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THE CHINA MAIL
ATHLETICS OF THE Densmore Shute The
FUTURE
LORD BURGHLEY'S PREDICTION.
RECORDS STILL TO
BE MADE.
London, July 15: "Saturation point in athletic records has not been reached, and records will continue to be broken for many years to come-perhaps indefinitely."
This striking contradiction of a widely-held view was among the remarks made by Lord Burghley in a special interview.
New Golf Champion
Craig Wood Never Recovers From Bad Start In Play-off
DENS
(By GEORGE GREENWOOD.
SATURDAY, AUGUST
TEST CRICKET
HOME TURF NO LONGER IN
STATISTICS.
DOUBT
July 10.
Body-line Bowling
OWNERS
Lord Astor Lord Derby Lord Woolavington Mr. E. Esmond Princesse de Fau- Lucinge...
d Wood-
Lt Col Giles Loder ↑ St. Andrews, July 10,
Mr. E. Smith ENSMORE SHUTE, of the Llanerch County Club, Pennsylvania, Mr. J. A. Dewar .** won the British Open Championship here to-day. In the play-Lord H. de Walden Mr. W. M. G. Singer of of yesterday's tie, over 36 holes, he beat Craig Wood, of the Lord Glanely Hollywood Club, Deal, New Jersey, by five clear shots, the respec tive scores being Shute (75 and 74) 149, and Craig Wood (78 and
Lord Burghley's appearance on Saturday in the A.A.A. champion- ships marked, his final participa- tion in major competitive sport. 76) 154, He has decided to retire because of his increasing activities in
By winning the championship at his first attempt, Shute has other fields and the fact that done something which no other American has accomplished. More "the older one gets the more time over, greater lustre is added to the feat by reason of its having and trouble it is necessary to
been performed on the world's classic course. What Shute himself expend' in keeping fit."
thinks about it is indicated by his reply to my congratulations im- INFLUENCE OF OLYMPIC GAMES
mediately following his victory.
Among Lord Burghley's obj servations yesterday were:
"I am the British champion, the world's proudest golf title. Olympic Games. Despite many all seems a wonderful dream. And think of it; to win at St. An- adverse views they are undrews, above all places!" Throwing her arms round her husband's doubtedly a powerful influence]
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TRAINERS
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Hon. G. Lambton. 18
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1. Jarvis
C. Boyd-Rochfort
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for international amity. Sixty neck, his wife exclaimed, “And I am the proudest woman in the in France nations in the stress of physical world! it's too marvellous.” competition got along far better lat Los Angeles than 65 nations)
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H. S. Persse W. Jarvis... O. M. D: Bell
JOCKEYS
Win Totals 100 424
43 240
38
32 150
It was Mrs. Shute, a slim, of dramatic incidents. seem able to do at the Geological dainty figure in a yellow crepe de was no drama; nothing, indeed, Biggest Thrill of My Carcer.-Chine frock, who, as her husband to cause the raising of eyebrows.
isolated in-G, Richards
H. Wragg Winning the 400 metres at the holed his putt at the last hole except, perhaps, an Amsterdam Olympiad in 1928 by to be acclaimed the champion. cident at the first hole. two feel. A-marvellous moment! dashed excitedly from the vast It was here that Craig Wood, T. Weston
S Donoghue 32 Training Methods. Mine are a crowd encircling the green, and handsome looking man, most R. Dick.. white. Nevett shock to my American friends. embraced him with tears of joy immaculately attired in. rolling down her cheeks.
buckskin shoes, flannel trousers 3. Caldwell When I am in good condition, one
of a light fawn shade, and BF. Fox
P. Beasley day's training and one day's rac
green-coloured pullover, sat down? J. Dines ing a week is quite sufficient.
on the edge of the Swilcan Burn B. Carslake Diet-No fads. Regular meals
the while he took off his shoes R. Perryman are all that and digestible food
and stockings and rolled up his C. Ray matters.
trousers. He then waded in to ~
Hours. Reasonable. I used to! be in bed by eleven most nights) and get eight,hours' sleep.
tors.
"Well, I guess that makes up for my losing the Ryder Cup," said Shute looking at me with an expansive smile. "Folks were pointing their finger at me as the man who lost the Cup; now they can point the finger at me as the British champion. It's a grand feeling." Never was there such swift
to
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6,550
Of Feeling.
London, July 15.
I am able, to announce that the 6,013 wisit of the Australian cricketers to
16,978
this country next-summer is now 16,760 practically certain to take place 16.563 after all.
