THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1952.
Spotlight Was On Trevor Bailey, But ROY AND MANTRI MANAGE INDIANS' FIRST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP OF THE TOUR
London, May 19.
Trevor Bailey, latest candidate for the England cricket cap. at Lord's taincy, played a big part in the MCC's success today here against the Indians.
The tourists, with two wickets still standing, require 20 runs to save the follow on in reply to the MCC's first innings total of 383 runs for eight wickets declared.
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Bailey's resources were tested, when Roy and Mantri,. India's opening pair, made 101 runs together in easily the highest partnership for any wicket so far during the tour.
Roy, in his valuable 62, hit nine fours.
The long stand ended when Roy mistimed a drive and gave a simple catch.
1h0
failed to carry work.
on the good
The MCC batted half an hour in the morning to add 47 runs to the Saturday core of 330 for wickets, while they lost
six
of
CENTRE OF ATTRACTION Spooner and Laker.
Bailey Then
became
For the Indians, Mantricon- centre of attraction. He disstantly gave the impression missed Mantri with an amazing boing at war with himself, bul and running catch, and next removed he was, in reality, sound the two fast scoring batsmen, steady. Umrigar and Ramchand, with successive balls.
The MCC caplain finished the day with three wickets for 20 with his slow left arm bowling, took four wickets
TuRs.
Hilton,
for 36 runs.
Bad light stopped play 10 minutes before the close.
After a fast start that was as
the Funny
as tlie, weather, Indians collapsed badly and ended the second day of their match against the MCC with alght wickets - down for 214
runs.
Roy and Mantri put on the best and first century stand of the tour but the later batsmen
LIKE A CAT
Statham looked the fastest of any of the English bowlers seen this season, Onco Roy intended to drive him through the cavers, but the ball flew past gully.
Roy, a short, thick-set bats- man, produced some fine on- drives and hooks agelost Hilton and Laker.
When Roy reached 51 out of 80 in 115 minutes with a spark- he com- ling four of Hilton, pleted his first 50 of the tour and, at the same time, made the for any partnership the best Indian wicket so for.
Hilton, tossing up his left arm dismissed both the open- sjows,
ROY Ing batsmen..
who hit was first to leave. nine fours, off
He Intended a mighty. drive, but lifted an easy catch to mid-
After two hours, and 25 30 often happens after a bis partner- ship, he followed Roy back, leaving to as fins a catch_as anyone could wish to get wide tried to place Hilton mid-on, but Bailey leaped like a to catch the ball with his
right
BAD
He
While this partnership lasted and even after it was broken it was significon that Laker could not create any impression though his length was good.
After lunch Bailey entrusted und the bowling to Statham Laker, and both kept the bats- men extremely quiet,"
Grand Bowling By Fred Trueman
London, May 19.
Grand, howling by Fred Trueman, Yorkshire's 21. year-old answer to Australia's pace men, and some free! scoring by Surrey featured the County cricket matches today.
On leave from the Royal Air Force, he followed his eight Somerset wickets in the previous match by claiming seven for 46 runs against Worcestershire today.
So the first wicket fell at 101 rung when the innings had fasted two hours.
Next, Bailey made an amaz- ing catch at mid-on to dispose of Maniri.
then
The ball was travelling fast and going away from the field, bul Bailey ran five yards, leaped 10 reach the ball with his right arm extended. PIGEONS DISTURB HAZARE The Duke of Edinburgh ar- rived to watch the game,
and he saw the play temporarily held up because two groups of pigeons in the outfeld" were disturbing Hazare, the Indians
ptain, while he was batting. capore SPDke to the umpires
but no
the
no effort was made to move pigeons
and play continued. After the sudden dismissal of
Hazare
played quietly. their opening pair, the Indians Umrigar took their first look at
the bowling.
"Sugar Ray" Robinson and Randolph Turpin, two of the coloured boxing parade.-Express Photo.
Von Nida
HUNGER MAKES COLOURED BOYS THE WORLD'S
BEST FIGHTERS
Says PETER WILSON
Anyone who was at the Empress Hall, Earls Count, when Billy Wells, the primepal teakman from the Gold Coast, battered Alf Danahar into gasping, blood-stained defeat, must have wondered (a) whether there is a native born welterweight who can possibly halt this primitive fighter's progress, and (b) how far the domination of coloured boxers in Britain is going.
