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Wednesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

A New Method To Be Used To Pick The Best Golfer

WISE DECISION MADE

BY THE P.G.A.

When the next ranking list of Britain's golf pro- fessionals is drawn up, it will be victories only, and not ability to get round in a low score that will influence the Professional Golfers' Association.

ont

The P.G.A., controllers of the neore

point. he is 20th Vardon Trophy competition, which (dreadful though) he will be credited settles the professionals champion-with 20--and the player with the ship, huve hitherto based their smallest aggregole will of course, Le findings on average scores.

the victor.

The competition concerns major tournaments, such as tre open chukt- plonship, the Daily Mail's £2,000 event, the "Silver King," and the News-Chronicle's £1,000 content. The PGA. note the scores returned there competitions ALTIC ranke players accordingly.

In

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With the following rather extra- ordinary result Inst season: Henry Cotton, who played line golf but was dogged by the worst of luck, did not win a single major tournament, yet when they worked out his average they found he was the winner of the Vurdon Trophy and therefore the champion of the year!

When He Whitcombe, the open champion, heard this he felt that he had been bunkered out of turn, and

who for Alf Perry,

won more tournaments than any other player, he mill more than a few words,

ANOMOLOUS

Do not think Cotton is ois te apologise for going round in fewer strokes than anyone else. He isn'! He played the required minimum of 10 rounds, and won the trophy fair- iy, according to the rules of the com- petition.

At the same time. he will admit that it is a bit anomolous that neither Whitcombe, the open winner, nor Perry, who won mast events last summer, should not be the clumpion of the year. The result actually was Calton (average 72.87) 1. Whi combe (73,35) 2. Perry (73.4) 3.

This only goes to show tint golfer's scores are not a dependable

guide to his tournament winning

powers.

Averages.

By the same rule you can

not jalge a cricketer's value by his

FAIRER WAY

On that basis, a golf expert worked it out that last season's winre: therefore the year's best golfer--- would, fittingly enough, have been with 56 points. Reg Whitcombe Forry would have been second with 59 and Corson third with 70.

He also pointed out that one im- portant drawback to the "average score" system is the weather. A score of, say, 73 in perfect suminer conditions is surely not so good as a 28 returned against blustering wind and driving rain?

No one can quarrel with a record based on results. That's why thei Dengue football system always workni so well, and why the county cricket table, so long as it is governed by percentages, will always len to arguments.

The P.G.A. have made a WIKC change. Being placed among the first 12 professionals is a matter of #treat mportance to British golfers, should be above criticism. and is as well that the ranking

AMERICAN

SCULLER'S

SUCCESS

The final of the Colquhoun Sculls on November 19 at Cambridge was won by an American oarsman, Hugh Parker, of Tabor Academy, Concord,

Not Always Safe To Do

This Thing

December 21, ' 1938.

M. C. C. PLAN 30-HOUR TEST MATCHES......

FIVE-DAYS

This is not always a site thing to do, but in the present case the goal-keeper, Fau Ka-ping, of the Chinese Amateur Alhfelle Federation, is wide-awake and no harm is done. An soccer match on Sunday when the Chinese defeated the Hongkong F. A. by four goals to nil. The Associa

Incident In the clarity tion forwards tried hard to score in the second half without success, and Lee Tin-sang is here seen headlog the ball back to Pau when harried by Fowler.-Photo by Jaffer,

Here And There

-With "Abe'

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Readers Want Box-Scores

Softball Matches

I

Of

POPULAR MEMBER FAREWELLED

A. A. Aziz Leaving Colony On Sunday

LIMIT IN GAMES IN ENGLAND

London, Nov. 23. England wants standardised Test matches with Australia. Limit them to thirty hours is the idea. Forget about timeless Tests and all the other things which puzzle or irritate the cn-

thusiast.

The Advisory County Cricket 1

An Australian writer, quoted by Committee think Tests would be Regler, anticipates a £45,000 share better in this country if they con- for Australia.. Final Agures will not sisted of five six-hour days. Aus- be known until Manager W. II. tralia could carry on with six Ave-Juanes reports.

our days. The committee, meeting in London yesterday, decided to put the proposal before the Australian Board of Control.

