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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1950.

ARCHIE QUICK REPORTS:

SPRING SPORTS SCHOOL YORKSHIRE ALONE

Relax! -And Get A Good Grip

Relax! Now don't get agitated about that handicap that won't come down. Relax, and your game will improve. And don't please ever blame your clubs.

I started out with an ancient hickory shafted wood All that looked like a fugitive from a sports museum. my first clubs were cast-offs, rejects of all sizes and shapes, and I do not think they spoiled my style. Maybe they helped, because I had to play so much more carefully.

First, we had better settle this question of grip. The pictures here show my rather unusual grip, and the ones below show the more usual Harry Vardon grip.

I first ured my double-handed grip when I was young and my hands were too small to hold the club any other way. My left-hand grip has the thuinb pointing straight down the shaft, Instead of overlapping the tile inpr of the right hand over the first finger of the left, I grip the club with all the right hand Ang 13.

And this gives more power, but i teach all my pupils to overlap as you see in the Vardon pictures.

First

"

THE

next.

REES GRIP-ONE

Thumb pocs down centre of the shaft, and fingers curl over.

and then >>>>

TIE REES

GRIP-TWO

The thumb crosses the shaft. 1urt

covers the Ditle Inger..

Ant that will probably be the best grip for most people following the Daily Express Spring Sports School.

MAKE A NEW START

If you haven't gone too far with your golf

a new start may be worth while.

Dan't go on to a course for the first time and play as you think you should play. Take hustructions from a recognised teacher who will give you these bane principles. (1) Itc- (3) Left Head steady throughout.

(4) Cullivale

lax.

[1

swing.

(2)

way. straight all the

By cultivate a swing I mean this: A baby crawls before it walks. A golfer must be pro- Bcient before he hits hard. Acquire a good method, and, having acquired it, you can hit the ball as hard as you

e

Champion players, I know, do not keep move their

their heads still, but they only

heads laterally, never lift them.

Moving the head sideways does not destroy

the are of the swing, but lifting it up will ruin a shot.

Turn your head to the right just before you swing back. That helps you to get to the top without strain. Then on the way down hit past the chin-that's the secret.

NO SLICING

The back swing should start with the club- heal. Bands, hips, and shoulders all together. Al in one piece. the Americans call it. It is the best method because it's the easiest method.

This way you enaire that the clubhead is travelling insk the line of flight from the ball to the objective. It canes back

the inside and the

On

flies straight.

If you

wing the

ball

clubhead

outside the line of flight you

will slice. Every Lestinner will

go through a slicing phase un-

AND THREE. Here it to, a firm, comfortable-troking grip

YOUR COACH

THIS WEEK

Dai Rees

.... WIFO learned his golf on the mountain cdursa behind his home at Aberdare, where his father was professional. He s professional at South Herts, and holds the British match play tille.

quotes

FORGET the old method of dragging the clubhead back with the handia lending. Take club back with hands,

hips, and shoulders moving together. FORGET the theory that the first thing in the downswing is the turn of the hips back to and a little forward of their original position. Instead pull the left hand down to the right foot, and hips and left heel will be set for the hit without you having to think.

DON'T WORRY too much about keeping the head perfectly still. You can move it faterally and get away with it but lifting the head will run any show. You must look at the ball all the time, and when it has gone keep looking at the spot where it was.

WHEN YOU HIT the bail you should ge the feeling that you are throwing the ball forward underhand with the right hand, arki hitting it forward with back of left hand,

FORGET the idea that length from the tee does not matter. If you want to play goo Kolf you must hit the ball straight and far Exercise for the hands and legs will go a lor" way towards solving that problem.

DON'T WORRY too much about a stiff left leg at impact. Some of the best galfers in the world can drive with the rest with a bent left leg at impact.

THE HARRY VARDON GRIP A Practice

OVERLAP, NOW Twp Amers are partiu covered

above. Nido a tip from von Concentrate on the left-swint a club with it as you walk be- tween shols.

THUMB ON RIGHT Dal Rees recommends this to beplaners

With

jrons alm the shortes

are of the for the target. The clubheard being smaller be- cause of the length of the shaft the inside to uat rule is not 40 important.

TAKE THAT DIVOT

With t DRIVER I tee the

less he learns to hit the ball ball just back of the left foot

from in to out,

deliberately aim

hit the ball on the up- This means that you should swing--just after the clubhead) right has reached the lowest point of; to the of the green, with The long it: are.

When the shots particularly, hands swing through the "ball and up, they should obliterate the target from view.

