COURSE
OPEN SINGLES BOWLS MATCHES START TO-DAY
TWO INTERESTING ENCOUNTERS
The First Round of the Open Singles Lawn Bowls championship will start to-day when eight games will be decided. Two interesting encounters should be witnessed be tween E. G. Post and J. G. Meyer, and L. Glendinning and M. J. Me- dina.
Two. postponed games in the Fourth Round of the Open Pairs will also be played, though it is doubtful whether the game be- tween J. Revie and J. C. Brown and R. G. Craig and E. C. Fincher will be held as the latter may be engag-
RECORD TWICE
Lieut. J. M. Calvert, above, will be swimming for the H.K. Europ-
the eans against
Kwangtung aquatic team next Saturday night in the V.R.C.
IMPORTANT
ed in the Mixed Doubles Tennis MIXED DOUBLES
League.
A quarter final game in the same competition will also be decided this afternoon.
The following is to-day's
gramme:-
pro-
OPEN SINGLES (FIRST ROUND) H. Nish
V. L. Jack
A. Spary
B. W. Whiteman v.
H. R. Major V.
V.
J. M. Jack
W. C. Simpson (Club de Recreio green).
W. Mulcahy
L. Glendinning
C. J. Tacchi
E. G. Post
V. M. J. Medina
V. A. R. Minu
v.
J. G. Meyer
G. E. Stephens v. J. S. Landolt
(Civil Service C.C. green),
CLASH TO-DAY
K.C.C. (1) At Home
To U.S.R.C.
MISS R. PERRY STILL AN ABSENTEE
SWEENY'S
RUNET AMAZING
GOLF VICTORY
ROUNDS OF 69 AND 68 IN
GOLD VASE
HIS EXQUISITE JUDGMENT
(By GEORGE GREENWOOD)
London, June 17.
ROBERT SWEENY, the British amateur cham- pion, won the "Golf Illustrated" Gold Vase, one of the two premier scoring events, with the record total of 137 on the West Herts course, Casslebury Park, Watford, yesterday.
HIS TWO ROUNDS WERE 69 AND 68, EACH OF WHICH SWEENY'S ESTABLISHED A RECORD FOR THE COURSE. TOTAL-WAS TWO STROKES LOWER THAN THE PREVIOUS BEST, BY JAMES FERRIER, THE AUSTRALIAN CHAMPION, WHEN WINNING THE VASE AT ASHRIDGE LAST YEAR.
Sweeny has proved himself both in match and medal play the acid test of a champion. Since winning the amateur title at Sandwich Sweeny has played only four rounds, à fact eloquently illustrating the point that once the swing is fixed it is not necessary to flog oneself to death by intensive practice. The champion has the most beautiful swing imaginable, so perfectly grooved that it seems impossible for anything to go wrong.
the
Providing the weather keeps fine OPEN PAIRS (FOURTH ROUND) to-day, an exciting tennis match in J. Revie and J. C. Brown v. R. G. the Mixed Doubles League should but not rigid. A good deal of the green. At the third, the long- Craig and E. C. Fincher. (Club de Re-be witnessed at Cox's Road where creio green),
W. J. Howard and E. Zimmern v. A. Kowloon Cricket Club (1) are at M. Omar and U. M.. Omar. (Civil Ser- home to the United Services Recrea-
C.G. green).
tion Club in their postponed fix
vice
QUARTER-FINALS
W. L. Walker and S. Randle v. E. W. (Craigen- Simmonds and J. Deakin. gower C.C. green).
BRADBURY'S
QUARTETTE
ELIMINATED
OMAR'S FOUR NOT
ture.
As with all great golfers, the In each round his drive at hands are held low, and the left 15th was so terrifically long that arm as straight as a gun-barrel, he could have kicked the ball on to
the back of the left hand is show-est-hole on the course, Sweeny was ing on the shaft, which indicates almost up in two full wooden club that Sweeny is not a disciple of shots, and on each occasion played the new teaching that only one a delicate chip and holed the putt knuckle should be in evidence in for a 4. the address.
K.C.C. (1) are in somewhat of a
-CADDY'S "ADVICE quandary as Miss Rose Perry, their The only criticism, if such it can
Curiously, the last hole, with-- leading lady player and partner to be called, of one of the most glori- Teddy Fincher, is still away from ous exhibitions of golf I have seen blind second shot to a green at the the Colony and it very much looks for a long time, concerns the execu- bottom of a hill, beat him. In the as if Mr. Sweeny will be called upon tion of one or two pitch shots with first round, following an enormous to fill the vacancy..
the spade-mashie and the No. 7.drive, Sweeny was persuaded by the the caddie to take a No. 4 iron; but A. L. Sullivan has completely re- Instead of covering the flag,
the falling short the ball was trapped covered from his arm injury and ball was inclined to drift to
In the will probably partner Mrs. Ash-right, the direction of flight indicat-in a bunker on the left. ton, thus laying the foundation for ing a slight push-out. It was not second round when Sweeny wanted serious danger, a 4 for a 67 he took a stronger club The five postponed games in the a possible U.S.R.C. victory. -K.C.C.'s enough to court Third Round of the Open Rinks Lawn two other pairings. E. F. Fincher though once or twice Sweeny was and played to the right in the be- Bowls championship were decided yes- and Mrs. Burnett, and S. A. Gray left with an unnecessarily long and lief that the ball would come off terday, the outstanding result being
Mackenzie are fairly speculative approach putt from the the hill on the green. It did not, the defeat of B. W. Bardbury's rinks and Mrs.
of the and that meant another 5. by U. M. Omar's four by 25 shots to strong, but not very consistent, and extreme right-hand edge
because of this, their visitors stand green... an excellent chance of securing their five sets which are necessary for victory.
