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Open Lawn Tennis Tournament-Just Around The Corner Says JOHN DAVIS
New York, Aug. 26. Open lawn tennis tourna ments, the subject of much discussion in the past 20 years, are "just around the corner," according to the feeling in American lawn temis circle.
During the American Singles Championships, which begin at
Friday. Forest Hill next speelat committee sel up lost
-
January to consider the mattr will report its findings and recommendations at four meet-
inge,
It is the general opinion that The United Stales, who have
long stood out against amateurs and professionals playing against each other in open tournaments, may relent.
Since Britain, France and
to be Australia are sald
in favour, a change of heart by the United States could result in the International Lawn Tenuis - Federation rules being revived
to permit such tournament,
The majority of the leading players, both amateur and pro- fessional are in favour of open tournamatots,
Bre
INEVITABLE
Tony Trubert, former Wim- bledon Champion, says "They inevitable because the is so amateur tennis standard bad," He thinks open tourna
thon dve ments are no more
years away.
Vie Seixas, another former thinks Wimbledon Champion,
open tournaments would create interest In competitive more tennis and would be good for the game.
"Some day we shall have to form to gold as an example and give sinne hecntive for young terals stars to 10:0 pro- fesional," tre aid "At the there to only a few moment professionals and that enough people willing enough to back more."
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1957.
SURREY NEAR THEIR 19TH VICTORY OF THE SEASON
London, Aug. 26.
Surrey, the County Cricket Champions, were on the brink of their 19th championship win of the season today, helped by centuries by Mickey Stewart and Ken Barrington and fine off. spin bowling by Eric Bedser.
Their rivals, Warwickshire, were still 10 runs behind Surrey's first innings score with only one wicket left at the close.
LRC Tennis Tournament
Stewart hit 140 In four and a half hours and Barrington 191
a helt. in Three and
Both notched 14 bounda'ce. Normaan Horner, for Warwickshiro, just falled to record the third century of the day, failing at 09.
Eric Bedser tick six of the aine Warwickshire wickets The Colony ladies' tennia which fell. Earller Warwick- championships, organised by the shire offspinner Swinjit Singh Ladies' Recreation Club, whad nished off Surrey's innings commance on Monday, Septus by taking five wickets for six ber 2. The Club Championships runs after previously conceding will start on the same day.
125 ruris in the Innings without Kuccess.
All matches will commence al 4.30 p.m. each day. In the event of bad weather, matches will be resumed in the order stated on the Brat Ane day.
Following is a list of the draw of the championships.
Khor
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
NOTTS STAND
Nottinghamshire's
star
Carnival of Champions
P.I. Should Annex Two More Boxing Titles At Tokyo
Manila, Aug. 27. "With a minimum of luck, the all-Philippines should easily annex rounders Bruce Dooland two more boxing titles in the (Australia) and Gamini forthcoming Tokyo Carnival of Cuonesena (Ceylon) put on az Champions," this country's top for the seventh wicket against two boxing officials chorused to Colony Ladler Singles
Leicestershire, then shared the day. They were Manuel Nieto, Games and Court 1: Hirn Farrer y Mrs Xx Leicestershire wickets which Chairman of the
Amusement Board (GAB) and Court B: Miss Ng Miss R. Drew. fell by the close. Court 3: Mir E. Chan v Mirs C.
Nottinghamshire last half GAB secretary Alfredo Guidote. Phoa
The pair
to were referring Court : Mex I. B. Lam Mr their wickets for 76 in reply 10
the chances of flyweight Dommy Parker.
