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Wednesday,

Around The

HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH

Eyes Have It In Golf

Swimming

Headquarters "B"

Win R. Scots'

Left Ensures Greater Control

Of Head Movement

Annual Sports Any News Better Than No News

BEFORE an enthusiaallo crowil

of supporters lost night at

the

(By "Birdie")

Army pool. Royal Scots held their TILT YOUR HEAD to the right and look at the

'annual juter-Company swimming

snorts, first place being taken by ball through the left eye in addressing it.

Headquarters "B", who secured

quarters "A".

The master

311⁄2 paints against 2013 to Head-of masters-Bobby Jones-used to do this, but he put it down to there being a difference between his two eycs, Company

18 His left he called the "major" or controlling oye, and He Company 13 and "A" Company says that he discovered this through shooting.

Other placings were

pany 25 points, "C"

11.

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It was a keen struggle for points throughout, but greatest excitement came from the invitation relay race in which the YMCA. bent Royal Artillery by a touch, Small Units and Royal Engineers were the other two teams in the event.

Inter-School Aquatic Heats

HEATS for the 220 yards and the diving for the Inter-School swimming sports which have been arranged by the V.R.C. for Saturday were held at the V.R.C. last night.

Qualisers for the nat were;

Boys 220 yards, Heat 1-1, Donald Young (St Joseph's) 2. A. V. Lopes (in Salle J. A. Sandberg (1.a Salle). Time 2. 60. Heat 2-1. William Teo (8 Stephen's); 2, Roza-Pereira (La Salle). Time 2.01 2/8 feet.

Toya Arnior Diving qualifiers for

Stephen's), D Anall-Chang On (St Pomeroy (La Salle).

Victoria Club

Call-over For

St Leger

LONDON. Aug. 19 (Reuter), Victoria Club's latest call-over for the St Leger is:

11-2 Owen Tudor (10). 100-12 Devonian et

al.

0-1 Chateau Larose (0). 10:1 Bakhtawar (o). (100-9 27. 101 Mazarin to).

1007 Suncastic, floyalist and Orthodox

(o),

300-8 Thoroughfare, Ptolemy and Star-

wart fol.

20-1 Firoze Din. Dancing Time and

Lambert Simnel (o). 23-1 Felten to),

23-1

Turkana to).

Camperdown,

Royal Academy. Sallum and Cuerdley to).

Feldtis (0).

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Tilden Names Budge "Greatest Player Of All”

“Big Bill” tilDEN, who recently aroused a storm of protest by naming the late Susanne Lenglen as the greatest woman tennis player of all time over the claims of Helen Wills Roark and Alice Marble, whom miany regard as better than the French woman; has now created what might well be an- other controversy as far as the men players are concerned. He har just named Donald Budge as the greatest player the courts have ever seen.

Many followers of the game for by his amateur days he won all may disagree with him-re-the titles that are worth winning.

One reason for Budge's success as membering the feats of Ells-given by Tilden, is that he is a born but it must be admitted thal Tilden should be something of an authority on the subject.

be

I wonder how far he would correct in applying this theory to all golfers? Can be a fact that one or the other of one's eyes is better. Doctors will tell that one eye can be weaker than the other-but I don't think that is what Jones meant.

In the case of golf, I would think that with all the lett Is the "mujor" eye. For this reason. It helps to keep the head down for the longest possible time and, at least, it keeps there for the time of hitting the boll, which what

is

ik wanted, Just try looking at the ball through the right eye, and then calculate the precentage of shots which are spoiled through lifting the head too early.

With the left eye on the ball and with the head tilted to the right, even

if there is the tendency to lift the head at the moment of impact, there is yet the range of the right eye to cross the ball before it is actually out of sight. By which time, the ball should have been

struck

Another thing I have found out nhout this left eye business is that a different perspective of the ball is seen, and the tilt of the head some how makes the in-out swing caster,

of

It alters the apparent line approach. That is, a parallel line to enc's feet appears to converge backwards when the left eye, takes control, and is then hitting along what seems to be the correct line ene hits from the inskle outwards.

Courses

August 20,

1941,

Father Teaches Son

Bobby Jones II, teaching Bobby Jones III how to play golf Note Junior's cocked head, and the in the family manner. concentration on the ball with the left eye.

Jenkins-Father And Son-Hope

To Break Ninety Speed Records

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (UP).-A father-and-son team featuring Salt Lake City's racing mayor, Ab Jenkins, and his 27-year-old-son--will speed over the hard surface of the Bonneville salt flats within the next few weeks in attempts to break some 90 new automobile records.

Perry Blames

Eighty-one of the records that Jenkins and his son, Mary, who will act as assistant and relief driver, will be out to break

mer on the saline speedway 130 miles west of Salt Lake City.

In addition, Jenkins will have two other primary objectives:

ulling players with it part in Pros For Tennis will be his own, set last sunl

supere eye-

sight can often Just line up the hole by standing over the ball. Others have to le down behind and study the direct line.

down behind is not necessarily to get The American pros say that getting

worth Vines and Fred Perrypar ludge in action," he is the line but to look for any untoward

He has played tournament tenis longer that anybody, und, in fact, he may well claim the title of being the greatest player for he has ruled a few courts himself in his hey-day.

