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Wednesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 21, 1938:

A New Method To Be Used Not Always.

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.

The P.G.A., controllers of

they score one point, I he is 2011 Vardon Trophy competition, which (dreadful though) he will be credited settles the professionals' champlon-) with 20--and the player with the ship, have

their smallest aggregate will of course, be

hitherto based

Andings on average scores.

The competition concerns majo: tournamenia, such as the open cham-t planship. the Daily Mail's £2,000 event, the "Silver King," and the News-Chronicle's £1,000. contest, The P.G.A. note the genres returned rank In these competitions and players necordingly.

With the following rather extra- ordinary result last season: Henry Cotton, who played fine 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 Vardon Trophy and therefore the champion of the year!

When Reg Whitcombe, the open champlon, heard this he felt that he had been bunkered out of turn, and ns for Alf Perry, who won more tournaments than any other player, he sold more than a few words,

ANOMOLOUS

Do not think Cotton is going to apologise for going round in fewer strokes than anyone else. He isn't. 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 in a bit anomolous that neither Whitcombe, the open winner, nor

the victor,

FAIRER WAY

On that basis, a golf expert worked it out that last season's winner-and therefore the year's best galter-- would, fittingly enough, have been 06 points. Beg Whitcombe with Furry would have been second with 50 and Cotton third with 70.

A

ile also pointed out that one im- portont drawback to the "average score" system is the weather. score of, say, 73 in perfect summer conditions is surely not so good as a 76 returned against blustering wind and driving rain?

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

to

WISC the

The PGA. have made 11 change. Being placed among Ars! 12 professionals is a matter of great importance to British golfers, und it is as well that the ranking should be above criticism.

AMERICAN

SCULLER'S

Perry, who won most events last | SUCCESS

summer, should not be the champion of the year. The result actually was Cotton (average 72.87) 1, Whi combe (73,35) 2. Perry (73,4) 3,

This only goes to show that a golfer's scores are not a dependable guide to his tournament -winning powers. By rule you can- not judge x cricketer in

averages.

So next season the F.G.A. will employ a new system. They will borrow the

used in one

Crosa country running. In this testing pastime the winner of a race scores

1 point for his team, the second man

2, the third 3, and so on.

That is how this roll will be work ed. If Colton wins the open he will

A

Safe To Do This Thing

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

FIVE-DAYS LIMIT IN

GAMES IN ENGLAND

This is not always a safe thing to do, but in the present case the goal-keeper, Pau Ka-ping, of the Chinese Amateur Athiello Federation, is wide-awake and no harm is done. An incident In the charity soccer match on Sunday when the Chinese defeated the Hongkong F. A. by four goals to nil The Associa- (low forwards tried hard to score in the second half without success, and Lee Tin-sane is here scen heading the ball back to Pau when larried by Fowler.--Photo by Jaffer,

Here And There

With "Abe"

POPULAR MEMBER IFAREWELLED

A. A. Aziz Leaving

Readers Want Box-Scores Of Colony On Sunday

Softball Matches

Players Selected To

London, Nov. 23.

England wants standardised Test matches with Australia. Limit them to thirty hours in the idea. Forget about timeless Tests and all the other things which puzzle or irritate the en- thusiast.

The Advisory County Cricket An Australian writer, quoted by Committee think Tests would be Reuter, anticipates a £25,000 share velter in this country if they gon-for Australla. Final Sgures will not sisted of five six-hour days. Aus be known until Manager W. H. tralla could carry on with six Ave-Jeanes reports. hour days. The committee, meeting in London yesterday, decided to put the proposal before the Australian Board of Control,

Worcestershire's

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

REGISTRATION SCHEME

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

The Middlesex proposal that the would be getting back to the time- less Test idea," said a prominent registration scheme of county cric- keters should be prepared for con- legislator last night. "I

sideration of first-class counties was rain, that would

mean so many accepted. M.C.C. will choose a sub- hours of the thirty lost. All we committee to get on with the job.

we had

want is to be on a par with Austra- lla."

It's Australia's move now.

The Bourd of Control hava de- cided that no Test trials will be

Australin's tour in this country played in 1939 or 1940.

The selection sub-committee, in- last season resulted in a pront of creased from three to four, includ- £42,000. Those counties which had ing two first-class county captains, the Tests (Yorkshire, Lancashire, is to be continued on an experimen- Nottinghamshire, Middlesex and tal basis, Sir Pelham Warner is not Surrey) and the M.C.C., each re-

seeking nomination again. ceive £3,350. Other counties will receive £1,000 each. Each minor county and the universities will get

£220.

Two vacancies for trustees caused by the death of Lord Hawke and the retirement of Mr. A. J. Webbo will be Alfed in the spring,

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

London, Nov. 23.

