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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 coupons China Mail, and nomination will be accepted until the closing date to be announced later.
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| (1) Footballing prowess,
(2) Sportsmanship on the field of play. Nominations should be addressed to the Editor, China Mail, Wyndham Street.
To the Editor, China Mail,
My nominallon for Hongkong's Footballer of the Year, laking Into account his playing ability and his sportsmanship on the field of play is:
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Italian Ferrari
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Racers Officially Sports Diary
Represented At Silverstone
Modena, Apr. 10. Italian Ferrari racers will be the officially represented in automobile Grand Prix raets
(11 at Silverstone, England,
by May
Britain's Peter Collins, and Mike Hawthorn, it was announced here today.
TODAY
Horary
Men's International: Portugal v Figland (KP) 6.30 Dm.
Tennia Inter-school Tenu at CRC, 2.10 Championships:
p.15.
Ustony Tent Quarter-finals. $20 p.m.
TOMORROW
Athletics
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1958.
Page: 7
AMIDST ANCIENT RUINS AND GRANDEUR
༨.
New Zealand Cricketers
Open Tour Against
London New Zealanders
London, Apr. 15.
The New Zealand cricketers, who arrived in England to-
day, will play two matches 13,000 miles apart in the space of eight days. Last Thursday they had a prae- tice game in Auckland, New Zealand, and this Thurs day they open the tour with a one-day match against the London New Zealand Club at the Oval. Three other one-day fixtures have been arranged before the first class programme opens at Worcester April 30.
on
Managed by Mr J. H. Philipps, who was in charge of the last Now Zealand team to tour England in 1949, the party includes 16 players. They are:
J Reli (captain) 3. C. Alabaster, R. W. Blair, J. D'Arcy, H. B. Cave, N. Harford, J. A. Hayes, A. R. Macgibbon,
The highest potential is in bowling, but the botting and wicket-keeping should be nde- quate and the fielding ought to.
T. Neale, L. S. M. Muller, Abe first cloes with one or two
M. Moir, E Petrle. Playe, J. S. players really briliant." Arling. B. Sutcliffe, and
Ward,
T
and
Feld, Sutcliffe, Cavc Hoyen were also In the 104) tearn.
Althous extremely tired after their long air journey, the New Zealanders intend to get down to practice in the nets at Lord's tomorrow sitemoon.
A Good Side
"I think we have the most experienced New Zealand side whitch has over toured," said Mr Phillips, and it could well develop into a good side.
Russians Again Break World
Record
John Reld, who had plenty
of experience of English con- dillons while playing League cricket in Lancashire, has given up his medium
pace bowling because of a strain, but he will bowl of break it he is needed.
Fast Pitches "Our bowling should be more penetrative than nine years ago said Reid, "and on" fast pitches, particularly, should do well."
"We like touring England for conditions are close to our own," continued Feld. "With regular cricket, we usually de- better players. We velop into like to hit the ball and 1 hope you will and us attractive to
watch
Tic players have been to- gether only a few days, but al rendly there is a fine atmosphere among the team."
Monaco As
French Clubs
Wealthy Italian Olympic
Hardest Hit Of Committee To Stage Most Beautiful Olympic Games?
Paris, Apr. 15. The Monaco AS was the hardest hit of the French clubs following the light of Algerian aco footballers from France. Four of the nire missing players belong to Monaco and represent a capital of about £30,000,
International player Mustapha Zitouni, one of Monaco's half-backs, had a transfer value of 215,000.
With only six matches to be played in the National Champion- ships, Monaco has only ten professionals left in its first team. Monaco also now risks being knocked out of the French Cup.
St Etienne was less ruffled by the dia- appearance of its inside left, Rachid Meloufi. The international 1s now reported to be in Lausanne.
Pierre Faurand, Pre- sident of St Etienne, commenting on Melou- fi's flight, said: "One swallow does not make a summer". -France- Presse.
By PATRICK CROSSE
Rome.
To stage the most beautiful Olympic Games in history is the target the wealthy Italian Olympic Committee has set itself for 1960.
Even Ancient Greece, it is thought here, could not make of the Olympics the spectacle that the organisers hope the Rome Games will provide.
