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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 14, 1988.

CAREER OF GREAT! DANISH SWIMMER

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about 10 metres behind the winner. Of championships Ragnhild Hve- ger has in the same period won: five Scandinavian, six Danish, and ten for Zeeland, and put up 18 world records and 29 Danish cords, of which many are also the European recorda.

Her Records

re

Lastly, her 12. world records must

be mentioned:

300m, crawl

Copenhagen

5/3/37. 3 50:1

400m: crawl-London 18/8/38 5 9.0

440yds: crawl-

Copenhagen

.. 12/12/37 5 12.8

500yds. crawl-Aarhus 31/8/37 5 57,9

500m, crawl-

Copenhagen

Stockholm

14/6/86 6 46.7

3/7/36 11 11.7

800m, crawl-

Copenhagen.

880yds. crawl- Stockholm

28/2/37 11 16.1

1000m. crawl-

28/2/37 14 12.3

150yds. backstroke-

London ....

25/9/37 1 49.8

200m. backstroke-

Aarhus

14/2/37 2 41.3

400m. backstroke—.

4/4/37 5 44.5 2 21.7

Copenhagen

200m. crawl-Aarhus 11/9/38

HARDCOURT TENNIS

Rain once again washed out the Hardcourt Tennis Singles Cham- pionship matches at the United Ser- vices Recreation Club yesterday, and a re-arrangement of the sche- dule has been made necessary.

Yesterday's fixtures will be play- ed to-day and the semi-finals and

Excellent action studies from the Colony Diving Championship At showing three of the divers going through their performances. the left is Pte. Nicholls (Army) just rising off the board for his run- ning plain header forward, while at the, right Chen Bun-chib, who was runner-up to L. Roza-Pereira for the title, is in the initial stages of his Mollberg. Bottom right shows Stanley Lee performing his back Pike dive. ("Mail" photos).

finals, which were fixed for to-day, LOCKE'S PUTTING

to-morrow, Saturday and Sunday,

will be played on dates to be an- nounced later.

• To-day's matches, therefore, will be:

SINGLES

A. E. P. Guest v. S. A. Rumjahn; S. A. Gray v. Tsui Yun-pui; Tsui Wai- pui v. H. D. Rumjahn.

DOUBLES

E. C. Fincher and A. V. Remedios

v. G. Choa and O. Rumjahn.

AMERICAN AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

Gus Moreland Leads Qualifiers

TOO

GOOD FOR PADGHAM

TWO UP IN 36 HOLES MATCH

(By GEORGE GREENWOOD)

London, August 15. Bobby Locke, the young South African champion, beat Alfred Padgham two up in the 36 holes £200 challenge match at Selsdon Park, Sanderstead, yesterday.

Locke, whose play was of the most impressive character, had a score of 67 in each round. He drove great distances, but his ap-

LOWER PLAY-LINE PROPOSAL

Opposition From Club

Players

London, August 17.

com-

It is by no means certain that the suggested lowering of `the play-line from 19in to 17in, put forward by the executive mittee of the Squash Rackets As- sociation, and chiefly fathered by the chairman. Capt. J. E. Palmer- Tomkinson will go through with- out considerable opposition at the | extraordinary general meeting to

be held on September 18.

Opposition to the proposal is hardening Col. A. H. C. Kearsey, one of the pioneers of squash rackets, voiced the objections of a large number of club players and he is receiving substantial support..

Squash, argues the, ordinary club player, is a perfectly good game as

it Beragand the needs of

the

Any altera-

tions really only concern the super- player and do not interest the thousands

and who play for fun exercise.

This continual tinkering with the rules has a disturbing effect not only at home but abroad as well.

Den- Holland, France, Belgium. mark and Sweden are all building clubs as fast they can. They look to this country for a lead in the rules of the game and dimensions of the court and they do not look like getting much continuity of rules from the parent body.

Apart from everything else, the lowering of the play-line will entail considerable cost everywhere except in America, where the play-line is 17in. To do the job properly will cost between four or five pounds per court, and as there are 1,500 courts in this country alone, £7,000 will be something like

involved.

over

proaching and putting were the most conspicuous features of his HEARTS WIN

game.

/

AWAY

..

the Scottish

0 Hearts 2 Ralth

.

2 Queen's Park

-Reuter.

1.

It was not until the 34th hole to the attack, Locke with perfect ap- that Locke took the lead for the proach shots won the 16th and 17th,

each in three to square. As an exhi first time. Here he holed a puttbition of scientific shot-making it was

London, To-day. of 12 feet for a birdie three and all very entertaining.

Three matches were played in the then clinched the match with an- Padgham won the first hole in the First Division of other birdie three at the 18th, second round and kept his lead until League yesterday, results as cabled the 12th, where he unaccountably miss- where he holed from 10 yards. led a putt of less than a yard.

by Reuter being: This week Locke sails for Australia Padgham was not given another Falkirk to undertake a playing tour and hopes chance for Locke finished the last six Partick to return to England next year, when holes in 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 8, and won two St. Mirren he will challenge Henry Cotton. of them. Padgham's score for the Oakmont, Penns. To-day.

The first round finished alt square, second round was 69. Gus Moreland, the former Walk- Locke having a score of 67 to Padg- er Cup player, with an aggregate ham's 68. Bogey of the course is 75. of 146, which included a brilliant The crowd numbered about 2,000, many second round of 70, now leads the of whom had little idea of the etiquette

ruling at golf matches. The specta

Just Unpacked! qualifiers in the American Amateur tors ran, jostled the players, and Golf Championship, which com- crowded the greens to such an extent

that few of the people could see what New Shipment menced yesterday.

was happening, The second place is shared by EZ NO LOITERING

Artistic and Attrac Willie Turnesa, Marvin Ward - and Even so, the players completed the

gre-round in 2hrs, 85mins., in fact, indicates

Cottage Richard Chapman with an

ing that there was no loitering. On t i've gate of 148.

this occasion a charge against Locke

way be Weaves. The British Amateur Champion, of wasting time could in no

substantiated; indeed, he played the and United States Walker Cup play-shots as quickly as Padgham, who er, Charles' Yates, of Atlanta, is could never be accused of slowness. Joint ninth with a score of 152,

After being one down, the South African squared 'the match with a re-

All 48 ins. wide.

The non-qualifiers include the markable three at the 10th, a hole of From 1.75 to 2.25 American professional tennis play-510 yards. He hit a lovely spoon shot six feet from the flag, but was not

or and former Wimbledon cham-required to hole out as Padgham with pion, H. Ellsworth Vines, and both his third shot was in trouble in tha

Torrance trunk of a tree, British entrants,

General A

of the

nner German

Amateur championships Reuter.

PADGHAM TWO UP

Grecial!

for Yard.CURTAINS:

LOOSE COVERS.

TONEH

Winning the 13th in four and the WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO LTD

next, a hole of 465 yarda, in three, iam became two up. Returning