Lelcoster:hice's first innings 250, but Dooland (72) and Goonesena Ursua and featherweight Flash Elorde, that is if the Japanese (61) instituted a recovery which Boxing Commission
recognises enabled them to take fret inn-
them as the logical contenders. Mrsings inad by two runs.
why Nieto This was precisely Dan Kenyon of Worcester and Guidote recently wrote the shite reached 2.000 runs for the Japanese commission, EXOTICULE- Court 1: F. J. Parker v T. Wid- reason for the seventh time inrently. headquarters of the 10 years during an innings of | Oriental Boxing Federation, to 110 against Sussex,
Opening out after slow start, he got his sveand 50 in 45 minutes and in all bit 10 fours. Martin Horton became the sixth Worcestershire batsman to
Colony Mixed Doubles Court 5: B. 8. Lee and Miss P Kho v J. Mackle and Mrs Malden.
Colony Ladies' Doubles Court 1: Mis Michell and
Mi S. Rumjohn and Fepperell v Milka Lew.
Club Men's Open Singles
mer.
Court 3: W. Bandite v P. Andre-
zen
Clab Men's Handicap Singles Court 2: M. Tancork v K. H. Nel
son,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
Colony Ladies' Boobies
A
Court 4: Mra Dow and Mrs Farrer | conpicte 1,000 runs, scoring 43 which brough him just on the
v Mrs Chung und þirs Lain.
Court 3: Miss P. Ictro and is
Y. Y. Tu v Miss C. Phoa and Mrs K. Kheuw.
Court 6: Mrs. Harrison and Mis fawlings v M E. Chan and Mist M. Young.
Colony Mixed Doubles Court 7 A. Dusson and Mis Drew v T. Lee and Mrs Pepperell. Colony Ladies Singles" Court Mr Miller v Mix M! chell.
Club Men's Upen singles Court. Liddle v W. E. van
A. Pllch y M. Daito!. 3: подзем
Court 1: A. Nicoll v O. Amadeo.
Club Men's Singles Handicap Court 2: A. Neukon Y W., William
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ́A Colony Mixed Doubles Court F. Tsai and M-24 Mitchell v W. Huggan and Mies l'arqubier.
Court 5: W. P. Isul d D. Tal and Miss K. K. My Trul Chu, 0: ATE And Mrs Miller v v. T Work and Mrs Rawlings
Court 7: C. 9. Cheng and Mine 15. Phos v W. K. Chung and aire 1. 1 1.m.
Kin
Colony Ladies' Blögles Court B: Men Pepperell v Miss P.
Club Men's Singles Court
3. Sauj v A. Malzien. Carl 3:
Club Men's Singles Handicap
v G. Ammoden,
2:
Count : & Water & Norton:
Waern's Third Under Four Minutes
mark.
CLOSE OF PLAY SCORES
At Buxton, Northamptonshire for five. 131. Derbyshire 95 No play, today, wicket saturated. At Clacton, Essex 231 and 290 for three declared (Dodda 81, Taylor 91. Insole 58 not out). Ave for 52) and 5e for two. Kent 123
At Wornester, Sussex 231 and 25 for two. Worcestershire 310 (Kenyon 119, Bates six for 99). At Bristol, Gloucestershire 251 and 39 for two. Lancashin: 204 (Wharton 103).
(Pretlove 52, Ralph
At Taunton, Somerset 232 and 110 for eight. Yorkshire 230.
At Nottingham, Leicestershire 250 and 131 for six. Notting-
252, (Dooland hamshire
Goonesema 51)Reuter.
72,
At "Kirmingham. Warwick- shire 180 and 106 for nine (Horner 99). Surrey
303 (Stewart 140, Barrington
101,
Singh five for 132),-Reuter,.
Dodgers' President Offers To Build Own Ballpark
give Ursua and Elorde special consideration.
While Dommy. Ursun is only rated No o contender in the OBF listings, this dusky, tough and clobber-sted fighter is world- ranked dyweight, certainly tops among Asia's flyweights. Nieto and Guidote pointed out that the OBF rating could be walved in such cases as those of Ursua and Elorde.
