12.
INTERPORT CRICKET
By "RECORDER”
HONGKONG'S HOPES REST ON A BALANCED TEAM
Batting Strength To No.10 And Five Change
Change Bowlers
Hongkong's Interport Cricket Team will fly to Singapore on Thursday, June 17, with hopes high of emerging victors over the Singapore State XI.
This despite the fact that Hongkong's XI will not bloom with youth, the average nge of the team working out well in the mid-thirties.
Hopes high as well despite the fact that it will be a scratch X11 on which Hongkong will depend, though thera are as many as seven ex-Interporters in it.
It will be on his balanced batting and bowling at Hangkong's hopes A batting strength will be pinned. well into No. 10 and five better than-average change bowlers should be enough to worry Singapore.
But much will depend on form and more on the wicket: Ten of Hongkong's bats have managed mu innings of over 40 in the past season but the nine bals who will ve depended upon for the runs have nannged 14 ducks between them na well.
The team's captain, H. Owen out duckless Hughes, nione came
last season though he was out under double figures in eight of 24 Innings.
For opening bats Hongkong can depri upon a cholee of M. M. Little and L. D. Kilbee, the JKCC'S openlng pair in early censon, and Sq./Ldr. A. D. Panton (RAF),
Major J. M. Hope and Major W Murray Brown, and G. N. and J. M. Cosano, of Recrcle, make a strong backbone for Nos. 2 to 0. There i also . Owen Hughes, who had the best batting average of the team in the past senson, at No. 7, though he may move higher up if circumstances warrant it.
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OPENING BOWLERS
On Zimmern, Lee and Steplo, Hongkong will depend for its Zimmern and opening bowlers. Stepto should be able to wear down Singapore'a baiting with their fast fast-medium. deliveries with Lee. good for variety.
Then in cornes Iowarth, whose 100 wickets for 0% runs aplece last season must be somewhere near a leent recordt. Ilo s not as fast 1hrough the air as Slepto but he is faster off the wicket and spins the ball.
Hongkong's attack is completed with three spin bowlers-Major G. N. Hove, Owen Hughes and Cosano, an excellent change.
J. M. Gomano. Recreio's regular behind-the-stumps inan, will keep
wickel,
All in all, Hongkong should not fore hudly, whatever the result, though the local
SCASON
two months' gone.
IT addition to the Interport mniels, there
be one-day matches against a Combined Ser vices XI. on Junc 22, and ntati Kuala Lumpur on June 24.
The Interport match will be n three tiny affair-June 19-21. It will be the 14th in die serles.
Francis Zimmern, of the KCC, is JI Food No. 0. with F. Howarth
Eleven of these were played in (IIKCC) and Robbie Lee (KCC) im
Hongkong, two in Singapore-in excellent tall. Robble was
1891 and 1925. ten Umez not out in 18 innings Inst season with a top score of 23.
.
The record so far-Hongkong 7, Singapore 0.
Interporters' Averages Last Season
This is how the interport team fared on averages in all matches lust season:
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Average
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1948.
SPORTS FEATURES
THE REFEREE STUCK HIS CHIN OUT-TOO FAR
Joey Walker, referee, is floored after the final bell at Newark, NJ. in an attempt to halt an overtime exchange between Laurie Buxton (right) of England and Mike de It was the only knockdown of the fight, won by Buxton. Just Cosmo of Elizabeth.
who floored the referee remained a mystery,——--A‚P.
One man & his dog
་ཏྭཱ་、1.སྨྱལ
By CHARLES GRAVES
Clonmel (Tipperary). Clonmel is the capital of Tipperary; it is also the capital of the greyhound breed- ing industry of the world. For Clonmel and its neighbourhood raise 50 percent of the world's greyhounds. No won-
ita inhabitants
arc
prosperous.
