THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 24, 1941.
RECORD BADMINTON CROWD EXPECTED THIS EVENING Long-Awaited Single Between Wong And Young
HOOI AND MISS KHOO FAVOURED
By "Adrem"
ALL BADMINTON ATTENDANCE RECORDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE BROKEN THIS EVEN- ING, WHEN THE LONG-AWAITED M A TCH BE- TWEEN PATRICK H. WONG, THE HOLDER, AND M. P. YOONG, FORMER CAMBRIDGE H A L F- BLUE AND CONQUEROR OF P. K. HOOL IN THE PREVIOUS ROUND, TAKES PLACE,
GRAPHIC GOLF
میاد
GAE CELAN FAMUSTA POINT, ER 1}
Gripping The Club
By BEST
BALL
M
Large hands ate a golting arsel for them wide expanse allows a girater application of leverage to the club Golfer Not fortunate the de oft these members must take al- vanlage of this leverage pran ciple by having the Brmest Krap upon the shaft distribut- 445 ed over as wide a
For pusable
the pt of Brut pressure in the ett hand grip mud rest in the Just thige tongers of the le1: This is the point fur- hund
the thest toward the end t that as i ustrated above,
area
instance
The right hand must adapt its most secure grip in the in- ties finger and thumb, near- * 1 post in relation to clubhead. The duner be. tween these two point, pro- vades ample space to take full advantage of the application of leverage to the golf club. Furthermore the club he'd m this fashion alb.ws gued co- ordination between hand, arm and body movement, a'l three of which working together Provid
the essential.
smooth swinging.
BROMWICH IN TENNIS INCIDENT
by
013
Young played brilhantly to beat How in a thrilling match, but his
top his double match Tu day was far from impressive
has abo Wong form, however, neen vayable but has experience
ate expert! and elever placement
11 thir 4 to any him through final
K
In the misend double even, P and Mrs Fun Khoo.
on betur kat.E
In many
will be opposed to M A Chimpa
and Me MyRhee Sdva quarter: the former part perput to
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The CrowT Pungkin stein oppeition is predicted the
Olivena t a great the
Silva
about cout, while Mn2 probably the finest lady-{
Hoop's st
play: an The Colony perity over OnAVOIE, WIE mobably derude the issue
TS Young and K. Fang should Win the {'
Junior double against
Xavim
(Presnt and A sche Young is ala expreted to
beat Chellah in the event of the
HUTTON
BREAKS HIS ARM
Len Hutton, the Yorkshire cricketer, broke an arm during army duties recently. He will miss the early part of the coming cricket season.
BEST BRITISH BANTAM AND FLYWEIGHT
BOXER
POLICE TEAM FAMOUS
FOR MACAO
Marking the close of the
season, Police
HORSE
Hockey DESTROYED
Club, runners-up to Club de Recreio, in the Hong
Racing mon at Home were sorry
Kong Hockey Association to hear Sir Francis Towle's news
Tournament,
will make
been
that he had
compelled to have his famous steeplechaser, Airgead Slos, destroyed. The horse broke down badly at exercise at Epsom and all attempts to put him
right falled.
the trip to Macao on Sun- day to play a combined Macao team, which will most probably be chosen
A more spec'acular jumper than from the players who took Airgead Stos could not be login
H taly
Jus jed. part in the
recent Inter-fences, and his pace and puiling power on the fut were terrific He port match.
The team will leaves on the early then matig beat and is expected to retung to the Colony the follow ing nur
flew
Over
won two Becher's and one Cham-
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thero pion chase at Aintree. was no doubting his ability to get the course.
Yel, in the huge Grand National Mr. E C Luscombeer, A SP. the map, auf Sergeany Roth- field and annid all the excitement wall, the Hon Secretary, will ne- and Buss of that great day Air- a champion at apans the team, which will be good Sios was not
The Natio represented by the following all
been easy for a player
NARANJAN SINGH MAN Jumping powers SINGIT AND BLACKBURN, LES. his temperament
to the oreaSIDI, LIE GOUGH AND HAYWARD TEJA SINGH, HOWLETT, NAR- WANT SINGL PARKER AND;
Rei vest
Staph.
