1954-05-14 — Page 7

LEAGUE TENNIS

Following are the results of

"A" Division Lennia Kames played yesterday:

KOC 3 BCAA 0.

K. Lo and T. Lo (KEYI

Jost

To

K. E. p and K. Lain 0-5, last to

Liang and K. C. Dau 1-8, breat

D. Hzetu And . W. Khu 0-4.

A. Augestori and P. Hali (K(C) Joal to Ip and Lan 3-0, low to Lang and Dao 8-7. bent Hreim and K 54.

d. During and E Loon KUCI lost to lp and 1 1-4,

Lost ter

Liang and Das 4.0, bent Szeto and Kho 0-4.

LRC 45 UC 34 Bath Book and W drew with

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E

O A Smart Zalouf 6-6, beat D Barnell and N Buckey 0-2, beat E E Story and 2. W 5-0

C. Cheng

K and W (BCAA) Treat Smart mit Zulauf 6-3. beat Barnett Bad Blurkey 8-1, beat Story and Wilma 5-0

KM Get nad K. Wan led to Smart and Ztek 1-0. Em 1 Barbell and Stuckey 1-0

Story and Wills 4.0

IK In 1 CTC 0-9

M.

Heenan and L

just

10

Goldman

Orkeci lost lo WP Thu nad T F. Choy 2-6,

V. T Wong and S. W. Wong 3-1, lost to y

Tui And No 3-0

J Mohie at 1 M Machber Aun Ke lost to Tai and Che

4-0 at to Wang rod Wong 3-5. tomi tu mai and To 5.7

and

11

Calvert

Het fo

Moore RT (HKG) Fast Tull and hay 1-4. font to Wing and Wang 3-0.

Taul and Tu 19

Mr S (SCAA

LADIES' DOUBLES

CUT DIA

Indie' doubles "A" Division Case SCAA beat USBC by 4-k

"Me N Yourst lett Mr Parrez adid Mrs Altrow 1d, beat Mr Kelle and Mr Andrews 1-3, beat Mrs L'ox and Mrs Launtos 0-4

Mrs N

Chow and Min ( Inoa wx Albrow (SCAA) beat Farrer

7-8, bent Kellet and Andrews 1-0, bent l'ox and Lanka -

Mrs K In and Miser HY LA (SCAA) bent Farrer wind Albrens G-4, beat Hellet and Astrewn 1 beat Dux aes Lambooy 8-3

LNC Just to Ken 3-8.

Mrs Kile and Min Phillips (LitC lost to Mrs Slukes and M Dow 2-0. crew with Mrs Liang and firm Ayles 0-6; beat Mix Thompseta avel Minn Fincher 4-0

Nord Hill and Mrs chertunm d lost to Mre Stokes ated Mrs Dow 2- iont

to Mrs Liang and Mrs Ayles 0-4 treat Mrs Thompram new! Mit Finder -3.

Mr Baker and Mrs Milthen (LHC) drew with Men Stokes and Mrs Spraw 0-0, Jom To Mrn Liang and Men Ayios 1-6, tost to Mia Hth and Mrs Cheetham 3-4.

Volunteers Centenary Golf Contest

in the Volunteer Centenary golf tournament al Fanling on Sunday, the noming compet!- tion will be an 18-hole Stable- ford on handicap and in the afternoon there will be a four- % of the competition, difference between wombined handicaps being taken.

NOBIČN

Lunch will be served at 1.30 p.m. It is hoped that all com- forces on the petiors will join "Volunteer" table at that tune.

A rail bus will leave Kowloon Station at 8.10 Am

for those

and

wishing to travel by rall.

the return bus wil leave Shrung

Shul at 0.24 p.m.

Following

Umes:

arc the starting

Did Course

vi.. Gold- 1.28 3. D. S. Robb man; 3. G. Alkenhead y II. G. L. Oliphant; 936, L. M. 8. Lloyd vn. Collin: 9:40. W. T Crunden v D. Hung: 9.44 S. V. Gittina v F. R. Zimmert; 9.98. F. Owen Hughes E luttemler: 0.03, J. B. Kite y N. V. A. Croucher; 0.50, M. Daniel v F. N. Katil.

