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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1935.

OUR 66 EMBITTERED SADISTIC SCHOOL MISTRESSES?

TENSE STRUGGLE

HOW GOLFER QUALIFIED | IN RECENT TOURNEY

FIRST ROUND . SCORES

(By VAGRANT)

London, Sept. 5. The first of the Southern sec- tion qualifying rounds of the News of the World £1,250 Pro- fessional Tournament was played at Kingswood yesterday. A fur- ther round will be played there! to-day, and those who qualify for the 24 places allotted to South- a small allotment, it seems, con- sidering the strength of Southern golf-will play in the match-play stages at Royal Mid-Surrey on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week.

The field of 150 included six of the Ryder Cup teren gominoes and those great masters of the past, Alex Hord, James Braid, and J. H. Taylor. It was good, also, to see so many junior members of distinguished golfinir fumes. The

Course Cane

pleasant revelation to those. minking its ne- quaintance for the first linen green, typical inland course with fine turf and true greens, the whole in capital order. Heavy rain drenched early starters, and a brief thunderstorm made things unpleasant in the early

mid-day it was apparent that there would be intense fighting for the qualifying places, C. A. Whiteambo returned a 69. Henry Cotton came in a minute or two later with the same; Agure. Seventy-ones and seventy-¦ was continued to come in steadily By the end of the day 20 players had returned 12 or helter: A. Compston had joined those on the 9 mark; C. Denny had taken the end with

68; and finally James Adams, the Scottish International at Romford, had gone to the head of the field with a brilliant G7.

.ERRORS WILL BE COSTLY

Graphic evidence of 5ir Malcolm Campbell's brush with death on his 304-mile-an-hour inp during his record-breaking run

on the Utah valt beds is illustrated in this picture of one tire that blew out near the end of the run. Thirteen miles at Campbell's terrific pace completely ruined the new tire.

MACAO TENNIS CLUB

RE-OPENING OF COURTS

AFTER REPAIRS

Maeno, Oct. 1.

Play to-day will be fraught with yssterday at the opening, after A pleasing ceremony took place care for, with so many in the hunt, extensive repairs had been carried; the least slip may prove disastrously out again, of the Macan Civilian expensive.

Adams' figures were: 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, Tenala Club, whose fine courts 4, 3,14. 3-32 out; 2, 5, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, | have always been popular among 3,436 in. Total, 47.

the residents of the colony. He started by holinis

a putt of four yards at the first and one a bit shorter The President of the Club, 'Dr.

next. A spoon shot to the Vila Franca, welcomed the mem long 6th was not quite home, but he hers and guests on put a glorious one home at the 9th of the courts, the re-opening

were played.

at the

and holed a five-yard putt.

He gob an inspiring start for home, putting a mashie niblick shot four

A large attendance spoke of the feet from the hole, but puid a harsh penalty for length from the tee at popularity of this club's premises. the 11th by reaching some_short¦—Our Own Correspondent.... rough. He failed to force his second 'home and found a bunker with his

approach. A contrary-minded ball IIulme, the Arsenal outside right bounded

into a plantation at the 15th; and Middlesex cricketer, when he missed, the 14th green and developed a growth in the groin has took three more Lo get down the which had to be removed and it is dazzling prospect began to fade. But not for long.

not expected that he will be avail- He followed a 4 at the 15th with able to play for the Arsenal for at

-foot putt down at the next, put least a month.

his tee shat six feet past the pin at

the 17th-where and adhered to his

ROUGH PLAY IN SOCCER MATCHES

DISCUSSIONS IN ENGLAND

REFEREE SHOULD NOT BE BLAMED

(By JOHN BELL)

in professional football grows The discussion on rough play apace in the club house, on the grounds, in the columns of the

ATTACKED BY DOCTOR

AT MEETING

GIRLS MADE UNHAPPY BY BEING FORCED TO PLAY GAMES

MODERN EUROPEAN WOMEN BECOMING A RACE OF AMAZONS

(By Robert Lynd)

London, Sept. 7.

Dr. Leonard Williams did not mince matters at the meeting of the New Health Society's Summer School when he attacked "embittered sadistic schoolmistresses who made girls unhappy by forcing them to play games." is strange how easy it is to believe that other people are

sadists.

