1954-01-16 — Page 17

LEAGUE CRICKET

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1954.

CHATER ROAD MATCH THE BEST OF THIS

AFTERNOON'S PROGRAMME

By "THE ZOMBIE"

The Scorpions and Optimists take top billing in this afternoon's Cricket League matches as they clash against each other in the Senior Division.

The games between these two HKCC teams have always been played in a spirit of the keenest rivalry and bave invariably produced some excellent cricket. In their first round match this season, which resulted in a draw, no fewer than 417 runs were scored in one afternoon, a record not beaten this season.

Added alerest will be shown In this match for the foet that both teamy are now well in the run for Chouponship hemours

ot

as a result of Army's defent List week-end

the

hands

ut

The Scorpions, who are

1

Recreio

four points behind Army, Fiand chance of overlaking a betler

the soldiers, but it will not sur- only prise me if they lose today.

Spotlighting The Three-Year-Olds Of 1954 position, the Optimists nearly

Prescription Should

Make A Stayer

By

JAMES PARK

It is always as well to have a look round to see whether there is anather Tulyar in the offing. He had 8 st. 2 b. in the Free Handicap and went on to win all his races as a three-year-old, including the Derby, Eclipse Stakes, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Slakes, and BL Leger.

That sort of thing happens now and again, but seldom as to make it little more than the

super-optimist.

dream of the

Last season, with the Longue standings in an almost identicni

upset the Scorpions applecart by defeating them towards the end of the season

Hoth teams are now well up to

| form and a close gana is ex- pected with the odds in favou For the Searpions, especially they take serene teaser of wicket.

the

The Scorpions are a better all- POK side, and the Optimists nove not only to show excep- Lam! form in batting and bowling but also to helding, ot which they are greatly hand- capped, if they are to upset the Serplona,

Langue-leating Army will be guests of the fulan Recreation Club will be confronted with the task of avoiding a draw. So fue only the Army and Scorpions have managed to fore decisive whas nve the Indians

A draw will cut Army's lead There

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over th* WIMEN✶ whop Besar Pitrupa le saab tahanane He Scorpiotis, should the talter take. courk! not have been fore-gen at kept pickling

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abartmal viclery wILN Nes progress was vepratial Entween the ages of two and three

Ith the ught he had a sound che MA mike mi «ETY Newbury and he was melee!

in which that gained

NOT IN CLASSICS

When Mancheng tu bitch 411– other in the year's Free Handi- cup.

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1 star but

the rare who did not look like warang o qutiater of a mule from The dish it was Prescriptiont, should say he was rust at the first 10 at that point and thing (like 10 tengths

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An average score of about 150 runs thy the Indians will plen thes 61 good position to pro- duve an upset ns ibe Army bats- men will undoubtedly go for the runs even with their inconsistent and reliable batting side.

I doubt

Cricket If Kowloon will be

to oble

Stop Club Hecvelo's upward surge towards the League Championship when

clicked not

CONCENTRATION

Concentration and force displayed by Paul Luxton,

18, of Slough, competing in the boys' singles at the All- England Junior Badminton Championships at

Wimbledon Club.-Central Press Photo.

the

A CHAPMAN PINCHER Investigation

OXYGEN? "IT'S PURE PSYCHOLOGY”

Say

THE DOCTORS

Doctors who tested the effects of giving oxygen to runners before athletic events are convinced that if it has any benefits they are purely psychological,

The body has no means of storing oxygen. So its effects cense almost as soon

as the oxygen mask removed.

and

This was proved by recent in which doctors experiments measured the heart rate blood pressure of athletes run- ning on a motor-driven tread- the two clubs meet at Cox Road-mill. They also measured the Individually the Kowloon Cricket Club are at par will not of the amount of acid which collected He was takers to the outside

in the runners muscles during other clubs, but sumehow or the exercise and fatigued them. much me tha with not

they have Vinrent was ok at this month's furling to go. From that point other sales at Newmarket. Be hus frothing else seemnest to be gallup- together to far ni a team,

Pesertplan Just mowed classic Bability and, having beson

Navy had a rather drab time bought be one of the agencies, then down, ide up the leeway

wurd want on k1 win by three en week-end in their match have men this last

kngths. And he was still in Disgaeng Oplanšete, with no ferver This country.

full length of his stride at them five new players m

benmm. They should be able to winning post.

mmarico up for this today when they are pitted against University and should be able to provide a their closer gate if not beat of class but on the Newbury dis-oppements with slightly better play he should get any distance repose from their batsmen.

