I
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1950.
"I'LL SHOUT MY HEAD
OFF FOR THE
15 MPH MAN"
SPORTING SAM
By Reg. Wootton
SAYS
PETER
WILSON
Sports-writers are trained not to let thein emotions run away with them. It is easy to miss the vital incident if excitement overcomes critical judgment.
But there is one event which always whitens my knuckles on the arma of my seat and finally yanka me out of my chair, shouting my head off-despite the traditions of no applause from the Press Box.
This most satisfying fragment in the tapestry of sport is the mile race. The reuson is that the competitors have to strive not only against their own physical reserves and the speed of their opponents, but against one rival who never varies- the second hand of the stop-watch.
The ideal alle will
No one day beckoning, which lead them to
one who was there will forget the vision of John Mark, be run in four minutes dead. their corners. Gundar Hacttg. the Swede, hns The seconds, trainers, mang-like one of the Grecian aliletea
hands of who started the already awed it down to 4 gera all the stage
Olymplads, circling the Olymple track at minutes 1.4 seconds. When that the ring cluster and sentter 1.4 seconds in lopped off. the the bright oasis centred in the Wembley with the silver flaming 1,700 yards will be covered at durk, murmuring desert of the torch in his hand. an average speed of 15 miles erowi. per hour.
nt
FASCINATING
the four laps at în even pace.
And you need the most titante COURAGE to put
in
As the rong clazben your
tra member
start there is when Anishing spuri Jelly in your legs and fire in again. Then-action.
What's Wrong With British Sport?
ASKS BRUCE HARRIS
Not for the first time I am asked. "What is the matter with British sport? Why can't we wii mything execpt women's hockey?"
The question becomes topical again because two cricketers, Frank Worrell and Everton Weekes, from an island-Barbados—about the size of the Isle of Wight, haye belaboured our best professional bowlers in scoring 283 together.
in
Thio Is only the last of a What about the Empire Feries of blaws at our pride. "National day with including the annual celime of The referee steps back to the Stadium on
Two men, half-naked, the brown ball
Its our 10
Iawn tennis weaving?
players You neet STAMINA
ot ru ropes.
paltem on d). a mile
need armed only with loves on their intricate
Kreen Wimbledon, loss of two out of You TACTICS not to have your parents, faer each other.
velvet pitch? The rattles spray three rugby Tests in New Zea
o the land and, most unkindest cut They are in the loneliest place sound across the stands dictated by rivole, and to avold
i multi-coloured 1. the world.
iam-o'-shanters of all, defeat of our team #elting "boxed" in by thern.
Ispring into the air and the goal-one Kame wherein wo look You need JUDGMENT to run
Beeper lies spreadeagted. "Andla special pride tusociation
the man who has scored the football by
team from you re-winning goal? He has vanished America at the Rio games, breathing fender the pounding arms of his
My The great team mates,
questioner, demands to Joo Louin
know what is the use of send- The roar at Hampden Park, in a team broken in
to Australia when ring: floor. Ten and the stalety in Princes-street or cricketers cannot even beat
after Fentland has wor the Cal- secunts for
for the German. Max
the West Indians. cutta Cup at Murrayßeld and every man is your brother and very pet is more than a sister to you.
I like that word
even as Cricket? Search your memory te
the Went Indians | well if Trent Bridge in too close would. They are out for Aus- or over 5,000 metres minule remaining in the round to speak of it. There is Denis tralian blood. at Oslo's Bislet Stadium,
Now he's down again, twitch-Compton hooking them off his make any list of all-time greats
eyebrows, and the gnomish "Give us an Australian tour, ing like a dog with a broken in sport.
wizard Clarrie Grimmett doing one of them remarked to me back who tries to nnswer his! master's whistle. But the towel the Indian Rope Trick with the "ant is a dirty blotch against the sky.
Louis has won
brown Akure of your kings. It takes guts to do
towers over a mon this when every nerve in your body is crying out for you to half on the
treen
collapse on to the soft,
Schmeling, to get to his feet.
