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BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF FAMOUS GOLFER
SPORT.
Rugby & Cross-Country from the Air.
FINE SIGHT.
A thin white line comes to life, and I see Lilliputian figures adopt a formation like birda in flight. am looking for the first time at the start of a cross-country race from an aeroplane over Windsor Great Park. In the distance I see the battlements of Windsor Castio and
St. George's Chapel in all their glory.
RESUMES.
Wethered Excels After Other Diversions
PRACTICE ESSENTIAL.
İS. WALES BORDERERS' SPORTS.
Only Four Events Are Decided.
SPOILED BY RAIN.
Ground conditions and rain mar- red the athletic meeting of the South Wales Borderers yesterday, only four events taking place. The remaining events were to be run this morning and this after. noon at Sookunpoo.
The results
of the four events
It was very pleasant to read the other day of the reappearance of R. H. Wethered in public golf. were as follow:- Hla friends had been saying that, like his famous sister, he had lost Interest in tournaments and team matches, and that henceforth he would follow in her footsteps as one who pursued the game only at intervals for the joy of friendly matches.
100 yards: 1, Pte. Rees; 2, Pte. Lewis: 3, Pte. Wakeford.
10.3/5 secs.
Time:
Race
Inter-Company Rolay (four runners, a mile each) :-1, D.M.G. Co.; 2, "A" Co.
One mile team championship :--- 1, D.M.G. Co.; 2, "A" Co.
200 yards: 1, Pte. Rees; 2, Lt. Barlow; 3, Pte. Wakeford. Time: 24 secs.
V.R.C. MEETING.
HONOUR FOR MR. JAS. STEWART.
A RECORD OF PROGRESS.
Through my field glasses it
It is truly a plty when first- seems as if the Playing Fields of Eton adjoin the Castle grounds. class golfing talent seeks this kind Those who have not been fortun-of seclusion, and unfortunately ate enough to see Windsor from there have been a good many in- the air cannot realise its great stances on the part of amateurs beauty. Until one sees the coun-who came to detest the tumult and try stretched out beneath like some the business aspect of champion- I met a player recently vast relief map, one cannot fully ships. realise the glory of our country-who declared that his experiences in last year's amateur champion- side.
At
past three ship at St. Andrews's had filled him to repletion. Having been at the mercy of the crowd following Bobby Jones, he and his rival had spent about an hour and a half in playing the five holes round the
It was voted at the annual meet- bend from the eighth to
ing of the Victoria Recreation Club twelfth-and that in na uproar. Inst night that Mr. James Stewart. Watherod's friends said that, as an enthusiastic member and official he had gone to live a goodly way for many years, who is shortly out of London and focussed his leaving for Home, should be elect Large Bowling Green.
hours of recreation on such coun-ed an Honorary Life Member. At Nearing Virginia Water I look try pursuits as hunting and dog- the same time, Mr. Stewart. was ed down upon the bungalow town breeding, he might be regarded as presented with the diploma and af Wyradisbury. On my left was
one who had passed quietly out badge of the Royal Life Saving Runnymede. A few moments lat-of big golf. Anyhow, there were Society. er I passed over what looked like ample signs that his hand had lost
quarter n I left the London Air Park at Hanworth in 2 Desoutter Sports Coupe. A little later looked down upon a reservoir as big a Hyde Park and Kensing. ton Gardens. Along the Roman rond to Staines motor-conches jerawled laboriously, like while
caterpillars.
the
Mr. W. Logan took the chair, and
a large bowling green-the Prince none of its skill when he appear In the course of his report, said
of
Ten minutes after leaving the Hanworth Flying Club we were above the Long Walk of Windsor Great Park. Little groups spectators were gathered together along the course, few venturing far from the starting point of the race. Moving on to Windsor, we circled over the Imperial Service College, where I could see the boys playing hockey.
of Wales' landing ground in Wind-ed unexpectedly for Stoke Pages that the year 1930 had been most sor Park.
against Oxford University. He did the Arst ten holes
gratifying. It was often anid that at Stoke
new brooms swept clean. In this Poges-the course with the high-case they had kept on sweeping. est scratch score in the country- Finances showed # proût of in three strokes under an average $2,141.17, in spite of the expendi of 4's, and beat J. P. Marston, the ture of $3,029 on extraordinary re- Oxford captain, by 5 up and pairs, and redemption of deben- to play.
tures. The buildings had been A Born Team Player.
overhauled and interiora rede- Wethered attained his highest honour last season, when he was wired throughout, and various new corated. The Club had been re- appointed to lead the British team lights put in. against the United States in the
As regards life-saving, 22. mem- Walker Cup match at Sandwich.
bers had qualified. Thanks were Some people thought that, as due to Sergt. Hunt, Mr. Silva captain, he should have insisted Netto, and Dr. Lang for assistance upon a thorough system of pracduring the tests. tice and training
Special thanks! for his team. were due Mr. Silva Netto for pre- Whatever his own views on the matter, I presume
sents of debentures, that he would have to leave it
The Chairman concluded with to the St. An-an expression of regret at the de. drewa's Selection Committee, as the parture of the Hon. Secretary, Mr. body primarily responsible for the Stowart. side, to introduce any such regime.
