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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1959.
PETER MAY UNDISMAYED Henry Longhurst On Golf
Says 'Cricket Is Still A Game' On Return From Controversial Tour
London, March 23.
Despite the dismal playing record of the MCC on their tour, Peter May, the captain, was anything but dismayed when he arrived from Australia at London Airport today. "Naturally we were disappointed with the results of the Tests" he said. "But we have no excuses. We were beaten by a better side.'
"
Welsh Rugby XV
For Match
Against France
Cardiff, March 23.
The Welsh rugby union team to play France in Paris on Apri! 4 shows three changes, one of them positiond, from the side whlets recently defeated re-
Inne
He went on to pay tribute to, all his players for their excel- let team spirit. "I would emphasise Zain the #ne sporting feeling of two teams," he added. "It must have reanddad
people that cricket is still a game.“
the
Difficult Tour
May performed a deft side-
selves lo sensational ongies."
Pitches In England came in for
do same comment. "We not necessarily want faster pitches, but certainly better ones," saleu May. The slow, turning wickets of reteni, years restrict batsmen too much, with the result that individuals think in terms of 40 or 50 ps good scores, whereas hundreds
track when asked about there needed. Similarly, we are controversial point of tuuwing.
whom May
weed to total of 200 to 250 In went on to falk about county gomes. In Australia, Norman O'Neill.
the aim would be 450 to 300. couidered 40 be the best Australian Belder he had seen Denied Rumours when it came to returns from the outfeld.
The half-back pair, C. Ashton and Lloyd Williams, have taren replaced by the Newport clubs to helves, Máleolin Thomas
anci
Billy Watkins. Thonas played
The at centre against Ireland. veenney there is Blvd by Julit: Hurveli, ako of Newporte
Watkins 25, and Hurrell, 26,
ure new "aps."
The team, announced here to- night, le: T. E. Davier. J. Col- Ins
Murrell. J
M. Pakee
B
B V
D. Bebb, M. C. Thomas, Watkins, P. Promar, Mercita, D Main. R. 1. Willim 1) J. E Bartis. R.. Thomas, J. Fauti, 1. Morgan.- Neufer.
Dentist Wins St. Petersburg Golf Open
St. Petersburg, March 23. Veteran C Middlecoff, play- ing his test tournament hire undergoing an operation last
autumn. Shot a three-under-par 69 today to win the $15,000 St. Petersburg en golf tournament.
The 37-year-old dentist nicht ed with a 72-hole total of 275. and picked up top money of $2,000.
May de cali the tour
cult one. reforrlag, he said, the fact that it bad received
PETER MAY
more publicity them any he had been on previously.
to
"Australian pitches tend be fast and lively at the begin-
Glad To Be In England
New Zealand's women's hockey team leave their shoes behind as they leap Maori-style on the deck of the Rangitiki on their arrival at Southampton Inst week.
After a series of matches in Britain they go on to Amsterdam for the international tournament-london Express Photo,
ning went on May, "Moinu ARMY RUGBY
In the turf in
must be loft order that the wicket wit last six days. I won the 10ss in the first free Tests
when wouldn't have been n bad
21
ing
to use It. When 1 won it a fourth time, I decided not to tal when it would have been good thing to have done so."
SEVEN-A-SIDE
COMPETITION
The Army Inter-Unit Seven-[ a-side rugby competiitost will Army ground, Turning to a personal angle, be played at the May denied Tumours ot an Boundary Street. tomorrow, early retirement. "I pin gelling commencing at 11:00 am. married later in the month The draw for the first round; but i hope 10 bc playing Ist Legularly for Surrey after the middle of May. It is possible; What I shall begin in the match ainst India at the Oval on May 13."
Any added that he would be availible if chosen for the tour to the West Indies next winter ond that he thought he would continue in big cricket for some
3 curs,
Worrell's Book
When
May's attention was drawn to extracts published this weekend, from Frank Worrell's Look, complaining of bad language and abuse by the Sur- rey team, he answered: "I have not rear my thing about this. 7
cannot remember off "When players and reporters mix together continually for hand but people get heated in a six months, it is obvious that iratch. Thusy things are meny different views will be usually forgotten when it is all
public," said | over."
He was three strokes ahead of another "old pro, Pete Cooper; pat
before the
of Lakeland, Florida, who shot a May. "Long tans lend thein-
71 for a 278 total.
