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BOXING NOTES FROM HOME

Cook Still One® Of Leading Heavies

London.

Jeft Dickson can take a punct on the chin. in the shape of a boxing flop, in butter fashion than any other man I know, writes Trevor Wignall in the Daily Ex- press.

He has had a few in London in the last year or so. but the at- tendance at the White City to the George Cook-Obadiah Walker fight was enough to break the heart of a professional cheer- leader.

Yet when he came to shiver be- side me as a gentleman from Italy named Signor Innocente Baiguerra was, breaking all records for run- ring backwards he was still smil- ing.

"It's all in the game." was hals sole comment.

"Considerable money was lost un the tournament, but wisdom after the event now shows that few shows in that week of jubilation produced a profit:

Most of the theatres and cinemas in London were half empty.

To make things worse. for the White Ulty. It was cold enough for Christmus,

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NASTY KICK IN THE POCKET

had our football Many of u3 covercoats on, but what were really necessary at the ringside were 'gas or electric stoves.

It was the chilliness, combined with the tear that trains would be lost, that kept people away,

Nobody could say this time that the prices of admission were too over 30.000 high, for there were Beats at two shillings.

The majority of people who de- pend for their living on keeping others amused or entertained have faken a 'nasty kick in the pocket, but I must confess that, when 1 tock my first glance at the White City I was astonished.

There have been many wild and Inaccurate guesses at the number present, but I have it officially

Llat 8.643 paid for their seats

This means

that more that 9.000 watched the fights.

•George Cook's guarantee was £600, which he has been paid, but when I asked Jeff Dickson what he proposed to do about Obadiah -Walker he said that he would pay him liberal training expenses and also make, him a cash present,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1935.

MISS MORGAN WINS

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GOLF TITLE

Miss Pam Barton Fails

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In Final

(Special Air Mail Service)

London May 31. Miss Wanda Morgan, aged 25, of Rochester and Cobham, won the championship British women's.

here. In the final of 38 holes she defeated Miss Pamela Barton, aged 18. of Royal Mid-Surrey, by 3 and

2.

Miss Morgan has thus won the tile at her recond attempt, the last occasion' being at Portmarnock four years ago, when she was beaten by Miss Erild Wilson.

This is also Mlas Barton's second appearance in the final, but she need have no fear that the cham- pionship will elude her. She has

sooner plenty of time, and later, success is certain to crown her efforts.

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SOUNDER PUTTER Miss Morgan thoroughly de- She was served "Her victory. steadier, though a little shorter in the driving, while her putting was infinitely sounder, She thok no notice of her opponent's long hit- ting: she played for the middle of the course, and allowed Miss Bar- ton to hurl herself at the ball in the attempt to hit it but of sight.

I could not resist the impression that Miss Barton would have made a better fight of it if she had not concluded that irons can do the work of spoons and brassies, and utblicks the work of mashles.

It is not often that the play in the final

of a championship reaches so high, a standard. Miss Morgan completed the first 18 holes in 76, one stroke more than the scratch score, while she did the 18 holes of the second round in 68. Miss Barton's scores were 78 and 69 respectively.

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SAVED BY LONG PUTT The match opened with a re- markable save on the part of Miss Barton, who, after hooking her drive Into the sandhills, reached the edge of the green with her To the surprise of fourth shot. Miss Morgan, who hit two great wooden club shots, and a mashie- niblick pitch to within five yards of the pin, her opponent bolted the

as long as a putt. every inch cricket pitch for a half in 5.

Following this piece of good the fortune. Miss Barton won second hole, where Miss Morgan cut an iron shot into the hills, GENEROUS GESTURE

Miss Barton, however. lost her lead at the next, where she was bunker- "Walker and his manager," he

ed close to the green After two said, "agreed that they would not

halved holes in perfect figures, be entitled to their guaranteed

Miss Barton went ahead again at twenty-nve per cent. of the gate

Oble failed to knock out Cook the sixth, which she won in 4, her within ten rounds, which clause opponent, misjudging the strength, being over the green with a No. 5 was in their contract.

mashie shot.

"My feeling is, however. that "Walker did all that could be ex-

pected of him, even though his stipulation that he would put Cook-away fell down.

"As a consequence I feel it would be unjust if he were too heavily penalised.

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"I intend to give him enough. purely as a gift, to make his visit

to England worth while."

The fight was not a good one. The main thing it revealed "was that Cook an amazing veteran. remains one of the four bes heavyweights in Europe."

Where, at his age. he gets his stamina from is a complete my- stery, but I think it ought to he .stressed that the punch on the point that dropped him for a count of alx in the third round would have kept most men down longer than ten seconds.

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He was much too experienced, for Walker, who has very much to learn before he can be graded with the top noteners.

CHAMPION: RUNNER He will remain exactly where ne is to-day until he is taught to punch with his gloves closed.

Baiguerra made, in my opinion. bila farewell appearance in this country.

