1961-04-06 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1961.

TOM FORREST'S TWELVE TO FOLLOW ON THE FLAT

AURELIUS

years N. dturiess

BROCADE SLIPPER

4. R. J. Colling

BUSHBOY

5. R. Smyth

CHECKENDON

3,'P', Nelson

GALLANT KNIGHT.

J, T. Leader

GRISETTA

J. John Waugh

HONEYMOOR

4. G. Brooke

SECRET SESSION

J. N. Murici

TYPHOON

3. P. Prendergast

USURPER

#. W. L.pde VELVET GLOVE

3. G. Boyd XAN

J, J. Tree

Brazilian bride

and a Swiss

wedding for Budge Patty

!

Lausanne. Apr. 5. American tennis player Jesse Edward "Budge" Paily and Mila Maria Marcles Slezzo were married in - lyll ceremony here today.

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Deputy Registrar Marcel Bod performed the ceremony in the

of Hal Wedding Renaissance period Lausanne Town Hall.

Mles Stezza, a Brazilan living

in Lausanne, gave her age as

20, and Pally,

Angeles, as 37.

born in

None to equal

a fit Typhoon

London.

As master of the biggest racing stable in the British Isles, Paddy Prender

gast of Kildare has 86 horses to keep him busy. But one task takes precedence-tightening up the tubby midriff of TYPHOON in time for the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on April 26.

That is why he rater No. 1 in my 1st of Horses to Follow on the Flat,

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on a silpping saddle for the vital inishing drive.

A gaine Kille grey sprinter like this can be placed the goud work in

No colt that I have seen looks as a prize bull when unplaced last June. able to match the bold, business at Phoenix Park in his first race like racing action of a At Tyas a three-year-old. It was by to carry on phun the first classic f only a short head that Typhoon bandlerpa. 1961.

lost the same race eight days | O CHECKENDON specialises in arge from the starting-gate catches her opponents And even that narrow defeat which would have been a sure victory on the wrong foot right away. Trimmlun the superfluous if Australian Iockey Ron Hut-It brought two successes in the Inches from

overweight chinson had not been perched near-blick filly's four attempts, einsste colt is no new operation for Paddy. He tackled the same problem with Martial a year ago ...with spectacular results.

Nobody

remembers who

the final Mariial burtling up hill-snatching a shock victory from the apparently home-and- dried French favourite Venture VII can lack faith in the trainer's ability to produce Ty- Guineas phoon superby i by day.

Typhoon carries a less chal- of flesh than lenging burden did Marital, who was 'as burly

CHESS

By LEONARD BARDEN

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The ceremony was attended by parents of the bride, Greek- born Constantin Sfezzo is head

firm of the. Lausanne "Malls" which builds equip. ment for railroads,

Patty's mother, who lives in Los Angeles where he was born, was unable to travel to Switzer- land for the wedding. His father dled several years ago. —AP.

(5007) Here is a position froin actual play; White to move and win..

Solution No. 6006: 1 B-Q& fwatting), tx B; 2 Rx P, or 1 ... 8xP: 3 Q-RI, Dr I RXB: 20x KL, or ... Ki-Qs: 2 R-ORS.

London Expres: St.

Four D. Jones FOLLOWING A DIRECT

BY MADDOCKS

HIT ON A TICKING COCONUT A LARGE

EXPLOSION

OCCURS

FERDINAND

NANCY

WHAT A SAD MOVIE

SNIFF

BRICK BRADFORD

AVING.

INS A MEGTAGS FROM CHINBRAL LONBAR-9EK Le COM SE ATT VEČI SMCR ADMY PRECE „HOOD LUCK, BRICK]

STRUTH! THE COP AIN'T DEAD. NOW I'VE

GOTTA NURSE THE

PËRISHER

and though she ran out of puf when asked to rave six furlongs, think this journey is within her compass this year.

Typhoon's clastle girth strap had failed to grip suficiently so for the colt's next races the VELVET GLOVE earned no bell will have to be tightened medals for fighting spirit in her as well as what goes inside Itseven-race career when trained

Classic hope

Here ስር the Twelve to Follow:-

rest of my

at Newmarket. But "reluctant heroes" from Headquarters of- i ten pluck up courage in less severe surroundings be- Heve the bracing scenery of George Boyd's cerade stable in

has others.

