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SPORTS FEATURES
Women In Sports
Brilliant
Fencer Accidentally Discovered
BY CHARLES RIDLEY
London - Sports generally are
born
champlona and not
made and somelimes it's strange how, almost accidentally, their latest talent comes to light.
Take, for instance, France's lead- ing woman fencer, Mme. Andre Rolsson, whose husband's craze for the foll-crossing sport led her, almost
in self-defence, to try her hand at the game for the first time at 30 years of age. Now, she and her blonde, blue-eyed daughter Jacque line, are better than M. Boisson ever wns-but let Robert Ahler of the United Press Paris bureau, who has met the family, tell you the story himselft
Attractive, 47-year-old Mme, Dols- son is France's Number One woman fencer, (writes Ahler), Her daugh- ter, 24-year-old Jacqueline 13 # newspaper fashion reporter on one of the most promising woman fencers on the French national team.
Husband Andre, business man and voluntary coach to his wife und daughter, is not in their champion. ship class, but actually introduced them to his favourile sport seventeen
years ago.
FENCING FANATIC
"When we got married, my s band was a fencing fanatle" Mme. Balsson explained. "He would leave me alone with the baby every even Ing and go to the fencing school. One day I got tired of waiting and went along to watch him. had no idea I could learn at the nge of 30 but the professor at the fencing school asid it made him ner- vous to see me sitting and knitting He sold 'If you are going to come regularly with your husband, why don't you at least learn to fence? So I did."
Mme. Boisson did so well that she became four times French woman champlon and was a quarter finalis:
WALKER CUP WINNER: Marvin Ward of the United States is seen here driving off from the 13th tee in the Walker Cup match at St. Andrew's. Ward won and so did the United States team which wrested the cup from Britain.
Review Of First Half Of The Hongkong Racing Season
JOCKEYSHIP HONOURS TO OSTROUMOFF
(BY "THE TURF")
Services Stodgy Batting
(BY ARCHIE QUICK)
The Combined Services cricket match against the South Africans at Portsmouth proved one thing. Major M. F. White, Cambridge Blue, is the best batsman in the Army,
AN OUTSTANDING BRITISH ATHLETE
The Amazing Cyril Holmes
(BY ROY MOOR)
former British international track runnor and sports writer for the "Nows Chron/clo"
Although many of Britain's international track run- ners spend their winter playing in leading Rugby football games, it is seldom that they represent their country at both the sports. In being picked to represent England as wing three-quarter against Scotland this year, Cyril B. Holmes is only the third British sportsman to win inter- national honours at both games.:
The first to gain the double inter- yards Inside 10
seconda, his best national distinction
was the late being 1.9 seconds,
He had his first Irint for England's That Erle Liddell, who not only won tho
Olympic Games 400 metres titio in Rugby team the fear before war was the 47.8 seconds for Britain at Parts in declared but he was still thinking 1024 but is rated as one of the more about the Olymple Games of greatest Scottish Rugby football 1940-which never took place. His half-backs of all time. Liddell was Rugby in those days was overshadow- killed during World War II by the ed by his running. He was in fact, a He, alone of the Services players Japanese in Chinn where he served sprinter pure and simple, This last. as a Church mis season, however, he natonished many was disdainful of South Africa's TC- for many years
bring
off the by the extent to which he has im- presentatives. In both
innings.stonary. Next to
double was Jack Butler, the Poly-proved his Itugby sense and pince though he did not score
of
XV has earned" him technic Hurriera' sprint champion in England's 13 and Harlequins Rugby club wing just reward for his painstaking, en- runs, he set about the bowling 500П he came in, and there was three-quarter, who, no doubt, would deavours to achieve the double in- nothing better in the game than his have gained many more internation- ternational honour. Holmes lives at 4-64 off successive balls from Daw-al awards had the war not inter- the North of England town, Bolton, where he is a director of an oft busi- vened widle he was at his best.
ness.
Aon.
lot
The man who actually scored most runs was Sub-Llout. Dewes of the Royal Navy, who played in the Vic- tory Test for England during the war, but he was woefully slow, and in fact set the tempo for the entire Services Arst innings, White alware #xcepted.
