Ted Williams single scored two Cincinnati runs and Vern Stephens tied the
-United Press.
YORKSHIRE
HONOURS DON BRADMAN
Scarborough, Sept. 9.—With Ray Lindwall tal- ing six wickets for 59, the Australians dismissed H. D. Leucson Gower's Xl for 177 runs on the second day of their last cricket match in England, and by the close of play the tourists had put on 140 for the loss of one wicket.
Ten thousand people waited for the rain to cease and it was possible to start almost as soon as that happened, but it was a tragic beginning for Leveson Gower's XI as two wickets fell without addition to the overnight score. First, Finblock skled the third ball. At the close of play for Harvey to make a catch and to ended a partnership which added 60 and then Donnelly was caught in the alipu.
Yardley played the bowling con- fidently, but it was Robins who hit the trai runs today with a six to lex. which sent up the hundred. At 13. however, Robins was clean bowled when playing foward and at 121 two more wicketo tell.
the Aus- trollane were only 37 behind with nine wickets in hand.
The
read:
THE SCOREBOARD
close of play Scoreboard
Leveson Gower's XI-First innings Hutton, b Lindwall Edrich, Johnston
0 15
Fishlock, & liarvey, b Johnson 30 nelly, e Miller. b Johnson 30 Yardley, Johnson
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e Johnson, b Lindwall knocked back in the same over from m
Evans, Lindwall Lindwall.
Bedser, Lindwall Laker, e Johnson, b Lindwalt Pritchard, not out
Just when Yardley seemed likely
to be the side's top scorer he was clean bowled and Laker fell to a Johnson catch off Lindwall before lunch when nine wickets were down for 170.
After, luncheon Pritchard drove. Lindwall for two and Beiser cut tindwall him late to the boundary, but was Johnston clean bowled next buil and the Miller Innings closed for 177. Beriser was 1oxton loudly cheered for his valuable 23 Funn
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1948.
POSES AT EMPIRE POOL
BRENDA
BASEBALL
ROOF FALLS IN ON
THE N.Y. YANKEES
*
New York, Sept. 9.-The roof fell in on New York Yankees today when Boston Red Sox poured across-eight runs in the third Inning for a 9-4 victory, stretching. their American League lead to three and a half games. By defeating second-place New Yorkers, Red Sox won their 24th game in the last 28 staris.
Boston, as a result of two un- St. Louis (nightcap) ... earned Yankee runs, was trailing Chicago
1
2
3-0 in the third. Bob Porterfield
stat the flest mon out, but walked the next three ballers fill the bates.
then
NATIONAL LEAGUE
to
Pittsburgh
ir bright munshine, Kept com- paratively dry by being enrefully covered, the pitch did not become difficult, and Barnes and Morris
freely, scored
Morris twice hit Pritchard over the leg Boundary and at ten the score was 60 for no wickel,
140
--Reuter.
EAST v. WEST
Andrew Gaza, famed French swimming coach and cartoonist, sketches America's free-style star, Brenda Helser at the Empire Pool. Gaza coached the French divers at the Games.
Some Golfing Flukes
By ARTHUR DALEY
This reporter whipped out a few golf books and discovered what a vast number of freak shots the divot-diggers unfold year after year.
It doesn't seem to matter particularly whether it's star or duffer who is involved. There always are so many oddities that the old golf guides used to list them under the heading of "Unusual Incidents."
The classic one, of course, and back off a tree on to the fairway. it's repeated with monotonous re- His second effort, an iron, flashed |
larity, is the "double birdie."
HONOUR FOR DON
London, Sept. 9.-The close of You read about that shot every A golfer laces into the ball During the lunch Interval Dan play scores in the cricket match be-year.
tween the East of England and the and in mid-air it strikes a swallow, Brudunk was made a life honorary
other Seine or
Di [T Jaybird West were: member of the Yorkshire Cluby in recognition of his wonderful bat- At Kingston: East of England 392 feathered friends.
