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LEAGUE BOWLS
✅ THE CHÍNA MAIL SATURDAY, JUNË 11, 1955.
UNBEATEN IRC "BLUES" TAKE ON LAST YEAR'S CHAMPIONS TODAY
By "TOUCHER”
What promises to be the best match of the Lawn Bowls League season so far will take place this afternoon at Recreio when the Champion Recreio "Blues" take on the only unbeaten First Division team, 'Indian Recreation Club "Blues".
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Having already suffered two defeats in four outings, Recreio "Blues" are already four points behind the League-leading Kowloon Cricket Club in as many games played.
The Indians, who are only 3 with little prospect of any up- points behind KCC with one set except possibly in the game in hand, have on the match between Filipino Club other hand beer bubbling with and Police Recreation Club. condence
their 3-2 since triumph over the current League leaders, and are highly optimistic of regaining the coveted Senior In 1950 League le they wor and 1951.
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the Police team could put up will be sufficiently praiseworthy. TALKING POINT
Fur this week's talking point on the forthcoming The custodians of the law are I pick in for a rude shock this after-Colony Open Championships. noon, unless they show as at this annual affair closed at Entries for the different events improvement 01 their last
the end of last month and the week's form
draw.
I understand, will take Cralgengower Cricket Club place around the 14th of this On reard and on form, is
will be afforded un excellent monta, - doubtful if the Indians
opportunity of improving their keep their unbeaten record be- position in the League tabl· fore the aftercoon over when they visit IRC "Gold" at Although they have won their three matches so far, there kumpoo. Five paints will be
could
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has been larking in their per fcrinances that essential factor of team-wörk, where every easily
member and every four of the team play their part.
the
within their grasp.
Kowloon Cricket Club should maintain their position 23 League leaders in this Division with j. comfortable win over Reereis "Whites" who Under the present system of with
exception of A.A. how League scoring, it is not enough | Lopes' four have sti) to for a team to win every match seine excephoral performances, by a 3-2 margin to win the
UNCERTAINTY OF FORM Championship. They Malls: average at least four points per match.
Last year the Indians started out with almost exactly the sume team and with the same confidence, but received a severe setback in their first round match against the Recreio "Blues," losing by 5-0 and by 32 shots on the Recrels green.
I have not had the opportunity to glance through the entries. but it can be expected that the number will be fairly close to
that of last year.
I have asked
a number of bowlers why they Lare are not competing in the Cham pionships this season and in- variably the answer comes that they prefer not to be bothered to go from one end of town to another just to play off match.
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A variation of that answer is. that they cannot spare so much time as the Championships usual-
on run
Topping the four Secondly drag en for weeks and months.
that I somx
Our Colony Division matches is
clash Lhe
much Football Championships can be a Hongkong between Club and Kowloon Cricket Club more popular and at the same at the Valley. The footballers time a more beneficial affair if Empire afe generally conceded to be they can be Games lines. the stronger side, but show a
Ties for the different events greater margin of
than their more con- could, for example, be played of of form
morning and sessions in two
on a Sunday or a afternoon holiday at alternate centres. With the Recreio "Blues" al-
One week that centre could be ready well back on the road to
The cricketers have
made King's Park, with KCC, KBCC recovery in form, indications
one change in hier icam, Dut-and
and Recreio as the playing wil they are that
have
field taking over the viip's role greens. Another week it could definite edge over their opponents on at least two rinks from George Lee, who, I under-be at Happy Valley, with PRC,
stand this afternoon.
CONTROVERSIAL POINT
a
uncertainty
sistent
opponents, as evidenced by their recent 5-0 1rcuncing by Hongitung Cricket Club.
found it tremendously
difficult last week to be up on HKFC and IRC offering:
the full heads. A close game is
with indicated
either side af winning by a 4-1
One controversial point has capable been brought up by many pat-margin,
telpants in the League on the Kowloon Dock Club may not
eve of this match, and that is whether a Club fielding two teams in the same Division could shuffle any player from one team to the other.
be able to
to
their own
BRITISH WOMEN'S
GOLF TEAM
The British women's Golf team who are to tour Australia and New Zealand. Left to right: Miss V. Anstey, Miss B. Jackson, Miss G. Atkinson, Miss B. Sommerville, Miss "J. Robertson, and their captain, Mrs B. R. Bostock.-London Express Photo.
'Bobo' Olson Is Coming
To London To Take
On All-Comers
By GEORGE WHITING
Carl "Bobo" Olson, Middleweight Champion of the World, and challenger to Cruiserweight Champion Archie Moore and Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano in an effort to land the biggest title treble in the history of boxing, is coming to Lon- don next August.
