THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1939. ?
Bowls League Reaches Halfway Mark SPORTS
THREE CRUCIAL GAMES
THIS AFTERNOON
By ROBERT TAY
Except for a few postponod_matches, all the three divisions" of the Colony lawn bowls league conclude their first-round games this afternoon with an interesting programme that includos no fowor than three crucial matchos.
The first of these crucial encounters will be between the two top teams of the first division, Indian Recreation Club "A" and Recreio "A."
The Indians are, at the mo-
ntent, no! only at the top of
the league table with 33 points
In eight games, but also right at
scrape
also be a great incentive for the Indian bowlers to give off, their best in file gamo.
on the other hand, Neercio,
to have fallen uff tre the crest of the wave of success, reem
loat two having won all their three pre-mendously in their vious Comes by decisivo inatches. After just managing to match margins.
through their
by 3% The resuming of two of against Filipino Club their fours after their defeat points to 1%, they failed very by Craizenzower on June badly against Kowloon Bowling worked Green Club last week, going 10 baya Bermed wanders on the tear down by a 4-1 margin in ax whole, giving them not only upset defcat. their best possible combina- flons, but also a tremendous boog in spirit,
morale and leam.
Confident
Last wrk, they arored their best victory of the seasdn when in an away match they handed a 4-1 defeat to Kowloon Dock Club, one of the top challengers for this year's premier league honours,
This success will undoubtedly Klve the Indinus Tremendous: Confidence, this afternoon #1 their playing abilities, morr particularly so when they will} be playing on their own green.
The realitation that a de- cisive 1-1 or 5-0 win this aflernooi will Practically bring them to the door of championship honours
will
SPORTRAIT
"Nut note, dear, can't you see I'm mowing the law."
Lanton Express Servter.
Doctors' Report On Boxing Injuries
Fourteen honorary medical officer to the Amateur Boxing Association consider that the record of baxing in Britain of only seven deaths over the past 13 years was a good one and compared favourably
with
in the
50y
olher. common sports.
The doctors writing medical aproni, Lancat. boxing injuries rank eighth in frequency of sporting injuries.
"With strict metilcol control amateur boxing
will continuo to play an important role in the sporting activities of the Services, universities, schools, and youth clubs."- Banews Service.
Dog
Sweeping Changes
Iteblising that they cannot another match afford to lose particularly when that match is ugninst the league-leading Indians, if they are to retain the title which they won last year, the Portuguese Club have made same sweeping changes in the line-up
afternoon's game.
for this
Veteran Raoul Lux, skip of Hongkong's Empire Games four has been brought in as No. 3 to Jackie Noronha, Will Connie Pereira, who is in brilliant drawing form at the moment, as No. 2 and Freddie Luz as lead. This is a formid- able four that should rive Recreio almost a sure point. Len Xavier, who played m Nu. 3 and skip
flocroto's winning team last year returns to the team this afternoon As No. 3 to C. Roza-Pereirn. Whe ther Xavler, who has not tad, much competitive bowls this season, is able to reproduce isis
tez
last year's form remains to be
but al
four No. 2 this seen. should be ably served by E. M. Alarcoun. L. M. Remedios s fairly steady at No. 1.
Much of Recreio's hopes for a victory this afternoon will de- pend on the performance of this four and also their third four of C. F. Rozario, H. A.
Ozorio,
A. P. Pereira and A. A. Lopes where Ozorio has replaced S. E. Souza.
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Tactical Line-Up
On the whale, it appears to Recreio's line-up, from that they expect either a 3-2 ör #4-1 win and at the worst a 3-2 defeat. Theirs does not. ap- pear to be a fully balanced team, but rather a tactical ope. the The issue will depend on ability of Jackie Noronha's four to carry the side, on whether A. A. Lopes four could, snatch a win in what should be a touch- and-go ptfair against any IRO four they draw, and on the ability of C. Roza-Pereira's four to keep the reore down against
them.
