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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1951.

TOOTING ✨ & MITCHAM v.

There's A Touch Of Tarnish On

The Golden Boy

Says PETER WILSON

The stranger laughed when he saw the little, three-year-old boy carrying a ball nearly as big as himself. He said: “That boy will go far with a ball.”

Which puts the stranger as about the best sports forecaster of this generation for the three-year-old was Denis Compton who even as a toddler, never went out of doors without a cricket ball in his pocket or a football tucked under his arm.

And now has the 32-year-old Golden Boy of sport--he was the youngest cricketer ever to have been chosen for England when he first got that honour and completed 'the double' with a Cup Final medal Inst April-has the Golden Boy begun to rust?

The day the current Testa be-l gan Denis's wife was awarded

and

0.

Denis plans to play in two county matches for Middlesex next season and then rest for

the third That will continue Asian Games

and

a decree nisi against him, He scored.3

Then came the trouble with throughout the summer his knee. It started three sea- then he will be able to get sans ago, but has never threat-away from all sport for six ened his career so ominously months.

before

That

kept him out of the second Test al ogether. And in lx Test innings he made only 31 runs.

Those

six months I think will make or break Compton.

He will be 33 then still young enough for a cricketer, But at 33 the eyes are not as wicket fell tour times; clear as they are in the teens, a total

of eight balls so the reactions have slowed Compton's most devoted sup-down and concentration needs porters would be forgiven for to be more fiercely disciplined. secretly wondering if their idol

in

would have been better out of

the series altogether.

And

UNLESS

Dents will

always have

dwarfs, a giant among

much of the bowling in county that he will meet cricket, រំ will ple up moun- tainous scores,

very secretly, some must be wondering: Is Comp-enough natural genius to look

like ton through? >

One man

who is convinced Against that he's not is Denis's father, H, E. Compton, the carpenter who shaped the careers of both Deals and big brother Leslie,

There have been rumours that Denis would play in only of English would

one more season cricket,

and

then

emigrate-possibly to South

Africo.

uncertainty

was

genius,

where once there

the flushing brilliance of

Denis suffers from

But if he is not to look like a dwarf among the giants he will have to make up his mind to a quieter life outside the cricket season,

how

soon

ה

Standings

New Delhi, Mar, 0. Unofficial standings in the Asian Games today were: Philippines, first with 46 points; Singapore second with 41 and Iran third with 40-United Press.

Titles In Asian Games

WIMBLEDON

J. Haydock, the Wimbledon goalkeeper, snatches the ball from the toe of R. Parker, the Tooting and 'Mitcham centre-forward, at Tooting in the third round replay of the Amateur Cup competition.

COLONY BADMINTON TOURNEY REACHING SEMI-FINAL STAGES

blazing Ing: Iran, 18, Phillppines 17.Campares, last year's Junior

-(London Express Service)

a body Hatton's

rash legacy of prickly heat on

the South African lour.....

Grace

Many's the time I've had to Wins Hurdle Cup

By ARGONAUT

HOW THEY STAND

Men's "A" Division

PWLF A Chinese Y "A" 44 Heereia

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Men's "C" Division

Section I

With the play-off of four more quarter-final matches last night, Iran Wins Two the Colony Badminton Championships fast approach their semi-final

stages in all events.

Nine further games to be played today and tomorrow will bring the tourna ment Into the semi-finals, the first of which begins at St. Teresa on Monday.

While progress in the Championships has been most satisfactory, the same cannot be said of the 1951 Lengue. Although all League matches were scheduled to be completed by February 26, there still remain at the present date, no less than New Delhi, Mar, 0. 21 games yet to be decided. Iran wen both the feather- weight and heavyweight weight- In the feature game of last against a game opponent, who Wah are easily the Sectional Because he has given meifung championships today to night's programme, W. F. Foo however, surprisingly reverted champions and will undoubtedly more unalloyed pleasure than take a slim lead in the Asian of Chinese YMCA, after drop- to a defensive game. Foo led be the two Sectional Analisis 'TILL HE'S 60°

any ericketer of his and my games.

ping the first set, came back all the way to win the remain- for the tifte; Says father Compton: "I don't generation I hope he will On the basis of ungmetal team with a vengeance in the second ing two sets by 15-0 and 15-0. believe that for a moment, Un- pull it off.

scores campled by the Asso- and third sets, to eliminate CHAMPIONS EXTENDED less Denis's knce gets to bad Otherwise he will be sur-tinted Press, this was the stand- Billy

Two junior participants in that lie has

permanently prised

and become the third the Senior Mixed Doubles event, stiff leg he'll go on playing athletle record sputters out and Singapore 14. Japan 10. India 0, semi-finalist in the Men's Senior M. T. Lam and Elvie Tsok put

turns until he's 60.

into cold, grey ilues of Burma 1, Thailand, Indonesia, Singles. He will

now meet up an impressive performance The knee in fact is only an type in the record books mulled Nepal, Afghanistan and Ceylon, of this event's semi-finals, the holders, Robert Tay and Maric C. K. Lee. In the other half when they extended the title addition to physical and men-over by the greybeards on 0. tai allments which have con- rainy nights.

Featherweight Djafar Sala hoitier Robert Tay will clash Ribeiro to three closely con- spired to produce fumbling

mussi lifted an aggregate of 878 | with the winner of the

Bill tested seis, 15-12, 9-15 and 10- pounds and heavyweight Leon Funk-Rimon Young encounter, 15. Eivic Trok

sok gave a sparkling Kurukchioned an aggregate to be decided tomorrow.

display at the net, her half- of 376 pounds.

