CYCLING NOTES
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1955.
UNRULY CROWD AT THE FINISH SPOILED SUNDAY'S 30 MILES CIRCUIT RACE
By “N’TACA”
Superb sprinting by Don Wilkinson; brilliant and sustained speed efforts by Ron Beck; first-class team riding by Bouch and Jones; and some brainy work by John Ellingham. These, together with unruly crowds at the finish and some poor riding by the boys of the SCAA, were the high- lights of Sunday's '30 miles circuit race at Kai Tak.
Sponsored by the Exiles CC, the event drew a good field of 27 starters, the most notable absentees being two of the REME CC's cracks, Lunn and Hodgkinson. They got away to a very fast start, a group of four riders making a break from the dropping of the flag. The group consisted of Beck, Bouch, Ellingham and Wilkinson, with the field already starting to spread out.
A the end of the fast of the 20 laps of 11⁄2 mBen, the irading on group were 30 seconds up tho
riders, with Bould (REME), Jones and Cowian (7 Hussars), chasing hard but not moking any impression,
bothered,
Liverpool - Edinburgh record. Ken Marsden and Gerald Kay were 40 minutes up on the re cord at 158 miles when a burst front tyre caused a crash which treatment resulted in hospital for two, fortunately not very prolonged.
Brian Haskell added to
T: list of owards when he won the climb. beanBLRC Professional
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The fast time for the race. 1-24-D, was due mainly to the Inspired riding of Beck, who forced the pace when the others would have been quite content lo poter along at eage.
Rot, a lap down, came in to
the userar B Kive
the Team There were no major changes award by a wide margin, thus until Lap 7, when Bouch - confounding all the critics, in- shipped his chain, losingt contact cluding myself. Second with the leerders.
Wilkinson place was taken by the SCAA, hurting the 33 miles of Snake made
but a break,
nether whose riders have still
Pats in 15 min. 20 secs. best-
last year's Ellingham for Beck were at all jawful lot to learn about riding ing by 23 seconds
Fox
he in a bunch
winner, Dong Booker. Amaters Their videzu were spread it.
not were stretch into the wind,
jover four or Ave lus. none slower, 1. Sharpe recording {1 caught, which he was.
Time of 18-52 for the distance. aking any attempt to link p Meanwhile. Bouch had been | with others of his team all rid- joined by Cowlan and
The Veteran's Jones
Time Triola as individuais. (Bould
Assocution held their 25 miles KIME CC, hundenped by TT event on the same day, the up the absence of two of their best winning time being 1-0-42, by
the the 42-year-old the riders, bad bad luck with
Jerry Waters. The puncture demon, and had new-
wert. of winning team Ronomer Marshall brought off by course, the Luton Wheelers, led All Cheung-alag, who cut by the evergreen Charlie Cole. acrire his bath and tore off his At 65 years of age, he can still manage a 1-4 for the distance. from tyre.
Where does that leave ust
"wouli
tless!
on the huurd und be
having dropped back owing to a fully gear-chaupe), and the trio were stepping the pace to get front.
back
For the next 10 lape Beck set a cracking pace, lead- ing all the way, as Wilki would not work, and Ellingham was waiting for his own team- mates to catch up. Beck rede like a machine, puting hl Rear of 92 inches both with and against the wind. It
Was ne
until lap 15 that he started to tire, but was still mother two before the chasing Russars pair could make contact Az soon as they did so, the pace Blackened as each rider
to gain the best position for the final sprint.
The crwls at the finish were out of control, wandering All over the road and Impeding the riders in the finishing
forward by surging photographis. It might be a good
to
sprints take
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idea to erect rope barriers the finish for the next event on this very sporting circuit.
enabled
ON THE CONTINENT
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On the Continent the chief talking point is the dropping out of four major Trade teams. They are La Perle (Anquet ride for them), Magnat Debron, Terrot and Gitane. This will out throw 72 first-class riders
place Their second sought
SCAA to wipe out their two of work, unless they can book point deficit on the REME team up with some other Marque. Iri
Championship, the Team while the Huwar boosted their score to 6 Points. In the com- petition for the "Lord" Shield, Beck is sul weld in the lead. with 10 points to the 10 Willchson. Au Cheung-sing till- ing third position with 8.
