1931-12-12 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1931.

KINGS THEATRE

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10,.7.15, & 9.30 p.m.

"Practice makes · perfect-oven

in loro! To save Time, I make

love to two women at once- nd, believe me, I learn a lot. Come and see, me!"

MAURICE

Two wemen-one gets his hand,

Would you

the other his heart': And ix

everybody happy?

be if you were 18 girl?

CHEVALIER

The Smiling Lieutenant

with

CLAUDETTE COLBERT

Charlie RUGGLES

Miriums HOPKINS

The

Girl

tH

Who

Loved

Life

FRANK LLOYD production

AN ERNST

LUBITSCH

PRODUCTION

Paramount's 20th Birthday

Jubilee Picture.

COMMENCING TO-MORROW

Harding EAST LYNNE

.. BOOKING

AT THE

THEATRE

TEL. 25313.

with

FOX

Clice Brok Comad Nagel

PICTURE

PENINSULA HOTEL

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29th, 1931.

YOUNG FOLKS

CARNIVAL DANCE

Fancy Dress

7 p.m.

10.30 p.m.

Admission $2.50 each,

including Supper.

Tickets will be on sale at the Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels from December 12th, 1931,

THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD

CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP

:

NEW SOCCER IDEA

Off-The-Field Scheming That Scores Goals.

[By . Burgess, Sheffield Wednesday's International Inside-Left) ··

few minutes, and concentrate all on a determined ten-man attack to score the equalising goal.

Again, if you have a lend and have been unlucky in the way of in- furies, It may be necessary to pay more attention to defence in the closing stages.

There is absolutely nothing in- sporting in this.

Following the Team Plan. Spectatora do not always realise! the care that goes into the building of a team plan.

A new idea has made headway in This was no haphazard move on football recently the "non-playing" the part of the captain concerned,

however. captain. One cannot give an opinion He had considered weather con.

First, it must be understood that: of the effect of this development on ditions. He had calculated that the the players themselves have little the game until we have had much sun would last out the match, and opportunity to watch other teams, more experience of non-playing cap-that, sinking lower, it would be except when they are actually en- much more trying in the second halfgaged against them. What they tains. But the question may well be than in the first.

know about their adversarles in the such asked can tactics' be directed from Obviously, all

decisions next match cannot be left to chance, off the field of play?

must, in a sense, be “last minute" if the game is of real importance, decisions.

the men and methods of the adver saries are carefully studied by re- presentatives of the club who are You may talk team tactics in mid- thoroughly experienced in football) week with referonce to Saturday's in theory and practice. As a result 'match, but the tactics actually of their reports, a plan of campaign! adopted will be determined imme-is decided upon. distely before the game, and also This is during the course of it.

team.

The answer, I think, is yes, pro- vided that there is exuct co-opura- tion between the players and those whose work it is to determine the tactics to be employed.

match

Emergency Moves.

communicated to the

No football team nowadays can afford to take the field without a (plan of campaign. The more im Few footballers will agree that Now comes the really important

portant the match, the more vital there is anything to be gained by point. it is to have a plan. Again, the chopping and changing a .cam

All this careful study and thought eame strategy cannot be used in about during half-time, It is a will be flung to the winds if players, after mutch-nor even re-sound enough maxim, however, that allow themselves to be "rattled" by peated too frequently in the same if you are down on the run of the an early reverse, or if they do not! match. You have different oppon-play during the first half, you are make a determined effort to carry { ents to consider, with widely vary-likely to be equally down on the out the plan. Ing physique, temperament, and second half, unless you make a ideas about the game. You have change of some sort. The change different weather conditions, tog.can do little harm, and may do good. On the other hand, circumstances! You have also the outlook of your The finest possible method is to own team to consider. They many make the absolute minimum number may arise that make it necessary to drop the plan, and try something be in overwhelming form, or they of changes of any kind-no changea|

else. may not be working as smoothly as at all, in fact. they should be.

The Great Player.

There must be men on the fleld] But this cannot always be man with the understanding to know this, and with the Individuality to keep the ball rolling in the right direction.

All these points musi be con- aged. aidered before the question of how to acore goals can be properly answered.

Trying New Ideas.

Vital Ten Minutes

An example of the change of tactics that often pulls the game out Scheming on the field and oft of the fire is the order to "attack must be added to the physical at- relentlessly during the last ten tributes of the team if goals are tol One captain the other day re-minutes or so of a match, after you be scored in these days. versed orthodox ideas by electing to are down.

The great player is one who play with the sun in the eyes of his This #rategy is based

on the brings his own touch of genius to team in the first half, having won understanding that you are not like, bear on the preconceived plan, and the toss. The more usual custom ly to score if you continue in the who can fit in with the rest of the Is to take in the first half all the way that you have been going. It team and show them the way to advantages you can get, and so have is a good sporting chance to let tackle each situation as itariace. the best chance of gaining a fead. defence look after itself for the last Evening News.

EASIER

GOLF

-by-

H.STUART HOBSON

ARE "TOO MANY CLUBS" SPOILING GOLF ?

AN R. AND A. BAN

set of his career he will not perhaps get every one right. And later, he may get one or two that are badly wrong. In any case, n club that is good when new does not last for

ever.

Clube deteriorate, and their balance changes.

Quality and Suftability.

It would be safe to say that the quality and suitability of the in-1 struments we use are of more im- portance in golf than in any other

game.

There are half-a-dozen or so to be chosen, and each has to be left to do its own work. The player who does the work that the club ought| to door rather, who attempts to do the work is making hazards for himself.