Indiana'
Derpile the
Ane form at the moment and the fact that they are playing on a home green, I feel that Recreio, with their new Hne- up have aslight advantage this afternoon and will prob. ably just make it by a 3-2 or 4-1. margin.
ul
con-
take on third-placed Kowloon Dock Club at Ming Yanna, Of the two teams the Electric Club have been more impressive in their recent matches. They took full points from Talkoo a couple of weeks ago and fol- lowed this up with a fine 4-1 win over HKFC last week
The dockmen, pfter nu eurly spell of five muccessive wins, have faltered in their lost wo games, losing to IRC by 8-0 and
Club to Craigengower Cricket inst week by 3-2. With green advantage in their favour this afternoon, another four points are well within HKERC's,
Close Match
In the other first division games This afternoon,, Kowloon Bowling Green Club, fresh from their recent 4-1 triumph over Recrelo "A", will be at home to CCC in what should be an- other
and interesting, close
THE
CRIME
this was a boxer who broke the rules to take on the American champion. He lost.
But would he He is punished. have still been penalised if he had returned the winner?
OF BRIAN
LONDON
by
John Deane Potter
maich, with the odds slightly in A brash 25-year-old young man called Harper favour of the Valley Club for a 4-1 win.
from Blackpool, who normally earns £10,000 a year, has recently been fined £1,000 and de- prived of his means of earning a living for six months.
Recreio "B" are expected to give Kowloon Dock Club a very hard fight before going down and KCC after a spell of failures should be able to score a win again when they entertain IRC "B" at Cox Road.
The fast-improving Fillpi Club will have Talkoo as their opponents and after their fine show inst week against Cratgen- tower, it will not be surprising If they chalk up another Win this afternoon,
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Floyd Patterson for the world. Utle in Indianapolis.
'Practice'
This is because he defed £1,500-n-year former referee, named Teddy Waltham, who decided he should not have taken a trip to Indianapolis.
Say my boxing friends rather Harper, betier Knowa as contemptuously: "Patterson Brian London, former British showed him who was the gov and Empire boxing champion ernor in the first round. Then Jasles for 11 rounds out of he just had himself a little box- 15 inita contest against in practice afterwards,"
ENGLAND PRODUCE A NEW SOCCER PLAN
BY ROY PESKETT
They may be right. This is the sort of hindsight remarks make that sporting men often about horses, boxers, dogs-and
wome
But I ay that the Beliksh
Boxing Board of Control
scoretary, Teddy Walthan.
suspension-the heaviest since His son, Brian, who netted
slet
the war-will not harm hla
221,000 from his Indianapolis career.
adventure, obviously means to For if the Boxing Board por; } end his career differently.
we in its attitude
probably lose' and of our
with best
baxora to America.
many top-llno boxers,
welcome him.
will still
He is already driving]
The Americans, who have a £5,000 Bentley from the money he has earned since he turned pro- fessional in March 1955.
No Help
It le admilled even by hla friends that Brian London does when faced not help himself with the prissy authority of the Boxing Board.
When summoned at 3.33 p.m. Wednesday afternoon by secretary Waltham he admitted he had gone to America with- out the board's permission, but added: "I would do it again."
This obviously increased his penalty. But why should boxer be different from you o" me? Why should he be treated like a truant schoolboy?
London, who comes from
absorbed the old boxing family, ring-side atmosphere with s
rusics. He was a very small boy when he watched the father, Jack London, lose the British
title to Bruce Woodcock in 1945.
Pompous
But in all this Infantile argu- ment, one small nagging ques- : tion persists. If Brinn Lendon had come back from Indiana- polls with the world champion- ahip securely wrapped round his gloves, would he still have been- fined £1,000 and suspended for six months?
Says Teddy Waltham: "Tho result of the contest is quilo Irrelevant to the sue."
