1961-05-03 — Page 8

RAIN RUINS INTERESTING FINISH

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1961.

AUSTRALIANS VERSUS WORCESTER MATCH ABANDONED AS A DRAW

Worcester, May 2. Rain ruined an interesting finish to the touring Australian cricketers' opening match against Worcestershire here to- day. Worcestershire had scored 56 runs for four in their quest for 164 runs

Ambassadors of

SOFTBALL REVIEW

Football contest Playing experience paved

Following are the standings Mok Chun-wah (SCAA) in the Ambassadors of Football: Chow Shlu-hung (KMD contest after yesterday's voting

SENIOR TEAM

to Cheung-yau 15GAA) Weng San-wal (Happy Valley) Wong Ch-keung (5CAAŞ Lưu Kin-dung (SCM) Hung Wah-kit (Police) Ko Po-keung (Tung Wolf

Yiu Cheok-yin Tung Watuj

for victory when heavy rain started at lunch-time and prevented fur-Mak Wi-trung (Polico) ther play. The match was abandoned as a draw.

Final scores were: Australi 177 and 141; Worcestershire 155 and 56 for four.

Poor tactics Worcestershire need mle 108 more rens and still had PIX wickets in hand, but the Ans- trulion

had swing the game their way before the lunch-time

lawnpour.

Winstone wins

British featherweight boxing title

London, May 2.

Howard Winstone of Wales won

The tourists had snatched the inflative against disap- pointing Worcester tselies in the morning after rain bad delayed the start for 45 abnter

The altualion appeared to call for bold tarties, but Don Kenyon Martin Horton batted besutiously and without inspira-

to,

Kenyon was 25 minutes in dive rank and Hoytun scoring tood: 52 minutes for 14.

Hehir Benoud, the Australbų. captain, was quick to see the inder and look the plunge.

De plty his fibresilis, he bowled : trix oyres of his We-opón soon.

after Kenyon had fallen to alisson. It had the deaared vifect because Horton tried t sweep him and was bowled around his Ings at 42.

Struggled

*!ነ

Tom

Muel depended Graveney, but the former Eng load bafaan struggled for 25 the British fratherweight box-muttes fer three runs against Ing crown at the Empire Pool | accurate bowling before being in Wembley tonight when he leg-befute to Gaunt.

brat title-holder Terry Spinks

by a technical knockout in the 11th round. Sploks threw

Lowel in the before the gong sounded for the 11th round, the first time in bts career, both amateur and pen- fessional, that he failed 10

Dick Richardson stayed 20

without ntrastes

Moring and

then edged Gaunt to the wicket- ¦ keeper just before the rain fell.¦

The match cannot have been satisfactory for the Australians, i and whether they have learned from it remains to be seen af Chesterfield

tomorrow when they meet the lively Derbyshire | fran side. tu end. inflicting! severe punishment on the for

the distance.

tru

The young

minated

beginning

Welshman

Gght

ner Olympic champion.

Spiuka

frequently WAR

-

trouble and only his courage a prevented bizzu from being knocked out, He took a hard blow standing up in the eighth Tou jus

bell rang as the which might have been a knock- out otherwise. Finally, after the 10th round, he decided he hud no chance to heat Winstone.

Earlier in the evening British

Final scores

Final scores were:

FIRST INNINGS Australlans: 177. Worcestershire 155.

Second innings Australians: 141. Worcestershire: tovernight for mette!.

D. Kenyon, b Misson M. Horion, tr Besand

R. Hendley, not out..

middleweight elmpion Terry. W. Graveney, il

Wond Slu-we (Happy Valley),

YORKSHIRE AND 'RAIN'

303

JUNIOR TEAM

Chan Kwet-wing in Salle).... 129 Wong Sre-keung (Wali Yan 115 416 Chan Fak-ling (La Salla) ................. 349 33% con YR-50 (alesion) ... 221 240 T: Kam-kit (Salesian). 170 240 | Lao Kwak-fum (Seong Ching) .. 160 223 | Nung Chiu-suen iŝt Levis) ...... 125 196 Tong Cheuk-wah (Clementi) .. 119 107 Chung Kwok-hing

the

way

to S. China's first

ever Senior League title

By OLLY VAS

Ezabeth) 107 For the first time in softball history honours went

09 Yu Chi-hong (Queen's) ........

Chan Yo-wan (Elizabeth)

70

WIN ENGLISH CRICKET'S

OPENING MATCHES

London, May 2.

