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GOLF COURSES ARE HAMMOND NOT FOR

TOO LONG.

What Driving Fever Has Created.

TIRING TRAIL.

CEYLON.

Plans for the Coming Season.

STILL PROFESSIONAL.

from

London, March 24. It seems to me that there is a

Walter Hammond, the Glouees- steadily growing revulsion of feel ing against what the late W. J. tershire and England cricketer.

"de-arrived the

at Southampton Travis described 08 bauchery of long driving at golf." South Africa yesterday, a week It has taken all the time since before the rest of his colleagues a who took part in the M.C.C. cricket his day, which was more than quarter of a century ago, to make tour are duc. golfers realise that it is possible to have too much of a good thing, and I have to confess that they are not objecting now to their long driving. But they are objecting to the penalty that it entails: the lengthening of courses.

I have met several distinguished golfers who would welcome the standardisation of a ball so light that it floats in water, or any other that could be depended upon to clip many yards off the distances achieved with the present-day ammunition. Old and hackneyed though the question may be, they argue about it with a fervour which indicates that they believe in a millennium that will be the era of n lighter ball.

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It is not much use asking the ordinary mortal if he wants his driving shortened. But I am con- vinced that the lengthening courses which has been deemed necessary as a means of coping with the travelling capacities of the modern ball, and which shows no sign of coming to an end in this country, is a very bad thing for the

game.

The Tiring Trail.

of This

extension constant courses is bad because it is only suitable for a small minority of players-those who are young and athletic or exceptionally vigorous for their years.

Hammond, who looked in splen- did health, strongly denied the re- port that he was going to Ceylon during the forthcoming Summer, "I never had any intention of go- ing to Ceylon," he said, “I shall turn out as usual for Gloucester- shire, and still as a professional."

The armies of middle-aged and elderly. golfers, who are the mainstay of the game, since they constitute the overwhelming and make courses majority who championships possible, do not want to walk five miles twice a day in a blazing sun for the purpose of obtaining the normal allowance of two rounds. I think it was shown In a test by pedometer that a play- er of madium handicap tramps over five miles in accomplishing an average eighteen holes.

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It makes the game too much trial of endurance for all save the small minority, an unnecessary

trial, seeing that the amusemont provided in the playing of shots is

IRELAND LOSE

WALES WIN BY ODD GOAL IN FIVE.

SCOTTISH DRAWS

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SHERIFF'S SHIELD FINAL.

London, Yesterday. In the International Association football match played at Wrexham to-day, Wales beat Ireland by the odd goal in five-3-2.

League Matches.

The following are the results of

Division III (Southern).

2 Coventry Brighton

Division III (Northern).

3 Lincoln Chesterfeld

League matches played to-day:

Scottish League.

Motherwell

Referring to the tour, Hammond said: "Cricket in South Africa is, In my opinion, of a better atand- Dundee ard then when I was out there Partick during my first tour in that coun- try. The majority of the men we have to play against had pro- fited enormously by the experi- ence they gained during their own tour in this country, and they are a really first-rate combina- now tion.

1 Аут

- 0 Celtic

1 Rangers Sheriff's Shield.

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In a match played at Highbury for the Sheriff of London's Shield, Arsenal beat Corinthians by G goals to 3-Reuter.

"But I think a truer indication THE SUSPENSION OF

we were con-

of the relative merits of their would have been team and ours afforded if honours in the Test There matches had ended even. is no doubt that siderably handicapped by the un- fortunate motor-car accident in which Sandham was involved, and which deprived us of his services for the greater part of the trip. His experience as an opening batsman would have been invalu- able to us.

DANIEL PRENN.

Germany's Leading Davis Cup Player.

INDEFINITE PERIOD,

Berlin, March 28. Daniel Prenn, Germany's lend- ing lawn tennis player, waG BUB- pended to-day for an indefinite time "Voce bowled extraordinarily

by the president of the German well, and really deserved an even Lawn Tennis Association. There better record than he obtained. is little doubt that the suspension Nupen, who captained South Africa in the first Test match; also bowled wonderfully well on matting, but he was nothing like so effective on tur?.

TOURISTS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

M.C.C. Averages for the Tour.

HAMMOND AND ALLOM.

will be confirmed by the Dis- ciplinary Committee, and Germany will therefore be deprived of her strongest player in the Davis Cupi matches this season.

Prenn's suspension is an out- of a Berlin come of the decision Court a few days ago in a libel action brought by a firm of racket makers against Prenn, who they alleged had demanded £150 a year and a number of rackets as a con-

The averages of the M.C.C. play-dition for using their rackets.

