1951-07-11 — Page 7

SPORTING SAM

By Reg. Wootton

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1951..

NEW MOVES ARE AFOOT TO NARROW THE GULF BETWEEN AMATEURS & PROFESSIONALS

Says VERNON MORGAN

London. July 10.

New moves are afoot to narrow the gulf which divides amateurs and professionals. More and more are officials of most sports begin- ning to understand that in this changing world, of today they must be" · realistic when it comes to the question of “expenses.”

Only recently the United States Lawn Tennis Federation suspended three leading American players-Irvin Dorfman, Fred Kovaleski and Miss Dorothy Head- for a too liberal interpretation of the word expenses. Their action has not met with much approval anywhere.

Some say that they have been made the scapegoats among the crowd of American players who for years have been "following the sun" to play lawn tennis.

professionals every sport, Commonwealth

some

cash

rations. Britain, the land of would rather take their Why pick on these three in the

distinction

counter attitude of many International (dichard

between openly than under the players who know full well justamateurs and

in us at present. That is what the how most of their colleagues almost

of table tenis ployees have been live out of the game while still the

countries doing for Some years now, and the United States may op- They are alt "amateurs" ΟΣ retaining their amateur status,

Others

suy that the whole pose

will "professionals", principle is wrong and lawn probably be passed. tennis players should be allowed

And a good thing too, expenses, not for eight weeks

can hear international .only as at present, but for all tennis players saying.

the year round.

AUSTRALIAN MOVE The Australians are to move this new suggestion at the next the International meeting of

The

Federation.

ure

ed of

perhaps

the motion

but it

new ory

an

depending how you care to describe them. OPEN TOURNAMENTS one

Jawn for open Jown

tournaments has They tennls

been heard recently in the press. It only needs the Australian mo tion to get through and open tournaments are on the way. theugh not in our #fetime are

likely to see thrown open to the ers of the world

status.

HKFA To Send

Australians TeamToHelsinki

the most enlighten-

of all nations.

Gone years ago was any dis- tinction

In cricket between on amateur and a professional. Every man gets paid the same from Sir Donald Bradman to the artisan player who has no other

job or position but cricket. They want lawn tennis play- ers to get all the expenses they

thel need to play tennis for country, if they want, all the year round.

This suggestion is likely to meet with the approval of most

The Hongkong Football Association will be sending

a soccer team to take part in the Olympic Ganies at Hel- sinki next year.

This was announced by Mr J. Skinner, Chairman of the HKFA at Special

T

Connell Meeting of the As sociation yesterday. Mr Skinner said that he waS awalling clarification on the question of qualification.

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The start will

where with

sionals

peling

Wimbledon

tennis play- irrespective

come, eise- full-time profes-

amateura and

comTM , in the

same tourna- ment,

Probably

under pro- fessional auspices,

There is little doubt that the standard

Nol would improve, only because of the mixing of the players but because very many promising young players,^| in Britain at any rate, are pro vented from

playing much

Jawn game.

tennis by the cost of the

The rackets, the baile, the clothes and all the sandry ex- pensive things that go with 11, are curtailing their activity.

for

A chance of getting all these nothing 55 "expenses" would help many a youngster along the road to fame

Track and field athletics are probably the most

amateur of all popular sports. In this branch of sport ometals have fought tooth and

nojl preserve the strictest possible amateurism.

io

These same officinis are now beginning to realise that their only salvation is to remove the word, amateur from the books altogether and lay down status conditions for competition In certain events.--Reuter,

KCC Ladies Are Ready To Bowl

Two rinks of KCC lady sub- scribers, who have put in con- sidertible practice in prepartion, will take on the members in a match over 15 heads on Sunday, commencing of 5 p.m.

The teams will be:

NATIONAL LEAGUE WINS ANNUAL

ALL-STAR

GAME

Detroit, July 10.

The National League won the 18th annual All-Star baseball game today, defeating the American Leaguers, 8-3, on homers by Stan Musial, Bob Elliott, Gil Hodges and Ralph Kiner.

The best the favoured American Leaguers could do in the home-run department was a pair by the Detroit contingent-Infielder George Kell and outfielder Vic Wertz.

Unsteady pitcher Eddie Lopat of the New York Yankees caught the fall force of the Nationals' blast. His first piteli to Cardinal outfielder Muslal In the fourth. inning dis appeared into the upper fight- field slands.

Then

After he got one out, Hodges, Dodger infickery singled, Ellett, a senior star Infielder of the Boston Braves,, lofted n long fly 300 feet Into the lower left-held scais.