Some 50 members of the Indian The final of the Colquhoun Sculls

Recreation Club gathered together in on November 19 nt Cambridge was

the club-house at dinner last evening won by an American oarsman, Hugh

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

Pelham Warner and R. W. V. Roblas one of their most popular sportsmen, Parker, of Tabor Academy, Concord, the first American champion of the VESTERDAY

The net proft on the Australian] (Middlesex), Rev. H. R. N. Ellison I received two local girls have not yet attained the who is leaving the Colony on tour In England last summer (Derby), L1-Cmdr. V. J. Robinson Cam in the long series of winners. letters, one from a fair reader same degree of proficiency which Christmas Day. Mr. Aziz is return-umounted approximately to £42,000, and Major H. A. Henson (Glon.), 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. filley and W. L.

Knowles folds in 1800, was a Cambridge man Shanghai, asking why local news-ing to watch, some of the men's en- of more than ten years in Hongkong. Control meeting, also at Lord's. (Sussex), A. J. Spelling (Essex). but

records

do not show him as ever papers do not publish the box-scores counters now contain a great amount

II. D. G. Leveson Gower and A. F having won the Colquliouns, of softball matches played in the of sldll. Indications are not lacking Mr. A. el Arculli, President of the Although not a record, the proût Davey (Surrey), T. A. Higson and Parker gained an early lead and Ladies League. "Couldn't you bog, that the game has come to stay, Club, was in the chair and spoke of compares favourably with that of R. Howard (Lancashire), H. A won costly. His opponent lost dis- borrow, steal or otherwise pilfer This being so, every endeavour will the many sterling qualities of Mr. previous Australian visits to this Brown (Notis), Col. Sir Stanley tance through steering wide at 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, 5. Chris- Grassy Corner, Result; Back Sta- many coaches, trainers and scribes scores whenover space permits.

Test at Manchester, where not a ball topherson. R. II. Twining and W. tion: 11. Parker (Tabor, Acad., wearing out their Everliard Faves New Rules

could be bowled, all past Agures Lindsay Everard (M.C.C.). USA.. Trinity Hall) 1. Front Sta-at these matches?" asks "A Lady

would have been beaten easily. tlon: E. G. P. Sherwood (Marl- Fan." "It you do watch these borough, Christ's) 2. Won by 11 Ladies' softball tilts--but then I sup-E game, it is reported from the sec. in 8 min. 11 soc.

pose most Sports Editora pro 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 codo of its big brother-baseball. have noticed how this modified game Clarence E. Brewer of Detroit,

chair- of swat has taken on; so what about mun 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 Shanghal says, "I really do believe change for 1930 will permit the scor- that the box-scores of these gomes 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 to the pitcher. In the past runners luminating facts which would other-have been forced to stay on third wise

deserved attention" base un wild pitches, passed balls or This

"new-born infant" having de- throwbacks, although they could go veloped into a lusty kicking babe, I from first to second or from second was not entirely surprised to receive to third when these plays developed. two such letters; it was inevitable Brewer says the latest move to make that a time would come when the softball's rules similar to those of Game's adherents would demand baseball was needed to help the of-. more attention to it, and consequent-fence. In 1937 the sacrifice was ly more space in the papers.

voted into the softball rules.

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It Has Caught On \

Team For Saigon

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, Lal Kwong- tsun; Chan Chai-kung and Szeto Bick,

The team will leave early in January.

The distribution of profits was:

Bach £3,350 to the M.C.C. and

county on whose ground Test matches were played.

£1,000 to each county on whose ground Test matches were not played.

£220 to cach 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 matelies on their grounds have| received an average of £1,400 per annum towards the cost of mainten- anee and improvements.

Present-Day Bowling

Landon, Nov. 30.

Material changes In the

pro-

For next summer, when the West gramine of future Australian teams Indies will be in England, three Test visiting this country were indicated matches of three days each have by Lleut.-Colonel Ralt-Kerr, scere- most cheerful men he knew. The been arranged. The hours of play tary of the M.C.C., in a speech to Club knew him well as a cricketer will be 11.30 to 0.30 on the first two county secretaries yesterday, he has only Just relinquished the days and 11 to 6.30 on the last day. If the Australian Board of Control APPEARING elsewhere in this captaincy of the Junior Eleven-but (The price of admission will be 25. accepted the formula that Tests in

also in other forms of sport he was

The board decided that the new duration, it was obvious, remarked England should be of five days' theSelection Sub-Committee to be up-

of four

also throughout

THAT the game has caught on in

Hongkong there can be no doubt insuc arc the names at all. A visit to King's Park any players selected to represent Hong-well-known not only in the com- Sunday morning will convince even kong in the the most sanguine of that. Person-championships to be held at Saigon

