THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
1951
ENGLAND HAD A LEAN YEAR
IN BOXING Brighter Hopes For 1951
By FREDDIE MILLS
Well, another year of boxing is over, and so far as England is concerned I am afraid that it has been a year of disappointments.
I started the ball rolling by losing the World Cruiser- weight Crown to Joey Maxim,
Our next big disappointment was undoubtedly in the reverses Bruce Woodcock sustained; but here at least we have the satisfaction of knowing that our new heavy- weight champion is our most promising young one for a long time.
Looking back on my fight, see him tackle our Australian there is no doubt that Joey Empire, champion, Dave Sands, was the better man. On the before casting eyes at Sugar
I drink I mayRay. Incidentally, other hand,
Dave is claim that I was unlucky in held in tremendous respect by Round America, and there is no doubt the first two rounds.
his invaluable experience
was about halfway
through when I caught Joey a
Gerrific felt hook. He was in rat trouble, but he held en so tightly that I did not have the opportunity to finish him
of Latin think I could. Round two was Bentical, and again Then I lost the opportunity. camle round three! I was cof fident-over-confident perhaps -hand this, I think, made me relax just that much too much.
knowledge would be of
mense help to Randolph.
and
What Did Football
Produce In 1950?
By ARCHIE QUICK
Standing on the threshold of a new year, what do we find football produced in 1950?
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL
LEAGUE
London, Jan. 2.
The following were the re- sults of football games played today:
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
DIVISION "A"
2. Morton
Airdrieonians v Rangers Dundee East Fife. Hibernians
V
Partick Thistle v St Mirren
Motherwell
6 Aberdeen Falkirk
First of all-headaches for the selectors in all countries. The England side has been changed and changed in an endeavour to obtain a winning combina-Third Lanark 1 Clyde tion and Jugo-Slavia came and drew.
Scotland went one worse, and Ireland have had cricket scores got defeated by Austria, while. run up against them. The turn of the year finds the English and Scottish selections still undecided about their XI's for the big In- ternational at Wembley, but at least they have until April to think it over.
TEAM OF THE YEAR
Not because they are top of Division One do I class Middles-
moment
1 Hearts
DIVISION “B”.
Dumbarton. 1 Dunfermline V Forfar Ath. V
secured a place in the National suffering from the general re- Hamilton Acad. side, he is at the lapse of the Spurs. grounds are taking toll of Tot- fenham's brilliance, although I still think they are the team to
The heavier Kilmarnock
challenge the North-East coast bid for honours.
Helping in the North London challenge is Arsenal, but the other
2
Stenhousemuir 3 Stirling Albion 4 St Johnstone V
Cowdenbeath
Albion Rovers Queen O'South
Queen's Park
WỪ NË ON
*• . CONO.
Dundee United 0
Ayr United Arbroath Alloa Athletle
* postponed.-Reuter,
Metropolitan sides Victoria
Fulham,
Charlton, Chelsea, Brentford, Queens Park Rangers,
All
imbrough as the team of the year. Orient and Palace--are in the Set To Win
I place them first because of their consistency, as compared
doldrums.
Manchester City have the Sheffield Game
class to win promotion from
Victoria continued
their first
innings today from the over- night score of 181 runs for the loss of six wickets and Lindsay Hassett, Australia's captain, then 54 runs not out, reached
BARE-FOOT CHAMPION?
with the Spurs' flashes of sheer I do not think Eddie Thomas, brilliance, Wilf Mannion is of our welterweight, will do much course the star of Middlesbrough, Division Two, but have plenty
Melbourne, Jan. 2. more climbing before. Sugar but it is by no means a one-
of opposition to contend with Victoria (271 runs) appear Ray officially leaves the welter
man team,
Coventry, McCrae has im- from
Barnsley, all set for a clear-cut win over class; and in a way I am sorry proved
Preston out of all knowledge Southampton,
and South Australia that Algar Smith
(93 and 119 has gone since he left Charlton, and his Birmingham-in
that order, for seven) in their Sheffield into the army via the call up. brother Scot McKinnon is not think. Rotherham should reach Shield match here. Smith is a very promising to be recognised with the player Division Two at long last, while prospect indeed, and might who performed only indifferent from the South it looks as have given Eddie quite a fightly at Brentford. Ugolini is a though it resis between Notts later in 1951. That leaves Ter- good goalkeeper and Bell and Forest and Norwich City. ry Ratcliffe, and, with, a little Robinson are defenders on the more time I think Terry may fringe of the England team. well be stepping into Eddie's Welding them together is David Jack, as canny a manager as Lastly there which
be some he was a footballer. interesting developments from It is a remarkable thing that Roy Ankarah. During the war Middlesbro, for all their years I sparred quite a few exhibi-.in Division One, have never won tiens with Roy in Calcutta and the League Championship and reached the round about India. He was an have never even amateur at the time, belong-semi-final stage of the FA Cup. ing, I think, to the West Afri-They should do one or the other
always this year. careful be
feet. cause he boxed in bare Came 1946 and I was horne and had forgotten Roy."
