THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
'TWENTY
YEARS
SPORTS FEATURES
LOOKING AT THE GAMES
Britain Sets The
Sets The Standard
In Discipline
By HYLTON CLEAVER
Whatever troubles we may have in our Olym- pic set-up, other nations envy us our discipline.
In Argentina, where Latin temperaments do not react, na ours do, to the trainer's orders, they are having a load of mischief.
One of their athletes, the hurdler Alberto Trilulzi, has been carpeted by the national athletic association on the complaint of the official trainer because of his persistent bad refusal to comply with orders, thereby setting a example to the rest. The association have supported the trainer, and called upon Triulzi to guarantee obedience or drop out.
Now
I ficar, from the father of
will run the three He says he Eileen Holt, the English girl who la miles in the championships, in which swimming for Argentina, because other Dulch visitors will be half- she was born there and holds all miler De Ruyter, another three their championships, she is to stay miler in J. Lataster, pole vaulter C and hurdler J. Zwaan. here for schooling after the Games. Lamoree,
Farmer ^^^ champion Javelin is nol thrower N. B. Lutkeveld coming.
"Things are going from bad to worse, now three girl swimmers have been left out," he says.
ENGLISH NAMES
BEAT THE RECORD
In Amsterdam I saw Mra Blankers Only two besides Eileen Arc coming. and both
English Koen, holder of the world's record have names Turnbull and Marshall! The for the 80 metres hurdles and run- total strength of the Argentine ning af her best after 12 years on party has been reduced from 300 the track. Her record is 11.3 sec., and I saw her do the distance in to 280.
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But
A bit of a Bradman. In fact, when it comes to hooking. even hookers can be "caught!"
EMPRESS HALL OPENS
Empress Hall, Earl's Court, is to be reopened this summer for the frat time since the war.
The hall is one of the largest in the country and was famous for its sporting and musical events. It
hold between
12,000 and
can
14,000.
It was requisitioned early in the war and at one time was used by The hall was released the RAF. two yeah ago and delay in re- opening has been caused by the difculty in obtaining licences for repairs.
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From July 30 to August 12 it will be used for two sections of the Olympic Games, wrestling and weight-lifting.
'ICE HOCKEY, TOO
After the Olymple Games it will be closed again for more pairs and conversions.
SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1948,
SPORT PERSONALITIES of the WEEK
MAUREEN GARDNER, WHO HAS RAISED
BZITAIN'S OLYMPIQ
HOPES WITH HER Y
| METRES_HURDLES
RECORD
AFTER
JEAN BOROTRA & JACQUES BRUGNON -LAWN TENNIS *MUCKETEERS' OF FRANCE
'A GENERATION
AGO
„HAVE BROUGHT BACK THIS WIMBLEDON Memory OF 1924 ONWARDS.
RAG
JOHNSTONE WHO HAS NOW
•WON THE ENGLICH, FRENCH AND
RICH DERBYD OF 1948.
ALEC
COXON-
ROSE
A 6000 START TO HIS TEST CAREER
SERIES ON
NEXT CHAMPIONSHIP SEE TEE'S SATURDAY'S Series on
FIGHT IN LONDON?.
By GEORGE WHITING
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Next fight for the heavy-weight championship in London-with of the world may take place Britain's Bruce Woodcock and America's Gus Les- nevich as rivals for the biggest prize in boxing.
This is the set-up outlined to me in the Queen Mary at Southampton by promoter Jack Solomons when he re- turned from New York with Lesnevich and his manager, Joe Vella, to prepare for the world cruiser-weight title bout with Freddle Mills at the White City on July 26.
"First step," said Solomons, " is to get Woodcock fixed up with a worth-while opponent at Harringay in Septem- ber. I agreed terms in America with Tami Mauriello, Lee Savold and Vern Esco, champion of Canada, all of whom. are eager to fight hero.
"I
am
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The Laws of Association Football
2.—THE REFEREES' · · POWERS
This week I kick-off with the answer to last week's poser. It was "What is the earliest stago in a football match at which a referee may caution a player or suspendi him from taking any further part in it?”
