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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1954.

ARMY'S POSITION AT TOP SCUNTHORPE v. PORTSMOUTH

OF THE TABLE RECEIVES A SEVERE SETBACK

By LM. MacTAVISH

The Army's position at the top of the league table received a severe setback at the Club Stadium yesterday when they were beaten by a soli- tary goal scored by Sing Tao's Ho Cheung-yau mid-way through the first half.

The soldiers were a tired looking side for most of the game and it is obvious that some of the players are being asked to play in too many matches to allow them to maintain their edge.

the

In wrong way. so giving himself tacties of the Tigers In this game the Tigers ap- peared to be yards faster and giving the ball plenty of boots nough room to swing his Ho Cheung-left foot and crash the ball wide Insted the pace of the play and hoping that although there you would snatch much better,

when they were times hord put to to keep goal intact.

3

a goal pald af Granger's right hand. In the end dividend that

two up to

valuable

were

their

added

puinta.

When the going was holleat the experience of Hao Yung- Nung and Honniball

much

in evidence

was very and the

Sing Too boys wed i lot lo the stout defence of these two fine players.

The game never rose above bul very ordinary

standards

The goal

PLANNED AND SCORED

settled the that issue was planned and scored by their brilliant young inside- felt who gave Wingfield a most afternoon. The ball was pushed through to him, and with a neat body sway he sent the defenders running the

uncomfortable

How The Australians

Helped To Reprieve The Counties

By GEOFFREY SIMPSON

The soldiers should have levelled the Score soon after- wards, but Benneti got too much angle

well ота

placed cross from Lunnon and his beader o fraction shipped away just wide of the post,

After the interval the Army stagod many massed attacks in an attempt to save the game but apart from Reeves, who played bilintly. and Bennett there was no forward capable of carry- ing the bull through the resolute hard fackling Sing Tuo defence, The nume

developed into long attack on the Tigers' gon but there was more danger in the lightning breakaways

one

of

the Sing Tun forwards than in all the sustained pressure that the Ariny exerted at the other end.

For the winners Hau Yung- sang, Sik Pei-yin, Honniball, Ho Cheung-yau were the men who mattered most in colleefing the two points for a lehm that never stopped! or slackened their efforts.

In a sadly disappointing Army

Could there be more striking evidence of the state side only Granger, Buckley, of county cricket than the figures for 1953 which War-Wells, Reeves and Bennett wickshire, who finished midway in the Championship seemed capable of raising a gallop although newcomer Lun- table, will reveal to members at their annual meeting on

non showed that he has speed March 30?

and distinct possibilities,

Wingfield, Middleton and Chase were right off form and there must be more position that is causing consider- uble concern to the officials of the team.

The total number of people who paid for 14 home county games was 88,113. For one match, against the touring Australians, the attendance was 41,855, -

Pecullar to Warwickshire? Not; exemption of cricket from tax,

smaller a bit. Many of the

but Mr R. A. Butler's decision counties can tell similar stories,

was an urgently needed blood Lindsay Hussett's team

transfusion, not a concession. benefactors and the Chancellor of the Exchequer a.falry god- mother.

were

tax

case,

MAKE IT LIVELY Look again at Warwickshire's In seven post-war years The gate-boosing Aussies and they lost £9,349, though in the the removal of cricket from

same period they had to find lability to entertainment

for the Exchequer £8,358, have put some counties in eredit for the first time for years.

1053, 1 long last, they There have been few more have made a proft, and hope

relief: their tax say of topics than

the fully

"With this onerous burden re- moved, accounts again have a chance of balancing slightly on the right side."

controversial

ENGLAND 401

FOR 8 AT

GEORGETOWN

Jul

Even with £8,323 from their match with the Australians and £4,677 as their share of Test- nistch profits, Warwickshire's surplus is only £3,061.

Those sort of windfalls come only every fourth year, so how is county cricket likely to fare though in other seasons, even Georgetown, British Guiana, tax-free? 1 think we all know Feb. 25. the answer. The game has got England were 401 for to be made a popular entertain- ment, livelier, and attractive to eight at close of play on the watch. The only men who can second day of the third do that are the players Test against the West Well, It Is their livingt Indies here today.

