1955-01-11 — Page 7

No Trouble Keeping Their Weight Down

Bonn.

Two Champion Jockeys from Rumanin who rode at! a Red race meeting in Ber- lin-and continued their ride through the Iron Cur- tain by taking a tram to the British sector - are having no trouble in keep- Ing their weight down in the Free West.

In

they

ત્યા they

are having to riske out on { plate of thick soup and half af loat a day.

When they came to the West the jockeys, 38-year-old Arlan Hide Cucu and Jon Pall, aged 24, Baid: "When we realised we were safely over the border we jum laughed for joy."

CROWDED HOUR

Now, after a crowded houg on radios, the American-sponsored

broadcasting to Soviet Eastern Europe and telling

Rumanians

they were anlshed with a regime where lop jockeys

in u C(1773

month just nixut enough to buy a pair of shoes, they are lonely and forlorn in refugee camp

down in Bavaria, with no pros- pects of staying unless the Ger- mans feally get around to offer- ing them Job-mybe mortg henice.

They were told that a three- man German board had rejected their plea for permission to stay as poitical rofugees. The reasons the Germans gove: "You came here for brend-und-butter ren- sons, not because you were danger."

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Startus a refugees wouki have meant permits to work; help in entration and settlement.

Poli

has been offered C11, 15s a A Munich to ride week stable. But because he is not a political refugev he has no work parmit.

Cucu has a wife in France.. and the promise of a visa. But no travel papers to leave Ger- አ.

So they are staying on Inskle the comp compound with 7/-d д weeks pocket money. Sold Cucu: 'Had I known i would have stayed at home.'

-(London Express Bervice),

Saturday's

Home Soccer

Fixtures

the The following are

Horng soccer fixtures for Saturday, Jan 15.

Manchester Li.

Division I

Blackpool

V

Wolves

Bolton

Huddersfield

W

Chelsea

Burnley

Mancherter C.

Y

Leicester C

Preston

Portsmouth

*

Arion Vi

Shemeid W. Spurs

V

Sunderland

*

Arsenal

Cards!!

Chartion

Everton

Newcastle

West Bromwich v Sheffield U

Divion E

Birmingham

V

Lutor

Backburn

"

Derby

Y

Doncaster

Fulham

parich

Liceda Mikesbro

Forest

Port Vale

Wen Ham

Notts C Bristol R. Plymouth

Swanse fall bury

Hofferham Lincoln

V Stoke

V

Liverpool Division III (South)

Bournemouth

Brighton

Bristol C Crypted Palace

Northampton Queen'■ P.I. Reading Shrewsbury Swindon

Porquay Walsall

Watford

Chester

v Newport

v Coventry

Mwall

V

บ

Norwich Colchester

Brentford

Y Aldershot

V

CHilingharn

v Bouthend

v Southampton

V Leyton

Y Exotor

Division II (North)

Gateshead Hartlepools

Darlington

v Bradford C.

Barrow Bradford Cartalo

Wnexdan

*

Tranmere

V

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Chesterfield Crewe

Manak

T

Okimaby Halifax Rochdale Southport yogfogto York

Stockport

Oldham

Accrington

lilo

Dundee

V Scunthorpe

V

V

Barnsley

Scottish League "A"

Best File Hibernden Motherwell Partick

Burlingt

51. Mirren

Airdrie

!

Aberdeen

Y Clyde.

V

Queen o' South

v Horta-

Kilmarnock

Rangers Faith

Scottish Langus “D”

Arbroath.. Ayr U. Brechin C.

Cowdenbeath

✓ Queen's Park

Albion

• Duntermine

Dundee J, ♥ Al Stenhouwlr v Morton 8. Johnom

Forfar

Third Lace

́ ́ Hamilton

YOUNG MAN I CONSIDER YOUR REMARK DO I WANT A SPOT OF WATER WITH IT?" TO BE IN: INFERNALLY BAD TASTE

TEST NICKE WATERED

FULLYETT

My Fault,

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1955.

I Suppose

Says HENRY LONGHURST

I have often held forth, rather pompously, to the effect that if a writer is misunderstood it is his own fault and not that of the reader; in other words, that what matters is not what he says he meant, but what the render took him to mean.

The biter is now bit and I shall be more cautious in future. As you may guess, I have been misunderstood, and, naturally, do not deem it my own fault..

Returning from the United, while appreciating the senti- its I States a month or two ago ments of those who regret mentioned soine

1954 Was A Boom Year In

Hollywood

Great Films

And Top Entertainment

Says MICHAEL RUDDY

been

The

Nineteen-fifty-four has been a boom year in Hollywood. There have great films, top entertainment. produced. There is a spirit of optimism. enthusiasm on the lots is Infectious. The period of experiment with 3-D, wide- screen, big-screen and the various scopes ended with all producers deciding on wide- screen, colour, the majority of important films in cinemascope, many In Vistavision, some in superscope,

"

In There's No Business Like Show Business," you will see colour and cinemascope used to full advantage. And the hottest new team in films came through with flying colours on flying, feet. Donald O'Connor and Mitzi Gaynor are great and they've signed to team again with Bing Crosby and Jeannemaire in "Anything Goes."

tho

Blchard as groom

M-G-M actor.

