Pacific Coast Baseball League Worried
the Hollywood
of
Saoramento, Juno 2. Robert Cobb, President
Stars, today charged that "Major League talk hao murdered Pacifte Const League attenulance" · DE PCL directors opened an emergency mecting to discuss how to cope with a threatened invasion by the Now York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers.
"We can't fight such a move," Cobb said before the meeting started. "But the League lins a Tight to be indemnified for all the dollars and cente it can Decot for."
G. A. Kingsley, President of the Portland Beavers, cald ho favoured fighting the Major League invasion if such a move would put the PCL out of busi-
ת
Ralph Khier, General Manager
of the San Diego Padres and former National League home run long, raid "We'll be put out
business if the chifi through this autumn."
of
The Seattlo
goos
Rainiers, who went on record last Wednesday as saying they would reek three Indemnity, ald million dollars not send a representative to the meeting.
The National League in effect put the skids on the PCL last Tuesday when it agreed on a shit of the Giants and Dodgers franchises.United Press.
FRENCH TITLE CHANGES HAND
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1957.
ROY ULLYETT... a weighty problem
OUR
If the. spectacle
makes you
SPARROW feel tant.
HAS GOT | You may
A CURE
FOR THE
WEMBLEY
HOODOO
ON SOCCER GOALKEEPERS
HE'D THEN
LET THEM
Go home!
HE'D TAKE. 'EM ALL TO SEE THE RUGBY LEAGUE FINAL.
SEE MESORS. ROBINGON&
AND KOOSEY BOTH WANTING THE BALL
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AT THE SAME TIME
Sports Diary
TODAY
Tennis
КОС У
Men's "A" Division: KECSA, HKCC CRC (1), che (2)
Y KTGCÁ, HIKU v Urban C.
Dist
Ladies' "A" Division: KCC * SCAA. USRC CAC, Biarritz, June 2.
Water-poto Andre Drille won the French Middleweight
Boxing Chain- Jangkong fegnent "B" v pionship here tonight by oul- Wisp at Victoris Pool, 30 p.m.
Cricket pointing the holder, Gilbert
Cricket Meeting ut Lavoine, over 15 rounds-Rev- Cricket Club, 8.10 p.m.
ter,
Auxiliary Fire Service Orders
No. 10. Orders by Mr Allstalt Drummond, Superintendent, Auxiliary Fire Service, of June 1, 1957.
Chap
TOMORROW
Bridge
Hongkong
Ladies' Team final sensions Jewish Recreation Club, 6.30 pm,
Water-Polo
KR "A" 924 LAA Victoria Pool, 5.30 pm.
Regiment.
BELGIANS WIN
tcain
Brussels, June 2, Enrolment:-Recruit (K)
The Belgian
of Jackie Qu-wong w.e., 29.4.57.
Combined Brichtet and Mezzi tolay de- Postponement:-The Training of New Territories Districts feated Jack Arkinstall of Aus- published in A.F.8. Order No.14 tralia and Oakley of Britain in 18.0.07, or been postponed to the the final of the Men's Doubles | Jun 6,1057. Time, places and Order of Dress remain the same. of the Brussels Racing Club funny tournament by 7-5, 2-0, 7-5.-France-Presse.
(Sgd.) PETER CHEUXO,
Deputy Supt., A.F.S.
HED SHOW THEM ROUND
LEEDS 15 STONE Don Robinson
WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN
A BIG LAD
IF HE HADN'T STOPPED
GROWING (
AT
SET 10% ins.
AND BARROW'S
THEY'D REALISE
THAT BY COMPARISON,
A KICK IN
THE TEETH
IS BUT THE
LANGUAGE
OF LOVE
AND WE'D
HEAR
8.
MR WOOSEY WHO CAN'T BE WEIGHED AS THERE AREN'T ANY SCALES BIG ENOUGH FOR THE JOB
NO MORE OF ANY HOODOO.
A WIMBLEDON CROWN
British Girl
Where So
Softie! You've only shifted my top set.
Армиите
Succeed
May Many Men
Have So Often Failed
By ALAN HOBY
A home-made, daisy-studded grass court in a suburban garden....
a net which sagged in the middle like a dowager's double chins.... washing on the line in the background.
This was the unexpected setting in which I found Christine Truman, Britain's brightest lawn tennis prospect, at her home.
