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DAVIS CUP

RUMANIA LEADS FRANCE

IN OPENING SINGLES

defeated

Bucharest, May 2.---Viziru of · Rumania Bernard Destremnux of France in the first singles inalch of the Davis Cup Challenge Round today 6-3, 6-2, 7-5,

Kache Caralulis followed up with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 victory over Marcel Bernard to give Rumania a two to nil lead at the end of the first day's two singles matches,

One doubles anti two singles (hopefully met the bi-weekly Rome match remala, with Rumanla need-plane at Buzyno airport relumed to ing only one more victory for them Prague this afternoon with the re- to advance into the next round-port. "There wasn't a tennis player Associated Press.

SWITZERLAND

BEATS PAKISTAN

Montreux, May 2.-Pakistan fost their first round European Zone Davis Cup tie against Switzerland when Hans Hounder, the Swiss No. 1, casily beat Mahmud Alam, Pakis- tan's second siring to give Switzer- land A decisive 3-1 lend In the matches,

Hounder Leat Alam 6-1, 6-1, 6-2. Although the last singles could have no bearing on the overall re- mult, it was none the less interest- Ing and

Pakistan the

captain, Iftikhor Ahmed, scored a five-sets victory over Max Albrecht to cut Switzerland's winning marglo.

Ahmed won 0-1, 7-5, 1-6, 4-6, 6-4. Switzerland thus won 372 and will meet the winners of the Spain- Sweden tie in the next round,

manager of

Mr H, Khokhar, the the team, and Secretary of the Pakiston Lawn Tennis Association, said afterwards: "Our defent is a big disappointment for us. We ought to have beaten the young thexperienced Swiss team, and we probably should have done so if we had played different doubles pair yesterday. when Alam was entirely off form."

BEST MATCH

il

Aluned's match today against Albrecht was the most exelting of the three days play.

In the nfth and that set, the youthful Albrecht began strongly as Ahmed fired, and the Swiss ran into a 3/0 lead. But Albrecht be. came over-anxious and dropped the fourth game to Ahmed, who pre- viously had been playing well be- low his best.

When the Pakistan captain pulled. up to 4/2, the Swirs changed his ggressive game to one of extreme caution.

Ahmed was quick to take nd- vantage of this, and won the next

two games to level the scores, and, in an inspired spell of crisp volley- ing at the net, ran out of winner G/4.!

+-

Earlier Alain, although In better form than in his previous games here, had been declšlvely beaten by Hans Hounder.

Mr. Khekhar said that the four- mon team would spend some days sightseeing

in Switzerland and France before going to Parle for the French championships on May 15. in which the Pakistan players would compete.

in-

Mr Khokhar, added that he tended to make an extensive tour before returning to Pakistan in order to find conches for coming players in his country, and also to attract first class players to com- pete in the Pakistan lawn tenuis championships early in December. -Reuter.

CZECH STARS STAYING PUT

In

sight."

The officials said they intended to continue meeting the Rome pinne every Wednesday and Sunday unui Fome definite word had been re- ceived. Meanwhile, informed sources raid the selectors probably would announce the Davis Cup squad with- i out Drobny and Cernik If they failed to show up today.

The

CHANCE FOR BRAZIL

Brazilians and Czechip- slovakians are second-round oppon- cats after the first-round bye due In Prague on May 11.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1948,

HEY. THAT HURTS

John Stephenson, 126-pounder from Haileyville, Okla., gasps as he absorbs a right by Edward Lacey, Minneapolis, in the third round of their semi-finals bout in the national junior AAU tournament in Kansas City. Lacey won the Judges' decision to go into the finals where he won the championship in his division with a first round kayo over John Burke, Birmingham, Ala-AP Wirephoto.

have main- BASEBALL

Prague newspapers tained, despite contrary reports from abroad, that the four missing stars-- Drobný, Cernik. Millan Mateous and Helena

Straubebva-will return. The papers admitted, however, that the team had failed to arrive for the scheduled match with Hungary and had left the Association's telegrams Unanswered.--United Press,

SWEDEN LEADS

Barcelona, May 2.-Sweden, by winning the doubles today, eslab- shed a commanding 3-0 lead over Spain in their first round European Zone Davis Cup tie here, and now meets Switzerland in the next round, In today's match, Lennart Bergelln and Torsten Johansson, of Sweden, beat the Spanish pair, M. Szawost and J. Bartoli, 7-5, 6-4, 6-4.- Reuter.

OTHER TIES

In other first-round ties, Ireland cats Luxembourg 2-0, Yugoslavia eliminated Turkey 3-0, and Hungary completed 5-0 sweep of Austria..

