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SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1931.

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Billiard enthusiasts Billards. in Colombo were afforded a rare treat at the G.O.H. when the two world- famous cucists, Walter Lindrum, the Australian, and World's Cham- plon, and Newman, the British" Champion, played an exhibition game lasting nearly one and a half hours.Col. T. Wright__intro- duced the two players to the fairly large gathering present.

As the final scores-Nowman (635) and Lindrum (291)-would Indicate, the Australian, acknow- ledged to be the world's most prolific scorer and hailed as the Bradman of the billiard table, did not re- produce anything like hla usual form. Newman, however, played splendidly. The exhibition of the finer points of the game given by both exponents of the art was worth going a long way to Newman made breaks, of 153, 112, 193 and 95 in compiling 636, while Lindram's, highest breaks. were 68 and 55. They gave a superb ex- hibition of nursery cannons as well as cannons from all parts of the table and several of their shots were loudly applauded. ·

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Sydney Lee, who has just won the Amateur Billiard Champion- ships of Great Britain, and Mr. Steeples, a former Amateur Cham- pion, both of whom are travelling" to Australla in the same steamer as the two famous professionals, also played an exhibition match.

Jack Dempsey, after Boxing. exhaustive study of the thousands of matches promoted in 1980, gives the following ranking of the world's best boxers for 1930:

Heavyweight Group No. Young Stribling, U.S.A,

Heavyweight, Group Carnera, Italy. -

Light

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Middleweight.-Mickey

Rumson, U.S.A.

Welterweight.-Young

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ROPER PRAISED.

Indian All-Rounder for England.

MANSFIELD'S APPEAL.

· Cricket,

Few people know that H. W. "Bunny" Austin was a cricketer of some promise when he was at school. For two or three seasons while he was at Repton School he was the B. H. opening batsman with Valentine, the prosent vice-captain of Kent.

The old Essex player Charles P. McGahey was acting as coach to the college at that time, and he held the opinion atrongly that Austin and Valentine would have successful cricket careers.

very

He was naturally disappointed when Austin decided to give up cricket altogether for lawn tennis. However, his other pupil, Valen- tine, who made his first appearance for Kent against. Yorkshire in 1927. and is a free and stylish bat, has largely fulfilled his old coach's pro- phecy..

C. K. Naidu, the well known Indian cricketer, of whom bath Hobbs and Sutcliffo ́spoke very high- ly after their last Indian tour and whom "Razor" Smith, who

was coaching in Ceylon last year, thinks one of the finest all-round cricketers in the world, has left for England.

Naidu will play for the Indian Gymkhana, which is one of the lead 1-ing Club sides in London. Nazir All is the captain of the Gymkhana 2.- this season, and among those who will assist the side are the Nawab Maxey of Pataudi and F. C. de Saram (D$|

Ceylon)'. Walker,

It is believed that Naidu will re turn to India in the cold weather, to Corbett, take part in the matches against the M.CC. He is a certainty for the Kid team if the Indian visit to England

next year materialises.

No.

Junior Welterweight.-Jack Berg, Great Britain.

Lightweight. Tony Canzoneri,

Featherweight. Battling

was out after making 129 (his 82nd century) but Holmes went on to make 250. He showed complete mastery over all the bowling and apart from two difficult chances his Innings was flawless. He hit 24. boundaries. Rain curtailed play on the second and third days and York shire and Warwickshire took four points each.

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EASIER

GOLF

by

H. STUART HOBSON

Mansfield Town FC. Football, will make their seventh bid to enter the Boot; ball League (Third Division) at the annual meeting of the First and held to elect a club to each of the Second Division clubs which will bo sections of the Third Division. In beer thinking an uppeal to the voting clubs the courses." Manafield Town directors point out that:-

(a) Mansfield possess the finest playing records of any non- League club in the country, reach- ing the fourth

round proper of the F.A. Cup competition in 1928-9;

(b) Mansfield is the only town In the country with a huge popu- Intion of 280,000 within a radius of seven miles of the Town, Hall which has, not a League ciéb in Its midat;

more

(c) In the past ten years the Mansfield Town club have taken "gate" money than any other non-League club: in Midland League match as much as £500 has been taken.

