THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, MAY 24, 1948.
BOXING
CITATION
WINS
ENGLAND'S TEST
TEST PROSPECTS
NOT SO BLEAK
London, May 23.-England's prospects in the crichot Tests with Australia this year are not so bleak as some pessimista will have us believe,
Much has been made of the batting onslaughts by Don Bradman's "supermen," as they have been called, but a calm analysis of the form of the English Test probables shows England's chances in a more favourable light.
Man for man, the English batting this SERSON Ins The only been every bit as 'powerful as the Australians, difference is that the deeds of the tourists have been con centrated into one team, whereas the accomplishments' of England's batsmen have been spread over the Counties,
The Incomontable Middlesex-pair, W. J. Edrich and Deals Compton, third have run into form with n wicket partnership which was only 21 runa
short of the world re- cord: the probable opening pair, Len Hution and Cyril Washbrook, have also reached their best again.
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13 con-
Elgbt Australians have between them
12 centuries; scored Englishinen have scored turies: Washbrook and Robertson each claiming three, Compton, Jiurd-
staff and Hullon Edrich one.
two each and
AUSTRALIAN BATTING INFERIOR TO 1938
that the Statisticians point out
of the batting exploits
present Australian team fall below those of the 1038 side. After six matches the latter had scored 3,420 runs in matches for an average of 79. as compared with only 2.977 for an average of about 40 this time.
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Back to the
Stop watch
By MILLIE HUDSON
There will be no photo-finish checks, or new starting devices, In the Olympic Games swim- ming championships at Wem- bley this summer.
Photo-finish is not practicable be- cause swimmers end their races with either over or under-water touches, nid a lot of splashing, so that the beam may or may not be broken.
Federation Internationale Natation amateur laws state. how- ever, that nistes in heats and finals must be filmed so thal judges may use them for checking purposes.
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Officials will go back to the old- fashioned slop-watch for timing this year's events,
And yet that 1938 skle soffered
One of the most successful inven- one of the henylest Test defeals tions to far was a Swiss one used at ever, losing by an innings and 579 the Europeth Games Inst Septem- runs on the Kennington Oval bats-ber. men's wicket in the Anal Test.
the On that occasion;
England batsmen scored 003 runs for seven wickets declared, and the bowling included O'Reilly and Fleetwood Smith. Hutton made his Test cord score of 304.
The main problem confronting the selectors in choosing the tenant for the Test trial beginning on June
2 is the bowling. The selectors will probably
benr In mind. Frank Smailes (Yorkshire) and Peter Jackson (Worcestershire),
Tom Goddard (Gloucestershire), now in his 10th year, Is sill Eng- land's outstanding sin bowler. Last season, he was the mainstay Gloucestershire's challenge for County championship, taking wiel:e13. This was second only to
in 1930.
of
2311
batsmen
International rules state that three watches must check the time of a record swim. With the usual eight Enes this me that 24 watches have to be used, and four others nitermate for emergency purposes.
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With the system used at the Euro- pean Games, the ring of the start- ng pistol set in motion, through the wiring all the 28 watches; but each her to be stopped separately by a time-keeper pressing a button.
Thus the human el ment crept in And the wires were apt to trip the many official feet milling about the Anich line.
TENNIS
LAST EIGHT IN
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LAST NIGHT'S EXHIBITION MATCHES
MALAYA'S BADMINTON STARS SHOW HOW THE GAME SHOULD BE PLAYED
BY "RECORDER"
A gallery of more than 400 saw Malaya's Thomas Cup badminton team run rings around local badminton stars in the exhibition games at the Club de Recreio last night.
The reflection on local standard was not too bad seeing that the Malayan team are favourites for the Thomas Cup, badminton's recently introduced equivalent to the Davis Cup.
