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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1955.
THEY SAID JACK WARDROP
WAS FINISHED, BUT
THEY DIDN'T KNOW JACK
▾
Six months ago they said Jack Wardrop was finished. He would retire, or so the critics thought. They didn't know Jack.
The British champion swimmer redoubled his efforts. And last month at Ann Arbor, Michigan, the 23-year-old Scotsman, holder of every British swimming record from the Hundred Yards to the Mile, clipped nearly a second off the world's best time for the 220 Yards Free Style.
He was swimming for Michigan University, where he and twin brother Bert are on an athletic scholarship, against the University of Iowa. His time was 2 min.
3.9 sec.
Jack did more than break a record. He beat the unbeatable, Ford Konne, Hawail's “human fish", the man whose record was reckoned as permanent,
whe
said Wardroy -After all it is the man who States. The swimming competi- WOUL Anished com inke heart crosses the finishing line first tion is tough, and it makes you Thúy helped him break the re-¦ who gets the honours-not the cord
man who has the protly style and comes in lost."
It was
Septonitee that
Jack wun written off ie ar- vived at Turn for the Eun peum Churnplomshijes pale and drawi
TLEM
work
and Part-Line
He was also numang tralbest "houlder Br fallest event quality for the Anal
fwech
Bane
want * work barder And harder to win. It means much more to pots when you do mes ceed."
Jack is certain to be selected Bu swimming is not every- for Britain's Olymple tes next | thing. Juck is studying to be- year. After all he is a World Leone a lawyer. Meantime he la But it will be some content to be World Champion, Champion, Une before their home town of Carlon Express Servict). Glasgow
the swimming Wardrop twins again
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flot
"We Sa to hake སini* "I will show those who money," explain Jack "We www. think I am burnt cst." lte diet. are taking charge of the swim- Pruukin 1101 Three weeks later.
pool be trasherting so fur phead in the Englisch 2201 Yards Free Style Claumpronadji That he hr i tune to turn around, tean agutest the end of the bath and watch a thrilling Like otcund pincE
THE RECIPE
The Wardtripe "Speed Bat
After breaking
TUCCUS Image just and always
that 220 Yartis record he gave this advice to
"Don't young hopefuls,
worry loo much aboul style or pay loo much attention to perfecting the strukce.
Country Club near Detroit, Will
amateur status
1 ct our
Nu We were careful to check up on that."
What happens after that tes Be more funOSA half of the twit, why at 17 was an English Champton and has since collect- ed nearly
the every honour port chat offer.
in
Getting to the top is < thing Staying theen another At the moment, both twins the United "loving him in
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
EIGHTH RACE MEETING
Saturday 5th & Saturday 12th March, 1955.
(To be hold under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 18 RACES.
The First Bell will be ring at 1.30 pm. and the First Race run ut 2.00 p.m. on both days.
The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House wif close at 11.45 am, on both days,
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
NO PERSON WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED. All persutu MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the meeting.
Admission Badges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable through the Secretary on the written or personal introduction of a Member, such metober to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him.
Tifins will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811).
NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeting. For this purpose a Child is a person under the age of seventeen years, Western Standard.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable at the Gate.
Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisite fee of $3.00 in order to gain re-admlasion.
MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will be obtainable in the RESTAURANT,
SERVANTS
Servants must remain in their employer's boxon except for passing through on their duties. They may on no account use the Betting Booths in the Members' Betting Hall,
CASH SWEEPS
Through Cash, Sweep Tickets at $18.00 each for the second day of the Meeting hay be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices during normal office hours until 11.00 a.m. on 12th March.
Particular numbers within the series 1 to 4,000 may be reserved for all race meetings as Through Tickets. Such tickets will be issued consecutively only and the right is reserved by the Stowards to cancel any reservation for Through Tickets for a particular Meeting. It is found that sales may not reach the number reserved in the series 1 to 4,000,
Jack Wardrop, Britain's holder of the 220 Yards Free Style World Swimming record.—Express Photo.
