TODAY'S CHANCES AT THE VALLEY
THE HONGKONG TEI
Skymaster Favoured To Win The Whitsun Plate
Highlighting events for the two-day Whitsun Race Meeting at the Valley are the "Whitsun Plate" for new Australian ponics, over the champion course, and, the “Whiteun Handicap” for old Aur- tralian ponics of any previous season.
Season.
This meeting will mark the closing of the First-Half of the Racing
Racegoers are reminded that on the first. day the Saddling Bell will bo rung at 1.80 p.m., while on Whit-Monday the first bell will be at 11.30 am.
FIRST RACE
They are Busy. Beo (145 Ibs), | third to Golden Dragon, and Iron Mask (145 lbs), Jetfire losing only by a neck to Lann (147 lbs), Radiotron (182 lbs), Reuter (147 lbs) and Topper (147 lbs).
The programme opens with a novices race over the mile for Class 3 new ponies. In view of its effort in Kaining third place at the Mount Davis Stakes (2nd section) at the Fifth Race meet ing, Amsterdam should have good chance of scoring a win here, and I think the pony can manage it. Opposition is likely to come from Condor, Jorrocks and Sharpshooter.
SECOND RACE Looking over the entries in new ponies, this race for Class onos round, Jennifer (157 lbs) should have an easy win over her strongest opponent, The Tigress (150 lbs).
Iron Mnak, appears to be the best pick here, for at the Fourth Racs meeting this pony had a bad start at the six furlongs dis- tance but it ran so well that the winner had to be decided on a photo-finish with Reuter.
It lost only by a short-head. FOURTH RACE In the Chester Handicap for Class 2, old ponies, Shannon 150 lbs). Mr Ostroumoff up, should be able to win.
At her last two outings, this mare had the Jinx of twice be- Sportsmaster (168 lbs), afering placed second after being coming in second to Atomic Power, while carrying 151 lbs at made a firm favourite, the previous meeting, will have this burden, I doubt whether it can do better than place.
to carry 7 lbs more.
In view of
the second position, after being left badly at the starting gato,
should have a good opportunity of having a win in this mile run.
Lana (159 lbs) and Prince Delight (142 lbs) should all the places. The Dingo, with only 195 lbs to shoulder, is worth betting on for an outside chance
EIGHTH RACE
I consider this to be the second best event of the after- noon. It is confined to Class 2 old ponies from the two-mile post, once round in.
weli-
and
JUNE 1949.
POINTERS FROM A CHAMP
Ells Ask (left), 22-year-old featherweight from Helsinki, Finland, gets some pointers from former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, AP Wirephoto.
Sport-Mad Finns Want Germans
Tho entrics balanced that a win can be ex- ALAN HOBY'S COLUMN pected from any of them.
They are, Ascot Beauty (137 pected from the rest of the (155 lbs), Jeep Shing (151 lbs). Strong opposition can be ox-lbs), Bootsle (163 lbs), Cooper field. They are, Jeep Lee (158) Luty (163 159). Lucky Strico Ibs), Amazon (162 Tbs), Blue (140 lbs), Rose Emme (148 lbs), (142 lbs), Flying Arrow (136 (149 lbs) and V-J Day (140 Sky (152 lbs), Dominion Day Sookunpois (147 lbs), Sunshine 1bs to shoulder. is a decided ibs), Richard I (140 lbs), Sea- Shing, after its fine win Are (153 lbs), The Chief (147 Iba) and Wodonga (142 lbs).
FIFTH RACE
given to this mile and a quarr Special attention should be
as the cream
Madame Butterfly with 142
danger.
THIRD RACE
In this event for Class now ponies over the mile, I expect the finish to be close affair for the runnern are of about the samo standard.
Sportsman Of
The Year
ter race
of the
over Shannon and Sookunpota at the Fifth Race meeting, should again have a say in this race and it can be depended on to be well up at the finish.
It has been whispered that Class 1 new ponies are out lodition and may spring a sur- Sunshine is in the pink of con- match each other in this main
prise here. event.
Skymaster (150 lbs) with Mr L. B. Tao up, will undoubtedly hold the majority cf the backers, followed by Ben Wyvis (153 iba) and Egyptian Field (153 lbs)
Theres
NINTH RACE
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A big field will be seen in the Manchester Handicap, for Class 6 old ponies. It will be a nasty. problem to pick the Is also Arablan Dagger
winner. (142 lba) and Duchess Delight Aan Hing (152 lbs), Autumn (135 lbs) to be considered, forest (140 iba), Dashing Beauty II (183 ha), Kwong Ylu (154 they are sure to be well up at the running.
ibs) Marber (154 lbs), Sino- The others are, Amurant (147 Marshall (150 lbs), Tunny (148 lbs), Highlight (145 lbs) and lbs) and Windermere (160 lbs) High Speed (140 lbs),
.