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Malaya's two leading players did The rest of the evening's plar | the second game he rallied from 7- not come un court in top trim but | paluted
picture where 13 to 14-all, only to miss the elusive they experienced
the noi
least Honkong was concerned. One winnlag uec. difficulty in keeping our local | players can bat console themselves | Our local girls lid quite well and players on the run while they just with the fact that, backing the op- von some complimentary comment stood and flicked the shuttle back portunities for practice that there trom the Malnyans who conceded for acc-winning drop shots or neat are in Malaya. where clobs have that the Indies standard here was place shots.
inore than one court, they did man- | exceptionally high. age to score a few points.
However, Miss Ulian Khoo was no instel for Malaya's Miss Chung Kong-nyong, losing 0-1 0-11.
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Britain Selects Olympic Boxing Team
By GEORGE WHITING.
Our new amateur boxing champions have had swift reward, the ABA have announced that the eight winners of the national titles at Wem- bley will be Great Britain's team in the Olympic Games in the same ring next August. They were:
Fly-weight, H. F. Carpenter (Bradfield BC Peckham); bantam, T. Profitt (Manchester); feather, P. Brander (Slough Contre BC); light, R. Cooper (RN and West Ham BC); welter, M. B. Shacklady (Eccles); middle, J. A. Wright (RN and Polytechnic BC); cruiser, D. E. Scott (Army and Derby); heavy, J. Gardner (Army and Market Harboro').
And all are English; not one Scut (ner for Broad-street BC Navy and and not one Weishman finds a pince Imperial Services champion for the In the team,
last two years.
Was
Henry Carpenter, 22-year-old Welter-weight Max Shacklady, Ivory worker, who toac wages took tip boxing when the when he takes time off for training, married nine years ago, Father of began as a Boys' Clubs champion. two. Shock tactics wlaner over hne won two London titles, lost in Johnny Ryan in the ABA final, the ABA final last year, and took the national championship recently with wins over Joe Murphy and Peler Keenan, of Glasgow,
Johnny Wright, middle-weight,.Is 19, and a former Sea Cadets cham- plon from Potters Bar,
Milltary policeman Donald Scott, TRIPLE INTERNATIONAL still on the right side of 20, has Henry is a pupil of "Tiny" Ryan, reached the top niter fewer than 50 former ABA feather-weight cham-senior contests. plon, whose tuition took him 1:110
Heavy-weight Jack Gardner was the international team against ire-"unknown" at the beginning of the land, Switzerland and Denmark.
season, Run up for a BAOR title Tommy Profit, 21-year-old Man-last year: came home from Germany chester inwright, inn former air- a few months ago to knock out man, who first achieved prominence (heavy-weights left, right and centre.
Shield winner last as a Britannia
RESERVES year.
(Scol- Fly-weight: P. Keenan Feather-weight Peter Brander land); Bantum: T. Miller (Scot- will be 21 this summer, has been land); Feather: C. F. Tucker (RAF); ABA champion three times lis four Light: T. Glanville (Slough); Wel- ¡seasons,
ter: J. Ryan (Army); Middle: R. Nineteen-year-old Ron Cooper is Agland (Wales); Cruiser: J. Allsopp on demob, leaves from the Navy. (Birkenhead); Heavy: J. Morkus Degan boxing ny a Federnilon win- |(Repton),
FOOTBALL
CHINA'S OLYMPIC TEAM REGAINS LOST PRESTIGE
Singapore, May 23.-The Chinese Olymple soccer team regained its lost prestige when it beat a strong Malayan combined side by four goals to one before a record 25,000 crowd at Singapore's Municipal Stadium on Saturday.
had
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OLIVEIRA ALONE
LOW RETIRES HURT
The Malays took the field slight favourites, but China Only Recreio's M. .A. Olivejra,
University's Low Keat Soo proved
soon' settled down to play fine soccer after being a goal coming Into the second doubles himself of the company of
In the Ladies' Doubles match, cham-
down in the seventh minute. game to deputise for University's
Hongkong's Miss Winnie Cheung Soo, who had to, retire Pions in the first doubles exhibitions and Miss Mylthie Silva tld rather)
Chim Lot nil equaliser five ceiving a through pass from Anare his best performance of 28 wickets PARIS TOURNEY Rest
kick: Guissard,--Retter. when he wont down 6-15 in art well to lose at 7-11 to Miss, Chungminutes later through tree with a torn muscle, rose to the nership with Onn, the champion and Heercio's Miss M. Ribeiro, taken by Lau Chung-san.
