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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1952. ·

SIR KEN WINS CHAMPION HURDLES RACE

Noholme (No. 24). B. Marshall up, was first over the final hurdle in the Champion Hurdle Raco at Cheltenham on March 4, but the race was won by Sir Ken (No. 19), T. Moloney up, during the United Hunt's Meeting. Central Press Photo.

THOUGH HE COULD WEAR CINDERELLA'S SLIPPERS

Phenomenal Speed Makes Hashim Khan The World's Best Squash Player At 36

Hashim Khan, the tiny, balding Pakistani who was last year's big surprise in the British Squash Championships, has added a fourth title to the three he already possesses. He trounced the Egyptian professional, ex-Champion Mahmoud Karim, in three straight sets to win the Dunlop Open Professional Squash Tourna

ment.

★☆★ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★ ★

Now Take Your Pick For The Cast Of The

Pickwick Papers"

Says JACK DAVIES

is obvious that producer George Minter and director Noel Langley have no easy task ahead of them.

for

TAVING rent through Dickensian, Bransby Williams, studios here are slightly primi-| HA

hundreds of sugges

suggested Lestle Dwyer, adding tive. They are part of the old that if the trial scene is used, he exhibition k 1923 converted. tions for the casting of five would like to play Buztuz him- There is no hot water anywhere of the principal roles in self, a suggestion 1. pass on to not even hot taps to show Renown's film version of Minter.

willingness." Other

choices popular

But Abning in Spain has its "The Pickwick Papers," it Weller Wors Tommy Trinder, advantages. The company works Max Bygraves. Jack Warner, from 2 p.m. until 9 pm, with no Bli Owen, Jimmy Hapley, breaks for lunch or tea. There

a snag, however. Sydney Tafer, Bernard Miles is a

"When the near-by factories: and, Inevitably, Alec Guinness, TALL STORY

put on extra machinery," says Some suggestions, if acted up-

voltage in the on. would undoubtedly bring THAT languid-looking Irish- Dempster, "the

so that we studio goes down forth howls of dismay from the

Patrick Campbell, can't shoot; we have to wait unt Dickens Fellowship. I cannot who always secans to me to be. imagine, for example, as one of about 10 feet tall, has won much they have finished making the odd shawl, comb, or mantilla of humorous my rendors did, that Humphrey fame as a writer Fogart would be an ideal Tracy stories and articles. Now he has before we can continue." Tupuan. Neither can I see Alin turned his attention to the movie Lld as Snodgrass, or either business and has written a screen Bebe Daniels or Anna Neagle as stof wit! put into produc- story, "Miss Robin Hood," which

tion, shortly.

Mrs Bardell.

ALL FOR ONE

man

of a

IS THIS ECONOMY?

that, as an economy measure, l

I can't help feeling some regret

Crown Film Unit is to be dis- banded.

Since its formation in 1920-- it was then called the Film Unit of the Empire Marketing Board and was run by Stephen

It is not, as might be suspec- One of two netors emerged ted, a starring vehicle for Joan with flying colours, Alec Guin-Rice, but is concerned with the ne: was east for every male adventures of the editor role in the picture, one person magazine for teenagers who is geing so far as to suggest that writing a serial about a female Tallents and John Grieraanit he should play them, all simul-mutlaw and who suddenly slips un the wrong side of the law taneously!

himself.

Emlyn Williams was another who was suggested, for short parts.

average, the most popular cast would ppear to be:

TUPMAN, Cech Parker or

Mervyn Jolins, SNODGRASS. George Cole or Denus Price or Aleo Guin-

WINKLE, David Tomlinson

tess. At 36 he is one of the oldest Champions in the history of the gate, and cer- tainly the most unorthodox. His secret is his phenomenal speed. He is the fastest player over seen, but makes no claim to being a stroke-player and has few win- ning shots.

Est

When he played his Best the over-confident Champion. ma zala in England

He took the first two games for ytar i was once evident that nere i love, and the last with a lors of was a man who would be hard only five paints.

and Karim But must remarkable

his to beet.

him was bis ex- afterwards claimed thing about traordinary style,

Egyptian was not at man, a statement which seged to be burne

out by his subsequent treatment in hospital.

LIKE A MEAT-CHOPPER

Ke holds his racket like a

the other meat-chopper. thrown out to balance himself; with fingers spread-eagled, and Lomale

abort The court trieving

everything. Ti extramadinary turn speed enables

always to choose the direction of his. strokes. But although be is thus able to dominate the game he verely plays cxceptional shots, preferring to wear down his opponent

ppon by sheer tenacity He and waltring strength. practically never uses the angle shots which are the favourite resort of most champions.

Last year, few people thought

Club

that

supporters the

But this year Hashim has

proved concisively that he can at the Egyptian on equal terms. the won the Dunlop title 9-3, 9-3. 9-7.

*fshim a rizs the rolgning Open. Champion t the British istes, Professional Champion, and Scottish Open Champion. He will defend thự frat tille nexi month, and the Professional and Seultish titles in April.

A GREAT RECORD

It is a great record for the little man from Peshawar, who turned professional only when he

Hushim just But phleginic chrigged- and went in to win! Just the same.

