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IT TOOK A LOT OF PEDALLING

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1955. ***

Cpl. Ron Beck of Pegasus CC invites clubmate Hoad to take a mouthful of cheer out of the South China Morning Post Cap which he won for the fastest aggregate time in the NTACA 25, 50 and 100 miles cycling Time Trials in the past season. Picture was taken at the presentation at the NAAFI Club on

Thursday evening-China Mail Photo.

From Ditch Digging To Heavyweight Champion, That's Rocky Marciano

From the digging of ditches and the laying of gas mains in the Municipality of Brockton Massachusetts, to the Heavyweight Boxing Championship of the world is quite a step.

When your name is Rocco Marchegiano-Rocky Marciano to you-and-you- have out of 48"professional fights since 1947 won just that number, including five in the defence of your world title, 40 inside the distance, eleven in the first round, one could reasonably doubt, the wisdom or the need to have ever dug, ditches or laid gas mains.

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on the United States side of the Atlantic.

Indeed, a fair assumption is scoffing that the managerial meguls of the United States were either misinformed or not informed at

of the pugilistic ability

at the the young Marchegiano time he was engaged in the ex-

od

hilarating occupation of keeping Brockton well supplied with all mod. con.'

Cockell duly landed labelled "Fatso," Waist of Time."

He

prepared to

to be and The

meet

the

Champion in an atmosphere of mistrust, with

protest and !counter-protest being bandied about in the San Francisco air.

Then last Monday evening in the Kezar Stadium, 30-year-old Marciano and 46-year-old Cockell stepped into the ring to

do battle.

COCKELL DEFEATED

IT'S HIGH TIME THE IDEA OF COVERING WICKETS DURING RAIN BE ACCEPTED

Says BRUCE DOOLAND

A lot of headline space has been taken up during the last few days by the spate of falling wickets - telling the stories of the phenomenal bowling returns of Tony Lock, Johnny Wardle. Brian Statham, Frank Tyson, Allan Moss, Vic Jackson, Jack Walsh and many others. County sides galore seem to have been routed for a hundred runs or less.

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Now I'm not against anyone getting headlines. Good luck to them. But is this the kind of cricket spectators want? Do they really get what they pay to see when the ball digs in to rain-ruined turf and flies off at such alarming angles that good batsmen and bad are brought down to the same level and luck, rather than skill, determines their score?

Every man has his own idea pitch at Nottingham when the of the true ability of Jack about these things, and as a South Africans played there. Cheetham's team. There is no bowler I don't suppose I should Bowlers could get nothing outdoubt at all that they have 1 be grumbling But quite of it, and the poor batsmen tough struggle before them. A honestly I don't think the con- | were slow hand-clapped be bad start takes a lot of getting ditions of the past two weeks cause the ball came on to the over. And until their fielding have made for god cricket bat so slowly that they just clicks into the quality it ap

couldn't get it away.

parently reached in Australia. T not holding any brief they will certainly be struggling.

have to hold half-chances

We have had freak cricket in- stead, and I have become more

convinced than ever that it is for myself. bowled as badly To rattle England, they will

high time the idea of covering į na I ever remeTaber, wickets during rain was couldn't accepted in England.

a

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I just well as easy ones. pilch the ball on length. But

As for their pace-bowling, no my point still will halds-for if we had had

aspeed bowler can do his best a three- reasonably out ard

paced pitch to

know the die-hards stick their chests insist through

on n wer pitch on

thick and thin play on, I would have een sweater day. But I have been

as severely as impressed by

my their tall

that nature is an essential part punished

I bad bowling deserved. As it of this great game of 'ours. agree-in theory. But nature was, I escaped lightly and i has

been

over-playing her was the poor tourists who hand in recent weeks and were lambastes by the critics. neither players nor spectators have had good value.

had

LAND OF SUMMER RAIN

So my plea in this land. of covered wickets a try! Let's summer rain is....why not give

experiment one searm to see if

Hugh Tayfield, accurate, bowler. And I was impressed, off-spis too, by Ian Smith, their

leg- H spinner. As a kindred spirit in the craft of leg-spin,.. watched him closely and thought he pitched the ball with astonishing accuracy in tricky conditions.

