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GRADUATES SCORE | ARMOUR'S GOLF TITLE] SCHOOL ATHLETICS

FIRST WIN.

WORTH £10,000.

Mixed Doubles Holders U.S. Writer and the

Successful,

LEAGUE TENNIS RESULTS.

In the "C" Division of the Lawn Tennis League the Graduates' As- sociation defeated Craigengowor C.C. by gets to 4 on the H.K. University courts yesterday.

Scores:-

Dr. Samy and A. T. (G.A.)-

Lep

heat H. J. Howard and G.

Kelly

lost to E. S. Howard and F.

Broadbridge

drew with V: F..Sousa and

F. Zimmern

6. 2

2- 6

6- 6

"

Baked Haggis."

JURADO'S CHANCE.

Sit down alongalde reader and have a wee laff. You are listening. in to American comment on the re- eent Open Championship at Car- noustie. Says The New York Times:-

"MacDonald Smith covered the inst nine holes. in a ghastly 41 order of the strokes, and the Carnoustie Council to the house- wives of the seaside town was Never mind baking that haggis, Mac's lost."

This is not the haggis-shooting will Dr. Sepher and H. N. "Chung season in Scotland, but we

pass on and take the reference to (G.A.)

Jurado, of whom it is said:

beat H. J. Howard and G.

Kelly

6-4

beat E. S. Howard and F.

Broadbridge

7-5

heat V...F. Sousa and F-

Zimmern

6-4

H. T. Lee And Dr. K. C. Yeo (GA) >

lest to H. J. Howard and G.

Kelly

3. 6

drew with E. S. Howard and

F. Broadbridge lost to V. F. Sousa and F.

Zimmern

$ 6

4- 6

League Table to Date, Sets.

A. Pts. P. W. D. L. F.

10 17 Chinese R.C. 98 1 0 71 Berreio... 08.10 50% 21% 37 3.C.A.A.

17 12 7 6 0 1 48

33 12 Y.M.C.A. 9 6 0 3 48

42 Indian R.C.. 4 1 4 38

10 0 4 0 2 36 University Kowicon C.C. 7 4 0 3 32

CRITICISED.

Lure of 'Victor Ludorum? Too Exhausting.

STRENGTH MUST MATURE.

4:

For years I have, advocated an alteration in the system of acoring points in the allotment of the championship prize (or School Cup) at school sports. The follow Ing, bearing on. the subject,. by that noted English athlete, Dr. Salisbury Woods, of Cambridge, should be read with Interest.

I have before me a "school. pro- which states: "The gramme, senior championship prize is 'des cided on the following events, with points on the 3, 2, and I basts: 100 yards, 220 yards, 440 yards, 880 yards, and mile runs, 120 yards hurdles,, running high jump, run-i ning broad jump, and putting the

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AT THE What becomes of the brilliant schoolboy athletea who shoot like meteors across the horizon, and disappear from public notice like damp aquiba? he asks, and sug gests that they are "burnt-out."

An Old Spanish Custom. "Jose, the golf ambassador shot." from the Argentine, was the Now, admittedly those events chap who went up into the (800-yards, broad jump, and shat stratosphere without a balloon putt) were decided before the Perhaps its an old Spanish.cus sports day, but the other six were And the tom. Its almost difficult to on the one afternoon." understand how Jurado failed to athletic sports may follow an in- come back the second nine in 39 tensive preparation for rowing strokes to win. Almost any events and a strenuous football'

The College Cup should golfer would say he could kick season. the ball round the last nine in be decided over fewer contesta. that figure and win. Perhaps Thus Dr. Salisbury Woods :----An that's where Jose made his mis-old adage says, "It's the pace that'¦ take. He didn't kick the ball. kills." This should be rendered:; "Perhaps Armour was the best "It's the ill-judged pace that kills." in the Beld at Carnoustie. But consider the silly way in which the crown was literally kicked into his lap. Of course Tom went forward in the stretch, but its a wonder he wasn't killed in the crush of the other contenders He admits that his suggestion that premature exhaustion of the rushing backward.

cynical chap adolescent ductless glands ess "Tommy is a with a lean, cavernous face. factor is mere guesswork, but cer Yet he must have laughed out tain is it that the "Victor Ludorum" loud half a dozen times at the award at schools is pernicious, ludicrous explosions all over the writes Argus in the Referee, links as the golf stare, under Not only is it found to be thor pressure in the final round, pop-oughly bad for schoolboys to run ped like so many toy balloons." themselves out at all kinds of die- Then the commentator goes tances consecutively, but the same "Scotch," and says Carnoustio applies to the older undergraduate. "sang dool" and Edinburgh "bure In discussing the "burnt-out" At Sookunpoo yesterday after-the bree.". Maybe they did, but athlete, two cases may be of in- noon, the Indian R.C., the holders. the correspondents in the Capital terest. Douglas Lowe, after win- defented the Chinese Recreation have anid not a word about it. ning the Olympic 800 metres in Club in the Mixed Doubles Tennis

1924, set himself to run his races League by 6 sets to B.

as slowly as he conveniently could, with the definite aim of saving himself to win the world's title again in 1928.

