1954-06-02 — Page 7

ZATOPEK BREAKS 10 KM. RECORD

Brussels, June 1. Emil Zatopek. Czech holder of nine world re. cords, tonight bellered his own world figures for 10,000 Metres (six miles 376 yards) when he clocked 28 minutes 51.2 seconds here.

His previous best was 29 made minutes 1.6 seconds last November. It was the

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world record made three days by the 31- year-old Olympic Champion. In Paris Or Sunday, he broke the 11-year-old 5,000 Metres record.

Zalopek was to have run in

a 5,000 Melris race here, but Creth's request the at the

A special

Run

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10,000 Metres event

wildly excited crowd of About 2,000 cheered on the Czen at evry voide streaked along on his record-

breaking Tun

Zatopek take into the lean aight from the start and had to gel his own pace throughanf.

The

After four laps 11.800 metres) he was 40 metres whead of his nearest rival. Belgium's Prow. Later, he widened kop by a further 50 meters

ins horndy Grimeeing tongue infling out on his arms farlig fils chest in characteris- UC style, the Czech Army Major pled on the pressure with every top.

Zatopek

eight

Japs, one-third of the way, in six minutes 53 6 seconds. and was then hold a lap bi front of Helgium's Marcel Van de Wal- Lyne, ly ng d

Zatopek

appeared to

faster than ever

run as he began

Uve list 5.000 metres.

INCREDIBLE

Lap by lap the Czech love himself (+1)

FITY incredible manner. His features became more distorted and he literally seemed to punch himself on-

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By the time he onlered the Burt two lops, h had lapped the Held. The tow was on its feel cheering almost hysterically as the Czech will a Onal turst of speen broke tape to better his ad revurd by 7.4 seconds.

Zatopek sal afterwards: " am even more surprised to have broken my world record hera than I was in Paris on Sunday.

"After had run the first lap

I thought I would never make

it. It seemed to me a very dif- ficult race."

Zatopek ran on a heavy track. weather threatened rain,

The

but there was no wind.

INTERMEDIATE TIMES

His Intermediate times wer one kilometre: two minutes 47.0 seconds, two kilometres: five 65 seconds, three minules 38.2

minutes kilometres: eight

seconds. Jour kilometres: 11

34 seconds, five kilo- metres 14 minutes 27. .4 seconds, six kilometres: 17 minutes 23 seconds zeven kilometres: 20 minutes 10.4 seconds, eight kilometres! 23 minutes 11.4 serands, nino kilometres: 20 minutes four seconds.

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Second behind Zatopek tenight's runade at the Roynt Haclug Club Stadium, was Van

Wattyne.

LORD'S /They'll soon be

WE WENT ALONG TO GEE THE

New Zealand WOMEN

calling this place

Lords and Ladies

OUR

SPARROW IS SO OLD

CRICKETERS ÁT PRACTICE

HE CAN REMEMBER

WHEN A

SEAMSTRESS

WASN'T A

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1954.

LADY SEAM BOWLER

AND THE NURSERY END WASN'T IN THE NETS AT

HEAD-QUARTERS.

THESE GIRLS ARE JA WELL-BUILT

BUNCH

BEFORE

THEY PUT THER

THEY HAVE Jaan Francis AND AN ACTION

WHO HAS A 15-PACE PUN UP TO THE WICKET

AUSTRALIAN

BOWLERS

FETED

Three visiting Australian lawn bowlers and their wives were the guests of honour at a dinner given by Dr V. N. Alienza

the Craigengower Cricket Club last night.

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The Australian bowlers were Messus T K. Shakespeare. Sempor Vice-President of the New South Wales Bowling Asso- matinn, R S Stone and H. R.

QUICKER THAN A WIFE GOING THROUGH HER HOUSE-KEEPING ALLOWANCE

HAVING

SEEN

THESE

GIRLS

CRACK

A FEW

SHOTS,

WE NERE

MOST MPRESSED

PADS ON.

LITTLE COMEDY BECOMES

AFTER ALL

DR W.G GRACE WORE HIS HAIR LONG AND HE WASI

NO SLOUCH AT

THE GAME.

BIG HIT

Unusual Tribute For

'Life With The Lyons'

By MOORE

RAYMOND

You know what it's like when you think you haven't done a bad job of work, and then the boss says it's great and gives you a bonus?

That's the way the Lyons Family feel about their Alm “Life With The Lyons"--the boss being you, the public.

