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AUSTRALIA SELECTS TO THEIR BEST

DAVIS CUP TEAM CONTROVERSY

EXPERIENCE FOR BROMWICH

Sydney, February 4.

The Davis Cup selectors have met with strong public opinion- in determining on the four play- ers to travel to America and take part in the Davis Cup, viz., J. H. Crawford (capt.), A. Quist, V. McGrath, and J. Bromwich, with C. E. Sproule, manager.

The committee has chosen Australia's best men. With the exception of Bromwich, they are all salted by experience overseas. Crawford has been abroad seven times. Quist and McGrath are also veterans in that angle, since they have each had four trips.

Bromwich will be less handi- capped in this respect than bis elders were on their first tour. He has the concentration and fighting instinct of a developed

And it will stand to him.

man.

HIS "SWAN-SONG”

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This may be the final tour, as star player, of J. H. Crawford, see- ing how the younger men are ad- vancing and are challenging his supremacy. That will be a strong incentive to him to make a power- ful effort to bring the Cup back, and crown his many years of inter- national effort.

If the Cup does come back, it will make the season in Australia next year as memorable as any of the past, if not the greatest ever, seeing that the 150th year celebra tions will become such a feature in the 1933 sport of the British world

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Don. Lash, above, who provided the major sensation of last year's United States track and field meetings by securing several of the middle distance track "events, has been invited to make the trip to Japan with several outstanding American stars.

ADVICE BY

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GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

to be different, for apparently there is no sound reason, the Southern Californian Sportsmen's Association has decided that

MARCH 23, 1937

POSTPONED FOOTBALL

FEXTURES

RIFLES TO MEET POLICE

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League matches have been re-arran

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out He asked for his mid-iron. The caddie handed him a spoon. Jones insisted on the mid-iron. He played the shot, but was short

“You were right after all," said Jones, who was, however, talking to the air. The caddie, who had thrown down the bag, was well on 1his way to the club house. One of the gallery carried the bag for the rest of the round.

Jim Ferrier, Australian amateur champion, relies a good deal on the advice of a particular caddie, who usually carries for him in big events. In the Australian Open of 1935 he ignored. his advice as to the use of a particular club. He was sorry afterwards for, if he had followed it, he almost certainly would have taken the title instead

in the Los Angeles Open Championship of 8,000 dollars, players of finishing one stroke behind the will be prohibited from consulting caddies.

The association holds that for a player to use his caddie's knowledge is decidedly unfair, and further that discussions. be tween the player and his carrier have a tendency to slow up the play.

The Australians have their big- The first contention appears to gest hurdle in the United States. be wrong on the face of it as, bar- They have a very capable and ex-ring advice will mean that the perienced man in Mr. Sproule players with local knowledge will We may rest content that the team have an advantage over those who will be able to make a bold bid for lack it. the honours, but that if defeated, a high degree of credit will go to the victors.

The innovation will probably de feat its other purpose inasmuch as it is likely to make play even słow-

If the Australians defeat the er. A player asks for advice only United States, as they did last year, if he is in doubt in regard to dis they should go on to ultimate vic-tances. If he has to make

op his tory if the pitfalls of the game be

own mind as to the club to use, he met with reasonable determination, will take longer over the job. and the men be in the best possible condition.

Bromwich may improve more than the others did on their first trip abroad. If so, we may hear of his being in the fighting line.

CRICKETERS AS DOGS

Sydney, February 4. The latest fad in greyhound racing is to call the dogs after prominent cricketers. A dog, Chip- perfield by name, won the second heat of a race at Newcastle -on Saturday night, not the first race he has won in the coal city. Brad-

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DISQUALIFICATION

Taking advice wil presumably- mean disqualification, but who is to determine what constitute ad- vice?

If a player had mentally defer- mined to use, say a No.4 iron, but, on the caddie handing him a No: 3, which he uses without comment from either one or the other, would that amount to a breach of the rule. not to accept advice? -

So much already is left to the honour of player, that may be it is expected that in the circum- stances set out a player will con- feas he had intended to use a No. 4, but that his judgment had - been orne by the experiance of the ade. Can you imag

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