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FIFTH TEST MATCH:
FOUR NEWCOMERS IN ENGLAND'S XII
London, Aug. 8.—The England team for the fifth and final Test match against Australia at the Qual, commencing on Saturday will be selected from the following 12 players:
Norman Yardley (Yorkshire), capt.:
W. J. Edrich (Middlesex); J. G. Dowes (Middlesex); R. T. Simpson (Nottingham shire);
L. Hutton (Yorkshire); C. Washbrook. (Lancashire); Denis Compton (Middlesex); T. G. Evan (Kent); Alec Bedser (Surrey); Eric Hollles (Warwickshire); J. Young (Middlesex) and A. Watkins (Glamorgan). The England selectors have named
They are J.G. Dowes, Cambridge
and University
Middlesex left hander, R. T. Simpson, stylish Notts bat, Erie Hollies, Warwickshire slow leg break bowler, and Alah Walking. Glamorgon's left hand all-rounder.
The inclusion of now blood in the side is an official acceptance of the fact that, having lost the Ashes and the rubber, English cricket must look to the future and pro- mising talent given a chanco to prove themselves against the beat opposition In the world.
Five of the 13 nominated for the fourth Test have been dropped, They are Kenneth Cranston, Dick
four newcomers among the 12 from Pollard, Jim Laker, Jack Cropp whom the team will be selecten, I and Emmett-Reuter.
Mills v Woodcock -No. 1 Fight Draw
By FRANK BUTLER
light-heavy-weight
title
The sneaking of the world from tired Gus Lesnevich on the night of July 26 has put unpredictable Freddie Mills smack back in the big money at 29, which is nice work for a fighter considered "washed up" after his humiliating defeat by Lloyd Mar. shall twelve months ago.
It also means another fetic boom! which will warm the cockles of
King Solomons' fish slabo this winter, and threatens-although we pray not the return of the twenty guineas ringside.
Not only
was
Mister Boxing ruching busy yesterday to sign up anybody who could box kippers, but he reckons he has three major fights on hand that will not only pack Harringay, but could another 40,000 at, White City.
dour Tom Hurst,
manager Bruce Woodrock, was at the ring-
pered the
The Olympic Marathon
By "RECORDER"
The unpredictable often hap get pens in the Olympic Marathon, and it did at London. In a of Games marked by some of the most sensational upsets in the sido andl when Solomons whis-history of the series, it was this classic that produced more American heavy-weights for the
return long-awaited
of Wood- material for the historians of cock, Hurst nodded, and whispered the Games than has come their the okay to one name.
way in a long time.
names
un-
So Solomons applied to the Bank of England for this named American heavy-weight to be allowed to take a sockful of golden peanuts out of England after the #ght at Harringay on September 21.
The name of the opponent is a national secret, but you can forget the name of tubby Tami Mauriello, and think more about Joey Maxim, who has beaten Olle Tandberg, or Lee Savold, veteran with dangerous right hand.
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NOT INTERESTED Lesnevich, with six stitches above -both eyes, leaves with his wife and manager, Joe Vella, on Saturday but ho, has already assured. Solomons. ☎ return light can't be too soon.
The winner himself, variously described as a farmer and a fireman, poses questions that the sagest of speculators would find difficulty in providing answers for
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Dillard Wins Olympic
MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1948.
100-Metre
Final
HAROLD PALMER's SportFRONT
Harrison Dillard (far left), wins the 100-metre Olympic. Anal at London, England, in record-tying time of 10,3 seconds.
Left to right: Dillard, first; MacDonald Bailey, Great Britain, sixth; Alan Me- Corquodale, Great Britain, fourth; Lloyd LaBeach, Panama, third; Barney, Ewell, U.S.A., second.—AP Wirephoto via radio from London.
OLYMPIC GAMES
AMERICANS PROTEST SPRINT RELAY
RACE DISQUALIFICATION
lo official Saturday's
motion 100-metre
London, Aug. 8.-American Olympic officials today turned pictures in the hope that they will erase the disqualification in relay.
