THE SPORTSMAN'S DIARY
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 19513
ARA Lacks The Funds To Send British Rowers To European Championships
The Amateur Rowing Association have acted promptly after the sweeping They have asked Auccesses of Cambridge oarsmen at the Henley Royal Regatta. James Crowden, president of Cambridge University Boat Club, how many of his Macon (France) on crews will be available for the European Championships at August 24, 25, 26.
The ARA, no doubt, would like to send T. A Fox (Pembroke), winner of the Diamond Sculls, and either the Lady. Margaret eight which captured the Grand Challenge Cup or the Cambridge University Boat Race crew.
For Fox, in particular, ex- What a contrast to the offer perlence of racing abroad is made by the organisers of the most important. If selected for Toronto Winter Fair. Within an the Olymple Games at Helsinki hour of Fox winning the Din next year he will have to com-monds they were putting out pete In
in heats rowed six abreast, reclers for a match between Fox with different methods of start and Jack Guest, jun, in Canada Every time injut it's the
and steering. at the end of August. keeping
old, old story expense would be met. But, of The ARA have no funds. Part course, this clashes with the of the cost of sending crews to European championships, the championships is borne by the International Federation, but the larger proportion falls on the competitors.
Surely here is the opportunity for the Royal Regatin Stewards to make a handsome gesture by offering
grant from the
Dour Struggle In The "Battle Of The Roses"
London, Aug. 4.
The "Battle of the Roses" between Yorkshire and Lancashire provided the usual dour struggle In County cricket today and was made the more vital because of both, countries challenge to Warwickshire, the virtual the championship,
Yorkshire are second and Lancashire third at the moment in the championship table..
Norman Yardley, the York-South African and Glamorgan shire captain, took the risk of batsmen struggled for runs on
day of their
match to bat and the first Baking Lancashire the policy seemed to pay when here. In the six hours of play, Jack Ikin, the Test opener, was 21 wickets fell for 243 runs and out with only six runs scored. in that time both sides were former out for the same total, 111. By But Cyril Washbrook, Test-opener, bailed splendidly the close, Glamorgan had lost and prevented pre-lunch one second innings wicket for
อน
collapse. He scored 68 rune, 21. ch'efly with superb drives and It was soon apparent this pulls and he hit eight fours.
morning that Nourse's polley of The patient Winston Place putting the county In to bat gave valuable help with 62 runs, when he won the toss was come
ultimately Lancashire were
The home justified. pletely and diamissed for 215 runs side were always in trouble and Yardley had the fine analysis of were out soon after lunch, four wickets for 14 run
Percy Mansell bowled un- At the close, Yorkshire were
changed throughout their 3 runs for two wickets, but innings and finished with five Lan Hutton is there to bat again for 37. He started by bowling on Monday,
Warwickshire,
championship medium pace but soon turned to Athol Rowan, leg spinners. leaders, began badly against Derbyshire, losing their first five bowling off spinners, took four
for 45, wickets for 94 runs. But with
When the tourists batted, they the pitch drying out Wolton (84) fared even worse and lost their and Townsend (68) attacked
"dandwin
first seven wickets for only 36 accurate bowling of
Then Athol Rowan (49) and Jackson and the sixth wic-runs.
114 and Percy Mansell (21) came eighth ket partnership realised
• gallant runs so that the Warwickshire together in total reached the respectable wicket stand that realised 53 Ogure of 258 runs. Despite runs in 55 minutes. Wolton and Townsend, Gladwin
-Len
Muncer,
tho.
former
finished with the fine analysis practically
Middlesex off-epinner, was
130
Reuter,
unplayable
on
Henley takings which must have benefted considerably from the wonderful box office appeal which the success of the British added 10 the competitors ncension.
British rowing is at its peak. It should be seen by the rest of the world. The money must be found.
"BOBBY JONES' CHOICE
Lady Heathcant-Amary, who as Joyce Wethered was probably the finest woman golfer Britain has ever produced, is to play no more competition golf.
Now 50, Lady
Heathcoat- Amory won the British women's open title four times, first when she was 10.
Bobby Jones, the great Ameri- can golfer War once nsked: "Who, excepting yourself, is the greatest player in the world?"
Jones gallantly and doubt- less meaning every word replied; What "You get that wrongly. you ought to say to 'Who except- ing Miss Weihered, greatest?
15
IK tho
That perhaps
the best assessment of Lady Heathcoat- Amory's ability.
