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AWAY FROM THE SADDLE

Away from the saddle, Pat Smythe settles down for an ovening with the guitar at her home at Minorden, Gloucester - Shire. Pat, recently voted—for the third time—as Sportswoman Of The Year, is an accomplished player and has a larro collection of gramophone recorda devoted to the gulme,

Recently televiewers heard her sing to her own sooom- paniment on the Instrument. Pai who has been riding since she was four years old and won her first big jumping com- petition at the Richmond Royal Show in 1938, is now getting rondy for the Olymple equestrian events at Stockholm in June. She is a member of the British Show Jumping team for the Games.---Reaterphoto.

WORLD TABLE TENNIS TOURNEY

England's Chances Considered Brightest In Corbillon Cup

London, Feb. 15.

England's table tennis team for the World Championships in Tokyo in April has no surprises,

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1956.

OLYMPIC NEWSLETTER

Record Entry Of Nations. In Sight For 1956 Olympic Games

A record entry of nations for the 1956 Olympic Games is now. assured, sald Lieut-General W. Bridgeford, Chief Executive Officer of the Olympic Organising Committee.

“We have no doubt now that the Melbourne Games will be the most represen- talive in all ́Olymple history," he declared."

Recent entries from the Republic of China and Lebanon, brought the total to 07-two less than the number of teams competing at the lat Games at Helsinki. However, officials with Hungarian runners competing in Melbourne in December informed the Olympic Organising Committee that Hungary would enter a team of about 150, art Spain was reported to have reversed its decision not to send a team.

Fifteen other nations have still to reply to the Organising Committee's Invitation to send teams.

Commemorative medallions of the 1956 Olympic Games will be issued to 11,500 people who compote or have some other role in staging the Olympic Gomes,

Weather conditions likely to occur in Melbourne during the Olymple Games are a factor the competing nations. ɑxist take Joto account in preparing their teams.

The Games start on November 22 and last until Decmber 8. In this early sinnmar period the weather is unpredictable and If last year's conditions are a guide there will be no lack of variety. :

further consideration of costs.

The daily charge includes the cost of transport between the Village and competition sites. (20 shillings Australian equal to 10/- Sterling or 2.24 dollara USA),

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The Duke of Edinburgh, who will open the Games, the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr R.G. Menzies, who is President closed in a blaze of the Games, and Mr Avery Brundage, President

the then between, of International Olympic

Weather Bureau recorded al- Com mittee, are among those who most every kind of weather, I will receive them.

with fine days predominating.

The 17 days opened and American

one

of sunshine. Melbourne

November 23 was fine and hot. The temperature reached a maximum of 50 deg. Fahrenhell at 3 p.m., but soon cooled,

The second day, correspond-

International Skating

Breaks 500 Metres Local Record

Stockholm, Feb. 15. In the international skating competition at Arvika tonight, Donald McDermott of the United States brake the local

Designed by a Hungarlen born Melbourne sculptor,

M Andor Meszaros, the medallion illustrates the march past of the world's athletes, with Agure_carrying the Olympic ing with the opening of the main record for the 500 metres speed- Flag. The reverse alle bears the athletic programme, Was Colt of Arms of Mbourne and mild with some light show-seconds, and as faltete and the Live-ring Olympic ers.

symbol.

GROWING FAST

With interest in the Olymples Games growing fast, seat book= ings have almost reached 400,- 000-but

there are still about 800,000 tickets left to be book- ed. Box offices receipts to date are £556,273.

of

Records for the 15 dates actual competition show that six were cloudy but fing, five brought Ught showers to heavy |rain, and four were sunny and

warm to hot.

to

Daily maximum temperatures over the whole 17 days ranged from $7.1 deg. Fahrenheit 95.3 deg., but on Lost days readings were in the sixties and eventies.

Only sessions booked out are the Opening Ceremony for Aus- tralians, but not for overseas So the tip for visitors ls: be visitors, and most of the local prepared for warm weather seats for

and but bring your top coat as well. swimming gymnastics, Two extra night

CHARGES REDUCED,・・ sessions of gymnastics Are ex- pected to be arranged to cope with the unexpectedly heavy entry of teams.

