1959-07-28 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1959.

BRITISH ATHLETICS STRIKES ROCK BOTTOM

Only 10 Competitors Reach Olympic Qualifying Standards In AAA Meeting

By DEREK JOHN

London. soccer, cricket, golf, lawn tennis, table-tennis and boxing. And I forecast that its next big flop will be in athletics. On, the season's agenda are athletics matches against West

Germany, Poland, Russia and Finland.

This year Britain has flopped in international

lose the lot.

For

zizuck Ibbotson,

chiv

The mle was won in 4 min1 British atikties has

Derek . seem reasonably dime In FOLK bottom.

days, slowcoach pre-war the world's ho forkst miler, hos fizzle out deplorable in tils drende of like a dop squib. Gone urmilele miling. auch world-famous post-wr personalities

Jiarnister, Chatawag, Wooderson, Peters und Holden.

itan

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chin

AimBarty. She winners of Die kalf-mile, 100 yards, 220 Purdy, 120 yards burdies, 440 yard hurdles, pole vault. kich jump and long Jump all failed to reach: an Olymple qualifying standard. And these athletes included Irian 11cwon. European 1.500- metre champion, and Peter Itadford, Britain's fastest sprinter.

The sad story of the decline and fall of British athletex driven home a1 month's AAA Championships when only 10 competitors reached the Olympic qualify. ing standards in the finais, And remember that these turords

down as are late qualifying morkas only fr

Stan Vickers www 1 goid tel

find | medal. at the European Cham- Be Fun!

But be was as fuit hips last year. them Loston in the two-mile walk by Aut the warly half a minute. winner, new star Ken Matthews, a bone were shot af th British record...13 mins 11.4

es up in 1981.

country's

string

shogging 10 achieve

with her top men.

Now luck al poble

AAA Championship resaltes

th

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S. African Rugby Only A Handful

Team To

Tour Britain

Landen, July 27. The South Afri Rugby Thon fear, the Springbok: will urrive at Southampton 252 WHE Celuber 4 next year it Innaned here today. The will play 30 malebis in Grial Britain including the Tests against Fuchund. Scutland, Ireland and Wales.- AFP.

1:14

handful

Today, only Brith athletes leak capable of reachdruc an Olymple anal, lete winning a medal. One PC 305 Stan Eldon, the fleet-fontext constable who achieved the Olympie standard in the six miles and three mies

Arthur Rowe, the smithy who won Tile, hot-pul Olympie elas man.

hin not en medailist,

FOUR D. JONES

Fas

STEADY ON NOW BOYS.

LEAVE A SPACE FOR MY FACT

WE'VE WAITED A LONG

TIME FOR THIS.

STUFF.

FERDINAND

NANCY

THAT DOG OF YOURS

IS A REAL CHARACTER

BRICK BRADFORD

BRICK 13 RIGGED INTO A SPACE SUM AND WITH BAM AND DR.JANUARY 15

TAKEN TO THE FLIGHT" LINE,

THE TOMAR" IS MOUNTED

ON THE BOMBER BRICKÉ.

THE BOMBER VALL

DROP YOU AT

30,000 FEET!

YIPEE!!

на 40

mighty

I expect Britain to

Then there

Bruce Tulloch, a newcomer who ran barcfooled to a shock three- mile victory in the AAA meeling. lila Live

of 13 mins 11.2 веса Was well Inside the Olymple standard.

Even Worse

And the British girls? Their standard has been even lower this season. Only good news here is that June Paid and Heather Young are planning comebackt, restoring that glamorous

which startet smashed the world sprint relay record at the British Empire Gamer last year.

What can be done fu revive The greatest British athletics? nerd is money--money for inure professional coachen (there are only five in the country), more tracies (there is not one indoor track), and better training (ael-

lities,

World Yachting Championships

The "Flying Dutchman" class world yachting championships began last Monday week at Whitstable Bay, Kent, South England and ended on Saturday, The individual championship title went to the Italian yachtsman, Mario Caplo, sailing the yacht Alderbaran II. Adrian Jardine of Britain, in "Pandora" was runner-up. Italy came out first in the team placings followed by Britain, West Germany and Holland.

