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We have an affetat of stances. I am sure the sportsman who the IKAAA as a sports editor of
ww have made this mesit abservation el local newspaper“
professional footballer so with a twinkle in his eye and former
ben 25 ovog looked
with his tongue in his cheek, butang a grand job as chairman of
If you examine the eterumsdanes of the most important com-
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HKFA which is the deeply enough you will find that
infter all involved in the promo) – dbt uns
close by ELET come very
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football <% amateur
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have a well known sports broad- tortait pedal.
caster who 1 also amateur Let sue tell yom of the clade several case of confusion in the present and amateur profisiotu|
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1956.
LAND OF
OUR FIVERS
£5,000
RENT KILLSE DAI DOWER
·WORLD TITLE FIGHT
BACH BACH
点
CARDIFF EISTEDDFOD, RMULETT.
OLYMPIC GAMES
Given The Chance, Either
Iharos Or Pirie Can
Wear
sporting 027-
Zatopek's
Crown
at thegimisations which beaNT
Ever stalas
cricketer by the rise of Mike | Stewart
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of them a May 116 as a basman of disservice to amateur sport"
abilly
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a lot of utk
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ain! fessionalis Surrey but also gets well paid
rusny for cuttutt In other
words
sporten live for the day when will be classXNÍ he In a fully pass up pro- all participants.
is only ftyud£; I
as players nod aminers or professtorals, even
E'ticket Is
15 Summerfanh an muovation will prove Enterprise but in the winter he repugnant to the narrow-mindsli plays f. etball for the Corinthians who believe that anyone who res
ceives payzaen
sporung ny DaleuT C'amals, surely bunch of the-blue amateurs as skill-knowledge tainted entuld be found the world over
ful that is only half of the strange
IL
chance
company.
for
Stewart MUKA
Bratman favned Girent
Hiven vircumstances has been ah unexpected und, in the views of some folks, ti over generous 1958 the 113 Olympic Games were compet-be representing Girvaj tion and one of the players who has been asked if he will be available to make the trig 19, avar
Mike yes you've Slewurt
welt
When the critles are crying their loudest it might do thei good to sit in a corner and 10- cle the name of Mike Stewart over and over again, Il would Surely remind them that a pro-
starinan may fessional
Britpin the amateur soccer competi- Hon at the Olympic Games al Melboume later this year and that he will te duing with the full knowledge and This paires a most interesting understanding of the organisers
then the Cimes.
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nothing wrong with interesting after thought. Maybe the appropriate Committee does appurance
not consider that cricket sport or cricketers sportsmen. and that should surely stimul Die a few turnings in the deep gruves of dear old England.
absudute Stewart's British team at Melbourne IN SPITE OF THE FACT HE WILL, STILL BE ON THE SURREY
A AS
PROFES- PAYROLL SIONAL CRICKETER
Surely this makes the cuse against the boxer who aspired
B. E. JANT.
Nandu Natekar Second Foreigner To Win Malayan Badminton Title
Men's
Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, July 30. India's top seeded Nandu Natekar today won the Singles title of the Selangor International Badminton Championships when he beat Selangor's former Thomas Cup player, Abdullah Piruz, in three keenly contested sets.
The 23-year-old Bombay University student won 6-15, 15-9, 15-7.
was
given
Nallar
Miss Yang completed a double unexpected suff light by fourth when she and Oel Lin-nio of
took
Women's Indonesia seeded Piruz, who played his best glans in the tournament. Doubles Utle subduing Delly
Firuz won easily the Arat set Tan of Selangor and Prathung
against
Nalekor.
*
over-cautious Pattabongse 0-15 15-3 15-0.
Malayan players won the But the Indian stor gradually Mon's Doubles and Mixed
broke through | Deubles titles--Reuter, Piruz's defence with his sound
warmed up and
attacking play in the second sel,
forcing a rubber.
Matching Plruz
stroke
bis
for MALAYA TO SEND
SEVEN LIFTERS TO DJAKARTA
Etroka in the deciding game,
outlasted
tiring Natekar opponent to win.
Natekar became the second foreigner to win a Malayan tille, Indonesia's Ferry. Sonneville won the Malayan Singles titlo last year.
Says ALAN HOBY
Who will be Mr Superman of the Melbourne Olympics?
Will it be Hungary's master runner Sandor Thares-the slender, red-vested nge who thinks nothing of smashing world records from 1,500 Metres to 10,000 Metres?
AROUND HOLLYWOOD
OBERON GOES FROM HER USUAL KISSABLE ROLE TO A HISSABLE ONE
By
RON BURTON
Hollywood.
Merle Oberon goes from her usual kissable role to one that's 100 per cent hiseable in her next film. And, as if that weren't enough for a switch for one film, co-star Lex Barker dons a business suit,
the
Miss Oberon, a heroine and never a witch in the eyes of audiences familiar with her roles, is cast as a hit-run driver in Universal-International's "Cry Innocent."
