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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 3 1861.

GRAB FOR THE "EIGHTS" CAKE

THE GREATEST NATURAL BALL PLAYER TO EMERGE SINCE WORLD WAR TWO

Says PETER LOVEGROVE

Despite the Welsh-debacle_at_Marrayfield at the beginning of February, the brightest star in the ragger firmament today is B. Lewin Jones, a tall, well-built, slightly bow-legged and fair-haired stores assis- tant at HMS Fisgard, who was in the side so soundly whipped by the young Scotsmen.

Jones, who will not be twenty years of age until April 11, rocketed to fame in a few weeks in 1950 and is now acclaimed as the greatest natural ball player to emerge since the end of World War Two.

Equally at home at full-back, centre three-quarter and outside-half-though he has expressed the preference for contre and now plays regularly there-this strong lad has matured quickly and now dominates the home scene. Never appear- ing to hurry, he relies on a lovely hand-off, and the sort of body swerve which toreadors dream of to evade would-be tacklers.

He has superb gifts as a, frish with a powerful runner: an easy stride, a quick change of direction, and when going apparently at top speed cán accelerate just enough to get clear of an opponent

kick with the opposing defence men. all running the wrong way-you wil

County Hont, brushed off a hopeful

but ineffective tackle and then really accelerated, with Malcolm and R. M. Holgate Thomas backing up on his left.

Cross-post-war win against the air- Within six minutes from the from his get some idea of how start, he got a poss difficult it is to lay hands on outside-half just on the half- way mark and went quickly him, let alone subdue him.

He first showed signs of his into that deceptive stride of his. undurriedly side-stepped an at Gowerton promise at His spade-like hands seem to

School,

a briet be able to take anything from

and then had ti-spell of second-class rugby with any angle, hia vassing is beauti- fully timed, while his kicking is the Gorseinon Club. In January, rapidly, becoming a kegend.

I 1940, he first appeared in the you add

to that the sweetest Neath colours he was then 17 dummy, one-handed back flips,

for the All a hundred points and the touch of unpredictable and in four months scored over genius-one moment he will be Blacks. He then went into the

Royal

on his national Navy bursting through strongly down the middle, and the next he will service, scored plentifully in unit

and eross the field

ames, and eventually appeared zig-zak

at full-back in the second Welsh trini at Aberavon in December, 3949.

Belgian Club Uses Two Million Pieces Of Turf To Rebuild Course

By James Goodfellow

courses

INSTANT SUCCESS

He was an instant success and was picked for Wales in that

position at Twickenham. It was

оп

He made about 25 yards and then gave Thomas the perfect pass which spilt the defence Thomas sent wide open, and

by the corner Holgate over

Ten minutes later, ke ang.

goal, kicked an easy penalty and the sailors were six points up. From then on, he was the complete master, and the airmen looked in trouble every time the ball reached him.

Not that

Members of the Cambridge crew make a grab for pleces of the "Eights” cake held by their cox, J. F. K. Hinde, when the team had a night out at the Em preas Club, London, to celebrate their great 12 lengtha' victory over Oxford.

K. C.

Dao

Beats Tsai To Qualify For Tomorrow's Grasscourt Final

By "ARGONAUT”

K. C. Dao, the 39-year-old Colony Hardcourt and former Shang- hai Champion, defeated Edwin Tsai in three straight sets yesterday, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4 to enter his first grasscourt Singles final in Hongkong.

The final, which will take place at the Cricket Club at 4.80 p.m. tomorrow, will be the sixth meeting between Ip Koon-hong, the current holder, and Dao, and although Ip will take the court as a firm favourite, Dao is expected to give him a strong challenge.

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John Macadam's Column

the RAF played They had territorial à very severe test for a youngster badly. to make his first International advantage for most of the game. that farnousTheir forwards were better in appearance ground, where Wales (wooden the line-outs, always more lively made great attempts to shake splits previous year) had not in the loose, and the outsides won since 1933.

off vary close marking. Three of The visitors were soon ave times they got to within a yard

The more youthful Edwin Tani put up yesterday a much better display than The three

club, points down, but Jones, playing of the Navy line, and several

shown in the last hardcourt final, but inaccurate ground strokes caused his undoing close. But Royal Zoute golf

with the coolness of a veteran, penalties went very

against a crafty and accurate opponent.

