ROYAL ASCOT MEETING OPENS ON TUESDAY
A Gallic victory is almost certain in the Gold Cup
HK owner's horse can win Queen Mary Stakes
London, June 10.
France has not yet won a big race in England this season, but there seems virtually certain to be a Gallic victory in the Gold Cup, main event of the Royal Ascot Meating, on Thursday.
A strong French entry for this renowned two and a half miles race, which will be worth about £10,000 to the winning owner, is spearheaded by M. Henri Aubert's Puissant Chef and M. J. De Atucho's Tehuelche.
The.
Two
good
Two-year-old |
Another four-year-cids { alled frst and second placca engaged at this week's moeting the equivalent is the late Sir Percy Loraine's respectively in
Du Rescind, who goes for elther the French race,
the Prix Cadran, at Lengehamp a month New Slakes or the Chesham 1
Stakes on
Thursday. Rescind, aş:0.
grey cult by Darius out of the Precipitation mure Scintillating has won bath
this his races with great case,
and should add to his record with victory in whichever of the Ascot events chosen for him.
لادا
won the Prix Pussant Chef
mere head Du Codrig drum Tehuelehr, with third- placed Paine only a short head further away.
the victory of M. Aubert's fine Klayer was worth a good deal more than the form book shown. 11 rider found it dißleult to get through In the closing slagre,
alisent and I wan
Too late when he manored to Ert a
Running on clear ruh.
very
strongly Puissani Chef kot up
few strides
In the last
take the prize.
No doubt
no
to
There seems doubt that he will comirm the with Lengelamp placings Tehuelche and Lezghinka un Thursday, and Engilsh challen- Eers Shatter, Prolific, Pandate and Jet Streana Epod nenugri victory.
to detty
Reason
A royal victory?
Baking horses in the Ascot Harlic is said to be one of He quickest ways to ruin, and These in ore as tricky as ever at the Ascot Meeting.
First on the card is the two and a half miles Ascot Stakes on Tuesday. There may be a royal victory in this race, for Queen Elizabeth's Augustine seems to have a tine chance of winning on the form he has shown previously this season.
In his previous race, over a trip too short for him, Augustine ran very well to finish fourth
in a big feld for the valuable
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1961.
AUSTRALIANS TOP CRICKET
BATTING AVERAGES
London, June 10.
Three Australians head the batting in the English
first class cricket averages.
Leading positions, excluding play in the current Test between Englund and Australia are:
Burge (Australians)
W, E. Lawry (Australians) N. C. O'Neill (Australlons) P. B. H. May (Surrey)
BATTING
K. F. Barrington (Surrey) Nawab of Pataudi (Oxford Uj
J. M. Brearley (Cambridge U.) W. E. Alley (Somerset) M. C. Cowdrey (Kent)
W. E. Russell (Middlesex) R. B. Simpson (Austrollons) F. J. Titmus (Middlesex)
Denotes not nut.
NO R
HS
Aver
11
412 150
82.40
13 4 720
105
80,00
420
124
00.68
000
· 1934
07.00
042
151* 04.20
700 144
01.23
430 145*
69.92
907 221-
56.00
985 116
51.30
1035
150
49.20
542 148
49.27
438
43*
46.60
=222H9SRINGE
THE WICKET
Page
9
with Norman Yardley
'FIDDLING SUSPICION UNFOUNDED These bold declarations
put pep into cricket
Ave The recent suddon spate of "contrived" declarations, whereby some county captains have declared as much as a couple of hundred runs behind their opponents, has got many people worried,
BOWLING
0 M R. W 310.2 130 503 44 347.2 23 813 01 338.5 110 704 51
132 302.4
43 494 209.5 104 526 32 297.2 200.2 102
60.2
330.1
385.5
120
122 500 34 522 20 23 144 A 93 702 42 840 46
12.70 13.32 13.80 10.16 10.43 17,58 18.00 18.00 10.14
142.2
B. Tingworth (Yorkshire) C. T. Spencer (Lelecstershire) F. S. Trucpin (Yorkshire) mile, one of the main betting. 1. Stathamn (Lancashire) mediums of the meeting. Two J. S. Savage (Leicestershire) trainers with strong hands in C. Cook (Gloucestershire) this race are Bam Hall. who. R. Buxton (Derbyshire) has earned a reputation as AR A. Gaunt (Australians)
fund lo
big Handicap specialist, Rnd 1. J. Coldwell (Worcestershire) Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, A. E. Moss (Middlesex) tadt will saddle Mr J. Phong R. Benaud (Australians) Juntor's Arion and Mrs James E. Palmer (Somerset)
Chino, Collins'
Captain Mr Fun Boyd-Rochfori is Terence Gray's Stupor Mund! and American owner Mr "Jock"! Whitney's Polo, Arlon, a son of the Doncaster St Leger winner Sayajirao, is one of the smurt- rst mile handicappera in the coualry and should put up bold bid for the prize.
