1954-10-20 — Page 7

THOSE WINNING GIRLS!

THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1954..

Unlike Arsenal, They Triumphed

Moscow.

By DOROTHY TYLER,

(Twice Olympic Silver-Medallist in the High Jump,

who was one of them)

It has been a wonderful trip. And now we know, after our defeats of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, that, with Russia, we lead Europe in women's, athletics.

The only depressing part of it was the nows of our footballers' defeat in They gave the excuse that it was because they were tired from arriving only 85 hours before the match. Well, we arrived within 24 hours of

But we

won-and meeting with Hungary, and after a two-day air journey too, went on to beat Czechoslovakia.

think one con bo too serious about sport io. It's possible to train really hard and enjoy it.

In Budapest we beat Hungary to gel fit eventually, whereas our by 50 points to 94, and then wen@filetes and the Iron Curtain beat Czechoslovakia by 58 to 48, footballers get At frat-then At least I hope this makes up compete. for the defeat of our footballers. Iron Curtain officials asked us how we did it. Well, It's not only win, but also to have the will to

necessary

to have the will to

grain to win.

In Hungary we watched a big football mulch. and we were convinced that their professional footballers must train as hard as amateur athletes.

Yes.

our

Our only weakness now is in our throwing events. The Iron Curtain countries have dis- covered their world-class women throwers among their labourers' and farmers' daughters.

I would suggest that a summer reason of track athletics would do our footballers nothing but good. And If they argue that this would wear them out before

I think if we scoured the football season began, jet

could find similar them look at Ken Jones, inter-country we

sprinter and Rugby British material. national

He believes une sport Νόιν, here is something quite player. helps the other.

outside

sport that we women noticed--the way we were com- Yes, I know this sounds funny.

We That's not all. I sfili_think_we|plimented on our eluthca. but look how hard wame of our

girls have an advantage.

You were athletes train,

better dressed who works in a hospital, trainee, it's not necessary or advis- than the girls behind the Iron train, and play Curtain, and would easily hold sometimes

five nights a week; able to think,

But that Shirley Hampton, a secretary, Ove your sport all day and every day. cur own in looks tuo.

was not their faull,

Dione Leather,

week; or six nights

und Shirley Cawloy, a bank clerk, sometimes seven nights a week.

They work on the theory that hard

work gives you the ability to do still hunder work.

Those Hungarian footballers have more stamina than our players. They run faster und harder--obviously the result of hard rumning. track.

1 thirak

probably on the

FTT-FIRST

footballers play football and ure that as a way

Our girls have their busiNTERFER and families to think of too. (No. I don't Link

motherhood in terferes with athletics-look at Fanny Blankers-Koen, with two children, and me!).

That way they come fresh to their training in the evening— fresh mentally.

FUN-ALWAYS

The Hungarians were amoxi at the cheerful way we tackled our sport. We

always were doughing und Joking. Yes, I

AUSTRALIAN CRITIC SAYS

MCC Tourists Made Hard Work Of It At Perth

Melbourne, Oct. 19.

10 times

PARADE

The Top Spot" this week is once again devoted to those Hellow and Goodbyes that are so much a part of Army sport.

Our welcome to the 1st Bn. North Staffordshire Regiment is tinged with a touch of regret at the departure from the Colony of the 1st Bn. The Welch Regiment.

The nowcomers will not find it easy to live with local memories of the successes of their predecessors but according to all the accounts of their own achievements in Korea they will make a brave try.

BIG SCREEN....... LITTLE SCREEN

A RINGSIDE REPORT ON THE ENTERTAINMENT BATTLE OF THE CENTURY

By CECIL WILSON

Hollywood

This land of lush make-believe that sprang up 50 years ago from a cactus waste is all that I imagined it to be with one exception. came expecting jitters and I found only jauntiness. The general aspect of the place is so like Hollywood that it seems to be burlesquing itself.