Special quotas of seats at every programme are reserved for overseas bookings but they

middle of 1950,

As expected, Johnny Leach, Richard Bergmann and the left-hander, Brian Kennedy, comprise the Men's team to contest the Swaythiing Cup, with former World Chamwil not be held beyond pion Victor Barna, who will be in Tokyo as coach to the Indian team, sportingly coming out of semi-retirement to act as reserve,

Ann Haydon, the 17-year-old į“. Birmingham girl, who recently. beat World Champion Angelia Rozramı, and the twins, Rosalind Curnett and Diana Rowe, will comprise the Women's team,

There is only one drawback, the full team will go only if sufficient funds are available and to date the money needed has hot nh been raised. But an ETTA oflelal suid today that he thought there would be no difficulty,

UNIVERSITIES RUGGER

Doctor To Captain Australian Team To Tour Japan

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Sydney, Feb. 15, The Australian Universities Rugby Union team to tour

The London moming paper, Japan will be captained by the Daily Mull has offered to International Five-eighths puy Miss Haydon's fare, together fullback Dr Dick Tooth,

with that of her mother who

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About Overseas

Early estimates 40,000 interstate and visitors may be exceeded. With 11 months to go, bookings had been made by' 23,795 interstale and oversELF visitors. Another 3,081 in Victorian country dis- triels had boolted.

From these quotas, €3,200 sents have been booked by

5,732 intending visitors. New Zealanders head the list with 40,000 bookings by over 3,000 people. The United King- dom is next with 1,186' intend- ing visitors while 000 Americans have boolted.

"GLAMOUR” JOBS

Hundreds of women have been attracted by the "glamour". Olymple job at chauffeur in-

would act as her chaperon, but graduate of medicine at Sydneyternational Olympic offelals ar

the ETTA does not reven) it it is prepared to accept the offer.

STRONGEST AVAILABLE

University.

The team leaves Sydney by fair on

on Friday. Tooth

Australia represented against New Zealand in 1951 as Five-eighths and toured New Zealand Both

teoms are the Wallables in 1955, strongest available and should

to

other high ranking visitors Melbourne during the Olympic Games.

ovent with tume of 43,0

mura (Japan) 43.0 seconds, and Y. Horl and T, Annsaka respec- 4ively fifth and sixth with 46.0 and 45.1 seconds.

Other results were:

1,500 Metres:

1. Sigmund Soefteland (Nor- wa) 2 minutes, 22.8 seconds.

2. Donald McDermolt (United States), 2 minutes, 23.1 seconds. 3. Y. Hari (Japan) 2 minutes 23.5 seconds.

4.

5.

2

Ocdegaard (Norway) 3 minutes, 26.4 srands.

Takemura (Japan) minutos, 20.8 seconds.

3,000 METRES

The Olympic Organising Com- | -21. Knud Johansen (Norway) mitteo has reduced the daily 4 minutes 53.2 seconds. charge for athletes and officials

2 Khut: Tankgen (Norway) who will live in the

Olymple 4 minutes, 65.2 seconds, Village at this year's Games.

3. T. Asasaka

(Japan) 4 The Committee, at its raceting minutes 59.7 seconds.

142, Odi Lundgerb (Norway) 5 minutes 6.6 second.

on December 16, reduced. -the charge from 75/- a day ng pre- wloustnnounced, to 70/- a day, The Heibion was

01.7 made after

5. Gomi (Japan) 5_minutes,

spconds.

France-Presse,

LANDY'S. GREAT: MILE

John Landy, the Australian holder of the World's Mile record (3 mina 58 sees) leading Mervyn Lincoln during the recent race on the Olympic Park track at Melbourne when Landy again beat 4 mins,, returning a time of within six tenths of a second of his world record. Landy has only just returned to the track after a lay-off, and now proposes to train for the Olympics.--Central Express Photo.

Donald Campbell Awarded "Segrave Trophy" For His World Water Speed Mark

Donald Campbell, 34-year-old son of the late Sir Malcolm Campbell, has been awarded the Segrave Trophy for 1955, for establishing a world water speed record of 216.2 m.p.h.

The trophy, first awarded in 1930, is to the memory of the late Sir Henry Segrave, and is awarded to the British subject who in the judgment of the award. ing committee has accomplished the most, outstanding demonstration of the possi- bilities of transport by land, air or water during the year.

