1961-10-30

ARMY.. 4,

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1961

517

SATURDAY'S RUGBY

Army give 517 the 1-2-3-4A lot of good

Soldiers wipe out two

goal deficit and

march on

on to

"Aaatenshun

By I. M.

to victory

MacTAVISH

.” for a change let's give a smart solute to the Army. Not simply because they boat 517 by four goals to two at the Club Stadium yesterday

but because of the

oxcollent fighting spirit they displayed in doing so. The soldiers and a right out of step bunch they look-found them- selves trailing by two goals to nil after only fifteen minutes play. It seemed to be all over bar the shouting and you could see the goal Fow among the surprisingly Just shining through the 517 side. good crowd would have risked ten cents on the soldiers' chances and frankly at that stage it looked no more than a matter of how many the Chinese boys would bang into the Army net.

But things dida'i que tin in that way. The Army defence with Micky to get

away what looked like a handling off- enen in the penalty area. i also survived a number of very near things but slowly and surely suhtle

change came over the

game.

how he pivoted and from a norm row angle labbed the ball over the goalkeeper's head onto the for post and into the net.

an atrocious afternoon. It is true he managed to hide much of his weakness behind a pan- tomine of big-boot sky-ball but

At this stage the soldiers were when the situation is rarefully

the hitting rockbottom. They seem- he must accept polysed

heavy blame for three ..maybe evened to be heading for a all four-st the Army goals

defeat but they pulled them- selves together and Murphy had two good teles which almost produced goals.

But Ko was not the only of- Bent and Mulearn began to tender. After the opening burst meye the ball just that little the wing-halves Ng Chuk-last; bit quicker: Caldron and and Tsang Kang-kwong lost the Jobs found the advantage of place completely. They wanderi belog a yurd or two nearered far too much and as a result their opponents, and may- Lati Chi-ping

Lee Ping. slow full- be most important of all the chiu, the painfully Ride found that Davis had the backs-were unable to cope with beating of veteran Lee Ping the speed and strength of

Army forwards. chlu.

A big change

From a team in the thumps the sakllern began to smile agab. With the change in attitude so there developed a change, for the hefter, in their piny. They lost their goal-shyness on the more pressure they exerted on the 517 goal the more did we realise how fur goalkeeper Yong Pul-dor has slipped from proud perch he once held.

The defcil, was wiped out by half time and the two vital Heale

the

which produced two

and

the

The blagest fadeout, how- ever rame from the 517 for wards. They looked top class performers for twenty minutes

but as soon as Coldron and

Level terms

the

Swinnerton WILL limellght in the 30th minute

SCANDINAVIANS TO ASK FOR CHANGES IN IAAF RULES

Onlo, Oct. 29. Scandinavian track and field amokaju agreed today that present amateur tales for Athletes are outdated And voted unanimousiy 40 chal- lenge the International Ansu- tour Athletic Federation (IAAF) to change the rules In order to Justify lost income. The 1001 Scandinavian Track and Field Congress -- allend- ed by ofBeinis from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden WIN

subrot proposal to the next IAAF TOKS Congress in Belgrade year in connection with the and Field European Track Championships.

The main reform in the Scart- dinavian proposal origin- aliy submitted here by Sweden - Is that, athletes

Ireland out of World Cup

Prague. Oct. 29. today

beat

Czechoslovakla

honest toil but little finesse

By LANCASTRIAN

should be granted a daily sweden has been working hard Naturally I was not able to be everywhere on

£5 allowance of

a day for Iost income and for a maxi- mum 28 days a year, "We feel certain that most of the other member nations of the IAAF will support us in

question." thin

sald ABER Moest. chairman of The Norwegian Athletlo Arancia- on in the interview tonight.

'High time'

"Rules for lost income have been

by other practised

inter- national sports bodles for a long time, and it in high time that the IAAF follow tip," Muest added.

Bertil Larsson. one of the attending Swedish oficials. sald Sweden was very natis- fied with the Oslo meeting.

to get support from than other Scandinavian nations.

"We have got the support we

needed and are very satisfied,” Larsson said,

Saturday myself, but I understand from talk- ing to players that none of the matches pro- duced distinguished rugger.