Olson's first assignment will be to issue the loudest possible threat to Don Cockell. If this fails to inspire acceptance, the defy will be extended to Jack Gardner," Johnny Williams, Henry Cooper. Joe Erskine, Randolph Turpin, Ron Barton, Yolande Pompey, and any other top-rank heavyweight or cruiserweight ready to trade punches for spot cash.
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HOW TO PLAY BETTER GOLF
Left Hand The Master In Good Putting
By JOHN JACOBS
Putting needs practice-and plenty of it. I do most of mine in the winter evenings on the carpet at home.
Not long spells "but frequent short sesions of 20 minutes or 30. It is difficult to maintain concentration for long periods.
I don't agree with the "never up never in theory. Go for the hole but make sure that if you fail you have the best possible second putt.
Don't keep the hands still. They should move in an arc which is in direct ratio to the larger are made by the club- head.
Bek swing should be fairly short, with THE RIGHT HAND PROVIDING THE CRISP TAP
My grip-with the hands high.
OF THE BALL ON THE LINE DIRECTED BY THE LEFT HAND.
THE STRIKE
In all puts the left hand is the guiding factor,
the
£
reverse.
Follow through should be matter of only a few inches As long as the club head follows through on a true line there is nothing more to worry about
The action should be one of You remember Oison. of opponent available in Britain. "If I see signs of wear and tear
coming to He is course.
the Swedish-if that proves impossible, he in any of our boxers, he is paid slight acceleration greens for use. The Championships
Ex-jockey could Portuguese
from will box exhibitions, And you his accumulated share of carn the strike. An exaggerated back
job out-swing tends to "result in may tell your promoters not to ings and we find him then be completed in a much Honolulu who: shorter space of time and at the (a) Toughened a porcelain worry too much about purse side of boxing.
"We insist on strict discipline. same time they will not only chin by lifting a 33 lb. block of money. It needs be, and if I provide a test of skill but also cement with his lower jaw 100 am, permitted by your rules. Even with World Champion
times
guarantee any Olson. We once suspended him of endurance:
will personally day take the maximum Clubs, too, will be left ample (b) Ran in
deep sand to promotion in which our nighters for six months for missing out
on his training." five points from USRC at King's time
club strengthen his calf muscles;
are concerned, redevents, and participants in the
(c) Won the Middleweight Park but can be almost assured Craigun- of four polms here. sower Cricket Club will perb-Championships will be afforded Championship of the World by Under the present Leagueably have an easier task or greater opportunities of getting cuffing Turpin inte semi-oblivion
|(18 months ago; points know each other. maximum rules It seems that a Club is scoring the within its right to do so, as long as that player is not among the registered eight bowlers, but such a practice seems rather contrary to the ethics of Lawn Bowls,
can
tean.
against Police Recreation Club, who are still without a point after three matches.:
Taikoo has been having an excellent run of successes during the last few weeks, playing mostly on their own green, but are still to be tested on an away
A Club that fields two teams in one. Division will certainly have definite advantages on the green. other teams. It can strengthen
Iri their first match of thu. the
whenever stronger team
and it
also stason they fell prey to HKFC necessary
by 3-0 on the footballers green strengthen the weaker
and anything could happen in when that team is in danger their match against HKCC this of relegation.
afternoon at Chater Road where, wording to reports, the green as well as before. is not playing as wel
Unless the Cricket Club pru- cutes some of the phenomenal form they are capable of, as in their match against HKFC, the dockmen are zood enough tori, five points.
There is already 4 League rule which states that a player. who has played in three more League games for particular Club is not allowed
of
to play for another Club in the League in the same season. What stems to be needed to avoid any unpleasantness in the lawn bowls fraternity seems to of the be an implementation ruling that exists in our local
of a League are to be regarded
as opposing teams."
THIRD DIVISION GAMĖS The Third Division games will see an interesting tussle between Kowloon the · Lesgue-leading
Tennis and Badminton League Dock and nignly-regarded Police to the effect that "all teams Recreation Club. The dockmen competing in the same Divisien
to be in have so far proved to
a themselves class by
ja this division with already four suc- Coming back to this after cessive wins to their credit, and "naon's matches, the remaining with the advantage of playing three games in the first Divi-on a home green are not expected sion League will be more cr to be in any danger of losing less David versus Goliath affairs their clear record. Any fight that
