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THE CHINA MÀIL, SATURDAY, JULY, 20, 1959.
SPORTS SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT
QUIZ
1. Which butsman has scored five centuries in successive Test Innings?
2. Which country has scored the most wins in the Canada Cup Golf tournament.7
3. Which sport was once called
"Jeu de Paume"?
4. Who was the Ingli non- American to hold the world heavyweight boxing title?
6. Which was the only world heavyweight title fight to officially declared a
draw?
6. Who was the first Whimble- den men's' singles champion to turn professional?
7. Only two left handers have won the Wimbledon
men's singles tile Name one of them.
6. The last series of America's
- Cup yacht races was held in 1037. Name ong of the two yuchla which took pari,
9. With what sports do you
associate (a) the Marquesa
of Queensbury, (b) the
Marquess of Exeter (formerly Lord Burghley)?
10, "Born
ID14
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of
York Yankers for 25,000 dollars ....selected as the Ameri- can League's most valuable player....former husband
of Marilyn Monroe," What's the remot
THAT ELUSIVE FIFTH WIN
four
י'
the
Hore is something for the lawn bowls records.
Edward Jones has won singles championship of Wales times. Percy Baker has Gone the same in England; so has J. Irving in Scotland, G. W. Cooper in Ireland, Glyn Bosisto In Australia and Sylvia Dyne in South Africa (on the women's side.)
rational Nobody among the champions has yet set up a
cord of five wins. except the inte U. M. Omar of Hongkong who won the Colony singles title in 1923, 1031, 1937, 1030 and 1940,
SPORTING SAM
by Reg. Wootton
Concluding Our Wimbledon Series Drama Of The Centre Court
!
THE FALL OF THE
GREAT BILL TILDEN
The Centre Court scoreboard reads: 6-2, 6-4, 5-1. Reporters were finishing their accounts of the match. Spectators were filtering out towards the, tea rooms. The 1927 Wimbledon men's singles semi-final seemed almost over.
In fact, the battle was just beginning.
The winning shot, apparently so close at hand, was not delivered until
one hour later-after 25 more games of thrills and suspense.
Two Of Greatest
Our Lawn
Us
Lawn Bowlers. Have Done Proud At Cardiff
By I. M. MACTAVISH
The Hongkong Lawn Bowls Association has already been well rowarded for its enterprise in sending a full team to the Empire and Commonwealth Games at Cardiff.
Our bowlers have done the Colony proud and they have surely repaid everyone who worked so hard to make their journey possible. In each of the three competitions our repre- sentatives have won without arrogance or have lost grace- fully and there is not the slightest doubt that they have established themselves as competent players and fine sportsmen.
The team has scored several spectacular victories against the powerful representative sides of big countries and the showings of Eric Lid- dell in the Singles and of Raoul Luz and his colleagues in the Rinks have placed Hongkong's name Indelibly in the minds of bowlers the world over.
When one considers the con- trast in clretimstanceя between
*
youngster
would surely gain and should be an. Inspiration while others think that he was to the younger readers for whom the potential strengths of the so for out of Empire Games class It is primarily designed, varlow competing nations the that it was not in the best in- real value of our achievements terrats of Honglong-or himself the carry accurately ap--that he should can be pretty
Colony, colours. preciated.
basin.
There has not been a single
That is all a matter of opinion or attitude and is really some- thing for the HKAAA to decide, viewpoint, It has to be admitted but, from a purely impartint that on the surface at least it been not from his participa- tion at Cardiff.
1
A Strange Book
In many ways la a strange.' book. But, to those of you who have read the works of other Creat football names in the this, of all to the overall im United Kingdom, the strangest
pression which lasts oven after
chapter.
For this was the most re-fident giant who could blast his. He took the set-and match markable match ever played on opponent off court with cannon-8-3. the... famous Centra Court... In bill services and sizzling ground i The seesaw sem-final ended with "Tilden the Terrible" lying eighty-one years of Wimbledon strokes.
