THE CHINA MAIL,
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1960.
Major upset YORKSHIRE REGAIN LEAD ENGLISH FOOTBALL
in yesterday's
10-wicket win over Open Singles Leicester while lawn bowls
By ROBERT TAY
One major upsel was re- gistered yesterday in the quarter-final matches of the Colony Open Singles Lawn Bowls Champion- ship.
Playing exceptionally fine
bowls W. Chambers
Kowloon Dock Club eliminated current 'Cham- pion of champions' and bowler Empire Games
A. P. Pereira of Recreio by 21-16.
Brilliant late ralies featured two of the other three matches. At the Kowloon Bowling Green
BEST GAME
Lancs lose to Essex
London, Aug. 16. Yorkshire regained the lead in the English Championship today County Cricket when they beat Leicestershire by ten wickets at Leeds and Lancashire lost to Essex by nine wickets at Southend.
The reigning champions needed only sever dismissing Leicestershire to win after for 189, and got them off five deliveries just before lunch to put their average up to 8.07.
Essex wanted 15 to com. plete a notable "double" of victories, first over Yorkshire and then over Lancashire to day, which pushed both sides from the Lop the table. Lancashire, too, had followed
came
TOUGH GERMANS BANK ON 24 MEDALS ARMIN HARY HEADS GOLD HOPES
Expert Germany's Olympic team to be our strong-
est ever-except for the Berlin Olympics of 1936 #heft Germany "lost" all other nations. True, some other countries will also be stronger than in Melbourne, 1956, but I still forecast we shall bring home at least 24 medals.
Our total in the Melbourne Valentin holds the Karupean and Stockholm (riding) Olynipičà mile (min. 56.5sec.) and the
1,000 six gold, 13 silver, and
metres world
record
the riding, is being held with
Many judges think a gold medal awaits Valentin for the German 1,500 metres in Rome, optimism is the tough selection procedure.
was seven bronze medals. This time (2min. 18.7spc.). other events in Rome.
One reason
to
for
Leading hope
Watch Hans
victor
Leicestershire had followed Ave for $7 for Esger, Lan
As well as fighting their way in East or West the top on after scoring only 110 in cashire's average dropped to 7.62
Another East German Army Cluo, D. C. Symmons dought back reply to Yorkshire's 293, and Another double
Germany, most competitors have officer, Hans Grodotzski, was
Olympic from 11-20 to score a surpris-improved little on their over- Lord's, where Middlesex com had to face East-West Gennan tipped by ing 21-20 victory against Indian night 108 for three the only pleted two victories over Surrey eliminators to reach the all-Valdimir Kur (Russia) as his Recreation Club's Sherry Bucks, real opposition coming from for the first time since 1948 Germian team.
successor over 5,000 and 10,000 and at the Hongkong Football opener Maurlee Hallam, who with a win by eight wickets.
metres, Club, F. W. Hollands of Police scored 64.
Surrey started the day with
Twenty-eight-year-old Gro- Recreation Club after being 0-9
an eight-run advantage und all
has done the 5,000 and 9-15 down against IRC's!
their second innings wickets A leading hope is 23-year-old dolzski A. M. Omar came back strongly
hand, but with Alan Moss, as Armin Hary, a Rhineland in metres under 13min. 50s, and He recently the 10,000 metres under 29min. in the late stages tu take the
their
Middlesex strument maker. spearhead
3,000 metres he har match by 24-19.
bowled and fielded to such pur- clipped one-tenth of a second off Over
100 metres world record, threatened Gordon Pirie's world pose that by one c'clock seven the
clocking 10 sec. dead.
record (min. 52.89cc,) with a Hary has evolved a start | time of 7min. 54.2sec, men, had gone for 70.
which enables him to fall fitb Dr Manfred Steinbach, the right running rhythm after | young general practitioner rom only three steps.
the Volkswagen city of Wolfs Carl Kaufmann, young burg, should clear eight meren Karlsruhe operetta singer, aims in the long jump-sufficient for best 400 metres time of 45.4 sec. metres. in two hours 35 minutes. Eric
Kaufmann, Ruhr policeman Gale were Manfred Russa1
Kinder (best time paired in an opening stand 45.8 set.), Jochen Reske (46.5 78, and Gale went on to compllo sec.), and Cologne's Johannes an undefeated 88, hittlog the Kaiser (48.4 sec.), are out to beat winning runs with his eleventh the Jamaican relay record
3min. 3.9 sec. in the 4 x 400 four
relay.
