THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1958,
Week-End Lawn Bowls Hogan Bassey Takes
RECREIO "A" AND IRC IN TWO-WAY RACE FOR
FIRST
DIVISION TITLE
By ROBERT TAY
The 1958 lawn bowls league season will after all have thrilling
finishes in two of its three divisions.
Although Recreio "A"
By virtue of their brilliant 4-1 win over Recreio "A" last Tuesday. Indian Recreation Club have made the race for the first division title a two-way neck-to-neck affair. are The second divinton losguo s at the top of the league seen artother two-way race for table with 49 points, they have the title between Filipino Club The" and Radian Recreation Club. only two matchen to go.
fyd picked up Indians on the other hand with The Indinner
the work from 40 pohits in their credit can look points during forward to three more matches Kowloon Cricket Club, as are and are in a better position in now only one point behind the that they can build up a pos- Filipinor in the same number sible total of 65 points as com- of 14 matches playedl," pared to their rivala 50,
The Portuguese Club's re- maining opponents are KCC (to be played today at Recreio) and KBCC (home) whith those of the Indians are RBGC (to be played today at Austin Road). Recrelo B (home) and CCC "A" (awny).
Deciding Game The deciding game will prob- ably be the postponed match
between the two teams them-
scives unless in
their other
are
free matches either team rapable of strelching their lead to make the decider immaterial. This afternoon the advantage wil be with the Filipino Club "" as they. will have lowly- Recreation Club placed Pollee as their uppements, However, they would do well to remem- ber that the policemen scored a resourting 4-1 Triumph over Recreio during the week.
Odds Even
Considering the oppostions they still have to face, the odds of the two teams in winning the championship are about even as there in every posibility of their dropping further posts in their remaining games.
For buth teams xlay's not think they could lose, 1 feck matches will be crucial affairs, that it is going to be extremely witch Everty point wiiffelt for them to collect full
poils.
court.
The Indians will be at home to fecreto and although I do
Mies H. Kwong and Kowloo Bowling Green Club's Mrs S.. Bicheno, Mrs D. McKittrick and Mrs J, Rounsefeil.
This should, be match with the odds sightly in favour of the Cratgengower three.
an
even
Starting at the same time at the Kowloon Bowling Green Club will be the two semi-final matches of the Men's Open
Rinks event.
Experience v. Youth
The two Recreio combinations of J. M. Gullerrz, H. A. Ozorio, S. E. Sousa and C. E. Paseos and L. M. Remedios, A. Sequeira, A. M. Baptista and A. A. Lopes have been rather unfortunate in having heen drawn against each other. This will in the main be match between youth and ex- perience. Both Baptista and Lopes have been playing extre- mely well lately and are in my
pull througů. opinion likely
The other semi-final will see another close match between Talkoo's J. S. Skeld, G. Stark, J. R. Baxter, and R. B. Mat- shall and KCC D. C. Symons. A. M. Alves, F. R. "Kerman!
On paper the KCC four are the stronger combination but on for the Taikoo Club four have been the more impressive and untess Landolt and his show well above average form they may well be at the tail- end of the final seare,
Of the two, Recreo "A" Open Championships and J. S. Landoit,
in
the tougher opportion Kowloon Cricket Club and my poribly drop one point,
The lesions are up against Kontoon unpredictable Bowling Green Chib and will undoubtedly go all out for the ruaxirauin points which are well within their reach.
the
The theade P
will be Tomorrow interest centred on the Colony Open Championship matches.
Club
At Hongkong Cricket starting at 4 pm the first nat of the ladies events will be staged between Craigengower's Mis S. Silva, Mrs I. Souza ant
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SPORTS QUIZ
1. In wilch game do you (a) - play a frame and (b) score
break?
2. What have these sportsmen In common: Tom Hobinson, Murray Halberg, Geoffrey Elliott und Dave Power?
3. "Fourteen indicates which
golf rule?
caught
4. Can'a batsman be
out over the boundary?
6. In which port may you from shoot at goal only inside the circle'?
. A crown of laurets was an award in ancient sporting timies. What is the modern equivalent?
7. With which sports do you associate the following: Tod the Nawab of Sicane,
ainudi, John Surtees and Milkha Singh?
8. Georges
9.
10.
was Carpentier
boxing world heavyweight champlon. True or false? For which club did Slanicy Matthews play before join- ing Blackpool?
"A professional boxer for eighteen
years...
eight bouts in 224;
Q
Jost
won
world tile 14 years fights the current ago. ⚫world chatsplon at that
weight in September:" What is the name?
(Answers on Pago 10)
On Willie Pep On September 20
When Hogan Kid Bassey was a ten-year-old schoolboy in the little town of Calabar, Nigeria, a gentleman by the name of William Papaleo was depriving a Mr Chalky Wright of the featherweight championship of the world.
