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ENGLAND'S TEAM FOR
THIRD TEST
Selectors Cause Big Surprise
By Dropping Len Hutton
London, July 4.—England's team for the third Test match against Australia, beginning at. Man- chester on Thurday, will be chosen from the following 12 playera:-
Baseball
New York, July 4-In what must have been the noisiest Independence Day celebration in Boston since the Battle of Bunker II, Red Sox rocked Athletics with a 14-run seventh Inning today, smashing three records and tying another in a 19-5 triumph.
The 14 runs tied the Americau 1nue record set by New York Yunkres in 1920. Ted Williams became the Best American Lengue in player ever to bat three times our uning. Nineteen Boston players went to bat, smashing the American League record of 12 for one inning zet by Yankees in 1920.
Norman Yardley (Yorks); W. J. Edrich (M'sex); C. Washbrook (Lança);"
G. Emmett (Glos); D. Compton (M'sex); H. E. Dollery (Warwick); J. F. Crapp (Glos); T. G. Evans (Kent);
A. V. Bedser (Surrey); R. Pollard (Lanes); J. A. Young (M'sex);
and
J. C. Laker (Surrey).
A twelfth name may be an- nounced later,
caused England's Text selectora one of the biggest surprises in!
omilling cricket history today by
of the world en Hatton, holder record Test score of 304, from the whom 12 so far announced from the team will be chosen,
from
The others to stand down Red Sox made 20 hits in all for
the side which lost at Lords are (York- mark of the season and, their best ironically, nee slugger Williams was Wright (Kent) and Caxon
shire). The newcomers are Crapp, the only man who went hitless
Gloucestershire's lefthand batsmat, Yankees moved to within half a ganus of the second plaer Athlettes and Pollard, the fast medium Lan- by edging Senators 6-5. Gil Conn's cashire bowler, Young (Middlesex)
original lunting catch, in which he fell Jaro did not play at Lords but was in Emmel! 13, and the stands to rob Joe DiMaggio of, the
(Gloucestershire) was 12nd mun a homer, highlighted the game.
Tigers and White Sox divided at there after his late invitation,
The selectors
boid made
step Chicago, Detroit taking the opener;
when 0-3 with Hout Evers selling the in dropping Hutton, who has been
three aulomatte choice except hitting poce by driving in
the second injured. So far, he had played for rins. Chlengo won game, 12-1, helped by Unt Secrey's England 30 times.-Reuter.
three-run homer
and
two-run
roundtrip blow by Cass Michaels.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
an
MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS New York, July 4-Major
Philadelphin Phillie double-League leaders, including Fel-
dumped the League leading Bostou day's games are:
Braves 7-2 and 5-2. reducing their National League margin to 2-1/2 Rones over Pirates who moved back foto second place with a twin win over Cubs. 5-1 and 6-2.
Batting
Williams, Boston Boudreau, Cleveland
Runs Batted In Williams. Boston DiMaggio, New York
AMERICAN LEAGUE
.301
.374
70
60
GO
62
03
10
Runs
Williams, Boston DIMaggio, Boston
Hills Williams, Boston Boudreau, Cleveland
Phillies Syl Donnelly held Braves to four hits in the opener. In the nightcap, young Robin Roberts won his third game since coming up to. Phillies, scattering 10 hits. Phibirs maved into fourth place.
Sewell.
bis third pitched traight victory over Cubs as Pill burgh took the opener while Elmer
Doubles Riddle topped them for the fourth
Willining, Boston,
Boudreau, tints in the nightcan. Clyde Kluiz, Cleveland and Zarila, Saint Louts, with a two-rus triple and a single, all 19. inced the pirates in the opener and
Tripics Ralph Kiter's two-run homer-his
Maggio, New York 20th of the season-started Pirates | Coan. Washington uff to victory In the nightcap.
Homera
Dilgers scored four runs in the DiMaggio, New York bast half of the ninth to defeat the Keltner, Cleveland Ciamis, 13-12, at Brooklyn, Roy
Stolen Bases Campanella putting over half of
Coan. Washington them with his second two-run Dillinger, Saint Louis hotter of the day,
Strikkeouts Lemon, Cleveland
ended 51
five-game
car al Cincinnati, winning Feller. Cleveland
Josing
8-1 behind the seven hit pitching
Pitching
Schied, Philadelphia, seven
7
10
17
12
9
712
10
and
of Lefty Harry Brechen after i Rovehi, New York, won 9 lost losing the opener 8-1. Stan Musial two: bitted in four une with three hits to tead St. Louis tu vietory. Hunk Saner two. bit-homers in each game to bring his -League-leading-total-to-44
Indians and Browns was rained put of a double-header after two innings at St. Louis, with Cleveland In front 1-0.