Photo shows some of the yachts during a practice run before the cham- pionships-Times Photo.

Sports Diary Wallaby Trainer

Ind 5.15 pan.

TODAY

Bowls

Division: Talkoo

not!

V HKFC.

Stableford Competition, Water Bay,

Deep

Bakchall Venture For Victory v All-Bong- kong at Macpherson Playground, 8.30 pin,

Hongkong Basketball Association nual meeting, 7 pan.

TO-MORROW

Tennis

This year, belatedly, Hellish amateur athletics will begin a football pool. But the profit

Men's "Division: 1.IC CRC -perhaps £100,000 a year (15), KTGLA « CCC (U), PILY SCAA will fall far short of their | 115,0 v Urban Lounel), USH

14. SCAA (2) V BKCC. RE

CCC (2).

nerde

and meanwhile

the

number

of paying spectators RI athletic meetings is steadily dropping,

What British athletics really

Explains Flop: 'Pent-Up Tension'

London.

Let us proudly acknowledge Alcide the absolute champion. His mighty run for Ascot's £23,000 confirms that he is a great son of a great sire, Alycidon. But what happened to the French crack Wallaby II, who finished virtually last?

Meeting

After the race I called trainer ASF &C. Percy Carter at Chantilly

and Annual Meeting of SCM Post Board Room, 5.30 p.m

asked him point blank: "What Bowls

in wrong?"

the European i needs, but will probably never: 3rd Division: HERC v. IRC at

PIC, 3.30 p.m., HKCC v LS', Bust: is another, is State ald. Without it.

p.nl. But I do Britain looks like losing a great polential deal of prestige at future Inter- national meetings and festivale.

a

I'M GONNA PLANT

„MY TROTTERS PSLAP IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.

ME TOO

ONE, TWO KIRS

COME

YEAH --- HE'S

A LITTLE BIT

WACKY---

-ERNIE BUSHMILLER

A FEW HUNTES LATER-THEY ARE IN THE NOTHER PLANE ROARING INTO THE AR.....

THROO

Mile Race for Army Athletes, Army Ground, Boundary St, dpm.

by MADDOCKS

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

HE LOVES TO TAKE

HIMSELF FOR A WALK

-COME ON, BRICK... TIME TO CRAWL, INTO

THE "OMAR

By Paul Narria

PAR WITH YOU

THAT'S THE

CHAOLSO LONG STORY OF OUR

PAMJ

LIVES, TO LONE

ON THE SIG BLASTILL DE

ALONS!

A fair question.

Only & month ago we saw Wallaby II put up, magnificent perfor- mance to win the Gold Cup.

Sheaffer's

NEW BALLPOINT WITH EXOLUSIVE

STERLING SILVER TIP

Barristers prefer

SWISSAIR

THE AIRLINE OF SWITZERLAND

ROWNTREE'S

THE

AERO

MILK CHOCOLATE THAT'S DIFFERENT!

San Miguel

BREWED

in

HỒNG KÔNG

By-

JOHN RICKMAN

None of that fire was evident last Saturday week, not a spark.

Percy Carter's answer come Imantly: "There's nothing wrong with Wallaby.

He just didn't run at all, Apart from what you saw him do against Alcide at Royal Ascot I know what he

Too Cool

U.S. Baseball Review YANKEES PRACTICALLY OUT OF AMERICAN LEAGUE PENNANT RACE Braves Back In Running For NL Title

New York, July 27.

As we near the home stretch of the 1959. baseball race, it begins to look as if the. Yankees, peren- nial rulers of the Major League, are ready to be counted out of the American League pen-. nant race.