Gardening has become number her one hobby for her and hu and Sir John, whom she married in 1937 two years after in the she caused a sensation goling world by turning pro- fessional. She played a series of from matches in the USA. which she is gald to have earned
£4,000.
IS IT A RECORDI Mrs J. B. Beck will establish what would seem to be a unique captains the record when she
teum in English women's goit South Africa this winter. Нет husband, John Beck, was non- playing. captain of Britain's Walker Cup team in 1938 and 1947.
Great
John Beck played for Great
Britain in the 1928 Walker Cup team and for England v. Scot- fand, Ireland and Wales.
Mrs Beck
the wan
Irish Women's Championship in 1938, captained Middlesex from 1938 to 1947, and is still worth place as a player.
Jer
over
Page
DUKE SEES DOGGETT'S COAT AND BADGE RACE COUNTY CRICKET
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, seated in the launch from which he followed the race for Doggett's Coat and Badge from London Bridge to Chelsea on July 26, The oarsmen were young watermen of not more than 12 months out of their apprenticeship. The Duke was there in his capacity as a member of the Court
of the Fishmongers' Company, Central Press Photo..
Bristol City Will Make
An All-Out Bid For
Promotion To Division II
Bristol City, determined in the coming season to recover the Division. Two status they lost 19 years ago, have decided to launch two fund-raising schemes to help them in their promotion bid. Lack of hard cash makes their job a difficult one, but the Ashton Gate directors are determined to splash into the transfer market quickly.
and
!
prepara-
to
The first scheme is the issue of five-year season tickets-at 1950-51 prices. This is an important concession in view of the decision to raise admission charges taken at the recent League meeting in London. The second idea is the formation of an Exclusive Club, the last word in spectator comfort, at £20, rather on the lines of the Arsenal plan which has been in operation since pre-war days.
League Champions Tottenham Spurs already have leams in cricketers and baggage arrived, Hotspur mean to make sure of the Combination. Eastern Coun- at the ground ensuring a continuous flow of des League and London Mid- tions were made by them
The home captain reserves by putting yet an- week League, in addition to the do battle.
becamó good other team into the field next tiest eleven, and all will continue of the teams in play season-in the Metropollten in 1951-52. Fielding five teams, uneasy about all this and went
in good-class compellen,
off to investigato, only to find League. The young professionals all and amateur telalists who
that his side were paying the will must not be far short of a re-
mid- make up the side will be in the cord.
wrong team! A hurried field conference of astonished capable hands of veteran George Ludford, who, when little more NEW BRADFORD MANAGER
players was held, and the Brst
team returned to than a lad himself, scored 101 Kent League goals in a season
arrivels to take their
right for Northfleet, then the Spurs' nursery side.
Jack Robertson
Is The Batsman Of The Year
Vic Buckingham, long-service Tottenham Hotspur player and the North London club's canch, nas bien appointed manager cf Bradford and has taken his
new duties at Park Avenue.
A Londoner who as a school-
both city and England interna- ticnal honcurs, Buckingham
boy in his live Greenwich won
19
the
Acvilion and allowed the late
ful place. The homesters were using a borrowed pitch whilst their ground was undergoing repairs, and there had been a mix-up over the fixtures.
BERRY'S PHILOSOPHY This time last year Bob Berry, of Lancashire, ́› was regarded He
HOLLIES WILL STAY with considerable favour.
Eric Holics, the Warwickshire match Cat Lord's) against the was chosen for the second Test West Indies. In the fourth Test
full-back and half And Eagland g-pinner, who was offered terms by Vest he had been displaced by-his
Back for the Spurs for 17-years. Bromwich Dartmouth to play team colleague Malcolm Hilton.
During the last two
or the League cricket next summer. of four wickets for 61 runs.
In the chosen team to our Say: ARCHIE QUICK
Has we an out- Hilton
• was
out and
seasons he
reputation for The highest scorer of the day pitch that was drying out and Australia
his has delded to remain with the riving him every aseis
Berry in
The continued refusal of standing
County Club. He has just signed coaching work among
Totten- was Laurie Fishlock who made was
Lancashire have been repeat- runs not out for Surrey tance. In his first 10 overs, he
conceded only four runs and ing the MCC's indecision
the selectors to recognise ham's younger players, and it is agreement for another three
years, London
he against Notts. He
that and Peter
the worth of Jack Robert-considered in This season May, the Cambridge University took the wickets of Endean, these two bowlers.
a big part in the An MCC ruling will prevent been Berry out.
son is one of the most in-has played and Test player, retrieved a bad Cheetham, McLean, Fullerton it has mostly
Nourse for nine runs-Hilton in.
triguing mysteries of this club's recent brilliant successes, the, Nawab of Pataud, 41-year- He has also been coaching old former England Test crick?- start and both hit powerfully in and
The philosophy of Bob Berry
season's cricket. Jack Ikin Pegasus, which carried off the ter, fram playing for Worcester. front of the wicket. May was
In this Box and Cox existence is
thi:c-his old county in the dismissed when he had hit 83
LANCASHIRE LEAGUE
surprisingly found. "It's the dropped out of the Leeds FA Amateur Cup at Wembicy.
