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NUMBER ONE' FOR THE NATIONAL?

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1956.

Me A. Strange's racehorse Four Ten carries the number 'One' on its saddle Could it be an omen for March cloth in this picture with jockey R. Morrow up. 24 when Four Ten, who is trained by A. Kilpatrick, runs in the Grand National at Aintree?—Routerphoto.

SPORTS SURVEY

Plot To Kidnap Referee Students In Annual "Rag" Was Clean Fun

By

By "ALL-ROUNDER”

The

The high spirited students of Durham's colleges planned to kidnap referee PA Amateur George Tatlock, of Bolton, when he travelled to take charge of the Cup-tie between Durham City and Norton Woodseats and hold him to ransom:

But officials of Durham City FC 1,100 students were holding their annual "rag”. heard of the plot and Mr Tatlock was quietly hidden away until it was time for him to take the field. All good clean fun of course,

in Great Britain? He is only Is John Elliott the youngest football trainer nineteen years old, and is in complete charge at Lochburn Park (Scotland). He is also training to be a chiropodist

The from Scotland are packed with footballers making for Leicester Manager Davte

Hakluy left

LINCOLNSHIRE

taken

high and the low ads Aberdeen for the Midlands city, Athletic signed Bill Thomson, of

since has

Wille Whiflet

they said: Amateurs, and Gardiner from Glasgow Rangers. "Well, we cannot give you any Pat Ward from Hibs and Johnmoney for him. But if you care Olgivie from Hibs. They have all to send your injured players made

team grade. Now along we will give them full Mr Halliday has a feeling that treatment without payment."

SCORING SPREE Joe Melunes, of Partick Thistle,

Outside-loft Jimmy might make a useful addition to

Melanes netted len goals in Scottish

matches [hts

colony.

the Scottish junior club for used to play for the Army.

JOE DISAPPOINTED

Weir, Then he joined CamTM [[ the Bolton-Villa match buslang Rangers, and has scored

HANDICAP

Turk's Blood And Frisky Scot Remain

Co-Favourites

London, Feb. 27.

Fr

Barkers wariness ubunt racing hold-up and curtainmeat

relle tod

hort not been

Dean would have youngest ever

League

only

Two Leading Men In The Life Of Miss Leigh

By CECIL WILSON

handsome

Vivien Leigh's answer to Marilyn Monroe the tall, dark, and Ronald Lewis, who replaces Peter Finch in the Noel Coward comedy "South Sen Bubble"-began rehearsing with her this week.

New York Press conference with Miss If Sir Laurence Olivier's historic Monroe, announcing their decision to film together. "The Sleeping Prince," took on the magnitude of 1 State occasion Miss Leigh's acript conference with Mr Lewis took on the mystery of a State secret,

nonsense

"I was invited to Sir Laurenço The doors were locked so married to Vivien Leigh, could |

Olivier's flat to meet Miss Leigh, firmly on rehearsals that I was blame him?) surprised not to find an armed In the flm he has among Mr Beaumont, and Mr Chappell, Was all guard on duty outside the Globe other frivolities, to struggle with the producer, and it

hour. Gordon Jackson for possession fixed up in an

1 hind Theatre.

From what my spies report, of a collapsing bed and carry never met any of them before."

tipsy however, I might reveal without home his

Note the unfamiliar formality prospective

of these names. No phoney- running up against MI5 that the father-in-law (Cyril Smith).

who

about "Viv," 27-year-old Welshman

In the play Miss Leigh will mately

and "Billy** for our made his mark in strong drama plot the course of true love by "Binky," will meet no taxing demands in hitting him over the hend with Ron. the Coward comedy.

a bottle,

Peter Finch, the leading man Indeed, for an actor who dis- Before he vanished in a cloud Vivien Leigh lost to the films, tinguished himself in "The of Coward I went out to Ealing bobs up again on the West End

Ring," "The Bad Sam--the streets, not the studios screen next week in Sun,"

and (most of all) in now swallowed up by the B.B.C. Like Allee." And in the picture, Virginia Mourning

Electra"

lady, Becomes

lending -to ask him how he felt shoul his

McKenna. before going, inevitably. into all this funny business.

goes wading in the films.

raud. this earnest young man

'SUITS ME'

Hollywood has its Threats, its froin Port Talbot is having A

He detached himself with ot It pretty undramatic time

chivalrous reluctance from the Menaces, and its Shapes, Britain its Fair English Rose--3 just now.