Hollywood Situation; At

dollurs

wife

Anderson

If TC Fox know what they | wedding on the 29th at the Ladolution. Don't quarrel in publie are doing, they won't put Mitz mansion in Holmby Hills. The places, like nightclubs.

the some Nim Gaynor in

I saw a private showing of Marilyn Monroe again. ·

"Young at Heart" in which ho con understand why Mmmm - Monroc disappeared Would you give up a million does the role that the late John

did

Four ("Tho after

contracts in Garfield in Alm of "Show preview Business," Her performance was order to stay at home with your Daughters"). You Sinatra fans painful.

and family7 My good will like him and Doris Day and

too. friend, Glenn Ford, would, and Ethel Barrymore

I chatted Chosen's at a party after the did this past year.

remember Do you

Baby Marle premiere of "The Country Girl," with him on the set of "Black- with

Oscarish board Bing Crosby's

She was a popular of Osborne? Jungle' (story

and portrayal of an alcoholle, Jane teenage violnice vandal- child actress a generation ago, Wyman and her agent, sat...a tari).. "I had offers to make earned $2,000 a week. She re few tables away from Fred seven filma all away

tired, married, spent every penny and returned to Karger, the third husband Miss America, but I have been away she'd saved

24 Д stand-in for Wyman is divorcing, and Nancy from home too much, so I de Hollywood

Glorer Rogers.

Grable Betty Sinatra. Suddenly it was very clined the offers," said Glenn.

and Betty Button. Then sho cold at the party.

As a father, Bing Crosby has problems

from

Bion other fathers. Names that don't mean Oldest son, Gary, doesn't want thing: Race Gentry and Tab to finish his collogo course, | Hunter. wants to get back into show business and the devil with a degree. One of the twins, Dennla, has been getting low marks in his animal husbandry schooling has gone into the Army. I hope the two others suck to their studies," Bing said, "I didn't when I was kid, Kinda regret it."

retired again. Now she's back,

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WOB directing George Sidney Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra in "SL Louis Woman". When? Oh, summer of '55, I guess, a studlo spokesman said. I guess not according to Ava's last words to mo a month ago Beverly Hills.

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Mickey Rooney will again try "I've his hand as a director. bought a story, called "The Com- position' about a 12-year-old boy kept in after school to write a When his teacher composition. reads

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we suggest a New Year's reso-convertible with him. break the monotony of singing it, I have 11 different rangements."

Statistics:

Dr-

TAKE "While Christmas"

eight million bas pasped the anark in record sales.

Simone Silva, who may have

to leave the USA unless she has

a job by February 7, is train- ing like mad for A nightclub turn. But Bobert Milchum has declined on invitation to do a on her guest

прреатальсь opening night.

liked Joan

YOUR CUE FROM HORACE LINDRUM Practise

The Swerve

Look at diagram “A” and study it carefully. You will Crawford', Bee that the colours are beautifully placed, although the Christmas present, "This year, striker is partly snookered on the last red ball lying over instead of presents, Michael, 1 the top right-hand corner pocket. am donating to the Boys' Re- Thus helping public in Chino, ruling

am satisfied that not less than 60 per cent of golfers all over the world do not wish to play stymies and against such weight of opinion no should boxly

attempt legislate.

of the differ-passing, 1 regard the stymie as enees in the approach to golf being as dead as the dodo. In Britain and over these, refer- ring particularly to the ressent | "marking" of the ball on the green, much of contrary to both the spirit and letter of the law which permits i, blissfully

though

the of this offenders may be.

The rule in the question is the one abolish- ing the stymie.

unaware

Having said that I can ask if it is you to move your ball In my way, the legislators added magnanimously that you could it i also

you tell it might be of assistance to me,

move

This hus

ied 10 an almost automatic poking-uo of the nearer ball and to the rise of a generation who think it part of goit that there should be only one ball at a time the green.

play on

I aided that this latter part of the rule should be scrapped forthwith, with or without the and agreement of the USGA, the article was headed, pro- vocatively perhaps, "Should we recede?"

MISINTERPRETED

to

A GREAT THING Mr Wind took me to imply that we should secede from the Golfing All- Anglo-Americon ance forthwith. This is not so. I think the spirit of this alliance for golf-the is a great thing best thing of its kind that personally have seen sport.

In

arty

Abat the

I also think, however, should influences, which

in one

to restore these youngsters to better critizenship," Joan wrote,

Randolph Scot; and Gore Montgomery, one of my neigh bours, are battling over who plays the lead in planned

the

"Gunsmoke"

I saw an amateur player a few days ago tackle this position by playing the cue-ball on to the top left-hand side cushion to come away and travel along the line of the top cushion to pot the red. He was successful with the shot, but he hadn't any idea where his white ball would finish.

adult top

corner

What would you do in the the bottom right-hand circumstances? When you have pocket and leave you in a nice Westorni series on television.decided, look at diagram 'B'. position for the blue, X5.

