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I HAVE MY SAY
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1956.
No Olympic Medals For This Marathon Mud-Slinging
By HARRY CARPENTER
You could make out a good case for ralling this year's sporting endeavours
in Melbourne the Olym-pique (iumes.......... My dictionary defines pique ns: I-feeling,
irritation, resentment.
tantrums
by the being thrown Now study the unbelievably childish International Olympie Committee and the Australian organisers of the Games over
the Duke of Edinburgh.
Compriso
T 11-feeling པཱlt! at when them before Mayer was born." and women likely to Australian newspapers curry 19- May 1 venind you at Britain's Olymple squad, at 15
Orbating point just why Mr Tan-sports Dar tu the MelisuTËM"
K
over a best
Fuling.
10
cost
Originally the plan was ner and Mr Mayer are alunging angry Commaltas tre
Ovesend 150 competitors at a because protocoleach other? It's Olympte
Duke of Edinburgh is going to jof £75,000. But the public apm
furier 14 bren the be welcomed at the entrance to peal for
that £100,000 15 ne Olympic Stadium Instead of successful
already in the kitty. in the centre field.
This mercly
ilust guest of hosibur who opens the Games, in this case the Duke of Ed aburgh, will be welcomest at Mustafam entsaner udend of
my
In the centre of the area.
No question Duke from the Game, as reports might lose you 16, Think REASON?
Reason for the new Tube" The
novel TOC believe "gay tafor eene to see the athletes, tad not Portal Tereg
What an unsavoury business. The only 1500 to come out of it with any credit is Larut
Willlam Creat
Bridgeford, chief executive for the Games.
sums up my own feelings tae perfection when he comments; **** ot statements, These whether true or false, de no R<try
Wr haya !;t't ་* "I have only one object, and foer, remover! all committees, that is TO CET ON WITH THE
fovens om serive Haradi
3."
the GAMES"
Next comes the ferkattoir ..
Aurt!! ver 10404
the JOC read the
criticism
duta't like it
So from Their SD,
MOC]-FLTEIN
Another £25,000 is needed to which teel the new proposal, would give us the third-largest visiting team at Melbourne.
those I hope all
who have contributed their humble bob or usines tuo, nol you, Edgar) are prepared for slin recompense in the wily or gold, silver, bronze,
colleague
от
Pat bxe
For instance. Bestor tells me we shall represented in Melbourne's sun- warmed water by 17 swimmers, five divers, and nine water-pxolo players. 52-
The most we can "Why
hope for those 31 competitors is. thxtors from
leg.perhaps, three mediuls suspect
... metai
TALKING LEGS
05
I than British
two
weck ngo, offlelois
podebed Gordon
terad.
must have 6714
of
Pirte
our
check up on that Just to
of
really
"
hirext.
Swiss quarters at Lawsastre HR Cham-
Otto cellor
Mayer comes up
with this pleasarst little
Landinage:
**Because the [X" WIM
enough
see whether it will be unspecified! soundt for the Olymple
The suggestion was not heed-
"Th
+garrulous
unter Gordon has let his running do
the Briking for him,
First, that
In permit wholesale viobit of as rules 10
for Rave
Melbourne Olymple Gamer -whch have bu
the
moved hevuse of mile
discenes Sti Teve confusion, deficiencies,
-
sions, neglect, spintable crastination, opportunisin, and wretched pelty Jeulousies the Australians seem to think they can violate all Olymple rules and do n they please.
Furthermore, says Mr Mayer,
of The Melbonita,
:
exhibition AL Plymouth In
and
un Saturday, his
4min. 2.2 564: mile at Croydon.
༥་
and the best in Bri-
fastest and tain this sermon.
Instead of having doctors ex- pinas. British mine the Pirie selectors had better get
down
to serious thinking about what these famous llinds are going to
the serrelate. Mr Edgar be asked to do at Melbournie.
organising
Tanner, is guilty of a total lock Apart from his nippy Mile, the
Pirie During
ni
Krevaner
lay
S the of taking it to The 100. THEY KNOW
his m-tead
Stand by for resentment Me Tatmer replying: Mayer must have hit a bust day at the Faces, or his football tesim must! have been benten.
