| THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1955.
WEEK-END BOWLS
NOT HIS TURN
IRC "BLUES" GIVE THE CHAMPIONS SOME ANXIOUS MOMENTS
By “TOUCHER”
All the leading teams of the three divisions of the League, Recreio Taikoo Club and Kowloon Dock Club, came through the week-end League games with decisive wins to consolidate their lead.
"Blues",
The strongest opposition by fur was that given to the Recreio "Blues" by a gallant band of Indian Recreation Club “Blues" bowlers. Although the Champlon Re. creio "Blues" won eventually by four points to one, the decision was in doubt until the last five heads of the game,
The Indians fielded their two Craigongower are practically full Colony open quarter-final out of the running. Even should rintes skipped by A. M. Omar they beat the "Blues" by 4-1 or and U. A. Rumjahn, who were even 0-0 their best possible drawn against the Recreio fours aggregate is 50 pointe. skipped by Johnny Ribeiro and Raoul Luz.
Both these Indian Recreation Club fours lived up to their reputation as the top contenders
for
FIELD DAY
In the Second Division, Taikoo had a field day against Flongkong Cricket Club, who were nowhere near their glant-killing form,
There was, however, no inck
scored a four and a two on the last two heads.
Quarter-nailste in the Singlos event are now . F. de Luz, M. B. Hassan, W. Hong Sling, E. J. Liddell, A. K. Minu, F. R. Ker mani, C. C. Ma and A. R. A.
and Rahman were the last two to reach the quarter- finale. On Friday Ma, after this year's rink honours when Omar and his men took a of trying on the part of the being held to a neck-to-neck halt, the Arst In commanding 9-1 lead on the cricketers who actually
E. R. Renselet by first few heads and Rumjnhn's their opponents to only a seven- four held the recioubtable Luz shot lead on the aggregate the M. B. Hassan's four end of the 11th head. to 10-10. were then only 5-8 down against C. E. Passos' four.
heldstred
21-11.
Rahman led Bill Gaffney by and 19-12 in their 13-0, 18-0,
match on Friday. third-round in one of the muat gallant up-
17th head, when Willyhill nights yet seen. Gaffney
next
It was only after ten that they fell off badly. Angus four strek up bravely to 10-14 on A heavy shower at the end of the the uth head Heat the bowlers Brown and his men ratted off a drew level to 19-19. scumpering into the pavilion for single two twos and another On the
had he was Regrelo were tou
only two single on the remaining four lying one shot, and was rather shots up then on the aggregate.
bends to win comfortably by unlucky when he trailed Almost three-quarters of 20-10. hour elapsed before the game'
F. Marshal's four were only jack o little too much to give could be continued and the In- two shots down against Baxter away the shot on a head that was very much against him. dians struck hack with a three
on the 18th head, but a stronger Rahman scored the necessary by Omar, a two by U.A. Rum-Bush by the Taikco four en-
two shots on the next bead. Jalani anch a single by M. B. led them to get through with Husson,
20-14 score,
RETALIATED
20
the
OPEN TRIFLES RESULTA Results in yesterday's open Triples matches were
The Third Division games saw Kowloon Dock chalk up their 13th straight win of the When a close Anish looked
season. With only three matches
G. Hong Choy, F.O. Madar and imminent, Recrela "Blues"
more to go and these against S.L. Lonard (CCC) beat F.G. da came back with all their might fairly
wcak
opponents, the L 3.A. da Luz and R.F. da Luz Recreio) 23-14. in the next head when they docknen are now almost as-
A.V. Lopes, E.R. Rowselet and artuliated with eight shots
on surod or
best J.M. unbeaten record c.a. Rosrclet (KCC)
Pereira and the three rinks.
through the season.
