1961-06-15 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1961.

DRAMAS OF THE ASHES Donald Bradman the Taiwan Pandas score

Bold-

Scourge

of the English

By John Melvin

The sheer ferocity on the face of 6ft. 4in. fast bowler Bill Bowes convinced Donald Bradman that he was about to receive a bouncer. Even as the Yorkshireman ended his run Austra- lia's golden boy of cricket was shaping to hook.

It was not a bouncer. Bradman missed the ball completely and heard the

crash as his leg stump rocked back.

Bradman, bowled Bowes, nought and all Australia wondered if their worst fears were being realised. Was the wonder-boy losing his golden touch?

for New South Wales gainat ¦ Chapman

began

selatii-

at an

Bradman had already failed Tuiving on his good fortune every third visit to the wicket

until his retirement in 1948. the MCC skle of 3932-33, scoring | lating attack on the Australian | He played 52 Testa for Aus-

two and traliu, 24 as captain, only 18 and 23. Then illness bowling which lasted

scoring average of prevented him from playing in

a bait leurs and produced 121 6,996 runs the first Test.

12 fours and 90.04. Thirty-seven times runt, including

re! four rixes. But when he was played agains! England, topping

runs at o, caught at the wicket, the 5,028

an average of all-conquering Aussies wanted | 09.78. Twice he reached the candy, 72 to win.

He exceeded 200 on

When he appeared in the second Test at Melbourne, Australian cricket-tovers were apprehensive. 11 was no more than the pessimists hail gloomy forecast when Bowes' Brut ball bowled him neck and

crop.

But it was a different Brad- man who went to the wicket with Australia's second Innings score at 27 for two. He cut and drove in splendid style. pleting his

century

minutes, when

the last man.

con- In 210 partnered by

'A gonius'

out,

Thanks to his 103 not Australia totaled 101 & totul large enough to bring victory by 1 runs.

Donald George Bradinan was to dominate Australian cricket for two decades.

On his very Arst appearance šti a Lord's Test matchin 1930 at the age of 21 he showed such temperament and maturity that "Plum Warner holled him as "the champion of the world ... player of genius."

It was the Second Test tel England's first innings had be- gun in bright sunshine QN a perfeel balling wicket. With Dalempsinhji kittingg 173 in just under five hours. England amassed 425 runs, surely enough for victory,

Bust the huge shirt-sleeved erowd reckoned without the fighting spirit of BIN Woodfull and his men.

Australia's Arst innings began shortly before lunch on Satur- day June 28. In the art hour Woodfuil and opening

partner

Bill Ponsford scraped to ether 30 runs in the face of England's attacking battery.

The ploture changed drama- tically after lunch. The two Australians were still together with 100 on the board

and when the 150 came up. At 350 the partnership was finally broken with the score at 182, when Ponsford was caugh! by Wally Hammond,

Bradman Joined ile exptain,

Reigned supreme

He cracked the first ball from left-arm spinner Jack White long-off Rel Paw A Look of astonishmetit on The howter's fact. From that moment Brad- Jan the Bold reigned supreme. In the fallowing Ave and half hour play he took tha¦ Eagl-h bowhng by the scruff ot Its neck anel thrashed merellessly,

three o'clock

Shortly before

on the third day Bradman was out for 254, (twenty-five four) when A.F.I. Chapman facredit- ly held a lofted drive of White that was on fts way to the cover boundary.

After ten hours' balling, the Australian total was firially declared closed-but not unili Die score was a record 120 for six. England, after looking comfortably plaeed, now faced a leeway of 304,

Though they went about their enormous 1nsk with spirit. England's batsmen were soon in dificulties. Chapman, entering the arc with live wickets down for 147, should have been out for a duck when he lobbed a ball

from Clarrie Grimmet! lamely into the air only for two fieldsman to leave the ball to each other.

Real Madrid beaten

-Madrid, June 14. The famous Spanish football team Real Madrid woy today beaten by three goals to two by Argentina's River Plate Club in an international friendly match.

The score at half-tline two-all-AFT.

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Extraordinary catch

Still the drania was not over. hart R. W. V. Robins Alter bowled Ponsford, Bradman crine looking as though all the essary runs would come from Quickly aft Blowhg but. aric with a single, he then Tute with Maurice

his the

cul

frumendous power

and seem certain of reaching the bound- ary

But as Bradman made the siroke Chapnuan, fielding at gully. bent down, snapped up an extraordinary catch inches aff the ground, and throw the Ball up in relief. Bradman was

uit.

300 mark. Ave other occasions.

In the fourth Test at Leeds In 1930, the young Bradman raced to 105 before lunch and scored 300 by the end of the

day. He ended with

second straight win

By OLLY VAS

The Taiwan Pandus registered their second successive victory in Hongkong yesterday when they easily accounted for a lacklustre Cheyennes team by 11 runs to five in an exhibition match at King's Park.. The Pandas won more costry then the score suggesis and any- one new to locul softball would have shaken his head lo dis- belief if told that the Cheyenne Rad ended the season us Sentor League runners-up, such was The pour showing they put up.

