THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1956.
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League Hockey New Programme
Due to the Army 'A', Army 'B' and RAF 'A' teams going to Macao this wook-end for the Combined Services matchen, the League Axtures have been al- tered so that too many postpone- ments will not be necessary.
Only the Men's First Division is affected, and it entails a com- plate changeover between the January 22 Axtures and February BBxtures. The February 5 x- tures. as set in the Handbook, will be played off this week-end, and the January 22 Axtures will be played off on February 8.
The following are the fixtures, then, for this week-end:
Men's First Division
Ardy 'A' v RAF 'A' at Sookunpeo
p.n. (Postponed); Restele A
V IN A At Recraft af 17.00: Bookunpotsy Arty 'B' at Happy (Pustponed); Nav
Bharat 'A' V
Valley are at Happy Valley at 2.30 p.m. Bye: Recreio I
Men's Recond Division Only the venue of one of the James is changed in tile division from that laid" down to the Hand- book:
University v Demont at Univerally lamp Dutch HC v RN “E at Happy Valley at
Arity 1.30 pm CV Nav Bharat 13 at Bookunj at 2.30 pm HKHC v The at 500. kunpou al 11 mm; Dye: BAF “B
Ladies' Division Cralgengawer v Bervices HC at Happy Valley at 230 pin: Gremlin X V
Doriana '11 at Boundary Street at 4 pan. Itecrelo v Gremlins at King's Pack at 2.30 pm. KOV Av kav at Boundary Siteri
at 7.30 p.in. Victorian V Dim Lars
'A' at Happy Valley at 4 p.m.
Ladies' Minichi
Tho match forr the Shanghal Trophy between Lingkung
Kowloon Jailles will be played off at Macau this week-end The foldery- ing are the teame:
Hongkong.
tana Pires (Craljen- guwer; A. Cavanagh (Gremlina) E. Souza (Recreio). 9. Andep (Victorians), W. Watson (G. Kings). R. Perry: Jones (KGV WL, Ć Boell (Victorians), E Shekury (KOV). 1. Fowler (Gremlina), D Burten (Victorianni, cvastziti
Kowloon Ki Campbell (Servicer,
M Muk SPIRAL: Richards (KGV), (* Kinga, M. Newark
chards (KOV) J Kings). M Further Groven (Service,
ÜzemanNE. Marchelli (G Lisemiton), 1.
Tinkay 10 (120rintins, A
(KOV), E. Blokes (KGVI
Smiral Oremiina)
tlewor Reserve
Combined Services v Macao
NORRIS WINS CROSS COUNTRY TITLE ·
Ken Norrls (Thames Valley Harrier) of Greenford, Middlesex, winning the 7 milies Middlesex Cross-Country Championship for the third successive umo at Trent Park, Cockfosters. on January 1.
The victory was his third important success this year, for at Sao Paulo, Brazil, he wen the New Year round-the-houses ruce and the 5,000 Metres track race.-Reuterphoto.
The Bobsleigh Crusaders Are After A Title
By DESMOND HACKETT
Oh, what jolly fun it is riding on a sleigh......well, that is what they are chorally Insisting these days.
But there are those members of the British Olympic bobsleigh team sternly training for the Winter Games in Italy this month who insist that, far from being jolly fun, it is jolly hard work and an extremely serious business.
an-hour
Into 80-mile- action, who have al- ready paced through tho Olympic milo run in 1 min. 16.7sec.
This I was told yesterday al, The two-nan sleighs are the hurl themselves great length and considerable best that money can build. force by 26-year-old Keith Schellenberg from Middica brough, a handsome, swash-
This anual match will be played | buckling Englishman. off at Macao this week-end, and the following are the enIES
Combined Services 'A' Boxall. Taylor (Captain), Morris, Henry Newark, God; Todd, Harvey, All- mon. Webber, Bischoff
Combined Services I Birley: Raymond, Turner (Captain); Flik, Katelilove, Purdy: Saunders Bell. gard, Candy, Raymond 3Y. Arektom
Reserves Phlipa. Turner (RN); Umpire Capt Ship.