"Just A Natural"

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to have said. "Despite obstacles til may be in the way. his 185 pounds, he is exceptionally Blades of grass, they contend, may fast. He is constantly moving his mean the holing cut or otherwise. feel when walling for the play, thus enabling him to make a quick THERE is a shortage of golf news break for the ball when he has diagnosed its direction.

"ite is just a natural.

"Vines may have been more bril- Bont on certain occasions, but over THERE is no doubt that Budge is the sweep of a season's play. Bude

great, if not the greatest player, is the greatest of them all."

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An article on written quite recently by

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holes-in-one

WHY local

Controversy

THE QUESTION of holding an open tennis tournament, in which both professionals and amateurs can participate, has been the sub- Jeet of controversy for a long time, and Fred Perry.

former. British Wimbledon Davis Cup star and champion, has now rome forward to valce his views as to why such a competition has not been held. A professional hintself, he bluunes his fellow money players.

suld.

tournaments in open

He hopes to become the first man to travel 4,000 miles in a 24- hour period. To do this, he will have to average 107 miles an hour from dawn one morning until dawn the next.

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He wants to be the first race car driver to cover 200 miles in an hour.

Records Set in 1940

Contrary to popular notion," he his 1940 run, Jenkins and his relief driver, Clift Bergere, aver- reason they don't have

in tennis_on_the aged 101.18 miles an hour for 24 scribe, and this same article was Te same basis as golf, rests with, the hours in establishing how ̈records printed in one of the Shanghai news professionals, not the amateurs. for all closed-track circular records

papers. The northern paper came down to Hongkong and the article!

If the professionals would go to the up to and including the 24-hour amateur found its way thus into toral coltunos ask them to take charge of opes

association to-morrow and mark, again.

But on the question of holes-in-one force the hand of the amateur body, tournaments instead of trying to there is a report on an Amerlean then I feel sure the tien would be̟- professional at a Baltimore Club whol

Amateur Control Desirable

saw the perfect fluke done the hard come a reality." way. A tee shot at n 117-yard hole) lanted six inches past the pin but with the extreme backspin the ball hopped back into the hole.

The most miles Jenkins has ever covered in an hour in his Mormon Meteor II has been 181, accom- plished a year ago,

Jenkins last year turned in the fastest mile ever made on a circular course-189 milles an hour over part S a solution to

the problem.of an 11-mile closed course. suggested that the amateurs be allowed to remain in centrol, lake all the gate, whlic

A Ferry

Jenkins plans, during his 24-hour runs, to use one of the two courses

It was a good Iron shot and the green must have been on the soft

guaranteeing the prize money for for a while, then shift to the other while emergency crews smooth xide, but story of what is perhaps the professionals, the loftiest iron shot ever made

After all, he declared, the amateur bumps on the first speedway. comes from South Afries where the association has been successfully can- hall come to rest on top of a 000-ducting tennis tournaments for sever- foot hill,

Understudy

al derades, establishing contacts all ARV JENKINS has been under-

It was carried there, by a hawk over the country with people inter-studying his famous father ever which had pounced on the ball while ested in the future of the garne, and since the latter started developing it was rolling through the grass.

League. Tennis

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The powerful South China tennis team In the "Division of the

are therefore in a befter position to the Bonneville Bats Into the world's

operate the open tourneys,

fastest speedway many years ago.

It is to be hoped views would prove to be correct for from official participation because there is no greater nitraction in of automobile association rules re- tennis than a competition in which quiring that drivers be at least 21

that Perry's Until this year he was barred

both professionals and amateurs could meet.

Electric Rinks

years old.

There was also a possibility of a direct time race between Jenkins and his son in dual attempts to es- tablish all existing records in Class C-for

racers having cylinder dis-

The following rinks will represent local League iraunced the Chinese the Hongkong Electric R.C. in League placements of less than 250 cubic Recreation Club at King's Park

bowls against the Indian R.C. on chea, yesterday by 8-1.

Winfield will permit Jenkins or

K. H. Yip, one of the most promis-Saturday at Soukupon, commenclags son to drive his "Car 54," the

were

ing of the younger players in the 14 p.m.;

W. Stonehouse, E. L. Graome. A. F. Bowes Speelal that, piloted by Ralph Colony, and W. H. Ho

the Paul and J. K. Stoan; W. Stoker, J. R. Hepburn, placed fourth in this year's strongest pair for the home skle, and Way, H. C. Butler and J. F. Lunny R. A. Indianapolis race. The car has a conceded but five games in winning Owens, R. F. Gregory. W. E. Maclarlare dispincement of 105 cubic inches, their three sets.

Scores were:

and AG. Gurdner.

K. 11. Ip and W, 11, 1to beat T. C. Iu Ho 6-2; beat Ng and Pane 6+1: lost to and K. Lilo 0-1: beat K, C, N and O. Luk and Choy 3-0.

L Pang 0-3) beat D. C. Luk and P. F. 5. C. Dew and P. Szelo beat Iut and to 6-3; beat Ng and Pang 6-1; beat Luk, and W. T. Lee and W. C. Hon beat Ia and Cháy 0-4.

Choy 6-1.

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