THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1955.
Wrong Training Cost NO COLONY RECORD ON THE SECOND TRY
Russia The World Speed-Skating Title
Moscow.
Training in "hothouse" conditions at a mountain rink near the Chinese border was blamed here for Russia's loss of the world title when the world speed-skating champion- ships for men were contested in Moscow's rougher con- ditions.
"Literary Gazette," a leading Soviet newspaper, said that the Russian team trainers had made a "serious mis- calculation" in training their men at the mountain rink at Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, where weather conditions are excellent and where Soviet skaters train in brilliant sun-✨ shrine on firm "glass ice."
the
When the Soviet team arrived (high mountain climate to adjust at Moscow's Dynamo Stadium themselves to an even climatë?”, for
championships they "Literary Gazette asked, found the ice softer end rougher
SOFT ICE than they were accustomed to at Alma-Ala.
com-
"Ericsson took it into sideration. He carried on all At the Championships, Rus his training at skating rinks sla's Boris Shilkov lost the world close to the conditions of Falun title to Sweden's Siggë Ericsson, and Moscow
while our speed- The Soviet Union took only | skaters, after a
second, third and fourth places. Alms-Ata, perform stay near
by
The only first for Russia was the 1,500-metre event won Oleg, Goncharenko. A month "earlier Ericson won the European title ot Falum, Sweden.
almost at once on the soft lee of Falun and the Moscow Dynamo then on
snow." lanes powdered with
The newspaper said that the "not so were Soviet skaters much at fault as their trainers who made a serious miscalcuin-
"Was it not known what a tion. long time would be needed for sportsmen who had trained in a
HONGKONG
ARMY BOXERS DEFEATED
"Long before the beginning of the winter, they knew that both championships would be carried
on at normal skating rinks at
Falun and Moscow, where one cannot hope for either good ice conditions or for particularly good weather.
The Soviet newspaper
This snap of the finish of the Women's 100 Metres Dash final at the Colony Athletic Championships at Caroline Hill on Sunday shows South China's Ho May- yee on the extreme right winning, in a blanket finish from Capt. P. E. Garrard, WRAC, and teammate Lam Kak-lan
Both May-yee and Capi, Garrard had clocked 13.0 seconds in the same heat on Saturday for a new Colony record, but the final was slower with the South China China Mail girl coming through over the last 15 yards for a narrow victory. Photo.
WILKINSON TOPS LIST
AS IDEAL CYCLIST
Says NTACA
If a competition were held to decide the ideal Club cyclist, it is pretty certain that high in the list would appear the name of this week's Personality, Don Wilkinson, member of the Cygnets C.C.
Don started riding as a tourist in 1947, with one of the oldest and best of English clubs, Yorkshire's Clifton CC. He was soon drawn into the racing game, specialising on Grass Track work, where in 1952, he achieved his greatest honours.
venged themselves. Many mas- the Arst cyclist to win the twenty." ters were clearly embarrassed." coveted Tweedule"
added Trophy as the best Athlete of Singapore, Mar. 29. Singapore became Cham- that the Soviet skaters at the the Meeting In the same year the "Dunlop Cup, locked be won championships piors of the Far East Land world
by the
National or tactical awarded both the willpower Forces
Inter-Unit Boxing knowledge to adjust their per- Cyclist's Union to the most im
16 Tournament by beating a formance
conditions. proved Novice of the year.
He commenced his racing ac- Hongkong team in the final Goncharenko alone. — “a man by 18 points to 15 on Mon- of surprising equanimity"-tivities in the Colony in May the audience pleased
by his last year, and has put up some day night.
and inexhaustibi sterling "stuunchriess
performances on the road, perhaps THE best being that
his first place in the NTACA. 65
new
There is no doubt that Ron
AROUND HOLLYWOOD
Cleveland Born Parker Discovered In Community Playhouse
By Michael Ruddy
Beverly Hills.
With Eleanor Parker and her artist husband, Paul Clemens, who has painted every star and important" player in films, I saw a private showing of "Interrupted Melody," based on the life-story of the Australian operatic diva, Marjorie Lawrennce.
