth. mar Newrastle, when

J. Tolley, the favourite for the title, was defeated is the semi- inal by William Sutten, the West Cheshire artisan golfer, by 1 up.

How far Tulley was affected more his opponent by the weather conditions is difficult to determine, but the snow fell so heavily that it was not easy to follow the light of the ball. The weather, indeed, was The worst that the tournament had experienced in its short history. When the snow-storm ecased, putting became argely a matter of luck, and players were using their irons to loft The ball into the hole.

Both Tolley and Sutton played moderate golf for the first six holes. but the last named holed a chip-shot the short from of the green at seventh, and became 2 up at the eighth with a well-judged pitch, which finished only a couple of inches from the hole, and gave Salton an- ther "birdie." Tolley, with all hig power, could not reach the green at the long ninth with a couple of hefty wooden dub shots. and the hole was haived. He won the short tenth and drew level at the twelfth, but Sutton registered his fourth "2" of the day at the fourteenth and won

the fifteenth in 5 to 6, Tolley being toc strong with his approach. A half at the sixteenth made Sutton dormy 2. and although he lost the next hole, a half on the home green gave him the game.

AMERICAN GOLF

Over 500 Go For the Amateur Championship

New York. Yesterday Over rhe hundred golfers are en- gaged in the American Amateur Cham) — pionship qualifying rampetitions, in- volving nineteen cities, streteking from

coast to coast.

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Among the striking failures Jesse Sweetser, former British and American champion: Jesse Guildford, former American holder of the title; J. Watts Gunn, runner-up to Bobby Jones in the American championship in 1025; and Chick Evans, former holder of the Open and Amateur Champion ships of the United States.--Reuter's

American Service.

LAWN TENNIS

HUGE STADIUM FOR DAVIS CUP PLAY

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tract requires such 4 amount of strenuous concentration, it is not as a regular thing, a bit too much like hard work to be considered a real relaxation from the ordinary affairs of,life, which would seem to

be the raison d'etre of card games, speaking generally.

While at first I thought that the better player would have a greater pul over the mediocre one at Con- tract than at Auction, I am now- having played a good deal of the former lately-not quite ao upon that question.

Where, it has the dufer ha al- seemed to me,

and what has

Bure

ways gone wrong, contributed so much to his losses at Auction has been his bad initial and later bidding. Contract, with its

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FOOTBALL MEETING

CLUBS AND THE CONDUCT OF ENQUIRIES

NEW CLAUSE.

London, June 5.

At the meeting of the Association a clause was added to Rule 45 giving the right to players and clubs against whom allegations are made to attend the enquiry into the allegations.

Alee. James of Preston has been transferred to the Arsena).

It is rumoured the fee is about £9,000: "Singapore Free Press."

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BUD WALLEY

FINE FLYWEIGHT CONTEST DRAWN

London, June 6. In a thirteen round contest held at The Ring, Blackfriars, Bud Walley of Singapore, niet Jarvis of Millwall, the flyweight. Ernie

A fine contest ended in a draw. "Singapore Free Press."

[Walley has now drawn two and won four and lost four of his matches.]

RACING

LORD ROSEBERY'S STUD SOLD

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London, June 5. Lord Rosebery's stud of 16 has been sold and realized an aggregate of 5389 guineas."Singapore Free Press."

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As reported yesterday, the Junior Tourist Trophy Race was won by Mr. F. Hicks, riding a Velocette. Mobiloil was used by the winner.

mean that when a player

MASS PRODUCTION

AN ENGLISH HISTORIAN ON

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PROFESSOR TOUT'S SURVEY

culties.

can

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fostered with a zeal expense which put to shame the newer university libraries of Eng- land. These libraries naturally contained few manuscripts, but many public authorities and many millionaires were doing their best to fill up the gaps...

