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YMPIC TORCH

Olympic

I'll back Norton to whip Radford

basketball The United States will send to Rome qualifiers

Bologna, Aur, 17.

Belgium,

the strongest men's track and field team the Olympic Games has ever seen. And I confidently expect our boys to take at least 13 of the 22 golds medals awarded for pthletics.

Four European tesins went inlo the finals of the Bologna pre- Olympic tournament tonight with a one-game advantage over their opponen is,

I rate us hot favourites in 13 reasonably The four

events, but we can Worl Czechoslovakia.

and expect to gather another couple Hungary.

of golds for good measure,

Any doubts that our Olympic the Anals

challenge would not be greater than ever were swept away last month in the trials in California, U.S. sprinters have not lost a the 1928

Poland. Other

WI

teams In

Conado. Spain Yuga

slavia, and Israel,

At the drow on Wednesday afternoon they were divided Jato these brackets:

Fold

medal since Games, and I cannot see any European sprinter, even Peter Czechoslovakia. Radford, edging our new cham- of Brst Yugoslavia,pion Bay Norton out

place in the 100 metres or the

Bracket A---Canada, Belgium. Spain and Bracket B-Israel. Hungary and Poland.

These were the top lams to 200 metres,

18-lcam trum cinerye

elmaaktion nound.

an

Originally had been

pected all teams in the finals

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The danger

Francis

Norton, 22-year-old 6ft 2in. would start with a clean state. Negro from the San Jose State sald College, California, has returned But fight organisers teams who met in the earlier 10.3sec. and may have most to round would not play against fear from team mates each other in the fals. Instead, Budd and Dave Sime. organisers scád, the elimination round aesult would carry over to the final round.

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year 48.0sec.-to gain at least a silver in the 400 metres with Earl Young (48.2) and Ols Davis (45.6), giving strong sup port.

James Besity (13min. 51.7sec.) the sort of plucky outsider who might surprise a few fancied Europeans in the 5,000 metres,

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We should take both hurdles. Lee Calhoun, coloured defender of the 100 metres title, hás already streaked home 13.4sec. this season and Ohio's 25-year-old maestro Henn

has cleared the Davis

400 metres hurdles in 19.5sec.

The flier

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1960.

By- General JOHN V. GROMBACH

United States Olympắc Committee member

from Los Angeles, is our main

Ser- hope-London Express vice.

U.S., Britain will top Rome Games fashions

Rome, Aug, 17,

The UB. Olygote il

WE An extremely "okie" uniform in the opening · Y parade on August 25.

OLYMPIC ROUNDUP

IOC chief Avery Brundage may stand for re-election

Rome, Aug. 17.

| Avery Brundage checked in at the scene of the Olympic Games today and quickly modified reports he is stepping down as President of the International Olympic Committee (100).

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Salamander joins

Britain's Olympic let

Naples, Aug. 17, Salamander, Britain's Olym

pic dragon class yacht, was launched here for the first time today.

The sun shone warmly and there was a fine sailing breeze when Commander Graham Mann and his crew, Jonathan Junan and Ian Hannay, took the water. Commander Mann was a bronze medallist in the 1958 Games and helmsman of the America's Cup challenger, Sceptre

Salamander Olympic flag

will join the other British boats already Another good U.S. practice training hard for the Olymple yaching competition to be held

"I merely said I was ready! Asked about the move to schoolgiri govered the 75-yard for some price and quiet, | draw up more realistic distanse in 10 minutes, nothing more," the millionaire amateur code, the IOC president seconds 6.3 seconds better than hotel man from Chicago told shrugged zori said: “This will the world mark of Australia's newsmen at the Rome Airport not be taken up at this meeting. Isa Kongade. Miss Von Saltza's The IOC mets here on Friday. It is a problem we have been record was unofficial since she Asked if he would be recep-discussing for fly years." only had one timerüher coach. tive to a re-election, Brundage Brundage's arrival for the sailed broadly and said. "I do IOC meeting featured a day act want to enlarge on my which produced these other de-performance was turned in by

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previous remarks.”

