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The team will be;

Portugal Ladies:---M. - Almeida, B. Remedios, D. Pires (Colleons), 8. Corroa, A

Starkey, Collondonca,

Y. Suva,

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CAFASPIN'

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valno,

Shelia S Silva and

Noronha (Wahoo»). Team Mann. gers: Ed. Carvalho, Art. Ozorio.

The_Rest:-Dolly Norman, 8. Sun, D. Mendonca, C. Mengert (Collcens), G. Dragon, D. Mad- dox (Wahoor), Amy Cheng, E. Kwok, Stella Pih, Diana Tong, Eunice Chan, P. Chan, Ida Pon (Pandas), Connie Lal and E. Babka (South China). Team Ewins, Willic Managers: Fred

China;~Y. S. Liang, Wally Ma, Raymond Tsao, Wong/Wing- kai, H. Hsu, J. Wel, Wide Woo (Pandas), K. T.

K. M.. L Poan,

Trung

Ping K. K. Ping,

F. C. Wong, Lam

Sit, Poul Va (Warriors)

(CAA), J.

Cheng

Manager: Mark Kwong

The Bat

Brown, Loureiro,

Loureiro, Yvanovich, A., A. Remedios, Jr., Tony

Osmund, B. Dhaber (Braves), Vie Pedruco, 1. Erick- sen, B. M. Omar, Act. Ozorio, J. Collaco, O. Souza, A. G. Ismail (St. Joseph's), Marcus Souza, R. Nunca (Blackhawks), Tony Rodrigues, D.

Chaves (Delawares), R. Armstrong. Claude Pugh (Americans), Herrick (Pandos). Team Managers: A. J. Hussain, Carvalho.,

Ed.

Rugby League Star May Miss Opening World Cup Games

Lowla Jonca, 23-year-old Great Brill's full-buck and former Rugby Union star who scored a record 278 points in the Rugby League tour of Australis and New Zealand, may miss the

world, Cup games

in

-(London 'Expruen Berviça).

CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

BOLTON

HUDDERSFIELD

soubst

Gizzard, the Huddersfield Town centre-forward, with a movement worthy of the flying ballet, just fails to get a shot past Hanson, the Bolton Wanderers' goal- keeper. Huddersfield won 2-0.

Swaying-One Of The

Oldest And Most Common Faults In Golf

By BERNARD

HUNT

I have had a disappointing season. I have been playing very much bolow my best. And it has taken me practically three months of hard work to find out why. You will smile when I tell you my troublo—I've been swaying! Yes, one of. the oldest and most common faults in golf and I just could not pick it out.

In my workouts to try to analyse my trouble I have gone through everything from my grip to every one of the complicated phases of the swing. I seemed to be doing everything exactly as I was doing it last year and I was still hitting some pretty good shots--but I was hitting too many bad ones.

my father spotted; Suddenly

this goes to AB

show that

IT'S THE BIT OF IRISH IN THEM.

The Long Count Argument Is Still Going On

By ALAN HOBY

The most sensational heavyweight contest of the century took place

at Soldiers' Field, Chicago, on September 22, 1927, between two men with

a liberal dash of Irish in them-Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney

This was the famous fight of "The Long Count"-the fight which 102,000 fans pald 2,858,660 dollars to see.

It was a return fight between two bitter rivaleone a master boxer and the other a super-slugger.

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And it was the fight for which Finally, as the whole

world i It was not until the fourth Tunney, the Champion, was paid knows, Dempsey made it. round that the fight warmed up. £200,000 the largest pursa In 1910 he massacred man- Tunney's hand and the Cham- ever earned by a prizefighter in mountain Jess Willard at Toledo plon's knees bent. the history of the ring.

in a heat-wave to become the With the

crowd howling Yet the man who pulled in World Champion. This was the Dempsey went tearing after the customers was not the cald authentic

Denyser,

beetle fuasy driving him round the lating Tunney, but browed and blue-jawed, stand-ring-un Tunney suddenly the old champion, the ing Gft. and weighing just over arossed a right his best punch

Mauler," the savage, 13 stone.

and stopped the "Mailer" in his tracks. Then Tunney crash-

and

rip-morting terror who, until

the advent of Tunney, had ruled Willard was att dina. anded another to Dempsey's jaw the world's heavyweights for weighed 17 stone. Yot Domp and it was Jack's furn to Hook

sey the Killer blasted him to dazed.

