1933-05-27 — Page 9

SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1933.

THE CHINA MAIL.

4464Sporting Page 2

MILITARY

BILLIARDS

TOURNEYS

JARMAN, HERRIOTT,

DE MINIMIS FOR CLASSIC TO-DAY

Crack Chinese Jockey Riding.

WILLIAMS, KIRKHAM WARRINGTON AND IMPERIAL

FAVOURED.

Draw For Individual Championship.

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GARRISON CHALLENGE CUP.

(By SPOT BALL)

HALL DOUBTFUL

Mr. Heard's Bad Luck.

MR. JIMMY POTE-HUNT TO MAKE DEBUT

MR.

-

(By RAPIER)

[R. S. N. PAN, the crack Garrison Individual Billiards

Chinese jockey is taking out Championship, which is open De Minimis in the Second Spring

THE

to Officers, Warrant Officers, Non-Subscription Griffins Champions at Commissioned Officers and Privates the Valley this afternoon, and I am in the Hong Kong Command, will confident that the pony has it in commence on June 7.

him to win.

C/Sgt. Jarman of the Borderers, National Day (Mr. Benny runner-up to A. J. Osmund in the Proulx) is the biggest danger, Colony Championship and present with Gay Butterfly (Mr. Heard) Army holder, should have an as another likely contender. easy First Round tie when he

meets Spr. Taylor of the Royal Engineers.

Mr. J. W. Pote-Hunt, who topped the jockeys' list at the Shanghat Spring Meeting, will be riding at the Valley to-day. - L/Cpl. Herriott of the Lincolns,

He has among other mounts who is expected to beat C. Q. M. S. Day of the same unit in the First-Solar Star and The Crook, two Round, will probably meet Jarman ponies that require watching.

There will probably be a very

in the semi-final of the top half. small field in the May Handicap. Ple. Williams of the Borderers I hear Gay Crusader is not start. and Pte. Kirkham of the Royal ing, so that leaves only Bag and Army Medical Corps are expected Baggage (Mr. Heard), Sadko (Mr. to meet each other in the other Butler), Sitting Bull (Mr. Frost), and King's Justice (Mr.

2.

Remi-final.

Play will commence at 6 p.m. on Proulx) as the probable. starters, each evening at the Soldiers' Club, I think they will finish in that all games being of 250 points up. order with Bag and Baggage tear-

The following is the First Rounding up the course. draw

I hear that Warrington may not igo out in the Lama Handicap. This will rob Mr. Heard of another win. In that Сабе I fancy the chances of King Salmon, though

June 7:--

C/Sgt. Jarman (Holder) (S.W.B.) Spr. Taylor (RE.).

Sgt. Wood (R.A.) v. L/Cpl

Monaghan (RE.).

S/Sgt. Green (R.A.M.C.)

v. Pte.

Walters (S.W.B.).

June 14:-

Mr. da Roza may not be able to

make the weight. Amoy and' Iron Grey, the latter at 149, may fill the places in a very open race.

Imperial Hall, who is suffering from a puffed leg, will not be as dangerous se he would have been

Pte. Abbott (Lines.). v. Lt. King had he been fit. If he goes out in

(Lince.).

Spr. Whittaker

O'Connor (R.A.S.C.).

(R.E.) v.

Pte. Smith (R.A.O.C.) V. Tucker (R.E.).

June 20:-

L/Cpl Herriot (Linca.) v. C.

M. S. Day (Lincs.),

Pte.

the Lantao Handicap Mr. Heard will do well to secure a place. Helvellyn (Mr. Frost), Devon (Mr. Butler) and Krata Viz (Mr. Fis- Spr. cher) look good in this race.

Q.

Sgt. Malpas (Lincs.) v. Pte. Pye

(Lines.).

S/Sgt. Clarke (R.A.O.C.) v. Pte.

Short (Lines.).

June:21:-.

Dmr. Matthias (S.W.B.) v. Pte.

Clapp (S.W.3.).

White Butterfly is not going out

In the Novices race, and should do well in the Crocodile Handicap.

L/Sgt. James (Lincs.)

V

Spr.

Sandfield (R.E.),

Sgt. Green (Lines.) v. Bdr. Mad-/ dison (R.A.).

The Selections.

June 27:-

RACE I-

VCpl. Ellis (S.W.B.) v. Pte. Kirk-

ham (R.A.M.C.).

Pte. Winfield (Linca) v. Bdsm,

Baker (Lincs.).

