1951-11-21 — Page 7

Now For A Good Start

By McDONALD BAILEY

British Sprint Champion

Starting-blocks, the

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of which has been forbidden in sprint handicaps. will almost certainly be iguse in those events in Tige Ter future. This is the upshof of a recent inquiry of which I happened to be the central figure.

Months

ago

Empire News

Sports Editor Harold Mayes drew attenting to the anomalous position treated

by the AAA

rules, which allowed

a man run-

ng in these events to run from We

Juntes.

but ot

from blocks. remember

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uch incidents as a mass treat! of a walk-off by athletes at the meeting, and asatement from

American conch

effect that the Do the

use of bjorks

little

of crazy

WIN

CATAPULT EFFECT

A few days ago I was del te face a three-man PqALLY, ZA which a whole pf, wa Thrasher t was leter and

really, lact he was one of the cuse fiosrazy Host" atiende, das all: id:lage of rule

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SUNDAY'S HOCKEY

The following are the Turkey fixtures for Stupsday, November 25 for the Earlies Loughm and bolli divisuma

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HOOK SHOT OVER THE BAR

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Hooking the ball over the bar of the Arsenal goal

is Allen (No. 9), the West Bromwich Albion centre- forward — as this picture is made during the First Division match at Highbury Stadium, London,

Attempting to block the kick is Daniel (No. 5). The Arsenal centre-half, Arsenal won 6-3. — Reuter- photo.

British Golfers Will Look For New Putters In Their

Christmas Stockings

London. Nov, 20.

A lot of British golfers are going to be looking for new pullers in their Christmas stockings this year.

A lot of them always du since golf is a game that many players figure they could master if they could just find the right clules

Tas

:: httle at nal Klafferent A are sale putter days he i

the dange Kong to br beg

Suckley

After January 1. golfers heeer will be ako wola ta Derenstre round withi

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like a telephone pole

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MEN'S FIRST DIVISION RAF Y Argonauts A at Kal Tak Al ID 34, Uniprres, Ps Aldridge FS Ligh

Army "A"

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Soukunigo at 3 pm Misputes, to 5 Palov, C D Gurevitel,

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SECOND

DIVISION

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BETA "B" at Botaschera

Ampires. A M Jorge de Silva, J Marcai

The

Empires unable to attend jennis unable to meet these fixtures fre asked to contact st

T Chamberlain HN

Bon P tures See of the BRHA trumediate by phone 53038. Umpires ate idso requested to forward bts of 1 players of the tearne laking par? and the results of the matches to The Fixtures Ser. c/o Royal Obser- vatory, Kowloon

ipt

was appisNONS

ze British mke aston by has Pa new riul

ta de su bar, but most of the

mpanies harga-

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Etsinela a tame to match part

The Chausimas trade

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it will quilding maga The same putters Ber Bork 3 krat Par ompany has sold Front & Stude aubre centry Shadis Sura been pupula for a

h ig-scale at it had age mumber of in Thor aetulers and wine erkers, sight unseen.

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the centre shaft legal one of the ral differences in British

American and

chube will disappear American gollers

1.

with putting cente shaded clubs have had to find new patter when play Doug in Britam,

DISQUALIFIED

Two years ago Charles Rotar of Akron. Oluo. an American Arty Sergea stationed in Germany was misqualified from the British Open Championship tor wing a putter that did not qualify under British rules.

Can you pull any better with a centre shafted club than with

K'loonDock Club's the oft fashid style?

Visitors' Day

M. Has-

The Kowloon Dock Club are holding a Lawn Bowls Visitors Day on Saturday, commencing at 2.30 p.m. on their green. Team rinks are as follows:- Visitors: K.M. Rumjahn. Ferreira B. Goodhinas. M.B. san (5) N. Beltrau. S. Strange, A. Bailey. J Hayward (S), H. Greenelade, R. Campos, P.K. Lau, Gizerto (S); A.N. Other, J. Prentice, E. Tuck, J. Chalmers (5), C.I. Stapleton, CA, Coelhu, L.A. Cullerrez, C. Thomson (8); A.N. Other, B.W. Armiger, L.G. Young. S. Pullock (S).

