WINNERS OF TRIANGULAR MATCH
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1954,
The French fencing team who won the triangular match against Hungary and Italy in Paris. From left to right-Christian d'Ortola, J, Lefevre, A. Mouyal and Mlle. Renee Garilhe --Agence France-Presso Photo.
RACING PIGEONS GENERALLY COME HOME
The Treble Winner Came
In Ten Years Later
At Its
Fourth Attempt
By J. W.
TAYLOR
The month of December in Britain opened with дл event of prime importance to thousands of bird owners all over the country. It
Inter. was the national Racing Pigeon Championship at the New Horticultural Hall, Westminster, London, the first for individual fanciers to be held anywhere in the world.
Leading British breeders and racers sent the pick of their lofts to compete ngainst hirds from Japan, South Africa, America, Austria, Belgium, France. Ger- muny, Holland, Luxembourg and Yugoslavia. The Japanese, South African and American entrants, flying over on specially booked air passages, were looked after on arrival by the British showmen until the proceedings began.
In
In actition To the Usker- fur British fanciers only, and of Northumberland and Durham. national section entering for 13 altogether the show cages | And the story is the some countries, there were 30 classes | houred
3,000 competing Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, plgeons, insured for close O the Home Counties and through-
£50,000,
out the British Isles,
Home Matches For Bowlers
On Leave
urc
over
These fanclers, In co-operation with their fellows in many parts abroad, have built up a highly
widespread or developed and
ganisation that works
an
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The ports,
on
This show spotlights a work- Ing man's. hobby and sport which has now become almost an industry throughout Britain and in late years has attracted international basts with rules, Additional fanciers to the ranks regulations and * watchful from all walks of life, one and hierarchy
and stringent all taking great pride in the powerful those pr
other active interest in the sport taken racing by Royalty, whose lofts at Sand-
big events from France to ringham have for many years the North of England have now contained some
be arranged so that they do not birda.
clash with the Continental birds racing home. Even a pigeon, It seems, might prefer Paris Spennymoor for the week-end!
when
усту fine
The ameinis of the Hongkong Lawn Bowls Association anxious to conclude all arrange- ments to suit members wishing It is particularly flourishing in to participaITO in u series of the North, where the record Lawn Bowls matches in the for a long-distance pigeon fight Lansion District during the last has been held ever since that
1013 day in week in July next
a homer your. participants are realighted In backyard n to note that the re- Spennymoor and mode sporting ceipt of their entries by the history. It belonged to Harry Vester and Billy Scurr, and had Ho.. Secretary. /o Talkoo Dockyard on or before Decem fawn over 1,093 miles in one ber 31, denotes that they will hop from Rome County tum up for the matches ar Durham.
for them.
ranged
Players desirous of taking port are requested to forward
Durham
[1
to
La
With pigeon racing having trebled since the war. much
patience and accurney are needed to organise hundreds of ensonal races in which millions take part in one season, of birds at home and abroad
Organisers give as
to
much
NO RED CARPET FOR RUSSIAN TENNIS STARS
LORD TEMPLEWOOD DROPS A CLANGER WHICH WILL ECHO ROUND THE WORLD
By DENNIS HART.'
Sport and politics do not mix. Especially when it's the politician who gets sporting ideas. Take the case of Lord Templewood, President of the Lawn Tennis Association,.
Lord Templewood, former British Foreign Secretary, has held_top_govern- ment posts in the Admiralty, the Air Ministry and in Home Affairs,
He was Britain's Ambassador to Spain in a special mission during the War, Educated at Harrow and Oxford, his academie and political achievements occupy five inches in Who's Who,
Clearly Lord T, should imow the right thing to say and when to say it.
But no. He has dropped A clanger which will echo round the world especially in the Soviet Union. And It will drown many a Christmas good- will tinkle
Lord Templewood, havio generously admitted that he has no objection to Russians competing on Wimbledon's, hal- lowed lawns — subject to con ditions of course — went on to inform one and all at the LTA meeting that the Soviet con- ception of sport is "entirely ob jectionable".
He added that the Sovici's different outlook "must not re- sult in a lowering of our standards of amateur play an sportsmanship".
With due deference, 1 submit hia noble lordship Is talking through his coronet,
He should climb down from his cushioned Wimbledon sout, what's canopy nod all, to see
going on in the wide world; to see the example in conduct pbt. by Moskow Spartak footballers: of runners the sportsmansh
Jike
Vindimair Kuts, when run to earth by
Chris Chataway, and who of the Russian carsmen came to Henley.
So Russion sporismen aloof? When aloofness
takes
competitors above such things as childish tantrums when deci- sions are given against them, it wouldn't come amiss-even art Wimbledon, Centre Court crowds are tired of show-off acts by donnas-male tennix's one that 19.
prima
And amateurs? The very word is a standing joke in Lord T.'s own sport of lawn tennis. It is heartily by etronis shared circus" stara who tour the world, staying in the best hotels and iving off the fat of the land.