There were no upsets in form and there was a lot of good honest toil but little finesse.

The Club XV bent Police by twenty points is a most rom-

against Police it must be noth- ing other thon an extre:aely creditable one.

Club have a small ersp of in- juries at the moment: berkley Wilson, Fleming,

The Swedish top middle distance

runner Dan Waern was res cently suspended by the IAAF on charges of having broken 22 points to nil, scoring all but | vinring one, and when it is the present amateur rules, three of those points In the Since long before this IAAF second half. action shook Swedish track and del clrcles, the Swedish Athletic Association has ad- vocated a common Scandina vian action to get the rates changed, "Sweden also has suggested that each nation should fix their own amateur rules, but this drastic reform was not discussed at all here," Moent gold,-AP.

for

a new wing-

Wilson is o11 the injured list at the moment and Johns- ton deputised for him 填写 Club's fly-half. They are players of differing methods forward this season. and though Johnston worked present most effectively the normal plaster. pattern of things was dis. turbed.

But let a critic fenr in tread, win of more than

any

BRIGHT CRICKET BY MCC

AGAINST UNIVERSITIES

Poona, Oct. 29.

when he dived through the the Republic of Ireland Tel to The MCC pursued their brighter cricket' policy here today when they

air to pull down a hot shot from Szeto Sum... and from bis clearance the whole pic- ture changed.

Johns aidefooted his throw downfield: it was swept through the middle and, with Ke Po- keung and Lee Fing-chiu in erious confusion, Davies con Jakus closed ranks on the introlled the ball beautifully be

fore hitting a grand left foot shot into the net.

side-forwards the whole line

teal its fire and its earlier threat.

hard and bumpy and the esa- Th. Cioù playing plich looked

fusion of Rugby and Soccer make things markings did not any easier for the players.

Fine double save

The soldiers now had their hackles on high. They had at last pot a taste of success and. in less than two minutes they

were back an level terms.

earn a play-off.

with Sculland

for the right to compete in the World Soccer Cup finals.

Scotland

and Czechoslovakia

BOWLING ANALYSIS

£ R Dexter ▸ Engineer b

Vishwanath J. T. Murray not out

scored 201 for four wickets in 165 minutes in reply to Combined Universities' first innings total of 346 for nine declared on the second day of their three-day match here. each ended their Preliminary Group campaign with six points. An opening stand of 115 in They will now meet on a neutral 95 minutes by Geoft Pullar white ground to decide which country (64) and Eric Russell (47) set takes part in the Anal stages of a good pace for the MCC, but Knight

competition in Chile the tourists ran into the

trouble Barber against leg-spinner Vishwanath, who took three wickets for G5, Dexter

Barrington just before and after ten.

Murray

Reuter.

Norway beaten

Istanbul, Oct. 20. Turkey beat Norway 2-1 here. Cup World I

A harmless looking lob was not cleared by the 517 defen- today

loose ders. The ball went

in Preliminary Group soccer match. Johrs nally avaluable points came

midfield and

drove it There was no score at half-time; churing a period of complete The 517 turned out in green through the middle. Again there army seriority after the inter- auch white halved shirts and 11 was panic in the rear ranks. Turkey also defeated Norway val.

was early obvious that the re- Again Ko Fo-keung failed to in the first match, but have been The soldiers who

would have been well gut in his inekle and Cook was beaten onee by the other team pet force special medets of merit ärendvisel to have insisted un found him in a flash to edge the in the group, Russla, who have Lowther, Turner, Johns Swmnericn the Army goal- ball beyond Yong Pui-dor's full points so far.-Reuter. playby his last League game kesper changing 1 green rench and Into the net.

the good and the interval the soldiers maintained their upper hand and with a bit of luck might have gone in at lemon timic with the lead.