and
Free hitting
and in the
end
By
Adolf Scherer
Sports. writer of Dusseldorf
다
A lucky draw could also rive Germany hockey medal. Student Klaus Zachringer, small calibre shooting European champion, is a West German threet 10 the Communist countries. He holds the world record of 1,140 points for three Fosition shooting
National hero Wilfried Dietrich, silver medal winner in Melbourne in the heavy-weight freestyle wrest ling, and unbeaten since 1958. hopes to gain two medals inds time in both freestyle and Graeco-Roman..
The best game of the after-on, but only added 198 to their noon, however, was seen in the Arzt innings 106 in reply to the slash at the Hongkong Football Essex declaration at 289 for Club between the two former nine. There was opposition from
Free hitting by David Gibso champions M. B., Hassan
Jack Dyson (60) and Geoff and Teny Lock added 71 in 48 F. R. Kermani.
Clayton (38) who put on 94 for minutes, Both players produced
the seventh wicket, but with [Middlesex were set 182 to win to take four seconds off his own a medal. His best so far is 7.98 road racing champion in 1858 some exceptionally fine bowls off-spinner Alan Hurd taking and although the final score WAN 21-14 in favour Kerman, the gaze was much more closely fought out than the score would indicate, and was in fact one worthy of being a final. Hassan
of
took in cany 8-3 lead after the first it heads. gradually gained but Kermani
his touch and drew level at 10-10 on the 17th head. For the next five hoods, the two bowlers fought it out neck-10- neck.
Argentinian's successful Channel swim
Dover, Aug. 16.
and Bob
Batsman Graham Atkins was instrumental In Somer- set's 10-wicket win against
at Kidder Worcestershire
14
minster. Re made an tö- defeated 115, including fours, in 24 hours.
A burly 29-year-old. Argen- finian sulesman, Alfredo Glucestershire's. Mart Camarero, today became the Young shone at Cheltenham Kermant moved sightly ahead second swimmer to conquer the where Hampshire were beaten with a single on the next head
English Channel this summer.
He scored 114 by six wickets. with his and followed it up
He swam the 22-mile stretch not out with two sizes and 14 best head in the match. Ho'of
from the coast of waler rested Hassan's wucher with France to Southeast England in
second wood and did
12 hours and 22 minutes,
his
it
again with his third wood after
This was well outside the re-
Hassan had in turn rested cord of 10 hours and 40 minutes
out the
Arst shot.
A number 04 Channel
summer
Kermani set up by an Egyptian, Assan then drew, another shot within a Abdel Rehim. 10 years ago. few inches of the jack to chalk up & three on this head and take a commanding 18-14 lead. A single and a two on the next two heads completed the match.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS MEN'S OPEN SINGLES Quarter-finals
F. R. Kermani (KCC) beat
M. B. Hassan (IRC) 21-14.
F. W. Hollunds (PRC) beat!
A. M. Omar (IRC) 24-19. Chambers (KDC)
W.
beat
A. P. Pereira (Recreio) 21-16.
D. C. Symons (KCC) beat S. Bucks (IRC) 21-20,
LADIES' OPEN SINGLES Second round
Mrs J. Banks (KDC) beat Mrs E. Edwards (HKFC) 21-19.
Mrs J. Liddell (KBGC) beat Mrs D. Bicheno (KBGC) 23-20. MIXED PAIRS. First round
A. B. Marques and Mrs M. Rozario (Recrelo) beat Mr and Mrs G. A. Souza (CCC) 24-11.
fours.
Results
Results in today's matchel were:
At Southend: Essex beat Lancashire by nine
16
are
East Germany's national hero. Gustav Adolf Schur, world cycle
And 1959 is good for a gold Two swimming hopes in the medal, 200 metres breaststroke
Germany also has another East German Ballor Egon trump-the joint rowing eight Henninger, European record formed by two Schlewig-Holsten
17.4sec.), clubs, Kiel and Ratzeburg, holder of
(2mla. and pretty brunelle Wi- This "unbeatable" eight hold trud Urselmann, women's the fastest time for the 2,000 world record holder (2min. metres stretch-5min, 47.0sec.. 50.2sée).
