1938-10-26 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1938.

SHANGHAI INTERPORT BOWLERS DESERVE SUCCESS

FORM REVEALED BY HONGKONG MEN VERY POOR

TEAM SPIRIT CARRIES VISITORS THROUGH

(By “Abo”) ̧*

To say that the form revealed by the Hongkong Interport bowls rinks in the recent matches against Shanghai was disappoint- ing is but to express mildly the feelings of those who had had such great faith in the players selected to do duty for the Colony.

Shanghai won o 1038 series without any undue trouble, annexing the second and third Interports after the first had been judged t Ule. The resulta

match of each were: First Interport, 20-20; Second Interport, Shanghai won by 30-10; and Third Interport, Shanghai won Dy 20-17.

Except, to a certain extent, for the rink which opposed Shanghal in the first match at Kowloon Docks, nel- ther rink in the second or third did themselves justico.

Of the four men in the opening game, only A. IL Dailah and, in a lesser degree, B. W. Bradbury dis Linguished themselves, A. E. Coates, at No. 1, talled to reach his usual high standard, while J. McKelvle was absolutely of colour and did little right.

ONLY ONE SHINES

In the second game, only H. A. Alves accomplished anything of note. The other three incimbers of the rink, L. F. Xavier, E. C. Fincher and J. Holidge

(skip) were very poor.

Is rather late in the day to criticise the positioning

of the players; but it does appear significant, though, that the only man of the four who did well, H. A. Alves, was the one who had had Interport experience.

Lost Two Matches

To Date

To date, the visitors have lost only two matches in the Colony, once to the Police R.C. and the other to the Kowloon B.G.C. The following are the results of matches which they have played:

Beat Craigengower Tied with H.K.

(First Interpart) Beat Kowloon F.C. Lost to Police

22-19 20-20

21-20

19-22

Beat Hongkong

30-10

(Second Interport)

Beat Kowloon C.C.

28-20

Beat Indian R.C.

19.16

Beat Hongkong

20:17

(Third Interport)

Lost to Kowloon B.G.C.

8-19

Beat Hongkong F.C.

26-14

Beat Covt. House

69-54

(Three Rinks)

The successful Shangħal Interport bowls team, which retained the Prentice Cup in the 1938 series against Hongkong. Left to right:-K. L, Swartzell, W. J. MacDermott, J. M. C. Lopes, A. M. Gutierrez, J. W. Brierley and Hugh Wallace (Captain and Manager)Meu Cheung.

Prospects Of Triangular Rugger Interport Are Extremely Rosy

Len Harvey To Fight

Eddie Phillips

BRITISH GOLFERS IN LINE WITH THOSE OF AMERICA & CANADA

(By Geoffrey Simpson)

London, Sept. 29.

We are getting on in golf ....... the R. & A., as we guessed, havo made the 14-club limit official. From the Spring it will be against the law and horribly unsporting to use more than 14 clubs, or even carry a bag holding more than that number.

It brings British golfers into line with those of the United States and Comuda, who have already made it a rule, but do we ente very much?

Yes, we do. It means that the rusty iron we carted around for no reason at all except that it wan an old favourite and looked well in the bag has Rot to because nt present

we are over the limit.

Golters are queer folle. So many like to carry bag full of clubs, half of which they do not use.

In the women's championship at Aldeburgh this week, Pam Burlon has played the grandest golf with n bag of 10 clubs (including one very old Iron), eight of which she never touched.

Now Miss Barlon must cast two Balde, because she is out of order in carrying 16. But I doubt whether she has over played with 14 cluba during a round in her life. And that is true of almost every golfer who carries a large bag.

AVERAGE BAC-12

opportune for a reduction of flight In the golf ball. The question is to be considered by the committee.

In this they will be opposed. Another eccentricity of the golfer is that he likes to be flattered. and when he gets a ball he can drive five yarda farther than any other he has used, he is as pleased as an angler who has landed a catch he can folk about.

The golf ball has been experl- mented with for years, but the general opinion is that the present ball cannot be improved upon,

have it on the authority of a big manufacturer that another 40 to 60 yards "carry" could be added to the golf ball. "At the same time, the staff of scientists we employ could na easily turn out a ball that would travel 50 yards less," he said.

"But whether 10 put extra distance on or took_it_off, the game would be spoiled. I do not see any cause for readjustment,"

In my opinion, if the fight of the bail is reduced it will interfere seriously with the game of the or- dinary player. And It is the ordinary golfer who matters most, though there is a tendency in high places to forget this and to think only of the front-rankers who get their names in the popern.

MAN WHO MATTERS

An interesting plece of Informa- tion is that a check on the number of clubs employed nowadays hap been made at Aldeburgh this week.