The latter, recently dethroned Oriental lightweight champion by Thalland's Omsap Laempho- phu, now wants a crack at the 126-th Oriental crown worn by Japan's Shige Kaneko, Like Ursua, he bases his challenge on world featherweight contender. his being the fourth-ranked
A RETURN MATCH "Not that I don't want a re- turn match with Laemphopha," "Every- Elorde Raid recently.
body knows the decision (the bout was held in Bangkok) was anfair, and all the wire services
RS
his funding
as
MASS CHANNEL SWIM COMPETITORS
Mr Billy Butlin seen with three of the girl swimmers at La Sirene, Cape Griz Néz at the start of the Butlin International Channel Swlotming race. The girls are to r) Florence Louise Burdetto (America), Greta Anderson, a Danish-born 30-year-old Rosemary George (England), and Brenda Fisher (England),
swimmer, won the race, — Keystone Photo,..
Two-Man English Team Win Nations' Tennis Tourney
Ryc, New York, Aug. 20. England won cight and tied one of its 11 matches today to win the six-team Cup of Na- Tennis (lony* International Tournament at the Westchester Country Club,
The two-man "English team
MINIATURE OLYMPICS
Colony Favoured To Win Basketball Tourney
At Merdeka Games
"
Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 26.
Fifteen nations will take part in the "Merdeka of Mike Davies and Bobby W-Games" to be held here from August 30 to September 8 son played five one-set doublcy
and six one-set singles matches. to celebrate Malaya's attainment of Independence. Their only delents were at the Planned as a "mininture Olympics, the Games will hands of the Asian team
of include athletics, badminton, basketball, cycling, cricket, Ramanathan Krishere of India hockey, shooting, soccer, swimming, tennis," weight- and Kosel Kame of Japan, lifting and water polo.
8-2, and the Commonwealth team of Bob Howe of Australia Kupferburger of and Johann
South Africa, 10-14.
FINAL MATCH
About 250 foreign athletes taking part will
represent
MR & MISS MERDEKA
are expected to compete. Thug Indonesia, Burma, Singapore and will represent Burma, Vietnam,] Malaya, Cambodia, Hongkong, Indonesin, Thailand, FIJI, Borneo, Ceylan,
the Philip Formosa, Japan,
The competition will end with Pines, New Zealand and Austra ila. Singapore, which remalas the election of "Mr Merdeka a Colony, will also send a team. and "Miss Merdeka" in which
Hongkong will take part in esch nation
candidates. soccer, tennis and basketball.
will have two
Yankees' Lead Now At Its Lowest Since August 1
New York, Aug. 20. AM Kaline's three-run homer led the Detroit Tigers to a 5-2 vletory over the slumping New York Yankees today and cut the Yankees American League lead
to just 3 games over the ide Chicago White Sox.
It was the Yankees' fith lose
in the last seven games and now
lead is the lowest it has
been since August 1.
Mickey Mantle sent the Yan- kees off to a 2-0 lead in the firm half of the first inning when he tagged Detroit hurler Frank Lary for his 33rd homer of the year with a man on. But Kaline came sight in the same frame with a three-run homer, his 17th,
and 15ser off Yankee starter Tommy Byrne.
Q
Lary, who wound up with an eight-hliter for his eighth win of the
Detroit'a year, scored On August 30, at 8 am, The "main" games-the track fourth run in the second laning Prime Minister Tengku Abdul and held athletics-will begin when he reached base on Rahmon will perform the ofl on September 5 and end on forecout and moved around on cial opening ceremony for the September 7. Foreign athletes singles by Frank Bolling and gamos. The Games proper taking part will Include four Harvey Kuron. The Tigers started yesterday with cycling Fijians, 16 Bornes athicles and ended the scoring with a run in The basketball tournament Australia's lone representative, the fifth of Bolling's singlo, a will begin on the evening of long-Jumper Brian Oliver. sacrifice, Kalino's infield single, August 30. Six teams will fom-
und Churley Maxwell's sacrlice pete and
they are
Ay.
take
This latter match carried on said so.
