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AUSTRALIANS' 1930 CRUICKSHANK WINS!

CRICKET TOUR.

INTERESTING RECORD OF

MEN AND MATCHES.

GOLF PROS. GIVE TINE

EXHIBITION.

WINNER LOWERS BOGEY BY 1.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1931.

FORM OF THE AUSTRALIAN PONIES. SOME NOTES ON THE NEWLY IMPORTED ANIMALS. YESTERDAY'S TRAINING AT HAPPY VALLEY: VALOROUS SHOWS IMPROVED. FORM.'

[BY MORNING DEW."]

There was a disappointingly small

The twenty animals imported this attendance at Fanling yesterday

seasan have made a great impros- afternoon to are an exhibition golfsion on both owners and jockeys mintel between Bobby" Cruick- shank and Wild BUI Mehlhorn, and there is no doubt that the do- mand for this class of pony next the well-known American profes- year will be much bigger.There Presumably this was in larger only two ponies under 11 hands and strangely enough, it is one of mensure due to the fact that many these that is looked upon as the

The best book on cricket and Bricketers I have read for a very long time is "With the 1930 Austra lians," writes Trevor C. Wignall in the Daily Express. The author is Mr. Geoffrey Tebbutt, a young Aussionals. tralian journalist now resident in London, and the volume is publish- ed by Hodder and Stoughton at 58.

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TENNIS COACHING.

THE RIGHT AND WRONG WAY OF TEACHING.

SERVICE WEAKNESS,

He

Two points made by Lord D'Aber- non at the annual meeting of the Before dealing with yesterday's longing to Measte. Mackie and Lawn Tennis Association have training gallops, I shall give somo Graybarn are not so good at the aroused widespread interest. idea to my readers of what the moment, but may improve before pleaded for the professional coaches Mr. Pals to be educated" so that they Australian ponies are shaping-like at the race meeting.

Old Acquaintance is a beautiful shall teach the game properly and Happy Valley,

animal to look at, but I am afraid he also urged English players to I cannot be enthusiastic over hin improve their service. chances at the Annual Meeting With regard to the first point, it Mr. Chan Tin Sion has Woodland is a truism that had coaching is inuch worse than no coaching at Stag, but from what has been seen of this pony, to date, there is net all, and some of our professional mentors are very stereotyped in much chance of his upsetting the

their methods. They do not make favourites.

Of the rest, there appears to be non enough allowance for the personal which is cit, in beautiful lines. This player have been known to retard If a player has a pot pony belong to Mossrs. Proulx and rather than progress by a course of Sling, and hear it is being very coaching, patiently prepared, The Duke of St. stroke which is unorthodox but Sloud gallops regularly but does not effective; it does not necessarily impress.

follow that be, or she, should be advised to drop that stroke or change its production. Lawn ten- nia would be a dall game if every- body played in the same tyle...

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It has already caused a certain people were not able to see the best Australian pony in training none that will unbed any apeciali peculiarition of their pupils and amount of heated comment in Aus. i game for business reasons, and also Its name is Caulfield and bolongs watching, except, perhaps, Kilron. I more than one promising young

tralia, and Mr. Kelly, the manager of the last touring team, has, in particular, takon exception to the statement that Don Bradman was Aloof.

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that there was no title at stake.

Nevertheless despite the absence

of this clement of competition, the game proved to be an excellent and exciting one, and it was of interest

to observe how well the Americans adapted themselves to a totally strange course.

The afternoon turned out to be beautiful-ideal golfing weather.

Sliced His Drive.

Bradman's Change. Actually there is nothing very new in this. Bradman is not what is sometimes called a "mixer," and it was known to everybody that he disliked parties, and that after day's cricket it was his habit to seek his own room and occupy himself with writing. Bradman was never

At the first hole Mehlhorn sliced aloof with me, but he was decidedly shy in the presence of strangers, his drive into some tree but made and quickly sought an opportunity a good recovery, and thale was of leaving any company that did i halved with a par 4. The second not make him feel absolutely com-il was also halved, both men sinking fortable. He changed almost com- their putts for a couple of birdies, pletely during his stay in this country. When I first met him he was extremely reserved and nervous; but the day before he sailed, when I found it necessary to question him on the subject of his rumoured en gagement a luighly delicate mattor -I discovered that he was not only willing to talk, but that he had adopted a new poise that I thought suited him admirably.

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Mare Trifc.

