1954-07-22 — Page 6

BANNISTER AND LANDY HAVE THE CANADIANS LICKING THEIR LIPS

Says GEORGE WHITING

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY M2, 1954.

INTER-SERVICES CHAMPION

The British Empire and Commonwealth Games, due for sports- manlike settlement in the temperate (I hope) dime of Vancouver from July 31 to August 7, are certain to be a jolly good show, chaps.

But it surprises me to learn of a Canadian fear that the whole flesta might well have gurgled down the dollar-drala but for a nice Englishman called Roger Bannister and a just as nice Australian called John Landy.

Br

they have assured the Mile, Games of financial health.

To date, 820 athletes, bowls they chipped off the time of the players; boxers, cyclists, swimmers, fenrers Carmen,

wrestlers weight lifters from 23 Lar-Bung outposts have

their intention thed #unity jumping.

te. until they trust.

wrestling.

A commendable ambition, but those phlegmatic Canadians, the people who will have to kep the pot buiting at the turmiles, dhi not Brezn

lo be taking

notic

From

wod

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much

Vancouver 1 learned that local response to the Games

fuspid

the ten until Messa Banuster and Lanly hot-footed

through Lory by making the 4-minule We jok like Standay murn- ing strell

it

Splitting the atom was just a side show compared with these deel performances.

A yre. Bannister

newspapar poll -howed that only a minority uf Vancouverites coild give the exact calion of the brand-new athletes track or the brand-new swimming pool in their own fair elty.

But Bannister and Landy have changed all that. By the secondİN

OPEN LETTER

TO HOPMAN

Drobny: "You Can't Take It"

Australia's tennis

Demand for the swimming finals on August is also brisk. Other sports are, as yet, lagging But tho A spectator-appeal. Nearly £4,000 in good Cana- dian dollars clanked into the till!organisers are optimistic. Total within work of Bannister's, receipts, they estimate, will not 3min. 69.4sec. Mile at Oxford; the far short of £130,000. wnother £4,000 when handy yel up 3 min. 58sec. in Finland,

rightn collecting

and their

Canada's commercial radio and rashing TV operators are also in. They paid £25,000 for the broadcast and television of the Games,

£230,000 for advertising.

pleased with mathematics that they are giving four BBC a TV film of the whole

proceedings.

FEW SEATS LEFT

Ono inquirer in six seeks an dnsurance, freely and justifiably given, that Mr B. and Mr L. will be there in the flesh-and feel. Today, £30,000 werth tekets have been sold at from Te to £3 cach. Only a few docent

seate are left for the athletic finals on August 7, when Bannister, Lindy and New Zea- land's Murray Halberg are ex- other into peeled to the ground.

WEEK-END

LAWN BOWLS

TEAMS

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by

Not ali is proft of The awimming pool-ingir Americans!--cost £100,000, the rycle track at Chino Creek has In all, accounted for £25,000. some €500,000 worth of equip met waits to be christened with Athlete etion.

Prince Philip. of polo and | cricket renown, is going to the Games, which will be opened by Fid-Marshal Eari Alexan- der of Tuuls--who once ran the mile for roland

UNMARRED

Taken all round, I feel cer- of the Commoti- Lain that we

The following teams for the wealth or in for most enjoy- week-end Lawn Bowls Leagueable week of honest-to-goodnes malchis have been selected:

competition, gnunarred by the political bickering and backstage manoeuvrey that seem to oc- (home)

lesser breeds Banham, Jcupy the, ahem,

10 bent US

BECC

Second Division v ap.m. --}|

Inc

Wyper. R. A. Edwards, F. Marshall who managed

3. Mount, M. S. Lloyd, world competition until Bannis- Wallwork. . Tra: K Alian A. 3.

Black, D.ter and Landy came along.

Mitchell, F CHI

Angus. CTTO: D.

*T* Smith.

IC

Y

Filipino Cub

PS: Records will assuredly tr. broken But would Van- Division Hent

couver be any less of a spec- Hou eu, S [pwas at 4 31.325-$. Yusul, AR. Kitchell. A K. Minu; taele if they destroyed all the Hasst. Oina. U A Tumjam

All; A Kitni

M.

M. Barack. A. 1. A. Italien, Mstep-watches, and let the boys and girls just race against each Seond Division v. H.KCC (away) other? I think not, at 4 pm. B. Kitchell, 8. M. Rum-

Jahm, M.Y Adal. J. M. A., Rajabn; A.B. Abbas. N. Orman, A. M. Hun- Ömar. A. R. Rack: B. M. A.O. Mndir. Wahab

A. H Seemin. A. M

Filipino Club

Third Division V.

at 4 p.m. Aboo, 8. H coach (sw)

Khan, A J. Husenin. E. R Markar.

