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VISITING THE STABLES

The McGraths Will

Take Their Share

Of Our Prizes

By RICHARD BAERLEIN

Irishman Mr Joseph McGrath has built up a Turf empire in the past 20 years. Although It is not quite on the scale of the Aga Khan's, no other stud founded since 1930 can compete with the record of McGrath's two at Brownstown and Trimblestown,

It is true that McGrath has won the Derby only once with Arctic Prince in 1951-but Solar Slipper might easily have won in 1948 if he had not been cast

in his box on the morning of the race.

Fla

son,

Panashipper, was September only to be led out un- the blading had caught only clone home by Phil sold after Drake to inst year's race. reached 11,000 guineas.

In addition. Aretic Star

From us remarkable team of (Neurco--Servaa) Injured him two-year-olds al least one self as a foul and never ran but classic winner should appear, In fast becoming a top stre. but at this early stage oven the Normally an unraced horse IM traliser would not like to form never given a chance at the studcast which it will be The Me- but the McGraths were so ver- tain of his ability that they have persevered with him.

PROFIT

If luck has not always been with Mr Joe McGrath

hin

Derhy ventures, he has made plenty of molt from the strea Ee has sold in the ast fL-W

cheaply

yrs

Nasrullah, bought from the Aga Khan, went to Amerien at almost £140,000.

Arethe Prince and Solar Slip- per both go to America in June at a Agure of well over £250,000. This pair and Panaslipper were Irish sold last summer to National Stud.

the

McGrath will still be left with one of the most powerful studs in Ireland and one of the best strings in training in the British lates

Although he has exported some of his best stakhorn, fre alao imported the Kentucky Derby winner. Hill Gall, when the Treasury refused la grant the dollars to a syndicate

to buy British brewstern horse. H

won 835.625 dullars on the American turf.

Gall

AT THE TOP

McGrath's son, Seamus,

at

doen

training, and although be race in England

1་

won only one

last season, I

was top of

list in Ireland.

He saddled

The 25

winners

£16.525.

Seamus

Gruth horses do England unless they ported to win.

not

come la

fire ex-

-(London Express Service).

(COPYRIGHT)

THE CHINA' MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH ・ 1, 1950,

Page

ROY ULLYETT...sees the shape of sporting things to come

Archie Moore

HITS THE ! UNSPORTING HEADLINES

A RESOUNDING WALLOP

ARCHIE, FROM

THE USA,

DECLARES

HE WILL NOT DEFEND HIS CRUISER-WEIGHT TITLE. AGAINST YOLANDE POMPEY IN LONDON "unless the third man in,, the ring is American'

FOOTBALL IS WAR SO...

MUST BE GOOD

PLAYERS SOLDIERS; THEY

VERY .DECENTLY HE DOESN'T STIPULATE THAT POMPEY SHALL HAVE HIS FEET SHACKLED AND FIGHT WITH A SACK OVER

HIS HEAD!

IF ARCHIE GETS HIS WAY WE CAN

PERHAPS LOOK FORWARD TO

MUST

HAVE

DISCIPLINE AND LOYALTY

Says ALEC STOCK

Football is war, once a week, every Saturday, and so footballers

must be good soldiers-fit, strong, quick, adaptable.

They must have discipline. They must know what they are fighting for. They must have loyalty. But I'm afraid too often they don't have these things.

chorus.

A lot of rubbish is talked about footballers, and I don't want to join the

But the modern footballer just does not fit the bill,

Don't misunderstand me. It is not his fault. How can you expect men to be proud of their profession when the maximum reward it can offer them, no matter how talented they are, in £157

the

appearances

young

a young tan, who continuous has reached the top of his pro-travelling,

with 80, thousands of people fession quickly, and, horses in his stable for the com-entertainers for this pittance? ing season, will be taking his It doesn't make sense. toll of English prízes,

Of the older

THOSE PERKS

horses, Areth

Why. clubs in comparatively Tline is quite sound again. Hel

season minor competitions, outside the did not run again last

Football Anishing fourth to Viny, scope of the powerful after Acropolisa and Elopement in the League-the "non-League" clubs

Queen

can pay their men more than Vi and King George

they can ever hope to corn in Elibeth Stakes at Ascot

our self-styled "premier com- That performance stamped petition."

him as a colt with a future, and the English handicapper rates him about 31 behindi Acropolis.

