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THE CHINA MAIL

C. WHITCOMBE HAS BEST AVERAGE

J.H. LEWIS

TO FIGHT MCAVOY

TITLE FIGHT LATE NEXT MONTH

New York, September 29. John Henry Lewis, the negro light heavy-weight champion of the world, has agreed to defend his title against Jock McAvoy, the Bri tish middle-weight champion.

The fight will be over 15 rounds and will take place in London late in November. Terms have been agreed upon by Gus Greenlee, Lewis's man- ager, after cabled negotiations with the authorities of Wembley Stadium, where the fight will take place.

This will be Lewis's second visit to England, and it is understood that after the contest with McAvoy he will fight only as a heavy-weight.

JACK DOYLE'S DENIAL

·NO RIFT IN HIS ROMANCE

CHARLES

Charles A. Whitcombe, above, captain of the British Ryder Cup. team which recently lost to Ameri-

Vardon Memorial Trophy, having been the most consistent player in the six major tournament of the season..

FIRST WINNER OF VARDON TROPHY

GREATEST EXPONENT IN PITCHING

(By PETER LAWLESS)

London, October 1. CA WHITCOMBE, who captained the British

Ryder Cup team, has won the Harry Vardon Memorial Trophy for the player with the best aver- age in the season's major stroke tournaments. For the 24 rounds in which he competed he had an

ea, is the first winter of the Harry average of 71.62. P. J. Mahon (Royal Dublin) comes second with 71.9 for 22 rounds, and Henry Cotton (Ashridge) third, his average of 72.0 being for 18 rounds, the minimum number to make player eligible for the trophy.

motor-car manufacturer would not take place.

in love

I am still very much with Delphine," he said. "She is still very much in love with me.

The trophy, a bronze statuette designed by Mr. Hal Ludlow, and representing the late Harry Vardon in the full grace of his classic swing, will be presented to the winner to-morrow at his home club by the captain of the Professional Golfers' Association, Mr. R. McKenzie.

"I am waiting until my interlocu-

The winner is a model of consistency, and one of the greatest tory decree with Judith Allen be comes final in April, and I have artists in pitching the game has ever known. That he has never therefore persuaded Delphine to been Open champion is surprising, and his record strangely resem- Reno bles that of Abe Mitchell, now universally acknowledged as "the abandon her plans for

New York, September 23. divorce from her husband and try greatest player who never won the Open.” Jack Doyle, the boxer, denied to-to get a divorce in London, which seven months. day reports that his marriage with would take about Mrs. Delphine Godde, daughter of "We plan to get married in April, Mr. Horace Dodge, the millionaire probably in London."

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Without in any way detract-sults shows, too, that those players an admirable ing from Whitcombe's well-who took part in the Brighton earned success in the inaugural tournament had year of the Vardon Memorial chance materially to improve their Trophy, Henry Cotton is to be chances. sympathised with in his failure

The course is short-6,453 yards

to win it in a season when he and not severely bunkered, so beat an Open Championship field that, pleasant though it be, it can- which included the complete not be considered as a real test for American Ryder Cup team, and first-class players.

was the first British player to win in these circumstances.

“IN THE 50'S”.

E. R. Whitcombe won the event Cotton's failure was due to two untypical rounds in the Southend with a record low score of 268, and Tournament in May on á water-made the illuminating comment logged course, when he took 154 after one round, "If I had holed all strokes for two rounds--an average my putts of from 4ft to 6ft I should of 77 per round. He did not play have been round in the 50's.

A. H. Padgham, the Open cham- in the two final rounds of the tournament, which was concluded pion of 1936, finished 10th, with an at the end of the summer, when the average of 73.04. It was generally as conceded that he was not playing conditions were nothing like

well, his putting in particular be testing.

ing well below his own dazzling standard Yet what a fine tribute The conditions and a failure to to the progress our professionals find his true form, caused a recur- have made during recent years: 1.42 rence at Southend of those tempera-strokes cover the first 10 players.

The following were the tourna- mental lapses which marred his early days and he entirely failed to ments which counted for the tro- do himself justice.

phy Daily Mail” (4 rounds); Sil-

FAILED TO DO JUSTICE

In the Irish Open only nine of the ver King (4); Dunlop-Southport first 15 competed, and it is open to (4); Open Championship (4); Irish doubt whether this event should be Open (4); Southend (4), and "News included in the qualifying rota in Chronicle" (4), giving a total future. A brief glance at the re- 28 rounds.

Vardon Trophy Averages

C. A. Whit

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