I don't think he packs ย

to

If you remember, the dic- hards swore that Australia's decision to cover wickets during last winter's Tests would in the series. But it didn't. There it will provide more and better googlie didn't see one- has never been a better or a cricket." After all, big cricket but he bowls the type that hur brighter lot of matches. The today is slit meant to beries straight through with ad- wickets were prepared proper spectacle; those of

mirable

Smith deception. It of us who play сал

he best form reasonable balance it are ly to give

entertainers, ant the 25 find his between bat and ball; after public who put their shillings and's

might trouble

ble several of Eng- batsmen who the skill of the down at the turnstiles should like this kind of stuff..

don't that, it was one: against the other

that have every consideration. They

On

tourists decided the battle,

balance, should be guaranteed as far as

the The wickets had enough possible as good a disei between clearly have a lot to do pace in them to let a batsman bat and ball as can be provided. gather their talents and make strokes; but they also Do freak results fill that bit the impact expected of them. make

I don't think

But I am sure the spirit is there. 90. enough life to enable # bowler to beat the bat, if he

My impression of the South to do just that only they had either the pace or the spin Africans, after playing against could get the feel of the sun of

The net result them and chatting with them. to warrant it

is that they... the spectators had

hey are as-pleasant

ล was that

bunch of cricketers at one could all the excitement of finely-eves wish to meet. They have

This is the time of year when fought games.

been badly shocked by the the bat lends 'most to wander. Last week-end the rains gave severity of the weather, experial. Have you been caught at ship us an absolute pudding of

Then check was or cover too often? Derby where there on the

pitch in the mornings on how well you get your foot

in the half-gale of across and elect

off-side shots. to your wind which swept across the When you are little stiff, and field. What they ask at the not quite in full practice. It moment is

reasonable the commonest thing in cricket warmth and an occasional sight to find your front foot going of the sun.

the straight down

pitch instead of across to the off-side them:

as you make your off-side whole-heartedly. For although shot. So get across and keep

B

Spare A Thought For

Captains Of

The Cricket

Hampshire And Kent

By ARCHIE QUICK

I

at

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sympathise

with

their backs.

-COACHING - HINT

I at least should be acclimatised bat and pad together.

by this time, I still feel the chilling winds of the first month

Spare a thought for the cricket captains of Hamp.nish to the English

hands were 90

felt the

Sammy McCarthy

rumours

of cricket in England and day after day I wonder why there start,,and couldn't be a later

Turns" Promoter season, cold

Sammy McCarthy, the smiling shire and Kent. The one, Desmond Eagar, of Hampshire, last Saturday that my fingers

and Stepney (London) featherweight ball; is over-burdened with bowling riches; the other, Douglas South Africans all needed boxer, has squashed

hardly Wright; looks in vain even for an opening bowling partner and massage whenever they that he intends to retire from for Fred Ridgway now that Ray Dovey has retired from reached the pavilion.

forming a the fight me by All this makes it difficult to limited company to "promote the county game.

any accurate assessment boxing and other contests". He Kent's resources have never been in such a parlous

has £100 capital in £1 shares. state although they have sunk their pride and for the first time in their illustrious history have imported "foreign" players. In addition, they have lost Colin Cowdrey to the Royal Air Force. Shades of the days of Blythe and Fairservice, Fielder and Freeman. How Frank Woolley Champion this Marciano is.. must grieve from his seat in the stand.

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as the old Truth, however, saying goes, will out: 14 came in a letter from one Al Colombo, to A1 Weill, the then match- maker for the

International Boxing Club of New York. Mr Colombo went to great detail to explain that his buddy next door, was the "best Heavy- weight prospect you ever saw." Cockell was defeated. He left San Francisco with the cheers of Having through the bespec- the crowd still ringing in his tacled

expert eyes of ears, cheers but

for his dogmatic trainer Charlie Goldman estab lished the fact that Rocco Mar-roues and having earned the chegiano had a big strong body respect of the Champ. himself. and a man's size punch, the But gallant though Cockell astute Mr Weill indicated with was he, and all Britain karred, commendable celerity that many of us for the first time, Rocco should sign on the dotted just how tough, how brutal line of a professional contract.