to lead 4-3, when he Belgium, were mined: the made a remarkably strong and with ground conditions worsen- ing and the ball getting heavier yard run which took turf was stripped from the

zig-zag 50

Duo's reputed stonewalling of tactics by Tani at this stage to him past man after man, and all the time, they began to tire, and fairways

greens

give each player content just to put patience to lose the all-impor

tant eighth game. 'Dao's passing camouflage the forts of there was Clif Davies at his and the Navy heeled consistently tactics wore cut Taul in the first saw a series of long rallies with succumbed to his own

elbow to take the right pass and from the tight

in the closing set, and forced him to

the ball across the net, away the second. line. Jones

also the Atlantic Wall.

stages. go .over the work converted another try by Cale 'reconstruction Since

brilliant penalty goal for and bagan Ave. winters ago more

of turf the Principality to win 11-5. than 2,200,000 ploces

Wales of course, went on to . have been laid, and the greens

win the Triple Crown. Against have been sown.

This was told me as I led a Scotland, Jones kicked a penalty, new and followed this up with an- British keam

and three try main 8,600 yards course, the ather penalty

Belgian conversions against the French. and the Union Jack ang nying above the clubhouse.

over

the

Teal made a spirited come It was only another penalty and some grand opportunism back in the third set, and by second row forward E. E switching to a safe game, when Rossiter (Sutton Coldfield and he just palted every shot back, Moseley) which enabled the air. Tral held at one time a lead of men to reduce the margin to a 4-3. A hectle ninth game, that bare point in the closing minute. went to five deuces and took 10 minutes, went finally, however, to Dao, who had little difficulty.

collecting

The penalty, from nome 40 yards,

hit an upright,

and in

the next

two

In between he had made twc Rosslter, following up remark- games from a discouraged and fair-more appearances at Twicken-ably fast, caught the rebound exhausted Trai

ham in a Navy jersey. Against and touched down the RAF he dropped a lovely goal and then robbed the airmen

Lay-out, with narrow wars bordered by denes and pine woods, differs greatly from the old one and when the turf

of victory with a penalty just

posts.

under the

kicked by full-

Wales

LACK OF DEPTH

More than 80 Tsai's failure. per cent of his shote fell well be. low the half court marks, and fl

net though Tsai's excellent play enabled him to anticipate a few of the passing returns, he was beaten by the majority of them,

The penalty, and the try con- Lack of depth in his ground is properly knitted the course before no-side, but good as these version were should be a fine test.

were, they did not compare with back Sgt. P. M. Davies (RAF strokes was the main cause of Ken Bousfeld-holds-the-re-the two phenomenal kicks which West Kirby), in whom

Navy six points have another youngster of cord with 68, made last year brought the

Army side axceptional promise. Son of the during the Belgian Open won against the strong

Glamorgan cricket professional by Roberto de Vicenze, 282 for three weeks later.

and opening bateman, Emrys four rounds.

Davies, this slightly-built 19- yards, the other inside the Navy year-old was wonderfully com half, but Jones made them apposed under pressure and never pear all too easy with his four put a foot wrong. steps and effortless swing of the

He fielded the ball

There is also an inner course of 4,100 yards in playing order. BEST PLAYEES

-

best Among the club's players are Erie Tavernier,

The first was from about 45

leg.

ent's services

Every

Cross shot caught him Interspersing them with deep time he came up to the net. short cross drives and hard

With this setback, there was drives to the base corners, Tani Come out the more success-little fight left in the weary ful in those rallies, and went Teal in the remaining two peta.

TURPIN MUST BE 100-PER-CENT

FIT FOR SANDS

Says

GEORGE WHITING

London.

Passage money for three was wired the other day to His ability to take his oppon-Australia, there to be collected by Dave Sands for the on the rice was purpose of travelling to defend his Empire Middleweight positioned well, and produced nullified as an attacking weapon Championship against our Randolph Turpin at the White Jones Was not originally some of the best-angled touch by this inability to read them City on June 5.

for the Barbarians anding I have seen. this season. back to the baseline, John de Moulemeester, former selected Amateur champion of Belgium. Easter tour but, brought in for Davier's club, by the way, is he scored Llanelly, for whom Lowia Jones his brother Serge and Jack du the Cardiff match,

both the touring side's tries at will pay when he finishes al Vivier.

Arms Park and converted one. national service.

Swansea, his first-half

of golf's Against Swa is one

Tavernier remarkable young men.

