THE WORLD'S ATHLETES WILL TAKE PART IN BRITAIN'S FESTIVAL OF SPORT
By WALTER
PILKINGTON
Sports promoters are proparing for the most impressive parade of activities over staged in Britain, for they intend their contribution to the Festival of Britain to be one visitors will remember. Their ambition is to prove that sports which now enjoy world wide popularity, among them football, boxing, tennis, golf and athletics, are still flourishing where they were fostered and originally developed and that Britain is far from being backward at any of them.
The old supremacy, inevitably, has suffered as other countries have advanced in their pursuit of various sports, often to specialise in certain games, but setbacks have not dampened British enthusiasm.
The approach is the sensible one that there is nothing wrong that cannot be put right with practice and determination. This attitude has been proved right by the English cricket team in Australia. A chorus of pessimists rated their chances as precisely nil when the team sailed. Their gloomy outlook was based on the slow recovery of the game from the dislocation caused by World II and on a sorry a show- ing last summer.
GEORGE HIRST'S £3,703 TOPS BENEFITS LIST
The sum of £14,000 to Cyril Washbrook in 1948 tops the list of cricketers' benefits, though that isn't the most that
any mall
has got out of the game by any means,.
In 1904 the great George Hirst had benefit of £3,703. Tak- ing into account the depreciation of the £ by half during the 1914-18 war, and F1 similar trend since the last war, this would work out in present day figures as being worth £14,812 the greatest benefit of all time.
"Playfair Book of Cricket Recortis" (Roy Webber, 268.) worked this out.
It seemed to have been for-won the first four but were gotten that World Wag. I pro-given some shocks in spite of duced similar barren spell. England being handicapped by The game was revived by the injuries. devotion of those who loved it. But England, who refuseet to Yet when England in 1925 beat have a defeatist complex, went Auctentia it was the Aral win on trying. Inspired by their sinca 1012. Thirteen years! captain, F. R. Brown, they won Cricket is slow to recover from the last Test on their merits the crippling effect of war. and won it handsomely.
Again But in 1920
English
cricket 13 years had elapsed since the was itself again. England then last England cricket victory won four of the five Tests in over Australia and again there Australin
war between. was a {significant coincidence. „
When the West Indies first brought a cricket team to Eng-
It is a
FROM 18 NATIONS
land they were overwhelmed. Britain's
But their spirit was not killed
comparative --- sue-
programme
by defeat None of their sup-cess in the Olympic Games in porters suggested they should London in 1948 proved that this abanden their ambitions be- urge to overcome obstacles and cause they had been outclassed, resist depression is still strong.
A Festival sports All they thought about
wasof how soon would they get an of more than 600 major events other opportunity. That is what of remarkable variety will pre- vide the opportunity to con- the English cricketers wanted after the
West Indians
had vince vast numbers of visitors triumphed over them last sum-that Britain has the ability too.
Ter.
What happened? F. R. Brown and his men ignored seare talk that Australin could turn
out three Text teams of equal standing and all of them better than England's best!
con-
Football clubs from 18 nations will be entertained. Interno- Lionel malches with the Argen- tine. France, Italy, Portugal and Belgium offer a feast which sport lovers will relish.
SKI JUMPER'S ̃ ̃ ̃VIEW
Sepp Kleisl, of Partenkirchen, makes a flying leap
to win the German Alpine skiing championship held at Garmisch-Express Photo.
Henry Longhurst On GOLF
10-1 Against
BOAT RACE|
IS GOING BROKE
If rising costs continue it will soon be too expen- sive to row the University Boat Race on the tideway. As it cannot bo rowed at Oxford or Cambridge, the Jonly alternative would bo
Henley.
But the Boat Race is surely one of London's best-loved events, Like the Changing of the Guard and the Lord Mayor'a Show, this is something everyone who ecmes to Town can.seo for 'nothing.
Because it is a free show which requires no technical knowledge to understand, and has never been copied nny. where in the world. It must be kept to its traditional back- ground,
The people who could 1- sure this are those who have wharves, breweries, works, flats, hotels and clubs along the course. All these regard
the University Boat Race A 13 the opportunity of the year to entertain their friends; in other cases landlords and clubs make money by charging for admission,
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A. WHIP ROUND
The suggestion
has been
made that all these should ba told the facts about Boat Raco finance, and should whip round
and so
so stand
the expense.
some share
of
The idea is a good one and should be supported.
Much of the cost of the raco
must today be borne
by the College funds are running low. Ex- penses cannot be reduced. Be- cause the river is a
King's Highway the tow-path cannot be closed. The sale of sou- venir programmes or of tele- viston rights does not meet the mounting deficit.
oa reman himself.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE TO MEMBERS
FOURTH RACE MEETING
Saturday 7th & Saturday 14th April, 1951
will be run at 2.00 p.m. each day.
