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VISITING THE STABLES
The McGraths Will
Take Their Share
Of Our Prizes
By RICHARD BAERLEIN
Irishman Mr Joseph McGrath has built up a Turf empire in the past 20 years. Although It is not quite on the scale of the Aga Khan's, no other stud founded since 1930 can compete with the record of McGrath's two at Brownstown and Trimblestown,
It is true that McGrath has won the Derby only once with Arctic Prince in 1951-but Solar Slipper might easily have won in 1948 if he had not been cast
in his box on the morning of the race.
Fla
son,
Panashipper, was September only to be led out un- the blading had caught only clone home by Phil sold after Drake to inst year's race. reached 11,000 guineas.
In addition. Aretic Star
From us remarkable team of (Neurco--Servaa) Injured him two-year-olds al least one self as a foul and never ran but classic winner should appear, In fast becoming a top stre. but at this early stage oven the Normally an unraced horse IM traliser would not like to form never given a chance at the studcast which it will be The Me- but the McGraths were so ver- tain of his ability that they have persevered with him.
PROFIT
If luck has not always been with Mr Joe McGrath
hin
Derhy ventures, he has made plenty of molt from the strea Ee has sold in the ast fL-W
cheaply
yrs
Nasrullah, bought from the Aga Khan, went to Amerien at almost £140,000.
Arethe Prince and Solar Slip- per both go to America in June at a Agure of well over £250,000. This pair and Panaslipper were Irish sold last summer to National Stud.
the
McGrath will still be left with one of the most powerful studs in Ireland and one of the best strings in training in the British lates
Although he has exported some of his best stakhorn, fre alao imported the Kentucky Derby winner. Hill Gall, when the Treasury refused la grant the dollars to a syndicate
to buy British brewstern horse. H
won 835.625 dullars on the American turf.
Gall
AT THE TOP
McGrath's son, Seamus,
at
doen
training, and although be race in England
1་
won only one
last season, I
was top of
list in Ireland.
He saddled
The 25
winners
£16.525.
Seamus
Gruth horses do England unless they ported to win.
not
come la
fire ex-
-(London Express Service).
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THE CHINA' MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH ・ 1, 1950,
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ROY ULLYETT...sees the shape of sporting things to come
Archie Moore
HITS THE ! UNSPORTING HEADLINES
A RESOUNDING WALLOP
ARCHIE, FROM
THE USA,
DECLARES
HE WILL NOT DEFEND HIS CRUISER-WEIGHT TITLE. AGAINST YOLANDE POMPEY IN LONDON "unless the third man in,, the ring is American'
FOOTBALL IS WAR SO...
MUST BE GOOD
PLAYERS SOLDIERS; THEY
VERY .DECENTLY HE DOESN'T STIPULATE THAT POMPEY SHALL HAVE HIS FEET SHACKLED AND FIGHT WITH A SACK OVER
HIS HEAD!
IF ARCHIE GETS HIS WAY WE CAN
PERHAPS LOOK FORWARD TO
MUST
HAVE
DISCIPLINE AND LOYALTY
Says ALEC STOCK
Football is war, once a week, every Saturday, and so footballers
must be good soldiers-fit, strong, quick, adaptable.
They must have discipline. They must know what they are fighting for. They must have loyalty. But I'm afraid too often they don't have these things.
chorus.
A lot of rubbish is talked about footballers, and I don't want to join the
But the modern footballer just does not fit the bill,
Don't misunderstand me. It is not his fault. How can you expect men to be proud of their profession when the maximum reward it can offer them, no matter how talented they are, in £157
the
appearances
young
a young tan, who continuous has reached the top of his pro-travelling,
with 80, thousands of people fession quickly, and, horses in his stable for the com-entertainers for this pittance? ing season, will be taking his It doesn't make sense. toll of English prízes,
Of the older
THOSE PERKS
horses, Areth
Why. clubs in comparatively Tline is quite sound again. Hel
season minor competitions, outside the did not run again last
Football Anishing fourth to Viny, scope of the powerful after Acropolisa and Elopement in the League-the "non-League" clubs
Queen
can pay their men more than Vi and King George
they can ever hope to corn in Elibeth Stakes at Ascot
our self-styled "premier com- That performance stamped petition."
him as a colt with a future, and the English handicapper rates him about 31 behindi Acropolis.
