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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 2, 1939.

FURTHER ASPECTS OF THE 14-CLUB RULE

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Borrowing From A PARTNER

The question has been asked as to what would happen if a player in the Open Golf Championship who carried the maximum of fourteen clubs had the misfortune to break his putter early in a round.

One writer on golf has expressed the view that the unlucky player would have to putt for the rest, of the round with the most suitable of the other thirteen clubs he had in his bag.

The same writer adds that under, teen, provided the broken club has the old freedom the player could been discarded, and no longer car- have borrowed a putter and carried fried. on without undue handicap, where- as to do so now would be to court disqualification for having carried fifteen clubs in one round..

It might be suggested that the writer in question is putting more into his interpretation of the rule than the rule actually means or in- tended. The rule was intended to limit "heavy armaments," but not to penalise players in case of such accidents as the breaking of a put- ter..

The verb "used" obviously means that the club has been utilised to play a stroke during the round.

more than four-

It can therefore be argued that, if, say, the No. 1 iron has not been used during a round up to the time the putter was broken, the player could discard the No. 1 iron, and in its place put a new putter. Het would thus conform to the rule, for he had not used teen clubs during the round. and he had restricted the number of clubs carried at any one time to. that number, for it must be noted that the words "during a round” oc-' "The clubs used by a player dur- cur where the rule speaks of the The rule ing a round should not exceed four-number of clubs used. teen, and the clubs carried shall be does not say that the number of restricted to that number.”

Let us see what the rule 'actually says, examining the wording with

care:--

Note the two verbs "used" and "carried," and note the fact that the phrase "during a round" occurs only in the former part of the rule.

Is Substitution Allowable?

It should be noted that the rule does not specifically say that a player who is carrying fourteen clubs cannot during a round sub- stitute one club for another in the event of breakage. It may be held that this is implied, although it can be suggested that a new club to re- place one which has been broken is no more than a substitute, and is not an additional club which would bring the number over four

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clubs carried during a round shall be restricted to fourteen. It merely says the clubs carried shall be re- stricted to fourteen. Obviously this can mean that no more than four- teen clubs may be carried at any one time.

What About Borrowing?

Finally, there does not appear to be any specific prohibition against borrowing a club to play a stroke,

It might therefore be suggested that a player is not barred from bor- rowing a club. from his partner to play any particular stroke, pro- vided the player so borrowing does not use more than fourteen clubs in all during the round, and imme- diately returns, and does not him- self carry, the borrowed club.

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TONG KONG Cricket Club are likely to be strengthened in both the "A" Division Mixed Doubles Divi- sion of the Lawn Tennis League now that M. Pagh in back in the Colony after a stay in Canton, where he has been playing tennis more often than he used to when stationed in the Co- lony-and that's saying something. He is down here for only a month and will then return to Canton.

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AT TOP OF STROKE RIGHT FOREARM UNDER SHAFT - PERPENDICULAR

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By BEST BALL At the top of the backstroke the right forearm should be under-

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position ground. Naturally the varies slightly with players, ac- cording to their own idiosyncra- cies and ideas of comfort. From . such a posture it is possible for the clubhead to descend in an inside arc for the right elbow is thereby kept close to the right side, a mechanical requirement which keeps the hands travelling close to the body. On the other hand the player who ·lots the right hand do a large part, in taking the clubhead up, often allows the right forearm to as- sume a position so radically dif ferent that at times it is-actual-- ly parallel to the ground. This means the right elbow is out far from the body, flapping around loosely and affords no insurance at all that the clubhead will de- scend properly. Furthermore the grip in such a position by means guarantees that the club- head will be at right angles to the ball when impact takes place. Friday-Foot Knee Action..

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EETON seemed to miss the boat as it were when scoring 263 in a day against Middlesex at the Oval.. Conditions were ideal for the batsmen, but, despite that, he batted from 11.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. for. 263 runs out, of 480 for 5, thus missing a real oppor- tunity of bettering K., S. Duleepsinhjl's 338 scored in a day, also at the Oval.

He scored a quick 50, a two hours 88, then took 40 minutes scoring '12 and then, after being missed three times, twice "sitters," was travelling after tea against Д dead-beat dis- spirited attack at about 25-35 per hour, With 400 up and only three wickets down, he had a splendid opportunity of flogging the bowling.

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- Considerable disappointment felt on the Monday when Notta did not declare at their overnight total of 480 for 5 and not even after Keeton had reached his 300. He was not out $12 when Notts declared at 560 for 9. They won eventually by an innings and 190 runs.

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Other big scores, on this famous ground are 315 not out by the Inte Tom Hayward, and the late Bobbie Abel's 357 in 1899.

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ts at Kennington Oval, head-. THIS game. between Middlesex and

quarters of Surrey. represented the first occasion. in county cricket history that of the free will of the county club most concerned any county has. played a Championship home match August. not on its own ground. In 1914. during the Great War. two of Surrey's home matches were plaved at Lord's. merely because the Oval was by then an armed camp.

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HERBERT SUTCLIFFE, the 44-year- old Yorkshire and England open- ing batsman, completed his 50,000 runs in first-class cricket when he had scor- ed 18 against Sussex at Scarborough.

Only five players-W. G. Grace, Hobbs, Woolley, Hendren, and Mead- had previously accomplished the feat.

Sutcliffe, who actually appeared in the Yorkshire second eleven at the age. of 16, began his first-class cricket career in 1919. This summer Sutcliffe has again been in magnificent form, and to date he has scored seven cen- turies in an aggregate of over 1300 runs. He was the third batsman of the season to reach a four-figure aggregate.

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THERE were many who condemned

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the English Selectors for the omis 1987) he won the match with six for sion of Hedley Verity from the Eng- up later land XI for the second Test against 29 in 14.4 overs to wake and read an account of the game in a West Indies at Old Trafford. He was publication devoted entirely to cricket replaced by Goddard. which, except in the scores, did not

even mention his name!

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This is what one prominent cricket writer thought: ·

I cannot express surprise when, for the first time in nearly a decade, his name is missing from the Eleven for which, after rain; he has done some excellent bowling performances. I ob- served before he went on the last tour to Australia in 1986-37 that Verity was losing command of the ball as well as spinning power. He was, with a total of ten wickets for 45,5 each in 196 overs in the Tests of that tour, a failure, Judged, of course, by Test standard. But he was chosen agáin throughout 1938 as though the Eleven could not be named without him. With Courteen wickets for 25.28 in eight Innings last season he failed again, notably on the dusty wicket of the.. fourth day of the fist Test at Trent Bridge, and oh what Bowes han des- cribed as the "most fficult Wicket have ever seen In the Leeds last year, w

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