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CHINA'S OLYMPIC SOCCER TEAM

Selectors Emphasis Will Be On Youth

AUSTRALIAN TOUR POSTPONED

China's football team for the Olympic Games was selected at a meeting this morning of the. Chinese National Amateur Athletic Federation's Olympic Football Selection Committee. The names of the players selected are to be made public this evehing.

Eighteen players were picked, four fewer than were chosen for China's Olympic Team at Berlin in 1936. They will be accompanied by manager, Dr Yung Chi-chao, of Shanghai, and -coach,Mr-Loo-Wai-tong,-who-captained-China's-

soccer squad at Berlin.

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Dr Yung stated yesterday in interview that emphasis in the selec tion would be placed on younger that players. "I doubt very much

we will have more than two players on the team who are over 30 years of

BEC he sald

The nucleus of the team is to be Ilongkong players. composed of Shanghai and Malaya are almost cer-. tain of representation and

is pus- sible that Jaya may be represented, Dr Yung said.

Selection of the team was left

the hands of a committee appointed by the Bourd of Directory of the Chinese National Amateur Athletic Federation.

Choy

THE SELECTORS Named as selectors were Dr C. C. Yung (Chairman), Mr Lee Wai-tong, Mr Wong Ku-tsun, former Chairman of the Hongkong Football Associa tion. Mr A Hoe, founder of the Sing Too Sports Club, Mr Wal-hung, Chairman of the Hong- kong branch of the CNAAF, Mr Mok Hing, South China representative on the Football Council, and Mr Yu Hang-chi, former manager of

the Shanghai Interport football team. Present at the meeting was Dr T. Wang, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the CNAAP and Chine's chicf

delegate to the Olympic

Games,

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The Olympic Football Team's lour of Australin, New Zealand and South America is now definitely off until afier the London Games. Dr Yuvr Gaid.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1948.

Swedish badminton champion, Conny Jepson, makes a return try with his back to the net during a tournament in London. He batted the shuttlecock through his legs without.

looking at the net.

BADMINTON.

Fixture List For Colony Tourney

Oliveira & J. J. Remedios,

The following is the fixtureTS. Young & W. F. Foo v M. list for the first and second round of the Colony Open Bad- minton Championships:

MONDAY, APR. 12

At Kowloon Cricket Club: 7.30 p.m. (Junior Men's Singles) A. Bayot v. J. Kempton.

8.00 p.m. (Junior Men's Doubles) P. Lo & K. M. Lee v. M. Verleysen & A. J. Gonsalves.

8.30 p.m. (Senior Men's Doubles) J. C. Koh & C. P. Lim v. R. Tay & P. K. Hul.

9.00 am. (Junior Men's Doubles) H. J. Xavier & R. A. Xavier v. W. Lawrence & C. Quinn.

9.30 p.m. (Junior Men's Singles) D C. Lau v. W. C. Chung.

TUESDAY, APR. 13

At Club de Recreio: 7.30 D.in. (Junior Men's Singles) C.H. Ngan V. Thong Ko Sing.

8.00 p.m. (Senor Men's Doubles) P.H. Wong & C. Au v. S. Saul & W. Gillies.

8.30 pm, (Senior Men's Singles) P. K. Hui v. S. Ampilavannr.

8,00

0.m. (Mixed Doubles) Young & Miss U. Khoo Fisher & Mrs. Tamworth.

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V. A. I

9.30 p.m. (Junior Men's Singles) R. Lapsley v. T. H. Choo.

WEDNESDAY, APR. 14

At Kowloon Cricket Club 7.30 b.in. (Junior Men's Singles) N. A. Beltrao

v K. Y. Tam.

Paris, Apr. 5-A motion by Mr Stanley Hous, Secretary of the The South Amerleun tour is almost English Football Association, that a certain to be cancelled due to the player definitely injured in the first lack of a direct air link between Newhalf in international matches may Zeninnd and South America and the be changed, and that the goalkeeper. prohibitive cost of chartering

if injured, may be replaced ле any plane.

me during the game, was readily seconded by the

nm. Junior Men's Doubles! A. Football To & K. F. Chiu & A. J. Remedios & French Federation at today's meeting of the T. Rodrigues. Referees Commitice of the FIFA 8.30 nm (Senior Men's Doubles) International Football Federation). IL F. Gonsalves & P. A. Yvanovich

v Low Keat Soo & S. Amplavanar.

0 p.m. (Mixed Doubles) J. Kempton & Miss Millard v P. H.