It has beenS most interesting Championships na tonnia duel
"The American played over on the ground after a desperate, to read the different reports from has provided such rich entertain-whelming tennis to take the first fruitless dive to retrieve a cross-
the news agencies who have ment in terms of drama and two sets 6-2, 6-4. And the third court drive. The American's been covering the bowls, section classic stroke-play.
set developed into a slaughter domination of world tennis had of the Games on a world-wide us, with aces and clinik-raising come to an end. drives, he made the socom- What happened to Tilden? "But then this was a clash be- I pilshed Cochet look like a help- Why did he fall so suddenly after adverse word in any report of dioult to see what benefit has you have finished the final
coming within three points of tween two of the greatest less novice.
Cochet was famous for staging victory? players of all time: 26-year-old
habit He made
This teanis mystery has never Loons, France, come-backs, Henri Cochet
extricating and 34-year-old William Tatem of
himselt trum really been solved. Pertiapa he Tikden of Philadelphia, USA. seemingly imposible situations. relaxed his grip through over-
tall and But Tilden now led by two sols confidence, a fatal thing to Tilden, over 6ft.
und 5-1.
against a man like Cachet always known as "Big BUI", be-
Only a superman, could Live Perhaps he was not fit enough came the first American to win Wimbledon in 1920. He retained on court with the American in to last the pace. Perhaps he was ile in 1921 and he was a such devastating form-His Arst put out of his strike by the way
travelling
into his an Cochet stood right member of the American
team service,
catimated 124 mph, rarely service to take an early ball. which won the Davis Cup from failed. His ground strokes were
After the match Tilden sald preci- that Cochet deserved the highest But now the tide scoaned to be placed with micrometer
praise. But he claimed that he turning France's "Four Bion.
had lost the maten rather than
the
-1920-26,
at
Amazing Reversal that Cochet had won it.
grand efforts deserve.
Not So Well
our matches and whatever the
it seems Edwards,
to mo, the various
unconsciously betrays the feel final placings In
be
ing that he has not repaid in competitions may be it is to hoped that when the bowlers re-
full his Indebtedness to the turn to the Colony the sporting
He seemed to feel he - community in general, and the
My article last week game.
Full owed it something for all lawn bowls fraternity in par about the accusations which the pleasure and prestige it had ticular, will rally round and give have been levelled against given him them the sort of welcome their one of the Colony represen How different that attitude bleatings of some tatives in the recent Asian is from the
of his predecessors who never Games in Tokyo set a few falled to give the Impression If winning medals is a criterion sporting cats among many that it was football which owed
sporting pidgeons.
something to them for their contribution to it. our fencers have not done very well but few will deny that our
For the benefit of the guess OKU In his all too short career in younger representatives have let me say quite categorically the game Edwards met the dominated tho Wimbledon reversal, Tiden began making A Worthy Championed invaluable experience by that the person concerned is not great stars of many countries.
while $535 Chumpionships for the past three erzorg
chossing swords with the best a footballer and neither is he a Ho scoms to have derived the. years. And they threatened to buck in thist eleventh hour with Two days later, Cochet proved exponents of their art in the football omcial. That should greatest possible pleasure from break Golf Putter
the Americans seven vicious drives and volleys to win himself a worthy champion when length and breadth of the Com-low a few arguments to be these meetings and in his books year monopoly of the Davis Cup, point after point, game after he won the not in the same
Against Lacoste in the
settled although those who have he has nothing but good to say 1026
way. After trallag two sets
It has long been said that par- been chipping in with the in- of the colleagues and opponents. Davis Cup challenge round, Seventeen successive points and being 2-5 down in the final Tilden suffered his first major went to the little Frenchman. He set, he saved six match points to
formation that all was not well he encountered on his climb to. recovered from 1-6 to take the beat Jean Borotra, the man who
in the Hongkong footboll camp soccer stardom. during the visit to Japan are third act 7-5, and he drew ahead had knocked him out in
Wimbledon comi-finals of 1925
right in assuming that the HKFA the fourth.