THE SCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Batting
Musia), Saint Louis Holmes. Boston
E Musial, Saint Louis
Kiner. Pittsburgh
Muchl, Saint Louis
Asheburn, Philadelphia
Doubles
Russell, Boston
308
.353
Runs Batted In Sauer, Cincimiati Musial, Saint Louis Ituns
50
54
57
# 1
51
5 10
Boston
10
20
Bits
Washington
F 14
102
New York
厨
91
5
Detroil
บ
10
1
Chicago
3
if
Enis, Philadelphia
15
Detroit (nightcap)
0
and Marshall,
Chleage
12
10
New York, both 17.
Triples
·
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston
2 4
Philadelphia
7
13
Boston
2
10 10
Philantelphin
Sauer, Cincinnati
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Chicago Cubs (nightcap) 2
Pittsburgh
New York
Brooklyn
St Louls
Cincinnati Retts
St. Louis Cardinals
(nightcap)
Cincinnati Reds
*
Musial, Saint Louis
Waltkus, +
Chicago Philadelphia, both 0.
Hamers
Kiner, Pittsburgh
Stolen Bases
Asheburn, Philadelphia
Togerson, Boston
Strikeouts
Schmidt, Chiengo
14
12
10
13 20
1
Brane, Brooklyn
8
14
3
Pitching
A 10 0
1 7
United Press.
WIMBLEDON
and Норр,
22
10
22
NA ** 28
Poat, New York, seven and one; Brecheen, Saint Louis and Riddle,
1 Pittsburgh, both eight and three-
Associated Press.
FELICISSIMO AMPON WINS
ALL-ENGLAND
PLATE.
By JOHN DOWNES
London, July 4-One of the two newest recruits to big time tennis finished this year's Wimbledon tournament with the consolation prize,
The competition is for all who lose in the first or nocond round of the men's singles-tiny_smiling Filipino, Feliciasimo Ampon, won the men's All England Plate on Saturday, defeating the Argentinian, Heraldo Woiss, 11-9, G-4.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, JULY 5, 1948.
Joe Is Still Champion
French Swimmers WEEK-END OLYMPIC TRIALS Warm Up TOPPLE THE FAVOURITES
Parla, July 4-Sixteen-year- old Nicile Polissard, of Casa- blanca, brought off a double by winning the high diving event in the French swimming cham- pionships at the Tourelle baths here today.
She won the spring-board diving) event yesterday. In spite of a bandaged leg, Mademoiselle Pelissard dived extremely well and gained an casy victory.
By "RECORDER"
With the Olympic Games now only four weeks away, the American National Amateur Athletic Union Champion- ships at Milwaukee, and the British AAA Championships nt the White City, both concluded over the week-end, have served only to further confuse the line-up of fa vourites for Olymple titles.
Very little was cabled on either athletic meet, but what little has come through suggests that the tempo of the sensors both in the United States and the British Isles has completely tired out some of the stars who were certainties.
Her father told Reuter today:
The Invincible Harrison Dillard, all probability beat William Carr's "She is in good form, but I think for the Baldwin-Wallace College Olymple record of 40.2 seconds. the Olympics she will be diving hurdler, was beaten at Milwaukee McKenley did 45.9 seconds in a better than when she won the in his strongest event by B Por- heat and 40.3 seconds in the final European Ule at Monaco last Sep- ier of Northwestern who, just three at Milwaukee, times accomplished on tember."
weeks
had been beaten previously
a track that seems to have been in as big an upset in the Collegiato
tryouta
down women's 400-metres free style was over" Scott of Arkansas.
by set up by Collette Thomas, with five It minutes 360 seconds. She
was already the holder of the previous record, which was dve minutes 37.7 seconds.
A now
French record for the
France's Olymple hope, Alex Jany, won two events today. He took the 100-metres' free style in 58.2 seconds and the 400-metres free style in five minutes and four seconds.-Reuter.
Extreme top, Joc Centre, cham-
Here are some of the first pictures of the Louis-Walcott fight. Louis goes down on his knee for a count of one in the third round, pion and challenger trade punches in the decisive 11th round. Above, the referee raises Louis' hand to announce him as the undefeated heavyweight champion. Louis immediately announced his retirement from the ring. - ÄP Wirephotos,
Chinese Team For London Win Last Singapore Game
Singapore, July 4-Playing their last but one game here, the China Olympic soccer team today defeated the Sino-Malays of Singapore by two goals to nil.
