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FREAK GOLF SHOTS WHICH PAY.
Abe Mitchell Makes Heroic Shot.
DRY WEATHER FREAKS.
LIMITATION OF HAZARDS.
Ruling of Billiards Championship.
THE TIME LIMIT.
[By "The Linkaman."]
(By "Spot Bail."] The eliminating procesA Among Golf is a game of many imple- 'the London players who entered for ments. In no game is the exponent the Amateur Billiards Champion- offered 90 great Д choice of ship is steadily proceeding, and the "weapons" wherewith to pursue his second round contestants are actual- thorny path of achievement. Herein ly the cream of the entrants, there
·lies one of the difculties of the being no "fluke" victorles in the football, or any other of the popular opening stages. All the successful won fairly easily, the game. At cricket, lawn tennis, contenders football or any other of the popular narrowest victory having been that sporta you have a bat, a racket, a of A. J. Skinner, who defeated L. Their heat also ball, or something definite and dis-Stroud by 182. tinct. But at golf you can have as produced the lowest aggregates, viz., many as twenty different clube and 900 and 718, which can scarcely be require all of them in a single regarded as a satisfactory return round. Wherefore it is sometimes for four hours' play, at least, so far difficult to know which of them to as championship aspirations choose.
concerned.
United States Play Canada.
DAVIS CUP RESULTS.
Copenhagen, Yesterday.. In the third round of the. Davis Cup to-day Denmark, as the result of the doubles match, took the against Poland by two lend matches to one.
Full results na cabled by Reu- ter are as follow:-
Henriksen Ulrich and
(Den- mark) beat Stolarow and Tloczyn ski (Poland) 6-4, 7-9, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Earlier Results. Henriksen (Denmark) defeated Hobda (Poland) 6-3, 6-1, 6-2.
Tłoczynski (Poland) beat Ulrich (Denmark) 8-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-8, 6-2. United States v. Canada.
Montreal, Yesterday. In their first real opposition in these Captain the Davia. Cup the United States finished up the day'a play against Canada on level terms, both coun- tries winning a singles match.
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But credit is due to
with who, veterans, Croncen, have remained faithful to the competition, in spite of the changed conditions recently intro- duced, such as composition balls for ivories, time limits, and restrictions regarding successive strokes.
The results as cabled by Ren- ter are as follows:---
Shields (U.S.A.) beat Wright (Canada) 6-6, 6-2, 6-2
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Marcel Rainville (Canada) beat Sidney Wood (U.S.A.) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, | "Raube .........‡
The Americans have graded clube with definite markings on them to tell how far is their scope, and with an automatic swing they just take that club out of their bag which gives them the proper distance. But I am not so sure that so mechanised a system of play would appeal to the man who goes to the links for pleasure writes "The Linksman." When it is a business it is a different matter.
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is vain, and one thousands of other golfers, prefer to ters as to the object of the Billiards such speculation
my "savvy," to consider the Control Council in making the re-must be guided solely by what ac conditions, and then take the clubgulation an experiment restrict-tually happens.
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greater constructive gaw was at Walton Heath during a effect in checking the compilation of possesses final of the big match-play cham- big breaks, and whether further ability than any other player in the pionship between George Duncan legislation is desirable is a moot London aection, and all his breaks regarde amateur are made with careful precision, so and Abe Mitchell. George was hav-point. But ing rather the better of things, and play, which is in quite a different that it is quite within reason to he looked like winning. At the category, the sole idea was to en- anticipate his appearance in the And should he sixteenth Abe Mitchell was bunker-deavour, without adopting too dras- sectional final,
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ed from his drive, and Glorge's ball sat nicely up in the middle of the fairway. It was, or it looked to be, George's hole,
wel for however Abe got out of the hazard George Thus far the new regulation has was almost certain to put his next only infrequently been called into one on the green. But Abe took a operation. Each time the player wooden club, forgot about thehas had no difficulty in getting post-
The 500-Break Game.' hazard, and took a full shot as the tion for the necessary cannon, and,
The professional matches in the only way of getting on terms with on the whole, the experiment has
provinces are not exciting a great his opponent.
been eminently successful. It meant that either he could With regard to the time limit, deal of interest, and it seems pretty save the altuation or else that he under which the championship is evident that they are being contest could make what was nearly certain being played there is not quite the ed in an "end of the season" or an accomplished fact. The situa-Rame Batiefaction, as invariably the holiday, spirit. Newman maintains tion called for an heroic shot, and competitor who got the first run of his newly acquired reputation for Abe made it. He put his ball on
the balls and established an early "staying," and secured a creditable ultimately success. victory over Lindrum at Dundee, i the green, and George was a little advantage was shaken by it.
ful. The other man is handicapped after being deprived of the lead on by knowing, at a certain period, the final day, and he is again play- that however he might try, by de- ing steadily at Burnley. The an- fensive tactics or otherwise, time le nouncement that in the last match against him in his efforts to deprive between these two at Birmingham, Cald: Mag. Ord... T. his opponent of the spoils. It would nothing less than 500 breaks will Dry Weather Freaks,
not be fair to go so far as to assert be recorded, has aroused interest, I have seen, and have even played, that the player in the lead deliber and there are anticipations of some
freakish shots. During the ately slows down in his execution heavy scoring.
The method of some elub players recent spell of hot dry weather I in order to occupy the table as long played on several greens which were
as possible, as all the competitors handicapping themselves to breaks H. K. Rope.....
Stores, e to lend of a certain denomination, in games in abnormal condition. They were
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Der A Wings surfaces, and they were nothing like be done.
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Mackintosh dire While a time limit la eminently There need be no doubt that both Lane Crawfords..... putting I pitched with a mashis, and desirable in the case of professional players will exert themselves to
Sinceres one occasion actually used a
Wm. Powella niblick to get out of a crack in the games owing to the prolific scoring register as many "countable" breaks ground.
nowadays, rendering the setting of na possible in the fortnight, and
Miscellaneous. And I did very much better than a definite number of points almost spectators, therefore, are promised a
of good set-to. those opponents who stuck to their impossible, 1, personally, am
There will be few days between putters because it was the orthodox opinion that the method is scarcely
suitable for amateur matches, and the conclusion of this match and the Ch. Entertainment ... thing to do;
more particularly in a champion- departure of Lindrum and Newman H, K. Contractions... ship, says "Spot Ball? In the Sports for Australia, but it is understood 8. fart. 0.5 Bond ... 70% Newman plays in the manner of Dispatch. There is little incentive that opportunity will be found for H. K. a. Lon...$ highly skilled workman, while for the rear man to battle, as he a function at which the Empire. Lindram conveys
the impression might if the limit were in points tournament trophies will be present- that he is the complete and final and not in time. master of his craft. When New- Taking the form shown in the man la engaged in keeping the first round of the London qualifying balls together for a sequence of section generally, there has been delicate cannons there is a slight little to enthuse about. Sidney Lee feeling of strain in the air. It is reached three figures on three occa as though every one present fears sions in his heat, but in only two of that he will hit the object ball a the other seven games have hundred trifle too hard. The spectator alts breaks been made, these being by back when Lindrum manoeuvres R. L. Bennett and H. F. Smith, Lee the balls to a cushion-Trevor C. might have done better things had Wignall,
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