1953-08-10 — Page 7

THE FOURTH TEST MATCH

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1953:

The stumps fy and Tom Gravency is bowled by Ray Lindwall during the Fourth Test Match at Leeds between Eng land and Australia,—Central Press Photo,"

Peter

May Makes

Strong

Bid For Test Berth

London, Aug. 8.

On the eve of the choosing of England's team for the fifth and final Test match, Peter May put forward the strong est of claims for reinclusion with a chance- less 159 for Surrey.

It was his highest score, his fifth century of the season and followed recent good totula besides being the buckbone of Surrey's total in their vítal Championship game with Middlesex, the present leaders in the table.

hit one six

In a stay of four hours, May better. as Horner had been! At Bradford: Warwickshire and 17 fours, He missed early in his innings, and 377 for Ave declared (Horner dominated EL second wicket other flelding lapses proved | 115, Gardner 83, Thompson 60, sland of 145 with Fletcher and costly for a county which has Dollery not out 50), versus when he was taken at 230 for wan the championship so many Yorkshire. three, a huge Surrey total see- times but is now heading for ed likely.

bottom place.

Jack

At Loughborough: shire 288 (Palmer 57, Munden 53). two.

Leicester- 59, Jackson Kent 18 for

Afterwards,

Young

Essex, with their usual bright however gol busy. Taking three batting, renched 296 for four at wickets for only 11 runs, this tour but a collapse set in after- At Nottingham: Hampshire spin bowler reached his 180 vic-wards and their fast four wice 308 for nine (Edgar 91, Gray tims

hekels fell for 46 runs. fursefall 132) versus Nottinghamshire. for the season; and finished with four for 36, while played another delightful cen- At Worcester: Worcestershire Denis Compton's

(Kenyon "Chinamen" tury and had a good partner in 340

55, Richardson him three for 85, Rave

and Trevor Bailey, saviour of Eng-129, Dews 03) Glamorgan 20 Surrey were out for one less land in two Tests by dugged- for one.-Reuter. than 300. The Middlesex open-ness, who hit freely while help- pair survived an anxious ing Horsfall in a century stand. half hour.

ing

A brilliant display of batting by Peter Richardson who hit 65 not

out of 10 in 80 minutes

Most of the countries enjoying first knock passed the 300 mark, the only exception being Surrey, after lunch, featured Worcester Leicestershire (298) and Derbyshire's innings against Glamor- shire (151).

igan. He had opened the innings bat was rather subdued in two the hours before the first interval'

Gloucestershire played the bowling with Crapp some scoring one of the quickest fifties of the day, after Emmett Graveney had tired the rather limited attack.

Bowlers dominated Derbyshire Northampton game In which 18 wickets fell, Sussex

Tyson. regarded by people as the fatest bowler England, accomplished his best

performance since qualifying for championship matches à month ogo, when he took four Derby- shire wickets for 30 In'a total of 160,

and

A

FEAST OF RUNS

Manchester, Aug: 0. A thrilling exhibition of big hitting by Doug Ring and Alon Davidson redeemed Another

feeble Australian performance against spin bowling, at Old Trafford today when they helped the total to 372 after seven wickets had fallen for 187.

Lancashire. replied with 34 without leas in 40 minutes before the close.

6,500-Mile Motor Trial To Be Staged Soon In Australia

By JEFFREY SMITH

Melbourne.

A 6,500-mile motor trial through some of the roughest, toughest country in the world, is soon to be staged in Australia.

Organisers claim that this trial will make the Monte Carlo Rally seem like,

a pleasure Jaunt,

Latest inodels. especially Im- | They will push on over moun- time he gets home after the parted from Britain, the Con- toin ronds, through forest trial. tinent of Europe and America | country, over dry, seemingly- An all-woman....leam led by will be among the

100 corn endless desert plnlus, take the Miss Lois Rowe, of Sydney, will competing in this, the world's punishment of corrugations, use 0 Sunbeam-Talbot. longest and most difficult re- potholes and big gibbers, endure Some of the most enthusiastic Hability test for stock cors

all types of weather searing entrants are now driving the tropical bent, biting chilling cold, 6,600-mile route round Australia this rain and fog and fight their ma

making surveys. They hope that have way through sand, mud and knowledge of the ronds will

to swirling dust.

give them an advantage when the trial begins.

