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WESTERN FRONT

THE CHINA MAIL.

CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP

BERG DISAPPOINTS HIS SUPPORTERS.

Fatal Changing of Methods.

CANZONERI'S CAREER.

Commenting on the recent cham-

pionship fight between Tony Can- zoneri and Kid Berg. the British hape. Trevor C. Wignall the Daily Express special correspondent Saya:

"Berg gave the most disappoint- ing exhibition of his career since he became world prominent. Instead of Aghting Canzoneri in the exported impetuous manner, he tried to box him, and was an easy target for the Italian fran the start.

"One theory now in that Berg. after all, did deprive himself of strength in making the weight, but the plain fact is that he was slow, unsure, and far more appre- hensive, than ever be has been be-

fore.

"Why Berg st completely chang- ed his methods in his most im portant contest is a mystery, but it has to be said that Canzoneri box. ed and fought like a champion, and except for one brief space in the second round, was the decided master of Berg,

"The finishing blow, a swift and terrific right lead to the point of

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AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

TOLLEY DEFEATED.

Roper's Great Victory Over Voigt,

WHO WILL BE CHAMPION?

Loudon, Yesterday, Fifth Round Results, Tulloch beat Wethered 1 up. Roper beat Voigt, 1 up. Tippett beat Tolley 3 and 2. Morrison beat A. de Forrest $

and 3.

DENMARK & POLAND ON LEVEL TERMS.

Two Singles Matches Are Decided.

DAVIS CUP RESULTS.

Copenhagen, Yesterday.

In the third round of the Davis Cup Denmark and Poland each won one singles match.

Henriksen (Denmark) defeated Hebda (Poland) 6-3, 6-1, 6-2.

Tloczynski (Poland) bent Ulrich (Denmark) 6-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-8, 6-2. -Renter.

J. de Forest beat A. Newey "BIG BILL" TILDEN IN

and 1.

McCormack beat Straker at the

19th.

Martin Smtih beat D. Fiddlan 3

and 1.

P. Miller beat Beaumont Pense

2 and 1.

FINANCIAL MOOD.

Visit to Australia May Materialise.

OTHERS IF NECESSARY.

The championship at Westward Ho, which has been simmering with surprises throughout, to-day reached a climax when the two

Sydney, April 20. greatest English post-war golfers

The offer of £3,500, or 40 per were defeated along with the last cent. of the gate receipts of the remaining foreign challenger,

whole tour, made by the Australian The remaining players now in-

Lawn Tennis Association for at clude six Englishmen. an Irish tour of Australia by W. T. Tilden, nian, and

has been rejected as not sufficient- Scotsman, none of ♫ whom has previously won the title.ly attractive, but it is believed that

Roper's great win

ito stimulate interest in tennis here over Voigt was an astonishing example of

the offer will be increased to n tenacity. He was heter in the

£5,000 guarantee, and that this will lead until he holed out on the lust

be accepted. groen to secure the Voigt. playing, his best golf, turs- ed 2 up and seemed well act for victory, but Roper won the 10th

victory,

Tilden still has hopes of visit- ing Australia at the end of this year, and is to discuss the matter this month in America with Gerald Patterson, Managing Director of

the jaw, was, the exact one that I and 11th to square the match, then Spaldings, who recently left on a

Canzoneri, told me would bring him the victory."

Tony Canzoneri, although born at New Orleans 25 years ago, is of Italian descent, both his parents having migrated to the United States from Italy shortly after

their marriage.

Tony began work at any early age, assisting his father in their butcher's shop at New Orleans. His aptitude for fighting soon showed itself, and by the time he had reached his middle teens ho had won nearly twenty amateur contests.

the

doggedly hung оп till nighteenth, where Voigt duffed his is prepared to bring Kozeluh and world tour. Tilden states that he approach into a ditch.

three other players here if neces sary.

Remarkable Incident. Tulloch, with machine-like ex- cellence, registered twelve foura and won the first three holes, "AUSSIES" MAY VISIT

eventually becoming one ap at the turn. Tulloch then went on to win the 10th, 11th and 12th to be

SOUTH AFRICA.

Exchange Difficulties Cause Reversal.

Johannesburg, April 15.

up. Wethered rallied and won the 13th and 14th. A remarkable incident occurred at the sixteenth, where Tulloch had an easy putt for a half, a loose pieco of gras causing his ball to move, Tulloch The South Africans will lose Later, through trade depres- picked up his ball and in a sport-hundreds of pounds if they carry sion. the Canzoneri family ing like manner conceded the hole out their cricket tour of Australia, here to Wethered. The seventeenth for the Australian Cricket Board Sam was halved. Tulloch being dormy of Contro! has finally decided not box-ore, and a half at the eighteenth to pay the £30 in every £100 which

gave him the match.

is the price of exchanging South African money for Australian.

to

moved to Brooklyn, and Tony was introduced to Goldman, il well-known Ing promoter who is stili Tony's manager. Goldman soan realised

A Tragic Touch. that there was the makings of a Tolley's tale hudia tragic touch. great fighter in Canzoneri, and Tippett, who is a plus two man, off, and instead the Australians The tour will probably be called after careful nursing," the young has played a lot of golf in Amori-will pay their first visit to South boxer in 1925 was given his first ca, is now secretary

the Africa since Collins's team professional engagement, when he Reyal Wimbledon Golf

went Club, there in 1921, South Africans are met a boxer named Jack Gardner reached the last eight for the first very keen on this reversal of the and knocked him out in the first time in his career. At the third programme, but until the proposal. round.

