THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST. 30, 1947.
SPORTS FEATURES
To thousands of people in Britain the name "Harringay" means some of the fastest sports in- the world. It offers the breathless' thrill of ice hockey, the daring of specdway racing, the ex- citement of greyhound racing, and the tense science of boxing. This makes Harringay one of the great- aporta centres of Britain.
HARRINGAY STADIUM AND ARENA
(By REG. HOWELL)
Just about 20 years ago-on September 13, 1927 12 months after greyhound racing was first introduced to England the Greyhound Racing Association decided to extend its activities, froni the White City in West London to the northern suburbs of the Metropolis.
With no ready-made stadium | & tournament in which 14 nations available, search was made for a competed. In 1939, Mr Francis sultable site on which to erect one, | S. Gentle, Chairman and Managing So it came about that what was Director of Greyhound Racing once merely an expanse of waste | Association and Harringay Arena ground in Green Lanes, Harrin-{ introduced another new sport to way, whore rubble from the tun-{ England-roller speedway--which nelling for London's new under- was the
rage of America. A ground railway had been deposit- United States
team competed
ed, was quickly transformed Into | against a European side, which in- a centre for North London's rapid- cluded Rene Duval and Jay Van- ly-growing greyhound racing der, two Belgian representatives. public.
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After six years of Army oc- The 438 yards course, with its cupation, the arena has been de long, 120-yard straights, was mobilised and is once more one of slightly banked on the benda to the great sporting centres of offset the sharpness of its turns Britain. A fow months ago, and thus make the stadium sult-world light-heavyweight champion able for all types of greyhounds. Gus Lesnevich almost lost his whether they be railers, centre crown there, only to stage a great track or wide runnera.
come-back in the 10th round to bent England's Freddie Mills. It was there also that Bruce Wood- cock, English hope for the heavy-
MOST MODERN INDOOR ARENA
There le accommodation for weight championship of the world. 46,000 spectators and their com- font was one of the chief соп-
outpointed Mills, and followed it up with a knock-out victory over
siderations when plans were be-Lesnevich in the 'eighth round.
ing drawn up. Three-quarters of
the tarracing was bullt under
cover with a luxurious restaurant in the main enclosure where meals could, and still can, be taken while watching the racing.
In 1928, the new sport of speed. way racing hit the English head- lines and, alive to its possibilities, the Harringay management Im- mediately decided to build a track Insidė the existing greyhound course. The following year a Harringay' team was entered in the National League and apart from the war years speedway rac- ing has gone on almost uninter- rupted every season since. Eng. land-Australia Test Matches have been decided there and cup finale fought out. The most successful season at Harringay was in 1935, when the Ilarringay team was' conecrned in the final of all three trophies, winning the London-Cup- and being beaten at the last fence In the National Trophy and Auto- Cycle Union Cup, besides finishing as runners-up in the Nailonal League,
Now, after a war lapse of seven years, application for a speedway licence has been made, and next' season will again see the Harrin gay toam battling for apoedway honours.
In 1936, Harringay extended its activities to include almost every form of indoor sporting entertain- ment, when the now world-famous arena was erected on the vacant space adjoining the stadium. Most modern of all Britain's in- door aporta arenas, it was built to. fuil all the essentials of a centro for ice hockey and boxing. It was built free from internal columns or supports which would mar the vision, so that spectators should have a porfect view from all parts, Entrances and exits were specially developed. Eleven thousand people can leave the building in two minutes by way of the 64 exits, The arena can be converted from a skating rink to dance floor or boxing arena in a few hours,
For the skating rink 10 miles of piping in the-floor carries cold brine from the main refrigera- Ing plant. This freezes the ice.. layer upon layer, by playing a fine spray on the concrete floor,..
Special flooring allows for ex- pansion and contraction which takes place at different tempera- ›tures, thus eliminating the passi-
bility of cracking or distortion.
The correct spacing of the pipes ensures that the skating surface, which measures 185 feet by 90 foot! *evenly frozen and opt dry.
A elion six weeks aftor tho opening of the arena saw the first boxing contest being staged thore, Waltor Nousel hent Bon Foord after a hostic 15. rounds strugglo, It was at Harringay that Tommy Farr, England's finest heavy- weight of recent years up to thủ!! timo, hit the trail of success which lod to his world championship bout with Joo Louis,
Thousands could not obtain ad- mission whon England, lost the 1037, world les hockey tilla to, Canada in the deciding match of
Man Who's Lost A Title
Jackle Paterson, Britain's only world boxing champion, Jost his world, British and Empire fly-weight titles by the de- cision of the British Boxing Board of Control stewards. It means that Paterson at 27, will lose between £15,000. and £20,000 for future fights. He has already lost £1,500. Paterson was ordered to appear before the stewards be cause of his failure to weigh-in for the defence of his world title against Hawail's Dado Marino at Glasgow on July 16. This fight had already been twice postponed because Pater- son had boils. On the day of the third attempi Paterson
collapsed in the morning.
