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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1958.
Remarkable Swimming By
By 17-Year-Old
Scottish Boy
AMERICAN BASEBALL REVIEW
Yankees, Milwaukees
IAN BLACK SMASHES TWO EUROPEAN Top American, National
MEET RECORDS
New Times Set In 400
Metres
200
Freestyle And Metres Butterfly
Budapest, Sept. 2.
A 17-year-old Scottish boy, lan Black, put up a remarkable showing in the third day of the European swimming championships here today, breaking two records for the championships in two events.
Black had three swims today and appeared to be completely tireless. In the morning, with a time of 4 minutes, 28.9 seconds, he cracked the championship 400 metres free- style record. (The previous record was held by France's Alex Jany with 4 minutes, 35.2 seconds).
200
1 The affes on, Black broke) the mat ikke the butterly stroke #championship record for the and would juobably not own aneire butterfly stroke | The Mad of this event. whets he clocked 2 mitute, 21.8 Fungaly seconds (Turupt of held the
2 minutes. Ford in
32 2 seterbay.
The Scottish fast then put up an excellent priformance in th
four times 200 metes relay rave
"1 want to keep all my serves for the fuo metres free- riyle final, where I have a tough opponent
the Russlun Nizitin," he explained,
Black's ballant performances,
.
INDIA WANTS
TO KNOW HOW SOUTH CHINA
and was chiefly responsible for all three set up in preliminary MANAGED TO
qualifying the British teant for hexts, somewhat peat into the
the fo.
and
jshade the day's two nnals—the au A.F.P. cor- men's springboard diving Black tuld respondent this evening at be the women's 200 metres breast-
strikke.
Manchester United To Abide By
Exciting Race
The lafter vas a very +'X- eifing race. All tre medal whayers stashed the Champion- ship record,
Adil
world
FA Decision equaled the
Lotion, Sept. 2. The Brard of Directors of the Manchester TyLite! Futball tean decided to peerpt the First- tish Football Association con- sultative committeds recision agulust the club's participation in this season's European Fozi- ball Cup.
Manchester United, the team
tha decimusten to the Munich air disaster kist winter, had ben anvited exceptionally by 1 organisers to take part in This season's Europan Cup --- although they had not qualified
Podlasia who
Den Haida, record Noider record in yesterity, led all the way to
2 min 62 win in
sees. She elipped, metary three seonds off previous best of 2:54. by West Germany's Braula Happe.
Half a Winth Behiral, e ane Britain, Anita Lansbrough in 2:53.5, and hard wat Wiltrad Urselatan, of Wen Gorruny,
2:53.8.
i
Came From Behind
The only her Brat dauka today was the men's spring-
buza diving event win fav Laszlo Ujvari, of Hungary, when after lying third we the end of
in the normal way by whinge send-linals, come from be the national first division cham- bid to elinch the altle with planship last season,
The English Football Assocha-
lus, but dive.
Rored
Russia sei
141.17 points.
Borst Bestrat
Germany.
Ad
tion hud changed their minds silver metalles several Bmes on the question of, or West whether Manchester United 9.77 and thir WB: Komal Sabuld play in the European Brener, of Rio, with 13939 Cup or not, Last Saturday, the Association's consultative com- litre finally decided against participation
the Club's and Board of Directors decidal
bide by this decision after
today, two-hour mvoting France-PresK.
tu
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championship record in the men's 4 x 200 metres free style relay heat
with a tinn of intrs: 37.3 sees. The previous record
was set by Hungary in 1954. France-Presse and Reuter.
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New Delhi, Sept. 2. The Indian Government is enquiring into how the South China football team
Britain's Top Racing Men At Conference
Britain's top racing drivers and the men who make their cars got together last Thursday in London to consider the future of motor racing.
They decided to press for the continuance of the present Formula 1 (two-and-a-half litre) limits when the International Commission on the sports meets in Milan this week,
They rejected the comments of world champion Juan Fangio after Peter Collins was killed in this year's German Grand Prix that racing cars have become too light and too fast.
Getting together at the meeting are, from left, drivers Stirling Moss, Reg Parnell and Mike Hawthorn. -London Express Photo.
from Hongkong obtained U.S. Singles Tennis C'ships
Indian transit vises en- abling them to land in Bombay, official sources
said here tonight,
The team landed on Saturday. after touring Mauritius and Madagascar. expecting tu slage matches against Indian tooms in Bombay and Cul- cutta on invitations from the Ail-tulin Football Federation. The Government refused to allow the matches.
NATIONALIST PASSPORT Official sources said it had been laund that al least one members of the team Chinese Nationalist, samsports
und had represented
to
at the recent Asian Games, Because Indian recognises only the Communist Chinese Governmen, the holders of Nationalist passports are not normally allowed entry Indio.
