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THEY ALL PRAISE HUTTON
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1955.
No Tonic And Incentive Like Beating Australia
London.
Praise for Len Hutton, the English cricket captain, is given by the former Test player, Ian Peebles, in his book "The Ashes" (published by Hodder and Stoughton), the journalist commentator, John Arlott; in "Australian Test Journal" (published by the Phoenix Sports books series) and the cricketer-journalist, E. M. Wellings, in "The Ashes Retained" (published by Evans Brothers, London).
All three books deal with the successful 1954-55 tour of the England team in Australia which resulted in the Ashes being brought back again to England.
In "The Ashes," Peebles goes into considerable demil about the English skipper and con- cludes with this verdict: "It would be fair judgment, 1 should think, to say that Hut ton would not go down to history, as one of the great
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straight
as
forward practitioner who did a very good job. His record is excelled by very few of his predecessors,"
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Ariott says: "He failed as a batsman, but had a fine tour as captain....It one man is to take eredit {cr the win, must be Hutton,"
Tyson And Statham Now, Statham And Truemen Later?
By ARCHIE QUICK
Welings declares: "Hutton did a fine job, No captain can please everyone all the time, but in the long run he is to be judged by results, and on that basis Hutton was a magnificent success. His results entitle him to be ranked among the very best of England's captains."
Of the tour in general. Peebles writes...."even If we have several urgent require- ments there is no tonic and in- centive like beating Australia." LUCKIER THAN AUSTRALIA
Arlott says: "England may be Much happy but not confident remains to be done, for I fear that Bradman's 1343 Australians would, have torn this side to ribbons. Fortunately there seem to be many promising young players in English cricket at the moment---we are luckier than Australia."
Wellings. sums up:
Englishman to talk with
"Of the for an
con-
Adence. Australian cricket faces
difficult problems for it is suf- tering from several forms of
neglect not least of the laws of the game."
The wisest words I have heard made about England Test Match teams of the near future future it is possible and by that I mean against the touring South Africans were said by the old England opener and present Lancashire captain Cyril Washbrook in the Surrey-Lancashire match at the Oval.
"Frank Tyson and Brian Statham may be our shock attack for the opening Test at Notts." he said "but I expect it to be Statham and Freddie Trueman before the summer is out." Cyril added that he forecasts that Tony Lock will supplant Johnny Wardle as the England left arm spinner.
are
а
does
in this country, especially if we wet summer. to have Statham, he thinks is the best of all our fast bowlers Trueman has more "bite"
under all hostility
conditions
than Tyson
on to say
The three books will appeal
to rather different class of to delve into great detail as to the reasons for England's suc cess will probably read "The Ashes" to get the views of a famous cricketer. Those who
reader. The man who wants
This may seem hard on Tyson Washbrook went after his typhoon" successes in "Statham makes the batsmen want a straight account of what Australia, but Washbrook
should imagine
tour, a diary he has picked happened on the not think he will be so effectively at almost every ball and I
will prob from entertainly written, up a few valuable sipa
ably turni to Arlott. While Ray Lindwall this winter. Brian is bowling better than ever. He
those who want a forthright of what went on and account and has filed out and increased his acco
the straight from the shoulder and stamina.
not views of a man or o
course, there is almost a
who is
what he of fast bowlers for the afraid to say exactly queue lew positions and the Surrey thinks will read Wellings. pair
Alec Bedser and Peter Loader must not be ruled out before the Season's end. As for
Essays on sport are rare, and of Lock the rival merits
and
arer still when they come from Wardle, Washbrook said "Lock
He the pen of a Member of Parlia- would
be
my preference. spins
the ball more. pushes it ment. The sport-loving public through quicker. is more diff-have been given the chance to cult for a batsman to attack. In look back on sport in the past
the chronicles accepts impossible decade in
Mallolieu, in his "Sporting Days" (published in the Phoenix Sports Books series
Bad Weather Fails To
he
Stop Marksmenait chances as close to the is. W
The inclement weather did not deter keen shooters from attend- ing the bi-monthly practice shoot
%,
Kai
wick:t feldsman,"
for an opener.