More than 6,000 athletes-swordsmen, swimmers, horsemen, cyclists,
oarsmen, footballers, marksmen, wrestlers, gymnasts and boxers will pit their skills in the grandeur of ancient ruins, in lovely settings of the Renaissance, or in the most modern and probably the most
beautiful sports arenas of the world.
Villated largely to the grace, light- ness and Teeling of galely which characterise Italy's best modern Nearby, on the banks of the | bulidings.
Another concentration of new Taber a ceries ed ultra-modem buildings being prepared for sports installations is being built light athletics, swimming, div- at the other side of Rome, some ing, water poló, boxing, football | ten miles away. and hockey.
A total of nearly 18,000 in the gardens of the million fre (£10 mililon Borghese, sterling) Is being spent on these modern installations which will suddenly transform Rome, notoriously backward in sporl- ing facilities, into one of the best equipped cities in the world for popular sports.
One of these, the Palazze!to dello Sport (the Little Sports Palace), an "umbrella" of pre-
Sports Palace
Here there will be a big imposing
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fabricated concrete lozenges fit- Sports Palace, glass and con-
has
The danger is that the com-
Olymple bination of
sports, which should be beautiful in themselves, and the unrivalleding closely together and sup- "marquee" of benuly of the setting may attract ported at the cages by inward crete. In addition to an indoor orcon sumcient for 15,000 to Rome such crowds as `to over- | sloping Y-shaped nylons, whelm the Italian organisation aroused world-wide interest spectators, it will have elaborate. of the Gaflies.
among architects. Built in less Installations for the medical than a year, at a cost of 205 treatment of athletes, with bars, Herr Otto Mayer, the Swiss million Lire (£152,000), it po restaurants, offices, Chancellor of the International video seating for up to 13,000 rooms and other services. Olymple Committee, recently people and is considered one of
Near it is grising an open-air Issued a warning to the or- the 70038 successful Indoor
in- cycling stadium, with an VERSATILITY Kanisers after a week's tour of stadiums ever built.
clined wooden track enclosing a feld big enough for hockey or similar sports.
Take
in
the Aston Senior League.
Olympic Stadium
changing
the sites chosen for the various calculate that sports; "You Married players will receive
A good footballer can play 15 guineas week and single anywhere.
Barrie Hol-110,000 people a day will watch Moscow, Apr. 15.
men ten guineas for the dura- butt, captain and centre forward the Games. I think there wil
The Olymple Stadium, eating
This Bubsidiary Olympic Take care that Feodor Osypa set up a new
be far more. ilon of the tour, Lasting 25 of Birchfield
100,000, is claimed to be the best į centre is being built in the heart you are not submerged," are not barrett, (Birmingham)
which weeks. Wives
equipped big sporting arena in of a now satelite city Army Athletic Championship, JK world weightlifting record with
when to take a two-hand snatch of 140 klio-
abape Stadius
The Rome Games will be un-the world. It lies at the foot of began Krasomes in the midic-heavy-but none is expected to travel The team were doing badly, 27
The selectors he moved to centre half, and has usual for their wide dispersion. to England,
to one of Rome's green hills, about | Benito Mussolint planned, weight division during the Soviet
18 goals in 13 games Fifteen different zens and 200 yards from the Tiber. Here stage in Rome the most grandiora Championships at Stalino today, Curing the tour will be J. Reid, scored
and from that defensive position stadiums will be used for the 18 will be staged the Olymple cere World Fair ever held. The A few minutes before his L B. Cave (vice-captain)
Sutcliffe.
When he was injured, he turned record, Vitally Drigun had set a
never for training and football match and the horse-cause of the war, new world record mark of 143.8 Among those who welcomed up to watch, and as Birchfeld sports and another dozen will monies, light athletics, the final Moir was due in 1942 and, bes
Jumping Grand Prix.
place. the team at London airport were a man short he played in kilos. London, Apr, 15.
