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THE CHINA
SDAY, MARGED 2477 (1954.
BAN ON OVERSEAS PLAYERS
WILL HASTEN THE COUNTY CRICKET SLUMP
If County ericket attendances slump in the next year or two- and they will the people who run the game, or let it walk, will blame television. Nothing is more certain than that.
After all, what is more natural, if anyone rubkes a mistake, than to try to lay the blame on someone else?
overyear players
And cricket's rulers, for my, of a year or two, can so easily) wa got back to normal after the manry, have just made a whop- | mike" the county championship) war, nud in eight years it in por. In fact, Bill go so far an to) into a tournament where there usually accepted that at least by that the closing of the door to jare niere teuma trying to make the nucleus of a new Test side
just aboti
don't high at the will be available, Kurs they
If you say the biggest blunder they endld bottom than thare are sides wo've got two player towards possibly
1 this concerned
the with
remote that eleven, neither of them pability of taking the title? exactly cilablished
the moment, that's about as far as haven't closed ! the down but have inercly al
you can go right now.
have
juncture.
You sity
Sity they
tered
three,
county
that's
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These
saidi
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nt
buited
the
widened the
NO NEW TALENT If they do. I don't. the rule whereby over-
For all And If anyone tells me that wol: players will have to
I can see
coming from this
the general county standard of such Instead
things years dericton are
Procent years is anything like it before making their way into Northamptonshire being thrown was a the thirties, I shall say
1< If back
the position of being either he isn't churepionship ski
very observant your
1 polentiul wooden Interpretation,
spounists or that he's more easily pleased make the seriousness they were so many times with than most. tu It quite ele.
the likes of Somerrel, Keril, and This is A clear case of
Jumping Previously, players have been! others in very much the same!
the
fun. 15 the allowed to play league cricket, state,
powers that be had waited for outside the counties for which
arc counties where the flow of eached talent to were qualifying. But that there are no highly paid jobs the equal, and us for League pron, to til in the outsiders, all would be a but
Lancashire, for me they've fat as I enne, that completely qualifying period. ruins out the posibility of any who could cash in on the others' gap instead of waiting for it to further importations.
misfortunes, have
they close, won't. Yorkshire
play only
Perhaps this is cricket's way CAN'T AFFORD IT
"homers"-and don't
mean of saying "Thank you" to the Why? Berause many of the football refereesi
they Chancellor for treeing it of les fashionable counties manage couldn't care less.
Entertainment Tax-by making, to exit only as a result of the And none of the poorer sure the Cricket khan't be cut they get from the profits of relations can afford to import
entertaining. Whether four,
Arul none of these, the the kind of
turn which can the position or not, I contend imes who really need strengthen- | ratse 'their playing stock and that
fuko
blow than is readily apparent at this time,
NO DIFFERENCE My recent reforence to the growing concern among Soccer relevees that stiffer penalties are frequently meted out to amateur players in Junior competitions than Football Lengue players for similar, or even worse, offences, has caused a good deal of comment, and one or two FA councillors intend to raise the matter with the
appropriate committees in the near future, In defence of the present
10
that's
the championship at the same time bring in the Tar harde, dealt the game a
competition at all, can afford shekels. to keep a cricketer in idleness, 1 wouldn't mind if all the Just letting his beard grow, for high-powered coaching schemes thanne whole summer before of which we've been told were the chance-certainly providing a steady how of home blenate nfter such a long talent of sufficient ability to give Jay-un-to prove his worth. us good strong county sides.
Do the game's rue think But that isn't happening. they are being wise in inaking In fact, there have been eight decision which, in the course full summer: of cricket since
Fourth Test Ends
In A Draw
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Port of Spain, Mar. 23.
The fourth Test between› England and the West Indies ended in a draw today, the final scores being West Indies, 681 for 8 declared and 212 for four declared; England, 537 and 98 for three.
West Indies, five for no wicket overnight in their second innings, lost two wickets for 20 runs this morning after a light shower had delayed the start for 12 mbutes.
the
next over
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system, I kno
know that some
me FA folk have argued that if a
Pro- fessional player is given a
long term of suspension, his living is ilterally being taken away from bim, whereas with an amateur, since his bread and butter is not affected, he can be given a longer term
Frankly, that doesn't add up for me.