The Panda were one run up in a matter of. minutes when Can Fan-shan tallied the opening run of the game on a fielding choice.

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EMPIRE GAMES NEWSLETTER

Tickets will be available

overseas as from July

Perth.

Seating plans and ticket application forms for the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia, are expected to be ready for over- seas distribution in July, 1961. Box offices in Eastern Australia will

open shortly after. The Games Organising Coun- elf has decided that;

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lead for the Cheyendes, for the Pandas overtook them in the top of the second inning. Pitcher d'Almada issued two walks, to Su Wen-tsong and Fan

Tickets will be sold over- Shu-tee. A wild pitch advanced | suas and Interstate through both ninners, then Xavier's mis- | travel agencles, banks and other handling of a grounder off the reputable business concerns. bat of Wu Shuf-lee saw Su tally- ing A run to

the cut down Cheyennes' lead to two rons, Lee Tul-yan was enught out in right feld then d'Almada issued yet another walk and it was now Cheyennes 4. Pandus 3.

Black bookings and sales will be available to travel com- paples, afrines, banks and other agencies,

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Box

BASIC TIME - TABLE

The opening ceremony will be held at the main stadium at Wembley on Thursday, November 22, 1902.

25.

Thero will not be any Games events on Sunday, November

The closing ceremony will be at the main stadium on December I.

A detailed programme will be issued later. The baste time-table is as follows:-

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Then, with two down, Lee Shin-chino threw nway an opportunity to increase the lead

A hit off Lee Shin-chao's bat, Perth will handle for his side when he tried

stolen base and another two tralian sales. come home on a play and got infield errors lot in three more

Ticket Cominitiee chairman enught between the bases, Dick vuns and the Pandas led 6-4.

A. C. Curlewis reported that Chaves

There was no scoring by elther his committee expects and

Gosum Danny

handic combining to "put the lag on Leeside in the third and fourth in- 480,000 tickets

for the Games, for the Inning to close.

nings and in the top of the Ath He said the committee would the Pandas won the game follow precedent in not granting

Short-lived lead

†

In the Cheyennes's turn with 1toring three us to lead 0-4. concession prices for Individual The Cheyennes had no light teft in them after this, even though Souza gol on base via a hit his second of teh day--but Remedios and Gosano hity halls to left field to be caught out and Xavier foul tipped leave Souza stranded on base.

the but Chaves Bied the score, Litt-felder Lee allowed Chaves f to get past alm and the sperry "Cheyenne player took advantage of Lee's inps to put his side on even tering by rounding the bases.

Wild pitches

Lionel Dayaram popped up for the first eut. Thin Onofre

ITA 334 Souza hit the ball lo right field

for

caught at the wicket, after an Innings lasting 375 minutes and Including 46 fours.

Failed

Thus, the 21-year-old Austra- lian master hud slammed Eng- lund's bowlers for 710 runs in three successive innings.

Yet at the supreme moment in his career, when a solitary boundary would have given min an overall Test average of 100, Bradman failed.

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the

n double and scored on Robert Remedios hit, for Choyens to a 2-1.

The next batter up, Gosano, fied out

right-Belder Lo Tal-yan for the second out. Manuel

then int Xavier down a neat bunt along third and

hoaded for Remedios second on the play but in the Io Hung- meanwhile, catcher

for the ground hau had gone ball and seeing Remedios near- ing second base picked up the ball and relayed it to second- baseman Fan Stu-lee but the latter got nowhere near it as the ball was thrown beyond his outstretched band and Remedios sprinted home with the Cheyen- nes third run, Xavier going to second. A hit by Marcy Hap plate for the Cheyennes to lead 4-1 but Peter d'Almada could only manage a long fly ball to and the iming came to an end.

was only

Although England claimed a third wirket when the score reached 22, Australia never looks like lesing: they hit off 131+ remaining rus willout further loss, Undoubtedly, the visitor owed their victory to the super, attacking play, of Bradnon in the first innings,

Bradmeul. Best innings in a Best-class match brought him 118 shattering victory by an innlngs the centre-fielder's glove

with

and 140 but Bradman was -ul for

A duck.

Australia went into the din Test at the Oval in 1948 with a superb umbeaten record under Bradman's astuve captaincy. No one would have regretted his waking those four rum - least of alt leg-spinner Erictista pushed Xavier Hollies, who claimed the vital wirkel.

2/1

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the sixth innings the Pandas made it 10-4 when Chan Pin-shan's hit push Ho second plate from over the base for the latter to tally yet another Fun and In the Roventh and last inning il be- came 11-4 when two succes- sive wild pitches by d'Almada gave the visliors an unearned run.

The Cheyennes, with a seven runs deficit facing them were unequal to the task of catching up, Dayaram and Souza being torsed out or infield plays, Re- medios hit a double and scored

game.

children. However, group con- Lessons for children wure possible. The granting of in- alvidual concessions would greatly increase the burden on the box office Season conces- ston tekets would not be issued,

Basic programme

Prices had not been Anally approved. but broadly would

Bowls

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Olymple Gomes in Melbourne. I covered with There will be no competitions growth of grass. that day.

