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BRITAIN'S SPORTSMAN OF

THE YEAR--DENIS COMPTON

By JOHN ROBERTSON

When Kipling wrote of muddied oafs and flannelled fools, Denis Compton was not even in the cradle, otherwise these much-quoted and immortal lines might have been laughed out of existence.

For young Compton, so-called to distinguish him from his dexterous brother Leslie, is neither an oaf nor a fool, and has won world-wide renown on the cricket and football fielda.

Renders of Sporting Record acclaimed blin, as the Sportsman of the Year for 1057 in Britain, and few would be found to quarrel with Over 00,000 readers that verdict, voted, and almost 25 per cent of the voles went to Compton. The first 12 were: Denis Compton

Reg Harrin..

Peter Kane

Tommy Lawton

Jack Parker

Stanley Matthews

Gordon Richards

til Kitchen

I Edrich ...

Bruce Woodcock

struhy. nerve

on

handed bowler and Incomparable deldsman for Middlesex in any post- tion, Compton has won most of the honours open to cricketers; he playe football consistently Arsenal's left-wing (Incidentally, he is on the verge of a full England cap); and if he had bothered to take gol? 22.827 seriously might easily have chil 14,177 tenged the omnipotence of Henry

7,380 Cotton. 0.508

This is no wild extravaganza. 5,896 Compton has all the qualities that go 5,614

to the making of ferent all-rounders.

hlá boldness But for all 3,700 cricketer

Compton has all 1,264 stroked, as the Australians well 2,215 know, and with the passing of the 2.105 years he has mellowed to the extent 1,519 that he does not sacrifice his wicket-

as he was wont to do in that balcyon sporting ern before the war.

Frank Swift. Freddie Bils

Compton has all the qualities of the 51፡ታና aristocrat-versatility, equable temper, o superb

on the and Judgineni

big occasion, and a profound contempt for mediocrity in the shape of hom bowlers and slow-witted full-backs. Compton is a laughing envalier of ball games who strides the sporting scenes with complete aplomb, and every now and then flashes out that touch of genius which distinguishes him from ordinary folk.

as n the

The war probably deprived Denis ile of an England soccer "cap", may still play in an International match, though the war gap, service abroad, and a doubtful krice put n brake on bis progress.

and.

He will be a thorn in the side of the Australian bowlers this sum- mer

diven ordinary

luck, should still be scoring Immaculate centuries with nonchalant case As a right-handed batsman, left-twelve years hence.

Kowloon v. Hongkong Chess Match

With the final of the Colony Open Chess Championship drawing to a close in less than a fortnight's time, chess players are still to have some five to six weeks of first class chess before the season closes.

First, there is to be the Championship Finalists v. The Rest match, with, strangely, the Rest more highly favoured to win. With a team that could number on its roll players like L. Karpovich, who has a few days left to reign as Colony Champion, D. E. de Carvalho, Kurel Weiss, A. Biriukoff, V. N. Dounaeff and possibly G. S. Coxhend, R. C. Gardner or H. Ballerand, the Rest could sweep up the Finalists.

There will be a one week's rest between the last round of the Final and the Finalists v. The Rest. The follow- ing week there is to be a Kowloon v. Hongkong match, the first of what, it is hoped, may be a bi-annual or quarterly series, which should prove one of the closest fights of the season.

Chess

Club

Food

number of players have shown improved form, among them Ray Danenberg, Johnny V.V. Kolatchoff, IL.W.

Hongkone is stronger on the top Tournaments. This does not compare boards, headed by such local top- to 1941 when 27 players participated notchers as K. M. A. Barnett, L. In the Kowlog Chess Club tourna- Karpovich, Karet Weiss and G. S. ments nor has the standard quite Coxhead and a lower beard line-up come up yet to prewar, that will include To Yu-lau, R. W. However, Carler and Jacob Ramlee among others. This match will not limited to Kowloon members and any Hongkong resident desiring to participate will be given if he writes in to the Hon. Trial Secretary of the Kowloon Chess Club, c/o the Peninsula Hotel.

The probable Kowloon line-up Champlonship. will be F. X. Sequeiro, L. Schuro, D. E. de Carvalho, R, C. Danenberg, J. P. de Carvalho, P, K. Prokopov, R. C. Gardner and H. Ballerand or A. Biriukoff should the

Zome

be

Carvalli Arthur Gomes. Carter

A tough problem for the Kowloon Chess Club Committee next season will be the decision on who will be qualified to play for the Club

Four only competed this year--- K.M.A. Barnett, the winner,-Aleg Nelson, runner-up, Karel Weins und To Yu-lau. Qualided to compete though they had not entered were limited to eight boards. It would G.S. Coxhead. D.E. de Carvalho, be a good idea to extend the match A. Biriukoff, R.C. Gardner, H.W. to as many boards as possible with Randall and C.E.

Wong. cight as a minimum.

Newly qualified to compete are V.N. Dounaeff. winner of the Premier Reserves Tournament, and Following this, the Kowloon Chess Henry Ballerand, runner-up.