At this stage Cowlan hnd re- tired, leaving only Rolt of the Hussur team to carry in support of Bough and Jones, while the REME boys had suffered three etinalioms, two due to pune- tures and one to a crash. The Leaders and upped the rest the Beld. come of them up four times.
STIRRED UP AGAIN
of
To Willdnson went the hon~
The reverse of the picture is a bit more cheerful, however. One of the "Extra-sportive" firms, Tonic and Food manufac- furern Folla Potin, have nounced that they are sponsoring ja cosmopolitan ten-man!
the Irish which may include
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Tommy Atkins ARMY SPORTS
PARADE
The honour of filling the Top Spot on the Sports Parade this week goes to a newcomer, Cfn. Trupp, who made his debut in the recent REME v. USS 'George Clymer' boxing match at the Missions to Scamen.
Trupp who is abort and chunky in appearance, is a boxer who will give lots of pleasure to local fans in the months ahead, and his Ane display in his first bout stamped him as a fighter with a difference......and with a future.
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of the inter- With the start Unit soccer competitions almost upon us it seems timely to have a quick look at the prospects of the various teams in the Major and Minor Unit Leagues.
There is always a danger in making pre-season team nascss- the ludividunt pro- mends that wess of players with established Interpreted as a reputation is conclusive guide
team strength
In past seasons this has been found to be a very mis- leading yardstick and often it has been the teems without the big
have claimed names who the honours.
STRONG FEELING
ת!
Up in the Farling area there is a strong reling that the lat Bn North Staffs team is guing to be right in the forefront of the League race.
pre-season games the side has shown be sense of team balance and they will not be erelly beaten. One of their players, Wilson, may soon be invited to take part in a higher grade of football.
The Northamptons Regt and the E590x Regt also secr
capable of putting good
workmanlike sides in the field but so far there is no real in- diention that they are going to be challenging for honours.
The airmen will play a full progrumme but will not be cigible for the Championship trophy as this is an Army com- and they have been petion, included to enable them to play in competitive soccer.
Once again there are several good sides and while Movement Light
and Troop
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น (Strange's) Bty will have to be watched
It seems certain 11th.
Ind. Workshops REME will start as
favourites to top the league.
that
The Crotismen have players Ashworth and
Hearn while available
othera like McCrae,
Bradley, Fawcett, Horne and Tutt are not far short of that standard.
The dark-horses in this division may well be HQ 27 Bdo and 26 FDS but unless
11th Inf Workshops drop cheap points as they did last season should be good enough to they go into the final play-off.
The scene looks very healthy indeed. There is the usual buzz of early season enthusiasm and some of the opening games on November B and 16 should be well worth watching.
The response to the call for potential basketball officials has been most encouraging and has brought both a smile and a sigh of satisfaction from the hard- working offelals whose job it is organise the forthcoming league programme.
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to-
The course will start merrow and I am delighted to report that 25 students will be on hand to unswer the first Still in the Fanting area there roll-call. The organiser arc 13 a different story to tell about
Mr particularly grateful to the 1st Kings Own. This Ane Thornton of the European old regiment
be YMCA appears to
whose ready co- very well placed for the com- operation has made it possible ing season for in addition 10 for all aspects of the course to top class players like Egerton, be
run at that excellent es White
they tablishment. and McLoughlin also have another big asset Ward and there is every in- dication that they will be A power in the competition. the cord, at the Vel Vigorelli, prob-
sometime between K
to oputations are accepted
true guide of thon things to come
24 Field Engineer Regiment seem certain
to ours of the race, but l Beckyer. Shay Ellio
Roes the glory.
HOME NEWS
Lap 19
Twi the 100
1ኛ At home it is stirred up again as Beck takes and
inust WC
corner.
