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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1931.

WOMEN GOLFERS FOR AMERICA

DELICATE PROBLEMS OF HOSPITALITY.

By HARRY VARDON

THE CHINA MAIL

SPORTS LINER FOR L.B.A. HOLD MEETING.

THE TESTS.

Plan for 500 Cricket Enthusiasts.

M.C.C. APPROVE.

BOWLS SELECTORS

APPOINTED.

'Three · Different "Teams To Be Played.

AITKENHEAD SHIELD.

the Selection Committee by submit- ting the names of four players best fitted for the respective positions.

The entertainment of the visitors has been entrusted to' Messrs. W. Ward, J. C.. Brown, J. Laing, and A. H. Oswick, who will have 'charge of the arrangements whilst the visitors are in the Colony as well as arranging the Interport dinner. Mr. R. Keown very kindly offered th provide a musical programme on the night of the dinner,

Plans are being considered in London to charter a liner to carry 000 British sportsmen to Australia, at a special faré, to witness the fight for the cricket ashes between A meeting of the committee of Engiand, and Australis next year. the Lawn Bowls Association was The cricket is held But as the held yesterday, evening to decide chief attraction of the tour, but, upon the arrangements for the before the Tesla start, the visitors Interport matches against Shang- would be given the opportunity of hai, Mr. A. O. Brawn, the Presid-fixtures were too numerous and the zeeing one of the greatest horse ent, took the chair. racca in the world-the Melbourne Cup.

Social amenities have some right to a place in the sun, and if they happen to induce a champion to travel hundreds of miles and ap- pear in public because he is stay- ing at the house of a friend close by, so much the better for every It is announced that the first beily concerned. The system might official match between teams of Le abused, but I have never heard wamen golfers representing Great of anything to its discredit. And, Britain and the United States will in any case, it is better that take place next Spring in Ameriva. should be abused occasionally than Virtually all the best players of the that the harmless pleasantries two countries engaged in a contest life should be entirely sacrificed. at Sunningdale last year, when The Royal and Ancient Club have Britain won, but that was a priheen consistent in their attitude, vately arranged affair. 'for the fort remember that, quité a quar- reason that the authorities weretor of a century ago, they put their not then prepared to take charge veto, on the scheme of & railway

They would also, be shown of the fixture.

company who, desiring to draw at Australian hinterland, the tention to a coarse which they sheep and cattle stations," owned, offered free travel passes in addition to watching the and hotel accommodation to well-cinal sporting events of the known amateurs who would com-iralian summer, be ablé to pete in a tournament on the cricket, golf, tennis, and go

The Ladies' Golf Union have act- ed courageously in embarking on the new enterprise, which is to be perpetuated at intervals like the Walker Cup and Ryder Cup matches

of

The Shanghai team. It was an- nouneed, would arrive in Hong the Kong at the beginning of October great On the suggestion of the chairman and, it was decided that the third Inter- prin- port match should be played frres- Aus-pective of whether one, port won the play first two. It wis decided that the surf-first game would be played on the

green, the sound on the Taikoo R.C. green and the third on the Club de Recreio green,

In deciding on the programme of matches to be arranged, the Chair man mentioned that Inst time the

Shanghai players maile loo' strenu ous a tour. He suggested that in addition to the three Interport games the Shanghai, visitors be asked to meet a team representing Kowloon, one representing Hong Kong and a third, to be selected from the Second Division Club, chosen for Interport players

for men. When they resolved upon course,. The situation seems to be bathing, shooting and fishing in Kowloon Enwling Green Club/ matches to be excluded in each In-

it, they had no definite idea as to how they were going to raise the money for the first expedition. The Americans are no hospitable, and in spite of their Wall Street crashes, they still seem to have such abundant financial resources for golf, that no doubt they would gladly have met all the expenses of such a visit. But that is not quite in accordance with the tradi-

tions of laternational rivalry. nor

that an amateur may accept between the Tests." friend's hospitality, but no other.

M.C.C. Members Approve..