And when you have four auch players in

n team you touch greatness in football. Think of all the great, truly areat, sides you have known and you wil And that true,

and

I hereby lodge and uphold a protest against the first three and award the race to that 100/6 job Wot nobody bothered to back..

BOOKMAKERS ELECTING THE JOCKEY CLUB STEWARDS AND THE DERBY WINNER ANNOUNCED

LIKE THIS

ROBERT ROBINSON'S SHOW TALK

MIND

You,

IF CHELSEA HAD BEEN ALLOWED TO PICK THEIR OWN REFEREE WHEN THEY ORIGINALLY MET BURNLEY

WE MIGHT HAVE-

I order off all eleven Burnley players and award Chelsea six penalties in the hope they score from onė,

GOT YESTERDAY'S RESULT THE FIRST TIME OUT AND BEEN SPARED HOURS

OF AGONY. RoyÜLLYETT.

VIOLETTA WITH

THE

LID

OFF

"Now go back,” says Miss Violetta Elvin after our chat, “and twist It. Try not to twist it too much." From which you gather that prima ballerina Elvin's opinion of the truth-loving British journalist is not high.

Indeed, her opinion of other British institutions hotels, Customs officials and the licensing laws-is so splendidly low that I nominate her “Miss Gilbert Harding of

1956."

This week the Customa actually made her weep. "I was tired—I had' danced two full-length ballets on successive nights. I arrive home, and the man at the Customs makes me undo all my parcels.

herself. "how foolish

your

those

"I was the first in: the last garten, Not do this; can't have sweet and sharp as Miss Elvin out, One is nervous, highly that,

thirty atrung. He keeps minutes. Why does he have to be so pedantie? Somebody has to be the victim, I suppose.

"I was chosen. He had de- rided-and he was too stubborn to back down.”

BITTER SWEET

"Small people-maids such-dictate when you have breakfast. You do

el at home.

"Are we the guests-OT they?"

and must

Licensing laws are-for who love to drink."

She broods slavonically. "You English are so tolerant. not I am not."

are

"And your hotels,” she goes A hit, a palpable trill on, es I encourage her to un-

"And." she goes on, handing burden herself, "they treat you me a glass of wisnlowko, which you were in a kinders vodka and cherries, and is as

กร

BACK TO NATURE

By HENRY LONGHURST

nkin

to

the

at

EXACT REPLICA

I bollove her.,

For with every query I put, I am told I am naughty to ask. 1 am told I am going 10 twist things. --~-

By the time I leave her, 1 am feeling so twisted I suspect shall have to screw my hot

on.

"No," she says, "I was not glad to leave Russia, is one glad to leave one's mother?”

But she will not be lining the route when Mesara Bulganin and Kruschev visit us In the Spring.

"I shall follow

their pro-

straight theatre.

the

up

"No, I will not say at what age a ballerina should give dancing." (she is 28-getting on ja bit, from the ballet point of

FLATTERY

She is not even sure she will

I often

wonder what those This always intrigues me, for itgress through the papers. I am How can you expect

Fathusiasm for the task in Most of my time has been

ancient worthles who played shows what a lot of nonsense is an artist, I will not discuss 4211⁄2 races, worth men to submit themselves Lo hand is perhaps Bill Wright's spent in the Third Division, and the original golf amid the sand talked about top spin and such politics."

of the dunes of Scotland, playing the like. discipline

the On a five-yard pult hard, of

greatest quality. I would counsel so I haven't seen much

the bail where

Indeed, the subjects Miss it lay and impro- evidence is that the ball does not training, rigorous all players to model themselves highest-class teams or all

international matches.

vising

with shots

1heir before on Matthews and Wright.