All the expected things are there in abundance the palm, pepper, and 'eucalyptus trees, the filling stations, the garish cinemas, the Jazzy lights, the conglomeration of architecture ranging from vaguely Old English to what James Agate used to call "late wedding cake.”***

like

3

There are also the sleek cars, In the first nine months of But it has been a cleansing The Welch Regiment has left ship, but who won the Feather an appearing to be in too great last year Hollywood produced process. It has brought to the. |`behind many friends in overy weight award In the inter- a hurry to remember where they 234 films. In the first nine screen a mora effelent, arrest- | realm of Colony sport and, if | national competition in Korea.

are going, and the sort of con-months of this year it produced ing, and entertaining batch/ of Hilton has not been given an it is their outstanding victories

fused hustle on the rugby Beld that are best easy contest for his first outing Bing Crosby song as

summed up in aonly 158, but they were good| Alms-with the few inevitablo) "running enough to bring in 15 per cent exceptions-than Hollywood sont remembered, such recollections as he goes into the ring against around in circles getting nowhere more business.

tis in all the rich, careless years. should not be allowed to mask crally and experienced Henry vary fast." their contributions 10 mony Wong.

Moreover,

If the American publle, have quantity has 13. other games,

This looks like being an ex- WITH AN AIR OF DISDAIN made way in the cinema for yet to discover that, we in- cellent

rerap, hut glancing

so has TV quality.

Britain are also making botter wimmered In boxing, cycling, soccer, through dhe list of contests there The shop girls, looking more down from a crazo, to just part pictures on the same streamlined basketball, hockey, swimuning

alm

stors than the m

the DI generni entertainment principle they are going to sco the and cricket the Regiment made pear to be several others of

stars. At just as precisely into pattern. And the studios that plenty of British faces on their though_Sergt-Major 'Jack Solo- Its presence felt, and Its hard-equal merit. All in all it looks as

the picture; so do the waitresses, onen recled under its onslaught | screens. playing sportsmen were always mons' Brennan has done a grand bearing down on you with heads now morch along with it-not

with job of match making. a force to be reckoned

If you held high and shoulders back complderntly

No one can say that Holly- thank goodness, when sports honours were being are a boxing enthusiast this is contested.

luncheon one show you simply must not with a disdain that says: "Before but with a guber conildence that wood is cold-shouldering our

fang you'll be queueing up to they can still give the public actors. During one 1st Bn. In welcoming the

see my flinus,”

what they want and what TV break in the MC.M. studio req

taurant I met Joan Greenwood North Staffordshire Regiment to

The one thing missing is the cannot provide. our midst it is but fair to tell

pande. My impression of Holly-

Joan Crawford, a senior girl (Just completing her first Amerl- them they wRl find that com-

can Alm, "Moonfleet"), Edmund wood from England was of

remains Purdom, the handsome ho-man among film stars who petition is keen and that the

great industry reduced to a jelly, as young and vital as most of who spent seven years ex The Inter-regimental standards of

of despair by the force of TV: the juniors, opens her wide eyes London stage without being sport are quite high.

my impression of it from Holly even wider with scorn when you offered a screen test, and Roger wood is of an industry that has

Brother shamefully learned to take TV in Its stride, asked her how hard she thinks Moore,

The competition tha

"it

the neglected London actor. that hit five years ago like a blow be cinemas, neath the bel: has subsequently had the effect of a shot in the

I saw "the great Alte Guin- arm, and proved the best thing] "There will always be roomness" billed outside a Hollywood "Telecinema in "two hilarious. hits," business swollen

Clothes are behind the fashions there, and it is impossible to get good make-up, so they hayo to go without wearing cosmetics.

London Express Service).

1,400 Watch

Olympic Champion

An estimated 1,400 spec-

In

It is certain that the Anny selectors of all the games where representative sides are action will be watching the new arrivals with interest, and seems certain that the Army

it

miss.