And I BAY: Ponderous, pompous, unreal
M Wakham.
poppycock,
QUIZ
1. What is the "duking Iron”
In billiards?
athiate-a
2. Which women
high
Jumpers the unique distinction of hav-
ing competed in the Olympic -Games of 1930, 1948, 1952
and 10567
Where will the Olympic- Games be held in 10042
4. Which two men face, cuch
other in a rowing crew of ejebt? A
5. With which sporta do you associate: (a) Hackensch- mid!, (b) Tulyaf, (e) Mendoza?
6. Complete the names of these aparting ovenlà: (a) Dla- mond (b) Golden~ (c). Kentucky-7
7. For the first time since 1930
a British tennis player has been seeded" in the Win- bledon men's singles. What is his name? And what num- bor has he been ireded?
0. Which bowler has taken the most wickets in Test cricket -Clarrle Grimmott, Ray Lindwall, Jim Laker or Alge Dedser
9. Which
10.
"A
world titles dil these boxers hold: (a) Jim-
Wilde, my
(b) Freddio Mills, (c) Marcel Cerdan? What official awards, were made to winners in the original Olympic Games of ancient Greece?
(Answers on Page (7)
Sports Diary
TODAY
Bowle
1st Divisions; KBGC
Hearolo "Recreto
How could you have Demo
After this his father retired resisted the result if it from the ring and became a doorman at a Manchester night had been different?
club.
UTC
2nd Division: CCC Y PRE
KKJO V PRE "ALEC V KCC, KOD
3rd Division:
OCC V TC.
XDC, SE V HKIL & DO, HERC
Storing Motor Sports Club Trekgure. Hunt.. SabaTLE.
BACK STREET NOBODY
IS
NOW A CENTRE COURT SOMEBODY
By HAROLD BUNTING
sitting in his third-floor office What is there especially meritorious in a Negro girl becoming a tennis
of Oxford Street, lined with Sporting printa, has aver- reached himself by advising the board to punish London
like this.
to
champion? Or a Negro success in the boxing ring? Or on the racing track? Nothing, it seems to me.
These successes belong to the individuals, not to their colour. The indivi- duals stand out because they are good at the sport in which they have striven to succeed.
Put it the other way round; included hor in a goodwill team
Out of Soccer adversity has come good. The
One of the board's privately recent disastrous tour of South America by circulated excuses Is that recent
medical reports objpcling England has brought the FA and the League Boxing have made then particu closer together than they have been for years. larly anxious to prevent young it is just alliy to talk about sent on a goodwill mission to At Folkestone, recently, their leaders dig-boxers going out of their class white supremacy in any kind South-East Asia. Says Althen,
and becoming chopping-blocks. of sport. What happens when frankly cussed a mutual aid pact to help rebuild the
But il rounds seems a long a white person beats a person England team and give it a fairer chance in time for a young man to fend
or when. off the chopper.
white person world competition, and also to give the clubs London says he will appeal beaten by a person of another a better deal for their star players.
against the board's decision. I colour, is that "the better man" hope he does.
wins Pigment has nothing to do with it.
After next summer, the FA will tour only in alternate close seasona This means that, in the other years the clubs can call on their full strength for
summer tours,
The League have agreed tó nid the present agreement re- stricting the FA lo four Inter- national matches during the playing season, in which ther were not allowed to play
abroad,
The second crucial game the afternoon features the two
title top, second division
In future England will play Hongkong Foolbai! one or two away games during Lenders,
Recreation and Poller
the sunson, when the players Club
are at and in full training, Club "A",
Whereas KFC have suffered only one defeat so far, the The present agreement mit- Police Club have already loated England to four full inter- twice, and must win this im-nationals, four Under-23 games, portant match it they want to and four Youth Internationals a keep themselves in the race for season. • the tile. On paper, the Football | Club-segm-to-have-a-sijghtly-
and better-balanced team and will start as favour- ites for a 4-1 victory.
