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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1961.
£40,000 IN THE RED-BUT the aim is prOMOTION
HAMPSHIRE STILL LEADING Pompey plan battle
LAWN BOWLS
FIXTURES
bowls
The following kuwa Axlutes have been announci
by the Hongkong Lawn Bowls Association:
COLONY OPEN TRIPLES (Semi-Anale)
Tu
te played on Sunday, Aug. 13, starting at 4 pm.
AL PRC: W. M. Sousut, L. M. Sousae and M. Q. Wong (OCC) vs L. A. Rozarlo, M. A. Hathta no C, C. Ma (CCC).
At Beercio: A. G. Skeock, B. S. Gourlay and W. M. Davidson (KUC) vs F. R. Kermaui. P. Hughes and E. J. Lachell (KUGC).
OPEN HINGLES (Semi-finals)
To be played on Tuesday, August 15, starting at 3.30 pm.
A1 Recreio; D. C:Symong (KCC) vs E. J. Liddel: (KBGC) or ArtW. Lapicy (KDC); A. G. vs S. Y. Doc Skeoch (KDC) (KCC) or G. A. Souza (UCC).
OPEN KINKS (Final)
To b played on Sunday, August 20, storting at 4 pm.
At Taikom. B. J. Stevens, Russell, D. J. Hung und F. W. Hollands (PRC) vs R. G. Laurel, A M. Omar, F. R. Kerinant and G. A. Souza (CCC).
GUTIERREZ SHIELD (Second round)
To be played on Wednesday, Aug 16. starting at 5.30 pm.
A HKFC: Australia vs India.
Portugal ΛΕ KBGC: Ireland; Hongkong vs China.
AU HRCC Matayn vs Woles or England.
Asian Baseball Championship
ys
Tokyo, Aug. 9.
Baseball League The Asian
today it Committee announced has decided to hold the Fourth Asian Baseball Championship in Taipei from January 17 next year.
xild the The Committe Phillppines, Nationalist China. and Japan will South Korea take part in the Championships. The winner will be decided una double round-robin basis.
The Committee, composed of the four nations, ölso decided to restret the member of particl pants fram vach country to members including three unlcials and a referee.-AP,
Despite failure to take any points from drawn
match against Kent
MIDDLESEX, YORKSHIRE SECOND AND
THIRD
London, Aug. 8.
There were no changes at the top of the English County Cricket Championship table after the holiday matches ended today. Only one of the three leading challengers, Yorkshire, gained ony points, but they stay in third place behind Hampshire and Middlesex.
the
There was no play today in, Earlier in the day Australluni declared, (W. Alley, A. Balg
Indian between Bill Alloy, and "Roses" battle
Test 82 not out). Gloucestershire 177 Abbas Ali Bulg and player
had and 217 (D. Carpenter 32, K. Yorkshire and Loncashire Yorkshire hnd to be content added 130 in 110 minutes far | Palmer fly for 4). Somerset
14 points. with the four points gained from the Sunwrset third wicket.
Ai Canterbury: Mulch drawn, the Arst inning.
300 for six de- Hampshire clared and 185, Kent 380 (C. Cowdrey 150, A. Dixon #2). Kent two paints-Reuter
CHAMPIONSHIP TABLE
current
Che Hampshire, leaders. struggled all day against Kent. First they saw Kent, led by England baly man Colin Cowdrey, pass their Best-innings letal comfortably. and when they batted second time they were dis missed for 165.
Cowdrey's 156
mit
over-
Cowdrey, 95 nut night, carried his score in 136 before he was out. His Innings lasted over five hours and in- cluded six and 22 fours.
Middlesex came in for a pre- Sussex lunch baminering from
batman Leslie Lenham, who Тайб century in 113 reached miputry.
Lenhum, who was 102 not out when Sussex declared, hit a six and 12 fours and with Ken Suttle put on 109 in 02 minutes, for the second wicket.
Results
Ludoy's
Results of matches were:
cricket
At Sheffield: Match abandoned because of rain, Lancashire 173 and one for no wicket. York- hire 174 for eight declared. Yorkshire four points.
