1935-08-03 — Page 10

BUSSON BEATS WHITCOMBE

Professionals At Malden

(Special Air Mall Service)

Loridon, July 18. J. J. Busson, at the Pannal Club, Harrogate, one of the new mem- bers of the British Ryder Cup team, won the invitation profes- stonal tournament at Malden yes- terday. In the final or eighteen holes be beat R. A. Whitcombe, of Parkstone, Dorset, at the twentieth hole.

Aged twenty-four. Busson's the British Match-play Champion. Two down with four holes to play. he put up a magnificent fight, his figures being 4. 3, 3. 4. He won two of the holes to square the match, and then won at the twen- tleth with a perfect 3. It was d courageous effort against odds.

great

Twice in the early part of the match Busson pitched dead, once from a bunker, and once from the rough, to save himself. He took the lead at the arth, where he put a long iron shot two feet from the tiole for a 3. However, losing the next two holes, he was one down at the turn. The scores were:

Busson: 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 5, 3, 4, 4. equals 34.

Whitcombe: 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4. 3. 3. 4. equals 34.

was over the green on Busson be- came two up at the fifth. where Cox, cutting his drive, hit a tree in an attempt to reach the green. The next four holes were halved in the par figures, and with a score of 34 turned two up, Cox be- ing 36. The figures were:-

Busson 4. 3. 4. 4. 4. 4. 3. 4. 4 equals 34.

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Cox: 4. 4. 4, 4, 5, 4, 3. 4. 4. equals 36.

Busson became three up as the eleventh, where Cox completely fluffed the simplest or chip shots from just off the green. It was now or never for Cox. Making supreme effort, he won three out of the next four holes in 3, 3, 3, and squated the match. At the short twelfth Busson Look three puts for the first and only time, and at the thirteenth Cox pitched dead from a bunker.

The decisive hole was the long sixteenth, where Cox was in the rough, and could not reach the green in two shots.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, AUGUST

TWO S. AFRICAN

CENTURIES

Mitchell And Wade Trounce Notts

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, July 18. To miss a catch against "the South Africans is the sure and certain way to perdition this sum-'

E. LANGS AT. PLAY

A Company's Success

Keen swimming was witnessed in the Inter Company Half Mile Team race held yesterday after

Teams. of noon at Shamshuipo. stx per company would count

"A" company won easily by

3, 1935.

RECREIO RINKS TO CLASH

International Teams Announced

(By "JACK-HIGH"), The draw for the semi-final open rink bowls competition was held yesterday and resulted in the

Recreio teams clashing. Though it may be said that on present form C."G. Silva's four may be alightly the better of the two rinks yet Alves and his men

GUTIERRES 'SHIELD

TEAMS NOMINATED The following teams have been selected by the sub-committee to represent the five nation's who had entered in the international com-

SCOTLAND petition for the Guttierrez Shield:

P. T. Farrell (No. 11, J. Shepherd (No. 1, J. C. Brown (No. 3, A. M. Holland (skip).

Reserves: R. Duncan and A. Macfarlane. The other names of

HOME CRICKET

Keeton Scores An Unfinished 184

London, August. 2.

At Nottingham Notts beat Leicester by an innings and 37

190 Voce (5 for 93): 53) and runs Leicester 176 (Larwood 3 far

Notts 403 for 5 declared (Keeton 184 not out).

At Taunton, Middlesex beat Somerset by nine wickets. Somer- set 117 (Sims 6 for 41) and 234

255 (Hendren 114, Wellard & for 91) and 97 for 1. Reuter

mer, and the felding mistake virtue of their having filled the can be relied upon to give them a players sent in were: J. Russell (Owen Smith & for 12): Middlesex made at the beginning of Mit-2nd, 3rd and 4th positions. chell's Innings on Saturday even- ing has had the direst consequences for Notts here to-day.

Mitchell set such a bonfire of runs alight that 496 have been Afri- scored already the South

tour, cans' highest figure of the with Mitchell and Wade both cen tury-makers, and 442 hit morning.

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ance

Results were:-- 1st-Pte. Butterworth 2nd.-Pte: Hulme 3rd.-Pte. Taylor 4th.-h/Cpl. Mason

ENGLAND

good run for the right to enter the and J. C. S. Fender. Anal. "B" Co.

In the other game. A. M. Hol- "A" Co.

land's four should account for the "A" Co.K.C.C.'s four with Hyde-Lay as

their skip.

"A" CO.

"A" Company thus won with a. cotal of 21 points. "B" Company were second; "DS" Company, third: EQ. Wing, fourth; and "C" Com- pany, fifth.