"rut touch the ground at all for the Eivin will not discuss would all of as skilled

the "B" team But I reckon One player like either

irons,

think would

ስ the Are yard and only touches it an edition of this newspaper. Yugoslavin at sophisticated version we Imow

Intervals for the which played

second

"I do not like to talk of am- these can make a team. He can inspire other lesser player to Manchester earlier this season today-the thrwicss falways yard. You can stand there all bitions," she says, when I ask

sand bunkers day, trying play above themselves, to pro-gat close to my ideal for Eng- and greens; the

will follow Стегу

of her whether she duce the extra effort at vital and in a tactical sense.

so carefully raked as to present, method, and still fall to make ballerina Moira Shearer in moments,

to anyone who cares to learn it, the ball run along the ground There you bad boys ike the easiest shot in the game, the from the moment you strike it. Groves, Edwards. Aty, Perrystning armoury of clubs, the playing fast, direct, open foot-supercharged bulls and all ball, and they all had the skill rest of it. The thought occurs to

to intelligence play it me as I have just been playing Once you forget the unortho- (view), properly.

something more

without the doxy of playing golf When that happens the style original version, and have great-a blade of grass which, I am no slave to what we is irresistable. As long as these

ly enjoyed its primitive strangely, you do in the first and keep call, loosely,

emerging Continental foot players

simplicity.

ten minutes Tripoli has somηc and

the heights our ball-short passing

close reaching for

very fine holes, at least two of tell me whether she is flattered at both game will be healthy.

at being described as "the most The scene WO3 the Tripoll them manoeuvres.

strongly reminiscent

beautiful ballerina in the world" Golf Club, and a nice change it home. club, and international level.

The first, for instance.or whether it pleases her to (London Express Service}.

made, after picking one's way with the tea beside the shore (COPYRIGHT)

Or have been painted at least through snowdrifts to reach the aid the sea doping away m

times. taxi the day before, to be a little bay, is an almost exact

old women standing on the first tee in the replies of the first at Porth-

t sunshine beside the blue waters cawl.

The fourth

where, and fishermen. Why should 1 be turned inland by the flattered?"

factory--mercifully As I go out, she admits that

ot this time of not working

if she were to act, she would like to play Esmeralda in "The year-you turn again and play course this is it-consist of sand, straight out to sca, is the spir/Hunchback Of Notre Dame."

Personally, I see her playing stones and boulders, inter-image of that wonderful hole Kate in "The Taming of the K. K. Ip yesterday announced his resignation from the Hong daisy and a creeping blue flower

spersed with a tiny species

they call the White Rocks at

Shrow" Any volunteers kong Chinese Football Asso-

Portrush.

Petruchio? gentian, The ciation. Mr Ip, who was repre- that I took to

the greens are somewhat darker and sentative of the CFA on

having been Hongkong Football Association firmer, the eand

they are Athletic mixed with oll, and and Chinese Amntour Federation Councils, is, it is un-raked in circles, the hole thus derstood, taking up a post as resembling the bull's eye in the assistant to Mr R. M. Omar, riddle of a target. Secretary of the HongkonE Football Association.

So Inevitably you have play- ers accepting "perks." outside offers in the way of advertising. writing, radio and TV

appear- ances, and part-time jobs.

Many of these jobs pay more Windsor than football does, so football

and loses its exige for the pinyer.

If he keeps sound he could be

a danger in any rer.

The Ascot

whiner,

in training, Sun, is stil looks far more matured.

The two chief classic hopes season are Windsor Serial

this and Rolstar.

It becomes that much less important to him, the non-foot- ball income that much more important.

