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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST · 26, 1958.

THESE ARE THE MEN WHO HAVE MADE AUSTRALIA THE WORLD'S TOP SWIMMING COUNTRY

J. Devitt

J. Monckton

J. Konrad B. Wilkinson G. Winram G. Chapman

J. Hayres

T. Gathercole

·G. Shipton

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Australian Swimmers Open HK Tour This Evening

FOUR RECORDS SET

AT WORLD SHOOTING C'SHIPS

Moscow, Aug. 25,

Four world records were set today in the World Shooting

Championships here..

A. Krolotin (Russia) won the small bore rapid fire pistol event with a world record score of 592 out of 600. The first five men in the event at broke the record of 587 el in Bucharest in 1955 by the Soviet marks- men, V. Nasonov, V. Sorokin, and E, Cherkasov.

The Soviet Union team of four also beat the old world record

in winning the

Team event,

Individual

1. A. Kropotin, Soviet Union

582.

their score of 2,301 was weil 2. A. Zabelin, Soviet Union above the old record of 2,330 592. set by another Soviet team In

3. S. Pelescu Rumania 589. Bucharest.

4. V. Nonov,

Soviet Union World

records were snatched today in the 25 double that running doge event.

na

589.

Joe Deekert of the United States who won the event with 223 points out of 230 and Che next five men behind ium all broke the old record of 213 set by D. Bobrun of the Suvict Union at the last World Cham- pionship in Caracas in 1934.

Illegally

5. E. Union 500.

0. W. McMillan, · United! States 587.

Cheritasov, Soviet

RUNNING DEER (100 Metres, 25 Double Shiats 30 shots) Teem

1. Soviet Union 855,

2. United States 855.

3. Sweden 849.

4. Venezuela 808.

5. Hungary 167.

Individual

1. J. Deekeri, United States

The world record was STARhed by the first three countries in the team event. The Soviet Union with a total of 856 was followed by the 233.

855 and United States with Sweden with 849. The old re- cord was 820 Help by m-210.

2.7. Floman, Sweden 221. 3. H. Lacker, United States

other Soviet team In Caracas. 4. K. Johanssen, Sweden 219.

One Soviet

marksman.

5. 1.

Nikitin, Soviet

0.0.

Zalarence.

215.--Reuter.

Uni

A. Lininkov, shut a score of 217. 220 in Ibis event which looked like being a whining score for some time. Eventually, how- ever, the jury decided that he was shooting illegally so that the score was not to be allow- already ed, the Soviet team saul a team of

gent.

four Bu thr

Results

Following were the fegutta of

yesterday's events:

ARMY

Rapid

ftIFLE - 300

METRES

en prune, 20 shots

(10 plus 100)

"Team Placing

(First figure refers to hits second

figure to total)

1. Soviet Union 79-723..

2. Czechoslovakia 78-476.

3. Korea 75-036.

4. Isruel 73-801

5. Sweden 72-609,

United Staten 72-576

D. Britain 41-308.

Individual Placings

1. I. Novozhilov, Soviet

Union, 20-189.

2.

L. Cerveny,

vakia, 20-180.

3.

A. Pekhterev,

Union, 20-181.

4.

PROGRAMME OF 11 EVENTS

AT VICTORIA

PARK

SWIMMING POOL

Today is a red-letter day for local swimmers and swim- ming enthusiasts as the nine-man record-breaking Aus- tralian swimming team open their Hongkong tour with

a full programme at the Victoria Park swimming pool starting at 6 p.m.

Already all tickets for this evening's exhibition swim have been sold oul, and the newly- bult Victoria Park Pool stadium will for the first time in history present the pleasing sight of capacity turn-out,

Completing the history-moking event will be the presence of the Governor, Sir Robert Black, Lady Black and their two daugh ters.

Devitt,

cole; Hongkong-ta) Ko Mun- 8. Men's 200 metres back- kau and Dal Hol-shan (100 stroke: Australia-John Hayres metres each), (b) Wong Kan- and John Moncklon; Hangkong fal and Sim Po-pok (100 metres-Lou Tal-ping and Chung Yat-

ming (100 m. each), ench).

