SINGAPORE CYCLISTS
TEAM AWARD IN TORRENTIAL RAIN
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By⠀ “NTACA”
THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, MAY
WIN
The cyclists from Singapore came, saw and conquered. At least, they took away with them the Team award and third place cup, as well as an appreciation of the standard of riding in the Colony.
The 60 Miles Open Massed Start Road Race was held in torrential rain and over the toughest course in the area, resulting in a run-away solo win for Ron Beck, who beat by four minutes his previous best time over the route, finishing nearly thirteen minutes ahead of second man Bouch..
minute. Tha
remainder at
Line-up at the start was four four visitors a few yards inclimb, leading them by over teams, twenty-four riders in all arrears. And of those twenty-four, The downl rua. taken the field came by in ones and twenty rode over the finish line generally at a very moderate twos, most walking part of the after the finest race ever seen in pace, saw Bouch overtake Jones way. One of these was Jones, Hongkong. The Singapore team and get to within 50 yards of who was, he said,
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"Oa tis included two Williams, H and C Beck, but he was not able to chins thirteen miles waa Levers, Bayley, Read and
make' contact. A couple of The Mardner.
riders, Gower. among them, the means of Beck drawing still NTACA "A" team consisted of found that their brakes would further away, to cross the finish- Bouch, Cowlan, Jones, Sander-
not work due to the pouring ing line alone, in the magnificent Son, Ellingham and Linn.
rain, and walked down most of time of 2-38-45, "four minutes NTACA "B" had Bigg Griffiths, the Mill, losing a lot of time. faster than he had ever done
Pest Deeley and Smith Gower retired at the bottom, before. Burrows.
Williams Hand Levers had The fourth equipe, RAF Hong-
provided the individual leaving the RAF HK team with kong..
caught. Bouch, but Levers could only two class riders. winner, Beck, who had as
fell At 17 miles Beck had a lead not hold the pace and Gower,
behind; teammates,
Foster,
while Bouch went on to of just over
a minute Aroma Clark
second place with a well- The local teams
com- Bouch, with Jones at 1.54 and
aged sprink
beating Williams binations of "eracks" and the leading Singapore pair at
Levers end Bouch decided by two lengths. novices, and very well indeed three minutes.
performed
to wait for Jones, icting Beck Ellingham followed in at one
Maxwell, Lalley
and were
then dropped. at 12.30, and t well away. Ellingham was
the field set off in the pouring riding with a group
minute intervals, Shingham
of three having lost nearly two minutes a level-crossing.. lesting them The Singapore team was com
lat &
rain, a downpour which was to Singapore ri, in the hope pleted by a double, Williams. C.
do all the To
last all through the race. the foot of Twisk and for the that Brst few hundred yards of the
and Sanderson could join up.
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CHEQUES INSTEAD OF BATONS
Famous British athletes took part in a relay race from Buckingham Palace to the City of London, carrying choques for London's churches. The runners, Dr Roger Bannister, Chris Chataway and Chris Brasher, who formed the first leg of the relay were despatched from Buckingham Palace by the Duke of Edinburgh. The relay was in aid of the Historie Churches Restoration Fund. Picture shows: H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh hands a cheque for £250 to Roger Bannister, watched by Chris Chataway and Chris Brasher before the start of the relay from
Buckingham Palace--London Express Photo,
Rugger Was Unsuitable
For Their Bodies, The
French Used To Think
London, May 9
When France beat England recently at Twickenham, the headquarters of the Rugby Football Union, there was one Englishman who probably could not help but
smile.
He may have had in mind 1877, the year when some English students in Paris formed the first French club. The irony of England's defeat, however, goes beyond that.
In his admirable book, "The History of the Rugby Football Union" (published by Playfair Books Ltd., London, at 18/- sterling), Mr 0. L. Owen refers to the impres sion that French teams left with Faglish sides just before 1900.
HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT
British Newsmen Protest Over Select Few For Fouls Hearing
San Rafael, Calif., May 9.
John Simpson, manager of the British Heavyweight challenger Don Coekell, today wrote the State Athletic Commission for a hærring on fouls with a select group present and British sportswriters immediately demanded that they all be admitted to the meeting,
Simpson, whose man meets Champion Rocky Mar- ciano for the title at San Francisco's Kezar Stadium next Monday night, at first told the Commission that he would be accompanied by three of his countrymen. He listed them as J. (Teddy). Weltham of the British Boxing Board of Control, and newspaperman Frank Butler and Peter Wilson,
This caused a Burry among carried out taithfully by both other British newsmen In the | boxery And officlats."--United- camp and Tom Phillips of the Press. London Daily 'Herald wired. Commision that the conference should be open to fall sport writers who wished to attend.
