Henricks To Swim At VRC On Saturday
The following are the events arrnoged for the forthcoming Cals to be held at the Victorin Recreation Club on August commencing at 6 p.m.
The arrival of Jon Henricks, the Australian swimming sing. will coincide with the date of the Galu, and he has accepted the Invitation from the HKASA to attend, as well us to give un exhibition of - Free Style and Back-stroke swimming.
List of Events and. Competi- turs:
Men's 410 yards fren-style! Worn Long-hot (Ftuna), Lam Kam-iing
lo Tin), Tong. Yuk-wing. (Chung Shogi. Lau Kani-bor (Coing Wing)) Wan Shiu-ming (South China).
Women's 100
yards bark-stroke:)
RICKETTY KATE
her eyes and mouth glow when the
bowlers score.
Sydney.
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, · 1953,
THE WICKETS FALL
i
at MIDNIGHT
A doll lights up and a million Australians cheer
By PETER DUFFIELD
Landsmen and comedians.
comes at 1.5 in the moralog, and i company of 20 even when the last over is variety artists, bowted at 3.30 a.m. erlekot- happy Australians cannot climb Inter bed. For there is a short commentary to round off the night's listening.
Thate ball-by-ball commen- Normally the Austarles arrive by short-wave radio. Fung Ying-chee Las Tunturi tralians go to bed early. But sometimes atmosphere con- . Grant But if you walked round"]ditions ruin reception. So the an Australian suburb on ABC and the commercial stations night when a Test match Joining them in a pooled pro- Was going on in England,
Sin yee (Fortuna)
E..M.C.A.), Kan Yin-hing (Chunk Bingh, Joan Fager IV.B.C.).
100 yards trei-style exhibition race: Kin-mars (Fortuna), F. X. Montesso
Jon Henricks (Austalia), Cheung
(V.H.C.).
you would And 70 per cent Men's 100 yards Butterfly-stroke: of the house lights on at Pang Chiusst south Think. Tom midnight. Cheung-shing (ching Wikan," Chan i
Cheukswal (chloete Civil Servanty, If you Bngered there until Lau Tal-ping White Shark). NK 3.30 in. the ndds are that Nin Furtuna).
(0) PROC Ng China), Sovk
ה
the residents
Yuk-nul (Chinese Broadcasts of the Test matche</
Hrne
service,
resort to a synthetic
But the plouser of this type of cricket.. cum variety arx brondent WON another mercial
owned
com- station
by the Melbourne
NewR-
а
is out.
Midday in Bhola - p.m. in Ass-
trolle, Wattan The dell lights up... and the studio audience pane lucesck.
Remid Remid paper .group. STORY BY CONL
They began the idea back in Description broadcast ure bused on cables from the ground
1930 and
listeners the studio. asked
Another night £5 a high litening Interest among -and sound effects are added.
whether they wanted it. The was offered the first person to women that a Orm of nylon Listeners hear the crowd noises
*; | listeners did.
arrive with a motor hom in the manufacturers have become one Rood proportion of those lights a record). They also hear the So now, every night of Test key of F.
of the sponsors. Breast-stroke: i would still be on.
bat striking Women's 100 yards
the ball-usually cricket, the station
But whether they listen to this turns the
During the Lori's match cricketing fun or take their com- Kwuk Kain-ngor (La) Taun), Wong
What keeps
simulated by
reward was put up for the first mentaries straight, listeners from Yuk-bing (Fortuna Lan angstonk
The cables studio audience and a doll known listener to take a barking dog to Sir William Stim, the Governor- a pencil. Yak-chijes South burning the inidnight electricity" box with striking a match-occasion luto a galo. There is:
ans are as Ricketty Kate which lights on which the des
descriptions are
a wicket, Aus-te studio. The studio wna soon General, in Canberra, to soldiers built arrive in about 20 seconds up every time
full of dors. But none of them stalloned in lonely outposts on after despatel from the ground.
andtralian or English, falls. There Diving exhibitions; divery to be
would bark. selected by the Diving Comunitter).