8 (Todd 107. Pawson Then the club-swinger always ting performances for Australian and 30-1 for
birdie on that very teams on the Leeds genan, and 51: West of England 294 (Cooper seems to score
hole. It doesn't appear quite log!- was presented with a silver salver 53.. Crapp 77).-Realer.
cal but it hopper-two birdies, so inscribed with his scores In We
10 speak, on the same hole. four Test matches on the Reading- ley ground, Leeds.
ANOTHER CHANNEL
sen,
SWIM
Under Ideal batting conditions. Morris scored 62 out of 102 in 95 bowled byt minutes before being Yardley, the sixth bowler tried by
Dover, Sept. 9.-Miss Elon Ander- Robins. He hit two sixes and five
swimmer. 31-year-old Danish fours.
plans Lo leave Dover by motor Bradman, applauded all the way launch for Cap Gris Nuz tonight to to the wicket, at once attacked the make an attempt to swim the Chan | bowling, and while Barnes kept onnel tomorrow.
in an attempt last year she gave the defensive the Australkai cap- tain scored 30 out of 47 in 36 up within a few miles of Dover.- minutes.
Reuter.
CARPENTIER EXPRESSES AN OPINION
CERDAN AT THE PEAK OF
HIS FIGHTING CAREER
New York, Sept. 19.-Georges light-heavyweight champion who fought Jack
through the branches of another tree OLYMPIC GAMES beyond the green. Ils third rico chefed off a stone, hounced off at another tree and came to rest behind a sapling on the edge of the green. Using a putter, he grazed the sapling with his ball and tapped it in. Four: shots made, four trees hit, and par
4.
THE FAMOUS GRAND SLAM Birds, however, aren't the only
Even the famous Grand Slam that things that By. Quite a few years ngo a Los Angeles doctor pliched Bobby Jones achieved in 1930 was
And loftily and deftly to the green.
not without some helpful frcuk
The blow along came a low-flying aeroplane. shots.
that won the The ball lanted in the cockpit and National Open for him that year was personally escorted by Lady that was the lust he ever saw of it. Luck.
ruled that iti The links Blackstone had lodged in a moving object" and therefore the golfer was permitted to drop another ball without penalty STRANGE RESULTS
It
He fred a blast across a pond and the low-flying shot skipped across the waters in the fashion of a small boy skipping a stone. could Just as
sunk casily have below the waves and there would have been no Grand Skim.
game with a single to left feld. Wally Nose's double tallled Willams and Tommy Byrne replaced Porter- neid,
Two more walks forced in an- other run and a double by 13 Hitch- cock talled two more. Kinder was credited with his eighth vic- tary and Porterfield charged with his second loss.
Football Rules
Develop Slowly
Only once have the football legislators called an emergency PIRATES WIN
meeting to amend a rule that they themselves had drafted.. Pittsburgh won its fifth victory That happened soon after the old in a row with a 6-1 decision over
1-0 corner-kick rule was altered to Reds. Sporting a Cincinnati lend until the sixth inning, redleg allow goals to be scored direct who was from the flag, only one player manager Bucky Wallers, secking the 1995th victory of his noticed that the new rule unin-
carter, loaded the bags then forced
a run by walking Danny Murtaugh. tentionally omitted a very vital
Ralph Kiner scored on a pass ball part of the old. and Virgil Stallcup brought home added two another run. Pirates more runs in the seventh and one nore in the eighth.
THE SCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York Boston
St. Louis Chicago
Sam Chedgzny, That player was the old Everton outside right. Next time he had to take a corner he waited for the whistle and then the ball towards began to dribble
crowd
the
and goal. Referee gasped in amazement and only just E in the nick of timo did the official
stop play. "You
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Grudgingly, They Let The Women In
By SYDNEY SKILTON
The vast arena is cleared after yesterday's pageantry and ritual-the lighting of the Olympic bencon; the delivery of the addresses; the pledging of the Olympic oath-and the curliest of the 4,000 competitors from no fewer than 61 nations make their bow.
