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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1929.

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GOLF PUTTING

to know in America is, 'What kind of putter is he?"

HOW T. D. ARMOUR MASTERED

No doubt in the United States they also want to know something AMERICAN SYSTEM

about his power in the long game, “ANNUAL INQUESTS”

because it has an irresistible appeal to the primeval instincts; but it ia When all is said and done in the the truth that they note a golfer annual inquests concerning the re- primarily by the science (not the sults of the British Open Golf happy-go-lucky fluking) which he Championship,

in- shows in the playing of the short the opinion vartably asserts itself that the game. Americans beat us so regularly in this long-drawn-out test of 72 holes by score play because they are the better putters.

with the

THE CHINA MAIL,

KOWLOON TONG.

REPLIES TO MR. BRAGA'S QUERIES

NO COMMISSION

At the afternoon meeting of the Legislative Council the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga asked a series of ques tions relating to the promotion and financing of the Kowloon Tong and Now Territoriès Development Co. Ltd., as follow:

1. What are the respective dates and amounts of the premium paid for Crown land leased to the Kow- loon Tong and New Territories Development Co., Limited,, under Clause 5' sub-sections (a), (b) and (c) of the Argeement dated October 26, 1922, between the Government and the Company?

Answer-1. Only the 1st pay- ment of one-fourth of the Pre- mium, viz... $106,149.78 under clause 5, sub-section A

(a) of the agreement has been made. This payment was made on January 16, 1925...

To T. D.. Armour, who won the United States Open Championship | two years ago, the question was put:-"Why do the Americans beat I feel sure that the belief is justi- us at putting ?" He seemed to be! fied. There is very little wrong a particularly good man to consult

in Way

which the on the point. In his days as an leading British golfers hit their Edinburgh amateur he was drives and iron shots. Indeed, I notoriously bad putter. He could cannot see that in these departments drive as well as anybody; he had they are one whit inferior to the no superior, and very few equals, Americans. Very seldom, however, as an iron player; but he possessed does one hear of a British player positively no conception of a reliable who secures an average of less than method of putting. two putts per green, whereas the When he settled in America, he more successful United States golf- developed such consistency of suc- ers beat that average by two or cess at the short game that he won three strokes in nearly every round. a series of tournaments which con- It is a very curious fact that, stituted a record without parallel white we have so

in one season there, and which cul. many schools of thought in connection with golf minated in his victory in the chara-

Clearly there science that the person who takes plonship. them all seriously is likely to end in distraction, we have no clearcut ideas concerning the mechanics of putting.

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Under clause (b) of Clause 5 it is provided that one-fourth of the total amount due on the Kowloon Tong property shall be paid on the date of the notification in writing. from the Director of Public Works to the Company..

Notification was duly made by the Director of Public Works to the Company in a letter dated April 11, 1928, to the effect that the entire area of the Kowloon

Agreement with the Company, and before any actual work is com- menced, what is the explanation for the large sum stated in Question 2 being still unpaid to Government in respect of land premium ?

Answer 3. This explanation can only be given by the Com- pany.

4. Has the Government knowledge of a circular letter, dated July 2, 1929, issued over the signature of the Managing Director in which the sum of $2,990,258.49 is stated as the sum "which represents the total amount payable by the entire body of subscribers under their respec- tive agreements in respect of all the houses embraced within the Scheme," ie., the Kowloon Tong Estate Scheme?

Answer 4 On Jane 18 last the Government was informed by the Kowloon Tong and New Ter ritories Development Company, Ltd.. that it proposed to issue a clrcular of which a copy was en- closed.

In this draft circular the sum mentioned is $3,210.219.45 and this circular may possibly correspond. to the circular mentioned by the Honourable Member.

This communication by the Com- Jany was taken by the Government for notification and merely knowledged.

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5. Is it a fact that the signatory of the letter referred to in question besides being the Managing Director of the Kowloon Tong and New Territories Development Co., Ltd., is also the paid architect of the said Company and a director of the Hong Kong Excavation Pile Driving and Construction Co., Ltd., with which the contract for the carrying out of the scheme has been entered into by the Kowloon Tong Company? Answer 5. The Government has no official information on this subject.

representing 18.62 per cent., 21.27: per cent., 4.27 per cent., 2.55 per cent., respectively, of the total cost. of $2,990,255 up to date?

Answer-10. The

Government is not concerned in this matter and has no information.

11. If the reply to Question 10 be in the affirmative, what reason is there for a sum of over three hun- dred thousand dollars for land pre- mium, remaining unpaid to the Government, when the Government had already been informed that $556,925 had been collected from the subscribers?

answer

to

Answer-11. The this question is not within the knowledge of the Government.

