1953-07-06 — Page 7

One Major Upset In First Round Of The Open Triples

By "TOUCHER”

and W. C.

One major upset was recorded in yesterday's first round games of the Colony Open Triples Lawn Bowls Championship when R. Basa, V. N. Atienza Ogley oliminated the highly favoured 19-12.

Luz brothers by

The winners were in exceptionally good form, and after taking a 5-0 lead after the first four heads led all the way to the end of the game.

R. Basa, one of the Colony's

lending skips

before the war,

who played as tend for the

winners yesterday,

on the jack

was deadly

with his "delicate

touch" deliveries,

while V.N.

Atienza was always there when nee-led.

In especially

was

brilliant Form

the winning skip, W. C.

Ogley, who could

0111

do nothing In resting wrong whether opposing shot or in drawing for the shot.

CLOSEST MATCH

The clases!

com-

"House Full"

Notices At

Carnoustie

Carnoustie, Scotland,

July 5.

On the eve of the 82nd British Open Golf Cham- | pionship, the "house full" this notices

upin

stone built township which

are

match, yesterday was provided by the clash of tho two Craigengower

und granite binations skipped by J. S. Landolt and C. R. Rosselet. Scottish

Landolt's three

managed

to claims to have taught the!

scrape home rather luckily by game to the rest of thei 12-10, after being led 3-10 at work. the end of the 11th hood.

Championship fever With the opposition lying only reached its peak until a Scot- one shot on the 12th head, C. R. ems to have crowded into this seaboard spod sed the Rosselct was a little unfortunate

of Dundee when in attempting to promote neighbouring teven his own stond shot he deffected and Arbroath. Inway to concede a count of two.

This was the turning point, as G. Madar, F. Lee and Joe Landolt kept on scoring for the next six successive heads of the game,

A hot G-4 favourite for the title Ben Hogan, the Unitel States Open title holder. who will be playing his dist "Open." He is the golfer whom most of the 170 competitors feer.

But today Hogan Upped the Argentine star, Roberto de Vicenzo, as the likely winner. Apart from Hogan naming hin- not al- self, the cholec was

Vicenzo together unexpected.

second and third in

has licen

On the 16th head with the score at 9-10, Landoll with a count of four against aim wicked in for the first shot and followed this up with a two and a single. The gamest night put up yes- terday was perhaps that of the Kitchell brothers who ultimately went down to W. Chambers, S. Telsford and A. G. Coles by 10-Britain. 13.

The Kitchells were 4-15 town at the end of the 15th head, but recovered with a brilliant speil on the next two heads by scoring a Ave and a four,

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1953. KURT NIELSEN IN ACTION

Kurt Nielsen (Denmark) In play during his vital match against the Austra- lian "seed", Ken Rosewall, at Wimbledon.

to do 50,

Nielsen reached the final, the first Scandinavian ever Vic Seixas, Central Press Photo,

losing to

GOLF

THE BRITISH OPEN

CHAMPIONSHIP AGAIN

BECOMES A WORLD EVENT

By JAMES GOODFELLOW

London.

★★★ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★ ★

DAVID LEWIN Meets

•

A Woman Who Is No Beauty

-And Glad Of It

New York.

"New York, New York is a wonderful town; The Bronx is up and the Battery's down.... ND Broadway, the most boosted street in the world, is 20 miles long-although it is the mile around Times Square, the local Piccadilly, that really counts. The neon signs stab at the eye and make a blaze like Blackpool; and, like Blackpool again (but not Piccadilly), slap in the middle of Times Square is an amusement nrcade with the crack crack of a rifle range.

Around Broadway the women make the

news.

The stars of the town

аго

Shirley Booth,

Beatrice Lille, Rosalind Russell,

lunch with

and

Shirley

a

("Little Sheba") Booth, and she comes with charlot-wheel hat and 2 walking cane.

Miss Booth is 43 years old, und would never stand against Marilyn Alenroc

glamour

competition. But this year she has

collected

both the cinema and theatre Oscar

awards.

BIHIRLEY BOOTH

-I'm happier plain...

She says:-

"I'd be uncomfortable playing

glamorous woman. I'm happler

Д

plain. In a plain woman me people try hard to something else. When they a beautiful

offender will be liable to !rest."

PREMIERE

ar-

THE LATEST Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, "Me

and Jullet, had b New York premiere with a Lonton curtain time (7.30 p.m. instead of the usual 0.40 p.m.); but I grateful-

missed ly

the Lypical End fashion parude by nighters more intent on show- than on Ing off their clothes seeing the show. Here most people don't bother with dress clothes.

some

musical, stuffy Mar.