2. Men's 100 metres free- 9. Women's 4 X 50 metres medley relay: Exhibition by

swirtuners focal

Au Yuen- (back); ling

Wan Kar-big (bulter- (brest); Ng Kit-chun bly) and Fung Ying-chee (free- style) Ki Fung-ha (back); Trang Fung - män (breast): Loung Shiu-bing (butterfly) and Fok See-sce (freestyle).

style: Australin-Joha Gary Chapman, Geoffrey Ship ton; Hongkong Wan Shiu- ming. Leung Wing-chee sad Lou Kam-por.

3. Women's 100 metrem but- stroke: Exhibition by erfly local swimmers-Leung Shiu- bing, Ng Kit-chun, Ki Fung-ha and Au Yuen-ling.

10. Men's 400 metres Indivi-

The visitors were originally due to arrive in Hongkong at 7.46 this morning but an UPI. cable stated that the team were delayed for seven hours on ac- count of typhoon Flonsle and

4. Men's 400 metres free-dual medley: Australia-Brian did not leave Tokyo unill 6.30

style: Australie-John Konrads Wilkinson Hongkong Juniors (4 this morning.

X 100 m. medley relay) — and Gary Winram; Hongkong Cheung Ming-hang (back); Laun They

to arrive in Wong

Kwal-chee (100 m.);

(breast); Tong Hongkong at 2.30 this afternoon,

Wong Man-leung (100 m.); and Luk-kun

Cheung-shing (butterfly) and A programme of 11 events N Key-kwong (200 m.).

Fok Shu-kok. has been arranged for this even- Ing. The Australians will take part in seven of them, the other four being exhibition events by local swimmers.

are

due

The following is the full pro- gramme:

Union Today's Programme

Soviet

5. Men's 100 metres butter- fly stroke: Australia Brian Wilkinson; Hongkong Wan Shiu-ming and Leung Wing-- chee,

G. Diving Exhibition by focal ilivera.

7. Women's 100 metres tree- lyle: Exhibition by local swim- 1. Men's 200 metres breast- mers Au Yuen-ling, Fung stroke: Australia-Terry Gather-Ying-chee and Ng Kit-chun.

Blackburn And Blackpool

Become First Leaders

Of English Soccer Season

London, Aug. 25.

Blackburn Rovers, promoted to the First Division this s03301, won a second casy victory today for its second match in the First Division of the English Football League.

Blackburn, who beat New- catle 5-1 last Saturday, bent win over Lelcester City today by 5-0.

West Harn United's 2-0 home Wolverhampton Wan- derers tonight placed them with Blackburn and the top of the Division. The London leam, second division champions

Blackpool, who unexpectedly level Czechoslo-

beat Tottenham on Saturday by Blackpool at 3-2, won again tonight-beating First Newcastle 3-0.

A. Orlov, Soviel

20-180.

Sovie!

Union,

5. W. Frustell, Sweden, 20-

178.

6. Hon Chou Ho, Korea, 20- 177.

SMALL BORE RAPID FIRE PISTOL

24 Metres 00 Shots At Silhouette Tem

1. Soviet Union 2301.

2. United States 2319.

3. Hungary 2317.

4. Ruman 2309.

5. Finland 2203.

6. Bulgaria 2378.

»Bager's « TONIC

BAYER

The two Lancashire teams, last season, on Saturday Blackburn and Blackpool.

thus beat Portsmouth 2-1.

become the first leaders of the A Bad Record

SCB500.

Blackburn had tho

better goal average,

For the next six weeks, the English Footbali teams are to play two matches a week-one on Saturday and a second on a weekday evening, while it is sill light.

Germans Set New National Relay Record

Hamburg, Aug. 25.

Tho German sprint relay team which won the European, 4x 100 metres title in Stockholm yester day, today clocked 39.8 secs over the distance in Hamburg to set a now German national record.

This time is one-tenth of á second short of the European record.

The German team (Hery. Germar, Futterer and Mahlen- dorf) yesterday clocked 402 vecs In Stockholm to win the Euro- pean sprint relay title.--France- Presse,

Sunkist

ORANGE

drink

Sunkist

ORANGE in baffles

for

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS

London, Aug. 25. Results in tonight's football bad matches were:

In

LEAGUE ONE

Blackburn Dinckpool Arlon Villa Wert iam

5. Leicester

3 Newcastle V. 3 Portsmoutli

0

g

2 Wolverhampton 0

LEAGUE TWO sheffield United Middlesbroughs

LEAGUE THREE

Colchester U

Southampton Norwich C.

