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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 1961. ··

GOLF'S GRAND SLAM WAS 'IMPOSSIBLE

But America's Bobby Jones laid the bogy!

By FRANK WRIGHT

In all the history of sport there has never been a month quite

like June, 1930.

,

At Lord's, a fellow called Don Bradman was making his first Test appearance there with 254 runs out of Australia's first innings Test total of 729 for six declared. In New York, the German Max Schmeling was winning the world heavy- weight title on a sensational disqualification.

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And so, in that exelting June, Bobby Jones arrived at Hoylaké

AL Wimbledon, 38-year-old wards were unble to keep back much, I can't believe it really Big Bill Tulden was making » The milling crowds and specia- happened."

as the while fors were hit by shots fantusfir cume-back. Helen Wills Moody was moving two men of Iron fought neck majestically towards her fourth and neck. never more than successive singles crown. On single hale apart. Lake

Windermere, Sir Henty Segrave

bronking WIM world water speed record held by American Car Wood.

Already a legend

the

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Caldwell defends title on Oct. 31

By GEORGE WHITING Promoter Jack Solomons, shy violet of the box- ing trade, has confessed after a fortnight of cautious hedging that Belfast's John Caldwell is to defend his European-type world. bantamweight title against ex-chum- pion Alphonse Halimi, of France, at Wembley Pool on October 31.

Further, Mr Solomons ad- mits that this considerable eple Is to be supported by welter- weight chompton Brion Curvis, who will stake his British and No wonder the triple cham-Empire les against Coventry. pice was nervous when he final-based Mick Leshy, an Irish in- ly came to Merion, Fhiledelghin,truder who took out naturalisa- Jon's ended the last round Aller suporB third round, for the U.S. Amstear, last side tion popers Jones led will 212, but as at c the Imprenable Quad-the British. Hoylake Macdonald Bith, lateral. For the first me. seven strokes behind, made a he was unable to sleep at nights dramatic last-round bid. He before a lournament. gained x strokes in 13 holes and at the 18th needed an eagle 2 to tic, but took a par 4.

thousand

dreams."

Policemen had to rescue him from the surging Inos.....

Limes In

my

1:

Two aldes of the Impregnable Quadrilatern! were achieved.

for his Open battle against the with a brilliant burst of 4-4-4 stors. After two for 201 and now waked two The biggest controversy aur professional

urrounds he led by one stroke, hours for his closest rivals to roundeak June's iron shot

But he needn' have the seventeenth, famous as the but in the first four holes of the finish.

Compston blew Read Hole. His ball bounded third round Britain's Archiv worried.

and into a mass of spectators and Compton amazingly wiped out with a heart-breaking 82

draw American Leo Diegel failed dropped on the far edge of the a live-strea deelt to

level. Compston nished with the 16th and finished second on Yet in that glorious month green.

293 with Macdonald Smith. of June, one man commanded

wwword-smashing 64 to lead the sporting Klage

Some argue that if the ball Jones by one stroka HIRE A

with 215 sofi- had not chunky, ColUKTUK -

been stopped in this to 214. spoken American lawyer from way, it would have gone into Allanta, Georgia, by the name the road, costing Joncs the hole and the match. As it was, the two of Robert Tyre Jones.

inen finished the round with 75 Bobby June, chubby apiece and

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to the 10th came cheeked young man with smooth where 10,000 people ringed the light hour ami inevitable plus green to see Jones win by fours, was already a legendary stymie. figure. At 28, he had won the US Open Champtonship three times, the British Open twice,

the American Amateur four Unus.

Police rescue

on id

1

'Lily pad' shot

The fourth round brought more fantastle golf, AI E second hole, a towering drive by Jones landed on the head of a steward, Louneed off some 50 yards Into a bunker on the far complete gide

of the 14th green. Im-

Incredibly, Jonty pliched but

beautifully 10 the green and surka 20 1. put

for a birdie three.