Wells is a bigger, harder-punching, and cruder reproduction of Roy Ahfirah He does not at all fit into the modern boxing ring.
He is a throwback to the old days of bare-knuckle fighting when men stood ⚫toe-to-toe for 50, 60, 70 rounds and fights lasted anything up to three or four hours.
the other fightor | Corbetts,
original Jack the or
Wells claims no pretension to overwhelms any known style or, if he does and the African can move in, Dempray (whose real name was so, he is sadly mistaken-but he to demalish the opposition with John Kelly) or Philadelphia Jack
would belt the O'Brien, (real name Hegan). is unsinkable as a cork and blows which
And if a boyo was not really se hard to hurt as reinforced wielder of a tomahawk or a min
with a stone club, but which seem} Irish he would take a Hibernian. concrete.
lustre to his strangely anachronistle in the monicker to add modern, more cosscted ring. name and inspire fear in the
opposition.
ANACHRONISTIC
He stands there and takes any- thing which his opponent cares to throw at him until exhaustion
Offers £50
For Weetman's Putter
By JAMES GOODFELLOW
Australian Norman Von Nida has offered £50 to Match Play Champion, Harry, Weetman, for his putter. Said Weetman, who has refused to part with it: "If it is worth £50 to Norman, it is worth that to me,"
It has fine bulunce and gives counts, that beautiful touch all golfers seek.
In
Wells
were a unique phenomenon he would be worthy passing mention, but of only boxing all over the world is now dominated as never before. by coloured champions.
Then with the mass migrations from Europe you had the era of your Italian, Jewish, German and Central European champions.
More recently the Mexicans,
as the
18
World title holders Jersey Joe the Cubans (Kid Gavilan Walcott (heavyweight), "Sugar" recognized in America Ray Robinson (middleweight), World Welterweight Champion): Jimmy Carter (lightweight), and the Porto Ricans, the Filipinos Sandy Saddler(featherweight) have all come into their own in are all American Negroes--and the ring. most of their challengers are At one slagc
coloured men too.
or another all dresa emigrants have been poor, In Britain the stream of under-privileged, and ready to Empire fighters,
from Aght in the ring to improve the most
circumstances of
their Ilves Africa or the West Indies, is which have been a back-breaking ever increasing. In recent
these more
week out of 78 bouts, one in struggle from the cradle to tho seven included coloured battlers. grave,
That is why in Indeed, some of the smaller enlightened days when no white halls would be hard put to con- youngster, either in Britain or tinue without the use of these America need starve, and when superbly fit athletes.
Jobe generally speaking are prope plentiful than ever before there Is little Incentive for a youth to enter what is still the hardest and most ruthless of all athletic professions.
And there is the explanation (for there is no intrinsic physical nine superiority among the coloured
It well could be. A missed putt may mean the difference of £50 at the end of a tournament.
The pultor, gocse-necked with fashioned. cleek pulter after he Hunt has been measuring an aluminium head and a stift had used it in practice at Har- himself successfully against the hickory shaft,
winners. was given to rogate in 1948: It helped him hig tournament Weetman on his Ryder Cup to win_the_first_prize.......
the two events so far helt he visit to USA by Tommy All a matter of bolstering has averaged 72.33 for Armour.
confidence. It's the man that rounds, compared with the races). You rarely, if ever, see leader, Mox Faulkner, who an unit Negro fighter, whereas
five averaged 69 for
rounds the reverse is too often true of I say here and now that unless (one tournament).
the white scrappers.
the youngsters are prepared to work as I have seen no native 'BROKEN DOWN'
THE GREATEST FORGE
boxer work since the war, the After Ernest Millward
tho coloured Hungor is the greatest forgo of domluation of on the English Amateur champion fighters. The whole fighters now, for the first time that history of the ring-particularly the history of the ring Championship I was told
town' Coumbe ho, had "broken
his In that racial melting & patr allowed to compete whal Tests.
terms-will not be checked. swing twice and would, now go Americu-proves this.
In the late eighteen and early
I recall Reg Horno up an old sty
putter, and which I wouldn't say
you," at Hoylake during 1947 Open championship. discarded his own for this event and went on to tie for second place with Frank Stranahan.
