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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1936.

NEW L.B.W. RULE MUST BE

GOLF CONTROVERSY

OUT OF THE RULES

WIPING THE BALL AND TEEING UP

ARE PRACTICES PERMISSABLE?

Is it permissible for players competing in a tournament played under the rules of the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews to contract out of the rules by mutual agreement? The answer must be in the negative. The question was raised by a famous player who is a member of the R. and A. during the Oxford and Cambridge Society's tournament for the President's Putter at Ryc.

In the final, both players-R. H. Wethered and Major W. H. H. Aitken -wiped the ball on the putting green, a contravention of the rules of golf which, it was urged, called for the ion of both players. By disqualification agreement, other players in previous rounds had followed the same prae- tice. Sticklers for the law declare that there in far too much tamper- ing

with

the rules; alliances, clubs, committers, and players making rules to please the melves antil the game becomen afaree Surely, nothing can be mire furejent than attempting to puit with a lump of mud sticking to the ball, or in hacking at a ball deeply embedded in a soft jiatch of ground writes a Sunday Observer Corres- pendent. We must be tolerant when turf conditions make the playing of the game in the winter vastly differ ent from what it is in the more Reasonable periods.

that the shots one plays have some relation to those played when the ground is dry and clean, 1 seo no fun in trying to furce the ball out of a mass of squelching mud, but 1 do get some pleasure in hitting from a lie that presents the whole of the bull and not a small and undistin guishable part of it.

USE OF PEG TEES

"There is one other point. While nothing is sal in the votice as to how the ball shall be teed, is it im plied that peg tees, now in common use, shall not he employed? Some of the members, myself included, use a per tee for shots through the green, concluding that the practice, because nothing is and to the contrary, is permissible. By some we are regard- csi as pariahs, and as a law-abiding subject with a golf handicap that has no relation to scratch, though credi- bly informed that I belong to the backbone of the game, I am anxious! to do the

proper

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED

SAILING MATCH OLYMPICS

Yacht Club Against SPRINTS

Karlsruhe

In their sailing match against the German cruiser Karlsruhe to-day, the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club: will be represented by the following, who will snit in the bonts an al- ed and have with them one mem- ber of the visiting team:

Bed Fleet

111 Major Dixon

2. L. Commdr. King

HG N. V. Croucher

Al Major Houty

Ad Mr. Ervine Andrews A6 Major Gill

A10 Wing Condr. Keary A1 Mr. Portman

YI Col. Bilderbeck YF. Nicholson

Blue Fleet

13 Major Postte

117

T. C. Fairburn

19

Col. Kirke

A2

H. S. Rouse

A5 L. Commdr. Stewart

AD

W. B. Cooper

All

G. G. Wooil

A14

Major Edwards

YB Sub, Lt. Winter YB Sub. 1. Grace

Members are requested to be the Club by 2 p.m.

is races,

As I do not habitually play on courses where in winter it is neces aury to tre up the ball after each shot, I can only express a general opinion. But I have been to courses conditions of which have been so carth

the jernble that nothing on would induce me to play on them, even If permitted to tee up and so carry round a mat on which to stand for every ahot,

TALENT

NEGROES LIKELY TO DOMINATE

"WHITE HOPES" PROBLEM

New York, Feb. 11.

boxing The

heavyweight division doesn't need a white hope nearly as badly as the cinder path.

After all, James J. Braddock sill retains the heavyweight crown and Jae Louis is only the chief conten-

cindor the

path on Hut der.

on the have a monopoly

The main Aprint championships.

100 and 200 about the question neter races at the Berlin Olympics

Negroes

Right now that trio looks like the most forminhle group of sprin- atter this country has ever had to represent it in the Olympic games. at! But every now and then a "white supremacy of the black race and one hope" bobs up to challenge the speed Eddie O'Sullivan, & Wall Street carly winter in the of them might get hot at Berlin.

enough. speed indoor incels to warrant consider clerk, is the first white boy to show ation as a rival for the honours of the three Negro aces.

The match, which will start

the second to commence 10 30 p.m., will be a series of two minutes after the finish of the last ant in the first race, the helmsman changing over for the second race.

The course will be:

Start:-West to East

Quarry Bay Mark (P) Channel Rocks Mark (P) Holts Wharf Mark (P) Finish:West to East. Distance- miles.

LOCAL HOCKEY

BEAT PEACOCK TWICE

runs

7

Dangers Of A Split

RESPONSIBILITIES FOR UMPIRES

BY "WATCHMAN" (f the Loxdan "Observer")

The enlendar says February; the trees are tenuess, and the football Reason is at its height-but cricket It finds a will keep creeping m way to us by cablegram from lands where big matches are in progress, and it is debated in the committee rooms of English equatics. Not least in importance of live cricket

the

appeal to clubs nown in Mf.C.C.'s to adopt the new Lb.w. rule. The Club Cricket Conterence, which

teams

seems to be which Negro will win-presents thousands of mouth coun- Metcalfe Dry players, voted against the change Зени Owens, Ralph

last year; bat many country men who hated the new rule in theory became Eulace Peacock.

converted to it when they had prac leal experience of its effects. Con- demnation changel at least to tolern tion if not always to admiration. And probably a similar alteration of

Now that we know that the new put into operation by the clubs. opinion would accur if the rule werd 1.b.w. penalties will most certainly fixed law after next season in first- class cricket, elub.men will be acting pass from the experimental stage into

directly against their own intercats and the interests of the game at large if they still decline to sanction the change. If county matches contive another a O'Sullivan, who like. Ben Eastman to be played under one get of rules

