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PETER WEST -23RD BEST
"PUFF-PUFF" AGÁIN
IN HISTORY
By "RECORDER"
The also-rans of athletics -in the AAA Champion- ships those who fail to finish in the first six-are the forgotten men of the British national press.
Among these was Peter West. former Hongkong Champion in the 5,000 Metres, but for the fact that a little magazine for athletes, Athletica World, lists him
as having finished eighth in
the AAA SIx Mlics
minutes 42.8 seconds.
In
a description
20
of the race,
Athletter World says, "Alter
Hesketh, five more
men CANC
the
30
before streaming in minutes was up, thus making the event the finest distance championship ever icon in any nation.
West, who already ranks as one of the world's ten best ever at 20 miles in the history of organised athletes, ran himself Into 23rd place on the all time
ranking 1st over the standard Six Miles distance,
Ranking above him are such glants of the running track an Gordon Pirie, Emil Zatopek, Vijo Helno, Pasvo Nurmi.
Alain Mimoun,
Talsto. Moki, Ilmar Salminen, Frark Sundo and 14 others.
Though only eighth in the Six Miles at this year's AAA Chun- pionship. Peter West now renks 12th on the all-time British list and 13th on the all-time Empire Hist
DETERMINATION
West was a good runner in Hongkong, but he did not o class the opposition. He lost his 5,000 Metre Championship and his record to Derek Coburn
7
his last appearance in the Colony Championships and then lon the Cross Country race in the New Territories. The only track re- cord ha retains from his Hong- kong days is that for the Three Miles
But Peter West is keen to surel ns an athlete. Dld he belong to any other nation than Great Britain, International honours would have already come his way. In Britain, the riches! country in history in good distance runners over the past two years, he is only eighth In the national ranking.
With his unquenchable deter- mination, we may yet see him closing in on Gordon Pirie. West is in only his first year of national scale athletles.
In the AAA Three Miles, Charlle Smart, aged 43, a one- time running måle of Captain Norman Philips, finished 18th in under 14 minutes 34 seconds. Peter is a very young runner in comparison with Charlie Smart.
Recreio Players Skipped By ABC Chairman Win
Gordon "Puff-Puff" Pirie tries his feet success- fully at a shorter distance to win the Emsley Carr Mile at the British Games at the White City in 4:06.8. Behind him is the American record holder, Wes Santee.
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1953.
TAKE A CHANCE, ENGLAND!
GO AFTER THOSE AUSSIES What's best in
WITH ALL YOU'VE GOT!
Says GEORGE WHITING
Take a chance, England! Go after those Australians with all you've got in the fifth Test Match at the Oval What if you lose? Nobody is going to be shot at dawn for getting a duck.
Australla-bereft for most of the tour of the "two way" bowling of Bill Johnston-have shown us in the four Tests this season that they are not afraid to gamble, not too timid to bowl at the stumps, and not too petrified to hit the ball that is over-pitched or short of a length.
I
Test Mulch bowling that waits Bol I still would rather see a With due respect to the stout heart of back-to-the-wall Bailey for Test Match batsmen to Alck Nell Harvey hitting the bowling
than and the
the off stump of his toes
a Trevor thay-shall-not-passat balls outside herolcs of Willie Watson. can bore the keenest of ticket Bailey compelled to do a Dun- because bla pals have suggest we have all seen just purchasers after an hour or two. kirk
the Are of about
of enough
England So can batsmanship cramped into wobbled against cricketers In the role of lost apparent mortal terror by an Lindwall. ditch defenders.
array of elips and close-in let Actdismen.
BLOGOMANIA The straight bat is both essentini and decent, but s purpose, like that of the straight loft in boxing, is primarily ano of defence, Bradman got along pretty well without matting it the be-all and end-all of his batsmanship.
wants
Nobody
lamp post ericket, or to see the technique and tactics of the game awamped in an outbreak of slogomania. But we are surdly entitled expect enterprise.
'DANGEROUS'
'.
