AMATEUR CUP FINAL TOMORROW
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1952.
The Success Of
Behind Leyton Lies
Grim Fight For
A Story Of A
Survival
A club which last season nearly went out of football will be appearing in the Amateur Cup Final at Wembley tomorrow afternoon. Behind the success of Athenian League club Leyton, who meet Walthamstow Avenue, les a story of a grim fight for survival,
Last season, following complaints from other club, the Athenian League
used ruled that the Leyton ground, the Hare and Hounds, should not be nmtehes played under their jurisdiction.
Anished
were
To keep their Cup stars at having won through from As a result Leyton
of preliminary rounds, Torre to play all their League they have necepted offers
other und pinyers from clubs in Lames away from home
the leagues to play for them in hot maturally
their Alhenfan matches. This is senson bottom of the table.
providing Live: fut what was even more impermissible
not signed portant, the club was deprived players of home gate money for, apart Athenian League forms for any
not other clubs this season. from Cup ties, they id pure appear before their awn Supporters.
NEVER REGRETTED
50
have
at
for
the
THE OPPOSITION Danger man in the Waltham- amateur stow team is England International centre-forward Jim Lewis. Ile is the son of the famous Jim Lewis
wha in- 13 England caps, gained
Eng- cluding one with a full land team during the 1937 tour of Australia, and altogether won every honour in the game except an Amateur Cup medal.
Last week for instance when they had two games in one day the they turned out one side con- There was talk during.
disbanding
taining four reserves and seven of close-sentan
Grays, players frtm their other with But negotiations landlords resulted in improve. Wiedford and Leytonstone.
Young Jim, who is assistant ments to the ground which net
line-up Leyton The
purchasing manager of a manu- with League approval and Ley-
Wembley will probably be the Facturing company, has set up ten decided to carry on.
same as that which has taken
Cena new club record this season them through the competition by scoring 85 Cup and Longue tar.. This is: Sullivan Konis. Like his father he start-
Pullinger: Gardiner,
outside- Dixon,
ed his career as an Facey, Yonson, Casey, Fitch,
right. But since his conversion midway centre-forward, Meintee, Godard and Skipp.
season, he Casey, who is in the Army through last end cations in North Wales, shown to best advantage. has received specia! War Office him 10 permission to allow play in the Wembley Bnut. He was also being given time off by his commanding neer to piat in two hours football train- Ing every ciny.
thes
The decision has never been Although forced to regretted,
the preliminary play through rounds of both the FA and the Amateur Cup Leyton have had a magnificent seasoft.
second They renched
profes- The {{{ round proper sional competition before going cut to Chester. And they have 13 battled their way through ather lies, inclusing one aban- doned game, for the right meet Walthamstow,
1
With all these cup comimil- ments their League fixtures be- came congested and they have been faved during the last two werks with the job of clearing off games at the rate of three and four a week.
It If Leyton win the Cup
success. will be their third They won in 1926 and 1927 and were inalists again the follow- ing year. But if they are sue cessful this time it will be the Fouly "tase on record of a club
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB SIXTH RACE MEETING
Saturday, 26th April, 1952.
(Held under the Rules of The Hong Kong Jockey Club)
there are 10 races, The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. ond the First Race will be rim at.2.80 p.m.
Through Tiekels Races--$20.00) may be obtained at the Compratore Office of the Treasurers, 1st Floor, Telephone, House, ulse, uckets for the Speetal Cash Sweep on the "Hong Kong Derby" Beteluted to be run in 31st May, 1052.
Through Tickets reserved for this meeting but not paid for
by 10.00 u Friday, 25th April, will be sold and the reservation cammerhed for inture meetings.
THERE WILL BE NO SPECIAL CASHI SWEEP ON THE LAST RACE.
To avoid congestion at the Club's Offices at Telephone House,
10
has
There are two other Interna-
tionals In the Walthamstow side. One is left-haif and cap tan Derek Sounders and the other is left-back Len Stratton.
for All three are in training Great Britain's Olympic soccer team.
E.
Army's Major Units Cricket Champions
In a
The team which represented the 25th Field Regiment Royal Artillery during the past season and carried off the military Major Units Champlonship. challenge match against 33 General Hospital last week, however, they were de feated. The 38 Hospital side won the Minor Units title. (Ross Miller).
A Taste Of U.K.