Augus Bank Holiday match luck of the game," he says.
Test and in went Frank SMITHS 'SIGN AGAIN
against Escx. The
Nawab London, Aug. 4.
will be my
"Pat" to those who kne Lowson. It could only be on' A. Vindoo Mankad fered the "Maybe next year
tum,"
The four footballing sons of lar
as Worcester player, before best of the Indian professionals
the ground of age. No question of discontent
Mr und
Mre Robert Smith, he war) is coming to Britain to in today's Lancashire League
of Victoria Road, Whetstone have Treatment for recurring Castleton anxiety to leave Lancashire for games. His team,
there are
But wait a moment.
Leicestershire, have all re-signed back cuble which began when Moor, drew with the League another county-and
MCC Board of Control selec- leaders Rochdale and Mankad many-who require a left-hand question of
tors as distinct from the Test for next season. Arthur, former he was hit by a ball fem Lar
forward, will Leicester City
He if disqualified from Committee 74 runs and took five break bowler. No up
anything but loyalty to his
continue with West Bromwich Wood.
playing in a county champion- have chosen Robertson for the Albien, Jack remains with Norship match because he has cap- county.
Ceylon and India, Pakistan
for whom
tained. India. He would have, to tour and surgy nothing could thampton Town.
д sumber of League live in Worcestershire for two be more arduous than that, made
season, and years to qualify for the More fatiguing I should have appearances last
again. thought than playing five days the left-wing pair, Kenneth and have again signed at Leeds. On the other hand, Raymond, if it is the future which is be-amateur formy for, Leicester City. ing looked at, why Robertson to India?
runa,
George Emmett (110) and Arthur Milton (120) savert Gloucestershire who totalled 299 for nine wickets against Somersetshire.
declared
Hazell, the slow left-arm splaner, bowled brilliantly to take eight Gloucestershire wic kets for 102 runs, Somerset-wickels for 55 runs. shire had scored 61 for thres C. S. Nayudu was the only wickets at the close.
Indian on the winning side.
Another good bowling per- formance was the six wickets for 45 runs by "Bill" Edrich for Middlesex against Sussex,
Dodds hit exactly 100 white Avery was 135 not out for Essex against Worcestershire.
spin 8 for 102; Somerset 61 for
3.
He made 10 runs and took
GOLF WANTS YOUTH
10
feur wickets for 45 runs for More and more counties are Litt eborough who beat Walsden holding golf championships in by four wickets,
the nationwide effort
the entry of youth Both P. R. Umriger and Vijay encourage
Latest to take Hazare failed to take a wicket into the game, for Werneth and Royston action are the Hampshire, Isle of respectively.
and Channel Islands Golf meet-
rung in
口
At Sheffield: Lancashire 215. nprashire, who made 103|
Washbrook 68, Place 02, Yardley right-arm medium 4. for 14; Yorkshire 34 for 2.
At Leicester: Leicestershire 222, Palmer 73. Berry 62, Nutter right-arm medium 8 for 77;
MCC VICE-CAPTAIN
Wight who are holding :
Match
Selection
of
take
WORRYING DAYS
end
NOTICE
knew
him
county
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB Special Cash Sweep- on the
-Leste Ames, Kent and Eng- land's Era wicket-keeper and batsman and Test Selector is seriously i After capteining
CLOSE OF PLAY SCORES
What cannot be gainsaid is Ccell Mountford, Wigan Rugby the Commonwealth XI In India. Hazare hit 65
New Zealand us: winter, he came home with League Club's that the elegant Robertson is The following were the close!
drawn game with Oldham and ing at the Blockmoor golf clubs,
proving himself
the Batsman half-back, who caplained the tumbage and fibrosis. Now he of play scores:
Bordon (Hampshire) on
of the Year. He is only At
300 side in the last Rugby Logue has had to be put in a plaster Gloucestershire Umrigar played a patient 37 near Bristol:
Iost by eight August 12. The championship
runs short of 3,000, five hun-Cup Fical at Wembley, has given locket. 299 for 9 declared, Emmett 110, but his side
winner (12 to 17 years) will hold
his wickets at Ashton,
dred ahead
nearest notice of his intention to Milton 120, Hazell left-arm alow
u run of success, Dhatu the trophy given by Sir Paul After
rival and all get to cho lenge his playing #greement which Phadkar was out of touch for Pecholl.