Harry Hopman accused the 5.0 Dux. 1 Kitchell, K Nazarin

Wimbledon gallery of ning this year's singles for Jaroslav Drobny.

J. Ackber: M. A Wahab Jr., M. It

Win-Jumu Bucks. A. H. Abbov title

TRC

First Division v. Recreio Wheles (away at 4 pmA. W. Bircock, P. Metendie, T. Kavosti, C. Gough, H. Here is Drobny's reply in Finney, C Pope. W. Hollands, G. Perkins: R. Yu, G. Watt. J. Good- man. J. Hayward.

an open letter:-

Dear Harry Hopman,

US

Lt. Desmond Williamson, brother of Audrey Williamson, British Olympic.and WRAC athlete, winning the Half Mile in the Inter-Service Championship in 1 minute 66.5 seconds.

Doctor Told Fred

He Would Have

Give

Up

Green

To

Athletics

There are many ways of preparing to become a top class athlete. Most popular is via University, where between-study breaks allow more time, and good facilities are available; or through nominal jobs which offer simiær prospects.

No so Britain's latest world champion, Fred Green. On Saturday, July 9, this 29-year-old 'Birmingham runner surprised and thrilled 50,000 athletic fans at flis the White City when he pipped Chris Chataway in a photo-finish Three Miles. time was 18 mins. 32.2 secs. and it smashed the great Swede, Gundar Haegg's record by a fifth of a second...

country, and made several unt- suucessful bids for a place in England's team.

الخميه

11 was Haagg's Last record. And for 12 years it bad defled all the efforts of the Zatopeks, the Piries and the Chataways. Even then he never thought He Just much about records. The Anish had the crowd on their

cheering feet

ran because he ked running. laudly. a dark Green, a

slim figure and

That was the set-up the of

1cw athletes 1951. Thch Fred first met Jack British Three caught Enery, Mrmer Wear a inoustache,

who had be- Chalaway on

last bend, Miles Champion the

the Oxford come an official coach for the for once runner's famous last lap burst AAA. failed to take him clear of the

one

when

between

fteld, -(London Ezreas Servic«)

gay

BOBBY

LEADS AT HARROGATE

the

Lape first. Chatoway were

Africa, held A ono

Harrogate, Yorkshire,

July 21. Bobby Locke. of South stroke

Bocond Division v. K.0.C. (homa) at 4 p.m.-A. J. Evans, A. E. Jones. R. Mackenzie C Willeux; W Jones lead at the half-way stage

Fox. A. Soutari. It seems to me you are trying not o

Roberts. to save your reputation

Alin the 12. holes Swallow world-timeus coach and nut to Dive. Hearve, S. Marvin.

home) at Harrogate tournament to- 4pm-y. L. Veriga, W. O'Brien, R. Vale. Aglion; A. Rural, G in

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Morgan, H M. Bradale, Jones, W. Bund

Recurves! J. Calame, Güllen. ATTIR.

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because, go far, your

not as succesfit as it could be.

Don't try to blame the gallery. Don't try 10

criticise your players. Blame yourself first, then your methods.

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parschule-

Forty-two times, Green, one of the famous red berets-the Airborne Division-leapt from the war-time akies with only a silic canopy between himself Hot in pursuit. was Uttle Dal

and cloath. Rees, the British Ryder Cup

Leader

Indeed ou the first player. Fround with a 00 over the more needed a

Second Division, v. USBC. (away) (difficult Fannal course, Locke fe. Hla

Sacralo

On

"CARTHORSE",

great

"You're just

one occasion it

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office in Birmingharm..

Third Test Starts Today

the

bowler,

of Khan

broken bones and take place

hours. So every evening, for Mohammed, the Pakistan aide in

Inspired Bowling Green Team Dash KCC Hopes

By "TOUCHER”

An inspired Kowloon Bowling Green Club squad nylk- fied yesterday all Kowloon Cricket. Club'a hopes of over- taking the Lengue-lending Recreio "Bluca" in the First Division of the Lawn Bowls League,

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Playing off their postponed match, the Cricket Club, who were until yesterday 3 points behind Recreio Blues with a game in hand and who were conceded a good chance of repeating their 4-2 triumph gained a fort- night ago, went down in a disastrous defeat to the Kow- loon Bowling Green Club by four points to one on the point score and by 60 shots to 65 on the aggregate.

