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WITH ONE REMARK

THE CHINA (MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1951.

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It's Good News!

BRAATHEN'S

Dudley Nourse Shook A Great Many People In English Cricket

By W. J. EDRICH

Dudley Nourse, the South African captain, shook a great many people in cricket when he said he did not think there had been any improvement in the general standard of English cricket since he was last here in 1947.

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He tempered the blow by saying that the one big difference was that we now had some "quality youngsters" In our cricket who were not there four years ago.

I have always felt that the outsider con clien get a better perspective on things than rame- one too much on the inside. And I have a very healthy respect for the ecol, level-headed, ex-

and opinion of Dudley

But I must say that I cannot allcgether agree with him about our general standards. My view is that while we still have a long road to travel we are consider ably better off than we were in 1947.

Four years ago a great many of our county

gides had to field

Rugby Season

Starts On October 13

players completely new to first class crleke:; now those same players. have benefited by their experience and Infinitely more able.

am

are

not suggesting that

many of them are world beaters.

But the bulk, who form the hackbone of most of our County uides, are more competent. On that score alone I feel that our general standard must be better than it was in 1947.

TO BEAT AUSTRALIA

Eric

Rowan, opening ba'sman.

South Africa's

Fourth, for the courage of his battle against physical infirmity and for wickets and runs when they were badly needed, Athel Rowan, younger brother of Eric, of the South African team. (Geoff Chubb should also bo bracketed

Filmspot

finds a now

dancing star in

the tradition of GINGER ROGERS.. ANN MILLER..VERA-ELLEN:

WHAT A GIRL!-IN

WHAT A MUSICAL!

CHE has one of those faces. in this fourth place that could stop a clock for, at 40, he has done a magni- but somehow makes your fteent job as the tourists' stand heart beat faster, instead by bowler).

for she is undoubtedly the Robertson

most adorably ugly, girl I have ever seen.

of

owler Jack Fitin, Middierex, for so gallantly going But In addition to that, as his way, without grumbling or Dudley Nourse so clearly says, back-biting, as the most prolifle

Her name is Leslie Caron, she we have also discovered several | scorer and most forgotten man in really good young players such cricket. He must have wondered, comes froin France, and you, na Peter May.

be enthusing Tom Graveney, often, what on earth any batsman too, wil Frank Lowson, Bob Appleyard, has to do to get back into the about her.

Statham and Roy England team. Surely 11 Leslie donced into my life in CAN IN PARIS". I vote it the most enjoyable musical of the yoor.

Brion Tattersall.

soon

Some people might even fool #ggregate, within inches of 3,000 a new film called “AN AMERI-

that these are merely the top few of the company of new players who are gradually bring- ing our cricket back to its best standard.

My

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assessment of the season more optimistic than

Tather

There isn't much missing from It in the way of top-flight musi- cal talent. There is Gene Kelly, for instance, with burnish on his lively qualities choreo-

-extra

runs, should have bean sumelent?

Perhaps big Alec Bodser should have been in this select company for yet another Test season of magnificent bowling he has given us, But the five I have chosen have prior claim if The Hongkong Rugby Dudley Nourse's I do not think one Includes human factore as Football reason

as dancer, actor, and is due to we have made any conspicuous well as playing results. I find

grapher. There is George ommence on Saturday, advance during the season that I can never exclude them; Guetary, discovered by the late October 13,

but we are certainly better, in from long experience I realise C. B. Cochran, for "Bless the

we were four how much season are | KUNU

general, than

they are part and

Bride" making a notable debut ago. This

season's parcel of any man's game,

Hollywood singing hero. One final word about of really good young

the upsurge

should not be under-County Championship. A lot of the masterly plano

Add to those two

estimated. 'NAF "A" (Causeway Bay},

for I foresee them people still seem to be keen on.

acid and Friendlies.--Army V Palice Club beating Australia when they

the

If Yorkshire and pounding idea that

of comicking

Oscar Club V Navy Club |

Lancashire had not had so many Levant, plus the best come here in 1953.

calls on their strength for Test tunes that George purposes the championship story Gershwin ever wrote, and what would have been different. more do you want?