If my hands EO round the back on the follow-through I know I have hit : bad shot.

Soviet Were Too Late

By CEORGE WHITING

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With IRONS. the ball placed further back to the right) foot na the loft of the club increaser. The lowest point of the are is then in front of the tall.

You hit down and through the ball and get back-spin that way and a straight flight

divot. Always take greenkeeper won't mind.

The

I fall out with the theory that the Arst movement

the down-swing is the lateral shift of the hips to The reason is this:-

If you

pull the

Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur, getting ready for their Congress in Copenhagen, have turn. ed down a set of resolutions have from Russia-who

Mr P You keep your right elbow protested through Nikiforov, chairman of the into the side, and, by the time to hit through All-Union boxing section. the ball, the weight is shifted

Other

(rom

to the left foot and you have France, Iran and Denmark are something to hit against. being refused for the same ren-

arrived afler son-they

the A deliberate turu of the hips ofcial closing date.

as the first movements in the

could turn

resolutions

you are ready

Jolm

Macadam's

THE GRIP COMPLETE

and this is Dai Rees displaying it.

or

The legs. too, should be!

slapping strong. Cyding will help a lot there.

-(London Express Kerulce)

Column

IT'S A SAD THING FOR SPORT

Tip

From von Nida

Do not worry too much just because you cannot always be away on a golf course praeth

You can always be im- Proving your golf.

For instance, you use your right band for most things and, naturally it develops much more power and grip.

on

So try to concentrate exercising your left hand.

Nida, Norman von

who is about the most golf-conscious man I have ever met. always carries golf ball around in his jackel pocket,

HAS A HOME-BORN COUNTY ELEVEN

The new Beence County Cricket Clubs have obtained through the MCC's Special Registration Rule whereby a "foreigner" can be played at once instead of waiting three years for qualification, has convulsed the county game. One needs look no further than the top of the Championship Table to become aware of the general levelling up by the presence of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire in the first two places.

Cosmopolitan indeed are these two sides, and York- shiro alone of the 17 counties can boast of an all home- born eleven. Ironically enough, it was two discarded Yorkshiremen, Eills Robinson and Jimmy Lawrence. playing for the county of their adoption, Someractshire, who almost upset the applecart of the County of Broadaeres the other day. In fact, there are Yorkshiremen in no fewer than 13 county teams!

the Championship is that Once upon a time no county, of was stricter on the birth qualis neither of these unfashionable fication rule than Hampshire, counties are likely to be called bizt watching them against upon to supply players for the which Kent. In the annual Whitsun

four five-days Tests - match t Southampton, Rogers means 40 days services lost to and Arnold (Oxforil), Engar the county by each player. (Gloucester), Shackleton (York-Maybe he was modest in over- shire), Walker (Lancashire) looking himself and Erie Hollies. and Connings (Warwickshire)

playing for them. Only Knott, Hill, Gray, Dare and McCorkell were Hainpshire Hogs.

mixi Dare Gray Arsen}}

class (Southampton) are first footballers too. while Gerry Hill also plays for the county hla golf. A scratch mun, father is professional at the Bramshaw Club in the New Forest.

Fut

There are persibilities about this Hampshire side. Engar sela

An example in the กร: t Shackleton, Caonings, Knott, Dare and I provide a varied attack, and only the balling is suspect.

BEST CHANCE IN YEARS

Talking to Tom Dollery, the Warwickshire permument fessional captain-only one in

Sportsman's Diary

EDITED BY

Bruce Harrig

Opel Cars And Opel Oars

The great success of the Whitsun

Regatta IL Frank- furt has been a triundi for Von Orel, who sculled

pro- our times at Henley before

was

the country and a good one to the war, and whose father and he told me he thought his side uncle built up the fortunes had the greatest chance for 30 wi

which he now enjoys from years of winning the champion-

Opel ears-the main industry ship.

of the ares in which he lives. He said his attack of Kardar,

At 3 years of age he Hollies,

Grive and Pritchard self competing In fours, was in geet and his Felding so eights and single reuils

Cách His iden is to grip the ball keen that he was quite content of the three days, and was win-

to relax, to

average 250 runs an innlogsing mure often than not. tightly, relax, grip,

The ride he feared most? beenuse they too Darbyshire. prove his forearm power, and

Nida has

about the von

have a good bowling team songest grip I know in a man 10 small.

