1960-01-06 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1960.

Test hopes TWO BIG PENTANGULAR

Blow for England's Test

PACE BOWLER BRIAN STATHAM

PRONOUNCED UNFIT FOR

MATCH AGAINST W. INDIES

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Bridgetown, Jan. 5. England's chances against the West Indies, already low after their recent defeat by Barbados, sank deeper today when pace bowler Brian Statham was pronounced unfit to play in the first Test, starting here tomorrow.

He has a slight strain in his back and left thigh, caused through slipping on the wet ground at the end of the Barbados match.

The strain developed on Sun- day night and the selectors con- acer It woukl not be wise to risk him in a six-day Test,

The decision came after a try- when in the nets today oul Statuun bowled a few balls at half-pace.

Whatever allack plays, it

La obylonia that, barring miracle, there will iremendouEN amount of work for them Name of the MTC bowler he shown peneira- tion on this pitch, England will probably

fo satisfed

cscape the Before this mishap. the well team was: Geoff Pullar, Colin match with a drow, but

to happen the betting Barrington, this Cowdrey. Ken

considerable Sty meler May (Captain). Mike must Smith. Ted Dexter. Ray provement.

ningworth, Roy Swelman, Hot favourites

Brian Statham, Freddie True-

man and Alan Now

be

for

1212-

Net practices can be mistrad- 201 Wes! ing but at the

Replacement tudies are showing far

Now Statham's place Kosest than the tourists for work, either to off-spinner David West Indian fast bowlers are

Allen or

fest left-handed batsman ng that out with

iteman Subba Row.

Ramon Subba Row will play whose spinning only if Allen, Brger is stil sorc, is declared unft. But Allen says he will able to bowl even if the be Bnger starts to bleed. Allen is

only player the

among the twelve named who has not played for England.

Tom Greenhough, the Jeg break bowler, has been passed Test because, for this over though he may have gained n Low wickets, he would prob- ably have proved too expensive against the free-scoring Indians,

West

baten ring the testing.

balls,

good

batsmen

West

With five excellent and same wxful bowlers, indies are hot favourites to win the Tea and the seri

England have a dismal record in recent Test matches aboud, Their mily victory in ten Tests overseas was against New Zea- land at Christchurch in Febru- ary 1959.

Unless they show considerable improvement in all departments, they are unlikely to became the tint England teain to win a Tesi series on the West Indies.China Mail Special.

LEO ESPINOSA FAVOURED

TO RETAIN

ORIENT

BOXING TITLE TONIGHT

TONIGHT

Tokyo, Jan. 6.

Orient bantamweight champion Leo Espinosa of the Philippines is favoured to defeat fast and eager Kenji Yonekura of Japan in a 12-round title match here tonight.

The

veteran 29-year-old Filipino boxer from Cebu city is defending

for his title

the i sitre wrestling it Kiyoshi from Japan's.

second! tim47 back

Mua in Manila het November.

scheduled at Tukyu's Korakuen Boxing Stadium.

Tonight' bout is

GMT

for 1100

It is an important one for

on

the FIUpino. If he wina he may get a crack at Mexico's winner Joe Medei with the

banlam taking

world weight champlon Joe Becerra of Mexico sometime this year, Espinosa is ranked third by the National Boxing Asocia ilon, Medel No. 7.

Reid leads

Wellington to Plunket Shield win

Wellington, Jan. 5. John Reid, the captain,

stered Wellington to vic-¡

wickels lory by Heven over Canterbury in the Plunket Shield here today with a century and some fine bowling.

Heid 143 out of Welling- ton's first innings total of 367 and was instrumental in making Canterbury follow on when he look four wickets for 32, He nis captured

International chess masters at Hastings.

Part of the international line-up of

International

competitors at the Chess Congress which opened at Hastings, England, last Wednesday.

Seen in the above photo from left to right are: Top row-Dr Karl year's champion), Burger (USA), Wolfgang Uhlmann (E. Germany-last three for 37 in the second innings.

Yurl Averbach (USSR); Bottom row. Bobotsov (Bulgaria), Hermann Heemsoth (W. Germany), William Winger (Britain).-Times Photo.

Wellington had fost three wickets for 24 in their first inn- ing before Barry Sinclair and Alan Preston staged a recovery with a stand of 91. Then Reid hammered the bowling ta

pul Wellington on the way to good total.

Scores are: Wellington-367 J. Reid 143. B. Sinclair 73, A. Preston 51, M. Chapple 5 for 47) and 52 for three.

Canter bizy-161 (M. Chapple 53, Reki 4 for 32) and 257 (R Motz 57, S. Guillen 52, B. Mor- rison 5 for 85, Reld 3 for 37). China Mall Special.

