WEEK-END BOWLS
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BEST OF YESTERDAY'S
OPEN TRIPLES
BY.
MATCHES
"TOUCHER”
Three favoured combinations from Craigengewer Cricket Club, Indian Recreation Club and Kowloon Cricket Club made their way into the semi-final round of the Colony Open Triples Lawn Bowls Champion- ship as the result of yesterday's quarter-final matches at Kowloon Bowling Green Club.
The fourth semi-finalist berth will go to either the Craigengower three of George Hong Choy, F. O, Madar and S. Leonard or the Recreio combination of A, A. da Silva, C. C. Pereira and C. A. Danenberg, depending on the outcome of their game on Tuesday.
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Best of yesterday's three | Football Club trio of P. Grärdner, j a drive to burn the head. Sloan matches turned out to be the K. Forrow and J. K. Sloan. tussie Between last year's giant- killers, C. K. Sung, C. C. Ma and A. H. Scenin, and the Hongkong
U.S. TENNIS TOURNEY
American Pair
Beaten In
Doubles Final
Brookline, Mass., Aug. 29. The 23-year-old Japanese Davis Cup players, Kogel Kumo and. Atush Miyagi, yesterday won the United States Nationa? Doubles Tennis Championships They defeated the American pair Jerry Moss and Bill Quillan 0-2. 6-3, 3-8. 1-0 and 6-4.
is the Bret time
team has Won
the United States National Doubles
This Japanese
Championship.
Both sides were playing below their usual form and it was not until the last few heads that good standard was reached.
The Craigengower three, after being held to 5-5 at the end of the 5th hrad, forged ahend to 10-5 with a five on the next
made a perfect drive only have the misfortune of having the jock stopped by Seemin's backwood and leaving the jack almost touching the tape with a count of threo against him.
CONVINCING WINS
Head and went ahead to 17-0vincing wins
when the tide turned.
GOOD DRAWING
On the 12th head some good drawing by the Football Club bowlers enabled them to chalk up a three. They followed this up with a single.
On the other two rinks, con- were scored by IRC I.. All, M. B. Hassan, and A. M. Omar and KCC's À. V. Lopes, E. R. Rossele and C. R. Rosselet.
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Although the eventual score WON 7-27 against them, the Tallooo three of G. Stark. B. Douglass and J. B. Baxter de
serve speciul mention for the fine the On the 14th head Seemin,bowls they put up and for with an opposing lie of one fine spirit shown by them at any toucher against him, hit the shot singe of the gume. wood much
to give away a three.
too hard
Wak
Extremely good bowls served here, with Baxter es- pecially prominent with some beautiful drawing to the jack.
The Indians, however, joyed distinct superiority
then time uhd
сп-
With the score now standing 16-17, some good bowling was shown by the eventual winning load, C. K. Sung, who drew in two good shots on the next head, their resting and heavy shots
Ken Forrow, however, trolled which enabled
to
see
in
into
Only three countries besides the jack back almost two yardsguin to change the head
the their favour, the United States Australia, to le four, only Britain and Germany-have won opposing No. 2, C. C. Ma. draw In the third quarter-finai
Doubles title-France-in a perfect toucher for the shot. Forrow again trailed the jack for another yard to lie one and skip Sloan added another for a count of two.
the Prease.
Holland-India Share Honours At Hockey
Amsterdam, Aug. 28. Holland and India drew their Men's Hockey match in the Amstelveen loduy, stadium at the anal score being one goal Lach.
!
At half-time, Holland led by 1-0.
F
1 gools were made from short corners,
Holland took the lead though talderight Hooghfernstie but Susal equalised for India in the second half. The showed sometimes Indian team more skill than the Dutch.
however, *The Anal score, rother accurately reflected the strength
teams. The of the match was played in hot sum- mer weather before a crowd of about 6,000 spectators-China | Mail Special.
Hopman, An "Undemocratic
Martinet"
Forest Hills, N.Y.. Aug. 28 Ted Harris, brondensting the Davis Cup matches to Australia for the McQuarry network, to day charged non-playing captain Harry Hopman with being an "un-democratie mortinet."
Harris was Incensed beenuse Hopman refused to let him con- duct
a personal interview with
Now trailing behind by 17-18, the CCC three came back with two on the 10th head when Forrow failed to come into the count and Sloun found himself well blocked on both hands.
match, Greenwood's three put an excellent stand against Hosselet's three up to 7-8 on the 10th head, when they began to fall off. The KCC three. went on to score 11 shots on six successive heads to hold a com manding 19-7 lead by the end of the 18th head und win com- fortably by 20-8.
