✅ THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY,
AUGUST 16, 1955.
FIGHT THIS LAST TEST TO Boros Shakes Off The
THE FINISH-EVEN IF IT TAKES NINE DAYS TO DO IT
Says DENIS COMPTON
on
Whatever happens in the last Test at the Oval, which started Saturday, I hope playing conditions will be fair to both sides and that victory goes to one team or the other. I shall be sorry if the deciding game in such an intriguing series ends in a draw.
Money Jitters On The Last Nine Holes
Chicago, Aug, 14.
hibitions at $1,000 each, elevated him to first place in golf's
SPORTS ROUND-UP
Tennis Is The Ideal Summer Game For Any Professional Footballer
Harry Hooper, West Ham's England “B” soccer international, has found the perfect summer game for footballers. It is lawn tennis. "Tennis," he says, “Is the ideal summer game for any professional footballer.
I
"I enjoy cricket, but tennis is the tops. for keeping you in peak condition.
week I found I started faster and fitter than at any other time in my career,
*I'm mich die already, after Keenan in Glasgow for his Em-nine.wealt visit Miss Gordon only one
the United week's training.” As piró Bantam tiüe. A Tali vie- | will, compete In Hooper, an outside right and tory and the South African will States Women's Championships undorstudy lo Stanley Mait challenge World Champion on August 22-27. hown for England, was last Robert Cohen, of France. season the fastest man in Eng- lish football, fans are wonder- ing just what speed he will get
joined a local tennis club at the end of season and when I came back to football Inst
Julius Boros, shaking off the money jitters on the last nine holes, came from behind with a two under par 70 today to win the Tam O'Shanter “World” Champion- ship and a cash prize of $50,000 for the second time in four years with a 72-hole total of 281, seven under par.
The victory, which also carries a contract for 55 ex-
money winnings for 1965 with $61,971.55 and virtually as- sured him the earnings crown for the season.
Boros began his last round in third place with Henry Ransom fourth
strokes be of Chicago and Peter Thomson place, two hind Bo Wininger, and one be of Australia. Fred Haas came hindi Gene Littler and Wally up with the best round of the Ulrich. But while this irlo day, a four under par 08, to stumbled before the pressure take second money of $10,000 and the close-packed galleries, with a total of 283, five under Boros played steadily all. the par way
Littler, Thomson and Ransomup now, Wininger went out of
con- cách
whlic received $3,500, when he Antonio Cerda, Argentina, and tention on the sixth
World Ulrich tied for sixth at 285 and drove out of bounds and took u
picked up $1,950 aplece, Fred Littler continued to set the Hawking and Herbert led at pace until the 13th hole.
280 for eighth place and re- There Boros moved in front toceived $1,700 each. stay, knocking in a 35-foot pult for a birdle while Littler was wore beaten there by Pakistan.
short with his second and then missed a six-foot put to take a The big need is for a reason-bogle, Boros played the next able batting stort. Not since the three holes in par and birdied Arst Test in Jamaica 19 Tests the 17th with a nine-foot pult ago, in 1952-53, have we been to clinch the triumph. given u century opening stand.
we should find the game finish- ing well within the original time limit.
Fagland, naturally, will hope that it follows the pattern of the Oval Test of two years ago, and not 12 months ago.
For that reason I am disappointed that no provision has been made for an extra day at the Oval. I do not favour longer Test matches-I think 30 hours are ample, provided the weather does not intervene yet the weather was so kind in the first four Tests that the odds of it breaking in the Ofth must be greater.
Therefore I would recommend I feel that counties would not that extra time be set aside as a lose financially from their share safety-valve to be used in ease of a Test match which, even if exichided to nine days, brought of rain.
The Test is due to finish on about 30 playing hours. Thursday, when county gaines
Far better for them to share will be in progress, so that ex- tension into the Friday would in the proceeds of that match
than from the just two days be a simple matter.
or less of a five-day game in Yet I would go so far as to which the first three days were suggest that, if a serious break-washed out. rawn beerred in the weather, another verks of county games
Compensation
could be paid should be encroached upon, leave to Hampshire for switching their ing nine whole playing days free fixture, if necessary. for The Test.
The stipulation.
of course, |
I have
a feeling that if we would have to be that no more prepared to beat the weather,
30 plaging hours were
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taken up
By extending the Oval Test into a third and of county matches, the counties would be deprived of the expected services of the leading players.
