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Trying To Win Snooker Championship

·Doesn't Pay

BY ARCHIE QUICK

Although this is the silly scason for snoolier and bil-

liards, professionally, the newly formed Players' Asso

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1947.

SPORTS FEATURES

Sports Amazons Are Also Very Feminine

ciation keeps active during NOTABLE HURDLER IS SOCIETY BEAUTY

the summer. It is good news to learn that it is to attempt to revive the defunct billiardz championship, and I under- stand a new rule is to be intro- duced,', sponsored. by Sidney Smith, whereby the ball must be played from hand in the D every 100 shots,

This will have the effect of 're- ducing the unspectacular top-of-1.. the-table and close cannon play, for once a player has gained these uninteresting formationis he has soon to break position to get back| to the D.

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(BY RECORDER)

There are some women who dislike undue roforence to the "gentle sex” and as a result we have our Amy Johnsons, Amolia Earharts and Mildred Didriksons. The revolt against the proscribed "gentle touch that tradition associates with femininity produces much that is Amazonian and much; also, that remains surprisingly feminino oven to an ultra-femininity.

At Amsterdam in 1928 the bewhiskered old-timers of the Olympic Com- mittee watched a German girl, Lina Radke, collapse across the finishing line as with Teutonic determination she annexed the women's 800 metres run crown. After Fraulein Radke at Amsterdam the Olympic Committee decided that the 800 metres was a near-homicidal event for the tomboys and washed it off the Olympic programme.

The Professional Players' As- sociation là niso going to' try to' force the hand of the Control

There are other events. how | New York Social Register for Counell and get rules and regula-| tons passed in order to put the over, yet open to the mazen. 1947. present farcical World Snooker] The greatest Amazon of them all Championship on a proper basis. probably Mildred "Babe"

The professionals are deter Didrikson, the

Texas drug-store mined that hever again will the clerk, who at Los Angeles in 1932 final he held over until another

records for the 80 season as this year. As one pro. set world fessional put it to me: players are metres hurdles, the javelin throw, now appearing in the event with- and tied for first in the out wages.

jump only to lose in the of.

GUARANTEES WANTED What happens now is that they pay a big entrance fee for the

Athletic

Basketball Champions Beaten

Action picture taken during the basketball match between the visiting Qwan Slag team, and South China Athletic, in which the Colony's champions were beaten 14 to 26 at Caroline Hill. Golden Studio.

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Chiefs Offer Glory -But At Your Own

BY PAUL IRWIN

Risk

If an athlete breaks a leg-or his neck-while representing England at an International track meeting, well, it is just too bad for the athlete...

Mlas Cowperthwaite is Л11 heiress to part of a furniture and insurance fortune. She graduated from the very select Misa Porter's School, which, in later years, was besieged by anxious re- porters who outrageously wanted high

to know if Miss Porter's School jump-ran a track team. She is not yet

in the Didrikson-Valin class as high hurdler, 'showing only 12. Earlier the "Babe", who in seconds flat to the former's 11.6, tudos of appearing and with little circa-1932 photos looked like an but she his the rotogravure hope of winning, except for the overgrown-bobby-soxer—who sports page as often as the other

Why? Because the Amateur Athletic Association will did with select few, and most of the pro- wouldn't be kept out off the back-two

'n pale flaming have no part of the doctor's bills, hospital expenses, or coeds going to the promoting hall.

baseball game,

won the blonde beauty that looks nifty

money worries certain to arise through loss of work. yard What the players are asking for

over a hurdle. She is in training hurdles, high jump. shot put. for London and has been All the headaches belong to the Jan A.A.A.' spokesman.. "We have are better guarantees.

hurdles And this year whoever wins javelin and baseball throws at the American

champion patient. He preserves his amateur no liability since they are in no way titlo out of Walter American National

AAU Chomsince 1943. She is also good at status, always so jealously regarded employees of the association."

by our athletic, chief, even to the

Even so, my advices are that the Donaldson and Fred Davis will pionshiva.

the funeral costs. hold it only a few months.

tion of Insurance now that many of It has been arranged that this

their teams travel to the Continent postponed event shall take place

by air. in October, but my best advice is that it will not take place unt November because Fred wants to get practice in public before the nctual title match.

