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France's Year At Rugby
By
PETER LOVEGROVE
Perhaps
The most striking feature of the past season in beth Union and League codes of rusby football has been the muccess of France. In the XV- a-side game, France finisheel 2 point behind Ireland in the In- fernational Championship.
Runel
They beat Scotland Wales in Paris, and England for the first time at Twicken- har Their only
defect was
at the hands of the drina, and the only by a single point, and the day they were without Comenal post-Rizker, Thele shene Jean Peat, and mised soveral penalty chances. In the League rode, they won the Jean Galia International Trophy over Eng- land, Wales and the Carr Nä- Donatitles.
These rumeshes are sympt 0- anal f
popularly The Kreat
of the game in me parts 14 the country. I have just spent a Voliday in the South-Eat the main reshold of the
codes; and fun there an en- thus-m and intered whit are perhaps only matche I in Wales in the Britely Isles
The feating ཡཾདྡྷ」 བྷཱསྶ In the XII-a Championsh Carcassonne, Mamicites, Lyons and the Cattland of Perpignan, all of whom have recently tos- counted for vulting & des sach
Warrington, as
W.
Hunste They backthon at
the
the nut l and regularly daw wate 11: 1pwards of 20,000 prqaders.
In the Union eit, there is a complicated chisele stupion hip, tal again the South Bart predominant and parvides ever far the French XV. The pick. which has been o .B., * a factor in the French men is largely dawn
this a
in clubs at
MOST SATISFACTORY
Perhaps the mast tury aspect of this upsurge et French
rugker
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1951.
MANILA CAGERS MAKE
The touring Black and While girls" basketball
team from Manila made a
successful opening of their six-match series in Hong- kong last night.
IMPRESSIVE DEBUT
Jack Young's "Hat Trick" Against Lancashire
London, May 28. Jack Young, Middlesex left arm slow bowler, did the "hat-trick" at Lord's Today in dismissing the last three Lancashire batsmen-Barlow, Hilton and Green- wood.
Though the senson is only a few weeks old the feat has already been performed twice.
With the wicket becoming triéky, Lancashire lost their last five wickets in a half an hour spell after lunch for 13 runs, but thanks to the upper batsmen they finished with 809 runs on the board.
wicket was unfit after a heavy weekend rain,
Middlesex were always fensive play and included a five | GMT as the struggling. Roy Tattersall and 10 fours-Reuter.
muto his off breaks bite
viciously: Malcolm Hilton also
trned the ball sharply and
Brian Statham
bowled
with
great accuracy with the result that Middl¤sex by the close and
munt follow
were shot out con in the morning. The captain,
Bill Edrich, made bla ide's 148.
01 runs of
CLOSE OF PLAY SCORES
The
London, May 28, following were today's close of play
scores In
first-
At Newport: Glamorgan 132 fox Ave against Hampshire. There was no play today as the wicket was unit after tho
weekend rain.
At Derby:
Gloucestershire
class cricket matches:
At Lords: Lancashire 309 104 and 251 (Wilson S1, Mor- 1kin 115, G. Edricit 03, Young, En, right-arm
Cost meditum left-arm slow bowler, six fer bowler, six for 93). Derbyshire 87). Middlesex 110 (W. Ed- 195 and 37 for four, rich 81. Statham, right-ram fost medium bowler, four for 14).
23 OUT FOR 266
At Gravesend Kent 300 (Fagg On rain-affected turf at the
107. Cowdrey 54, Jack- Oval, 23 batsmen were dismiss-
At the Oval: Essex 215 (In-įsau, right-arm offbreak bowler, ed in the day for 206 runs and
sole 57, Lock. left-arm spin six for 80) and 18 for one. Essex, who led Surrey by 123 bowler, four for 39) and 134 for Lelcestershire 210 (Smithson 74, rinis on the first innings, eight. Surrey 92 (Ray Smith, Wright, right-arm medium leg- falshed 247 ahead with two right-arm offspin bowler, five break bowler, four for 73). wickets standing.
for 57, Peler Smith, right-orm
Warwick- Accurate spine
At Birmingham: beyling by slow legbreak bowler, ve for Smith cousins for Essex 23).
shire 389 for eight declared and 17 for one. Worcester 250 (Out- and by Laker and Lock for At Shefeld: Somerset 234, schoorn 102, Weeks, left-arm Yorkshire 70 for nine. Play did slow bowler, five for 43.) -
the
the
Leading all the way,, they overwhelmed Kowloon Chinese YMCA by 37-8.