Tho “Walvag” have a record against West Ham, nine previous Cup and League cncounters between The tazo

har sides, Wolverhampton

over benten West Ham in the matches between then that have been played in Lon- don. The Wolves have never | Cheriørfleld scored a single gooi.

While West Ham, Blackpool Queen's Park 1 Transnore and Blächbum Rovers have won both of their first two matches this season, Newcastle United and Portsmouth -- who just avalded relegation to the econd division lag! ec1901 ***** have yet to open their winning account this season.-France-queen's Park Presse.

Flochdale

O Plymouth Argyle 2 LEAGUE YOUR

2 Aiderabot

Bradford

Darilnsion Hartlepools York City Workingcion Gateshead

2 Southport

Torquay U 1 Shrewsbury GLASGOW CUP First Round

THE GAMBOLS

NO THANKO

Partick

-Reuter,

YOU MEAN TO SAY YOU'D SOONER LE THERE AND DOZE

THAN CATCH A BALL

11. Men's 4 X 200 free-style

COUNTY CRICKET

TOM FINNEY

FOR THE

Surrey In Winning TO WRITE Position Against CHINA MAIL

Worcestershire

BEDSER TAKES 6 WICKETS FOR 25

London, Aug. 25.

Alec Bedser, 40-year-old pace bowler, struck an important blow for Surrey in the County Cricket Championship when he hustled out six Worcestershire batsmen for 25 runs at Wor- cester today.

Worcester were all out for 12 In their Brst innings and though they showed more fight in their second inning--they were 181 for five at the close-they still needed 37 more rune to avoid un ings defeat,

95 Minutos' Play

Meanwhile Hampshire, Sur- rey's big rivals were restricted by rain to only 95 minutes in their match against North- relay: Australia team of four

amptonshire, After

putting versus Hongkong team of eight.

Northamptonshire out for 140 Hongkong Wan Shu-ming, they scored 30 in an hour Kam-por, Lam Kwan- without losing a wicket.

Ng ngar, Wong Kwai-chue,

Ken Suttle the Sussex left. Wing-cheung, Lau Ting fong, handed bats.An

punished the and Chan Nottinghamshire attack for 178 Ng Key-kwong Shing-chung.

runs at Nottingham. His runs, made out of 205, included three sixes and 18 fours

Lau

F.

Olafsson Voted

Don Sanith (Sussex) batted ttractively for 72 not out when Robin Marlar declared et 44 for Boven,

Nottinghamshire replied with 125 for one by the close,

Grand Master Exciting Struggle

Of Chess

The.

A tense und exciting strugglo for Arst innings feud wa enacted at Bristol between Lanchastice and Gloucester-

shire. Yugoslavia, Aug. 25.

International Chess

Gloucestershire Klarted the Federation today voted the title day needing 137 runs with six of Grand Master to Frederik | wickets in band and with Olafsson of Iceland.

Four Perfect Bridge Hands

Four

Wollington, Aug. 25.

women bridge players here each dealt a complete suit of cards at Dannevirke In the North Island.

The chances of four perfect hands are said to be one in 158,753,-

389,899.

Since 1944 at least two other sets of parfect hands have boen. dealt in New Zealand, one in Dunedin and the other In Christchurch.-Ching Mail Special,

HERB ELLIOT

WINS IN A

CANTER

Mortimoro baltting soundly, looked to have a good chan.es

Slodthalm, Aug. 25. The Federation, meeting in of making them.

Australia's Herb Elliott, the Congress here, also numed Istyna After Mortimore's dismissal world's fastest miler,

ran the Bilck and Lajos Portia of Hun- for 50 odds seemed on 1,500 metres in the fast time of Cary and Evgeny Vasyukov of Gloucestershire bul Wharton three mins 41.7 sees it an athle the Soviet Union us International ended all hopen by taking the ties meeting here today.

