THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 10, 1939.
Golf Pros. Ranked
Ranked For 1938
OUR LONDON AIR MAIL SPORTS NEWS
Scotland Solve Problem
of Rugby Hooker
Scotland beat The Rest in the In- ternational Rugby Trial at Selkirk by two goals (10 Points) to nothing. One change from the original selection was intimated, J. R. Hogg (Hawick) taking the place of Henderson in the Rest pack. Scotland deserved to win,
but the margin of points rather flat
ters them.
Anomalies Of Present Method
FIRST PLACE TO R.A. WHITCOMBE:
PERRY'S BRILLIANT RECORD
(By AIR MAIL)
Preston Will Meet Either Aston Villa Or Ipswich
F.A. Cup Fourth Round Draw Made.
The compilation of a ranking list of British professionals for fessional Golfers' Association in arriving at the champion of the year. The distinction goes to Cotton, who is awarded the Vardon Memorial Trophy, the winning of which is based on averages for a minimum number of rounds in certain specified score events.
Cotton played the required minimum. of sixteen rounds, for which his average was 72.87. And yet, not only did he fail to win one of the scheduled tournaments, but was unsuccessful in every event in which he competed in this country. Such a situation is, of course, anomalous, and it comes as no surprise to learn that the body responsible for the award to the Vardon trophy has adopted a different method for the future.
1938 is complicated by reason of the method adopted by the Pro- PENSIÓNERS FOR
An important feature of the game was the struggle at forward and the changes at half-time, Inglis and Bor thwick, from Scotland's pack, for Gallie and Weston, from the Rest cer- tainly resulted in Scotland receiving a larger share of the ball. Another feature was the resolute tackling of er R. A. Whitcombe, winner of It would be thought that eith- Forrest and Thomson by the new- comers, Innes and Young.
the Open championship, or
The Rest backs saw little of the ball Perry, who captured most of the in the second half, and their value as principal events, would be the an attacking force could scarcely be champion of the year. Not a bit good enough to have
Anderson (Stewarts) took
assessed.
Also
anybody.
beaten
FIFTH ROUND?
London, To-day. Preston, holders of the F. A. Cup, will meet either Aston Villa, whom they beat in the Semi-Final Round last season, or Ipswich, the new Third Division club, in the Fourth Round of the Competition, which was drawn yesterday and which will take place on January 21.
Huddersfield, who were beaten · by a penalty goal in the last min- utes of extra time in last year's sen- sational final, have not yet played off their postponed Third Round tie. with Notts Forest, but the winners of this tie will meet either Leeds or Bournemouth.
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almost Taking the averages of the three leaders over the four tournaments in which they all took part, Perry comes first with 71.4 Cotton next with 72, and R. A. Whitcombe third with 72.5. set last Saturday by defeating Ar- Chelsea, who caused a major up- -HONOURS AND SPOILS The year's spoils, amounting
senal away from home, by the odd for no other player, with the exception at £13,000 in cash, were widely spread, goal in three, meet Fulham of Perry and Whitcombe,
home and stand more excellent chance of securing C. A. Whitcombe won the £1,000 event entry into
the Fifth Round,
won
to
an
Adair's place at the base of the serum- of it; Whitcombe, who played 20 mage, but the sluggish heeling scarce- rounds in the scheduled events, ly gave him a chance either. For the was second with an average of winners Crawford was outstanding in 173.35, while Perry, with the same a pack which took rather long to settle, down, and Scotland seems to have number of rounds, was third with solved her problem of a hooker with 73.4. All this rather goes to R. W. Simpson (London Scottish). show that scores are not always
outstanding Scotland's pack
a dependable guide to a player's were Duff and Ray. Wilson Shav was unusually subdued, and seldom tournament winning powers. attempted anything on his own. Dor- ward gave him an excellent service, Under the new system adopted for and Forrest and Thomson get ample finding the champion of the year, points at Moor Park; Rees, the Match-play while Sunderland, another of last opportunities. Both made little of will be awarded as in cross-country championship; Curtis the their chances, mainly owing to the running. The winner scores one point, £1,600 competition; Alliss the Profes-winners of the Middlesbrough
Southport year's semi-finalists, will meet the embarrassing, attentions of Waters, the second man two, the third man sional League; and Locke, the Irish and Melville did some excellent things. three, and so on. For example, the Open. Fourth place is awarded Bolton tie. Neither full-back was brilliant, but winner of the Open championship will Rees, who is the match-play champion Grieve was the better. Fyfe and Craig score one point. If by some dreadful for the second time in three years. did well on the wings, but, taken all mischance Cotton finishes in fifteenth over, the wings got few scoring chances.
