COUNTY CRICKET
TWO GLAMORGAN MEN HIT
DOUBLE CENTURIES
London, June 16.Today's County cricket champlon ship matches were dominated by two men playing for Glamorganshire, who each excccded 200 runs and who each claimed more than a hundred in boundaries.
Emrys Davies, who is in his 44th year, batted with all the case and confidence of a young man while renching 215 in five hours before being caught at backward point. W. C. Jones, a Rugby international, who was not out with 212 at the close of play, has been batting for four and three-quarter hours, and has, so far, hit 22 fours and three sixes. Drives claimed 30 fours and two sixes.
Between the
Glamorgan- shire were often struggling at the foot of the County lable, but now adays they are fighting for the lend, with only Derbyshire above them.
Tils ww the second thne this season that an "Essex Week" has 130 opened with
mammoth score agatest them, because the Austra
wars
Abnormal Times
London. June .16. The English Golf Union today Is investigating the world record clalm by a Torquay club golfer, I. O. Rowbotham, who
holed out the club's ninth hole in one, three Limes In three monika,
The 42-year-old weekend Rowbotham, whore player, handles is seven, laughed off the feat as fluke. "There is no skill in it," he said.
In normal times, Rowbotham would have been presented with three bottles of Scoteli whiskey by the club, instead he paid for drinks all round- United Press.
Hans, it can be recalled, bit up over 700 at Southend.
Test players were back with their counties. today and Denis Comptan had a hand in four of the first five Kent wickets that fell, bowling two
Edrich, and catching two.
mean- while, claimed three of the wickets.
At Brentwood: Glamorgan 580 for 5 (Parkhouse 60, F. Davies 215, Jones 212 not out), Eaglestone 00 against Essex.
At Hove: Cambridge University (Dewes 62, Cox 5 for 27); Sussex 121 for 8.
At Aldershot: Hampshire 200 (Walbron 52, Shakleton 03, Deighton 5 for 78): Combined Services 32 for no wickets,
At Manchester: Lancashire 305 for (Washbrook 140, Wharton 72, Howard 60 not out) against Worcestershire.
At Birmingham: Gloucestershire 223 (Crapp 58. Grove four for 37); Warwickshire 30 for one wicket.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1948.
At Belfast: Gentlemen af Ireland') 153 (Coxen 6 for 37). Yorkshire 10 bat.-Reuter.
AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Hassett's Century Against Northants
London, June 16.-Northampton- shire were all out for 110 in the opening day of their match against the Australians. When stumps were drawn, the tourists had lost wickets in scoring 200 runs.
four
Lindsay Hassett, Australin's vice- captain, was again in great form, Washbrook's century for Lan- putting on 127, and Arthur Morris, cashire was in distinct contrast toppening batsman, scored 00 before his poor display in the Test.
CLOSE OF PLAY SCORES
The close of play scores were:
At Lords: Kent 327 (Ames 58, Evang 75); Middlesex 20 for
wickel.
Josing his wicket.
Divecha, a young Indian, scored 33 for Northamptonshire, while M.C.D.
THE SCOREBOARD Australia's scoreboard read:
CRUCIAL MATCH Barnes, b Nulter
TONIGHT
K. M. A. Barnett has the white pieces tonight against P. X. Sequeira in the ninth round match at the Peninsula Hotel in the Colony Open Chess Championship Final.
A win for either could decide the championship with Barnett, a half-point ahead, able also to afford a draw.
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Barnett has not been too happy so far with the white pieces and in becoming convinced that be is happier with black. The odds are,;
therefore, Sequeira, who, how
will have to play the game of ever, his
life to
to take the full point. Should Sequeira draw and Schure, playing black against Johnny Car valho, win, he may have a hard night of It In the last
round.. in which he meets Schure, for second place.
However, Schure is up tonight against a player who has twice sur cessively beaten him in tournament added dia- play a he has the advantage of black, a colour with
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36: NASAOKE TENTANDERENZIAL Clarke, former
West Indies Test player, put up 19. They added 54 runs for the county in 55-minutes.
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ROSE · HAPPY AFTER
AFTER WIN Russians Claim World Records
BLUE CROW
Mauri Ruse waves from cockpit of his Blue Crown Special after winning the 500-miles Indianapolis Speedway classic, Behind Rose is Movie Actress Barbara Britton, Others are
NOT identifled.-AP Wirephoto.
QUEEN'S CLUB TENNIS
Bob Falkenburg Just Scrapes Through
London, June 16-Bob Falkenburg, United States holder of the Queen's Club championships, scraped through into the quarter-finals of the men's singles at Queen's Club today.