Tens of thousands of pounds on those ten reconds. and the Schmeling gets up--but can he Aying feather-weight, Sydney last the two minutes. Wooderson, in the mile at the minute-and-a-half White City
grans by the side of the track,
That is why Lovelock against the world in the 1,500 metres at depend 'the Berlin Olympiad,
STONE CALLEON
Mast dramatic of all
sport?
say it in a heavy-weight title *ight in the open air.
...the . the
like the Jails of being, but it is fascinating."
calmed galleon turned to stone, where the lamps over the exits! gleum like riding lights.
REMEMBER?
B.
GREATEST MATCH
ax
we shall sec who are cocks of the walk at cricket.
There necusatory questions demand different_answers for But one fen-
יWe r
Every time heavy-weights
Or the greatest match 1 ever | different games, Tenter the ring, dark vultures of Take Yankee Stadium, in New destruction hover round the two aw, on the postage-stamp gized alkatton covers all.
ground at Wells, when Somerset toa rusunt, too undisciplined in York, where the lowering stands ouers. The fight game is fright-
heat Derbyshire by one wicket. our approach. We are even look
That day Arthur Wellard hit guilty of acting as though the five sixes in ene over-fler game was something to be
early being bowled by the first played for enjoyment. ball,
Take cricket, In Australin How the youngsters cart-t is organized from top to wheeled their way down to the bottom. Here it is organised strumm to hunt the ball des only halfway down. patched by that last mighty | Inwipe! How the workmen oni
What other pageantry is there The fighters seem to swim In sport to thell you out of the down the spotlights, blue and world of workaday routine?
Empire Games Champion
A
Finds Himself In Remarkable Position
By ARCHIE QUICK
A remarkable position has arisen between the British Amateur Athletic Boarch and the Yorkshireman Len Eyre, who won the Empire three miles title in New Zealand.
In Australia every boy show-
the adjoining faclory roof defed any promise is "taped," Me the formman's commands tois passed from school to Junior come back to work-and two off league, then to senior league-- #rade cricket-is them nearly broke their necks 10-called
hot
12 a dance aver the winning conched, plays freely at week- ends with Test players appear- ing for their clubs." Ile finally gains a trial in inter-state even international, matches.
Flache of excitement glitter Wherever the sportsman tooks ....... the Centre Curt al Wimble- cient
the lust
CR
1t
the Open and a lot, lout putt for the file. A car horn islow- int a mile away is align & meti Teations: a lark' sent in a bald podty.
Sir
I wondered in reading Douald Bradman's account of
a trattien for 11 Top where would have haul.
The Board has chosen him for the three miles in! the trianguine match between England and Wales, Seof; Then the tiny diet of eat on the encouragement ad hef Innd and All-Ireland at
tan tel
en ber
Lall
net win,
ound, the eva form
AND LASTLY....
heen Bugih.
In Australin cricket gentus
the White City, London, en of the tall ain't ta August Bank Holiday, but before the selection was made and Body Locke has toured emnet avoid renition. Here 1 knew he would not run ite has congruirated on the, the replay at Sandwich. At pone can stop my Southern mile, finishing third in the National Championships last who know polf know that the pricketing friends ay they want YouDE DAD in the while no imitation af the Northern year and second this.
Lates Decathe in the South i Eyre says his winning; fire of win, for I think Fontoster :|
Hay play cricket for pleasure. I 14 min 2.8 secs, in New Zerstand teyzenholly a muler, but 1 do not!
My reply is "Play It thus by would give him no ebance in the believe wortel
One Azul supreme theill. The ad inens but we cannot brat European Games in Brussels de terranised they come naturally. coloured wave, like a tur of Australia unless we organise Aurist for which the White City
tropical :haring through the for victory." cvents are in the nature of The record attempt clim aquarium which Aintree, trials.
