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SID BARNES

JACK HOBBS TELLS YOU HOW

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1948.

"RECORDER” Suggests

FIVE FROM The JOLLY (KEITH) MILLER AUSTRALIA

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AND

LEDSAY HASSETT

NOBODY

EMVOS

ME

BILLY BROWN

Bedser missed Don-

then

bowled

him

Batting all day on an Oval wicket which was as good as always, the Australians scored 479 against Surrey for the loss of four batsmen. Judged by any standards the score must be summarised

as a good one—well above the ordinary, in fact-but it was rather a quaint day's cricket.

At no time did the rate of scoring seem fast. There

were no displays of enthusiasm by the 30.000 spectators such as big hitting arouses.

There wasn't any big hitting. The answer to it all, I should say, was that the Surrey bowling, generally speak- ing, was such that the runs just came without any neces- nity for really forceful measures.

There were a lot of full tosses Gloucestershire man, giving the ball

other bit more air. from the slow bowlers, and deliveries

lengths of indifferent which asked for, and duly received. punishment,

It will take something with

from the more sting, more venom, England bowlers to dispose of tho best Autralian batsmen.

Morris,

Barnes, Bradman,

and

Hassett gave us further glimpses of their masterly power.

Just a thought occurs to me about for the Don-a consoling thought bowlern wo shall have to And.

Ilis powers of concentration may not stand up to the task of adding to his record of huge scores.

Be got a typleat hundred. After he had been missed by Bedser at 136 he opened out, and was bowled had when 140 by the player who missed

playing a triflo him in

up the loosely. He may summon habitual

of concentration Test matches or be may not

But given good weather he niay thle get sufficient single hundreds Reason to take a record from Denia Compton.

The whole day's cricket saw only One lofty hit by Hussett.

give a word for the Surrey They stuck it well,

Let me

ment.

The Australians did not take com- mand did not dictate, as completely as I thought they might have done. Probably, the ball was not coming 1 them quite quickly enough off the wicket, and, as they could take the runn anyway, why worry?

Just once Alec Bedser discovered

On this pitch he did not make many turn, and those which did time to watch Kave the batsmen them.

For those who like figures, Barnes minutes. got his first 100 in 158

to run Bradınan took 130 minutes

three almost the

Inevitable to figures, and before Squires found Barnes with his leg in front he had registered 18 boundaries. them on the leg side, where all the Austrálians are so strong.

most of

I do hope that the many boys who were watching, and who hope to be real cricketers one day, were taking the lessons In running

which tween the wickets handed out when Bradman there.

bew were was

The short ones were taken in the effort to upset a field well placed by skipper Holmes. The first run also taken at top speed, just The Australians may not force runs, but they certainly don't waste them.

Philippines Object

it case.

The Philippine Amateur

SURREY'S A. V. BEDSER

'AUSTRALIAN TOUR RECEIPTS

China Should Give Her Athletes A Chance Of International Experience

THE PERFORMANCES AT SHANGHAI

WERE PROMISING ENOUGH

China's first post-war National Games have ended and the selectors. are busy picking a Chinese team for the Olympic Games...

While the National Games did not turn up a single Olympic hope, they did not paint too dismal n picture for the future. China has some promising athletes and the Selection Committee would not be too wise should it decide not to send at least a half- dozen of them to London.

Results compare favourably with those in 1936 and are, except for the sprint events and the pole vault, generally better.

Were I to pick China's athletes for seconds flat, four-tenths of a second,

the London trip. I would have no better than the current NAM's best. NATIONAL MEET]

American Legion's G. W. Miller,

hesitation in sending along Chen Ying-long, the Taiwan 400 metres former junior hammer-throw cham- runner, Hwang Chien, the hop, stop pion in the United States, won his and jumper of the Chinese Air specialty with a toss of 43.47 metres.

Pei-lin, China's 4 x 100 Chi Force team,

metres relay team and

edged out the Foreign "Y", winning Tientsin's discus thrower.

All three are of International if not in 44.6 seconds.

Probably because of werk opposi- there in of Olympic calibre and

tion, most track times Get wero nothing better than encouragement

poorer than those in the Seventh as an Investment for the future.

Fiwang

and, Chi returned NAM.

RESULTS performances that could have won them their particular events in Complete results follow:

Track dunt meet with Britain, France,

1. Hsu Tien- Holland, Belgium or Switzerland. 100 metres dnsh:

Wang Sung-too (China). 2. GOOD FOR INTERNATIONAL tch

The pole vault champion, Chang (China) 3. D. Novgorodoff (Soviet Li-long of Taiwan, managed 11 feet Club). 4. P. Blumenschein (J.R.C.). an Olympic Time: 11.2" 044 inches, hardly

BOO

Yu She-wel 1. performance but good for a place in

(China). 2. Li Lin-lung (China). an international meet.