Referees

[

CALLING REFEREES Army soccer referees who are also members of the Hongkong Footbal

Association are booked for a busy time. On Friday, at 7.30 pm, the Hang- kong Association is holding its monthly meeting at the Tavern

Road and at in Chatham

10

o'clock the next morning at the same venue the Army Associa-

of the 1954/55 seQLZONA

home

viewing

STUDIOS AGREE

will

hit

ALWAYS WELCOME

soccer selectors will be taking lion will hold its second moeting that could have happened it-vision's just a healthy new baby, One was "The Man in the White

the

with

to a for filma," she Rhys. The officials of the Army body bus

satisfaction by living too long and we should be glad to have Suit," the other "The Promoter,"

are very satisiled with the pro-and well on the fat of the land. It in the family. After all, when which turned out 10 be "The will be gress that has been made this It reminds me of a man who you have a baby you don't Card."

thi

an early opportunity to look at the available talent in their ranks.

A special welcome given to 2/Licut. T. Buckley season and they are anxious to 500 as many as possible of their who is a soccer referee of con 80 inembers next Saturday 0 siderable promise and no doubt that the record attendacne of 85, he will be quickly co-opted by which was established at the very active Army Referees' inst meeting, can be beaten. Association.

One of the most important Army sportsmen in

will look forward to items on the agenda will be the meeting and seeing the new presentation of badges to new new- referees. The following

their afternoon were thrilled by spheres of sport currently opera-

badges-Lt.

REME. the spectacular diving ex-Live In our sporta calendag..

11th

Worksho Jat.

WO hibition given By Major:

Phipps, 208 Bly. Royal Artillery, Sammy Lee, the two-time One of the most popular foot-Dr. Ramsry. 8 Coy, RASC Olympic High Diving Cham-ball competitions in Army circles Cpl. Hooker and L/Cpl. Jones is the Ayerst McKenna Cup both of Kowloon Line Troop, pion.

Dividing his exhibition into which is played for annually 'by Royal Signals,

tho various medical units in two parts, interpolated by series of events by local swim the Colony. The draw for the 1954-55 competition 13 13 ming tolent, Major Lee dived a total of 15 times before the follows:

tator's At the New Ritz Colony Swimming Pool yesterday comer in netion in all the

•

comers

will receive

I

hos fought through a grave ill-destroy the other children." Guinness can do no wrong in ness and emerged from a major The studio "chlofs echo those American eyes. Charles Brackett, operation leaner, Atter, and

sentiments in a less sentimental dividual alm-makers, told me:

one of

Hollywood's awake wider awa than ever.

thoir

་ ་ ་

most, in-

It was, to be sure, a grim il-way "We are entering a new ncss while

It lasted. Money golden age," they say, but it "50 far as I am concerned that. that once poured through then not been an easy journey, man can come out here any time cinema box-office was diverted It has meant mercilessly reduce chooses. The trouble is that. to TV hire-purchase. The publie Ing those shameful old top-he won't choose,"

Another director raid with asked themselves: "Why should heavy overheads, banishing those

producers and directors wo turn out into the cold to see genius lay largely in a flair for an American fare at the mention whose that wed glow that comes over a bad programme' when we can stay at home and see something wasting other people's time and of a tine: "Who's that nicer of

money

Lady Aator's who always plays Just as bad beside the fire?"

It has meant taming tempera-giggling women? Joyce Gin- The answer was that attend- mental stars and gotting down fell--that's the one, She's great.” ances

dropped by half, 5,000 to business in the preliminary cinemas closed, stidios slashed stages so that a film unit could So. 1 might suggest, and some staffs, stars who thought go on to the set with some idea of our pictures, da the American MACAO VISIT

they were under contract for of the sort of film it was going public may some day, have life found themselves suddenly to make.

chance of discovering. Last week I gave you early on the market: and producers particulars of Д forthcoming tried and failed to compete with Army the new evil by veering from a 33 General Hospitol vs. BMH. visit to Macao of three was Bowen Road.

boxers to take part in a Charity miserable minimum of aims to

maximum in to the 34-year-old 18 Fleid Ambulance

vs. 20kurnament. The arrangementsInY

um in which now compiete and the quality was the last considera-

mation. world high dive champion who Field Dressing Station. also received floral tributes from Thero games are scheduled to following boxers will be making

Searching around desperately. the Colony's Korean Residents'.

their of

fireside public out

to the lethargy, they turned optical wonders of 3-D, whereby audiences were charged extra for the privilege of straining

суса Sunday, their

through coloured November 7, and the boxers will glasses. bo wall looked after as CSM O'Conner ‘and Sgt. Weir of the King's Regt, will be travelling tò Macao as the officials' seconds.

breathless crowd.