Jones went the first quarter of the Now he had begun his assouit pregnable Quadrilateral on the Everest of the golfing only ofter world with

a bid

nerve

seven 18-bolu to nchleye mulches, four of them what Americans had fanelfully racking affairs, and one of 30 called

'The Impregnable holes, Quadrilateral", better known lo- day as the Grand Slam,

It involved winning the Bri- 1ish Open und Amateur Cham- plumships and the US. Open and Amateur In the Barnt year fent reasonably regarded

One beyond human prowess.

certain: it thing seemed

any man could triumph, it would be Bobby Jones,

Spectators hit

ᏗᎦ

After leading his country tu 10-2 victory in the Walker Cup. Jones returned in May to the St Andrews home of golf at where, in 1921, as an impetuous 19-year-uld, he had torn up his card in the third round of the Open and declared thot be never wanted to see the course again.

Here Jones faced the first side of the Impregnable Quadrilateral the British Amateur, which he had yel to win for the first time. It Was to prove the most im

drama-packed portant and tournament of his life.

The Wednesday brought the eagerly-awaited meeting

of

Jones, U.S. Open Champion, and Cyril Tolley, dr.fending British Amateur champion. Here came sensations galore as ste-

Australia's terms for England Rugby tourists

Sydney, Sept. 25.

The Australian Hugby League Board of Control decided in- animously today not to vary

Aus the terms for a visit to tralia by England next year.

These ure 50 per cent of the gross gaten.

The board announced its de- cision with "deep-regret,"

Bug-

It has not received any gestion from England for shorter tour, nor considered Auch a plan, the announcement stated. China Mail Special.

Sports Diary

TODAY

nowis

Celeny Ladies' matches at PRC, KBGC, KFC. KDC, 548 pri.

TENNIA

Colony Open, Men's Hard Court championships at Chinese flecreation club, 6.30 pm.

Lac ramptonship matches, 630

pin

BUCKEY

2nd Ply(styje; MachensÍN "" Army "C" (191 845 am.

BWIMMING

sights for Colony Championships at Victoria Park Pil, #30 pin.

Diocesan Poys Bejool Inter house championships, Victoria Park Pool 2 pin.

TOMORROW

KWIMMING Finals for Calony Championships

Park Pool, 030 pril

Post

At Victoria Recreation Club chain. plonships at YMCA pool. 7 pat.

Hockey

Jat pivision RAF Y ATRY "A" (Hai Tok) 0.49 pm: KCC "A" ዝር MAT (REN) 1.40 pro: Nay, Dharat *A” v Magaenata (SKP) 0.4ŋ pin.

Lagter Longuer ni George's v RGV C (ROV), 4:30 pm.

Men's Colony Hard Court nhan.

st Chine Mecreation

8:30 pm. LRC Toumament,

430 pm.

It was his happiest moment slace breaking through to win the US. Open in 1923. A squad of biz Beottish police- men had to rescue him from the surging fans; the crowds became so thick that the band was unable to play a welcome to the conquering bero.

Said Junex: There has been nothing in golf I worked 40

MADDOCKS BY Four. D. Jones

DRY UP-

CLAMBAKE

FEEL

FRAGILE

1 BID YOU GREETINGS. STAGE MANAGER

FERD'NAND

In a daze

Junes suited

home on the

Europa to a ticker-tape parade down Broadway and went dir- ectly on to Minneapolis for the U.S. Open. Once again, he was the central figure dramatic Incident.

in unother

This time the sensation came

two strokes and he holed for a birdle 4.

Lucky to live

So Jones had won his fourth US. Open, and his final stroke here was an unforgettable 40 ft uphill put which plopped in the eighteenth hole,

The champion was lucky lo be alive for the U.S. Amateur which followed months later.

One day, lightning struck the fairway Iray than D yards

from where he stood and he felt a Ingle through spikes. Another bolt struck just as close as he ran for the clubhouse,

Hils

in the second round at the ninth hole where Jones half-topped aspoon shot which sent the ball

At the club, lightning hit the sklimming across a lake to the green, The kaw-fying bail chimney stack and bricks fell struck water 20 yards short of all around him, ripping his shirt

the bank, skipped like afat down to the waist and scrotch

The

Yet he made fow errors at Merion, winning the qualifying medal in 142 and never being down to his opponents in match play. He had won four major its a four months. Grand Slam was complete.

There was Just one prote sensational event In thi greatest year of golf-The announcement that King Gulf was abdlesting at the age of 28. Never before had champion retired at so early an age.

