1953-07-25 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1953.'

What Are Hongkong's Chances At The Asian Games?

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By “RECORDER”

The Council of the Hongkong Aateur Athletic Association met at Vistoria Recreation Club on Wednesday for little other purpose than to make an announcement that Hongkong athletes will be sent to the Asian Games,

A number of athletes were nominated for training, some rather surprising selections among them. This can be considered as primarily, a first list. To this list will be added other names when the new season starts,

Of the athleten nominated, the Prater number haven't the ghost of a chance-if their best performances to date are talen as a criterion-of reaching the

of naal

any event at - Asian Games.

They have been nominated breauer it is felt that they are o'shunily

capable of reaching onal status, Examples in the history of modern abound

lieties

52-second where Quarler Milers murprises them

elves by starting the new sea- -on in the 48-second class.

One example that comes readily to hand in that of Len $ກ 1,

finalists in one of the this year's AAA Championships at llome.

There are cases Innumerable too of little known athletes from far countric_who travelled to The last two Olympic Games ut London und Helsink and sud- discovered that, when confronted with the type of competition they had not ex-

enly

per enced at home, they pul rin much fas er

One such example Schan

́ence before..

class in the 100 Metres before the new reason is two or three months old,

Rafelgh

Leung, the HKAAA Chairman,

Mr and

the Blenkinsop, P 3. HKAAA Conch are both tremely keen on having Hong-

ON

ex-

of a

it

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Asian Games final. As for his Hop, Step and Jump, I think he could forget about that event for next season and concentrade on the Long Jump.

DECATHLON MEN

ame event,

the

that

THE LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE

TWO GOOD WINS AND ONE NEAR ONE FEATURED LAST WEEK'S MATCHES By "TOUCHER"

Two good wins and one excellent attempt at victory featured last Saturday's Lawn Bowls League matches.

In the First Division, Cralĝengower Cricket Club swooped down on Kowloon Bowling Green Club with a 5-0 vengeance, not only to atone for their first round defeat by the same margin by the Kowloon bowlers, but also to return into the running for the Championship.

reputed

scotte Was

coming an early 0-4 deflelt the, Craigenzower defeating went on to lead 7-4, 13-9 on the erolo by a wide margin, 16th head.

Lopes and his men fought back strongly to Almost draw even at 12-13 on the 17th head, only to see their opponents draw away of

the

4

Re-

In the Second Division, Rew grelo “A”, with only three more matches to go after today, aro asured of the Championship and the maly interest is whether they will be able to kævep their unbeaten record.

The mace for the Third Divi- slan, title continued in in- bensity among IRC, CCC and Recrelo during the week. •IRC's 5-0 win over PRC with the wook put them further ahead

Club.

the

words on my last week's com ments will not be out

place,

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PINZA WINS

Sir Victor Sassoon's Pinza, ridden by Sir. Gordon Richards, repeated his Derby victory over the Queen's colt, Aureole, ridden by W. H. Carr, in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on July 18.- Reuterphoto,

Inst week by a 4-1 margin, but |onod again I was wrong,

1

To the KBGC bowlers my pre- diction of their winning appecret Hice a hoodoo" every time, and this tale, therefore: 1 nede forecasta 4-1 defeat for the enight bring the opposite result. The Indians, who will be the guests of Talicoo, should experi- ence Bittle difficulty in collecting maximum points, but may have to watch out for Taldoo's latest secret weapon x akip C. Melen- HKFC's top-riding sinkt skipped 1:30 who had tho better

never by Forrow last week,

Recreio "B" v. FC KDC v. KBGC

Third Division

FC v. POC Recreio v. PRC HKERC v. USRC IRC v. CCC KCC v. HRFC

Brudbury's rink had almost a clear run over that of McKelvie to win comfortably by 26–14;

Rennie Rosselet had a harder task in overcoming R. B. Robertson's rink by 21-18. The The purpose in ruming three kane represented In the 400 | candidates for the Decathlon à s

score was deadlocked at 13-13 1o. tio with their on the 15th head. Four singles aguin to 16-13 by the end Op- very little Metres Relay. Our main

and one five on the next fivo position at the Games will be ability in this event-whielt none d

the 20th head. A last attempt heads, successive

however, ond Palristan. Our or them has tried-and more to c

on the last head saw them able Ind

paved the way to the Cralgengo- with.

