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British Racing Must Be Put On A Sound Footing

Says RICHARD BAERLEIN

London.

Racing la such an important sport-and Industry...---- that no effort should be spared by anybody connected with it to ensure its successi. Remedies must be found to strengthen it.

The Aga Khan, Mr J. S. Gerber, Mr J. J. Astor, and several others have expounded the owner's position thoroughly and clearly during the past year. The position has not changed but, if anything, become worse.

There are those who assert that | more efficient, emore powerful, or there is nothing wrong with belter informed than they are racing but that it will always go | today.

on along its present lines and that the Jockey Club have never been

TWO SECTIONS ONLY

This category includes most boolmakers, who would be the

P.C Roberts first to feel the "pinch" If any

Has His Own

ter

Swim Plan

By MILLIE HUDSON .

real progress was made in racing reforms:

For today the Government and The bookmakers are the only two sections who take vast sums of money out of the game and put nothing back, though credit must be given to the handful of course bookmakers who help to keep the sport alive,

The numbor of men with capital seriously Interested in England's fastest sprin- racing is gradually decreasing: there are few inking their places. now training for

At the other end of the seale Coronation year swimming the paying public are short of internationals is one of her money, Racing in the most oldest-30-year-olti, G ft. expensive sport in the world and the patrons of our reOCOUTADA tall Metropolitan policeman, are not always treated as well Ron Roberts (Otter), He is as they should. Southern and Surrey

SREK CHEAPER SPORT Champion, holds all the police free-style titles, and When they feel they can no was in the Olympic semi-longer afford to go racing, some desert racing for cheaper sports. finala.

The racing executives suffer, and 50, the prize money is decreased, This does not denote a healthy

The 14 miles he covers on his beat in South London would be enough exercise for inost—but not so for this unusual winner

who couches himself.

Roberts also swims a mile or two daily varied by a weekly Expcs-country run and rugby in winter and cricket in the stan mer.

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Each morning he exercises for an hour and a half with weighis and wall pulleys, following thei swimmers PT "schedule of USA Olymple coach Bob Kiphuth.

BEATEN BY TOUCH

The

success

training plan

01

Roberts's WDs proved this

summer when he was the only

serious challenger

to Jack twin

Wardop, the Motherwell now at Michigan

University

(USA) in his successful bld for five English titles.

Robarts

nearly robbed Wardrop of one tile-the 100 yards-but was beaten by a Touch................ Both swimmers__re». corded the same time of 53.4sec.

Roberts told me he is thinking of giving up serious swimming training in a year or two 80 that he can spend more time at: home.

But before this he hopes to win a place in the 1934 European Championships und Empire Games teams going to Italy and Vancouver,

Roberts would enjoy meeting

again in Canadia

childhood

friends with whom he learned to

state of affairs.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY, 10, 1953.

CAM BUSY SCENE ON THE

A busy scene on the Cam showing Cambridge college crews setting off for

a spin, while others are seen having lubbing practice.

NOW U.S. AMATEURS ADOPT "PAY-ALL-THE-YEAR" TENNIS

By FRED PERRÝ

Boca Raton, Florida.

Four leading American players, some of them not unknown at Wimbledon, can breathe more easily after the decision of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association to recog- nise the 32-weeks all-expenses rule, which allows “amateurs” to receive expenses all the year round from the big tournaments.

Ilitherto the Americans, while making no real attempt to enforce it, have adhered to the eight-weeks limit for expenses, allowed under the old international rule.

These four players were "on the carpet" for violation of the old rule, and if it had been inter- preted strictly they would have been disciplined.

Peter Keenan Doesn't Mind Whom He Fights-But He Demands A Good Purse

Scotland has given boxing some of the greatest little men in the business, Benny Lynch and Jackle Patersen are names that will live for over. Now, from Glasgow, con 's another,

He is Poter Keenan, British Bantamweight Champlon who successfully defend- od his title against Frankdo Williams and thus made a Lonsdale Belt his own property. Peter has all the physical at-eye, he had to retire in the firth used to the thin atmospherg tributes that combine to make a round of his next fight, against, thers quickly enough, and the great Champion, He can box. Itoly's Falcinelli.

job is almost impossible." and he can fight. He has speed Now Peter hopes that he has,Recrun was defeated on pointa and a terrific punch. But until put trouble behind him, and can by Tower) in Johannesburg in his fight with Williams he tuck-again look to the future,