For Tipperary's Tom Morris, ono greyhound(price £142) has built
CHORTHERN ERPLAND
EIRE
CLONMEL
a fortune of half a million pounds. And in Clonmol, the greyhound capital of the world, they brood champions for England at the rate of 10,000 a year. ́
King of the greyhound breeding Industry, is old Tom Morris, grey haired, shrewd, witty, pink-cheeked. Heir apparent is his solicitor son Arthur,
Batting
Janings Not kd1 Out R
Highest
Score
II. Owen Hughes
24
7
050
141*
38.23
Sq/Lar. A. D. Panton
203
57.
33.83
der
G. N. Gusano
371
GR
13
30.01
5.42
542
58-
20.62
28.52
240
340
51
22.66
10
181
187
1
340
340
3
54
17.80
264
AB
15.52
203
41
15.47
130
41
15-11
160
40
9.75
38
8+
4.75
M. M. Little
J. M. Gosano
LAVE
D. Kilb
J. M. Hope
Major J.
F. Howarth
Major W. Murmy-Brown
F. R. Zimmern
LL. A. Steplo
'Not Out
F. Howarth
G. N, Gosano
F. I. Zimmern
11
Bowling!
Runs
Wickets
Average
707
119
0.44
111
17
537
6.53 10.74
Lt. A. Stepto
376
11.05
Major J. M. Hope
225
11.84
R. E. Lee
038
47
13.57
1. Owen Hughes
48
13.64
655
Woodcock fights on September 21
By GEORGE WHITING
No more ifs and buis about Bruce Woodcock, Bri. tish, Empire and European heavy-weight champion. As I forecast several weeks ago, his first fight, after more than a year's absence from the ring, will be in London in the autumn. His opponent will be an American - Harringay on September 21.
nt
Woodcock and his manager, Tom French Challenger
Hurst, will be in town on Satur-
It
Tom and Arthur are joint secretaries of the Irish Coursing Club, which controls greyhound racing and breeding throughout the 26 countries of Eire. Also they own or control dog tracks in Clonmel, Kilkenny and Waterford.
!
was Tom Morris who went In his opinion the most success- over to England and
boughtful system is to put fast English
Mutton Cullet at the age of four coursing dogs to good Irish bitches. from General McCalmont for 135 Huincas-Multon
Who
1s
Cutlet, the granddaddy
whole of the
Accord- Irish greyhound industry. ing to Tom, between 80 and 90 per- cent of all high-class racing dogs In Ireland are descendants Multon Cullet.
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So much so that he went over to England not long ago to the Joint Command, for fear of too much in-breeding..
HE DIED AT 12
Mutton Cutlet's progeny up to enly the second generation has won over £500,000 in stake money, His pups have been sold to England, France, Belglum and the United States, Australia, South Africa and
Tasmania.
After his death at the age of 12 the leading stud dogs were Tanist Custledown Lad (£50 stud fee), (50), Manhattan Midnight (£40), Well
Dark Squared (£40), and Invader (£25). All five died of some mysterious malady last year and the leading stud dogs today are. Mad Tanist, Bella's Prince, Smartly
dya-studying a list of five possible For Billy Thompson Fergus, Shaggy Lad and Mountain
opponents drawn up by promotor
Jack Solomons. Hurst will whittle Pierre Montane, new light- Emperor,
the list down to three as a basis weight
of negotiations by Solomons.
champion of France, has
Some of there have never races
been nominated by the European in England and yet their stud fees
Boxing Association as chief chal- lenger for the European title won by Britain's Billy Thompson against
Reberto Proletit, of Italy, three and amber of services a year
The British Boxing Board of Control, having learned officially from Woodcock that he intends to .continue boxing, have declared months ago. Freddie Mills to be leading conten-
Ko up to as much as £40 from £25. Muluply that by 10-the
there is a nice little income, quite apart from selling your own Thompson. I understand, will be untried saplings, as puppies between. der for Bruce's British and Empire offered terms to defend his cham-the ages of 13 and 15 months are
the first time titles. They agree, however that pionship-for
against Montane
in London this for an any request by Woodcock
summer. My guess is that he will be earlier, non-ttle, fight would
accept, and that the fight will go quite reasonable.
on at the White City on July 20
to the Lesnevich-| Mills
ns &
for
the
called if they have not yet raced, These will fetch anything from £50 to £120 for dogs, and £33 to £80 for bitches.