He is

try, and conversion in the inst holder of the Belgian Amateur few minutes turned the game

ships at 20.

and Open Amateur champion

First lesson was from a cad- dle three years ago, and Taver- number riera trophies

MOU

around 30. He plans to take part in English events.

~~London Express Service)

Indians Win English Table Tennis Title

Doctor, Devon, Apr. 2. K. Jayant and R. Bhandari won the men's doubles in the West of England table tennis championships held here yester day. In the Anal they bout B. Kennelly and W. Stectmm by two games to one,

into a draw, while at Newport be "made" J. V. Smith's try and kicked a penalty goal

A SURPRISE

It was a surprise not to see hils. name among the original thirty who were plokel for tho ̈ Aus- tralasian tour, but he was down out as a replacement in June when G. W. Norton brol his arn at Invercargill.

control of Dao's superior length and direction, backed by strong retrieving powers, gave him that Tille extra advantage throughout the whole match.

Meanwhile, Turpin nurses the out of a fight injured right hand knuckle that has kept him with. America's Billy Brown at Earls Court.

Let's face it. Randolph could middleweight The first set, which took 25 probably beat any

CHINESE WINS minutes, saw Dao jumping to in Europe with one hand-bu

CALIFORNIA MARATHON

3-1 lead as Taal met with he will certainly need both repeated errors and passing bands against Sands. shots in trying to pace,

force the

NO BUSH Last time Dave was hero, they Getting better lengths in his rushed him into the ring with still in his drives, Teal's deadly net volleys inoculation serum

Petaluma, Call, Apr. 2. took their toll in the next three system and with the cold winds Wang Ching-ling, 123 1b dis games, to bring the score to 4. of a Bellish April freezing his

blood tance runner from South China,

Four errors, as contrasted with Not until the sun got at him yesterday raved ahead of 19 huskler entrants over the 20-only one good storing stroke, indid we see the real Sands, the enabled Dao Sands ho thrashed Robert He played only seven times mille course of the 17th annual the ninth game in Naw Zealand, was the full-Petaluma Spartans marathon to to hold his service. Taal cracked Villemain and took the Empiro Back in the final Test, yet kicked win in a time of 2 tre. and 59 up in the 10th game, when hole from Randolph's

and "converted | mins. tine penalties nineteen tries-05 points in all. He did even better in Australia,

bo

brother! lapsed again into half-court Dick in two explosive minutes.

to length drives and went up.

His enanoger,

wise old Tom Second was Mainhardt Bredt, the net with disastrous results.

Maguire, will not be tempted After losing the first game into any rush fobs moxt time. He and started off this year's in of Olympia, Washington, in 3 ternational season with four, hrs. 5 mins, and 50 seconds.

of the second act, Ti put up announced over the telephone

this: TAB, COUTSO

New South Wales winds through an initial resistance, holding his

from Dao conversions against England,

dia service after two deuces.

that be and Dave week-and I Saw him again in the downtown Petaluma for a pudding-like Twickenham mud tance of 20 miles and 386 yards forged head to 3-1, and "Teat

May in order to have best part Miss Sayeed Sultana won the in the Navy-RAF`clash which | In 1848, Wang missed tying the visibly exhausted, conceded the reckoned: to be here early. in.].

record by only one remaining games, saving himself of a month to train for Turpin tho Inter Services course junior women's championship,

opened beating Miss 3. Winter by two Triangular Tournament I had minute with a time of 2 hrs 40 for the third set,

Our champion has been bay- games to nil in the final. She expected the airmen, with theming, and 20 seca,

Each contestant held his sing hand trouble duco his first also reached the final of the more lively and boisterous for- Seven of a field of 14 starters vice until 242, when Dao broke aght with Albert Finch, back in the second Associated through Tsai's service in the 6th 1940. It happened

gamer to lead by:8-2, A change time when he beat Richard Armals at Croydon, a year ago, and it cropped up again at Leicester when, after banging hway with, two bands for two rounds against Jean Stock, ho suddenly reserved his right for club-like punches that preserved his knuckles from any dizest dizest Impoct

women's open-championship but wards, to get the vortlet-but

lost 0-2 to Miss A. Bates-Rou-Lewis Jones turned it into a 6-5 | finished the race.

ter.

THE

success for the Navy-their first Press.