Q AURELIUS, one of the rich-Scotland will reform her, as it

in Britain's most ust prospects powerful stable, although on New- street-corner in market it is the unraced Pintu- rischio who is being trumpeted

every

as Noel Murless's "dark horse" Derby wonder.

Must win soon

HONEYMOOR did though from the worst possible Lincoln- draw to satisfy

O SECRET SESSION, by terhire Handicap

the handsomest alty Iнet eyes me that he is the best one-mile

In last season, was tenderly handicapper in training. And he ridden third in her only racc. is so tightly tuned up that he Her score for improvement is trust win soon. limitless, and might easily bring BROCADE SLIPPER man

victories from eight her up to 1,000 Guineas stan-aged two

rung over niixed distances in dard. O GALLANT KNIGHT may be 1980. Confined to journeys from 11⁄2 miles upwards, he is likely slower to reach his peak per-

1s la to Improve his percentago. staying formance, for Kame, with the Derby and St Leger as the big aims this year. He won two out of three races in 1000 with a rugged authority which can hardly fail to pay off

agento.

TYPHOON

...shows that botë, businessliko racing aatian.

GOLF IS MY GAME The American Championship

By BOBBY

JONES Jr.

The first round of that 1930 Open at Interlachen near Minneapolis was played on the hattest day I can ever remember., I. never knew what the official tempera- ture was, but it was certainly well over a hundred degrees on the golf course, and the air was humid that it must have been only a very little shy of liquidity. plus-fours, a shirt with collar, I carried a dozen or so red wood

and found such a good le on

the

I started the round clad in a light-grey and a red foulard four-in-hand tie. toes in my trousers pocket.

Whon I niched the round, my plus-tours wore so saturated | that they appeared to be black. The tlo had run all Ever my shirl and the red from the fecs had slained one leg of my trousers. I hud cụt cft my tie with a pocket knife.

It Despito all though managed to get off to a fairly in 37, with a couple of slips, My 71 was good enough to be tied for tho lead until late afternoon when Macdonald Emith and

Tommy Armour came in with a pair of 70's.

Rotating venue good stor-out in 34 and beck for Thomas Cup

final rounds?

Copenhagen, Apr. 5.

Danish badminton oftelais favour ultering the rules in the Thomas Cup to give a rotating venue for the final-round mat. ches Richard Hellbo of the Badminton "Association. Enid here today.

• USURPER camca fourth in

There was no criticism of line of distinguished stayers

the

matches were Snow the way all sons of the mare Bunting. The chestnuts, Sandla- arranged in Asia." ure, Come to Daddy, and Great Gonerby, have all been profit- "But the climate give: Asian able horses to follow. Dark teans a great advantage," brown Usurper will not let the makt. family down.

© XAN was a strong "whisper" more than once in his first sea- Failure sun, but did not win. then leaves him qualified for maiden races...and •his winter suggests he can take progress such prizes in his stride.

gave her young GRISETTA trainer John Waugh a flying rider. ator when he took out a licence i

I THREW A

HARMLEES BALL AT 'A HAIRY

COCONUT, AND

THE SKY FELL IN!

and goes well for on apprentice

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The Lily Pad shot

This mirki be the best spot at which to Insert a

account of firsthand

what really happened on a what that ever staco has been the most dieouteed viros in the tournament-ny kecand shot the to the noth hole in second round.

This rinth hole was a par- Ays which could be reached by a spoon second across a pond, the green being stunted some thirty yards beyond the edge of the water.

De

My drive had been down the right side of the fairway, su

the

I was playing fairly well, 100, the bank. Had it remained hitting the ball with enough in the water, a six would have freedom and power and scoring bron

best score ex- Well inough in practice. Yot f felt all week a sort of vague un- pectable.

casiness. It was not that I felt Tant the stroke of luck actual- any lack of confidence on the y delded the championship, 1 golf course, but I was constant- ni. into patches very much doubt, Everyone ly running who has played in a competition mediocre golf just when every- of this kind knows that no one thing seemed to be going quite And for the stroke can be removed with the well and vastly, nerance that everything else arst time in my life I was find- would have remained the some, ing it dimeult to get to sleep at 'The problem of constructing a night. seventy-two hole total is incl

Off and on altered by everything contribut ing to that total. Nevertheless, I cannot say whether it was I was grateful for the saving which enabled me to finish in 73 luck of the strain of that fourtis championship, or whether I was for two-round total of 144, playing so well, but was just so only 2 back of Horton Smith,

A 08 In the third round started me off on the lost round

ahead of Harry five strokes Cooper, who had moved up to :econd position. In that last round, three times I took 5 on par-three hole, theroby kicking away Xix preciou stickes, These

lapses had made It they possible for either Horton or Mac Smith to eatch me.

