THE CHINA ̈ MAIL,
MONDAY,JUEM! 24, 1961,
Record-breaking golf by Nagle
WINS IRISH HOSPITALS EVENT WITH 72-HOLE TOTAL OF 260 Dublin, July 23. Australian Kol Nagle set a record for British tournament-play when he returned rounds of 66 and 65 to win the Irish Hospitals Golf Tournament with a total of 260 over 72 holes here today.
Bruce Crampton takes the
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The previous best four-round | Now, after only one practice aggregate was 264,.set up by round, the produced this low- Nagle's fellow-Australlon Peter sebring feat, Thomson when winning the Yorkshire Evening News Tournament at Sand Mear, Leeds, in 1037. -
Milwaukee Open Another record
Milwaukee, July 23. Bruce Crampton, the former Australian Open Golf champion, shook off strong challenges and won the $30,000 Milwaukee Open with a 72-hole total of 272 today for his first victory on the U.S. professional golf tour.
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Leading scores
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England names
John Flavell among Test 13
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London, July 23. John Flavell, Worcestershire's right-arm fast- medium bowler, is in line to win his first Test cap for England at the age of 32. Leading scores in the Irish
Flavell was today included in tness of Lancashire pace man Hospitals tournament were: the 13 players, from whom Eng- Brian Statham, who missed the 260 - Kel Nagle (Australia)|land's feon will be chosen Br third Test' at Légpás'"'with an 04, 03, 06, 05.
the crucial fourth Test against Injured side. 284 Peter Alliss (Britain) Australie Nagle's third round of
Stathum starting
was replaced then 00:
Old rave him a 54-hole total of 65, 62, 69, 58.
Tratford, Manchester, on Thurs by 40-year-old Les Jackson, 205 Ralph Moffiti (Britain) day.
Who is hot In 'the Possibles this 195 which was also a Britsk
time. record, beating the 196 by 67, 47, 67, 67, Dave Thomas
Flavell, second in the EnK- |
England's other fitness doubt Thomson when winning al (Wales) 72, 60, 60, 84, Christy
Hah First Class Bowling O'Connor (Repubile of Ireland) 68, 60, 60, 08-Neuter,
averages, earned his selection for Old Trafford concerns Colin with a great spell or bowling Cowdroy, who dropped out-of which helped the Players heat the Gentlemen-Players match
and the Gentlemen by 173 runs in because of tonalitie their annual match at Lord's terday was ordered by his doc
tor not to play for Kent in their Last week..
current match against Essex.
Brian Close, 123h man at Leeds, should get a place this time Cowdrey is uqght pe ha may be preferred anyway to either Ted Dexter or' Rajnan Subba Row, who have been out of form with the bai la recent matches,
Sand Moor.
Peter Alles, the British Ryder Cup and Conada Cup interna- tional, also found the 0,088:
Course 10 yards Brookwood
his Hiting and equalled the previous aggregate record of 244 for second place.
Nagle's brilHont machine-like golf, some of the best seen In the rs1 Europe, earned him prize of £1,000 and raised his total winninge to around £3,600
Sports Diary
TODAY BOWLI
Jackson out
His opening broadside on the second innings brought him four wickets for 10
Is Division: USRC IRC, 5.30 Gentlemen's pmn.
MEETING Hongkong Chinces Football Asso-Turs in clation annual meeting, Golden Dra- Con Restaurant; 7 pm.
The young Australian, who won his country's top golf prize 1 1958 at the age of 21, carried a three-stroke leud into the final round and then hung on to edge Gay Brewer Jr and Bob Goalby, both of the U.S., by a stroke.
Another stroke behind ni 274 were former US. Open cham- pion Bill. Casper Jr and Don Massengale, of the U.S. Crumpton, who has
He started his golden trail at s played
£1,000 Д with PCA co-sponsored Nottinghamı
Ho tournaments in the past Ove victory three weeks ago,
British Open title to years. plcked up the first prize lost his money of $4,300, He had won American Arold Palmer, but only $1,630
15 in
pre-won the French Open and £750 vlous major events this year in the following weck.
nome
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U.S. baseball results
New York, July 23.
Results of today's baseball
Eonies Included:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
(Second game)
this month.
35 deliveries. Hils victims included Test batsmen Peter May, Mike Smith and Ted Dexter, and he had final TOMORROW
figures of four for 13 as the MEETING HKFA
Committee Ginllemen were Management
shot' qut for meeting and drawing of firet round
127. 1961-02 league matches, 5 poi
DOWLS
fourth round! Men's Open Palta maichts at KpGC. PRC, HKCC. HKFC. 8.20 pm.