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"As you can see for yourself, } Was this smiling, 10-year-old so reminiscent of Fred Ретту she's just like any other girl of having a care-free knock-up when he was champion-10 fight
with
friend the her age," said her mother.
same for every point? Christine Truman they are all Neither her mother nor her this
will saying
day win father, who is an accountant, the Wimbledon?
was ever more than an average player,
Truman Green,
Wo were watching relaxed, sunlit scene from drawing-room of the home at Woodford Essex.
I looked again-I somewhat incredulously....
admit
Old Man "Drob" Is Again
On The Warpath
By ERIC NICHOLLS
Last year it was Tony Trabert. Now it is Ken Rosewall who has gone over to professional tennis. Another Wimbledon loses a little more colour, another personality. But I have a hunch that the lack of stars and perhaps glamour will soon be forgotten this year. For Old Man Drob' is on the warpath again.
Yes, Jaroslav Drobny, the fugitive from Czechoslovakian Communism, with the Egyptian passport and English domicile, is fighting fit. And that means trouble for Australia's Mr Lewis Hoad, the Wimbledon Champion,
Hond
Was she really the girl with
The whole Truman family, in the fiercest forehand in tennis fact-Christing has two brothers the poker-faced prodigy who and two sisters-play tennis the has already won four Tourna-way most of us do... for fun.
ments this season?
It was hard to believe, I made the obvious remark: she must "Like most of us, have a bit of Jekyll and Hyde in her."
GREATEST CHAMPION
And that's how it all began. When Christine was eight
her father, Me Stanley Truman, helped by the family, cut down a tree which hid part of a wall at the back of the house.
After the tree had gone to Christine-she was then scardely
And I remembered the great-as tall as the net practised
have against the wall for hours. est woman champion ! ever seen-Maureen Connolly, At 19, she began taking the Californian. world-beater lessons from Herbert
Brown, Christine Truman 60 greatly the Essex coach, At 11 she
joined the local club.
resembles.
On court "Little Mo" was the cold killer who annihilated op- ponents with her withering, all- court game. Of it, she was bubbling, happy, teenager.
British,
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SHEILA VAN DAMM EXPLAINS WHY
Dicing With Death Is
Calculated Risk
A
For The Race Driver
By VICTOR HUDSON
Shella Van Damm, who recently escaped with bruises, from her wrecked car in Italy's race of death, looked at me and said: "For the race driver, dicing with death is all in the game-a calculated risk.
"But the spectators who swap risks for thrills are not quite as innocent as the opponents of road racing make out. So perhaps it is better that they should be protected from themselves."
Portogo's death posed these world-wide questions:
How far can anything that involves the death of innocent people be allowed under the name of "sport"?
women
necke ab
every
BAD LUCK
Wo were
the discussing
"Not only do you belt along.) 188 miles per hour in a practice decision to far tho noterlous flat out, on the straight, but up|nun, Millo Miglia, in which the and down mountain passes and Like other famous drivers, Marquis Alfonso de Portago from skio to side as you move Sheila van Damm La disgusted crashed and died at 100 miles out to take one corner after at the attempt 'to smear the an hour.
another.
name of the Marquis de This goes on for hour after Portage, by blaming him for hour. How long depends on the disaster, your speed, of course, but for
say about 14 hours, "Practically
It is reported in Italy that kpa car something loose at the end, and before his crash Portago refused If it finishes at all it is a good to listen to a Ferrari mechanic wheels was slightly buckled should be changed. Instead ho roaned off at full speed.
"I carmot, of
TOUTED, Bay what
happened in the Ferrari pita," said Sheila, "neither do I now what the Ferrari policy matters, but the usual practice is for the team О decide whether change should be medo or a damaged: car withdrawn from the race.
الهم
Why do men and
rial their drivers every moment of a thousand Car-it has taken all the hkings who told him that one of his mile course, often in the pitch you can possibly give it,
"What is the greatest peril of binck of night?
Mille Miglia race? the Undoubtedly, I would say, the spectators.
Is this the cruelloot race in the world-worth while?,
Do spectacles like this simply. arouse the blood-lust inherent in so many of us?
the
"Well over Ave million people watch this race every year it Many of them will the most dangerous
Do people walt all night In is hold.
hope of crashes,
in stand in anticipation of somebody being places possible, killed?
Havo we reached the zenith
of road speed madness?