26 RUNS IN AN HOUR The first hour produced only 20 runs and the new ball was actually called for after 55 overs with only 78 on the board. Dewes took three and a quarter hours over his 88, and In the end an innings of 102 overs produced 44 maldens,
HIS GREATEST AMBITION
voteron stage when it comes to in-
PLACID JOAN
CURRY
·
In becoming the third to win the dual honour, Holmes has achieved one
ambitions in of his greatest life, made all the more notable bo- cause he is now 31 years old, an age when Rugby players, are generally considered to be reaching the ternational team selection. While Many critical words have beert youngster at Wrekin School Holmes spoken and written about the aver
Re-age woman's temperament in big- first impressed as a sprinter.
The in the national time sports.
tennis world,. presenting Wickin 1932 Pubile Schools championships especially, has had its share of "in- In London he set up a new record cidents" which have given the sore- of 10.3 seconds for 100 yards (91.430 heads an opportunity to say "You
tille see what I mean?" metres) and he retained the the following year in spite of a foot
It seems therefore the more sur-. Smith once bowled ave successive injury, with a time of 10.5 seconds. maidens and, only one
was Going up to Manchester University prising that Joan Curry, leading tennis star and Wightman Cup scored off his first nine avers. Mann little was seen of him on the track. bowled 10 overs, seven of them the next summer but in 1935 he player should have a reputation for of the senior almost superhuman sang-frold before maidens, so you can see how dull the class by running a close second in and during her big tournament
crashed to the fore day's play was.
of England 100 yards games.
woll (01.430 metres) championship That South Africa topped the Ser-
Olymple an vices total of 182 was entirely due to by Walter- Rangele, ponies,
Bruce Mitchell, veteran of the side Anallat, in 9.9 seconds, and winning who went in first and was last out the national Universities short sprint title in the record time of 10 seconds for an individual 108,
and the 220 yards (201.17 metres) in 22.0 seconds.
Racegoers "called it a day" for a brief interval when the Seventh Extra race meeting was conducted on the King's Birthday bringing to a close the first ' half of the Hongkong Jockey Club's racing season.
of
A. Ostroumoff
Rowlands
Newman
Yach Chuf, I. K. C.
3rd.
3
1
3
Norso Queen, however, her credit highest stake 1st.
earnings. 2nd 12.
It is worth reviewing some of the excluding the Annual Racing Car- performances of both jockeys and nivel ponies, over the past ve months, Mr A. Ostroumoff is the champion jockey at this stage of the season.
A-1 exhibitions He has given riding to finish with a record of 12 firsts, six seconds and three thirds. He has thus equalled the record of the former champlon Jockey, Mr Lei Frost.
His closest rival
was who scored
Arats, seconds and three thirds.
Messru Newman, Yuen, R. K. C.
WAD
saven
Rowlands seven
Hodgman
Boycott
D. Black Francis, Cdr. Lee, B. W.
has to money
run
LILY'S FINE FORM Among the "B" Class Lily, after his splendid perfor mances, was promoted to "A" Class and quickly. proved he was a first class pony by beating Sookunpots Twan particularly struck by the and Daisy Bell in a six furlongs slow left-arm bowling of Omeer Cadet race; he won in a canto. I
am J. N. Bartlett, Army and Sussex. waiting to see this pony coming With the shine off the ball be flighted out to match his excellent qualities his deliveries well and kept the bals- against Norse Queen and Bashful men playing all the time. Beauty in any distance race. Others worthy of mention ате Kim, Thunderbolt V-J Day, Fifth Alarm, Shannon and winner, Norse
Royal Commission. All have now struck their best form and promotion to "A" class is cot for off.
Dealing with the pontes, it has Chui, Hodgman, Boycott and Franels to be observed that Bashful Beauty all did some creditable riding from finished the first half of the season time to time, and it was good to see with a slight edge over the Derby bacit in the saddle old favourites like and Champions Donald Black, H. C. Ph and C. L. Queen. Both scored five victories, Gregory.
both twice finished second, but whereas Norse Queen was unplaced at the eighth outing, Bashful Deputy managed to squeeze in a thin place.