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The
County Championship table now is:
24 11 7 0 100 0.50 4 144 4,00
24
At Derby: Match abandone,
PW DND PRS A Lucause of rain, Derbyshire 270
Hampshire 25 14 5 5 0 202 8.00 for six declared and four for no
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1344 174 7.00 wicket. Northamptonshire 187. Yorkshire Worcenter Derbyshire Tour points.
Sux Match draw. Evek At Ilove: Sussex 288, for seven declared Gloucester and 235 for two-declared (A. Warlek Dakman 30, J, Lenham 102 not out, K
nut. Suttle 40. nol Middlesex 249 for nine declared Somerket
Clamorgan and 178 for six (F. Time 43). Lacant Surrey : Sussex four points.
Notts
beat
At the Oval: Surrey Nottinghamshire by 134 runs. declared Surrey 301 for seven
end 210 for eight declared (K. Barrington 95). Nottingham- shire 205 and 172 (N. 1 50).
Surrey 14 points.
Worcestershire AL Legion: beat
Middlesex, set to get 275 runs in 170 minutes for victory, Just their first three wickets to Eng- land all-rounder Ted Dexter In
the loter 12 deliveries, but
Essex by five wickets. batsmen played soundly and the Essex 280 and 128. Worcester- gaine ended in a draw.
First win
their first Burrey scored
win of the Championship Reason on their own ground. beating Nottinghamshire by 134 runs.
England batsman Ken Bar rington kit a fine 95 for Surrey to bring his match aggregate to 258.
Somerset beal Cloucestershire by 85 runs when they claimed the last Gloucestershire wicket with the fifth
shire 160 and 232 for Bve (R. Headley 40. D. Richardson 72). Worcestershire 12 points, Essex four points.
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Warwickshire Al Edgbaston:
Leicestershire by two beat wickets, Leicestershire 248 and 108
(G. for seven declared
101 Kirby 70). Warwickshire and 222 for eight (J. Kennedy 46, Stewart 47, 4. Van Geloven rix for 85). Warwickshire 12 Leicestershire four points, points.
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Beryl Burton loses world cycling title
10-
Douglas, Aug. 8. Yvonne Reynders of Bel- gium won the Women's World Pursuit Cycling Championship here night, healing the holder, Beryl Burton (Britain), in the final. The defending champion, Ermolaeva (Soviet Guling
Valentino Pan- Union), beal Alovu (Soviet Union) In 1Wo straight traces in the trial of the Sprint Champlonship,
Results were:
(2,830
Pursuit Championship metres} Final: 7. Reynders (Belgium), 4 mins 0.7 secs, beat B. Burton (Britain), mins 0.8 sOCS.
4
Sprint Final; Race 1 G. Ermolaeva (Soviet Union, holder) beat V. Panilova (Soviet Union) Ume for last
200 metres 14.0
Rate sees, Eimolaeva beat Panilova, last 200 metres. 14.5 secs.---Reuter,
حاج
International tennis wins for Ceylon and Thailand
Ipak, Aug. R. Thailand beat Melaya by two matches to one and Ceylon bout Singapore by three matches 10 nil in the six-nation Interna- tional Tennis Tournament which opened here tonight.
Tholland will meet the Philly- pines in u semi-final tio to- mitrow wille Ceylon will meet Japan
Keuter.
Fastest woman half-miler
Mrs Joy Jordan, the for world-record-holder
half-mile. the women's pounds her way round the White City track, London, to a clear victory in the half-mile event, during the recent Great Britain and Northern Ireland versus America athletics match. Mrs Jordan led all the way, and clocked 2 A. minutes 8,6 seconds. Oliver of Great Britain -waa second, the Amerl- can pair Daniels and Shephard coming third and fourth.
The British girls re- compensed for the defeat of the men-by 122 points
to 88-by beating the American girls 56 points to 50-C01 photo,
back from
disaster
By JAMES CONNOLLY
London.
In three brief, disastrous sensons, once-mighty Portsmouth have slump- ed from the glories of the First Division to the uncertainty of Division III. What is the future? Can their new boss, George Smith, the former Crystal Palace manager, shoot them back to the top?