LE
It is a superb story of courage and devotion, with a warm love interwoven, of a young doctor, Glenn Ford, for his wife, Eleanor Parker, stricken with polio at the height of her career.
have done
television
programmes, A friend of mine, Curtis Grace Kelly and Audrey Hep and
Joan Crawford and plugging his latest dilak, with Bernhardt, directed "Interrupted burn,
Armstrong "Struttin' Melody," and as I had lived in Claudette Colbert and many Louis Australia
very well With Some Barbecue." Gary is I was privileged to others be of assistance
a pale version of his father in to producer without the super-bosom.
voice GARY CROSBY
He style. Irving Cummings, a charming,
While Bing is recuperating warmth. But he has given up
azıdi
intelligent man, and the direc-
lack's
tor. on the Australian sequences. at home, son Gary Crosby his University training and he's
The operatic sequences are gutting on the big radio shows on his own. wonderful, beautifully presented
and for Eleanor Parker, a tour
de force, She sings in Italian, is 3 - Spanish and French, markable study.
CLEVELAND BORN
I've often been asked where Eleanor Parker was born, 01 rather what part of England. Fact is she was born in Cleve- land but her grandparents were British. "And I've been told I look English, with my blue eyes, blonde hair and fair skin," Eleanor says.
of the
She was born in Cleveland. came to the Pasadena Com- munity Playhouse, was discover ed in the audience by a Warner quicidly and can put his newly-Bros, talent scout and signed to
a contract. acquired knowledge into effect. A feature of both races was the courageous display of the Essex who were outclassed but never trio, Philcox, Bigg and Williams,
A few more gave up trying. displays of this calibre will put the rap in Track" racing an Hongkong Sport. Thea, perhaps, in asking we will be justified for a Track.
"The hothouse conditions of training and, incidentally, com-
At the Berwick Sports Mect-racing, his favourite distance placency after the great sing, he won all three events for being 5 miles, with as he says Beck is willing to learn, learns
big feld of about desses of previous years, re- which he entered. and became "A nice
Challenge It is fairly safe to assume that. long after his racing days are done, Den Wilkinson will be deriving as much pleasure from his cycle as he does today. He of perpetual has the secret enjoyment. an appreciation of the many Lacets of the Cycling He is a Cyclist, not Game merely a Racing Cyclist,
At the end of last (English) Eileen Sheridan had season, OUT
against all the First Battalion, Northarap speed-skaters will be better pre-miles Race, where he putsprinted placed her name tonshire Regiment, went off to a good start by winning the first pared for future competitions the best of the Colony riders twenty-one Records recognised by the WRRA, leaving herself no and especially for the winter after a really gruelling ride, three bouts but Singapore Olympic
it Games of 1956,"
In fact, in almost any Mass fresh fields to conquer. boxers, represented by members added,China Mail Special. Start event, if he is near the of No. 30 Battalion, RADC, took
leading
group at the finishing the remaining bouts except one
line, his superb sprinting powers until the last match..
make victory an odds-i bet.
UNBEATABLE
Hongkong.
represented by
Fight of the 11 bouts ended by the short route. Some 2,000 spectators cheered the fighters. at the end of each bout.
Singapore District
Commander
Ma). Gen. D. D. C, Tulloch gave
away the prizes
1
THE RESULTS
Results were
Bastarnqweight:
Pta, D. Howard, Hongkong kayoed L/C. W. Miller. first round,
Light Welterweight: L/C, Beeston Hongkong, beat L/C. Daud
Din Harid on points.
Lightweight: Pie D. Dugdale, Hongkong, Mayoed L/C. R. Summer first round.
Light Middleweight: Piz, C. Wood, Singapore, kayoed Pie. J. Burnett Hongkong first round.
F.
Cleary, - Welterweight: Singapore, kayoed Plo. H, Belham, Hongkong. first round.
Featherweights L/C. D. T. Auld. Bindiapore. kooed Fie. D. Haugh ton, Hongbong, second round.
Middleweight: Pto, R. Dark. Singapore, beat Cpl. P. Spencer. Hanging on paints,
Lichtweight: Pte. x. Calvert Singapore, beat Pto. J. Rose, Hong kong, patsie
Right-Welterweight: Col. E. Harris, Singapore, kaybed Pte: T. Hockton, Hongkong, second round.
