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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1931.

GOSSIP IN THE WORLD

OF SPORT

The following in the revised box ing ranking issued by the National Association of America.

Fly: Genaro.

Bantam: Al Brown.

Feather: Battalino.

Light: Canzoneri.

Walter: Thompson.

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Middle: Vacant, Light-heavy: Vacant. Heavy: Schmeling. Berg, who is considered by some to be the junior welter-weight champion, is placed fourth in his class, Canzoneri being ranked as champion, with King Tut and "Baby" Joe Gans occupying second and third places. In the middle- weight class, in which the title is vacant, Jack Hood is placed second in preference to Len Harvey, "Gorilla" Jones is ranked BR the likeliest contender..

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THE CHINA MAIL..

Tho Management Committee of the Football League, mooting In Liverpool, decided that admission in future should cost, 104, plus 20 tax. Clubs were left to fix prices for stands and boys.

The effect of this decision is that neither the clubs nor. the public County Cricket Club at a special will lose, although the obligations meeting held in Northampton re of the new tax have been met.

Formerly the charge for admis- jeeted the recommendation of the -committee that the club should sien was one shilling "Inclusive," withdraw from first-class cricket, which meant that the cluba paid and appointed a special committee tax on one shilling, which was 2d, to consider ways and

of leaving a profit of 108. increasing the income by at least! Now the charge for admission is 10d, plux tax, which, under the This year's income is estimated acw rate, is 2d. If the clubs and at £6,659, and a loss of £232 is still charged 18, the tax would Thave been 22d. Thus, a change expected.

£1.000 a year.

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The following team represented; the English Football League eleven! against the Irish League eleven bt J. Ladoumogue, who made new Blackpool and won comfortably by world figures-5min. 21 4-5secs.- four goals to nil,

for 2,000 metres in Paris early in

Turner (Huddersfield Town); July, has established himself 18 Jackson (Liverpool) (capt.), Keep- the greatest runner. France bas ing (Southampton); Edwards produced. His prowess now (Leeds United), Graham (Notting- eclipses that of the famous Bouln, ham Forest), Tate (Aston Villa); But while Bouin was one of the Other British boxers to gain re. Hulme (Arsenal), Beresford (Aston most popular men in France, cognition, are Al Foreman, second Villa), Hampson (Blackpool), Ladoumegue, owing to his tem- to Battalino in the "Feathers," and Bastin (Arsenal), Houghton (As- perament, is no great favourite Dick Corbett, second, to Al Brownton Villa). Reserves: Watson with athlelle crowds.

in the bantam-weight class. Primo (Blackpool) and Bestall (Grimsby) Following a difference with the Cornera has dropped from fifth Town).

French Athletic Federation recent- position to thirteenth in the Originally Easson (Portsmouth) ly, he vowed he would nevor

heavies, Sharkey is retained as the most likely challenger, with Tommy Loughren, the former light-heavy champion, as the next

best.

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Our Sports Diary.

LOCAL

HOCKEY-To-day-Hong Kong Hockey Club v. Argylls at 5.15 p.m.; Hong Kong Ladies' Hockey Club v. RA.S.C.; University. v. Recreio Ladies.

To-morrow-Radio Sports Club v. University.

Friday Hong Kong Hockoy .. Club "A" v. K.B.S.F.P.A. at 5.10.

p.m.

LAWN BOWLS-To-day--Open Singlen Championship. Lang v. F. C. Cullen on P.R.C. green; D. Rumjahn v. N. Drummond on K.B.G.C. green.

To-morrow-B. M. Omar v. R Lapsley on K.C.C. green.

FOOTBALL-To-niorrow-Com- bined Services v. Malayan Chinees.

of the season. He is now playing GOLF STANCE FASHIONS

main, it is expected, until the end

with Davis at Thurston's.

Been Changed.

The annual English and Scots How the Styles Have match for the Rosebery Cup and medals was played at Paddington.] At the conclusion of the twelve rinks (forty-eight men), a-side, the Scots led by 258 shots to 245,

Scots,

A. Adamson (Crouch, Hill) A. Brown (Essex Cty.)

J. G. Carruthers (Muawell

Hill)

R. G. Colquhoun (Bromley)

W. J. Denham (Brondesbury)

T. McCerkindale (Friary Park)

J. McKinlay (Paddington)

J. W. Smith (S. London)

A. R. Sweet (Crouch Hill) G. Smith (Wanstead) W. Taylor (Dulwich). A. Weir (Aldersbrook)

Total

English.

G. Bernard (Croydon)

had together before the American Open at Oakmont four years ago, and declares that was then that By ARCHIE COMPSTON, he noticed the beginning of a

change in my own swing. Looking over the list of Open ·

"Prior to

that time." he says, Championship winners the other day, "Compston was. hitting the kind of 30 was struck by the sudden swing tee shot which sends the gallery about that you get with the change into cestasies, but which really is of over from the guttle ball. In the little use as far as length is con- eight years before Sandy Herd cerned. He was hitting the ball a

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17 Core In 1902, Harry Vardon and it a decidedly downward blow. The J. H. Taylor each, won the Cham- resulting shot started off on a low pionship three times, and Jimmie trajectory, and appeared to be going.