Gutierrez, C. Rota J.F.V. Ribeiro (Recreio) 18-17. OPEN TRIPLES
A.A.G. da Silva, C.C. Pereira and beat Yesterday, one more event of
(Recreio) C.A. Danenberg
Omar
enjoyed
was
12-shot lead it one period, until one
when heart
he promoted an opposing front wood with his first delivery
very find unlucky with itis, drive on his second wood when he took out about three of his near woods to give Ribeiro a count of four This started Ribeiro and his their upward
men
and
on
the Colony Open Championships A. Brauciro, E.G. Barros and R.
with
its Bata (FC) £3-18, the
M.B. Hasan, Ismail Ali and A.M. Omar (IRC) beat J. Tindall. F.C.
23-10.
-the Triples - reached quarter-findl
stage play-oft of the seven remaining Casson and L.F. Cosgrove (KBBC) third-round matches.
Previously
one-shot win
C.K. Sung. C.C. Mi and A.H. Seenin (CCC) beat W. Stronach, J. 10-6. McKitrick, and W.M.-McCall (KDčj
the played was matches between the Noronha brothers and HKFC triple of K frend
Forrow, P. Gardner and J. K.
G. Stark, B. Douglass and J.B. which saw them closing the Sloan which ended in a narrow Baxter (TC) beat WC-12.
shots,
for the HKFC Racride and W. Riley (KDC) within two Lap until
P. Cottier. K.B. Baker and E. when
they lost a three on the bowlers,
Greenwood (KFC) beat G., Clay 18th head to eventually concede One major upset highlighted ten, W. McColl and C. McLennan the
The Kamos match to Omar by 17-22 yesterday's
was (TC) 20-19,
HOW THEY STAND the Luz thel: the 23-14 defeat of Kive IRC "Blues"
First Division only point,
brothers by the CraigengoWER"
PW L. Pis. combination of George Hong
13 18 Some excellent bowling by con
Recrela "Blues" and S. ccc ..... F. O. Madur
13 10 0 the front men of buth sides, des
Chay spite the unsuitable condition of Leonard Striking some of their KCC
best forms of the
the KBGC green, featured the play.
winners chalked up five shots Especially prominent were 3. S.
three hends Arkber, George
Guterres, Jeff on the first
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season,
Hoosen, Joe Luz, A, K. Minu,then jumped ahead to n
Spotty Pereira, and the two Hecreto No. 2's, Lionel Rodrigues and S.
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by the end of the 7th head. were still ahead, 10-8,
of the 12th. AKDC Both Kowloon Cricket Club desperate effort by the favoured CCC and Crafgengower remuined
Luz brothers saw them closing RKCC within striking distance
to 14-18. In up the Kap Champions with a 4-1 victory
brilliant finish, however, ench. Kowloon Cricket
Club
winners scored two twos and n
"PRC still have a faint charec of single to clinch the match.
The other top favourite com- KDC overtaking the "Blues" if they
Ismail HKERC Hassan, win all their four remaining bluation of M. B.
POC matches by a 5-0 margin, which Ali and A. M. Omer gained KBGC will bring their aggregate to 62fairly
easy 23-19 win over FC points, and the "Blues" go down KBGC's J. Tindall, F. C. Gasson KFC ત eliber Craigengower or and L. F. Cosgrove desplie the KBGC by a 4-1 margin.
plucky efforts of the losers who
PRC USRC
Third Division
U.S. SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Washington Girl Breaks World 100 Metres Butterfly Record
Philadelphia, Aug. 14.
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Olympic diving star Pat McCormick of Los Angeles and Carolyn Green of Fort Lauderale, Florida, today joined 15-year-old Carin Cone of Ridgewood, New Jersey, as double winners in the 39th National AAU Women's Swimming Champion- ships.
Betty Mullen of Washington's Walter Reed Swim Club highlighted the closing session of the four-day meet when she bettered the accepted World's record for the 100-Metres Butterfly event.
