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JACK SOLOMONS' CAREER IS INDEED
A ROMANCE
The man who has carved himself the biggest niche behind the scenes in sport is undoubtedly Jack Solomons,
No the boxing promotor.
one person holds such 息 monopoly in any one game or pastime unless it is Joe Davie, who is the crowned king of the billiards and snooker world.
Solomons career is indeed a romance. He was a fishmonger in a very small way in North London half a dozen yours or so before the last. War when he gingerly entered the fistic world with all its complications, and complications is the polltest of words.
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HORSE SHOW
German Wins
King George V Challenge Cup
London, Jule 21 Herr Fritz Thedermann, of Germany, riding Meteor. tonight
the Woll
King Gold Challenge George V Cup, one of the world's most enveted lividual awards for show jumping
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In the most thrilling finish in the history of the event, German rider won after Jump-offs with Alan Oliver, ) British Olymple rider, on mat Admiral
Queen Elizabeth watched 22 bars from 4x nations battle out the final of the competition at the floodud White Chy arena and we personally handed the magnificent
the winner,
£4,100 reply
Herr Thielemana
the Bronze Medal in
Olympic
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From Devonshire Hall hieved his promoting premises. te. The Wirt Enel just of theatre- Land's Shaftesbury Avenue and beparate the Windmill Theatre
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WEEK-END LAWN BOWLS
TEAMS
The Following 14. selected Logu How
KBGC
Teams
Satur fay's
Find Division & ver away at
Po 5C Parker, A 1, G man, t Hughes, We Simpson, J Tindall. 211 Browne, GC Res-
J MeKulvie, F. Fianets. P Howarth, M: Purvis, A. Harvey
Second Division Heereta thomėj At 4 um- A. Hailey, O.A. Gordon, R Pearse, J Askew: A. Hution.
Hellainy.
J. Taylor. F Shields, JIU Harris. V. Bond EFS Buker, JO. Meyer
JIKFC Second Division CCC (away) at 4 pm- Kn ker, . Cottier. Dyer. 1.1.
T. Sneddon, Poynton, It. Ridante The third place went to Mrutier Monteith, EP.Get." W
Mccull, KA Haker
In the last of the four jump- offs he took his powerful Lay
eight horse over te
formid- able obstacles without fault,
Amid mounting tension, Oliver cleared jump after Jump until at the last fence of all he incurred dislodged n bar and four faults, which left him In second place.
Wir White, captain of Britain's Olymple equestrian team), rid- ing Nizefella.
The three riders were the only survivors of the first round of the Anal. All had cleari Tounds over testing course of 000 yards (905 metres) which contained 14 obstacles. - Reuters,
Colony Bowls Championship
Thin Division, ---- USIC (home) at 330 pm-N Van-Beck, B. Vanis Echten. 9. Mills, WV Taylor: A Boyd Cowan,
Walker. W Bennett. H.W. Smith W Thom IA Jones. P Oardiner, 1.. Strange. Reserves: 1. Douglas. Ft. tolgate,
CCC
pm-5.Y, Doe, K.. Xavier, G. First Division-v KBGC hone) al Madar, Landolt; . Kolleber. A E.. Contro, F. Lee, C.R. Rosse- Jet; P Manson, H. P Madar. G Hong-Choy, .A. Suur.
Second Division.-v HKFC (homel at 4 pan-C.K. Sung, H. Randall No Ma. D P.K. Lau. 1. Tay: G.C.
R Ragi, T. Leimard, Y.A. Rniach.
W. Leonard.
Third Division-v PRC away) al 4 p.m.-Wong Yan, W. M. Sousor, FAR. Bux, G. Santos; Wu, G. I. Imall, T. Chao, 1.1. Wade; D. Lou Lee Sul-wing; C.F. Abbas,
pairs FF Ips.
Three Colony Open Jawn bowls Championship matches were played at the HKCC and KBCC yesterday".
At UKCC C. Pope and Per- kins scored a 20-18 win over
G. Stark and R. Marshall.
Women Claim
Relay Record
Pope and Perkins led steadily and at the 10th head the scoru was 9-8 in their favour, Then Stark and Marshali scored two
Hamburg, July 22, three's to tales the lead. How- A Hungarian women's team ever, Pope and Perkins closen sot a world record for 3 times the gup on the following heads 880 yards relay with a Ume of And then scored a two and a 0 minutes 30.2 seconds. 11 three on the 18th and
101 Budapest yesterday, according hends respectively game.
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1954.
