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THE CHINA MAIL

TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1932.

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CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP

KEEN DAVIS CUP The Secret Of Hagen's Success

MATCH.

Spain Win Doubles

from Italy.

Rome, Yesterday. In their doubles encounter with Italy, in the Davis Cup, Maier and Tejada, the Spanish pair, defeated the Del Bono and Deminerbi, Italian representatives, by three sets to one, thus reducing their two-love deficit in the singles.-- Reuter.

Results, as cabled by Reuter, are as follows:-

Maler and Tejada (Spain) de- feated Del Bono and Deminerbi

| (Italy) 5-7, 6-2, 6-2, 6-4.

BASEBALL RESULTS

Margin.

CHICAGO'S VICTORY.

At Golf

Relaxation And Its Value

WHY DIEGEL FAILED

THE ASPHYXIATING ATMOSPHERE

OF GOLF.

On the eve of a season crowded jars of the past and the present era with championships, international-men like Vardon, Braid, Taylor, matches, and major tournaments, Mr. John Ball, Mr. Harold Hilton, ja correspondent with B wide Mr. Robert Jones, and Hagen- *knowledge of golf and golf-made it a point during an important

ers on both sides

of

the event to get as far away as possible: Atlantic sends me B letter in from the asphyxiating atmosphere which he puts forward; an interest-of golf.

!

Brooklyn Wins By Biging explanation of the success of Jones, for instance, would retire a detective American players as compared with to his room and read British. Apparently, It is all a story, the best form of mental dope, matter of relieving the strain and so he declared, for the tired golfer. tension associated with continuous That the strain is terrific was shown play in big events.

by his collapse on concluding the New York, Yesterday. He says: "Has it ever occurred last round of the championship at "Never Baseball matches played in the to the British player that the way; Hoylake, two years ago. National and American Leagues to success in golf is to get away from again," he said, "will I go, through here to-day, resulted as follows: it as much as possible. At first this horrible torture," and he has Only his superb National League.

jaight this may appear paradoxical, kept his word. Brooklyn II Pittsburgh

bat a long acquaintance with the skill, and the power to control him- leading personalities in the game self during the actual play, have en- Cincinnati 6 New York Chicago

11 Philadelphia 10 has convinced me that the more aabled him to achieve so many bril- iplayer thinks and worries about his liant triumpha. "Let others experi- golf, and what is likely to happen to ence the torments," said Jones, "I him, the worse be performs, Re-have finished."

American League. New York 8 Cleveland Chicago

4 Boston (Jolley homered twice.) Detroit

6 - Philadelphia (Rogell homered.)

St. Louis 2 Washington

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cognising the truth of this, the In competitive golf, as also in

match

between play American, on completing the busi-ordinary ness of the day, seeks an avenue of friends, the ideal outlook is to treat escape from the everlasting chatter each shot as a separate entity. To about golf, of which there can be look back on the patch, mostlyį no more boring subject when con-strewn with regrets, is just as fatal) ducted, as it always is, on the basis as to anticipate what is ahead. This of What might have been.

may be a counsel of perfection, but "The American, the correspon-the man who wins championships,| dent goes on, finds a release in and the fellow with a reputation for bridge, game which, by its very pocketing our half-crowns, forgets nature, compels the player to switch everything but the shot in hand.) his mind to the consideration of pro-Whether it works out that day, or blems totally different from those not, each shot is regarded by him connected with golf. Generally as the winning shot, Britain's

the glant -engined speaking,

British player The Player's Salvation. motorboat, Miss England III, built talks 'shop' incessantly, dog- 1 once asked Hagen the principle at great cost by Lord Wakefield, ing his mind

"Put It OA irrelevant on which he worked. will probably set a new record for matters until it almost refuses down on the score card and forget the world to shoot at on water. The 'to function. If I were the mann-it, has been my creed ever since craft was expected to have been ger of an international team of I started to play seriously," replied finished by early May and was to golfers there would be an injunction Hagen. "What has gone, has have been sent immediately, it was forbidding, as far as possible, any gone," he added, "and no amount of completed to Lake Garda, Italy, reference to golf after the day's worrying will recall the past, 1 for trials.

work is concluded. I am sure that never permit a missed putt to get Kaye Don, famous airman, speed-each man would pay infinitely better the better of me; it is all part of way driver and racing boat pilot, as a consequence...

the game. A slip here and there will sit behind the wheel of Miss

Hagen's Method.

is usually balanced by a bit of England. Recently he told inter- As an example of complete release luck at some other hole, as, for viewers that he was confident that from the atmosphere of golf, the example, the dropping of a long ap the new challenger would better correspondent cites the case of proach putt, the holing of a chip Commodore Gar Wood's record of Hagen in the British championship shot, or the hitting of a tree when fraction more than 110 miles at Muirfield three years ago, which the ball, heading straightfor per hour. If Don thinks so, it he won by one of the finest exhibi- trouble, comes back on to the fair- is worth betting that he is right. tion of skilful and concentrated play way. Nobody is going to give you Kaye Don might have done ever seen in a world event. Muir- the chance to replay the hole which wonders with the last Miss Engfield is about sixteen miles from you have just murdered; the hole land, but a bad piece of luck Edinburgh, to which city Hagen yet to play is your hope of salva stopped him in the Detroit. Biver. went every evening for relaxation tion

There is rothing haphazard

A

He was racing against Gar Wood, in the way of a theatre, dance,

and the latter had tricked him Into or a little dinner with friends, at about Hagen's golf, though some of A false start, so it was said. The which reference to golf was taboo, his exploits might possibly convey day before Don had beaten the In this way Hagen came back to the to the casual observer a totally, dif- American veteran. As Miss Eng-next day's work with a mind fresh ferent impression. "Snatching fand sped to catch the craft which and alert. It is goling history that birdies' is a great pastime," he led her down the course, she took he spread-eagled the field.

says, “but the player should be the wash of Wood's boat at more As a complete and striking con-warned against over-eagerness lest than 100 miles an hour at a turn, trast, the case of Leo Diegel is not he fall even to get the par figure. She passed through recklessly, but uninteresting. To this same cham-I try to regulate my golf so that safely. Watchers breathed again pionship he brought a collection of there will be one continuous, string as she sped through the spray, clos- Afty-three clubs, not that he asked on par, holes, letting the birdies" ing the gap. Then they gasped as his caddle to hand the lot round the come where they will. It is easier the British boat leaped out of the links day after day; but Diegel could to coax them into one's not this way. water, dived out of sight in never make-up his mind which clubs As the player has no control over smother of foam, and Bank Her to use, and which to leave behind, the roll of the ball, the sinking-of a bottom was torn out and the en- Of an evening, he would try out the long putt, or the placing dead to gines had almost fallen out of her. entire bunch, and make a fresh the pin of a long iron shot, or a pitch Don and his mechante were nearly select

the following day: sometimes addaan udexpected

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