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THE CHINA MAIL MARCH 29,

EAST FIFE AND THE SCOTTISH CUP

JIM FERRIER'S NOTEBOOK

GOLF JOTTINGS AT HOME AND

ABROAD

SCOTTISH TA

SEMINALS

The followm is the revised draw for the semi-fmais of the Scottish Cup, which will take

place next

St. Bernal':

Fast Fife.

(At Tynecastle Park, Edin bargh).

Kilmarnock v. Rangers. (At Hampden Park, Glasgow).

The result of the das ensu that a Second Division team will contest the final, and Bangers, who have had an unexpectedly bad League season are confidently re- garded as eventual winners of the trophy.

Sydney, February 25. Moving pictures of the young American professional, Sam Snead's putting style show the secret of his phenomenal touch Throughout the stroke the putter blade is kept close to the ground] TGMAURIZIFICERAMUL and square on to the ball. The

bulk of the stroke is done by the LONDON

wrists. Snead is a believer in a

swing.

CURIOUS FEATURE

SINCE THEIR YEAR

THEIR DISTINCTION AS

2ND DIVISION TEAM

(By INCHKEITH)

(The following article should prove very interesting in view of the fact that East Fife have reached the semi-final of the Scottish Cup and ANDHAMINITAM Į that St. Bernard's, also a Second Division Club, stand an equal chance of entering the final. No Second Division Club has yet won the Scottish [F. A. Cupy.

firm hit rather than a long back YACHT CLUB blades going tors to the tur CENTENARY

Most good putters the

This helps the player to obtain a maximum of top spin on the ball. W. Bolger, one of the soundest of Australian patters, is rarely seen to raise his putter off the turf when putting at his best, and N. Von Nida is another fol lower of this style.

US. OFFER OF

PRIZE

ONLY twice have Fife clubs reached the final of

Glasgow, February 15.

1913, nor East Fife, fourteen years later, managed the Scottish Cup, but neither Raith Rovers, in

to win the trophy. The Kirkcaldy team lost to Fal- kirk at Celtic Park by the only two goals of the match, while the men from Methil were beaten by Celtic by three goals to one after they had opened The Royal London Yacht Club the scoring. East Fife have this distinction they of Cowes is commemorating its are the only club to reach the last stage of the com- during petition when in the Second Division since the 90s.

(By Major B. Heckstall-Smith)

Two leading New Zealand clubs centenary this year

have decided to instal extensive wa- Cowes Week. The club was

It cannot be said that the Fife clubs have played a very promin

tering schemes to provide better mongst the earliest to be asso- A Second Division club have, however, still to be summer golfing conditions. Baked iated with the contests for the Cup winners. fairways and glass-like green sur- America's Cup, and its cordial re- faces mar the pleasure of playing ations with the New York Yacht The New Zealand projects will be Club have been long established, ent part in the tourney since the Bayview eleven made history, but costly, but they are expected to meet Mr. Algernon Maudslay, a the hammer of the "Kingdom" farthest since 1927. A very curious

nevertheless, it is interesting to recall the teams which have car with universal approval of the club prominent member of the RL feature is that, with one year excepted, one or both of the fina

Y.C., has received a letter from have defeated a club from Fife on the way to the last stage. Commodore W. A. W. Stewart,

members concerned.

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EYE TO THE FUTURE NY.Y.C., saying that, in com- The year following Fast Fife's at the fourth hurdle The The American Walker Cup team memoration of the Royal London historic run Dunfermline Athle was 3-1 for "killie," who dre recently selected shows that the Yacht Club's centenary, the tic made most progress, but they Rangers in the final but had United States Golf Association has New York Yacht Club will give fell rather softly to the Hiber-tire losers in the second game. an eye to the future. It is a youth- a prize in Cowes Week to be sail nians in the fourth round. ful team, the average age

It The year 1933 was not a happy of the ed for at the RLY.C.'s regatta. was in 1928 that Rangers won one of any part of the county, players being 23. As each member The race will take place on Aug.the Cup after a period of 25 sea-The clubs all fell in the first round, of the team has proved himself un- 1.

sons. Celtic were beaten in the the reults being Raith Rovers der stroke play conditions, it ap- The Royal London Yacht Club final by four second half goals. Falkirk pears that Britain. has a difficult, was founded in 1838 and the New Prior to that Cowdenbeath visit Fife 1; Cowdenbeath 0, Dundes

2; St Johnstone 2 East task ahead to recover the cup. York Yacht Club in 1844. ed Ibrox in the second stage and after a draw 1-1; and Dunfermline

etired defeated 4-2.

Athletic 1, Celtic 7 The fast men

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A very fine performance lay to tioned club landed the the credit of Raith Rovers the next Taking part in their second final, season. In a fourth round tie at Motherwell were besten by the Stark's Park, Kilmarnock, who later goal won the Cup by beating Rangers in the final, had a hard struggle to get the better of the Bovers by the fodd goal in the fore

LOST TO RANGERS

NO FIFE "SCAFP"

It was in 1934 that neither finalist had a scalp from Fife. Co made most progress until the South came and congr

The last of the Fifers, a year later, Central Park in third were again the losers to the viti-but that stage was not mate Cup winners-

Partick Thistle after gers beat year later.

a non-scoring Cowdenbeath

draw in the final, and the Torox club tainly an

also required two games to dispose were the opposition

of the challenge of Cowdenbeath in gow team went on to win the the second round. Four goals were Hamilton Academicals, the shared at Ibruz, but Rangers claim-finalists, just got through ed all three in the replay at Central round tie at East End Park, Park, where "Cowden” did not play fermine, by the odd goal in three. as well as was expected. In 1981, This season brought Cowdenbeath fell to the team in into this survey-Bosyth - fourth round which should have won Recreation, who, after disposing the Cup and East Fife lost to the Berwick Rangers, 3-1, ultimate Cup holders in the initial fight of it against stage. What football supporter Broomfield in the sect does not remember, or has not been was only by the one told of that tragic error Alan Graig 3 match that the The Motherwell

the closing minutes of the against Celtic, deflected

looking ball through his

draw resulted and

fortunate

won the

ALL

in the first

ROUND

team Dunfermline Athl

qualified for round

Rovers, the remaining

Brechin, but in singly failed at home beaten 2-47 FIEST

Scotti