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U.S. SINGLES TENNIS TOURNAMENT
Laver, Emerson Qualify For Quarter-Finals
Forest Hills, Sopt. 8. Fourth-seeded Rod Laver of Australia, nursing a variety of ailments, led the field into the quarter-finals of the U.S. tennis singles championships today by defeating national collegiato champion Whitney Reed 6-1, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. Laver, 21-year-old Australian Davis Cupper, |
was handicapped by a bruised heel, a groin injury and an upset stomach, but he had too much power for the 26-year- old Reed,
to
Iced used his amortment of weird sheny
disorganise Laver in the third set, which he won by breaking Rod service at love in the final game.
After rest, however, Laver come back to score a service break for 3-2 lend in the fourth ret and held on gmly thereafter.
Next Opponent
Laver
will next play the winner of a match later loday bolween seventh-seeded Earl Buchhole and Ron Holmberg Emerson of Australia Roy gained the second of eight quarter-final berths in the men's
Bill Bond ngles by defeating
Bend, a tall, 6-2, 13-11, 6-2. blond 17-year-old player, made Itu match only in the second with sel when he played supreme confidence,
Emtrion showed his
į
P
Peru, the two top men's favour!- tes, bath had a day of rest,
Mrs Dorothy lead Knode, veteran American Inter- nationalist now residing in
Afxu Panama,
reached the quarter-finals by upsetting eighth-seeded Sally Apn Moore 6-2, 6-2, pounding away continually with her powerful forehand.
Sixth-seeded Ann Haydon of Britain entered the quarter- finals
defeating Justina by
| Bricka 6-0, 8-), in a test of
HOW WE DID n
Hoad, Sedgman
Team Spirit Is Secret Of Yorkshire
Success
Today, I Amm
the
proudest of men aliva -proud of my young team, and proud to be
the skipper of the side RON BURNET.
to break at last tho magnificent record of our old rivals, Surrey, How have we done it? The answer is simple: It is exactr ually a triumph of team spirit rather than a story of in- dividual proweBE.
A POWER
We try to think and act os u tea and we all share the sucresses and the failures. The players have always re- neled mamificently when the pressure has been on. better example could
is bright. left-handers. Miss Haydon will next meet Miss Reynolds.
Third-peeded ChristiDO Tru- man, Britain's six-foot teenager, entered the round of eight by defeating Karol Fugeros 6-1, 6-4, and will next play Mrs Knode. Christine won the first set easily but had to put on the pressure to erase a 1-4 dafleit by winning five straight games with her own strong, all-court attack in the
confidence by electing to re-second set-UPI. ceive after he had won the
Loss, and came through with a Bervice break in the first game of the first sel.
Toyed
He loyed with Bond for the remainder of the sct, but didn't shake the youngster's confidencu,
Bord, with ne pressure on him, u all his shots hard in the second set and they were RO- ing where he wanted liem. Emerson raised his own game maich Bond and finally broke through as Dond madb OTTOTS off his ground strokes.
then Emerson
hurried
through the last set.
He will next mert the winter Alex Olmedo-Chuck of the McKinley match,
Shcond-seeded Sandra Rey- nolds of South Africa became the Arrl woman player to reach the quarter-Reals when she ousted Dona Floyd 6-3, 10-8, i
running baschine battle.
Light Day
Neither girl had coalidence in her volley and both often re- sorted to long ratlles from the backcourt. Miss Floyd was effective the few times she did go to the net but the South African's solid forehand, hard and accurate, proved to be the winning weapon.
cricket
What there
has the
be than the ending In our last match7 Yorkshire gradually improved 03 aide gained experience, and I prophesy that the future loo We are going to be a power once more.
Brian Sellars, our former captain and now chakman of
Yorkshire the
Committee, once said we couldn't win the What else title until 1981. could we do but roll up our sleeves and prove him wrong?
The Arst smell of cham- plonship victory was scented when we defeated Esacx at Colchester in June. To win,
Yorkshire scored 80 in nine overs--not bad going!
