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GOLF NOTES.'

[BY RHH.)

GOAT RACING.

A NEW "SPORT."

HELD TO BE ILLEGAL IN AUSTRALIA.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, MAY 15th, 1928.

ENGLISH CRICKET

PROSPECTS.

VISITORS FROM WEST INDIES.

THE BIG THREE OF THE

COUNTIES. "

[BY H. J. HENLEY: ]

LAWN TENNIS IN ENGLAND.

MISS NUTHALL AT HER BEST.

TWO BRITISH HOPES.

[BY STANLEY N. DOUST.]

Miss Betty Nuthall, who is yet only 10 years of age, achieved the greatest muccess of her career when she defeated Mrs. Watson in the Brial of the women's singles in the Felixstowe open lawn tennis tour

GARDENING BY ELECTRICITY.

CURRENT USED AS A FERTILISER.

FOUR CROPS A YEAR,

DOUAI Gardening with electricity in stead of with chemical fertiliser is the latest form of intensive culture adopted in France.

BULL FIGHTING IN SPAIN. FORTUNE TELLER'S GOOD

GUESS.

BEING "OUSTED BY BRITISH SPORT.

Visitors from Spain report that

FORETOLD HER FINE WITHIN 35%.

the day of the Spanish bull-ring is PERNICIOUS "PROPHESYING.". long past its meridian, and my that, if not this generation, prob- ably the next will speak of bull- fighting as an anachronism.

Hme. Jests, aged 49, of Railway-

was charged at Marylebone with approach, Shepherd's Bush, W.,

professing to tell fortunea.

On both the old and new courses ut Fanling the holes had been moved to the dressed parts of the

A curious new form of sport, green some time before last Satur day. The result was really rather brotting races" for goats has refreshing. For the first few holes received a set back in the Common. ane hit the putts just about half | wealth of Australia. An unsym way to the pin, and then, with pathetic magistrate declared it. the determination of a strong man, iilegal and a higher court upheld crashed the next one almast off the him:-. green. After one got the strength of the green, things wore really pretty easy, and there was very little fear of running out of being distance. The dressing has brought Central Police Court on February ly well against English touring ranked, would be placed next to all kinds of vegetables and fruit up a thick bed of gress, so thick sth, faed. Edward Robert Marie, aides of recent years need not be Mini Helen "Wills" sa America's grow to three times their usual size Row resulted ia the animala baying I attend at a house in Queeä Anne-

that, though the greeas are still bard, they were slow to pitch on as well as for the putting.

After the very fast greens over the winter, these new conditions naturally, came as rather a surprise.

Judge Edwards, says the Sydney Rulletin, in the Quarter Sessions Appeal Court, upheld the decision of Mr. Longfield, S.M., who, at the

City

organiser of the Coose, Carnival, for having committed a breach of the Dog and Goat Act.

In addition to the county cham.nament by 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 pionship there will be present to

Tesis which will last throughout the summer are boing carried out

youth of Spain in British sports, The increasing interest of the such as tennis and football, has had an appreciable infnenco"upon the public's attitude towards the old ever, another, and a more subtle, reason for this suggested distante for the bull-ring. I am told that the breeding of bulls in Spain his

give an added flavour to this season / Aging to Miss. Nuthall but it gives | officially at the Agricultural School national pastime. There is, how-i that the woman: used to carry on

of 1098 the visit of the West Indian team.

That the men of sunnier islanda than our own have done exceeding

This result is not only encour the greatest hope to Great Britain in the forthcoming Wightosan Cup at Wagnonville near here for the enlightenment of the Government match against America in June. A simple electrical apparatus is Mrs Watson on the previous day had defened Miss Byal, who, if used which, it is claimed, makes

Mr. Melville, prosecuting, said business at the Arches, Shepherd's Bush, but gave that up. An áp- »- pointment was made with her to

which we have had to play through series" of goat races, the animals character. Yet there is reason to close struggle proves Miss Nuthall, crops can be produced from the bull with a single award-thrust, and cause the police would be after her

The prosecution arose out of a being harnessed to light giga or racing sulkies. It was contended

carts was expressly forbidden.

taken too seriously.