SIXTH RACE
By ARCHIE QUICK Denia Compton has won tho Sporting Record's Sportsman of Year trophy, decided on by a poll of 350,000 readers, for the Becond year in succession.
Minister of Health Aneurin From this second lot of Class Bevan, and the Lord Mayors of 6 new ponies, Filibuster. (147 Westminster and Melbourne, | lbs). standa. a. good" · "chance" of Australia, attended the presen- winning for at the Fourth Race talion ceremony at the Savoy meeting this pony came in a Hotel, London.
good second to Amber losing at the six Mister Bevan said Compton only by a length could loom Tirge in sport for furlonge distance. decades to come and with bin Flying Knight gay cavaller approach to games Shuffle (142 lbs)
(149 lbg) are also he could lead” in setting` new
overlooked for they are sure to standards of British athleticism.
The Lord Mayor of Melbourne have a say at the finish.
Denis
has automatically slipped into the shoes of Sir Donald Bradman, as the game's biggest personality.
said
in
Denis in reply said he always enjoys playing although he is id for it and said it was the paid
of responsibility
stora every branch of sport to fight desperately to win but always endeavour to lose gracefully.
CONGRATULATIONS Telegrams of congratulation were received in hundreds, but two notable ones were from-the Duke of Edinburgh, first Royal President of the MCC,
and Freddie Mills, runner-up in the popularity vote.
bath amateur
are probably the best hero and a win is ilkely to come from any of these ponies.
TENTH RACE
The last race of the afternoon is confined to Class 4 old ponies over the mile.
In The Games
I am tapping out this column in a 50-seater Scandinavian Skymaster on our way from Norway to Paris, where England have a battlo appointment to- morrow with 11 tough and tempestuous gentlemen of France,
+
Frankly, I am air dizzy. We have already flown nearly 3,000 miles and visited five countries in as many days.
favour is 13-4.
to sub-
At the moment our record has become compulsor reads: Finland, Norway, and Holland, ration is-one, per person.
Three wins, against let, and the present rooms
by Sweden. Goal tally in our times since before the war, but and one cracking bad defeat:
Prices have Боле up ning
In spite of these difficulties, al- Let's face it.
though they have boned and The England eleven is a husk of time Soccer ransters,
the one-strapped their national income to the last Finnmark, they are willing
to devote millions to the glory of sport.
We should have won tên- nll. Norway were the team As Mr Kallio Kotkas, Olym Olympic tourney last immer me: "It rekindles our faith and that did not enter, for the pic organising secretary, said to
lifts up our hearts.~~. they thought they
Belle Fontaine (150 lbs), with Mr H. Holgate up, came in first at the last meeting (143 lbs), mile and a quarter. has now over the and Zephyr been promoted to Class 4 and
because not to be may probably have a chance to win. The opposition, how- aver, is now
now much stronger. Cassie (147 lbs), Good Ship (159) Ibs)
and The Stranger.
SEVENTH RACE Anyway (149 lbs), which put
up quile a good performance (143 lbs) will certainly give a at the last meeting, running hard race to the finish.
Do Rations Matter
In
Sport?
The South African Ladles' Lawn Tennis Team .complained recently that they always felt hungry when in England and could not perform at their best.
It is true that foreign teams have, since the war, taken to bringing their own food when coming to. compete in England.
hadn't a chance.
50,000 LAKES
culture and games play,
SUICIDE TOWER ·
I saw the superb stadium the In Sweden, Finland, Norway their splendid swimming pool
Finns
aro rebuilding. I. Jow and Holland, one fact hits you which awalls special machinery with hammer-force. The peoples from England, and I saw their of Western Europe отс utterly
cycling arena, or Velodrome, and completely Aport which makes Herne Hill look crazy drunk with physical like a shabby relative. Cyclists were testing new race bicycles Today sport rides the world. from England. Tako Finland, harassed by high faxation, nøgged. by deep-
Dominating all this is a strik- seated doubts about Russla.ing 100-foot tower. For a time Sport: La....the mala-motf of this was considered an existence.
omen. Suicides, made a habit of doing"death dives' from the We arrived in Finland, and top until they put up a safety of: 50,000 Jakes, National Day of Remembrance. We walked through their lovely garden graveyard where rest many
of the 80,000 Finnish soldiers wbo Kell Russia.
had
on
their
against
net.
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old hat to the Finns. I disagree Yes, I take off. my battered with them only on one point. They want. the Germans and Japs back for the 1952 Olympic, I don't.