Instead a tour has been arranged for the team on its way to Lonton that calls for matches at Manila, Bangkok, Saigon, Singapore. Penung Rangoon and Calcutta,

CHINA'S OTHER BIDS

Mr Rous also moved that Law XII, which dcala with the faults In addition to soccer, Ching way for which a player may be penalised, be represented at the London Olym- should be simplfied so that it could pics in three other sports. These are be understood by every international basketball, athletics, ani swimming player. This motion was placed on Dr Yung, who is a member of the the agenda for discussion at the General Board of Selectors, sald yes next International Congress-Reuter. terday that representatives in

the

three other sports would not be selected until the end of the National Sports Meet in Shanghal. This will be held between May 3 and May

Decision to. participate in the Olympic Games was reached a year ago. At the meeting then held it was decided that China would not send any crack and field athletes or swimmers to London who did no

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HOME FOOTBALL

Woud & Miss M. Ribeiro.

9.30 p.m. (Senior Men's Doubles) T.

MCC Tour Averages

THURSDAY, APR. 15

A.

At Victoria Recreation Club: 7.30 p.m. (Junior Men's Singles). Thong Kuo Sin v. W. K. Ying.

8,00 p.m. (Senior Men's Singles) Low Kent Soo y R. Young.

8.30

p.m. (Mixed Doubles) H. F. Gonsalves & Mira C. Rodrigues v. W. Gillies & Mrs Ankerson.

9.00 p.m. (Junior Men's Singles) P. L. S. Wong v. S. Saul.

0.30 p.m. (Junior Men's Doubles) M. C. Hung &C. H. Ngan v. D. C. Lau & K. Y. Tam.

FRIDAY, APR. 16

Jamaican No Longer

A Cinch

When Australians watched the Jamaican flash, Herb McKenley, world-record, hölder Ip tho quarter mile run, beaten ihto second place at Melbourne in the Australian Champion- ships in Januliry they were" watching-one of the fastest quarter miles of all time.

It was the second, time in two years that McKenley had run 'second In the quarter. In August, 1940, he had been beaten In The Amerienh Nationals by Elmore Jersey negro, since

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*a 'pro- and tils ineligible for the Olympic Games.

fessional basketball Now

The Melbourne race was run on 01 patchy and bumpy track againal a cross-wind. The Victorian, John Bartram's time of 48.4 seconds Ini

Jane

under was good

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Dons for two seconds

less. Ho may well be remrded as the likeliest man to pip McKenley once more at London, but for an other runner in the race-iß-year=" old Morris Curota.

Curotta, who had a few weeks carller set a new Australian record for the distance of 48 seconds fint, had the race well in hand when he collapsed exhausted five yards from the line.

The Sydney schoolboy recovered sumclently to improve on his own Australian record

47.3 with a seconds performance in the New

Championship

South

Wales

Sydney a week Inter,

GOOD FOR MANY YEARS

Conditions in the Sydney meet _were_a_good deal better... but the opposition was not in the same class. Curotta nt 18 looks good for three. Olympiads to come. That is. he does not burn himself out. Ife would do well to develop him- self on the line taken by. Treloar and Bartram who have progressed to top-class standard at an easy pace and are unlikely to be burnt out for some time to come.

Bartram was content to take his hept in 51.7

seca, a very slow time. McKenley took his heat in 50.5. Curotta qualified in 50.2 seconds, isiceessarily fast going with a big final in the offing.

By the time the London Games

come around .We are not unlikely

to see a very much burnt out Mc- Kenley. The Australian Irip, a tough indoor season, in which he has coming George been beaten once by the up-and- "Gulda, and a long collegiate season ahead in America are a gruelling combination sum- cient to burn out anyone.

AL. Hongkong University 7.30 p.m. (Junior Men's Doubles) A. D. Brown BOXING & J. A. Soares v. W. C. Chung & S. II. Leung.

(Senior Men's Singles) GRAZIANO IN

0.00 p.m. W. F. Foo V. W.

11.30

8.30 p.m.

R. Tay v. S.

0.30 p.m.

(Senior Men's Singles) Saul.

(Junior Men's Doubles) J. A. Molta & R. M. Soares v. A. Bayot & F. M. Ribeiro.

0.30 p.m. (Junior Men's Singles) A. L. Fisher v. M. Kempton. COLONY CHESS.

Carvalho

In Final

J. P. de-Carvalho has qualified for the final of the Colony Open Chess Champlonship as a result; of a win over A. Biriukoff in the postponed game from the third round of the preliminary tournament.

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DOLLAR FIGHT

Washington, Apr. 5.--Win, lose or draw, the World middle- weight boxing champion, Rocky | Graziano will receive exactly $1.00 for his ten round non title bout with Sonny Horne on Sunday night.