I fee that English-style food- ball should be the basis of our national tean play-fast, open, hard-striking football. RELISHES

{ am convinced

the that English fan relishes the physical Don't Indiet the player. Blame side of football, the crisp tackles The grey Windsor Serial is in

of ours, and lusty shoulder-charges that 2,000 this brave new world the English

trish andi

feature our game. and pressUT CA Guineas only ta ho is not ex-fuit of tensions

must give them this.

pected to stay.

and distractions.

I will not listen if you quote He was only Sib below the top me pre-war loyalties, Then it weight in the Irish Free Handi-was easy to be loyal, cap and

because

for most people the vital thing has grown Into a powerful coll. Unfortunately he was to have a job, ANY job,

In blind in one cyc.

that pald any kind of money, | ni footballers then were paid Reisinr (Aretle Star-Roisto) the in advance of the average

workman. It is not so now,

WAS second

in the Irish Free Handicap 2lb below Sarissa but he was lib above Milesion, who is a classic possible.

WELL MADE

He is engaged in all the classic my time. I didn't see them play.

races and is a very well-made colt, A good Irish judge told me that Roistar had three very hard races to end the season and he may remember them

he is a very tough colt

STREETS AHEAD

And so we

Queen's College Leads In Inter- School League

Queen's Collega St. Joseph's Pool SunT But I know that In training,

Wah Yon Kin.". coaching, fitness, club admini-

SFX unless siration and facilities for the KGV can fans they

be improved Aberdeen"

Clement! still) postwar football is streets

St. Loule ahead of the old game.

King' La Sallo

The three-year-olds, of whom there are more than 20, are ali from superbly bred, but apart those mentioned, not many will be seen in England.

of the two-year-olds I was most interested in Chevnsteld. He is a half-brother by Prince Chevalier to Panaslipper, and came up for sale at Dublin last

A PU

11 20

53 17

HKFA JOB FOR K. K. IP

of the Mediterranean. The fair-

ways on this links-and links it certainly must be called, for if

there

"acaside"

•

ever

was

FIRST ATTEMPT

of

The tenth,

along curving with the sea, noeds only grass to make it one of the world's

back along the shore Ao the cat hales. The view looking distant chy as it juts out into the sea, dazzling in the winter sun, absolutely Lakes your breath away.

on is the

A little further Under-water

Explorers Club, eight minutes, of which the Ambassador 18 an himself-end the enthusiastle member.

From

the

In any case, I am a post-war type. I have no opinions of the great ones like Charlie Buchan The following are the latest

A meeting of the CFA which The match was between Her Ambassador, who and Alex James and

Billy standings in the Senior Divisio

was called yesterday at the Majesty's Walker. They were way before of the Inter-School Football Ying King Restaurant, and at holds the record for the course

League:

which Mr K. Y. Yung presided, one hour and elected Messrs Lesile Chan-playing by

Controller

of State Properties time to time Q perkrope ning, Mok Hing and Lee Hang-

fram off-shore |appears lain to take over Mr Ip's pre- on the one alde ond the officer

the British MH- |2225 commanding vious posts.

tenth, signifying that tary Mission to Libya and my Excellency, with his Snorkel

The Con apparatus, is in Mr Channing was appointed self on the other.

surreptitious Chairman of the

Selection ruller of State Properties, who Committeo and made a member hails from Llandrindod Wells, is search of golf balls. His score

this year so far is five. of the Victory Shield Commit-the Champion of Libya tee. Mr Mok Hing will be the would. I thinic, beat the better CFA's representative

the ball of Hogan and Snead on

first attempt, having HKEA Council, while Mr Leo their Hong-lam will serve as the mastered the art of causing the the ball to bodge on the green from CFA's representative on.

100 yards. Orthodox methods, CAAF Council.

[one soon learris, do not effect this.