Light Heavyweight:
Oliver, Hongkong kaoyed the J. Taggart, Singapore, first round.
Welterweight: Opi, K. Boleworth, Singapore, kayoed L/C E Becton, pound United Hongkong, third
Prest
lty." shall hope
Sports Diary
TODAY Tenkis Inter-School Tennis Championships
In the few Track events held in Hongkong, he. has been practically unbeatable, his ex- perience enabling him to pull races out of the fire at the last
at CRC 2.30 p.m.
Fencing Fell League: Army v HK Sword moment. Club at EYMCA 6 p.m.
Soccer DI: KMB v Sing Cao (CH) 5 p.m.
Div LA: Army TAX (5000); Sing Tea v Cha (Club); CA
All at 6 pm. Gymnastle (B.B.).
Badminton Mixed Doubles Play-of: CCC CYMCA at IRC 1.30 p.m.
SINGAPORE TRIF
will
.be
Very
Stage-Racing dans possibility of a trip to Singapore pleased at the news of the for a Three-Day Race. much in the air at present, it has So it was no surprise when she been mooted by the Singapore announced her retirement from thorities, who intend to invite and an Army Team competitive cycling a few weeks an RAF ago. She has now been given from the Colony. a new lease of life by the
On of the
Cycliste neon Union nationale, who recently agreed to accept Women's records and to build up a racing calendar shnilar to what enjoyed by the
men
Rumour has it that Eileen's first essay in this new feld will Hisbe to set up a time for the "Hour Unpaced," probably at the famous Vigorelli Track at
Wilkinson's motto appears to be "Moderation,"
be and certainly lives up to it.
training mileage sual weekly never
exceeds 150, frequently
2 reciprocal basis, the HCA is to promote a Mass Start Race on Sunday, May 8, to which tears from Singapore and Macao will be
invited. This
To me, her portrayal waitress in of Hurasi-Bonde age" was remarkable. custumes easilys in meuche" with Stewart Granger. She lives in a Colonial mansion mile and half from me, on the Beverly Drive, and runs house with the help of a cook- housekeeper, and a nurse for the children. Her ambition- "to do a play in London."
Musing over a beer at the Hobnob, There
star said,
a veteran are three kinds of women-beautiful intellectual, Hollywood, where you find the and the majority." And in
beautiful and the intellectual combined, you have a fourth kind, Bim stars!
•
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The latest on Rita-she and
beard and Dick Haymes, now sporting a full Edwardian mustache, this week leased a luxury flat on Wilshire Boulevard and left Hila's daughters Lake Tahoe on the snow-rest
at
while she films "Joseph and His Brethren."
Moreover, both re- gistered to vote in Nevada, with Rita stating she was "a home-
is likely to take the same route as the first day in the recent NTACA Three-Day Race, and should give a good indication of the relative standards of Singa- pore and Colony Cycling.
It is known that in the Time time pioneered racing for the
than the Changi fairer of the sexes, and we can to our credit
boys, but whether we can hold thing he fancies, smokes a bit, expect to see some of our top-them on the hills remains to be- do? "Write, get my debts and
seen Whatever the results of the races, we can be assured of
Minor Units Vinal (B.5.) 2.30 p.m. being in the region of only 55 Milan Britain has for a long Trial feld, we have better times maker (rot a housewife)
Meetings
ASP & OC at SCMP 5.30 pm.
TOMORROW
soccer
RAF
."
while he does not believe in any additional exercising, eals any
and I am sure that more than
class riders becoming household
are at home."
de pint of ale has trickled down names or the Continent as they
his sunburned throat.
His secondary hobby, Photo (Club):graphy, fits in well with cycling, can be often seen and he twiddling easily around country-side with his camera at
Diy I: Eastern Police Army (B5),
Diy HA: Easiero Y SCAA (CH); Talkoo v KMB (Navy). All games at 6 pm.
Mechag Annual Meeting KBGC at Austin Road 330 pm.
Annual Meeting Ladies' Recreation club 8.30 p..
