THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1951.
WON OVER £42,000
BRAVES AND SAINTS MEET
TOMORROW IN
IN THE GAME OF THE SEASON
By "GRANDSTAND”
Braves and Saints enjoy the spotlight this week in the Senior Softball league drama when they tangle at 4 p.m. tomorrow' in the Game of the Season, while the Jaguars cross bate with the Canadians who seem to have hit skid-row in the crucial playoffs.
The Ladies' Junior League reaches the show-down stage when Squaws Anal battle for the Victor encounter St Teresa's this afternoon at 3.30 p.m. in a Mamak Trophy, after having eliminated all other contestants.
The Hong teams will be in for a busy time with ten tilts down for decision, the best of which will be the Shell v Stanvac scuffle slated for 11.80 a.m. tomorrow, as the Oilers settle their rivalry on the diamond.
the
The re-introduction of num-brium, and there is nothing that Bonnie Remedios, who has been mer time which commences to-can be done about it
morrow
has provided much- needed extra playing time, and been moved alt- kames have back half an hour,
Mainly due to the luck of the Saints and Braves draw, the have never you met this year, but the day is dawning when these two rival outts square off on the diamond to revive an
experience" "BKC vorsus pute
CONFIDENCE UP
DEFENSIVE SIDE?
the
The Jaguars, who were tipped at the beginning of the season Bag, to run away with
of the seemed to have changed strategy during the latter part season and instead of being the aggressive team they were, it now been seems they have transformed into a defensive side
for pitching responsible Squaws to the finals, will prob→ ably get the nod from master- 11 mind Rennie Sequeira, and
there is always Bonnir fails upon. Win or lose, both outfits petite Evelin Aloneo to be relied will be fighting it out tooth and nail.
INTER-HONG GAMES Among the cluster of Inter- dis- judging from their last two ap-Hong games, the best tilt should be between Gibbs and Caltex, pearances.
In
Lord Derby's great horse Fairway, who won the St Leger and over £42,000 in prize money. At stud he was four times champion sire and his offspring have won seven classics.
Gibbs in the The Breeding And
all set to hand Gibbs a surprise. Rediffusion, who are taking
Pedigrees
Of Famous British Horses
THE
FAIR TRIAL AND
SONS OF FAIRWAY
The Jags dropped a decision On paper the former team have to the Braves last week loss the edge with a lineup of Senior Braves, they can afford if pennant League artists, but the record Charlie Figueiredo's
remaining hopes are to be maintained-reveals that Caltex have always Anished their Who
weaker and this was mainly due to a proved a finx to Gibbs in the fixtures against much
seem im- lack of sting in their bats. No past.
upset the dope The Oilers opponents, did not
when they pressive, but after last week's one seems to be able to locate irlumph. over their
arch-toes the trouble which caused them bucket lost week Jaguars, confidence secined to to faller at this important stage triumphed over the strong China have soared. Apart from the of the series, but there are some Light side and, having tasted will be fact that their ballers continued-who wonder whether it could be the fruits of victory, to paste the apple at a terrine an over-trained condition.
view of hurler Vic Pedruco's wallop the pitching seemed to
At the part in this loop for the first stellar performance have picked up.
it is likely that season, turned out last week in Perhaps
It was the stendy in-windy-alley.
will give the a stunning uniform, complete fluence of Red Poreira behind coach Barms
to Jock with a loud-speaker embroidered assignment the batter that gave Chapple Re-pitching
face the on the back bearing the player's medios the necessary filip, but Brown when they whatever the cause, the fact re- Canucks tomorrow in the third number.
Jindoo Hussain, who is the mains that he has been living up game of the series, with Maple to the expectations of his fans. Leafer Kossa Nazarin on the slab backbone of the team, has taken over the short-stop position and
.
sufficient Red Pereira, who has been against them.
40 inject hand, the other
managed On the
two sons of It is a debatable point which of the given the nod for the catching;
started out the spark and fire into the team for assignment for the playoff series. Canucks, who
to have them to score n convincing proved to be a wise choice by season shakily, seem
in the
their victory over Stanvac last week. Phalaris, Pharos or Fairway, was the greater at stud. Light this There is no doubt, however, that Fairway was the greater mentor Figueiredo despite head gathered momentum
down the home-They meet China shaking of the grandstand final drive
stretch, and although the re- afternoon in what should be a racehorse. Fairway, Pharos' younger brother by five brains-trust.
years, won 12 races of over £42,000 value, and they in brains-
his cords show they have dropped good game. showed that Pereira
fur, The perennial battle of the cluded the St. Leger and the Eclipse Stakes of 1928. At starling performance against the two important games so Canucks was no flash in the pan, one of them on an unfortunate Ollers will take place a tangle stud he was four times champion sire and three times
irst inning error and the other at 11.30 am. when Shell *for last week his per across the
a pliching lape, it is the with Stanvae with no love lost runner-up. His offspring won seven classics in Britain. on diamond was poison to the re-
bleacher the rival Jockeys. This puted fleet-footed Jaguars and, general opinion that the Canucks between
game is worth in addition, the rotund veteran must not be underrated.
go, the hiking out to
was able to field the bunts with which many a nimbleness
A
slimmer man would have envied.