3. E. Berckman (American School). N. Sadilnikoff (Foreign. Y). Time: 0.1"

Q

Chi Pel-lin's winning performance In the shot put and Malaya's Hwang Ninet-seng's in the 400 metres low hurdles were also of international "place" standard.

who

nt

I have not mentioned the distance runner, Lau Wen-ngau of Shanghai, is almost a certainty for the

Hls tcam.

winning times

records, Klangwan, though National were far off what he did in America,

Most

encouraging performance, though, in the whole of the meet was, I think, the effort of Taiwan in taking the 1,000 metres relay, title in 3 mins, 23.2 secs.

This works out at an average of under 51 seconds per leg and is good the enough to beat several of smailer European countries.

the

It is even time good enough to beat teams from many of smaller of the United States and Taiwan is, after all a province rather than a country.

Meet

Where

theNational Committee may have misfired was Decathlon In not stoging EL championship. Looking through the results

several I noticed placed in more than one event and great all-rounders do not necessarily shine in any one.

names

On the concluding day of the meet the Chinese team met a challenge from Shanghai's international com- munity, backed up by men of the

metres:

110 motres high hurdles: 1. Hwang Nien-cheng (China). 2 Hsu Pao- chen (China). 3. B. Jenks (U.S. 4. 1. Lee (American Army).

Arthur Peall says:

ANY stroke played with side must be executed with great cate. A plain-ball shot on spotted black, na. right-hand diagram. leaving cuo-bai;

Hear

cushion, is Iniry

umble.

Different when post- on com pets line of fert aldo to bring cue ball back centre table. The

50

nide la apt to turn cue bali slightly,

but just enough to spoil the shot. Practice is the only remedy-and remember to chalk the cus,

Billiard stroko on left diagenen La = ricochet in-or, played full on white with heavy screw and pocket elde, - No freak shot. One amatour I know is aurprised if to misses a feasible ricochet.

School). Time: 10.3"

Athletic Federation decided to SHOULD ALSO BE A RECORD United States Armed Forces, and Foreign Y. Time:

fake drastic action against basketball players Chen Chin- ten and Chen Chin-chih, and swimmer Chuang Mei-tao for joining the Philippine Chinese National to the delegation Athletic Meet.

that solid left-hander Morris has an McMahon but, and edge to the might have had his wicket earlier than he

wicketkeeper dild 过 McIntyre had not been so eager to have stump him when he might taken a cutch.

Jim Laker, who is on a rather long list of possible-bowlers for the first Test at Trent Bridge, lid quite well without being deadly. He nearly bowled Barnes before lunch.

Goddard Laker is of the Tom

over the type: off-breaks bowled wicket, but a little slower than the

the

D

By JAMES R. CHAMBERS London-Don Bradman's Austra- lian cricket team is likely to be the history of the game. best money spinning outfit in the team, in its opening Bradman's matches in arelle May weather has proved to be the greatest sporting attraction for years. It England gets reasonably dry and warm summer, cricket grounds all over the country won't be big enough to hold all the fans who Australians.

Ti's a certainty-even-now that on which the the cricket grounds Ave England v. Australia games are The Chen brothers are candidates to be played-Noltingham, Lords, for the Philippine Olymple Manchester, Leeds and Kennington

but they refused Oval-won't be half big enough to journey Basketball Team

Press. to report for training.-Central News. holt all the fans.

any

athletes are barred The three

from representing forever Philippines at

international suspended inde competition and initely from participating at PAAF tournaments. However, they may apply for reinstatement after one year.

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nequitted itself remarkably well in to the identical challenge comparison match in 1936.

comparison of China's National Games performances with those of other countries does not reflect too badly on a country where organised athletics Is, relatively speaking, still

in its infancy.

China,

2.

400 metres relay: I. Foreign "Y" 3. American School. 4. Foreign "y". Time: 44.0

1,000 metres relay:

1. China. 2. 3' 37.6" 1,500 metres: 1. Yu She-wel (China). 2. Yang Lion-sen (China). 3. Jim Scovel (American School)

E. Berckman (American School). Time: 4' 21.2

200 metres dnat: 1. A. Ivano

2, Kisu (Foreign "y"). (China), 3. Hsu Tien-tch (China). 4. D. Novgorodo (Soviet Club) Time: 23"

Shot

put:

Field 1.

Chilh

Tung

Cricket here is riding the crest of the popularity wave.

Record gate receipts were taken In the Australian's first two matches Worcestershire and against

the fans Leicestershire, despite

overcoats to keep

A COMPARISON having to wear warm during the games.

