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FROM CADDIE Demaret Gets Fun Out

Of Serious Golf

Course Improvements At The Country Club

(By "Birdie")

Wednesday..

The TO

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 8, 1940.

These gures do not include the St. Petersburg Open, which netled De. marci-$100, or the North and South Open, which gave Hogan 51,000.

Jimmy Demoret

$5,377

Ben Hogan

$2,705

Lawson Lille

$2,442

Clayton Henffner

$2,270

Byron Nelson and Sam

Snead $1,046

HARRY VARDON TROPHY

Theso Agures also exclude points

naments:

Demuret Hogan

171 pts.

84 pts.

60 pts.

l'enna

-52 pts.

Horton Smith Dick Metz und Tony

A FEW YEARS AGO, Jimmy Demaret, of rained in the above mentioned tour- Houston, Texas, was a $1-a-day caddie-to-day he has carved his way to the front ranks of the pro- fessionals. Since January 5 he has won five of the foremost American tournaments (the 'Oakland, San Francisco, New Orleans, St. Petersburgh and Western Opens) and leads the money winners with a total of over $6,000,

Henry Picard topped the "pros. last year with a grand total of $10,303, and in view of the recent announce- ment by the American P.G.A. that the summer will see a further ten tournaments aggregating $75,000 in prize money, there is every possibility that Demaret will pass Picard's total before the summer is over.

eye of

Unsuccessful Efforts To Organise Cricket

But Demaret is not just an When Demaret blossomed out two) other successful and serious years ago, he caught the money maker. "Colourful"everal professionals, and nearly all seems to be his general descrip- perfect swing. Sound and compact, petlive cricket.

were agreed that his was an almost Surrey's efforts to arrange com. tion by American sports writers he is always straight and long. Henes, has not met with success,

even on regional --and that doesn't refer to his considers concentration on the fore-

An official club statement admilled clothes, the startling hues of and hards the most important

thing in golf, which have been said to dazzle!

His consideration of golf as a game the crowds. He takes a refresh- and only a game could well be ing air to his tournament games, followed by many. and with delightful abandon, ever strives to thrill his followers with seemingly im- possible shots.

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this, but declared that "for the bene club an effort must be made to pro fit of the publle and members of the vide first-class cricket."

county in the season,

Surrey will, therefore, arrange a number of two-day matches in 1940, WITH the planting of

both with other counties and with W

more the Services. They propose that the more trees to line the fairways qualification rule be relaxed and of the Country Club, Sheungshiu, the that players will play for any one He is a gint with the spoon.

course is rapidly assuming attractive Save mentioned that before, but i

features. Though the trees yet would recall his four shots that laid young and are only about four feet the foundation for his reputation. It high, it is easy to see what improve-

loss in fum that he eats they are to mate. dropped four balls and drove them ment there is no punishment for a elen across a 200-yard river.

or hook-balis lying near the, slice An

picked Impressed enthusiast had a surveyor young trees

and casure the distances, and three dropped within two club lengths. were 243 yards and the other 230 and in a spot where the shot is not yards-and those distances

litely to damage any of the sur- rounding trees.

was more or

ly the carry!

were

are

A the mo-

up

Courses LEADING

PRO.

Jimmy Demaret studying the fe. From a $1-a-day caddle he has risen to be the foremost money-making golfer In the United States to-day. He plans to try for every major golf tile this year.

DiMaggio Returns But Yankees Lose

BUNNY AUSTIN COMPARES OLD AND NEW

Athletic Invitation To Philippines May Be Withdrawn

TOKYO, May 7 (Domei). The Tokyo Amateur Athletic Association may be forced to withdraw its invitation to the Philippine Athletic Association to participate in the coming East Asia Athletic Turnament, which is expected to be held here from June 6, because of the attitude of the Philippine organisation in regard to steamship accommodation.