The opening of the 1961 English cricket pro- gramme provided its usual winners-the rain and Yorkshire. The champions made a fine start by beating MCC at Lord's by 120 runs while the rain really won the day in the other, matches.

Two firsts for Mary Bignall

in Israel Sports Festival

Kenya's

100

p3

won

Tel Aviv, May 2. Serafpos Anatao the 100 metres men's Gual in 10.3 seconds today as the track and field events in the Israel Hapoel (Workers Olymples) Festival opened today. Two Nigerians, Abdu

Amu

and D. Egoke were tired 10.5

and 10.7 seconds to finish second and third.

ters

In fourth place was Abdul Yorkshire's defeat of MCC was only just achieved Seye of Senegal, 16.7 followed in time, for a heavy storm with thunder and by L Okoroafer of Nigerin, 10.9. lightning broke over the ground soon after-This race saw the best sprin- of Africa competing. wards.

Nigerian Amu was first to get off and was challenged by Sere MCC, sel to get 274 to win, before

Arala cume through never lonked

capable

of strongly and increases his lead achieving their farget though to the finish. Parks and Clark with a stand

England's Mary Bignali scored of 70 In 73 minutes Pinddened

firsts. She won

the 83 the spectators for a time. But metres hurdles in 11,5 seconds there was no one else.

heating Austrians H. Auer, 12.0 seconds, and G. Bosniak, 12.1. Miss Bignall broad jumped 5.91 metres, beating Silberman of Israel, 5.37.

Kentucky Derby Trial Stakes winner

Louisville, May 2. Frut W. Hooper's Crozier drew away from the favoured Four-and-Twenty ut the nish

the ¡NG WON

$10,850 Derby | Diad Stakes la track record thus today.

| Four-and-Twenly, owned by the Alberta Ranches of Canada, ied unt the Bnal eighth of a the when Crozier took mike 10ead and sun under the wire in

1:34 3/5.

B

Gaunt

3

Downs beat the African Tiny G W. Renardson, e Grout,

Mentano before the Broil in a

one-sided fight. Montano threw *** the towel after Gghting gely but ineffectually for ave rounds of the scheduled LED- rontuler Downs, swinging with hunds, Lart Montung badly aruand the Kft eyebrow.—AFP,

NOTICE

b Gauni

Extras

↓

Total for 4 wickets) 50

Wicketfalls:

1-2), 2-12, 3-52, 1

M X W

11.2 7 5

G 2 8

2

Bowling analysis

о

Gaunt

Mackay

Misson Quick Benaud

G 2 11

1

THE ROYAL HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

Special Cash Sweep on the HONG KONG DERBY Saturday, 6th May, 1961

Over 1,200,000 tiekels sold to dute.

The sale of Cush Sweep Tickets an the above will

Friday, 5th May,¦ close en 1961, ns follows:-

Prince's Building

Cacing Statue, Square]

ut 6.00 pm,

5. D'Aguilar Street

at 6.00 p.m.

King's Road, North Point nt 4.00 p.m. 382, Nathan Road, Kowloon, at 4.00 p.m.

The Draw will be held on the int floor, Public Es- closure at the Race Course at 11.30 am. on Saturday. the 6th May, 1961.

By Order of the Stewards, PEAT, MARWICK, MITCHELL & CO.

Treasurera.

G 2 13

-Reuter.

UK soccer results

Results

London, May 2. of today's British soccer matches were:

ENGLISH LEAGUE Division II Brentford 2 Berding

FOOTBALL LEAGUE CUP Semi-final replay at Manchester Aston Villa 2 Burnley

-Router.

CHESS

By LEONARD BARDEN

46.

Here a problem by J. Warton (Observer, 1932), White to play and mate in two moves.

London Express Servle

THE GAMBOLS

WE MUST ECONOMISE

WE JUST CANT AFFORD ALL THIS PETROL

1:

match

Iwo

SURPRISE

to the team from Caroline Hill, South China Athletic Association. They won the Senior league championship after many frustrating years of taking a back seat to such strong sides as the Braves, St Joseph's and of late the Cheyennes.