SKIPS TABLES
FIRST DIVISION
B. W. Bradbury (CCC)
T. E. Baker (KCC)
A. Harvey (KECC)
J. McKelvie (KBGC)
R. F. da Luz (Ree: "B").
J. F. V. Albeiro (Rec. "B")
A. E. Coates (CCC)
Shots
Shots
P. W. D. L, F., A. U. D. Pls,
4 3 10 #1 89 22 0 304
111 68 43 0 3:
4 3 0 1
60 23. 0 3
4 3 0 1
83
4 3 0 1
8383 20
3 0
0 1
8660 20
3 0.1
3.0
58
0 30 1
0.3
0.3
72 19 0 3 45 130 3 10 0 3 4 3 0 1 80 75 $ 0 31
2 1 0 77 40 37 0 21⁄2
"
F. R. Kermani (KCC)
H. B. Dewar (PRC)
A. M.. Omar (IRC)
'SECOND DIVISION
R. S. Gourlay (KDC)
4
4
93 00
£3 30 0 4
W. B. Brown (TC) A. E. Eljött (KDC)
5
4
1 0
J. B. Baxter. (TC)
G. Madar (CCC)
THIRD DIVISION
J. H. Kinniburgh (TC)
G. Lee (KCC)
J. Revie (KD)
R. H. Lapsley (KDC)
A. Hutton (KBGC)
R. Rosen (POC):)
W. C. Higgs (POC)
A. G. Gardner (HKERC)
McKittrick
112 100 12 0 4
9 0 1 93 89 24 0 3
S-3. 0 2 109 85 24 .0 3
3 0 1 88 74 140 3
5 3 0 2 108 99 9 0 3.
2 1072 59 13 0 2
59 68 31 0 3.
4 3 0 1167 78 22 013 3.3 0.0 89 55 14:03 430 1,. 94 13 0:3 3. 0 94.30 803
81 78
TODAY'S GAMES First Division Recreio "Blues" V. "Blues"
4:
TRC "Gold" v. CCC PC v. PRC
KCC v. Recreio "Whites" KBGC (bye)
Second Division
HKFC v. KCC HKCC v.
V. IC PRC v. COC FC (bye) USRC v. KDC
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Third Division KCC v. HKFC HKERC v. USRC KDC v. PRC KBGC v. FC: FOC (bye).
SPORTS QUIZ
(d) And is now in training for his cruiserweight title shot IRC against the veteran Moore in New
York on June 22.
I learned about Olson's pro- jected visited to England, when
"We shall make London our on aty
the! available opposition on headquarters and take Continent,
38 FIGHTERS "We have 30 Eghters in the corporation and one of them, Eddie Chavez, is vice-president, "Our corporation will be able We have a staff of handlers, give
+1
On sloping greens make sure that you leave yourself with as short an up-hill second shot as
you fail wish possible first..
the
to box at almost any weight permanent employment to ave I use the reverse overlap grip, With Olson we shall be bringing trainers, and own our own two
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rising young Los Angeles ring gymnasium.
called Charlie middleweight
"All our fighters are insured, I watched him perform his own
featherweight Gill we look after their social highly polish brand of gynasium Green;
downtown in San Cadilli, who has won and lost security, and the corporation's virtucsity
against Willie Pep: lightweight money is invested in real estate Francisco the other day.
Eddie Chavez, who, cace out and public utilities, pointed world champion Jimmy Carter; bantamweight Frankie Campos; welterweight Maurice
NO FAT CIGAR
My host, and Olson's manager,
"Boxing is a business, and anybody who treats it as any-
I was Sid Flaherty, a large Irish- Harper; and Eddie Machen, a thing else is a fool."
American with revolutionary ideas about the breeding
new of
young coloured heavy.
Hereford cattle, the colour of weight of great promise.
Norwich
canaries. and
the torn be handling of boxers tween temperaments and tax-
gatherers.
Flatherty, incidentally, is not
And how is business? Flaherty Promotional Enterprises Inc. are performing at the rate of 250 FLYING OVER
fights per year-and winning The cor- "We shall be flying over with 90 per cent of them. two of our own trainers. Isup-poration, in fact, has put a gilt- an edge round a punch on the boat, the trip will involve pose dollars, but we are not concernporary shop in England.
Well, it is good for Britain to ed with money at this stage. We
be in business-even as a branch are not without assets."
-London Express Service)
to be found behind the usual initial outlay of about 10,000 and now plans to set up tem-
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managerial facade of a dat cigar and a flow of Runyonese Eng
ish. He is a literate, highly articulate business man, hedged around by a secretariat,
Found
but- ered accountants. tressed by chartered
Flaherty, in fact, is 1. Laszlo, Chris and Brian, manager as we understand the are the Christian names of species. He is president of
together Maherty men who
Promotional Enter value last month created sports prises Inc., an outfit probably history! What are their without equal in the surmmes: What did they world of sport.. Of which more. do?
three
2. Two days later, at the same place, Sendor and Ken hit headlines. Surnames. the and performances
again please.
