1954-05-25 — Page 7

LEAGUE TENNIS

League tennis matches played yesterday resulted in two nar- Tow wins by the odd set in nine, registered by Police Re- creation Club against Post Office R.C. ash; Recreio(1) over

Servents Chinese Civil R.C. bath in the Men's C. Divi- slon Group B.

In Group A of this Division. the powerful Kowloon Tong players swamped Ladies

creation

Club(2) winning

acts played.

Rc- all

One match In the Mixed A Division was postponed un ac- count of the ground, that be tween HKCC arci South China which was scheduled to be played at Chater Road.

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The following are the results

MEN'S "O DIVISION (1)

Car (2) Beat URLC 715-14

C Lee and E Trok (CRC) bent

A Within and Flexman 0.0.

and N.

beat A Maden and 1 Weldon 0-4. and beat A # Curbed Fahy 4-1

Woo and D chay (CRC bræt wilkteas And Flexman 0.1 beat Malden and Weldon 0-1. and drew with Cukhead and Faby 0-0

T Y Chang and A Tak the

the at Wilkinson and Flextan 6-0;

Just to Malden and Weldon 1-8, anti

beat Cucired and Falty 0-2

LA (2) Lost To TUCA 0-5

Halloway

J (LNC)

X 9 bing 2-5

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and Poin 2-6, and lost to (5

Ling and T t Chen de.

J Rivire and Maynard BC)

Jou to Trang and K N

thng .0,

lost to Kho and Punn 3-d; and lust

Ling Chen 0-4

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7 W Wheries and J (LRC) lost lu Trang and K $ 4 30: bust to Kho and Poon 1-8; and

Ling and Chen 3-0 4

Rec Beat evrele 121 39-314

P Wood and V Duck XOTI heal GF Souza and

Tibeiro 6-4

J

Ardo and

L

Lost 10 A Nood 9.7 drew with

M

Remedios and J

Cobaco 1+1 Leonard and F. Abbas (RCO)

anet Sibeiro.

beat Mouza

5-3, rew with Azedo and Nox 6.0, beal Remedios and Collaro 0-2

Eglington

J

Sentens

(KCC) drew with Souza anul Ribeiro 4-0 tont to Azedo and Nowelt 3-0,

beat Remeras und Collaco 6-1

KIT Beat Urban Cianest R-1

} Kian and US Mumi (KITUE beat Leung and s Y Kwok

150. beat A W Lering, and ()

N

Yip B-2. beat Gets and K Vilax

6-1

Yused and

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Part

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to Leg WT! Typ

Golz and Yung 0-3

4.0. breat

Harlela

T. Khan and H N (KITC beat Leung and Kwok 0.2: brat Lettig und Yip 4, beat Getz sata Yung 5.4.

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MENTRO DIVISION (ET)

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1954.

..

SHE SPARKLED INTO LONDON, MATCHING THE SUNSHINE

That Lady... With An Engagement Ring

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND. in London with her new diamond ring, but

without the eye-patch that she will soon be wearing.

SPOTLIGHTING

★ IN 14 YEARS of letting the,

Prince Of The Feeds

1942 at £25 with Sid Field in u week-L15 less thon he was getting in a guar-playing act.

last other fellow have the laugh, Jerry Desmonde has been

ખ+ and

(th straight-man

tised is ever

Sid L

Field. tried

this Artur Askey, Bob Hope, Nor-

State feed The

Holog play und

word "sloage"

professionally }

$ Nur-

1+

Wo and

man Wisdom, and Governor of Ohio.

IRC (1) Lant To vke (1) 29

A Chresthaven and

sem LRC) out to (8

Wong 1-8. drew with K

Ne and Y Y iom 0-6 and beat MCN and YW Chung 0-4

H Aiers and

Wadner LR(") loat to Wu and Wong 4-0. Tout KC Ng and L 7.0, and lost to M. Ngned Chung 3-6

E

Andresen C Barty and p (LRC) Jost Wu and Wong 7-0: drew with XC Ng and Lam 0-0

to M C Ng und lust 2-0.

and Chung

PRC Beat PORC 5-4

JI W K. Heath and D Brown (PRC) beat A Crook and Y S

Fung 0-1 drown and NC Wong 9-6, and beat

Clith and N B

WB-3.