1
have this Season chored
put a personal best at 1,500 Metres, egialled the world neord at 3,000 Meles, broken N at 5.000 Metres and recordedi 打算 Britan the fastest the in 10,000 Metres.
THIRD-LARGEST Australla But whatever his appointed know how to conduct Olympe task. you can write in Pirle's Games. We were taking part in
now as one of 225 men
nume
BRITAIN DOES HER DUTY
Fundamental Changes
In British
Team
Olympic Announced
Fundamental changes in
policy were announced recently.
Britain's Olympic Games
A team of 225 men and to
women, instead of the original 150, will be sent Melbourne in November. This will cost £50,000 more than the first estimate of £75,000.
This news will be welcomed everywhere, especially in Australin, who recently sent representatives to Britain and other European countries to plead with them to send larger teams than were forecast last year.
warried The Sunday Dispatch alone of when he national newspapers condemned | Olymple Association:
the earlier policy of the British
**If our Olympic team
the British
lacks
Olymple Association when they for anything, or the funds are budgeted on the basis of ignar-
nut
(COPYRIGHT)
NEW WORLD SPEED RECORDS
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Ten new racing car world speed records were set up recently in the 500 c.c. and 750 cc. classes by Halian drivers Thielo, Della Beffa, Poltronieri, Frac- Picture top shows Della Beffa in the carl and Catini.
An Abarth during one of the record- new 500 c.c. breaking runs; plctured bottom is Poltronieri, niso in an Abarth, before the start of a speed bld.-Express Photo,
To Taking
Here's A
A Clue Strong-Arm Policy
Shape In Soccer
Says JOHN MOCADAM
Don't look round now, but you're being watched by the changing face of British
footbull.
You haven't noticed anything particularly significant? Well, there were two
the. apparently unrelated happenings in recent weeks that, viewed together, give
cluc.
Robert Robinson's Showtalk
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ENGLISH GIRLS ARE SO TIMID, SAYS HANDSOME RUSSIAN SINGING STAR
A serious lot, these Russians. Backstage at the Empress Hail-where a Russian Army contingent is providing London with the best singing and dancing any Londoner has ever seen-silent, strenuous gymnastics are the order of the day.
Short gentleman in Russian uniform are grimly knees-bending in the corridor. Several are using old benches for press-ups, some practise high kicks against the wall, and one red-faced, red-capped Muscovite is managing to blow strenuously down
a trombone without omitting a sound.
But
tho most dedicated bottle-for Mr Steele bosses the group of all clusters round one | £9 million company whose colu
he is drinking. of the back-stage ext-doors.
For against this door is hung dirt-bound.
"Any time... stys Miss Crawford, apropos of nothing, "is
Pepsi-time
"He even cut a scene where my boy-friend throws a type- {writer at mo. Now why cut a
thing Wipe that?"
I confess myself baffled. And I go on to ask her why With our gastronomic needs she works for fun, money or fulfilled, we talk. And as wo art?
Sho
She
Heavy breathing is the only to interrupt the steady sound
And plink-plonk of the darts, the frowning concentration of talk, realise that Joan Craw-
IS rent. really the commdes suggests a party ford
actually exists meeting.
queries Just nn Institution
Sund her one, tearing himself reluctantly from the board. Way
All
**English
woment"
"Boy, I do it just because nolm stage-struck, and that's all. But if any film is going to take me away from Alfred, even for
I'ti chuck short time
the whole thing."
to
sldownys Nu "Oh, spenk-and, unlike most movie- same KLET In queens she does not disappear women all over
yes,
the Just
Russie,
the
world exactly
But darts
Judi thak
Mixers who
singe
night
the same.
AGE, AGE. "Age, age, age-why are the Intrigued by age? If the bobby-Englisty o cluster round the Oooh, Just let me get my hands WVON door after the show each the man who wrote 1
49 He'll think Jack the Win! th:
LO comrades
Ripper's on the loose agus.... wate
114273, knowledge dants will be an open-seume,
"Darts
in unknown exclaims solem Artur Russla," Eisen, 20-year-old private from Moscow, and handsome singing star of the show.
