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Seen on the court at Beckenham, the day before the start of the Wimbledon Tonnis Championships, is Maureen Connolly, the Champion, and Senora Maria Weiss. Maureen Connolly's outfit is of white nylon with In blue spoticd stardust linish and Sonorn Weiss wears an outfit of white organdie, the skirt and neckline trimmed with white flowers-Express Photo,

ON THE RECORD The Wisden's Of Athletics

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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1958.

Keep Training, Turpin, And You'll Bounce That

Bobo With Your Left

Says DESMOND HACKETT

New York.

Sid Flaherty was up and saying the other day that he plans to have the Randolph Turpin-Bobo Olson world. middleweight fight in San Francisco,

And when Flaherty, who happens to be Bobo's manager, says his piece one and all sten with respect and not solely on account of the Flaherty bulk going up to 6 ft. 2 ins. and expanding to 16 stones.

musi.

This Flaherty is R rarity which is rated more ornery than among fight managers; he does not suffer from a rush of words to the mouth, and his wardrobe is as quiet as his voice.

"The "speaks softly, briefly, and, having aid his piece, is as hard io shift os a Missouri inule.

This stubborn streak cost him many dollars back in 1945 when he sent the Bobo home rather ihan let him fight older and more experienced fighters.

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Flaherty has three-quarters of million good reasons--and

THE SECOND TEST

Heroic Fifth Wicket Stand Enables England To Force A Draw

London, June 30.

every one, a dollar-for getting the fight to San Francisco,

He figure this golden gate would be boosted into the three- quarter million dollar bracket by drawing an 80,000 crowd of cushi customers, which is 50.000 more paying clients than New York could hope to draw.

Olson is the pin-up punch boy of the Pacific coast, where blg fights are such a rarity that the fans will even leave their tele- vision sele to see the genuine article.

The only way to prise a New Yurk fight fan out of his TV seat is to use a brisk charge of dynamite.

"NO MAGNETISM

Add to this that the New Yorker dues not wish to have any part of a fight which does not take a one of the locals. Even that brave boyo Paddy Young, of New York City itself, could not magnetise more than six thou- sand observers down to Madison Square Garden when he fought Olson.

An heroic fifth wicket stand of 163 in four hours and And so many of these thou- 10 minutes by Willie Watson and Trevor Bailey enabled sands were free ticket holders that the promoters wore block England to force a draw from an apparently hopeless pages. tion in the second Test against Australia at Lord's goday. {****

ist!! insist that Randolph | The game finished on a dramatic note for England Turpin is World Chump No. 1 as last three wickets in the Inst 40 minutes. But only four

well

world middle-weight champ for not attending this balls remained to be played when John Wardle went in at

„Olson-Young fight. seventh wicket down and England gained the draw which had seemed so unlikely in the morning.

they were 202) Brown was out three minutes ເສຕະ belund from time after scoring 28. Only

But for the intelligence of the reluctant Randolph let me tell him that this Olson, man will be a much tougher proposition than that friendly Frenchman Charles

At the clogr for seven GO Australia. and 308 and England made 372) over, the lust of the day, and

their Arst innings.

Wardle survived these for the match to be drawn,

Australia scored 340) four balls remained in Benaud's son is a perpetual puncher.

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Watson scored 109, ils first Test century, in five hours and minutes, hitting 10 fours. Balloy made 71. Including suven fours.

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With yesterday's post arrived last in the men's section) that the third Annual of the Associa- we have beaten in Hongkong tion

Truck and Field Luxembourg we beat only in the Statisticians. This year it is High Jump, Venezuela

only published by World Sports at

the Shot Put und Saarland in 7/8 and is known as the fater-three events-100 Metres. Shot national Athletics Annual.

Put and Javelin Throw. We are One con burdly begin to realise also better than Puerto Rico in

the general how

world | the 5,000 and 10,000 Metres, but standard in athletes is and at that's about the total score for what a rapid tempo it is rising Hongkong against the records of

one looks through this 216- | the 43 countries listed. pace review.

In the Chairman's foreword, Mr Harold

Lord's today Abrahams, Olympic Champion in the 100 Motres Dash in 1924, mentions the fact that he started colleating athletic statistics in 1928-25 years ago when the world

record in the Discus

stood at 150 feet Throw

13 inches.