Whether or not Flavell gets a place in the England eleven will probably depend on the
The pitch
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A win at Old Trafford would ab holders, make Australia, certain of retaining the Ashes.
Both teams have won one match In the current series, with oặc drawn. The final Test is at the
RUNNING ACE MIGHT HAVE MADE WIMBLEDON Oval next month.
PETER SNELL
CAN BREAK THE
WORLD HALF-MILE RECORD
By ROY MOOR
I have met almost every world record-breaking athlete since the late Jack Lovelock won the world mile record for New Zealand in the 20. But none had the ideal blend of strength and temperament that has made Peter Snell one of today's foremost champions.. And Olympic 800 metres | "But when I moved to schoolĮ mile in 1 min. 52.8 secs. Now his champion Snell will be very in Auckland was lucky if best achieved in Dublin on
weeks only 4. Monday last disappointed If the world half- could finish third in a race."
seconds outside American Tom Courtney's world record imln. 44.85ccs.
0 mile record does not fall to him before he leaves Europe shortly
It was at this school that Snell met his couch, Arthur Lydiard, Snell who was soon Impressed with
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admits any record-breaking am the young runner's natural abiij- bitions. As we talked in Dublin dy. But he wisely allowed it to last week after his brilliant suc-develop naturally and that is cesses al
Santry
Stadium he
Montal barrier
.
"Don't let's talk about recurds.
I am trying to avoid a mental
O barrier jamming any chances 1
I might have of breaking records.
Records will fall if you are quod
Chough to beat them. I am try-
ing to build myself up to
good enotagli."
be
I paused to study this human. yowerhouse. And I'
Am con-
Yonekura loses vinced he has the make-up to
on a TKO
Monterrey, July 23. The Japanese bantamweight boxer, Kenji Yonekura, suffered his fith consecutive defeat by Mexican boxers last night wher
break that half-mile record.
Yet he might easily have been a tennis star. One of his first bcls on reaching Lordun for his recent. White Ciy race was to spend a day at Wimble- tu.
"I had racquet pushed in •
the retores stopped his fight my hands when I was five and with bantamweight Jorge have
played the game ever
Salazar here in the eighth round. since," he said. "My mother
The end came when Yonekura, and father were
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keen on the
former chinlenger for The game and I guess playing tennis world bantamweight tille, was so early helped to build bleeding badly from a cut over stamina."
the right eye. The Japanese was
Iny
When Bnei Anishes with
well behind on points at that athletics after the 1984 Olymples
nc.
Salazar is ruted the sixth best bantamweight in Mexico.-AFP,
Australian Rugby team in S. Africa
Johannesburg. July 23,
in Tokyo he will return to mere serious tennis again.
It was in January three yearş jago that he decided tennis must give way to running-ailer win- ning a half-mile junior race in 1. 64.4sec9.
"I sccined suddenly to mature for competillve running. Ax 4 kid in my home town of Te
The Australian Rugby Union Aroha (pop. 3,000), 90 miles.
team arrived here today by air S.E. Auckland, 1 used to
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Poter Snell
from Sydney, for their six-reckon that I could beat the one big reason why Snell is such match tour of South Africa, boys of my own ago at any sort a 'success today.
Busy evening
Snell can take the Ume to inside min 40secs.
-perhaps
when he visits Sweden suun for
There is every indication that the Old Trafford pitch'will · last five daya. Bert Flack, the groundsman, has given it a thorough preparation and today Mr Geoffrey Howard, the Lancashire Secretory gnid it was a beauty and anyone with апу pretensions of batting should moko rúns.
"Only a calamity or heavy rain can spili K,” he added.
England's team will be chosen from the following 13 players:
P. B. H. May (Captain). D.
Close, M. C. Cowdrey, È. R.
Laget Norman
TOO
OLD AT
Yardley
40? NONSENSE!
Just look who's leading the averages
With "old man" Bill Alley, at 42, setting a hot batting pace, the Test series neatly balanced, and the Championship race settling to an exciting three-horse affair among Yorkshire, Middlesex and Hampshire, this season is now entering its most exciting stage.
I mention Bill Alley first because this tough Australian left-hander, who is doing such splendid things for Somerset, is pushing through as "the personality of the season. Already, he has hit one double cen-
tury and five other hundreds.
how
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the
He is away ahead of every- I confess that I was shocked | strength for the last long push bodybody else in the chase for to sce
Australians when bowlers, especially, are 2,000 runs and, as I write, resta broke down in the last Test and beginning to' tire. regally at the top of the Arst-I still say they
far more violently
class averages.
win
I still rate Middlesex, as York- disintegrated
than that shire's most serious challenger. Repeatedly, I am hearing Headingley plich. I think that I may be wrong, but I don't think argumente suggesting that this England can now
the Hampshire have enough bowling
power" to "pull them through. "Indian sumuner" of 'suvcess [Berles, can't last for the sturdy If the Old Trafford pitch is Somerant player. Not at 42, as good as everybody expects they say.
it to be after all the fuss of Lord's and Leeds, 1 would be in favour of England dropping batsman and bringing in an extra bowler for this fourth Test
Easy money
What nonsense! It is only in these days of easy money in crieket that "too old ht 40 hos become the accepted thing.
