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WEEKEND SOFTBALL
CHAMPION BRAVES CLASH WITH CHEYENNES IN MATCH OF THE WEEK
By OLLY VAS
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1959.
Neale Fraser Is The New Tennis King
By DEREK JOHN
London.
For the first time in several years the carrent Wimbledon champion is not recognised as the world's No. 1 player in amatear lawn tennis. Instead, the honour goes once again to an Australian
Fraser, winner of the U.S. Championship.
World
left-handed Neale
as being. Buchholz, Holmberg, Laver and į Mackay. i would place Laver, the Wimbledon runner-up, and Mackay.. Wimbledon
me who won the Aus- rankings strike Olmedo.
U.S. Indoor tittes,slightly crazy, tralian and
as Wimbledon, gets
No. 3 spot goes to the rising Barry the place In
of India, Ramanathan | semi-finalist. directly after Rankings for 1859.
Krishnan, a steady, shrewd, but Pietrangell.
beat player. He Some may think this is tough uninspired
Fraer in minor 1
entirely with the had no women's on the dynamic Peruvian whose Olmedo and fantastic victories in the Davis tournaments but he
rankings Buena, when the Truman, Fleitz, Reynolds, Mor- Cup last December came after spectacular victories
timer, Hard, Haydon, Schour. man, Ramirez and Knode-and jespecially welcome the recogni- of table- tion of Ana Haydon tennis fame.
The highlight of this week's softball games is undoubtedly the clash between the two giants: of the Senior League, Robert Remedios' Cheyennes and Ed 'Chief' Carvalho's Braves, as well All the other five games on the league schedule second will have to take back seats. Tomorrow's Junior games at under way at 2.00 p.m. improving New Asia take on The Cheyenues will be eager
their 13-11 upsel n to avenge the hands of the Collegians only In that twe chart weeks ago. match New Asia ralbed for 10 runs in a single inning and hurt on for the rest of the Kane to
The toke the decision. Cheyennes will be all out to prove that it wre fet one of those things.
'Grudge' Fight
I unlikely that New Asia will Anolber Jocky break pinst the Cheyennes and I f the latter to reverse the decision
in this rudge' fight
41 3.30 p.m
the Cardinals bats. Pandas erOS and the Here again another nottle is in the big for the latter beat the Redbirds by a solitary run in the first meeting some months back.
King's Park get when the fast the Cheyennes, this time agbist the Giants. when they meet at 11.00 Tot The Dodgers are currently play- softball and should ing good haven fably ensy time disposing! of Ray Cordeiro, and friends.
A 2.00 p.m. the champion Braves come > against the Robert Last year Cheyenner. Remedios' boys upset the de- !fending
champions in the first Rame the Braves played.
Pitching Duel
Carvalho has a bunch of new players, all eager beavers anti fast on their feet, The Braves' Vic Pedruco showed fine form in recent matches, while opposing piteber Dave Malig was way off the target Jast werk. Mallg tesses come tricky slants and it will turn out to be quite a puch- ing duel should these two pro- duce their best form
The Braves have
|
the 1958
world and Americen stakes were high. rankings had bvez decided. Have you ever heard
Perhaps not, There was no one near his clans Bernard Bartzen?
and Fraser did at Wimbledon not even reach the final
Paid The Price
I heartliy ISTING with Olmedo these world rankings. has paid the price for his tem- peramental displays after Wim- bledon when ነገሮ suffered unaccountable defeats agains South Africans Abe Segal and Inn Vermaak, who are not even among the world's top ten.
You Fraser lacks the Mind versatility of
ite Olmedo. relire too much on his swerving service. His back. hand is suspect, But he sa great fighter and he best laky Olmedo in the Davis Cup and the final at Forest 1111},
the world's having been
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Left-handed Miss Haydon, 3 bustling blonde, is overshadow- Christine d in Britain by Truman and Angels Mortimer. But she would be the No. 1 player in most other countries.
