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FASTEST THREE

A smiling trio ui medal winners after the final of the Men's 100 Yards Dash at the British Empire Games at Vancouver. From left to right Michael Agostini of Trinidad (winner), Don MacFarlane of Canada (second) and Edward Ajado of Nigeria (third).

BRITAIN'S RESERVES GET THEIR CHANCE AT WHITE CITY

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With

Britain's lending athletes gone most of Vancouver for the Empire Games, the nation's reserves were still good enough to withstand a strong foreign challenge in the International meeting at the White City on August Bank Holiday.

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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1954. 7

He Spends His Leave Running, Riding, And Swimming

By HYLTON CLEAVER

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Michael Boxhall, ex-Harrow, ex-Sandhurst, Is now on leave in London from

the Molay Police. His period of leisure after four years in the jungle is being spent As follows:

He runs round Hyde Park. Then he rides. a horse with recruits at Knights bridge Barracks. He swims and fences at the Lansdowne Club, and ends up pistol-shooting at Bishopsgate Police Station.

country. swimming 600 yards, running 3 miles, swardsman- ship and pistol-shooting.

Bome- before,

which is almost in an event entirely a Service affair.

His reason?' A deep desirequires a young athlete to be team for this year's Champlon to compoto in the British top class at one and the same ships at Aldershot... Pentathion Championships at time at jumping a horse across thing nover attempted the end of September, and to go one better than he did in 1949 when he won the Rajah Campbell Cup, which goes to the Service cadet putting up the best show 'at this velded renterprise.

To Mesta Pentathia

Michael Boxhall, who took a 1 king to Balt part of hig A Sandhuri, came home with the novel iden of joining his two 'brothers and entering

a family

MAN WHO DID NOT

ASK GETS

THE BIG JOB

By HENRY ROSE

one of

Dapper 47-year-old Frank Hill has landed Soccer's managerial "plum" jobs and he did not apply for it.

Hill, Burnley manager, takes over at Preston the post vacated six weeks ago by Mr Scot Symon, who left to manage Glasgow Rangers.

I understand that the job, in addition to a salary around £2,000 a year, carries with it a house for Hill, his wife Doris (a descendant of Colonel Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the shrapnel shell), and two-year-old son, David Shrapnel Hill.

war.

FIRST SETBACK

One brother, Peter, Is a Regu lar Army officer in Egypt. The other, Richard, it at home now, dis+ Firm setback was the covery that to enter a team for this Championship the brothers Boxhall would have to form a club and affiliate to the parent body. This they might have done, but It then transpired that Peter Boxhall,

Army oflear, might be ordered to re- present his regiment instead.

Before this problem could be overcome, Peter was moved

to

a new district in the Middle East and had his leave Post- poned.

Richard as yet inexperienced,

MICITAEL BOXHALL He wanted to enter asfamily

'Lensta

MOTOR RACING AT CRYSTAL PALACE

The National Car Race Meeting, organised by the British Automobile Racing Club, took place on August 2 at Crystal Palace. Photo shows the scene during the final of the August Trophy Race-showing competitors roaring round the first bend

after the start,

"No Nursing For Me" Says Peter Loader

By BRUCE HARRIS

"Rubbish!" exclaimed Peter Loader, soon to be Australia-bound on a fast bowling mission' for his country."

What, his downright view, in rubbish? Why, the idea that the 24-year-old Surrey fast bowler will need "nursing" because this physique and stamina are not of the Freddie Trueman standard --and Trueman is not going to Australia.

in

the been no chance recently for him one to follow his own trade that of

a dental mechanic.

for

;

date:

But

"That I don't mind "I may not be big," said he "Indeed, I am only 11 stone, least," said he. "It's just though ft. tall, but I'm wiry. of those things."

Of the nine "new boys"

I asked Loader about his best It is about time that idea faded

Australia-the others are May, performance Londoners are Interested

Cowdrey, in Graveney,

Androw, "My best figures," he replied, Hi returns to the top job of i He moved to Blackpool in the

McConnon were nine for 20 against Kent the club where he had a spell 1936-37 season, captamed the

Loader the upstart (using the Appleyard. Tyson. as assistant trainer before the side that gained promotion, had

word in a complimentary sense) and Wardle-Loader is the only ot Blackheath last season. a season at Southampton and

who forced his way into a Sur-Greater Londoner. His home is I should say that really my best bit of bowling is the seven for After turning down more than was assistant trainer ot Pres-

rey county side which did notat Carshalton. the

Not for this quiet young man 37 for the Players against the 50 applications fo:

post ton.