Yorkshire and Surrey, engaged 311 In thrilling tussle for the Championship, might be affected.
And the Humpshire xtu:c against the South Africans, due to begin at Southampton on August 20. would have to be rearranged for another date at the end of the sesson.
·
COULD BE OVERCOME
All these are snags, I know.
I believe they could all be
overcome.
Surely the object should be to bring about a result to a match which would then produce a 3-2 winning margin to one side or the other for the Best time in the history of Test cricket in this country.
Cricket League Meeting
The annual meeting of the Cricket League will be held at the Hongkong Cricket Club on Friday, August 19, at 5.30 p.m.
In 1953 England regained the Ashes for the first time In 20 years-nt the Oval, Last year
we
---(London" Express Service),
seven,
Littier finished with o 74 to post a total of 284 and share
One Notes With Some
Some Relief
That Douglas Ford Plays Golf
At An "Abnormal Pace"
Says HENRY
LONGHURST
London,
I note with sonic relief that the new Match Play Chamipon of the United States, Douglas Ford, plays golf it what his fellow-citizens must now consider abnormal pace.
on
"I am
It is too much to hope that all will take a leaf from his book, but his example may perhaps have some small influence on the creeping paralysis which has overtaken the game in that country and seems rapidly to be overtaking it in this.
In the semi-finals Ford played 18 holes and Middlecott at Shr. (with great emphasis. Shelley Mayfleld and beat him 40min. cer, Meldalecott, dawdling Corry along like
member of the cardine foursome." beat Tommy Bolt over the same distance in
Chr. 55min.
#
10min, Dr
The latter thus qualifies, al- most to the minute, as the Dr Adenauer of golf-on appellation so splendid that I am sorely tempted to claim it as my own, Instead of passing the credit By a series of fractions and where I believe it belongs, cancelings-out reminiscent afnamely to Leopard Crowley. one's day in the Lower Fourth I Waiting In the locker room make Ford to have been playing for the other match to finish an at the rate of 2hr. 48min.
hour and per
three quarters dater Ford observed "If It's Middlecott, I'm able to finish tmerrow before ho rounds nine. Maybo ought to bring my trailer over
Giants Clinch The
1955
Baseball
League Pennant
Powerful Glants shellacked the Overseas Blues 22-2 yesterday at King's Park to clinch the second postwar Baseball League Pennant behind Cuscus Souza's no
hit! pitching.
I
ing slow.
playing good. When I am play
I am playing So there is no need for our golf courses to resemble the Brigh- ton road on August Bank Holi- day-though, as one who lives beside it, I observe the same proportion of slow coaches and bad drivers on both."
OTHER WINNERS Putty Berg tailled a one under par 75 for a 208 total for 72 holes to win the $5,000 first It was prize for women pros. the event.
third straight triumph
Wim Smith, 18-year-old who won the "All-American" last week, niso grabbed the "World" title for women amateurs with in final round of 74 and a 300
totul.
Doug Sanders, a Florida col- lege student who also won the | “All-American", took the men's
amateur crown with
•
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Derek Ibbotson, who helped Chris Chataway break the and England captain, has com- night ago, will run in the 0,000 Joa Mercer, former Arsenal World Three-Mile record a fort- ploted a Football Association Metres at an international meet- Chris Chataway, once again coaching course and is now pre-ing in Budapest, on August 20-
Three-Mile Champion, paring Tranmere Rovers for the 21. looks forward "with great
coming season. A brølden leg køpt Travelling with him will be pleasure" to running against Marcer out of soccer last sea-four-minute miler Brian How- the
but he is joining the son, who will compete in the now World 1,800 Metres 11, Champion, Hungary's Sandor Tranmere players in ball praç- | 1,500. Metres, hurdler Franic Iharos at London's White City tico, sprinting and gymnastic Parker and half miler Ron
He is still confident Henderson. on August 12.
This meeting of Champlons that he will play again.
Hungary wanted Chataway will be over the "magic" mile
and Gordon Pirle, but Chat distance,
Jacqueline Gordon, British away will be in Scandinavia and Says Chataway: "It Thares is golf international, has left for with his club, Achilles, going out for a mile record and the United States. During her Pirie will be le Canada. takes the lead that may mean a repeat of the race I had against John Landy at Turku (Finland) when he set up the of 3min. 58sec world record
FORMER CHAMPION Jake Tull, former British and Empire Figweight Champion, Just round | now bids for Empire Bantam→ tally of 70 for a 284 total, four weight honours. On September under par-United Press
14 he meets Scotland's Peter
Springboks Drop
Drop Five Players From Team To Meet British Isles
Capetown, Aug. 14.