Four

afternoons have aside for track and

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the

healthy

Following allegations of de- been lays in

larting

Gomes be in fine with those charged set

field "quatic centre. Perth Town at the Cardiff and Vancouver events at the main sladlum and Clerk, W. A. Mel. Green told Commonwealth Games, though there will be slx swimming the Games Organising Cound!

Perth sessions In the

the Beatty Park the centre should be completed aladium, aquatic centre and aquatic cor.tre,

by March next year. velodrome would be and more expensive.

Bome seats 10

better

Hosts of hosts

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who

Tenders wer more than £30,000 have bein let for the pumping and Altration system and this first phase of construc-

(Prices at Cardiff were: Main stdium 13/6 to £2/12/6 a day: The people of Perth, cycling, 13/6 to 1/6/- boxing, pride themselves on their hos- heats 6/3 to £4, finals 13/6 to pitality, are currently swampington will begin during May, £0/11/-;

8/3 to the wrestling,

Games

Accommodation £2/12/6; fencing / rowing Bureau with offers to take

Early start

Lawn bowls events in the Commonwealth Games In Perth will start four or five days earlier than the official opening of the Games on November 22.

on an identical bit of Gosano's 6/3 to £2/16/3; weightlifting guests into their homes for the bat to bring the score lo 11-50 to £1/5/3; swimming 13/- dmation of the Games, tu Xavier fled out to end thr to £2/12/6; lawn bowls 3/3.

These Cordist prices have been Perth, in common with the

10 Australian cur-Games The Pandas were never fully converted

citles of Melbourne, extended and they must have roney),

Cardi, Rome, Helsinki, Van- The basic programme for the cuuver, London and Berlin, will been somewhat surprised by

1962 Commonwealth Games as not be able to accommodate all the strength of the opposition.

could also been approved. The open-Games visitors in hotels, so The Cheyennes simply

K. S. usunt playing ing ceremony will be on Tie-Premier Brand has appealed to London that competing countries not touch their form and they will want le for- day, November 22—six years to ellizons a short-lived get this game and quickly too, the day from the opening of the

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pete in n bowls cvents- modation Bureau has been tem singles, pairs, and rinks-with porarily overwhelined with ja minimum of four players. hospitality offers,

If singles and pairs events The Accommodation Bureau were arranged te toke place now has more than 800 rooms simultaneously, one player could in private homes in excellent compete in the singles, two in suburbs available for guests. the poles, and a fourth member A a result the Bureau can would John up to make part in now offer travel agonoles the rinks. thus permitting block bookings of up to 50 minimum team of four. rooms. Thia accommodation Is available on a bed and break- furt basis. Rental from

21/5/- a night.

Official film

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Up to 10 cameramen will be used to catch highlights of the The Bureau is following the 1902 Commonwealth Comes in painstaking approach which Perth for the ofelul fim. The made the home Üllicting scheme British Petroleum Group will One cf The most successful Anance the fim. BP has phases of the Melbourne Games. engaged Cluesound Productions It is inspecting, grading and to make it. fixing a fair rental for all pe-

The oil company Special efforts distribute the 18 commodation.

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EU will be made to match

mm colour film in all countries in which it Interests of guest and host. The

has branches. Bureau has also recently com-

Coples will be pleted a careful canvass of city

available to sporting bodies t and suburban hotel accommoda-

cost. tion.

Address

the

Accommodation enquiries էր Commonwealth Games Accommodation Burenu, 772 Hay-street, Perth, Western Australia.

Zanzibar invited

All in the Games

Mr K. S. "Sandy" Duncan. honorary teretary of the Bri- tich Empiro and Commonwealth Games Federation, will nave an opportunity of making his own asearment of the Australian car as well as the Australian venue for the VII Common- Authority has been given wealth Games while he is visit- from London for Zanzibar to being Perth this month. General Invited to compete in the Com- Motors Holdens Ltd. have made monwealth Games for the first a Holden special sedan avaliable ume la Perth next year. This for use by the Games Publicsty brings to 4P the total of coun- Bureau until after the Games, tries to be asked to send teams. One of its main uses is taking overseas visitors on inspection tours of the Perth venues.

Building speed-up

Commonwealth

Games #r-

ganisers will speed up the schedule for building of the 150

homes in the Games Village at Wembley Downs to enable completion several month be- fura tho Games open.

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fits.

The £865,000 Village, which promises to be the most al- for any Games, Olymple or Commonwealth, has been laid out, roads wonstructed, and essential serviceh installed. A contest among Western Aus- tralian architects for the beat house design for the village closed on May 1 and acturi construction will begin shortly.

A tender of £70,000 bas been aooeplex for concrale and wooden scating at the £400,000, main Stadium At Beld Park and work begun. Workmen spread 80,030 cubic yards of cinders to form a dix- inch deep foundation for the Tracto and adjacent training. track ntal the top. surface mixture of sond, loam pand finn eindery will to lald After the foundation has settled.

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