Bob Goniby, wins held a one- stroke lead going into the round, mused several short putts to gu three over par with a 75. How- the Belleville, Haoks. ever, player still was in third positing among the thuishers with a 280 total.
Tied with 282's were George Dyer, Wes Ellis Jr. and Gene Liner.-U.P.I.
Sports Diary
TODAY
Bantamweight World Title
Five other members of the
11. Minor Units "A" v. Suppers "A"
FIFTY UP
London,
On successive days this week-touching wood or, as one's parents always put it, “If we are spared" your, correspondent hopes to be: touching his cap to the crowd on attaining the half-century.
J. H. Taylor will be 88; and we shall, I hope, be exchanging our customary telegrams. "J.H." president of the Royal North Devon Golf Club at Westward Ho!, lives in a bungalow. overlooking the course where as a little boy he caddied 80 years ago..
I have been looking backing,) 105 ut Deal-and that he should through the medium of. "Golf | have contributed a long article Ulustrated." to see what golfir. the issue covering his 30th was like in the year, and birthday. His theme was "Why particularly In the week, in is the professional superior which I was born.
How Appropriate The golfers of these days were, of course, a smaller com- munity, and their zest for the Kume, their interest In new methods and other people's new courses, conveys itself in Jectiously across the gup of 50 years. What Interested one interested all.
to
the amateur?” and in elaborat- Ing it he shows rint only the quality of his own character but o, may say so, that he made an equally might have outstanding success of a golang writer,
The professional, he thinks, ewes his superiority principally. to having been through the inn as a cadele. He has seen every kind of style and method, "noting the effect of tempera- How appropriate that J.ment," and Ja "enabled to strike should have won the Open correct balance which helps championship that year with him to know that such a way
must be the correct one."
WORLD TABLE TENNIS TOURNEY
Top
Japanese Players Favourites This Year
460 PLAYERS FROM 41 NATIONS PARTICIPATING
Bonn, March 23.
11.20 a.m. Lan (FWV) Japanose players are the favourites in this year's world table
v. 1 Green Howards "A"
11,40 am. - 49 Fd Rext v. Fd Reg "A"
12 a.m.--REME v. 32 Med 5 Fd Regt "8"
12.20 p.m. Gurkha VII v.
5 Fd Regi "3"
12.40 p.m. 1 Green Howards "B" v. R.H.KDF.
1 p.m. 32 Med Regi "A" v. Minor Uolls "B"
1.20 p.m. — § COD v. Sappers "B!!.....
THE FINAL
The Final will be played at
5.30 p.m. after which Lady Bustyan will present the prizes. An invitation Beven-a-side match wil be played at 5.00 D. between
the Hongkong Police and the Royal Air Force, runners-up and winners, respec-1 tively, of the recent Blarney Stone Tournament,
The Band of the 1st Bn 2nd
MCC party, Fred Truman, Tom King Edward VII's Own Gurk Graveney, Wille Watson, Jolinhas (The Simmoor Rifles) will Mortimore and
George Duck play at the ground from 4.00 warth, the scorer, returned with p.m. May.
Eddie Eager, the assistant nannger, Tex Dexter,
Hoy
Bout On June 3 Sweiman and R. Subbu How.
dy in tomoITUW,
English Soccer Result
Frank Tyson, staying in Aus- Los Angeles, March 23.
London, March 23. World bantamweight boxing tralla with his wife, and Peter has gone to
Result of the only English champion, Alphonse Halimi of Richardson, who
Singapore
will Bra!,
played Fiance will put his title on the
arrive league football match Freddie Line in a fight with Mexico's Jur home later,
Brown, tonight was:
Division III Becerra
Lethe manager, is due ot, the end 3 in
of the month, hving travelled Accrington 9, Norwich 2.-- Angeles.
Router. by sea-France-Presse,
June un
The fight will take place in the open air at Wrigley Field, where
- Wittgrut Road-Mscing
Annual meeting of HR Lawn also of Mexico.
0.30 pm.
Tennis
Bowls Association, Club wastano, Fight promoter George Parnas- 265 dvelered that the match Coletjes Open-Gro Categy would be the most popular open- semi-net et Chater lead, 4.65 platjar bout ever organised by DS
Gall
Ladies' Annual Spring Moeling A Prizes presentaupe at Fanling. 130 p.in,
TO-MORROW Meeting
Annual meeting of Hongkong Lawn Tannis Association, HKC, 5.30 p.m.