Horace Lindrum is due from South Africa but he is geing im mediately to Australia with his mother to see to their businesses there, and will

then return to England in time for the start of the winter season.

Jon Davis returns from South Africa in September and is going to have a big say in the adminis trative side of the game.

The Donaldson-Davis match will take place at the renovated Thur- stons- Hall, Leicester Square which has a enpacity of only 1.170 compared with 1,500 at the Royal Horticultural Hall last time.

legend must be

to

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the high jump, broad lump, the point where his relatives may pay | AAA are worried over this ques- the. nceldents? I wouldn't know,

sprints up to 220 yards, and has at home 60 medals in a shoebox.

She drives three cars and files a plane.

a

20-yard

The A.A.A. could make a grant out of the great goodness of their hearts, but there is nothing in the rules to bind them.

life. Cheeseparing Not on your down to the last penny, they will not even shoulder the financial bur-

dep-relatively small though it is-of

insuring athletes against injury, or

worse.

CYNICAL OUTLOOK

It is completely cynical outlook quite unworthy of British sport.

Manchester Expects Big Football Season

BY ARCHIE QUICK.

Chief. conversation at the Old Trafford Test match, was": not cricket, but football.

Manchester is waiting with the keca anticipation, to the renewal of rivalry batween the City and the United now that the former

are back in the First Division.

With tho United's ground. bomb-wrecked they will continue to use the same plioh. on alternato Saturdays, the United paying the City £3,000 rent as against £2,000 Inst year..

There is. Ittle hopo of the United's ground being put In order for some considerable time yet. War damagė computation amounts to £93,000; but it will. cost a lot more than that to erect A new grandstand.

I understand that first favourite for the vacant City managèrship Is Mr. David Steele, English in- ternational who recently quilted a similar position with Huddern- field Town. The post is worth £2,000 a year..

GREAT STRUGGLE

With the City in phenomenal promotion form last season and' the United finishing runners-up to Liverpool, there is every prospect of a great struggle between these two clubs to ece who anlahes higher this coming season.

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Goalkeeper Frank Swift, visit- Roller speedway is tough and 1ough.

Casualties to date include in the Test match to see Denis holiday in Oneida Reynolds (broken ankle). Compton prior to a Dorothy Rocco (broken collarbone) Ireland, told me the City are not and Bob Clark (leg fractured in three diving into the transfer market, mention smashed but wlli rely in, the, main on the places), not noses, ribs and fingers.

team that did so well in Division 2. plus Clarke, the costly Cardiff Do the customers go along to see City outside right.

Over at Bolton they are prepar but I have my suspicions.

Three thousand of our best racinging to pay heavily for the right. pigeons took the air at Bordeaux players after the past season's recently to start the National Flying disappointing show, but Black- the King burn have finished spending and Club's race for one of

feel that with the now players George V. Challenge Cups,

captured at the tail end of lust season, the team's form Improved enough to warrant well this year.

One Interesting point is that Lancashire

in. representation Division 2, as a result of Man- chester City and Barnley gaining promotion, is now only one-Bury.

They were taken by airplane to France, but for some of them were Journeys of 400 miles to home lofts

.

The Bube, if confounded, wasn't a bad-looking girl. In her younger days she had an inclination to muscularity If the Olympic Committee had

Unfortunately, the worry is all on their own

account. Unwilling and had not yet developed any Imagination at all they would clothes-sense. To-day,

to foot the insurance bill for a cargo na Mrs. set as the main event at London George Zaharias and as the first a special hurdles handicap as the

of men of muscle, they are toying attraction with Mias

with the idea of drawing up a rider to the rules to show the athlete Cowperthwaite given American woman in many years prize

under their own "power." to take the British Women's Golf start and the first man to cac

pretty clearly that he runs, jumps or throws javelins at his own risk.