arms of his screen bride, Shirley Mus

Miss McKenna hos had Eaton, on the steps Stephen's Church and said: pinned to her more often than

It's all ex-she can count. Well, it suits me. perigee. Drama, ilght comedy, broad comedy-I want to do the

WITH A BOTTLE

of St

He has stepped straight out of iming "Sallor Beware" with that monumental mother-in-law, Peggy Mount, into the role of a lot." tribal chief's son who falls in How did this, Poter Finch part love with an island governor's come his way? Right out wife. (And what island governor, [ the blue, he says,

NOAH'S ARK OPEN

By HENRY LONGHURST

of

The news that the Canada Cup tournament is to be played in Britain this year seems to have been received with universal satisfaction, though many may be hearing about it for the first time, such is the paucity of golfing news from the other

side of the Atlantic.

in 1953, when, I It began comparatively humbly Craig believe, seven rations took part, but grew phenomenally in the next two years when no fewer than 26 nations were represented.

three times in his two matches cancelled Joc

Jimmy's become the for them.

scoring goalkeeper spree did not start until after be sixteen-und- had broken an arm. He is

Before that a-half-years-old.

in he did not have a goal to his and was England'a Youth

His credit. team. twin brother David is a goal-

Rowtoy, Arthur

since he scurer, not a goal stopper,

Leicester City from this joined In the has netted over 50 times mall business done al

at night's season for a local Bolton site. Fulham in June 1950, has been twelve times fromt absent only the first team out of a possible

Cup 254

and League pearances.

of training because of the cuid

weather was

Victoria

etoria Club

the Despite their cullover on

youth they both

feet tall "Spring Double" ructs.

over six weigh thirteen stonel

Turk's Blood in Frisky Scot remained co-favorites al イス

and

are aki

@p-

the world. The founder of this particular feast is Mr John Jay Hopkins, a man of remarkable energy and imagination who, as president of the General Dynn- inle Corporation in the United Mont- States and of Canadair in real, dushes from one end of the. earth to the other, supervising the construction of atomic sub

05- marines, guided missiles,

and secres

and

label

"A Town

If she looks anything but fair

in and roseste in this picture as ordinary girl caught up

in Nevil extraordinary events

nightmare Shute's story of trek through Japanese occupied Malaya-it's all right with her.

Sweetness and cool, antiseptic glamour are beginning to

cloy for the blue-eyed girl of 24, who found, respectively, stage famo in a flop ("Penny, for a Song"), TV fame in "Shout Aloud, Sai- vation," and film fame in. "The Cruel Sen."

whole

dis-

She typifies the

content of this acting business. Clowns

want to play Hamlet, Hamlets want to clown;, bad girls

want to be good, good girls want to be bad. And the smooth Miss McKenna wants to rough it.

YEARNING

Being a fair English rose, she feels, is all very well in its way, so long as the public looks for substance in the petal, some

But some sap in the stem. one hothouse role after another

in

It is clearly the greatest in- (must one day go on its travels she has yearned to be something

In and that, when it did, it ought more than a dower. ternational golf gathering

to come first to the home of golf. Alteo" comes her chance literally At last in "A Town Like television I even held forth un

Immaculate let down that to the effect that it ought to to

fair hair, to cover those spotless come to the Old Course at St.

white cheeks in and Andrews where the nations con- pink

would outnumber by about, exhausted, in rugs.

scratches and slime, to slouch A cerned Lour

noblemen the "22 gentlemen who founded the chance, in short, to Act.

200 Looking more like a fair Eng- Royal and Ancient club

lish rose than ever, and wincing at years ago.

the practice, when I told her so, she sat It has become

wheel of her Volkswagen however,

the diplo the to invite

reminiscently weapons in

matic representatives of the car and revelled In the intervals he stops for nations taking part to a dinner in the joy of libelling her looks "We got no nearer Malaya before

Lust tha tournament. a gume of golf and is a mem

Burnham Beeches," she ber, among other clubs, of the year the Vice-President of the thara Royal and Ancient and of Burn- United States made the principal said, "but for three-quarters ing Tree, Washington, where speech, the President himself the film we wallowed in a very received the good imitation of Malayan mud the President habitually plays.

