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CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP

MIXED DOUBLES LEAGUE.

bent Yew. Man-kit and Mrs.

Chlu

6- 2

Ladies' R.C. Defeated. The United Services Recreation Club beat the Ladies' Recreation

Chinese R.C. Beat the Club by, 6 sets to. 3.

Kowloon C.C.

U.S.R.C. VICTORY.

Playing in the Mixed Doubles Lawn Tennis League yesterday, the Kowloon Cricket Club lost to the Chinese Recreation Club by 5 sets to 4.

Scores:-

Scores:-

Mrs., Keary and Col. Robinson (U.S.R.C.)

lost to Miss Stafford-Smith

and H. J. Armstrong

3- G Jost to Captain and Mrs.

Etherington beat Mrs. Kerrich and A. D.

Humphreys

3- 6

6- 0

Mrs. Lochner and Capt. Moir (U.S.R.C.):—/

E. C. Fincher and Miss O. Dalziel boat Capt. and Mrs. Ethering- (K.C,C):----

| CELTIC IMPROVE GOAL AVERAGE.

Airdrie Collect First Point.

ONLY ONE AWAY SUCCESS.

London, Yesterday.

The following matches were de cided to-day in the Scottish League (First Division) :-

Aberdeen Airdrieonians 2 Celtic. Dundee

4 Queen's Park 1

2

4 Dundee Un.

--Reuter.

Goaly.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1931.

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1 Clyde

0

lost to Miss Stafford-Smith

and H. J. Armstrong

Motherwell

2

26

7

Cowdenbeath 0

1 St. Mirren

lost to M. W. Lo and Miss

Enid Lo

1- 6

ton beat Mrs. Kerrich and A. D.

Humphreys

S Hamilton A.

Kilmarnock

2 Falkirk

6- 1 Morton

drew with Ho Ka-lau and

Miss G. Lo.. drew with Yew Man-kit and

Mrs. Chiu

6- 0

Mrs. Dook and Lieut. Waring (U.S.R.C.) —

6-6

beat Miss Stafford-Smith and

H. J. Armstrong

63

E. F. Fincher and Mrs. McTavish: | (K.C.C.) ;—

beat Cant, and Mrs. Ethering-

ton

5- 4

Rangers

Kilmarnock

lost to M.-W. Lo and Miss

Enid Lo

2- G

beat Mrs. Kerrich and A. D.

Humphreys

Aberdeen

4.3 10 3

5 4 0 1 12

7

61

Matherwell

beat Ho Ka-lau and Miss G.

League Table to Date.

Partick T Hearta

3 0 2

Lo

G. 3

beat to Yew Man-kit and Mrs.

Chiu

Sets.

Falkirk

4. 6

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

Hamilton A. Cowdenbeath

A. E. Guest and Mrs. Kew Chinese R.C. & 4.0 (K.C.C.);—

Indian R.C. 5 5 0 0.326 0 10

1 284 10% Ladies' R.C. 03 03 20 27

Clyde

BI

Dundee Un.

20 3D

GMorton

St Mirreny

20 3 6 11

0,3

78

lost to M. W. Lo and Miss

Enid 'Lo

beat Ho Kalau and Miss G.

Lo

64

Kowloon C.C. 4 2.0 2 21% 14% 1- S Recreió

3 0 2 1

^2 U.S.R.C.

22 ...410 3 11 University ..5 0. 5 34 36.0

4 Dundee

03

0 13

14

2

Laith Ath.

4 1 0.3

Table to Date.

P. W. D. L. F. A. Pi3. Coltic

5 4 1 0 17 3 Third Lanark 4 4 0 0 10 9

6 4 6 1 10 0

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MEN WHO MADE THE GOLF GAME

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The other day I was present at an intercating discussion. It con- cerned the question as to which individuals had contributed most to the development of golf.

Evolution takes many forma One has to consider the popular- ity of the game, its administration, and the methods of play that have found favour in it. Personally, 1 would select four men as the crea tors of the greatest epochs in the long pathway of golfing history, In the order of their appearance rather than in any attempt to fix their relative merita, I would set them down as A. J. Balfour (al- though it was Lord Balfour we had to call him before he died), John L. Low, J. H. Taylor, and Bobby Jones.

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When Lord Balfour passed away a year or two ago, very little was said in the chronicles of his career about his association with this game. Yet it is a fair statement that he did far more than any- body else to bring about the spread

Notable Figures in Its Evolution.

BY HARRY VARDON

J. L. Low's influence was wield ed in a different sphere. He was a first-class player, but his historic contribution to golf lies in the fact that, unchallenged and almost unaided, he introduced the code of rules which has been adopted by America and every other nation that plays the game.

