6
Four Test Matches For New Zealand
London, Nov. 10.—It has been agreed by the Advisory County Cricket Committee and the Board of Control that the New Zealanders' next season and the West Indier in 1950 will each be allocated four Test matches against England, each lasting three days, instead of the three previously arranged.
The Committee pointed out that under these circum- stances there is no question of the last Test match being played to a finish.
The four Terts against
New
Stand of 267
For 4th Wicket
Zealand will be on June 11 at Leeds, TEST MATCH June 25 at Lords, "July 23 at Man- chester and August 13 at The Oval Soveral other mutters of impor- tance were discussed by the Com- mittee and the Board during their two-day meeting Lord's.
Restriction on tours to England were dealt with, and the Advisory after next Committoo agreed that
New Delhi, Nov. 10.-A bril- year there should be no tour to this country by Overseas'. aides during liant unbroken stand of 267 for the season following that of a the fourth wicket between C. after Australian visit.
Walcott and G. Gomez, NEW, BALL RULE From next summer the new ball three wickets had fallen for 2
changed after 05 overs runs, enabled the West Indies may be
in their first ever Lo recover Instead of 55 as at present.
A change in the system of point Test cricket match with India
County champion-today. scoring in the Bhips was made. In future when a
the At the close of play match ends with the scores equal,
icd the side which
on the first Indies ivere 204 for three, Walcott innings will receive eight points, having scored 152 and Gomez 99.
Last and their opponents, four.
On a perfect wicket, with a re- seacon each side took six points. putation for assisting bowlers during A change has also been made the first hours of play, West Indies The batted first after winning the toss, in the Selection Committee.
Board is Permanent
to comprise
short time three men but within 0 and three members (in-were sent back with only 27 rung chairman stead of two), with the captain co-on the board.
addition, the Board may In opted. call into consultation any past or present, that
The Control Board has allocated approximately £2,800 to each first class county on whose ground Test matches were not played last sea- Countles who' had Tests received about £0,400. The Univer- silles gel about £1,400 apiece. the
£450 countles
3011.
#t
Ticketers.
cach and
inlnor Combined Services £22.-Reuter.
CRICKET TEAMS
The
following will
West
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1948.
SPORTING SAM
SOCCER INTERNATIONAL
By Rog. Wootton.
England Wins Its Second Soccer International A Player Short
Birmingham, Nov. 10-England beat Wales by one goal to nil in the interna- tional soccer match on the Aston Villa ground this afternoon.
With Laurie Scott, England's rightback, off for 65 minutes through. injury, and Jack Millburn, centre forward, also off for five minutes. England displayed heroic defence against odds and richly deserved their single goal win.
there
אמע
For an hour
de- the English
Kept to the defence for most of under the the game, the full all-round quall- Billy ties of the England aide could not fenders, coolly efficient Inspiration of their captain, wright, not unly held out against be fairly judged, but repeated Welsh assaults, but more rarely any doubt about the result. than once went close to Increasing their half-time lead.
As deputy right-back for Scott. Ward did great work. If not always certain in his tackling of the fast the pick of the moving Clarke,
he played with Welsh forwards.
In an unaccustomed great courage position.
ANOTHER HERO
ars
After Mortensen had had a goal disallowed for an intringement, the
parried only goal of the match came in the 39th minute, Hughes effort by Millburn, but Finney was and sent the Dall close at hand dashing into the net with a Berce low drive-Reuter.
London,
other
OTHER MATCHES
10-In Nov. Stan Mortensen, who combined right arm the duties of substitute right-half matches on Wednesday, Civil Ser- .C. R. Rangachari,'
took those with those of Inside-right, was an-vice beat the Army 2-0 at Kingston. fast medium bowler,
hero, and Swift, while Royal Navy beat Oxford three wickets at a cost of only one other English run in 2.1 overs, breaking a stump though for from his best, made | University 4-2 at Oxford.
goal-saving Interceptions at vital
The touring Australian Rugby when bowling George Headley. Then Walcott and Gomez
League team beat Bradford Northern came moments against enthusiastic rivals. and,
tha together
overcoming
While England's struggle against 21-7-Associated Press. difficulties of the wicket, they re- mained unbeaten when stumps were adversity excited the sympathy of the huge crowd of 08,000, the drawn.
of the incptness
Welsh attack their brought disappointment to supporters.
