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THE BIGGEST GOLF medal rounds a year, whereas It is
STORIES OF 1929
WOMEN IN OUTSTANDING INCIDENTS
the exception for ours to play sa many as 30. Their amateurs as well as their professionals obtain this sustained preparation at a form of the pastime which unques- tionably calls for the cultivation of certain special qualities.
FASTER THAN MEN
But it is not the only reason for the success which they achieve as Women provided the year's big-score-players. Probably as potent a gest golf stories, a glance at records factor is the manner in which they of the major tournaments of the conduct their practice rounds for a This point was once 1929 season reveals. Furthermore, tournament. analysis of those records indicates discussed with several of their best that women are progressing at a players and they agreed that what much faster pace than men, much they call "the syndicate" (their rivalry in prac- the same as they have done in many favourite medium other sports.
tice games) does more than any thing else to goad them into the art of low ecoring.
The Super-Standard.
In a "syndicate" four players (or there may be more) go out together, and the governing principle is that par figures are not good enough to
A dozen years ago a card of 86 by Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd in the National Championship won her medal honours by several strokes to aparc. She was the only player to crack 90 in the qualifying round. The recent National tournament at Oakland Hills saw 32 women qualify be worth considering.
Everybody is expected to In the championship fight, with
A stroke scores ranging from 79 made by capable of equalling par.
known in the modern Helen Hicks and Virginia Van Wie, under par, to 88. Mrs. O. S. Hill shot a bril-jargon of golf as "a birdle," is the llant 77 which included six birdies objective at every hole. The stakes, on the last nine, to gain medallat it is understood, are usually half a honours in the Women's Western at dollar (about 2.) per player at Mayfield in August,
she
each hole,
be
Helen Hicks's Feat
We will suppose that, at the first One of the season's most heroic hole, three of the participants do stunts way, the manner in which par fours, while the other takes a Helen Hicks stroked a 33 coming in five. No money changes hands on at Hamilton, to defeat Glenna Col- that; the creator of a miserable no worse a sinner lett on the twentieth green in ho five is deemed championship. Glenna did a nótablo than the other people who have fall- The stakes finals of the Canadian women's ed to "shoot a birdie." bit of golfing when shot 34 are carried on to the next hole, and go on for several holes. St. this may at against Joyce Wethered
Say, for instance, it proceeds for five Andrews.
dollar per player, But what have the men been doing holes at half this golf reason? The professionals there are now ten dollars in the pool, were off their game, it would seem. and every man is straining every There was the trouncing they nerve to beat the par figure so that received from the British in tho he may take the lot.
Or, naturally, if two do it, they Ryder Cup matches. Walter Hagen provided the only solace for them share the accumulated stakes. The when he captured the British Open. consequence is, they say, that they
Champions Foezle
are incited all the while to gain a Horton Smith, Johnny Farrell, stroke by laying an iron shot close Tommy
Armour and Leo Diegel to the pin, er holing a long putt, failed to excite enthusiasm. Smith and that this high-tension training came back to earth after his sansa- inevitably makes them low scorers. tional play during the winter season, The customary British system of while Farrell, the 1928 champion, practising is either the single, In was wrong all year. Diegel and which any figure may win a hole, or Armour leafed in their own sections the fourball match, in which par and were not seen to display any is usually the standard that amply
satisfies each player. ontatanding performances.
British
Even Bobby Jones. lost the
An Only Goblin amateur championship, and when he Hagen's record in the docs that something is wrong. When open championship is undoubtedly Robby lost to Johnny Goodman in the most astonishing achievement' In an early match of the amateur latter-day golf. A little arithmetic tournament at Pebble Beach, the shows that, for the 24 rounds which bottom seemed to drop right out of he has played during his last six the whole affair. Jimmy Johnston appearances in the event, he has an won it, but what concerned the golf average score of 74 strokes a round. public more was the fact that Bobby That, in all kinds of weather, is Jones lost it. True, Jones took the wonderful. National Open in the play-off with Al Espinosa, but the latter suffered a tragic collapse and the play-off
was a "bust."