The MCC team was "entitled to a pass, but not with honours" for its seven wickets win over West Australia An enthusiastic ovation in the "first cricketing examination” of the Australianaccorded tour, was the summing up of cricket writer Percy Jeames in the Melbourne Age newspaper,

"Marka lost by the Englishmen were for brittleness of batting, indifferent and slack fielding in which dropped catches prominently showed up," wrote Jeames.

Association, Korena Consulate-be played off by October 28. the trip: Flyweight

The final is due to take place Kearns; Bantamweight L. Cph, for something to startle th

WelterweightL/Cpl. General, Bank of Koren, and at the Boundary Street ground Reaney the visiting Korean Basketball on Friday, October 29, when the Rollingon, all of the 1st Br.

kick-off will be at 5 p.m.

Some of the dives performed

invented by Major Leg Mrs Meyers, wife of the Mon- years ago. Among these were aging Director of W.R. Loxley & the Treble-Jack Knife, the Jack Co. (China) Ltd., will present | Knife flying one and a half the trophy to the winning side

somersault and the Twist dive at the end of the game. with combinations.

team. "The longer the gam went Simpson against an attacking

were eight men on the more did the play of the field for Gorringe, tourists detract from their im- being behind the batsmen.

the coun- pressiveness against

Simpson opened with a splen- try ...

the at Dunbury In final three-quarters of an hour did square cut off Price, but taken to wind up the game to that bowler's next over he ap day, they fell well below the peared to either lost sight of the expectations of an Internation- bail or catch his bat in his pad

for he was clean bowled, al side."

BY SEVEN WICKETS

to

CROSS COUNTRY'

| King's Regiment.

The date of the show has now

changed to been

QUIETLY SATISFIED

The Army rugby officials are quietly satisfled with the first performance of the representa tve side which scored much a well merited win over the Police at the week-end,

SOON TIRED Despite the splitting headaches and the atrocious dramatie quality of most of the films, the novelty of seeing pictures stand out from the screen achieved its initial value, but we soon tired of having lons, tossed into our laps and knives hiss pase cars with the aid of multiple loudspeakers.

from

our

Highlighting the programme For the first Ume this season was n dive which Major Lee

wo have news of cross-country called, the Commando dive, It

running and it is good to find The

tourists made hard The MCC batsmen shaped consisted of сде summersault, that it comes from the recently work of winning a game which poorly and Sarre, who attempts striking the spring board for the arrived Essex Regiment. they should have finished off oft spinners, had Wisen caught

have their They obviously without serious trouble yester- in the slips off his first delivery fond me, and a forward dive day," Jeanes added Chim Mail and in the same

Complete over induced

the conclusion of his ex- eyes firmly fixed on the season's Cowdrey to give a simple catch 'bition Major Lee thanked the top Special.

honours for they hod

All that remained, then, apart to

The only criticism of the sido COVET.

hold their Inter- This meant three Hongkong Amateur Swimming | arranged to

developing less drastic. wickets down

but Association, his sponsor, for Company meeting at Fanting at was that some of the kicking of deep screen than 3-D, McConnon and May hit off the giving him the opportunity to 10 o'clock this morning. Com could have been improved os

was to produce fewer and betler Perth, Oct. 10.

runs, McConnon claime:f the perform in the Colony.

panies were allowed to enter 10 the two extra points were often pictures and more

provocative tho MCC, touring cricket winning hit with a straight drive

kicking.

pictures than commercial TV fam today beat Western to the fence just before lunch

ld the local divers, Major Lee than with eight to count in lost due to poor kick final reckoning.

