1961-02-10 — Page 9

RACING IN AUSTRÁLIA

THE CHINA MAIL.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1961.

odds

Race courses give on fruit and vegetable!

Near Pomborneit*

which consists of five From CLIVE GRAHAM

small houses, a garage- cum-smithy, and 4 general store, we saw a small boy making his way to school on a picbald pony with his satchel slung over his shoulder.

Near POMBORNEIT (Victoria)

that

went up for the first, race mest, | ascending to Bricely Paddock, of the visitors knew how they then sweeping right-handed for the a recand double-jump over lood financially.

road, down a steep decline to take a turn sharper than at Ainiree's vaunted Canal,

All this on ground as hard ca concrete, in temperature nlttag

And five out of the nineties. the six came to the last, the 18th, fence in line abreast, to night it mut stride for stride, heads and necks dividing them.

Two stands - one for the

the public.

other for the jrivileged, separated by a long A few miles further on. A

mound which provided natural herdsman Golride

vanlage-point-looked out of the n big chestnut Jelarly

lozenge shaped cireled

sun-toast grazing Herefords, with

rock chreult. hia wild-looking entle-dog trotting long obediently at te herre's

heels.

JOURNEY

HOT JO

In

Dotted all over this Bat lond- scape,

parcelled out amongst owners

huge

by chunks barbed wire fencing, could be part of the richet of Australia,

entle and its sheep.

Cedars and Dondas fir-trees, muiny planted by the early sot! tiers in this area a hundred years ago, marked the necational "one- torey homestyd---with its TV arra protruding from Use roof.

And so we pointed along over a road which was to east. 15, a Burst tyre on the return jauney.

constantly

warnings parsing okain the dangers and risks of starting a fire.

My money. £4 to £2, was on Charity Boy, a son of the Neuro home Neapoliton which used to earry the colours of Mrs Peter Hastings in England

MORE DRAMA

Perhaps there was even more drama attached to the Summer Handicap, a flat-race with £110

or the winner. My money here was on a sharp-looking, le house called Corybas, rkiden by Pete Warren.

We should have won, too, but the top-weighted horse shattered a foreleg on the sharp bend into the straight, and, wobbling, pr hit out of stride.

They had wald, scoffingly,

Melbourne up at

that the taken prize-money here waS

This pair raced full-llt at the out of the petty cash-and, barrier anticipating a start, but true enough, this first event! the oMetal { charge carried with it a first prize of

moved a misele. only £25 sterling.

THE RIGHT IDEA

flores for the Ave races still to come were all standing in on tin-roofed stalls around the paddock with their names pasted bvermead,

never

Whoosh! Young Pele Wa propelled from the saddio as if by A catapult, landing aoildly on neck and shoulders. Relay Inert where

he fell, Corybas meantime galloping

SPORTRAIT

"They will, they won't -they will-they soon't--

they will

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SOFTBALL SEASON NEARING ITS CLOSE

SCAA within reach

of the

'Double'

By OLLY VAS

The softball league season is now fast drawing to its close and already one championship has been decided. Ray Cordeiro's Giants became the Junior Division champions last week after a marathon game against the Stardusts. South China AA are a cer» { The results of this week's tainly, for the Ladies' title and if games will have little bearing the the US. Navy team from the on the league xlandings as "Oak Hill" does not upset cal matches are likely to be one-

The

should Indians culations two weeks lience the sided.

they are in third Caroliners stand a grand chance stay where to score a double, for the Men's place by accounting for the tenin is still unbeaten to date. Wolves in the 2.00 pm match on

Saturday.

Johansson has

his style 'a

changed little bit'

New York, Feb. 9. Former heavyweight boxing champion Ingemar Johansson has changed his boxing style "a little bit" in preparation for his return fight with champion Floyd Patterson, according to Edwin Ahlqvist, Johansson's adviser. Ahlquist left this morning for Miami, Florida, where the ghi will be held on March 13.

Ablqvist was accompanied by Pekka Kekkanen, light kravyweight from Helsinki, Finland.

End of story? No, sir, Noi n I look the right shine to a

Warrnamboo),

The brown five year-old called assistants,

their

Ahlquist merely smiled when over the credo that it had doters, which brought home went chasing

asked after

We went by one of these trass fres nene

Celne, hearing later

when

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Murter's piebalds, Corybas,

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how Johan

£10 for £5, but gave back half caught him, and trotted him changed his style. He declined only burned out 100 acres.

winnings

up-back to the enclosure And then to Warrarmbeat the

the weighing-room. (Victoria) races, where the book-country farmer took pity on makes some hnd travelled by anger and drew his thumbnail air the 175 miles from Melbourne No. 5 on the card in the —were setting up thele gear.

