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RACING "GOSSIP
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1948.
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Holiday Meeting SPORTS FEATURES Have No Illusions
Starts Today
By THE TURF!
The curtain is all set for the two-day Whitsun Race Meeting, under the auspices of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, and the main attraction will be the Lantao Handicap for Class 5 ponies, over the mile distance.
Over a million tickets on the Lantao Handicap have been sold and the winner of the lucky ticket will receive well over half a million dollars.
The first Saddling Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m., and the first race will be at 2 p.m. On Monday, the first Saddling Bell will be rung at 11.30 a.m. and the first race will-be' run at 12.00 noon.
FIRST RACE
The first race Is 'n sprint event over half a mile and 170 yartis con- fined to Chiss & ponies (1st Section). The Aeld is so well balance that,pun- ters may have a tricky, 4ɔne in spol- fing the winner......
The others are: Al Fresco (130 ba), Airfield (140 lbs), Esmeralda (130 ibs) Fluke Shot (135 lbs) and Miami Denuty (1401),
FIFTH RACE
The probable starters are:Anfternoon is in this lot of Class I
Iantle (147 lbs), Fearless Witness (152-ba). Flying Dragon (147 lbs) Golden Eagle (147 (lbs), Jeep Fung (147 lbs), Jinx, (147lbs); Kookaburra (152 lbs), Maroubra (147 lbs), Mer- ry Thoughts (147 lbs); Queen's Gate (147 lbs), Rosemarie (147 lbs), Silver Wheel (141 lbs), Smiling Meadow (147 lbs), Solo-Mark Lassle 47 lus), Spitfire (147 Iba). Sunny, (147
bs), The Stranger (147 Ib)
and Trojan (147, ibo).
The second best attraction of the
furlongs dis- ponies over the six tance. Norse Queen (150 lbs), the unbeaten championship
pony, will be coming out in this race and Д win is almost certain
fure
It will be hard.for the others to beat her. The only opposition can be expected to
from come Daisy Belle(153 lbs). Fifth Alarm (149 lbs) and Black Market (148 lbs).
On the present: form of all these : ponies, Maroubra, a fant and speedy
SIXTH RACE
One chrfrely on a good dividend
animal, should win this race. Fear-in this race for Class 2 ponies (1st
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ALLEGRO ALLE-GRO!!
less Witness andy Kookaburra
Section fur, the mila and 171 yards., for all of the entries are about the samo standard.
Rose Emme and Sorceret will be while holding the post of hancur, Crown Witness has the lightest weight to carry. The others more or less the same weight that they have been carried before.
are
KEEPING THE LEAD
Carolyn A., with jockey Charles Le Blanc up, stays out front, after gaining the lead at the quarter-mile pole, to win Jamaica's Correction Handicap in New York. Ocean Brief (8) was second, with Basil James riding, and Red Shoes (2), with Ted Atkinson up, third. The purse was $20,000 added.
They dro-Blue Ribbon (152 lbs), THE MATCH WITH ITALY
Blue Sky (152lbs) Chesterfield (152 lbs). Lucky Strike (150 lbs), Penri Diver (147 lbs), Pleasant Valley (145 lbs), Royal Commission (140 lbs), and V-J Day (149 lbs). My selections for this race are:- Roso Emme, Chesterfeld and Pleasant Valley, with V-J Day as the outsider.
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SEVENTH RACE
In this second lot of Class 8 for the 1/2 mile and 170 yards. sprint event, Emporors Gate be called on to,shoulder the top tveight of 159. Ibs, due to the fact that this pony has been running very well at "Its two outings, twice placing
will last
nina have a good chance here for second. both of these ponies are quite fast
at the starting gate and thould not I have every condence on this
be left out. Silver Wheel is worth belting on for an outside chance.
SECOND RACE
pony to win this event. The others that will be up against her are:--- Busted Straight (152 lbs), Gentle- man Jim (155 lbs), Martian Maid (152 lbs) and Pinkie (152 lbs).
EIGHTH RACE
Great Interest will be shown in this event for Class 5 ponies, he Going over the Lantae Handicap.
