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THE CHINA MAIL; MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1959.

KMB

BUSMEN WERE ALL AT SEA

Tung Wah

Wah Looked Set For Victory-And Then The Rains Came

MATCH ABANDONED AFTER 45 MINUTES By I. M. MACTAVISH

and then the rains came. Eighteen thousand soccer fans somehow contrived to obtain shelter yet watch the game from beneath a motley of umbrellas..

nows- papers ... and an amazing miscellany of 'mackintoshes'

but relentlessly the rains poured down.

That briefly is the sad bleak story of what should have been

a great football match at the Hongkong Stadium yesterday.

WORLD RANKING SHUTTLERS ARRIVING

APR. 27 FOR

EXHIBITION

I say, should have been, for truth to tell instead of being CHAROEN WADHANASIN entitled to the adjective 'great' it turned out to be the biggest wet squib of the season.

But, exonerate the players.

wet

KMB and Tung Wah were I heard som officials airy- fence and when the interval ap-

third line to srity explaining away the de- proached they had clearly estab meeting for the Opht for the it to ucet elsion ond I

They ratherthed the upper hand, was

1art South Chúinu in the Anal of the surprised to hear one promin- | looked set for victory.. Senior Shield. The expecta-ent Boure make the commest af course, we shall never know tions of the emwd were high. that it was a good thing the how things would have gone H The fans, wet as they were, ruin stopped the match as the the game has been played out

their must have felt

hopte players were beginning to get u to its normal finish. were well founded during an bit out of hand and were going

the Un exhilarating Arst half but with for each other the score shert blank the referee slippery surfcer'. abandoned the match at half-

What a bit of tripe. Foulbail fire,

is played all over the world in conditions like those we had yesterday without The players causing bodily harm to cach Frankly I thought it was a

other. It is surely possible for runk Lad the game thing to happen in

The players linel through An exciting if un

The game could have gone on classical Bret half: the worst of without hardship to the players, if, they had been resttuned by strong control.

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Bad Decision

bind ductsion,

Bengkung wet the few inele- battledent decartons dem.ind.

20 storm had passed; Tung Wah bad literally played KM to stand still; the pitch which had collected Its quota { puddles had saul up

remarkably well to the watery Conditions and when the ground staff rocal nut with buckets of whitewash and started re-laying the goal lines 31 looked as though the game would go on.

The frente shouts and waves of the policemen were the first Indications the crowd had that culled haft E referee had

akain speaks ... and it once volumes for the sensible duct of the Chinese Hayed out

Lesta-

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Another Tennis

Title For Ulrich

Nice, April 19. Denmark's Torben Ulrich won the men's singles le of the Benuller Intenuational tennis when Be beat tournament Sweden's Lundqvist 0-4, 1-8, 6-2, 6-8, in today's final.

VERDICT: The forty - Ave minutes we saw were exciting. hard fought, promising....and. a. Ittle after the rains came........ comlest, The players stuck but very well and if the pre- Interval life was flowing Tuna Wah's way it would be wrong to assume that they would have nailed io victory over the full course. The real heroes of the day were the spectators and the | pocteti.--France-Presse.

, the spectators for Pollee.

Italy's Miss Beltrame won the women's singles ltle beating America's Miss Linda Vall, 6-0, 6-8, 6-2,

| their sensible co-operation in the face of such bitter disap- pointment as an abandminent which, to many of us, sermed unjustified....and the Follee for their

and quick

Lactful handling of what could very have been an explosive

We shall recall this

into the match KMB went without star full-back Law Pak and Ng Tim-loy again tiled his place in his own crude and easily robust way

The busmen had situation. Wai. Fat-kim back in goal after as the semi-final when the rains

is fantashe suspension-with- came....and produced holiday interlude but for the thoroughly wet decision to call

game the whole thing, off, 1sted he gave "shockingly He B- poor performance. handled the ball every time he bad make a save,

toriy-live inutes

The

Leung KB, Lou Tim and Chan Chi-kary played ng hurd as they always in. fants that

The forward- tine, of the ground however, was a bit out of itx without undue demonstration, depth malust the hard but not They were a doubt partially wars legitimate tackling

the antuneement

the Tung Wali defence. pacified by

hal tickets would be valid for the re-play.