14.
EXTENDED
The following were the results:--
K. M. Omar
A. A. Razack
A. M. Omar
U. M. Omar
(Skip)
J. R. Soares
J. W. Leonard L. C. R. Souza
C. S. Rosalett
(Skip)
J. Revie
M. Ferguson
H. G. Cooper :
J. G. Brown
(Skip)
A. A. Remedios
C. F. Remedios
J. A. Luz
R. F. LUZ
(Skip):
S. J. Houghton W. C. Simpsón
IL. Gittins
B. Basto
(Skip)
25
J. S. Landolt
R. Basa
A. E. Coates B. W. Bradbury (Skip)
D.. C. Alves
J. F. V. Riberio
E. M. Remedios
J. J. Basto.
(Skip)
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C.R.C. will be at home to K.C.C. (2) in the remaining game.
21
10
N. B. Fraser
THIS WEEK'S FIXTURES
The following are this matches:--
week's
S. Farlow
J. McWalter
TO-DAY
A. E. Carey
26
(Skip)
J. H. Gelling
J. S. Howell
10
N. J. Bebbington
A. Brooksbank (Skip)
23
20
W. Macfarlane
22
E. V. Searle
L. Guy A. M. Holland
(Skip)
PUI CHING'S “DOUBLE” AT BASEBALL
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Pui Ching had no difficulty in win- ning both their League Baseball games yesterday, when they beat the Hong Kong Chinese by 15 runs to 7 after allowing the local Chinese to score seven runs in the. first two innings, and trounced the Filipinos by 17 runs to 6, scoring nine runs in the first innings.
Mixed Doubles Kowloon C.C. (1) ▼ United Services
R.C.
Chinese R.C. v Kowloon C.C. (2).
TO-MORROW
"
"A" Division
H.K.U.T.C. v Indian R.C.
U.S.R.C. v H.K.C.C.
C.R.C. v. Club de Recreio.
South China A.A. v Kowloon C.C.
WEDNESDAY
“B” Division Civil Service C.C. v H.K. University. Club de Recreio v Chinese, R.C. Kowloon C.C. ́v Craigengower C.C. Hong Kong C.C. v Kowloon I.T.C.
THURSDAY "C" Division Club de Recreio v Army T.C. Kowloon C.C. v_C.R.C. (1) South China A.A. v C.R.C. (2) Radio S.C. v Craigengower C.C. Indian R.C. Kowloon Tong G.C.A,
FRIDAY:
"D" Division Army T.C. v Civil Service C.C. Chinese R.G. Club de Recreio. Craigengower C.C. v C.R.A. South China A.A. Kowloon C.C. Police R.C. v Indian R.C.
There was one error-the miss- ing of a 12in. putt at the seventh. EXQUISITE JUDGMENT
and But he made up for it by holing But his judgment of pace distance was so exquisite that in one or two useful ones; at the 17th every case the long rolling putt was for instance, where in both rounds The figures of eminently successful. Sweeny ex- he collected a 3. plained that in correcting a slight Sweeny's record round of 68 were:
Out: 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 5, 3, 3=34. cut with the wooden clubs the left
In: 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3, 5±34. shoulder had, of necessity, been
He won by a margin of brought farther round in the back-shots from Rex Hartley, who was swing. The movement had crept second with 144. into the playing of the pitch shots, hence the slight drift.
a
The obvious reply of the ordin- ary golfer is: "If I could produce the same brand of golf as Sweeny,
such I wouldn't bother about small detail.” But champions have to bother about seeming trifles be- cause they have an unfortunate knack of becoming magnified into evils.
GERMANY'S DAVIS CUP VICTORY
seven
CZECHOSLOVAKIA DEFEATED.
Berlin, To-day.
REMARKABLE DRIVING The foundation of Sweeny's al- most flawless display was the driv-| Germany's victory over Czecho→ ing, which was extraordinarily long Slovakia in the Final of the Davis and accurate. Twice he reached Cup European Zone was her fifth the 13th with a drive and a No. 3 success in the same round, her past iron, and in each case holed the victories being in 1929, 1982, 1935, putt for an eagle 3. On the left is1936.
a bunker, the carry of which from Germany will now meet the Unit- e Inter-Zone Final the tee is 240 yards. Sweeny cared States in the ried it with the greatest ease, the from July 17 to 20, at Wimbledon. length of the drive, with no wind The winner will meet Great Britain or sloping ground to help, being 285 in the Challenge Round-Tra
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