BOXING

Pittsburgh Retains Lead In National League

New York, May 2.—In the National League, the Pittsburgh Pirates caught up with Ewell Black- well, star right-hander of the Cincinnati Reds to maintain their halt game lead over the New York Giants in the League race. Pittsburgh took the game 6-4.

Olympic Tourists Win Again

Manila, May 2 --China's Olympic footballers scored their second victory here tonight by defeating the Manila Football League's selection. 3-1-before Rizal 15,000 spectatora at Memorial Football Stadium. -

The visiting team scored the first three gonta lit a row and the local team one goal in the first half. The two teams played about even in the scoreless second half

Kwok Ying-kee scored two goals and Liue Sing-wing one goal for the Olympics while Nerique Beech made The lone score for the local team, which put up unexpectedly opposition.-Associated Press.

stir

SING TAO RUNNERS-UP Sing Too beat Navy "D" by three goals to one at Happy Valley yester day in the play-off for the runner up berth in the Second Division of the Football League:

Navy led one-nil at half time but had little of the game in the second balf. Sing Tao played an aggres- forward line sive game but their locked finish.

Match With The

French Army By ARCHIE QUICK

Congratulationa to British Army Soccer side on winning inter-Services and both the

They triangular tournaments. drew with RAF 0-0 and bent Royal Navy and Marines 4-0 for the former championship and beat the Belgian Army 1-0 and French Army 1-0 to take the Intter. Their latest success over the French Army at the achieved Spurs' ground was with no fewer than six team changes.

Im-

Left

First fielder Ralph Kiner

baseman Johnny Mize's home run highlighted a four-run

Neither match provided an drove in four runs with two sixth inning to give the New York

achieved in each Blackwell, who whip-Glants a 5-1 victory over the Boston pressive win or spectacular football homers.

Braves. Larry Jansen

his and success was won

case' by sheer team spirit and fight- ped the Pirates twice this year, second victory of the season.

ing grit inspired mostly by the cap- Brooklyn Dodgers moved tainey of McDonnell and his per- above the Saint Louis Cardinals into sonal playing example of 90 minutes' third place by dividing a double-hard work. header with Philadelphia. In the first game Brooklyn

roared off in a six run lead in the first inplugs and weathered a late inning rally, taking the game 9-0

lasted only five innings,

Time For Thought As Sport Gains Ground

The

Right fielder Duke Snyder led the Brooklyn attack with a pair of homers, a triple and a single. Ken Heintzelman shut out the Dodgers n the second game, pitching no hit ball for G 2/3 innings. Philadelphia took this 2-0.

A Local ABA Could Remedy Matters to trounce

The large crowd attracted to the Chinese YMCA last night by the boxing tourney held under the auspices of the Chinese "Y" and Lee's to the growing Gymnasium more than attested popularity of the sport here.

It is a pity that the Colony's top-rankers are so far ahead of the second bests that the underdog never quite manages to turn the tables, and such was the state of affairs last night as it seems ever to be.

There were three close enough fights but, as usual, Bob Pulling, Scolling and Fusilier Duffy were just about some two shades better.

A state of affairs like this could I FINWCOMMANÇA CAVABLAN

Prague, May 2.-The Czech Davis be remedied by the formation of a Cup selectors today resigned them- local ABA, longer preparation for selves to the cellhood of having bouta made possible by earlier an- advance Axtures, to face the European Zone contest nouncement of

without the top-ranking stars, and a ladder challenge system).

The elimination type of tourney

is quite unsuitable to local boxing.

is.

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OLYMPIC PROSPECTS By "RECORDER?! THE MERMAIDS WILL BE

•

FASTER THAN EVER

The Olympic Games in 1936 produced the fleetest, crop of feminine aquastars the world had yet seen but their times, all Olympic records, do not compare with what we should see at the Empire Pool at Wembley, în August.

To-day's mermaids are faster than their sisters of 12 years ago and only one of the listed Olympic marks-Rio Mastenbrock's 65.9 seconds for the 100 metres free stylo at Berlin-seems to stand an outside chance of remaining on the books.

Denmark's Fritzi. Nathansen did 65.8 last year, and another Danish girl, Greta Andersen, managed 66 flat. Either could repeat or b6 even faster at Wembley, with the two Americans, Ann Curtis' and Brenda Helser, also standing an outside chance as well of bettering Masten- brock.