Victoria takes Sheffield Shield lead

Melbourne, Jan. 5. Victoria beat South Australia by six wickets in their Sheffield Shield match were today.

with Needing only 143 runs

Jeft for play, most of the day Vetoria coasted to victory with two hours to spare.

Their win tok them of the Sheffield tup table.

Scores nre: Vitoria-485 and 144 for 4. South Australla-350 and 257 ({J. Ur

Ducker 71, 3. L 51; J. Wildsmith 5 for 79).China Mail Special.

Los An-

George Parnaist. geles boxing promoter, promised Einosa he would arrange the

THE AGA KHAN elimination match to select

THIRD IN SKI

cerra's nex challenger t Filipino bents Yonekura.

Yonekura won't be a pushover. | The former Japan yweight

RACING. EVENT champion dropped a unanimous

St. Moritz, Jan. 5. The Aga Khan was placed third in the Roberts of Kanda- bar Downhill Race, second event of the British Ski Racing Week opening here today.

the

The handsome young ruler of whu Ismaili Moslems, spend his winter vacations in Switzerland, finished 1.8 seconds behind Briton Timothy Ash

burner, who won the face in mina. 09.4 ees.

decision to world flyweight Jebampion Pascual Perez

Amgentina here last August but made a ereditaule showing.

Close battle Espino, although confident of wineira, wota make no prodie-

he tions. I will do my boat,“ sick.

Loral boxing writers pre- dicted close battle but said Espinosa will come out on top. 2. They felt Espinosa's long ring i experience77 wins with more The Aga Khan, who was dis- than 40 of them by knockouts qualified I the Alpine Ski and six losses-will decide the Challenge

Cup slalom this. Yonekura has eight pro- fessional fights, winning six and morning went down the 2,100- yard 1,400-foot drop track very losing two.

ald fart and in One style. He was only. split-second behind second mon Robert Skepper of Cambridge University.—AP.

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Sports Diary

TO-DAY Bocor

·lat Division: Faster, y CMN at Boundary Street, 230 pm,

Rugby

Club v „Brigade of HKFC Stadium 8 p.m.

Paliot

stadium 7.13 p.m.

HKPC

Yonekura, A few second ranking Japanese ban- tamweight. Atands

good chance of winning the fifth Orient boxing crown for his country.

They based their predictions on the fact that Espinosa no lenger rosseries the stamina and speed he had in his younger days and that Yonekura will no longer be weakened by having to trim down to the 112-pound flyweight Hrmit. He is a natural

his handlers Bald bantam, AP.

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CHESS

to the Shield

by LEONARD BARDEN

After the following game (Bisgajer-Toran, Munich, 1958). Tore told his opponent that was especially pleased to win since it was his birthday. "Ahl replied Bisuler sadis, "It's my birthday. too!" 1 P-X. P-R4; 2 KKBS. KL- QB3:B-H15, K-B9, 4 Q- K2 B-K2; 5 P-B3 P-Q3: 4 P--Q4

Castles. B-Q1: 7 Castles; B Kt 2 PxP: 0 PXP. PQR3: 10 Bx kt. BxB; 11 P, B-02; 12 P-QK15. R-KI; 13 Kt—Q. P~BI; 14 PXP p PxP: 18 Q-83. Kt— Kis: 16 KtXP. BxKt; 7 QxKL B-83; 18 R-Ktl. P- 94; 19 FXP. XP: 20 8-

P-KRA: Q-K 9x8; 22 RxB B-X3; 33 KESK#3: 24 B-22. Q-KBİ: 25 KL-Q, RxQ: 26 Resigns, for it 26 Rixe RXP cb; 27 E-RL, RxEP đầể ch.

Solution No 5748; 1 Casties. P-RB(Q) ch; 2 QxQ or 1 P-17 ch; 2 Qx P. 1. P

B6, 2 Q-Kt4, or 1.

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Dr

Hastings international chess

tournament

HK to play Indonesia in first game of Asian basketball tournament

Manila, Jan. 5.

Japan will play Malaya, Korea will take on Hong kong and the Philippines will oppose Indonesia in opening day games of the Asian Basketball Conference championship which gets underway here on Jan. 16.

China, the seventh parild- pating tear, will play ita first game against Korea the follow- ing day.

Hastings, Jan. 5. Karl Burger, chess champion from the US. lost his third successive the Hastings game in International Chess Con- gress today, The New York surgeon resigned to Milko Bobotsov, the

This was announced today by Bulgarian master, after five

the Philippine Amateur Athletic hours of play and 40, moves,

after six Federation which released the lead Sharing the

final schedule for the champion- rounds of the ten-round

first of the newly ship, the trurnament are Yuri Aver- formed Basketball Conferença. bakh, a Russian grandmaster, and Gligorle, B Yugoslav grandmaster, Each has Яve polnis.

