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Up The Garden
By HENRY LONGHURST
When two performers of the eminence and experience of Cotton and Crawley combine to make a declaration, it behoves one to pay respectful attention, however absurd it may on the surface appear to be.
The declaration in question, mado in perfect serious- near and supported by figures from the Golfers' Handbook, was that the golf ball flies no farther now than it did 26 or 80 years ago, Coming from such a source confess that this shook me.
course, be hitting—always Figures can,
do start, with of mnade i prve anything. We the ople feats of Ted Blachwell, Andrews in 18D2, einated, discussions on gold's who, at $1 {noi fascinating tople - long Orst drove a gulty bail to the
советая
of the clubhouse, 360 yards, and then reached the 5th (520 yards) and 14th (510 yards) day, the holes running, of course, in op- posite directions,
Chinese Wins Clay two on the same
Pigeon Event
Caracas, Nov. 23. Awarded gold medal in
clay the
shooting pigeon event for master marksmen yeulerday
Lam Ke- wene chua of
Nationalist China with 09
poluta, Schcel of Denmark with 25. Baint Remy of France with D4 and Hurtarde of Colombia with 94-France-Presse.
"BRIG" YOUNG'S
Impressions Of World Cup Series
L.G.
terday
yes-
Al the meeting at the Tavern, NAAFI Club, Chathur Rond.
Mr Young gave his impressións. of the World Cup series, -
Even if the wind changed so as to favour him both waya, an average of 250 yards for four shots, is, with a gulty, fantastic Indeed, one could almost use it to prove that the gutty was # longer ball than the present One!
For hve you after the nest
1922-1926. war,
Jog-drlyle competitions wery held before the Open Championship and the vinners averages, followed by the longest unividual drive that Sinth 200 # Wethered 200
year, were: 1822 J. (277); 1023 278); 1924 J. Smith 242 (203);) 1023 J Milner 200 (200): 1920 A. Compston 203 (288).
TV which I Carrot resist odding, for the benefit of these who knew him and may enre to Imagine the reene, that in 1923, 4 Teren, Ted Ray swapped al four of his balls out of bounds!
COTTON AGREED
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· THE CHÍNA - MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1954.
ON THE
SOCCER
INSIDE
(Edited By
Terence Elliott)
Burnley centre-forward Bill Holden will not be satisfied with the "no" he received to his transfer request last week. He'll be asking again, because he still feels that a change of scene would do his football a world of good,
Sunderland brush aside hints that they were interested with "Not likely. Holden is a good player but we are quite satisfied with Ted Purdon.” And from the Midlands comes a whisper that Wolves, credited with interest, feel that their centre-forward job is in quite good hands at the moment,
But the club that would have; well before putting his feelings | Ho Is 25-year-old Doug
if before his manager. been quickly off the mark Holden had been placed on the market is Blackpool. And us Holden doesn't want to wander far from his Bolton home, where he has recently set up in business, you can take it that Blackpool would have Jumper favourite's position. into a
Holden wouldn't be likely to if "No"
Blackpool My Burpley change their minds,
He gave his transfer request weeks of thought and penfero i
FANLING
Buffled by all these contradic. |tory figures, I shifted my grand permally of the refereeing side.
and said. Well.
even if the matches, Me Young saw 12 and he saki that Hongkong ball gung mu farthre, which Mrs J
sou will surely could easily have beaten South not achnitted,
that modern clubs have
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Around Hollywood With MICHAEL RUDDY
A GOLDEN BLONDE IN A TROPICAL SETTING IT'S BARBARA STANWYCK
"Just
As a film star, do you have to be glamorous all the time? be yourself. Be natural," says Barbara Stanwyck who's been in the limelight and before the cameras for 25 years.
J
She's 47, admits it. Her hair is silver-grey. She won't dye it or tint it. She's always well groomed, smart, neat as a pin. She keeps her trim figure by walking and a series of stretching exercis es, a daily discipline, And she watches what she eats.
However I found that she has the girl-appeal of Stewart Weather." Dolores Gray look was a golden blonde on the Granger." act of "Escape to Burma.” A gokten blonde in ⚫ tropical setting. The courtyard of her father's mansion, set in a glade in the jungles of lower Assam.