03.2

When we come to the 400 metres The Dutch girls averaged GD free style, Rie Mastenbrock's mark seconds in setting the 400 metres of 5:20.4 at Berlin would rank only relay record at Berlin. Denmark's 10th on last year's best performance Nathanson, Andersen, Ove-Peier- list,

sen, and Harup could 'average Three of today's stars-Ann Cur-seconds a leg. tis, Denmarles Karen Harup, and Scotland's little Cathie Gibson, finest

A THRILLER British prospect in years are

America's four of Helser; Merkl. Jensen and Curtis could do it at 03.3 food 10 seconds ahead of what was

A leg. This race should be one of the most thrifling the an Olymple record in 1930.

Gomes have ever scent It's n. plty the Duich will incie a Mastenbroek and itn Willy Den Ouden, or it could have

been a three-way photo finish.

TOO FAR AHEAD

a

Ann Curtis is so far ahead of with a best time of 5:07.5 that sho could slow down and still improve on the old mark. However, with Horup and Gibson behind, slie will not quite be able to afford such tac- tles.

ZOE

ANN

Zoe Ann Olson, Oakland, Calif., stands on the ladder

of thic diving platform from which she won the three metre spring board diving championship in the national AAU swim- mint and diving meet at Day tona Beach, Fla. She scored 119.2 points. Miss Olson should be on the Americaff,girls' sweep of the Olymplo 'diving at Wem- bley,—--AP- Wirephoto,

At Tottenham I sat next to the daddy of all modern centre-halves, Stanley Cullis, and he was much taken by the display of McDonnell,

who

these days can- (Birmingham), not get into B'ham's first team be- Cause of Duckhouse.

Landing the double was also personal success for Lieut.-Col. It. 1. Prince, MBE, former amateur

and England'a International Olympic captain, whose first sea- son as secretary of Ariny F.A. (his The Chicago Cubs' slapped five

"I have been to most of Army's St Louis Cardinal .plichers for 10

this

scason 13-4. representative games the Cards

have not although The Cubs tallied seven times in the and

always sech eye to

with eye seventh. Right fielder Bill Nicholson

notably in the homered for the Clubs and third his selections.

case of Hinshelwood, Fulham's out- Don Lang for the baseman

side right, there is no doubt Col Cardinals.

Prince has spared no pains In get- besi ting about looking for the players and by the final victory he

as the last laugh on me, I pose.

British Army wins were gained mostly through their sound defence, for at no time during the season has the forward line been satisfac-ming particularly that if they are fast in the crawl they are likely to tory,

Next to McDonnell I would give he tops as well at the backstroke credit marka to hard-working, and we have both Karen Harup and vigorous right-back Rogers (Alder Cathie Gibson

among the four and shat)

McBride principal contenders for the goalkeeper

100 (Reading) who is greatly superior metres backstroke event. to those tried before, Kirk (St Mir ren) and Jones (Aston Villa).

Rogers would not disgrace the ranks of any First Division side and Reading have obtained a bargain in McBride,

AMERICAN LEAGUE

In the

American League, Left felder Ted Willians knocked in five runs with a two on homer and a triple while the Boston Red

Sex were

York defeating the New Yankees, winning 7-1. Shortstop Junior Stephens homered after Williams cleared the bases in the eighth.

Freddle Hutchinson's three hit pitching and an eighth inning. neigerine | attack on Bob Lemon gave the Detroit Tigers their second straight victory over the League leading Cleveland Indians. The score was 4-

LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS

Flyweight

Jaroalny Drobny and Vladimir Cernik, who won it last year.

With little more than 24 hours in the Inter-Service Championships Cheung, to go before the Monday midnight some of the early round pairings deadline for entry in the European were sumclently one-sided Zone competition, officials who had

NATIONAL GAMES

for

the losers to take a drubbing that,

could have In some cases,

Teft little taste for more.

THE GALLERY WOULD LOSE

From the gallery's point of view

2.

Centre fleider Hoot Evers hit a

homer for Detroit, Shortstop mans Gussy Santos beat Kid Puncho ger Low Boudreau and Lemon hit

homers for Cleveland. Bantamweight

Telict Ho Hon Pong beat Chan Mun,

pitcher Charley Harris Fun. P. Duffy, (Innisit.) T. K. Ochocked a ninth inning Washington

rally Alan De Souza,

-to preserve a Philadelphia Athletics 4-3 victory.

The scores:

Featherweight, Poon Chun Sia T.K.O. J. Correb.

