1958-01-28 — Page 6

Ashley Cooper Retains Australian Singles Title

Sydney, Jan. 17.

Ashley Cooper, the defending Champlon, won the Men's Singles une of the Australian Lawn Tennis Ciampionships here 10- day, beating Mal Anderson 7-9. 0-3, 0-4 and Miss Angela Mortimer beut Miss Lortalite Coghlan of Victoria 6-3, 0-4 in the Women's Singles Final.

Cooper was a surprise wher of the Men's Final becRLI ŠE Anderson has been just that little better daring the past year. He brat Cooper in the American Championships.

Anderson was visibly tired after after the Marathon 30 game last set against Mervyn Rose in their semi-final, which wax com- picted today after being held over from yesterday because of bad light.

He began well with KOING spending serving To the Anal, but Cooper gradually wore him down and Anderson seemed un- able to concentrate.

in winging the Women's the, Mis Mortimer gained her third victory in five clashes with Miss Coghlan.

Her previous wins were in the Queensland and South Aus Tralian Championship Final. Miss Coghlan bent her for the New South Wales and Victorian littes.

The match for the most part was featured by lung bzeling Talles in which the English girl's accuracy was a dorking Lavtor

The fi

opened in spectacular Lashion with both players losing their services,

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Ming Mostitnicy brate through her vival again m the 71b game and then held her own service to take the set 0-3.

MUCH THE SAME The second wet was much the with the a the rs! Victorian reitig into the net t time in an effort to upset Miss Mortimer,

Bu Miss Cryghlan wEN BOL accurate with her volleys.

Miss Morliner was conten! lo play trun the baseline nit! with accurate placements fareed Mis Coghlan onto the defen- sive with subsequent errors,

She broke Miss Coghlan's service for a 5-2 lead.

Then Miss Coghland fought back determinedly to hold her bext service ant break through's her opponen: wha trailed 4-5,

Get

ROBOT'S FIRST

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1958.

WHERE ARE RELATIONSHIP CEMENTED

Neither Force is superior. If victory can be achieved on the highest innings of the match, the Singapore Police won with their second knock total of 245.

Yet, nobody will ever know what the Hongkong Police could have achieved had they not declared at 286 for

SEVEN.

WOS

W.W

The lowest Innings of the scorebook, De WR's last over maich

achieved by the reads Singapore Pollec who only reached 95 in their first. The Hongkong Police reached 104 in their second and, let alone fall- ing to win, falled to draw the match.

was

This first Police Forces' Inter- port

one of the cmzlest cricket matches I have seen,

Anyone will immediately realise that this does not read like a hat trick.

The ninth Hongkong Police- man, to run back to the pavilion was run out,

THEY NOW?

I Still Wish I'd Won That Marathon,

Jim Peters

Says Jim

By GEORGE WHITING

The red sign over the white shop on Mitcham Green announces that J. H. Peters is in business as a dispensing optician-and five minutes with the pleasantly rounded boss will convince you that business is good.

Mr Peters consults, a colleague dispenses, & receptionist receives. The spongy carpet of red and the shiny new car of blue and white- denoting fervent support of the Dagenham Boys' football team-are West End clinic, and the tangible rewards of a 60-hour week, a another shop on the way.

Why call it a crazy match? How cise can a match bo Baxic home la Quite frankly, neither side described that was dominated Chadwell Health, deserved to win and there could by batemen On A bowler's Mrs Friedu have been no more fitting reaul | wicket.

Peters married thon the one that eventuated. The stud is owned by

The first foul sired by Robot-one of the greatest racehorses in the history of the furf-was born to "Crawley Beauty" on January 19 at Warren Stud, Chevely, near Newmarket.

Mr J. J. Astor. She is as yet unnamed.-Keystone l'hoto.

ENGLISH FA CUP

MANCHESTER UNITED AND WOLVES BOTH FAVOURED BY FIFTH ROUND DRAW

London, Jan. 27.

Scunthorpe United, shock team of the Fourth Round, will be at home to Liverpool, one of the leading Second Division clubs, in the Fifth Round of the English Football Assoelution Cup on February 15.