Lo Kar-hing's champions were well taken care of by a wily veteran in the game, coach Yeung Kar-sing, better known to all softball fans as "Show-boat Ali.”

fise Benny

They were fipped to do well to offer token opposition to the The tribe lacked the servies of before the season started in late rest of the league.

a steady hurler and though Lal September when it was reveal- As 133 the past. the Dayaram con put the strlices

airocious ed that they had nequired

felding of the over a pitching ik nol of services "1 ex-Saints

nalfors lost then gaines they Senior division standard. At should have won comfortably. least they had the consolation Their batting was suspect too of seeing one member of their as they swung at every pitch team, Lionel Doynram, win the lustily but usually frušilessly, | batting crown.

Until such ime ne they

| Oinar, A. G. Ismail and pitcher

A. R. Salleh.

can

Y. S. Liang'a Pandes tre aboost their batting strength, for

unce-great side one man alone does not make

replacing him with Junior years Fang whose fast curves and corner-culling strikes were a delight to behold.

back.

As It was Ballch turned in some fino pliching per- formances but late in the season Young played lils trump card againat the U.S.shadow of the Navy and the Cheyennes by thrilled the crowds some team, they have no future to They hind speak of In the Senior division. sprinkling of young blood in Defensively they were up to the the team and relied ocensional standard one has come to ex- ly Jackie Wet but this old-peet of our Senior league teams umer's pitches now luck sting these days but offensively they and though

They had

Vie had no une capable of poling Pedruco to help (when he was out the long hits. The SCAA nine were nol anot otherwise engaged) team of stars, although they play somehow lacked cohesion. suffered only one defeat at the hands of the Cheyennes-when They failed to protect their the championship had been won and ended the season SCAA. Pedruco pitched his arm already lead in both natcher against

Lucky?

Their

with a Won 7 Lost 1 record. out in some crucial matches but

Inglorious start

and

Lack-lustro season

$

To sum it up, tls wAN Tack-Instre Keyson with the thrilis coming too slow und too far in between for the (ans king. Many softball fans claimed that the men behind him, in the la-

SCAA were good in patches, SCAA had more than their field, let him down time

the Cheyennes depended 100 normal quota of "luck' in that again.

much on Mallg's pitching, The they did not conse up against

Pandas Pedruco stole the show either of the US. Navy teams

for his side whenever he turned from the "Union" or the "Onk

up, the Navy sides excepting " which teams had a

The Pandas Breat

started the sea- two, were too disappointing for deal to say about the eventual son ingloriously by falling to words while the Seminoles winners of the Commissioner's comply with the formality of lacked pitching strength and Trophy.

properly registering the entire batting power. The point that is overlooked side and then, as a swan song It will be safe to say that the is that SCAA tallled runs gave the only walkover In the voters are going to have a hard staz

every time An 10,000

opening was entire Senior league, in their time selecting the Most Valu- offered. They capitalised on the fast game! was 3)

able Player this year as there defensive errors of the

up- Their companions the were no really outstanding in- position as was evident in both Senior cellar were the Semi-dividual performances by karne against the Pandas which noles managed by Ed Carvalho, player in the entire league.

very narrowly by SCAA. To put It In simple terms they made fuli and goodi use of their playing experience to win crucial games and they can look back with satisfaction on the past season.

IEL both Championship maiches at Manchester be iween Lancashire and Lei-, cestershire and at Birmingham between Warwickshire and Essex no play was possible at

A surprise result was the vic- all today and Lancashire and tory of 24-year-old! Fawzi Pakel Warwickshire had to be con-

of Turkey over the British tent with four points aplece. S.H.M. Tufich in the Oxford

metres, University's with Gloucestershire was alo

Paket's time minutes 31.4 seconds. given up as a draw after one time was 32 minutes and half hours cricket today.

i The Israeli Simchion!

third with 33:450 minutes and

Saunder forth in 35:00.1.

Tulich favoured to win this easily led from the start

seconds,

A Fenners, Survey claimed the extra half-hour but when This compared with the 1:35 Stumps were drawn Cambridge peltoin's Berry Churchit! Downs record set by University, 45 behind, still bad Hay Road when he best De one wicket left. termine in the 1954 Derby Trial-AP.