And Denis was publicly kissed by Valerie Hobson. Mills was absent as he was in Surrey training for the Woodcock night. Cricket was represented by such
Are our players at a disadvan- the Olympic Games last year Ian Peebles, and most of the Lago compared with those from on whether taking sugar jus as Douglas Jardine, Gubby Alien,
We passed, too, a small group Moves are afoot to bring them before or during a contest is of
of Gothle crosses. Those were back into present Middlesex team, while overseas?
athletics, football, When considering the question value in supplementing a low
the graves of Germans, who lawn' others who
shoulders rubbed
tennis, and boxing. and training it must total energy intake,
died in Finland. Overall, oppose It. The Germans cannot of of nutrition were outstanding exponents
and professional be understood that the amount
There is no doubt this form of rising starkly from the country-do a hand-washing act like a lot mutriment to the most rapidly elde, brooded a gigantle grey Pilate and then think that we soccer, rugby, boxing, lawn and of food required varies table tennis,
from individual to individual. squash mackels,
absorbed. If any energy is to cross, Finland's Cenotaph.
have forgotten all about the One man may need 3,000 be made available quickly, then swimming, track rúnning and
calories a day for light work; glucose is the
gallons of blood they spilled... best means
-But of
the Fions main the turf.
preor can they? another can do manual labour procuring it.
occupation is with the lying. For the sake of the record,
on 2,750,
They are particularly determined placings after Compton and
Again, calorie Mills were Stanley Matthews,
reincarnate their national expenditure Olymple during a contest varies. A man
Olympic Games in Helsinki the glory by making the MMauroen Gardner, atar, and first woman to get into rowing all out for 20 minut
spectacle of the century. the Arst dozen, Bruce Wood-uses. 000 calories and 1 oz. of cock, Frank Swift, Stanley sugar; a long-drawn-out Mortensen, Len Hutton, Tommy sot tennis match can take 1200 Lawion, Arthur - Stubbins, calories and 6 oz of sugar. Gordon Richards and Ted Sagar, Everton's long service
goalie, in that order.
SPARTAN DIET
Ave-
Personal opinion and exto value in improving play. But it perience point to it having Uttle is possible there is some payclio- logical affect in those who have been used to taking it.
ON TOP
FINN MIRACLE
In Norway. they still remem- ber the Kun. We stayed in the command strutted and stomped 1052 same hotel where their high
for five years, and we heard of the Norwegian truck driver, transporting Nazi troops along whole lot into an abyss.. mountain road, who plunged the
It is a miracle that the Fina are able to stogo the Gomes at VET the fact that the bodica of all. They are one of the most the English players have highly taxed nations Inį the minimum diet for tirenuous becomo accustomed to nworld.
have The preponderance of alx N England wo
be- come used to what is, com professional footballers is strik- Ing. Those who
have dispared with pre-war days here appeared from last year's rank- or present times in other coun- Inga aro cyclist Reggio Harris, tries, a spartan. dict. But the
difference..... Speedway's Jack Parker, and body generally, and the stomach Bill Kitchen, boxer Peter Kano, in particular, has become used is really close and tense and cricketer, Bill Edrich, Those to a low food intake. In fact a who have held their places la diet much in excess of the each of three years of competl normal is more harmful than tion are Compton, Woodcock, benallefal. for 'some months. Matthews, Lawton, Richards
and Swift
THAT YOU ARE UNOGE ARZTAT AND YOU HAVE NOW ADDED. HOUSE-BREAKING - TIJ - YOUR OTHER CRIMES - I COULD- SHOOT
"Thero" was some discussion ni; a: nutritional conference beforu
f
· STRAND IMPROVES
IN, Sweden they were talking athletics makes it unlikely that The middle-income bachelor
about a runner" who is the lack of stamina will make any
Daya nearly half his salary. In exact opposite to the nerveless tax. Professional
of Olymple fame men like Nurml, unless a match
doctors, and dentists are soaked Lennart Strand, the slim-ar-a- This `means. the limit of so thoroughly they no longer girl, temperamental little runner physical and mental endurance, work a full week: they can't who is making a comeback.
The piano-playing Swede was and in such a case there is little afford... doubt that ho whose body is best
The Finns have also an acute a big disappointment last year, fed comes out on top.