Officials
thc eritlelsext
All- India Football Federation for inviting the Hongkong taun without asking the Govern ment's advice,
Federation appeals to the Gov- ernment to allow the teanu to play have been, turned
down.
reports, the Hongkong Football AssoTM cintion has informed the Indian Federation of its in tention to complain to the International Football Federallon-Reuter,
According to Bombay
SPORT IS SPORT
Calcutta, Sept. 2. The Hongkong team manager
Bir Ho Yue khong sai phalically that all his players Hongkong. and added that "sport is sport and
Arc
from
Dick Savitt Becomes
First
American To Enter Quarter-Finals
ONE UPSET IN WOMEN'S DIVISION
Big
By STEVE SNIDER
Forest Hills, Sept. 2. Dick Savitt, 31 year-old businessman, clouted his way into the quarter-finals of the U.S. Tennis Singles Championship today with Ashley Cooper and southpaw Neale Fraser of Australia and Alex Olmedo of Peru.
the
The eighth-seeded Savitt, seeded Ann Haydon of Great hard-pressed ali the way, Britain. 8-6, 10-8. as she led austed Rod Laver, 20-year-old | three other girts Into Australi:ut left-hander. 8-0. quarter-finals. 9-7, 6-4, and became the first American to reach the round of eight.
Fraser, seeded fourth in the oul Grint draw, knockod Golden of the U.S.. 6-4, 6-1. | 6-4, and Olmedo, sceded sixth.
downed Lesile Longshore the U.S., -2, 6-3, 0-3. Fraser and Olmedo meet in the next round, probably Thurs- dny."
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Cooper, the Wimbledon cham- plon, advanced with a 6-1, 5-2, 0-4 victory over Myron (Mike) Franks, of the US.
Vic Seixas, America's top | ranking player but unseeded in the draw, moved into the fourth round with a comeback victory over Jackie Douglas of the U.S., 4-6, 10-8, 04, 0-4.
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Only Upset
Second-seeded Dorothy #lead Knode made it by trimming Margaret Varner of the U.S., 0-2, 0-3.
Jeanne Arth defeated Katherine Hubbell, 6-1. 0-1, in an all-U.S. match.
Sally Arm Moore, sender sixth. Trounced Mrs Mary Hawton of Australia, 6-0, 6-2. and meets Mis Hard in the next round,
Not Impressive
Arrangements
For 1958 Colony Lawn Bowls Championships
Leagues By Comfortable Margins
New York, Sept. 2. Labour Day has come and gone and the old base
ball tradition indicating that teams leading the leagues on that day will be the eventual Pennant winners, seems to have little chance of being broken this year. The Yankees in the American League and Mil- waukees in the National with only 22 games left to play, are leading by comfortable mar- gins,
The New Yorkers have an 1 Mickey Mantle of the Yankees 11% lead over second place with 37 and Rocky Colavito of Chiengo, while Fred Haney's Cleveland and Foy Sveivers work champlons are 7 ganies with 34 each, were the homerun ahead of San Francisco,
lenders 11: the American League.
The Glans lap-frogged over the faltering Pittsburgh Pirates over the week-crxi to take possession of the FUMRT-UP spot.
Main Interest
Moin interest is now centred it the ght for second place in both major leagues.
Jackie Jensen of the Red Sox lead the RBI department in the American Loogue with 110, while Banks held leadership in the National with 112.
Standings
The standings after the double-headers of Labour Day, September 1, 1858 were:-
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boskon
In the American League, he Borton Red Sox, who divided the holiday double-hender with the faltering Yankees, were only one game behind the White Sox, New York with the surprising Baltimore Chicago Orioles in fourth place, three full games out of third.
The annual meeting to make Baltimore
Detroit arrangements for the world series has been called for September 9 Cleveland
Kansas City in Chicago, and will be attended by teams having a "mathema-
Washington fical chance of wirming. But reservations are already being made in Milwaukee and New York hotela
Fall for the big classic.
The following arrangements Batting Leadership
are made for the closing stages of the Men's pairs semi-final, Ladies' pairs anal and Merv's singles fioul events of the Hong kong Lawn Bowls Association 1058 Colony Chumplanships:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Men's Fairs Semi-final At Hongkong Cricket Club at 4 p.m. P. H. Shaw and F. 0.
NATIONAL
Milwaukee San Tonelsco Pittsburgh Cincinnati
Win Lost Pet!
01 51 .014
49 02 $27
07 02.519
04 65 .496
83 60 488
04 60 4.86
59 71 454
54 76 420
LEAGUE Win Lost Pel 78 54 .501 70 01 .574 40 02 .527
85 DEL ,489
St. Louis
42.68 .477
Los Angelea
01 00 .400
of Chicago
01
73 .459
of
Harvey Kuenn of Detroit took over the Batting leadership the American Lengte during the Philadelphia week from Pele Runnels Boston, Runnels, hities in 10 the trips to the phite against Yankees yesterday, fell to .321 while Kuenn advanced to .325.
In
National League Stan
Musleul regained the leadership.
53 10 .458
-France-Presse.