Ya know what it's like when tree with only a yu back a Among those present yester-moderate chance en fou, and day were the officials the then it races home at winner?

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That's Hongkong Lawn Bowls Associa-

Juw producer James Bom, headed by Mc M. N. Cameras, of Exclusiv Fos,

feels about the Lyons pleture. Rakusen, and committee mem-

the hers

three of their rarti Craigengower | Based Cricket Club and the Filipino shows--and いけるよ!

the same ras' for the most at the aim is a rowdy

shot the Pump

family moving into a new house.

To was

hever intended to be anything me than a nice little second feature. But, its 20

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AL like conclusion the duer, Me Shakespeare pre-i sented pennants 10 the officials of the KLBA and badges The committee members of CCC and the Filipino Club.

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thepic-release dates have shown,

The visitors in returu received Rouvenirs in the form of badges from the Association and the Filipino Club and spoons from the Craigengower Cricket Club.

The visitors, wit visited Hongkong last month en their way to Japun, expect to leave

for home tomorrow and in view of their early departure it will not be possible to arrange any offcial match between them an!

Hongkong a origkully intended."

has turned out to be a niec big Arst feature.

04

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the

2

very

lively. Richard is youth who is, of careful about

"Well," said medest Ben, "wo] Bebe Is just

charmingly Beil didn't think cur little wanedy | scatter-brained. was the sort of thing the critics good-natured victim of circum-

stance. Barbara would want to be butaered

with especially

flt 01 those pretty teenager. Press showa in a theatre that's rather brash

withreatl RC HY

the crac. emity ordinary public being present."

sent." uwer. Modest Den, did I say Shrewa Ben too. Why should he risk panning from the crities when he knows the tle of the m alone corries enough goodwill to attract the customers

the boglaning of the week at least"

Al

VERY ENJOYABLE

And if the Bim gets the laughs, When it goes out on general | word - of » mouth advertising relase tex

than brings them flocking in, play o mero 2,000 cinemas in Britain, is expected to clean up.

And all this in spile of (or because of) the feel that it hasa't been fficially shown to the crities.

SHREWD BEN

I asked producer Carreras why rink ས་ not. He referred me to Hen

Lym.

A few nights ago I raw "Lile With The Lyons at the Tivoli, Strand. The people laughed so

much they might almost have

been a studio audience.

I didn't find it as funny be all that. But I had a very en- Joyable time.

The radio family

to eme vivid pictorial life on the screen.

"I Alone Choose The Teams

To Play For Hungary"

Says GUSTAV

SEBES*

The Hungary team is a matter of national pride and importance. The problem

of its selection is one which occupies all 12 months of the year. It is always in our thoughts.

The responsibility of selecting the team is mine, but I invite every possible help to make certain that no man who is fit to play for Hungary is neglected.

Before the reason begins

call up all the trainers who are for the technique responsible

men

NEVER LETs ur

It's a mixture of Bght comedy with the and farce....frouble landlord and the cook, messing about Inaking ak garden, m:nding the pipes in nooded cellar, and so on.

Bui

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ROUND THE BRITISH FILM STUDIOS

Orphan Wisdom In Love Again

By ROY NASH

Joan Rice will be the girl of whom Norman Wisdom hopes to make

a conquest in his new Pinewood comedy. The tentative title is "One Good Turn."

Background for the picture is an orphanage. all about that. She was brought up in a Nottingham gave her acting lessons for end-of-term plays.

the

Elfin-faced Miss Rice knows

orphanage where the

nuns

Miss Neagle's Arst Mermaid Glynis Johns tries to film after two years on the steal her boy friend Nicholas stage, but Farrar hadn't really Phipps. forgotten her.

"I was the naughty girl who This is got the cane every day" fells me. "Always doing some» thing wrong-running about without shoes and getting my feet wet or golug on

crrancis and forgetting what I had been Fen, for,"

In

be

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the picture Mis Rice will schoolteacher whom Wis-

the

dom, once more pathetic, ili-tailored Gump. worships from afar.

For all his awkariness the Gump got the girl-Lana Morris -at the end of Wisdom's last pletur. "Trouble In Store."

Will he do so again? Miss Rice doesn't know."I haven't seen a Bulshed script yet"--and producer Maurice Cowan Isn't

quite sure. "But at the moment we don't think he wit," he says,

For Wisdom, Cowan undi director John Paddy Carstairs, the learn responsible for the record-breaking "Trouble JEL Store,"

the new picture is A test. Can They repeat that fabulous success?