LEADING JOCKEYS
Here is the list of the leading In the 1937 World championships. Jockeys of the first half of the session Sho is considered the best, tech- nlelan and most powerful assault Woman France has had for
yours,
"When I start an assouli I put all my energy and ablity Into it and, fight until 1 win,' Mme. Boisson enid. "I am always sure I am going to win before I start to fight and I keep that idea in mind during the contest."
Mme. Boisson said that before she started fencing she had not
Laken part in any sports-n fnct which she now regretted. She said recently she went to a Ministry of Sports training camp where they had her rowing running, jumping and
113 "I did as well weights.
the youngsters and my daughter was not i any better than I was," she said.
Our New Captain Will Be Popular
-He Should Keep The Job
By JACK HOBBS
“Yardley's Appointment as England's captain is just a "natural" and one with which no past or potential England player will quarrel. Among a lot of failures, Yardley was one of the successes in Australia-a greater success in the bowling department than anticipated.
Experience was gained, too, even
in the captaincy direction, and he
anybody
Rowan may prove most successful,
le certainly can spin the ball, and average of his type.
Another successful Army bowler was Capt. J. H. C. Deighton, former Worksop College boy who plays for In the Minor Northumberland
His medium-fast attack Counties. worried the visitors quite a lot.
the North
Latest story about her came from Australian Nell Hopman, during the recent British Hard Courts tourney. "I found Joan asleep in the changing There room," said Mrs Hopman. was a frightful clatter HLA players went in and out, talking and laugh-
In 1936 ing, but she did not stir. She awoke Continuing to improve Holmes not only boat Rangeley for just before we were due to go on to the Northern 100 yards champion-the court." ship but finished third in the Eng-
}:
to
Miss Curry rarely chattora lish national title final, a perform- once which earned him a place in other players in the intervals be- Britain's team at the Berlin Olym-tween matches, and is more often to plad the same year. Hero, he was
be seen in a quiet corner reading eliminated in the second round but a book.
of racing tie experience
against
Sounds like a wonderful wife for world's best sprinters proved
invalu- able to him and ablered
who
the
was to ba
bo
Arthur Peall says: WAD ir strokedirik.
inookered on greep
tout as shown on left of diagEMILLY nominates Dinle da' green. He then. playa Tull and slow an blue tapping.
REDE
a year later he somebody.-United Press. In the "C" class the most fancy
The Army had six of the Combin-secured the British 100 yards cham- pony is Wilhelmina, - which has
ed Services places and nobody im- pionship in 0.9 seconds to become performed so consistently that I pressed more than Major B. R. M.
for all inter- Britain's first choice should in my case be promoted to Hayles with his smart wicket-keep-national sprinting events. He won "B" class. Hol Pollot and Honey-Ing. Other Army players were Capt. against Norway, France and Finland belle have shown vast improvement G. S. Woodhouse, the next Somer- that year but in the match against and if they keep on this way they net captain, and Onicer Cadet 1. P. Germany was beaten by a yard by too will be making a bid for pro- Campbell, who has played for Kent. Britain's second representative Ar-
thur Sweeney, motion in the near future.
Among the "D" class ponics I
Avns an all-Army attack of Holmes's only serious rival in Bri- The death thought the best form, was shown Deighton and White which got tala for a few seasons. by Normandy, Tunny, Jinx, Happy South Africa out for 250 after they of Sweeney, a Royal Air Force pilot, Season, Rosebud. Hostile Witness, had scored 172 for. 2, and were 233 in an air erash during the war, left Holmes, who served-in-the-Brilish Kelly, Blue Peter, Blackie, Jadestone at lunch.
Army, supreme among the country's did not and Jackal. The others
sprinters. Impress
The ponies that have yet to bring luck to their owners, are: Mainsail, Annatola, Betty Lou, Bright Season, Darius, Golden Swallow, Trojan and Ruby Star.