She strode across
Ost
It
Rudham. a Johannesburg gini FELL THROUGH
who joined the Anfeld club last Huddersfleid reserve leader month. Best Rudham. who Boy Shiner and Millwall left remains en conteur until next buck George Fisher were recent August (under on agreement objectives 0! Walford. Both
signed before he toured England inert
the pave fell deala
Fisher has with South Africa last winter) Jungles. And through.
she owned the
in blouse now gone to Fulham.
and To make the first 120m very 1000 | jhodpurs, Seems it
carrying a Inke a magician now.
riding will
crop, she looked as if she did. Shiner from Yorkshire. lure
Says
Dol Welsh: She munuger
WOR No player
blonde. The wis In the
can "Rudham country
hos been playing fitted perfectly. A hairdresser I have been the subject of more brillantly
In
Central knew whispered the inquiries this
that it should But he League. season,
looks like being 1. It cost over £100. still sunkes his head and says: the
to
manager's stay at Huddersfield."
to
Irishman Peter TiBey, foram Arsenal
forward atorring with Bury 15 Northern forward stili being watched by Leicester CHA acouts.
"
*
in almost the
offer for
If
1
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| prayor,"
now.
Liver-
-London Express Servicz).
Programme
For Singapore
Soccer Team
She strolled away, the riding Crop, native overseer,
swinging to talk to her Murvyn Vye,
In a dressing room beyond the set were the men in her jungle life, David Farrar and Robert Ryan, playing scrabble.
In
Second generation note: Gnry Crosby and his brothers; Jody McCrea, Pat Wayne; Alan Lad Jr.; Robert Dix have joined the ranks of
Lon Chancys, Harry Coreys and Alan Hales. The dynasty of Hollywood film stars continues,
the
"Love brings
Cagney together
time, aw their tests,
Mc OT Leave Me" Doris Day and Jantes for the first They
make music as a team.
AUSTRALIAN SETTING
me over to the recording room to listen to them. "Music is Better Than Words", "Thanks A Los But No Thanks", And "The Time For Parting" are nil rhythmle and singable.
own
There are duets with Gene Kelly and Dan Dailey. Dolores puts over a song in her style and you want to sing with her. Her hope: "To do 'Pygmalion' on Broadway
and in London with Noël Coward."
SOME STATISTICS
Care for BOTTLC statistics?
More than 300 stunt men and athletes worked in "The Pro- About 30 miles from Holly- | digal", which co-stars
Lana wood are many small farms. Turner as the Goxidess of Love The crops are beans, psparagus, anch Edmund Purdom ## the
tichokes, broccoli and caull- Prodigal Son.
Tho flowers. They call them nudine, i speciacies like the burning
cost of the stunts. Damascus, and the destruction of the great granarles--was nearly
200,000.
crops. One farmer, Jog had a bad simmer. His bean crep falled due to a heat wave and a blight. He wan mortgaged heavily und the future was bleak.
few elephants who move teak-farm for
Joc
Along came a Hollywood Alm company, chose his farm as the Australian setting for "Inter- the story, they try to killrupted Melody"—and pald each other. Interspersed re
100 a day for the use of the ten days, Eleanor logs: battalions of chattering Parker, Roger Moore, Gleim monkeys, a few snakes (always Ford and Company diet their element i11 Hollywood seenes and Joe Baudino's future Junglee) and an odd tiger
became rosy. 30, which
all put together makes a few weeks work for Hollywood's animal and animal handlers,
Or
of
Costumes cost over £100,000 (although when you see Land in some of her's, you'll wander where the money went. She wears next to nothing, as' 0 goddess should.) And the propa budgeted at nearly the
were
nome amount.
Recommended if you like to weep at the movies: "The Last Time I Saw Paris" with I talked to him over a cup of Elizabeth Taylor and Van John- purveyors tea in the farmhouse. "This is
son, Donna Reed and Walter a godsend. My wife
The gowns designed and Pidgeon, prayed
and that something night for Liz Taylor are lovely happen," said Joe, "and it did. {expensive-looking. And she I can pay off my debis and he gives a great performance as clear."
self-willed beauty brought In Paris, But can never bo- lieve her as an Aanerican girl, wonderful especially when
Fair plays her sister.