Sports Diary

TODAY Meeting

ASF & OC Cinell meeting

S.c. M. Post Board Room, 5.30 pm.

Roccer

i

Results

race,

Tulich's and 15

WAR

WAY

mark

Was

| with Simchon! on his heels

Pakel at the halfway Results today's cricket sprinted into the lead and kept

of matches were:

At Manchester: Match aban-increasing it up to the end,

The high Jump event Idoned, Leicestershire 188 and 27

won by Swedish champlon Stig for one. Lancashire 208. Lan-

Pettersson with a mark of 1 cashire four points,

inetre and 07 centimetres 51s), Nigerion 5.0. Kadivi was second with 1.04. AP.

At Birmingham: Match at abandoned. Essex 311 for eight declared and 18 for no wicket.

four

Enteles for Second and Third Divi-Warwickshire 354 for nine de-

clared. Warwickshire points.

size Bræk-out competition close al 5 pen.

Tennis

Men's "C" Division Section 1: CRC

At Oxford: Match abandoned. Gloucestershire 195 (D. Carpen- ter 50), and 56 for two. Oxford

121 V CHC t, LBC v Startky, University 179. (2) v KITC. Urban S HRCCSA. KCC (1] * CỤC (H.

Section 2: AMSÄ V KCC 195. PORC IRC. PRC v Recreio (1), cce di v SCAA

At Lord's; Yorkshire beat MCC by 120 runs. Yorkshire 187 and 242. MCC 156 nd 153

Mixed "A" Division: LBC v KCC. J. Porks 41, E. Clarke 54). CRC v CCC.

At Cambridge: Match drawn. Surrey 290 and 164. Cambridge University 199 and 210 for nine Land Forces Individual Champlon (A. Lewis 86, M. Willard 44, N. chipe finals at Boundary-street, 11

Beddy 67)-AFP and Reuter. ATTI.

AF Hongkong athletics at Kal Tak,

TOMORROW

Tennis

"D" Division Section Men's

1: KTGCA (1) V SCAA. Urban S V Stanley, KTGÇA (2) V CRC (2),

Sucifon 2: CCC PRC, CHC (D) V KCC. RAF v LC.

Mixed "B" Division: Urban S COC, CRC v kсC.

U

RUGBY RESULT

Sovrango wins the Chester Vase

Cheshire, May 2. Mr G. A. Oldham's Sovrango won the Chester Vase run over one mile four furlongs and 53 yards here today,

Major L.B. Holliday's Cracks-

with Mrs IL Leggat's Bounteous third. Ten

man was second

ran.

were won

the

The runners-up, Berile Go- Bano's Cheyennes also started off well but then Larry Koon of the "Union" threw a mon- key wrench into the works when a superb game against them 10 Indiet an carly- season selback on Cheyennes'

tions.

the

pennant aspira-

Biggest shut-out

The sailors edged out the

In

I like the style

of this

boy McKenzie

By DENIS COMPTON

London.

any

local boys 3-2 in a tense match I watched the Australians in their first net practice

and this turned out to be the result which helped SCAA to win the title for with pitcher Dave Malig badly of form that day the Cheyennes went down again, this time to SCAA by 2-4.

at Lord's last week. Obviously, after their long sea voyage, the players were concentrat- ing on loosening their muscles and getting the feel of a turf wicket again, but I had à good look at the style of some of the new- comers to the English cricket scene.

that

They had their sweet revenge later on in the season but to no avail and two Cheyenne players get my sympathy, for with the

I immediately got the impres- remaining game of the senson alon

young Graham to play and with both Mally McKenzie, the 18-year old fast

Onufre Souza

bowler from Western Australia, given a chance to try for the Senior could be one of the successes of batting title the opposition fall- the four.

He reminded Latined to put in an appearancel

me a little of Keith Miller, with a casual but scured the

fluent run-up to the weitet of SUDSONT

Official starting prices were: 7-1 Sovrango, 20-1-Crucksman,

and

and

100-8

Bourteous, London, May, 2 Lover was favourite at 11-4. The Cheyennes Keighley beat Hull by 13 Sovrango won by five lengths biggest shut-out of the points to two at Keighley in the with threo quarters of when they trounced the Semi-about 10 paces. ofily

British Rugby League tength between second and noles 20-0 und but for the match played tonight-Reuter, third-Reuter,

"Union" defeat would have earned the

ONE KILLED, THREE INJURED

IN CAR

RALLY

Port Arthur, May 2. | The occupants of the other car

driver was killed

A Montreal

and three olher persons In- Jured today in a colliston be- tween two small cars taking part in a eroes-Canada rally. The dead man was kentified by

Coe

-02

were both hurt.