SERSON

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Jock McKelvie's rink, which} In a Second Division match,

Cricket Club J.

kept Tindall, R. H.Kowloon Included

distance of the Browne and G. C. Norman, Jald within striking the foundation for the Bowling League lenders by scoring a 4-1 Club's most brillant win this win over the Kowloon Bowling

Green Club.

C. J.

rink made o Askow's Despite conceding live to

rink on the creditable attempt to carry the Tommy Baker's sixth head, Mekelvic and his side, but their 30-13 victory over men led practically all the way G. Lee's rink just fell short of

a comfortable the aggregate by four shots. to end up with

In the only other match play- 24-18 win.

The winners led 10-0 on the ed yesterday the Cralgengaver Third Division 10th head and gathered a five on Cricket Club the 11th and a four on the 16th team of novices struck a now top in form to beat the Pales heads,

Recreation Club by 4-1 and chalk up their

TIGHT BATTLE

IA contrast, a tight battle raged between. Alee Harvey and Jimmy Wong on the next rink. The lead changed hands no fewer than Ave Umes and the score was deadlocked on four hends.

The closeness of the game could further be gauged by the fact that Harvey scared on 11 and Wong on 10 of the 21 konsis with never more than two shots separating the two dinis from the 6th head onwards.

the souSON,

Becond win of

Thrilling Race For Rifle

League Title

The torrid. heat and con- high light ex-

The final score of 17-18 in sequent favour of Harvey, which brought perienced during the week, a further point to Lic. Bowling affected shooting to no small Chub, was an exact indication of degree and scores in gen- the play.

eral were just above aver- age.

Climaxing the Bowling Club's excellent bowllag display and fine teamwork was the perfor mance of Bill Simpson and his tant men, Les Parker, Joe East man and Poter Hughes.

Though Simpson's rink went down to Bill Hong Sog's rink by 19-21, they played as great a part in their side's triumph as the other two winning rinke, " Their splendid recovery

-head after

Only

marksman: suc- ceeded in registering the elusive possible 100, and this was 8gt Brewer of Cmd Whaps REME A. Together with a 89 scored by his beams unter: Cant Gardiner,

than average better and a

remainder of score from the the team, Comd Wksps A Just failed to break the magic 680 by dr

when point, Bolltary they beat their B team 579-352. HKCTU maintained the tie

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Manchester, July 22. Remorselessly he cloned the did not

* promise

Pakistan, weakened by in- 15-17 on the 19th the

red-haired relationship. Having sem Fred Chataway and himself and in win LOCKE

Jocul Thrac Miles event, juries, must beat England being 11 shots down on the 7th the final stride he just breasted somewhat labouriously, Emery's or force a draw in the third bood and finally to 19-21 on the for first place in the league by inst bead made it possible for narrowly defeating, AA Wkaps Both he and first words were,

REME À by a margin of six In third place tour credited with about the biggest food I've ever Test beginning here today the Bowling Club to gain the

to keep the four-match live-shot margin of win on the points.

extra two teams are tied in points gain- the spine time, the judges being seen on the track."

and the aggregate series alive.

Doctals have the unable to separate them.

points.

ed, but lat Before Fred could get in any

A thrilling close featured the edge on aggregate score points. SWITCH THE CLOOK BACK sort of reply, Emery went on: The rain-quined first Test was match. With only two heads Comd Whtsps REME A lead on

"You've got the makings of a drawn and England won the

the aggregata. EZOTE to go the difference in aggr

by 112 Now switch the clock back ten clasele runner, yet you

plod

second at Trentbridge. The final

and have to shoot years. What do we and Fred along like a carthorse.

gate If you game in the series will be played favour of the

was only sig shots inpoints,

Bowling Club against Lat Dorsets next week Green

Traming, doing? studying time schedules perhaps? of the world's best. The road

want, I can help you to become at the Oral next mor

mouth.

& shout Baisman Alimuddin and pace Simpson gave away a four on and follow this with

The results Not at all. He

each by against HECTU, 20th, but a two Khan Mohammad are the won't be easy, but I granted bowler jumping

matches should Harvey

McKelvie made of these and

bearing you'll get there. Well, what do unable to play because of in-

on the final juries, and they will be replaced the anal head the Bowling posttions in the table, which you say?"