The tourists scored an easy victory. Although they managed to score only twice, they monopolised the game throughout, their opponents always being on the defen-
sive.
The Sino-Malays, who prewar were one of the strongest combina-
have runners who have
Clydecently unresponsive to
dono much faster times at the
new remains
moot point
other distances. whether Dillard is as invincible 25 However
slow the track wil be he was for two long years. He did ut Wembley, Jamalea's Hustling 13.0 seconds for a new world re- Herb is quite definitely the fastest cord early this year. A sensational human over the "quarter" the world time by the standards of any year has ever seen or may see in many except the present one when half-years to come. a-dozen American hurdlers have shaved 14 fat, a time that would have won any previous Olympic Games hurdles title.
English Racing Drivers Do Well
ח!
The final American trials from which the American track team for London will chosen, are to be held over the coming week-end, Dillard will have to hurdle like he
Francorchamps, July 4-British has never hurdled before to take riders scored overwhelming even third place behind Scott andruccess in the Belgian Grand Prix Porter from such an array of 14-flat motor cycling races here today. Not Umber-toppers as Dick Maxwell and only did they win the two mala Lloyed Duff of Ohio State, Craig events, but took the Arst nine places Dixon of the University of
California at Los Angeles and Tom Mitchell of Inclina.
won
in the 300-cc race, and the first eight places in the 350-ce event, J. Locket, riding a Norton, WHITE CITY SURPRISE
the 500-ce race vovering the 90- mile course in
i ave minutes 2.0 At the White City,
one of the seconda, of an
average speed of biggest upsets of the year came 1,34 with H. J. Parlett of London Univer. 350-ee race
miles per hour, while
was Laken by
the Bob
per
sity and Dorking St. Paul's Athletic Foster, riding a Velocette, with an Club autrunning two of the world's average speed of 87.00 miles fastest half-milers, New Zealand's hour, having covered the course in Dougins Harris and Jamaica's one hour, one minute and 21 seconds.
-Reuter,
Arthur Wint.
Harris In New Zealand last year
came within one-fifth of a second GOLF of Sydney Wooderson's world re
cord,
well
He has not been
doing too
throughout the English season More Prize Money
and neither has Wint, who seems
to have considerably slowed up on
his form of the last two years.
For British Open?
It seems that Empire hopes in Londoni, July 4.-America's the 800 metres will be carried by decisive defeat in the British an Englishman. Parlett is promis.
ing enough but he will meet in Golf tournament at Muirfield Marcel Hansenne of France, with a last week brought suggestions 1:49.4 performance at Nancy a few today that the prize money be weeks ago, in Danish Niels Holst increased to a point where it Soerensen and the Swedish acea would attract real big guns of Liljekvist and Ljunggren competi- tion that should approach the world record
the golfing world-Ben Hogan included.
A new high-hurdling hope for A 12-man American delegation Britain was also unearthed at the carried the United States' golfing White, City Games In 10-year-old prestige down with them by falling Barrow Grammar School boy to run in big money. That much Joseph Birrell, who finished ahead is
of the crack Australians,
Ray Weinberg and Dr Charlie Green, and presumably of sucit top European Belglum's Pol
time was not given in the Reuter dispatch, but whatever it was It would hardly compare to what the
evident in #1 post-mortcin Jubilance of the Scottish, English and Irish newspapers.
But knowledgeable Britons agreed at the American representatives were by 110 means the strongest group the United States can muster. Fred Pignon, dean of British golfing regret that golfing's oldest anci an American sween in this classic should not have drawn event, short of the Argentine Alberto Hogan, Jimmy Demaret, Byron Nel- Triuizi producing something better son and half a dozen other iumin-
aries:
Amarienns have produced this year was one of those who ox-
than he has ever done, seems-a- foregone conclusion.
up
United Cochran
to
of
potential n veteran like Roy
A small prize money-winner gets $600 of course hardly makes the trans-Atlantic trip worthwhile even though. the title itself has endorsements value in thousands of dollars. Claude Har- men, winner of the Augusta Mas- ters tourney for example,
@gures ปร expenses at about $3,000-and he had the humiliation
of barely qualifying in addition.
Prize
rising slowly but everyone agrees that it will have to treble before big. prize winners in the United States consider it worthwhile,
n With
of first-class 400- spate
the In metre hurdlers Sintes, it was indeed surprising And
of the University formerly Indiana, where he was in his prime as far back as 1939, Anishing first.