HOPKINS'S CONVICTION teams individually-and thus aand jungle. It is Mr Hopking's

conviction London course seemed indicated, that nothing brings people

In conversation in New York than playing golf

Of his 228 goals in sorted ceneral.

he has ob-

hundred to sox for the incoln- Arthur Turner, Birmingham first class football ridze Handicap and the Best City's manager, was away with tairred 190 of them for Leicester

In 242 matches. eight horse, clied were all the his

1 team when there was same odds in last week,

knock at the front door of his But the odds against Quare

rehouse. Mrs Turner answered winning his National continue

Grand

shrink. offer

second

having previously It there stood three ten-

urchins, "Please,"

ย

Six le one was the top they said "we are from the so about the ten-year-old and

so club." mentioning Irish-trained gelding's chance youth organisation. "Do you of being first horse for twenty think Mr Turner could come

double complete

and manage it for us?" the big Alatree

years success

Steeplechase.

A

Only change worth noting in the Lincolnshire belling

wus

cun-

Over

year without eeding a home try. That was the the record of Old New-

the light support for Leppylugatonians Rugby Club (Leicester

from

live

to

one

thirty-three to twenty until they beat Old Wheatleyans

eleven while for the

points to three. Those "Nation-up," Carey's Cottage, three points was the first time their line had been crossed on third lust year, hardened to one

their

own ground since hundred to six from eighteen to

1955. They have not January e-Reuter,

been beat at home for fifteen months.

CLOSING ODDS Closing odds were: Lincoln- handicap (onc Mile, chire March 21):

100-6 Turks Blood and Frisky Scot

20-1 Mitonga 23-1

Retrial, Nonchalance, Michelas Nickleby. Riva Line

be

Not generally realised Is that

record an

unusual

may Soccer this broken in League

Tudor Jinks and season. David Jackson, one et brother Bradford City's twin

The amateurs, aims to become drst unpaid player to make the number of League LITLAATA

season. The appearances in a

amateur to din so last

WAS Harry Stupicy for the now de- funct Glossop

and Loppylugs.

28-1 Le Palatin.

23-1

Flying William, Solon Mora, Beethoven, Trouville and Aorangi. 40-1

Cardillac, Nimblefoot, Redway, Sir Jasper, Tale of two Cliles and Estrigon.

Grand National Steeplechase (Four Miles, 856 Yards, March 24):

0-1 Quare Times.

100-0 Sundew, 100-0 Carey's Cattege, and Valiant Spark.

20-1 Must, ESB and Devon Loch.

Early Mist, Mariner's 100, Royal Tan and ligh Guard.

20-

years ago.

HKFA Take Steps To Eliminate

Foul Play

o!

of to

In order to eliminate foul

the Council

the play, Hongkong Football Assocta- tion ba instructed affiliated referees that any player is guilty kicking

attempting or strike an opponent, such a player shall be deemed as guilty of "Serious Foul Play" as defined in Law(12) and will be sent from the field of play,

Council members who ai- tend matches and witness acts of serious foul play will report these incidents to the Secretary of the A-- sociation in the same man- ner as referees and lines. mco,

Newcastle

United

club forty-nve Remains Favourite

For FA Cup

PENALTY KICKERS King of the penalty kickers League football is in Scottish

of Glasgow

Newcastle Johnny Hubbard,

South African favourites Rangers. The has now netted on twenty-two Association Occasions from the successive

League record la spot. The held by Johnay Haddow, now Clyde's assistant manager, who wis successful 34 consecutive times and then missed the next four. He was with King's Park and Dumbarton then.

for

doser together and with this

with one

in mind, ho founded the inter-

national Golf On to put

his ideas into

To run the Салада Cup tournament, bringing the two top players from nations all over the world, costs about 100.000 dollars and this he

personally raises each

3 There is

of

"We spent a fortnight wading

a couple of months ago Went-in and out of a big swampy pool. worth came naturally to mind.an awfully smelly one, full of scene of the 1953 bottles and old boots. and the

"And we didn't step Ryder Cup match, and I had

ashore

the pleasure of retuming with looking as if we'd just come out expensive hair- the of the most an unofficial invitation to

with dresser's, Jack Lee, the director, responded club. They

the saw to that. He was a glutton alnerity and now at last

for reality. whole thing is cut and dried.

to

could

"Some of the girls Jibbed' at that slime and the sight of AN EARLY STAGE It occurred to me at an early hooked up their skirts as they question of

Ostage that, if a date could be sank in. Me-I just let it do its making a profit and Mr Hop found just befort the

Open worst."