As playoir outcome of
By NIGEL
GEE
As a racehorse Blue Peter was his outstanding son.
Mortensen Finds His Old Dash
By John Macadam
The Blackpool-Newcastle mudlarks who cavorted ex- quisitely on the Bloomfield- road-not gluepot-jampot in the drawn (2-2) Cup Final preview changed into clean strips at half-time. If they'd come out for the second half in white tles and taila nobody would have been in the least surprised.
It was that kind of game; the champagne of Soccer, and a very good vintage, too.
If the Wembley Final is even 85 good as this, it will be a classic. it to better-and who knows what Matthews and Perry will do to this now-magnificent forward line?-then 11 could well be the football match to end all football matches.
All this and Matthews too would be too much.
18
son's BOXING ACADEMY
Pete Mead (2011), the American, had to go to hospital to have bis ribs X-rayed after Randolph Turpin's powerful body nonching in their Harringay bout (November 1849).
Don't Let These Tricks Fool You
A boxing contest between two evenly matched men which lasts the full distance is the most difficult test I know for a spectator.
Imagine a Soccer match with the goals blacked out or a five-set or a game of cricket with no scoreboard lawn tennis match without an umpire to record the point-by-point score.
Then
Not that the substitute wingers, Hobson and Wardle, let the line down in any way; "on the contrary, there was a
a strong afterwards school of thought
In all these cases there would
when the referce, out holding that the directness, he pandemonium if the result of patience, shouts "Break," particularly of Hobson, speeded were not known until after the the spoiler," with an air of In- up the attack.
last ball had been played. jured innocence, can make PERFECT MOVE
Well, that's what happens great show of tugging his left Hobson's lash and Certainly,
every time a boxing match goes glove tree. cut-in 20 minutes from the start, the full number of rounds, So his swerve round two defenders it's up to you to try to notice and perfect placement of a every incident which can be a lofted shot to Mortensen's head boost or a "handicap" to the couldn't have bem bettered by total points scored. any winger wo have ever seen. First, you can't get away of body weight to pin a mah
with that And Mortensen,
from the fact that attack is uncanny sense of position, waited what makes a contest. Although on the ropes or weaken him in clinches is another trick for if and headed it with Joe part of Rulo 5 states "Marks the Davis accuracy past Fairbrother, shall be awarded for...de which a referee (and you) must
That was the popping of the fence-guarding, slipping, duck-watch for, champagne cork, and how it
took from Mortensen,
in
King's Park to He won the 2,000 Guineas, the Derby and the Este milliance with bril- their opponents, and not them-i tomorrow's scuffle watch, even just for the fun of Stakes in 1939, and only the cancellation of the St. Leger edge on them and not even the of the Infringements of the
Cross-
the verbal
PANCE PLANS
Plans for the organisation of
mon
to decide which boxer
The same thing is true of
of
a great course, butting. many of the facial cuts are caused by the illegal use of the head.
"Laying on"-le, unfale use
བྷཝཱི ཙྪཱ
UNFAI
A to
The surest way of judging the value of legitimate
punjab ment 19 not to concentrats solely on the man who is "distr
It out." but to see the
effect it has on the receiver.
If after a few rounds there's Π red-blue palch
under one man's heart or on his ribs
his then you can be sure
body-punching Opponent really powerfully.
If you're lucky enough to watch middle-weight champion Ran- dolph Turpin you'll see what I
mean,
ka
bubbled and Azzed from thening, or getting away," the pure-
ly defensive boxer cannot, ont
wil my opinion, win a content.
Another shody "dodge" · la Within a couple of minutes
It's. easy enough to see the for one man to hook his loft Milburn
everybody outpaced
round the back of his with that long, assured raking reason for this. Because if you hand
two men who refused to opponent's head and pull his
on do any leading you wouldn't man stride and hit an oblique shot had
right-hand past Farm.