Gives 500 Golf superior Balls To Club
A "bag" of nearly 500 golf bafis in one month is the scaro returned by "Sweep, (wo-Yebt- old Labrador, to Goswich golf course, Berwickt.
The dog's master, Me J. M. Edney, a local solicitor, handed over the balls, which were picked up in the rough, to be resold for club Bunows Service.
POP-Exhausted
THIS MAY "DAKE" AN HOUR,
MA
funds.
Plucky Polico
-Rejected-
Rous, of this most inlerestfu memorandum told me that the FA is almost fure to get the full co-operation of the Logue.
But the more important factor is that he anys, if his appeal fails, he will go to America.
Savage
the He knew a
I don't blame him. He One of the most startling pro-admits that he behaved dis posals of the weekend was muide obediently by defying by a selector who suggested a boxing pundits. £100 win-only fea for England slight reprimand awaited him. men in matches against foreign But the penalty imposed upon teams. His iden will be discussed him on his return la savage. when the senior selectors meet
There is, of course, another carly in the season.
reason for it.
Probationary
The Immediate international programme for England Is: Ÿ Sweden October 28; v. Ireland, November 10; v. Yugoslavia, May 11-all at Wembley; v. Wales in Cardia; v. Scotland in Glasgow and away v. Hungary, Spain and
Italy all next summer.
"I know it happened toon
of another colour in a contest, after the killing of Emmett Till
idea.
is
Right Idon Althea Gibson had the right
player, not
"I am," she says "a tehnis a Negro tennis player"
She says that 'in-her'stima- sting autobiography, WI AL- ways Wanted To Be Some- body" (published In Great Britain by W, H.: Allen at 15 schlings). their
Whispering behind hands disormally, the top .box-
She also says, that not all
that. They think she should exploit her success as a 'triumph. for the Negro race.
in Georgia and world opinion of the rectal situation in the United States was at alow cbb.
Y
drink whisky ("now I know I shall never disgraon my- self by geiling drunk; I got a sort of, inununity"); that same father taught "her" › to box. and she devotos pages to sho descriptions of how fotight against those who annoyed her, boys and girls
uncle
once. hall her "sanding him, down cald," becques he was beating auntle.
But the
"50.1 suppose that was the oven, main reason why Is a coloured girl, was invited to help sex rent our country in South- East Asia."
- The American authorities knew what they were about. They carefully briefed her be fore they let her go,
Adroit
story, is essentially (and enthrallingly) oan of how She worked (and was helped to work) her way up to big tennis. until that dizzy moment when the
the Wimbledon championship, and.
די
Wom
"The Queen spoke to me. She wonderful speaking
She would, sho was told, bad be naked a lot of questions voles, and she looked exactly na about the Negry's life in the a Queen ought to look, except Untied Blates. It was up to more beautiful than you would her to say what was rights expect any real-life all they asked-you, all they | look," And.... asket—was that she would'
"Siraking hands
queen to
with
tho remember that she Wa ID- Queon was a long WAY away presenting her equntry.
Ing boys accuse him of never | Negroes like her for anying behaving like. a'obsmplan. Why? Because he says he is in the sport for the money, not
"A lot of those who disagree for the glory.
Before his January fight with with me aro members of Henry Cooper he said jovially: Negro Prest, and they bent my Edrollly, she salt
I won 275,000 on the foot-brains out regularly. I have "Well, we've got a problem, North Carolina.
Nonsense
the
Tho
from being forced to sit in the questions came, and coloured section of the bus go-
Ing downtown Wilmington,
Rich Anecdote Dancing with the Duke of
ball pools tonight, I would not always enjoyed a good Press as all countries and all statem among the regular newspapers and all individuals, have, but Under 93's-home-v-Hungary, go into the ring tomorrow!"