The Annua, sts the umas of 58 discus throwers last year who threw further than 48 metres- 157 feet 5 inches. Two inen threw *further than 180 feet, 10 others threw further than 170 feet and 48 in all were over 160

foe!.

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Meier

Istvan

For a good collection of tongue twisters one can only look over the list of Europeans who cleared feet 24 inches in the figh Junip

last year-Ignace Heinrich, Halme, Zbigniew Pekka Lewandowski, Werner Baby, Stojan Slavkov, Aarne Majuuma, Martti Lipasti, Kalervo af Ursin, A. Shikoi Porino

Jacques De

De- lollenne, O. Mamonoy,

Walter Kuuno Honkonen, Rit

Richard Sturm, Lars Ernstrom, Hags, Aladar Szabo, Heino Apart, Putviks, Stig Frendin, Carlo-archisio, Viatto Mar- Janovic, Sittin

Frank Myhre and It is a startling thought that 70 men beat 210 feet in the Javelin

European

can cities which saw Throw last year. When the these jumps were Tours, Helsinki, uperlators ม!! Sookumpoo saw Warsaw, Hamburg, Sola, Tam- Noville Hughes throw over 180 pore, Leningrad, Brussels, Jena, foot in April the let out a long Goteborg. Tula, Borlange. Turin, drawn "Wah!" for, indeed, K│Be

Bergen циа looked a tremendous distance. Dnyepropetrovsk.

Iranian record-holders include Sixty-three mun last year Nourodin Asur, Esmoll Sohikish, cleared 13 feet 64 inches in the All Baghbanbashi and Pole Vault and 39 went over Manouchehr Charazoglu-that's feet 1 inches in the High Jump about enough Forty-three meis cleared 24 fee: proof-readers. in the Long Jump and 17 women cleared 10 feet in the same event.

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The

torture for our

book

MORE IMPORTANT

But more important than tho scores they made was the time they stayed at the wicket.

For vious over four hours they defed an Australlan attack seeking the kill, which seemed so certain at the resumption today.

They

bowlers, played six including the menacing attack of Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller with the new

new ball,

most of his Watson scored fours on the off side and apartin

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Attendance was 137,918 com- pared with the record of 158,000 for a Test in England at Leeds

1948-Router.

WIMBLEDON.

FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE LADIES AND YOU HAD TO BE QUICK TO GLIMPSE

QUT!

BEG TARDON -I MEAN OIBRA

LITTLE MO-SHELD WON 6.0,6-0,

SHE WAS

BEFORE ONE LINESMAN HAD TIME TO CLOSE HIS MOUTH.

FOLLOWED ON THE CENTRE COURT BY A BEARDED

DANE T. ULRICH WHO SHOULD BE WEARING

HIS HAIR IN A RIBBON BY THE

| WEEK-END OR HELL

BE GETTING INTO TROUBLE

MISS LESS THAN HALF A MO CONNOLLY

WORE HER

HAIR TIED

IN RIBBON

IT WAS ALMOST AS BRIEF. AS THE

HOW DO KNOW YOU'RE (NOT FOOT-FAULTING]

UNDER THAT THING

APPEARANCE OF MRS PETERDI'S SHORTS ON COURT

PS. OUR SPARROW LIKED THE INITIALS

ON MISS "BUXTON'S SHORTS

KELL BE WATCHING HER AGAIN : INCASE SEE TURNS

UP WEARING HER

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Aussies made Alec

'bowl his boiler out'

incredibly hit, and just about Indestructible. In a fight that went at fly-weight pace, and had

Whon Alec reached home after his the

audience first trip to Australia with Walter Ham- shirt - slooved hysterical with excitement, Olson mond's side of 1946-7 he was a tired ma!!, never once gave the impression

Perhaps he had not then learned to that he was being hurt."

conserve his energies-to bowl within his PERSISTENT

Capabilities..

Perhaps it may have been something to de

with our severe post-war rationing. Whatever

The idy in the bar saw double. What's Yes, that's aloc there on the right.

the reason, Alec-to_borrow a phrase from that colourful Aus- trallan fast bowler Ernie McCormick - had bowled bis boller out."