MANY AN UPSET
Some Further good bowling head. 17th on the
But for the fact that the was seen
two Championship titles have been C. K. Sung again drew good shots, both about six olmost decided, the week-end of the jack. League games might have made inches in from Gardner followed through for headlines with the number the shot, but Sung turned over major upsets produced, his own wood with his last delivery to lie the shot.
C. C. Ma hud the misfortune to take out his own shot wood with a rather heavy delivery, and Forrow added a second shot. Seemia
extremely lucky when he sliced the jack to the right side to lie one.
was
Sloan, however, came through with a fine shot when he played an his own front wood to rest the shot wood for a single to tie the score at 19-19 at the end of the 17th head.
MISUNDERSTANDING
of
The First Division games saw no fewer than three major up- sets, but Recreio "Blues" were able to keep their heads well above the water to beat Police Recreation Club by 4-1 and thus retain the Championship for the fourth year in succession.
on
*
final
Kowloon Cricket Club's 4-1 defeat by IRC "Gold" has light bearing the standings as this leaves the race for the runner-up position fairly open now between KCC and Craigengower.
"Russian footballers
learn dancing to improve their play!!
WE NOW EXPECT
Victor
"Quick, Quick
Silvester To TAKE OVER THE ENGLAND TEAM
MANAGEMENT FROM Walter Winterbottom
PLAYERS
WILL DEMAND TRANSFERS
WHEN
BARRACKERS
ACCUSE
THEM OF DOING THE "CREEP
FOLLOWED BY
The REFERES WARNING A SCOTTISH PLAYER HE'LL HAVE HIG NAME "TAKEN
THE NEXT TIME
HE PERFORMS
ARGENAL
WILL
ABANDON
THEIR FAMED
RED AND WHITE
COLOURS
IN FAVOUR
u'll never make
•player. You don'tt. Krow 3 WALTZ FROM)
A TANGO
STANLEY MATTHEMS WILL
BE DROPPED
OF SQUARE DANCING SHIRTS
A SWORD DANCE IN THE PENALTY AREA,
DAVIS CUP
RAYUALLYETT
AUSTRALIA COMPLETES 5-0
SWEEP OVER U.S. BY WINNING
REMAINING TWO SINGLES
Forest Hills, N.Y., Aug. 28.
Must The Empire Games Halt For Greyhound Racing?
By PAT REEKIE
It made my blood boll-this statement issued by the Organising Committee of the Sixth Empire Games and the Arms Park (Cardiff) Greyhound Company Ltd:
"Negotiations between the organisaton committee of the 1968 Empire Games and the Arms Park (Cardiff) Groyhound Company Ltd. are proceeding with a view to using Cardiff Arms Park as the principal stadium for the athletic events in the Games without interfering with the continuity of greyhound racing."
Cardiff has been given the Speedway racing, which ot honour of staging the 1958 that time was Attracting to Empire Games, but, apparently, Wembley crowds of up to 80,000, nothing
must stop the Welsh-was muspended for the first half man from going to the dogs, of the season while the running
{track was being laid,
Put in those terms it is scan-" dalous. The nations of the Commonwealth--black. brown; yellow and while-will descend upon Cardiff In 1058 from the four corners of the earth.
OWNED BY ṚU
WIDER INTEREST
No disaster befell Wembley. through the suspension of these Inetivilies. In the Empire Games, |the athletic events will take one
week instead of two.
Greyhound
though
Racing
a business
Cardiff theyCompany,
the concern, are, after all, a sport- puting body, making their money
honestly enough out of sport.
What Impression are going to take away-that Welsh
are a nation who above all the ideals of brother hood of man through inter- national sport a peculiar brund
animated Toulette greyhound racing?
of
called
Athletics may not be their of sport but they should sort
to fortelt be prepared thing in the wider interest of
(COPYRIGHT)
Arms Park, which is where sport in general. Cardiff Rugby Football Club play, is part-owned by the Welsh Rugby Union.
Greyhound
racing normally takes place there every Monday and Saturday evening and the average attendance of these Is in the region of meetings 3,000 to 5,000,
at
The Arms Park can accommo- date up to 55,000 spectators the moment. and when the old sland is enlarged as is being done it will accommodate
further 5,000 to 10,000,
a
sume-
PROFESSIONAL CYCLING
Belgium Snatches Brilliant Win
At The Finish
Frascati, Italy, Aug. 28. The Greyhound Company are,
Condant Ockers of Belglum to naturally as little anxious suspend operations
other snatched a brilliant victory from 36 business concerns would be. But Creek French and Lilian rivals not be here today to win the World such suspension need
Road Professional
Cycling disastrous.