1
Two RAF men stood in the breach when the Services hatted a second time, S/Ldrs. Roberts and Shirreft getting 52 and 39 respectively, bul the other wickets fell too cheaply to leave South Africa any sort of a task in the fourth innings.
TWENTY-FIVE INTERNATIONAL TRACK MATCHES
When he retired from serious Chief interest to me was that the competition at the end of the 1945 mouth crowd in sufficient, numbers [tain in 25
Pretty blonde Jacqueline smiled just comes into the Ine.of succession wheels them up much faster than the has been adund. starts improved as match did not draw an all-Ports-season, Holmes had represented Bri- |
at that and started to tell us about herself. "I was practically raised in I started when I a fencing school." was just a kid, playing around and fooling with the swords."
COLLEGE CHAMPION ..
when there are precious few can- didates.
What we can be happy about as look forward to these Tests he has served under Brian Sellers for against South Africa is that the side quite a time in the Yorkshire zide, is well captained and will play the
game in the right spirit. and that is also an education.
Plus the experience in Australia we
fencing
very asset, interesta
"and of
life, too-dancing partles course clothes," "My parents crazy about fencing," she added.
is their whole lite.
It
the
The South Africans are sure
to
A man who will wear honours modestly, he will certainly bend, if our summer goes normally, She is now college champion but popular with his men, which is a big that there is not enough pace in the although the "likes
bowling. We are in the same boat... During the past few days I have looking around for the express men. much," she has other
some close-up views of
When Tremlett. of Somerset, had bad South African cricket team, It 19 taken only three wickets in the early to form definite opinions and match against Middlesex at Lord's f as yet we have not seen all the team met prominent M.C.C. oficial at their best.
Looking at the batting, I have fall- ed to spot up to now sufiiciant of tacking batsmen the men who call the tune.
Experience tells us that Bruce Mitchell is a man who can give the sido a good start and that Dudley who occasionally reminds Nourse,
could cash in on this good start.
When batsmen of their undoubted
He
a broad smlic. have seen a good new fast bowler," he said. That's fine, didn't say he had seen a new England fast bowler, and 1 am not picking Tremlett for England yet
П
M. Boisson said that fencing naa his wife's never interfered with
way household duties or in any hompered their normal daily life.
But every evening the whole family goes to the fencing school for training, and in the mornings they
more at home. Wemo of Pat Hendren, is the type who not automatically add up to a Test train somo clear the drawing room, roll the car- pets back, put the furniture against
I prefer to stress the point that the taking of a few wickets or the mak- ing of one or two good scores does
match player,
the walls, open all the doors and it ability get going the others will play ways. The time has gone when a
makes a fine training pit," they ex- plained.
Last year Mme. Bolsson Won at Geneva, at Basle, at Zurich and at Lorraine Paris as well as In the tournament. She and her husband both received the National Physical Education Gold Medal.
Now Mme Bolsson is a favourite to win the world champlonships in Lisbon this year and is also expected to represent France Olymples-United Press."
better because some of the weight will be off their shoulders,
The South African bowlers have nothing very exceptional in their make-up, although Lindsay Tuckoli looks very good to my,
There is smooth rhythm in ht run-up to the wicket of nine or ten paces, supported by build stamina which enable him to bowl all the time within himself.
.and
The slower bowlers are reasonably useful without being exceptional. in the 1540 Smith, Mann and Rowan variety trio.
SPORTING⋅ SAM
are
But we are at the parting of the
player had to prove himself up to Test match standard beyond all doubt.
In these days, immediately a new- comer tokes, a few wickels or puts up one or two good scores we are
Test possible. apt to hall him as
don't mind that. If a I
young player has all that it takes, a sud- den rise to the headliness won't turn his head,
If he should be inclined that way cricket
is a game that will bring him to earth..
By Reg. Wootton
soon
All of the meetings have been splendidly conducted. Handicapping
the senson advanced, and there is every reason to look forward to second half as enjoyable as the first, Racing will resume in September,
HAR
international track to warrant the game being persever- matches, had competed In 15 dif- ed with in futuro seasons at the same ferent countries, broken or equalled venue..
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