Bailey come back and now shortened his run, but with the new ball due shortly there was
He sent back his first four 75 runs and Truman's solitary Umrigar steered a short, rising
victims in eight balls-all clean bowles. He then had Ceylon- porn Qutschoorn caught to take five wickets for five runs in 10 deliveries,
After B rest, Trueman came back to claim his two other wickets; ont of them being clean howled
soon
vielim this time cost 39 runs. QUICK RUNS AT THE OVAL Sussex had declared at their Saturday score and carly boun- that darles
Indicated Surrey were going for quick uns. There were periods when en accurate attack reduced the scoring rate hut Eric Bedser and Fletcher were not to be denied two hours before lunch and gave them 143 runs, each well past the half century.
JS
Worcestershire followed on but this time it was the spinners of the damage Wardle which did and shortly before, stumps should have been drawn for the day suming, Bedser was caught after Worcestershire were all out, a
Fifteen minutes after
a stand
re-
some comment that he did not reserve himself.
Bailey was soon justified for the reliablo Ikin in the ball to gully, and then with his next ball, Bailey bowled Ramchand. Sarwate averted the hot trick stroke to second with a neat
slip.
NEVER LOOKED HAPPY Ilazaro never looked happy, and Balley continued to worry bim with more bowling switches, which brought back Hilton and Compton.
The tea interval arrived with the position critical for the in-
second time beaton by an innings. he claimed 15% runs in which dians whose total was 139 runs
Wardle claimed six wickets for
NOTICE
S
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
10 fours. Fletcher went on to his 100 and before he was caught near the boundary he had collected, 15 fours and a six.
to
for four wickets,
Ruzare had batted one hour for 14 runa,
The second
for accounted
ball after tee Hazare. Ho Surrey took only 305 minutes shaped to cut but the ball came
cora 400 runs
and soon back so quickly from the off afterwards declared.
that it hit the top of his middle Smith, captain of a stump before he could get his GRANT Canterbury club side, gained his bat down.
It was the type of ball which In championship and first wicket Draft Programmes
he would have beaten most batsmen. Entry Forms for the Whitsun cricket at Gravesend when
caught and bowled Glamorgan's On taking the new ball, Balley Race Meeting 1952 to be Emrys Davies.
soon proved too quick for Sar- held on Saturday 31st May Smith's debut was quite note wate, who was leg-before play-
he finished with ing forward. and Monday 2nd June, 1962, worthy, for
for 64 may figures of five wickets (waather permitting)
be obtained at the Secretary's Office, Telephone House; the Club House, Happy Valley; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on Thursday, 22nd May, 1952.
By Order,
H. Misa,
Secretary.
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Special Cash Sweep on the Hong Kong Derby Saturday, 31st May, 1952.
runa.
Four years ago Smith headed Surrey's 2nd XI averages.
CLOSE OF PLAY SCORES The following were the close of play
scores:
At The Oval-Sussex 385 for nine declared (Lock five for 93) and 21 for no wicket. Surrey 482 for seven declared (Fletcher 110, Eric Bedser 73, Constable .00).
Happlly, Adhikari and Man- frekar checked the collapsc. Both were somewhat fortunate tot to pay the penalty for false strokes.
Adhikari was
dropped by Statham at short fine leg of Laker when 13 runs and then by Carr when he was 22 runs.
The pitch was not taking spin readily, but it was a full-toss which broke the seventh wicket stand at 200 runs, Adhikari pull- "At Derby Derbyshire 225 ing it to Carr at mid-wicket. and 182 for five. Leicester-
Gopinath survived only one shire 178 (Tompkin 70, Gladwin ball for he changed his mind five for 52).
over his stroke and was bowled..
At Portsmouth Hampshiro The light had been indifferent 253 for nine declared and 138 for half an hour when, 10 for six (Rayment not out 69). minutes before time, the umpires Somerset 115 (Shackleton fve stopped play for the day.-Reu- Cor. 473. Stumps were drawn ler. 60 minutes from the advertised close owing to rain.
At Northampton —- Middlesex 278. Northamptonshire 294 for eight (Barrick not out 190).
At Bradford Yorkshire beat Worcestershire by an innings 73 runs. Yorkshire 309. Worcestershire 114 (Dews
and
51.
six for
Tickets in the above at Trueman seven for 40) and 212 82.00 each may be obtained | (Kenyon '70, Wardle'
75).
18 for
THE SCOREBOARD
MCC First Innings-383 for 8 declared.
