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NEW HANDICAPPING – SCHEME- CRITICIZED.

BY J. FRANCIS MARKKS.]

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1977, 1925

In the following actiele on the new handicapping scheme at Home, con

the low total score. Yet no player can reasonably be expected to do much splendid putting, regularly, and das allowance should be made for this in considering his "handicap," "Any excess. at one-putts over three or four should be ignored. This has been very con- clusively proved to me in my handicap ping work of the last few years, and the evidence is available, as we keep all

DIVING AS A SPORT.

"WHERE WOMEN ARE HANDICAPPED.

To residents of Hongkong, a Colony which possesses so many fine swimmers and divers of both sexes, and where this health giving aquatic sport is so promin ene a feature of hot-season activity, the

FOOD.tributed to the Daily Telegraph by cards. For some years past our cards following article, by Home writer,

WE have just been advised

that the INDIAN・ ・ GOVERNMENT.

bare given a Contract for

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noted writer on golf, many points are touched upon which will be of interest to golfers in Hongkong:-

Before committing oneself to a com plete approval of so important s/schemo as that devised by the Golf Unions Joint Advisory Committee, one must be satisfied of the truth of all the prin ciples laid down, and of the correct. neas of the various inferences, assump tions, and calculations; also that there are no important omissions. On a very caraful examination: I find, to my dis appointment, that I cannot support the

bave had a putt column, and it has should make a general appeal:- proved rapat useful.

At swimming women are mors or less Corresponding Handicaps-My first cut-classed by men in speed and stamina. criticism is that it is not correct to For example, over 100 yards the fastest. excluda players in Category 1 (those in woman is about 20 yards slower than the receipt of three strokes or less) from fastest man, and the disparity rapidly in- the operation of this part of the scheme.cases with distance. At Channel swim- I gave often seen it proved, by demon ming no woman has succeeded in holding. stration that a a man, at eren a scratch out for 13 bours-14-hours 36 minutes is or plus man, from a very cosy course the feminine record-or got within sight

of victory. cannot play to handicap on a very dif cult course, the discrepancy occasionally there is not so much to choose between In the sister apart of diving, however, being several strokes.

Under new and the sexes. IND more careful bandicapping at their home club they may show to better advantages chiefly in his superior strength, which Ladeed, man's advantage, such as it is, away, but even then I cannot belleve enables him to preserve gecater rigidity that if, coming from a 66 scratch course of hody while in the air, and also gives to an 80 course, they will not need him a pull in certain dives calling for

to be Supplie♬ to Hospitals entire scheme in its present form. The stroke allowance for the 14 strokes differ great muscular, power...

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following are a few of the points on which, I think, further consideration is called for:-

ence in the courser gives them nothing.

putts!

Yet the scheme.

UNFAIR TO LOCAL MEN,

In pluck there is nothing in it, women facing the same high dives as men, but the latter have slightly better nervous control, and are less liable to momentary, but, in competitive diving, fatal, hesita tion or lack of concentration.

Women

Despite feminine aptitude, divers of the first class are comparatively few. Lack of facilities for practice under the best conditions is the reason.

Nevertheless, the sport has plenty of women enthusiasts. They have their own association and are found as members f swimming clubs, while the Amateur Swimming Association promotes a wo men's diving championship-holder, Miss Belle White

Their stronghold, however, 'is the Amateur Diving. Association (founded 1801), which ban that great sportsman, Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, Bart; for president, while its vice-presidents include the Duchess of Westminster, Lady Champion de Crespigny, and Lady Cun Life Owen

Grades of Courses-It is proposed to Then it arms certain to me that very classify golf courses into five grades fine players, for example, the amateur This is Eloquent Testimony of playing length. I would have help champion of any year, if visiting a:66