For this purposes all jone any Churcher's five miles, and breaking on Becher's
We cannot have it both ways. fores, except the half mile, are | wathing faures of 35 min 32
If our rivket is ever to cope to be run at mete distance, Eteres
haldition tra And the last pounding gallop with Australian cfficiency 11 Churcher, we shall be able to from the racecourse with the must adopt Australian thorough- Fastatu e
remory of a tall, hooped stature, Iness,
It must have the league pain Sheffield
Lentieke gune old sporting prin come system throughout, must dis- world record attempts Allen and Roland Hardy. Twe
to life, one. lusinyt because of a card out-of-date idents like will be made, the most interest-
broken rein and once with his distinction between amateurs 'ing of which is undoubtedly the One other interesting point urek half-broken, his chin on and professionals, and must nar- attack on the half mile figures about the White City melt is his chest, taking the last Grand row the toc-wide gap between standing to the credit of Sydney he appearance
All-National jump "blind." Wooderson at 1 mm 49.2 sees treland team in England for the and made twelve years agu. Arst Bone since the War.
and Arthur Wint
Roger always been Northern Ireland, Bannister will be the chief but
now, athletically, the protagonisty and Wint should barriers are down,
RECORD
ATTEMPT'S
BRITISH
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that fine youngstergy
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It is the memory of Anthony It bos Lord
of Mildmay-one supreme thrlil-masters.
SUCCESS IN
SWISS
-(London Express Service)
RACES
Lealle Graham, Idst year's world champion, won the 350 cc and 500 cc classes- In the Swiss motor-cycle Grand Prix at Geneva, riding AJ8 machines, He did the fastest lap of the day on a 850 cc AJS at a speed of 84.75 mph.
fest class and club game,
of
Perhaps most important all, it must provide the country's | youth with practice bitches where any need not fear lav- ing his wicket destroyed by Q shooter as an alternative to hav- ing his teeth destroyed by bumper.
the question "Why send a team to Aus-
play
The
Fight more
would have advanced far in the together more or less game if they had been able to through our season for afford the time and money to frequent international contests. several weeks yearly in But hear the how that would London tournaments. But they go up from the clubs if any- and their living to carn, and thing like it were attempted. that was that.
colution, then, for our So Americans who have more bad record in sport is to place meney go on beating us,
The country before county, Football, like ericket, Inclub or individual. But on the javerage games player says, Dol The trouble there lies in the without reason, that he plays fact that our top players are sofor his own amusement, he much bassed by clubs which isn't easy to convert. pay untold thousands in buying
more democratic game.
hem that their countries Rel Very well, then. It in the only what the clubs leave over.¡logica] and pleasant thing to After the League programme play games for fun, bat inter-
of 42 matches, there in not national sport is a form of nuch
take energy left to
to bloodless warfare, Rio or anywhere else.
the
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and you Edon't win wars without dis- cipline. You can't have it both ways.
The only solution here is for (World Copyright Reserved--Landon
national team to be kept Express Service),
13.
MIDDLESEX HAVE BEEN CHOPPING AND CHANGING
TOO MUCH THIS SEASON
Chopping and changing in a county cricket side is often necessary, but seldom helps towards success. Let us examine the case of Middlesex,
On this day last year Middlesex were second in tho county championship with 104 points from 16 games. Now they are thirteenth with 50 points from 19 games. This, of course, was not unexpected.
20
When R. W. V. Robins was far this reason una iine elected captain before the start games-far too many, I should of the seaton he pointed out
have thought, for a boy, how- that this was to be a season of ever promising his career. experiment, a season of oppor- tunity for youngsters. Yet a glance at the then who have played for the county this season shows that of 21 no fewer than 18 played last year.
CHANCE OF TACTICS 7
For the non-cricketer tho question of whether a man bats That has been the extent of one or five is immaterial But the opportunity for youth. But for the man who is used to experimenting has not ended | facing the new ball with all its there. It has been extended to swing and bile, a change to the batting order and to irregu- Pumber Ave means a change of lar appearances by the more taetles and a change of bowling. penlur professionals, which must
Much be most disconcerting.
better, surely, for Middlesex to put their batting house in order than to baffio their followers with the same under different numbers.
BATTING ANALYSIS
Jack Robertson has opened on 10 occasions an bos had as partner Sid Brown in eight matches, larry Sharp In 10, and once J, G. Dewes.
