THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1957."
Roger Bannister Discusses
THE RIGHT TO RISK ONE'S LIFE
West Indian Cricketers Penalised For Misconduct During English Tour
Kingston, Dec. 11.
A furious controversy has been stirred up here by reports that West Indies cricketers All Valentine, Tom Dewdney and Roy Gilchrist were penalised for alleged misconduct during the English Test tour this year.
Cricket fans have raised a clamour against the Cricket Board of Control, which meted out the fines, and have called on it to state whether Test players from islands other than Jamaica were involved.
at a time The reports enmo when the West Indies com la preparing to meet Pakistan in Barbados on January 2.
Valentine, a spin-bowler, and Dowdney, prce mon, each fuce the loss of £150 bonus un- less they can prove they did not harm West Indies cricket the by signing contracts In Lancashire League.
Valentine allegedly signed with the Rishton Club in the Central Lancashire League and Dewdney with Darwen in the Northern Lancashire Lengue.
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Gilchrist, a fast bowler, re- portedly was involved in jeldent with Weekes and, on a team manager's report, lost hair of his £150 bonus.
Weckes was also believed to have been penalised, but it was not known whether the bonus cut had already been made. Hence, the public demand for full-pathielly on the matter by the Cricket Board.
Jamaica's representative the Bourd said he
would not
HOME RUGBY
London, Dec. 11. Results in today's Rugby Union County Championship matches were.
Beritshire 3. Hertfordshire 6. Sussex B, Dorset and Wits 17. --Beuter.
the
statement without isue a full Board's permission.
Meanthne, a sportsman who was constantly with the warm suld he knew "two others" who were involved in the incidents. He did not elaborate.-France- Presse.
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There Is A Race That
Even Fangio Considers "Too Dangerous'
Recently I was asked to name a "Sportsman of the Year." T chose Stirling Moss. Then I was challenged by a mother who feared that her four sons might be encouraged to look on living dangerously as an ideal.
The qualities of decision and boldness are necessary in all sports, but boldness can easily become recklessness, even ruthlessness. Sport either demands great skill or exposes competitors to great risk, often both. Recently in some sports risk has overshadowed skill.
Two years ago 83 people were ked at Le Mans. This year 13 were killed in the Mille Miglia, 10 of them spectators Death come to the Marquis of Portago requires is a small error and moral obligation to avold raky through mechanical foultone is very embarrassingly dead climbs. probably a burst tyre. A few the next." days before he had summed up
his driving philosophy-"Racing | too long discussing the ethics of Instead of making the is a vice and, as such, extremely rescue
The discussion sug- hard to give up. One can be at attempt.
that climbers have a the top one second, but all itgested
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
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ED STAYED BACK TO STOP A COUPLE OF GUYS WHO FOLLOWED
US, TODD.
OKAY. LET'S
SEE THE NECKLACE.
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MAKE SURE.
I'M NOT DREAMING
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in of legitimate risks
sport certaini distinctions must be made. In many sports there is I belleve that such sports-
<iminal negligence by the men are terried by what they braggarts who underrate the do, but their fear. Instead of
dangers. They drive too fast en paralysing, gelvanbes them to
an unknown road in an unsult- fresh action, B$ sometimes able car; more than 3,000 people occurs on
AL the battlefield.
жего killed on the roads Last the extreme limit they slide Inte
They year.
swim
the when euch corner a little faster until warning flag is up and delight elther they outstrip their rivals or kill themselves. They seem
more than 1,000 people were to dérive a satisfaction from drowned Lost testing their breaking point to attempt
fear,
more
except allic
Near Chamonix inst January two young French students were stranded and about £150,000 was spent in rescue attempts. in which a helicopter crashed. At least sixteen other climbers risked their lives, and Тегтау, the famous mountain guide, re- signed because the guides spent
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Disturbing
The attitude of spectators to sometimes dangerous sport la
the
Eragio, u driver with caution and skill than Portago, hes pald he will never race in the Mille Miglia again because "It is a race that really is too dangerous." He should know- he has tried it five times. But con any racing driver Fangio afford to draw between sale and dangerous disturbing, Do spectators watch
motor-racing more to admire roces and still stay in sport?
the skill of the driving or because of morbid anticipation of disaster? There is something disproportionate about furore over the dog in Sputink when a preventable death in sport is often ignored. Even in athletics, in which there is slight risk, some relatively spectators still look for disaster. A small boy once expressed i..s profound disappointment after the finish of one of my races, "Cor, he ain't even fainted." Was it morbid interest or merely ignorance that led a Melbourne woman spectator at
exclaim on seeing the
Marathon runners singger home: "Gee, the Anal of this ruce
be worth ought to
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watching."