If you pitch 'short, The ball stops dead with a splash of sand. If you plich on, it flies over the back as though concrete,

Wah Yan K

St. Francis Xavier defout

មិនដ

Wah

There are many exceptions to these criticisms. and the two

Queen Elizabeth outstanding players in this re-

St. Stephen's.. speet are clearly Stanley Matt- Chisthe ...... 13 hews and Billy Wright

Yan College Kowloon 0-1 in a "B" If you all down in cold blood | Grade knick-out "competition match

that this man. and consider

yesterday, Matthews is 41 years of age but is still playing In World Championships and Inter- national matches and right though the rigours of a harsh English season, the whole thing

Opening Batsman becomes almost incredible. KO's Wicketkeeper There is nothing quite like it

In the whole scope of sport. But

With Mighty Hook even more starting is the fact

Melbourne, Feb. 20.

The opening batsman of the Sydney University team knock-

tho ed

wickulkeeper un conscious while making mighty hook shot during cricket mitch against. Mel- bouro University,

His bat caught the wicket

keeper behind the car.

a

that Matthews ecens

to play football now

to want as much

as ho did when he was a boy of 17,

Starting Times For Ladies'

Golf Championship

The fallowing are the draw and starting times for the Ladies* Section Golf Championship to be played over 38 holes at Fanling on Thursday, March 6.

014 Course

Mr It.. Cleland 0.03 9.10 Mrs W.N. Guy 9.10 Mrs G.W. Vaughn 9:20 M... Coombe

MF,D, Hunter 9:30 Mr M. Tumbuli 9.35 Mre P.A. Laroche *** J.K. McCann

You will know how I feel about this man when I fell you that when he came to play at our 9.25

I asked ground

h'm for his autograph for myself. I have never done that before or since

with any other person..

Wright? Remarkable! Bach

tline I see him he scoma - A

The Injured player recover- better footballer. I have never ed after destors had milched up som a player play with such dile wound-China Mail Special. mest for his work.

ond

оп

off

Hongkong Police Team To Meet Macao Selected

The team to represent the We managed to halve with Hongkong Police in the Inter- the Champion and his dialin-port soccer match against Macro guished partner, largely through

BooCor

my brilliant three at the 100%, Folice on March 3, was selected

following a friendly which was brought about by one match against Kwong Wah et of the most comarkable putts the HKPSA ground yesterday. aver made in North Africa. The The Hongkong Police won 3-0.

Playere elected were blowing from the left. I putted, | Man-sum, Ngar

Ping-wing.

Kwok Chan-thing, from off the green, well to the Chan

Na Ling. right and in the lust fow foot Hughes, Walcefeld, Van Blu- the ball turned steeply up the choy, Moss, Au Chi-yin," La alopo and against the wind and Wai and Trang Man. Rewerve:

New-Course

green

Mr E.J. Cowell Mrs J, Connell Brown

1.57

the loped sharply. 10 right and a strong wind

WOR

Mrs F.W, Brooks

1.40

Mrs JR. Grong.

1.16

Mew L. Goldman

1.00

Mr J.A. Anderson

1.00

Mrs F.G. Harrison

#.00

Mrs L., Hobinson

3,00

0.45

B.M, Jacke

Mrs W.F. Birtwhistle

2,10

ran into the hole.

0.00

MN AW, Dawson-Grove

Mrs J. Wal

sa

Mrs J. Gray

2,30

10.00

Mr J.R. Collie

Mes R.D. Neala

10.06

M Y. Annatrong

91.40

MM J.C. Hurden

3

Mre 3.A.H. Saunders

On gros this might be held

to be an optical illusion..

The courtery of the First Tees has been granted as landernoted for sand the evidence is there

the playing of the Ladies Championship:

dia Coures-March 8-7.30 a.m. to 10.10 1.12. New Courre-blettál S-12,30 p.m. 10. 3 p.ta.

On

Tsang Kal-wing, Leung Kwan- fal, Leung Shing.

The match will commence at Loc. 3.30 p.in. on Saturday, March 3. all do soe, bo path of the ball The Band of the Hongkapa marked, clearly on the green. Police will be in estandanOF,

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