Tied for second place with four points each are Arturo Pomar Spain, and the 24-year-old grandmaster,

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Title-holder

The Philippines. Asian Games basketball ille-holder,,: la favoured to win the tourna- Japan and China are ment. xiven a good chance.

A round robin series will be Tove Wolfgang Uhlmann. Bobotsov played the first work.

games will be played dally with allows with 3 points, the same score DS Harry the first starting at 6 pm. The four teams with the best records Golembek of Britain.

will go into the second round Cinek Kotlauer, Czechoslovakia, for another round robin affair, has 24 points, Burger 14 The team with the best recomi points, Hinrich Heensoth of for both rounds will win the West Germany, one point, championship.

and 53-year-old William Winser of Britain, point. -AP.

Fullmer to

defend title

in April

West Jordan, Jan. 5 NBA middleweight champion Gene Fullmer will hold his next | title defence in April against

The schedule The first round follows:

schedule

January 16 Korea v. Hongkong. Philippines v. Indonesia, Japan v Malaya.

January 17 Indonesia v. Japan. Philippines v. Hongkong. Korea v. China.

January 18 Philippines v. Molayn. Indonesia v. Hongkong. Japan v. China,

January 19

Japan v. Hongkong. Malaya v. China. Philippines v. Korea,

January 20 Indonesia v. Malayu. Hongkong v. China, Korea v. Japan.

January 21 Indonesia v. Chino. Korea v. Maloya, Philippines y. Japan.

January 22 Malaya v. Hongkong,

Indonesia. Korea v Philippines v. China-AP.

RUGBY

MATCHES

AT CLUB TONIGHT

By PAK LO

Two big rugby games are scheduled for tonight. At 6.00 p.m. 48 Brigade take on Club in their first Pentangular match against one another and at 7.15 p.m. Pohee oppose the Garrison team. Both matches will be played on the Club ground under floodlights.

There is one game scheduled for this afternoon. with the venue now reported as being at Boun- dary Street, and not at Sekong.

This game which is due to start at 3.15 p.m. is between the 5th Field Regt and RAF Kai Tak, and the Gunners are expected to win this one comfort- ably, for the RAF while strong in the forwards have not settled down in the threes.

In the two major matches to-unleash one of their devastating night the four top protagonists attacks from the word "go". for the Pemangular title clash, The Polloe have only produced their top form a few times this so two hard fought battles are expected.

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sensor, but are just about due

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In the fret game Club are to produce it again, and if they much stronger than they have do, Garrison will be in periars

But on present for | trouble. been of late, and will

the laurel wreath should go try to play an open game, while Brigade who have learnt that Garrison, who have nettled down

well, this type of game is dangerous

Following are the Pentangular will, under the field direction of

Loumament standings Lp to well known referee, a certain

dale: keep the gome‘tight,

Tho Club pack is strong enough to hold the Brigade in the loose, though they can offer little opposition in the lineouts and the scrums where Club's only hope la fast break- ing and hard tackling by

wing forwards

But desplie advantage

Brigade

Pentangular table

P W D L F A P Brigade 3 2 0 3 30 9 4 Garrison 3 3 0 1 28 11 4 210 G03

tho

the

J'olice Club RAF

their superfor forward, the threes are not the equal of the Cloh threes and, with a reasonable supply of the ball, the Club, should after their hardest battle to date wh

Hit by injuries

In the other game Pollee are agal hit by injuries. Brown 13 out with a displaced shoulder, walle Hobbs also is injured and is being rested so that he will be At for the Talpans game on Saturday,

The Carrison, with two wins

another

2 0 1 14 17 2

4 0 1 3 3 44 1

Lorraine Crapp, Ilsa Konrads in swimming final

Sydney, Jan. 5. Iisa Kohrad

holder of several world swimming ns:ds, rmi Letrtine Crapp, 3 double Olymple, gold medailisi, both qualined bure tonight for the 230 yards freestyle finint in the New South Wales Women's swimming championships.

Mies Konrade

in

the

to their credit so far, will be qualifiers the preliminary looking for them to the top while Police will also

win

headed

to push heats Wilh 1 tine of two of the table, minutes 19.0 records-4.0 want to seconds, outside Dawn Fraser's take them well clear of world record of 2:14.7. the airmen in bottom place. Miss Crapp won her heat in Police have a game in hand as 3:23.4. have the Club, and once game is played the whole table could well be switched round.

this

Police tonight are weak in the back divialan, with hims well known stalwart A. N,

wing Other playing on one laside him plays his brother O, N. E. Mart. The Club pack is at full strength and should

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The final of the event takes place tomorrow night.