hos also had certain aspects of the tour under official examina- tion,
Missing - A
A golf puiter in gold with a 1,500-dollar (£535) diamond
Musketeers"-Borotra, Brugnon, Cocliot and Lacoste nad
Then come an amazing
garne.
set into its head has been re-defeat at singles for six years. ported missing in New Orleans. In the Amerkan Championships
i was left in a cocktail lounge of that year he was knocked out 4-2 by golt professional Floyd Rood, president of the National Youth Foundation, who had the putler made as a gift for President
Eisenhower.
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In the French Championships he trounced Cochet in the so- Anol-9-7, 6-3, 6-2. In the final, after gaining match points, he went down-4-6, 6-4, 7-5, 3-6, 3-11 to Lacoste,
Such was the background to
Cochet atormed
the
Thus the Frenchman main
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Not The Situation
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Log this humble story by'a great sportsman. There could have been no more Alting
of the quarter-finals by Cochet, Tilden freshened himself by and 1920,
Edwards death, after the air At just "Big Bul" Tiden faced | pouring jugs of water over his!
crash which took such heavy: serious challenge. So, in 1927, head and then fought back to tained their stranglehold on the
They represent a body of men
toll of the brilliant Manchester. --and women who are brim- the lanky Philadelphian invaded make it four-all. But he could Wimbledon title, They went on
Unlied team,
terrible Europe to avenge his defeats and not stop Cochet whose confidence to win the Davis Cup from the
fox with enthusiasm for their
blow to England as well as to.! restore his prestige.
and forcefulness seemed to In-Amerienna and to hold it for the
sport and who vo about their crease with every stroke.
next six years,
That was not, however, the his club, for there is Httle with on After
effervescent situation to which I referred in doubt that he was the man Tilden lost that sot 4-6.
the scriptional 1937 affairs
experts freshness that is good to sec.
I understand my carmarked to take over from many In the fifth and final sel, the Championships,
The Fencing Association has my article. American pressed hard to gain believed that Tilden was too old hem forlimate in having-a-suc-revelation has dimulated cer- Billy Wright as captain of his
the title again;' hia 3-2 load. But he did not wing win
failures in the 1929 and 1928 cession of natural leaders each tuin pulcinis into the realisation country.
that a publie statement would The manuscript of his book another game.
this imbued with the conviction that be in the best interest of both supported Tilden, who possessed ibreo Wimbledons
was handed to the publishara of Manchester 1927 Wimbledon. It ensured kinds of services and a variety belief. Yet in 1930 he astonished there is no other sport quite as the individual and the asocia on the eve
the old fashioned backhand the tennis world by winning, the Wonderful as and that the Centre Court would be of forehand packed on semi-finala days for Flyles, went through his full title for the third time at the art of thrust and parry. The ion concerned For that reason United's departure for Munich Brewers and the Williams and lone it was well worth the time and it was only after long con- sultations with those closest to 1st Division: CCC v KBGC, the reappearance of Tiden the repertoire to find the answer to age of 37.
Today William Tilden is their like have communicated spent in writing it. champion Cochet. He could find nothing, IRC
Simple situations have a bad Duncan that it was decided to Recreio A. Koc › KÜL. | Terrible", the world
the their spirit to those who have TC v CCC “A”,
While the American tried out generally recognised as 2nd Division: FC "g" V
Inc. for the past seven years.
are dooth. Could he ✓ FC "A", HIKFC -V, KCC,
now resist the his five-finger HKCC
exercise, the greatest player of all time, He followed them in, office and, in habit of becoming complicated allow it to be issued after his
the and distorted when
they faces, PSA KDC, PRC Recreio. powerful challenge
the Frenchman went through a com- was
Quite apart from the fact that times American spite of changing of
sever "Muketeers" Or was he, at 34, | plete tennis concerto.
