SPORTS SURVEY
By All-Rounder
ANOTHER ATTRACTION FOR BLACKFOOL?
Blackpool is rowned for s
iluminations and it football team, for Us sands and the variety of its entertainment. There
Is likely to be an added one next winter for it almost certalo that
Itugby Lugue
football will Ize bangtrrated at
the Incal
Greyhound Stadiam.
The minimum £5,000
ded
to start has been raised and £3,000 of this will be set aside
to buy players Warrington's
forner secretary-manager, Mr Chris Brockbank, Itals
engaged.
Not
ITH IN THE AYR eften do two forwards net 87
goals between them when one them is wingre but diat is the record of Jumes Holders Lat win Johnstone of
A ban H. Iden,
Ayr
forwar 1.
has scored in and outside right Jain
remarkable total for
Ni ulitle man. He also plays
ticket for Ayrshire.
UMPHE AT 12 Fred Bor.
low, of Darchulme (lanes) will cho y comitance his fortieth zenzon as a focal cricket rumpire and he is 72 years old, All his offlerating has been done in the East
...
Latenshire Premlay
the
Wednesday Lenguas, Harstade Workshop Mid- work Langue and the Waterfoot
Sunday School League. MIN
booty on 40 years? About the match
whuck wickets
fell so sulukly that one ma euroe lay the wick In seconet
time and, in order to deceive, Zar barl taken out his also teeth!
HONOUR IN DEFEAT Virenaheld FC have lost every game they have played in the Darwen Lane). League this
of them by double figures, but the oppos ang minds have voked them "The Sparlamen of the Seman“ and they will receive an award. SEASON WITHOUT DEFEAT
past season, Norve
Shepshed Albion by de- frating stone Penistone Rovers completers it remarkable aca- son's end They wen
went through
to the champhunishiga of the
Leicestershire Senior without
League They
losing a gomse. strew two, won 28 aml had & goul average of 135-20.
ONE "DOUBLE" FOR WEST BROMWICH
Brom-
કરવુ
wich Albion may have slipped Cup and League Ap in their “double" bid, but West Brom- wich Warriors
have actieved
the feat This club of ex- Servicemen romped home in every match they played to the Coronation Luxur
They and lifted the Junior Cup, They won
22 uf their matches with a goal average of 217 to 33.
اله
HUNDRED GAMES A SEA- SON
Jimmy Meadows of Manchester City has played
hundred games season. In Army representative
over one
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1954.
Korean Gold Medallist
YOU DO INC.
64
16
Koren's Chai Chung-sik (164) overtaking Yamauchi Jiro and Umezawa Kazumi (116) of Japan in the last but one lap of the 10,000-metre run to win the 1st place of this event with a time of 33.006 secu., a new Asia Games Record,
In Defence Of England's Slow-Scoring Batsmen
By DENIS COMPTON
Į
The defensive methods of some of our leading batsmen-and am as big a "culprit” as any—is a question that remaine after all the excitement of winning the Ashes and drawing the Test series in the
West Indies,
The latest, and one of the most nut boritative contributions to the argument comes from Freddie Brown, last year's Chairman of Test selectors, in the Wisden.
A Slice Of Real Life On The Film Set
The Excitement Of Being Shelley Winters
By MOORE
RAYMOND
into
Like a hunted woman, Shelley Winters stoic London, paused for breath, and sped off to Hollywood.
To paraphrase the poet-the hounds of grief are on Wintera traces, because it Heema certain that her
Gassman marriage to actor Vittorio
is irretrievably wrecked.
The star had been in London 1 heard later from an 24 hours before I heard about unsuccessful colleague that iny
it. I put through a call to her getting through to Mas Winters hotel
The conversation, almost was lucky mistake. She'd one-side, was about as bief given instruction Otot calls and simple as this:
from newspapers weren't to be put through to her room,
"I now in from Rome yer- terday
Last night I saw Sam Wanamaker about doing a play with him in London. Today I'm flying home see my baby. I'm and I'm in a terrible packing hurry. Sorry. Good-byo,"
Two Play-Off|
Dates Fixed
By
HKFA
At the meeting nf the Hongkong Football Association Management Committou at the Association's offices lust night it was decided that the runners- up position in the third division soccer league would be decided by a competition between the three teams that tled for second place — Jardines, SS Tamer and Dairy Farma,
The draw for these matches
I didn't have a chance to ask
husband, after her
a subject about which she's became very i reticent, anyway.
Shelley and Vittorio were married two years ago, and Ø year later their daughter VII- toria was born. The husband was in Rome at the time.
At the end of last year the couple went to Rone to make
fim called
"Mambo." That Was when the trouble began.
