DANISH GESTURE
Slazenger
Kurt Nielsen of Denmark "crowns" America's Tony Trabert with the top of the trophy which the American had just won by beating him in the final of the Men's Singles in the Lawn Tennis Champion- ships at Wimbledon.
Trabert had just received the trophy from the Duchess of Kent, President of the All-England Lawn Tennis Club.-Reuterphoto.
SUMMER League softBALL
South China Trounce Rookie Filipinos To The Tune Of 20-3
Veteran South China Athletics trounced the rookie Filipinos 20-3 in the Summer Softball League opener yesterday at King's Park before a good crowd. W. K. Wong fanned 18 out of 27 batters facing him and yielded only one hit and four free tickets.
The young Filipinos took the offensive first but were held scoreless during the first two frames while the Athletics took full advantage of their weak opposing hurler to aggregate nine hits, including a bingle by L. C. Poon and a two-run homer by F. C. Wong, and nine runs. during the same period.
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THE CHINA - MAIL. WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1955.
EIGHTH THE SINCE THE WAR
ABSORBING DAY'S CRICKET AT EASTBOURNE ENDS IN POINTS SHARED
London, July 5.
With Surrey winning yesterday to take a 20 points lead over nearest rivals Yorkshire, who were without a County game, the first tied match of the season between Hampshire and Sussex featured the current County Cricket Championship programme which ended today.
An absorbing day's cricket at Eastbourne ended dramatically with hotlouts and points shared. Set to get 140 to witt, Hampshire lost eight wickets for 84.
Then Vie Cannings and Petr Sainsbury added 55 runs to the the scores. The last two wickets feli without a run being added
It WILS the eighth He in County cricket since the w The last tie was between York--|| shire and Leicestershire, last SENSOTY,
Glamorgan
Surrey head the Champion- |with 12 p18 behlid ship table with 148 points from 13 games Yorkshire came next with 128 from 14 followed by Hampshire 38 from 14.
and Lancashire 92, from 14
+
Worcestershire, still without a win in 12 matches, are better-
Booking Officials Expect 11/2 Million Fans To Watch Olympic
Games
Melbourne, July 5.
HARD WON VICTORY tory over Derbyshire was hard
Lancashire's eight, wickets vic... |
Some bad Belding with three simple catches dropped, kept Derbyshire in the game until well into the afternoon when it had tohned that. Lan- cashire would win by lunch time.
Godwin, who made 67 for Derbyshine, was dropped when 18 and the list two wickets
97 Lancashire the
tok, ruhs before Dyson
made the winning hit.
This stroke gave Kelly, the Derbyshire, opening bat, a freaks howling analysis. Kells came on to bowl for the Best
time this season when Lancashire, need only four runs to win.
His first and only delivery was a no ball which Dyson hit to the boundary to fish the match. So Kelly's analysis
0
Booking officials for the 1956 Olympic Games expect more than one and half million fans to click the turnstiles during the big 16-day programme late next year. seat stand to the Melbourne Cricket Ground Olympic driving and booking by Denis With a busy team of workmen tow adding a 40,000.0 Malders, Hand, Wicke
An exhilarating display of venue total accommodation for all venues runs to more Compton, than 200,000. However, the organisers have staggered minutes, helper Middlesex beat events, anticipating daily crowds of up to about 200,000. W restershire by eight wickets,
The MCG dine could accom- modate more than 100,000 a day. The reconstruction work lifts Its capacity from 95.000 to 120,- 000 but officials say special seat- Ing during the Olympics will re- duce this.
::: The chief executive offfeer, Mr William Bridgeford believes that 210,000 capacity would be a practicable figure
who hit 50 in 30
Another Test player, Tom Graveney, was also in great form. He scored 75 not out to help George Young add 161 in 98 for Gloucestershire's serend wicket in their 155 runs victory ever Northamptonshire..
SWIMMING POOL Tightest accommodation at!
On Saturday there two put main verues is at the modernis on 161 in the first innings. Early estimates allowed for 104,000 to see the big ceremoniest-designed Olympic Park venus, two sizes and seven fours.
tic swimming pool part of the Young's 117 not out included and Anal in comfort. But en-
Here 5,500 spectators will all the couraged by the rush when
indoor stadium.
bocking opened on May 16, off- cials say they will re-consider seating plans.
American League All-Star Squad
Chicago, July 5. The American League nounced the remainder of its squad for the All-Star baseball game at Milwaukee on July 12. The starling eight players,
15 ford 42
TROPHY
FOR A BRITISH
PAIR
The Duchess of Kent (centre) smiles her pleasure as she presents the Ladies' Doubles trophy to British girls Angela Mortimer (left) and Ann Shilcock at Wimbledon. They had just benten Shirley Bloomer and Pat Ward, also of
Renterphoto. Great Britain, in two straight sets, 7-5, 6-1.