THE SCOREBOARD West Indies, First Innings
Walcot, tot aut
Rae, Rangachari represent Stollmeyer, b Rangachari
Headley, b Rangachari Gomez, not out
Jordine's in the inter-hong cricket match against the Hongkong Bank
Sunday nt
on
HKCC:
11.30 a.m. ot
the
D. F. Londale, D. S. Middleditch, C. Barclay, A. L.
J. D. Mackie,
Ricketts, J, V. Sellors, A. S. Grant, B. W. Summers, G. M, Mills.
MacKay and J. Hawthorne.
Twelfth Man: W. A. Hue,
Cratzengower Team
J.
Extras
Total (for 3)
Reuter.
152
Clarke,
who
Wales, apart from constantly beat Scott in the early
13 stages before the latter
was In-
+
Jured, had no one to match Mat-
Dr
99 thows and Finney for artistry,
20 Millburn and Mortensen for dash.
204
Jack Kramer For
Singapore?
Craigengower C.C. will be represented by the following in their league mich
at home against 11.K.C.C. "Optimists" 01 Saturday at 1.43 p.m.-C. W. Lam, 5. Ramchand, Q. A. G. long Choy,
Jack Kramer, Wimbledon cham Souza, 1, P. Lim, P. J. Billmoria, R. Tay. T. Crabtree, A H. Ismail. R. O. Baker and 3.1 Youngsaye. 12: man, plon in 1947, and the present world R. R. Isrance. Umpire, J. E Mugre: professional tennis champion, will zeurer, Mrs Souza,
play in Singapore early next month, if the efforts being made by a group
Becrelo League Bide.
The following will represent Club de Recreio 1st XI in their league fixture against Army at Suckunpoo on Saturday, -A. M. Prata (cop!), P. M. Nolasco da Silva, Jr., Dr A. M. Rodrigues, Dr E Gozano, B. 1. Gosano, L. G. Gosano,
of local sportsmen are says the Straits Times.
South American
Invitation
London, Nov. 6.-The English Football Association disclosed today that the South American Soccer Federations have invited & first division team to make a close-season tour of Argentins,
Chile, Uruguay successful, Brazil,
Peru.
Kramer, who is officially rated na the best professional player in the
G. N. Gerano, A. P. Pereira, N. Deltrao, world, will be accompanied by
are requested to meet at Club Lulitano Segu
at 1 p.m.
H.K. Bank Teatr
Riggs, Dinny Fails and Pan- The quartette are at present play- The following will represent the longing a series of exhibition matches kong Bank in a cricket match agains in the big Australian cities. On Jardine, Matheson Co., Ltd. t the
at 11.30 am. November 17 they will leave for a HKCC ground on Sunday Beach, W. More our of New Zealand and are Lydall, Macleod, CG Mered scheduled to be in Singapore during R. E. H. Nelson, R. G., Cuscley, A. Snaith, G. A. Stewart, M. W. Turner and the first week of December.
C. D. N. Walker.
BKCC scorpions
the
For their league match against RAF. the JK.C.C. on Saturday the
"Scorpions, will be represented by H. Week-End Soccer
Owen Hughes (capt), F. Bloker, D.
11. Leach, D. W. Leachi, P. Howarth, A. Graham, E. P. Gee, K. J. Attwell, R.
A. Hughes, J. E, de C. Branson, J. E. Wehardson.
Optimists'. Team
Programme
The Hongkong Football Associa-
The following will represent the HKCC tion fixtures for the coming week-
"Optimists against Craigengower CC In
a league match at the Valley on Batur
tay at 1.45 pm: L, D. Kilbee (capt),
R. W. Franklin, T. P. Mahon, C. T Rowo, N, R, Oliver, D. McLellan, A. E.
end are as follow:
Baturday
1st Division I.A.F. v Police, Bookunpoo, 430 p.m. Kwok/C, K. Wool.