2.15 p.m.. Bobby/Goldman_v Ituntor/ Pearoo; 2.20, Allketthead/Oliphant v Leitch/Eastman: 1.25, Penn/Black v Stoker/Collings; 2.30, Crunden/Hung

Holmes Whiammon; 2.35. Gittles Zimmern v Pritchard/Lee: 2.40, Owen Hughesluttemler v Mackie/Plana 2.45, Kite/Groucher v Kilbee/Grange; Danel/Kent * MeNummer/ Slater,

12.50.

New Cours

9.29 0.171., 2. D. Hunter v T Pearce; 932. J. R. Letten v A. L G, Eastman; 8.36, W. Atoker y W. R. K. Collings: 9.40. D. R. Holmes VHB Williamson: 9.44

1.

Pritchard R. E. Lee; 9. J. B. Mackie v A. 1. Pinna; 9.52 L., D. Kilben y C. W. Orange: 9.50, P. J. McNamara y P. N. Binter.

INTERNATIONAL BASEBALL TOURNAMENT

Milwaukee, May 14, Champion ecmi - profecalonot

baseball teams from four con. tinents will compete here next year in the fil International

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1954.

MCC v.

YORKSHIRE AT LORD'S

AM

P. E. Richardson (MCC) drives R. Appleyard (Yorkshire), who is playing his first match since a serious illness which has kept him from playing for about two years, for two runs to put the MCC 50 runs up for no wirkels. The wicket. keeper is R. Boath (Yorkshire) and on the left is Freddie Trueman (Yorkshire).

Roger Knew He Could

Climb His

'Everest'

By DESMOND HACKETT

Rager Bannister of Britain became the first man on earth to beat the four- minute mile when, down at his old University track here at Oxford on May 6, he put up a new world record of 3 minutes 59,4 seconds,

It was the first attempt by the 25-year-old medical student to become the fastest miler in the world.

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"My job was to take Ruger to Chris Chataway? I must thank and the three-quarter-mile mark in him."

three mindes and that was how Tup ||

Here is the story of the -4 Fut between AAA Unversity mulers with

by a OMTYLER BOY

A false start. The

Jogged away. Jinted ata were off.

Tunners

p again,

Bannister, rooting for AAA, stumbled slightly. Twenty-five-¦ year-old Chris Brasher, peering intently through his glasses, pushed out in front.

NO QUIET

It was all so quiet you could beur the wind whistling through the trees and a rope slapping noisily against # flagpost.

It worked out

BANNISTER

"For the first

find felt really comfident that

could do t

ENGLISH-STYLE

לזון

The public announcement of this record-shattering race must go down as the most perfect piece of English detachment

athlete, The former Oxford At the three-quarter-mile and

an old Norris McWhirter. with one lap to go, the hell school bell ring, and the Ume | more emption than a porter core Three minutes and point announcing the next train five seconds."

Crewe, reelled~~

"The result of event oumber

Nu. 41. nine. First,

R. G. Bannister, AAA and formerly of Exeter and Merton Colleges,

a time which with 41 meeting and track record, andl which.

subject to ratideation, will be British National, a British all- new English native, a

It was now that the 2,000 eruwd rose and started to call Hannister Bone. But there was still

excitement. no crazy WIN stil I‡ገ English sports

There was a gasp of surprise WIND COST HIM

TWO SECONDS

tie

when,

at the 220 murk. announcer intoned impersonally. "Twenty-seven seconds,”

BANNISTER. "I did not catch what he said auch thought he had called out 30 seconds. I shouted to

'Faster, firasher fuster.""

BRASHER "I reckoned were going to toreck the thing by starting fast, and was shaken when Roger gave me the whip for more pace

I could have wept to find a wind blowing, for I was certain Bannister could do if conditions were in

any way reasonable.