So
of
There is something in its 48 chapters for nearly every fan whether his (or her) interest be football, Rugby league, cricket. Association football. Rugby bil billiards, boxing, racing" under both codes, lawn tennis or even Irish hurting.
OTHER SPIN POSITION
-15s). and Lock constitute a Sushire rivalry. held by the Association at do Ren Appleyard" and Jim Laker for the other spin posi- Tak last Sunday.
tion England indeed have. an Rain fell throughout the morn-embarrassment of riches for the and with variable winds, bowling places, out what of the strong and gusty at times and batting? Top priority is a search visibility often reduced to minimin good shooting was
Tom Graveney may be the difficult. The scores returned
man but Worcestershire have a were below average.
The Hon. M. W. Turner, Pre-pair, either of whom can fill the and Richardson. sident of the Hongkong
Rifle bill. Kenyon
in prolife County Association paid a visit to the Kenyon
esta Range and took a keen interest games has been tried in
but failed.
Richardson's future lies ahead. But while all this is happening there is talk that the will responsibility of captaincy force Len Hutton lower down in L. Karpovich, HKP (85); X. C. Hoo, the batting order. CIV. (84) W. Mck Gülles, HCP, (64): Wong Bor, CIV. (1); 0. R Sadick, SC. (81);
in the shooting.
The following are the results: 4.8. (b) Class "A" Wm. K. Y. Du, EXPR (14); Lt Eater. (32):
FL. J, Orpen-Smelle,
HKPI (79).
E. Y. Mac, Dr.
The book is not one for the reference library. These are collection of essays written at different times and now issued light in book form. They are and human, and at the same" time controversial. Indeed they are just the thing for short train journeys and longer ones too, if one can find a fellow traveller to cross swords with of Mr Mallalieu's some
Com-
TERRY MOORE
Harry Wragg Has Good Line To Immortal
By RICHARD BAERLEIN
The Royal Hunt Cup, over One Mile, is the most intriguing race at Ascot (June 15) for many backers, and a market has already been formed on the race, naming Alf's Caprice, Royal Palm and Turk's Blood the three favourites at 14-1.
Improving four-year-olds are the ideal for this handicap, and there can be no better example of this than Colorado Kid, Fairplay and Caerloptic, who won just before the war.
The point is to find a similar type.
Cup and then
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Drop This Posing,
Terry
Moore!
Says KEN SMITH
Terry Moore is a naive, pretty, petite Hollywood starlet who is in England making her first British film, "Portrait of Alison."
Miss Moore is also fast becoming a hit of a bore. Since her arrival
less than a month ago she has been photographed embracing Johnnie Ray and holding hands with French actor Daniel Cauchy.
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of
an
Both pictures appeared in the newspapers with reported rumours impending engagement. Both of these were vociferously denied by Miss Moore,
Since then Johnnie Ray has [ Paul Gregory, who is to pre-want popular tune singers, how- gol himself engaged to an sent in with Charles Laughter. ever attractive.” English girl...
directing, would like to try it out on the London stage before a Now Miss Moore is complain- Broadway opening later in the ing about what she terms "Bad. year. Filly newspaper stories,' She has also taken the trouble to write to one of the top Holly- wood gossip columnists telling her to
may
disregard anything she see in print referring to Miss Moore's friendship with the opposite sex.
Tyrone Guthrie, who leaves
shortly for Canada to direct the
On April 30 Lorrae made her TV debut in variety and was a great success. Within days she had signed for a cabaret season at the Savoy.
Now Miss Desmond is prov-
ing that in rrecting a precedent Stratford Shakespeareon Festival the management have done the Not since Hilde- in Ontario, has been engaged to right thing.
there stage a drama based on the life garde has
been a girl of Christopher Marlowe.
sleger there in cabaret. And, a Might I therefore suggest to The chances are that he will girl "pop" singer-never! the young lady that she either have as his star Hollywood
Quote of the
week from refrains from posing with "rebel" Marlon Brando in the
Danny Kaye, when somebody various men for the photo-tle role..
asked him how much he was graphers at the same
worth" "It's hard enough having uttering those well-chosen words
to make it without having to of all film starlets. We are
count it." just good friends"or"
eis
tire
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In America Miss Moore makes
pictures.
