FOR WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1957.
An MG car has been specially built for British racing driver Stirling Moss.in an attempt to beat the world land speed record for 1,500 ce cars at Salt Flats, Utah, USA in August. The present record for cars of this class is 204.2 m.p.h., which was set in 1939 also in an MG.
Photo shows:-View of the special 1,500 c.c. MG, in which Stirling Moss 'will attempt the speed record in August—Keystone Photo.
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Coronation Cup Field Looks Promising
A farcically slow carly pace for the past two runnings of the Coronation Cup has added little to the prestige and reputation of this important weight-for-age race, but the acceptance for this year's event promises n much better contest tomorrow.
FONDA PUTS THE FINGER ON THE FANS RACKET
By ROBERT ROBINSON
Angular as a set of theorems, Mr Henry Fonda, 20 years a star, loped across the thick carpet like a slack-shouldered ostrich.
He sat down in a corner of the room in the Connaught Hotel with his knees sticking up and his elbows sticking out. He looked as if he had been constructed out of pipe-cleaners,
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Mr Fonda pointed his long sad face at mo, a face which put me in mind of a Gothic window in a Victorian chapel, and said, umiably but with conviction:
"Fans are monsters. They are "And that's when I get into a obcae lctions on which parasites who live on the bodies rage. "I get hysterical and cinema commonly thrives, of Alm-stors, They are a claustrophobic, and then Fele is an altogether different howling mob. They don't care liable to hurt someone," proposition, as those. who who you are only what you
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struggle are. that this big brown coll gave |
With Teacher likely to set u, in five countries-England, Irc- sirong gallop for Donald, and lond, France, Germany and Bindly possibly doing the same | Norway—with a fale measure of for Rotar, we nro ilkely to be success in the last two years. spared a repetition of the re-But he has definito limitations newads won by Narrator, in the top class. 1955, and Tropique a year ago, when the Arst half-mile was run at a crawl.
Of all the lending races de signed for older horses the
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But of its success, Fonda could only say despondently:
Coronation Cup has provided Hugh Lupus in last year's Cham-egitimate fan' who comes up to) corner. "One of the worst mobs "Well, I won't actually 1090
British bloodstock with the most Humilations since the war,
to
plon Stakes will concede,
Frie has had three races this season, winning the first and being a shade" unluckily beaten In the others.
He twisted angrily the
in his
money. remember was when we were
"People talk about it. People making Jesse James in a small
Why, say how good it is. But I wish those gawing monsters came by more were actually paying to car and pogo-stick from every
see the darned thing. part of the United States.
"I could make excuses, I "You know what happened? could say it's a bad time for The regular inhabitants of that nims everywhere. But when a village,
and folks who lived cinema showing "Twoive Angry there, actually had to take to Mon" was only three-quarters the hills...."
full, there was a queue of people Fonda appeared to have no Sophia Loren in wet clothes in stretchlag two blocks to see personality, spore character into which he slips as
no extra "Boy on A Dolphin," into something loose when u columnist calls.
"I'm not speaking of
you in the street, asks you for Only three times out of 11 has owner, M. M: Calmann, told me liked your last Alm, No, sir, vilinge way out West,
At Longchamp recently his your signature and says he & home-trained horse won to how pleased he was with the mean the ones who rays around Seven victories have gone to
in packs at Alm festivals. France,
coit's progress. and the other Irelund.
TERRIFYING CHALLENGERS We can expect challengers from both these countries again. Ireland's Roistar, prevented by a bruised heel from making an earlier English visit, for the Jubilee Handicap, returns to the course on which he ran prob- ably the greatest race of his career when a good third to Lavandin in last year's Derby. The French challengers are Frie and Cobetto. The latter, a much travelled horse, has raced
Railway Station To Be Named After Hashim Khan
Peshawar, June 4. World famed squash wizard, Hashim Khan of the Northwest Frontier of Pakistan, is to re ceive a unique honour when a new railway station will be named after him, in a ceremony to be held shortly, it was learn- al here today.