Worcestershire,

Here are China's National ment In its three day

Pet-Un compared to Belgium's (China). 2. Ping Min-isan (China) took ncarly £4,500 marks as

Bolivarian Games game,

3. H. R. Smith (Jr.) (U.S. Navy), Leicestershire, for two days and (1947) and the

(Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, about on

hour's play took £2,250. These figures suggest that English zucia, Bolivia and Panama) at Lima 4 Wu Teng-chung (China). county cricket clubs which received in January this year.

£1,600 from the 1033 Australian

Event tour, may top the £2.000 mark by the time Bradman and his men have ship for their return boarded

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• Performances accomplished expenses are of course paid by the International meet on May 15 BAORS Sport Board but which beltered those at the National will be the only British touring side Meet.

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Picked Chinese athletes broke while his young brother John, now Wrexham right-half, was with the the China national record for Scots Guards in the drive through lo the discus throw and the Na-Berlin in 1045, tional Athletic Meet record for He was with the Guards Indepen- in the the high jump at the Interna-dent Brigade and played

same team as. Billy Steel, Derby tional Athletic Meet hekl on County and Scotland, and Bally, Saturday, May 16 in Kiangwan Spurs. Stadium.

AN OLYMPIC FIND

Chinese athletes mainly from Tai- Seeing Wrexham off at Liverpool wan dominated the Sino-foreign Street Station I met sprinter Mac- meet, winning all but two of the donald Bailey and he was enthusias fourteen track and field events heid. tie over an all-round athlete in Bri- Chih Pei-lin of Tientsin tossed the tish Guianu, an Army Lieutenant who Charles Thompson discus 42.15 metres (138 feet 3 inches) named

to n new national record, breaking served in the Western Desert during, the old mark of 41.13 metres.

war.

This six footer can leap 23 feet Taiwan's Tung Fel-hsin high- jumped

1.02 metres (5 feet 11 0 inches has done 100 yards in inches) to a new meet record, one 9.6 seconds and is capable of over hundredth of a metre better than the 45 feet at the hop, step and jump. old mark.

Mar Bailey hopes to get him over Blond A. Ivanoff of the Foreign and qualify him for Britain's Olym- ** burned up 200 metres in 23ple team.

SPORTING SAM

CHAMPIONS

100 metres: Hau Tien-tek (Taiwan) 11.1 seconds,

200 metres: Hsu Tung (Tal- wan) 23.4 seconds.

400 metres: Chen Yin-Ion (Taiwan) 50.9 seconds.

800 metres: Yu Shi-wei (Air Force) 2 mins. 0.4 secs,

1,500 metres W. Y. Hsi (Air force) 4 mins. 17 secs.

5,000 metres: Lau Wen-ngau (Shanghai) 10 mins. 0 secs.

10,000 metres: Lau Wen-ngau (Shanghai) 32 mins. 47 secs,

110 metres high hurdles: L.. C. Huang (Malaya) 18 seconds.

400 metres low hurdles:. Hwang Nine-loeng (Malaya)

57.0 seconds.

High Jump: Tung Fel-hsin (Taiwan) 5 feet 11 inches.

Pole vault: Chang Li-long (Taiwan) 11 feet 02 inches.

Long Jump: Hwang Chien (Air Force) 21 feet 3 inches.

Hop, stop, Jump: Hwang Chlen (Air Force) 40 feet 3 inches.

Shot

Chi Pet-lin pui: (Tientsin) 41 feet 8 inches.

Disc throw: Chi Pel-lin (Tientsin) 130 feet 3 inches. Javelin throw": Chen Chi- chuan (Army) 150 feet.

1,000 metres relay:

3 mins. 23.2 zocs.

Taiwan

Hammer throw: 1. G. W. Miller (American Legion). 2. Wu Tseng- chung (China). metres,

Distance: 43.47

Javelin throw! 1. Hwang Sze- yuan (Chinn).

Chang Hsin-

(China),

shlen (China). 3. Hsu. Tien-teh (China). Distance:

4. Wang

Sul 47.02 metres,

Broad Jump: 1. Chang Li-Jen (China). 2, Hwang Chien chúng LA Fin-chung (China). (China). 3.

(Soviet Club), 4 D. Novgorodoff Distance: 0.64 metres.

Hop-step-lump: 1. Hwang Chien (China). 2. Chang Li-long (China).. 3. Chang Li-ion (China). 4. Stock

*Y). (Foreign Distance: 14.1 metres.

High Jump nal: 1. Tung Fel- hsin (China). 2. Chang Li-jen (China). 3. Yong Pel-hul (China). 4. Hosac

(Foreign "Y"). Height: 1.02 metres.

Discus! 1.

2.

A.

Chih Pel-lin (China). Wang Sul (China). 3. H. R. Smith (U.S. Navy). 4. B. Ballerand (Foreign

y), Distance: 21.16

metres,

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