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PORTUGAL
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1958.
RETAIN HOCKEY CROWN
THEY RODE TO FAME
Portugal and the local Commonwealth hockey teams pose this for the record in the Ladies' International hockey series at King's Park on Saturday. Portugal won by four goals to nil to retain the "Van Vliet Shield."-China Mall Photo.
EVERTON'S ENTERPRISING EXAMPLE
SOIL-WARMING APPARATUS TO BE INSTALLED AGAINST SNOW, ICE AND FROST
By CLAUDE RICHARDSON
London.
The first move towards freeing English football from the threats of snow, ice and frost will be made fater this month at Everton's ground at Goodison Park, Liverpool.
On April 22 workmen are due to start installing soil-warning apparatus in the Everton pitch. A new draining system will be put in, and warming wires will then be laid every six inches across the ground. When the job is finished, play will go on at Goodison Park in the face of almost every difficulty Winter can produce.
will be dissolved and | tium £150 a week to run, the Guiticus Trial Stakes ut Kemp- Snow
ton Park on Easter Monday has Irost kept at my by the warm-scientists estimate. ing electric Current through the Everton ploneered the idea of touched off criticism of rules of wired Bull, controlled authomati-soil-warning way back in 1935. entry of English classic races. cally by a thermosini petuated by Now they are frst to take ach
Aggressor was nol catered for and ground temporntures vantage of this biggest technical
Having ground fit for play advance in noccer since the nay of the great three-year-old in virtually ever type of bad introduction of floodlighting, classic events and he cannot now engagements-though weather will not
save The entire scheme, including the be given unly
no doubt his owner would be Everton from big losses through laying of a new drainage system, postponements, bust will also will cost the club about £13,000, prepared to pay a stiff fer lu There is no doubt about the low bim to run in life 2,000 protect their players.
efficiency of the system. It has Gulneas at Newmarket on Apri been tried and proved successful 30. Frost-bound, icy piletten ùring in tests at the Bingles institute crop of lartes, costly in over the past couple of years, velable teague points as well A wired plot there remained soft, a b money. With the new dry rough for play and almost system in operation, Everton con free from snow through the look forward to a dveling in the worst-pusus of bad weather.
I toll ployers
Costly
www.ther takes
Tur development to the suit- warming system was carried out i
Enviable
The work at Everion's greand
pitch which every other
at the Bingity Sports Turf is expected to take five weeks to Research Institute is Yorkshite, complete. It will leave the club Scientists there ironed eut one of i with the big difficulties, prohibitive the of cost, by adopting plastic cables which can be laid easily and cheapls
cub by the country will eavy As time goes on, it seems vir. tually certain big clubs all over Everton's Britain will follow Cost or stalling the system enterprising example, and--in-a- is about £4,000-cheap when few years the weather may vease one Considers what can he lost to exert a crippling influence on through cancellations of matches top soccer fixtures. and injuries to players. Every Saturday night and also on
Victory of Sir Harold Werner's 123 the 2,000 morning. It would not cost more colt Aggressor
Nominate YOUR
Hongkong Footballer
Of The Year
Members of the public are invited to nominate Hongkong's Footballer of the Year for the current season.
It is a popularity poll organised by the China Mail, and nomination coupons will be accepted until the closing date to be announced later.
The two qualifications for nomination are:
(1) Footballing prowcek.
(2) Sportsmanship on the field of play. Nominations should be addressed to
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Entries for all five classics giore in November, two years fore races are to be ron, when horses involved are, yearlings. No matter how likely a prospect a cult or filly becomes on its subsequent running as a two- "year-old or three-year-old, it cannot run in classics unless ar has been entered as a yearling. Just Hard Luck
DRINK COST HIM A DERBY WIN
William Scott Rode Nineteen Classic Winners
A Unique Record
By PERCY RUDD ·
The achievement of William Scott, who rode nine winners of the St Loger, four of the Derby, three of the Oaks and three of the Two Thousand Cuineas is unique in the records of England's classic races.