Lotan Express Service) |

for

Patrick (an

or Ake Guinuens, JINGLE, Nigel cusy-winner), MRS BARDELL. Hermione

Baddeley or Mees Jenkins. These were many suggestions Sam Weller. That famous

JOHN MACADAM sums up-

CLUBS MUST TAKE STRONG

ACTION

Dirty play in Soccer-although less common today than it has ever been but nevertheless common enough to constitute a menace to the popularity of the game can be eliminated only by the most vigorous action by the authorities.

Dirty players will always be dirty players, for the kind of action we have described these past few days is found that he could beat every-second nature to them-however few they have become he could beat Karim, the ex-ste who challenged him. ballboy from the Gezira Sports He became Professional Cham-

Everybody in football know. of their own men, but, in some who became

pion of Western India in 1944, 1 the most pion of

them, and knows under what circumstances, actually demand rizssle struke-player of all time title which he retained for the circumstances they may be ex-it of them. and was thrice Open Professional next two years. A Pathan by pected to blow up. The problem Champion. Karim's superb birth, he became a naturalised How to curb them when they placing, whip-tush strokes and Pakistani at the time of

Parti- experience

in the game were tion, and won the Professional.

of Pakistan in considered to be too much for the Championships

1940, little Pakistani.

For some years he has But Hashim, a head shorter been Resident Coach at the than the Egyptian, utterly routed Peshawar RAP Officers Mess.

Hashim is immensely popular taeticion must start in the club in Britain. He is a jolly little boardroom and in the dressing nuts with a happy grin, and arora

Bannister And

Wint Decline

Invitation

London, Mar. 11.

IT'S SIMPLE

In my opinion it is as simple av

The clean-up of the

this....

foul

great sense of fun. He obviously I have the word of a famous enjoys game immensely, and laughs delightedly as be plays.

manager

that he

went to

visiting club's dressing-room to

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1

has

been the pioneer of the documentary film and the train- ing ground for many technicians and film directors.

Playing the leading roles in "Miss Robin Hood" will bc The work of the Unii doring

Margaret Rutherford, Naunion

the war, when it made, among Wayne, Eric Berry and Milchwel other

films,

Target for To- Medwin..Ii should be funny.

night." "Coastal Command," and "Western Approaches," was invaluable.

GOOD HUNTING TIKE Miss Rutherford, Martita Bunt is another character actress who gets offered many more screen roles than she can possibly necept.

Miss Hunt is currently playing a--Indes music hall star with and Kay Waish in Ted Kay "Meet Me Tonight. When this is completed she is going straight into another Technicolour Rim, "It Started in Paradise," in which she will play a haughty dress designer.

Also cast for this film are Jane Hylton, Terence Morgan and Ian Hunter.

CASH ON THE KEYS

Since the war it has made other brillant Alins such as "The Undefeated" and "Daybreak in Udi," both of which have wan ferds In forelyn meny countries as well as achieving their primary function: spread- ing good propaganda,

I don't know how much the Film Unit's activities cost the nation each year. But consider- ing the vast suma we pay for American firas-many of which bave

whatever-it

no valut seems a pity we can't afford la keep the Crown Film Unit going, money-maker there's even if only to make a couple of nothing like an alt Recently Warner Brothers made

S

rong, pictures a year.

KAY WITH RAY

biography of the late Gus |

The

Katin

called

Hank Organisation have "encore" to Kay Walsh

My Dreams"" "I'll See you in

Up till then the songwriter's after her brilliant performance widow had been receiving in the Somerset Maugham film. so a quarier She will play cpposite Ted Ray handy £3,000 or

Coward plays husband's old tunes. However, the three Noel by way of royalties from her in the "Red Peppers" episode of Warners still had to pay ove: being filmed under the title of £20,000 for the rights of the Tonight at 8.30."

Also signed title song and other Kahn dittles used

in the

Stanley Holloway, who will play picture.

don't a suburban father who breaks British Blm, producers

that kind of money for. away, from his family in "Fumed music. They hit a much lower Oak." note somewhere round the bot- tom of the keyboard.

pay

BAGDAD 'FABES'

I am being told everywhere 11N Spain they are making a Alm Entitled "Babes of go in football these days that Tootball is a man's game and 1 Bagdad." The Babes concerned Gre Paulette Goddard, John am trying to make it a sissy one.

and Leo Boles, Gypsy Rose Nothing could be further froin Hagh Dempster. the truth.

Time afler time, particularly

Mr Dempster, writing to me

Barcelona,

after matches with Continental from sides, I have pleaded for more robust play from our own players, who have been savaged.