Well, you get Leslie Caron, and it is Net since I fell for the milk man's daughter of the age of 11

Fixtures for the us follows:

October 12

Seasons

"A" Match-Roya} Artillery V players

Ground]; Ground).

October 11

Pentangular Tournament-Navy v Army (Police Ground); Police v RAF (Police Ground).

October 20

V

"A" Match-Royal Artillery Army "A" (Bookunpoo).

FriendliesAFY Club (Pollen Club): Police v Navy (Palice Club).with the bat, Peter May.

October 24

Pentangular Tournament.--Army Police (Club Ground); Club Navy (Club Ground).

Friendlier-V Roberts XV v Club

(Causeway Bay),

October 27

"A" Matches.-Club and XV Royal Artillery (Causeway Bay): Navy" "A" "V RAF "A" (Čauseway Day).

Friendlies Navy v Army (Club Ground): Club

Polco V

(Club Ground).

November 1 "A" Match.-Police_"A" v Royal Artillery (Boundary Street},"

Friendlies Navy v RAF (Army Ground, Scoicumpoo); Army v Club (Army Ground, Bookungos).

November 10 Friendly.-Club v Saigon Ground).

-November-11-

[Club Ground).

November 13

(Clus

Friendly.Combined Services

Salgon (Sookunpoo),

November 3

“A” Match,-Club "A"" y Artillery (Sookunpoo).

Royal

shire.

WARWICK DESERVE-IT-

as a

LESLIE CARON

daners with Vera-Ellen flikeness and grace.

by LEONARD MOSLEY

dividend Indeed.

There is one moment in “An

mako

Beaux-Arts ball with all

this film enjoyable. A the students in fancy dress turns into a twenty-minute ballet that is inspired in its gay and colour-

น

ful movement.

What a pleasure it is to see a really good musical again and meet Mile. Caron for the first Stime, as well!

---(London Express Seruice)

BEST OF THE YEAR Who will Wisden select for the five cricketers of the year? I know who would get my vales. First, for his youth, he sound quality, and his achievements My own view is that it might have been a much closer fight Second, for his outstanding but I still feel that Warwickshire have I ever had a dream girl bowling in what a really his would have done it. They have who had a snub nose and looked But first full Велбоп in County had such a

ich a splendidly balanced like Randolph Turpin.

all the best Leslie is my gal from now on. cricket, Bob Appleyard, of York-attack-with

ingredients of early pace and le spin and their batting, which I thought suspect, stood American in Paris" when there ROY NASH ROUND THE BRITISH up to all the demands made on are Ave different pictures of

If one man did not come off Leslie on the screen at the same FILM STUDIOS another did. No, one could ask time. more of any team, so congratula- tions to Warwickshire, withoul any unnecessary reservations.

As we pack our bats and pads away for the long months of winter, let us wish good luck to the boys going overseas for that hot tour of India.

Third, for sheer fighting spirit and achievement when his team needed him most, 42-year-old

Home Soccer

Programme

Our great

You see Leslie in a shimmer-

ing green ballet dress, to point up her neat figure, Leslie in a red dress and hat to emphasise her gamin qualities, and Leslie In yellow and blue and white, to show off the urchin-cut black hair.

in

It so happens that Leslie

Three Girls For

Alec

Guinness

Given below is the Home Fool-game has rallied well in these dances with Vera-Ellen- lithe- Friendly.Colony XV Satgon ball programme for Saturday few short yeafs zinice the war.

V

September 8. The score shown During the war we sometimes

eness and grace, particularly in brackets is that for the same thought it would be twenty

when she goes into duets with

The distinguished screen, Twenty-four Hours of A Gene Kelly, and in those match last season.

| years—if ever-before we could Division I

To have got

moments when the picture at- career of Alec Guinness has Woman's Lite," a file, I fancy, Anton Villa v Arsenal (1-1), reach normally.