A: This stage the storm

slackened. The

had

Two Incidents

of

How fragile can soccer mil soccer folks become?

Chow Shiu-hung die le of water on the

playing pitch had began seep away and in fact as

to

the

Spectators left

nule yet he figured in two im- portant incidents. In the 24th minute he the the ch

mnde a good run down the right wing nine after turf

remarkably www looking

I have beating the goalkeeper with fresh and green agadu.

he had the big dis- watched Kames of internationul fast she

pitcher as pointment of seeing the ball importance played on my times worse than we had rebound from the far post.

Just before the interval he was a different kind of Ume-

Jesterday.

water

which

were

The general visibility w£ts [ l}ogh£ when he was physically good and in spite of the pools of flattened in a heelie goalmouth scaltered melee and had to be taken from about the f it was possible the neld for attention. to see the lines clearly. The Eine could, and in fnet

have gone on.

should

THE HONG KONG

N - JOCKEY CLUB

Programmes and Entry Forms for the 18th Race Meeting 1958/59 to be held on Saturday, 2nd May,

Tung Wah adapted themselves to the conditions far better than KMB although,

strangely enough, goalkeeper Wong Shiu- woo was almost as littery as his

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much

the

The Tung Wah defenders-it occasionally using beef in the tackle-kept KMB attackers on a light rein.

Wal-man did not give izu- Kai-hu very much rope und Szeto Tia, while not kicking the wel greasy ball with his usual Recuracy and power, subdued 1959 lanky Leung Wai-hung to an unexpected degree. Wing-halves (weather permitting) may bo Chan Fai-hung and Wong Chi- obtained at the Secretary's kong did a fine job of holding Office, Alexandra House; the Lau Chi-lam and Lam Kam- Club House, Happy Valley; tong in cheek.

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hard

and the Stablos, Shan Kwong The Tung Wah forwards, in- Road.

spired by Lo Kwok-lof," Have the KMB defence Entries close at 12 o'clock | time of it and they should have NOON on Wednesday, 22nd scored several times when they April, 1959

worked themselves into good position only to let the chance slip away through hesitancy or wild 'shootla

By Order of the Stewarde,

A. E. ARNOLD,

Secretary. Tung

As the first hälf progressed

Wils increased

their the busmen's . de- pressure on

TAE GAMBOLS

IT'S THE LATERALS

LETS, GO-IM FED UP

· THEY WANT US

WITH THUG PAINTING

TO GO ROUND,

FOR THE EVENING

The Danish Davis Cup player's win today following his win in the Cannes International tournament last week, conarm- ed his present good form. But he had a harder fight beating the Swedle than had been ex-

Sports Diary

HA

TODAY

Meeting eterport Sub-Committea Meeting. Spurta Road 60 DEL

Tennta Colony Open" Doubles Final at HKCC, p.m.

то-молдоw Bdeter 1st Division: Army CAA, Sing Tad V Eastern.

Hockey 2nd Division KCC "B" V ZRC

(ICC) 3,30 p.m.

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MATCHES

Confirmation has been re- ceived by the Hongkong Badminton Association this morning that three of the world's top ranking shuttlers, Teh Kew-san, Lim Say-hup and Charoen Wadhanasin will arrive in

Hongkong on April 27 for series of exhibition matches,

Tch and Lim recently won the all-England men's doubles title and are re- garded as the world's best combination in this event.

Charoen Wadhanasin, the Thalland men's singles champion, the current holder of the Malayan men's singles title, was a semi-finalist in the recent all England Champion- ships and runner-up to Tan Joo-hock in the US open singles event.

The local

TEH KEW-SAN

BOSTON MARATHON TODAY

Robert Pape Among Strongly Favoured Foreign Athletes

Boston, April 20. Long-distance runners from Japan, Britain, Aus- tralia, Finland, Argentina and Burma áre strongly favoured to take leading positions among the 199 athletes taking part in the famous Boston marathon today.