In
the film. which stars James Stewart and Doris Day, will don
a steady habit of being photo-the producer-director graphed with various men.
In
a white robe and play the role
of a Moroccan street-vendor fact her newspaper appearances pushing a cart in the market! Bre much more frequent than her screen appearances.
of
PIN-UP ART
Last week
place of Marrakesh.
Ün the cart will be a sign advertising his fim To Catch A Thief, which he recently com- pleted with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.
*
who in 1837 won the Victoria But even over the easy Lin
the Hunt Cup coin mile Alf's Caprice did not ith 8st. 31b. Alf's Caprice has appear to stay on, though his Pubucity.md to spend by Peter Rathvon with Edmon
stamina may have been taxed then through his early effort to recover from a bad draw.
His two victories since Lin- over coln: have both beer won easy seven-furlong tracks and I think this is really his distance.
8st,
All's Caprice is improving fast enough to defeat any handi- саррет, though Mr Geoffrey Freer has been quite severe on him. for his three-quarters of
length victory in the Victoria Cup..
The
one point against Alfs Caprice is whether he will last out the final furlong.
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Among the people with whom she is reported to have romanced" are Robert Wagner, Rock Hudson, Nicky Hilton,
reques Sernas
Last year Kismet star Alfred and Tyrone Drake staged a comedy, Power.
sho paraded her Millicent's Castle, in a theatre latest good friend whom she
in Pennsylvania. discovered in Cannes, Parisian
Now established as a firm Daniel Cauchy. To quote Miss
Theatre, favourite at the Stoll Moore: The greatest young the actor-singer hopes tó direct actor in France,"
presentation of the a London The obvious horse in this which will slightly ease the task;
a
·In
baggy roll-necked Play during the coming months. category this усат is Alf's of the two-year-olds. Over the sweater, Monsieur Cauchy look- Caprice and he will be trying full Mile only time can answered like a fugitive from the film
Two recent TV plays are to to equal the record of Fairplay,
TAXED
Moby Dick. Miss Moore, hardly be made into alms. First, George looking like a fugitive from Orwell's 1984, is to be produced
O'Brien and Jan Sterling a rearranging the stars. fully ten her lipstick in the busy lounge
Second, The Creature is to be the Dorchester Hotel. Had I not read Miss Moore's team. Richard Sale and Mary Ained by husband-and-wie own words, that although she is Loos in the French Alps, under a Mormon she does not believe the title of The Biggest Game. in the practice of best
polygamy,
An all-male cast will be could have been forgiven for Another possible four-year-old thinking that her penchant for headed by John Hodiak, Richard
Widmark and Macdonald Carey. in the category I mention above those photograper's poses springs. is Immortal. This colt appeared from there.
Actually her marriage to foot- The Hunt Cup this year is run to take a new lease of life after
Darryl Zanuck has bought the changing
stables at the Decem- baller Glenn Davis ended in 1951
of the Marlene Dietrich rights over the full Mile and is
after 15 months, sales. ber
"He detested
starrer, The Blue Angel and yards longer than hitherto. will be an equally testing course
He followed up the Newbury anyone in films," she said.
he plans to remake it. Spring Cup with an easy vic-
But instead of Marlene sing- Although she won an Oscar- and perhaps the time will
tory over moderate even slower than that of the old at Stockion. He can be excused formance in Come Back Listic be Dorothy
opposition nomination
Ping Falling in Love Again it will Hunt Cup.
(Carmen Jones) his Chester failure for he is not Sheba she is better known for The
Zanuck because Dandridge, От
Ave-furlong new
of horse to act at her decorative qualities, her 150 plans an all-Negro cast. course at Ascot the rise from the type
sweaters, her pin-up art and, the the start to the winning post Chester.
