1951-05-04 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL. FRIDAY, MAT 4, 1951.

There's Too Much Criticism Of Women In Sport

Says WALTER PILKINGTON

to

a

A male correspondent has had the audacity to write newspaper criticising women for taking part in sport, Evidently he sees them as the fair and gentle sex and wishes they would shun manly pastimes. He does not feel they are at all glamorous occupations. "Stick to your knitting, girls," he declares, "and leave sport to the Abhorring Amazons, he sighs, perhaps, far the graceful, shrink- ing maidenliness, pravalent in womanhood during Queen Victoria's long reign in the last century.

men."

As there is scarcely a branch of sport which the healthy, athletic young women of 1930 do not pursue with as much enthusiasm as the so-called stronger sex, and with more than modest success, this offending male deserves to bring upon his head a storm of feminine wrath for his effrontery. He-la behind the times, He has yet to realise that the age of extreme femininity in women is past,

Опе

He should have been at Sheringham, Norfolk, one wild day in late Soptember to see the third round of the English women's golf championship. Play went on in appalling weather, with gusts of hurricana force accompanied by squalls of rain from the sea. It was a test of endurance even for men to battle with such elements, but the women did not shirk the ordeal. The wind rocked the smaller ones. gust swept a heavy golf bag out of a caddie's grasp and blew him off his feet.

The mon

snug

in the 1929. and

apart from 1930, clubhouse, but on the course, į Mermaids have represented determined not to give in, was Britain in all Olympic Games 67-year-old Mrs Sarah Sparrow, since women were first allowed the oldest competitor, who had to swim in them in 1920. delighted everybody by winning,

the two previous rounds when

club played before 53,000 on Everton ground, Liverpool. Ever since the game was for charitable purposes, and this will always be the policy. Matches have already been fixed for next. sion by this Presion Women'.

Is that not something abouter team ni London, Hu

tho weather was kinder. She which Britain can bu

prou

other

towns and cities. A French team has visited England year after

year to play these pioneers of football for women.

was all square at the turn instead of wanting 119 young Leeds, and Munchiester and in against Д Woman 30 years

women to be bashjul, backward younger, but, not surprisingly, and pretentiously ladyllko. was exhausted and lest the next There seems to be no end to five holes and the game. Still what they will try in sport, and there was much more fighting | they do it for pleasure, spirit in this than in knitting. merely to ape men.

SPIRIT OF DEFIANCE

EVEN FOOTBALL

not

The

The same spirit of defianco |

Football Association inspired tiny Elleen Fenton, afrowns on football for women. 22-year-old teacher from Dews-considering that it can be in- bury, Yorkshire, to swim from jurious, and it is not allowed to France to England in 13 and a be played on grounds under the half hours in the summer. She Association's Jurisdiction. But

Sel

set out

to conquer the English does not prevent keon Channel which hai beaten more robust girls, many of them publicised swimmers and she hospital nurses, from playing succeeded, The qualities of grit football in many Towns and and hardihood together with the

the cities. will to win are at least as pro- nounced in women who swim

Surely even correspondent who dous to like missclo girls admiration for the pluck of these

as in men.

And CIU

kome

unladylike or

They do not think it is either harmful or any more vigorous than bockey in which thousands of girls and women indulge enthusiastically overy winter. Neither do they

two women, so far apart in ago, stand around like a bunch who achieved

of something in mannequins touching up their sports primarily intended for hair or fussing with their shirts. men,

Football has been played for of Darrow-in-Furness, England. Preston Ladies was tired after an exhausting founded by a Mr Alfred Frank- struggle through

Sixteen-year-old

Doris Fell,

more tha

30 years by the Football Club,

TO MEET

DROBNY

Keen Competition In Yesterday's League Tennis Matches

By "ARGONAUT”

IN FINAL

The Mixed Doubles ́"A" and Men's "D" Division Tennis Leagues opened yester. day, without any major upsets but with keener competition than in previous years. year's runners-up, Chinese Recreation Club, although winning by 61% to 2% did not Both matches in the Mixed "A" produced some very close results. Last have matters all their own way against a vastly improved Kowloon Cricket Club team

at Cox's Road.