really need him. at the

DIFFICUL/TY

the cricket advantages enjoyed Gentlemen this season. from all parts of the country - Hill joined the RAF

lettera

from

and outbreak of war, and as a Flight-

There were

are Alee by his fellow-Peter of Surrey, were the strongest included they

international

saw no point in training for the hed former

players, Lieutenant in India he

Bedser and his captain, Stuart P. B. H. May, from Reading. have yet played Pentathion if he could not be in On cx-managers

and

managers charge of all touring teams. holding down jobs the Prestont demobilisation

became a family team, so Michael is Surridge, to open the bowling; whose batting was fostered at he

what need of another quick Charterhouse and Cambridge. directors made

second player - misger

Crewe going on alone. a split

he bowler who is no batsman? In the Lansdowne Bath decision at a secret board meet-Alexaridra.

ip already beating the ----(London Express Suppies) ing to offer the post to Mr Hill

time of last year's Pentathlon ot Burnley-25 miles away.

winner for the distance; swimming was formerly his weakest phase.

Mr Hill drove to Preston, and ofter being interviewed by the full board at Deepdale accepted the invitation.

I have had stve happy years at Burnley," Mr Hill tells me.

"I WOB on a week-to-week POLE VAULT: N. G Gregor

contract, so the way was clear IC..). A fin... R. Lareers (Denmark), 1311, 2: G. al. Bohmidt to take on another post which 3; C Cheyldarp will make me much better off (France), BB, 4 G. Bread (financially.

U. 8. G Chiliadine (0.3.).

(0.3).

fan

200 METRES.-G. N GRH (G.B.).

Cheltenham. Aug. 10. Pakistan drew with Glou-zert

their tast cestershire in game here today before the finat cricket

matcha Test against England which be- gins at the Oval in London on Thursday,

The Anal scores were: Glouces- ter, 143 for nine declared and 42 for two; Pakistan 176,

The tourists did not show ability to score with any cer- pitch. They ex- perienced trouble with

bowlers and and although they gained the lead over the reunity with only four wickets down they lost

22.0, 3: M. Jevanek (Yugoslavia),

23 rec, 9, 4 jurde, 1 yard.

400 METRES.-K. t. Baker (G.B.), 49 Amez, 1; O'Connor ¡Õ.B.). 50ce..

3: Wrighton (G.B.), 60.3.. 3; D. Sioclet (Belgium). 50.34. ayards.

A FAIR JOB

have

Eynes 10.11.5. Amin. 85ace.. : w. "We are sorry to lose Frank,

of

OPEN PAIRS

}

MATCHES

IN PUBLIC PARK

best That was the difficulty, keeping Loader's bowling began in

Londer out of the eleven.

and

was

They

side I

me's feat last Leader's

season in taking 33. wickets in

five consecutive Innings-mostly

while Bedser was away on Test a duly that brought him into as a younger bowler

been for the public park, once a week, when promissured future.

out of the second eleven.

Even this reason there have

Club

ani

andi

it had not calls on Bidser for Test matches he was nt Wallington Grammar with

He gained his county, cap and Loader might not, even now,School. He left there at 15, and have found a way permanently it was the Beddington Cricket found a place in the strongest

that developed him.

bowling side in England." MMT-thinle that' in my early This was the

the run of success England to an old member of Beddington, Burrey selectors sit up and take cricket," said he, "I owe more that made the Gilly Reay, than to anyone else. notice. A young man who, in his own good-tempered way. "In those days I was bowling Just would not take no for an witat passes for fast among answer.

In fencing he is meeting bunch of Olympic men who ard bringing him along with the greatest heart. His coach with been times when Surrey have the revolver is P. C. White, who not been able to include him. Of the three matches in the was one of our 1962 Olympic Colony Open Pairs Lawn Bowla team Championship played yesterday

Michael Although the best was that witnessed at assistant superintendent in the Kowloon Cricket Club when Malay Follce, he counts as F. X. M. SV an

Silva and C. E. Pass eiullian by Service lights, and defeate

E, Noronha 22-20.

the

et

Guterres and

ONE NEED

an

ever

make

Bannister's

Test Gives

His Secret

schoolboys-really medium pace.