AUREOLE WINS FOR THE QUEEN
The finish of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on July 17 with the Queen's four-year-old colt, Aureole (left foreground), ridden by E. Smith, winning from Vamos (right foreground), owned by Mme. Leon Volterra of France and ridden by R. Poincelet.
In third place was Sir Percy Loraine's Darius (extreme left, on rails), ridden by F. Durr (in white with black cap). The race is worth £27,650 -the most valuable on the English turf. With this victory Aureole became the highest stake money winner to carry the Royal colours, having now won over £40,000 for the
Queen. -- Reuterphoto.
AROUND THE BRITISH FILM STUDIOS
Gregory Peck Decides
His Composite Picture
Of The
Perfect
By ROY NASH
On
Woman
Gregory Peck, Hollywood's wandering boy, is due back in London early next month to star in "Moby Dick" at Elstree.
All his filming during the past two years has been done in Europe "The Million Pound Note" and "The Purple Plain" in Britain, "Night People" in Germany, “Roman Holiday" in Italy.
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Between pictures he has John Huston, another exile | writer Peter Terry who, she spent holidays in Scandinavia from Hollywood, Is the pro- assures me, won't be known as
ducer and Paris.
of "Moby Dick," on Mr Terri, was spotted for Ams Everywhere
the adaptation of Herman A civilie's | by producer Kenneth Harper at women of Europe stared hard classic whaling story already a party. A camera test followed
twice. The late John "They just asked at Peck. Something they probmed
me odd Peck ably didn't realine:
was Barrymore starred in both the things like did I enjoy model-
previous versions. studying them too.
Hlug" and then a big
part, Qu Peck's appearance Result is the Peek idea of the
In For Dennis Price's wife, may be a Ideal Weinan. This tabulous shock for some of his feminine Better,
For Worse," even
had As the fearsome Captain though creaturg, he says, would have fans.
never acted before. the athletic gure of the Sean-Ahab, who is obsessed with the dinavians
They have changed my per- Asath "the dignified idea of destroying a huge white head, lovely features and keen whale known as Moby Dick, he
as my jinme," sonality as well a hideous mind of a British girl, plus the will wear a beard,
Elstree's newest star tells me Frenchwoman's chic and ability scar on his face and an artificial "In the Alma I'm rather a hard. to dress, her knack with a fustyleg made from n sperm-whale's brittle person-in real life I'm dish
and,
her jawbone.
not like that at all particmarty, understanding of love."
And there won't be a single Glynis Johns, Also the Italian woman's zest woman in the cast for Peg-leg Miranda the mermaid in "Mpd
Peck to make love to--a change for life mani enjoyment of music
About Men" at Pinewood, has to make
the Peck after all those screen romances already achieved every NUPA
young meals were ready on time and he has shared with such lovelles The house in spotless condition, as Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gard- the industriousness of the Gerner and Virginia Mayo.
ur
mons.
ONE-WOMAN UNO
Around Hollywood With MICHAEL RUDDY
AVA GARDNER HAS
HAS GOT A BULLFIGHTER AS WELL AS A DOZEN RUFFLED SHIRTS
For about £4. 11. 6. any girl, slim preferably, can outfit herself like a lady bullfighter. Ruffled shirt of white cotton, bullfighter cummerbund in wool jersey and bullfighter pants of cotton velveteen, and matador's slippers.. Blue jeans and bobby-socks and sandals are passe.
And who's responsible for the switch? Ava Gardner who not only has a dozen bullfighter outfits, but she's got a bullighter as well, handsome Luis Miguel Dominguin, who is holidaying with her at Lake Tahoe while she completes her six weeks divorce residence from Frank Sinatra.
A good
Miguel and Ava held hands! British entertainers scem to The songs üre Hood. The at the roulette tables in Reno have a hard time amusing the choral work, splendid. while she lost the equivalent cynical atuliences of Las Vegas motion picture for you and the of £300 in silver
dollars....
cabarets and nightclubs, Val family. Both insist "we're just friends", Parnell's Palladium Revue Just Worst pun of the week
Holly didn't click, although the turns their propagando on a which often means In
radio: wood that they'll marry soon.. were good. Bob Hope and a
party. Bud Abbolt and Lou vide NYET-work!"... Costella new up from Holly- wood to give
send off.