+

of the road. The other car, approaching from the east. collided with it.

They were identified as James Callon of Fault

Michigan, Ste Marie, and Lynn Vernon Bovingdon The collision occurred just after of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. dawn about 13 mlies east of here on the trans-Canada rozil near the end of the second section of the 4,000-mile run, Rally spokesmen said all four drivers were veterans of motor compelllion.—-AP.

rally organisers ax BHI Ros- Both cars involved were Austin

of Montreal. · Hin

850s, small production ardans, driver, Ken Wither of Mon- Fimi reports sald one ear was

early treal suffered a possible trac-

approaching the Fort Arthur check-point and pulled

tured akull.

.

by Barry Appleby

WE'LL HAVE TO

WALK MORE

LATER

YOU JUST CAN'T

WIN

BILL

GAS FOR JOY

right to

a

championship-play-off ugarst SCAA. their ful standing reading Won 6, Lost 2.

Alarming speed

His arm comes right over the top and by making full use of his body, he got alarm- ing speed uff the easy-paced plicht.

The US. Navy ended up in The other fast third place and, considering Misson

men.

Frenk

and Ron Grant, also

that the U.9. Novy leana have alco easy actions, and will, the no doubt, be very lively when

have always lingered

bottom this must be canalder-flat out.

ed as a exceptionally good! Lindsay Kline, bowling slow

performance for the

Ameri-left arm under conditions hard- re-ly suitable for him, quickly fell from into a length. ships

Almost an upset

The team from the

G. MCKENZIE

Richie Benaud and his vice-

Lean sailors. They were

presented by teama their various station

He is extremely accurate and, could be one of the successen and this year they had no he has a most deceptive flight, fewer than six vessels in port but he does not appear to spin

of the tour. on and off.

the ball viciously.

This will help him tremen- As for the batting, Bobby dously when the boll is turning. Simpson confirmed my opinion He la going to make many on that he will be one of the suc-English bowler's heart ache be- "Union"!cesses of the alde.

fare this tour is over, won both their matches during He played beautifully, He the ship's short stay here. They watches the ball right on to the beat the Cheyennes in a thriller bat without the Temotest gup captain, Neil Harvey, both im- and then registered a one-hit between bat and pad. 7-0 shut-out victory over the luckless Pandas, pitcher Koon being the ma responsible for both triumphs. His vast reper- toire of pitches baffled veterans like Y. 5. Liang, Ray, mond Tiao and many others,

The "Oak Hill" went oven one better when they blanked the Seminoles 0-0, only Peter d'Almada getting a bit.

Oven

mediately settled down to middle Here is the man with the the ball just as if they had had perfect technique against the no lay-off at all. turning ball. Ho appears to have every siroke in the book.

A joy to watch

Then along came the baiman

I had eagerly been writing to

Harvey looked particularly Impressive. He has obviously relained all his power and grace off both the front and back foot.

I am puro .that these Aus- see-the great Norman O'Neill. tralians, under the guidance and I was not to be disappointed. drive of Richie Benaud,

wil

The Navy team from the

le reminded me the great bring the crowds flocking back "Skagit" alinost pulled off the Walter Hammond when playing into our cricket grounds and will season's greatest upset when is shots through the covers. delight with their aggresive

Norman's footwork is a joy to approach,

+

faced the SCAA nine and but for poor fielding would have watch. He is always perfectly done so. The other teams from balanced for 'whatever stroke heEngland will

I am equally certain that the "Montrose," "Mullany," planning and. unlike most challenge and I feel we cari look not ignore the "Sherwood" and "Stoddard" Australian batsmen, when play-forward to perhaps the greatest will want to forget that they ing off his back foot it is equare; series ever—yes, ever made the trip up to King's to the wicket and not painting than the one just dished in eyen muraler Park. They were not even able i jo the bowler."

Australia.