Denis Compton's best over OH- has eli) a year to run,
He surprisingly beaten by BILLY GOODWIN DIES
gregate of 3,800 in 1947. footballer in Most celebrated
to Mountferd has been offered la is also the only bateman runs for eight wickets and then the history of Southend Untied-
make 2,000 in avery season the manager-coach post at War- dismissed Nelson for 60 runs. Billy Goodwin, centre-forward 'of
mode rington. Kenneth Gee, Wigon's since the war. He has) Phadkar scored only eight runs Kursaal days, died on July 9 ¤; seven centuries this summer to International front-row forward, At Hove: Sussex 169, Cox 50.
and his four wickets coat 68 his home in Thorpe Bay, aged date, but his only сара are who has won every honour, In Bill Edrich right-arm medium
06.
against South Africa in 1947 the game, has announced his re fast 6 for 45; Middlesex 20 for 1. I runs. Reuter.
He was a most polished player and, the West Indies in 1948.tirement after 18 years with the Kwangtung Handicap
club. and once he scored four against
Saturday, 6th October, 1961. A broken
Talking of Test Match selec- Millwall.
leg London, Aug. 4.
onded Brighton
his playing
tions brings moto the curious; Wigan also nearly lost thel: Tickets in the above-nt Northamptonshire 37 for no wic- D. B. Carr, of Oxford Univer-
case of Warwickshire, who are coach, the famous Jim Sullivan. sity and Derbyshire, has been career on Good Friday, 1924.
winning the championship with one of the greatest names ever $2.00 each may be obtained
Com series of two day victories in League Football. Huddersfield at the Treasurera" Blackburn. Manchester United
because the selectors consis-made him an offer which with pradore Office, 1st Floor, tenty Ignore their players,hou
housing
and YEARS
accommodation AFTER BK In 1890 Mr. A. V. Shaw, of
True they are a
team of bonuses, amounted to about Telephone House, and at the £1,000 a year nearly (wice as Club's Branch Offices situated Woking, Su
level merit with no outstand much as he was getting at Win at Surrey, founded, the
ing stars except perhaps but he decided against the Kingston and District Football
6 D'Aguilar Street, wicket-keeper Spooner and move after attending a directors League. It then had 24 clubs
Matong Kong several overseas players, bul New Delhi, Aug. 9.
competing in two divisions. Now The Indian Board of Control there are 73 clubs with more surely. It will be a record 1 FRANK ANORDI
or.' elected Mr than in seven divisions,
registered players, they capture the title for the cestershire-sex252 for 4, for Crickat today
first time in 40 years without
382 Nathan Road, Kowloon. Dodds
to competing Avery not out 183. C. Mukherjee (Bengal); to 100,
Mr Shaw, whose playing days getting a man into the Tests: At Andover, Swindon,="ra=" Over 200,000-tickets sola At Canterbury: Kent v Hamp succeed Me A. 8. de Mello as
Think of Yorkshire with Hut cently, there were the usual shiro-Kent 187 for 4, Heurn 53. President.
ended in 1913 was
tom Lowson, Brennan, Watson greetings, the teams captains to date, Condrey not out 78. Rain Me Banga (Madras). The had now been hondured or the
Loncashire tomed, for cholos, and @tho restricted play-outer. Maharajah of Vijayanagaram, league of which he was the first and Wardle, and
with: Ikin ton, Statham, match was started Al was * STRUGGLE FOR RUNS Major General Ranjit Bing) and secretary 55 years ago. He has
Tattersall pil selected this, son- well, until the und of the fifur Vice-president
over when a scoschload opt Mr P. 5. Kotár are Vice Preal, bien appointed
Landon Exprend Bervice. A dents for 1961-62-Beuter
ket.
At Derby: Derbyshire v War-aupointed Vice-Captain to N. D. Previously, he had been with
wickshire Warwickshire 258, Howard of Lancashire of the Wolton 14, Townsend 58, Glatt MCC team, which is to tour and Exeter. win right-arm” fost medium India, Pakistan and Ceylon` dur- wing 4 for 61,Warwick all outing the coming winter. Reuter. ut close.
