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BANNISTER'S FEAT

HONOURED

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1954.

Roger Bannister, first man in the world to run the Mile under four minutes, with the Duke of Edinburgh who on July 17 at the White City, presented him with a plaque to mark the occasion.-Central Press Photo.

Oxford And Cambridge Contribute Nothing To British Tennis

Says DENNIS

HART

An hour or so in the 11 not a far step from Wimbledon to Eastbourne. train and the two are inked. But not even the latest thing in supersonic air travel could bridge the gulf between the lawn tennis that is played at the two places.

At Wimbledon recently, watching the All-England Lawn Tennis Champion- At Eastbourne, where -hipes, I saw the now inevitable eclipse of British players, Oxford played Cambridge, in the annual tennis match between the two universities, I saw one of the reasons for that dismal Wimbledon showing.

facilities-

Oxford had brothers Norman have mart Look at Oxferd's Undergraduates

of Hongkong, have and Dennis Lo Krass Courts. They

Alimed

S.K. and

Gurum time for sport than most young six

At least R. inen and so the Universities are some hard ones too.

Now, from the Punjab and S. Crum hard courts. in any respects barometers of they were

Cambrige included West Indian McDonald, British mor. When they pro- | according to one mumber of the of Nairobi.

so overgrown Ian they are duced such

As feam, personalities

I.J. Cup player, wick, an Australing, and C.W. Ulford, an American.

Percy Chapman and Douglas with weeds that they resemble Davis

a dured bomb site.

runners

Jardine. English cricket was at its peak "Now, with like Roger Bannister and Chris Chotaway, Britnin fears па

challenge middle-distance

the truck

But tennis

Un

the level the outlook uncentnin Jow, Neither Oxford nor Cambridge

Hannister

The possess tennis courts.

E

of

on the

shown

at

There

was much

tennis. entertaining

This is no reflection honest endeavour

Eastbourne.

good and

But It lacked

of the

War-

more

players So for winter games

trip tu Both Universities are natural- 17-mile muise a Imust

ly glad to call upon the services Huntley where they have use of

But what an two indoor courts-by kind of such players,

Jocul

golf indictment of home talent. permission club.

It shows up even Conclung facilities consist of

effect of the the two-hour clearly a once-fortnightly

Universities' lack of interest in Visit by local coach Mr Thomas.

tennis. For the Universities give a lead to the grammar and

schools--and how im public pressionable are lads lo 18.

from 12

SMALL WONDER Small wonder Billy Knight, Britain's chief tennis twope,

What happens? They come to turned down an offer to go to

blue in rowing, rugby, athletica it would different matter had Knight or cricket. Tennis? That's just

for fun! played rugby cricket,

the polish of University in favour of playing University indent on gaining Varsity cricket, athletics, row-tennis.

ing and rugby.

'fashion-

Universities. butis

Dr

have been a

Which is not really surpris-been an oorstman or an athlete. ing. Thuse sports are

little Cambridge fure U better. They have six grass and three hard counts,

able'

ม

Tennis is not.

But they. too, must rely on the spare time of county conch Mr Smith. For-

ARMY HOCKEY XI tuantely Mr Smith has an office

been

The following have nelected to represent the Army

nguinst

KI in their hockey encounter

Navy tho Indian Saturday al the Happy Valley

on

Cam-

in their pavilion and so is more accessible.

Perhaps that is why bridge won the match 17-4.

Even so, most of the play-

Pool Grounds, commencing at ers learned their game before

*Taytor p.m.--Boxall;

aur coming 10 ather University-- Boxail; Bowell, Pettors (Capt) and not in Britain. Of the 13 and Forde; Homer, Cox, Smith, players comprising the McMahon and Teyan. Reserves: teams, eight came from over- Mann, Lacey and Reay.

SCRF.

two

WINNER AT SILVERSTONE

(London Express Service)

MacMillen To

Attempt Mile Record

The

ENGLAND 293 FOR SIX IN THE THIRD TEST AGAINST PAKISTAN

Manchester, July 22.

England won the toss in the Third Test against Pakistan today, and decided to bat first. Sheppard and May opened England's innings, and at the close of play England had scored 293 for six wickets.

