1956-10-13 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1956.

To Play Golf And Enjoy It You Don't Have To Know The Language

Says BOB FERRIER

We banana-ed it into the jaggies from the gipsy, used the leather mashje, then lawned it with timber and boxed it with the jerking iron for a tray

We spent out of town with the harpoon and the porter dropped the gladstone and scampered.

No. Bers and Secombe and Milligan chattering but merely The game of golf, and its im podimenta, DA

be she might played around the caddie room.

Translation?

rough

1 "We hooked ltte from the tee, kicked the ball

on 10

cost. And they have lungunge more fuful.

a flow of than somewhat

The

Inter.. prominent preters of the dialogue-a com- pound of Cockney rhyming slang and Ainerieun-are Tony Har- man tile Royal Berkshire assistant, West 1411

and Peter Mills, good lie, bit it on to

the green with a wood shot, then putted into the hole for

score of three."

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stirreptitiously in- proves the lie with the edge of h bool. that 1 using the

Of course, Leather Mushie.

that is ever don't suggest dine. Certainly not.

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A European Soccer League I Believe Would Bring Back The Missing Millions

Says DON REVIE

ern

We are

on the threshold of a glittering new In Soccer. While tho politicians dobate about a Customs Union with Europe, it seems fairly certain that we shall soon be importing into this country the top European teams to compete with the best in Britain. In other words a Soccer Cusoms Union.

Soccer needs a shot in the arm to bring back the glitter and appeal it used to have for the masses. And it looks as though the rulers of the game are moving forward to the idea of a Super Soccer League,

Bradshaw "Sce-tow" and Tom Haliburton. of Wentworth.

is

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themselves Golfers escape the Muns edge wil. Arthur Lees

Ward Charlie

do

not of this

"The Dean of Old Windsor."

WHOLESALE

in a hundred miles of the Royal an Ancient Golf Club of Andrews.

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"Clogs,"

To play And do not worry.

not golf and enjoy it, you do HAVE to know the language.

But

to

H Allies

the

For year we have been in (2) It would show how the vlding they have the support, physical but we must also not toes sighi splendid isolation on the rports Continentals

the and aid of the bright hopes of the public's op- training in frost

the

Coo future, with

lop pelite has been whetted by the athletics to the arts of Soccer,

to Britain in Occasional

atinentals coming (3) It would give them glimpacs they have had of the crack

slant on how Confinental fresh

the Con-giemour £xiutes. tinental game is sides.

19 played,

Make no mistake, we Last year the European Cup insist.ne on ball control

launched.

link

track

with

So, with acknowledgment that well-known double act. 2 "We went out of bounds Marman and Mills, I prement with В Ppoon what and the Fermer's thesaura of words and endele dropped the bag and phrases, interded 10 offer quit,"

lighter side

The whole dire Picturesque peech and patter fearsome Business of pursuing how rinched rich a pitch with the pA),

14

0

ezddies and with scene of the Wooden clubs are respectively yourger profesaloneday

phrose-books will soon be od in every golf bag.

that the Lady Godiva. the Lanca- pack-shire Lassic and The Harpoon,

BIZARRE NAMES

Course, are

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we

| karwn collectively as timber, Going through the Irons Caddies,

have Deuce, Tray, Roff, Beeseye, strange

and! Lake Tom Mix, Pennies From, breed. romany

This can also prze-light managers, they never Garden Gato collect a blow struck in anger, apply to the sebre you make on but always they are in these a hole. punching and pitching with the best of Liem. Like prize-fight ad not to mention IIRROKSIA. royalty un editors, they use nothing but the exclusive And collective "we"

The putter is the Dabster OF Jerking Iron, The bag is the The caddie

Cuse or Gladstone,

is the Cadbury. Slave ur Porter A trolly is a Steel Jockey. The teeing round in the Gipsy Lee

the Magazine

They bove bizarre names The green like Mack the Kolfe, Juftu | Sword, or Lown,

Wingy and Man Friday.

The "Leather Mashie" is the over one that paralyses nie. When a hundreds of miles at minimum ball is imbedded in rough, and

They truvel expertly

SALES SHOW OUR

BREEDERS

SHOULD

KEEP GOOD MARES

By RICHARD BAERLEIN

London. The 1956 yearling sales are now over, and the results have exceeded the expectations of even the The averages through- most optimistic breeder. out the season are only slightly down on last buyers have not been put off by political year situations or financial restrictions.

Thero is. A ecurse of lessons "Whippet" from Mears Harman and Mills you-wholesale,

Peter 1 can gel for

IN "Chunky, "Blueboy." Harry But promise not to use it with-

'Widow' Took

Game In

-(London Exprene Servic#},

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Up Golf Self-Defence

Men Marbey Spearman, in coffee-coloured slacks (coffee-with-cream, that is) plus red and white shirt striped to match the Regency wallpaper (on two walls only, my dear) subsided into the cushioned comfort of her Marble Arch Mews flat and fold me the story of her life.