London Express Service.
"National Fast German Peoples Army" officer Siegfried
New name for The Bluebird' arrives
Taiwan's
in America for
Olympic team speed record attempt
Rome, Aug. 16.
talent for diplomacy has
Boston, Aug. 16.
wickets, An Italian Olymple official with A 41⁄2-million dollar jet turbine car, brought from England to try for a world land speed record, arrived in Boston today.
for one. Lancashire
*
100
probably solved one of the
knotty political problems of
the 17th Olymple Games,
attempts have been made this sex 289 for nine declared and
but until today the only other successful swimmer had been a 22-year-old Kent and 198 (J. Dyson 60, A. Hard
live for 47). Essex 14 points. news agent, Michael Jennings, who completed the England crossing in 13 hours and 31 minutes.--Router.
France-
BASKETBALL
RESULTS
Bologna, Aug. 10. Results of today's Olympic basketball tourna ment malches were:
qualifying
Belgium 76, Canada 40. Greece 71, Switzerland 54. Hungary 142 Britain 49. Spain 77, Surinam 55.
Problem
to
Before the "Bluebird" was! driver to take the English- The problern concerned the even off the ship, a legal saarl
registered truck to Utah. At Birmingham: Warwick-
over shipment shire beat Glamorgan by seven name of the team from Nation developed
Cummings Diesel of New Eng- The Organising Utah where Donald Campbell land, Inc., will handle overland wickets. Glamorgan 211 for alist China.
said Officials Committee had listed
the Na- will attempt to break the 394.10 transportation. nine declared and 185 (A
Registry of Lewis 71). Warwickshire 288 tionalist contingent-Rod China
is not a member of the Interaan speed record at Utah's the Massachusetts
Motor Vehicles won't allow the Bonneville Salt Flats, for seven declared and 114 for tional Olympic Committee and
tractor-trailer to be driven by three (M. Smith 48 not out). therefore cannot compete in the
US-licensed driver without Warwickshire 14 points.
Gamesas Taiwan (Formosa),
special clearance. AL Cheltenham: Gloucester-
The Nationalists threatened shire beat Hampshire by six walkout unless the name was wickets. Hampshire 315 for Ave changed and all sort of diploma- declared and 116 (H. Horton 52, tic incidents threatened. D. Allen five for 31). Glouces-
A member of the Italian has pro- accepted
tershire 265 and 182 for four (Olympic Committee Nicholls 44 D. Young 114 not posed à compromise, out). Gloucestershire 12 points, by Nationalist China, to be sub-
Hampshire four points.
At Lord's Middlesex teat
Surrey by eight wickets. Suey
281 and 182. Middlesex 282 for Czechoslovakia 86, Taiwan 67, seven declared and 162 for wo (R. Gale 86 not out). Middlesex 12 points.
-AP,
Seven-wicket win
for Springboks
Canterbury, Aug. 16.
At Kidderminster: Somerset beat Worcestershire by the wickeds, Worcestershire 251 for nine declared and 216 for sk doclared (M. Horton 73, D. Richardson 66). Somerset 243 and 225 for one (G. Akason -115 not out, A. Balg 85 not out). Somerset 12 points, Wor- cestershire four points,
At Hove: Match drawn. Suş
five declared, sex 336 for
The South African tourists won their seventh Northamptonshire 170 and 370
or seven (M. Norman 5), P,
milted for the approval of the general assembly of the Inter- national Olympic Committee to meet here (IOC) scheduled on Saturday.
The racing car will be ship- ped Dr
special tractor- trailer, brought from England for the purpose. The problem developed over licensing of a
Olympic protest
Rome, Aug. 16.
But they said the problem was expected to be cleared up later today after talks with registry officers,
LEAGUE SIGNS TV AGREEMENT
London, Aug. 16.
The English Football League today signed an to put matches on television-and still hoped the plan would make British
Baid
women soccer-minded.
It sent a letter to the 92 League clubs explaining that much of the revenue from television would be used to pay for a vast public relations drive to get more Britons interested in the game.
start at
"It would," the letter said, I tember 10. That will "give the public, including mil 6.50 pm, when fans will have dr- home from · afternoon lions of women who watch TV rived on Saturday nights, a taste of games. the excitement and spectacle of first class football."
