THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1947.
SPORTS FEATURES
Hero is the South China Athletic Association basketball team, champions of the 1947 Hongkong Open Basketball League and winners of the. China Emporium Shield. The chairman of the SCAA, Mr Ngan Shing-kwan, is seated
In the centre.
Britain Faces New Sports Challenge
THE GREYHOUND DERBY
(BY ARCHIE QUICK)
Next challenge to English supremacy in sport will be in the Greyhound Derby, which includes a number of Irish bred dogs. In fact they have enjoyed a big measure of success in greyhound classic events and it is generally believed one of them will succeed this year.
ATTRACTIVE BOXING
Superb Johnny Ryan
CSMI
Elght thousand miles of air, sea and train travel ended for Johnny Ryan, Britain's outstanding
Olympic Veterans Will Attempt A Comeback
1936 RECORDS CERTAIN TO TOPPLE
(BY RECORDER) - .
Twelve years is a long time between Olympiads but Earlo Meadows, winner of the pole vault title in Berlin in 1936 is on the comeback trail and is intent on making the team for the London Games next year.
Meadows, who scaled a world-record height of 14 feet 11 inches in 1937 came back into competition in carly June this year by taking the American Southern AAU title at 13 feet 9 inches and vaulted over 14 feet 2 inches a little more than a week ago, for the second best mark of the year thus far.
San Francisco's Guinn Smith, also
A LONDON QUIZ
Took Lord's turf with him
Lord's as it was in 1837)
-How did Lord's Cricket Ground get its
name?
It is named after its founder, Thomas Lord, a Yorkshireman, born in 1765.
Lord was the son of a former who square-Lord moved to the present. bean Games and the second to Newlost his money by backing the wrong site.
The 'ground was opened in 1814, York's Ed Conwell at the British side in the '45 Rebellion;
To retrieve the family fortunes, and in a few years had become the Games In May. Conwell's D.6 seconds in England is an all-time Thomas came to London and found centre of the cricket world.
A Job with the White Conduit In 1830 Lord retired and diedit record and should rate him as a top Cricket Club, the leading club of the few months later. prospect.
day.
He played in several important American track coaches, how- ever, with due respect to such other matches on their ground at White [Condult fields near where King's prosent-day sprint stars as Patton, Cross Station now stands.
seems unassailable, but, is the mark Bailey, Conwell, Willard Martineson and Charlie Parker, prefer Barney a veteran vaulter managed 14 feet | likeliest to be assailed,
Ewill of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 7% Inches at the Modesto Relays some three weeks ago and is con- Likellest prospect to cut a half-who never touches a world mark but
second off Harbig's standard is New is always first in class company. sistent at 14:3.
Zealand's Douglas Robbins who, in January this year, outraced Ameri- ca's leading half-miler, John Fulton, in a 1:40.4 effort to win by inches. A half mile in 1:51.0 was once an awe-inspiring achievement but head- ed far London are a good half-dozon runners who have battered it.
Cornelius Warmerdam, the only vaulter to top 15 feet the did it some 30 times with a best markc of 15:74) is definitely off the list for London, having taken up coaching, William Sefton, once co-bolder with Meadows of the world record, is also out of it, having lost an arm in the
war.
Also on the comeback trall is Dave Albritton, negre high-jumper of the Dayton Athletic Club, Ohio, who was once joint record-holder in the-high jump with Cornelius John- son at 3 feet 9 inches. second at Berlin.
He was
Albritton has a best mark of a feet inches this year and will have a hard time of it making the team favourite at 4 to 1, while the oldest world over.
The Wembley dog. Dunlea with a spate of 4-feel jumpers the Principal contenders animal in the race is four-year-old are Bill Vessie of Columbia, who Magic Bohemian, whose third Derby holds the year's best mark so far at this will be. He has finished third 0 feet Blaches and Lester Steers, and was second in the Irish Derby.
world record holder at 6 feet 11 His owner, Mrs Appleyard.
con-Inchies. siders the greyhound the must in- telligent of animals, Sho door not. Stears, who has been out of com- bet and her four doge cost her about petition for five years, went into £400 a year in upkeep, travelling | training some three months ago and expenses and entries. She breeds topped 6 feet 71⁄2 inches for the solely because she wants to see Eng- season's second best marks a fort 1sh blood pre-eminent.
night ago. Strong contenders miso are Alan Patterson, 1h0 Scottish champion, Bolinder of Sweden and
amateur boxer when he appeared in its 21 years' existence is empha- Metcalf of Australia, who are all
and won as usual for Great Britain against Ireland at Wembley Pool.