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If backing away from an opponent represented all there is

missed. She laughed aloud at her most surprising error.

Miss Morgan lost a great chance up at the of becoming three

arteenth by failing to hole a putt of a yard. Miss Barton, bunkered from a long iron-shot just got out, chipped six feet past the flag and noted the putt for a 5. She won the sixteenth (238 yards) in 3. her brassle shot being only 12 feet from the flag. Miss Morgan, bunkered in front of the green, could do no better than a 4.

UNDER-CLUBBING FAULT Slicing her drive in the rough at the seventeenth, Miss Barton She became two down again. saved the eighteenth (526 yards). where, short with her third shot- a case of under-clubbing of which she had often been guilty through out the round-she played a well- Judged chip shot to within five fees of the flag, and holed the putt for a half in 5.

Miss Morgan's

putt for a 4 shaved the hole. She thus finished the round with a lead of two holes. The Agures for the inward half were:-

Miss Morgan: 3, 4, 4, 5, 3, 5, 4,

4..5-37.

Miss Barton: 3, 5, 5.4.4, 5, 3,

6. 5-39.

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"MISS MORGAN'S FINE FOUR

When the match was resumed Miss Morgan promptly won the arst hole (504 yards) in a superb. Short of the 4 to be three up.

shots. green in two wooden-club she chipped three yards past the holed the putt, But das and making vital mistakes at each of the next-two holes, she lost botn. Bunkered at the side of the green at the second, Mis Morgan played the most glorious chip imaginable. and then spolled everything by missing a putt of two and a half feet. At the next she hit her drive straight into a bunker.

The balance was immediately restored, for Miss Barton threw away the next two holes, a badly cut fron shot at each being bun-

Miss Barton hit kered. The see-saw nature of the game persisted. a long drive, and a mashie-niblick shot close to the pin at the sixth (330 yards), and won the hole in 3. She also won the short seventh in 3, her tee shot being near the pin, while Miss Morgan was over the green.

Miss Morgan turned one up, the figures being:-

Miss Morgan: 4, 5, 5, 3, 5, 4, 4

5, 5--40.

Miss Barton: 5, 4, 4, 4, 6, 3, 3.

1.6, 4-39.

So far the golf had not been of Miss Morgan squared the natch the same high standard as that of at the ninth (428 yards), where the first round. Curiously enough she had great a drive and a Miss Barton committed the same spcon shot over a deep guarding vitat mistake as in the morning at bunker in the face of a hill, In: 429 yards, and she was eight yards the attempt to carry the bunker past the pin with a drive and a with an from Miss Barton pulled. No. 2 iron. She seemed certain to" the hole and square the and was 50 yards short of the win

The figures to the turn match as Miss Morgan was not on green,

with her second shot.. But the were:

Mlag Morgan: 5, 5, 4, 3, 5, 5, 3. unexpected happened. Miss Mor

5, 4-39.

alt gan chipped nicely on, and holed Miss Barton: 5, 4, 5, 3. 5, 4, 3, the putt for a 4, while Miss Barton

5, 5-39.

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took three putts, in the end miss- Each player's score was one ing one of about two feet. Instead stroke over the bogey figure for of being all square, she was two the

outward half. Few men down again. scratch golfers would have done better.

The pendulum swung backwards Indeed, most of them and forwards, Miss Morgan winzi would have been quite satisfied toning the fourteenth (205 yards) in 3 to become two up with four to do as well.

play. Each threw the: fifteenth, the which was halved in 5, at other's head, Miss Morgan cinch- ed the match-5 and 2--with beautiful tee shot at the sixteenth (238 yards), which she won in 3, Miss Barton being short with a

MISS MORGAN TWO UP With a 3 at the tenth, and then two splendid 4's, Miss Morgan. be- came two up. She had won three of the last four holes by means of flawless golf. The eleventh (429 yards) was a particularly well- played hole for Miss Morgan She spoon shot hit a long drive down the gully and then pat, a No. 3 iron shot five yards from the ang Miss Barton, who was short, chipped to within. 18 inches of the pin, but, treating the putt rather carelessly,

perfect shape.

*PETERSEN'S PLANS

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The scores for the last seven holes of the match were

Miss Morgan: 3, 4, 5, 5, 2, 5, ・3-28 Total for 16 holes, 68, Miss Barton: 3, 5, 5, 4, 4, 5, 4--30. Total for 18 holes, 69.

fight at Wembley.

"Paz" plans for the summer are practically set

in boxing he would be the cham-statement, was that young Jack's Walter Neusel in the February plon of the world.

Don McCorkindale did his ut- right hand is now once more in most to give us something worth fooking at, but, except in the nith round; when he was down several times for tine seconds, the Italian was very satened to stay on his Bicycle,

It seems that for twelve months the wrong part of the hand was grayed, and it was left to elr Herbert Barker to discover that the injury was well up on the wrist.