After their splendid effort in winning 3-1 at Newcastle on Saturday, the little Third Division Northern Club from Lincolnshire must stand a fair chance of reach- ing the quarter-finals, though Liverpool are a strong determined side.

Scunthorpe are almost certain

The matches will be played on Saturday, February 15, at 3 p.m. C.M.T.-Reuter.

tie.

on a two-shill-

03e commen-a-day

So keen where the Singapore

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pay.

How else, can un some of the keenest felding One thing must be sald for

cvcr exhibited in Hongkong pressics the bul- the Singapore Polleo-they did

except when it came to the tons of household oventually pull something out

sl:cer business of holding a gadgets where of the bag. Bul, Contrary 10 skied ball.

she used to incur popular opinion, I object 10

backache.

The any suggestion that the match | Pelice to show that they could children,

Robin ruded with a hat trick.

hold a catch that toward the and Jenulfer, end of the match there was a

Tide thela ponies regularly. Plump

The match was penultimate over. minutes left with

tied in the collision between two of them How many that almost concussed a nearby

how many (tram off its rails.

runs to win had been the topic of pavilion conversation for quite a while and the last over match started with Michael De Wilt bewing from the Dockyard end,

of the

Seven Hongkong Police wie- kels were down. Throughout

the WAS

The

Jim

since. The sports

a

-creature

Peters, the mira- Who

cle man of the outstanding Marathon

has player of the match? Please; ng come a long way controversy.

Hongitong Cont Police tried very hard to win match that they should have world, including scribds of the won by three o'clock yesterday.

The Singapore Police sur-me, likened him vived a black pro-lunch hour to and 6 more leisurely people from. Helsen, this last innings of the matchate, drank and watched, they run-over dog, a nobody bothered about the per- began pulling the match out of landed fish, a bloody fox which These we never got. As captain mitted allotment of two minutes to walk in.

the fire. By 2 pm, they were had gnawed its own leg off,- of uur Empiro Games team, work It would not be in a much happier position. rabbit Infected with myxoma-suppose i should have insisted. incorrect to say that batsmen

By 4.80 p.m. the paviliort | tosis, and u vletim. snatched but I knew that everybody literally raced to the wicket crowd began talking about the from the gallows,

would want to and, in three instances,

stay back Marathon, I wave an acknow- were possibility of their pulling off a

the track for that run cut almost as fast as they victory. Just look at this fall of

famous ledgment of the cheers. This st seared Bannister-Landy mile. With a memory

ran in

1

a

the

This is Jim Polers today--at

in his Mitcham Green

.

consulting room.

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time, I didn't. Instead, I fell

I remember trying to

for the shade of the

wickets story:-1-5, 2-10, 3-81, by the sight of a bag-of-bones

"You could say that a drip-over. The last over will long be4-40. 5-05, 6-111, 7-119. 8-128, Peters collapsing in the blister-

heat ing Canadian 8-170, 10-245. remembered,

of that ping tap helped me to lose that make Nothing happen- No. Mis Mortimer made no nus

ed on De Witt's first two de

9. Rozario, finally notorious 1854 Marathon, it Marathon. It kept me awake grandstand on my way to the but that Lape Just bat brings a glow of mutual well- all brought an unblemished

previous night. The tape As recorded in, the bark for 80. liverice,

being to compare 1958 waistlines morning of the race was baking would not come any nearer, I go remember falling over again At 4.30 pm, the Hongkong in that cosy Mitcham dispensary, hot, and things began to

three times, I think." Police were left 72 minutes in His, by the way, adds up to wrung when I found I had lost the cap I had bought for a which to get 105 runs for vic-12 stone at the ripe age of 38.

Three times, Jim? Nearer a tory. They suil

dollar. I felt like a dead man, trusted

Prince dozon.