The Yanks won the relay race easily but the victory was given to Great Britain because officials ruled that the Americans, Barney Ewell and Lorenzo Wright, had not passed the baton within the required 20 yards.
The Olymple jury of opponi, which has final authority, hos scheduled a private showing of the Alm on Monday. It should be ensy to *BOC alleged inTraction in pictures taken from the pit only a few yards away.
Meanwhile, Ewell and Wright both
backed the coach, Dean Cromwell, in his protest against the ruling which gave
track Britain its first victory" although its team finished Stales the United second behind anchor man, Mel Patton. Harrison Dillard ran the third leg.
"I am sure I was inside the pas- sing zone," said Ewell. "I know, the film will show that clearly."
SCORES POINT
IN ATHLETICS
Italy
OLYMPIC HOCKEY:
Amateur Purists Are Losing Ground
Less Restriction-But Not For
International Athletics
One more laborious attempt is being made to define an amateur. On the one hand will be "Slmon puro" Avery Brundage, speaking for the United States. Scoking more latitude will be several continental representatives.
The matter will be thrashed out fresh start, deviso the rule, com- at the International congress at the pletely. Polytechnic today and tomorrow.
The British point of view in likely to be the practical ono, strict de finition for international competl Ulon, pulling all nations on the same lovel, and
ery nation pleasing it- selt about its own conception of an amateur for Internal competition.
I like the Scottish outlook as ex- pressed to me by their secretary, Jimmy man. His idea is that any
It is no use deceiving ourselves that all the competitors in the Wembley Games which open on Thursday will be amateur. Mr Brundage admits the suspicion that surrounds some of the Americans. while I am told that nlt the nomina- tions for the Italian soccer team can be found in a regialer of pro- fessionals that is issued in Italy.
The days of the true amateur really ruas, jumps or competition. аго numbered, The throws for the sheer love of doing real amateur will remain to enjoy those things should bo considered his sport. The "shamateur" of an amateur whether he mixes with today will be able to come into professionals or is a professional the open. himself at some other game.
The congress will also decide the
A problem for the Scots in the scene of the European Games of prevalence of professional sport in 1950. Brussels is expected to get the Highlands. There the real❘ them; .but Czecho-Slovakia and amateur can get no competition Hungary are also applying.. unless he joins in with the pros. Mr Gilbert has a broad mind. "Why should such fellows bo branded?" he asks.
SUSPICION
The present amateur definition of the International Athletic Federation was originally based on the AAA's definition. Repented adjustment has made the definition inconsistent and illogical. British idea is to make a
The Weather Could Help A British Win
the
London, Aug. 8.-An India-Pakistan final for 1918 Olympic hockey tournament was being forecast to- day by those who have seen these two teams in action during the Preliminary series which ended last night..
India and Pakistan have been the outstanding teams in the event, not only because of their high scoring and comfortable victories, but because of their brilliant indi- vidual play.
United States Sweden
203
103
Netherlands
57
France
GG
Great Britain
51
Australin
39
Finland.
31
Hungary
26
Jamaica
24
21
Argentina
20
Czechoslovakia
18
Norway
18
taken
Belgium Austrin Canada .. Switzerland
15
13
10
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one factor to be remembered-Lon--Reuter.
G
don's unpredictable weather.
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Turkey
4
South Africa Poland
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Wright sold he was also certain that he took the baton before pass- ing the zone's white line and Crem- well continued to insist that the stick was passed despite apparent fumbling and when he had only about 12 yards.
The name, variously spelled by the different news agency, so much un- known was the Argentine, is Delfo Carbrera. That it his name, for so it was spelled in the list of winners the eight oared rowing event at
In addition to a reversed decision, the American's only other solid hope for a gold medal on Monday was in
Thames.-Uniled
in the Inst South American cham-Henley pionships, where he won the 10,000 Press. metres run In indifferent Ume.
