-
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1959.
CHINA ALL SET FOR HER FIRST NATIONAL GAMES
AT PEKING ON SEPT. 13
By RONALD FARQUHAR
Peking, Sept. 2. Hundreds of perspiring workers are hustling to put the finishing touches on a big new sports stadium here for China's First National Games opening on September 13. Stripped to the waist, they toil in blazing summer sunshine alongside bulldozers, shifting huge mounds of earth and road rollers smoothing concrete approach roads.
Vlowed
American Fightmongers Routed CLOWNING INGO TALKS MONEY
AS RUTHLESSLY HE FIGHTS
AS
By HARRY CARPENTER
London,
The Americans must hate Ingemar Johansson. The cold-eyed, hard-boiled U.S. fightmongers, who have just come off second best with Ingo nego- tiating the return fight with Floyd Patterson, must wonder what hit them.
xon," Baid
I wouldn't want to face this "The Americans will put their from outside, the Northwest region
inhabited iment in expected to be one of ulte-eyed boy in the ring er equipment into our corner just new stadlum bulleting shines largely by Mocas called the most popular features DI
round the business table. But before the fight with Palter ike a giant white bowl on the Uighurs--will compele In horse-the games.
But Ingo, "O.K. the public love him. They near- Chinese capital's eastern out-ding events. Mongol archers The Chinese have had tuition ly unstucated that famous right just before the fight starts,
kiris and lookn practically and wrestlers
from Hungarina couches complete. 23att
and hund In Porthcawl making him it will all be thrown out and play a selenitine, short-passing sign autographs. He never once
I shall use MY equipment." gaine on the world-famous objected, Tungarian model, but their But this dimpled Swede, who scoring manoeuvres are weak.
Me
work continues skill.
speed to get its immediate surroundings ready for opening
sleep.
I han a foolball
will show their
From Tibet.
surrounded by a cinder run-include nine track, and specist facili-, other nationalities as ties for jumping and throw Tibetons, ing field events.
100-Foot Walls
15
In
ឆន
now rules the fight world
dangerous boxing the
700st
Oboyed
When those six tough Ameri- cans went to Gothenburg to fix China is making determinem alive, is under no lu-up Ingu's next fight with Pat
song about the enmity he has generated by his red-hot bar- gaining over the Patterson re- Turn.
ed, efforts to reach world
and
standard In track and field competitors wil be out
to Improve national records.
iss Cheng Feng-jung, 22- year-old former holder of the world record for the women's high tump starters. She is making a come- will be among the back this year
after being out Cut Letlun with 5 leg injury last
The arena's
double- A total of '175 athletes, in- tiered ferracing will seat 80,000cluding 45 wemen, were official- spectators, olclats say. It is reported to be coming from claimed to be one of the biggest Tibet to compete in track and in the Far East.
Held contests, a road cycling ground race and shooting events. They Han
(Chinese) and
well mecording to the lelal news agency. Elimination tournaments
basketball, volleyball, footbal,
and softball handball, baseball The stadium walls tower wOFO
La staged
20 different about 100 feet high and reports towns and cities in May and teams quail- say they
The top ned for the Snals in Pelting.
In Prague, Performances of world class during July she cleared 172 metrus (5 feet 7 inches; bot expected in and weightlifting. China holds a number of world re- cords in both these sporte an
arc
have been specially June. designed to protect competitors and spectators from the fierce wind which plague Peking in winter and enrly spring. The winds
the sweep down from north and across the Gobi de- sert, bringing with them sting- Ing clouds of yellow dust which can spoil atheletic perfoon- atters and make watching high- ly uncomfortable,
season.
Carchoslovakia,
sy
and Americans to kuw-tow to bim. It makes quite a change.
Dynamito
with. But pened,
JOHANSSON ...shzerod
The routine had been well- rehearsed. Solomons winced, And up the barrel appeared what looked like about a plat of rich, red promoter's blood.