Philip and Did we over-emphasise those even before the start. Nerves, 33,000 others of us watched in Wemersley as one of the likely

I suppose.

horror architects of the necessary 105,

as you slumped and but entrusted the other end to

pitched and writhed to within They Rory Macpherson.

did

u furlong of the tape you never not err In this decision.

did reach that blistering after- The first wicket partnership Peters will live."

of a record attendance because is their first appearance in the take about the tenth game in which she won easily for

Fith Round. The record for the 6-4 and the match.

ground is 23.707 against Ports- In the Ansi of the Mixed mouth in the Cup in 1954. Deables, Dob ftowe and Mrs The two favourites, Manches- Mary Hawton (Australia) bealter United and Wolverhampton, Peter Newman (Australia) and were both favoured by the drow. Miss Mortimer 0-11, 6-1.8-2. Both have home Les-Manches-

THE RESULTS

ter opainst the winners of the Women's Bingīts Final; Miss postponed Sheffield Wednesday Angela Mortimer (Britain) beat versus Bull tie and Wolver- Miss Lorraine Coghlan (Vie-humpton against either Chelsea tarin) 6-3, 6-4.

u Darlington.

Men's Singles Final: Ashley Cooper (Victoria) beat Mal

Anderson (Queensland) 0-3, 0-4.--Reuter,

7-5,

May: I'm Sorry We Have Five- Day Matches

London, Jan. 27. Peter May, the Surrey and England captain, condemned five-day Tests when speaking

to the North Cricket Society in Leeds, Yorkshire, today.

If a side was bowled out quickly, as was the case with the Australians in Durbon, the seemed apposition

to think Flury

could bat for almost three days and so stand n wonderful chance of success with the weather and wearing pitch.

He said, "I think that is the wrong way. They should get quick runs and try to bowl the other side out again, The cricket would be the better for *t.

Big Surprise

Huil brought off a big surprise when they beat United 2 away in the Third Round In 1931-52.

Hull were then In the Second Division.

Wolverhampton present formidable pictacle to bolh Darlington and Chelsea. Dar- lington nearly beat Chelsta un Saturday, but cannot hope to Ho much further.

Added incentive for another Third Division side, York, lo win their reply at Bolton is the possibility of a home tie with stoke. York are n difficult team to beat at home, but will have to improve on Saturday's play to overcome Bolton,

dis-

THIRD TEST

Vancouver agonics? We AND JOHN WAITE

MCGLEW AND JOHN

BOTH SCORE CENTURIES

AGAINST AUSTRALIA

Durban, Jan. 27.

Alded by a third wicket record stand of 231 by Jackie McGlew and John Waite, South Africa built up a possible winning first innings lead of 155 on the third day of the Third Test against Australia here. Both

By

men hit centuries.

the close the Springboks had scored 318 for five com-

But whether pared with Australia's total of 169. their excessive caution will allow them sufficient time to dismiss the Australians for a second time remains to be seen. The match ends on Wednesday.

and Walte struggled on the afternoon they were treated to The manner in which MeGlew, great restraint, but late in the

pitch suggested it will be the more satisfying spectacle of difficult enough to presento stand of 54 in 97 minutes by A Londen Derby will bring serious problems for the Trevor Goddard and Ken Fun- West Ham either Fulham or Australians, strong and long stron Charlton 12

All-Second though their batting la.. Division clash. The draw has The Springbok attack is ex- been lucky for West Ham whoj peeled to launch an all-out ut home for the third assault in an effort to dismiss

the Australlons playing so well it will take

for good side to beat them.

small score.

are

an

The Scoreboard

put on 58 runs of the necessary

did

not. I still recall our relief when a breathless messenger arrived at our hotel lale that Saturday night crying: "Poters will live.

Unbearable

They started the race at noon, so that Prince Philip could see the finish. The beat was ELT-

105 and it must stan to the Now, more than three years bearable, at least 60 degrees. eternal credit of the Singapore later. the Mitcham man of Too hot, anyway, for a 26-mile Police that they did not wilt as effairs talks of that fevered race, mostly uphill,

a result,

After that a long

procession Pherson being a speciator of

of batsmen to and fro, Mac-

South Australia 184 For Eight

Perth, Jan, 27. Soild scoring by the middle batamen improved South Aus- tralia's position after a bad

day, of all that led up to it, and of all that led away from it.