The role becomes even more The problem is that I love to lieves audiences will see
"I know that high point in how a door cd a unusual for her when it develops work," she said. that she tries to hung the hit-after a couple of days of doing limousine should be opened with Treichnikoff cine run crime
nothing except resting around maximum flourish. namely Bariter, die erstwhile the house or maybe on the is the champ, the studio feels,
"When
I welcome the party join-clothed Tarzan
desert, I'll get restless.
"And then I'll be off again.
In the platture to '21," he said, "they know they have been wel- Guess I'll always be slender.
comed.
un somcoNC
The actress has no about the role.
"I'm not just despicable in the
she said. story."
"I'm even
worse, because try hang it On another person. This after about two dozen parts in which I never really wandered for frem the straight and narrow.
SHE LIKES CHANGE "There were several exotic characterisations, I suppose, but never anything that wasn't herome calibre stuït.
Miest Oberon's present re- Beetkuns are of approval." And the more she thinks about it the
thinks actors Incre she
and actresses should shake up their careers periodically with "differ.
parts. This is not just my first un- sympathetic role," she said, "I also represtals my first suspense
Now I just story.
hope that audience will be as intrigued by the ileu as I om."
to
The story is
is about an ambi- Hlous career woman who fears the bit-rtan accident she causes ill ruin her career. She points ond Barker suspicion toward pretends she loves him, This lete her stay near the suration watch out for her interests.
Miss Oberon is 101 without what about uncertainty role cto de for her.
"Naturally, for the sake of the I want people to dislike alry, 1 the character I play," she said. "But, at the same time. I sure don't want them to dislike me. Well, we'll wall and see.
me
never
There's only one thing wrong with sex on television, according COACHED BY "PRINCE MIKE” to youthful actress Fellela Fare.
The party includes Rock Hud- There's not enough of it
son, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack And when Miss Forr says "and Dorothy Malone. she refers
JER. to non-vulgur
"I am descended from the Thrilling love scents-romantic
famous royal Tretchnikoff family love.
of pr:-Lenin Petrograd," he said proudly. "And our kind have been surpassed for that
Part of that regal look In- aludos n long blue overcoat with gold buttons and a snappy but vulgar tasteful cup. An essential part is
Tretchikvf7's obility Gerbo, straight as a ramrod.
will pay a top produce what
I want, I'll be his door- man." he said. "However, I'm not going to grovel for something like a tip. When i greet people I do not bow and scrape, of course. Otherwise I'd be appealing to their baser natures for tips, that is.
There
She came to the conclusion that TV was instealing out on **H after she spent romantic several deeen hours watching old regal look. Mime (not on TV).
watched them, and there was absolutely nothing about them," she said was John Gilbert with and I saw Theda Bara and Marie Doro. It was wonderful.
"I gue that what 1 really mean is that a lot of romance has been lost in an allempi la be a little too realistic and at the same time observe the rules of censorship."
"I
10
Stand
Treichnikoff, who has opened doors ki "Grund Hotel," "Week End at the Waldorf," "Cavalcade" und "The Great Ziegfeld," came ไป Hollywood
he when seven years old.
Hollywood's "Prince Mike" Romanoff, the restaurateur, is his friend. the
was
GOOD WITHOUT SOUND Miss Farr doesn't think it's necessary to stretch the code of
National the
[ Association Radio
Broad- Television und casters to a breaking print 11 have romantic sex on TV.
"I somehow think that pro- ducers have lost sight of some some, est all-cf the elements of sex which used to make
"He has couched me well in silent firms so alluring and such not being underpaid," Tivtebat-
she said. The box office hits,"
koff suid.—United Press, of the silent movie en beting may not be polished, it's true. But lots of people found realism and romanticisin in 1.
Mills Farr currently co-sturs The Country Pretty Natalie Word, who gets a Screen Gems' star billing with adult actors al-Husband" for the CBS television 90" series She though she's not yet out of her "Playhouse
thinks this series is one that eeny, is ready for a vacation.
bሮ It
hard to imagine could be a model
of remuntle may that a vigorous teen-uger whe realism-or realistic romanticism for several shows which she Landy successfully survived the "awk- Who then will be the Mel-Hewson, Frank Sundo, and good-ward period of transition be- did not name.
"Maybe some producers should go to see these old silent pic- "Actors and she said. tures." setrosses manage to get across the point, and you've got to re-
that member
without husky voice or great sigh
Four years ago, at the Helsinki Games, I watched in awe as Emil Zatopek. eyes sazeering, head roiling, and arms threshing won the 10,000 Metres, 5,000 Metres, and Marathon.