Unfair
Salomons pretended to faint. Ingo flourished the "needle."
Who needs blood?" he said. Nobody
volunteered.
So
I Blame Referees: For The Brawls
Says STAN CULLIS
The eve-of-season memorandum to clubs from the Football League and Football Association rightly stresses the importance of players re- fraining from misbehaviour and gamesman- ship.
I
While most clubs agree with this declslon lo reiterate the directive sent out last year, I feel I would also be a good time for referees to reflect they have Important responsibilities.
*
A Pleasure
I wholeheartedly" agreed with Mir Walker that here lico one of $110 chtef deficiencies in the make-up of the present referee.
While they know the rule- book backward, they mas the tricks of the trade, And it is the sly tricks of the trade that can run a nie much moro cutly than tho od nets of gamesTanship.
Walker stressed this poin! to
I am quite definite in saying that when games cielerlorate into brawls it is because of ladit or control by the official, support his argument dat ex-
Il-temper and vleious playprofesionals would,
or iho are never tolerated by top-class whole, make better refereez, referees.
You very rarely see a game get out of hand when handled
Odd Rosults
by such splendid refereto av Billy believe thot ex-players Arthur Ellis, Reg Lente, would be able to spot there Mervyn Griffths, and Jack underhand thefies all the time. Clough, to mention Just a few But that, of course, la another terson. I don't know what sort
of the top officials.
chapter....this fetish for of chap they expected to deal Johansson grabbed the or of
about Such matches are a pleasure worrying
thu
minor is what hapis Swedish pal sitting next to this
him and pumped the "blood" | tu watch with these referens details at the expense of real
right on top of the job all the misconduct had produced som
old
The results in
way of Yet it seems to me that when punishment, the Football Association memo It makes me wonder exactly
out last was sent
season the how the FA gauges the extent majority of referees become too of a man's punishment, when
looking preoccupied in
for onc player can Ket minor Indiscretions rather than suspension
passing iemark the serious offences.
jungentlemanty
to and # referee By this, I mean referees were
player who on with thnelches out" concerned
opponent
וונה
але
When they tried to crowd into Into him. We all roured.
Meanwhile I leave the U.S.| time. ite simply forced Jack Demp-
#9 his five attentant the hotel conference-room Ingaight mob with this story.
held up his hand, pointed to told to me by Ingemar Jubans- four of the Americans, and said:
"Once upon a time, four for- cigners altacked
Swede. When asked how they got on, foreigners replied. 'We the fought for two hours. If we hadn't got his erutches away. the Swede would have
killed its","
Unfair an America. Ingo Isn't
On the train back from Porth- caw!, where Johansson watch
Henry
Cooper and Joe Erskine win, the divulged some
ed
"You four go away, please, I am here with Mr Abiquíst, my adviser, Six against two is not folt. Two against two O.K."
Two
two Brainst
It was. That's how the big contract was
Yet thin shrewd Swede, who
swimming she has not yet reached the 1.77/ of the plans for his next trip argued out.
|
lists more than any District Investigation, can Attorney's
friends and enjoy relax with naive pleasures,
Such as the endless funny which Johansson stories with
д Arst-class carriage amused on the four-hour rall trip from Wales, all of them in near-idiomatic English
Sports Diary
TO-DAY
Tennis
to the States. the country that metres (5 feet 9 inches) which has lost the world heavyweights shaken the US. fight mono- even on crutches. gave her the world record in ittle after 25
years unbroken 1957 until it was
taken away mnapoly well as in parachute-Jumping. Inst October
Vienna 112
by Kanank's loianda Bales with fame suit was talking dyna- The young gent In the grey Biggest Attraction High standard of play is likely lezp of 1.83 metres (six feet).
mite: In the table tennis events, an»
Apart from Mk Cheng.
want my friends kept "only have not yet The cuter rim of the stadium; ether spurt in wile China is Chinese achtelle
Jung Kuo-tuan. produced a performer of top round me next time I go to the rises to four storeys, Rooms on forging ahead.
