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Nationalist China

-THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST. 29, 1955.

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21 MILES TO GLORY

Berkeley Team THEY CAN'T RESIST THE DID YOU How To Be Happy

Basketball

A

In Hongkong

Chinese

basketball team organised by the Chinese Na❤ tionalist Army, Air Force and Police arrived In the Colony from Taipei by CAT yesterday.

The team is hended by Mr Lan Poi-tan, Mr Yang Long, 120 manager, and Mr Cha

chun, the couch. They had been invited to Hongkong by the Kowloon and Hongkong Bas- 'ketball Union.

The visitors are scheduled to eogers on play against local

Monday and Tuesday.

ployers were Among the Tsai Bon-hun, captain, who re- presented China in the 1940 Olympics in London and a few who had played in the United States and Beldum,

■ Ane The team established record of success in Saigon, Thailand and Singapore during their 1903 tour.

the first

CHALLENGE

OF THE

TREACHEROUS TIDES

By VICTOR SIMS

A British merchant seaman who paddled and splashed his way across the English Channel on a bale of straw in 1864 really started something. Across that same uninviting 21-mile 'stretch of water the world's marathon without straws to swimmers have since been trying their luck and their skill

hang on to.

What makes them do It-apar: fron wanting to get to the other slar? Is it for experience? Is От it a form of exhibitionism? is it for the cash prize offered. GIRL'S DREAM

The team won

Money isn't often the incen Chiang Kai-shek Birthday Cuptive though it may come your championships held in Taipei in way, on it did to 17-year-old 1952 against various teams from Marilyn Bell, Canadian school the Philippines, Hongkong, girl who last month became the Macso and Malayo,

youngest-ever Channel

con

The team

queror. was selected from throughout Formosa by the Na-

on enxurance swim. At Honolulu Alone" they called him left 1932 he remained in the his Dartford home, intending to in

from the first to swim water for 100 hours 13 seconds.be

France to England unescorted. The English Channel has an

padelbers, In red-striped black trunks, irresistible lure for

a compass on his wrist, the 44- bathers atd....leg-pullers. One

of the year-old steelworker and father of the most successful leg-pullers

Dorothy of nine children plunged into was Dr Logas, a gynecologist, who in the sea, 1927 claimed that she swam the Channel. She said on oath that she did it without any physical assistaree or being towed in any

way.

It was true that she did

He towed a

rubber tube, carrying sugar,

biscuits ди rum on a board lashed across it. Red and white lights shone

from the raft

Gifts of clothes, furniture, tionalist forces who were at pet dogs, radios, television seit. that time sponsoring a "Over-wrist-watches and cheques for spend 25 hours 20 minutes in May with them. His body was

movement,

come Difficulties" Since then the team has taken

on that name--"Hak Non".

The visitors are scheduled to leave for Singapore on August 31 for several

and games

Later thence on to Bangkok. they are expected to return to Hongkong for

few games before returning to Tal- pel.

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South China

moto

Win Again At Singapore

Singapore, Aug, 20, An "offskie" goal, scored early in the game by outside-left Mok Chun-wah, enabled South China soccer tourists to defeat a Singa- pore Eleven before 8,000 specta- Lora ut the Jalan Besar Stadium this afternoon.

This was the visitors' second success in their current Singa- pore tour. They defeated the Singapore Chinese yesterday by three goals to one and will play their final game against

the night. Sino-Malays tomorrow

In to-day's game, South China ahowed undoubtedly they were the better side but it was not smooth sailing for them. They were often under pressure but their defence was good.

South China gave Singapore a scare in the third miruute when Mok Chun-wah broke through the defonce and beat the on- rushing goalkeeper, Fook Teng, but his drive hit the crosbar and reboundex into play.

The visitors scored their first goal in the eighth minute when Mok Chun-wah scared off the opening by Lee Yuk-tak- Reuter.

THIRD TEST

Only One Change In Springboks' Rugger Team

Pretoria, Aug, 27. South Africa have made only one change in the side which bent the British Isles in the

International in second

their team announced tonight for the Third Test here next Saturday.