(the submitting these three Southampton, makes a brief trip to rames to Woodcock's manager, Tom town today, and gets down to serious In September it will open again,Hurst, and hope to have the Septem-work tomorrow,
without much ber fight settled for ice-hockey and other sports.
delny. Negotiations are going on for
This makes more cabin room on.
She took a poor view of the fact the boat, so Mrs Holi will now be that this would not be claimed as a. able to travel with her daughter, new record, Insisting that the follow-international musical events. although she has had strict instruc-ing wind, being lightly across, was
her husband tions from interfere. As an Englishman he has anything but helpful and tended to definite opinions about mothers who twist her over the hurdles.
ters
not to
The National Sporting Club, who before the war ran weekly boxing tournaments there, have not yet
whether these will Tall, blonde Mrs Blankers has decided
be are too constantly at their daugh-
Mrs two children, a boy, August, aged repeated next winter. elbow during training. Holt agrees, and is coming more to seven, and a girl of two, and is
She has Bars, lounges and billiards rooin here after the Games with coached by her husband.
redecorated and a than to obtrude her in heard about Maureen Gardner, with are all being
She 100ft. bar will be open for the whom she exprets a hard race. Mrs Holt lost two brothers in the tells me she will do both flat and Games.. It is not yet known when
the restaurant will reopen. hurdle sprints at Wembley. first World War, fighting for Britain, although they were Argentine clti-
stay Eileen fluence now.
zens, and I hear her husband is upplying for British passports for his wife and daughter.
OUT OF CONTROL
The Argentine swimming coach Is to be Castune, and although in this country Elleen will be in the hands of Richard Smate, he will not do any more
than contact Castano and watch Eileen until after the Games, Like the athletic coach, Castano has quite enough trouble already get- ting his ordern obeyed.
"The principal game In Argen tinn," writes Mr Holt, "Is now fool- ball, but players and pubile are so out of control, that nine English referees have been given contracts to set an example In discipline. One Englishman who went to train a club left after two months be- cause he found his task impossible.
Eileen, anyway, has been training on rigorous lines and to the English model
has
Her
schedule twice-a-day been: 000 metres crawl: 300 metres with board, using legs only:-200 metres with an inflated Inner tube, using arms only: 200 back stroke, legs only; rest for half an hour, and 150 metres crawl, swimming fast overy other length, a total of 2000 metres n day.
BRITAIN'S TEAM
the team for
By HAROLD PALMER Positions in the AAA champion ships at the 'White City will not deelde all the places in Britain's athletics
Olymple Games.
The Selectors will make their cholces-three. for cach event- imunediately after the champion- ships; but they will take other form into account,
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Len Brooker To Coach
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Ceylon's Boxers
shoe-
By GEORGE WHITING Len Brooker, partner in a repairing business at Wood Green, has been appolated official coach, Instructor, adviser .and trainer, polisher of punches to the Olymple Four nights a boxers of Ceylon. week down at Kingston you will and him tuning up the timing-of fly-weight Lesile Handunge, bantam- weight Albert Perera, light-weight Eddle Gray, welter-weight Obeyesekere.
Alex
Thirty-seven-year-old Brooker, runner-up for the ABA middle- weight tile back in 1939, Is the conch who gave Johnny Wright, Britain's Olymple middle, his first lessons in the swapping of non- commercialised punches.
NOT THE ONLY SIGN But Wright's preparation for the Games is now In the hands of omelat ABA conches-so-Brooker lends his lore to the coloured quartet from, Colombo.
Ceylon, I think, have got them- selves a bargain in this curt but cute Cockney-as did the Poly- technic BC and Tiffin's Boys' School, both of whom
Brooker-taught material.
captured
Myth
AMATEUR BOXING
THE JUDGES HAVE REACHED A UNANIMOUS DECISION.