It does not mean that thirty hours cricket must be played if there is time lost by the weather.

Hil,

Tals

prominent

mean so

Worcestershire's

proposal that every first-class county should have cquid representation on the Board of Control was defeated.

REGISTRATION SCHEME

accepted. M.C.C. will choose a sub- comunitice to get on with the fab.

The Board of Control have de- cided that no Test trials will be played in 1930 or 1940.

would be getting back to the time-registration scheme of county erle

The Middlesex proposal that the less Test idea," said Jegislator last night. "f

keters should be prepared for con- rain, that would

we had zideration of Arst-class counties was

muny hours of the dirty lost. All we want is to be on a par with Austra

It's Australia's move now. Australia's tour in this country last season resulted in a prol of creased from three to four, Includ- The selection sub-committee, in- £42,000. Those counties which had ing two first-class county captains. the Tests (Yorkshire, Lancashire, is to be continued on an experimen- Nottinghamshire.

and tat basis. Sir Pelham Warner is not Surrey) and the M.C.C., each re ceive £3,350,

seeking nomination again. Other counties will receive £1,600 each. Each minor county and the universities will get

£330.

Middlesex

by the death of Lord Hawko and the Two concics for trustees caused retirement of Mr. A. J. Webbe will be filled in spring.

£42,000 PROFIT ON AUSTRALIAN TOUR Counties' Large Share

Some 30 members of the Indian Recreation Club gathered together in the club-house at dinner-last evening the first American champion of the VESTERDAY

to say farewell to Mr. A. A. Aziz,

London, Nov. 23. Pelham Warner and R. W. V. Robins one of their most popular sportsmen, Cam in the long series of winners. I jetters, one from a fair reader same degeree of proficiency which Christmas Day. Mr. Aziz la return-mounted approximately to £42,000, and Major H. A. Henson (Glos.),

two local' girls have not yet attained the who received

The net prot on the Australian (Middlesex), Rev. 1. R. N. Ellison leaving the Colony anlour in England

kist Bunting Howell, who won the Wing-and the other from a visitor from makes their matches really interesting to his native Malaya after a stay it was announced at the Board of W. N.

summer (Derby), L.-Cmdr. V. J. Robinson fields in 1899, was a Cambridge man Shanghai, asking why local news-ing to watels, some of the men's en- of more than ten years in Hongkong. Control meeting, also at Lord's. but records do not show him as ever papers do not publish the box-scores counters now contain a great amount

Rulley and W. L. Knowles (Sussex). A. J. Spelling (Essex), So next season the PG.A. will having won the Colquhouns.

of softball matches played in the of akili. Indications are not lacking Mr. A. el Arculli, President of the

H. D. G. Leveson Gower and A. F. employ a new system. They will

Parker gained an early lead and Ladies' Longue. "Couldn't you beg, that the game has

Although not a record, the profit Davey (Surrey), borrow the

come to stay. Club, was in the chair and spoke of compares favourably with won easily. His opponent lost dis-borrow, steal or one used in

otherwise pilfer This being so, every endeavour will the many sterling qualities of Mr. previous Australian visits to this frown (Notts), Col. Sir Stanley

T. that of Howard

A. Higson and country running. In this

through testing tance

steering wide st thote elusive box-scores from the be made in future to publish box-Aziz, whom he described as one of the country, and but for the washed-out Jackson, Col. C. Haseltine, S. Chris- (Lancashire), H. A. pastime the winner of a race scores Grassy Corner, Result; Back Sta- many coaches, trainers and scribes scores whenever space permits.

H. Parker (Tabor, Acad., wearing out their Everhard Fabers

Test at Manchester, where not a ball topherson, R. H. Twining and W. U.S.A., Trinity Hall) 1. Front Stent these matches?" asks "A Lady New Rules

could be bowled, all past figures Lindsay Everard (M.C.C.). would have been beaten easily.