Other squeakers wilt in due course) | Ino doubt, inveigh against the brutality, of nurses who compel ebilden to use toothbrushes,

There is 10 form of compulsion i which does not seem sadistic to same-¦ body. I once knew a boy who thought i his father a brute for compelling him take off his hunt when he met his mother in the streets

On the whole, I

I am opposed to compulsory games either for girls or for boys. I have never been able to

BRITAIN BEATS AUSTRALIA

Helons Madison, who broke many

women's world swimming free-style records, from 100 to 1,500 yards, in It 1930 and 1931, now

AT WOMEN'S GOLF

Believe, however, that these school. A Margin of two

and masters differ from Me are monsters cruelty who roan round the playing- folds with an unholy gleam in their eyes as they watch their pupils knocking a ballabout, I should have thought that nothing short of a broken leg or of a tooth knocked out would give a real monster much satiefne- tian.

schoolmistresses who

SPEAKER MISLED

חי

MATCHES

MRS. J. WALKER WINS AGAIN

wears the uniform

of a student nurse in Seattle, Wash.,

and is determined to do well in her newly adopted profession.

POLES WIN GORDON BENNETT RACE

Official Distance Given As 1,000 Miles

Excitement

In Chicago

& Detroit

WORLD SERIES ON TO-DAY

U. S. BASEBALL FINAL

New York, Oct. 1. Thousands of baseball fans are clamouring for tickets for the first match in the World Series the Chicago Cubs, winners of the which starts to-morrow between- National League, and the Detroit

Tigers, champions of the Ameri- can League.

With "Schoolboy" Rowe picked to pitch for the Tigers in to- morrow's opening game in the World Series against Chicago, for whom Lonnie Warneke is pitching, the Detroit outfit are 7-10: favourites to win the Series,

Detroit fans are in a fever hent and tickets are selling like hot cakes.

In Chicago, where the series will be continued on Friday and Satur- day amazing scenes were enacted. Ticket seekers in thousands camped all night long in the streets around Wrigley Stadium, keeping warm by bon res and petrol stoves.

Warsaw, Sept. 25, The Polish entrant in the in- loon race won the event, it was ternational Gordon Bennett bal-

The Police to-day had difficulty in controlling 15,000 shoving. announced officially here to-day; shouting ticket seckers-Reuter. The balloon, "Polonis," covered a distance of 1,006 miles. The

traversing only 331 miles.

United States entry was last, FIGHT SOUGHT BY

Melbourne, Sept. 6. The British women's golf Dr. Williams, I imagine, has been team, which is touring Australia,| misled into wild accusations by his to-day beat Australia in singles

Thirteen balloons, representing distike af "combative games" for

4 Way countries, started the girls. He regards these as so evil

and foursomes by four and a half race from the Makotov · airport that he cannot believe that anyone matches to two and a half.. near here

With a on Sept. 16, not utterly evil-minded could

strong east-northeast wind blow- courage girls to take part in them. Mrs. J. B. Walker repeated hering, most of the big gasbags drift-

It is not

clear from the report Australian quite clear

Open Champlonship ed in the direction of Moscow, of his speech I have read whether he dislikes such games ns lacrosse and final victory over Mrs. Sloan Mor those which had gained sufficient hockey whe

when played by girls chiefly peth, but Miss Pam Barton was altitude passing over the Soviet Because of the effect on their physique beaten by Mrs. T, S. McKay, wife

capital. or because of the effect on their characters. I fancy that it is mainly of the former Australian amateur because of the effect of games on the champion. girls' characters.

Everything new that women have) tione has been denounced us a danger

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SINGLES

to femininity, from: getting educated Mrs. J. B. Walker (G. B.) bent riding a bicycle and voting at an airs, Sloan Morpeth (Aus.), 4 and election. Count Keyserling has expressed the opinion that modera. Miss J. Anderson (G. B.) bent European women are becoming a mice| Mrs, C. Robinson (Aus,), 2 and 1. of Amazons because of all their semi- Miss P. Wade (G. B.) beat Miss masculine employments, and that, as Jan Hammond (Aus.), 6 and 3.

result, love is likely to disappear Mrs. T. S. McKay Aus)

beat greater part of Europe. over the Presumably Dr.

Williams would not Mas P. Barton (G. B.), 4 and 2. We may wait some time, but out at all. The

forbid girls to play any outdoor games Miss Nan Nankivell (Aus.) beat sport of archery for Mrs. Walter Greenless (G. B.), 2 every discussion there should women is as old as the goddess Diana, and 1. emergo-something of the truth.-and-even in these days of archery is a slow process because so many championships it has not yet been: people have not grasped the point at suggested that archery and femininity issue. They are talking Incessantly, cannot exist together. but they are saying very little.

newspapers.

of

One Inst week I saw a column and

play

THE AMAZONS OF OLD

In llomer, again we find Nausicaa and her muitions, playing a ball-game; yet Nausicus remains one of the most perfect types of femininity in litera- ture..

a half devoted to the views of one of our big football managers. He set out to prove that there was no such thing, as rough play, and before he had exhausted a quarter of his space, he had wandered to the totally Then in the Victorian age, in which

kubject of "robust

one kind of femininity all but achieved One of

of his big points In defence of perfection, girls and women played present-day footlini

that the croquet—a game that causes WILA

The game could no longer find places for

worst

players have been known to got, of course, that rough play is not

cheat.

for cricket, Mr. Thomas Moult

The ladies of two southern cricket

ball and sent it rolling drunkenly past short-game player, striding along irrelevant the hole- und Binished with a with his gallery strung-out behind. orthodox four where his hall again | him... travelled unsteadily but tottered home

to rest.