January last yoNT. ed one quality, the initiative to take command of a contest

His immediate plane are for a Three months ago this cost hina matah with the Frenchman Mau-

against the fight

Italian rico Sandoyron for the European the

title. If he wins, he wants an Amfoto Falcinelli. Pater was the better

man, but, by the time he other crack at the world down, had realised it, the Italian had

by Ausrialla's This is heki

of

his

In future Peter will adopt Sugar Ray Robinson's idea and keep in

in atelet training even when not engaged to fight Ha will continue to work out in the

in the bamment gym in the home, and may porality have a pounded hig gyebrow to pulp. Jimmy Carruthers, who defends Then, just as he was beginning it on February 20 agairt former "pell in the country, this user, Of the more distant future to fight

holder Vic Towool. the referee stop-

But Peter says: "I have never had a ped the contest,

wine, and refuses then bad thrashing from any boxer, same thing nearly hope to fight outside his native Johan and I feel that I have still The pened against Whiumi, But nesburg, he can keep it as for years in which to win the world trany

Тоято

this time Peter was luckier. The 1s Keenan is concerned, other eyebrow was slightly cut when the fight was little more

minute

old. It happened in time to act as a warning to Kel on with the job or disc. Peter heeded it, and Willams was crushed to defect in seven rounds.

MORE TROUBLES Peter, the son of a milor, is only 44, and lins been boxing a

professional Iers than four

years. But in that, time he hasj overcome more troubles than many boxers moet in Lifetime. Some of these he brought on himsek,

He is a lad who knows his own mird. He does not mind whol be lights, but he demands a good His brain works like a

and to good ac

Dutse.

Calen

count. coming bought

-30

title."

ONLY AT SEA LEVEL

So confident is ho of conting = Sayo the British Champion: Ing in the cing that he has given am prepared, though, to go to no thought to what he will do South Africa to meet him if he when he hangs up his gloves. will agree to a bout in Durban The only plans he has concem or Cape Town, which are at scale home gym. There he hopes level. I don't think any British some day to train and coach pro- boxer can hope to succeed in mising Scollish youngsters. | Johannenburg. We can't get (London Express Bervice),

Walker Cup Players

Get

Started On Their "Get Fit" Plan

thin two years of be a professional he had a substantial house in Glasgow, where he lives with his wife and two-year-old daughter. And he set up his mother and sister in the fruit business.

Top four amateur golfers chosen for the Walker Cup One of the trouble episodes team, Englishmen Ronnie White and John Langley,

By JAMES GOODFELLOW

Racing must be put on a sound become, useful to the inter- found that amateurs would cost Miss Doris Hart and Miss Shirley concerned his manager.

footing so that no matter what Goverment is in power the sport will continue, will thrive and will help the nation in taxation and in exporis,

It

is recognised the world over that the best horses come from the British racecourse. It is a heritage we must not allow to pass oul of our hands.

-(London Expre Service)

again

Pro-

they want to play in tourna-¡ be done without officialdom ments.

taking the trouble to look the Here, at my hotel courts, we other way.

to run two tennis have tried

THE WAY OUT exhibitions in past years. We But when players are, or may | had to drop the Idea when we

Two of the top tennis giris, national reputation of a country.us. tnore than professionals. saupenalans are curiously rare.

Fry, have been playing all over Now the USLTA can sit back the world, almost without let-up, fessional boxers are usually re- Welshman John Morgan and Irishman Joe Carr, are get. CHANGE OF FRONT

the players have the for three years. I am sure Miss signed to necessity of a ting into trim for this season's tournaments, which will and let their

manager who collects 25 per give them competitive keenness for the contest at Marion This change of front by the same competition chances that art was beaten by Mrs Todd

other

cent of purse monas, including a last year's Wimbledon because

But not (Mass) from September 4-5, throws into

nations, Americans

relief the

Kemen. of their Australion the whole question

conquerors, she was overplayed.

Langley, seeking every moment for the game that Yet both

He tri enjoy, amateurs' expenses.

there players are

tried everything to get his his business will permit, has spent two days with club contract with manager Tom Gil- manufacturers choosing a new set. The players do not mind They always have had the under the jurisdiction of the

mour annulled, from a Boxing believed in the telling officials how much money came chances, but now it can USLTA, who

elght-werks rule,

Board of Control Inquiry to have it cancelled to buying his mana- There was a way out: They and

a few others were given they have settled

ger out. He failed, and now

their differ permission to have expenses for more than the eight weeks.