Three great partnerships, each of them exceeding 100 runs, bore witness during the day to the com- Reaching the green with a drive plete impotence of the Notts' bowl-Knowles, run out and 2 spoon. Bussen won the ing. Bruce Mitchell had a noble Larwood, b Bell hole in 4. The seventeenth

was part in the first two of them, and Voce, not out

B 2, 1-b 2. n-b 3 halved in 4, and at they eighteenth before these were ended the South Cox's approach shot had a lucky Africans had taken the lead for k'ck from the side of a bunker' to the loss of only five wickets-and then the Afth wicket had fallen only a he hole-side. Busson was

run previously.

left with a putt of eight feet for a half in 3 and the match. He holed the putt without hesitation. The respective scores for the in-

ward half were:-

Busson: 4, 4. 4. 4, 3, 5, 4. 4. 3.

equals 35..

34.

Cox: 4. 5. 3. 3. 3 4. 5. 4, 3. equais

Totals:

Busson, 69; Cox. 70: KENYON QUTPLAYED

Whitcombe became two up at the fine tenth, where he played a spoon shot to the green, Busson being bunkered. The position was unchanged until the fifteenth, where Bussory after being over the green with his second shot. holed a putt of nine feet to win the, hole in 4.. He squared at the sixteenth, where he hit two great wooden-club shots to the green, and holed a put of eight yards for an eagle 3. Putting beauti-pleted, the course fully, and with great confidence. strokes below he holed another long putt for a 3 at the seventeenth to square the match.

The last hole was halved in 4, and at the nineteenth Busson, in attempting to loft a stymie, was

wond

Total

SOUTH AFRICANS

A. J. Bell. d Voce

A. D. Nourse, c Lilley, b Knowles H. F. Wade, not out EL Dalton, e Lilley, b Staples F. J Williams. b Staples A. B. Langton, not out

B21, 1-b 16: 2, n-b 5

Total (7 wkts.)

Seldom can the two Notts des B.. Mitchell, e Lilley, b Harris... troyers. Larwood and Voce, have 1 J. Siedle, c Gunn, b Vace... been so thoroughly mastered. ItK. G. Viljoen, e Lilley, b Lar- must be stated in their mitigation that they were considerably handi capped from the outset by the ap- pearance of a yawning chasm at one of the bowling ends, the South Afrlean attack having dug it un- wittingly in the course of their long labours on Saturday. Never- In the other semi-final R. A.theless, the attack before lunch Whitcombe bear E. W. H. Kenyon, betrayed no discouragement. There of West Lanes, by 3 and 1. Apart was considerable menace in both from two smail mistakes, Whit-Larwood and Voce urt the ad- combe gave no chance. He com- verse conditions became too much

in 67. seven the bogey score. The first was halved in a birdie 3. each player holing a good-length put. At the third, where With-through the slips more than once combe hooked a mashle shot wide of the green and took a 5, Kenyon became one up for the first and

within a hat-breadth of knock-only time in the match. ing in the opponent's ball. This was a half in S. The end came at the short second, where Whitcombe was over the green with his tee shot, and after pitching six feet from the hole was half-stymied. Busson won the hole in 3 for the match. The scores for the in- ward half were:-

Busson: 5, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, equals 33.

Wh! combe: 4, 4, 3, 4, 3. 5. 4.

4, equals 34.

Whitcombe promptly squared at e next, where he holed a putt of Ave yards for a birdle 3. Winning e firth in 4, where Kenyon pulled his second shot behind a bunker, Whitcombe took definite command of the game. He turned one up with a score of 32, Kenyon being

ne shot more."

for them.

.~. MITCHELL'S CHANCES Mitchell edged Larwood Fiskily

but it was a straight and lovely drive for four that brought him

his arst hundred when his super- ly blended defence and attack had lasted 85 minutes.

On and on went the partner ship: by one o'clock the South Africans were 153" for two. Then something untoward happened. A swinging delivery from Voce, who alone retained his menace, struck Nourse, and the batsman dropped

Nourse batted on with a bruised shoulder, and at once he got the Faced with a dead stymie at the single which completed his 1,000 tenth, Kenyon became swa down, runs for the season-the third in but he got a hole back at the short the side to gain the distinction. I twelfth, where Whitcombe, miss- was pathetic to note the anxious Totals: Busson. 67; Whitcombe. ing the green with his tee shot, silence of the crowd when Nourse took a 4. Still one down with was hurt-the Trent Bridge cup 18 three to play, Kenyon had the already full to overflowing. The more interesting match of misfortune to be stymied at the The semi-final "round was that be-sixteenth, which he lost to a. 4. tween Busson and W. J. Cox, the The match came to an end at the

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THE SEMI-FINAL ROUND

Just en lunch-time Nourse ex- perienced a further misfortune: he was caught behind the wicket off seventeenth. where the otherwise innocuous Knowles two youngest members of the dog-legged

attempting out of when he was within three of his Ryder Cup team. Busson won an Kenyon, In

took a 5 to Whit-150. But he had shown a welcome exciting and hard-fought game by bound: and a hole. He deserved success be- cambe's 3. The scores for the last return to the form during his two

hours' stay. ne holes were:- cause of his greater accuracy, both in driving and the shots up to the green Cox played one or two loose shots and paid the penalty in each instance.

