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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1953.

England Wins DAVID LEWIN'S Spotlight Inter-League Dublin Match

Dublin, Mar. 17.

The English · Football League beat the League of Ireland (Eire) by two goals to nil at Dulymount here today.

The Irishmen, who lost their right-back. P. Noonan, after 27 minulla' play, did extremely well to hold The powerful English side, which included nine full International players. to goal in each half,

The English League had a goal analyses of 20 goals dɔ two from the six previous matches between the two leagues.

NINE ONLY

A

Noonan wus injured in collision with English left- winger Billy Elliott and took no further purt in the match. The Irish League actually had only nine men on the field when tro- first English goal was scored, left-half Nelson being off for treatment when Roy Bentley nelted in the 33rd minute.

Bentley increased the lead 15 minutes after the interval when he headed a goat from a corner by Elliott, but the Englisį; play generally was scrappy. their forwards showing a complete lack of first.

Ralch Carter, the former Englund inside-forward, who 19 now plnylag for Cork Athletic, hind a good game for the Irish League, but once shot wide when a goal scored certain- Reuter.

Ronnie White Reveals

The Secrets

Of His Method

By HENRY LONGHURST

One of the most remarkable games players of this generation is assuredly Ronnie White, who, without tak- ing part in the championship, remains universally accepted as Britain's champion golfer.

From time to time he emerges to knock off, in lonely glory, American Walker Cup opponents (five and a half points out of six in three matches), after which he retires to Wigan to issue writs and defend the local burglars, ·

In his spare moments he has even without a club, noting the

set down in "Golf As I Play It: position of the table leg against

(Bell, 16) the secrets of hio the carpet, and see if the table methods or perhaps 1 should | jeg does not move forward on the say secret, for there is one back swing and whizz visibly which turned him from a first-back again as you come down. class-player "some ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈ of the time- into a first class player all The Lime.

Furthermore, I can report that The theory works in practice, for, when I tried it the other day. Í

from Italy... where a strange star-mixture films in the sun

Mediterranean

☆MR. BOGART GOES BY DONKEY

MISS JONES GOES SUDDENLY BLONDE

MISS LOLLOBRIGIDA HAS HER PROBLEMS TOO

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RAVELLO, Southern Italy.

THE sun is up before seven, and shortly after that Mr Bogart's donkey is ready for. use. Then down the main street Humphrey Bogart rides to work.

This 11th-century Italian village, built into the side of the vineyard-crusted and terraced hills, is high above the set, and the narrow streets are cut in stone steps.

Bogart's personal donkey is a badge of distinction. It shows that on this film Bogie is not only an actor but also a business man.

Jokingly the unit calls him the way an English girl would

usually talk. President,

of

***Mr

shortened to "Pres." Bogert, as Accents here are os varied president of his own company, ac at a UNO conference. Be-

the dollars is providing

for rides the distinctive tones this British alm, "Beat

Bogart and Morley, there is the Devil,

high, sighing sound of Peter Lorre and the Italian English of Gina Lollobrigida

the

As his donkey clatters down the steps of the village street president Bogart says: "Having Mr Lorre is back in films money in the film makes mal-after a four-year gap. "I took ters a trifle confusing for the rest because I'd used up my other players. They never face quite a bit through being know whether 1 am speaking as Even as a menace, film un actor or an executive. No fim." one takes much notice," any- way."

MUSIC LATER

Robert Morley, suave

in

after

Now he is saintly and sinis ter in a tight-fitting sult and close-cropped hair, dyed blond. le locks like a Billy Bunter on Continental holiday, but ahe plays a German from the

Hight striped sull and wild tlo, Argentine who has changed his joins us.

Dame to Ollara.

He plays the leader of an

improbable and unhappy gong out in collar uranium supplies.

PROTOCOL

He says to Bogart: "It is debat- There is a pause while

Oh, yes-and

put

។

A sun-burned terrace, a fringe of able whether one should problem of protocol is sorted palm, a view of the hill-line that

a plc-out. To Increase the number money into dwarfs the distance.

ture. It may be prefer- of actors, 15 "smart crowd" Gina Lollobrigida.

Amala able merely to take it from

airccted fishing village will Moorish-style houses down Later, the valley by the sca-have

• Travels 201 a

donkey.

