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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1951.

IN

JOE LOUIS FALLS TO A BLOW FROM MARCIANO

TAKE THE LEAD BOTH DIVISIONS OF THE CRICKET LEAGUE

By "RECORDER"

The Royal Air Force took the lead in both Divisions of the Cricket League on Saturday and scored the most complete victory ever accom- plished against the Scorpions at Chater Road. They just missed a win by 10 wickets with a record first wicket stand of 156 runs by Ken Ball and "Tug" Wilson.

Ball retired short of his century a 97, second highest score of the season to "Tug" Wilson's 99 against the University. His innings included 15 fours and Wilson's 56 runs included eight fours.

Ken Ball played a chanceless innings for his 97

with the match officially over.

Though the match was won with one wicket for 214 runs in 120 minutes as RAF continued to bat stumps time.

The RAF vietory put into the

and retired short of his century

down, there was time enough until the official drawing of

Craigengewer's scoreboard ove Alarde KCC's victory over these last 30 mintres showed: Scorpions last week, being ar complished at Chater Road. How

5.15 p.m.

103

ever, two important Scorpions.

5.20

116

H Owen-Hughes and Connet. ween rest playing

5.25

124

5.30

138

6.35

153

The

$40 5.45

164

174

Seventy-one runs in 30 minutes

1975 any team

Aamer began the pro- the loss riding by woning ai putin in their opponents that on a fairly easy wicket. The attack was not excepi.onally is fast scoring dently. St was consistent and by rl w well hecked by extremely kert Belding Kings ford the good skipper's job, making many effective a

d fielding changes

CAN!

Sompions lost Stokes. Ruffer, Front

Wille with scoreboard -howing 112 A stand

The F wither

1:2

between

Craigengower's batsinen went for the runs and averages were for gotten in a fighting finish.

He helped George carried on. Souza pus on 30 runs wickets und. aftor George's wicket had fallen to Noel Arthy, stayed with Dhaber for 11 more runs in four miles.

THROW-IN OF THE SEASON

Bottomley war run out on the throw-in of the sensen by Pan! Craig. Dhaber had cut the ball to third man and Craig, picking it up on the boundary, throw ou Botiondey at the further wicket as the two were crossing for the (second run.

Optimists scored 176 runs fo. six wickets; Laurie Kilbee knock-and

ng up 80 and George Rowe 58 two were in a not out. The third wicket partnership

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feature of the innings was the most spectacular catch that TOC Knutht and 1 A Burth George Hong Choy has managed

situation. in some years. He improved the

up to

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brought the seme 1% cum and she note wiekeis pal before the Scorpions declareu at the Linly respectabde 157 145 TERMICE

Scope of

With attink that acted Weller wad Kught, it seemed i reasonable that they could make a game of it, but the was got to

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Stokes. who has

4/24 developed into Scorpions wicket-takers semn a as hit about for 91

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ran some yards on the long boundary to hold MacPherson off | Billimoria's bowling

Bottomley. wine has already made the grade at Craigengower us a batsman. look three wickets. including those of Craig and Pritchard, all clean bowled. for

35 runs.

Dhaber hit our at everything put on 14 runs in six minutes before going to a ball from Craig which pitched on his leg stump, a difficult spot for left-handers, and took the middle one.

His three boundaries included one over the Football Club stand.

The last two overs of the gam? saw more excitement at Craigen- gower than had been experienced in years. Divecha hit two more boundaries, but Len White could not manage more than two runs. Craigengower Just missed thei most brilliant victory in years.

The 350 runs knocked up in the match included 57 boundaries. 20 by Optimists and 31 by Craigengower

TWO ARMY VICTORIES

Army "A" and "B" both took, the field yesterday with a new medium to fast bowler, though both bowled medium.

For 6

Indians Score 418

Against England In New Delhi Test

New Delhi, Nov. 4.

India quickly took a first innings le ad against England here today when the first of the series of Test matches entered on the third of its five days.

V. M. Merchant and V. S. Hazare continued their third wicket stand from the overnight score of 186 runs for two wickets and did not take very long to pass the England total of 203.

