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Whitcombe Golf

WINS BRITISH OPEN FROM SEVEN OTHER BRITISH CHALLENGERS

HENRY COTTON'S GALLANT EFFORT TO RETIN HIS TITLE

London, To-day.

Playing under abnormal conditions including a high wind, which often reached gale force, Reginald Whitcombe, with an aggregate score of 295, yesterday won the British Open Golf Cham- pionship, over the Royal St. George's Course, Sand- wich, and so keeps the title in England.

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 9, 1938.

Triumph

B.B.B.C. WARN MANAGERS

AND PROMOTERS Farr Must Defend Title

Against Phillips

London, To-day, The British Board of Boxing Control has 'given managers and promoters until August ɓ to ar- range for Tommy Farr to defend his British and Empire Heavy- weight Boxing titles against Ed- die Phillips, otherwise they will de- clare the title vacant and open to invitation for purse offers.-Reu- ter.

Eddie Phillips recently knocked out Ben Foord, of South Africa, in the ninth of a 15 round contest in an elimination contest for the British and Empire Heavyweight Boxing Championships. Q1133220320033|17|.........1997-2014 BOWLS SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP

Reginald Whitcombe, who is a member of a well-known golfing DRAW MADE

family, was runner-up last year and so turned the tables on Henry Cotton, the former holder, who, with a great effort returned a 74 for the best score of the day, to take third place.

Cotton needed 3-4-4 for the last

to be

three holes to secure the champion- ship, but he was unlucky bunkered at the 16th and 17th holes.

James Adams, another well- known British golfer, took second place with an aggregate of 297. In the 1936 Championship he wast runner-up to Alfred Padgham.

FOREIGN CHALLENGE ABSENT

the wind reaching gale force, at times, Cotton's 74 for the final round was a wonderful effort.

Richard Burton (Sale) 71, 69, 78,

J. J. Busson (Pannal) 71, 69, 83,

James Adams. (Royal Liverpool) 70, 71, 78, 78-297,"

85-303.

The outstanding feature of the final results was the complete ab- sence of foreigner or Dominion 80-303. challenge, the first

seevn golfers being Britons.

Abnormal scores were returned

Charles Whitcombe (Crews Hills) 71, 75, 79, 80-305.

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Alfred J. Padgham (Sundrige Park)

Reginald Whitcombe

for the final round, players finding74, 72, 75, 82-303. the conditions difficult to overcome. With the greens sodden with rain 70, 77, 70, 78-295. which fell intermittently and with 74-298.

(Parkstone)

Henry Cotton (Ashridge) 74, 71, 77,

BRITISH MALT,

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First Matches On Monday

"REVIEWER'S" SPORTS COMMENTARY

H.K.F.A. Enjoy Very Good Season

THE

THE Annual Report and Balance Sheet of the Hong Kong Football Association, which has just been circu- lated to clubs, contains several very in- teresting items worthy of consideration.

Under the heading, Emergency Sub- Committee, the Council reports that only five cases of misconduct came up before the Committee, during the past season, as against 41 the previous year. All these, it will be interesting to note, were among players in the Second and Third Divisions.

It may be asking too much, but it can be readily seen that it appears as if over zealousness and perhaps a lack of the knowledge of the rules of the game, in the junior divisions, were the cause of the five cases.

The Lawn Bowls Association met Another refreshing item is that the yesterday to draw for the semi- Association only made a loss of $98.90 finals of the Pairs Championship the conditions prevailing last

on the year's working, and this, 'under year, and the first round of the Open must be considered extremely satisfac- Singles. Twenty competitors re-tory. This is the first time for many ceived byes in the open singles.

The draw resulted:

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PAIRS SEMI-FINALS AT C.S.C.C. WEDNESDAY-(4.30 P.M.).

J. Howell and R. G. Craig v. E. Lines and R. Duncan or G. Mitchell and J. C. Brown. Umpire, J. F. McGowan.

years, except when the Interport is played here, that the Association have showed such a small debit. There are several non-recurring items in the pro-: fit and loss account amounting to near- ly $500 which will not be met again next year, and but for these items, the year would have ended on the right

side.

C. M. Silva and F. X. Soares or M. Expenses were reduced as low as er and A. K. Minu. Umpire, J. Rus-running of the various competitions J. Medina and J. Cavanagh v. A. Bak-possible, consistent with the efficient sell.

