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TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, · 1931.

THE CHINA MAIL.

HAGEN'S DRAMATIC COMEBACK, RUGBY LAWS TO BE WAS THE KAISER

WINS' CANADIAN

OPEN.

REPLY TO CRITICS.

Victory at Eleventh

+

Hour.

WORTH OF ALLISS:

So Walter Hagen has come back.

That remark must have bega a very comnion One in gulf clubhouse after the result. of known in the Cana-

the We

was

dian Open Championship at Toronto, Many people prompted by patriotic motivos probably held that Percy Alliss would pull off) the event, but those who have known lagen of old had the feel, ing that he would make one more ; "kill"

Holding 'Back.

It was so like Hagen to win at the eleventh hour in a thirty-six) holes replay after Alliss had play- el the golf of his career to tie with him on the leading aggregate mark. It was just the sort of situation that would lenght the smiling Americas's heart: the crisis that would bring out of him his greatest! gulf._and_an incident that would mak the Championship doubly worth while to him.

Here was a reply to the critics, who said that Walter Hagen was finished, that he had won his last title, and that his golf was wear- ing thin, and how typical of the nan to answer in such a theatrical ly dramatic way. Hagen wallows in the dramatic, for it means publicity, and he is, as ever, great, showman.

Who said that the Hagen era was ended?

winding the Open is already being forgotten, writes "Niblick" in The Sports Dispatch. It is the old story of to the vietor the spoils.

Ahead of Armour.

How many people remember the position in the last round of the Open when Alliss finished just ahead of Armour?

AMENDED.

Ball. Going Fairly Into Scrummage.

OFF-SIDE PLAY.

A special, sub-committee of the four honie Unions, appointed by the International Rugby Football Board, has been amending the laws of the game, and the sub-committee's recommendations will be considered by a special general meeting of the Rugby Football Union.

Many changes in the laws have been suggested, most of them minor verbal Improvements, but two in particular are of outstanding im portance.

The first concerns the scrummage laws. For some time there have been considerable difficulties about getting the ball fairly into the

Illegal Hooking Defined.

ANSANE?

Scathing Book by Ex-Chancellori

ASTONISHING REVELATIONS.

Was the Kaiser insane? Ought he to have been deposed, years be- före the war, on account of his lack of mental balance?

It is revealed in the "Memoirs of Prince von Bulow" (Putnam's 259). that the question was discussed. be- hind the scenes in Germany seven- teen years before the war came."

Prince von Bulow, or long For- eign Minister and Imperiul Chan- cellor, apent five years in writing and three in correcting his books, after the war, and his manuscript } was locked up in a bank until he diod.

His revelations about the Kaiser!

scrummage. Various theories have are astonishing. His book is the been put forward to explain. the most unsparing exposure of the difficulty and to formulate a soluKaiser that has come from any tion, but most good judges are German. It is like corrosive acid. agreed that the trouble arises from

"Eulenburg wrote repeatedly to what has come to be known as near-me," he says, "to say that he was foot hooking. This means that the continually preaching caution to the hooker uses the foot on the side Kaiser, pointing out among other nearest to that on which the ball is things that Cardinal Hohenlohe put into the scrummage, and in his brother of the former Imperial attempt to deflect the ball he often Chancellor) had written confiden- causes it to rebound out of the tially to him, Eulenburg, that the Escrummage.marin

-Kaiser-must-be-very--much-on-his. guard, very cautious, very prudent." Actually, even under the existing "The Cardinal, he said, had writ laws, which say that the ball is not ten to him that he knew 'positive- The Newspaper Enterprise Asso- fairly in the scrummage until it ly that the idea was being evolved ciation has been taking a nation has passed hath feet of a player of in many minds of declaring the wide pall among golf players, and each team, near-foot hooking to all Kaiser not responsible for his ac certain early and partial returns intents and purposes is illegal, tions; there were highly placed show that players are three to one though referees in general have personages who would gladly lead against the larger and lighter ball. never felt: justified in interpreting their hands to the institution of a the figures being 2163 for and 6403 the law strictly. They need have suit to that end.”.

Bulow's memoirs, so carefully no scruples if the new, amendment against.

becomes law, Ior then the para-written and revised, will rub salt. graph will read:

into the wounds of the Hermit of Doorn. Nothing has yet been writ ten more calculated to destroy for ever, the "Kaiser legend" and to set William 11. down for ever a failure, a craven, and a "mockery."

However, Mr. Powers concludes He had a wonderful chance of sadly in his Consolidated Press re returning a 71, and looked like do-marks:-"There is not much the ing it with beautiful golf until the U.S.GA. can immediately do about 4 the situation even if it were will la a country where showmanship last hole, where he pulled

Great Showmanship,

Further Los5,

is the general order of things he brassic. It was not a bad pull, bating to listen to the duffers' cries has kg occupied a little pedestal such a stroke got heavy punish-There is the golf-ball manufac

are his ment at Carnoustie and he was out turers' side to consider. of his own, and such methods and so magnetic his per- of bounds, banged his next home ernality that one unconsciously on the green, and took six where finds one's heart warming towards a four would have given him a tie him. He is a showman, maybe, but with Armour.

