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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
A Tribute To
Bob Pape
Bir,-As an impartial specta- tor, being purely a walker, will you allow me to simulate the cothilasm of those present, and the regret of not being there of those absent, regarding the truly marvellous performance on Sun- day of RH. Pape in winning the 10-Mile Road Rare in 30 mins. 38.3 secs.
The sixth man in the Empire Games Six Miles race of 1934, running on beautiful elear level track, would have taken 50 min. 23 mes, to have run 10 miles had he continued-which the he certainly would not-at Bate rate of speed. The Arat nu, the great DriveT, would have taken 40 mins, 48 secs The same impossible assumption.
Taking Zatopek's world re-
for cords
10,000 Metres 20,000 Metres and prorating the difference of 10,000 metres for 6,093.5 metres, and adding this to his time for 10,000 Metros {} very reasonable means of com- Zatopek's) time
for 16,093.5 metres (16 Miles) 41 clear lever truck la minutes 30 seconds as against 'ape's 30 minutes 30.8 seconds eu far harder cousTC.
^ Just comparison: the best tine for 10
Alfred Mites of Shrubb, one of the greatest dis- tance runners of all time, was 50 minutes 40.0 seconds, again 1921 on a clear level truck.
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1955.
WEIGH-IN FOR TITLE FIGHT
ΤΟ PLAY
Dai Dower, the holder, and Jake Tull, of South Africa shake hands after the weigh-in for their fight for the British Empire Flyweight Championship al Harringay on December 7. Dower in his comeback fight won on points over 15 rounds.--Central Press
Photo.
AN EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD XI
FOR ROYAL NAVY AND MARINES THIS SEASON
Says ARCHIE QUICK
the Army and Without ever hoping to match the professional strength of the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy 'and Royal Marines Football Association have got together an exceptionally good eleven this season. All amateurs, of course, only four of last season's players survive, but they have been unbeaten so far this
Reason.
They are not so strong as they might be in defence, hence the 5-5 draw with a mediocre Football Association side at Portsmouth, but they have found a good an excellent goalkeeper in Stevens, who is on Gillingham's books, and they have attack led by Irish International Pat Hasty.
use in
of
Two upstanding inside-change means that Cutbush, Is International Jackie Sewell, of
County North, out
record Wednesday, elevon. Shemeld the forwards, Coales and
transfer holder at £34,000. and a tricky winger in Osborne Seems silly to me. are in this dangerous forward
Yet there is still hope for line, Coates is the son of Horsos for courses may be an Villa. This season they started former Amateur International axiom which runs true on the
a sixth eleven of local youths, Rigger Coates, Then In the Turf, but is a phrase of little They have been pitted againsi holfback line there is another
the world of Soccer, business houses
sides much England
Dermis player
football form being what it is older than themselves, and they Dennis Cutbush.
Nevertheless, horses for courts have won eight of their nine
amazing frequency ganics recurs with
with the other one a when Aston
firaw. play Totten
Their goal who ham Hotspur. Six times have olles
impressive, to say the average la the sides met at Villa Park since east77 for and five against tie lust War, six times different elevens have faced each ore. They are all under
are sons of former and six times have Spurs won years of age, and two of their
from home! away
players Jimmy Easson and Arthur Cobley.
who Casuala
Cormihlan
Villa
number
seventeen
Oddity for an high-scoring
that the ten-goal match was
Ave times FA equalised
and were never more than one goal in arrears. Three times the levelling goal was scored by Al- burt Biggs, Hounslow Town's by arti centre-forward
twice Mike Stewart, thr Surrey
To add to this curious record, County profesional cricketer villa have never won at White
What a handicap "foreigners" plays Its
Hart Lane since League football play under in English football, was resumed. They have just Recently John Charles Was
play draws to their credli (?) forced to
"friendly" It, however, was a disappoint-
in slx games. No matter how noodlight match for his club, ing FA team even if it did con-
Spurs are faring the Leeds United, 48 hours before tain seven English
Amaluresults are the sume. There has he was due to appear in Glas- Only 1wo of
no1 been a worse Spurs' side them are currently being con- sidered for the England team than the present one for years, but still they were victorious at Dexter Adatus (Hendon; and
Villa Park Pat Nell (Portsmouth )—and one felt that here was an oppor- tunity lost of getting the prob able Olymple team together and Kiving therm 80204 match practice,
GRAND NATIONAL PREPARATION Internationals.
