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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,

JULY 11,

1938.

B

LAWN BOWLS SINGLES TOURNAMENT STARTS TO-DAY

44 MATCHES IN FIRST ROUND OF CHAMPIONSHIP

PRELIMINARY GAMES ARE LIKELY TO BE DULL

(By "Abc")

With 108 competitors in the Lawn Bowls open singles cham- pionships, 44 matches will be played altogether in the first round, which commences this afternoon with a heavy programme of 24 ties. All clubs placed their green at the disposal of the Hongkong L.B.A. and to-day's matches will be decided on six of the best greens in the Colony.

All the first-round matches have been arranged to be played ulf by July 20, und It is hoped that if the weather does not interfere with the Association's plans the second round will be started on July 25.

As probably to be expected, the first-round ties contain litle of really great interest. Few of the "ganta" of the tournament have been drawn together yet, and the matches to-day are likely to produce little over whilch to enthuse.

the best match On the Police green, secins to be that between J. F. Me- The ludian Gowan and A. R. Dalla).

R. C. skip is playing particularly well to have at the moment and reems overcome his uncertainty which has been

ab patent in several of his League games. Therefore, unless the Civil Service player can play at the top of his form Dallah should enter the second round.

B. W.

of the Crigen- Bradbury, gower C.C., has been drawn agonist a team-mate, A J. Coelho, a steady drawing man. Judging by experi ence recent form, a win for Brand-

and bury is clearly indicated. "Jo" plays such a

a part in lawn bowls that anything may happen.

Four matches have been fixed for the Talkoo green, but I doubt whe ther anyone of the eight is likely to go very far in the championship.

INTERESTING TIES

On the Recreio green, A. Hyde-Lay, a former champion of the Colony, will against F.R.N. be seen in action Cornelly and should get through fairly comfortably. The best game that on this green

to be Beema

between XL. Over

Overy and J. S. Logan

Old Trafford Lives Up To Its Reputation

Manchester, July 11 Rain fell the whole day long here and had not ceased at 9 pm.

Mancunians consider it un- likely that the waterlogged pilch will be fit for play to- morrow in the Third Cricket Test

Not a ball has been bowled so far in the match, which was to start last Friday. --Bruter,

Three Rink

Games Played

Off Yesterday

Ar

FOUR LENGTHS AHEAD-Driving forward in a pouring rain, here is Bols Rous, bred in France, but owned by Peter Beatty, son of Britain's famed World War Admiral, winning by four lengths the 159th Derby at Emom, England. Nearly 600,000, including King George and Queen Elizabeth, saw the 20-1 horso capture the classic. Far behind him is Scottish Union, second.

was a

W. W. Radiophoto.

Shamateur

lot more money than the (For oboluus reasons this article makes a

pro. No wonder a bitter wit called Fringing asigned.)

That complicated arrangement of us "Shamateurs" We are. carefully chosen, seléntinenty- For, take note; we we may not

multi-coloured, wood and splired

willi cat-gut with which once lessons; we may not make films. criss-cross

muy, of course, stay slashes balls over (or intol) the net We

Give them practice; and is a fit emblem for the game of lawn "friends."

It is a racket.

inia,

take a tip on 'Change.

inore

Vas

:-

No wonder Fred Perry Many of us amateurs who happen to have a gift for tennis-or golf or ported from Amertes as saying when cricket or football-and are not pos- he turned professional: "I am mpak- i could thameri sessed of large private incomes (anding £20,000 a year now.

have made few are) make it not only our lives never

£4,000 a year as an amateur," but our livelihoods.

Making £4,000 as un amateur. A in terms? Certainly. contradiction But within the law.

It

It starts when we are young. we are good lawn-tennis (or golf or cricket) players, we get Invited to affluent houses to which, but for our gift we should never be bidden at

How do you make money as an amateur?

Let me tell you.

Of the four quarter-final matches all. Perhaps some wealthy player of

A certain man was wanted to play arranged for yesterday in the Lawn the nineties sees us and thinks that Bowls Rink Championships, only anyone who hits so true a ball or has for his Dominion in the Davis Cup. three were played. The game be such a phenomenal back-hand might A patriotic local magnate made him tween the rinks led by A. R. Daliah, bring victory to his old University, the following proposition.

