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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1950.
THE MEN WHO PUT BRITISH SPORT ON TOP IN 1949
They have drawn the dust-sheets over the Old Year, but before we lock the door on 1949, let's take a last look over our shoulder at The Champions the runners, the footballers, the golfers, boxers, and cricketers who made it glint and glow in the minds of men.
My Athlete of the Year? Lealing through the records in this popular sports-Soccer, Rugby, cricket, boxing—1 And there was no Colossus dwarfing the
rest.
Na giant strode the stage like Denis Compton last year, or ns Woodcock and Sydney Wooderson did before him.
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By BERT WILLIAMS Back in my Walsall days, that wonderful goalkeeper of yesterday, Harry Hibbs, now manager, instilled to me the age-old rule for sportsmen-Keep your eye on the ball. It applies to goalkeepers in a big way.
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position i you wish, but keep, your eye on that ball at all times. Never waver.
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By "CAMBIT”
With all but one adjourned game from the second round of the Kawloon Chess Club Championship com- pleted during the holidays, the third round starts to morrow at the Peninsula Hotel with only four of 16 players undefeated after two matches,
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CROSS COUNTRY RACE TODAY
South Africans Lose
By Eight Wickets
Capetown. Jan. 4. — A fighting stand by Dudley Nourse, the captain, failed to save South Africa from being defeated by Australia in the second Test which ended here today.
Australia won by eight wickets to make them two up in the current series, having won the first Test by an Inomg and 86 runs.
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(London Express Service)
LIVERPOOL'S IS THE FINEST FOOTBALLING SIDE SINCE THE
Says ARCHIE QUICK
WAR
Liverpool are the finest footballing side I have seen since the War. That, mark you, is judging them solely on their display at Wolverhampton. And I say it fully conscious of the quality of play served up by Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Arsenal and Portsmouth in post-
war seasONS,
There are no outstanding stars in the Liverpool make-up, just as there were none when Portsmouth went to the First Division Championship last senson. But the
| Merseysiders have eleven men who try all the time, who for 90 minutes continuously go forward to the tackle without drawing back.
Above all Micy are a happy They have a grand set
terez
Allahabad, Jan. 1.-The Men's Doubles in the Indian Lawn Tennis Championships today were played down fore being bey before to Mail to the semi-finals with the decision of the four quarter. of directors and the same bon- SNOOKER
seventh wicket
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Castelf and Fuse partner finals. Norman Marin p wind display when debeat looked de Ethel Hittinut it at the thing bowlers on a crumbling wall. the pair adeta 100 mins before ng separates by Ray Land - wall
ALL ROUND THE WICKET
As a result, the Philippines. India. Spain and Bel- gium have pairs in the penultimate round. Hopes that Britain would have survivors Tnded when Sumant Misra and Naresh Kumar, of India, beat Geoffrey Paish and Gerald Oakley by 6-4 and 6-4.
Misra also Deal Paish f third rund of
by 3-6,
Mixed
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Liverpool's great
strength is
at half buck where Taylor is wing half in very carly
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the fleest
Ampon and Carmona Philip the Men's pics) beat V. Cernik (Czecho- Scorteg all round the wicketSingles The 42 RAI Commuple will be
6-2, 6-3 but slovakia) and Spychala (Poland) JET a tend of twn hours, 38 holding a ve.mile Cross Cominales, Tayfield included eight successful
Hain's women hart a more 6-1, 7-5. Har al 3 pm Bry
today, tours in his 73 Mann's 46 WIMG
p Musip and Tournament starting from the Kai Tak Nifler highest in Test cricket and j the Polish player. C Spychala. (Spain) beat J, Finklekrout and They play with coinplete
beat Miss 1 Woodbridge and A. Weiss (Israel) 6-2, 6-2.
Portnar (India) 6-2, ti-4 J. Peten and P. Washer (Bel- and Lambert.
gium) walked All Gen
over D. Mitic Huahing and the
Jalter 15 the veteran and A. Pallada (Yugoslavia). Welsh self-exiled Czech, V.
International Cernik. beat Miss F. Khanna and Dip Exed
who were scratched.
Wolverhampton he was as good Doubles, 8-6, while
as anyone on the field. Liver- pool are not by any means young side but most of them
1:2
Two
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Bereal Hirtukod, and has yet locuplete his first, have hyes Eugene Taust ha round game with M. Feldman, while apanat
in his The latter is slightly better oft Though the inds Tupe
favour they are not overwhel- the adjourned poation
Carter has realped mung ortis, bagger gam
Hunge
Carley.