Having won almost automatically the Army and Inter Services welter- national weight titles he took the title at Wembley on April 30. From May to 18 he was in Dublin win- ning the European championship and from May 19 to 28 was on the Chicago trip as Britain's lone repre- sentatives against United States.
Back to New York, over to Shan- non, by train to Dublin, by sea to Holyhead, and Anally to Wembley for the Irish match. He, opposed Eddie Cantwell, his rival in the European event and again be won with nonchalant ease,
As the years go on this Army man's long left leads get Bnakier than ever, his right hooks more powerful, and with it all he remains nature's gentleman outside ring. He is probably the most popular man in Army sport today.
Result of the contest depended on the last fight and us the Irish Mfc- Keon bent the Welsh and ABA mid- dles Champion on points it ended in three bouts each.
Best fight of the evening was that in which the ABA feathers champlon SG Evans of Wales outpunched Kel- leher of Cork. It was toe-to-toe 'slam all way with the final round ong long nonstop rally.
WHA
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Lesson to be learned
· Irish amalour
boxing benefits
£210, £100,
The Advance dog racing has made sised by the prize money In this 17th Derby. The Wher inkes near 6:7. £1,400 and trophy value
RECORDS WILL FALL second nets £250. third fourth, fifth, and six £50 each, Olympic records should fall
£150 and of London by the dozen and new world breeder of winner second £50. Entry fee is £25.
standards are likely in two events- the 400 and 800 metres. Rudolf Harbig's 1:40.0 in the 800 metres
of
I note that on list of acceptances It states the wise precaution guarding the eight favourite dogs as far as possible up to final.
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Bitter Comparison
When-1-went-along-to the Grey- hound Derby draw the chairman of the G.R.A., Mr Franels Gentle, had
to some bitter comparisons between banning of midweek dogs and freedom of other sports from such restrictions, He pointed out that on ono London track the dogs drew a crowd of 10,000 on average and was banned inldweek because of the effect on absenteeism while son speedway tracks drew 65,000 and were free to continue. He called a "gross Injustice."
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As the area developed it became i more and more únsultabio for cricket, and the two great men of the game in those days, Lord Darn- ley and the Earl of Winchelsea, suggested to Lord that he should open a private ground.
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but.
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Other best prospects, Judging by the season's performances, are Lloyd With their financial support, Lord LaBench of Trinidad (200 metres), rented ground at Dorset-square, GI Dodds of Boston (1,500 metres); then a rural area, and working hard Sydney Wooderson (a comeback is throughout the winter he opened for the 5,000 metres). Lord's on May 31, 1787, Middlesex rumoured Villo Helno
of Finland (10,000 played Essex and won by 93 runs.
(10,000
In the same year the metres), Harrison Dillard of Berca,
White They are Robbins and Fulton, Ohio (high hurdles) Roy Cochran of Conduit Club were replaced by the Marcel Hansehne of France, Niels Indiana (low hurdles), Willie Steele MCC. Holst-Sorensen of Denmark, Arthur
For 20 years the ground flourish- Wint of Trinidad, and Rune Gustafg-of San Diego (long jump), Wilbur
Thompson of Los Angeles (shot ed, but the growing value of the son of Sweden. Not one of the six has yet shown signs of having done put), Bob Fitch of Minnesota (discus land raised the rent, and Lord was
the table. move to a new site o throw), and Lennart Atterwall of forced
Liason-grove. better than he would ever do again. Sweden (Javelin throw).
A few years later the new site was WIllam Carr's 46.2 seconds
Both Jamaica and Trinidad, by requisitioned for the Regent Canal the 400 metres at Los Angeles in 1928 ds another mark that is being the way, are sending separate teams and, taking his turf with him-it had already been brought from Dorset- sneered at by the best quarter- milers of the day. Jamalen's Herb McKenley has twice "quartered" in 48.2 seconds, equivalent to 45.8 s over the metrle route. Trinidad's Arthur Wint, New Zealand's Douglas Robbins, and the American negro stars, Elinore Harris and Dave Bolen, are near enough to chase Herb to a now world mark.
100 METRES CLASSIC
for
One of the classics of the docade will be the 100 metres final where Jamaica's Emanuel MacDonald Bal- ley, unbeaten throughout 1040, may look to competition strong enough to pulverize the best that Jesse Owens ever did. Top prospect on this year's performance in Southern Cali- fornia's "Pell-Mell" Mel Patton who is unbeaten thus far and is seldom slower than 9.1 secs, over 100 yards.
