1952-04-23 — Page 7

South China Athletic Team Did Well In

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Match With Macao

The South China Athletic Association sent a team down to Macao for a two-day meet with the Portuguese Colony over last Saturday and Sunday and won the Cup presented by His Excellency the Governor of Mucno, Com- mandante Marques Esparteiro.

Several of the South Chinn athletes produced their best performances of the season, Chang Yat-hung, the hop, step and jumper, adding another half-inch to his personal best with an effort of 43 feet 216 inches. Ile holds the official Colony record at 43 feet 2 inches.

Another athlete who did ex- well W3 Leung ceptionally Kam-po, who ran second in the 400 Metres and won the 800 and 1.500 Metres with his personal bost times of 2 minutes teconds and 14 minutes seconds.

3.2

37

Yam Wal-ling surprised bim- elf, anong others, by clearing

Wai-chuen

5 fect 7 inches in the High Chan Jump and pushed the 12-poun

to 45 feet 01

The

2

shot

Cambridge

Crews Ready

For Games

By HYLTON CLEAVER

The

Jast year's which made

of whole out Cambridge crew, This is history in the USA, best ever performance by with those who made up Hongkong schoolboy, im- other eight

proving on the 42 feet 10 inches (European

together the

which Won the championship. will

by N! Vorgesch of King's now be available for the Olym College in 1932. He also threwpie Games, if required. the digeus out to 195 (zet 54 inchis, which is the best he has done in this event.

+

mast cheering This is the

It had of 1952. rowing news

could bern thought the crews not be reassembled, but D. M.

Wont Man-wan ran a heat of the 100 Metres in 11.1 secondsdenneng has already begun to und Chung Yat-hung h: 11.2, stroke Leander eight, which

won

is training at wees ends at

Wong won the final in 11. Henley, and in a live of its year's the final of the 200 Metres in 24

boat race crew behind him, in seconds after winning a heat including Brian Lloyd at six, the 23.7. Shek "Ka-lin

They will be training dally other beat in 23.4 seconds.

from March 1. The crew have by South so far been completed by the Other successes China athletes were in the Long inclusion of 1. D. Burnell and Jump. Shek Wai-man clearing P. Bradley. 19 feet 10 inches, in the 400

Burnell, the only Oxford

Metres, 10 Wing-chuen winning Blue in the boat, and Bradley

in 55.2 seconds, and in the Med-who rowed in a war-time boal ley Relay.

For Macao, Graciano Lourenco won the 3,000 Metres in minutes 414 seconds, as well as coming in second in the 1,500

race, are only keeping

sents

warm, however, for others. Their intentien later is to row as a pair.

But this is not the only good news. There is a strong Cum-- Metres, unend of the Hongkong bridge influence in the very Inter-School Champion, Lee

powerful Thames Rowing Club Shi-chung, and Jose Ples wen

Pole Vault at 9 feet 114 who are training on the inches.

the

Test Matches To

Bé Televised ·

London, Apr. 22. Television viewers in Britain will see the tour Test matches between England und India this season.

The

tourists' opening, match against Worcestershire on Muy 3, 5 and 6, will also be tele- vised.

The television broadcast of

Tideway, stroked by A. L. Mactecd, the Lady Margaret

Blac; and now I have seen the

Cambridge new

eight which

new

En Loyd had been coaching.

James Crowden, the Cambridge president, had much to live up to and started with caly one Old Blue, R. F. A. Sharpley, on the end of our, and another, J. F. K. Hinde, at the rudder,

for the first

Jov

H. A.

an

winners

Cup

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1952.

FIRST TOURNEY

Harry Weetman. - the--British Match Play Cham- pion, who recently returned from Australia, driving off from the first tee at the start of the first big English golf tournament of the season the Silver King £1,350 tourney at Moor Park on April 16. - Central Press Photo.