THE SCOREBOARD England, 1st Innings

Hongkong Girls

Win Again

W. Watson, b, Ramadhia ...

12

L. Hutton, c. Worrell b.

Ramadhia

160

F. May, lbw b. Atkinson

12

In Manila

D. Compton, c. Stollmeyer b.

64

b. Ramadhin

0

Manila, Feb, 20.

Atkinson

T. Graveney,

Wardle, b. Ramadhin

T. Bailey, not out.

Evans, lbw b. Alkinson

J. Laker, b. Valentine

A. Lock, not out

Extras...

38 The visiting Hongkong YMCA

40 girls basketball team last night

ワク

19 ended its Manila scries with

convincing 28-18 victory over of the local

champions,

the St.

Cho

than one

VERDICT:

defeat just This about blasts the Army's last hope of winning the Compton- strip... but on this occasion they were beaten by a side that Sing was both faster and niter.

no lucked a better skie than they have done for weeks and they deserved their

victory. Army must find an answer to calls that are being the heavy made on their players who have lasked leg weary and heavy- footed for several games.

GRINDA AND

DAVIES IN

THE FINAL

Manila, Feb. 28. France's Jean Noel Grinda and Britain's Michael Davies blasted their way to the doubles Anols in the current junior in- vitational net tournament here yesterday avith an easy conquest of the Filipine pair, Ruben Escobal and Manda Elizalde, by a score of 0-3 and 6-2.

A

Gill, the Portsmouth goalie, punches away from Whitfield of Scunthorpe in this goalmouth melee also Involving Wilson of Portsmouth and Haig of Scunthorpe in the fourth round Cup tie replay at the Arsenal

Stadium.

Let Jack

His Old Pal

Strong Emphasis On Youth In Australian Touring Tennis Team

Sydney, Feb. 27.

A strong emphasis on youth marks the goven-man team of Australlans chosen' to play tennis overseas from May to September this year....

The tour is old stuff for Levis Hoad and Ken Rosewall, 19-year-old "twina" who clinched the Davis Cup for Australia when they won the final two singles matches of the Challenge Round at Kooyong, Melbourne, in December. Mervyn Rose and Rex Hartwig are also known in Europe and the United States,

likely

But the Lawn Tennis Associa- | bourne boy packs a "power With a man like Hopman in tion of Australia, following the game" behind a killing sorvice, charge of the team, each one of phenomenal Ruccess of Its His service and ting backhand the seven' Australians le "bables", load and Rosewall, | first attracted attention about 18 to improve on the coming tour, picked three more youngsters to months ago in Melbourne inter-Thay may not improve as gain experience Overseas in club and schoolboy tournaments, spectacularly as Hoad

and 1954.

**Hartwig dld lust year, but four Handicapped by a thumb in months under Hopman's strict Jury, Cooper pulled out of the tennis regime usually pays off.

DIT-Davis

Cup state tourna-

He made

They chose Neale Fraser, 20- year-old Melbourne lefthander, Roy Emerson, 10-year-old Bris- bane junior star, and Ashley ments in New South Wales and Aussie experts oven, give the Cooper, 17, of Melbourne

to Victoria,

his mark, older Rose and Hartwig `room make

the biggest Ausale however, in the National Cham-for further improvement. Rose tennis troupe to travel abroad, pionships at White City, Sydney, especially may blossom out efter which rounded off the Austra- clinching the National Cham- lian season.

up

They reaffirmed their faith in Harry Hopman's wizardly touch by naming the shrewd tennis ring-master as manager.

THE "BABY"

Cooper, "baby" of the team, is the same age as Hoad and Rosewall were when they made their frst trip abroad in 1952. This husky six foot-one Mel

Gardner Fight

Williams

Says DESMOND HACKETT

Why such a jolly chap as Joe Jacobs should persist in the ulcer-growing business of fight promoting is beyond me.

Jovial Joe has a tavern in the bustling city of Leicester. That would be sufficient to satisfy most chaps. But not Joe.