Six Services Cyclists Invited To Compete In
Malaya Road Race
By "NTACA
An invita.
News has at long last been received of the Singapore Road Race. tion to send a Six-man Combined Services Team had arrived, together with details of the event.
Covering a total distance of 250 miles, it comprises four stages in three days. The First day is a 96 Miles Massed Start Race, from Singapore to Batu Pahat. second day is divided into two stages, the first of which is a Time Trial of 31 Miles. (Bahu Pahat to Mugr), and the second a 26-mile Massed Start, from Muar to Malacca.
Comple
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SOUTH CHINA WIN 11-1 AT
WANGANUI
FORCEFUL BATTING Some foreaful batting by Bookings for swimming night Esse helped them beat Notting events and finals are already ham by 95 runs. Notts were set closed in Australia, but
& few
to EXCI 219 to wie but gobd
The final stage is another | The Essex team now lead in to retire. Let us hope our boys overseas visitors may still gain bowling by leppinner Green- Massed Start event, this time of the coveted tickets.
the team competition by 37 have belter luck this time. smith,
who book deur for 27,98 miles, leaving Malacca and
We are not points to the 22 of REME CC, 4
so hopeful to At the soccer stadium, set in thwarted their efforts.
with the rest nowhere. In anticipate. a victory. We would the centra of
Enishing at Kuala Lumpur, the athletic
Safely negotiating zo
dividual leaders are Failcox and be more Roads are, on the whole,
than satised to see training tracks, terraced vant-utes of Extra Hárh Oxford
for a 33,000 University forced a draw in hills, good tage points allow
and without very many Stell (13 each) and Bartlett with some of them finish.
bul the distances and 11, all of the Easte crowd, while a stand will ac- the Varsity mitch. at Lartis. speed of the race should make On Sunday, the RAF Novice commodate, 2,600 more. Similar Cambridge have won 48, xa very hard event,
hela a 18-mile accommodation, for 23,000,
and 21 drawn, Left First, second and third awards Time over one circuit of an-available at the hockey and 255 minutes to obtain 313 for will be made for each of the the Massed Start course, with The hard trying youngsters by the pitcher and reached
cyling track arena,
A total of were rewarded with two runs first by a walk after one down,
victory. Oxford made 230 for stages, with prizes for the first Jones of the 7 Hussars winning 8,000 fight fane six. Michael Sinfth helped six on General
from the Scratch mark in 42-05 Classiffiation. steal and on a wild
stadium steadily rising will At into the during the third canto as Arst With a
new boxing save the
with game
an There will also be a "King of man (Essex) whose two-minute second place was Temple- batter Hyder Getz nally, was pitch, he was in scoring posi- pitchers excepied, were voted on the ashes of the old one which |180 minutes. He and the cap with a trophy for the winning allowance gave him a net time
from innings of 104 (11 fours) in the Mountains" award, together man passed after he had toiled a tion Reynaldo Pacheco batted in a
in a baseball poll In which number of times after full count the ball outside the foul line 8,562,064 ballots were cast
destroyed by fire last tain, Williams, put on 103 for team. ard Fernando Diesta Jr. next line but the spinning
sphere
Al Lopez, manager
January-Valted Press, the a%
the fourth wicket. Reuter, will com- mand the team and selected his pitchers and alternate outfielders, in- fielders and catchers. SERIES OF MISCUES
Lopez South China again ran wide cluding rockles Dick Donovan
named
pitchers, nine during the second half of
of the Chicago White Sox and sixth,
young Clubsters played erroneously when they Herb Sense of Cleveland. Other
pitchers selected were Whitey were fielding. Three
runs Ford
Turley, Bob
New were lost through a series of York; Early Wynn, Cleveland; miscues.
Bin Hoeft, Pierce. Chicago: Frank Sullivan, Detroit; Billy Boston, and Jim Wilson, Balti-
selected
pulled out a sizzling grounder rolled in to be fair and alerted Cleveland American League
over the keystone sack which John Cheng slid home ately the Helder missed. Both Getz and Diesta Jr circuited the dia- though Rey mond in time to save a shut-out on first.
out.
Both sides made
no further headway in the fourth and the Athletics again ran wide in the Afth. They added another four runs to put the game on ice and the score now stood at 13-2
During the sixth, John Cheng of the Filipinos Club was hit
Three Runners Break World 12 Miles Record
London, July 5.
The
Pacheco was put
the
Though they fareed two outs, the Athletics were again hitting and another four runs came in through a walk and three good one-basers in a row,
Di
more.
The
and
public following lineup:
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the
was
Youths Of Singapore To Get £250 To Play Basketball
London, July 5.