I played through the third; and

then the second eleven, and trad

-(London Express Service).

some coaching with the Bed Lew Hoad Comes

[:dington"-members

abver.

under All

Up Against Stiff Resistance

21 Gher. 1; J Vereriiyaa (Belgium), Sakstrom (G.B.), 2 ER

civilians, though often urged to "I think I've done a folr job zalee, 3: W. 3 Ferguson Gat Turf Moor, When I arrived

take up the Modern Pentathlon, A Wanke (France),

At Beere, the Jimmy Wong-scidean enjoy the facilities avail In 1948, the average age of the Bill

For one season I took on Hong Sling combination able in the Services for training. Burnley team was 33. I leave

too strong for

bowling leg spinners merely it reduced to around the 25 proved much

Peter Hughes and Willie McCall

messing about that was but years mark!

admired and won 21-13. The feature of always

was the brilliant Having watched the Pentath- By CHAMPMAN! PINCHER? Could not turn 'em occurately enough, so I determined to go Dupoux (France), 81.2ec.. B. & yards. Preston's style of play, which match

bacle to the fast buff.

Newport, Rhode Island, The secret of the power know that, on paper any 500 METRES.-X. Wood (G.B.), is not unlike that of the Cone struggle between the two skips lon at home and abroad

on the very last head in which since the end of the war, I

Aug 16. chin se Musons Yuutinentals with the accent on bill McCall triumphed by drawing now belleve we have here which enabled Roger Ban-how, fast bowler has the Lew Hood, Australia's top- slavia. Basin. 30.Bare, 2;

control." Wytt 10.11. dmin. 11,200, 1: 3

cricketer, ranking player, met surprisingly in the shot with the last wood bowled. civilian good enough to tainty on a post phone both the Muller (Luxenfiouty). Jin, 50.2-c.. Mr Wilt Hopkinson, the Burn and Souzo, had things very much Championships in Stockholm in /man: to run a Mile in legs but I get a terrifle kick out of it, stiff resistance today'

The two Georges, Hong Choy the British team for the World nister to become the first shortest life of any

"I don't think I

shall ever opening round of the Nowport than four minutes is remake much of a batman. "and their

Casino invitation tennis tournia- At Hongkong

Atvealed by Bannister himself, used to score a few for Surrey ment, but Football Cub, They defeated

finally conquered gums.

Trimk

4. Srot, Joined the KCC. pair. 3. Tang and Bushing-dehool work get little after experiments in which second, but I haven't got the young Ed Duligy, US, medical Norrla 10.11.), "Mmina Fortar Athlete when he was 17. Charlie Thompson by 30 shots to but riding-school work. “M. H. "Magerard Inet xlx men for 40 runs in a

He needs a horse to rido over he acted as his own "guinea patience for good batting. I. like 3; P. J. Pide (G.B.), He moved to Aberdeen and was 13,

bowling better."

student who wis graduated from fences in open hunting country pig." H. VI Foord rather haphazard fashion.

Trasked Londer if he hoped to. Princeton last June, fought cheap erkins

IG.B.I. min 3.ec. 5; A capped three tone for Scotland

ng half."

outside. London. There must be It is this: his lungs can absorb bowl faster. His speed at the nine Eat points Their comparatively

before, (GB), 1nts, ut &at wing

PAKISTAN TEAM much horses that need exercise oxygen from the air at the rate of moment is not up to that of could prevail. And It was a dismissal for 176 was due to a

From Aberdeen to Highbury,

and grooming. weakness to hit to leg without ends, 20 yards.

Where he won three Champion FOR FINAL -TEST

more than a gallon a minute, Tyson, probably below that of Dalley error, a volley return London Express Service), This is about 50 per cent more Statham and Trueman. regard for

limo thê net, that geve Hood the ship medals with Arsenal ini successivo seamons.

'AT THE OVAL ·

than the average man can con-If It comes it comes and set. Once in control, however, sume and seems to be well hall welcome it he replied, Hond quickly rasi out the match. beyond the capacity of other wut I shan't sacrifice accuracy United Frem athletes who have been tested.

Memor

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20, Dove, 01 A D... Tower - (G.D.), The best lanings came from amin. 27.216, 0.20 yards, 5'juria. Wagar Hassan, who hit 35 and completed his 1.000 runs for the senson-Reuter.

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own way

Cheltenham, Aug. 10. Pakidan will chooso their team from 12 players for the final cricket Test match against England at the Oval, London, on Thursday.

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Londor Such a heavy oxygen intake for the Fred Darry Cup on Sun-.

trees... The 12 announced here today day, August 15 are as follows: energy for the by Bannister's les Jocelyn Rickards, who came

exceptional amounts of portant than cricket.

Of The World" him wife the former Miss are: A. H. Kardar (Captain) 8.00 am. WS Vaughan W.-P. muscles.

Chicago, Aug. 10, Fazal Mahmood,

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xends of Ahmed, Imilaz Ahmed, Henif W. P. "Coltman: 9.00 L. H. haustion on an endless belt,

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that match because of injury, Neale; 0.45 - P. De Jong-E. 'Studium' on' Siptember 16.

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