The so-called Carmody-field is a threat to batsmen who caress the ball-but not to the man who hits it. No Australian captain would have dared to leave the front of the wicket almost untenanted by fieldsmen against Jack Hobbs, Frank Woolley or Charlie Barnett.
Nearly every shot in top-class to England cricket these days seema to be letated by dull core and
How long is it since. we saw dreary commercialism, and the one of the first live England Game is less of a spectacle be- batamen advancing down the cause of it. wicket with a bal polsed for. slaughter, a la Hobbs?
Cockell Of England Wipes Out Forever
That Horizontal Jibe
By DESMOND
HACKETT
Seattle, Aug. 8.
Saturday and the winner is Don Cockell of England. Maybe this is ageing sports intelligence, but to me those are the most heart-rejoic- ing words heard in thousands of miles of travel with subdued and swindled Soccer teams and engulfed golf outfits.
This is the morning after the fight before, yet these words still ring with the gallantry of a bugler sounding a challenging cavalry call.
This is the shot in the arm for which British boxing has been yearning.
Cockell ... bleeding, weary,
Harry Matthews,
from came behind to win on points a 10- round fight that was all he-man action.
puzzled by the matador grace of
A MIRAGE
The incisive cut, the sweep to
Win or lose the final Test, the finest thing that could happen to English cricket just now would be an Oval hundred before lunch from Len Hutton. To blazes with the
consequences. Give us cricket, not six days of commercialised misery.
(London Express Servicej
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NOT A FEUD
Ten stands in all would be erected and these will be In the form of six tlers each. Test Matches are supposed tu The meeting went on to clect be a form of public entertain-the. omdals for the coming ment, not a private feud between season and the following is the the
two sets of result of the elections: hirelings of employers. Cricket will want crowds when the Aus- tralians have gone home.
still
I am probably an outcast, a a stinker and a misßt,
moron.
Management Committee Chair- man.Mr R. Hamet;. Grounda and Equipment Chairman-Mr
Umpire-In-Chief, A. Ozorio; Mr Hal Wing Lee; Scorer in Chief Mr Tony Kwok; Press Relations Omcers.-Messrs D. S.
Open Singles Ling and Lee Chi-hong.
Quarter-finals
On Thursday
The matches in the Colony Championship Open Singles played
but her quarter-final round due to be
.
off today at KCC have been postponed to Thurs day, August 20, by mutual ar- rangement.
of
Presiding at the meeting was Mr Wally Mar, Chairman the Association and "Doc" Molthen the Commissioner was also present.
Fourth Frigate Squadron Plans Two Regattas
In this fight-crazy Pacific coast in Round Seven. But he kept When it was all over Cockeli, city of Seattle, Brilish Champion | going.
in a so-quiet English grey suit, Don Cockell wiped away with his in the crowd,, a pretty, dark-an eye patriotically red, white, able hands the bitter, sneering haired girl bit her handkerchief and blue, heard from his pale- jibe at the British horizontal to ribbons. Irene Cockell, who faced wife: "Well done, Don." heavyweight.
That cannot bear to stay away from
Was all her-Inusband's fights, wee suffer eyes told him everything a man ing just as much as her Don.
wents
know from the girl, he loves. They looked, as they have During the eighth the much-been through the years, just
be- Matthews (12st. 12lb.) schoolday #weethearts. nuled
The postponed match suddenly felt the burden of his The little world of Don Cockell tween G. C. Norman and W. J. 31 years und
his difference of seemed blissfully complete.
