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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1960.

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The Channel challenge TAYFIELD TO WED TYPIST

THEY ALL WANT TO BE THE

FIRST TO CROSS IT

BY A CERTAIN MEANS

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By JOHN COTTRELL

water

No stretch of the earth's 141 million square miles of water has so stirred the imagin ation' of men and women as between the 21 miles of cold, uninviting'. sea England and Franco. Most recently, a rubber-suited all-American blonde called Jane Baldasare has been attempting to make the first underwater cross-Channel swim. But she is only one of a long line of adventure-seekers who have attempted a unique way of crossing the English Channel.

The Channel has, of course, baen crossed by bi-planes, jets, airships and many times in balloons. These are comparu tively simple means of making the trip.

Less orthodox

were

the

Englishmen who floated across on an air mattress and the gentleman "who made the

Journey to a bosi towed by a kite.

People hove cromed the Channel by kayak, canoe, racing akiff, amphibious car. and

· hydrosphere (a rubber "ball" with wing-like paddies). Dutchman has skimmed across on water skla,

A

failed He believes he has Always the alm has been the sune-to become the first to through bad luck more than any- cross the Channel by a cortula thing else. Once before the war he got mixed up in a gunnery. means.

What new methods are stalpractice from Dover, unachieved? Someone has yet to swim

PCTORS-backewards,

And

perhaps Dr Barbara Moore will be interested to know that no one has yet walked across the sealed in a diving sult,

Most persistent

Eventually, of course, we may have a Channel Tunnel, Then people can achieve all kinds of "firsts" the first to walk and run across. the first to eyele across, the Arst to push a pea

Always the same aim ncross with one's nose.

Not

Most persistent of all enthusinais

Channel-crossing all these odd attempts have been successful. Two Bri- tons tried to walk Across on plank rafts strapped to their fort. They were very quickly forced to swim.

is Br George Basli Brewster of London, who has made 16] unsuccessful attempts to swim across most recently at the are of sixty-four.

THE AGA KHAN WILL KEEP FATHER'S FABULOUS STABLES INTACT

Paris, Sept. 14.

The Aga Khan has decided to buy the bulk of his late father's fabulous European racing stables in order to keep them intact, trainer Alec Head said today.

The value of the stables-- noorly 300 horses, mages and foals kept in France and Ireland and elsewhere-is estimated by experts at anything between US$4 million and US$12 million.

A clause in the late Aly Khan's will, published in London yesterday, gave any member of the family an option to buy the horses at the prices valued by the British firm Tattersall's.

Speculated

Ever since Prince Als died in a moter-car crash outside Paris on May 12, the racing world has speculated about whether the great sinhles built by Aly's father would be disbanded.

But today, Head, the Aly's trainer, told reporters;

"Everything will continue

late

As

it has done in the past. Karim Aga Khun is taking up the siables To do this you don't just relect such and such horse, You keep them all"

Since Prince Aly died the stables have been run by a kind of syndicate of the stables directors,

At first the young Aga Khan who does not share the OVER" powering interest in racehorses which his father and grand- father held, was reported ready to disband the stables.

Swept the classics

But in little more than a month after Aly's "death kis top horses wept the resNOTÍM clamio radi la Franco-the Jockby Club Grand Prix. the Grand Prix De Paris sad ike Grand Prix De Saini Cloud - also the Belloid Ong,

Sparked by the great three- year-aid Charlottesville, they have earned nearly US$300,000 since Aly, died..

Head said it was entirely. normal" that 8t of the late Aly's hotves were to be sold at Tettersgil's Decemlje sales, He wald, bus 40 of the thorough-- breds were regularly sold each year. The dale, which 10 along with prize money provides the money to run the huge stables "and" plūd" farms, la mora then offset vy shout'on births in each

:

CAPTAIN'S VIEWPOINT,

Let's have promotion

By RAMAN SUBBA ROW Captain of Northants

The Midlands sporting public is not cricket con- HUGH TAYFIELD

scious. That was one of the reasons put for-

Edgbaston Test match,

ward for the disappointing crowd at the Henry Cooper

disabled

Those of us who play the bulk of our cricket in the Midlands are certainly aware of small crowde but the reason, I feel, is that cricket is not PROMOTED properly there.

leisure

The industrial worker in the "Shells were falling all round Midlands, where there is not the time there is in some me," he BAYS. "60. we

of the South, los his hulsted a red flag in the boat pack and they waited until we got cricket with a competitive tang. out of range."

Dr Brewster first tackled the Dover to Cap Gris Nez course in 1023 and his best effort was a 1919 when he swam to within four miles of the French const. Then a gale suddenly blew up and he had to scramble into the boat.

Keeping fit at 68

That's why Soccer is 30 ponulur. And why I'm all for knock-out cricket, two, divisions, or anything else that creates a more competitive urge.