B

A. McCluggage, Burnley's Inter national full-back, has signed on for Dunkalk, "the Irish Free State League club, and played for his new club in the cup final against Sham; rock Rovers in Dublin recently. Burnley offered McClaggage terms

Golf,

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COURSES THAT IMPROVE YOUR GAME.

CLEVER SHORT HOLES.

During the last, few days I have ence and pleasure, and drive him

of "golfers for to subterfuges.

are not many

Golf shote are most easily acquir- ed and perfected when conditions are favourable. Once the ability to produce the shot is there, unfavour- able conditions can be mastered.

Even championship links. can favour one type of golf in prefer- ence to another, and even among the champions there

A newcomer to golf is. likely to players who can adapt their golfmake the happiest and quickest- with such versatility that it can be progress if he chooses to play over a course rather comfortably short than over one of the long, sloggfog courses that are now favoured.

seen at its best over any course.

Sandwich looks. most kindly on the man who drives a long ball, for some of the carries-especially from the back tees-ecem enormous.

They are, of course, easily capable of being driven by a golfer who gota average distance from the tee, or slightly more, but they can scare the man whose strength in golf to not length from the tee. And there are some very good golfers, especial ly in the "sticky" school, who never hit a long ball and never attempt to do so.

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St. Andrews, on the contrary, is the most easy-going of courses as far as tee shots are concerned.

À Joyous Memory. adventure concerns the second hole One joyous memory of golfing

at Prestwick. This must be one of like 90 yards, but to play it two or the shortest in the world, something three times a day for a month would teach more golf than any number of the 500-yard holes that

rather than skill. The ideal course seem to be designed to test stamina

over which to learn golf is sandy, average 345 yards and, its three- but not flat. Its two-shot holes may

shot holes 476 yards.

Modern giants may "eat up" auch lengths, but they are a fair test for others.

Sandy soil is a great help with shots through the fairways, os- pecially the Iron shota, and the golfer is coaxed into the good habit of getting well down to the ball and through.

No Unfair Traps.

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A good golf course should have no unfair trape-traps, that is, that catch the good shot. When player who normally falls to reach a given ditch hits an exceptionally good shot and sees his ball drop into it, he is not encouraged to play good golf

Harsh Fate Soldom. Even a drive topped and scuttled for next season but these were re-, a few yards away from the tee fused by the player. He joined seldom meets a harsh fate. St. Burnley from Bradford (Park Andrews, I think, le the course for Avenue) in 1925 at a fea of £1,600. the golfer who carries brains with his kit. The approach shots call for "Bobby" Jones had nothing careful thought, even when every but praise for S. Roper, thing is going favourably. A rela- one of his opponenta in' tively flat course, too, calls for great the British Amateur Golf Cham- judgment of wind and distance; pionship last year, when he heard of there is both the test and the zest the latter's victory against George of golf at St. Andrews in stopping Voigt, on who. America'e hopes of the ball on a sloping green by winning this year's British Amateur choosing an angle of approach that championship reated.

enables you to bank your maahis "Roper has a fine swing and an shot up against the breeze. excellent temperament," said Jones.

A day or two ago I was playing on May 30, scored 309 before they "I always said, and repeat. now, over a course-not a championship Unfair greens, too, lead playera that I was very lucky to win my course that favours the player who into "pawky" approaching, and that first round match against him last can get distance with his fron shots. is not the way the game should be

The fairways are undulating, and played. the reward of a very good tee abot may be a tricky overhanging lio, or the ball may settle at the bottom of a dip. A lie to which a brassle might be taken is rare, and spoon shots are nearly always difficult. The golfer is forced to use an iron through the fairways.

Holmes and Sutcliffe in their big opening partnership (their 65th for Yorkshire) against Warwickshire

U.S.A.

Junior Lightweight. Benny Bass, USA.

Batta were parted. This was the second time they had scored over 300 in a Brown, first-wicket partnership, the other Occasion being in the match against Wolgast, Hampshire at Portsmouth in 1920, when they scored 847. Sutcliffe

lino, U.S.A.

Bantamweight. ~Al

Panama.

Flyweight. Midget U.S.A.

year. In spite of my amazing start-Jones was three up at the fourth hole--Reper showed no signs of cracking up."

GOLF COURSES IN JAPAN

Japan has given the lie in many directions to the old tag, about "the bnchanging East," and her most spectacular achievement of this "sort at the moment is the fervour with

pine trees, whose mysterious, clois tered recesses seem to breathe a benigen on the game now nearly

ended

Many people will hold this to be an advantage, for some golfers are critical of the player who uses a wooden club, when an iron might be taken.