And when you have four auch players in
n team you touch greatness in football. Think of all the great, truly areat, sides you have known and you wil And that true,
and
I hereby lodge and uphold a protest against the first three and award the race to that 100/6 job Wot nobody bothered to back..
BOOKMAKERS ELECTING THE JOCKEY CLUB STEWARDS AND THE DERBY WINNER ANNOUNCED
LIKE THIS
ROBERT ROBINSON'S SHOW TALK
MIND
You,
IF CHELSEA HAD BEEN ALLOWED TO PICK THEIR OWN REFEREE WHEN THEY ORIGINALLY MET BURNLEY
WE MIGHT HAVE-
I order off all eleven Burnley players and award Chelsea six penalties in the hope they score from onė,
GOT YESTERDAY'S RESULT THE FIRST TIME OUT AND BEEN SPARED HOURS
OF AGONY. RoyÜLLYETT.
VIOLETTA WITH
THE
LID
OFF
"Now go back,” says Miss Violetta Elvin after our chat, “and twist It. Try not to twist it too much." From which you gather that prima ballerina Elvin's opinion of the truth-loving British journalist is not high.
Indeed, her opinion of other British institutions hotels, Customs officials and the licensing laws-is so splendidly low that I nominate her “Miss Gilbert Harding of
1956."
This week the Customa actually made her weep. "I was tired—I had' danced two full-length ballets on successive nights. I arrive home, and the man at the Customs makes me undo all my parcels.
herself. "how foolish
your
those
"I was the first in: the last garten, Not do this; can't have sweet and sharp as Miss Elvin out, One is nervous, highly that,
thirty atrung. He keeps minutes. Why does he have to be so pedantie? Somebody has to be the victim, I suppose.
"I was chosen. He had de- rided-and he was too stubborn to back down.”
BITTER SWEET
"Small people-maids such-dictate when you have breakfast. You do
el at home.
"Are we the guests-OT they?"
and must
Licensing laws are-for who love to drink."
She broods slavonically. "You English are so tolerant. not I am not."
are
"And your hotels,” she goes A hit, a palpable trill on, es I encourage her to un-
"And." she goes on, handing burden herself, "they treat you me a glass of wisnlowko, which you were in a kinders vodka and cherries, and is as
กร
BACK TO NATURE
By HENRY LONGHURST
nkin
to
the
at
EXACT REPLICA
I bollove her.,
For with every query I put, I am told I am naughty to ask. 1 am told I am going 10 twist things. --~-
By the time I leave her, 1 am feeling so twisted I suspect shall have to screw my hot
on.
"No," she says, "I was not glad to leave Russia, is one glad to leave one's mother?”
But she will not be lining the route when Mesara Bulganin and Kruschev visit us In the Spring.
"I shall follow
their pro-
straight theatre.
the
up
"No, I will not say at what age a ballerina should give dancing." (she is 28-getting on ja bit, from the ballet point of
FLATTERY
She is not even sure she will
I often
wonder what those This always intrigues me, for itgress through the papers. I am How can you expect
Fathusiasm for the task in Most of my time has been
ancient worthles who played shows what a lot of nonsense is an artist, I will not discuss 4211⁄2 races, worth men to submit themselves Lo hand is perhaps Bill Wright's spent in the Third Division, and the original golf amid the sand talked about top spin and such politics."
of the dunes of Scotland, playing the like. discipline
the On a five-yard pult hard, of
greatest quality. I would counsel so I haven't seen much
the bail where
Indeed, the subjects Miss it lay and impro- evidence is that the ball does not training, rigorous all players to model themselves highest-class teams or all
international matches.
vising
with shots
1heir before on Matthews and Wright.