PORTUGAL WINS Paris, May 23, Jaroslav occasion.
Sarawak and now Singapore's No. 2
Chu
Wing- Marcus Oliveire could not repro- an inspired ten
Two minutes later, minutes player. He played a hord retrieving
Lisbon, May 23. Portugal de- Drobny, Crochestoval champion, cuveira, partnered by Malaya's No. THE GREATEST RESPECT
easily reached the last eight of 3 Ong Pon-Ha, ran up a fel lead game, and fell about a half-dozen duce his earlier form in the Mixed keung headed through and in the fented Ireland by two goals to ni
Doubles match and, partnered by second hull Chu scored again after in an international soccer the In picking
musele in bawlers, the the French Lawn Tennis cham-on Qot Tek-hoc and Wong Peug- times, finally tearing a
Miss Silva, lost 8-15, 5-15 to Ooi China's Boon Leong run 40 here today." his right thigh.
while Boon selectors start with the knowledge pionship by defeating Tony soon. led 7-5, and finally went down
yards with the ball,
Both goals were scored in the that all the Australiin
Coi, Penang's and Mainyn's No. and Miss Cheung. fighting at 12-15,
Leong himself got the final gout first half,-Kcuter. lave the greatest respect for Dou Mottram of Great Britain by
It seemed for a few minutes that was alven a hard game by Ong
Highlight of the evening's exhibi- | with a lovely drive from 30 yards.→ Blus Wright, the Kent log-break 6-2, 6-4 and 6-0, in the fourth one of Dadminton's biggest upsets Poh-lin in the men's singles exhi-tion were Ooi's perfect placing and Associated Press. bowler.
He' bowled extracrdinarily round,
of the year was about. to materialise billon though he won 15-0, 15-14. rooted-to-the-spot tactics while the well on the hard Australian wie-
Running into no great difficulty as but Qol and Wong demonstrated Ong hasn't the all-round form of opposition raced around for all kets and is likely to cause a lot of
was worth. Wong's effortless back- trouble on the inore suitable Engin previous rounds, Drobny played their mastership of the game beyond the Penang star but he appears a
inspired coming player, and has all the hand and Ong's peculiar low-over- hard consistent tennis, making few being upset by the most fish pitchen.
errors and revealing
fighting qualities of a champion. In the-net service. excep- play. In the world. Jim Laker, Surrey's Yorkshire-tionally good net game. born spin bowler, did well enough
round game, In another fourth West
Indies to warrant erica's Budge Patty beat Dragu- selection, and his team-mate, Alec in Mittie, of Yugoslavia, 6-0, 6-0, Marcel Bernard, of Bedrer, is likely to provide the fast-6-4, while
France, beat J. Fallada, of Yugo- medium stuff.
In the event of wet wickets, Eng-slavin, 4-0, 0-4, 2-0, 7-5 and 0-1.
· Italy's... Mario dal Bello, mean- land have, in Goddard and Jack
while, also reached
the quarter finnis Name but Young (Middlesex) to
of the men's singles by defeating 1wo, bowlers capable of going V.
Vedicks, of Czechoslovakin, by through any side. And It must be
9-7, 6-0.---Reuter. 7-5, remembered that the Australians
In the
an
May 23-Frankle Parkér of
are not such expert wet-wicket /e moved into the fourth batsmen, All things copsidered round of the international Tennis some grand tussies are anticipated championship today when he bent in the Tests-Reuter.
the French No. 3 player, Bernard Destremau, 8-6, 4-0, 75 and 13-11.