1 assume we

of hlm

There is

prospect of Prevcription developing into a Derby candidate for the simple reason that his only classic en- gagement is in the St Leger. And with that early plaion of the owner-breeder let me say i um in complete accord.

If there is one thing Prescrip- Linn looks like doing, it is making a slayer. And at that he has long way to go before he can top class. be placed near the He had no more than 7st 101b. in the Free Handicap.

I saw Lord Rosebery's colt at his best on tmly one OCCHİLTI. That was when he won at New- bury. His first success was in a mile nursery at Ayr when he was set a moderate task.

TOOK THIRD PLACE One who tow him win that day told me I need not look any further for the winner of a Newmarket's alinilar

at Second October niceting. Others thought so, too, and Prescription ¦

race

THE

1:1 O'CLOCK

WEEK-END

SENTIMENT

Prescription may lack a touch

in reason. He is not a home- bred one like most of the homes to curry Lord Rosebery's colours. The colt was picked up for 1 500 uneas at Doncaster is a year- ling di feed sure sentiment had something to do with it.

The coll is by Precipitation out of Posteript, who is 1!11 WIT sister to Pip Emma who cared the Rusebery colours to vleiucy on five cvcnsions, Including the Manchester November Handicap

Luncheon Hour, who So did once looked like making a top- class mardier.

Prescription, the latest membre the family, may also be watny

TODAY'S GAMES

First Division

Army v. IRC. KCC v. Reercio. University v. Navy. KAF CCC, Optimists v. Scorpions.

Second Division

IRC v. Arty. KCC v. Recreto. Navy v University. DBS v. Navy.

TOMORROW

Friendly Match

the-

They founki that glving oxygen five minutes before the

sults. The athletes could tests had no effects on the re- run is for and as fast after breath- ing ordinary air.

Would breathing oxygen during the Interval of a football the match help to eliminate fatigue enused by the Arst half's play?

FOOLED THEM

no.

Again the doctors 53y

this i They testod

their treadmill experiments by giving after oxygen for five minutes The athletes had finished

run- It did not speed ning.

their rate of recovery.

At from half-time oxygen. professionals should not,

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TODAY'S RUGGER

By “PAK LO”

This afternoon's rugger takes place on the Club ground at Happy Valley. There are three games sche- duled to be played, the first being a Club "B" fixture when they take on the A.A. Workshop REME, the second between the Rest of the Colony and the Rest of the Services.

Most interesting is the third between K,C. Johnson's XV and Commander British Forces XV at 4.15

Brot The p.in.

game kicks off at 2.00 pm. and the second at 3. 15 p.m. All the games should provide some good

SUREST.

the first game the A. A. Workshop will be out Dox re- venge as they were whacked 28- 3 by Club "B" last me they played each other, Russell has picked strong "B" team for this game both in the forward and back lines, and the A. A Workshop will be lucky if they are able to avoid a defent,

The "B" pack still has a lew weaknesses, mainly In the line- out, where a little jumping will Improve their play and give their backs a good chance lo get under way.

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Club "B" should win the greater percentage of the scrums, and provided their threequarter line watches its passing they should score quile lot. The Workshop team, which is ill trying to settlo down, can defeat Club "B" if they mark their men in the iineout, and tackle hard and low, and if they move faster in the loose than last time.

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go to one or the other, but infection. the Rest of the Colony have on paper the slightly stronger side, and they tackle a bit harder than usual they should win.

Some of the Colony's threes' passing has been weak of late and this could jeopardise But

or course. T footballers could breathe extra охудет while they were playing they would undoubtedly have greates endurance.

This has been pre ved by ex- periments at Oxford University carried out by Olympic Miler

who is Roger Bannister, incdteal stud:n

THE SNAG

He found that men

who in- haled 60 percent oxygen were able to run nearly four times longer ran when breathing or dinary alr.

ori

their chances if the Services loose forwards do their job properly, This should prove a good game, but should not have the excite. ment of the final one.