L. A. Gutierrez was postponed and offers to pay our fecs.

and

"10

you

come to England and play for us, I will give you a Stock Exchange tob

year." which will guarantee you £1,500 a

#

It was not charity, although it was patriotism. Quite a lot of people would be glad to buy shares from a

Britain Said Lagging In Athletic Training

Unprepared for European Games To Be Hold In Paris In Autumn ́

GOLF

THE NEW CHAMPION

YATES'S STYLE AND METHODS

SOME SIMILARITIES TƠ R. T. JONES İTURN OF THE HEAD AS

SWING STARTS

London, July 2 It takes an athlete just on three months to get racing fit, and in a little more time than that the Euro- penn games are to be decided in Paris, writes "Slip" Saxon, the 1038 Powderhall sprint Champlon, in a special article.

"Britain did not support the first games four years ago," he continues,

but now that they have given the. OK. to the French fixture it would

be interesting to know just what the British Athletic Association Board intend doing about getting a team together."

England was made to look particu- larly silly at the Olympic Games in Berlin a couple of years ago, and with the sting of that lesson still lich- ing our hides, it would be foolish to walk right into another blunder, Saxon declares.

At the moment England is quite (By a Special Correspondent) unprepared and it would not be a blind guess to suggest that little Because of being regarded as thought had yet been given to or- one of the weakest members of anising a team for an onslaught on

the honours

going in Paris. the United States Walker Cup

Nearly every other foreign country. Charles the victory of

of has

taken team,

long ago Yates in the British Amateur instituting organised training for the meets. In championship came as a surprise inen taking part in athletic

before big athictle meet- not only to his colleagues, but to fact, the setting up of national train-

ing camps befo the golfing public. Personally, ings has become such a menace that Important Tennis Tie his success did not surprise me, the International A.A. Federation has

Postponed

Owing to the sodden state of the Causeway Bay courts, the the "A" deciding match in Division of the Tennis League between the Chinese R, C. and the Indian R. C, was not play- ed yesterday as arranged.

The tie will probably bc played this week-end if wea- ther permits

Valley Golf Semi-Finals Completed

W. J. Dyer (17) and F

C.

10

course

forced

the Investigate situation and is to take steps to curb the enthusiasm of the worst offenders.

NEED FOR SKILLED TUITION "The ancients who serve in official

though his style and methods are been not, at first sight, impressive.

Indeed, the converse is the case, and this, I think, is where most people went wrong. Forming a judg- ment of a player's worth from style Don Brad- alone is often misleading. man is not the perfect stylist, but he capacities in this country would be gets the runs; Yates's swing is not sure to tick, and kick viciously at ideal, but he produces the figures, that, against any suggestion of or- After all, that is the acid test inganised national training," writes "Slip," "probably on the threadbare elther game.

In the matter of style, we cannot score that a scheme of that nature all be a Jones or a Colton, though would be carrying sport beyond the

realm of the game. in their case each has a totally differ-

But It is lack of really sicilled tuition ent swing-classical of its type. what does it matter so long as the and the inability to obtain the neces results are the same? By compari-sary impediments that is holding up son, Yates's style is inelegant, and progress and not from any want of because it lacks sonetlung af smooth enthusiasm on the part of the athletes, ness and rhythm false conclusions Saxton maintains.

Admittedly progress has been made of a are drawn.

a kind in recent years but be made Fundamentally, there cannot very much amiss with the methods of a very sluggish kind. There are of a player possessing so good but the official attitude that we are He has been doing very nicely with field events;

tecord as that of Yates. the national inter-collegiate cham-

plon,

Georgia State

van

as a member of the latter's quartette So we got up to Oxford or Cum- was in mourning.

On the Kowloon B.G.C. green, a bridge, and we know that our only function there is to play tennis or Recreio rink, Two Recreio men, C. F. Remedios

We must, of course, A.F. Noronha, CA, fn former

mer Shanghai champion) and Lopes, J.E. Noronha and C.G. Silva golf or cricket. J. Busto

will probably provide the

the defeated W. Mulcahy, T. W. Carr, do a little work but that does not

signify. best match on the Kowloon B.G.C. W. Greig and J. Fraser by 20-14.

