COUNTY." CRICKET,
Middlesex Beat
Two Wickets
GEORGE POPE DOES WELL
AGAINST YORKSHIRE
London, June 29.—A
masterly
inninge of. 150
not out ̧ by.
fighting Sydney
Brown helped Middlesex, the county champions, to defeat Glamorgan, leaders, by two wickets.
present the Brown dominated the
day's play with an innings. lasting more than ̈ five, hours. It was the first time the two Įteams had met in Wales for 13 years, and a record crowd of 15,000 crammed into the Cardiff ground.
By the consent of the. Middlesex captain the boundary was pulled in a further five yards for the first time to ac- commodate the overflow, but still. about 4,000 were locked out
Hever, a right-arm fast-medium bowler, who left Middlesex because of lack of opportunities, took five for 89 in the Middlesex first innings.
Despite their defeat, Glamorgan, no play yesterday. Today no play with 104 points, still have a lead was possible before lunch but, in of 20 points at the top of the table spite of this, Derbyshire had six of Yorkshire's wickets down for a mera over Derbyshire,
37 B the closa.
Pope, who ran through the op- posing batsmen on Saturday, was gain in form today, and he brought match analysis to ten wickets for 25 runs.
The only other notable feat of which, was this series of matches, greaily interfered with by rain, the form of the return to former Test batsman, Harold Gims blott, who became Somerset's first centurion this season.
was
TEST SELECTORS LICK THEIR WOUNDS England's Test selectors, licking their wounds after the second heavy Test defeat within a fortnight, must have viewed with mixed feelings the success against Yorkshire of George Pope, Derbyshire's all-rounder, the man they discarded.
Pope, whom they considered only one Teat good enough to play in against South Africa last year, help- ed to put Derbyshire into a winning position with some grand bowling and balting, and only rain prevented them beating Yorkshire, for the first time since 1905.
an
In a performance worthy of
bowler, Pope, England opening pitching his medium-paced de liveries on the left-stump, took six 13. four for wickets for 12 and Between these
offorts WILL sandwiched a breezy knock of 78, including a six and 11 fours the type of treatment the Australian bowling needs..
two
last
Against Essex, the Leicestershire bowlers, making light of their task of taking 15 wickets on the day of a rain curtailed match, were striding to victory with 15 of them secured when the wicket-keeper Frank Rist and the young bowler
thwarted Kenneth Preston,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1948.
WEDON
Glamorgan By DORIS HART IN TOP FORM
REUNION AT HOME PLATE
Babe Ruth (left), stands at home plate at Yankee stadium as he and Bill Dickey, former Yankee catcher, pase for photographers during the ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the opening of Yankee Stadium.
Ruth's famed No. 3 uniform was retired permanently and the uniform will go to the Baseball's Hall of Fame. -AP Wirephoto.
BASEBALL
League
St Louis Lose In National them
with an unbroken stand of 72, rat- tied up in half an hour. "
At Chesterfeld: Match drawi play restricted owing to rain. York- shire 44 and 37 for alx. Derbyshire 277.
THE RESULTS AL Cardiff: Middlesex beat Glamorgon by two wickets, Glaanor gan 273 and 136, Middlesex 195 and 275 for elgbt.
At Portsmouth: Hampshire beat Northamptonshire by six wickets. Northamptonshire 105 and 189. (Broderick 61), Hampshire 274 and 81 for fouk
At Manchester: Match abandoned owing to rain, Lancashire 170, and 50 for two (Barnet two for 10), Gloucestershire, 150 (Pollard six for 54).
With the selectoru almost certain to cast their not wider in an at-
At Loughborough: Match drawn. tempt to strengthen the Test team,
Leicestershire 478, Essex. 165 Dicic Pollard, the Lancashire fast- medium bowler, had an opportung (Sperry four for 44, Walsh four for spell of six for 54 against Glouces20) and 219 for nine (Rist not out
50, Jackson six for 05). tershire.
At Bath Somerset beat, Nolting- hamshire by an innings and 25 runs.
