WEEK-END BOWLS
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 80, 1956.
THE CROWN UPSIDE DOWN
IRC "BLUES" AT HOME TO CRAIGENGOWER IN CRUCIAL MATCH TODAY
By "TOUCHER”
Two crucial League matches this afternoon head the Colony's crowd-
ed lawn bowls programme for the next four days,
Tomorrow the Open Rinks Championship begins its first round proper with 16 Purfches, and on Monday and Tuesday all the 32 first round games of the Open Singles Championship will be played off.
Thing the top spot mong the Legue matches this after- will be that between In-
·lu dan Rrerealion Club
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Craigangowe f of the table with 27 the in- points is eight ina ches,
he moment in slightly by they pusiop Than Their Thưd, by wing fanied 25% ponts
even nolches
aspat e Kowloom again: when the Fedans have aut
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1 Indians polemicals 1909 posts to have
The creat at the momen
Much of the unces of eith
HRC frigtingower
“B!tus ¢vf Wang trae Chrun popolup will brige on the result of lust, tap offerneson
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it view of the thru playing cm- t of the local green at the moment. If anything. they und to slightly in the fast side, and club convenors may perhaps af ndvitity conskter the watering greens before matches 10 as to ensure the best playing condition.
Seeman, M. B. Hussan and D. k. Sadick.
All diese fours are expected to win their guntes komvirow, but who the eventual winners of the cinks even will be are as much
guem a
min. the reader's
practical- Records show that two
Busung and uniarskied beat fours won the event in the last Two senkins and trum among the in the Arst roundanderdoses four may yet riso uo murgin,
**** thle year to complete
Although Craigengower the Indians by
4-1
Win
the bat
chological advantage will be trick. with the Inding this afkinutit.
OPEN SINGLES Club twelve have The Valley
The first round matches of the effect of to shinke
Li Sugles event on Montay Rcercla defoul by
Jast their und Tuesday will be more in- werk-end and Dvdruome
at least two dindence on the extremely last teg, with IRC geen where they recently matches especially worth watch- there from Lng on Monday. One of setbark 4-1 suffered a
will be that between A. P the Indian "Gold" team.
Pereira and fettner Champion Supporters of the Indian camp. E. Contes to be played at estimate the odds as being a
KOC
2 for the home tearti, I should
Contes, after a poor beginning
think the chances abent even
even | this season, has picked up his
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for either side to Wan by a 4-1 A decisive 44 or 5-0 win for margin, with the odds fast that esther ende ali ginally tafaner | Starke in fus ur of the Ingustia, the pers
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form during the last two works and will probably just be
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TODAY'S GAMEB
First Division Recreio v. KBGC FC y TC
KCC v IRC "Gold"
"Blue" v. CCC
Second Division
CCC v. RKFC
Both the Duke of Edinburgh and H.M. The Queen seem to be amused by the sight of the crown upside down on the Guards Brigade Colour which y
a poło covering the trophy table. This small divertissement took place after match in Great Windsor Park on June 24 when the Burlingham team, cap- tained by the Duke of Edinburgh beat a New Zealand team in an exhibition match. The Queen presented a prize to her husband after the match as captain
of the winning team.---Central Press Photo,
TIGERS OF SPORT
If ever a man worked and slaved and tortured himself to attain the heights of athletic have indicated His appearance when running may greotopes that man was Emill Zatopek. success through misery. But his triumphis may never be equalled, even in this age of records. HARRY ANDREW, In the fourth of his Tigers of Sport series, tells of his remarkable Olympies treble.
HIS MIRACLE MARATHON STUNNED THE WORLD
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By HARRY ANDREW
to
Un
badly
and
SPORTS SPECTRUM
Mr Wong Advocates A Strict Colour Bar
Mr Wong ant at the bar and watched the door of the club. He was obviously impatient and there was a definite odge on his another voice in he called for pink gin.
He glanced at his watch and seemed about to make a move
swung open as the door Big John came in.
spanking quite honestly, I think It's a pretty sound iden."
