THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1959.
BRITISH ATHLETICS STRIKES ROCK BOTTOM
Only 10 Competitors Reach Olympic Qualifying Standards In AAA Meeting
By DEREK JOHN
London. soccer, cricket, golf, lawn tennis, table-tennis and boxing. And I forecast that its next big flop will be in athletics. On, the season's agenda are athletics matches against West
Germany, Poland, Russia and Finland.
This year Britain has flopped in international
lose the lot.
For
zizuck Ibbotson,
chiv
The mle was won in 4 min1 British atikties has
Derek . seem reasonably dime In FOLK bottom.
days, slowcoach pre-war the world's ho forkst miler, hos fizzle out deplorable in tils drende of like a dop squib. Gone urmilele miling. auch world-famous post-wr personalities
Jiarnister, Chatawag, Wooderson, Peters und Holden.
itan
#
chin
AimBarty. She winners of Die kalf-mile, 100 yards, 220 Purdy, 120 yards burdies, 440 yard hurdles, pole vault. kich jump and long Jump all failed to reach: an Olymple qualifying standard. And these athletes included Irian 11cwon. European 1.500- metre champion, and Peter Itadford, Britain's fastest sprinter.
The sad story of the decline and fall of British athletex driven home a1 month's AAA Championships when only 10 competitors reached the Olympic qualify. ing standards in the finais, And remember that these turords
down as are late qualifying morkas only fr
Stan Vickers www 1 goid tel
find | medal. at the European Cham- Be Fun!
But be was as fuit hips last year. them Loston in the two-mile walk by Aut the warly half a minute. winner, new star Ken Matthews, a bone were shot af th British record...13 mins 11.4
es up in 1981.
country's
string
shogging 10 achieve
with her top men.
Now luck al poble
AAA Championship resaltes
th
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S. African Rugby Only A Handful
Team To
Tour Britain
Landen, July 27. The South Afri Rugby Thon fear, the Springbok: will urrive at Southampton 252 WHE Celuber 4 next year it Innaned here today. The will play 30 malebis in Grial Britain including the Tests against Fuchund. Scutland, Ireland and Wales.- AFP.
1:14
handful
Today, only Brith athletes leak capable of reachdruc an Olymple anal, lete winning a medal. One PC 305 Stan Eldon, the fleet-fontext constable who achieved the Olympie standard in the six miles and three mies
Arthur Rowe, the smithy who won Tile, hot-pul Olympie elas man.
hin not en medailist,
FOUR D. JONES
Fas
STEADY ON NOW BOYS.
LEAVE A SPACE FOR MY FACT
WE'VE WAITED A LONG
TIME FOR THIS.
STUFF.
FERDINAND
NANCY
THAT DOG OF YOURS
IS A REAL CHARACTER
BRICK BRADFORD
BRICK 13 RIGGED INTO A SPACE SUM AND WITH BAM AND DR.JANUARY 15
TAKEN TO THE FLIGHT" LINE,
THE TOMAR" IS MOUNTED
ON THE BOMBER BRICKÉ.
THE BOMBER VALL
DROP YOU AT
30,000 FEET!
YIPEE!!
на 40
mighty
I expect Britain to
Then there
Bruce Tulloch, a newcomer who ran barcfooled to a shock three- mile victory in the AAA meeling. lila Live
of 13 mins 11.2 веса Was well Inside the Olymple standard.
Even Worse
And the British girls? Their standard has been even lower this season. Only good news here is that June Paid and Heather Young are planning comebackt, restoring that glamorous
which startet smashed the world sprint relay record at the British Empire Gamer last year.
What can be done fu revive The greatest British athletics? nerd is money--money for inure professional coachen (there are only five in the country), more tracies (there is not one indoor track), and better training (ael-
lities,
World Yachting Championships
The "Flying Dutchman" class world yachting championships began last Monday week at Whitstable Bay, Kent, South England and ended on Saturday, The individual championship title went to the Italian yachtsman, Mario Caplo, sailing the yacht Alderbaran II. Adrian Jardine of Britain, in "Pandora" was runner-up. Italy came out first in the team placings followed by Britain, West Germany and Holland.