Anqueti! will ride for
This
beam, and his first appointment will most likely be an attack on "Ladies Bryt"the classic "Unpaced Hour" re- applaud
mi.cs race
the lead in an effort to burn off splendid performance of Millicable date his two danger men, Wilkinson | Robinson and June Thackray, October 20 and November 4, and Bouch. He had taken too who led first and second post- Holder of the "Hour" is Fausto much oul of himself in histons respectively in the five-
which Coppi, who clinched the Chat" and could not days, 228 previous efforts
winning the plonship of Italy by manage 4, so the bell found a has been unofficially tiled
the Valles Varestres, a 100 KM group of live riders, all capable women's Tour de France.
Time Trial. He totalled 38 of pulling off the e, ell to-
Sylvia Whybrow, in her first points In the Championship. Folher.
stuge race and her first event beating Into second place On the
Last very tricky
ubrood, rode well to findsh in Minardi, with 28. his Wilkinson made
seventh
place and gave the jump. opening up a wide gap
British girls another team vic- 'ius
they From Beck. Bouch broke we-clip as he started to sprint, tory, a finer victory than
nahieved in the three days' race nearly coming a cropper. Beck
fast carlier in the year. Well done, was making 1 ground
ladies! over the last 150 yards, but Tandems
in the news Are was still live lengths down
with
London the ate Wilkinson flashed over the line. again,
tandem brothers, Ron and Frank fur-Powney, of the Kinston Phoenix Bouch rode in easily a
the ther seven lengths behind, while RC, taking 34 mimites off
best for the Land's Indulged previous Jones and Ellingham
fourth, End-London ride. They cover- in a private battle for
wased the 287 hilig miles in Just as Ellinghom place.
their coming up on the inside, he was hours 27 minutes,
who being almost trouble-free impeded by a spectator
the road, cept for the traffic around inter stepped right
sharply Sininen area, causing him to brake the place and lose Hussar boy.
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The current issue of "Cycling carries a very interesting article, calling for a revolution in the presentation of Track Racing, to make it more acceptable to the layman. There is a lot of com- monsense in the article, it be ing well known that the average non-cycllat just cannot stand ether the factice used by Sprinters or the scoring du some of the events.
under-
13 The writer also makes a plen ride for more ""Team" evente in UX- order to stimulate local inter- for the est. Might be a good idea
any Track Meeting we intend to What do YOU think
to the Two other "Twicers" had hard hold.
Juck when attempting the about it?
a
be
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po.
A very fine syllabus has been planned and there is not the shadow of a doubt that those a most who attend will have enjoyable as well 35 a most beneficial course.
FARELF
to be involved in the Champica- victory of our water polo play- With the recent overwhelming the word ship race from
ers in winning the fre players They have many available and already Chester- Championship there was a feel- optimism that we man, Robson, Mennes, Smith, ing of high Fowler, Dow, Hall and Cocozza might also collect the FARELF have been selected for Army Swimming Championship. Latest the Colony reaching representative teams. This could
dashes our hopes for the final very well be the Sappers' year.
placings are is follows: Last season was a particular- Singapore 80 pts; Hong- ly good one for the Gunners kong ......
pts; Malaya and while there has been some changeover of units there is no
that there will suggestion any falling off in the challenge the Royal Artillery will offer to those who have championship
ambitions.
be
60
1
44 pts. SCANT JUSTICE
Reports so far to hand indicate that the final score sheet does scant justice to the closeness of the competition and something
27 HAA Regt may well turn of the standard of the swimming out to be one of the teams of can be gleaned from the aston- the season for they still have ishing nows that every current some of last season's players record was broken.
and exveral accomplished new- So far there is no official in- of who did all the to make good the wast- formation comers
record-breaking or who won the about various events but I hope to Little is known so the relative strengths of 15 Med have full particulars for you
age caused by dep tro
INDIA'S FIRST ALL-WOMEN'S SOCCER MATCH Regt and 74 LAA Regt both of next week.
A thrilling moment of the recent All-India. Women's Football match at New Delhi, first match of its kind ever hold in India. Despite the wet pitch.. and heavy going the girls played a vigorous, fast game which had the spectators hoarse with excitement.
