1952-10-08 — Page 7

Japanese Universities

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1952.

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Gave The Dark Blues A No Flies On Presenting

Sartorial Reception

By SUE DAWSON

Abdul Aziz

And

Company

"The only rather disconcerting thing about Japan". said Giles Bullard, Captain of the Oxford team which was praised by the Japanese for Its gentlemanly behaviour and

In this hard-gambling sporting great regard aside and the com- the way its members spoke "... the King's English all community of ours a lot of money bined experience of three of the the time without a trace of slang" "was when a Japan-is already being stoked on how half-dozen or so best cricketing esc player came up to you and sald in the most precise much the Civillan XT will be minds in the Colony picked a able to knock up on Friday team that is the likeliest to English something like "When I was at New College...' against the Australians.

produce any Impression on the Australians. Another surprise for the team was to find that there are twenty universities in Tokyo, and that Meiji Univer- sity alone has three times as many students as are in the whole of Oxford!

with

were

A lot of money will change hands if the 60 mark is passed To start with, the Selectors and the people laying long odds had only one opening batsman on three figures are most likely and no opening bowlers to build to clean up,

up on. They have turned out a The Selectors aro already side that on Hongkong's "All the time there was a man coming in for a lot of criticism unprepared pitches la cely three figures. Trạch from the Asahi press following for not having picked certain of to us around mapping..pictures, the available talent, but ene Where one may fail there are

point is being missed.

plenty of others to succeed, It was the Asahi who guaran

Had the Selectors been choos- including the tall-caders whose teed the Japan Rugby Association against loss in bringing us outing a team to play Singapore it eyes are quick enough if their

quite probable that they would sense of direction isn't. hero, so they were naturally a little anxious," said Giles. But have picked some obvious choices:

in the popular regard, by all accounts, they certainly need not have worried.....

And the loot they came away

At

ono

China

our

numerous

The eleven selected are a very astute choles into which a lot of thinking and. I suspect, very tactful lobbying by that great character, Abdul Aziz Rumjahn, went.

Abdul Aziz, who is a sent!- mentalist

by nature,

threw sentiment and a couple of good batsmen for whom he has very

The

a

There is curious variety

in the bowling

and

enough bowlers to keep varying 懿 in reasonable spells, There are

come run-givers, in the field but no buttered fingers. a whole There is

collection thrown in of good eyes and fast hands near the wicket.

Hollywood

By MICHAEL RUDDY

*

Beverly Hills,

As with you, Charlie Chaplin has been hitting the biggest film-atar headlines of recent weeks, here, in Hollywood--and elsewhere too.

On the one hand he is being claimed as a hero for recognising the talent in Claire Bloom-now being pro- claimed as the new star of the year for her part as the ballerina in "Limelight,"

On the other he has come under mud-slinging fire from a host of vitriolic columnists who have blasted away. at him for his polities and his girl friends.

Charlie won't be minding. He can afford not to,

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Movie-making is not always bear and skilles. "We took beating in the desert near Reno," Richard Widmark told me. "Day after day wo Almed in 120- degree temperatures"

"Sixty Saddles to Gob!" movier What more của One want meaning the Gobl Desert. when there is only a cricketing | "Cooler when we came back to community of some 250 to pick | the studio." Much cooler," the from?

actor added.

Odd One

this

The

I learned that he, Don-Taylor and 12 players were on a Chinese junk loaded with horses and ex- tras, when it suddenly capsized -In the chill waters of the studio

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Welcome Back Rita - All

Is Forgiven

..

By PAUL DEHN

Melodrama demands that I should be credulous, but

And as only the universities In Japan teach rugger, all their seven matches

played against university students or ex-students. "They were good too,"

Bald

the English Captain, and played very much by the book. Their main trouble was In the second that they tired half of the game when, being larger, we could outstay them. But some of the matches were with. "We were each given a not nearly the easy wins that handsome silver cup with

name on-it is my Arst cup," one might think from the scores.

Coresaid Giles, who was at school in Quiet-voiced

diffident, and

when Giles Bullard was sitting ad- Devon during the war miring our most talked of view they didn't give cups.

"And the team was presented Queen's the verandah of a

- with Garden's fat where he is stav- Ith a huge mate, rather like a and representing some friends, He moy-pole, Ing wore a dark blue tie with aleadership and friendship. That little sprig of pink cherry blos is far too big for the Som under the knot, and

the and has gone ahead by steam

of the year 1952 below it in

gold thread.

dinners they attended, artists and ale "Whenever we go on a tour came round while they'

s plates

Cats have

where crept into have a tie made in memory painted

at least half-a-dozen lake! Ashtrays,

innumer wood column on occasions

Australiana are likely to сп if there are 24 the same. These carving and all sorts of wonder-able but the one that starts this gregate of an evening.