IT WON'T BE SO EASY TO BEAT AUSTRALIANS
As
BY JACK HOBBS
S we have done better-perhaps much better -than we expected in the Test matches with South Africa, I am not prepared to scrape one bit of gilt off the gingerbread, but it would be a mistake to pat ourselves on the back too much.
If-we-do that-then-the-bump-wilj-be-felt-all-the-more-- acutely when the Australians bring us to earth next season-as I am inclined to think they will unless wę get better.
with
For good or 1 we have It we were only concerned gradually come to regard nearly sending our best nearly a teare all our cricket from the Austra would he chosen automatically. ilan angle
Captaincy problem
There is not much, resi damage
Thoto aro. however, amateurs who in such an approach because it realities are faced today. to- might not be able to afford the morrow may find us better prepared. Yardley, is said to come under that time. Our present captain, Norman Those four wickets in one over to heading Cranston at Headingley provide As good an illiustration på any of the contrast between the South Africans and the Australians as we shall and In due courma
YO KIHIV how keen is that we should not "kit" Diu Karen. but he 10. Very obvious siterna- tire explain ebolcs If ti is purely a matter of taking the next.
feel that, with next summer to low, it muld be much more ex
Pour wiskoţa în ons over in a good performance in any cises of cricket. but the nature of the opposition should prevent us from balling pedient keep some of our out......... Cranston as a super-bawior.
standing players at kamo
I would much rather he had gat Again tere is the complication Nourse and Mitchell ju jeg avers. from the reward point of view. I cannot even agree that the four Butler provides the example. wickets automatically sick Crano has earned a place on A KOLIT. aton for future Texts
We might want him nest sezon
and the question is whether a trip We can makɔ one or two changes to the West Indies would make him for-the Afth Tost. I would like to better or not a good I don't know know, for instance, why Worcenter's Howorth has been bashed over thus for ?.
We can adiit 100x round for our slaw loft-hand howler and, now that thig series has been wan, possibly ask quraoires whether there is any fisture In parasting with Charije Dürnett.
West Indies task'
We tnye - Aire Bedser coming back and certain to come huck rigist - to the ton 11 discreetly trondled. Should be go to the West Indies? Surely in the in terests of mur taturë 3 should sa nnt
Badeor ilustrates the too-muen- cricket side of the problem. with Jack Ikin omphasising the sire of it.
As a. pasible means to an eld He went to Australis for experi- the raising of a structure for next ence: to become a belter cricketer. scazon-there in trip to the West finve you heard much of his pro Indien on the intervening progress tila melann •
Gramma,
Budly we must send to the Super team needed
Indies a good team, a team which
will be considered by them as co
presentative of English cricket, apart These ovary-winter cours entra dig altogether from the question of a questions. Bollen down the samire against the South Africans avo team good enough to beat theira,
Aliown as that we have some very A West Indies aldo is not at a chopping block. We should not eren good dievere but not necessaril be advancing our cause very much great complete team
if we sent there a nocond-rate aicio
Australia will goud us a good side,
nich was duly, whacked, which ending a team better than their quickly developed the interiority will not be any
complex stage such an 1 rather aus" We need a supèrietesen
reached,
South Africana, dava
Agreeing that we must take a good
side, the next problem concemia the players wo can afford to take, beate fin' mind thuso wa may, nood.
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SuperSTE cour, parch}}@=>
Sex! #rawn. Do we help buil that super-rjeveni by taking many of our present · Test, team, "plus -others who ould he mentioned 'ta the West Edles, or do we run the tink
"Keeninia" item going, roughly all the wear bound 7 short jone, not calling dn phyatcaf. If any render' in shrollatly confl ToBoutors so much, an Ad Australian dent that he knows the, answer to trip. S'hero 13 a lot of travelling that one I will try to ket him a
connected with 'it, however,
piace ng our selection committra
05 and treat, next summer.ja
jedna kour in the West Indies fa-a
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SPORTING SAM
AUSTRALIAN HIGH JUMP HOPEFUL
Spurs Won't
I.
Pay £14,000
For Any Man
By
HAROLD PALMER
Soccer interest in North London will be very keen in the season just started. Every- thing points to Arsenal's return back as the team with the big gest appeal in the country; Spurs did well enough in the Second Division last season to suggest they must have a real chance of promotion.
