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Thomas-Humez Fight May Be

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For Title

London, May 28,

Efforts are being made to have the European Welter- weight Boxing Champion- ship fight between Eddie Thomas, the British holder, and Charles Humez, French Champion, at Porth- cawl on June 19 recognised us also being for the world title.

the

Mr Sam Burns, the manager of Thomas, has asked the Bri tish Boxing Board of Control to recognise this It is Burns's reply to what he described as the American authorities' "alde- tracking of Thomas in title eliminators with American boxers,

Thomas has already beaten the of the American contenders, Billy Graham, and a world title contest between Thomas and Humer would be parallel to the Bruce Woodcock-Lee Savold Heavyweight Championship,". Mr Burns nid-Router.

NEXT. FOR "SUGAR"

Berlin, May 28.

World Middleweight cham. Fion Ray "Sugar" Robinson will fight Gerhard Hecht, Germany's No. 1 light heavyweight, in Berlin on June 24. promoter Joachim Goetteri diselased to- day.

Herr Goettori Asid contracts were signed in Paris this after- noon-Associated Press.

NOTICE

THE HONG KONG JOCKET CLUB

THE MAY HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING

of

VOTING MEMBERS will be held ut

the Club House, Happy Valley, un Wednesday, 30th May, 1951. at 5.30 p.m.

ALL MEMBERS are dially invited to attend and

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1951.

HELSINKI GETS READY FOR THE

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GEBERI

Helsinki is getting ready for next summer's Olympic Games. Provisional wooden galleries in the city's Olympic Stadium have been replaced by permanent constructions of Belong. The swimming stadium has been fitted with ́automalle cleansing.

This photograph shows the layout of the city and

1. The Olympic Stadium.

2. Soccer Stadium.

3. Training places.

cor.

4. Riding Sladlum.

participate in any discussion which may ensue.

5. Swimming Stadium.

6. Zoological Garden.

7.

Fairs.

By Order of the Stewards,

S. A. SLEAP,

8.

Trotting tracks.

9.

Velodrome.

Secretary, 10.

Olympic Village.

Hong Kong, 12th May, 1951. 11. Tennis Courts,

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB NOTICE TO MEMBERS SIXTH RACE MEETING Saturday, 2nd June, 1951 (Postponed from Saturday, 26th May, 1951) There are cleven races, The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 pm, and the First Race will be run at 2:00 p.m.

Through Tickets (11 Races-$22.00) may be obtained at the Compradore Office of the Treasurers, IST Roor, Telephone House, also Uckets for the Cash Sweep on the last race of the Meeting as well as the Special Cash Sweep on the "Kwangtung. Handicap"

sciteduled to be run on 6th Octuber, 1951.

Through Tickets reserved for this Meeting but not paid for by 10.00 am on Friday, 1st June, will be sold and the reserva- ***tion concellest for future meetings.

To avoid congestion at the Club's Office at Telephone House, non-members are requested to purchase their sweep tickets at the Club's Branch Offices a

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5. D'Agullar Street, Hong Kong

Road. Kowloon," TOTALISATOR

382,

Nathan

Dividends will be paid on the winning and placed ponies so declared by the Stewards when the “All Clear" is given, The "All Clear" signal will be indicated by a white light and/or a white sphere at the Totalisator Tower. BACKERS ARE AD- VISED NOT TO DESTROY OR THROW AWAY THEIR TICKETS UNTIL AFTER THE "ALL CLEAR" SIGNAL HAS BEEN EX- HIBITED. Aftention is drawn to Hule 23 of the Totalisator Rules which reads as follows:--

In no circumstances will any dividends be pakl or refunds made unless u ficket is produced.

Payment will not be made on lorn or disfigured Uckets,

MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE MEMBERS ARE INFORMED THE 1951 SETS OF MEMBERS' AND LADIES' BADGES NOW SUSPERSEDE THE PREVIOUS ISSUE.

Members and guests are reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the Meeting.

NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.

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Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the RACE COURSE.

The Branch Offices and the Treasurers' Compradore Office will close at 11.00 am, and the Secretary's Office at 11.45 am. The Treasurers' Compradore Office and the Secretary's Office are situated at 1st Floor, Telephone House.

A limited number of timins will be obtainable at the Club House provided they are-ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 27818),

NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PRE- MISES DURING THE MEETING.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

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12. Nordenskoldgatan (street in Helsinki). 13. Fredriksbergs Railway station.

Nottingham 201 For 5 Against S. Africans

Nottingham, May 28.

Helped by a cautious fourth wicket partnership of 123 runs, Nottingham scored 201 runs for five wickets today in reply to the South Africans' first innings of 304 runs. bere.