Championship. Wembley Olympic Games, The New Champion rode
Tour weeks...a | minute defelt in the final four week before the games, two laps of the gruelling 14-lap weeks during the games, and ovent, totalling 182 miles. one week afterwards.
"He caught a small bunch of lexders just belore the Anish
In 1948, when Australia completed a 5 to 0 sweep of the Davis Cup today when Lew
staged the Hoad defeated Vic Seixas, 7-9, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4, and Ken Rosewall downed Hamyhound racing was suspend- furlously to make up a ten- Richardson, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, for the worst United States defeat for 20ed there for years.
The two final matches, played before a sun-swept gallery of 10,000, were virtually exhibitions The Aussies clinched the Cup emblematic of World Tennis supremacy yesterday as Hond and Rex Hartwig beat Seixas and Tony Trabert in the Doubles, in the wake of respective Hoad and Rosewall victories over Trabert and
Seixas in the opening Singles matches.
But even though the two final to avert a shutout. They sim- | slugger from Baton Rouge as matches meant little, Seixas ply weren't equal to the task at he wrapped the final set of the and the 22-year-old Richardson, hand.
44th annual Challenge Round, the hand-blistered
6-4.---United Press, subbing: for Trabert, were struggling grimly
BASEBALL
RESULTS
New York, Aug. 28. Major League baseball scores today were:
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Thus, when it was over, the Aussies had handed the Ameri- cans their first shutout since Great Britain white-washer Don Budge, Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn in 1935.
HOAD vs BEIXAS
NO HOAD HAS OFFER TO TURN PROFESSIONAL
the
and minute
left them
behind
fortably.
more than a to wh com-
Jempy Schmitz of Luxem- bourg was second and Germain third. Derjudice of Belgium
Many star road racers dropped out notably.
So gruelling were the com- ditions that only 19 of the 65 starters finished the course of Melbourne, Aug. 28. 182 miles, made up of 14 laps In the opening set today, Hood
Mr Norman Strang, Vice-cach of 13 miles. President of was not as sharp as he had been
Australian in his previous Singles against Lawn Tennis Association, pre Tony Trabert, but his service
dicted here today that Australia Vice-President Richard Nixon continued to be most potent would hold the Davis Cup for already had presented the Seixas, too, served with plenty at least the next two years... huge silver trophy to the Aussies of sting in this set and was more before Richardson stalked out sure off the ground than the oto the horseshoe stadium in an Australian,
the shut- attempt to prevent
out.
Was
The blazing sun, added to the dimeulties during the gruefling journey, Ocker's Ume was eight Mr Strang, who
com-hours 43 minutes 30 seconds, menting on Australia's victory 61 seconds ahead of Schmitz over the United States, the Games went with
service
holders, in New York on Satur- who, in turn was 14 seconds
ahead of Derjudico-Reuter. until Seixas broke through in day, said Queensland had a 15th game to lead 8-7.
Hoad first Making his
Challenge
strong claim to stage the 1950 had held on to duece, but Seixas Davis Cup Challenge Round. Round start after five years on Ethe team, Richardson couldn't won the next two points-the Washington
90 handle the slender 20-year-old first with a Cleveland
whom the Australians call "the second when Hoad
drive. Stone, Stobbs (3) and Court-little master." ney; Houlleman, Moglie __(6), Feller (8) and Hogan, WEL Stobbs (3-11), LP-Houtteman
9-7). HR-Courtney (3rd).
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BOOMING
SERVICE
Rosewall was held off for a while by Richardson's booming service, but when it foltered in the 9th game of the first set, he went to the net to shatter 1
Ham's delivery and run it out, 1-4.
neat lob and the "If Lew Hoad receives Beach Carnival
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netted a tempting offer and turns pro- fessional, Australia has num- ber of up-and-coming players to take his place," he added.
The American survived a closely fought 10th game, which three times went to dentre, to take the first set-ot 0-7.
Hond's father said in Sydney today that Hoad had not re ceived my offer to turn profes- In the second set, Hoed broke sional. He said he did not think through in the Fourth game his son planned any such change when Soixas double faulted. The -- "not yet at any rate." Australian was showing im- China Mail Special. 6
2nd Game
Washington Cleveland
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Recreio "Whites" also im- proved A slight misunderstanding on
their position con- the part of Ken Forrow, who siderably by beating the IRC was either under the impression "Blues" by 4-1 and may be able that the head played was not to avoid relegation after all. The last or that he was leading
In the Second by one shot, and an excellent
Division, shot by C. C. Ma were the main Talkoo fulled to make sure of
Division winners the Second contributors to the
'tille
by to USRC by 3-2 victory on the last head.