Humphrey Bogart-style,

Out,"

The president says he know more about that

Meanwhile in the

square been invited,

there Ls Some remarkable activity,

น

narrow-

of

LIY

Merry-go-round

Robert Morley, ever-recognisable, sils out a scene with

Jennifer Jones-not so recognisable in blonde wig.

MISS L., I PRESUME

IN the square at Ravello... lean- faced, de-capped director

John

Huston explains to Gina Lollobrigida woliat "a hankering for the English way of life" means in Lea and Lerms of muffins. Also pre-

and sent

slightly

dispulsed by horn.

spectacles

on end of nose :

Timmed

Humphrey Bogart.

This Importation of "hired help" brings a protest from the says, "I have never made it, she is (5 ft. 3 ins). She bas

Amalfi.

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problems.

script colls her 歡 "warm-blooded Itallon girl" married to Bogart but with a

In one corner the local brass Mayor of Ravello, and a letter and all I've ridden here is

The from sedan chair, when I injured my band seems to be playing with- of support for the film

a sound.

Saya back.” out making

Their the citizens of music will be put on later

Huston, passing a hand over his Edward Underdown is an ex- London. In another corner

lean, cressed face: "We don't

He dishankering for the English way peri amateur jockey. to touch off may Icuds new hotel has been built out of want

flat season's cusses the

pro- of life. She has to like drink- here. There used to be State canvas and plaster, And by a

speets with Huston and Roberting lea and eating muffins, But, studio set cafe Jennifer Jones wars in this region, way back." Morley, who has raced a horse she wants to know, what arc is curled up in a chair, worry-white houses with wide, invit-ted acting

"This region" is a place of of his own, and never permit-muffins? ing about her necent,

to Interfere with

shat- Then Moricy makes a

announcement: tering

"I've given it up," he says, "after 20 years. Just like that. Sudden- ly I couldn't see any point in hanging around a race track to

for sce a horse dash by secunda,

"What will you concentrate on now?" I ask him.

Incon-

She agreed to come into the ing windows, shaded by palm race meetings.

the and olive trees. Then, pleture without reading story because it is directed by gruously, near Ravello's square,

Queen" man, you find a tennis court and John Huston. Now she finds London suburban-style house.

"The African

she is an English girl wearing Ravello before.

The British have been

a, blonde wig and married to Edward Underdown.

LORRE SIGHS

RACE-TALK

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Now, at lunch-time, the con- To help her play Mrs Under-versation becomes serious. The

down on the screen, Under- tople is horse racing. Huston

down's real wife Rosemary | used to keep seven horses.

ago) instructs Miss Jones

"Middle age," says Morley, Gina Lollobrigidā wears

P

Record Times By (they were married three weeks "I've always wanted to direct suitably low-cut gown, styled

Cambridge And -Oxford-Crews

on a pleture on horseback," he to make her look taller then

set

London, Mar. 17. Watching that most consistent was, if not indistinguishable from University boat race crews

The Oxford and Cambridge golfers, the boll mass- White, at any rate only one over facturers' testing machine, he fours from the front, or ladies up records during training to- on the Thames tideway, fees thus Justifying, though I duy concluded that it hit the sans have selecte: J. S. F. Morrison's and it

became apparent that shot

every kept its head still. He resolved written instructions "not to buck there was little to choose be

ebout it in print,' my re-tween them at this stage of the

time

because 11

to do likewise-and becoms 50 selection for the Halford Hewitt preparation for the Boat Race nearly equal to the machine Tournament.

that his fellow Walker Cup

players of 1949, seeing ball after

ball propelled with identical WALKER CUP WORK-OUT trajectory, christened Jilm "Same Height White."

ALLEGATION DENIED

to an

10-

With the Walker Cup match oke in September, White's sup- porters feared that he might not for ever be able to Mentioning. his book

capture his form without com- eminent golfer, I remarked, "Hepetitive play. In his letter he fays he does it by keeping he sets these fears at rest. He will in the amateur play, he says, head still." "Nonsense)!" was an English Championships the reply, "He dips It down"---|

well

"If selected," in the 05, and indeed some of the pictures internationals. I only wish that seem to indicate this,

ho would also play in the Open, believe he might At the top of a No. 1 iron for I really shot, for instance, he is de-

win it.

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plated leaning downwards 50 much that, were it not for the In the meantime he skips and club In his hands, he might be runs one night each week, has gloercoled a net in his garden, taken to be bending Identify the ball.

