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By Romany
GOLF
The first eight choices for the British Ryder Cup team show a welcome inclination to pick young men. Four of them are newcomers to the event and all of them have well earned their places.
Charles Whitcome is the obvious captain. Popular with his fellow-professionals, he knows the game, is playing-at least as well as ever in his career, and he understands American conditions. He has played in every series of Ryder Cup matches since their inception.
Percy Alliss and A. H. Padgham have both played before and, on current form, both have earned the right to play again. Perry, the open champion, appears for the second time. He was not too successful at Southport, but he, if anybody, harto be chosen this year. His style belies his achievement, for nobody has a finer record.
J. J. Busson, of Pannal, is the baby of the team: he is just twenty-four, but he has a win in last year's £1,040 tournament twills credit.
R. Burton, of Hooton, is one of those quiet players who have been just outside the select set for quite a few years; this year he covered the last lap with a rush; he tied with Henry Cotton for second place at Southport and was only beaten by Alliss in the Scottish Open.
W. J. Cox, the assistant at Aedington, is the first assistant ever to be chosen in a Ryder Cup team; he is young and he should do well.
SCOTLAND'S SHAME E. W. Jarman, of Prenton, though attached to a northern club, is a southerner. He may be the thin end of the wedge of another golfing family. There are four Jarmans, all professionalsMargate boys who started their careers as caddies at Hengrove. They are young men living worthily in an old tradition; they, too, for quite a while, have been unassumingly playing excellent golf in the big tournaments and winning their share of the smaller ones.
There is not a Scut among those chosen! Mark Seymour deserves one of the remaining places, but he is only a Scottish champion attached to a Scottish club. He comes from Sussex.
All golfers will welcome Hagen's choice as playing captain of the American team, which, as usual, includes several unfamiliar names. Do not let the unfamiliarity breed contempt, they are always good; one of them, Sam Parks, astonished his own homeland by winning the American Open a few weeks ago. Britain have not yet won the Ryder Cup in America; in England we have never failed to win it. The four matches are thus shared, though Britain have the first win to their credit before the cup was in existence, thus giving us an actual lead of 3 to 2,
CRICKET
Youth is laced with experience and discretion in our Ryder Cup side; in the team chosen so far to represent the M.C.C. on the New Zealand tour, now that Wyatt has declined the invitation, it is all youth.
That will probably be corrected when the side is completed. Holmes ought to make a good captain in spite of his poor
showing in the Lord's test. MitchellInnes has definitely caught the selectors' eyes and, when once a man finds favour at Lord's he is not likely to lose it in a hurry. It used to be said that it was harder to get out of the England side than into it; there is still a suspicion of truth in that. However, this is the sort of side
with which to experiment. It has to contain eight amateurs and we would have welcomed recognition of Valentine and Sellars.
The professionals chosen are all likely England players and the experience ought to prove invaluable to them.
The tour will open with five matches against the state elevens in Australia to be followed by sixteen matches in New Zealand, where the combined strength of the country will be met on three occasions. These will not, however, be recog nized as test matches. The selectors, despite an obvious desire to lose test matches, like to lose them with both strength and dignity.
ROWING
AN APPRECIATION In one week the rowing world has lost its most famous figure and one who was his friend and colleague in many a race. Guy Nickalls was killed in a motor accident in Leeds on his way to Scotland for a fishing holiday, the day before Lord Ampthill died from pneumonia.
Guy Nickalls, though he disapproved of a good deal in modern rowing methods and held that no post-war crew was cornparable with the great crews of the " nineties," was the accepted mentor of modern crews and acknowledged to be the greatest authority on rowing.
He rowed five times for Oxford agtainst Cambridge, from 1887 to 1891, mace at No. 2, and once each at 7, 6, and 4. Twice he was in the winning boat. Five times he won the Diamond Sculls at Henley. He was in the Leander crew that won the Grand in 1891, and twice, each time partnered by Lord Ampthill, he won the Goblets.
In his forty-first year he was a member of the Leander crew which won the Olympic Eights at Henley in 1908.
He was a founder of the London Rowing Club and served through the war with the Lancashire Fusiliers. His son, " G. 0." bids fair to be almost as famous on the river as his father.
BOXING
There are several boxers who feel they have the right to a crack at Jack Petersen's title. Both Cook and Gains want to have a try and, on record -alone, it would seem hard to deny their claims.
The B.B.B.C. has decreed that the challenger must come from the winner of a bout between Len Harvey and Eddie Phillips. Harvey, having twice beaten Phillips with considerable ease, seems to have a legitimate grouse.
He has proved himself Phillips' master and will have difficulty in finding a promoter willing to make the fight worth while. It is not the sort of contest to draw a decent '' gate " and there is nobody in boxing these days for the fun of the thing. We arc not anxious for the
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