ROUGH FEEDING
In Clonmel the racing greyhound Rocs straight back after a race to the form of his owner where he runs loose and the feeding is more
His natural and rough.
owner, nearly always a former, can give him plenty of milk, home-growni vegetables, oats and wheat ground
in the local mili. ...........Thero.....is...practically.....no... such person 03 #1 professional trainer round here.
Sales of greyhounds at Clonmel occur eight times a year. But the best dogs are almost always sold by
Arthur Peall says: STRIKER cannot pocket last red
from the leave shown on right <lagrani. Pay is to angoker opponent behind black. Plenty of
BLACK
RED
nido and screw are required. Dimoulty in to FAVICO the right atrength.
In actus) play cu ball wil
๖ น
nlong the
Dotto
sushick6.
The con tinuous run in diagram indicates coneral direction and requisite -strength,
I derdimcult stroke, for which practice and patience. You may be beaten again and again'
before success, is
Billiard stroke eloved.
of diagram
is a positional cannon played from hand.
Strike euo-ball tow to cannon and bring whip back of the top pushion, waving excellent position for a break-
private. treaty and usually with a contingency,
Bill Quinn, the owner of Quare Times, refused £10,000 for him after he broke the world's record at the White City at a speed which would have put him 25 yards in front of Mick the Miller's best time
In 1920.
Why is it that Clonmel and Its Woodcock outpointed Mills in a
world neighbourhood still send over 10,000 non-chninpionship fight two years cruiser-weight championship.
greyhounds to England alone every Thompson, however, has two year In spite of the fact that so ngo. With Mills matched with Gus Lesnevich for the world cruiser- prior appointments. At Harringay many fast dogs have already gone meets another Frenchman, across St. George's Channel and are weight title at the White City in Andre Gonnet, In a return now at slud in England? July, and with Woodcock meeling contest at Dat.
In 1218.
Well, according to Tom Morris,
Mulcahir Post was sold the ofier another American In September, it June he will be in Canada, arrang-
which stay too
day
for £1,750 with the contingency seems unlikely that' a Woodcock- ing terms for an Empire title fightdogs and bitches
long in the training kennela and
that the buyer should pay another Mills night for British honours will with Al King in Toronto,
£500 if he do the same
wins the Whito of all thest
Oght
training walks day appen before Christmas.
City
Also a few days, ngo after day along the same stretch
Derby. of against Gonnet, a pupil of Marcel afte
sold · for Thil, may be the toughest. Thomp-road do not breed well and become Something Short was
£2,000 after winning a blg rate son had only a barnstorming finish apathetle in every way, like a bank round here and the owner refused to thank for a point's vordiet over
clerk who has to catch the same the aggressive little Frencluman at 8.10 . m. train each day to the the Albert Hall last month.
Woodcock is already in training- as boxer and man of affairs. To- night, he helps his father in a pro- moljon ni Doncaster,
SPORTING SAM
PINT OF STOUT AND A GLASS OF
WATER
the
City.
By Reg. Wootton
a profit of £700 on his deal the same evening.
EPIDEMICS
Yes, thero's gold in them thor dogs, though the mortality Is as- tonishingly high. Tom Morria ez- timales that from whelping to maturity at least one in three dies. On top of that every now and then there are those mysterious epide mice, like the one that killed off nearly all last year's leading stud dogs.
What is Tom Morris worth? Well, what with one thing and another,
neigh
I should estimate that he must bo worth something in
the bourhood of £600,000. Most of that has come from his greyhound in- terests and particularly the Multon Cuilet. strain.