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the canvas seven times in the

bone.

righia to

that Borisational

reven lon

Will years.

Hardson Dempsey born in 1885 at Manassa, first round. By the end of the · In the Afth round Tunney In Southern Colorado. Hla father third round the giant was was the master. Onco when was Irish, tracing his blood helpless and his towel fluttered Dempsey rushed im aaneer strain back to Co. Kildare. His into the ring. When they creased

Gene's lips and he mother was partly Irish-she carried him away his nose was clipped the old Champion with could could claim Scottish and mashed, his law fractured, and right flush to the pin. But Cherokee Indlan ancestry his left cheek gushed to the in the sixth Tunney's

...gelt- Wel

confiderico was wiped away "These were the parents of the

This was Dempsey In his when Dempseythe old Damp toughest and most. colourful primo. But he was past heavy-toro at him scrapper ever to smash an op- best when he fought Gene Tun-pounding him with ponent into oblivion; of a man ney the boy from New York head and neck.

Finally, who not only lived to become a City, first at Philadelphia soVET legend and Heavyweight Cham-years later, and then in Chicago seventh round and "The Long plon of the World, but whosu in 1927. He was past 30 and Count

Scorning -dadence, name and the magle £ rehe had slipped.

Dempsey went rampaging after presents...still lives

Tunney. and,

A pereams from (Aho Indeed, will live on for ever. been meant for the priesthood, the ropes. Another shrink and Tunney, the boy who had crowd and Tunney. was against

of Irish "Manassa

Arst saw Dempsey when the the crowd was on Its . fçotu na

Mauler extraction, his forbears halling Georges Carpentier in New on salmal.

fought Dempsey leapt at his rival like rom Co. Mayo. But he was a York.

Tumby, ex-Marine and different in methods and ap American Expeditionary Forces Tunner tried to move away. pearanco from

the cowling, Champion, had been booed Too late. A tarias left hook unshayen, dark-skinned Demp when he figured in sey as night is from day,

a pro- crashed on his jaw. Half Uminary bout on the same pro-twisting round under the punch RING SCIENTIST

gramme. Unperturbed. Tunney Tunney throw out his urms stayed on and watched Dempsey, despairingly, wrying to grab at wreck Carpentier with his body Dempsey and hold him Hght. blows,

Dempsey's rightel was already on the warly and it

Tunnera head crashed agains

Jack

and

also

on

Cool and poised, Tunney had

hair wavy

handsome, typically Triad features. He was a ting scientist. Whereas the "Manassa Mauler" at his peak, moved like

a panther, crouching and weaving and slinging cruel, thort-armed, books and Jabs to body jew, Tunney WON

ALWAYS A BIGHT. But, Tunney also observed that the only time, the French-

a

KNOCKED DIZZY

Joncs has been called up for 20 days "Z" lining with the Royal Navy from October 17, which means he will not be available for the first two games ogainal Aystralia and France. it. As I took the club back my every golfer should follow the bounds Họ hit his pend

League may ask bead why

and well The Rugby

moving.... very stylu that suits him, best. By all drive masonably. for his training dates to be slightly...

with 1. menna learn from others, get back

straight. B changed, because he looka un This meant that I had to sway sound swing, work, hand at your

But he was still left with 173 automatic cholco for the World back on the down sving in game. But it is not necessary series.