"rut touch the ground at all for the Eivin will not discuss would all of as skilled
the "B" team But I reckon One player like either
irons,
think would
ስ the Are yard and only touches it an edition of this newspaper. Yugoslavin at sophisticated version we Imow
Intervals for the which played
second
"I do not like to talk of am- these can make a team. He can inspire other lesser player to Manchester earlier this season today-the thrwicss falways yard. You can stand there all bitions," she says, when I ask
sand bunkers day, trying play above themselves, to pro-gat close to my ideal for Eng- and greens; the
will follow Стегу
of her whether she duce the extra effort at vital and in a tactical sense.
so carefully raked as to present, method, and still fall to make ballerina Moira Shearer in moments,
to anyone who cares to learn it, the ball run along the ground There you bad boys ike the easiest shot in the game, the from the moment you strike it. Groves, Edwards. Aty, Perrystning armoury of clubs, the playing fast, direct, open foot-supercharged bulls and all ball, and they all had the skill rest of it. The thought occurs to
to intelligence play it me as I have just been playing Once you forget the unortho- (view), properly.
something more
without the doxy of playing golf When that happens the style original version, and have great-a blade of grass which, I am no slave to what we is irresistable. As long as these
ly enjoyed its primitive strangely, you do in the first and keep call, loosely,
emerging Continental foot players
simplicity.
ten minutes Tripoli has somηc and
the heights our ball-short passing
close reaching for
very fine holes, at least two of tell me whether she is flattered at both game will be healthy.
at being described as "the most The scene WO3 the Tripoll them manoeuvres.
strongly reminiscent
beautiful ballerina in the world" Golf Club, and a nice change it home. club, and international level.
The first, for instance.or whether it pleases her to (London Express Service}.
made, after picking one's way with the tea beside the shore (COPYRIGHT)
Or have been painted at least through snowdrifts to reach the aid the sea doping away m
times. taxi the day before, to be a little bay, is an almost exact
old women standing on the first tee in the replies of the first at Porth-
t sunshine beside the blue waters cawl.
The fourth
where, and fishermen. Why should 1 be turned inland by the flattered?"
factory--mercifully As I go out, she admits that
ot this time of not working
if she were to act, she would like to play Esmeralda in "The year-you turn again and play course this is it-consist of sand, straight out to sca, is the spir/Hunchback Of Notre Dame."
Personally, I see her playing stones and boulders, inter-image of that wonderful hole Kate in "The Taming of the K. K. Ip yesterday announced his resignation from the Hong daisy and a creeping blue flower
spersed with a tiny species
they call the White Rocks at
Shrow" Any volunteers kong Chinese Football Asso-
Portrush.
Petruchio? gentian, The ciation. Mr Ip, who was repre- that I took to
the greens are somewhat darker and sentative of the CFA on
having been Hongkong Football Association firmer, the eand
they are Athletic mixed with oll, and and Chinese Amntour Federation Councils, is, it is un-raked in circles, the hole thus derstood, taking up a post as resembling the bull's eye in the assistant to Mr R. M. Omar, riddle of a target. Secretary of the HongkonE Football Association.
So Inevitably you have play- ers accepting "perks." outside offers in the way of advertising. writing, radio and TV
appear- ances, and part-time jobs.
Many of these jobs pay more Windsor than football does, so football
and loses its exige for the pinyer.
If he keeps sound he could be
a danger in any rer.
The Ascot
whiner,
in training, Sun, is stil looks far more matured.
The two chief classic hopes season are Windsor Serial
this and Rolstar.
It becomes that much less important to him, the non-foot- ball income that much more important.
