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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1931.
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CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP
MALAYAN FOOTBALL
ELEVEN.
Now in the Colony for the Ho Ho Trophy.
AGAINST HONG KONG CHINESE.
EIGHT-OAR RACE SPOILED.
Swan Gets Entangled
"in Crew's Oars.
C.R.C. WIN THE "C" DIVISION.
Recreio League Tennis Hopes Dashed. ·
REPLAY YESTERDAY.
At the Kowloon Cricket, Club,
Scores:-
G. Noronha and L. Rocha (Recreio):-
A swan spoiled an exciting finish in the annual eight-pur race..., bai Singapore, September 18. tween crews representing Eton and On Sunday seventeen Malayan Windsor on the River Thames yesterday the Chinese Recreation 'Club. defeated the Club de Recrolo Chinese footballers will leave by above Windsor. the Kashmir for Hong Kong where
The crews were racing side by by 6 sets to a set in the re- they are:
in play for the championship of the to begin a series of side, and a keen .contost was matches against Chinese teams. prospect when the swan
"C" Division of the Lawn Tennis got en. The main object of their visit is tangled in the oars of Eton crew. League. the match between Malayan and The boat had to pull up while the Ilong, Kong Chinese 'teams for the swan got away from under the oars Ho Ho Interport football trophy. apparently unhurt. The Windsor Formerly intended as an annual crew cased up until the Eton boat event, owing to the travelling "ex- was clear again. The race. penses involved it has been decid- won by Windsor. ed to play it once every two years, played alternately in the two porta. The competition began in 1928, whon Hong Kong beat a visiting Malayan side. Hong Kong return- ed the visit in 1929, and lost the trophy which Malaya will defend on the present tour.
Six matches have bean arranged. Two will be played in Hong Kong, two in Canton and two in. Shang- hal.
At the moment only 15 players have accepted the invitation to tako part in the tour.
The team will travel under the management of Mr. Yes Cheok Wah
of the Singapore Chinese F.A. While on their tour, the members of the team will probably partici- pate in the National Chinesa Olymple Meet, which will begin on October 10 at Nanking.
TO-DAY'S GAME.
The Hong Kong Chinose Amateur Athletic Federation will play the Malayan Chinese touring football oleven at Caroline Hill to-day at 4.30 p.m.
His Excellency the Governor, Sir William Peel, will be present to kick off this afternoon and. Sir Shou-son Chow has kindly consent- ed to distribute the medals at the conclusion of the game.
Our Sports Diary.
LOCAL
туде
HOCKEY-To-day-Y.M.C.A. v. K.D.S.F.P.A. (Ladies' Section)' at King's Park,
RUGBY FOOTBALL-To-day- New Kowloon Rugby Club Trinl Game.
LAWN BOWLS-To-day-
Aitkenhrad Shield Kowloon v.
Hong Kong.
Y.
RACING-To-day-Eighth Extra Meeting at 1.80 p.m.
FOOTBALL -To-day-First Division Police v. Navy; Recreio Argylls: Club v. South China; Kowloon v. Eastern; Second Divi- sion-Ewo v. University; Navy v Kowloon; Club v. Argylla; South China v Borderers; 12th H. Bat- tory v Chinesa Ath.; R.A.0.0. Taung Tsin; Third Division-Bor- derers v. South China; Radio S.C. Y. Chinese Ath; Recreio. v. Royal Engineers.
ABROAD.
1.
GOLF-To-day-U.S. Ladies* National Championship (Last Day).
FOOTBALL To-day Full English and Scottish League pro- grammex.
*
RACING-To-day Newbury Autumn Cup
EASIER
GOLF
·by-
H.STUART HOBSON
WHAT OF THE WEAK - WRISTED PLAYER?
HANDICAPS AND OPPORTUNITIES.
shots from long grass. Recoveries that are just about possible for the normal player may be impossible for him.
"Golf is all wrists," a render tells, His worst shots will be recovery. me. "ao what chance le there for the player whose wrists are weak?"
This is an unusually interesting question if only because it con- cerns a number of women golfers, as well as men. The commonly heard saying that "golf is all wrists must have decided a good many fair enthusiasts that golf was no game for thèm to take up.