Photo shows some of the yachts during a practice run before the cham- pionships-Times Photo.
Sports Diary Wallaby Trainer
Ind 5.15 pan.
TODAY
Bowls
Division: Talkoo
not!
V HKFC.
Stableford Competition, Water Bay,
Deep
Bakchall Venture For Victory v All-Bong- kong at Macpherson Playground, 8.30 pin,
Hongkong Basketball Association nual meeting, 7 pan.
TO-MORROW
Tennis
This year, belatedly, Hellish amateur athletics will begin a football pool. But the profit
Men's "Division: 1.IC CRC -perhaps £100,000 a year (15), KTGLA « CCC (U), PILY SCAA will fall far short of their | 115,0 v Urban Lounel), USH
14. SCAA (2) V BKCC. RE
CCC (2).
nerde
and meanwhile
the
number
of paying spectators RI athletic meetings is steadily dropping,
What British athletics really
Explains Flop: 'Pent-Up Tension'
London.
Let us proudly acknowledge Alcide the absolute champion. His mighty run for Ascot's £23,000 confirms that he is a great son of a great sire, Alycidon. But what happened to the French crack Wallaby II, who finished virtually last?
Meeting
After the race I called trainer ASF &C. Percy Carter at Chantilly
and Annual Meeting of SCM Post Board Room, 5.30 p.m
asked him point blank: "What Bowls
in wrong?"
the European i needs, but will probably never: 3rd Division: HERC v. IRC at
PIC, 3.30 p.m., HKCC v LS', Bust: is another, is State ald. Without it.
p.nl. But I do Britain looks like losing a great polential deal of prestige at future Inter- national meetings and festivale.
a
I'M GONNA PLANT
„MY TROTTERS PSLAP IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
ME TOO
ONE, TWO KIRS
COME
YEAH --- HE'S
A LITTLE BIT
WACKY---
-ERNIE BUSHMILLER
A FEW HUNTES LATER-THEY ARE IN THE NOTHER PLANE ROARING INTO THE AR.....
THROO
Mile Race for Army Athletes, Army Ground, Boundary St, dpm.
by MADDOCKS
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
HE LOVES TO TAKE
HIMSELF FOR A WALK
-COME ON, BRICK... TIME TO CRAWL, INTO
THE "OMAR
By Paul Narria
PAR WITH YOU
THAT'S THE
CHAOLSO LONG STORY OF OUR
PAMJ
LIVES, TO LONE
ON THE SIG BLASTILL DE
ALONS!
A fair question.
Only & month ago we saw Wallaby II put up, magnificent perfor- mance to win the Gold Cup.
Sheaffer's
NEW BALLPOINT WITH EXOLUSIVE
STERLING SILVER TIP
Barristers prefer
SWISSAIR
THE AIRLINE OF SWITZERLAND
ROWNTREE'S
THE
AERO
MILK CHOCOLATE THAT'S DIFFERENT!
San Miguel
BREWED
in
HỒNG KÔNG
By-
JOHN RICKMAN
None of that fire was evident last Saturday week, not a spark.
Percy Carter's answer come Imantly: "There's nothing wrong with Wallaby.
He just didn't run at all, Apart from what you saw him do against Alcide at Royal Ascot I know what he
Too Cool
U.S. Baseball Review YANKEES PRACTICALLY OUT OF AMERICAN LEAGUE PENNANT RACE Braves Back In Running For NL Title
New York, July 27.
As we near the home stretch of the 1959. baseball race, it begins to look as if the. Yankees, peren- nial rulers of the Major League, are ready to be counted out of the American League pen-. nant race.