No one had ever fancied Cabrera
milled himself to reporters at Lon- as a great distance runner. He ad-
don that he had never before run race longer than 10 kilometres, The Marathon is all of 42 klolometres odd.
A great distance runner, some of
the on
READY TO DEPART
London, Aug. 8-Many of-the-1,200 Olymple Camp in athletes in the
with were busy today Richmond preparations
departure for their while others went out for excursions.
Denmark
Panama Yugoslavia
Ceylon
Baseball
Mills was not interested in talk- the experts point out, is good for Ing fights, but, I reckon to Aco any distance from the mile to the The first party to leave tomorrow the return made before the end Marathon. That could be true of will be about 50 Italians followed by of the year.
Paavo Nurmi, but Cabrera never the Swedes, Norweglans and Finns.
The departing squnda include New York, Aug. 8.-Toy's Major really shone at 10.000 metres and But the biggest attraction of all he entered the event at the Swedish track and field athletes and League baseball scores were: will be the matching of Mills and Games would have finished well in swiminers, Finnish athletes and Woodcock for the heavy-weight title. the ruck
NATIONAL LEACUE wrestlers and Norwegian, marksmen. Don't
athletes and wrestlers.
ask me to gel tickets
for any
Just
cost of
Exactly
Holden, felrendi,
for that fight, because it's a sell- In the first six were two runners out the day a date is announced. conceded a chance of being there,
The fistic boom
South Africa's Coleman and Luyt. must go on. The unofficial receipts of July 20,
The other four were surprise parties, of more than 205,000 are a record all, the two Argentines both
the Belgian, Gallly, the biggest of very for a Aght in Britain. The £17,000 much so, and Welshman Tommy paid into Lesnevich's bank in New Richards, just so. Jersey is a record purse fighter in this country.
nowhere were all the Mills received around £5,000, favourites Korea's Yun Bok Suh, Greeks Tax will be about £11,000. The Finland's Mikko Hietanen, E.B.B. of C. will get roughly £2,500. Stylianos Kyriakides and Athanasios The supporting fight cost
Ragazos, America's Ted Vogel, Tur- under £10,000.
The hiring of key's Sevki Koru, Britain's Jack White City
Charles and the
Luxembourg's stewards, police, and various other expenses will be close on £10,000. The list is the most impressive
£5,000 PROFIT
ever to be placed nowhere in any sporting contest. It would compare The means that Mister Boxing will with the Inst eight in the Men's
Singles at Wimbledon being of seven seeded players. American dinner jacket-and the For theories on versatility in the blood-red carnation which took him of the most puzzling questions ever. distance runs, the result poses one five minutes to set to his liking. Eeverywhere the fight
If it follows that an Indifferent per were discussing the controversial former at six miles could find his second knock-down of nine in the forte in the Marathon, why didn't tenth round. Did Lesnevich bent Finland's crack Viljo Heino Anish
ten-seconds count? Or did he the first six? benefit by
finish long count?
He evidently did
be left a clear £5,000, which wil more than pay for his all-while
tho
one.
Sam Burns, and
Listen
fang
short
On Tuesday, movement orders St. Louis
Philadelphia will be given to the Danish track
No other team can match them for the spectacular way they carry the ball down the wings, dodging op- ponents and flicking it from one to another, or seizing upon every chance they get in the scoring area. Given fairly dry conditions, the
In any case, Baldir Singh showed
teams from the Indian subcontinent in the match against the "Argentine play wonderful hockey, but there is their fourth successful Olympic title.
This weekend has been wet and miserable, and the
forecast
is for continued unsettled weather. This may be decisive in tipping the scales in favour of Great Britain at pre- sent the strongest challenger the Indian and Pakistani teama haye."
Playing against Spain in wet mud- dy conditions on Friday night, the Indians found their stick work lack- ed the certainty it had on the dry turf in earlier games.
