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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

1951.

TRAIL'S END FOR TWO CHAMPIONS South Africans Lead

AT FOREST HILLS Sedgman & Seixas In The Final

Forest Hills, New York, Sept. 3.

It was trail's end for two champions today as Dick Savitt, limping painfully on an infected tag:"ami" Ari Lärten, bewildered by an opponent who showed him no mercy; ware blown out of the Femi-final round of the National Tennis Championship to the astonishment of a capacity crowd of 13,000.

Savitt, holder of the Wimbledon and Australian Championship was able to offer dfly a feeble defence against an inspired Vie Seixas of Philadelphia, who ended Dick's dream of world domination with á 6-0, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 trouncing: Unable to cover the court properly to lash but with his usual power, the big man from Orange, New Jersey, never really had a chance.

Larsen, the slim southpaw who surprised the court world by winning the Nationals a year ago, showed even a more feeble defence of his laurels as he was over- whelmed by Frank Sedgman of Australia 6-1, 6-2, 6-0. Both contests were playel in deep gloom, which exactly matched the feelings of a crowd which had fought for seats in the big stadium.

Anticipating great tennls, was defeated 2-0, 6-2, 6-1 by probably the biggest throng in Shirley Fry of Akron, Ohio, in round match of the long history of the title a semi-final meet began lining up at the the women's national tennis rates before noon, When the clumplanship here today. last one finally was packed

In In the final round Miss Fry mkt-afternoon.

the winner of the several will meet

Doris Hart ol thousand more had given up match between

and Maureen and gone home. Frequent at Miami, Florida, fights broke out in the crowd Cannelly of San Diego, Call-

fornia. swarming before the porials.

THE LUCKY ONES Those who didn't get in were

Who

Dick Savitt, Austrálian and Wimbledon Singles the coveted triple fell Champlon. His quest for through when he lost in the semi-finals to Vic Seixas at Forest Hills Central Press Photo.

Miss Fry came from behind Professor Joad Asks

to triumph

endurance

over Mrs Walker

unl

the lucky ones. No pleasure Smith.

to be had in watching Their duel was strictly one Sévill

about, unable of cripple oven to straighten his left leg. from the baseline, nelther glei nor in witnessing the slaughter ever going to of Larcen, who never at any time was an opponent for a players of Sedgman's class.

the

SEDGMAN FAVOURED Although he always has fall- ed in previous appearances both

at Wimbledon, here and Aussio асс will be heavily favoured to defeat the 27-year- old Seixos in Tuesday's Anal and take the cup to.the land down under for the first time! since the Championships began in 1881.

"SHIRLEY FRY IN FINAL

Mr Jea Walker Smith, Britain's No. 1 seeded player,

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Miss Fry lust the first pat because she piled up 30 errors to her opponent's 12. From never tralled- there on she Associated Press.

Indians Are

Back In The Lead

New York, Sept. 3.

Cleveland Indians performed a labour of love

The

over

England XI On First Innings

Hastings, Sept. 3.

The Souta, African cricketers passed the England XI's first innings total on the second day of the three-dný Festival match here.

England, 171 runs for three wickets overnight declared their innings. closed nt 208 runs for nine wickets an hour after play was resumed this morning. The tourists passed this total Metapp did not settle down At Bournemouth Hampshire with five wickets standing and again after tem doda 143 for four (Rogers 34 not outj were all out at the close of play with the exception of the first

So soft was the turf that," | ngainst Sussex. There was no

further play today owing to

At Kingstōti: South 277 for nine declared - (B. Brown: :114, Barnett 6450 not out, Gladwin

for 295 ring.

Roy McLean, their hard-hit-over. Compton entrusted the rain. ting young batsman, scored 50 attack bomten until the close runs in 35 minutes and went on to Young and Jenkins,

Fullerton went on to make to make 88 runs before being stumped when attempting a powerful drive.