NEW SYSTEM
place, he will be credited with 15 points. The player with the smallest aggregate is the winner of the Vardon trophy.
The only score in the first half was a clever try by Fyfe, who eluded very effectively two defenders, and Craw On this method of calculation, which ford converted. In the second half seems the fairer R. A. Whitcombe Crawford kicked a loose ball ahead would have been the winner with 58 and scored beneath the posts adding the extra points himself.
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New Table Tennis
"Shamateur" Rule
points, while Perry, with 59, would have been second. Cotton, with 70 points, would have been third, and Padgham fourth with 79 points.
than one of the major tournaments.
The complete ranking list is:-
1. R. A. WHITCOMBE.
2. A. PERRY.
3. T. H. COTTON.
4. D. J. REES.
5. C. A. WHITCOMBE.
6. J. ADAMS.
7. P. ALLISS.
8. D. CURTIS.
to
V.
The draw for the Fourth Round is as follows:
Notts County v. Walsall Portsmouth v. West Bromwich or Manchester United.
Sheffield Wednesday
Petters v. Chester...
or Yeovil and
Middlesbrough or Bolton v. Sunder-
land.
Liverpool v. Stockport.
Wolverhampton V. Leicester or
Stoke.
Everton v. Southport or Doncaster. Blackburn v. Chesterfield or South-
end.
Birmingham v. Chelmsford. York or Millwall Tranmere.
v. Grimsby or
Leeds or Bournemouth v. Hudders-
72.54 field or Notts Forest.
It will be noted that Padgham fails to get a place. He has had a barren year, and yet in the official list of aver AN ELUSIVE TASK This year's ranking list differs con- first twenty players, and their respec- ages he is sixth. Appended are the siderably from the official list based on tive positions in the table:- the elusive average method. First
Strokes. Rounds. Aver. to place is given There
R. A. Whitcombe; T. H. Cotton are no amateurs, profes-whose successes in the vilest weather A. Perry
20 sionals or "shamateurs" in table ten- in the Open championship at Sandwich, R. A. Whitcombe 1,756 .... 1,445
72.25 1,741 24 nis. This is claimed by the English and the Brighton £1,000 tournament, A. Lees Tablet Tennis Association, whose new were of a most striking character.C. A. Whitcombe 1,774 1,329 rules were published recently.
Moreover, his performance in the Pen-A. H. Padgham.. 1,776 The terms 'amateur' and 'profes-fold £1,000 League tournament at San-D. Curtis sional' have been deleted from
1,332 the dy Lodge disposed once and for all of E. E. Whitcombe 1,338 constitution and that of 'player sub-the mistaken belief that he is a bad C. S. Denny stituted," states the hon. secretary, match player. He shared second place D. J. Rees Mr. W. J. Pope, "Any player, by with B. Gadd, a single point behind the J. Adams making application to be. placed on a winner, P. Alliss. register, can be authorised to accept
B. Gadd money for playing and coaching with-has had a remarkably successful year. R. Burton
Perry, who comes second on the list, P. Alliss out affecting his status. He can still
He has won three of the major events J. Burton play in all tournaments and is eligible the £2,000 tournament at Newcastle; M. Faulkner' to play for his county or country in the £750 match-play event at Leeds, S. L. King the same way as an player."