With him, Arst time here, is trainer Fred Fierro, a sturdy, 41- "With Joe Louis relred, there year old New Yorker, who has pro- will have to be a new world heavy- pared five world champions ---- weight champion, and I see no rea-Lesnevich, Billy Conn, Fritzie Zivic, on why an Englishmon should not Harry Jeffra and Mike Belloise. got a shot at the title-in his own country. If Woodcock wins in Lesnevich has already boxed 40 September I shall offer him fight rounds preparing for Mills and alms with Lesnevich and label it for the to do another 60 nt Brighton. Ho weighs about 13st. 3lb. and expects world championship."
no trouble in getting down to the Joe Vella's reaction was swift and required 12st. Tib. by July 20. business-like.
the
ALMOST MOBBED He said to me: Gus has been named as world heavy-weight con- lender, and we aim to make
"Just right," said Vella. "It gives most of it. They tried everything us a clear 24 days 12 for boxing; will be in in Now York to stop my bringing 12 for running. Gus Gus here to meet Mills so that they great shape after about another 100 could match him for a heavy-weight miles on the road." title fight there in September. But we don't break promises, and here
we arc.
"If Gus beats Freddie, we'll talk more business with Solomons. If he loses, then I guess we don't de serve a shot for the heavy-weight iitle."
DOWN TO IT
Lesnevich, winner over Billy Fox (twice). Mauricilo (twice) and Mello Bettina since he was beaten by Woodcock here nearly two years ago, is losing no time getting ready for Mills. He went straight to his training quarters in Brighton from
EX-CHAMPION NOW A WATCHMAN
Bombs whistle down The air raid warning has gone. outside the National Sporting Club in Covent Garden. It is the heaviest raid of the war
Inside the building two lithe figures circle warily round the boxing ring. Ninety seconds of the second round of the fight for the middle-weight championship of Britain have ticked by.
As a bomb explodes outside, the Hospital. A bomb. struck the pub championships last season with challenger for the championship and demolished it,
leaps forward...unleashes a terrifie Pat O'Keeffe escaped, but he never
the obtained another Engagement of a crack English left hook. It connects with
public house leence. He was told he was 100 couch is not the only sign of new-champion's chin.
old.
look enterprise from Ceylon. With The champion crashes, and us he nil the spirit of. the newest fails the challenger catches him agairi Dominion. their four Olymple on the chin--this time with a savago boxers are going to give the publle right job.
Dandsman Blake, middle-weight a preview in actual combat.
champlon of Britain, is out.
NOTHING HIDDEN
Pat O'Keeffe, who two years, pro- to viously lost the championship Blake, has done what ex-champions are sald never to do regained his tille. He needed only four and a half minutes to do so.
The date is January 28, 1918. MASSIVE SHOULDERS
Most countries start talking about the weather when you hunt a hint of their likely form in the Games Ceylon. At Timn's School, At least one of the probables will Not so
Perera and Harold Kingston-on-Thomes, the championships. George Tarrawhy, who won the his Colombo colleagues are tackling from world students' 800 metres in Paris team of British amateurs
Birkenhead. No. punches will be last year, has an examination on
At midnight tonight,, a ruddy- the Friday, when the heats will be pulled. Everybody welcome.
massive man of 85 with run, and is not hopeful of getting it
Next Olympic
to checked contingent
shoulders will be patrolling the deferred,
offices at Waterloo Station. Britain's chances in the Games arrive hero will probably be the Australians, Their boxing line-up will, to some extent, be known consists of fly-weight fton Gdwer: after the championships, for there
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"I had one ambition in life," he That said today, "and I achieved it
to was to regain the title 1 lost Bandsman Blake,
"After the Bght, the manager of the old NSC, 'Peggy' Bettinson, con- I thanked him, but gratulated me. said I would never fight again.
"I had achieved my ambition by regaining the title. I gave it up on the spot. What has happened since then doesn't matter."
Came From Italy To Win Three Titles
will be so many competitors from 10-year-old baker from Tasmanid; winner of the Lonsdale Delt, is today coach, Miss Bevis Reld
bantain-weight Jim Carruthers. ja night-watchman.
overseas. The Netherlands team, for instance, will be there to test
our men.
DUTCH STAR'S PLANS
When I recently went over to Amsterdam I was surprised at being hailed at the airport. It was the Dutch athletes on their way to Prague who recognised me.