Cars which complete marathon

course will covered a distance equal one quarter of that around earth,

the

the long. un-

England's Team Ha's cast coast to Townsville in inhabited stretches in the Aus-

For The Final Test

London, Aug. 9. England's team for the Afth and final Test match arsiori Australia, starting at the

Ovni Kennington next Saturday,

15, August will be chosen from the following twelve players:

Len, Hutton (Captain),

Trevor Bailey, BIL- Edrich, Peter May. Denis Compton. Aleo Bedier. Godfrey Evans, Jim Laker, Tony Lock, Tom Graveney. John Wardle, Freddie Trueman

Compared with the men nominated for the fourth test at Leeds, May.. Wardle and Trueman come Rer in for Willie Watson, Simpson and Brian Statham. ----Reuter.

Ill Luck Keeps Following Fred Winter

London, Aug. 10.

The wide variety of care on- tered for the contest will start Super Snipe sedans will be

A team of three Humber from Sydney,,capital of New South Wales. From there, the with two-way radios for com- route shools north along Austra munication Queensland, goes over to Darwin trallan desert. in the Northern Territory, then crosses the Continent to Adelaide In South Australin and takes In Melbourne on the way ouck to Sydney.

Willy Zeh, of the Mercedes-

be Benz works in Gorony, llevox that the Mercedes Diesel drive may se which he will cape many of the dangers in-

in herent Central Australia's stones, dust and heat. The Diesel needs no sparking plugs, distributor, fuel pump or car- In size, they range from Bri-burettor, and has its fuel tanks

to tish "baby" cars

1026 Delago which weighs more than two tons.

Cars range in age from a 1925 25-horsepower Vauxhall

1933 to latest

models which have just arrived here,

TEN TIMES AS TOUGH

behind and above the engine.

A petrol-driven Mercedes has also been entered.

One of the most unusual cars in the trial will be a radiator-

less, super-streamlined Porsche, from Germany.

Commenting on the course, Mr R. W. Shepheard, an or ganiser of the trial who has twice competed in the Monte Many car distributing firms. Carlo Rally, said: "This is five have entered teams which in- umes

ns long as the Monte elude some of the most success- Carlo Rally and ten times as ful and best-known racing and tough.

trial drivers in Australia. The

worst roads in the The trial will start on August Monte Carlo Rally would be 30 and times will be set for better than the best on the nominated distance.

along the Australian route.

route. Cars which arrive early "The Monte Cario competitors OF late will lose points, but have the extra hazards of snow speeds will be slow enough and lee, but that course other-give small cars a fair chance. wise is like a Sunday afternoon Points can be lost for any one drive compared with this one." of a long list of foreaches of the

Mt Shepheard said the trial strict conditions of the would be held every year and The schedule will allow abou! "may make Australia the centre six hours' sleep in each 24 und a of stock car reliability trials..

38-hour break at Darwin. The hope is to build up a trial as big as the Monte Carlo Rally, which last year hud 377 competitors.

14.

fo

test.

The winner, the car

which completes the 14-day trial with the most points in hand, will receive £1,000, o load "This year's triol hos aroused of trophies, and the prestige of Fred Winter, young ex-motor industry interest overseas winning the world's longest paratrooper who headed the and next year we expect many and toughest reliability trial winning list of jockeys in car crows will come to Australia China Mail Special.

to take part the 1952/53 British Na-

This year, entries have como tional Hunt season, must from every Australian State and be one of the unluckiest the Northern Territory. The riders in the hazardous man from the latter will have Jumping game.

travelled 18,000 miles by the

No-fewer than -252-of- the |--With--all the auguries-of-a Australian runs came in bound-most successful campaign ahead, aries, four sixes, and 57 fours, he went out on the first day of Ring bit one six and 18 four the new season which has just whilő"Davidson claimed 17 of begun and broke his leg at the the fours.

first fence in the first race,

Twenty-thousand spectators, basking in all too race Blanches ter sunshine revelled in the feast An excellent batting surface of runs as the pair raced to a century partnership in 52 min- by was not used to advantage Hampshire until four wickets 75 minutes and both were oven- utes. In all they put on 143 In had gone for 67 runs but then tually victims, clean bowled, of however, Edgar and Gray in a three figure Grieves. Northamptonshire, were in a worse plight against stand, pulled the game round. _the_vurled Derbyshire__ntfack. Not until they had put on 179

Bud would have been out very

they parted, a recovery cheaply but for a dogged not out which enabled Hampshire to be display by Livingston who has among the five counties which provided a chance of them tak-passed the 300 mark. ing.first Innings point on Mou day.

