い
It's Men Like Pirie
And Miller Who
Make
The Sports
Says DESMOND HACKETT
Gordon Pirie again, sets his critics snarling and making use of unfriendly words ranging from the coldly dignified "braggart" down the colloquial "big head."
to
And all because Gordon Pirie let it be known after Frank Sando and Ken Norris had run the three miles in 13 mins. 29.8 secs.--3,4 'secs. outside the world peak- that he, Gordon Pirie, could and would do much better.
The athletics chler disraissed this candid comment with a shrugged: "Ah well, you know Gordon Piric."
Of Course I know Gordon Prie and so do millions more. not only in these sporting isler, but all over the world because Pirie happens to be that rarity, a.personality..
REJOICE
The crowd love a personality.
Importance that so many of -ou! cricket administrators present to the world."
Get this straight. We do not want untalented exhibitionists.
wee
Lovable, unforgettable, Alex James loved to hear the crowd laugh. Yet he was still a gen of genius we shall never seo again.
The golf galleries flocked to see Normda Von Nda hur!|
clubs, caddies, and vitriole
They will leave their warm fire- marks with bold indiscretion.
sides, the occasional sun-filled but the Aternic Von was also a days in the garden, to rejoice golfer.
Maxie of personality. presence How I applaud
Australia's
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the
Keith Miller-no characterless cricketer he-when in his new book "Cricket
he Typhoon?
bluntly says that people want to watch cricketers behaving like human beings: that they dearly love to chuckle over
their antics.
world
Baer, was a clouding clown-but he was also champion.
the
REGIMENTED These names made good news at the box office. It is only because of the... Piries and Chataways that soaring gate receipts are also included among athletic records being broken week by week.
Football is going down and down as sadly, as a relegated. team because players are being parade of self-pride and self- regimented into one uninspired
pattern of anonymity.
football Losses
dislike personalities. In these saddened Soccer days our touring players give the impression of a jolly decent Rover Scouts outing.
How happily I agree with Keith Miller when he hits out at oficials who frown on these human touches: when he glee fully bodyline bowls
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Blow the old starched collar spoilsports. Stand up and cheer for the Piries, the Truemans, the Matthewsės, the Piggotts, the whole rollicking, joy-creat ing crew.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1955.
SPORTING SAM
By Reg. Wootton
It's Time That The HKLBA Acquired
Its Own Greens
Says “TOUCHER"
Since the Colony Open Championships began a couple of weeks ago, I have heard one question raised every now and again, and that is "Why cannot the Hongkong Lawn Bowls Association have its own greens?"
It is a very pertinent query and merits due consideration by the Association. Hongkong has advanced far into the field of international competition in various forms of sports in the past few years; but only in lawn bowls and, to a certain extent, în table tennis has the Colony gained international houðurs.
The Colony came very near than soccer or tennis.
Kowloon Deck Club will take winning the Rink event at the A full-sized green is only 4 on Kowloon Cricket Club on Empire
Games in Vancouver yards square, and on one green their Hunghom green. If their and in all the other events no fewer than 48 players can first encounter were to serve as showed a standard well at par be accommodated From the any criterion of what is coming with the other lawn bowling point of scenic beauty, note this afternoon, the dockmen countries of the world.
whatever will be interfered with will have to be at their best
With another Empire Games celebration approaching, another fine opportunity will be afforded
the Colony's bowlers of putting Hongkong on the map of inter- national sports.
It will be a great plly if that opportunity were to be thrown away for lack of facilities be cause there is no doubt that is such a lack of facilities.
IT WASN'T CRICKET THAT GOT LEN HUTTON DOWN; IT WAS RESPONSIBILITY
Says BRUCE ·DOOLAND
The Lord's Test match has put this series against South Africa right back on the gold standard. No longer are the Springboks regarded as the poor relations. As near as a whisker they took that Second Test and many true supporters of cricket throughout the country are just a bit sorry they didn't.
Don't take that as a crack against England. I thought young Peter May led England back magnificently to win the match, after being shot out for that miserable 133 and being 171 runs behind on first innings..
May's individual hundred was that happens, the Springboks the rest of this week, I myself
a triumph of determination for are in real trouble...
a young chap "In his first big game as Supreme Commander in his own right. It showed is clearly he is made of the right stuff.