Feeding The Fads And Fancies Of Fifty Nations Is One Job; Another Is Providing Against
A
Black Market In Olympic Food
By ERIC BENNETT
Stringent precautions are being taken to preventa black market developing with the food being imported or allotted to competitors in the Olymple Games, which begin in London on July 29.
The Ministry of Food is working with the Olymple Games Organising Committee to get a fair distribution of all the gift food offered to the teams and of the rations. available.
Townend,
big-
Elaborate schemes of storage, | African team. distribution, and specialised cooking Potatoes (7.600lb.) ment (3,0001b.).. for each country are now being flour (2,000lb.). and chocolate worked out by the Olympic Games (2,000 lb. slabs) head the list. Housing? Committee under the i
FIFTY ITEMS chairmanship of Mr. H. Stuart Butter, eggs, cheese, and
cuite will be Mr. James Briault, housing and there are 50 different items.
plentiful. Altogether catering manager, told me: "We are
OI aplecs there will be pepper- tackling the problem of feed-
eu- corns, bay leaves, ginger-and curry. ing some 0,000 athletes, trom
Tinned vegetables will includo more than 50 nations, in three ways. peas, beans, mushrooms, and sweet
"First it
decided thint
it corn. Five hundred pounds of would be impossible to provide fresh fish will bo augmented by specialised food for each nation 600lb. of tinned assorted. without an elaborate import scheme.
"Se
we offered nll teams the of highest British ration scale--that for heavy workers-and delictang worked out the best way this could be applied to each country's needs.
was
Even flavouring (five 1lb. bottles-
vanilla, ten lb. botulca of strawberry) has been remembered.
The Argonilne (as might be expected) a lot of meat team is bringing
-more than 20,000lb. Spaghetti, cereals, wheat, and powdered vegetables will also como In quantity,
"Coples of the menus we could rice. ce
provide were sent abroad so that each country could think out what extras they should bring.
There will be 2,500 1res of wino "Catering bas been divided
for the team to train on and 1,500lb, between four British firms, three of all. from London and one from Cardiff.
Pure glucose and vitamins B and am shortly meeting British C in medicated form will completo bakers to and if they can
produce the list.
the types of brend needed by some uations.
"Second consideration to be met was the provision of national foods, such as rico and sharks' fins for the Chinese, ghee for the Indians, and
50 on.
"To meet this the Ministry will allow each team to import whatever extras they need.
"But this food must be sent before the team arrives, пли our com milttes will look after the distribution.
TAKING PRECAUTIONS
Mr. Brinult explined that all the food will enter the country under Ministry Import licences, and the Ministry would provide refrigeration und storage space.
"It will be our problem to work out how to shift the food from the stores to the competilors' camps.
"I think It will menn
A daily delivery from base to camp, on the R.A.S.C. lines.
"All concerned with the transport, delivery, and storage of food are- being briefed to tako precautions against theft and black market- activities.
"We
are keeping
that aspect constantly under review.
"Teams
1ko the French and Portuguese, who need wine as part of their training diet, will, of course,
SAMPLLE MENUS "We also asked each nation to provide us with sample menus and suggestions for their feeding.
"Most nations are bringing their own chefs.
"The Spaniards sent a small book which was
complete dietetic lecture.
"The third food problem is that of | get it. the gifts that are being offered.
"All those accepted will be stored und distributed equitably to every team.
"But there will be no bars in the camps-only first-class milk bars.
for- "Competing teams will pay their keep on a day-to-day basis, according to their strongth and requirements.”
Offers reported from abroad Include eggs from Eire, tinned fruit from South Africa, stenk, mutton,, Hopeful footnote: If any country- vent, ham and bacon from the United sends too much food for its own. States, and Ash from Norway.
needs It will have to remain in. Nearly 30,000 lb of food is being Britain for disposal by the Ministry scut to London for the South of Food.
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