THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1958.
SPORTING SAM
by Reg. Wootton
New
Zealanders Fast HOME SOCCER Shaping Into Form
London, Apr. 24.
The New Zealand cricket team's policy of playing a series of one-day practice matches is gradually bringing most of them into form.
At Eastbourne today, in a drawn 12-a-side game against opposition largely provided by Colonel L. C. Stevens, Mente, Playle, Reid and Darey shone in batting and Hayes took the honours with some fast bowling. Menic, the well built left-short legs, broke the back of the hander who came to England aa feirly balling by taking the first the surprise selection of the three wickets in live overs and four, demonstrated strength and only stubborn resistance by style in driving, cutting und Darcy (52) to his tummato pulling, while hitting up 04, s ved the day for the including a dozen fours, in 75 minutes.
Playle, a young batsman with attractive forcing strokes inade 65, and Reid, powerful on both sides of the wirket, felt just short of his 5.
Slevens' lean, even though it included three New
Zer Intiders
side.
scratch
The New Zeolonders, who are going to rely a good deal on four leg spin bowling. last wickefa to this form of attack fom Dr C. B. Clarke, the former West Indies Test bowler. . R. V. C. Robins, son of the former Middlesex and England
on loun, was not strong enough | player-France-Presse,
to make a serious challenge to a declurod total of 287 for eight.
Hayes, lively and recurate in bowling to four slips and two
Test Matches To Be Televised In Australia?
Melbourne, Apr, 24. Test matches between MCC ond Australia will probably be televised in Sydney and Mel- bourne next summer.
A preliminary conference of television and cricket representa- Lives us agreed tentatively on a two-hour daily telecast of the two Melbourne Tests Sydney's one.
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FIXTURES
Following are the Home soccer xtures for tomorrow:
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NewDwelle Nottingham
Portsmouth Wednesday Tottenham
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Wolves
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Swansea
v Fulham
Blackburn 1parwich
v utol R.
Limea
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Barnsley
West Ham Nutts
v Derby Coulty
Third Distan Barenguth V Brentford
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Shrewsbury
Turquay Wolfall Watford
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Bwindow Puit Vajo Plymouth Gillingham Southampton Southead Aldershot Queen's P.R Exeter
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Newport
Millwall
Brighton
Third
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Halifax
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Workington
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Bradford C.
Darlington
Mansfeld Rochdale
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Chester
Southport
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Tranmere York Wrexham
Clyde
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Stockport
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Hearts
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Moscow, Apr. 24. All tickets have already been sold for the two Soviet Union - United States basketball matches to be played here tomorrow and Saturday, and 15,000 spactators will turn up to watch both games. The American Wonen's teams have been train-Mor Hing in Moscow for the past three--St-Johnstone
Stenh*muir days. Their line-ups will be as
Strasser follows:
Men:
men's
and
Budy Haldorson, Bol Dick Boushike angherard, (three members of the US win- Olympic team), Joe Dean,
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BRITISH TENNIS
Last Foreign Competitor Eliminated
LAWN BOWLS
24 Nations In European Zone Davis Cup Competition three-day informing
London, Apr. 24. Five International Tennis contasts starting tomorrow will open tho 1958 European Zone Davis Cup compotition with this teams of 24 nations in the lista.
Bournemouth, Apr. 24. There wil be 'an All-British final in the women's angles of the British Hard Cour Tennis Championships here.
The last "foreign" competl. tor, America's Miss M. Arnold, after a tough was eliminated
Muljbleks, Valdis Muinjnieks, | struggle with Angela Mortimer Mugonis Valadanunis, Alexander in today's quarter finals.
Travin. Arendy Boshkarev, Mikhail Semenov, Victor Jukhov. Yuri Ozerov and Amak Alachachan,
Women: Nina Maximilianova, Inau Mare! Ola,
Lidia
THE RESULTS
The results were as follows: Surley Bloomer (Britain) bent Pat Word (Britain) 8-2, 6-3,
Christine Truman (Britain)
Alexova-Valentine-Kostinkova-vat-A,-Shilcock (Britain)_0-2, Ruisa Kuznetsova, Nina Yere 5-7, 6-3. mina, Nina Maximova and Nina Zakirova.