"Me and Juliet" is an attrac tive, gay, back-stage but it provokes comments, First-nighter lene Dietrich talks about Rod- gers and Hammerstein, and sighs: "Even the tallest trees do not always scrape the sky....' WONDERFUL

THE TALK

every night mast remark- able hit Broadway

is of the

has

scen recently-the hit made by Rosalind Buc}} (who cannot sing or dance) in a new musi-

Wonderful

Town" (in which he has to do both),

Miss Russell who in

Alme

cal

seems

being West End theatre managers who usually plays a career woman

behind

that u desk ko dare to extort ud. for a pro- tailored to her is kicking her And gramme which is no more then

see a leaflet. In New York the long legs to beat Ethel Merman

or Mary Marlin. woman they are programmes-30 pages, with full

She first got to know "Won- always seeking the daw,

stories aboul the cast

derful Town" when sho made it one for each cus=

as a straight him. "My Sister Eileen," in 1942.

Now music and Wontes have been added, and Rosalind Rus-

I asked Shirley Booth about free and her acting career. She smiled tomer,

decided and said: "I

to act when I was four-but my pro-

fessional start was delayed for

A.R.P.

are

another eight years. Then ODD BOUNDING notes in the programmes here: "In ing. I'm practically iterate,"

ett school. So apart from act

the event of an air-raid remain

The Open Golf Championship at Carnoustie (Angus), beginning today has again become a world event, with 36 overseas entrants. Seven- teen players, including Ben Hogan, Lloyd Mangrum, Gene Sarazen, and Johnny Bulla, have come from the United States; six from France; four from South America; and three from Australia.

This is Hogan's first attempt to win the title here. He has been told that he HAVE been watching the match to check cast names or

►

Gd. STING

( your seats....."

WARNING: Don't strike a

I

shows here and

scene changes in a am

the

programme: coming home furious with the Says

theatre.

"The

will not go down in the records as a great golfer until he has captured it.

And such is his belief in himself that he expects to win on the first occasion. Hogan, who recently won the Stranahan once told me that are not included among the 37 Doctors Discuss 'Pep Treatments,' Say: United States Open Golf lille for his golfing ambition was to be amateurs in the list. the fourth time, has put in two able to stand on the first tee, as An oficial suggested that weeks' special practice, feeling Locke did al Troon, favourite two likely reasons for the small

that the small ball and the firmer

the

for the title.

at

two previous "cracks" nt the title, and his long hitting game is likely to bring him to the pionship course, the longest in greens are a challenge. fore on the 7200-yard cham-

amateur entry were finances and Peter Thomson, 22, former accommodation. Preparation for him is

Champion, who lost) Australian

"These men have just had Other golfers fancled to do

part most important

of the by Locke

by a single shot at Royal Lything their Amateur Championship and South

event.

year, will be competing many of them well are Bobby

played in the He is the machine man the life, to

of golf. He strikes shot after with Ossie Pickworth.

Home * internationals African_holder of

shot precisely.

The entry is small, 190, com- Killarney," he said. whom Vicenzo was runner up

Says Bobby Locke, who ispared with 275 last year.

Carnoustic is 400 miles from last year: Britain's Harry Weet- man and Dal Rees and

Britain's seaking his fourth Champion-

first Ave players London. Thomson of Austraila,

have no named for the Walker Cup match

—(London Expres Service) The field divides on Monday ship. "Hogan should

Championship course"row

of the Burnside course 0,398 yards for the first qualify-

The most amazing thing about Ing round.

Hogan ("the man with ice water A maximum of 100 will in his veins") is his stirring and forward

Winning skip Coles had to draw in

on the last over the the shot head to win the match for hly and side by 10-13.

Malayans'

Peter

the 72-hole

trouble at Carnoustic. He la master of every golf shot and can master all conditions."

Trip Championship proper on Wed dramatic comeback after a near

To Hongkong

Delayed

Singapore, July 6. The grounding at Calcutta of the ship Sangoli has upset the Itinerary of 100 undergraduates of the University of Malaya, an a trip to Hongkong to play a series of competitive against the Hongkong University. The next ship due to rail, the Tiwangi, is scheduled to leave

games

nesday with the qualifying scores expunged. The held wi: be further reduced by half after Thursday for the final two rounds on Friday-Reuter,

International

Soccer

Stockholm, July 5. Hungary beat Sweden by four goals to two in an international an July 24, but if the local soccer match here today. undergrads sall on her some The teams were level at one- medical students may not be able all at half time.—Reuter,

return in time for their examinations.

to

*

Buenos Aires, July 5.

beat Spain by one Argenting The President of the Universily Athletic Union, R. S. McCoy, said goal to nil in their soccer inter- the altuntion was now fluid and national here today.