The code is intrieste. It might
eatch songs, community
the Dutch New Guinea frontier To feed a nation with an up-read: Lindwall A41# 117 Y95 T10 singing and jokes. And there
This combination
have one alm-to hear what is Women's
of cricket 100
free-style proximate pegnalation of Greater M2 13. Decoded, this means that are competitions yards
with £5 a Cynthia Eager (V.B.C
leton no fewer than 81 hrad Lindwali
and variety has its crities. But happening to the teams. (E,Y.M.C.A., Ciran Ching-ti
15 10 bowl, that night in prizes,
sponsors are willing to pay the (Furdunia), KH ng hàng Lai Castin stations
stay
This early open his Beld consists of three glips, During the Trent Bridge game station £0,000 te
morning listening Tru). Bao Yarding (Chung Stat Dhroughout the night with ball-Miller, Hol and Renaud, two was offered over the air to hidt-hours-with advertisements, also produces mass insomnia.
a series of gives them excitement. But it 100 yardı bark-struke exhionlon; by-ball descriptions from the log-slips Davidson and Hill, that the first milkman to arrive in And the programmes have such Jun llenwicks (Austria) versus back-opening over to the close of play. Moitie is in the gully, Harvey
-(London Express Service) And because that close of plavat cover and Hassett at mid-on, conies in Australia 3.30
Civil Servant),
stroke swojniers of Hongkung each swimming 50 yards.
IT IS RADIO BEDLAM
..
THE DOGS REFUSED
Men's 100 yards breast-stroke: a million Aus
Australians Trigg
stagger to Lit-wan Ual Tan work the same day with sleepy Leung Wang (Ching Win), Poon Six-
If you wist the dial to a com- kuen (Ching Sing), S. E.. de Carvalho eyes---and a little dazed from the (Fortonas, Su Chu-la (South China) "side show" broadcasting that
mercial station outside the "pool" Women's 19 yards bulterBy-stroke: Decompanies the Test reports.
So will bear experts com- The following clubs are requested 10 In addition to the 81 all-night menting un the scores and
stations.
probably Harold Larwood, interrupt their normal programmes with Australian migrant, inter- 20 V.B.C. The Clubs are: (V.H.C. progress reports in the Tests, preting the game as it proceeds. Liel Tsil Fortuna, Chung Sing. Some are national stations run
These broadcasts are paid for E.Y.M.C.A.. Chink Wing. South S Clona, C.C. Servants, Hul Tin), by the Australia Broadcasting by such sponsors at Insurance Commission-counterpart of the
send in the names of their swims
for selections, unfor before Wednesday,
August 6, 1951 to Mr Law On-tung,
74
others:
now
compantes, retail stoves, tobacco
medicines.
Water-polo: Seulot League Game HBC; the rest are commercial firms and producers of patent or selected teams by Mr C. K. Wuch stations. The result ka radio
The following Clubs, have been bedlam. invited to send in the gaines of their
For the Test is reported there is back-struke reprezentatives, whe have been requested to be at the V... straight-me with diversions, pool on Friday, August 7, at & pan. for the purpose of trials to select the swiminers who will race against Jon Henricks in the Back-stroke Exhibition.
Fortuna, Army, Lal Trun, Wie Sharks, Chinese Civil Servants, V.RU. and South China.
LUNCH-10,30 p.m.
All this is cricket straight. But
Is cricket with deviations aspecially in captain Lindsay Hasselt's home state of Victoria. I Here two stations combine cricket stations, begin i with fun-and-ganu s. five minutes before morning play į At one Melbourne commercial begins. In Australlo this means station, spin-bowler Jan Johnson 0.25 p.m. Laich is from 10.30 to is in charge of the cricket com- 11.10 p.m. Tea break? That mentary, Supporting him are a
The nationał
Not Too High A Standard At Malayan State
Athletic Championships
By "RECORDER”
Four Malayan Státe Amateur Athletic Associations held their annual Cham- pionships over the week-end of July 24-25-26, but, unlike what happened at last year's State Championships, there was no wealth of outstanding performances.
The Fijian Regiment competed this year in the Johore AAA Championships, having moved to a station in that State after having spent the previous year in Negri Sembilan. But even the Fijiang. were not quite up to their standard of last year.
tlid not count.
seconds. Both have done the former
latter
title earlier this season.
BETTER IN SINGAPOKE The high standard shown L/Cpl. Caudre, another Fijian, the Singapore AAA Champion-
1 L/Cpl. Orisi
two
sprints.
23.0 seconds
Dawal
.In .and
10.1 and the High:
20 week-end,
L
TERENCE FEELY Examines The Credentials Of The Turf
+
Will My Bob-Each-Way
Get A Square Deal?
The melodramatic goings-on in the racing world at Bath and else- where have triggered off a fine old clattering and whinneying in the stables and in the minds of punters.