CHESS
Botvinnik To Defend Title
Next March
London, May 23. Radio Moscow today broadcast the names of seven Soviet chess players invited by the Inter- national Chess Federation to participate in the preliminary world championship match at Stockholm on July 15.
They are Isaac Boleslavsky, Igor Bondarevsky, David Bransteln, Salo Flohr. Alexander
Both played four sets of the match on Saturday until darkness halted the game with Destrémau leading 8-7.
Lennart Bergelin, Sweden's cham- plon, beat Argentine's Inraldo Weiss by 0-4, 6-4 and 8-6-United Press.
Billiard Match
Paris, May 23.The French world champion, Roger Conti, raised his score to a total of 2,017 points in his Balkline billiard match against Argentine's Pedro Leupoldo Carrera, who continued to trail with a total of 827 points.
beat
ENGLAND'S SOCCER TOUR Schafhausen, Switzerland, May FRANCE BEATS SCOTLAND
22-England's soccer leam wound. up their short continental tour by Paris, May 22.--France Scotland by three goals, to nil in beating the Canton of Schaffhausen, Swiss second division side, by 6 International soccer match at the
goals to
nothing this afternoon, after Colombes Studium here today. There scoring once in the first half.
three of Mortensen scored
the was no score at half-time.
others coming from Cockburn, owed their defeat to Scotland
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gonis,
Tannion and Pearson. Badminton Championship Finals Are
Week's Biggest Sports Attraction
The coming week in local sport will be very much badminton week. With the Sing
Shanghai, the Tao players back from
semi-finals and finals of the first post war championships will be played off to-night and on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights.
The semi-finals will be played at the Club de Recreio. An admission fee will be charged of $1.20. This evening will see Patrick Wong facing S. A. Vanar for the right of contesting the Senior Singles final. The other Senior Singles final has been post.. poned.
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Patrick Wong is as good an all- rounder as Vannr but the latter's bim aggressive play will present with a challenge that will be hard lp overcome.
Wong has the courtcraft that can win
championship but his superiority over Vanar in this de- game should be partment of the overbalanced by Vanar's fast game. The University player can set a pace hard on anyone's stamina.
JUNIOR SINGLES FINÁL
S. Saul, of the KCC, will start favourite in the Junior Singles final Conti was in perfect form when against W. C. Chung of the Chinese he made 739 points in today's scs-Sanitary Inspectors' Club. rlon, Carrera scoring 120-United Press.
Odds are about 2-1 on Saul, but as always with him much will de- pend upon temperament, Chung is
a stayer with considerable court
Kotov Andre FILIPINO CLUB WIN sense. He may take the whole of
the first game to grope away
at
Lilienthal and Vyacheslav Ratozin.
In a friendly lawn bowls match al | Saul's wenk poluts but if he ends The leading players of Poland. Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hun-King's Park yesterday, .Filipino Club them he may start to score steadily. cary. France, Canada and other beat Kowloon Cricket Club by 10 Much will depend on pace. The countries will take part in the shots.
first game is almost certain to bo Soul's and he will have to gamble tournament.
on saving his energy for the second or the third. A fast second sei
to
The winners will participate the final competitions for the right contend for the world chess crown next March with the world champion, Mikhail Botvinnik, the broadcast said.--United Press.