Compton and Carr resubed the England Innings, in bright sunshine but were both sbon back in the pavilion after trying to force the pace.

Wickets fell fast and six went down in an hour for the addi- tion of only 33 runs before. Compton

play. for

#1 mins in.. as, many minutes | five for 118). North 258 for and the South Africans were eight, Roln stopped out at the close. for 285 runs, the day.-Reuter.

Young, who had tempted the batsmen with varied flight and is, took six wickets for 100 rors Heater.

declared at 208 runs Scarbor in their maten at

for nine wickets.

OTHER MATCHES

London, Sept. 3. Wille Yotkshire and the MCC

the two other st-class matches apart from Both Jakeman and Jenkins

engagement, needed 48 runs to reach land the South Africa

wero affected by the weather marks in their careers Jake-

late man to score 2,000 runs for the had promised.

today after carly sunshine ¤ full day's season and Jenkins to become the first player to complete the

Sussex, In double of 100 wickets and 1,000

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Neither, however, that, total

Hampshire find

game at. Bour Champlon-

had reached ship at County

no play, on Saturday and today's The decidration robbed Mc-play was limited to to moto

three hours i than

scored 143 runs for loss of four wickets. opening

which

pleting his second hat-trick of the ylle. Rogers, Hampshire's

the four:

Will Cricket Survive As A Spectacle?

The Americans have introduced modifications into a game of cric ket played against the Britisht in Korea-teh minutes innings for each batsman and ten runs deducted from his store every time he is out. Do you think that cricket should, and could be changed and brightened?

If cricket is to continue as a spectacle, yes. I say yes with a full sense of temerity, since cricket in England has attained the dimensions of a cult and, is Invested with the sanctity of a religion, so that to suggest altering if is tantamount to proposing an alteration in the Thirty-Nine Articles or the British Constitution.

"

bat

who has accepted

a coaching appointment in South Africa for the winter with the

BOXER DIES AFTER KO

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of

Flores, Tharried din jaber three-week-old child,

was knocked out..in the elglitt and. Brál „round,

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America

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HAROLD MAYES REPORTS

Randolph Is In

Terrific Form

New York. In that self-contained, exclusive holidnying spot called Grossingers, a hundred-odd miles from here, they'll tell you you can have everything.

There's one visitor, around there just now is n whole lot more Important than the rest, and the pro prietors have already shown that if necessary they'll stand on their heads to make sure he gets more atten tion than anyone else.

Western Province Cricket Union, was, in great form nrid claimed 94 of the rups; using But for all that they haven't) If Mel had room what I saw, strokes all round the wicket to that commodity which the VIP yesterday, however, he probably punish the slow bowlers, even guest Britain's World, Middle- wouldn't be corry to miss fie though the pitch was taking Wolght' Champion, Randolph trip, for tondy was really spin.

Turpidis, likely to call for dynamite. Brown hit one of the season's most

Brother. Dick sald: "Boy, of fastest hundreds avainst the

I was the only urnalist, boy he's ready to go now and North at Kingston, when he

World Welterweight figures today British or American, to see his former completed three

minutes. Ho

first work-out and I can tell Champion Barney Ross, one of claimed in 12 three sixes and fifteen fours le you that what he will be calling the greatest in the mid-thirties, and the South for isn't likely to be in thele told me: "He's nothing short of his dinni total,

brochure. He's had steaks in terrine and He really loves his weto, able to declare

Then the North were unable plenty and he will be getting work. You can see that I've never seen such a strong boy at to find an answer to the spin plenty more.

his weight," of Sims and Lock and lost half their

for 98 runs----- wickets Reuter

SCORES LOSE OF PLAY

London, Sept. 3.

But mark my words, what,he will be calling for is steak on the hoof in the form of sparring partners, and hè may

have a

The following are the close top getting them For the of play scores in Orst-class Leamington Ticker is in real cricket gutres played today:" vicious mood-in the ring, that

At Scarborough, The MCC is 168 dnd 55 Lor one. Vorimhire 393 (Lester 00, Watson 70, Tat- Itersall five for 122);:

Harold Mayes On

TWO FAVOURITES FOR A SOCCER TOUR OF THE U.S.