Ann Haydon (Britain) beat Shell Armstrong (Britain) -1, 3-0, 0-0,
Angela Mortimer (Britain)
The American teams are to ulay pther matches in Tiflis and Leningrad, before leaving the beat M. Arnold (US) 5-7, 0-3, Soviet Union for a lour of 0-1. Poland-France-Presse,
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The All-British pair of Billy Knight and J. Plekurd 'reached the finals of the men's doubles by defeating I Lee (Britain) and P. Newman (Australia) là the semi-finals by 0-4, 6-2, 6-1. All The other matches scheduled to be played today were put off because of rain.- France-Presse.
1964 OLYMPICS
Japan To Submit Formal Application To IOC
Tokyo, Apr, 24. Japan will aubmit her formal
invitation for holding the 1984
to
Owmple Games. In Tokyo the International Olymple Com- mistee on or before May 13, the Japanese Olympic Prepara- tory Committee enid today,
Á spokesman saith the invite- tion, would be the formal appli. calion for candidatum,
Mr Ryutaro Azuma, Chinnan
or the Japan Athletic Asaela. tion, said the application would be "timely" since the Inter- national Olymple Commulitco was scheduled to meet here between May 14 and 17. - Reuter.
HOME RUGBY RESULTS
London, Apr, 24, Results of Rugby Union matches played today, wero; Bridgewater 3, Bath 0. Swansea 0, Reath 4.
Notts 3, Northampton 11. Llanelly 11, Newport 0. Reuter,
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First Leoms to go into action
Sports Diary
TODAY
Tennis
tensils
Med's doubles grasscourt Det at the HKCCC treplay) a p.m.
Annual meetlog Royal Hongkong Golf Club, Deep Water Boy Club- house 0 p.m.
TRIALS AT KBGC
Final Selections
His First Hole
In One After For Cardiff May
Playing For
40 Years
On April 10 F. G. Harrison
Be Made Today
By "TOUCHER”
Presentation of Services gult prizes holed his tee shot at the 137 yard What possibly was the last series of trial
al Fanling.
TOMORROW
Racing
Happy Valley, 2 p.33.
12th Race Meeting (2nd
Boccer
17th holo at Shek O CC-it was reported that Garry was using In No. 9 fron, Garry has played
lots of golf in the past 40 years. Day) and ways this want his first hole in one. The event was duly ccle- brated in the clubhouse In the approved manner,
Int Division: RAP v Tung Wah (Club), South China v hub” (Cil).
el 3 pan.
on Friday will be Czechoslo-Police v Sing Tao 1951 all matches vakla and Yugoslavia at Zagreb, Hungary and Brazil nt Budapest, Germany and the Netherlands at Munich, Chile and Turkey at Istanbul, Egypt and Spain at Cairo, All are drawn to play first-round matches in the zone.
Arxl-
The remaining three round contests are scheduled:
and Faland at Luxembourg Luxembourg, April 26-25; India and Monaco at Monaco, April 26-28; Switzerland and Austria ot Berne, May 2-4.
Those with a chance of upselling favoured needs tre
two non-European fears who have entered the zone. They ore India annd Chile, both expected to overcome their first- respectively round opponents. Monaco and Turkey, comfor- tably.
V
Ön April 20 a match between Army and Clyllian Members of Shek was played. The Civilians won only two of the eight singles Reserve Division South Chin v Club (CIB, Police v Sing Ta (5) played in the morning but came both matchen at 330 pm.
buck strongly after lunch to win 2nd Division: Caroline
three out of the four 4-ball 3.30 pm. Gymnastle (Club) Prikona v
Joseph's Starileyi matches, with one being led, re- S 130 pm: Telephone v RAP Sei sulting in a win for the Civilians Wan (V) 3.30 pm: RAMC v
by 14 points. The match was Alteraft (ity), & puma Navy V Taikoo (Navy) 6 pan.
for the 40th Infantry Div. Shield 3rd Divion: CAT Y
Dodwell presented by Brig. Graham before Navy), 3.30 pm.: Mercantile his departure from the Celony (UV) 3.30_van; Rediffusion v Kin
Last year, Godown (HIV) p.m.
