1938-08-13 — Page 17

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY,

AUGUST

13,

1938.

TENNIS

OPEN GOLF WINNER TELLS THE INSIDE STORY

"One Awful Hour" When Cotton Nearly Caught Him

By R. A. WHITCOMBE

71. I hed laughed 11wny memory of that nightmore 84.

that

SWIMMING TITLES

Arrangements For Annual Championships

LEAGUE RESULTS

Matches Played Between Clubs Yesterday

The Craigengower Cricket Club

beat the Indian Recreation Club by

5-4.

Y. L. Pao and O. Sndlek beat M. U. Razack and I. Kitchell 6-2; beat M. P. Madar and M. I. Razack 6-2; beat K. M. Rumjahn and D. Rozack

Broadbridge and W. H. Sling lost Mndar and Razack 1-6; lost to Rum- Jahn and Razack 4-8.

It looked easy when i went round in 71 next day. You know all about the gale of the final day and, be- the Victorin Recreation Club on to Razack and Kitchell 1-0; lost to of lieve me. nobody has exaggerated its

teliner of the Open polf championship with an aggregate score

Whitcombe, who is forty-three, iz professional at the Parkstone Club,

295.

Dorset.

force.

They say I cannot play in a wind because I hit the bail high, but I To describe how I won the Open Championship is almost as knew I could play as well as the difficult as it was to win it. There are so many things that might next man in the howling wind. be called inspirations.

Rex."

ENCOURAGEMENT When I went down on that bitter to win the Cotton, the man who beat me into morning for an eight o'clock start There was the urge

which both my second place last year, had plpped my wife squeezed my arm and said, championship

again. It was Carnoustle all "Give them something to shoot at brothern an well as I had just missed me --we had all been in the first three: over again, I thought. there was the desire to succeed for

How happy I was when, in the

I felt like doing that and I did, business reason; there was my wife, first qualifying round, I had a 71

1 can tell you, which apparently had innde me safe with one of the best rounds of my critical golfer.

stroke and giving to qualify. In fact, I was among the life- 75. I moved better than watching every

lenders.

can ever remember, and I knew me encouragement.

some of the reasons They were

why I won.

The annual swimming champlon-G-1. ships of the Colony will be held at September 5, 0. 8 and 9. Entry forma cans be obtained from the V.RLC., the fees for the Individual team events being $1 and for the race $2.

The programme has been arranged as follows:

Monday, September's 100 yards Championship for Men; 100 yards Backstroke Champion- ship for Men.

Tuesday, September 6 100 yards Free-style Championship for Women.

880 yards Free-style Championship for Men.

Open to Colony

Team Ruce.

I had no worries about the next that if I got a lucky break or twe day. I started out quite happily, without which we can't win cham-Four men, 50 yards each). Any score would do. But would it? pionships and you can't win medals,

But I have not answered the ques tion how won. Well I had set my

I would never have believed that I was going to keep the boys busy heurt on winning this year.

1. or it

was possible for me to play so pursuing me.

Things were dered my life so that I would not go many bad shots as 1 did in that

going well. The wind did not matter much except to Sandwich in any way unprepared. second round at Princes

drives of 150 yards it made was confident enough about being Never have I tried harder with that it able to play golf, but I wanted to be such little effect as I did when I saw look good when playing against it. sure I could play my best at Sand- the spectre of failure getting larger And then crash! On the ninth green wich.

and larger and my card full of fives with two of the best shots I had bit, "have a doctor. friend and I and sixes.

and 34 out for certain-something

my pulling. talked to him about my ambition.

got on the green I took three went wrong with He told me that, I though I am, I putts, and if I missed the green I could not get that ball up to the Short, short and short again. needed special training.

four from the edge. I was hole. took to follow breath- even lucky to get round in 84, a Four putls and a six. I was ndvired

exercises in addition to the score that my wife would not be general simple physical exercises which I always do.

particularly proud about on her own again. Was it failure after all?

The old Prince's ehost came up

so Fortunately, I um

course.

never

one

of those

1

I am a temperate man and a pint

remember playing of beer is enough to last me a fort badly, but even so my confidence people who look on the bright side night, so

there was no difficulty had not ol gone.

I can't tell you of things and forgot all about that about drinking. but hod to cut why, but I think that I knew that six and I think I played really well down my cigarettes, though I have this was my year, for as I say I had for the remainder of the round. never smoked to excess.

never come to a championship feel- 1 had wanted to set up something THAT HOUR

ing so well and so sure of myself, for the others to shoot at, and I did, I came to the championship feel burked myself up by remember- because I was feading the field with ing well enough to smash records; I ing that many players who had only eighteen holes to play, and was the went away happy but feeling almost but quatifled, and that was all I first to start out on the last round.

nervous wreck after Friday's did, had won the championship.

Jimmy Adams, my partner, helped play.

I was quite right. I had got over me to win. He is grund man to my bad round, and I knew iny form

play with, and how he, with his was good when I played the first long swing, managed to control the round of the championship itself in ball I cannot imagine.

St

I shall never as long as I live for get that awful hour waiting to hear what I dreaded to hear that Henry

HE CAUGHT ME

Another fright. Six at the first hole: four putts again. Oh, horror of Prince's! Jimmy, who started two shots behind, had caught me.

Then he and I begun to fight it out as though we were the only two men playing in the championship, He had more troubles and I was four strokes up with five holes to play.