Plus a hundred or so extras for the native-types, at £8 n
i asked Miss Stanwyck about the wit. She smiled, "This is A bist by Glasgow sever
easy. Dyeing and bleaching isn't. odicials to start inter-city flood-You rarely get the colour you light clashes is die any time want the first time. You have to make tests for the camera, then Last week's revival of the dye, dye again. Here you test time-honoured Glasgow-Sheffield the wig, much easier," she said.
match attmeted 10,000 people
"In any case, I like my hair He just loves pirying football and Impressed with its skill and Its it is." The Open Was won that yene |
my where, anytime. Guess who?
spood. with 299. In 1950, on the same The Michell Plate Qualifying į Harold Rudman is the nɔow and London, Manchester.
Chairman course, though in the casket con- Round will be played at Fanling Burnley
Mr W pool, Birmingham and Notting- Lucke Bun Soccer refereeing in Hongkong ditions,
with 279.
on the Old Course on Monday, Hopkinson hands out that high ham will all be asked if they which compares favourably with that Against
startling dif November 20. The draw
And
prnisc for the 27-year-old will consider a series of matches at the World Cup matches, Mrference we may set the fact that times
follows:-00.50 utility men who joined Burnley against Glasgow Young told the monthly Bobby Jones won at St Andrews Mrs N. McCann v Mrs F.
WACH: 17. wheres meeting of the Hongkong Foot-m 1927 with 285,
in G. Harrison; 09.53 a.m.
He's never had regular ball Referees Astuciations
1940 Snesd's winning serve there, D. Hunter v Mrs A. 11. place in the first teams but that's Wa 200
Penn: 10.00
Mrs *E. where he is 110W On current take some shifting. Brooks v Mrs P. Laroche; 10.05 form he'll
Mrs W
Harold Scoma a.m. Mrs J. Harden V C. tung: 10.10 a.m. Mrs M. perfect player! The ex-joiner Herves y Mrs A.
B. Coleman, who made good at Turf Moor
vis certainly 10.15 a.m. Mrs C. Hayes
a handy type to! B. Mackie: 10.20 0.m. have around Mrs J. "H. Collins V Mrs J
WANTED MAN Keren but
10.25 4.m.
W Mrs A.
Forgotten centre-forward Jack frs A. For-Lee, of Derby, Dawson-Grove v would be as far
Is a wanted as fongkong m. x would have been able
ensler?" to go.
tune; 10.30 a.m
soccer man. Mrs A. M.
Coventry made an Speaking on the fracas at the This was agreed by Cottont to Brown v Mrs R. N. Lindeman; Braai-Hungary
10.35 0.m. Mrs J. Kite v Mrs £18,000, one-oup Lee, Derby's The Hongkong Football Asso-day each. game he said the extent tund with steal shafts an Indifferent shot gets twice the
will decide Wat: 10.40
am. Mrs M. directors That the referee
is dation has just issued controllen the
pro- game by a first clase manner and result it would have done with
Turnbull v Mr L. Goldman.
templat enough
gramnic of functions arranged
Driving down Wilshire Boule- referent the heckory
10.
43 a.m. Mrs D. L. Ander-
can Coventry inter who
Though Crawley, to my
the for the visiting Singapore Foot-
Ava Gardner songs £8,000-kid they got from Bir-ball side which will be playing moving into her new flat. She
vard, 1 spotted Gordon: 10.50 thin
would surprise, rald That he had two son v Mrs S. S.
hickery hons, the 3 and 5, 1.m. Mrs 0. Orr
for v Mrs G.mdugbom
cetare-forward a series of matches in the Co-
word dark glasses, in whlie given la- bellevé, during the 1938 Walker | Edgar; 10.55 a.m Mrs Exidle Brown Lee Juined Derby lony over the week-end. comel's hair coat, was driving
anyon
in June 1950, Cup match.
