THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1953.
TITLE FIGHTS AT HARRINGAY GREATEST EVER
Don Cockell (left) and Johnny Williams, the holder, during their fight for the British and Empire Heavyweight Championships at Harringay. Cockell won.
Freddie King landing a left to Ronnie Clayton during their Bght for the Featherweight Championship of Great Britain at Harringay. Clayton won on a knockout.-Central Press Photos.
The Time Has Come To Let German Boxers Fight In Britain
Says HAROLD MAYES
London.
BRITISH
ATHLETIC SEASON STARTS WITH RECORDS
The greatest ever British athletic season-following on three suc cessive greatest ever seasons--has started with records in three standard events and several more at all distances between four and 20 miles.
First came Gordon Pirie's Six Miles in 28 minutes 47.4 seconds, then Roger Bannister's Alle in 4 minutes 3.6 seconds. The third record in a standard event fell at Chiswick on May 9 at the Sward Trophy Meeting when John Savidge threw the Discus a distance of 155 feet 3 inches to improve on Harry Duguid's Brilish record by half an inch.
29:01.0 this 1. Holden
Performances at the Sword | Walker at 22 feet 11 inches tion to Pirie's new record. Jim Trophy mecljing-a jurdles and nud K Wilmshurst third at 22 | Peters has done field events inter-club compell- teet 9%.
With Inches.
Harry Reason and D.
824 ̄| 20:33:0:- top-were excellent for the While clearing 22 feet
Even Peter West, home for English early season. Third luches In the Cambridge-Lough-
three five lis first season after place in the Discus went at 138 borough match. there are
in Hongkong, has al- feet 6 inches and third place in Englishmen over 2214 feet be- years the Long Jump at 22 feet 94fore the middle of May.
to 30:50.0, really come down the which Jucans that he has uches.
Early reuson marks in Discus Tirow have been very run twice three miles at a tille The Long Jump-even with
record for good. In addition to Savidges short of the speed at which he record throw, Mark Pharaoh set the Hongkong ment in fleld event alandards in the last two years-bas remalhas reached 148 feet 11 inches, Three Miles at 18 minuten 11.2
Howell Williama has sel new seconds in December last year. ed Britain's weakest event,
Welsh record at 142 feet, M.F.
Gordon Pirte ran the Two Inches and D.E.L. Stater to 137Miles in 8 minutes 66 seconds for the AAA against Oxford
the general all-round improve
Flacke bas gone out to 138 feet ilint n
feet 4 inches. University With most
There is promise of situation being changed. In the AAA
Oxford V. match at Iffley Road,
Oxford,
of the throwers, University, only four-tenths of
record. He bas
also a second of Chris Chataway's Brush beaten the Belgian distance ace, Gaston Rein, in a 5,000 Metres race at Rabat, Morocco.
on May 2, Peter Whaley jumped particularly the Scots, still to 23 feet 11 inches just 314 come into competition, it is not that Britain this inches short of Harold Abra- improbable
will have a dozen men bams' British record. Oxford's year
Ian Walker was second at 23 throwing over 140 feet and four
or Ave over 150 feet, fect 10 inches.
At the Sward Trophy meeting, G. D. Goodrich was second
12
With the season hardly started, Englishmen have already Norman Gregor won the Sward
and 10 Trophy, Pole Vault at 13 feet turned in marks of 1:38.4
8 inches with the schoolboy, under in the Hair Mile and nine G. M. Schmidt, second ke 124, are ciready under 4:20 in the Last tesson there were three Mile, four of them under 4:11. British vaulters over 13 feet. This The sprinters are behaving season there may be a half-dozen
normally, They don't usually with Geoffrey Eillott all set to be start beating 10 seconds until ! the drot Briton over 14 feet.
some time in June. But Quarter- Even in the High Jump, on Miles Alan Dick of Oxford has event in which Englishmen don't already three sub-49.8 marks for normally
shows go much higher than the current season, and six feet until come time in June,
Lgnir of becoming anolbar Derek Cox has already
cleared A.G. K. Brown. 6 feet 3 inches.
Surrey Beat Warwickshire In One Day!