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unregistered and
Tommy Farr's Return Bout With Louis Fades
an
Cardiff v. Newcastle.
Preston v, Aston Villa or Ipswich.
Chelsea v. Fulham.
West Ham v. Tottenham.
74.5M.C.C. WIN QUITE
EASILY
24
73.16
18
78.83
24
73.91
24
74.00
18
74.00
Sheffield United v. Norwich or Man-
1,340
18 18
74.33 chester City-Reuter. 74.44
2,085 28
74.46
1,937 26
1,780 21
1,494 20
74.7
1,944 1,496 20. 1,640
26
74.76
74.8
22
74.81
1,498
20 1,798 24 1,199 16 22
74.9
74.91
74.93
74.95
EWO INDOOR
BOWLING LEAGUE
Eastern Provinces
Bat Badly
Port Elizabeth, To-day. M.C.C. easily defeated Eastern Provinces here yesterday by an innings and 235 runs, outstanding · feature being a double century by
the £500 Dunlop-Metropolitan A, J. Lacey stroke-play competition at Wentworth. Abe Mitchell In the latter, known as the "Champion- S. Easterbrook.. 1,649 ship of Champions," Perry, with aggregate of 273, spreadeagled the field. His rounds were 69, 68, 67, and 69, and he is the first player in a Bri- tish tournament to break 70 in each of Tommy Farr's hopes of another the four rounds. contest with Joe Louis for the heavy-
PERRY'S FEAT weight championship of the world The same feat was accomplished by
The second tournament of the Leonard Hutton, who scored two : wore shattered when, at the Madison Lawson Little, the former American Ewo Indoor Bowling League will, it sixes and reached the boundary on Square Garden, he was outpointed by amateur, in the Canadian Open at is hoped, start on February 1 and 23 occasions. the twenty-three-year-old Lou Nova, in Toronto two years ago. His four intending teams are requested an exciting fifteen-round contest. rounds of 67, 66, 69, 69 gave him an
to
Ernest Paynter, the England and
was again in a scoring mood and
hitting three sixes and eight fours. just missed his century by one run,
After Eastern Province had been their first
A left hook to the jaw in the four-aggregate of 271. Perry's perform send in their entries as soon' as Lancashire left-handed batsman, teenth round, up to which point he ance represented combination of possible. had victory within his grasp, com-amazingly accurate iron shots and pletely changed the outlook for Farr. courageous putting, and his aggregate and a club may enter any number Four men shall constitute a team After a slow and cautious start, Farr would have been lower still but for a of teams and all entries are to be began to wear his man down, and he hooked brassic shot out of bounds at appeared to be well ahead on points the 71st hole. In spite of a superb sent to Mr. S. Lillicrap, of the Hong dismissed for 172 in when: Nova, in sheer desperation, third round of 64, which included only Kong Bowling Alleys or to Mr. R. knock, M.C.C. declared at 518 for fought wildly. He rushed in madly 29 putts and no figure over a 4, Cotton W. Skinner, manager of The Black 6 and then dismissed with arma flailing, and there was un-finished six strokes behind Perry. Cot-
the home doubtedly an element of luck about the ton takes third place in the list..
Dog, Wanchai.
side for 111. blow which sent Farr staggering Though failing to win any of the
Scores were: across the ring. Tough as he is, Farr home events he must be given credit never recovered from that blow, and for his victories in the German, Bel-va and Max Baer will be staged at New
The proposed fight between Lou No-Eastern Provinces: 172 (Coy 54 not Nova, realising that he had his man gium, and Czocho-Slovakian
out) and 111. Open York sometime in May, according to M.C.C.: 518 for 6 dec. (Hutton 202, at his mercy, went on to punish him championships. While the opposition an announcement by Mike Jacobs, who, severely.
was of little account his scores werel will promote the contest,
Paynter 99, W, R. Hammond 52, H. T. Bartlett 89 not out),
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