Export of Treasures to America

ful, in spite of the extreme diff- culties to which scholars were ex- posed when nearly all their un- published material was in Europe. A Warm tribute was due to the Americans who year after year crossed the Atlantic to work in "History and historians in European libraries, especially the America" was the subject of the Public Record Office and the Bri- interesting address given recently tish Museum, and he praised the at the anniversary meeting of the help given by the American uni- Royal Historical Society by Pro-versities to minimise the diff fessor. T. F. Tout-his valedictory address on retiring from the pre- He went on to speak in terms sidency of the Society. It anm- of high appreciation of the Ameri-

university marised the impressions of the

libraries, with long visit he paid to the United their admirable organisation and States last year, during which he accessibility, and said he knew of lectured at 80 universities, visit- no university library which did research than ed many libraries, and had speech more to facilitate with many scores of historians,

great library at Harvard. newest of Western He spoke warmly of the extra- Even in the ordinary kindness and hospitality

universities the libraries were and at an which he received, and said he was gratified at the testimony of the American press that in spite of a strong English accent he was nearly always intelligible. He spoke of the strong position which the Royal Historical Society has in America, and men- tioned that nearly a fifth of its publications went to its Fellows Discussing the question of the and subscribing and exchanging acquisition by America of English | librarles in the States.

historical papers, be said that. In describing some of the differ- tinual flow of College Educations as a Fashion though we might regret the con- our treasures out ences between British and Ameri-of the country, and while scholars can universities and the bearing would welcome some limitation in of these on the study and output the export of our documents and of history, he said that American Curiosities, it was impossible to universities are usually ruled au- tocratically by presidents respon sible to a small body of lay trustees-like big business, they were monarchical in government, whereas the English universities are aristocratic. He dwelt on the lack of honours schools in Ameri- ca, and the universality of the thesis system, expressing opinion that the results of the latter would be still better if the writers of these approached their subject with a wider knowledge of languages and general history. The absence or the rarity of con- pulsions. In schools and colleges led to a neglect of languages, and one of the weak points of the American historical student was that he was often even less fami- liur with the tongues in which his Source8 were written than his English counterpart.

blame ancient houses struggling with hard times for making what they could of their possessions. He would rather blame them for

indifference to the treasures they possessed, and for taking no pains to preserve them, and sometimes for prohibiting scholars having access to them. There were cases where the

It was becoming the fashion for lege. The every boy and girl to go to col- mass production of

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American scholars had been refused permission to important manuscripts in private possession. In this connection he referred to the registers of some bishoprics.

It was sometimes said that purchasers bought plutocratic these documents to keep them ander lock and key and gloat over them for their personal satisfac- was certainly not tion, but this would

true of the Jolm Huntington has made his contract the

Library in Southern California, hands would he thrown in.

and. Then

where he had worked,

in again, in many cases upon a low

general, our treasures went to contract the declarer, directly his

American libraries where they Dummy was exposed, could, upon

were made easily available to scholars. It was, after all, in the showing his holding, claim his con- tract and all could get on to the educated men and women was not best interests of civilisation that

impossible, but it was not easy manuscripts that had

remained Mass production of real scholars hidden and unstudied for hun- was impossible, as some of the dreds of years should see

the overgrown American universities light of day, and it was a com- were beginning to realise.

paratively lesser matter where very universality of the American they were available. educational appea! bad its Nemesis, but things were begin- ning to right themselves, and more and more certain univer- sities were beginning to stand out as eminent in the teaching of special subjects, and where, for in- stance, the would-be historian could best be equipped for the

next deal. Something of this sort, I am sure, would mean a great sav ing of time.

Another

very practical idea, which Mr. B., F. Foster, the well- known American writer, gave me a little while ago, was that when time was pressing, and especially at Contract, it could be agreed that four hands only should be played, so allowing for each player to have one deal. Any rubber made dur- ing these four deals would be scored in the ordinary way.

I have tried out this idea towards the end of a

sitting several times, and found,

that it worked admirably.