The picture here shows 17-year-old Champa Advani, right, of the "Blue" team, in the act of, scoring a goal. At left is. the goalkeeper of the "Maroon". team. Leela Rangaswami.
The match was sponsored by "National Sports" a well-known Indian magazine, and at game's end each player was presented with a silver cup an behalf of the magazine Express Photo,
whom are having their first
The Army soccer team has
season in Colony comp two Inter-Service matches this
So for there is
of
Tpr.
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Creative People Behind The Scenes Are Often More Interesting Than Film Stars
Says MICHAEL RUDDY
Beverly Hills.
The creative people behind the scenes are, to me at any rate, often more interesting than the stars, many of whom do not and cannot live up to their glamour and fame.
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The directors of cinematography whose skill with lights and lenses make stars in their late fortles look like women in their late twenties; the makeup experts who straighten a nose, eliminato a chin, accentuate the good points and minimise the poor points; and the designers who dress stars and players so that they look like what they are not often, smart, chic, stylish, soignee.
res
Of screen mony princesses Miss Saint prefore the stage should dance as well as sing, of tho cinema overdress or to movies, returns to New York taught me some steps" Grand wiggle Aroundi in torcador for a play, presently unfinished. į woman, greas, singer, says her trousers, looking If they Sho enjoys television, Ilked favourite record le "Toat-tool- were sprayed they accept
do doing "Our Town" with Frank Tootsle, Goodbye," on. Rarely the advice and Sinatra, finds distances guidance of their friends, the Southern California prodigious
Robert Mitchum, studio designers.
has her six-month-old child with her.
Among the first three Helen Rose brilliant brunette, the
who
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back from
Alming "Foreign Intrigun" in
ume
OF
Europe, told me that he suffered an internal disorder for ten With a plate of toast and weeks. "Doctors suggested I 0 charming
salmon, Uny tomatoes to a London clinic, but I didn't heada smokod
lied with cheese,
colossal have at department design
hoolives, and some chicken liver going to rest at home (Who Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. are the two others, you ask? pate, for sustenance, I watched serenity of Mandeville Canyon."
de Miss Saint being interviewed by Serenity?
a gossip queen with a Press-sons around.
Charles
Edith Head, Paramount's partment chief and LeMaire, head of the Twentieth Fox department.)
SPECIALIST
Rove
has
the
agent, earnest, intent, bent over pola on which they sat. By this time, Mr Hope was chatting
with Д willowy brunetto, heavily accented
end
Brando s bought a
said
Bob. "I'm
in tho
With three husky
Pennybaker Ltd is Marlon
Alim
company. Ho Western
yarn, has
the Press concentrated on drink- made a deal to fhm for Para- Ing. Mr and Mrs Frank mingled mount Studios, who will financo with Norman Panama alding. the production and have Marlon
sa partner in the profits.
Miss Saint, Messra
Preview: "The Big Knife," plunged deep, hard into the back the film industry with
Lana Turner, Ann Blyth, Debbie Reynolds, Апл Miller, Dolores Gray, Esther Williams, Ava Gardner, Pier Angeli, Jano Powell, Joan Crawford, Jane,
Footnote: Powell, Arlene Dahl, Deborah Hope, Hartman, Frank and Kerr, and Judy Garland are Panama and Miss Pearl Bailey of emang the many for whom posed smilingly for news and gomaniacal producers, industry Helen clothes.
created television cameras. "I want to hatenmen and axers, spineless She's also a specialist
go back to London and Man-stars, crawling Press-agents, and In wedding-gowns.
chester, Birmingham, Newcastle troliopish extras shown in harsh One superb wore the and Glasgow," Miss Bailey sang black and white.
10 me. "A wonderful married in,
thing performance by Ida Lupino as Frank Sinatra in "The Tender happened in Glasgow. Sir Harry wife of Jack Palance, the Trap," when she said "I do" to Lauder came to see me, sald Istar. Eddie Fisher. The Misses Lit Taylor, Jane Powell, Arlene Dahi, Ann Blyth and Pier
atl wore Angeli
Helen Rose designa at their weddings.