Those touring teams have been unofficial and rather of a picnic believe that the West Indians that attractive combinaton of black and white-will prove themselves worthy

In quarter the normal time. In other words, subject to favourable conditions, bumper temperature tame land four times a year..

Not only is the electric fertiliser most efficient in stimulating the

cotton. If the tests prove convine- ing it is proposed to apply the important industrial products as

method for the intensification of the cotton crops in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

a longer growth of horn.."

This is a sinistar matter for the street, W., to tell the fortunes of matador-the Spanish darling of two police-women. She told one of the gods-who has to dispatch the them that he went to "houses be

the change has so reduced his margin of safety that the valour if she did it in her own home. and enthusiasm of the aspirant She also said she was under the wine.

On the other band one had no cause that the use of goats for drawing to have been given Test match fix. Mrs. Watson-a” refreshing change growth of foodstuffs but also of such mitadors is declared to be on the impression that if she gave her

to grumble, for they were playing perfectly true. The greens in fact were very little different from those on a large number of good inland

couses at home: it was the sudden.

ness of the change which made them remarkable, not the conditions of the greens themselves.

The piece of ground which forms the second part of the dog-legged 11th, and which runs from the bank across the fairway to the green, is I suppose about the most unsatis factory bit of turf on the course. What causes, the difference in tax-

I do not know.

by the Act, Marie was convicted tures on our grounds for the first

a nominal fine with corts time in cricket's history, was imposed.

and

Marie appealed against the con- viction. In support of the appeal. Mr. W. S. Ges contended that the offence complained of did not come within the meaning of the mischief contemplated by the Act, and that the use of the words "for the purposes of draught" in the heading of the section, the Legislature con- templated the drawing of heavy vehicles. He added that the popu- lar meaning of the word "cart" did not apply to the racing gig.

His Honour held that the word cart was wide enough to in- clude the vehicles used in goat racing. He dismissed the appeal and allowed £3/3/ costs against the appeliant. вес

ture, compared with the rest of the course, of this fairway and green It is good to see that the committee are really taking this in band, May they succeed. At present this part of the 11th fair way, has a thick top dressing of Aand. It is annoying to perfectly struck second send up a cloud of sand and stop dead in a yard, instead of running on to the green, but it is all for our ultimate good.

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REMARKABLE BLACK

ATHLETES.

SOME RECENT ACHIEVE- MENTS.

[Br F. A. M. WESTER The Well-known Athletic Expert.)

Is the Negro to be the athlete of the future! One is almost tempted to answer "Yes"..

In this the committee often fail to gain their just roward. On A golf course, which is open from one year's end to another, the com- mittee is always finding it necessary to do evil that good may come. For the evil, which emphasises the weaknesses of players, they are blamed, as is the way always to wards committees, those curiously impersonal bodies made up of well-

Thirty-four years ago that great known individuals. But once the all-round sportsman C. B. Fry good for which they have laboured created a world's long jump record has been achieved it ministers to the of gaft. ein. Between 1901, and strength and not the weakness of 1919 the Irishman P. J. O'Connor the player. Then one hears of how and an American, A. L. Gutterson, "I hit a peach of a second, ab- failed only by a fraction of an solutely ruled on the pin, which inch to reach 25ft, could not have finished anywhero Since 1921 three American else but alongside the hole if it Negroes and an Haitiian native had tried." Never then does one have beaten 25ft., but only one give a thought to the careful pre-white man, Robert Legendre, of the paration which allows one to feel comparative certainty of result ones the shot has been well and truly ztruck...

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The last West Indies team came here in 1924, and when once the chill winds of an early summer cruelly cold-so cold that it was pathetic to see the coloured men shiver in the northern blast as they awaited their innings had departed, they played very interesting cricket in deed.

A new generation has arisen in the meantime. Those of us who stay at home know the character of West Indian cricket only from hearsay. But there is much reasoa to believe that the side from over seas will show a knowledge of how to hit the ball and of how to field it especially of how to field it.

The Counties,

Now let us turn to the prospects

of our counties.

Every county secretary seems to be bubbling with optimism-which, of course, is the spirit with which

to achiera success. Even those whose clubs were financially embar- rassed by last season's dreadful weather are full of confidence of a

torn in the financial tido.