PLENTY OF THRILLS

The second senior

gume should provide plenty of thrills us both fifteens are the strongest the selectors could provide. The Commander British Forces XV has the (hereafter CBE XV) stronger looking pack and Eve, as hooker, again faces Owen. Eve should win the greater share of the ball from the set

BCTUMS,

However this advantage should be evened up in the Uneouts where Johnson's XV have Wilkins, the England player, who shone in department last Saturday.

this

Behind the packs are

two good lines of threes but John- son's XV have the slightly better set in my opinion, and given the chances they should get, should be able to score,

Sir Adolphe Abrahams, the famous medical authority sport, belleves that the four- minute Milo could easily be achieved this way. But it would have to be run on a track built In a tunnel filled with oxygen!

Stan COMMENT ONE: By Cullis. manager ef Wolver: "I think 60 percent of the oxygen equipment's beneft

is But it is useful Psychological, when the atmosphere is heavy."

The CBF XV has the better COMMENT TWO: Bu

Vie loose forwards, however, and Buckingham,

could easily

upsol their manager of Westy Bromwich:

and thus in- "The ideal interval opposing threes,

directly in a match would be half

give their own three- hour. We can't have that so

quarter line a chance to show oxygen is the next best thing

their worth. amateur But let me point out we were not get top of the League before the much time for training might oxygen apparatus came, derive some psychological bene- -(London Express Service)

When the doclors fooled the athletes by giving them ordin- ary air from baltics marked "oxygen" they ran just as well as when given real oxygen.

But untrained runners dld better when they thought they HKCC Occasionale v. 72 LAA were getting an oxygen boost. to carry the primrose and rose j hoops and ho might even be Regt. RA.

botter than his handicap mark would suggest.

(London Express Service)

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This should be a very even game with Johnson's XV having a slight advantage, which shoula be sufficient to see them leave the field the victors,

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NOTICE

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

ANNUAL RACE MEETING Saturday, 23rd, Wednesday 27th & Saturday 30th January, 1954.

(To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club)

THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 20 RACES The First Bell will be rung at 11.30 am. and the First Race run at 12.00 Noon each day. The tiffin Interval is after the Fourth Race (1.30 p.m.).

The Secretary's Omce at Alexandra House will close at 10 am. each day.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE

NO PERSON WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED. All persons MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the meeting

Admission Badges at $10.00 voch per day are obtainable through the Secretary on the written or personal introduction of a member, such member to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him.

Tifins will be obtainable at the Club House I ordered in. advanced from the No. 1 Hoy (Tel. 72811).

NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeting. For this purpose a Child is a person under the age of seventeen years, Western standard.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable at the Gate.

Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisite fee of $3.00 in order to gain re-admission.

MEALS & REFRESHMENTS will be obtainable in the RESTAURANT.

SERVANTS

Servants must remain in their Employers' boxes except for passing through on their duties. They may on no account us the Betting Booths in the Members' Betting Hall.

CASH SWEEPS ·

The cost of a Through Ticket is $00.00. Through Tickets re- served for this meeting but not paid for by 10 a.m. on Friday 22nd January, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future meetings.

Tickets for the Special Cash Sweep on the Pearce Mernoriai Cup scheduled to be run on 30th January, 1954, at $2.00 each, may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices at Queen's Building, (Chater Road), 5, D'Aquilar Street and 382, Nathan Road, during normal co hours and until 10 am, on the First and Second days of the

meeting.

The sale of those tickets will close at 4 p.m. at 382, Nathan Road, at & p.m. at 1, D'Agullar Street and at 6 p.m. at the offico in Queen's Building, on Friday 29th January, 1954.

TOTALISATOR

Backers are advised not to destroy or throw away their tickets

Members of the Jockey until after the "all clear signal has been exhibited,

ALL WINNING TICKETS AND TICKETS FOR REFUNDS Club attending the Rally MUST BE PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT AT THE RACE COURSE must wear their Member's ON THE DAY TO WHICH THEY REFER, NOT LATER THAN badge otherwise they will ONE HOUR AFTER THE TIME FOR WHICH THE LAST RACE not. admitted thereto, except OF THE DAY HAS BEEN SCHEDULED TO BE RUN,

on payment of the admis

alon

fee charged by the Association.

By Order,

H. MISA,

Secretary.

PAYMENT WILL NOT BE MADE ON TORN OR DISFIGURED TICKETS.

Bookmakers, Tie Tac meri, etc. will not be permitted to oper within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club,

3.

By Order of the Stewards,

H. MIBA,.

Secretary,