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THE CHINA MAIL,
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1958.
Cardiff Prepares For Empire Games
CONFIDENT OF MAKING THEM THE BIGGEST AND MÖST
SUCCESSFUL EVER
By BASIL CARDEW
London.
Cardiff. Arms Park, national centre of Welsh rugby, has been invaded by an army of workmon during the last two weeks. Their task is to convert the famous rugby ground into an athletics stadium.
It will be a frantic race against time. For in ten weeks the ground must be ready for the opening of the Sixth British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
On July 18th. Prince Philip will take the salute there at a march past of competitors from
with 37 countries. Gurs
be fired; 10,000 pigeons will be released: a choir of 500 Welsh voices will burst into sot: -- and the biggest-ever Common- wealth festival of sport will be on.
The task of preparing Cardiff Arms Park as the Main Stadium is the most important job facing the organikers. It could not be tackled until now battle with the keen rugby types whose season has just ended.
without a
But the organisers are con- fident that all will be ready in time. They expect to have the new elnder track ready for telal Tuns un July 14,
Other Jobs
|
£260,000, but the final figure is Bearer £300.000, likely to u -Building costs have risen since the plans were drawn up and there has bern JI far bigger entry than anticipated.
But the organisers are fairly confident that they will be able to cover exJIENSE", LO
Voluriteer
More than committees Wales 11 busy throughout collecting donations. The Game, Souvenir back expected to bring in £20,000, television and film rights should yield another £20,000, and the sale of lekels will raise around £110,000.
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it is now
The certain thei Cardiff event will be the biggest Empire Games ever held. Tare will be 1,500 competilois and officials from 37 countries, com- pared with 500 from elever countries at the Brst Games at Hamilton, Ontario, In 1930, and
from 224 countries Other Jobs be done at 780
10 Card!!!
Arms Park
Vancouver in 1954. include building a royal box and royal the tooing, moving retiring greyhound track Inside the cinder track. and creeting thirteen miks of seating and a double scoreboard for track and fuld events,
The biggest single, construction
fur Empire Poot
the swimming and diving
n
events
has already been completed. The Poul, next to the Main Stadium, is the largest covered swimining pool in Western Europe.
2,300 han It
fur rooni spectators, and the pool itself is 65 yards long and 20 yards wide, with depths ranging frem three feet to sixteen feet and capacity.ui.639,000 gallons, The eost is roughly £700,000,
the
Other · Venues for Empire i Games events need ohly alight conversion, and work on Empire Games Village is well in hand.
The Village, at the Royal Air Force station of St Athan, 12 miles from the Welsh capital, wil be open to competitors from July 4.
It will have a track fur prac- tice, club rooms; canteens, shops, and enema, dance-Ball, post office and bank.
Financial Side
A giant thermometer" on a wall of histerie Cardif Custle shows the financial side of the British Empire Games to be in
a healthy cordilen, The turket
is £250,000 and the "mezeury"
up to the now
1s mark,
£210,000
Sold Out
Nine Commonwealth countries will or taking part for the first time. Only three have sold they cannot setal feams. These Tonga and are Tanganyika. British Honduras,
Besides
the biggest being Commonwealth festival of sport. pro- the 1958 Empire Games
be one of The most mises to
the Ticke's for successful.
and boxing events although swimming are already sokl out, the Empire Games have been given remarkably little publicity outside Wales.
Indeed, a keen Lordon speria this follower asked me only week where the Empire Games were being held this year.
Thousands of fans who went to see Empire Games events are going to be disappointed and. for their sake, the Games should last longer,
The athletic events could be six days, instead spread over nf four, without harmful effect. And the extra days would be
about £30,000 in worth
Kate money to the organisers.
.
Logical Step
I would be a logical step to s
The duration of the extend
Four days were given Games, ta athel's in Vancouver; now there are nearly twice as many competitors,
The Empire Games Fund also have been spent with mere foresight. For, apart from the splendid Empire Pool, Wales will have Title of permanent value to show for its £300.000 when the Games are finished.
Cardiff Arms Park, converted at a cost of £50,000, will be restored to its original condition as soon as the Games are over. Padarn, in Snowdonia, Like
nade intune rowing contro at a cost of £30,000, is far to0 inaccessible to by of much ave afterwards.