champion. He played in every grand old sport has gone from wrapped in a shroud of secrecy
the proceeds of its sale will and the sooner the present un a successful Cochet, playing with typical Davis Cup challenge round be strength to strength with a rast savoury matter is cleared, up, benefit the dependants of the too old to make
the tween 1020 and 1930. He was healthy interest being stimulated and the public is taken into the Munich tragedy it would have come-back in Wimbledon after nonchalance, had become an absence of six years?
maestro. Looking much
the the United States No. 1. for ten among the younger
confidence of those who are sit been wrong-Erribly wrong sportsmen. The answers sceneá obvious atter man, ho attacked Tilder's years.
In the words of H. W. "Bunny" The international competition ting in judgment, the better it to have donled the football! before the semi-final. was one service thunderbolts and became
public the opportunity of read- hour old. It was still Tiden the Arst opponnet to stem the Austku "He was equipped with which they have encountered at will be for all concerned.
surely, have done the Terrible", the lithe and con- | American's attack from tho net. a wider range of afrokee than Card will
any other player. Ho had a shot mud to give them not only an for every emergency, a reply to accurate evaluation of their pre every attack launched against etion of what they must do to read Tackle Soccer This which he could not conceal in
sent standard but also a clear.
I have just been privileged memorial to Duncan Extwarda than the honesty of purpose him."
aro Way by the late Duncan this expression of his gratitude Edwards of Manchester for all the pleasure he found in United and England and the simple pursuit of trying one of the victims of theo play football just a little
batter than the next man. · tragic air crush at Munich. If you are a collector of books Here is a book which every on port or if you are just He made a fortune as the Ast One can only hope that these follower of football whatever one of these people who like Wimbledon champion to turn young blades professional and he went on homo fired with the determind his nationality or colour should reading a bubbling bouncing playing until he was 60. He died tion to put into practice the les-possess. It is a refreshing a book that is an light and as twb years later in 1953.
Adry they have learned in Wales, perience to read it and the satisfying as the finest puff
then get hold of, Lumberjack Bert Thomos, and pacer him in a boat on Hori Cochet, who won the If they can do that, sad if they pages simply ooze the bubbling pastry
of a wonderful Teckie Soccer. This Way" by of Portland, Oregon, has his practice swims.
Wimbledon title again in 1929, le one, also impact something of personality been offered £1,000 ho
every you start it" "you", won't put it Bort Thomas, 20st., 6: now a Chevalier of the Legion of their experiepods to their col-player who openly admits he the late Thuncan Edwards Onco
still a leagues in the sport, then their loved every minute of Honour, and at 56,
down until you finish the last swima the English Channel 1in., and 32 yours old,, says brilliant sonnis player.
long journey will not have been game he played.
books In recent times
by chapter, Its that kind of i a both ways non-stop. But he he has swum distances
He has talcote his place in wuted. more than 40 miles on six Wimbledon tutory as an all- There so very mixed feelings sporting figures have often bean book says the offer is an insult.
THIS Some ("TACKLE SOCCER occasions.
court gonlus adiā the man who in the Colony rogating the bitter, challenging" and If he accopts
to include young Hmes controversial documents WAY BY DUNCAN would never give up. For in 1997 decision he iwloo proved the wisdom of Kangady-pton in the official but big Duncan · Edwards Els EDWARDS 18 FUBLISHED BY Camp King, Billy Butlin, wager I reckon he will lose the saying than a match to dryer too. One side says it was worth written one that is always con- STANLEY PAUL OF LONDON has wagered £1,000 - to *
Jost until it is frome.
It for the experience the structive, devoid of scrimony, AT 10/5d.), poany that Thomai can't. make it. And those attrac- tive
odds --- 240,000 to ong-have made the Amaj)- can swimmer hopping mad. Says Thomas: "I haven't come all the way from Oregon, to be insulted like. this. If Butlin wants to talk real money---say
odds of only 100,000 to one-we'! take him on.”***
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