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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 12, 1989.

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British Ryder Cup Problem "Selectors Will Have Difficully Sorting Claims."

American Team Almost Fixed

Tournament results have simplified the work of the Ryder Cup selectors in the United States; it looks a sinecure compared with the corresponding job in this country, because our competitive events have already brought a good many names and considerable form variation to notice, and events still to come may in both respects complicate the problem.

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Though the international, which will take place in Florida, is not due till November 18 and 19, the fixture list on which the American team will be based is now complete, and performance automatically fills practically every place.

WHERE THE AMATEUR FAILS

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Richard Burton, British Open champion, is a certainty, for the Ryder Cup team.

Doyle Has To "Prove Himself"

London, August 3.-Jack Doyle is out with a challenge to fight Tommy Farr. The Irish heavy- weight, through his manager, said yesterday that he is pre- pared to meet Farr over 10, 12, or 15 rounds for £1,000 a-side.

To prove his worth as a drawing power Doyle will not stand out for a guaranteed purse but is willing to meet Farr and box for a percentage of the gate," said the manager.

"We have been hearing a lot lately about Farr being unable to find op ponents but Doyle is ready to meet him at any time. Farr has express- ed the opinion that Doyle would be easy for him.

"If he still thinks that now is his chance to pick up some easy money. Apparently Farr wants £5,000 for his services, but Doyle is willing to take his chance on the gate".

“NOT INTERESTED”

Farr interrupted a bout of light training in his gymnasium at Patcham, challenge. He was terse and to near Brighton, to reply to Doyle's point.

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Doyle," he said. "Let him go out and "I'm not interested in "fighting fight one or two of the other heavy- weights and prove himself. We might be able to talk business then but not before."

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Farr added that he is hoping have his next contest soon. Negotia- weight championship match with Len tions, however, for a British heavy- Harvey are not far forward.

Byron Nelson, the new Open Cham The sporting County Down pion; Henry Picard, the match play has been stiffened by extension, but, champion; Ralph Guldahl, Open Cham-oven so, does not rank för difficulty pion in the past two seasons; Dick with either Portmarnock or Portrush. Metz, runner-up in last year's Open, If I were compiling an eclectic course, and consistent in the interval; Dens- I would be tempted to include a hole mure Shute and Craig Wood, who from one or other of these Irish links fought out the St. Andrew's play-off from which, by the way, R. H. Weth- six years ago, and who tied with Nel-ered and Tom Simpson-did not include son in this year's U.S. Open; and a single hole when they pieced togeth- Sam Snead, who tops the tournament er in print this ideal course. prize-money, all have the strongest In the 18 holes listed by these ex- possible claims. If they are chosen,perts five .are taken from Scottish there will be no room at the top, and courses, and as the choice is interest- very little at the bottom, though the ing, I recall it en passant. here: the case of Johnny Bulla will have to get fourteenth and seventeenth on the consideration along with that of any Old Course at St. Andrews; the ninth other candidates, old or new, Two at Muirfield; the seventeenth at Prest- months ago Bulla was hardly even a wick; and the sixteenth on the Arran remote thought in the selectors' mind, circuit at Turnberry. The seventeenth, but he was sixth in the American or famous Alps hole, on the historicably applied. Anybody in this week's Championship and runner-up in ours Aryshire green is topical because i Scottish field who propels his within about three weeks, and that will no doubt play its part in shaping round Prestwick in five or six strokes ball pats a different complexion on the mat- the Scottish Amateur Championship: per round more than that will stil

which passes into its match-play have an excellent chance phases there to-morrow.

of making the winner's speech on Saturday, I GREAT, STROKE AT ·

was a strange fate for Wallace, who was until then' the giant-killer of the "BAD HOLE”.

week; he defeated. five golfers, British Beyond Dick Burton, who saved the

and American, who had played in the Sentiment clings strongly Open Cup for Britain at St. Andrewa; Henry Cotton, who

was appointed of these noted Prestwick holes, though Any giant-killing there may be this

Walker Cup contest ten days before. captain some time ago; R. A. Whit-Wethered and Simpson, caring little combe, last year's Open Champion; and whether they became the subjects of week over the same course can hardly match the romantic stuff with which Dai Rees, last year's natch play cham-a heresy hunt, brushed it aside in sel- Wallace stirred the West of Scotland, pion, the British selectors will have ecting the Alps for their eclectic course. but within the difficulty in sorting out

64 competitors who claims and They made no bones about their rea-will to-night qualify for the Scottish credentials. The only modification of son for its inclusion. Every course Union's title there will be chances of their problem I can see at the moment with any pretensions to greatness relatively big game-hunting for some. is the emergence of a winner in the must, they argued, have its imperfec- The match-play draw, which will ap match play championship in Septem-tions, and so they put in one "thor- ber who is not already among the few oughly amusing but bad hole for the Pear in these columns to-morrow, morn- certainties for the team. Results fook sake of variety and a brief interval of g, will offer an interesting study in

possibilities of that kind. another switch in the Irish Open Cham- mental tranquility." Yet one stroke

THE EDEN TOURNAMENT pionship, which produced a new win-was played at that hole which almost mer in Arthur Lees, the 31-years-old of itself would give fiestwick an im- A good runner-up to the Scottish. Sheffield professional, and reproduced mortality that even the 74 done in a Championship itself in both interest an old illustration of the difference be- raging gale at Portmarnock by George and importance is the Eden Tourna

the profes-Duncan or Bobby Locke's success there ment at St. Andrews, for which I have, Derbyshire was hit in the face by a tween the amateur and sional.

last year, or the two

received the official circular from Mr. holes in one The professional in the big card-and-done by Eric Fiddian in a final at Cargill Cantley, Town-Clerk, who fast ball from Harding, while batting pencil event has the knack of keeping Newcastle against Jack M'Lean can-is the hon. secretary. It is probably against Kent at Gravesend yesterday. the figures going; he is naturally more not confer upon the Irish courses.