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The annual race, run over a hilly course of 26 miles 385 yards from a suburb into the Boston Uni- versity campus finish line, will probably be watched by as many as 200,000 people along its length.

It has been won three ilmes· alnce the end of the war by, Japanese summaers, and this year

Duilio Loi Wins Japan la ngain strongly repre- Second European Boxing Title

Mon, April 10. Italy's Dullio Lol won the European welterweight boxing lite When he butpointed the champluri and his compatriot Emilio Marcon over 15 rounds before 12,000 people at the Vigorelli Studium here today.

Loi thus added. second European title to the uropean lightweight Alic he already holds. His win over Mareoul, the previous holder, was clear-

cut.

In another bout the Italian heavyweight Mino Bozzano scored an easy 10 rounds points win over the Jamaican Jac Bygraves.

Bozzano

senled. The entrants are Taka- yuki Nakayo-oily 18 years bid and five feet tall, but strongly favoured Nubuyrshi

Sadanaga and Aktra Hotsiku.

Former Winner Former winner Vekka Kar- vinen of Firiland is also seen 19 n good bet to repeat his 1954 success He will be running with his fellow countryman Eino Oksanen.

Britain's

la representativc Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Pape, formerly of Hongkong, who holds an unofficial world recurd for the 30-mile distance, end hos compeled in over 70 full-distance marathons,

Myl Tang Naw of Burma is the first of his nation to com- Boston pele in the annual event. Lille is known of bla record, except that he was n Alrong Inisher in the Aslan Games marathon last year.

Goaltrey Watt, a bearded Australian optometrist from put Bygraves down Melbourne,

Osvaldo fth round and then for hine darks horses as far as previous twice for a count of alx in the Suarez of Argentina,

are both

round-France-form is concerned. Watt worked

LIM SAY-HUP millee Meeting on April] 23 to decide the pro gramme and the venue of the Association will Com- hold an Executive

These exhibition games.

Presse.

ninth

This Could Be A Vital

Season For English County Cricket

By JOHN DAVIS

London, April 19.

What could be a vital season for English county cricket gets.

under way in less than a fortnight. Unless there is plenty of fine weather and a more enterpris- ing spirit in the play to attract the crowds, most county clubs will again finish “in the red.”

points for Best innings

Cricket is meant to be played vast praits of football compell- | bonus

tions.

Icod. In the sun, and no matter what

Should the offlelais have done behind

this source of re- So far, none of these has suddenly improve the game į venue

ccase, several brought about the dealred

the scenes

and

is way to Boston on less than 350 dollars from, bis home to race in the marathon.

Best In U.S.

best-

The United States' favoured runner is former win- ner Jolin Kelley, a 20-year-old Connecticut school teacher. He set a course récord of two hours 20 minutca and five pecorida with his victory in 1957; anul is the only American to have won in recent years. He was of second to Franjo Mohalle

Yugoslavia here last year, and is regarded as the best mara-

the thon runner in

United' Sister.

Bob Carmen of Pittsburgh, who finished second to Kelley In the Jersey City marathon last year, and is the national 90-kilometre champion, is the only other American favoured for a leading place,

The race will start from nearby Hopkington at 1700 GMT today and the winner Ja expected to cross the finishing line about two and a half hours later. Reuter.

as a spectacle all their efforts counties might no longer be quickeniltig of tempo, Indeed, Carnoustie May

may be fruitless if we have alable to sford to indulge in six the shortened boundary has had repetition of last season's rainy days a week of first-class | the effect of lowering the days, which contributed to the cricket. decrease of halt

spectators.

standard of outfleiding WON

million Apprehension show by the MCC team In

With the exception of county

and, until this senson Middle- sex, all the counties now de-

large sums pend on the

of money given them by the sup porters associations from the

champions, Surrey, Yorkshire such

ከባ Northamptonshire

for some time repaid the benent of financial help and they are well worth it for their con-

bali.

the table in

but, while this may be rite in

Race In The 2,000 Guineas

Austria. The art of the long. return was almost non- swift existent

English umong tho

London, April 19. players,. sume of whom have

Carnoustle, who was not ex- run In the 2,000 sistency. They were fourth in also lost the will to chase the pected to

Guines at Newenerkut on April 1958, second in Much has been written and 28, will probably take his 1057 and fourth again last year-ald about the evil of throwing chance la the race after all.