There are five King George V. attractive enough her a genuine Tarzanic prize. It Open, she is

Inside Information is this. The

to mark the has and may probably yet hit's full would depend, of course, on Miss

performer, who devoted time trophies presented page portrait_in' “Vogue."

Cowperthwaites amenability to

and trouble to the job of getting Royal Family's interest in pigeon the idea. Hurdling, since Mias

Back in 1000 the National himself into international

clase, racing.

Club's race was won by King Cowperthwaite entered the lists, Or is it?.

may be asked to sign absolving the A.A.A. from all liabi-Edward VII, then Prince of Wales. Who's winner this time? It takes has got faster and faster. There

Association ofcials don't seem to lity if he should suffer injury.

time to find out the result is are nearly 30 boys this season,!

this way, since they admit coming far

wide from think

The athletes are asked

worked on average speed after the Flemish hamlets and Missouri without a blush that they have no

pigeons are If they want

"clocked in" at their insurance cover on their teams nor the baby.

then they can backwaters, who have done 14:0 do they contemplate arranging any. cover,

lofts all over the country,, a fow seconds or better. Just

"Members of our teams are invi- premjums themselves. that WAS મ worldted to international meetings and years ago

appear of their own free will says the AA. R on their sweet way It is as easy as that. Meanwhile, record.

and quite blind to their grave re- sponsibilities. It isn't good enough. And I It never was good enough. say there must be a change of policy. before the Olymple Games along.

MANY EXCEPTIONS Indeed, it is difficult to decido finally whether women in athletics are brutish in

appearance as a rule. There are so many excep- tions. A prize camera study that emanated out of the Berlin Olym- piad in 1936 was a close up of Forrest Towns, the high hurdles champ, and Trebisonda Valla of Italy, the women's hurdling champ. Signorina Valla was a very attractive number.

However, the Amazonlan paralle in Berlin thut disposed of the

medals con- | discus and javelin aisted of a hard-faced set of Teutonic and Central European madchens of an appearance that later taunted concentration camp' internees in the gas-chamber era

and

When Johnny Came Sailing.

Home-To Maesteg

(BY ERIC WRIGHT)

¡ANY a scandalised whisper was heard coasting around when MANY a sport, of the recreational, non-commercial type. The Church, they sald, was pandering to a delinquent Fifth Column, which would wreck the meaning of organised religion. I wonder why? In truth, there has, always been a strong and mutually beneficent link be tween Church and Spart. It has been casal, tested and rarely found wanting by Sunday school football leagues, church boxing clubs, eye on sections and the Uke. Two tales which come my way show you why and how.

whk cavalla accent blessing to Bunday

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a document

to hold insurance pay the

come

Anything can happen at a sports meeting, as you know. A javelin through a fool might put a boy, on his back for montas, resting him plenty-including his job.

Booner our

This is a terrible price to, pay for glory. The

athletic bosses realise the fact the better for

everyone.

COSTS TOO HIGH That event was staged by a firm of billiards tables and accessories anufacturers, but the expense to them was so great in fitting out the hall that they will not play And the Control Council cguin. evidently have not the enterprise chance of their own. to take a Thus prices to the public will have to be pretty high, which is bad for popularising the game. Only a favoured few will be able to see this Anal.

That there is still big money in

I am all against the throwing the game for the professionals however, is demonstrated by the events for women., Trug enough, fact that Alec Brown of London

some years ago one of the screen

The first tells how Johnny Came Johnny was able to give a cheque for is out with a £250 challenge for magazines published an attrac Sailing Home-to Maester. He left £1,000 to help erect a tower at his have not played a level game with Albert Brown of tive study of shapoly Jean Parker the Glamorgon valleys just after the old church. For Johnny, you so, la since their return.

with the disc and the birth of this century, to seek a for-Johnny Beynon, boxing promoter, | other. Birmingham. Alec recently play poised

athletic tune in the United States. For long who has staged many a big-money other among ed Tommy Woods, the Southamp- | javelin ton champion £100 level and won paraphernalia. Miss Parker look it cluded him. At last ho found it. fight at San Francisco's Bowl. five frames to two after losinged cute as a button but I doubt And last summer Johnny came back that she could have thrown either the rat two.

implement far enough Not Olympic medal,

You and your

Ibu

rulings!**

SPORTING SAM

for an

comed.