POOR OLD "DEAN"
that the One thing
present American track season has showed the American Chlef is that
money in this most can- Athlelle Coach, Dean Cromwell nf servative of tournaments has been Southern California, Ian't quite the wizard that sports writers have made him out to be.
His first personal defeat came nt tryouts when his the Decathlon
all-rounder, highly favoured Lawrence,
to make American team, and now Cochran tournaments, so that a traveller can has managed to hold his low hurdles have a crack at several courses in supremacy over two Cromwell- his stay of say a month. trained men, J. Walter Smith and But all this is un
unoMcial as yet Ron Frazier.
and the British, still savouring of On top of that, Cromwell has victory, fear that its major home- falled to make anything out of Wells held title might be taken from this DeLoach who, last season, appeared little island.--United Press. to be the most promising 400-metres man In America, and his stor distance man, Roland Sink, seems hardly likely to make the Olympic team
falled
A the
It seems that after all these years during which cromwell's Trojan
Some thought is being given to the matter, one suggestion being to group several of the more lucrative British
LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE TABLES
With
A sweeping "nway" squads dominated American victory on Ali three rinks athlettles, the "Dean" had to walt against Kowloon Cricket Club for his first chance as Olympic team on Saturday, Club de Recreio Horsehead to see the Trojans fall to moved into a comfortable 1%-
pieces all around him. It seems a doubtful point now that a single point lead over Craigengower Southern Californian other than in the First Division of the Delaware, July 4. Mel Fatton will make the Olympic Lawn Bowls League. America's champion handicapper, team.
Results in Second Division
An Affluent
Called "Stymie”
Stanton,
Patton, also, is not such n dead
outs
HOW THEY STAND First Division
Points PF ^
Bal AR Total
80 0 11 17
Stymie (by Equestrian out of Stop certainty. He came in first in matches had little effect on the Watch), brought his earnings to £220,208 by winning the £0,280 sprints in the NCAA Olymple try- standings. added Sussex Handicap in record ouls but it will be in the final try- ume here yesterday.
that he meets the real com- For the second year in succession, petition-Barney Ewell, winner at his shire of the purse was. £5,362. Milwaukee. Billy Mathis, Ed Con- Carrying nine sione four pounds; well and Tom Carey. Against this C de R 4 272 100 Style broke the Delaware Park all-black array he could just as CCC track record for the one and a easily be blanked back into fourth KCC quarter miles, covering the distance place. in two minutes two seconds, beating
-Reuter.
tions in local football, relied upon a Now French Champion Rampart by one and a half lengths.
few star performers to save them
doing this.
Welas mistakenly tried to play vices and again in the critical 10th from a rout and were successful in the bouncing little man from the game of the second sot. beseling, but Ampon is a hard man The two tiny men from the Pacific to beat unless you play it his way, have thus the
pleasure of having
Paris,
July 4-A newcomer, Emile Lognay, after beating the The Sino-Malays' Captain Harith, French sprint champlon. Hènrl "His way, as seen in this tournament, done extremely well In this their was outstanding in this respect. The Fensedor, in the semi-finals, won the
Lo
retrieve almost everything first big venture into major world China team completely outclassed Grand Prix de Paris today at the duat comes over the hot and walt tennis tournaments and have, while them, however, as far as play went. Vincennes track before 15,000 spec-
the other follow
make to
the playing here, won for themselves a Their fast moving forwards, tators in dull and cold weather with mistakes.
host of friends and admirers. among whom Kwok Ying-keo and Welm put up a sturdy fight but
a nasty cross wind. Ampon said that his, and team-Chnu Man-chi were outstanding. faults at critical mato Raymundo Deyro's ambition gave China plenty of openings while double
In the final, Lognay beat Charley 'moments, notably in the 10th gama was to ho allowed to go to the their defence was sound and safely Prigent by italf a heel, the last 200
of the first set when he allowed American national
championships dealt with sporadic raids launched metres being covered in 12 seconds Ampon to break through his scr- later this year-Associated Press.. by the local side.--Associated Press. dend,-Router,
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Ankara, July 4-national Turkish crown, Treloar was so convincingly
KCC all and sundry in the FC for the beaten by forthcoming
Olympic Games
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hours, 23 up.
KBGC 5 308 200 minutes, thus breaking the Olymple One thing that the Milwaukee POC
4 250 240. record set up in Berlin in 1930 by trials did point to was that Jamaica's HKFC 5 250 340 Robert Charpentier, of France, by Herb Mckenloy will not only win HKERC five seconds-Reuter.
the Olymple 400 metres but will in
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