Why the demon bowler of the Oval took job in a nursery garden- In No. 4 of

MY TWIN BROTHER ALEC by ERIC BEDSER

England 282 for seven guished Gt runs behind Australia'e total RECORD GATE RECEIPTS More money was teken at the second Test between England and Australia which faished at And there was Paddy Young failing, bim with avery punch In thau at any the book, and a few extra cricket match in the world.

punches he thought up himself. Total receipts for the five days But dead-pan Olson just kept were

£57,738. The previous going in

in with the pursistence of est in England best

was £43,050 brush salesman until he was His performances in 1947 suffered. He played only in the for the corresponding game at the winner un points--referee liest and second Tests against Alan Melville's South Africans, Lord's in 1948.

and judges gave him 12 of the and when he was invited by the MCC to tour the West Indies 15 rounds.

In the winter of 1947-8 he reluctantly doclined. My view is

He felt that after a tour of Australia and that for all his

an arduous aggressive action there is no English summer, in which he bowled 1,200 overs, he could not lethal

do Justice to the England side or himself. quality in the Olson gloves. He finally cut Young about his

So, while GO: Allen's side, get the master's wicket ognin, the finish of that dramatic Arst sorely-tormented face, but this

due

rather than were meeting Frankle Worrell making it the fifth consecutive Test at Durban. Alee was bat- to wear

for and Everton Weekes the time in Tests. Alec is rightly ting, when Cliff Gladwin, Eng.. weight.

land's number 10, came to the first time, Alec and 1 fook_proud of this unique record - sensibly trained Turpin job in a nursery garden.

Twelve That 1948 season was memor- wicket. should keep his tille comfortably

able for something else; the needed for victory; there was if he follows the fight plan that We spent five months clear-selectors dropped Len Hutton just five minutes left in which armchaired his way to the world ing virgin ground of scrub, for the third Test at Manches-to get them. titie

against Humez

shrubs, and trees in order to ter Olson has one method of attack 21-head down and an incredibly system of hooking that sprody a leaves him open to a solid left hand. As Turpin has about the 252bert left hand in the middle-

Both Alec and myself think Wweight business he should be able It necessary for all cricketers to pick off the Olson hurricane to take their pro-season train- attacks.

..... 34 was

-208

from an occasional break from

FINAL SCORES Ring

he was never worried. Eventually Ring got him caught Australia, 1st innings mile slips.

England, wi Irintrigs ... Ten minutes later Balley was

Austrijo, 2nd inninga But to the same

England, ud innings bowler caught

short Haird Hutton, c. Hole, b. Lindwall.... pt man.

Kenyon, C.-Hasselt, b. Lindwall Eariler Denis Compton, play Compton, bw, B. Johnston

Graveney, e. Langley, b. Johnston some excellent strokes, hnd Watson, c. Ilole, it. Ring mode 33 and helped Watson putty, c. Benaud, b. lleg

Brown, c. Hole, b. Honaud on 61 for the fourth wicket. Evans, not out When he went, the outlook was Wordic, not aut

Extras black for England, but Watson Bailey were not deterred by and the long odds against foreing a

draw.

'Total (for 7 wkts)

Bowlins Analysis

Lindwall

Miller

Late in the day with the sixth Johnston wicket falling for 246, the posing albility of defeat loomed again. Benaud But Brown started hitting from Davidson the moment he arrived at the Hote eroase while at the other end Johnston and Hing: No-bails byes 7; Leg-byos 0; Wides Evans survived with the aid of Jolmston-Beuter. some acrobatics in regaining his crease after falling to connect with attempted big hits.

The failure of Australia

to

Len Hutton,

Oldest record in the Going purely on statistics, it stands to the credit of Thomas appears that Jennifer Hart is Conneff who at Dublin in 1887 set head and shoulders above every an Irish national record of 19 other athlete in Hongkong with minutes 444 seconds for the Four her High Jump of feet 11% Miles. An Ulsterman, Steve

Twenty-eight women) McCooke, came near to breaking win the moich was a reflection England in the Arst two

inches in that in 1943, but he was caught dusty

on the spin bawlers. Tho want over 5 feet 1%

last year and it is in 19:44.4 precisely and so only this

event safe to assume that Jonifer is in shares the record. the world's first 30,

Inches.