Now he finds himself with such handsome heavyweights as Jack Gardner and Johnny Williams all signed up for his next show, but he cannot find anyone to fight them.

His style against Manchester City recalled the gracious days when slim. stylish Emile Blenkinsop decorated the de fence system of England and Sheffield Wednesday.

Such names as Trinidad He says

Soccer! of English technician Ansell Adams

and

"We have speed and move the the uired Austrian Kurt ball quickly, but there are too Schleg! were suggested as just many hasty moves and too little the men to take on the come-thought

of about much

our back boy, Jack Gardner,

game." When John Simpson, way out His Soccer mon of, the age is suggestions in South Africa, heard such John Charles, of Leeds and

he phoned back: "Nothing doing. Wait until

Wales. The accolade: "Charles Ket back."

Manager Simpson is anxiots that Gardner should return the gentle way. A fine thing for Manager Simpson and an excel-

ent

things for

scheme of

Gardner,

IT'S EASY MONEY

But what about the cash cus- tomer? He is entitled to a fight for his money. Why not let him have a real fight and put In Gardner and Williams to decide who fights Don Cockell for his British and Empire tities?

I can hear the squeals from the camps of Cockell and Gardner Naturally they want to carry on pleking up easy cheques for against hand- appearances plcked opponents,

Probably both these farming fighters remember that July night at Leicester in 1850 when Williams was battered into ex- haustion by Gardner in the most brutal fight I

puts all the internationals I have seen on my trip to Eng- Innd in the shade."

GO ON, ARSENAL!

Post Just heard tell trom those who have been afoot- balling in deepest Red Russia that Arsenal can beat the best In Soviet Soccer-90 just you go right ahead, Arsenal, and visit the Kremlin country next August.

Now who should be sub- scribing this delightful intelli- gence but the footballing Gul ilver himself, Dai Astley. Yes, the same Dai who was some- thing of permanent centre forward for Wales and who also delighted the clients of Charl- ton, Aston Villa, and Blackpool

observing the Football League Three days earlier, wearlly

plonship his first major Aus- trallan title in four-years of blg He virtually clinched this tennis. United Press. trip when he knocked out Clive Wilderspin in the first round. Wilderspin, ironically enough, himself earned a place last year's team when he beat Hoad In the 10533 national champlonships.

in

Cooper followed LA this surprise vletory by downing former national Junior diam- pton Billy Gilmour. And before he was through he put up A Kelin quarter-final battle against Rex Hartwig. why got to the final against Mervyn Rose.

Kurt Nielsen

Beaten In Straight Sets

Miami, Feb. 25.

Cooper Anished high school Temperamental Kurt

last December and planned to

Nielsen of Copenhagen become a teacher like his father, suffered a surprising upset He has now decided to postpone today in the third round of his enrolment in Melbourne | the Teachers College for 12 months,

Miami Invitational Tennis Championships,

430

In

Aussic tennis crilics have high hopes for Cooper, whom Unseeded Al Harum, a Uni- they have dubbed a "new Hoad," versity of Miami sophomore, Andously looking for a Davis whipped the Danish Cup singles man as an alternative straight sets, 7-5, 6-3. Harum for unpredictable Rosewall, they broke through the Dane's service think Cooper may turn out to in the first game to set a steady be the boy they're looking for pace that lasted throughout the In another year or two.

match,

Nielsen complained soveral times that Harum, last year's National Junior Indoors Cham- pion, was foot - faulting and showed his impatience at the time Harum took in relaying year's the balls and getting ready to

QUEENSLAND "FIND"

Emerson, the proud "find" of Queensland tennis officials, got his first big break when he was included in the Davis Cup train for ing #quad Challenge Round,

Tho Queenslanders

last

thought

team being extremely unkind they had something when they to the League of Ireland babes, came up with fan Ayre a couple I had thought Rober Byrne of of years ago. He bothered both Manchester United hod the Selxas and Traberi in the 1951 genuino

left-back season, but his star petered out touch. This boy Mansell is a fast. much more polished performer,

England

WEEK-END SOFTBALL

League fixtures and umpires for The following are the Softball

the week-end:

TOMORROW

Juntor.-C.A.A. (1) y Comets (Ground A), 2.30

umpires. 2 3. Ling, Larry Tau. K. Bussain: Maumaus v Rookles (B), 2.30 p.m.. Last season Astley took Bill Silva. M. Ferras, L. Lab: Fan- Djurgardens, Swedish crack Ciba (A), 4 p.m.. F. Poon, amateur team, right into Mos-v 25 Gunners

R. Osman, R. lfamet; C.AA. (8) (B). 4 p... M. cov town and

Maumaus. played the Nunes, Dynamos and Spartak.

