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It's Australia versus the world at sport!

in the last two weeks.

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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1958.

* In LAWN TENNIS, the triumphs Australia's track and field team for the of Australia stagger the world. Ashley Empire Games include youngsters who hold This is what Britain has been seeing Cooper, at 21, won the Wimbledon title and eight world records.

his countrymen have taken four singles Their SWIMMERS-mostly teenagers-- Not for many years perhaps never championships there in the last eight years hold 32 world records and won 14 out of 19 before-has a country dominated the scene and lost the Davis Cup only once during gold medals at the last Olympics, so completely.

that period.

These achievements have made ★ In ROWING, their oarsmen match Australia's ten million people relatively the the world. At Henley, on July 5, Stuart greatest sporting nation in the world and Mackenzie won the Diamond Sculls for the raised time and again the question "Why second year.

are they so great?””

These are the achievements of athletes from this remarkable nation during the last two weeks

★ PETER THOMSON, on July 5 won the Open GOLF Championship for the fourth time in five years. And at 28, he is still a young man.

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★ in ATHLETICS, Albert Thomas The question can never perhaps be fully on July 8 at Dublin set a new world record answered but

here we present an of 13 minutes 11 seconds in the three miles authoritative opinion on the subject by a

well-known English sports writer..

event.

AUSTRALIANS CONQUER THE

AND THEse are soME OF HER CHAMPIONS

WORLD AT SPORT

Shown on arrival at London for the Empire Games are left to right; Isa' Konrads, 14-year-old swimming wonder: Norma Thrower, world record holder for 80-metre hurdless; Mrs Marlene (Matthews) Willard, world sprint record holder; Betty Cuthbert, friple Olympic champion; and Dawn Fraser, 100-metre free- style world record holder.

-American League Baseball RED SOX BOUNCE BACK INTO SECOND PLACE WITH

4-3 TRIUMPH OVER INDIANS

New York, July 14.

The Boston Red Sox bounced back into second place in the American League today when they snapped a three-game losing streak with a 10-inning 4-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians.

Southpaw Dar: Most of Cleve» ↑ first run in the opening frame land gave up a walk with the

when he doubled and came

bases loaded to pinch hitler Ted home on Gene Woodling's sin- Lepeta in the 16th for the decfd=| gle. ing run.

Mossi relieved Jim (Mudent) Grant In the 10th after Grunt put two Boston minners on base. Before walking Lepeio, Moosi also walked pinch biller Bul Renna to i te buses.

Murray Wall pitched a two- hit game for the Red Sox after relieving Dave Sister in the oth nod was rewarded will his fourth victory. Dick Brown tromered for the Indians.

Fifth Homer

Boyli belted his of the

season in

18142 the

Bob homer eighth inning to give Baltimore

u 2-1 triumpli over Detroit

Boyd's homer broke up tight pitching duel between Jal; Browns, who gained his third victory, and Herb Moford, who suffered his second loss,

Boyd also scored Baltimore's

United States In Davis Cup Zone Final

The Orioles had six hile and the Tigern von.

In night games, Chicago was at New York and Kansas City at Washington.

Detroit

The Scores

100 000 000-3-7-| Haltimore

...... 100 000 01X-1-6-4 Muford (0-2) and Wilson; Brown 1-0 and Triandos H-Boyes (5£1, Cleveland

010 100 010 0-7-7-2 002 000 100 1-4-5-1 Boston

Wilhelm. Haileak (0), Grant to), Mowed (EPL und Brown, Nixon (8) Ser. Wat (5) and Berberet, WP- Wan (4-7). Le-arent (0-6), LR- I own (h).-U.P.1.

Tour De France

Nencini Wins 19th

Stage In Battle Of The Giants

Gap, July 14.

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Why They Are So Great

By J. L. MANNING

Here in misty, grey-clouded Britain this morning, 10,000 miles away from Australia, is an exciting vision of the world's greatest sports team living in the world's finest club-house. The athletic phenomenon of the mid-20th century is how a nation, whose population is little more than London's, can cover the globe with her champions and pot-hunt her way around the world.

