1940-08-21 — Page 6

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 21, 1940.

Around The Courses

MEDAL OR MATCH PLAY?

Which Is The Better Method Of Scoring In Championships?

Accepted Conditions In H.K.

(By "Birdio")

THE PROS AND CONS of medal and match play have proved material for many a Club-house discussion, and it was quite recently I walked into one of them myself. It wasn't a long argument, and after several pithy and irrelevant references to personal play had been bandied back and forth, it died out, but it sowed the seeds of thought.

To those who have bothered to give the matter: a thought, beyond noting the obvious differences in the methods of scoring, avenues of conjecture are opened up all along the road.

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It is interesting to note that) in practically all Amateur and Professional (and Open) Cham- pionships, the first named are conducted under match-play conditions and the latter two under stroke or medal-play.

The most outstanding departure from these lines is in the Australien Professional Championship-which is governed by match-play rules, und, as far as my research led me, it is the only one in the world,

The Irish Professional Champion- ship was conducted by similar rules up 1900 when they changed over to medal play.

Sam Snead Wins

Canadian Open

TORONTO, Aug. 20 (Reu- ter)in the play-off over 18 holes to-day, Sam Snead beat Harold (jugs) McSpaden by one stroke, the score being 71-72.

Snead had visions of the match going to the 19th when McSpaden had a two-foot putt on the 18th to tie the score. but the putt was missed!

Tha South African Ainateur Championship was medal play up to: 1924 when it was altered to match play. The India Amateur Cham- pionship made a similar conversion in 1800, but the most recent was in the Japan Amateur-their change being made in 1926 (from medal iotensity of which might be painful to match play),

the normal player.

The first difference, then, k There is a story of Jimmy Demaret that the professionals seem to pre-newest of U.S. stors. One of his fer medal play.

opponents once complained after a round that he (Demaret) wod' anc

Sign Of

The Times

LONDON, Aug. 20 (Reuter)-The Jockey Club announced to-day that following consultations with the Gov- crnment racing would be resumed on Beptember 14.

ANOTHER WIN FOR YANKEES

NEW YORK, Aug. 20 (UP)—New York Yankees scored another great win to-day when they beat the Detroit Tigers 4-3 in the American Baseball League,

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01 Battery: Rowe, McKain, Яullivan. New York ....... 4

Dattery, Ruffing, Dickey. Chicago

Battery: Smith, Treal.

Battery: Ras, Itayes.

of the most uncompurdonable people Pladelphia with whom to play. This was be- cause of Demaret's continued failure to answer to remarks addressed to him.

Demaret confessed that he had never heard them!

THE second difference is in the preference shown by the American golfers for the medal system. The U.S. Amateur, it is truc, is conducted under match-play conditions, and the U.S. Professional Golfers' Asso- ciation Championship is one of match play, too. But apart| that medal-play is the. from these, nearly all their tour-harder of the two systems under naments and State champion-which to compete.

·pionships-are- medal-play- -That, perhaps,-is-why-the

Swimming

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Dave Leonard gets his shoulders behind one in the Britain- Portugal Baseball match at Caroline Hill on Sunday in aid of the "S. C. M. Post" and "H.K. Telegraph" War Fund. This was the first game of the International Series, and was won by Portugal.7-6.-Ming Yuen.

Macao Racing

Programme Of Events For September Meet

The races

THE PROGRAMME of events for the September Meeting of the Macao Jockey Club has been announced. will be held on Sunday, September 15, and the first saddling bell will be rung at 2.30 p.m.

The programme is as follows:

p.m.

5. 5 p.m-THE STEWARDS'

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"MA KAU SHEK CUP" A Handicap. A forced entry for China Ponies "Y" Class that have HANDICAP" (First Sector). For started ot n Race Meeting of this China Ponies classified by the Hong Club since January, 1940, No En kong Jockey Club as "E" Class. | We

Winner $200; trance Fee. A Cup valued $500 Jockye allowance.

be won twice in succession by a Second $125; Third $100. Entry $5. kindly presented by the Stewards ta Five furlongs.

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Jockey Allow

Nate. made for the "Ma Kou Shek Handi- owner or owners. cap" (Baces 1 and 3). Entries will once. Winner $150; Second $100; bo divided into First and Second Third $75. One mile.

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Ponles Second $100; Third $75. Entry $0. by the Hongkong Jockey Six furlongters must be declared on classified by

" Class, Jockey allow- RS ance. Winner $200; Second $125; the forms provided in the weighing Third $100. Entry $5. Halt mile. room before 2.15 o'clock for the first 3. 4 p.m.-"MA EAU SHEK race and for all subsequent races 45 HANDICAP (Second Section). (See minutes before the scheduled start- Race No. 1).

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Ponics Messra. T. A. Martin HANDICAP" For classified by this Club as "Y" Class. Prince's Building, on Thursday, Sep- Winners since January, 1940 barred. tember 6, 1940 at noon. To be ridden by jockeys who have Ponies will be transported to not won ten races anywhere at any Macao on Friday, September 13, re- Winner $150, Second $100; turned on Monday, September, 16, TOKYO, Aar:20, (Domei)—Tetsuo me. Is there anything in the latter professional and Open tourna lamuro, of Nippon University, set Third $75. Entry $5. Six furlongs, and kept at Macao without charge." world renown American rolfers have system that has contributed to the ments are strake-play competi- / the best time of the world in this rained for consistency and bril-tions.

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World Records At Japanese National Meet

year for the 200-metre breast-stroke when he negotiated the distance in 2 Conforming with these apparently mins. 43.4 secs, at the National Swim-

I think there is in that the con- accepted conditions, the Colony ming Championship Meet on Monday. centration necessary over 12 holes Open Championship, too, is medal- Kunto Tsuda, Nippon University. Tanaka, of Waseda (as over the 18 holes or less in a play, while the

Elenku ordinary Club and knock-out match-play competition)

University, also sel the best world re- Championships

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here, in that of strokes at one hole but by win- direction there is something that ning the next make things all could be said for conducting the square) have tended to build the Club championships on a medal-play American golfer Into a player of basis. Two week-ends of 30 holes great' concentrative powers-the In- per Sunday would complete the

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Miss Fumi Hatano, student of the Fourth Tokyo Prefectural Girls' High School, established a new Japan cord for the 200-metre free style event when the covered the distance in 2 mina 44.8 secs.

The former mark of 2 mins. 45 secs set by Miss Kare Kojima in 1933, has remained unbroken for seven years.

Joe Louis' Fortune

For his last Bibt-against Arturo Godoy-World Heavyweight Cham- Iplon, Joe Louis received a cheque for more than £13,000, bringing bis total ring earnings up tá 2420,000. •

Louls next meets Max Baer, a former champion, In September, probably at Chichgo. The negro has already

| beaten Ener.

competition instead of having the preliminary round, the first round, #and the quarter-finals, semi-finals jand Anal stretching over weeks,

Mlad you, over all these days one must maintain consistent form, though that, perhaps, is the better. criterion of a champion.

Personally, I think, medal-play is championship play, and match-play, ns the name implies, for matches where there are two or more singles or foursomes.

Club competitions are Inclined to be numerous. There are the Club and Junior championships, the Mixed Foursomes, the men's Foursomes, the women's competitions, and the Captain's Cup qualifying matches for which are going on unceasingly and added to these are the regu lar medal and bogey pool compet!- Lions.

With all these to consider, t should make one incline to the iden of having Club Championships on a medal basis. Two week-ends and it Is all over

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