SUNDAY

SOTVC

"STALLING TACTICS":"" "Hanum threw me off my game with his stalling tactles," Nielsen anid later,

Harum

cracked Nielsen's service in the ninth and through

deciding game of the second set, "We didn't get Ian young scoring on skimming placements enough," commented the tennis and passing shots, Harum also ofcials He was 23 when they was stronger than usual with sent him to Wimbledon in 1952, his powerful service;

Emerson lost when he played Fourth-seeded Sven Davidson England's Billy Knight in the of Stockholm, Sweden, registered Rational Junior Champlonship two easy victories. Davidsson, final. He showed a tremendous who beat Nielsen for the indoor

promise in other title in New York on Monday,.... amount of pro any matches, though he didn't score beat Genry Slobin of the Univer any surprise victories. He has sity of Miami, 6-8, 6-4, 6-3, in a smooth style, good service a second round match halted by and can cover a tennis court darkness last night. like greased lightning.

He then went on to beat Cal

of Ragan

Gastonia, North Carolina, 6-2, 0-4.

Lome Main of Vancouver, Canada, defeated Orlando

in

Fraser is the son of the Vic- torian Minister for Labour. He has been one of the top Juniors

Melbourne

for years, but never got the breaks on the big Garrido of Havana, Cuba, 6-2, stuff. He broke into the lime--3, to move into the quarter-

linal-United Press, Ught, however, when he gave Lewis Hoad a bad shock in the ever saw. Dynamos won, the first game Senior "A".—Braves

Victorian Singles Championship. Williams finished up in hospital 4-1, but the Swedish drill was

(A), 2_p.m., 11. Wing Lee, Chev and Gardner looked as though much better

Trol, Chen Yue-fal: South Ching Ho took the first two seis of against League Santa (A), 3.30 p.m., A. Oliveira, their second round clash, God, he had walked straight into a leaders Sparlak, who were F. Marques, 1 Brave. bus,

6-4, and led 4-3 in the third shocked in a 1-1 draw. And

Senior "D".-P.I. Dodgers vbefore Hoad pulled his socks that after "days and nights of Americans (A), it a.m., W. Woo. up and got himself out of fantastic hospitality."

Lem Ping. Y. Tipe.

2

In the doubles finals to- morrow, Grinda and Davies will meet the brothers Johnny and But, after all, fghting is Guillermo Jose, the lafter tough occupation. The going is former Philippine Junior Cham-hard, but the reward for the top plon whom the French Junior Champion is Ukely to meet the singles final,

in

men is middling handsome.

The margin between Cocicell, Williams and Gardner is as slim But for his over-confidence, as a fly-weight. Let us sort the

have could

won his thing neatly out and give the Grinda match with Eddie Dunge yester-fight fans the break they de day: Grinda lost the first set serve,

Warrior

Ladies' Senior.-Pandas Cal❤ Jeens (A), 9.30 .m., Art Ozorio, Q. Bouza, A. P. Turner,

+

trouble,

In the National Championshipe Fraser fought for every point be- Wa-fore Seixos subdued him 947,

8-6, 7-5.

Informer, Astley comments: "Both Russian teams played excellent football and will be hard to beat

Ladlen Junior.-C.A.A. V but I am sure book "B" (B), 9.30 a.m., F. Diests. that Arsenal can win. After all R. Honniball, G. Yon. my team

wag completely amateur-they

рау

Dal also reminds one and ail of the Russian referee system

play."

even

20 | Stephen's quintet, in its 11th second at 8-6. Their match was Williams....and please excuse with the referee taking

Toul (for eight-wickets) 401

Fall of wickets: 1/33; 2/76; 3/226; 4/227; 5/300; 0/321; 7/350; 0/390,

Gomez

Worrell

Ramadhin

Valentine

Atkinson Stollmeyer Walcott

Bowing:

O M. R

appearance here.