For instance, the members of the

I understand that prominent British Walker Cup team are enter-members of the M.C.C. have been tained a good deal when they go approached unoficially on the pro- to the United States, writes Harry posal, and that they have given it Vardon in the Sports Dispatch. It their blessing, writes

a special is inevitable that it should be so. correspondent

to the Evening The Americans would not accept Standard.

If the scheme is carried out, File which debarred them from inviting visiting British amateurs special arrangements to accom- to stay at their houses as guests,

stance. If, on the other hand, Shanghai so desired, additions! games could be quite cnally ar- The sug- ranged on their arrival," Souza and C. facchi, with the with Kowloon was fixed for the Messrs. A. Hyde-Lay, L. C. R. gestion was accepted and the match President and Vice-President (ex-Kowloon Cricket Club green, that officio) were appointed to select the against Hong Kong to be played on three rinks to represent Hong Kong the Craigengower green and the as well as two reserves for each Second Division game to take place rink. A suggestion was made to at North Point on the Hong Hong

The annual match for the Aitken-

modate the sportsmen would be the Committee that the various Electric R.C. green. ja t-permissible under the regula and the visitors would be churlish made at the Test matches. Those teams should be chosen during the

tion which governs the ways of if they declined.

amateurs.

The tourists have their hotel as

interested in

the pastoral and next week to give them time for head Shield, between six rinks ke- agricultural industries would be practice together. Three entirely presenting Hong Kong and Kow-

selves or their sons. Last Winter, several of the lend-well as travelling expenses paid up able to see and suitable for them-different teams will oppose theloon, was fixed to be played on. Sa- Shanghai players, and representa-turday, September 20, on the Oral- The scheme has already been dis- tives of Clubs were asked to assist gengower C.C. green. cussed in Australia, where one comment reads:

ing British women golfers were into the time when they take part vited to take part in a round of in the Walker Cup match, but dur- tournaments in Floridu, They were inférmed, that members of the golf clubs in the districts which it was proposed to visit had expressed a wish to entertain the tourists as

be

guests, who would therefore 'relieved of hotel expenses-an item, which, in Florida, has made

any a holidaymaker blanch. They would be called upon to pay only their travelling and incidental ex- penses.

The Ladies Golf Union decided to ask the Royal and Ancient Club whether such

Precedents.

ing the remainder of their stay in America, which is invariably pro- longed so that they may compete in the United States amateur cham- plonship, they have to draw upon

their own resources..

Mitchell's First Trial. Yet, how full it is of incongrui- ties! I remember Abo Mitchell, as an unknown amateur, being taken to Hoylake by his patrons, Horace Hutchinson and S. Winkley Smith to play in the amateur champion- ship. Mitchell had done nothing to infringe. his status; he had never been away from his home in Forest How in Sussex, and his work in the grounds of the hosts who bore hir North..

"If the project is accomplished. THE FAIR SEX IN TONY CANZONERI

and 500 Kritons imbued with

sporting instinet, enterprise is business, and the spirit of adven- ture, come to Australia, they will enjoy themselves perhaps far be- yond anticipations."

ORGY OF SABRE SLASHING.

23 Wounded Dragged From Arena,

DELIGHT CAUSES DUELS.

Vienna, August 6.

SPORT.

How Women Compare With Men.

TWO TENNIS STARS.

In an

the

arrangement

article appearing in the could be permitted. The ruling

August Windsor, Captain' F. A. M.] body replied that anybody who

Webster writes:-A brief examina- agreed to accept private hospitality

tion of the comparative merits of for the purpose of taking part in

male and female participants in tournaments must reuse to play as

Still, much as people praised his an amateur, and so the small party skill and his long driving the

sport will certainly be of interest. In the first place Miss M. E. that wont paid their own expenses.reached the semi-final, if I remem

