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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17,7 1958,"

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THE WORLD CHAMP CALLS IT A DAY STANCE OF VICTORY

KRAMER TROUPE BANNED

FROM PLAYING IN TESTIMONIAL MATCH

Perth, Dec. 16.

Jack Kramer's professional tennis troupe will not be allowed to play in a testimonial tournament for former Australian Davis Cup star, Jack: Crawford, at Sydney's White City on Jan- uary 11

Announcing this today MI- Donald Ferguson, President of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia,

said this

decision MOTORCYCLING

was taken at the same time as the Association agreed to seek

world-wide ban on the use by Krunwe' protestionals of

amateur courts.

My Ferguson said the Asso- elation derided they could nol

the suggestion approve

matle month shoul Kromer professionals

ago that

SIDE-CAR

WORLD RECORD

Motan, Den 18.

Floriani

1910-

SW LAS motorcyclist shouldCanathias broke the play at The testimonial tourne-kilometre side-car nent providing they played only the speedway here today in 30 among themselves.

s. 12.8 sees, an average of

C'amathias rode

This was decided, said Mr194.3 kilometres an hour (124.1 Ferguson, beenuse of the pre). Lan The RM.W

vious recision to Kromer troupe from the Asso- clation's courts,

Kramer Angry

al's Alb

Milani un Citera held the previous mark with 189.733 kilometres on hour 1118.2 mph) avETAKE.

Camathias planned to go for

the world hour-long record but

At Having To: had to quit with chassis trouble.

Désert

US Team

Promoter Jaeit Kronkr angrily new wut of Perth to bight, three

day before the start of the Baly-United States Davis Cup Interzone final, say- ing he was forced to desit, fine United States tomm because ot

the Lawn Tetin

Australia, har

Association

upplev lag

professiona Arnage playing in

the Jack Crawfore let "almurat.k

metch.

the Americent Cup team, 20kd:

--France-Presse.

MIKE HAWTHORN

Henry Longhurst On Golf

BACK TO EARTH FROM THE

HEIGHTS OF MEXICO-

The journey so far afield as Mexico leaves many impressions on the mind, not all of them related to the golf, which was strictly the object of the visit.

Kramer. who was couching The first is that, having expended the whole of this space a year or so ago to lifting my hat to Harry Bradshaw 1 cannot refrain from briefly doing so again.

"I want to find out what these

LTAA guys are trying to do Crawford

10 m.

Is such a swell guy, I don't want to see his testimonial Iournament collapse."

Ireland brought the Canada ing days he had been so near to Cup home and O'Connor played death thut a priest had

lendid supporting role. Butealled to administer the Harry was the heru.

rites.

been

last

Se

Happy-Go-Lucky Mike Hawthorn Retires At Height Of Fame By RICHARD BERRY

John Michael Hawthorn is now retiring having reached the summit of interna- tional motor-racing in record-breaking time.

"new

Five years ago he was the unknown

boy" of the Grand Prix circuits. Now, at 29, he has succeeded the great Juan Fangio as champion of the world. But then Mike Hawthorn got off to an early start. He was only eight years old when he drove a car for the first time--an old Jowett left in his father's garage for repair.

At 14 he had his first motor- | ichible tragedy, brcke down bike. A 17, he started a four- and said he was finished with year, engineering apprenticeship, racing. He wanted the race to in Ideal preparation for his fi- be stopped." ture career a motor nce.

Yet, in the final stages, he In 1852, his first year of senlor was persuaded 10 take over racing. Howtham made himself | Tron his co-driver-and he won one of the most popular drivers the ill-fated event. in Britain by his brillant per-

Loyalty, to the firm which formances at Goodwood against gavo blm his first big chance in top international competition. racing, partly explain's How- He finished the season runner- fhorn's remarkable efforts to up to Stirling Moss for the carry on in the face of great national motor-racing champion- | adversity. ship.

he would get

Loves Racing

Ho bos

no business

In 1953, he joined the Italian Ferrari team, headed by Ascari A more simple explanation is and Farina, because he knew that he loves facing for racing's

the best ex-cake. pertence there. At that time manager or any special organisu- Britain had no care as fast as tion behind him. Early in his the Ferrari,

| career he was barely scraping a

living from motor reging.

