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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1956.

GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN STANDARD OF LOCAL RUGGER THIS SEASON

It is customary for the press, when the rugger season has ended, to sum up the general state of rugby in the Colony, and at the same time to remark upon anything of outstanding interest to players and spectators. Last year I was forced to stale that the standard of rugby had deteriorated generally, but this year I feel I can safely say that there has been a great improve- ment in not only the standard of play, but also in the standard of refereeing.

With a

standard of He felt that three points was down idgher

the nitaching woce | giving reforceing

players 1 forced to play 1 the Jaws, unfair advantage, erpecially us b

Urt care in Internationals where which was nớt, 13: 5, the case in

conver! a perai y the vicus schion. This made a man can

yard from from

the for mee interesting game ne The Rugby Union intended it ports. souk.

This

KR 11,

mo

of the aftern, have had strong pack, the threes wele

1

May 45

with Here I entucly agna him, for it is unlikely that the attacking team would

succced in pentistry the defence, 21- pecialty In 21 **210 where the a. burred in a scrum

0

more beginning to come into their own and he games have Incoul.

open type,j been of the more

I could not, however, agree thua mereasing the interen inj

with him

on his suggestion ef them from beh players'

a penalty goal worth making spe:lators'

only two points, but We even- betually came to agreement on a

method which

Telt took care care of the matter. all

point of view.

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pre-

The

new system Christmas games proved to without doubt much superior 19 the previous arrangeinent, there is therefore every reason why Ble status quo should be Jutained.

ONLY WEAKNESS

were

only wenkias that showed was in the choice of grounds, many of which changed at the Inst moment. livre I think the HKRU should

riep in and insist that onera

bund

bren chosen th alteration should be allowed.

would 4120

suggest fi je possible more use be male sex. Season of the Cubs ground, for it Is

Is by far the best is the He Army place of

ny,

at Boundary Sir

which ore,

the Kal Tak ground, both of all t may sadly in ngree.

players

Wit

need of returfing.

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! As everyone is awar Hex-ngular Tournamen. CIT

audden top. with the Army unable to find the ne Das,

10

10

to play

in

that

of their therefore,

games each

Kanes.

enla

We

This was to retain the three Points for a penalty enversion, TAE only to allow → kick Rout

the t; be taken when Ten Occurred inside the 25- yard line.

Outside the line n kick of any type would be allowed with the defending players retiring 10 yards, but the kiek would not be allowed be at the goal posts,

kick the ball go over the cross

then the bar

fra ly to the all- now.rtul Filiams.

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texangular came the with the Club and the Army South sharing the top honours, and the Army North running them both close third, and finally the Blarney Stone Sevens when the King's Own beat the 74

LAA in the final to get their own back for their loss of the inter-Unit competition,

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THE TEAMS

Now the Teams:

MISS ANN HAYDON

UP THE POLES

Army South A grand teain with a Brat class Uiree line, and Two very good halves and the

in the Colony best full backt They fully deserved their place the top of the table and should

to greater things go on

The Polish Air Force Football next year. They played a more team which plays in the Butweij open

type of game than the (Notts) League have good other sides,

as a result, chance of finishing as runners- scored heavily in nearly all up, and this in their first season

And

did 100.

their

Only once games. they falter and that way when

with them. Army North drew

very rich improved side from Just reason, Кетг before he left pulled the side

Club: A

and should it an up and under the ard Penman in the last few weeks showed what a The Club can do. kick would heatrong hand

sull rely to great extent o mullid and a serum lake place their pack, without doubt one at the position of the original

of the strongest in the Colony, infringement

This would not make infringe-Though they lack a hooker, but

threes show their

manis more prolife nutside the

signs

on Bin

26 for the same mDIES who comlig into their capable of converting from 45 Next season they should ngaits Surds just as capable of find-be challenging Army South for ing touch lose to the opponents' top place

points

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Hue, thus giving the attacking Army North: Another good Alegided alvantage, team though their pack needs though 75431 necessarily three suffening and Their three line lost the gaines they did maluly through gectim:39 In Sharpe and Keir they had Two good halves who made a major dit- ference to their

side and they had som, of the fastest threes in the Coleny. A Bule mone team work among the backs should