Graziano is turning over the rest about of his purse expected to be $15,000 to charity.

Rocky had been offereti a reported $120,000 to defend his title against the former champion Tony Zale on June 9.–Associated Press.

DECISION BOOED London, Apr. 5.-Prolonged boos

greeted the referee's decision in favour of Billy Thompson, the British lightweight champion, when he was awarded a points verdict over Andre Gonnet, of France, at the end of ten rounds of hard fighting.

Thompson was warned for holding

the fourth round,

bad cut over his left aye, which put

game, played during the week-end, was a Queen's Gambit Thompson appeared to have just Declined, Carvalho having the while earned the verdlet after having pleces Play was even throughout bad time of it in the early rounds. though Carvalho held a pawn ad- He was down for a count of eight vantage from an early stage, later in the second round from n perfect left hook to the jaw and in the third London, Apr. 5.The following London, Apr. 6-Len Hutton, increasing it to two.

Beside qualifying for the final round took two counts of nine from were the results of football matches Yorkshire opening hat, who only tournament, Carvalho managed to

similar blows. played today:

joined the MCC touring team dish ohead of three players who Wanderers 1.

.First. Division: Blackpool 1, Bolton half way through the West were, on paper, all ranked above and told to keep his punches up in'

Indies tour in response to G. 0.lm.

From the sixth round onwards, Final standings in the qualifying Thompson gained the ascendaney, Second Division: Leicester City 4. Allen's urgent request for un-in return a performance at the National Barnsley 1, Sheffield Wednesday 2 other player, carried off the son which he emerges as a

finalist ure:

and in the eighth Connet suffered a Meet that would have been good Doncaster Rovers enough in Berlin to qualify them for Hotspur 0, Luton Town 1.

6. Tottenham batting honours of the tour, J. P. de Carvalho 3; Eugene Tausz

him at a big disadvantage. üze final.

Third Division (Southern): Crys-, while Jim Laker, Surrey's off and R. C. Danenberg 24; A. Biriu-

In another contest, Mark Hart, of Thus, to quality on China's teamtal Palace 4, Bristol City 0:

breaker, was the best bowler,

August Briedis 0.

Croydon, beat the British Empire Carvalho joins three other players middleweight in the 100 metres a sprinter will have

Hutton topped the batting

champion, Bos to return Ume of 10.7 seconds. Third Division (Northern): Mans-averages for all matches, including in the final. They are F. X. Sequeira, Murphy, of New Zealand, on points This is equivalent to the slowest feld Town 1. Stockport County 2.

L. Schure Tests, with 04.22, while Laker had

and P. K. Prokopov. Two over eight rounds-Reuter. qualifying lime for the "Gnal of the Scottish "B" Division. Supple-the best average among bowlers

other finalists will be decided from 100 metres at Berlin.

mentary Cup, First Round:-Ralth with 27.03

play-off between K. M. A Barnett WELTERWEIGHT MATCH Rovers 1, Albion Rovers 2. Leith THIRD TIME

Rome. Apr. 5-lannilli, Jack Robertson, of Middlesex, with and Arthur Comes, joint runners up China will be taking part at Lon- Athletic 2, Cowdenbeath 2-Reuter an average of 65.71 heads England's In Group "C" and Tausz and Danen- Italy's best welterweights will fight berg, Joint runners up in Group "A". Englishman Stan Hawthorne. In don in her third Olympic Games. Her

batting for the Tests

A meeting of the Colony Commenting on the strength of

Open Glasgow on April 14, the Italian Olympics Arst participation in the was at Los Angeles In 1032 when

the West Indies

Chess Championship Committee, to Boxing Federation announced today. side; Mr Allca, England's captain. said that they be held to-morrow evening, will de Iannill is a contender for the she rent a single sprinter, Liu Chong

possessed, a really good combination, cide upon the number of games for vacant Italian welterweight title.-

the play-off.

Associated Press. while the bowling had been better than was anticipated-Reuter,

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HOME RUGGER

London, Apr. 5-The following were the results of rugger games played today: At Berlin the Chinese team, with officials, numbered 120. China took 20, Salford 3. Workington Town 0. Rugby Lengue: Belle Vue Rangers part that year in seven Olympic Wigan 6, Hull Kingston Rovers 0, sports-football, basketball, athletics, Keighley 4. swimming. Boxing," zyélni!” and1

weight-lifting. - Also sent to Berlin Rugby Union: Cross Keys 0. was a team that gave an exhibition | Aberavon 0, Penzance and Newlyn 0, of Chinese boxing..

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