Stephen Xavier hardly makes the first 100 with his 100 Metres 10.8 seconds as 55 men are listed who ran the distance last yeur in 10.0 seconds or better.

REFLECTED

100

get really fit and hard for the But Len's a fighter. He came coming of Don Bradman's all-back with a great double knock conquering 1948 team.

DRUBBING

of 1 and 57 In the fourth

Tost at Leetis where Alee got his top score v. Australia making 79 after being sent in 0s night-watchman.

runs were

DESPERATE

With the last over England was run off the first bail. Clu needed 8 to win, A log-byu cooped a-4- to deop mid-wicket off the next

The less said about the fifth Only 3 wanted and six balls Test the bettert England were to come (they were 8-bali But, Randolph Turpin, you wiling very seriously so as to cn-

another have to be in peak trim to match sure freedom from pulled mus-bowled out for 62 in the first overs). Cliff scraped

cles during the carly part of the innings.

leg-bye" Alec. managed the the pace of this bounding, bounc-season.

But Alee had little time to single. The scores were level bying Bobo.

ruminate on the misfortunes of with two balls to come. Olson's trainer, Fred Blanchi, Bradman and his Australians 1948. He was off to South AfTI- who shares the stable reluctance duly arrived and agate theyca with F. G.

'Alec' walked down the wig- Mann's side to waste words, admitted to me: gave us a pretty good drub-almost as soon as the Aussies kąt and told Cuff that wint "Turpin should be able to punch bing.

had sailed home.

DOUBLE

by

his way into koeping his title." But Alec had learned a lot in And then the silent fight camp Australia. Though we took D moved briskly off

Sari

Notting- had the im-

for

elts

A certain lady, having

thirt Dil-day session

at

bar, was confronted

was

HUTTON TO LEAD

ever happened he was going to London, June 30.

run immediately Lindsay Tue- who has led

(kött koylqd', the seventh" ball of Tests

the over as he had noured, that against Australia

I managed to travel worn plich was

in the die South African wicketkeeper, this season, Francisco where big Sid Finherit rough beating at very has boon appointed

ham he again captain of

samo shipthe Union Castle responsive to spin but the bowl-the

what is picturesquely mense satisfaction of claiming liner Durham Castle. I'

Billy Wade, was standing weli side for the third Tests ers were unable to exploit it to starting at Manchester on July 9, termed his “Bruiser

the “Don's” wicket for making the journey for bus-back. Ireland is the only country

the full.

The England team will be

While America to sort out no leg.

and duck"-caught Hutton at shortness reasons, and Alec and 1

Cliff missed the ball and Ales that has two records surviving

walls chosen on Sunday---Router.

had a bit of fun at the start started to run. But Gladwin in placo

time for the and from the 1880s. In 1888, Daniel'

Olson- And in the second Test Shanahan was credited with 50

at of the voyPES. “BOILING OVER”

Turpin title decider he is think-Lord's he was lucky enough to

his excitement, had forgotten The apparent certainty of an

to make an

her Alec's instructions, and Alex feet 014 inch in the Hop, Step England defeat at the start of

Molbourne, June 20. ing over an offer

the had to scamper back to his own and Jump. An angry little the day was reflected in the at- Australia's.

exhibition tour in England next cricketers ere

suddenly crease. month. footnote by the ATFS mates that tendance. Instead of the capa- "boiling over about the story Co, will be seen around our Matches Cancelled by both the Bedners.

My guess is that Olson

The last ball his cum on the Some marks by Asian athletes "Shanahan actually did two hons city crowd of over 30,000 on of excessive drinking and

wild eilen.

and

She looked up, gave a terri-thigh and dropped in front of last year that have escaped our and a jump, but his record is each of the first four days, only partics,

said

the Melbourne

hellowed:

Come inclement Ad shriek, dashed away and him.. Alec. Away from the fight .business attention

listed. Fastest are

Harald's cricket writer, P.

an," and both ran liko

men man in Asia In 1952 was Jemadarally recognised as the Hop, 14,000 watched the play today.

Step and Jump record. Eamon There was little change in Millard, writing from London. Floberty site in a tiny office that weather, all League Tennis locked herself in her subin.