In Hakong - Duvier and sweater for one of another In the ten minutes between

with commendations enlour. in the first meler in the going to Coldron and Murphy goalmouth it was virtually im- Swinnerton did' some brii-i

Lysible to distinguish the Jiant things in the Army goalkeeper from the anarking for-

mistakes which might have resulted in wards. goals and unfortunately that is Muss The

the un betwORIA sticks must always be judged.

bit

he also made

To be blamed

Almost exactly the same enn- ment applies to Logan. The six piyut was fortunate that a cou-

The opening thrill of the game rame after ly vin minutes when Johnny-on-the-spot Low- ther kicked a Ko Po-klung free- kick off the Army goal-line but a couple of minutes later the right-back was not nearly 50 Portaute

Grand shot

come.

Win for Swiss

Berne, Oct. 20. Switzerland beat Sweden 3-2 in a World Soccer Cup quality- ing tournament match here to day and forced a third match to decide the winners of the Group.

Both countries scored

half-time score The was 1-1-Renter.

Rhodesia lead

six

He went in awkwardly for a ple of ships were not snapped up dangbrous bail in the goal area. by the opposition and it was He elected to use his right foot

A Hood double act by Bent noticeable flat he did not really when clearance with the other come on to his 2pm until the foot looked more natural but and Murphy paved the way and

when soldiers and got on top of

once more Ko Po-keung the the ball rebounded from one He was uncertain of a crowd opposition.

was beaten to the tackle Bent of players around

cracked in a grand shot which during the period when the side, hem and landed in the net, most needed a rock-like man in`)

The 517 almost increased gave the goalkeeper no chance. the middle.

In the 86th minute Logan fall- their lead immediately after-ed to get the ball in a tussic New Zealand on wards but Swinnerton pulled with Lau Kai-chu and the big off a fine double save on the

centre was a shade unlucky to ground from Leung Kee-hing have his shat blocked, and Leung Yuk-chol after Logan had been caught badly out of position.

The losers whit still be won- dering why they allowed this Kante to slip away from them. They were in complete com. mand reto ung a boxing plirase they allowed the Army boys to pull themselves up from the boards and go on to win decisively.

The Koul was only delayed. When It esme it was a fine one. Leung Yuk-chof trailed the Most of the blome must rest ball through the Army defence squarely on the shoulders of Ko Ines. His move took him away Po-keung

The big fellow had to the left of the goal but,some

Pirie beaten in first

professional race

San Sebastian, Oct. 29.

Gordon Piric, the British holder of the world 3,000 metres record, was beaten in his first race as a professional here today.

Pirle was beaten over 10,000 metres by two Spaniels athletes, who each rah à leg at 8,000 metres is the bull ring here.

Piric's time for the

10,000 metres was 31 minutes 22.4 seconds,

The aggregate time for the Spanish runners, Chiquito Arrule and Akinz, Was 31 minutes 7.4 seconds.

A crowd of about 10,000 spectatora caw an exciting race on the dry, firm ground of the ring where thousands of bulls have been killed.

Pirir was exhausted nt the nd of the gruelling race.- Reuter,

· Malmoe soccer team leaves for tour

Malmoe, Oct. 20. The Malmso football team left here by die today for Lon- dort in stars a seven-week (Bur

Barrington again Another fine Innings by the ever-reliable Ken Barrington (42 not out) saved them from a serious setback,

Earlier, the Combined had Universities all-enders hek up the AICC. Resuming at 235 for five, the Combined side, added 111 runs for the loss of four more wickets be- fore declaring at lunch. Only two

University wickets

fell in the first hour, Engineer,

a candidate for the Indian side

Perfitt

MCC

G. Pullat e and à Prasanna ...

Vishwanath

W. E. Russell Engineer

Harrington not out

P. Parfitt lbw b Vishwanath

Extras

Total (for 4 wkis)

201

Fall of wickets: 1-115, 2-117, 3-150,

BOWLING ANALYSIS

4-161.

Divecha

ملود

64 Prasanna

Viitaneth

47 | Bhatin

Wadekar

Router

'AUSTRALIA'S GOLDEN ERA

IN SPORT IS OVER'

Melbourne, Oct. 28.