Signor Gassman started going
n
round with 18-year-old Авла Maria Ferro. Then the whole thing blew up.
TWO CONDITIONS Shelley declared that Vittorio could inve divorre OR TW# conditions:
1. Ho must pay her £1,800 a year for 18 years-to provide for the daughter;
2. Ho MAUSE guarunice 111 writing that he would marry Anne Maria Ferrero, the netress who played Ophella to Gassman's Hamlet.
bring Anna Maria on to the set The husband's reply was to
while
rehearsing, Sholley was and the pair of them kept mak-
like.
sees S & S Tamar meeting Dalry Farms in the Brst match and then Jardines. Owing to un-
available of 1954 certainly
ground and date for the play-olt, it was remarks that the star didn't decided that these would be arranged by the HKFA Secre- tary after consultations with the officials of the three teams and
In calling for a more aggressive approach to batting, Freddie says: "Nobody could have been more delighted with England's Test triumph against the Australians than I was, but I believe it would have come with greater case by the employment of more attacking tactics."
When, therefore, the best, overseas (ruins In England. fast bowlers 11 any Country
When they play on good batting dissimilar to their pitches, not
are
In principle, i bebeve in thei all-round ndvættages
as the most gathered together, supported by boring as much
Test standard fielding and field- expeting crible or spectater,
Jurys m
placing probably stuxwder to
in ordinary matches, the task facing the batsman
becomes
Negative leg-side
rust be
The quicker runs are made the more tine is left for the bowlers to dismiss the opposition. Nothing
more than when I rapidly berdine "gged down" at the difficult. crease. To
however, the pecially my mind. issue is not so clear 15 She
easily would insist.
the
Are at-
Don Bradmans The cricket world probably enpable of lambasting any
but pattern for the inajority cannot be fashirmed
lack
a
from the pehievements super-player. this
matches he has played 18 times
outside
icf1 right,
half, right back and inside left and reored 14 goals.
BL
赶电
cem
centre
forward,
played for
He has
his unit
every Thursday and scored 38 limes. He has appeared for Manchester City's
fest und second elevens in many occa- slous and his overseas trip have taken him to Brussels, Belfast, Caen and Germany as well us Scotland and all over England and Wales,
THREE WOMEN SECRE- TARIES
Women
SCCTE taries are a rarily in Soccer, but the Gosport (Hampshire) League have threo. Mrs
A
Bohen looks after Brockhurst's four teams, Mrs O. Barnes
13
In charge of Grange United's
two sides and Mrs 1. Pitt 16 secretary of Cams Alders. Mrs Olive Barnes married the brother of Wally Barnes
and Welsh
Arsenal national full back.
A PROUD GRANDAD
1ho Intor-
An 86 years old Scot, Mr James
of the
the Fifeshiru
Cunningham
mining village of H o' Beath, will, thanks to television, bu able to see two of his grand- sons playing in the
Wembley
Cup Final next Saturday. They
are
"cupped"
Just
Wille Cunningham,
and Jimmy Baxter, right back and inside left
Preston North End,
70 YEARS
of
ot
اده
+
A point to be remembered 13 that in notal eurcumstances bowlers dictate the tempo of the
much, Rame us
nearly much, as the batsman.
or
Pakistan Team Skip Hongkong
Manila, May 10. Revised airline schedules will not permit the Pakis- tani athleilo team to put on an exhibition in Hongkong on Wednesday as the Pakix- tant team is now travelling via Singapore without stop- over In Hongkong. — France-Presse,
a
Probe On PAAF
Urged By P.I. Congressman
simplified.
DIFFERENT UP-BRINGING
totals and make
own, frequently they make big
men
not
50
advice of me will be published later.
Taikoo are learning it the hard way in their fight to appear in the top two teams in Division II,
beaten
They were beate
1st Dividon
ut of the
In
Guais
at them and missed. Then they left the sei
So she threw her hand-mirror
Things quietened down after that. Not long ago their lawyers made
a formal statement thal ¦
they had agreed to a divorce,
except that Shelley would keep but no terms were mentioned
Vittoria,
he said, "we still can' persuade the author that Shelley
PW DLFA PL is right for the part. Now he's gone into hiding" somewhere, So we're looking for another play to do together."