(Mitcham
Pat O'Keefe, twice middle-weight Coming from Italy, where she has champion of Britain, and three times been trained by a famous Italian AC.) won three titles at the women's New South Wales "southpaw"; Fortune has frowned on the old A.A.A. championships at Chiswick feather-weight Laurie Birks; and champion since that night in 1018 Stadium on June 27. middle-weight Graham Higham, a when he proved that an ex-champion Miss Reid twice broke the British eft. farmer from Queqnsland. can come back,
record for the weight putt with 40ft 44ins and 40ft 534ins, then won the He has been the licensee of four discus (120ft dins) and the javelin Most to be feared, they tell me, is Birks, a 20-year-old slaughter-London, public-houses in Canning (102 015in). man from Brisbane, where he was Town, Hoxton Stepney and the City. He was boxing-Instruclar to the Bri- recently awarded State honours an
gade of Guards. For 12 years he was No. 1 athlete in Queensland.
assistant manager of a Shoreditch cinema.
Book of words about Birks says he has lost only three of his 31 contests, in three years and that
Their middle distance star, Will Slykhuis, Rotterdam sports shop keeper, fold me he is going for the 6000 metres in the Games, an event all but three of his "victima" have
in which he must have a great been polished off without chance.
SPORTING SAM
reference to score-cards.
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'But the fortune he won with his flats gradually dwindled.
Disaster came in 1041, when he was landlord of a public-housó in | Bartholomew-close, 'near St Bart's
وجة
By Reg. Wootton
Mrs Jordan, with characteristic determination, won the 100 metres in 12.0 seconds. Miss Maureen Gard- ner, who was slowly away and finish- ed fourth, made up for her sprint failure by winning the B0 metres hurdles in 12 seconds.
and
Competing in the $40yds 880 yards at the inter-Hospitals championships, the Jamalcan, A. S. Wint, broke standing records with 40 seconds and 1 minute 57,0 seconds respectively. J. Fairgrieves' 100 yards in 10 seconds was also a TC- cord.
E. McDonald Balicy, in a special 120 yards invitation event on a rain- rooked track at Hampden Park; Glasgow, broke the 40-year-old Scot- tish all-comers record by winning his heat in 11.5 seconds, but in the final war once again defeated by A McCorquodale,
Alan Paternon, who never pro- duces his best at Hampden, never- theless cleared 6ft 4ins in the high Jump,, but falled three times, at 6ft *Dins
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Law 5, which deals with duties and powers of Re- ferees, gives the Referee authority "to caution any player. guilty of misconduct or ungentlemanly behaviour and, if he persists, to suspend him from further participation ini the game" from the time he enters the field of play.. WHEN BALL IS NOT IN PLAY have to re-start play by awarding an indirect free-kick against the note It is important to
very offending player's side. cut difference carefully the clear
Tho important point to note Ir here:
principle applies that when the ball has gone out of throughout a game) with regard to play, or play has been suspended incidents which may occur when temporarily by the Refereo, the the ball is not in play.
gamo must be re-started in cordance with the circumstances in Before the ball is kicked-off, 1. e. before it is in play, the Raferee may which it stopped, no matter what not award free or penalty kicks, happened after the ball went out of the Referee blow his but he may caution players or, if play or necessary, order them off the field whistle. for persistent misconduct occurs between the times he enters the field of play and the kick-off. So you sca it is possible for a player be sent off the field before the beginning of
An imaginary example of such an Incident niight be if a player were to, make
to the abusive remarks Referee whilo the ometal was pro- ceeding to the centre of the Deld- on being and, refused to desist cautioned by the Referee,
committed at Such misconduct, any time during the course of a Game but when the ball is not in to the same measures.
game.
which
For instance, If the ball went out of play over the touch-line and a player then misconducted himself as I have described, the game should be restarted with a throw-in, not- withstanding any caution or order.. ing-off.
Á PENALTY KICK?
This week's poser, the answer to which will be given next week, continuës along the same lines. What action should a Referco take in the following circumstances?
While the ball is in play in mid- feld, ho observes a centre half, who La standing in his own penalty arco, deliberately pushing the op- posing centre forward. Both players, quite clearly are within the centre-
penalty half's
aren when this.
Lesnevich, who was almost mob-play, would be liable bed by admiring dockers, tells mal
BALL IN PLAY his wife may be coming over for a holiday-but will not watch
If it occurred while the ball was fight. But several of the Liverpool football team, fellow-travellers in in play, in addition to incurring a the Queen Mary, hope to be there. caution, etc, the Referee would pushing takes place.
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