Last night's game was the tenth victory in 11 games for the visitors. In the tenth gamo tied with the Manila they Chinese Interporters 30-all.

Lost Wednesday the Hong- W kong girls scored their ninth win over the Manlia Tigers, by 32-28. The star of the Hong- kong team was W. K. Lee, whom the local guarda simply 3 Just could not stop. She scored olen points,

32 0 70

10

6 39

02 31 102

88

27 70

3 20

Th Hongkong players will Byes: 18; no-balls 2-Reuter, return home by plane tomorrow after their vbay successful Manila visit.—France-PreESE,

HOME SOCCER-

London, Feb, 26.KARMY ATHLETIC

Charlton Athleifo and New

4-0 but managed to win the I insist that it be Gardner v

stopped by darkness, and theme while I duck, third set will be played today. Dunge is the third seeded local entry.-France-Presse,

TIRED OF DUCKING

to

ono

JAPANESE IN P.I. MEET side of the pitch and the two

Tokyo, Feb. 25. linesmen patrolling the other The Japan Athletic Associa aide, both with full powers of tion said today it will send a And, on the point of duck-control-no- doubt this double | group of 11 mon to Manila next ing, a man who is sick and tired act is completely left wing.

month to compete in the of dodging the blows is wee

Philippines track and fold George Raynor, who trained

championships. Sweden's Soccer team which And Psst! again. Want to

The Association And a ready-made left back for group includes

said the He has been holidaying in England? The complete aspirin men and four wotten,

one coach, slx these parts and tells me: "I'm to this defence headache is 25- sick and tired of hearing about year-old Jack Manseil, now of the Hungary match."

They will leave. Japan Portsmouth.

March 9-Reuter.

Early Mist Not held Hungary to a draw. In This Year's

Steeplechase

Dublin, Feb. 25. Mr Joe Crimin's Early Mist, winner of last year's Grand Na tional Steeplechase at Aintree, and one-time favourite for this. year's race, will not run in the, event which takes place on

castle United played to a goal CHAMPIONSHIPS | Early bilet was reported In-

les draw in a First Division, League match todles

This mhich was arranged:

lart Baturday, Febru

Newcastle United wine.

In the FA Cup dithi

Doncaster zpatch.ml/

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Jured earlier this week.

The Army Inter-unit teamVincent O'Brien, his trainer, athletle championships for is very alappointed that Early Minor and Major Unsis will be astet cannot make a bid for the Held (today 7 dad) if i, tomDSTOW respectively bomb

will now ride

on both days

and the band of the

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Indians Beat

Malaya 13-0

Singapore, Feb. 25.

The Indian Hockey Fodera - ition touring team scored its eighth consecutive win at Ipoh Fraser plays a hard game, today by trouncing the Federa He slams down a twisting loft- tion of Malbyn team by 13 handed service and races to the goals to nil. But for the gallant net for punishing volleys and efforts of the home goalkeeper fierce smashes. He has a deadly the score might have been con- "loop-the-loop" forehand drive siderably bigger. which he hits high, with 4" lot of top-spin.

3 double player when

The Indian team's goalkeeper, Ram Prakash, did not have · a Fraser showed his worth as chance to do much with the. he ball except once during the 70 partnered Wilderspin against minutes of play. Selxas and Trabert: In the

As usual, the top scorer was National Doubles - semi-final, } tho Indlan

captain, Balbir The youngsters, with Fraser Singh, who got five goals. Paraj dominating, never relaxed their Gopal and Susinathan find: allack until they ousted the three goals each. Eight of the American Davis Cup doubles goals were scored in the second winners, 6-4, 12-10, 10-8.. half-Franco-Presse,

by Barry Appleby

THERE'S ROOM: BETWEEN THOSE TWO CARS,

BUT IT'S TOO LATE" TO GO TO. THING SHOW NOW,DEAR

Surt

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