W. G. Clarke Wins S'hai Billiards Title

The

Club Shanghat

Billiards

The Philippines were expected to.send one of the leading teams to the contests and had com- pleted their selection of 76 athletes, Proparations have been made to give the athletes a warm welcome, but with the date of their departure for Japan nearing, their demands Championship final was played last In regard to shipping necom-week between W. G. Clarke and G. modation have been impossible D. Nicholl. The game, a thousand to fill on account of the war time up, was a very

even one, W. G. situation and the scarcity of cabins Clarko winning by the narrow mar- on the Japan-Manila line,

gin of fourteen points. Adequate accommodation is not avaliable, even though the liner! *** Atsuta Maru has been designated one. of the ships bring the athletes herc.

The Japanese Amateur Athletle Association has therefore been ob- Bged to request the Filipino athletes to be satisfied with third-class, tic- commodation with the treatment of second-class passengers. The Filipino Association,

however, demands second-class accommodation for all Its members.

COMPROMISE TERMS

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (UP).—posed that fratly, if a

AS a compromise, it has been pro-

Provisional Football Programme

For 1940/41

NEW YORK; May 7 (UP), —Joe j DiMaggio returned to the New York W. H. (Bunny) Austin, nine tipies

Japanese LONDON, May 7 Yankees' line-up for their match member of British Davis Cup teams given first-class food and the use of next season arranges Clubs Into four (Reuter)~~A vessel is used, the athletes shall be provisional football programme for against the Detroit Tigers to-day, but and the world's fourth ranking player decks for training, and other pur- Sections. Sectional Championships falled to help them lo win. The two years ago, predicted that it would Tigers won by 4-2,

be "many years" before

poses, but with third-class cabins; will be decided on goal average, and amateur age during the opening match of tire with Don Budge, Ellsworth Vines and be furnished

DiMaggio injured his knee cartii- tennis produces players

secondly, in case of sailing on foreign the first eleven teams in each Section to compare

vessels, second-class treatment shall qualify for the first round of the Cup slightly to-day, said that his leg was season, and though he was limping Fred Perry.

with third-class ac- Competition. Others must play in commodation.

the Preliminary rounds, home and "O.K."

Austin, touring Amerlen in the in-

If these compromise terms are re-away, on February 1 and 8. The complete scores were:

terests of an international moral redenw the invitation to the Philippines. February 15 and 22, and the Final jected, it has been decided to with! AMERICAN LEAGUE

The First Round will be played on At the same time, it will be neces-un March 3.

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Chicago

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armament programme, said the war had halted the development of young players.

"It takes years to achieve the sort

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sary to ask the Filipino Association

to reduce the number of its athletes

to be sent to Tokyo if a foreign vessel

Win For Albion

the

of tennis strokes which made Budge is used, as under the present high Vines and Perry invincible," he de-rates of exchange, the extra cost of clared. "Young players, forced to foreign accommodation cannot pox-Scottish abandon their game for even a year bly be covered by the Japanese Albion Rovers beat Queen's Park

organisation's budget.

or two because of war, may never be able to regain their emciency."

Veteran of

of twenty-six years of

SPORT ADVTS. tennis thirteen of them in big time

THE HONG KONG.

JOCKEY CLUB

NOTICE TO MEMBERS

FIFTH EXTRA RACE MEETING, GREEN ISLAND HANDICAP

INDIANAPOLIS, May 7 (UP).--- George Balley, a 38-year-old Detroit He has อ temperament ideally They line the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and motor racing driver, was fatally in- sulted for golf, Bis terven

8th fairways, and when they have ured here to-day when his arc airight-they had to be for the Brown-woe betide the wayward. finish of the St. Petersburg Open. But there is a simpler and much Both Demaret and Byron Nelson put more immediate, why of improving their second shots of the fast hole the course, and that is by bunkers. square on the green-the former four As they are at the moment, there feet from the pin, and the latter eight, are only three holes with bunkers- Neben sink his putt, leaving Demaret and only one that is a really serious to drop his to avold a tle and play-proposition. The Est green is eles: off, Straight as a dle the ball vated some ten feet and has two plunked Into the cup.

bunkers along the sides, but the But his golf ambitions go no fur-front approach can be made with a ther than being a good Club profes-putter! The 6th (178 yards) has a chosen to represent the Hongkong has been decided to divide the sional and greenkeeper., Though the bunker some fifteen or twenty yards Electric R.C. in a lawn bowls league race into three sections, game has been his means of livell-in front and is more of a mental match against the Kowloon F.C. onį The third section will be race

always

hazard than anything.

hood since schooldays, it has been a game and nothing more. The The 7th, another short hole (163 business end of golf for him is giving yards) demands-it-correct-shot lessons at the Brae Burn Country Four bunkers trip anything else. Club, Houston, where he is in full

for more extensive sand traps was I believe that when a suggestion

put forward some time ago, it was shouted down because it made the course too dimcult for the beginners!

charge and where he studies grass

fortilizers,

Only Sam Snead can be said to match him in gallery popularity.