D. Cameron, for the right to Following the rowing regatta, The Recreio at King's Park
Iwo stones in weight,
August 13, enter the quarter-final round postponed from yesterday was the scene of an
NOW HE'S NO. 7
will take place this afternoon which is to take place on Satur interesting game between n rink
Cockell's killer round, that un-
the Cockell this morning had four at
HKCC commencing day, August 22, the Fourth Still, today the air is filed | forgettable ninth, can be told by comprising leading players of
cheek. at 5.15 p.m. The winner of this Frigate. Squadron of the Royal Recrelo, skipped by
anderages of Matthews, Mr W. P. with the moans
the man who went stitches in his damaged the Chairman of the Aur Matthewn's boss, fuck Hurley. down for three counts of nine. Matthews was X-rayed for a match will meet Joe Luz In the Navy hope to hold a sailing Eudic
regatta on September 1 and 2. In an unforgettable ninth-He said:
suspected break in his right hand. quarter-final. tralian Bowling Council, against
The by Cockell,
the pro- recovery
Cockell plan is to take in The following is n rink consisting of the officers round
"I felt I must win. Then sud-six more fights. Boxing bosses gramme; of the Hongkong Lawn Bowls Hurley saw a Right horizon full
A whole tallin blus
who
5.15 had
at New York,
Today into a denly I thought
HKCC E. Noronha
N. moneyed mirage.
hud smacked me in the mid-previously ignored him in world pm: G. C. Norman v W. J. D. loe President), J, G.
the section. Hurley still suffers from
rankings, now rate him, No. 7. Cameron
They all want to match Cockell "I was still trying to pump
Thursday, August 20, at 5.15 (Hon. Treasurer) and M. hangover of that dentist's wall- B. Hossan (Hon, Secretary). ing-room lension when the final some breath when Cockeil hooked with Rocky Marciano, but the
World
already Champion has
KCC-CC Pereira V Judge with his right and caught me Mr Eadie's rink consisting of scores were announcesi, Messrs A. P. Pereira No, 1, C. P. | Ed Pinkman gives Matthews 51 with one of the hardest punches signed up for two fights. So Don may have to wait til next Basto No. 2 and R. F. Luz No. 3, points, Cockell 49 points. Judge have ever suffered.
summer. jumped off
to a 2-0 lead in the Jim Grant glyes Cockell 514. first head and went further Matthews 404. ahead to 5-1 with a triple on the third head. The H.KLBA. rink retaliated with a triple on the fourth to draw up 54.
Messra J.
of dollar
Association ***
fade
"All I knew after that was Cocicell, fearless in the ring. feeling tired and someone shout-will have no part of flying now The 15,000 crowd seemed to ing 'four' in my car. I felt glad and goes home the long way. He terrific send-off as he stop breathing as the final count to be down there alone and un- had a came: "Referee Jim Wilson gives sroubted for mine scconds." steamed out of town by train. Cockell 55 poluts, Matthews 45.”
Once more the bold Cockell The breathless crowd gasped in This, however, was the closest
A left hook again could get to Mr Eadle's surprise at this amazing margin, cruised In. they
dropped Matthews. rink who by virtue of forceful then stood to salute Cockell.
Hurley now demands a com- went further
nine count came and
steady play
The third how ahead to eventually triumph by mission of Inquiry into
from a half-power left hook. decided on his 20-11.
The game crided on the Referee Wilson
count. It almost gives Matthews slid down into a heap 18th head owing to bad light Anal
like an over-tirèd child.
and although conditions were Cockell a walk-over."
not good, with a high wind blow-
ing across the green, the game
was enjoyed by both players and
the large gallery watching it,
SPORTRAIT
“Swimming the Channel nothing? F're man over- board "
Benden Engreve Karolin:
CLOSE FIGHT.
The fight was never that.
RED BADGE
Matthews takes the red bodge
was as tight as a fight-manager's the tenth round and chasing the
purse strings. Cockell
way
of courage for coming back in
points on to his own score sheet.
That tugging, giant locomotive seemed to catch up the wonderful refrain-AND THE WINNER 15 DON COCKELL OF ENGLAND.
-(London Express Service)
At
at
p.m.: A. W. Hircock; winner of G.C.
Norman y W.J.D. Cameron v J. A. Luz.
At HKCC-A. M. Omar v M. B. Hassan; C. H. Gough v J. Chubb.