I wont But now
to almost
bul darkness unill fight as a feather, because I am Davies and Wilson went on to internationally ranked
'u
play a 4-4 tie with Irv Doriman feather." Etorde did not mention and Ron Holmberg of the US it but there was no doubt he East team to give them the wanted to get even with Kaneko points needed to win the big who beat him three times in as
silver cup. many encounters in decisions
Under the complicated scoring which his manager and father- In-law, Lope Sürreal, described for the round robin tournament,
10 "smelling
the
awarded on the high points were heavens."
score of the set, except in extra without exception game acts, when the points were are convinced that Dommy scored 6-4, Uraun will easily defeat the de- Orientul Champion, Fone Kingpopen of Thailand.
The Games will mainly Formosu, Going into the final match, the Judging from the
S$2,300,000 press Sir Norman Brookes, former
notices, although I have not US West team, the British Coma-Hongkong, Thailand, Indonesia, place in the new
Hong-Merdeka Stadium which took Wimbledon Champion and ex- 1
seen him fight," said Guidote, tied at 72 points. By that time kong are
onwealth team and England were Singapore and Mulaya.
and engineers 10 favourites for the 600 builders presitten! of the Australian
complete. It "Pone Kingpopeh should be a New York, Aug, 20.
the crowd had gone and the seven-dny basketball States Lawn Tennis Associa
tourna-monthy pushover for Walter O'Malley, President of Ursun."
Dommy
have pur
seating capacity tion, strongly advocated open
groundskeeper even had taken ment. The Anal will be played
25,000 people.-France-Presse, the Dodgers, offered today to
the not down. The players put tournaments when he visited
on September 5. Unshed Goteborg, Aug. 26.
build his own Ballpark if the
world the net back up, sports writers Los Angeles recently.
Sweden's Dan Warm ran'a City of New York would make renown about a year ago by served as ball boys, and the
knocking out Mexico's Memo "Open tennis le inevitable, sizzling sub-tour-minutes miles available his preferred stadium Dlez, thon No : challenger to
English team went on to win its Kince
today it what the publle here.
and paced Bel- site in downtown Brooklyn “at
necessary points against Doriman the world flyweight crown word wants," he said.
glum's Roger Moens and Spain's But he said it
R common sense figure,"
and Holmberg. should be restricted, and sug-
Tom Barris to set new Belgian
O'Malley's offer following, a by Argentina's Pascual Perez, 24-hour and Spanish national records,
City -France-Presse. gested one such event
meeting with Bach
officials, indicated that he would, year, or even every four years. Wacrn, running in the
prefer to remain in Brooklyn Games" track meal, rather These could be held in Eng- "August
than move
Los United won by 10 yards in 3 min, 59.6
Angeles, secs, ahead of Moens, who was
The Dodger owner advised Harold clocked in 4:01.0, a New Bel- the City officials that
ap- McClellan, who has been gun record.
pointed by the City of Los
Australia, the
land, Slates and France,
"It would put an end to the professional
bare storming," Bald Sir Norman.
COMPLETE FREEDOM
to
Sweden's Logvar Eriksson Angeles to negotiate the trans-
and
fer of the Brooklyn club, last
Ursua
to
HOME SOCCER RESULTS
London, Aug. 20. ploced third In 4:03.8
Results in the evenings- Eng-|n Barris was fourth In 4:04.4 Wednesday, "solicited the Dod-lish Football matches were: new Spanish record.
gor franchise."
League On
The
Aston Villa
What the United States Lawn Tennis Association may decide
O'Malley's offer to build his after a track was slow to do is to suggest to the Inter-
awn ballpark represented A Blackpool rational Federation that each three-days rain. Some sports
change from his previous nation should have complete writers felt Waern, who broke demands for help from the City B'burn Rovers freedom of action, if, in its the track record, might have judgement, a tournament open cracked the Swedish record and seeking a new place for his Dodgera fo play. At the same
to both amateurs and profession- even the world mark today on a als would serve to promote the normal, track-France-Presse,
best interests of the game.
This would mean'an amendm ment to article 31 of the Inter- national Federation's rules so that amateurs taklag part in преп tournaments would not endanger their - stalus if they Arst obtained the consent of their own national association.
