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How To

DAREES calls this out-of-a-bunker' stroke

ver." PICTURE ONE: No hip turn here. Take the shot with the left hand; PIC

ball: TURE TWO: The club cuts across the PICTURE THINEE: Clab is checked short with

And the ball the face pointing skywards.

Bopping down near the pin.

QUOTE

"Don't practise today's strokes until you have mastered the coaching.

"The worst offenders are the women players. They seem to Jack the patience to practise the same stroke over and over again. They expect to get the hang of the thing all in a day.

"To women I would say: Understand that in golf you are the weaker sex. There are exceptions, but they are as rare as Vardon. Realise that you cannot hit the ball as hard as men players.

Д

"When you do admit this you will cut out the over-striving, and be rid of those determined shots that curve away leaving nothing but rage despair."

Channel Boats

and

Cut

THE HONGKONG

SATURDAY, JUNE

John Macadam's Column -

SPRING SPORTS SCHOOL MILLER DISSECTS

Down Your Troubles...

Swimmers Will Find Scarce This Year

Shortage of motorboats and skilled coxswains are likely to be major prob lems facing the record number of swimmers who are hoping to conquer the Channel this summer.

Muny swimmers are making inquiries at towny on tho Kent coast, but the the number of boatmen who are sufficiently skilled to pilot swimmers across Channel, so that they can take the utmost advantage of the tides, is limited. And all boatmen are not willing to take on Channel swimmers.

the

near Deal. He starts

Bunker

No. 2

by DAI REES

Even the best golfers land themselves in trouble; so if your early shots get into a bunker, don't worry too much. You'll be in the same sort of fix often enough later on.

But there is a professional way out of trouble which you might as well learn right away.

Look at the three pictures which begin on the left, This is a technique for trap shots which I saw Norman von Nida using during my Australian tour this spring, Follow the action carefully through the pictures and captions. The shot needs to be played slowly but not uluckly.

Instead of trying to shoot the ball out let the club head do all the work-let it make the ball flop.

QUESTION

?

?

TIME

In the rough

Q. Is it safe or advisable to MIRO a wooden club from the rough?

A. Yes-if you are playing i from the short rough on the Use a No. 4

DON BRADMAN

When, at the start of the last Australian cricket tour of this country, we suggested that It would be a gracious thing if Britain were to show appreciation of what the Australians had done for the national summer game by giving a title to her greatest cricketing son, we did so fully aware of the score.

We knew that Don Bradman, for all his quality as a batsman and a felder, was not the best-loved athleta in the Antipodes; that he had, in fact, as many critics at home as he had here. We could guess at some of the reasons for openly voiced criticism.

fairway edge. wood L you want distance. Now, in one of the frankest

for nor

Aim at the back of the ball-books about a living person we and hit hard. The ball will remember reading, it is all set come out if you hit it square out clearly, neither enough.

against Bradman but merely in

his extraordin never attempt the im. explanation of

ary character. It

Kell

the cricketing possible out of the rough.

the green. cavaller,

R. 3. Whitington,

you

cannot make play out safely and go for the

and

the ex-player and now writer on the game, have laid the Don 05 0 first-year painstakingly medical student would a frog.

One fascinating section of the Dowral analysis deals with his

Bradman spent lonely hour

developing his batting by hitting A golf ball against n tank with a narrow stick.

To get out of really thick a slab and dissected him as rough, use a heavy, lufted club and crash the head down on to the ball smartly.

It is no use swinging wide and attempting to sweep the ball ont. that's where

Hack it out firmly-and physical strength comes in.

You need to come right need to be on a course to Im- pln with the next shot. neross the ball and finish (Pic- prove your golf.

You can practice In ths with the club face ture 3) pointing to the sky. This is a garden, even in the house. real shipt saver-to practise 11. There is 0 need to have

While tackling the bunker ball: just drive away at a corli problem the more experienced a match stuck in the grass, or reader may like to know a bit dinlay head.

But DO have some definite about rolling three thots inlo

Aimless swinging it target. two.

the air will do your game harm because it destroys the thing, The swinging, and that absolute must-keeping your heat flown.