It would also in many cases been suggested where

10 such

infringement pre-Christinasi takes place speed up the game team play

often have we walled a minor t

maitutes while u kicker places allowing the the bafi just so, weh outside the Hexangul an to start earlier. 25, walls ages 18 steady himself see this team again among the

This, however, would, pre-ane then, when everyone is leaders suming Are game number of worked up. Bluffs his kick com-

other aner ment,

Terms viste

the pre-Christovi tourname, only allow an extra Saturday, and to cope with th extra me needed it would be beo.ssary to play off sorne the

pre-Christmas Cam's during the week,

pletely, or misses by morgia)

RAF: Started well but forled a large away as injury after injury hit

P

Don

Get

Fame

a

ANN HAYDON IS PHYSICALLY

AND

LITERALLY THE MIRACLE GIRL OF TABLE TENNIS

Says GEORGE WHITING

Youngsters who swipe their elders off the face of the earth are becoming commonplace in this jet age, but I still think there is something rather special about a gym-slip British schoolgirl who ups and takes off for Tokyo to represent her country in a World Championship.

And I rate it all the more impressive when that same schoolgirl is vigorous enough and versatile enough to shine all the year round-at table tennis in winter and lawn tennis in summer. The female Fred Perry of 1956,

W

of

for

You that is not the half of it "Ann's recovery Wis a well by now be emulating har when we come to marvel at the miracle. nothing less. It was father's second XI batting

Lawn and table 17-year-old case-history anot just a question at no more Warwickshire. buxom lass from

living, tennis at King's Heath came as Birmingham sport-but of no more

quite

after frankly a natural corollary

the called Ann Haydon--all-England We were told

of local boys had grown gestive at Junior Lawn Tennis Champion, that there was little hope

her gifted girlhandling" of and member of Britain's table recovery. tenab team contesting the Thus testified her abound-their carefully contrived, leg-

Adrian breaks. father, World Championships in Japan ingly grateful from April 2-11,

Heydon, as we lunched in suburban pub at Birmingham, physi-where he is occupied on the

For Ann Haydon cally and literally,

A

0

tennis ranks with the

HIDINGS

From her earliest tips and miracle sales staff of a motorcycle outfit. taps and pings and pongs, the girl. At 10, an age when most of Nothing could have been more lass from King's Norton Gram- her kind are bursting wide-natural than that the Haydons mar School shot through the eyed into the joy of Ilic, she should have turned to ball table was laid low by an illness that games to restore their daughter speed of a politician passing the put her in hospital for four the full life,

buck. in months, kept her

bed at Father and mother, the former

At 13, she was playing for home for acven months, and Doris Jordan, were table tennis Birmingham and handing out shut her off from the world for

internationals, Dad eating as hidings to ΕΓΟΙΥΠ men-and more than a year.

high as Swaythling Cup

for. one year later performing taincy and still serving Ga an England against France in Paris. international selector.

At 15 came

her drst World Nevertheless, Ann Haydon's Championship and Corbillon Cup

sporting first left-arm

en efforts at Wembley,

to be fol deavours were at cricket. Had lowed in 1955 by a meat pro- she been born a boy she might mising_world' title

Utrecht.

LITTLE HOPE

The shattering effect parents-her mother is

on her now no with her in Tokyo- needs emplurals.

Cockell And Turpin Their Last Chance; Again Or

How Bekle is fame!

Fade Out

By ALAN HOBY

WOD

cap-

every

Cockell It is less than a year since Don British heart by the way he stood up to the murderous Rocky Marciano for nine brutal rounds.

It is less than five years since 18,000 people at Earls Court sang "For he's a jolly good fellow" after Randolph Turpin had won the World Middleweight title from "Sugar" Ray Robinson.

are other things before that fight."