Only the intervention of the Jockey Club prevented him from claiming ton St Logors. In 1819, two years before his first unquestioned victory, there was an extraordinary happening on Doncaster's Town Moor.
Five horses in a field of 19 were left at the post. The other fourteen completed the course, but the Stewards ordered the race to be re-ruz. At the second attempt, when only ten started, Sir Walter, one of those left on the first occasion, was ridden by Scott to victory.
But there was an appeal
Must Bland
n
John Scolt not only, looked to enter his box and grew angry the Jockey Club and and the after bls horses, of which he even at the sound of his volce. Stewardly decided that the or- had never fewer then 100 under
When he rode the third of pinul race, won by Antonio, his care, he looked after him-
self. And this is more than his Richard Watt's five Leger win- brather did. John lived to be 70,ners-Memnon la 1825-in while Bill died in his 30th year, field of 30, still the record for The record of John Scott is, the race, the national interest by modern standards, fantastic. In the result was such that it Between 1827 and 1808 horses was sent by carrier pigeon to London und by specially trained dogs to Manchester, trained by him won 10 Legers, six Derbys, nine Oaks, six 2,000 Guineas and four 1,000 Guineas. Rift Over Drink
So Scott hod to be content with nine Leger successes, even though he had heard the famous Yorkshire rolur on Town Moor cheering him home ten times.
It is hard to believe that hyone with such a record--he was on four successive Leger winners from 1938 to 1841- could have bean outahone. Yel 131 always played second nece 10 his brother John, Ri lleved by many Yorkshire people rift. to have been the greatest train. er of all time.
Scott rode the rst Northern- Irained winner of the Derby in 1836. This was Mundig, who BI was the stable Jockey was fouted in the year that his" be-until his drinking habits caused owner, John Bowes, celebrated his Then he set himself up his 21st birthday. Hence
owner, name: Mundig is German for "of In the triple role of trainer and sirler. But his best age." ycurs in the saddle were those when he had the plek of brother's unmatched stable.
A Report On The Future Of Amateur
Lawn Tennis Out On Wednesday
A
report considerable
bis:
Bill made one of his big mis- takes over the 1844 Leger, won
No one can say what heights | by n very moderate Irish colt, that record would have reached | Foig a Bullugh. He bet the own- had he been a sober-living in- er an even £1,000 that the stead of a reckless and, towards horse wouldn't storti the end, a dissipated man,
The most glaring example of for the bolile Bill's weaknesy came in the Derby of 1040, when
Curious Bets
even
There, were other curious he rode his own horse, Sir. wagers made over Folg a Bal- Tatton Sykes, winner of the Ingh£100 to £10 that he 2.000 Guineas and subsequently would Anish last and an of the St Leger,
£60 that he would be beaten London, Apr. 14
This very useful volt, origin-by four lengths. Yet he started
Te- which may haveally Tibthorpe, had been second favourile at 7-2 and won bearing on tho
he when naimed by Scott,
by a length from the 5-4 chance squire who founded the famous Yorkshire stud. He had become
future of amateur lawn ten bought him, after the Yorkshire Cure.
simultaneously
will be issued in London and Paris un Wod- by the International nesday Federation.
The report is the outcome of the views of several countries which were invited to submit upinions to a Special Committee of the Federation
Among the must controversial items in the port, which is expected to cover a wide range
of subjects, is the question of the desirability or otherwise of holding
Championship.
Open
in which amateurs could pete with professionals. It is believed that the majority of rations submitting opinions are not-in favour of such open events.
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The report will be placed before the Federation's Cousel Meeling in Brussels on July 9, it will then be up to the Council jo reject or accept it in full or in part, Any decisions reached and in Brussels will so later before the Federallon's annual meeting. --Chiro Mil Specini.