Bowling to an attacking Geld, Fazal Mahmood, who with Hussain opened the Pakistan bowling, became more accurate and twice beat and nearly bowled Sheppard with deliveries which whipped back off the seam. But Sheppard cut him through the slips for the second boundary.

with | Shujauddin With the score at 20, Fazal been spectacular but

other Maqsood gained the success he deserved wickets falling at the

Ahmod Sheppard shaped for a deferend, fulled his appointed task

Ghazali sive stroke, but with the inside splendidly. edge of his bat he dedected the ball on to his wicket,

May played only one ball be. fore rain sent the players in. The shower ccased almost

1- mediately and play was quickly resumed.

Only a small crowd saw the the slands play before luncl being sparsely populated,

n

hud After lunch, Shujauddin

defensive

while Beld but Compton made every attempt to pierce it, Bailey was content to play dead but strokes.

at

•

44 12 101

3

1 0 1

0 1 10 D --Router

LAST MINUTE CHANGES

Manchester, July 23. Roy Collins, 20, of Lancashire ground staff, will be England's

in faldsman

the morgency Third Text against Pairistan, beginning here to-day.

man

In Hussain's next over, May touched rising ball outski s

Fazal conceded only 37 runs off slump but it tailed harm.

in his Aral 20 overs before

Jim Parks originally chosen Da 12th

the leasly over the slipa' heads.

19 in 03 he gave way to Husein. Shujanddin, the left-arm slow

shortened his team as the result of Lowson's Shujouddin bowl, took over from Hussain at 30 and by bowling just chur length when Compton began ad-Injury, Collins, who joined the

This round staff after leaving r length generally kept both vaticing down the pitch.

army in May, played his first quiet, May forced was not entirely successful for senior match In the two-day successive balls to the boundary the batsman occasionally stayed axture with North Wales

carlier Cricket Association but otherwise ho was nearly as his ground and pulled rest:leled as patient Bailey,

balsinen

ar

Kerdar

be

who

the

in

SHOT PUT CHAMPION

Sgt. John Savidge, of the Royal Marines, who is almost certain to win the Empire Games Shot Put Championship. His best heave this season was 55 feet 4 inches.

Famous Cricketers I Have Met

was forced to place a man deep The week.-Itouter. In the first hour, England to cover the stroke. scored only 40 for which Bailey's Some of the spectators shore was 17. But when Fazai

to barrack Balley Kan bowl:d a short bouncer, Bailey made only two scoring strokes smacked between third alisin 50 minutes after lunch. His and the gully.

dour innings came to fortunate end at 67. Compton Fazal's figures after an e-

10 curate spell were 10 overs, alve played Shujauddin lowly

called for a maidens, 17

one mid-wicket and and

Bailey started, then heal រ, wicket.

Kardar threw to Apart from itis two boun- tated. daries, May was seldom comwicket-keeper and Bailey fortable and after slashing at out by yards. Shujauddin twice he paid the penalty, being caught at 47.

عنان

tho Was

Shujnuddin and of-apinner Ghazali, formed the Pakistan RAIN INTERRUPTS

attack after tea. Compton | found the boundary three times, Rain then stopped play for but Graveney trled nothing

ambitious. five minutes.

Fazal took over from Hussain

Shujauddin bowled well out- resumed. Bailey when play

side the off stump to Compton together and Compton stayed

which until lunch, when England were and it was this↑tastiq

SUCCESA Bailey had then eventually earned Him 7p for two.

100 and his batted one hour and three quar-With the total ot

score al 93, Compton mistimed ters for 37 runs. He had

a late cut and gave a catch at the wicket. He had been at threo the crease for two and quarter hours.

not

Close Of Play

Scores In County Cricket

London, July 22. Close of play scores today in first class cricket matches

were:

4

48 for 183 and Hampshire three. Nottinghamshire 423 for saven declared (Clay 99, Martin 77, Dooland 88, Smales not out 01, Goosesena 42),

Warwickshire 220 and 198 for

A further success,

By ARCHIE QUICK

"Patsy" Hendren will always be best remembered as one of the greatest England and Middlesex batsmen. It is often overlooked, however, that he was a first class footballer with Brentford, and played Soccer for England at outside-left in a "Victory" International after World War 1.