But Falkenburg dropped a set in beating K. Konoljevic of India, 6-3, 1-6, 6-2.
In the women's singles Shirley! 0-0, 0-2 and Mrs Pat Todd, USA, Fry, USA, went into the quarter beat Mrs M. A, Prentice, USA, 6-3, finals by benting Mrs Sheila Sum-6-1-Associated Press. mers of South Africa, 6-1, 1-7,
Louise Brough, favoured to win
the women's title at Wimbledon and Mrs Pal Conning Todd, both of Amerien,
reached the semi-finals today with straight set wins.
The results of other games:
Men's Singles: Third Round: Frank Sedgman, Australia beat B. Vadickn. Czecholovakia 6-1, 0-2.
Enrique Morea, Argentine beat Jack Harper. Australia, 13-11, 6-4.
Gardner Mulloy, USA, beat M. Alam, Pakistan, 6-1, 6-3.
Robert Van Meegeren, Halland, beat R. Carter, Britain, 7-9, 6-4.
Bill Johnston; left-arm medlum pace bowler, fook three wickets for
Erie Sturgess, South Africa, beat 24_runs, and Im Johnson, off Sumant Misra, India, _G-2,_B-2, _ spinner, three for 13.
Hasselt batted two hours 35 inlnutes for his rung and hit 17 fours.
Philipe Washer, Belgium, beat p. Masip, Spain, 6-4, 7-5.
But Are Out Of Olympics
London, June 16-Soviet Russia, apparently unwilling to suffer defent in the inter- antional competition, allowed its inst chance to enter the Olympics to pass unnoticed ni midnight tonight.
At that huur, the 1948 Olympic committee closed its books on all entries for the Runner games. Pending final compilation, the record-breaking entry probably will rench 6,000 athletes from 60 nations.
Prussia's refusal to participate had fantastic numbers of competitors, putter, a broad jumpor at the 24- been expected since 'n high Soviet. With hundreds of thousands in foot mark and sprinters doing a sports steinl commented in Oslo training, it is inconceivable to ex little belter than even time for the two months ago that his nation was perts that Russia has not or will not not yet ready for international soon develop world class athletes. athletics.
But the
committee headed by Lord Burghley, has been unwilling to say go in the hope that the Ruslans would full in the with the Olympic ideal that victory in less Important than a friendly meeting of nutions.
Even without Russin,
14th
the
NEW RECORD CLAIMED Today Radio Moscow claimed a new World's Javelin record for women. In the past month it hos mentioned three new world's ro cords in weightlifting. At the Paria world's weightlifting championships last year, Russia produced a plieno. Olympiad will be the greatest in the heavy weight named Grigori Novak menal litter-bottle-legged Bght history of the Games. But Lordne Burghley.
Olymple champion and its team was a close second to himself, is disappointed that his the United States. personal visit to Moscow more than
Russion women track and
feld a year ago has falled to sway the athletes from their performances at men who seem to be trying to pro- the European championships in Oslo Jeet nihletic achievement Into the last year are a match for any nation political sphere.
in the field events and closing a gap Itussia is still recovering from the fast in running and sprinting. devestation of war and was naturally Russian men did not show up too not expected to challenge the United well but their main weakness was States or Swileen in track and field.belleved to be conching and there But there is a tremendous sports were reports that the Soviet Wns netivity known and reports have trying to hire a Scandinavian coach. spokeri of competitions involving Russia says it has a 52-foot shot
ASCOT RACE MEETING
Master Vote Repeats In Royal Hunt Cup
By VERNON MORGAN
Ascot, Berkshire, June 16.An English horse, Muster Vote, stole the limelight when the Royal Ascot Meeting was continued today before another great crowd, for this five-year-old gelding did what no other horse has ever done in winning the Royal Hunt Cup in successive years.
Queen The King,
and the two Princesses, who again drove down the course in State, saw Master Vole, carrying 10 pounds more than last year, win in an easy fashion by four lengths at odds of 100 to 7 from Prince Peto, with Star Witness
third.
The winning jockey was the Aus- tralian, T. Johnstone, who had won the Derby on My Love.
France had her customary winner
The Royal & Ancient Golf Club
Could Revise A Rule
SAYS ARCHIE QUICK
Sticking out like a sore thumb at enddies. He walked about when the British Amateur Golf Champion- Stowe was putting. ship at the Royal St George's Club, Sandwich, was the need of a long overdue revision of rules by the Royal and Ancient Club Com- mittee.
