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Prince Georgo attend- Cricket. ed a dinner given by the New Zealand Society at the Savoy Hotel in hon- our of the New cricket team now on a visit to England.

At the function: an invitation to visit New Zealand was oxtonded to the Prince by the chairman, Str Thomas Wilford, High Commis- sioner for New Zealand, and Prince George replied, "I can only hope that visit will be very soon."

Referring to the success of the New Zealanders against a strong M.G.C. team at Lord's, Prince George, remarked:

"I wonder what is in store for us in the forthcoming Test match! Let me give a warning to our selec. tors-do not under-estimate the good team Now Zealand has sent this year." (Cheers,}·

THE KING ENTERTAINS of

ON EVE OF DERBY.

SOME HOLE IN ONE I

Dr. J. A. R. Selby Holds Unique Record.

NEW MOTOR RACE.

darkness. The smallest cars would start at 10: a.m. on Friday, but the largest cars would be held back until some hours later, their exact starting times depending upon their size and speed.

Never before has there been a contest of this charactor in. Eng- land. A course embracing corners and braking would be used,,

The King held his first Racing Derby dinner for two years at Buckingham Palace, entertaining 58 members of the Jockey Club.

she would as championnaturally be the leader, in the series of in ternational matches. For the same The scene in the famous white reason, Miss Molly Gourlay has and gold State dining-room on the also deemed it necessary to declino first floor of the Palace was a the Invitation to join the English splendid one when the King took team, which, because of the abhis seat in the middle of his guests. sence of its two chief players, will be considerably weakened.

EASIER

GOLF

by-

H. STUART HOBSON

MAKING UNFAIR DIFFICULTIES IN PUTTING

THE WANDERING PIN.

Yet another device to make golf ference, in fact, than, between one more difficult is enjoying a wave of putt and two. the popularity.

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This device, I think, should be "beheaded," as the acrostic people say, and called what it really la-a vice. It is the sacrifice of the true game of golf to the pride of club secretaries who want to rule a course that defies the "plus" man to play down to his handicap,

I am speaking of the growing habit of hiding the hole in obscure corners of the green.

A good "two-putt" golfer will, in' the nature of things, öccasionally. sink his first putt. If he le taking threes, however, he simply cannot count on winning anything.

A first putt that arrives within a two-foot radius of the hole is a good patt, de

4 Reviies His Fate. Where the pin is so placed that ́ ́ the golfer who gets within two feet. has the humiliation of seeing his One short hole I have in mind ball run away from the mark at cannot be played in two shots except accelerated pace, he has a very by good fortune. There is a wide-legitimate reason to revile his fate.

Under the soft golden light of Mr. T. C. Lowry (eaptain of the

the candelabra the famous Windsor team), who replied, said they did Their decision has caused no gold plate alone on the long table, not look upon themselves as little surprise among women and although no one WAS in tourists, but as sons of, the Old golfers. The view taken by Miss uniform most of the guests wore Land. "We look on the Test Wilson and Miss Gourlay is that decorations. Many had the blue match," he added, "as an acknow. with the additional strain of play-ribbon of the Order of the Garter. ledgment by the cricket authorities Ing International contests, follow. In former years the King has here that we have passed through ed by a thirty-six holes qualifying given the Derby dinner after the open stretch to the centre of the Worse still, a hole is definitely un- the knickerbocker stage."

test-an innovation in the British race, but as his birthday fell green, but the pin is not there, and fairly placed when it punishes the During the evening a telegram championship it is impossible to on June a, the dinner was if you find the middle of the green shot a few inches over, but exacta of congratulation from the Prime 'do oneself justice in the event that held the previous night. In you have a downhill putt of some no penalty for a shot a yard short, !. Minister of New Zealand to the really counts.

consequence the table decorn-twenty feet. The pin is in a nar- tlone, Instead of being carried out row isthmus about two yards from in the colours of the winning the edge of the green, obscured owner, were of Royal blue, scarlet, behind a mound and a bunker. A and yellow, the King's own racing good shot from the tee cannot be colours.

depended on to stop beside the pin; if it does not drop short of the green the chances are that it will

team was read.

Among those present were: Mr. A. H. H. Gilligan, Mr. P. F. Warner, Mr. A. C. MacLaren, Mr. H. D. G. Lecoson-Gower, Sir Julian Cahn. Mr. Nigel Halg, Mr. G. B. Legge, Mr. Ronald Aird, Mr. W. W. Wakefield,

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In the past Mise Wilson has often played herself stala by the time the championship starts, but on this occasion, acting on the advice of her father, Dr. Wilson, who is 21 years of age, is regarded as the legitimata successor to Miss Joyce Wethered in British women's golf,

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The Prince of Wales and several other members of the Royal Family were among the guests,

There was only one toast, "The King."

run over..