Thut success gave the boys & tremendous confidence. And
it ook Yorkshire to the op of the table for the first time in the season.
We suffered our disappoint- ments, en, gnd there seemed moments when I was im- possible that We Would At triumphani. emerge Worcester a fortnight ago an hour before lunch the odds against our winning musi have been very long indeed.
We twice lost to Surrey, by 56 runs at the Oval, and by 49 t Bradford, when we had the worst of the weather.
RESCUED
10
We were routed at Bristol for 35, the season's lowest toin. But again team apiril rescued us from the dumps.
I want
thank the their wonderful players for loyally and spirit which stood the test of adversity, and the Yorkshire Committee for the tacking In the inevitable moments of difficulty.
George Tribe
Indians Draw With Plays His Last
Lancs In Third
Of Tour Last Match
Blackpool, Sept. 8.
Set to get 214 runs for victory at the rate of 95 an hour, the Indian cricketers failed to beat the clock and were still 66 short of their target! with seven wickets in hand when their match against Lancashire ended in a draw here today.
British
Soccer Results
Results of
This was a light day the matches were;
10-day schedule of the tourna- ment. Neste Fraser of Aus- tralia and Alex Olmedo
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Final scores wert:
Lancashire 488 for seven de- clared and 175 for Ave declared. India 448 and 140 for three,
After gaining a first innings lead of 38 when they captur- ed the last two Indian wickets for 26 runs this morning, Lancashire batted agstessive. ly in their second inalin gen. John Bond, 58 not out, and his sixth wielset partner Brist Booth, 37 rattled up 88, in 55 minutes, Bond rotching his 50 In as many minutes. He hit a six ad seven fours,
Big Hitting
The tourists had 2 hours to get their ruz They took risks but in spite of sane big hitting { by Apte, who made 55 and Buig, 69 not out, they were unable to keep up their break-neck race against time.
Apte batted well for his 65, which took 70 minutes and in- ocluded eight faurs.
Balg also displayed his class in his undefeated innings, which included nine tours. His half century was scored in as meny minutes.
Two Moro Matches
In Semi-Finals
Of World Pro
Tournament
Paris, Sept. 8. Australia's Lewis Hoad de
feated compatriot Mervyn Rose 8-6, 6-2, 6-4, and / Frank Sedgman, another Australian, beat Pancho Segura of Ecuador 6-3, 6-1, 1-6, 6-2; after some brilliant displays of ten- nis in the singles quarter- finals of the world pro fessional clay court cham- pionships here today.
The hard-fought matches, featuring Koveral acrobatic volleys, thrilled more than 3,000 spectators al Roland GaTTOS Stadium and were a relief from the somewhat methodical eliminations of the previous two days.
Ex-Davis Cuppers Hond and Sedgman meet each other in one of the semi-final matches on Thursday,
In the doubles quarter-finals, Hoad combined with Tony Trabert of the United States to and
Araghter Robert Colin' Jacques Vemotii of France 6-0, 6-0, 0-2 and Mal Anderson and Ashley Cooper of Australla beat Paul Remy of France and J. Asboth of Hungary 0-3,~~AFP.
6-3, 15-20
Three Swedish Athletics Records Set Up
Goteborg, Sopt. 8. Three national records were broken In the "Goteborg Games", an international athletics
meeting here today.
Match In English Cricket European 1,500 metres
Medwin Scores For Spurs
Slipping past Arsenal defender, Wills (No. 2), Tottenham Hotspurs outside-right Medwin (just visible in white shirt) sidefools Spurs' first goal. Arsenal goalle, Standen, is on the ground, out of position. The match ended in a 1-1 draw-Reuterphoto.
"TIGER' MAY BE SAVIOUR
OF INDIAN CRICKET.
By DEREK JOHN
London.
Pathetic, ponderous, purposeless that's my summing-up of India's "chloroform" cricketers, whose inept performances finally rocked spec- tators to sleep in the so-called Test match at the Oval recently. Let's face it. Indian cricket has sunk to rock bottom and to the most critical stage in its history. Their present Test players are sub-stand-
Abbas All Baig ard and only one --
offers any real promise for the ** future.