GAMBOLS

GAME MPa our fo

OUR MEAL TO-NIGHT

GEORGE

DA NO JMUCH PRE HOME-COÓKIJKE

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(WELL THEN. COFT THE MEAL

LATER

AVESTISTAN THE OVER →IT WONT BE LOND OFF

COOKING

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MADAM BERLAND SOME

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Solomons, tells me Randoph was willing to fight Brown one- handed, but that be, Solomons, Inststed on him pulling out,

SENSIBLE

Tirpin will not be allowed to carry out his proposed provincial engagements with Jean Walkich, of France did Renalo Tontini, of dialy, if there is any suspicion.

middleweight champlon.

Properly equipped, I think Randolph could beat Dave Sands.

bia chance With either hand less than 100 percent perfect would be problematical.

(London Express Service)

Soccer's Referees Should Be Picked From The Players

London.

Major boardroom Soccer topic wherever we went over the Easter flesta was the current plethora of rank bad refereeing, and it is perfectly obvious that thought- ful executives of the game are weekly as concerned with which referee they are going to draw for the Saturday - as they are with the players they are going to find available.

"There is so much at stake” one director said, "one bad decision-either bad or unfair--can so unsettle a shaky team fighting to avoid relegation that the boys are really playing against 11 opponents plus two extra hands, that being the stress we place on an inefficient referee."

TRAIN THEM

As aye-witness accounts came tenth of what he knows about to these cars at the end of the the inside of the game." Easter period, the tale of com- plaint increased alarmingly.... Penalties awarded when advantage rule should have been invoked; penalties improd des pite frantic semaphoring by could be done by onthusiastic Tinesmen....

the

He agrees with the necessity for some sort of schooling on points of law, but insists that this

pros, in spare moments of trains Obvious fouls not even noticed:ing while they are still playing, exaggerated lectures to players so that, when playing days were who have been guilty of no more over they could go straight into than enthudan; naive. blind-top-flight refereeing without the eponess to the activities of humiliation of a new novitiate. notorious "killers."

"Even the MCC don't_fiddle about when a first-class re- tiring cricketer lots them know he wants to umpire. He goes straight in. Why shouldn't a footballer?" he says,

THE ANSWER

How to dry this rot and get a corps of referees who could be depended on to

their rulo matches and got the game on Its best legs?

One of the best offensive- defensive players still in the business had no doubt.

"Too many referees today,"

"

Woll, why not?

-(London Express Service)

Harry Hopman's

he said, "have been refereeing Australian Tennis

lives most of their

grown-up without having the advantage of

Ranking List

Melbourne, Apr. 2. Harry Hopman, captain

a playing career In first-class book all right, but they haven't football. They know their rule the practical experience that would let them know the difference between a foul and an and manager of last year's successful Australian Davis Only acident,

one who has gone Cup team, ranks the leading know all the little tricks that follows: through the playing mill cap 10 Australian players as

the professionals are up to. Any оде of us who has been through it can go up for a high ball

under the referee's nose and do things to an opponent that make as if he had winded it look himself.

INNOCENT VIEW

1. Frank Sedgman; 2. Ken McGregors

3. H. Rose;

4. John Bromwich;

Berthington:

7. Adrian dist

8. Don Candy;""

9. Brian Stopphfeldt:

10. Colin LoDE

"The referee has never been

Geoffrey Brown was not on either the giving or the re-

of insufficient ceiving ælde of this kind of ranked because

performances. Strophfeldt, who thing, so you can't blame him beat McGregor in the hardcourt for taking the innocent view. championships Inst year, is "It's the same in every branch Queensland's No. 1. player. of the game, and take it from United Press. me as a player that there are only a handful of referees in the business today who are un (or down?) to all the subtleties practised regularly."...

His claim was that referees should be recruited mostly from

ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

New York, Apr. 1. The Rev. Robert Richards,

the playing ranks, saved the the bottom and working their 13 feet in the pole vault, to embarrassment of "starting. at second man in history to cicer way up into the first flight" and night was voted the "outstand paid up to ten guinees a matching track and fed akete of

1851" by the New York Track "At the moment,"he said, "a Writers Association.

player can go right through a The vaulting vicar from the distinguished carcer on the field mlinois A. C. topped 15 feet or to start all over again as a novice door meets, with his best effort and then find himself expected more Ave times during four In- referee-instructed, possibly, by 15 foet 41⁄2 inches at Chicago-- rule-readers who don't know a United Presa,

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