The winning goal came in the a cable had been sent to Hong- kong University-United Press. second half-Reuter.

LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE

STANDINGS

The following are the standings in the three divisions of the Lawn Bowls League after Saturday's matches:

Recrelo

KBGC

CCC

IRC

KDC

KCC

HKFC

PRC

Taikoo

FIRST DIVISION

לון

F

111188852

W

0 677

401 104

3 528

429

400

453

420

393

492' 405

415

422

6 304

554

1 352

422

0 344

503

Recreio "A"

Recreio "B" KCC

SECOND DIVISION

KBGC

FC

IKC

KDC

HKCC

IRC Recreio

ссс USRC.

KCC POC

HKFC ÎNCERC

0 500 304

100

2 531 534

382

474

fatal motor accident in 1910,

When he was captain of the Ryder Cup team at Gouton in that year he could only wolk a few hundred yardson to the

course.

Gene Sarazen, who says Hogan is the greatest champion in com- petitive golf, has written:

"Hogan is the most merciless |

of all the modern golfers." His temperament may derive from the rough anguishing years of his childhood or the hostility

he he sensed encountered as

determined young and over; circuit chaser."

Hogan is trying to emulate the feat of Sarazen and Bobby Jones in winning the Open Championships of America and Great Britain in the same year. GOLF MACHINE

Car Jaguar

Le "Little

Endurance

Wins Mans" Race

Rheims, July 5.

Stirling Moss and Peter Whitehend, two of Britain's outstanding racing motorists, drove & Jaguar car to vic- tory in the 12-hour endurance race known as the "Little Le Mans" here today.

DOPE IN SPORT

'ALL RIGHT IF

IT IS SAFE

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

Should the doping of athletes to boost their speed and endurance be allowed? This question brought doctors into conflict at a meeling of the British Associa. tion of Sport and Medicine in London recently.

prowess. The British pair covered the 2,086.356 kilometres in the non-stop drive at an average of 169.696 per hour,

bis

lives

soine

1.

3. It safe

dis covered they should not be kept secret but should be made avail-

able to everyone.

Sald Sir Adolphe Abrahams: "Nobody has stated that it was

sell told me: "I'm noisily and musically inclined, so I decided to try it on the stage.

"Maybe I gargle rather than sing, and some people joke that my voice is vile rather than bass; but have a wonderful time,"

I asked her where all the energy came from.

She chuckled and said: "I'm not 28 any more" (she is 45) "but I'm not tired and I'm not corrying any weight." (She tr &at. lb. and 5 ft. 61⁄4 ins. tall) "I've been doing this scrt of thing for years at parties only now I'm paid for

it.

ENCORE

BRITAIN'S Beatrice Lille is a Broadway star with "An Evening With Bea Lillie.” It is a uno-woman show of her collected works from the post

20

years

She winks wickedly and says: "I have done it all before — T hardly have to rehearse. But although I'm coming home this summer, I don't tank I'll try it in London for another year out

When Bea Lille moves

by

of her theatre, the film people will take It over to show "Jullus Caesar."

Miss Lille looks around her Sir Adolphe Abrahams, medical officer to the British

with dressing-room, decorated Olympic team, opened the meeting by announcing that a canvases she has painted her "high official of the athletic world" had written celf, and muses: "Should I let Brutus, do you think? I'd prefer to give expressing grave alarm that doping was to be discussed. my dressing-room to

Several doctors disclosed that! Any dope such as cort-it to Tu." He is my favourite."

cortisone, which could be new gland-extracts like

harmful

I NOTE..... sore-the anti-rheumatism drug to a healthy athlete should be

BROADWAY night: increase athletic barred. - might

Dancer Cyd Charisso, Arm 2. No

with husband dennition of walking along They might make the four- kilometres

minute mile possible by releas- what constitutes a dope la pos- Tony Martin, in new-style open shoes, which are made in one ing the extra. reserves of sible.

piece with her stockings...... energy which men can normally Jaguars, which

ALL the juke boxes dopes are

playing Arst tools

Geoff Duke of Britain cet up a

muster only when their second and fourth places in new lap record of 4 mins.” 41

the .are threatened. the Le Mans 24-hour Grand secondly, or 180.096 kcmetres 20 Prix last month, wore first and hour, before ho retired on fourth in today's event.

Norton with engine trouble. in Another US golf machine is

A Talbot driven

by the the 14th lap after having led Lloyd Mangrum, here also with.

of Louis Roster noarly all the way. and the last Ryder Cup team-who is French team

Yves

Giraud-Cabantous, Fergus Anderson (Britain) winning many of the big money was second and a Cunningham, won the 350 cc race on a Guzzi, prizes this year.