Coenraad Federik Strydom, the Free State scrum-half, re- places Tommy Geniles of Western Province,

"Popeye" Strydom, a 23-year- old clerk, is only five feet six inches in height and weighs 10 stone seven pounds.--China Mail Specint

SOVIET SOCCER

Moscow, Aug. 28. Dynamo football team today

their Improved

chances of winning the Soviet Champion- ship, when according to the Soviet news agency, Tass, they best Central House Soviet Army by 4-0.

thousnads of pounds have been showered on her by admirers,

Famous numies of the past have been giving me their res- sons for tackling that brutal streich with its tough licies and treacherous currents.

is

One girl who tried threa times, but didn't get there, Dutch-born Willy Groes van Rysel, now the wife of Mr Edward H. Temme, who swam the Channel both ways.

"As a girl of 17 I dreamed forever" she recalls. "I thought I could

that I could

swim

master the Channel.

"For two years I went to bed ut nine o'clock, cut out parties, cinemas, smoking and drinking, and spent my life savings of 1390 to make my dream come true"

hoaxed

But she later con- the water,

had fessed that she Britain and the world.

SMOKED CIGARS

She admitted that three miles from the French coast she was taken from the water on to a She stayed on fishing smack. board until daylight, and was then put back into the sea to Anish the swim.

She had only tried, she plained to support the desire of Channel swimmers to have their But in dense fog, and only sport recognised on an official 400 yards from Shakespeare basis, and to prove the need for Cliff, she was forced to give up. Įsupervision. She has not tried since. «

They disappeared, and Ted

washed up on the Dutch coast three weeks later.

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KNOW THAT ?

First man to do it was Captain Webb in 1875 (Eight years later he was drowned trying to swim

the Niagara Falls). ·

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First woman: Gertrude Edorle, daughter of New York butcher, in 1926.

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Haagan

Fastest swim: Abd-el Rehim, Egypt, 10hr. 52min, in 1950.

Slowest: H. Sullivan, America, in 27hr, 23min. in 1923.

Most distinguished man to attempt it: General Freyburg, the New Zea land V.C.

HUNGARY FORGIVE

BRAZIL

In Moscow

By GEORGE WHITING

Sightseeing round the Kremlin with Wolverhampton Wanderers may or may not be the best way to see Moscow, but, since I returned, so many people have quizzed me on the subject of tourist possibilities that a few hints may not come amiss.

First, money. It's murder. For seven nights in Moscow Wolverhampton Wanderers supporters paid an average of £180 per head for return air fares, hotel accommodation and sightseeing excursions.

Cau Of this sum about £62 comes in a big chauffeur-driven

the 20-mile run from out of your £100 foreign cur-jo the

Sub- hotel. your rency allowance for the year, airport to

of leaving a maximum £48 sequently you can take in the Kremlin, Lenin's tomb, Moscow apending money.

Park, Gorki University,

trip, and thu This sounds pretty reasonable, river until you come to battle with window-shopping expolitions. an artificial exchange rate ot just over 11 roubles to the £.

BOUVENIRS

usual

by

The shope-drab affairs A rouble costs the tourist just our standards but dressed up under 2s, whereas its purchase considerably since my first visit --will not offer you much even value in Moscow is about 3d.

If you can afford it, fines a bottle of On these drinkable vodka will cost you 13. Cheaper "brands are not recommended, unless you have a taste for liquid explosives. Beer will set you back any

108. thing up to

bottic. Teototallers can get away with coffee at about Ja, a cup.

COUPONS

Coupons isstlod in London

A set of miniature view-cares, worth about a shilling here, cost me 19. The big souvenir line, decorative wooden trunkit- boxes made in the village, of Paliha, are beyond the pocket of most tourists at from £5 up- words.

Clothes? Forget them. To my Looked cy Haley

BRAZIL provide you with meals, but shabby and yours behind the

THE WORLD CUP BATTLE'

By ROY PESKETT

fear the Russians-taking their Umes. And the whole of your cue from other tourist countries £48 would just about buy

are developing a racket in the you a pair of trousers. victualling department.

When I was

I was there last Octo •Your airplane trip will differ bar. ber, my 10

food coupons entitled from Western fights. You enter starboard side of the me to "Go through the card," on the

port. making my selections from a aircraft, instead of the Hungary will play Brazil in Rio de Janeiro next whole bookful of hors d'oeuvre, Your stewardess, soberly clad in fish and desserts, dark blue, will retire into her April. Which means the Hungarians have forgiven the meats,

own little hutch and stay there. often ELS on your coupon as

The Russians do not wait for World Cup. Brazilians for the "Battle of Berne" during the 1964 Caviare, the big attraction, comme you wished. Only drinks were

you to present your credentials "extra."

in the airport. Immigration officials climb aboard and collect your passports before you leave

In

Then the Hungarian FA placed an "unofficial" 10-year ban on matches between the countries,

winners team,

Over

the airplane and, if you are in transit, you do not get them back until you resume your seats.