Cross-

I point for his team, the second man 2, the third 3, and so on.

ed.

tion:

That is how this golf will be work-borough, Christ's) 2. Won by

It Cotton wins the open he will see. in min. 11 sec.

tion: E. G. P. Sherwood (Mari-Fan." "If you do watch these

11 Ladies' softball tits-but then I sup- THE game, it is reported from the

pose most Sports Editors are too

United States, continues to alter busy (sic) to give much attention its rules to make them more like the to this new-born infant--you must code of its big brother-baseball, have noticed how this modifled game Clarence E. Brewer of Detroit, chair- of swat has taken on; so what about man of the joint rules committee of the box-scores for those Sunday the Amateur Softball Association, morning games?" The visitor from has announced that the only major Shanghai says, "I really do believe change for 1930 will permit the scur that the box-scores of these games ing of runs on a wild pitch, passed are the meat of the whole story, as ball or throw-back from the catcher from them one can gather many i-to the, pitcher. In the past runners luminating facts which would other-have been forced to stay on third.

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This "new-born infant" having de- throwbacks, although they could o veloped into a lusty kicking babe, was not entirely surprised to receive two such letters; it was inevitable that a time would come when the game's adherents would

from first to second or from second to third when these plays developed. Brewer says the latest move to make softball's rules similar to those of demand baseball was needed to help the of- more attention to 13, and consequent-fence. In 1937 the sacrifice was

voted into the softball rules.

ly more space in the papers.

It Has Caught On

Team For Saigon

in

Players Selected To Represent Colony

Four players have been selected to represent Hong- kong at the Far Eastern tennis championships from January 7 to 14 at Saigon. They are Tennie Kwok, Lai Kwong tsun; Chan Chai-kung and Szeto Bick.

The team will leave early in January.

The distributilon of profils wast

£3,350 to the M.C.C. and each county on whose ground Test matehes were played.

£1,600 to each county on who30 #round Test matches were not played.

£220 to each Minor County and

University.

TEST TOUR

CHANGES INDICATED

It is estimated that over a period M.C.C. Secretary On

of four years the counties who stage Test matches on their grounds have received un average of £1,400 per annur towards the cost of mainten- ance and improvements.

Present-Day Bowling

London, Nov. 30. Material changes in the pro-

For next summer, when the West framme of future Australian teams Indies will be in England, three Test visiting this country were indicated matches of three days each have by Lieut-Colonel Rait-Kerr, secre- most cheerful men he knew. The been arranged. The hours of play tory of the M.C.C., in a speech to Club knew him well as a cricketer-will be 11.30 to 8.30 on the first two county secretaries yesterday. he has only just relinquished the days and 11 to 0.30 on the last day. THAT the game has caught on In PPEARING elsewhere

Hongkong there can be no doubt issue are the names of four also in other forms of sport he was

If the Australian Board of Control this captaincy of the Junior Eleven-but The price of admission will be 2s.

accepted the formula that Tents In ut all. A visit to log's Park any players selected to represent Hong-well-known not only in the com- The board decided that the new

England Sunday morning will convince even kong in the Far Eastern tennis munity but

should be of Ave days' the most sanguine of that. Person-championships to be held at Saigon

also throughout the Selection Sub-Committee to be the M.C.C. sceretary, that the Aus- duration, it was obvious, remarked ally I have not been able to whip from January 7 to 14. As none

Colony.

pointed next spring shall be continu myself into the same degree of en-

ed on the experimental basis of four tralians would not be able to carry the four can be ranked within the

Mr. Arcull expressed the regret members, Including two county cap-;

out such an extended programme. thusiasm for the sport as some of my first live in the Colony, the team parture, especially as there was little souneed that Sir Felhem Warner did manner in which it would be eur- friends have; but then I cannot ex-

e of the members at Mr. Aziz's de-tains, as last year. It wus an- He did not, however, suggest the pect these saine friends to reveal throne; but us most

cannot be said to be a representative same keenness for the games which

players either

he

ins

of

vote

of

There will be no Test Trial mai

sial subject of wickets. Te could not day were enormously different from And any, evidence that wickets to-

what they were in 1010.

of the leading ity of his return in the near not wish to seek nomination on the tailed. I find so enjoyable. It's just a mat- necessary leave or are not keen to always be a welcome for him at the the other selectors was passed.

future, but he assured Mr. Aziz that committee, and a hearty cannot obtain the it ever he did return there would thanks for his services and those of to say on the highly controver