Lightweight

P. O. Scollins (HMS London) beat

a spate of knockouts and TKOs Kid Pedruco (Macau). may make for a good entertainment,

CH-

Welterweight

L/Pat. Coomber (HMS Tamar) beat A/B Ray (HMS Amethyst),

Shanghai, May 3.-Eleven students from the National Chiaotung Uni- versity had covered 33 of the 380

evening's kilometres route from Nanking to

but the heavy- Shanghai by last night in a torch slogging type of bout hardly bearing relay to deliver a message courages good boxing. from President Chiang Kai-shek at

The championship system that O/Sea Bland (HMS Cossack) beat the opening of the National Athletle would best cult this Colony would A/B Robertson (HMS Consort).

be a series of graded challenge matches culminating in an end-of- with an season challengo round evening's eard devoted to holdera

principal challengers.

Meet here.

The 70 relay runners are expected to reach Klangwan stadium on May 5, when the games begin.

DUFFY v. DE SOUZA

Middleweight

Nailonal League

R H

Cincinnati Pittsburgh

4 11

0 10

0

(Winuing plicher Mel. Queen). Boston New York

sup-

Army At Tottenham, the French

too played pretty football but far delleate and it did not stand up to the hard tackling of McDonnell, Rogers and Doyle and amateur in- ternational Smith

The Danish girls are favourites for the team championship, though the Games do not recognise one, and ! will depend on the 100 metres free style and the relay.

America's divers will start favourites for a sweep of the points in this event, but the Danish girls,

they

are not upset in a one-two for the free style sprint, should have

enough points to offset

Though the

this.

the Olymple Games Com- mittee have never recognised team championships, unofficial Doir

scores are always featured by the world's press and the Danish giris should finish ahead of the United States on this with. Hölland a not loo faraway third.

Best times last year were:

100 METRES FREE STYLE

Fritzi Nathansen (Denmark) 1:05,8 Greta Andersen

Ann Curtis.' (US)

(Denmark) 1:08.0

Brenda Helser (US)

1:05.5

1:06.0

Hanny Termeulen (Holland) 1:00.5 a. Tildhom (Sweden)..... 1:07.0 Fernande Caroen (Belgium) 1:07.0

1. Fredin (Sweden)

Karen Harup (Denmark)

1:07.0

1:09.0

Nancy Merk! (US)

1:08.1

Cathle Gibson (Britain)

1:08.1

400 METRES FREE STYLE

Ann Custis (US)

5:07.8

Koren Harup (Denmark) ... 5:13.7 Caffife Gibson (Britain).... 5:14.0 Grela Andersen (Denmark) 5:19.0 Fernande Caroon (Belgium) 5:20.9

Hanny Termeulen (Holland) 5:21.8 Margaret Wellington

(Dritain).

5:23.4

Cathie Gibson (Britain)

.

Fritzi Nathansen (Denmark) 5:25.0

P. Coutinho (Brazil)

5:20,1

Eva Szekely (Hungary)

6:28,0

100 METRES BACKSTRÖKE

Karen Harup (Denmark)

1:14.6

1. Novak (Hungary)

1:15.3

1:15,0

1:10,8

Yet Van Feggelen (Holland)

1:17.1

1:17:0

Suzanne Zimmerman (US)

1:17,6

Berlioux

1:17.8

1:18.8

1.10.0 ...1:10,0

1. Galliard (Holland)

B. Jensen (US)

M.

(France)

Ove-Petersen (Denmark) Heerbruck (Germany)

1. de Gans (Holland)...

S. Van Slochteren (Holland) 1:19.0"

200 METRES BREASTROKE

Nel Van Vliet (Holland)

2:49.2

Markarova (Russia).....

2:54.7

E.

J. De Groot (Holland) «,. Eve Szekely (Hungary)

Novak (Hungary)

2:55.8

2:50.1

2:38.2

2:59.2

3:00.3

3:00,5

3:01.3

3:02.0

It's a curiosity of women's swim-M

Karen and Cathle, д Well Hungary's 1. Novak and Holland's J. Galliard, are ahead of the Olympic record held by Holland's Nita Senff. Karen is ahead of it by an casy 2.6 seconds and Cathic by a generous fraction of a second.

There Is also the Dutcli giri, fel Von Feggelen, whose best last year was 1:17.1, a halt-second behind Senft, but who has done sensa- tional times at other backstroke dis- tances.

metres

On the other hand, although the

The record for the 200 British attack did not Ect going often, when it did it generally end- breast stroke, held at 3:01.0 by ed up with a rousing shot at goal. Japan's H. Machata, hasn't

After McBride had made two dimmest hope of survival. great

the

saves, Westwood flushed In Holland's Nel Van Vliet is all of a terrifle shot which was saved by 12.7 seconds ahead and eight more France's agile, able goalkeeper, but of today's girls have done Petherbridge followed up quickly six of them getting under and got the ball into the net from minutes flat last year.

a seemingly impossible angle after

a half-hour's play.