He attended no exaggeration to describe this event

hospital, where the sternly disciplined in the concentra- That was the great recovery played as Britain's biggest holiday tourna Wound was stitched, and then resum- tion that is desperately hard to main- from the flooded bunker by Freddie ment and it may be specially noted

ed. tain round after round till the 72nd Tait in the

But neither he nor George Pope (86 Amateur Championship that as it was launched in 1919 the hole is played out. Lees, at Newens against John Bail. Like Tolley's putt event, when it takes place next month, not out) could prevent Kent from win- tle, Co. Down, ranged between 69 and that beat Gardner, the American," at will have reached its majority.

Or- ning.. 74; James Bruten from 66 to 81. The Muirfield, that master stroke by the gunised in the first instance to give difference between highest and lowest soldier-golfer, who was the idol of publicity to the Eden Course, the tour- in Lees' case is five strokes, in Bruen's Scottish crowds, is one of those things the best possible boost from the well nament immediately caught on; it had fifteen. The Irish youth is probably in which history cannot repeat itself, the most brilliant scoring force in am- for just as the hole which staged the known names it attracted from the ateur golf on either side of the Atlan- folley triumph no longer exists, the start, and all through the years since tic at the present time, but the fact type of ball that Tait played has pass the tournament began to advertise that outside of practice play and an- ed out of competitive golf. That fam- the course, has had the best possible. der the fire of the real thing, he starts ous recovery by Tait will be pictured advertisement from the course. much better than he finishes is due in the imagination of generation after Nowadays it is abig-battalion" partly to inability in an amateur, es- pecially of Bruen's years, to concen- trate sufficiently over, the gruelling four rounds' score route, and partly to the tendency to tire and tall off after a super start.

AN IDEAL COURSE

Bruen's new record of 66 for the

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generation because the ball floated. It was actually, eye-witnesses have told us, rocking gently on the surface of the pool, and it is recorded that well-known Scots golfer who looked on excitedly called out. "Wait till it set tles, Freddie; wait till it settles."

WHAT LAWSON LITTLE DID

BATSMAN HAS WOUND 'FIXED,' CARRIES ON

London, August 3-Worthington of

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Partridge, (damaged knee) should not have batted for Northamptonshire when his side's wickets were falling, against Somerset. He turned out kept up his end without scoring and saved the match.

GERMAN FOR BOYS' GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

event, but it is smoothly run, and be-- sides offering an attractive competi- tive test, for handicap as well as scratch players, is invariably a jolly affair in a holiday atmosphere, and London, July 24.-Franz Cautier, with all the pull of the unique back- boy golf champion of Germany for ground of St. Andrews. No doubt the last two years, has entered for that last-mentioned factor has as much as anything built up the tourna the Boys' Amateur Championship, ment's vast popularity. Few events which begins at Carnoustie on ́ Au-

Gautier, who was born at Vienna in July 1923, has a handicap of 6 at the Wiener Golf and Country Club, and his entry has been sent through the German Sports Association.

Another competitor for the chain- plonship will be Kenneth Essex youth whi

Royal County Down course is in itself Of the great things done on Prest-attract something like 400 competitors, gust 21. a truly remarkable performance, and wick's storied turf, not all belong to of whom about a third are rated from will leave its mark with his other ex-old-time golf. There are modern ins handicap 3 down to scratch, but the traordinary rounds upon the chroni- tances, and none is more outstanding Eden Tournament regularly does so. cles of the year, which, contrary to than the Lawson Little golf which took The event will be run again on its us expectations, however, has not so far the Amateur Championship to the ual lines-two rounds of score play to yfolded the brilliant young golfer a States five years ago, In the final of qualify 04 competitors for the maten title of any kind. With James Adams's that week of thrills the American over play for the Edon Trophy and to de- Last-round 70 at Newcastlo instead of whelmed James Wallace, the Troon cide the Victory Cup for the lowest his own 81, Bruen would have boon an player, since turned professional, by scratch aggregate, and also eight handl Ish by Adams, who was saddled with under 48, and winning by the longest on Monday, August 7, match play will. easy winner. That was a grand file doing the 83 holes of the match in ten cap prizes. The tournament will open a second round 84, and his final spurt, margin ever recorded in the event begin on August 19, and willk proceed. and the last-day aggregates of 144 14 and 13. Little did the first eighteen to a 38 holes anal on Saturday, done by K. A. Whitcombo and Bobby holes in 66, and I have seldom seen, 12. The handicap limit L Locke, are tributor to the concentra- | golf to which the over-worked word must be sent to tion essential in them figun

"devastating" could be more reason,

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