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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 2, 1939.

GOLF

Professional Events--Locke's Record

Youth In The News---Lost Ball Rule

cause they have neither the time nor London, August 12.

money to go to various events about

IN THE £1,000 TOURNAMENT at Brighton this week, which is the last counting score event for the Harry Vardon} Trophy, we have a reminder that the task of selecting the Ryder Cup team for the professional international in Florida in November is now not far off.

Few events remain from which the P.G.A. can derive guidance, though the Match Play Cham- pionship next month may of itself promote some- one to the teams. Its winner, if he does not happen to be one of the players already certain of a place, may, in effect, select himself for an inter- national on match-play lines.

About the first ûve or six places in the team the selectors should have little difficulty, but the other four present a different proposition. Two candidates with something like equal claims could be named for each of these vacancies, and unless the position is clarified by this week's meeting and the one or other tournaments still to come, elec- tion by trial, which Henry Cotton, the captain of the team, is said to favour, may have to be adopted. In view of the Walker Cup trials and their suc- cessful sequel last year objections to Ryder Cup trials are not likely to carry much weight. The team, at any rate, are to have a farewell match about the middle of October, a few days before sailing, against a picked team of amateurs in foursomes and singles, A. T. Kyle, James Bruen, and Hector Thomson, have already agreed to take part. Our professionals in that match ought to use the ball of the United States specifications, which they will have to employ, of course, in the international.

THE VARDON TROPHY

the country.

Andrew Dowie has done some ex-

cellent things in Fife and Angus golf,

but the evidence suggests that he is a better score than match player, and his defeat in the Eden event did noth- ing to contradict the Scottish selec- tors' action in passing him over after. the Union's championship at Prest- wick, Taylor did all that was asked of him in the Eden Tournament, and did some of it more than well, his round

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SOCCER'S

WARM START

London, August 21.—In re-

cent years, the start of foot- of 69, for instance, that beat Eric ball in England has regular-

Donaldson by one hole, and his finish against Walter Murray in the final.

In both rounds of the final. he put ly coincided with a hot spell, In a steadier finish than his more ex- and Saturday was no excep- perienced opponent, and got his 4 at the thirty-fifth hole, though he had tion. to play the approach there first, just on the heels of a three holes slump.

A BROOMIEKNOWE ECHO

The Jubilee Fund pro- gramme, which precedes the

trophy if he finishes, as may be taken for granted, anywhere in the first twenty at Brighton. Dick Burton, who succeeded Whitcombe as Open Cham- pion, is his closest rival in this points quest, and was actually leading for the trophy until he collected 26 points for Murray's return to the final after opening of the League com- non-participation in the Irish Open winning the tournament two years ago Championship. This week's tourna is a tribute to his temperament as petition, on Saturday was ment will also have a bearing upon the much as to anything. He keeps admir-

He has, I carried through in a shade qualifiers for next year's Penfold Lea-ably cool and collected. gue event, for which some new men, think, played in the event for ten including J. Fallon, the Huddersfield years, and has failed to qualify only temperature of 80 degrees in Scot, have a chance of competing for once. Though now identifled with the first time.

Fife, Murray is still a member of Some places. Broomieknowe Club, which he used to represent in the Lothians. That con- nection was brought to mind by a note I received at Eden Press quarters on the final morning from w.s. M'Blain, who was secretary of Broomieknowe for 28 years. Murray joined as a boy when the club started in 1905 and was afterwards several times its champion.

WORTHY OBJECT

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"BOBBY" LOCKE GOES HOME

The hard grounds made players go No more striking commentary can be made at the moment about A. D.

gingerly, but there were many in- Locke, the young South African, who

juries, fortunately few very serious. sail for home this week, than to say

Springett, the Gateshead left-back, was that if he were eligible he would walk

carried off on a stretcher; Jones and right into

Morris, the Birmingham forwards, left the Ryder Cup team. It would at any rate be difficult to con-

the field at Coventry; and Mordey, test his credentials. In neither of the

the Charlton back, was taken to hos- pital with a leg injury. In the case big events open to him, the Open Championship and the Irish Open Class, as usual, told in the big Eden of Mordey, a substitute was allowed, Championship, did he realise his am-fleld; no 9 handicap player's dream of Tann, a reserve back, deputising. The bition, but he nevertheless added, I the final came true. Taylor is rated at rules of the Football Association per- R. A. Whitcombe is at present lead-think, to the remarkable prestige he 1 in the St. Andrews Club, and Mur-mit substitutes except in a match play- ing for the Vardon Memorial Trophy, has already built up as an inter-ray is a scratch golfer. The highested under the rules of a competition. and appears unlikely to be displaced national campaigner at the age of 21. handicap competitors who reached the The arrangement must be agreed by now under the revised system which Even in the two Championships men- last eight were H. E. Walker, last both teams before the start. governs play this year. The trophy is tioned he kept his extraordinary pos- year's runner-up, and T. M'Letchie, being decided by pointage instead of sibilities to the fore, and I cannot the young Glasgow C. A. player, who averages. The latter method intro-escape the feeling that if he had done knocked out-Dowie. Both are rated at duced anomalies, since under the the fourteenth hole in his first count- | 4. Everything went well in the event, The matches were played for options that were permitted a player ing round at St. Andrews in the par subject to the normal match-play up-purpose of augmenting the fund which might have the luck to score well in figure instead of an 8, he would pro-sets of paper calculations here and helps footballers who fall upon evil certain tournaments, and to be absent bably have won the Championship. there, and save, perhaps for the days. The game were well patronis- from others where weather conditions The 67 or 68 he was heading for might slow qualifying rounds on the ed, and the worthy object should re- caused the scores to soar. The new re-have made him unbeatable.