Backe; from Luicester and they nued in Swallow y Mrs S. M.
cream
Cadillac convertible off the field except as a last res
and was capped 11,00 u.313
four months Mrs W. N. Gray perfectly with the steel,
highlight of the series
WDB otherwise incon- be the Interport Mrs W. V. port
Birtwhistle: 11.03 later.
against and
spicuous, No make-up, |***
very a.m. Mrs J. Vanderwuw v Mrs After a
long injury lay-off | All-Hongkong this Saturday, and J Shoemaker; 11.10 a.m. Mrs Lee has been unable to regain this match will be followed by tanned from two weeks in Palm R. R. Coombs v Mrs D. Black.
lack.his League place.
one against a Hongkong Selec- Springs. I'm told she's delighted tion on Sunday and one against about her performance in
ina with what crities have said it any players cannot drive
Newcastle United still times allotted, they around and keep routine check
Combined Chinese side kok
on Barefoot Contessa." Her next off at the
Tuesday.
All three matches fim is "Bhowani Junction" and may change them by mutual ar
on likely player but fee will be played at Caroline Hill, she's now acquiring rangement.
deals are out for the time being the Arst two scheduled to start accent for It. Even drinking at least.
at 3.30 p.m. and the third
fea to help. The club would like to re-match at 4 p.m. inforce full-back strength. The search goes on
suitable Arriving at 8 a.m. on Fri- young recruit. But you can for day, the team will be visiting get any deal for Chester's John
Balm Gardene and Molineux. Interest has faded. the Sing Tao Jih Pao, to place wreaths in memory of the late Manila, Nov.
Found
another South Mr Aw Boon Haw and the late powerful AIK football African K-alkeeper
to Mr Aw Hoe respectively. what the advertisements team from Sweden las. night | follow the ball blazed at Liver- have been telling us for a long, scored their third consecutive pool in the thirties by Arthur The
atcinie, the electronic, victory in their Philippine tour Riley and Dirk Kemp. died, super-Something-or- with a 2-1 triumph over an all- other gres no farther than the Filipkao selection. old bitte-dot Silver King.
A) the money
spent Brisbane, Nov. 23.
heads the MCC research by the ball companies first batting averages with 117.25 for in 30 years has come to nothing
and the wafer-thie
110
match the same
have happen).
The referees were structions not to send
ITALY
50%
In Amorica scores have been Except for the loss of tem-
reduced--though not pers on the part of the Br-startlingly zilians in the
Hungary-Brazil on courses peetally prepared for game, Mr Young said that the the Open--and Hogui is among
why thirik match was quite
that his good one.
successors will be scoring in the who won the The Germans, Cup, were really very lucky and it was his view that the way In which the World Cup series was played made It unbalanced for two weak ternus might meet in the Anal.
When i asked Tommy Armour the run for these low tour- nament sevres,
he
replied at once_nd nothing would butige!
from it-The wedge. only the wedge. This one club has taken all the terrors
from all the bunkerral
2-1
WIN And AIK
MANILA
Mr Young subd that in his opinion Hungary was the top team followed by Brazil, Ura- Puay and Germany. He said that that the U.S offered to bun It
Bagland was first six
jeast
in the und we refused!
Hutton Heads The Batting Averages
Len Hutton
to think
Despit, it is all very difficult. |
In
for
utilise
The will
the Tiger AT
The
24
The narrow, margin surprised on the enwd, as the visitors in the
two
blanked the games
OGVCTS On
first class games on the tour of the modern ball, which price a Australia.
In five Innings, once not out, topped non shot at 3s. 4d., are be has scored 400 runt, includ- just a piece of sales promotion ing two centuries, with a high- and 1ax collection,
est score of 145 not out.
champion YCO and all-Chinese
team 10-0 each.
In their last game here to- morrow the Swedes will play a Manila combined selectlan, com- posed of players from both the all-Filipino
and all Chinese
The glittering £4 opisce graded sets are no better than 310 runs in five Innings for an
celications Peter May fol-
of hickory and the average of 02.
far-diftant Lecs *t Hoylake. with 270 runs in eight | ff; lown innings
and for 30.85
Colin Lytham, Birkdale, Carmustle,
and
学 such cost, only to give us a
exercise.
Denis Compton is second with the old much-loved miscéilançoire teams.-France-Presse.