+1
would not hesitate to ask him to
NUMBER ONE BATSMAN
One thing the South Africa come back and open for Eng
land at Manchester. boys did in the Lord's Test was to re-establish themselves in the eyes of the public as a side very much better than their early As for that fourth innings form predicted-and me which, bowling performance by Brian may well beat Egaland one of Statham - the first seven these Tests If England doesn't wickets in a row for 39 and 24 look out. overs of fast bowling in one day
:
could stand it for
wa be so
After all it wasn't cricket that got Len down. It was an overload of responsibility. And he is not the only England Captain who has felt the why that was straight back to The bowling of the 6ft. 4, strafo. Douglas Jardine and Typhoon Tyson's form in Aus-Peter Heine had real dp in it. Frede Brown were glad to tralia and there's precious little So had the off-spin of Hugh hand over the office after only any side can do about that. Tayfield. And if England con- 13 Tests; even the great APF.
tinue to drop their catches, the Chapman Most county cricketers have a healthy respect for Tyson and batting of Roy McLean will up-only 17. admire him as the
So why should guy who set many a game. comes up best in the big-time.
surprised that Hutton should But many also regard Brian Certainly the Springboks did feel the strain after 23? No, It Statham as the better bowler of enough at Lord's to give the Hutton can come back to help England Selectors plenty to talk England, and I am sure he can, the two.
about at their next meeting. let him come back as number as the lawn will certainly have to retain their position at the
The trouble to be kept in perfect condition head of the League table.
batsman Brian is Sadly I feel that Don Kenyon one
and leave the Cricket all the time."
In that match the
that he has been dead unlucky will be out of the next team. I leadership to somebody younger Details for
from initial
Club bowlers were well on top My cobbers outlay,
Australia say sadly because I think he is and fresher like the competent maintainance,
that he etc.
Bowled a really ine batsman who has Peter May. could be in the aggregate until the last assure
throughout the never had worked
the three heads, when what looked magnificently
of luck in out between
Who else will return? I ex- Association and the Govern like a 4-1 win for them went last series there but time after Test cricket. But I feel his re-pect to see Bob Appleyard re- meat, but there is no doubt that the other way
time he not only managed to cord of 186 runs in 13 innings place Freddie Titmas Colin bat-he beat the will now be held up for scrutiny, Cowdrey will certainly come in
me
with
atom
the laying of such greens will With Talkoo, Football Club, 'beat the not only prove a great boon to and Craigengewer well within wickets and the elders too. And and it will not be thought good a number of bowlers in the striking distance, the
game.
game.
Singles
On
might
'a Of course, if Len doesn't play. at Manchester, it would not surprise me see Trevor Bailey pushed up once again to open with Tom Graveney.
I rather hope they dock in this last Test he was doing enough for further opportuni although for Kem Barrington The old pranking, flamboyant A number of clubs-Indian Colony, but also afford the bowlers cannot afford a defeat the same thing. If he had had tier.
give this lad mother crusades are over. And, of Recreation Club, Hongkong Colony an excellent facility for at this stage of the League, reasonable fortune, he
Barrington's tragedy was that course, we read this drabness in Cricket Club, Cralgengower improving the standard of the They are favoured to win, but easily have wiped up that last Who is to take over? "I gave after playing through the real South African innings for anthe hint last week when I hot early spell of his last in- Cricket Club, Police Recreation
if the cricketers strike form, an
even smaller score. Club have
thel, close
said that Len Hutton will be sings he "holed out from the com upset is not unlikely. greens during the winter months petitions could be organised as, Second Division will be that be-
A greater number of
Another battle royal in the
UNENVIABLE TITLE back. I still think he will be first loose ball he got: It to give way to cricket and a for example, a "Championship
I am perning these lines just happens! great number of local bowlers of Club Champions" to improve tween Talkoo and Football In fact, this talented young after he has blasted us at Not- are obliged to store away their the standard of the
Club. Playing a heavy man from Lancashire, now tingham for 196. It was woods during these months on
green in the first match, Taikoo zarded as the world's number magnificent innings which account of inability to find
suffered the mortification of a one fast bowler, is earning the showed in every run of it that green to play on
TODAY'S MATCHES
5-0 blankout at the hands of unenviable title once given to the great man is rapidly getting
Wright-the Best but back his confidence. It is a well-known fact that "Back to solid earth, we come the footballes and are all out Doug every year the Management back to the League matches for vengeance this afternoon. Unluckiest Test Bowler. In the
He won't hesitate to play Committee of the Association this afternoon, as they enter
Both are still in the'rinning į business.
new captain, finds it extremely difficult" to
their second round,
under England's for the title, but a defent, for
But perhaps uls splendid Peter May. He is a big enough run the Colony Open Champion- In the first Division, Kowloon either of them will leave them
achievement now will turn his sportsman to take that sort of. The no bailing of Freddie. ships smoothly and according to Cricket Club with a lead of
luck. Instead "of just "missing thing in his "stride. And if he Trueman in this Test has raised schedule.
41⁄2 points over Recreio "Blues",
the stumps, he might now can consolidate what he did to something of a storms backs enjoy a bye, and interest will be focussed the Recreio
start hitting them instead, Ilus with a few more ms during stage which may not blow. It- "Whites" y. Recreto "Elves match.