The second batch of Class 5 ponies list of entries, one may expect very close finish. Brivisto, with the will contest this mile and a quarter. came second to maximum weight imposed and with Tootsie, which the course on the soft side, has re- Miami Beauty in the mile and 171 It is yards at the Easter Race Meeting, mofo chances of winning.
win Uta therefore best to leave her out in should
only an additional three lbs more this race.
to carry.
%-
event as it has
The winner most probably will be Big Shot (147 lbs), Rosebud (147 from among the ponles that have won in a mile event before:-Battles) and Souvenir (133 lbs) are not
feld (147 lbs) in 1:53%, Bootcle
to be underestimated, for they also
The Cast (145 lbs), which, in 1:49% was dis have a say in this race. qualified for bumping and boring, named pony is very lightly treated
and may cause an upset here.
NINTH RACE
Dashing Beauty II (147 lbs) In 1:50%, National Gt (147 lbs) In 1:50%, Possibility (152 lbs) In 1:52 and The Chief (147 lbs) in 1:52.
In comparison to their previous weights I favour Bootsie (148ribs to win, with National Gift (143 lbs) and Dashing Beauty 11 (130 lbs) to place. Ding How (136 lbs) is the danger here and is a good outsider.
THIRD RACE
A big field is almost certain for the Gloucester Handicap, (1st See- tion) for Class & ponies. Ascot Beauty
(153 lbs) the last
time
second to D-Day in the Sinkes over the nile
and now with the and
In this race for Class 6 ponles (2nd Section) over Six Furlongs, the probable entries pre evenly match and a win can be expected from anyond of Constant Star (159 ibs), Empress of Peace (150 lbs).
Flying Tiger (152 lbs) Jackal (150 lbs), Lucky Kid (152 lbs), Priority (109 lbs). Shahin (150 lbs) and Shangrila (153 lbs).
Empress of Pence, with 159 jbg, came second at the Fourth Extra Race Meeting 10 Rosebud in the
but
as the
mile and 17 yards,
By "SEE TEE"
ENGLAND DETERMINED TO FIELD
STRONGEST POSSIBLE ELEVEN
HER
Tomorrow Italy and England try conclusions at international soccer. The match is at Tarin and although details are not available of the Italian eleven, it seems that England is determined to field her strongest possible
team.
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Italy and England last met in international soccer in 1939, when a match at Milan ended in a draw, both sides scoring twice. This was the two countries' first meeting since the unusual game at Highbury in 1934, which England won 3-2.
Reason
A party of seventeen English footballers is taking part in this close of Continental tour. After the match with Italy tomorrow, the English players proceed to Switzerland where they are to meet a Swiss team next Wednesday.
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About Declining Bradman
Says JACK HOBBS →
Don't let us, after his Worcester display, have any illusions about a declining Don Bradman. There are no new honours for him to pick up, and he is now, I am quite sure, exptain of the side first and foremost,
The attention to detail, such as allowing himself to be beaten in the race for the hundred, helps to make i a team better.
Worcester convinced me that the more matire Bradman will be a first-class, skipper in the all-round
sense.
,
His effort to give the newcomorn to. England balting practice did not Comme off, but the evidence of thought was there.
There is nothing new to be said of Bradninn sa batsman and nothing
ctin
yet be subtracted from the things we know about him,
The hook, the powerful leg shot, the drive through the covers und the classic late cut are still there,
Watching him once more confirms the view that the only real answer to the problem of Bradman is a good fast bowler. And
not sure 1 Am that he is the complete answer.
doult added
AMAZING POWERS There is not the slightest that Bradman could have another, double century to his pre vious Worcester ones had he not felt that the interests of his side
would be better served if he did not stay to do it.
Haven't you seen him, after he 'has acknowledged the congratulo-
that our fellows need not be frightened out before they go in.
Leg break bowler McCool, who is very like
Warwickshire Hollles, did not keep an immaculate length, but I am not suggesting that
cannot do this.
our
There is a real difference, for this type of bowler, between the length likely to be successful in Australia and here, and he has to and that new length, which is, roughly, further up to the batsman.
Ian Jolinson is of a type similar, to Robinson, of Yorkshire," and on the first showing is more accurate than McCool.