Where the handicap man is content to pitch on to a green for two putis, or to get out of a bunker und hole out in two putts, the man who is trying to rere in the sixties alms at get- fing the ball near enough to the hole for a single puli,

This done from a bunker trap with a wedge or tand iron. These are deep-faced clubs with heavy soler. Every golfer should

have one or the other.

SWING SLOWLY Whatever type of bunker you are in, the shot is the same.

the club Swing

slowly--it is impossible to swing: it too slowly inklug it back in an upright are, and then flop the buti out with the left hand.

The left hand, with flexible wrist, leads throughout the shot. Keep the right hand out of it. Finctising irap shots is essential, yet very few uninteurs ever

bother.

A good hunker player can for the green confidently with

a wooden club. He knows that

If by some mischance he misses the green, he can get out and be ear enough to the stick to get down in a single putt.

Rolling three shots into twu from the fairway is the same. The wedge comes in again, the same flop shot with an upright are, the clubhead

wung, with

the left hand. But the ball must be hit firmly. It takes time to learn how, but it pays divi-

dends.

GO FOR LENGTH You will nd many golfer who tell you that length from the tee-a good drive-is not necessary. I do not agree.

Above the ball

Q. What is the best method of playing a shot when you have to stand above the ball?

A. Tuke long grip of the club, hit down and through. keep the head steady through- out and aim slightly to the left. There is ntways a tendency for the shot to be hit, to the The further when standing above the bait

right, so you must allow for it.

If you want to play good golf you must learn to hit the ball along the tee-providing

can get from

I am hitting the ball straight!— the easier scoring becomes.

If I can be shooting for the reen with a No. 7 iron against a man who is taking a No. 3 iron-no matter

Below the ball

boyhood when after hour in the

"Most lonely boyo," say the writers with discrimination,

Sportsman's Diary

EDITED BY

Bruce Harris

Camera-shy Cricket Is Bad

For The Game

First-class cricket, like all

OD

"grow to profer their own other sports asking for company. develop a complex about mixing with the more public support, lives hale and hearty good fellows publicity of newspapers, they meet when they reach the radio and films. Without years of manhood."

it "gates" would die away

there and

would be no.

POPULAR IN 1948 Criticism of Brudman stressed is aloofnces, his sensitiveness money to pay professionals. to criticism

That is why I believe the and hio om- bltiousness.

"You will al-clubs running Test matches are ways find Don hoppler in the Coolish to quarrel with the news children, of men reels. It would be worth their campany of older or younger than himself, while to let them into the Tests

nothing.

that Anything than in the company of fellows for Q. What about the shot when of his own age,

makes cinema-goers cricket- conscious in good for the game. This perhaps explains to a You stand tower than the ball?

A. Take a shorter rip of the certain extent his popularity club, hit the ball firmly, down | with the members of the 1043 team to England and his limited Length, of course, is useless and through, and stand closer to it. Make allowance this) to the player who sprays the time for the tendency to look.

popularity with most members of the 1830 und 1934 teams.. ball all over the countryside. In other words, aim to the right lut hit straight and you are of the objective. on the way to reducing your handicap.

how accurate

he a-my game is simplified. In the end the odds are I wil beat him.

-(London Express Service)

Schroeder Gives

USLTA A Choice

By JACK METCALFE

ABANDONED

Mr G.F. Sanger, chairman of the News Reels Assocletion, tells figures demanded for Test matches, amounting to me that the

"Most of Don's recent team mates have been from five to Afteen years his junior. If he some hundreds of pounds, con- does not often enter into their, tinue to grow, with the result that negotiations for the last of the

feld

pursuits, they Test match and future ones ny malte allowances."

His twenty-year-ago contem-well this season have been aban-

doned. poraries, however, are reputed "We feel that this is a very

not to have liked his compara~·

on the

tive teetotalism, his non-amok-short-sighted titude Ing to have ragged the up-Part of the cricket people," he said, "for in the past the news boy unmercifully, country have driven him deeply inside reels have done a lot to main- tain interest in cricket. We have himself...

been negotiating with individual "The

Sti occurred

clubs where the Tests are tak- ing place, but we notice a ten- dency among them to quote maznate similar figures."

climax

England in 1030. Brudman received n Fift of £1,000 from the

Soap

in a day at Leeds.