Remember that only 11 years ago Pompey were League champions for
"the second successive season.
Then they were a club with made an unauthorised statement transfers at the moment, but he
and had refused | hoA money to burn. Now they are to the Press
still succeeded in boosting struggling for existence, more to play for the "A" team. Smith the confidence of his staff. than £40,000 in the red.
protested that he was unft, Remember too that only
the Football His appeal to three seasons ago Portsmouth League was dismissed, and hehe spid. could proudly boast that they left the club.
had never been relegated. Now that is just a memory.
Recently 03 Portsmouth's
30 players - 24 full-timers and
His target
spells Then followed
six apprentices reported for Eastbourne
mounting optimism room, dressing-room, town itself.
with
United, Sulton
training. there was steadily United, and Sheffield United, In board before he became Crystal Palace
and the boss in 1938.
He started the Selhurst revlyn) and set himself "promotion to Division Three in two years" target. During his
Challenge
1
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George Smith, 45-year-old second season he said, in a news- ex-Army P.T. sergeant major, is paper interview, that If Falace did not go up he would resign. as ẞt as any of his players.
He revels
in the challenge, Palner talled, and he kept his
word. kaowing
another old
Selhurst, Smith went soldier, Field Marshal Lord back to Sheffield United wher
Harris, the former Chetson centre half, wos' `man-
that
From
his Johnny
the ager.
Muntgomery, the club's presi-j den, is looking over shoulder.
Six-footer Smith bes cockney humour that lightens
the lond without relaxing the combination. discipline.
"I believe we have a chance," "Now I have gol in tickle the ego of the players I have to Improve their playing application by 30 or 40 per cent.
"Football is a game of habit. My job is to instil the right habits and unify the individual abjiity into team effort.
Portsmouth should be in the First Division. With dedication we can get back."
London Express Service.
John Caldwell.
to fight French boxer
John
London, Aug. 8. Caldwell, the British holder of the European version
I looked like the perfect She Beld United soured back into the First Division and everyone thought "I cannot guarantee anything George Smith was settled at last.
of the I will make So he was until the offer came ...except that them is it as fightlog cocks," from Portsmouth last sengon. ኢሮ told me, "but after that
He saw his team for the last everything depends on the four weeks
catastrophic of a players. Whether we recapture season. He still thinks they tormer glorles rests on their were unlucky to go down. ability and their effort.
"Football needs the same de- dication that Herb Elliatt showed In his sub-four-minale miling.”
To George Smith, uuswery- ing in the execution of his ideals, his natural bluntness has frequently proved costly. When he has not been allowed to conch His way, he has re-į signed.
not run
The only new players for Pompey this season are goal- keeper Peter Shearing (free franifer from West Him)' and Harry Middleton, a centres forward from Scunthorpe' In an exchange for Ron Howell. Portsmouth will almost cer-
with tulńly start "off
two
i veteran wing haives. Allan
10
world bantamweight championship, today
boxing
mect Frenchman greed Pierra Vetroff in a non-tite 10- round bout at Carmarthen, Wales, on Aug. 28.
Coldwell will fight again at Cardiff, Wales, on Sept. 4 and then probably will defend his title in a return 'bout against Frenchman Alphonse 'Halimi in London, un Oct. 31.
Promoter Jack Solomons said: "I Caldwell comes through these tests successfully there is # sucTg prospect of him meet-
full world
Bron (34) and Jimmy Dicking Brazilian Eder Jofre for the
Objective
In 1949, the season after he son (30). skippered Q.P.R. to promotion, centre half Smith was appointed, assistant manager and ööach to Ipswich.
Are they too old for the job? Things dild
Loo Of course
not, snapped" the smoothly for blunt, outspoken Pompey manager.
"They can | George.
resigned his give the team an awful lot of aprolistments, and planned to know-how. We can adjust our stay as an Ipswich player.
plan to them. Their example But Ipswich directors fired off-field is worth
He
almost as
bim because they alleged he had much as their ability 107
Australians draw with Glamorgan
Swansea, Aug. 8.