SPECTACULAR
The chances are, though, that The second round games stili
Kunghardt and Tausz will as unreported on were featured by
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of the one of
joint leadership those spectacular per-
The
meets formances by Jacob Ramler in
Prokuj and Borsodi in the the right mood for the This time he caught Feldman next two rounds and the latter "That
| Danenberg and Prokopov. irregular opening-the Jatter's and those who saw they man someone else Patch- Randers up by the end of the firth
round.
in an
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was a
inasterpiece all the way.
defending
Johnny Carvalho,
playing Schure,
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age-bust V. V.
black, was given a tough glume
The
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also included eight koura.
Landwall, who did not take The 42 RM Comitiando won wicket in the Best Test, claimed fth, sixth and unit places the last Ave South African buts- the Barmer Road Race on to finish with figures of [sored by the Chinese YMCA annee for 32 in 15 vers.
Now Year's Day, and hope tol
Hose (ii) -, Australia went for the runs enter a very strong team for the in the end innings and scored forthcoming Inter-Service Cross The required 86 to 78 minutes Country Bure
fer the loss of Morris and Moro- y, both being dismissed by Mann-Heuter.
EVANS HELD TO DRAW
AUSTRALIAN TEAM FOR N. ZEALAND
Melbourne, Australian
Control
3. The Board of today
Chenier In Brilliant Form
football, Hughes
London, Jan. 4.-George the best centre-half and Jones Chenier, of Canada, was in Bartolinot for behind nt wing half.
form un- brilliant
when ho derstanding of one another and continued his World Cham- with their full backs. Spicer pionship snooker tourna- ment quarter-final against Peter Mans, of South Africa, at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, today.
First Round
Miss K. Tuckey wid Cakley, thr Mrs M. Weiss (Argentine) one all-British pair, won 1-1 and Pedru Masip (Spain) walk
-1 against Miss Kornfield and ed over Mrs Sarah Palfrey and A. Weiss (srael).
Sumant Mira (India) who were scratched-Reuter.
MORE WALK-OVERS
from the
Cricket Teams
The
and
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Winning Ave of the six after- are six footers and it is inact noon frames, he gained a lead in credit that they are leading the the match of 10 to 11. Evidence table without the services ot of Chenier's form came from
first recognised
tram breaks of 02, 79, 77 and 67 and tiree times he exceeded a total players, Stubbins and Bṛron.
of 100 in a fimme, Wolvey played a lot of good
'The football, but their lack of finish
honours
two
were shared
Several scratchings Championships have provided walk-overs for some Indivi- duais and Jan. Haslings, Jun. 4.-Seventeen-
partnerships, Miso Larry Evans,
Cricket
was appalling and it was not with three wins each at night of the Champion,year-old
Kornfeld of Israel was scratch-
The following will represent the surprising that they made a bid between Chenier announced tonight United States, today drew with
and Mans, KCC at criekel on Saturday:
1st XI v IRC at Soukupos on for Liverpool's centre-forward, although the former, then lead- Kolat hoT at the Norwegian Champion, that the New Zealand Cricket from the Women's Singles to
O
Kive Misy Kay Tuckey of Saturday at 1.45 pi-RE' Lee, W by Ray Danenberg in a QGD, thiet looks one-sided,
Done, immediately Two oe-Barda, in Round 8 of the pre- Council had agreed to suggest-
after the Ing by, 22 frames to 14, was. ed inter-change team visits.
Britain a walk-over,
11. Colledge, W.M. Davidson, F.It.
match. winning on the 31st move when casional giant-killers meet in mier section at the Hastings In-
again in magnificent form in the Kermani, J. Leriou, C.P. Smith, A. the lutter made a bad error un-
Australia will send a team fo Feldinan and A. Archangelsicy, ternational Chess
Chairman ut Directors Jim first and sixth frames, scoring In the Mixed
Zimmern, FIL Zimmer, EC. Fm- Doubles, Miss cher, N. Hart-Baker. AN. Other. Danenberg der thne pressture.
New Zealand after the Shefeld Gussie
nore than, hundred points in today.
Moran, of the United Umpire.a.J., Carnel: Scorer. Baker told me that Wanderers' each. hud exactly two minutes left on
Shield games In 1932, and a States, and P. Washer, of P. Robinson.. the clock for nine moves.