Wrists play an important part su every golf shot, there is no doubt
about that
Firm wrists, flexible and well- controlled, can be the making of the. golfer.
Long approaches with an fron will be likely to prove difficult for him, but he will find the mashle a friendly club. Mashio-niblick: or niblick shots need not necessarily bother him. His best clubs will probably be the brassle and the spoon, the masts and the mashle
Biblick
Putter to Rescue. The putter will give him his opportunity to make up for strokes he may lose in reaching putting distance.
lost to M. K. Lau and W. T. Les 2-8 lost to F. K. Lau and L. F. Hau 2-0 lost to W. A, Chow and Y. K.
Mow
9-6
A. A. Remedios. and. H. Noronha (Recreio):
lost to Lap and Leo
J
0-6
lost to Lau and Hau.
1-8
A. V. Remedios and L. Ribeiro
lost to Lau and Leg
1-1
drew with Chow and Mow 6-6
/ (Recreio) :-
| OPEN LAWN BOWLS
CHAMPIONSHIP.
Hampton and Rumjahn in Last Eight.
*
- R. Hampton and D. Rumjahn en- tored the last eight in the Open Lawn Bowls. Championship at the expense of L. Luck and G. McLeod, respectively...
The former match was played on the Craigengower C.C. green and resulted in an easy victory for Hampton by 24 shots to 7 after 17 heads.
Twenty heads sufficed to "give Rumjahn victory over McLead by 21 shots to 14 on the Civil Service C.C. green..
gotten In what can be done with B minimum of clubs..
Mr. R. T. Jones unes fourteen clubs, but breaking the caddy's back does not necessarily, make the. golfer.
The weak-welsted golfer should not hesitate to take a spoon at short holes, or for any approach that he has doubts about achieving with 'an Iron. Mr. H. H. Hilton, one of the most inspired of players, used per sistently to use a spoon for what |others culled fron-club shots, simply because he played that club batter than any other..
~ The Right Choice. Intelligent ⠀⠀ golf. fë based on choosing the club that suits your own style, and not necessarily, the club in general use.
If you are weak in the wrists, the chief fault you will have to guard against is overswinging. Over swinging to the most fatal error among women-players.
You must beware of letting the club-head "drift" at the top of the swing.
Take it back just as far as you can control it-to the point where you can comfortably cock the wrists af the top of the swing If you take the club back comfortably, you should be able to snap the wrists in at impact with, the ball, which is all that really matters.
In view of the greater difficulty you are likely to experience in the rough country, aim to keep the ball' down the middle, rather than to hit" It a long way
Long Swing Necemary) You will get ample distance with-
The weak-wristed golfer, bow- out a long awing.bu
"Adaption Required, And so we come back to the quos tion-what is the golfer to do who The fact that a player does not is not gifted with strong wrists? get on well with certain clubs Is he to give up the game? Of should not depress him. course not Golf in the game that Many years ago, as a lad is is always kind to the player who Scotland, I played over a very 20 will adapt himself to it; or, rather, mote course with a worker In a local who will adapt his style to his mill. I was in good form, and put ever, must never miss a shot round the greens. If you keep the ball physique,
in what I thought was a fine score, The golfer who is weak in the hut he beat me five-and-four, using down the middle with your wooden wrist is often strong around the so few clubs that he carried them clubs, and then play a good mashier greens. His putting can be excep loose in his hand, without bag, chip one of the one-patt kind-you tionally good. He will often I naked him how he did 12. He told will be a match for any player, especially if he practises his shots me that he had to walk across the In a sense, weak, wrista simplify -find himself in possession of a golf course to the mill every morn• "touch that is lacking in physically flag, Kid back-perose" to his home stronger layere.
Iron Club Handicap, /==/ His drives' need not lose a lot in the way of length, and certainly hing in direction, but his 'Iron- 'will almost certainly handicap him.
every evening. And plained, it was just take a ball: and play
in any other way."
quick club
Dacross;
golf.
You know that you must keep the ball straight, rather that alm to "hit it smile”. And you know that you must concentrate on "your maible-play” and on your putting." Fifty yards down the fairway can be less important than a few inches around the greens.--(China Mail
Innes Fourteen Clubs.""" vas" a "lesson" I have not for- Copyright.)
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