UP being paid or not, if the offences Whether a player is are the same, I contend that a professional who kicks over the traces should be dealt with at least as stiffly as an amateur.
REBENTED
What's
the more
players are taking a very po
11
whole
SOUND IDEA TOU MARKED IN A STABLE
WHEN OFFERED YOU A DRINK
THE "I'M A STRANGER ROUND THESE PARTS SYSTEM
Ailiter.
Women Athletes Still Don't Get Serious
Attention In America
New York, Mar, 23,
After the excellent showing by Russia's women in the 1992 Olympies, America vowed It too would have first. class women athletes by the time the 1956 Melbourne Olympics arrived, but there have been few deeds to back up the promises.
FORCE ROBE
Transfers Can Act
As
A Blood Transfusion
What commonplace happenings are soccer transfers-yet what a stir they always cause among the fans of the clubs concerned. Immediately the voices of the die-hard brigade are raised up: "The transfer-system is ruining the game....ham- stringing the development of young players..........giving men an inflated notion of their own value....destroying team spirit....
On the other hand, are heard the milder voices of the people to whom the word TRANSFER, does not automatically spell apoplexy. They merely query: "Is the player worth all that money? Will his style dovetail with the team's? Will he settle down in his new surroundings? Will the change affect his form?”
In November Ford was trans- Of course there in somethirig Yet it wan not until playing ferred to Cardiff at a reported In what the die-hardn say. Yet for the first team against Bolton fee of £90,000. At Sunderland
there
a he had been discontented. Te really a striking | thought his style did not it in
rest of the
uansfer-can often get us a Wanderers that soccer blood transfusion. This chance to get Is expectully so when
ond
brilliant
WHO
centre-
centre-
strong
players line to Dunmore's fon and with that of the spectators alike feel that potentialities. Opposite him that Sunderland forwards. thefr football is in a rut-a say was the situation mostly likely to occur forward Not Lofthouse,
MODIFIED What is thin when honours are out of reach,
style? It is Lofthouse, who
seems as quite different to that of Loft- vet relegation presents no dan-popular on away rounds as he house and the players I mention- ger. Then a transfer can act as is at home, always revents on ed above. It is the a tonic.
essential yet almost indefinable bustling spearhead kind of Down at Tottenham 1 stir quality for a good
centre forward play that Ford was
chused recently by the forward-the transfer of 20-year-old centre forward lihe ability to hold his exploits.
together, and to Yet, strangely enough,
since forward David Dunmore, from keep them moving us a unit in the joined Cardiff. Ford has York.
mid-field while will popping up modilled that style to 'Very in front of goal' whch chances good effect. Now he acts much IMMENSE INTEREST
are going begging.
more as a line-holding centre- Clear Indication of the Im-
Other
centre-forwards of this forward, mense interest in him came with type are Len Duquemin,
who
Has Welsh fervour and doter- his first
gainst Ply-played such a wonderful part in mination anything to do with match mouth Argyle. The White Hart the Spurn successer of two and that? I think it must have. Lone oftendance figures were three seasons oro; Ronnie Allen,
-(London Express Sarvica) noticeably above the average for of West Bromwich: Bill Holden,
of Burnley
and Stuart Leary,
reserve
Dark-red, and six-foot tall,0%.
erett
is an apprentice conch- Lofthour brilliant heading Final
adequate programme, particularly with the dynamic Babe Colony Junior
- as
Women athletes still do not get serious attention in America. The professional women golfers have an Didriksen Zaharias a former Olymple champion an attraction, and the girl tennis players also get some attention, although women's singles matches still scheduled as programme-openers at Forest Hills, with the men getting all the choice time spots.
uro
From ал
Callover On The
1
Lincolnshire
Dunmore builder at York. He came to exponent-must himself Spurs with a tally of 22 goals bren immensely impressed by In 32 first team games to his the
Dunmore way
jumped creclit. And in that firs re- astonishingly high in the air to serve match for Tottenham he nod down Spure victory goal showed that public interest was against Bolton. justifled.