"Golfers For Courses.""

I would not call a green unfair merely because it slopes away; many delightful greens do that. The un- fair green-is one that punishes a player too severely when he goes boldly for the right shot and only just fails.

The easiest grean to approach is one that is well-defined by bunkera and which slopes upwards at the

back,

Mark of Artificial Course. Greens of this kind, though, are: usually the mark of an artificial course, the course that has a one- way approach to each hole and a set routine of strokes. The natural course is more interesting because it frequently offers a choice of way to the hole, inviting the golfer to make use of the wind. ̈ ̈

More than half the fairways are woodland glades, wide and undulat- ing, hedged by gentle wooded alopes, with countless glimpses beyond of, mountains matching our Lakeland

On my principle of "golfers for fells for shape and texture. Maples were crimsoning the woodlands-it. courses," this is no course for a was in November,--and immediate- player whose fron shots are not his behind the sixteenth green strong point. Or is the opposite little plateau freely and deeply true that thie is the course over bunkered-was a most gorgeous which he should play, and so force persimmon tree, almost leafless, but himself to wield his iron clubs still brilliant with its orange-taway effectively? It is a matter of tem- fruita. I fell in love with Ibaraki perament, but a general experience that pleased him. without the least sense of infidelity is that golf does not come through to either Tokyo or Hodogaya, and I adversity in this way, but through locker, and a single-figure handicap, vowed that Ibaraki, after all, should the sunshine of confidence. A he can always find more difficult be my dream foster-club-had I not course. been presented with a club belt, in style may improve his golf, but it golf is easier than that!-(Ching maroon and blue stripea?--but then will more easily rob him of confid- Mail Copyright). I had not yet seen Takarazuka,

Takarazuka.

A golfer will find that his shots improve when he plays over a course

"

Once he has the shots in his

that handicaps" a golfer's courses to conquer. Nothing in

Hodegaya and Ibaraki. which she has taken up golf, writes What can one say of the Hodo a correspondent to the Manchester. gaya Country Club's course just Guardian. It began with a game outsido. Yokohama? First, that it played between the Prince of Wales paled the excellencies of the Tokyo and her present Emperor (then links. What Hodogaya will be like Prince Regent), on a private course in cherry-blossom or wisteria time laid out in the imperial grounds, one can only fainty imagine; it was during the Prince's visit to Japan gorgeous enough in November, with in 1922. Since then her wealthier the maple enflaming the woodlands; classes have laid down the most and again in March (on a felicitous amazing courses, applying them-shore-leave day), when here and selves to mastering the game with there plum-blossom bespangled the immense thoroughness. Subscrip- coppicet. But,.after all, the real tions to the new clubs are so high distraction of Hodogaya is that that few foreigners can afford mem from any point of the first few fair bership, and they have to remain ways are to be had exquisite views content with their older, more of Fuji whenever that regally capri- modest links,

cious mountain is preening her- During the interval that elapsed It has been my privilege recently self. I was lucky, for in November's between being told I simply must go. to play on several of these new and again in March my visite fell to Takarazuka and the day when I courses; and a great deal of it was in clear weather, and Fuji, though found, time to do so, all I could re- golf de luxe in more senses than one. sixty miles away, was "showing call of the name was that it The Tokyo course, some five or six off." In November she gleamed "crackled." Heard casually it is not miles out of the city, presents few snow-white in a firmament which in easy to remember; but after you difficultles to a practised player, but the distance was almost leaden in have played there I would challenge Hong Kong Golf Club supplies I would defy the most fastidious to tone, and a little below her peak you ever to forget It. To me the following list of starting play there and come away without slowly drifted a fleecy cloudlet, no Takarazuka will be associated with an abiding sense of satisfaction less white, softening the outlines of from the great variety of the holes her lower slopes. In March she and the sheer beauty of the setting. herself floated milk-white, without a In playing the eighteenth hole one wisp of cloud, in a lambent sea of drives down a noble fairway, which the most heavenly blue. first dipa, and then raises to ap proach the green, Ranked for nearly 200 yards by two fragrant woods of

Another astonishingly fine course is that of the Ibaraki Country Club, a few miles to the north of Osaka.

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