NEW LEFT-HANDER
the batting there is Turning to the new-lo-us left-hand
opener, Arthur Morris, who is going to be a headache NE
He has been ikened to Warren Bardsley, but to me the similarity begins and ends with the fact that they are both left-handed.
Morris does not lift the bal so high or so straight back ás Bardsley did, but ho gets late power-quite a lot-into his shots.
This means that his footwork - is timing' good. There
tions over reaching the century, put right and the
his cap on a little more firmly, take are no holes in his defence, and he 1 new guard, and bring to bear may scare even more runs than ever ogain all his amazing powers of Bardsley got..
(World copyright) concentration?
At Worcester his cap went further back, and he let go of himself.
Nor should the failure of some of the other Australian batsman at Worcester delude us into thinking that this side won't get a lot of runs. On good wickets they will, so let us hope that there will be at least some wickets on which bowlers'can make the ball turn rather quickly,
as Peter Jackson did. ·
BOWLING STRENGTH
The Australians did what was
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Vancouver Has:
Olympic Hopes
Hopes for British Columbia re- presentation on the 1048 Canadian Olympic games track and field team rest almost exclusively with two young distance men, Jack Hutchins! and Bobby Piercy.
Jack Harrison, British Columbla Track and Field Association presi-- dent, said recently that the
two.
expected of them at Worcester. lads appear almost assured of places We should expect on England side on the team."
to beat even the best county, side, Hutchins, currently attending col- and Worcestershire, although poslege in the United States, has been. sessing some good cricketers, are not clocked at 1:55.4 in the half-mile. the best county side...
He also is a no prospect in the 1,500 metre event where his best:
Piercy, a student at the Univer- strictly sity of British Columbia, done the two-mile in 9:53, just an operator. He has a long-distance eyelash shy of the Canadian record.
Both young men aro couver.
from Van-
This Austraitan. team is going to be good at that i am convinced time is just a shade over 4:05. and worthy of the very best we can put in the field against them.
We did not see the fast bowlers throwing everything they had into it, but Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller will work up into shock-men, If necessary England could put Other top-line men who make up The Swiss are a rising power in although i am not prepared to pro- into the field tomorrow eleven the seventeen are Howe (Derby European soccer. One of their most phesy, as yet, that they will be as players all with recent experience County), Aston (Manchester United) important successes was it beating good as the best Australia have ever of International matches against and Ramsey (Southampton), who
Belgium 4-0 at Geneva last Novem- sent us. That remains to be proved. continental teams.
are the second string of full-bucks: Belgium, 4-
There is enough bowling of other well with compares Frank Swift, the goalkeeper, was Cockburn, wing half of Manchester
the Spurs' England's 5-2 and Scotland's 2-0 sorts at the command of the skipper England's custodian in the match United and Nicolson,
to enable the fast ones to be used with France played at Highbury centre half are the spare half backs, victories over the Belglans. The
invited to play sparingly, and this other bowling Just May (England won 3-0), against with Pearson of Manchester United, Swiss have been Belgium at Brussels in September recently. "capped" as England's in- England in a full international match looked to me reasonably good.
Worcestershire had batsmen, such- (England won 5-2), and at High-side left.
in. London next December. This
Charles Palmer and. Dick may well prove to be the strongest as The team which beat Scotland challenge yet to England's unbeaten Howorth, who showed how runs was: Swift; ' Scott, Hardwick: home record in matches with con-
can be got from all of them, and Wright, Franklin, Cockburn; Mal-tinental countries,
who left us with the impression thews, Mortensen, Lawton, Pearson
Arthur Peall says:
FTEN DOCKsting just red but one,
striker anda that colour afe for at averago Diater. The la -red BRAF OOrner pocket might o useful B opponent
He fum- bied while shaping as blue, Pocketed rod, giving
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AWAY. And JOLT- ind опро nent with Kimpo
yellow.