Whitcombe: 4, 4. 4. 4. 3. 5. 4 3, 4, equals 35.

Kenyon: 5, 4, 3, 5, 3, 4, 5, 5. 4. quais 38.

Totals: Whitcombe, 67: Kenyon,

Busson took the lead at the second hole, where his opponent' 71.

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Lunch was taken at 169 for four. Afterwards the pitch fairly blos somed with runs. Mitchell had. long ago passed into three £gures

his 100 took 3hr. 25min-and he and his captain put on 142 at 75 an hour before he was another of Lilley's" victims of Harris Mit- chell had batted Ave hours for bla second century of the season, and he hit 16 4's.

WADE'S HUNDRED

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The Notts total was beaten as soon as Dalton joined Wade, who was already in sight of his third century. At tea he was 78 out of 317 for Bvc, and of the 78 that were knocked up "in.45 minutes after tea-shades of the attack

that concerned the Australians" a year agol-Wade hit the runs he needed.

The scoring was now merciles. At 411 the third three-figure stand was in the books, and the South African policy was obviously to reach as rapidly as possible the security. Imperilled when Balaskas found himself obliged to retire trom the match through a mishap caused while he fielded on Satur day.

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Merrily Dalton ran along, and he, too, looked sure of a century, until at 425, when he was 77, he gave Lilley his fourth catch. Dal- ton had hit a 5 and ten 4's. Wade lost Williams at 474, and it was good to hear the generous applause when he flogged his 150th run off the wearied bowlers. Just before the close.

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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Keeton, e Wade, b Crisp Harris, e Siedle, b Bell Walker, t Balaskas, b Bell

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Staples (A) Bell

Gunn, b Crisp ...

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G. F. H. Heané, c Mitchell,

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Scotland. England,

T. Armstrong (No. 1). H. Beer (No. 2). A. W. Grimmitt (No. 3), B. W. Bradbury (skip)

.Reserves: C. Summons and W. Portugal, E. Hollands. The other names of India, Philippines, and Malaya en-players sent. in were: W. M.Atkins, terea for the Gutierrez" Interna-E. G. Post, G: Moss. F. Nolan, P. tional Shield, and the notable ab-E. Knight and S. Eccleshall. sentees this year are Australia, Wales and Switzerland.

The draw for this game will be made at a later date.

RINK COMPETITION

SEMI-FINAL

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The following Semi-anal in the Rink Competition matches have been drawn to be played on August

8 18 or before that date:-

J. E. Noronha, C. E. Marques, F. C. G. da Silva 9. M. da Silva, 1 (skip) v. L. J. Silva, L J. Xavier. 47 F. V. V. Ribeiro, H. A. Alves (skip). то be played an Kowloon 77 Bowling Green Club.

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P. T. Farrell, 'R. Duncan, J. C. 5 Brown, A. M. Holland (skip) v. 44 J. WM Brown, R. C. Craig, E. C.

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PORTUGAL

J. Noronha (No. 1), H. A. Alves (No. 2. F. X. M.'da Silva (No. 3 C. G. Silva '(skip).

Reserves: F. V. V. Ribeiro and A. S. Gomes. The other names of players sent in were: L. 3. Silva, L. F. Xavier, H. Rozario and A. A. Remedios.

INDIA

E el Arcull (No. 1), A. M. Omar (No. 2), D. Rumjahn (No. 3), U. M. Omar (skip).

Reserve: K. M. Omar, the only other name sent in.

PHILIPPINES

F. Delgado (No. 1), E. Castro (No. 2), Dr. Fernanda No. 3), R. Basa (skip).

MALAYA

M. R. Abbas (No. 1. A. M. Wahab (No. 2), M. Y. Ada (No. 3). A 'R. Daliah (skip)

Other nations, Australia, Wales, [Switzerland and also entered for the competition but they had to

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Bruce Mitchell, the Transvaal.all- rounder, made the highest scor of the tour after Surrey had been dismissed for 183 runs. He hit up 195, beating the previous best of 164 made by him in the Second Test match and by I. J. Stede against Oxford University.

E. A. Rowan, who has now made' five centuries, contributed 171 runs to the South Africans total of 572

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