Birch And Gorse To Make
Are
Aintree Obstacles
Hard To Come By
Says
TIME OFF
'The explanation of the FA official in charge of the party was that the leading players
two
TRADITION
centro-
It is sad to set a club with the trattition that is Aston's hering so poorly. Even Dave Hickson, £22,000 forward-buy from Everton, in 12 kua! scored only DULC matches with them and stayed but seven weeks. When I was there for the Spurs inuten
could not find t convenient manager Erie Houghton was
VERNON MORGAN
London, Dec. 19.
Frank are this week
While the people of Britain
Д
gow for Wales in a "key" In- ternationall against Scotland. Home Internationals are ex- cused a week's play before re- presenting England.
Д
After the Vila-Spurs match centre-half Con Martin had to
the dush from
feld, catch train to
then the Liverpool, night boot to Dublin and play the same afternoon for Eire against Spain. His train picked
up hig teammates Farrell,
on
Eglington and O'Neill (all of Everton) at Wolverhampton.
to take Lime UIT. Yet
Four away hoping to spend some of
others converged one of the FA players, the thousands he got for Hickson Dublin after Saturday's Foot- outside-right
McKenna, on a famous inside-forward, Iball League matches, yet Etre
he was looking at drew 2-2.
running less than 20 seconds searching the highways and byways for their ne trom far-off North Shields, understand
Christmas holly (they have got to cross the English Channel to find the mistletoe), a squad of experts are touring the country in lorries looking for good birch and gorse for building up the fences for the Grand National, the world's greatest steeplechase.
And the times of the s*x! Ave runters - Chan Kun-lang, who was seventh, returned 58 minutes 11 seunds-- W{^I^L^ 0x0 first vins,
has
Hi!
In athletics, Hongkong. certately put itself uti International nup by Sunday's performances
G.S. KENNEDY-SKIPTON
(The fastral performance EIT for 10 Miles is Emii Zatopek"a 48 minutes 120 areonda at Stara Boleslav Czechoslovakia,
Bob Paps September 29, 1951. performance on Sunday certainly 10 ranks as one of the fastest
in history and is, for example, more than a faster than Jan Barnard's South African record net at Boksburg in January, 1955 or than Allan Lawrence's Australian record. Barnard is a noted distance run- ner, Lawrence essentially a Six-
Miler.
11
Though the renewcl of this famous chase will not take place until March, birch and gorse of the right type to make the Aintree obstacles the toughest and best possible are hard to come by. Mrs Mirube! Topham, the "Queen of Aintree," is therefore already busy searching for it.
Christmas that it gets into full swing.
While she IS
the getting course ready the equines which have the doubtful pri- will
tougla vloge of contesting this four and a half miles chase Uncir themselves showing
before the hardy fol- paces
National Hunt of the lowers sport.
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Several of those given a chance of winning the coveted prize have alrendy shown signs of their well being, including the evergreen Irish Lizard, the horse with the Irish English bu
The Finnish record, held Viljo Helno, in 49 minutes 22.2 arconda. The 10 Miles on track or rodd is, however, seldom run outside the British Empire and only the really grews Continental stars have tried it,
One
name.
GALLANT CHASER
Now a venerable 13-year-old this gali chaser, who hardly fall, will knows what it is to probably contest his sixth Grand National next March. Twice he has Anished third. Last
has to agree with, Mr Kennedy-Skipton that the course was a tough one, There a aume doubt that the original 10-Mite course surveyed by Capt. Nor- man Phillips was being followed and there is a school of thought that road ruces make for faster imes than track races, largely Lord Sefton's because of the lack of necessity
And right-half Eddie Harper-- son of the old Arsenal, Fly- mouth
Scottish Interns- tonal goalkeeper, travelled
und
up Devon. As the from North majority of the present England don area the excuse is pretty
eleven are drawn from the Lon.
thin.
The Secretary of the Navy FA, Commander Ernie Beetham, told me that a new Hampshire FA rule stipulates that a player is barred from appearing for the county unless he is playing for a club inside the County FA's Jurisdiction. Or by birth quali- fleation, of course.
Thus an Irishman, Pat Hasty, is eligible to play for Hampshire because he is on the books of a navul
the unit playing in Portsmouth Lenque, but Hamp chichire is denied the services of
FESTIVE CROWDS
The big Christmas chuses nt meetings all over the country will draw large and which for Live crowds,
shed should some light on the two races in March, first the Chel- lenham Gold Cup and then the Grand National,
hostile Hitherto tho three elements, fog, snow and frost,
ulile have done
Lo interfere with the jumping game but thege must now be expected. Trainers are therefore getting their charges into the, peak of condition SD as to be able to give them an easy period before the big back-end prizes should the weather necessitate it.
enthusiats
His age is against him but nothing
for continually running wide of Aintree course stragglers to lap them.