The race has been made pos sible by the donation of S$1,000 the British Aim of 'JA be Phillips,
who have always been the forefront when the ad- vancement of the sport has been the object
in
fitness
a
of 42-24. Lun, (REME CC) Aling third place two seconds
MORE WELL DONE!
Wellington, July 5,
com-
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Jores time was the fastest of the day, Beck being a minute The touring Chinese soccer slower in a private trial over beam out-classed a Wanganui, the same route. As extremely Taranaki and Manawatu
ride was that of
Abined team at Wanganui today Sing (SCAA),
whose The Hongkong team will be 44-11 actual time gained aim scoring 11-1. The visitors post- tional play and combination selected during a
Some special 91-fifth place with 42-56.
easily baffled the New Zealan mile race to be held in the next very good handicapping pinced
within one ders whose performance three weeks, and will no doubt the leading five
rather disjointed, The Chinese cause quite a a few headaches. minute. The Easex team onge Very few of our top-flight riders again walked away with the also proved too fast for the New
Zealanders, are in thy way. At for such a team award, and are now lead- long event and it will be a case ing in both competitions.
For the greater part of the of choosing the six men who do
game, it appeared that all the best in the race without regard
scoring would be by the Chi- Sir George Thomas, donor of the Thomas Cup
to previous form. The losers went out quickly
for badminton and lifelong promoter of the
It is good to read of our old best Lee Yuk-tak sored six, One certainty game, Mickey Vernon, Washing is to give £250 to encourage the youths of Singa-shows he us getting near to peaks who was one of the one lost these go were is Ron Beck, friends and many of you will Yiu Cheuk-yin two, Mok Chun- on their last try and the final Arst 1
1-3 recent
for གg""
wah two and Chu Wing-wah remember Captain H. A, G. Score stood 20-3 in favour
base, Nellie Fox, Chicago, second brase; Jim South China.
Finigan, pore to play another sport-basketball.
again, while such riders founder members of the pre-scored in first half, Batting honours of the day Kuern, Detrit, shortstop; Ted chess Champion, landed here today from Singapore, where
Kansas City, third base; Harvey
Site George himself, a former British badminton and a pet aromate
as
Jones are
The local side's only goal was went to K. T. Leung of South
automatic selections.
war Cycling Association in the
scored shortly before the end of China who obtained a perfect Mickey
Williams, Baton left he attended the final stages of this year's Thomas Cup, is still the dificulty of getting
With the team selected, there Colay
the game-Reuter, Manuc, New York,
At 15 years of age, Keates Three British, runners in the three in three. Athletics L. C. centre feld: Al Kaline, Detroit, He told reporters he had how decided to extend his in- down to Singapore, but we will won his first Army Champion FINANCIAL SUCCESS same rece today broke the Poon and K. C. Leqng made mile and a half, at Paddington, ood also with three in five and right feld, and Yogi Berra, New terest in sport to basketball-second only in popularity to out alright, and get on with the the RASC Sprint Champlon Zealand Football Association to
just have to hope things turn his two opponents in the final when he outmaneuvered existing World record for the
The £8,500 gamble of the New London
preparations. ..... Gordon Firie
ship to get away to a long lone give a boost to the game here He had bees terribly im- Sir George said:
ESSEX WELL AHEAD lead and push his nose first over by bringing the Hongkong South pressed by the great enthusiasm isg those concerned to ensure for sport shown by all sections that this money is used to en-pile up their lead in NTACA
The Essex team continue to the line.
China team to the Dominion An excellent
performance, looks 8 the mumunity in Singapore courage basketball
like paying off. among the Novices Competition with some particularly as the last time he during the Thomas Cup compet boys and girls under the age of very fine riding. Capt. Peler rode on a track was way back team's visit, a £2,750 gate the To clear expetises on the 19 and I hope to that they vill Philcoxfirmed in one of his 1989 when he won eight of nine biggest of the tour is needed "I have come away with the ensure that all schools, no mat best-ever performances to take events at Caroline Hil. strong desire to do more to ter what section of the
for the final Test at Auckland cum first place in the 25 mile develop this
TOUR DE-FRANCE sporting spirit munity they rve, should be TT beld last Wednesday. The
Jon Saurday, but already £2,000 Steve Gromsk of Detroit and among the younger generailon," encouraged to participate.
has been received by advance beat and strong wind proved too Dog Mossi of Cleveland will he said." pitch batting practice and Bill
The tour will be the frat by VERY CLOSE SECOND HAN "I have decided to send the much for most of the par- Tour de France sets off on its
ticipants, who returned their Lobe of Cleveland will be their
"I have been thinking about money direct to the new Gov- catcher,
Be it goes the first ever team to parcial success in
in New Zealand In all,
this on the journey home and nor, Sir Robert Black, know slowest times for weeks early 8,000-mile Journey. With an overseas team to meet with the American League have dedded to make.