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Mister Conquest
TO HANG MOUSSOLA ROCA
ALL RIGHT, I'LL · Sign CONFESSION: I HAD YOUT
BUT
WHERT ART
The Swedes major dificulty Is to steady down Strand's nervous system, 'In Malmo Last year he got so overwrought- before a big race that he forgot his running vests,
But Strandberg, ex-Olympia sprinter, told me:~~~"Strand “is running better -than ever, ·· He is conquering his nerves. Ho will be the first man-lo do n mile in four minutes.” ***
Maybol Meanwhile, Strand is touring Germany, despite the Swedish AA ban on the trip. To tum-up. Everyona L sports addict in these Scandinám vian countries, It, we are going to win anything in the 1952 Olymples we had better get really cracking.
Perry, Maskell to Coach Young England
BAG
TEACHING TOUR IN
15 BIG TOWNS
Over and over again I have urged that the Lawn Tennis Association should make more use of Fred Perry, the last player we had capable of giving Britain top place in the game. Now at last things are moving.
Ferry and Dan Maskell, Hylton Cleaver reports, are to tour on behalf of the Central Council of Physical Recreation, in co-operation with the LTA.
The tour, from July 6 to July 23, will open in London and will cover 16 places in England. Scotland and Wales Subject: "Focus on tennis."
Sportsman's Diary
EDITED BY
Bruce Harris
astron, but emphatically-not the other.
ton, where he was playing in the Surrey Championships. But that's exactly why. I've come to England. The Education Board gave me six months leave of absence, and £500 was raised for my expenses. When I go Back hope to teach others. what I have learned,” matkov)
Wimolecule the two amateurs, cardboard, the scoro" card club court: Ho'ls efficient, but with-
Ferry
Two well-known amateurs, it is hoped, will co-operate in a two-hour show in each town.
WAY TO WIMBLEDON
·First item will be an exhibi-
Samaal wants to play at tlon match by the two amateurs,
Wimbledon He nood not be with criticisms over a micro "It has always been a mystery
discouraged. His play does not phone by Perry and Maskell, to me," he writes, "why in place
foll for short of Wimbledon Next, styled "The way to of what you described last wook
standard, and he, come to im will introduce at that prosaic piece of limp. Prve every time he goes on with comments by Maskell.
cannot
produce an interesting ness overhead.
out much pace and with weak- "Twa. Men and a Ball," the programme, with pen pictures of 2012 third episode, will be an exhibi- the players, on the lines of that Hon by Perry and Maskell, put sold by Chelsea football cluh." ting their own teaching into There is one difficulty. Score effect
cards are brought up to date at Next will come "Catching frequent intervals during the them
young, for which 24 day and no spectator would youngsters from each district, want to buy more than one big nominated in advance, will come programme. Then sell the two on to the courts for mass concli~ separately.
Finally, there will be 4 "elinic" for all."
ing.
The most sensible scheme yot for letting remote places know what the first-class game is real- ly like.
CORSICAN JOCKEY First Corsian jockey to win on the English turt was Francois Emanuelli, who won the George Lambton Memorial Cup at Hurat Park on the French-bred Urgay. Emanuelli come to England last year and is attached to G. Laurence's stables. He rides | under National Hunt rules as as well as on the Bat and promises to do well his now stable, for he certainly got the best out of the unwilling Urgoy, who had fet
many jockeys down in the last few seasons.
BRIGHTER PROGRAMMES Mr J. NUNN, of Kinnerton Street, S. W., sends two cricket suggestions, with one of which I
.
WANDERERS SELL-OUT, Middlesex Wanderers, whoso first overacas, match since the war was won agalist Dutch representative ide at Nijmegen, meet another Dutch eleven in their next match at The Hague.
This has been made an all- ticket match; and all the tickets have been sold tribute to the Wanderers, who were popular visitors to Hol land before the war.
GOOD TIME FOR ALL West Ham footballers Moro-
OH, NOI Mr Nunn's second suggestion would cause apoplexy at Lord's
number the players!". No, I don't think so. Cricket has its aesthetic side, and I don't fancy Bill Edrich and Denis Compton would care to spend the day with a big "ney and McGowan played, and and "4" on their backs.
played well, in a soccer match date score boards of the Aus-
Better than that, have up-to-in Dublin I should dearly have liked to see-Ireland v Portu- tralian pattern. A 1ght gal with 'a' French referee.
Ireland twinkies name as ho felds the ball, and against Q player's
won by a gool, scored from a penalty, in the first half, identñeation becomes Immedi-
and (says my reporter): ate.
SAMAAI IMPROVES Aubrey Samaal, the 21-year- old coloured South African schoolmaster lawn tennis cham- plon, is not finding the fast English grass easy.
"I'm afraid I've a lot to learn," he confessed at Surbi
Play was held up for several minutes while the Portuguese, in language unintelligiblo, to It even looked as if goalkeeper the referce, made their protests. Barrigana would refuse to faco the penalty kick
Docs sport help international friendship? I wonder.
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