I seem to remember that Jack Hobbs mode nearly half of his amazing tally of 187 drsticlass centuries after he had turned And no was still playing for Surray unti he was 52."
40.
Lucky Middlesex
Yorkshire's main problems will come when Truemah is away for the last two Tents. It filingworth keeps bowling well, he might be taken too.
this Middlesex are lucky In On a good wicket it will be
task to get Agigantic
the direction. They sacrifice only Australians, so I think England their wicket-keeper, Murray, for will need an extra bowler on Test duly, hand to deal with the. job. young instead of bringing Barry Knight or David Smith aloux to watch, this could be the time to play them,
Extra bowler
As was proved at Headingley, the bowler Trueman is twice
On
Log-spinner Ian Bedford ta leading the aldo well and they seem to have knit into a very useful team. No single individual seems to be pull- Ing them through, but they always seem to be finding somebody to rise to whatever an occasion demanda. That makes tham desperately
Allen, K. Barrington, D. E Dexter, J. Flavell, GR. Lock, Johnny Clay and, 1 think, Phil when kept fresh by being used
also going strong in short bursts. So is Statham, dimcult to beat, T Murray, C. Puilar, J. B
good wicket the need to keep them fresh will be
But I haven't lost faith in
They doubly important. So I would Yorkshire.
are pretty plump for the cxtru stock good. finishers. bowler.
5.
Statham, R. Subba Row and 7. Mall Trueman, China Special.
BARTZEN, MISS BUDING WIN
U.S. CLAY
the Anal stage of his world tour. COURT TITLES
At home he has to fit his daily
training routine round his jub
as a quantity surveyor.”
Chicago. July 23. Bernard (Tut) Bartzen of
Clay
"I leave work at Ave each | Dallas, Texas, today won his evening and manage to start my fourth U.S. National intensive training schedules Courts Tennis Championship by about an hour later. By the defeating Don Dell of Bethesda, time I am through there is not | Maryland, 6-2, 2-0, 6-2, 6-0. much lett of the day because I
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nun a stickler for being in bed by Edda Buding of Germany won the women's singles title by defeating Karen Lantze of the US in the final by 0-4, 2-8, 0-4.
"To be a top-class athlete you must have plenty of rest. There's time for girl friends or dancing.
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This was the first foreign victory in the women's singles of this tournament since Magdo Rurne won the title twice 10 1940 and 1949.
"A lot of sacrlices have to be made to stay at the top in sport. I've time only for my job and my running al the mument today Chuck". McKinley' and nothing else.",
In the men's doubles Ana?
Donais Ralston, beat Ramsey
The women's doubles title
And he added: "I look at it Earhart and Marty Riessam this way. I'm only young once, 0-3, 6-4, 6-2. and I can't run when I'm old.
to Justina Brická and But the more conscientiously I went train when I'm young the faster Carole Hanks, who beat Donno maybe I can get. I enjoy it and Lloyd and Belmar Gunderson the success that comes with my 6-3, 6-2--AFP. efforts."
No new aim
When he retires and goes back
to tennis it will not be with ́an ambition to become a world elar
in a new sport,
"I am young enough now to take the strain of being at the top," he says, "But I wouldn't want to go through
again In another sport.
all avor
"I shall much prefer building
| my own bungalow in New Zeb-
land and incorporating in it all
the Ideas I have collected during
The Australiana" programme of run over hitis and dales of Before that 1800 season was my tour of the United States and includes two "Tesis."—Reuter,
up and down ladders.
THE GAMBOLS.
SURE YOU
„DON'T MIND?
through
he had run the half-{Europe."
Barry Appleby
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Frank Woolley was also hit ting hundreds for Kent until he TVDs 50. Wilfred Rhodes was even called back into the Eng- land team at 49. Tym Goddard,
Mend, were unli they reached their halt centuries.
So I'm not among those who expect to see Bill Alley My Auddenly toss his form. betting is that he will still be in the top half dozen when
qui. the final averages come And good luck to him.
Fought back
The other vidster. I would like to pay special tribute to is Surrey's Bernard Constable. At 45, Bernard is away up with the leaders of the batting averages and he is hitting the ball as well as over in lits ex- cellent career.