Burrows of the REMÉ ading full well that he will entire was the my Hder capable of "Greatest of all Road Races.
CC wear the Union Hack in the
for al years, and
The Auckland Foothill As- will have eight players on the tion of £250 to Singapore to that the money is used in the All-Star squad for the first time, enlarge their interests in the best interests of the youth of taking all the points in the appeared was in 1986, when our Saturday's receipts will top
preventing
the Essex boys from The last time the British dag zociation s confident that They are Donavan, Score Smith, field of basketball wäich zoens Singapore......../
event, the Essex ~ supplying six | bone representative, Castrile £5,000 if the day is fine Kaline, Hoeft, Fower, Sullivan to.me to run a very close second
He said a cheque will be post of the first seven on the finish Holland, fell and cracked a The first Test was drawn 1-1, and Wilson.
to badminton as the national {èd
tomorrow. China Mail sheet with Burrows in third couple of ribs in the first few New Zealand won: sport of Singapore and Malaya. Special.
the second place.
stages, carrying on until forced 7-4-Reuter
won in six
C. M. Tsang and S. C. Wong with two in four.
P.C. Wong slugged a two-run minutes and 26 seconds, leading homer during the second inning. by 30 yards from John Thorp Other hitters of the Athletics (8 minutes 30.8 second), while were Y. K. Chan, Y. F. Chan Ken Norris
third in. ) and C. was
Ng. The lonely minutes, 31. seconds:
hitter and hero of the Filipinos All three runners thus broke was Fernando Diesia 3r.
line-ups were Filpinos. Santana (p). J. of six minutes and 31.2 Chear (2b), R. Racheco (c), J. seconds
made during his Belote (15), B.
B. Carlson (11), A record-breaking Two Miles, at Ribero (3b), G. Lawrence and Whitsun, when he ran at the J. Bechtel (cf), R. Getz (ss), F.
Diesta Jr. (r). White Cly Stadium, London,
This distance is not cognised for world records,
Pirie's times
the existing record, set up by the Hungarian Sandor haros,
re
were: First
2. minutes
South China X, T. Leung (ss), C. M. Tsang (1b) and Y. F. L C. Poop (1f), Chan (2b), quarter mile - 61,2 seconds, Y. K. Chan (3b), K. C. Leung 3.6 (11 & 1b), P. C. Wong and C. seconds, three-quarters of a W. Ng (ef), S. C. Wong -(c), mile-3 minutes & seconds, W. K. Kan and K. F. Chan (2b), He did the Mile in 4 minutes
W. K-Wong (p). 13,6 seconds and the mile and
half-mile
seconda
a quarter wils passed in 5 minutes and 21,2 France-Presse.
European Bridge Sixth Round Results
Amsterdam, July 5. Results in the sixth round of the European Bridge Champion abip here today were,
JAGUARS IN
The Filipinos "B" withdrew from the league due. 10 in sufficient players. However, the Hongkong Softball Association have përmitted the late entry of the Jaguars to fit in the gap, So on Thursday, July 7. The Jaguars will play the US, Navy,
Jaguars were a very strong. (cam and softballers must remember that they have closely
York, catcher,
Lopez selected Sherm Lollar. Chicago, as his other catcher and added DatBelders A1. Smith and Jackie Jensen of Boston. Larry Doby of Cleveland and Behind the starting infield, Lopez named Bobby Avila and Al Rosen af Cleveland, Chico Carrasquel of Chicago and Vic Power of Kaasas City.
The American League holds a 33-8 edge in the series and won last year's game at Cleve- lazid, 11-9---Associated Press,
Dollery Not Available For
Pakistan Tour
London, July 5. battled the Braves during 1950. H. E. Dellery, Warwickshire 51 and 1951-52, when the latter professional cœptain, said, tonight were in top farm to take the that he has indotinto the, MCC, Senior "A" pennant, ⠀⠀
that because of business cama Therefore, this game on mitment he would not be 0-2 (38-60) Germany-Denmark Thursday will be a good one and available to tair Pasta with
Open Pair Austria-Holland
0-2 (48-56), Britain-Finland 2-0 the League will see keep cot the England B teams this winter. (83-30), France-Belgium 2-0 petition among Jaguais US. 187-33) Ireland-Norway-0-2 Navy, South Chins and Fandus, (33-14), Sweden Switzerland 2-0 the three-time Summer Clarks (65-45); Italy was free.-Leuter. | plans/
Dollery said that the MCC hod paksa tim ir He would be able. (0) "make the trip France's
badminton in Malaya,
tion
a dona-
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