Pare
LEARIE CONSTANTINE
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 30,
The Importance Of Learning To Lift The Ball
By HAROLD MAYES
"Cricket did much to cerpent the friendliness of Empire, to bring white and coloured people closer together. Just as easily in present circumstances it can disintegrate that friendliness, according to what we hear from the West Indies."
Who said that? Why, none other than Learle Constantine, the most colour. ful of all West Indian cricketing personalities ever
the world's cricket grounds.
Let's face it. This MCC tour has been far from a pleasant one. Dottle - throwing and blckering are hardly the kind of thing one associates with the : port whose very name 18 borrowed
to Indicate
ploying
the games.
THEY DIDN'T CRY
umpires' been reached
to
grace
there been umpiring mistakes in to win. They now play not to England, and in Austraila, too. lose, and that's good enough. "In the last Test of the 1950 Under those circumstances. series between West Indies and where they work on the assump- England, at the Oval, Len Hut-tion that if a butaman stays ton made 202 not out. The there long enough the runs will West Indians were pretty cer- come, six days isn't enough for tala he had been caught in the a Test match, I doubt whether and they were pretty mad even ten days will be sufficient. 40's about
click it. But
they cry because the runs just don't about it? No.
come. There was the time, too, when Johnny Ikin 'caught' Den Dradman, and he went on to
may
'GET ON WITH IT "That's the kind of appronch
ond enjoy-
way
Protests concerning decides there have rough. Fat they climax in the Port of Spain Test Whois
Tittle Everton Weekes make a big secre. But Was which takes the enjoyment out went on to score 200 after the there all this fuss about it? No. Englishmen
"We've also heard complaints cialmed
that
he should have been out to a Dicis about Ibw decisions when the Spooner catch off Trevor batsman has had his Igft Jeg
the Balley's
wicket. bowling when he had right down
Why made 43.
should complain about Those I don't know, for in the According Lu reports.
no West Indies, where the England side has ever been Incensed an
moves so little, it is posible for the present onc
his leg yorda ebrat unjury, decisions." With down the wicket and sill be
facts in mind. I sought out Costantine to ask him for his views.
Tho
"Even before the lour began,” He told me,
anyone
a man to have
cricket. for players
the spectators. When ment's gone it leaves the open for all kinds Di
under- currents. Cricketers
should learn to get on with the game,
take
The rough with the smooth, the god decisions with the bad, because they come round to everyone in turn," he added.
ball und
in the line of fight," he added.
REMEDIES
What do the white folk but
"it is not
19
as bring essential to them. When umpiring is poor that kind of approach is abroad. cine E seent possible that cricket can be played in accord ance with the normal traditions of good taste and good sports- manship?
Finally. I asked the man who ranks as just about the most dynamle player of all time - whatever he was doing 011
ON HIS WAY TO A DOUBLE CENTURY
Double-century-maker Everton Weekes beautifully cuts Balley for four during
his innings in the Fourth Test match between the West Indies and the MCC 41 Trinidad, Central Press Photo.
51 Entries For Junior Badminton Championships
By
“ARGONAUT”
Fifty-one entries have been received for the various events of the Colony Junior Badminton Championships which are scheduled to begin at the Taikop Club on Thursday, April 1,
Though the Junior Championships have attracted the same total number of entries this year as last season, the Junior Ladies' Singles event will not be com- peted for in the forthcoming Championships for lack of suflicient entries.
of
Mixed Doubles (9 p.m.): B. K. L.
and Mia K. S. Lai B. Dou gara and Mira → Gray.
At CCC, 4ūri 2 Men's Slimes (7 pm): c. w. Ng A. A. Ross.
Mixed Doubles (7.30 n.m.): Wong
J Fou (bye) v. E. Ebrahim Yan dad Miss M. Tang Junos (bye): P. Gardner (bye) v. B. and Miss D. Yung
Men's Doubles (8 p.nu.); F. Gard, A. Xavier (bye); C. W. NE ner and B. Douglass v R. Remedios
bye) . A. A. da Roza (bye); and R. Nunes.