Derek Readman played one of} the his best, though not a chanceless, This nings

for 44 runs. George! runs Hong Choy staying with hum to

23 and Mohinder Singh to 60 to give the Valley cut the solid start to an innings they have been short of In the past three seasons

65 minutes MOC player, took three Uni- Don Kenyon, thought still suf- The score after

116 runs. Ragi and versity wickets for 20 runs atfering slight pain from play was

Overs and brused hip, took his place in Souza being separated after put-Sookumpoo in four

cear

NEW SPIRIT AT CCC

Urdagenge wet enough to doing the impossible gainst the Optimists at Happy Valley and the match produced afternoon cricket at its best.

Set 177 nuus to get for victory lo 90 minutes. Craigengower fell 1hree short with a whirlwind

ints in the last half-hour

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At lunch India's score was reached 131 runs, the highest hours. At the tea interval, India 274 runs for the loss of two individual score ever made by was 354 runs for six--Reuter. Major J. H. G. Deighton,

an Indian against England. former Lancashire County and wickets.

This beats his own 128 runs at the Oval in 1946.

his

ting on 44 runs in less than 20 University were all out for the fold today when India, with minutes

modest total of 59.

INDIANS REACH 418

In the last half hour runs

were

India restricted to, 18,

a total of 418 runs for six wickets, which

Bottomley lost four wickets in overtakinged their Brat wings 17 runs laminst any country, boating 186 gave them a lead of 215.

With Hagi gone. wasted no time by pulling his first ball behind the wicket for a boundary and the good work

ON THE RECORD

If The

Scots Had

Only Known

Shortly after the local | Campbell,

England-Australia

this total.

Former World Heavy- weight Champion Joe Louis falls to the canvas for a count of eight in the eighth round of his bout with the unbeaten Boston, Massachussets, heavy. weight, Rocky Marciano, at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Later in the same round Louis sustained the second knockout of his fighting career. Asso- ciated Press Photo.

Easier On

Badminton's Champions

London, Nov. 4. If Wong Peng-soon, the Malayan badminton ace,

The stand between Merchant and Hazare also Army "A" eight wickets remaining, resum-

became the finishing with best for India's third wicket behind England's toll. Army "B", out for 91 to the

runs by L. Amarnath and C.K.

In five and a half hours to- makes a bid next March to SETTLE DOWN

Nayadu against England in bowling of Gallagher (3 for 27)

day India were kept down to win the all-England title for and Jordan (7 for 41), replied

Bombay in 1932,

scoring 282 runs. The unbroken the third successive time he After an over 89. by having Navy

two Mer- out for

chant and Hazare settled down

Yet another record went, seventh wicket their new medium-paced bow-

and set about Pearson. ler, Major J. H. A.

the bowling Merchant beating Hazare's 145 lazare and Adhikari had added may find the task less strenuous than in previous Australian runs against formerly of Northumberland as the situation demanded.

years. 1047-48, thus becoming the drawn. County and Middlesex 2nd XI,

Hazare reached his 50 runs out highest scorer for India in any taking six wickets for 26 runs

HOW THEY STAND First Division

PWDL PIS

HAF KGC

$ 4 1 17

5 3 2 - 14

Army "A" Arty "B"

5 3 2 14

5 2 1 2 9

2 1 3 9

4 1 3 - 1

6 1 3 2 7

8 1 1 4 5

4 - 2 2 2

and Indian RC

Recreio

4 -2 2 2 2-2

Capt. Robertson Royal Navy "Test" tas: McLeod and, unknown to them. Optimists Ariny's skipper, Ken Bob Craig, besides some useful Craigengower

Like University Division players Wilson. was considering the iden Second

season,

School opening batsman

of challenging either team to play Webster, the King George V Scorpions Scotland

His list of available Scots in-wicket-keeper. cluded eight opening batsmen and Ove wicket-keepers, some, of course, from the Second Division. He had only one bowler to call

Willie

un-KCC'S then well top of the bowling

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SECOND DIVISION

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of 136 in 210 minutes and in the Test and this was followed by

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tournaments

Louis Advised To Stop Fighting

Chicago, Nov. 3. Joe Louis, former world heavyweight champion, is in danger of permanent Injury if he continues fighting, according to Dr . M. Houston, a medical adviser to the Illinois State Athletic Commission.