Wazir Mohammad and On

tagulaer "with Green said "yes," and a new Matumcod Hussain, 21-year-old Club had only a one-spot lead follows below, World Champion took the first fast bowler. Two other changes before Simpson completed his last wock's COTES:

THE RESULTS step on the road to fame.

are Shujauddin, bateman and

last head. With a lio of Tour

Comd Pay Omoë 555 v Blanley O As Enery had forecast, the left-arm

"B" 0. alow

and he, however, sacrificed his list rond was hard: From 8 am to Khalid Wazir, 18, batsman and wood to go down by two shots 04 But A "A" STI V Stanley miracle to save his p.m. Green is a clerk in medium paced bowler, who re- but assured his side of the age in "B" 506 V DE BE

Aslam and gregate points. place Mohammad parachute

did not paration for athletics had to Khalid Hassan, who is 12th man. Frod "escaped"

IMPRESSIVE WIN outside working In 41 3.50 BC. Mcionan 11 Black,required 12 for the shorter Oak-open properly.

absence W. H. Brown, J. H. Kinedturghi diate course today to fulsh with with, fów 9 Mich. Fraser, G. Graham, 1. §.

At Happy Valley, Police Ave weeks

in hospital two or three hours, Fred pound-Weely to be hard pressed against Recreation Club scored an im- Sheds, R. B. Marahgli: 6. dark. An aggregate of 141. Rees went spent Spence, R. Gulffin, 1. Baxter.

round wind-swept Pannal In a being patched up. Later he the local roads and track. the English batting, which, even

win- //over pressive 844-1·2 further threo Jumps, made praiseworthy 70 for 142.

Kowloon

in another It was hardly on ideal way

And there were no quick re-without Len Hutton, looks very

It int WkaO REME PS1 V2 Dorsets for a world record turns to give him an incentive. Bill Shank to prepare I have been watching you for:

TO OPENT land was lying third on the 144 run. But then, ten years ago Saturday's victory was his first

Top honours of the day went King "A" 150v 1 Norfolk "g many yeura and although

Tira burly SouthFred was not thinking in terms major sÜGENIE,

In the absence of the injured to W. Hircock, P. Metcalfe,

***_King="E"-635 - Nothole "g respect you as an expert on the

park.

suffering from hay of world records. He coach.

T. Lowson, Trevor Bailey is ex- court I don't off the court. You

African,

AAA Cham-

W. 28-13 score over italic "A"

40 at Div Pro Cor≥904 y 1 Nor- In last year's L. P. Mavier, C. Toza ever, came off the home green Jack Ashton, had just been aro treating your boys off the lareun

did: gain a fore will Sheppard, He

did quite Marshallway, W. M. Davidhon, killed in a motor amash and plonships ho

LEAGUE TABLE. court in such a way

a very disgruntled player. First Dividon v. PRC, (horne) at

things to come by well against the West Indies in G. Hutchison and A. G. Coles Fred, upset by this, had given taste of a smile or a joke 18.4 m. A.G. Sve C.P. Basto, forget what

finishing serond

Gardon

gavo

the Poller · Club thres || Cond_Witap up athletics.

BRENS "A" You have a team that could. A. Oporto, C. A. Danenberg: 3.7.

Firda in the Three Mlies. But an emergency.

EKGTU ba very difficult to bratif they A. M. Souza: C. A. Noronha, a

camo a blow that England try two naw caps- On release from the Army in last winter

G. Parkin's sink was rosyan-Dorset are understood. As far as Luz, M. A. Baptista, A. A. Loper,

1946, Fred like many ex-service-threatened to cancel out all his Jim McCannon, the Glamorgan sible for the other halt point 30 ya Regt. Wimbledon Second

V. KB.G.C. remember the only

yard putt for a six. Ho hard men found himself at a loose foot-slogging efforts.

off-spin bowler, and Jim Parks, winner from Australia in recent (way) at 4pm-8. del filvero,

3. 11. Aixon, A. F. Gomes, 1. J. Būva; elso missed chances at the 15th, end

the Sussex bateman, who has a when they hold A. E He was glad to be out of

It was years was Frank Sedgman. And . Roza Pendra, Laurel, L.

16th and 17th holes

the verdict of his good chance of selection for the j-and 'bis, men tich 20.20 loft 25 Fod Regt. RA

W. McCulla by being form, yet missed the barrack-

rink

Just RIXT that was the year he was Rotorio A. Remedios: A. A.

SOHL his Papileta.