HUMAN MACHINES
Training for Score Play
Jones might beat it, for, in gain- ing his two victories in the only two attempts that he has made since he a high-spirited boy, he has secured an average of 72 strokes a
Was
are at
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LOCAL FOOTBALL
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to my mind, did the right thing by stopping play as he did and had McGregor been able to stop himself In time these arguments would have been without foundation.
Apparently many of these cri- tics have lost sight of the fact that the whistle sounded before the ball entered the net, so it was dead before it passed over the line, sa how could a goal be registered after play had been stopped? Rodgers repeated his action, not so much the second time, when the kick was re- taken and had McGregor failed to find the bet the spot kick would have had to be taken again,
Athletic v. Somersets The Athletic versus the Somerseta tle is still undecided for in spite of extra time being played they were still sharing two goals at the final two or whistle. The "Seta" lost three good scoring chances and by failing to anap them up a replay in necessary. The Athetic made very determined attempts to penetrate, but the good defence work of the "Seta" rearguard nullified them.
During the last ten minutes of the game the "Sets" should have gained the verdict for they had their op- ponents literally hemmed få but could not find the net. The "Sets" should make no mistake with their re-play at Sookumpoo.
With the Janiors
The three junior ties turned out to be true to form, Kowloon and Eastern each returning a two clear goal victory while only one came, from the Chinese "B," each of the three defeated afdes, R.A., the Club and Ewo failing to find their oppon- ents' goal;
Mid-Week Games On Wednesday the K.O.S.B. seniors shot their bolt, I am afraid, by only sharing the points with the Club. In my analysis last week I fully expected them to earn both points and keep the Navy beneath them on goal average, but now the Senior Service have a chance of de- priving them of second place unless the "Sets" fall to pieces. However, time will tell! The Club trifte lucky in bagging a point in the last two minutes, thus bringing about an unexpected result of a draw of three goals all.
were a
The "Sets" met South China in the second round of the Junior Shield and by a two clear goal suc go Into the hat with Cess, they Kowloon, Eastern and Chinese "B" for the semi-finals on March 8.
The KO.S.B. juniors had a field day by trouncing. Ewo to the tune
of ten goals without response, while the game betwillen the Chinees Athletic "A" and "B". teams result ed in a victory for the "A" alde by nine goals to four.
"Scots", will no doubt gain the verUS. dict in spite of last Wednesday's vhock.
TURF VENTURE IN ENGLAND
At Chatham Road (or possibly Kowloon F.C. Ground) St. Joseph's should be easy going for the "Sets." NEW YORK OWNER'S FOURTEEN
"DARK HORSES" Junior "Tips"
Of the juniors I predict St.Į KENTUCKY DERBY TRAINER Joseph's, the Navy, and the "Sets".
Telscombe, near Lowes, Sussex. bagging both points from the University, South China "B" andOne of the greatest sporting ven- Chinese Athletic "B", respectively, tures in the history of the British while the RA.M.C. may gain their turf has been launched here at the
New York racehorse owner. second success of the season at the instigation of Mr. C. J. Ryan, a Fourteen American racehorses; expense of the Club,
The Eastern-Chinese Athletic "A" game should
be a keen struggle most of which have never been ending in a draw or the odd goal by raced before, and of which little Is known, are in training at the the "A" side.
According to the Axture list South stables of Mr. Ambrose Gorham, China "A" are due to meet Ewo, squire of this village. but with the K.0.9.B. still having to visit Caroline, and to-morrow being their last chance before their de parture, no doubt we will hear of the K.0.9.B. beating South China "A".
Full ProgramMES Full programmes and League tables to date are appended:--
Division L. (4.15 p.m.) Navy v. Athletic, Caroline Hill Ground.
Club v. R.A., Club Ground, Happy Valley.
Police v. Kowloon, Stadium, North Point.
K.0.8.B. v. South China, Mill tary Ground, Sookumpoo.
Somersets v. St. Joseph's, har Road (or Kowloon Ground).