If ot

and Macaulay I in

Old warrior

But there were not an muny Injuries that the Dragont were drained of all their good play- ers, as they had a good side out. The old warrior, Penman, was playing again for the end week running, this time ni stuhl- back. Dragons, however, had many chancts of scoring against the RAF, but they only fack une of them and won by n siltury

The Warwicks won fairly comfortably against 4th Beghment RA a Sek Kong. Both sides did their utmust to keep the play fast and open. The trouble is that the Sek Kong ground is not all that conducive to really good open play for it is somewha1, cricketers might say, of a sporting nature. A number of corrugations run across the field restling, as a well-known for- ward told me, in your sometimes being a foot shorter than your buddy In the line-out when on you other pitches you reckon are inches above him. The Warwicks' score of eleven was made up of a goal and two tries against a penalty goal for the Gunners.

Twenty

marcin

WA R

points

was tho by which Whitfield Wanderers beat' HMS Tamar at Causeway Bay; it certainly fair representation of Micir superiority both la scor- territorially, ing power and but it was a Whitfield Afteen or two individuals, of one with Whatley outstanding."

Poor finishing

If they had played belier es a team they would have scored twice as often as they did. They

as wicketkeeper-batsman, being A golden era in sport has ended for Australia, had a near-inonopoly of the ball

well caught at silp by Parfitt off Barber and Bhatla being leg- bufore to Dexter.

When the innings clared at lunch, Divecha wos 48 not aut.

was de.

Openers out

The

from tight scrummages and

international sports writer Harry Gordon, line-outs and they had the cen-

claims in a newly-published book.

Melbourne

Canada

delver,

In the 6th minute of the

tres who could and gaps---and this was not too dimcult Bhatia spent long periods on second half the Army gave

things to

defence and batted 123 minutes

Morning almost unbentable,"

Gunning was the only Tamar warning of

the Sun Now's Gordon sald in the some de back who Cook burst through the middle

consistently tackled for his 40, which included eight newspaper.

Pictoriel, for which Gordon cade, Australian golfers wen low-but their finishing left and only a quick intervention

feurs.

travelled the world over the the British Open five times in lot to be desired, Tou often An eighth wicket stand by Yong Pui-dor kept the bull

ol last decade to report interna-; eight years, and held for a time out of the net....but three points from their four qualis 33, by A. V. Divecha, younger

was the Bnol pass forward or Eisenhower and tional sport, began publishing the brother of the Oxford Bluc, extracts from the book today: Cups (world amateur and pro- minutes later that is exactly ng matches.

not correctly taken. where it was.

Some members of the Tamer Prasanna. 'today R. V. Divecha, and

It is entitled "Young Men in ressional team championship:), side are not quite nu fail with further boosted the home side's total.

a hurry11.

nn Australian jockey wun the the Luws yet and others are a the "Through

'sixties and British riding championship, little past their fleelest of foot, 'stonlies new champions would Jack Brabham became world but they certainly played rise and old records would, go," champion racing

and Saturday with great spirit and Gordon sald, "but most of the another Australian had won the with most encouraging band

who made youngsters

the diamond sculls four times in a of supporters behind them. 'fities such an amazing decade row (and repeated the perform- Once or twice they cune neur There was a most had now passed once in 1901). Chlaa Mall to scoring. for Australia

Special. from the secne.

creditable attempt at a long- range penalty ucal, twice Whit- Four dead

field were forced to carry the ball over their own line and In the second half there was a dangerous looking brenk by 10050 Hassel who picked up a ball and scomed well away, only to be tackled inte touchi jusi short of the line.

For Whitfield, tries scored by Smith (2) and What- fry. Madison was obstructed when on the way to score and a penalty try was awarded. One of the tries was converted and there were two penalty goals.

mninutes

first innings

Salisbury,. Oct. 20.