WEEK-END SOFTBALL
Blackhawks Play Americans
Tomorrow In
The
Senior "B" Decider
Commencing today the last-round crucial tournaments of the Softball Leagues will be the entertainment for local fans. Blackhawks Aces and Americans will meet on Sunday afternoon in a deciding game for the Senior "B" League Championship. The University will play against the Overstas Aces to complete the schedule of the same division. Pandas Aces will battle with the Chinese Athletics in a vital contest hy order to remain in the Senior "A" Pennant race, and League-leading Saints
will have a friendly match with the U.S. Navy to fill the gap.
the
THE PROGRAMME
The complete programme is as follows;
The Junior Finnl play-off Bob Suzman's Americans, on Jr. will have an even battle with series will amemence this Satur- the yther hand, are as tough and the former at a slight advantage. doy with Blackhawks Bees V. hardy as their opponents. They Comets and Duka v. the possess good slugging quality and gentfast Belding ability Junior Athletics on Sunday. The
of slow other games will be preliminaries | Their buttery consists of the Junior Consulition Knock- and steady Juck Bordwell and
Mario out competition in which Seven-"Red"-hot
Pereira, Jr. and Around the ieners
bases
Кеп Lynxes
Donaldson, Jln Armstrong and cross Irat Pandas Jr..
Ying Wah
Jack Carvalle with Claude Pugh Overseas dr. respectively.
guarding the alley.
Roaming the outer garden are H. Whisler,
Ricky Wheeler. Ralph Burling and Jim Haney. They have to their best advan-
South China
will
with aru
Buster Hollands' Blackhawks Aces
mostly are
player of Senior "A" calibre except their slabsters, who are considered to be a little weak for top division. However, they have had a muc- cessful season in the Senior 3" League and good preparative workouts well worthwhile for their future debul in the "A"
Division.
01
ure
Saturday
2:30. p.m.:
(A) Seventeeners
vs. Pandus Jr.
3:30 p.m.;
'B'
Blackhawks
South
(A)
(B) vs. Comets; China Jr. vs. Wah Ying.
Sunday 10:00 .m: (A) Dukes vs. CAA Jr.; a.m.: (A) Dukes vs. sens 'A'
SATURDAY SOCCER SPOT
Will Sing Tao Be Able To Keep Their Brilliant Team Of Young Stars Together?
By I. M. MacTAVISH
It has been quite a week in local soccer. Whatever other accusa- tion may be laid at the door of Hong kong football it certainly can never be accused of being dull, In the space of seven short days we have seen some grand performances on the Aeld of play; we have been sideline spectators to fiery friction and heated....even burning...words in the council chamber; but we also have, for a fleeting pleasurable moment, seen the progress of time arrested and the pages of history flicked back to enable the great stars of yesteryears like Lee Wai-tong and Lai Shiu-wing to entertain us once again.
If this morning these two famous players still twinge and groan from aching muscles and creaking bones, I hope they will find embrocational consolation in the knowledge, that their sporting appearance in the Annual Referees Match was for many good people, a nostalgic flashback to a halcyon past,
And so from the days gone by to these present turbulent times, While I was at Caroline Hi last week-end for the Kitchee St. Joseph's game
I bad the pirasure of some earnest con- versation with two prominent resident members of our football community
say resident, to indicate that these gentlemen belong here. They have a long history of service to the
game and othe hopes that they will be able to go on with this work for many more years.
Now on the surface, there is nothing very sensational about that. But it is when he has the reason being offered in sup- port of the move that one has to do muro deep thinking.
It is being seriously suggested that some of the teams in the premier division of the League are not now up to the standard necessary to provide the right kind of opposition to make al- tractive competition.
The spon Fors of the Idea feel that if they can get prouńotion und relega- the respective
tion introduceri burs would eventually their own level.
find
the subject of considerable con- troversy wherever football peo- pio moet and a great deal will depend on how the Tiger cuba react to the tension of the big occasion
and on how they tackle the problem of taming ex-team mate Ho Cheung-you-
Oplaion is very much divided as to the outcome and it is easy to be wrons. In spite of my great admiration for Sing Tho's sido I think South China wilk collect the vital points,
less Navy side get little change At Chuseway Bay the luck-
out of their meeting with the RAF. With Toth at again the Airmen should collect another couple of points.
•
Both of them mude remarka that sol me thinking and I am sure that neither of them will
Such a trend of thought is in- mind my discussing them here.
The Ara point arose while deed illuminating and shows the enver increasing influence of was talking about the thrilling
Onance in local football affairs. resurrection of Sing The this
Fortunately I believe that even sears, The Tigers commÍLICO
if such a move was to be brought
Revent goings-on in soccer has achieved wondera with i
out into tho
buve places encouraged me ope it would be sde h which long established strenuously opposed by sports-
look back through my scrup stars have been successfully en-
book and it was really interest- couraged to adjust their methods
Ung to find that for øvery cri- to suit a team plan that is based
tielen 1 have written of a re- EXT the speedi and virility of
feree 1 have written three ap- well done preciations of work youth.
and for every
criticisan 1 have written four reports in
neither which there was Lieben
of the mon nor praise with the whistle Obviously praise or implied omelency in generous radion is acceptable but criticism...!!!!