ניי
A
of
"Acid? They say i'm ACID? Sure, 1 can be when I want.
I'm Just a But not ordinarily. person
English
shall be first darty I shall champion of the USSR, take back many dart-boards.
Graceful, women?
But too well-dressed.
And do you know, I believe her.
CIVIL AID
SERVICES
of
"Sometimes," says Mr Steele, No. 21. Orders by the Hon. who is slocky, slow-speaking C. E. Terry, OBE.. Commia- and as pleasant a millionaire as aloner, Civil Aid Services ever I've met, "people say: 'Oh, August 8, 1960) what
muot ᎩᏅᏓ
go through, married to a movie star!"
"But, gee, I don't know what they mean. Go through? I gu I'm married through nothing. to Jown and I love her and, iwell, we're just married folks."
modest, timid.
und nak Girls, they come me for autograph after show. They say: 'Make a cross. say I will make no cross. But I will kiss you, And they run Iway. So I play darts."
Comatide Elsen scores him- elf a double-top, then tells me there
is one thing surprising him about London girls.
TROUSERS Those wear. Joans, they are called? Never do we see girls wearing
trousers in Russia."
Does he find it shocking?
זיי
simply.
they
'I CRY'
The only emotional strain he experiences with reference to his wife is when he watches her performing in front of the
DANKTOS,
The
And funny," he says
self.
too
nbea
Another silent Russian comes out of his dart-induced reverie "If we fall in love and says: with
shall English gris, w
take We chan marry them, them back to Russia."
But he looks mournful. T suspect he will stick to darts.
FANMAIL
"Will you," who has
A
I say to Eisen,
energy that woman puts into it, gee, it'd kill an ordinary woman! Why, I've Se directory &nd cameramen actually cry
when she's doing an emotional scene. I cry my- She's wonderful. think she's wonderful. She 13 colin, sensitive,
And there is only one to whom, I suspect, she
like to behave as screen-poisoner and he is mild Mr Walkyn. The English Censor
"He's cut every single love
out of my new Alm which is due in London in week or so. And why? All
would
4
The first was the League clubs' decision to have no part of the Four-Division Plan which aimed at the inclusion of many ambitious non-League clubs,
The second WAN the sume' and may confidently be relled clubs are as loud in their inack of fan-letters, including we did was dive in the hay and
sistence on the
Importance
of
their own League structure.
They are only partly right.
several
marriage, clubs?***
far received
"visit
near-proposaly
wha
#
Appointments-Wardens Bervice. It is hereby notified for general in- formation that on tire recorrstneride- tion of the Oklet Warden, the Com missioner has been pleased to con- Arm the appointment of Mr KwEN Man-wai
as Head Warden, Hong- kong, w.e.t. 20th March, 1900.
Holidays. — C.A.9. Headquarters will be closed on Monday, th Auguet, 1906.
The
Am-
Examination Resulta. — (0) undermentioned attended an axamina-
John
July
tion in First Aid (st buinage Association) 10. 1936. and qualified to receive tho Certificates, and to wear the Badgy, of the St John Ambulance AssOCIA- Lion:
Szeto Shaukiwan Zone. 3205-4 Park-ngong, 32800 Yu Silḥing (Milan), 32804 La 1ằng-biu, 32803 Loung Wai, 20031 Fen Wah-al, 12933 Tay Shum, 32018 Woo Bing-wong, 33341 Tang (Min). Man-it, 33409 Chang Wei 33490 Lo Likew (Miss).
Cheung Wing-fan (Miss), 53501 Leo Fook. 3000 Lau Walfing (Miss). 33313 Tom Bang, 33310 The Louns, 33317 Two Yee-lin. 23320 Wong 50. 33021 Yee Won-s (Miss), 33320 Wong Pak-hung, 33349 Leung Yuk-
33000 23000 Chan Choo-lude, you. Lening Yuk-yec, 33610 Taul Hing- Cheong Iwan (Miss), 33700 L 30777 N Shly-kuen (Miss). Chang Hing-coun (Min) Chang Miu-king (Miss), 33102 (mu Lal-chen (Miss).
fung. 30403 Pun Yu-kwan, of romp round beds and all thai. night- Just normai adult behaviour,
League club' decision to have yon lo use them again!
part of offers by ITV and The fact is that the older the BBC to televise selected type of club executive is being matches next season.