12. What steps is the Government taking to recover the debt from the Company?

Answer 12. The Agreement with Government provides that any balance of premium must be paid before Crown Leases are ja- sued. A Crown Lease of each lot will not be issued until the pre- mium in respect of it has been paid,

13. Is the Government aware of the fact that, in respect of land for which the Company contracted

pay the Government about $400,000, the Company is already and had been for several years in

receipt from the subscribers of over $500,000?

14. Is the Government aware that in the Circular letter referred to in Question 4 the Kowloon Tong Com-1 pany has given notice to all sub- scribers calling for the payment of

a further Call to the extent

of

per cent. of the amount covenant- ed to be paid by each and every subscriber in respect of each and every House on the Estate" which will make a total of 109 per cent. of what the subscribers covenanted to pay?

One Wrist Against the Other Tong property had been formed to "It was simply that I very soon the approved levels in accord- found that the Americans had dis-ance with Clause 4 of the Agree

It is the Cinderella

covered the plain mechanics of put- ment and the Company was called ting," he said. zame

in Britain. It

"They work one upon to pay into the Colonial ik an wrist unavoidable nuisance:

against the other. They Treasury a pettifog-

2 sum of $106,149.78 ging bother that has to be tolerated do not try to work the two wrists being one-quarter of the premium

in unison, which is the British way, due on the property. because it exists as a means of rounding off the play at each hole, and which usually results in the Nevertheless, it is the only detail in

club-head being taken off the which the Americans excel us de- straight line in either the back finitely, and they do it because, like swing or the forward swing or the Prince in the fairy tale, they see with the left wrist and forward with tion to pay the premium demand. Colony early in 1928 and the ap- subject.

They press it back straight

this Cinderella as an enchantress instead of as a serving maid.

both.

the right wrist. It makes putting Gene Sarazen's Distinction simple."

The Treasurer repeated this de- mand for payment on May 10 and received a reply from the Com- pany to the effect "that this Com- pany is not at present in a posi- ed."

The Treasurer sent reminders but payment has not yet been made,

2. Is it a fact that there is still owing by the

Company to the Government a sum of $318,450.14 as the balance of land premium ?

If you stay at the same hotel as I am certain that this is the sys- the Americans, you cannot help be-tem of Walter Hagen, and Hagen is ing struck by the contrasting na-unquestionably the greatest putter tional attitudes towards putting dur- that has lived since the days of the ing after-dinner discussions. Gene

late Walter Travis. Wonderful Sarazen expressed the difference in though he is in inding the most two sentences on the occasion of a profitable way out of the bunkers Answer--2. When the whole and other seats of retribution, it is scheme has been completed Gov- only his putting that keeps him go-ernment will under sub-clauses With (b) and (c) of Clause 5 of the ing and enables him to win. out it he would not have secured one Agreement bo entitled to receive. British Championship, let alone in all a sum of $315,827.22. four.

recent visit.

"When a new player comes to the front" he said, "the first thing you ask in Britain is. 'How far can be The first thing we want

drive ?'

I admit that Hagen has an im- agination anique, a supreme brain calm that enables him to hole the putt that is most wanted, It is usually the putt of about three or four yards. And if you have watched him closely as I have! done on many occasions--you know when he is going to hole it The need is urgent. He has that putt for a half in a match, or for a 5 when it might mean an ugly & in a scoring competition.

3. In view of the fact that about one-sixta of the estimated total cost of land and building is paid by each out of the 242 subscribers to the Scheme upon his signing the

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6. Between the period when the last Managing Director left the

pointment of the present incumbent to the office on May 22, 1929, is it not true that no Managing Director existed, and this being the case to the fulfilment of the agreement of whom did the Government look for 1922 during that period?

of the

Answer-13 & 14. The Govern-

ment has no information on this

since

15. Has the demand for payment been made with the knowledge and consent of the Government! Did not the Company write in to sending a List of Subscribers who the Government subsequent to 1924

have fully paid up all moneys in re- Answer 6. The Government spect of their property under the has no information as to changes scheme and calling upon the Govern- The Government looks to the Com- of management of this Company.ment to issue Crown Leases for затве in terms of Clause 7, sub- pany for the fulfilment

section (a) of the Agreement ? Agreement.

Answer-15. From time to time 7. Was the Government cognisant

1924 the Company has of the fact that for the carrying furnished to the Government cer- out of a scheme involving in the tificates under Clause 7 of the and a (irrespective of the Governmenttain persons were the respective sum of nearly $3,000,000 Agreement to the effect that cer share) there was registered a Com-purchasers of the lots and build- pany with a capital limited to a liability of only $20,000 of which and were the proper persons to ings mentioned in the certificate not more than $2,000 was actually hom a Crown Lease should be paid up?

granted in respect of each lot and Answer-7. Government

that they had one and all paid to cognisant of the formation of this the Company under their contracts Company but has no information with the as to the amount of its paid-up which were payable thereunder.