1 remarked that in another season or so the line-up would be
one of the nest in the Colmy, but the drew the sur- "I wonder how prise comment many of them will sUll be with Sing Too..
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NEAR STARDOM
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men who value a club's long and honourable association with the
lts game higher than
current thability to attenet the dollar- paying crowds to the turnstiles.
Those who are
behind the move would do well to remember that in football the changes of
uften fortune KOLINE
49 un- expected as they are devastating In effect. The star combinations of
well be the also- today, may rams of tenUGITUW
and even Assetuity
And that proud success is beyond price and in- deed a flekle pleasure.
It s
is indisputably that some
The Implications of the mark are too obvious to need much explanation, but it is the those considered opinion of
of our teams are undergoing 4 whose judgment I I respect that
that disappointing phase in their several of the mercurial young-
but playing fortunes who have reached near cubs that have stor's
rondered logg stardom in (B)
yellow and black and valuable service to football shirts will be offered apparently in the Colony are to be thrown their quarters at the end of the mo attractive inducements to change overboard by their curftntly
tage a homeside cheering squad which undoubtedly contributed 11:30a.m.; (A) U.S. Navy vs. much to their good performances | Saints (friendly match); and may upset the more favour Lynxes vs. Oversong Jr. ed Blackhawks Aces.
2:00 pm: (A) Pandas 'A' vs
3:30 pm: (A) Blackhawks
The Undergraduates will have | CAA. close tussle with the Overcas Aces as both have made good | 'A improvements during the season.
EVEN MORE CRUCIAL
The crippled Pandas Aces are meeting their bitter
vs. Americans.
HE TAUGHT
season.
more fortunate or more success ful opponents
then the While such things are to be whole tenet of our game would deprecated it has to be admitted be destroyed. that they happen to a greater or lector degrool wherever football played...and of course they happen in other realms of sport
However these would be well advised to look
too. for again THE RUSSIANS
In their battery there are Jury Graco, Rennie Barretto the mound and Marcus Souza and Eric Remedios behind the plate. Infielders are Roberto und Manuel Nunca Manuel And Eddie Remedios, Doddy Ribeiro who repeatedly handed and outfielders, Gerry and Donel defcuts in the phat despite their Remedios. John Pereira, Tony Rodrigues and Bernard Silv They form a hard-hitting squad und are favoured to shoulder the Yankees to clinch the Senior
"B" title.
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
and Panday should be
them
#strong out in full
SOCCER
claims
sentative-with one of the un-
When playing for the game's sake and seeking only the re- wards that come from success is replaced by a polley based bald- ly on survival of the filtest
then it will be a surry day
WEEK-END GAMES
There Is an important
tho
and
way Bay at 130 per
Kwong Wah v. Club at Cause-
Tomorrow
Sing Tao v. South China at Club Stadium at 4.30 p.m.
youngsters irrespective of any other factor best efforts. #1 is even mote
To look indeed for football in Hongkong. clearly into the future. thne as the more
away beyond tomorrow or next cruela! this
When it is claimed that month or even next year back for the Cats will mean
doubts their dropping out of the Pen-the
and if they have any Russians themselves nawnt
the
about the wisdom of that advice race, though
fathered soccor in the let decision still depends
them look at the current interesting list of League games on the
programme for this last two games of Saints against Steppes, that stalwart Lan- playing lists and compare them in Braves and the Panties. How castrian sportsman, Mr H. with those of only one year ago, week-end. over, the Chinese Athletics may H. Charnock, who is now 78 they will note that one young Hee Hill at 4.30 p.m..
If they study these diligently St Joseph's v. KMB at Caro- not turn out kr full strength and a retired cotton manu-player who was then a promis Army v CAA at. Sookunpoo score a victory ani remain in the will tell you that it simply fashionable clubs is now playing
able facturer living in Cambridge, ing player and a Colony repro at 4.30 p.m.
hot race.
Is not true. The Athletics are
the inactive and frustrating role The Amonded Programmes team if they turn
He should know, for Mr Char- of the forgotten man' with one at the so-called fashionable and Entry Forms for the 8th at play hard. Since they lost nock himself
to have combinations. Race Meeting 1954/55 to be hope of Pernantville, their coach taught the Russians to play foot-
RAF V, Navy at Causeway ball.