3 Sporting doctors. Who are or were, (a) Dr W, G., (b) Dr R. G.?
4. Fill the gaps
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xxMxTxx; (b) XRxXxRx; (c) LxxTxxx; (d) XXTILEX
anon.
whole
in
Construe that last remark as an understatement. By the time Olson gets through" with Messrs Moore and Marciano, the market of Flaherty Promotional Enterprises Inc. will have been
boosted up to the million-dollar
office.
HEADING FOR A REMARKABLE RECORD
FPE Inc., in fact, is a most remarkable organisation, and I Yes, we shall be bringing can visualise all kinds of exclie Billy Wright, England's soccer Olson and a whole team
of ment
when its shareholder: captain and centre-hall, is head other. Sghters to Britain
move in on us next autumn ing for the remarkable figure of the autumn," saldi President
the Flaherty 100 international caps. Fighters under Flaherty
banner do not throw punchés. for immediate but spasmodic purse money. They train day, are not interested in much as you and I go to work money at this point-only ex-dally. They draw regular week perience, Olson, by that time, y salaries
*We
NO INTEREST
WEAR AND TEAK
with the wrists held fairly high
Keep the ball nine inches.
from Inside the left foot.
and the head over the ball.
almast vertically
FEET CLOSE
The foot are fairly, close with the ball not more than eight or nine inches away from the in- side..of the left foot,
I putt best when I feel con- fident that I am swinging my hands from and to the ball in the direction of the hole.
Many bad putters take the -club back too far and.. slow
down at impact. Always try to keep the blade of the club head at right angles to the ball.
hets writ Finally, keep your and rela
miss.
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can only hole out-02
Follow through only a few
inches on a trae Hne.
Pompey's Sportsmanship
Comes Like A Breath Of Clean Air
Says DENNIS HART.
Rushing in where others fear to tread comes Yolande Pompey, Trinidad's hope for world boxing honours. In July he goes to Germany to meet the winner of the Gerard. Hecht-Willie Hoeppner European title fight in Hambourg
Rough handling and even rougher decisions have caused: British boxers to give Germany & wide berth. Does that worry Pompey?
Not one bit. These are my An opponent he would like referce,' he declared showing to meet at home Is Polly Smith ebony of Bermuda, An all-Caribbean me two tough-as-teas fists, they won't need any help, scrap, it should pack in the fans. to decide who's won.
And after
off the At Nottingham fis April next. European
poin? Jack Pompey and Smith fought out a
"His last England appearance-Burns, Pompey's manager, says thriller in an eliminator for move is to couper Turpin's Empire title. Pompey's against Portugal brought his the total to 71, sixteen more than Randolph Turpin for an Empire points victory must have been
title chance and/or Archie Moore by the narrowest of margins. his nearest rival, Tom Finney.
in a World Championship bid.
Now many top-liners; I Meantime Pompey,
wonder, within grasp of major some more work to be getting honours would give a return to someone capable of putting those honours.
of their
Stanley Matthews has dy 40 "full" appearances, although he made many more during the war.
(a) DxxxS will have taken the world XXNX cruiserweight title off Moore and GXNX looking forward to a Heavy-
ExxL weight Championship crack When they fight, one-third of against Marciano in June, 1956. their reward goes to Flaherty;
Wright was 31 In February. Before the end of .next year the rest is credited to their According to any Trotter, Olson will hold all three world shareholdings accounts, against Chiton and England trainer, titles. — heavy, cruiser and the day they retire-or ar he has four or five seasons in middle.
retired by the boss. "Meanwhile, he would like to "Nobody fights for us unless front of him." fight Cockell or any
ether he does us credit," says Mr F.
5. In the 1948 Olympic Games the 100 Yards winner was his country's Champion for another event. Who was he?
6 (a) Jack, (b) Pruss, (c) Chisel, besides being tools are sporting terms. In what sports are they used?
7. Thes were two World
Heavyweight
Cham- pions during 1834 Were they (a) Gene Turney, (b)' Max Schmeling, (e) Primo
(d) Max Baer?
8. Who is the only English- born rider, to win the World Speedway Championship 2
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9. Who was the last man to win - three successíve Wimbledon Singles titles?
10 Where will the 1950 World Table Tennis Cahription-
ships be held ?
Ansvrers See Pare 17:
POP
--(London Express Servica)
wants
out
on with A South American venture having faded out be now fancies going back to Trinidad for a busman's holiday !rench?
"A few weeks at home with a couple of fights to keep me in like a breath of clean air into Pompey's Sportsmanship comes trim, would be just what the the murky baze that surrounds doctor ordered.”
the business of boxing.
Bedtime story
DRINK
ON MY WAY HOME
YOU LOOK
RADIANT Mich!
I RAN INTO THE COLONEL
-THAT NIGHTIE IS RANISHING
ON YOU!
ROSEBUDE
UPS!
AND WE HAD A
CALEY
make
wonderful
chocolates