New York, June 20-In a brilliant pitching duel with Harry Brecheen, Johnny Schmitz of the Chicago Cubs interrupted the first-place drive of the Saint Louis Car- dinals in the National League today.
The linky Cub left-hander doled out only four hits in his seventh viciory
defeated when Chicago Saint Louis 3-1.
The game had been billed as
and pitching dual between Feller Newhouser, but the Indians: drove Nowhouser · from the box in the third inning.
THE SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
by
Chiengo. Saint Louls
AMERICAN LEAGUE
The lone Cardinal run came on the first of a pair of doubles by Jeft helder Enos Slaughter in the fourth inning and a singlo arst baseman Nippy Jones.
There were three night games. Fire-baller Bobby Feller of the old Cleveland Indians showed his
Hal time form in beating pitcher Newhouser and the Detroit Tigers and 6-2, Feller tanned eight men walked two. He was given a five- run lead by his hard hitting team- mates in the first three innings.
CHESS
Wimbledon, June 29-Miss Doris Hart, "of America," was at the top of her.form In today's women's singles play- off when she beat the French champlon, Madame Nelly Landry, 6-0, 6-2, to enter the semi-finals..
On today's form, Miss Hart may well avenge her last year's defeat in the final. N
In the other quarter-final Mrs Pat Todd, also of America, was too strong all round for Miss Jean Quertier, of Britain, winning by 6-2, 6-4,
A
Miss Quertier showed occasional flashes of brillance but could not cope with the length and pace of the
... American.
In the men's doubles, the top-Jean Bostock, of Britain, 7-5, 6-3,-
seeded pair of Bob Falkenburg and Reuter. Frankle Parker, of America, entered the semi-finals where they oppose the Australians, John Bromwich and Frank Sedgman.
The American pair hurdled the quarter-finals by beating Kukoljevic, India, and Vodicha, Czechoslovakia, 0-1, 6-2, 3-6, 6-0, while the Aus- tralians defeated Glanal Cucelil-and Marcello del Dello, ef. Italy, 6-3, 0-1, 7-5
A mishap happened to Miss Shirley Fry, of Amarica, In her aingles game with Miss Louise Brough, also of America, when sho fell in an attempt to intercept powerful service.
She had to be carried off the field, but a medical examination revealed that her ankle had not been seriously injured as believed She is expected to be at to play in tomorrow's doubles.
earlier.
TORN, LIGAMENT,
Lisa Shirley Fry returned to the court after a hospital X-ray earni nation revealed a torn ilgament.
Miss Fry,, who celebrates her 21st birthday tomorrow, sald sho' hopes to be able to continue playing in the doubles, She will see her own doctor and get his opinion on it.
The Wimbledon Committee and referee postponed her doubles matches until Wednesday pending Shirley's and the doctor's final de- ctalon.
The top-seeded men's
doubles
:
SUGAR RAY” DISAPPOINTED
IN HIMSELF
Chicago, June 29-Ray "Sugar" Robinson still held the welterweight, boxing championship- today, but said he "just did not have It" in outpointing: Bernard Docuson last night. -
Flo admitted This plight when the stepped into the dressing room after the fight. That ::
He told his managor, George Gainford: "I just did not have it, George. I knew F'did not when I had. him down. I did not know Thad him down until I saw him on the floor."?.
Robinson said Docusen is a "good boxer but not a hard-hitter "PAN
Boxing experts believe that Docusen may some day win the welterweight title, but not from Robin- son-United Press.
team, Frank Parker and BDECATHLON ACE
Falkenburg, had a fun-loving game with the Yugoslav combination of Franja Kukuljevic who plays for Vladimir Vodicha who India and plays for Yugoslavia,
Miss Brough and Mrs DuPont blew combination of Miss the French
In her singles, Miss Fry lost to her compatriot the first half of the Landry and Mrs Boegner from the Arst set 3-1, after which she was court by the
attack. forced to retire.