Dunmore displayed
GOOD INDICATION enthu- siasm, speed, elever combination, and-what is so important for more's ability, and" no
No better yard-stick to Dun- better
London, Mar, 23, centre-forward powerful indiention to his possible future, Dumbarnie and Arctic
accurate could have been given than this Slave shooting, and strong heading.
Anished
joint up on-the-spot
With comparison Lofthouse. And Dunmore came favourites at ten to one for out of the test with flying the Lincolnshire Handicap colours.
at tonight's final callover up-and-coming at the Victoria Club, Lon- centre-forwatd whose career don. The race is being run has just been given a boost by
on Wednesday. transfer, turn now to an estab-
Monsieur - Isy, with whom Ushed contre-forward in similar
they had been bracketed as circumstances. Nery, tearaway joint favourites Welshman Trevor Ford,
at Monday's callover, romained at 100-9. He was joined on this mark
Desert brained
another colt whose price came in froni 100-8 on being backed to win £8,000.
There was sound support for
fancies, most on
backed to win £10,000, Postman's Path, Vienna, Mar, 23.
backed to win £7,000, was cut Zatopek, the Czech four points to 18-1.
Fencing Championships
But women amateur athletes and gymnastics, American's feel in Olympic events truck and that held,
there is something un- gymnastics, and swimming-receive scant public a girl competing in sprints or even feminine und even ludicrous n
Further preliminary and support. In fact, there much shot-putting.
quarter-final rounds of the disapproval of women in track Thus 19 per cent of American Colony Junior Fencing girls never even try their Championships were fought abilities at athletics, there is not much public support, last night. there is little financial support,
100 MPH T.T.
Laps This Year, Geoff Duke Says
amateur After half an hour's play, Aller ica Ferguson, going view of the
situation. Bruce Pairaudeau
his behind hit
the wickel for West Having read my earlier remarks, wicket as he drew away from u Indies, caught Watson and pinyer who had been suspend- short rising ball from Batley. Spooner in successive overs. ed for a month and fined by the Everton Weeken was off the MeWett, the regular wicket-West Riding FA wrote and sent mark at the first ball, but in keeper, had May caught off his me the form concerning the
was brilliantly bowling. taken by Ken Suttle at short
The inevitable
"Judgment" against him. drow came "The offence," square leg off Trueman,
Be wrote, England be for three.
"WDS
swearing at the referee, England.
stonen In the which I admit, for when one series, must now win the final exerted one does let the odd Test at Jamalea to square 'the word slip. But what rubber.
ing people, including myself, is the
rapidly growing practice of
amateur faing Crankly resent being made to feel ilke
Д naughty boy, & Incidentally, you will notice the 44 number of times the word fine for
appears on the form." 50元 I did. On
three-quarters of
Frank Worrell was missed. by Alan Mocs at fine leg off a skier from Dents Compton when he had scored two and went on to make 50 before failing to Lock.
Walcett was not out 61, and Atkinson not out 53 at the de- claration.
THE SCOREBOARD West Indies, 2nd Innings
B. Pairaudeau, hit wicket b.
Bailey...
!
asti, and
players.
I
Zatopek To Be
*
And since off at the European Faster, 'Redder”
LACK OF MONEY
In New York City there are only 6,000 girls registered in the school extra-curricular athletic programme. In 1950 there were 43,000. The reason? Lack of money.
I 1950 the male coaches `of
Competitors are requested not
Emil
21
all the barnle With
Bert
backed outsider Was
supported to
and reduced
in
QUOTATIONS
Finnt offers were: 10-1 Dubmarnie
and Arctic
10049 Monsieur-Iny and Desert
Slave,
Way:
18-1 Postman's Fath; 20-1 Nahar Ministrol;"
and Romany
22-1 Swashbuckler'
Charles Mannering;
25-1 Sailing Light,
to leave the fencing arena, with-runner, has pledged himself to out Art ascertaining that their break the world record over 10 An Enigmatist, matches have been completed.kilometres (about 8.214 miles) win £8,000 Last night one contestant who and the Czech record over five price from 40-1 to 33-1. had qualided for the quarter.
lometres (about 3.107 miles) Before leaving for Italy,
left the where he is now texting the
arena end con, this year, the Czech Trade lost his chance to
Union paper, Prace, said. four-cylinder Gilera he will
compete for the semi-finals.