3. great a very likeable. one and golfer.

He has not been to this count since his victory in the Open at Muirfield in 1920. On that oc caston after the final round, he sat swinging his legs on the edge of a table in the Press tent and made A promise. "I am coming back. boys," he said. I wonder?

Worth of Percy Alliss.

Hagen and then going down after playing hurricane golf for the best part of the replay was a magni-; ficent one, and it was just unfor- .tunate that it was Hagen who op

posed him in the extra lap,

National Reputation. British golfers should take off Fercy Allisa, and their hals to thank him for doing something to save the national reputation, both at Carnoustie and again in Canada. He is undoubtedly the outstanding home golfer of the year.

"The great golf ball war" is still being Bercely waged in America,

according to the Literary Digest,

mary of opinions.

In other words, just another skirmish in the dulfers' war on the

"No player in a scrummage shall raise a foot off the ground or advance a foot beyond the line of feet of his front-row.forwards until the ball is fairly in the scrummage, and the first three feet of the front row forwards of each team on the side on which the ball is being put in may not be so raised. or advanced

A Barbed Shaft.

He recalls that after he became the Foreign Minister and colleague of Prince Hohenlohe, the Chancel-

Bulow replied that he considered

"The manufacturers, who were until the ball has passed them." lor, the Prince twice "deliberately well satisfied with the consumption That is specific enough, and it and gravely asked me if I consider- of the old ball, were obliged to clearly makes hooking with the footed William II. to be mentally quite junk moulds and equipment worth nearest the side on which the ball normal." thousands of dollars when the is being put in ilegal. It will, in U.S.G.A. adopted the present ball fact, ensure a return to the method the Kaiser sane, but "neurasthenic Now, if another by which the ball is swept back, and so is always oscillating. Le- as standard. change is made, the manufacturers and as there is nothing to prevent tween excessive optimism and ex- will sustain a further loss, and the outside men helping the hooker, cessive pessimism:"And then, they will not take that without we should not only have consider barbing his shaft, Bulow added: ably less delay in getting the ball "Fundamentally, his nature is not some protest."

"

An eloquent plea for the new into the scrummage, but a general bold but timorous." Bulow seems ball is made by no less a golfing, improvement in heeling. In my to take a malicious delight in re- Percy Allias's feat' in tying with which presents an interesting sum- celebrity than Bobby Jones him-opinion, near-foot hooking has ferring to the Kalaer's dash into self. Asked by Life, which is op caused a definite deterioration in Holland as his "fight"—which it "A dollar goes farther now than posing the new ball, for a com- the standard of scrummaging, and no doubt was-and he rubs it in ment, he replied with this telegram, the sooner it is abolished the better hard by contrasting the Kaiser year ago," says an editorial.

it will be for the game. "Not if it buys a golf ball," Life published in the magazine-

"Urge you strongly reconsider

There is another addition to the with his wife, the Kaiserin August replies sassily.

Victoria. which is signifi-

"She was apprehensive," he says, decision start campaign against scrummage laws new ball situation. Just beginning! cant, for it is proposed that "the Allis's started on it with a really | new golf bail--the hated 1.65-1.55. get over effect of adverse comment player putting the ball into the "lest the Kaiser, 'If he realised the

New Ball "Pestilence."

before ball has been given fair scrummage shall stand about 3ft. gravity of the position, would Sentiment against the new or trial. I strongly favour change, from the scrummage, and with both suffer a complete collapse.... But holes played, and had four strokes balloon golf ball, says Francis, J. and have had same reaction from hands' from below the knee shall when the debacle came she stood in hand then. That blow, deliver Powera in a Consolidated Press everyone who has given new ball gently propel the ball, etc." ed right at the outset, would in all dispatch, "appears to be increasing fair and unprejudiced trial. If you

Putting The Ball In, probability have crushed most op rapidly.

Tho operative word here Referendums held by desire do something of help to ponents to such an extent that he newspaper in various golf centres game and those playing it, help us, 'gently,' and that opens up a debat./nation in the lurch If hers. had 1 would have had a whole fistful of indicate that the larger and lighter convince average golfer that new able aspect of the problem. It fa. bean the choice." Bulow adds that strokes in hand at the end of ball has very few friends, most of ball is easier and more suitable for of course, true that when a scrim eighteen holes., Ilagen was the ex- them in hiding, and is nothing him to play, which.I think it un- hall shoots the ball into the scrum-had fled to Holland," the Kaiserin

amazing flash of brilliance. He

was three below fours with four

ception, and instead of a handful there was but a solitary stroke between them.

Crowd in Frenzy.

short of a pestilence."

