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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1959.

CHINA ALL SET FOR HER FIRST NATIONAL GAMES

AT PEKING ON SEPT. 13

By RONALD FARQUHAR

Peking, Sept. 2. Hundreds of perspiring workers are hustling to put the finishing touches on a big new sports stadium here for China's First National Games opening on September 13. Stripped to the waist, they toil in blazing summer sunshine alongside bulldozers, shifting huge mounds of earth and road rollers smoothing concrete approach roads.

Vlowed

American Fightmongers Routed CLOWNING INGO TALKS MONEY

AS RUTHLESSLY HE FIGHTS

AS

By HARRY CARPENTER

London,

The Americans must hate Ingemar Johansson. The cold-eyed, hard-boiled U.S. fightmongers, who have just come off second best with Ingo nego- tiating the return fight with Floyd Patterson, must wonder what hit them.

xon," Baid

I wouldn't want to face this "The Americans will put their from outside, the Northwest region

inhabited iment in expected to be one of ulte-eyed boy in the ring er equipment into our corner just new stadlum bulleting shines largely by Mocas called the most popular features DI

round the business table. But before the fight with Palter ike a giant white bowl on the Uighurs--will compele In horse-the games.

But Ingo, "O.K. the public love him. They near- Chinese capital's eastern out-ding events. Mongol archers The Chinese have had tuition ly unstucated that famous right just before the fight starts,

kiris and lookn practically and wrestlers

from Hungarina couches complete. 23att

and hund In Porthcawl making him it will all be thrown out and play a selenitine, short-passing sign autographs. He never once

I shall use MY equipment." gaine on the world-famous objected, Tungarian model, but their But this dimpled Swede, who scoring manoeuvres are weak.

Me

work continues skill.

speed to get its immediate surroundings ready for opening

sleep.

I han a foolball

will show their

From Tibet.

surrounded by a cinder run-include nine track, and specist facili-, other nationalities as ties for jumping and throw Tibetons, ing field events.

100-Foot Walls

15

In

ឆន

now rules the fight world

dangerous boxing the

700st

Oboyed

When those six tough Ameri- cans went to Gothenburg to fix China is making determinem alive, is under no lu-up Ingu's next fight with Pat

song about the enmity he has generated by his red-hot bar- gaining over the Patterson re- Turn.

ed, efforts to reach world

and

standard In track and field competitors wil be out

to Improve national records.

iss Cheng Feng-jung, 22- year-old former holder of the world record for the women's high tump starters. She is making a come- will be among the back this year

after being out Cut Letlun with 5 leg injury last

The arena's

double- A total of '175 athletes, in- tiered ferracing will seat 80,000cluding 45 wemen, were official- spectators, olclats say. It is reported to be coming from claimed to be one of the biggest Tibet to compete in track and in the Far East.

Held contests, a road cycling ground race and shooting events. They Han

(Chinese) and

well mecording to the lelal news agency. Elimination tournaments

basketball, volleyball, footbal,

and softball handball, baseball The stadium walls tower wOFO

La staged

20 different about 100 feet high and reports towns and cities in May and teams quail- say they

The top ned for the Snals in Pelting.

In Prague, Performances of world class during July she cleared 172 metrus (5 feet 7 inches; bot expected in and weightlifting. China holds a number of world re- cords in both these sporte an

arc

have been specially June. designed to protect competitors and spectators from the fierce wind which plague Peking in winter and enrly spring. The winds

the sweep down from north and across the Gobi de- sert, bringing with them sting- Ing clouds of yellow dust which can spoil atheletic perfoon- atters and make watching high- ly uncomfortable,

season.

Carchoslovakia,

sy

and Americans to kuw-tow to bim. It makes quite a change.

Dynamito

with. But pened,

JOHANSSON ...shzerod

The routine had been well- rehearsed. Solomons winced, And up the barrel appeared what looked like about a plat of rich, red promoter's blood.

Unfair

Salomons pretended to faint. Ingo flourished the "needle."

Who needs blood?" he said. Nobody

volunteered.

So

I Blame Referees: For The Brawls

Says STAN CULLIS

The eve-of-season memorandum to clubs from the Football League and Football Association rightly stresses the importance of players re- fraining from misbehaviour and gamesman- ship.

I

While most clubs agree with this declslon lo reiterate the directive sent out last year, I feel I would also be a good time for referees to reflect they have Important responsibilities.

*

A Pleasure

I wholeheartedly" agreed with Mir Walker that here lico one of $110 chtef deficiencies in the make-up of the present referee.