On

Not only is Von Opel now un led extremely rich young man, but by the fast men. Leslie Jackson his wife is also something like Cum Gladwin. Warwick- a millionairess in her own right. You can even help your golf and

only three home-irr interest is in horses. And it unfortunate that sinul- when driving your car by con-ire have

born men in their side: North- was the rip en contating you

taneously with the regatta an ampton have only two:

harse show to your left tivering wheel

made equally big One potat Dollery

destination being held in Wiesbaden. hand. The unevettes of right which may Ox the and left hand grips is the most cause of bad got? common flots.

So, just to be going on with, et down to getting a grip on your golf.

CORNELIUS RYAN RECALLS

ONE OF THE BIGGEST UPSETS IN AMERICA'S

SPORTS HISTORY

New York. There are some swimming fans who say that the USA need not hold Olympic trials for the 1952 Games--they suggest that the Yale University tear be chosen en masse.

And if John Marshall were an American instead of an Australian citizen, they might be right. The collegians are developing into one of the most powerful squads in It is a remarkable coincidence that the most im- swimming history, led by freshmen Marshall and Jimmy portant sports news on any one day should be as double- McLane, who was 1948 Olympic 1,500-metre freestyle barrelled as: C. B. Fry relires and Denis Compton may,champ. But Yale power in the water is an old story.

True, the retirement of Fry is from the training ship Mercury, at Hamble, in a Hampshire estuary, and the possible retirement of Compton is from the immediate field of international cricket and Soccer. One is 78 and the other is 32.

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its

thirteen straight

coach

years,"

of

but

noon

meet."

But

TAE GAMBOLS

FOOTBALL CLU

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WELL -IF I'D PAID flODOO FOR ANYTHING AND WASN'T SATRFIED 10 ASK THEM TO CHANGE IT

TORTOISES OF GOLF

asame

have to

be

a

Was

She divided her Ume between the two, and I spent unic session with her watching horses.

by

Many lessons may be learned

our own rowing men from

| conditions here.

enormous. As

The entry is

is felt that to

ask oarsmen to travel 300 miles

for onc

race,

which they may

is tall order, it has been

Load that most of the racca

arc repeated

Are

defeated

so that those who

Another chance

one day

In the

have same

event against different opposi- lion the next ciny.

Rowing in Germany has never teen

een so prolife, and it would be extremely popular next year it,

1 addition to professionnis, one or two

of our best amateur crews came here to get experi erce before Henley,

BBC FELL INTO TRAP The BBC fell Into a trap. They broicast a news story, from Germany, that Cambridge University were to send a shell And an eight-min crew to Kiel for Germany's bishtest regatta from June 18 to 25, nid that Cambridge would be the Arst British crew ever to take part In li

any

Something will

This Itory lucked suspect donc about the dilutory golfer from the start because there is are not un- where all familles are poor and However, they

sho In important events like

no Cambridge crew during the beatable. Twenty-six years ago, life is hard.

Cuter. All the Blues are "We went up in the after-Amateur Championship at St. they were victims in one of the

at Andrew's or else a strict limit rewing for their colleges, More- and the meet VGA

Cambridge University great upsets of American sports historyThe Tompkins Square night." Zucker recalled. "Ynte will have to be put on the num-ver.

bent Boys Club of New York

ten was our host and fed our team.ber of matches to be played in never by tradition tow against

a day.

opposition ather than Ox- Yale University

All of our boys ordered steaks; |a da;

It was most unfortunate that tord. The sole exception was a Nevertheless, it is a sad thing him out of cricket. If it did that, the

por- most of them had double be it would take him out of Soccer, Barney Zucker was

two of our distinguished America that English sport should

race against Harvard University Lions.

to over the' Putney Mortlake en visitors should have had infaced at the same moment with too, and out of golf and tennis.. that Boys' Clubs team then, as he is now, and he remembers

other in a match course in 1900. the effacement of two

The Yale coach, Bob Kin-play each

COACH MYSTIFIED Latest news from the MCC it happily.

saw thum and asked which started so late in the day the left greatest sporting characters

Mr R.H. Symonds to whom 1 Fry, with his glories trailing was that another X-ray examing- "Yale had not been beaten in huth,

them: "How are you going to that they finished in the dark. he

matter was as tion of the knee will be made behind him like the tail of

swim?", but my hoys just ask-To say that conditions were the

far both men

simply poite on this clubhead come!; Compton, with a short, and the final result consider said. "The Boys' Club team won

ed for more bread. It was

steaks evades an issue which needs to mystined as I by the announce- Ile conchel Cambridge m'ent, treat for them to get down with the left hand to sweet past, and the potentiality by Sir Hugh Griffiths, the spectrat pince in, everything

Let who has been attending him.