May the best six-shooter 'win.

FINE FIRST WIFE'

Yes, my advice is this: Com-

first stroke mence your

by the The engagement of a movie using the 'swerve-raise

cue so that the tip actor to a luscious starlet was butt of the

extreme announced at a party. "Well, strikes down on the

friend right edge of the cus-ball; if she's a lovely but said, "I think she'll make him a you do it correctly, the white to rest in the fine first wife,"

USGA themselves deplore are powerless at the moment to stop, creep across, like myxo- matosis (which, for my Ameri- the discasc readers, is can which

from усаг, whi

Erance, hos de Australia via

half the abbite stroyed England) and invade our shores,

Belf we should be ready in defenco to go' our own again.

In

way

Uniformity of spirit is more of important than uniformity rules, though with the rising of distant Australia as the second world power" in golf uniform- gratifying it of ruies does seem more desirable than it did a year age.

Having re-road the passage in question, I cannot find it to mean anything her than was intended. The fact is, however -and it is at once and regrettable that it caught the eye of those in the United States whose agreement is the

and was, most valued Folemnly declare, misinterpreted by all.

DS

One was Mr Isaac B. Grain

of the USGA, ger, prestient who replied both personally and in Golf World.".

loss,"

•

After the round of parties and callers, the amount of sleep. I have carefully calculated, re-.

quired by the average Holly- wood-ite is about an hour more.

ទ

On Broadway 20 years ago, the big hit was

The star win's Girl Crazyorge Gersh- of the show Ethel (Zimmerman) Merman who bellod out, "I Got Rhythm". In the same show was Virginia McMath who, came to Hollywood, teamed with Fred Astaire under her new, name of Ginter Rogers and danced to stardom.

Fade-in on 1935. The big hit

out songs In "Show Business,"

Where's Ginger Rogers? She's a dramatic actress, touring the USA with her fourth husband, Bergerac, selling the Jacques the film they made together ⠀ lis

Britain,

So, to "recary" as they say in (a) I never the panel games,

in

want to see n stymio again; (b) bolywood is Ethèl Merinari,

it

21

I never want to see ball picked up on the green (apart from cleahing in winter), unless fra stymie; (e) I hope cir- cumstances will never arise to

us lo secede frɑm cause alliance; and (d) I think we Bob Harlow, should be prepared to take Another WELS editor of that journal, who, deep breath and do so if they alas, só well loved on both did. sides of the Atlantic, has re- cently died. A third, I now see, who

is Herbert Warren Wind, writes on gair for the lush magazine "Sports Illustrated."

tho my

The first two took me to be advocating a return to stymic. I suppose it was fault if I created this impress- lon, so I can only reiterate that,

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Gatt

Mitolsel Plate semi-finals.

TOMORROW

Triangular Tournament: RAF¬BM÷V

HKCC at 11 am.

Boxing

@ p.m..

Ledina' Golfi Captain's Cup, Secorid Round.

From X0, address the, cu.... ball on top for poiting the pink Into the top right-hand corner cue-ball should pocket;

year's annual Army The year's funniest "accident:"

follow-through to position X7, In a scene in "One Desira at

where you can easily pot the HKAAA Pentathlon Cham- Universal Studios, Anne Baxter

black Into the top left-hand pionship will be decided over "Red Duster Trophy matches at throw a book at Hook Hudson,

corner pocket.

Olymple Missions to Seamen cotnungseing exercise the five official missed him, locked over

Try practising this

events the kerosene lamp which set are to The green is the next ball to

THURSDAY: Poctate curtains, causing a binge take Into the bottom left-many dimes: it alves you plenty Pentathlon which turned on sprinklers and hand corner pocket. With the of practice in the swerve and 200 Metres Dash, Discus stroke that crow shots besides teaching Throw, Long Jump, Javelin damaged other sets ready, for aid of the scraw the film on the adjacent sound means shortening the grip on you that all important cue-ball Throw and 1,500 Metres

Run in that order." your cue striking the ball low, stage...

Me and letting the cue co

George Headley To Hopeful Buflór" dephi, "TT"Boothly--the ; cue-ball, WARAN

X2 for back into trying like the dickens to win

into position

Jamaican Official back my wife, Irene Harvey, the yellow.

The Championship will be Allan Jones saldata. Now Now address the while, ball Your hopo 1 bray in the bottom right hand

for poting the yellow Cricket Coach can." Mrs. Jones, decreo ly not into sockerarply the shot

Kingston Janatce, Jan. 10, decided on Sunday, February: 6, George Headley, the West Inst the South China Amonteur. final for six monlii, which spiner no

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The scoring will be on the basis No Action Yet In Audetic Federation's Decathlon

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