Perry, A. Shalili, M. M. Little, D. (Hot. J. F. da Buva; linesmen, B. Y
3. Odell and 11. J. Crutwell.
Bemy
"BANK
WHO DO BOUT APPANGING AN UNTIL JUST
230 THIS AFTERNOON T
Coming Events In
The Sports World
TODAY
Ches--Lightning Chess
Tourna-
pent at Kowloon Chess Club, 0.30- p.m. sharp.
er Eatrics Close-Entries close for
10th -Extra Race Meeting, noon.
eeting Annual Meeting of the
Section of the Royal Hong- Golf Club, Helena May In-
8.30 p.m.
Ants Open Hardcourt. Chom- planships: Lee Wai-long v. Wong THU L Hoil B. A. Rumani kam-moon & Choy Ping-fan. BUTORELL TOMORROW
tpad din Cinnual Meeting of Ken
Club, Hongkong • Hotel Roof Gurderi; 6:30 pm??
South Chioa. “B” v Club, Caroline Hill, 4.20 pm. (Ret Capt. Stone; linesmen, Pto: Collas/W, Crawford),
Kwong Wah v K.M.3. Boundary. 4.30 pm, (Rat. 3. Ward: Ineamen. W Gibson/It Richardson),
2nd Division
full
sum
to
and
The invitation includes payment of expenses, Including alrplane travel for the party of 22, a fixed wages, cover players' insurance plus an allowance for each member of the English party during the four,
The Association has circularised all clubs in the Football League's first division asking whether they are Interested in the tour. Replies are
the until not expected
new year when the clubs will have an indica- tion of their future commitments la
and League schedules United Press.
the Cup
No Protest Yet
From Roderick
London, Nov. 10.-Mr Charles Donmall. Secretary of the Bri- tish Boxing Board of Control, said on Wednesday that he had not received, a protest from Tramways ✔ Dockyard. Sookunpos, either Ernie Roderick or his 3 p.m. (Hief, T. E. Barretto)
KMR v South China, Boundary. 3 pan. manager, Nel Tarleton, regard- W: D. Chinese Police, Army ""ing the referee's decision in #pan (Ret. A. Farmer),
PCAV Club. St. Joseph's, 3 p.m. the featherweight title fight at Harringay Arena on Monday night.
(Re A. F Wh).
(Ref. 1. Mackontje).
Solicitors Army (E), St Joseph's,
3 pm. (Ref. Leung Yuk-tong).
1. Sunday:
1st Division
Eastern v South China "A", Caroline Ill, 30-p.m.: (Ref: C. Tunstall; Îines men, P. George/Sgt. Manson). Khi ta phi y Kliches, cúc, 10 ĐỊ Ref, FOX Fadley: Itnamen, L. Frank NAVY inerman, Mak Young-fa
Navy: 430 pm. (Ref. Cheung Moon-wing).
Li Ding-plu):~
IN G. Yount
C.AA. (bya)
2nd Division
St Joseph' v CAA., Club, 3 p.m. (Ret. Li Bing-tong);
University(v) Navy,
(Ref. N. Delgado).
Navy,
3 p.m.
Taikoo v Army (IIK), Caroline
3 p.m. Res. Li, Davey).
Kitchṣe (byo),
Baring Apply
RATION FREE
NIGHTS
HOTELS EXTENDED
HORE
JOE
C
IMLAY: PUR AN END. TO SLEEPING FIN THE FORCE-BOX ON THE TAIRD NIGHT OF A FOUR DAY MESTING
Henry Hall of Shefeld became the now British Champion when the Welsh referee, C.B. Thomas, gave him a points decision over Roderick. The verdict was badly received by fight fans who stood and booed for nearly 15 minutes.