Men's. Singles "J. B. B. Douglass' (bye) V.
(8.30 p.m.): Sak Took-tart v. K. Wong. Pomeroy, Jr. (bye).
Men's Doubles (apm Wong and B, K. L. Lul v libol and Dr K. L. HaL
Support has also been dis- | (bye); Shake Fook-tat (bye) v. appointing In the Ladles S. K. Wong (bye); M. Lim Junior Doubles event with only † (bye) v. "Ko Wai-bong (bye). four patrs participating. 1 received letters there say about it? I have acricket field he put 50 mucli A compensating feature
Bottom half pieving that the white populatter betore me which states: into his job that one couldn't
thin season's fin egarded England victories
Championships, surprising that help watching him what he however, is the increased nun
after what thought had gone wrong
with
ber of entries received for the happened IL British Gulana English cricket.
Men's His answET
Junior Singles, Men's the bottle-throwing). What is was most emphatic.
Junior
Doubles perhaps surprising is
and Junior that any
Mixed Doubles events. one is willing to standi
"Coaching from the cradle to
An exceptionally high stand- "There is a tendency to judge the grave," he replied. "If you ard of play is expected especially all Englishmen by the individual coach a boy when he's small he in the Men's Junior Singles, in hasn't the power to lift the ball,
which the four top-seeded berths members of the touring party. This applies more in West and so he becomes steeped in have been given to last year's
and Albert Indles than in any other place. defensive shots. And if he has runner-up Francis Rozario, St. (bye): B. A. Xavier and A. A. general standard is not so good And there is certainly one men-never known the exhilaration of Teresa's
Champion, Johnnyda Roza v. C. W. Ng and ng it is in England.
ber of the party who here
has not lifting the ball, he can never
Pomeroy Jr., 1951 runner-up Foo; C. C. Wong and B. K. L.
and his Joseph Foo all the umpires are old players been the best possible advertise- really know how to enjoy
the current | Lui (bye) v. S. T. Hoot and Dr cricket." of long experience. But haven'tment for his country.
Schoolboys' Champion, Ko Wai-K. L. Hul (bye); P. Gardner Well, it certainly looks as if bong, are seeded In the Junior and B. Douglass (bye) v. R. A.
Singles. from the point of view of Eng-Learie's got something there!
Remedios and A. Nunes (bye): K. C. Yong and Hon Yim-chang (bye) v. C. Y. Son and W. N. Cheung (bye).
"All right. Umpires
lave mistakes 111 the West Indles. Let's admit that the
made
but
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Colds
are quickly overcome by
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SOUTH CHINA MORNING
"Another unpleasant
lund players is the number
factor
of
white people who approach them and make it clear that their future prosperity depends on English success.”
to
Which, after all, adds up what Connie is saying about it. What remedles would ht
Irish Games
Popular In
Australia
play cricket to win, ond Ret on with the job of doing it," he says. "My people were brought up on bright, attractive cricket, and it's given
know how to appreciate it. them, with push cverything bour city of Sydney, the else into the background.
The plain, simple
Irish games of hurling and Gaelic football are gaining steadily in popularity.
Sydney, Mar. 29.
to In the picturesque har-
that
truth
English cricketers appear to have forgotten how to play
Carruthers' Eyc convict, Thomas
Badly Cut In Warm-Up
Fight
Introduced into Australia early Just century by an Irish
Mechan
of Tulla, County Clare, the games now are played in
a regular winter competition by the descendants of Irish migrants.
Australia's south Gaelic
of the
And
roash 11
on
is well
one of the most
sports
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Men's Junior Doubles TOD half
•J. Koo
Tam
Two other outstanding players in this season's League, P. V. Yap of Craigengower and Bernard Brown of Recreio, who narrowly missed
the ceded
Bottom half spots, have been unlucky
be drawn against each other in the first. B. Pomeroy and J. C. Koh "P. V. and Ebrahim (bye) v. round and this clash will be the (bye); Slu Chuch and S, K. highlight of the opening matches Wong (byc) v. P. C. Chau and of the singles event.
