1940-08-28 — Page 6

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 28,

1940.

Around The Courses

IN U.S.

Major Baseball

OUTCRY AGAINST 'DOCTORED'

COURSES IN Sarazen Wants Return Match With Ryder Cup Team: $16,000 Collected

(By "Birdio")

Only Three Games Played

Owing To Rain

NEW YORK, Aur, 21 (UP)—Only three games were played in the Major Baseball Lesgues to-day, two in the National and one in the American. Rain washed out the remainder.

Scorts were:

AMERICAN LEAGUE

π FI. CCARO

flattery Blaney. E. Smith. Tresh. Battery Chandler, Murphy, Dicker.

Ten inpings were played) The

St. Loule toston, Detroit- Philadelphi and Cleveland Washington Cames were washed out by fin

LAST WEEK-END, for the first time since the rains came--which seems about six months ago I went out to the New Territories to sco

In certain New York how the courses there were taking it. parts they still have it. The Royal Hongkong Golf Club courses looked, and I believe were, playable, but the Country Club course was still very moist. though, except for one or two bad spots, was quite new York playable, too.

Battery. Chienga

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Lehrman, Danning,

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Battery

Pass, Collins

Battery

Tobin, Herres

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The atrocious draining of the first and second fair- ways has left two bogs, stretching two-thirds of the way Across, and just below the first green is a most deceptive en patch.

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Fresh long grass ( 18 ) soft to take mat the mower led

Into stepping thereon manngrad fe retreat before I had sunk it above the ankle

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Positions at the end of July weir

Ben Hogan

Jimmy Demarei

Byron Nelson

$8.728

$5,177

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Frog Wood $5,250

$4.351 S4 SPF Sary Spead,

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of bol and Ives me wateres at Guldah: The slightest rigs of being too fast

Plot. 33.800

Manriumi. $3.675. Fastpl 53 300 Clarion Uratner $3738 H

M Studen $2.950 Gene Narazen $2.725. Pail Runyan. $2.450 Ed Ouver, $2,575 Panagione

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voked by the meluser, An Open Ja US pointed out durwever, the "dox toting" of the courses as no doubt

4 defen- measure apost the record breaking Agures that people like Ben, Hogan Jiminy Demaret, Sam Surad sad the the have been burning in of Life No self-respecting Chate

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Britain

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HARRY VARDON TROPHY

Ben Hogan

Jimmy Demaret

Craig Wood

338 points

287 points

247 points

Dick Metz, 215, Sam Snead, 180; Nebub, 371, Ralph Guldahi

Red Cross Fand

SPORTSMEN DONATE

OVER £74,000

MAGNIFICENT response of sportsmen to appeals for the Red Cross Fund was revealed when donations totalling £74,520 38. 3d. were announced.

The figures announced show that Henry Cotton's series of golf matches had raised £20,870,

The Cotton-Burton match in

132. Horton Smith. 147 Jimmy Birmingham realised a further Hines, 108, Gene Sarnzen, 108, Paul | £2,100. Runyan 92 Vær Grezzi, DO

there was a hunker in the centre and go the whole way of one of the fairways that trapped 230-3ard driven

Sacazen's sriections were beaten the last championship at Carmoun- by 7 matches to 5, anul in refusing to

Colton where y

won, nimit defeat sud that it was tuch A change future here and there and the. whome might have been different

And in ijaport of the cuntention that the British courses are difficult it is pointed mat that whereas the American golfers have much TI. proved over recent years, yet they have been unable to make muct In pression of the course reconsis dar -

g the British champlonsnipes. However, at sounds the just strer $10! er me

DENE Saruzen ate humble pie

his when

selections

17

Soccer v. Golf

SO FAR the Fund threatens to evelop into a race between football and golf to raise the biggest total.

HOW THE MONEY

WAS RAISED

HERE are the amounts raised for *ports* Red Cross Fund, Athletics (track)

Between them the three football, Badminton codes have resibed £24.094. golf Bards and Snooker receipts from all sources—including Bowls the Birmingham match—are

proximately £23,000.

Boxing's contribution was

ap- Boxing

Bridge Chess

Cyclin

£7,188 kel

That great match netted some $10,000 for the Red Cross War Re- llef Fund, and Tom Walsh, Presl- dent of the Profesional Golfers' of which Lord Queensberry was Asociation

that if Great responsible for £6,000 with his shows

He, Darts Britain is unable to rabe a team at Empress Hall, Earl's Court.

Fencing next year a return contest would stage four altogether

Field Sports be welcomed

Lord Queensberry had planned to Football

Association maker there than treble this amount

Rugby Union Rugby League

because of

TWENTY-TWO year old Patty Unfortunately, he found it diffcult

Berg. of the University of to arrange programmes were 'Minnesota, has joined the ranks the shortage of first-class talent, and F.P.PA Unity Pool

nually suitable halls WPTC com-Solf beaten by the U.S. Ryder Cup of women professionals and mandeered for other purposes.