+

were

CLOSE OF PLAY

Arthur Morris had taken the batting honours before lunch with 64 to 85 minutes including

County cricket close of play a six and 10 dours.

scores:

| wicket.

In the early stages of the Tattersall Linings

This was almost a repetition of the luck which botell Winter at the same Newton Ab- bot (Devonshire) track in 1951. His first ride was in the second race on the opening day of the season, and a fali put him out of broken collarbone. the game for some time with a

World Students Sports Festival At Dortmund

Dortmund, Aug. 9. The Third International Sports Festival,

Kent uncter new caplaincy found Leicestershire balstica, particularly lefthunders Smith- son and Mundes, dificult to dis- lodue late in the innings, but At Lords: Surrey 290, (May Australien when a totul

of over 300 ap 150, Young left-arm slow, four exercised such a mastery on the his well- peared likely, Mallett took the for

pitch responsive 38), Middlesex 16 for noted off bocaks, that in 20 last three wickets cheaply.

Lovers he took five wickets for 32 In just over five years as a Kent fored badly in the short At Cheltenham: Gloucester while Berry tied the batsmen National Hunt Jockey, Winter time before the close, however, ahire 328 for seven (Emmett down at the other end with his has also fractured his spine, when the giant Brian Boshier110, Tom Graveney 65, Crapp left arm deliveries,

broken two fingers and a too claimed two cheap wickets.

and cracked two ribs. When Riner come in he soon

Winter rode 121 winners last Another Yorkshireman-there

At Wellingborough: Derby.showed that he had no use for Dru several spread over other shiro 150, (Tyson, right-arm the othodox strokes of more year to become the first Jockey athletics

reputable batanen bed began ever to top the 100 mark in a county sides-proved a stumbl fast four for 38), Northampton-acnding good length balls to the National Hunt season. ing block to the county of his shiro 129 for eight (Livingston boundary. birth,

when Norman Horner not out 71). scored

a maiden century for Warwickshire in a championship At Weston-super-Mare: Essex mateli. Yorkshire faces a de 343 (Avery 59, Horstall 140, clared total of 377 for Ave on Balley 54), Somerset 42 for no Monday, but it could have been wicket.

06), versus Sussex.

COUNTY Cricket staNDINGS

Positions and points of the leading Cricket Championship and the best averages to date are as follows.

County Championshiy

Mkeox Surrey

Leicenter

London, Aug. 9, teams in the County bowling

batting

B. Tiod No Dec.

1st Inn. Lond in Match Lot

Hampshire

. Lancetire

Suc

Chmorgon Gloucester

Warwick Derbyshire

1:2

BASEBALL SCORES

FASTEST EVERŐ

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Australian swimmer Jon Henricks with the Hongkong Champion, Cheong Kin-man, shortly after they had swum the fastest 100 Yards in the history of Hongkong swimming.

Henricks was timed in 52.1 seconds. His best for the distance is 52.0, done in a 20-yard pool, but the standard sprint distance in Australia is 110 Yards and he has not been timed over 100 Yards more than a few.. times.

Kin-man, in finishing second in 52,4 seconds, broke his own Colony record by. a whole second. Henricks sald after the race, "I thought I was going to shake him off after the second turn, but he kept staying with me."

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Henricks is swimming the 220 Yards Free Style and the 150, Yards Back Stroke in the gala at the Victoria Recreation Club starting at 6 p.m. this evening-China Mail Photo.

A Kick-off Before Half Empty Terraces?

London, Aug. 10,

A kick-off before half, empty terraces while fans. stay glued to the television sets watching the final Test between England and Australia is the unhappy prospect facing English soccer clubs who may start their season. on August 19 and 20.