DENNY'S ACCURATE PLAY,

Cux just failed to break 70, taking men of abnormal physique. He form passions and in which

Lhree putts on two occasions.

100 years ago.

even

The most bewildering performance within casier reach of the man-of 15 Denny played some highly accurate of the day, must be credited to stone. Some of the smallest in the recently pointed out in "Bat and golf, neur and on the

game have the meanest-tricks and counties met and played a greens, and Field, whe holed the Brat nine in 30 actually hit the hole, un several ocen shots! His journey was: de 3, second there is nothing robust about their antels for a large stake more thinn sions. Though he holed a nine-footer nearly dead, 3, 4, another second dead tactics. on the first green, he made a slip at on the pin, 4, 4, 2, tee-shot dead,

I am afraid there are many people the next, but never at any time looked 4, 3, a chip hoted. His inward half who, either by intent or ignorance, likely to depart from the path of was filled with trouble, however, and are shirking the distinction between

He was out in 34 and back in 35, welcomely redundant putting, he took

with topped drives and some un rough and robust play, with a 5 at the 14th, where he slipped and ballooned his drive. He finished by heling from four yards. Ils figures were: 3, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4-33 out; 3, 5, 4, 4, 6, 4, 4, 3, 3-35 in. Total 68.

economical virtue.

C. A. Whitcombe, who set the pace) with his 60, was out in 36 and home Jn 83, playing his steady, relentless | golf which never appoars to the on- lookers to vary.

Cotton was out in 35 and home in 34. A really beautiful exhibition of. controlled power with the ball flying immense distances-always from the dead centre of the club. There were time whori his control of flight and pitch left one with fantastic thoughts of witchcraft.

Compston WILH the rough-hewn

giant of old, graceful striker, delicate

42.

Leading scores:

LEADING SCORES

J. Alaina (Kornford)

ANOTHER SCHOOL

And then there is another school which admits the need of strengthen-i ing the control of players on the field, and lays the blame on the shoulders of the referoes.

G. Denny Thorpe Hall)

LEX

A. Compton (Coombe HD}

£0

T. I Colton (Waterloo, Belgium)

69

U. A. Whiteombo (Crown 10)

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W. J. Cox Addington Assist.)

J. J. Taylor (Potter Bar)

A. J. Mile (Denham)

T. Durrell (Dashey Hall)

A. Perry Leatherhead)

P. All (DamoneBolt)

W. Laidlaw (alden, Annist

D. J. Hos (Burbiton, Asalt.)

W. E. Brown (Broxbourne)

8. L. King (Kilo Park, Asia)

A. J. Lacey (Berkshire)

A. Havers (Sands Lodge)

A. Macdonald (Downe)

H. 11. Rhodes (Wentworth, Asist.)

J. F. Fick (Runningdale Assist.)'.

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FOURSOMES

Mrs. Walker and Miss Pam Barton, and Mrs. Robinson and Miss Hummond, halved. Mra. Greenless and Miss Wade beat Mrs. T. S. McKay and Miss Nan Nankivell, 6 and 6.

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VON CRAMM WINS FROM HUGHES

German Champion in Final At Lido

Venice, Sept. 6.

A report that the Polish balloon had been fired on by Soviet nero-" planes while over Læningrad re- sulted in a protest by the Polish Ambassador at Moscow last week, but after a statement of regret had been given by the Soviet Foreign Ofico the incident was declared closed.

BILLIARDS RULES CHANGED

Baulk Line In All Amateur Games

Two changes of great import. ance to billiards and snooker players have been made by the Control Council of the Billiards Association.

MANY CITIES

THE LOUIS-BAER ATTRACTION

OFFERS TURNED

DOWN

. New York, Sept. 24. In securing, such a big "gate," Mike Jacobs, promoter of the Twentieth Century Boxing Club, who is already earning for himself the title of "Tex Rickard The Sud," has pulled out of the heavyweight busket the biggest and juiciest fatle plum" since the days of the late Tex Rickard him self.