The Junior
Fung Kam-pang (bye); Wong Championship Yan and M. Kon (bye) v. M. games will be played at Recrelo Wong and L. Sousae on Mondays, at Craigengower un Frank Yeh and H. Castro, Fr. Tuesdays and Fridays, at Terean's on Wednesdays and at Brown (bye)..
St. (bye) v. *J, A. Soares and B. A. | Taikoo On Thursdays. They are expected to be concluded by April 15.
Tha
THE DRAW The following is the full draw and the programme of the first two nights' games:
Men's Juntor Singles Top half
*F. M. Rozarlo (bye); B. A. Brown v. P. V: Yep; K. C. Yang (bye) v. S. T. Hool
Melbourned as
popular although
Only HOME foams compete. Last hs many people saw the
competition
Chamro trend anal of the Gaelic foot-
ball
Sydney, Mar. 29. Australian Jimmy Car- minor ruthers, who is to defend | seven his world bantamweight; title' against
In Melbourne Songkitrat, of Thailand, in as sow the Aussie's vaunted Bangkok on May 2, out-tennis players whip the United
Aus-States in the Davis Cup. pointed Bobby Sinn,
But an even better indication tralian Bantamweight of the appeal that this rip- Irish football has for overweight contest here to-
Australiano is the
crowds, totalling
Champion, in a 12 rounds reminded
night.
Carruthers fought with a badly
niven
nearly
by
Half a
D
a million, that watch
RUGGER
RESULTS
Yorkshire beat Cumberland 0-5 in a Rugby League County Championship match played st Whitehaven today.
Rugby Union results today were:
Newbridge 0, Cross Keys 3, Ebbw
Vale 3, Linnelly Pontypool 9, Blenavon 8.
fast, tough and spectacular Reuter. cut sye from the third round to descendant of the Irish game... decisively beat Sinn.
the
After
Australian Rules football-in
The
HIGH STANDARD
HOLE-IN-ONE
"J.
Junior Mixed Doubles
Top hair
B. Pomeroy, Jr. and G. Sequeira (byo); D. K. L. Lui and Miss Lai v.
B. Douglasy and Mrs E. Gray; C. K. Chan and Miss A. Young v. P. Gard- ner and Miss S. McColl: J. Koo and Miss M. Wong (bye).
Bottom half
HONGKONG TO SEND 43
TO ASIAN GAMES
English Soccer Needs A Complete "Boss Man"
Says DESMOND HACKETT
English football will not be restored to the old Golden Age of world mastery until we name a Specer Dictator, 4 manager who is allowed to manage-a complete boss man.
And on this very day in London when the League team chiefs assemble for the great pow-wow with the Football Association on how to improve Soccer, the aug gestion will go up from the League managers: Let us have an England Football Fuohrer.
manuger is
Finding the man to lead us up and answer the query: Are back to the old glory of English you still so sure they are not football is anellier problem. slipping '· after that Blackpool
Man of the moment bearing | let-off? the title of team
My faith was slightly shuttered Walten Winterbottom. But his but all think they can do it. powers of command are limited Being an honest type I am also to getting the team together convinced Ronnie Allen was a the odd day so before the yard offside when he scored the West match, running a fairly matey equalising goal. before tactics talk, and acting as guide Bromwich beat Cup-holding and escort when the Soccermen Blackpool 2-1.
of England journey abroad.
thon, Jet Woltor
All right,
Winterbottom be
Such
honest characters as given Arst Blackpool team boss Joe Smilli,. chance of taking over full con- team captain Harry Johnston, trol. Let him submit
his own and peerless Stan Matthews him teama to the selecters instead of self insisted it was offside. the present situation in which he has no say at all.
From West Bromwich chair- This is the kind of dialogue team manager Vic Buckingham man Major Wilson Keys and
that should love to hear this afternoon:- Football
sanggers: Ne man can be expected to run a team unless he has full control. Give an England team manager freedom to pick the men he thinks will best fit into his plan of play.
non-committally accepted the points as "Just things."
one of those
(London Express Service)
FANLING
GOLF
TIME FACTOR Football Association: Fine! But if he is allowed to pick the players to match his scheme he would have to have that team together more often than the League dubs permit.