Already One Souvenir

Ghana,

Floyd Quarley, 'a sprinter from exchanges garments with swimmer Lorraine. Crapp from New South Wales, Australia, in the Empire Games Village near Cardiff.

SUMMER SOFTBALL LEAGUE

Seminoles Might Have Won

But For Atrocious Call By Plate Umpire

By

"TIME-OUT”

Cheers for the Seminoles! Boos for Mr George

Pang, the plate umpire!

During the past two weeks and much a lack of moral scruplo- It is this which conditions and I say these with no reservations during the next few weeks the although that is more charitable toughens the attitude of their young games players from Aus- to her lawn tennis than to her athletes and games players. To | tralia hold the stage. At the top swimming-ns a positive and un- their way of thinking defeat is

of this page we list their re-restrained sense of ambition and not shameful. It's weakness, markable and proud achieve-delermination,

But it would be wrong to think of Australians merely as bunch of rugged, out-door larrikins rampaging around Wimbledon, golf-courses, run- ning-treks. and swhiming- pools.

ments. Ne other country of so It is the most delightful of the amall a population has ever com-nail-nation complexes. We have manded so wide a stleCESS in seen it in Sweden and Hungary sport in Jawa tennis, in golf, in this century, towing, in swinning, and athletics.

Fulltimemanship

as Ed 'Chief' Carvalho's gallant Seminoles definitely did not deserve to go down to the Angels by five runs to four in an action-packed eight-inning affair at King's Park yesterday. In fact, I will even go as far as to say that the Seminoles would eventually have taken the game if Mr Pang had not made THAT atrocious call. Why should this be so? What Fulltimemanshup flourishes art They tell me that Covent The Seminoles drew final 1 There was no further scoring makes Australia so keen of eye, Australkai sport under ideal) Guderand Sodler's Wells blood by scoring the initial rm [until the fourth. to fleet of fool, and so strong of conditions. Half her populsion, would be es much the poorer in the opening lining Credit for Berati Leo sturted the ball arm? What have they got that lives in six state capitals. They without Australians 93 would this goes to Manuel Xavier rolling. With two down ho the others haven4?

are the six bugy clubs p the world sport.

whose brillant base-running single sharply to shallow shart It is a striking thought that if Auslim League of sport.

and So if Australians can sing, recounted or the run,

stole

Peter second. the United States nad the Soviet In those citios sport can dance, play, run, and swim

D'Almuda doublod to score Union, with populations 20 times be pressurised, und oconomi- | for

The Angels were no: slow In Lee. D'Almada dented the plate greater, were relatively as ski col use made of concentrated to them and praise them for they notched two runs to lead by

their supper, good luck replying for at their turn a bat on a double by Lionel Duyaram, ful as Australià, international. sport would be locked up la a facilities.

second for the third out. cultural contest with the rest of the world sitting it oul.

Third Force

But they are not. Australia is the third force in world sport. She is respected and envied. She, is also unique.

That is the first it. part of this success story.

The second part appears paradoxical, Australia is isolated, in the Pacific. Opportunities for regular interventional competition | are rare and costly.

YTON

But, for that Very worki standards and not the

For the scors the methods of lower heights of neighbourly Communist mass spoel, She is contest, became the mountains to unable to invest in the athletic be climbed. The peaks of athletic scholarship system of Americaskill are the only challenge on She la prevented from sponsoring their Pacifle sky-line.— her sport by football pools like So Australia is a nation who, the Swedes and the Germans in sport, is always climbing Yet eagerly she adapla her

steadily towards Anglo-Saxon ways and outlook

to the realities anut demands of modern competition.

Since the war I have travelled

to all these countries

to study the organisation

and

the development of their sport. It is strange to report that only in Australis did I find so little the surface to explain the extent of their progress.

CHI

the optimum.

ono run.

HAMPSHIRE REGAIN

COUNTY CRICKET

LEADERSHIP

Innings Win Over Sussex

· London, July 14. Hampshire jumped ahead of Surrey in the English county cricket championship today by beating Sussex by an innings and two runs with a day to spare.