I am afraid Mac is not the fighter he was a couple of years ago, but he is still good enough to. meet the majority in Britain, lev

Pa" Petersen, the father of the British heavywe

champion, recently told me much about nisit was because he suzered from pain that he failed to Enock out

The hurt was quickly put right and the champion is now punch- ng with all h old power

He proposes that Jack shall have fights at Cardin and Swan- sea where there will be gates of over 50,000. and perhaps another in London,

This latter may eay be for a world's championship.

The best bit of new of all was that Petersen's eye 18 healed and strong

That was good hearing

U.S. BASEBALL

Many Games Cancelled

New York June 17 "Bad weather again caused the pastponement of baseball matches in the American League.

However, there was a full pro- gramme of fixtures played in the National championship. In which a double the Boston Braves won header from the Cincinnati Reds.

The New York Giants, leaders of the League, trounced St. Louis Cardinals, scoring fourteen runs

to three.

The only match in the American

·League was that between Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians the latter winning easily.

Results of to-day's matches cabled by Reuter, follow:

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

Cincinnati Roston

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(Meyers scored a home run for the Reds and Wallie Berger hit two home runs for the Braves).

Cincinnati Boston.

Chicago Brooklyn

WOMEN'S TEAM FOR AUSTRALIA

HAPPY VALLEY

GOLF

[Special Air Mall Service)

London. May $1.

Miss Pam Barton (Royal Mid- Surrey), Miss P. Wade (Parkstone). the English charaplon, Mrs. J. B. Walker (Island Malahide) and Mrs. W. Greenlees (Troon have accepted invitations to be members of the British women's touring team visiting Australia this year.

This will be an LG.U. official tour, and the party, under the non- playing captaincy of Mrs. Hodson,,

on the Strathaird on July 12, who will act as manager, leaves

In a third round match of the Parliamentary Handicap tourna ment at Walton Heath yesterday' E. W Salt (15) beat S. Storey (101 by 3 and 2

Second Summer Singles

The following is the draw of the Happy Valley Second Summer Singles of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club,

ist Round

T. D. Paton (8) J. S. Dykes (11) W. Pittendrigh (18), E. J. Edwards (18) "B W. Bradbury (18)

A. C. Sinton (17) E McMahon (19)

5. A. Sleap (14)

-W. A. Stewart (7)

J. Forbes, (12)

EH. Watts (20) W. W. C. Shawan (18)

A.' W. Muir (18)

J. E. Dover (12)

A. M, W. Scott (9)

T. R. Chassells (8)

G. T May (13)

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R. H.

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T J. Price (13)

3 6

3

8 11

2

Pittsburgh Philadelphia

12 22

0

C. Mycock (12)

11

1

D. J. Valentine (11)

E. W. G. Malcolm (11)

(Watkins and Joe Moore scored home runs for the Phillies).

K. S. Robertson (5)

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AMERICAN LEAGUE-

5

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Bastun Cleveland

2 6 1

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Chuck Klein hit two home runs for the Cubs and Phelps scored a home run for the-Dodgers).~~-~

St. Louis New York

(Earl Averill and Campbell scored home runs for the Indians) Rain caused the postponement The matches. of the other ties. 3 9 3 interfered with were: Philadephia

Athletics 19 1 14

v. Detroit Tigers; New York Yankees v. Chicago White St. Louis Sox Washington v.

Koenig and Schumacher scored home runs for the Giants).

Browns

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The following received byes into the second round.

Second Round

W. S. Hillier (8) G. S. Hugh-Jones (11) R. M. Wood (18)

J. W. Pote-Hunt (15)

J. W. Franks (11)

P. Morrison. (8)

W. R. Hillyer (18)

A. H. McBride (16)

G. W. Reeve (15)

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D. S. Robb (4)

H. J. Armstrong (16)

R. C. Webb (15)

H. T. Buxton (18)

D; S. Edward (3)

R. K. Collings (4)

A. McKellar (7)

1. Newton (5)

Tatham (18)

c.

W. J. S. Key (10)

H. H. Mundy (8)

J. Harrop (13) *

The following are the conditions for the above competition:-

(1) Telephone-numbers should where be checked or inserted necessary.

(2) Fanling handicaps have been adjusted.

(9) All matches to be played to anish; strokes after 18th hole as in first round,

(4) First named in each brac- ket will be responsible for fixing date.

(5) Happy Valley Sub-Commit- tre mây: (1) alter any handicap extend during competition, (b) dates fer rounds in case of bad weather:

(6) Winners should enter up résults.

(7) La date cannot be agreed upon mutually, ties must be play- ed on the morning of the last date for each round as follows:-

1st Round to be played on or before 14th July."

2nd Round to be played on or before 28th July.

3rd Round to be played on or before 11th August.

4th Round, to be played on or before 25th August

Semi-final to be played on or before 8th September.

Final to be played on or before 22nd September.

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