'on
My Donmall Bald the stewards of the BBBC would hold their usun! Wednesday. -The meeting referee's score card, the weight cards and the Board's Inspectors received at the . report would be
meeting-Associated Press.
European Boxers
For U.S. Fights
Burston,
Paris, Nov. 10-Low chlof of Twentieth Century Club's foreign department, today signed up three boxers who will leave for New York in January to fight in the Madison Square Garden.
Marcel Cerdan, World Middle- weight Champion, will also proceed to the United States around Novem ber 17 where he will give exhibi- flons, Burston, who is the chain- plon's American representative said. The three nghters signed by Burston are: Jean Wrizack, French Welterweight champion. Lucien Krawczyk, the only. Européan ever. ta' lfold Cerdan for, 10 rounds, and young Luigi Caetan: Analore, Italian-United Press.
[PLAYERS
ONLY
So
YES - PARLING – BUT
THING 14 KICKED IT OUT OF RIC
What It Takes To
Hold The Fans
By CORNELIUS RYAN
New York, Nov. 10.-It takes more than ability to
an athlete. make a public favourite of
Sugar Ray Robinson, Bob Feller, Ted Williams and All are great performers, yet Bobby Riggs found that out. not a one is well-liked by the general public. Robinson often has been cailed the greatest fighter in ring history, pound for pound." yet he has not one-tenth the public popularity Jack Dempsey.. of Joe Louis.
Robinson forfelted that with his money his and his willingness to break obvious intense interest in
few more dollars. word again and again if it meant a
•
of
A GOLF BALL LOOKS BACK OVER A CENTURY
By JOHN PREBBLE
A reader writes that a seagull flying over the Bude golf course picked up a ball when it arrived several yarda from the sixth green and carried it to within five feet of the pin.
Golf balla have landed in birds' nests without breaking an egg. Less successfully they have landed in buses among passengers' heads.
This year the golf ball celebrates The golf ball, which you can now its centenary and its quinquagenary, see has become a construction of as Please to remember the names of much interest to the andlytical Mr Gourlay and Dr Coburn Haskoll, chemist as the player, must be who gave us 'the modern golf boli, wound with the best thread..
Prior to 1848, golfers, who were Unters you remember your. largely Scots, played with balls chemistry the manufacture of these called "featheries,”
threads will not mean much to you, These were made of leather, stuff-but the ball needs about 300 yards ed, by means of a special tool, with which, when fully stretched,' would "as many fenthors as a hat will reach over a mile.
hold."
The guttn-percha shell has to be A hundred years ago Mr Gourinya certain thickness to get the best produced a solid gulinpercha ball, resilience, one-twentieth of an inch eventually known as a "guttle," serves the purpose.
In the beginning it was made by professionals themselves, using iron moulds clamped together nud heated In tanks of hot water.
Almost Immediately it underwent | His first modification. It was found that a ball which had been marked by the club had better light.
END OF THE GUTTIE
This ounce or so of rubber, ilquld, and gutta-percha rotates with ani underspin of 60 revolutions ner second, and travels forward at 120 m.p.h.
the pattern the further the carry. A Up to a certain point the deeper dimple of twelve hundredths of inch will have a carry of 225 yorda and a lotel drive of 240 yards,"
With perfectly
So professionals began to hammer A good normal drive is about 250 rough patterns on the smooth gutta-yards. percha. Later, the factory-madeinalerists this could
guttle was moulded with a vatterned surface.
For 50 years golfers swore by the guttle, but in 1800 the goting world heard news that was the beginning
of the end for the guttle.
resilient be Increased
another sixty.
Perhaps the plastic ball will settic the problem.
A motor mechanic, with a tnate for research into these things, re- cently marked up some characteris-
Across the Atlantic a dentist, Drties of the golf ball. Coburn
invented Haskell, had new ball with a hard rubber centre of the energy generated in driving He found that only 248 percent
a ball 200 yards goes to the ball it
The rest is follow-through
around which wag wound by machine, highly stretched rubber self. thread, the whole being encased in a dimpled shell of gulta-percha.
