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Sir Malcolm Campbell's Faith BRADMAN

In Bluebird

HIS FAULTY VISION

tour.

NOT AS GOOD

TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1933.

GOSSIP IN SPORTS WORLD

Nigel Haig's Misfortune: British Golfer's

Handicap: Ranji's Successor.

Poor Putters.

By ROVER

TF British golfers could putt

they would beat the world! This opinion of Mr. John de Forest, the amateur champion, ex- pressed after watching some of the glaring misses in the Profes- sional tournament at Roehampton | recently, becomes more signifi. his meteoric success.

an

was never regarded

"I won be

as a putting

greens.

AS TRUMPER

Aussie Wicket-Keeper On Famous Batsman.

CRICKET REACHES LOW EBB. New York, May 1. sand. He peers sideways at the T seems to Sir Malcolm Camp-row of flags set along the water, Hanson ("Sep") Carter, one the supreme confidence of the after his triumph over Tom Green, cant because he believes also that cause of my putting," he said. bell that the experimental and steers automatically by of Australia's greatest wicket- Americans on the green explains the Midlands champion. "Yet I [stage of automobile racing for them. They look like one long

speed alone has been pretty well streamer of bunting flying the keepers, made several outspoken their match-winning abilities.

the length of the course from a single remarks about cricket and cric-planation for the weak putting of a tournament through taking three Nobody seems to have ex-genius. Only two weeks ago I lost passed, and from now on populace may expect records flagstick,...

keters when he passed through the Britons. We see strong men putts on far too many London after a 40,000 miles world play magnificently to the green and Simply through fear. I am secret- then wilt visibly before the prosly afraid of these greens, but I He believed that the England pect of a four foot patt. A child won't let my fear take command. could hole it: Yet it strikes ter- team that visited Australia was a

"I go for the hole with every ror in the heart of world-famed putt, and you will have noticed good one, although he believed International players. What is the that those which fail are always that there was little to choose secret? I wish I could find out-paat the hole. That, I am between the teams, although it and tell our fellows-before the vinced, is the secret of putting." was true that some of the English-Ryder Cup match. the

mea were suffering from what might be called Bradman

a complex.

Bradman," said Sep Carter,

“I am

a great admirer of

"but I doubt if he is entitled to be classed with some of the great men

of the past. He with the late Victor Trumper, does not grade, for instance,

who was the most marvellous batsman I ever saw.

that are genuinely fast. The The situation is further strangest part of all this is that

complicated by mirages. the little 48-year-old English-The haze, which always man isn't fooling at all, writes hangs over the Daytona Edward J. Neil, Associated Press

course when wind condi- Sports Writer.

tions have made the best possible beach, gives the im- pression, 19 you drive through at terrific speed, of water flowing across coursc.

He has driven 272,463 miles) an hour in his monstrous, Blue-) hird along the wave lapped beach Jat Daytona and he really thinks that is just a start as far as automobile speeds are concerned.

It takes tremendous courage Despite its age, nine years, the five-ton-Bluebird has proved to to be a bit of the ocean that has to head, atraight into what seems Campbell's satisfaction that it

on the course. No will travel 300 miles an hour, five wept in

matter how good your judg-] miles a minute, a mile in 12 seconds flat. He needs only what looks like water actually is ment is, the day may come when conditions better than the bumpy water. Then the end is written beach and haze that shrouded to another daredevil's career.

his 272.463 miles effort.

The ultimate in speed rac-

ing is the four

car. Campbell

wheel drive

says, and

when the financing problems building that are

solved,

along with the mechanical difficulties, a new Bluebird probably will start cracking 300 miles an hour and up,

just as the old car made 200 look slow.

He believes there is absolute- ly no limit to the speed that can] be attained under perfect condi- tions.

TOO MUCH MUSSOLINI SPIRIT IN RUGBY.

No Camaraderie Between The Referees And The Players.

"All the wickets came alike to Trumper. He was as outstanding on a bad wicket as he was on one that was good.

that consider-

"It is important to note Bradman has improved ably since 1930, when England's principal bugbear.

he

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Sheffield And Kent.

UNDERSTAND that Sheffield, the fast-medium bowler, who finished at the head of the Surrey) averages in 1931, has not been offered a contract by Kent.

He will, however, be put on trial for two months, and his engagement at the end of that period will de- pend upon his performance in the meantime. Again, he is qualified not by residence but by birth, and therefore will be available season if selected.

PITTSBURGH WIN AGAINST BOSTON

con-

Yankees Return To Winning Form.