La Crescenta, Cal-Ted Schroeder has given the Whitelaw for having scored 300 Remember this you do not U.S. Lawn Tennis Association a cholce-it can have him on the 1950 USA Davis Cup team or it can have him as un American star at Wimbledon, but he can't do both.

BELGIUM'S HIGH COURT DECIDES

Other countries besides Bri- tain suffer from entertain- ment tax. Superintendents of swinning baths in Belgium who have been struggling to free themselves, took

their case to the High Court of Brussels...

This was the verdict;

ing

NO FORGIVING

members

in his room.

NO PHOTOGRAPHERS On the same reactionary prin- "He spent the evening play-

the ciple

arrangement at by gramophone records

Lord's and the Oval by which Most photographic rights for news- inf of the touring party will ever forgive him for not paper pletures are vested in one agency, with the result that shouting them a dinner or a staff photographers of

occasion. least a drink on that

barred from the "Perhaps entertained those he might have liked to

Do you and this at Wembley, members of the team who at Highbury, at Wimbledon? were his friends, but

to huvo

papera grounds.

are

news-

"I'm a very important man in my business," the 28-year-old star said. "In fact, I'm the only man in the outfit-I do everything from typing letters to hauling the stuff around." His company distributes refrigeration equipment for ice cream, frozen food and milk trucks.

"The. Davis Cup committee) sowers him. He is defending feels that I need five weeks' play champion at Wimbledon.

Schroeder on grass to prepare for the

has been playing enough drew the line at playing You do not. At all these places are glad to encourage the who were con-

nction pictures tournament, and I agree I need less and less tennis with each host to men

tinually "But I successive year six weeks," Ted said.

as his business

Cricket, beset by speedway.

few

naturally

they

bring.

can't spare five weeks. At least, demanied more of his time, and his bast aligning him behind publicity that

not at one time."

he has suffered defeats at the "Unfortunately, all the grass hands of lesser pinyers because "Whereas it cannot be con-court tournaments come at once, he is out of practice. tested that the rolarium la n so I told the committee that if

He has been the key man in could help out either by place of amusement and attrac I

for the

pasi four thon sought after by the public. playing or by training others, I USA Davis Cup victories over because Cames, sports and would be glad to do it.

years. He never has been beaten swimming contests take place THREE WEEKS ONLY by an Aussie Cup man.

"I can give three consecutive He insists he will not tum weeks to tennis. If the Davis professional, as did his one- Cup committee wants nie under time doubles partner, Jnck

are

there to which the public admitter;

"Whereas the spectacje of

nesthelle beauty, vestimentary

of only

In

minuscule propor Wimbledon tournament." from England vestiges of

Australin

USA

singles crown last

zł

IL

It is a sad picture of a god in private, but it has all the racing and dog racing, athletics, and folf, lawn tennis, and a renew- elements of a true one ned boun in motoring, needs may be the nearest wo

wu can

of any contemporary sportsinan,

FLYING TUTOR expect to get to the character all the publicity it can get.

All the great cricket person-

Western Australia has a flying alities of the Inst quarter of a century are in this fascinatingly golf tutor-former English pro- trenchant book-Walter Ham-fessional Charles mond doesn't

Jackson who

"For siwmining the Channel, down,

those conditions, it can have me. Kramer, and Pancho Gonzales,y more than up the lash was a keen observer at Ganton have to training at Dover on June 10. human anatomies of varying if it says it will pass me up and who beat Ted for the the weather and tides

Philip's father said: "Philip degrees be iden," said one motor-boati

go to the next man, I'll use the National will concentrate this year on clad

trat sime to

across to the Septimber. owner.

boal is booked to trying to swir

Tennis is just "When a

He is not going intions, and of flamboyant colour, it is to France.

to make necompany a swimmer

He added that he won't know don't want attract the glances of the human often standing by e day for any competition:"*

Wimbledon plans business," eye, by reason of the contrastabout his after day. Other business has to

the pigmentation of bodies until the Davis Cup Committee Press. awaiting the he turned away.