Finds from their supporters*

After the colt had won the kritisportón tarried a working

aTile Clasele Tilal Stakes you--- deficit of more Than £15,000 Australin, it concerns only

Lieutenant few players in England. MCC's terday, his owner, action Informing the indivi-Colonel Giles Loder, said the hact an avorion to the Newmarket course and would not run the Gunces But after com

with trainer Noel sultation Murless, Colonel Lodor has revised his plans for Chroustle. -Itouter

Bad Light Halts Davis Cup Tie

Coiro, April 19. Darkness halted play today In the final and deciding singles match of the European Zone Arst round Davis Cup te be- tween Egypt and Rumania bere, Soyed Badreddin, of Egypt, beat Constantin Nastase 8-10, G-0, 3-0, 7-8, 0-1 in the day's first match to level the tle at tive matches all,

Into a profit of £5,500 Inst season.

In

There has been much ap- cual counties of the men who prehension about the future or have been mmed by umpires int cricket and one noted may-be-so-ellective That Boone criile, Neville Cardus, writing will be "celled" during the in the 1951 cricket annual, says: coming summer.

The world cricket is rapidly Welcome Move becoming a synonym for "all

if any bowlers do offchd by that is boring and unguliant in throwing or jerking they can speri. First class county com- not expect any more fendency mittees and erleket, captains from umpires.

Nor will um- none can save the game. For,

to tolerate the played as it is now, it is head. Pires continue

tearing up of the plich near the Ing for extinction".

Given a spell of fine whether, have delivered the ball."

stump by. bowlers after they

Brusds, April 19.. all over the groundsmen

A welcome move to avoid A maghicent anal epriht country will be expected to

Cycling Win For Belgian

Helglan

0-4, 3-1 in the final match when years. The

micat like Peter May will pitches before and after play, Schoubben victory in the Paris-

Gheorghe Viziru, of Rumanio, Produce much better pliches time-wasting after rain is the which he launched eight do was leading Kamal Moubarak than they have done in recent compulsory order that all coun- metres (6 miles) from home-gave wells Frang truly great bals-sinust fully cover their the worsening light stopped play.

Brussels professional road cycling including weekends. above conditions, The match will be completed usually rise

whether

This has been the practice in classic today and thintaind pitches are prepared Lomorrow: Winners of the tib

Australia for some time, but in Belgium's position as the present meet Ireland or New Zealand.in favour of bowlers or not,

order not to eliminate altogether top Europtan cycling naflati J Reuter.

or wet plleh, the France-Press. the stocky Fail Lamentably

covers will not be put on at the Only when

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But If English first class first sign of rala.

- umpires havó

crickel

is to

recapture its

tir caplaits popularity there must be a decided that no more play i general re-awakening là many possible for the day will the phases,

pitch and surrounding arean bb fully proteclid, Far-sering legislators thered Ught more thah, 20

Edw

years ago, when the Indiay Commission stated that the

Aled, the countice have de cided to add, when possible, in

INTERNATIONAL

·SOCCER

Budapest, April 19. Hungary beat Yugoslavia 4-0 an International football

extra half hour at the end match herd today after-leading prime essential was, that every of the first and second days if, 1-0 at half-time, France player thould adopt a dynamild all the day

concerned, more Presse. atitude from the first ball of thin half an hour, has been lost Loa ateh tế thì làm..

Birough the wealber,

vilt of

It is in this respect, that, The main features of the unfortunately, the majority of seawks will be the

India thic playas tatt ko menemuiny,

The experimental laws of the England'e tainafter the four dolenia ...in

| last two scuecall will dadli "be overwhelming

: composition ' of

CHESS

for count itket, Austenis and the forts of By LEONARD BARDEN

namely the 70 yards boundary. Surrey to win the county cham- limitation nt inside distruse; to plowship for the eighth year hoftiam. – 205,5689 1-- %. Ave, with no

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