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Kowloon Deck Club:--W. Cham- bers. D. Taylor. V. White, Enlott (S): W. Bayne. G. 1. W. Riley, A Pearson_(S): G. Wallet,

J. McKitrick, F. Francis. J. Revie (5) W.L. McCall, C. Harverson.

McLelland, W.M.

2.

McCall (5);

G. Coles, A. Cochran, C

Collins.

W Marshallany (S); S. Telford, A. Banka A. Campbell. R Gourla

(5).

It still depends on the golfer. But Arnold Stickley, a profes-

Royal Title

For Birkdale

Golf Club

The

Good Fields

At Fanling

The ran on Saturday morning and overnight in Saturday/Sun- ay mare for frя, rate condens Saturday afternoon and Sur- ay and a large crowd were ou

test the skil Apart from some serious match play, the usual week-end compé ilons al- tracted god Acids and resulted as Tullows:

STAPLEFORD COMPETITIONS

New Cours A.G.S. McCallum An wih an above-ave: age store 38 points--his nei score of 68 will be duly no.ed. J.D. Mackie ad 3 poin's while J.H.C. Thom- -on, W.P. Birtwhistle and Major Sew. had 35 points each.

Course-J Cowpe:th- wa.le won with an excelirn 39 poin s-again a net score of 68 should catch a handkapper's eye! A. Butler, 35 points, was run- K.M. Keow 34 -up with

D. Hunk points ond

33 points Tulowing close behind.

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP

The 1st and 2nd rounds were alayed on Sunday and resulted as fallowed:

1st Round:-N. E. Arty beat H. Cleland up, J. Markham beat JK. Watson I up, D. S. Robb ben: NA Brown 0-4, D. . Bosanquet beat R. M. Campbell -1, T. A Buller bent F. D. Hunter 4-2. L. 1.. Show beat 2. R. Markle at the 20th, K. S. Kinghorn beat N. . Whelp- lon 1 up. J. J. Cowperthwaite beat F. A Kierman 2-1.

2nd Round;--N. E. Artby beat J.

Southport, Lancashire, Markham 8-4. D. S. Robb beat 2. 1. Bosanquel 5-4, L. Straw beat Nov. 20. T. A Butler 2-1, K. S. Kinghorn

beat J J. Cowperthwaite 3-2. Birkdale Golf Club,

There were few surprises on the

though N. E. Arthy showed scene of many famous inter-day

of a fiest Its appreciation

round national tournaments and escape when after being 2 down matches, now has the title with a to play and driving out of "Royal."

Government Will Not known as the Royal Birkdale

Contribute To Britain's Olympic

Fund

London, Nov. 20. The British Government re- jccted a nuggestion tonight that

I should contribute Lowards the expense of sending the British Olympic Gorace lean

to Helsinki next year.

Mr James Johnson, (Labour), made the proposal in the House of Commons.

bounds at the 10th, he recovered well enough to win 1 up. K. S. Kinghorn 2 down with 4 to play

J. against N. Whelpton, was aided

An official Home Office letter by a style at the 18th and by his states: "His Majesty the King opponent iuree putting the 18th. has been pleased to command J. K. Watson was eliminated rather that the

Club henceforth be unexpectedly in the first round and, in the afternoon, T. A. Butler, at one time three up, lost his putting Golf Club."

touch and the match is L. L. Shaw. The Club's secretary, Major

Mr. M. S. Lloyd, in a way, H. Corlett, said that w.

may have been glad nie wie nok.in the Fanling crowd on Sunday, believed that the honour was Deep Water Bay, he shot a ball inte conferred because of the club's the ntr and both he and his partner contribution to the game,

Row it fall to earth-directly into

was

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cularly in postwar golf, the hole at the 0th-and slay put,

It's a pity there were not more on included the

the hand to celebrate his hole in one- staging of Walker Cup and Curtis Cup the culmination of 20 years on- matches between Britain and the deavour!

