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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1961.

SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT

Colony boxing experts do us proud in Big Quiz eliminator

By I. M. MacTAVISH

Boxing, so frequently associated with thick ears, flattened noses, bruises and cuts, produced a real eye-opener of a different kind this week.

Maybe you have read the story of the person who travelled the world searching for a 'blue bird' only to fail until he return- ed to his starting point and found it right there in his own backyard.

Even if you have never rend

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When all the points Wedn These will surely make 3 Leture I'm sure you will get eiseeket four contestants qual think. Now....no peeping.... her for the competition proper, inter- foestige. Louisely

on Tuesday Anit Wednesday preted it means it's surprising

next week..... and, as they are available in your what

ORANTE

of assured

handsome Tittle World if only you take the

prizes, including the ne cubic to look Tar it.'

who will earn EL glorious all ex- How

That 13. On

penses paid trip to Melbourne, Wednesday I was present in the

it seems to me the boxing re- Redidon

studio: enrd loks Televiston

will get quite 1 when a gcup of The Colony's borking this weekend. spcrtion entrumgesty leok part The oversmas rections of thei in the local clintator for the

Coles £3.080 Quiz' are being held internationally in London, New York, Parts, Home, Tokyo, Honolulu and Hongkong

with

great international competition Coles £3,000 Quiz",

Qualifiers

The wealth of fistle know- ledge revealed by the con. Irslapis

was indeed I thought I knew my opener. boxing history but the per-

An eye

up by

formances ut

the Hongkong hopefuls were sim-

the wrand finals scheduled for a 1 gigantic

Jelevision show dri Autalis early next year.

The nat Colony representa- tive will come from the follow- list of competitors Ing

who emerged successful from the eliminators:

* * Football is without question Hongkong's most popular sport. It provides enter- tainment albeit fre- quently controversial- for a big cross section of the public and active recreation for large number of participants whose qualifications to play the game vary from top class skill and talent i

nothing more than enthusiasm and a healthy desire to be in football. Whatever his ability and whatever his status every play- er in the game deserves one prompt, reliable, skill-

fo

ply superli It was a great SY Sergeant P. W. Harris thing pily any of the partielpants of the Army, Geoff Fawcett, ed had to suffer the knock-out:1white secretary of the Hong- | Hiên

blow....bu

chen, that Іл thr fradition

NEW!

bronztan

of

The

kong Amateur

Boxing Asso- cial:on. MA.A. Ribolla, Scotsman from Edinburgh, and Hoy Oakes, a member of Public Works Department who look part almost as an after- | thought and who inciden-

tally just edged

Bill

Try these

case

and sympathelle alten-

if he is injured.

'Shooed' off

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FOOTBALLER WITH

FAMILY FAN

ON.

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for the agent day Lazarus family when young Mark

for Lazarus played Wolverhampton Wanderers against Birmingham City at The Birmingham recently, Lazarus family went along to cheer him

In coach. All 34 of them. For Mark is the twelth child ut Mr and Mrs Harry Lazarus,

the and when enach arrived at their home in Chadwell Heath, Essex, there were sons, daughters, and grandch#dren—a coach- load i fack-wailing to climb in. Even Rosle, the old-

BIGGEST

THE

CLUB

est daughter, who was work- Ing on Saturday, couldn't let them go without

wave from the factory window. Rolling up the M1 highway to

the Birminghan..

family debated where Mark rot hts sporting Instinct from. "Me," said Dad, "I was

carts champion."

"What about my dad,"

Mum, "he

Harry Was Salomons, the old barefist boxer." They settled for a draw. After all, with Mark's older brothers Harry and Lew

Lazar famous pro- fessional boxers, the skill

has been spread around the family a bit.

And when Mark scored one

of Wolves' nix goals (they won, G-3), one could hear the

cheer Lazarus family above the roar of 30,000 spectators,

Photo shown the Lazarus family of foolball fans pre- pare to board their coach 34 of them to go and cheer young Mark Lazarus. Inset: the family high-spot of the afternoon at Birmingham Mark (teft, going down) scores for Wolves,--London Express photo.

Royal Hongkong Jockey Club, Although a few details still On Sunday, October 22, the remain të be finalised the main facilities of the public grand-programime

to be now scerns stands at Happy Valley, will quite firm. The tour will open be used by the SPCA for a with the Club contingent in the Pel Show.

Hongkong party meeting one of to find that the It is reassuring

sides on stron Ch even at a time when the sea-

November 18 and this will be son's organising problems must followed two days later by the be at their height the Stewards Sign-Hongkong Interport. ot the Jockey Club can still answer the charily calls of such a worthy organisation.

The tourists then move on to

Bangkok and open their schedule

TODAY'S UK SOCCER