Most people who know the dif- ference between a bat and a banjo will remember that Lancashire have headed the counties two years in succession. And there is nothing better than championship success to increase a membership and to at tract a crowd...

Fecond best player.

Miss Nuthall beat Mrs. Watson by the narrowest margin, but the u spite of her youth, to be a very great match player.

She believes in aggression-like

these women players aim to hit the to some of our men players. Both ball not only hard but to tho ex- treme limits of the court.

True, in the first two sets Miss Nuthall was apt to overdo the st best to make winners off almost every ball that came her way. She Cook too much risk. But that i too fethod and I, for one, would rather this young English woman go out for her shots than attempt to play for safety.

After losing the first set by the found her longth and nocura Watson in the second art and took it at the same score.

She drove much too hard for Mrs.

£12,000 TO RESTORE

ANTWERP TOWER.

"BRUIKELA.

About £12,000 is to be spent on re-

storing the tower of Notre Dame Cathedral, Antwerp, and the work, will take two years First the staircase leading from the second gallery to the crown, with its 97 steps, 8 pillara, 4 pinnacles and supporting arches, is to be de Notre Dame Cathedral, the build- molished and reconstructed.

I was shown, writes a Daily Mail· correspondent, the complete install- Lion by M. Tendart, director of the Wagnonville Agricultural School, which ranks second in France after the famous school At Grignon. Two large plots of land situated side by side have been set aside for test. One is fertilised with manure and chemical fertiliser and the other by the electric fertiliser. The principle of the electric fertiliser is simple. At one end of the field, at a pointing of which was commenced in 1332 Good Overhead Service.

facing approximately the Magnetic and completed in the beginning of In the final set Mrs Watson North, a small instrument is buried the 17th century, has a spire 402ft. played exceptionally well for a little more than a foot deep. Its high, the top of which may be period, during which she went to role is to collect some of the telluric reached by climbing 713 stairs. It 4-2 She was within a point of currents which circulate through was originally intended that there should be two towers of equal 52 on her own service when she the earth's crust. :-

height, but the southern one never got beyond about 138ft. delivered a double fault.

In the eighth gaine of the final set the most critical of the match both women had the advantage points times. To Mrs Watson it mesat 6-3 lead if she won it, and to Miss Nuthall the winning of that game meant levelling the score at all.

The struggle for this importent game was intense. The younger player saved that game point three times by wonderful drives without the semblance of their being flukes. She won the ninth game, which gave her the lead for the first time in

the match,

Lancashire last season won only matches out of 28, but the

Mrs Watson thoroughly deserved weather was often against all

the tenth game, because of the place chance of a definite result, and ments she mids. But in the even when their opponents scored last two games for the match largely the team were always Miss Nuthall outdrove and out- credingly difficult to best.

mancouvred her opponent, and thus won a victory that must place ber fact that they were defeated only once proves this.

in the Wightman Cup team. There is no doubt that in Mrs. Wtsson nucleus of a team to win back that cup for Britain

The

It is anticipated that the team will be composed largely on the 1924 American Olympic team, has lines of last season. Hallows and achieved such a feat. And recently Ernest Tyldesley are still of an age de. Hart Hubbard, a diminutive when no falling off of form a American Negro, who is thirty-four likely; but, as is the case is most years of age, accomplished the counties, young players of Lanca incredible long jump of 28fshire are still alow to develop. This ein. Hubbard is Iso- A-first-

applies particularly to the bowling class hurdler, and capable of beating 10 seconds for 100 yards on But there is still time for Sibble

and Idden to live up to earlier the flat.

Promise.

The other courses are coming more and more into prominence as it Begins to get hotter. To judge from the stately emptiness of Fan- ling, and 'n starting list which only extends to half an hour, one had

Two of the best. sprinters Eng pictured Deep Water Bay us some land has ever had are HF.-V thing like the rush hour at an Edward, of the West Indies, and anderground booking office: "there. E. London, of British Guiana, might even be a notice on each tee The latter is also an exceptionally

Right figures save time." to Bay

fine high jumper.. As a matter of fact, last Sunday at least, all this was far from the care, and there were not very maar players. This does not mean that the course was by any means empty, but it was not unpleasantly crowd ed, which was really a little surpris ing considering its size. It seemed to be playing pretty well too, and the greens, though rather patchy, were true and not too terrifyingly last. All of which, with a cool breeze off the ses added, seems to show that one need look no further for a com- paratively idle and very pleasant day.