FROM THE MOUND

Three-quartern of an

Bour before the first race an wr arrived the loudspeaker sys- tem opened up. Over klie amplifiers

froin came news Victoria's capital of fruit and

for

vegetable prices prevalent that morning in the market. Quotations WATC given *rhubarb. spring onions, pump- king, beans, lettuce, cucumbers, ele. Potatoes were fetching £19 10s a ton and green encumbers were going for 228. a case.

Futstock prices followed, so that by

The time the

runners

* The road-side sign reads: "Drive almely through Pombommelt. "Yok 711test," explained my companILOTI, Puthorwize you wouldbi't knoté pend been there.”

Third,

This wne a sweel-tempered, long-tailed chestnut filly by Blue Mickle, on ex-Epsom horse that wir pratefully remembered for a win on a near-London 10-12 years ago,

Flies in hundreds

course

SUBSTITUTE RIDER While Pete, still unconscious,

ኒ'' . . being

the lifted inter ambulance. the saddle WH whipped off his mount's bark, apprentice-rider, located hastily. staged into borrowed colour the weights were adjusted, and in little more than 10 minutes Corybas was on his way to the post again.

were doing circuits and bumps over her loans and bark,

I ured that these might make her irritable and tarin' to gallop, but if the reason. hg was correel, the course and finishing, second distance proved too sharp for her.

Six sturdy runners came out to: the two-mille steeplechase, and they flew the triple--three tenses plase together in front of the public stand - kaceking clouds of dust from the bush and | sending fints from under their hooves hurtling back like pistol- shots.

In and out across

Four D. Jones JONES TAKES THE

BY MADDOCKS

RAINMAKER OF KILLIMAN NIT TO THE MAJOR FOR A

DEMONSTRATION Y/HAT THE BLAZES DO YOU WANT? MORE. WATER?

NO SIR. I HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW VOU

I would like to be able to tell you at he won, instead of If only two horses hadn't crashed, calling over their riders, slap in front of would have him, lie probably done.

130-RUN WIN

FOR MCC

by

Lower Hutt, Feb. 9.

Valley MCC beat Hutt 130 runs in their two-day match here today after setting their opponent to score 249 in 106 minutes for victory.

light-heavend

'Shaping up good'

Hutt Valley

14 in a row?

J

On Sunday the Giants come up against the Antelopes at 11.00 am and atould make it 14 vie- tories in a row..

The Senior Pondns will have to make a super-human eftert if they wish to keep the score league-leading down against

SCAA nine at 1.30 pm and only the incurable optimists will be haping for a sensational upsel. on current form SCAA should win by five or six runs,

in "A"

A postponed Ladies League match between the SCAA teams. "A" and the "B", winds up the four-gaine schedule πι 3.00 pm. Having trounced junior team before. the icam should trample ali over the opposition once again.

We may farewell to the Ken Ying ladies

Taiwan. Their colourful un forms were just na impressive

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Team-building

to give detalls,

Kokkonen, 36 years old, will be dolianson's sparring partver in front

ht for the fight, win travel to Swedi February 20 to fight Yolande Juhn Reld, the New Zealand Having learned a lesson from captain, Ken Ying the HK Softball As- Pompey, Trnitine webunt, on February 24 in sportingly declared 01 runs be-sociation are team-building for hind on the first innings in on the future. And the future is Gothenburg, Sweden.

effort 10 achieve a definite not 150 far off, for during the result. MCC responded by de- third week of February the Man innings Sheung ladies are dua here for after alvely batting display a series of exhibition matches. and then the tourists dismissed The girls chosen recently to Butt Valley, who went for the represent the Hongkong Selec- runs, with 50 minutes to spare. tion are now undergoing inten- Seores were: MCC: 215 (D.sive training with a view to put Silk 54, W. Watson 53) and 151ng up a better showing against for two declared (W. E. Russell visiting deams from Taiwan. 09 not uul).

We will have to wait and see if this training proves bra:ficial to the local girls.

Airiqvist sajd Kokkonenclaring their second has a eft hook second only to Floyd Patterson's,"

He added: "He has Jest only three of 21 fights and has a anı big knockout record.

to the training bringing him camp because of his left hook. He's not n boxer; beta o 8ghter." saki the "Yes,"

Contrary to some reports, Mr Ambulance

Ahlovist driver, preparing to shift the

sold he been given Hutt Valley: 118 for four three casualties incurred in this inside Information that declared (J. R. Reid 07 not out) race to the iceal hospital. "We Johnsson's training was pro- and 118 (B. Clarke 33, J. R. always recken on a busy time gresaing well and that the Reid 20 not out; D. Wilson 3

these carnivals at Aghter was "shaping up good for 20, R. Barber 3 for 43)-forgotten by the HKSA

during

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