But robust play is a vastly diffent thing from this measly.

says:

"The

Ray Milland Is Sentimental Over about this past A Street Bench

He loves to exhibit his stunt wish the boys good luck before stab-in-the-back stuff we have shots when he knows he has a vitul game. As he opened the been talking

mot

wh "In the bag." Ifis favourite door he heard his rival manager week. trick is to hit a backhand with tell them, "Get out there and

1

his right hand crossed behind kick them don't cure where That the Football Association The most nostalgic place his back, and his antics cause you kick them, but kick them." feel the same way is indicated by in Hollywood to Ray Mil

roars of laughter in the spectator

Roger Bannister, the Ox-gallery. ford miler, andl Arthur Wint, the Jamaican holder

GOOD SPORTSMAN

from

.a

report He withdrew without offering this quote his good wishes,

(published in the current Football land, a man full of nostal- Association Bulletin) of agias, 1s the northeast "That manager," he told me, decision by a technical sub-corner of Sunset Boulevard "was not speaking entirely off committee of the International He is also a remarkably goods own bat. Ile had the buck Committee:-

and Laurel Avenue.. of the Olympic 400 Metres: sportsmen, He Is generous in

There's a benall there and it's, title, have both declined an victory, and quick to offer a let 1g of his directors, and even

"It was a unanimous feeling full of memarles for the actor. those of his players who weren't invitation

init he thinks he has obstructed a to compete

more years ago when bashers knew that their places that players must be prepared to Some 15 the well-known Coliseum player.

and unfair he'wasn't a movie star and didn't in the site would be jeopardised necept obstruction: queries. Relays in

money to buy a "Want again?" Lo's Angeles,

If they didn't go out and use play without resorting to similar have enough He always

a less the boot." California, on May 16.

Strong peanut butter sandwich at the expedients themselves,

bench. Experienced player by de-

and So it starts with the directors tackling in a fole manner was drugstore back of the liberately throwing away a few

means of showing Milland would sit there Trinidad, the joint holder of the points, and playing back to him, and the managers who not only the only

watch the movie stars go by World 100 Metres record, has

man he accords no shut their eyes to the dirty play resistance to unfair play. accepted the invitation but Mr quarter is Kurtin.

The players felt thng it was

WAITING FOR THE BREAK Jack Crump, Secretary of the forgot

forgotten a rebuff from, Karim

most important to consider the "I'd sit by the hour," the actor. British Amateur Athletic Board:inst year, during the Champlon-. said today that the trip was

to some extent in the hips, when the haughty young

Egy

plina curtly refused a lunch Invitation from the Pakistanl.

E.

now

McDonald Bailey,

melting part."

The only

encourages

He has not

He had asked the Americans

As a result, the Dunlop Anal was for their views on the matter.

Bannister has declined be one of the grimmest affairs we cause he does not want to run have seen for a long time.

outside Britain bofore the Hashim has one big worry: In Olymple Games. Wint feels that he would not be able to life. When he plays in England get at in time for Los Angeles he is obliged to wear shoes-and because his training has been he can't and tennis shoes any

knee where in the country Blight a

delayed by trouble.

He is al busily small enough for him. engaged in. his final year studies as a medicat student- Reuter.

of

the.

that are

Cambridge Row referee's influence on the gamme sald, and watch those big

First Full Course Trial

MAJOR COG

too, my

on my way

to

loaded Unless there was a high standard beautiful cara sall by,

It wou of refereeing, then the team with glamorous people. which played fairly might be where I'd ameditate hoping brenk I was seriously handicapped........

someday to get that always working for."

It was while driving from his Beverly Hills home to Burbank London, Mar. 11.

There you have my own for his starring role in Warner Cambridge University, strong insistence on robust play-but

Bros. "Close To My Heart" that un- he renewed his ocquaintanceship' favourites to beat Oxford in the same abhorrence of

annual University Boat fairness.

with the bench. Race on March 29, rowed their

You have,

own

"Mornings Arst full coarse trial from Put- Insistence on the referee us a work T'a pass there," he said,

་ ས་ས་ on the river major So he plays in size alx; with Thainen, today,

ney to Mortlake,

ceg in the elean-up "and, begin thinking about, how machine.

lucky en today. You know, toes padded because he takes Rowing under deal condi- 44. Pakistani friends helped tops they covered the four und He has it in his hands to send perspective on life."

that bench gives me a whole new him scour

our London for shoes and Dunlop sent half a dozen fittings 24 seconds.

a quarter miles In 20 minutes the foul player off the field end, Van onco ho has done so, he must be from their factory-but they Oxford Univeralty took 1 backed by the authorities who were all too large.

muuten 40 seconds, last Satur-have the power of suspension. He even

tried the women's lay, but they had to contend London, Mar. 11. departments in the big stores, with several stretches of choppy Suspension without pay-that But the shoes he found there water and a lot of river traffic. Is the answer to the persistent

Warnors' Patrico Wynoro, who were not broad enough. Twice Salle Cambridge had many fouler who fouls not only his last played a Ziegfeld beauty in his too-big shoes tripped him up reasons for satisfaction, they fellow-professional but also the the studio's 111. See You In My during practice matches: the first must have been worried by the face of the game of which he is Dreams," is currently portraying time he sprained an ankle, the jelly movement, of their boat supposed to to an amament, college coed in "She's Working second time cut, his knee. through the water-Reuter,

-London Express Service) Her Way Through College.

Scottish Soccer

Clyde beat Dundee United by

three goals to nil In a Scottish

League, Division "B" football match today,

Tho -match from February

was postponed

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