In the Shot Put, a new potential 50-footer has appeared In Oxford's W: B. L. Palmer who has a senson's best of 40 feet 1
London, May 16- Cricket fans today at the Oval saw the end of inches, three-day match between Surrey and Warwickshire.
The champions were playing their first county match of the season after claiming the extra halt-hour.
DISTANCE 'CRAZE
Since Britain scored fifth seventh and eighth place in the
10,000
there Olympic
Metres has been a concerted attack on stapce running records and a number of these have fallen this season.
who
Stuart Surridge, the Surrey captain, was overjoyed at his England's Six-Milers, team's success, Dollery offered only two years ago found 30 no excuses for Warwickshire's minutes dificult to bent, are do- failure.
Ing that consistently. In addi-,
Perhaps Surrey's recent in- nings defeat at the hands of the Australian touring team had a salutary effect on the cham- pions. France-Presse."
CLOSE OF PLAY SCORES
London, May 10.. Close
pluy. of
Drores County and Arst class cricket matches which began today
were:
in
At Westcliff: Essex 357 (Bigg Insole 53), 138, Horstall 50, Middlesex 20 for no wicket.
At -love: Northamptonshire 180 (Livingston 89, Wood, left prm medium-fast three for 30),
How much longer is Britain going on being beastly to us? Who's thinking that? Oh, just the German professional boxers and their Sussex 20 for two. managers, who feel that long enough has passed since the end of hos- tilities for them to be accepted here.
scen
also ights as
Final League
Soccer Standings
The following are the final League soccer standings for the
longkong season 1952-3.
First Divisjon
South China Eastern
Army
K M.B.
RA.F.
Tao
K.M.J.
Goals
BRUISED CHAMPION
A battered Don Cockell, one-time Battersea black- smith and now a farmer, startlingly reversed the fore- casts of the experts when he beat Rugby's Johnny Williams on points over 15 rounds and took fróm, hìm the Heavyweight Championships of Great Britain, and the British Empire at Harringay on May 127 MARS
Cockell took, plenty of punishment from Williams' left inbs hul bis powerful punching had the Champlon worried for most of the fight.
Pleturo shows Cockell, triumphant despite bis battered face (his left eye is almost closed), raising his arin in victory after the fight.-Reuterphoto,
Ignore The Howling Mob. Mr Crosby, And Just Play Golf!
Says GEORGE
WHITING
Sportsman for whom I could feel sorry: Peter Needham, 29, golfer, handicap two at Sunningdale.
A goodly part of Mr Needham's competitive golf has hitherto been enjoyed in the quiet and pleasant purlieus of Oxford University and in the chummlly cheerful old-boy atmosphere of the Halford-Hewitt cup competition, in which he has played For Old Carthusians.
But Needham now enters a of his royal and new phase unclent pastime.
He is having his first crack al 1812 the British amateur champion ship at Royal Liverpool, Hoylake, this year, and at 10.12 a.m. on Monday, May 25, he is drawn to play, in the first round, a member of the exclusive and expensive Bel-Air Country Club, USA. His opponent's name is Harry Bills Crosby, clept Bing.
Second Division "A"
..24 20
At Gravesend Lancashire 400 (Washbrook 84, Grieves 144. CA Marner 03). Lancashire ail out Kwang Wah
Club They wouldn't be welcome with a lot of people. I can't exactly say that
at the close, Kent to baf.
Police St Joseph's I've changed my own general opinion towards Germany, but, being perfectly fair,
At the Oval: Surrey beat
NAVY there are many reasons why I feel that these chaps have a genuine grouse.
Warwickshire by an innings and Haven't we
German, and Lee Starosch, No. 2 welter-only holiday some of them will 49 runs, Warwickshire 45 (Alec
aget before the new season opens Bedser, right arm medium-fast South China athletes performing here? Didn't weight, who
is an enforced one! 55,000 people turn up at High-middie,
eight for 18) and secondly 52 CA
for 17, Laker, FOOTNOTE, Just to cheer (Alec Bedser bury to see a London side whip the daylights out of a team of
up the ones who will be getting right-arm offspin 5 for 20, 1 Pastern And the
those Berlin Soccer players?
unwanted vacations- cluding a "hat trick"), Surrey Army because although they rant and 146 (Dollary, right-arm
fast Tallroo German amateur boxers who
Kaichou were a very came over here
rave they stili come up for medium four for 40,)
Police be four fewer mea popular draw, too..
more there may
Fotore League dub jobs going next Ai Loughborough: Leicester-St Joseph's
Tramways Why? Because there's shire 179 (Knott right-arm off-
for the Football break five for 39),, Lampshire Club proposition League annual meeting for the 34 for three. Third Divisions to revert to clubs each. It could happen.