Draw Tomorrow For Olympic Football
Loudon, June 10, Midnight tonight is the deadline for the 00 nations which accepted the invitation to send their entries by cable or on the official forms
Joseling in which of the 136
of the 17 sports at the Olymple Games they will com pete.
By this evening, 57 entries had been received, but Eire, which was the second country to accept, had not oled
her entries.
Each nation's Intention to compete in a particular event was recorded today by coloured pins on two huge charts and all entries had to be checked to ensure compliance with the regulations.
As soon as the entries close at midnight
cable will be sent to the International Amateur Football Federation In Zurlek,
giving the countries which have entered for the football, as the draw for this series is being made tomorrow/Reuter.
AUTORENGRATITU
100 yards. But the sports world will have to walt four more years look at them.-United Press.
for
Baseball
New York, June 16-Pirates when Marcel Boussac's Ally Corona- moved into a tio for first place
lon took the first race of the day.
in the National League today While the strong French challenge with an 11-5 win over Giants. was overthrown in the two mile Churchill Stakes, it was horse, Heron Bridge, which carried Johnny Hopp's and Wally West- Irish Pirates won on 12 hits, including off the prize at the long odds of 100 lake's homers plus considerable
to 8.
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Masaka's failure to start was not help from Giants on a variety of the only blow for backers in the errors, Coronation Stakes, for after the sup- posed danger, Duplicity, had
Giants Johnny Mize homered won and Bobby Thompson hit a the race the Stewards disqualified two-run triple while Pirates
Initiative for
her on their own
crossing, and the race went to the were led by Ed Steven's double 20 to 1 outsider,
and two singles. Fortuity. Another 20 to I outsider, Las
Vegas, took the Besescarouck Stakes of one and a half miles to record a double for Charles Elliolf, who had won the Coronation Stakes-Reuter,
Sports Briefs
Braves dropped to the Pirates in the League race by losing 8-5 Cubs won on the to Cubs. margin of Andy Pafko's three- run homer. Eddie Waitkus also homered for Chicago.
Red Sox beat Indians 7-4 03 Bobby Feller failed to complete his for the sixth
starting assignment After cach player had holed out. Frank would stay behind and play one or two long putts while his opponent and the drenched crowd waited on the next tee. And so on.
Individual men's and women's events in this year's Olymple Games swimming contests are identical save that there is an extra event for men the 1,500 metres free style race. Other individual events metres free style and back stroke. Cleveland
are 100
HOW THEY STAND American League
The first round took three and a quarter hours. The second 14 holes 200 metres breast stroke, 400 metres Philadelphia
spring-board diving New-York- urred two and half hours. That's free style,
unsettled (three metres) and high diving. Detroit Stowe. not golf. It completely
There are also relay and water polo Boston
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Undoubtedly there is a necessity for a time limit. Table tennis found it so and now golf must follow suit In order to avoid repetition of 930 holes final between the American millionaire's son, Frank Stranahan,
If he had lost in the carlier rounds, contests. and ex-coal miner Charles Stowe. Women's Singles: Third Round:
his employer told me, he Siowe plays as quickly as George have been back at work as a garage at The Australia quickly lost
Shirley Fry, USA, defeated Mrs Duncan used to. He just goes up mechanic next morning. Stowe used near London. Shella Summers, South Africa, 6-1, to bull and hits it. To unsettle his to work in a mine under the Penn wicket, Barnes giving an easy catch 9.7.
what ⚫ opponent by
13 strictly to shori fine leg at 17, but Morris,
course of which he
a Wrestling of two kinds-catch-as- Pittsburgh after uncomfortable
Mrs Margaret Osborne Dupont, universal tactics in America, Strana-
member. opening
dliminated Betty Scofeld, han employed every possible delay- against Divecha, and Hasselt aided USA,
Greco-Roman will New York I suggest the R. and A. seriousty be seen at the Ing strategy.
St Louis USA, 7-5, 6-2.
Harringay He took consider giving a marker or judge London, this year, when the Olympic 47 before tea.
In the
round of the
Philadelphla He put a macintosh on Brough, it off. He changed his sweaters. Dowers to disqualify a Louise
player in
Games wrestling matches are fought Brooklyn stroke play if he takes
over two out, between July 28 and August 5. Cincinnati and half hours and penalise a player There are the usual eight weight Chiengo per hole if he takes too long over classes ranging from fly-weight to
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The tourists punished the Nor- women's thants bowlers after tea. Morris and USA, beat Mrs H. Rhbany, USA, Ho had conference with thren which he is not in the same class as Hassett added 122 for the second he is with white.
wicket, and then Hamence helped
In the third match. Itay Danen-Hasselt in a third wicket stand of burg meets P. K. Prokopov, Danen- 104. berg beat Prokopov in the fourth round and should be able to repeat this time with the white pieces.