The First Bell will be rung at 1,30 p.m. and the first race
There are ten races each day (20 in all).
Through Tickets at $40.00 each may be obtained at the Compradore Office of the Treasurers, 1st floor, Telephone House, also tickets at $2.00 each for the Special Cash Sweep on the last race of the as the Special Cash Sweep on the
Through Tickets reserved for this Meeting but not paid for by 10.00 am. on Friday, 6th April, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future meetings.
In asking for opinions on the scheme for revising England Wins Hong Kong Derby, scheduled to be run on Saturday lah May,
Union of South Africa, men golf course bogeys I should have an old enough hand to and Australian women will tour
They fought courageously in England playing cricket. Lawn week me toom in Chelsen has resembled the Town Hall Cross Country
my
the first two Tests and might and tournament golf are have won both if the weather promised an abundance of over- on polling day. Volunteers have been busy sorting many had not abruptly changed toscas entrants. Yachting, archery, hundreds of postcards--some of them running into six
a decisive part. Australia bowls, motor boat racing, fen-
rst closely written pages-and cing, Incrosse, hockey, wrest-
we can now announce the ling, swimming, athletics, net verdict to be "Stop."
and Its modern rival
play
Harold Palmer's SOCCERFRONT basketball will give competitors
'Appearance Money' Is A New Soccer Idea
Players' Union secretary, fresh-faced veteran Jimmy Fay, is anything but a hot-headed agitator and when he takes a strong line you may be sure he is tak- ing a pretty fair view. So I was greatly impressed when he told me his opinions on the subject of Cup
bonuses.
He wants the same bonus for both sides or what he would prefer to call "appearance money." "The two sides make the attraction," he points out, "not just the
winners.'
}}
At first sight that seems to Mr Fay's idea is that both Guggest robbing the players of teams in the final
should get
from abroad every chance of pitting their skill against United Kingdom exponents.
The figures worked out at almost exactly ten to one. Ninety-one percent said "Stop," against nine percent who wanted to go on. The latter, having failed to secure an eighth of the total votes, lost their deposit.
muy
We
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"SMALLER TARGET"
Championship
To avoid congestion at the Club's Offices at Telephone House, nen-members are requested to purchase their sweep tickets at the Club's Branch Offices at:-
5. D'Aguilar Street, Hong Kong
ог
382, Nathan Road, Kowloon. MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE
Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Mar. 31.
in the first four places, won AND LADIES BADGES NOW SUPERSEDE THE PREVIOUS
England, with three men
the International
Cross ISSUE. Country Championship over | Members and guests are reminded that they and their ladies nine and a quarter miles MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the here today.
Meeting.
MEMBERS ARE-INFORMED THE 1951 SETS OF MEMBERS
and
England totalled 47 points were followed by Franco, the holders with 54 points, and Belgium Was points.
third with
00
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE,
That rowers' paradise, Hen- ley Royal Regatta, enjoyed а The majority are not always | designed to do that all along, record entry representing seven right. Indeed, wherever one though we now sea that some countries last summer, There locks, one finds evidence that clubs (e.g... West Hill at 76, are likely to be more this year, they are generally wrong. now to be 71) had been assess
Whereas, however, the opinion ed on Golfers in various parts of
a more generous basis of the masses the world
on the situation announced in Korea have
than their neighbours,
Badges admitting ladies not in possession of Brooches or be taken with their intention of coming to cynical indifference, here
Season tickets and gentlemen, non-members of, the Club, to tho include Bobby Locke, Norman opinions on golf; and on this at
Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day including Britain. If, as is expected, they
have golfers recording
their
The first man home was tax, for ladies or gentlemen are obtainable through the Secretary Many of the "Go One" hold Geoff Saunders, England, in 64 on the written or personal introduction of a member, such member von Nida, Kolvin Nagle, Ossie Al Zimmerman and other noted to be heard. Pieleworth, Hassan Hassenein, least their views are entitled that a lower bogey, and there minutes and seven seconds. He to be responsible for all visitors Introduced by him, and for pay-
a higher standard of finished OVET 150 yards in ment of all chits.etc. names, the fairways will
scratch, will improve the level front of his team mate, Frank bo Those "in favour" point to of the best players and oven-Aaron
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sate dazzling with talent. The visit the logic of assessing all bogeys tually be reflected in the results about
with C. Cerou, France, at the RACE COURSE. of the United States
the same distance away woman on a common basis. This, of of our matches, with the United third. athlete and golf phenomenon
has never been in dis- States. "A smaller target im- "Babe" Zaharias will
Saunders and delight pute
The scheme has been prove the shooting is many golf followers.
a shoulder phrase that more than once first
to shoulder for the Alimited number of tiffins will be "oblainnble"at "the"Club" caught the eye.
two laps and went well House provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy. clear of the field. After four Among
the majority, the laps, Saunders was
(Tel. 27818). about 40 view appears widely that all yards in front of Aaron, the this is the fault of poor Ronnie English champion and 10 tlig-
course,
£30 Fight Seats
some of the incentive or reward £50 a man, and, although this not scored the chance to st As A Solution To
for victory, but that is not so. The bonus being increased for each following stage of the com-† petition, the reward is there for the winners just the same.