Far Eastern tennis munity but

Colony.

pointed next spring shall be continu- the M.C.C. secretary, that the Aus- ally

I have not been able to whip from January 7 to 14. As none of

ed on the experimental basis of four trallans would not be able to carry myself into the same degree of en- the four can be ranked within the of the members at Mr. Aziz'e de tains,

Mr. Arcull expressed the regret members, including two county cap-out such an extended programme. thusiasm for the sport as some of my first five in the Colony, the team

S last year. It was an- He did not, however, suggest the friends have; but then I cannot ex-cannot be said to be a representative parture, especially as there was little nounced that Sir Pelham Warner didimanner in which it would be cur- peet these same friends to reveal the one; but as most of the

possibility of his return in the near not wish to seek nomination on the tailed. same keenness for the games which players either cannot obtain

leading future, but he assured Mr. Aziz that committee, and a hearty vote of Colonel Rolt-Kerr hnd something I and 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.

their ever he did return there would thanks for his services and those of to say on the highly controver ter of taste. Except to those who take part in the championships, it Club (Applause). Mr. Arculli con-

slal subject of wickets. He could not understand the intricate system of is probably the best team we can cluded by wishing Mr. Aziz good luck ches in 1930 or 1949.

find any evidence that wickets to- Bcoring and not every softballer, send in the circumstances. When and prosperity in his new sphere of

There will be no Test Trial mat-day were enormously different from am sure, does understand-the jum- spoke to him a fortnight ago, Tsui

what they were in 1910, ble of Agures conveys tile to most vun-pul was almost certals of being activity.

Various steps had been taken to where you can tell at a glance how able to go to

to Saigon, but apparently

that in help the bowler, yet as far as the Mr. Aziz suitably replied, thanking future, as often as can be arranged, Karne was concerned the most un changed his mind. His the members for the honour they had the 12th man in Test matches should satisfactory aspect was the bowling.

people. It's not like cricket scores,

many

runs a batsman has mado.

he One doesn't necessarily have to be

brother

Toul

A resolution which received ap- proval by the -board was

u cricketer to be able to understand Cupper and But, the Davis done him and wishing them success be a player on the staff of the club

never at

champion, was in the Cricket League, which starts cricket scores; but one has to know able to make the trip, and because

time certain of being next month. quite a great deal of baseball in orable der to tell how a game went by

the

of the uncertainty in his Case

All box-scores. Even as it Js, some along, his declination nt tho Invitation people are of the opinion that enough does not come as a surprise now. space is already being devoted by the All the same 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

guaranteed,

gruntled when the cricket scores on and return passage

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

That's

the would have, done Colony tennis an worst part about upsetting an esta- immeasurable amount of good. blished practice! Usually there are

of cricket This Lou Nova

three or four columns scores every Sunday morning.

Fillip To Game

His

IS ability to beat, and nearly knock out, Tommy Farr stamps Lou Nova na a most promis- IF anything was needed to fan the ing fighter. A husky Californian, he name of interest sweeping over believes in carrots, beef juice and the Colony, the visit of the Ameri- sugar, and the sober American cri can girls provided it. These girls tics who saw him knock out Gunner set a new standard of play in Hong- Baerlund belleve he is more promis kong with their splendid pitching ing at the age of 28 than was Gleno and spectacular felding. Before, Tunney. And this is saying plenty their exhibition at Caroline Hill, He is also somewhat of a Bombastes well, it was Furioso, if the story is true that, on visitors taught entering his dressing-room before a

softball here was

just softball. But the

Miss Ann Tylor gavo her partner,

A how softball could be made to be fight, he sniffed the air, found if not W. A. II. Daff, splendid support in played like baseball, and consequent to his liking, and said, "Give this the final of the Colony mixed doubles ly with the new technique the game room to my opponent." hos specdied up considerably, pecially in the men's matches. Walle f nerve..

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

Whatever tennis championship against Commdr.

Photo by Jajer.

He appealed to bowlers to pay

on whose ground the match is play greater attention to accuracy, and ed, and the M.C.C. will definitely instanced the success of O'Reilly, carry this out at Lord's. The reason whose greatness he maintained was is to lessen any handicap to the county teams.

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 trus ices will be appointed at the Spring Meeting.

due to his accursey.

Boat Race Date

THE annual Inter-University Boat Race will take place over the historic Putney-to-Moillake course on Those present at the meeting Saturday, April 1.. The state of the tke on that day will necessitate a Earl Baldwin (chairman), A. start from the University Stone at Sellers and J. H. Nash (Yorks), Sir about 10.30 a.m.

were:

Here's Luck!

EWO

BEER