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PROMOTION BATTLE

RESUMED

Keen Struggles Ahead

Looks as though Sheffield Unit-

ed have come among the "heads" for a tilt at the title. Well, the United will be able to show their mettle th's week. They're at Tottenham, after both have been involved in replayed cup-ties in mid-week. What will the harvest be?

I detect a

spot of detensive trouble in the Hotspur camp. Goals are coming too cheaply to opposing sides, That's not pro-

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GOLF AND GOLFERS

R. H. Wethered's Record: Britain's Best Post-War Amateur

BROKERS ANXIOUS

Suspension Of Bond Market

Shanghai, Feb. 4. Anxiety is felt by brokers_of the China. Merchante Stock Ex

London, Jan. 16. erved in the middle, where Me- Hectic days, folks! And now Clelland. Danskin and McGrath we've to get back to the bread-operate. The pivot supplies the

London, Jan. 14. diffident. self-conscious, imaginashange over the suspension of the and-butter of League football defence part: the wing-halfs the british golf journal published a

In the early spring of 1923 aive, and unassertiva that he pever unrket, the general apprehension writes a correspondent,

Treats purveying. Meanwhile it doesn't ook a task beyond their powers P. T. Jones arm-in-arca, with be-liness of, say, his Oxford contemthe Exchange but to then. Tue bis upponents, howeverting that the Exchange will not photograph of R, H. Wathered and humble, with the cavalier lord--open for some time thereby en to get Southampton down"

tailing a Park

great loss not only to J low the following caption-"Two porary, Cyril Tolley. team's

The Hampshire dour defenders will be championship," writes a corres

great golfers who have never won Wethered always approaches a apprehension was further enhanc subjected to hot pressure.

match with the feeling that hu by the fact that although_busi pondent. A few weeks after the will probably be beaten, but that ess had been suspended for a I think we may also be hearing date of publication Wethered beat tee will try to give of his best. Firew days, oficial announcement to from the Forest during the second Robert Harris in the dust of the seems to be quite unaware that his hot effect was only issued by the halt proceedings. Their cool, un-

Amateur Championship at Deal best is good enough to beat most xchange yesterday, ruffled football is bound to leave and Jones won the American Open people. If he were an aggressive

The reason for the temporary Its mark in the campaign.

Championship at Inwood

golfer like Tolley, or quietly conclosure of the market, it was off- Jones kept on winning major dent like Holderness or Forest go

RT.cially stated, was due to the in- to Swansea with a championships" until his great year Jones, there is no saying how much "estigation being carried on by reasonable chance and, if don't win. they will probably do Amateur and Open Championships, he is genuinely his own most severs the alleged speculations and mani- they in 1830, when, after winning the nors successful he might be. But the Government appointees into the next best thing.

of Britain and America, ha retired critic, acutely conscious of his own pulations Until further orders from competitive goll. Wethered, weaknesses on the links, and quite from the Ministry of Finance, the major championship, sod yet his nughshod over ty contrast, has not won another the last man in the world to ride Exchange will remain closed." record is probably greater

an opponent. If that of any other British amateur 3' and 's he is.so apologetic, so than he does murder his adversary with golfer of the post-war ora

honestly surprised at his own vir- tue, that his match-play success is, a veritable paradox.

motion stuff even allowing that the Londoners are a hefty-scor- ing lot themselves

There is every reason for She- Helders to hope for reward for

their visit. At Bramall Lane or recent weeks has been a tighten- ing up process. Full back play is rounder than for some time; the forwards are certainly doing their stuff. With centre-for- ward like Eph Dodds around. "out" can happen. The youth Huddersfeld let go Is an the crest at the moment.

I fancy the the visitors are in for a share.

NUT EASY

con-

Since Leicester City put un such a brave show in the cup-tie with Brentford it will be fidently expected they can collect the points at the expense of Nor- wich City.

song.

We've got to go careful here, The Canaries are in full Moving like that's out

RIVAL UNITEDS

With Barnsley teams you can

never tell. The Oakwe boys rose to it last week, bolding the strong going Birmingham in a game of quick-fire scoring. "Something similar at Burnley? I shouldn't be His latest success in the Oxford at all surprised. and Ernie Hine are going, great competition for the

Tommy Waring and Cambridge Golling Society's President's guns. Ted Ashton has taken or Putter not only shows that at & new lease, and on the other his birthday was un the third wing we find the ex-Blackpool day of the year he is far from witiger, Thomas, in one of his being a spent force, but also "moods." Frank Gallacher, the focus attention on his record of Scot from Hamilton Academicals achievement, which is unmatched adorns the Inside-right

for consistency over the bust 15

berth.

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Pity the defence is not as spand as some Barnsley defences remember, Still, the alde is cap- able of a win at Burnley.

ALWAYS SOMETHING

here.

A spot of cup success for Fulham is all to the good." Helps to keep enthusiasm high. Same can be said of Plymouth Argyle, whose cup win at Stockport was, in my view, one of the best performances of the day. There's no holding Sammy Black these days-unless Hindson and Warburton can do it. Fulham may squeeze through.

