THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 12, 1989
TRADITIONS OF SPORT "Not In Accordance With Nazi Doctrines"
For the first time since its inception, the West Indies sent a team of five to the A.A.A. championships at the White City on July 7 and 8. Photo shows-Left to right, M. Ranjohn, E. M. Bailey, J. Cumberbatoh, M. Sosa and E. A. Pierre, oat for early morning prae- tice in Regent's Park recently.
BOXING
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England Has A True Champion
SOUTH CHINA
[AMES (“SPIDER”) KELLY, TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF AGE, THE FATHER OF FIVE CHILDREN, MAY BE THE NEXT FEATHERWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD.
Recently he left Ireland, his na- tive land, after winning the feather weight championship of Great Bri- tain and set the alley by its ears. National Sporting Club, London, by the beauty of his boxing at the when he defeated a strong, tough fighter, Billy Charlton, and erased from the London critics' minds the impression that he was a fluke fea- therweight champion of Great Bri- tain.
Many who saw him perform for the first time went as far as to say Kelly is the most stylish and ac- complished champion England has had at any weight for a number of years.
He has an easy, lissom style, per- perfect body balance, a rapier left hand, and a way of shifting out of distance without appearing to have moved at all.
Johnny Rice, a Belfast (Ire land) sportsman and promoter, is willing to put up £5000 for the "Spider" to meet any American feather-weight, no one barred. That news flashed by cable across the At- tantic
was
Meantime the various American State commissions are nominating one fighter after another as world champion.
Leo Rodak, Pete Scalzo, Joe Ar-
chibald, have all been named,
GET POINTS AFTER ALL!
The "China Mall” understands that at a meeting of Hong Kong.
·Baseball Association held last night, the decision of. Umpire Hor- ton in the League match on Sa- turday- between Chinese Baseball- Clab and South China, when he called the game off during the last inning, was upheld and the -game awarded to Bouth China.--
It will be recalled that Horton's - action was based on the fact that South China appeared not to be trying and an allegation was made that they tried to throw the game, when it became certain they would win, in order to keep CBC. in the running for the championship.
SCHOOLBOY'S
AMAZING PERFORMANCE
London, June 17.
Kelly, a shy, retiring little fel-performance by 14-years-old Dou low, who has the same deceptive glas Smith was the feature of appearance of fragility that Jimmy Aberdeen Grammar School sports Wilde had, has very little to say.
about it all,
yesterday
But his manager is howling for Smith, who action as follows:
"The Americans can put up any body, they like. I am chasing the world title. I cannot get in touc with every commission" they svo "over in the States, so
o get some action in our land,
The British Board of Co he added, “should” press International": body"
member and
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■ muscular youth weighing about 12 stones, competed both in his class and in open events, and he broke the school fecond for putting the shot with a magnificent putt of 40 ft 2in.
The previous record 3 In, and earlier
Smith had already
ith a putt of
the event
A.A.A. Official Wants Britain-Germany Match Cancelled
LONDON, June 17.-A resolution proposing that
the athletics match between Germany and Great Britain in Cologne on August 20 should be cancelled is to be moved by H. F. Pash, a life vice- president, at the meeting of the Southern Commit tee of the Amateur Athletic Association in London on June 30.
BOXING
KILRAIN'S POINTS WIN
London, June 30.-There was a disappointment for the promoter in the big tournament in the Carntyne Greyhound Stadium, Glasgow, last night, for heavy rain throughout the day had an adverse effect on the attendance, which fell well short of expectations. The principal of a series of ten-round contests brought together Jake Kilrain, Bellshill, and Felix Wouters, Belgium.
Kilrain won on points, but it was- well on in the contest before he was able to show any marked 'su- periority. It was the Belgian who
Mr. Pash has circularised thei Northern, Midland and Southern · Committees of the A.A.A., giv- ing his reasons for the suggest- ed cancellation, so that their re presentatives may have the op- portunity of communicating their views to the British Amateur Athletic Board, with whom the final decision would rest, at their next meeting in London on July 8.
Mr. Pash has sent his circular after consultation with E. J. Holt, hon. secretary of the A.A.A., as to the proper procedure to adopt.
“Nazi doctrines are contrary to the traditions of sport as we understand them in this coun- try," he says. "Sport ceases to be sport when sections of the nation, such as the Jews, are excluded from participating in it. The event in question will. not be a match between teame
"The match, if held, will be de cided under abnormal conditions. in the second round he crossed a right to the Scot's jaw, and Kil. Our men, if they have any percep- rain slumped for a count of eight. tion and imagination will know they are competing against the youth- The Belgian was clever in ex-ful and aggressive Nazis, who are ploiting accurate two-handed hitpart of a national organisation ting, but gradually Kilrain's rugged which may be used without warn- work and superior strength began ing against their own families and to tell. He exploited a heavy body friends." attack, and gradually he crept Mr. Pash was one of those who ahead. Wouters kept himself in the strongly opposed the holding of the fight when he again dropped Kil- 1940 Olympic Games in Japan. rain, for eight in the eighth, but” in the ninth the Scot, with a tremen- dous right, dropped Wouters. The Belgian was regaining his feet when the bell saved him.
served up the first surprise, for selected on the same principle.
THE KING'S JOCKEY
London, June 30.-No successor to J. Crouch, the King's jockey, who was killed in an aeroplane crash, will be appointed for the present. A. Richardson rode Li- conce for the King in the Stetch- worth Stakes at Newmarket yes- terday, but he will not be offered
permanent re A Lord Ha traine
by W. Jaryis
first jockey. to ose horses are those of the. King,
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1940 WINTER OLYMPICS
Berlin, June 30.-First details of Germany's plan for the 1940 Win- ter Olympic Games, to be held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, were given to the Press Association to-day by the Reich Sports Leader, Herr von Techammer und Osten..
innovation is the building of s 400-metres-long artificial ice rink for speed skating the first of its kind in the world. A second artificial rink for figure skating and ice hockey is to be constructed,
The ski jumps are to be improved, the bob run will be made absolutely safe, and the various stadiums will be
llage is being built to and arränge: the arary bà
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