Hawthorn is, in fact, an cosy- going young man without great The tall, blond bow-tied ambition, He runs a garage,

baptism of anckes Englishman had a

and drinks when he fire on the international circuite. pleases, flics his private aircraft,

Baptism Of Fire

In the Argentine Grand Prix, and to happiest when relaxing his team-mate Farina skidded at the country cottage where he while trying to avoid a small lves with his mother, boy on the track and crashedi into the crowds.

Hawthorn, placed just behind Farine, was herrilled to see that

dozens of spectators had been killed or injured But, despite this unnerving experience, the

marative beginner swept on

round the track to finish fourth, That year, too, at the age of Grand 23, he wen the French

wiek, but that was no fault of Prix at Pheims after

a teride the Comet.

duel with Fangbo driving a Doubtless it will become one] Maserati. They raced inches The promoter sald he was

day cammonplace. but at the apart at 170 mp.h.. a speed world going to Swiney to spek another

I will not harp further on the My colleagues are due shortly moment the Comet is not which let the reigning Venue for th resumontalį duficulties of playing goir at to elect a Golfer of the Year thuch an aeroplane as an Ex- champion, Alberto Ascarl, trail-

Te tourney.

also wants

The to high atitudes, but it will hord- who has "done must fur British | perience.

Rolls-Royce ing behind. complet ungements for his y Je disputed that, weight for Golf." Ilad they seen him in ongines, tucked in close beside

to troupe's tour

weight and age for age, they Mexico, they would look no the passengers' cabin, must be progressively increase.

further than Harry Bradshaw- 15 feet long and the surge of and never mind what part of power as the machine takes off Ireland he comes from!

makes one feel extraordinarily

He said he will rejom the American team in Brisbane for the challenge round. -.P).

**

NOTICE

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLOB

On a course longer than any British championship links and with a strikt par of 72. Brad- shaw had rounds of 70, 70, 78 an 70 and he is 45 and carries 15 stones

Golfer Of Year

he

The two goling bees in my persunal bonnet the length of the gulf ball and slowness of play

were exhibited in Mexico in such full and magnificent Idivey that I roust wall for another day to do justice to them, as well When ethers were sinking ex-as to my various talks with the hausted in the locker room,

new, mellowed and humanised Notice is hereby given that was rendy with affable convers the now Branch 08ke of the sation, and is for the dysentery, edition of Ben Hogan, Club at King's Road, North" hring winter out of tap.

the Point

Empire you're going to get it, you'l Theatre will open for thee it anyway."

(Henr

Bale of Cash Sweep tickets an

A year ago in Tokyo, he had to retire from this tournament

from Thursday, 18th Decem-through persistent nose bleed- ber, 1958.

A. E. ARNOLD.

Secretary

I saw him standing cheer- 10. fully in the hotel entrance as we left. Only three or four people, of whom I was not one, then knew that in the intervent-

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Up And Coming

Reverting from golf, was nut the only Englishma to Gense that if ever there were an up-and-coming country it is and that, if I had a Mexico surplus million, I would at once invest there.

The caricature of Mexico is a thing of the past. The parade to celebrate the last revolution took two and a half hours to pass my window and was de- voted almost wholly to the arts of physical prowess. Not a man for a girl can have been more than 30, and a finer lot I never

30w.

small.

I remember in particular as it soared steeply into the sky

stewardess positively heaving herself from

up

ong seat-hock

to the next as the tried to make her way to the forward cabin.