The final for the Smalley Cup Managers: The present pro-was played last week over 18 time after the League fight for ling between J. O. Pole-Hunt grammo
leaves so little spare holes on the Old Course at Fan- points and exhausting Cup ties and H. Small The latter playor and replays, and now those extra won a very even match by one
team
matches that have up, the lead changed handg
the
been slipped in.
several times and J.. O. Pole- FA. But you still manage to Hunt is to be congratulated on get in a fair number of flood-¡ a the performance. Gross Medal light matches. Surely the players Scores were H. Small 74, 3, 0. could be spared three or four Poto-Hunt 78. days in each month of the season. After all they would K. S. Robertson, Won the still be doing training.
Stableford competition o Managers: Well, let us agree Old Course with an excellent that if we are prepared to re- roturn of 40 points, runner-up lease the players, you will ap- was W. A. Johnson with 37 and point a "full-time national D. L. Anderson occupied third
pince with 30. manager who will also be No, selector.
The winner ол the New Ah well, perchance to dream. Course at Fanling was A. D. but this looks like being the only Duffy with a return of 38 points. Hongkong will send a de-answer to the Mid-century sports Dr J. B. Mackio being second
question: What is wrong with with,30.. legation of 43, including Games to compote in five five officials, to the Asian
English Soccer?
events, the Asian Games Committee of the Amateur Sports Federation & Olym plc Committee decided yes- terday.
The Colony will compito in football, track ant field, pwim- ming, water polo and shooting, the Askn Games Committee de- cided at its meeting, had in the board room of the South China Morning Post, Ltd.
the
THAT DOUBLE .. As leading champion of West Bromwich Albion's League and Cup double
bid I had to step
MEDAL SCORES The following were, the best Medal scores. the weekend-
returned during
Old Course-K.S. Robertsons 79-12-07; A. V. Gosano. 87--- | 2007; W. A. Johnson 89-21-
Unfit08; D. L. Anderson 70-4-72,
Statham For Fifth Test
New Course-A. D. DUTY 76- P68; A Middier 8214-63: C. P. Basto B4-24-70; Dr J.B.. Mackle 82971.
A. D. Dully's return Blowe
Kingston, Jamaica, a one under par for the last Mar. 30. nine while Dr J, B. Mackie's In an carlier meeting. Empire Game
Brian Statham, the Lanca- card was spoilt by a nine on cided to send lawn bowls, track puss
Committee deshire pace bowler, failed to the ninth
a finess test for a rib fleld, swimming and shooting muscle Injury, and
The Ladies' Spring Meeting in will not teams to the Empire Games in play for England against the being held at Fanling today Vancouver in July.
and tomorrow West Indies in the fifth cricket Wednesday) and the Courtesy
(Tuesday Teat
beginnin
here today."
of It Laker
the Courses has been granted
First to leave for Mandla will be the swimming team, cam- V.prising two, swimmers,
*S. K: Wong and Miss Chan Yuen-yee (bye); P. C. Chau and Miss Wong Sze-pul Frank Yah and Miss B. Yung.
tutu
At atter in-
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competitions are
атия
being baldi
two ind's taam will be during various periode when alvers and one official, who wID.. C. Compton, W. Wat. The times set apart' for these
Balley, P. B.
TW
Laker,
Master's spam. The Old Course
be free Wednesday afternoon."
Wong Yan and Miss M. Tangy. there on April 19. v. H. Castro Jr, and Miss Diana
Lock, J. C. The football tean, comprising, W. Graveney TG may be seen in the Candle Yung: F. V. Yap and Miss P. 18 players and two offels, and 3. H. Wardle and F. S. True Wed ever Dhabher (bye).
the water polo team, eight man. players and one official,
If Laker is unfit, Alan Moss, leave on April 30 Two other the Middlesex tast mediuni S. K. Ho
Members of the Royal Hong- and C. Ho v. M. footballers and
coach
Tom bowler, will probably play. kong Golf Club tre reminded B. Wong and Dhather; B. Sheddon may be included later. The West Indies lead by that the Rail Bus will not run Remedios and G. Sequeira V.
two wins to one, with one draw, on Sunday, April 4; owing to Diana Yung and Chan Yuen
Dyee.