Phillips said the wire bore 15 signatures," including those of several sports writers, and that
they
meam
nil members of the British press felt
should be included in the meeting.. However,
did not Simpson. to
hurt anyone's feelings," said Phillips. "It was just an oversight on his part."
letter said in part: Simpson's wwe
would
uld like an interpreta tion of our rules on matters of Tough fighting,
fouls and how materials many are permitted, to be used on guts, the right of a chief second to stop a fight for cuts only, and any other point that may arise."
Simpson also wrote Cocked should get his end
Boxer Succumbs To Ring Injury
In
Providence Rhode
Island, May B.: Middleweight Jose Contrera? of Taunton, Massachusetts, died today, the second New England boxer to succumb to ring juries in less than five months.
Contreras, 28, was hurt but Bob Monday in A
bout with
· of Frovidence. Con- Boulton
knocked treras was technically out in the eighth round of a scheduled 10-rounder.
He had been in a coma the past Ave days and hospital au thorities said he he suffered brala
Injury List December Eddie Sanders that
of ex-Heavyweight of San Diegu,
died California,
Injuries in a Boston bout with of Boston, New Heavyweight Cham
the purse by May 17..
Referring to the attendance of suffered Waltham Butler and Wilson at Willie James meeting Simpson wrote: England presence of these three plot gentlemen will greatly reduce
the
The
Brain specialists, performed a any possibility of any adverse two-hour operation on Contreras criticism appearing in our home in an effort to save his life. A press after the contest, if your blood clot was removed and for
be time it appeared
might rally interpretations of your rules are 4
ANOTHER OFF be charged with technical man- The police said Bolton would
slaughter-United Press.
DAY FOR MARCIANO
Pompey Beats Smith In Eliminator
Cowlan and Bayley grossing the line together, so close they could not climb, the Held was compact. The next check was at
be separated. The field straggled but after three-quarters of a miles, Beck still leading from in in batches, last man at 42
were minutes. Bouch, who mile, they began to string out. Jones and Beck and Gower shared the lead 1-50 down, the Singapore pair
OUTSTANDING FEATURES with Bouch and Jones, the of Williams H. and Levers hold- Singapore team being
alling their deficit at 3 minutes.
"Outstanding features of the The together a few yards behind.
had following group showed to allow the last Singa-ce were, first, the superb sals KILLING STRETCH pore man, Read, to join, and ride by Beck, & performance Remainder of which far outshines anything at. 6.10. At the top of the "killing were
even he has ever done previous- TEAM RIDING ły. Secondly, stretch," the concreted double the field were strung out up to
as it should be, by the lads from ben halfway up the hill, the, 9 minutes. weaker ones were beginning to
FIRST TIME CHECK Singapore. They rode well to drop off, while Beck and Jones
gether, showed good judgment took the lead from Bouch, the
Twenty-eight miles and the and altogether can be faulted Singapore boys and Film Arst Time-check Beck wear for only one thing. With four Lalley Smith (NTACA
through in 1-23-27, having of their own riders, they did both fell behind and retired, lead of 2-20 over Jones and not burn of Ellingham, but while Gower lost his toeclip and Bouch, Williams and Levers allowed him to use them until
Calistoga, Calif., May 9. a few yards.
-Al Weill, manager of World had fallen back to 4.10. Gardner he broke away on the hill..
Heavyweight Champion Rocky Ellingham himself rode a very As we followed the riders up had punctured, so his team
and deserved a
Marcizno, said today that he the cruel grind we saw the mates left Williams C, to look clever face
would give his charge another leading pair draw away quickly after Ellingham and stopped to better fate then a hold-up at the A: | level-crossing. The Singapore
day off from boxing tomorro to a lead of about two hundred help. They passed at 6,30, yards. Jones, who does not like nine minutes came a group of team had all their six riders in
M: Owen, a London journalist, |titious followers see die travel regard that is widely held for because he is getting too fine". ten finishers, NTÁCA
opening the way to frequent the Union. The Brst was the "I don't want to take any bills, stuck to Beck's wheel in four, Lumn, Cowlan and Sander. the first
He show's what a side "feld | foura--.
presentation of the Calcutta Cup bames," said Weill, "He's get a really surprising fashion until son of NTACA "A" and Foster "A" having three in the first adds: "We know better now."
The history outlines the part in 1878 by the Calcutta Tool- ting too fine now and I feel that three hundred yards from the of RAF HK, The rest of the eleven.