This is his description, given with the American pair, Briggs covering the 150.8 kilometres in

Cunningham by a United States golf writer: Johnston driving, was third..

Sherwood 56 minutes 1 sond at an average speet of 100.367 Dametres an "At 38, with razor-blade eyes

The Jaguar in fourth place hour. Ray Amm of Rhodesia, dark brown hair with a

was driven by Sir Jarnes Scott who was third to Anderson, broke touch of red in it, Mangrum handsome to most men and all Douglas and Ninian Sanderson the Top record with a circuit of

of Eritain.

4 minutes di secondie, or 170,577 appearance is

The French pair

covered kilometres an hour-Reuter. usually likened, in a weary

idiomotres

AUSTRALIAN KILLED to a Mississippi river-boat 2,002.800

average of 106.850

Francorchamps, Belgium, an hour, and the

July 5. 1,970 kifametres at an aveTULO The Australian motor cyclist, of 104.220 k.p.h.

Ernest Ring, died on his way to Only half the 30 starters hospital today after crashing finished the race, held over a into a dike during the 300CC clrcult of 7.197

race of the Belgian Grand Prix.

at A spokesman

Micimedy Hospital sald Ring died before he arrived at the hospital where he was rushed in an ambulance,

United Press,

and

women.

Looks

His

This is by way of saying he

cunning, logical

and lucky-which he is and cold, suave and unapproachable ➡ Pts, which he is not.” D

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THE RIS

4 400

5 431 505

4 425 413

4 382 437

481

4 204 414

THIRD DIVISION:

-0593 397 100

1 503 450.143

2 023.403

6500 630

100

.24 877.30 452 402

5-401 400

06471%, $48

0 449-007

8 348 585

0

? 77

0

4 0

9.50

Johnny Bulla has made six Reuter. 20attempts to win the title that 24% have probably cost him around 20% £1,250.

mean

and

ot on kilometros Americans

kilometres.-

FRANCORCHAMPS

Francorchamps, Belgium,

July 5. When I asked him what it

Alfredo Milani of Italy won to him if he won, would

B event at the replied that

the prestige the 500 e.c. would probably bring him from motor

Prix hero today on a Gilera.

Milani's U.S.

he

cycling

Grand

"HAWTHORN WINS

Rems, France. July 5. Great Britain's Mike How- thorn, driving a Ferrari, won the time for the 211- Crand Prix of Reins nulemobile amateurs, Harvie Word and kilometre course was one hour race here today with Juart

£8,000 to £10,000.

Two of the leading

Frank Stranahan, former British 11 minutes 47 seconds, with an Manuel Fangio of Argentina 34% Amateur Champlons, are in the average speed of 177.032 kilo-cost in a Maserati-United

draw.

Press

30

17

101/2

16

14

14

130

SPORTING SAM

metres an hour.

By Reg, Wootton

oxygen

"Where-is-Your-Heart" theme from "Moulin Rouge".. Nas Karson, who used to pro- duce the Empire shows in Lon- don, planning to bring a musl- cal to the West End this year and saying: "The big thing now why is colour radio-to knit by"....

tu, Bruto," were Caesar's dying words as Brutus stabbed him,

London Express Service)

'SECRET DRINK' There were hints that athletes, mainly foreign, are already using medicines which

unsporting to use could be classed as dopes.

German rowing crews are the ascent of Everest so using a stimulant, which is for bar o harmless 'dope, if such bidden for use on horses by the a thing_exists?" Jockey Club.

-(London Express Service)

Dr A. McEldowney said that one highly successful sculler always drinks a secret liquid immediately before a race and in carefully drops the bottle the river.

The case of a Rugby scrum- half whose speed was doubled been after his anxiety had treated with

tablets sleeping was discussed.

athletes American Olympic are now given sleeping pills as a routine measure to ensure good night's rest before

a

their

finally

events, it was disclosed,

SAFETY THREE Most of the doctors agreed on three main points:--

ed

WORLD RECORD CLAIMED

Berlin, July 5,

An East Gorman team clock- 1. min. 30.5 Beconds in Cracow, Poland, to break the

the women's world record for four. times 200 Metres Relay, according to the East German news agency, ADN.

The official world record of

min.* 30.7 seconds, is held jointly

by Southern Counties Women's Athletic Association (Britain) "team and a. Soviet

Russian national team,

or

wos

The East German team Anneliese Claussner, Ulla Jure witz, Christa Belinger and Alice Karger. They were" compating In the Polish Studenta Athlete Championships.--Reuter.

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