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SINGLES JULY 11

AT POLICE CLUB J. S. Cook v. J. Sherriff. J. A. R. Selby v. W. J. Bagley. M. Y. Adal v B. Bostock. J. F. McGowan v. A. R. Dallah.

AT CIVIL SERVICE

E. Tuck v. S. Lillicrap. M. R. Abbas v.. R. Channing. A. J. Coelho v. -W. Bradbury. S. M. Rumjahn v. A. Steven.

AT TAIKO0

F. A. Broadbridge v. W. Gill. A.. Warr. v. H. Gittins. WJ. Burling v. J. E. V. Ribeiro." E. de Souza v. R. Ellis.

AT RECREIO

G. C. Norman v. C..J. Tacchi. F. R. N. Cornelly v. A. Hyde-Lay. L. Jack v. D. W. Waterton. H. Overy v. J. S. Logan.

AT KOWLOON B.G.C.

C. F. Remedios v. J. J. Basto. J. A. Luz v. L. D. Skinner. J. L. Steven v. W. K. Way. B. Basto v. H. G. Cooper.

SAT KOWLOON DOCK C. H. Basto v G. Perkina E. Zimmern L.A. Gutierrez. A, E. Coates v. C. Vas. H. F. Harper v. C. G. Silva.

JULY $12

AT HONG KONG F. C.. S: M. White v. F. Nolan.

W. J. Howard v. D. M. Khan..

AT K.C.C.

F. V. V. Ribeiro v. F. McKelvie. J. E. Henson v. A. R. Minu.

JULY 14

AT K.C.C.

C. Turney v. J. Pau,

J. H. E. Edwards v. T. Coleman,

AT HONG KONG FỰC.

F. Kelly v. H. Nish;"

R. P. Phillips v. A. S. Gomes.

JULY 18

AT RECREIO

A. M. Omar v. G. N. Mitchell. J. T. Smalley v. R. Duncan..

AT POLICE R. C. J. Sloan v. R: Meadows. J. Cavanagh v. L. de Rome.

JULY 19

AT KOWLOON B. G. C. R. F. da Luz v. J. S. Howell. U. M. Omar, v. C. M. Silva.

AT HONG KONG F. C. J. G. Meyer v. W. Hillyer. John Watson v. C. S. Rosselet.

JULY 20

AT CRAIGENGOWER

J. Smith VFX: M. da Silva, LF Xavier v. T. Armstrong.

Spary v. A. K. Minu. Dowman v. S. Randle.

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and the work of the Association gener- ally, and with the hope of better gate receipts next year, the Association can look forward, optimistically to another good season."

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Thé Annual General meeting of the Association will be held in the Board Room of the "South China Morning Post" on Thursday, July 14, at 5.80 p.m.

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Woolley's Farewell

On June 4 Frank Woolley began his farewell tour of the Kent cricket weeks. I should imagine that he is more anxious to score a farewell cen- tury at Tonbridge than on any other ground.

the

Woolley was born at Tonbridge, and as a schoolboy used to watch games on the Angel ground from the trees by the river. I believe that one of the trees still bears his initials.

It was at Tonbridge that he was given his first game for Kent in 1908. There was nothing in his debut to suggest that the game's best left- handed bat, and one of its best all- rounders, had arrived. He made duck, dropped two catches, and took one wicket for 108.

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years

On the same ground three later he made one of the only two "pairs of spectacles" he has had in his career.

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Trent Bridge Centenary Book

Historic Trent Bridge's centenary could scarcely have been better mark- ed than by the engaging little volume about Nottinghamshire cricket prepar- ed by Mr. E. V. Lucas. This has just been presented to the members of the Notts Club by Sir Julien Cahn.

Greatest of all Notts cricketers per- haps was Old Clarke, a member of the great All-England peripatetic eleven. which played its first match in 1848.

Old Clarke was the first to bowl systematically the true "lob" as dis- tinct from the relatively low-pitched underhand ball, Many are the stories told of his cunning and of his power of summing up batsmen fon sight.”

When his bowling was being hit he consoled himself with the observation, "We shall have a accident.” Sooner or later there usually was one--at the bateman's expense.