Mrs. Margaret DuPont, last year's: American title winner, beat Mrs.
sheer fury of their
The machine-like blonde Ameel- cans will meet the winners of the match between the Americans, Mrs Rihbary and Miss Scofield and Bri- tain's Mrs Grace Walter and Mrs
Mary Halford. The Britons today defeated Britain's Miss Elizabeth Wilford and Miss Georgina Wood- cate, 3-0, 7-5, 6-2,
15 MINUTES ONLY
Mrs DuPont and Miss Brough raced through the first set in a quarter of an hour yielding only seven points to the French girls and taking three games at love. The French duo managed to carry the before Miss sixth game to deuce Brough's overhead put it away,
Mrs Rihbany and Miss Scofield staged a remarkable comeback to upset fourth-seeded Mrs Hilton and Mrs Kay Menzies.
The British pair took the first set with
TENNIS LEAGUE and were leading 3-3 in the second
#
con-
a match point before the American girls raliled and the Miami Hongkong Cricket Club took
cord took her serve on left-handed with a beauti- BHE the lead in the Mixed Doubles ful cross court 3. 3 3 148 Division of the Lawn Tennis Key Menzies forehand. Helen then (Winning pitcher Johnny Schmitz League by a 614-3 "away" brought the score up to five-all with
terride smash. They then victory over Ladies' Recreation unued to press their opponents to Club yesterday.
win the set by a narrow margin, 6 11 0
Feature of the match was the up- 2 8 0
In the final set the winners led again broke (Winning pitcher Bob Feller) set of the strong LRC pair of R4-1 when the British
Associated Press. Segalen and Miss Dawn Kent who through Helen's service but Ameri- and went down 4-6.to Mr
Mrs cans found holes in, the British HOW THEY STAND
P. S.. M. Dow, National League
Cleveland Detroit
In their teams for the Third Test Nottinghamshire 110 and 108 (Harris Reserve Tourney Pittsburgh
Pollard is chosen by many critics beginning on his homo pitch at Old Trafford, Manchester, on July 0.
SAVES YORKS
"""RAIN"
Rain, which again restricted play In many county championship cricket matches, saved Yorkshire from apparently certain and heavy defeat by Derbyshire. ·
72, Hazell Ove for 411, Somerset 338 for eight declared.
L. Karpovich took the lead in the Colony Reserves Chess Tourney by drawn. At Birmingham: Match Cambridge University 239, War-winning from Jacob Ramler at the Peninsula Hotel last night. In the wickshire 325 (Taylor 70, Fantham
only other game played, V. N. 50).
Dounaeff beal R. W. Carter.
An At Tunbridge Wells, Match abandoned, Sussex 334 and 59 for 9. Kent 330 for six declared (Todd 88, Ames U2, Hearn 60).
Yorkshire, all out for 44 in their Arst innings-the lowest score the season had lost three second Innings wickets for 15 on the first day of the match, and there was
י'
Al Gulidford: Match drawn: Sur- rey 418 for seven declared, Oxford University 274 for six (Winn 50, Keighley 57, Pawson 60.-Reuter.
·COUNTY CRICKET STANDINGS
J
P W
Dec L
Glamorgan (9)
HOW THEY STAND
PW D L Pts
L.. Karpovich D. E. de Carvalho A. Biriukoff
R. W. Carter
Karel Weis
V. N. Dounseff Arthur Gomes
V. V. Kolatchoft
J. V. Tausz
Pis Jacob Ramler
100 A. Archangelsky
Derby (5)
Yorkshire
Warwick (15)
Surrey (0)
Lancashire (3)
Middlesex (1)
Gloucester (2)
Hampshire (10), Worcester (7)
Essex (11) Kent (4)
Somerset (13)
Nolls (12)
Northants (17)
Sussex (10)
• Match tied. Figures in brackets after counties indicate final standing last season,
Australian Batting Averages
Leicester (14)
D. G. Bradman
W. A. Brown
S. Barnes
K. R. Miller
A. L. Hassett
A. Morris
S. J. Loxton
R. N. Harvey
R. A. Saggers
R. A. Humence
D. Tallon
Ian Johnson
R. Lindwall
Bill Johnston
Colin McCool
D. Ring
E. Toshack
64
08
64
04
64
42
7 0 0 1 0
5 500
6 6 0 1
8 4 0
вза
71 1
0. 0
1
• Conceded a walk-over and a de- fault.