OPEN PAIRS
R. M. V. Risco and A. A. Lopes beat A. Bachoo and A. K.
round Omer 31-15 in a third Open Pairs match et PRC Yes terday.
be They moet
Luz brothers in the quarter-final.
This is the first Naval sailing regatta to be held in Hongkong waters for several years, and there will be whaler and dinghy races for omeers as well as scamen
The boats will start from the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club at
Kellet Island and sail threa times round Buoy B1 and Cust Rock, frisking at the starting line.
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Each ship in the squadron. is to enter one whaler, and, two dinghies
On the first day' there will be whaler and dinghy races for Petty Omcers. Chict
Petty Officers, and Leading ratings, On the second day there wil be Officers events.
Arsenal Order Check Goals Against'
What has happened to Arsenal's defence? What a question to ask with the new season not even started, and -Arsenal, League Champions for the seventh time in 17 sengona, too.
But before
maybe that fraction ahead be- cause he was punching more Cockell explained: "I thought 'wolidly, foreing the Bght, moving I was the winner and did not
you complacent "sound barrier" in the penalty Jack Tinn, then the manager, smoothly if not over-quickly. want to risk my eye. I should Arsenal fans start throwing, let area? Forwards were banging sald: "You'll never make a
The only time Cockell really punches in the ninth but I could statisties before hysterics (writes often.
have thrown more right hand us be reasonable and take their way through it much more footballer as long as you have Jooked in trouble was in the
two legs." sixth round. Incredibly, both move fast enough. My Harold Falmer).
The backs were keeping to In 1945, after Barnes had throbbing grid making were polsed the same time Matthews took out of one."
Look at tho goals against their wingers, playing square. In injured his left knee in the Army. to swing punishment -packed
column last season. This time the middle one missed the solid in specialist sald he would never punches.
Arsenal won the League in spile commanding, figure of a Leslie play again. of their defence-rother than Compton.
of d because
NEVER than 'seven other). No fewer First Division clubs had lesa
The faster Matthews got in first crashed his glove against Cockcil's left cheek.
The colourful crowd rose like
D
On
a mass of confolii caught by o wind
machine
Cockell stumbled back to the ropes., his cheekbone a nasty cut pumped 2 steady blood.
stream of
remember your villain of Sher-
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ZORIC DRY CLEANING
After his last injury medical oplalon was more guarded, · But No wonder there is elation the end had really been written atin the whispers went round that gools
pals scored against them than down Highbury way at the his time., Arsenal Chelsea (10th), and prospect of that wily
Walley relegated Stoke each had only Barnes returning to the defence. Can Barnes, 34 next January. CAN ONLY BE DONE IN A "ZORIC” UNIT. THERE
two more--08.
Ey Brown, H. Bradshaw, lock Holmes7-examined the cut, ¦ Daly, M. Faulkner, 123, delayed the start of the seventh Hargraves, B. Hunt, D. King HOW MANY? |
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|_ | Barnes, 'captain of Wales for
go straight into League soccer.
Just look at Arsenal's growing four seasons, has shown typical again? Well, after his last lay-15 BUT ONE IN THE COLONY, IT IS USED AT
મ team to play American at total of goals against over the Arsenal spirit in a 16-month into the League sido to meet of nearly two years, he went Grimly-named Dr Moriarty chosen from 3. Adams, P. Allis at six years 32, 44, 53, 50, 61 aght back to trees.
Tom Finney Preiten-and He has been disappointed, but Aw 84.
kept his place, never despondent, since that knee ke injury put him out of the 1992 "No doubt I will get some in the coming Cup Anal 22 minutes after the trouble," he says. "But if I can round,' and, for onn shattering A. Lees, . J. Panton, B. Rees How many moment looked
as though he N. Sutton, C. Ward and 11. Weet-season? The order goes out at kick-oftį“
play enough matches without man...
Highbury that the increasing rate. Few players have been written having to stop training, then I might stop the fight.
so often. When he signed think. I wil be able to carry on!! Cockell manly, enduring H. Cotton is captain-China must be chocketk
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