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SNOOKER

By Horace Lindrum

1.

In the diagram I left you with last week the balls are favourably placed for a nice break, but there is also an opening to clear the table entirely,

Jimmy Mason Will Get £1,000

Jimmy Mason, Scottish International

and Third Lanark forward, who had to give up the game this sea- son because of a permanent | leg injury, is expected to receive more than £1,000 tax free from his benefit game staged at Cathkin Park, Glasgow..

The leading bait for this pur popo is the yellow, a little out from the top right-hand side cushion: My first plan would be to got the yellow ball away from the cushion into an open part of the table and to do this I would address the cue-ball to the right, high and slightly and pot the red into the bottom

of the clty. Negotiations for this: right-hand comes pocket speedily; the cue-ball-would--are going on at present. come off the bottom cushion to contact the bottom left-hand side cushion and travel across

<7

GREEN

BLACK

5

TALON

BLUEL

BALL

the centro of the table to strike

the top right-hand side eusilon

to cannon the yellow into the

open leaving position pink, X1,

+

for the

The next stroke wouki be to pot the pink Into the middle left-hand pocket speedily enough to send the white on tɔ

the top left-hand side cushion and come back to the open part of the table for the correct pod- tion on the yellow, X2.

Addresing the cue ball high for potting the yellow into une top right-hand corner pocket, and using the correct speed, i would aim to bring the white ball off the top right-hand sde cushion and como to rest on the top cushion, XI.

The green is simple enough to pot into the top left-hand cornar pocket, but the cuc-boil must be struck very

Jow

to

Brew the white bali on to the top left-hand side cushion and travel towards the baulk iine to finish in good portion for the brown, X.

Striking the white ball high I would let the cue go through with the stroke when potthag the boown into the bottom right-hand conner pocket. The cue-ball would come off bottom cushion and pass the baulk line for post- Rion on the blue, X5.

the

Potting the blue into middle right-hand pocke! I would send, the cue-ball through for position on the pink which is now on ila own spot, XI.

Addressing the cue-ball high to pot. the pink into the top left- hand, corner pocket, I would follow through for the perfect shot on the black into the top night-hand corner pocket, X7.

You To Play Until Next Week

He la likely to use the money to buy a newsagent and tobacco- nist'a

south, alde shop in the

A 13,862 crowd saw the benefl match when a Scottish Select

side beat Sunderland 5-0.

STILL TO COME IN

Third Lanark officials hope to announce the cxact amount Mason will receive within few days. The gate, including to stand drawings, amounted

£600, but

from the various ticket agencles is still to come in.

money

And there are promises of personal donations to the player who has served his club for 10 seasonя since coming from Mossvale YMCA. Palaicy, 1937.

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Mason, still on the Cathkin playing strength. until July 30. has been informed by the Inland Revenue that the money will be cxempt from tax, But enter- tainment tax will probably have, to be paid.

-(London Express Service)

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1958. ·/·

BLACKPOOL'S WIZARD

Here he isStanley Matthews, the amazing Wizard of Blackpool, with one hand gripping the Cup. Helping his team to win it, the most loved footballer in England performed feats of prodigious brilliance in a game that will go into the legends of soccer as Matthew's match. This beaming picture was taken at the celebration banquet in London's West End.

Express Photo.

Britain's Lawn Tennis

World Got A Shock

By FRED PERRY

UPSETS WERE THE FEATURE OF THE LAWN BOWLS SEASON'S OPENING MATCHES

By "TOUCHER"

Some bruised feelings which the Lawn Bowls Association may have a little headache in soothing and a few upsets featured the opening matches of the Colony Lawn Bowls League season during the last week. All but one of the scheduled matches were played off, the exception being the Second Division match between Kowloon Cricket Club and Hongkong Cricket Club,

the

It appeared that a request this last wood to score a Ave on Valley. Craigengower will have, for postponement was made to the head and win by 10-18.

their rinks somewhat reshuffled HKLNA by Hongkong

TOP FORSI

In this match with Hope Kew Cricket Club, but when this was The Recreio third rink of coming in as No. 3 to Joe Lan- referred to the Kowloon Cricket A.P. Pereira, C. Roza-Pereira. dolt and George Souza going Club representative, it was con- C.-Passos and Johnny Ribeiro over to Rennie Rosselet's – riniz tended that it was a matter for suck tap form in their open-as No. 3. the Association to decide,

ing game and there was little

The CCC green, which for that the reshuffled Colony known

By years has been one of the best Champlon rink of AR Rahman, in the Colony, is however not K.M, Omar, MB, Hossan UA. Rumjahn could do with-playing as well

this year, and the trickiness of the green may out their regular No. 2 KM. give that extra weight in favour Rumjahn, who was shifted of the home team. another rink.