That was all the scoring and from MOTOR RACING

thence onwards the British

Army

defence frustrated all the efforts of

2 1 3 5 B 2

(Winning pitcher Larry Jansen).

France to penetrate it. Wir. Fowler (IIMS Taniar) beat Brooklyn (1st, game) 0 13 0 Strangely enough the French In-

Philadelphia

J 13 Young Wing Hol (HK Police).

two Air Force Ocluded

men, onc and two Spanlords and ralfor

had L/Wtr. Pulling (HMS Tamar) beat A/B MeMealin (HMS Consort). Brooklyn (2nd. gamo).

(Winning pitcher Rex Barney), brought three men from North 1 Africa. They had two weeks' SECESSORY FLAKETant Philadelphia

2 80 training together against the British Army's three days at Kingston-on-

in- of a more

0

(Winning pitcher Ken Heintzelr Thames.

13 ID 2

The Arat runners took off from Nanking yesterday afternoon offer a brief ceremony at the National Government's Headquarters, during

a matter The best of last night's fights was again which the President's message was the bantamweight bout between experienced boxer wasting himself man). handed to one of the runners. Fusiller Duffy and Alan De Souza away In the first round. It was at Chicago

Tho

run will be continued this which ended midway through the this stage a punch for punch fight. St. Louis morning by a group of seven from third

round with the referee Scollins's carried. more weight and Tangshan.

stopping it.

he had the better of the next two The Intest Overseas Chinese team

rounds against a groggler opponent.

Souzu, as he demonstrated before,

4 B 1

(Winning pitcher Bob Chapman).

American League

י

****MOTORCYCLING Schaffhausen, Switzerland, May 2 -Franta Juhan, of Czechoslovakia,

won two events in the international 1 motorcycle races here today.

7

... 7 120

to arrive for the meat is the group is fast on his fect and has a knack hibition of sound boxing but hardly Boston

Pulling v. McMeslin was an ex- New Yorkii from Stam, numbering 31-Reuter. for running rings round his oppon-

Jent in the opening round. His fight. Pulling. now competing

guard, however, is faulty, and non a heavier class, Was wary (Winning pitcher Joa Dobson), " amount of ability to take punish. | throughout of permitting lils op- ment can quite make up for this. ponent any opening and was

being unwice.

TOUR OF NETHERLANDS

Amsterdam, May 2-Jean Gold- With schmidt, Luxemburg, won today, the nine-day. International cyclists road race Tour of the Netherlands." Flis time for the total distance of 1,500 kilometres was 44 hours minutes. Associated Press.

· more

concentration

on

stamina and a belter guard he should McMealin is not in tho do better next time. Duffy has the class as a boxer but he is not far son). weightier punch and it told last night off. More experience of Pulling Philadelphio before the second round was over may show him and

Riding a Moto Guzzi, ho won the 500-cc closs, covering a 90-kilometra course, at an averago' speed of 93.1 idiometres per hour.

better.

three

ITALIAN WINS GRAND PRIX.

Genova, May. 2.-The Italian racing motorist, Guiseppe Farina, in a Maserati, won the Grand Prix des Nations' here today, Farina covered the course in two hours, 23 minutes,) 68.2 seconds, at an averago speed of 98.833 kilometres per hour.

The Grand Prix des Nations' ta an 80-car world race over: 237,200 (kilometres.

Raymond Sommer, driving Д Simca-Gordoni, won tho Grand

Juhan also took the 350-co eines Prix de Génova-a 207,55 kilometre on a Velocette, covering the same race over 70 laps.. Sommer's mo course at an average speed of 90.011 was two hours, six minutes, kilometres per hour.

not

Delrolt Cleveland

8

3

2

sama

(Winning pitcher Fred Hutchin-

7

4

opening yet, Pedruco v. Scollina had a lot of but he had not found it up to last gallery appeal as a fight but it was night.

Washington

102

(Winning pitcher Joo. Coleman),

Associated Press.

seconds, averaging 08.02 kilometres 0 The 200-cc class was won by the per hour.

Italian rider, Enrico Lorenzetil, on Bommer falshed third in the n Molo Guzzi, in which he averaged Grand Prix des Nations in 60.001 klemetres per hour over the cylindered two-litre Ferrari 54-kilometro course.-Reuter.

1.1

.

A 12-

mi-

chine.-Reuter,

Ferlund (Sweden) W. Haverlag (Holland)

G. Sonnensen (Denmark) Yun Broekoven (Holland) Y. de Kerkhove (Belgium)

FAVOURITE

Ann Curtis of San Francis- co, favourite for the 400: moires free style at London. and a potential finalist in the shorter sprint.