Foster, by winning the King's Prize bez rightly), they talked hard

Forty-six Viena University stu-at Bisley in 1980, when she defeat That was excellent, Lut for al about the fact that he had come as most as long as I can remember the guest of his employers, and dents hacked at one another with ed ninety-nine picked marksmen of people have been talking and medi- made it virtually impossible for sabres until twenty-three were so the British Empire, has proved that tating on the subject of hospitality, anything of the kind to happen cut about and wounded that they a woman may be as good as a man could no longer stand upright, and at rifle shooting. In the same year or at any rate, the exnet degree in

again. which it may lie offered and accept-

It is desperately difficult to were dragged, blood-drenched, from Miss Winifred Brown won

King's Cup air race. Other aviators ed with propriety.

know where, in these matters, the

The occasion was the somewhat, who have achieved enviable distinc- Providence knows there has been state of being proper begins and plenty of it ever since golf began ends. Just how dificult it is can inappropriate one of the conferring tion are Laily Bailey, Lady Heath, to be a game of universal interest be appreciated by one little note upon Monsignar Seipel, the former and the Hon. Mrs. Victor Brace; Well-known amateurs have gone which the Royal and Ancient Club, prelate-premier" of Austria, of an while it was, perhaps, no more than Honorary degree at Vienna Univer- the luck of the weather that pre far aheld to stay at the houses of with all their broadmindedness on

Miss Amy Johnaqu from friends who sent hearty invitations, the subject, have incorporated insity. The members of all the Na-vented dictator I dare swear, by the fact the definition of an amateur. This tionalist student associations at the superseding, all previous records

so delighted that upon her solo flight to Australia.

On the other hand, the difference that the clubs to which they benote says, that he may accept two university were longed were holding open competi- golf balls, free of charge, from they felt impulled to challenge all

members of the Nationalist at golf between the lengths 'driven tions in which the presence of dis- manufacturers for testing purposes, tinguished strangers was held to and that they "must in every case students' musical association called by Miss Joyce Wethered and Cyril Tolley is no less than 20 yards. At "Ghibellines" to duels. ba vital. Nobody has ever thought be clearly market with the word

lawn. tennis the accepted sex handi- anything of this, not so much as 'sample'." Two! And how this!

cap is 30 points a game.

:

a breath of scandal has come of it. And I hope none ever will,

DON

the areun."

Duelling Half-Naked. The contests were fought under

blessed word "sample" is going to the most severe conditions; sabres It has been held that Tilden could!

as weapons, bodies naked to the have benten Mlle. Lenglen, giving

save his soul I do not know,

TEMPTED.

(Offer of Further £1,000 to

Visit London.

BERG'S OPPORTUNITY }

Paris, August 6. Mr. Jeff Dickson has stated that he has raised his offer a further £1,000, making it £12,000, to Tony Canzoneri to' come to London fight Kid Berg within the next few weeks.

to

"I don't know whether this will

fetch him or not," Mr. said, "but I hope so."

"Yesterday I had

Dickson

裁 twelve-

minute talk on the Atlantic tele-

phone with Canzoneri's manager,

and he is considering my offer. I expect to have a definite reply some time to-day.

"If the match is arranged I shall.

Mr. Dickson is confident that put it on at the White City." Berg would prefer to fight Can- zoneri for the light-weight cham- pionship in London.

"I am certain it would be a good fight," he said. "Berg was not in his best form when Canzóneri beat him in their match for the light- weight championship. When they met with no championship at stake Berg was easily the better man."

BRADMAN'S | HOW A RECORD WAS waist, and protection only for the her 15 and owing 30; but he could M.C.C. TOUR IN SOUTH

FUTURE.

Injury May End His Cricket Career.

FILM ADVANCES.

BROKEN.

Ladoumegue's Secret Instructions.

FROM AN "OLD FRIEND."

If it be true, that Mr. Don Brad-

Stockholm, August 5. 'man's Injury. is going to end his cricket career, then the game will

The discovery of a telegram in sustain a severer loss than any the hotel where Ladeumegue stayed since that caused by Mr. Frank wien he came here and broke the Foster's motor-cycle accident, 2,000 yards world's record reveals writes "Londoner" in the Evening

the remarkable sense of tactics of Standard.

