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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 18, 1988.

A.D. Locke And Henry Cotton

BENNY LYNCH TO MEET “KAYO" MORGAN

Bantam Limit Fight In Glasgow

(By "AIR MAIL”)

Benny

London, August 1. Lynch, of Glasgow, the World,

former holder

of

British, and European Fly-Weight Boxing Championships, is to fight the American bantam-weight "Kayo" Morgan in Glasgow September 28, according to statement made by the promoter,

Mr. N. M'Grie.

on

a

A COMPARISON OF

METHODS

The South African On His Slow-Motion Play

(By AIR MAIL) (By "TEE-SHOT")

London, July 30.

the four players taking part in last week's £500 challenge

Onatch, which evoked such widespread interest, two emerged

with enhanced reputations. One was Cotton and the other Locke, the youthful South African golfer. Each was the pivotal player of his side, and for long periods of the two days' match they were] Morgan's services for the

engaged in a personal duel with their respective partners playing fight were secured tentatively a minor part in the main struggle.

on

camp

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being picked up and then replaced. I could not help sympathising with the great veteran, James Braid, who, in his capacity as referce, was bobbing up and down for nearly eight hours

For each day, picking un balls. man in his sixty-ninth year this was no joke.

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A FERVENT HOPE! For the sake of all concerned it is fervently to be hoped that, in the event of future chal'enve matches, a foursome—always folly good fun-will he‘anhatituted for the tedious four-ball affair in which balls are fiving about and nobody is over quite certain as to which is which. some time ago by Mr. . M'Grie,

The ideal challenge match was that Though who declared in Glasgow yester-

Densmore the losing side,, drews' some years ago, takes out

which Cotton played chair and rests whilst the other in day that he has now obtained Locke emerged in a playing sense can goes through a host of tedious Shute; but if four players are con- Lynch's signature. The contest with even greater glory than

and wholly unnecessary preliminaries.cerned for heaven's sake let it be a played will be over twelve rounds at 8 Cotton, and, having watched him Ridicule, the deadliest of poisons, killed contest in which one ball is

against the other. Because there is st 6 lbs, the bantam-weight limit. carefully both at Portmarnock in his antics.

no doubt that at no distant date Locke Morgan and Lynch were to have the Irish Open, and then at Wal-

will be a serious challenger to Cotton met two years ago, but the fight ton Heath. I am convinced that

as the Empire's, if not the world's did not materialise. Since then the "South African will take his

greatest golfer, a comparison of styles The tech- may not be uninteresting. the American has built up a big place among the world's most

nique of each is totally different. In reputation in his own country.

the case of the swing the foundation three of style-Cotton's is of the quarter type and notably, slow measured, while Locke's is full, and, by comparison, quick. In each; the common factors are smoothness and rhythm, without which there can be no lasting success in golf.

"Y" HOCKEY MEETING

NEXT WEDNESDAY The annual meeting of the Hoc- European key Section, of the Y.M.C.A. will take place on Wed- nesday, August 17, at 6.80 p.m., in the West Lounge.

distinguished players, if, indeed, he has not already done so.

can,

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and

I wish that Locke had heard the conversation of a couple of spec- Refer- tators at Walton Heath. ring to a particular shot. one gaid to the other: "By jove, that's peach." "So it should be; it had a long time to ripen," was the quick reply. His rise to fame is not dissimilar to

DUTY TO PUBLIC that of R. T. Jones, the famous Ameri- Having embraced golf as a profes- each'sion and consequently as a means of At the age of fourteen,

Locke must understand won a junior championship, an achieve-livelihood, ment which set them on a career that the great golfing public are his of conquest in national events. Golf customers, and as such they will call is in their blood, just as cricket is in the tune. It will not, I assure him

· REMARKABLE DRIVES

than the blood of Don Bradman.

bc of the funeral kind. They will

Sonie players swing slower NOTHING IN COMMON

tolerate a good deal, but nothing in others; but, whatever the pace, it must Song that be rhythmical. Of all the great The similarity between Locke and the nature of a pose. Jones ends there, for they have no- there has her so much adverse com- golfers none swings slower than Cot thing in common either as regards ment on his low play it is only fair ton. and precious few drive better or

stated. further.. style and method, or in the approach that Locke's views should be to the game. Though not a George He tells me that, because of the lack In a long experience, I have seen

stewarding, the public many remarkable drives, but 1. Secretary's Report, 2. Election Duncan in the matter of speed, Jones of proper

was a sprinter compared with Locke, crowded the teeing-grounds, gave him more extraordinary than the one of Officers, 3. Discussion of policy whose snail-like progress and extreme little room on the fairways, and got which Cotton hit at the twelfth hole at season 1938/39, 4. Any other busi- deliberation are not only a source of in the way of his approach shots. In Walton Heath in the last round of the He and extreme exasperation both to oppon- these circumstances there was natur-dramatic challenge match.

his partner were one down, and having The season 1937/38 was very suc-ents and spectators, but is a strange ally some delay between the shots.

unbefitting attitude for a youth "For me, it was a desperately im-seen Whitcombe safely on the course, cessful, and in order to make the and

of twenty to adopt. While admitting portant event, and each shot had to and with a certain 4 to come, Cotton It is a forthcoming season even more suc- that the playing of first-class golf be played with deliberation and decided to go for the green. cessful a good attendance at the demanda care and concentration, these thought,"

says Locke.

dog-legged hole of 370 yards, the short It may be conceded that much of cut to which is a carry of 300 yards. annual meeting is desired, so that can be overdone as to become ridi-

culous.

the delay was due to the fact that the over a veritable jungle of bracken and the officials elected for the season

Locke is approaching tho stage match was of the four-ball kind→ heather.. Failure to carry the jun- may be representative of the Club where the opponent, as was the case never a marathon at the best of times gle means a lost ball. Without ap

in the Eden tournament at St. An-1-in which the balls are constantlyparently making any extra effort, Cot-

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ton not only carried everything, but finished on the forward part of the approach to the green, That mighty shot proved the turning point of the match which up to that stage had been running in favour of the South Africans.

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IF HE COULD While people marvel at the lowness of Cotton's scoring it is his own belief that if he could swing slower he would be a better golfer. It is often asked: "What is the secret of Cotton's length ??! While a combination of several things a beautiful pivot, a braced left side and arm at impact he contrives to get into the shot a quick and decisive slap of the right hand as”. the clubhead meets the ball. Looke, on the other hand, gets his effects by perfect wrist action.

He is what one would term # "wristy" player, while Cotton makes greater use of his hands and fingers. Locke is leaving shortly for Australia where he will take part in a playing tour, but had he remained permanently In England I feel that he would have constituted a danger to Cotton's posi- tion of eminence. "I'm coming back. to have a go at him", was Locke's parting shot.

CHUNG SHING GALA FOR

TO-NIGHT

The following is the programme for the Chung Shing B.S. night fete toss night. at Kennedy Town.

100 Metres Free-style (Men) 50 Metres Breast-stroke (Ladies) 200 Metros Free-stylė (Mon)- 100 Metres Breast-stroke: (Men); 50 Metres Back-stroke (Boy) 150 Metres Free-style (Ladies)' 50 Metres Back-stroke (Men) 100 Metres Back-stroke (Men)

style Handicap. (Staff)