K

E. Tyrer and WM. Gillen (PRC) brat Crook and Fung 6-1; lost to

J Wong and N. C Wong 3-0; and drew with Chin and N, B Wong G-0.

A. R 8 Major and G Mathers (PRC) beat Crook and Fung 02: Lost in J Wong and NC Wong 0-0: and lust to Chio and NR. Wong 3-8.

Recreio (1) Beat CCBRC 3-4 P. Botelho and W

(Recreto) drew with P

Lawrence

and S. Y. Lee 0-5. lost to P. F

Shoo and TH Shoo 3-6; Jost, to K. Y Chang and Y 5. Chang 1-0

E. Rodrigues and CA Bar- relo (Recreio beat Trans and Lee 0-0; drew with Shan and Shao 0-0- best Chang and thang 0-4.

A. J. Remedior and J A Mar- ques (Recreiot brat Tang and Lea 0-3 beat Shao and Shae 6-1, josi to Chang and Chang 4-8

A DIVISION MIXED DOUBLES

KC Beat CHC 6-3

A. S. Augested and Mrs J. Stokes (KCC) lost to WPT and Mrs And

H. 10; beat V, T. Wonk Au

Min D. Young 6-4; beat K.

and Mix M. Tung 0-1.

F. Loone and Mrs O. Dow (RCC)

Jest to Twul and Lo 1-6; beat Woog

and Young 6-4; brat Al and Tong 8-1.

C. Quang and Mrs A. Lang (KCC) Jest to Taul and Lo 1-6; beat Wonk and Young 0-3; beat Au and Tooя 0-4.

The Mixed Doubles "A" Division match between H.K.C.C. and South China was postponed an account of the noddon state of the courts al Chater Road.

Volunteers' Centenary

Sports Finals

The Volunteers' Centenary six-a-side hockey and football

Gentlemanly Jerry, who looks like a permanent fixture at any good Foreign Office, has started onother stint of standing in the comic shadows while the star

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BW

hus the big Bagh-this time

Wisdom with Palladium show,

1 went to see if Mr Desmonde, 45 years old, married, with two children, was in any way sad- dener by being called prince of stooges."

He has been in that line

business lace he joined

"the

113)

Mr. Desmonde sui "I have

to make

from a break comedy

line

1.

by

into A

Just as

nic. But they weren't right.

DESMONDE

· Simple tob."

Hope "Bob invited me to America to work with him. At £250 a TV show. that

I even fed" wasn't but going. the Governor of Ohio in one Then I came back programme.

and Wisdom. seemed the best thing to do."

to London

He came back to the job he

does so elegantly and with such certainty.

No wonder on his opening night Mrg Desmunde serit her

husband

Telegram: THIN

SPC CAN* is where

in, darling.

Jerry Desmonde suid;

"Cheney Allen

straight

was the best

the business. There aren't many left TLOW, Comics seem to put women their acts today.

"The job I do is simple: help build the other man's laugh, see the timing of my Ines does not detract from it. and leave it all to him. It is the role who keeps us in bread and butter- not me.

"But for a guy who can't do anything in particular I haven't done so badly."

Not so badly at all.

-London Express Service)

The Grand National Is Not Sport

-In Effect It's Butchery

Says DENNIS HART

What's in a name? Nothing,

according to playwright

Shakespeare. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," so he

think if the name

said.

But that was 350 years ago. Were the bard alive today he might otherwise. A name can make the world of

difference, especially happens to be sport.

Call

which had Į

fatalities a thing sport and you | attribule

Some of the horses which · fall can get away with almost any, occurred to any one feature of and throw their riders get up thing, from breaking legs on the the race and were satisfied that to continue the course by them-

breaking bodies the heights and dimensions of selves. football field

This is seized upon in in the boxing ring.

the fences did not place 100 certain quarters as being a com- Fair enough if the victims are much strain an a horse which plote vindication of the event.

was jumping well." willing.

It is said that staging such a How very nice. The lures, race

doing the horses a But what it they have no 83y the, have only to brush up favour.

in the matter, as for instance in tacir jumping and they will all one of the blast sporting al- live to rips, old ages. tractions of the year the Graud National.