Bradman is only a boy, and it would be a mistake if any one as serted that he lost his head. But he

was not much of a favourite with

some other members of the side. When the list of matches had been completed, and the players were holiday-making, things wore said to ne about him that weree not alto. gether friendly, but when a man sa catches the limelight that he ex- cludes almost every one else it is to he expected that he will lose in favour. If Bradmas made a blun der at all it was in allowing himself to be detached from the remainder of the team on his return to Aus tralia. That, was bound to create bitterness; but one of the thingt that cannot be taken away from him in the certainty that he is one of the greatest cricketers the world has ever known. His latest score, in a Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide was a trifling 238.

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Concoction of Tòa, Mr. Tebbutt has quite a lot to any about Bradman. After men, tioning that only three of the play. era took intoxicants with any re- sularity, he gots on to refer to Bradman's favourite tipple, ten. "Nobody but himself," says Mr. Tebbutt, can brew tea as he likes it, and, accustomed as I am to the weird variety of forms in which Australians, in bush and city, pre. fer tea, I can vouch for the utter truth of the famous youth's state- ment. When I saw him fill his cup third full of milk, add adopth of half an inch or so of boa from the pot, and go on filing the rest of it with hot water, I thought be bad an attack of absentmindedness. Not That is the way he likes it. For politeness sake he drinks it in its usual form when so poured out by ordinary mortals, but the tea that Bradman really likes is that strange, anemic-looking dish that ho makes for himself."

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Salmon and Chicken.

to Mr. "Kangaroo,'

At the mo ment he is doing slow work, but I have heard the pony described and in

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grensed lightning," truth there is ample justification for such a name as he certainly can move. I am not in a position to say whether it can stay well.

Two Good Lookers.

Regarding yesterday's gallops, which readers will find below, the Dunbar representatives shaped very well and particularly good was the performance of Fortune Bay.

Tho match was medal play ".

Messrs. Kong Bros. are the only and the result was a win for Cruick-

A Derby Candidate, shank, his score being 78 to Mehl-people who have two representa- tives and both of them are good horn's 77 (Bogey score 70).

lookers. They have fortunately Valorous is another pony that cecaped a small epidemic of cough wont very well and aiready there that has broken out in the stables. is talk of this candidate winning The chestnut, Moon Star, appears the Derby. All I can say is that the two, but he is a very promising looking pony to be the better Evening Star, a bay pony, is also and for the present is extremely ft. Both are fourteen Whether he can go on improving for quite good. hands.

the next six weeks or eo is difficult Mr. W. T. Stanton has drawn to say but if he is going to win what turns out to be a very promia the Derby he will need to improve ing candidate in Fritz. It is a very much more. Personally I shall not finely cut bay pony of 14 hands attempt to pick a winner for the inch and is being sent slowly over Derby from a field of sixty with long distances at the moment. more than six weeks to go. I have Watch this candidate's progress! a feeling that an outstanding per-

The most compact of the Australian ponies appears to be The Raindrop, belonging to Messrs. Fung and Tang. The animal galloped with an other Australian pony yesterday and bis time will be found below.

At the third, however, Hohlhorn failed to sink a yard pust, and Cruickshank became one up.

The fourth and fifth were halved, but a weak putt by Mehlhorn at the sixth gave Cruickshank the hole.

Mehlhorn was always inclined to slice his drives, and at the eighth gave himself an awkward lie in the thick grass on a bank. However, he made a fine approach shot and the hole was halved,

Uralekshank 2 Up. Cruickshank became two up at the Binth, and the scores then were

Cruickshank :--

4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5=35 Mehlhorn:-

4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 3, 4, 5-37 Cruickshank won the tenth hut lost the eleventh hole. The twelveth hole was halved:

The thirteenth hole proved a dis- astrous one for Cruickshank. After driving into the long grass, he ran his approach shot up against a bunker, and lost the hole strokes to his opponent's 4.

Both Drive Beyond the Green. At the fourteenth both men drove beyond the green and Cruickshank again found himself in the long grass. His next shot did not ex- tricate him from his difficulties, but owing to weak putting by Mehlhorn, he managed to halve the hole.

The fifteenth was halved with a par s, and the sixteenth was won by Cruickshank, who thus became 2 up and 2 to play.

Playing for Safety.

There are cortain basis etatic rules which must be obeyed, but beyond this, a wide degree of lati- able.. tude is permissible, indeed desir

dur professional coaches are a painstaking, body of men, and one feels sure they will not resent Lord D'Abermon's suggestion that they should be "educated" in their own skilled craft.