Kid Bassey had never heard of Papaleo then. But he knows all about him now. For on September 20 the young Nigerian and the veteran American meet at Boston-in the ring.
Bonscy, w rid featherweight | provided one of the most colour- (boxing might lead to serious and
permanent injury. champion, will have a 10-round fut chapters in fistic history. overweight match against a man who won the same title sixteen years ago and regained It five times.
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A Strange Sickness Hits Horses
By JAMES PARK
mysterious
ittness
which has 30 for balled the veterinary sur- geons has caused the death of some valuable racchorses In England. For want of 題 better name it is called grass sickness. It is virulent and painful, the stomach becomes hard and the horses are unable to eat or drink.
I believe it was first heard of in the North- Now it seems to have tra
Newmarket.
Few men have bettered his
But it takes more than a great record in the ring, and his
velled to mannakedical report to keep Wille. record is all the more able In view of the set-back he Pop out of the ring. He can point out that he has won 27 of his inst 28 Contests, a record which many Bassey, who has lost nine and has cuftored.
ustained two virtle youngsters would envy. In 1047 drawn two of his 88 professional i nights, will be meeting a man chipped and split vertebrae and And as he says. Compared with who has lost fewer than nine fractured leg in an air crash. Archie Moore, I'm still a kid." But this only kept the never- his in 224. The phenomenal Papaleo is say-die Pep out of business for better known in the cauliflower Ave months.
the wily, trade as Willie Pep,
wiry fighter from Härlord, Co-
relicul
Pep, who was not kayoed once in his arst 130 fight, has taken part in fourteen world the bouts and lost caly three all againos!
Then, in 1948, when losing the world title to Saddler for the Saddler.
Now he faces another world ilest tle, he dislocated his left shoulder, That Injury has often champlon; and, though the title! Great Record
troubled him
and now the is not at stake, it is certain that
For en
yezra Pep remained medical authorites have banned he will teach young Basty 1 two. For its ring- in the top flight of the world him from fighting in New York trick or
than anything else His State on the grounds that he has craft more division. feather-weight
recurring dislocation of the which has kept Pep in business series of world title battle battles a
that continued | so long. with dusky Sandy Saddle shoulder and
Lady Rosebery told me her husband has lost two highly-bred three-year- olds in Capponcina and Bra.
delicately
They were constitutioned fillles and such animals do not seem to stand up to the com plaint so well robust colts.
ng more
The Equine Research Station at Newmarket are tackling the problem.
SCEPTRE-CHALLENGER FOR THE AMERICA'S CUP
Could She Reverse 107 Years Of Anglo-American History?
The Cunarder Alsatia last Tuesday brought to New York_a_valuable cargo which could reverse 107 years of Anglo-American history. Stowed in cradles on her deck was the gleaming white 12-metro- Britain's seventeenth challenger for the coveted America's Cup. yacht Sceptre
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In 107 years, Britain has lost 44 out of 49 races, and in 14 of the 16 contests for the "old Mug" she did not win a single race.
Now all British hopes are pioned on the sleek, silvery Sceptre, which will compele against an American defender in America's the series of seven Cup races, beginning on Septem- ber 20, of Newport, Rhode Island.
By
JOHN COTTRELL
says Commander Mann,
Last autumn a team of ex-
Indeed, the history of tho perts went to the States to astess condluons on the Cup course and event shows that it is not oven on the wind enough to have tho better vessel. to collbet data strengths there over the past 30 In 1934, Britain's Endeavour I years, They concluded that fair- was a faster-salung vessel ban but the ly tough weather was to be ex- America's Rainbow,
lalter won the series because sho pected in September.
So Sceptre was designed with had the more talented and de- Her Chances
this in mind. And Commandertermined crew.
Sceptro should match any of What kind of yacht is this lone Mann, who has had the most ex-
three new American challenger which will attempt to perience of handling Sceptre, the
prefer heavy Twelves, or the old and famous brighten the blackest record in bays: "I would
But whether the Brilish the history of Britah sport? And weather at Rhode Island, though Vim. what are her chances of succes? I hink she will do well in heavy crew has the skill and deter
mination to match the Ameri- Sceptre is a beautiful and or light nira,"
Commander Snm Brooks, can's remains to be seen. elegant yacht, a masterpiece of British craftsmanship. Not for a technical adviser, dismisses any great many years has à yacht of suggestion that Evaine can now lenger has advantages not en- comparable size been built in outsall the challenger-even injoyed by her predecessors. Britain with such slagle-minded-light weather, ness directed at speed above all. Sceptre has been built to the design of 56-year-old Scottish naval architect David Boyd, after exhaustive tank tests with eight models. Her shape is conven- tional, but much else about her Is quite new.
A Pity
This time, the British chal-
The biggest is that she can be dilpped, across the Atlantic instead of crossing under her own "steam." rules was But doubt exists on this point, This change in the and since the Sceptre syndicate authorised in December, 1958, by have shown a determination to the Supreme Court of the State leave nothing to chance, it seems of New York.
a plty that Evaine is hot being The old rule seriously handi- sent to the States as well. capped British challenges.