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NO GIBB MYSTERY ·

Test Where Is Paul Gibb? England's the Australlan tour, he is one of the two members of the party who top-class cricket Hammond is the

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dozen

and

I TAKE BRUCE

Boxing's worst upset in years was provided when Olle Tandberg, the fair-haired Swede, outpointed Joe Bakst In Stockholm the other day.

Elther Tandberg has improved "103" per cent since he was beaten at the Albert Hall by Eddie Phillips, buck to the ring after long retire- ment, or Baiesl was a shadow of the fighter who smashed Bruce Woodcock to defent.

Whichever way you view it. I take Woodcock to lick the Swedish heavy-weight when they meet for the European title. I think Tand- berg, a very light puncher, is made lo mensure for our champion--nover mind his suspect law.

Bruce is to try out his jaw, broken In the Baksi affair, at Yeovil on August 11.

them doing

Arthur Peall says: APTER pocketing the last red the state of the score, ndard to black and pink safo near the bottom cushion, decided striker to close up the game. He did so by pinging

GREEM

groen for snooker, A4 Indi- cated on Left-of diagram. tnstead of pocketing Freck.

Btriking

cue ball freely but not too hard, he avoided the use of side when playin to run through green at the re quisito strength. The result was the snooker na shown, a good stroke of A type often needed.

310 ricochet in-off shown on rightf of diagram is made by striking cue ball hard and high as you force it on the right of red to bounce along the cushion Into the pocket, a gre abot but never one to be sure about, Hicochet cannons based on the same Keneral method of play offer a bigger And more ilkely target.

Searching For Our Next Boxing Champions

As befits that corner of England that produced Bob Fitzsimmons- and Len Harvey it is West Country heavyweight boxing that is starting new search for hope, said Archic Quick.

looking girl by Valhalla standards. iday I'll do something for you." That for what he called their "Inspira- ris, practically every one certain know only too well, but down Yeovil | spindly legs and arms and seven

but she was no Jean Parker.

was 12 months ago. The other day f the Macaleg golfers received a large parcel, postmarked "United States."

tlon."

The sole reason for Gibb's absence this he is concentrating on business, not cricket, to Maesteg,

Yorkshire could certainly do with him to stiffen their batting, but he Many a worthy organisation in My second tale tells how. Cliff fold county officials at the start of against that little Welsh town received a Britton went back to Bristol....not the season that he

Baw little tough girls. Iko: Munich's Gisela portion of that fortune without ask a famous ex-England inter-prospect of being fake for cricket Mauermeyer.

-Fraulein Matering, so the local golf club appreached national half-back, seeking applause; this year.

Yanken Johnny and candidly advisert | nor

There has been no change in the as Burnley's equally famous, in the meyer was somewhere

him that a little help would be wel-manager, seeking new players for position since. lbs. and had a vicinity of 200

his club's entry into the First Divi- Don't be surprised if chost expansion that may have

slon campaign next month. Clift or more English swimming illes started Rosenberg and Hitler on Johnny, reflecting that golf was à Britton went back to the little hail are carried across the Tweed after. their dreams

How often the trail has started-Then there is a flyweight named of

championships end at Teutonic game unknown to the miners of the of the Hanham Ebenezer Methodist the. ASA. Д

the motherhood. She wasn't

Wells, Beckett, Goddard, Scott, Peter- Weatherall, from Crewkerne, a bad-valley of his birth when he was Church, to thank the Sunday school Hastings,

grinned and said: "Maybe some teachers and Band of Hope "leaders lad,

boys Fitzen men, women,

sea, Woodcock-only to be lost, we soit image of Jimmy, Wilde with his to reach the finals, will represent the way on August 11. the tords of stones, but his timing and judgment of distance is said to be exceptional Scotush Association. It is an old- optimism will again be it. MISS COWPERTHWAITE

With him, the man who steered time border rald.