Trickest handicap
Perhaps
ch
the trickiest of all the Ascot Handicaps is the six furlongs Workingham Stakes, to be run on Friday. Canadian Mr Paul Mellon has a good chance of winning this with his four- year-old Goose Creek, a speedy xon of Requtsted out of the Count Flee! mary Virginia Water.
Goose Creek has not shown
18.39 40 300 21 18.57 294.4 18 055 36 18,71
-China Mail Special.
Strong Japanese challenge
Douglas, June 11.
There is a strong Japanese challenge for to- morrow's 125 cc and 250 cc races in the Tourist Trophy Motor-cycling Meeting here.
The three Japanese works | of semi-retirement, and the East
Suzuki* and Genun NZ machines, wil teams-Honda,
48 Ernst Degner as their leading brought Yamaha--have
the rider. machines over, apart from motor-cycles they have provided for private entries.
Somehow these stratagems don't ring true. Deep down, some
folk suspect there is a fiddle about them somewhere.
Frankly, I don't think way. County
captains
Ibal
rung an hour just final afternuan.
Dr
anything else.
| don't ßddle points, games,
But I do feel we should get Glamorgan then Kent seemed our thinking straight on this likely to win. controversial
side-product of
the efforts for brighter and! better cricket. As ie it, lue "ontrived" declaration is for more acceptable than allowing A match to die for the whole of a last day without any hope of a result,
Bold decision
The Glamorgan-Kent match was a good example, When the second day was virtually wiped out by rain, all hope of achieving a result by con- ventional play disappeared. The captains had to decide whether to play out drearily for first Innings points or to try something bolder. decided to be bold,
Glamorgen's captain conceded kph) from a standing" start in first innings points and declared over 200 runs behind. Kent responded by batting only long enough to establish a sensible It was then up to Glamorgan to go flat out for 12 polits of 75
Bob McIntyre (Britain), who rides a Honda, is favouriic for He was only a The 125 ce laur, which opens the 250 ce race. do not look Daily Mirror Stakes at Newbury, his best in his two races this
fraulion under 07 mph (IEB Him Staying is the forte of this four-season, but there is no doubt of the programme tomorrow mor- year-old son of Aureole, and he his ability on his day. He provedning. Looks likely to develop
battle between Honda practles. should pin up a good show in his sprinting merit beyond nl into a Tuesday's marathon event.
doubt when wiming the holly-machines ridden by Mike Hall- contested Wykeham Handicap wood (Britain), Tom Phills The races are held over the at York Inte last season.(Australia) and Luigi Taver famed 37 miles (80 kilo-target, then they declared. China Mall Special.
(Switzerland), who has come out Į metres) Clypse Circuit,-Reuter.
Pulsant Chet will be neco panied to the post by his stable companion Montreage, who will madess the tare Jo order assure a truly-run
race,
Among the horses class expected to be
of high seen in
action at the meeting are Sir Victor Sussnon's St Paddy, winner of last year's Epr
Derby, and
Ally
the Aga Khan | Opaline 11. who headed the 1960 Earlish Free Handicap ratings.
St Paddy goes for the Hard- wicke Stakes over a mile and half on Friday and should have
elifliculty in winning HEL
He has had only one previous outing. this season, In thu Commbe Stakes at Sundown Pack in May, which he Wor very impressively.
rx-
Ile as been Kolna ceptionally well in home gallops, and he should defeni Itis main Hardwicke Stakes rival, Sir Winston Churchill's Vienu.
Two year-old races
Opaline, une of the last daugh- ters of Hyperion, was ante-post favourite in early betting on the Newmarket 1,000 Guineas
Epsom Oaks. She was unablé to ful these classic engagements because of an attack of shumach trouble, but she is now fully re- covered. She should nut be roubled to win the Coronation Stakes over a mile on Wednes- idas.
The two-year-old roces at Royal Ascot usually provide a
indicatiun Food
ог which juveniles will rank highest at the end of the season, It is very likely that Hongkong IT- Glade rident Mullion's Silken will stake a claim for one of the top places by winning the Queen Mar Stakes on Wednesday.
This Irish-trained daughter of the French slaillon Bulsson Ardent has won both her pre vious races, and may tura out to be in the class of Paddy's Shter. the One filly owned by rated Mrs Mullion who was 11.rd best in the two-year-old weights in Free Handicap 1959.
Pambianco wins
Tour of Italy
Milan, June 11. Italy's Arnaldo Pamblanco won the 44th: Tour of Holy Pro- fessional fond Cycling Race which ended here today.
Spain's Miguel Poblet won the 21st and last stage from Burmio
to here.
The anal geperul classification for the race was;
1. Arnoldo Pamblanco (Italy), 111 hours 25 mins 28 ecgads,
2. Joeques Antquet!} (France),
345 secs behind.
3. Antonio Suarez (Spain),
1417 aces behind.
4, Charly Gaul (Luxembourg),
423 rces behind.
0.