'Dul it's not s.rletly accurate.

By DAVID LEWIN

She came gay and sparkling into London- matching the weather. On the third finger of Olivia De Havilland's left hand was

a diamond cluster ring, the visible sign that the 38-year-old star is engaged.

"His name is Pierre Galante and his manner matches his surname," she said. "Yes, he is French, but he drinks Scotch and he is not in films. He is a Paris magazine director. We hope to marry next month".*

a flm career for close on

in

What eort of woman 12- The woman Pierre Galante year-old Mr Gulante marrying? | marrying also has financial She has skilfully manipulated security. (More than £30,000 a 20 กม. Why. her sparc-time years in Hullywood--which is reading is often the Wall Street not easy. She has maintained} Journal. herself as a star for 17 years=== which is more dißeuil.

SKETCH FOR TWO

Sho bos ridilen family As part of a special "blu problems (the coolness

to her name" stage show to cele sinter Joan

of Fontaine)

the and brate

50 acting years emerged smiling.

Dame Sybil Thorndike, Robert She set out as a girl of 20 to Morley has written a sketch be known for SERIOUS acung, with just two parts--for him- not just glamour. And sho self, and for his mother-in-law,

Gladys Cooper, emerged successful.

10

in

I

Miss De Havilland sak!

Morley has not neted with his me:

and The real

mother-in-law before, characters ເກມ are trol

the asked him to report progress. Always

"No ugly beauties. So I made

scenes so for, but myself look

wreek in

then we have two directors for *Snake PK* (which wom her a second Oscar)

the sketch: Miss Cooper and and I'm wearing a patch over myself. Keeps It in the family,

that way. We are British

are very with the arrangement, Mis

One

a

eye in

my new

film That Lady,"

She Bew into London to dis- cuss the colour of her eye paten with producer Hy Bartlett. ("Should ir b black or coloured?")

to

AFTERWARDS... FLYNN

She wald: **I belleved In organising my career from the beginning. I started at the top in Shakespeare, But I followed with Errol Flynn. Then saved my money for five years gain my Independence and choose the parts I wanted.

"When I started in Hollywood the youngsters alongside me were James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Margaret Sultavan, and Ana Sheridan.”

The 1st tells its own story. Only Stewart and Miss Do Havilland are still stars today.

•

Her previous husband was 54-year-old author

Goodrich

Marcus

satisfied

because

Cooper is happy part la beller than mine."

her

I marvelled at such self- ancrifice on the part of author Moricy.

"Well, a better part-but not much better," he said,

BOY MEETS GIRL

For the first fl love- scene in his career, 16-year- old Jeremy Spenser had Moira Shearer 09 T partner. Miss Shearer for the occasion played

a 16-year-old girl with a sweet smile, an Alice green gown, and white socks.

Mr Spenser hoped he did not look "soppy" kissing a girl on Miss Shearer's screen.

worry was about another scene in the same film, "Mən

Who Loved Red Heads," in which she plays a flapper.

Alr

Alexander Kordu, her Alm boss, bas just had the Beene shot all over again. Miss Shearer was not "tough" enough.

Bat And Trap (Chaucer's Game) Is In Danger

BECAUSE THE BALL IS SO SMALL

Cricket's forerunner, Bat. and Trap, introduced by Chaucer's Pilgrims and still played on the village greens of Kent, is threatened.

The reason: A special ball they may have to be legalised two and a quarter inches in if no other solution is found, diameter slightly smaller than

a cricket boil-must be used.

And these balls ure getting

scarce,

1,000 PLAYERS

Sald Mr Bill Humphreys, Canterbury Council

rent col- Jector and secretary of the Canterbury League, which has

nearly 1,000 registered players: "There are only half a dozen of the right size balls left and they are guarded.

being

Jealously

-London Express Service}

Craigengower

Badminton Tournament

The Craigengower An- nual Badminton Champion- "To borrow one costs £1 de- ships commenced yesterday posit,

with the Men's Junior Singles event.