The losers started off in grand

If we are a little later in mutur-man whose name was on everybody's Reede (21) will contest the final of

refer to "my the Happy Valley golf singles green. Remedios is an extraordin

work arily steady player, but wor

style, taking a four on the first heading, we miss the university; but we lipss; delighted not allow him to appens regularly in

but get "taken up" by social sets into broker, you know he's in the last petition as the result of

otherwise never eight at Wimbledon." There is more final matches played. League games and his form in un-

snob value to a champion at any po- pular sport to-day than to anything vide fine

for Basto even if

short of a Royal Duke. he is not able to win.

does

Silva's rink cut down this advantage which and a single on the second,

certain, Nouton fe should probalking up a four. However, it was

Another good match on this green should be played between B. Basto, of the Club de Roerelo, and H. G. of Kowloon Docks Both

we could

to

and

isolated instances of Budding genius,

Western thank you," reminds Saxon of the

champlona major title and lead- ostrich sticking its silly head into the Ing amateur in the famous Masters' sand.

tournament; and he is only twenty- four years of age. Yates is the play- partner of R. T. Jones, and just semi-ing partner of

com

the

before leaving for England the new P.W.D. CLUB-HOUSE

TO BE OPENED ampion accomplished a score of

strokes under par-al East

Dyer defeated R. Young (G) by four and three, while van Reede bent A. Lake, Atlanta. McKellar (8) by six and five.

Coperatile players

not completed owing to the storm on and an entertain-

are

ing I game is in store for spectators.

Though he has only just recovered from inness, A. E. Coates, the 1936 champion, should beat C. Vas at Kowloon Dock, while C. G. Silva also should enter the next round at the expense of 11. F. Harper. The full programme to-day is ne follows:

V. G. IL Bhorriff

POLICE GREEN

J. Cool.

J. AR Selby

v. W. J. Bagley

M. Y. Adal

J. F. McGowan

V. B. Bostock

A. B. Dalialı

CIVIL SERVICE CREEN

E. Tuck

V.

8. Lillicrap

immediately on the next end by dream of penetrating. not until the eighth head that Silva was able to take the lead, a three

It is not very long before we are him

0-7 advantage. faced with a vital choice: to lake giving Following up with two singles, he led a job suited to our class, our tradi- 11-7 at the end of the tenth.

lions, our ordinary alities; or When Fraser took a three on the capitalise our genuine gift for our know, for example, that if a really popular player enters for a tourna- cleventh, the game promised to be a game. Probably (since everyone en- ding-dong affair, but this hope did joys doing what he does superlativement, the resort will be crowded out faced with the ty people who want to see him or not materialise as Silva went on to well)

four to lead certainty that if we choose the job, her pluy-and who will go for food win two singles and 17-10. Fraser

on several we shall be cut off from our gamed drinks to the hotel he or she is heads after this, but he was unable except for a little exercise on Satur- staying at in the hope of scraping an

acquaintance. to take more than singles,

day afternoons and Sundays.

scored

The winners were successfui

11 heads against the losers"

One lead was dead.

on ninc.

we are

ADAMSON CUP

It is a safe assumption that it there

The opening of the club-house of

Hotels will gladly give discounts

had been anything radically wrong the Public Works Recreation Club The Нарру Valley foursomes

with

Yates's style it would have been at Causeway Bay will be performed nounting sometimes to 50 per cent. of the bill to "aces" at sports. They matches in the second round to

were corrected by Jones. The fact that it by Mrs. Henderson, wife of the Hon. has not leads one to suppose that, Mr. R. M. Henderson, Director of Public Works, to-morrow at 5.30 Saturday afternoon,

in the main essentials, the swing is

Tea will be served at @ p.m. None sound.

better than P.re. knows Jones that no two prople can swing of the club alike, and that to attempt

to make them do so is asking for has reference to the position of the trouble, Boiled down, all that matters head during the swing. At the mo is getting the clubhead square to. the ment of address the head is turned ball at impact, and hitting with the to the right with the chin pointing power of to a spot at the back of the ball, and maximum of speed and

is kept rigidly in this position until which the player is capable.

after the shot is made.

Even more remotely, Arms are It takes a bit of doing to refuse the flesh-pots (for which, by now, quite interested in having "blues" The Police quartette, W. McLeod, we have acquired a taste), the af- or "aces" on their boards or in their

com- employ. W. Cameron, E. G. Post and A. E. fluent surroundings, indolent Carey, overcame the Recreio four, J.pany, the flattery, the llonising. So

A. Luz, A. P. Guterres, F. X. Soares most of us fall.

and

F. X. M. da Silva beat E. V. Searle, K. C. Hamilton, G. C. Norman and

exciting game.