"If I go to Britain, it will be were designed and made for us ful things were heaped on them. story ran across it It happened Les Naylon gave us a quizzical for a holiday, to see the people by, a

textilo Arm in Tokyo,

Some months ago a Many of the team, mostly this way.

look on entry but there was a and the countryside," Doris Day whose head was a keen rugger those who have already gone military vehicle was careening big snooker match on and he said to me. She has several player. Rather smart, don't you down' from Oxford,

have rt speed through the Causeway didn't stop to Είνα us his offers to tour the provinces.. think?"

flown home to new occu- Bay area when this cat dropped point of view, This suggested that some of pallong in England The TC- one of its nine lives.

If you ever see Dorls in person, welcome sake, I will believe that them must have quite a collec-maining sixteen ambassadors-of- The result was that the lorry Eventually we got into a con- she's more vital, charming, she is not only a widowed night tion of ties, for since the war goodwill fly tomorrow morning came an abrupt halt and two versation with Tom Bax, one dynamic than she is on the screen, club singer with a comfy San

last match rugger teams from Oxford have after the

of their striped characters (lanco of the earliest Pressimists and -and certainly more freckled. Fernando house and clairvoyant leured France, Germany, South tour-laden with tales and trea-corporals, not aborigines on the a genial and generous charac- Her favourite Dutatlartan Creole maid, but also a deeply Africa, the Argentine and Italy, stres of the still enchanting war path) were thrown off their fer. The conversation turned to blouse, blue jeans and rope-soled

accomplice to the intelligent But sartorially, Japan treated East,

balance and ended up in a heap the Correspondents' Club and we sandals.

British-police in their efforts to

than

other iny them better

assured Tom that he was there on this columnist's chest.

the blue print of a unit to which these two on they

The unit to country-every university

a certain Occasion when

gargantuan American V2 from played gave cach Oxonian a tiet

characters belong has one com-he assured us he wasn't

passing (via a group of inter- mon factor to the vast majority of lis NCOs. They all carry u

national spies) into the hands of Mother Russió. lot of tonnage that they don't pack in their knapsacks. The one who made up the part of the resultant sandwich that was directly across our chest niso had a helmet stropped across his shoulder.

we

of it, or buy them from a bazaar souvenirs.

BEAUTIFULLY PLANNED For some of the team, this is their first venture outside Eng- land, and for most of them, the first beyond Europe.

..WAS

was a

"Japan Giles

RUGGER

TREAT

TODAY

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One of our fallings is a desire for argument and so we say to Tom that he must have been there and reminded him of the fact that we bummed a ride back to town off him.

"It

"Impossible," says Tom. you say it was six months ago I was definitely away on leave," "But I can distinctly remem- ber bumming that ride of you," we kept pressing the point.

Much

has happened In the interval, but yesterday we weat out to the Queen Mary Hospital

This went on for a bit. Tom to inquire into a certala dis-

was gental all through but an comfort in the rib ara that

unfriendly glint was lovelop persistently harigs around, parti-ing in his eye. cularly in damp weather.

The modico gave us a very Finally, Tom says: "If you polito reception, assured us that insist that you did it, I will do there were no bones broken,it back to you right now." that cracked ribs invariably seal

Between the two of us was American character up within a few weeks but that seated an the nerve matter that goes with and he thought it high time to them doesn't------

mediate in the dispute. He translated to Tom. Tôm shook ahead and he was his genial self once again.

sald wonderful" Bullard, "and the Japon Rugby Association who sponsored had everything beautifully planned. Our first two days were spent 4,000 feet up in the mountains near Tokyo, in country, rather like the Lako Today will be a red letter District with

acres of pine day for local rugger forest.

thusiasts, who will have an "On the 14th we descended to Tokyo for the first match-the opportunity of seeing the firat of three in our fornight'e all-conquering Oxford Uni- stay in Tokyo. The second versity XV, which has just which was against Waseda

seda concluded a successful tour University

very near said Skipper Giles, of Japan, in action against recalling a particularly good an All-Hongkong XV. game. Next they went up to The game, which is timed to Kyoto and saw

the famous start at 5.30 p.m. sharp,, will shrines and played. another be played on the Hongkong match

Football Club ground at Happy by constal steamer Valley. among-the islands up the coast A very strong combination has All- to Beppu -" a lovely place been selected to represent where we had a rest cure com- Hongkong against the Dark tlantic struggle plete with sulphur baths, swim- Blues and a ming and golf, and saw the should be the order of the day.