"We're trying

to improve un It," says Cowai. "Norman's part as an ex-orphan who stays カワ The at the orphanage to do ali odd jobs will give him plenty of opportunities for the comedy stuff he does so well and rather more pathos than he had in the Jast picture."

Mermait Bryan's pronk In- The line Wis

of thevolved Miss Crawford in two part

I was sup- emist for this adoptation of her very damp days. "Glorious Days" sloge show. posed to be silli wet from the Water evaporated much too Farrar was supposed to be a quickly under the lights so they

300.

producer putting Miss Neegle brought up a paint spray and through her paces on the stage|esvered me with glycerine. Most of Drury Lane Theatre for a revolting and very anti-social." wartime Enso show.

At for mermaid Johns, who Behind the camera the film's tries to fool everybody Into actual producer Miss Neagle's thinking she La human, Miss husband Herbert Wilcox gated Crawford does her best to ex- at his wife admiringly and said pose her and win back boy 10 me "Doesn't she look friend Phipps. terrific?"

"It's Legy versus

Tall-tho

I agreed. Blue eyes sparkling.battle of the century." fair hair gleaming, in a white Fellow victims of the Pine- blouse and a grey zig-zag patwood An-girls: Donald Staden. terned skirt with a wide blacksoon to switch to stemmer stuff belt hugging her alim waist, in the Miss Neugle locked about 25.

Rank Mau Mau Alm

and "Simba,"

Margaret Ruth- erford.

SO THEY TELL ME:

Wilcox was shooting the scenie in black and while. AL the end of it Miss Neugle was la be knocked out by a bomb which ...Eva Bartok may noon be off would start her dreaming in in a rocket, She's considering u Technicolour that she was Nell part in a space-ship thrilles. Gwynne with Farrer King Charles,

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....Sir

Alexander Korda is planning film of Jules Verne's Errol Flynn who jas you may Round The World In Eighty have heard) also has a part in Days"--to last eighty minutes, this picture, was not on call, but Mr Wilcox had thought up bright phrase to describe the Flynn- surprising It is somewhat

Neagle partnership.

That pleases Wisdom. the wistful, little-man-fost side of the Gump that appeals to him most.

Two other things he likes are to sing and to box. So he will have three songs, one of them "Seize Opportunity" written by himself.

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in which fairground sequence he will challenge a booth fight-

however familiar situations, the picture has puncher for £ 10. and pace. It starts off at speed

and never lets up. Gags both visual and oral are tossed about noll directions. If you don't catch one, there's another a few

seconds later.

Towards the end i started wishing it wasn't all so swift arid

But the Anal strident. sequence in cowboy costume sen me away happy.

The whole film was shot in three weeks and made at about half the cost of the usual Ørst fcatture.

First I should point out that the Lyon Family weren't paid the malarles threy would

maily get.

nor-

They got certain money on eccount-plus a percentage of the profits.

That's why all four of them have already made 20 personni Appearances in various parts of the country where the pleture has been pre-released.

The film was shot in half the normal time because everybody In the cast knew his or her lines before the cemeras even started. Such a sensible precaution is sult and check with every rew In my country and in the almost unknown in the wasteful "xport.

other countries the leaders of movie business. Then I made a list of possible | sport are nearly always

Meanwhile Bebe went on a of their teams-In England you players and send it out to the who have been great sportsmen. banana-and-milk diet, Barbara call them the bosses, trainers. If they disagree, In the case of our match with and Richard took dancing They are responsible for the consider their suggestiores and Braland we considered it of

lessons, and Ben--well, he took failure of their we talk Gyer any disputed such great importance that we golf lessons to keep fli

positiona

ended our Soccer season four! weeks earlier than usual and Caught up in the general en- cancelled the four last matches|thusiasm director Val Guest and in the League,

would

Anther Belgian, Do Troyer, success was third.

No times were announced for their runs,Reuter.

Roger Bannister Invited To N.Z.

Wellington, June 1. Roger Bannister, Britain's four-minute milor, is to be in- viled to tour New Zealand after competing in the Empire Games at Vancouver next month.

The New Zealand Amateur Athlelle Association deelded to- night to invite Bannister, the Australian crack miler John Landy, and other Empire Games athletes.

A selected group of Ameri-

cans will be invited if these athletes are unobtainablo, — Reuter:

Five Squads For Summer Softball

Five teams hayo enterod for the Summer Softball Leaguo, it was learned yesterday from the Hongkong Softball Association,

The teams that have entered are the Warriors,. Cavaller, Pan- das, Jar. UB, Navy,and Chinees "Athletka "Associa£36)

Verano.