In eight unforgettable days, his Olymple throne Zatopek-looking ns if he were vacant
1 hot nalis broke running three Olympie records.
He also broke everyone else, But the old superman of '52 is now 35. He is also recover- ing from a hernia operation and, although he hopes tu Australia in November. his greatest days have gone -
STEWARDS CUP
41
Probable Starters And Jockeys
London, July 31. Twenty-four probable starters and jockeys for the Stewards Cup. the six furkng sprint
at Good- be run at 1415 GMT wood today, uret
lu
stands, would include world-beaters
bourse successor to such dual- standing Olymple "greats" of the past as Zalopek, Jesse at Paavo Nurmi"
Oweils
ON EVERY COUNT
$41 On every count the 54t Dst. Bib Tharo must Pome strongly into the reckoning.
ELS
With his flowing style
of speed the staggering gusts 26-year-old Magyar vies with Gordon Pirie as the greatest all- round runner in the world today, Indeed, un his performances
years,
during the past two
Jike Tharos, Tubert, Kuls, Zato-
Chataway, pck, Chris
news knows who else!
STRONG ENOUGH
"Bul would you be strong enough?" queried.
"Why not? If you twin barch enough, you're strong enough,' was "Puff-Puit's" Iconic reply:
Like Thares, Pirie is not short
jot armbition.
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tween child actress and a grown. But Miss up needs a vacation. Wood figures she has been toll- ind
will need ing
plenty and month
she isn't sure But even new she'll enjoy
the month she set aside. This is because the pre- vlously he's still looking for that mady vacation plans, and wened rest.
suddenly
wad
Has regal book and will travel
the pay is right,
That's Sergel Tretehnika, a Moreover, as he has clocked
it happened after completion doorman's deorman and also a 4min 2.2ste, for the Mile, and
Without a
Cause." of "Rebel
Hollywood director's doorman 3min. 13.7sec. tor 1,500 Metres,
Tretchnikoff
unquestionably about She was all set to relax for an there is nothing lunatic
when she holiday
casting this particular Pirie dream even extended
Birst was signed to star with the minds of
who want a doorman discelors if the cepties do consider it im
John Wayne in "The Searchers." would say that there is prac-possible of achievement.
with Treichnikuff's qualifications. but look
Ells ability to make un expun- ically nothing
not only time But although heros and Pirie
sive hotel look more expensive pounds are both physically capable
of several
After it was over she return-
is well known
He is six feet, competing in three eventa
tall and claims royal five inches ed from the rugged location in doubt If their Melbourne, selectors will let them.
gained back a few pounds Utah,
blood. Russion
This pamits rad promptly went into "A Cry him to lock as regal cod haughty Hungary carried off 16 gold in the Night" fer Warner Bros.
requires, although Ls the script reg made on This film, much of
he also can be friendly and modals at Helsinki and they are
trick in location in a Les Angelca brick-menacing in turn, all out to repeat the
her Australia.
yard, didn't exactly leave with that refreshed feeling.
(above a half mile
and short of the Marathon) Tharos has not done and that vannot do.
No idler, this rope-thin Army officer has, at one time or un- other, fractured no fewer than six world records. Here is the list-
Pirte,
of
I
at
the
And as they have a brilliant sub-four-mimite-miler i Laszlo Tabori, not 10 mention that other fine Magyar miler Istvan Rosavolgyl,
expect Budapest sports bosses to re- Eerve Iharos for the 10,000 and 5,000
Metrcs. The same fate-I predict-will beli Pirie.
scythed course,
when
ho
King Bruce
Jockey); I (no
One thousand Ave hundred Jackles Kuda (R. Willams);
Metres (3min. 40.8sec): Two Muador (E. Smilj: Trouville
Miks (8min.
3,000 33.4); (F. (G. Lawis): Amber Glass
55 #sec): 5,000 Metres (7min. Suri), Golden Lion (G. Ram-
40.6sec); Metres (13min.
Six shaw). Orti paedic (K. Gelin),
Miles (27min. 43.8sec); 10,000 Nonchalance (W. Rickaby, Metres (28min, 42.8ste).
Johnstone), Cockrullah (W. Light Harvest (J. Sime), Ken-
(I'. Robinson), Knight nearly four seconds off Iharos's
mark Dentalo 5,000 Metres Valiant (L. Piggott). (W. H. Carr).
Mendwell (trounced Russia's Vladimir Kuts the new world (A in Norway in Sall Tulk), Breastcy) Ephemeral (E. time of 13min. 30.8sce. Breas Mercer), Epaulette (W. Snaith). Testament (D. Smith), Variety King (J. Forte), Abbots Drake (D. Ryin), Kriss Kringle (R.
the Issue (E. Header), Burke Hide), Bowerchalke (D. Grzei- Green Crispin (N. ing) and Pearson).China Mail Special.