AS DANNY SEES IT

We hear so many stories of

pitfalls

ninaleur boxer who turns pro- "Some

of our

moter-boats

(London Express Service)

fessional that it in stimulating have to be reserved for ferry- Not Keon On Cricket

to hear a les gloomy side of the question from Danny O'Sullivan,

In plots to and from liners through the Channel, and some for holidaymakers trips.

ex-Finsbury Park electrician Passing

who became British professional bantamweight champlon a litt

two years after

youth, the

pure

themselves to exposing solar Tadiation willi others attracted by creams productive effects....all this, of cotourbig even taking into consideration Is cricket losing its grip on the hygienic aspect, does come asks Mr E. J. Holt, or into the catre of attractions and International Athletle exhibitions regarded by the law : more than

"Only a few boats are avail- Federation. He quotes a public as taxable. carrying off an ABA trophy.

So now they knowi The trouble s that there are school which has had trouble After Luis Romero beat me

only a few days with the ideal in Anding two Xis because of rival interest in lawn tennis

CIRCUMSTANTIAL for the European title," Danny told reporter George Whiting, conditions of weather and tide,

and athletics. of course, and then,

all the friends "several

asked me whether I was sorry I left the swimmers want to make their amateurs, but I have no regrets.atterapts at the same time."

never pro-

I

enough, "Funnily really

wanted to turn fessional-I only did so to keep my young brother, Dickie, com- However, boxing has pany. enabled me to give my wife and children a comfortable home in the suburbs,

able

for Channel

swimmers.

has

TRYING AGAIN

Hotel Accommodation been booked by swimmern at Dover and Folkestone.

One of the first to arrive in

Ho rays boys And cricket teams too static.

There is something in this. A player known as a good bats man of school is pardoned many failures. Moreover, once given his colours, he is played any-

way.

American heavyweights Lee Oma and Bill Weltberg have been carpeled before the boxing commission of Ohio for (a) insulting each other and (b) coming to blows until inter- rupted by the police,

A short time previously they had been disqualified during a för not Oghting.

expected to be Phillp Miclaman, defeat means eclipse; the con- bout at Cincinnati whereas had I

stayed amateur we might still be living in rooms.**

-(London Express Service)

K.

of Ossett, Yorkshire, who inst year, at the age of 18, SWEM from Cup Gria-nez tó Kings.

CANNON

THE MURDERER COMING HERE NOW,

M'SIEU CANNON? WHO IS THAT GO

FAR, MY INVESTIGATIONS

HAVE PRODUCED TWO PEOPLE WITH MOTIVĖS POR MURDERING ZUCCI.......”

In athletleg or lawn tennis

queror ensures promotion.

-(London Express Service)

-(London Express Service)

WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE

́NT: IS CARESSE LACROIX.

ZUCCI WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HEA SISTEM CHARMAINE KILLING HERSELF, MOTIVE-PRVENGE, NOT UNCOMMON" IN OUR COUNTRY,"M'ŠIEU : CANNON-AND SHE ALSO HAD AN AFFAIRE WITH ZUCGI... SAME MOTIVE.

NIZ IS THE AMERICAN.

BRAO MITCHELL, THE WAS INVOLVED

IN CROOKED DEALS

WITH ZUCCE. I HAVE DISCOVERED THAT ZUCCI DOUBLE CROSSED HIM. |MOTIVE-AGAIN REVENGE,

WHICH ONE WAS IT, MONIUS): CANNON?

THE

he

Bradman dorg of the methods of the Ryder Cup Constantine,

"Cubby" Allen, players. Grace and all of them. It is Now at Nedlands, he travelled well worth a permanent place. 4,000 miles by air to give mass Instruction at the Darwin club. game-1Cricket Caravan," by Keith In a days' course, he took it my Miller and R. S. Whitington, | four classes a day of 15 puplis suld-United Lallmer House, 10s. 8d.

cach. -(London Express Service)

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