***For somo Cathle

time past trials have Another prospect in Alf James „Johnny, had "done something." | Burnley's "unknowns" Into the First

Nancy Rlach and Hitle Yet, the girls, undaunted by the it was a eft. Bin. Told-alloy trophy, Division and to Wembley Inst sea, Gibson are likely to win three or been going on sorting out the wheat from Shaftesbury; six foot tall, distaff aldo sports reporter whol

twelve stones twelve pounds, who for perpetual competition.

son, took three of his twenty inter- four championships. Peter Heatly, from the chaff until the stage is now

in his inst two flights knocked out. permits himself an occasional

national cops-the first he earned crack on angularity, at ko in Where does the Church come inte against Wales, ono against Scotland of Edinburgh, looks a good bet in set for the finals.

the springboard diving. Bert Km- Latest this? Well, Johnny has always been one against Ireland, And he heard near should be thereabouts in the 100 Royal Air Force, and Royal Navy

In these preliminaries the Army, opponents in rounds two and three, for Olymple laurels.

Appropriately this Yeovil show a sports fan, ever since his days Mlas to set America Athletic

88-year-old Mrs Jones, years yards backstroke. the Church Lads' Brigade of Macsic tender of this church group.

"Ho and

have willingly assisted in the hunt, is going to feature champions of the Hurdler St Michael's. And that golden golf agog is the "Society

Margaret

tions to find the best. In fact the only, are Joe Beckett, Jimmy Wilde, 26-year old Nancy Cowperthwaite. cup was not his biggest gift to the that they would be displayed in his Girvan and Elinor Gordon, the 14- holding their own private compati- post, present and tomorrow, for not

year-old stars, doing well in tho whose name,

have been sh. muthusiastle at and Ted Kid Lowls appearing, but, Army we are informed, town. Because his interest in sportold Sunday school, to remind Han-

senior 440. yards free-style and 200

thes pald can be found on page 164 of the hos

to lend the ring and the for the first time since the Boksi comfortable dividends, ham youngsters of the village lad

who started his football career with yards breast-stroke..

And

disaster. Bruce Woodcock is

going then their Band of Hope team.

there a

all these

e private winner into a ring and will spar an, all-out on the Motherwell school- The Bristol boy who made goodj

He can break 80secs. for 100 were when he Was got a big cheer

This is the start of the schem yards breast-stroke, a time which effect,, was semi-pubite semi-finain, the platform of will just about give him the English result of all this sorting out, not only George Harrison, and

and

on August 11 wa ure to see the pored by my Fleet Street among the envies, but, oil the of England Die "tournaments and wochis down to fly.

The Preiminaries have thrown ang to be eld in South Wales, Up East Anglia, the Home Counties, blacksmiths, are Speedway leams at Harringay are now Them from all manner of vocations. North. West, North Eust and Mid- acrallway' lands, with the grand finals, some around the saucor-liko) shunter,: on' aircraft flier, a road time next yearumtire road Juric. The point is: The Archbishop and track every night, except Sunday, glory and the money that goes with There is to be no exploitation

all anxious to win fistle. Here's whing many other thinking people know until August 30.

and I can think of no better way, for every crook, chiseller and

By the time the race is over, they it. The Aircraft atter is a light-

named frysti, big sport, will have covered some 3,000 miles, worcht Il-living racketeer in

great of sterling the final winners to their there are dozens of Johnny Beynons had one or two freo Dghts, provided promise, and the sweeper, eleven profession. than pursuing Harrison's and Cliff Brillens. We should hear a few stretcher cases, and given lots stones from Bristol, makes. light of intention of putting them to, booth more of them.

of fun to thousands of customers. a foot injured during Army service. "Nighting for a spell.

By. Reg. Wootton

In

introduced from

for

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Expect also to

that little hull. He got an, aven junior title. bigger one when ho gald "I think) it's a pity that so many sporting trophies should be exhibited in the and not in public

houseo churches.

that

Robertoqut

together for what, in exhibition to test himself.

ROLLING ALONG.

roller

European and American

rumbling

of

the West