I steadily replaced by a younger. Although that structure t And the link is that these two | more virite fellow. The Busbys | basically a sound one, it has club-level decisions were made and the Cullises are unlikely to gown unwieldily, and certainly, in open defiance of the recom- be intimidated by any auto-it is cluttered up with a lot of free time becoming acquainted
mendations League Management Committee. SUCH DEFIANCE
the
Footballcra
and
Such meden
defiance, unknown in Gate.
times, struck a heavy
chill wind is dead wood. cracy. a-blowing through the corridors
The
THE TWO VOICES . . . (left) Sir Stanley Rous, secretary of the FA and Mr Fred Howarth, League secretary.
new
now
He looks at me severely "How will night-clubs benefit
my work? I shall spend my
with
the
spots
19
of
historical
shall take League Management ancient London.
he snapshola. And," of both Preston and Lancaster Committee's Four-Division plan many
** cleared would have
Some of says, turning to the board. What has the Football Asso- that dead wood
shall play darts.. away.
You solemn. cintion to fear from this
My feeling is that this
"We are not pugnacity?
virility of the clubs alone will must not beleive Russians ore sad- another Well, it is loud in its insist-prove to be the motivating force | solemn," sys
drawing-power
that of in the next operation on
"We love the looking dancer. Its representative games and the changing face of football.
joking But always the joke must be related to our work." And he scores a treble.
once on the
Of Course It's Flat
foc
By HENRY LONGHURST
It is always a pleasure, when yards. During the match Snead you have been advancing for 20 did it in 67. Hogan, I was told, years without trace of suCCERB had once dono a 65 and had had theme so obvious as to be irre- 271 for 72 holts, or 17 under futable,
instance, such as, for
fours that the earth is round and not Earlier in the century Harry to be suddenly joined by a Varden, on one of his tours which Bifelong but highly distinguished spread goll across the States like It is almest as though a prairie Are, had also spent some Rommel had come over to our time at Pinehurst, Now Verdon does not belong-like, with pil side in the desert. suflelant to send our best
blow at and wein, it will be i
the complacency of
is in this instance respect, the Morries and The new ally ble of reaching a final. To the clear demonstration to Australia,
Henry Cotton, Jamie Andersons to the Soccer rulers pecustomed to tm- | none other than of this newspaper ples
and indeed
He world. the whole
plicit Obedience from their who has recently returned from historie era of golf. November 20 were added the that we are not interested in one members' clubs. weighty words of the Duke of lot
and our sister nations,
Anyone who, like myself, has American Edinburgh
day the following
that we are not in- secondly,
covered the Annual terested in the Olympic Games.
footboll That would be
on slow gold in general, he en- a very real "parliaments"
will testify disaster."
acquiescence to the dictation of the top table.
ng my whiote thought incap-men
DAVIS CUP
America To
Forest Hills
DN
A
over
to
the
How often in the past quarter- century have we seen the rebel declaiming with angry groups
"stand for this and that?
And how often have WO
THIRD LARGEST Even so, Britain's proposed team of 225 represents no oul- standing contribution; in 1952,
Berlin in 1936, and 300 Stockholm 44 years ago,
Britain will be represented at Rye, New York, Aug. 5. Melbourne in the following Ham Richardson of Westneld, sports; athletics, boxing, ennoc New Jersey, and Sammy Glam-ing cycling, fencing. mtiva of Houston, Texas, a pair gymnastics,
Meet Italy At 350 were sent to Finiand: 285 to gesticulation their refusal
hockey.
football. modern shooting,
to
A
the pre-
the
PLAY UP!
