THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1958,
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REVERSAL IN ENGLISH RUNNING FORM HAS BEEN STRIKING FEATURE OF EMPIRE GAMES
By ARCHIE QUICK
One facet of the British Empire Games has brought to light the curious fact that there has been an almost unseen and gradual reversal in English running form.
In the past, in world competition, England was supreme at the middle distances and woefully weak at sprinting. Not since Alistair McQuordale got to the 1948 Olympic Games sprint final at Wembley has a home man excelled in the short dashes. Indeed, one Emmanuel McDonald Bailey from the West Indies, dominated the AAA 100 yards and furlong races for years.
When the Empire Games were occupied the top platform of the rostrum while the Instituted in 1930 and continued victory
In 1934 and 1906 Sweeney, Anthem was being played? Holmea and Engichart were Where are the likes of Lowe. England's heroes in the sprints. Butler, Brown, Mountain, Reeve,
All in Between them they took five of Wooderson and Cornes? six sprint titles in the first three velipme. tournaments.
Complete 'Fade-Out'
The Old Timers
Another curiosity is the dis- appearance of the great English hurdlers, both high and low. Re- member Burghley, Gaby, Harper, Leigh-Wood, Tatham, Finlay and Hunter and Englishinen cannot but sight,
Non-European Cricket In
South Africa
Nairobi, Aug. 4, The Kenya Aslan team beat The touring South African non- European cricket eleven here today by Ove wickets,
Since 1938 it has been a come plete "fade out". Now a now era secins to be dawning with the advent of teenagers Radford and Brightwell. They are Englund's "dash" hopes for the dulure, with perhaps Segal und Young added.
You still see the old Ulmers But where are the ball inlern and. mallers who carried the round. Douglus Lowe, barrister Union Jack to victory so often? in the City, walks to business in Where nre the Hampsons, black coat and striped trousers. Parletta, Ramplings, Roberts, So does Sydney Wooderson. Guy
at with an hour lo spore. They Thomases, Bannistera, Chata Butler can always be seen ways, Piries who often leading sports, meetings with his plodded to their first 50 in 100 Ramanbhai Patel inevitable camera. R.K. Browninutes, but looks in at meets fron time to helped push up the scoring rale time from his chool-mastering by hitting 50 in 00 minutes, and
they eventually in the West Country.
target comfortably.
MCC Team To Tour Brazil, Argentina
London, Aug. 4. The M.C.C. have agreed to
to Brazil Bend
this
year
and or
* team Argentina late early next.
The party will probably leave -just before Chritmas and play
about leu matches in weeks.
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Set to score 172 for victory in five hours, the Kenya side won
reached
SMART FIELDING
the
Lord Burghley, now Marquess of Exeter, graces the Champion- ships as President, but, alas, the
Their vietary was assisted by fulr-beaded, handsome nuble-
same lapses in the field by the man, greatest of all high hurdlers
who on the Arst two (even if the times have in tourists.
ided consistently he did win two old days proved medals at the Empire Games and shirtly.
Olympics) is now one at the sadly erippled with arthritis and with walks only with difficulty slicks.
four His counterpart-in-the-low hurdles, graceful Don Finlay con always be seen in the stands Rhese days. He started his Inter- national hurdling days as an
now is RAF Sergeant and
now is a Group Sergevel and
The composition of the team has not yet been decided, will probably be an all-amateur side, like that which went to Kenya last winter-China Mall Special.
Captain,
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THE GREAT CARRIER WHERE JAMI LEFT IT-
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FERDINAND
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THE SCORES
Kenya Asi: 200 and 172 for five (Ramanbhai Patel 50, Vinod Patel 40 not out, G.-Abed-B for
).
South African non-European XI: 131 and 240 (S. N. Solomun Dedat 75, 50 nut vut. A. I. Chandrukant Patel 3 for 21), Router.
**AND LOWERS
IT GENTLY
ON THE SEA!
BAM BAM CLANG
THE FIGHT IS BRIEF, AND THEN,
RING
DONALD CAMPBELL
SHOWS
HOW
Donald Campbell held a press conference last week at the Imperial College, Kensington and explained his plans for attacks on the world speed records on water and land.
He explained details. with the aid of one-eighth scale models which have successfully completed tests in the wind tunnel.
On .
Photo shows Donald Campbell (centre) with (left) Lewis Morris and his brother Kenneth (right) holding a model of the proposed new “Bluebird”. the table are two models of the new proposed car.-Keystone Photo.
The Champions Give Their Opinions
IS GOLF STANDARD IMPROVING?
By DEREK JOHN
Golf scores in top professional tournaments have been lower than ever this year, Does it mean that and recently there have been some quite fantastic rounds. play is improving?
!
Not according to Henry Cot-{ "And I'm not a better player
Open now," says Colton. ton, three times British champion and former Ryder Cup captain.