There is only one new man at Cottenham-Jones, the winger from Swansea, but Spurs are sill toying with the idea of buying an inside forward. Prices sheek them.
Mr Arthur Turner, the secretary, revealed to me that quite recently he made an inquiry for a well- known player who, they heard, was on the transfer. Hist. They had trled for this pinyer last season.
Sitzfleisching
A CHESS PROBLEM THAT CAUSES DOMESTIC FEUDS
(By RECORDER)
in
Black. I don't. Sho plays mah longg and seldom comes in bafore
White: Mine docan't. Black: I'm taking no draw. This is chess, not Happy Families.
With the local chess scason about to bloom.. forth once more in all its glory come a fortnight, this is a fitting Saturday to sit down and take stock of things to come in the Colony's chess world. Looking back at the past senson, White: How do you manage one is led inevitably to but one sum- placate your wife when you come in was not tacking but competitively ming up. Enthusiasm for the game at midnight. the season was the most moribund in the annals of Hongkong chess, It was, however, not unpromising in the fact that I did bring some younger players into the limelight.
Within the past year, while Hong- The root trouble, of course, in the kong's chess
world Shanghai and Manila hell: copos fact that there are no chess clocks corres- in the Colony, There are none pondence matches with
Sydney. Just either to be purchased in the United about six years ago Hongkong was Kingdom. The magazine "Chens" very nearly on a par with Shang-car 171 advertisement every balgas a
Far Eastern chess centre les
month inquiring:
iring for someone who and quite definitely second to any
would get down to the job of mak- part or city in the Far East.
ing them again. To look back at 1941, Hongkong could have picked a team from the available talent harp that would
engaged for many years have knocked Salgon, Batavia or turning out spring colls designed Singapore into a cocked hat:: that
for other than peaceful pursuits.. would even have picked 0 igw The Kowloon Chesa Club commit points oft Shanghai.
ter, og old-fashioned as all local A team picked from players like Club committees are, decided against
tho
iato C. Mpressing for the Colony. D. E. de Carvalho, K. M.
Champion- kome-
Now Mr Turner, at any rate, is Sparpovich
not one who believes in fancy prices, So he looked at me to watch the effect when he told me the price was £14,000.
£10,000 LIMIT
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.I should say that limit is probably about £10,000. That was the price they were prepared to go to last season when they sought the Bolton centre-forward, Nat Lofthouse.
Obviously, however, Spurs
arc
lacks as n side-line before the war Factories that manufactured cheas
in
A. Barnett, Karel Weiss, O. S. Cox-hip being held test it had head, C. M. Dobriansity, S. G. Hayes, where in the fifth or sixth round an the late Ernie Zimmern and Te Yu posete stroke to deal with.
Sitzfleisching hasn't harmed Lau would have done well against
member of the Club, other than for some
any team east of Calcutta, possibly any team cast of Jerusalem.
OUT OF PRACTICE Of the ten players mentioned, two are dend and three of the others are no longer with us. Of the remain-
Karel Welas is the ing
Av2. one who took
part in
only tournament ивень
any
mem-
some domestic feuds that bere do not talk about, but how a non-member entitled to take part in the Colony Open would react re- mains a matter for speculation. COMMITTEE'S TASK ....
The Committee should, howover,
the
There is obviously a limit to what Spurs are prepared to pay for ti player. It is a limit not exactly Imposed by resources---{[W clubs have more valuable assets than Spurs but rather by their idea of last year and he fared rather poor-talos Haelf in hand and get down to market values,
ly. His successful up-hill battle the uphill Job of putting the Colony with S. A. Novikov showed that back on its chess feet. Clocks must in Welss. He was out of practice be found in 52 weeks. for at least. there was still spirit
left be obtained somehow, at whatever enough left out of practice. cost. More Important, timo should So for that Carvalho, the Colony's Grand OldIt is time, too, that the Kowloon
matter is
Olá four tournaments. Man of Chess, who turns up regu- larly every Tuesday and Thursday Chess Club fell into line with
and Margate and Hastings systems, realising that they will sooner or at the Kowloon Chess Club later have to find another Tonnie drops a game occasionally to some limiting tournaments to ten players
from young hopeful, Dix. He coat over £8,000, getting charity as was his wont once, but
not near their limit, and they have had | GARDEN two full Longue seasons from him, because he is past theory and Uloes Dix will bo 35 next month.
an unorthodox experiment.