"Four of them had tree in road accidents, "In 1950, Australia

ded Bousfield keeps

had not

Portuguese Open golf title

The MCC openers, Pullar and Russell, had no trouble against the fast-medium attack but they began to struggle against - Vishwanaih There was panic in the Army

and off-spinner Prasanna. defence again a few

Both openers fell in successive later but everything was forgot-

overs. each of the spinners won a Wimbledon title for 18 ten and forgiven in the 77th The tail, fair haired Rhodeslan | claiming a wicket.

years, tad never collected a Bri minute when, following a good opening bowler, Godfrey Peter Paritt, who is still not ish Open Golf Championship, no run by Cook-who was hobbling Lawrence took five wickets for showing the Middlesex torn of Australian inal had won un ofler a painful Injury — and 132 runs here today when the lost acason, had a patchy in- Olymple medal for swimming

Estori), Oct. 29. Murphy, the latter squeezed the New Zealand tourists were nil nings before being out with the since 1024 and in the fields of Ken Bousfeld, the British ball between the post and the out for 188 in reply to Rhodesia's total at 150, Ted Dexter also athletles, rowing and cycling Ryder Cup player, retained the goalkeeper's lega tp give the first innings total of 189.

went quickly.

she 'lagged badly.

Portuguese Open Golf Arry comfortable 4-2 lead,

But Barrington. who stayed "Thre had never been an here today, The 517 l hath a kick left Grimo, the former South 80 minutes, always looked solid Australian motor racing driver ¦ He had a 12-holes aggregate Daci lưu Kni-th

International

by five strokes was just African Test match player was and John Murray, 23 not out, of inches wide with a fust ground--balled soven times during the also got on top of the bowlers and the last Australian jockeytom Dave Thomas (Sunding- er, That was their Anal New Zealand Innings. Top after a hesitant start.

tra win jockeys' champlon-dule). Angel Miguel, of Spain, ship In England was Frankfinished third with 271-Ïeu- Wootton in Tall," Gorden sald. ter,

"Yet during that one la- credible decade, she took a firm Erasp on the Davis Cup, symbol of world tennis supremacy, and

flutler,

scorer for the touring alde was Guy who knocked up 54.

Rhodesia were 170 for one in their second innings at the close of play.

Scoreboard

COMBINED UNIVERSITIES First Innings

(Overnight 215 for 8) Bhatia wb Dexter ................ theer o Parit b Barbor V. Divechs not out

VERDICT: A good enter- taining game. Maybe there was not a lot of classic foot ball but tho wide open

The opening batsmen, Gripper A. methods of the Army once they got on

top made for and Pithey put on 01 runs in 1155. 5. Prasanna b White

2. Vishwanath e Pulkar v Barber attractivo

minutes before dripper was out A. Tein not out The ro-al 34. sult was a grand morale-

At the close Pilkey, was not} booster for the soldiers andout 02 and Bland not out 60- a solemn warning for the AFP.

KOCCOF.

lozora. We have

become

used to seeing come strange

consequence or 203 to win

her players won Wimbledon

five times," Gordon said,

International Rugby

title

Offenbkich, Oct. 29. West Germany swamped Boi-

"Ber swimmers, male and | gium by 52 points to thire in un

near-monopoly international Rugby

15 temale, took

en world records, her middle match here today.

Unlon

340 dielance runters led the world A crowd of 3,000 watched the

Tetal (for 8 wkis den) ........... Fall of wickets: 0-270, 7-201, 2-314,

$-339.

and throughout the files gari aprinters and hurdlers were

things in Colony football THE GAMBOLS

but

one offside decision near the end of this game 'beat the bond. An Army forward was flagged when a defender was at least 70 yurde behind him..........Iff But....well done, Army.

The teams

Army: Swinnerton, Lowlker,

Turner, Coldron, Logan. Johns, Davies, Bent, Cook, Muleairn, Murphy.

Pirie, who started favourite, with matcher Is Britain against was trailing at the end of the West Ilam, Swansea, and Notts first 5,000 metres Chiquito De Forest. Arrulz sprinted into the lead to The rest of the tour includes 511: Yong Pul-dor, Lau Chi- rlock 1 mintatos 9.3 secondsnatches in nagdad, Telteron.ping, Lee Ping-chat, Ng Chak- against Fizic's 10 minutes 11.2 Perang (Malaya), Bangkok, faut, Ko Po-keung, Trang Kang reconds,

Blixtapere, Djakaria and won Leung Kee-hing, Leung Akiz was able to improva | Kuwait.

Yuk-chal, Lau Kalechu, Tosh the end over the lant 8,000 The team comprises 14-players Wing-hong, Szoto dumn, metros

und late trainer-Boules,

Referee: Mr Led Tál-run,

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