Todd, who has only just finish- six years

tempts to tell a story about love not included many romantic which is going to be changed. is good Burnley West Brom (0-1), Charito near in

Bohemian Montmartre she moments, but. he will lose ed drawing Robin Hood's bow ten A. v Middlesbro (3-0), Chelsea going. y Fulham (2-0), Derby v Man C

isplays touching qualities as an his heart to three charmers for Walt Disney, gets a compiste (-), Huddersfield v Portsmouth (2-

a young Royal). Man U, v Stoke (0-0), Preston V

But it is the dancing and in "The Card," from Arnold change of part: as

gambler for whcm Misa Newcastle (--), Sunderland v Black- pool (0-2). Tottenham v Bolton W.

music, and not the plot, which Bennett's novel about

develops an Infatuation sharp-witted solicitor's clerk Some "of the sequences will (4-2), Wolves y Liverpool (2-0).

Division li

who became uncrowned shot Inade, the Monte, Carib casino and Todd will try her luck, king of the Five Towns.

at the tables before starting work on the picture.

November 24

"A" Match-RAF "A" v Arillery (RAF, Kai Tak),

December 1

Royal

"A" Match Police "A" Artillery (Police Ground),

Pentangular Tournament.-Navy v RAF (Army Ground): Army v Club (Army Ground).

December

XV

че

Brentford v Birmingham (2-1), Bury v Queen's F. R. (0-1), Coven-

Cotton May Play

Hey Hub (4-1), Doncaster Car In Tournaments

(0-0), Everton y Rotherham (--), Luton

v Noits (1-1). Notts

F. v Leicester

(~~), Shemeid

u, v Sheffield W. (-), Bouthampton

"A" Malch.—Navy" "A" Royal Artillery (Causeway Bay),

Fentangular Tournament.-A vv Leeds (2-0), Swansea v Blackburn

Army (Club Ground); Club v Police

(Club Ground).

December 13

"A" Match Army "A"

(1-2), West Ham v Bernsley (4-2).

Until Fifty

London, Sept. 4. Forty-four year-old· Henry Bristol. V Watford (3-0), Co-Cotton, three times British

Division II (Southern) Bournemouth V

Billwall (1-0),

Swindon (2-0) Exeter V

Royal chester V Leyton (1-0), Palace Open Champion, may re- Pentangular Tournament RAF (3-0), Newport Gillingham (1-0) main in the golfing tourna

Arillery (Sookunpoo).

Club Police Ground);

Navy (Polke Ground).

December 22

December 20-

Police

V

Walsall

Northampton v Ipswich (2-1), Nor

wich C. Shrewsbury), Plyment scene until he is 50. mouth v Aldershot (0-11, Port Vale

Pentangular Tournament.-Army v

is v Bristol C. (1-3), Reading v Tor-

making Cotton, who Police (Club Ground); Club v Navy | oɩmy (0-0), Southend U. v Brighton

spasmodic appearanceA (Club Ground).

there (3-1).

days, gave this hint recently in Djvalon III (Northern) Barrow v Rockdale (4-3). Brad- answer to a query "To what age ford C. Yark (5-3). Chesterfield v does a golfer remain at his Pentangular Tournament.-RAP v Bradford (−), Crewe v South. Pulico (Army Ground); Army, v Navy (Army Ground),

"A" Match.--Club- "A" v Royal Artillery (Booleanpoo).

January

port (1-0), Darington Vseun-best?" a golfe

fax (2-2),

January 12-

"A" MatchVY A V

Пожа

actress.

South China Soccer Team Score Victory

Singapore, Sept. 1.

The South China football team of Hongkong scored another victory to-day when they .beat 3 combined cloven European Eurasian by three goals to one.

The score was one-all at Choon Wah hall time, scoring for Bouth China.

In the second half, the visitors were› deflulíély top, Cha Wing-kedng, soor-, ing two more easy gozla Our Own Correspondent.

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KNOWS YOU'RE GIVING , ME A BAD JIKE, SALLY!