Henry Colton Fund Greyhounds team. He gave out a challenge works for a Chleage sports firm

Hockey and took defeat but that for $145 a week. Since she first Good Break

Ice Hockey and Skating man's back again and wants a became a sensation at 16 yeara BILLIARDS and snooker is near Lacrosse ... return match!

of age. she has

As with golf and Lawn Tennis Won every the £6,000 mark.

boxing, this is largely one-man Masters Foxhounds jeffort. Joe Davis organised most of RAF. Sports' Board

the money-spinning matches, and his RN. and M. Sports Board special Penny Fund is already well Racing lover £300.

Bowing Swimming

Canadian Club

Whisky

tus Lons

THERE 15 ONLY ONE

Figures representing the Sports and Recreation Clubs made by enthusiasts of 30-odd pas-Table Tennis

mes make an interesting study.

CANADIAN CLUB WHISKY contributed

WITH

THE

BEAUTIFUL

AND

for

Theatre Football pool fans,

Me and My Girl Perice cample, £1,000 through the Miscellaneous, Whist directors of Unity Pools. Throwers Drives, etc of a dart-pretty or otherwise--are BOUQUET high in the list with £4.812.

DISTINCTIVE FLAVOUR

Canadian Club Whisky makes a remark- ably pleasant variation-and it enjoys world-wide reputation.

As an ingredient in cocktails, it permits the creation of something original, subtle and most pleasing.

Obtainable at all leading Wing Morchants,

Sole Agents:-

More than £1,250 has been raised at greyhound meetings, and despite several cancelled tournaments, lawn tennis is going well with £1.116.

A Soccer Club Makes Money!

IT is typical of the topsy-

turvy nature of things that while most of the famous Soccer clubs lost money last season, one of the "Cinderellas" has just reported a profit.

The club is Barrow, and the profit exactly As the chair. £8 19.. 6d.

Mr. E. J. Davies, says, "the club has reason to be proud of the results

man,

of a very difficult season."

178

04

3,920

543

7,188

1,230

174 4,012

F.A. WORTH

145

17,820

4.782

1,408

1,000

4,703

20,670

£131,474

Italians Help To

Contribute £5,000

1.271 GATE MONEY subscribed by the 131creaming Italians in Milan last year 1.496 helped to rwet our F.A.' Italy- Halkans tour profits to £5,000 and to on the current 1.116 but a rosier hue

105 balance sheet,

105

110

702

83

The FA, is pretty well shored up financially to stand any Mother Hubbard seasons that might blow alone.

1,028 131,474,

745

Assets, for instance, stand at

The year's loss was £4,388 (£13,- 337 on the general sccount. less tour 408pronts and

Investment revenue of

301

£4,429).

It might have been worse, These Dictator States don't lika parting with real money.

One-Legged Still Waiting!

Cricketer's Optimism

THE YEAR before the Italy trip, our F.A. team played to a £30,000 rabble in Berlin and left Germany without taking a sausage,

Hitler's convenient burglary laws prevented money from leaving the country, but we were promised a re- turn match in London, when the Ger- are mons would generously forego their

share of the takings.

BY MAKING 187 not out against the Oratory School, 11. E. Watts, the left-handed captain of Downside School, who has now scored 883 runs in five completed innings, beat the school record held since 1923 by Mnown for their courage and mocess J. Turnbull, the England. Cambridge and Glamorgan cricketer.

ONE-ARMED GOLFERS

on the links. but one-leg cricketers are something of a novelty. Here is a letter from one of them, written to the MC.C., and this masterpiece

in a volume dealing with the history of Lord's:

major women's title there is in of optimism finds a prominent place the United States.

The story of how she came to take to golf is interesting and amusing. In her adolescent days she was ever a tomboy, and her father, a Mini- neapolis grain broker, persuaded her to take up golf to overcome a persis- bouring football team! She is an accomplished baseball player, too!

THE CENTRAL TRADING tent desire to play tackle in a neigh

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National Bank Building Hongkong.

Red hair and freckles go to make! hers the most cheerful face on any course. She can drive a ball with the best of the ranle gros, and only recently won the women's Western Open.

There is room for her and any other women golfers of similar prowess among the golf schools of America.

"First of all, I am a tailor, but the work is about settling me, and I want to get out of it. I want a and more knocking-about life healthy.

"Second, I have only one log, but am very active; more so, per- haps, than a few with both limbs.

"But hold on I know what you are saying. I say give me a trial. If I am not what I say there is nothing lost on either side, and I go back.

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"Can you find me something to do at Lord's cricket ground? ... Can handle a bat against the best

What you may not know is that after the Berlin match, the German cmimarles went hot-foot to. Soot- land to try to persuade the Scola to}

· send a team on the same termN.

George Graham, Scottish F.A. secretary, chuckled when he told me the story the other day. "Tancy them wasting the fare to offer Scots a proposition like that,"o said.

"We told 'em we wanted a blo deposit before we would leave Glasgow. That's why the Scottish XI didn't go to Germany,"

bowling, and I think against coun- ty bowling after a week's trial, play a forward bat, can catch like a trap (so they say). No 'brag, but, would like to proof it, got a good eye and Judgment of the ball

I suppose it won't be any use, but nothing, benture-nothing have.

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