Zarko Dolinar, Europe's top pions Chelsea, wante the FA not contest nny of the major table tennis star and a Bnalist Cup to be stopped at this time Cross Country Championships in In last season's World Cham- of the year; and to have an the near future. Pirie said in plonships, will not defend his eight week gap from the middle London that he does not expect English Open title at Man-of December until the latter half ta Jace again before June or chester this month. He is still of February.

July. under a three months suspension Yugoslavian association by the for alleged non-co-operation In entering certain Championships,

Says Drake: "It is time we woke up to the fact that weather tonditions at this time generally make it impossible to ploy ski- ful and aclonting football, Tha game becomes a farce which I Ted Drake, former Arsenal unfair to both sides and to the and England centre-forward and fans. (now munager' of League Cham

DESPITE THAT GAVILAN · DECISION .

Britain's Boxing Bosses

Musn't Panic

Says DENNIS HART

Mass hysteria has overtaken British boxing.

It began last week when ten thousand spectators booed the victory of Peter Waterman över Kid- Gavilan. Now ten times ten thousand fans are demanding notion, not so much against the referee but against the whole British refereeing system.

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The Amateur Athletic Associa→ tion may soon consider intro- ducing a full competitive win ter season in Britain. Negolia- long are now going on for the purchase of a Continental-type. Glentrack which pariable wooden

could be used at moet of the Honved, the Hungarian Army Indoor stadiums in the country. Football club which supplies 30 The only Indoor track to be many great players to the Hunused in this country-for a few garion National team, next meetings at Wembley-was dea- month pay their Arst vir to

1910 troyed during the war. London, They are booked to play,

Tottenham Hotspur under hoodlights on Monday, March 13. This will be Honved's final game of a week's tour starting

STAND REBUILT

Surrey County Cricket Club

at Waverliampton the previous | are having the East Mound stand Monday.

SOCCER "GENIUS"

at the Oval rebuilt as a doubles decker. One part of it was damaged during the war. This will mean 1,000 more seats for the Test match. Surrey have spent about £50,000 In provements during the last two years. The gasometer side of the ground is now almost en- tirely modernised.

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Alte Stock, the 37-year-old soccer "genius" who trans= formed, Leyton Orient from A Cinderella club into a serious who promotion prospect, and resigned last week to take up a new post a team manager of Arsenal, started work at High- bury on Monday, His appoint aus official 'Scrap it' is the cry followed by a clamour for the American aystem to be ment, said an

statement

Rev The

David Shoppard. An Immediate response to the adopted in which judges give the verdict, leaving the referee to control the fight,

from Highbury, did not affect former Cambridge University, Organising Committee's appeal

the position of Jack Crugaton, Sussex and England. bateman, for voluntary fullback with the

woman drivers

From furtiser afold come Remember what happened | although there are fights in Whittaker's assistent manager will play only about three works brought 350 written "applications reports that foreign boxers will after that fight?

Britain in which the verdiet is "They, will both have separate first class cricket this year. diatinguish themselves in Japan,tain 1953-35 Dr John Solomon Australian International cap.

and many telephone ́inquiries not fight in Britain, because they Even by the time they had not dlaputed. But improve duiles," said Mr. Whittaker,

Sheppard was regarded in some Leach

by early December,

may not get a square deal. The got homo British critics were ments can be brought about by

circles as the answer to Eng- and Bergmann

screaming who was to have captained the

whole sport is ruinett, wall the still

that former World Singles Champ team was

Cockell raising the quality of officials

problem. But land's opening unavailable through

Applications came mainly moaners.

hadn't stood a chance and that rather than their numbers.

The British Amateur Athletic says. Sheppard: "I shall not have plons and the Rowe twins are illness,

from Melbourne women but also

had the night been in Britain,

Association are making enquiries enough county cricket to be con previous holders of the Women's

from distant parts of, Australia.

Marciano would have been dis-

NO GUARANTEE Werk Doubles title.

about new photographic equip-| sidered-for. Test matches." One application came from Port

qualified.

ment with a view to installing Knox, Kentucky, USA.