SUICIDAL
in such
manager to
"Portago was not the only "It seems to me to have bườn Is it right to ban the Mille one who was half in love with just bad luck, Anyone can Miglia?
and
GRUELLING
death Millions of onlookers have a burst tyre.” seem to have the samo iden. Just how bad a killer is the Thoy lean forward into the Mille Miglio? road, cloaking the corners and Halian MP Bald, "oollective
homicide-do obscuring the bends.
fot homicidal
ל
Is it, as an
I discussed these questions with Sadia Van Damm, who shared with Mrs Nancy "I am not saying that Italian drivers and the innocent publie Mitchell, of High Wycombe, the crowds are more stupid than that it is no longer a sport”? honour of being the only two those of other countries,
He said that last year when women to be catered for this have noticed the same suicidal va people-three drivers and Ervelling test of stamina, skill tenderey in spectators at point two spectators were killed.
One of the worst years WAS races in this nerves, Both, crashed-to-point horse Shello driving a
in 1933, when nine Sunbeam and country.
spectaborg Nancy A Triumph.
"I suppose if the Mille Migils were killed at Bologna. Nobody But inst year both
girls is to stay banned it is only seems to have kept an exact, triumphed,
Nancy being thiri right, because so often you are tally of the death roll since the class for open cars compelled protect people race was Inaugurated in 1927. limited in price and Shella, from themselves."
The British Racing Drivers' Club said cautiously they could with Peter Harper, second in
Shella Van Damun agrees that recall sen drivers being killed." special series for touring for parents to bring children
It is death as a spectacle that into these tunnels of hurtling arouses horror. For the every- So when Sheila Bald to me: death is criminal folly.
day toll of our roads there are "I want to emphasise that I am Five children were killed too few watchers to care. not essentially dracing driver when Portogo's rod Ferrari -hit and these are my opinions a telegraph pole as he struggled only," she was being a Hle for control and cut into the modest.
the
cars.
the
DIFFICULT
thick crowd,
bo
Sheila van Damin's DWTI This year, the 24th Mille Sunbeam Rapler suun on the Miglia-it has been banned tramlines about 50 miles from before by order of Mussolini- the starting point und zloocheted there were 350 starters. There | backwards off house, Tho could have been many more, car was practically wrecked, Extrica were restricted be- but she and her co-driver cause of the dangers and the escaped with bruises. Impossibility of safeguarding spectators along
CRASHED
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
13TH RACE MEETING 1956/57 RACING SEASON
It is regrotted that the above Race Meeting originally due to be held on 25th May, Mrs Nancy Mitchell crashed and postponed until 1st June all?" asked into some bales of straw which has been abandoned,
1 thousand milles of road.
"Why did 1, knowing all the risks, start at
few odd bits of wire That's Sheila,
rather with a difficult question to answer.fencing are the only protection.
Through Tickets issued for You might say that I want my the public has on this terror
the 18th Race Meeting will be brains tested and that would be course of 12,000 benda, a fair enough, answer.
"The other thing that makea valid for the 1st Raço Meet- "The giants the motor the Mille Miglia unique in ing of the 1957/58 Racing racing game do not like this motor racing" says Shella, 1s Season due to be held on 5th
the impossibility of learning October, 19572*** and remembering all the tricks and hazards of a thousand miles of road.
of
UP AND UP
Meanwhile, she shot up and up like a slender young tree herself unill, today,
rucu at all. atra is
"Fangio, the world champion nearly six feet tall from the tip driver, refused to compete this In her own, morc
of her blonde head to the soles
Cash Sweep tickets issued way Christine Truman ly 3
zubber-clad feet year and nobody is calling him
for the last Race of the 13th similar tennis phenomenon; in of her
yellow.
"On a closed circuit you can match play she is pitiless and, although she doesn't like to be
"Apart from the professional learn the course, In most Race Meeting of the 1956/57 apparently, nerveless but she told so.
drivers bound by contracts none I cases you know exactly what to Racing Season will be valid She also British Junior Drobny's sensallopal la completely shy and unspolit Before It was a Eme to be has already met and survival,
of us had to enter.
to when you counter trouble for the last Race on the lat Scottish Ladies
"We didn't ask for any public at ก been beaten by Drouny-in the enjoyed, a name to be played for victory over Ken Rosewell in the when there is no racket in her Champion,
Champion, and competes in her sympathy, or heroles, although seldom have a clue in the Mille Racing Season, due to be held particular spot You Race Meeting of the 1957/58 British Bord Courts Champion- fun. And Drobny is playing 1854 Wimbledon final, he was hand.
senior Wimbledon ships at Bournemouth,
this But alow Hike a man who is enjoying regarded somewhat of a hos "She's always been like that," first
wo knew there were plenty of Miglia. Of course the wise summer. Not bad for a girl been by the critics, and ignored said Mrs Truman, pouring the though hard courts tennis isn't a every minute of it.