While they know the rule- book backward, they mas the tricks of the trade, And it is the sly tricks of the trade that can run a nie much moro cutly than tho od nets of gamesTanship.

Walker stressed this poin! to

I am quite definite in saying that when games cielerlorate into brawls it is because of ladit or control by the official, support his argument dat ex-

Il-temper and vleious playprofesionals would,

or iho are never tolerated by top-class whole, make better refereez, referees.

You very rarely see a game get out of hand when handled

Odd Rosults

by such splendid refereto av Billy believe thot ex-players Arthur Ellis, Reg Lente, would be able to spot there Mervyn Griffths, and Jack underhand thefies all the time. Clough, to mention Just a few But that, of course, la another terson. I don't know what sort

of the top officials.

chapter....this fetish for of chap they expected to deal Johansson grabbed the or of

about Such matches are a pleasure worrying

thu

minor is what hapis Swedish pal sitting next to this

him and pumped the "blood" | tu watch with these referens details at the expense of real

right on top of the job all the misconduct had produced som

old

The results in

way of Yet it seems to me that when punishment, the Football Association memo It makes me wonder exactly

out last was sent

season the how the FA gauges the extent majority of referees become too of a man's punishment, when

looking preoccupied in

for onc player can Ket minor Indiscretions rather than suspension

passing iemark the serious offences.

jungentlemanty

to and # referee By this, I mean referees were

player who on with thnelches out" concerned

opponent

וונה

але

When they tried to crowd into Into him. We all roured.

Meanwhile I leave the U.S.| time. ite simply forced Jack Demp-

#9 his five attentant the hotel conference-room Ingaight mob with this story.

held up his hand, pointed to told to me by Ingemar Jubans- four of the Americans, and said:

"Once upon a time, four for- cigners altacked

Swede. When asked how they got on, foreigners replied. 'We the fought for two hours. If we hadn't got his erutches away. the Swede would have

killed its","

Unfair an America. Ingo Isn't

On the train back from Porth- caw!, where Johansson watch

Henry

Cooper and Joe Erskine win, the divulged some

ed

"You four go away, please, I am here with Mr Abiquíst, my adviser, Six against two is not folt. Two against two O.K."

Two

two Brainst

It was. That's how the big contract was

Yet thin shrewd Swede, who

swimming she has not yet reached the 1.77/ of the plans for his next trip argued out.

|

lists more than any District Investigation, can Attorney's

friends and enjoy relax with naive pleasures,

Such as the endless funny which Johansson stories with

д Arst-class carriage amused on the four-hour rall trip from Wales, all of them in near-idiomatic English

Sports Diary

TO-DAY

Tennis

to the States. the country that metres (5 feet 9 inches) which has lost the world heavyweights shaken the US. fight mono- even on crutches. gave her the world record in ittle after 25

years unbroken 1957 until it was

taken away mnapoly well as in parachute-Jumping. Inst October

Vienna 112

by Kanank's loianda Bales with fame suit was talking dyna- The young gent In the grey Biggest Attraction High standard of play is likely lezp of 1.83 metres (six feet).

mite: In the table tennis events, an»

Apart from Mk Cheng.

want my friends kept "only have not yet The cuter rim of the stadium; ether spurt in wile China is Chinese achtelle

Jung Kuo-tuan. produced a performer of top round me next time I go to the rises to four storeys, Rooms on forging ahead.

States," sald Johansson. the second.

European ex- winner of this year's men's table world standard third and fourth

"I shud plek my surring Alcors have

been designed as trinis singles world champion-perts who have studied Chinese und com-

will be partners. There hostels to accommodate up to

West Ger-athletes in training slip at Dortmund,

American trainers or managers. entrants pelition say they thik it may 4,000 athletes. On the ground many, is among the four there will be exhibition

be some years yet before they There will be no strangers from the scuthern coastal pre- halls, restaurants, cinemas and vince of Kwangleng.

become a power on the inter- Basket-

my camp. No une will get to see me unless I want ball is ranked as China's most rational track and geld mere. chbrooms, reports say.

widely-played sport.

si the

there," games Suceer Kems to attenek the should give some

from a Fighting talk clues about biggest

eirainly In crown,

whose private life looks so in- their progress and prospects. --- Peking, and the soccer tourna Reuter.

offensive, so peaceful,

The National Games which will Inaugurate the new sodium this manth are being krid in honour of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the

Communist Chinese People's Republic which falls on October 1,

Thousands of competitors are coming frum all over the country, including Mongol racing horsemen end markhmen trop Tibet.

