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THE CHINA, MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1952.

GREAT INTERNATIONAL BATTLE FORESHADOWED FOR BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

Lytham, Lancashire, July 8.

A great international battle for the British Open Golf Championship is fore shadowed by the performances in the 36 holes qualifying Teal which ended on the Royal Lytham and St. Anne's and Fairhaven courses today.

Ninety-six players with aggregates of 152 or better survived for the Cham- pionship proper which atarts tomorrow morning at Lytham where four rounds will be played.

After the second on Thursday, a maximum of 50 players forward for the final two rounds on Friday and only scoren in these four rounds count for the Chiamplonchip.

Those of yesterday and today we washed out, having served their purpose of reducing the original entry to a maximum of 100.

There were 14 players, in cluding the Egyptian Champion. Hassan Hassanein, on the 133 mark, but as they would have made a total of over 100 all had to be eliminnied.

The line form displayed by so many of the

With 60 at Lytham today he been thankful, but few if any

deliberate at finished with an aggregate of have made any 134, two strokes ahead of Harry tempt to "burn up the course",

that Bradshaw, Elre's main hope, knowing so long as who, in turn, was closely fol- qualifying place was gained the lowed by the reigning Open score was of secondary impor- Champion, Max Faulkner, and the Match Play Champion, Hurry Weetman, locked together at 134.

Tben, Reg Horne (Britain) and 50-year-old Gene Sarazen (United States), who won the le 20 years ago, are a stroke BWBY with Antonio Cerda (Argentina), and Peter Thomson (Australia) both at 139.

Lance.

Tomorrow, with every stroke

counting, it will be different,

LEADING SCORES

Leading scores in the qualify Ing rounds follow:

134-John Panton-00 (Fair- haven), 68 (Lytham).

*71

130-Harry Bradshaw (ot

(Fairhaven), (Lytham).

Elre)-65 International

stors with many scores in the 60's pugura well for sume "hot" scoring from tomorrow.

Qualifying SCOTES mean nothing apart from revealing the men In form, but the honours went to John Panton, the Scot, who not so long ago hind successful tour in South Afrlea,

Not too far away were Bobby Locke (South Africa) and Flory (Belgium) to add Van Donck strength to the thought of the thefiling many-nation battle

which la promised.

Many competitors have ob- viously played sale in these two qualitying rounds. It good scures have come they have no doubt

"L" For Learner

By HENRY

LONGHURST

London.

For the first time in England a golf tournament has been shown on television. True, we have had one or two the short "made-up" programmes before, but this was first time that the experts had been shown netually in the process of earning their daily bread.

My suggestions that those of us concerned in this episode, at Wentworth, should carry a large red "L" on our backs was turned down by the authorities.

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big-fight From the golfers point of sport. If I were 1

Inclined vision it may be said to have promoter, I should be

full, the

to say: "It every sent is whole, not been, an failure. What were the re- televise my fight for a nominal

infee. If it in not, pay for octions of the housewives the subsidised houses from empty seats." which television

nerials seemi

to sprout like asparagus, only listeners' research will show. I

should imagine them to

been bored,

On the other hand we hoping that we may

managed at least 1

PGA DID WELL

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the

have The PGA did well, I am

sure, both for their

members

and for the game, to allow this

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137Max Faulkner (holder)... G9 (Lytham), 68 (Fairhaven)- and Harry Weetman-08 (Ly- tham), 69 (Fairhaven),

138 Reg Horne--71 (Lytham), 67 (Fairhaven)--and Gene Sara- zen (United States)-00 (Fair haven). 09 (Lytham).

130 Antonio Cerda (Argen- line) - 68 (Fairhaven), 71 (Lytham), Peter Thomson (Austraila)--09 (Fairhaven), 70 (Lytham),

142 Bill Shankland — 89 (Fairhaven), 73 (Lytham), Std Ser-70 (Fairhaven), 72 (Ly- tham), Dobby Locke (South Africa)-70

(Lytham), (Fairhaven); and Norman Sut- 1972 (Lytham). 10 (Fair- haven)

72

143 P. Mills-71 (Folr- haven), 72 (Lytham)—and Eric

Brown-73 (Lytham), 70 (Fair- haven).

144-H. W. Myers-72 (Fair- haven), 72 (Lytham), Ken Beckelt-73 (Fairhaven), 71 Von Donck (Lytham); Flory (Belgium)71 (Fairhaven), 73 (Lytham).

145-Norman Von Nida, Fred Daly and three others.-Reuter.

Governing Body

are tournament to be televised It For Hong Sports

have will have done much to stimu- establish late Interest in golf.

for

Perhaps

I

the principle that such events may quote as an example two as the Walker and Ryder Cup of the technicians operating the matches and the Open Chum-vanloads of cabies, tubes, valves, lonship, with vastly bigger screens and other unintelligible crowds than

at Weni- worth, will in future rate television.

were

for

of

THE DIFFICULTY

The difficulty golt; course, as against cricket, lawn tennis and the Boat Race, is to maintala continulty. At Went- worth the producer. Craxton, gat round

this

by

enter-

Suggested

the

A meeting to discuss formation of a representative

unphernalia

of television. It Council of Business House to be a lovely place. Sports Associations is being they said, and a most

called by Mr J Strachan of the talning game and,, as anyone Dairy Form Sports Association could apparently play it, they and Mr H. van Echten of the intended to start. They

ca Royal Inter-Ocean Lines (RIL)

Sports Club. hardly have been alone in this reaction.

On

д

Thursday evening Anthony special competition was laid on though for half-an-hour and, a long hele followed this was not the real thing, and oft, like the execu- entirely

"without

at

a short one. and, with the did not go by a puire starting

six-minute intervals and with long-range

Owe were grateful to the

A

It is the view of these two

past many

or

nort

★ ☆ ☆ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★ ★

Mr & Mrs TV Explain

Why The Family Fad

Booms In Show Business

By DAVID LEWIN

Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy London....and (TV-screened (above) in

viewing below) as America's

millions see them "washing their clean timen in public."

THE current fad for putting

the

not

on

family into show business, is confined to Britain. In America it is. zooming at an alarming rate.

A sample "bride and groom act" New to London last week to show how It works British TV and at the Pailodium. Their names. Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, betler known here for records like "Life Gets Teejus." With a long list of other professionals at the "Mr and Mrs" game (Lucille Ball and hus band the Steuart Erwins, the Charles Ruggles) they put the family on porade weekly on American TV.

Husband Peter keeps getting into mischief;

and

is chided by wife Mary for the benefit of the

millions. They sing a bit, too, Wie saurie impersonations give

Why did they deelde to work together? Frankly, Mary Healy-blonde, 34 years old --- says: "After the war we were just emotionally apart. Had we not made a team there would no Innger have been a marriage."

Flynn-style

BEFORE ANYONE includes

Errol Flynn

In the Danny Kaye ("We know all about him") class, let me present a side of the Flynn character suspected but not reported in the records of his more bizarre activities: The man is just loaded with charm.

WINTERS' GLOW