.DL. I. Abbas v. R. Channing

V. II. W. Bradbury JG. Meyer by 13-11 after an

A. J. Coelho

S. M. Rumjahn (v. A. Sloven

TAIKOO GREEN

F. A. Broadbridge v. W. GI

A. Warr

W. J. Burling

E. de Souza

V.

HI. Glüle

v. J. F. V. Ribeiro

v. B. Klits

RECREIO GREEN

G. C. NormAJA

V.

C. J. Tacchi

F.K. N. Cornelly v.

L. Jack

II. Overy

A. Hydo-Lay

v. D. W. Waterton

v. J. 8. Logan

KOWLOON B.G.C. GREEN

C. F. Remedios V J. J. Basto

v. L. D. Skinner

J. A. Luz

`J. L. Steven

V.

W. E. Way

DJ. Basto

V.

IL G. Cooper

KOWLOON DOCK GREEN

C. II. Basto

E. ZimmEVEER

A. E. Castes

H. F. Harper

v. G. Perkins

v. L. A. Gutierrez

v. C. Vas

v. C. G. Bilva,

BUDGE WINS ANOTHER TITLE

Prague, July 1.

*

Then there are tours

abroad. It

has been stated that the L.T.A

of a touring team. Not

and B. Basto on the Civil Service Be we do not turn professional. reckons to pay £20 a week for each green by 21-15.

At Kowloon Docks, F. Machado, Dear me, no! If you turn professional member

at a game, you do not live so well or many arst-class pinyers could afford C. M. Silva, J. F. V. Ribeiro

make nearly so much money as you to travel half across the world and live at the rate of £1,000 a year. do as an amateur. If you quote one

such as Perry, Do you blame them for taking the or two super-aces, Vines, Tilden, well, they are the ex-ehance when they have it? ceptions who prove the rule. They make

their money

It was said by someone with out of giving exhibition; not as the usual rub of taste for truthful epigram that the

average M.C.C. XI. consisted of: pros.

Five "players" gentlemen;

CRICKET BOWLERS SHOULD BE

PAID MORE

London.

This season All English Teat: match professionals will, receivo] £50 per match. But this seems to be out of proportion to Paley Hendren, the famous Middlesex and England cricketer, writing in A special article.

The

I see roper proportion of pay, as

to

writes Patsy Hendren, is

batsmen give the

£40 per match and the bowlers £00. Thus, even under present conditions, we bowlers und might encourage the produce more of them.

Such a suggestion, that the bowl- ers should get more than the bats- men, is logical from another point of view, Dowlers do not Inst long as batsmen, continues Hendren. "The one bataman that I know really well-Patsy Hendren-tosted until he was 40. Jack Hobbs stayed in the game even longer, and Frank. Woolley, now past 50, is still getting

runs,"

The world tennis champion, Donald Budge, added another crown to his Impressivo sorics yesterday when he won the Czechoslovakian champion- ship defeating L Hecht 6-1, 6-4, 6-4, He is now American, Australian, Eng asks Hendren. They get into the

But havo we any bowlers of pace who have lasted as long as that?

*

Although the Lawn Tennis Asso- ciation divides the sheep from the goats so sharply that, unless an am- teur is paying a professional to play with Tilden, Vines, Perry, Cochet

for charity1) the arnateur

even

p

who were not

Five Gentlemen who were not players; and

One Pro.

Ja

In America the "shamateur" recognised. He is called a "ringer." He is a man sent to a school or a university by an alumnus or group of alumni with the avowed intention of helping their alma mater to win some coveted trophy.

The system bus many defects, but at least it is honest.

But the system In Britain is cor- rupt.

There is no more reason why a man with a gift for sport should not turn it to account than the man with

a head for figures or violin fingers. But he can make only a very mea- gre living if he is honest enough to turn professional.

few hun-

A tennis pro. makes dred a year; a golf pro. is lucky i he makes £4 a week; a cricketer averages £100 a year with ( he is popular) a 21,000 benefit once in his career.