Shown above are the Black and White team. and on the right is a scene during one of the attacks made by the visitors on
the Y's basket.
The visitors are scheduled to play South China åt Caroline
8.30 p.m.- China Mail Photos.
- tonight at
YOUNG MEN
AS STARTERS
ARE WANTED
Py Richard Baerlein
London.
A. post of great respon. of the wide-sibility under the rules
racing is that of starter. It
spread keenness 1 found, even outside the large Tewas,
Even
de
decided by
is his job to see that every the smalled borough has it'
horse has a fair chance ground- often crud by standards--and as local site when the gate goes up, and of which is fervently supported.
the fate of thousands 4 stayed for a few days at a pounds can be ny fortaliod town. Prats
his actions. Molle, hidden at the Kowit ct picturesque, mountains in the Vellaspie Valley of
the Pyrenees near the Spanish frontier, and Raw the local XV
local In action. There are only 1,000 inhabitants all told (including the scattered farma hugging the mountain side), but mest of them lined
the touch-lines to watch a very reasonable standard of play in weather which would have been. far too hot for us.
The main failings were some
very crude, round-the-neek tackling and very little whole- hearted loose mauling. but as the pich had little grass and many stones, these were prob- ably due more to bliter ex- perience of pust Injuries than to any lack of knowledge or
akiti.
The
Not only owners and trainers, but the geheral public who pay for admis. sion are entitled to demand that the horses they back get a break from the bar- rier.
is ach which requires alertness, quickness of brain and eye, perfect timing, Horough. understanding of human nature. and the complete confidence of the jockeys themselves.
It is, in furt, a job for a young man and not for someone who has begun to lose his faculties.
WHOLE TIME
in
It is sufficiently important to be made a whole-time Job and not a part-time one to with various other undertakings of a different nature connected
KI MING HEAVILY BACKED
TO WIN THE DERBY
!
London, May 28.
Mr Ley On's Ki Ming became a firmer favourite than ever when certainly with racing. games were
was the the card was called over on the Derby at the Victoria Club, London, to- very open and fast, the passing
Captain 1. Allison and handling always attractive, greatest starter of the generation, night. und the kicking compared most
but has now retired. There has favourably with similar
since been a marked deteriora- standard in Britain.
*
tion
In spite of a day of rumours about the colt's fitness, which were denied by his
The other strongly-backed horses were Fraise du Boise, Le Vent, Nyangal'and
in the standard of starting. trainer, Michael Beary, he was one of the live horses heavily backed tonight and It proved to me that rugger particularly in the Rive-furions, his price was cut from 17 to 2 to 7 to 1. has now Kot a very sold races.
foundation across the Channel, Never have racing correspon- and that France must now be | depts had to make so many Malkus Boy.
Quile_apposéely, the French Bagby League are this month
Surrey caused collipses but Poor batting as much as the Vagarien of, the pitch were responsible for low scoring.
Surrey were put out for 92
in 00 minutes, Peter Smith taking five wickets for 23 runs and cousin Ray five
wickets for 57 runs. Tho
bowlers were helped by five ginart catches by Frank Vigar. Lekker has so far laken five Deex sccond Innings wickets for 58 runs.
HEAVY HAIN
Heavy week-end rain delay- ed the start of the Yorkshire- Somerset match at Sheffield un- tl 5 p.m. local time. Then, York- shire suffered an hour and half of sheer disaster, losing seven wickets for 39 runs.
At the close, they still needed nine runs lo avoidi the follow- an with their lust pair together. Herbert Buse, bowling fast medium deliveries, had the re- markable figures of 13 overs. sevcu maidens, [1 wickels for his evenings, five
work.
A splendid century by Laddie Cutschporn helped Worcester- xhire to move the follow on against Warwickshire. His 102 runs, which took nearly five hours, was marked by sound de-
Cernik & Matous Upset Crack Swedish Pair
hut commence until 4.00 p.m. ¡ -- Reuter.