HONGKONG BEATS MACAO 61-49
But her time of 1 minute; 15 month. Miss Vorbig's time is Mlar Green, ako a triple seconds fell short of the 1:13.8 still awaiting official recognition holder before the meet, retained performance of 14-year-old Anna na the now World record, re- [ter
and 800-Metræe
1,500- Vorbig of Holland at Paris last placing the now accepted mark Mctres free-style championships of 1:15.8 set by Jetin Langenau but lost her 400-Metres title to BASKETBALL
of East Germany in Turin, Italy Dougle Gray of the Walter Reed last year.
Club The stronger Walter Roed
speedy and unheralded toam Ived up to expectations Miss Cono, who never won a by rolling up an overwhelming national swim title before, furn- point total of 100. Los Angeles ed in the upsets of the meet. Macao, Aug. 18. was second with 81, followed by She equalled the World 304 Sun Luen basketball Fort Lauderdale with 37.
Metres course record as she of Hongkong yesterday The Walter Reed team of churned to victory in tile '300- beat a combined Chinese Macao Shelly Mann, Mary Jane Sears, Metres backstroke, then she de leon by 01-40 of the
Champion Praia Betty Mullen and Wanda Warner feated defending Grande ground,
won the 400-Metro Relay in Shelly. Mam to "chalk up, her
to wet an an im- 0.07
American and meet sobonds victory to the 100- pressive. cilapiny of skul and record. The old American record Motren huostroke,
work and forced the of 5:10.8 was set here in Septem Mrs McCormick, a triple win- local pinyers into a oronuous bor, 1954 by the same team, with nerastaat voor warowarded effort to keep thb score low. the exception of Miss Mullen 325,15 points today thi the they
who replaced Marle Güllett. Marices dive
Heom
The visitors gave
team
WATER POLO
The Chung Sing Water Palo team torn Hongkong dofcated
tripto
TRIPLE WINNER Mrs McCormigg, modesfully: amelotitlan from our local winner last year," swimming clubs by: 1144 on défended her one Naturtier, night at the Municipal, Metres diving tiles for
and
This is Sandor Tharos, the Hungarian who is now the world record-holder in the 1,500 Metres run. Iharos had held the European record for a few months until It was beaten by Istvan Rozsavölgyi, also a Hungarjan, in June. He recaptured the record last month,
Tharos went to London last week quite confident that he was just in the mood to beat the world record for the Mile. At the White City on Saturday he missed out by seven seconds and was beaten by yet another Hungarian, Laszlo Tabori, It is certainly quite a - Hungarian year in the Mile and its metric equivalent.
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WIGHTMAN
CUP
FIRST DAY'S PLAY
Australia Leads Italy 2-0 In Davis Cup Inter-Zone Final
Philadelphia, Aug. 14.
Lewis Hoad and Ken Rosewall gave Australia a two-nil lead over Italy here today in the Inter-Zone Final of the Davis Cup.
Hoad defeated Fausto Gardini in straight sets in the first Singles match. The Acore was 6-3, 6-2 and 6-0. Rosewall beat Nicola Pietrangeli 8-6, 3-6, 6-1 and 6-4 in the second match of the first day's play.
The Inter-Zone Final had through the third set in nine without conceding
been postponed from Friday. by mimites torrential rain and the centreo game. court was still wet and soft when play began today.
2-0 LEAD
the Australian continually play-
ed_to_1.
Pietrangell moved round the court quickly, however, placing his shots shrewdly, and Rose- Ken Rosewall of Australia wall had a fight on his hands. About 500 spectators walch-
beat Nicola Pietrangell of Italy The Italian's main successes ed. Hoad and Gardini enter the B-0, 3-0, 0-1, 6-4 in the second ca
Club
wall's forehand, forcing tho
German Town Cricket
of the match to give Australin 2-8 came by driving wide to Rose- atodium for the first two Singles matches of the day. lead at the end of the first day's Australian to not many of his attempted returns, He also Rosewall was superior all cleverly kept the ball away from the fist round. The Italian's main Hosewull's strong backhand.-.