LOSS ON LOPAT

That was enough to hang the 1095 on

who come in after

fuzzy Ned Garver of the

St. Louis Browns zipped through a three-inning stretch;

New York Sal Maglie, the Glants ace with the long side- burns, was acclaimed the winning

SHINE

INDIANS Dark Blues Win Inter-Varsity

Cricket Match

London, July 10. Oxford University beat Cambridge University by 21 runs today.

Oxford University 178 and 208 (Boobbyer 80, Row, right-arm- Subba legbreak bowler, five for 21).

Cambridge University 168 and 197 (Divecha right-arm medium swing bowler, seven for 62).- Reuter.

County Cricket

Results

London, July 10.

The following were the results of first-class county cricket matches played to. day:

At Hove: Sussex beat Glou- by an innings ana cestershire 14 runs. Gloucestershire 103 and-250-(Sir Derek Balley 111, Oakman,

right-arm offspin

SUBSC bowler, four for 41). 375 for eight decla

Reclared

At Ebbw Vale: The match between Glamorgan and Somer- set was abandoned. There was Somerset 241. no 'play today dwing to rain. Glamorgan 84

for three.

At Colchester; The match

pitcher although wicked for both homers by Wertz and Keil.

Big Den Newcombe of Brack- ond Ewell Blackovell ct yn Cincine breezed the rest of the way with tour shut-out innings.

National

0 12 1 American

3.10 2 -Asstelated Press,

Korean Truce

Talks Lose Top Billing

New York, July 10, News of Sugar Ray Robinson's loss of the middleweight title to Bri- tain's Randolph Turpin struck New York fight fanA like thunderbolt today

1

and rivalled the Korean

truce talks for top play in the Wednesday morning papers.

One morning paper, the Daily Mirur, even gave the fight top billing. Its headline: "Sugar Ray Loses Title,"

The Herald Tribune gave n

column banner to to top eighth Karca but gave equal space to streamer in almost as big "Roy Robinson Loseu Tille to Turpin in London Fight."

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P.C.49 IS HEADING FOR KOREA

BEFORE

YOU

TAKE

Off.

Brian (P. C. 49) Reece and lovely Cabaret, star Paula Marshall brush up their BOAC flight instructions. They are flying to Korea on July 25 to entertain

UK and Commonwealth troops.

He's Bringing A Conjuror And Two Pretty Girls

By PETER LOVEGROVE

ever since.

Hard on the heels of Jack! somewhat nervously and hesl-Desert, Palestine, Syria, Iraq At one time be Warner, the popular film, tantly down the passage towards and Persia,

controlled eleven; stage shows the studio. radio and mualc-hall star,

All she saw and heard was a ond 24 cinemas in the Middle entertain the United door noiselessly opening, and a East and Pelforce. Kingdom und Common-hand appeared clutching a gui

Like his old friend-Brian, be: followed by a loud bang. Turning wealth troops in Korea,

smartly on her heels, she rushed has been twenty years in show

WEB trained by! of out of the building, and has re-business and a delightful quartette

foot in the BBC Maskelyne. In the old St British artists, including fused to set

He tells George's Hall days. The Daily News gave o

the first two British girls to page banner-"Sugor Loses Title-top position over be allowed to perform in results of a baseball

the war zone. game.

They are flying to the Far Eust on July 25.is are due to play at Ebisu in Leave Camp, Pusan, in the unofficially, Forward Maintenance Area shows this would prob- to the 20th, 28th. Common-Desert veteran East, his com- haired cabaret artiste Pauta Canadian manding officer was Lieut. Marshall, just back from a very

Bil-star

CRIMP IN THE PLANS The International Boxing Club

announced immediately that Robinson's contract with Turpin called for a return bout. It indicated ably be in September outdoors in New York.