WALAT'S HAPPENED?

as the Countess of Chell, whole grace and elegance set the amand for very small stakes," he bicus Card thinking of now says, "I'm not really the gamb denis.

ling type"

dus in Eng- Hollywood visitor Charmer No 2: Glynis Johns as a scheming dancing instruc-end is dark-haired, hungry- tress who plays him too many looking Zachary Scott.

He will elar in "Dead On tricks.

Charmer No 3: Petula Clark Course" at Riverside-as an air as the childhood friend for whom line pilo! involved in a emug- he is always trumps.

gling racket.

to

Before the war 37-year-old Victorian acting gives Miss Texas-born Scolt worked his aboard a England wear the way Hobson a chance to

of New Orleank; aipped-in waistlines and swirl freighter ma makirts in which she looked appeared in twenty plays here to well in "Kind Hearts And before returning to the States. Corebels."

lyle-by air. The Card" will be busy Miss Now he will be coming back Jchas'a thin film in a row. Next Acier who has d fim-|

busl some making can be a month she hopes to ime. off for her wedding to pro-ness is Teny Pendrell, starring in

"No Haun: For A Gentleman, ducer Anthony Darnborough.

Trend to wisza grown-up parts first flm of new company Anglo- which has characterised Miss Scotish Pictures,

Royal Engmeers ming Cala Victoria Barracks Clark's recent pictures continues Scene in which Pendrell has a

Tharpe (3-2), Gateshead v Tran: Cotton answered: "It is all a mere (2-0), Grimsby v Manified question of keeping fit,"

Cotton, who sew 500 miles (-). Hartlepools Chester (1-3). Pentangular Tournantent. Clyt- oldham v Lincoln (0-0), Stockport from Monte Carlo and back to Hans V Servicwn (Club Ground); v Carilale (1-2). Workington V GOC-I-XV 3.5 Maturegor Accrington (-) Wrexham Hall qualify for the British Match- XV (Club Ground).

Play Championship, has been Scottish League--Division “A” (*

surplus Aberdeen Bi Mirren (1-1), purposely shedding Artillery (Causeway Bay).

Hearts v.Last Fite (5-1) Morton v poundage for the past few Persiangular Tournament RAF v queen of South (-), Motherwell-v weeks to get down to his "best- Army (Police Ground); Polico V

Ceille: (3-1). Baith Rovers aber golfing weight." Club (Police Ground)

Stangers ·'v miant

Partick Thuile (13)

He was non-committal when Surling · Albiony Dundee --)

✓ asked if he was getting himself Third Lanark

WATER POLO int specially in expectation of Airdrie (1-0)

At the Victoria Recreation Club; Beottish League-Division "B" - selection for Britain's Ryder Pool-W Sharks CHÙA Bìn Cup team to meet the United Blue, 5.15 p.m. (Wlog Les); Royal 12-1), Ayr v Hamilton (0-0), Clyde States in November-Reulcr. {Edwarde). Jap-Kimarnock (-). Dumbarton V Falkirk (-), Dundee United ปี Alios (10-1), Dunfermline v Forfor A, (3-4), Stenhousemule v St John stone. (0-2).

January 19

"A" - Match=R.A. 60 DIV. v. 40 Div. (Sookunpoo).

Pentangular Tournament.--Navy v Police (Club Ground}; Club V RAT (Club Ground).

January 25-11 Pentangular Tournament.

attese Tour,

February 2 Penlangular Tournament-Youth v Experianca (Police Ground): Final

of the Army Inter-unit Competition" (Police Ground),

February

Pentangular Tournament-Navỹ ▼ RAY (ChB Ground); Club v Armg (Club Ground)...

Fobriary' id

Pentangular Tournament Zaland Ground) Filand A

"A" (Palice Ground),

February 23 Tournament-Winners

(Club

(Police

Albion Rovers v Queen's (3-2), Arbroath

Park

Cowdenbeatis V

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RUGBY LEAGUE (DA Lattesshire Cup, First Round, Becond Leg-Oldham 21, Roch- dale B (Rochštalo eliminated).

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