Bandalore Wins National Hunt Challenge Cup
Cheltenham, Mar. 11. Bandalore, a 20-1 chanco, to- day won the Champion Hurdle Challenge Cup, emblematic of the hurdling championship of Britain, which was run over two miles on the opening day of the National Hunt festival hero.
The Deven-year-old, oned
by Mra J. Wright and trained
had not won since the Liver- pool meeting last November.,
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1958.
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ENGLAND POISED FOR DOUBLE VICTORY
First Serious Trial To
Pick Colony Side Against All-Blacks Tonight
By "PAK LO"
by her husband in Shropshire, Tonight at 7.00 pm, on the Club ground under floodlights the first really serious trial for the Colony.aide which will play against the All-Blacks in their short lour here will take place.
run
unsuccessfully
He hand three times since then,
Well
handled by Jockey From the two XVs chosen it is obvious that the Selectors in the first trial hat the intention of trying some un- orthodox positioning which, as was but to be expected, proved nothing.
George Slack, Bandalore wen try two lengths from 5-1 favourite, Tokoroa, with second favourite, Retour de Flamme, starting 11-2,
A
further three lengths away, Merry Deal, winner last year, Woo fourth.
Bandalore led until three fights from home, where he re- Inquished the lead to King. Then Tokorao look up the running only to be passed on the fat by Bandulore.
Three of the 18 runners
at the Arst fight.-Reuter,
Tonight they have very sen-jof the day, and the Possibles sibly picked two saong XVs might just combine better than which should provide not only expected, However, it should be good game but settle for montu fast game and one or two of keen spectators the question of the Probables will have to go who should be in the Colony all out to retain their place, for XV.
their challengers will be all out
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the Selectors will pick a Colony team which plays the All- fellade and, in place of what was Blacks."
Torrid Fourth Rounds In New Orleans Golf
In have been the final trial, play this side against the Rest of the Colony.
However, one match will bo insuffelent to
Second Best
It has been suggested that after the Colony XV is selected they should be handled
Dour Battle
In every match they play the All-Blacks scem to win with teach these conspicuous case, and the Colony players to work as a team, and XV is on paper at present un- by this I mean a team in the
sense of the word, and it likely to bett them though they is to be hoped that the Selectors can be counted on to put up a and this maich make some arrangement for the dour battle,
which is on March 24 1s expect- Colony XV to have at least a
of the largest couple of outings against othered to pull one New Orleans, Mar. 11.
crowds to dato, XVs.
Tickets are still available from Slim stylist Ken Venturi ci
all officials and most represen- San Francisco and fellow Call-
tatives connceled with rugby. It fornian Bill Cosper shot torrid
has been said that this game the fourth rounds today $20,000 New Orleans Open to
will not be televised as the TV floodlighting with officials consider anish in a tie onch with 278,
An 18-hole play-off for the care in case any of them are in-unsuitable for television.
How much truth there is in championship and
prize jured and are unable to play in tou money of $2,890 will be singed the big match, but it is more this remark I do not low, bul
Important that they tomorrow. United Press,
learn to as games are regularly televised combine; even if through in-under these conditions in the juries it is necessary to bring in UK it must be presumed that a second best player.
the power of the Club floodlights is insument for TV puposes. The Teams Probables; Leppard, Sharp, Valentine, Bede-Cox, Coulds, O'Kelly, Robertson, William
McIntosh, O'Donnell,
Wynn, Muntz Busby, Clark, Walker.
Heart!, Possibles: Watson, McTavish,
Steward, Gilbertson,
Linham, Cunningham, Hemingway, Campbell, Penman.
HOME SOCCER RESULTS
It is also to be hope that once the Colony XV is selected, the members will put forth their utmost in the odd game they get as a XV for it is often the case that Colony XV, once selected, is pampereit and pour play is excused on the ground that "so and so is saving himself for the big game."
London, Mar. 11. Remilts in tonight's English football matches were: LEAGUE ONE Chelsea 1, Wolves 2.
LEAGUE THREE SOUTH Brentford 2, Reading 1.
In tonight's game there should LEAGUE THREE NORTH Bradford City 0, Gateshead 1.bo tle question of which XV Rochdale, Carlisle United 0, wit win, but in a match like this surprises are often the order
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Fifty-Two To Represent P.I. Sports Diary
At Tokyo
Manila, Mar. 12.
Fifty-two track and field
athletes-the cream of the Filipino crop were sciccted yesterday as possibles for the Philippine team
to the Third Asian Games in Tokyo in May.
Heading the 1st was Alejan- Cabusora, 19-year-old Green, dro Cheong, middle distance sensation who, Steele, according to sports clecles here, Ross, could be the first Asian to run Miller, the mile under four minutes
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Calcutta Cup And International Championship
At Stake On
On March 15
By JOHN COTTRELL
London.
The outcome of the 1957-58 International Championship may be determined on March 15 whon England and Wales, chief contenders for the title, meet Scotland at Murrayfield and Ireland at Dublin respectively.
Victory for England in the Calcutta Cup match would give them a total of seven Championship points, which none of the other three countries could better and only one-Wales -could equal.