My First Car

"So I put down overy penny | 'gen.' start against Western Australia | I had, £700, on this shop. Six in their Sheffield Shield match months later I bought my frat

"By the time

renched

neur

naar,

They Wept

It was there,

on what he mistakenly thought Wes the

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"I was last up the ramp and finishing line, that the late Mick out of the stadium-unusual for Mayes gathered you in his arms. "I suppose you could say that me--but after a mile or so the Spectators wept and fainted and the same from the playing field losing that Marathon the way I Aussies and the South Africans turned their heads away

were way behind. for gulle a bit of it. Thunderous did has helped me to make a go

exhausted My team offieints 11ted your cheers finally greeted with the best part of two overs won It, he said over a steak McGhee (who was to win

the tle of things, but I still wish I'd mate, Stan Cox, Scotland's Joe little body on to a stretcher, the with your skinny limbs twitch- to go and three wickets to fall. and-kidney pudding that would, race) and myself were out on ing convulsively over its sides.

The three wielceta did fall.

certainly never have figured an our own. At nine fulles, Ston the menu of the carlier

They laid you on a grey- Jim looked at me, I looked at Stan, —“RECORDER" Peters.

bed, where you and off we went up the hill. blanketed leaving Joe behind.

drooled saliva and, whimpered "When I came homo from

like a whipped animal while Vancouver, I ran away from it "Three miles Arther on, Stan [ you awaited the saline solution ali to a little village in Wales. was still with me as we went that would replace the salt your It was there I decided to quit post a cemetery, so I stepped on, body had lost on those 20 miles running and start up business I learned later that I must of Marathon murder. An ambu- on my own. Any more Van- | have got nearly a mile lead, but lance come, and we opened", the couvers would have left me like out there an those hot roads I door to speed you on your way a punch-drunk boxer,

thought Stan was still crowding to the Shaughnessy Hospital, me. Unfortunately, the loud-

The Jim Peters of 1958 gring speaker van növer carrie enough for me to get any real reminiscently: "First thing I knew," be recolis, "was waking up to find Stan, Cox in the next the bed and a surgeon's wife bring- from Cher car and life began to feel com last feeding station, only half ang me a pink rose At the close of the secondfortable. When I was racing 1 mile from home, I was still garden. Stan thought I had won the Im-the race. I know different by day's play South Australia were had to watch every penny to buy belting away under

at my that time, 0 184 for eight in reply to Wes-4 pair of spikes at the NAAFI. pression, that Cox was

tern Australia's first innings of Even when I was world chain- heels. If I had known that ho

Then.. they told me Prince a telegraph plon my track sult' was a pair had crashed into 15209.

of grey flannels with some pole at 23 miles and was on his Philip was going to make me a

spectal award, but After'. South Australia had elastic threaded through by my way to hospital, I'd havo had

to keep it secret. It arrived lost

batsman Gavin wife. I never did have any kind time to dip my head in the with my Christmas post at home opening Stevens for two, Colin Pinch of uniform until the Olympics water bucket. As it was, I was five months later."

(50) and at Wembley in 1948. (37), Nell Danske,

terrified. They gave me a half-

There are other testimoninis Don Harris (37) put up effee-

in to that most gallant fallure 8tive resistance

"I still think I'd have won at dry sponge, and off I went. against the

of sport. One Vancouver if we had had some "I wobbled a bit up the hill the chronicles. Western Australian attack.

is a Jim Peters dund in British Total (for Ave wickets)

Swing bowlers Ray Strauss experienced, Marathon men out to the stadium, but I put it and D. Hoare Bach took three on the road with us. One of down to the rough road. Then Columbia, the first of whose Fall Of Wickets 1-8, 2-20, South Australian

these days our athletics authorias Ixcoched the ramp that led ts was made to a 17-year- wickets,

his hands VA West minutes to reach three figurts 3-269, 4–239, 5–318.

to ties may get round Strauss for 61 runs and Hoare things. Let's hope they do it the

these into the ground, I could hear old lad who had or Notting-compared with the

a frework on blown of by previous

crowd cheering-and slowest of six

for 58. hours

And, the other is eight | Davidson

before there is a really serious wobbled again. I felt no pain. Hallowe'en,, ininutes by Peter Richardson for Gaunt

22 2 07 2 Earlier Western Australia Accident.