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Later in the day they reached the last eight with a 7-5, 8-0, 6-2 win over the French pak, Jean Ducos and Jacques Thomas,
The
FILIPINOS LOSE
Philippines Davis Cup players, Felicismo Ampon and Cesar Carmona, were eliminated in the third round.
Nyangal's price was lashed from 20 to 1 to 100 to 7 and the odds against Malkas Boy were reduced from 22 to 1 to 100 to 6.
Areut maintained his position 32 to Sun
They were beaten 10-8, 8-0, Compass and i 20 to 1 Juditch Paris, Javolle,
Neasham Belle and Catari|6-1 by seeded Eric Sturgess, of as the second favourite although Signal Box. his price went out from 9 to 1
to 1
South Stokes, Zuechero, Reuter.
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Paradise Street, Crocodile and
Drobny, of Egypt.
Today's An official of the Victoria Club | Turco.
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to doubles ovenis.- dous amount of business."
rockoned
for as a considerable excuses
horses besten force in the International Chim through losing ground at the pionships,
starter's end, due to no fault of
horse or the jockey. the
It is simply that the barrier often goes up before they are all paying their first visit 10. Aus-
{ຕ line. iralia and New Zeiland, and
Several times in the past fort- are undertaking the bulward night only one two-year-old has journey by air. This is no mean been started out of a whole held, fen: for an organisation which and it is absurd when the racu has not yet attained its ana-
is all over after the first 20 yards. jority, and it is assured of o NOT A FAIR RETURN very friendly welcome down under."
"They fellow, tha? - Bab・Hópa around like a lot of shopli
is not It is racing. and the pubile are not getting a fair run for their money-unless they are the lucky ones who back the "yer." What are the authorities doing
train sturters?
to
The old brigade still go down to the start on horseback with the best wishes of backers that they may arrive there safely, but I have neve noticed any young man going down with them to learn the trade,
Recruits must be found quickly and trained as soon as possible, for 11 is a fob which cannot be learned in five minutes, and even the present starters will retire. in time.
London Express Service.)
TENNIS LEAGUE FIXTURES
HA"
The following · · Men's Division Tennis League matches which were postponed "lost Friday because of ruin, will be played on Wednesday June 6:
v HKU KCC
V Urban Couricil V Reorels
CRC
HKCC
The match between SCAA "1" and SCAA "2" has already been played off, resulting in a win for BCAA-“1” by B«l
In light betting on the Onks, Belle of All remained the far- ourite at 4 10 1. Sea Parrot, the second favourite, hardened from 6 to 1 to 5 to 1.
THE QUOTATIONS The following were today's ¦ quotations:
DERBY
7 to 1 Ki Ming.
100 to Arcot.
25
North Carolina, Gremlins' Team conned
28 to 1 Raincheck and Expediticus. 33 to 1 Aretle Prince, 40 to 1 Le Tyrol.
50 to 1 Mystery the Ninth rd Sybil's Nephew. 60 to 1 Ardent Medway.
OAKS
4 to 1 Belle of All,
5 to 1 Sea Parrot.
For
Thursday
The Gremlins' ladies' hockey, team
Royal will play the Hope and Leicestershires Des Titursday,
May 31, bully-off at 5.45 p.m. at the Navy ground, King's Park.
8 to 1 Chinese Cracker.
100 to 7 Fraise du Boise, Le Ombrette. Vent and Nyangal.
100 to 0 Malkas Boy.
TAE
The team will be Mrs Muir; R. Read, L. Warning; M.
10 to 1 Queen of Sheba and Elliott, Mrs Fowler, P. James; Mrs Fruxr, Mrs Groundwater, M. Hodkinson, A. Moran, N. Simmons and Mrs Watson.
100 to B Code Militaire.
100 to 7 Bob Run an Bangul.
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SURBITON TOURNEY-
Surbiton, Surrey, May 28. Naresh Kumar, India's fourth ranked tennis player, won his opening match in the Surrey Grass Courts Lawn Tennis Tournament here today.
He beat G.K. Plerey, of Bri- lain, by G-7 and 6-2. His com- patriot, Narendra Nath, the holder of the men's singles title, will have his first match 04 morrow. Reuter.
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