Entry Iluia for the Junior Charn-

United States.

host

the

pionship thandicap 19 and over) The Club has also been the and the Mixed Touryother have now

for the 1039 English been posted. Amateur Championship. 1946 British. Amateur

Cham- plonship er well ng several

compótl major professional

It is now one of 13 courses on

the Championship roth and its

But Mies Fiorente Horsbrugh, Minister of Education, replied tons. for the Government that n such contributions had been made in the past and she could not dive buy encouragement to the suggestion that a different polies should be adopted now, ----Itabora

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The Importance Of Being Glynis

By JACK DAVIES

They started filming York Glynis will live

apartment.

"The Importance of Being Earnest" on stage B Pinewood studios a few this

STAR FINDER

in their

Then there Was the time Lennard decided to take a look at all the film tests that been

years

OLC

made during the war It was while looking al Dulcie Gray that he sal

"Who's thei he

neked. Dulcir's husband."

A quarter of a century ago week 14-year-old Robert days ago; on the stage next Lennard went to work in the

He started at the up and took notlet. door, where they're making film industry.

in the scene?" bottom as an offer boy with W "The Card," there's a young and F

on. #lms. Soon he

that's found lady whose current activi- that he had a flair for casting. ties demonstrate the Im-transferred his activities to the

Glynis old BIP studios portance of Being Johns.

Mias Johns more or less dominates the feminine side

He was told. "He was on leave from the Army and made the Lennard cast test to help out." Elstree,

where he got a job as assistant casting director

Except for the war years he has been there ever During that time he has

of British films right now..since Two of her films, "No High- discovered many stars. Bay

"Appointment With Venus" have been on general release during the last week or so.

him for the leading role in "My Brother Jonathan,"

Since then

no one has ever referred again to Michael Denison Husband

as Dulcie's

in

the

Whom does Lennal regard as The biggest potential star British Alms? Watch Janette time she will be right at Scotl." he says. I four years'

thu

112

There was, for example, young actor he saw playing the Dundee Rep. in 1939. meant to sign hit up them, but the war Intervened. Lenard old not forget. In 1946. de- mobbed and back at his casting director's deck, he started look-

As soon as shr has finished "The Card" she is uff to New York to start rehearsals for the new Enid Bagnold play "Gertie."

for the arion, eventually Meanwhile, she is arranging traced him to hospital in for her ses passage and organs. Nerth Africa, where, as a major ing the handing over of her tr the Parachute Commandos

Was London flat, which will be the he

recovering from ง home of the Sam Wanamaker's wound. And that's how Richard whole che

Hav 15

Jn New Todd got his contract.

Jack Davies Says

'NO DISH TO SET BEFORE A QUEEN'

COMETHING must be! No one is more likely to benefi: from "Where No Vultures Fly" done about the stage

actor

Steel Big (BIL), shows at Royal Film Per-strong, with a smile that would formances This year's grace a toothpaste ad., he is al- affair under rehearsed, ready being hailed as a second slow and generally witless-Stewart Granger.

But whereas M.-G-M. have a would have

succession of big roles lined up credit to an amateur opera-for Granger, the Rank Organi- tic society.

sation have none ready for Steel "The right story hasn't been

they say Let's hope this does not blunt the Steel rarecy.

done

little

There were far too many people on a stage too small found yet, to accommodate them.

OH, KAY!

Few of the stars had either the stage experience, DECAUSE that fine character the material, or the ability Bas Walsh is rarely to hold an audience of 2,500. aliowed to look herself in ms. Many appeared overawed tow people would recognise her by the occasion.

Or.on

Welles. for example, an bied slowly through his conjuring that I wondered what would have happened had the Odeon had a gallery.