ENGLISH
madar (CCC) vs J. Chubb and The Cardinal star is batting 330, FOOTBALL
T. E. Baker (KCC).
A Kowloon Cricket Club at followed by Richie Ashburn of 4 pm L. A. Marques und A. Aaron of Milwaukee with 337. Philadelphia with .338 and Hank B. Marques (Rec) vs E. G. Willie Mays of the Giants at Bartos and F. Les (CCC),
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Ladies' Pairs Final
At Hongkong Cricket Club at
4 pan! Mrs S. Silya and Miss
335 malces the fourth candidate for top honours in a hot batting racc.
H. Kwong (CCC) vs Mrs M. Behind Ruth's Mark
Ain and Mrs D. Baker (KCC).
RESULTS
London, Sept. 2. Results of today's Englian football matches were:
Burnley
Bristol City 3 Barnsley
Divining III Brentford 0 Doncaster
Division IV
Ernlo Banks of Chicago, leads Men's Singles Final
both leagues in home runs with At Kowloon Bowling Green 42, but he fell behind the pace Club al 4 p.m.; F. H. Kermani | set by Babe Ruth in 1037, the (KCC or L. M. Hemedios year he set the mark of 60 (Ree) vs A. K. Minu (IRC) or homers in one season. Banks Southport C. Gough (PRC).
did not hit one all week.
Division I
3 Arsenal Division II
1
1
1
༑
-Reuter.
1 York City
VIM AND COLUMBIA WIN
FIRST OF THREE PRE-CUP. TRIAL RACES Final Winner To Race Against Sceptre In Yachting Classic
Newport, Sept. 2.
Vim and Columbia won their respective rounds today in the first of three
pre-America's Cup race final trial runs off Newport.
Neither. Savitt nor the Peru- vian Oledo, who has been mentioned as a U.S. Davis Cup-
Vim, because of his long re- per
owned by. Henry race trials. The Cup cominiftes | in 3:01.20 compared with sidence in Califonia, were ha- Matthews of Rye, New York, has until September 13 to de- 3:55.25 against the boat of pressive
Columbin even in straight set and
belonging to cide which yacht will meet the Arthur Knapp Jr. of Larch- victories.
Henry Scars of Grenwich,"Con- Scepire in a best-al-seven Cup mont, New York. Fruser won in
મો breeze Decticut, beat Easterner unterles. against Golden, sticking to the Weatherly, respectively, over u back court except when neces- 24-mile
while Cooper,
COLEVAN seeded
Bary,
it is a plly that politics are imported into sport," in reply
second to defending champion Indian Government's to the suspicion that the team in- cludes players trom
mosa.
For
witulward-lecward
in
The Sceptre also worked out today but did not race. It woo raced by the Gleem, a yacht on WORK-OUT BY SCEPTRE Mat Anderson. of Australia, was
loan from a New York club. exceptionally sharp against Another race tomorrow and The Vim completed today's Franks without exerting any a third run later this month two-times-around course effort..
wil determine which of the three hours 56 and Seixas, who'll next meet four yachin will represent the hundredths minutes compared Mike Green of Miami before he United States in the defrace gf to 3:59.04 for Easterner, the can get a crack at Cooper, fell the Amrica's Cup nenins the entry of Chandler Hover of victim to a deceptive backhand British contender, Sceptre, on Boston,
but regained September 20 phot by Douglas his touch in time to hamuner
Kult Schmidt of Sweden, also round behind, like Seixas, the fourth round by made downing U.S. Juntor champ Erl Buchholz, 10-17, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, and meets Ham Richardson to Association marrow with a berth in the Indian Football
officials made a last effort to- quarter-finals at stake. day to get the indian govern- The only upset of the long ment to change its stand, but day came in the Women's divÍ“ had no luck, and the Hongkong (sìòn when Darlene Hand of the team will go to Burma tamor-U.S., runner-up at Wimbledon row to play three exhibition | two years ago, eliminated third- out a four-set" victory.-U.P.I. games. Four games had been
chechiled for India, two each
in Bombay and Calcutta.
"The decision causes us a heavy financial loss," said Kwong, "We were guaranteed 22,000 (US$5,500) for our rupecs cames here, and worse stil, we are very unhappy because we were denied the opportunity to play against India, which has seat teams to Hongkong pre- viously.-France-Presse.
(Mr R. M. Oper. Becretary of the longkang Football Assopia- tou, told the China Mall Mia morning that no action, whil apever, has been taken by the HKFA with regard to Bould China's CADORIÍnd neusvammoin India and that no docidota OKA KILO melter on be made until the peat Courell Miceling of Asortationűporta Bi.)
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Columbla, racing only against Today marked the beginning of the final series of pre-Cup the Weatherly, made the
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Fun
PRESIDENT MAY ATTEND
Actually, Columbia Rad
made Westerly both
Bettor times than the Vim though the boats raced only in palts.
Today's pre-Cup race trial was sailed under fair aķțies and a nearly calm sea.
At Fort Adaaw, While House news secretary James Hagerty announced that
vacationipe President Elsenhower planned to watch at least one of the. Cup races-U.P.L
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