Inet printers last season were faster do

the

to collect only two shots. wer rink's 21-10 victory, than there of any other Asan Decathlon standard at the Asian

The best game of this match netded two

Indian Recreation Club, who poultry as a team.

Games will not be high.

schoolboy bowlers in It Sevier cun match India's

The George Saunders, Ng Was the clash between the two R. Omar and Q. Adam, dropped highest Operate score of Patdistan's Sheung-kwai and Lau Kum-yit, Afarshall and 30c mdelt. The rock,

Colony

Alec skips, and Plato

two valuable points to Kowloon Lavy

Aziz Abditi

the anchor leg, could they brush up on their

while League-loading deadlocked, iwice the possibility exists of Hong-weaker

events, would stand

at 8-9 on the 10th head and Recreio maintained their five of Craigengewer who dropped a quad- kong getting away with a

every

prise again at 17-17 on the 18th head, with a 6-0 win over Police chance of being surprise

point lead over Craigcngowerpoint to Hongkong Football ruple Gold Medal. Xavier has winters. One or two good all- The 21st head was played

IRC still have acven more yet to experience good com-

matches to go after today.. Crai- rounders from the Hongkong with Marshall's rink enjoying a Recreation Club. petition and a inodern track and Chinese

Unit are likely 20-10 lead. A two by Landolt's With only five more matches

gangower Ex and Reencio six. ho s

two-tenths only

to be no later for the rink on the last head enabled to go after this afternoon's It looks as if the deciding match second slower than these two

them

will be that between IRC and to edge out their op-games, Recrolo still hold a com- an bor men and move consistent.

manding Saunders, In particular, has a ponents by 21-20.

position towards CCC this afternoon, Quite a few middle distance sound potential paints fetal/ to

Division First

Craigongower will-have 10 The other good win of the winning have been nominated

the runners

although start with in the two jumps and week was that of Hongkong Championship,

win at least by a 4-1 margin to shave and they will have to

the Shot Pul. He has the build to Cricket Club who repeated their chances of Craigengower or MC

remain in the running for the vlous best performances if they several stconds off their pro-

A 4-1 win for become a good Javelin and Dis first round performance by. winning it are now more within Championship, thrower. He should be able to surprisingly defeating Recreio the realm of possibility.

IRC practically assures them of are to go to Manila.

itia title. at a pace"" again in their over the hurdits at However

Recreio's remaining five__op Second Uio potentialities of, to over the

IN REPLY tees leisurely than that of Division match.. not

ponents are HKFC, KCC, CCC, Loc

Shu-cheng,

Before reviewing this week- Leung Kain-po

Largely responsible for their Taikoo and Kowloon Dock and and Frank Waller are consider some of the other competitors in At

end's matches, I feel that a few He ran the 400 Metres for the victory was the line performance with the exception of the CCC able und, if they get into the the Decathlon at Manlia. run

2:02 class for 800 Metres in arst time last season

of A Dixon, K. M. Almao, E. match-they should be able to Hongkong

without Wallworth and B. R. Davies average four points in the other November by

A correspondent has in the would be logical to assume that getting completely out of breath, whose 23-14 win over A.P. Ricel games.

correspondence column strongly they would be in the 1:57 class, but, of course, the prospect of Pereiro,

taken exception to the words ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE will further training by the die 1,500 Mercs to love Gutierrez and N.A. Belirto gave

state of their own thing else off may not appeal to them the two points on the time the Asian Gamba

Cralgengower will still have These words were, as seen in

ich I used last week. along-that is, in 1:57 class on

George,

has

aggregate. the- Ng Sheung-kwal

to face HKFC, Talkoo, Re-

tho QUITE A SCAREĮ a good track against good com-

later fair

creio, Kowloon Dock and IRC.