Everything is provided, trom laundry to tennis stroe laces, And they have enough expenses ove: to swell bank balances to healthy proportions. Healthy? They're darn robust. Amateurs? Come Lord T.. be reasonable? NOT CLEAR
The reason for Lord Temple- wood's attack isn't clear, Like mosi unreasonable utterances, it's probably due to fear-fear the Russlans may
expose Wimbledon's standards of play and behaviour.
+
In his Presidential address at the annual meeting of the Lawn Tennis Association, Lord Templewood declared "If the Russians wish to play in the Wimble- don Lawn Tennis Championships it should be on conditions."
Their entry, he contended, should not result in a lowering of British standards and should be on the principle of athletic co-existence.-Reuterphoto.
PERFECT PRESENT
By HENRY LONGHURST
As the years advance, many will agree it to be more satisfying to know that one has given the right present to somone else than to receive a satisfactory one oneself.
If that be the case, let me set at reat the doubts of any who propose to make a presentation to a golfer. The answer is "The Complete Golfer," an anthology compiled by Herbert Warren Wind and published by Heinemann at 258.
Land Templewood goes on to attack Russians for using sport "as an instrument of national as prestige." Perhaps they do, ad- £50 for their fine clocks which though when Moscow Dynamo meticulously record the time of trounced Arrent 6-0 the only GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTY a pigeon's return the loft prestl
prestige bicats came from Bri- Before racing all clocks сор- Lain
who said they had lost it. Experts will tell you that it cerned are synchronised to the Russia
didn't claim to have Mr Wing is an American and, Reminiscence, Comment, Hlavory, the following particu'ars to the is the glorious uncertainty of split second and each sealed in gained prestige, anyhow.
though before the war he spent Humour" ranging from Smollett", Hon. Secretary, H.K.L.B.A. at pigeon racing that makes it so
much a fashion that the ownCT
And what country doesn't aim a couple of years at Jesus description of the Links of Leith the above address as soon as fascinating, a typical example cannot tamper with the stamp- to boost themselves through College Cambridge, is not, on to Stephen Potter on "Golfman- possible
of this being provided in the ing mechanism which The following proposed dates West
tells to sport? "It would be wrong to account of the currency restrle,,| chlp," second Amalgamation the fraction of
the and matches have been forward-race this summer from Nevers.
second-rate produce
per- tiens which provent any west-to- time of homer's arrival.
"Yet how ancient a phenomenon published Secretary,
formances when representing my cast Row of books English
A ring from the bird's leg is cou
country, were the words of solely in the United States, as is the golfman. Here is Horace Bowling Association, to Indilate This was won against thou-
put into a a small tube and pushed Britain's "Luc blue" amateur widely imown over here as he Hutchinson writing deliciously enquirion;
suxis
of crack entrants from through a slot in the clock for Roger Bannister when announ- ought to be
about him in 1888, the year in Monday, July 25 v Magdalen Northern Lofts by two young faithful time recording. The cing his retirement recently.
which ho won what was really Park; Tuesday, July 26 v South sters named Brown and White.
by the way is
He is, as Bobby Jones says in the first Amateur Champlership. Croydon: Wednesday,
JUBT. ANOTHER NAME his Introduction, "devoted to Hints to Golfers of Riper Years, Blde; A County
Thursday, birds surprised their Consott and it is nearly a full-time job July 28 no game;
gives her gair, and a fine, sensitive writer he called it, and I could quota li Russia, of course, Friday,
owners by covering the 585 for one expert correctly to
on the game, whese works range without end. July 20 v Wanstead (Esplen Cup): Saturday, July
speed of 902 yards a minute, covered by a flight of County Game.
racing from, During this year's busy season, Kirk
some of the finest golf reporting say, Amiens to
Britain's own Chris Chataway. Merrington, or from British Railways carried close
But only last year Britains and I have ever read." on a million racing pigeons from Nevers to North Road, Darling Lord Templewood's LTA et
NOTABLE 'DOUBLE
ed to the
HONG PAIRS
ano
has
July 27 Both novices at the sport, themented to within five yards,
30 v
athletes state aid. She confers mileage honours Hice "Master of Sport."
+ } from esSKYN of the most ac- miles 685 yards at an average reckon up the actual icons in title they were proud to give curately appreciative kind to
sweep money.
ton.
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MASTERS' VOICES
Those who wish to learn can With only
outstanding
do so from The Masters' Voices, the North East alone to take
forth on their encouragement of match remaining to be played,
thousanda AIR MINISTRY HELPS and this scheduled
With "The Complete Golfer" wherein great players past and youngstere scheme. for Christ part in races worth
ther storets. of pounds in prize, stake
A racing pigeon's speed da Firms were naked to employ Wind completes notable present divulge Hong inas Day, the Colony Pairs Competition
pends a great deal on wind, and promising tennis players and double. His monumental "Story while those who care for golf
architecture now
cat study the weather, end before a big race give them all the time off they of American Got outstanding world's noblest courses, properly reached the last 16 stage, and
Six-hundred von loads cooed specially ordered detailed reports needed for practice and lounge ly the fincet work of early next year, the draw Lor
their way to various racing the quarter-final rounds will be
are obtained from the Air Minis- | monts, State ald?· It's just within my own knowledge, must starting with the Old course at America's points in Britain and on the try, just as would be done in another name for it.
assuredly prevent anyono at-1St Andrews, with made.