40 Events

There will be more than 40 events ranging from track and Girid c1letics 1E) old-style Chinese teneing, and including swimming, parchute- noteer,

weightlifts, table

Janseball

Jumplag

tennis, motor-cycling,

end a Morse-code sending and receiving contes for radios operators.

Some of the

events will be

held at other sites in the capital, There will be Exhibitlar performances of a number of sports recently introduced Into China including track cycling, epee and foil fencing. freestyle and Greco-Raman wrestling and speedboat rzcing.

Various provinces And bir cities have been holding local qualifying

since competitions spring to help select their teams for the games.

Peking and Shanghai, China's Ingest city, each wil send a lewm at 400 men and women athletes. So will the firmy, whose strong contingent includes 30 national record-holders.

China's national minority races will : represented, Teams of expert riders picked from the

herdsmen of Inner Mongolia and Sluklang -

FOUR D. JONES

FOUR D. JONES

US TO IT

"HES! YOU CAN'T

MEET ON

gas U3...

HELPI

FERDINAND

NANCY

MATI

Performances

HEY "NOT ON YOUR HEL, DONIS COME OIL, AND SHRUNK PAGE TRACK TESTER THANK YOU GIVE ME A

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I'VE HAD CHOLIGH OF FOOT

JONES!!!

ANY

JONES THE STAT

THEY TO PUNTA QLEDY

AND SO AS CLƏT STA

Then there, was The "trans- fusion,"

no

in

in

One of the brought back

hin

is a big, phonoy syringe.

mun

souvenirs logo from the Stales hypodermic

He plunged it into fellow- Traveller Jack Solomons' bared

ATTM.

by MADDOCKS

By Mik

Colony Open Tormis Chainples- whips si LRC. 5.20 p.m.

Bwimming

HK Police Aquatic heats 2 p.m., Victoria Pool,

TO-MONROW Tenni Colony Open Tennis Champlos- stue at LRC, 5.30 p.m.

Swimming

heats

at

HKC Police Aquatic Victoria Pool, 2 p.

Swimming gala for Tingle Club

members at EYMCA pool p.m.

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SWISSAIR

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more

for

days' un

a

wasting tacties, appealing. with a right to the Jaw receives standing on the ball to delay waly the same sentencel· the taking jot free kicks and

forgetting the

such

mejor crimes

as over-the-ball

and deliberate hacklog.

tackles

Recently, 1: conversation

To me, is an ogleal' as giving the same senience to a chap who teals a lot of bread as the

person who embezzle £30,000.

Reforces have

will: Billy Walker, Notlage make or mar a game,

the power to And it is Forest's manager posed the

No we

the complaining that question: "How many referees

FA does not back them up. My know what constitutes over-experience suggests they receive the-ball and violent and dust-every suppor gerous tuckling?"

-Lümden Express Seruter).

Brandt's Ninth-Inning Home Run Gives Giants

4-3 Win Over Cubs

San Francisco, Sept. 2. Baby-faced Jackie Brandt crashed a home run în the ninth inning today to give the National League leaders, San Francisco Giants, a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs, and pull them out of a tailspin.

Brandt's big hit-his 12th of, the reason, was the third of the day to be registered by the Glants. Fellipe Alou hit a solo homer in the fourth innings and Rookie Willie McCovey hit - other in the sixth as San Fran cisco moved away to a J-1 lead

Knocked Out

Don Elston, the Cubs' ace reliever, started the ninth inning in place of Art Ceccarelli, who had gone ou! in the previous frame for a pinch-hitter, Elston, who lost his seventh against six wine, relired Orlando Copeda on a fly to right for the first out. But then Brandt, who had out his troubles Alling in for the But the Cubs knocked Mike McCormick in the ninth Injured Jim Davenport at third inning while scoring two runs buse, came through with a blow which tied the game, McCormick which just cleared the screen had a two-hitter going when thef at the 340-fool mark. ninth opened. He gave way to Sam Jones with two on and one out,

Results

National League,

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Jones, who eventually came out of the game with his 18th Chicago. victory, then served up run. San Francisco 010-301-001-—2—0 Cecopreili, Elsion by and New- sooring singles to Ernie Banks mani hicCormick, S. Jones ( and and pinch-hitter Wall Moryn Negan. WP-3. Jones 18-12; LP- (6-7). 19-Alou - (10th), before striking out Iry Noren Elton

Thinson (18th), for the fund out,

Brand (12th) UPI.

McCovey (0th),

A

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Rugby Results

London, Sept. 2.

*Résulta of tonight's Rugby

League matches were:

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Bt Helens Falford

23 Widnes

55 Batley

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