This was virtually Bannis- ter's last chance this season, three weeks he would have passed his peak.

in

on

Bul for the wind. which 1 reckon was about 20 miles At the quarter-in/le

ዉስ hour blowing diagonally It was

down the track 50 that he stili a slent.

unmoved crowd

it faced

bend, when the time announced was

the last estimate Bannister would "Fifty-seven point live seconds." |

have bettered his time by AL 600 yards bis

two adviser, at

seconds. - least Austrian Franz Stampf, called | FRANZ STAMPFL, Ausirian out to Bannister, "Relax, relax," adviser to Bannister,

us Bannister moved smoothly past.

BANNISTER · "That call mada feet really good i felt then

I had a great chance."

crowd DIL May evening in Oxford, watching a chap doing

a jolly good job.

At the half-mile the shatter- ing time, ugain announced with the alr of a man

the With 250 giving

"One hatchel-faced caine:

point

weather report, minute fifty-eight Acconds."

IN CONTROL

yards to

Bannister two control. His lean leg lengthen- ed into a long, classical stride,

W

comers, European, British Em- pire, and world record. The ilme was three minutes · fifty-

༥༥༠ nine point four secunchs."

There is no doubt about this magnificent best-ever eventual- offietat. The becoming Amateur Athletic Association carefully tied the event with a battery of st

stop-watches.

Ty

Wis

In fact, one man alune was timing the 1,500 metres, and ho able to announce that Bannister hard equalled world record for this distance in 3 minutes 43 seconds.

-London Express Service)

JOHN LANDY

SHORTENS

HIS STRIDE

the Turku, Western Finland, took

May 18. Australian star miler

For the first time the specta-Be b71 stoutly straight into John Lundy today revealed tors sensed the greatness of the headwind that blew down that he has to shorten his the occasion. They commenced the last bend.

strides for Finland's cinder to clap.

Then he was the straight, tracks but said that this docs his tortured face fighting for

with not shorten his possibilities At 1,100 yards Brusher, pale-breath, his head rolling faced and reeling, moved to the fatigue, but his stride sull of cracking the four-minute

and full of cour-mile. In the lead for the first time.

agcous power, Red-hairedi Chris Chataway As he broke the tupe he almost sprinted to take up the stumbled and fell unconscious, lead and the Job of pace- and it was only when the crowd making.

put up three cheers that ho

outside lane and Bannister was magnificent

"My

first goal will be the four-minute mile," Landy sald.

“Running on cinders is qulio a different thing than on grass at home. It is a lot easier to

Last-Ditch Fight By Gunson Hoh Before The IOC

Athens, May 13.

Leading members of the International Olympic Com- mittee will on Monday discuss whether Communist China be given membership despite a last-ditch fight by Nation- alist China to remain the official member.

The battle to keep Nationalist China's represonta- tion on the International Olympic Committee as the only one for Chinese athletes is being waged by Gunsun Hoh, President of Nationalist China's Olympic Committee.

013 Monday the Congress', manship and International co- agenda includes action un mem- operation which lies behind the

Red be hip applications from

Olympics will beconie as empty China, East Germany, Northern as a Communist non-aggression Rhodesia, Ethiopia, the Do-

pact. minican Republic, Costa Rica ank Malaya.

You can't ignore a country 400,000,000 people," said one member with reference to Com- munist China. "The question is quite different from that of nd- mitting Red China to the United Nations."

Gunson Hoh, who flew to the Athens mecting from Manila where 250 Chinese athletes under his direction had been competing in the Astan Games, des not be beve that his problem diflers that much from that of the United States Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles.

PRINCIPLE INVOLVED

"The 100 cannot ignore the principle involved any more than the United Nations," tie toirt the United Press. "We are and always have been the legal Chinese Olymple Committee re- presentation.