а

lop"

THE

WAS IT MUSIC HALLY

Queen, the most charming (and tactful) of guests, never leaves the variety profession

doubt that she has enjoyed them. annual Royal Performance,

But

Was this year's show really the best the profession can do? I doubt it-and 15 Saying that I make allowances for the fact that artists do not Rel

best encouragement Fran a boiled-shirt

the

A

audience with one eye on the stage and the other on the Royal box

Hkg of the show were Jimuny Edwards. Arthur English, the

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But what, in the name vaudeville, were such artists h Pearl Primus, the Latin-Ameri- can Dancers, Patricia Morrison and others doing on

the bill" Brilliant artists they may all be in their own sphere but that sphere as not the musle-hall.

The Princess Saw It In Private

By David Lewin THEY tried to tell Tarol Reed's film "Out-

US

were

all for

in the stree).

cast of the Islands" was not They'll get no help from her fitted for a royal occasion.

in which new film, "Encore,"

They tried to tell us the she plays a dowdy, middle-aged

who drives a ship's story was unsuitable.. spinster

They tried to tell us the captain and his crew to distrac non.

She speaks in Petula Clark started singing

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They tried ex-Charlot she hit a sour note which left

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tive than the majority of female Neither did the Americans

It would be nice (once in cover themselves with

glory stars. Jane Russell (who maybe had while) to see her as she really other things un her mind) sang two dull numbers competently hut without much spirit, Fred MacMurray played the saxophone rather badly; and Burt Lancaster fought a of the corniest ever heard.

wind

15.

AUTHOR NIVEN HAVE just received a 2w

Rocks,"

lo tell us these things as a reason not choosing the picture for the Royal Film Show

But before she flew to Cana da Princess Elizabeth asked if a new film could be privately shown for her.

What was it Reed's

"Josing battle with some officer who goes to Hollywood THE PLIGHT of too many

material I have

FOUR-POINT PLAN

Only the immaculate Empire Girls gave the show an air picfessionalism. They deserved

of

Why, Carol she saw? novel, "Round the Rugged "Outcast of the Islands" SAD WISECRACK about a young army

British film stars chasing and finds himself a successful

too few parts was pointed up film sar. The author had a

Jimmy His name? sharply this week by similar experience.

Hanley. While waiting for David Niven.

Niven, disclaiming any re-stage acting

new picture he is Alling in time and introducing on the

he che really big reception offblance between himself and his variety Band-Box"

hero says: This, heaven help radio.

the

e evening.

My 4-point plan for futuru yuccess:

Limit the stars taking part to those with rovue or variety experience;

-Ensure that there are not more than 20 all told;

3-Make them rehearse for at least a month; and Restrict

minutes.

the show to 30

I doubt if my advice will be taken, though.

Happily, I can be more com plimentary about the film selected. WHERE NO VULTURES FLX, although not the best film Ealing has made, is a beautifully- pho'cgraphed record of wild life in East Africa.

Many of the shots have neve: been

and bettered,

direc'or Harry

Wait has

invariably the wild managed to catch animals cif their guard. DECENT TYPE

His efforts as author of the plece are not so successful. His villain, photographer-cum- ivory poacher (admirably played by Harold Warrender), could

a

hardly be more obvious.

And

his hero is so jolly decent that he might have been conceived by

Oulda herselt,

However,

the the beauty. of The exoltement of the scenery, animal scenes. und the expert playing of Anthony Sitel and Dinah Akotidni cover up to s degree the naivety of the story.

Qulda ada reputed to have turkkien of one of her true- blue heroes! All rowed fart,

but none so fast"ds_stroke."|

#

me, is NOT

an autobiography. In that programme Jimmy The charactors ure all imagin- Hanley said ructully the other ary....unfortunately,"

since I night: "It is so long A few who think they recognise made a picture I don't come themselves

be out well in a snap now.....” sure....fortunately.

-(Lundon Express Service)

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