Guido Carles! (Italy), 30p
ates behind.-AFP.
Wednesday's big Handicap
Is ter Royal Hunt Cup over a
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Stole the show
throughout the I am certain the "contrived"
declaration demands jus! The outcome was a thrilling ( much thought--and courage
First from the captains involved. spectacle for spectators.
All this leads me un to the more topical question: should a euptutn ever take the declara- tion risk in a Test mutch?
Of course he should if he thinks it will help him to win. But I don't think
any Test captain should be expected to make a crowd-pleasing "fancy" declaration which may prc- judice his cause in any way. In the current match, I feel
Finally, it was Glamorgan's ninth wicket pale who stule the defying Kent's by show desperate efforts for the last 20 B draw. minutes and forcing Kent even claimed a new holl for the last over of the day to
to break them; but they y couldn't.
that both Benaud and Cowdrey will be bold. But I can't see either of them being stupid on
Well, what do you think? I auppose the word "contrived" this point. does it declaration alluations Nike this, and I can understand the
Tragic injury
that Durists feeling
I am sorry my warning of valuable Champlonship points could be won unfairly it last week about the persistence of the injury bug was followed matches rot out of hand. But, taking a broad view, to swiftly by that tragic knee
Injury to think spectator Interest justifles With Austraila's main star and the lively O'Neill, this form of captaincy enter England's Peter May out of the prise. The point that has so battle,
deal grent be watched is that contrivance crowd-pulling class we wanted should not descend to stupidity, went out of this first Test.
The whole object of any I imagine, too, that the dis- decluration is to give the turbed Benaud and Icam declaring captain a chance to manager, Syd Webb, must have win-a greater chance than his been thinking hard this opponent.
about
Season's best
I see no
"
of the
week
possible replacements from home.
Benaud's Instinct, and that of
virtue at all in a the whole of his team, of course, crowd-pleasing gesture which will be against any such idea.
team cpirit
ko will greater than it has ever been to
gives an opponent, say, a target Their of 100 to get in the last hour.
That can only work one way. try to avoid it. Ou a good wickel, the batsmen But, quite honestly, it thero could get the runs with a wildare any more serious injuries
bowlers. Aing. The bowling side could among the
the Aus- never hope to get through ton tralians may be forced to send
the wickets in such a short tunc.
SOS to which England The best declaration of the touring sides have had to resort season so far, I think, was that on three different occasions of Australia's Richie Benaud ut sinec the war, Lord's.
#
When he set MCC to get only 70-odd an hour on wicket that wan still good, Australian critles could hardly believe their Cyes. They had given the thought he
game away, When Cowdrey
Muce and Smith got going at a hundred- an-hour they were cerlain. But Mr Benzud is no Ioul. ifls was a calculated risk.
Batsman in form
I don't see O'Nell'a injury has precipitated any mujor problem, Benaud has so many batsmen busting with form that his main task has been to Five them all enough cricket. But any того bowlers get crocked the sooner request for replacements is considered, the better. England's SOS лип weze Statham and Tattersall and then
and Mortimore who Dexter flew out to the MCC sides in Australia. And away back in 1948 Len Hutton Bow out to the
team resette of Cubby Allen's in West Indies.
As much courage He had left himself four full hours in which he coulet afford to buy a few wickets. And buy them he did. As soon 15 Smith made his first mistake to be caught et mid-wicket, Benaud knew he would get home. He did, with plenty of dramatic Impact. He walked rurs and time to spare.
That, of course, was clear-cut, bald
Hutton, I remember, made a
and
straight from the cold at an Anc, English winter into the steamy lenderskin heat of British Culona which everybody understands made a magnificent hundred in and admars. But I think more his first innings. That was the people should try to be a little hall-mark of the great player. warmer about the more obscure
I don't suppose Australia have kind or leadership.
any Huttons lying about spare at home. But I do hear that after some of the recent poor bowling performances from the Australians, both Miller and Lindwall have been seen flexing their muscles wistfully al the back of certain Press boxes.
Chess News
SHOULD world champion
Mikhail Tal have pock poned his return intels against Dotvinnik ? 'Fai's Moscow sup- partem are usking this now that ral, formerly considered the Tastest master player on earth. becoming aliori of time in overy game while Botvinnik confidently paces the stage,
la
In last year's match. Botvinnik was often rattled by Tal's speed of play, but Tal's new responsibilities and kidney trouble just before the return contest lave badly affected him, Ta has also been criticisedi by anothor Russian Brand master. Alexander Kotov, for faulty training methods. Wotov, now one of flovint chesa's top officials, wrole that Tal shoulů not have gone on to play almultaneously in Ozacio Glorakis after a tough inter- national tourney in Blockholm, Alekhine made the name mistake in 1939," says J£otOY,
Tal's immediato reply to his critics was effcolivo, In tho eighth game of the match. 116 rquted Botvinnik's king by a farocious altack in his best rivie. With a third of the match over, It. Jooks like lining nock-and-
neck.
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