"But why do you particularly want to do a play with Miss Winters?"
them rapidly. If the ball is turning, moving frat position in the
in the best of three in scoring about. however, they seldom play-off matches against Kow-
After saying good-bye to Miss increasingly look good. In those circums-
loon Motor
and Bus,
the Winters i went round to the tances England usually are play-off to decide the runners-Westminster Theatre, where tactics favourites.
up, have drawn against South Sam Wanamaker is starring in China twice, with the score at Tho overcome
BK Knife"-the play On the whole, England bats-1-1 in both instances. They meet about Hollywood with the lid
Arc probably
South China in the third play-off The rolet may be made that spectaculer as some of their op- off at Club US Thursday at G Backstage he told me that for last year the Australians, and in puments, but I would think that p.m. recent months the West Indies, whatever the
some time he had wanted Shelley atmospheric con-
The following are the league to play opposite him in a London Tuns more quickly ditions and on all types of turf, standings issued by the HKFA production made their than Englanet.
of the Tennessee they are mare consistent.
up to and including May 10. On the surface, such an argu-
Williams romantic comedy, "The Because of my conviction that
Rose LEAGUE STANDINGS ment is not easy to counter, but England are better equipped to
Tallou,"
the
"But," issue cannot
over-deal with the unusual, í regret be
that very much
M.C.C. have ed to the covering of pitches agreed
Test series in he winter's The vastly different ericke! Australia. up-bringing of English players The decision
not taken compared with those, say, of the without thought. Instead, M.C.C. West Indies and Australia, has gathered the views of nearly 100 considerable influence of
the past
England 4175}
present character of their
respective
cricketers before
giving their methods.
consent to the Australian sug- On perfect batting pitches in gestion but I can only with the tropical countries young bowlers voting, extremely close as it was, soon realise that to achieve any had gone the other way. success their only hope is by hard work over long periods without thought of help from the pitch.
As a result, those who roach Test rank
achieve generally greater accuracy, and the slow bowlers turn more sharply than their English counterparts. When bowlers are pin-point in length and direction, attacking strokes Arc made only by laking o
chance.
That
mises another
mire the punishing
funda-
WIS
Centenary Bowls For Volunteers
KMB South China Kitchen Атау
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celebrations TUME
Cav of the HAMC montal contrast, Much as I ad-marking the Centenary
it was Rotteltors Hongkong Volunteers,
Yard Polloe proposed to hold a lawn bowls
Tramways match between Past and Present
CAT members of the Force at the
Jardine Kowloon Bowling Green Club
B & S Tainar at Austin Road on Sunday, May | Dalry Farm 23.
Kin Godown Rediffusion It is requested that all bowlers Telephone desirous of taking part in this | Ribe match, please send their names
L. Crawford in to the Past ar the Present Holandia
Star Ferry representatives by Monday, May
stroke-play of Keither Miller, Neil Harvey and the three West Indies "W's" I believe that a number of
would English batsmen
have acquired similar aggression had they learned their cricket in Australla or the West Indies,
Manila, May 10. Hardly had the last clioes of the Second Asian Games closing ceremonies died
a con-
The English batsman develops Chan Investigation of the his game on all types of pitches gressional Philippine Amateur Athletic and, if he is to make any pro Federation (PAAF) was sought gress, he disciplines himself to this morning In a resolution watching anything but a half urging a probe of PAAF officials volley or a full toas not only off and their activities during the the plich bulright on to the bat. Asian Games.
Otherwise he will find himself boaten by Bome unexpected movement of the ball from the ground.
A SUPPORTER Mr Jack
Evans, Bulwell, has been supporting and watching Notts County for seventy years and he still at- The resolution, prepared by tends, at the
age of 85, Mid-Congressman Ramon Mitra, also Jand Midweek League matches aimed at
the PAAF officials
ag wolli His son has been County Supporter for forly priated by Congress for the usa years the only one of a Kim- of the Asian Games berley family of 14. The other ended yesterday. thirteen support Notts Forest.
a disposition of $150,000 appro
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17.
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HKFA
"Because she's a Ane and sen- sitive actress."
recalled that
played
production
Named
critics
wrote:
when she
in a Hollywood stage of "A Stroctcar Desire"
of one
the "It takes rea).
guts to be that bad,'
Wanamaker laughed It off
and said he hoped to find the
right play this summer.
"Sho was in to see the show Jast night," he said. "When she
came to see me afterwards sho
was so upset she was crying."
So sad, sad Shelley has gone home to find comfort in her baby daughter.
The
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
autobiography of
cx-
Hungarian actor 8. Z. ("Cuddies") Sakall--you know, the nice old chap with the drooping cheeki -comes out next month.
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ALWAYS FIRST
ON THE DRAW
Denver, Colorado, Dan Bryce, a modest Mid-Western American, 47 years old, claims to be the world's fastest pistol hip- shooter.
Q
"All you need to do any of these tricks is just 10 minutes" practies every day for two weeks," he says.
-(London Express Servico)
HKDF Open Centenary Sports
of
Gunfighters of the old West soldom lived long enough to find Its sub-title is: "My Life out if age would slow them on Under the Emperor Francis the draw.