At The Oval: Burrey Not
finghamshire Surray 343 for
Μα
63, Fithlock not out 159..
Bouthend Essex.v Wor-
Game Byenres, Aug. 49. On a rain-soaked pitch, the
INDIAN. DOABD
THE WRONG TEAMS MET-
B. A. BLEAP
Secretary:
IS FULL OF SOCCER STARS
Says “ALL-ROUNDER”
Everyone knows that Denis Compton was a war" time soccer International and the Gunners outside-left when they lifted the FA Cup. In 1950, that his brother Leslie, who keeps wicket for Middlesex, la better known is an Arsenal and England centre-half, and also that Willle Watson, Yorkshire's left hander and the new England No. 5 bat, plays for Sunderland during the winter and is a recent England specer cap.
But these three are by no means the exception an all round sportsmen now playing in County crleket. Essex for instance have five Soccer players in their side: 'Sonny' Avery, the opening bat, was Leyton's centre. forward when they won the Amateur Cup Find! before the war, and toured the world with the Islington) Corinthians. Trevor. Bailey and Doug Insole are both Cambridge soccer Blues, Ken Preston broke his leg at the winter game carly in 1949, and missed a whole summer's cricket as a result, while Frank Rist is the former Charlton centre-half.
and
Ken'ts Leslie Ames, now and Cyril Poole turns out for lying seriously lil, at one Gillingham. time played for. Folkestone, Sussex have a trio of foot- Clapton Orient
Gilling-ball-players: George Cox, woll and Luton ham; Derek Ufton and O'Lian known before, the war, as the (who recently gove a very Arrenal. Fulham
.Ken Suttle, useful display at the Oval) are centre-forward. both present-day "Charlton another professional and footballers, while opening-bat bert Doggart who won Blues Pheby, a schoolboy soccer. Inut Cambridge for cricket, soc- ternational, s Dulwich. Honger, rugby, and squash let's inside-right.
kets.
Hu-
-Tac-
F. G Gardner, Warwick's Lancashire fo'k know Ken consistent opening bat, has Grieves not only as the best been seen in the Coventry City slip-catcher in the country and and Newport County colours, a bright forcing bat, but also George Dews (Worcester) os the Bury goal-keeper, and pays for Plymouth, and York Peter Greenwood plays for thire's tall No. 3, J. V. Wi- Chester. Arthur Holi
(Hararen, turns out for Leads United shire) is the former captain of as on amateur.
Southampton FC, and on the A. Arsenal staff now are C. Milton (Gloucestershire), Don Bennett (Midd ̋esex 18-year- old opening bowler) and J. R. Gray, of Hampshire,
Alan Watkins,
44 Laurie Fishlock, now years old, had a long soccer career with Dulwich Hamlet, Millwall, Pa'ace, Crystal
and Aldershot, Southampton Gillingham, while Peter May. Surrey) and Jock Glamorgan (also of
(Northants) and brilliant leg-Webster
used
coccer Blues to earned their felder, pay for Plymouth and Car-Cambridge. diff City, and Stan Montgomery is Cardiff's present centre-half.
bat
side.
G. D. Morton,
boli
at
medium-Tam O'Shanter Golf
Chicago, Aug. "4. Babe Zaharias shot a record-
fast bowler on the fringe of the Middlesex side, is the Wat- ford goalkeeper, and William Barron, of Northants County, breaking last nine of 33 for u is also the Northampton FC 71, five under par, to take a 10- full-back.
stroke - lend with a three-round total of 333 in the Tam O'Shan- Notis,ter all-American women's golf City, open today. Associated Press..
Arthur Jepson of keeps goal for Lincoln
BRAATHENS
the SAFE
WAY
to Europe!
HONGKONG — OSLO via AMSTERDAM
BOOKINGS ACCEPTER FOR ALL KUROPE Braathens S.A.F.E. Airtransport A/S · DEPARTURE HONGKONG:
0/8, 14/8, 23/8, 20/8, '6/9, 11/9, '20/0, 23/0. KVINY, SECOND FUMET DE GINJUNCTION WITH, CPA,
Book Passages & Freight Through Your Travel Agent or
Agents:
WALLEM & COMPANY LIMITED Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building Tel: 38041-5 v
GREAT SALE
RUGS
PALACE RUG CO.
No. 4, GRANVILLE ROAD 1st FLOOR KOWLOON TSIMSHATSUI.