The best guide to form to fact that she posed for the
.THANKS TO TY will be six foot less than of old,
this season
and the most soldiers in Korea in an ermine.
The cabaret talent-scouts for consistent is through Tip the swim-sult,
the Bottle. Immortal beat Tip
When she
the big London hotels are quick int
these days with off the mark she
TV-created talent. bury and, although he has to "wanted to go in for more allow 5th for three-quarters of serious stuff, such as Shake-
For six months. Australian- a length, Immortal could have
In fact she said her born Lorrae Desmond has been speare." made by far the greater im spare moments from filming trying to show what she can do provement,
would be devoted to Shakespeare in West End cabaret.
doors of the top night spots re- and speech training. Both 2 Lhcola and in the
I suggest she does just that.mained closed.
"Sure," said the managers, "we Victoria Cup Harry Wragg has
know she's a big hit on records, a further line to Tip the Bottle We've had enough Moorclarky
who for this trip.
audiences don't but late-night through Military Court, beat him at Lincoln and finished just behind him at Hurst Park.
If Immortal is preferred Military Court and is ridden by Peter Robinson, claiming the 51b, allowance, his weight will be only 7st. 416. He could prove the horse for whom we searching
London Expreis Service)
65 It
be
we
Derek Morgan Bottle rather cleverly at New- London she
As 12th Man
For
England
London, June 7,
ments on such diverse things The MCC announced today as sportsmanship, the "battle" that Derek Morgan, the Derby between the two Rugby codes, shire all-rounder, will be the Union and League, the alloca-12th man for England against and tion of Cup Final tickets and commentators, -- China
Then we shall have two open- Ramon Younging problems instead of one! I happen to know that the man Hutton most would like for the Job is his own Yorkshire partner Yu Ki Leung,
(UT); ME Lowson, Like Kenyon, however, Lena Yeung, CTV, (0% M. C. M. Silva, DF, 170): . Devonshire, he has promised so much
fulfilled so little when the acid HKP (70): Ng Kwan, SC. (48).
test has been applied.
Class
(A) Class "B"
J. Morgan, RE, (83).
CIEXX
K Haward, R3, (80) R. Noddings.
BKP, (70); Chan
(71) Ng Wat-kee, XP, (71); Azıx Admed. IKP. ATA):
Abiriad Tin
HKP. (20) Chau Ping-ming, HKP. (67); Michid Hassan, KP, 454); Mar- Q. Wong HKPR. (50): S. K. Shiu,
(43) Yeung Kwok-wai, HKP. (42); YK, Khan, HKP, (19),
The fellow. Yu Xi Leung. Spoons: K.
Morgan and K. Howard. The next practice shoot will be held at Kai Tak on Sunday, June 19, commencing at 3 am. Firing will be At 300, 300 and 500 yards.
are the Winners of
Asian Football
Championship Draw
fr
yesterday
BBC Mail Special,
Bobby Locke Chases British Golf Honours
By DEREK JOHN
South Africa on the last thret days of the Test match, which starts next Thursday at Notting-
kam
Arthur Mallon (Gloucester shire) was appointed 12th man when the team was chosen fast Sunday, "He will now be re leased on Friday so that he can
ot play
Glamorgan against Swansea on Saturday.
The South African team will not be named until the morning of the match
*
At two o'clock today a heavily-built, heavy jowled
This was announced by the figure will stride up to the first tee of Berkshire's Springbok captain who said that picturesque Sunningdale golf course. Carefully addressing his men would practise at Trent the ball he will open his broad shoulders and put all his Bridge, the Nottingham ground, Lomorrow morning. -- France fourteen stone plus into a mighty drive that will swallow
Prease. up most of the 456 yards first hole.
So the first shot will have been fired in Bobby Locke's one-man war on British golf.
challenge may come
$
RAIN WASHES OUT BARTON-
BROWN FIGHT
H
to
are
for
her
arrived Arst told me that
SCRIPT CHANGES
It seems that the British film which Audrey Hepburn was to make under her one-a-year agreement
Associated
with
British is further off than ever.