In Africa I have seen barefooted natives run at such a speed and jump to such a height and distance that I hesitate to give even ap proximate figures; and I have seen men of the Central African tribes run amazingly long distances with- out showing the slightest distress.

A championship meeting open to Africans or African-born white men is to be held two years hence, and I think there will some sur prises. Meantime the African as an athlete is only just beginning to develop.

America has made full use of her coloured talent, but the only colour ed man I ever remember seeing at an Olympiad as a representative of England was H. F. V. Edward at Antwerp.

Happy Valley, too, is looking quite its best just at present, though of course it is rather warm there. The turf there has always been good and the recent rain bas just Despite the extraordinary ability rotived the worn, patches," and "put of the Scandinavian javelin the whole place in excellent condi- | throwers, I can well imagine that tion. The new metor mower, il one we might produce some Zulu, train- may say so without being misundered under the eye of the tribal spear stood, is working like a Trojan, and master, who would make even the its daily mileage must be quite con present record of 218ft 7 in. of

turf siderable. As a result, the

Lindstrom of Sweden, look is firm and close and lies are excel-quité insignificant.**

lent and there is no reason for

ever missing & shot here. The course is too fat and there is too

Good News From Notts... Bright news comes from the Not tingham secretary, whose county lost the championship by less than a point in 1997, J

AW. Carr, cheeriest of leaders, will again be captain and may be expected to make more rana than was the case last year, when his batting average was well below 20. The gods were not kind to him in. 4 summer of frowning akits

Larwood and Lilley, both hand capped by injuries last season, are, 1 am officially informed, it and well and are expected to take their regular places in the side."""

In addition George Gun and Payton-splendid veterans--are des- cribed as being "as fit as ever," and all of the other established players will be available.

Among the youngsters of most promise sre mentioned Shipston, G, Y. Guma, Coopley, and Keeton -all batsmen and Voce and Robin son, who are left-handed bowlera

Altogether Notts are strong favourites for the championship,

Yorkabire finished third among the counties last year, and it said much for their fame that such a position was considered unworthy of them.

Yet the fact that they drew as many as 18 of their 39. matches sug gested that the creeping paralysis o!“ safely first !!" was affecting their cricket.

and Miss Nuthall we have the

During the match Miss Nuthall used the overhead service entirely. During the first two sets she served

number of double faults, but in the long third set she never deliver- ed a double fault, and indeed served a number of outright winners. Hers is a good service, beautifully delivered and with any amount of speed-Daily Mail.

DAVIS CUP TENNIS. NEW ZEALAND'S WIN.

[YANOUGH REUTER'S 'AQKECT.]

LISBON, May 13th New Zealand has eliminated Portugal from the Davis Cup Com- petition.

The tie was played here, and New Zealand won by four matches to one.

OPEN CHAMPION BEATEN.

BOOMER WINS FROM HAGEN.

(TEBOUGH ANUTER'S AGENCY.)

PARIS, May 13th.

In a 38-hole exhibition match over the St Cloud course to-day, Aubrey Boomer, the Et. Cloud pro- fessional, defasted Walter Hagen, the British Open Champion, by three up and two to play.

TENNIS-PLAYING ARMIES. ENGLAND LEADS WITH A TOTAL OF 250,000. England has 250,000 teams play mach room for it ever to become be very far distant when the Cham frightfully exciting in itself, bat,pionship goes to him. He is play-

None the less, all promises well. This is according to Internation- such as it is, it is at present about ing in the American Championship especially now that the troublesome al Lawn Tennis Association figures

in June, and is full of hope, but as good as it could be.

somehow more than anything else question of "Who shall be cap is quoted by the Berlin Verniche

tain 1 has been decided. Still, Zeilung

ing the rather depressing habit by a British player forced to choose a lender who is s

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Group Germany 85,000;

SAL.80,000 : "Anitralia: 60,000. Group IL New Zealand 25,640 Canada:£1,100; South Africa 19,250.