You have to declare all cur-

when

enter the rency

you country, and you are not per- mitted to bring any Russian money out with you

Here again, however, the new tourist drive la apparent. Nine months ago I found the currency rules meant what they sold.. This time a courteous Intourist #gent in Leningrad allowed me to keep a few soutverde roubles and actually changed my grubby notes for clean ones.

Customs officers nak you to All in declaration forms with Eng.

lah translations on entering end leaving the country, but on neither of my visits was I asked to open my baggage.

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In fact, the Russians schd you On our away in good heart. last morning in Moscow, colleague and I had a limousin spicco (on coupon) to the air port. I was served breakfast in bed, and had a maid come in to see that I had left nothing un- packed.

Night life's hard to come by, the especially when, as now, famous Russian ballet company is on holiday. The puppet theatre, is closed; I was told it Cinemas are had gone broke,

titlea. few, and without Western sub-

Dr Logan appeared before the General Medical Council to ex- plain her hoax. She had pleaded guilty to an offence against the Perjury Act by making statutory declaration that her

that quarter-final, thate Europe swim was not a hoax. She has players were sent off, and after Great Britain in Belfast, yet

This time in the same hotel, won a £1,000 prize, but she the game the Brazilian players flew over to watch the game, returned the money.

invaded their opponents dressing is to take Hungary on a tour of I found they had acquired what I call the boarding-house phllo- ex-room where there was a battle the Far East later in the year.

sophy. This is typical of the Hun- with bottles and boola.

long-range planning

At every meak, your waless Unusual Boxing garians'

In this would ask: "Coupon or roubles?" for an important game.

former, you get a pot case, the object is the Olymple If the Games in Melbourne in Novem-menu typed in passable English, First official action was to canber, 1986.

offering alternative you wanted "the selections. Hungary will play four gamesi In 1875 Captain Paul Boynton cel the tour arranged for last

you paid cash. book" you

Cave Heavyweight Bout Park Lion-hearted Phillp

Mick-wrapped himself in waterproof autumn, but following a purge

Was De coupons for only one Newcastle Brisbane,

arc man, burly son of an Ossett material, attached a sail to his of officials in the Brazilian FA, in Australia, three by floodlight (Yorks.) mill-owner-he com-body and padded his way from to bring in men with a more in

outlook,'

The soups are excellent, the agreement Sydney, and the other in day-meal a day. pleted The Channel "double" Dover to Boulogne, He smoked "sporting

tasty but tough, the Ash when he was 21-was "dared" cigars for relaxation and blew has been reached, and club tours light at Melbourne.

last game will be calty. also are expected to be resumed, And this

sightsbeing excursions, Mr Gustav Sebes, the Hun- used as a test of conditions for

also

coupons, offer falt gurian team boss, who refused to the Games 12 months later.

valuo. They begin with a ride take charge of the

by his school "chums.

Says he: "It was not merely the leg-pulls that spurred me on. It was a case of prestige for my country and Yorkshire,"

the

hard on a military trumpet.

HYSTERICAL

a

A (antare of trumpets, too, People all gasp in amaze-greeted 17-year-old schoolgiri nve-foot-one Elleon Fenton, ment when wispy, eight-stone, Shirley May France, in 1949. American dlm makers, watch- D:wsbury schoolmistress, is makers, newspapers, and pointed out to them aus the broadcasting company sponsored winner

of

1950 cross-her Channel race.

In spite of the ballyhoo-an "Did she really do 117" they escort of four motor-bonts, two ask. Pocket-sized Eileen, who rowing boats, a pilot boat, a boatload beat choppy, chilly seas with twin-masted schooner,

of newsreelmen and two planes after pulling

overhead-Shirley falled. shoulder muscle, recalls:

one

arm

a

WAS

The desire to swim across After ten hours she grow with me just de apicked from the water, exhaust- cricketer wants to make a cen-ed and hysterical. tury. My weight? Some long-

distance swimmers say weight Music and champagne keeps you warm, but I say that was the Channel-beding good circulation is more neces- recipe of a 35-year-old Belgian, sary,"

Boogle- Fernand du Moulin, woogie and sambas were played to

trawler, him from romped home to the strains of a Beethoven symphony.