Next month she starts filming
in Rome with husband Mel Ferrer in King Vidor's produc- tion of Tolstoy's War and Peace. Audrey will have the role of Natasha and Mel that of, Andre, the suitor who loses her to Pierre, a role yet to be filled by a top American star,
The consensus of opinion, is that husband Mel has some very Birmingham. June 7. decided views on his wife's Torrential rain caused the career. After reading the script professional boxing tournament and got several changes postponement of the Open Air of War and Peace he asked for due to be held at Parry Bar made before allowing Audrey to Stadium here tonight. It will sign. now be staged or. Thursday.
The programme-was called off less than an hour before is was due to start,·
"
The fact that the two film scripts submitted by A.B.C. to Audrey did not have parts for her husband influenced her de ciston not to make the pictures.
For Mr Ferrer made no secret
Barton, unbeaten Light Heavy of the fact that he wanted to
thus
Two-Day Cricket
Main fights were between Ron Regularly Locke, South players compete for Ryder Cup Again Washed Out Africa's greatest gift to golf, ||places.
weight, and Mel Brown of the Manila, June 8. comes to Britain intent on play.
Montego Bay, Jamaica, The Philippines
Biggest
United States, and another Light film the stage success Ondine, their Broad- winning and
repeating June 7. Heavyweight bout. between
on the screen.. drew Korea in the pairings of ing good golf
Cyril O'Connor, who Heavy rain again prevented Yolande Pompey of Trinidad Sucess Irishman matches of the first Asian Foot Prizes. Regularly he succeeds. trom Britain's younger brigade,
Unfortunately the author's Three times in four years he
last month won British golf's play here today on the second and Ivano Fontina of laly copyright demands were ball Championships to be held
returned as Britain's Open next year in Hongkong.
Champion.
first-ever £1,000 prize at South-day of the two-day match be-Render. Other pairings matched Japan
port; Scotsman Eric Brown, who tween the touring Australien Now he is here again with his Nationalist China, India against Last
and Pakistan eyes on the bigger tournament revels in tough going, and the cricketers and a team captained
youngest
of them all 24-year-old by George Headley, the former prizes and, of course, the Open Peter
West Indies Test against Ismel
$115 first"
target is the £600 from wintering in America, has was also completely washed out
Alliss who, benefitting
A batarman, Flayi The draw was made as the which Daks offer to the player
of this year's three yesterday. office of the Foreign. Under-
come The Australian captain, Ian secretary, Rault Mangiapus. Pre completing 72 holes of the Sun won one
ningale Old and New courses in major tournaments and President
Johnson, has agreed to play sent were Chito Ca
Afth in another. of the Manila Football League the lowest number of strokes
if conditions improve. Morrow
(100)
Now, as soon as she finishes War and Peace. Audrey
will play both the heroine Olivia and her brother Sebastian in Joseph Mankiewicz's film ver- sien of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, scheduled for shooting-in Italy.
LONDON FIRST?
NEW WORLD RECORD
London, June 7. Calv
Briar Hewson of Britain set a Lee Wal-tong, Secretary of beREVIOUS FORM. If they fail there are still the But the fixture would be con- new World report of 2 mins Aslam Footbal Federation
If he can reproduce his pre-old hands like Henry Cotton, fined 16 one day as the Austra 55.5 secs for the three quarters
John Patrick, author of one of Jorge Varges, President of the virus British form Locke, will Max Faulkner, Dai Rees, Fred Hans leave here tomorrow night of a mile at Packington track
the best shows in London Philippine Amateur Athletic start favourite But he will Daly and Harry Weetman, to for
ingston where the firth here tonight Federation, and John Cleland, find his British opponents in keep the bone fing flying
alust the West Hewson clipped the previous Teahouse of the August Moon, Test against the Vice-President of the Asian than undermined to be uttany Locks Indies begins on Saturday For this reason equal to them and begin his Australia have already
of Sweden in 1994, of 2:56.6—Charles the Test series-Beuteri
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