This

interpreted to mean the long-time (ehampton of amateur athletion is ready to keep the chair which he has held for two terms, dating back to 1982 The Russians are reported hoping to grab control of the 100.

Parried

velopments:

Jeff Farrell, who defied an

here. Yemonian, the 5.5 metre craft skipperod by Robin Alsher,

EX-

Tyuyoshi' Yamanaka, appendectomy operation to make Japan's world champion the team.

Farrell, who will swim in the enhancing the possibilities of an Olympic medal by the freestyle swimmer, injured his

swam the 100

way she has been going. left hip in a fall at the Olympic medley relay

there Was grave nctres freestyle in 55 seconds ports ed she has been most pool and

Impressive. question whether he would beat. This is just four-tenths of fully it for the Games.

a second off the world record Yamanaka, who holds the held by John Devjsť ́of/ Ausra- world record for the 400 metres lla. freestyle, slipped and fell as he was descending the marble steps in the Rome practice pool. He

landed hard on his left hip.

Besides the Russidy, Dow

arrivals today included delega tions from India and Iran and the official Olymplè faz. flown all the way from Mel- tourne, Australia,

Doctors said the middle dis- pace ace suffered some inter- nal bleeding but they felt his

The huge white banner, with injury was not serious. Yama- the five rings denoting the five naka was ordered to rest for continents was brought to the two days, X-rays are to be taken city by M. A. M. Kitson, the on Thursday.

Melbourne City treasurer..

Late entries Norway and Malaya were

Brundage parried questions The girls will wear a white

on amateurism and politics skirt, thuc jacket with an embroidered breast pocket in- neatly in his 15-minute airport signs, red shoes and a white hat ein, squeezed in before he was rushed away by other. 100 plus a red bag.

this 'members for a preliminary con Fashion experts in capital, which became a rival ference.

the Chintse situation, of Paris in the expensive art of On Despite strong Russian chal dressing women, said the main dealing with the IOC directive lenge, there is no one without challenge to the US. supremacy that the Nationalist Chinese

The flag was taken to the can beat Boston in Olympic fashions wil wings who

come should be called "Formosa" or Our sprinting power must University's John Thomas in the

Australian embassy where it will from the British girls, who will "Taiwan" and not "The Re- ensure a gold medal in the high jump. The Bit. in. Thomas wear a dark blue sult with a public of China," he wald:

notified that their entries August 25, when it will be th

be kept under lock and key until 100 metres relay, but this year

only 11, cleaped 78, 81⁄4 in, in the red est.

has been for track and field competition furled at the official opening of "The committee feel our middle-distance runners trials to bread his own world Japanese girls will wear a instructed will give a much better secount

to receive entries arrived 12 hours late. The IOC record by 1%in.

red-lined white

jacket and from previous

the Repulic of China, must decide whether they are to the 17th Olympic Games.--AP, white skirt almost like the

Another plenziond of war. This is a geographies1 Rumanian girls, who are due to forwarded by the island of Tel- be admitted.

Russians, while sults and while

including eye- area." shoes.

One of the most eye-etching uniforms will be wom by Aus- tralien girls, who will display a dark green skirt a yellow shirt sad jacket and yellow shoes. Italian girls will wear a blue suit with a white shirt.

day Belgium beat Canada Olympics.

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In the elimination round 10-ot themselves then in

Ralph Boston, 21-year-old Czechoslovákia defeated Spain,

Jake Jack Verman, 21-year-Negro from Tennessee, is after Yugoslavia.. Hungary overcame

of Californian-best time this Jesse Owens's 24-year-old low-wear and Poland trounced Israel.

jump world record of 266. Unbeaten Poland became a

in: he is at present 1940 four-game winner by ripping

short. Switzerland 88-45. Switzerland, which has lost three games in four starts, trailed, 32-18 at half- time.

teams will play each The

their bracket squad in

not encountered previously.

