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✰✰ THE CHÍNA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1958.

Week-End Softball

SPORTS PERSONALITIES

TONY MYATT

WAN SHIU-MING

He Earned

The Praise

Of Australia's Record

Breaking Swimmers

WH

HEN the Australian swimming team visited Hongkong recently, they made the majority of our swimming stars look like novices.

I say "majority" however, because there was one local boy, who made those Aussies think twice before slackening their pace.

He was the ace we had been holding back in an effort to recover some of our lost prestige and he played his part to the hilt.

If you haven't alrendy guessed 1853 and this makes fils run of, the 1050 Olymples, and, la the

eferring in, then let

SUUDESTAA Even more umozing.

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in for you the details. But the climb to the top was Was had to train He is 20-year-old Wan Shiu-ion Joy ride. ming, a young man, who, If the and its conch saw to it that he Australians are any authority trulsed turd. on swimming should go a long, long way in this porticufar field. Great Showing

There were two-hour sessions in the waler

everyday, right throughout the year, irrespective of the seasons. "Winter swim Let's go back awhile now, to

mad helps 10 keep you lit, that night at the Victoria pool, Wan said. "In addition 10 the when Won made his great show-time spent in the water, on equal Ing.

amount of hard work was put into land exercises, which were incorporated with some tight, weight work.

The event was the 100 metres freestyle and Wan was matches against three of the world's fastest freestyle exponents, John Devitt (current world record holder), Gary Chapman and Geoffry Shipton.

Very Fit

very

1954 Aslan Games in Manila, he represented Nationalist China. | He filled to impress in Manila, į however, as it was at this time that he was just coming into prominence,

War is also the Colony gross- harbour champion and holds the current record time of 19 miles, 18 records which he established in 1955. Last year be was a whole minute slower but stift to the field by a large margin. This year he is entering

bitty that he might lower his own record.

PANDAS AND CHEYENNES FAVOURED IN SUNDAY'S

TWO FEATURE GAMES

By

"TIME_OUT”

"A trough of high pressure extends......

If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times.

I have often wished that I could be as accurate in my forecast of softball games but alas, it seems softballers are a strange lot, and so I will just confine myself to saying about this week's softball topics something along these lines "Outlook dull in the morning, improving later in the afternoon. A tropical storm of high intensity is expected to hit the Central District on October 21 around 6.00 p.m." and to those who take an interest in such things there is nothing vague about the latter half of this forecast, for that will be the time when the Softball Association will hold its 4th Council Meeting. Some mediocre games are luanics at practice but imowing ing should win this game. outlined for the week-end and full well just how unpredic!- "Dayaram's Babes", the I doubt if any fans will find able ladies' softball can be I Stardusis. bring the softball sufcient excuses to get excited reserve my comments Sun-programind to u close with a over any of the matches.

day evening. The other two game against the league-leading teams in this six-team league Cheyennes and this time 7 make are the Cardinals and the no apologies dor selecting the murgin- University.

winner by a clear the Cheyennes.

tre tast

At 2.20 pm. tomorrow, in the first of Iwa Junior games, Caesar Coelho's Cardinals will be all out to redean some lost prestige with a victory over the University who gaining a reputation of being a Team which rallies strongly in the late stages of a game but all to no avall! The Cards have all-round superiority and I tip then to win by a big score.

The other game features the Austers against Yoo Jick-fal's Eaglen.

'Old Buddies' Act

The StordusİS” performances always give me a great deal of win or lose

are un-

of softball and they

In between the ladies' tussles pleasure because there will be the "Old Buddies" this group of future chanplans

They act which is the Senior game) never say die.

Braves rivalled n keenness, and between Ed Carvalho's and Ed Carvalho's Seminoles.

No, it's not a typographical show an attitude to the game error. The "Chicl" manages that is as refreshing as it is both squads this year but I enlightening. The only ply is fans don't feel the understand that for this game that the he win personally direct the same way as i du because so far Junior champs while old faithru the kids have shown their talents Chester Tavares looks after the to a very small audience.

The Interesis of the Braves. An up-

Cheyennes pack ret by the Seminoles is unlikely awful lot of power with

hickory, to although they will be trying.

defensive play light The best games the week ball when the occasion demands have been reserved for Sund-it and can also count on speedy

afternoon. day

Two Sentor runners like Luiz Silve and

again and there is every possi- Only One Victory

In four starts the Eagles have notched up only one victory and that by a walk-over while the Servicemen have still win a game. Despite the Eagles' alrncious showing last week they trample all over the should Austers, but watch out for the errors which should run to double sides' defences figures on both are highly suspect.

All this hard work and exer- else naturally left Win very t To cut a long story short, Wan

and very keen to start swimming tirred the crowd lo'o standing uvallon as he beat out Shipton competitively. He did not meet

teams both after their success right away, how- for grond third place, nut far behind Chupinan and the ever-ever, but this only encouraged tun) winner, Devill.

Rare Honour

After the

com- race Devilt mented. That chup Won can swim." He was probably speaking for the rest of the team and the spectators as well. In- eitentally, Wan was the only cwimmer to gain a place against Australians, a rare honour

the inderd.

Won started swimming “seriously" towards the end of

with

lim

Full Of Praise I asked Wan what he thought of the Australian swimmers. He was full praise for them and said, "It would be very hard for us to reach their standard as we do not have proper coach- Ing."

Wan's hobbies include inovica and popular music. Beside swim- ming, he takes part in no other spari.

tu train harder And inevitably in

the 1950 he woll Colony Scular freestyle title. Hic

as not been beaten since.

Wan is also the Colony record holder of the 200 metres butter-

Swimming is his forte and he fly, and the 400 metres freestyle,

is always striving to Improve on and has registered the best ilmes in the 100 and 1,500 metres free his times. Records were made to be broken, and If anyone is style.

In Inter-school swimming hecopable of doing so as far

He Jas

swimming is concerned, locally, never been beaten

then Wati Shlu-ming is the man swing for New Method College.

He represented Hongkong in for the job.

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YOU BLUNDERED \A BATTLE OF COMING HERE~~ HYPNOTIC YOU WILL BOW--TO, MINDS! MY WILL --

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The thought of "getting" anybody at oll never even entered my mind and whoever my caller was he did n great Injustice to my caliengues by questioning their Judgment An deciding whether Or not the Saints-Braves postponement lasi werk should be considered a t subject for comment in their colunas. Surely it 15 thetr decision and theirs ulone whether or not the matter newsworthy?

Bob Kiphuth Is Not Retiring

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New Haven, Oct. 16. Yale University coach, Bop Kipull, and a big name in worid swimming since World War One -announced today that he would not relire on November 17 He quashed this rumour with "I am carrying on" today on his 68th birthday.

No other trainer in the world has directed so many individual and team record breaking bids.

lic began a long career 1014 as physical training in- structor at Yale-but since 1917 he dedicated himself to swim- ming.

From 1930 he was in frequent contact with the Japanese Swim- He visited

ming. Federation. Japan frequently,

In 1050, his team of six swim- mers beat Japan for the first time since 1028.

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