Britain' soccer bosses, alarmed by falling gates in recent seasons, have until now firmly refused to allow any matches to be televised except the Cup Final and mid-week Internationals.
Now they are taking the view that televised soccer might boost interest in the game.
The League's agreement is with Independent Television (TTV), which gets its revenue from advertisements. Twenty League games will be televised during the season, starting from five minutes before half-time.
The first
ITV will pay around £150,000 for the rights. The League plans to spend £45,000 of it on an ad- vertising campaign to try to get more people through the turns- tiles. AP.
OLYMPIC BRIEFS
Rome, Aug. 16. A chicken pox scare spread through the Australian block at the Olymple Village soon after The Football Association, the team moved in today. which runs the English Wrestler Ron Hunt, from Challenge Cup, is negotiating a Melbourne, came out in spots on similar agreement with the the last stage of the trip and state-run British Broadcasting went straight to bed. Corporation for the televising of Section manager Les Jones seven Cup matches.
thought it might be chicken pox
called
doctor who The League will switch the and kick-off time of games to be diagnosed heat rash. However, so that they won't he decided that Hunt should be televised
other matches. kept under observation for two compete with The first will be Blackpool ver- days. sus Bolton Wanderers on Sep-
Wins
Sword-carrying
Carabinieris
Bleep-Bleep Nunthorpe Stakes the b
York, Aug. 16,
Mrs M. L Taner's Bleep- Bleep won the Nunthorpe Stakes, run over five furlongs here to
day,
Mr S. Wootton's Kerrabee was second with Mr B. W. Grainger's Tin Whistle third. Seven run.
Official Starting prices were:
saluted tonight as the flags of three more countries - Ceylon, Nigeria and Rumania - went up at Olympic Village here.
The three national anthems were played before assembled athletes.
A group of 76 United States athletes arrived in Rome today by adr from New York.
ULS.
rabec, 9 to 4 favourite Tin 9 to 2 Bleep-Bleep, 3 to 1 Ker- Kenneth Wilson, the group in- Whistle.
Bleep
Winning distances: Bleep won by two lengths with a reck between second and third.-Ching Mall Special,
Sports Diary
TODAY Tebbia IRC Championships; Men's Singles Opel, Ladier Doubles Open. The Armstrong Cup, 5.30 pm.
Flowk
Colony Mixed Pairs matcher at
5.10 1.
The Bluebird arrived aboard ARC, HKFC, KBGC, PRC, Recreio, the SS American Veteran frum Liverpool, England, a day ear
lier than scheduled.
Drivers take it to Utah were not to arrive until tonight, Cummings officials said. Ship ment to Utah was expected to
Under the compromise, Na-Mr Harold Austad, manager of / get underway on Wednesday.
ilonalist China would be "Chinese Republic Labelled (Taiwan)," in official pro- grammes.-UPI.
Real Madrid win in West Berlin
It took five years to build the the Now Zealand Olymple Bluebird, and 76 British auto- team, is to protest to the mobile firms participated.-AP. Olymple authorities about the
of
proposed starting time the 50 kilometre walk On September 7.
The race is scheduled at the moment to begin at 1.30
pm
(local time)--the hottest part of the day..
Norman Read, the New Zea- lander who won, the 50 kilo- metre walk in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, said today that Wes! Berlin, Aug. 16. match against County opposition when they watts 64, B. Crump 71, R.
West the proposed starting time was Real Madrid defeated beat Kent by 160 runs here today.
Tyson 82). Sussex four paints. Berlin's Victoria-Hertha Foot-"ridiculous".
He said that the officials who At Notingham: Derbyshire ball Club one goal to nil here Springbok plain Jackie, first four wickets for 46, but bent Nottinghamshire by nine tonight before 70,000 spectators. planned the time should be the getting off on a 50 kilometre the South a stand of 80 by Peter Richard- wickets. Nottinghamshire 28 and The goal was scored in McGlew declared Africans' second innings at 235 sori and Bob Wilson held up 97. Derbyshire 288 for nine second half (93rd minute) by walk-and see how they liked it.
declared and 71 for one. Derby right-halt Mateos. for nine wickets, setting Rent South Africa's victory bid.
shire 12 points.