Th

top two teams in each bracket

will be admitted to the Rome

teams will

Muggy weather

predicted for Games

We are likely to have first, second, and third places in the pole vault. Don Brur, 28-year- old from Villanova, soared to a new world record of 15ft, 81⁄2. at the trinks

Dallas Long (01ft. @in.) should just edge William Parry O'Brien, the Olymple champion at Helsinki and Melbourne, out

Olympic basketball competition.

Rome, Aug. 17. The third-placed

Italian Air Force weathermen play-off for a fifth vacancy today forecast muggy weather Rome, where 11 teams airendy for most of the Olympic Games have qualified.

with high humidity and rain: The 10 teams knocked out in showers. the eliminollon round will con- They said the present fine pion,

tinue to play for placings from weather would probably worsen ninth to eighteenth, so that next week. The Games open on every team in the tournament August 25 and end on Septem-

will be ranked.

the

ber 11.

Yugoslavia today, became the

is likely to las! team to

The Rome area qualify for inals here. It beal Austria, have high temperatures with BO 77-55.

W 90 per cent humidity and in-

In other games today, Ger-termittent rain. maty beat Thailand, 81-54, and Better weather is forecast for Czechoslovakia drubbed Sudan, the second week of September. 118-40-AP.

Reuter.

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Channel swim

lists, fencers and yachtsmen, checked into the Village, boost- ing the Soviet delegation to

units!

Flag lost and recovered

247. The tracic and field and gymnasts, the big medul

'Rome, Aug. 17. winners, are yet to come.

Rome police this morning Dover, Aug. 17,

American swimmers con- found the Olympic flag which Enued their brilliant per- i was A Beirut shop-keeper, Fakrel-

stolen last night near formances The most conservative unidine Abdel Mouniem, 29, awam

and even provoked Olympic Village.

Russian coach, The discovery wat made foans will be worn by Korean the English Channel today in 12 awe from the and Philippine giria, al in dir-hours, 56 minutes, the Channel Vladimir Kicaez, who said, "The after police had searched the of Micheal Slavek an Association terent shades of gray. South Swimming

an-Americans train so hard that room

American citizen from Chicago. they must suoceed." African entries will have a white nounced tonight.

Slavek admitted he had stolen He started from Cap Gris American swimmers were still skirt, a green jacket and a while hat.

Nez; France, and reached en buzzing delightedly over Chris the flag and several others with isolated spot betweeTI DOVET Von Baltza's recond-bettering (pne of his compatriots, William and St Margaret's Bay. It was practice swim on Tuesday in the Thomas, ale from Chicago- his first attempt.-Reuter,

800 metres. The 16-year-old AFP.

of first place in the shot pitt. Full length mirrors were well Alfred Oerter, Olympic cham-sed in the Olympic Village

these days-UPI. has already thrown the discus 184ft. 1in, and is favoured to retain his title. The hammer gold medal is rated s certainty for Harold Connolly (225ft. in.)..

Albert Cantello (277ft. 7in.) is man to follow in the javelin, and watch Rafer Lewis Johnson in the decathlon,

In the women's events Wilma Ruddolph, a superb sprinter

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Beaver, the flying Dutchman yacht skippered by 56-year- old W. L. Dawes, one of the oldest competitors in the Gizte, has been performing well against the reserve Bri- tish entry sailed by 26-yest » oid Adrian Jardine,

The Mitchells have had their

star class boat, Twinkle, on the the Fine class contender, has course, while Vernon Stration..

been putting in a lot of work.

The Finn dinghy is the only Olympic class in which com petitors do not provide their own boats. They are supplied. by the organising committee to ensure the utmost uniformity.

Station's activities must in- evitably be curtalled from now od as only 10 boats are available for training and the competitors from many more countries have now arrived bere-China Ma Special.

Win for French Rugby tourists

The

Buenos Aires, Aug. 18.

French Rugby Union

Argent touring team beat an tinfan XV by 28 points to ix here today.

The tourists led 21-0 at half- time-Reuter

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