Nine days after storm-, BROWN however
ing his way to victory over : Paddy Ryan in defence of the British flyweight championship. Jackie Pat- erson took the ring again at Newcastle and this time handed a points beating to Jim Brady, of Dundee.
It was a close struggle for al
latter being lit ergh to play. Chell ab unable to turn out th
walk eventer he will concede a ENT
Following is the programme.
MIXED DOUBLES
JUNIOR DOUBLES
T. S. Young and K. Fung v C. Pereira and A. E. Xavier.
SENIOR SINGLES
FL
C.
Gient.
WATE
Jeshir and
BOWLS ON SATURDAY
should have horse of such and speed, but was not equal
ANOTHER TENNIS PRO.
Dorothy Koutal,
BOOT
twice
Winner
For the women's singles at Wim- Chiedon, will
follow Mary Hardwick into professional tennis match play. That is the opinion in London following her reported intention of becoming a profes-
onal coach,
Her cuse is much like Miss Hardwick's. Mary found that the currency restrictions created dif- trulties for her in the United states, and she signed on with the Alice Marble troupe cause she needed the money to support herself.
chiefly be-
few rounds, with Brady's clever; P. K. Hooi and Miss U. Khoo v
lucking and swaying unsetting M
Miss Silva Paterson; but later and A. Oliveira
Paterson be-i Marking the opening of their (8.30 p.m.).
gan la connect with his heavy season, Kowloon Docks Recreation Hooks, and towards the end he was Club will entertain Kowloon Foot- plastering Brady with punish-ball Club in a friendly lawn bowls match at Hunghom on Saturday No title was involved, the jour-afternoon.
10 rounds, ney being limited to but it was a notable win all the Sam, for Paterson
WAH YAN SPORTS was giving
a doctor's wife), weight to u man who recently į
Canada with her beat Kid Tanner for the Empire The Annual Athletic Meeting of seeks to be self-supporting while Wah Yan College she is out of England. But as bantamweight championship. This the Kowloon
Paterson as will take place at 1 pm. to-day, he aims at the same time to as- virtually establishes
then she must stst war charities, the best fighter in both flyweight at Kowloon Football Club, Chaf-
as there can- and bantam classes.
ham Road.
play match tennis, not be much left over for funds out of coaching fees.
P. H. Wong y M. P. Yoong.
PASSING OF A GREAT BOXER
Another sportsman
is passed aver
Scottish
fotous
a
FERRIER TO STAY IN AMERICA
Dorothy Round
(Mrs. Little, evacuated to small son, also
RUGBY CLUBS' DISSATISFACTION
wor
With mort of the winter gone Rugby football followers have not
their attention, and there is a good deal of dissatisfaction over it In club circles.
JIM FERRIER, the Australian golf champion, had a single big match to absorb who announced recently that he was making his ap- pearance as a professional in the North-South cham- pionship at Pinehurst, has given his reasons for taking the step.
has whe Tancy Lee, boxer, who
at
They feel that something should be done and done quickly, by the Rugby Union to stage representa- England played live matches. I have Wales twice last season, with the
le is, however, most relicent:son for its development.
He won every tournament in Austra-result that over £8,000 was raised about his citizenship plans.
any lia, but there is no future for me for the Red Cross. the wou'd prefer not to make dur-
caused
sensation
Club Sporting National ing the last war by compelling Jimmy Wilde to retire in 17 rounds. Lee was knocked down returning and killed by a bus in his native Leith recently.
statement about that subject.
When asked when he intended to Australia Ferrier said: "That is a hard question. The answer is I really do not know."