Weather
could he made.
London, Apr. 24. The Indian cricketers practised today at bords-
conditions under
trhich most of were strange for them, and thus no real est”- mation of their abilites or prospects
Not only was the practice ground soft as a result of the ball overnight rain, but came through at different star, Another Avenue
heights and paces. A cool player ever to the youngest
wind Cup
also prevented the Wembley in z appear
Indians elving of their best Final, is 16-year-old outside-
atud alt 17 were heavily right Dow Hossiter. He is
sweateral-Reuter. Arsenal's-books as an amateur and when he becomes 17, June, he will sign for them as a professional.
and
on
in
Avenue's team in this, their Arst Amateur Final, will prob- ably be: Cerula; Young, Strat- Saunders; ion: Lucas, Brahan,
sley, Camis. Rossiter, Bailey, Lewis, Hor-
having tojury
Horsley has Iscen knee treatment for a and if he is unfit will be re-
baller, Dennis Hall. placed by a young Army fool-
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Club's Branch Offlers att-
rules:-
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or
382 Natha. Head, Kowloon,
TOTALISATOR
Sedgman Makes Up
For Lost Time
London, Apr. 24. After a dash by car, plane and car from Switzerland, Frank Sedeman, 24-year-old Austra Iran and world No. 1 iawn tennis player, played his first round
Yankees A' Game singles match in the hard courts
Boston, Apr. 24, Relief pitcher Bob Kuzava walked Billy Goodman with the
bases
tournament at Sutton (Surrey) *cday 24 hours Inte.
Agitator Hot Favourite For Two Thousand Guineas
R. WASON REVIEWS
Book On Golf That Will Be A Classic
No game, not even cricket, has been so fortunate in its writers as golf, and when such men as Darwin, Longhurst, Crawley and Cotton combine with others to write its history you nay be sure of getting à very special book.
"A History of Golf in Britain,"* is, in fact,
a magnificent book, which does full justice to a noble game.
the
*
three he
last From the days when, as Locke playing the quite a sinal boy, I used to holes at Sandwich, when unwrap my father's favourite knew he had to finish 3 4 4 to drops, dul tie with Bradshaw and newspaper and spread it uptially
before ped a shot at the short stx on the floor
teenth. breakfast. I have been a reader. of Bernard Darwin.
"How he pulled himself to So I opened my book where gether at the seventeenth will always remalis a miracle, A begins in 1818. Darwin year in which the feather bull perfect drive was followed by was ousted by the gutty. a perfect iron, which
from the pin and thought, he cannot ten feet I Surely,
to
down went the putt, вку anything
fatal stroke that was dropped about the great men of his own
was ro I was ten minutes before heyday, and in a way right: he has not. But Dur, covered." He got his 4 at the of eighteenth and a great golfer win is Darwin; a, change word here, a change of paruse had broken through at last.
As I read this description of there, and you are reading it
I thought all for the first time, or so he Lock's finish
another falsh: Leo makes it seem.
needing to get down
have
New
and
finished
and: the
of
Diego in two
his first putt close to the hole, and Leo Diegel,
The
ENTIRELY SCOTLANDY'S
Craig The earlier years of golf be putts of St. Andrews in 1993.
to tie with Shute and long entirely to Scotland
Wood. He put the greatest of the early heroes Wood Tom Morris. It is very was Young
alive then he, doubtful If anyone now
world's best putter, missed the saw him play, Jos-menthy one back,
in
illustrates This comparison proaching 80 were cradles when Young Tom ded
the difference between a cham- were ai 21. London, Apr. 24.
pion and the men who not quite champions like Mit- chell Darwin once asked a felend
and MacDonald Smith, of Champion dy four mes Open Tom compared
that, how Young
whom Longhurat says und the with Harry Vardon,
when he died Prestwick must "I carwi replied: friend
have been engraved upon his It is difference not of -heart. Imagine anyone playing better
mental thari Tommy
From Young Tom we
Mr John Dewar's Agitator retained his place as two to one favourite for the 2,000 Guineas at tonight's Victoria Club call-over here.
benten
Lord Rosebery's Bob Major: who ran impressively though at Epsom today, was two--two offered at nine to
the paints less than his price at previous call-over. The only other important change in the betting was the reduction of the odds against Chavey Down from 33 to
to one to 25 to one. Mr R. W. Harples's colt dend- Lacated wit
with Bob Major. for Lecond place behind Castleton in today's Epsom race,
The price on offer about Bob Major
the Derby was for
Castleton
"
golfing ability but of make-up.
pass
338
ter
the
en to the golfers some of
the Triumvirate, have
and Braid Vardon, Taylor
seen:
Vardon the greatest-of Wins In
Photo Finish
Epsom, Apr. 24..