Bryce is still as quick Joseph, Adolf Hitler, and the on the trigger as he was 20 years Warner Brothers."
"Ho la a special Federal Bureau A number of filmgoers of Investigation
in Agent accidentally forgot" to hand Albuquerque, New Mexico. He back their polarised glasses gave demonstration of his
fton seeing tho 3-D thriller skil}
meeting of the The House of Wax" at the Colorado Shoriffs and Peace Warner Theatre, London.
Officers Association at Denver. Since "The Command," in
MIRROR METHOD CinemaScope (no glasses), has MEETINGS been on at the Worner five
Equipped with a .38 calibre pairs of 3-D glasses have been revolver in a side holster, he showed that he can draw and Two meeting will be held banded in. air is clearer and the ball rarely Past Members will be com-
fire in two-fifths of a second.
The first of the football which departs from the true, batsmen posed of all ranks associated consecutively by the Hongkong
He sat roles through the matches marking the start can afford to atrike the ball at with the HK.VDC, up to and Football Association committees
Congress Hold the air. Resting
edge of a sliver dollar tossed into the Hongkong Volunteer Cen- its pitch and to make all manner including The projected investigation of strokes that would load them were
on his back tenary celebrations in the sport- In the Volunteers and clation's offices. is an off-shoot of alleged "nia to trouble in England.
are today, members
and aiming a revolver backward deld, was played at Soo- of the The first commencing at 5.48
First Session
his head, he looked through
kunpoo yesterday treatment" of Lower House
RHKDF.
their p.m. will be a Council meeting must make Habits formed over
when "Baker" Coy amirror held between his knees "Charlie" Coy by a long members in the allotment of
Athoom, May 11. and hit three out of three targets, cannot be changed over choice between Past and Prosent, which, amongst other items on san s to
tre period the Games My Mitra
the, agonda, will elect members It is suggested that the vari traight, or oven. In a matter of
delegates from 40 four inches in diameter, hang- the Colony form to serve on various sub-commit-natione discussed detalls of the ing 30 foot away. several other Congressmen months.
ous clubs in
Pte Ismail broke through rinks and respective conveners toes in place of Mr L. G. Young composition of the International
score the lone tally, in a game last week denounced the mam For that reason, when playing
names en bloc to who is going away on leave. King Paul of Greece, dressed bers of the Second Asian Games abroad, the majority of Engilshad in the
Bryco became a policeman at which was featured by clean, Olympic Committee, when the in the uniform of a Field Mar- Organising Committee (most of batsmen adopt the methods they the above representatives.
FILIPINO CLUB
The second meeting following first session of the Committee's the go of 10 and his reputation although determined play.
as a sharpshooter spread rapidly. shal, oponed the 49th Congress them PAAF officials) for giving have always used, watching the
The Hockey match between the Congreannien Olymple o
following have been the at 7. p.m. is one where the Congross was held here last of the International
Boats
"Baker Coy and JUST PRACTICE" . that ball off the pitch and delaying docted to represent the Filipino Selection Sub-Committee wil night,
the M. G. Committee here today
Platoon which was scheduled to a were allegedly too far to the the stroko. at
The Congres decided that in. in picturesque ceremony the rear.
Twenty-two years ago, while be played Naturally they will not score Clubs in a friendly lawn bowls meet to select team for the
at the same time. The investigation of
the Kowloon following matches ancient Herodes Atticus Theatre,
the quickly as the home player Docks at Filipino Club to
future no country will be allowed a detective in Oklahoma City, and place, when in the shadow of the Parthenon, PA was to have started last who at times matonish
The bespeciaded
man was ber of players monarch, Week
but diss, to the fact that by playing in the marrow at 5.30 p.m. Weather Great Britain for the In-more than two members on the he was sent to arrest a man in it was was postponed
ternational Charity Cup Final en International Olympia Coma hotel room. The speaking in English, welcomed Congrommen had cautioned strokes, and, moreover, getting
mitter and all 100 members lying in bed, pointing a rifle at "Bakor" Coy were taking per the delegates, to Greece while against ・ doing › so while the mway with them. htt
Call: Bar For (Colony, laam" for elected in future must be able the doće). Bryce threw open in the football match on the the city's Mayor also added his Games were still going on," me Converenly I would": "draw at« [2]
Double Tenth Charity Match to speak elther English on the door and killed the man adjacent feld. A triendly, welcome-Beuter.
tention: ba; the achievements of
par batons the rifle could be fired. Thursday, May-17:
knock-about was played instead.
King Paul Opens
IOC Congress
Athens, May 10.
and
The
match
1945. Players who on Monday, May 17 at the AIOC
ogainat
permitting
Cottons
Somo
over
Cont
of the match.
afternoon, defeated the only
to
num
representing