BECAUSE OF THE BIG FREEZE-UP.
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH
1966.
RACEGOERS HOPE THAT SNOW AND FROST WILL DISAPPEAR IN TIME FOR NATIONAL HUNT
London, Mar, 1.
Starved of racing recently because of the big freeze-up, followers of the sport in Britain are looking forward eagerly to the National Hunt Festival meeting at Cheltenham, the "Ascot" of jumping, on March 8, 7 and 8.
Day after day meetings all over the country have been abandoned because of But snow and frostbound rourses the number of meetings lost is now over forty. racegoers, perhaps the most hopeful of all fraternities, are optimistle that the snow, ice and frost will disappear in time for the ellie meeting to be held at the attractive Prestbury Park course in the heart of the Cotswold Hills.
at Britain and are included.
odd falder
the best Jumpe:a Ireland, with from France. This year's total acceptance of 554 for the 10
5 is slight drop #17 of last season. but all the
The Festivni always draws, star of 'Chasing and Hurdling The enforced hold-up of re- and the frostbound state of gallops have played havoc with the plans of many truthers for Cheltenham and for the Lincoln- shire handicap, first leg of the
Spring Double."*
"Missing
on the
Toam"
Found
The mystery
the of "missing" Taiwan girls soft- ball team han slowly begun to unravel Yesterday the Honakong Softball Associa tion received a cable fron the Tring Shiu team saling that they would be teaving aboard the B & 8
chueti" and expect to ar. rive in longkong tomor- FOW. They open their tour on Sunday, March 4. The Combined Chinese are most likely to be their opponents.
COLONY TENNIS
Failing Light Rescues Seeded Pair
hla owner, Mr and credited John Davey, with 4,030 pounds sterling by these suectures,
him
A NÉCK TO SPARE
He had only a neck to spare In the Kempton
ho race, but
Gold left behind him several Cup rivals, including Four Ter Trainers strategically placed and Lochree, and the one which so close, Galloway horses ran have been taking their
in the not engaged to the senside and exercising
Before that Lumber hem on the sands Mid-winter Hill toyed with
class good ง for is an unorthodox time but scualde holiday,
horses field in Manchester's who have been on these trips chase. will undoubtedly be sharper in condition than their Inland brothers.
Вгаса, Gold Cup.
emblem
it and Sam Brownthorn may The biggest danger to Limber
be Lochree, who had won all his four races this ANTIGON before Irish trainers have had less falling in Limber Hill's Boxing terruption in Her prepera-Day race.
He had been almost as the winner
ons than those in Britain, and so well backed
the Cheltenham prizes, always for that event, and if he stands at Cheltenham he should make them all go.
a big lure to Irish trainers and owners, may well fall to them this
11 even
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greater measure
BIGGEST PRIZES Among Irish trainers, Vincent O'Brien is the name that spells success, and his Cashel, County Tipperary, Stable will make a bold bid to carry off Chelten- ham's two
biggest prizes, the Gold Cup (March 8) and the (March 6). Champion Hurdio O'Brien has done the double twice already, ks 1949 and 1930.
D'Brien's Gold Cup candidate Sam Brownthorn, an im- posing-looking nine-year-old "lepper," who has won his last
in Ireland three 170er
"Sam"
and s
was one of
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Trainer O'Brien holds a strong hand in the Champion Hurdle with Stroller, besteu only n hend by Cloir Sotell last year,
hurdler
d Bolton Co
Comet, a most promising six-year-old who joined his string tome months ago after being purchased by Mrs J. A. Kelth. Stroller is present favourite for the hurdle Comet is joint and Boltown
the market with second in Clair Soleil
JEAN DESFORCES
IT SEEMS TO ME.
UNDER THE MELBOURNE SUN.
Desforges Hopes To Prove A Mrs Can Perform
sport.
As Well As A Miss
By ERIC NICHÖLLS
Women! Now that's an interesting subject. Let's take women in
Have you a picture in your mind of a muscular young female heavyweight wielding a hockey stick and roaring "bully girls?" You would be quite wrong, you know.
DO or
Jean, despite her sporting window-shopping, activities, ands time to be Just way back to the office where flowers plain Mrs Pickering, wife of a she is a secretary,
ot
a
London
corner
Take one look at the brown hair, soft grey eyes, and pleasing features of Jean Desforges, Britain's top giri athlete, and the picture is changed considerably.
herfrat presents was a bouquet of
and 1 cable from Ronald Pickering, the boy from
the
back gumes master
You probably wouldn't notice just around Grammar School
anything unusual about her, home in Forest Gate.