But there are no certainties in

Thursday, September 8 100 yards Free-style Championship for Boys (15 years and under).

220 yards Free-style Championship for Men.

100 Yards Breast-stroke Champion- ship for Men.

~

T. L. Wee and S. A. Cassumbhoy beat Razack and Kitchell 6-4; bent. Madar and Razack 6-3; lost to Rum- jahn and Razack 2-6.

Win for Chinese

The Chinese Recreation Club de- feated the Kowloon Indion Tennis Club by 7-2.

P. F. Li and K. M. Wong (C.R.C.) lust to A, R. Azan and S. S. Hus- sain 2-8: lost to 3. Dad and A. R. Salleh 1-0; beat M. Itumzan and M. Singh 7-5,

H. N. Chau and P. J. Chiu (C.R.C.) beat Azun and Hussain beat Dad and Salleh 6-3; bent 0-4: Ramzan and Singh 6-3,

C. T. Wel and S. Cheung (C.R.C.) beat beat Azan and Hussain 0-3: Dad and Salleh 0-4; bent Ramzan and Singh G-3.

Recrelo v. R.C.C. Recrelo beat the Kowloon Cricket Club by 7-2 in the "D" Division yesterday.

A. M. Remedios and B. Soares lost to Gilliard and Huzel 3-6; beat Hume and Burson 6-0; beat Bleyer.

Ovins G-0.

Friday, September 9 30 yards Free-style Championship for Men.

Fancy Diving Championship. 440 yards Free-style Championship Gillard and Hazel 6-4; beat Hume

for Men,

Entries close on Thursday, August

25, at 0.30 pm. and events on all days will commence nt & p.m.

BOWLS TOURNEY

It. A. Marques and A. Alves beat

and Durson 0-2; beat Bleyer and Ovans 6-2.

i

to

M. Gutierrez and L. Remedios lost Gard and Hazel 3-0; bont Hume and Burson 0-3; beat Bleyer and Ovans 6.0.

South China v. Radio

South China lost to Radio by 3-8. K. C. Wang and K. T. Ng beat W. J. Chanson and L. Souza 6-0; beat D. Scott and M. Sheriff 6-2;

Draw Made In Singles lost to M. H. Hassan and K. M. Au

Competition

3-0.

K. P. Sung and C. M. Tsang beat| Chanson and Souza 7-5; lost to Scott and Sheriff 5-7; lost to Hassan and

The Hongkong Lawn Bowls Asso- clation Competition Sub-Committee Au 1-0. presided over by the President, met P. W. Sze and Y. H. Leung lost yesterday to draw for the fourth to Chanson and Souza 1-0; lost to round of the open singles, The Scott and Sheriff 3-6; lost to Has- draw resulted as follows:

san and Au 1-0.

Monday, August 15

C.B.A. v. Kowloon Tong At Police RC.-S. Eccleshall v. J. Central British Association lost to Watson; A. R. Datlah v. G. H. Sher-Kowloon Tong by 4-5.

rif.

At Civil Service.-W. K. Way v. W. Gill; J. C. Brown v. B. w. Bradbury.

Tuesday, August 14

At Kowloon F.C.-J. V. .Ramsay v. E. C. Fincher.

At Club de Recreio.-T. Coleman

golf and when I took five for a hole. A. Hyde-Lay. that a handleap player can get in

At Kowloon H.G.C.-L. F. Xavier three in ordinary weather 1 really v. C. M. Silva; H. A. Alves v. J. did begin to feel frightened.

A. Luz.

Then came the hole which, of all holes in the championship, was.

... I. think, the one that won me the

title.

It was the seventeenth hole. This measures 423 yards, but in the gale no human being could reach the

green with two shots.

I love wooden club play and I hit two .consecutive shots with my dri- ver as hard as I could, but I did not reach the green.

I had to play a pitch and run und almost jumped with joy as I saw my ball run so close to the hole that I could not possibly miss the pult. Those three shots won me the cham- pionship.

COTTON'S TRIBUTE

People wanted to congratulate me, but I could not help feeling that Henry Cotton might beat my score ofter all I even took a wager that I would not win.

had done my best and was satisfled with my golf, but I had that awful hour before Henry Cotton, a grand champion, a great golfer, and a splendid loser, came to me and said, "Goodluck to you, Reggie, I could not do it. It IS nice to win a championship, Isn't it?"

knew he was n disappointed man. He had played the greatest round of the championship trying to catch me, but he was unlucky.

Even now I cannot realise that I am Open Champion. I ar glod that the name of Whitcombe is on the cup at last, but stil! I do not know exactly how I won.

It is a dream to me, a delight

The Whitcombe family-which has won every other golf honourful dream of a life's ambition. had never won the British Open until ILA, Whitcombe (shown above not wish to wake. With his trophy) brought the Cup home from Sandwich,

DONALD DUCK

I do

F. D. Angus and B. H. Fowler lost to C. H. We and W. K. Ma 3-6; lost to Y. C. Lee and J. Mok 3-0 beat N. A. E. Mackay and K. M. Lee 6-4.

B. I. Bickford and C. Slann drew with We and Ma 6-0; bent Lee and Mok 6-3; beat Mackay and Lee 0-2.

S. A. Fowler and Ń. Whitley lost to We and Ma 3-6; lost to Lee and Mok 4-0; drew with Mackay and Lee 0-8.

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