Hol does

not agree with the predictions of IOC members, cuse he ant to point up his announced that he would launch an attack on the "amateur" tron Ching, status of athletes Soviet Russia and her satellites when the Congress considers a resolution on State subsidisation of athletes.

The Communists are destroy- ing the spirit of the Olympic Clames by malding a propaganda battle

out of compeition" he bad, "and to win this

make State-paid profes | they

sionals of their athletes,

battle

"Unless this trend is reversed, the meaning of amateur sports-

LAWN BOWLS

TEAMS

Following are the Club selec

bowls matches

tkins for

lawn this week-end:

Police R..

1st Division PRC KCC tomorrow al 4 pm at

"Then

the Olympics won't promote peace, but enmity."- United Press.

Botvinnik Retains World Chass Championship

Moscow. May 13. Russion chess master Mikhail Bolyinuik retained The world chess litle_today by drawing with Vasilly Smyslov, also of Russia, the 22nd move of the concluding zame.

Botvinnik

offered

the

draw which Smyslov ac-

repled after a tremendous contesi

The packed Telalkovsky fall

here. and the remit was greeted with loud cheering and applause both for Botvinnik and for Smyslov who put up a great fight.— France-Preure.

Empire Games Bowls Trials On Wednesday

The first trial match for The selection of a lawn bowls team to represent Hongkong at the forthcoming Empire Gaines in Vancouver will be held at the H.K. Football Club next Wednesday ut 6.15 p.m., it was decided at a meeting of the H.K. Lawn Bowls Association's Selec- tion Committee yesterday.

the

Twenty names of local bow- K. Bodie; H. Yulers, who will man, W. G. Wall, J. Good

represent T. Kavanagh, G. Perkins. Pope Colony selected, have been Finney.. Hircock, Hayward received. They are. J. A. uk,

C. Gough: Reserves, 11. B. Dewar, D. Bryan.

R. F. Luz, C. C. Pereira. A, A, 2nd Division PRC IRC tonow| Lopez, J. F. V. Ribeiro (Recreio);

Pat RCP Metcalfe. I. Woodfirau, P. Lowe, C. Willcox, N. Yoke, J. Fox, C. Plc, H. Mackenzie,

A. E, Coates, G. Hong Choy, G.

A. Souza, J. S. Landolt, E R. G. Arliss. W. Jones. D. S. Roberts, Rosselot (Cralgengower): C. M.

A. Soutar; Reserve, V. L. Veriga. Xavier (Filipino Club); A. M.

PRC. Friendly, v CXC tomorrow

at 4 pm at CCC. Foynton, Dempsey, T. P. Ross; C Harbert A. Russell. A. Stewart, 9.

H. Evans, T. Omar, M. B. Hussan (Indian R.

C.); J. McKelvic, W. C. Simp

Liddell son, E. J.

(Kowloon Bowling Green); E. Baker, J. Chubb, W. Hong Sling (Kow- loon C. C.): R. S. Gourley (Kowloos Dock Club).

Marvin: E. S. Jones. W. D. Foster W. Coton, W. Gilles, Reserve. R Cairns,

НКСС

HKCC CCC tomorrow at 3.30 pm at Chater Road. F. Marshall (skip). R. A. Edwards, J. Wyper, H. C. Banham D. Trail (skip) FD Angus, J. Moust. A. S. Mitchell; C Roundell, A. W. Brown. J. McAur Jand. K. Almao; Reserve. D. T Smith

НКРЕ

2nd Division HKFC v Recreio to- morrow at 3.30 pm at JKFC-K. B. Daker. P. Cotter, . . Butler,

J. Eastman and E. Greenwood, of KBGC, where comes had also been received, have withdrawn.

trial A second and third matches to select the team of Ro five Hongkong bowlers to Vancouver, will be held

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B. 1. Bickford (skip): A. Boyd. the Palice Recreation Club on Cowan, H. Ridzdale, F. F. Gee, M. May 24 and on May 31, at N. Rakusen (skip): T. Dyer, H. Van- Echten. W. McColl, KA. Baker green yet to be selected. (skip); Reserves, W. Taylor. J. BaD. nett.