He advises Louis to -stop fighting for his own sofery.

has

Dr Houston, who cxamined the former champion on two occasions during the past 18 months and 115 ob- Rerved him in action directly on television, said that Louis reaction time, rehexes and co- ordination, had sadly deteriorat- ed.

SLOWED UP ALARMINGLY

Explaining why he believed the 87-year-old boxer had slowed up so alarmingly and new was unable to skilfully de- fend himself, he said, "It could be the accumulation of damage or age. Some people age pre- maturely, Louis s like 凸 drowning mon-he

may come up twice before he dies."

"None knows at just what point que slips over the line into a mentally impaired con- dition," said the doctor. "But certainty it is reasonable

conclude that Louis had now absorbed enough blows on the head so that he could be con- sidered or the threshold of dan- ger. One solid blow, even by u rank amateur, could conceivably punch him overboard."

Dr Houston has examined thousands of boxers in is medicol career and said that Louis should put medical ad- vice above all other considerz- tions in weighing his future. Reuter

A Natural Grandstand For Aintree

A

London, Nov. 4. natural grandstand,

which it is estimated will provide an additional 250,- 000 spectators with an unin- terrupted view of the Grand National, is construction at Aintree,

in

course of

It is hoped to complete it for the 1952 race.

At the close of play thousands In future top flight players The bank, to be known as the have to play so many "Grand National Bank", is a next bali Merchant pulled Tat-the highest stand for any wie-of spectators swarmed on to the will not

in the champtonships quarter of a mile long on the west tersall to the square leg boun-ket in the history of Indian Test ground and some of the English matches

the ranks of the side of the course, stretching trom - dary, pulling India ahead.

cricket, beating 203 of Mer-players, realising the danger, because

players are to be the No. 1 jump to Becher's Brock. chant and Al against England formed a thin cordon round the "rabbit" Even when Statham and Ridg-at Manchester in 1996.

playing pitch, protecting it as thinned.

The Upping of nearly one way came on with the new ball

best as they could with the help

Qualifying

in million tons of soil, clay and rock the runs continued at a fair

With his 20th four Merchant of the umpires until Police rein-ban singles and doubles will be is involved and lorries pace, Hazare taking two fours reached 153 runs out of 272. forcements arrived.

staged for the first time rather arriving with excavated soil at the in succession off Statham with a England's bowlers were helpless square drive and a cut.

against the batting and at lunch, To-morrow is a rest day, the on the lines of the Wimbledon rate of nearly one a minute. when the total stood at 274 runs match continuing on Tuesday Lawn tennis championships.

Crash barriers are to be erected With a glorious off trive for for two, Merchant had been Reuter,

Only entries from class players on the 30-foot high bank and the four off Shackleton, Merchant batting almost seven and a half

will be accepted for the cham-scheme includes a spacious new pionships proper which next car park. year will be played at the

Goal Judges For Soccer? Hockey Results

referee's

judgment,

London, Nov. 4.

Empress Hall here from March About 100 men art engaged on 10 to 22. A few vacancies will the work which began five weeks be left for the best players from 250. None of the material used

The following are the results the qualifying tournaments. is controlled er in restricted

of hockey matches played yes- terday:

In Supply Reuter.

The idea is long overdue. previous all-England champion- ships it was not unusual for a competitor to play six or seven singles and doubles matches in one day.

Recreio Bowls Final spont which demands ▼ Ja tremendous agility such a crowded A. A. Lopes won the Club de. Ladies League KGV "A" 1 programme has in the past often Recrets Lawn Bowls Singles Gremlins "B" 0; Gremlins "A" robbed a competitor of the chance Championship yesterday, defeat. in After all, it has been said that 3 KGV 43 0.

of giving of his best-Reuter. ing . A. Laiz by 21-16. the press cameramen .who. squat along the goal line at every big match are the best judges of a doubtful goal.