ed us to an opinion of this proposed course, will find no difficulty in beat grading if well-known courses had been ing the local category 1 men on handi- to the Purity and Excellence quoted to exemplify Grades A, B, C, cap. If they condescend to play for D. and E. I do not know Grads E prizes, will they not, bar accidents, sweep court-ie, one where the ball has no the board! This would be unfair to the This Food Unsurpassed run-unless it bo badly-drained clay local men and contrary to the reason course in mid winter. Such a course is and intention of handicapping, which then either water-logged or is a mudhean, is, I take it, to try and place all players, fer Infants and Invalide. for serious golf unplayable, and ass of varied degrees of skill, on a nes basis for handicapping useless. Yet inequality with each other either at bome the drier months when the club com or away from home..-". petitions are held, there is plenty of My next, and most important, criticism ran. So I am curious to know where is of the method adopted in calculating the Advisory Committee found their corresponding handicaps for players of OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE. Grade E cours-length of min, mil handicap upwards (untegory, 3 and If only for the reason that it will be). It is assumed that a handicap is impossible to arrange in advance for a given to a player on the balance of his windless test day, I am afraid that que, on his long game only. This is strokes after deducting thirty-six putts,

The A.D.A. has 67 women members (ex tions of grade will be matters of opin- ion rather than of fact, and candidly clearly a faulty assumption. A handicap clusive of junior members), among whom think it may be impossible satisfactorily is allotted partly on play up to the may be specially mentioned Miss Belle to carry out this proposal. Sympathe the putting green. The standard scratch diving, and Miss V M. Newman, high putting green and partly on play upon White, Miss E. Armstrong, bath plain tie grading would be worse than ay score is an assumed performance, but a

plain diving, and Miss M. Hudson, spring pathetic handicapping Apart from the player's score is an actual performance, board diving. inherent difficulty of grading a course and his bandicap is based upon its re- To the Olympic Games, 1991, when as proposed, the principle of it may not fation to the total of the assumed scratch swimming and diving events for women b: acceptable for business reqsons. The figures, which total includes thirty-six were first included, Miss White was thinil Finance Committee of a club might not

in high plain diving, while in 1920 Miss Welcome the official appraisal of their course as Grade D-in run, or Grade E,

Now many a man, perhaps with the Armstrong was second in the same event. Revenue from entrance fees, subscrip

help of good chip shots which standard Last year, however, our represenatives tions, and green fees might fall offscratch is not credited with, is "plus" were unplaced.

on his putting score, se, he takes less

Still, this is not to be wondered at, för, The professional also might be affected than thirty-six pütte Were it not for compared with their rivals, our diver It is a delicate subject from this point this fine work on the greens, his handi (of both sexes) are heavily handicapped

cap would be lengir than it is. Wat is said that in the whole country Playing Length-A query here is as all know middle-aged men with a 18 of Olympic Games standard, and that there is not a single metre spring board In the House of Commons on August man. A definition is given of a scratch 18 or 20 were it not that they are good As regards high plain diving from firm

to what is meant by "ordinary scratch handicap (not beginners) who would be there is only one 1-metre board. 4th M. Crawfurd (L, Walthamtow,, W.) asked the Under-ficcretary for the Home man, but the additional term "ordinary patters. What is not so generally recoghoards, we have no indoor and very few Department, as representing the First is then used. The players I have in mindaiself is that most men who have single outdoor 10-metre stages," apart from those Commissioner of Works, whether he was think, be depended on to drive a straight their putting score than in their long Ponds, Blackpool, and Torquay,

aa ordinary scratch men can scarcely, I gure handicaps are relatively better in at the Highgate (Parliament Hill Fields) aware that the memorial, recently erect. od near Hyde Park Corner, to the officer ball which will carry 100 yards from the game score. A 8an, for instance, many

Our rivals, especially our American and men of the Machine Gun Corps who toc and then run 40 yards, without wind have very likely earned his handicap by rivals who almost swept the diving boards Teel in the Great War, bears the inscrip to help them a little. This is what the scores which included only thirty-three at the last Games, are very much better

Committee calculate their ordinary puts: If so. he is, as stated above, 8 off in these respecta,

24 tion, Saul hath slain his thousands but; David his tons of thousands," and whe-scratch man can do with the present handicap as regards his long-game We are handicapped.in another direc- ther he was prepared to take steps to have ball on fat ground. On our eleventh Therefore to calculate his correspond- tion. Ideally the diver should go through this inscription replaced by one more inuirway the ground rises to a little ing handicap for a longer, and mora; the same training as the professional keeping with the spirit in. which these higher level at 189 yards distant from difficult course from his long game acrobat We have no facilities for such. men fought and died.

the toeing ground. In calm weather this figures only the committee should take training, but America, at least, bas, and Mr. G. Locker-Lampson said the design slope or ridge is not often carried except him as 8 not as 5. If he takes thirty-nes them

the memorial referred to was sub-by long-hitting plus men. mitted by the Memorial Committee of the Machine Gun Corps, and-" was ap- proved by the First Commissioner of the lay. The memorial included a figure of David, and the inscription was a biblical quotation intended to draw attention so this fact, and was therefore not one to which the First Commissioner "could take exception. A

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WAR MEMORIAL TEXT.