In
GREENS RESPONSIBLE
Cotton scored a brilliant esHe balleves that-good equip-. ment and well-cared-for greens In winning the Open almpsia are responsible for the lower
hin Open championship quarter of a century ago. 1958
than total was one shot more his winnng 1940 score.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
THERS--YOU'LL BE
PLEASED TO KNOW
THE VESSEL HAS
BEEN RETURNED TO THE WATER,
UNHARMED
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
HELLO SLUGGO----
OH, I'M JUST SPENDING A QUIET EVENING
AT HOME
By Frank, Robbin
KEEP LOW. EVEN IF THEY'RE, NOT ALERTED, WE STAND ONLY A GHOST OF A CHANCE OF GETTING. OUT OF HERE /
scores.
But three top men, Dal Rees, Arimar Lees stid Poler Thomson have voleed, different opinions,
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Says Lees: "Certainly golfers mort ore better. They get
than time to practice
I ever had,"
Open champion Thomson ilver agrees. "We spend our playing golf. This sudden spell of low scoring was certain to come,"
Three months ago, Dai Rees said pre-war golfers were every bil as good. Now he is not so can't "This low scoring
Bure.
all be becsUKO of idea condi- tions," he says.
Budge Patty Beaten In Germany
Hamburg, Aug. 4. The highlight of today's second round of the German Inter- national championships was the elimination of Budge Patty by the young Australian Lien Wood. cock.
Patty was beaten 0-7, 7-5, 3-0, 0-2.
Other results were:- Haillet (France) beat Skoneki (Poland) 0-0, 6-3, 6-1,
U. Schmidt (Sweden) lost to Jonaco (Stateless) 6-7, 1-0, 2-0. Drobny (Egypt) beat J. Ulrich (Denmark) 8-6, 6-2, 8-8. S. Krishhna (India) bent Candy (Australia) 8-1, 1-8, 6-1, 0-0.
Gimeno (Spain) beat Darmont (France) 6-2, 0-0, 2-0, 6-2.
Ayala (Chile) beat Fernandez (Brazil) 3-0, 6-1, 6-1, 0-2- France-Presse,
US Prepare For America Cup Race
Newport, Auz. 4.
The four ynckis from which the United States, defender of the America Cup will be chosen are due to meet in a race here today.
They are battling for the right: to meet Britain's challenger, Sceptre, now on her way across the Atlantic in the freighter Alertiu,
The America Cup races start here on September 20,
On the Unlied States' "short Kat" for the defence of the Cup are the yachts Columbia, Vim, Easterly and Weatherly.
Over
Today's race is being safled a course of 32 miles. Columbia won a 20 miles race yesterday. Vim, last yesterday,
·won, when the four boats met Mail Saturday. China
on
Special.
Sports Diary
TODAY
Dowla
Men's Open Falts: Matches at KOC.
Division: KGC TC, 6,30
šrd Division: TC ♥ INC 5.30 p.m.
TOMORROW.
„Ladies): Open Parsi áostoties coo. bukoc. FREA
Men's Oper Palma · Matches at
American League Baseball Giants Break Losing Streak With
6-4 Win Over Cubs
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FIRST HOMER IN A MONTH
New York, Aug. 4.
Willie Mays hit his first home run in a month and scored twice today to help the San Francisco Gignts break a six-game losing streak with 6-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs, The win went to Paul Giel who came on in the third inning after the Cubs nicked Mike Mc- Cormick for four runs. Giel yielded only four hits but needed help in the last inning from Mary Grissom.
Mays, sapping out of a Bobby Thomson and Wolt hone-run slump that began on Moryn accounted for the four July 2, lined the ball into the nuns.
lett feld bleachers, in the third
inning for his 17th circuit clout Moryn's single came o of the season. The fleet Glant Olol who came on after centre elder who collected three McCormick loaded the bases. his in five frips, put the Glants It was Glol's third victory and in front 3-4 the ith inning Drote eighth defont. when he doubled, stole third base and came in with what proved to be the winning run on Bob Schimidt's single,
Unearned Runs
ruos
Pittsburgh was at Milwaukee and. Los Angeles at St Louis 'in jalgh! games--UP.L
ANOTHER 880 YARDS WIN FOR HERB ELLIOTT
Ed Bressoud contributed two hits and batted in three with one slagle and a double In the Giants' eight-hit ngsauli,
Bott clubs were treated to unearned runs on infeld errors. The Ginals gol two In the second inning when shortstop Ernie Banks missed an easy filp
White City, Aug. 4. from second baseman
Herb Tony
Elliott, of Austraila, Taylor in an attempted double after his
record run
nt White play,
City competed in another As a result, Daryl Spencer, meeting, At Watford, London, who had walked, was safe at and won again. He clocked one second and Schmid at first. minute 50.7 seconds for the 880 Both advanced on Jim Daven-yards. Port's sacrifice and scored on Bressoud'a double,
Muffed Throw
Fellow Australian Mervyn Lincoln зла British athletes Gordon Pirle and Derek Ibbot- son also crossed from the White
Bressoud muffed & throw City to take part in the meeting. from third baseman Davenport
Lincoln was fully 200 yards in
In the third inning to dych" the firönt "of ""NIE" "Wearest" "riyals" ip- gates for four unearned Chicage winning the two miles in 8 mins Piric was fourth, in runs. The error, combined with 50,4 seca. Dick Drott's single, wiid the 880 yards and Ibbotson won
McCormick by pitch
and the mile in 4 mins 17.7 secs.--- subsequent singles by Al Dark, Reuter,
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