hot springs which

With the recent spell of fine supply the

hotels with con-weather, the ground has harden- boiling water, By ed considerably and while

was thankfully may prove to be an advantage than once It

to the local players, the majority what to do with the odd one, *** of whom are accustomed to He looked puzzled for a moment when we arrived the tempera- playing on hard pitches, it is not and then told us that we might ture was over 90! Our next an advantage which is likely, find occasion game after the Beppu interval to affect the ultimate result of too and to suit ourselves when was in Fukuoka, Japan's coal the gone,

we thought we needed it.

bubbling

stant and that time

much colder said Giles,

"for

this

area and an enormous indus. While it is a foregone con-

trial city where we saw the clusion that the Dark Blues will

steel works,"

retain their umbeaten record, the

He diagnosed neuritis and as- sured us that if any one thought that there was anything pressing against a lung his knowledge of anatomy was abysmal.

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the melodrama of Rita Hay- worth's "Affair in · Trini- dad" taxes my powers of belief so high that they look like taking as long as Miss Hayworth did to make a come-back.

Never mind.

Her next

prevent movic, "Sunny." which Anna Neagle Almed. Her co-star, Ray Bolger, who teamed with her in "April in Paris," and is a hit in "Where's Charley?"

For her dear,

The actual rescue of the blug It's been a stay in hospital for print (left lying discreetly on top Cary Grant-in for a complote of a well-lit writing table in the check-up. That

attack of chief apy's guest room, whose jaundice three years ago lett keys the British police have un- him in poor shape. Before he accountably discovered on the does "Dream Wife," he wants to corpse of a Hungarian physicist), be in better condition.

presents no sort of challenge to Cary works hard; is a worrier. Miss Hayworth's subtle powers. So

Barbara of Improvisation. is his ex-wile, Hutton, who's in Hollywood-re- furnishing a hilltop mansion she's just bought.

She does a sort of spontaneous rumba at the chief spy's birth- day party and sings a sort of song (the only words 1 kept Shelley Winters and Vittorio catching were "mad desire"), Gassman bought a duplex-two and while the audience is busy flats, instead of a house. They applauding the next turn, sidles live in one, rent the other. He out of the french windows and owns a block of flats in Romne: is, into the guest room like

flash, flipping through the blue persuaded her to try his way,

prints and the secret mathe- Newest hairtad: Natural grey,matical formulae as though she sprinkled with gold-dust in the really knew which were which.

evening. Barbara Stanwyck, Bennett, Irene Dunne, "I thought he was insisting | Joan he had bopped me in the eye Rosalind Russell are leaders in Finally he gave us 15 pills at the Correspondents' Club," the over-40-brigade.... and told us carefully what to do he said. with them. He emphasised tha paint that they were to be tairen wrong and that 15th pill was two at a time and as he took the disposed of in ne ime. trouble to emphasise this more we asked in return

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to take that one

So this columnist left tho The next game was on the All-Hongkong XV can be relied best ground I have ever seen,"

upon to go all out to keep the hospital in a very happy frame

Most of us szold the Oxford Captain. It margin of the Oxford victory to of mind.

hypochondrines by nature and it doesn't take much to make a

was

ed

In Osaka where they visit a minimum. an enormous cotton mill.

I'm afraid

OXFORD XY

Arc

big

Noor Osaka is Nara and "they of the game, however, the oppor- the medico gets in that type of Notwithstanding the outcome man happy, particularly when tell me that if one doesn't see tunity of witnessing players of flattering mood when he asses Nara, one hasn't seen Japan, so the calibre of the Dark Blues in

I've missed some action should prova to be a treat you that your bones are thing for I was not

not with the in itself and something worth

to be easily damaged. team when they saw the big while going a long way to sec. So we went to Cat's Corner to gest Buddha in the

world."

The following are the teams celebrate and sat down next to Giles went shopping instead,

for today's game:

the Beer Baron. The Beer and bought dolls and toys and

Baron is not a mythical figure. some materials to take home. At Iso on the coast near Kyoto Till-backs. M. Duff (Marchu. He has been around for some night-wing years now and as the winters and BrasezDEO) the team aw divers down

go for oysters in the world-famous quarter. Winn Dunt and summers passed he acquired Boy's and cater): Right-centro-- peari farmi, and N.