Jean Des- Jean married Ronald and any Certainly, to moot Walk along Floot Street
dispels Any lunch hour, and the chances are forges
lingering ended a friendship that
childhood that усня
would meat Jean thoughts of man-eating tigresses, when the two wETE
For Jean to very much a sweethearts attending the local secretary-cut-Housewife.
POPULAR ATHLETE
Easy-Going Youngsters To Blame For Soccer Decline
Says BILLY WRIGHT
(Captain of Wolves And England)
Britain's football has gone to the dogs. Our standards get lower every season. We have no youngsters of ability good enough to rate with the great players of the past. At least, that is what the critics of our national game are for ever telling us.
school
50
began
don't Marriage and athletics mix?
Fanny Blankers-Koen, that amazing Dutch housewife. blew tiral theory sky high.
Under the Melbourne sun in
She is a popular athleto-and skipper. She explained the Eng- Hah women's team at the Em- pire Games in Vancouver, and opponents and teammates alike November, Jean Desforges hopes looked on her as the kind of to prove conclusively tiat *
Mra can perform as well as to whom they could take
Miss,
giri
of
a problem before the big race. The ideal captain, in fact.
Jean has had her share glory in almost every branch of athletics. Empire Games and European Long Jump Champion,
British title-holder
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Record Goes
At University
Athletics
kurdier, and in the world class ds a sprinter, And aho can throw a prefty good discus, too,
first love. Hurdling was her
clear They used to
the Airst corridor at Stratford Grammar School that head profeet Jean could get in her training over home-made hurdles. She had only a thirty-yard wooden run, but she used to get up such speed that her gym mistress and fellow athletes, used to block the end to prevent down stone steps. The laddiche looked about "A natural runner," was how eight years old-was flipping a
games mistresa Miss A Patti- small orange up and down on eon described the young
Desforges, his instep.
complete
A natural Jumper, too. It was as if the
Corin Crozier, of Duchess of control of it.
Kent Hall, as she set a new oratge was tied to his shoelaces, in wiming the European Games toms show title at Berne, her final leap of And 8.9 we watched the Brazilian boy perform a finals Games record. On the way to 31⁄2 inches in
new University record of 4 fect 94ing. 191t.
sct Up A famous
the High foreign player whispered
And the Football Association, Football League-and some clubs, come to that --have been hammered for our “decline," while the real culprits are forgotten,
Who are they?
The stable hurdle Jockey, T P Burns, on a dimcult choice
THE YOUNG MEN OF to make between this pair. It 1108
BRITAIN. announced yet not bien
ride. which he i to
and the eventual decision will probably have a big effect on the market, Stroller ran like horse Soured with racing in his first few outings this season, but he came back to form with a bang when taking Manchester's Rose of Lancaster hurdle, a thousand-
run ar
the end Winning
by January lengths he turned the tables on
Pulling light rescued seeded pair A. S. Augestad currently second favourite for and R. E. Moore from being the event. eliminated In yesterday's O'Brien's entries for the Grand being Colony Grasscourt Doubles National,
whispered in Ireland as the Tennis Championships when "dark ‘un," but it was then dis- after winning the Brst set covered that he was not qunit-pounder at 6-2 they lost their touched.
and
WIS
DIA
in the next set to bow out to Trainer O'Brien also had Ingoe, then reckoned the best
Heu Joarnb
and ErnieQuare Times, last year's Grand Pereira at 7-2.
National winner, in the Gold
At this stage there were those Cup, but he has taken him out
| at will rely
mitch.
011
:
hurdler England, who Onished for in front of him
had
when winning the victory hurdle over the same course in December.
Comel
started but
Bollown favourite for the "victory" was six lengths behind Ingoe, in
"Sam's" assault on the Aintree fences has perforte boch post-second place, at the post. There poned until next year, but he is was an excuse for him, however, just the type to credit O'Brien he had had a bad journey from Ireland and was probably not in with his Afth Gold Cup.
full humour for racing so soon the after it.
Sam who voiced their opinion that Brownthorn, who will be ridden had there been ruthelent light
by "Tos" Thafte, brother of to vont
the
Chaare Times' regular pllot, Pat. and Perers would have beaten the seeded pal for they played better and better as the gume
The umeeded
not Jais aliet
the fourth strike form Ram of the second wel when Their combination clicked with a dictating the pace at the baseline with continunas flow of forceful drives and cent backhand shots, Augustad and Moore had to work double hard
in their futile attempls
und match.