Auxiliary Fire
Service Orders
No. 29. Orders by Mr Peter Choung, Acting Superintendent. Auxiliary Fire Service of August 4, 1936.
of
Lecture: A lecture will be given by the Traming Officer, AFS on
"The Keeping "Stop Message." Occurrence Book & The Compilation of Fire Report Forms" at AFS Train- ing Depol, Arsenal Yard on Tuesday,
A August 7, 1950 at 1730 hours. officers, Hongkong Division (9.0. &
above) are Instrikcied to attend this lecture.
Heaving a sad English sigh, I turn to where a group of nice
Leave: 9,0. (K) Chui Fu-kar grant- Russian girls are waiting toed 3 months leave we.f. 1.8.50; Yn/Fir No 521 (HK) Tud Kwong take part in the Cossack dance.
of granted 3 months' leave w.d.f., "What
think do
you
25.7.60. English
whisper men?"
(Sgd.) K. A. Banks, desperately
AL. D/Supt., Ars.
I
"We have not noticed," says one, "anything at all about English men, " hundred-and-one up?
-
Who's
•
for
So here I am, bring spoon-fed by Joan Crawford.
She
experiencing that exquisite form { "modern" gol with different hand.
-
SUPREME IDIOGIES
idlocica
the
ut
bowl
in approaches, The eyes spark.
Tho catherine-wheels. mouth-earnivorous as an orchid
miles.
giant
But I have seen that smile
1
#
of 20th century torture, the equipment. When Valdon played Pinehurst his best score was 4-hour four-balt.
and the the years writing in "Sport and Country" 71. his average 73
the the course was 5,400 yards loog, So, before--on
faces of slavish cludes, "The only visible solution in 7,007 yarda Hegan gets 65
prisoners sho has played, the In 5,400 yards Vardon, elegant
the floating ball and chorter shots,
murderesses, courses, then a championship every bit his equal by the stand-destructive. Mums. course Cam bo under 0,000, ords of his day, got 71.
Hemlock, I wonder? Henbane? yards."
LUDICROUS THING
"Salad-dressing," sho says. The other week I had the "Salad dressing. Just a little, It must be one of the supreme Prince's, Sandwich, from the sip Delicious.
salutary experience of playing
Title.... of the sporting ecene Slazenger Trophy teos. Allowing Malco It myself. Always watched them, under the sters Wat, as tra years have gone by that this is a ludicrous thing for make it myself.
Take it with we should solemnly have altered eye of such stalwarts as little the length
|u middle-aged correspondent to
me Into restaurants. Never go Charles Sutcliffe, say dot
of approximately
do, that Sarazen, had given me 36,000 gal holes in Britain 10 driver which seemed to propel
anywhere without it, single word!
"I take food seriously. Boy, Now the sheep have turned it accommodate changes in
be the ball upwards rather than for-
I love to
cath of 22-year olds, completed a 4-1
rowing, pentathlon,
And for, an instant the eyes in the swimming, weight Hiting, not into ravening wolves at least onco which the ball can be wards, and that the innkeeper
hit-these changes, Incidentally, victory over Mexico
bad into sturdy rama who have Bud-
twice being naked for by no en, letud kept me up unduly into the open even wider and she lootu American Zone
Cup wrestling and yachting. Davis
denly used, their horns Chairman Lord Burghley
alone tennis today...
as if she would like to devour the ruling body-instead of night before, I still any, at the adjusting the ball to fit the
the Bridgland for the second Sunday the whole human race. Richardson applied the clin- the British Olymple Associa
$0.000. holes,
succession, that it is pain and antionally to
Very wiem
Wakam," I Bay, "cother. cher that qualified the US to tion, said Britain's team would
It is as though someone
meme in grief oven for the professionals hatred gentleman in the Alfred.
modest grey mcot Itally at Forest Hills Sept. be the third largest vang
vented a Soccer ball which, by'n moderate player, could be kicked to have to walk so far,
None of
who is calledt which is a fault of round
Miss Crawford's fourth and ist the length of the fold--and ovary
tho gold archilcots Mr Bridg
(00) club put their stands back to sc“ land. When you
husband. entertains the Hamburg, Aug, 0. commodate it!!