Those without boots seemed to slip easily on the greasy ground and the team's speed also suffered. is only to be expected that the
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the
AT HIS OWN EXPENSE
"MADE THE GAMES
No American Was more deter- mined to get to the Games than the 400-metre hurdler, Roy Cochrane. He started his career in 1938 and was here as national champion in the 1039. Then he had his eye on 1040 Games that were never held. He was back last year running at the British Games-though with muscle trouble and he made determined and successful bid to make the Wembley Games.
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Having achieved his ambition ho will hang up his shoes. Teaclier- cum-student, Cochrane is now 20. He has a girl of two and a boy aged five months, whose pletures he carries round with him. He chooses the quiet domestic life lu future.
WANTS TO STAY Shirley Strickland, 23-year-old Australian sprinter of Perth, good looking blonde, wants to stay In England for a year or so after the Games. Above all, she wants to win the Olympic sprint title-"and if I
SHIRLEY STRICKLAND
Joe McCluskey, veteran of two Olympics, having failed to make a third has
come here to so the Games and to compete when pos-
ible in minor meetings.
A touch of the "grip" (a cold) and
pulled
muscle handicapped Mc- Cluskey in bid
do. I suppose they will want to see for a place me back home." his
trials. So he is steeplechase
Otherwise she thinks, it would be 1,000 spending
dollars to be a
a waste of time going back. A re- spectator of the Games.
search Job, preferably in McCluskey has been running 2 activity, is what she wants here.
radio- four усага It years including
Any suggestion this might end in school. He is 37, director of the her marrying and settling down here Manchester YMCA, Connecticut, and was dismissed with a wave of the during the war was a Lieutenant-band. "Guess, I'm not the marrying Commander In the Navy,
Polcision team will be affected in
the same way under similar condi-
tions.
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Such conditions have not affected 0 the British team
much. 0.9 heavier combination, relying more on team work than on individual
2 play and familiar with wet ground,
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I helped McCluskey to get a run Mis Strickland has been teaching at two meetings immediately. The demobilised soldiers physics and day after he landed he did a 9min. maths under an Australian rehabüil- 55scc, two miles at the Polytechnic tation scheme. meeting. Today his dirty vest and Her 11.1sec. at the Folytechnic meeting was her fastest 100 yards since last January. Twice she has done 11sec. She has a real chance.
3 8 0 Great Britain may find these condl-shorts ("I am famous for them,
Some 350 of the camp's Inhabitants Pittsburgh (2nd game) 5 went this afternoon in elght double- New York decker buses to an orchestral con- cert at the Royal Albert Hall.
manu-Boston
Cincinnati Brooklyn The Finnish team was Invited to Chicago lunch by a British paper facturer and was to attend a recep- tion given by the Finnish Minister.
in the evening- Mr E. Vuori, Associated Press.
GENERAL DISSATISFACTION
St Louls
Boston Chicago
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will suit them well. Certainly
a shrewd player like the English captain, who has been brilliant at Inside left this week, will be quick
0 Norman Borrett,
to seize any advantage which should come his team's way,
IF IT IS DRY
However,
given fairly dry con- should defeat Great Britain in the semifinals to- morrow night. Their greater speed and the brilliance of forward line, particularly Abdul Aziz, Ahmad 1 Masud and Abdul Hamid, gives zthem great attacking strength and is likely to keep the British defenco 1 busy.
3 ditions. Pakistan
2 India should have very little difficulty in defeating the Dutch
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faction with the tournament system Chicago (11 innings)
Landen, Aug. 8-General dissatis- Boston (nightcap)
adopted for the Olymple basketball matches will be alred at a speciál Washington meeting of officials tomorow, and the Detroit Olymple representatives and officers of the international Federation of some Amateur Basketball will attempt to
and a moro satisfactory formula for New York use in the 1052 Games.
Cleveland
In the
un-
Washington Detroit
the matches think that this year's While most peoplo concerned with
New York (nightcap) system will probably find the true Cleveland
than
Tho system has been to divide the 23 competing countries Into four groups. Each team to a group has. mot øvery other team in that group on a points basis.