Those diabolical "twins," Francasat and Santa Amaro, have done more than saddle Scotland Yard with a classic headache. They have carved an outsize question mark in the minds of thousands.
the racc-
The poor punter hos, of But these officials, above all of despair-otherwise our money course, heard occasional tales people, should know the old would still be kept in sacks from the knowing of races proverb about balting the stable, instead of sales. "fixed" form faked, and horses after the horse has flown. The
Dishonest coups are not new substituted. He wonders, shrugs, punters in Britain are-they are as old as racing. forgets.
interested to know just how The Derby of 1844 was won by good are Uic steps taken to But Francusal and Santa prevent rascality on
ja horse with false credentials. Amaro have clattered bang into course. What
confidence CAR Telephone wires have been everyone's front room this time we have in the safeguards? cut before today, and in the with facts round their necks, Such safeguards are based on days when telegraphing was the
It would appear that
racehorses, method of communication one the registration of horse can be substituted for an- according to dimensions, mark-tween bookmaker and course other without anyone knowing.ings and peculiarities, on a formingenious gentlemen have found For it is obvious that if the which is lodged with Weather methods of blocking the wires.-- bookmakers' private dine to theby's. The idea is that the horse
One gung did it by sending
wiser about the happenings at lars.
Bath,
WHAT PRICE THE SMALL
PUNTER?
Д
not
in-
I
men
be-
ut a modest 5 feet 7ships, Sgt. J. D. Martin won the states were not up to Hongkong hullions of pounds worth of More damning is the obvious guards so Impregnable that if n
At the Services
Filian, Holf
Mile and Mic In 2:02.2
course had not been cut, not a can at any time be checked hundreds, of spurious telegrams soul would have been any the against these recorded particu-to the course. Jockeys, bookies, trainers were surprised to re- | MISTAKE LASTED A SEASON jceive messages reading "It's a boy both doing well," or That, I say, is the idea. What Harry saling Friday," or (un- happens in fact is a horse of kindest cut of all) "Happy re- This is not only my view. Itdifferent colour. For the truth turns of the day,” Is that of the bookmakers as well, is that the precautions are no- As one leading London book-where near as rigorous as the Another group blocked the maker told me: "If these people punitive methods used once wire by sending several chapters T. Naidole, Malayan AAA Lee Weng-soon set 11 State 12.0 and 27.7 sprint double in hadn't been so stupid about the skullduggery has been detected. of a book by telegram.
tho Champion in the Hop, Step and record in the Hop, Step and the Selangor Championships, as other parts of their plan, I】
I should have thought They are even efficiunt Jump, won that event with a Jump with 44 feet 3 inches. well as taking the 80 Metres doubt if the 'ringing would ever enough to prevent honest and accumulated experience of the triple jump of 45 feet 11 Inches. At the Perak AAA Champion- Hurdles in 14.2 seconds, Annie have been discovered."
accidental mistakes, much
less years
would have given the In a 'no Jump' he actually went ships at Ipoh, Gendha Singh Choong won the Long Jump at
deliberate frauds.
racing authorities some bright out to nearly 49 feet, but that put the Shot out to 40 feet, 18:54. In the Swifts' meeting
I find myself wondering Just
kdeas about counter measures. { inches, Tan Foo-chong
hop-In Singapore, Eleanor Ross won how often this sleight-al-horse At the end of the 1950 flat J. Kobiti bent T. Naidole in stepped 43 feet 5 inches
RIGHT OF THE PUNTER is performed by some smooth season, it was discovered that a and the 100 in 12.1 seconds. the 120 Yards Hurdles in 15.5 Cyril Perera vaulted 10 feet 8. Ruth Ferreira 'could not go magiclan of the Turf without trainer of repute had accidental-
suggest that those who 4:0 15.2 inches. At the Penang AAA (higher than
ly run in the High anyone knowing.
one horse under the supervise the racing system in I am concerned to know just guise of another throughout the Britain are resting too in winning the Championships.. Yap Hin-hean Jump, which was the highest of
smugly chance the whole of the season. A year on the basic corruption of fallen Malayan ille last year and the hop-stopped 43 feet 3 inches. the week-end in Malaya, though how much of
Ong Soon-kheng cleared the average bettors really have. winning the Regimental
a very respectable owner- later
human nature. "I a trainer bought two horses, same at Johore. Leong Wai- it theng did 4.5% at Ipoh.
Stories like those we read re-nocently got their identities con-going to be dishonest," they say, he will find a way to be so won the 440 Yards Flat in 63.6 ships the previous week was athletic
For the first time in Malayan (cently--and have read before fused and ran one in the name whatever safeguards are there
leave me with the suspicion that of the other. 80200ris and the
history, the Women's
to defeat him,” 440 Yardsapintained in two meetings beld Shot Pul, Discus mid Javelli the small punters are, in more Hurdles in 00 seconds dead. **
These cases in themselves are over the July 25- the Singapore won
But it is their duty to all who Throws appeared on all State uses than we hear about, little
a startling revelation of loop follow innocents, nevce really in the but the winnings ¡programmes,
rcing to make Bafe. pleture except for the hundreds holes in the present system. Champion-throws in all three events in all of Jump
man wants to be dishonest, he inches. Ple. Dale, also
they wager-fodder
contribute difficulty which the prosecution must bend over backwards to standards. Best mark in the won the Javelin Throw at 169 and 4:40.8, L. Mutch won the Shot was 20 feet 11 inches by each year.
experience in "ringing" cases in be 50. High Jump at 0 feet and ST Yip Ngan-kiew at Ipoh. At the Jockey Club.