dients, you set them a man-sized Alfred Me Alfred Steele US captain Billy Talbert called fully justifies this decision"
Lew Hoad (Australia) added
So now every single one of us problem. Yet even then three of steps instantly to a barge soft Giammalvato
drink cooler (his own addition face explained Mexican substitute, 19-year-old
French and Australian mile nether than Botors for only we could aben Reges, and
as Cotton, now Sammy contribute suficient money for oth Esteban
*last proclains, reduce the chester Oliver Meel, suite) won with cose, 6-4, 0-1, 0-3.
team which allough championships to day when he round of golf and whatever out
beat Italy's Orlando
and hands me a bottle of cola: Birolh handicap,
wer shou ik vol
Lewar miles, Tower Remove shots, more Yeays hou but wonder- with far more confidence than competition, have been Invited
singios anala, Australle also of the
||'day; futand" of one, and cost of
KETRESDING upkeep reduced by a third
éronstared:947,007, the warth÷is dat
of
contingent (the
largest 20-30 by &nociding over Mario will be the US and "USSR.) Llamas,
the 0-3, 6-3, 0-1, in
£20,000 WANTED opaning match.
"We feel that the standard
In
Then, with the series won, obtained by our competitors
be
Lew Hoad Wins German Title
risk of offending. Mr. A.
in
he Football Association with the German title toʻhla Wimble" [hàs to walk j'anything up to then-holed out in Losy, than run to the lush decor of tho Dor
their
in
The sturdy Toxas star played | eliminated in the “* qualifying | 6-2, 6-7, 6-4, 8+0° in the monikan bahan ala-4? Belyndeo, tún; two rounds at ful for kaminess)" je
ho hud. yesterday- In' Josing the to a vacancy at Melbourne, doubles with Barry Mackay of Load Burghley, Chairman of took the women ingles 100 Bay during the Ryder Derton, Ohio, againat Llamas £100,000 had been subscribed when Mrs Thelma Long best mato at Finehurst, anct Francisco Contreras already leaving £46,000 all Ming Silvaria Lazzarino, Italy, youtu. --United Press.
to bo reized,
playing
The thought refreshes him al- most sa mach, all the hourly
pull' hora takes from“ his own
33031
(b) The undermeationed attendon an examination,
in and gunlifted, Basic Fire-Fighing on July 19, 1000;
Taut Hok Rastern Zone-30187
31130 Wong Tat-leung, 31412 Loung Yu- leong, 31069 Chung Kwan, 31077 Leung Kam-hon, 33300 Lam Shung- wal, 32008 Lou Pak-um, 32137 Law Char cheune.
1204 Young King- keung, 3130 Yu Ting-keung, 33154 Leung Hay-Ung. 33205 Cheng Chin- man, Jaw Wong Ting-cues, 33370 Kam Yuen-kal. 33378 Lau Wing-cheung, 32 Lau Pang-yip, 33547 Yu Tung- Chow ming. 33620
Hong, 3703 Yung Yht-woon, 23910 Wong Chí. 1301 ile Yuk-lem, 33048 Young Kwok-chu, 34243 Choung Yat-ming. Wal-fun (Miss), 3430 34309 Yung Ying Chun-wal,
(c) The undermentioned attendect an examination, and qualified, Bale Rescue on July 27, 1958;
#hamkiwan Zone.32103 Wal Kwan. 33409 Chang Wai (Mies), 39409 Lau Kwok-kee, 33518 The Leung, 708 Chang Ko-ting, 33089 Chan Koon-keun, poi lo Yeu-ming, 33004 Yip Kwok-fat, 13916 Lou Chung-1 33073 Mut chua-rang 33977 Tong You. 33000 Wom chun, 34301 Fang Chi-lam, Yuen Tin-ynu, 34360 Kwan Fec. ani Chun Chun hang, 340 Ngu Huen, 3448 Me Kong-wah, 34483 Leung Yim-ku (Mim. Molo Hui Tung-fat, 34521 p chum-pon, 34834 Shek Muk-hi
D." R. W. ALEXANDER,
Chief Staff Officer, Civil Aid Services. 3.8.00.
Headache
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