You cannot do it with afety at any time, and certainly not against Americans pt Joey's Calore. "Wham" it came, a really devastating uppercut, and I was going back in a plete daze, while in came those short-crisp punches, were his speciality. After that I did not win a nound, and when in the sixth Maxim
com-
started once more getting home those pile drivers to the face, it was the beginning of the end. Well, that's the way the fight game goes and I am only sorry I could not have held the title for England for another
year.
at lost
nat
shoes.
may
had to be very and I can Regiment,
to
INDIVIDUAL STAR
has
No individual star has shot to In March of the next year I the forefront unless it is Eddie
Baily, and flew out to Johannesburg
though he fight Johnny Ralph. (It turned out in the end, of course,
Wol- be a fight against Nick merans). En route we had to wait at Acera for twelve hours, so Don McCorkindale and I set
Mackie Wins
Golf Event
who
Our other English world title went when Terry Allen, the flyweight, lost to Dado Mari- no. I was really surprised this result, for Dado had twice in England a year or two ago and, frankly, I did expect it. At the time I won- ..dered whether the venue
(Honolulu) had anything to do out in an old jaloppy for Ac-. with it. There is no doubtcra itself, which was about ten
miles, from the airfield. We got Mr J. D. Mackie (6) that climatic differences do have an effect on a boxer, and there, and were messing about returned a 72 net which
in one of its narrow streets, him a total of 36 points, won I think the result might well
when suddenly there wais
the a
Stapleford Competition have been different if the con-
Mills," and played at Fanlingover the test had been in England, How-cry of "Mister
there was old Roy Ankarah New Year's holidays. ever, results and only results, dancing about on the edge of the street. Home we went with him, and, as the taxi pulled brothers and VP, out poured sistors “until there were about tem of them standing round; you would have thought the family name was Hubbard.
count.
1
at
TIME FOR TRAINING. Now let us have a look the future. 1951, I think, must he tised by us as a year for building up our new and future champions. Taking the heavy-
That was the first time Roy
"Accidentals" XI 69 runs.
Sam Loxton, whose four wic-. The following will repre-kets for 27 runs was chiefly sent the "Accidentals" in a responsible for South Australia's hockey match against the cheap dismissal, scored 51 runs Royal Air Force at Sookunpoo today while Sculley was the to-day, bully off 3.30 p.m.: best of the South Australian Thomas, bowlers with four wickets for BQMS Brierly, Rev. Capt. Seaton, Capt Steward 70 runs. Reuter Cox, Capt Delme-Murray, Major Garrett, Major Lambie, Pte Biggerstaff, Capt Live- more,
Boyd.
W. O. II Firth, Cpl Third Interport
Reserves: Lt Boatwright and Sgt Long.
Umpire: Sgt Sellwood. Colours: Red and players to bring own shorts, red and white ings as well as sticks.
White;
Hockey Trial
hockey The third intarport white trial will be held at the Navy stock-ground, King's Park on Sunday,
January 7 at 10 am.
been
The following have selected to take part in the
PRO RACE WON IN trial gave
RECORD TIME
Whites: A. Ponniah (University), A
L
Nery (Recreio), J. B. Gonsalves (Recreio), A. Á. Remedios (Recreio), W. Reed (Recreio), Baghat Singh (Argonauts), Major Lambie (Army), L/Cpl Mackenzie (Army), L/Cpl Gardner (Army), R. Collaco (Recreio), Brown (RAF),
Edinburgh, Jan. 2. Geoffrey Harrington, 25-year- The competitions for next old engineering factory em- week-end will be
Captain's ployee from Darlaston, Rear Cup Qualifying Round on the Walsall, today won the 130-yard Old and New Courses and the handicap-the Blue Riband of 1st and 2nd Rounds Junior professional running-in the Championship on Sunday.
record time of 11.85 seconds at the Powderhall meeting here. Colours: J. C. Koh (Nomads), Capt Stubbs (Army), F/LI Harrington, who was entered wilson (RAF), Capt Dudley
ham, and was running under his McMullen (RAF), Peter Rull own name, started off seven and (Argonauts), S. Fowler (HKHC), Chama half. yards. He
was a hot A. A. Marques (Recreio), B. that I should like to see him ranked him as the outstanding pionship matches which took favourite at 7 to 1 for the prize Xavier (Argonauts). get some practice
met the featherweight of the year, Well, place on December 19 and De- of £150 and a gold medal after German, Rin-Tein-Hof, but of Roy, here's tuck to
defeating the overnight favou- cember 29: you in recent days I have had news 1951; there are
rite, E. Cummins, of Australia,Į from Germany that their man left waiting to hear from you HAA
them 1st En R. Leics, 19 points; 27 in the Cross-ties.
14 points; Regt RA, this K.S.L.I., 17 points; 1st Bo R
Wilts, 15 points.
weight position first told me of his hopes to become ARMY BOXING from Brownhill, near Birming (Army), G. Salker (Argonauts)
be quite relieved if -Gardner does not have ai
top-line
a professional and now, at last this year he has made Britain, and news has just come from
American first during the
The following were the results year. Previously I had stated Amentica that the N.B.A. have of Army Boxing Team
is fading. In this case,
not a fight against the Aus trian, Jo Weigen, either
why at home,
year.
on,
utle, or for the · European heavyweight? Then, later could come one or two fights against carefully selected Americans. Johnny Williams I bone to see lay off for several months; and it ist boo early yet to make any plans for our; other heavyweight prospect, John Scott, who is a recent addition, to
the professional ranks.
For Don Cockell, the light heavyweight chain) I should to see a family quiet part,
of the year. He cer-
uk
have some more king of meet-
our!
THE
ten of
so get busy
GAMBOLS
THAT'S THE FOURTH LOT OF CAROL SINGERS WHO HAVE INTERRUPTED MY THOUGHTS) "TO-NIGHT, - TELL THEM TO GO AWAY
SNOW
• WHITE ANT PEW-WER
:
I DON'T LIKE
WELL, THEN
I WILL
Frank Banner, the other Aus- tralian, finished last-Reuter,
NOT ER.. OH VERY WELL HERE'S SIXPENCE
B. Souza M. Yusuf Bowell (Ar- Winter (RAF), L. Xavi'r
Reserves: U. (Thunderbolts), (Thunderbolts), gonauts), J. Fraser (HKHC), (Argonauts).
by Bakry Appleby
(GRRRE
REALLY, GEORGE Iyou are: RATHER (SWEET SOMETIMES