Tippett, was 2 up. Tolley, squared is received in writing from the at the seventh, where Tippett Australian Board of Control the stymied himself. Tippett then matter will be held in abeyance. ! went on to win the eighth in two It fa learned from Melbourne, how- and turned ane up, his figures for ever, that the Australian Board is the first, nine holes being 37. The willing to send 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th were Africa.

a team to South halved, but Tolley. taking three putts on the 14th, became 2 down. tween Australia and South Africa, Of the fourteen Tests played be- A missed putt for a birdie three the latter have won only one.

In the same year he took part in ten other contents, nearly all of which he won by knock-outs.

Since the Canzoneri has taken part in nearly a hundred contests, and the climax to his career came when he won the light-weight title last November by knocking out Al Singer after little more than minute's fighting. He had previ- ously been outpointed by Berg.

WELL-KNOWN ATHLETE DEAD.

Impressive Hurdling

Record.

SECOND TO BURGHLEY.

A

at the fifteenth, short with his tee

shot at the sixteenth, where

Tippett, putting for a two, won of Holderness, Alan Newey, beat the hole in three for the match, Montmorency by 6 and 4. proved to be Tolley's downfall.

Earlier Cables,

At Westward Ho to-day, amid scenes more like a country fair than a championship links, 32 of the world's golfing elite set out to battle for the last eight places.

Voigt beat Darwin, 3 and 2.

The former Surrey champion, Reg. Straker, beat Lister Hartley, 1 up.

Tolley beat Lunt at the 19th. Douglas Fiddian, of Stourbridge, beat Darale Watson, of Royal Ash- down, 2 and 1.

The sixty-three-year-old chairman of Lloyds Bank, Beaumont Pease, beat Syd. Matthews, of Moseley, 4 and 3.-Reuter.

Around the first tee the price tickets on the wares on local traders' stalls flapped gally in the breeze, while at the tenth green sat a little Khartoum, April 28. man besido a brazier selling cups The death in Khartoum, follow of steaming hot tea and coffee.. ing an operation, of. T. C. Living. Amid such a scene, Cyril Tolley One Thousand Guineas stone-Learmouth, announced yen-narrowly escaped defeat. He turn- terday, como as a great shock to ed all square, but lost the 10th. and the many friends and admirers of 11th. and was two down unti' the

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Tournament.

this famous Cambridge University 17th., where Stanley Lunt, of Mose- DUNCAN AND JOLLY FAIL TO burdler.

ley, found the crisis too much and Against Oxford University, at topped his drive, being bunkered Queen's Club, in 1928, he was with his second. Tolley drew level Becond In the 120 yards burdles and won at the 19th.

QUALIFY.

:

One Hole In Fourteen,

ta G. C. Weightman-Smith, who Voigt's missed putts added beat him by four yards to set up spice to his match with the veteran

Leeds, Yesterday. an inter-Varsity record of 15.2-5 Bernard Darwin, until the turn,ward

No less amazing than at West-

Ho was seconds. Livingstone-Learmonth where he was two up. Then the Guineas Professional Tournament the Thousand ran second to Welghtman-Smith in fireworks of the American increased at Leeds, where two members of 220 yards low hurdles at the same his lead to 4 up, with birdies at the the Ryder Cup team, Duncan and moeting, four yards again separat 11th, and 12th. He lost the 18th, Jolly, together with the strongest ing the men, and the time of 24.4-5 but the match ended at the 16th., American.. acconds equalled the record for whore Darwin was bunkered and the the event in inter-"Varsity meet hole was only halved. ings.

In the Britisk Empire games against the United States at Stam- ford Bridge, he was a member of the winning team in the eight-laps steeplechase relay and he ran Afth in the 400 metres, low hurdles In the Olympic Games at Amster dam three years ago. When Lord Burghldy established a world's re cord for the 4401yard hurdles in the AAA championships in 1928 Livingstone-Learmonth was second

Smith, falled to get under the challenger, Horton

qualifying total of 150 for, thirty- Volgt now meets the former Not six holes. Two Argentine players, tinghamshire miner, Sam loper, Frececro and Genta, aud Willle who gave Bobby Jones a fright last Hunter, British Amateur Cham- year in the same championship. pron. 1921, also, failed to qualify,

Fourth round results are:

Turness, America, headed the The Corinthian Club, soccer player qualifiers with 69. 69, = 188. Morrison beat Captain Pearson, Other notable qualifiers werd 2 and 1.

Scotland's-hope, William Tulloch, Charles Whitcombe, 78, 71, 144 Churlo, Argentine, 70, 72, 142,

of Gathkin. Bracs, beat Alex Hill, of Daragon, of South Lodge, had, an Sandy Lodge, 8 and 25/0 unenviable record of hitting Ava.

Wethered beat Allan Macbeth,uccessive ball out of bounds at

7 and 0..' -

The nineteen-year-old

the eighth-hola where he. register conquered a fourteen Reuter

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