Edrich, Thompson, Brown and Sharp have all operated at No. 3, Denis Compton Starp Thompson, Mann, Brown and Dewen at No. 4, Leslie Compion, Sharp, Thompson, Mann, Ru- bons, Allen and Newman at No. 5, seven different bats have been No. 6 and five have batted at No. 7.
Fred Timus, who had nl- ready played for the county. comes under a different cate- {gory.
Titmus is now 17 and so
Tattersalls Bookmakers
Are Getting Unpopular
boards.
An insistent complaint comes from Tattersalls racegoers that some book- makera are not always prepared to lay the prices they chalk up on their On occasions a bet is refused altogether, sometimes halved and sometimes laid to no more than a pound to the first backer and all the others are turned away.
In Australia, where bookmakers rightly come under far more rigid supervision, they are forced to lay the price chalked on their boards to a given amount, other- wise their licence is withdrawn.
If bookmaker is standing in Tatteralls and is not pre- pared to lay a horse to lose £500 at the price marked on his board, then he has no business | In be in Tattersalls at all, but should be transferred to the silver ring or the course, where betting is more in keeping with In packet of his courage.
Thir particular point irritating regners considerably, and complains are made almost daily. It in $10 antumment fo zurdest that you should not bet with there particular book- makers, for they are there to lay) the lds put up, and it hold be unnecessary to go elsewhere to have a rali factory bet,
Apart from being there to make municy, 2 bookmaker
Arthur Peall sayst
KNOW YOUR SNOOKER RULES-IT PAYS
WHEN
cueman plaza 137 farty from a touching snooker bali “on," he is Held to have hit it. if the ball is not "01" No 18
Mumed to have missed 11.
With eve-ball touching binck and pinyer "on" a red falus to hit ny fall, the penalty is four point,
BLACK
Yet he could pot a red when cun- ball resta against black, ma in the iagram. top right,
With
brown apotted and whito Louchik the colour after porting a red, it is fair to tap white half an inch, or even less, and anooxer up table reds.
ball "on" and touching
✩
RED
it it is forcordained to
I make
twofold
As for bother to
traza defeat?"
reply.
No
5
team in this "funny" game called cricket is evor fore- doonied. There is no such thing in the game as predestination.
Even assuming that defeat 3walls us, it would never do to ccase playing Australia Until
BROWN
06 ny מ walt
Dotted via a dushion, My centre pocket red would
appeni only 1 1 WILH CANCO tin to BOL that red to keep a big break golos. The touching ball
must not shift on the stroke.
White may come to rest touching a colour because players, dent the cloth when compotting balls, At the end of its run white nudges the colour which rock back in the hollow for the balls to rest to contact.
Sportsme MAVEDITED
if he can get "the right kind of tie-tip."
A lot depends on how Cockel! fares in his championship Bght with Marks Hart in London this autumn.
PLAYED WITH GRACE
Wilfred Rhodes, slow left-
stands up on the racecourse for hand bowler who battert in turn the benefit of backers. And heas No, 1 and No. 11 for England, inust treat his clients
was at the Trent Bridge Test wordingly.
AIM-5,000 RUNS
ac-
The highest aggregate of runs a season in England was re- corded by Denis Compton 1947 and the figure was 3,016.
in
This feat took Compim exactly 50 innings. And we may ap same that he was somewhere around
after 25 1,900 murk Jenius had been passed.
Now we lud that after 17 havings Everton t Courcy Weeker har senred 1,684 runs. It Weekes were to play in all the remaining fixtures of the West Indies and were to bat wire in each game he would have 28 more innings to play.
Thus he is roughly a third of the way through his possible, though
not probable, batling career this season. If he keeps
Barry
NO, NOT THAT SHIRT DEAR SAVE IT FOR ONE DAY WHEN WE'RE GOING INTO THE: GRANDSTAND AND YOU VIGHT SEI TAKING YOUR JACKET OFF.
men
-(London Express Service)
Barry Appleby
EAT YOUR FBREAKFACT MORE GLOWLY, DEAR. M GURE AM YARDLEY NONT CERT UNTIL HE KNOWS YOU'RE THERE
Vic Toweel May Fight O'Sullivan
By GEORGE WHITING
Vic Toweel, South African holder of the world bantam- weight title, is to visit Britain within the next three months.