T. H. Carey's Castleton won out the Blue Riband. Trial Stakes from 20 to one to 100 to clx. over one mile and 110 yards Only small business was done here today after a photo finish on the race, in which Agitator among three of the nine run-
Silnet and
retained their ners. positions de join! favourites at 100 to seven but where joined by Titanium, who is trainer by Noel Murless and is the stable companion of Actiator..
Tonight's quotations were:
2,000 GUINEAS ``
Agitator.
210
9 to 2-Bab Major,
in
A few minutes after arriving on the enurl and beat he went
international the England
400 to 7-Thunderhead.
100 to Argur,
to enable
den
is
forced
The attention of Tatalisator Invests is drawn to the following
funder and Dividends will be paid on the winning and placed ponies su dearest by the Stewards when the "All Clear" is given. Sammy White with the
inning winning run The "All Clear" signd will be indicated by a white light at the Doston Red Sox to sweep
Totalisator Tower, BACKERS ARE ADVISED NOT two-güne seric from the New AWAY THEIR TICKETS UNTIL York Yankees in the American DESTROY OR THROW
League today AFTER THE "ALL CLEAR" SIGNAL HAS BEEN EX-
victory. KIBITED.
SCORES:
Totalisator Tickets should be-examined and checked be- fore leaving the Selling Counters as mistakes of any descrip- tion, cannot be rectified later.
Cash received i espect of Dividends should be checked before leaving the Pay-nt Counters us no claim for short payment of the value of tickets presented can be entertained once Investors have let the Counters.
Boston New York
with
a
3-
Bob Major and Chavey Down readheated for second place.
The helling was live to one Castleton, Ave to two (favourite) Bob
Major and nine to two Chavey Down,
The race provided one of the of the races exciting 10st
second Major, Bob season. favourite for the 2,000 Guineas,
led unt!! two furlongs from 20 to 1-King's Bench, Gay home when he was passed by
Down and stride for
joined by Chavey George Godsell in three quarters Time, Djebel, Hallout and Wor-Castleton who was immediately
25 to 1-Chavey Down, Tai-this pair matched of an hour by 6-4, 6-3,
Staying on the court he de-yar, Khor Mousa and Orgoglio. stride with the issue apparent- yards 33 to Ararat and Significa- Jy between them. Fifty
Bob feated the Devon player Jeffrey
however, from home, the lion. Michelmore 6-2, 6-0 in
renewed his challenge 25
Major 40 to 1-Coerlaverock. second round, taking only
so successfully that he got up minutes, and was then in the,
with the others on the post. E semi-nals.
2 12 1 8 1 (11 innings) Winning pitcher Ivan Delock, loser Bob Kuzava.--Associated
All winning tickets and tickets for refunds must be pre- sented for payment at the Race Course on the day to which Press. they refer, but none will be paid later than one hour after the time fur which the last race of the day has been scheduled lo be run.
In nu circumstances will any Dividends be paid or refunds made unless a ticket is produced. Payment WILL NOT be made on torn or disfigured tickets.
MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE
Members and guests are reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the Meeling.
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.
Badges admitting ladies not in possession of Brogehes or Season tickets and gentlemen, non-inembers of the Club, to the Members' Enclosure and the Club Rooms at 510.00 including tax, fur ladies or gentlemen are obtainable through the Secretary at Telephone House, on the written or personal introduction of Member, such member to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him, and for payment of all chits, etc.
Only a limited number of badges admitting to Members' En-- closure will be on sale at the Race Course.
The Branch Omees and the Treasurera Compradere Office will close at 11,80 am, and the Secretary's Office at 11.45 am. The Treasurera Compradore Oflee and the Secretary's Office are situated at 1st Floor, Telephone House.
A limited number of tifins will be obtainable
at the Club
House' provided they are ordered in 'advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 27818).
NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PRE- MISES DURING THE MEETING.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
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BOOKMAKERS, TIC TAC MEN, ETC., WILL NOT BE PER- MITTED TO OPERATE WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,
MEALS AND REFRESHMENTS WILL BE OBTAINABLE IN THE RESTAURANT IN THE PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,
SERVANTS' PASSES
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Owing to the congestion in the Members Betting Hall and t Boothe adjacent to Boxes In the Coffee Room, Box-holders and Members are requested to ensure that their servants mako use only of the Pubille. Betting Hall, Military Polico will be posted at various points in the enclosure to ensure that this regulation is #dhered to..
By Order,
H. MISA,
Secretary,
I
THE DERBY
100 to -Site!, Agitator and
100 to B-Eob Major
Sedgman, favourite for the
tlile, was Recom-Tilantum, Wimbledon panied by his 21-year-old bride, Jean. They have covered 15,000 miles on their honeymoon trip since January.-Reuter.
Helsinki Lift For Bailey
Weight-lifting is part of the normal training of the West Indian sprinter, E. McDonald Bailey, shown above Watching making light work of a 97-lb dumb-bell, him is Oscar State, chief weight-lifting coach of the ~Amateur Athletic Association." (Reuterphota).
Khor Mousa,
and
The judge, without hesitation, there called for a photo and was considerable delay before had just got 20 to 1-Guersant, Gay Time, he held that Gordon Richards,
on Castleton. Frequency and Argur.
home by a short head from the others
25 to 1-Buckhound.
33 to 1-Kara Tepe, Nearque, Marsyas, Penitent and Shikar
poor.
40 to 1Mr Cube.
30 to 1-Kara Burnu.
The next call-over on
2,000 Guineas and the
will be on Monday,
who deadheated
cond place.
Tommy Carey.
trainer
for
and owner of the winner, said afterwards that he was delighted thewith the coll's running-Reuter, Derby
On Tuesday there will be call-over on the 'Guineas only. --Reuter.
A
Faultless Riding
Morocco
In Horse Show Cycle Race
A.
Rome, Apr. 24.
Struggle
riding Perrone (Italy) Cirone B. won the exacting
Casablanca, Apr. 24. Cello, Prize at the Rome Inter-
The Portuguese rider. Barbha national Horse Show today, covering the 18-cbstacle course wen today's ninth stage of the without fault in 1 min. 25.8 secs, Moroco road cycle race, beating Captain George Canaves (Ar-23 cthers over the testing 230 rentina) rode Biscutido into kilometres from Meknes, second place in 1 min. 27 sees. R. Dinzeo and Leutenant (Italy), on Baccara, was third in 1 min. 27.4 seca.
Both had faultless rounds. Reuter.
CHARLTON
Barbosa completed the stage in 6 hrs, 30 mins. 28 secs., the same time as three other ders- Charroin (Morocco), Juan Massip (Spain) and Driss Ben Abd Estem (Morocco)-who trailed him by a few feet.
The leaders in the general classification were unchanged. Francols Acchero (Italy) is now
LOSE AT HOME in Ard place with a total of 50
London, Apr. 24. The following are the results of League football games play jed today:
Division I Charlton A. 10 Aston Villa
-Division III (Southern) Newpart C. Crystal P.. Northampton T4 Leyton O.
Division IX (Northern)
Carlisle
Scunthorpe
Router.
1
hrs. 2 mins. 31 sees.
Marcel Huber. (Switzerland) and Maurice Blomme (Belgium) hold the second and third places respectively, 197 and 240 seconds being the leader.
The fall, heavily depleted from the 73 kders who started the race 10 days ago, will rest
0 here until Saturday.
The tenth stage of the 2,788- kilometre event will take them 241 ilometres to. Marrakech Reyter,
three,
who
put his shots closer to the pin
could
most most
men
put
Enid Wilson writes the chap- women's golf, and she on records what must be the most extraordinary-feat in-a-book-of brassie extraordinary
Babe Zaharias reaching the long hole
than their
pitches; Taylor, Darwin's par- ticular hera, who defied the gale at Hoylake in 1013 and in so doing played the greatest ever BDW; golf that Darwin Braid, the Scot from Elle who hit with a divine fury.
And then there is that other
Scot who was nearly on a par
feats:
Gullane (540 yards) with a drive and a No. 4 iron. The girways were soft, there was no helping wind, and the green stands on a hill, and her iron shot pitched over the putting Could Snead have any better? the student of the golf
surface.