PROTEST IN THE COMMONS.

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Mr. Crawfurd: Are we to assume that it is the opinion of the First Com misioner or of the Government that are ference to the tale of slaughter is 17 adequate tribute to heroism

Captain Waterhouse (C., Leicester, S.): Has this any, reference to any political person who exists today (Laughter)

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald (Lab Soc, Aberavon); May I ask whether the maiter is completely closed?

Mr. Q. Locker-Lampson: The design

in the war should contain reference to the amount of slaughter

of view,

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A SLIGHT ERROR

four putts he is 7. Good putting is not The chief essentials are youth-sup- usual with beginners; they have not yet pleness is apt to be lost after 25-pluck, acquired "touch." Men who are taking nerve (which' are not quite the same By the way, in their directions for up the game and put in cards for their thing), and practice. measuring lengths of holes, the com first handicap of ten record forty putts mittee appear to have fallen into or mare. This again' shows the fallacy They instruct that the of assuming that a golf handicap may slight error." measurement should be from 6ft in safely be considered as relating only to front of the back of the tee, Taking the long game.

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collapse":"The examination has revealed some insight into the methods of the later Huge Stinnes His credits were very widely aprond. He had them in many foreign land. Not only did he deal with It may well be made plain that any and all

all countries neutral or ex the German banking world is not taking enemy, in one hemisphere or another, the trouble of carefully liquidating the mads no difference to him but ho desit Stinnes trust, out of any consideration i also with as many firms as possible in for the firm, or name, or methods of each mantry. He never borrowed much Stinnra. It has been opposed to its money in any one place or from any one

small. The secret lay in the general

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teo to mean tëcing-ground, I would jIf Leam, correct the advisory com point out that this soems to conflict with mittco have here passed a serious mis the Rules of Golf, which give a player take made by the actual authors of the [SY BELLIE WALLACE, THE, COMÉDIERNE ] the option of going back two club scheme, and their corresponding handi lengths. Definition 4

cap tables will need revision. These Mau, is a. laughing animal and healthy Handicapping-Tho rules given for tables range from a course of 58 standard laughter is a necessity of life. The fool handicapping are in themselves excellent scratch score to one of 60. They do not, and the juster are the unofficial doctors so far as they go, as in the sub-division provide for players below 4 handicap of mankind. of a club's list of players into four For a criticism let us take the man. True comedians are rare They are methods from the first, and were it not | firm, but he had credita "with almost categories or classes. But I hoped to If he is rated 4 on a 66 scratch course, born, but never made, and they are in for the consequences involved, it might be | every country sad important, firm. La tha read that the commiter had recognised he is to be allotted 6 to tackle an“ 30 the real sense of the word artiste, for said to welcome this proof of their in... proces of doing so he evolved a certain that all golf scores for bandicapping course; only two strukes extra handicap their work is of a definitely creative kiadi juriousness to the economic conditions of technique. Bin credits formed a sort of purposes should be divided into two allowed him for the extra difficulties which must express itself in comle charie. Germany. It is hardly considered dehat. financial whirlpool with which-if the parte (1) shots, (2) putts. The "shots" attaching to an increase of fourteen erisation,