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They just don't seem to have it. Injuries to Tony Kubek and Bill Skowron and the illness of Gim McDougald have added to the woes of manager Casey Stengel.
to
George Weiss, Yankee Gen- eral Manager, wont out Delroll to see if he could do any- thing to bolster his alling herots, but aside from obtaining plicher Gary Blaylock from the St Louis Cardinals and welding thet Skowron put on the disablei list, making room for an addi- Honal player on the roster, he ham't helped much.
Stenzel told newmen he opposed to bringing up any Kew talent from the nor Leagues of anywhere else,
Chlongo, the National League headed for a knock- down drag-odt tussle to the Very end.
Braves' Bad Spell
As the teams prepared to enter the home-stretch San Franelso held on to a 134 gamo surprising advantage over the Los Angeles Dodgers, but the
rampaging Milwaukes Eaves įgave notice over the weekend
claiming he can reshuffle that they will be in contention. present squad into a winning combination, but ble words lacked convletion.
The Braves hit a bad spell after the break for the All- Stur serles and lost eight of nine games, but they've swung back into the winning column,
Move Should Help weeping their series with the
Pittsburgh Pirates.
The "Oid Professor Бауд Great mound performances by that as soon as Kubek is back Warren Spahn, Lew Burdetté, in shape, he will play him a Bob Buhl, Don McMahon, and third base and shift Hector | It-hander Juna Pizarro, pulled
Lopez to first. This move should the 1968 National League.cham- help the sagging laner defence plone to within twe because the Panamanian has the top.
games of
been something less than sen-
the hot Qurner, They have looked very Im- sational at
sixpressive in coming out of their where he has committed costly errors during the Iniest
swing through the West.
Another Casey Inspiration is that right-hander Don Larsen. who has been of little use as a moundeman, can be converted into an outfielder. The big fellow has always been a good long-bal hitter, and certainly the Yankees that could use a little help in department. "Could use his bat," Stengel said, "oven though his arm has not helped me match."
Co-Favourites
Meanwhile,
ля
the Yanicces
slump and in spite of the two-
game advantage that San Fran- present elsco enjoys at the writing, the boys from the beer capital of America are again the betting favourites—AFP.
Third Major Baseball League To Be Formed
New York, 'July 27.
A third major baseball league,. can do to Balbo." (Balbo warld back to fourth place, nine
known as the Continental third in the race.1
games out of first place, Chicago to bo and Cleveland were installed as League, is to be formed, It was co-favourites among the betting announced today by Mr William fraternity. The Indians are in Shea, chairman of the first place with a half-game ad-York baseball committee set up vantage over the White Sox.ty Mayor Robert Wagner. half
"I was a hot day and several of the horses were sweating. Wallaby
New
Tho lengue, which would have remained absolutely Baltimore, eight and cool-wo rool, in fact. I wish Games off the lend, is in third
a minimum of eight clubs, is. he could have sweated out his place.
expected to begin operations in But he bottled-up excitement.
With the American League 1061. Founder cities would be pennant raco apparently didn't and he never runs a good
New York, Houston, Toronto, Race when he is like that.
settling down to a struggle Minneapolis, St Paul and Den between Cleveland and ver-Reuter.
"If Palmer had given him a hiding. It might have fivened Like hlm up, but we don't dolur it that way.
be settled the feld.
"Wallaby has to down at the tail of Palmer did that all right, but when he wanted- the horse to go on, well, Wallaby just didn't want to know.
Captain Beyd-Hochfort hal Alcide turned out splendidly, and Harry Carr brought him with a powerful run to win. Fortunately for British interest: there were no flies on Alcide.
Why Best The explanation is that flies have probably been Alcide's enemy. He cannot bear one to louch blm. It a fly settles on him, he tries to kick it. Hence the sprained muscles which have cost him more than one race.
Alcide, winner also of the 1058 St Leger; has run his last race. Sir Humphrey de Trafford has decided to syndicate him as a stallion forthwith.
With the Derby victory of Parthia, Sir Humphrey's horses have won him £48,474 this stason. He has never had such a haut
his 40 years Es bwner.
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
Here is a position from actual piny: White to move and win.
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