1st Division:
"A" v Nay
Bharat "A" (SKP) 5.39 pm
2nd Division: KCC "A" v In "B" (KCC) 5.30 pm; Dutchy KCG "B" (HV) 0.20 p.in.
Forret
Major and Minor Units BODEGY Quale at Boundary Street, 2.30 p.m.
theadaches ( Toothaches
Colds
are quickly overcome by
CAFASPIN
Angeles.--France-Presse.
Racing In Russia
By CHARLES STEPHEN
Hungarian Team Horse-racing as a national-
Leave. For Dortmund
into the sport.
The
The amateur, he says, "has not made such an intimate friend of the very breath of the game.... the professional in playing a stroke feels what he wishes to de: the amateur hoper he may do it,"
A Man's Measure
It is often said that you can fete the measure of a man by playing golf with him. Here is Be measure of JH, as revealed by himself; "It is when things are not going right, when one has to fight with grim carnest- less and drag from the lap of the goddes of golf every particle of success that we get,
undoubted superiority....when he has to stick in and hang on with terrible tenacity, knowing full well that at the first sign cf lack of decisiveness in attack, he will have to capitulate with- out honour and hâul down his flag like a coward."
tennis championships at Dortmund from March 27 to April that the professional shows his 5, in which 460 competitors from 41 nations are taking part, the West German news agency D.P.A. reported today.
Japanese players win their group, but, D.P.A.
strongest opponents are expect- ¦ said, China, a sooded team,
ed to be the Chinese who would have difealty in berting SENIOR ASIAN
during the last year have twice England in the Bral group ind beaten Hungary, hitherto con- sidered the world's second strongest team.
Vietnam, who last year beat Japan to win the Asian chum pionships, are also expected to provide strong competition. "In Mut Vau Hoa, Vietnam has one of the world's most solid de fensive players," D.P.A, said.
Corbillon Cup
Rumania, seeded in the second group, would also find South Korea diMcult to beat,
as Rumania especially Angelica Rozeanu weakened by the absence of and Ellen
Zeller.
CUP SOCCER
Professor A. L Rowse has averred that continuity 10 the outstanding festure in the
but be impressed in its humble: way by the continuity in golf,
wa OPENS SUNDAY story of England. One cannot
Manila, March 24. The Senior Aslan Cup football In the individual champion-1 competition opens on Sunday, ships the Japanese men players' March 29, at the Track Football most dangerous opponent would Stadium, the Philippine Amateur be Wong Chuan-yao of China, Athletic Federation announced wha has bouten the Hur kartontalny, number one and former world
The favourites in the four champion Zoltan Berczik, and groups Into which the Swaythi- who is of preseal Hungariun ing Cup teams are divided are champion. Hungary, China and Japan in the first three groups end Czechoslovakia und Vietnam ipinly in the fourth group.
In the Corbillon Cup competi- tion Japan
are favourites
'Spectre' Sold
London, March 23.
to
The 12-metre yacht Spectro, which just year unsuccessfully challenged The American ydeli Columbin In America in a competition off Rhodes Teland, New York, has been sold 16 Scottish yachtsman, Eric
ised industry? It seemed Al winning stake money Maxwell, the syndicate which
a shocking idea to me - until I rend how remark- ably well the system is made to work in Russia. AL Moscow Hippodrome have about 800 horses and all are stabled in barns, similar to the American system. The keynote of the industry is hygiene and efficiency. Betting is only by totaliza- for the Government taking a 30 per cent tax, which is ploughed back
they Vienna, March 23, The Hungarian team partici- pating in the forthcoming world lable tennis championships ielt Budapest today for Dortmund, West Germany, the Hungarian news agency M.T.I. reported.
The men's team consisted of Berezik, Sido, Pigniczky. Focidi and Bubonics and the women's team of Mosocal, Eva Koczian, Lalon and Male--Reuter,
THE GAMBOLS
DON'T BE GŁODKIY, GEORGE
YALLU
ITS ALL THEGE BILLS – THEY GET BIGGER
EVERY YEAR
(bulit the graft announced hero
The price was not revealed but it was believed to bo £13,000.
for each
race is appor- today. tloned between the Jockey, trainer and stable grooms. Entrance for the public is not expensive.