New Zealand party will tour Belglum, passed into the second
management at a recent Board The Players are requested to meet at meeting Borsodi, also playing black in
Australia in the 1953-54 season round with the scratching of Star Ferry, Hongkong at 1.30 p.m. substituting their
considered The Beard also announced a Miss V. Alexy and an un
all-Interna- QGD, beat P. K. Prokopov, Another of the tournament's
their party of 14 players for the tour
nominated partner. "glants", Klinghardt, found R. cannot always be depended lasted three and a half hours of New Zealand, beginning in W. Carter in no upsettish mood. (upon to lose.
Reuter,
RESULTS
THAT SHOULD
MAKE ENOUGH. SMOKE, CHALBI BETTER GETA BELOW NOW.
Marchelli meets a newcoiner
Tournament
to local tournement chess in A. The game ended in a draw Tuskla, whose record so far is after 32 moves from the King's two losses to Tausz and Schure. Indian Defence opening. Evans
white. Zirinsky meets Ramler, who played
The match
Mister Conquest
IF YOU'VE LAID THE TNT RIGHT ROUND, MCGINK-TAKE A PEEP INSIDE AND TELL ME IF YOU CAN
SER CONQUEST.
LET ME OUT, YE DIVIL!
HAVE YE NO MERCY ?
February..
YOU'VE FIFTEEN MINUTES, MCGINK TO PERSUADE CONQUEST TO COME OUT. IF NOT - YOU GO UP
WITH THEM.
Other outstanding matches today included:
Men's, Singles, First Round Dillp Bose (India), the Asian Champion, beat B. Prasad Rao (India) 0-2 6-1. ---
Men's Singles, Second Round Pedro Masip (Spain) beat G. Visant (India) 6-3, 0-0.
V
0-3,
seriously
2nd XI v IRC at KCC on Saturday tienal forward line with 91 1.45 p.m.-C. Smith, AT. Les goal-scoring Central League at- V.C. Bond, D.G. White, E. Randall,
tack. FA Broadbridge. S.A. Gray, G. Labrum, EA. Lee, J. Chubb, V. Seymour. 12th" Män–ILN. Manley, Strange If Liverpool win the League without getting a player The following will represent the Optimists v tecreio at King Park in the English International Da Saturday at 1,15 pm-LD. Ki-team this season! bee (Capt), KM. Amao R: Mac- Howard, KA Miller G.ILP päeron, A.L. Snaith, T.P. Mahon,
Pritchard, W.J. Slagler, H.H, Ron.
kina, Van-Worde, R. Thesen, En MAORI WELCOME der. Scorer P.S.. Purry.
WORLD- SPRINT RECORD
evening scores (with Chenler first) were 105 to 25, 89 to 03, 40 to 08, 50 to 73, 18 to 01 and 110 to 7.
DAVIS BEATS SMITH
Joe Davis, former undefeated World Champion, led today at the interval in his News of tho World £1,500 tournament heat ngainst Sidney Smith by 18 frumes to 12.
Davis thus needed
only a
́· FOR ATHLETES win during the night sesalon for victory whereas Smith
Naresh Kumar (India) beat H.
Auckland, Jan. 4-Members needed to win all seven fromes, Weiss (Argentine) 6-1, 6-0.
of the teams competing in the Davis won the third frame at Men's. Blagles, Third Round
British Empire games here will night to make certain of vic P. Washer (Belgium) beat C. Carmona (Philippines) 0-3, 6-1. Adelaide, Jan. 4Miss Marat Ngarunwariapa on February and, in all, tools. Ave of the be given a gicat Maori welcome toy but Smith, fighting magni-
ficently, narrowed the Cernik
margin (Czechoslovakia) jorie Jackson, the young New 12. boat R. Deyro (Philippines) 6-2; South Wales sprinter, equalled
seven, frames during the final the world record of 10.8 seconds King Boroki · and his elders session, to be beaten with a when winning. the 100-yards will receive the visitors on score of 20 to 17 in favour of R.. Abdesselam (France) final in the Australian Women's Maro, where they will be
DAVIE walked over A Pallada National
Athletic (Yugoslavia), who was scratched. ships here unit, Champion-challenged in traditional fashion
The evening scores (with The official reconeiROM
held by an armed warrior. F. Ampon (Philippines) beat Mrs Tandy Blankers-Koen, the They will be entertained at a to 05, 75 to 07, 28 to 88188 to 97. Peten (Belgium) 6-0, 0-1 Dutch triple Olymple Cliamplon Maori feast at which the Maoris 43 to 92 and 116 to 38Rou Men's Doubles Quarter-Finals-Beutorentang will sing action songs-heutor": for
Davis first) were 3 to 87, 02
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