At

Chator Road, Ladies'

the ice cold land. This sportsman has taken Recreation Club, sparked by freshi water and dangerous his team to Canada, the United their first pair of Dr G. Smart Currents

Men's "D" Division IRC 8, UCC 1

5. M. Rumjala and. B. M. Omar

of Lako Windermere, States and France. Originally and Mrs Diana Cooper, who won (tie) b Fing Man-kom and she was not a pathelle

eile they were known as Dick Kerr's all their three ectacle, She Was elated.

ed. Ladies in 1917. It was thought Hongkong

rels, defeated | P. W. Leung 0-3 beni §. H. Lacing anų M. K. Yung 6-3, heat Zaman

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For she was the first woman to be a passing craze, but more.cals to the club by SIX and $. W. Yung 6+0......___

ог

No-less-than

University

HKCC

LRC KCC USNC (Bye).

Y SCAA "1"

v KCC Ladies' "A" Division

Y CRC

✓ SCAA

S. Yusuf and R. A. Bux, brav raz

and

girl to swim the ten and a half and more girls joined the team three drown sets featured this Fine and Leung G-3, fort to Leung miles (10.8 kilometres) length as others "became older and keenly contested match of this great Inko and it was a married.

and Yung 6-7, Degi Zaman feat which even Copiain_Webb,

In the Mon's "D" Division, Yung 6-1. the first man to swim the English The club has raised £140,000 last year's champions, CRC "q" A. Tumjahn and I. Haroon deat Channel, failed to achieve. Doris

Fing and Leung 6-3, beat Leung but the runners-up, and Ying 6-2, charitable objects,

bye,

and beat Zaman was in the water nearly ten and

hospitals. nursing South China, scored a sweeping Yung 6.0.

9-0 over Kowloon Cricket Club, CRC 54. RECREIO 34

At Oberhausen

for various Including

war

drew a

win was

Remedios 0-0, beat A. Lery-ent Guterres 8-2.

a half hours and rum and glucose services, blood transfusion, the Urban Council "1" made their kept her going.

British Legion and

R 11 Yew and 9. memorials. In 33 years of foot-debut in league tennis with a "TCRC) "beat" "A. Braga and A in Gorreany ball the team has been almost pod victory of 5-4-over Hong-Rosa 6-0, drew with 3. Aber and 4. in September the little 14-year-immune from accidents, and has king Cricket Club. old Scottish wonder swimmer, achieved a wonderful record for Another impressive Margaret McDowell, won the 100 a club without big enclosures to that of Ladies' Recreation Club Braga and Roza 2-6. beat Alez, and H. Yuen and B. W. Lee lost to metres back

stroke from the play upon and without covered who registered at convincing tedios 1. beat Lere German

Gulceres 6.3. champion, Gertrude accommodation for spectators. B1⁄2-41⁄2 triumph over Kowloon Hersbruck, who had been rated

P. Yuen Docks

and B LAW loss to a certainty for the event through

Droga and Roza 0-2. fest to Alez The team plays mostly In the Recreio's team of youngsters and remedios 3.7, beat Lery and being second in the European summer and Mr Frankland be did very well to hold CRC "Outerres 8-9. championships.

lieves it is a world record for to a slender 514-3 win, con- Kilmarnock schoolgirl sport for any club to have played sidering that most of tho ay well become another Nancy 640 matches, won 664, drawn 27 Portuguese boys Riach, the

brilliant

aro in their Scottish and lost andy

nine games in first season of league tennis. .swimmer

who

fatally that period, against English, stricken by Infantlle paralycis Scottish Irish. Welsh and YESTERDAY'S RESULTS whon at the height of her fome selected European

may

way

and physical perfection.

⚫ Unknown until 1969, Margaret

If she continues to develop is

and other teams. It has scored 3,022 goals to 323, a remarkable feat,

Floodlighting

•

Was

Mixed "A" Division

HKCC 3 LRC-4 ·

& Mrs

LRC, 814, K. BOOKS A. Kite and Alford (LRC) drew with EG.

unptures and W. Chamby park beat D. Monsumers and 4-2, bost W. käis end. A. Banks (-1.