Well, her golfing life.

Mrs Spearman, be it first known, is or has been Middlesex champion, South- eastern Counties champion, a Worplesdon finalist ("two up, five to play, and beaten on the last green") and an English Closed semi-finalist at Hunstanton the other week.

make a big thing of it,

There are also some who won't insist that she should have been eh?" in the recent Curtis Cup team and will certainly be 131 the

but next one.

That's

story.

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Perhaps most

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another

of

delight and elegance, a stunning ne in the haute couture of golf and the udd belief that playing the game can be fun.

BIG DAY

Enter fume.

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log

-ware

are

war

At first in keeping possession of the ball, living in a changing world of Briwin once Chelsea, the (4) It would also give the Soccer, and changes there must it tootball is to competo be Leaque champions withdrew youngsters Ars-band evidence

football stadiums with the many oinoy en evan there was not a great deal of of how our intere. 1.

behind the streamlined, ments.

Con- But when the Final in Paris sporte arenas in the big

I am kurg that Ai Tom WTL!

televised through the unental dities.

Finney's many friends and fans Eurovision

network many

Above all it would be a big there a more popular Soccer fans were eager to know boost to the game in Bellain player I would like to meet bbm what it was all about.

we had our best sides in direct

relieved to hear that then Since

Manchester competition with the European | Torn had not broken his log na United's sensational start in this clubs.

wan at first feared when he was stanFon competition-ransmber Footban fans would love it. carried off on a streteber during

out the Belgian } After all, over 40,000 bravod a the Newcastle match, They pushed

lumpions Anderlecht by scor- wet night in Manchester to peo ing 12 goals to nil in the two Malt Busby's team crumble the

the roured legs-bas

whole Belgian champions to 10-0 body of Soccer prens in Britado. dofeal

I think if we opened the gates door is now swinging to the Continentals, It could open for more and wider com-

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further imepfus to the pe ilon with European clubs is-

gome. It would help them to stead of playing the closed sta appreciate our point of view; son friendlies

and we their ideas on the same It would bring us so er to gether through sport and It would, I feel sure, lead to more uniform Interpretation of the laws,

Martty Spearman, made up the feur went read the course in Why not a European Super 88 strokes, and beat the blushing Soccer League? Instead of this lot of themTI, "jul dabbing #being open to the Lengue cham- : along."

plon: of each country, it could be thrown open to the top four

English clubs in the Division Analiste.

She

BIG CHALLENGE

From then on progress, hustrund followed

to Sudbury. was sliced down She bagan lo it was a dimeult

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Coffee husband, busy, bustling. He con-

"poor six" | fessed to being important

an Ameri- all she brings to women's golf himself, affered me

bubbling. irrapressible por- can cigarette, found a place for sonality,

that

of pots. The hand.cap 15 all himself in the thicket

вроны, medals. tankards.

from 36 to one. troplites--the

three realise apolls of

success--anci years' tournament

game. look up the Spearman saga.

Now she practises every day. likes competitive goif not be- pause she thinks she can win ("Who, me?") but because of the challenge. She reckons wenten's standards are soaring because of

Axtures. more

greater club interest in the younger act.

I THINK the lady has yet 14 do her greatest things In this Home,

Plus a golfing history so naive it is hardly believable.

that mythical, cartoon figure, the golf widow who embraced the gume in self defence and made a go fort.

For Mrs Spearman

The next stage was the first public appearance on any golf course. One Sunday morning he WBS clue to play four some, took the Indy to Croydon municipal for company and

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It seems that some six years let her see how it was done, and the four as you have guessed, Mr Spearma "Look up"

A fateful ab- golf, as they say. The infection were only three.

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bunker-deep

Rol

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There was a quick tion, much whispering hands.

consulta- behind

Eventually

the low ການ11. handicap 14, said. "But of course) she must play." The Indy, Mrs

was severe. Conversation around senteeism.

into the happy home

rut. Mrs S. WRS close to screaming point, So in self-defence, Mrs S. look action.

The fact that at least four He is frot nu keen to trid The lady explained: "One day Individual owners were prepared

The valuation HEITIN

of the i was unit shopping and popped owner Extr to go to

owners variably, to a store and look ́a half-

The produce. This not only apples, hour lesson. Rather fun. to horms.

man there. afterwards. sald Those breeders who put on something about practice. sinali protective reserves arc "So next I popped up doing the right thing. But in

of a high Regent's Park to see Mr Hold-

right.

five figured for thes Court Martial com aut of Re- freshed shows just how strong the market really is if the pro- De arucle is offered.

Mr Gerald Askew has done the bloodstock industry of the Bri- tish In

a great service by buying Refreshed aguins!

foreign competition.

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He has got half his money back at the first time of asking, and with ordinary luck the maro -instead of proving one of the most expensive of all time as was suggested when he bought her-will netually prove one of the greatest bargains.