—
ani
Sweden's Dan Waen, world 1,000 metres record holder, fall-1
India has sul never won a new answer to this crucial brating his 11th birthday when ed in his attempt to break the Test match in England. Now question.
his famous father was fragteal- record she is the first country to stiffer His choice for the Saviour of ly killed in a polo match? but broke the Swedish mark a 5-0 defeat in the mother- Indian cricket: on 18-year-old with a winning time of three country of cricket,
public schoolboy known 0.5 Like His Father minutes 40.7 secs.
What's gone wrong?
Tiger" to his friends at Win- People say that he is just chester Collego and to his Hike his father"-an ambitious friends in India as the Nawab
with boy
extraordinary of Pataudi, son of that immortal natural talent for cricket and batsman "Pat" Paleudi.
a fair for most sports.
school Al his preparatory it is said that in one match he hit 100 out of the school's total of 108 and then had a hand-bowled, "caught or ran outin the dismissal of every member of the opposi tion.
Hastings, Sept. 8.
In the same race, France'a India's batting is solely de- George Tribe, the former Michel Jazy placing third-fensive: she is sadly Inciting in
Australian Test all cracked the French record for bowling talent. rounder, took three the event in 3 mins 42.1 secs. But at the root of all her ericket problems there is one 41.0 secs- overwhelming need. She des- perately needs a great leader,
is not only Taon who shrewd theticlan but also on Inspiration to his mes
wickets for 64 runs when second in 3 mins
Poland's Lewandowski wns
he made his last first AFF. class appearance in Eng- lish cricket today.
Tribe, who has played for Northamptonshire in English county cricket since 1951, Gatis home to Australia at the end of next mumyth.
The 30-year-old Melbourne-born
player inked on the Elde here today, the monwealth XI being by an England X by wlakols.
RUGBY RESULTS
London, Sept. 8. Results of today's Rugby League matches were:
YORKSIUNE CUP Becona Round
14 F
locing Com benten two
uremiery
oldtan
COMPLETES 'DOUBLE'
TTC, who completed the
double" In coch
of his firal six seasons in county cricket, again did so this claiming 122 wickets with ris
Blow left-arm bowling, and kitting 1,082 runs,
Benson
the
A
At Scarborough today,
"Gentlemen" collapsed on seemingly purlock. batting pitch and were decisively beaton by "Players" by ton wickets. Tho löst eight wie-
the kets in
Gentlemen's Innings went for 10 rund
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Sports Diary
TO-DAY
Bowls
LEAGUE MATCH
21 Halifax
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There's an old saying in cricket: Cometh the hour,
cometh the man. Well, this is
Now Anthony De Mello Is the Mr Sport of India and his innumerable achievements | include organising the First Asian Games in 1951 and the World Table Tennis Cha293– plonships of 1952.
De Mello also knows noine-
At Winchester College,
the hour. Where is the man? thing about cricket. He found "Tiger" was coached by former ed the Board of Control for England pinyer Hubert Doncart
Club of India, and the Asian Cricket Conference.
A New Answer Cricket in India, the Cricket Little Abby Baig, an Oxford 17 freshman, is the favourite tip. But one famous cricket expert Anthony de Mello has a
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American 'Kart'
Craze Catches
On
In Britain
London.
The American 'Kart' Craze has now officially
caught on in Britain.
So it's worth taking notice when such a man says that the young Nawab is the player "In whom I believe lies much of India's cricket destiny."
Deplores
and by George Cox of Sussex, And at 10 he followed the footsteps of Ranji and Duleep by playing for Suscon,
Bays
His futuret De Mello "I believe that it is Tiger's intention, ultimately, to enter India's Foreign Service-but that he also meats to leave himself plenty of Umo for erle- ket."