Hoad, wearing spiked shoes, play. served first and broke through Gardini's service for
time in the fourth game, mainly weakness was his backhand and Reuter,
on Gardini's errors.
The court quickly began to show signs of wear and Hond's
fort spikes
divois from the grounds.
The Australian, showing fair form under the conditions, used the court well and frequently placed his volleys and drives hopelessly cut of the Italian's reach.
CLEARLY OUTMATCHED Gardini, though clearly cut- matched, showed good speed WOR accurate with and placements.
Mexican Favoured To Win This Year's
English Channel Swim
London, Aug. 14.
A total of 12 mon and five women will plunge into his the English Channel tonight from the French coast In their bid to swim the 20 miles (32 kilometres) to the English coast.
The gallery, which rose to about 1500 during the match, contained a section of Italian
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Bad weather and choppy seas have delayed the start residents. of Phiindelphia. Noisy of this cross Channel swimming marathon for five days demonstrations from a section and the crack long-distance swimmers have been "treading of the crowd while the ball was the water" at Folkestone on the South England coast.
He is the in play caused the umpire to
Tonight they go over by boat his watery crossing. appeal several times for silence
from Folkestone to the starting only swimmer to have crossed during ralites,
Gardind
mado spirited point on the North French coast the Channel both ways in the thrown in its showing to take two games in for this race worth £500 to the same year.
Ireland has of the event, plus the winner the second set, but Hoad raced right to hold the massive silver professional 31-year-old wrest- cup valued at 1,000 guineas for ler Jack McClelland Denmark's 37-year-old Ena Anderson is one year.
among the women swimmers.
For the first time, a team of medical specialists from the
and Admiralty British Medical Research Council will
boat. follow the swimmers by America's Madeleine Werner
They will take observations did not check in at Folkestone concerning the human body's today when the starting time resistance to cold in sea water. was announced. Portugal's Bap. They will examine the swim- lista Pereira, who
mers as soon as they finish the year's crossing, is not competing crossing or abandon the race.— this year owing to a throat France-Presse, complaint.
Angela Mortimer Stuns Crowd By Upsetting
American Champion
New York, Aug. 14.
The first woman to touch the English coast wins the prize of The successful swim- £600. mers arc expected to make landfall about 1700. hours GMT on Monday.
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Angela Mortimer gave Britain its first match victory in the Wight-structor, who made the crossing man Cup tennis series in four years today by upsetting American Champion Doris Hart, but victories by Louise Brough in both Singles put the United States well on its way to its 19th straight victory in the lop-sided interna- tional series.
Miss Mortimer, Britain's leading player, stunned the crowd by whipping Miss Hart of Jacksonville, Florida, 6-4, 1-6, 7-5. Miss Hart lost control while leading 5.2 in the final set, and Miss Mortimer came on to win five straight games and the match.
It marked Britain's first vic-beat Shirley Fry of Akron, Ohio, plays Miss Bloomer. A Doubles tory in any match in this series in 1951. It also marked the first match pitting Miss Hart and since Jean Quertier of Britain loss for the red-haired Misa Hart Miss Fry against Miss Mortimer
ches she has played since 1947, the series-United Press.
Including today's matches, Miss Mortimer's triumph was only the third for Britain in the 05 matches comprising the series played since World War II.
WINTER OLYMPICS
British Travel Agents Refuse To Handle Tickets
British
London, Aug. 14. Travel Agents are refusing to handie tickets for
the Winter Olymples at Cortina
last year in 10 hours minutes.