The The

International amateur picture is not pretty. Each association have an axe to grind. as any ration has players of Cup winning class we

Davis shall have

eye-shutting and head-tuming.

Budge Patty In Excellent

Form Against Larsen

Paris, Feb. 15.

Budge Patty of Los Angeles beat his fellow Californian, Art Larsen of San Leandro, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1, today to win the Men's Singles Championship of the French International Indoor tournament.

in the Five thousand fans excitedly watched their hard fought match Pierre le Coubertin Stadium. It was the second time the two Californians played against one another. Patty also beat Larsen four years ago at Palm Springs,

Palty, who proved 31 along his service 45 Larsen

tennis

As I

Loud were the screams in USA last winter when it was made known from Australia that Frank

ETIOOS.

SHARP EYE ON BUSINESS

right swinging weight, with Royal Birkdale to take part in Having got the clubs to his (Aprit 10-19), he will move to proper feel and le, he will enter the English Amateur Champion~. the USA as an ambassador of thip (April 27-May 2), British craftsmanship.

First stop in Langloy's get-At

This was

Peter began casting a sharp campaign was to stop smoking.

THE FRELUDE

This will be the prelude to the Amateur Championship three

weeks later at Hoylake. Than

eye on businzers

was a New Year's resolu- when all an tion. amatour. In 1948 he was select- ed as Britain's Byweight reserve dale, he has two golf courses at at Killarney (June 10-12) with Occupying a house at Sunning

in the Olympic Games,

come the international matches

aplections will be made

On his arrival at the Berishim his door. Here he has been ex-their gruelling tests of match perimenting with a slight change play, when the final Walker Cup training camp, he weighed in in his method Bib.

of holding the too heavy. However he clubsome would call it a mord refused to do anything about it orthodox grip. until he had struck a few wagera After playing in the Halford on his ability to "make" the re- Hewitt-tournament

stone, eight

Sedgman-or at

at least his wife would be given present by public.

Would the Australian associa- tion have allowed such generosity

Sedeman

not been their main Cup

And what would other nasociations do in

ike circumstances?

Another piquant development.

this all-tho-year-round even the expenses rule is that amateurs are being split into two classes.

The better performers go to

to the tournaments with big cheque books; the little tourna meats-backbone of the game will have to be content with the weaker ones.

subscription quired

was Miss Susan Partridge, after the the tournament to have reached leading 40-0, and won it. Then former had injured herself play- excellent winter

big in the Women's Singles semi-from won the next one and anals and had to withdraw from

the tournament.-Reuter.

decided to keep it for the spring Patty

forin, seems Larsen lost his service and

and summer big outdoor in- the set. ternational tournaments,

ONE OF BEST EVER

After 10 minutes' rest the. fourth and last sot saw Larsen win his three first services to Both Californian players love, but he lost the crucial furnished a match considered | seventh game. In the last

. there and in the Argentine, best

where h engineer.

1

swim fore the war he lived by experts here as one of the game, Patty serving, Larsen

on wooden was leading 40-30.

The game went twice to deuce and finally the Los Angeles player, who has Larsen lost his service in the lived for years in Paris, got the eighth game of the first set to decisive point. Associated give the lead to his opponent Press.

ever scen

father

on courts in Paris. WILS

+

---{London Express Service)

who won the next service and

the set.

In the

OTHER WINNERS

American Indoor began losing his service and

second set · Larsen Miss Susan Partridge of Brl-

Record Throw

Will Not Be Recognised

tain won the Women's Singles,

Sgt. N. R. Hughes of the Fatty took the lead 2-0, but lost beating Mile. Suzanne Schmitt 1st Battalion, the Welch Track And Field his next service and the score of France 8-8, 7-5.

Championships

was tied 2-2. Patty got applause In the final

Regiment, threw the javelin of the Mixed out to 169 feet 6 inches

for clever anticipation at the Doubles, Miss Ann Shilcock of the 27 Infantry Brigade net, while Larsen with

with wonder-

der- | Britain, partnered by Marcel ful backhand passing-shots won Bernard of France, defeated the athletic meeting at Boun- precious points and was leading French New York, Feb. 15.

pair, Jean Claude dary Street on Saturday. 40-18 in the eighth game served Molinari and Ginette Bucaille, Three American Olympic champions won their events in by Patly, who finally got the 6-2, 75. the National Indoor Track and game. But Patty lost his service Field Championships in Madi- in the tenth and

BEC.

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last game to

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feet 8

Now it remains for the USLTA to relax their rules a little more and

permit their players to be employed by sporting goods com. panies. It would certainly be a very short step from that point to all-out professionalism.