STILL THE CHAMP”

Sugar Ray Robinson has just as many visitors as the wonder boy from Britain, but instead of the look-see type" they're Invariably a hundred per cent. Within Geconds, of the gras Robinson rooters bell for the opening round of They'll tell you that they'v sparring, he had sit brother never seen "the champto Jackie on the seat of his pants they still call him that looking with a perfect right, cross, and so well or so settled. the six-minute shindig ended.

with Jackle having to have his Add it all up and you'll talking noso plugged after a real batter-realise why they're Ing.

ASTONISHINGLY FAST. Although Jeckie ured glaves

about a sellout over here for the first time since TV became a service instead of an expert

Joz. ment. That's why they're to Randy's 16oz. he talking of gross takings at the couldn't make the slightest

Polo Ground on September 12 Impression on the champion, fa-million dollars.

In the excess of three-quarters

Savages have their idols made of wood and stone, ours dre made of wood and leather in the shape of bats, stumps, and balls; and to breathe aspersion upon any of them is to incur the reprobation of one who, offends against a taboo.

But though many of us read papers still devote columns to a on their Labour Day scho- dule today and moved back about cricket, if we are men, Test Match watched by say, 50 people over severul very few of us go to see it, thousand into first place in the Ameri-while women do not even read days, and the average county can League when Bob Feller about . Cricket.is not much of match is watched by at most one or two thousand and often only and Steve Gromek pitched spectacle.

a few hundred, the number at 5-3 and 6-1 victories

Let the conditions be perfect any one of 20 or 30 Saturday let it be high summer and the afternoon football matches runs Chicago White Sox.

weather hot, sunny and still; le fato 30, 40 or even 50 thousands, there be a lovely village green i surrounded by immemorial-elms; then erickej ia-to-survive let there be a baron of roast beer, as a spectacle, cricket must ba pickits and beer for lunch; let changed, and the American inno In the. National League, there be d ́large tea.

vation is on good'ns any, But why, it may be, naked, should | crooklyn took a full six-gumo

Then in these circumstance Why Should I survive lead with a pair of 7-2 victories over Boston Braves while the playing and even watching cric-

as a spec Glants ket is tolerable enough, as one.

Survive As tacle? Tunner-up New York-

sinks into

Let these EỈ who wahrt 1911 those watch it who want to

watch it, but why should we, cu: all' conte within my orbit in the past few days. of respect for tradition, try to

Of course, it hasn't been forgotten in England, newspapermen and needed gamo. ·(Yet even so, one wers keep alive in the mid-20th cen ärticularly at Lancaster Gate, that football other than pher

The twin triumph came while the New York Yankees were splitting n doubleheader with the Athletics,

split a doubleheader with the

Phillies

Feller scored his 21st victory in the opener at Cleveland to other keep ahead of all the

a pleasant A Spectacle ?' payi

Watching-In sin

A Pleasant Stupor

with half

an

major league pitchers. He and a tenth of a thought on the yielded nine hits and

one inning of relief help from more relaxed in a punt on the Mike Garcia, who threw only river, with a book in the garden, nine pitches in the ninth inning, or with a green though in a

United Press.

green shade,)

Queen

Scots.

But how rarely are these con ditions satisfied?

New York.

a far cry from boxing in New York to Soccer at

To play it and at home, cricket in India and Chanel swimming, but they've

tury a game which is

to

gentlemen of inter

who set ́about Jackle--and, P inter, his other, partner, Eddie Philips Just as it is had been; ** the real thing.