No, nation would be com- mitted to holding open tournia- ments. Similar proposals have been made before and rejected. But It is thought American support could away a change at the next meeting of the federa- 11on.
As soon as open tournaments materialise, it will be possible to see the best playora cœpet- ing against 'ench
other,
It could mean the re-appear- *shop at Forest Hill, Wim bledon, Kooyong or the Stede Roland Garros of such players Pancho Gonzales, the World Profomional Champion, Frank Eidgman, Pancho Segura, Jack Kramer, Tony Trabert, Lew Hond and Ken Hosewalk, me Chilon Mall Speciaă:
England Welcomes Opponents' Sponge
London, Aug. 20.
his latest announcement was interpreted as a last-ditch offer to the City of New York before accepting Los Angeles' offer.
The site long preferred by O'Malley is at the juncture of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues In the heart of downtown Brook- lyn-United Press.
and
To
TA
IN SECOND PLACE
will Mantle had two hits in four for at-bats to boost his battlogK average one point to 377. Bui he stayed in second place in the hot AL batting race as Toci Williams of the Boston Red Sox also collected two hits in four trips to boost his average to .379.
American Tennis Finals Rained
Out Again
-Brookline, Massachusetts,
finals of
SOCCER TOURNAMENT The football tournament will begin on August 30,
Cam→ Hongkong will meet Asia was fourth in the stand-
The Sox slugged their way ings with 70 points, a Mexico bodio
the In
fret round,
to a 1-0 rout over the Kansas Thailand, meels US team had 59 and the US Indonesia
City A'y with a 10-run splurge last with 52 Singapore Vietnam, and
VS East tcom was
In the seventh inning highlight- Malaya tokes on Burma.
In the onslaught. Boston Vic Seixas of Philadelphia,
socked our homers by Frank former
Wimbledon and US The winners wil be grouped
Matzone, Norb Zouchin, Ted Champion, lost all four of his together to play for places one
Aug, 20,
Jimmy Piersall, locers will be the to four and
Lapelo, and today alngles matches
anther homer, Anished the tournament without grouped to play for places five
-Rain prevented play for the Mizone d Anal will take second day in succession in the a double and a single, for He lost to to eight. The vletory single
six trips to lead the American Lawn our hits in Wilson, Kupferburger, Gil Shea place on September 7. and Mike Franks today
today.
Hockey and badminton begin Tennis Doubles Championships the Red Sox's 19-hit attack. Willard Nixon hurled a five-
breeze hitter 10 Dick Savitt, another highly-
to his 11th on September 2 but the interest her ratod American player, would in those two sports will chielly It is hoped to
play the victory. do no better than split his two bo "local" us thee will be no matches tomorrow.
In the only other day game in 2 matches today, losing to Hawe foreign teams toking part.
and beating Joaquin Reyes of
The Ceylon cricket tearn Budge Patty and Gardner the majors today, the New Yorks México.
match against Malnya will be Malloy 。 Tomorrow the field will be played over two days (Septem- meet Australians Neale Fraser Redlegs their 13th loss in the the last 14 games, 17-9. Donny -o joined by several other interber 2 and 3) after which they and Ashley Cooper, for
national stars, including Kurt will continue their tour of the Mon's title. The Women's final O'Connell fed the Giants 10-hit Nicksen of Denmark end Sven various states before returning is between Althen Gibson and attack with four hits, including Darlene Hard, the Wimbledoa a hamer, and Hank Bauer alsə Davidson of Sweden, for the home at the end of the month.
The weightlifting compelllion Champions, and Mrs Margret Homered. Leading 5-3, the Giants start of a regular-style elimi nation tournament for the will start on September 6 and Du Pont and Louise Brough, the blew the game apart with five Westchester
United the finals will take place on the present holders of the American runs in the sixth inning and six
following day.
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The association have told th Irish Table Tennis. Association that they have 'no objection to them using sponge hats in next season's international between the countries.
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