Or would it be a step at all

-{London Brprete Service)

Cambridge Crew To Meet Oxford

Selected

Race on

not

money.

Next, be informed the astonish- od authorities that If he were required actually to box in the Games, any further training

was a a waste

timo and of his

Prevailed upon to stay, he shaped the situation to his own ends by purchasing, at a strictly Scottish valuation, the sparej clothing of a well-dressed, but temporarily hard up. Americans sear

Peter's troubles though have{ not all been of his own making

He has been dogged by, the in-

Jury began three years after his

Less than

at Deal

England Needs New Test

Selectors

augmented by his entry for the Intensive competition will be big, club

competitions in the South, such as the Antiore of Royal Mid-Surrey..

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The team leave for Montreal In August, when all members will play in the Canadian Amateur Championship.

The new wolf generatión do not fully realise the Ane achieve- monta of what I call London's own golfor.

Langley; born at Northwood 31 yours ago, went to the United States with the Walker Cup team in 1936, and at 18 was, the youngest player to be chosen by

Says BRUCE HARRIS The first step-one hopes towards beating the Aus- taken at Lord's on Tuesday, with tralians at cricket will be

either side.

Now he returns 17. yours later the concentration, the

first professional fight he heif March 10, when the Test polished style and the mochan!- the British and European titles selectors will be appointed. which put him on the crest of the wave with a future dull of

cal securacy which go with a match-winning temperament. He

promise. Then came disaster, The body charged with this took part in the 1951 match at

In the first defence of his Control for Test Matches at

duty is the polyglot Board of Noyal Birkdale, Mak Europeon Litle, at Glasgow last Home, made of pro Langley was still a schoolboy at On his first visit to the USA, May against the Belgian Jeanilven of the MCC, the fret 10

Found with lost in the fifth counties in the 1952 table and Blowe, where he was alckert

a tire cartilage in the county clubs on whose captain. He had won the Boys the right knee, and was counted grounds the Teste will be played, championship at 17.

*Bruen wa 13 when This necessitated a five-month Last your's committed of played in the 1938 Walker Cup lay-off. Then because of a cut selection now out of office, con- match,

sisted of N. W. D. Yardley as

out

Russian Wins

Speed Skating Championship

| chairman, R. E. S. Wysti, F. R

Brown and I. §. G. Ames, withi

Len Hutton in a captain.

--(London Espress Service)

From these first four, plus Neuhaus Beats

five others, the late A 3. Holmes, A. B. Sellers, R. W. V. Robins, J. C. Clay and T. N Pearce, every band of selectars since the war have been chosyn. There is a strong case for now blood.

Johnny Williams

At Dortmund

Japanese Baseball not recognised as an official re- son and King Marshall (Bryan- Soviet Russia today won been a selector. It is time this Williams, the British title:

Ext

The throw is better than the

Cambridge, Feb. 14. official Colony record of 165 feet G.T. Marshall, this year's The Danich Davis Cup players, inches by Lt. D. J. McNabb of President, and J.S. Jones are son Square Garden last night. give Larsen the only set he won, Kurt Nielsen and Torben Ulrich, the RACC at Chroline HM in the only On Blues in the Cam- won, the Mere Doubles title, 1951, but will not be recognized bridge University crew to meet Mal Whitfield, winner of tho Larsen again lost his first beating Americans Art Larsen on a Colony record as it was not Oxford in the Boat 800 metres in Helsinki, took the service in the third set. Fatty and Budge Patty 0-8, 3-6, 5-7, measured with a steel tape.

Saturday, March 20, 600 yards raco

10.4 took the lead 3-1 despite the 7-5, 6-3. in 1 min.

splendid defence of his opponent.

Sgt. Hughes was Welsh

crew, announced to-night, The crew, Then Patty

Mile. Jacqueline Kermina and Champion in the event in 1950 st J.A. Wallis (Bryanston and committed three Harrison Dillard, Olymple mistaker, sending his amashes Mme. Myrill Dubois of France and 1981. He has a best com- Lady 110-metre

champlon, Into the net, and lost his service won the Women's Doubles with a politive throw burdles

of nearly 180 Jones (Shrewsbury and Lady Margaret) bow; J.S.

Apart from the briat time

Dortmund, Teb, 16. won the 80 yards high hurdles to tie the net 3-3.

walkover from the British pair, feet to his name. The best Margaret);

when he was, captain, G, 0. Helsinki, Feb. 15.