Perhaps, had Augustad
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Conceding lumps of
Other notables umong fourteen left In the race arc The Comet, who won four of his
winner of Lumber Hill,
the five ruces lost season, ran an ex- King George 6th chase at cellent Champion Hurdle trial at Kempton Park on Boxing Day: Leopardstown, near Dublin, re- Four Ten, Gold Cup winner in [cently. 1054 and third
10
outsider one
Gay second to Triomphe, to whom he Halloween, was giving 30 pounds. placed three Ken in the race; Sir
winner of
toke
beens
Donald last year; Dona who has been Umes three times
more accurate with his forchund
to
And enjoyment has become the Hccepted thing.
ONLY THE START
ob
In Soccer, one of the great snags
that
youngsters, signing professional format they
Once we taught others to play it, Now the world is playing football and in many Instances, playing 11 much better than Britons because they are in the
that impression get the same frame of mind as we were have reached the end of the at the start; keen not only to road instead of appreciating play Soccer BUT PLAY THE that they are in reality only GAME REALLY WELL..
starting along the road. When I was a boy, every
millions of To spore moment was spent kicking | youngsters and
Jads
PLAYING FOOTBALL
British
abroad.
too
a ball about. Usually the ball came to that Stanley Matthews was an old tennis ball, and our is an idol. Someone to whom "pitch was in the school play-they turn to as an example of ground. BUT WE WERE everything "grout footballer
should be. Unfortunately, few of these youths realise that And after the playground was Stanley Matthews only reached eloved I have known my friends the top by sheer hard work- to go on playing in the street and stays there only by terrific untit darkness or sheer fatigue f determination, and keeping to a made us call it a day.
rigorous training programme 1cw boxers would cart
many
He had
By "RECORDER" An appropriate Leap Year's her falling
Day performance was accomplished at Pok
the fulam yesterday, as University Athletic Cham- continued, by plonships
Miss
For
"I wish I could do mt." What a Gold Medal she bent a field Jump. he seemed to overlook was that of 23, including Russian wonder he COULD had he been pro-girl Chudina.
The old record of 4 feet 21⁄2
pared to spend many weary
Jean's outlook on athletics is inches had been set by Fiona Anderson in 1949. Only four hours of practice such as realistic. "I can only hope to
girl Jennifer Hart, Deborah Inter heard this little Brazilian run faster by training, with Hurlbatt, Julia Tingay and had put in after school.
people faster than myself," she Valerie Jinótt have ever jump-
I was fortunate to become » footballer in the pre-war years. The things Major Buckley, manager of Wolves, thught from the beginning were:
To be proud of my club: The value of money;
|
There was no subsiliate for hard work;
to
You will not get your psters doing this today. undertake for ten months of the They have too many other at- year. tractions and the easy way to Unfortunately, the high wages to many young men in paid industry while learning a trade, have, in my view, played a big part in making 60
of many them think that the good things up without working.
ENGLISH TABLE TENNIS
thirty-weight all round. he finished Miss Haydon And of life are waiting to be picked naturally only 160 anxious to
FULL-SCALE TRIAL
once saki.
SPRINTERS AND THROWERS,
"RACCING" INCIDENT
ed higher in Hongkong.
At
The Mile, run under the Unḍ- versity athletic ground flood- lighting system (the pavilion lights and the street lampe above the field) was won in 5. mámites 22.4
by seconds Wallace Wong Ka-ylu of Ricet
University record but it is note
the other startera.
Bill Ton of Lugard Hall bad the unsuccessful try She put her theory into prac-an tice by spending the winter of University record of 10 foot 04 1953-54 training with experi-inch in the Pole Vault after enced men sprinters and throw-winning the event at 9 feet 3
the direction under
of inches and might have gone over Austrian coach Franz
with more confidence. Stampa. In 1953 Jean was elected Bri-
He would probably have clear- And To take advantage of everythin's top woman athlete. opportunity Soccer had to offer, she had overcome illness and ad the intermediate heights of
Since the day I becendo à
series of failures on track and Pt 6 inches and feet 9 inches and the record, is certainly his footballer
I have always put fold. aside as
When she stepped down from if he pays more attention to this savings part of ity that Vancouver rostrum with a event. weekly wage.
her Money, in those days, mont Gold Medal clutched in
one of Jean's something, and having heard trembling hands, of footballers who had finished their days in poverty, I wan prepare for the future. Biote Use war there was no Football Most Unfortunate ORANGE FLIP
League povident fund, which Ryan Price, trianer of Clair
Abroad, in Europe and South assures a footballer whose plans have been completely
tremendous enthusiam school- his aggregate wages when he Manchester, Feb. 20. overturned by the freeze-up.
boys
for reaches the age of 35. and youths Haydon and Miss D.