For reassurance, I turned to the establishing evidence that nny Cunningham won the Hammer Swifts meeting, Violet Ho threw The current revelations have place, in a fraud case k 1951, Club tell me they have devised
What did I find? subsutution has in fust taken The the Shot Put at 30 feet 54 row at 120 feet 0% inches, the Discus 71 feet 5 inches.
National Greyhound
of CSM Sid Coleman, who had set
ceused much swishing of whips the trial dragged on for more an identification method Chew Hal-yuen, formerly
and frisking of tails within that than it week before the identity thorough that the incidence of Singapore, won the Pole Vault new Malayan record in
august establishment. What else? of the horses in question could greyhound ringing is "nil."
be decided,
fite I should not be beyond "VERY LITTLE GOES ON'
|wit of those who preside over the best was Ungku Ibrahim's the day of 125:31
What sort of a system, I ask. horse racing to do the same. Long Jump victory at 20 feet ä At the Swifts Athletic
"Very little this sort of State Long ciation Sports, Tan Eng-y00n inches. All four
know The Jockey Club must
The punters who last year "How do you know?" Jump titles were won nt better annexed a good sprint double in
New York, Aug. 3.
used two systems
In invested £370,000,000 on horses "Because of the very than 20.0, but short of.
10.2 and 23.1 seconds and won feet.
The United States women's
America have combined to have a right to be quite the Hop, Step at 40:14.
eliminate completely suballtu- that the sport they nourish lawn tennis team beat Britain cases that are discovered," Schoolboy Chan Onn leng in all seven matches of the
Well, well
suppose.tlon in that country.
without the slightest blemish. biggest upset of the continued to sinya from the
ዘር усту o Wightman Cup here to win the then, that because 1 Selangor 440 Yards Hurdles, hugh week-end was at the
trophy
for the 17th successive fow worms above my lawn I an AAA Championships at Kuala is entered in the event in
to take it that there are none Lumpur where the Malayan Malayan Championships and The powerful American team underneath? ^^^ Championships
up their victory in 15. outstanding held on August 14
performance
"What we do not know about which the that of Tan Kok-ann, who won taking today's
three matches by
that in human. Angerprints. Both There Michael Parry beat
four-three has no existence": Malayan Champion, Cletus the Junior 440 in 54.0 seconds,
effect, would seem to be the systems make it possible to Biggles and a Doubles. Rene Ballerand, formerly of Gomez, In the 440 Yards in 52.2
I would polat out establish identity, unmediately Maureen Connolly, holder of philosophy.
without any doubt. seconds, scoring a two-yard Shanghai and Hongkong, won all the world's
The Club has adopted neither. Ine for which the detective victory
Fletcher,
can Why? "Beomise,
told. K. Laxman of Klang showed 215 inches, just short of Cole- the Beltfak-lefthander, 6-1 -1 system of the Jockey Club came system un he called fool-
In 22 further improvement in the 440 man's recent Malayan record,
minutes. In the other take no credit-they would not
Someone will alwaysBuy matches, Shirley Fry defeated, have known about Francasal. proof. also going the 120,
Mrs Jean Rinkel: 6-2, 6-4, Doris I admit readily that when find a way round." Motayn's very promising array Hart beat Angels Mortimer 6-1 malpractice is detected, the Club BOOKIES TOLD IT'S A BOY" Hurdles routo in 10 seconds, while another athlete from of feminino athletes did not 0-1 and Miss Hart and. Miss Fry comes down hard as evidenced
Fay beat Mine: Fletcher, and Mra by the admirable way they "I am only glad that the banks Klang, A. Virvanathan, won the quite live up to promise. Milo in 4.52.1.
Blebel looked the best with a Ninkel 0-2° 0-1---Router,
mashed the doping, gangs. L Įdo not adopt the same: 'courisel
feet and Cp), T. Lowaku
inches and the Discus Throw.
the
al 10 feet 5 inches. Of the very Discus the previous week, canie
few victories by home athletes, reasonably rent with a best for
The
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American Women shoes on as told is this?
the
uc...
will be won the 440 at in 53.0. Ano G.
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was
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few
Discus Throw at 331 fect titles, defeated for singles that but for the, clue of the cus
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