This was hardly the sort of reply Mr Wong had anticipated. He had in fact expected an ex- plosion from his colleague who is well-lawn as an enthusins- who dislikes any tie bowier
old trbl und interference with the
und trusted traditions of the Humo
They met half way across the
room.
iri
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to mean
troule
on the
his
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too
no, John,
cannot mein that.
diabolical
"John," he suit with just suflichen harshness to show "It's good to see you again... disappointment, "surely you don't
said the now
tuli
me that Al you old scan,"
hope arrival". I
you've
approve of the idea of painting sides of managed to keep Colony sport coloured rings
on woods so that a few cranks can arder while I've been
Junow who is lying the shot leave,"
themselves bocz mnost | without cousing has "Oh, frustrating, John" confided his much
you simply companion. "There hasn't been a soul about the club who was The whole thing is
scheme
modernise an old worth arguing with, but I'm going to make up for lost time fashioned game that doesn't need
There any modernising. now that you're back,
Why the next dozen subjects on thing will be a proposal thing the are at least which I want 10 obtain your players of ench rink should turn views.. We hear for example out in club coloured shirts. We'd that there's going to be promu-have the KCC in red and green, relegation in local the Police Club in dark blue and tion and
Football Club in their soccer I believe too that the proposal is afoot to change the familiar blue and white soccer
soft-strip...." Colony whole fuc of
he paused for breath Big As John Jumped tally into
"Now listen to me, my attack. good friend," he said in his quioi bul commading way, "you've brought football into the argu- like to ask ment and I would you how well you could follow a football match from the grand stand all the players wore the same coloured shirt or even i
and, if softball looks as bad now as it did when i went on leave, it could do with a good face chipped in Big Jotu
inter.
and toire more thrust duan u
like What to sway him from his story.
Mr Wong treated the ruption with cool resurve, indicated & would
diverting
you
ex
if it is
the
they wore none at all.... Not "You can have your say about unly you but the pinyers them- that in due course, but apart selves would be completely con- Irum softball there's also a big fused. So why should it 243 plan to start a benevolent fund different with lawn bowlers and for our pugilists... and than the faithful folks who sit round there's a suggestion that'll shake the greens watching them play.
to the roole
compone
only wants to see our lawn bowders The great thing in any compelf-
tive sporteven in cor using coloured woods
competitive for entertainment's petitive bowls matches."
ouko-is that players on one side This brought a quick smito should be able to see easily what to Big John's face. I hope they their opponents are up to, and I
that don't let anyone choose green don't mind welling you and white onca or royal blue lawn bowls has any ambition al
of attracting ones, otherwise there'll be no all
a gallery of mean trouble between the, fery spectators then it has to realise
Kowloon that it must make it easier for Soots at Talkvo and ha
Ducks, But, Jolding apart, and the watchers to see what is hap
pening.
The most miserable looking athlete I have ever seen in action is Emil Zatopek, the Galloping Major from Czechoslovakia. His mouth twista, his face contorts a if every step is sheer agony, for him, nothing about running seems casy.
Yet Zatopek is beyond question the greatest distance runner in world history. And he
is better
quickly than once said: "It beautifully and slowly."
be words Unfortunately,
changed since he first started the
distance running in 1941. only too willing to jend himself
The Czech does not moko, political propaganda of every conch, every
rarely takes alcohol. He likes How many athletes-- | machine, He was, for instance,
author of a Round lots of salt when tired and he apparent
Briusi 10 Robin Appeal
ents what and as much us feels ke, He seldom cats athletes to attend a Communist- backed "Peace Conference" in
before a race Vienna In 1852.
Club whe are, only
FC v. Recreio
KCC v.
USIC
behind with Uns
KDC "White" v. POC KDC "Blue Y. PRC
How
I
those wich
would
10
branded into
zonds selectin
!
A deve win for the Fit- Los will put them in a very The Chunk – Alatto in
Leaving 14 unly Howling Given Chuo kely challengers.
prsa.p
Kowloon
Th. KISA will have to win
tri
the are al
ktop will within with
Ji..
the
HKCC (Bye)
Third Division
CCC v. KCC PRC v. KERC KBGC v. HкTC HKPSA v. FC
Ladies' League
USRC v. CCC "Green" FC v. KCC "White" KBGC v. CCC "Yellow" KDC v. KCC "Red" PRC v. TC
4+1i be about It the aftertoun mid avenge their 4-1 defeat in
Fours! With Kowiem Dock "Blues"
TOMORROW ahasil. Seropst Dividen
Colony Open Rinks down to naw BLA
Phil round matebras the mudurus-up poale Face for
KBGC, Then with rele I. wir than five BKUC,
for the place CCC, KDXC and IRC.
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ut them with wo of the best jume
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lash H In thi
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1 Pagganapoweg will ke un
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their Kowloon Cricket B|Cu will be at suns to USKU.
4
at
both are expec ed to come
fr pois euen. her contenders
through with
Ruercio,
for the
have
14 ch
thr
PATOBOTS Cup
v point
w.thin
de afte playg
Justion.
their away
against the Filipino Cub
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apart Football Club's H. Black, พ. McColl, F D.