Indian Tourists--Isi Joninga Roy, e Bailey b Hilton Mantri, e Carr b Hilton Umrigar, c Jkin b Bailey Hazare, b Laker
Ramchand, b Balley
Barwats, Ibw, b Bailey Adhikari, e Chr b Hilton
at the Treasurers Compra-7 Gravesend-Kent 408 and Manjrekar, not out dpro Office. 1st Floor,
one. Glamorgan 244 Gepinch, b Hilton
At Birmingham Warwick-
Telephone House, and at the Jones 04, Smith five for 4) Divecha, not out.. Club's Branch Officos situated Attam
shire
100 and 217 for nine. Gloucestershiré 248 (Crapp 64,
6, D'Agullar St., Hong Kong Holiles nix for 65.
or
382, Nathan Road, Kowloon.
At Cambridlig —
340
five
for
for
Extras
02
1
had
golf
Former Open Champion Alf pleking
for Padgham was more optimistic thank about finding future Ryder Cup the players after watching Bernard He Hunt, recorti smasher with 84, and other promising assistant professionals at the Hill tournament,
The club are giving a great on improving. incentive to raising the standard Many leading players go nineteen-hundreds, of play. One member promised through phases when £50 yearly towards prize money. change their methods.
they poor Irish were immigrating in
CLEEK PUTTER Argentinian Roberto' Vicenzo borrowed my old-
So
Sorry!
He
World Japan's First
Champion Boxer Bursts Into Tears
Tokyo, May 19.
Yoshio Shirai, 28, who Today won the World Fly. weight Boxing Championship from Dado Marino, of Hawaii, in a 15-round,bout, received the judges' decision bawling like a baby while hysterical fans mobbed the ring.
Texan
when the
droves into the States, you had
International Philip Scrutton your John L. Sullivans, or Jim was influenced in adopting his new swing by
Jack Burke. ad here is what letter from the Professional Golfers' Association of Ameri en says:
tore down his
th
печ
1
. "Burke, who last autumn
game and built it, can look at his swing with pride. In the win- ter tour just ended, he amassed around 24,000 to take a sub- stantial Icad in golf's gold chase,"
pre
GEOFFREY
a white champion who holds any tile open to all races will bo
It will, in fact, so increase that
an unbelievable rarily,
-(London Express Servici).
ELLIOTT STARTS MOVING
UP TO 14 FEET
Britain' has made such progress in track athletics during the past few years, that she can now meet the best in the world on equal terms. In field events, though of there is a different story.
It is true that great steps have been made here too, but the previous standard was so low that even bigger strides are needed.
BACHELOR GIRLS
The US Curtis cup team
to seven, bachelor girls
at have six days of practice Muirfield near Edinburgh, be fore the match against Britain on June 6-7.
Two of them have played in
One athlete out to the fore In 1950 he was the first Britan England before Dorothy Kirby, women's champlon and em however, is Geoffrey Elliott, over to enter for the Europorn ployee of a radio station, and the 21-year-old science student, Decathlon Chamalanship...... It was Decathlon In Folly Riley, a bookkeeper in who, when he is not studying, only the second
likes to catapult himself thirteen which he had competed, but he Fort Worth (Texas).
Mae Murray, daughter of a feet into the air with a' bamboo scored 0,331 ponts, which_beat Scottish-bom professional, and pole.
the British record. The follow- Patricia O'Sullivan are desk- On Saturday, May 10, this ing year he improved on this
a mid-southern re- twelve stone, faxen-haired six- when he scored 6,380 points. sort.
footer cleared 13 ft. 31⁄2 in. at Grace Demoss, youngest the London Universtiy Athletic Although he is one of Britain's CAUTIOUS START
member, is at Oregon
is the greatest-ever, in the Decathlon, The two fighters were College, Claire Doran has de
pale vault achieved Geoffrey's first love is the Pole Western as the fight opened.grees from
As a world title fight the bout was disappointing. There were no knock-downs and the only blood shed was a light cut over Marino's left eye, sustained in the 14th round.
Shiral refused to back away 43,000.000 yen or approximate clerks in from the opening round, deter- $120,000. mined to take a chance against Marino's highly reputed left: hook. He out-fought Marino in in-fighting and after the
would be.
10th
Crutious
Mates over.