First athlete to win an Olympic title is a woman, champion of the discus throwers, and as we watch from this press cyrie we wonder what the ancients of the old and original Olympic festivals would have thought of our ver- sion in 1948.
Not victor
any
a woman
Woman who
nt
com-
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can't
do that," he said. "Can't I?" replied Chedgzoy. "You look at the new rulo. They've for- gotten to include the part that bats us kicking the ball twice in succes- sion when taking a corner!"
In most cases, however soccer until some rules are never altered new development makes amendment
absolutely neccessary. The offside
rule is a ense in point.
Under tho old
On regulation attacker had to have three opponents between himself and goal when the ball was played to him.
Brainy Bill McCracken, Newcastle United's famous fullback, noticed its possiblilties and frustrated hundreds of dangerous attacks by moving a few yards forward, leaving unwary attackers offside as they
the ball.
received
As other playera copied him games became more like whistle solos by the referce and at last-the rule was given its present form.
Some alterations have been rendered useless by players' in- Renuity. Years ago players were allowed to throw in with one hand and Wilson, of Sheffield Wednesday, was so expert at this that his throws were almost as long and accurate as some players kleks
skating Antwerp, Olympic In 1920, saluted ond
came back again and by 1924, at swimming and diving
To counteract this the two-handed Paris, the
throw, in which victory competitions had been increased to
the ball is brought seven; there was a full scale lawn well behind the head, was substitut tennis schedule; two skating
ed. Then Sam Weaver cultivated petitions and a foils fencing event.
the art of throwing the ball from the saw the ar 1928. at Amsterdam.
touchline into the centre of the rival of the women track and field
feld and others imitated him so athletes, accompanied by gymnasts.
that an altered rule brought about; The lawn tennis players were never little or no change. invited again and the skaters were transferred to the separately ducted winter sports programme.
much So
Even the legal dropping of an Luther ball can produce strange re-
only Is Butts. A British golfer overshot the Ed Dudley Jost a P. G. A. cham-
applauded, green slightly with his drive, the plonship through a fluke, He had ball rolling up a sloping embank-Sammy Shead on the run in their garlanded, but she is given pride
the Olympic of place on ment Just beyond the carpet andma.ch and Duddley's drive Was & roll.
rming to rest in a rabbit hole. majestic one.
In their day, matters Olympic Local rules permitted the ball to' It soared so far down the fair- were so essentially confined to men
picked up and
and dropped without way that it
plummeted be
among that ladies were denied admittance So penalty.
son of John Bull spectators who thought they were the
even as spectators. dropped it blindly over his shoulder. out of range. Invariably fans will The
ball promptly trickled down the duck instinctively instead of watch- Indeed, the death penalty awaited ns Carpentier, former
embankment and rolled into the euping the light of the ball. for what had to be scored us Dempsey
The ball dropped among scram crossed the winding Alpheus river "bling bystanders, smacked one lad to the Olympic meadow in a period hole-in-one.
There is more than one way or on the noggin and caromed behind just before the Games, while they were in progress, or for a certain skinning a cat, however, and more tree off the fairway into an un- than one way to enter golfdom's playable lie. Eventually it cost him period after they ended. Holy, of Holics, the ace category. the match,
Once, however, a woman did get Golf con be a very distressing through. Pherenice was her name. A golfer in Oregon got himself game. Fore! From the New York we are told, and wishing to see her
times. a perfectly horrendous drive on a 225-yarder. The ball scooled across the sun-baited ground, buthe- ly enroming from hazard to hazard until it stopped on the very lip of
for the world heavyweight championship 27 years ngo. on Thursday pronounced Marcel Cerdan at the peak of his outcome of fighting career but would not predict the Cerdan's title fight with Tony Zale.
Carpentier, who came to America to see Cerdan fight Zale for the middleweight crown on Sept.. 21 in Jersey capable of City, told reporters he believed Cerdan was winning but added that he had not seen him in action and therefore would not predict the winner.