Neither Joe Hardstaff (87 runs not out) nor Charlie Harris (57 runs) showed much enterprise in their big stand, which lasted three hours and 10 minutes.

Earlier, the touring team had added 44 runs to their Saturday score in un hour's batting. Athal Rowan, who had been 83 runs not out at Satur- day's close, was cleún

bowled when two short of his century. Harold Butler, the Notting- hamshire fast bowler, took the three wickets which fell today

The Blimpish Golfer

GAMES

紅獎

HAROLD MAYES Talking Sport ATHLETES DO THEIR

STUFF BUT-

ON THE RECORD The Finns Prefer All Trouble Rather

Than No

Games

One of our Nordèrn European so bitter about losing that they friends told us the story, the suggent was a Mongolian eye olber day of the reception that that beat them, One would Matti-Jaervinen got in a. non- never have suspected that ot native Scandinavian capital | the Scandinavians. when he WWW throwing the javelin to non-native record din- lancea.

However, these odd'incidents Mail) was one of the sons of happen. Many of them happen- Will Jaervinen, who Was ed at Buenos Ayres at the Pan- Olympic Champion in 1908 in American Games,

The Latin the Discus Throw (Greck,style, | Americans today Gre 3 fast with on effort of 113 feet rising factor in athletic inches. If that doesn't strike

portance. Some of them ar a spark and you have studied black as coal, others are cap the art of drawing, do you re

per-coloured, many an Nordic member the Diskoboulos of as the best examples obtainable, Мугод

in lorite Germany.

That That is, one gets into a rather

It is awkward position and tosses an

said that they threw the floor oversized platter so far that the over-tipe fruit onto of Olympus blinks when ball Anal whenever

in the USA-Argentina baskɛc- llame i lands. According to Lawson Adnerican player tried

one-time coach of

Robertnoa

American Olymple team throw.

อ

late as Berlin in 1930), and other

Noni

R free

is a matter of record that

authorities, mostly Gerinan after the final of the 1,500 archaeologists, the old-time metres run one of the Ams Greek could toss the old-time clean runners came to blows uiscus, as big as a basin, well with one of the Argentiae run- over 200 feet.

ners. Another American runner in the

aco was twice bumped off the track.

Willi Jaervinen was a rather

uncommon character. He was a

Finn. After having won an

Same

The Games had been over a

Olympic Championship, it struck few weeks when an Argentine

him that his accomplishment was paper suddenly accused the both impractical and old-U.S. athletes of being spies and fashioned.

undercover members of the FBI..

Willi had not the gift of eternal youth. He had sons. One was American Olympk oficials Akilles and another was Matzi. Į have shrugged all these in- Akilles come very near twice to cidents off. They point out that being the Olympic Decathlon | there are always 4 few Champion (1928 and 1932). His moments of discord in big in performances still belong to the ternational sports contests and Encyclopaedia Britannica and the sach incidents get atten

big

are repeated there every year. tion out of proportion to their

real importance. When they finally decide on what makes an all-round athlete, they may nominate Akilles. The British athletics are on the upgrade, Recent out-Finns have just re-calculated the standing performances by runners like Roger Bannister, Decathlon tables and have been

fair about the Chris Chataway and McDonald Balley have convinced very

business. everyone of that. That's fine. Now we're all looking for still further improvement in what is perhaps the most competitive field of all in world sport,

Shall we get it? Well, I hope so, just as much as you do, but there's got to be a radical change in the attitude of athletics officials towards the men who are doing their stuff if it's to come.

"Acting 02

Was

reative

whole

two men have o argument," said one American official, it gets big newspaper stories because it is out of the ordinary. But if the other 908 competitors from many nations Finns stretch those tables, Akilles goe any emphasis. Who are the get along well and make last. No matter which way the ing friendships. that doesn't

Decathlon men of all time. He 956?"

the greatestmore important, the two or the was good ruining-short or long distance, jumping, throwing and

remains one of

vaulting.

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Willi's other son was Mattl. He

The Finns, who love athletics more than any other nation in the world does, are very keen about the SUCCESS f their Games in Helsinki next year.

They are also in for more prob

lems than any other 1106 at these Games has ever hid.

Among others, they will prob ably have the Russiana. They will also probably have East and West Germans, Japanese and Spaniards. They want all nations in and they are ready for one.

of history's

greatest

instructions"-~} Particularly when you from where no one ever seems that some extra track officials to be able to explain satisfac- could have been seeing around torilyomcials constantly annoy that time, that the obstacles for He was an unusual lad. performers by doing everything the hurdles event were properly decided that he would throw the

hey can

can to prevent them warm-spaced, so that the athletes Javelin in a style other than ing-ap.

didn't have to complain about Greek. He took years over it. Now!