paragraphs, petition. If so, they would be added ability of being

The hitherto unbeaten Second In order to

used to criticise the condition of overtake Recrclo worth sending to Manila for the sprinter and 400 Metres runner

Division Recreio "A" team they will have to beat them 5-0 the FRC green but rather as a good game should bo See CAN RUIN experience of racing in good and could develop good class-

compliment to their bowlers in between received quite scare from in the return match Decathlon class.

by

standards-}}}

and YOUR WORKI without a perfect Filipino Club. that even SECOND ON THE LIST the Hurdles and Long Jump. Filipino Club and although they inc by at least a 4-1 margad, green they had been able to`pro- performance last week, I won't] When your eyes acho, work suffers.

came out successful out of the in addition to averaging four yin holds second place on the come good

Distance runner Chan King-In the latter event he may be-

It fray,

not was

without a enough

points in the

duce bowlers who could hand be surprised if the Filipinos To soothe and strengthen them, bathe to ro

other three

Recreo their first defeat of the His castinity.

It seems almost

with eyes regularly with Optrex four points take back matches.

an to the longkang's second string.

season, Priority list for a trip

Lopes' rink,

Eye Lotion. It washes away who until impossible' task.

them, Ile looks good throwing is also good by Dether were the only undefeated Asian Games.

It was also a sort of exhorta- Indian Recreation

Club's tion to

Although last in the League dust, relieves eye muscles for the thal on his form

to other-bowlers in the table, cainion standards.

all the three divisions hope of winning the Champ-

the Lau Kam-yu is good in the rink in not the type

Hongkong Cricket makes eyes sparkle! Colony. of the League, met last season and

with their unship is almost as faded

who are

are not blessed with Club team have proved them-Doctors recommend it. of athlete to rest on his laurels. combination of Shot,

perfect greens not to be dis-selves to be the glant-kilters in We are very likely to see him Javelin and Pole Vault. He will first reverse when they lost to that of Craigengower.

by couraged that fact. L.A. Gutierrez, C.A.3. Pereira,

On the contrary, the IRC green be able to pull off the biggest the Second Division. Will they has Besa and Dr. V. Allenza by 13-16. fettle in this game. After over-

is due to the previous pensonhusty sme upset, of the season by defeating Allenza's men

Just only relaid and great credit the

season when it was Recreio "A" today? I'll leave answer to the HKCC their Lawn

Bowls

bowlers. Committee for the improvement.

The

Division Third

will That it still has not come up provide the feature game of the yet to the standard of the best week with the clash between greens in the Colony is evidenced the two top contenders for the by the fact that it has not been title, IRC and CCC. In the first Included as one of the venues

IRC boat Craigen the

Open Championship

gower on the latter's green by 4-1, but only by six shots on the aggregate. It should be a very close game this afternoon with either side capable of winning by a-4-1'margin."

Sinch Dhanoa. Indian 800

retres

Champion, who ran 2.0 for the 800 Metres Het inkl. He had never

han 1:55.8 for the dis- Another example is that of

White Duncan

of Ceylon, er-ap the 400 Metres at the Loniton Olymple

He was known as her an average low hurdler with a time of 53.0 seconds !

lie was also known # be approaching the

veteran sluge and was not considered very likely to improve,

While surprised the athletic world

at London by running

SECOAS

10 Roy Cochran in 51.

IMPORTANT FACTORS

year, a Taiwan runner

tracks.

on our

the

Comc

of

DS

Discus

Mario

Pereira, J. M.

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and beat

run the 10,000 Metres in under 35 minut

collect four points minutes before November.

As

at the

inches--a

his hurdling have to develop and pick up speed in the runs. in any case, sprint practice

was

an

Asian

to

were in

fine

29

in

They will have not only to

each

KCC, CCC, but also to rely on their remaining matches against PRC (twice). KBGC, HKFC,

SKIPS' TABLES

FIRST DIVISION

gomes.

of

P.