Heine Neuhaus, German in 7.3 sec., ncoring his seventh

Mrs Jean Rinkel-Quertier and ever in Hongkong

JR. Macmillan was Major

Oleg Burressive victory

of the threwdest and European, Heavyweight. of Allen, one Ho in indoor

saved

dangerous

Gontjarenko 180 P. Skipwith's

(Eton, and First and Third

judges of the game, has never Champion, beat Johnny burdles.

tlustion In the 10th game on

Inches at Caroline Hill in 1950, Trinity), G.T.

D.A, Ladley the World Speed Skating omlision was remedied.

ith Found cord as these records only date (Bedford, Modern und

holder, in the ninth the founding of the manuel), L.B.

There is a strong ease, too, in of their 12 round J.M. King Billkov, also of the Soviet favour of Stuart Burridge, who, bout here, today, ruk da

hop-title wird and Em McCoax (Harshamplarship and Boris (Derby and Lady Margaret), Union, finished second. in captaining Burrey, this cham- Cpl. Boddy of the Sst Battalion, Pr. Hall. (Berkhamsted ami

Third was W. Van der Voort of cricketer.

socs every first-class Neuhaus pushed into this at- the Dorset Regiment, threw the Corpus Christ), stroko; D.M. Holland.

tack at the start of the --rizathi discus a distance of 108 feel 3% Eddy (Carifale School and Pom-

Gortjarenko scored 193,143 The committee I should like with a colonel antawiNG ES

round and dropped : Williams Inches, with two other. com

broke) cox.

points, Sjilkov 104.808 and Van to poo in being are: Allen, as the host The Brillas, Canda politors also going over 100 feet.

der „Voort 195.622.

chairman, Robina Burridge plon got up at the count of seven,

· Korean skaters S. Cho and 6. 14. G. Bilght of the Dorsets

Lee Delished 20th and 27th re-

mad Brown, with Hution, if mastle but did not appoer to be in it with mods feet

captain high jumped & feet 0% inches

spectively in the* 1,500-Metro

hope to continue "and, Die,, 29- race today,

Between them...... they' can feros stopped the fights him 0 inches. Lt. R. A. F. Hteep

Cho Clocked two minutes 21.6 mister doop, knowledge.

Us...to., the ninth lengang, cleared 10 feet in the Pole Vault,

McCagg has been stroke of seconds and Lea two minutes 35,1. Engilah and Australian cricket Willeme had done much of the The 1st Battalion the Dorset Harvard crews, and to the seconds.

and good balanced Judgment, itacking and elles sons Another German Olymple Royal Domain,

Nother qualified on combined. If it be objected that too many thought, he was kind of polis Regiment, won the meeting with eight defeated by Cambridge points to take part in the 20,000 of theos come from the Bouth, When the and some, pr runner, Herbert Schede, was favourite at 5-9 on and winner The Yomiuri Giants won last | 64 points the 1st Battalion, the during their raful Ameri- Metro race and were thus not well, that is just the luck of the ·Neuhaus, scaled – 15 stotis - (14) second**to Ashenfeliér ́in the ¦ of last year's Indlan Derby, was year's championship in Japan,** | Royal Ulster Rifles, being | can” tour two years ago,placed in the simt twelve in the ent thing calle erand-Reuter,

gala dvig pounds and WillikMASTUSTOIM 'second with 42 'points. -

Router.

la poudar

Horace Ashentelter, tho Olympic 3,000-mette isteeple- chate winner, captured three-mile race, clocking 13 minutes 47.5 sec.

י,

the Indian St. Leger

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Toam Leaves For Tour Of U.S.

Boroboy, Feb, 16.

1

Slovo1 Dillon of Manhattan

Tokyo, Feb. 15. set up a record for the meet- Bay of Treasure (11/3). The Japanese professional ing by putting the 381b, weight ridden by Jockey Gilmore, won baseball team, Yomiuri Gianta, 69. r. 101 in. Previous best the Indian St. Leger (one mlle left here tonight for the United wig 59 ft. 4% Jn.

and threequarters) by one and States by a special plane of the a talf lengths today in throw Fan American Airways. Germany's Heniz Ulzheimer, minutes 4.8 seconds. who finished third to Whlineld Bro

· 20-man team In the Olymple 800 metres, won Stor Prince (5/2) was ascond practise at Santa Maria, Call the 1,000-yard race în 20 min. | and Busher, a rank outsider. Fornia, and is scheduled to have DA seca.

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