Example of Americà.

The four

There can be no doubt that Lord D'Albertion was abundantly right in his reference to the poorness of the average English player's service. The standard set by America in former is lurking somewhere. In this respost is very high, much whose "Musketeers" any case if anyone tells you of n "cert" for the Derby, he is either higher than that set by France, possess a really ace winding service. optimistic or else he is only "Lidone ding" you.

But how many of the Americans do possess such a service! finest servers America has pro duced were Maurice McLoughlin, W. T. Tilden, Ray Casey and Johnny Doeg. Crecy was perhaps the fastest of the lot, but he had nothing else in his game to back up that literally untakeable service of his. Doeg might well be taken as a model by all ambitious young lawn tennis players suxions to improve their service; his production repre- sents perfect rythym from the first movement to the fuel follow through after contact between mcket and ball.:

Regarding the gallons of the subs Mr. John's" Wattle, a dun of yesterday, the best performance 14 hands 2 inches, is the biggest was that of Tunney. He did not vers return any startling times, but he pony of the lot and he also much fancied in some quarters. The went about his work like a full-bred pony is being prepared by able griffin and has certainly enhanced the high opinion held of him in hands...

some quarters.

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A Beautiful Animal.

The full list of yesterday's gallops

The Bustard, belonging to Messra.

GRIFFINS. Hall and Shenton, and Cyrano, be-aro given below.

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Limestone mate Little Beaver Lorenzo Hall

Nulli Sccundus

At the seventeenth Mehlhorn pull-Morning Star ed his approach shot into some trees. Cruickshank played for safe- ty and secured the hole with a par 6 to Mohlhorn's 6.

The eighteenth was halved for 5, one over par, both players' putting being unaccountably inaccurate.

The scores for the last 9 holes were:-

Cruickshank-

4, 5, 3, 5, 6, 5, 3, 5, 640

Mchlhorn:-

5, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 8, 5~40

HOME FOOTBALL... HALIFAX BEATEN BY SOUTHPORT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Jan. 13. Playing in the Third Division (Northern Section) of the English League to-day, Southport, on their own ground, best Halifax by five goals to two.

Mr. Tebbutt cau bi very caustic. Regard this: The perisistence with which certain items on monus dogged the Australians, in hotela and at cricket grounds, was remark-

in the eight months they spent away able. The finest delicacy con, con-

from their business; moreover, for stantly repeated, drive a diner to

at least six of them the tour was despair, and the Australians were'

not only a well-paid piece of work heartily glad when salmon went out of season. They were not so for

but decided business advantage tunate with spring chicken-that and a form of advertising which no seemed to be in season all the year money could have bought. But, on round, and the follows wondered the other hand, for the professional whether the supply would ever mon in the team and for those whose cease. There are some strange source of income receives a set-back things about the foods of those from the tour, it is a different mat- islands. One wonders whether theter As far as amateuriam in con- chris will over learn to make ice-corned, the general body of opinion creata or fruit salad, and how the in Australia is that the labourer, roast beef of old England ever be whatevor his walk of life, is worthy came one of its glories. The beef of his hire. Some of the leading in the average botel or restaurant players openly depend upon cricket Ruggested to the Australians out and its appurtenances for a living, from an ancient dairy cow at the and many would undoubtedly lead fag-end of a drought,”

A hand-to-mouth existones were it not for their skill at the game...

Excellent Book.

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Amateurism.

One thing I am glad Mr. Tebbutt

Again I agree. But is not this an has done is to write about the

not my quant realhe Australians" indication that in sport we have

I have very deoldello amateuriam. opinions myself, and have already hear that the Australians would written that they cannot be other rather play in front of an English than profesionals. The 2000 (the crowd than one of their own, but amount paid to the players, which that, I suppose, is because we have: was apart from their pocket-money, not yet cultivated the art of bar- travelling bills, and hotel expenses) racking This book is outspoken, represents more than any one of informative, well-written, and er them would, I think, have earned cellent in every respect, and I 40ontinued at foot of next column, heartily recommend it.

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How few of our English players have a service comparable with that Most of them of Johnny Deeg.

pivot wrongly, and, in the case of a good, many of them, service is merely a prelude to a rally fastend of a match-winning shot.

Now service can be taught, per- haps more effectively than any other stroke in the game, so that Lord wore really D'Abernon's remarks linked together. Our No. 1 racking player, H. W, Austin, would be an incomparably more dangerous play.

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