"And the future?" I asked.

sortio in

And now Tokyo after a phenomenal Benson in which Blondie trom Birmingham has won nine open tournaments out of 11; collected the hatlonal championships of Wales, Belgium ond France; and turned in aggressivo left-hand wins Over such established experts as six- times-World Champion Angelien Roncanu of Hungary. Rowe

our own and Austria'a

in

twins, Linde Werti-Rumpler.

They maked Ann Haydon the 12th best doble-tennis girl the world when she was 15. Last year they promoted her to No. 10, In Tokyo she is eceded fifth. And if that is not pretty hot progress you can call me n sponge bat.

of

No wonder the much-travelled Miss H. has spent but one even- ing at home since Christmas, skipped her movies and her dancing, and kept up with her studies only by dint of assiduous swotting in the back seat they Jeering that Bre Indeed, whatever anyone may

und "finkhed... washed up."

father's car. say about Messrs Turpin

their stock- Cockellad nowadays the Frankly,

are busy as wood-elumped-so much so that "knockers"

mem- both of them everything peckers--they are

mighty Exclusive pends on their next fight.

Turpin

the mects

talian Alesandro D'Ottavio, who re

and eently won

lost against Ron Barton, pt Birmingham

bera of

ย them. Had a good strong pack,

ulsound at

the start a fair set of threes, but at the end although

The suggestion

would level up teams where one has the avardage through a power ful kleker though the rest of the alde

great shakes as

arc

no

This should be capable of players. srrangement, and with the All the above js merely

thus suggestion and should give the beginning players and spectators some- thing to think about during the off-season.

Hexangular Tournamen starting at December or even earlier there could Jikle reuson for com- plaints that one team or the other was unable 10 Bnishi uff their share of the games.

TWO MORE LAWS

Next season players will find themselves faced with yet two more new Laws to learn about. I feel it is inadvisable to discuss them at present until the exact wording is known, especially since most players still have a somewhat hazy idea of the Laws lately introduced.

MAIN HIGHLIGHTS

Now the

main highlights of the feast.n. In the first part of

the season the

Gunners took prikle of place when they went through with an unbeaten IC- cord, and went en to overcome

caste.

still

For of all the Champlons their pack remained intact they and near-Champions who cam were in a sad state behind the their living in the British ring serum, Given some new replace- they and Peter Keenan arc ments in the backs next season they could Improve

cason's showing.

this month.

has

for

do-

"What happs if you lose?" Turpin, tartly: "Then I sup- pose Pll have to pack it in. But I've got to lose first."

•

the only three who have A week later, on April 24, this actually fought for world Utles the pertly but pugnacious

thrice -Turpin

Cockell Cockell clashes with and Keenan once....

Navy: Hod their usual bad luck with ships carrying the

strongest players in the team Invariably leaving, before their est important games. Whether will do betier next season tonyins in the melting pot, but the Navy are sure to be in there

trying.

and

CHAMPION

Days off? No. There is lawn tennis to be considered, and a first appearance this possible summer in the Women's Singles at Wimbledon. Hence the tough sessions at Queen's Club winter under professional

George George Worthington.

After all, when Maestro Dan Maskell penells

at

of

Kan

And that's how the interview franic questions, went frank answers. We were talking

home the Leamington Turpin's manager, Middleton, who said:-

you in as a most highly pro- "Randy is very at. I

mising nominated player, there vouch

the for thot. Barring time he had flu, he has done is not much a conscientious and ambitious young woman can do Ave 160 mlies of roadwork in

but put her best foot forward. weeks, but he urgently needs

Being a sendor. International sparring partners. He can't get and a Junior Champion of Great "last them.

Britain in two consecutive sea- sons entails a certain amount of

rumbus- tious, hard-hitting Kitione Lave from Tonga, at Earls Court.

"LAST CHANCE”

Both contesta will. be The sunshine of public chance" test pleces for Turpin acclaim has temporarily gone and Cockelland "don't

Is By any yardstick that fino record, but public memory, unfortunately, is like a sleve.

in for Don and Randy-particu- know ill

they found mental peace

"More Important still, he has

with wife and family."

趨

larly Randy.

