ROAD RACE WINNERS
Joc MacMahon, Chan King-yin and Peter West- third, second and first in the New Year's Day Harrier Road Race.
Peter West receiving the first of his trophies from Mis T. Cashman. Peter's two trophies, placed one on the other were us fall as himself.-China Mail Photos.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1953.
ON THE RECORD
THE CONSCIENCE
WILL NOW
HAUNT THE PADANG
The Asscciation healy too Anicat! the departures by Į It was carefully explained to HMT Empire Orwell for him that there was a regula-happy to encourage any or Singapore on New Yer's tlon that records could not be ganisation to run athletle meet- Day writis Caplain Narman passed unless the course had ings. When such meetings are Phillips, the Conscience of i been remeasured by approved open or Include open events. Hongkong athletics. During Associatier, ofelels.
these must receive the sanction his long reign as a Coun-
of the HKAAA. The HKAAA Member of
governed by the Hong- key Amateur Athletic Associa-
Amateur Athletic Federation tion he established himself
and the English Amateur Athletle 103 ng the final arbiter of what
Association. The rules of these two organisations are part of the I meant by amateur athletics..
HKAAA's rules and must be followed.
war
The Head Groundsman tumed a look on Captain Phillips that would have withered poisoned ivy. The Conscience, however. WEL so deeply Immersed a point He was a founder member of some other
of general criticism that the scornful dart both the
thetu him.
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BILLIARDS & SNOOKER
By. Horace Lindrum (World Professional Snooker Champion)
The position I left you with last week demands skilful play, and a success- ful break depends upon the opening shot..
would first pot the red in the top left hand pocket endeavouring to shift the obstructing first red of the pair close together, moving them clear of each other. I would aim to finish in posi- tion 1 on the black. I would then pot the black with a run-through stroke tó reach
The HKAAA is in a position to suspend all the athletes who Association) and the Hongkong surroundings. Council members Harrier Roud Race.
The Conscience pervaded his took part in the New Year's Day
would ask themselves, "What
First reason—it was on wi- think registered open meeting. will
Captain Phil about this?**
Second reason-the prizes were position 2.1 Game the fameus occaslany”, too lavish. when the Official Recorder pro-
There are other Affiliated With the two reds placed as Guced a photograph
to show athletic organisations whose they were at the outset, and that two canters could not have prizes
occasionally
selther in a "pottable" position, been within a tenth of a recond expensive than the permitted it was vital to alter the pori- of each other.
limit of seven guineas (ubout |tion in the first shot. Other- However, during his
Said the Conscience wither- | HK$118).
wise, aller potting the black it There is no desire on the As- sojourn here, this great dis-ingly, "We are not the Hong- ciplinarian made his presence kong Jockey Club."
socletion's part to be a spoli- felt. The legend went round
sport, but the New Year's Day after some months of his reign
Norman Phillips remains unregistered meeting is the last, He was Arm bellever in Independence. one to be permitted.
so much against the
The The Conscience left for irica of allowing the Assocla- Singapore
only after having tion to be dependent to any severely reprimanded the As-
extent fcotball unccessary
on thesociation for not having been softball and well
Hengkes Amateur Sports more firm after two years of Federation endl getting
Olymple Coin- existence. mlitee that the HKATFA finally
as starter that it was impossible to steal a start off him.
One of this city's most famed younger sporting characters, FL
raduate of schoolboy and adolescent soft
of
or
a
versed in the art around a referee
umpire. once chummed up with us at Caroline Hill with furtively whispered
All equiry.
he wanted to know was whether we thought that Cap- tain Phillips was eccentric enough to have a live round in his pocket with which to fell the start-stealer before he was half way to the turn.
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To turn from one departure
scat its own representative to to two pending ones of interest Helsinčti to sit in on the sessiens to all followers of athletics here of the International Amolewi | -S/Sgt. Peter West and Sgt. Athletic Federation.
Jɛe MacMahon,
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He also thinks that any Asso- riation that pay its way quite sufficient. Ile doesn't be- lleve in umassing a reserve' of funds.
To this day we are not ab-i
Norman solutely certain that
live essentially round was not burning a ho'e In Norm Phillips' pocket.
run.
