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THE CHINA MAIL

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1931

HONCKUNG'S FINEST CNETA

THE MOST COMFORTABLE AND THE ONLY AIR-COOLED THEATRE IN HONG KONG.

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 PM.

DISHONORED

STARRING VICTOR -

McLAGLEN

MARLENE

DIETRICH

A Paramount Picture

Her strange charm, her flaming love! Craved by all men -- but

commanded by only one!:

The romance that thrills!

COMING ATTRACTION

GEORGE

Boy, I love it!"

BANCROFT SCANDAL SHEET.

A Paramanent Picture

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE. TELS. 25818 25380,

SUN HELMETS

For Naval Miltary and Civilian = Wear.

CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP

LAWN BOWLS TEAMS

FOR TO-DAY.

CLUB DE RECREIO."

1st Team versus Police R.C. on P.R.C. green at 8.30 p.m.:-

A. S. Gomes, R. R.. Robarts, L. C. R. Souza, and C. G. Silva (Skip).

Dr. R. A. C. Basto, C. A. Lopes, A. C. V. Ribeiro, and R. F. Luz (Skip).

C. H. Busto, A. H. Basto, C. E. Marques, and L. A. Gutierrez (Skip).

2nd Team versus Civil Service C.C. on Club de Recreio green at 3.30 p.m.:-

L. F. Xavier, A. E. S. Alves, A. V. Barros, and J.-G. Ozorlo (Skip).

;

J. M. M. Alves, J. J. Basto, F. V. Ribeiro, and H. A. A. Alvest (Skip).

E. L. Barros, J. M. S. Rosario, 3. Rozario, and. F. X. M. Sliva (Skip).

Kowloon Bowling Green.

The Kowloon Bowling Green Club's teams for Saturday are as follows:-

1st Team versus Kowloon C.C. (away).

S. Eccleshall, W. Venables, H. Nish, and W. Russell (Skip).

G. J. Chambers, T. S. W. West,

D. F. Warren, and G. E. Roylance (Skip).

G. N. Mitchell, R. S. Nichol, A. K. Taylor, and E. W. L. Hogbin [(Skip),

2nd Team versus Hong Kong Electric R.C.-

H. F. Stoneham, J. S. Logan, W. E. Hale, and A. W. E. Davidson (Skip).

C. S. Beat, G. E. F. Thompson, II. H Rose, and W. S. Drake

(Skip).

F. V. Whitta, J. G. Meyer, F. L. Rapley, and V. Petherick (Skin). (away):-

£5,000,000 IN PRIZES.

Great 'New Irish Sweep.

SMUGGLING TICKETS.

London, July 4.

A start was made yesterday to send Afteen million Irish sweep- stake tickets on the Manchester November Handicap all over the: world.

Daily the printing presses In Dublin are working at breakneck

Our Sports Diary.

LOCAL

LAWN TENNIS-To-day-"C" Division-Army T.C. v. Kowloon C.C.; University v. Radio S.C.

LAWN DOWLS-To-day- First Division Kowloon Docks R.C..

Craigengawer C.C.; Kow v. Kowloon B.G,C; loon C.C. Police R.G. v. Club de Recreio; Civil Service C.C. v. Taikoo R.C.; Second Division-Taikoo R.C. v. Yacht Club; Craigengower C.C. V. Kowloon C.C.; Club de Recreio v. Civil Service C.G.; Kowloon B.G.C. F. Hong Kong Electric R.O.

AQUATICS-To-night-Inter- port Trials at V.R.C.

Tuesday-

ABROAD.

› GOLF STARTING TIMES.

HAPPY VALLEY.

AT THE

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20

Loop the Loop of Langh

ter with the Ace of Funmakers! Hit the Heights of Hilarity in the funniest avia

tion picture of the

age!

The Secretary of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club supplies the following list of starting timá for Happy Valley 10- morrow:

7.30 am. & 8.48 á.m. SAT. Butlin,

N. K. Littlejohn.

10 &.m. A. C. I.

Bowker, H. H. Mundy.

C. B. Robertson, K. S. Robertson.

BROS

„present

The

with

AVIATOR

8,00

& 9:08 a.m. A. C. Ellis, F. Lobel.

WARNER

8.28

& 9.40 a.m. G. W. Reeve, J. B. Mackie,

8.44 11

9.00

#

9,01

0.08

9:12

12

9,16

"

9.20

0.24 0.28

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E. D. Wrigley, L. H. Kuffin.

A. C. Ellis, F. Labol

C. B. Johnson, P. Tester.

F. J. de Rome, J. W.

Franks...

J. G. Campbell, Stewart.

,, : J., Laing, R. C. LAW.

W.

H. U. Ireland, R.K. Hepburn,

0. Enger, A. D. Hun phreys.

J. H. Pengelly, A. G. Ursell.

P. P. J. Wodehouse,

F. E. Hooker.

9.32

1

0.36

*

9.48

CRICKET-To-day, Monday and

Surrey v. Notts.

10.04

I. Newton, E. D.

Sussex v. Middlesex..

Matthews.

Yorkshire, v. Lancashire.