Jack van der Shyf, Springboks fullback who kicked ten of his sides points in their defeat in the First Test, is among five players dropped by South Africa from the team to meet the British Isles in the second Rugby Test here on Saturday next. Kroon (hooker), Amos Du Plooy (front-row forward). The others omitted are left-winger Silas Swart, Olin
and Basie van Wyk (lock forward).
exercises,
Newmarket's Last Race
Should Not Be
Be For Two-Year-Olds
Colonel W. N. Gray has made a number of breaks with tradition since he was appointed clerk of the course al. Newmarket just over two years ago. Many of the changes have been for the better, although the advisability of some is open to question.
The 280 start has been instituted in the belief that it will enable more people from the surrounding towna; such as Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds, to attend.
Attendances of the First July Meating did not appear to sup- Newmarket will also appreciate Those jockeys who live li port this conjecture in fact the not having to dash off by car majority of visitors did not like for aeroplane to fulfil riding en- after having taken the idea of postponing their tea gagements, by half an hour and reducing part in morning-gallops on the. the time in which to
propare Heath on Friday and Saturday, for evening engagements.
HIS BEST Mrs David Robinson Placing a two-year-old event
and her as the last race of the day may trainer, Jack Watts, appear to also be a retrograde step.
have come to the conclusion that A position change has also
INTEREST Dawie Ackermann, of Stollen-
My Smokey does not stay A Most racegoers find these races mlio and a half. After his Derby been made, Karel van Vollen-bosh, a fost powerful scrum- hoven moving from centre three-mager, Alls the lock position of particular interest and nor-failure, My Smokey reverted to quarter to the left wing.
vacated by Van Wyk,
mally many would leave before la mile at the last Newmarket Van der Shyff,
of the опо
so easing traffic meeting, when he The other newcomer to the the last race,
gained A greatest place kickers in Rugby | backline
comfortable victory beside Dryburgh is congestion. Today, gives way to Roy Dry-Bill
This week's fixture at New Bottisham Stakes. Rosenberg burgh, a versatile Western Pro-
A mile may prove The Springbok team has big market was granted in lieu of vince player.
at the Second July Meeting, aban-distance but, oven over a fur- potentialities, particularly
doned because of the rall strike. long less, he is going to take a Jaap Bekker, who toured the forward. But it remains to be
It may however, be the fore-deal of beating in the August Management Committee Meeting British Isles and France with seon whether the three
runter of an annual August Handicap on Saturday: the
has to give weight to some 1051/52 Springboks, takes ters Des Sinclair and Rosenberg Hockey
con Improve on first Test per meeting on the little-used sum-
older Horses such as Annual Meeting
mer course. Not that racing in useful Hongkong over from Du Plooy in the front- of
and Albertus ven Hockey Anglation, Murray Parade | row,
der Ground, 1.K. Rept Hut,
Team: R. Dryburgh, K. van August is a new thing at New-Tor Honey, Waystre and Fair Merwe replaces Droon as hooker.
nor for that matter is Risk but was a close-up fifth in- market, Vollenhoven, D. Sinclair, W.
Wthis the first weekend fixture to the 2,000 Guineas. He will ad- SOUTH AFRICA TRIAL Rosenberg. T. Briers, C. Ulyate, be held there.
vertise the value of the three- Van der Merwe played in T. Genties, C, Koch, A. van der
South Africa meccat
trial Merwe, J Bekker, 5.
In the years immediately fol-year-old form if he succeeds Fry
lowing the war. experiment | here. matches and distinguished him-| (Captain), J. Du “Rand (Vice
was made of holding an August
also In My, Smokey's J. Clanssens, D. self with Boland against British Captain),
Axture at Newmarket to all the favour that he is a comparative Isles yesterday.
Ackermann, D. Retief.-Reuter.
gap, while many of our other fresh horse, for most of his op-
Bub courses were recovering from ponents have since reen warme occupation.
jected to hard races st either Ascot or Goodwood.
Sports Diary
of HKFA.
TODAY
Football
TOMORROW Golf Deepwater Bay Golf.