Other entries Include:
Senara Mihir
24-year-old Indian
barrister who has been training since the end of his 31-year-old Laurie Park of Long studies, here inst year; America's Beach, California, who holds numerous American swimming records and plans to swim Lake month. The 58-year-old Ontario next veteran, William Barnde, known
he accepts only.
the
Japan Wins Swim Meet
کم فجر
Tokyo, Aug. 14. to-night * Japan
won the swimming eran American meet by 49 to 27 points at
Results tonight wore: 100-metre butterfly: 1, Albert Wiggins (US) 2, Takashi Ishimoto; 9. Jiro Negalows. Wiggins won by 2 feet in a time of Scottish
minute 2.7 seconde. 100-metre "freestyle: 1. Man Patterson Bu-kogb; 2, Reid
Ogimachi pool in Osaka,
becausa
in the 13 Wightman Cup mat-and Miss Buxton will conclude as the "Whiskych" during | (US); 3, Atasμh! Tani, Time::87"
The seven-match series will continue tomorrow with three Singles ant a Doubles, match. Britain now faces the imposing task of wining three of those four matches to gain the title.
RECOGNITION
32-year-old Champion from
ULSTER GRAND PRIX
Italian Motor Cyclists
Stage Walkout At Prize Presentation
Belfast, North Ireland, Aug. 14.
The official Italian team of Motoguzzi riders at the Ulater Grand Prix boycotted the prize presentation here on Saturday night after a dispute over starting money
The riders were W. A. Lomas, R. H. Dale, and D. Agostini, Lomas, winner of the 500 cc and 850-cc classes, did not come to collect two cups and two replicas, three finishers plates and more than $240 prize money.
seconds.
400-metre freestyle: Yoshihiro Shell; 2, Ford Konno (US); 3, William Woolsey (US) ume: 4 minutes 33,4 seconds.
100-metre back-stroke-1, Frank E. McKinney; 2, Yoshinobu Cyakawa; 3, Keiji Hase, Time: 1 minutte, 5.4 seconde,
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200-metro Masaru Furukawa; 2, Hisasht Gomzuru; 3, Metol Kimura, Time: 2 minutty 36.3 seconds
breaststroke.-1,
000-metre relay,-1, Japanese team (Hiroshi Suzuki, Tashi Tani, Manabu Koga and Yoshi- hiro Shoji) defeated the Amer icans with the time of 3 minutes 34.8 Beconds, Americas "team ·· anishest 8 minutes 40 seconds flot-Reuber,
· Brough, Miss Dumpezzo in Italy in 1956- Wimbledon because the Organising Com-Beverly Hills, California, who mittee of the Games wants them is bidding to regain recognition of international to charge more than the ometal as the queen
her Singles price to cover distribution costs. tennis, easily, won
match today over
Shirley Negotiations between the A- Bloomer, 6-2, 6-4. sociation of British Travel Agents and the Organising -She teamed
then with 37-payment, Committee have reached year-old Mrs Margaret. Osbortie deadlock,
Du Pont of Wilmington, Dela- Mr Richard Colmer, the Asware, captain of the US team, a Doubles match from to win sociation's general secretary, Miss Bloomer and Pat Ward, salt here today, "Our members 6-3, 6-3. The Brough-Du Pont.
He said the starting money Lorias was in the room where (more than 750) have high
held the US Diables team standard to maintain and we Championship for nine straight offered him was less than the the prize giving was to tako consider it would be unethical years from 1942 through 1980. aum which he had been promised place. But when the Deputy.
Helsinki, Aug. 14. Prime Minister of Northern by the organisers. do this.
Norway beat Finland by two tomorrow's Singles Mr Malcolm Wilson, Chairman Treland, Mr W. B. Moginess, goals to one in a soccer inter- "As long as this policy on the Organising Committee persists, matches Miss Brough will meet of the Ulster Motor Cycle, Club arrived to distribute the awards, national played in the Olympic recognised British travel agents Miss Mortimer in the day's the organisers of the race, wal
Mre Dorothy the starting money was the same Londs and his team manager, Stadium fere today:
The teams were level 1-1 at cannot be in a position to help reature, while
half-time,Reuter, the Winter Olymple Games Head Knode of New York plays as had been arranged before the Mr V. Fergus Anderson, walkeď
out in protest Reuter, China Mail Special..
Angela Buxton and Milks Hart race.
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