So much for the American There is no guarantee that portable photo-finish cameras at rystem.

three men looking at a Aght all major athletic meetings in

the

are

England's chances are con- sidered the brightest in the Corbillon Cup, but there are also

hopes that Mise Haydon, after her recent successes in the French Championships over the title-holder, and Linde Wert, the runner-up, might win the Singles crown in the World Championships-France-Presso,

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The term for Japer also in- cludes International forwards and MacHughes, Max Elliott brilliant, young, Australian ro- presentative three-quarter Rod Phelps.

Phelps is described as "pen- sational and the best left winger the code has ever had in Australia.

Elliott and

Hughes, both loured South Africa with Solo mons' 1903 Wallabies.

Hughes six feet tall fast and solid tackler, picked as Inter national at 50 years of age, has developed into Australia's best

l-round flank forward.

The other Internationals Dre John Thornett, John O'Neil Roes Shiel and Charlle Wilson..

FIRST GRADE STARS Manager Keith Walsh said the team was a blend of Interna- tional footballers

and first grade rugby stars from Austra- la's two sanior rugby Sintes- New South Wales and Queens- lond

Ho mid it was afrong, Dow fully built and speedy who had experiancext playera thought vigy young.

It included students from various, provinces who are also | on the threshold of International

careers in rugby,

**Walah maid all the players had Foome from. two major teamma |Sydney University and Queert“.

land University.

On the prospects of the trem, Waden, ould it would play ODRE football with a view to plenskog

The Organising Committee anys that more applications are required.

And ali because Mr Ben Green, the kindly-faced referee from Loods, said that an English lad caffed Waterman had beaten the Cuban Gavilon.

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Gordon Piris, recovering from Achilles tendon injury, will

HOME RUGGER

from different angles will reach Britain. Debatable decisions by Rumia ly to be invited to send Britain, as it happens, does a fairer decision than one man judges is the reason behind the two golfers to Britain next sum- Do they ever get a bad de hore a system of boxing judges. | who has the best view of all.. onquiries. Photo-finish, cameras | mer. If they accept they will cision in America?

It is used in the amateur side of

were last used in Brilain at the play in the Open at Hoylake in Wearing attractive uniforms You wouldn't think so judging the game. And weird and Promoter Jack Solomons, whe 1948 Olymple Games.

July. This would be to qualify the successful applicants will by the things being muid in Bri- wonderful are some of the ver- denounced the Harringay de-

them

for the Canadia

Cup drive a fleet of cars made avall-tain just now. Yet it is lees dicts reached, Olympic boxing cision, says he will give the

tournament to be staged at able without charge to the arthan A year ago ganising Committee by leading Simpson,

that John has judges, too. No comment, jukiger system a

try. But I manager of Don

think his other suggestion of an

Wentworth in June, car manufacturers or distribu- Cockell,

said that the British So before throwing out ono

ending the rota system of re Oghter would not enter the ring system_Britain must make sure ferees would have better results,

the gainst Flocky Morciano unt that

replacement 13.30 At present referees who he had sorted out the rules, or improvement. That in up to the roached a certain standard lako the Californian Boxing Associa- Board of Control to decide turns to control big fights, A tion.

when on Fobruary 23, they hold better way would be to appolat a special court of Inquiry" into the best man for the job. the Harringay fight

Of course we should not over-

Mr Groo night just have been right.

lors.

Sweden Wing

THE ONLY WAY

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Stockholm, Feb. 15. States in an International lee Sweden, defeated the United

On this side of the Atlantis I think they will decide to look one thing. hockey match here tonight by 4 the whole of boxing" Britain | carry on with the present Bri-

scores. cheered Simpson, declinating this | ilifs: sysban.. godla to 3, period (Sweden first) being '2-2, 0-1, was the only way a Briton could. They may press for improves 2-0 Reuter.

get a squiro deal in Amezien. zivota" Thom

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London, Feb. 15. -- Ruby League Cup, first round results:

Liverpool City 13 Hull Kings- ton Rovers - 5.

Swinton 18 Batley 0. Both ties were postponed last Saturday because of frost Reuter.

GOLDEN CHURN

better. butter

Kitione Lave, the 21-year-old Tongan boxor, plans to tour Canada with sparring partner Colin Strauch. Lave, who sayP he is conddering offers by. several managers in America, will leave ng sòom 'na-be- has sold up his office and training quarters here. Contract 'troubles with a managers, the Wood cock brothers, is believed to bé the main reason for his leaving Britain.

---/London - Express – Merola

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