Scares started promisingly in court tap shots being

parti- Here are the scoring detalls, the first set. With powerful cularly prominent, Lam,

bot a not First Figure in for two hands, smashes, and aided by three favourite for the Junior Mixed clean and press: second two errors from Foo, Soares Jump-

iftle, played a brainy game, and hands, snatch; third, two hands, ed to a lead of 7-0 in five ser- scored a number of points with clean and jak):

vices. Foo settled down to ac- spectacular backhand asst, 210, 210 and 225 pounds, stage and scored eight points ing shots to Featherweight Djafari Sala-curate au-round play at this drops, and well-placed retriev-

his opponents zays father

in Cheltenham, Mar, 0.

row, the last four of smashes, The more powerful Second place was given to which being from over-lobs by hitting of Tay and Ribeiro and Then too much cricket. When The 11-year-old Irish gelding, he was not playing in Eng-Hatton's Grace, won the Cham-Rodrigo Del Rosario of the Soares. Twice the score was their greater steadiness, especial- tand he was helping England plon Hurdle Challenge Cup, Philippines, 215, 175 and 255 deadlocked at 10-10 and 13-13, ly in the services, carried them in Australia or South Africa- run over two miles, for the pounds.

but Soares after being 13-15 through. Third,

Iguchi Yuldio of and 14-15 down, struck a bril- Promising Junior Men's Dou 200, 185, and 260,

Hant patch of aggressive play bles

les players, F. M. Romarie and Although Iguchi and Rodrigo and smashed his way through A. J. Souza, produced only -

same scored

aggregate 645 the first set with four succes- fraction of their form in their National Spirit, winner of the Rodrigo

pounds, place was given to cive points. Exploiting his drop Senior Doubles match against

his

body shots and 1948, was weight was 130 and one half full,

and net fights to the Patrick Wong and D. C.

Lou vent in 1947

Foo dominated play in losing In two straight seis, tón's Grace when he fell at the 132-1/4 pounds. rading slightly ahead of Hat-pounds while Iguchi scaled at the second and third sels 12-15 and 5-15. Stage-fright last hurdle, Hatton's

forced them into a number of Grace, who started 4 to i

errors, and allowed their op second

take the initiative from two favourite, then

from There was a second place tie

the outset. With hard French-owned chal-

between Iran and

accurate Longers, Pyrrhus and

India, but Prince Tran wos

nct. flights, the Chinese pair, Hindou, to win by five lengths, remember Compton in so

because of her lighter

kept the youngsters out of their phases of his

Pyrrhus, un 11 to 2 shot, beat weight. career-

devastating aggressive game and both on and off the field-and

and Prince Hindou, another 9 to 2

World

recorri heavyweight

forced them into the defensive he

chance, by hair· was always' a scintillating

a length for John Davies of the United

London, Mar, 6. Troughout the whole period. blade. His secund

the second place. match for

The 11 to 4 States had a score of 338, 320 old professional from Peshawar

Hashim Khan,

THE RESULTS the 35-year- Middlesex,

when he

hooked favourite, Average, was fourth. and 1/4 and 391-1/4 pounds Northants

bowler A field of eight ran.-Reuter, fort

(Pakistan), made an impressive respectively. Associated Press. debut in the British professional Clurk off his eyebrows me you I would wave away & Ay

squash rackets Championship at or

the about to settle on our noses.

Lansdowne Club here to.. day. felt like the Astronomer Royal discovering a new bright| star.

rub him down with lotion at

the end of a day's play. But For Third Time

cise knew about it,"

Compton,

no one.

and when he wa either, Arsenal,

not doing he was helping the

CLIMAX

day.

third year in succession when the three-day National Hunt racing festival began here to-

Japa

To physical defect was added

but never mentioned the strain

of a marriage becoming thread-

barc.

*ed

All these things have reach- |******

a climax in the glaring sun- shine and the bitter na-holds barred atmosphere of Aus- tralian Test cricket.

I

mony

the

We

He was never one to bat for his averages--those delights of the dusty statisticlans but

when he did go out for them how small he made the others'

agures look. Remember 1947,

*when

In 50 innings he made 3,010 for an average of 90.85 — beating Hayward's 41-year-old record by nearly 400 runst

Those were the days of glory for Compton.

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the mighty

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because

Heavyweight Leon

Kuruk-

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chion 235, 230 and 310 pounds. Impressive Debut ponent to sprinted away

By Pakistani In smashes, drives and given second place

body- Squash Tourney

Wrestling Hardly Belongs To The Field Of Sport

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Schoolboy DOUBTEN SN, NEĮ & Y.T. Hon beat W.C. Chan 15-4, 15-9.

Yung &

Junior Men's Doubles: K.H. Chin N.K. Chin beat B. Brown & B.A. Xavier 15-5, 15-4, Senior Mixed Doubles: Robert Tay & Miss Marie Ribeiro beat M.T. Lam & Mrs Elvie Tsok 12-18, 16-9, 15-10.

Senior Men's Singlos:—W.F. Foo beat J.A. Soares 15-18, 15-8. 25-0.

Khan, who is seeded as the probable finalist against the title-holder, Jim Dear,

of Queen's Club, won his second round match against Bill Blake, the young Cumberland Club professional, by 9-2, 9-2, -

Khan

confirmed his reputa Lion as one of the speediest Senior Men's Double:-- Pat- players about the court in the rick Wong & D.C. Lau beat Rosario It is surely time that the sport of wrestling was put mobility a power of shot above 15-12, 15-5,

game and he combined with his Tony Souza & Francis on a more sane footing. The other week 12,000 people the average. Blake .put paid good English money to see

a wrestling match strong resistance but was between two boxers,

Says ARCHIE QUICK

London.

One was a craftsman named Eddie Phillips who by his boxing skill became Cruiserweight Champion of Great

classed, — Reuter.

Britain, and the other was Jack Doyle, who achieved at Table Tennis

by his remarkable buoyant Irish personality.

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