propeo piave my weight in the slavishly to follow pattern. Diepen with "he pin its on

sitting make proper

instance, does NOT contact with the ball. Same-use the usual Vardon-style over-he top plateau He had to get it didn't. Those occasions have club with the right hand under the first Championship of his been my bad shots, and those the left and hits the bail out of bad shots have cost me hundreds | sight, He has no over-lap at. Quietly Geoff took at his four of pounds,

iron. I could hardly bear to look. But Geoff hit a screamer As a youngster, apparently, bls which might have been follow I have cured myself by simply keeping my weight on the inside fingers were too small to let him ing the line of a ruler and the edge of my right foot as swing over-lap with my comfort. So bal came to rest back. And it works. My 08 he did not bother, He could feet of the pin. Ho finished it of the best type of Irish ger

in the Southern over-lap now if he wanted, but off by knocking the putt in for round Fulwell Championship qualifying rounds it has become second nature to this week was very much more have ell his fingers on the shaft, five and victory. as I want things to be.

so he kops them there.

times it got there; occasionally lapping grip. He just takes the there. For him, at that momth tially a boxer, erect and thought which dashed through the button. I was, -knocked

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The sway, of course, is one of

But Khero is one Important the commonest faults in the potthe aver-lap is marvely business especially for those of intended to get the two hands us who are over six feet in close together so that they work height. And it is one of the together as an integral unit. most devastating It you Dal's grip sees to that too, for haven't been hitting the ball his right band is pressed wall quite as sweetly

as you would up to his left and they are al- like check up

on YOUR way. most sa integrated as they would Get somebody to keep an eye bo if they over-lapped. on you for several shots. You might just be doing it occasion- ally. Oner you

spot your trouble it is easy enough to get: it corrected.

GOLFER OF THE YEAR

Looking back over this wet and windy season there is no doubt who is the British Golfer

BEST ROUND OF SEASON

The best round of thọ season I have seen was played by Peter Allias in the last round of the Daks tournament. when ho

carnar depended on it,

within two

One of the great things about golf is that you saver forget shote Uko that,

- Afterwards® Tunney -- mid: "Dempsey can be nailed with with all his accuracy and impex can be called with

straight right was the power Dempsey hi mà Tiên on

had none of the colour night. And it was with a care and that meant Aghting fury: at Tunney's mind on that fateful dizzy. He closed for the kill, and crowd appeal of Dempsey fully rehearsed right mash that its most destructive, I don't Ha had no box-office magnetism. Tunney himself rocked Dempsey know Like Dempsey he had been in the opening round of their slugged me." hore the wrong side of the first Bght in Philadelphia which tracks. he never gave the

Yet, unlike Dempsey Geno won easily. being swRIC

mpression of

Tunney was supposed to have Tunney, a splendid example brittle hands. But the challen American, was too clinical in Tunney scrap had strengthened

In that first Dempsey his approach to the ring for his fats in secret by choppins

down trees. most American fight fans.

Knowing,

of

kavurmanji Robert Edgren,

American boxing, expert, wrote in the Tunney did not Dally Express rol or fall. He was lifted from his feat

Ha beemed heavily.

to whirl in the air and then he fell the floor his loft arm was flung When he struck Cross the ropes."

In the event of a knock-down

89 the rival boxer must go to

to mean that you can bon un on of seven his two brothers, both What a fight this was Police before the count finally began

those Jean

too, that Dempsey's They, admired his gløverness

According to Edgren's stop- and his ability not to be drawn lega were suspect, Tunney had into slugging matches-although schooled himself day after day

exactly 14 seconda p PLEASE PRAUȚISE! the merciless Harry Oreb once to run backwards so that when watch Tunney was down for

the tiine came he would be able a whaling. But they to back-pedal faster than the the Chicago rules sulpulated that gave him a could never love him or take aggressive Dempsey could. And now, as I close this series him to their hearts as they did after him.

neutral corner. After standing. of articles, let me urge on all Dempsey, the first fighter to you golfers not to cheat your draw a million-dollar gale Yes, Tunney was a shrewd over Tunny; Dempsey did go to selves in your winter gulf. When "Jungle Jack".