chances of being hurt. to who is only 16 years and four
I sup driver has notes of what he is terribly accurate guide to cur-
by the scoding committee,
ten "yet she's always liked
pose the real answer is that to likely to encounter. It fonn on grass, Drobny al
months old... Many regarded that as a last-win,
people who love the sport this
Stirling Moss has a paper least proved ene thing at Bourne-
"Even when she was only 13
race is # challenge. It is rall 23 chance win, possibly his final
23 yards long, full of notes moutly. He is not as he has
something you have to try to For instance, without the Wimbledon. And his first round she never liked me to go out
Payments made for Guest on trouble spots which his co- ever been, brimful of confidence, customary shouting from the defeat last year will not have and talk to her when she was
Christine wears out from beat,
drivor reads to him before he Badges for the 18th Itace and still a master stroke player, roof-tops, and holding of press increased his stock very much playing. She always wanted to
thelo 10 pairs of tennis shoes a
HAZARDS.
encounters them. But I doubt Head's power play gives in conferences, Droboy has been in the eyes of this year's seeding get on with the game to
year. She buys, од 2#1
takes care of Meeting will be refunded on if even that a slight edge over most op-
exclusion of everything else."
TO the car industry,
Burrondor of the Guest rackets. average, half a dozen ponents оп grass, But his engaged throughout the winter committee,
race is of the greatest Im-everything.""
Make From where does Christine always in pairs. Then there is
Are racing ears too fast for Badges at the Club's office in portance.
no mistake playing get her ley concentration, her her
kit, including
thu ronds and circulis of today? Queen's about that. The bashing a car
Building, Chater pleated skirts and fanirum-free temperament, and sundry
gels over this thousand miles her unrelenting determination- tunics,
equivalent to 100,000 miles of normal motoring.
BTAMINA-BUILDING
But there Is the serious side.
on his brother-in-law's farm in suspect Lemperament can, on
somewhat dull the other hand, defeat hins in a Sussex, In the crisis, And Drobny is just the but stamina-building pastime of man to create a crisis for Hoad. cross country running and tree
Drab himself admits to a cer- tain amount of condence in facing Hood, "It's possible ke is a little scared of me. Because
I have often beaten him. And I have the right style to beat him,"
MAY NOT EVEN MEET
But Drobny is also the first man to admit that a meeting: between these two acts may never materialise at Wimbledon, "You req,” he explains, "there
are
80 many competitors at Wimbledon with nothing to lose, and even if you are playing well, they can pull out that little extra la knock, you out, Fet- conally, 1 shall be happy to reach the last tour, or even the Inst eight.
It is true Drobny's olišude to lawn tennis these days in a particularly sporting one.
The inck, who was· bati of a tennis club in Prague, saw and (copied the world's masters of the day, and started compolitive tennis at the ago of 10, fought des- parately for 22 years for that elusive, Wimbledon Altle,
With victory at last, In 1054, came a job, and Jorda, as he is known to friends "and his wife Nila (former, British-player Fita Jarvis), netted, down in znizo á family. Tennis was no longer a bitter campaign, a struggle for
foiling.
1 Yorkshire town
Drobny triumphed against all e odds in 1054. He is playing well enough to do it again.
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What does it cost to raise a tennis prodigy?
yes, it costs a bit, I
suppose," Mrs Truman told me. "Eut two didn't spend it on tennis it would go on something else."
Every facet of Christine's like reflects her utter dedication to lawn tennis.
Sho practises at least three hours a day. She has 10 hours" sleep every night. She has an almost exclusive diet of steaks, eggs, fruit. She has been taken from school in order to concen- trate even more on tournament tennis, She has no boy-friends, or hobbies-except knitting the odd cardigan.
And the has spent the whole winter, under the LTA's chief of training, Don Mackell,, and George Worthington, chief ogach, perfecting her shots, particularly her backhand and service.
It is 20 years since a British the girl; Dorothy found,"won women's singles at Wimbletion.
· But Christino Trumot, I bo- ilove, has the sklii neid taugliapas: [ót: fibra... to win--not this year, perhaps, but in the years to come.
"Where tho men have so often failed, perhaps succeed Service,
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the
The on 5th October, 1957. salo of tickets on this Sweep: has now ceased.
Shella thinks this may be 50. Road..
Every year the Mille Miglin
rets faster, Often the drivers By Order of the Stewards,
of the fast cars are averaging
Before
"No ordinary closed race track can reproduce the same over 130 miles an hour. tests, the same hazards.
the race Stirling Moss reached
THREE
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A. E. ARNOLD,
SALESMEN
Secretary.
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