It is the amateur who joins a wine firm on the strength of a "blue" or in tobacco firm on the strength of a century; the whirlwind volleyer who gets half-rates `at hotels and

six months of the year. month between Surrey and Derbys

is Alderman is seen here re sport is democratised and purged, moving

A ball from Rhodes lodged in travels at the L.T.A.'s expense for

ish, French and Czechoslovaklan raiddle thirties and then, sy Fishlock's made during the pricket champlant come to the wicket to bang them

RAWIth his partner, Gene Mako, he down, you hear, a decided, grunt match... played at the Oyal____In4%\-chamateur is right. But, until;

also won the doubles championship, and they don't grunt for nothing Refeating Hecht und Drony G-3,75 Their labs are beginning to protest

Reuter

donge who shall bláme, him??

J.

1 cord Stevenson, with 70-10-63, qualifies for the Adamson Cup (July). Other scores were F. Groves 60-504 and N. J. Bebbing- ton 90-21-69.

Southern California's 1038 grid- tron focs are very much con- -corned-about the track netivitien of Mickey Anderson, the sprinter who helped the Trojans sat a world record of 40.3 in the 440- yard reiny Anderson, a half- Back, probably will lead them a merry chase this tall

FASCINATING ANALYSIS

4

In the case of Yates the American

In the case of Yates, these require-maxim, "Hit past the chin," is strict- ments are met, but they are achieved ly adhered to. If you can do it you in a different way from that of Jones. are on the road to better things in To me,

the methods of a new cham-golf. The other point of almilarity plon are a tuscinating subject for concerns the use made of the index analysis, for there is always some-finger of the right hand. thing to be learned. In this respect

Vates is

rates

previous

no exception; Indeed, he is than a good many

more intepions.

Let me at once

"dispel the notion

that, because Yates and Jones learn

HIDDEN SOURCE OF POWER

The shaft is gripped firmly in the crook of the finger, which not only helps to guide the club in its proper but

ed their game on the sume course and path in the backward swing.

a lot together, there is much in assists materially in increasing the play a

speed of the clubhead at impact, and common in their styles and methods. also the power of the blow. Golfers In a general sense there is little ar toil to realise that in the first finger nothing in common, but in one or two of the right hand is a hidden source particular which I regard as not of vast power. unimportant there is a distinct simi-

larity.

A notable feature of Yates's style

. Many golfers have had an oppor- is the use made of the left shoulder.

of seeing Jones in action and In his case it is the beginning of have marvelled at, historious swing back swing; the shoulder, moving

18 backward first, is followed by the hands, and -the slow, almost tuzy

then carried

the clu movement with the hands

George Duncan the the wrists perfectly

th

gh and

cupiess you get

ily used to say,

the clubhead taken below shoulders out

of the way, only a

horizontal

ntal point; the full turn of miracle can save you from hitting a

the shoulders, and the winding-up of rank, bad ahot." There is a good the hips; the unhurried downward deal of truth in the dictum. Yates. swing and the sweeping away of the most certainly gets his shoulders out ball with a long, ninh in an un-

beautifully-timed of the way.

Blowing movement to

A characteristic feature of Yates's Interrupted follow-through. All this style is the pronounced dip of the makes the porfect pict

knees at impact, a dip very similar to There is little of beauty in the pic-thut of James Braid when hitting

with Yates. His swing, ture presented by

picture.

of the modern three-quarter variety. In my suggests venom Brid

all his concentrated ferocity.

the main strength of the game lies in his iron

8gression. Hoewerth the more

is the bold, swashbuckling attacker shots,

rather thus the subtle artist. One lofted clubs, such

Is saying, Take that, you blighter."

as the range at

ter," mashles and mashle-niblicks. Play- while the other, mildly coaxing, says, ing the shot off the right foot, he "By your leave." The result, how thumps the ball with the divot taken ever, is more or less the same. in front of it the true way of play. The blow delivered by Yates is of ing an iron shot-straight at the flag.

Whether the green

the crashing type, and because of the ball drops like sand of

ferocity the follow-through is aOTIC-

what curtailed, the hands finishing hard, Yates seems able to stop the close to the chest near the left shoul-ball at will. It is a great shot, one der. It a Anish reminiscent of that that pays him handsomely. A rental,

with soul, of the great

who H. Taylor, except that good-humoured Yates does not stand as if rooted to engaging smile, takes the rough with smooth, Yates has many years of the the ground.

There are two points of similarity first-cines golf in front of him, and in the methods of Jones and Yates; 1 should not wonder if he wins more though not absolutely vital, they are championships before his competitive matters of considerable interest. One days are over.