Play was prolonged over the the task of scoring 316 in 230 When Wilson became Tay-
At Lesin: Yorkshire beat Let normal 90 minutes owing to minutes. Kent, however, never fleld's 100th victim of the tour,
cestershire by 10 wickets: several interriiplings which took looked like troubling the South the
wickets again began to Yorkshire 293 and nine for no place during the game. Africans and they were all ou tumble and the tourists had no wicket. Leicestershire J10 and The Spanish them will leave for 185.
trouble in dismissing the tail- 189. Yorkshire 14 points Germany on Wednesday for
Copenhagen.-AFP. teenders for the win.Reuter. Reuter.
Atholl McKinnon tourists' slow left-arin bowler' made a bid for a place in the team to play the final Test against England, by taking four wickets for 62 runs to finish with a match analysis of 11 for 185.
Of-spinner Hugh Tayfield claimed three wickets for 51 to bring his tally of wickets the tour to 102.
A stand
01
The South Africans hit out gally in the morning, scoring 129 1 110 minutes McGlew declared at 236
before for
ming. Jon Feltw-Smith com pleted his second 85 of the match, hitting dhe fours in a slay of 100 mkut
differenties when they lost their
THE GAMBOLS
Coach
Annual
TOMORROW
Meeting meeting of Hono Football Assodation, H.K. Stadium
Hongkong
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Cbet League Ekog Bag per
Ancwiat unesting of Asalatia Association, Educatiod Dept. 5.30 pai.
Bowli Mons Paley swoond round matoties et BROC 16. Ceci do, AGC, IRC, KCC., HTC, 6.15 gm.
worried över
Jon Konrads' form
Rome, Aug. 16.
Don Talbot, Australian Olympic swimming coach,
Led by the President of the Olympic Committee, Mr duded nire boxers, 17 men and five women fencers, 12 marks- men, six women gymnasts, one man extered for gymnastics, and four athletes entered for the modern pentathlon.
A special outsize bed, eight feet long was delivered tonight to the Soviet team at the Olympic Village,
It was specially made by a Roman carpenter following B telegram from Moscow several days ago.
The bed will be used by So- vlet basketball player Kruminch. He is seven feet two inches tall. -Router.
HERB ELLIOTT
BEATEN IN
THE 800m
Hero
а
Sydney, Aug. 15. Elliot, Australia's mickle-distance star who has hot fully recovered from stomach allment, was soundly beaten in the 800 metres during the final Australian Olymple athletics trials here tonight.
Elliott chose the shorter race in preference to the more gruel- fing 1,500 metres. He was de- feated by Dr Tony Blue, of queensland, who
won in one
was reported today to be very unhappy about me 18.8 seconds.
Afterwards Elliott said he had the progress made by Jon Konrads, the young been able to eat three meals to Australian star, in his pre-Olympic training day but he added that he was not
completely fit-Reuter
programme.
Read is taking vitamin treat- ment here to try to shake off a
Talbot was quoted as telling "But, instead," Talbot said, cold. He picked it up after a bout of influenza, which inter- a newsman on arrival here to the only got 40 days of inter- rupted his training for three day he had hoped Konrads mfitient training because he and weeks before he joined the would have 80 days of uninter-other Australian swburners had Olymple squad in Auckland-rupted training at home before to make many fund-raising ap-
coming to Rome.
pearances throughout the coun-
Reuter.
by Barry Appleby
MRS. LEAF?. YOUR DINNER'S BURNING
COOK BETTER MEALS
WITH GAS
Disappointing
CHESS
by LEDUARD BARDEN
Konrads' performances in pre-Olymple trials have been disappointing but. there have been other reports that the youngster, one of the favourites 2
for the 400-metre and 1,500- mette events, has been kept under wraps and slowly buili up to his peak for the Rome Gimes.
Talbot arrived with the first
contingent of 120 Olympic Here is a problem by B. J,
athletes and officials frpers Aims- de C. Andrade (Observer, 1977), tralia after a day's delay because White to play and mate in two
of engine trouble in their char
fered plane and bad weather.
No.
tries in field hockey, swimming,
The contingent included
ca 1287 ch,
Tthreat
weight-diging, yachting, Wreetsch K-RI'S KERT mate Hnet canoeing and modern pen- KING PR=R1, Restant, tatalon AP.