16,232 Until a few weeks ago there was
3.288
8,826 a distinct possibility that the tour 8,577 might have to be suspended until 7284 the relations between England and 6,977
6,672 Australia, seriously strained by the 6,307 "body-line" bowling dispute, became 5,507 normal.again.
24.122
But when the M.C.C. cable in 24,612 reply to the Australian Board of 20,467 Control was published it was noted of the con. 16.258 by acute followers 13,918 troversy that the message itself 10,895
offered in a most tactful and states. manlike way a solution which might be accepted on both sides without 7,208 the slightest retraction, and this has 729 caused a remarkable change in the 6,584
situation.
Profit & Lost OPINIONS' AND SUGGESTIONS, (£1 Stake) The paragraph in which the £5. d. solution was hinted at reads as 21 13 follows:
1 10
19 14 5 28 11 11
238 183
They (the M.C.C.) propose to invite opinions and suggestions
from county clubs and captains at the end of the present
season
on the subject that, with only two
He
with a view to enabling them to express sa opinion on this mat- ter (of lew theory bowling) at a special meeting of the Imperial Cricket Conference."
that the This, in effect, means future polles on leg theory bowling the muddy waters of the burn to ed at the fourth, where he took in English cricket is to be decided play out the hall which he had three putts, a most unusual cir-by the county captains.
1 can say definitely that there has pitched in with his second shot. cumstance for the man who, by English Weakness in "Field"
He might have saved himself sheer concentration and applica-been such a revulsion of feeling. Events.-This will not be re-
the trouble, for the probabilities tion, has made himself one of among them and their fellow officials inedied until we get a superman to lead the way, fire enthusiasm, atonement. Th wheel of fortune are that he would still have got the finest putters in the States
Wood set to work grimly to
jor three, exceptions, they are em.. and form a "school" of emula-jhaving gone full circle, it is pos- six if he had picked and drop-
phatic in their opposition to the use sible
understand Shate's ped behind the burn under the wipe out the heavy deficit, Secret of the Finns' Success sense of overwhelming delight penalty of a stroke.. But these reduced it to three strokes at of leg theory by fast bowlers. COUNTY INFLUENCE. So little, in-|
Americans have, apparently, an the end of the first round. Neither
They are indeed already exercis- Largely a matter of temperament and satisfaction.
the regard paid to aversion to giving away shots if the infamous "Hell" bunker at PHYSIQUE STILL IMPROVING deed, was
"On the question of continuing Shute's chances of success that, it can possibly be avoided. Craig the fourteenth nor the dreaded ing their authority in their own. Wood" said to himself. One at the seventeenth, both of which county eleven, and this will doubt- to better existing times," added in the great selling sweepstake Lord Burghley, "I think the at one of the principal clubs in stroke may mean the winning or notorious hazards had in the less be encouraged. human frame is developing con- the City, his name sold for the the losing the championship, and championship claimed a host of tinually, and will always he paltry sum of five shillings. The though I do not like wading into distinguished victims, troubled capable of better and better lucky man who bought the ticket mud and dirty water. it has get the players.
Each during the day secom- bearing Shute's name is now the to be done." speeds.
A6 AT THE SECOND plished 4 at the long fourteenth, the size of suits of richer by some hundreds of "Just as
It may be said that Cring both players carrying "Hell" and Jurmour show how puny were our pounds.
Wood lost the championship at the "Devil's Kitchen" with TRAINED TO THE HOUR
the first two holes, for he took brassie shot, The green could It is plain, therefore, that the Twenty-eight years of will the men of the future be
age, another 6, at the second, where not be reached, but each, holed suggestions the M.C.C. have pro- Shute is a tall, spurse figure, a his pitch went off at a tangent a putt after a well-played pitch mised to invite at the close of the man giving the impression of into a bunker. The loss of four Shute was on the road at the season will be almost unanimously He strokes before the fight for the seventeenth, but he played an in favour of making it possible to being trained to the hour. has long arms, long, flexible championship had virtually start- extraordinarily clever shot. back offer the Australians the assurance fingers, and wrists of steel. The ed was a millstone round his Playing to hit the bank in order that nothing will happen further to characteristics of the swing are
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"The competitive element, too, is a great force in ath- tetics. So long as you have one man paiting up records, so long will you have twenty others striving to smash them, and, eventually sue- ceeding."