This Reserve by B ETILISH
a British born athleto. The Pauli, In fact, he only took'ap
Sam Ichinace, Marine's man- Shiral away as the bell for the League Tennis
Four
round there was no question as Marino 100k the third and University and devotes part of previous best, was four metres the Decathlon because it provid 10 who the new Champion fourth rounds after the rather time to teaching,
while
(13ft 13% in) set up by F. R. ed good training for the Pole rounds had ended even. Marjoric Lindsay represents Webster at the Berlin Olymple Vault,
1036 DIDN'T HAVE THE ZIF
The fifth round was also even, the Country Club of Dacatur Games in
RUGBY PLAYER but beginning with the sixth (II.), where she lives.
metres is generally ac- Marino told the United Press Shirai began beating Marino to
cepted as being 19ft 110, but; At school, besides, excalling at after the fight,. "I just didn't the punch at close quarters.
in fact it is a fraction of an inch athletics, He was a brilliant rugby have the zip."
lose Geoffrey knew thin when player. He was a schoolboy in- When Marino failed to put
he requested the bar to be raised ternational, and it seemed certain ager, said: "We have no alibis 10th round sounded there was
to that hasht
that he would later represent his We have no complaints about the doubt
Craigergower Cricket Club
country in full internationals. that the Japanese lost to Chinese Recreation Club
SET A POSER the judges' decision, Marino's would win,
Indeed, ho gained representative timing was off."
jg the Men's A Division Tonnis
When he cleared it, the officials honours when, aged only The referee and two Judges Shiral smashed hard lefts and
Learno match yesterday, 3-3. were all Japanese. The judges rights to Marino's head in the ICCC) lost to W. Tani and L. C. record has been made, the height for the Eastern Counties side,
Joseph Hau end II. M. Lip wore soya goser. For after seventeen, he was chosen to play decision was 140 points for 11th round and landed a hard Kelewat F-0, lost to K. C. Dao ang has to be carefully measured. Shiral and 145 for Marino, right to the head in the 12th Clan 3-0 Heat Wong Bul-Win But Geoffrey caught the officials
In October, 1010, Geoffrey was and Chol Tin-wah 6-2. Ichinoser said that a return that tocked Marino for the bou would be fought within hardest punch in the fight. six months,
The fight's promoter, Ralph Marino tried desperately for 37 Tempuku, of Honolulu, refused a knock-out, in the last round, to reveal the gate but observers but Shiral was too good for estimated that It brought in him.-United Press,
Lancashire declared (Kenny 75). Cambridge Statham
Total for 8 witte
Bowling Analysis
OMR W 21 € 40
214
20
16
46
28 8 00
10 38
Over 600,000 tickets sold University 221 for four (May Ballo
to date.
H. MISA,
Apcretary,
not out 380, Stevenson 96)......
Compton As Nottingham Nottingham Laker ahire 208 and 90 for opo' (Mar. | Hilton a not out 63), Essex dey Ikin (Insolo 85) --Reutor.
SPORTING, SAM
R. Q. Roker and E. Pereira las unawares, They had no ladder in selected for the Eastern to Tril and Notowall 3-0, Tost tall enough to check the height. Counties. He went to see and and Chap 1-4. Fast to Wank So two tables had to be brought, Secretary Tom Hall, who was a and Chot
nounced Tam. I'm retiring frêm Trou and W. Chow 2011 to and a pair of stops mounted on surprised man when Geoffrey aa- us and Kotewall 38 lost to be them. and Chen 2-6, beat Wong and hot
By Reg. Wogorton
He is an all-round |
Geoffrey is not solely a pole kugay."
He decided that, from then on, and is almost certain to he would devote all his energies. compète In the Decathlon at the to preparing ION Olympic Games this year. At the Olymplos, LUAC Championships he showed his versatility by winning the Shot Put, and coming a close second in the High Hurdles.
His: Jump of 1918 3nd in a long way below the fourteen and Afteen feet leaps achieved by some of the crack Americans. But Geoffery hus the time mond
Norman Gregor cleared: 18 the determination to reach tho tact 6 inchas: last year, but this tog, performance was not accepted as
with the export contch." Clonfidey
a British record on the Dyson, to advise him, he Thay yat
run was found to be "downhill, Gregor's performance, however
is accepted much leted by track and field statisticiăng....
achieve his ambition to becožno the first Briten to clear, le fact.
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