B. Turi and A. Tudo best Hum=" Phy and Chambers 86 best Monument and Park G-1, beak Mis and Banks G

R. J'uresil and A. W. Cutehor hair Trumpbre and Chamberk

Joe Louis To

Fight Savold

New York, May 3. Joe Louis, former World Heavyweight Champion, will meet Lee Savold, who is recognised as World Heavyweight Champion in Europe, over 12 rounds at the Polo Grounds here on June 18, the International Boxing Club announced today. Reuter.

"News Chronicle" *** Golf Tourney

J. Mackle

Slagter has just been (HKCC) lost to Dr Smart & Monument mýd certain to become one of Britain's | permitted by the Football Mrs Cooper 2-8; drew with 'Ash, Mila and Banko firest swimming hopes. She is Association. In 1919, the loan & Mrs Scholes B-6; boat Dow a natural mermaid. although of searchlights for

TODAY'S GAMES a Proston

& Mrs Barty 0-0, not belong she does

to the women's football match in ald

Men's "A" Division K.C.A. Ball & Mrs Rawlins CRC famous

Mormolds club

officially (HKCC); lost to

✓ Rochelo of of unemployed

Dr Smart&SCAA "3" London, which this yoar sanctioned. Five years later, the Mrs Cocper 2-0: drew with Anh

v Urban C. celebrated its golden (50 years) team played at Burnley on a & Mrs Scholes d-d; beat Dony, & Jubileo" and produced that in-winter's night in Goodlighting | Mra Barty 0-4. comburable swiremer Joyer so-bright that a newspaper, could

R.M. Cooper Helen Yala and others. bo read in the middle of the Wiseman (EKC) lost to Dr

·To do... awam-in-all—the field.

Smart & Mrs Cooper 4-0 losi finits and European cham-

Ships for five years from League grounds was banned this to Dow & Mrs Harty 2-6.

Before

Macpherson. & Mr Final Acceptors- women's football on to Ash & Mrs Schoka 2-0: lost For Winston

Churchill Stakes

FLIGHTS TWICE WEEKLY

POAS

AMORTH & SOL

MORTJSSODH

London, May

Ken Bousfield Leads With A

Crisp 65

Brighton, May 8. British Ryder Cup golfér Ken Boushold set the pace in Finni acceptors, number- the first round of the "News ing 18 for the Winston Chronicle £1,600 tourng Churchill Stakes. running ment at Hallingbury Park over one milo, alx furlongs today with a crisp Chong and 60 yards at Hurst Park shot outside the record for on Montasy May 14, were the 0,616 yards layout, | nangunced today.

They are:pro

Felicissimo Ampon, of the Philippines, beat South Africa's Eric Sturgess in straight sets in 55 minutes -to enter the final of the British Hardcourt Cham- pionship Singles at Bourne. mouth yesterday,

He will-meet Jaroslav

Drobny in the final:

Ampon & Drobny Will Meet In Hardcourt Final

Forest And City Will Now Battle For Nottingham's Crowds

Says ARCHIE QUICK

The two League football grounds situated closest to, each other in England ore in Nottingham.· Forest'a ground is 'at Trent Bridge on the South side of the River Trent and not really in, the city at, all, but in Weat Bridgford, Bus it is pear enough to be able to see County's around at Meadow Lane across the rooftops.

The vagaries of fortune which have beset these two clubs in postwar football have been one of the big features of English Soccer.” A year ago the Lace City, for all its: long and honourable, football history, possessed only two. Third Division clubs, like that other languishing city, Bristol:

Tommy Levin "altered all | winning oloven a fair trial first. that. His inspiration, bactech by |1 voliove they are good enough a Board of Directors who did | to da well in Division Two, but not care how much they spank, the Directors have given me got

Indunty Into Division Two. carte blanche in the matter of

gates paid for Lawton, getting now mon if I feel it Is and now the club has realised necessary." £35,000 on Jackle Sewell.