'The Spectre lost every raer These are just a few of the
against the Columbia facts gathered by George was
which built by a New York Forbes on a visit to Rus-Yasht Club syndicate. sia. And his description
The British craft
man's Year” 180.),
at Cowes, (Collins; mid-19th
Presse.
was the
Outsider
Here, for insience, are the.
at Seclely playing Cambridge Milderball "last week" in 1000 just as they did last week in 1059-Hammond-Chambers in Cambridge the, top single for "again falling victim to B. Darwin, who was playing a re- markably fine game, even for
The complete schedule for the three-day tournament is:
March 20-Lions v. National Bhim." (Junior), Hongkong v. Philp- pines (Scolor)
March 31-Taiwan v. Philip- pines B (Junior). Talwon v. Philipplaes (Senior).
What Conditions!
The Universities, un today. were preparing for their match A possible -outsider was the
-but" in what different con- 18-year-old Brazilian player April 3-Talwan A v. Philip-ditions! For Cambridge "there Ubiraci Da Costa, who has four phes A (Junior), Taiwan Y.must be few places where poli times beaten the present world Hongkong (Sentor).
courses are so inaccessible and champion, Toshiak! Tanaka of 'A' teams, both Senlors and unpleasant to play upon....at Japon, D.P.A. said. Tanaka Juniors, are national elevens the Gog & Magog the bunkers himself will not be defending while 'B' teams are composed are more like military fortifica his title this year because he of candidates who failed to land tone to repet an invasion,... was unable to muster enough berths on national teams and at Colon anomiser reaches the votes from the Japanese gelee ther outstanding players. 13th in one. when his mud- tion committee.-Reuter.
U.P.I.
covered ball sticks to his putter, and having played, four strokes before it was released though! If time to take tracks for the clubhouse."
HOCKEY'S BIGGEST EVER
Nor are Oxford in much
fed a better shape. While inmat
CROWD SAW WOMEN'S
MATCH AT WEMBLEY
By DEREK JOHN
A new world record was established on March 14-the record or the biggest crowd ever to watch a hockey match.
the course ot Radley often provides very fair, golf, in winter it develops into 'the 'very worst type of mud Inks
and enjoyable play Is frankly im- possible. The Cowley Boks are a joke at any me but towards December they become a mud- Iork." Rosulti ot Sandwich, Oxford (Captain; C. V. L Hooman) 0, Cambridge 2.
The Spread
Already golf was spreading not only over the Continent but
More than 52,000 spectators were at Wembley that
day to see the women players of England beat a few weeks there were pictures
the South African eleven by 4-1.
The previous attendance re-, Assoclation envy
the world, Within the space of
of courses of Baden Badoh, Mon- treux, Kuala Lumpur, Sin the money-Sebastian, Kobe and Yokohama,
of that visit makes quite 17th to fall in the attempt to the most fascinating bring to Britain the coveted article in this year's America's Cup alice t Lyns edition of "The Horse-won by the schooner America cord was 50,000 at Wembley spinning success of the women The Brighton Corporation have Isle of Wight, In last year for the England V. players. Their funds are low, completed the new course and century.. France- Scotland match,
and they are lucky, to draw club-house at Hollingbury Parkc How England's men's Hockey 5,000 spectators to an interna- for £1,047 145, 114, (Govern- ment Granit 2450); 20 KOW Why the big difference? The bunkers are being put in at Tezon is that "women's hockey
Hoylake," "mostly of the pot bas a fantastic following in the variety", and "the prize money schools. About 80 per cent of for a professional tournament to the Wembley crowd consists of be arranged in San Francisco sekoolgirls.
will amount to $10,000. Geo
Be Barry Applebe
THEN BE
HAPPY, DARLING
THINK HOW
MICERALLE
THIS TIME NEXT YEAR
They contributed after this - Whilz!". match more than £3,000 to the
As a footnote, the motoring coffers of the All-England Women's Hockey Aroclation.
correspondent, revealing And all the money is ploughed reporta that conferences are threat of further than
back into the game.
Here is on sport which is 100 taking place with a ving to 4010 mutually satisfactors per cent amateur. Indeed, it system of dues the money do would be true to my it was too be devoted to the upkeep of propter
Torempite the huge nagetal to the purse of the national roads and not to be deyisted ine. sucoses of their
exchequer."
lud's worden, players pay theile
own expętajch On 'OVETICAN COLLER, 16h, woll. In Abo kangat (p2 the oven na “far adledd as Austrália.roter hope stilt mZTINIS ATARINË, But, then, one peer could | že si inest two dogs Mis siinalai