ALLEGED TO HAVE JINXED HIM
Tiberio Miiri, the well-known Italian boxer, Middleweight Champion of Europe, with his wife, a former "Miss Italy," from whom he is obtaining a divorce. It is alleged by his fans that she has jinxed him, and when she appeared at the ringside during his fights they booed her.-Express Photo.
The
THE SPORTS ROUNDABOUT
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1954.
Hungarians Have Found
A Centre-Forward
Even
Better Than Hidegkuti
By W. CAPEL KIRBY
Although Scotland have won their point by insisting on Hungary sending
the match at Hampden their strongest World Cup team to Glasgow for
Park on
December 8 or thereabouts, don't be surprised if Hidegkuti is missing from the mes. merising Magyars' line-up.
forward
from
marstro,
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for
is waiting In Switzerland they
wickets with hard tennis court League, and £5,000 were
Till for
Morgan, Cardiff's surfaced outfield, telling me there is a you¦
Welsh international brilliant ani
centr better hippler
d'Amato, Chapple
orchestra outside-half, whenever he cares ready to take
well known and Hungary's
sign goal-getting leader, violinist
recently to elected vice-chairman of Fulham, Lancashire club. His name is Ferenc Machs has played football in practically
in I gather was touch and Rojevery country Europe-for whether he, not Hidegkull, fed Jack Hylton's
band, Hungery's attack In the World! Cup series.
They bread
Leeming, way. Joe
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LADIES TENNIS TOURNEY STARTS
TWO CLOSEST MATCHES WERE FOUGHT OUT IN COMPARATIVE OBSCURITY
One of the difficulties about watching the early rounds of a tennis. tournament is that there is so much going on that it is not possible to get "more than an impression of most of the games. While you are flitting from one court to another the climax of the match is arising on the one you have just left or, even more difficult, on another court tucked away in
a corner.
more
had no answer.
than
wait
So it was last evening, at the opening of the Colony Ladies' Tennis Cham- pionships at the Ladies' Recreation Club. While most of the spectators found that the stands gave them a good general view of five games, tucked away on the two courts. that could not be seen two well fought matches were being played out.
Down on Court D Miss before been seen in local Cham-The latter player seemed to bo Margaret Fincher was learning pionship tennis.
finding herself rather out of What in tournament tennis It Mira Guillaume, howeve, position a few yards forward of little more
than steadiness is found that a powerful forehand the base line and not by any required, players must win is not the complete answer to means fast enough to get back points rather
for everything and once Mrs Eyles and deal with Mrs Chow's fast
discovered the their opponents to lose them,
comparative food length-drives to the comers. So after Rome very steady weakness of the backhand sho At the same time she kept pro- plugging in the early part of was able to pull the match out ducing the occasional first class
shot which loft Mra are.
Chow the of the the first set she found that the M.
absolutely standing. experienced
PULLED OUT WINNERS' Mrs
On the form shown last oven- Pepperall began to
Similarly on Court 7 Miss produce outright winners
her Greta Lo had to pull out wining it is difficult to see anyone down elther wing of the court to which sheners to beat Miss Diana Madgett upselting the seeded players in whose big lead in the first set should be some interesting games this Championship. but, there Give Miss Fincher a bit of was built up on getting to the
Quarter-Finals on Friday timo to "steady up on a useful net as quickly as possible. These on leg with the
spotlight on looking service and
tactics
paying the encounter between
een Mrs Ip flatten out and angle her driven quick dividend until Miss Lo
volleys not and Mrs Pepperall at the top
of particularly on the backhand saw that with the
and the battle of the and
she will bo force to be a
sufficiently angled, the be shot could be used to)
loft-handers, Mrs Chow and Mrs reckoned with in local ladies
leave Miss Madgett without an Malden, at the lower end tennis.
This
evening we have the Malden had a fairly easy game the Colony Mixed Doubles gets On Court 3 Mrs G. D. first round games of the Colony Ladies' Doubles and tomorrow Sains Miss Allco Oct who never seemed to get going at all whilst on Court & down on our left Mrs A. C. Thompson, after Anding the surface of the court somewhat slippery in the first set when she was extended to 7-3, decided to
to play in bare feet and *** had a somewhat casier passage into the
than quarter-finals looked probable at one time,
Ict her eu
Up on Court 2, Mrs P. Eyles,
a bit erratic, found herself in arrears after the first set against Mrs M. Guillaume who has not
a hard hitter who is sometimes
Clean Sweep
For RAF
Cyclists
First place, first team, first handicap and a Colony record. That was the proud achievement of the RAF Sal Wan cycling team
the in Open 10 Miles Time Trial promoted by the NTACA on
Gerald Cerver, the youngster Eric Houghton would have liked to accompany him to Villa Park. 'em tough Bury is the best inside forward pro-
Cup position
at Notts they've had Now that Dick White is out medal winner, who played in County since Jackie Sewell, of the Army how bong cun every first team position excepi "Moves just lk: Willie Hall Scunthorpe afford
lost his left leg, but used to do," say Meadow Lane Sunday. Ignore goal, has overtures for the dass eintre says nothing will keep him away old-timers. half-back?