WEDNESDAY. Water-Foto
so I can sleep between shots,"
NOTABLE BUFFORTER The cult of faster play has another notable supporter in the States
in the person of none other than the President, whose addiction to golf has given such a fillip to the game, as doubl- less will the Duke of Edin- burgh's if he will forgive pun as frightful na was un- Water-polo_ Knockout competition intentional when in the full-semi-final: Fortuna Che
Anny v Easter. ment of time he gives up nasty
sports rough
ike cricket and polo.
The President. I read, over- nges two and a half hours, and
€
The game was decided right from the beginning as anything from 85 to 90 shots, the Giants bagged eleven runs in the first inning throughound the Burning Tree Club at
Washington. five hits and six free tickets issued by the opposing The first full impact of the
Lortoise
Kolf ΠΟΥ deemed orthodox In America struck in the final of the 1050 Amateur Championship at St. Andrews, when Stranahan ard Chapman,
hurler.
Overscus Blues opened the Though they slackened in the score by P. H Lee through a third rod the score stood still at felding error. However, the 13-1, they were on the run again Giants just went wlid on their after the Blues received one
turn. Eddle Loureiro first got more run through a series of on the base through a niscue miscues in the fourth canto,
Tony Guterres
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runs,
also doubled and Pedruco and Brown
slammed
put
told
I
us
am
hr.
the
His
formances.
Job Is To Find
Worst Roads For 1955
quot
The Round
Australia Reliability Trial
By
JOHN
STACKHOUSE
In
Melbourne.
with all spectators roped clear and the course to themselves, for 18 holes, took 3hr. 42min, Cuscus Souza first obtained a cach being round in about 77. out a solid triple to start the one-baser and then Tony'
Two years previously, Guterres walked after Eddic Bujl Dhibher walked and Vic Loureiro was put out at the first fereed the maich,
by a correspondent who re- the finalists
Mr Norman Pleasance is an Englishman with a genius for Anding bad roads. Pedruco's Umely double sent station. Buji Dhabher bagged in the Women's South-Western
This year, he has found the worst in Australia-and probably the worst in both Guterres and Dhauher his second three-run homer by Counties Championship at St.
the world. They will form part of the route of the 1955 Round Australia Redex driving the ball clean over the Enodec took three minutes long- across the plate.
Joaquim Collaco walked, but scoreboard out of the park.
reliability trial, sponsored by Mr Pleasance's firm. er than this. They had, howevËT, was forced out on second when The pitcher then issued four played two rounds in thay time. Jock Brown grounded
On August 21, 182 ears are the successful driver may make
the 144 miles between toward walks in succession to offer one not one. The first took 1hr. due to leave the Parramatta out of advertising corried on Maryborough and Sarina, the shortstop. Dicky Chaves free run and an infield sacrifice 30min..
and the second
Park in Sydney on the 10,500- the cars both by Giants produced another, for 35min.
and later endorse-north of Rockhampton, drivers mile trial round
Australia in ments of the products,
will have to cross 128 creaks, across. total of five,
The winner scored 80 in Igmar Erleksen was passed and Giants made their Inst assault morning and 83 in the afternoon
21 days.
tidal Against this there will be 32 cattle grids
and a the trial Mr Pleasance has guaranteed depreciation-for
is a passball advanced them cns in the fifth where they collected and "neither of the competitors,"
river. two more runs batted in by Jock my informant adds, a little un-
that they will base further.
run into fog, murder on cars.
In the 300 miles Inland from Brown.
and In the 1954 trial, many of Mount Garnet, south of Cairns, GRAND SLAM HOMEN
gallantly perhaps, "was young" dust, mountains, sandy
rocky
Queensland The strong contingent from
desert and seemingly the cars became, total wrecks, to the northwest Cuscus Souza's safety drove USS Gardiner's Bay walloped
limped into control town of Hughenden, grasa four In the old days courses were endless miles of rough bush Others in Dicky Chaves and Eddļo
the Overseas Reda 10-5 on shorter, methods were simple, tracks in what is generally ad-points with body-work smash-feet high is growing over Loureiro was passed to load the Saturday in a five-inning game and the rewards at stake
The first drivers over un-mitted to be one of the world's ed in, windshields shattered or track bance. Tony Guterres was given The sailors also ran wild in the doubtedly not so great. Never toughest reliability tests,
the route will have a difficult engines burned out. ticket and Erickan frst to choke up 15 runs before theless the difference is start-
ot AA Anderson, Job to find wheel tracks to guide walked in. Then Ball Dhabher the Reds managed to stem the Ing.