Continent, and 20 special trains respect of an aircraft.
anything With the exception
And is the attitude of honour-
similar for big exponent, Robert Tent of three and hundreds of other private
Jonca. The strong pals still remaining in waggon
In some instances, for long ing men who have dono samo- the pct 25
present reservations wero the tray, most fancied couples booked have been eliminated, and the nexi round promises some stern and dour struggles between the remaining teams.
The following are awaiting the draw!
the Hongs
hops,
from the mining areas the birds begin with a 4hing by their own efforts so] book will create surely put
Journey by plane to the Con- dreadful compared to giving a pala to golfing anthologies. tinontol starting point, and com- knighthood
Sports Diary
Trama (J. H. Xavier/A. `E. Coates); Hit Land Office (8. Y. DOG/T. W. R. Wilson); StanVad E. Passos/ A. Á. Lopes); (C. Kowloon Dock (F. Franels/ P. Kennedy); AMBE Corp (W. 4 p.m.
/P. R. Ragi); Talkool.
TODAY
Soccer
Div. 1: Bằng Tao v Navy (Club)
Meeting
Amateur Sports Federation Olymple Committee,
MCA Frater/A. C. Spence port Bond Room #p.m.
Crawford (W. C.
Lee); AGME Transport (8. I. 1p/A H. Seemin); Kowloon
Per Badetinton Men's "C" Div. Y&O V DCC; NAY Doce (W. McCall/W. Clammer): Bharat -v HICUS CYMCA v Rectalo.
DCT
TOMORROW..
& S
C. (Dec wyper)
Neish/B. Leonard); 宜
Doubleng
HECKS(V, A. Nevm/Ai
touch 60 miles an hour. can
who someone
Belt
Give me! though, Great Players and Historie Moments- from Bonnard, Darwin on "The pleto "under their own steam". rides horses so that other men and indeed my humble
A number of my colleagues, lumvirate to Hogan on "The Under favourable conditions a can win money? .
Greatest Year of My Life"-and bird
produce
passable Lond Templewood's
Anat could
zive me, above all, black-board-
v country, and so doubtless could walter J. Travis on "How I won brooding, bitterly - riled ja over 2,000 yards a' minuta.
scrupulous progepanda that
number of "Amèrien, writers, But of all the thousands of
victory or defeat in a game pigeon fanciers throughout Bri- evidence of inin, not one is
able to
4 country's do to solve the cadence!"" age-old mystery-how does the Agreed: hero. Lord ** T. bird find its way home; what who said it wost-(London. mysterious sense guider it on Express Service). fight as long as thousand miles?" To
shot pigeon released from a down British bomber over
The record speed for any pigeon broadaldo Concerts the "un-anthology on golf in our own
There was - tho.
Notway in November bird/wae "Buck fog. Zahé, [in. Ils loft_by breakfast-time.
Coalho); Loxley (D, C. Symons/CD pobles Police But the one that caused a flutter
A. - Hution); 1K Police ((7%
C1⁄2 v Rechatoy, COC, v'Zawloon Tong. In this County Durham lofte whe Kowanath
m/, Goodman); She
the treble winner of the
wan Tomas. (D.. B. Sequeira/C Agnya Majne. and Minor, Unitio Chichóster race
A Comtha“ winner of Challenɗfő CusiFirst Round, “
the
game betwEMEL.
Showan Tomes (1) E. Baker/Wi
Baker) y Kowloon Dock (A.D Ziliott/R. Gourlay) - whith 1 scheduled for Baturday.
THURSDAY:
Pd Parkinson of Uni
At the fourth attempt the bird falled to look in within. «ung» thing, like, the, regulations, limit
homewton yests: interi
HOLE-IN-ONE
In theirs, but I doubt whether the British Amateur Champlan- anyone else could havo'captured But o completely the cream of the Savago stuff it is, mellowed
golling Storature of both sides.
ship.
only by the passing of 50, yours “The natural - bom idiot
As the 30 pages of cartoons #2 from 1900 to the present day cuddle, and cross-eyed at that prove
the uncomfortable feeling [Wind":"“la at homo as ...«S much
"Punch" us with that we were parial....couldn's
had Now
for which even got a locker:
BRIF and the exueling Journalba was for charura in
finily tha cup sent on from are ・a" special; writer.
rlige to Sandwich (3%. Od, carriage stories pay) all dented In through Ane: impartiality by having the wrong package
by and the member of the Oxford odehouse and and Cambridge Society, abus, re-
Jon by Paul Thow kirág Rawthall never sc
now by lond
MODO DI MAÍl this and 900 pagra begles, buce - for the
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