Asked if he believed Cerdan wast Jersey City today for his first visit beyond his fighting best on account there since he was beaten by Juck of age. Carpentier replied: "I think Dempsey in the historic flight.
The hele Just there. I think now he is
Zale-Cerdan fight will be at his best."
staged in Jersey City and the Carpentier will visit Cerdan's promoter, Mr. A. Neiderretter, must training camp on Friday to box with confer with the Mayor on arrange- hin
ments:
Meanwhile, Zale arrived in New York to complete his training. Associated Press,
TO DO RADIO SHOW Georges Carpentier, who is America to sec the Zale-Cerdan Aght, said that. he would go to
the cup.
When his opponent attempted to sink a long putt, he nudged in the other ball for a hole-in-one.
IRISH AMATEUR
FINAL
Belfast, Sept. 10. Joe Carr and Ceell Ewing, two Irish Walker Cup players, qualified on Thursday for the finals of the Irish Open Amateur Golf Championship.
san Pelsarodus In action dresser! herself as one of the attendants and
got into the arena.
But when Peisarodus triumphed, and maternal zeal gave her away she was hauled up for trial.
At the court special considera- tions, chiefly because her father and brothers hod all been Olymple victors, were taken into account and she was pardoned.
NOT ONLY DUFFERS
Duffers aren't the only fellows to be involved in freaks. In the Taxas Mayor Open a couple of years ago Mike
The finals on Friday will be over will Turnesa was putting from 12 feet
for ал cagle 3. In the 36 holes. Associated Press. RAF CHAMPION next threesome was Jinuny Demaret,
Greek wonen, of course, had an Corr heat John Fitzsimmons three athletic festival of their own, con- and two and Ewing eliminated J..ducted on Olymple lines and known Netc five and four.
as the Hernca.
FIRST ADMITTED
con-
Surviving broadsides of ridicule, women athletes had their events in- creased to six by 1932 at Las Angeles when swimming and fencing were again on the schedule, but gymnastles was dropped t
"It reappeared at the
Women in 1930 at Berlin. made their debut this year in the winter Olymples which were staged at Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Today a footballer who has been. carried off the field injured, may, not. return until the referco has signalled his permission.
Quite often that player's side is handicapped it the referee does nut realise that he is ready to resume, yet the reason for the rule govern- ing player's return is quite fair festival and the opportunism of one
skiers
probably responsible for Introduction.
Years ago in a Cup Final Dicky Downs, of Barnsely, retired behind his side's goal to repair an injury to his boot..
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In the 1948 Olympic Games here the women track and held athletes
As he stood in his stockinged have had their ratlon increased to
swept nine (by the introduction of the feet the opposing forwards 200-metre dash, the long broad down the field. As the baži was Jump and pulling the B.8-pound | kicked for what serped to be a broke away weight); swimming, diving. fencing certain goal Downs and gymnastics are all retained and, from the trainer who was helping for the first time, women canoelsts him and made an amazing clearance ore introduced.
with his bootless foot!
Icriti- His action wan perfectly stake for the Total medals at ladies, including the three won by mate then but led to the adoption
of the present practice. The first time women competitors the discus throwers today, are 57 bogged down in a trap 250 yards. London, Sept. 10. John Niven, were admitted
the modern out of a grand aggregate of 405 in from the green and in hopeless Fight-Lieutenant from Scotland,Olymple series Was when the the purely sporting competitions. position. So he shot a split second before Turnen putted.
won the Royal Air Force golf cham-Games first came to London in 1908. Mike's ball curved unerringly for the cup.
Thursday at Virginia The ladies then made their debut pionship on Water, Surrey, benting Corporal in the lawn tennis, archery and
For the nonsporting competitions Up on the green spun Jimmy's Sydney Ball of Cheshire five and skating competitions-three' xports
there It hit Mike's, knocked it for threc in a 38-hole final-Associated in. which they had won their way the possible total is 42 and
despite the disapproval of the stern has been a great change here in the uff its course and halted three feet Press,
Victorians.
relative values of art and sport. from the hole. Demaret wound
In the modern Olympiods When the Games shifted to arts have been thrown into
Carpentier will meet the and look over the city. He appear on three radio and television away shows on Thursday night. He said that he might do some boxing versus Cerdan in the next week's training.