W. D. L. F. A. U. D. Pts,

J. S. Landolt (CCC) J.-A. Luz (Ree)

10

B 0 1 221 174 47

J. F. V. Ribeira (Rec)

10

8. 1 1 248 150 02

10

6--2-2-220-150-00-

R. S. Gouring (KDC)

10

C. R. Rosselet (CCC)

of A. M. Omar (Inc)

E.

Games final-but his next best European paresented at the R. B. Robertson (KBGC)

effort with the discus is short of

feet.

110

med Tan Eng-log won the Philippines Championship at 400 Metres in a surprisingly fast 48.0 accorals. He had run 31 seconds for the distance in Taiwan, but er Chan Wal-chuen looks good will aid him considerably in his

performances go, throw confronted with the experience

for No. 3

place on of running on a modern cinder

the priority throwing. track that at Manila's

list, also we must emphasise Rizal

THE QUESTION Memorial Stadium where

moment. He is a pos- The question remains that Asian Games will be held-he sible finalist in all three throw-

ing found that he could run nearly | 18 events the Shot,

Discus apparently there is Javelin and there 14 seconds faster and that and

are Games ruling that competitors without any real opposition.

some who funcy his potentiall-ust be Asians. It remains

be seen whether the interpreta- Nearly all the Taiwan athletes the's in the Hammer Throw, an

tion of Asian in this rule actual- who competed at Manlin last event which he bas still to try

ly suggests that his hand at,

competitors year were considerably faster

must be of Aslan parentage. than they were on any Talwan former, and is just as likely to He is an inconsistent per

At the last Asian Games New Delhi, at Icast two com throw the Javelin-130 feet as -It-is-quite-logical-to-assUINC

He that Hongkong's athletes

170,

haldy the Colony pelitors of European parentage

Singapore and, similarly intproved

on Discus Throw record at 128 feet represented conditions

bellave. one of the Indonesian distance almost should be foster than they are

also with tracks

certain of a place in the Asian competitors wicked

J. E, Noronha (Ree) bends, uneven surfaces and oc-

W. M. McCall (KDC) India was esional potholes or slithery, badly drained patches that put

Olympic Games in London by J. McKelvie (KBGC) off his stride.

However, Wai-chuen is al-

at least one English polles A, R. Kitchell (IRC) runner off

Madar (KCC) More important than that, must completely uncoached and officer and Ceylon bus athletes F, O. Madar

Caucasian by race if A. E. Pearson (KDC) who are Duncan could gain a considerable num- while Sohan Singh,

ber of While and Tan Eng-tong were

feet In any of the throw- Aslan by nationality.

A. K. Minu (IRC) mature athletes, most of Hong- technique. He did not have too large

ing events

The Israeli team will be with improved

G. C. Nouman (KBGC) mixture of athictes of B. W. Bradbury (CCC) Long's nominees for the Games good a past season also for the boil Hebrew and European

and schoolgirls e schoolbo with their peak days still well for most

reason that he was held back blood, some of them probably

ahend of them.

the latter part of it more European than Semitic. with a sprained ankle.

The meaning of the

term-

A. A. Lopes (Rec. "A") Chang Yat-hung is likelier to Asian in the rule, us far as I earn a berth for himself on the Hongkong trom 49, a sprinter of the country competing and 15 H. A. Ozerlo (Roc. "B")

can see it; refers to citizenship. A. Daneberg (Rec. "A")

is N. A. Delirao (Rec. "D") than as a hurdler. In any case, aime

particularly st

of excluding if he goes he will compete in both personnel of the armed forces of J. J. Basto (Rec. "B"

A. F. events. His hurdling did not several European countries (plus C. A. Coelho (PC)

Gomes (Rec. "")" improve last season and he got Fijiang and East Africans) who over the barrier into the bad habit of stumbling form a larg

a large part of the athletle co

C. Colfoward (KCC)

(KDC) population of Southeast Asia J. A. Tibble (KCC) of the new athletic season.

rather than hurdling over them. He would, and Japan.

A. M.

M. Rumjahn (IRC) One has only to look back to

In my opinion, do well to tele tha Three Hs as proof of that, up the top. Step and Jump-an

1. S. Silva (FC) Their improvement in season was nothing short of Colony record-holder-again.

event at which he was once the

phenomenal.