It is not easy to talk of this matter of placing the pin without giving the impression that I am one of those who believe that anything that is not "straightforward" golf is not good golf. Ma

On the contrary, I am all in favour of the course that makes a player thinken, course that has a "Dog-Leg" Fashion.

way of trapping a ball that might The player is encouraged to be a good ehot on any other course. approach the hole in "dog-leg" That is golf. The good course finds fashion, and even then his putt is out the mechanical golfer, and re- unfairly difficult. A short shot (wards headwork. beter than one that is pitched well

Ball Will Run Away. But no amount of taking thought At the next hole, the pin is nicely will get a player over the difficulty of knowing that his ball will fun away from him if he aims six inches too far..

The announcement that Rugby. Dr. C. S. Nimmo, the Watsonian, who is a Jedburgh resident is to be a mem-up. ber of the Jedforest Rugby Selec

tion Committee next season should balanced on the highest crown of bring considerable pleasure and an undulating green. A putt a yard are short will probably remain there; & hope to the Borderers, who bound to find his experience, at the patt a foot too far will certainly

roll two yards beyond the plat game invaluable to them.

A player may, get on to the green in two perfect shots, and find him self taking three putts,

A horse that loses by a short- head might just a well have lost by a mile, but that does not apply. to golf.

With what conscious

A hole in one must always be Football, virtue, what glowing

satisfaction, did 1 Bomething of a fluke, but there are flukes and flukes, writes an Even- not read, a few days ago, the an nual report and balance-sheet at ng Standard correspondent, and. I the Everton Football Club, writes imagine the achievement of G., L. Weir, the New Zealander cricketer, a Sports, Dispatch correspondent,

Everton, wrote ane paragraphist,at Outlands Park the other day, is with the genius of his kind for one of the most remarkable ever extracting what is important from seen on a golf course.

Weir was playing the second what is not, have made a profit of £9,576, as against a loss the pre-round of golf in his life. Ho start vious season of £12,560. With what ed none too auspiciously, and his ! strokes at the first hole are

Dr. Nimmo shares with Dr. J. A. conscious pride, &c., did I recall a

computed in the R. Selby, another Watsonian, who recent statement of Round and variously

He hit a is now residing in Hong Kong and

A first putt within six-inches of About "It is better to have a win neighbourhood of 20..

The argument that a good putt the hole fe just as much a victory a member of the Hong Kong Foot- ning team in the Second Division terrific shot from the toe at the

second, which went a long way out bail Club (Ruby Section), what will sink no matter where the hole is for the putter as the actual sinking than a losing one in the First."

of bounds but struck a tree and may be a unique record in British does not hold. Many a good long of the bail. The reason is that not latter played at putt does not sink, even on a per- even the most brilliant-golfer can ricocheted back, bounced on a wall, Rugby, The leapt an to the green, struck the scrum-half for Scotland against fectly level green, A good player count on einking long putts, but the pin firmly, jumped into the hole, Ireland and Wales in 1920, but he is not agitated at Ill-luck in the way golfer who takes claim to class must and stayed there.

was dropped for the Calcutta Cup of failing to hole ten-yard putts. A expect to get within ""unmissable" games in favour of his club-mate, rival who is a stroke worse than he radius with his arst putt. If he It is proposed to or Nimmo, whose only "cap" was thus is in reaching the green may does, that, he, has done what the ganise an inter- gained against England. It is un triumph at occasional holes by the game of golf asks him to do, and it Racing. national 1,000 miles likely that any other club have suplucky sinking of long putts, but is wrong that he should see his putt

race at Brooklands plied twe scrum-halves to their while the better player can keep on carried astray.

putting them down in two, he knows early next year for cars of all country in the same season,

that he must win before the 18th is. sizes, and the Junior Car Club, who

reached. The New York Evening, will stage the contest, will extend invitations to several foreign Tennis. Post atates that Mrs. Wille-Moody declined teams.

Better to the extent of $22,186, it seems. Considering the present state of football finance, we might go the length of saying that it is

far better.

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Miss Enid Wilson, pro- can find a Golf. vided she

player to accompany her, will compete in the forthcoming" American women's championship, which has not been won by a British golfer since the success of Miss Glady's Ravenscroft (now Mrs. Templo Dobell) in 1913.

. In order to reserve herself for the British event, which is being played on the Portmarnock, links, co. Dublin, Miss Wilson is not playing for England, of which team

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" AGAIN 'BIG THERE."

VICTORIOUS.