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They just don't seem to have it. Injuries to Tony Kubek and Bill Skowron and the illness of Gim McDougald have added to the woes of manager Casey Stengel.

to

George Weiss, Yankee Gen- eral Manager, wont out Delroll to see if he could do any- thing to bolster his alling herots, but aside from obtaining plicher Gary Blaylock from the St Louis Cardinals and welding thet Skowron put on the disablei list, making room for an addi- Honal player on the roster, he ham't helped much.

Stenzel told newmen he opposed to bringing up any Kew talent from the nor Leagues of anywhere else,

Chlongo, the National League headed for a knock- down drag-odt tussle to the Very end.

Braves' Bad Spell

As the teams prepared to enter the home-stretch San Franelso held on to a 134 gamo surprising advantage over the Los Angeles Dodgers, but the

rampaging Milwaukes Eaves įgave notice over the weekend

claiming he can reshuffle that they will be in contention. present squad into a winning combination, but ble words lacked convletion.

The Braves hit a bad spell after the break for the All- Stur serles and lost eight of nine games, but they've swung back into the winning column,

Move Should Help weeping their series with the

Pittsburgh Pirates.

The "Oid Professor Бауд Great mound performances by that as soon as Kubek is back Warren Spahn, Lew Burdetté, in shape, he will play him a Bob Buhl, Don McMahon, and third base and shift Hector | It-hander Juna Pizarro, pulled

Lopez to first. This move should the 1968 National League.cham- help the sagging laner defence plone to within twe because the Panamanian has the top.

games of

been something less than sen-

the hot Qurner, They have looked very Im- sational at

sixpressive in coming out of their where he has committed costly errors during the Iniest

swing through the West.

Another Casey Inspiration is that right-hander Don Larsen. who has been of little use as a moundeman, can be converted into an outfielder. The big fellow has always been a good long-bal hitter, and certainly the Yankees that could use a little help in department. "Could use his bat," Stengel said, "oven though his arm has not helped me match."

Co-Favourites

Meanwhile,

ля

the Yanicces

slump and in spite of the two-

game advantage that San Fran- present elsco enjoys at the writing, the boys from the beer capital of America are again the betting favourites—AFP.

Third Major Baseball League To Be Formed

New York, 'July 27.

A third major baseball league,. can do to Balbo." (Balbo warld back to fourth place, nine

known as the Continental third in the race.1

games out of first place, Chicago to bo and Cleveland were installed as League, is to be formed, It was co-favourites among the betting announced today by Mr William fraternity. The Indians are in Shea, chairman of the first place with a half-game ad-York baseball committee set up vantage over the White Sox.ty Mayor Robert Wagner. half

"I was a hot day and several of the horses were sweating. Wallaby

New

Tho lengue, which would have remained absolutely Baltimore, eight and cool-wo rool, in fact. I wish Games off the lend, is in third

a minimum of eight clubs, is. he could have sweated out his place.

expected to begin operations in But he bottled-up excitement.

With the American League 1061. Founder cities would be pennant raco apparently didn't and he never runs a good

New York, Houston, Toronto, Race when he is like that.

settling down to a struggle Minneapolis, St Paul and Den between Cleveland and ver-Reuter.

"If Palmer had given him a hiding. It might have fivened Like hlm up, but we don't dolur it that way.

be settled the feld.

"Wallaby has to down at the tail of Palmer did that all right, but when he wanted- the horse to go on, well, Wallaby just didn't want to know.

Captain Beyd-Hochfort hal Alcide turned out splendidly, and Harry Carr brought him with a powerful run to win. Fortunately for British interest: there were no flies on Alcide.

Why Best The explanation is that flies have probably been Alcide's enemy. He cannot bear one to louch blm. It a fly settles on him, he tries to kick it. Hence the sprained muscles which have cost him more than one race.

Alcide, winner also of the 1058 St Leger; has run his last race. Sir Humphrey de Trafford has decided to syndicate him as a stallion forthwith.

With the Derby victory of Parthia, Sir Humphrey's horses have won him £48,474 this stason. He has never had such a haut

his 40 years Es bwner.

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

Here is a position from actual piny: White to move and win.

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