A representative of a manufactur- ing Arm

arm has been going round count- Len Harvey and Eddie Phillips ing the number of clubs the women Although Shanghai has not, definitely undertaken to send a signed on October 8 to fight for the golfers have taken on to the course, team to Hongkong, there is every prospect of a triangular rugby British heavyweight boxing cham- and his statistics show that the aver- Interport between Shanghai, Malaya and Hongkong taking placa pionship at Hurringay Arean, Lon-age bag is 12-three woods and nine

Irons. in the Colony during February, 1939.

don, on November 17. Phillips was

The same figure la probably true nominated by the British Boxing of male golfers, so that the restric Malaya has confirmed its 'decision team will be made over the Chinese Board or Control as the leading con- tlon is not going to make golf more

the title when it was dimcult, to send a team here, and the latest New Year holidays. Whether

tender for this vacated

by Tommy Farr. After- information from Shanghal is to the date will coincide with the time of w

In fact, the chief reaction of expected-and rightly so that, man pulled its weight." When one effect that the northerners will make arrival of the Malayan team is not wards the Board stipulated that golfers to the new rule will be that

raise effort to expected and rightly so that

presentative side for the Interport mains for Colony officials to suggest beaten twice already by Harvey, the remember dat the rule exists, for

a strong re- yet known in Shanghal, but it re-hillips should meet Harvey for the is superfluous,

champlonship. Phillips has been At the same time it is advisable to with Hongkong. The possibility of a date agreeable to both Malaya and last time being in Plymouth about the penalty, if caught in the dread triangular Interport is expected to Shanghai. exert a strong influence on negotia- The Shanghai Rugby Union Foat-three years ago. Harvey, who is net of carrying one club too many, Is ball Club is displaying great interest weight championship, and now hus

thirty-one, holds the British cruiser-disqualification, tions.

ANOTHER BALL?, According to the Shanghai Times, over reported plans for a a chance of regaining the champion- What is more likely to get golfersly consulted the visit to Hongkong by a Shanghai triangular Interport.

With three men playing on their own green in the Hongkong rink, 12

Wos

Vange in the third

game

on the

failed, another would succeed; and therein lay the secret of their suc

FAST GREENS

cess.

Club de Recreio green. But once again those who were playing on a green. they knew well proved the A contributory cause was also the greatest dat It was speed of the green. Accustomed as left to U. 1. the skip, to play they are to

heavier greens, the the best game of the four,

Hongkong men found the fast greens It will thus be seen that of the six at Kowloon Docks, Civil Service and now caps, A. R. Dallah, L. F. Xavier, Hecrelo too much for them. On the E. C. Fincher, J. Hollidge, F. X. M. other hand, the Shanghal men, used da Silva and J. A. da Luz, only to fast greens, found local conditions Dallah can be said to have justified at this time of the year ideal for his inclusion.

them.

Lest I be misunderstood, however, | Congratulations, Shanghall let me hasten to add that there was, The visitors have proved them- in my opinion, Ettle wrong with the selves popular In every club in the actual selections of the players; it Colony. They leave by the

Wing- was only in the play that the local sang on Thursday evening. Hong- representatives let their selectors kong will be looking forward to down.

seeing them here again shortly!

I do not wish to conclude this! article on a carping note, b

but I do feet that the

the decision made in the first Interport in calling it a draw

the

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Big Controversy In United States Over Foot-Fault Rules

The foot-faulting of A. K. Quist at the critical stage of the first

NOT BETTER PLAYERS Even now, after all three Interport matches have already been decided, I cannot understand why Shanghai won so easily. I have followed the was an Inexplicable one. And that set of his Davis Cup single against D. Budge at Germantown seems visitorn around

in their matches with was why I was so pleased when still to be the subject of much contention and criticism in the the various clubs, and I find it dif- Shanghai won the Third Interport: United States, writes F. R. Burrow in the Observer. ficult to believe that they aro so as

as holders of the Prentice Cup, the much better than our three

rinks. visitors ere entitled to

to retain the Admittedly in Hugh Wallace, they trophy even if the series had ended At the time of the incident the, attacked by a great many people have

a akip who would be dimeuit in a tie of one game each, but by stands were roused to uproar, in who ought to have known better; beat in

In any company;

he revealed winning the third match, Shanghai's sympathy with the Australian, who but as he very pertinently inquired, was repeatedly fool-faulted both on "Is a foot-fault not a foot-fault when 'to prove himself a player of

of the

With the Intest success, Shanghol his first and second service, This it is at match-point?" To which no highest calibre. Also in A. M. has lengthened its margin of victories upset both the players, and a fuc reply is possible, It wus un- Gutierrez, the visitors have a

fortunate; but the fault was the reliable man indeed in any position. Wort 12 kong in the series, having match was spoilt.