FRIDAY
the ready.
the
ATHLETIC MEET
some
And frst-class riding. that is really what we want to
see.
·
I watched the HKAAA Colony Championship Meeting at Cara Last week's question, on the lime Hill last Sunday, and was possibility of Tandem Racing in rather dismayeti at both the the Colony, brought in more smail numbt in the audience points against than for. The two and their apparent apathy, main drawbacks seem to be that But one event at least made (a) the Tandem: would be toa then rise from their seats, the fast for use on our roads, with
and
an actress."
What's Me Haymes going to
paidi," my income tax arrears he said tersely, His arrears are a mere $60,000. And to Joanne Dru and Nora Eddington, say, $20,000.
I'm informed that Nara has outlined a book she will write on her two renowned husbands, Mr Haymes and Mr Flynn Theme song, "No. No, Nora" by a chorus of husbands,
His stylish riding and im perturbability have been written of previously, and his position
Edmund Purdon is still the on à cycle could be used as a 12 Lap Point-to-Point Cycle safety, and, (b) that teams and
inexplicable actor. He will sit model for all riders. He favours Race. Almost from the start it riders change so rapidly owing in with his children to let his fairly low gears, his highest of was a battle between Beck and to postings, etc, that it would estranged wife, Tita, go out for 89 being seldom used, while he
dinner and Div 1 Recrela v Army A at does most of his racing on a Wilkinson, with Beck energing a be difficult "Pair of for a
give up his won't return home, but he very moderate 77, pedalling in row. winner after an excel- long enough period to make it
worth-wille. So there goes yet expensive fat-or Linda Chris Impeccable fashion..
The One Mile Scrutchi zace another dream Due to retum to UK in
run off an hour earlier had seen December next, Don hopes to get wilkinson win casily, by virtue
Track
Golf Smalley Cup Final.
Hockey
Recreio 5.1 pm.
Nominate YOUR
Hongkong Footballer Of The Year
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to
Members of the public are invited nominate whom they consider to be Hongkong's Footballer of the Year for the current season.
It is a popularity poll organised by the China Mail, and nomination coupons will be received until the closing date to be announced later.
The two qualifications for nomination are: (1) Footballing prowess.
(2) Sportsmanship on the field of play. Nominations should be addressed to The Editor, China Mail, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.
To The Editor, China Mail.
My nomination for Hongkong's Footballer of the Year, taking into regard his playing ability and his sportsmanship on the field of play is
of the
(Signed).
Club.
European Heavyweight Title Fight
was
Dortmund, Mar. 29. A provisional contract signed here today for a title fight between West Germany's European Heavyweight Boxing Neubas and Champion, Heinz
Italian challenger Franco Cavic-
chi
35
on
Neuhaus is prepared to de- fend his title against the Italian Hewyweight Champion Bologna, northern Italy, June 8 next for £7,200 purse.
His manager said the final concluded contract.. would be After the Italian promoters had deposited this purse in bank-France-Presse.
the
P.I. Beats Burma
In Davis Cup Tie
Rangoon, Mar" 29. The Philippines today on the doubles over Burma, in their. Eastern Zone Davis Cup tie and qualified to meet Japan in the zone final
Following up their easy singles vistica yerday Felicidio Ampen. ⠀⠀ and mundo Deyo beamed up today to beat captain. Maung Maung and Bo Thaing 6-0, 6-0; 6-0--- Reuter
ent ride.
it was advice given by Wilkinson to Beck after this event which paved the way for Beck's victory in the second race,"
As
to the question for this tan, who has been in the head- dia- holding on to a lines for 1 refer you to the mond ring and, two necklaces werd paragraph on
the
proposed worth $135,000 which were paid Singapore Three-Day Race. Who for by a worthless cheque. would you select as a sit-man team for (a) the RAF, and (b)" for the Army. And why?
Srojets CO% Don Wilkinson
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to
Ferrer is the proud father of a bonny boy Mother equally
will have happy
no problem with crooning cradle .Songs. who'll She's Rosemary Clooney bo at the Palladium, and HT Manchester, Glasgow,
hope other and other good places
while Jose is fidming Cockle shell Heroes tor Warwick
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