The

mer.

He

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Springboks Cut British Isles

Touring Team

To Ribbons

At Newlands

By ROY MCKELVIE

South Africa's retaliation for their defeat in the first Rugby Test, three weeks. ago, was cruelly decisive. Before a patriotic crowd exceeding 50,000, they cut the British Isles touring team to ribbons at Newlands and in the process scored seven tries.

Tries

THE SCORES

FRANTIC BIGNALS

A sound goal kicker must have sent the score soaring beyond the 25 points the The drama

of Phil Rising's

Springboks gained. They had ten unsuccessful kicks at goal, taken by Roy Dryburgh

not difficult. Channel swim is sill fresh in

or Johan Claassens. Most of these were his mind. The 46-year-old

mosi magnificent at- Rotherham

two over-confident. It was an error Jeweller, ploughing

The finnl score was through a rough sea, lost, all fempt? Many agree that it was

goals, five tries to South Africa; we must hope they will not made by Paraguayan swim- contact with his boat and had no

After starting in calm two tries, one penalty goal to make again In this Test series. solid food for 11 hours.

weather a fierce wind whipped British Isles, and all but one of

Then, the British the frantic up the waves, and at dusk he South Africa's trics were scored "I can remember

wrongly anticipated in the second half. cignals from the boat as

was struggling.

Africa's Loctica. the swept away from me," he co-

the

Africa South

deserve Fellow-countrymen counts. "I was almost half

Arged him on. They utmost praise for their achieve- conscious, hearing nothing but promised him more money. He ment

the result of It was

and the swish of the water past my

team tactical thickes the avoid struck on and on, but appeared clever eam." It took him 15hr, 55min.io lose his sense of direction.

brilliant tacti from Gris Nez to Dover.

ecora alone-South FIGHTING MAD

was

"For me," he says, "it was largely a matter of satisfaction

boats

in

At last they had to pluck

at achievement. The more dim-him trun the water. He kicked cult it was, the better!"

Limo

aron

were scored for the British by Jeff Butterfield and Isles Bryn Meredith, Cameron kick- South dng one penalty goal. South Vou tries Africa's

were by Vollenhoven

Rosenberg. (3), Dryburgh, Briers, and Ackerman, Dryburgh converting two,

..

They expected the Spring boke

to play tighter than in the first

order to match, in

therefore defeat, and

British

Isles-A Cameron: A. J. O'Reilly, W. P. C Davies, Africa's chose the heaviest possible pack. Butterfield, G. Griffiths; C.

without a speedy back row. 1. Morgan, R. E. G. Jeeps; W.,

biggest over against a British touring tocm-shows that their approach was entirely positive. And not all their seven tries were the result of grossly bad defence by the British Isles.

LESSONS

IL

V. Meredith, Russell Robins, Tom Reid, O. Williams, B. and Jimmy

Greenwood did C. Meredith, R. H. William, R Thompson (capt.), R. J. work in the tight scrummaging and in helping to Robins, T. E. Reid, J. T. Green- deny the Springboks the ball Wood. from the rucks, but they afford- od no, lateral defence against T swift-moving attacks.

and struggled, knocking one of

tremendous his helpers overboard in pitch Sam Rockelt, 17-stone CX-darkness. He was fighting mad factory foreman, and this year's and wanted to go on. But by "swim marshal, has written ♫ that

he was a hospital

South Africe. Dryburgh; book about the Channel swim case.

This makes the prospect of

Bilors, W Rosenberg, D. Sinclair, K Last the third Test, at Pretoria, the mers of the past--the brave, the star dogged, the

personalities And the most targic?

C. Ulyate, T. Gentles; C. Koch, more exciting, providing the the He calls it year Mr Ted May-"Mr

Isles assimilate British and the hoaxers.

This put added strain on the A, van der Merwe, J.. Bekker, lessons of this match,

defensive qualities of mid-9. Fry (capt.) J. Durand, D. It's Cold in the Channel.

J Classins, First, I would say that the field men, Cliff Morgan found Ackerman, alightly greasy state of New-himenlf less able to concentrate Rotlet.

with on attack and getting his line

Says Sam, who covered the distance in 14hrs. 30min.:

TE

"It'a

All-

use just being a Food Former Hongkong

swimmer. You must have deter- of the

mination and the will to work.