Ladies' Doubles
*Seeded entries.
EARLY FIXTURES Following are the fixtures for the Colony Badminton Junior Championships:
1
:
At Talkso; April 1
The champion's eye bled so the southern States each Satur freely that at the end of the day. sixth round Carruthers' man- ager, Dr John McGirr, went to his corner to see whether the
John F. Shoemaker holed contest should continue,
standard of play in his Teo-shot at the 179 yards fight Carruthers had two hurling has reached such л second hole on the New Course Mixed Doubles (7 p.m.): C. K. Chen and Anna Young v.T, Gardner stitches put in the wound,
high level "Down Under" that
at Fanling on Sunday; à num. and Mrs B. McColl.
Men's Doubles (750 p.m.); B..A. Carruthers announced after plans have been laid to invite ber ve Iran giving him his
team to tour
Kayler and A. A. Rosa v C. W. NE first Aco whilst playing and Joseph Foo. the fight that he would be ready A. for his Utle bout with Gongkitrat, Australia, playing series of
friendly game, in the afternoon. Mixed Doubles (8 pm.) T. Fighting for the first Ume exhibition games against local
Wang Sze-tu The event was duly celebrated | Chau and - Mias since he retained his title against tears. But the Secretary of in the Club House in
Frank Yeh kha Mias D. Yung the
the
Men's Bingio (16.30 p.m.): P.. American
Gault last New Henry
South Wales Caglic
usual, manner.
Yap.v: Bernard Brown, November, Carruthers found rick O'Malley, told the United
Athletic Association, Mr. Fa Sinn attacked furiously in the Press that lack of finance might firm few rounds, but Carruthers CAUSE postponement
Sinn a tough opponent,
crack Irish
OF
the
went on to build up a big points Attendences are normally not lead by superior boxing.
In the
closing stages Sinn big enough to allow the Asso
Fried hard for a knockout but ciation to build a sizable finch-
he could not shake Chamuthers
reserve Valthough 11,000
people attended the Sydney.
Who retaliated with sore sung- Sports Ground for the hurling inz attacks Reuter.
SONGKITTRAT WINS.
The weight
nus) last besaón. The Premier
at New South Wales, Labourite Cahill, a former inurling officially, started the
• GAMBOLS
THE
I HEAR THAT TUR: NEW MANAGER
AT THE BEAUTY SALONAIS AL
FIRST, CLASE WAIRDRESSER
SHOULD MAKERANA VLANG APPOINTMENTTM FOR HIM TO.
The shooting team, abx mern-
brs and one offical, and the a __England_must) win the exceptionally heavy traild be
track and field team, two athletes fth Test to draw the series, and one official, will leave, on Router. April 20.
Six of the water polo players rejected Nationalist Chian's invitation to represent her at the Games, the Hon. Sec, of the HK. Amateur Swimming Federation, Mr Harry Wingice, told the meeting.
CELTIC BEAT- STIRLING
London, Mar 20,
Celtic beat Stirling Albion by
ing expected during the Ch Ming Festival.
Entry Lata are now postod An Clubhouses for the Shanghai Visitors' Cup, thirty-tay hole medal competition to be played an handicap
at.. Fanling on Bunday maximin
master Theing eighteen Sunday.
The Empire Games Committee tentatively decided to enter contestants for the 100 and 220 yards, hot put and discs and The match, should have been Services for the 110 yards breast strike, pinyed last Safiirday, but Celtic. posteck
four goals to all in a re-arranged April 4, in the Scottish League Division "A" for entries for the Bhek mat
and
Ists for the Club match today!
440, yards, frzo, style and: 220 were, engaged. if the Scottish | those comme
yards Breast stroke in the Yan-Cup semi-final with Mother by telephone to the couver - GenieS,"
well-Route.
wall
As at Chubb