Individual results were:
Akins-Martinez To Fight For Vacant World Welter Title
New York, Apr. 24. Virgil Akins and fellow
India's second-round opposi | tion then would be Italy, beaten only by Helgium with a three American Vince Martinez will two score in last year's zone aght for the vacant World final. Naresh Kumer and Welterweight title at St Louls, Ramanathan Krishnan are power-|Missour!, on June 0, the Inter- fut players and should give the notional Boxing Club announced Italians a close contest-United here tonight, Prefa
'SUGAR RAY" TO
FIGHT IN ENGLAND
umum of
The IBC sald that
both boxers would receive 1 $30,000 (nbout £10,500) for the contest, which would be broadcast and tele- vised.
Martinez, 28, and Akins, 30, took part in a series of elimina- fion bouts after the title was vecated last September.
Carmen Basilio
relinquished
London, Apr, 24. Sugar Ray Robinson, World Middleweight Boxing Champlon, will fight in Britain later this year, according to Mr Jack
It on taking the World Middle- Solomuns, the London promoterweight Championship stan. Announcing this today, Mr Sugar Ray Robinson. Busilio Bolomone Bald he spoke to the was beaten by Robinson in a World Champion by telephone return fight in Chicago last last rightChins Mail Special. |monih-Reuter.
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matches to select Hongkong's lawn bowls representatives for the Empire Games at Cardiff from July 18 to July 26 was held at Kowloon Bowling Green Club yesterday.
The Selection Committee of the Hongkong Lawn Bowls Association are due to meet this after- noon when they will decide whether to select the team or schedule further trial pro- grammes.
Tho
but
Yesterday's trial games were with two well-drawn shots om in the form of two rink mutches the last head. Of the two skips with all the last sixteen con- Coates had slightly the better of testants taking part.
Eastman in the first half, standard on the whole Eastman was in brilliant form wus fairly good, but a great deal in the second half of the game prri in of improvement will still have and played a great
a 0-14 Is lending his If Hongkong
four from to be made
defelt to a 19-17 win. to improve on its perform- anets in the last Empire Ganies,
rink The other
game was
good There were still a consider featured by some very able number of loose and erra drawing by the two leads, Eric tie woods, and considering that Liddell and Spotty Pereira. six trial malchts' have already For A. A. Lopes of No. 2, yester-
at the Kowloon day been played
of those days Bowling Green Club, the
where he could do nothing right, green and weight by a number of yesterday's partici-getting his weight,
particularly
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trol
panto left much to be desired.
Narrow woods on the wide- Points drawing hand were invariably the order of the day for these woods and bowlers and short Umid bowling when the lie was
frequent against weTO Tcheca,
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F. de Jong
G. 1. Smart
N. P. Fox
Barton/Vaughan
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De Jong/Pulne Smart/Fox
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First Rink
was one
in the matter of
In contrast C. X. Sung was in briliant form throughout. An extremely close and keen
rech balile was
between the No. 3, 3. E. Noronha and U, A. accur-Rumjahn, and if Noronha
joyed an edge over his rival It was very slight. Raoul Luz, though not at his best, played with his usual steady gam Pereira a shade behind.
en-
Yesterday's Results
RINKS
On the Brst rink a close game was seen between the four of V. C. Bond, W. C. Younes S. Leonard and A. L, G. East. man and C. C. Ma, A. H. Seemin, M. B. Harsan, und A. E. Coates. Consistent per- formances in this match were given by W. C. Young at No. 2 and M. B. Hassan at No. 3, Both Leonard and Secin were well of their gume. Bond
A. Liddell, bowled well In the first hair of London, Apr. 24. Fleet
Mus Street
offlemally the match, but fell off-in-the-Lopes, J E Noronha, R. E. scratched from the 1,000 Guineas second half where Ma recovered Luz (skip), beat A. P. Pereira, C. K. Sung, U. A. Rumjahn, Stakes at 1100 GMT today. his drawing form.
came back C. C. Pereira (skip), 16-17 Band, however, Reuler.
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V. C. Bond, W. C. Young, S. Leonard (biluted by B. Elcheno after 13 heads), A. J... G. Eastman (skelp) beat C, c. Ma, A. II. Seemin, M. S. A. E. Coates (skip), Harsan, 10-17.
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