La Salle Beat Wah Yan At Badminton

By: “ARGONAUT"

La Salle College upheld their reputation as top favourites for the Inter- School Badminton League title when they overcame a strong Wah Yan Morning School team yesterday in their opening_match_by'] three games to nil. The other two games were not played.

Highlight of the match was the clash between the two undoubtedly most promising young players In the Colony, Robert Heng and Ko Wai-bong.

Ko, who just passed the age lim for the Schoolboys* Open Championship lost month, went down to the Colony Schoolboy Champion by 10-31 in an ex- ciling match,

E.

n

runner-u

Schoolboys Mazquez-Lan gave La Salle 2-0 lead, defeating Wah Yan's Yeung Yin-kon by 21-15 de- spite some good rosis.ance by Yeung.

La Salle clinched the issue when dimunitive D. Castro and La Salle's star 440-yard runner, Lo Wing-chuen, edged out Lam Yung-tok and Choune Chi-chin In three closely.eonlusted kets, 11-15, 15-13 and 15-8,

THE RESULTS

Robert, Heng (LS) beat Ko Wal-bang-21-10-

El Marquez Lim (LS) beat Young Ying-kon 21-15.

D. Castro end Lo Wing-chuin (LS) bel Lam Yung-nk and Chating Chi-ching 11-15, 15-13,

15-8.

Walter Winterbottom Is

An Artist In Easing The Pre-match Tremble

Says TOM

FINNEY

Sumetimes an hotel can be a very lonely place. It often is when you are a foot. baller on the eve of a big game, And one of the big tasks of a manager is to make his side feel happy in those long waiting hours.

The night before an international or important League game is very impor tant. Many a match has been lost because a player, worrying about the outcome, has spent a night tossing and turning in a strange bed.

But this caused no worry He had available three of the Lady Margarel crew, of the Grand Challenge

The eve of Hampden Park is, a past master in this psycholo- paration has been coming larger last July, all of whom were I suppose, the most trying of all gust's art

easing these into football discussions, not only with him in the Goldie

Elght

these occasions. The Hampden trembles. He tries to ensure from the tactical point of view which took the European title Roar is famous the world over, that no one is left alone to brood but, from the psychological as

he had Lime:

and it is not surprising that few on these things.

well. I think it all to the good. Cadbury, who was players can escape the odd So, the England party, staying the Test at Headingley, Leeds, spare man to that crew, and "colly-wobble" ut the though in the

Scottish West pleasent GT Marshall, who had been at what awaits him. For the coast town of Troon, fanious for with Cadbury in the very good man fresh to Scotland's greates its championship golf course. The recent opening of a trans- King's College eight, he alsof football ground, these anxieties went en bloe to the small theatre

After Moss, Lunca had E. J. Cughill, one of his mitter at Holine

pleasant siroll back shire, has enabled the cameras Pembroke crew which won the

to the hotal, the boys all had Then, under dinner together, to cover events in this accu-Ladies Plate.

Mr Winterbottom and Bill Reuter.

Wright, our skipper, we sat to- gether in lounge discussing in- formally the tactics to be em- ployed on the morrow.

will be the first from this ground.

Of the few genuine

COGNACS

ONE

IS

-(London Express Service)

are ten times worse.

Wolter Winterbottom, Eng- fand's triendly tenn-manager, is

HENNESSY

UNESSÝ&G COCNAG

OUTSTANDING

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L. RONDON & CO. (H.K.) LTD.

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HENNESSY

PLAYERS' BENEFITS Since I wrote suggesting thi a player's benefit should be written into his contract, I have had several interesting letters One asks whether from readers.

might not consider football

of benefits gain from a system graded according to the length of service

a club. My correspondent suggests the following scale: First season, third, 100; second,

£200 and increments thereafter in annual incre

a maximum figure of £50 until a of £400 for a season. He adds that if a

if a player

transferred at his own request, he would start

come

COMPLETELY REMOVED At 10 o'clock "curfew" pleted the pre-match- prepare tions. One vital factor was that most of us were all paired in our rooms with men whose play wes linked with our own in the match.