Cowdrey 381 runs in eight In- |20 the rest were constructed,
nings for 30.37.
little
has taken two wickets for five
In bowling Reginald Simpson
It strikes me that somebody garden
runs but Brian Statham heads has been led up the
the regular bowlers with 17 eomewhere.
1 arn not
Walter Alston To Manage Dodgers
The sure nounced
New York, Nov. 23. Brooklyn Dodgers an- today that "manager
wickets for 250 runs at 10.05. who, or for how long, but I Walter Alston had been signed Frank Tyson has taken 13 for cannot help feeling that I may to manage the Club again in 228 at 17.30 and Trevor Bailey myself have been a member of 1935 at "terms satisfactory to 14 for 205 at 18.92.—Reuter,
both sides”---United Press,
ENGLAND 3
WALES 2,
AT
the party.
AND GERMAN
SCOUTS
COULDN'T
REPORT
BACK
USING ANY
Mfar
Sports Dairy
cil. p.,
TODAY
In the afternoon, a period of leg loosening at Caroline Hill has been sot Aside for the players, and this will be fol- lowed by a Prem conference at Sunming House where the team will
be staying.
week-end
*be entertained to
On
after the
two
"The
#British
WON'T BE RUSHED
While taking my daughter to the Beverly Hills Hotel to sec an exhibit of toys from Japan, I met Olivia de Havilland, arms full of dresses, emerging from the lift.
"I'm changing suites, Michadi, in a rush. Please ring me," she said. Her flance, Pierre Galante, has arrived to do two essays for "Match", the French magazine. Subjects: Walt Disney and Las Vegas,
When will they marry?
My matches, the visitors "Probably in Morch next year.
a trip Soccer Training Practice for Interest at which will
around the New Territories, include lunch at Dragon's Inn at the 10th mile- stone on Castlepeak Road, Golf Taggart Cup Competition,
Following Tuesday's game, a Boxing RAF VREME Boxing Match at trip around the Island has been
TOMORROW
Meetings
$
Baye
Miss De
Or earlier", Havilland who won't be rushed into either marriage or pictures.
•
the
An advertisement in Hollywood Citizen News; "This lively fire-engine red convertible
HKASA MEETING
Kal Tak & p.m.
and arranged for Wednesday, this will embrace a KK. Jockey
SCR-food Club.
Members lunch at Aberdeen. Meeting. At H. Valley, 3.45 p.m.
Later in Ladies Lawn Bowls League Cttee the evening, the official Inter- Meeting 41 SCMP 3.10 pin.
port Dinner whi be
hold nt Воссет
A meeting of the Executive Winner House, where the team Committee of the Hongkong will be guests of the H.K.F.A.
Amateur Swimming Association Thursday will be a free day for will be held, through the cour- the visitors to roam around the tesy of the South China Morning Colony and the team will em- Post, in the Board Room of the plane for Singapore the next SCM Post on Tuesday, No- day.
vember 30, at 5.15 p.m.
Interpart practice at C.H. 3 plin. Table Tennis Colony Championships at Milestone to Seamon at 7.30 p.m.
FRIDAY Soccer S'pore Football Team arrives,
Meetings HKLBA Management Cihnan's 5.30 p.m.
7sew a sampler to read WALES FOR
EVER
AND
THE
Clice,
At
HALF TIME
WALES
WERE
LEADING ONE NIL
RUSSIAN OBSERVERS WITH ONLY/HAD DECIDED IT HAS NINE MEN/TIME TO PLAY ENGLAND
IN A FULL INTERNATIONAL
JUST AS WE THOUGHT
SOME OF "THE WALES
SUPPORTERS WOULD HAVE TO JOIN IN
TO GIVE
*ENSLAND
A GAME
Man you don't half, look silly without a Top Hat
ON THE
ENGUSH AS THEYTM METHODS WEREN'T.
DANIEL WAS HAVING
NEENE WORK ON HIS HEAD
BEST
SOLO RUN
HAD COME NOT FROM MATTHEWS BUT AN AMBULANCE MAN`
·COLLECTING SULLIVAN, NOT
SCORED
HE INJURED RETURNED,
GREAT
SOCCER
OOR SPARROW
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