The absurdity of the present arrangement was emphasised by the semi-finals, The Newcastle
WORLD TITLE FIGHT
Boxing, as one surmised, has
may be only his personal opinion, something really big. Promoter. think it must appeal to the Jack Solomons has some strong majority of the members of the cards to play and his ace is. 3,000 strong union that he has "Sugar" Ray Robinson's pro- fathered and built up for 40 odd mise to defend his world mid- dleweight title in London this years.
summer.
FESTIVAL GAMES
and Blackpool players benefited The union's more Immediate
to the extent of £32 10s, & man concern, however,
only
in
League
Is the way
havo Ogreed
than £50,000!
I should think Jack Solomons players should be paid playing would even give up dealing in season wages, which means far fish' if he could engage
£2
more his most
a week than boxers on such terms.
their close season pay.
What the players want is an extra fee for each game. They feel
that these games should not have been arranged without their being consulted through
NO EXTRA
"TV Menace"?
เน
Aaron
The Treasurers' Compradore Office will close at 11.00 am. and the Secretary's Office at 11.45 a.m. cach day. Both offices at 1st floor, Telephone House.
NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S. PREMISES DURING THE MEETING.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $3.00 per day including tax for all persons Including ladies, and is payable at the Gate,
in N
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ANSERVANTS FASSES
Servants' passes will be issued to private box holders only, who are requested to distribute them with discrimination and to.. endorse their names on the passes. Holders such passes pre not permitted in the Members' Enclosure except for passing
duties and must remain in their employers",
Provincial XVs Too Good For through on their
London Clubs
stands.
White and his excessive sidi). "From my private poll, taken gradually increased this
tance over the rest of the race. from ninė Brigadiers, 18
Cerou, who had run in fourth Colonels, a Naval Commander
for most of place and a
the race retired hosiery manu- facturer, America's boxing chiefs
Budleigh overtook W. Hesketh, the Eng- sayg Salterion have evolved what they opinion
lish junior champion, towards member, "I
BOOKMAKERS, TIC TAC MEN ETC., WILL NOT BE PRE- find the
OPERATE WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF THE disuncity
the end and took third place MITTED TO adversc Salomons is staking much on hope will be a solution of Hang Rommie While!"
four metres ahead of the Eng-HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB DURING THE RACE MEETING. 22 years-old Randolph Turpin the "TV menace"--claimed Others mention the cost of lishman-Reuter.
MEALS AND ALTRESHMENTS WILL BE OBTAINABLE, IN. whom he regards as the best to be mortally wounding printing
THE RESTAURANT IN THE PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. hew cards, the busi- by winning. The 22 losers had their members are going to be proact available for the professional sport in
ness of altering everyone's that handicap, and £7 10s, each for playing paid for playing in the extra of work ranking. He is the key
the disappoint matches that brought in more Festival of Britain games. The ploce in a series of matches in-country. Boxing, basket- ment at no longer securlag the that ended to culminate in a strug ball, football and baseball occasional birdle; but the main
ale for the middleweight crown all tell the same
of story
basis of complaint reflects that between the coloured boxders,
characteristic, happily worthy stadia Robinson and Turpin, when the half-empty
and in smouldering the English- sport festival is at its height, dwindling receipts.
man's acced about."
resentment at The sesses a killer punch,
Turpin has proved he pos-
being Frightened by the box-office more I see of it, the more I He laid flop of Joe Louis the Dutchman, Lue van
Ezzard fancy that this scheme Dam, low within a minute
Charles last September, Ameri- logically right, psychologically contest for the
the vacant European a's promoters February 27. Turpin
two counter-blasts.
for the love of P. G. "eries a man, from shattered the Spanlard, Lopez, Their alternatives are: Either just as speedily in his previous televise fights only in
grens Woking bout. DOW As Van Dam lasted four outside, driving distance romm afternoon sit-down strike on all will be entitled to con- fixed for the next odds any in December be the halls and charge every ther
rounds against,
at the show, or stage big his courses--when the better wea gratulate themselves, when The winners had to pay their meeting but the union say this fore taking the full count. Tur
comes, says a cautious they look back upon mch the £15 as well as the is too late. Seeing that
spectator
Ipswich. aringside" price revolutionary £7 10s. for the drawn game, players are talking of asking for
the pin clearly has proved himself of 215 to 230 per scat.