Bob Pape and Kaith Burch He has been unable to give the Worrall won the women's title in coaching. I will always
have been known to lap other the wonderful FA-
London, Feb. 20. starters, but
of at distances Vocational LeBruc te-post lists, well deserves race this season, but has manag-Championships here today, bent through his football "lessons" Football
work
V. Robins, farmer several miles. Despite the bad Scheme. bying Miss S. Hession and Miss in Rio de Janeiro.
Under this, a player on to his side. Moore, on the that position on his running this ed to keep him in
hck Middlesex and England chicken fighting and
of corner at S. Pickard sending him to the seaside two auso. He has had only
wishing to study a trade or a All-British Brackleshami Bay, in Sussex, final. races, has
profession has his fees paid by ter, now an MCC selector, re-judges, the University sporting of the BT: won both
Whether this will stand to him
the Association and League. ferred to the recent ragging" spirit remained on a high level This I consider a full-scale trial on as much as
They won by 21-14, 21-16.
is one of the incident of Umpire Beg by and no one took The main the race course is a matter of
in surprise
ever members of the MCC team in very tempting short cut in the most progressive steps
daric. 1UCC
Men's Singles was the defeat of
Pakistan diring the BBC tele- opinion.
made in professional sport. Josef Koezian, the Hungarian
vision programme "Sportsview”
RESULTS [International, by Laz, the left-
Following wore the results of Unfortunately, nothing like so | tonight in London, 17-21,matches of the annual Shoolboys' by
mony footballers as you might
Results of finais decided yes- ond Schoolgirls'
It is the most unfortunate terday were: Badminton imagine have taken advantage
can remember championships played at Grant- of this wonderful opportunity.tling !
in Polo Vault: 1: Bill
Ton ham Training College last night: In 1934 only 60 and last year 75 cricket," said the famous Test- (Lugard) Dit Jina; 2. Dantei Ng
drives cspccly the second
set, they would
have won se
LIC
and match instead of having to Champion Hurdle and a recent soleil, is one of those
recruit
postpone the game due to the wh
Tating light.
Time and
again
sent the ball
Augustad
inches out or it hit the top of the net to roll
other hand, was
A
strong in his half volleys but it was to no
against avail
pair who wouldn't take defeat so easily.
Tri nod Pereira, capitalising on the errors of the opposition, ran hway with the second act to win at 7-3 and
Oght
10 'Chasing. and
ot ohe
the
most
# of the younger set of
Worrall Win Doubles Title.
Miss
lump
America, I have noticed the of 7% per cent-lax 100-Thing Says MCC Selector Over TV
chow
سوم
Limber Hill, favourite in the holder of the Champlon lite athe English Open Table Tennis/member a liffle boy I saw going their come to that,
BADMINTON
thus lived to The Choongs To
another day. This un.
Anished mnich
Willie Stephenson, who
in an
saddled Sir Ken in his three handed Australian
winning years, 1952 to 1984 in-21-14, 21-12, 21-19. off today or tomorrow.
will be played Play In Le Havre lusive, is represented by Baby Other leading results were:
Don, who will be ridden by the And Paris
Other seeded pairs sailed into
the next round with very little opposition, Ng Man-cheung and Tin-kin made short work Clioy
of K. L. Ho and F. Ling to win at 6-1, 0-2 while on the other court V. T. Wang and George Choa had an easy passage over
the
School Badminton Championships
Hentar Boys' Bingles
Ko Wal-kyok (WYHK), Jost to Lam professions,
Shii-fung (YWC) 6-15, 11-15; George Ma (P., Chung), beat William Wan (KCCZ3) 13-1, 15-1; Patrick Yeung (England) (ESC) beat Yeung Wan-chai (91 (Germany) Co-ed) 35-7, 8-10, 15-2,
(Hungary)
Girls Doubles
studio various
trades
EVENING CLASSES
Was
Me R.
