BUDGE'S EXPENSES
TROUBLE IN N. Z. FIZZLES OUT
"MAKO AND I MUST HAVE £20 EACH EXPENSES BUDGE”
ROUND IN
67 AT
AGE OF 69
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 28, 1988.
SANDY HERD'S GREAT BRADMAN AND
GOLF FEAT
(By GEORGE GREENWOOD)
London, April 22. Sandy Herd, the veteran Scot- tish professional golfer, who will This apparent demand
was be
70 on Sunday, yesterday ac- made to the N.Z. tennis authorit-complished one of the most re- ies by wireless from Budge when markable feats in the history of he and Mako were en route to the game. Auckland.
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THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER WILL PROPOSE THE ' TOAST" OF THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE, AT THE LEAGUE'S JUBILEE CELEBRATION DINNER AT THE DORCHESTER, London, April, 21. LONDON, NEXT MONDAY NIGHT, More genuine interest in the (MAY 30), FOLLOWING THE AN- forthcoming visit of the Austra-NUAL MEETING THE SAME DAY. Playing in the £1,000 tourna-¡lian Test players is being shown in Late in February last they ment at Moor Park, Rickmans-a small Hampshire village than in sport, will represent the Cabinet.
Mr. Leslie Burgin, Minister of Tran- had made definite arrangements worth, where he is professional, any other part of England, for it to play exhibition games during he had a round of 67-two strokes was here that cricket was born. their short stay in Auckland on under his age. the way home.
N.Z. tennis officials were greatly incensed by the expense demand and stated that the matter would be taken up with the American L.T.A.
"FIZZLED OUT" However, the trouble seems have "fizzled out.”
Latest news from America about the matter implies that they made the claim for expenses in accordance with their amateur status.
to
Whatever opinions are held about their reported demand for expenses, it was perfectly obvious that Budge, as captain-manager, possessed the necessary authority to act in this respect.
JUST AS ANTICIPATED Maybe the nature of Budge's re- quest was misleading and possibly could be easily construed to that he and Mako wanted the money for themselves.
message.
mean
It is 36 years since Herd won the Open championship, and he is the only golfer taking part in an important tournament who has ever returned a score lower than his age.
TRAGIC MISHAP
achievement would have been more Amazing though it was, Herd's
remarkable but for hap toward the end of the round. a tragic mis-
A spoon shot trapped in a bunker at the 16th cost him a 7, and two, if not three, strokes were lost.
The company,
which will number
The guests will also include Lord Derby, representatives of the Football Association's of England, Scotland. Hambledon has invited Don Brad-Wales and, Ireland, the International man and his team to visit there Football Federation and the Rugby and play.
League. In the centre of the village stands over 700, will include representatives the "Bat and Ball' hostelry, from of every League club. over whose doors swings 2 sign with the picture of Richard Nyren, down. doyen of English cricket, staring
IN 1750
On the village green, in front of the "Bat and Ball," played Richard Nyren and his team, dressed re-top-hats, sky-blue smocks,
silver-buckle shoes. 1750.
Even this incident did not dis- turb him, and he finished the maining two holes in fine style.
"HAPPIEST MAN ALIVE"
in and This was in
"I must be the happiest man
They knew nothing of Australia, alive, but I would have been hap-have imagined that one day millions nor the "Ashes," nor could they pier still if I had broken the re- cord, which was
of people would be interested in in my pocket
their simple country game. but for that one mistake," Herd said afterwards.
No doubt the New Zealand tennis officials gathered the wrong impres-
The Hambledon club still carries sion from Budge's laconic wireless scarcely feel more
"I shall be 70 on Sunday, but Ion, though on the village
than half my They have their ground some two green.
However, whatever their
age. Anyhow, I can still show some miles away, on the Broadhalfpenny inter- pretation, Budge was in the position
of the youngsters a few things.
Down, where they hope to revive to offer
""There's the
no explaining it," he the ancient glories in a match with American Tennis added. authorities a personal
"It was not luck; it was Australia, explanation not local knowledge. I was just able to hit well, to approach well, easily to get out of bunkers, and I seemed thus to feel the putts going in as I play
ed them.
of the reasons for his actions. This; of course, could be supplemented by Mako, and clear up the difficulty.
at the dinner will be at circular tables, Except for the top table, all those each providing for a dozen guests.
Principal of these will be in front of the League president (Mr. C. E. Sut- cliffe), and at this table will be repre- sentatives of eleven of the twelve ori- ginal clubs of the League.
Accrington, one of the original} twelve clubs, went out of existence many years ago.
Eleven clubë “represented at this table will be Aston Villa, Blackburn, Bolton, Burnley, Derby County, Ever- ton, Notts County, Preston, Stoke. West Bromwich, and Wolverhampton. At the Football League's meeting election of members for the manage- ment committee will be voted upon.
Three members who retire by rota. tion and offer themselves for re-elec- tion are: Messrs. M. F. Cadman (Tot- field), and A. H. Oakley (Wolverhamp- tenham), A. Brook Hirst (Hudders- ton).
Other candidates are Messrs. Hilton Crowther (Leeds), G. F. Rutherford (Newcastle), and W. Tempest (Black- burn).
A vacancy for one year occurs
It will be a strange experience for the Australians if they accept through the death recently of Mr. the invitation to play on the spot Phil Bach, of Middlesbrough. where cricket was born.
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