It took some me to explain possessed. must be a shade tight at the matches yesterday wexo post- Aslam of Pakistan in 10.5 Fitzgerald did 48 2

(14.68 the character of the cricket after Ele describes the report

to tho-poor-soul-that-there-nc- As history records they both elbows and quietly mediates oa poned, seconds, He was followed by metres) in Dublin on 19.6.32 and keen desire to take every run Hassett's 1953 team is as well change and settles down on ships lawn bowls match which sober-minded people had diff tea. Bailey at first showed as undeserved alur, and said the day when ho quits the sock

tually were two Bedsers on got home and the Test who won Levy-Pinto Hindi), Abdul-Aziz-this-is-the-best-110,

The Open Pairs Champion-board, and even the most off the very last ball bowled. and Mohammed Sharif Bult Jump ever done in Ire

possible but Watson was in no behaved as any of the nine (both Pakistan), Tomio Hosoda One must give credit where it mood for adventure or risks.

leams with which he had lourod, his horse ranch.

distinguishing оле (Japan), Muzaffer Selvi (Turkey) is due. Only a very thorough Bailey reached 62 in three evon allowing

Right now Flaherty is top of was to have been played off at culty in

Kowloon Cricket Club yesterday from the other. and David Tabak (isrnel) at body of statistical hikorians hours and 40 minutes with discipline and 2230 curfew immy class for horse sense.

was.postponed on account of the On that South African trip would look back 05 years, and seven fourD, In the next over posed on South Africa's young

London Express &ervios)

weaktier.

Alec's most vivid memory is So we must assume -that silscover that a hop was thrown Watson completed his first beam in Australia last Stephen Xavier will have plenty in instead of a step.

40.0 seconds.

of competition at the Asian,

Games next year. Pallyun Um

(Korea), Abdul Aziz. (Pakistan)

•

Many more

and

for the Bria

Ban

Century In Tast cricket by mer." sweeping Ring to long leg where Bennud just taled to He said the social side at the Interesting faciamako a catch. He had then

batted five hours and

not be overdone. "It is not over

porte International Athletics

10 tour was chocntiaï but it must

dorse

and Levy Pinto (India) head the can be gleaned from the Worial minutes, With 65 minutes loft ftand, "I dub as a poor show Aus- | Annual 1953 and the publication England were 212 for four, still

Wisden's. of 130 behind,

200 Maires Aslan list in 21.0 seconds.

Hongkong's

15, Indeed, the records are not Jncluded In the Annual as the Athletics.

is tour," added Mil-

tralia's display anderndling captain Maker at Woah Sheffield Twenty minutes later, with-before a caftical Yorkshire crowd Association's Recorder did not Fulvio Regli, H. Broman, N. D.

Mesars. Roberto L. Quercetani, out adding to his swo, Watson who crow their cricket. I feel was out, caught at slip off Ring, this famished Autopia's cricket think they were of any Interest McWhirter, D. 1. Potts and 11. lie had hit 10 fours in his prestige in Yorkshire.“. to anyone outside the Colony. lowever, our records boat Iran's

Vogel and their associates have great Innings, and with Bolloy are listed-le 10 of 17 done a magnificent job of figure- had put on 103 for the

10 of 17 collecting.

wicket. vents with one tic. Hanza of iran holds his national record in One may sometimes wonder the Long Jump at 23 seat 014 what these gentlemen, do besides Anch, which is the exact dis collecting athlotte statistics. tance of the best jump over One, we know, is a nitelear

corded by a Hongkong athlete, physicist and another Yu Kal-yor, in 1038,

Lecturer in Philosophy. :

It is disheartotini tó notó that

- shake-1973 AD Kaypilan record (at

orth

In Artolaide The Australian Board of Cricut Control Segre- tory. Mr When Horry Jeurpes, When Brown went fu 40 dented on Adelaide rowspandi minutes.comninod for play, with report that the Board would England's total 230 for Ave.

on minutes later Dalley lifted or a report on the four's

cokius from Pacalah to short third man, mak-manager, Mr George Daylee Ho ing it slx, men out for 246, soxt there had been no deaur- When Evans Joined Brown, aion upon dard" milj. "RECORDER""" "THERS 1-half an hour left.

tio

team'

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Barry APP Lely

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