The Berlin Tennis Association crs for all first-class matches in South Africa during the recent decided to-day to cancel the match between London and Berlin that tour are as follows:-

was arranged for March 27. Baiting. Ins. Runs II.S. N.O. Aver. Officially the reason given is that 19 1.045 196⚫ 261.47 the surface of the new courts is 2 53.23 unsuitable to a match of such im- 905 170 297 62 5 37.12 portance, but it is understood that 774 169

Hammond Hendren.....

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no greater than when the courses | Leyland 22 were considerably shorter, writes R. ES. Wyatt 29 Harry Vardon in the Sports Dis- patch.

Diversion Sought.

And it is, diversion, not exhaus tion, that the ordinary golfer seeka, Within reason, the walking does him good, but it is not what he goes out to pursue, and actually he loses some of it under the circumstances that now prevail.

36.85

34.90

the principal. reason is Prenn's

2 34.40 suspension.

768 118

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516 115

M. J. Turnbull 21 A. P. F.

541 139

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471 87

Lee

7 158 42

Groad

27.70 HAWAIIAN BOXING

Chapman

0 22.57 18 296 57 à 19.73 Voce J. C. White. 18 256 36* 2 16.00

53 25 Goddard

0 8.83 114 28 3 8.14 I. A. R. Peebles 17

9 50 192 M. J. C. Allom Duckworth

Also batted: 78 runs.

POPULAR.

714 Eighteen Clubs in the

Island.

7 29 14 2 5.80

Sandham, 2 innings,

* denotes not out.

Bowling.

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M. E. W. Aver.

Honolulu; April 15.

Since boxing was legalized here late in 1929 the various cards have M. J. C.

Allem 184 38 401 22 18.22 attracted more than 240,000 Tans. Tate

347 104 621 33 18.81 For over a year only local talent I. A. R.

appeared in the rings. There are Pechles .445.2 80 1,274 66 19.30 18 boxing clubs in the island, and Voce

.477,5 139 1,046 49 21.34

392 boxers hold licences-As- 880 13 29.23 sociated Press."

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494 15 32.03

In former times, everybody who made up his mind to devote a day to golf played two rounds.

Those were the times when the Royal Liverpool course at Hoylake measured about 5,400 yards, for a championship Instead of the 6,700 yards which it attained in the Whi

C. White 348.4 108 698 29 24.08 latest open championship. The Goddard ....159.1 40 golfer of those days not only had R. E. S.

... 51 his two rounds of concentrated ex-

Wyatt citement and pleasure; he often Hammond.221.4 51

Leyland.... 94 played another nine holes after tea. The exercise was all so naturally regulated that it did not tire him.

Nowadays, thousands of people the spot where a good drive would America saying that it is rather who give up a day to the game are land. content with

round. one

The Then a shot of exceptional skill secretary of a well-known club would be required to thread its way complained to me that bridge had become the curse of golf: that peo plo deserted the course after their morning round and the comfort able interval for lunch, and settled down in the card-room.

Curiously enough, Hagen, who is 19 283 8 35.37 one of the best of putters, has found Also bowled: A. P. F. Chapman his putting suffer with the new 104-6; Hendren 1-7-0. | báll, A friend writes me from

Disciplined Drives.

The fault, however, is not theirs. Unless they are particularly active

mystifying, yet at the same time

a little pleasing, to see this great golfer taking three putts more through the labyrinth of bunkers, often than he did with the old

MacFarlano. and the person who could play itcmaller and heavier ball.-C. B. would gain his reward from the of the rival who went into one

to play hazards or who decided short of this constellation of trouble.

At anyrate, it would shorten the courses while advancing, rather than destroying, the interest of the

Our Sports Diary.

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FOOTBALL Saturday- First Division-Borderers V. Kow- Rocreia y Argylla; St. Joseph's v. South China; Police v. Navy

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or enthusiastic, they feel at the game.,

Joon; New modes of links architecture end of eighteen holes of modera golf that they have done enough to arise about once every twenty earn a restful afternoon. They years. Perhaps the next will be are probably right, the

a scheme of peppering the fairway Golfers getting on in years, were with bunkere for the drive. At! relatively more numerous in a prosent driving is far too easy in former generation than they are this country; that is why distanco now, for hardly any of the young-has become enchanting to the de er people played, especially in gree of a craze, There is little Britain, and yet everybody finished to stop it, except retribution on the his round of the morning hunger. Hanka.

Ing for that of the afternoon. It is not the same in America. That dealre certainly is not so Many of their courses are studded This in the middle with bunkers." marked.?S MAL

Very long courses are like very inquisition in driving is regarded many courses at a dinner. They part of the game. One of their promote a sense of annul. If peo- best players said to me?—“When's Front Ja ple must have a ball scien feally young, golfer comes to manufactured

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