1939-10-10 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 10, 1939.

WINNING GOLF.

ONE sure way to 'mprove your golf game is to make a resolution that you will practice more often during the coming year. But making a re- solution and keeping it for a full year is another thing, so in my own case I am making a resolution to keep the resolution, to practice more-and I'm going to keep them both.

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RESOLUTIONS are

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fine things if they are lived up to this one about practising golf may give some of our brother golfers some difficulty. They may feel that golf cannot be practised when there is a cold wind blowing.

But some of the finest practice pos- sible can be done during the winter months-and right in your home, too.

season and study the worst part of

A WARNING ABOUT

INDOOR

PRACTICE

feel that my mentioning practising the, the head of the family, your wife, just putts again is not too much repetition, what you intend to do. Then, after because of the great benefit this prac-you have put forth convincing argu- tice can be for your game.

ments that you will be able to do this practice without damage to the furni- ture, proceed in a quiet, unhurried manner to make the following ar- rangements.

But the details of putting practice will have to come in a future article

By LAWSON LITTLE

Only holder of British and American amateur title two years running.

our long game, and during the winter

SPORTS PARADE

THE recommendation of Mr. V. c. Chittenden that six First Division players should be registered for each club at the commencement of the sea- son will no doubt prevent advantage being taken by senior players of as- sisting junior teams in danger of rolegation.

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But that apparently will not get to the root of things. If a club ever felt Be sure to push small tables and it necessary to resort to the use of chairs out of the path of the club-senior players in junior teams they head. If there is a chandelier over- would still have the services of the head, place a small slip of paper direct. other six regular players to do so. ly under it.

A far better course would be the Think back over your play of the last too many of us are worrying about under the overhanging light, the light first division players

If you address an object directly inclusion in the rules of one defining that is, the your game-where were most of your is one of the best times to GROOVE head both on the backward and for- titled to play in a senior division be- will be perfectly safe from the club-number of matches he would be en- ward swings-unless your swing is fore being barred from Junior gamer. Another point that the committee most unorthodox.

Great care

must be exercised in would do well to consider is the habit avoiding the chandelier, for, not only of players playing for more than one does the shattered glass prove dan- there has been no instances of players

club during the season. gerous, but it is expensive--and, of,

from the boss course, the lecture should be avoided at all costs.

missed shots--what made you take those high scores?

The chances are that the short game did as much as anything else to keep your handicap higher than it should be.

your swing.

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· GROOVING THE SWING Some while ago I recommended A WORD OF WARNING: There are a little serious putting practice on the several elementary rules govern- rug-putting on a rug requires a keening the correct or rather the safe way touch because the rug is usually much to swing a club in your living room. faster than the average green. So I First, I would recommend that you tell

sons.

This season

doing so but there were in past sea-

There should be no rule against Small lamps on tables seem to have permitting a player of a club. playing

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for another after the commencement of the season but before doing so he should apply for permission to trans- fer. The Lawn Bowls Association would not normally withhold such permission if it were satisfied that the motive of, the transfer was honest.

SHEK-O SENIOR

CHAMPIONSHIP

The Senior Championship of Shek-O Club was played on Sunday, over 36 holes and resulted as follows-

1st: Major A. S. Johnstone-89

plus 73-142.

2nd: T. A. Pearce 72 plus 72-

144.

3rd: O. E. C. Marton-73 plus

72=145.

4th: R. Young-74 plus 74-148. The result of the morning Bogey Pool was a tie between the.following:- Major A. S. Johnstone-69 minus

2=67.

J. Stenersen-75 minus 8-67. The afternoon Bogey Pool was won minus by R. R. de L. Liesching, 75 8=67.

ARMY SPORTLIGHT'

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are playing against the Indian Recrea- tion Club, the first eleven on the lat- ter's ground and the second eleven at Spokunpoo.

A surprise inclusion is L/Sgt. Dilnot in the first eleven. He has a good re- putation, however, and it will be in- teresting to see how he gets on. Q.M.S. Patterson who played regularly for the second eleven last year has stepped up to the first eleven in this match.

The second eleven is fairly strong, Captains Lawrence, and Dewar being included. Major Harvey and Major Templer are also in the "side.

OCTOBER, 1939

Vol. IX, No. 2

ARTICLES

Prospero's late, by Lawrence Durrell.

Buddhism In Modern China, by Monk Wei-huan,

Some Fundamental Differences between China and Japan,

by Derk Bodde.

The Nature of Courage according to Plato and Mencius,

by Rufus Suter.

CHRONICLE

Lin Ch'ung Yeh Pen.

A k'un-chu monologue and pas seul. Translated by Harold Acton. Yang Chu. Translated by Leonard A. Lyall.

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an unnatural attraction for the head of a golf club, so it is wise to see that they are well out of the way.

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IF the rug is an expensive one, one that should not become divot eaten, and you feel that you have not pro- gressed enough in the golf game to guarantee that the rug will be safe, the door mat serves as a fine bumper upon which to swing the club. Finally, sound a warning household-tell them to watch where they are going. It might prové serious if someone walks Into one of your im- proved practice swings.

to

the

The above rules were developed by sad experience, and one by one. I cannot guarantee them to be infallible, but dad and I haven't broken anything In the house for six years before then we did not have these rules, and, well, we learn from experience.