To King-chan was out for Europeans and North Africans.

THE CHANCES Stephen Xavier is, of course, Hongkong's best bet for a place in the first three in the Asian Games. That is, he is the best bet at the moment, Anyone of, half-a-dozen other athletes may suddenly develop beyond al expectation in the early months

Two of them-Rita Hall and most of the latter part of Deborah Hurlbattare leaving season with Hongkong before the end ねず

the year, The third, Jennifer Hart, may not be eligible.

eimed

In the last list of Ind

Indo-China

7 0 3 210 187 ·32

13 223 185 38

6 0 1 152 104

104 48

505 241 182 50 AAA TA 130 21 50 3 170 139 31

025I 120

50

4.170 175 4-170 175 4 186 10 * 186 188

404 183 145 4 0 5 190 178

& 0 3.145 135

4 0 3 140 140

4

06.197 200

SECOND DIVISION

record-holders issued, for exam J. Crighton (KBGC) ple, there was only one Asian, no opposed to quite a

fow

10

A

240 150

8 0 1 223 141 8 0 3 212 198 104

7 0 3 226

41

704 220 220

0 1 4 234 222

6 0 3 201 152

5 0 3 164 150

4 0 3 100 133

4 0 4 105 140

4 0.2 118 118

4. 0 5 175 178

0 4 147 167

THIRD DIVISION

10

4 0.2.275 100 109

10

8 0.2 229 140 83

the In any case, the HKAAA has 0. R. Sadick,IRC) pulled hamstring yet to be notified of this part- S. Lenard (CCC) and it is problematical whether cular Asian clause and the case D. L. Edwards (USRC) he will recover from that may you be

the presented to umelently to go into intensive organisers of the Games that AA. dos Remedios (Ree)

(and Te is longkong

India,

Ceylon

citizena

A.

TRY

Lam Kak-lan-last season ng training by September.

C. W. Iam (KCC) Singapore, in my

Y. Adal (IRC) opinion. overtrainct. For

Indonesia, M. Y. Ad a growing girl, she was taking and looks good for 23.

near 22 feet In the Long Jump Pakistan and Vietnam) have Guterres (Res) her training passions too

A. Rozario (Rec) of A seriously. Lynn Ramsay, our His hitch-kick action is near many bona fide

A. R. Razack (IRC) other hope in the women's perfect and I should any that European blood.

R. (CCC) Even Iran has n national A. W. Hircock. sprint department, la a natural what he needs most of all to-

(POC) runner who... should Improve wards becoming 23-footer is a record-holder in the Javelin V. A. Neves (FC) without even trying. Joyce weight training course to develop Throw called Youra Abdoulin. A. Steven (USRC), Cotton is only beginning to dis- his abdominal muscles.

That may be an Iranian name, | G. 1. Shaw (POC) and cover her potentialitica

Even a performance short of 23 but It is also a typically J. H. Xavier (CCC) the 13-second feet will easily place him in the Russian one.

S. Ramchand (KCC) may run into

POP

Root of the trouble

863 240 205.

# 0 3 217 180

7 0 3 202 103

6 0 2 210 117 102

60 2160

03

0 0 3 20R 141

# 0 1 162 110

3 104 177

8.0 3-100 10

3 182 177

6 0 3 188

6

0.5 227 242

-1 4 182 158

0 1.156 .00

0 4 105 171

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THIS AFTERNOON Interest in the First Division ay games this afternoon will be centred in the two matches-in which Recreio and IRC will be playing. Craigongower, the other contender for the Chem-

das drawn a bye,

8/2

Sarroca

10 Pasien will be at home to the i

unpredictable Kowloon Bowling Green Club squad, who lost to Craigengormer by 1-0 last week. I predicted that they would have the better of Craigengower

of

In the second division a very

Recreio "B"

After their fine

encounter

TODAY'S GAMES First Division

Talkoo v. IRC HKFC v. KCC- PRC v. KDC

Recreio v. KBGC

Second Division KCC v. IRC-

HKCC v. Recreio "A"

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