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A Racket

that's built

The open throat

makes every shot a split-second FASTER

The "Top-Flite" was originally designed by the world-famous W. T. Tilden and used by him in all his most famous successes,

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In view of the number of

The following rinks have been entries received for the above, it

the latter's ground on Saturday:

A. P.

P. Tarbuck, R. A. Owens, C. E. Gahagan and J. F. Lunny

A. G. Gardner, R. F. Gregory,

Padgett and G. G. S. Thomson. S. Melay and A. F. Paul,

W. E. Macfarlane, V. Sorby, G. T.

Reserve, W. E. Orchard,

SUGGESTIONS TO SOCCER ASSOCIATION

Al the monthly meeting of the

No. 11 and run at 6.30 p.m. —A-cash-swoop,-tickets $5-ench,- will be held on this race but "All through" chances will noi parti- cipate, and tickets can be purchas- ed only at the Race Course during the Meeting.

By Order of the Stewards,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

Hongkong, 4th May, 1940.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

Referees' Association last night. It THE

FIFTH EXTRA RACE

was decided to send several repre- MEETING will be held (weather per- sentations to the Football Association. mitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on

Among the representations is that

a Referee Appointment secretary be SATURDAY, 11th and MONDAY, appointed and that referees or lines- 13th May, 1940, commencing at 3.06 p.m. on Saturday, and at 12.30 p.m. men in

in game not played should re- ceive fees.

on Monday.

The First Bell will be rung at 1.30, Mr. Beard's proposal that referees p.m. on the First Day and at 12.00 in charity matches should be given NOON on the Second Day. The

in fee, but should he wish to return it Timn Interval will be after the

as u contribution towards that charity second race (1.00 p.m.) on the Second he might do so, was seconded,

Baseball Meeting

There will be a meeting of the Hongkong Baseball Club to-day

Day.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE

The temporary green cardboard badges are now cancelled and will no longer procure udmission to the Enclosure,

No One without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure. the Brook Club, Kowleon, at 5.30 Such must be worn throughout the [p.m. Officers will be elected and duration of each Meeting in such a plans for the forthcoming season munner as to be readily identified. discussed.

Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 per day for Gentle- Personally cannot see a better inmen and $3.00 per day for Ladies centive to improve one's game.

(both including tax) are obtainable Run-up approaches can be made through the SECRETARY upon the far too frequently, and the "chip" dis- personal or written application of al regarded. The second is the more Member, such Member to be respon- correct shot, though much the harder sible for all visitors introduced by but why not make people play the him, and for Payment of all Chits, course property?

The Secretary's OMee, 1st floor,

E problem on Welsh courses, I Exchange Building, (Tel 27704) will rend, in one of language. It is close at 11.45 am on the First Day not the spelling of Welsh names, but and at 10.45 am, on the Second Day. the pronouncing of the simpler ones, ) Tins are obtainable at the Club Girls have taken to caddies jobs, and House provided they are ordered in here, when they slice, have to advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. think of plensanier things to sny in 21820). a less frully vocabulary.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

5 METROPOLE and is payable at the Gate. Soldiera

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The price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $1.00 including Tax, for all Persons, including Ladies, and Sailors in Uniform ore admitted Half Prico.

By Order,

C. D. BROWN,

Secretary. Hongkong, Cth May, 1940.

The

most

competition. Austin said noticeable change in the game since | he began playing is speed..

Trials Postponed.

In the Western Section of

Regional Leagues to-day,

by 3-1.

tives to compete at the East Asin Nanking, May 6. Athletic Meeting to be held in Tokyo, The final of the preliminary athlete has been postponed until May 13- try-outs to select Chinese representa-Domet.

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