At the tea afterwards, the for study there is in Rugby; it crest, when Beck pulled away riders were now anything up to Singapore Captain spoke high-resembles in fact a social re- played by the Rugby Union in ball Club as an international and extra day's rest will keep
Britain's twaves chief tours trophy to be competed for hire from perming stale." to be first over the hill by a 16 minutes behind the leader.
ly of the course and the organi "There is
he abroad since, 1888, Two protes- annually
Marciana frgirts Don Cochell of longer,"
by England margin of 17 seconds, Bouch
One Hour, Fifty-Two minutes sation The 7th Hussars cer
zad Scotland.
Great Britain for the title next and two of the Singapore boys, and Seventeen seconds, and tainly made a first-class show says, "quite the same differencesional cricketers, Shaw
between toughness
the Shoewbury, who did managed a The other was made only Monday night of Kerr Stadium Williams, H. and Levers, follow Beck passed the forty-one miles of the event and deserve full
and white-colared
the in San Francisco, Trainer Charley manual ed at one minute, with Ellingham point,
ago cricket tour in Australia, three years still
strongly. going
praise. Nothing was left un- at 9 seconds down, the remaining | Next
worker. The into view
was done.
increased use of parised the first rugby tour Shanghai Club, on disbanding. Goldman said Rocky Always ned come
even to radio coverage machines alone has seen to that, which embraced Australia and presented its surplus finds to trouble tapering off property. Bouch at 0.15, Jones having
throughout. Consensus of The lessening of class distinc- New Zealand
"Marciano has been working. Smath the Delon to furnish the royal
very effective at dropped off, unable to keep the opinion, "The best race yet",
tlans, too, has tended more and
I ald not need the French retiring room at Twickenham very hard for this ght and close quarters though he had to pace. Williams and Levers;
Results: Winner, Beck, BAY more to mix the produ of the
Welll and I both feel that take some heavy punishment to still sticking closer than glue,
victory to stress how the pupila China Mail Special.
extra 2.40 Hongkong, in 2-38-45. Second,
various kinds of
have caned the masters.
day off will keep him the face, but. Rompey looked the rode past at 8 minutes, and 2.40
Bouch, NRACA "A" at 12.44.
bre
," said Goldman. sharp,"
better boxer, whenever the fight For many years now,
The Best British teams to visit later,
Ellingham with his two
Third, Williams, H., RAF Singa-
Marciano said he would con- opened up...Reuter, points out, rugby fifteens have Australasia and South Africa attendants, Williams and
been
composed of men. from went with what the writer terms
tinue his daily stint of 10 miles Bayley, turned to face the climb Pore, at 2 lengths.
all walks of life.
an educational 15 of Route 1.
intent.
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B
BAYER
TONIC
to
C
After the gruelling climb of the Route 1 mil Beck was 8.37 up on Bouch, who had taken a tumble into a paddy-feld at Pat Heung Police Station. The Siamese twins, Willams and Levers, were next, after a walk, at 9.11. Ellingham shook of his two fellow-sufferers on the
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The Hong Kong Anti. Tuberculosis. Association c/o Lews Bingham & Matthews,
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GIVE THAT THEY MAY LIVE
Winning Team, RAF Sing- pore, with 13 points. Second, NTACA "A", 18 points.
00
Australians 322 For 8 At Bridgetown
"Bugby football was not only regarded as above their heads but most an- suitable for their bodies".
form.
in
CO
well
as
Though there are plenty as their success was
complaints about the cost
living, and some people com almost plain more loudly than others, plete the
mingly
com-
for some
the well-paid artisan is often years now has been to send
of
than
when
and
Close Of Play
Cricket Scores
London, May 9. The following were the close in first class cricket today-erbyshire 150 and
better able to face the expenses abroad a representative party sppet the office-workers capable of doing British Rugby of a similar age-level or you justice against opponents who of play scores professional men before they always do well here. are able to earn a
an income at He
all
132.
of roadwork and the extra holl- day would give him added stength for Cockell. He has Last now boxed 199 rounds. autumn he worked 220 for the Bazard Charles bout-United Press-
Leicester, England, May, 9, Yolande Pompey of Trinidad ourpointed Eddie "Polly" Smith, Bermuda in a ten-round elim ination bout for the British Empire Cruiserweight boxing title here tonight
It was not a popular decision. Pumpey probably gained his win through an all-out effort in the last round for up until then it seemed that Smith had only to on as he had done in the rounds to take the OCEVIOUS
rounds
four
bout
BRITAIN'S WARD WINS ITALIAN TENNIS TITLE
Rome, May 9, Fausto Gardini, the Italian Champion, advanced to tale of the Men's Singles of the Italian International" Lawn Championships today he deceater
Enrique Tennis
of Argentina,
6-4, 01.