Sugar Ray
Determined, too. Two years ago he decided that the too, too way the British dubbled CASULI in the Olymple Games was not good enough.
He
The old let's-have-a-bit-of-a- bash-chaps system was out. sought out stout-hearted men, tough, Rugby-loving types who weigh around 10st, and could move- but fast
He told them his plan, asked them bluntly for an ull-out
Must Fight Olson effort, or please keep out.
On March 9
of
San Francisco, Jan. 18. Sid Flaherty, manager
World former
Middleweight
Boxing Champion, Cari "Bob" Olsun, suld here today that if "Sugar" Ray Robinson, the title holder, refused
Olson to meet
in a retur útle match before March 9, he would ask the California Athletics Commission to suspend Robinson.
crusade flourished,
Hla
He drew to his cause men like Stewart Parkinson. British aki champion who, Ured of his success, decided that hobsleigh
a much higher ing presented risk of running into danger. He became driver of the No 2 Bobsleigh.
his walrus
The team is taking a mobilo workshop, And if you think this just a pottering shed, just ask the policeman who had the job of worting out the true in
Street Feet
when Keith Schellenberg came along to show off his new toy.
"Not leaving anything chance, old boy," he impressed, "We even have special studs for our boots.
to
"We have a treatment job that goes on runner blades and costs £25 a smear. Just helps the start,
"Nothing so important og a fost, strong take-off. That's why who wanted the 16st, men could move fast"
Maybe we cannot hope to beat the Continentals, who have all the facilities we cannot have in
Britain,
nur, maybe, the Americans, who are geared up w the point of intercom, on their sleighs.
No. I driver Schellenberg went on recruiting buccaneering types
like 17st, Jumbo Preston, who But if British determination loves the spice of danger as he and that devil-may-core air-a loves
moustache, bruve survival from the old Raph Raffles, John Reid, Wallo Regency Bucka--count for any- Brunt, John Rainforth, Chris thing, then there are some teams who will know they have been Williams and Rodney Mann.
In a fight before the winter Olymples thaw out,
PLUS RUGBY
If the California Commission suspended "Sugür" Ray, the World Middleweight Champion would be banned. from rings throughout the United States.
in They have battered themselves Making a sensational come into shape with a bone-shatter- back, Robinson, a former Middle-Ing schedule of Rugby. They are weight Wurid Champion, won | taking a Rugby ball with them back his title from Olson Into the Winter Games! Chicago by it second round
year.
Bre
fact, there
many Italmes who recall Keith Schellenbers and his huskies and shudder.
BRITAIN FIRST
18
And, if you think that dawdling, let me point out that the record run is 1min. 10.5gc.
I suggest a good luck toast lo these men of Britain who have saved their spare me and spare cash,
hoping for a successful production of British sport on ice.
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MCC In Drawn Match Against
Combined Universities
Lahore, Pakistan, Jan 18. The MCC who meet Pakistan In the unofficial First Test here on Friday, drew their three-day gaire against Combined Univer- sities which ended on the same
ground today.
In spite of a gallant eighth wicket stand of 70 between Älan Watkins and Fred Titmus, the MCC conceded first innings lead for the first time on the tour. But it was only by ten runs that they failed to gain the lead.
Unrepentant... But Apologies To Some
By GORDON PIRIE
in an interview
I am unrepentant. I know I upset Fleet Street sports writers with my remarks on TV the other night. I wanted to make a profest and I made it,
I am sorry for me thing. I did not mean to include all sports writers or newspapers in my romarks, and that goes for my good friend Desmond Hackett. I had only three minutes in which to speak so I was unable to qualify what I said as much as I should have liked.
Many sports writers and I do admit the Press has done newspapers have been kind to me. I hope many are still my triends. Indeed my remarks ro- ferred to a minority.