By the time he had made up it doesn't an athle-nearly breaking their necks. tics expert o

his mind how to throw the stick One that

hurt, and often a without a propen warm-up, an round call for doctor, the one with a point the right way, he athlete isn't likely to put up who stepped up to answer it was

was throwing it so far that they much of show. And if all the was Dr "Ben" Woodard, in spite suspected he was a sleight of

hand artist with a rocket in the "instructions" are given in the of the fact that he had, during hope that the track shall be the course of the meeting, been palm of his hand.

From which eccentricity comes headaches. the dressing-rooms, al- barred kept looking pretty, it's high Time someone In

he was official medical our story. Nobody believes it though realised that the runners selves would far rather have to happened to win the Counts Berlin in 1936. Matti was no contend with a few

of their championship, as well as private child then. He was the reigning Travelling Exhibition which own footprints than risk badly-adviser to a number of the Olympic Champion in the event, may skle with their

thep

athletes. is one of the provincial fea-pulled muscles because

of haven't had the chance of al- tures of the Festival

tuning themselves for the task | Herb McKenley, the "Jamaican also existed at the time a more Innings Britain is a series of 20 in hand. of four hours and 40 minutes,

If that's the real reason for which included 11 fours, en- figures, sculptured in paper.

the "order" why hasn't someone in authority yet discovered that all their objections could prob- ably be met by allowing the athletes to warm-up. in the little-used outside lanes?

for only eight runs, and had Feature of the Land cont five wickets for 3 runs in the innings. -

PAINSTAKING Rowan's painstaking

abled the South Africans to recover. from the dangerous position nt 95 runs for five wickets.

Mann, with a brisk 35 runs, helped him add 52 runs for the Eighth wicket.

In the opening over of the Nottinghamshire innings. Giles had his off-stump sent spinning McCarthy, and Simpson by... went to the same bowler og 22

runs.

-The left-hander, Popic, batted

attractively in a third wicket stand of 56 wih Hard- stuff, but scoring slowed again with Harris at the crease.

Harris, however, provided

one

At the close only 505 runs They are the work of Bruce had

been scored In two

full Angrave, a London designer To days' cricket-Reuter.

go with them, he has written verses about the sporting Briton:

The reason why, the Britisker

Seçme such a decent sort

au-viser to the Surrey team, who | today. They discredited "it"at"

was

There Then there was the case of

American" visitor. There was

a lot of fuss because his num- ber wasn't properly attached. and there were even suggestions that he might be disqualified if it w wasn't put right.

Is anyone going to suggest that the crowd and the officials, for

If the officials think there's whose benzist.numbers are used, any exaggeration, they should wouldn't have recognised Hust- of the ting Herb," with or without a see the faces of some lesser lights us they go back number? to the dressing -

rooms when 'swarned they've been

att." They can't all lake the same Add to this the grouses of the line as the accepted stars, who | athletes who were kept - hang- Just go ahead and complete Ing around in the cold for the their preparation whether any benefit of keeping a television one likes it or not

timetable, and you'll see all is

TOOK THE. BISCUIT

not well.

Of course, I shall be told, as I have been told before, that the

But what really took the bis-athletes don't complain, and

right you do.

If a Russian will not want to run in the same heat with a Spaniard, the Latin Americans Spanish cultural kinfolk. Things más German bby get so bad that they will have called Gerhard Stock,

There i

to run the 10,000 metres in lanes with a moat in between elderly German, called Adolf lanes or have all races decided Hitler.

with the runners running one by one, with Indonesians acting as time-keepers and 1 COMT- mittee of a Russian, a Latin

Indian and in importance. in American, on German eyes in 1930.

Adelt Finn standing by. condescended to slip hands with an Afrikan every now and then, provided he had left the dust

Gerhard and Adolf were con- temporaries

a

of Europe so fast that he must all. I any Finnish boy is go- The Finns still want them have jumped elther high or ing to be long.

a Championat Helsinki, the Finns don't want

Adolf shook hands with Jesse ny suggestion that somebody Owens, and Cornelius Cooper belter wasn't competing. They

Johnson, long and high Jump They believe in the 998

want to take everybody Dn.

who

champion respectively. He later don't make trouble rather than shook hands with Gerard Stock the two who do. after Gerhard bad beaten old Will's son, Matti,

Was a deadly

silence,

of the brightest spots of Each is playing a different cut was what Mac Balley had that I am making a mountain Every time that Malti threw this partnership when he in- after tea and hit three fours of reproduced here is one dulged in 4 burst of activity game. The blimpish golfer to contend with at the British out of a molchi. What would there

of Games. Anyone who was out on you say? Don't you think our Every time that Gerhard threa all the there were reverberations. At Whit Monday will be prepared chops are entitled to successive balls, with two more them.

that it was. to: oertB

cold preferential treatment they can the time the Germans loved all shortly afterwards,

long before he ran get, as day. So Mac, his 220 yards cemi-final, was livering the they keep de- Finns Mattl included.

goods?