Quivering

OBÜSHBOY has no preten- *Finals could perhaps

to the My drive and second tions to high class, but slips staged one year in the tropics, that I had to play directly over 18th were at best tentative and ́ along at a hectic pace in modest the next in a more temperate the pond. I half-topped

kit my bat in the very front of the green at least forty feet sprints. He likes downhill tracks

This would give all thot so that elknutę.

the ball skipped competitors a

As 1 £lopped foir chance" a few times over the surface m the hole.

of the water before it hopped up to the putt, I was quivering in every muscle. I confess up into the grass on the bank of the lake. From this point that my

most cptimistic 10 get the expectation was pitched to within a yard or 90 of the hole and made the pull

thing dead. It is impossible to describe the for a birdle four.

sensation tell when I saw my ball take small break Ave or six font from the cup, so that I knew it was in. Hats were tossed into the air all around the green, That Anal putt had again closed the door.

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By Mik

I GUESS IT'S ALMOST

OVER

I NEVER SAW SUCH AN UNHAPPY

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The shot soon came to be known as the Lily Pad shot in keeping with the notion that the ball had bounded from સ lily pad onto the bank. Ac- tually, no lily pad was In- valved, and the action of the ball was precisely that of a flat stone bolig skipped across the water.

Stroke of luck

As I was playing the shot, the gallery was lined up be hind the ropes along the right and behind me. I was playing as though down a human fence. Just as I reached the top of down. my swing and started

my eye caught a sudden move- ment in the gallery seven yards in front of my position, It developed that two little girls had made a break as though to run across the fair-

involuntary way. My

Alinch caused the half-top.

Thore 1 no question but that it was a considerable stroke of tuck that my ball should have escaped the water

Paret-Griffith return fight

New York, Apr. 5. Managers of new worldt welterweight boxing champion Griffith and former champion Benny "Kid" Parel of Cubar will meet tomorrow to discuss a return match between

Emile

the two lighters.

Grimth knocked out Paret to win the tille on April 1 in Miami Beach. ...

The now champion's trainer and co-manager Gil Clancy sald that if Puret does not agree to return bout in the near future. Grifth may take on an undisclosed opponent in a non- tkie night.

Clancy dented a report that Grinth would defend his title in Rio Do Inneiro Balast Brazilian champion Fernando Barretto-AFT.

Sports Diary

TODAY

Annual meeting of waabetion.

10 Benn

❤

Beyal si doir MAFI

Blockdy... England Internationa Portugni di itecreio 8.30 piti.

RoCCOR Demonstration by Deustilanı soccer jekm et BCAA ground, Carolino Hil

mtemonnROW

Swimering

Arrival of Australian Amateur Dwimming team from Japan,

a

red that my game would re- spond whenever I called upon it, und yet was not equal la p every steady performance. match would play quite well

for a while and then, having gained what looked like a com-

fortable lead, i would lapse into something worse than medio- crity and manage to get rid of most of it. But always when it got to close-running again, my Play would improve. I should have ended every match more Yet I was quickly than I did. never down to any oppencat and

sort of never in any trouble,

When Gene Hdmans strok- the ed that last putt on eleventh green and, before

he came with a big smlio to take my hand, all at ofice i In the wonderful feeling of release from tension and relaxation that I had wanted so badly for so long a time,

Only rost ahead

I wasn't

quila certain what had happened or what I had done. I only know that I had completed a period of mont strenuous effort and that at this point, nothing more re- It had been a long

two mained to be done, and that on manibs of gulf from Sand. this particular project, at least, wich to Sunningdale to St there could never at any time Andrews to Hoylake to In- in the future be anything else terlachen. I was more than 10 do. I am certain that many ready to get back là my office others have enjoyed this feel- to do a little work and to my | Ing-that Ite project, 10 normal routine

Importanec. of playing matter what its three or four rounds a week has been finished, and phend, for fun. There was left only at least for a time, lies nothing the U.S. Amateur, and

but rest and erasation of worry. was a long way of,

It was at Merton in 1918 that I had fret played IT tho Amateur Championship. IL was there that I had drst won In 1924 I could not have picked a more propitious setting ter this firal event of the most im- portant gelang year of my life.

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