States," sald Johansson. the second.
European ex- winner of this year's men's table world standard third and fourth
"I shud plek my surring Alcors have
been designed as trinis singles world champion-perts who have studied Chinese und com-
will be partners. There hostels to accommodate up to
West Ger-athletes in training slip at Dortmund,
American trainers or managers. entrants pelition say they thik it may 4,000 athletes. On the ground many, is among the four there will be exhibition
be some years yet before they There will be no strangers from the scuthern coastal pre- halls, restaurants, cinemas and vince of Kwangleng.
become a power on the inter- Basket-
my camp. No une will get to see me unless I want ball is ranked as China's most rational track and geld mere. chbrooms, reports say.
widely-played sport.
si the
there," games Suceer Kems to attenek the should give some
from a Fighting talk clues about biggest
eirainly In crown,
whose private life looks so in- their progress and prospects. --- Peking, and the soccer tourna Reuter.
offensive, so peaceful,
The National Games which will Inaugurate the new sodium this manth are being krid in honour of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the
Communist Chinese People's Republic which falls on October 1,
Thousands of competitors are coming frum all over the country, including Mongol racing horsemen end markhmen trop Tibet.
40 Events
There will be more than 40 events ranging from track and Girid c1letics 1E) old-style Chinese teneing, and including swimming, parchute- noteer,
weightlifts, table
Janseball
Jumplag
tennis, motor-cycling,
end a Morse-code sending and receiving contes for radios operators.
Some of the
events will be
held at other sites in the capital, There will be Exhibitlar performances of a number of sports recently introduced Into China including track cycling, epee and foil fencing. freestyle and Greco-Raman wrestling and speedboat rzcing.
Various provinces And bir cities have been holding local qualifying
since competitions spring to help select their teams for the games.
Peking and Shanghai, China's Ingest city, each wil send a lewm at 400 men and women athletes. So will the firmy, whose strong contingent includes 30 national record-holders.
China's national minority races will : represented, Teams of expert riders picked from the
herdsmen of Inner Mongolia and Sluklang -
FOUR D. JONES
FOUR D. JONES
US TO IT
"HES! YOU CAN'T
MEET ON
gas U3...
HELPI
FERDINAND
NANCY
MATI
Performances
HEY "NOT ON YOUR HEL, DONIS COME OIL, AND SHRUNK PAGE TRACK TESTER THANK YOU GIVE ME A
·GOOD W
I'VE HAD CHOLIGH OF FOOT
JONES!!!
ANY
JONES THE STAT
THEY TO PUNTA QLEDY
AND SO AS CLƏT STA
Then there, was The "trans- fusion,"
no
in
in
One of the brought back
hin
is a big, phonoy syringe.
mun
souvenirs logo from the Stales hypodermic
He plunged it into fellow- Traveller Jack Solomons' bared
ATTM.
by MADDOCKS
By Mik
Colony Open Tormis Chainples- whips si LRC. 5.20 p.m.
Bwimming
HK Police Aquatic heats 2 p.m., Victoria Pool,
TO-MONROW Tenni Colony Open Tennis Champlos- stue at LRC, 5.30 p.m.
Swimming
heats
at
HKC Police Aquatic Victoria Pool, 2 p.
Swimming gala for Tingle Club
members at EYMCA pool p.m.
SHEAFFERS
NEW BALLPOI DEWITH
STERLING SILVER
TIP
ANLABE
AT ALL SOOD STOKES
rtist's prefer
YOU
BIG
By Ernio Bushmiller
YOU DON'T PAY
TIGHTWAD ANYTHING
SWISSAIR
THE AIRLINE OF SWITZERLAND
more
for
days' un
a
wasting tacties, appealing. with a right to the Jaw receives standing on the ball to delay waly the same sentencel· the taking jot free kicks and
forgetting the
such
mejor crimes
as over-the-ball
and deliberate hacklog.
tackles
Recently, 1: conversation
To me, is an ogleal' as giving the same senience to a chap who teals a lot of bread as the
person who embezzle £30,000.