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A GREAT IRON PLAYER So much for Wethered the inn. flis methods are no less interest ing. For long he has been it notoriously uncertain driver, hav the brokers yesterday that the

ng been so ahased by prodigious market might not resume

until hooks from the tee that he has been after all the old issues had been reduced to driving with his spoun replaced by the new and even a cleak. And yet he won task for funding is not expected bonds. The "A ST. ANDREWS TRAGEDY

the long-driving championship a Was that record might have Troon in 1923 with an average for months. For the settlement of to be completed for at least three been bad Wethered won the Open three drives of over 266 yards transactions done prior to the Championship at St. Andrews in That was in, the days of "old hic suspension of business, an arbitra- 1921 instead of tieing with Jock kory," but he is now a convert to tion committee is expected to be It is evident that West Ham are in is idle to speculate; but if ever his driving in last year's competi- both parties and to supervise the Lutchison and losing the replay the whippy steel shaft, with which formed to fix prices acceptable to not carrying the luck, nor the flair for promotion-seeking

a British amateur deserved to be tion for the President's Putter was settlement. football. ranked with John Ball and Harold as powerful and accurate as is this rumoured scheme

Strong opposition to There was a time a few weeks back Hilton, to say nothing of B. Tiron play has always been.

Was raised 1.1 organisation when I thought the Hammers Jones, as having, won both the to win something or might be coming away with a burst. Open Championship and the Ama the most accurate iron player in clienta-"N.C.D.N."

Our own Jack M'Lean may be who had sold short for their yesterday by a group of brokera other. Strong tackling haifa. Always something comes in the eur Championship, brisk, breezy forwards. The Fli-way. This week it was a replayed player is Razer Henry Wethered.teur or professional, who hate the that Britain, but there is no one, ama berts. must go wardly. But I cup-tle with Luton.

But for a most unfortunate in-ball with an iron dub better than think they will win.

One of the

Mackpool, as visitors to Upton the third round he would, caseris who can put the ball nearer the young man who belleves in com- sident on the fourteenth green in Wethered, and certainly no one friend); "Daddy dear, Henry is a tew away points Park, can make things warm for paribus, have won the Champion-pin from unpromising and earned by lowly Hull City was Conway. Chalkley and Walker. A hip, for there he knocked his ball compromising places. Whether he taken on the Leicester ground. doar visiting defence, too, will have with his foot while walking back-is tearing the ball from long grass, young man who combined business

bining business with pleasure.” Charlton. take note. The Tigers to be overcome before the London-wards to it after studying the for squeezing it from crisp turf with pront."

Father: "Td rather he were a are due at The Valley.

Their ers can cry quits. A draw is likely line of his putt. If he had not with a long iron, or playing a best might be good enough to disturb the even

incurred that penalty stroke he short pitch with "cut in a man- tenor of the Athletle's progress. George Mad-

71 and might have won the Cham-complete master: Provided bà can would have finished the round in. ner all his tWethered is the d'son, Ch Woodhead and Bl

pionship As it was, his aggre keep his hall in play from the tee, Tabram were out with a 'strong

gate of 143 for the final day's the can find his way to the green resistance against West Bromwich

play was the best returned, and if as well Albion in the ko tourney. They

his complete aggregate of 298 com- down the course all the time. His failed-just. Let it he a caution

pared unfavourably with Jones's powerful wrists, straddling stance, for the Charton folks.

winning total on the same course and great leverage of long arms in 1997, 285 (then a record), it and legs combine to make his does stand comparison with the methods at once unique and aggregates at 292 with which D. vineing. Shute and Wood tied in 1933.

A BAD FUTTER, BUT Wethered had not. long to wait

Amateur Championship, and since a bad putter, who holes putte, like before he came into his golfing continues when he reaches the The paradox of Wethered's play kingdom, In 192 he won the green. He is what I choose to call. a lad of then he has been twice in the final T. A. Bourn and unlike Jones, parts. Was born at Victoria and twice in the semi-final. He Lawson Little, and Jack M'Lean (Mon.), but speaks good Englisu! lost to T. P. Perkins Prestwick

He was first noticed as a school-

was the last bulwark of British holing out. His stance, with feet in 1928, and two years later he putta. Wethered never looks like who are good putters who hole xolf to be knocked down by Jones close together, would suit a shorter

t St. Andrews, thereby enabling man better, and he soles the great American to win the first aluminium putter so uncertainly his of his four Championships that Year. His semi-final appearances does not inspire confidence. But and awinge it so jerkily that he were in 1924, again at St. Andrews, he takes great care at all times, and in 1927, Twaddell's year at and if he misses one or two little Hoylake

WALKER CUP RECORD

who does not-he holes That does not by any means ex-

more than his share of the four. yarders, which count among the haust Wethered's record. Apart from his successes in the dent's "Putter competition, which St. Andrews, and although, be

upper ten. Presi

He is one man who can putt at he has won outright four times fared none too well on his last (1927, 1928, 1935, and again this appearance there in the Walker year) and has held jointly with E. Cup match, be will bear watching F. Storey in 1928, Wethered has a record in international matches during this year's Amateur Cham- which is often forgotten because of ionship on the Old Course. No his comparatively recent failures. ene knows the links better, to one He has played against America there, and no one more appre hoa played so consistently well six times-five times in Walker crates the licence which it allows England against Bootland from driver. He may go one better in Cup matches--and he played for 1329 to 1930. In the Walker Cup May than he did six years ago on. to a player on bad terms' with his

matches his achievements are the same course. paralleled by any British golfer. Cut of five foursomes matches be won four and lost one, and of four made some months ago also went singles he won one, halved one, It looks much as though Don-abegging: Wolves couldn't see and lost. two bath timed to R. T. caster Rovers are to recede after their way to let him go.