Looking forward to the coming season we have yet to discover if the 7
Presi I remember a famous season when Kowloon Chess Club's new dent, K. M. A. Barnett, will returniere was an 18-game doubly round. to competition, or i G. S. Coxhead tournament. It started in January and To Yu Lau, both locked upon and was still on in June.
time as players of much at one promise for the future, will buckle down to the new sitzfleaching with much enthusiasm.
era
Back at Spurs ground now is their old wing forward, Jim McCormick. He is on Fulham's transfer tist and expocis to be fixed up soon with Lintoin City
McCormick has recently opened a sports shop oppo- site Harringay Arena. He will stay there and travel to matches, Spurs have given film permission to train at White Hart Larie.
Championship,
done successfully for the first time one round. This was pure contesting
last season, but for no other reason than that there were only nine com- petitors in either of the two major tournaments.
20
For the season past was definitely Perth, Western Australia.---
a sitzfleisching era of a type that has not visited the Colony, accord- Fulham bought McCormick two Twenty-two-year old Jack
years ago and he has given theming to Mr Carvalho, who ought to Winter, who has a record high userut service. Brighton were know, since the turn of the century. jump of six feet seven inchesed the more attractive terms. Only is the remarkable fact that it took interested in him, but Lincoln offer of historical interest for the future to date, is earnestly training the question of accrued share of Bobby Gardner, the winner of the as one of the Australian hope- benefits now holds up the comple- Intermediate
urs last December to baz hours last Dec fuls for the 1948 Olympic
points off R. C. Danenberg V. V. Kolatchoft.
However, lest Mesars Coxhead and Mr To Yu Laù be frightened off, Gardner, at last intelligence, con- sidered himself as probably too busy petitive chess in the Senior Tourna- this coming season to return to com
ment.
games.
Hugh Morlarly, Australia's selec- tor for
the the games, predicts youth will break that mark easily before he is pitted against the closs of the world at London.
tion of the transfer.
ARSENAL PROBLEM"
Arsenal start the season drying to solve the same forward problems as worried them last season. Shall it be Rooke or Lewis for centre-forward? If they get Roper from Southampton for outside-right, what will they do with MaPherson?
Though the Colony starts its chess year once more with bright hopes, if nothing else, I would like to put in two constructive sugges- tions for our chesa future.
The first of these items from Mr Karel Weiss, whose
JD
new
are
this
T
course...come
generally discounted for the fact that he has three new ones every minute. nowever, that many of Mr Weiss's Consideration must be given the fact, Ideas
talec germ. A A historian
sifting painstakingly
the
birth of two many a
enterprise in and Colony wil
will in Aug across somebody who will say Arst heard of the idea from Wait Walss" What Mr Waise suggests is that it is about time we had
0 Hongkong Chess Association. It does not much only one major chess club in matter. Mr Weiss avers, that there
half-a- existence. Any group of REGULAR EPIDEMIC dozen players in any club or Ser- Bobby Gardner was, however, not vice unit could be affiliated to the the only sitzfleisching offender Last Association and centres where cheas
Thire epidemic on.
regular is
is played could easily stage a chess
ท A conversation of his "at home" onoo week torical interest between two
dement com- would
all those who petitors in the Intermediate Tourna- think that twice a week at the Kow-
loon Chess Club isn't quite enough.. Valiance, son of Jimmy Vallance of ment, both to remain anonymous
The second idea is my own. Im't Stake, Stanley Matthews's father-in-lest identily harms the balance of law, looks like getting the outside power in two chess homes deserves it about time the Kowloon Cheas
also to be recorded.
Club staged Colony left job till Denis Compton is rendy.
School- There Championship? The time was 10.45 pm. The in-children's
must be any number of children in cident; In B training I bend and stretch and
White: You can't win, Will you good half-dozen schools who do, at carry out a lot of limbering up and
I expect Fields will be. Leslie talos draw?
the least, know the moves of the Black: A few more moves and game. How
better znany of our stomach exercises before I jump. I Compton's deputy in the opening
then we'll see..
players today started in schools. only jump for height once a week, games, but Lionel Smith was doing
make a 48-foot run before I jump, very well in the private trist on thewould be back for dinner this time, when
White: I promised my wife There are legends even of an cr
schoolmasters in Hongkong with eight steps to cover the dis-opposite side. The other Smith, a tance before the take-off.
newcomer, Norman Smith, from Dar- concern me.
Black: Your home affairs don't were th; backbone of the local chess
world.
During the off-season, Winter ex- plained, "I akip rope every morn ing, run on Sunday mornings at the University of Western Australla, and jump once a week on Tuesdays. When the season is on, I participate in Saturday afternoon events and train three nights a week, but don't do too much distance work.