Over the Park again, I was sur- prised to see not a single athlete was on the mark. I looked at my watch. It was ten minutes after the time the race was due to start. Had the runners already started? I decided to find out; so we flew up the Long Walk, and turned by the Copper Horse. Not a sign of any runners, who would easily be distinguished against the green landscape. We circle again, and fly higher, so as to observe better the surrounding country.
No. Start Yet,
Over the Windsor Football Ground, Clever, and round we came again over racks, and towards Old Windsor, but as yet the start had not been
made!
Victoria
The
Election of Officers. following. officials
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were
Wethered plays golf so essen- tially in the spirit of the man who elected:-Chairman, the Hon. Mr. regards it from first to last as a W. T. Southorn, Hon. Secretary, recreation that it is impossible to Mr. J. A. Vietor. Hon. Treasurer, imagine his introducing a rigorous Mr. S. V. Gittims. General Com- Bar-course of training, and yet he on-mittee, Messrs. W. Logan, F. W. T. ters into a Walker Cup match 53 Ross, A. F. P. Silva Netto, J. R. ardently that he always kindles Soares, S. A. Marcal, W; Anderson, the livellest hopes and expecta- H. Hyndman, J. M. M. Alves and tions. It is the one affair of the links for which he has always practised long and diligently. I
Now the teams are lining up; so we drop several hundred feet, so as to get a good view, of the start. At last they are off, and a fine sight it is; in fact, I do not think that it would be possible for one to see better the start of
afternoon.
Lieut.-Col. Eaves.
am sure that he would far rather golfer who is always better when win his match for Britain than he is playing for the side than secure any championship.
when he is trying to capture a title for himself.
No Inferiority Sense..
a cross-country race. From the Moreover Wethered has none of ground, in flat country, a cross-that sense of inferiority to which told us that what we needed to A few years ago Walter Hagen country start is a disappointing British amateurs are supposed to do was to take off our coats and affair, and especially so when have become resigned in connec-work at golf; that we were too there is a field of over two hun- tion with this match.
Nor need disposed to find smug satisfaction dred, as was the case on this he be burdened with it, for, in in the reflection that we knew his four appearances for his
how to lose like good sportsmen. For the moment they are lost nation, he has helped to win all His criticism aroused a lot of to sight, hidden by the stately his foursomes and lost only two indignation in this country,
and chestnut trees which form the of his singles. His conqueror In It is indicative of the individual. avenue of the Long Walk. Then, these two singles has been Bobby Ity of Wethered, that lured for owing to the movement of the Jones, although at Long Island, once into making a. statement, he. aeroplane, the trees seem to be New York, in 1922, Jones had to declared that Hagen was right. moving towards the runners, who fight very hard to beat him by 3 are silhouetted against the yellow up and 2 to play over 36 holes, he said, "in the sense that prac "We do not practise at golf,"
sond of the Long Walk,
Wethered is an example of the tice must become hard, regular (Continued at foot of next Column work. It is a distasteful busi-
a group of ranners who have at this early stage of the race separ- ated themselves from the main body, then a gap, and then a clus ter of white forms..
ness, - unsuited to our easy-going frame of mind, but it is essen: tial," writes Harry Vardon in The Sports Despatch.
The Driving Swing.
sporting activities on this Satur- wooden clubs need
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The runners are nearing the. Copper Horse, and have slowed down their pace up the gradient, Three men lead, almost abreast, one men on the field were "on shortening their stride as they as their toes." cend the hill. The fourth is run- Flying home, I saw a strange uing with longer stride, and lets contrast. A few hundred yards the leaders act 48 paccmaker. away from the Twickenham I have proclaimed myself' con. Following closely on his heels are ground, where the International alstently as an opponent of the match was being fought out before straight left arm in the up swing a multitude of people, I saw thirty which Wethored cultivates men also playing Rugby, and the sedulously, and I still wish that he difference In the standard of the would modify it for his wooden players in the two games I could club shots. It may be perfectly suitable for the Irons, but I am Approach Twickenham. see from above, We then decide to go and see
From the air, the numerous sure that the driver and other a. Hittle more how they are getting on at Twickenham, so five minutes later day afternoon had been a wonder- freedom and flexibility of musclé, I am surely not wrong in my we pass near the London Air Park ful sight, and as we descended Over a thousand feet above the upon the London Air Park an en-mental picture of Wethered some ground I see Brooklands track like ginoless glider was also making ten years ago, as, for instance, a saucer embedded in the earth. Its descent and N.F.S. aeroplanes when he won the British Amateur We approach the Twickenham were coming and going. And as Championship at Deal, and so ground, aurrounded by thousands I walked back to the club house. I saved it from going to one of the of cars in mile-long fingers. The felt that my experience had been strongest forces of Americans that stands aro filled, with a mass of unique, for had seen the start over assailed it. It soents to me black objects, and I find difficulty of the South of the Thames cross-that for his drives he used to In realising that these are human country championship at Windsor, stand in a relaxed way, with his and the International match at head well over the ball, and swing | beings—Individual followers of
the movement of the players, Twickenham in progress, as well with all the ease of a man who which could easily follow, as we as veicus sporting activitier en sow no special virtue in a straight drop lower, and circled round the route, all in the space of an hour, left arm for a full abot. Still, ground
(writes a Member of Hanworth whichever way he is playing, Even from so high op I could flying Club in the Morning, there is always something atimu!-
ating about his golf. not fail to notice that the thirty Post).
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