Whitehimself denies this base allegation, adding, however, "It is harder to keep your head still than one imaginesi arid I can assure you that, if a did eo on every ehot, then I should not be sitting behind a desk writing to you. I should be following the Fun with Ben Hogan, San Snead, cut Co."

Whether or not he moves his head downwards, he certainly

does not move it aideways, as do

work

und plans an "extensive out" with Harry Busson, whom he reckons the "finest coach in the country." After which our

friends will, American trust, find him still hitting them the same height in September,

RUGGER RESULT

we

London, Mar. 17. Ponzance and Newlyn beat

most of us. And you don't Cross Keys 0-0 in a Rugby Union belleve this, try a practice swing, match today.-Reuter,

SPORTING SAM

on March 28.

Cambridge. going out first, reached the mile post in four minutes two seconds, beating by one second the record set by Oxford in 1800.

Later, Oxford nowed the 1,600 yards from Hammersmith Bridge to Chiswick Steps in three

minutes 37 seconds to clip five seconds from Cambridge's 1948

record.

very fast tide and a following Both crews had the help of a

wind, but Oxford had to row through the wash of a tug and barges.-Router.

GEORGETOWN TEST DRAWN

Final scores were: India 262 West Indies and 100 for five; 364,--Router.

Spring Double Fever

...

Preludes Richest Racing Season

By J. W. TAYLOR -

After the winter's epidemic of 'Bu comes the most contagious of all New Year ailments known to afflict the British sporting public-the Spring Double Fever which, later in the year, will be followed by equally catching allied disorders like the Derby Dithers, the Leger Droops and the Autumn Double Sweat.

It is so smittling that people who do not habitually wager a penny on the 'osses, auccumb to the virulent germ, females being no more than the supposedly better-informed male..

Everywhere the fever has defy the Law of Average Lincoln," Arst big handicap of solve a problem even caught By the time the Danie Fortune correctly to racing season.

and in a rich Coronation Year Gat

Euclid With more than £250,000 alone, added to normal prizes, it pro- the mises to be the greatest season lat-in the world.

all

Jennifer Jones takes life but carnestly. She, is eager, breathless and awkwardly shy.

THE HARD WAY

Boss cross?

serve RICKSHAW

Memo

RICKSHAW CEYLON TEA

ALWAYS

Be sure to insist...o...

Louis Kentner

(pianist)

At night, when everyone else who has been compared with

cases off and watches the lights of the shrimp boats in the Gulf of Salerno, sho frets in her room about her lines.

"I know it is the hard way, but it would be harder sill it I didn't work at it just like this," she says. Occasionally she sews a simpler to help her relax a less strenuous diver- sion than her former method of standing on her head for two minutes at a time."

Humphrey

Bogart actor,

not president discusses his acting: "I treat it as a profes-

LISZT BUSONI

and

RACHMANINOFF

will give two recitals.

on

WEDNESDAY

22ND APRIL, 1953,

at

sional business. I don't go for 7 P.M. and 9.30 P.M.

this art form stuff. I'm ready when they want me, and 1'il take a drop of Scotch when. they do..t.

"I know what I have to do in front of the camera and with that's the way I like it

everyone. Scotch, please."

Robert Morley heaves himself

into a chain ("My future is safe

in three-dimensjonal Alms") and clinches the discussion,

"Actors take themselves loo seriously." he says, "It is the pubile which doesn't. I incline ward by E. Matthews for approaching a part. There were much? When do we start?*:

to the principle once put

only

three

and "Where?" "

questions: *How

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"There's no

and the least in breeding grants immunising just over 100 years ago, and the match was finally left against this persistent annual aged gelding Caurire won in other aida. drawn when only half an hour's Spring malady, which fogs the geld of nine; in 1938 a horse Executives at both Kempton play was possible after lunch.

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and sweepstaka, with £2,000 added Purses amid legion accommoda-have been several 83-1 ting bookmakers. To the lat-66-1 ahots beating the field and trophies for winning owners ter, Spring is all champagne was King of Clubs in 1920. on The Day, when meetings will and oysters; for the fover This was followed by Eitan's also be run at Ripon, Ayr and stricken punters' it is sackcloth 100-1 "snatch on the post" Sedgefield. and ashca.

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