sufficiently in the Interport matches victory was clear-cut

W

. However, the form shown by the others was nothing out of the or- dinary. For instance, J. Mac- Dermott, of whom so much was expected, was very disappointing from the Shanghal point of view; K. L. Swartzell, the American mem- ber of the team, was merely and the

be same remark

won to Hongkong's eight,

JOCKEYS FOR CESAREWITCH

But it must be said, and with the player's, not the linesman's. utmost emphasis, that it was not The rule is a necessary rule; with-) spoilt by the foot-fault judge, but by out it, players might serve from any the player who repeatedly broke part of the court they liked. And, Rule 7. I was complained that so long as it is a rule, it should be Quist's infraction of the rule was enforged, not only in high places, "only a technical infraction," and) but in the ordinary run of tourna- asked why he had not been taat- ment play. Budge never fool-faults; faulted earlier in the match, but Ferry was a scrupulously fair server. J. W.

be "world- only when

the crisis of the set if men like these can The following starters and jockeys

champions" while obeying the rules, arrived, matches. for the Cesarewitch have been Now there is no such thing as lesser fry ought to be proud to fol- While in actual play they might announced:

"technical" infraction of a rule. low their example.

One of the troubles is that a great Sir Either the server is serving fairly,

applied to J. M. C mighty; }

Brierley and A. M.

take part in the Interard did not}

London, Oct. 25.

not have been so much better than Stainless Stephen (Weston), the Hongkong men, in leam spirit, Tam (Perrin), Holnechase (Gethin), or he is serving unfairly, If he is many players break the rule without however, they were immeasurably Grey Mantle (Mullins), Rependant serving unfairly he ought to be realising that they do so; they have superior. As Hugh Wallace remark- (Gunn), Ranfield (Blackburn) und penalised and must be penalized by not the sightest intention of being ed at the Interport dinner, "every Love's Legend (Wella)-Reuter.

à linesman or foot-fault judge (if unfair to their opponents. But until there is one) who knows his duty. some inesman of umpire Is courage-

ous enough to pull them up, it is not: surprising that they go on breaking

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As to only puiting the low in the rule nearly every, time they motion at the moment of crisis, it is serve quilo possible (though, to those who have watched Quist play, improb able) that his service had been fair to the point at which he began

to be penalised.

It is just at these critical moments that even an ordinary fair server. is apt to forget his normal strictness in his anxiety to get to the net; and, since these critical moments are just as critical for his opponent as for himself, it is all the more necessary that he should be prevented from gaining an unfair advantage—even

SPECTACLES

AND FOOTBALL

If footballers wear spectacles they ought to have unbreakable lenses.

if it is unintentionally unfair-over So the Football Association has de him.

Wimbledon habitues will not have cided. The question was raised at Withe forgotten a similar incident when J. the monthly meeting of the Lan- 11. Crawford

cashire Football Association Council. was playing F. J.14

Bury Amateur League wrote that Perry, in 1934, in the final of the tw

two players

glasses. wenr

The

cham Crawford, normally League feared they might Injure

fair server, was making

his last stand, coming in on every thing and risking all on a net at- tack.

themselves therefore asked for a ruling.

or other players and

An F.A. oficial stated that there) At match-point to Perry, Crawford was nothing in the rules to prevent served and followed in, only to be a beapectacled player taking part in foot-faulted for Infringing the rule match, but the Association re-

commended that they should use un- breakable lenses. There are no be nectacled players in first-class foot

by swinging over in his haste to got to the net. He served his second service into the net! And the match ball to-day. "Old boys" among the

was over,

VERY NECESSARY

tans, however, will recall Mitchell, the Manchester City goalkeeper_of 10 or 12 years ago, who wore his That foot-fault Judge was bitterly' glasses while playing.

in cricket, the small club

In all matters such as this li is the majority for whom the authorities should legislate.

It is the Saturday afternoon player mon in lawn tennis, and the 16-handicap enthusiast in golf who make the wheels of sport go round.

How often are their interests for- gotieni

Of course, it does not follow that the R. and A. will change the ball, even if they mean to talk about it. It is hopeful, at any rate, that the manufacturers have not been oficial- and not even the ship which he held before Jack by the ears in the amounecment that R. and A. can alter the ball without Petersen took it from him in 1934, the R. and A. believe the Vime la the help of the trade,

His Excellency the Governor, Bir Geoffry Northcole, about to rolf a wood yesterday at Government House where he enterialued the Shanghai Interport bowls team. Alded by several former residents of Shanghal, the visitors defeated the Governor's team by 69-54-Staff Photographer.

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