I'm old fashioned enough to believe there is nothing wrong with the game self. It simply needs a new presentation to charm backs cricket's missing flock.

A couple of years ago one of Now at the age of 68, Bri- America's leading baseball clubs tain's oldesi water baby has set moved lock, stock und barrel his sights a little lower. He is from New York to the West planning an 18-mile swim from Const in search of a new public. Dover to Ramsgate-which

he

has achieved three times before. My theory.

How does Dr Brewster, hơade- I Am ary medical offeer of the Chan-

so fit at 68?

not suggesting

that

net Swimming Asociation, keep Northants should move to Skey- ness--but not baseball transter indicatee how we must be (pre- "Correct food and exercise,”pared to accept the trends of the he says, Two pints of milk age.

plenty of a day.

fruit,

One theory of mine is that vegetables and cheese and Festival criciret could provide beef, and three-mile walks the key to the right way to play and regular one-mile swims the first-class same. all the year round.

Festival cricket is the long- Perhaps this amazing veteran established finale to the season har inherited the spirit of ad-but, with the exception of yeature from his ancestors Scarborough, the festivals have

whóm among

he counts had to struggle in recent years william Brewster, leader of the through bad weather and some- Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on times, moderate cricket, Torquay

the Mayflower.

| THE SKIES

Four D. Jones DARKENANDA BY MADDOCKS

| STORMBREAKS

RUMBLE

FERDINAND

NANCY

THERE'S

OLD MISTER FOSTER

BRICK BRADFORD

KRAMER LEAVES THE SPACE, PLATFORM AND BULANS 20-

IT'S NO GOOD SEARCHING

IN THIS LOT

THEY SAY HE LIVES

IN THE

PAST

has given up altogether.

MEANWHILE, ON A PARK BANCH NEARBY...

・DARLING

YE'S MY LOVE? WHAT WILS YOU, DEAR HEART?

SO DOES HERMAN

Naturally, at the end of a hard seat, players are inclined to to relax at ferival want matches. The pubile, however,

players unless they are playing don't come to see first-class

properly.

At Hastings a big effort, is being made this year to make the pricket keen and say, with the players conscious of an obliga- tion to entertain the public.

i could well 'If it succeeds, provide the cue for oricketers the world over to follow.

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-THEY'LL FLY

OFF TOGETHER

By PAUL TANFIELD

Hugh Tayfield has bowled yet another maiden over. But the South African cricket authori- ties won't recognise it.

Mr Tayfield is engaged to Miss Ann Fogarty, 24- year-old shorthand-typist from Didsbury, Manchester.

"But now you have found out,

there is nothing we can do but admit "Miss Fogarty confess od to me.

Cricket is not. Mr Tayßeld's main source of livelihood. "He is concerned with a travel firm,"

said Miss Fogarty. "But I don't

The couple have been trying "Hugh hasn't given me an en- London, Sept. 14. to keep the engagement quiet gegemont ring yet. We are walt- get back to the Henry Cooper,

South Africen Testing until we the British because and Empire heavyweight box cricketers are not allowed to an-land of diamonds." ing champion, has badlynounce such things while they bruised hand and a slightly are on tour. chipped wrist and will not be able to train for three weeks.

Cooper outpointed American Wembley last night, but his manager, Air Jim Roy Harria at

Wicks, sold today thal Cooper's title defence against Joe

"Right now I'm learning about Erskine will have to be post-

cricket. I know what a silly poned until the end of the **I am styk back with the mid-on is and things like that. year or the beginning of next team on September 15. Hugh

"I know nothing at all about year. Cooper and Erskine wore and I plan to live in Durban,

meet and as soon as we find a suitablet until a business acquaintance originally scheduled

the match against at Wembley on November 22,at we will go right ahead and took me to

Kampshire at Southamptori tr China Mall Special.

got married.

to

-

A glazed took

MILESTONES OF SPORT

ROBBINS MARVELS

By ARCHIE QUICK

Jack Jenkins met me on Brighton seafront and said he would not be able to play for Wales against Scotland on account of his having injured his leg the previous Saturday.

He was, however, going to Glasgow to see the match, and would it be a good idea if I went along to keep him company? I thought it would be, so I went along-for the ride-and thus it was my good fortune to see one of the most remarkable International games ever played in the four home countries.

CRAYONJONES MAI FORGETS THEY WATER WILL VYASH MOT AWAY...

"DON'T YOU "TREZEN WE SHOULD BOIN OUT OF THE DANG

RAIN?? WHAT RAIN?