TODAY'S GAMES

and

to

It is not clearly what grounds the postpone ment was

requested by the Hongkong Cricket Club, but that they are faced with a dim- cult decision can be gauged by the fact that it was the opinion

Kowloon Cricket Club, though of the majority of the repre- nowo

with two last minute. senatives present at

the last playing Annual General

maintained Moeling that substitutes,

their the Racer should not be allow reputation of always having the ed to interfere with the Lawn better of their neighbours, Kow- Bowls. League programme.

loon Bowling Green Club, en their home green, claiming tour A precedent once

created out of the possible five points. could only lend to a string of postponements in future pro- A. V. Lopes, W. II. Cowic, grammes, not only on Recount | E. C. Flocher and Tommy Baker of the maces but also for other all played well as a team, with Fincher perhaps the most pro- minent in their 20-14 win over a rather off-colour rink of L. Goddi, E. M. Purvis, A. L. G. Eastman and J. McKelvic in which only Eastman was any- where up to usual form.

events.

For the benefit of lawn.bowls in general it is hoped that some tactful decision will be arrived at by the Association.

O.

Ex-Shanghai bowler F Madar made a successful dobut as a skip in Hongkong with n over the rink 2-15 triumph skipped by G. C. Norman.

In

Club of the week was un- doubtedly Recreio, who opened Vic season with an impressive 4-1 win over their strongest I contenders, Indian Recreation Club, in the First Division and followed this up with a double victory by their "A" and this he was well supported by his front men and particularly teams in the Second Division.

his No. 3, Jimmy Wong, who came into the team at the last moment in placo of Charlie Thompson.

In the third Division, how ever, Indian Recreation Club stopped them from making clean sweep. upsetting tno

front Brilliant play by his applecart by a 4-1 margin.

men enabled Harvey to score a In the First Division

match,

over Indian Recreation Club

one-sided 34-13 decision werew. Hong Sung. Browno had rather lucky to get away with

the better of an Inconsistent W. 1% points да ค result

Howard throughout the whole brilliant efforts by their two

Omar

game and Joe Meyer at No. 2 skips, U.M.

and A.R.

was seen in one of his best rames ever.

The lawn tenris world, that is, as far as England are concerned, got Kitchell, on the last head,

a shock when the team to represent Great Britain in the Davis Cup against

Norway in Oslo (May 15, 16, and 17) was named..

H. F. David is the new non-playing caplain, and the team is Tony Mottram, Groff Paish, Gerry Oakley and Bobby Wilson.

Mottram and Palsh were certainties, for they have done much for British tennis since the war, and are still the two best players

Two Men Plotted A

4:03.6 Mile In

A

Casablanca Hotel

H

By ARCHIE

QUICK

Two men sat plotting in a Casablanca hotel. They schemed to smash Sydney Wooderson's 16-year-old One Mile British running record of 4 mins. 6.4 seconds. How well Roger Bannister and Chris Chataway succeeded in their planning was shown when the scheme came fruition on the Inley Road track nt Oxford when Bannister ran the fastest mile ever accomplished in Great Britnin and lowered the time to 4 mins, 3.6 seconds.

to

These two former University students, friends and rivals who had avolded each other on the track for over two years, aimed at three laps of 61 seconds, 62 seconds and 61 seconds, with Chataway making the pace all the

Way.

run

A lunch

he

He was then scheduled to i before his eple drop out of the race, as he duly prescribed for himself ald. In fact, when the bell comprising a dry brend roll, an went they Were 1.3 ecconds orange, seine grapes and fresh alower than their target.

fruit juice laced with glucov, There was, therefore, added

Afterwards he told me of how merit in Bannister's resounding triumph, for he had to make all be and Chalaway had worked his own running in a fourths out their plan during their re-

circuit of finished

BLACK

PINK

Disley. Moreover, he

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bon burals.l

Herd Ibn fricky, problem. How would you tackle it? (Next Week Horace Lindrum will demonstrate what he would do),

68.3 Feconds and 70 yards ahead Steeplechase Champlan.

cent North African

tour, and [added, of

"I shall assist Chata- Law

in John way,

and Brasher

had to

available.

R., S. Capell started erratical- ly but Improved considerably

Drawn against Joe Luz's rinic. U.M. Omar's four were four shots. down on the last head wheri U.M. Omar, after being towards the end against a more consistent Howarth, Hong given

a two-shot lle by his front men, drew two more shots Sling more often than not had to tle at 21-21.

1015 | the "De against him, and made A. R. Kitchell's

some dramatic saves, but was rink were too four shots down on the Lash too often short. head, and he had a lle of one

Another upset of the week was Oakley. long noted

for his against him when his turn came. Cricket Club

the defeat of Craigengower doubles play, deserves a place Jackie Noronha, however, com creation Club, only Joe

by Police Re- on his fine sirgles performances in the ffard Court Clumplon moted

ing on a risky backhand, pro- delt's rink being able to take a

an opposing wood to ships at Bournemouth,

second shot and Kitchell, with four second shots, came through with a perfect resting shot with

"third He will make a fine man", and will also be extreme. ly useful should a change be found necessary in the doubles. Hls Inclusion, even at the age of 20, is good Insurance.