The action of the Rules of Golf, doubt some caddies! who would Committee of the Royal and An-like to see the number of clubs that cient Golf Club of St. Andrews in a player might carry strictly limit- A cricketer once wagered thut he banning clubs that have a roughened. Eight is the number suggeat could throw a golf ball nearer to the cd surface inset into the face has ed, three woods and five irons, caused much comment among golf- Other players would go still fur-pin than a golfer could put it with

ers,

a maskle. ther, and insist that each of the

He found that he was wrong, Hej. Clubs improved in this way were limited number of clubs must be of had the accuracy of direction, but meeting with favour. They aided rigidly standard pattern,

the ball.

In adding backspin to the ball, eo Only in this way, it is asserted, he had no means of putting stop on making approach shots easier to can golf became once again a test stop on the green.

of the skill of the player, and not The actual pronouncement of the of his equipment. Royal and Aucient Golf Club reads:--

Equipment Counts,

Confidence in a club often makes a golfer play above his standard. That is why clubs that have been used by well-known professionals

the

!

But his golf ever been anything fetch big prices. Lesser mortals "On and after January 1, 1982, else but a test of the choosing and genuinely can play better with them the faces of iron clubs shall be handling of equipment? There is—for a time, at least- smooth, subject to the provision no joy greater than that of choos-) Extravagance or Not? that they may have the shallow line Ing a now club, unless it be picking The problem that concerns. and/or dot markings such as have up a second hand club for a shilling future of golf is this shall we give been customary for many years, and or two, or adapting existing clubs. the golfer unrestricted choice of from which all rough or raised One goller recently showed me a clubs, and full liberty to adapt any edges have been removed. No pre-clook which he had cut down three club to his needs, or shall we go paration which has the object of Inches in the shaft, so that ho could back to the days when to have more putting backspin on the ball shall use it for short approaches. His than five clubs was unwarranted ex- be applied to the heads of iron prowess with this club showed a travagance? clubs. No insets of any description marked an improvement over his Going back is very difficult at any shall be allowed on the striking face other game that much against time, unless deterioration sets In. af iron clubs."

the will of the professional, and the retrogressive movement is Ban On New Clübe.

he had ordered all his clubs to be unconscious. This ban on the new clubs has cut down to the same extent!

Modern clubs, good tuition, the rained the question of the whole That is an extreme example, but modern ball, and modern courses fature, tendency of the implements there is no golfer who will neglect have done a great deal to popularlso of golf,

any opportunity to find a new club golf. If we are to continue to go Any professional can now show that will help his golf, or to adapt an forward, the golfer must be allowed ranges of clubs all forged with one existing club If there is a chance of to indulge his hobby of club collect- abject in view-to make the game greater progress,

ing. The control of the implementa of golf easier. It is not always The only formula for successful of the future should take the form easy to see why some of the new golf is this, a good club in the hunds of closer co-operation between club- clubs are legal, if they are com of a capable player.

makers and professionals, and the pared with others that have been Even though a player may be Royal and Ancient Golf Club, Ibanned.

very carefully measured for his makers of the rules of the gau

game There are some players and no clubs by the professional at the out (China Mall Copyright).

MAJESTIC

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

A GLORIOUS DREAM OF LOVE

CRUSHED BY MATRIMONY,

ANN HARDING

in

PARIS

BOUND

Pathé Picture

Overland China Mail.

A WHOLE WEEK'S NEWSPAPERS IN ONE.

In honour of their Golden wedding anniversary, Sir Robert and Lady Margaret Ho Tung, gave a sumptuous party at the Peninsula Hotel on December 2, in the after- noon, and it was largely attended, those present including H.E. the Governor and Lady Peel. Sir William, in the course of speech, referred 10 the magul- ficent work that both Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung had done in the cause of charity. Sir Robert, in replying, said it was with great pleasure that he donated $200,000 for children's welfare and education in the Colony: A full report of the celebration is chronicled in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.

Mrs. Helen Wills-Moody, world's champlon tennis star, did honour to Hong Kong by visiting the port on December 4, and consented to play in exhibition matches at the Kowloon Cricket Club on December 8. The latter attracted an enormous crowd, and the star gave a brilliant display of the art and technique of tennis. E. C. Fincher, the local runner-up of the Singles · championship, beat Mrs. Wills-Moody, in a set that extended to twenty games. A detailed report is furnished in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.

In the early hours of December 5, a village elder was murdered in Chung Uk Village, in the Ping Shan district. The crime was most brutal, and the motive was apparently robbery. The tragedy was first discovered by the deceased's daughter-in-law who entered the house, and found him lying on a bed dead. He appeared to have been dead for some time, as the body was already stiff and cold. From the villagers, the Police investigators, learned that two strange men had been visiting the place on three occasions. A full report of the outrage is contained in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.

There was a bright tone at the Thirteenth Extra Race meeting held at Happy Valley on December 5, The dividends paid in some of the events were excellent, Glorious Stag paying over $80 in the first race of the day, whilst Sonny Boy, who was third in the event, paid over $45., In the absence of Apollo, who was not entered, Sitting Bull, again triumphed in the big event, the November. Handicap, The OVERLAND CHINA MAIL gives a detailed report of the meet.

There is no phase of the life of the Colony or of China that does not receive attention in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL *** the weekly paper that YOU MUST ORDER NOW.

READY NOW.

Mail via Suez closes at 6 p.m., Dec. 11.

via Siberia at 5 p.m., Dec. 12.

SINGLE COPY

25 Cent

(Sold the streets and at the bookatalia sé you can

aubscription to the adßen-HK. 81B DOT: ARRUM,

$19 including postage abroad." Half-yairly

or quarterly, perioda pre esta)].

No, JA, WYNDHAM STREET-PHONE 29922.

“THE OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.”