The Press claima 10 have made me famous, but I did not seek famu. I run for the sheer love of 11. Any fame I have was pressed upon me and duo large- ly to my own efforts. The Press did not do my running for me.
IGNORANCE
I do not like journalists who have never performed in the sports they write on. They are apt to misreport and misrepre- sent through Ignorance. Even my remarks on TV were not accurately reported in every
paper.
a great deal to publicise sport, but it also profits from it in creating interest In its news- papers.
I do say the Press should criticise athletes, but not unless they deserve it. Unkind or cruel criticism can kill a youngstar.
from
It was certainly cruel of the
10 Press
inter I was yellow when 1 wanted to stand down the AAA 6-mile Cham-
swollen foot. I ran pionship in 1954 because I had broke a bone in my foot and had to give
10.
Press reports don't make me run any better. Sometimes I do not even read them. I would as soon run in a club event as an International race.
NO BIGHEAD'
im- I resent the constant Ipression the Press gives that I am difficult, conceited, and a bit of a Bighead. I don't mind what It says, but when people moet you in the aircet or at business and repeat these things, well, it's most embarrassing.
For instance I did NOT imply that I was a better candidate for Sportsman of the Year than John Disley or Brian Howson. Indeed, Disley was the one voted for and Belan Hewson i a great personal friend of mine. My attack was against the Fleet Street sports writers who, claiming to represent the public, did not even put me in the top seven. The public's vote show- ed them up in my opinion.
They're all
out of step
I am glad of this opportunity of enlarging on my TV ro- marks and I apologise to those friends
writing In the sports business to whom the remarks were not intended to apply.
I hope to run again and keep on running. I have given my life so far to it. I spend all my life training, and the little spare time that
to is left I give youngsters who need a bit of a
hand helping
youngsters like Laurie Reed, who is now Says DESMOND HACKETT doing National Service but who
but Pirie...
have
a by future in
should Gordon Pirie, you can't have
athletics. It both ways. You can't
This should clear the air. All go out and tell TV and radio
Fleet Street I ask the Press is to report my milions that the writers are wreckers of British activities fairly and accurately sport, and then put up
as well as those of other sports- grudging.... Well, not every-men. one is a villain.
4
You know you were soured because the Fleet Street sports writers did not include you in the their list of Sportsmen of Year. You Just don't
like second place, and you just hate to be beaten.
On the running track I ad- mired that spirit in you. I have been proud to praise you, happy to write that British sport could well use the "Pirie Spirit.”
You pot yourself up ILN + victim of misreporting and mis- quoting. Well, is this report | true?
"A few hours before the two- hour race at Walton-on-Thames in October wo men met in a dressing-room. One Wan 29. year-old callway clerk. Joe Lancaster. The other was Gor- don Pirie.
The tourists were all out for 247
before shortly
lunch in
Pirie "Turning to Lancaster, reply to the home side's total said: 'It's no uso you entering, of 250. Batting a second time, you know, your schedule is the students declared at 202 much too alow-you don't stand
a chance.'"
Their intent is to lure the knock-out on November 9, last lushly equipped Americans, the
Last year, on the frozen lake und the tallens, the Swiss,
at St Moritz, Schellenberg sug- into a quiet game of gested that they might have a
racing. spot of motor Italians produced their sleek for five wickets. model-of-the-moment joba
Robinson agreed in his fight contract to give Olson a return
title-bout within 20 days.
French Rugby
Looking squadron, I #gure the Cresta
Over
this
British
Robinson is understood to be Run is loddiers stuff compared against
meeting Olson in San with their idea of a quiet geme Francisco, Olson's
strong of Rugby. hold, and reportedly
But the British Olympic plan prefer an open-air clash in is not all hard muscle. For the
June.
Flaherty
would
and he was willing pionegred
Koing
out
first time since the British ihis bobsleigh to give up the original agree business, around 1800, the team ment for a return match in is
with top-class
The two bobsleighs for the four-man team event cost £700.
San Francisco, but insisted on equipment. the March 0 deadline-France- Presse.