Hendren talks a lot of football commonsense, and, after watching the World "Television may have saved British Cup series on television, he has this to BAY: football. We fans are not going to put up with the same old stuff of the past after what we saw Hungary, Brazil and Uruguay produce. In Switzerland. And I leave Germany out because I do not think they were anywhere near as good as the other three. They were lucky in the draw, and good luck to them, but I think England has a greater chance of beating them at Wembley next winter than they would Hungary, Brazil or Uruguay.”

carver

Parks, making his England

shrewd "Patay"; were not then "first class," but better average, the foundation Genial, but

to many an debut, got off the mark with a

(why don't they get my initials that same player, who was then that Davies set drive to mid-wicket off Ghazali,

the number 20 and is now 50 years of age, innings plus over 50 valimble 'E.H' right?) mya

that should have has bridged the gap of three wickets was one of the balc one lesson Pakistan çok

ball the new

been learned by the Football decades in a remarkable active factors in the eleven's succoss had after the England total

Association is physical fitness.

Then there was his 2,012 runs passed 200 and soon meet with

We do not want to alter our Emrys Davies has just anand 163 wickots "double" in At 217, Faza!

style of play too radically," he nounced his retirement after 1937 while his highest score was ball back to bowl moved the

salo "although there is quite a fuiniling his ambition of playing 287 not out at Newport against Park: round his legs for 15.

With Arnold Dyson Gravoncy

continued to play lot of room for improvement in for his beloved county on his Gloucestor

ball

passing, shooting 50th birthday, and now he will he took part in 32 opening con- control, serently and with Evans as his

and

tury partnership play. It is a new Join George Lavis in the im positional

and has, partner reached 50 in just under

system of physical training that portant task of bringing along strangely enough, hit 32 first- two and a half hours.

is required, allied to a

new the many

hat class centuries. youngsters

coaching Glamorgan, as befits Weigh- "not Glamorgan's intensive mental approach. I think our men train enough | scheme io

Lavis is producing.

it these daya voz

has often been my pleasure think quickly in charge of the indoor school are a singing county, and a match to hear them at Cardiff winter and summer; after enough."

out like Davies will take over the new bursting their hearts Hendren went on: "I may be indoor school which has just larke singing

the 14 sticking my neck out to suggest been erected at Neath..

Notional favourites.

THE SCOBEDOARD England, 1st Innings

D. Sheppard, b. Fazal Mah-

Imtiaz Ahmed,

mood

P. May

b. Shujauddin (Spooner 21, Horner 73) Balley, run out

four Somerset 107.

13

do

In cold Aqures

the likeable

Walzit

1 remember how it surprized

42 the Services, but if I was a modern club manager I would

atter 93 seek the ald of PT instructors Emrys has played 1,000 innings the Mayor of Gravesend

In the Army, Navy and Air for Glamorgan. They bave pro he had entertained them one 05 Force to formulate a curriculum | duced

and then stick rigidly to it.

D.

T.

J.

9 dec.

Compton, C. Ahmed b. Shujauddin

Graveboy Et Ahmed b. Shujaus

M. Parks, b. Mahmood T. G. Evans, not out

Iratior

Imtiaz

Fazal

16

31

"Players nowadays go out on to the field for three or four

J. H. Wardle, not out

Evetras

19

mornings a week, do sonte laps,

wickets at average.

1

Total (for six)

Leicestershire 120 and 157 for seven, Worcestershire 482 for two declared (Kenyon, not out 263, Outschoorn 112, Deva 83).

327 for Glamorgan. Middlesex 271.

Yorkshire 513 for 7 dec., 21 for no wkt. Combined Services .. and 90 for Sussex 102 Derby 340 for 3 dec.

for 2. 229 and 110 Surrey Essex 204.

Gloucester 258 and 77 for $. Lancashire 200.

Tokyo, July 22. 1,300 Metres Sliver Medalist at the Helsinki Olym-301. ples, Bob MacMillen, who is now serving with the United States Eighth Army in Korea, will attempt to improve on one established by mile records

Roger Bannister of England and Johnny Landy of Australia at on international track and ficlu meet here on July 24.

runners

Top Japanese act as hila pacemalcera.

Northampton 304

for 5 dec. Kent 225 and 122 for 8.

183 and flampantre

48 for will three. Nottingham 429 for 7 dec. Warwickshire 220 and 195 for

Somerset 197.

MacMillen finished the three- quarter mile in 2 minutes 59.9 seconds in a test run here two days ago.

Japanese sports reporters sald he would have battered bis time if his pacemakers, army terum mates, had done a better jab. The pacemakers run wild toward the end.

MacMillon's lap times were: 440 yard 50.2 seconds, halt milo 2 minutes 0.3 seconds and three-quarter mile. 2 minutes | 59,8 ́snoonda,

Japanese sports writers hope 'bo see him at least becoine the

third, man, ta break the minubes bior là hồ anhnar break the record-Router.