"I turned professional because two good offers came simultane- Ho
ously and I could not afford
to
"I
will chances
offer
there. I can foresee in 10 years' time, when Australia similarly excellent good golfers.
Clubs sav it is a matter of duty for the R. U. to keep up the good for work, yet the indications are that It is nothing is likely to be done. "I'll miss my home and Sydney suid the R.U. view is that they very much. I still think Sydney should do nothing that might add to the road and rail transport pro- is the best place in the world."
blems: Ethusiastic At Opportunity
It is difficult, however, to align this opinion with the fact that only
the recently
sister game of Soccer
staged
an England-
at Newcastle,
John Bromwich's part in an At the time he won the cham- exhibition tennis tournament in pionship from Wilde, Lee had March at the Rushcutter Bay only a modest reputation. courts was the subject of a special was regarded as "easy game" for turn them down," he said.
Tennis As the incomparable Wilde, and what had an offer of the professional job report to the Lawn
the more as at the Elmhurst
Country Club, sociation of Australia
the made his victory N.S.W.L.T.A
tonishing was Lee's age. He was Chicago, by Fred Snite, senior, Ferrier is most enthusiastic over Scotland match The L.T.A.A. council decided to 33 and the father of six children. father of the iron lung patient, his new jobs and is proudly dis-drawing 31,000 people. If it is in call for the report after it had re- Not till he was past 30 did Lee for an undisclosed sum and I was tributing pamphlets advertising order for Soccer to do that, why
first professional ceived a letter on the tournament engage in his
Soon after war began the R.U. from the N.S.W. body, which said fight. He continued in the ring considering it when I received an- his fourth in the Chicago open must Rugby hold its hand?
other offer to represent Wilson's golf championship at Elmhurst in
cancelled all the July last.
club subscriptions. that it had asked Bromwich for an until he was 45, and after losing Sporting Goods Company,
3 moratorium on explanation,
the fly-weight title back to Wilde, largest in the world. I accepted Mrs. Ferrier is equally enthu- and declared
The Wilson offer was re- slastic about her husband receiv-loans. This means that the R.U. Broinwich and Palls had been moved up into the feather weight both. drawn to play in two singles and division and won a Lonsdale belt celved on February 24, the day ing the jobs almost a year to the have no income, but they have a
Bromwich outright with three championship after my birthday."
I will begin day after match.
Ferrier landed in fat reserve (about £00,000), so it one doubles had..not complied fully with the triumphs.
work at Elmhurst when I finish at America. She says she is more does not hurt them to retire into until the return of request. The letter exonerated The council of the New South Wales the Pinehurst, Greensboro, Ash- delighted, as there were 150 ap- their shell
plications for the Elmhurst job. peace and prosperity.
spent $95,000 Whether this is the right attl- Sir Norman Brooks, chairman, Bowling Association, decided recently ville, and Augusta.”
Ferrier continued: "America: Mr. Snite recently sald that because the tournament to recommend all affiliated clubs to
golf offers unusual opportunities on the course and $7.000 on the tude for a governing body to adopt in war time is another matter. was a national fixture it devolved adopt uniform blaze and hatbands.
The blazers will be of royal blue for a good golfer if he can make clubhouse. upon the council to take action serge of a shade to be chosen, the
Ferrier Bald when he came hero Clubs and players argue that the. but after discussion it was agreed name of the club to be in plain block the right connections. Golf is a
left be that it should
to New letters in gold on the left hand top poc developed business in America, he had no idea of receiving a job. R.U. should be up and doing, put-
revealed at ting some life into the game and- same whereas in Australia the game is Possibilities
cash for war 'South Wales to take action, as that ́ket. The Hatband will be the
funds. body had been asked to arrange colour, with the club's name, also in still in its infancy. More people Miami. He had booked a passage helning to raise
gold, diagonally across the front. Tplay golf here and that is the rea- cary this year for Australia. the tournament.
Pails.
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