Suppose Mr. Foster, still not his trainer and the ability of the over 80, had been fit and in form runner to interpret these tactics on In the years immediately succeed the track in the stress of competi ing the war! We should not have tion. The telegram- translated been so helpless against the reads

this to Helen Wills, eyes and throat. It was agreed that not concede the duels, the honour of fighting owing to her speed. which was decided by drawing lots, should continue until one or the other was so injured as to be unable to continue.

dueta

AFRICA.

£3,000 CLEARED.

Recent experiments In hundred. yards'-runnlag, undertaken with the Canadians, Perey Williams and Myrtle Cook, probably the fastest

Capetown, August 5. The twenty-three

were sprinters in the world of their res- fought in five rections.

The four of the M.C.C. teara; The pective sexes, have proved that at twenty-three victims were handed the beginning of a short speed-race under A. P. F. Chapman yielded a over to the doctor. The "Morgen," a woman's "lower gear" makes up total profit of 18,104, made up of which records the occurrence,, asks for lack of actual power. whereas 371 on the ordinary matches and angrily, why, in spite of the open a man's greater strength enables £2,783 on the Tests, although the defiance of the "paper" law against him to establish a ratio of superior- third Test at Durban was washed

the distance fricreases, in out by rain. duelling, the police take no action. ity as

The total cost of the tour was Had the affair taken place in a spite of the fact that his power of

the acceleration does not appear 80 £9,853, compared with £8,467 for working-claes, quarter, saya paper, It would have been qualified good as that of his girl opponent the tour of Captain Stanyforth's as a "horrible stabbing affray."

In actual fact, Williams attained team, the increase being due to his maximum speed of just under 25 larger allowances made to amateurs. miles an hour when he passed the The South African Cricket' 'Asso- 47 yards mark in 6.4 seca, whereas ciation receives, only £974 ⠀as; its Miss Cook touched the peak of her, share and each of the South African pace some ten or twelveyards affiliated association receive.£161.-- earlier, when she passed the 85 Press Association Foreign Special, Australians and our younger bats- If you wish to beat the world's men would have learnt, in a hard

record for 2,000 yarde take the

yards mark in 5.2 secs, travelling at nearly 19 miles an hour. It is school, what really hostile bowling.

advice of your old friend

Interesting to note, also, that the. Grand Rapids, (Michigan), can be.

Poulenard" and "dohe 1,500

girl continued running at top pres I am aceptical of the report that motres in min. 2aec. and you

sure for 15 yards, whereas the man's Mr. Bradman has received an in- will then make a time of 4min Tommy Armour, winner of this pace began to fall away 18 yard year's British "Open" and the after he had ranched his maximum vitation to go to Hollywood. His 52sec. NE FARGA CATHE

United States Professional Golf Swimming, jumping, hurdling, reputation as a batsman would not

Ladoumogue took the advice of mean much to American aim mag his old friond Paulenard." He

Championships, yesterday suffered and many other forms of athletics, nates. But there do this to be said, that his personality can be dis passed the 1,500 metres in exactly defeat at the hands of an 18-old are covered by Captain Webater

Amin 2sec. and broke the tape at schoolboy, Charles Kecals, who won surve

Michigan open golf championship 2,000 yards In 4min 52sec, to make the play off in the final of the

with a card of 73,

tinguished in the Pavilion at Lord's when he is fielding in the deep by the sight-screen in front of the

free seats.

!!..

now world's recordPress Auss tiation Foreign Special.

· TOMMY ARMOUR BOWS TO DEFEAT.

SCHOOLBOY'S FEAT.

-Reuter

August 6,

Armour's 74.

I wish there were more goodwill in football-Peter William

LECLESS SWIMMER.

Honolulu, July 25. Charles Zimmy, Long Beach, Cal, attempting to break Mrs. Myrtle a legless professional swimmer, in

·Huddleston's 88/hour.nwimming record, completed 60 hours at 9

a.m. to-day,

Zimmy hoped to continue paddling, another 40 hours in the War Memorial Pool Associated Press

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