OP
THE NEWS
SOCCER STAR
Roger Byrne NOT KNOWING
THE REFEREE'S
SIGNAL FOR AN INDIRECT FREE KICK
BATEMEN WHO THINK" “THE UMPIRE PAIGES A FINGER DEST THE WIND DIRECTION E
MAKES US WONDER HOW MANY PLAYERS ARE CONVERSANT
WITH THE
RULES OF THEIR
PARTICULAR
SPORT.
HIGH DIVERS
The
In the 35 minutes
i
left for
Fact or action, Gordon? Any- way, that is the story Joe Lan- caster told down at his cottage home in Hollingworth, Cheshire. Lancaster And as you know,
Schellenberg trundled out his
play, the MCC, who had been 4-iltre Bentley vintage 1922 and it was Britain dest, set the impossible task of get the rest a funercal, fuming ting 212 runs to win, scored 60 for two wickets. Opening bat procession lengths adrift.
you by 140 yards to Bot Brian Close put some life into beat
up a British and world best One frustrated, enraged the final stage by bitting eleven performance. Italion Immediately ordered fours in his 52 not out kich Bentley on the spot.
ing five successive boundaries in This is the spirit of the bob- the last over of the match--- Ísleigh men of Britain, who will 'Reuter,
•ARE THERE LADY. HOCKEY PLAYERS WHO THINK A "BULLY" IS JUST AN AMAZON WHO CRACKS ANOTHER GIRUE'S SKULL?
IGNORANT THAT": WATER IS ESSENTIAL
DTHER ART?
GOLFERS WHO DO NOT”” KNOW IT IS WRONG "TO. ACCIDENTALLY KIK THE BALL WHEN SEA
IN THE ROUGH 2.
4
PERHAPS
THE
MUCH
JOCKEYS IGNORANT OF THE CORRECT PROCEDURE?
MALIGNED
CHAP
・WHO JUST
WATCHES
Kick im The ref's BLIND
IS IN FACT "THE ONE WHO KNOWS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
There
when are occasions silence extremely golden. That was one. Another one was your ill-timed attack on Fleet Street
I did not admire your ill- timed outburst, British athletics chiefs agree that Fleet Street has given your sport a bisyor boost in the last three years than ever beforo in its history.
Does that seem cruel, does that aproar "immeasurable damage" one on, Gordon, admit you were wrong and for- alt get the thought "They're out of step but Pirie."
★ How it began
Gordon Pirle accused Fleet Street sports writers of doing "immeasurable harm to Britists sport" on TV on December 28,
In a speech, after being presented with the Sporting Hteoord Sportsman of the Year Trophy Pirie mid:.........
"A 20W unkind words, will inflict more damage than they (the sports writers) realion. I hope they will be kinder : În the future.",
• He_refurred to the fact that the Sports Writers: Ampelation had not Included Don Cocksil and himself in the top peres sportsmen from whom they chose their Sportsman of the Your (John Dinler) Hon
Pixis the freedicen
to amplify his
HK Basketball Player To Play For Free China
Taipei, Jan. 16.
Was
Wu Tl-on of Hongkong one of 14 players selected to- day by the Chinese Nationalist Olymple Organising Committee to represent Nationalist China at Basketball in the Melbourno Olymple Games this year,
Three substitutes werO also named.
Bud Sheafter, who has visited Formosa tireo times with the American "Youth for Christ" basketball tear, will train the Nationalist players from June 1.
Four a! the 14 pelected
from
players are from the Philippines,
Lin namely, Yeh Kah-chilang, Chu-ten,
Tsai Lian-chuan and One from Lda Ying- nion; Malaya, Chien Kuo-cheng; one Wa Kun-fa Bangkok, two from Singapore Hundg Tien-hs and Yu Ti-chung, and the remainder from Formosa - Lin Chun-huan, Lai Lien-kuan, Ho Chen-ping Wang Yi-chung and Tang Shih-fang-Reuter,
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