SPORTS QUIZ
·It?
1. What is the record. first
wicket partnership in first class cricket and who holds 2. Who was
the Men's and (D)
seed to 1055
3.
4.
first
the
the
first-round will
SKIPS' TABLES
FIRST DIVISION
far behind in the race. The Taikoo bowlers are playing The Committee has to depend
clightly, better bowls than theif on the generosity of the various
opponents at the moment and, if clubs in the Colony for loan of
able to fed full team look their greens, and Like beggars
good for at least four points." they cannot often be choosers. Although the "Whites" man- Unpredictable Hongkong
Many
adme bowlers are aged to take one point from Cricket Club will act as hosts heard to complain that they are their more reputed clubmates in to Craigengower, but whether victions of unfairness in having the first match, they will be up they will be capable of giving to play an unsuitable greens, against a more improved and a their hosts the same reception
team this after- forgetting that even the insult more settled (2)able greens
have been made toon and, much as one would a 5-0 defeat they received in -depend Women's available
like only through
to prod on the underdogs, be beaten in the
I cannot see the Whites getting largely on their form. generosity of their owners
this The Wimbledon.
cricketers singles
play "I le felt therefore, that it is away even with one point brilliant bowls on occasions, as
afternoon. Wimbledon nationalities. high time that the Association
Next in line for the title is evidenced by the trouncing they
Cricket From what country do the consider the possibility of ac-ex
Club, gave the Football Club, Lack of | R.F. Luz (Rec. "B") who
probably have a practice seems to be their great B.W. Bradbury (CCC) following come (a) Alfred quiring a piece of the lawn in Craigengower Hubber
the newly reclaimed area for the slightly harder time against the trouble, and it is doubtful if TE Baker (KCC) Shea (c) (b). Gil
purpose of laying, say, three Barique Morea (d) Darlene full-sized lawn bowls greens. Filipino Club at King's Park they can hold their opponents J. McKelve (KBGC)
full to better than a Hard?
4-1 score AE. Coates (CCC) NOT UNREASONABLE Anagrams. Sort out these
against them,
J.F.V. Ribeiro (Rec. "") famous
will not be an personalities (a)
The request
AM. Omar (IRC "B") ETRACH DERMO: JAE Unreasonable one for a number
D. Phillips (ECC) OATBORR,
of reasoris. In the first place, it will give more pleasure to more people per square foot of area
tournaments
5. What do the R'sanforlu the names of · thebe three Test cricketers: William R. Endean, Keith R. Miller, Raymond R. Lindwall?
6. Disguised personality. He
international played
jcg. hockey, has just taken part in an international competi- tion for a different sport;
7.
has changed his nationality
since the war. Who is he?
When may a moving ball be
struck in (a) billiards (b) tolf ?
Sports Diary
TODAY
Bowls
First Division':
Rec Rec
“B”” V IRC “G”.
will
attempt to garner
Both Coates and Bradbury's fours have withstood some very strong opposition up to now and can be depended upon to win both their games.
can
THIRD-DIVISION
A. Harvey. (KBGC)
The Third Division games will be featured by the clash of C.E. Passos. (Rec "B") Kow-HB. Dewar (PRC) ... the two Division giants.
5
P. W. D. LE. A U. D. Pts.
Shots
Shots
76 0 1.173 108 7511 158 123
64
6
33
5
B 5 0 3 189 140
49
7 5 0 2 147 115.
32
6
0 3 154 132
22
5
5
0 2 142 129
13
5
.4
11 145 92
54
4
5 4
0 1 113 88
27
4
7 4
0 3 142 117
25
44
00 9269
23
0.3 137 130
7
4 0.3 134 123.25 10.75
It is in their third four that the Valley Club has been rather loon Dock Club and Hongkong K. Bodie (PRC) shaky since the departure of Electric,
The Dock squad are A.A. Lopes. (Rec, "W") 74 0.2 135 141
*
Joe Landolt and the four have the only unbeaten team in the again been reshuffled for this whole League so far, and are afternoon's match. Fred Madar practically astured of the cham comes in as skip, with George pionship already. Souza as No. 3, George Madar
For
SECOND DIVISION
R. Gourley (KDC)
8 1 1 181 122 the Ming Yuen bowlers, Greenwood (HKFC)880 2 205 115 s No. 2 and C. C. Ma as lead. however, the match will afford B.I. Bickford (HKFC), 8 8 0 2 188 130 The odds are definitely in them the opportunity of utter AE Elliot (KDC)
cap hand "B": FRC KBGC: FC Y CCC, HRC favour of the Valley Club, but satisfaction if they
there is a good chance of the the dockmen their first defeat Second 1 Division: KIDE - KOD: PRC
point of the season. FC: HKCC CCC Taube ▼ BKFC. Filipinos snatching one
I should give the Electricians Third Division: Koc v KBGG FC from this game.