JIM PETERS HAS FOOT TROUBLE

London, July 22 Jim Peters, British champion and the fastest marathon, ru» per in the work, has had to curtail saine of his training for British Empire V Gengiba marathon Удаходуют бес

4.

Leicester 129 and 157, Wor- cester 482 for & dec-Reuter.

NEW MCC TOUR MANAGER

Landon, July 21.

over 27,000 runs at evening when all of them stood reasonably high average and in on the banqueting room tables

gave him

"Land of My addition he has taken 900 good and

low Fathers" in the an obversely

most perfect Emerg hurmonga-led by Davies, Ho will be missed

оде

a bit of skipping and shooting More important than all that, from the fair fields of cricket. In at goal. That does not bring though, is the foot that for 293 wall control. Let them practise years he has been the bulwark against a wall as we used to do, of the batting. Others have trapping the ball and moving it scintillated move brightly, auch on first time as it came to us.

for instance, Wille Jonze, as

Exity's Davies

Fall of wickets: 1/20, 2/57, 3/97, 4/190, 5/217, 0/261.

Bowling

Hussain

O. M. R. W Fazal Mahmood 33

2 9 85 Mahmood

20 683

Canadian Tennis Tournament

"Biantey Matthews is ono of but it has been

Soccer Match

Today

The following will represent

(but to Glamorgan his imper- and the Merchant Navy in a

the few who still does that in who has been the rock upon the afternoons after the others which so many opponents' hopes have gone home or to the cinema, have been shattered, and that is why he is still at Flo No batsmanship is the top. Players do not

ply what is popularly called dour, the Royal Netherlands Navy themselves

to their maelently chosen trade, and that is what football is to them. On the Con- turbability in a crisis has pulled friendly football match on the Merchant Navy Club ground, tinent and in South America it them through many a game, Is more than

that it is a highly From a Minor County thea, Chatharn Road, at 0 p.m. to- commercialised industry, and, if Davies saw them become first day: Toronto, July 22,

Royal going to continue in class and then to crown all else Japan's Atsushi Miyagi, fourth we are seeded foreigner in the tournante all, we have got to tot once despised Glamorgan Datterman, Herto E. Stromer

our own, then mant, beat Bob Bedard, second

Not the basic actually lifted the County Cham-Haan (esp), Grouwd. Den-

pionship in the summer of 1948, zeyink, ranking Canadian player, 4-8, alter our Ideas,

Merchant Navy Brensori have those--but all with 18 outright victories and •Balaari): 7-5, 6-1, 6-1 in the quarter-skills-we' anala of the men's singles in the the vital litle extras that must only ave defeats in twenty-six Bataan), AN, Other ( Caloma)

matches, Canadian Lawn Tennis Cham-

be allied to them.”

Mr Geoffrey Howard, the pionships today. Lancashire County Cricket Club

In other quarter-final matches Secretary, was to-day named as

to Miyagi's Davis Cup team mate, manager of the MCU team

Kose! Kamo, beat Luis Ayala, tour Australie in the winter. Me Howard managed the MCC Chile, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 and Andres ide which toured madia, Pakis-Hammersley of Chile beat Andy tan and Ceylon in 1951/52. Paton, USA, 0-1, 8-6, 6-4 Shirb Heuter.

Router.

THE GAMBOLS:

FEIGYBAT LOVEEVISION E AGAIN WITHOUKE KARH AROUNDZUS

AND THE BANDEN IN SPRING

Netherlands Navy Manag

Kloppendurg

Box

Witte,

me

A. Gang (cap., Fort Charlotte H. Gibney im Aderstus), A.-N. Oiber THREE DECADES

How Wilfred Wooller and his (es Galenia); -82. Walandourwas boys sang their hearts out that Chakmala) Lund (my Tal- wani, PAM Karauwan - Em Tank- Exactly thirty years ago I saw night In Bournemouth when they mala unum (u Tasikmalain). fairheaded man from Swanre knew the time was that. And and ad Kwatchtvers (nay camera core a century for the "Cin nono sang more lustily thartsuT),

Over $1,700 Tune The referee will be RSM Randall,

FM, and the linesmon derella" county of Glamorgan Davica,

"against

Hampshire uk scored for his county that #21" } [zatherlands Navy) and A. GF, Bood

Welsh, sido Įson, and, although, Jones, had a } {Merchant Navy)).

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