Of course almost any fial ligh on breeding and having prelen *ions to class is entered for ctussles
But precautiomrily,
"moderate" breeding Dhose with sometimes make real progress
three-year-olds us early
They were not entered classics it is just hard luck on their owners,
for
With entry and forfelt fees at eosts about £200 sterling to run horse in the Derby or St Leger and about £100 sterling for Guinea classies. Fees for the forfeit stuge u year be- tore the Derby and St Leger were doubled last year 10 £100 sterling and though there appears no noticeable decline in the number of these engaged this year cost may force several owners is forfeit tud soon in future years,
An Alternative
An alternative could be the Introduction of supplementary enirits for clasales. A fee of, say
Torino Refuse To Release French International
JUMPING FOR THE BALL
Looks as though Chelsea goalkeeper Matthews is being kicked into the air by an opponent ng he is caught by the camera jumping for the ball past a- high-kicking Nottingham Forest player during a First Division match at Stamford Bridge, London, en April 4.Reulcrpholo.
P.I. Davis Cup Coach Baulks At Predicting
A Victory Over Japan
Manila, Apr. id.
The coach of the Philippine Davis Cup team has baulked
•nt predicting a victory for this country over Japan in the Eastern Zone semi-finals and warned against "under-estimating the Japanese". Coach Leonardo Gavin, Ove-time Philippine Champion (1983-1987), while conceding that the loss of Atsushi Miyagi, due to illness, was a "great blow for the Japanese, called attention to the following:
The Scott brothers were born
(1) The towering figure of several combinations to And one of the Derby favourites and at Chippenham, a village nour
of Amen. Bill was furious whan
Kosel Kamo, Jupan's No. 1 the best pair out he Newmarket. Their father was a reached the course to find book-trainer and former jockey who player, Kamo has improved a Deysu, Jahnny Jose nnd Mike
onkers fielding against him.
subsequently set up his stables lot," Gavia said, "He is young Dungo. Gavia was not so sold to our best players, on Deyro-Ampon tandem Reinforced by quick glass at the Ship Inu, Oxford, when compared
Ampon of brandy, he rushed into Tal-he became tanelord there. The (Felicisimo)
and since the former had not been (Raymundo). Dayro, Kamo as playing doubles for a tona teralls Ring shouting "I take boys went from Oxford to eight thousand to a thousand Sir Newmarket trainer and after-improved a lot. He has played me,"
times, and the wards to James-Craft on Hum-cbroad many
record shows that he has beaten There was the likelihood that bleton Moar, near Thirsk, Tatton wine in a trot."
several Internationally-rinkti | young Jose would gei There John developed bis players." Arpon Is 38" und
doubles nod since he and am- pon are the Philippine Doubles Champions.
Beaten By A Neck
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the
Bill was,
from all sccounts, training knowledge and Bill the Deyre 33.
resolution in the conscionably drunk when he skill and
(2) The matches being play- mounted. Ite caused a delay at saddle that carried him through
to ed in Japan (May. 2, 3 and 4) The Philippine salad leaves the post, insulted the starter and so successfully from 1814
Jast 1847. flls last mount was on his "On their own courts, own cours-tor Japan on April 22 for 10 lengths, was, by my
thetry, you can never lot about days of practice, on the Deneen
added. away. In the end Sam Day beat own horse, Christopher, in
Courts, the same practice dura- hin by neck an John Gully's Derby of 1847. Fitteen months the Japanese," Gavin
later he was dead,
They say that Osamu Ishiguro len the Japanese had bad here horse. Pyrrhus-the First.
and Yoshroses Shibata are not fast year when they lost to the Had he been sober Scott must
do we know? Philippines. so good. How have won. Next day he was
Maybe In their matches against
they only exerted: Thailand
"We are just, reciprocating." before the Stewards, charged with using abusive language la
themselves enough effect to win Gavla sald.-France-Presse, the weighing room and at the post and inelting other Jockeys
Crucial Match to insubordination. He had the sense to admit his sins and apo
He got logise to the starter.
Are of £5. nway with
When the Leger came roun the belting pubile were not much concerned with whether the colt was ft and well as sober. whether his rider was B's friends were taking chances. They never left after he had ridden on the first day of the meeting until he mounted Sir Tatton Sykes in the paddock.