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Fun was gone

а

But then Jones was the com- piele amateur. He played for the joy of the game and now

to get even with

Run-of-mill

Meanwhile, Dublin bortt and self-managed Mick Leahy will be making history if he takes those British and Em- pire welterweight titles af southpaw Curvis,

Irishnen, naturalised or other wise, are not normally un- emiraged to interfere In our private championship fights, Nor are boxers who cluny them- selves the privilege of payi Ex-plumber Caldwell, out 25 per cent, to a manageri will be recalled, pamanered

Leahy, 26, hegan his pugillstle Champlonsly outh world

carcer as an frish, Army Junkor with a splendid show of a champion gression

Jankeeper

reached the ARA semi-finals, performed adequate Halim here inst May. when the hitherto

ly among Midlands professionals, Immaculato Frenchman Anished with campaigned for a year in Aus- bloody left eye and an urgent tralia, and anally hit the ite desire to hold after being up-trail by outpointing the hitherto ended in the last round.

unbeaten Jimmy McGral.

against

of

Thirty minutes later, winner and loser were sharing a shower

other and assuring cach further calculated savagery pro- viding the price was right. That fellcitous state of affairs 1a5 now arrived the only dis- ference being that the llon's portion this time goes to Cald. well.

Rate-for-the-job could work

-(London Express Serutre).

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all the fun seemed to have been out if not far state of £20,000 Expose the parasite! 11 In that year of the Grand-which even a plumber would Slam, golf had become A grimmer business thon ever before. He was tired of the

Ddmlt is not unreasonable.

constant tournament pressure Making history. But the elgiith hole showed stone, and popped out on to the ing his shoulder. A direct hit on and nerve-racking suspense,

that Bobby Jones was only mortal after all. Without once being in bunker, he some- how took a seven and went on to the ninth hole in a daze. He felt the championship slip- ping from his grasp and said: "I will play that hole over a

GREETINGS.

DON'T HANG ON

TO THAT WORD

BOY IT

BUGS ME

3.1491

THE FLUTTERS

WORMWOOD SCRUBS?

BUMEY, WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT GOIN' ›

INSIDE, AGNES?

turt 30 yards short of green,

I pen this almost with my tongue in my teeth; during the years I have been here, I have read, seen, heart, some most peculiar matters in con- nection with local Association Football, that I have ceased to wander what's next.

Since the the hand would have killed him.

attaining world le So Robert Tyre Jones Jun.,

eminence, beetle-browed Cald- A few weeks later, a runaway lawyer, gentleman and sports-cold-eyed killer" label in run- well has possibly jeopardised his It became famous as the "ily car tore down a hill and mount-

man, went out in a blaze of pad" shot, many people report- the curb. Only a warning glory after hitting the galingof-the-mill performances against ing that the ball hit a lily pad shoul by a pedestrian anved heavens ds no other man has

In Saturday's China a Frenchman and a Spaniard In and jumped out. In fact the Jones from

being crushed done before or since. ball hit only water, That hop. against a wall. With seconds to skip and a Jump saved Jones spare, he jumped to safety,

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MRS. F.

BRICK BRADFORD

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1ẨN THE SUPERVISOR'S

HE MUST HAVE 24 DELIBERATELY LOCKED

HIMSELF IN ABOUT

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Handsome Hullmi, similarly destring

"warm-up" in France, has been told by pro- motor Salomons not to imperii. his good looks any later than September 30.

CHESS

By LEONARD BARDEN

Arthur Bisguler of New York programmes "computers when he is not playing chess. In this position (Black, to move), he programmed a forced win. Can you see how ?

London Express Service.

Mail, K read from "T'M`MAC" that a well known Chinese BETTING man refused a handsome wager on a list of Bames for key positions on the sub- committee of the HKFA.

a comment was: "I would neither give nor take odds on such

Bilst

not when the horses are as good as past the post?" Loverley, ver, very sporting I must say.

But if you know so much about this, Mac, why, ✪ why, do you not expose this Pornsite and Reple? In the santc Mother as Lesile Channing, who is now in Australia, did some years back.

I should have thought that the lih in connection with Chur Balas Youths Team would make any' person pack up for even anything connected with local Socper. I myself have overheard ex-players boast that when they played for so and so "We were always paid AFTER the game, win lose", and when I have tried le explain to them "Why do you not report the matter." I lave received the usual Oriental zhrug. I pray that does not trail along to the Army, Navy, BAF or Clab.

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