STILL IN BALANCE
SINGAPORE
BADMINTON FESTIVAL
Val
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FAMILY NOTES
Vera Lynn hind a similar ex- Hollywood family note: Kita perlenco n tew
months ngo. Mayworth ham't spoken to her British humour, British songs brother, Vernon, for two years. end Bellish style doesn't g And Olivia de Havilland didn't down at Las Vegas......
speak to ber sister, Joan However Terry Moore, 11- Fontaine, for about the dubitably inspired by Marlene | time. Districh,
nashing Business Note: Messrs success at the Hotel Fluningo
Crosby and Benny are proud with her songs, dances, and her Owners
of the most luxuricus 'nude souple' dress. Some trailer (enravan) park in Palm designer-Jeun Louls. Same Springs. Its cost, £200,000. Its
was
samo
Hope
Singapore, July 22, style-transparent above the ndvantages, central swimming
WHY WORK?
After ten weeks on the Paçi-
The much publicised bad-waist, with strategically placed pool, cafeteria, electrie laundry,
Cost of the private sun-teuning cabanas. minton "festival," which is equins and beads.
dress-£1,000.
The trio also own oil wells, race proposed by Mr Lim Chuan I watched Mary Martin horses, part of ▸ professional Geok, former President of rehearse for her "Peter Pan".
baseball team... the Singapore Badminton Her hair is clipped short and
What's the future for Claudette Association, to be staged in she is like a sprite as she sails Colbert, several of you havo through the air with the great-
A asked. November is still in
television comedy the
est of case.......
series this autumn....Joan Craw- balance.
ford quite pleased over the box- The Badminton Association of
Ludilee success of her first western
Malaya at its recent meeting decided to turn down Lim's op- plication unless the Singapore Badminton Association under- tukes responsibility for organ!- sing and running the exhibition.
The Singapore controlling body held a three-hour meeting yesterday and decided that the festival will go on only if cer- tain "recommendations" of the committee WETO agreed to by Lim
in 25 years, "Johnny Guitar, in fle Coast, she goes to Broadwa of on motoring holiday with and then to London. My neigh-e three adopted daughters.
in summer camCassie Her son's bour, Clifton Webb, who has a
Her pleasant arrangement at Twen-
two films a year for has a story to star Garbo himself.
next
picture,
tleth Century Fox Studios Thompson, in which sho plays
of
$200,000
and
My prediction Garbo will never again maite n movie. She is wealthy. She likes living in New York where she has several good friends and holidays in Europe when she wants to. Why work?.
a female Clark Gable, ol-driller Chatted with Martin and
Lowls after the preview of their comedy. "Living it Up." "Of course, we've had rows. We're human", the comics admited. "But we're a team now and that's the way we'll be, no matter what the gossip merchants 'say"..
was in
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At the meeting Lim's atton- tion was drown to Rule 17 of the Badminton Association of Blag Crosby had come kidney Malaya which reads: "No ar-
storics removed at $1. John's rangements shall be made with Hospital while I
surgery foreign player or team to play emergency
crush. in any part of Malaya without motor the approval of the Badminton reports of Bing's retiring. There Association of Malaya."
It is understood that foreign for him. He won't do radio
television from players, including some the United States, Canada, Den-
son Gery a chance to croon mark and India, after their ex- hibition here, fore
to play in Hongkong and possibly Japan. -United Press.
more once
actress's ambition-to play Peter Pan, That was on the West End stage in 1943,
But she still has a couple of ambitions unfulfilled. One is to stur in a Alm
musical. The been reading about them in other: to play Portin
Some of
whaling the sequences have been filmed already of Madeira. I have
HER EYES FLASHED
watched Ginger Blogers enacting a scene with Reginald Gardiner on "The Black Widow" set ot Twentieth Century Fox Studios As the Broadway star, she looked wonderful but she for a while, giving said she was very angry about
are three flms in
some of his father's favourite what some "gossipmonger" had printed concerning her and her melodita.