HUTTON WARNS
when London, May 9. CRICKET CRITICS
Pat Ward of Britain was the beating: Erika Vollmer of Ger Women's Singles championship, many 6-4, 6-3-United Press.
guards against any rash But he concedes that "the conclusions being drawn. Tears 174 for nine (Kelly 82). Middle
of fine players have sex rising cost of living" does pres been sent to the Dominions. If At the Oval: Gloucestershire Len Hutton Endland's cricket sent a problem when long PY in the last 30 year they have 128, and 116 for five, Surrey captain, said on his arrival here: 4-3,
today after the successqui seas tours are involved. A found it increasingly hard to At Cambridge: Essex 220 and Australian tour that if England player needed plenty of money hold their own, he submits that
were to retain the Athes they it is largely due to opponents 44 for no wicket. and time to join them.
Cambridge University 222 must not underestimate the The rulers of the
game re superiority in weight, fitness,
(Knightley Smith 95),
recovery powers of Australis. and team-work, and to players
At Leicester Kent 137 and He declared: I have heard it difficulties in getting away of 20 Lester (Shireff - sald⠀ that Australia. is going |long tourist atta
Leicestershire 218 (Lester 63, downbill as a cricketing" power, legbreak, but they have a fine crop of Petford right four, for 43); and
youngsters coming anu
ed
"
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BERIOUS WEAKNESS "The various types of rugby
Mali
Sports Diary
TODAY
Boccat
Stanley Shieki: AL HKTC com-
in Hollander Police Bakoo Nevy: St Joseph A. y Bay B; KMB Cv Master A Kitchen AVRAMC Eastern By Police
Bridgetown, Barbados, May 7.
Australia had scored 322 for the loss of eight wickets in reply to Barbados first innings fisted any attempt to revive the total of 305 at the close of play idea of payments for broken the second day of their ure, but having accepted the four-day match here.
principle of full travelling and
expenses. hotel Australia, who were "113 three
pocket-money up to a strictly lunch, made a shakya at start in reply to the Barbados limited Agure, they still met the paved in the British Isles de Af Nottingham: Sussex 188 addition the form being shown
complains today that the not invariably merge wait, and 78 for saven Nottingham in the West Indies Indicates that mig 8 pm. Western sty Smr first innings total of 306 on the pocket-macey in to way cover- especially in the scrummage shire 183 (Hardstaff 61) their present suzengia is pretty second day of their match here.
legitimate and, with the emphasis mee player's sigh
A Bindingham Warwick formidable too. Chims Five minutes before lunch Les
liabilities,
and more upon forward play, amire 355 and 83 for three Special, Favell and Arthur Morris were authoriiles were accepting a any serious weakness in front Superset: 231. (Tordof: $7), still togeffen after adding 71
when invites tremendous responsibility
disaster a
Tremlets 55). for the second wicket, but
"Scratch they undertook to send one of
At Bradford. Yorkshire beat with batamen were cut at 113 their own teams overseas or to brilliant, alo the scoreboard static.
from abroad.ow are apt to give Northamptonshire by 18. Funs carly welcome
94 and 104” (TT/EF; Barbados claimed an early complets Hop" might easily be that has been one of the low wicket when the Australians come a Anancial disaster, besetting sins of all British in Darth
aptonshire 61 and 69 tat
Sydney, May 9. resumed their first innings on
Fight arm medium Andre Valignat, former French Mic' Owen, however, sees little factational fifteens even when
Apple the second day of their match likelihood of frat happening uns playing in their own country of Oriss five®
Wardle bantamweight boxing Champion, here. Colin McDonald and Les tess the pours are allowed to The visits from the Dominions left arm wow far for 20), today defeated British empire Favell the not out batsmert, multiply so fast as to lose minh hô - mims
Scotland -UP) as repeated
164. At Manchester
BantamweightA added for no wicket
to their Batu
to British rugby's Lancashire 113 for no wicket,
Keenan of of their public appeal by being challenges
organisation, and enthusiasm ne. day score of
"At Southanolone : Glamorgan:"- Then French when McDonald played a ball place, taphon
AMBITIOUS FOLLOWERS well as to its still; and stamina, 68 and 186, (Sainsbury, left arm points after a 12-round bout. Van CT SCAN from Mayers on to bis stumps
Tart is a cobening thought in Two gestures mom the East slow, four for 37), Hampshire Keenan is a former European KGV HKU, CHCV after scoring 29.
BYL-jare referred Indicaling the 1158 and 50 for four -Reuter, these times when a few Artbur cond
Morris g jeft-hander *
put om 21 for the wicket but both were dis
one
hive: minutes before lunch. E GAMBOLS
Favell (49) was caught off Mar- shall and in the last over be. fore the interval Morris (10) fell leg before to Denis Atkin
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· Miller four (fær *£1)
no
however
points, and
Keenan Beaten
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