Forest brava now followed their rivals lead for they realise that the senior club in the city will always attract the bigger galca. Manager Bily Walker ex-Engrandi, and Wednes

VIDE

forward-assures me that no object in

will be

money keeping the Forest in Division Two, consolidating their position and eventually getting Division Ono us their goal.

They have a fine ground, a progressive set of Directors, und, withal, a fine team. I saw them win 4-1 at Gillingham, and,

The Eleven Cricketers Of 1950

Londoni.

although they were alded bý As a new cricket sonson some bad goalkeeping. they

showed very clearly that they dawns so our memories of are out of their class in Division what has passed are re- Three.

freshed by the appearance There is hardly a boiler cen-of the several cricket tre-half in the country than almahacks which are now Harold

Geger, and what a dead- ly centre forward Walter on the market. They recall Ardron is! When he was with for us such incidents as the his native Rotherham he set up thrilling struggle by Eng a now Northern Section record and to avoid the follow-on, of 38 goals in a season.

and inevitable defeat, in the final Test against the West Indies at the Oval.

He hos scored 31. goals for Forest this season to equal the club record of "Boy" Marlin. Strange that Forest has been in existence for 80 years, and

They remind us that the one has scored more than a race for the County Chara goals for them in one season, pionship finally ended in, a

"Wo ahali no hesitate to

DJ

Lawn Bowls

Teams

mend money if we go up, said tie between Lancashire and

with Manager Walker to me, but I Surrey,

Yorkshire, should Rive the promotion- ever a power in English cricket, third, only 20 points behind. They review tho forthcoming season and Invariably open wide the doorway for discussion with thoir selection of the beat cricketers of the year.

Such

a pattern has been followed by the Editor of The Playfair Cricket Annual whose 11 cricketers four members of the victorious West, Indies touring team and kco

two from the Lancashire side First Division v Hongkong Fact which shared tho

Championship ball Club (Away).-U.

Labrum, His selected X is Ramadhir Werrell Weekes,

The following are Club teams for League Lawn Bowls matches this week-end. All games will

tort at 3.30 pm, sharp.

of 1950 include

Bournemouth, May 3 The Fillpino, Felicisimo Ampon, beat the South Afri- can, Eric Sturgess, 6-3, 6-0,

JN. Wong. R.S. Capell, E.Ç. FK- 6-1, today to enter the Brither (slop); W. Colledge, D. Ros-Valentine, lish Hardcourt Tennis et Thompson. F. Goodwin (Worl Indies), Grloves

Iskipi: 0. Lee, W.J. Howard, J. Tattersall (Lancashire). Tournament's Men's Singles Dron, W. Hong Sling (skip).

All players hatted above are to and Wright (Kent), Fishlock final:

meet at the Star Ferry, Hongkong (Surrey), Parkhouso (Alamoz- talde,mot-3_pADJ

Pan), and Sheppard (Sumer and Filipino Club Cambridge).

allika, L.

accurate

minutes.

mistake.

Ampon, playing fluent and tennis, won in 55 He hardly made a Sturgess, after the never came into the

first set, pleture to a serious extent..

HEAVY ARTILLERY' Jaroslav "Drobny of Egypt beat Syd Lovy (South Africa), | 6-3, 0-7, 6+2 in another semi-

The burly titleholder's final. heavy

artillery proved 100 severe for Lavy whose normally strong defences .were

pierced

by the heavy attacking strokes of the respectacled Drobny.

Vladimir

Second Division v

and

Evans

at King's Park-H. Bones. Brezny, T.E. Haber NO PACE BOWLER

skip): M.A. Grimpell, W. Borac, It is a strong combination but, W. Cowło, F.A. Tibbie (skip);

surprisingly S.A. Ony, P. Howseth, J.G. Ra-

containa

H. Kow. 9. Rametiand,

enough.