C. S. M. Lewis (S.W.B)

Funnell (R.A.S.C.).

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BAG AND BAGGAGE SADKO

BITTING BULL Outsider KING'S JUSTICE

RACE Z'

Pte.

Pie, Williams (21) (S.W.B.) v.

Ple.. Turner (Lincs.).

Garrison Challenge Cup.

THE First Round of the Garrison Billiards Chal-

lenge Cup, open' to all company teams of six players, will commence on June

Let the

Soldier's Club.

:

ROYAL FLUSH TILLICUM ALEXANDRA HALL' Outsider-SOLAR STAR

RACE 3-

WOODLAND ́STAG THE GIRAFFE CANNY Outsider-RATION

Race 4

3

DE MINIMIS

NATIONAL DAY GAY BUTTERFLY Outalde-VIGIDANCE

RACE 3-

KING BALMON

AMOY

IRON GREY

Outsider-THE CROOK

All games will be of 150 points RACE 6-

up and 'will commence at 6 p.m.

sharp.

The following is the draw:

First Round.

1 E. v. H. Q. Wing, S.W.B

June 12.

R.AS.G, V. A. Coy Lincolna,

June 5.

"B" Coy. S.W.B.

B.W.B

June 8.

SKEWBALD GRIFFIN THE QUAIL

BAY.OF CALAMITY Outsider.STABLE SECRET

RACE 1

MELODY

DUPLEX NOW'S THE TIME Outásder-NO FEAR

RACE 8

"A" Coy,

IRACE

EQ. Wing, Incolns v.R.A.M.C. -June 15.

"Coy. Lincolns v. 24th Bat-

tery, R:A-June 19. *-

"B" Goy, Lincolns v. 12th Bat tery, BAJune 220adeeb

R.A.O.C. and "D". Coy, Lincolns, were given byes into the second round:

HELVELLYN

DEVON IMPERIAL HALL Ontalder.=KRATA, VIZ

PARTNERSHIP

HEY TOR CHARMING FACE Onusider WHITE BUTTERTI RACE 1 Pharm JACK "OʻLANTERN

*** THE GADWALLURUM.

BANJOLINA

*** Outsider="FIFA

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19

EMBLEY STADIUM⋅ (top) during the all-Lancashire Cup Final which Everish won by

W three goals to all. Over 30,000 witnessed the match. For the first time in the history of

the Cup players were numbered. Bottom left-Langford (22), the Manchester City goalkeeper,. making a spectacular save during an Everton attack from a corner. Cann (21) and Busby (19) are the other Manchester players. Bottom right - Dixie Dean scoring Everton's second goal concerning which a controversy arose as to whether. Dean charged the Manchester goalkeeper

into the net.

EASIER

GOLF

-by-

H.STUART HOBSON

GOLF AS I SEE IT."

Stance And The Factors That Determine It,

OPEN SQUARE

apon

News In Brief.

BILLIARDS.

PRISON OFFICERS' MESS WIN

PILE RECORDS 37 BREAK

HILL WINS SOLDIERS' CLUB TOURNEY GAME BY ONE POINT

IN the

(By. Spot Ball)··

the Soldiers' Club Billiards Tournament, last night, the Prison Of ficers Mess won seven eight games against the 24th. Battery, Royal Artillery to win by 400 points. The only break above twenty during the evening was chalked up Pile, of the Prison Officers' Mess, who recorded a 37.

Sgt. Clarke won the only game for the Royal Artillery by de- feating Mitchell. by 89 points. Gunner Sealt lost his match against Hill by 1 point in a thrilling finish.

20th. Battery R.A.

Prison Officers' Mess.

Bdr. Elliott

.97

L/Bdr. Fallon

.160

Pile Gooding

200

200

L/Bdr. Smith

108

Gawland

200

L/Bdr. Burdett

145

Johnston

200

Gnr. Wood

€7

Brimblecombe

200

Sgt. Clark

200

Mitchell

112

Gar. Scott Gnr. Hill

199

Hi

200

.136

Joyce

200

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A VERY SIMPLE CUP FINAL

In Which the Better Footballers Won.

THOSE "MISTAKES”

By ROLAND ALLEN.

PONY RACING IN SHANGHAI

(Continued from Page 8.)

interesting and satsfactory than traning and reducing to docility," the wild divilment of # China pony.