Dynamo now lead with 32 points from 20' games with two other Moscow teams, Spartak (26 from 17) and Central House

"Like climbing a mouniain, there must be one objective in view.

There's no easy way.

Tennis Player

indsat Phich at Elis moving.

compared ground,

Park, reduced the spood over

During the

Vollenhoven:

the ground of the British Isley knight by the Springboks, the Sweden Beats

one of the great advantages tackling of Phil Davies, Jeff

with all the luck in the world to Beaten In Finals they have enjoyed on this tour Butterfeld, and even of wingers

win the blue riband of swim-

of the Soviet Army (26, from 18) in docond and third post-ming."

ona-Chin Mall Special

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BO far.

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Finland 3-0

At Soccer

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Gareth Griffithe and Tong O'Reilly deteriorated disastrous- On the day the South Afr" | 17. Klagenfunt, Austria,

cana were the faster side, able

Cameron all Channel Strangest of

Full-back Angula Isles Aug. 28.

to exploit the British

and onightmarish day;

Stockholm, Aug. 28. swims was that by Mr Charles

Erica Vollmer of West Ger- backs wenknows in switching tod

responsible for 4hroo Sweden boat Finland Zibelman, a legless American, many defeated Gen Hoa Hing, trom

moving forward to, re« was

three goals to nil in a so PAT LESSER WINS in 1938.

formerly of Hongkong, by 3-6,

goal-kickte, was low, and his international at Helsingborg, today after WOMEN'S GOLF

"Zimmy the Human Fish" as 7-3 and 8-1 in the Finale of the treating In faon of placed kicks Springbok tzien. His value as a

Women's Singles match played or thrusting counter-attack

was probably the frat lack of speed sadly evident in Southern Sweden, they caller him, wanted to

at the International, Tennis. It

on this tour that the face of kiche brillantly leading by one goal at halftime. Charlotte, NC., Aug. 27, smoke 60 cigars on the WAY DV, Bouviament in Poertschiefs 10" "neitists Izdów had been forced ), Planie to kogeryjnie dn the

A capacity crowd, watched Balon Pat Leger of Beattle from Dover,

degy,

to think behind them, rather University - WON tho United States Women's Open Amateur

the Mixed Doubles: Final, than in fronte Golf, championship here to-day,

Voirner and Baba Hubbe of

BAD GUESS In the 36 hotos final, the heat Mims Twist Nelson, an Indian poils schoolteacher, by neve

After being. In the water. nearly 12 hours he was stung on at the lip by, a jellydan and bad to relatie?

1m £n at£71, boldered to bi the holder of the worldia 'redded":

time

the match, played in intermé

Sandalili ..... and.......... Bengt.

Injury Ends

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NIGHT LIFE

Night clubs, which I did not seck, are routed not to exist, Pub which I did seek, sre certainly non-existent.

There are concerts in Gorki where you may also dance. Sport abounds, especially on Sundays, and your hotel per- Stockholm, Aug. 28.

at Ansell Adamas, Trinidad vice burers will get you in Heavyweight, who mainly tights events for which the Muscovites a broken have been queueing unsuccess-. Britain, suffered in

for days. Nearly every- here tonight in a bout fully Arm against Aldo Pellegrini, of Italy, body you meet in the streets is

The unusual boxing injury foreed him to give up the fight at the beginning of the fifth round, and Pellegrini was de clorex the winner.

Adamas arm was broken in a ferco exchange of blows with the Italian. He was grimacing with pain in the fourth round, but gallantly went on with the fight until the pain became too bear, China Mail

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RACING FATALITY

a soccer fan. ·

Please yourself about Hpping. Russian walters, porters and taxi-drivers are for more ob 1!glog ,thon their British counterparty.end I found, will accept tips if nobody is only ivoking.

tourists do not stare when they.

Finally, I would suggest that

working In ace women Strocta or on buildings; do not tell the Bussians they ere heathens; · do not melco Jolen about the Lenin-Stalin tomb; do not shout; do not abuse; do not get agressively drunk.

the

Not to commit such errors of taste is a simple courtesy from Buenos Aires, Aug. 28. Racing driver Juan Puertas guest to host. But I have seen and co-driver Jose Guma, both and heard every one of these Argentinians, were killed today gaffes committed by foreign when their car crashed while tourists in Moscow. taking part in the 1,000 Mile for standard Argentine race touring cars.China Mail Spe-

cial.

The British I am glad to say, behaved themselves.

(London Express Service.)

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