'Thus, Ivor

I shared

a room with

the following afternoon.

Troun

again at £75 with his new club. ·

★ ★ ★ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★ ★

HEPBURN GETS TO WORK AS A SHAW HEROINE

Page

The Millionairess

SHE PHILOSOPHISES .

"I

am the most

interesting

woman in England. I am Epifania Ognisanti Di Parerga.

Flanked by two rapturous men, Miss Katharine Hepburn poses-rehearsing in London for her role in. Bernard Shaw's

"The Millionairess,"

And the pictures and accompanying play quotations give an idea why many consider the Millionairess Shaw's most cutrageous heroine.

Gazing up admiringly at Miss. Hep- burn in the picture above is Robert Help- mann; gazing down admiringly at Miss Hepburn is Cyril Richard-the two who play the men in the life of the millionairess, the woman who says............... "Do you know what it feels like to be in

the arms of a man and know that you could buy him up 20 times over and not miss the price?" (London Express

Service)

WITH HER MEN

"When I need à car or a motor-boat or a Jaunak 1 buy straight of the road or of the river or out of the harbour."...

"Nobody is anybody without money, Mu oldfather taught mo that Stick to your money, he said: 'and all other things shatt he added unto you,' He said it was in the Bible."

Oh the deep end. the deep end ! What is

tile if it is not lived in the deep end ?. Alastair, you are a

·tadpole."...

"There are two sorts of people, in Mas world. The people Anyone can five, with and the people no one can live with.".

Rowing Isn't All Light Or Dark Blue

By J. DILLON McCARTHY

one

on

дго

Undoubtedly this Would cust

w19 down drastically the number of Broadls, the Manchester City inside-lorward, who was it has .wo serious snags.

applications for a transfer. But

Onc

Rowing is the sport of from the ARA. The NARA in firms, the costs of racing have my partner on the right-wing. that there are many players who

Carefully excluded all at least doubled hour turn

since before in bed in that Lying in hotel where Open Championships through no reason of their own.

are compelled to ask for a move millions -- for

tormen and dockers, barges the war. For those and bontbuilders, once Д year.

who formed A boat which years ago could have been won und lost, Ivor

about 1,000, into be bought for £60.wit now and I were able to discuss the The second is that such a system millions rowing, is the Bont themselves,

re-

Rowing cost up to £300. Oars which little moves Wo would try out would be tantamount to the

Race; their interest begins the Hitle Tradesmen's moval of maximum wage.

at Clubs' Association, with about co.. Ci row cost £7 10%-which MARY Third and Second at Putney and ends

<lozen D

clubs, all

the has affccled the custom of pre- We talked

talked unul

we were Division clubs cannot afford to Chiswick Bridge.

Thames.

soning their or-blades, mount- abort asleep. That was a good pay the present benent rates to

Over the years the ARA anded and embellished, to notably thing.

The

period between more than a handful of their

NARA Gradunily moved to winning crews. They stil get waking and sleeping when the

gether until there was talk of a souvenir blades—but they saff. If the rates were inerted. mind is only too keen to

Wander

would Intvitably

bring had been completely removed. about a drift of the better When I go way with Preston players to the wealthier clubs. North End, my own club, almost That is completely contrary to exactly the same procedure

Is the

fundamental

sental principles of the For most- Southern Football League. followed. matches, we need to stay in

There is nothing much wrong The London on Friday night.

with the present system of is generally. routine

the same, benefits-provided a player is show, a meal and then early to

ocriain that his reward will bed in a room shared with A be waiting for him after five friend. I can tell of many years' service. lifelong friendship which started with a Casual root-pairing ot an "away" game.