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
NEALE FRASER
R
can pops up as
No. 4n the
How life has changed for the good-natured giant of Aus- Un this year tralian tennis. he ranked
loser, i ne de-realest The Cardinals
< having i trouble elding a team Should tensive ade while the Cheyen-runner-up in they turn up with a scratch murs rely on power at the plate. Wimbledon, Australia, Italy and world on the strength of vie
are undefeated to a semi-finalist in the American the Pondas will repeat their hath sides
Corber vietory,
tile.
the singles of
I wish I could forecast a and French Championships.
10
the Anyway my personal choice On Sunday morning at 9.30 is the Braves win by
take
norrow margin .. the Cheyennes
are the tyi the Square who
The popular Stardusts ng ladies' team without a win so!
down the softball curtain in the far. i ste clear of making a feest because a little bird has last game of the day, at 3.30 whispered in any car that the Cheyennes Ion are having some dieully raising a team.
against the Indians. I fancy the latter to take this one
of heavier by virtu
hitting though the Stardusts My put
opposition, some Fred Diesta's Dodgers stinulf
their winning ways, fossing in the towel.
FOUR D. JONES
HADDOCKS
GOOD
GRIEF AM (GLAD 174 KEEPING
MY TROTTERS
ON THE GROUND
FERDINAND
NANCY
STEP
before
For years he was overshadow- on by inad and Rosewall and then by Cooper and Anderson. due to the hig Now, partly
Kramer, he Spending of Jack has come into his own.
101 if there i togie in the
of ranking of Fraser ahead Olmedo the rest of the men's since he did not play abroad at all this year.
But this Ameri-
tories over Buchholz, Savitt.
Seixas and Mackay,
Agroc
More signifleant to me is the fact that he lost to over- the-lil| Jaroslav Drobny, out- of-practice Ham Richardson, and unhypressive Green.
Mike
Other places in the top ten are taken by Ayala, Pletrangeli,
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Ranjitsinhji. Duleepsinhji the Nawab of Pataudi. Now another Indian has emerged as an England Test cricketer-27-year-old Ranian Subba Row, a burly six-foot batsman who also bowls googlies and leg- breaks.
Like his partner Geoff Pullar, he is a left-hander who has been converted into an opening to solve batsmen in an effort England's biggest problem. Until last season he had never open- ed an innings in his life.
bar- The son of an Indian rister, Bubba Row was born, educated. and WAN taught cricket in England.
Coached
he who Surrey he-
At Whitgift School coached by the former all-rounder Eddie Watts, came school cricket captain and topped the bowling as well as The batting averages.
As a Cambridge law student, he was a contemporary of Peter May and David Sheppard. 1e with proved himself as useful the ball as the bat by takin five wickels for 21 in the 1951 'Varsity match and eight wickets for Cambridge in their 1952 meeting with Yorkshire.
In 1933, Subba Row collect- ed h
third Blue and came fifth in the national batting Verarca, and second in the Surrey Averages. It was his first Reason 28 A county player.
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After two years as a National Servicemar 11
ho the RAF. Joined Northants by special res gistration and promptly hit the county's highest-ever 280 not out against Lancashire Two years later he was county captain.
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But Subba Row has not en- joyed such meteoric progress in Test cricket. He was given one Test innings in the 1958 series and wis against New Zealand ot for nine. He batted No. 5.
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He was kept out of the Teats by injury and did not ket another chance to girovo himself for England until the Fifth Test
apsirat India last August. He selved the
nortumliy whå scored 84-Ju$$ In time to clinch his place for the West Indies tour.
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tal at the wicket and is strongest on the off. He is also a player of indoite pati- ence who, having scorel hls first century, will
quietly set about getting another in the same innings.
Next he was named for
Three hundred runs flowed from his bat in one frst-class tour of Australia and there were
county hopes that he might emulate luulngs in 1957--a new those thee inmortal Indians record and the
biggest knock who each slammed
seen in England for eight years. in their debut against Austra- | Last season he came 13th in 1. But luckless Subba Row | the national averages with 1,917
runs for an average of 46.75. was never given the chance.
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