Wales is not rich in sporting, facilities, and the Empire Games is not likely to be sloged there for another 60 years. It seems the
mirsed Welsh have.
opportunityLondon
splendid Express.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
MANDRAKE. WHAT ARE WE LOOKING
FORT
I DON'T KNOW, SIR HARRY PAST THERE WAS THAT
"TIPAL WAVE--1
WITHOUTA
CAUSE
FERDINAND
col
Il WES originally estimated
that
The
Games would
Embarrassing
Defeat For Americans At Baseball
By M. M. GUPTA
ON
Katmandu, May 19, The Gods
lofty Mount} Everest weren't just smiling to- day they were positively laughing.
So was most of Nepal.
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All because a bunch of em- barrassed Americans lost to local team in Nepal's first game of baseball.
Baseball or at least a rea- sonable facsimile-came to this Himalayan natlan yesterday when an American team drawn from the U.2 Paint Four Ald Mistion, with Director Paul W. Rose Infielding.. and Catholic
priests from the local school;
played a Nepalese team
cap-
foined by Prince Basundhara,
King Mahendra's brother.
It was truly a Royal occasion.
ROYAL OCCASION
King Mahendra's mother threw out the first ball, and two of her sons-Besundhara and Himalayas
played for the local team. The game was sensational, The Nepalese jumped into a quick lead and held the Americans acoreless until the eighth inning. when the "Visitors" scored six runs. But it wasn't enough--- and the local team won 9-0.
The Nepalese had a terrine advantage in the speed of their Runners.
Some of the Americans. B 'their captain hinted darkly, were cerrying a little too much weight where it wai't neodod.—United TICE.
NANCY
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Stirling Mors may drive a 200 mph car in this June's 500-mile Monza Race, the fastest motor event in the world. If he is satisfied with the car, "Eldorado Special" which Maseratis are building, he will compete,
Last year, when the event was held for the first time, top international drivers boycolted it because the banked circuit was too dangerous. Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn may compete, too.
Picture shows Moss at the wheel at the Silvertone race,
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SURPRISE DECISION
Sports Round-Up IT IS TOUGH FOR THE WORLD
CUP REFEREES
*
Says W. CAPEL KIRBY World Cup referees reckon they are getting a
raw deal. Bones of contention are: (a) No match fees; (b) An expenses allowance which barely covers Infinted hotel and subsistence costs; (c) The ban on wives or other members of their families, even at their own expense!
It has always been my contention that refereen selected to legislate for the well-being and control of footballing talent worth half-n-million at present- day prices, should get a fee in keeping with the measure of their responsibility.
Why the cheese-paring any country is passing through the way? Out of the lust World |matriculation stage. My view is Cup series. F.LE.A. took (Uit England should have £30,000 ns their share of the nothing to fear from thia net profit of £225,000, the poitern weaving Russians In Kross takings #mounting to well [Moscow next Sunday, nor the over £450,000
Yugoslavs
In Belgrade this And what about the ban on afternoon. referees' wives and famillest
"Powder-pur Anishers," was It was imposed because of my description of both attacks the sensational but unfounded In the Olymple Final at Mel- reports of Mrs Arthur Ellis bourne. Russia's was so shock- und her two alurdy sons being ingly shot-shy in Australia, that threatened with reprisals after it took them extra time and w the Infamous Brazil-Hungary
bottle party at derne, then it's replay to beat Indonesia! perfectly ridiculous.
ained with the Ellis family
in a largo restaurant that night |and-can assure you none of us
were ever in any danger,
On The Carpet
It will be interesting to see whether Milutinovic (Yugo- alayla) and Edward Strellsoy (Russia) play against England. or In the World Cup series,
Both centre-forwards have had a brush with authorlly. Fur objecting to playing for the Army team after his demob, Milutinovic Was promptly hauled back into uniform and West Hartlepool, May 10. Stultish boxer Frankie Jones given a distant posting. Strell- boxed like a champion in an isov was black-listed eight-rounder here tonight but, vodka session,
the crowd neither he moved a muscle when the re- feree awarded the decision to his opponent. They were Protest
TOMORROW
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Championships Colony Boxing Send-Orials at Southern Playground.
hand of
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FARELF Individual Sabre Cham= Bonship, EYMCA. & num.
By Lee Fak and Phil Davis
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GOOD NIGHT!
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Fate hasn't been too kind to since coming Bill Livingstone South from Greenock. At Read-on Saturday, 7th June at 8 p.m.
ing he understudied Stan Wicks
at centre-half for six seasons, And don't forget Molaciwitsch
continued the role
plays this Baturday at the and later when theBridge,
The referee, after raising the Irish boxer, Malcolm McLeod, suddenly realised his
und
mistake decision.
reversed F-once-Presse.
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It seems
Book at
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Substitue "Friend and Neigh- |bours," suggests Mrs K. W.
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