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Braid only once. In the eight to travel a mile, but as it went on years that followed Herd's victory, it would rise abruptly and, finally Vardon and Taylor had only one drop almost vertically without any win each, but Braid took the title run." And he says quite truly, four times.

that at Oakmont I started to ex-

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H. J. Downes (Eltham)......17 W. H. Day (Acons)

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A. L. Goddard (Alford)

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the line of the shot than the right, swing.

RACING Saturday - Tenth Extra Race Meeling.

C. E. Gunnell (Shirley Park) A. H. Male (Gerrards Cross)

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and both of them tended to keep the

A. T. Hutchins (Boston Manor) A. Luff (Bromley T.) ..

face of the club open and cut the 20 ball up with a lot of backspin.

Of course, it is ke Bob's self-

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effacing stylo to refer to our prac-

Braid, even in those days, stood ab- tice rounda

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CRICKET Saturday-Third In- terport Cricket Trial; Royal Navy v. Diocesan B.S.; Indian R.C. v. University; Indian R.C. II. v. Uni- versity II

friends.

was chosen to play inside-left, with again. He is actually running re-weight champion of the eighties, Bastin outside, but the Portsmouth markably well, though not yet fully at Willesden Cemetery. A wreath man being unable to play, Baatin trained this season. He has added in the form of a boxing ring, with was moved inside to make way for power, ease, and length to his re-flags at each corner at half-mast, Houghton.

markable stride. Ladoumegue, who were placed on the grave by hila The Irish team was:

has been seen at Stamford Bridge, A. Gardiner (Cliftonville); Me made new' world records for 1,000 Minch (Ballymena), R. P. Fulton 1000 metres at the end of last (Belfast Celtic); Edwards, Jones, season, und is considered on

the McCleery (Linfield); Chambers Continent

48 the euccessor Coleraine), McCracken, Rambrick Nurmi. (Linfield), Borland (Glentoran), Tierney (Belfast Celtic).

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Smith, who was 68 years of age, twice won the British champion ship, and fought 106 rounds with Jake Kilraine, an American, in France for the world's title.

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G. H. Coleman (Valentines

Park)

A. T. Mole (Brondesbury) A. E. Taylor (Rendon) W. J. Thomas (Dulwich)

Total

Continued from last column.

Ono big difference between Braid Periment with the idea of aweeping and the other two was in the stance. the ball away or even taking it Vardon was an upright swinger and slightly after the head of the club "J. H.'s" awing was flat, but both has passed the lowest point of its those days stood decidedly are, in place of the old plan of hit- back a good elx inches farther from the club reached the bottom of Ita "open." with the left foot drawnting the bail a split second before

Hand Hammered.

in this way. As a solutely square-that is, with both matter of fact, I was only led to

25 feet the same distance from the line experiment ivit my swing by, a change that I had noticed in the driving of a whole bunch of the American players, and Bob himself a partikular, who were swinging on

the baja

vunching it

14 of the shot-and this, combined 22 with big climb-over of the wrists at the moment of atriking, tended to keep the ball down.

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down.

To understand the inwardness of

All Stand Square. Lord Lonsdale was re-elected

With the old guttle, as I have president of the Billiards Associa

some back-spin you must have, be

often explained, the difficulty was to tion and Control Council at the

cause a ball flying without any back-

get the ball up, and as long the change you, nave, got to realise annual general meeting in London.

spin will "duck" just as the plain fore, the style of Vardon and made in the way a gon ball flies, the guttle WEB to the what disterence the resilient core L. Steeples, of Sheffield, it was

gutties did to start with. announced, has been awarded cer-

The difficulty with the rubber. But when the rubber core camo Evening Standard.

Taylor gave them a pull over Braid. writes Archie Copston in Tho tificates for his record averages

The elder son of Mr. P. F.

core is that, because of the way it along the advantage was all the bails were arst invented to take the Waen gutta during the amateur championship.

The following is the 1931 rank-flattens on the club, it takes the other way. That is why golfing (Plum") Warner, the cricketer, J. Davis is similarly rewarded for

Lieut. Charles Edward Henry Peling of the lawn tennis stars back-epin easily, and even the slight fashion in the matter of the stance were found to be poor things to place of the old leatheries they his record break of 2,052 and tournament in the world was com cent issue of the "London Gazette" Ellsworth Vines (U.S.); 3, P. J. you want and makes the ball hang left foot forward, that you see in as you might say, by the cushion

The first women's open bowling ham Warner, was posted in a republished by L'Auto:

angle of left needed to start the ball has swung steadily back towards drive with because of the way they enooker record of 105, and W menced at Eastbourne recently, to the Goldstream Guards.