going down after winning on two rinka. McDermott (8-8) and Court- C. K. Sung drew in two
They now need nt Jeast ney; Houtteman, Maglie (5),
rallied to take shols about a yard behind the
two points in their
Feller (8) and Hegan. LP the second set, losing service in jack as Gardner went through match this Saturday againnt Houttuman (9-7). HR-Smith the 5th game on brilliant pass-
With Seixas lapsing into all his
woods. Cralgengower three with
Crickel Club, (19th), Kiner (15th),
ing shots but breaking back i errors under Hoad's relentless Forrow came in with the shot
if they are not to be overtaken
the 6th and 01h games by
pressure, the Australich broke away by Kowloon Docks, about two and half feet
storming the net to grab it off, service in the opening game of from the jack. C. C. Mo was short with his
the third set and quickly went first delivery
geixis won but drew a clinging toucher
4-0 before with his second wood.
Seenin placed a back-wood
last
Anything can happen as the New York Valley club have alrendy beaten Chicago Taikoo in their first match by 4-1.
on one side, which proved to It will be rather ironical M the victorious Australian players. be the winning wood eventual-the Valley club in the final stage "We believe In democracy in 1s. Sloun failed to rest the shot of the Championship takes away Australia and the boys should wood with his first delivery the title from Talkoo and pre have been permitted to say hello and repeated it with his second sents it to Kowloon Docic. to their friends and families in on Forrow's advice to limit the Australia," he asserted, adding: count to one. "Hopman is an un-democratic martinet, "United Press.
Realising later that this was the Inst head, Forrow called for
HOW THEY STAND
First Division
Recrolo "Blues.... 15:12
W D L Pte.
KBGC
PRC Recreio Wund
RC "Gold"
Rain Interrupts Professional Lawn Tennis. TC
Russia's Olympic Rowing Champion Beaten By Pole
Ghent, Aug. 28. Russia, entered for all seven events, reached four finals and won three titles today when the
In the international tennis European Rowing Champion tournament for professional KCC ships were concluded over a being hald here, Ken McGregor To 12,000 metres course on the Now of Austraila was lending Fred | PRC
Canal here.
Perry of England. 7-5, 6-2 toxiny when
thunderstorm and
·A·
of tho
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Berlin, Aug. 28.
In the other Anal for which heavy downpour forced pust.
panement of the rest match until Monday,
they had survived-the single Sculls Juri Tukalov, Russia's Olymple Champion of 1852, was beaten by Teodor Kocerka Richard Conmales of the US? (Poland), Windor of the Dis was leading Pancho Begura of imond Sculls at Hunleyada Berunder 10-8 when that rem your-China Mall Special was interrupted:ME/KLONEL
UBRO
Second Divizion
"Thira_Division.
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Chicago
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Richardson
proved form and raced through the next three gunes of the set at 6-1.
The Aussie put away the third to
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not quickly, breaking Richard-service game, son in the 2nd and 8th games
to
'The American pulled up for a 8-1 margin. Both times 4-3 and received wild applause he did it with rifle-like passing for his effort, but Hond clinched shots and unerring lob3,
the set in the tenth game.
"Austrian Soccer
Team To
Visit India
Calcutta, Aug 28.
Midway Of Olympic Games
Australia's
combine
EL
Melbourne, Aug. 27.
Lifesaving Clubs will
to present |spectacular comivel on Sunday
November 26, midway through the 1956 Olymple Games:
"They will stage the big show on Torquay beach, about 05 miles from Mribourne, Active Sydney surfing official Ken Watson, who recently flew to Melbourne to make plans with local ofelais, sald he hoped in- bornational swimmers in Mel- bourne for the Games would Watson described
Am Austrian soccer team will participato. visit Caloutta in the middle of the extensive plans to remake next month to play two ex-the entire beach for the hibition matches, a apolresmen nivel,
- in
TESCUES,
which over 1,000 There were iva service breaks
Hoad, in fine form at the net of the Inolar Football Associa-crack surfers and surf lifesavers evonis the fourth eat, but Rosewall and overhead, gained the match tion, said to-day.
would take part. Main will bo mock had three of them with some of winning service break in the
surf the most amazing sharp-, ninth game of the fourth set and
sultboard The spokesman said, that the races,
and surfski shooting ever seen
the unique at Forest then served out the match, hit-Austrians would break a jourhay ruges, and
battling the two with special surfboste Hills. His backhand passing ting a superb volley placement to the Far East for
the boomers-United Press, Calcutta games-Router." shots murdered the 22-year-old on match point-Reuter,
THE GAMBOLS
Criteria Hot completed „forme wrongly filled in
Accounts overlooked. =) what a mers to come back to
by Barry Appleby
it a good job everybody knows thak Ive been on holiday
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