The mob daring of hooligan terry boys or gangs at war could more properly be channelled into Individual sports, even dangerous ones.
What curbs are possible? For a atart, I suggest that all car racing on ordinary roads should
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dangerous driving are already criminal offences. A swimmer in forbidden water risks his own life and those of others. Should he receive any lesser penalty? Might pulsory Insuranca Tor all climbers do something to dis- tourage the incompetent? Last week age limits were suggested for drivers of motor-cycles of different power.
Having said all this, I must confess great admiration for sportsmen who, having excluded danger where possible, never. theless jeopardise theleves in an attempt to break a speed barrier, or climb Everest.
No one but a fool risks his life lightly, but thinking men with daring, even if they do not always advance our practical knowledge .of machines ΟΣ nature, raise the standard of individual vigour and enterprise on which our survival depends. A man who stakes his skill Ute must include against his factors beyond his own self-
interest.
Bachelor's Right
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A bachelor without depen- dants presumably has the right to risk his life. But whether a man has the right to cause his family endless anxiety over possible disaster is questionable and I do not pretend to have made up my mind completely. Thoughtful courago camiot and should not be eliminated from Hite; I could not bear to think of world in which wo were protected from all dangers.
This is my shower to the anxious mother--her sons will bo the better for faclag danger and pho must be prepared to seo them do so,
TOUR DE FRANCE CYCLING RACE
Paris, Dec. 11, The 1958 Tour De France cycling race will start from Brussels on June 28. This will be the second time in the history of the race, first staged 3003; that the start will be France, Pho first UND WER in Amsterdam in 1984--TROCo-Presse.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB FIFTH RACE MEETING
Saturday 14th and Saturday 21st December 1957 (To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 18 RACES. The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the First Race run at 2.00 p.m. on both days.
The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will close at 11.45 am. on both days.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
NO PERSON WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED. All persons MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the mceling.
Admission Badges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable from the Club's Cash Sweep Office, at Queen's Building, Chater Road and 382 Nathan Road only on the written introduction of a Member, who will be responsible for all visitors introduced by him,
Tins will be obtainable at the Club House If ordered In advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811).
The 8th Floor is restricted to Members and Ladies wearing Lady's Broocher.
NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeting. For this purpose a Child is a person under the age of seventeen years, Western Standard.
PUBLIC ENCOLSURE
The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable at the Gate.
Any person leaving the Enclosure will be requirod to pay the requisite fee of $3.00 in order to gain re-admission.
MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will be obtainable in the RESTAURANT.
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Servants must remain in their employers' boxes except for passing through on their duties. They may on no account use, the Betting Booths or Pay Out Booths in the Enclosures,
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Through Cash Sweep Tickets at $18.00 each per day and $32.00 each for both days may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Ofices at Queen's Building, (Chater Road), and 8, D'Aguilar Street during normal office hours and until 11:00 am.' on the day of the Race Meeting.
Particular numbers within thọ series 1 to 3,000 may be reserved for all race meetings as Through Tickets. Such tickets will ba issued consecutively only and the right is reserved by the Stewards to cancel any reservation for Through Tickets for a particular Meeting if it is found that sales may not reach the number reserved In the series 1 to 3,000.
In the case of two-day Race Meetings, Through Tickets may bo purchased for each day of the Meeting provided that the second day Is on a date not less than five days after the first day. In all other cases Through Tickets will only be sold for the whole, Mesting.
Tickets reserved and avaliable but not paid for by 10.00 am. on Friday, 13th December will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Mesilags.
Tickets over 3,000 will also be issued consecutively but particular numbers cannot be reserved as Through Tickets.
The reservation of any particular number does not confer on the registered holder any rights whatsoever unless the tiekot bearing the
the appropriate number is issued to and can be produced by the holder.
The Stewards reserve the right to refuse any subscripilon also the right to remove any name from Subscription Lists without stating reasons for their acilon.
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