Maintain Interest,

Our friends at home shoold not fancy that we lose all love for healthy exercises in these lands, London, May 1.

where we are generally supposed would be groping after sensa to take our ease, at, drink, and tionalism to assert that Ever get liver complaint. "Tis true enough won the Cup because Langthat in our homes we let our ser- ford, in the Manchester City goal, vants do much for us that we should lost his head and made two tragic probably do for ourselves in our old mistakes. He made several mis-

ton

takes; so did all the others. There homes; but that is quite apart from our business or our pleasure. The were "nerver" as usual. I do not late Mr. H. Lang, in his lecture en-

• Cup, Final or any titled "Shanghai Considered-Social-

11y"

The Royal Army Ordnance Corps remember beat "C" Company South Wales Bor-other football match' in which

mentions, in adition to our derer by 6 sets to 3 in the Hong somebody did not make a mistake.

Race-course, cricket ground, racquet Kong Area Tennis League yesterday, Langford also made the two most court, and the clubs connected with

*

To-morrow afternoon the "seball). team from the U.S.S. Isabel will play an exhibition match against the South China Athletic Association at Caroline Hill at 3.30 p.m.

scrutch

*

*

brilliant saves in the match.

Everton won the Cup because them respectively: " well appointed they played the better football. Bynasium, giving a series of athletic Elementary, Why try to sur sports with appropriate prizes an round such a simple fact with ually; a rowing club, supported with great spirit; a yacht club a number of paychological com- which has given very successful plications just to make a story. over a heavy country intersected It was a match of mistakes,

They

The Hong Kong Baseball League is scheduled to begin this year on June Everton missed as many chances regattas; a pony paper hunt, which, over a heavy country interested 10. Four teams are entered-Lingnan cast iron chances, too--as they with many water-courses, invariably University, U.S.S. Navy, Hong Kong turned to account. Manchester

crowns the winner with mud and Americans and the South China Ath-City hardly ever gave themselves a letic Association.

chance. They appeared to be glory; a foot-ball club, promoting a lively circulation of the blood during Tonight at 9.15 p.m. the following long enough to tame it.

scared of holding on to the ball frosty weather; with a rife and gun "y". team will play the Chinese Bathing-Club' at the latter's were in too much of a hurry al club, whose exercises are well fitted to develop steadiness, promptitude pitch at North Point:-

ways. They had obviously gam and precision among our young H. Angus; H. Lenge and K. Jenner; bled on the possibility of dictating,

Goldman; G. Fowler, W. Schreuder the game by running Everton offen; while croquet and race, Masonic, Bachelor and Butterfly (Captain), and W. Kerr.

Reserver: C. Chadderton and

Balls, show that our ladies are not NEED NOT BE 80.

neglected. Indeed, when one comes I ́am glad that Everton won- to think of it, it is astonishing in not because I was almost alone in how many ways provision is made forecasting that they would, but for the leisure hours of the com«. because football ought to couut, imunity":

HOME CRICKET

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

Brex

TABLE TO DATE.

Stance in golf, like Easter in the the wind instead of with it, take it calendar, is moveable.".

more off the right foot, which keeps Players should learn to make the the ball down and helps it to bore its various necesary adjustmenta to suit way through the wind. The grip on |the particular shot in question. the club should be slightly shortened Sutherland,

Various factors have to be consider and, if anything, the swing slightly od, such as the club that is being used, curtalled, as both these latter factors whether the shot is with or against tend to give better control. the wind, the He of the ball, and Inst With regard to the lie of the ball, but by no means least, the physique I have in mind the occasions of the player.

which the stance. not normal, that The stance can be divided into two is, the player is not standing on main catagories, the square and the level with the ball. But before open. In the first, the feet are plan-speaking of the stance, one word of ed one on either side of the ball. advice. Play the shot very easily and swinging slowly which should be, of course, a comfort with extreme e fub under control able distance from the player

and keeping the and equidistant from it. In other Suppose that the ball is to be play- words, the ball lies at the apex of asi ed from lia that is above the stance, it is commonly put, when the 21

his Lanca the open stanice the left foot player feels cramped, because

von Mind Warwick is taken. from

away

the straight line! seems too long; therefore he must It made with the right foot in the shorten his grip, but allowance must Derbyshire.

stance, and 'is placed fa a posi-be made for this at the are of the Middlesex.

Will Essex d there so that line drawn from the towing, will be shorter, and of the left foot would strike the mid-be a tendency to hurry. There will Kent dle of the right foot, instead of, as also be a

to fall sway from Surrey

Notts slice or a feeling Northants in the square stanca, striking the toe the ball,

be hit home that the ball. of the right foot."

on the toe Gloucester slow swing will help. Go The For the average player, the

the club open stance is to be advocated, because it to keep the balance adjusted and a cor-Glamorgan generally given a greater sense of section in the address of the ball will Worcester security, and will not tend to missed, do away with any chance of the lat. Hants...