Miss Fraser is net competing

in the championships—Reuter,

Dutch rowing star killed

the 'agairist

equally stronz Garrison pack. But Garrison,

Dordrecht, Jan. 5. te has been proved before, have

Ebbo Van Wezzenbeek, one of hatves and Holland's Towing aces n good pair of

ond strong threes, who should get strong candidate for the Olympic plenty of the ball tonight, Ther Games In Rome, accidentally should win, unless the Police shat himself dead tonight—AP.

Desmond Hackett's Column

Do put your son in

the

fight ring. Mr Worthing- BOXING?

ton-and the

young

athletic hopeful has much

of more chance proceeding home on his own two feet than he would if he were to excr. cise in Rugby, Soccer, or athletics.

AH! IT'S

SO SAFE

and con- This is the grave

The investigations revealed of 10 medical aldered opinion

were caused from the solemnly-led these experts in a

pe "Medicat

fighter falling backwards after a Aspects Boxing" published blow on the head.

either Joey Cardelle or Carmen Johansson Ousted book

Basillo, manager Mary Jenson announced last night.

Jenson said he would prefer the bout be held in Utah bul

In Own Country

Amateur Last week Dear

be

A new resilient under-cover has been introduced to cut down this danger.

mtons who may taken by p at of the vapours Stockholm, Jan. 5. that the Civic Auditoriuro in Heavyweight champion huge when pride and Joy Johnnie Denver is his alternate selection.mar Johansson is 1950's male demands a set of boxing gloves ing as a cure for juvenile de

the for his birthday of the Year" in The fight will be promoted by "Athlete

the Intermountain Boxing Club. year-end Associated Prese poll, assured by the chapter

It will be the second true de- but not in his native Sweden.

Swedish sports writers, voting fence for Fullmer who decision- ed Spider Webb on December 4 for Sweden's top athlete, select

in 18 rounds at Logan, Utah.ed Agne Simonation,

UPL

Barry Appleby

Iplayer-AP.

B Soccer

COOK BETTER MEALS

WITH GAS

will

The authors recommend box belinquency. They talk, I think

"IT IS SAFE FOR YOUR SON TO TAKE UP BOXING." In fact young Master Muncies would be much safer taking a sock on the nose than riding a bicycle, a motor-cycle, or tread- ing out his energies in the local swimming baths.

the

Seven deaths

In the Het of the halt sid lame of athletics who allend special treatment ses- rions for injured sportsmen at Middlesex Hospital, boxing comes eighth in the casinky Mate.

panda - of-contesta 'every Four.

#

These prone to a knock-out are permanently suspended.

The old trade mark of the cauliflower ear has gone.

• Of punch drunkenness one investigator says

145 have never encountered it."

• Only about four per cent of HITLA LOGET contests end, în 4 knock-out,

So, despite the ban-boxing crusades of militant Dr Edith Summerakill, you can, da I Temarked, put your son in the fight ring, Mr Worthington AND THE BEST OF TO HIM.

Pulled out

LUCK

In the hard, cruel, ertel world of boxing for bank rolls the latest on the Ingemar Johansson series i

Two bosala of the million- dollar chain-store business of Lerners have pulled out of the syncate headed by ex-world- champion light heavyweight

Tommy Loughran.

Maybe they heard that the lushest part of the contract the TV thentre television with Its £750,000 prospects, is al- lready signed over to the {rather loftily, about "The oullet Sultan of this System, Irving.

for psychopathic traits."

Kahn. recken these

young Jack Solomons, still Mister toughies would knock some of | Super Optimist of 1959 and

the devil out of themselves; ; 1960, philosophised:

whlah, I suppose, means the

same thing.

the "What with

American

The book tells parents they lawyers wanting to grab every must expect some injuries, but dollar they can get their writs And in this swoiting Tile these risks have been cut down on, and Joharwars, wondering there д

29,000 sove to the minimum Safety rules all the time who is following "aranteurs "punching out thou, Soqladi.---

him, he would get lurk as mich money and less nervosis

trouble fighting for me."

HOPE HOW ETERNALLY HOES SPRING IN THE AMPLE OF JACK SOLO.

---(London Exprese Service).

The authors do not pretend a boxer who suffers a true- that boxing low fethal than tured law is permanently ludo, Frankly they reveal upended".

BEBAST seven deaths A boxer who is Janodked cast there have been ©mong → ameteur boxers nice legended for at lett a the end of the win.

MONS.