I was believed here that 42- year-old Hoshim Khan will be the Arst sportsman of inter- naitonal fame to have a railway station named after him.
The new station to be named after the Pathan equash player
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M. Calmana thinks that the Epsom course will suit this colt, and I got the impression that the owner would welcome a slowly-run race, because this would put a premium on Fric's the speed.
In view of Mr G. A. Oldham's i courageous refusal of a six- figure offer from America for Talgo it is bad luck that the colt has not so far fulfilled expecta-
tluns.
"The other day in Cannes I watched them descend on a young blonde lee locusts on a Eren feld. The girl was terror- stricken-it turned out she had
nothing to do with Allms at all." On the screen, Fonda seems languid character, In the dosh, he's a ball of fire,
He said: "When a mob of fans comes up to me, why I KO through it like a football for- ward.
"I daren't slop.
If I stop to sign a single
He had been counted on as our Just once, main Coronation Cup hope, but autograph-I'm submerged. now he is missing, ond the best of the home-trained, candidates
REAL MAN Such a spare soli ju standard equipment with many stars but when you
talk to Fonda you talk to the real man.
Fonda sunoked an English cigarette. He said: "The great big public go to cinemas mostly rest their great big behinda...."
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appear to be Gilles de Rolz Bowls Teams Fort of it is written by mimes years, but I hate the pines.
Postponed Games
We started to talk about said: "No, I don't answer fan-mull, Hollywood, and Fonda Have you ever seen fan-mail? Do Well, maybe I shouldn't say it, you know that ninety-eight per because I lived there afteen Pirate King, High Veldt and
graph?
"The people Donald,
are so small. Last year'A 2,000 Cuinens winner
And "The people who write these They're real provincials. was most impressive
carry a torch for Adisi when defeating Talgo and Lo The following players have letters write the same letter to since Pretendant at Sandown.
been selected to represent their a couple of dozen different atars Stevenson and I'm about as Pirate King was particularly respective clubs In the post-they send out copies with anti-McCarthy as 11's possible to impressive in his only race so poned Lawn Bowls League blank at the top filled in for the be, I lost a lot of friends out for this reason. The only doubt games today:
there....".
about him is, as in Fric's case,
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the question of stamina for a and Division (Awny) v KDC: A. A. C. Löchte, B., A. fast-run mile and a half.
High Veldt has not been out. Walker, R., Noble, T. Curry, Edwards. G. D. S. Agnew (sklo: ince a disappointing effort at B. Z. Awards (Skip); A Newbury in the spring. Donald Stonyor, R. W. Hollywey, N was unluckily beaten in the Baker, R. M. Hetherington (Skip). Chester Vase, but providing to- morrow's gallop is made suf- cently strong he should cur- tainly take hond in the
on the Peshawar-Jamrood Jine, Jamrood is an outpost (near the Khyber Pass.-France- | fighUng.
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particular star It's going to. Am I supposed to be thrilled at seeing my name scrawled on a clrcular?
Fonda would bo better pleased-and beiter served-it the fans stopped sending him circulars and started flocking along to "Twelve Angry Men,"
This is Fonda's first venture in It is n dry, spare entertainment, a moment of truth
those
3rd Divisionome) XBGC: A. 1. Slaley N. A. Brown, J. L. Mounit. J. ft. MeAusland (Skip); A. B. Coleman, N. F. Fany. W production. Pritchard, L. M. S. Lloyd (Skin);
G. C. Knight,
A. N. Other.
1. G. Banham, D. T. Smith (Skip). | magniäcently dwaring
And then he spoke of his one- time great friend, John Ford, the famous director,
He said: "On dur last picturo together, we Just didn't get plong, and we aren't friends any more. It's real sad."
And when Mr Fonda got up- unfolding like a jack-knife-ho looked sad so ho loped away, Very sad indeed.
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