But he ran would have operator.

into corner-the wrong one." Thus you bring in your local rule per- been A good soubriquet for trouble in his accopd. mitting "rolling" don't take that Dempsey in sction. At the age with the old "Mart contest precious seconds were wasted worm casts. That will not help professionals,

Could Tunney have got up it. taught him self-arrangements to control the your game or give you satisfac-defence. In his early days he crowds were on a stupendous there had been no notorious Lion.

took on all the local bulliessal. Atoach end of the "long count?? The argument

Chicago arena

going on, a were two "ecore is still

even after this And if you run into trouble and whipped most of them.

boards with the words ""Gene". lapse of time.

always Tunney himisest hos burned up the Lalitie do not forget to check over your Dempsey's trail led through the and "Jack" in enormous letters Aston course in 67 shots to win. style systematically. First, your West from job to job and hash- and a space below to show the maintained that he could, le has stated that the count (was It was magnificent striking.

then your stance keep it square often for a few dollars, on the

Every hotel zind his senses. Wihout the dang of the Year. Little Dai Bees He never played the semblance to the hole for your drive: then sida He worked in the mines quinens tops the poll without any trouble of a bad shot and if he had had your pivot-make sure you are and as a lumber jack. He bo boarding-house was crammed count that would have given

accommodation habo and "rode the Sleeping

in him four seconda do so whleb, any luck at

all with several getting round before you try to came a

bathrooms was at a premium.

*=* | according → to →Tunney;---would putts that hung on the lip it come down again; then rotar | roda." I have never seen him hit the could have been 32 or 63. hands—make sure you are in

Tunney's tactica right up to have been enough, als and able to ball

OFTEN HUNGRY Fulwell's second have never seen a golf ball hit control of the botter.

the opening ball were to make

LIKE A MASTER Í hole stretches to lust over 600 better or with grosier consis make that club-head accelerate

Oftch he was hungry and Dempser mad. He kept hip yards. Dal's second

tency.

the bell; and finally

Writer shot, a

the ring for What's more, we com- through

waiting in

-There were many down-and-out. But having der minutes an ola trick. brassic, actually hit the stick and pletód that

d, who thought round in just two you follow-through more eldest that fighting was the only

the ring Hand, stopped within a yard. He hours!

you are not giving up

Dempsex was most unluck promptly holed the putt for an

ball but are making the club way to win a fortune he

Once having regained, his fact, eagle three.

The best shot I saw this soupon head through towards the codicated himper to that end. comes nearer home. My brother) hole.

Ho

In the early rounds Dempsey however, Tunney, afper Mailing ran up and down a moun That, in effect, is the type of Geoff hit it to win the Assistants'

tain to strongthen his wind. He did not bore in with his head Dempsey through the remainder of the seventh round boxed like as of old. He circled Home golf he has been playing-bold; | Championship ́on

you please chewed gum for hours on end-down

a mnasier. free-hitting, smack-on-the-pin course of Hartsbourne, The practise. It is the only way to to toughen up his jaw. He Tunney and made him misk a In the oighth round, stuff. He has been top manoy circumstances contributed to it better golf, Ladies especially, hardened his muscle and body lot. This was not the old Tiger

mines but a Dempsey under wraps, knocked down Domper winner in most competitions and On the last ten Gool was in the concentrate your prelies on the by working in the copper

Although Tunney looked, paised beduilful counter Bukit the least bit of luck would have comfortable position of needing things to well within your and log camps. brought him the British and tho a six, at a dive hole to win power pitching chipping, put And, of course he fought and dangerous he was holding was 7 Up - quicklyoz German

Open Championships. But for gotheniancolinable úng, bunker, shots, la Thay win anyone, absorbing ringiora and and grabbing a lot with his now he will not disp

reason, he put his frat drive out) your matches.

fight pointers as he went along. right

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at all.

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