R.K.C.C 8.

8 4 0.431

0-3 0 3 22

28 3 93. 28

Army T.C... ↑ *) Radio 8 2 2.4 25% 45% 6

S.C. Deutscher C 1 1 4 18 35%

32 Graduates A. 5 1 0 4,11 Craigengower 8 1 0 7 20% 511⁄2 C.S.C.G.

K.LT.C.

↓

7 01 & 21 1 ...8 0

7 13

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MIXED DOUBLES.

'INDIAN R.C. BEAT THE

• CHINESE-R.C.

Scores:-

H. D. Rumjahn and Mrs. Gull (L.R.C.):-

lost to M. W. Lo and Mina

Enid Lo

4-6

Worth £10,000. Another writer, who refers to Armour as the "Black Scot," says that the new champion lost a for tune in the 1929 crash, but is still one of the wealthiest professionala His rivals from France, America, He makes £5,000 a year from his and Germany had successively business connections, in addition beaten world's records that very to prize money. The British Open season, but after three days' gruel- title may be worth £10,000 more to ling eliminating heats, Lowe left 6- 2 him this year,

them all in a bunch, like so many Armour, by the way, admitted 'selling platers," in the 1928 Olym with fine American nasal accomplc final. paniment (thie was at the pre- Another sentation of prizes at Carnoustie) athlete, Lord Burghley, left school that "he was A Seatsraan, and in 1923, having done nothing of would always remain a Scataman," note at all, and did not get a Blue but I see that, writing in a New until his second year at Cambridge. 6-York paper, he declares he learned

beat Ho Ka-lau and Miss G.

· Lo

60

beat Yew Man-kit and Mrs.

Chiu

C. A. L. Rumjahn and Miss |(1.R.C.):-

Gecks

lost to M. W. Lo and Miss

Enid Lo

beat Ho Ka-lau and Miss G.

Lo

beat' Yew Man-kit and Mrs.

Chiu

S. A. Rumjahn and Miss Rumjahn (LR.C.):--.

beat M, W. Lo and Miss Enid

Lo

lost to Ho Ka-lau and Miss

G. Lo

beat Yew Man-kit and Mrs.

Chiu

2.

all his golf in the United States. R. This is rather a smack in the eye

1

outstanding

British

In other words, those athletes appear to last best who do not over-compate before, their strength

to Scotland, which flattered Itself has matured.

that Armour, like Crulekahanks, I would strongly commend these was a good golfer long before. he ideas to every head-master ir learned to say ""Scatsman." the country. Over-taxing the 3-6 America gave him competitive golf strength and the vital organs

of a high order, and that toned up growing boys leads to very serious 68 his game.”

troubles later, and often to death MacDonald Smith, I see, states or serious breakdown in health be

YACHT CLUB LOSE TO he is coming over again. "Always fore" middle-age passes,

THE K.B.G.C.

Abandoned Game played Off Yesterday.

BIG VICTORY.

Abandoned on account of rain

a bridesmaid, but never a bride," la how Mac sums up his experience in the British Open.

Vardon Swing Out of Date.".

on

of

In the July qualifying competi tion, for the Adamson Cup J. Laing qualified with a

score of

Other scores were:-

Armour, as I have explained be: 97-14-88. fore, has very decided views style in golf. I had a conversation with him in which he expressed his opinions on the methods of British players with interesting frankness. Men whose fest he used to sit at

on July 4 when the game was half he thinks they have failed completed, the Second Division to move with the times. He has lawn bowls match between the no use for the upright Vardon Kowloon Bowling Green Club and swing, which he considers is as out the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club of date as the crinoline. was continued yesterday on the, former's ground. '.

The Kowloon Bowling Green Club were 11 shots up when the match was abandoned, and at the conclusion of the game yesterday were 13 shots ahead.

Scores Bowling Green. Yacht Club. C. S. Beat E. B. Reed B Wylle A Cochrane GEF Thompson EW. Carpenter W 93 Drake PW. Ramsey

Skip)19(8kip) 18 HF Stoneham A. Murdochnis WAY ble

Button

The Observer man quotes him as caying

R., C. Wallace.......... 05—9—88 H. Mandy.....108—16—88 Walen have every reason to be satisfied with the results of season 1930-81, for in addition to their success on the field of play they also had a good year Anancially. The balance-sheet reveals a profit for the year of £1,885, and an item

of more than ordinary, interest-in the accounts is that of £2,000 for The only way properly to hit the purchase of the Brewery Field the ball is to take the clubhead at Bridgend, the proposed venue back round-the-corner (round for International matches. the logs) on as wide an are asOn the agenda for the annual possible, and to bring it down meeting are proposals to reconst! from the Inside, finging, the tute the districts comprising the hands outwards as far as they Union and another to prevent any will go The man whose hands club playing matches outside the are tucked into the body after United Kingdom without first ob impact, and at the end of the taining the consent of the Union. swing, will never play golf satis-

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