Debbie Reynolds dress she was
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to
Will you join me at a party? To meet Ava Marie Saint whu will co-star with Bob Hope George Sanders and Pearl Bailey
That Certnin Feeling. Paramount's Edward Schellhorn sald. At the home of producer- director-writer Melvin Frank in Bel Air.
in
I drove down Sunset Boule- vard for three miles, a turn to the right and in a park was two-storey English house, white- painted brick, flanked by elms and birches. A dozen Para- mount Press - agents strategically
large placed. A bar faced me as I entered the oak-panelled hall.
room.
were
the
1
I SAW
another bar in library and another in the dining Music from an invisible radiogram mingled with the tinkle of ice in tali glasses. was cordially greeted by
Mra Frank who smilingly indicated the bars, Beer in hand, I wan- dered from room to room, talked with Press people and Press agents, latter looking worried about non-appearance of Miss Saint, Mr Hope, Mr Sanders ...
An hour late Georgo Sanders, wearing tightlsh tweed jacket, unpressed grey Aannels, but looking calm, strode in, seized a Scotch and soda, met the Press head on, After I'd enjoyed secing
some fine watercolours, my two Roaults and I'd had third beer, Bob Hope, accom- this panied by his Prees agent,
tele manager for radio vision, his
stood centre- hall
merrily. (Sudden thought; wish Bob Hope would
quipping wear something different to wide-shouldered, tight-waisted Light-grey tweed suits.)
and
plures, arrive for motion.
SUDDEN LULL
infot only the information about the week. On Thursday they meet prospects of the two Gurkha the much improved Royal Navy
Sudden lull: production chief rides while 7 Hussars, even with side at the Club Stadium, and
Don Hartman, with, assortment Mullest of Birmingharn with Chalmers, Robson, Mullett,
of assistants, entered. Press City to steady the team, may Hail and McLoughlin still on the
pressed around. Finally, Avi not have the all-round strength injured at the team is expected Marie
Salut, natural blonde, be да follows: Charles to stay at the top of the league. to
sweet amilo, with husband worth, Hogan, Crompton hairy Harris tweed coat. Press- No 8 Coy RASC is something McInnies. Ashworth, Egerton, agents rapidly introduces Miss of an unknown quailty in the Chesterman, McMillan, Morris, Saint to columnists and Press, Major Unit competition but 14th White and McClay. Reserves: and vice versa. Briefly Fd Begt RA, and 42 Fd Regt RA Telfrey and Small. The game gathered that "I'm here just for can be trusted to put strong will start at 5.28 p.m. sides in the field.
The Minor Units competition On Sunday they tackle their
סאלי
newcomera
is being run in three sections old adversaries of the Royal Air and 173 Location Battery has Force at the Navy Ground, The all the makings of the team to kick off in this game is timed set the pace in the Hongkong for 6.15 p.m. Division. They can expect strong competition from District Work-
turned in shops and 27 Coy RAMC with satisfactory performances in the HQLF the outsiders to be 'D' side which beat Club by 0-1 watched.
Inst Sunday. Pto. Joyco ́ ́ did very well at left back and Co FIRM FAVOURITES -
Higgins showed a lot of good The Kowloom. Division may football at inside right. Both the well turn out to be the most players were retained for Interesting one of the whole game cgainst Jardines at Happy tournament and with players Valley last night when the team
was beaten 3-0.
like Morris, Muirhead, MONTOL Wall, Delgnon, Wilkes and
start
available 8. COD must
their
Soldier athletes have been as firm favourites in
in hard at work during the Inst team the
of weeks. couple
getting apile of the fact that has not so farį hit
for tuned up true form. muscles There are several good teams Athletic Meeting at Boundary in this Division and some greed street on Sunday. Some have
found
a task and good football. is assured.
The third, iscrtion, embraces over the comparativo Inactivity the Minor Units stationed in of the hot summer months but the
Now
Territories and here there is quiet confidence in the Drus is very open Indeed, military circles that the Army One point of interest is the in-will be well represented when clusion of HAF. Bek Kong in the honours are banded out. the division.
"The~mowing "starts at 280 p.m.
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