I fee that English-style food- ball should be the basis of our national tean play-fast, open, hard-striking football. RELISHES
{ am convinced
the that English fan relishes the physical Don't Indiet the player. Blame side of football, the crisp tackles The grey Windsor Serial is in
of ours, and lusty shoulder-charges that 2,000 this brave new world the English
trish andi
feature our game. and pressUT CA Guineas only ta ho is not ex-fuit of tensions
must give them this.
pected to stay.
and distractions.
I will not listen if you quote He was only Sib below the top me pre-war loyalties, Then it weight in the Irish Free Handi-was easy to be loyal, cap and
because
for most people the vital thing has grown Into a powerful coll. Unfortunately he was to have a job, ANY job,
In blind in one cyc.
that pald any kind of money, | ni footballers then were paid Reisinr (Aretle Star-Roisto) the in advance of the average
workman. It is not so now,
WAS second
in the Irish Free Handicap 2lb below Sarissa but he was lib above Milesion, who is a classic possible.
WELL MADE
He is engaged in all the classic my time. I didn't see them play.
races and is a very well-made colt, A good Irish judge told me that Roistar had three very hard races to end the season and he may remember them
he is a very tough colt
STREETS AHEAD
And so we
Queen's College Leads In Inter- School League
Queen's Collega St. Joseph's Pool SunT But I know that In training,
Wah Yon Kin.". coaching, fitness, club admini-
SFX unless siration and facilities for the KGV can fans they
be improved Aberdeen"
Clement! still) postwar football is streets
St. Loule ahead of the old game.
King' La Sallo
The three-year-olds, of whom there are more than 20, are ali from superbly bred, but apart those mentioned, not many will be seen in England.
of the two-year-olds I was most interested in Chevnsteld. He is a half-brother by Prince Chevalier to Panaslipper, and came up for sale at Dublin last
A PU
11 20
53 17
HKFA JOB FOR K. K. IP
of the Mediterranean. The fair-
ways on this links-and links it certainly must be called, for if
there
"acaside"
•
ever
was
FIRST ATTEMPT
of
The tenth,
along curving with the sea, noeds only grass to make it one of the world's
back along the shore Ao the cat hales. The view looking distant chy as it juts out into the sea, dazzling in the winter sun, absolutely Lakes your breath away.
on is the
A little further Under-water
Explorers Club, eight minutes, of which the Ambassador 18 an himself-end the enthusiastle member.
From
the
In any case, I am a post-war type. I have no opinions of the great ones like Charlie Buchan The following are the latest
A meeting of the CFA which The match was between Her Ambassador, who and Alex James and
Billy standings in the Senior Divisio
was called yesterday at the Majesty's Walker. They were way before of the Inter-School Football Ying King Restaurant, and at holds the record for the course
League:
which Mr K. Y. Yung presided, one hour and elected Messrs Lesile Chan-playing by
Controller
of State Properties time to time Q perkrope ning, Mok Hing and Lee Hang-
fram off-shore |appears lain to take over Mr Ip's pre- on the one alde ond the officer
the British MH- |2225 commanding vious posts.
tenth, signifying that tary Mission to Libya and my Excellency, with his Snorkel
The Con apparatus, is in Mr Channing was appointed self on the other.
surreptitious Chairman of the
Selection ruller of State Properties, who Committeo and made a member hails from Llandrindod Wells, is search of golf balls. His score
this year so far is five. of the Victory Shield Commit-the Champion of Libya tee. Mr Mok Hing will be the would. I thinic, beat the better CFA's representative
the ball of Hogan and Snead on
first attempt, having HKEA Council, while Mr Leo their Hong-lam will serve as the mastered the art of causing the the ball to bodge on the green from CFA's representative on.
100 yards. Orthodox methods, CAAF Council.
[one soon learris, do not effect this.