The IBC spokesman added: "Turpin's victory certainly puts a crime in our plans. It removes the lustre from the hod around here is that Turpin's victory is good for boxing." United Press

Robinson-Graziano fight wc scheduled for September,

the Nevertheless,

consensus

+

In World War Two, Reece me that he has now sawn S17:

men and women in neat halves Gunner for three served years before transferring to the and is just itching to carve Entertainments side .in the many more around the 38th Middle East and North Africa. Parallel. He is also taking his He was the Eighth Army's latest Illusion, thanks to which Entertainments Officer in Italy he will soon be able to claim to 1944 and 1045, and appeared, be the first magician to "float".

in a number Di❘ woman in mid-alt over the before

Western middle of a battioneld,

That woman.. is lovely fair-

In the Middie

time.

the

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wealth and 25th

successfut tour of Malta and Brigades, and at Iwakuni, Colonel Robert Harbin, one of

our best known conjurors and the Middle East with Leslie Kure and Tokyo.

illusionists, and they are being Henson's Gaieties. This Was Star of this new show is re-united for this Korean trip Paula's first- experience of !! Brian Reece, better known under Reece command thin

overseas tours during the re- to BBC listeners all over

cent* war she was still .A. Harbin started World War

vigtalled schoolgirl and Archibald Berkeley Engineers, the world as P.C.49-alias Two as a driver in the Royal followed a season as principal

commissioned boy

"Monsieur Eddle Willoughby who, with the in the Royal Artillery, and Gray pantomime,

to the aid of fiancee Joan Carr's eventually transferred

RASC to run troops' entertain- intuition and despite. the ments in Egypt; the "Western

Dave Sands exasperated disapproval of

Outpoints

Mel Brown

Sergeant-Wright-and-Chief. Inspector Wilson, has never yet failed to solve a crime in less than 30 minutes in

was

Ma & Pa Kettle

J

the Division of the Go To Town Metropolitan Police area.

P. C. 40 is not "bashing the

A "Universal" picture for

London, July 10. beat" just now and has laid up a 'universal audience, but Dave Sands, Empire his Sunday helmet until Sep- the children will enjoy it between Essex and Lancashire Middleweight Boxing Cham-tember, but Brian at most. From the moment Pa

WDS

384 for

LADY SUBSCRIBERS: Mrs At tha Oval: The match be

to Surrey and Kent

E. C.

for five declared.

WRS

Mrs W. H. tween Colledge,

W. Hongsling drawn.

202 and 204 for enough. In and Mrs J. A. Tibble (skip); severs (Clark 78). Surrey 491 Mrs J. S. Beach, Mrs V. C. Labrum, Mrs B. Goodwin and C. Champelovier, (skip). MEMBERS:

E. A Abraham,

10 rounds. Two were oven.

LACKED THE PUNCH As Dudley: The match be

The Austrailan, though on tween Worcester and Warwick-

the lacked throughout, shire was

Warwick.top drawn. D. S. Green, W. Baker and shite 343. Worcester 164 (E. necessary punch to do any real W H. Cowle (skip); Joe Cooper

not out, Grove, damage to his opponent and he never looked like winning by a Close, W. Hitching. Ε. Ρ. Η.

right-arm fast medium bowler, knockout White and W. J. Kentes (skip).

after the four for 30) and 73 for one.

opening At Northampton: The match round.

The contest started promi- between Northamptonshire and

It looked as if a was drawn, aingly and

to take place 238 and 300 Ane battle was

18,000 find como to watch the big fight of the night-the World Middleweight title bout between Sugar Hay Robinson,

BADMINTON

withdraw

A HUGE JOKE

"Starlight

you

on the

from the drawn. Essex eight declared and 40 for two pion, of Australia, beat Mel Hour" radio scries of which he (Percy Kilbride) milks his declared. •Lancashire 286 Brown, of the United States,

is compere, and from the play cow to the strains of the. (Geoff Edrich 142).

"What A Man" with which Blue Danube", and spills on points in # 10-round At Bradford: The match

has been trying out on the between Yorkshire and Middle international middleweight provinces prior to its West End Popcorn into Ma's (Marjorie pancake mixture, sex was abandoned owing 10 contest at 165 pounds at run, in order to go out to Korex. Main)

making the children's rain. Yorkshire 224 and 44 fot Earl's Court, London, to-

I have no doubt at all that he breadfast leap around the three. Middlesex 207.

night,

will go down well out there kitchen-you realise Portsmouth: At

Derbyshira Sands, who also holds Aus- This lanky, boyith character beat Hampshire by 113 runs.

in for something Derbyshire 235 and 107 for two tralia's Lightheavyweight and with the breezy personality and are

Heavyweight tities, Was not infectious laughter stampedes farcical, laughable. declared. Hampshire 101 and particularly impressive in beat- 128 (Jackson,

through life as it it were a huge fust right-arm

American,

the 'new coloured ing the

joke. Or, judging by medium bowler, five for 34),

The great problem is that Pa character sketches he tried out won a prize with a Cola slogan, who makes his home, in Paris.