Macdonald Bailey has conceded two defeats this year, the first to Juan Rafael of Cuba in the Carib-
The Nottingham Cricket Pitch Is Too Perfect
London. Comparisons it is said are odious, but one that has caused the topic of discussion this summer, has been the comparison of cricket wickets at Bristol and Nottingham.
The former has been a bowlers' paradise, with games being won in Mr Gentle also asked if I was two days, while Nottingham has mammoth scoring, thought by the pubite whether the produced some conditions of Greyhound Derby and in consequence drawn games. should be changed. The alternatives
Nottingham of course has been the are to have it open to all and so
Venus of the the best dug.
opening test match Kel the
of the year, to res. triet it to three year olds, the same and the Union's bowlers suggested between England and South Afrlen, as the turf and get best dog of its that some of the devil had gone out own year, or change distance from 623 yards to 725 yards and get the of the pitch, by the manner in year's best stayer as a test of breed ing and stamina.
the first innings. which they got rid of England
the pitch should be restricted,
in
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must watch and play every ball. The Irony of the Nitation when Sellers' own team, the mighty Yorkshire, went there and were beaten inside of two days by Gloucestershire,
It has been almost a monopoly of Yorkshire's to win the county games
in two of the three days o championship games, so this was a bliter pill for them.
it agree that such matches offer for
But as the secretary of Gloucester- shiro said: "I deplore matches As Ireland had previously beaten the United States, Italy and France, Lord Denham, who made the draw created for bowlers of the type of I applaud it." And everybody will The original Nottingham pitch was finishing in two days, but as a player Britain did well to force a draw. Jocularly remarked that thanks to
the quarantine laws Britain looked Voce and Larwood, but when that ikely to win the Greyhound. Derby was suggested that the mari used on more excitement than the tame draw In matches, because the bowlers through through the fact that Irish ABA is 1 asked Mr Gentle what he con-pitch, the authorities had to viriual bec never on terms with the bats-
and the Boat Race this coming year,
no fault of their own, but it a more sporting
simply because the plich is against them, the only body of its kind in the world sidered the worth of the 36 runners pitch, to control its own stadium capable to be and answered
It is this £80,000. Hey rebuild the wicket. of holding 3,000.
interim period between the old, and men. also told mc that the dog who
before the new becomes perfect, that is causing all the trouble at: Nottingham. The bowler has found not the slightest assistance from the pitch, with the result that batsmen have reaped a harvest of runs.
In Ireland, bo it noted, there is reached the final will have a sale no great opposition to the amateur value of £2,000 and the winner wil
at least £5,000-but game by professional promoters and be worth there is consequently no real drain owner's won't sell, to the professional ranks.
Profes- sional baxing over the water has never been a great success probably due to the lack of suitable halls, but chief credit goes to what is Un doubtedly to the most efficient of all ABAS.
Coming as I did from the Swan- Bristol's playing area was criticised aca and Harringay professional fas-over a year ago, when it was sug- cos, this was an evening of refresh-gested that its flukey characteristics ing enthusiasm and not a little skill. should be created by the Green- The absence of round the ring bet-keeping Research Station. This was ting, the
the acceptance of decisions, Yorkshire captain, Bristol was then that in such sparsely populated the handshaking etiquette with op in a condition that certainly demand- country there are over two hundred posing seconds at the end of each flest class altention, which it clubs and more than five thousand bout was a breath of fresh air that duly received. boxers in Erin and like Great Bri wiped away the nasty taste of nil tnin they won one of European that had gone on the previous championships.
It comes as great surprise to know petitors.Portsmanship of the com-/ the comment. of Brian Sellers, the
SPORTING SAM
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The result has been not a' bats- man's paradise, but a really sport- ing pitch on which the batsman
By Reg. Wootton
If all the wickets were ike the present Bristol one, there would certainly be fun In the game. though then perhaps the batsmen would grouse. A fortune surely awalls the man who can produce a pitch which gives no ground for criticism by either the batsmen or the bowlers-Reuter,
Short Shots
If Russia participates in the 1940 Olympics, it's the Soviet women who will claim the spotlight their met folk are not expected to be serisi tional... That, at least is the the
opinion of Colonel Samarin of Soviet Embassy In London, who claims the Russian girls
probably will
quite a few world records.
Ann Curtis, /
- holder every American swimming record from 100 yards to the mile, and United States Olymple answer to the speedy Dulch and Danish girls, recently showed just how great a threat to European supremacy ahe is likely to be the world's 280 The speedy American-holder of the
yards freestyle record swam 440 yarda in 5 min 7.0 seconds well in sido Danish Ragnhild Hveger's world record and then went on to equal Danisti Fritze Nathansen's 39.4 seconds record for the 100 yards;*-
to London,
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