1

questionably is."

That was soon wiped out, and BRIDGE PLAYER DIES COUPLE DANCE

though, we read that Allies had the

crowd in a frenzy with a wonder.

ful two midway through

second round, it was

the not good

IN LINER.

enough. Hagen had his head in Tragedy on Voyage to

Meet His Daughter. front and was keeping it there. still has that The American amazing power of shutting his When the French liner Ile de mind completely to the bad holes. France reached: Plymouth from The result was just another New York It was reported that Mr. proof of Allias's worth, and there wilbur Whitehead had died during must have been heartburnings over the voyage.

FOR

A MONTH.

752 Hours Recorded in "Marathon"

Paris, July 21. The Paris "Dance Marathon" ended at four o'clock this morning, the victorious couple having dance

od for 762 hours.

mage like a rocket It is apt to bounce out again, but, there are difficulties in the way of attempting

out like the "mulier fortis' of the Scriptures. She would never have abandoned the army and left the

only a few days after the Kaiser

followed him.

Kalserin'e Indulgence. "He looked very woo-begone," he to define the pace at which the adde, and not a little awkward," to input in. As a matter of fact, but she gave him a glance which with near-font hooking abolished, I meant, "Whatever you have done, think this particular problem will you can always rely on my love, solve itself, for the far-foot hooker my understanding and, if need be, prefers to have the ball sent to him my fndulgence.” at a moderato apead.

Here is a scathing, devastating The second vital emendation sug-summing up of the Kaiser as gested by the sub-committee, is an supreme War Lord:

"It is a deeply tragic circum- alteration in Law 17 (b), relating to off-side. This last at present stance that this same monarch, rules that a player is on-side while who took more delight in and at- the ball fa in a scrummage, provided tached more importance to his that he has one foot behind it, military dignities and privileges The winners are Mr. Ted Stan- very convenient ruling for back-row than anything else, who was taken it in some quarters. For was not Mr. Whitehead was 65 and was this: Allies, British born. excluded on his way to meet his daughter, ley, an American, of Miami, forwards, who can be ready to up with the signs of his military them to a degree almost unheard from the Ryder Cup team? There who lives in Paris. He was one Florida, whose partner was a pounce on the scrum-half uncom rank, sometimes almost revailed in he was tying with the great of the world's leading exponents French girl. The reward for their fortably goon.

of in any other prince, who never The proposed alteration is that a Hagen, playing his way sturdily of bridge and whist, and had re- efforts is a prize of 12,500 francs and confidently through the rounds presented the United States in in- (£100).

player le off-side "if whilst the ball lost an opportunity of weilding the under none too easy conditions ternational conteste.

Both had to be carried off the is in the scrummage he, not being marshal's, baton, near had his all with all his fellow-countrymen The body was embalmed and floor when the competition ended, in the scrummage, remain with of parades and parade marches,

taken in the Hner to Havre.

The girl had worn out twenty pairs either foot in front of the ball" cavalry charges and frontal attacks falling by the wayside.

Most of us had heard of Allisa's Mr. Whitehead was president of shoes and the man eight. Both. In other words, he must have both on the manoeuvre ground, "drew golfing history, but here is, just and chairman of the Card Commit when they were capable of speech, feet behind it, and this should ap back when Bellona turned her stern preciably restrict the activities of face towards him and real war one little-known fact he served in tee of the Cavendish Club of New declared "Never again.”

The second prize is won by a buck-row forwards, and often give began."

"During the world war any sort Highland regiment, the Black York. He wrote many books on Watch, during the War

the game, chief among which were couple who dropped out yesterday the scrum-half the extra half-second

of serious military collaboration on "Auction Bridge Standards," "Auc when the male, partner sprained a which makes all the difference.

the part of the Supreme War Lord," tion Bridge Complete" and "Con-leg while attempting fancy stops tract Bridge Standards

any interference or decision, In a semi-conacious condition.........

gradually became Bearcer and Altogether the dancers have re-

scarcer, and finally ceased entirely. He appeared more and more rarely at the Front, and when ha did come he was felt and treated as an inconvenient, almost a trouble- some, intruder.

Forgotten Laurela. Just as Macdonald Smith's per formance last year In Anlahing

He was the first American au twice, as runner-up, first at other to elaborate the system of lake and then in the American quick trick valuation of the handa Open, both to Bobby Jones, WAS overshadowed by the greater feat for bidding purposes, and, in con- junétion with Major Pattern, was of the Champion, so Alliss'

the inventor of the "informatory formanceringcoming very bar to

duable. ?

claved 200,000 france (£1,000) in each hour, Several collapsed, and money given by the spectators, one girl, whose partner finally, re- Towards the end of the contest. fused to continue, danced by her the dancers had to be propelled self for several hours in the tops forcibly to the floor after their of finding a partner. British Unit fifteen minutes rest at the end of ed Press.

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