Hampshire's 14 points gave them a total of 124---- 10 ahead of Surrey, who looked in their match today against Kent as if the strain of trying to win the championship for the seventh suc- cessive time is beginning to tell.

Pitcher Lal Dayaram popped to

The Angels did not want in be left behind so they took pre

CITO BIN vantage of a double Tubby Viera crosed with the Weing run,

the place

playing top-

the

Top-Notch Ball The Seminoles, notch ball, served notice that they were not to be taken litly in the sixt. inning. Bernard Lee started fitning again with another single ami skrotched second on an eror by third sacker John Chaves. But that was no far af he got for he was tagged at D'Almada third when Peier grounded to short, D'Almada

to third advanced

Ovi Lionel

Layaram's double (his second) and scured on big brother Lal's

under

second.

The Angels failed to score. First Heartbreak The coventh was the first of for-the

the two heartbreakers Johnny Chaved [ third C. Azevedo bunted to first. Le

Seminoles. With one down and

South African Rugby Team To Meet France

The real battle of the giants began today in broiling

And I discount all such In First Test Mediterranean sunshine as the 95th Tour De France convenient theories that the

Capetown, July 14. survivors rode breakneck over today's 19th stage of characteristics of Australian

The South African Rugby 111 miles, studded with three tight hill climbs which climate and her people are

factors of success. Other Union team to meet France here

picked up the bunt and tossed it to catcher IYAlmada who split the pack into four bunches.

climos and other mon, too on July 26 in the first test

tagged Chaves Inches of the the French tour Kent, who themselves are A Today's sluge was

Sport match of

Glastonbury: won by ather mountain nee-made an have had their day.

Somerset plate but Mr Pong ruled it Includes six new` caps,

handily placed in fourth posi 116 and 47 for two. Northamp- SAFE. Mr Pang Gastone Nencini with yellow all-out bid to join Anquet. jowas little to environment

was given The team is: M. Gerger, J. tion in the table, gained a first tonshire 217 (D. Brookes 40, G-quite an ovation for this. But sweater Ivasler, Geminiani in But the pilot pack steadily in- and oven less to heredity. Prinsloo, J. Nel (vice-captain), innings lead of 88 over the Tribe 83, A. Lightfoot 42. B. there was more to come! second place. Quiet man, Jac-creased its time advantage.

Forbes Carlo, a former W. Rosenberg, L. Fourie, champions at Blackheath (291 Lobb slx for 69). ques Anquetil, the 1957 Tour

As the leading group embark-university lecturer and now one Kirkpatrick, C. Strydom, C. against 211).

Going into the eighth inning A Sheffield; Middlesex 204 the Seminoles, still fighting, The United States completed champion, slipped unobstrusive-ed on the run down, a chain of Australia's 100 swlenting Kock, A. van Der Merwe, P. Hero of Hampshire'n win was for tine decorex (D. Bennet were unable to make any head-

ly into third place in the over- reaction spill brought 5-0 win over Canada is the classification with his third videre down, including Echa- country's vigorous and adventur- (captain),

seven coaches, stresses, the value of his Du Toit, M. Pelser, J. Clanom fast medium bowler Malcolm 49, R. Gule 41, R. Hooker 51). | way. When the Angeln camo American zon Davis

J. Steenkamp, H.Health, who took eight avlekets Yorkshire 41 for four,

to bat the time sino cathe for lawn tennis semi-final place today. His big attacks montes.

ous nigrant stock as perfect raw van Zyl, G. Locher,

for 43 in Sussex's cond in- At Lord's: Cambridge Univer- Me Pang's second avation material for athletle develop

to The newcomer

internings for a match analysis of sity 181 for seven declared and although he was unaware of ment

national rugby are full-back 13 wickets for 88.

68 for two. Oxford Univeralty it. C. Calder singled to centre |180 (A. Smith 45).

and advance to second on an At Portsmouth; Hampshire error by catcher D'Almada, Heath's second innings Agures beat Sussex by an innings and Malig popped lo left for the were the best of his career and worn. Sussex 146 and 118 Arst out John Chaves singled centre and feller Graca brought his season's total to 78,. Smith 41, M. Heath eight to

205 (J.ged beautifully to catcher It was Gray 15, P. Sainsbury 44), D'Almada to nab Caldas miles total for and rencon

(not inches) off the pisto bul + Mr Pang once again" collod it

sented to Mr Pang. Lancashire soft, and boos galore were pre-

Worth Oup

here today.