Angus
and K. Forrow at the IRC green and a close game is expected, with the odile slight- ly In favour of the Craigen- Kower tour.
On paper probably the strong- est four in the wvent are Francis Lec, C. C. Ma. A. E. Coates He J. S. Landolt, Against W. Riley, W. Chambers, W. Goff- ney and A. E. Elliott they may not, however, have matters their own way and will probably be pushed to their best form.
thi Ræreto's rtrongest four event are J. Fonseca, A. P. Fervira, C. C. Pereira and Joe
Alver, A, A.
Luz, but F. X. Guttierres, F. X.
Silva and
Johnny Ribeiro, F. G. IALX
KCC.
at
MONDAY Colony Open Singles First
round
matches KLGC. Reer 16, KCC, KDC, CCC. IRC. HKCC, HKFC and TC.
.
121
to
the
By
the
contrast, I have spok
athletes who assure To many
ព thai Zatopek is the soul courtesy
sportsmanship and when
He is als competing. not not above a little spot of games- manship when the opportunity offers
Вот
he
run
that He says
the toughest part of his training was "troin- And that's one ing his will," plece of propaganda 1 do be- Nobody has ever fought leve.
he has to beat the agony of burning lungs, the weakness of the desperate logs, trembling Itredness that can afflict these long-distance men.
Yes, stripped of all the pro- paganda and bullyhoo, Zatopek remains as one of the truly great Tigers of Sportboth on the score of performance and of personality.
Hungarians Train For Olympics
Budapest
A
"While I was home on leave I watched several games which the woods were coloured In different ways 10 that players could follow play more easily, spectators could so that uclively participate in EL way that has
und
before.
never been1
possible
I saw these games in natural light and I saw them 1 W63 floodlights. under Hungary's national sports most impressed and I have come chiching centre at Tata is being back here determined to try and extended to aid her sportsinen convince the folks who matter in their Olymple training.
that it is a good idea, so good new gymnasium is being bull:
in fact that it should be flod which can b. partitioned
out at the very earliest oppor- that different sports can go on
tunity." without interruption, reports the Hungarian News Service quoted by Reuter.
SU
fo
been sports-have Chonoured because they looked And how many have been left oul because their style didn't plea e some idiot who set appearance before performance? Anyway Zatopek is the living embriment of what a man can do WITHOUT style--but WITH
uncuß- guls, determination,
will to will, querable
ruthless forture of himself (and his op ponents!) and the willingnes to
devole his
For instance, in that Helstuki every thought and
alongside Marathon ntbetion to the business of getting
top.
some time with the Peters it He
at the proved
jast Englishman pounding his heart Then, the out to keep going. at Helsinki in Olymple Games
Czech waved gay hand and in July, 1952. when he stunned the
broken English, said he'd have white world by winning three goll medols for the three to be getting along "as the pace
At the Olymple Gumes et Is a little too slow for me. fourhest races the 5,000 and
November, how Peters felt at Melbourne Imagine 10000 Metres and the Marathon,
Zalopek will run in the 10,000 His Marathon
He performance that momen!!
Zatopek
profesional Metres and the Marathon, a WILK unbelievable.
won the 10,000 in It Jun
before soldier"in the cause of peace" has already
Mctres twice to equal Nurmi's nt TC, never
He had not trained for it. The
are osuted that his
record.
Nobody has ever won race stretches out over 20 miles rank of major is due entirely to 385 yard and the Galloping his effeltney at his trade, How two Marathons.
If anybody can do it, then it Major had already run almost ever, I always find it remark-
able that these Iron Curtain will be Emil Zatopek. 10 miles to win his two other
He is now 34 years of age. medade
athletes seem to time promotions with their athletic successesle says he will retire from inter-people, is also to be extended 400-metre specd-skating competition after and as, for instance the Hungarian national
Ferenc
Melbourne, though he will still track built. footballer,
Puskes Zatopek "walked away from
advorice to whose
major keep running. of the Beld
world's best
File with Argentine. coincided of runners Corno
country's top of the SOLCET Yoon Chil jump to the
circus Jim Peters of Britain, and a host of others. UNOFFICIAL RECORD Peters then held the unofficial
TUESDAY Colony Open Singles First round matches THC, HKCC and KBGC.
1
SPORTS QUIZ
who
was the first mun to win the Men's Singles utle at Wimbledon? 2. In
what your did Victor Seixus win the Men's Sin- gles title?
3. Who are the first two needs
YWIT Champion
in this ships?
4. Who was the last married woman to win the Women's Single Hilo?
He
had
No expert would give him a charee of winning.