The Yale boys were eating eggs be tackled firmly and speedily University this your. He assured No definite decision will the dive and the relay, and we

proper by the authorities.

me no question has ever arisen wards the right foot the hips of a long, sweeter future.

the right telurn to

position

and toast, which is ALL-ROUNDERS

be reached about the Compton won by a score of 32 to 30.

golfer is sa selds that me

of reading a Cambridge crew won the we without you having to think

trafuing. Here, in one blow (maybe), future until the result of pallia-

TWELVE AGAINST YALE

by his acilons he puts back the

Germany. Neither in his Lady about it.

clock for the whole feld, then Margaret boat, which contains we lose two of the greatest all- tive treatment and the reaction

of the has been

."Yale won most

But Zucker admits it will be surely his room would be pre-

six Blues, thinking of going. rounders of all time. Fry is the to modifled exercise

The human male. He ascertained.

seconds and thirds. We went up

ferred to his company.

The only solution appears to So far, so bad. Denis is opll-here with a squad of about 12, a long time until one of his forced

alternative is to give more tinie

he that one of the other colleges complete played for England at Soccer

squad teams beats Yale again.

so tha mistic that he will be it in time and Yale had a huge

tournament

is neuding crew abroad as an. of course, at cricket.

He was

They put in fresh men every record-breaking for the Fourth Test.

"Years ago the boys were ex- to the

ite part

pre Henley had day's programme can be plan- they and track athlete (23ft. 0ins. long Of I course he is optimistic. It time, while we had to use the

poor

ned to allow for the tortoises were else to do and that beat Jump

nothing the world for is characteristic of the Comptons same swimmers for sprints and tremely

rect to refer to such an entry Cam- at swimming.for they will surely be there if training, but it is quite incor- willing to work

as this as representing many years) and besides he is of sport (as of Life itself) that relays.

classicist, a wit, and a hu- they are optimistic. Ho la even

boys come from Now there is more money and they are not weeded out.

bridge University. optimistle that he will be When, almost forgotten it to go to Australia with the New York's Lower East Side, a they can go to the

section United Press, Leeming terement man by the general public, he MCC next winter. turned his hand. and mind lo But the conflict of opinion journalism. He wrote columns continues to pour out of all the of Test commentary that were sources of information and it is fairly certain that, although no- a model of shrewdness.

Once, in Glasgow, asked thing definite will be announced him his opinion of a Scottish for some time, the doubts will for the next persist and a shadow will be day's Hampden match against cast over any possible England team selection for some time to England.

He talked for 20 minutes on come.

Here is crucl luck on a mas n does not need to be strong. the theory of inside-forward

the just coming into the full great- sent on the association's execu- It is the speed of the club-play and, as he talked,

crowd of listeners, including ness of is sporting career. Here live.

hend that gets the distance. In hall porters, waiters, newspaper-isa beset England faced with the one word-TIMING.

men, and odd bodies grew and prospect of the loss of la cava- grow, and still the wonder grew ller, its freefooted, blade-flashing that one small head could carry answer to all the dour offensive- Hero all he knew.

ness of the Australians. SORELY MISSED

could be a sporting tragedy if The boys in training will miss ever there was one. -

Tie the two stories together

The Soviet proposals includ-ownswing

a

the

morist.

and

ed the adoption of Russian as thoulders round as well,

that means the clubhend would an omcial language of the As- sociation, the awarding of ama- not be moving from in to out, teur status to physical culture instructors in

schools, public

Judging with decisions Indicat-

IT'S TIMING

ed by spectators waving red and Finally, for today, a question blue flags and the stopping of I am often asked: How can a bouts in which boxers are knock-week-end golfer get the strengthside forward ed down three times.

SENT. IN TIME

The Russians also sought

to hit far?

The simple answer is that he

The Soviet resoluilgas, I un- derstand, were posted from Moscow in good time for in- A weak man who is swing clusion

on the Copenhagening his club well will hit the agenda, but they were sent via ball much further than a circus the Russian Embassy, who took strong man using sheer strength

* 25 days to translate them into and no timing. Strength and English and forward them to

more

ibh Association's 'offices in Lori / sound swing are the perfect him sorely as he retires to prl-Fry and Compton-and it could

don.

combination.

1. vate life, and the boys in watch be a very sad one. There are planty of ways | tng will miss Denis-too-if-as-fa -London Express, service) to strengthen the hands there a suggorted, his kose injury takes

{London - Zeprese Service)

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