Golfers were divided. They wrote the club-face, sound and vibration.
fierce letters to the Times. Sup- porters of the guttle cheered when the cover of the Haskell ball Bew off in mid-air,
The new ball was unsuccessful at the British Amateur Championship al Hoylake in 1902,
SCORING IMPROVED But a few weeks later the great Alex Herd won the British Open en with the rubber-cored ball.
Scoring improved rapidly. From 1892 to 1001, using the guttle, the average score per round for winners of the British Open was 78.3. From 1002 to 1928 it was 75.1, and from 1927 to 1939 it was 722.
In
By 1914 the guttle was finished. After the war the Royal and Ancient decided that the new golf ball could not be greater than 1.62 ozs. weight, nor less than 1.02 ozs. diameter. These limitations held good until 1932, when the Americans complicated things.
in
The U.S. Golt Association, search- ing for "an easier and
absorbed by the frictional losses at
No Smiling Faces
London, Nov. 10.-There were no smiling faces
among the eight members of the Czecho- slovakian ice hockey party who with three officials left Northolt aerodrome today for Prague.
the
Despite their 5-3 win against England at Wembley on Monday, they feel the loss of six tenm- mates, reported missing over Channel on a flight from Paris.
"Pkotty, one of the missing players,
the beat centre- forward we have ever had," sald the manager of the tean"They were all great players and this has been a great loss to Czechoslovakia."
Router.
Was
tours, his endorsements, his books Writers have mentioned this often, and his banquet appearances. and Feller, whose standing as hall for the average golfer, resolved AINTREE DERBY that thereafter no ball should be compare to Johnson less than 1.68 ins. In diameter
or
the
Liverpool, Nov, 10. M. Marcel Boussac's Dernah Second, a 15 to 8 Derby with £1,600 added mile and five furlongs on
In 1941, co-operating with the Illinois Institute of Technology, the U.S.G.A. decreed that, to be legat, a ball could: not have # velocity greater thon 260 feet per second when tested at 75 deg. F.
A
the French horse, in the fleld of i
pitcher ranks him with Walter John- son, cannot in the affection shown by the fans.
When Feller was bealen twice in reater than 1.55 ozs, in welght. A second favourite, won the Aintree
22 year later they increased the 1940 World Series, the spectators weight to 1.02 ozs. had no sympathy, most of them ex- The boxing fans, noting his con-plaining "Feller always has taken lls care of himself-let him take care stant runouts on matches and sharp haggling and doubledealing, of this."
Sugar
WILLIAMS' CASE had no sympathy at all for
dif- Williams' case Is slightly Ray when he himself was the vic- tim of a runaround as he tried for forent. Until this year, he always a deserved chance at the world wel- had given the impression he was in- terweight crown.
terested only in batting, with Beld's
play meaning nothing. And kella?. Fundamentally, yes. although he is the greatest now active, he still gets only respect and no enthusiasm.
"JUST RETRIBUTION" Much the same is true of Jake LaMotta, for years the uncrowned king of the middleweights."
Because Jake always has taken very good care of himself only in every situation, with no concern for anyone else, the public can see only just retribution in La Motta's vain efforts to persuade a ranking mid- dieweight to box him now.
Feller, once baseball's greatest pitcher, always has been famed as a post-season
money-chaser, with his
JOE LOUIS SAYS
throwing and other facets of team
best
hifter
IDEAL CENTRE The disparity between British and American balls still exists. Medu
while, is the ball still like Dr His-
Let us start with the centre, Thera
SAV.
is no hard rubber core. The Ideal self-centre, so the manufacturers
would be gas.
This would mean an ultimate pressure of 2,000 lb. per sq. In, and
in
in
four runners, beat the Irish horac. Boau Sabreur with Sandastro third. Dernah received C17 from each of the other three horses' in the race.---Associated Press.