Jacobs predicted an attendance of 85,000 people and takings of a million dollars, or more. The first expectation was practically ful- Alfed, and the second short by -less-than-$70,000,-

All

over the United States proto- ters and stadium owners showered Jacobs with requests that he stage the buttle in their particular, city. Detroit was exceedingly anxious to have Louis fight his most important battle in the city which he calls home.

REFUSED $100,000 Jacobs, finally deciding to gamble An amendment to Rule 10b of on the success of the fight in New English billards now makes it York, turned down a certain fortune

which

would have compulsory for the ball to cross of $100,000

been his had fe taken the match to the baulk line in amateur matches Detroit. A group of people connect- once in each 400 points of a breaked with the Ford Motor Company, instead of once in every 200 ns desirous of having the broadcasting hitherto,

privileges, offered Jacobs, Louis and

A further alteration of rule Baer $300,000 which they would have places the English Amateur BI-split equally, three

ree ways. linra and Snooker Championships

'On

a county basis Instead of an area basis.

such as Liverpool, Sheffield

In the past winners in districts

and

G. P. Hughes reached the final of violence in such gepies as lacrosse with E. C. Peters, the former No doubt there is a certain element of the men's doubles in partnership and hockey that is absent from the Oxford Blue, in the international Southampton among others have croquel-lawn, the tennis-court and the tennis tournament at Lido, but was gone forward to the competition cricket field. And it is this element, beaten in the semi-final of the proper. Now groups of counties possibly, to which Dr. Williams takes singles by G. von Cramm, the Ger-will play and the winners compete exception,

Here there is more of a physical | man champion at 6-0, 4–6, 6–2, in the finals in London; tussle, with knocks, tumbles, und a desperate desire for victory.

"The cultivation. of such incite.SSSSSES CESESESSSSSS

Talding this large body as a whole,ments to personal combat," according cannot see much fault to find with of the supra-renal gland which pre- to Dr. Williams, "developed that part conscientious, and, in so far person's character. You

sides over the combative element in present conditions allow, they are cantine the desire and aptitude for: cannot efficient

combat to cricket and football."

The trouble is that, they are not given a free hand. They are over- burdened with bewildering advice,

forey Are

OBJECTIONS TO CRICKET

They are told to blow their whistle I am surprised to find that. he offence on the field, and mentiona cricket, for this suggests then

told that too much that it is the competitive elemont, and whistle is grently to be deplored, not the physical rough-and-tumble, They are told that "a firm controlling that in his opinion, make certain hand in the opening minutes of a games unsuitable for girls. gamo will prove invaluable," just as If all games that all the soul with If an

an offence committed later in the

In the pugnacious desire for victory are Fame in a less culpablo offence,

to be forbidden to girls, then the list only hockey and Incrosse, but happy of prohibited ganies must include, not,

I doubt if there is a referee to-day playing strictly to the rule-book, and families. there must be hundreds of different interpretations the rules. One

of

I have seen the combative light in cannot help feeling that the players tiddlywinks. Strange to think that the eyes of a small girl playing who are sent from the fiel some misdeed are unlucky. If they in her excitement she was poisoning had committed the same offence before her supra-renal gland.

a score of other referees they would

Draughts and dominges, no doubt, probably have escaped with a warni are equally dangerous giand-poisoners, ing.

as a result of which "what was ori- Unless our League referees are Rally a gentle feminine girl becomes told to enforce the letter of foot-harah and bellicoat, not in games ball law, there will not be a It would be interesting to know what alone, but in all relations of life." noticeable Improvement in the con- games the heroine of "The Taming of duct of the games.

tha Shrew" played, in carly life. Arsenal's

Snap, I should imagine.

I well remember the defeat at Birmingham last season. have seldom pocs a mors delightful diaplay of robust football as the Bild land team gave that day. And they kopt rigidly, within the laws of the

Hennessy. Rd., Wanchal.gamo

DISTURBING QUESTIONS Must boys and men alone, then, henceforth be allowed to play games (Continued on Page 9.)

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FOR

A

LIMITED PERIOD

Matched Sets Five Stoel Shafted Irons Matched Sets Three Steel Shafted Woods Odd Steel Shafted Irons and Woods

25% to 50% Discount

A GREAT CHANCE

Under the agreements drawn up. Baer received 30 per cent. of the nel receipts, Louis the same, and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's New York Babies Milk Fund 19 per cent.

Considering that the rental of the stadium amounted to 10 per cent. of the receipts, and other

expenses accounted for another

10

per cent,, Jacobs had only left 10 per cent, for himself.

.from $35

per set $22.50 per sot $5 each

SPORTS DEPT.

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