He headed a list of sportsmon The following were promoted who resolved under this "Zato» ride in this year's motor-the boy's sports struck for more to the semi-finals from Monday cycle Grand Prix,
-only to Geoff
pay: In many cases they con- and last night, and will contest pel Movement" not Duke told members of the ductes
break a record but also to fulfil regular
in the semi-inals tonight at the classes
certain political tasks. that a 100 mp.h. lap Edinburgh and District M.C. academic subjects and got no same venue commenting at 0
"In the political education was money at all for the time spent p..
Semi-finalists: Woo,
class, I shall graduate with in conching.
Yung, distinction at the end of the possible in the Isle of Man
Goodall, Pearce, Chan, Hazel, T.T. races this year.
After a prolonged strike, the Ngen. Lam (from Monday year", the newspaper quoted men got some measure of their night). Chang Sing-cheng, F. Zatopeic as saying. He had goodl reason for 80 demands, but nothing at all was Fung, Wong Loy, Lou Kwok-
Last June Ray Amm, given to doing.
Among other sporismen the women teachers chu, Hung Hak-to, Bay, Shelley, undertook on à Norton, raised the record who also were coaching girls in George Wu (from last night).
the 37-mite circult to sports. So the women teacher. 97.41.in.ph.
coaches quit the extra work, and Since then corners have been 1 a page of duplicated foolscap, eased all round the Isle of Man
vanished. 63 it appeared tumor, four times course and the slowest half-
in the space of tour lines.
milo, leading to Governor's It is estimated by authorities IT WAS FATE
Bridge, has been considerably that $63,000 per year is needed has widened,
carry on a programme for Coupled with these road im- girls. In 1954 the budge! provements arc the increases allotment was $3,500. -"Wickets foll. at 18, 20, 72 and think the one item be perhaps which have been. inade in the
overlooked which made the speed of the Italian, German Most other American cities whole form so laughable was and, It is hoped. British racing York. They just do not bother
FOR THE are much the same as New W the typing orror in the final motorcycles.
ASIAN GAMES 1 paragraph, which read:
to try to interest the girls in sports, and then coach them
Colombo, Mar. 23. expertly.
-A team of seven, which will LA
fow collegas emphasiso compete in four events, has maximum sports for girls and the Negro been forwarded to the Asta THE EDITOR
W. Ferguson, b. Bailey E. Weekes, c. b. Trueman
Pools Ou Danish F. Warrel, e. sub b. Lock
Cricket League
The
Walcott, not out Atkinson, not out
Extras
Copenhagen, Mar,28,-- nowly-formed Danish Cricket Association decided, at its first meeting, to organisers competitive lesaguo among the eight beat teams in: the country 11. will promotion from and re
Jegation to minor leagues.
Totul (for four wickets
docl.)
it welcomed alson proposal Trueman that pools should be run on the Bailey resutis as in football, as this Compton
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This particular player 212been side-lined fer ont month,
and fined # guinea. But
All terms of ruspension commence from the fate shown Don this notice, unless specifically 1 stated otherwise.
Bowling
12
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0 51
0 0 48
10 2 40
5 0 199 England, End Innings Watson, e. Ferguson" b. Worrell
32
Spooner,
Ferguson
b.
10
would impresse interest in the Hutton game. "Games will be one-day | Look fixtures arranged only at week" | Oraveney chismsChina: Mall Spociα),
NEW TERRITORIES
FANLING UN LONG
SHEUNG SHUI DISTRICTS. NOTHER CHINA MAIL
· Is now-oktałhak
from the SHIUNG STA
HUL
Ramadhin
P. Mday, c. Worrell b.
McWatt
Hutton, not out
“T. Gravenwy; not out
Extras
0 Well, perhaps that's fate affer
ail!