Leicester abots If the correct pivotal action inter mistake, missing But let the player beware If the player is standing above his that this alance is not evedone, other ball, the procedure is the reverse. The wing...a

horrible alice will

will grip is to be lengthened and the stance

¡equllateral triangle, of which the feet er nunding below. his ball. ThYorkshire·

mark the angles of the base.

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tendency

Bomerset

| result *perty the bringing at the must be watched throughout the shotg

1st,

Iana. No, P. W. LW, L. R. PU

D. their feet.

·000.0: 60 1.0 0.50

0

even in the English Cup final. Yes. This is so. And add to One gets-a bít tired of seeing this these again the Valunteer corps, the shop-window game decided by Fire Brigades and Hook and Ladder |accident. · ·ft sãonid an, be 89 Companies, a Base-Ball Club-every Everton did a lot for football in one of which is carried and con- general and this Cap acramble in ducted with energy--and it will

it need not be so.

30010050 particular by demonstrating that easily be seen, that a milksop is a very needless character in the Far-. When I say that Everton won | East." 31 0 1 0.48 this match with the better football In most of the open ports in 3100045 I would add that I shall not re- China and Japan where there are 006 33 member it for ten minutes for its a sufficient number of foreign 0 30 quality. There is nothing unusual residente, they manage to get up about that, so far as the Cup finelja Spring and Autumn Race meeting. is concerned. The "three goals In Shanghal, the Spring meeting 0.0 0 16 which Everton scored were just this year was held on Monday, April 08 ordinary goals. I have aten dozens 80 and two following days.---

like them. Two of them were re Shanghat Sunday Times. distered because Dean positioned

club head across the line of flight, to see that the balance does not fall curs this fault by putting a little more Instead of up and down that line, forward, even as it tended to fall back weight on to the left foot, and

o himself correctly as he frequent did Manchester City play such ly does and the other was pre- good football as Everton. There cisely similar except that it was was po aystem, no policy, about Dunn Instead of Dean who thought élther department of the losing swiftly dide-anless you call kicking a

¿A stance that is over-open: brings, when standing Kralow the Ping his stomach tucked away from TAS NEAR AS EVER?ER Lootball hard and hoping for the

the ball too far forward, 40 that the

are of the swing is is turning to the left when the so that again careful Uming is, neces-

{sury. The player. clubhead meets tha

Gwill have a

feeling

his landa 'sa' much

by

I have not forgotten that Stein best policy. Everton played as Bratly-built golfar who is actually kicked the ball into the bear to their normal football as body

ball

Zor length is very often to be net for the first one; but if Dean teams customarily do on the nerve- The square stance is the ideal that, he must reach for the ball and seen playing ble shots with a tin had not been worrying langford shaking occasion. Bold Man- stance for the more advanced golfer, will probably bead they body over frem pull, to make them run, and ou kop which is a part of Dean's business chester City, except that they were who has control over his swing, and the waist. This method of encroach up with his heavier built and possibly what he does particularly well the the more scared. They have al about. Dimtly, knows what he is ment is not saate one, and a better longer drlebe comperes De Hutside-left would not“ have found ways; been: Halter-skelter, to put it

all golfers it trade method is

to a Bat the day will cline allow the

rocs quil becomes in book to mid wicket, and the ball at his feet and nobody and [ders. Everton, hava “always visable to make the stance less "and after

of wooden clubs, because the rollers of:tærre mai and Ebensong that la a apro sign that he is playing nothing to stop him. I still been artista,

at the; Ball, too, moch on his right foot, Bellave that the ball came from

Spent when, fron clubs, are, szand {

CHILLIDE POT action on to the

at against hitlins ska ta kaupaukawak too much weight thus smothering)

the ball with wooden clubs, is not pos sible if the stance

kept equally open for both types of choti

When the ball is; to be pla

on

The only Raxtraordina; Jo Keep A TAP him more his stanes mors to Dean and not from Langford to about this othae viae - dra

Betelhertad, and poised normaal, and não that his swing is not the foot of Stal Not that it was that quality counted.. I seth. Lows and net, hack over herrlad, and he will be down the matters.

not grumble about that--or call it of maler pay middle; Kgabus (China” “Mall” Copy |

Neither la defence nor in attack tragies