and player.
all. This was far off his own worthy that he lapped several of
what was a
(Lugard) 8ft Jios; 3. Ng Chuan- wal (Lugard) 7ft 9ing; 4. Bu Mr Robine hoped the reports Chong-hee (Morrison) 7ft 3ins. from Pakistan Lad been
sad it exaggerated ar
was
Ladies' High Jump: ̈ 1. Corin
In my opinion it would be for very difficult to pro-judge_the| Crozler (Duchess of Kent) 4ft
the good of all young men com- incident from here. The Test 844ina (University record); 2. Hul Pek-yok and Loo Shiu-ta (8Ping into professional Soccer ifacioctor added that a report on Boong Hwer-hwa (Lady Ho
Covod) lost to to Winds Chan and
K. C. Ng and S. S, Yew with holds the World's Singles Gat he has not deteriuntou beat Brian Merrett (England) Lillian Wu (SRC) B-15, 16-16, 14-17, it was laid down in their con- the affair was coming and when Tung) 3ft Dins; 3. Fok Po-lam
a 0-0, 0-3 victory.
-RESULTS
The following were the results:
Doubles
who
Champion jockey, Τίπ Johnny Leach_(England) beat Molony. Also among the eigh L. F. Landry (England) 19-21,
the21-16, 21-10, 31-15. teen probable starters is Le Havre, Feb. 29, Old-Stager Noholme, second to
Brion Kennedy Champion Sir Ken In 1052. The nine-year- World Malayn's badminton David Choong arrived here to over fences and hurdles showed
players Eddy and old who has won on the flat,ent G. Mathias
121-15, 21-18, 21-15.
Elemer Gytval frem Switzerland. Eddy, that he
when
he beat Flamo Royal, 21-10, 21-6, 21-10. and Doubles 1tle and
David, Stroller
and
fract that they must study two It arrived, it would be "yesy, (Duchess of Kent) 3ft Dine; 4. Baby Доть sharing the doubles title. were Birmingham in November. The Ferenc Bido (Hungary) beat lun (SP Cord 11-1, 1-6: Chow Chi-evenings a week.
very seriously considered" by Judith, Fun (Lady Ho Tung) accompanied by Robert Lim,
What
3ft 7ime. appear B. Barouh (France) 21-16, 23-21, bor lost to Martin . WongWYHK)
1-11, all Wong Kalibuns tap ca
of service that Malaya's Junior Champion, and three against the field
to be Stroller, Boltown Comet 15-21, 21-11.
best Cheung Vuk-hung (SP Co-ed)
"Even if the incident has Опо Мне Диа: 1. Wong Kar ami Cloit Soleil. Vincent
11-3, 11-1 Ng Hen-chee (SP Co-ed youngsters under the age of 22 Five English players, two 101 to Fel Chung (Chun Kwong should attend their club ground
concluded yiu (Rice) 8mine 22.4secs; 2. exaggerated," for not only morning training, Mr Robins, the timing or it Chen Foo-yan (Eliot); 3. Wong intermediate Boys Binztes
deplorable. Franco- Sit-chit (Morrison); 4. Mok Mak Siu-kau (ICC) lost to Georgs but afternoon coaching. Young (LAC) 4-15, 1-15,
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Yee-chor (Ricci).
P Poon and 5,K, Kho ban N. { Richard Lee.
Willet and 1.11, Tanner 6-2, 64, V.P. THE, and Y.F. Chil best PW. Tag and Hill, Chasing 63, VT. Wang and George Choa, beat *H.P. Ho and V.C, Kung DIKE W. Hogtan and W. Rainger 6-242-k
Rodrigue and át, kibiero
bert C. Sosteng and H.A. Van
Dyck 8-1, 103,
Junior Boys' Singles
Foo Hi-loy (WYIK) best Lau
They will be the guests of O'Brien must be favoured to Hungarians and one Australian 3-1, 1-1 the people of this French port capture his fourth Champion will contest the quarter-finals-
Challenge Cup, but China Mail Special. on March 2 during a tourna- Hurdie
his pair will prove ment organised by the Le Havre Which of Badminton Club.
the better is an almost insolu- ble problem.. China Mail
They will go on to Paris the Special.
e Stan-cheung and Choy Tin-kin next day where they will play K.L. To and T. Lin 6-1. 24, ogulnst members of the Racing best. hacchioni Club of France-France-Press. best., Orrett and PridFU
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