#
Johannesburg rantees profesa wet to know anything about the tip: but my information is that we may expect Tuwrel in London rome time in October-together with other topline South African boxers.
Toweel was in London for the Olympic Games in 1948. when he last un a hotly argued verdict to A. Pares, of Argentina-a decision followed by the dis- missal ol several Olympic judner.
Tower left the amateurs im- mediately after that set-back- and became world champion when he outpointed America's Manuel Ortiz'last May,
OVERWEIGHT MATCH
A visit to London would almost certainly incan our own that he was champion, Danny
O'Sullivan, would hardly be being paired with Toweel-but
up this rate he could get 5.032 match. To say runs. He will hardly achieve "seeing " this, but he does look like estab-true, for his sight is so badly it would probably Bahing a record that will stand affected these days that he can- overweight match.
(pr many, many years,
OFF TO AMERICA?
American fight managers keep
a sharp and businesslike eye on
not follow the ball and the players are shadows. But he
it from his old friends.
be in on
Other South African title- senses the game and hears about holders mentioned as possiblo visitors in England next winter Rhodes at 72 can see at a dis-are Olympic ghtweight cham tance better than near at hand plon Gerald Drayer, welter- the British boxing scene, Jack
und is still able to play a little weight Pat Patrick, and cruiser- Gardner, heavyweight winner of golf. But it is under sore diff- weight George, Hunter, winner the "blood battle" with Johnnyculties. It is and Indeed that joi the Val Barker Trophy for Williams-a win that qualified two great playern him for a title fight with Bruce the other being Phil Mend, who
for England, style in the 10ft Olymples. Woodcock has already been is completely scunded on the idea of flashing thus afflicted.
bind, should be
Heavyweight Johnny Arthur, his fista in the USA.
placed third in the Olymples, Curiously, it was on the Trent and
Danie Van Graan, 躍 Bridge ground John Simpson,
that Rhodes promising young wellerweight, manager of played his first Test match. It are also Gardner and of cruiser-weight was in 1800, the last in which London.
on the short list for me he mayw, G. Grace appeared. fake both boxers to America for a four of two to three months!
Don Cockell, tells Then a fair shot may show a slight
we can beat them, for the simple | movement of the colour. Referoce reason that the time would { would ant penalles striker for that. never arrive,
It is only by taking drubbings,
us the Australians
themselves
have learned in the past, that
we can learn better.
Our tennis and golf troubles,
I fear, et more difficult to tackle than cricketing onti,
Both gam are expensive, which means only a small pro- portion of the boy and gtri population can take them up striously.
will
You
Lover Produce Wimbledon champions from the conditions seen in most of our publla · parks=~rough surfaces,
poor rackets and so forth,
1., :could....nama... various. Pros vinghal **tephis "players, who,
K. O. CANNON
WHY NOT YOU ANSWER. MY WIRE THAT I
BENO TO
SOUTH OF
FRANCE
WORK 29 HAD HIO WINE FROM YOUL
"DIELY ONE FROM COUNT
DEL FALCO ENGAGING ME AS HIS BODYGUARD! HE IS IN GREAT DANGEN.
-(London Express Service)
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THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS
I TOLD THE COUNT YOU WERE Ycore Gano? CONGNG!HE AS AN OLD FRIEND/
DEL FALDO IN DANEN? NO! YOU ARE MISTAKEN, I KNOW THE COUNT WELL.SOMBON IS PULLING YOUR LEG! -
prastu Borint
PHOUYUD
I TELL HIM THAT YOU ARE THE MAN TO FOOT OUT THE DOPE QANG!.....
BEGIN TO SEE ST
NOW.COMAR WITH ME, BIOTEGIC. I've GOMETHING TO
TELL YOU THAT
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