1. H. Cochet (France); 2, off, gives you more back-spin than the old "closed" Lindrum for his world record when the Deputy-Mayor (Alderman

stance, with the "ducked" in mid-air-stopped dead, break of 9,905, receives, in addition Miss Alice Hudson) threw the first

Perry (Britain); 4, H. W. Austin in the air. The modern golfer geta the old portraits of the players of of air they collected in front of to a certificate, a gold medal.

At the 1931 Ceylon Amateur (Britain); 5, F. X. Shields (U.S.); over the difficulty by teeing higher our grandfathers' days. As the ball them. woot!. The association has awarded a

Athletic Meeting A. Swaris broke 6. S. Wood (U.S.); 7, J. Borotra and further forward. Instead of manufacturers have gradually dis The Mayor (Lieut-Colonel R. W the record for the Long Jump by (France) 8, J. Satoh (Japan); 9, increasing the back-spin by hitting covered how to make the ball more after they had been hacked about a certificate to Miss Margaret Len- Gwynne) welcomed the bowlers, clearing 22 feet 2 ins. O, de Silva Van Ryn (U.S.); 10, G. M. Lott down on the ball ho acts out to and more "Hvely," we have had to hit by mishit shots with the iron Then players began to notice that nan, who in February last made and congratulated the women of could not raise that little bit of break of 176 at Glossop. Derby-Eastbourne on their initiative in extra energy to beat the records

decrease it by hitting the ball just modify our style to sult, and now-clubs the gullies flow very much ahire. a record for women's organising the event.

after the lowest point of the ewing adays we all stand aquare, or at better. The billiards. Miss Lunnan is the first The greens

For the 100 yards and the 220 but

and gathering it up. Actually it most only very slightly open. Lindrum, the Australian billiards starts off with a bigger "angle of woman to receive a certificate from despite this, the players invariably and 22.2/5 secs, which equalled the ing matches at Thurston's Hall, soir. The trajectory is a lot flatter, the best out of the modern high these

were slow, but he returned times of 10.1/5 secs. player, will take part in the follow-elevation," but it does not tend to however, is no longer enough to get of an ordinary small hammer, and next thing was to start hacking them intentionally.. the association. James McGhie chose long jacks, and there were, former records.

Even the alteration of stance. This was done with the chisel end receives a certificate for a break of few short woods, That the women?

London: Dec. 14, v. Newman; Jon. with the highest point near the tension ball, and there is a further were the first examples of balls 199, the highest made in the Scot know all the finer points of the

"hand-hammered" 4, 1932, v. Newman; and Jan. 18, middle instead of towards the end, tendency to stand more and more made with a marking. Of course, guttles Lish amateur championship.

game was soon evident.

'v. Davies, McConachy, the New and as the ball comes to earth again "back of the ball," as they say in it did not take them long to discover country again this year, and re- longer run Zealander, will also

visit this at a sharper angle, you get a far the States. To put the same thing that the marking could be, better in another way, we have learned to and more effectively done by means tee the ball further and further of a mould. forward until we have got it pretty

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committee who control Pontypool Park have invited repre- sentatives of the Welsh Rugby Union to meet them with a view to discussing plans for making the park a national Rugby ground for Wales.

It is pointed out that officials who attended the recent Welsh A.A.A. championships at Pontypool were very much impressed by the arena, which can accommodate crowd of 100,000. In 1927 the match between Pontypool and the Waratahs drew 40,000.

After a members

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They talked the jargon of bowls as glibly as men, but they took the game much more calmly. Having delivered their wood, they watched) it go on its.course, without any of those Dervish-liko movements common when men are playing.

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There are singles and paira championships, and 234 compati lors are taking part. They come from all parts of Southern Eng land, London, and South Wales.! Play will continue until Saturday, when the finals will be played.

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The price of admission to League! football matches will remain at

prolonged discussian one-shilling, in spile of the new en- of the Northampton Itertainment tax this season.

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Many prominent figures In the funeral of Jem Smith, the heavy boxing world were present at the

(U.S.).

Distinctive.

of course

appealing-

always

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well opposite our left heel. Instead

Hangs in the Afr.

The result of the marking was to

of knocking it down we are gather-increase the friction between the ing it up.

Beginning of a Change:

face of the club and the ball. It is

easy to see how in the case of a

I have just been reading an lofted club like the mashia the effect article by Bob Jones, in which he of the loft is to let the head of the mentions two drives, one by Leo club ahove itself through under the Diegel and one, by myself, ball at the moment of striking and in the Ryder Cup match at produce back-spin. But even when Columbus, as instances of the the angle of loft is small, as it is distance which it is possible to in the case of the driver, you get get with the modern ball. Bob re-something of the same effect. And calla some practice rounds he and I (Continued in Colunm 5.)

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