Berlion, Tang (p) Roerves not one bowler af pace. One cannot help" wondering whether Third Division v Hongkong Eles perhaps this is not unfair to trie Recreation Club at Cox's Road. Alec Bedser, who apart from 1. Ridadole, C. Ingledom. A his efforts in Australia, which Triers.C. Tribble (skip): 0.

Fiyan, Elt.P. White. E. Sakazes, flour is not taken into account C.I. Stapleton (skip); A.V. Lopes. | in

of eloven in the

aplection P.W. Cacall, J. Chub. B. He cricketers of 1850, was England's mani (sp). itesrves-J.1. Sie wart, B. Grimpell, W.4. Robbar

HKCC...

+

top wicket taker against the West Indies. Second Division v Prison Officers And I feel equally certain that Club at Stanley F.C.B. Blads, there are many West Indians TC. Fairbum, A.M. Dixon, E.J.R. who feel that Alan Rae is worthy Mitehall (skip): 31 Phidips, B.V. Armiger R.R. Invier, A.V. Brown of a place, possibly even at the Corník (Egypt) (a) P.S. Cready,, A.W. Todo expense

"or" one of his four and Miss Beverley Baker (U.S.) way H.G. Slade, A., Howie chosen colleagues. But if Rae beat New Zealand's Donnis | (sklo). Reserves.W. Sewell cannot claim a place in the Coombe and Britain's Miss N.P. Box.**** Betty Wilford, 6-2, 0-4 in the third

of the Doubles.

In another third round Mixed Doubles

match, Ampon and Miss Shirley Fry (U:8.) beat E. Mandelbaum (Faypt)

and.

round

Mixed

1,1

RO. First Division v Kowloon Bowling his fair share of the credit in Green Chin a Booktrpao the section devoted to the review Hazeck, Kat. Humleben, 21:9. Taof the tour,

'1 selected XI, at least he is given

and U.A. Buvojahus, (d) Omr. 8. TUR

BIKI UAKI, Omar (skip): 7. Hoooo

and

Miou (skin),

Mau, A.M. Omar and A.

Second Division

& greater contribution to the

"No West Indies player mudo

Winning

of the Rubber - than

“HIR

ከፍ

Rag"

says the review. Recreto At worth to the side really cannot

Kingʻa Park,--8.0, Dux, A. See-

Mrs Van Coller (South Africa) 0-0, 0-1..

min, A.R. Back and 43. Wahab to over, emphasised. With Then in the Courth

(skip): 1. Kitchell 8.9 Husk, most equable temperament, and round they beat N. Cockburn Bumjahr, and M. Adel Biterly unselfish spirit, he saw Mrs B. Barbot: (South (ip); AM. Kodu, AJ what his role should be and Atrics), 3-0, 6-1, 6-0.--United A.D. Mador and E. All (skin). Pross.

10 the hill." Club at Bookumpoo---Abos, 9. Bucke, J. Aur and 4.4.A. knowledge of

review concluder

WOMEN'S SINGLES

• Third Divisiori v Roles, Recreation proved: it

Rahman - ~CARDJY A.R

tha

"Rac's the game and 5.A.B. Bux. M.Al Wahab, ned his balanood judgment, musi Ash: Kitobela (defp); A.. Boboo, mark him out as a potential Podiel Arena, ka - Abbas und West Indies captain 0.1. Sadicke

·A.R. AbĻUS and 34.7Jóna.

BEFO

-Three-United-States-and.one British playar youched the semi- finals of the Women's Single

In the quarter-finals: Mrs Jean Walker Smith (Britain) beat Mrs Nancy Balton (Ausirala) 6-1, 6-1,

(KKR):32. Pilo, J. Watson, AL RA Miss Boverly Baker. (United ¦ Gets RL, Birma ( Sites) bba Mia Kay Tuckey MINA LAMUND (Britain) 6-8, 0-2, G-2.

·First' Division v Kowicons. Celchées

Derecidy, W.

Miss Doris Hart · (United | the 'Oreen, Club at States) beat Miss Jean Quartier dat the (Britain) 6-1, 6-4;"";

Mai Shirley Fry (United Siatiny best Bey Thelma Long

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