(Continued from Page 8.)

Notts beat Worcestershire by seven wickets at Worcester.

Scores:-

Worcester: 115 (Larwood 5 for 89)..

806 (Gibbons 110). Notts: 299 for 9 dec., (A. W. Carr

127).

123 for 8 wickets.

Motor.

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It is intended to run the race for the invitation to compete at Wim- ábledon on the grounds that the approximately eight hours, on Friday and Saturday, as legal United States Lawn Tennis Asso restrictions prevent the use of ciation refused to pay her expenses,

during the hours as in other years. the track

Warwickshire beat Kent by eight wickets at Folkestone. Scoroas

Kent: 184. (D. G. Foster 7 for-68). 144 (Woolley 108, Mayer 7

for 61).

Warwick: 201 (Freeman 5 far 59).

78 for two wickets.

FRIENDLIES;

GOLF.

Starting Times for To-Morrow.

The Secretary of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club supplies

Cambridge University beat the times for Fanling to-morrow:-

the following list of starting M.C.C. by 23 runs at Lorts.

9.24 a... A. D. Humphreys, O. Eager. Scores:

9.28 A Leach, N: K. Littlejohn. Cambridge: 144 (V. W. C. Jupp: 5 932 L. B. Smith, R. C. Law.

for 88)

9.36W R. Vallance, Comdr.

·260. (Gibson 6 for 44).

Priestley, g W. Q. Shields, J. E. Richard- Бод

Middlesex took first Innings points from Leicestershire at Lei-M.C.C.: 209 (D. R. Jardine 106"). cester.

162. (F. B. Brown.5 for 47)'

Scores:-

Leicester: 223 and 805 for 4 dec., ***Oxford University drew with Bar

(Shipman 120), *.

rey at the Oval Middlesex: 809 (Hearne 152*)}# Oxford: 828 for 8 dec., (Nawab of

Pataud! 165). M

95 for 6 wickets,-

Sussex beat Essex by ten wickets at Chelmsford."

Scores

Sussex: 449 for 6 dec., (K. S. *** Duleepsinh|||||~,140, Parks (H) 200*); 28 for no wicket. Essex: 211 and 262 (Catmore 106).

Pataudi 100). Surrey 298 and 184 for 2.

9.40

WATER POLO,

Erratic Placing of Pin. It is only in competitions that erratic placing of the pin. Is at pre- sent a habit; these habits started in much-advertised events, however, have a way of spreading throughout the game.

Two Putts Per Green. No golfer can count on taking one putt per, green except at holes such as the short hole I have described,

May this one not spread. The where it is possible to play to leave yourself a mashie-niblick shot to golfer who la wall advised will con- the pin at the edge of the green, tinue to direct his first long putts You can, however - or rather, not towards the pin, bút toʻan should be able to depend on get- imaginary circle round the hole. ting down in two putta on any That is one of the secrets of good green.

putting. When the pin is placed in Two putta per green ja good golf: auch a way that this method of one putt la lucky golf, unless the putting becomes an appeal to the approach shota are being played in god of chance, a definite disservice remarkable style; three putte is la done to golf. The "rub of the definitely bad golf. There is an green" should go the way of the enormous, difference between three consistent putter(China Mau putts, and two, a much greater dif- Copyright.).

CANADIAN ENTRY FOR owing to the generosity of an

KING'S CUP.

First Time Since the Inception.

"ANONYMOUS, GENEROSITY.

Montreal, June 1.

anonymous Canadian sportsman who is interested in the develop ment of Canadian aviation. British United Press.

I nia not condemning the straight left, which remains, even in the View of Americans, the most useful": of all panches. But Harver's need is for variety, and I have no doubt which he could do with.-H. G. Lowie..

For the Arst time since the in- he has seen punches in America

199 for 5 dec., (Nawab of In the "A" Division of the Water ception of the event Canada, in to Polo League at the V.R.C last night be represented in this year's aerial Kowloon accounted for the Royal race around Britain for the King's Navy, by the odd goal in nine. Cup on July 25.

The Kowloon "B" team gave the 20th Heavy Battery a walk over in their Jague Axture... na thay unable to raise a team Borderers defeated Battery by two

In any football attack there are two kicks that really count, the first and the last The first kick makes all the others possible Without the last one, the rest are useless. John Grave

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If the wing three-quarter is to A Canadian airman, Mr. John C. have any chance of being effective Webstor, will pilot a small and using bis speed to its best machine, a biplane, which last advantage he must be given the Tuesday established a new Cana-ball na quickly as possible and dian record for altitude. He has that can never be achieved by slug- been enabled to send his entry gish passing-T. M. B. Stuart

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