They preferred Lo

cheer Too making arrangements with one

Then let Gestord. The whole business in of the White ground staff some of the officials substitute athil on record in reminiscences to carry his track suit over to "oficial" for "officious," and the and memoirs other than Finnish.

friendly bunch It takes the Iron-nerved to the fishing line, so that it ataletes a be ready for, him to stẹp | really, would

ir they're reasonably form in a dead silence.

per- Good treated-witt talos caro into as soon as he had finished.

of the javelin' throwers are a bodyful Nothing wrong in thist? Just rost.

of nerves. ormat, sensible

Most of these are precaution, p normal,

Sax removed from the ferrous. But not to a track steward. who stepped in to deny him the right to do it. Mae was so annoyed that ho promptly went out and did 21.1 seconds, equalling his record.

Lawn Bowls Teams

The following players have been selected to represent Club de Recreio in their Lawn Bowls league matches against

Is simply found in his profound

Lave of indoor sport,"

He never cribs at cribbage Nor swears at solitaire, And when he's in 4 mess,

chees

He doesn't turn a hair,

at

At skittles, more than skittish;

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will be

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Then he went back to the Dela) and saic "Now, you'd better argue with matt

before

World Fencing

Championships

-“RECORDER.” ·

Most Popular Golfer To

Visit Britain

London, May 27.. The keen disappointment felt because Britain did not win the Returning to our friend, the amateur golf championship was Nordern European. He was tempered to-day by the know. tome on leave in Scandinavia ledge that the winner. Dick in tile era when Matt was Chapman, of Pinehurst, North great, It was a long er—about | Carolina," is one of the most 1930 to 1938-and he remembers popular golfers ever to visit

in there shores. one of the Scandinavian

in the other and had outthrown all the

Chapman, who won at his Next day the

seventh altempt -(he first, play. metropolitan the carried

headline, ed in 1935), when he licked

He may, not thing at · Aris, but] 21e Anat, because you see what's pionships continued here this when Matti was per confint

dor's

*

Brings out the beat, that's

Brilip-

Though. Englishmen don't laugh fakat draughts

They all adore a joker-- : Even when theựro · playing

bridge.

Canaitu, snap or poker,

reich at Cox's Road to-minTow And so you ace why British fous

THERS, VA.C.- Tribble;

BY ORDER.

8. A. BLEAP,

Split

Becratory.

Reserva, C.

When on one's torej at dominoes,

; \ Are: not' disposed to hate,

---ïo need to Dominate.

happened."-Mac toki me;

Stockholm, May 28. The World Fencing

Cham

afternoon with, the second round geance in my heart. There was of the elimination round on

In Pool A

Just went on and ran with ven-

nothing friendly about it. I was men's open the following fen- "Slant-eyed Matti Wins Again. Charley Con Fot Oklahoma

30 mad."

It could, of course, have cers qualined for the quarter The painstaking Fink had been City had never been soch to been another runner, mora tem- Stroje:

called fa Mongolian for his polos, play so well. Ha made few mia- Deramental, who would have four victories; Fiorano Marini, who also produce

Emile Gretsch Luxembourg. The Finna and the Hungarians, fakes all week and his judg made no show at all,

outstanding | ment`ot distance was uncanny," Italy tour victories, Osborne athletes, ste descended from the The

Coe who runner-up; Berter

wito ore, not burned. In the best of the

goft Why did it happen? Because Paul 73, reden; three victories; Hung Mu

Hungary, thros vlc- || legnidary,

week against the UB, champ the oficial though Mac Wallminalod in Pool - were golian tribe, who once querran N, in the quarter-final was "They were actually a Mon- | Bara Urzetia of Rochester,

lig-based, and wanted pre

Kerentia) kreatment? I don's Klaus Morch, Norway, wa vip Eastern Europe. pretend to be able to answer | torios) - Nisiaen,

that one, but 11) 'go so far as victories; Philippe. Co

well. lh the running und), the duai nine holes when Chapman applied; the pressure, u Uutted