I refer to him particularly because this is his come-back penson after having his right removed kace cap completely last year.
The operation took him out of the
season game for the
carcer and many thought his
was finished, But he has fought back magnificently and looks good for quite a few His has been a more seasons. One effort.
Another outstanding per- formance by one of the older brigade has been that of Worcestershire's John Flagell.
ho was a young téar-away bowler who bowled too many far too short.
aeries.
the
The Championship race is A lot of people reckon, that even more open than the Test bowlers wih Champlonaalps. As
It looks three-horse I write, two Yorkshiremen affair aniong Yorkshire, Illingworth and Trueman --- Middlesex and Hampshire, top the Bral-class averages. I Clearly, the winner will be could be significant.
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GERMAN GRAND PRIX
Innes Ireland wins
sports car race
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in close finish
Death mars motor-cycling event
Stuttgart, July 28, 20
When I played sainst John, Innes Ireland, in a Lotus, today won the German Grand Prix Formula One sports car race at the Sulitude Track by only a few feet from Joachim Bonnier, Sweden, in a Porsche. Ireland, of Great Britain, † 1:41.22.5, – averaging 189.9 kph passed Bonmler in the home (104.9 mph). stretch of the last lap of i
Fith was Ruelling duct that had Bonnier
This year, In his twelfth tea- eon, he has cut his run, curbed his pace a little, found a good Jength at last, and has positively streaked away to the first 100 wickets of the season.
Young prospects
A good performance indeed, A lot of hard thinking and hard work has gone Into the change.
The outstanding youngsters [of the tenson must include young Gifford, the Worcester- chiro slow feft-hand bowler, who has already token more than 70 wickets ari got him- Bet on the short-lat for the winter tour of India,
Yorkshire's
Jefl- surprise hadder Gilbouley ́ ́ must nied
Brabham in a
In the lead only in the next-to-Cooper with a time of 1:41:02.2, last lap. Ireland bad led by a 108.1 kph (104.4 mph). nemall margin through most of" Sifrling Moss, driving a the race.
privately entered Lotus was Ireland's winning overait driving in the middle of the time was 1 hour 1 minutes | field throughout the rice whep out 4.0 seconds for the 250-kilo-engine trouble forced him miċire` (175-mile) race at an in the 22nd lop. average speed of 169.4 kilo- inetres per hour (198.29 mpb). Bonnier's time was 1142:04:7 xt
spoof of 189.4 kph (105.26| imph).
Lod most of way
Ireland,
́driving a "factory
come Into account. Pitched Lotus, took the lead in the drst straight into first-class erlikét láp, and bold it throughout the when Don Wilson broke a bone race except in the 11th and 24th in his wrist, the" 14-your-old | laps,
Gilhoujoy at ONED KOP KUTOK Shortly before the halfway the wickets and, with amp mark Ireland was temporarily thing like 50 to his name in forced from the lead position by two mpatha,de in the top world champion Jack Brabham,
three or
Crashod
Nine of the 17 drivers who [started, finished the race.
today
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Ja other rents Biodesia's Tim "&diman had no irenbió” besildg "Ha' com- pelitors in the 230 86 motor- £ycle 12.jipevens Hding Japanese Honda. Tie wih en storsge speed of .144.92 *ph" (92.3 mph).
The event was marred by the death of German racer Michael
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four of his averages who was drivind Hell who crashed in a dangerous. factory Cooper, but ireland to curve. He died of a skull frac- of the young basemen gained the lead in the next lapture, race officials reported. rate the "Paynbridge, UniýWEA sily Born Craig und.' Fisca
The 600 op aide car race was
American Dan Gurney came
ley se shy be have high, in third. He turnst in a now won lyg world clamilopt Deus Brearley. I believe, could record of 2nd minutes at bel and Hoerner, Gerinkly, on climb to England, dians every bit of 1/2 kph (100.3 BMW. They used the finish ar quickly to Poter May Colts). The previous record, of line in 44:59:4,4p the eight-lip Cowdrey Mill Dravid Sheppari 187-400 kph (106)] mph), was event at - ipges of 125kin koli ild Before him. The chhot by German Counterthe (09.01 mph).
Von Trips in a Bergari last vent. there all right. And he Keeps 10
A formula junlór event was wiekat too,
tower Edurner's overalt. Einje vas won by Britain's Trevor Taylor,
series, and who wil take that 760-5 kph (1043 mal),20 18 lupa in satina mimiked AL DIS Champlonship?. It couldn't be a 27quelii wes Bruno, Maclaren, | average sowed pt (977) kph (17.09 more. Intriguliig altuntia. Now Zealand, in a Cooper with impliAP
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