What I consider another weak- ness of Contract is that there is too

much of the "to him that hath shall be given" spirit about it. It is not only the enormous bonuses, in the way of alams, that accrue to good cards, but the scores for Aces, and Suit Honours are higher than at Again, a side that wins Auction. a two-game rubber, owing to pre. ponderant cards, gets a bonus of 700 for doing so; while if they take three games to win the rubber, their cards not being quite so prepouder- and has ant, they only get 500, "bring him earth" in this respect, with beneficial consequences to his card account. I am not at all sure, too, that Contract has not also taught a lot of our experts something fur- ther about bidding. ---

very heavy punishment for the reek- less bidder, has, I think, steadied him û good deal, tended

to

to

down

race.

The

nical training of the historian in

He thought that the tech the great American universities set an example which England would do well to emulate.

In America, university educa- tion was the concern not of the Federal Government but of the individual State, and therefore varied very considerably in differ- ent parts of the country. State Government did not serious- ly interfere with academic free-

The

dom or studies, though be thought that some Western universities were careful not to plough too many citizens at once.

The prohibition of the export el practical politics, but we could at manuscripts Was probably not

least see that manuscripts which did leave the we kept track of

Admirable beginnings had been made in this direction. by the Institute of Historical Re

country.

search in London. The task accomplished unless it were made would not be fully and perfectly

legally necessary sale of such manuscripts, whether within or without the country.

to record the

TALE OF A TAIL

SMART FINE FOR IMPROVING DIVINE HANDIWORK

former owner, were produced in the A monkey's tail, together with its Singapore police court when a young

Chinese motor mechanic was produced on a cruelty charge.

He

Inspector J. P. Seth, of the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals Department, Should the Portland Club deside Impartial American History

gave evidence that he was in Joo Chiat Сол

He praised the impartiality of road recently when he heard that some- ! either to remodel American tract as now played over here, or to the modern American historian, one had cut off a monkey's tail. construct a more or less fresh game and said that the Mayor of Chi-made inquiries and found the monkey, with the severed appendage, together combining the best features of, cago was nowhere taken serious and s Chinese confessed to having

performed the operation. Auction and Contract, they will ly, even

In his own city. The have no difficulty in finding ample modern historians of the colonial

Paris, June 1. One hundred workmen are busy

The accused told the Magistrate transforming the wooden structure

(Mr. J. Innes Miller) that he cut off material with which to do so. period were admirably impartial, the tail because it was too long. known as the Roland Garros tennis

Time-Saving Ideas

My advice to readers is to try and more "American bias" was to stadium into

His Worship, in imposing a fine of 3 cement amphi- One of the principal ubjections Contract while not giving up their, be found in an old-fashioned Eng- $50 or six months' rigorous imprison theatre seating 15,000. It is here to Contract as

a club game is the Auction, as I feel sure that playing lish Waig historian such as Sirment, told the accused that it was ant that the 1929 Davis Cup will be average length of time into which the former will improve their skill George Trevelyan than in the for him to say that the tail was too won and lost in a setting worthy of rubbers frequently run.

long. There at the latter. The Contract should work of the historians in Ameri-

The monkey was about ten inches comparison with Wimbledon and seems to be a good deal to be said be played when time is not pressing ca who wrote os the American high, and its tail about fifteen inches Forest Hills.

in favour of a recommendation that and their brains are fresh, and Revolution The hive of his- long. "Making the Davis Cup solid for nothing shall be scored for "over- Auction when time is a more ser- toriang was humming everywhere, France" is the way Pierre Gillou, tricks," the declarer not having con- ious consideration and they feel and the honey they produced was,

new swimming bath at captain of the French cup team, tracted for the extra tricks This they want something lighter in the as a rule, sound, pure, and good. the Royal Commercial Travellers' describes the work of the masons strikes mne as being quite way of mental change."Slam" in The study of mediaeval history School, Pinner, was opened by Mrs. and hod carriers,"

in the Contract spirit. It, London Daily Telegraph."

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