Queensland, one of the drivers them. connected a grand slam homer tido. Mohr and Wilhelm homer-
Sandwich In 1904 measured It is designed to try the competing again this year to clean up the bases.
ed for the Navymen.
the course last your still
0,157 yards-perhaps 700 shorter strength both of driver and car, finished Glants
kept
the
HOW THEY STAND
suitability of only after ho had than today, When Walter Travis AJ well as tho slaughter during the second
P. W. L. Pct.
won his first-round; match in any car where Cuscus Souza and Eddie Giants
8 0 1,000 the Championship against Mrtions Loureiro ench singled to score US. Navy
6 2.3 run and Vie Podruco | Overseas Reds 4,1 8 doubled to produce two more. Overseas - Blues
REVISED SCHEDULE The revised Summer Softball League second round schedule
n free
one
is as follows:
Aug. 15 Filippinos
up
18. South China "B"
Aug. 10-
17 Aug. Aug. Aug. 19
AUK. Aug. 23- Aug. 24. Aug. 25 Aug., 20
Aur, 30-
the
0
5 1 4
STARTLING
L
· SUITABILITY
1
overcome
DEEP POTHOLES Betweers Cloncurry
and
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cross-
I which hayo such high, over-
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WORTHWHILE
The fixture did not attract a.
It is
In
the
hia best
--(London Express Service).
large number of runners and it »Bayer's á was not particularly well
ut-
tended. Things may be different TONIC
now that there are more horses
in training and the prospect of larger fields to draw the crowds. There was week-end racing at during the war and
Now wont of trying it
the
**** (BAYER)
under normal conditions is well although meetings worthwhile, noarer the large
go towns would
no
doubt altract larger attendances. Judging by the size of the accepters, there will be no lack of runners this week, despite the firm going.
to Australian condi- severe difficulties by sheer in- Mount Isa, also in the north
itiative
wost of Queensland, there is 400 H. Holdon, of Royal Liverpool, The entries include good
A
DESOLATE ; PLAINS
nightmare 160 miler, with dorp 280 at the 15th, they had taken. Isolection of the world's cars. In the middle of the desolate potholes and thy crook
Ings 200 hr. 50 min.
heaviest is a The
British Nullabor plains, Mr. Anderson Writing an account some years Humber Super Snipe and the and his companion holed the hanging banks that cars with a later, Travis complained how he lightest a small French Citroen, sump of their Holden. Thay it big overhang may well become
stuck had been soaked during the Some competitors have yet to a fire while other competitors
The lonellest section is the match and had no time to
say what care they will drive,
between atretch his his clothes, as change
1,000-mile So for 35
European cars
Broome,
J Katherine and entered.
Western
Australia. Best represented is the Aus
Between Norsernan, in Wes- Now the match against Mr tralian-built Holden, with 30 they
Australis, and Codina, In Championship Committee
South. Australia, a mere 766
South China "A" Jaguars
VS. VE VB.
South China "B"
Pandas
Filipinos
| second-round match Was
rout et 2.28:
VEL.
US Navy
Jaguars
v. Pandas
VE.
South China "B"
VR.
Jaguars
-US. Navy
-South China. "A"
South China “A”
Aug. 31-Jaguars;
Sept 2 -Pondas
· Sept. --1-
Sept. 8
Sept
Sept. 8
Pandas Pandey -Bouth China, "D"
Filipinos Pandas
*A
:
South China "A" Filipines Pandas South China "B"
Navy
VA,
U.S.
VS.
VI.
VA
South China "B” Filpinos South China “A”. vi. Jaguare
vsự South China VA U.S. Navy
va (US Navý
duo
walzzed past, and melted some sticks of solder they had with aro
them.
In the soft sand of the road, tho
of the hole in their sump
Holden had started at 12.0. The entries" Most of the rest will she made a mould of
of
th1090 days, therefore, reckonndo. Engilsh cars will the and carefully cast n plug from miles, there is not, very much, {
It took Strunshan and Chapman. to play 12 holes adequate for
18 holes, extra, holes if need be
and lunchil:ALE - STAN
There have been few greater players of golf khan ke Chan Barazart
Each
most the
in and the engine-assembled, less it rains when drivers may will cost about the two men taited up again, have long walte in bogs, or £300-made up
Cad thing in china th
stranded on the wrong
aides „brought / back of fooded Navid
eventuality.
to £180 for fuel, oll and store
20 ontry fee and about: 40% accommodation and yo
sancy, bedding
Bacons TONIC
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