Another couple of minutes of have a contest.
punch. Such additional leveragó So look for the man who is patently unfair. all-over-the-pince
the fight scientifically palpitating
who is to its opponent. stuff at top speed and Wardle carries restored to all his old dashing
HOLDING form, ran finely on and placed
Unfortunately only too many precisely to Mudie's head for the second Blackpool goal.
It looked all over then, for, the crowd-and
boxers are brilliant at fooling all too fre- were Newcastle
quently the referee-that, it's Blackpool still had the selves, who are gulity of many
work of bla Brennan los. due to the outbreak of war robbed, him of his chance to tireless
seemed the
to their rules. answer should be closs with a light de-listening to
Take holding the most com- fensive slide pitted against Bill Are.
win the Triple Crown.
darting thrusts.
foul and the one which lincup which not the Re- Woo's slugging Whether or
HIGH QUALITY clutch - hitters Don
Manna, winner of the Gulness This brilliance has not so far, medlon-Pereira battery can stop includes
It was against the run of the docs most to spoil the average
Again the effect of A cor- the Saints will be seen this Robbins and Bakar.
LADIES' FINAL the Annual Presentation Danec shone through his career at stud and the Cary avid grandson play when Robledo took the ball bele takes quite a lot of ex-
perience his son Colombo and
Tectly delivered straight left. week, for the Saints who were
at a Council His son Ocean Swell won a war- his disclosed Junior League were
For left jub, on a man should only regarded as a mild threat
The Ladies
Wednesday time Darby and Ascot Gold Cup, Happy Knight, both winners of from Walker and smashed in the is really at fault,
At Arst sight it seems obvious p.m. this Meeting held on
be in the beginning of the series, final carded for 9.30
like him having a swing Despite the constant drenching the
man whose arm. is have surprisingly mushroomed afternoon should also be well evening, in which Alec Braga, and Blue Train was unbeaten the Guineas and both failures in equalizer.
who Chairman of the Dance Com-when it was found impossible to the Derby for want of stamina.
Derby, I Colombo's offspring as a whole rain and the quagmire surface-
wrapped over his opponent's, door slam into his face in the dark. If he's not actually into being the favourites to cop watching as the Squaws
however, be only a matter Incline to speed rather than it is difficult to call three inches But, in fact, a skilful "spoiler" dazed it should disrupt his des the fing this year.
have worked themselves up tomlilee, revealed that the func-train-him for the
St tion will include several floor-me before he passes on his stamina. Miracle by Manna won
can tuck his left glove under challenge position
-runners-up
hia adversary's armpit and so of the shows together with the tradi- of lience to one of his off-the Eclipse Stakes and went to for a moment let the quality of have stolen i Teresa's,
the play sink, and, what they can five will be
competition.
render his right arm useless. all
spring
Uruguay more bases and registered more Seniors, wil hits than the Saints, but what the powerful out to topple order to lend colour to the
Fairway Watling Street by
Colorado by Phalaris won the do on the perfect Wembley turf Teresa's St
slabctress Sheila occasion, beams have been re-
furnish a pennant won a wartime Derby and was 2,600 Guineas. His line is vir will simply have to be seen to
be believed. bas not been working on quested to
particularly with of experienced veterans can be Silva. dopended
on to blast the horse-the rubber for some time owing displaying their emblem. These second in two other classics. As tually moribund in Britain as
be exhibited in prominent a stallion he has met with no his beat sons, Loaningdale, win the onl will be and it is to a torn ligament
success to equal his own racing ner of the Eclipse Stakes, and art positions. During recent weeks, we have doubtful-whether she will start rickals for the Dance are ability. Wat Tyler, who has now Felicitation winner of the Ascot sleeve, must go forward to the }
this meeting. Alee gone to America, is probably the Gold Cup, have gone to Southal with a great
Colorado's brother, advantage from
heart- bave another They teams who absence, Conch Billy Soares will obtainable
Caerleon, won the Eclipse Stakes warmer in the fact that Allan | have reached the playoff stage probably assign Doreen Ozorio Braga at $10 each and arrange-best we have seen of his line and America,
for tables to be Kingsway. Pay
nily Garden Path, all by Fult later, virtually intestate. it is usually Dame
The official statement released by the English Golf Fortune's slow-balling will bamboozle the reservations
form they know tie is capable the 2000 Guineas, and
CORRECTION
Union after the meeting of their county representatives whim which upsets the equill-opposition.
Tido-Way
the 1000 Guineas.