from Gigg Lane when he gets Portsmouth, for instance. cracking on his artificial swinger. haven't forgotten the three After all, Joe is unly 78. storming games White played ngainst them in the Cup last Pirit's the meme, Not "puff
Piriz
Back <t pult"
fame, Lerm
RAIN BEATER
but Fred. 19-year-old Accring- Remedy against a recurrence in full-back for whom one of of that alarming £75,000 loss to the Manchester clubs have made first-cloys
cricket through inquiries. inclement
weather!
matung
FANLING GOLF
Whether it's Cly or United, sufficiently The fact is they're Interests to intimate their in- tention st giving the Cupar Angus kid another look-over,
Eddie Beynon, former Welsh schoolboy International, would find that daily 60 miles journey from his home in Wrexham to Shrewsbury and back romewhat tedious if he hadn't taken posscasion of a new car. They do themselves proud Third Division!
NO RED Carpet
in the
Aperi from the vccasional
Soccer
Fuccess
Hero of the day was Phipps, red-headed fast man of the Sai Wan team, whose record break- ing time of 24 min 30 secs., (on a far from easy morning), also gave him first handicap award.
lend and enabled him to
Newcastle) summer nelieves nothing in sport to set the Tyne on fire. Why, then, Reg. Mountford, former Eng- and and Huddersfield full-back. no elvic welcome home for Pat sole Empire is now welfare and sports officer Symons, England's
Gemes women's swimming with a irm in Aden,
success? Why no send-off to Instead of being free Jaum Turin for the European Cham-
winter of pionships?
to collapse, vesink, go down again and fail to George Anich to receive Tyneside's Jamaica,
cricket fotira
to be
the
then usual. 'Duckworth tells me Lancashire contemplate touring
P. G. Comish, won the Sep-1956-50 in 1tely tember Qualifler for the Cap- tain's Cup on the Old Course busier with a return of nett 70, A. D. 1 Duffy being runner-up with 71 and L. F. Stokes, P. 11. Taggart and Y. T Tacong shared third place with returns of nett 72.
The best Modal cards returned during the week-end were: P. G. Comish 84 14 nett 70; LF. Stokes 00-20-nett 70; --- 7 = nett 71; A. D. Duffy 18-
A. D. Jones 01-20=
nett 71;
P. H. Taugart 09-17-nett 72: Y. T. Tsoon 00-18
nett 72; W. D. Leighton 80 7 neti 73: J. D. Mackle 76-3nett
73;
-73.
Results of the second Sunimer Eclectic played, over the Old Course at Fanling from July 16 to August 31, were as follows:-
GrossWinner R. G. L. Oliphant 63; Runner-up John Wal- 64.
Nett Winner J. E. Tus- ton-74-24 nett 80; Run- ner-up Lt. L. D. Haywood- 73 22 nett 61..
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the
Docs she have
order of the red carpet?
an amateur eleven rope to visit Trinidad, and the new firmly- Are Preston looking for Tom linh d Common- Finney's successor in Scotland? wenkh tourists are Australia and Could be, Magnet for Deepdale representatives has been Johnny New Zealand-minded.
£5,000 IF HE WANTS IT Hannigan, Morton winger, who Top-Class hol
have has just reported for National never been scareer in the Rugby Service at Catterick.
backs
WHITFIELD BARRACKS
SIX-A-SIDE
HOCKEY
LEAGUE
The Whitfield Barracks six-a-side Hockey League con- tinues with unabated enthusiasm. The standard of play is high though certain teams have already had setbacks in losing key players during this first month's play. The league due to finish on October 1.
the score suggests,
So far there are three un-i game than J. F. Shoemaker was winner of the August Qualifier beaten teams-Hongkong Kow The RASC 'B' team have also for the Smalley Mid-week Cup loon Garrison 'A', 173 Locating shown signs of improvement. with a return of 85-18 neitty A and 173 Locating Bty DCRE, after a promising start,
70.
HANDICAP REVISIONS
The following handicap re-
visions are announced:-
H.
'B'. The first two teams have lost two star players and have played five matches and the not been impressivo since. last only three. However RHQ
72 LAA Regt RA and 8 Coy
his
Was
answer.
tha
araw
under way, so here's hoping the weather holds up.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Colony Ladies' Ringles. Mrs Mary Chow beat Mrs Mario Ramchand 6-1, 6-0.