New Course which, on account ceive a big fillip. gulations definitely specify the events His match-play successes, on the of its trouble-flanked lines is that count, and for any of these which other hand, inade an astonishing generally slower. The slow player Spectators saw plenty of goals, and in a player misses he is automatically sequence; he leaves for home by no is always with us, too, and helps to two games there were scores of 4-6. given 26 points, just as the competi-means empty-handed. In matches he throw things out of reckoning. The Leicester City, relegated from the tor is who finishes outside the first has defeated Dick Burton twice since Town Council will, of course, natural- First Division at the end of last sea- twenty-five places in any of the the Open, one of the wins being by 10 ly be reluctant to turn away holiday son, won by this margin on the Der- .tournaments. One point is given for and 9; R. A. Whitcombe, who was customers, but possibly a tightening-by. County ground, and Oldham Ath- a win, two for second, and so on down Champion, when they met; and Dai up of the handicaps might be an all-letic, after being five up at half-time, to the 25th position, and every com- Rees, the Match Play Champion. For round advantage.

won by a similar margin at Stockport. petitor must complete sixteen rounds Ryder Cup purposes these perform-

MIXING THE RULES

Ferrier, of Oldham, did the hat-trick, in all, and the Open Championship | ances could not under other circum- Players in the tournament were res-and-other scorers of three goals were must be included.

stances have been passed over, for all ponsible for some quaint treatment of James (Chelsea), Anderson (Ports- these defeated players are prospec- the rules of golf. Reams of paper and mouth). Dorsett (Wolverhampton), tive members of the international gallons of printer's ink must, I sup- Chalmers (Aldershot), and Alsop team. Whether Locke has made the pose, have been used in the past seven- (Walsall), James, who has not be- wiser decision in accepting a settled teen years in exposition of the rule, fore played in the Chelsea first team, post with a South African Club, even for instance, dealing with a lost or un-took the eye in the rout of Brentford at a four-figure salary, when he might| playable ball. It ought to be gen- on their own ground. have cashed in lucratively in American erally known, certainly among golfers winter tournaments it is difficult, to who go in for tournaments, that if a say, At his age he has an amazing ball is either lost or unplayable, and name and reputation to capitalise, but it is entirely in the player's option to Locke, of course; knows his won busi- deem a ball unplayable, the player ness best.

must go back to where he played the ball from, counting stroke and dis- tance. If the ball is lost from the drive, then the player counts three from the tee with the second ball. But in two instances in the Eden event competitors, one of them at anyrate

Whitcombe, with a total of 18 points in the four tournaments already held looks to have an invincible start, and has a margin that will win him the

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POLICE

CLUBHOUSE OPENING

SPORTS PARADE

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IN support of this claim one writer

points out spectators

THE EDEN TOURNAMENT first day of the In Scotland the topical accent is championships see ten to twelve on youth in golf. The popular. Eden'] hours play for 23 6d; the Tournament at St. Andrews has just cricket enthusiast gets six hours play produced a new winner of 21 years, for 1s; the lawn tennis fan can stand and an international company of golf- in the Centre Court at Wimbledoners under 18 are now getting into prac- | well known, picked out of an unplay- watching six hours tennis for 3s, and tice at Carnoustie for the Boys' Cham- the soccer spectator can shiver for 90 pionship, which takes place there next minutes at Ibrox for a shilling.

week. Whether A. B. Taylor, the Eden But in all games other than golf] winner, will give St. Andrews golf the players are free from interference something of the challenging power” it by the crowd, and it seems to be that has lacked in recent years remains to the only way to limit the numbers be seen. The charge is frequently made who want to see first-class golf is to against St. Andrews golf, which has a make such a charge as will ensure it, platoon of scratch players, that it cuts week I heard the doubt expressed will be played between the And I am certain the golfing enthus- - no ice outside of the courses at its own whether a player has the right to con- Kong Police and Kwong Wah fast would not grudge even ten shill- doors. It has to be remembered; how-| ccde an opponent a putt. He has, but Division teams, commencing at ings if he is to witness the play in ever, that a number of the local golf-| the R. and A. recommand that it should | Admission to Football group comfort.

ers lack competitive experience be-not be done.

rind 20. centa..

ab'e lie, dropped the ball, and counted two strokes penalty. That, of course, The Club House of the Hong Kong is a stroke play rule and is not ap- Police Sports Board, at Boundary plicable in ratches.

Street Kowloon, will be opened by The spirit should always be above The Hon. Mr. C. G. Perdue on Satur- the letter of the law, but golfers should | day September 9th at 3,30 p.m. be conversant with the code under At the conclusion of the opening which they play, In St. Andrews last ceremony, an exhibition football match