A
Juns on of Sweden, Chol of Karva
no
world record and made steret of the fact that he in- lended running Zatopek into the ground. He tried, too. He led But he finished from the start, the last 10 or 11 miles in the a motor-car-knocked back of a out by the paço,
5. When was the last time an But Zatopek ran on and on, Englishman won the Men's laughing to the crowd, waving, Singles, and who was he? even turning his head so that
6. Who was Gorgeous Gussie? the
7. Name two famous Ameri- him.
onc
next
pholograpers could snap The crowd went crazy na
man
-and we
то
in
A BRAVE MAN
tures. which
-
There was a strange allence Mr Wong, hir he stopped. faith in his old friend obviously In Budapest three gymnistumis
to control tried hurd
was an are being built under one roof shaken,
but it with several smaller halls added himself
Suddenly he Scasions and lee successful effort. for training
The City Park ice rink turned to the bar and beat the 4,000 counter with his tightly clenched accommodates
1," he shouted, "bring me a pink gin no
sis.
make it a double bring a large chunk of ice for my poor disillusioned friend who apparently has not yet recovered from a touch of the sun in the Red Sea.
Plans have also been made to ansform the Reese bus garage near the People's Stadium into a sports hail to relieve pressure on the National and Csepel halls.
The High School for Physical
25-metre
оста.....
will
n
be
door, knob
No.
over
th
The world loves a brave man,
He drained his glass at one It is certain that, however and all of us will be sorry when
his we know we have seen the lust Training in Budapest is to be guip and stamped towards the hard Zalopek works, at
With his hand on he works A soldiering,
dara of that tortured, gallant figure enlarged by the addition of
to shouted
his sight harder at his running. battling its way to the fulahing
pool which
shoulder "and don't drink too Ho has revolutionised long-line, head lolling, mouth
John
maybe distance training; setting him and overy line of him shrick- open to non-students as well,
to instal much, Plans are in hand which ing out loud "I MUST win." self a killing schedule
15 floodlighting the 100,000- you'll have a We may have to walt a very nobody thought could be main-
capacity People's Stadium which glorious technicolour featuring tained
Jong time to see his equat..
will enable evening fixtures 6 pink woods.
-B. E. JANT -(London pran Bervice),
(COPYRIGHT)
JUS LUNG POWER Typical, for instance, is that he decided to increase his lung power while running as far as ho could holding his breath. HE RAN UNTIL HE DROPPED UNCONSCIOUS!
Nothing stops him carrying can tennis champions, both he strode along into the Olympic He Anished more Who Stadium.
out his routine, rain or hall ar Wimbledon winers,
And his. or sunshine. Recently warned professton-than 24 minutes ahead of the mow
Dina Ingrove He shattered the wife-formerly and
The two of Olymple record by minutes goes with him.
them find oficial title 16 seconds,
a unique double at of the Wimbledon tunnir And he ran an extra circuit of Helsink when minutes after tournament?
the stadium to please the crowd Zalopek's 5,000 Metres triumph,
his wife went out and won the and collaptad behind him. Javeilm with a record throw,
Nature itself gave Zatopek his great advantage) itaormally targo, heart with an
Incident unusually slow beat, ally, the size of his heart has not
al (onc woman)
8. What is
man
the
S. E. Souza, C. E. Pas nod A. A. Lopes are two other Re- creio
which are 10. Which combinations capable of going for
other in the
0. Who is the President of as his rivals gasped and groaned
the All-England Club?
tournernent.
cre
Another favoured four IRC's A. R. A. Rahman, A. H.
POP
I HEARD FROM JILLár,“
·TO DAY- SHE
SAYS - EVERYTHING) JUST FINE.
I'M GLAD
HER MARRIAGE
HAS BEEN)
SUCCESS
famous
tennla champion had her career cut short through a ring cident?
(Answers Bee Paro 17)
OH YES -
BUT OF COURSE SSHE {HATES: HER
„HUSBAND,
For Zatopek the athlete no praise could be enough. And about Zatopek' the math, even his biggest rivals concede that he is the most charmning of men,
Darby and moan
OH WELL,
ISAT
THERE
ALWAYS |SOMETHING:
PRECIOUS DROPS
FOR
·PRECIOUS
MOMENTE.
EFFERIS
CHERRY
HEERING
an
be played.-China Mail Special.
ALL EYES ON THE BALL
nightmare
All eyes follow the progress of the ball played by the brillant young Aus-
tralian Pe •Thommit duritie “the” Car
Course, Burrès on June 25. Arms folded?
if tournament at Wentworth
partner, Norman