The Open Championship has one would like to see our own shance more the county have been England thus has the largest again gone to an American, follow rionship

League of tennis players in the The Open Championship is over, stranger to first-class cricket. But L.TA, The Egures for the other which it has developed of late years, This only goes to show what a but it is still a busy time for the the new skipper, W. Worsley is countries arezzo magnificent goller Walter Hagen home golfer, and a number of already getting into touch with his is. With rounds of 75, 73, 72, 79, foreign ones too. Yesterday the men at indoor practice, emne played in that order over a links Ladies Championship started at The secretary writes: Bhoder like Sandwich, he deserves the Hunstanton, and it will be interest is still in the best of form. Championship is ever man did. To ing to see if the British ladies, pre- I would not surprise anyone to see be beaten by: 18 and 17 a day or sumably without the help of Miss him once again score 1,000 runs and two before an event like this would Wethered or Misa Leitch, can get 100 wickets. All the other completely wreck many a man's manage to take the Championship players are fitted

During April nearly a hundred aserte not so Hagen, who quite from Mile. Simone de la Chaume, candidly admitted that his trouncing and her, compatriota. Then on the JongYorkakire players will

Compston had done him a lot 21st is the Amateur Championship undergo an examination under the It is interesting to find that of good. Compston is clearly be at Prestwick, with a very open field een blus eye of George Hirst good proportion of the colts to be coming more and more s power in and a good chanes for one of the Nothing to deed has been left untried are left-handed bowlers The land as his figures 75, 144 73, younger players to match fame, if done to bring forward and to en Yorkshire have for years, been sx- ceedingly rich-in their left-handora" 78 go to show, and the date cannot only, the occasion is not too much courage the youth of the county,

for him,

(Continued at foot of next colmes.) Daily Mail. Oontinued on next Column)

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Group IIIItaly 15,000; Czecho Slovakis 19,700; Belgium 12,000; Holland 8,750; Denmark 8,900.- British United Press Mee

Secret Transformer.

"...

Some of the

At the opposite, or southern, ex-; tremity of the field, is a trans former, the secret of which is jealously guarded, also embedded of immense ase in increasing crops in the soil at the foot of a pylon such as cotton. soms 20ft, high, which is surmount vegetables produced during tests in ed by a fringe of metal prongs Normandy have given extraordin- directed southwards Beneath the try results as have also tests soil connecting the northern and carried out in Germany and in southern extremities of the field Norway. runs a buried wire.

"The apparatus is cheap to com- "We obtain a current varying struct-it costs, all told, only from 6 to 9 volts," said M. Tendart, little more than 10 guineas and it and we can light a lamp with it. can be erected anyafiere in a couple Bat its most important application of days. When the summer ends 1 is to fruit trees, vegetables and shall have prepared a detailed re- vines, though later on it may prove port on its working for the use of

"be Ministry of Agriculture. (Continued on next Columa).

visitors a charm worth a penny or two she was frea to tell their fortunes.

To Police Sergeant Mabel Fear- son she said; "You will meet a dark man who will Anance you in

business, and in six months you will be worth quite a lot of money. You will come into a large sata."

The mischievous part of her state- mens was that she told the eer- geant that her husband was truer than she that there was a fair

woman who visited her who would cause a lot of mischief; that sho might expect three children, two sons and a daughter; that she would take up with a particularly dark man and turn her back on her husband for a time, and that she kept her husband, only because she was a born actress

Very Vicious,

Mr. Hay Halkett, the magistrate, said that was very vicious, as was also a reference to a man named

Mr. Melville said that to another policewoman Mme. Jesta foretold the death of her brother's wife. Her charges were be for a reading by hand and cards and another bs. for a reading by crystal.

Jim coming again into her life,

When Mr. Hay Halkett said she

it was stated that the woman had would be fined £7, with £3 35. costs,

foretold the amount within 31.

Mr. Hay Halkett: This is very amusing and seems to show that there is something in her arti

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