Reforces have
will: Billy Walker, Notlage make or mar a game,
the power to And it is Forest's manager posed the
No we
the complaining that question: "How many referees
FA does not back them up. My know what constitutes over-experience suggests they receive the-ball and violent and dust-every suppor gerous tuckling?"
-Lümden Express Seruter).
Brandt's Ninth-Inning Home Run Gives Giants
4-3 Win Over Cubs
San Francisco, Sept. 2. Baby-faced Jackie Brandt crashed a home run în the ninth inning today to give the National League leaders, San Francisco Giants, a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs, and pull them out of a tailspin.
Brandt's big hit-his 12th of, the reason, was the third of the day to be registered by the Glants. Fellipe Alou hit a solo homer in the fourth innings and Rookie Willie McCovey hit - other in the sixth as San Fran cisco moved away to a J-1 lead
Knocked Out
Don Elston, the Cubs' ace reliever, started the ninth inning in place of Art Ceccarelli, who had gone ou! in the previous frame for a pinch-hitter, Elston, who lost his seventh against six wine, relired Orlando Copeda on a fly to right for the first out. But then Brandt, who had out his troubles Alling in for the But the Cubs knocked Mike McCormick in the ninth Injured Jim Davenport at third inning while scoring two runs buse, came through with a blow which tied the game, McCormick which just cleared the screen had a two-hitter going when thef at the 340-fool mark. ninth opened. He gave way to Sam Jones with two on and one out,
Results
National League,
00-0101-3-6-
Jones, who eventually came out of the game with his 18th Chicago. victory, then served up run. San Francisco 010-301-001-—2—0 Cecopreili, Elsion by and New- sooring singles to Ernie Banks mani hicCormick, S. Jones ( and and pinch-hitter Wall Moryn Negan. WP-3. Jones 18-12; LP- (6-7). 19-Alou - (10th), before striking out Iry Noren Elton
Thinson (18th), for the fund out,
Brand (12th) UPI.
McCovey (0th),
A
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
2
(No SCIEN
Here is a problem by G. 0. Abbey (Observer, 1920). White Ho play and mate in two moves, London Express astuku.
Rugby Results
London, Sept. 2.
*Résulta of tonight's Rugby
League matches were:
1 1510gatasi Teatherstone
Bt Helens Falford
23 Widnes
55 Batley
--Reuler.
«ERNIS BUSKMILLER
WE PAY
3% INTEREST ON YOUR SAVINGS
VISIT
OUR BANK
Q
BRICK BRADFORD
WELL... SHE HAS LESB, BRICK. STAND HER UP ON THEM!
SHES BEEN HURT, PAM! SHE
NEEDS HELP!
WE ALL NEED HELPS WERE STRANGED ON THE MOON! PUT HER POWN--ILL. TREAT HER
INJURY
OH, SHE'S VERY LIGHT { PAMI WEIGHS PRACTICALLY,
NOTHING! CUTE KIR
HUH, PAMI
OUT OF THE WORLD! SHE HAS HER OROG IN ORBIT AROUND YOU! WHATS SHE DOING HERE ANYWAYS
By Paul Norris
SHE JUST ASKED THE SAME ABOUT YOU! YOU] FORKE CARE OF HER! I'LL GET MEDICAL SUPPLIES FROM THE
TANKI
ROWNTREE'S
THE
ALRO
MILK CHOCOLATE THAT'S DIFFERENT!
Keep in
Circulation
with
San Miguel
TYPHOON MAP
With Latest Amendments
$500 MOUNTED
from
$4.NMOUNTED
South China Morning Post Ltd.
HONG KONG & KOWLOON