To
with these three: Sandy Herd, swing
his who stole a march over rivals by playing with the new Open rubber-core bail in the
of 1902, when he won his only victory.
war
a
In the years immediately be- fore the first world
Aberdonlan young George Duncan
was
named
Cotton's
chapter, on
and methods is fascina- ting. He tells how on his first visit to America he watched young Horton Smith using the same swing for every shot, and he realised then that with the coming of steel shafts the golf game had changed. You need- ed one swing, that was all, and forging he set out to learn that one steadily ahead; of nim Darwin swing. But to the older genera writes: "He was a really love- tion, golf had lost its artistry and was never quite the same golfer, like Harry Vardon in
motion, @ true golang game again
too PICTURES TELL THE STORY genius, but having a little
The first part of this much of the artistle tempers-
the game before ment and in his early days deals with given to going up like a roc there were any great names -- ket and coming down by the the history of the rules and the development of clubs and balls. stick."
must here tell The pictures
ly
AFTER THE WAR Henry Longhurst, a writer as the
and perhaps good as Darwin
Influenced by unconsciously him, takes up the, story after the war.
If
Darwin's hero was lor, Langhurst's hero was not a
gense champion but in a failure: Abe Mitchell.
Mitchell was the Arst great
story,
book
of
who
1
The pictures In this book are wonderful, the best have seen in any golf book. Among the coloured plates is one
Ice in played on Tay-golf being
in Holland in 1608 by men aklits-probably Scotsmen
took refuge in Holland during golfer he ever saw and here the Civil Wars: and another of golfer depicted on the great of Gloucester to him. He east window mained faithful
Mit- feeling of writes with
Cathedral, proof that golf was chell's tragic third round of 84 played in England in the mid-
first Open after the war, fourteenth century. In "Every stroke of his huge lead was gone and with It not only
11
0
All our favourite golfers are here too: Allan Robertson, first that Championship but every Open champion, looking moro Champtonship to come."
3 like gamekeeper than The two greatest golfers of noller. Young Tom with the these years were that redoubt-e belt round his
couple from America,
Vardon in that knicker- Bobby Jones and Walter bocker suit that was so pecu- Hogen.
ablo
most
who
Harly his; the happy, sereno Hagen was the artis!
face of Bobby Jones; the smil- turned three shots into two, Ing face of Hagen; the early in billowing but Bobby Jones was "by al women champions
common consent the skirts that did not prevent them greatest golfor of all times." from following through more And he was much more than fully than any modern cham- Locke, not the n great golfer: he was great plen; Bobby man. Listen to what Sarazen, slip of a boy who beat R. S. quoted by Longhurst, says of Walker at Balgownie in the 30s, him: "Dab was a fine mon
with
jin a tourna of his ship years.
be partnercongenial and
ment.
and you
man.
friend, son made
be
to
majestie Locke but the
con- Has anything
been omitted siderate, he made you feel you from this great, work? Well, I have liked to see some were playing with a
ôľ
tile the professionals no band of Scottish Joncearly with
He who cressed the Atlantic. more worlds to conquer. did as much to draw Britain fore and after the First World and Americe together as all the War and taught the Americans diplomats combined, is Long- to swing the Scottish way--the the awing Stewart Malden taught hurst's verdict on Jones
Bobby Jones, The third great golfer of the They have now farsaken this. between-war periods was Cot-swing in favour of the shut- ton, who at Sandwich in 1049 face method and have become broke the American chain at
what Darwin onco described as victories which had begun teh bunch of forcing cokers, yeats carlier. But, after three but their long row of victories beautiful rounds he almost in the 20s and 80s they owed
so and their Scottish mentors. blew up in the fourth when he entirely to the Scottish swing had the appearance "not much of a conquering hero, as Nevertheless, this book will of a man on his way to the be a golfing classte. It is a big gallows.
fat book, beautifully printed, Crawley completes the story, 'with a
Ono, day green cover,. which ends with Locke's twin at It will take pride of place Troon in 1950. In his chapter among my 24 gold books.
Why
I like best the description of the day? Because so many people
*
A History of Golt la Britain, :(Casquild! 43/4).
have asked to borrow It that. I
do not expert to see it again
unil Chripimas,
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