1. Y. He, J. Cottan. Dr. Atienza and H. Chittenden (Filipino Club) lost to Joyce, tobins, Tindall and Forrest 10-21;
3. W. Lee, C. F. Lee, T. Dean and W. could beat Cheung, a slow one may Field (Filipino Club) drew with True- menn Saul's elimination from the Inan, Joke, Tibble and Orem 23-23: L. 9, final. Silva, F. Rodrigues, W. Ogley and D. Roratio (Filipino Club) beat Keatrs. McLellan, Palmer and Lock 21-12,
Australian Batting Averages
D. G. Bradman
S. J. Loxton
K. R. Miller
S. Barnes.
W. A. Brown
11. A. Saggers
Morris
Hassat
SENIOR DOUBLES FINAL
The Senior Doubles semi-finals will be played tomorrow night Club do Reerelo. Both should be close, with the odds slightly in favour of Patrick Wong and C. Au against T. Innings Not out Runs Highest Score, Average
S. Young, and W. F. Foo In the one : 521
130.25
match, and in favour of Vanar and 101,50
Low against Robert Tay and P: K. 00.33 Hul in the other. Predictions on the 04.25
final are even-betting,
02:01
107
203
120
200
202.
377
677
170
527
200
75.20
110
104
58,00
08.00
213
138
A.
218
32:10
52.10
110
D. Talion
40.00
43.60
R. A. Hamence
27.00
Jan Johnson
20.04
D. Ring
24.33 10.00
10.80
14.50 1200
11.25
4.60
R. N. Harvey
C. McCool
R. Lindwall
W. A. Johnston
E. Toshack
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TONIGHT'S MATCHES
player, As the University Low Kent Soo, is unable to play this evening as a result of his torn muscle sustained in yesterday's exhibition match, there will only be two games on tonight's badmintion championships semi-final pro- de Re- gramme al the Club creio.
Tonight's programme, there- fore, is:
Men's Senior Singles Semi- final: S. A. Vanar (Universlty} v. Palrick Wong (Sing Tao).
Men's Junior Doubles Semi- final: S. Soul and W. Gillies (KKC) v. K. S. Thong and 2 II. Choo,
BASEBALL
their own lost opportunities as nil the forwards, with the exception of Duncan on the left wing, missed easy chances of scoring.
cess.
Arranged primarily 13 An ex- hibition match, the game did not to that description fully live up uwing to the conditions. Apart from the
heat, the ground, a sweltering As a result, France, showing school playing area, was smail, dry, superior speed, carned their suc-bumpy and sloping.
But the Englishmen showed their Ben Barck proved himself a
Onish great strategist at inside-left, while superiority from start to Pierre Famion on the wing was without being extended. Indeed,
Swift also a success in this game.
in goal, had only one reat Barck made the passes for two cf save to make, and that was when the goals scored by Emile Banglorul Neukomm, at right half, and the in the Swiss while Pierre only player of note Baratte, and Jean
team. took a free kick-Reuter. Flamion notched the other after re-
TURKS BEAT RANGERS Istanbul, May 23-A team picked from four outstanding Turkish clubs Park defeated England's "Queen's Rangers 2 to 1 in the final of a four team series today. The final results Rave the Rangers two victories against ons draw and one defeat-tre Associated Press.
DiMaggio Leads Yankees
In Win Over Cleveland
Neusel Beats Schmeling
New York, May 23.-In the American League, three home runs by centre fielder Joe DiMaggio gave New York an opening victory of 6-5 over Cleveland, but the league leaders rallied to take the second
of the double- game, header at G-1,
Hamburg, May 23-Walter DiMaggio's homers accounted for, opener was a season's record, Neusel. 40, former German · ull the runs in the first gaine and The Cardinals. scored in every heavyweight champion, won a handed the Indian's Bob Feller a inning and shelled four Fhiindel- ten-round decision, today over defeat. Nearly 70,000 tons saw the phia pitchers.
GAME,
six
Rookie Arst bascman Nippy the former world champion, Philadelphia's surprising Athletics stcam-rolled Saint Louis twice, 7 Jones hit a homer and drove in Max Schmeling, 42.
Morion hit A runa. Marty and 8-1. The double victory moved
Johnny the Athletics to within a half game homer and two singles
Blatnik homered for Philadelphia of the pace-setting Indians.