Carvalho, A. A. short on the

green In each boom spirit. So once more he doctor. Fred had a pain in his trip to Australia.

managed tä odige out Benny Comd not in your team but on

Guterres, H. J. Noronha.

diagnosed as a mucts for leg, and it was enso. Ho could easily have turned to the track,

Tha pitak is described by Goodman's four by 23-24, but honeymoon. Think it over.

Filipino Club

anished with another under 70 companionship as for anything strained nerve, a throwback to

that unlucky parachute fall roundaman. Harry Williams-as had the satifnation of colleating A First Division v. I.R.C. (home) at' score in anything. like Fila kolmen:

"aafty-Afty pitch" giving equal | a.

a battle of whisky along the Dm.-C. A. Coelho, CA normal form-Reuter.

He ran any distance, from Bo was told axmall pavo to

aid to balemen and bowlera. way.

A Pereira, Dr V. N. Alienza, 3. T. Cot-

one to six milles. Then, in the give up inletics a

With the score deadlocked at Com No.

artificial, stimulants have tonape #1 Hodrigues, R.M.V.

winter he spend it for cross! Momentarily stummed by tile

14-14 on the 14th 7. bezi, the Rubeiro, It Base . H. Bourn, A. Bactoo, L. 5. Silva, W. C. Ogley..

nows, Food Boods recovered. He bei und

Although a little on the green Kowloon Dock zink registered bought of all the hours at a side, it should be easy paced, seven to jump to a 11-14 landi Third Diyledon v.

put to training, of TOUR DE FRANCE other he had given up and on anythesily afterwards gave

The Police rink He bowlers early helping the swing

However, How deplay 14their: 14 replied in the baret

on Bighling quake and the Demar Well and nonbig helpulli 10-END

the fourth day,

ing heads as they, phíngað on. and music thout go down Anally by only ize it will be completely pluckily in izba being Da

one the night China, Midi Bpecial (London, Express Service)

abot,

that they

First Division v, K.D.C. (home) at 4 p.m.-C. A. Guterres, G. A. Noro nia, C. C. Pereira, J. E. Hornbalti Lev Rodrigues, 6, E. Souza, C. E. Pazos J. F. V. Ribeiro FX Silva, M.

Pereira

Bilva, P. A. Costa, B.P.F. Marques,

Division

I know that you were watch- ing my final against Rosewall in the dressing-room on television so you can't possibly say that the crowd did not applaud

Reserve: C.M.FrancoRc. (home) of: Rosewall,

On the contrary, I think the crowd

was wonderful to bola ven if yo

FRAUD ANPaven; II. J. Pereira, sides. It they were on my sidh Xavier. Ally Reis, H.A. V. Rlbeing: more often, as you say, then It L.A. Peres, 1. 3. Castro, A., Conno M. T. Nunes. Reserve! E.J. Xavier. must have been the first against on Australian,

time

USEC

214 - Division y T,C. ot (home)]]

grove; A. C. Traill, C. Ingledewe,,

Ausriallan-bor

He had played his pitch in straight approaching the 18th, into

fronting tho a stream

missed in green and

Dnally

TEAM LEAVES

LONDON FOR EMPIRE GAMES

London, July 201

Toulouie, July 21.

"Not

to

sil the

the 18th lap of the Tour de Of such stuff are Champions

De Bruyne of Belgium wom KoNLY

30 pm.-O. R. Lladara Wa - WaperA athletes, boxers.France here today. His time made. ftrem H. W. Hollway. L. Co- cyclists, - fencers, wrestlers, was 6:19:18 United Press, Just remember the former N.Hart Baker. D. L. Edwarda aranen and weightlifters, art Anais, ko John Bromwich and B. Goodyear, M. Scott, G. D. S., London, this morning on the first

Agnew. A. Steven. Bob Tallentur q

Sedgman and Budgo Putty, You

did not complain then, did you? Van Zuidin, WI. Stevenson, B.

The first stop of a trip of somóthing over 6,000 miles wo to be Prestwick, in Scotland, where the Soostian and Northern Ireland continents were to fin Joined: etishi khan it was non-stop

atago a long air trip to the [3rd Division v F.C. (away) At Empire Games, at VancouVEE... do p. (Postponed Game)-D, the Boycott, R. E. Reed: V. Gold I have played all over

anith A Fielebat, GH, T. world. Many times I hot the Curry A. 3. Stonyar, H. Fa Green,

J. Hides. Reserve public against me, but, despite Jobs

to win. I.haye Simmops, T. Wren.

about the never

to om trying my matches on the court and not off the court.

this, we c

gallery as

win

To your remark that I am not a great fighter I have only one answer howly! How could

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