Kurowski, Not
Seriously Hurt
team tomorrow night in the other
1 semifinal. Holland put up a stout defonce against Pakistan yesterday,
1 but their performances have not been impressive compared with those of the Indians..
The Dutch will probably provide
2 the toughest opposlilon the Indians
have yet had, and the 'Indian de Offence
should have a thorough
2 testing-something. It has
had.
not yet
Holland's strength lies in the cle- ver combined play of their two in- sido forwards, A. Boostrá and 3. that he is also a centro forward of class who can be, depanded upon: to keep his team attacking, On either side, he will have D. Singh Babu, Inside right, and P. A. Gansen, in- side left, to dominate the midfield play while Kishan Lal, and Fernandes can provide anto play at a dia- concerting speed along the right and left wings respectively.
As I saw it, Lesnovich was lucky where in the first ten The agencies be allowed to box on. It looked record the fact that in the last few Niko an 11-second count. view was shared by, among others, stop for a drink of water while well This miles he was the only runner to
Lew up with the leaders. rsion.
For sheer thrills, the presence of winter, there is a general feeling Opposite view is taken by Gene
finishera four Marathon Tunney who should know
more Stadium at the same time is
that many of the minor placings will about the long count
be determined by luck rather any- paralleled in Olymple history and "Lesnevich was up in time" the drama of heartbreak as the by ability. declared the man who took advantfaltering Gailly lot one and then age of
14-second count against another runner pass him emblazons Dempsey at Chicago in 1927. "In a new page in the record of tho fact, his timing was perfect. HoGames.. took full advantage to recover from
When the Italian baker, Pletr! a dazed state."
Dorando, collapsed in the Stadium |in the|1900: Games, at London and was helped to the finish line, that
This attack is likely to upset the made Olympic history.
for final placings from ons to eight. Philadelphia. Aug. 8.Whitey beat of defences and has already „The Belgian.... Gailly's offort on
Kurowski, veteran, Cardinal third produced 19 goals in three matches.
Fre·· Saturday surpasses the "Dorando The next two in each group are baseman, today was reported to be should carry India through to grit for ho.actantly finished while deciding the placings from nine to in good condition at Templo Kruire, who play for the same club most men so near victory would 10, while the remaining teams from University hospital after being hit and know each other's moves. But Mexico City, Aug. 8-M. Vega, the bave passed out from shoer, disap- each group are playing off for the in the head by a ball during a there is no forward line to measure Mexican
[4] places 17 to 23. -
up to the Indians, batting practice. Adrian polnimént. champion, boat
It was a very heavy blow for the I nominate for this year's Gallly Quist, of Australe of the Davis Cup equivalent on an Olymple scale of this system has been Chian. Thay vealed no seriostr
One of the unluckiest teams under • Physicians sald' that "X-rays, re- Indians to loss R.-N. Hodrigues, their In the fourth match
he best centre forward, who has been in American Zone final here today, 93, the famous American Sullivan won against Korea in a preliminary could play on Sunday, Kurowski hospital for five days this-wook with
With оло
match to be Award,'' given - each your fo; the round match but Koren qualified for was knocked uncondou during a tonalllile There are hopes-that he played, Australia leads Mexico by athlete displaying the greatest grit the top eight and China for the last practice: before, Saturday's game,... may be well enough to play in the three to one----Router.
and sportsmanship.
soven Rouler.
United Press.
Patan Anal but this la donotfuda Most
L MEXICAN BEATS
ADRIAN QUIST
mora
The two team's heading each pre- liminary group are now playing off
nothing else") were appearing the Enfield club's meeting. -
COCHRAN
at
WINS
HURDLES
Roy Cochran of Los Angeles crosses the finish line wi Wembley to win the final of the 400-metre hurdles event
in a new Olympia record time of 51.1, second
A Duncan White of Ceylon is "awarprise secon Aull of the United States tirdz
KONNAK A from London E