The Australian won easily

en me the other day, a succes and no a free trip to town for sion of huge fact, he probably

jokes which he

Ma and himself as well as ten must share with all and sundry, years' supply of this commodity lost not more than one of the

on or off the stage.

cach member

tho There's not much he could be for

family.....BUT...and here's the taught about show business or rub there ate Afteen junior soldier audiences. He was still members

In the family, and in hia teens when he Arst Afteen wilder brats one could

the boards pro never see anywhere, stepped on fessionally in 1931 to play op- podte Patricia Burke at the Alms or off. They cannot of

count, be left. Liverpool Playhouse. He had to wall, however, until 1940 for his At this juncture, "providence" first West End show-"Good

god arranges for Pa to discover a Men Sicop At Home" at the weary poet' asleep in the little Shaftesbury Theatre and two tumbledown hack he is trying years

after that for his first to rent out. This Individual. broadcast-In uniform in "Ack

a tough, unshaven, upiv-suited. Ack Beer Beer."

soft spoken customer, is looking BEHIND-THE-SCENES for a nice, quiet out-of-the-way of "P. C, 49,” which still re-spot in which to He low and

his favourite show,

be compose. mains

In addition, told me an amusing behADORES "Kiddies'.. scenes story, His "radio Joan Carr, is played by Joy So Ma and Pa Kelto go to Shelton, and Joy's mother was town. And here begins prevalled upon

to visit the fantastic series of adventuras, studio for the first time last all hinging on to the little winter to see how the pro- blacks bag which Mike Mungor gramme was recorded.*****

a realios Mr Jones, allas Tronmonger Volver shot had to be heard, Joe naked the Kettles to give and as the. cast was using a friend of his when he calls on smaller studio than usual; the them in the Waldorf Astoria. engineers tried out their sound Inkvitably, someone else effects before the recording

picks up the bag, and therd in started. de a mad jumble of police types

The shot, fired, near. microphone, sounded like an personified chasing the epitome atom bomb explosion, so they of what is popularly conceived tried

again a certain distance by the word "Gangster A away but it w

but it was still unsatis her duck round lamp posts, Iactors

NZEVARE Atrail pachyothur:in cars, hang the door, up the "pool" by, hlukes and Ared:

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire Bombay, July, 10. Wong Pong Soon, the Mals for seven (Poole 54, Hardstaff in the packed arena, where yan Champion, reached the 90). Northamptonshire 371 for semi-finals of the Cricket Club four declared.-Reuter. of India Badminton Champion- ships here tonight.

Leveque Leads In of the United States, and his quarter-finals. Later Wong and Tour de France

Ho beat H 'K. Talyarhan," of ||

British challenger, Randolph Bombay, by 15-3, 15-2 in the

Turp the Arst Ave rounds. Malaya, who is

howover, it became a mauling Paris, July 10. still nursing a sprained ankle, beat D. N. Dhoniado and B.. Louis Agbet, of France, won fight with a lot of clinching and Bhagwat, Bombay, by 16-2

of

the seventh stage of the Tour Very few good blows landed.

Sande mado Brown's noso and 15-7 in the quarter-finals de France-125 kilometres be of the men's doubles--Reuter, tween Rennes and Angers-to-pour blood in the second round

TODAY'S SPORT

Club V

LAWN BOWLE

Police Recreation wen; Cricket Club,

Postponed matchon

MEETING

na mutually

ho

us a result of some very nico | In this particular show (Charles QMcGraw); ..., the poot,

The run included a time trial right crosses. Brown looked to of 85 klometres which Bobat be, the worst for wear at the covered in 2 hrs. 40 mine, 38 end of the fourth round with a big pumbess under, his loft

·Roger: Leveque," France,

yelled magnificently, retained the lead in the general classification,

however, and took the firth round, landing a hard right surt below the Australian's loft eye. In the very next round Brown opened a cut under the ore and frin that point to the end of the

Other placings In the time

trial were:S:

Kobiet Switzerland,

(2 hra. 8 mins. 40′ BOOM,

3-Fausto Coppia - Italy, hrs 10 mins 44 NOCH KAN

Florenzop Maghi, Italy, fight the Australlas da life

more than bold the long-point Pletre Barboun), Miante, lens which lie & had earlier

2hrs 0 mins:32 ancak

Then they open

into the

in a

The foursome

is completed Harvey, a concert pianist and by pretty Httle, brunette Sheen

composer, whose playing was so much enjoyed by British troops. in Austria not so long ago.

Take the

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