This is guided by the und magazines, but I am an it's a problem that sextainly can France, Holland, Italy; away v. One thing the League did Poland and East Germany.
solemn schoolmasters who sit comfortably close to being Public be solved and that I firmly
Devonshire WILE-U
long way throw out was the suggestion
in their print-lined zoomis in Enemy No. 1 to some sections belleve will be solved"
That
tho satisfied A scheme
State from not being allowed to bowl for probationery Oxford Street as unspotting, of the Negro Press, that the League programme
In Jefferson City, Misoqar, bo- Department, professionals expected to come unchampionlike behaviour, should be suspended. for a
"I have, they have
id,
Ναν at the height of her cause the white customers com- month during the season in into force before the starl of tho
unbecoming attitude; they say career, she sums up. As far as plaines about it. The Police Club bowlers, bow-order to allow England to ful- 1000-01 scaron was referred to
om big-headed, uppity, ungrato-
We are alven iniimate the colour, question is concern over, tre an extremely lucky m their international obliga- the County FA's and the clubs
ful, and a few other uncompil- don't feel excluded any Filmpaes... of her ⠀ "big" ganios, group of ughters, and diven, the tiông ai ofte 10.**
-for-their-observations. It would
neary Th
and rich fiecasts of pourt more. mean that clubs could sign a
At least, I don't lool I rub of the green and better than Every fourth year, when the
limited number of boys on their
um being excluded from any- Insidenia, their usual average form, they World Cup qualifying games' pre
thing that matters. 18th birthday sa profissionals. are fully capable of taking the scheduled the. home Infor-
can't stay "Maybe I † decision.
national championship could. bo This would be a great stride dropped it necessary,
forward in the war being waged by the FA and the League against unscrupulous clubs who entice schoolboys to join them.
The third feature match of the afternoon
$$ infra division league lenders, Hong- kong Electric Recreation Club,
-WHY DIDN'T YOU FIX IT
BEFORE IT WENT
WRONG
Mr Jon Dicare, the chairman of the selectors, one of the co-autham, with Bir Biantes
LAST THE ENGINES PURRING
By Gog
THAT'S NOT THE U
ENGINE. THAT'S
SNORING
piliful" nonsense, This is
behind Whispering・・ discreetly my hond, I will tell you that if 1 had hoard I had won the pools yesterday, you would very prob- ably not be reading this article today.
There is no doubt that this rather vindictive One
In Russia they say "pivo"
aud
Hong Kong they say. Carlsberg
"I think the deep-down rei- con for it is that they renené my to turn my tennis refusal
arousing achievements into crusade for racial equality, bras band, 76 krombones and all.
More Good
"I won't do 18: Ifeel sur "that I can do mere good my way that I could by milität,
cranding. I want my Access
En soak for Limoli se sa -advertisement for tur raos.”
over-
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She still fouls a bit surd be- cause she was threatened with night at a good hotel in disqualification because she left Columbia, South Carolina, or the court to replace a catment. play a tennis match against the first-aid repair of which White opponent in the sovereign could not have been undertaisen state of Louielone, which has a in public.
"social
And now?le law against outIRJE,
mich
"All I wont is to be able to play tennis, sing, sleep peace- Not A Pretty Storyfully, have three square meals any, a rogular income, għd no worries"
Not by Jong Is she rich? chalk. The expensive lying
But I can get along without Who shelf say she is wrong? sleeping at the Wade Hampton To harp en Althess ns. Mogra and I don't care 183 never met,
markable that a coloured pers
"success" is to regnet] il as re-foot in Louisiana
hero le, I have found enjoy the tournament circuit.
outside disapplars, in n hury when I for got home. I can't pipis S
should be more proficient in whole lot of world
* Loufiana-and that gros whlie ongʻat nagthing",
To do that to postsoa South Carolina, kipologis colour renee that ought to Georgip, Alabama and all be linorod.
The it Alles had to some meikio yaszali whiter who aid for malerwe
Department, for kont
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