This is pretty certainly a fault would dare attempt under the Australla here by seven wicketa end taking 50 minutes to score said that they had natural ability

that will to quickly corrected ern eye of the sponsor. In to win their opening first class the runs, MCC were home by and were promising. What they The run is a stift one over a and with heavy inter-service, the process out went the old

needed was more coaching and five miles course and

game on, the calendar this week, "E" pot-boller and good ride, more pool facilities. for training. Į prominent competitors

point will be important. who won the Commonwealth Major Lee is also the recent expected to take part. The list at the Royal Navy overy dance t

included. LI. R. V. Dawnay, who Divisional Championship

lines as last week which seems. Koren in 1953; Pte. Dunn, a most to indicate that the officials are promising

who has sailsfied with the framework of already represented Southern the side. Counted, and finally Li, K.

** match of the tours

seven wickets.

THE SCORES

Western Australia 1st innings 103. winner of the James E. Sullivan award given to the leading U.S.

·al amateur athlete for 1953.

The inal scoreboard read: Chros, MCC 321, and 40 for Western Australia 103 and 255,

When play began to-day, a humid breeze blow from the east instead of the fresh south. westerly wind and so Statham, for the first time in the match, Statham bowled from the pavilion and and obtained a good deal of inawing.

After Meuleman had com- pleted three figures, by culturage Loader, he took two fours of Statham, bowling short, late cut-

the bowler off successive ballThen in the same over, anticipating a bumper, he drew away but the ball just sorped gels middle

love to be taken

over

his

2nd Innings Butherford, b. Loader Sarre, h. Staliam McCarthy.e. May b. Wardle 13 Chemody, 款

McConnot,

L. Pavy, o Evans, b. Loader R. Straum, bw, b. McConnon M. Herbert, run out 3. Munro, e. Evang, b. Balloy

6. Evan, Keuleman,

Statham

R. Pre not out c. May.

R. Corringe, Stathem

Extras · lesbyen.

no balia)

Total (all out)

behind the Bethem

Bailey Loader

had botted six and Wardla

bak, hours for his 109, which McConnon j

included 11 tours,

The left-handed Pričavataped

MCC 1st, mntinga 241.

Xad, Inning?

conadrotty, Ay, having helped Tsimpson, b Price Meu man to put on 30 for the V Wilson Rutherford,

NEATLY STAKEN

however, ou the ni

am, at thi

109

કરમાં

CEZERO

Sowdery, el. Pavy, D. Bares annon, not out

(four) yes, one wide)

Free Btyis

(". Wan Shku-ming, 663

runner

several Were

will be on very much the same

It is understood that the team'

Birch who is the County Chara- TODAY'S SOCCER pion of Bedfordshire,

After their heavy defeat af

Great Baseball Batter Dies

Boston, Oct. 19.

Hugh Duffy, 88; one of

RACE RESULTS:

Following were the results of the swimming events held at the New Ritz yesterday:

Men's 100

yurdu

Atwood, Boa mea; (3) Chung Kin=enan, 625" #ec,

of the outcome of this race, Bunday the Army football team that over. ved, died today.

the will be anxious to re-capture Women's 210 verde Brost Stroke particularly

szger from the old Duffyjn Cheung Kingwah, individual placings mári, 328, moo; 2, Laení Han-fọng, cerned for with top-class runners the loyal Navy at Causewaygalight crap of baseball, comm Han's 100 yards Butterly Stroke in the field it could well bo a Bay, this afternoon, A.

plied a lifetime average of 380 In his 19 years of play from

It will be interesting to hear the hands of Bouth China Jast the greatest baseball batters

(Flat)-1, Pang Chiu-mit, 6-3 100: 3,

are con- winning: form when they meet

Ca Antwond, 115 meet and 3, Tung strong indication of things-to-This game is scheduled to 1988 to 1908, mostly with tho

Cheung-hing, 75, 89c.

Women's 100 yurdu - Başk Stroke (Hardlong)==1) Endog-asa-jal, <505-

Kunk: Ngan dung, se deo, she

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