Zatopek's fastest cher race. it is sometimes pointed out, was in the Sao Paulo (Brazil) New Year's Eve Road Race two or three years ago.
The fact that Bob Pape beat a record hold by such a great runner as Peter West by nearly
West did not really graduate into near world class till a few months after he had left Hong- kong.
gelding has al-***
WINTER OLYMPICS
Japanese Skiers Aim
To Bring Home Gold, Silver
'And Bronze
Medals
Tokyo, Dec. 20. the Winter Olympic Japan's ten-strong team for Games at Cortina, Italy next month are aiming high. They have trained their sights on at least two Gold Medals In the stalom skling, and hope to take home Silver and Bronze Medals in the men's 500 and 1,500 Metres speed old stalwart, International Dennis Cutbush because he is | skating events. playing for Salisbury. Salisbury no longer Hampshire
an
arc
G
Chief hopes centre on 24-year-old Chiharu Igaya, who County League elde. but A earned a five-star rating as a skier while a student in the
United States.
Western League club,
and the
Dai Dower Promises To
Appear For Local Promoters In Wales
Igaya competed successfully in the All-American Inter- College Ski Championships In New Hampshire this year, and is used to top class opposition, He represented his country at the 1952 Games in Oslo, and is the sole member of tile Japanese team
Olymple with previous experience.
But dark-horse of the team
the
is 24-year-old Koichi Sato, who All-Japon amateur skiing Championships this year, won
He will compete in the down-
Snow and a white Christmas year he completed the would delight the hearts of the but the chasing course again but was only 12th. youngsters
that are hoping will prevent
their Christmas racing and the ready won over part of the renewal of the valuable King
Dai Dower, who retained his Empire Flyweight title this season and
George Vi steeplechase
tby outpointing Jake Tuli at Harringay on December 6, there are Jess unlikely things
Kempton Park on Boxing Day. than that he should gain the
has promised to appear for local promoters in Wales, December 27.
might This reward of his noble efforts,
In the meantime, Jack Solomons is again trying to bring a nice Christmas gift to especially if the going is soft,
the Royal Family for the persuade World Flyweight Champion Pascuel Perez of hi and jumping events.
Mother's Many and formidable will be Queen
promising Argentina to defend his title against Dower. Devon Loch, is among his rivals, not caly from Brital chaser,
Gordon Wallace, the Canadian who knocked out but from Eire, the land of the the probable starters. China
Randolph Turpin, is challenging Pat McAteer for his steeplechaser. Indeed the Irish Mall Special,
title. McAteer is at present will be bidding for their fourth
Empire Middleweight Grand consecutive
recovering from a broken hand. Meanwhile Wallace says he is ready to fight any British Middleweight.
challengers time.
from
National
France this
from do
the
The monies envisaged
should these two sources Ave minutes is impressive, but victory. There may also be sus much to stop the decline spoken
of by the Duke of Norfolk. may help the swing to go
Nothing succeeds There is good news for Na-olher way, tional Hunt trainers this week like success and the extra money Nowmarket, the headquarters of could lead almost to a boom. the fial, is to have one of the Indeed the toto could prove
acceptable finest
Christmas for highly training grounds
ancowball China Mall Spoolal jumpers in the country.
Probably the greatest authori- ty in Hongkong on the whole question of whether the course was a very hard one or whether road
Тасе make for faster times than track races is Bob Pape himself and his views on the matter would be very in- teresting Sports EL)
AN ERROR
to
Club havo con- training
ground
Ice Hockey Results
the
Japan's Armateur Athletic Association say the number of
athletes they hoped to send to the Games has been cut by more than hair because of lack of funds.
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London, Dec. 19.
'Dal Rees, Britain's Ryder Cup Harringay Racers the London Hurdles and fences have been key team were benton captain, with two other members erectod sult both novice 4-1 by the Czechoslovak no-
of the team beaton in the United hurdlers and fencers and ex- tional
Slates,
John Bounlela Ken
and sidó in Brno today. Jacobs, have been co-opted as perienced jumpers.
Prague Radio reported.
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Fourth man homa In the
The headquarters of the flat 10-Mile Road Race on Sunday wad Au Chung-shing, bot last is Indend bidding to become the
Moscow, Dec. 19. year's wilmer, Chan King-yên, headquarters; of the chose. It
Tussia's "3" team who finished 12th. The num may well be overlooked that in bea of the two words entered just over 30 years six Grand Switzerland's national side by Ico wrongly in the recorder cot National winners have been com- nine goals to nil in an Au Chung-eling
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