Masters.

the

lust two wickets with consect- The world record is 3 mins Yugoslavia, Iveland

and tive deliveries when another 12 38.1 secs, held by Stanislav Argentina have offered to stage runs were still needed. the Next Candidates' ment.

tourna-

behin SE Asian Gamesching of the

phec

Jungwirth, of Czechoslovakia, By the close the balance of The Australian's time was two power was firmly with Lan-tenths of a second better than The student

finished 184 runs chess olympiad cashire who

that recorded by Britain's Brian the wickets

in Hewson in will be played in Riga or Lenin- ahead with five

winning grad in the Soviet Union, next hand.--Router.

European üle here yesterday. year. The junior chess world

Elliott was taking part in a Stora Mossan championship will Switzerland from July 17 to

had been August 8, and the chess olym-

After a fast pind in Leipzig. East Germany,

set by a local runner, Elliott in. October 1980.—Reuter."

took the lead with 700 yards to Ke and, challenged at first by Murray Halberg, of New Zea land, finally swept away to win The Nui Olymple Committee in a canter, announced today that I had been Halberg was second and J. forced temporarily to postpone Murat of Yugoslavia third.- the Southeast Asian Games which | Reuter. originally had been scheduled to

RUGBY LEAGUE

RESULTS

Temporarily Postponed

Bangkok, Aug. 25.

be held in Bangkok noxt January.

Burma, Cambodia, 1407, Malaya and Vietnam had been invited to the Games.

London, Aug. 25.

INT'L HOCKEY Results in tonigh's "Rugby

Grahamstown, Aug. 25, league matches were:

Huddersfield 21, Bramley

The touring United States Hockey team boat |Full 34, Batley 8; Leeds 13, Committee members said they women's

Wakefield Trinity 33; St. Helens found it impossible to complete Abbany 3-1 here today, there ot halftime.--- 115, Warrington 7; Whitehaven all arrangements before Janitary. was no

|24, Wigan 12.—Reuter,

-Reuter.

Reuter.

by Barry App labe

MY! VOU ARE

GETTING OLD

Appleby

SCOTE

GAS IS TOPS

SAYS MR. THERM

TOM FINNEY

THE English football season

began last Saturday. To giva China Mail road. ars the bast commentary on the gamo, wo hava signed up TOM FINNEY to welte for us overy week. Don't misa his wookly article which will appear

overy Thursday!

Teth

Flanes is

England's greatest winger. This brillant, 34-year-old ball-player has played for England 74 times, ward has scored more goals from the wing than any other English player, ilis great knowledge of the game will go into the writing of his articles Lichs Wok.

Tom Finney has always been a master of his game. As a boy he played magnificently of in- side forward. Even at 14, he WAS the reserve for the Pration team which drew with West Ham in the 1930 Final of the English Schools Shield.

Professional At 17

He joined Preston In 1937 and a year later Wis moved to outside-right his best position. In 1939 at the age of 17 Tom Finney tumed professiona).

Clearly out of his class in the "A" team, he would have mede rapid progress but for the war. However, in the 1941 wartime Cup Final against Arsenal at Wembley, Trooper Tm Finney of the 8th Army excelled himself. By the time ire was demobbed in 1940 bo had established reputation in Army football.

great

Nor did it take him long to Justly that reputation 10

League soccer. His Loogue- debut with Preston, against Locks in 1946, saw Finnes playing a dazzling game and scoring the first of many gouls, and he has been scortist them over since-104 for Preston in 380 League games, 20 in 27 FA Cup-tles and 29 for Eng Janki

Footballer Of Year

In 1954 Finney, The Preston- Phamber". Jed his team in the Cup Final against West Brom - wich Albion. Two sousons ago, he was moved to centre for- ward and, to prove his class and viruotility, beyond any doubí, ho scored, 47 goals in 03 slocred League gamen and Preston from the doldrums at the bottom of the table to Longue runners-up.

For England Tom Finney won The first Cap in 1940 and has misco ployed for the National side at outside-rigtit, outside- left and centre-forwardh Ona of soccer most žendly, LANDIFLRYLÁDAK and populer characters, Tom Thmey in the only player over to tava been elected Footballer of the Year twlool A great bonour to a All event sport

Dory's mum this grant "player's

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