For the one of Indian cric In his newly-published "Por- truft of Indian Sport (Mac-kut I only hope that Tirer does milion, 30s.) De Mello deplores not-like Rani and Duleep the way that the two great decide that Wa only worth stars of India — Ranjitsunhji playing cricket in England. and Duleepshii-did nothing
for
the game in their own country after gracing the fields] of English cricket,
But he praises the spirit of the late Nawab of Pataudi, who, after playing for Oxford, Worcestershire and England,
COLLIE SMITH
IS STILL
finally became the first to UNCONSCIOUS
Indian balaman' to carry hli talents home.
London, Sept. 8, The present Nawab has been Indian Test cricketer who, re- Cofile Smith, 25, the West entirely educated in England ceived a spinal fracture in a cer and he has already played in accident on Sunday on the main county cricket. But de Mc-lo At the meeting, the manu- facturers agreed that they would available
Four Classes
More than 40 representatives The best models How avail- of British cur manufacturers | ablo in Britain do up to around and car clube met here under 80 miles per hour and cost in the auspices of Britain's Royal | the neighbourhood of £100-
Automobile Club and agreed to or less if self-assembled, no ahead with plans to produce In the first innings Kripmā
Karts-miniature, bodyless cars Bingh; 160 not out, took his p.m.
racing-similar to those score to 178 before Delog LNC Tournaments: Colony Mixed now being used in the Undlest bowled. He bit one six and Doubler, Colony Ladies Singles. States and at Amertean ale force
Inter-hong #l'esp, Mixed Doubles bases in Britain. 28 fours in a slay of four hours 35 minutes.
The Indians have two more matches to play on the tour. They meet T. N. Petree's XI in a three-day match beginning tomorrow at Searborough and wind up
TERC.
3rd Division: KBGC v ERC, 430
Tennis
Meeting
Hongkong Archery Club annual mating. Diocesan Boys' Preparatory School, Waterloo Road, 9:30 p.m.
TO-MORROW Tennis
Tournaments; their tour with a Shiries, Gauts Men Doubles cap two-day game against Durham Final, Ladies' Singles Peap, inter
hong I cap on Saturday.Router.
6 winming Post Office Inter-Department Bwinning Gala, EYMCA, 7:30 p.m.
'Slamming Sam'
ed
Swings On
Sam Snead slams on. Twenty- five years agolt profcasional, "Slamming Sam" is again call- on to lead America into action for the Conada Cup tournament nt. Mathócrate November 18-21.
on
"His partner will be Dr Cary Middlecott, former dortint, now top money carter of the US. golf curcuit.
His unlikely that he or sing- che ciss will catch up in the zhoney-dartis stākos with Shend, With hid, foolproot awing he hào hi-ither fa a quarter-million dollar fortune. SALONIKON KAFFIRME REVVAR},
for
Popular Type
The most popular type of heart consists of a tubular frame
mounted on four 18-inch wheels with a two-stroko lawn-mower engine at the rear. There is a seat but no body and the throttle is operated by foot.
THE GAMBOLS
I'LL ASK GEORGE IF HE'LL PLAY WITH US
WELL MAKE HIM THE DIS CHAP
sny's:
"I believe he will be read between Stoke-on-Trent lo Inika and India and Birmingham, was stated ot the North Staffordshire Royal o ahead producing machines only, and that, in time, he will Infirmary tonight to be still in a which conformed in the main captain his country.
American designs - with
to
critical condition. He is still un- "He is born to leadership and conscious. the exception of the engines, which would be in four classes India is a country at present The other West Indian Test most readily obtainable on the sadly lacking in the Latent for cricketers, Garfield Sobers, 23, British market.
cricket captainey. On this point and Tom Dewdner, who were in The RAC representatives sold of Indian sport, at least, the the car with him, and who re- they would report to the RAC future seems to me to be clear ceived lacerations and bruises.
lo our competitions committee with a that Tiger
cricket were said to be comfortable, view to seeing on what basis the captain of the future."
The car was in collision with a sport should be organised In What kind of person in this cattle truck near Stone (Stafford- Britain.-China Mall Special, man of destiny, who was cete-shina),FP.
Lre Barry Appleby
19 H
COMING
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GAS IS TOPS
SAYS MR. THERM ·