Don Black May Be
Operated
On
Cleveland, Nov. 10,--Don Black, Cleveland Indians pitcher recovering from a brain haemorrhage, may
Rigge is one of the most confident of tennis players, and his prime rated with the history, but he never was liked by consequent danger to the player. undergo an operation soon to relieve the public as was Bitsy Grant or The alternative to gas was toploca, continual headaches, Dr Edward Frank Shields, neither of whom was until Mr Strachey determined other-Castle, the team physician,
as good a player. Grant's cockiness wise. never-give-up style wasn't enough never dive-up style wasn't enough to win them back.-United Press
"Sugar Ray" Is The Next Middleweight Champion
New York, Nov. 10.—The next middleweight chum-. plon of the world, if given a chance at the title held by Marcel Cerdan, is Ray Robinson, the Harlem Sugarman, in the positive opinion of Joe Louis, himself an experienced man in boxing.
"Ray is the best fighter in the world, pound for pound," said the heavyweight champ. "He not only can lick all the welterweights, but the middleweights as well, and that goes for Tony Zale and Cerdari.
"In_fact, Ray's'a, better fighter look close enough that there can be than and Charles, but Charles is a well-attended Robins-Gavilan too heavy for him.”
welterweight championship fight this Charles is a 100-pounder; Robin-winter. son,
master- present king of the welter- Robinson's fight, was a weights, has trouble getting below piece. He gave the Cuban free rein 150 pounds and fights best now af on all Gavilan's array of flashy 184.
bolos and combination, punches, but Louis made his claim just before took all the blows on his gloves, the Robinson-Kid Gavilan night, and arms or shoulders in auch fashion Robinson made him look very good that it appeared to the majority of watcher Gavilan was landing
Occasionally Robinson retallated with 'a speedy barrage that made Gavilan blink in sheer wonder at what was happening. 100
as a seer.
Robinson, who is as good 2 good businessman as tighter, won from Gavilan, but contrived to make it
Arthur Peall says: SNOOKER stroke on the left or Giagram in, a good sext of accu- racy and strength. On the inst red
striker ham: only one.
RED
doria
BROOKE Diod black.
The de manda a
девеси rate stroke.. judged to
Amin ute fraction of
* Ench
It can be played without side, buz :: lets, side ensures the cannon at top cifinion: and 10sves pinty of trosibis for the next playIF 20 Mif" billiard stroke in a forcing in-
· oft spotsædered into the right, COD. pookat. alternatively you, can p Howly witntegraw and fide & attorn however, which I advise you to tor the better to foros rod in and ous of basis for position, N, NE
London Express Service
Punch
That's my boy," grinned complacently.
Louis
Louis' 'admiration for Ray is! unusual in that boxers rarely admira another', boxer. - whose style differs from theirs.
Aslugger is
shuffling
contemptuous of a fancy boxer; a speedy," clover bay has
low opinion of a heavy hit- ter who gets knocked around.
But Louis, + slow, aluggar, who, pursues his man with a frozen face and a disregard of, the crowd, is enthusiastic about Robin- son, a showy, fancy, fast boxer who constantly plays to the crowd with flashy but not-too-effective bolo punches and various facial expres- sloni.
"Robby-hits hard and boxes won- derful, and he's only. 27 years old," aid Joe. "He's the best!--United Press.
Sul, plenty of other liquids will do, water, beer, treacle. glycerine, oils, any moblie liquid,
With these, however, the folshed balls would be too light.
So a heavy, material (such barytes) is suspended in a thin of water and glue, or starch.
today.
sald
Dr Castle said Black would be given X-rays of the brain arterles to find out if murgery would help. If this should be necessary, it would consist in "tying" the carotid artery. as in an effort to strengthen the place · gel where the break occurred.United...
Press.
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5 Pete Anderson, 16-year-ol
BOOTER
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smiles at Jamaica Race Trac
winners in two days, this one paying
home