As she returned mentally king's only reward is the salls Championship, and it the donor faction

rare Increasingly

It

could be persuaded to make it that bed of mud and old boots bringing seems, these days--of

a condition of playing in the glow of rapture come over her

She fair English face, people

ple together in conditions of

Canada Cup that all should hardly have sunk mare bliss- inanimous good will,

I watched the Canada Cup on and play in the Open, we fully into a bath of asses' milk. "The next thing? I'd like, to years ago in host a chance of bringing off a tournament two

play a part with a bit of fun Montreal when it was won for really notable "right and left."

This Is the way it has worked in it. Yes, and I'd like to be Australia by Peter Thomson and

bad, Crying your eyes out Kelvin Nagle, and so immense gut. The Canada Cup will be

played for on Monday was the interest that I at once

20: front of a camera gets so de- British

and

and

in

set to work upon the donor with | Tuesday, allways have jumpci Prussing and goody-goody parts

a view to convincing him that,

June 25

with four sleeping as an international trophy, carriages to take

the whole party to Liverpool on the Tucs- day

night, and through the good efflees of the Royal Liverpool Hoylake there is a room

Sports Diaryiting for every one of them.

TODAY

Athletes

R.A.P.C Athletics moet Boundary Street,

London, Feb. 27.

United remained Football the Cup at a callover at the Victoria Club tonight,

one Odds of four to

were Newcastle closely offered against followed by Tottenham Hotspur

two. nine to The same prices were quoted for the two teams a week ago. Manchester Clly who lost last year's final, to Newcastle, Loyalty with a capital "L".

shortened from nine to one to That is what Forfar Athletic got eleven to two, on equal terms Arsenal, whose oilus are club bought Mowati, from Arbroath unchanged.

The only casing' of quotations from Muirhead, Vics, and Luncarty, the Supporters Club concerril Everton who from weighed in with cheque of fifteen to two went out half a £250 towards the transfer fees point to eight to one. In a Third Division Soulhern-making

Minor of £10,000 The three other clubs still in a tolai section football League match, they have given the parent body the Cup shortened: played under floodlights tonight, since 1040 Reading at home, lost to Cal chester 1-3.

33-1 Wise Child, Pippy-Kin, Merry Windtor, Armorial and Key Royal

10-1 Hollybank, Athenian, lowly "B" Division

from Ureir supporters. When

Ontray and Gigolo.-Reuter,

Colchester Wins

London, Feb, 27.

The match was postponed from February 4 owing to bad weatherHeuter.

!

When an amateur

cight to onq

Sunderland 13 to two Clly from, seven

Birmingham

is signed by a professional club it is un- to one to 13 to two. constutional for a transfer foo

And West Ham Unitted from.

to be paid. So when Hellahij 1 00 to one to 28 to one,Houder,

facing

Cham

NOAH'S ARK

can be so dull."

WAITING

*

But the star for whom every- thing has come too easily can afford to walt.

When she looks back today on all the things she has done since she began soven years ago

So now we may look forward in Dundee Repertory Shake- speare with Sir John Gielgud, a to a veritable Noah's Ark of a

with performers season with the Old Vic, Jullet Championship coming in two by two from the on TV-ste says in one of her

schoolgirlish bursts; Attractive farthest ends of the earth two

*Corks! The more I go on from each of the Dominions

On the more I realise how much I (which with luck will guarantee, have to learn. It's only in the

Commonwealth team to play

you think you

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the PGA for the new Stazenger beginning that know it all." Rugby Entries close for Blamey Stone Trophy at Princes in July), two

from every country in Europe, One thing she has fearned is Rugby tournament,

wo from the Philippines, two to dress. Last Ume I met her, Badminton Entries clown for Junior Badmin from Japan, to say nothing of at a West End pre-vlow, sho ton Championships.

two of the most distinguished was wearing blue slacks and a Athletics

Athletic professionals in the States. white duffel coat. This time she 15 Medium Regimant ment at Boundary Street, 2 pira. Judged by any standard this oked as feminine as she really

looks like being the outstanding is in a slim black skirt and Open Championship since Willle green blouse,

"I reserve the slacks now for at Park first won the Belt in 1670.

For any tiny part I may have shopping in the King's Road, played in the background I look Chelsea, he assured me. forward to being forgiven by the Peligros Possetipi: This fair Committeo for Englah rome was born of A Championship being so rude about what they French-Boots: mother (Anno do proposed to do to the Amateur. Now, the planiat) and an Irish

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