Miss Greta Lo beat Miss D. Mad- gett 7-8, 0-2.
Miss Allen Philip boat Miss Joan
Mra
Maiden boat Miss Alice
Oel 6-1 6-0.
best Mrs M. C. Mrs P. Eylen Guillaume 4-0, 0-1, 8-0.
Mrs M. Pepperall boat Mime Mar-
Mrs
On Court & Miss Alles Philip and Miss Joan Lambogy had good hard-hitting battle with Misr Philip just having the edge A Thompson best Miss all the time. She has all the Phylis Kho 1-3, 07 strokes and obviously knows her
TO-DAY'S GAMES tournament tennis and it re-
Colony Ladies' Baubles championshi
Mr Brooke Smith and Ma mains to be seen whether she
and Miss Bilva produce her
outright Fincher
(Court 3); con winners against the stendiness of the players she will meet in the water rounds.
In the remaining match Mrs Mary Chow, the number two seed, demonstrated that she was. too good for Mrs M. Ramchand.
* Arm_Pepperall and Mrs Ceiz v Mim P. Khoo and Mias M. Chan (Court
* Mrs Stokes and Miss Lambooy v Mrs Kyles and Mrs Thompson (Court
Mrs Cox and Mrs Taboris v Mian, (Court 8).
-Mansfeld -- and 1-Mlan Liddington
Open Singles Quarter-finals This Evening
By
"TOUCHER"
team to a four seconds win over REME.
The
previous Colony record for the distance was the 24-58 put
cr HMS up by Staddon, "Marecambe Bay," during the "Novices" Competition in the months. Phipps is fairly confident that he can beat 24 minutes on a decent day. Quite a far cry from the record time of H.A.G. Keates,
which had stood at 27-35 since 1934.
Second fastest time was by 25-12, REME, with Rylance, Hurford and
nd Todd-While filing with 26-20 the next two and 20-10, respectively.
BIG DISAPPOINTMENT A disappointment the lack of entries
RAF Tak, whose riders can Kal generally be relied upon surprise of two. provide
Time keeper was once again with cm. Sgt Clegg, RAOC,
Speculation is rife whether] George Gulterres at Kowloon Skinner, REME, acting as Tur Marshall.
Awards
were Inst year's final will be repeated Cricket Club. presented
by Mrs Whitmore, and whether M. B. Hassan will
TODAY'S GAMES wife of
Fit-Sat
Whitmor
be the first lawn bowler to win Open Singles Quarter-finals Secretary of the successful
At HKFC: A. R. A. Rahman v. the title two years running after Sai Wan Team.
an interval of 41 years since W. A. L. G. Eastman; M. B. Results: Fastest Time, Phipps Russell achieved that feat in Ifasson v. A. H. Scemin. (RAF Sai Wan), 24-38, Second, 1912 and 1913.
At KCC: G. A. Gullerres v. At the Hongkong Football G. C. Norman. Rylanco, REME), 25-12. Third,
Club, Hassan will be pitted Todd-White (Welch), 20-16.
At Recreio: P. Hughes v. F. RAF Sal against no mean performer in Howarth, Winning Wan,
(Phim:
Wilkinson, A. H. Seemin who already hay Gowet), 1-18-42. Second Team: to his credit a brilliant win over Frank Stranahan REME (Rylance, Hurford, J. S.
S. Landolt In his previous Milligan) 1-18-48.
A full programme of all the four quarter-finals of the Colony Men's Open Singles Lawn Bowls Championship is scheduled for today.
to
An interesting feature of this year's quarter-finals is that both last year's Champlon, M. B. Hassan, and runner-up George Norman are still in the running.
round.
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DINK TEMPLETON PREDICTS
United States Will Lose Its World Dominance In The Olympic Games
San Francisco, Sept. 6. Unless there is a great rekindling of spirit in the American track and field ranks, the United States will lose Its world dominance in the Olympic Games — possibly in 1956, but not later than 1960.
So says famed Dink Templeton, head coach of the San Francisco Olympic Club, former Stanford coach and now n radio sports commentator.
"Constantin Adrianov" of] "Instead of that, we are gom Russia comes pretty close toing to hold the tryouts in July, hitting the nail eight on the Then, those who make the team head when he said that the are going to be put on their
Jato in track and field is ́a
continuo
Next open event in the pro- Seemin is the more consistent Relinquishes His United States world superiority honour to keep in shape until
of the two, but
Amateur Status
New York, Sept. 6.
the past," sald Templeton of the Melbourne, meetin
November and Decembar," says, cur the outspoken coach. present lethargic way, we will "What an athlete needs to
condition is competition Olymples, I said that after There
gramme is the 33 Miles Circuit drawing man. Massed Start Race to be pro- Hassan is the more experienced moted by the IAF Sek Kong, and possesses a greater variety
starting at of shots, on Sunday next,
(This event
Though Ha .wis
Hassan will come on originally scheduled for August the green as the favourite, ho but had to be postponed owing will have to produce at least 80 Toledo, Ohio, one of the watching the Russians perform planned for the fall months to
por cent of his best form to world's leading to typhoon "Ida".)
get through this round.