A heavy shower brought play to an abrupt end in mid-afternoon liere today with Glamorgan fighting hard against the Australian bowlers.
The county, set to make 300 in 280 minutes to win, were 124 for two when the stoppogų came. They had fallen well behind the clock and were probably grateful to settle for : a draw.
The left-handed
opener Alan Jones 'was undefeated with 70 when the rain came, having hit one six and 11. foura, mostly from on-drives and well-limed hooks,
Third wicket stand
Ele and Peter Walker had put on 78 in
an unbroken wicket stand after Glamorgan had lost Bernard Hodges at 32 and Alan Rees at 46.
10 Both wickets fell
the
Singapore Grand Prix in September
Singapore, Aug. 8, Singapore is to hold its frut Grand Prix motor
in race September this year under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Culture, it was announced here today.
game."
Nor does Brown himself feel that the years are too many, "Training has never worried It 19, perhaps, a Hittle harder now, but I don't mind that_effort.
me.
"Once I lose the zost for training I shall know that I am on the shelf. 1 have never been happler In my football than right now.
"There is method in
every-
thing we do here at Portsmouth. The training is objective, the spirit 19 good. I feel that we
will go right back Into the Second Division."
Brown, one of Soccer's fittest men he has, ns usual, been
throughout training solo
the summer months is not alone in!
his optimism.
You can feel it among the players as they go through the circult training at Easter which Includes sprinting. gymnastics. hurdliar. phy- sical exercises. and a great deal of other solid slogging.
The rebel
ute." Jofre holds
the other part of the world title. ~AP
CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
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London Express Berpion
Sports Diary
TODAY DOWLS
On one 10-yard elreult, for A third
Jnstance, the players carry haversack loaded with 30lb of sand on their shoulders. There
Guillerrez Shield The race will be held
International on is hard work but certainly no Tournament: Wales y England at Beth the mintcies tonight saw
September 16 and invitations monotony.
HKCC: Portugal v Ireland at KBGC; caly victories for the visitors.left-arm slow bowler lan Quicking motorists and motor cyclists have already been sent to lead-
Malaya v Pallippines and Pakistan As we watched the work-out | v Beotland at
at FikFC: India v Hal- George Smith told me: " land at PAC. All matches at 0.20 Hongkong, Japan, Indonesia, honestly belleve that my Ideas Ladies' Opest Paris 1st round Thailand, Italy and Switzerland, are progressive, and I want to matches at KCC, Recrelo, KDOC, Ron Gaunt's a press conference was told.
do things that are good for the KCC, 649 PROCCER first ball for a six when the in- The clrcuit will be over three Rame: Very often in trying nings began and it seemed a miles of a tree-lined course and them I have run into trouble. if Glamorgan might be going
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Jones hooked
for the runs,
of 20
fine
"I recognise
that over the
years I have been regarded as a rebel. But I don't rebel just for the sake of it.
according to Mr F. C. Pope, pre- But after this bright start thesident of the Singapore Motor batsmen played dekravely and acing Club, will be the fastest the arrival of rein was the final in Southeast Asia,
"I have been out of work, I disappointment after the
Prizes of $1,000, $500, and have been a commercial travel- cricket of Saturday and Monday, | $250° (about 110, 98, and ler, but even out of the game
Enter the Australians had £20) together with trophies will never lost my love for Boccer," batted on for half an hour in be awarded for the first three the morning, Richie Benaud places. Hitting all the 20 runs added to finish 80 not out when he de- dinred at 282 for four-cuter. Reuter,
THE GAMBOLS
Mardeka Tournament: Thailand v Indonesia; Malaya Indla At Kuala Lumpur,
TOMORROW BOCCER Merdeka Tournameni: Hongkong y Singapore; Vietnami v Japan at Kunta "Lumpur.
BOWLS
final matches at KCC, HĶIC, He. Colony Men's Singles. quarter
creid, KCC, 5.30 pm.
GOLY Smith is not the type to bo Bogey Competition Division worried into uicers. He knows Medel Competition Division 2.
MEETING Entries close cn August 23-that he has a gigantic lask, that
there" is nothing "to"aparë
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