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him
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Tungku Rahman: A Privilege To Welcome Athletes
To Malaya
of
Kunta Lumpur, Apr. 18. The Prime Minister, Tungko Abdul Rahman, Bald today- Malaya was "keenly interested". in staging the 1982 Asian Games.
Last week the Federation Malaya Olympic Counell decided not to bid for the 1042 Games, until it bind studied the "full" "Implications" of staging them.
"crucial"
(3) The
doubles match. Gavia
thut assumed Kamo could wreck both Ampon and Deyro in the singles. This would then switch the balance to the doubles match, since the and odds
that Ampon fire Deyro can beut ellher Ishiguro
or Shibata.
Gavia try
Starling Lumor;ów, disclosed that he would
One Change In Scotland's Side Against England
Glasgow, Apr. 14.
Another Russian Breaks World Lifting Record
by
Moscow, Apr. 14.
at the Ravil Khabotdinav, Soviet Union, bet, o World Middleweight weighting IFC- Turin, Apr. 14.
qrd in Stalino today with u Italy's National Division Club Even so, when the colt was a
of 187.5 kiligramines presa (303 lbs), according to Toss, the Torino FC today refused to lend couple of lengths in front, n French international Antoine furiong from home, Scott was
qMelal Soviet nows agency........ his neck, Bonifaci to the French national leaning forward on team for the final round of the apparently exhausted.
The previous 'record was 130 Football World
fall off? Cup to be Would he
Kilogrammen (2093 Tbs) held didn't, and so Sir Tation Sykes
Raother Russian, Fedor played in Sweden this June.
Ho la the second foreign player won his second classic race by
Scotland have been forced to, Bogħidanovsky. to be held by Italians clubs. half a length-and Bill Scott's
make a change in their interna The Tungku said any
Khaboldinov's prese was the exchequer re-
optional soccer team to play Eng- Juvemus of Turin refused to impoverished release Welsh International John celved the welcome addition of proach the Olympic Council and at Hampden Pork here on third world record to be set in Charles to play for his home
Siplino in two days. On Suri- and more made to him over the staging of Saturday. in sinkes
the Games would "receive a country in the World Cup.
Allan Brown of Luton Town, Bay Georgi Lobahnidze beat his warm welcome, Both Charles and Bonifaci pro
chosen as inside ler, has with Ughtweight press record with a "It will be a privilege and a drawn, becurge of damaged it or 128.5 kilogrammes (288 needed to play for their clubs
pleasure to
lbs) and Viktor Bushuey raised a welcomio Aslan ankle ligaments, .. the carly matches of In the fallon Football Cup from June The horse on which Scott rode athletes to the next Games if it His pince will be taken by total of 387.5 kilogrammes (853 8 to July 13 This coincides his Arst Leger winner,
10-pounds) to belte his proistons Juck in decided to hold them in Jim Forrest, Motherwell with the World Football Cup Spigot, took a violent dislike to Malaya," the Tungku said.ward who gains his first cap world lightweight bost-Rep
ter. The Jockey Club," who signe || fixtures.---France-Presso; -
him. He would never allow him Rouler.
China Mall Special. con change rules of reing, have also been criticised aver the Brst forfeit for the Derby, Quincas
Oaks, whichi and comes as early as July of the
£500 sterling Payable about
three weeks before a race couldt make any horse not originally eligible. lo: thesa entered
extremely This custom popular among owners in the United States,
classics.
the Editor, China Mail, Wyndham Street.previous year.
To the Editor, China Mail,
My nomination for Hongkong's Footballer of the Year, taking into account bis playing ability and his sportsmanship on the field of play it: A
of the
(Signed)
,Club.
Owners with homes in after this date have a liability of £100 sterling and none can be ab- solutely sure then whether their Classic-entered two-year-old will make the grade.
in
The first forfell for the St Leger is in October, but the Juce is run later in the year, A reduced flat forfelt of say £20 sterling and another October to bring the total up to £100. sterling would give gym- ach flonger to decide whether a Bascus tons or chones and at the aple time would not appear Likely to reduce the total of the
£2,925 thon £9,000 in bets.
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