Sports Diary
TODAY
Tonnis
Men's "D" Diction: PRC v CCc: CCSRC(1) * CCSRC6; XCC(1) TRC CRC) ▼ KTGCAU); LMC Y KOCIZE KTCCA (2)
CRCC) Y PORC.
CRCUIT
Mixed Division: Urban C ccc2; cccci) y CRC: KCC SCAA..
Lawn Bowls
Open Singles Championship: Matches at KBGC: HIKERC: Talken: KDC: KCC.
Water Fold
Junior League: Royal
Navy
at
Army "North" at Tamar 3 p.m.; Army "South" y South China Victoria Pool 5.15 p.m.; Extern v European YMCA at Lai Chi-kok at
D.M
Hockey
ITQLF six-a-side league.
TOMORROW
Water Pola
Chinese YMCA v Hoi Tin at Chung
Sing pool 0.30 p.m.
Soccer
CFA Summer League Eastern KMB Caroline MIN.
THURSDAY
Tennis
Men's "S" Dussion: KCC RAF: CCC(2) v HKCC: HKU V CCSRC: SCAA Y COCAM KTCCA LRC.
CRC Recreio.
Lawn Bowle
Open Singles Championshipun s Matcher at HIRERC: KBGC; Talkoo and HKFA
Hockey
HQLF six-a-side tournament
- FRIDAY
Lawn Bowl
# Open Singles Chansonships?
Matches at IRC: HKENC Talkoo; KDC: KGC; CDC and Recreo.
Hockey
HQLF Summer League: CAA 9 Zastera.
SEGAL SURPRISES
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1955.
A
"South Africa's Abe Segal produced the first upset
at this year's Wimbledon by eliminating Rex Hartwig of Australia, one of the seeded players.--Central Press Photo.
Yvette Williams To Defend Olympic Long Jump Record At Melbourne
Auckland, New Zealand.
New Zealand's top athletes are already in hard training for the Olympic Games to be held in Melbourne in November 1956.
The country's only gold medallist at the 1952 Games in Helsinki, Yvette Williams (now Mrs Corlett), has come out of retirement to defend her Long Jump title and improve her Discus and Javelin performances,
Ten Teams In placed
Beginning the fascinating story that tells of some of the happiest days in Her Majesty's crowded life
Our Queen And
The
By JOHN
Turf
*་
HALL And JOHN RICKMAN
Royal Ascot is postponed. The decision was made by Her Majesty the Queen, for Ascot is her racecourse. Anxiety about the cause of the postponement, the railway strike, overrides all other considerations, but, there is deep disappointment, disappointment which Her Majesty shares.
Already in this fourth year of her reign it is abundantly evident that Elizabeth II. is a racing queen, a monarch who loves horses..
would
"You
half
lengths. The Princess was first in the unsaddling, enclosure. "I know the King was listening-in." she he will be He wanted so much to
pictures, Smith, "and
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Her Majesty delights in the The Queen's interest in horses After a fast mile the fly lost atmosphere of the Turf, the began in childhood. Every night her sense of urgency, and allow- excitement, the
Up to sleep led herself to be caught the before she lay down occasion. zest of magnificent thorough she insisted on sitting propped came the ambulance, out jump- holding ed Smith. be » remounted, breds straining to get heads, or up with a pillow ani̟ even muzzles, in front of each imaginary reins, "driving" her cantered back to the start, and other, the incomparable caval carriage and pair. cade of colour, the build-up., to
"I mostly go once or twice cum won-by one and a
the park," she tension followed by relief as the round
explain to newcomers.. horses pass, the winning-post.
For her there is rich pleasure 300.
exercises the horses. of the highly in the poetry
She had a collection of toy told trained aristocrats of the show-horses in her nursery.
in of them, books about them, Her win this race." jumping ring, a satisfaction horses
of all kinds. When there instinct. of course. goes
After
fter that initiation the Prin- opportunity she exults in the much farther than that it is incess began to follow her father's pleasure of riding her own her blood down a long line of horses, making notes about them horses through the glades of horse-loving monarchs, notably and asking a lot of questions. Windsor Great Park or across in more recent times, her great The King told an acquaintance: the Sandringham meadows.
grandfather: King Edward VII. "She is becoming quite a fend who made racing the Sport of for racing. FAVOURITE RELAXATION
Kings
Her fondness was, and still is, tor the horses, racehorses, hun- More and more it becomes Ascot was the first racecourse ters, jumpers, hacks, not for the evident that racing, show-jump-she ever visited. She went to a industries or the embellishments ing. riding the work of the meeting there on Whit Monday,
that surround them.. It can be horse-this is her tavourite re- 1945, a girl of 17, in ATS,
stated categorically that the laxation. Photographs taken of uniform, to see the Queen Mary Queen would not have had д her on these occasions show it
Stakes. She was given the un- bet at Ascot, She does not bet Outstandingly they
the usual privilege of being are
taken She has no interest in that happiest;
looks always she
into the weighing room, supremely contented, relaxed.
Those who saw her Majesty
other care for
~
side of racing, this quite apart from her awareness that many of her people are impiaerbly opposed to gambling.
ENGROSSED
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