On

In the scramble to keep Cup Final day clear of other matches, the Football Association have given their official sanction for League matches, due to be played on May 1, to be brought forward to August 19 and 20.

But that is where the tanglo having public practice matches New York, Aug. 9. starts over those two days which from August 5, soccer has. Results of Major League are already earmarked for the made yet another assault

this final stages of the fifth Test, and the cricket season. playesi games

That with the fate of the Ashes hang-

the Football Associa- afternoon in the United States Ing on the result of this match, tion have a case to answer is

there is every possibility of underlined by criticisms 4.soccer getting away to its most there

mid-week lukewarm slart for years.

encroachment season

the

baseball

were:

LEAGUE AMERICAN Philadelphin Athletics Detroit Tigers 3.

Cleveland Indians 9. Red Sox 3.

Boston

3.

New

Chiengo White Sox described

York Yankees 0. as a counter-rally to the

St. Louis Browns 3, Washing- Communist sponsored ton Senators 0. World Youth Festival,

NATIONAL LEAGUE

New St. Louis Cardinals 6. opened here today.

"About 1,000 students from 21 York Giants 2. countries, including Japanese are

Milwaukee Braves 7, Pitts- taking part in the eight-day burgh Pirates 4-Beuter. competitions which include swimming, football, tennis, fencing, and polo.

Walter Hallstein, permanent head of the West German Foreign Ofee, perform- ed the opening ceremony of the Festival the first in Germany,

The organising committee has Then in 1951/52, he became described the meeting as "a Even pane bowlers came in for stable Jockey to Captain Ryan kind of congress of the rising the same sort of punishment and Price and in that season he generation of sports teachers". Hing's first 50 'of the tour took

fode 85 winners to be followed The aim of the festival is to tim caly 45 minutes.

by his record-breaking tolal "clarity the future idea Inst season.--China Mail Special. physical education". Reuter.

His rise to the top has been meteoric.

Davidson was perhaps more stylish but just as furious, in his in four seasons, up to and mult, and to Lancashire at- including 1050/51, he rode just tack became helpless to stop | under 60 winners. the flow of runs.

The introduction of leg spinner Grieves eventumaly brought relief to the county, and he polished off the last three wickets for 23 Tuns in seven point' thres overs,

Tattersall's

estly excellent Inglires were spoffed by the cletkh wikiret pair, but oveti so he had the total good. Agures of five wickets for 80 in 180 balls.

THE SCOREBOARD Australians, 1st Innings

A. Morris, 1.b.w., b.Tatiereali ..

"frien follow: Northamptonshire 20 points from 22 matches: Notting. Moonald, to Stotheam hamshire 34 from at; Yorkshire De from al; Ewex.00 from 23; Wandre- tershire 50 from 21; Kent 30 from 23 and Somerset. 30 from 3,92

Datting

Keith "Miller, b. Tiriburuati Nel Harvey, b. Tattersall

Ron Archer, e, de d. Detry

Innings NO. Run Highest Score Average David, b. Okerven

Neil Harvey (Aus)

Len Button (York)

Bill Johnston (Aun)

L Livingstone, Nor)

D. Dorrick (North)

Del Edrich Madd

IL Doliery (Warwick)

K. Miller. (AU)

Peter May (BUTY)

Barrios Subba low (Surre

C. Cowdray · (Kent)

David Sheppard. (51)

Bowling

Ray Lindwall' (Aistralía)

Iton Archer (Australia)

Alex Beoser (Burney) Petre Lowdhur" (Hurvey) Lestio Jokon (Derbyshi20).

Bob Derry (Landeshárú)

Belan Eitellairs- (Let's cuntershire) John Barrister (Warwick)

140.00

Hamoth, c. (Wilson, D. Tatterall), Doo Mallon, e. Wilson, b. Tuttermali Doug Sting. b. Griever, Lindwall, o. Etatham, b. Grieva {111}, not out tona

Extens

Tolat

110

Sua not out 1,301 078

not put 140 1,022

100 not out

03.315

00.00. 84.00 02.00

1,000

54,48

3.217

173

2001 -1.000

1210

220 not out

43.00

not out

100 not out

Howling

49.38

Whartons

Berry

207

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