Home runs by centre fielder Sam in ench game. Chapman and calcher Buddy Rosar
KIINTOIS ZANI VISZONEDARAN NAMAZINIAI KERMANSATIABA1 | and
at Kowloon Cricket Club on Thurs- MIXED DOUBLES
day.
baseman
R
Neusel weighed in at 203 lbs and Schmeling of 101 1.
A crowd of 50,000 jammed the open
air arena to witness a "re- venge" bout in which Neusel reversed the decision Schmeling ob- Etained over him 14 years ago.
Neurol attacked from the outset, but both lacked a good solid punch. The
bout was
almost exclusively confined to infighting with Neusel alamming, short jabs to Schmeling's face and head,
Although Max 'said before the
1
THE SCORES doubles by
third Hank Majeski, second baseman Pete New York (1st game) .. Suder and first baseman Ferris Fain Cleveland brought the first victory.
(Winning pitcher Allie Reynolds), Chicago swept two Rames by New York (2nd game)....
01 The odds are on Robert Tay and identical scores of 4-3 from Boston. Cleveland
Pitcher Joo Haynes scored the win- (Winning pitcher Don Black). Milas W. Cheung against Patrick ning run on left-fielder Bob Ken- Philadelphia (1st game) 13 Wong and Miss M. Ribeiro In Mixed Doubles semi-final at Club first game.
nedy's ninth Inning single in the St Louis
(Winning pitcher In the second, Joe Dobson's wild Philadelphia (2nd game) 8 11
St Louis wins, I cannot imagine them beating the Recreio pair of J. J. Remedios pitch in the 10th inning sent Don (Winning pitcher Lou Brissle). and Mirs Ölga. Silva, now hot Dolloway across the plate with the Boston (1st game) favourites for the title, in Friday's winning run. final at the Kowloon Cricket Club.
Virgil Trucks spolled a brillant Winning pitcher Joe Haynes). Admission for the finals on Thura-pitching duel with Walt Masterson Boston (2nd game). day and Friday at the KCC will by walking in the only run of the Chiengo be $2.40.
do Recreio tomorrow but, whoover
1. would bot on Saul and Gilles against K. S. Thong and T. H. Choo In the Junior, Doubles seini-final to- night against K. S. Thong and T. LIGHTWEIGHT-FIGHT. H. Choo, but the odds in favour of the KCC players are very short. It Brussels, May 23-Kid Dugeart, would not surprise me to sea. Young Belgium, won on points after 10 and Foo, a fine doubles pair with three-minute · rounds against Play considerable inlitative, beat them. Famechon, lightweight champion of Whoever wins should have an France and of Europe, at, the Heysel caster game in the final against A, stadium, Brussels today.Associated Bayot and F. M. Ribeiro of Recreio | Press.
Chicago
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Dick Fowler),
1
7
fight that he "felt all his old speed was back despite his years," Neuzel beat the former world champion to the punch every time with quicker
3 8 2 footwork.-United Press.
4
gume aller two were out in the (Winning pitcher Harris). ninth inning to give Washington Washington 1-0 victory over Detroit, Washing- Detroit fon got only four hits off Trucks (Winning pitcher Walt while the Tigers had six off Mastor-son).
National League son..
St Louis (st, gamo) .... Philadelphia
the
NATIONAL LEAGUE In the National · League, league-leading Cardinals rained base, hits to defeat Philadelphia 10-3 and 4-1. Their 10 runs in the
iwice,
1-0 2209-
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Surprise Decision Against Cerdan
Brussels, May 23.—In a surprise Master-decision, Cyrille Delannoit, Belgian
middleweight champion, beat Marcel Cerdan, European middleweight 1 champion
15 on points, ofter a three minute round championship contest at Brussels tonight.
18 17..
3 12.
(Winning pitcher Ted Wilks). St Louis (2nd game) 4 14.0 Philadelphia
1
When the referto pointed
to
2 Delannoit a. the winner, Cerdan
(Winning pitcher Jim Ahorn) reeled to the floor in disappoint- Associated Press.
ment.-Associated Press,