Company all money's capital.

15. In a letter to the subscriber of House No. 111 of the Kowloon Tong Estate dated January 26, 1926, the General Manager stated:

w-a s

The fart that the Malayan tennis

8. Was it considered prudent to championships are open to all comers vest in a Company the right and permits of another interesting addition power of absolute control of a to the competitors this year. It will be scheme involving a few million recalled that last year Mr. Ford, the dollars in its execution when its but met with no success. West Australian champion, entered only visible capital was a sum of Mr. M. W. Lo, the Hong Kong cham-$2,000 with shares paid up to the

extent only of 10 cents each? pion, is to try his hand, and he ar rived in Singapore by the "Hakone Maru" on July 18.

This year

Hagen's fingers twitch nervously on the club handle. He lifts them and closes them on the grip. This is the sign that he is going to hole the putt.

His concentration is com- plete. And in the ball goes.

Hagen's Fool-Proof System It is perhaps a silly little thing to notice, but there is none of this switching of the fingers when he is In addition, his sister, Miss E. Lo, aot going to hole the putt. But is to compete, and will be the first

a temperamental trait does not sum up the art of putting. Hagen suc- ceeds primarily because his chanics are correct. His system

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Cinese girl to take part in the Malayan championships.

Khoo Hoo Hye, when last in Hong Kong, beat Lo 6-1, 6-2. has been described by George Dun at Kuala Lumpur, starting on August The championships are to be played сап as being very nearly "fool- E-Straits Times." proof" which is truly an illa-!

minating phrase.

BOXER IN CRASH

JOHNNY CURLEY IN HOSPITAL

WITH FRACTURED LEG

For a pult up to three or four yards Hagen rests his left wrist on the left thigh, takes the club back with the left hand, and hits with the right. The left wrist remains in position until the impact, and then goes forward to ac- Johnny Curley, the boxer, way commodate itself to the right, but lying at Charing Cross Hospital, only as a resistance to the right. London, in meil week suffering This, at least, seems to be Hagen's from a fractured leg sustained at way, and it symbolises the Ameri- Waterloo Bridge when a car in can system of putting. It is al which he was travelling collided tities since. Tommy is running a free ways one wrist working against with a street refuge.

Tommy Armour won the Open at Oakment, Calcago, IL, in 1927, and has been knocking off some smaller

lance career as a pro, but the effort it the other-Harry Vardon..

took to make the grade is another story.

Tommy was pretty badly banged up in the "big push" and his 70's turned into

The bookmakers' ayndicate spent

90's, with a stiffened arm and a blinded £50,000 in purchasing shares in eye. But he went hard at making his game over. Enough comment to say be tickets in the Stock Exchange is back in the top Bight again.

Sweep.

In the car were Bernard Dillon, the ex-jockey, and two other men who were taken to the hospital.

Dillon was found to be suffering from severe shock, but was not de- tained. The other two passengers were treated for slight cuts.

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Answer 8. In financing this scheme the amount of paid-up. capital was relatively unimport- ant. The important point was for the Company to obtain the con- fidence and support of a requisite number of subscribers and there-

tion of a large tract of land for by justify the very costly prepara-

building.

once.

I can now produce the doou- mentary evidence to the Crown Land Agent (sie) and ask that your Crown Lease be made at The fees therein will be $30. If you desire the Company to secure this Lease for you, I will make sworn affidavit under the Agreement, and do so for you."

Will His Excellency the Governor kindly direct that the text of the "documentary evidence" referred

to above be laid on the table of this Council?

17. Will the Government appoint a Commission of Enquiry to in- vestigate into and report on the Kowloon Tong Scheme?

9. Was any and what Government supervision exercised over the Com-

Anawer-16. This is not a mat- pany in the carrying out of theter within the cognisance of this Company's obligations towards the

Government. Government in terms of the Agree- ment with the Government?

Answer-9. It is not clear to what obligations of the Company towards Government the Hon. Member refers. A reply will be given when this question is put in more definite form.

10. Is it not a fact that up to December 31, 1924, the following aggregate payments had been made by individual purchasers→→

(a) In respect of Land..$656,925

Answer-17. The Government considers that the disputes between the barties interested in the Kow- loon Tong Estate are not fit mat- ters for a Public Commission of Enquiry.

(b) Buildings-1st Call... 636,000 OLD TAYLOR

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2nd Call.. 127,800

3rd Call... 76,400.

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