Up «ofi, alone in the Arms- ment at 40,000 ft., one sits tor some hours apparently station- ary One can balance a penny on the table, the liquid In" one's glass does not even tremble, and the only Itent of equip ment missing is the billiard table.

How Right

Road To Fame

she!

She does not really approve of her son's racing, but never tries to stop him.

The world champion has never regarded motor racing asi a reat career. For Hawthorn, 1 is a profiable recreation,

CHESS

BY LEONARD BARDEN Here is a brevity from a Hastings tournament; the way in which White's queen pene- At the finish, less than eight trutes.to the back rank is most seconds separated the fra: ave unusual (Bitend v. Bostrom), care. And Mike Hawthorn, who 1 P-05 Kt KR3; 2 P-QB4. P-KK13:13 KI—QB3, P-Q3; 4 came fourth in the world

was B-Hus, Kt~K5; 6 PxÞ, Eix year, championship that

B; 6 P-KR4, Kt-K6; 7 KEX launched on the road to fame.

Hawthorn

EL QXP, 8 Kt-QB3, Q- triumphs amce then, but

until QR49 PK3. P-R4: 10 this

schewhat K13. B-K3; 11 QXP, B he was 320 overshadowed by Fanglo,

Kt2; 12 B-KIS ch, B-Q2: 13 diva Q-es mate times world champion,

and Moss, sever limes British champion.

152 a

h35

had many

Ironically, he has now become the first British world champton he hand year in which na special interest in the. championship. He did not make an impressive start to the 1938 season and he was greatly dis- troused by the deaths of his race ing friends, Peter Collins and Luigi Musso.

and

Nearly Gave Up

crash of

Solution No. 5931: 1. Kt-87, Q-TBS ch; 2 KL-82, Q-85 ch; 3 KL-23, or 1.5. Q-Q85 ch; 2 RxQ ch, R×2; 3°KIKP. Neat self-pinning effects.

London Express Service

Light heavyweight champion Archie Moore stands over Cnandian challenger Yvon Durelle after knocking him down in the 11th round of their title bout In Montreal last Friday.

Durelle..got back on his feet but moments later ageless Archie knocked him out to retain the crown.

UPI Telephotd.

Ron Archer To Make Comeback As Test Bowler

Brisbane, Dec. 16. Former Australian Test all- counder, 'Ron Archer, who has been forbidden by his doctor to bowl again, now belloves he may be able to make a comeback as a regular bowler.

overs

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Racewalk Claims Special Interest

Sir, Ploneer adventures do not takes place every day and lone Hongkong's first standard distance (50 km) racowalk held last Saturday invites public in- terest for several reaSONA,

First: The winning time of Lieutenant King, minutes

compares

hours O

favourably Club time.

for He had three Queensland against South Aus- troll the first time he has

with Food English bowled in a first class match Considering that he had had since he returned from the As only one lesson in racewalking trallan team's 1950 lour of Bri- | this is very creditable indeed.

taln.

SPINAL TROUBLE

The winning time of the lead- ing English Club dixture fon 1937, the Belgrave club's 50 lan, was 5 hrs 12 minutes, but two hours of our race took place in Archer, 24, is suffering from darkness along a narrow busy spinal aud kuite cartillage road and the gradients of the trouble and had intended to course as a whole wéró stiffer retire at the end of this reason. then the English course.

Today, he bowled accurately at medium pace, conceding nine runs. Enriler he had scored an impressive 80.

Cricket authorities say that 04 Archer eduld easily re- gain his place in the Australian Test side. China Mail Special.

IS GOLF BAD FOR

CRICKETERS?