If you pitch 'short, The ball stops dead with a splash of sand. If you plich on, it flies over the back as though concrete,
Wah Yan K
St. Francis Xavier defout
មិនដ
Wah
There are many exceptions to these criticisms. and the two
Queen Elizabeth outstanding players in this re-
St. Stephen's.. speet are clearly Stanley Matt- Chisthe ...... 13 hews and Billy Wright
Yan College Kowloon 0-1 in a "B" If you all down in cold blood | Grade knick-out "competition match
that this man. and consider
yesterday, Matthews is 41 years of age but is still playing In World Championships and Inter- national matches and right though the rigours of a harsh English season, the whole thing
Opening Batsman becomes almost incredible. KO's Wicketkeeper There is nothing quite like it
In the whole scope of sport. But
With Mighty Hook even more starting is the fact
Melbourne, Feb. 20.
The opening batsman of the Sydney University team knock-
tho ed
wickulkeeper un conscious while making mighty hook shot during cricket mitch against. Mel- bouro University,
His bat caught the wicket
keeper behind the car.
a
that Matthews ecens
to play football now
to want as much
as ho did when he was a boy of 17,
Starting Times For Ladies'
Golf Championship
The fallowing are the draw and starting times for the Ladies* Section Golf Championship to be played over 38 holes at Fanling on Thursday, March 6.
014 Course
Mr It.. Cleland 0.03 9.10 Mrs W.N. Guy 9.10 Mrs G.W. Vaughn 9:20 M... Coombe
MF,D, Hunter 9:30 Mr M. Tumbuli 9.35 Mre P.A. Laroche *** J.K. McCann
You will know how I feel about this man when I fell you that when he came to play at our 9.25
I asked ground
h'm for his autograph for myself. I have never done that before or since
with any other person..
Wright? Remarkable! Bach
tline I see him he scoma - A
The Injured player recover- better footballer. I have never ed after destors had milched up som a player play with such dile wound-China Mail Special. mest for his work.
ond
оп
off
Hongkong Police Team To Meet Macao Selected
The team to represent the We managed to halve with Hongkong Police in the Inter- the Champion and his dialin-port soccer match against Macro guished partner, largely through
BooCor
my brilliant three at the 100%, Folice on March 3, was selected
following a friendly which was brought about by one match against Kwong Wah et of the most comarkable putts the HKPSA ground yesterday. aver made in North Africa. The The Hongkong Police won 3-0.
Playere elected were blowing from the left. I putted, | Man-sum, Ngar
Ping-wing.
Kwok Chan-thing, from off the green, well to the Chan
Na Ling. right and in the lust fow foot Hughes, Walcefeld, Van Blu- the ball turned steeply up the choy, Moss, Au Chi-yin," La alopo and against the wind and Wai and Trang Man. Rewerve:
New-Course
green
Mr E.J. Cowell Mrs J, Connell Brown
1.57
the loped sharply. 10 right and a strong wind
WOR
Mrs F.W, Brooks
1.40
Mrs JR. Grong.
1.16
Mew L. Goldman
1.00
Mr J.A. Anderson
1.00
Mrs F.G. Harrison
#.00
Mrs L., Hobinson
3,00
0.45
B.M, Jacke
Mrs W.F. Birtwhistle
2,10
ran into the hole.
0.00
MN AW, Dawson-Grove
Mrs J. Wal
sa
Mrs J. Gray
2,30
10.00
Mr J.R. Collie
Mes R.D. Neala
10.06
M Y. Annatrong
91.40
MM J.C. Hurden
3
Mre 3.A.H. Saunders
On gros this might be held
to be an optical illusion..
The courtery of the First Tees has been granted as landernoted for sand the evidence is there
the playing of the Ladies Championship:
dia Coures-March 8-7.30 a.m. to 10.10 1.12. New Courre-blettál S-12,30 p.m. 10. 3 p.ta.
On
Tsang Kal-wing, Leung Kwan- fal, Leung Shing.
The match will commence at Loc. 3.30 p.in. on Saturday, March 3. all do soe, bo path of the ball The Band of the Hongkapa marked, clearly on the green. Police will be in estandanOF,
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