Desperately tired, sea, but I had that neat little shop on Mitcham England against South Atries at

Green, where J. H. Peters in t Mackay

56 6 77 1 had lost their three remaining "In Vancouver, as elsewhere, only 30 yards to go to win. Johannesburg last season.

dispensing optician. Bonaud

41 12 70 1 wickets for the addition of 18 we needed refreshments, really

I enter @ 30 oto

"Usually, when their overnight

wet sponges, and, above all

stodium at the and of the -Reuter. China Mall Spécial

Information during the

The Draw

Manchester United v Shefield Wednesday or Hull City.

Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Chelsea or Darlington.

York City or Bolton

Scunthorpe United vs

"I am sorry, we have five-derers vs Stoke City.

day matches. They affect the players and if there were fewer

plays,

the cricket

anoru

exciting."

Prixe.

would be

France

pool.

Australia, 1st Innings, 103 another (1. Craig 62, Adcock six for 43)

South Africa-1st Innings (Saturday. 150 for two)

together before lunch on Satur-R. Westcott, b Gaunt

McGiley and Walle, who came J. Mcglew, e Grout, b Gaunt 105 day, could not quicken their R. Endean, e Simpson, b scoring rate much today because

Bezbud

of the keen Australian attack in J. Waite, b Davidson which Richie Benaud was most T. Goddard, not out threatening with his accurate leg. Funston,

c Orout, b Mackay C. Van Ryneveld, not out

Exxtran

Wan-breaks.

But they were not separated Liver-until after tea when both fell to the new ball at the same total of 260., McGlew, who made 105, had the dublous distingtion of scoring

vs Everton or the slowest century in Test

West Ham United vs Fulham or Charlton Athletic

Cardiff City Blackburn Rovers.

Sheffield Unlied Bromwich Albion

Rae Johnstoneham Forest.

Turns Trainer Plunket Shield

London, Jan, 27.

Rae Johnstone, the Aus- Cricket Match

tralian-born jockey who rode nearly 2,000 winners ir bla career in the saddle, said hero Tonight that he was soiting up as a trúiber,

cricket, taking nine hours five.

Main Factor

34.

Though Richardson at Lime was criticised for hig his [caution, in the long

run Wellington, Jan. 27. Wellington beat Canterbury,

century proved the main factor the by 105 runs here today in the in England's victory in

First Test. The last Plunket Shield match of the

value. AL His slables

at New Zealand cricket scason,

McGlew's effort may emergo in Chantilly, near Paris, and be Bob Blair, the Now Zealand the ultimate result,

will be

zaid he will fly there at the Test fant bowler, toolc six Walle balted with greater "work-end "to got down to buri- |wickets for 29 in Canterbury's ness.”

second innings to finish with Versatility than his partner to

Johnstone, who is 52, nó- Hoited tis retirement from

the saddle last year but made Lemporary comeback Last

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month to ride. In international

races in Australia,

match Agures of 11 for 100.

Scores:

Wellington 214 and 180; Canterbury 210 and 70,

Boore 134. his bighest Test innings and his second century of the present series. He was at the wicket for seven hours 23 minutes, hitting atx fours, two-

Final placings in the Shield more than McClew.

compétition word: 1. Otago Their patient and was the

30 points; 2. Auckland, 0 | best for any South Africah

Ho arrived London Airport. {points; 3. Wellington, 24 points; wicket against Australiu, beating tonight after hia Anilmilan 1. Centrul Districts, 11 volats; the H08 by Charlie Frank and viall his first time siding in B. Northern Districts, 10 points; Dave Noume in 1971-22. his homeland Kinico 1,1891. 10, Canterbury, Ex paint

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