Victory for the Welshmen in Dublin would make them almost certain of seven. points, since their final international of the season will be at Cardiff against the (so far) unimpressive French fifteen,
be certainly weakened by the loss through injury of full-back Terry Davies,
My forecast: That England Ireland, I do not expect England who is belter suited to launch and Wales will both win this to win as comfortably as they quickly the potentially danger- week and eventually share the did last year when they took the ous Irish three-quarter line. championship But Wales will Calcutta Cup 16-3, Scotland are Wales, on the other hand, will need to fight really hard to take a much tougher side than their the vital points from Ireland. record suggests.
Since they won the Interna- tional Championship, the Cal- cutta Cup, and the Triple Crown last season, England have made few changes in comparatively their team. The other countries, and France In particular, have had to shuffle their players like packs of cards to fine the best combination.
Indeed, England have needed only 27 players in the last three seasons, and most of the changes have been caused through in- juries. The result is a team of players who understand each other and who really blend together.
For their 3rd meeting with England have made Scotland, two changes from the side which a routed the French 14-0 in Paris
changes which And they are should strengthen their already powerful side.
Oxford captain Peter Robbins, rated the best
Davies is the outstanding full- He is back of the season. superb in every department of worth the game and almost selection as place-kicker alone. He is replaced by Alun Friday, the rellable Cardift full-back.
In Common Ireland--in
The Scottish pack put up a great fight in Cardiff and Dublin, and the potentiality of their at- fack has been greatly increased by the brilliance of 20-year-old G. H. Waddell at fly-half.
This Saturday will be a sad day for many of the Irish, Jackie Kyle, Ireland's dy-heli wizard for more than a decade
common with alf and holder of the world record Lally of 40 caps, has been the other countries this Saturday dropped in favour of a new cap,also have a change at full- Mike English,
back. J.G.M.W Murphy, an It is only the Bfth international Army chaplain who was capped he has missed since he won his four times in 1932, replaces
rat cap in 1947.
P. J. Borkery..
Tactical Genius
Wales will have to fight ex- tremely hard if they are to preserve their unbeaten record Few who have seen Kyle this season. Yet I believe they aclion recently will be greatly can win because they have tho surprised at his departure. Sad stronger pack-and Cliff Morgan.
Morgan to relate, it is a fumbling, un-
may well prove the certain, and much slower Jackie key man in this match, just as
He still dishe Kyle this year.
was at Twickenham in Welsh Thon, the plays tactical genius with his January,
open side winging, but I fear that, at the backs, not a strong nilacking
Original Choice
of 32, hin international force, played a defensive role,
These tactics, which were 40 profitable against England, seem equally suitable against an Irish side which has an extremely dangerous three-quarter-line and a winger, A. O'Reilly, who is in a class of his own.
forward in Britain, returns after career is drawing to a close. while Morgan kept the play up his absence through injury, But The dropping of Kyle has front with shrewd kicks to touch. his deputy, John Herbert, who robbed the Dublin crowd of played so magnificently against their last opportunity of seeing France, lains his place at the
two of the greatest fly-halves of expense Ron Syrett,
the last decade in opposition. That master craftsman, Cliff Morgan, who, at 27, has decided to retire at the end of the season, John Scott, deputising for the will bo making his 28 op- Injured full-back Jim Hethering-pentance for Wales, ton, had a less happy interna- Ireland, I believe, will be tional debut against France. So strengthened by Mike English the selectors have reverted to thele original choice of
the
And if nich tactics are used. full-back Murphy, recalled after four years, la going to have z busy afternoon.
season, Fenwick Allison. International Championship Table
will be valuable as a place- kicker, eirce giant John Currie
has been sadly off from this
season.
Thus, with the exception el Hetherington, England are at full strength. And seven of the tight forwards have now played together through two seasons.
Fly-half Ricky Bartlett, briefly replaced by Phil Horrocks- Taylor, has resumed his long and successful partnership with the indomitable Dickle Jeeps. The three-quarter Une of Jackson, Butterfield, Phillips, and Thomp son remains the most dangerous In the Home Countries.
Scotland have also make two changes for Saturday. They, too, are without their No. 1 full- unck, the injured Robin Chisholm, and they have brought back 21-year-old Ken Scotland, who played and scored-in all four nternationals last season.
There have been signs that Anno Domini is beginning to have its effect on the Scottish pack, and the oldest of the for- wards, 31-year-old Tom Elliot, has been dropped in favour of prop forward Inn Hastie,
Although Scotland have been beaten this season by Wales and
Australians
Won Eleven Of 19 First Class Games
The
Capetown, Mar. 11. unbesten Australian cricketers, who wound up their tour of Bouth Africa by draw- ing with Combined Universities here today, wan eleven of the 19 first class games, including three of the Ave Tests.
What could have been another Australian win was prevented by n stubborn opening stand of 97 botweca the home captain, Dorck Varnals, and Test bals- man Tony Pithey, who went on to make 120.
Pithor's hundred, which took more than five hours, was the eighth century made against the tourists. Though he put up D commendable performance, he was often unnecessarily blow against an attack which was not the Aurtiulione" strongest.
The Universition, who had followed on 179 runs in arrears, eventually built up a lead of 181 before declaring. Is the 40 minutes remaining for piny, the Australiens mado bi fie one--- China Mall Special,
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