Storin
England's Future Test Batsman
I do not think for a moment manager that the British team Jack Crump and his commitice Later, the 25-year-old Pirie will nominate Galloping Gordon Metres record. niso equalled the Tharos 3,000 for the 1,500 Metres.
And from con-
however, This does not versations I have had with him that Olymule immortality aced
"ther
Bashing I know that Pirlo has long scape
Indeed, I believe that at Mel- project of his own.
Metres-inch boue the 1,000 the not the 1,500 Metres-will prove entalis running Olymple 10,000 Metres, 5,000 the race of the Games. Metres, and 1,500 Metres in roughly eight days against a whichr potential combined field
LOVES TO WORK "The next thing I knew I'd been ordered ca a starch diet to gain weight," she said. "Had to gulp vilemin pills, too."
most The
vacation- Burning Hills" spoiler is "The in which the and Tub Hunter race on horseback over rugged terrain zod flaming hillside. She
film. Lakes a beating in the
recomi
"After this one I thought I'd better get away for at least a month," she said. "My weight should be about 110, but it's been below that for quite a while. It's not that I feel bad-1 don't- b: I just want to keep feeling
mirsed 1 special "superman" thares or the pufflog Pirie. fine.
This
Seixas & Richardson
Named U.S. Davis Cup Key Players
WONDER RUNNERS
DS
With such wonder runner Iharos, Pirie, Chalaway, Kuts, and Ibbetson taking part, I am
convinced that the winner in this modal but enough fame to last
event will guin not only a gold
him a lifetime.
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#1 cat like
hers, and I all! don't guin, so guess I need some rest. The constant work must keep me from putting on some weight. I guess a menth complete rest will do it."
There's only one catch to these plans, however-Natalie herself.
Football League Turns Down
more so then over the punishing Television Bids
For every one of these men is Twenty-year old Ken Taylor
a giant of the track--and never is a busy young man these days. Ifo has established himself as a
and pulverising 3,000 Motres cricketer in Yorkshire's first
New York, July 30,
course. cleven, and has recently hit his
Veterans Vic Seixas and Hom
Supermen did I say? Upon 12- "maldon" first class century. Richardson were named today fection, you've Kuala Lumpur, July 30.
got to be a Amateur Many think him a future Engas key players on the US Davis superman just to reach the final The Malayan Weightlifting Federation an- land Test batsman. He is also Cup team scheduled to meet of this-er any-Olympic event, WOMEN'S SINGLES
nounced today it had selected centre-half for Huddersfield Mexico at Rye, New York, in So stratcephoric will be the Indonesia's 18-year-old Miss | geven
again the
xiles the rat inter-zone fannis final standards, weightlifters and five Town, and
and so tigerish the Yang Weng-ching won
Inter- this week-endt. tho bedy builders to represent Malaya consider he will get an
competitions at Melbourne, that national
Io pelected wore Women's Singles title by defeat-at the international weightlifting | natle
But that is not #cap."
Also ing Thailand's seeded Prathcung and bodybuliding meetings to all, Ken
has had
five dis
medalet alone two cr three Two singlen matches: Pattabongse 11-4, 11-0
College of Art, and is shortly scheduled next Friday onerves, a whole bucketful of
Saturday and two On In to join London's famous Stade dobles
still think that, given But I School. He still finds time to wind up singles matches on the chance, either Tharos be an export of the art of ju- Sunday The winner will meet Pirlo could wear Emil Zatopek's
Shortly he is due for Italy's Europeal champions of crown.
**London Express. Serelor), National Service, and is going a sito and date to be determined
(COPYRIGHT), [İster.--Undlad Press, into the RAF.
of
The Frothall League have turned down bids by both in- dependent and BBC television for the right to televize League soccer next season. Independient television authority had offered £100,000, and the BBC £60,000, This is the second time Live
Com mittee have been defeated cn'a major
werd They favour of accepting one of the television cifere. At the Langue anual meeting recently, the Management Committee's plan for four divisions was thrown out by the chuba,
be bold in Djakarta on August | tinguished yours at Huddersfield Cmmalva and Barry Mackayanycno who wins even one gold | League's Mahaganent.
Miss Yung played with the 18 and 10.
team will confidence of a veteran and at
The Malayan no stage of the final was she clude two Gold medalitats in the in danger of defeat,
1050 British Empiro Games........ Who Indor,esain Champion Indonesia. Burma, China, mixed well lobed mashes with Singapore, and Malays are taking clever drop #ota,
part in the contest.Iteuter.
Lately he's decorated u New York restaurant's door for scenes in Universal - International's
Written on the Wind." U-I be- |
(Sandor)
1914
In the dark, clammy cellar
the horrifying Thing from the
stars was
slowly taking
over my
body!"
From the sensational
· Colller's sérial that
| startled 4,000,000!
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