Wilson, 17-year-old Finchley schoolboy, takes the place of Roger Becker, who cluded all last year.

VIS In-

It will be a wonderful ex- perience for Wilson and getting some Davis Cup atmosphere will serve him well in his

future career.

FAULT FOUND

But here one can at

tors if one wishes.

least

and some faitlt with the selee

After-all. Billy Knight, also 17. Is the present Junior Cham- plon, and beat Wilson for the

title.

deal.

Now is the time as I see it to give the young fellow the con fluence and the chance to put that new knowledge into effect,

What he needs now, more than anything else, is added con- fidence which will, in turn, im- prove his abuity on court.

Mal Whitfield

Will Run At

Ibrox Park

At least one Olympic Champion will be at Glas

point for CCC.

Lan-

C. Pile had Bradbury a little confused during the greater part of the game with his aggressive treties and was well served-with- a new No. 1 in R. Yu,

The oth

other CCC rink of W.C.

Ogley, R. Tay, D. Rosselet and C. R. Rosselot held their own against W. J D. Cameron'.

H. Dewar, C. Pope and W. R. Hillyer until the tea Interval when a four cracked them up. Of the winners W.J.D. Cameron was always near the jack and Hillyer as aldp was exceptional- ly brilliant, particularly when drawing.

TODAY'S GAMES

A full schedule of four First Division, four Second Division

gow Police Sports at Ibrox and five Third Division matches Park on June 13. He is are fixed for this afternoon. Mal Whitfield, who won the In the First Division, the 800 Metres title at Wembley PRC and KDC-IRC games, in focus will be on the Recrelo- in 1948 and again at Hel- which

upsets are Impossible sinki last year (writes Alick though unlikely. Kerr).

On their form of last week, the Police should be able to give a very good account of

themselves In their match gainst Recreio and if both Plie's and Hillyera rinks play well as they did last week, they may be able to take two points back for PRC, or at least

one.

In fact, the Lawn Tennis As-

Whitfold, Joint holder of the sociation were so impressed that 880 Yards world record will be they even made it possible for one of a party of U.S. Champloor him to spend the winter in Aus-flying over. Others are sprinter tralla, where he learned a great Johnny Haines,

winner of the recent Indoor Championship, in which he beat Lindy Remigino, the Olympic Champion, Fred Dwyer, America's best Miler Kowloon Dock, with a more ten wins in a row-and possibly formidable line-up this year, R. E. Richards, Olympic Fole put up a disappointing show Vault Champich, with a Arth

last week, but should be able to member still to be named.

show Improved form in their second match this week, espe- cially when playing on their home green. They are expect ed to give the Indians an ex- tremely close pune and a 3-2 decision either. way is very likely.

Another close match should, be that between Cralgengower Cricket Club and Kowloon Bowling Green Club, at Happy

A strong German team will Include Werner Lueg, third in Luckily for the Lawn Tennis the Olymple 1,500 Metres and an attempt on the world relay Association, young Knight is not Karl Friedrich Haas, fourth in contend with a stiff breeze in the record of four timos 1,500 the kind of fellow to lose interest the 400 Metres at Helsinki.

metres, will take part in the because he has been passed over.

No reply has been received British Games at the White

Zatopek, We should beat Norway, but from

but City, London,

Invitation has been sent.. at Whitsun and what about afterwards? hope to reach my pook at the

-(London Express Sarules)

--London Express Service) AAA Championships in July. After that there will not be

back straight.

NO TWO OTHERS

No two men could be more unlike each other than Banals-

ter. -und Chaloway. Red- much running for mo aa my headed Chris, genial and a medical examinations will be mixer, was full of enthusiasm coming along." over his opponent's achlove-

ment.

He is Q doctor-student in gynaecology at St. Mary's Họ3--

London, the hospital'

"He will do the Four Minuto pital,

Mile one day, for sure he sold which onco.sheltered those two. afterwards, That all deperuls.

great athletes. Jack Lovelock

The reticent Bannister, spare and Owen-Smith as well as D

of frame, long of leg and fairhost of Colonial Rugby foot- haired, puts his medical studies ballers.. Dat.It. the elusive Four

Jests

Minute Milo fails to his effort the course of another will not be especially anticipat

afriding it will como just in raceit

ex.

In the British Games Bannis ter will meet opposition from Bartol, the Luxenburgor who won the Helsinki: Dlympic : 1,000 Metres and the Beans, Gaston

I travelled down to Oxford Relff, among other: Continental, with Dunnlater and three hours" | American and Emplio stare

POP

another

..

V. PRO KBGC.

First Division TC v. HKFC. KDC v. IRC. Recreio v. CCC v. KBC KCC (bye).

Second Division KDC v. KCC. KBGC v. IRC. Recrelo "A" v. Recrelo "B", HKCC v. FC.

Third Division

FC v. Recreio. USRC v. POC. IRC v. PRC. KCC v. HIKERC. CCC v. HKFC.

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