HNAPPED UP

Unfortunately,

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breolers put some of their best mares on the market at a time when prices:

appeared to

high.

There

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mares were readily mappe! up by American buyers,

there Now

not enough cholecly-bred top-quality colts

the sale ring coming into suilly the demand,

And the fact that Sir Gordon

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Richards, for example, has been able to purchase only three colla during the whole 50SOT although he has bee per- sistently on the watch for the right article-gives come indica- tion of the shortage,

HANG ON

The real trouble in the past 10 years has been that many breeders, especially the large owner-breedd:s, hive not done enough cuiling of their inferior animals.

For

Far too many studs which will ally release 7 top-quality animals to the Americans will hang on desperately to their incution animals,

It is the inferior staff which should be weeded out at every avauable opportunity.

These breeders who have sold! high-class marea recently would have stood to make almost as much from the sale of one.

from these piores da 1. got for the mare itself. While there are

not enough top quality collas and Allies appearing in the

sale ring to

salady the demand, there is far too much inferior: stuff OTD

If only breeders

would

their good mares and cull their bad ones. I am quite sure they would

not only improve their studs, and make greater profits, but w

would help the British blood-stocic industry in general. A paychological point which many, breeders appear to over Look is the question of reserves.

NOT BO KEENING AA buyte will siep into un "open market... wilingly to bid @gainez: valuations », of ...otiver

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to

"He asked what club i would

what

me

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many cases reserve, order are put „0 yearlings,

only breeders would realise that many buyers automatically like. He gave withdraw fr m bleating when eventually realised was an eight they

vKtསྦྲ ཧR! !li*re are high retron, and will drew. Off I want, would hacking and harpooning uwuy

for an hour. Jolly good fun, quite sure that in the long run the breeder who sells The Indy was once in musical with art reserves is the one who 'comedy, I did not ask the indy's gains the most,

age. But I did ask the fairly

Nerves,

i am

belte trad

As a barometer of the blood- obvious question and she said: stock industry the 1056 #ules can be described as eminently ratis The

ry. -London Express Service). moving the old bod, but you

"I suppose singing and dancing and cavorting round a stage did concentration and hop with

Answers To Sports Quiz

1. Bartra, Perry, Budge,

Kramer.

2. Denis Compton, Stanley Matthews, Archie Moore.

3. Ezzard Charles.

4. Hop. step and jump.

5. Speedway, athletke, cricket,

6. (a) yachting (b) rowing (c)

fencing.

THE

WIENENO

7. German, Norwegian, Ameri-

can. Danish. 8. The

Princess

of Monaco. formerly Grace Kelly, is the sister of sculling champion Jack Kelly,

0. Juan Fangio.

10. Lancashire.

GAMBOLS

YOU'VE BEEN COOKING ALL MORNING

DON'T YOU REMEMBER) WHAT DAY IT IS 2)

THUMP

Such a worth

2 Tobacco ones?

3 Northern Kingdom

I KNOW you'd like her muck

of the more than most

Lady Macbeths who haunt the mixed lounge.

-London Express Service).

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NAMESAKES

INSTRUCTIONS; Fill in the spaces against each of the clues below with a word related to Tj Ufc. The Letters in circles spell out my namie, Who am I?

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Cup

the FA and And we must include the Irish and Scots as well.

In this way we would be in erose contact with the develop

the game on the Continent, We have much to learn from them. They have much to learn from us.

ment

of

CONTINENTAL COACHING And it would be a fine idea it come of our brilliant young players

could be sent over to the Continental rporis centres for improvement courges,

Their eyes would be opened the way the Condnen.ads groom and coach their young players.

by

(1) It would widen the ex- pertence of our young foot- ballers.

Going by air?

then

BE SPECIFIC

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5 Create

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6 Not sir?

7 They give light

8 Oval one?

This and demand

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12 Hoarding

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14 Short this and sides

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Solution on back Page

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CATHAY PACIFIC

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Referees from all countries could come together to attend periodic course to iron out dit- ferences of opinion on such things as (a) obstrucilon, which is ro prevaljent

the Con- linent

(b) our method of shoulder changing; and (c) that big cleavage of opinion as to whether goalkeepers should be charged or not,

OLT

NIGHT FOOTBALL

Already

Soccer ad- ministrators are di cursing A floodili competition; there la talk of Saturday night football-all algna of change in the guner set-up.

Very room the Third Division talk over that chube meet to thorry topic of revising the Football League so that there will be four Divisions.

There must be room in this

for country

lower Soccer' classen. Small towne entitled to League football, pro-

For such a red chap, Tom

is one of the most fearless men in the game, We all hope this injury

la not going to keep him out of the game for any lengh of time.

Did you know that

John Charles, the terror of Fir Division defenders, has a very quikt hobby? Ho likes carpentry and is at present attending a Leeds night chool where he is making his wife a plano stool. Ciupenky or carving defences wide open-it all comes Just as casy to Big Johnl

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