"Before the war the balls were specially

made for Us and I could place an order im mediately for 100. But now Arms refuse to make fewer than 1,000, and at 35. each our funds cannot run to it"

LACROSSE BALLS INSTEAD

Some clubs are using lacrosse balls

(two and a half inches jumping in diameter) Inŝiend.

Mr Humphreys thinks they make the game too easy. But

No doubt horses do like Jump- Int. But there is a might of difference between

you know. And there are many empty saddled and being They call a race. In effect owners who share It's butchery: a test of how fast | They don't object to steeplechins- / Whipped over a fence.

can

carry

that view.

their

a horse

a human ing but they won't enter

Roger Bannister likes running. being over four and a half miles horses for the National. Instead, Yet I fancy he would not ap- of jumps and ditches that by they run them in such events as preciate being comparison make a Commandə | the Cheltenham Gold Cup-the lash. course seem like kid's stuff,

EVEN TOUGHER

The year the course was even

were Jumps

modo

finals will be played at the Army tougher. ground, Sookumpoo, on Saturday, higher, ditches widened. Four of May 29, and will be followed with the prize-giving and a fun fair.

The six-a-side hockey quarter- finals will commence at 4.30 p.m., and the final will commence at 5.30 p.m. The football final will commence at 6 pm.

Mrs E..G. Stewart will present the prizes at 7.15 p.m.

The Centenary Committee in The Centenary Comm the HKVDC and∙HKRNVI and pre- sent members of the RHKDS and their families to come along on Saturday and bring their children, as a mecial Fun Fair for

kiddles has been

destroyed

the horses either died as they

or had to be subsequently.

fell

where the prizes may not be sa big but the chances of losing a valuable horse are consider- ably less.

After this year's National. onother suggestion was that the course should be shortened. This

was turned down because "the Stewards did not wish to deprive the crowth of their view of tho start." Hunt Committee met

Last week the Stewards of the National

-BICKENING

urged on with

—¿London Expraan Service)

ORIENT BOXING ASSOCIATION PLANNED

Japanese

Swimming Record

London, May 24, Marek Petrusewicz of Poland bettered the world record for the 100-metre breast stroke at Wroclaw, Poland, yesterday, the Polish news agency said,

Petrusewicz covered the dis- tance in 1.9:8.

The present record of 1,10:5

was set in February by Ainach- kin of Russia in Stockholm. United Press.

BASEBALL SCORES

Tokyo, May 24. and Philippines Boxing Commissionére said to day in a Joint atatement that plans were being made to form an Orient Boxing Association.

The statement, Lasiod by Munohike Tanabe of Japan and

New York, May 24. Manuel Niete of the Philippines, said the various · Asian nationa

Today Major League base- would be asked to join the As-ball scores were:

Nasional LeAKUSAN sociation, which would, Inte find the join the World Boxing Associa

to discuss these fatalities. The result of their findings was 'an- Tunced in the Racing Calendar: Sickening though these senti- "The Slowards have not found ments are, it is even worze that any special suggestion which so many people share them and warrants, steps being

taken turn up to witness the slaughter. governing the conditions for You know the types "You must entry, the distance, the size of admit it's a thrilling spectacle, the fences or the riders in, the old boy." h

I didn't Thrilling? #1 Grand National," w

Who then is to by blamed for rice thækling, nor the nowshoel, I The look of the deaths? The presumption saw afterwards. must be the horses themselves, terror in a horse's eyes as it for thesareport punddas, “The strlaggled je to avoid m fall was Stewards have been unable to something I'll never forget.

The Association is scheduled to be organised by Autumn, ple Reuter

Phittsburghi

RHE

of Highlight the evening's games was the fine display put up by B. N. Hegde who fully extended his favoured opponent, Louis Sousae, to three Betz before losing by 15-8, 12-15 and 4-15.

The

tournament

continues this evening with a further programme of six matches.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Men's' Bingles

Frank Ych beat P. C. Chau (walkover).

Z. A. Abban beat Wong Wing- wal 15-2, 15-4,

Louis Sousao beat Hegde 8-15, 15-12, 15-4.

Junior Castro beat Thomas Tung (walkover),

Frank Yeh beat Martin Wong 15-4, 15-0,

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