In last Saturday's article in
His impeccable short pisses last week revealed that "the new handicapping, scheme Honeyway, who was an out-
this series the caption to the WOTO finding their men. His standing sprinter,
came under review and was criticised by Lord BrabazoRR Victoria Cup and Solvering the accompanying picture Incorrect-great strength on the ball was
ly gave the horse and jockey as making itself felt By Wembley, and H. Longhurst, but the great majority were in favour Nimbus and C. Elliott The the skidy Scot should be in of it. OT '959 Bürger 783 have been allböited a sérátch picture actually showed Aber-peak form.
score and 101 are in transit." London Express Service. nant with Gordon Richards up.
A check on statistics show
Braves that the
is not revealed is that the outfit
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FAIR TRIAL
won
tho
The greatest, however, of all the sons of Fairway at stud has been Fair Trial Like his grand- aire, Phalaris, on the racecourse he was far from being the most distinguished son of his father, excelled them all
yet
after his retirement. He was champlon sire in Britain Inst year and it is safe to say that by the end of 1951 bis offspring will have won £250,000 in makes and 400 races.
In his racing career he won seven out of nine races and was defeated only when attempting to win at ben furlongs, for a mile was his limit. Although his sire, Fairway, won at beyond two miles and his dam, the great, mare, Lady Juror, at 14 furlongs, he inherited his speed from the brilliantly fast Ameri- cus Girl, granddam of Lady
Jurar.
This predominance of spoed over stamina persists in all Fair Trial's stock, and it is almost a safo assumption that they will not win beyand, nino. furlongs in Britain. The exception proved the rule when Petition, cleverly walted with, scrambled home in the ten-furlong Eclipse Stakes.
In addition to Potio
Fair Trial got
the Guineus Court Marilal, Lambert Simpel and Palestine. He has had other food winners in top class sprint Or milo handicapg notably Fair Judgment and Dramatic in the Lincolnshire and Fairey Fulmar In the Cambridgeshire.
Court Martini has made a good atstud. Last season his son Blue Book, won the six-furlong Wokingham Stakey at Ascot -
редореки Fairway's blood
work: Doggor throughout the Bank in New Zealand, Hunjit and Pleenally in Bouth Atdea Wayaldo Inn, and Masthead (by Blue Petar) are but a few of bu exported descendants
OTHER HALARI, "INEA
Pharos cronto the atquins Baky in the Phalath chain. Bytoms parison the rest, seem tebiicus
of.
SLIDING DOWN.
Yngve Oeath and Olof Hacksell, the Swediah two- man bobaled icam, roar past a dangerous Bavarian curve crowd watches them at Garmisch- Part drchen, Germanyday. The bobsled racing events had already taken the life of one of the Swedish parti cipants, Rolf? Odenrick.
fences..
--(London Express Service)
Henry Longhurst on GOLF
Bloody, But Unbowed
"
By his mastery of the gentle art of mingling fact, conjecture, and propaganda, the compller of this docu- ment qualifies instantly for a job as Public Relations Officer to an unsuccessful Cabinet Minister.
It is a fact that the scheme that of the heart of Perain, where was criticised by the Right Hon. I am gratified to be assured. gentleman and the other; con- that the new scheine has been Perhaps mmy Secture that the great majority well received were in favour of At the risk friends of the Masjid-i-Suleimann talking out of school. reveal Club in the Oilfields have solved that the
problem which has defled the "great majority" were invited to
of
to give a vote either best aralytical rains at home, way. Furthermore, not having namely at which tole the re- been consulted before the scheme juvenated Colonel Bogey, who started, they were politely in- presumably still gets on each formed that they would not be green in the right number, takes donsulted on it in the future, only one quit.
MONIC COMMENT
The villains of this ploce are 'not the poor muted representa- As to the 783 courses which tivos on the national unions, but have been "allotted
a scratch the Joint Advisory Council As Boone," it would be more in this body possesses powers little teresting to know (a) how many suspected by those who play, as wanted it? (b) how many are against him,
got, it deservien satkiled with it?; and (c) how wider recognition. In 1980 1
consisted of
T. England: B: Imany, now they've got it, pro-
Carl Bond,
pose to do nothing about it?
Leading the field in this last exige, Captain on, W. M. B.
W.
direction is the Royal West J Namfolk club at Brancaster, Whitlay
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Handford, owner,...
Levarack
Alston
H.
Scotland: qualifying where, ironically, one
M. Dickson, round of the English Golf R. G. J. Kirk, D. G. Walince.
Finion's Sanduced is to be Treland: A, S. G. Adams, Licut-
played.
unwillingly Colonel C. O. Hezlot. P. F. from 73 to 71; they print their Purcell. Wales J. A. Alexander, card as Bugey 73, In email fot-L, Pookover Burrili. ters clawhere printed: “S2.S.
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