LAWN BOWLS TEAMS
The following players have been 40 selected to represent the Filipino
P
American League
504
THE SCORES
Miss Kent and R. Sagalen (LBO) 550 beat Mr and Mrs Jones 6-4; lost to 540 Mr and Mrs P. S. M. Dow 4-6; beat! 516 Mrs-Slagter and T. J. Gould 0-3. 484
defence.--United Press.
THE SCORES
Here are other scores of the day:
Women's Doubles:
•
TULAR
Bob Mathias (above), 17, of Tulare, Californin, high school athlete, scored a sur- prising 7094 points in winning the Southern Paci- Úc Add decathlon cham plonship at Los Angeles. It was the highest Ameri- can score this year in the track and field ́event.-AP · Wirephoto.
Miss Louise Brough and Mrs.
DuPont (USA)
beat GOLF Dupener and Madame
Men's Doubles:‹
W L Per.
St. Louis Boston
35.
27
36
20
New York Philadelphia Brooklyn Cincinnati Chicago
33 $150 31 81 33
28
27 31
480
28 36
437
#7
412
Mrs Standaloft and J. Mackie Margaret (LRC) lost to Mr and Mrs Jones Madame 3-8; beat Mr and Mrs Dew-6-4: lost Landry (France) 6-0, U-1. to Mrs Slagter and Gould 2-0,
23 - 23
022
40
20
006
37
--23
590
525
407
460
303
Sets
318
P W D L
PAPts
HKCC CRC LRC
3
3 0 0 19 8 0
KCC
0
0 2
2 0
0 2
3 15 0 0-0, 0-3.-Reuter.
Cleveland Philadelphia New York Boston Detroit
Washington St. Louis Chicago
Britain's Olympic
Swimming Coach
By LEONARD DAWSON
It was in 1946 that the British Amateur Swimming Association decided to find Swimming Adviser who could build up a team that would
30 Club (at home) against the Talkoo compete for Britain in the
34 Recreation Club in
the
Second Olympic Games and produce
28 Division League match on Satur- new champions to replace those
10 day at 3.30 p.m.;
10
W. F. Johnston, C. F. Lee, J. W. Lee and W. Field (Skip);
Alfred Taylor, John Cotton, H. Y. Hsu and R. O. Hughes (Skip); L. S. da Silva, F. Rodrigues, W. Ogley and Dan Rozario (Skip).
Reserves: F. J. Manalac, Denn, J. Delgado, J. Laidlaw,
Innings Not. Out
15
10
Runs Ilighest Score Average
1,273
187
04.08
1,005
200
02.01
824
170
43.US
040
2020
50.10
678
137
63.10
812
284
50.75
327
120
45.71
415
100.
41.50
Barny
104
35.00
337
02
30.03
182
50
20.00
272
24.72
212
23.55
22.00
18.42
17.20
0.00
Australian Bowling Averages
Applity
Overs Maldens
Runs
Wickets Average
R. Lindwali
216.3 -- 63
600
33
16,93
E. H. Miller
253.3
02
011
40
15.27
Bill Johnston,
401.1 159
DOI
15.01
Colin McCool
1504
44
382
10.00
EL Toshack
364. 114
715
17,02
FOR LUM - THINK HE EXPECTE BE "BACK" PRETTY GOON
Jan Johnston
3382-
103
203
18.07.
ROKED ME TO HOLD RIZ CIGARETTE
who had grown too old during World War II.
They chose Mr. Harry Koskie, of Stoke-on-Trent, In Staffordshire, an English industrial town famed
for
its pottery and china. Mr Koskle Is the director of a big firm of colour ho manufacturers Arm.. which Joined Just: over 80 years ago as an A. office-boy..