About
Well, what
it, pro- moters? Would any of you my "No" if you were offered the chance of putting on the Jap World Champion, Yoshio Shirul, against cither Juke. Tull or Athletes, foulballers, · amateur Terry, Allen, here? boxers. Right, Then what's
No, of course you wouldn't the objection to professional boxers7 Frankly, I don't see And If ho la persona grata you that our promoters can put up Just can't go on withholding re- any explanation which is water-cognition from the Germans, tight.
The view, naturally,
"I spent 24 years as a player, is that but I shan't last that long as a fight manager," the man who controls plenty of the regular
of a well-known public just don't want to watch the destinies Germans.
mc.
If they don't like Football League club sald to
"You can go on record as them in't that one reason why
that football's they go along to see them, in saying for me
season
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KRAMER WINS. SERIES
Prasadena, California, May 16. Jack Kramer (United States) or a player, but as a made certain here last pight of good hiding handed out to manager-it siinks!" he added. winning his 16-match tennis tour
the hope that they might see e
Than? Well, I think so.
Second Division "N"
At Leeds; Somerset: Somer-Gymnastic set 346 for nine (Gimblett 59, Little Sal Win Tremlett 57, Stephenson not out western 107).
R.A.M.C.
Prisons C.M.D. At Cambridge: Cambridge PCA
R.E.M.E. University Do (Parks right Dockyard
for 19) Ward Police arm fast-medium 13 Worcestershire 29 for two (Rain Faguere | restricted play),
At Chesterfield: Derbyshire-c. & W.
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AFS. "I spent a lot less time than against Frank Sedgman (Austra Glamorgan: Glamorgan 200 for 3. & S. Tamer "I know a lot of people who'd that as a player, but I still don't). He scored his 40th victory nine,
wiming 0-4, 6-3, get a kick out of that, and it believe I shall even be able to against 30 by Sedgman wher
At Gloucester: Gloucestershire
Kin. Godown Acer
Crawford
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could be that it could bring match the length of my playing Pantho Segura (Ecuador) ex-185 (Hilton 56, Jepson right-arm R boxing new customers to com-ther, whose club, incidentally, tented his match fead over Hen i fast-modium three for 26), Not~ | CAT.
career in the chair," zaldan-
them have had a rather successful McGregor (Australia) to 81-04 tinghamshire 60
pensate for those whose con- *selences
make would objectors.
HE'LL BACK THEM
Houter.
with a 6-3, 6-4 win-Router.
SOLEON.
"I read a story the other day. that a club which has a manager
THE GAMBOLS
know he was
One man who would like to had already approached two help some of them over here is other chops to take the job that Ted Broadribb, "I don't care manager didn't whether they are Germans, or going to lose," he continued. where they come from," says Ted,
"long as they can help to
OLIVER TWISTS?
siimulate boxing. Boxing needs "But what's so strange about em, and there are three fellows that? There are plenty of clubs I know who would ertainly doing it all the time. It's just
be good value for money.
In fact, I'd go as far as to
A rocket. Manugera? We must: all be daft."
say that if any promoter would And that, my hearties, is the put those three on an Anglo sort of note on which one of German bill, I'd back them for the most successful. Soccer £1,000 to win two out of the seasons for some time comes thrise fights," he added.
Its close.
If you think The three he's so aure of pre
managers will Franz Szuzena, a 22-year-old now be going on a nice, long middleweight who do No. 2 in holiday, free from the cures of his own country, Rudi Langer, championships, promotion and The European bantam champion, relegation, fust forget
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STOOGE OF THE CIRCUS
Crosby last year, at Sunningdale, at a friend's wedding.
"Crosby is a serious golfer. 1 am certain the stewards will be efficicut and that we shall both get a fair run."
I hope so.
unwanted by be unloved and people who play - or promote games for wages, salaries, profits, percentages or other emoluments.