-10.08

D. J. Gilmore, T. S.

Kent v Somerset,

Leicester v. Northants.

Whyte-Smith.

Hampshire v. Glucester.

10.12

Worcester v. Essex.

D. G. Bruce,, L. G. 5. Dodwell:

10.20

Derby v. Warwick. Glamorgan v. New Zealand.. ATHLETICS-To-morrow- France v. England at Paris.

LAWN TENNIS-To-day.. Oxford and Cambridge v. Harvard und Yalo for the Prentice Cup..

FOOTBALL - To-day — Scot- tish League commences,

and

authorities.

C. H. Bradley, · J., S. MacLaren.

Money is pouring into the offices of the sweepstake organisers and their agents in Dublin, where mam- moth staffs of girls are employed to speed to produce sufficient tickets deal with the daily flood of applica- at 10s, a piece to bring into Ireland tlona.

124 £5,000,000 in prize money

The draw will take place at the £1,600,000 for the hospitals,

Mansion House, Dublin, on Novem- Thirty-eight hospitals will bene-ber 18 under the supervision of fit from the sweep.

Goneral Duffy; Chief Commis- Already four and a half months' sioner of the Civic Guarda. At Sookunpoo yesterday the before the race on which this The First Tickets. Graduates, Association beat the gigantic sweepstake is being or Indian Recreation Club by 7 sets gumised- colouual, intricate smug to 2 in the "C" Division of the gling machine has been set up to Lawn Tennis League. At the introduce the tickets into every K.C.C, yesterday the Chinese Re-country in the world. creation Club "C" team maintained their unbeaten record by defeating the home club by 5 sets to 2 be- fore rain cansed play to be aban- doned.

L.. Guy beat R. S. Nichol in the preliminary round of the Open Lawn Bowls Championship on the Club de Recreio green by 22-shots to 12.

Secret Agents.

Yet, in spite of the fact that tickets were officially declared to be on sale last Monday, the first ticket did not arrive in Britain until yesterday.

Somewhere there are packets, hundreds of yards high, of flimsy scraps of paper, coloured green and black and gold millions upon millions of them.

· Secret agents have been appoint ed; couriers at high salaries have received sealed orders to set out on long journeys, carrying with them their banned booty of sweepstake In Liverpool and Manchester, the tickets; plana have been worked out gateways to England from Ireland, for hoodwinking the police of a the polico yesterday reported that dozen countries; no loophole has to their knowledge not a single been left in the preparation of sweepstake ticket was in the coun- subtle strategies for evading postal try.

EASIER

GOLF

by

H.STUART HOBSON

A NEW ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSES OF "TOPPING.”

AND THE REMEDY.

Ineffective Shot.

perform unless his faulty pivot forced him to do so.. "Head-up" is another way of saying faulty pivoting, and so is the drawing - in of the arms.

If the golfer's shoulders rotate beneath his chin ́as he looks down) at the ball, there is no reason why he should either lift his head or draw in his arms.

-The lateral turn of the hips is the important thing in the pivot, and the correctness of this lateral turn depends more on the left foot. than the right. The right foot has little or nothing to do with the taking back of the club, except that there may be the slightest "settl ing”... backwards from the ball öf

however, is quite definitely lifted, and it is this movement that is vital to success.

My recent reference to the topped my shot but I hit the ball the foot to the heel. The left heel, "marks" of the first-class golfer, on the up-swing. the divots he takes in front of the balt when playing iron shots, has brought a letter from a reader who wants to know about the corres- ponding marks of a bad golfer,

?

Is it true, he asks, that topping of topp

is the sign of the "dud?

Hitting at the beginning of the Fundamental Cause. upward swing, or follow-through, A few players hardly raise the instead of at

of the down-left beel at all in taking back the ward swin

planation club. The majority, however, allow movement it to drift aimlessly round, pivot- the "ing on the toe. That fe the funda- him, mental cause of faulty pivoting and ball with his "opping"

smoothlyThe left heel must be raised as Tangt is, the club is taken back, but the boot

Is caus

True, enough, but not no depres- right foot singly true that the player, who self-

S

occasionally tops his shota should ara

Immediately throw, his clubs into Laro

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the nearest lake, and himself after certal even though the fall may is never pointed downwards as them. All golfers are "duds" at not seem to be very badly topped. - though it belonged to a ballet- one time, except the happy few who, And the remedy is the one I have darcarcer like Bobby Jones, began so early prescribed

for a good many

that Drst golfing experiences are golfn faults the getting rid of

some weight is kept on the

of the left foot as the hips

left behind as vague and Incredible the faulty idea that the body should rotate, it is easier to pivot correct- Impressions.

have-now, received a

selection

Commonest Fault.

Simeti

suitable for:

Topping is faults among not

20 club

foot na thely than incorrectly.

the golf swing:|---- Weight On Left Foot.

A thought the golfer should keep Adin mind is that it is impossible to hit forward. If you are falling back;

palling

weight is kept on

player will not

there is

If some

oot, the

backwarda;11 of weight on

AT THE

EDWARD EVERETT HORTON

-PATSY-RUTH-MILLER

LEE MORAN ARTHUR

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