Colonel C. E. Dansey is acting as agent for Mr. Ryan, and the trainer is Mr. J. P. Loftus, who rode two winners of the Kentucky Derby and has ridden Man o' War, the most famous American race- horse of modern times.
The horses arrived in Britain from New York on December 18. since when they have been exercis- ed every morning. Mr. Loftus ac- casionally rides.one. The rest are ridden by stable boys. Eight of the horses are two-year-olds and the rest are three-year-olds.
"Minor Engagements" Colonel Dansey and Mr. Loftus refused to make any definite state- ment about their plans.
Chat-
Mr. Loftus said: "We intend to F.Center for races in England. I can
not say what Mr. Ryan has in mind. The horses have not settled down yet. They are still very nervous. We have not entered for any of the classic events."
Division II. (2.45 p.m.) Eastern v. Chinese Athletic "A" St. Joseph's Ground, Happy Valley. University v. St. Joseph's, Chinese Ground, Happy Valley.
Navy v. S. China "B", Navy Ground, Happy Valley,
R.A.M.C.
Club, V. Ground, Sookumpoo.
Military
S. China "A" v. Ewo or K.O.S.B., Caroline H Ground.
Somersets V. Chinese Athletic "B", King's Park, Kowloon.
LEAGUE TABLES TO DATE
K.0.9.B.
Division I
:
Goals.
Colonel Dansey told me that the horses have only minor engage mente at present. He said: "They are of so little importance that I cannot remember them offhand."
Mr. Loftus said: "It is purely a aporting quest. We don't want the impression to get abroad that! we are going to carry everything before us"
Telacombe lles far off the beaten track. Only a rough cart track leads to the village from the main Brighton-to-Newhaven road, and to reach the village I had to make a
P. W. D. L. F. A. Pta wide detour via Lewes, driving for
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19 11 6 2 45 20 28 several miles over a narrow road Royal Navy 16 9 5 2 84 19 28 which was only wide enough for Athletle
11 22 ....14 10 2 2 82 Somersets..12 8 1 8 24 9 17 one ear. Soath China 13 7 2 4 24 R.A.
7-18 28 25 Kowloon .18 5 8 5 25
.14 2 4 8 St. Joseph's 25 3..0 12 14 47 Recreio 18 2 1 10 14. 88
18 2 1 10 12 86. Police
Division II,
Goals.
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P. W. D. L. F. A.Pa ....27 22 2 8 110 17 48
BOXING
Phil Scott's Great Adventure
And so Phil Scott has left for K.O.S.B. Royal Navy 18 18 3 2 60 13 29 America to engage in the great- Chin. Ath. A 16 13 2 1 50 18 28 ost adventure of his fighting life. S. China "A" 16 18 1 2 47 10 2We all wish him well. Phil has: To-morrow's Fixtures Somersets 18 10 3 5 49 27 28
Eastern ...
16 7 2 7 29 85 16 disappointed his supporters ao The tit-bit of the senior games Kowloon ....18 7 7 27 38 10 often that the public have become round. Still, the honours present with Hagen, on the ground down for decision to-morrow is like St. Joseph's 1887 35 33 15 quite cold and indifferent towards that he has won four times. Hely to be the one on Caroline Hull, AB 1851 9. 24 11 11 him.
.18 5 8 10 Chini.
On this trip, however, he has stated that he will not defend where the Navy are at home to the 9. China "pr 15 49 22 46 10 may well go with a smile, as the the title this season. It is some Athletic. This encounter will be a University
British public to a man are be-: times said (and occasional remarks real test for both elevens, and ita | R.A.M.C.
hind him, and are confident that that he may support the view) that issue will have a direct bearing on Ewo
he will bring back the heavy- One of the outstanding features the only factor that can shake his the championship.
Club
weight laurels. of latter-day golf has been the self-assurance in a score-play_com- supremacy of the Americans in petition is the presence of Mr. Jones. score-play competitions.