Colonel Roit-Kerr had something ter of taste. Except to those who take part in the championships, Club (Applause). Mr. Arculli con- understand the intricate system of scoring--and not every softballer, I probably the best team we concluded by wishing Mr. Aziz good luck am sure, dars understand the jumand in the circumstances. When bic of figures conveys tile to most spoke to him a fortnight-ngo, Tsui and prosperity in his new sphere of thes in 1930 or 1940. people. It's not like cricket scores, able to go to

Yun-pui was almost certain of being

activity. where you can tell at a glance how

A resolution, which received ap- Saigon, but

Various steps had been taken to many runs a baisman

apparently

board was

that in help the bowler, yet as far as the Mr. Aziz sullably repiled, thanking Proval by the changed his mind. One doesn't necessarily have to be

If the members for the honour they had future, as often as can be arranged, game was concerned the most un- cricket scores; but one has to know never at any time certain of being next month, a cricketer to be able to understand Cupper and Colony champion, was in the Cricket League, which starta

He appealed to bowlers to pay quite a great deal of baseball in or-

able

to make the trip, and because der to tell how a gaine went by the of the uncertainty in his case aft box-scores, Even ns it is, come along, his declination of the invitation people are of the opinion that enough does not come as a surprise now. space is already being devoted by the All the some it must have been a local papers to the sport. One very blow to the Hongkong L.T.A. that keen cricketer was extremely dis- even with hotel expenses in Saigon gruntled when the cricket scores on and retum passage guaranteed,

has made, brother, But Wai-pui, the Davis done him and wishing them success the 12th man in Test matches should satisfactory aspect was the bowling.

a

a recent Saturday were not printed stronger side has not been available. in full the following day. scandalous," he snorted. "Columns against men like Yvon Petra, Kho "It's To have our leading players pitted and columns of softball and only one Sin-kle as well as the Filipino stars column of cricket 1" worst part about upsetting on esta- immeasurable amount of good.

That's the would have done Colony tennis an blished practicel Usually there are

three or four columns of cricket This Lou Nova scores every Sunday morning.

Fillip To Game

TIS ability to beat, and nearly

H

knock out, Tommy Farr stamon Lou Nova as a most promis-

IF anything was needed to fan the fine achter, A husky Collfomian, he name of interest sweeping over believes in carrots, beef juice and the Colony, the visit of the Ameri-ugor, and the sober American crl- can girls provided it. These girls ties who saw him knock out Gunner set a new standard of play in Hong-Baerlund belleve he is more promis- kong with their

splendid pliching ing at the age of 25 than was Gene folding. Before Tunney, And this is saying plenty! at Caroline Hill,e is nico nomewhat of a Bombastes well, it was Furioso, if the story la, true that, on

and

specincular

their exhibition

softball here was

Just softball. But the visitors tought entering his dressing-room before a

Miss Ann Tylor gave her partner,

14 how softball could be made to be acht, he sniffed the air, found it not W. A. II. Duff, splendid support in played like baseball, and consequent-o his liking, and said, "Give this the final of the Colony mixed doubles y with the new technique the game room to my opponent." Whatever tennis championship against Commdr. has needed up considerably, cpecially in the men's matches. While nerve,

es- he hasn't got, the man certainly has Kennedy and Miss Madge Griffiths.

-Photo by Jajjer.

be a player on the staff of the club

on whose ground the match in play-greater attention to nceuracy, and

ed, and the M.C.C. will definitely instanced the success of O'Reilly, eurry this out at Lord's. The reason whose greatness he maintained was Is to lessen any handicap 10 the due to his accuracy. counly teamma,

Owing to the death of Lord Hawke and the retirement of Mr. A. G. Webbe, who asked to be relleved at the end of the year, two new truy tees will be appointed at the Spring Meeting.

Boat Race Date

The annual Inter-University Boat Race will take place over the historic Putney-to-Mortiake course on the meeting Saturday, April 1. The state of the tide on that day will necessitate a Earl Baldwin (chairman), A. start from the University Stone at Sellers and J. H. Nash (Yorka), Slr about 10.30 am.

Those present ni WITE:

Here's Luck!

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