young, fourth husband, Jacques Groucho Marx described an Bergerec. ageing actress as "approaching Ginger's eyes fleshed. Sen- 40, but she isn't using the direct sitive on that score. -Her approach...
figure is superb. Hair clipped magic:
Edmund short. Sults her much better Purdom, who sings in a superb than the horsetail she wore terior (with thanks to Mario Spring....Perry Ann Garner, Lanza) in "The Student Prince" the former child star, whom but speaks in baritone, is heard Ginger murders in the story, as a baritone in song again in stood beside me, "Doesn't she "Adom and Athena". Again a look wonderful. Boy, I hope voice double.
I look like that, someday.... someday," Peggy whispered,
Kowloon Bus Hollywood
Team Wins Again
last
In Hollywood, if you can't sing, you can still be Binging Relaxing in his dressing room. Singapoore, July 22. All very interesting, but a bit
star, if the right volcesare pro- was George Raft, who does t The visiting Kowloon Bus vided for you... "The Student switch in roles. "I'm the detec for the disheartening
In The women
letter from location cameraman | Merchant of Venice. who lace Peck'a fan mall with
football team scored their Prince", re-make of the success tive in this. I solve the murder"; Paul Wilson (san ut "The Nearest she has come to am-
**Last proposals of marriage. Only a
1920 with Kamon Novarro dapper George told me. Star's A.E. Wilson),
the mermaid second success in their Mala-and Norma Shearer, is a lush picture, with Bobert Taylor, 1. one-woman UNO could quality.ber of the unit which
a mem-bition No. 1 is
sailed song
"I Can't Resist Men," yan tour when they defeated spectacle in colour and cinema- was the boss crook. The old with the Madeira whalers.
a Singapore Business Houses scope this year, with a delight-line.". "They sighted the whales at
ful high-comedy portrayal of XI by 6-0 today. seven in the morning." Wilson writes. "From then on we spent a most exciting 12 hours, probably the most exciting In my life int
Australians To
Play Five Tests
In West Indies
They hunt whales here in small boats which have not been changed for hundreds of years. Only when about six feet away thrust his
does the harpooner barb into the whole. Then
which she sings In her new plature.
With the current interest in women lawyers as film heroines she may yet achieve ambition No. 2, "1 think the reason that I wanted to become barrister when I was at school," she saya.
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SO THEY TELL ME...
Anthony Steel is a phil. andering pilot with a girl at every airport in Ealing's "Out of the Clouds,'
Anna Neogle has been playing Nell Gwynn again for Lliacs In The Spring" at Elstree, First time was in D pre-war alm,
Lunched
with Hilda Simm the prince's valet by John Wil- who played "Anna Lucasta" in The visitors led by 2-0 at half Hama ("Dial M for Murder") London. "Can you help me re- timo.
and
some chuckles from turn to England. I had the best. Heavy rain earlier in the "Cuddles" Sakall..
time of my life there", she said. afternoon made the ground slip- pery and the game appened to be played at slow motion and lacked the thrills of the flat game on Tuesday.
After 12 minutes of even ex- changes, the visitora opened their scoring through Hau Ching-to. Chu Wing-keung scored the second goal in the 29th minute.
The Singapore team put up an Improved display in the second ball and managed to hold the visitors for 25 minutes.
They had their clances in this period, but weak finishing and 'poor marksmanship by their forwards denied them a goal.
The
Kowloon
Busmen sud-
minutes from the final whistle and scored three fine gouls in quick succession through Mol Chun-wah, Szeto Man and nu Ching-to-Router.
carmen haul in the rope and he is Ralph Branca Signed daily went into offensive five
:
By N.Y. Yankees
Port-of-Spain, July 22. Australla will play five Tests on their tour of the follows the greatest fight you West Indies next year.
have ever seen.