Here are four recent. Instances of black looks in the direction of
Lime Grove.”
and
1-Football clubs will continue to bon TV cameras Gal League mutches,
were sharply critical of the FA decision to I'm. televise the Cup Final
Other reactions to the Hoylake drow were slightly different.
His father:
"Crosby?
Well, Peter won't let it upset him."
And that I am afraid, could His club: "Crosby? well be the end of dignified golf rich. That's damned funny."
Willy-milly, for Mr Neodium.
That's
2. Len Hutton, if picked to load our cricketers against Aus- tralia, will permit no TV fot in the England dressing room during
Tosta. Says olevision Here's hoping it will not be too spoils concentration and is bad be now has the prospect of be
the eyesight circus darned funny. Bing Crosby as a for In a coming sloome
on suddenly to ince stampede of nitwits-those pop-golfer is welcome, and his dis called eyed tramplers of turf to whom arming presence will do the bright sunshine, not to mention
and Hoylake receipts no harm what- Miller
Lindwall Mr Crosby is the larynx plus.
Three r
years ago, these gormless soover. But, please, Mr C-no gallopers screamed and scratched joke-a-stroke nonsensa their frenzied way round Crosby leave the clowning for
1 plly crowds who pay. Entertainment at stately St Andrew's the stewords,
the other com- Tax, shall we? petitors, the genuine spectators, and particularly Needham, if any
:
Let's
the
3.-Essex, talking rolerlaat season's cricket Wooks, blame televised Tests for a drop of £500 in gale, receipts at Beent- dis- wood, and for a rather
at appointing" attendance, Romford.
BOXING AT LOND'S such riot is repeated at Hoylake. Here's a thing now. Boxing Jack Solomana, Crosby. I promoter Do not blame
Unprivileged people without believe that ho-unlike another floundering like one of his own Test tickets, Cup Final lékets, or American comedian-takes his ash in the rough Entertainment. Fame seriously. He is a member Tax seas, whipped up by Mr any other kind of Tckets, may get a litle regard televisi sport as 1 boon, of the Royal and Ancient Club, Butler, wants to
and the BBC as benevolent old can play up to near-champion-closer to cricket which pays no
uncle. Sports "bromotor have ship class without clowning, md such tax.
other views on the 14tion- was not responsible for the ex-
Solomons, carefully adjust ship. To them, 'Tis mother- hibition of mob-hysteria f 1930.
come to Advertising-executive Noed-g his Old One-Twojans Lo, in-law who has co
The the house. ham took it like a man when I has written to Lord's ond told him of his Hoylake destiny. Oval seeking permission to run of big-time boxing on elther MET AT WEDDING
those green and pleasorit postures "Jolly good. How perfectly when cricket closes down next delightful! I could not have asked September.
I mot for a nicer opponent.
Barry Appleby
PHEW-PM WORK
OUT, ALL THIS WORK
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ANY MAN
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WOMEN'S WORK
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IF RAIN STOPS,
Having always considered that gramophone Yecording of any noises, it "Asleep in the Deep poor If you hear will to a gasometer, or an MCC consolation when the English climate takes a kind in English member, exploding.
cricket. I welcome a hoy de- Lacrosse has been permitted parlure by the BBC in ebrisection entry to Lord's; hockey and the with this season Test match
of commentaries, ma Corinthian Casuals brand soccer have found recent expCA
alon at The Oval. But pitching They have pered Center- back- with cricketing a ring on these sacrosanct tainers
QUES
wili usmródly be con-grounder to amuse us this summer aldered akin to leapfrog in should. the weather not conform Ascot's Royal Enclosure.
to requiremehu Solomons has been known to
.
Programmes Will Include songs perpetrate many, a hot stratagem with cricket Jyrles, and excerpts on the sporting world-"pulling from actigio Commentaries on u stroke la the trade term-but suck cricketing pliante as this time I fear, he is risking Hutton's monumental Test frostbite from two of the fciest ings at the refusals of 'all me."
UNLOYED, UNWANTED
Cur, Gladwinny helped England ist south Indian Africa, and the women cdypsos. I would Boon; hear Televison, despite desperate war cries from Fred Truemah wooing by the BBC, continpes to
---{London Express ÄripķS)
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