In and club cricket under and Charlie Hornboste?

dangerous situation must presently spectacles, beat Peacock the Temple arise. Ne game can flourish if dif Negro, twice in one night recently inferent classes of it play under differ the K. of C. games in New York.ent laws. Batsmen and bowlers do

into the county Ile first beat the national champion | not drop at 60 meters by a foot in 7 seconds.nat Many spectators thought that Pea straight from the skies. It is, of cock had loafed and was benten by course, as club players that they learn the game. They are club players one but when O'Sullivan best The Negro decisively at 100 week and county players the next. in 10.8 seconds, tying the And it would be a fantastical situa world

indoor record there wasn't Lion, as well as a check to progress, cricket had suddenly to reconstruct any doubt about his supremacy over if the youth promoted to first class "That white boy sure can move the technique of his batsmanship.

UNFOUNDED FEARS his dogs," said Peacock afterward. Pencock for the evening.

TAP DANCES IN TRAINING The Negro didn't alibi his defeat, going a long course of training to are concentrated upon an attempt to but explained that he was under-frout of the stumps. get into shape for the Olymple hit the ball with the bat. Fad play team. He does a lot of his work in has no place in their world. And the a gym, practicing the toe and heel objection to the change in the best The hockey match arranged for exercises, and other movements to

clasa

of club matches seems to be the Hongkong balld up his legs. lle also skips based upon the assumption that it yesterday between

would lead to bad decisions. But ex. account of the indica Interport team and the Rest rope and tap dances.

cancelled on

O'Sullivan has been running about actly the same view was expressed in It has not been decided

a medium two years, and has won game at a whether, to play the weather.

was first discussed. It is share of success in the metropolitan regard to first-class cricket when the future date.

arca, where he captured the outdoor curious how little faith players have 100-meter championship last year. In the capabilities of umpires. But He didn't take up running seriously the anticipated injustice in batsmen until a couple of years ago, and has did not oceur. Neither were the pre- pitches.

GREATER PLEASURE Besides, what on earth does it mat- ter if two players mutually agree to contract out of the rules-always, of courat, excepting stymien in order to counteract the factor of luck, and to render the game more reasonable and more pleasurable for each? Where contracting out obtains the practice should be officially approved and sanctioned by those directly respon- siblo, otherwise there is the danger of abuse of the fundamentals of a

At the same time, I recognise that .centuries-old sport, I am asked by

net everyone is fortunate enough to 北 correspondent:

"DD

with the practice be in a position to play on a firm, agree you now obtaining in many clubs round dry course whero teeing up in not London and the big provincial cities only wholly unnecessary, but would of teeing up the hall after each shot? be considered as a crime. In these In the clubs of which I am a member circumstances, 1 see no reason why.

H. F. Shields; J. E Potter there is a notice to the effect that golfern must play, and can only members are requested to tee up on do so on soddened courses, they should the fairways In order to minimise not tee up if only to prevent damage (Capt.), G. Sommer; J. L. Cotes- Certainly, there must worth, R. A. Bates, J. L. Tetley; damage to the turf. The course of to the course, which I belong has suffered consider be more satisfaction in hitting a ball. A. Fowler, L. Procht, G. E. R. ably by the recant heavy rains, and that is sitting up than in attempting Divett, D. Carey and D. L. Nooy. on the fairways a reasonable ile isto squeeze it out of a mass of lime. just a gamble, and a bad one at that.

"Because, as they contend, it is not golf to tee up after every shot, some of the members, mostly the good players, ignore the request, whilst others obey it faithfully. Personally I welcome the idea, for the reason

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AMERICAN PRACTICE

If the principle of teeing-up in admitted to meet special conditions there is no reason why a peg too should not be used, if the player so wishes, for each and every shot, ex- (Continued on Column 5).

Team To Represent carelessness,

Hongkong Club

The following will represent the H.K.S.R.A. on the Marina ground at Hongkong linckoy Club against the

p.m. to-day:

WILD

Match Cancelled

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The now rule would be unlikely to affect club players of the humblest class for the retion that they are not in the habit of moving their legs in Their ciforts

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His case is similar to that of Bob the same kind of apprehensions would games also. MeAllister, "The Flying Cop." who prove groundless in club

Of course the new rule adds to the become one of America's greatest sprinters while a member of the New responsibilities of umpires; but the York police force. McAllister women who wear the white coat of office the 100-yard dash in the final Olym-in good club matches have generally pics tryouts in 1028, and was one of been practical cricketers in their the lending contenders in the final time; they know the game, and pre-

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in their heads at Amsterdam. He was running well up among the leaders when he and a reasonable amount of grey mal- started to make his move at 70 ter in their brain cells. A large meters au pulled a tendon, which number of them are paid for their services, and it is Fardly likely that enused him to break down,

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THREE SEEMS BEST NOW

There is another point which in a Owens, who is having different direction has a bearing p Although scholastic difficulties at Ohio State: umpires. Time after time most of Metcalfe, who is training at Mar- us have heard batsmen declare, after quette, where he is a law student, being given out Lb.w., that the ball and Peacock apparently will be "didn't pitch straight by a foot." America's chief hopes in the sprints Under the new rule that anelent at Berlin, there is always a chance grievance becomes nimost an impossi that some comparatively unknownbility-at least so far as an off-break sprinter will develop overnight.

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