"Based on one false premise 1950-51 season. and their players must
worthy challenger.
after another," also £25 a match and remembering
declares a cenior prost by
No such drastic talent that the FA had to call off a
proposals golf architect. "Sack the anti- Solomons has heavyweights
fogeys who interfere money at least £10 for close-season six-a-side tourna- Jack Gardner and Don Core are cely with the limited TV qunted reaching the Anal
Britain,
wherewith
present bogeya," writes two years ago when the ready for other star matches, ange (Note: Clubs are allowed to stand this matter should obvious Blackpool featherweight, who with the
players made a similar sort of There is also Ron Clayton, the promoters are thrushing one of several golfing poeta.
out their copyright problems distribule £330 it beaten in the 15 ba thrashed out as soon as
Postmaster-General || semi-final. 2440 Lt beaten
brilliantly retained his the Bral, and 2550 if they win possible,
A London club senda British and Empire titles In the Sports Television Ad- punching the ferocious
Wolves and Birmingham were able to pay their men half the win bonus bocause they drew tho Joint Standing Council ofiue on the first games. Yet they have League, FA and union. to pay them no extra for ap- After all, their contracts allow pearing in replays that took a for the final matches en May further £22,000. It does not 5. make senso
the cup.)
the extra
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-(London Express Service) Phillips to a standstill..
THE GAMBOLS
GEORDE, IT'S A LEITER FROM THOSE YOUNG EVACUED WE HAD DURING THE WAR THEY WANT TO COME AND STAY FOR "AJ" COUPLE OF DAYS
WHAT FUN)
1 MUST FIND THEIR OLD| DOLLS AND THE & YOU! CAN GET SEATS FOR THE PANTOMIME GEORGE
(CHILDREN LOVE
LA PANTO
ILL GO TO THE STATION AND MEET TIIGM
JBE SURE TO HOLD THEIR HANDS WHEN YO CROYS THE ROAD
AL
V.
was
Says HYLTON CLEAVER There is not much on
are suggesting Suggest a Saturday which London rugby men
visory Committee.
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Barry Appleby
HERE WE ARE GAYE RAVENT THE "Girls ghowO PEDIATR CINCE THE WAR --?
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from
A COMMON VIEW
the
bax
Owing to the present congestion in the Members' Betting Hall, Box-holders and Members are requested' to ensure that their servants minko use only of the Public Betting Hall. ... Military Police will be posted at various entrances to the Members Hall to ensure that this regulation da adhered to.
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Most significant factor been the considerable superiort FOURTH RACE MEETING ty of provincial over Metropo- Itan clubs. Take a cross-see- 1ST. DAY, SATURDAY, tion and you
7TH APRIL, 1951. The "MOUNT NICHOLSON
will find that Bath, Bedford, Bristol, Goven-
try, Gloucester and Leicester
moa have between them played 42 HANDICAP" will be run in to its matches against London clubs three Bactions, tho third
copy of its resolutions county, union to postpone the scheme till October,
and in and have lost only six of them section will be Race No. 11 the meantime ask clubs if they Bath won all their's, except at 7.00 p.m. won't it. This, too, is a com- that with St. Mary's Hospital, · There will be Do cash mon view.
which they, drew... Gloucester
висор ол the third section
now
It took a Cambridge man, lost only to London Scottish, (Race No. 11).
great eminence in the Bedford to Metropolitan Police, police force, to
Bristol and Itcenter both by obvious as to hover you also lost to Roslyn Park and HANDICAP" will run in
no chance lost to Harlequina. Leicester
on a solution so over the milker Coventry to London Welsh,
overwhelming-
of being considered.
find that the ball goes farther Bristol drew with Wasps..
he says in effect, "why alter the bogers
If one oxtended this.
2ND DAY, SATURDAY, 14TH APRIL, 1951. The “MOUNT CAMERON
and it would be found to akysia,throa sections, the
in
third
1,500 courses of golfers to BE, HE
Why not con- Welsh clubs. And it must be the ball to at the golfers? remembered that most provin brol: Come, como, sir, luto is not cial aumpio os
as that. Don't spoil. tho day
the handicaps of half a million much the same way with section will be Race No. 9 at
5.80 p.m.
The "MOUNT PARKER
BY: ORDER,
8. A. Bleap,
Secretary.
The Hong Kong Countryside.
Throughout The Seasons
by
G. A. C. HERKLOTS
$25 Second
On
clube have to play Satur- HANDICAP" will run in Kelly & Walth county footban, ng
two sections ONLY, Racos S grateful Humbly.
Tatuption leone the 1 for all the p
and fan clubs and received: 1,ahil now con- study. If they wish to continue better Dorkcoperidence into be påtractions on the fixture
clopetere
help
of the clout of kost:
By Orderi
S. A. SLEAP, *
Post, Ltd. Becretary. HONGKONG, & KOWLOON