The finances of many smaller clubs these days would welcome the saving of 15 or 16 seats in the

stalls "at one of the big London theatres. In a season. this can amount to a sum well Into three figures. But this Friday evening entertainment would be

une

Inst

of the economies made by a manager, He knows too well the morale value of these outings,

Since the war, incidentally, this question. of pre-match-pro-

TODAY'S, SPORT

"

HOUREY

International TournamentPortu-

Za India at Club de Recrala, ground, King'o perk

SOCCER A

3rd: Division-HAMC Westgen- (gokunpoo)** CME- Redutusion (Navy "?" H.V.). "Both gumes start

-Backing a 'cert'—-

TOTE

""Lody, we don't take dézs

won the hutan,

London "Esorosa Stratos.

But not at the universities, ror in the 350 United Kingdom towing clubs where 25,000 row ing men work the year round preparing for the competitions of Ime spring and summer, For them the Boat Race is only one event in a calendar of weekly regattas between

May August. There are even those purists who regret racing. for its interference with style.

DEMOCRATIC NOW

and

Cost

merger, but the TRCA was ex-old ones. eluded from the amateur.world Apart from his manual sub- until 1948, when it was founderp on-perhaps £20-a mem- a lighterman could compete in bar will have to pay his sharo the Olympics, and the national bos-cartage-pothops £5 per rules were reframed to admi: regro; his share of regata en- TRCA members us amateurs. iry-fess-perhepa C-10 galmas a The TRCA is still not admittime. A club bazer wi ted to the Joint Advisory Com4a guinéis, rowing sharks £3.

say, His personal experts at mittee.. "Look at thein," said one of Only "boatjacks" and ferry-Henley wil be abzu: £30. still These men-one of the biggest men

Iis return? The barred

salist clion, from 'names" in the

the rowing world

amateur rowing, apart from the perheps, in the chees of wistory, --pointing out to me the Jesus very few racing professionals. The serration, Incmmunicable

of took the Head

Competitive

To one who has not known it, rowing

crew that

Fatta,

TO

д

eight

ship.

the River title from nearly young man's game; few race of en sight running swift and 2,000 other young men on the after their early thirties. But us. The physical contentement Thames a week ago. "Heads oaramen, as athletes, are long of a sport that exercices every down, bodies all over the place. I lived. I remember at Cam- muscle in the bady. Good fellow- No style,,,

But they get there, I bridge one regular sculler

nowirt. And Bribalm 1serSIN", Bupnose."

83 with the physique of a man ally Engli England has towing is a democratic sport of 30. Thames Rowing Cluseme 300 raway clubs to Sco these days, But it was not al- have an "old ways 50. The Amateur Rowing whose crew average about 65: land's 30 and Welca's half- Association the governing Members of the less exclu- dozen

**** FINDING THE BEST body for every event

except | sive clubs 'do not,, na a' rule, It is almost cordión, therefore, the Boat Race and Henley: Re-last so long, since there is less that in English crew will repre

whose sub-commitice scope for clubhouse facilities,

sent Britain in this yzze's Olym- constitute the Olympic selectors, and also because, rowing, us a ples. The Erluctors WIL bo and to which public schools aport, is not cheap. From the watching the Law fince, na they and universities affiliate ex- fantastic expense of a Boat wa'ched last week's "Head. "It cluded originally all artisans Race crew, with every scat in will be the bed crew-choso and wage-earners. Today, with the boat, and the boat itself, as a complete czw, and một as 187 cluba, it is a class tailored to the weight, height, rahesis of outs ending ours-

arm and leg length of cach in men of Shore two waning, The Nat'chal Amateur Row-dividual member to a matter cigi's, decided most probably hi ing Association, I'd., to which of quieter Inches in the can a frisk sylt ong or two, o hres, om 120 clubs nowadays be struction-te, the "bob-a-nob" the wis po to Helsiniti. leng, was formed to cater for outings of some of the emblic: Thet, chcie of the best the butchers and bakers and and poorer clubs who hire "ught, rather than of the chặt candlestick makers excluded their eights from commercial best, is symbolie of the sport,,