In one of the bluntest state.

heard from Rightly or wrongly-and I ments I have

know-alls boxer, Turpin told me:- think wrongly-the

Police: Wooden Spoon winnera Rest of the Colony by again, but with a much Improved record. Another tearn hard hit comfortable margin.

The Kuala Lumpur Collegians by injuries. In fact although the brought up a Afteen, but they RAF recorded more injuries the

Police rest thers more, for they Two Years Of proved to be no match for even did not have the men to replace the weakest de placed against them. Their biggest loss

WAS

Defeat them, and lost both their matches Johnstone, their full back, and here.

after his forced retirement from the Gunners Ale

Walkley Working Men's Club from the ring after his the game the team slid downhill this time they again. However, there was have not won a match in the

spirit in the Shemold League for two

came

the FARELF Inter-Unit Com-leave the wooden spoon petition, but as expected went someone else.

sta-

LIMPING COCKELL

his freely given persvactice

Travel studies

competitive play.

the whole year round... no time for mixing. Is not auch a programme likely to fashion ព temperamental and precocious

From Leamington I went to "I know I have made mis Brighton, where I met a limp inkes. Who hasn't? I also ing Cockell. "It's the knee young minx? And did not this know what they are saying injured before the Valdes fight," same Ann Haydon flounce off a about me. But my fight with Cockell explained. "I felt it Wimbledon court and run to In comparison with the be-

D'Ottavio will be my, answer." | after being out on the road, mother in tears last year when ginning of the season there has

but it's nothing serious."

an opponent persisted in stone- .I reminded Randy that he been

wall lobbing and soft balling? a big improvement in

retiremen! understanding of players

The

and announced his Then

No "Supposing Lave beats you?"

the to tantrums. Yes to Laws, but would suggest that again, though

dis.I asked him. "Will YOU retire" the tears. Her father admits in the training period next season

nstrous defeat by Canadian played as 74 LAA, and they won much stronger

that Mistress Ann lost her polse, the

last Bob Wollnce

The Heavyweight Champion of claims that his October. referees

finals, beating Police and this season they got sons, but they always turn out approached the Inter Unit bc

daughter was What made him the King's Own in the final by away from their defensive game.n fuil side and play with sports-

change his Britain and the Empire muttered feeling oft colour, and make us again to give some more tulks and Instruction on the Laws,

what sounded like a rude word to bear with her as a teen-ager 14 points

mind? to 0 points. They Could improve again next seasor manship. Last season they pick-

"I sold that on the spur of and then sald with typica under the wear and tear of While on the subject of the then went down to Singapore to and though not expected to be ed up three points drom three

Петсо well- Laws I recently heard a

and prolonged competition. most the Fiilans in the final of at the top of the table should drawn games, this season they the moment," Randy replied. honesty: "No. Why should I?

I'm still the Champion and known player vulce his opinfun

"My girl is no problem child," for have been beaten in each of "I'm not making excuses, but

Like my title

Baya on the question of penalty goals.

was disturbed and upset about they want to

"Sho has a Mr Haydon. thelr 20 games!

away from me they'll have to wonderful temperamentand fight for it."

for the very good reason that, until very recently, both her mother and I could beat her at either of her games. That kind of correction stops 'bigness ben fore it starts. As a younheter "I'm fully alive to the im-who has ind only 14 days_free portance of this fight and I also of either table tennis or lawn know that a fit novice can beat tenais in the last 12 moaths, an unfit Champion.

Ann has been under terrlic stress and strain-but whe "My trouble is finding some-

haves herself wonderfully," where to train, Everyone has Sooner or later, I been shouting I should train this astonishing young woman away from home and I wouldn't will be called upon to decide mind-but where? "I'm fed up whether her future iles

with with pubs.".

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THERE! IVE BALANCED MY

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ser if she's at home

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Meanwhile, 1.om glad report that Miss Ann Haydon cán und does cook" flow hey parents, shares the household chores, shows taste in dress materials, and does not frown- too fiercely on occasional callers of the opposita, sex,

If I had heard that she was "above" such wholesome things,

conclut

On the recent visit of the then the commonsense West Indies' cricket team Christchurch, the spin

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