United Press. ·
PREPPING FOR LESNEVICH | ball?
Tousled Freddie Milla gets in some hard training at his camp `near. Dorking, Surrey,. for his return title hout with Gua Lesnevich.
Up with
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RELATIVE VALUES
the the
himself, Turness with only a nasty Swiss For New York Stockholm in 1912 only lawn tennis shade. The number of spectatora
Cycling Races
Birdle.
Polly Riley lost out in the Women's Western Amateur Cham- plenship last year by u l-up margin. She supplied that margin. On the
Zurich, Sept. 9-Swiss bleycle 16th reen she needed to putt racers, after an interval of several B-troter while Mary McMillin's ball yours, will shortly proceed to the United States to participate in the six-day cycle races.
rested eight inches from the cup.
Her tap, off line all the way, cent Miss McMilliu's white pili dipping Into the hole for an eagle and a I-up rad. They halved the next two hours.
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NOT IN A LIFETIME
Most golfers will spend a lifetime
1. Koblet, Swiss pursuit raco champion, who was fourth in the recent world championships and W. Diggelmenn, former Swiss champion motor-pace racer, plan to competo their first race in New York
October 5.
They also plan to participate in on the links without over scoring the six-day events In Ohio, Buffalo, an nee. What makes this all the Cleveland and Chicoge. more aggravating
The Koblet-Diggelmenn team more than one novice, playing the confident that it can produce suc first round of his career, har plunk-comful form against the United ed in a hole-in-one.
States cycle racing stars-United
la the fact that
| Most" "annoying of these incidents, | Press, obviously enough, *Happens when- ever a chap steps on a leo for the Arst time, whisks In an ace and Temarits condescendingly, "What's wo tough about this garno?" Ball- ing in oil is much too good for fel- lows like that.
PHOTO FINISH
Doncaster,
js
of the initial three was retained but who are even aware that there are. awimining and diving competitions art competitions is a very small were added.
portion of the total audience at the Games.
In the old days poots attended the Olympic gatherings with
their
STYLES RAZORATE IN UN CONTENEN COLLARENA SATIL HOME FOOTBALL vers and tales, the artists with their paintings, drawing and London, Sept. 10.--Results in sculpture, musicians with the sweet- Wednesday's English League est songs. football matches were:
SECOND DIVISION Queen's Park, Cardiff City
THIRD DIVISION (Southern)
Swansea Town 3 Leyton Orient Totta County 0 Ipswich Town
THIRD DIVISION (Northern)
Hull City
Sept.. --Mrs Alec Johnston's Auralia won the Doncas- The part that fuck plays in this ter Cup here this afternoon after a "umbling gamo" is beyond belief, photo finish, with Mr M. A Widnes There was a college golfer who Everitt's No Orchids second. Bir once made an extraordinary par 4. Humphrey de TraTord's He sliced his tee shot and it bounced talne, was third-Reuter,
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-Associated Press.
The festival 'existed as much for therm ns for the magnificent young 'nlhletes who came to show their prowess in sports.
The other day when I visited the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, where the Olymple art exhibition is open for a month, 'I had, apart from the attendants, the place to myself.
On show are 308 exhibits from 24, nations-U.S.A. not being among them and the panels of adjuḍien- tors must have been disappointed with a number of entries because in ten instances 10 medai Was. awarded although some "honourable mentions" were made,.
Finland fared best with ไพ silver-gilt medals for first places, ono silver for a second and one bronze for, a third Austria and Great Britain were next, each with first, two seconda and one
Ono
minum | third.
TURKISH STAR
Unet Teoman surprised everyone In Ankara when sho outraced oven male opposition in the sprints. Reported to have run the 100 metres in 12 seconds, sho was Turkey's lone feminino entrant at the Olymple Games" where she didn't do too well against
the world's best. D