Should Danenberg and Carvalho both win tonight, it will be the last round that Telin deelde which
Hassett, driving brilliantly, ronched his century in two hours. He had batted two and a half hours and hit 17 fours when he played ou to Nutter, a former Lancashire
Homence
of them remains qualified medium-paced bowler. Nutter bad for next year's Colony Champion- just previously bowled strip Anal.
Immediately after taking the new Should Prokopov bent Danenberg, bali. It may develop into a three-way struggle against relegation to be de- rided in the final round."
The Australians finished 141 runs altead, with six wickels in hand.
COUNTY CRICKET STANDINGS
Derby (5) Glamorgan (9) Warwick (15)
Surrey (8)
Middlesex (1) Yorkshire (8) Gloucester (2)
Kent (1) Worcester (7) Notis (12)
Lancashire (3) Hampshire (10)
Essex (11)
Leicester (14)
Northants (17)
Somerset (13)
Sussex (10)
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BRITISH BOXING FRATERNITY. OFF TO THE UNITED STATES
By ARCHIE QUICK
How fielde the public are! How easily clash of styles can make bad contest. Only six weeks previous- ly the same Boon, now booed and slow-handelapped, was, cheered to the rafters for his eple fight with Robert Villemain.
A bunch of the British boxing a no contest-Boons first experience
the United of this. fraternity has left for States. Jack Solomons and his right-hand man, Sam Burns, have salled in the Queen Mary to and an opponent for Bruce Woodcock.
Lightweight champion Billy Thompson and Eric Boon, together with their manager, Benny Huntman, have gone
10 get ghts-Boon to Canada-lossy de Yong, and all of
We had another look at 113 chunky young man from Paris, le them, with most of the Fleet Street is probably the finest welter in the critics, have gone to watch the Joc world, certainly the fittest. Yet he Louis-Watcott world heavyweight took on ex-amateur cruiser cham- championship in New York on June plon Mark Hart of Croydon who came In overweight at eleven stone seven-and-half pounds, and They return by air the following although Mussy De Young Have day. It is probably the biggest draw, we all thought Villeman had
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has been chosen to fght Maurice Sandeyron for the Frenchman'a Coming back with Solomons too European flyweight title at Olympia will be Gus Lesnevieh who defends on July 10, for O'Sullivan has been his world cruiserweight champlon- ship against Mills on July, 20 at the
two British White City.
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On the eve of sailing, Boon was concerned in an unfortunate contest title
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and promoter
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British Boxing Board of Control.
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DOWN AND OUT AT SECOND average with his 13th hamer, two
Bill Rigney, New York Giants" second baseman, cuts loosen throw to first after stepping on second to force Enos Slaughter, St Louis right fielder, in the fourth inning of n・・ Glants-Cardinal game in New York.
Glants' shortstop Buddy Kerr started the double play, picking up...
Cardinal Nippy Jones' grounder and tossing to... Rigney, who in turn threw to Johnny Mize to complete the twin killing. The Cards won, 9 to 6————AP Wirenhofo.
straight time. It was Boston's 11th victory out of the last 15 games.
Ted
Williams blazed to a .408 doubles and stugle all of Feller- for a perfect batting day, Bobby Doerr also hit a Roston homer as did Indians' League leader, Кел Keltner.
Tigers topped Athletics 2-1 in 11 innings when singies by Hoot Evers, Pat Mullin and pinchhitter Paul Campbell broke up a pitchers' duel. It was Tigers' sixth straight win. Houtleman missed a shulout when Ferris Fain homered in the seventh.
Yunkers
ees downed White Sox 3-1, chiching the game in the first inning when they scored two runs on a single by Stirnwelss, Cult Mape's <louble and Joe DiMaggio's triple. Scores were:
Pittsburgh
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Chicago Boston
Boston
THE SCORES
National League
American League
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Daly, Faulkner Load In Cheshire Tourney
Cheshire, England, June 16-Fred Daly, British open champion, and Max Faulkner, another Ryder Cup golfer led the Beld with 69s on the 1,704 yards Mere course today at the end of the first round of the Man-. chester Evening Chronicle's £1,500 professional golf tournament.
Lawson Little, an American con tender, with a five under par 33 for the homeward stretch was well placed with 72 but Jimmy Thomson" of the U.S. was in the ruck with 00-Associated Press,
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