TWO GAMES ABANDONED

New York, To-day. The New York Yankees, after- this their series of defeats at the hands of the Senators and the Indians, re- Last year Sheffield was troubled turned to winning veln yesterday by bad health, and failed to live when they beat Chicago White Sox up to his promise of the year be- by a 7 to 3 margin. fore. If he can recapture, his form Washington won the only other

I imagine there is little doubt Kent American League game when Se- He will keep him.

is placing the ball more skilfully.

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well and Boken banged out four- baggers to give the Senators their thirteenth win by a 10 to 8 tally.

Pittsburgh Pirates improved on

"It was wrong to suppose," said Carter, "that Bradman could not Mr. Warner Retires. bowl," In his opinion, he could R. P. F. WARNER is not only their big lead in the National Lea- spin the ball as well as any other Man extremely good judge of

Pittsburgh Boston

+

man in the game. If he gave the a cricketer; his outlook towards to give them a 3-0 win. The New rue when French blanked Boston same time to bowling that he gave the game, for all his fifty-nine York Giants, their closest rivals, The driver of the car, of

to batting he would soon be in the years and venerable exterior, is were nosed out 4-3 by the Cardin¬ įcourse, makes all the difference

in the world.

top flight.

essentially that of the presentals, three homers featuring the They say of

Johannesburg. Campbell that he is the only

"If I were captaining a team," generation. He has played recent- Douglas Morkel, the former he said "I would devote my timely enough to appreciate fully the

Įgame. driver in the line of dare-devils, Springbok forward, whose mag-to locking up Bradman. Tate and development of the game within rain the games between

Owing to extreme cold and slight almost all of whom have been nificent, kicking is still remem- Freeman

Chicago. are Englishmen who the span of his long experience, Cubs and Cincinnati Reds, and killed, who perfectly combines all bered the world over, made some could carry out the locking-up and there is no more sound theorist Boston and Philadelphia Athletics the attributes of the perfect pertinent observations on refer-process of Bradman adequately, than re. racer, Lenpering Wast couragejecing in South Africa at the an-and then the task of getting the We are apt in nearly all games and a heavy foot on the throttle nual meeting of the Witwaters-other fellows out would not be to appoint selection 'committees with perfect judgment.

rand Rugby Referees Society. more than ordinarily difficult.” who in the aggregate are too old Lee Bible, killed at Daytona in "What is wrong with our re- In declaring that Frank Woolley, for their jobs. I trust that Lord 1929 when the giant White fereeing is that there is no cama-Patsy Hendren, and A. P. F. Chap-Hawke-who takes Mr. Warner's Triplex catapulted into the dunes raderie between official and play-man should have been included in place on this season's Test Selec- at 202 miles an hour: Ray Keach, er," he said. "The referees come the M.C.C. team, Carter said he re-tion Committee and Messrs. P. who drove the same car 207 miles on to the field as unknown as a garded Woolley as the finest left-Perrin and T. A. Higson will seek Jan hour and was killed at Al-foreign tribe. They neither hander in the world, and Hendren the fullest co-operation of D. R.

toona; Frank Lockhart, who died know the players nor seem to as the finest outfielder in England. Jardine. much like Bible in a Stutz want to know them."

Chapman was worth a place for special at Daytona in 1927; and There was far too much of the bis excellence as a leader and for" Ranji's" Successor. Major Segrave, killed setting a Mussolini spirit. about the me- his habit of making phenomenal new speed boat record in Scotthods and manners of some of

【AJOR Kumar. Shri Digvijay- Mafnhil, eldest brother of K. S. land, all guessed wrong only the referees, he added.

Carter declares that, altogether, Duleepsinhji, who succeeds "Ranj!" New York placed themselves on a pedestal cricket is not so good as it was.

as Jam of Nawanagar, is With Campbell they represent of their own making and adopt-It seemed at the moment to have Malvernian Although only a moder an old

Chicago the only five men who haveled a preposterously high-handed reached a very low ebb. driven 200 miles

ate cricketer he was a fine rackets) an hour or manner. He considered it would.

player, and was in his school pair faster. Kaye Don never reached be far better for rugby football in what I believe was cricket's most

Ranfl was the most brilliant figure at Queen's. that speed before shifting his and the spirit in which it was brilliant period..

He is a clever soldier, and essen- allegiance to speed boats. played if the referees were to nineties that cricket reached its pin-tially a "strong man," admirably |

make themselves better known to nacle as a national game and was fitted to assume responsibility amid the players and attended some of Rani was one of the men who help the problems of present-day India. synonym of good sportsmanship. the practices.-Reuter.

ed to put it there.-G. L. Jessop.

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Campbell, it is amazing to discover, has imperfect eyes, a fault that would preclude his ever attempting high speed racing were it not for the fact that he is farsight-

They

catches,

It was during tho

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None, will mourn "Ranji" more sincerely than Mohun, his Karachi masseur and hairdresser, who held his master in reverence and affec-1

ed, rather than near sight. Corbett To Defend Welter Title.