And the great American amateur. There is obviously a chance at any will be a member of the team time for the golfers of Britain for the Walker Cup match. to beat the Americans In match-
It is curious that Hagen accom-
at Golf
amateur
play. United States amateurs have plished his worst performance in made several organised efforts on the British championship during big scale during the past ten years the past eight years on the only se to carry off the British
casion when his 'rivals Included championship and succeeded only Jones, who won. It was an excellent once, while the team of representa-worst, since he tied for third place; tive professionals who came over still, it was not quite like Kagen. for the Ryder Cup match at Leads last year suffered defeat. Yet it is
the truth that, in competitions by Among present-day Scottish scoring, the Americans win like amateurs the standard of boxing is machines.
so very high that we cannot afford It is not that they have developed to have the breath of scanda) the qualities of the mechanised tarnish the fair name of the sport. robot for scoring purposes, as James-John S. Barron. Braid was popularly supposed to have done during the era in which
he won the open championship five
times in ten years; although, in point of fact, Braid, behind his mask of stoicism, was highly-strung in as great a degree as any of his rivals.
Human mature palpitates in the outstanding. American score-players, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen. Jones positively and literally trem- bles with excitement and anxiety every time he goes out to compete for a national title. "I just can't play even a friendly round of golf enelly," he said on one occasion. Hagen is not built on quite those lines. In a private game he can forget the rival in order to practise shots and try experiments. But if evar a man had a temperament of limitless range and kaleidoscopic changes he has it. Yet here he ins proved to be the best scoring mad chine In the Championship - Zóur times in six consecutive attemptä.
Perhaps it is that the
the
The Navy will, no doubt, remem- bar their reverse of three against at the Stadium and go all out } predict the Navy, if able to field their full side, gaining a victory.
Harrow
A Tesser After the Club matching a point from the K.O.S.B. last Wednesday the Club versus the RA. is a bit
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TO-MORROW'S TEAMS
The fight at Miami can only be for the world's title, and even the severest detractors of the British The following will represent the Champion in their hearts must be Club 2nd XI versus R.A.M.C. on the of that way of thinking. Sookumpoo ground-Stirling; Sloan, Scott has not fought quite as Potouloff; Hypes, Puncheon, the American boxing fan would Hooper; Stoker, Smith, Railton, have liked him to have fought. He is not a "Bull of the Pampas" Peers, and Thompson.
Reserves-Pankhurst, Krilovsky but a scientific boxer of high
of a tensor. However, I am inclinand Dinnen. ed to predict Fletcher being beaten more often than Rodgers.
With the Police thirsting for revenge for their Shield reverse Kowloon will have to look to their laurels if they want both points at the Stadium. Kowloon get my vote.
South China are due at Sookum poo to meet the K.0.3.B. and the
DICIE SHIKAT
The K.F.C. Senior Team
merit. He has fought in a way that he has considered best suit- ed to the occasion, and not after The following team has been the manner of the ringsiders and selected to represent Kowloon first promoters, who would have him eloven against the Police.
fight like fury. Angus (Senior); Gillot, C. Pile; It is his self-effacement in the Hedley, Dowman, Patterson; Pile, matter of publieify that has caus Moss, Miles, McKelvie, and East-ed the majority of the American man. Reserve, Simpson..
critics to judge him from an en- tirely wrong angle. It is an un- solved mystery how and why it has come about that the self-ap- pointed promoters of world Cham- pionship matches should see in Max Schmeling a more formidable fighter than Scott. Schmeling cannot boast of a record such as that of Scott. But apart from Schmeling. Scott is the British and European champion while Sharkey is acclaimed as American cholce. Then, why not a world's Championship match?
Scott will have good opportun itles to train on the Homeric, and ar he is going straight, to Miami on his arrival in New York, he should get all the training needed to ensure success.
He knows exactly what hé la up against and his manager, Jimmy Johnson, will be able to impart valuable information se to the methods of Sharkey, Johnson at one time controlled the affälru of Sharkey, and his knowledge therefore is not to be overlooked. Johnson is quietly confident that Bgott will last the fight and carry of the honours. He has arrang ed that Scott shall have his camp outside Miami which is far better
Whate the result may be, Scott an
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