There is a widely-held belief took weeks off their
It
crow
A most unusual feature is e big open cockpit which extends that the challenger must be do- training programine, while tho from just aft of the mast to theelded months in advance, Jefenders were fresh and botter helmsman's cockpit which ex-fact, the rules allow a yacht to prepared for battlo.
be substituted up to one week This time, too, much informa- before the date of the Arst race, tion about the British challenger The RYS Much of the credit for Evalne's hins been withhold, good performance must go to her syndicate is determined that not professional skipper, 50-year-old detalls of their, yacht's hull or Stan "Arch" Bishop. His late new devices shall leak out.
skupper of
tends right across the vessel.
This means the crew need not hang on for dear life when the yacht is heeled and they can avoid getting in each other's
way.
Secrecy Essential
Nearly all her sails are of appointment, os Terylene, specially heat-treated Sceptre was a most heartening
Experience has taught them after weaving to produce a step.
When Although he has had barely that secrecy is essential. Ampolh, dense and frietion-free surface. Her ropes are also of three weeks to get to know the Endeavour I was tuning up in Terylene, and much of her run-new yacht, it was a wise move the Solent for the Cup races
Bishop. This 1394 she used a sail which had ring rigging is dyed in different to give, the job colours for quick identification hawk-faced skipper is tough, been specially designed for her by the crew under racing condilled, and highly experienced, a quadrilateral Jib. This sail
A born leader of men, he is was a potential race winner. Lions.
But also la the Solent at the of strong per- The enormous steering wheel just the kind has been cut from one solid piece jsonality needed to bring out the time was an American yachtsman and he promptly cabled details best in Scepire's crow. of reinforced plasie,
at the sall to the defenders. By that It has been estimated
Until July 0, Jim Slorance was
skipper
of the time of the races the Ameri- of Sceptre has an overall length ne professional
than jibs
the quadrilatera) of 70 fect and waterline length Sceptre. His late replacement guns had a bigger, alection
shows the tremendous will-to-
Briush! of 44 feet, with a 12-foot beam.
The Endeavour-Rainbow series She should carry about 2,000 win of the men behind the
the America's Cup challenger.
was the closest match in square feet of sail.
"Everybody is expendable," Her aluminium alloy mast is
In those days it was always 00 feet high and is supported says Mr Hugh Goodson, chair-history of the Cup. Britain lost. and with a single narrow set of man of the syndicate of the customary for the British spreaders and a small set of Royal Yacht Squadron backing American designers to exchange the enterprise. "Our unly
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# harmless habit until Engaged In Trials: endeavour is to get that boat plans after the races. This was Sceptre was launched on April through the water as quickly as when the Americans alarled
possible."
tank-testing. 2, and for nearly three months If Sceptre is beaten it will not In that year Endeavour I was has been engaged in trials, with be through lack of adequato faster than the American yacht. Owen Aither a 22-year-old 12 preparation the main cause, So having been giving the plans, motre Evalne acting as pace- many experta believe, of all the Americans were able, by Britain's past defeats in the tank tests, to produce a yacht which they know was much Sobres of yachtsmen from all faster. was the winner-resulte which wallts of life WETO given. ex- This they did, and in 1837, aparked off harsh criticism of haustive trials, and a potential when the Cup races were lost Sceptre and her erow. It has crew was in training as early as held, they won agai Even been suggested that Evalna September, 1957.
maker.
In more than a dozen succes- event. sive races in Poole Bay, Evalno
Lack of fundu har been, zihe chief reason" for the 21-year lapse of the event, but now the
should be Britain's challenger Evenly Matched for the Cup,
the past month, The men have been shown expense has been reduced by But over
previous TACEO, 10 other change in the rules, Sceptre has conalstently out films of.
and the recent famlilarise than with come of The minimum waterline length paced Evaina score is very much in the now the problems involved in racing of competing yachia has been
for the Cup.
reduced from 65 feet to 44 feet, vessel's favour.
They have been on board cabling 12-metres to be used.
Altogether, the cost of build- Sceptro at 7.30, vach morning and rarely ashore before se!ining and preparing Scepire for the evening.
the Cup challenge $5 estimated The defending and challenging at £35,000. / So be well as being yachta are likely to be evenly the smallest challager, in the matched.
"There cannot be a history of this fabulosis coempott- great deal of difference in yacht tion, she is the cheapest. Bri put on heavy weather in design-designe and the saliing ability tain hopes she will also be the ing and crewing the Beeptrat
for a great deal?” | flot suoo one.
It's all a question of condl tions, Sceptre is at her best in moderate or heavy weather. Most of the races she lust to
· Evaltio were in winds of leis than eight knots and ofics in really light airs.
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