Toronto, July 14.

The United States upponents

in the final will be the winners

Expeeled tomorrow.

All-out Bid

Nencini raved over the fasisha- ing loc with yellow sweater

312

of the Argentine-Israel semi- (Centre Midi) and strong place.

squad of riders forged ahead

Лnal,

Tour lender, Geminioni eader. Geminiant cod A New Philosophy Gerger, right wing threequarter

But this is not a fundamental Prinsloo, left-winger Fourie, Best In Career

van Zyl reason. The real reason is one wing forward Pelser Today's resulta were (Ameri- but Anquetil and other riders

and lock forward Steenkamp. Spain's Federico Bahamones or outlook not of antecedents. can names first): Jack Dougins joined them to form a 23-man with 50 points led the staminus' Australia has doveloped a new The second Test--which Is. bent Don Fontana 4×0, 6-3, 0-3, | plot pack.

la the mountain climbing Grand philosophy. It is the philosophy also the last match of the tour 0-1; and Borry Mackay beat One and a half minutes be-Prize after today's climb of the of full-time amateurian ur-takes place in Johannesburg which equals his previous best for 43 Hampshire Paul Willey 6-6, 6-3,"12-10, 7-5. | hind, Charly Gaul and Spain's Foreyssade and Sentinelle supported by any direct stimulus on August 10. China Ma

"Iron Leg" Bahamontes [1- peaks.—France-Presse,

from the State. It reflects not so Special.

-Reuter.

THE GAMBOLS

MÉS GAMBOLD IN THE WAITING ROOM, GIZ

BUT BUEN

SUPPOSED

TO BE AT

· MEETINKO

HER CLUB.

by Barry Applely

WAITING ROOM

WELL, WHO ELSE COULD I ASK TO ZTP ME

COOK BETTER MEALS

WITH GAS

two-day (Hampshire 14 points),

256 and nine for two. Combine (G. Atkinson 81, A. Pewis 73). Services 253 for eight declared

Al Manchester: Middlesex, after a bad start

Hampshire's fourth who "of "the" DOBODIT;

against Yorkshire, got well on top at the end of the day. declared at 254 for nine, and in The last hour captured four Yorkshire wielools for only 41.

At Blackchen; Kent 201

3. Protlove 70 J. Pettford

'bum

ent

Anything But Gentlemanlike

In the University match at T. Lock dight for 09 and 23 Lord's, Cambridge inptain Ted for one), Surrey 211 (F. Moy Doxic one of the players ask-99, C. Page five for 70). et whōther he will be available to tour Ausiralin with the MCC shire 146 at 43 for two. I would like to take team, surprisingly declared at Warwickstdre 205 for nine de „Saturday's total of 181 for seyth |ékrend (A. Waiten 102, M. Softball. Association, that and Oxford took a first innings Smith 07). Blend'or 10 runs

To all ardent softballars, this call will go down as the that threw the 1958 mm-

this apportunity ta inform the the

At Binnsngham: Worengier-mer League race wide open,

At the clate, Cambridge were 13 for two,

Closing Scores

Close of play scores in today' cricket matches were

At Westellff: Essex 203 and 112 for three (G. Barker 5). "Glasborgia' 182.

very touching Incident which At Chomuccatam: Nottingham 100k place after the gamo was able 270 (G. Goona 84 not anything but gentlements. out, C. Cook seven fur 03). Why. In the name of heaven. Gloucestershire 132 for alx. does the Association os so At Achtry De La Zouche: | many hot-headed-polîngsterá Lekodershire (L Jackson make a spectacle of thetelves! adven for 30 and 18 for no Will the Amociation Di alt wicked); · Derbyshire 189 (D. Ught und let this go unnoticed? Car 48 H. Jotuson 44, C. Leg I should think not. Let's sco {41) ——ZDOLiber

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