Competitive In the case of two-day Race Meetings, Through Tickets mayheld on Saturday 26th March, has had hard tune in fielding a
football is # Bay at 4.30 p.m.. be purchased for each day of the Meeting provided that the second
heartless task-master; but human
Chief interest this 'afternoon day is on a date not less than five days after the first day. In all 1956, (weather permitting), strong and full team. They even
This was in the days when he nature, being what if is, one gets will be in the Saints-Busammen Earlier may be obtained at the Seara waliover to the betian was joint managing director of used to seeing ambitious young clash at Caroline Hill. other cases Through Tickets will only be sold for the whole Meeting.
Delawares.
a glant Anglo-Russian Offce, Alexandra
cotton beads pushing educated young in the season a wonder goal by Saints are playing a friendly mill on the outskirts of Moscow. feet along an ill-directed path Toledo in the closing minutes House; the Club House, match with the US. Navy, It
This present Sing Tao side as won the game for the Saints. One Happy Valley; and
day he sent the is still unknown which ship will
home for It stands has boundless possibili- The green and whites have now taught the lites. It would be a matter for lost some of their early season Stables, Shan Kwong Road, represent the Navy since USS Some Rugby bals,
Wilson
Kame to a selected tas pulled out of
group from general regret if for any reason sparkle but they will still give This 25,000 employees and put there Entries close at 12 o'clock harbour.
was to be even partial the Champions a hard run for ΣΠ
them through their Rugby paces, disintregation of what has been their money,. the Junior Play-off Series, but the game was out when free so carefully and skilfully built halting the KMB
without, I think, NOON on Tuesday, 15th
drive to a Comets are slightly favoured fights developed. March, 1955,
over the Blackhawks Bece
second title, He sent home for some more
Kwong Wah should just about By Order of the Stewards, though the latter
equipment, this time for foot-
SHOCK TO SOME
get the better of Clüb on the experienced in the Ack Duke balls. Here again he taught some I. MISA, are a well balanced team and of his workpeople the rules of I would like to say a word or poo, Army should have the
The second remark on which Navy ground while at Sookun Secretary.they should be able to hold back Boccer.
two is one which will come as a
two power to collect They showed such aptitude for shock to some people, I was points from CAA, In the Knockout Series, the game that he formed a regu- told that there has been hushed The big game of the week- Fantas Jr. and Lynxes should lar team to play teams of Eng- Lalk about a move to try and oral is of course the top-of-the bo able to eliminate their oppon-lishmen out there.
introduce promotion, and relega ents, Sevcotcenes and Overseas In one of them whe, the late tion into the Colony League | Jr. Wah Ylog and South China Field Marakal Lord Wavell,
set-up.
Tickets reserved and avaliable but not paid for by 10.00 am.tary'a on the day procedlag the Race Meoting for which they are reserved will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Meotings.
Tickets over 4,000 will also be issued consecutively but particular mumbers cannot be reserved as Through Tickets.
The reservation of any particular number does not conter on the registered holder any rights whatsoever unless the ticket bearing the appropriate number is issued to and can be produced by the holder.
The Stowards reserve the right to refuse any subscription also the right to remove any same from subscription lists without stating reasons for their action.
Cash Sweep Tickets on the last race of the Meeting at $2.00 each may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices at Queen's Building, (Chater Road); 5, D'Agulin Street and 382, Nathan Road during normal office hours and until 11.00 am, on both days of the Meeting.
SPECIAL CASH SWEEP
Tickets for the Special Cast: Sweep on the Hong Kong Derby pcheduled to be run on 8th April, 1958, at $2.00 ouch, may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offfeds.
TOTALISATOR
Backers are advised not to destroy or throw away their tickets until after the "all clear" signal has been exhibited. METALL WINNING TICKETS AND TICKETS. FOR REFUNDS MUST BE PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT AT THE RACE COURSE ON THE DAY TO WHICH THEY REFER, NOT LATER THAN ONE HOUR AFTER THE TIME FOR WHICH THE LAST RACE OF THE DAY HAS BEEN SCHEDULED TO BE BUNAVAI
PATMENTS WILL NOT BE MADE ON TORN OR DIS- FIGURED TICKETS.
- Bookmakers, Tic Tac meri, sio, will not be permitted to opérate within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club,
Order of
swards,
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