UNBROKEN: RECORDS
Mr Koskie has long taken a great Interest In swùnming, and he spent much of his spare time in gathering round him à number of swimmers whom he trained" and coached.
Among them was Norman Wain- wright, regarded as one of the best swimmers Britain has over turned out. Wainwright made six now. British records bolween World War I and World War II, and they havo not yet been broken.
Harry Koskle in 48, grey-haired, but still a very good swimmer. Ho ia frequently in the bath showing a swimmer he is coaching just what in wrong with, his stroke. Koskie was one of the Arst men to introduce, lite "crawl" Into Britain."
this
Besides swimming, Koskleitas studled psychology, and Koys helps him a lot, especially in deal- ing with young novices. They roon have great confidence in lim.
Mr and Mrs Golz (LRC) lost to Tom Brown and Gardnar Malloy Mr and Mrs Jones 4-6; lost to Mr (USA) beat S. Morea and A. Russell and Mrs Dew 3-7; drew with Mes (Argentina) 9-7, 4-6, 3-0, 0-7, 6-2.. Slagter and Gould 0-6.
HOW THEY STAND
Mixed Doubles!
COTTON LEADS
·BRITISH OPEN
Muirfield, Scotland, Juno · 20,- With a pair of 69's totalling 135, Henty Cotton, the Exlush profes sional, led all 67 qualifers. on Tues- Frank Sedgman (Australia) and day night for the 72 holes of Medal Miss Doris Hart (USA) beat T.G. play for the British open coll McVeagh
(Ireland) and Mra. R.F. championship.
Nearest to him with scores of 140, Chandler (Britain) 6-2, 0-3. 2 2 0 0 12 0 4 Erie Sturgess and Mrs Shella were Fred Daly, Ulster professional, 3.1 0.2 13 14 2 Summers (South Africa) beat Geoff and defending champion, and Roberto
0 13 0 Palsh and Miss Joy Cannon (Britain) De Vicenzo, 25-year-old · Argentine
British Olympic Horsemen In Training
With the jingle of harness and the clatter of hooves. something of the atmosphere of pre-war days has returned to Aldershot, for the British Olympic horsemen have taken over the quarters of the old Cavalry Regiments.
Britain's finest horses and horsemen have been under training preparing for the Olympic Games at Wembley and Aldershot..
wwww
*The War Office has released soven serving officers for the 22 weeks training which started on March 8, and has loaned stables, mess quarters and staff to make sure that Britain maintaing her bloodstock prestige
A fine action picture shows Mr H. M. Llewellyn on "Foxhunter" taking the Double Bar jump with plenty to 'spare.
professional.
The top qualifying · scorn at 151 was the lowest in the history of the British open-Associated Press.
Norman Van Nida, the Australian professional who was joint favourite with Claude. Harmon, USA, made a brilliant comeback on Tuesday after a poor 77 at Bullane on Mon- day and a poorer 40 to the turn at “ Muirfield on Tuesday.
D
He achieved the last nine holes-In
spectacular 34 for a total
151.
His effort was the more magnificent since Von Nida was a sick man and frequently sat down to-rest- Associated Press.
Tour De France
Starts Today
Paris, Juno 20-A 120 ranking blcycle-racers, from Belgium, 'Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland; "Holland and France will start in the top cycle-racing event of the year-the 6,000 kilometres Tour de France- tomorrow for x 1,000,000 frane prizo plus 60,000 Belgian francs for tho winner of gruelling race over the five most difficult hills of a tour through the Ardennes Forest.
Twelve 10-man teams leave St Cloud on Wednesday morning on the 287-kilometra first leg: to Toruville In the province of Normandy.
Twenty other laps wind the race. down the French Atlantie coust across France parallel to the Spanish border, then doop into Italy in San Remo, then climb Into. Switzerland and through Lausanne. The riders return to France at Mulhouse,
Then the route takes the riders along the Franco-German border. and then across Luxembourg. From Luxembourg the race enters Belgium through Liege and then Roubaix back into France, down
to Paris where the race ends in the. Pare des Princes on July 25, ----United Press.