By Derek John

And how right psychologically were De Havillands in insisting that their men take care not to the Comet's glistening scratch outer sheath. All other aero-i After the fatal planes look tatty by comparison. Collins in the German Grand I even felt afronted when some- Prix, Hawthorn early gave up one refuelling at Prestwick left racing altogether, But after a rubber sole marks on the wing few weeks' rest he came back outside my window.

gradually overhauled Is golf bad for cricketers? We ended in a "stock"--some- Stirling Moss for the title. Furthermore, belleve it or not, they like the British. I soon where over Watford the cap- Mike Hawthorn has suffered It hardly seems so, judging by the number of

half on much grief and mapy injuries that to silp into the 10in sold-circling for

world of our own on his way to the top. Collina from hour in come London" as opposed, I fear to shirt sleeves, dark glasses, the and Musso were only a few of Texas or New York was the sun, blazing down on a limitless his friends cled on the racing

There are 12 of them in Eleaming waste of cotton wool stretching track. And in 1954, his father,

ain the fight to retalh the **Open ségme" to

curved horizon. Not a veteran Brooklands driver, party of 17, and they include a "Ashes". For he has recently smiles and enthusiastic hand- way to

one-handicap My heart naturally alone this time but with half a was killed in a road crash, shakes.

Tombren bitten by the golf bug The world champion, has had Graveney, and a two-handicap himself. warmed in relun till they dozen others,

One by one their turn came several near-fatal accidents. At man,

Miller-both Arthur drove me in their motor-cars,

10 disappear below, and 23, he artshod while practising Gloucestershire bajsimen. when it cank to my boots.

eventually ours. The sun went for the Malian Grand Prix and

learnt conversation

"I

Impressions

golfers on the current M.C.C, tour of Aus- tralla.

301.C EX

man,

SCHOOLBOYS

Second: Of the four school

Tsung boy competitors (from Tsin College), none had ever walked the distance before yet two completed the course and One another covered 29 miles. (Tsong Kwok Hung) was second In the Junior division with ở hours 521⁄2 minutes. We may expect to hear more from these young men.

Twa

useful lessons were learnt, the need of feed along the way and the need of a pullover after sunset, the lack of thera told on several competllors In- cluding, the writer, who had to be content with 5th place; the

will not be neglected next year,

G. S. KENNEDY-SKIPTON

Chairman, Hongkong-

Racewalking 'Association.

Weightlifting

World Record

蛾

Cork. Dec. 10; Soviet weightlifter Rudolf But I wonder it manager Freddie Brown approves of the Flukfelder today catablished a ban. A quarter of a century aga world record for the two-hand in, the fog swirled, and out wel was down to Britain where a But

still be he did so badly in one innings in snatch in the light heavyweight came, just over the hangars of chest operation saved him. He Deve that a idt of golf con Australia that the England skip category with a 138.600 kilo Their driving is based on the London Airport into the grey has been badly burned, had his have a bad effect on a bolsman, per-atric distiplinarian Douglas gramme litt. He broke the first principle of carmanship: world in which it is our lot for ribs masher on Q Jung So captain Peter May is telling Jardine confiscated Brown's record at the dovlet champla "The man who loses his nerve fão many months to live,

punetairecă.

ha men to lay off golf at the golf clubs,

team weightliftmg, ship for last goes across first.", Rather

But How toptalising to think that

his worst experience week-ends

now being held here. or, at least, limit

But that didn't op fighting Flakfelder held the former life playing "iba" at school, all the time that other world" came in 1955 when 42 spectators their play to nine holes.

Freddie. He borrowed a set of record (138) kilogrammb) since only a few thousand feet above were killed, during the Le Mens our heads. Damnit, I'l rather 24-hour Grand Prix d'Endur- It shows May's determina- clubs from a friend-and went | last September-France-Press. be stacked over Waiford!

Hawthorn, who saw, the tlon to leave nothing to chance on playing.

with the reverse object, namely, to ensure that the other fellow hith you amidships rather than vlec-versa, thus proving himself In the wrong.

Of many crowded impressions, the strongest is that of the Journey home and here we may indeed be proud. Six hours direct from, Mexico City to New York in the Comet. It la trúg that we landed on the WTON" - sorcery no to speals, and found ourselves breakfasting at Preil-

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