Holmen (... Brab the distinction of becoming a many of them bought pearls and Exeter); Left-centre- sort of journalists' conscience, straight from the shell. Brewer, (Newport High School and Jesus): Left-wing, C, J. Baunders stayed in a lovely hotel, button, South Africa, and Christ- the sea there is full of jellyfish, church); Standof Haif--D. G. B. said the Captain with rice Baker (Merchant Taylors and Line of an uncomfortable swim coin) Serum-hail, L. McLau

Mikimoto

clan (Plumtree, S. Rhodesia, and So back to Tokyo for their xster); ught front row

last Sunday Bmith (Loretto and. Brasenos):

against the

The Beer Baron, who rentia this column, gave us a most re- proachful. look and a long lecture. Want it bolled down to was that he took us to task for taking a crack at the Australian

· last game Japanese Hocker. W. 5. Wotherspoon Way of ・ changing "a" or "ay" University team. They met thereito and Trinity); Left Front Into "0".""

TOWE, Thomson," (Gelmand Crown Prince, Prince Akihito, and Hoble); fight second so

who Brlish Ealer-Donning. *** RACES B

Was

sitting Ambasandor

and with Wimperia (Uppingham

Sirenee); Lert second row--Z. J. Fergusson (Rugby and Orial); ' WEB forwardi vi kan Bullard jchlundell

and Ballol); Lock forward D. They had their backs scrubbed Dayles (R. EX ON T

Wadium Wing forward

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The Bear Baron is never

-“RECORDER”

Australians Delayed

The

Qantas plane bringing the Australian cricket team here has; been delayed. The cricket- era will not be here before tomorrow.

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A DECENT FELLOW Of course she does happen to leave a dlamante scarf-given her by the chief spy-plumb in Stewart Granger must like that the middle of the writing-table. lord of the manor feeling. He But that is a thing which could and wife Jean Simmons now live happen to any of us if we were in a new home overlooking the only pretty enough to be given San Fernando Valley. It cost diamante scarves by chief aples. him a mere $80,000; now he's

Anyway, Miss Hayworth's dead adding a room, a swimming pool

husband's brother-Glenn Ford and a gloss wall to keep out the shoots the chief spy on a nice wind when you in the high staircase that the corpse pool....Ile still owns his white can tumble over the top of, and elephant of a house in Bel Air. off they go to New York to for- So his total investment in Call- fornia' real

43 estate $200,000.

<

are

about

get.

Mr Ford is a decent fellow who is so glad to have Mis

I'm told that Deanna Durbin Hayworth back that he's pre- returns to Hollywood this month

pared to forgive her anything.

and the girl who was once the I'm like Mr Ford. pride of the L A. Lancashire Society will star In "Kiss Me Kate"....

Remember "Androcies and the Lion?" It is still being edited and the latest to be left on the

the virgins, considered too the Johnston revealing

Welsh Team To cutting room floor is the bath of

Play Scotland

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Selected

Cardiff, Oct. 7. Two players, new to inter- national Boccer honours, have been selected to play The Beer Baron, when he gets for Wales, against Scotland golog, can make anyone feel at Ninlan ∙on Saturday,

character out of

"Crime

October 18. Dostoyevsky's Punishment, and the rubbed it in well and properly.

"It has never struck you,

wing

liko

and

and

and

office...

by

"King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba" is being offered to Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh who'd play, the title-roles. They would collect $300,000 bo- tween them for the chore...

Pamela Kellino keeps as bttay as her husband, James Mason of the movies. She writes novels, breeds

Siarnere cats, buys houses, re-furnishes them, then seils or loases them... Her latest venturo

school Shorita nursery

for the The team will.. bo:

stars. This In the traditional manner by Wydel (Barchant Taylors and st-

(Plymouth Argyle), Lever (Le children of movie Japanese girls in the public Edward's inl).

apparently, he said, "that the Cester City), Bharwood (Cardiff developed because her daughter baths, and were at cinams when Frewer, Baunders, Baker. Them-

Burgess (Tot-ordinary kindergarten. a mild sensation was caused by a son, Wimperis,, Bhullard and Wrdell Attics and your langungo City), Paul (Manchester City), Portland Se-too-advanced for an

queer and that they

Foulkes gigantic rat running about "The are Old Bluse

ALL-HONGKONG XV

what you (Newcastle United), Reg Davies trouble

(Nowcastle United), Ford (Bun

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tenham

have Danici: (Hotspur)

to

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Q

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The Boar

rat seemed to be quite a wel-J. R. Henderson (Club): L& K.I,

diversion as the film gerrard (Army Capt C. N. Clay

(Captain); Norman (New)

you."

Neod a fow eggs? James Craig,

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(Manchester City). The reserve in the Valley, most of them 15 a contimental matter that

Apying. will be Bowen (Arsenal);"

Three export poultry- the Oxford Rugger team. Patria (Club);, B.- Owen (NAVTE

Steven (Navy)}} WO. | got into it seeldentally. But few:

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