Peter Went has been the king- pin of distance runners here since 1051. He once placed second in the Army Championships at Home to Frank Sando in the Philips belleved Three Miles, Sando
has since in making people become a member of the
Dri- Nearer 50 year run 40,tish Olymple Games team and he ran himself and wa one of "has run the fastest 10.000 Metres Hongkong's best between #L ever returned by an Englishman, This legend was just the behalf mile and three miles.
Peter has done much to en- ginning. There was that great
courage distance running In day of the first Colony Cham- More than that, he hadn't the Hongkong
and his departure plouships when the whole Caro- | slightest compunction about will leave 7 Chinese runner, ine Hill organisation was posed making other people run. His Chan King-yin, as the kingpin with a
a dreaded question. staff in the Army, unit he head- of the road racers. 'Captain Phillys wanted toed were summarily entered ̧ în Regular Softball League play resumes after the Year have the third lane re-measured all athletic meats,
It wasn't uncommon for one End holidays this coming week-end with the Ladies' over a distance of 200 metres,
the fourth lone over a distance of them to be told at noon of a Division heading into the final few games of the elimina-of 400 metres and the second Saturday, "By the way. Good- tion rounds while the other three Divisions swing into lane aver # distance of 100 win. I have entered you in the crucial second round play.
metres.
1,500 Metres at Caroline Hill There are faults in the Caro-this afternoon." line Hill organisation in the That wasn't half the shocker, same way D9
there were and The Sergeant was also
entered still are faults in the organisa- in the 5,000 Metres. tion of athletic meets anywhere in this Colony.
WEEK-END SOFTBALL
Two stellar Senior "A"
strength of an impressive suc Division games are down for
the Caps casion of victories, decision tomorrow, with South are expected to succumb curly China pitted against the see- to the Chinese Juggernaut. sawing Madcaps in the anarning In the cther Senior "A" en- und the Saints taking on the counter, Arturo Ozorio's veteran Braves,
· Saints will be out to avenge
.
a
Wah boys are humillating Arst-round beating
HITTING GAME
The Nam favoured to take the measure at the hands of the rampant of Buster Hollands' not-so- roves. merry Madcaps, as the Chinese Jads have demonstrated fine, stendy form all through the current season and are unlikely to suffer any sudden Bluctuation in performance.
The Madcaps
have really got going this season, the only notable victory achieved so far being that over the mut jolted Jaguars.
never
With a large batting edge to fall back on, the Saints wil rely more on a hitting game and Icave it up to the Braves to demonstrate the finer points of fielding and retrieving,
But the
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tinue the break as I am now would not be possible to con=" able to from position 2, This, of Joe MacMation will also be course, ratres again the vital Tot knportance of looking chead-in leaving before the end February. He holds the Colonyck
other words planning your 800 Metres and One Mlle re- cords and hopes to return to
From position 2 I can now pot Hoppkong to settle here if there
the second bed, which has moved imjob available. He has done more than any other athlete neares 15 the right hand top pocleat during the first shot, and hero to encourage Chinese reneh position 3. I can now pot middle distance Tunners, He the black again, and by using a has also been of, help to the stunscrew-tack shot arrive at Association in other ways.
This places mo on position 4.
which I the remaining red, should proceed to pot in the top right hand pocket with a stun shot, arriving at position 5.
The departure
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Normon was i glutton for hard work. He once came in of] insistence an evening to
of these two help the Hon. Phillips bordered on sacrilege. Our good Secretary of the Association to athletes will be a severe loss friend Mr Raleigh Leung, who drew up the programme for the
our middle distance and dis- is essentially Chinese in his ap- Colony Chernpionships. Work tance running standards.
I can now pot the black once Preciation of other peoples' dig- completed. he left at dawn the
tics, stalled for the best part next day.
All the children who did not again in the top left hand pocket of an afternoon.
win prizes at the Kowloon with a gentle screw-shot, bring- Finally, Raleigh's apprrels- Captain Phillips' return here Cricket Club's New Year's Daying me down the table to position ten of the necessity of having for a few days was met with a Children's Sports need not feel 6, en the yellow. It is a straight a governing body of athletics wale-hearted
forward shot to pot the yellow discouraged. in reception locally got the
better
Mr Fred Tingay, Hon. Secre- and airive at position 7. of him and which stald and long-gowned On the form they showed he went out to do the measure characters
from the South try of the HKAAA, who had
unsuccessfully entered against the luckless Pandus lasting himself with Nonman put chara
China Athletic Association
daughter, Mary, was weck, The slugging snatch n
whom
they cutslugged to lips and two other officials. quaffed the extra pint that one
younger power of the Caps has declined
dramatic lost-in:ung.) victory
Everything was found to be does roturally when a long-lost mot. It appears that elder daugh Joseph's will prove in order. St
ter Julio wes as unsuccessful as sharply with the loss of hard.