"I make a lot of starta for run- ning, and go 'flat out' for 20 yards When to speed up my reactions.
"EASTERN CUT-OFF"
Other positions are just as open, except that Denis Compton will obviously be their regular outside left when he has inished with cricket.
TWO SMITHS
wen, made a great impression. He is a right-half, a former rear-gunner in a Lancaster who looks like becom-
"My style is the nearest thing tong a regular Gunner--and in the the 'costirn · cul-off,'
Winter's coach, Jerry Haire, who is a master at Perth Modern School, said that "the main attribute of Winter's style is his consistency. He has adopted an 'eastern cut-of1
01 style and we are experimenting with the western roll. We are enden
" perfect the eastern cut- vouring to 'off' fornt' as well Improving the western toll. Usually Winter makes up to seven jumps at height that can be conveniently cleared. We hope he will better six feet soven inches this season."
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Tear, 100-at Highbury.
Placing of Macaulay at right-half is good decision. That is the Scottish. International's best position. Again, of ecurse, it creates a problem. Arschal will now not know what to do with Sloan. It might be a good Idea to try him again in the forward
Inc.
He had a good spell last season at awing-half and might provide just
that inside forward Arsenal wants.
When he was only 15, Winter won an inter-school competition, with a jump of six feet, inch, still Australian inter-scholastic record, In September, 1948, he jumped six fort, 34% inches. By January 1947, he had pushed his altitude" to six foot; 06 inches to break the Aus tralian record. A month later he' itaped six feat, seven inches."
By Reg. Wootton
Benson.
A.
wym a
JAP SWIMMERS ON HIGH
ROAD TO RECOVERY
New Haven, Connecticut.-Coach Bob Kiphuth of Yale and the United States Olympic Aquatic teams, sees indications that Japanese swimming "is on the high road to recovery.'
Kiphuth was more definite about Kiphuth, based ils views on the
for the American;:{eam, thrust that performante turned in recently by: prospects
Hironoshin Furuhashi.
Arthur. Peall says: WHAT stroke wowa you piny ir faced by the save shown on left of diagram P. Having pocket the fast red' you are init, with wil
ØYELLOW
the colourm ou cheir
POLS CR-
cept redow and brown..
Them. 20 room "DRIE prown to D.DOROt jollow the facing top pocket. following throug5 wishoude
leave to spotted← Fellow offering A chance for a break which pockete all the colours,
This chance, howover, is at dubioti valle. Dxcept to first-class player. Alternatively, you can itaye opponent Bookered behind brown da indicated. A Dertainty-for- many who could not hope to make the break. If this in
meri'a division, In the 1048 games at
In an interview Jus' before leaving. London. for London to visit the 1948 Olym- His hopes are high. He said, "We pie site and to scout the European have a number of young swimmers swimming championships at Monte who have come to the fore, and some of our older men are still in Carlo, Kphuth said:
Our redent national
The swimming world was firited the picture.
4 Uttle while ago at the news which championships, while not outstand- ing in some events were extremely came over the wireless that a new
Japanese awknmar had just record-gratifying in other ed the phenomenal time of 4 mins. 384 for the 400-metro free style..
scapects."
Lafferret indicated that we buve.
good 100-metre men who must...
"Next to Bill Smith's 4 mins. 30mprove and there is a considerable number of young swimanere in the for the 100-yard long course, this is sprints who should do well if they by far the best time that has ever continue to improve in the coming
been reported by any swimmer and
would indica that Japanese swime year as much as they did in the Inst.
year. ming is on the high road to
covery...
American coach declined
ito
world's
"One standout, 400 metres, brought. out the fact that Jimany McLane, The make a guess at when Furuhashi will undoubtedly be the and other Japanese swimmers would outstanding man in this event; by
next year. His 4
4 mins, 41.8 seen. in. be able to compete in the same popla with the best from the United States poor pool lighting was one
very warm water and with ta her of the and other nations, It depends.“m-
past year
tirely on the International Swim best performances of the For You Bould leave the ming Commitee, le sait and it is no Idle hopa to suggest
Billard:stroke od rana pf diagram shows a well-played doubla batuk, ' You: bit mussball, in centre and Got *tod hard, and play, up table and... back. Just srazing"bide, bushion be fore pocketing, red at strength-to it bottom pock
d, +
4 mins
al sock. in
American
that he may ture. compofitom Will the Olymples welcome, an opportunity to compete Kiphuth, feels
A Boon na the authorifer, who ad- held in the 1,300 thchik, looked weake minister the international sports in the nationals. QUntwise ho could picture-find it possible to make the indi ittle complaint-AssociatedTM proper arrangement