The available players actually

RAF Seconds took the lead Included eight opening batsmen and five wicket-keepers and the in the Second Division, winning

in a row Davidson, whole precedence business would their fifth game

A number of doubtful decisions by referees in award- have been a headache to the KCC Seconds stumbled. skipper.

RAF entertained the Diocesan ing goals, when only an inch or two on the right or wrong averages before the return of Had there been an Interna Boys' School at Kal Tak and side of the goal-line has been the deciding factor, has led

1st Division.-RAF 1 Army Frank Howarth and the adventional cricket series last season, had

the visitors out for 43. many followers of the game to ask whether it would not "A" 1; Police 3 Thunderbolls 4, Nicholson-and of Capt.

have achieved Pointon taking

four wickets be advisable to have goal judges. change bowler in Capt. Robert-the Scots could

2nd DivisionArmy "B" 10 the remarkable feat of winning it for 10 runs and Harrop thre son-McLeod.

from such opposition as Aus for six. They passed this total; With so much at stake on the deld of play and still be able | Aces 0; Recreio "B" 4 Nomads tralia, England and India.

with two wickets down.

many to keep a close watch on the The match did not materialise There may be enough Scots in

KCC declared against Recreio people, including referees, feel line. largely for the lack of another local cricket this

to with five wickets down for 142 that he should be relieved of Scots bowler. There was one form a team, but the chance runs at King's Park, Harnage this responsibility-at least more about in the person of Bon there was last year is gone. contributing 51. Recreio replied vital games such as Cup lies

124 for nine wickets Craig of Optimists, who stopped

Their An International series here with

suggestion is that a Craigengower victory on Satur would be a popular

one with down, E.J. Noronha contribut soccer legislation should take a day by dismissing Ragi, Bot England, Australia,

the match ing 38, and Scotland,

was leaf out of the ice hockey book tomley and Dhaber when any India,

Pakistan, Portugal drawn,

and delegate the task to goal could have won Malaya and China as the likely

Judges officials whose only HOW THEY STAND participants.

duty would be to determine cotid

PWDL Pts whether the ball crossed An even Balter series

line. 20

one of them the match.

The Australians, #hort of talent, considered Craig D

season

be played by dividing England | RAF Aussie for the fact that he went into, say, West of England, North KCC

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He school in Australla.

comes,

of England and South of Eng PRC land, That would bring the Recreio

Dockyard

in fact, from Paisley, number of teams up to ten,

where the shawls come from.

If the competition was played DAS The Scots last season had Ken Wilson, Tom Grant, who earlier on a knock-out system, it could KGYS this year scored 70 for Royal be run off in very ilttle time. Royal Navy Navy against the Army at

Lords, Willie Davidson, Capt,

THE

Indian RC

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CAMBOLS

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ONE DRAWBACK

One of the drawbacks to the proposal is finance. Quita: g few clubs even in the Football The ideal position for a goal Lengue are finding it hard to judge would be one directly make both ends meet and they above the line. On a football are not likely to welcome the 9 field that is, of course, im-prospect of additional outlay. practicable. Nevertheless, there Yet it is doubtful whether is enough space around the even the humblest soccer purse goal on the average ground for would be greatly strained. an, amelal to take up: his past without encroaching on

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Barry Applely

TOLD HIM 'D MAKRIKE

the If goal Judges were given the some match. fees, as linesmen the extra cost to Football League club would be only ave quinens plus travelling expenses,

Compiling a panel of goal indges on the same, lines af those for referees and linesmen would prescat no great problem. Many retired referees, some of to whom have unwillingly had give up controlling top class games because they have passed the Football League aste limit, would be only too, glad to return to sentor football in thle new.

Everyone agrees that it is in the best interest ot, the game that as tow mistalóns as possiblo should be mate when a goal 41 în doubt This in one way.

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Bookings Accepted for sl. Europe ination with:

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