Japanese Table
the athlelle programme for girls
to
10
who "Socialist obliga- tons" were 'Kouef Dolezal, The following are the rasults of walker, Stanislav Jungwirth, a last night's quarter-finaly matches: long distance runner, and Dana Wons Loy Fung 3: Mucker Zatopkova, Zatopek's wife, the 1: Chang Bing cheval 1: BAY
Pool George Hung Hais-10-4; Shelley - Kallang : Dum Hopalsh defaulted.
wong Loy 3
4.
CEYLON'S TEAM
2:
#
newspaper said,
Sportsmen who join the Zato pek
movement pledge them selves to improve their own and their fellow, sportsmen's per- formances and political educa-
tion.--Reuler. ·
LETTER TO
1
Wrong Unit
and
28-1 "Ambassador'g Court, Wallnge Tower and Chivalry: --
Langton Brig, Brawny Scot and An Enigmatist;
40-1- Magic Tangram;
Circle
and
60-1 Wych Au Poor, 'Harry Lime, Light Mist, Nullabor and Melinda; 60-1
Rosa Castle, Kalgull, Oriental Ray und Shandagan,
100-1 All others.
Next callover on the Grand National will take place on tho Wednesday evening, with final callover en Friday-Reu- ter.
POLICE TO HOLD „ROAD RACE
FASTEST MACHINE
Last year the Gilera was probably the fastest of all mathines, with a spood of around 135 mph. But colleges such as Tuskegee lead Games Association in Manila, It
this. In New York City, was announced here today, there were others, including the in
The Dowman Trobhy. Road The team comprises: British AJS "twin and Norton the Police Athletic League offere
Race open to all serving mem➡: "single," which
Boxing-C. were only some competition for girls, and
Jayasuria,
bers of the Hong Kong Polices produced Mac few th.p.h. slower.
. Faggs
and H. P. Jayasuriya and G.
Foroo will take place at 8 pm. Dolores Dwyer for the 1052 Adams..
Sir-Will you
please note tomorrow. bron
that the team that played the
start Athletics-N. Ethiriveerasing-Walch A' In the Colony Seven: Middle Road, Kowloon,, along
zuca will- ham and Juno de Kreisér, a-Bides gugby was 27 Light By Chatham Пload, Ma Tau Wai Swimming-Groffey Marks. (Strange's Coy) RA, and not 27 Road and Prince Edward Bond
S. Wrestling M.
Ameen, LAA, RA, as reported in your inishing at Boundary Street whose name has been forward- latter is gompletely
Club ground,
The signed and will likely Olympic team-United Press.
18 Tennis Team Face be
30
0
*Fotol "(for three wickets) OS
Wickets fall at 59, 62 and '88.
ENEMEDIJAL
A Stern Test
London, Mar. 24. The Japanese table tennis team, due here on Friday, MRW face astern test in the 21st 128 1.0 World Championships to be held at Wembley from ¡¡April 5 to 14.
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•
1 it will be a toat of tho Oj Asiatic defensive style.ugaitist the aggressiva type of play adopted by players in most offer parts of the world.
On the performances of the
| team;;; the first from Japan to (kompeten in) Turope, “ *may* * „de- pend the fubire strategy adopted by Jahaneta, playmen.
surprised estery
When
One by
(two years.2
they thibught" "their"
it
PRESENTATION
Gilera engine has now
nearly 150 m.p.h. In trim With such increases in spoed will become more and more difficult for a good young rider to go straight from
A farewall presentation' will #mistera
ed sa-a-late entry, status as a Manx Grand Prix be made to Mr A. F. Weir by Captain Duncan White winnor to a place in a factory his cricketing colleagues at the been named as manager of the team.
Kowloon Cricket Club Fat "6.30 | leam to travel, to Manila.-' this evening.
United Press.
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by Barry
has different unit.
NO, DARLING, TENGIST MIT WAS MY FAULT
THERE YOU GOʻABAIN
ALWAYS WANTING
CAPT. P.RICHES. RA.. ~27. Light Aky, *(Strange's Cor) -RA.
The
-Tide year it him, attrmoladiti Totalentry of 120 mer.
The Police Road Race, Cham...”. bion FC. 4110 Lo Kwong-ching": will be defending his title,
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