able to-day whether the trust, of the type mixed metaphor be sdmissible—he was was approved by the Memorial Com would include chip approaches I long strokes in the scratch score, long game |**** Comic" effects are almost entirely built up by Stinnes is desirable at all, ¦ continuously juggling. He acted on mich mittee in the first place. It was then ago came to the conslesion that the basis Now if, as I suspect, his putting worn the result of gesture." Atmosphere" is His plan, if he had a definite plan, was the same system in Germany," and set wubmitted to the Firat Commissioner of of intelligent handicapping of a club at home is 35 at most, his long game created by the artist's personality, com- to involve as many progeasca vortically-up relations with even quite small firms. the day, and it was approved by him member must be the same as that for is 5 at home, possibly 6. What chance bined with a first-class knowledge, of his and horizontally as possible, and his The examination has shown, for example, Mr. Crawfurd 3 Ls it really the opinion computing the Bogey (of sow standard has be on the 80 course at 6 handicap own technique, Then, by the magic weans method was only possible in thoroughly that the actual direct interest of deck of the Government or of any First Com scratch score) of the course. It should If, on the other hand, he is rated 4 of a back-cloth, a little mak up, a feeble unhealthy economic conditions such as bank in the liquidation is surprisingly missioner that a memorial to the dead be known how many shota he, too, takes on an 80 course, and goes to play on a song, and a few dzaco steph the artist were provided by the

up to the greens and how many putte, 166-course, the tables give him 4 there comedian, holds the audience in the hollow

Inflation For instance, on

In Germany to-day, all the best opinion 78 scratch scorn where he should, I maintain, be able of his hand. Be pa

to play to scratch or better. What His aim is to provide that mental res against the vertical trust. It is found chance have the local 4 men against him?laxation which is so nemary to the experience, to which Stinnes has been the table, though, should they visit him dispels loneliness and promotes a friendly everything, from the cost and iron in the He will play them level according to weary after the turmoil of the day. He important contributor, that the trust which seeks to produce and control at his home elab, he will give them feeling in the audience, for laughter is earth to the bolt crosshead of the machine, strokes 1

social affair. Sometimes, perhaps unis an impossibility. It neglects the human Before putting my views into print I consciously, he corrects men's manners Is the hon. member aware that a quote, A Lion on a states was modified last year as Mr. "Fire," a good putter, would be export players and experienced com fase of appearing ridiculous is a

have discussed them earufully with both and brings about social reform, for the factor, and human capacity for know- ledge is limited. It was pointed out to Result of the intervention of the First thus shown as minus 8 in his long game, mittoo men: Were golf handicapping of vellous deterrent to vanity and wrong Stinnes trust was not symptomatic, be moto-day that the collapso of the Commissioner of Worka Would it not but plus 3 in his putting, hence his national importance just now Mr. Hald vading And the Audiend go home he possible to get some other quotation. Mr.Twenty-Four, a beginner, minus from the life of David more in keeping 20 in his long game and minus 4 in his Como doubt appoint a Royal with lighter hearts and clearer heads, the vertical tract a Stinnes under Into the

stood it can hardly be said to axial almo with the sacrifice of the men who are patting, hence his 24

I hope, persunds the Earl of Balfour to The public are, on the whole, clean

where in Germany. mxumemorated by the monument 1 - So I am sorry that club committees, preside. He would be peculiarly appro- minded; but, it is a sad fact that during

Mr. Barr (Lab. Boc, Motherwell) nak are not advised to sak for putts to be priato as chairman, for are we not told whether the quotation was from the recorded, also any holes in ons shot, or that, it was his taking up the game which Old Testament or from the New Could any holed-out approaches When I in roll started the boom in golf which & more appropriate quotation be got quire to a very good card, I commonly has ended in the formation of unions From two New Testament t

And that the Rumber of one puts (I and brought these problems of handicap No reply was given

have known of ten) largely accounts for ping into being.

Mr Locker-Lampson: The difficulty couran

as that really this inscription is in order

to indicate to the public that the statue Mr. "Standard Scratch"

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is a statue of David. If you do away

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be incomprehensible to the public.

Mr. Hudson (Lab-Soc., Huddersfield):

Mr. Twenty-Four' may

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with the inscription the statue would Mr. ““Fiva', may take

Commission to settle it all He would, their time has not been wartad,

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the last few years there has been a grow, be car

ing appreciation of decadent. humour. Sometimes the public have a type humour foisted upon them which welcoma, but in Las long run itu. who set the standard.

The death of Hugo Stinnes, Bentor, coincid roughly with the stabilleation of the vast His firm had been years in dose relation with the stadter and National Ban that house- the very plain WAY! whither the meth

little by the

but only

remarked:

was himself

to adapt biensoft