So Rocky Marciane was born. To take on Marciano is like Compare all this with the for- Glamorgan match at Southamp Born

to be

"King of the getting tangled up in a wind tunes of Hampshire, whose at-ton Glamorganı captain, Wilfred Heavies." the first white man to mili swivel. Those snarling, tack is such that they could Wooller had a good look at the win the Heavyweight

Cham-swinging. clubbing

blows are afford to leave out Vic Cannings wicket after he had won the toss pionship of the world since Jim something no man on earth has from the opening game against and decided to bat.

He then Braddock.

yet been

able to courer. You Glamorgan

saw the spinners, Sainsbury and might just as well swap puriches

shoot Cannings took his 100 wickets Burden

out

his side for with the Empire State Build-Tast season

he did and so too did his 68. But he not put his own Astie hopes from Brockton to ing. He is the Rock on which partner, Derek Shackleton.

But challenging

and he himself had been that Marciano achieved that end

Battersea have floundered,

13 in one over. An with a 13th round knockout/

places

20-year-old hit for over Jersey Joe Walcott,

Marciano knows all the tricks. spinners, Peter Sainsbury and unusual error of judgment by Malcolm Burden. There is also this shrewd man-and he is an Selector Challengers, including Wal-Against Cockell he butted with Ma

his head, cott, Roland La Starza

swung low punches, young Michael Heath already in English Test Match and hit after the bell But then, 35

the team and Frank Pitman on too! Ezzard Charles (twice) dulye fights, he probably

the fringe of it, together with

To balance Hampshire's joy in came, saw and were conquered hers those days as Rocco Mar- George Horton Jack-Gray and bowling strength is the sobering

Then one day last year, withchegiano the digger of ditches Jimmy Dare can also assist with

the bowling. In fact, half a thought that this is to be opening the British and Empire titles to and layer of gas pipes,

dozen men fighting for four batsman Neville Rogers last substantiate his claim the son of

season. Although he is due for He knows no other way. Afd | places. blacksmith who by the no-foul rule and other nice Battersea

a benefit he is taking up a dint of much punching and ties of boxing in the United

lucrative business appointment No wonder skipper Eagar and will get a testimonial counter-punching had graduated do the dignity

Sussex States legalise his every action. chuckles, welcomes the competi-instead. of decided farmer,

Outside the ring Rocky is the tion and says: "It is like a fresh ripe for an Englishman to in- nicest fellow one could wish to wind blowing

Fortunate are Hampshire that Former stalwart Alec they have obtained the West rade the shores of America for meet. Inside it he is the fighter county.

of wresting from the purpose

with teeth bared. His is

Kennedy says Hampshire has Indian, Roy Marshall, to take bis Marciano's grasp

that Heavy-naked fury. He asks no quarter never been so strong as when place, but Rogers will be sadly weight crown,

and. gives none. He is the he used to open the attack with missed. There have been times, Champ. And he means to stay Jack Newman.

many. of them when he has There

one curious been the only batman to obtain -London Express Service)

Ifeature about the Hampshire- rums.

13TH ROUND KNOCKOUT

It was in September 1952

the time

was

The temerity of Don Cockell that way. was greeted with laughter and

THE WEEK-END GAMBOLS

I'D LOVE TO SEE SOME FLOWERS. IN THE WINDOW

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remem

LOOK AT THOSE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS, DEAR DO YOUR REMEMBER, WHEN YOU LAST BOUGHT ME SOME FLOWERS?

J FLOWER'S

FLORIS

are

two

them for her on until 40 had been

A FRESH WIND

was

through the

by Barry Appleby

LATER I Know what I'll da I'll buy Gaye some flowers

FLOWER

MEANWHILE I think this

do nicely:

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Answers To Sports Quiz

1. In 1883 when John L Sullivan beat Jake Kilrain over 73 rounds.

2. John Landy, all the others have won Olympic titles.

3. Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, Rent Lacoste and Jacques Brugnon. who for won the Davis Cup France from 1927-33.

4. Rocky Marciano,

+

World

Heavyweight Boxing Champion

5. Lew Road; Don Cockell; Roger Bannister; Tony Trabert.

6. Carl "Bobo" Olsen of

America.

7. Louis Brough and Margaret Du Pont; Steve Donoghue and Brown Jack; Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sut- cliffe.

8. Aston Villa and Blackburn

Rovers.

9. Emil Zatopek.

10. Wong

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of

Malaya.

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