"

Although he worked in

heavy woolen wraps he was

Inst

his astonishingly

afler lay-off, and didn's show the slightest sign of the elfeets of Chrough

during the Jew

from American

Fraise du Boise

Heavily Backed

the he has gone For St. Leger partally

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Στόλτες

London, Sept. 8, At tonight's callover at the gridiron variety is played in the States..

pasmbly give him the kind of the Victoria Club on the St meass lazing through the more spacious days of the 19th cen The other evening. I had "Polly" Umrigar has already work he reeds, and his helpers Leger, Fraise du Boise, the have got to go hunting quickly, second winner of the Irish tury? (But I notice that it is not dinner with Jimmy McGuire, signed for Church, and Vindo Much more the players or even the watchers presiden ôf the American Mankad has signed for Has- One thing is now certain, Derby, was heavily backed often it is cold, or play is stopped who demand that cricket "should Soccer League, and a former Uniden at a fee which works He won't be getting Mel Brown, to win the last of the by rain and one must always be be livened up." bist people who centre-half with Glasgow Celtis out at £87 match and unless be who helped him for his title English classics this year.

équivalent offer from the winning tit:ld July, prepared for stumps to be drawn never go near a cricket match.) and Northampton Town.

gets an for the day or the match to be And there is, I think, a strong when te was in Britain in April, they

telling me that my was

He Anished to strongu washed out altogether. Ong argumen; against cricket, While watches sitting, for the most the cult persists, boys spend 1950,

and the FA.

have

adian Boarded to recognise

for the tour, since

Mel is in the doghouse,

Ho

on a hard scat in a draugh hours learning I at the schools / tions for the Hampden interna“ | him as a professiona); he will / Doxigit : folk over here, for the mind; than Sybi's® • NG ty stand, surrounded by cigarete and universkies. How many of Warned FA officials. / Jinal, he obviously : Bö: playing", in the interview, ha gave the Empire | 1999gh they were joint favěn

Part, cartons,

of

sand-

emply bottles, paper them play it in after years! World Cited. Well Joli Nelson, which means the Indians partner.

bags, and fragments wiches, in an environment of back yards, gasworks, and smok- ing chimneys.

We have casi

News about alleged American when the callover thakt league.

zucchero, the joint avourite more than a useful side for the Is regarded as a certainty Aght practices.

the last call with this pals pl. Should he come as sparring that Dattu Phadkar will sign for

New York Very few, if only because the

State over drifted out to 8 to 1 apparatus necessary for cricket. The

Athletic Communission would be

Nephew

W beaten the 22 men, the

the USA-England result are really, in trouble. bats, the

the balls,

Incidentally,

was talking asking him lots of "who, why each of his last four races and the stumps,

umps, the pads, the gloves, in Rio, so Jimmy is laughing

about

who has - Called -- fɑwingslied Dominion when where, abri Whee the scorer and the scoring book, now. His most pressing current recently

REALLY DYNAMITE

May, will be galloped over the their assemblage,

organisation fark in deciding which English cricketers having exceptionally

Divion Reim will be And the game itself, especially and transport in the rush hour, Fies

Tidens concerning their

big selected to visit as played by modern profes- say, in a big town at lunch time states for the four next summer. Australia Ray Lindwall and Any matager said he would

tand,' bae" has dutreached and George Gelidad, Sumar JVAGE ROTON stated, at New- the United Sq

He went well in Aura op oft Saturday and NAVAK Finchone sionals anxious

about their on a Saturday, are far to

At present Manchester United Colin McCool, who cach asked most certainly po "asking him averages and their place in the elaborate for most people to

hardest for

£3,000 a season, from a lot of questions and probably of his pacemakers then, was p! in the hope of recalving invita=, |

suing him for what he had to winner. at Birmingham today. So far no business is being cay about my fighter ??---

So will be made until October. Then, done.

Brown will not be in Jimmy's taking an American RUGBY SCHEMOZZLÉ

i side,- is terribly dull. The funda- manage amid the hundred and and Arsenal are pressing tongue clubs,

mental defect of cricket is that she pressures of contemporary il is a game for two played by life. twenty-two.

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