POCHKFC V USRC:
The intra-club affair between a 40-60 chance plus my best the IRC "Blues and IRC "Gold" wishes for their success. Baseball Suzyoner League: Braves y U.S. should end up much the same Navy at 6.30 p.m.
way as the Recreio Whiles Versus Recreio Blues match,
8.
ન
is the world 100 yard record and which two men hold it?
HERC
9.
Who was the only boxer to hold three world titles at
the same time'?
10. Who
are
the reigning League English Football Champions, and who hold the FA Cup?
(Answers See Pare 17)
TOMORROW Bowla
XDC
Liberation Shield: KCC v MBGC. at 3.45.7.
Exseball Overseas "Red" y Overeas "Bize". 10.30 p.m.
ELEITZ
Judged the finest Leica
NEW
M3
BUNIVER
Judges of fine camera alw
point to LEICA as the with a sure appreciat It's matchless precision
LTD.
DH SALE ALS LEADING PHOTO
WALERS
PRC
V HBGC FC - CCC
TRC "Blues" V TRC "Gold". KCC (Bye)
Second Divisoin
W.B. Brown (TC)
39
BOWLING CREASE
self out as exily or quickly Las" some people imagine. Apparent ly the umpire marked out a Hoe-welll babind the bowling crease and told him he would be no-balled if he went over it with his back Scot. They did the same to Ray Lindwall be cause he too had a pronounced drag as he followed through,
But, frankly, I cannot sto why umpires should ha
have to improvise on the Laws of the Game. No two umpires wil ble to decide on probably be able
the same distance they want the dragging fact bowler to bowl from. And if there are dif ferences it can be shattering for any bowler tying to find his rhythm.
Instead of fiddling with ine behind the official cales, I feel that until the no-ball Law 1s changed-if
going to be changed--all bowlers, fast or slow, should be allowed to put behind the their right foot bowling crease as they come in to deliver. After all, fast bowlers have been doing that since cricket began or near enough, And not only fast bowlers 5 too. Don't tell any umpires, but -
90
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"0
8" 8 0 2 185 189
46
JH. Kimniburgh (TC).
8 5
1 2 175.144
31
R. Tay (CCC) L
7 5
0 2 159 133
26
5
J. B. Baxter (TC)
5
02 150 125
5
8. 5
0 3 182 162
5
0 3 154. 140
14
R. Hetherington (USRC) 74
2 154 121
1.3 158 156
03. 174.114
0 3 127 145
0
K. Forrow (HKTC)
A. Sequeira (FC)
W.M McCall (KDC)
R. Lapsley (KIC)
03 130 157
THIRD DIVISION
AG. Gardner (HKERC)
TODAY'S GAMES ?
First Division From the point of closeness Recreio "Whites y Recreio D. Agnew (USRC)
FD. Angus (HKCC) be "Blues", of competition, the match tween FRC. and KBGC. should be the best of the day in the First Dividon. The custodians of the law sprang a major suprise In the first coated when they handed the Bowling Chib defeat on the KIBGC green.
Playing on their own greto this afternoon will be a decided advantage for the policemen and there is every likelihood of
betr
VA their 4-1 triump's repeating over their guests this attemoon,
BA LIVELIER AFFAIRS
41
KDC Y KCC PRC v FC
The Second Division matches
are livelier affairs. Tog-placed
POP
HKCC ▼ CCC- TC - ERIC- USRC" (Bye).
Thind Division KOC – EBGC FC V POC HEFC USRC KDC v EKERC PRC (bye)
THROW IN
THEN.
J. McKittrick (RDC) J. Revie (EDC) W. C-Higgs" (POC) V. Ribeira (FC) A. Hutton (KBGC) L.J. McTavish ((POC) L. Cosgrove (KBGC) CE: Terry (KBGC) R.. Rosen (POC) H. Shields (HKIC) E. Champelovier (KCC).
861 86 88
1 182-132
1 1184 148 1 1 182:147 760-41173 110 7.54 A2183-138 7 40 12,184:145. 641 1 123 114 7402 183 113. 51 01110 79 04/02/180 (118)
148 142 142 143
113/125
Punchy dialogue
you took a slow motion pic
ture of me bowling and I am as slow as anybody in the busi"- ress-you would see my back 412 foot well over the bowling crease 42 before I let the ball go Every |other bowler in first clase prot
does the same, if it cong ito that!
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COACHING HINTAL
Are you out of batting dom at the moment? If so, check up at your foot work. There the secret of good batting: Many 41⁄2 good, batsmen have traced our 44 of-farin troubled to their feet. 4. They've found themselves
getting too slow off the mark and if you're slow you can
Into the oper. tion play a good shot Sa shar up the footwork
CALEY
make
wonderful
scolates
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