ALL ON FILE

Naturally we have many testi, but as far as posible they We talk over the new season always Irelude the men I think and discuUENT that which has should be in the national team. pabend. Every week they send

me prports of players who they Once the team is established think ore ft to play for we go into training. We meet Hungary. These I file and con- and play woguther as often as

possible,

"Gustav Sebes is the Hun-

All the time I am in consulta-

TENSION GONE

This allowed our players

to

train together and rid them- selves of the tension of League competition,

crow worked with the utmost energy to get the film Anished dead on schedule.

NEW FILM PLAN

It may be nows to you that riost directors are satisfied it. The Hungarian clubs and the they have got two minutes "In Farkan Deputy Minister of tion with the team captain people do not mind. They are the can" at the end of a day's Sport, director of the National Ferene Puskus, the schemer happy to have a part in build- work. That is, two minutes of Sports Committee, sole selector Joszef Dozalk, and our two ing a team which Can beat what you see on the screen, of the Hungary team, player keymen, carte-forward Nandor England. from 1910 to 1945, including Hidzzicuti and centre - hali Internationals, Hungarian team Gyula Lorant. trainer from 1945 to 1949, con- troller since 1949.

But when it is all over I nin

the

"Life With The Lyons" some- DESMOND HACKETT says:times got right or nine minutes Most of the Hungarian players in the can-and averaged six Budapest clubs. Their team is they must have worked!

Two minutes a day. Whee-e-e how

as firm as the England side of the mid-thirties. Ten members workers. Anybody who has had But they've always been hard of the team have

carned anything to do with their radio between 22 and 64 caps,

showa will tell you that. --(London Express Service)

Bro draw?) from of the Hungarian team the man who must make the decisions. Any faults which are made must be borne by me, and I am happy io share in the glory of my suedezzes.

SVC. BOWLERS WANTED TODAY

Former members of the SVC who have not submitted their names but who wish to play in the lawn bowls match against

I do not wish to moko ad- VČIVO COSTLmment on the, English methoch, but I am surprised at the system of naming your selectors.

the HKVDC, are reminded that Baschall Scores

their names must be sent in before 5 o'clock today: at least four more players are required.

New York, June 1. American League baseball coros today, were:

The conveners ars Mr á. M, Buchensa (38001 or 67527) and Philadelphia Mr P. A. Costa (67003 or 53545) Boston and the gam, 'talom plice' at 'the Kowicon Bowling & Green Club | |Famin on Monday next commencing New Yo

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Now other Alm is planned to start at the end of June.

will be. shot iparily in France and partly

LEAGUE TENNIS The Lyons Abroad"

In a Mixed "B" Division in Britain. tennis game played yesterday An unusual tribute has been CRC od with CCC 44-4% paid to the first of the Lyons

Min C. Lo and Mr J. K. Choy Family, fimte. (CNC) lost to Mis M. Yang und Bir Min B, COTPOR

3-0

and nur 1: Wade (Bond buy shows in the cinemas of the British comodios are rarely MTH. BOLLAHd Mr Queen Elizabeth and the Queen

· Miles D.: Young” and “Me; thaung CHOWN (CRC)RKk to Yangshocking Mary-backing of the cosmopoli-

with Corre

kaowai The Lyona” la

Wisdom used to be regimental Byweight champion of the 100 Hussars. One of his recent opponents was Freddie Mills,

whom he met af a boxing show for hospital patients.

My suggestion: that Wisdom

Cowan and manager

should challenge Mills to a return bout for the picture.

FIRST IN TWO YEARS

"I've been trying to place you ever since we started rehear ing." Bold David Farrar to Аппа Neagle on the set of "We'll Gather Lines" at Elstree,

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"It's a combination of sherry and vodka," he said. Flynn, of Course, was the vodka.

For Wilcox and Miss Neagle

this is their 27th picture together (he had to check the number with his wife to make

sure it was right).

of their

What Jr the secrel success? Wilcox had a phrase for that too. "Scots realism--- that's Anne-combined with Trish fantasy--that's me."

AMONG MERMAIDS

"I'm the one with the legs," explained Anne Crawford whon. I spotted behind Pinewood lobster pot.

1 could understand the diy- tinction. Miss Crawford has fallen among mermaids in "Mad About Men."

Mermald Dora Bryan steals her clothes when she goes for a swim.

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