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

-BANIA QUSHMILLER,

By Paul Norris

AZUIS IS MORE OP THE SOLAR WIND" MYSTERY, WILL. NEVER

SHEAFFER'S

Sheaffer quality

features

mobarate

prices

SWISSAIH

at

BUT I ALWAYS

TRAVEL

SWISSAIR

The Airline of Kwitzerland

Just the weather for Rowntree's

JELLIES

Fastest The

Film

in the

World!

ILFORD

This was in the 1930-31 scam. son, and the late Jack Jenkins, I must tell you, was a full-back from Ton Pentre, wo gave many years' service to Brighton and Hove Albion, was "capped" eight times for his country, and was a defender in the Warney

Cresswell class for artistry.

|

know quite what he does. That is one of the things I will have | to And out..

June. It was then, I met Hugh.

***What made mt fall for tim? Oh, dear. Absolutely

everything about him. When Tat he is bowling I take a Interest in the game. Whoe he

Ann Fogarty: No ring yet she's waiting to get to the land of diamonds.

isn't I sit there with a glazed look in my eye.”

I have never seen a player

Mr Tayfold has acquired run so Hittle in the course of

fame in this country during the... ninety minutes football; positional sense saved his praeni tour for reason other

legs.

At its zenith

his

than his slow bowling"

He was, for instance, involved

In a courly court case with Misa Jill Adams, the actress wife of

Thirty years ago Scottlar Peter Haigh, and a woman- football was at its zenith,

The

"Blue Devils of Wembley" were п

with whom his name was du

Mr

Tryffold owed Miss

memory only three linked. years old and one still to be re- Hahed, and several of them Adams £280. But a week ago were still the mainstay of the 11 was

national eleven,

Jovial Ted Robbins, the Welsh FA Secretary, on the other hand, was having a harassing time try- ing to collect a team,

Selfishly, the Football League banned Welsh player with English clubs from taking part, and, apart from Jenkins' injury -be would not have been able to play anyway because of the embargo-the Weish team fell apart,

dobt

announced that the had been pald of.

Sports Diary

TODAY

Tennis

Colony, Ladies' LRC 650 p.

ak

Singles Пinal Lawn Bowls Colony Mixed Pairs quarter finals at HTC, PRC, Hedrale and RCC, TOMORROW Tennis

At his wits end to honour the | 5:45 pm. fixture, whitchaired Mr Robbins, from his little office in a Wrex- Colony ham back street, collected a side 5.30 p |of virtum unknowns from Welsh

Mixed Doubles Anal at

Hwimming

League clubs and from Cardiff swinging Gale, pm.

H. Police Sports Amociation. City. Swansea Town and Now- port County,

It is it to say that half the eloven wore unknown; outside of Wales. Elvet Collins, for in- stance, was a typical example. He was playing for £2 a woek with Llamelly in the Southern League, but Robbins shovelled him into the team for his Grat and only "cap" at vulside-loft,

One great asset

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN -

One way, to meet a top-class opponent is to no all out for a quick attack so as to take him by anrprise. In this thustra Yet Wales bad one great, sa-,

tfon (Boderburg v. Olafsson) set. They were captained by thai an unknown defeats a famous grandmaster. 1. P-R4, P—

· zlave-driving skipper, this in-

994; 2, KKB), K-QB 3 comparable Fred Keener, the pads, PXP; • K1XP, K-833 Cardiff centre-hall He led his K QBS, P-43, 63--KKI motley crew on to Brex with F-KET 0-02, B-K2; -8 a darb. alt, sleeves rolled Castles, Castleb:: 9. F-84, P– up, and the nationalistle pride 91; 10 P-Kộ, Xt=QH 11 Bx and fervour of wearing the Red|| B, 4XB; 19P-KKt4, Kt--Kt3- Dragon shirts did the rest... | 13 P-KU, 13–227 (he should The hotch-patch makeshift, Pa83; EPXP FXP: 10 B

break up the centre by 18 polyglot team of Ted Robbins Kt on K-R1116 PXP/QX- drew, 1-1, humbled the might of p); 14H-Kal; QR-BIR 13 Ram Scotland and made the Football Kt5, Kt-14 10 9–83. P-ES Langue bide its head in shame. 317 p-R£61-xiz Mar

Why at one time these uncon- | (81)—GJ, R-KRIT 19 R-RO Aldured "outsiders' were loading KUR4)=88; 20 R(Q3)—RJ, R by a goal scored by Tommy. (Q81)-KKLI; 21 EXRP chl, Bamford, the Wrexham leader, BXR; 2 EXR the RBI for and it was left to "Darnay, Bai- 22. Kyk 23 Q-R4 ch. sad fles, of Hearts, to spaichan mate next more): 23 PORS equailser and save something -1; 24 QRQ=B11B KE from the wreck of Scottish XP ch: Realgns; for 11.159

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hit it was glory Wilm" BXP/JQXPI

It tasted!