At one time, each club had its own set of rules, and no two sets were alike. Low knew the spirit as well as the letter of them all; and he evolved the code which has won universal favour. He had to, sacrifice a few of the old tenets in order to satisfy American opinion. Yet, on the whole, the soul and substance of golf have changed

of golf throughout England; that, wondrously little through the indeed, he wAB the one and only generations, and new peoples have mainspring of the boom that took accepted the inheritance of the an possession of the country.

His prominence, in Parliament, culminating in his rise to the post of Prime Minister, occurred at. a time when Conservatism was parti- cularly strong in England, and his enthusiasm for golf became such. aby-word that every Conservative wanted to play it.

His reputation for devotion to a then almost unknown game had iprecoded Mr. Balfour from Ireland, where, as-Chief Secretary, he was reported to play whenever he had a few hours to apare, in spite of a lively prospect of assassination.

His zeal for golf when he re turned to England caught the publle imagination as few phaser in the private lives of public men have ever done. His constant les sone; his steady Improvement; his victories in the Parliamentary Handicap; these and other factors made countless thousands of his followers, think that what pleased this esthetic statesman ought not to be neglected by anyhody. EDH

The Rules-faker.

Our Sports Diary.

LOCAL

LAWN BOWLS—Saturday. First Division-Taikoo R.C. v. Kowloon Dock R.C.; Civil Service G.G. v. Cralgengower C.C.; Second Division Hong Kong Electric RC. v. Club de Recreio; Kowloon C.C. V. Taikóo R.C.; Kowloon B.G.O. v. Civil Servics C.G.; Cralgengower C.C. v. Yacht Club

ABROAD.

CRICKET-To-day and

morrow-

To-

- Middlesex v. Northamptonshire. ...Surrey v. Lekestershire.

Kent v. New Zealand, Hampshire v. Notta. Sussex v. Yorkshire, Lancashire v. Derbyshire...! Glamorgan v. Gloucestershire. Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.

Middlesex, Surrey. Essex v. Leicestershire. Sussex New Zealand Somerset Warwickshire. Glamorgan Notts. Gloucestershire Northampton

GOLF-To-dage and

and -To-marrOW"

Clubs sprang up in every quar- ter, and it la certain that in most cases the support forthcoming for them was due to the example of Mr. Balfour. On his part, he was always willing to perform the opening ceremony at a new club...U.S. when his engagements permlited, and so an intimate touch was o tablished. I claim Mr. Balfour as one of the four outstanding lumin- arles of golf because he started the movement which became world

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cients, put into orderly array by Low, with singularly little disposi tion to call it old-fashioned.

For many years Low was solely responsible for adjudications on knotty problems submitted by eluba in all parts of the world. These had to be given and taken as précadents, like the judgments of n Lord Chief-Justice, · and al- though sometimes they had such peculiarities as national tempera ment or conditions might be ex- pected to present, every one of them has stood the test of time an a sound ruling which could be adapted to other cases.

J. H. Taylor was the first great English professional. John Ball, Harold Hilton, and Horace Hut- chinson had preceded him by some years as English amateurs of the front rank, but it was Taylor who gained the distinction of being the first professional to bring the Open Championship South of the Tweed.

The Mashie, Master..

I remember it well, for we were contemporary to the point that wo made our debut in the event in the same year. My most startling. dis- covery about Taylor was that ho held the club in the same way as I had perfected during monthe of practice at Bury, in Lancashire, the way which is now known as overlapplag, writes Harry Vardon in The Sports Dispatch.' 'Without having any idea of one another's investigations into the possibilities of the grip, we had each lighted on' this method. - "At any rate, It has proved its worth, for it la adopted by nearly all the front rankers in the world to-day. · ·||

Taylor will go down to posterity as the man who showed golfers what wizardry could be achieved with the mashfe. He set a won- derful standard with that elub, but personally what I always felt to be his greatest club was the cleek. I never saw anybody hit such cleak shots as 'Taylor. At any rate, he definitely started the long line of English professionals, to

Bobby Jones has only just finish- ed the erection of our fourth mile- stone. Hle influence on golfng methode has been tremendous."

He has disciples by the innumer. able thousands; people who are placing their faith in his prin ciples of standing" with, the feet close together and trying to put that a tremendous impetus of the right hip into the blow at the balls What a wonderful thing. It would be if they could only capture the secret of his method and touch in putting. He is the finest putter ever seen; better even than Walter Hagen or that former genius of the green, Willie Park

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