Sixteen of the 20 players

remaining four

KFC, friendly, V HIKERC

to have been teamed off into two morrow at 3.30 p.m. at KENG.-W. 0, Franklin, S. C. Pascoe, S. Mills, rinks for the first trial on Wed- W. Taylor (skip) W. A. P. Thom,nesday. The G. Walker, J. W. Bennett, B. W will be pitted against four Smith (skip).

bowlers who will not be going to the Games.

LEAGUE BOWLS

BRÄSHER “I had done ali 1 feebly raised his arm 10 run on cinders but it calls for could. I did not have a decent acknowledge he had climbed his another style. i had my strides Recreio "Blues" UA. Rumjan, A. W. Hircout,

stride left."

CHATAWAY: "I knew that

the plan we had practised on all winter was taking place and

was all set to take over.

"Everest."

He shook his head wearily and Asked "Did I do it?"

repiled Stampå

"I think so." Bonnister muttered. "Where's

BANNISTER MOPS UP

THE OXYGEN

By Chapman Pincher

Bannister attributes his success to (1) his light-

bamball tournament, It was an- | weight build-he weighs 11 atone, which is low for a man

nounced yesterday.

6ft. 1gins, high; (2) his long stride which his 35in, legs

the tournament make possible; (3) the fact that his body can absorb

Officials of said that throughout this year, there would be championkiip elimination tournaments in In- dividual countries. These are: Japan, England, France, Ger many, Holland, Belgium, Speln, Italy Finland, Australia, Mexico, Canada and the United States

Elimination tournaments would be held again in 1955 to qualify the strongest teams from each continent, Japan would wond her national champion.

* The world tournament would be held her In Beptember, -1955--Hester,

and utilise eight and a half pints of oxygen a minute.

This deure, which is extreme- and times his.lops and final spurt

ly high even for a top athlete, ↑ precisely.

Is largely due to persistent Bannister belloves that an athlete does his best if he has training,

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of

no coach whom he can blame When he is resting Banalster

for failure consumes about half a pint of He first reaileed that oxygen a minute. In an aver could run fast at the age

this would Increase 15, when he won the "three- six-fold to about three pints mile cross-country run at Bath during hard exertion. Bennis School. ferm Oxygen intako increasɗa He did not do well at first at more than 18-fold when The Oxford, but impremed

selectors by his willingness to Experts consider that much of ❘ train under: the worst weather Bannister's success is due to the condition

"CLondon Express' Emelés) fact that he runs with, his head

runs,

...

the

in Melbourne measured about 216 centimetres at full speed.

"Here I started with the same strides but now I have shortened them to 190 centimetres, and I'm now running better,"

Landy's first ruco is on May 31.-United Press.

SPORTRAIT

MAR.CO

must say I welcome the cricket...'écanon-ft does give us a chance to:

get out again

Lonken Kagrain, Bergson.

Beat CCC

The Selection Committee comprises the following-Messrs M. N. Rakusen, G. C. Norman,

R. R. B. Marshall.

Flayers who find they cannot play on Wednesday, aro re- quested to inform the Hon In

* First

Division Lawn Secretary Mr R. B. Marshall es Bowls League match at Club soon as possible. de Recreio yesterday, Recrelo "Blues" bent Craigengower by three points to two.

Recreio lost on two rinks but an overwhelming 30-10 win by JF.V. Ribeiro's rink over. that of C. R. Rasselot gave them the aggregate points with a 71-58

SCOTE.

THE SCORES Recreio

A. Guterres 1. A. Ozorto

C. C. Pereira

R. F. Lua (skip)

8. E. Bouza

E. M. Alarcoun

2. PausON

J. A. Lux (skip)

A. P., Pereira

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C. Rota-Pereira

3. F. V. Ribeiro (skip)

P. Manson

A. Razack ăn. Hạng Cho

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CCC

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