Jones. His other singles opponent, holding a place in the sun for Villa persisted. Secured an incidentally, was on each occasion haf the season. The injury to option.

Francis Quimet, whom he beat in Pivot Hall put the Rovers out of Arsenal were the only other the semi-final of the Amateur gear. Some consolation will be serious contenders when it came to Championship, which he won, in taken from the fact of Fred a akowdown.

$223.

Such football AS Manchester United are purveying these days is bound to get them somewhere -If they can keep it up. Winbert Phillips, known to his friends Meet Aston Villa's latest-Cuth- trouble has proved a stumbling block to the United for than half the season. Tommy Manley has conue to hand at a very opportune moment. Tthe

more as

"Charlie." Here's

middle since George Mutch took boy player but not till his Ebbw over, there's also been a different Vale days was he seriously con- feel about the side managed by sidered as a player with a future. Scott Duncan.

Wolves got busy and E200 did the

That was seven years ago. Now and again he reached first team status at Molineux, Wales, of course couldn't let him pass, Some games in the first team and then International honours

I see no reason why the Man-trick chester men should not be successful over Newcastle at Old Trafford. Newcastle are just the in and out lot we have known them to be for some SEBEODH. Walsall cup · viciary The

may. However, lead to better things. My fancy a for the home team

Port Vale's great deed in oust- ing Sunderland is still resounding one tonic needed for

£3 it the

Charlie's value increased but, he was never regarded as a money- spinner until about two years ago.

Asserted himself in international Hanley to escape the humiliation football and club games until the of relegaten? This Vale folk day when he was reckoned as one think so. They have got the boys of the best in his positión. into that frame. More like the

old Vale, says vice-chairman Tom

VILLA OPTION

Fan who exclusively foresha- Newcastle United came along with dowed how the Vale would deal a tall offer wanted him badly did with Sunderland!

It looks as Tom Mather Newcastle were not though Bradford City will be the alone. next victims. City, are improved Manager Frank Buckley, always but at the Old Recreation & seller couldn't get his Board to Ground at this point, the cdds "agree, Aston Villa's first offer, are on the Vale,

ones-16

OLYMPIAD SUCCESS

Carmisch, Feb. 9. Franz Penur of Germany to-day won the men's combined downhill and slalom skiing at the Winter Olympics with an #ggregate of

Emery's return. The captam Charlie saved Wales against Scor- tis can remember only Withered' 99.25, polits

When, therefore, sundiced cri- should hold the side together at land at Cardiff, in October, kicking pasillanimous display in the 1934 Bury, where the Belle Vue lade the ball out of the goalkeeper's Walker Cup matal, and the oft In the slalom part event Penur may go clòsé. Bury; however, are hands to score cleverly times apocryphal tales about his returned res for the two runs of seeing the turn of the lane, asi

Then

a spot of trouble on the crooked driving, it would be salu 72-1/10 seconds respectively away wins in successive weeks field-fortnight's suspension,

láry, ed well as equitable to remem-, attest. Since Norman Bullock Vills could wait no longer. Went her his match-play record, a record' was conceded full control there boldly to Molineux fast Thursday which is the more remarkable be- has been a rise in fortune.

to exercise their option. Succeed-cause he first became a national [ed-after careful approach work bero through his skill in médel BRADFORD TRANSFORMATION

Charlie has guts; just what is play

feuter,

SWIMMING RECORD

New Haven, Connecticut, Feb 9,

world's swinning record to-day Johnny Hagina shattered a

when he covered: 1216 200 yds

We may look for some away needed at Aston. Has personality, - MYSTERIOUS MASTERX, wins or the part of the Brad-tou Urges colleagues to play. Got Wethered's success in match play ford club during the remainder married this year. Is.local idol of His technical skill is wholly a

nas, always been a mystery to in of the season! The Avenge luck his native Victoria Presented the mirable, no matter how wild may has been too bad to be true. Bill locals with the ball after the Wales be bas driving and unconvincing breast stroke in 2 minutes 24 17/10 Hardy thicke sure there will be Scotland game at Ninian Park in appearance his patting His seconds, beating 3. Carionner ang a transformation. I'm inclined to und: It was anctioned in the good whole attitude towards the game of minutes 26:2/10 seconds, agree. Bradford are very usefully cause of football

is a mystery". Ho is so shy and lenti

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