Clarence Skinner, the goal, The regular goalkeeper,
Most spectacular of all is lilicky
Alongside is the Stadium The previous world record of were Athletle and Halt
extraordinary be at the wheel of a two litre City diew - In the English 143 kilos was set up by Russia's Deputy Prime Minister of New Barry Jordan, played at inside to be the gymnastics in the ruins the Marbles, an
Arkadly Vorobiev during the Zealand, and Messrs R. Aird and left and got the ony goal of the of the Baths of Caracalla,
monument of Fascist architec- being unde- 1957 World Championships at A. H. H. Gilligan of the MCC maleb--Holbutl
Leated. Teheran-France-Presse.
Collins will compete Formula One race and Hawthorn
in the
HOME SOCCER
RESULT
It was also announced here
that Italy's Lalg Musso would
in the sports car event.
Oldham
today.
Ferrari in the Naples Grand League Third Division North
27-France-nutch Prix
May Pressc.
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MANDRAKe the maGICIAN
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MR. MESHULTZ
JOHNNY, DARLING?
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PHOOEY-- I THOUGHT THIS WAS MY BEST
DISGUISE
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But many of the large marble structures designed for it by the Fascist government were already half completed who war pat nei end to work.
Rows of marble steps, used Unless last minule technical as seats, murround an oval arena dimrullies cause a change of big enough for light athletics plan, the gymnasts will compete and such games aa. hockey. possible, and the satellite city's on a colossal singe erected in Around the outer edge stands a one of the arches which spanned row of giant marble figures re-
They have now beca finished, less pompous style whenever public a.nenities will be com-
the pleted when
magnificent
the baths, themselves the size presenting all forms of sport.now Olympic installations.
built.
of a village.
will The post-war Christian Spectators watch from scats backing on to erat Government the lovely Aventine hill.
Half mile away, wrestlers will be competing in the ruins of the Basilica of Maxentius, the largest surviving stadium in the Roman Forum.
Here the spectators will be hacked by the historic Palatine Hil, crowned by the great brick archies of the palaces of the Caesars,
Demo-
aro
ordered that With the Aim of making all money
on Epent
the their obtrusive nakedness, low- the
a permanent invest- ering over the dwarfed specta- Olympics
be shielded by marble mont for Rome, the organizers lors,
have planned
Olympic gleaves,
Village less than two miles A few yards away, a series of from the city centre ultra-modern, inter-connected After the Games it will bo- baths, running parallel with the some the home of hundreds of Tiber, will allow 20,000 specta- civil servants. tors to watch the aquatic events of the Olympics in exceptional comfort and beauty.
The village is designed as a series of two and three-storey apartment buildings, containing
The Marathon. race, directly-Across the river, close by the a total of 4,500 rooms divided derived from ancient Greece, Little Sports Palace, the new into homes of three, four or five will start nearby on the Capitol Flaminian football dadium is rooms. There will be accam- Hill, the centre of the city of rising on the ruins of one built modation here for 8,000 athletes, Home for 2,710 years, and will
some 60 years ago. This, like with spare rooms for team "und by the "Arch of Constantine most of the other new buildings, meetings, masseurs, doctors and to the shadow of the Coliseum.
will incorporate the ideas of the so on, The Renaissance will provide genius of modern Italian archi-. The athletes will sleep two in
setting for
a room and each group of a most of the tecture, Pier Luigi Nervi, An equestrian events. They will engineer and not an architect, dozen or so will probably have be held in the perfect oval of | Nervi's Uso of prefabricated a small kitchen for une the Plezza di Siena, under the concrete elements has contribu- needed,--China Mail Special, shade of lowering umbrella pincs
the
Probables For Free Handicap Sweepstakes
Lorden, Apr. 15. Probable runners and Jockeys
for the Free Handicap Sweep
over seven stakes, to be run furlongs at Newmarket tomorrow at 1500 GMT, are:
Vestal King (E. Eritt). Lavandier (J. Mercer). Cool Debate (D. Ryan). Oltaye (J. Purtell), Hope Arose (F. Derr). Supreme Joy (W, H. Carr). Kingroy (B. Swift).
Gelngawn (D. Smith). Masquerade (A. Breasley).
Caponcina (E. Mercer). Cocked Hat (G. Lewis), Elaha (E, Hide).
Forensic (F. Barlow). Faultless Speech (E. Smith). Proud Galleon (W. SnaRh)--- Reuler.
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