The whale dives under the Arrangements, subject to Aus-
to sometimes fantastic tralian confirmation, have been water
depths. The harpooner stands made by the West Indies Cricket Board of Control for one Test by with a sharp knife for if a each in Barbados, British, Guiana Knot appeared in the rope from
Norman Wisdom boxes it would almply with Ricey McCullough, and Trinidad, with the first and the harpoon
pull the bout last in Junalca.
with it straight lightweight champion of North- to the bottom.
ern Ireland, in "One Good Stollmeyer will caplain the "The whale then 10ws the Turn" at Pinewood,
while nt West Indies with Denis Atkin-boat around for a
next he son Vice-Coplain. Everton great speed. When Werkes and Sonny Ramadhin comes to the surface for air the have been invited to
but only against Australia and Clyde killed,
after terrifio Walcott, Frank Worrell and Alf struggle during which everyone Valentine are expected to be is soaked with sea and blood.*
New York, July 22. TERRY OF TERRI?
Ralph Branco, former available...
Weekes and Hamadhin have Which name would be more Brooklyn Dodger and Detroit
to draw you into also been invited to tour New Likely
„‚a | Tiger pitcher, was signed today Terry or ria Zealand, with West Indies cinema-Pia
to a contract with the New groen
The official record of 0 team in 1955/60. Atkinson will Territ
York Yankees. Purvia beat minutes 40 seconds was set
Those Eletrco Goddard
atar-builders, In order to make room for the P. Cottler and J. K. Sloan 21-August last year by a
be captain and John Great player-manager-Reuter,
Associated British, think the 28-year-old right-hander, the Mhas it so their latest dis- Tankers took catcher Ralph Britain and Northern Ireland
covery will be was benten last
adopting the Houk off the active list and second spelling.
made him a coachUnited wouldn't know, but they Press.
|ing," says ex-model. Mrs - Terry
(sorry Terri), ·
THIS twenty-four-year-old, The leveling Falpine profes-blue-eyed brunette, sional golfer, Lawry, Montes, en- planed this morning for Chilengo the where he will compete in
Oa the same Howarth and M.
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to win the to the West German nows
agency,
At KBGC, H., A. Ozorle and team. This A. M. Bouzn defeated A. Ste Saturday by another fireat Bri
wart and G. Arliss 37-13. Lal and Northern Ireland team.
and
At the Filipino Club, in a This was beaten last Saturday triples game, A. W. Johnso:, K. A. Baker, and A. W. Gard-by another Great Britain nar beat M. S. McKay, A, G, Northern Ireland team in Lon
don with a time of 6 minutes 46 Coles and A. E. Eliot 22-7.
| seconds, Router,
In a Third Division Longua match at Sodkumpoo, IRC beat HKCC 5-0.
A. M. Kadir, A. O, Mader, 8. M.
Tumjan, A. M. Wakat (IRC)
HKRA Spoon Shoot
Filipino Golfers Tool looks more interest-
Play In America
Mozilla, July 23.
coming Tam o Shanter, kura- In the US. Montes will join
ment
best H. G. Banham, He Wyper. The bi-monthly Spoon Shoot
of the Hongkong, Ride, Associas his
C. Rounfell, : M. Marshall, 36-18,
A., R. Abbas, 7 Ackber Atom will be held as "BY ́Numiatin, A. R. Razack: (IRC). boal Almao, ABP2 Mitchell, Rango, Kaf'Tak, on Bundky, at
Disck. 76. 17. Animm-14936 9 am. Tiring wint beTKY 3009
Basack, CAM, Dr. Minchell, | 300 and 600
Bpoon. bar
AMR. Minu 3 S. AT Rumlah will be awarded to the Lloyd, Wallwork, D. Fra 10-11;} icoeun ka machi
KuCalssiino" Tugot, pete in the
Wife-of
CZECHS BEATEN IN MEXICO
Basketball Match
30,000 TO SEE SHIRAI-PEREZ NON-TITLE BOUT
On
Buenos Aires, July 22, Thirty thousand tickets have so far been sold for the 10 rounds non-titlo bout here Saturday bo'ween Yoshio Shirai, Japanese World Flyweight The basketball team from the Champion, and Argonline China Morning Post Champlon, Pascual Perez
mocfation", which had
the "B" Group of
Experis forecast an, even ZA Beason" - Cur contest since the Japanese,, who kua will play arrived here a week ago, has Bgainst Kong had little time to become ke Certy at acclimatised while Perez has
been undergoing rigorous train bondylded two other Gays ențereck in Shirat will have Hey sponsored fights against Argentine boxers Eefore returning, home----Beŭter.
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