He has to hold a paper or

book a yard away to read it without glasses. But the farther ahead he looks, the

were abandoned.

Results as cabled by Reuter were as follow:-

National League.

R. H. D.

3 9 0-

0 3 1

French pitched.

St. Louis

4 3 Frisch and Medwich hit homers. New York

3 8 0 Leslie hit a homer.

American League.

7

7 12 1 10 *

Washington

..10 20 Sewell and Boken hit homers. St. Louis

8 15 Campbell hit a homer.

TABLES TO DATE.

National League.

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Pittsburgh

It was "Ranfi's" custom to New York

Against McLarnin on May 29 hits, those elegant creations which Chicago

sharper becomes his vision. "That becomes very important

You

Mantea

Mohan his cast-off cricket Louis

used to cost £40 apiece...

Cincinnati "Ranji" had another faithful Brooklyn friend of whom the public mew Boston

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Boston

W. L. Per. ..15 3 893 .11 8 .578 .II' 10 528 .10 11 .476

8 10 444

8 10 .444

9 13 409

6 13 .815

-819

.13 8 ".619

.12 9 .571

.10

.11 470

7 11

388

7 15

.318

$ 19 315

Los Angeles, April 21 "was to convert the title into cash nothing-his grey-and-pink parrot Philadelphia ..... when, at 272 miles an hour, andYOUNG CORBETT, the world self mentally and physically fit.

and retire while he was still him- Popsy. She went with him every

American League, -- visibility only 250 yards, that

where, and would chatter brilliantly New York .... .14 7 distance flashes past in a split

-welter-weight champion, and To date about all the Italian to him for hours on end.

Washington.....13 8 second,

Jimmy McLarnin, veteran con youth, who whipped two champions He has no horizon to tender, agreed to-day to fight a title before he got a chance at the crown, N. Haig's Misfortune.

Cleveland point at, only a blaze of white bout here on May 29.05

Chicago has to show for his years in the AM sorry to hear that N, Halg Detroit The inatch has been in the mak-ring are a gasoline filling station, Ing ever since Corbett, otherwise and the few thousand he secured it is doubtful whether he will be St Louis

has a strained heart and that Philadelphia Rafael Clordano, snatched the as the challenger's share in the able to play first-class cricket this crown from the head of Jackie Fields fight.

summer. It is superfluous to refer Fields on April 25,

McLarnin on the other hand is here to the service which Haig, has Tho talk in advance was, that said to have been more fortunate in rendered Middlesex since the war, Corbett would get $50,000 and his investments and to have out and recently as captain. This HONG Billiards-Soldiers' Club Tournament McLarnin 20 per cent of the distanced the wolf so far since those season the Middlesex captaincy 12th Batt RA, v "B" Co, Lincolns

receipts. The former sum looks like leam days when he came out of was to have been divided between (6 p.m.) real money to Corbett, and to James Vancouver as "Baby Cheau Completion of seventh round Open Archibald McLarzin, who used to McLarnin that he can afford to doing approximately the first half

ChaHK Area `"Lengus."

fight around Oakland for $25 and make financial concessions for a and Haig the second. It will be MA TAU WEI ROAD, KOWLOON in between times often had to live chance at the title,

particularly galling to a man' of

The China Mail

Sports Diary

Lawn

TODAY

• Kowloon Section. "D" Co, Lincolns v. 20th Bait B.A

Hong Kong Section. BAMC, V. B Co. Borderers.

FRIDAY Billiards-Soldiers Club Tournament LQ Wing Lincolns v.Volunteers,

(6 p.m.)

Lawn Tennis--H.K. Arm League

་་་

Face" II. 1. Enthoven and Haig, Enthoven

on fish his manager "Pop" Foster, Corbett-Young Corbett III, he is abounding energy if "Haig in caught in the estuary. A sizeable has the record of never having compelled to remain inactive for cut in the gate probably representa fost a battle. McLarnin, never long. Fortunately, it is hoped the titleholder himself has that the trouble has been diagnos- The match, a "natural" in ring besten most of the best Hold early enough to ensure a fairly parlance, ordinarily would have re-bas been particularly success quick cure. quired months of arrangements, but fel in dashing the hopes of Corbett conded to friends after his the New York Ghetto, having con- Golfer's Secret Fields victory two ambitions. One quered Sfd Terris and, more lately,

athenow Kowloon Section. Signals v. 24th Batt, EA

Mad & Hong Kong Section.

co.

"A" Co. Borderers. R.A.0.0.

2.

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