Referep then replaced red out of pocket. fair decision, supported by goraming body, despite the rula that reds are never re-spotted.
millard stroke on left of diagram is an Awkward run-through white, plared to leave cannon from hand. on spotted red. Everything depende on accurate plain-ball striking.
and Finney. For more than half of that
with Scotland the English game w defence took a terrible' buffeting and it was more the good work of Swift and Franklin, (a great centre half with a frail physique) which stop- ped the Scots scoring, than the efforts of the backs,
Nevertheless, during this pasting England snatched two goals, one just before half time, the other mid- way through the second half. In the last 25 minutes, two goals in the lead, with Hardwick lame on the wing and the Hampden roar fading a little, it was England's turn to hold the balance of play..
Swift was in the wars in
this match. He is a gool-keeper of such dash and courage that the F. A. have instructed Ditchburn, Tottenham
out was
W distance now is much more in its Gatwick favour it should win this event.
yards. The others that I have named ventsbury again when Sweden were the Hotspur's goal-keeper, to be ready
much much are also 'well worth backing for
shorter and with only six lbs more they are also capable of winning.
to shoulder its chances are bright. Stron: opposition should come from Aan Hing (150 lbs), Care Free (152 Ibs), Chief Witness (145 lbs), Two Bid (146 lbs) and The Dingo (150 lbs).
FOURTH RACE
TENTH RACE --
visitors last November,
Other players who took part in these three matches are the two full backs, Scott (Arsenal) and Hard- Wright (Middlesborough); wick
to fly to the continent at short, notice on Monday should Swift be injured in the match with Italy tomorrow. MORE THAN A KEEPER The Second Sertion for Class 2 (Wolverhampton) a wing half, Frank-
Swift is something more than a ponies, 1 mile and 171,yards, will lin (Stoke City) one of England's keeper of the goal. He is a player wing up the day's programme. For best ever centre half back; and, with with a quick eye for an opening at coming in second to Lily in the the forwards, Mortensen (Black- the other end, and a very accurate Curragh Handicap, over the mile, at pool). Tommy Lawton (Notis
upfield punt. the Fourth Extra Race Meeting, County), Finney (Preston North There are only nine probable
in End)
and Sookunpols has been penalised three
Mannion, (Middle- starters in this mile and a quarter lbs (the previous weight was 153 sborough). for Cluss 5 pontes, and punters can lbs) whilst Rebel the promoted pony expect
the winner to be either.
THE TOURING PARTY Cassic (154 lbs), Jump Bid (140 from Class 3 has gone up another lbs), Strathnamara (155 lbs)
pound more às agairist its last weight In the touring party there are dropped it at Lawton's feet in mid-
also Stanley Matthews (Blackpool); feld and saw who played against France and Belgium but was not avaliable for steer it out to his left. In a matter
of seconds the lying Finney the match with Sweden, and Lang- ton, and outside left of Blackburn mashed it home. Not one opponent flover who also, was a member of had touched it from une end of the the teams which beat France and Beld to the other. Sweden.
Trade Wind (153 lbs).
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of 140.
Of the four Cassie is the most It will appear that these two po- logical bet. This pony is fighting nies will vie for the honour. ft at the moment. It won the mile
Peggy (147 lbs), Fort Knox (150 race at the Fourth Extra Race Meet-lbs) and Masterpiece (152 lbs) must ing with plenty to spare, beating also be considered. These three po- Trade Wind and Tootele.
nies should give a good race.
SPORTING SAM
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By Reg. Wootton
England's first goal against Scot- land came in the middle (almost) of a terrific onslaught by the Scots forwards. Swift grabbed the ball,
the centre forward
Lad
After the match with Italy to- morrow the Englishmen have engage ments next Wednesday and the following Sunday. These games are with strong Swiss teams and though the fixture at Schaffhalsen on May 23 has been billed as an "ex- hibition Lame", the eyes of mul- titudes of absent continental crowds will be watching the results of this Arst Important post-war tour by an England team.
Probably because they are, aware of this, the Football Association has chosen such a majority of experlen- ced men for the touring party. Ex- perience of big matches, particularly with continchtals, has been the chief factor in deciding who shall repre- sent England.
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Other than these two, prospects are rather bleak according to Har- rison.
tho particularly In
fald events. However, a number of other candidates
be cannot yet counted out.
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1028 Games
Duncan while McNaughton was high jump king In 1932. In 1912 at Stockholm, George Goulding of Vancouver won the 10,000 metre walk and his then- established record still stands,
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