8 a.m.
no
Langlois First Challenger For
Olsen's Title
The remaining teams in the RASC 'A' have lost only one league have as yet chown
will acriously C. Bramwell 7; TAA, Pearc 7: W. S. Vaughan 8; W. game and have shown much im- signs that they
provement lately. They may challenge the leaders, but such Balfour 8; E. Wiseley 10; C. well upset the more favoured is the keennes with which the Alkins 11: Capt. A. G. M. teams.
matches are played that they are quite capable of bringing off Napier 12: J. F. Shoemaker
HKKG 'A' are a sound side murprise wins. S. Allen 13; A. K. Paris 14; L
The league will not be decided Gibbon 15: J. R. Laughlin 16: who rely mainly on the stick H. D. Frantz 17; Y. T. Tsoon work of Sgt Perdy who is play on goal average but if there is a ing very wall. There is little to tle there will be a play-off at 18; G. S. Chambers 19; F. c. Braddol 20; J. Chang 20; 1. Beck choose between 178 A and B the end of the season.
claim 21; R. T.. Amos 24; 0. A. Sin-teams although the former
the more experienced players.. Both, however, are young sides
The league standings on 27 probably the attest in Augewery as follows and arb Members are advised that the
the competition. RHQ 72 slo
TAP Courtory of the Deep Water Bay: Have a good «nucleus of exi Courro has been granted to the perinced players, in RSM Ople Ladies Commition on Thumpday, and B83 Tirton. A crop of 18-
noit 24.
9th September for the holiday juries have upeet the team
of competitions in connection cently with the rumülgi kabat
with the Closing day for Chilbreakened team
dren's Golf. It
the der Testwill become avalia Aureyrar good Able for Membemat: about although loding's a
LEAGUE STANDINGS
in
Frank Stranahan, 30, of /be à cinch to lose in the 1900 eatfould be, moro meets;
amateur in the 1852 Olympics at Hel-keep our boys ready for the
Melbourne Olympics. A much closer and keener golfers, today announced his alaki.
Templeton says that is far ng Fame is
"I don't know where they the can sco'there seems to be no expected on the ad- intention of competing as a acent rink of the some green professional golfer In the got it but they had perfect interest in women's track and between A. L. G. Eastman and future.
form; and thole, technique was field in the United States. A. R. A. Rahiman.
Before taking off by plane very good. They really had it,
Russian
and other European The Indian Recreation
and
Club
player is ranked as perhaps the for Brazh where he plans to Hussia", has very good mers în countries have great feminine?) best drawing man in his Club play in an open tournament | everything except the prints, truck, and field · · stars,JAKERYA, today at he, amply proved next week-end, Straninhor here Boems to be a slight Templetonese Just can't wear? in his earlier round victory over dictated an announcement to be rekindling of track and field to generate any interest in distributed after his departure. spirit in American high schools, women-ius track', and" 'Aald¿paisi Paris, Sept 0.
Hongkong's Empire Games He also sent a letter to the sald Templeton, "but, except for formers. There are a few lead -Pierre Langlois, French representative Joe: Luz, United Sates Golf Association, a few major meets, the sport at work trying to get our you middleweight boxer, has been
Eastman is also in the same named first challenger for the
them that he was seems to take pretty much of a girls to run and jump but the otifying His opponent in
+ his amateur back seat.
aren't getting_much support. world middleweight title held
rto get to the jack and SVNAVA
open
Carl "Bobo" Olson, of the United some extremely good bowling
ma status. Stater, it was announced today, sheuld be forthcoming from the
A letter from Mr Robert counter with the odds about
erry, President of the 30-40 m favour of Rahman, Chirstenberry, International Boxing Commit 244 Recielo, Püter Hughes will sion, 10. M. Edouard
"enjoy s'alisht edge over
Secretary of the Frank ZT2954
Tederation, E
stated Christenberry, had acceptanthe
has competed in
GIANT STRIDER"}}
"We, can't get on the sports.
Ho po
DARK PUBLIO APATHY Biranahan ha
and amateur!, champion- ELS PROD
the y
many parts of. Was British Amateur pages without a big-time meer. I would say we have a general. mpion 1940 and 1950 and apath on the part of the public
American Amateur