The record-breakers brother comes back frito" the
8. Mary at these Sports and wan tin. hitting George Saunders to the
if not impassable, had run almost sa extra metre family.
Colony Champlon in the -200 Saints, and former batting cbstacle for the Tribe,
on an average, but they hadn't list Rene Sequeira's absence It gocs, without dying that run on short courses. Normari South China's Mr Chen Wing from the line-up has been artful Arturo Ozorio will be Phillips was completely satisfied pek thought the original wel- another decisive factor in the flelding the strongest side but Raleigh Leung, even though come back plus bon voyage over-numerous Madcap defeats possible in this all-important he stopped for more than one party was not enough and drew
further loss would beer, was not. tilt, as a With South China working up greatly jeopardise a full hext of steam on the hopes for this season's pennant,
so far
the Saints'
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Metres within the same year,
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I am now on the green, and can send it into the bottom
right-hand pocket, rebounding off the bottom cushion to position
From here I can pot the brown, hitting the bottom and left sido cushions with sumelent force to
There were tears "aplenty the recorders turned empty-handed the unsuccessful reach position B, on the blue. finalists and, helping to console This Ierioduces the need for cs- ane her one the next day. Final-
A nicety, ly, Mr
Char lald on the gosto ed the
some of the mites, we discover.timating strength to
now threat by which when an inch or two very often of all gestes. On January 10 ho
Irate mothers get their follow means all the difference to the is threwing a party in memorying to behave.
next shot,
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Within the hour our sym- pathies were all with Raleigh, The Head Groundsman's in- of Captain Norman Phillips. formers had telegraphed the
Bogeymer and sandmen are Surely there is not a news to him that some foreign devils were questioning his who ever left Hongkong-even idle threats these days, it swom measurements and the after 30
years herewhose appears. Most effective measure gentleman duly arrived
spon- is to threaten to send the mis- at memory has been co Caroline Hill and wanted 10 taneously and ihoroughly behaving mite home in a taxi.
Apparently it is so dificult honoured.
these days to get a ride on a bus or a tram that children will belavo if mother promises to
know what it was all about.
Yet, Norman Phillips left a COMING TO THEttle early. He hadn't yet de
parted whers the annual New Year's Day Harrier Road Race was run. He did not give this unregistered meeting his op- proval:
Empire-Liberty
2. Rak
ALEC QUINNESS JOAN GREENWOOD CECIL PARKER THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT
LLOG AT CALLING TÍCHUNG
GAHBUNG ON
ITS, THE SENSİZ
HUMAN RACE!
THAT STOPS
A HORGE
wangle a bus or tram ride for them,
At any rate, the mention of tears and taxis dried many stopped many a child dragging In one direction while mother Two thousand dollars worth wanted to of trophies were awarded the
go another way.
28 prize-winners in the The first two major tongue Harriers' Road Race. The Asso- slips of the 'new year came on ciation will never dare come New Year's Day, naar this expenditure.
Mrg T. Cashman, who pre- Amateur athletes are supposed scnted the prizes at the COD. to compete essentially for the elusion of the Harriers Road henour of winning or, placing or Race, was introduced to the scoring team poirits,
Lerge gat ering as "The Lady in Charge of Yaumati Police Station."
Yet, both Captain Phillies and the Association appreciate the
Announcer. Bill Cowie at the fact that the New Year's Day KCC Children's Sports boomed Race is a well over the amplifying system, Harrier Road organised annual affair that, at-
~All illegible children may, now tracts a lot of interest. There try their luck at the coconut were more than 150 startera this, thy." year.
Autumn trouble
-“RECORDER"
CHINESE OPTICAL CO.
SPECIALIST
SIGHT-TESTING. AND:
GLASSES MAKING.
Hongkong Offices 01 Queen's 16. C.
At position 9 I am very favour ably placed to pot the blue, and come off the nearby side cushion and across the table to reach position 10, to get on to the pink. I pot the pink, and coming off the top cushion reach position 11 from which I can easity pot the black.
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