Lord Burghley said that with the passing years it took longer and longer for a man to reach his peak form. Whereas in im- mediate post-Varsity days it had taken him perhaps two or three weeks, this year he had trained since the beginning of May for
neck.
a straight left arm, free play with left foot and knee in the back-- ward movement, a restricted hip pivot, but a complete shoulder turn.
It is a glorious swing of a very fascinating player.
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knife and fork. Though he did lose the Ryder Cup AMERICANS' SECRET. match by missing a putf" of a couple of feet, Shute is one The superiority which Amer
of the best and most depend- icans were usually able to claim
able putters I have met. in athletics came, he said, not so
Unlike Bobby Jones, and some much from superior coaching, more intensive of more whole-of the other American players, hearted training, as was general-Shute adopts a fairly wide ly thought in England, but from stance with knees bent; and the their far greater number of hands and forearms kept close to the body. Shute is not a fastidi- "Varsity undergraduates.
The burden was increas-1
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To-day's Lawn Bowls
TAIKOO DOCKS (57) CIVIL SERVICE (54)
FIRST DIVISION. KOWLOON 'DOCKS (62) V. CRAIGENGOWER (62) V. BOWLING GREEN (66) KOWLOON C.C. (51)).
POLICE (67)
RECREIO (69)
ELECTRIC (53)
SECOND
DIVISION.
RECREIO (67) POLICE (~)
V.
V.
KOWLOON C.C. (—)
CIVIL SERVICE' (48). · YACHT CLUB (57)
V.
BOWLING GREEN (80).
V.
CRAIGENGOWER (69)
Figures in brackets denote result of corresponding game last year.
League Tables To Date.
"When you have an enormous ons. pulter in the sense that he number of 'students there are is surveying the ground from Bowling Green (8) single uninversities in América of all angles, and constantly scrap Craigengower (1) 12,000 or 15,000 students you ing aside. Imaginary objects. He Civil Service (3) are almost sure to have a corres looks once at the line of the putt Police RC. (7) pondingly larger number of en- and then hits the ball sraight Kowloon Docks (5) at the hole. **
Club de Recreio (2) thusiatie young athletics
That Shute is a great golfer Kowloon C. C. (4) The spirefƒ” the man who starts a wave of enthusiasm for and a most consistent performer Taikoo Docks (6) a particular branch of athletics, is amply, demonstrated by his
FIRST DÍVISION
Shots
Shots P. W.L. FA Up D. Pts. 12 8 4 738 657,810 16. 11 7 4 646 590 560-14 1 7 4 682 620 420 14. 12 7 5 707 720 0 13 14 12.57 685 676 9 010 4.12 10 12 5 7 674 685-
12 48 6797220438. 12 4 8 637 778 0 121: 8:
SECOND DIVISION '--
is a great: force' for improvement, four rounds of the championship, Bowling Green re
Bald Lord Burghley.. In post-war and two in the play-off. They Cralgengower, (1) British athletics Gaby was the are: 70, 73, 78. 75, and 75, 74, Civil Service (8) thin end of the wedge" in hurdl. representing nine over 4's for Club de Recreio Police IC ( ing, who had, by his example, six consecutive rounds, brought on a group of British WOOD WADES IN MUDDY K Electric, (8)
Yacht Club (2) WATER hurdlers, including myself:""},
Kowloon C, C. (7) Indian R. C. (-),
Lord Burghley is 28. He is Interest in the play off be- M.P. for Peterborough, and dur tween the two Americans was ing his athletic career has cap largely of an academic character. tured many high honours, Last The crowd, as Scotsmen, viewed year he captained the British the play more as students of As spectatori Olympic team at Los Angeles, style rather than a
12 9 3 807 665 142
0 18 10 8 2 646 - 492.154 - :16: 11 8 3 652 582 80 6 18 12 6 6 714 647 670 12 12 66 648 714 0 65 12. 11 56 612 $37 0 25 10, 11 4 7 586 641 0 55-8 11 4 7 664 668 0 1048 121 IL 593 7880 1982 Figures in bracketa denote positions held by the respective clubs at the conclusion of last season. The Police and, Indian E C. are newcomers to the junior division in the absence of the TA- koo second 'string:
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Moreover, I am able to re- veal that one fast bowler has already been approached by his county committee with the Ruggestion that he might use- fully modify his present method.
endanger the good relations between the two countries.
This assurance will be conveyed through, the Imperial Cricket Con- ference without the M.C.C. needing to give it their direct approval. That the county captains may be, encouraged to exercise local auto- nomy will suffice..
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