No Club is to hold its Orst onnual

decision ns ns yet been reached on Lightning Tournament. This is | Innovation locally though Lightning status of F.X. Sequeiro, likely of the winner or runner-up for the Colony

Champlonship this year, on

LIGHTNING TOURNEY

Tournaments are a feature

the

chess season masi chess clubs. basis of his tie for second and third

This could attract as many as 30 entries and would require preli- place with

Henry Knight in the

minary eliminating rounds, possibly 1917 tournament. even a semi-final. The best way to

stage it would be to divide the

players Into groups of six.

With

A REAL POSER

But the real poser comh when

the Committee is faced with the

a group of six A round-problem of whether F. X. Sequeira,

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three top-scorers from each group for the final.

ANOTHER MATCH Another match in the offing Is the Standard Vacuum Oil Company against the Colony Reserves.

It will not be the first time that Championship can for one year bei

let

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1948.

SPORTS

LOOKING AT THE GAMES

FEATURES Backstroke Hope Has Yet

Australian Champion Wins Argonaut Handicap

Shannon II, the Australian champion, wins the $50,000 Argonaut Handicap at Holly- wood Park, Inglewood, Callf., with Mafosta second and the favoured On Trusi, third.

A record breaking crowd of 71,739 saw the race.—AP Wirephoto.

The Swedes Should Finish Olympic Football

Champions

There's A Concerted Effort On In Britain To Put Amateur Football Back On The Map

With the Olympic Games Association Football tournament

little more than a month away, followers of the game at home are centring their atten- tion on the form of Great Britain's' amateurs, The names of the British Olympic football team, together with reserves, will be announced next week. Tomorrow a strong amateur team, representing Great Britain, meets a Dutch na- tional eleven in Holland. This friendly amateur International match, arranged at the invitation of the Netherlands F.A., will be a most welcome try-out for the players of both

countries.

By SEE TEE

It is many years since there was such a concerted and well-planned effort to put British amateur football back on the map. Memories are still fresh of the defeat which Great Britain suffered when she was knocked out, of the 1936 Olympic Games soccer tournament at Berlin. It was a shock and a disappointment to many lovers of the game

at home.

It was 30 years ago-in 1012, at] England's questy at a full interna- Bernard Joy, the British captain,

Stockholm-when Great Britain last won the Olympic soccer crown. In those days Britain was the peer of the soccer world, both amateur and professional.

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or

To Win A Championship

By MILLIE HUDSON

Nineteen-year-old John Brockway, of Newport, Mon., has never won a National championship, yet he is the only man back-stroke swimmer named among the 12 selected for our Olymple Games team. He discovered back-stroke to be his best style by a process of elimination.

In 1946 Brockway was not even placed in his back- stroke heat in the Nationals. Last year an appendicitis operation kept him out of competition, except in April when he set two new British native records—one of 1min. 40.5sec. for 150 yards, and another of 62.8sec. for 100 yards -in the Scottish open 150 yards baok-stroke championship,

Olympic Sculls

By HYLTON CLEAVER

J. Sepharindes, of France, who won the Diamond Sculls at Henley in 1946, is coming again next month for the Regatta, whereas J. Kelly, of America, who won in 1947, is not.

However, both will certainly meet in the Olympic Sculls on the same

August, stretch of water in

and Kelly will be here in time to watch Sepharindes when he Orst takes on the best British sculler, B. T. 11. Bushnell.

Others who will be competing at Henley for the Diamonds will he H. W. Verey, the Pole, who has been here before, two Belgian sculiers,

and three from South Afrien, Australia and Ireland.

wlli ..be

"Up to fifteen years of age 1 just swam for fan," he told me. “Then I decided to train seriously, I never could do brenst-stroke so I tried front crawl, persovering till I was 17. But I was so bad at it that I took last chance.' up back-stroke ng a A borough championship win these early days encouraged him.

His first back-stroke time test over the Olympic distance of 100 months metres, made about two

so fast-it was only a ago, with few seconds off the Olymple record of 1. G.Osec. that he wan the selected ឆន a certainty for Games.

Later, an international univer- sities gala in the "slow" Marshall- street Baths, he equalled his British record of 02.8sec., a record which National champion, Bert Kinnear, broke by 1.7sec. at recently Arbronih.

OTHER CANDIDATES

He Awlins five days a week and

The interesting comparison that in July all these will be racingls trainer, James Forsyth, superin- over a course 150 yards longer than tendent at the Newport Baths, rives

once the Olymple course

in him a time chock

a month. Next time he will be seen swim- August.

ming in competition will be in the National championships at Sear- borough next month, after which the other two back-stroke Olympic entrants will be selected.

Also, at the Henley Regatta they will only race two abreast, instead of three at the Olymples.

In fact, it is rather surprising to And overseas entries for Henley as high as 10, which is only three fewer than last season, because this means crews being at their peak twice in a month,

See Club Four

Aspirants will be the Scot Bert Kinnear, of Wandsworth Emergency Training College, Tony Summers, also of Newport, Mon., and runner- up to Kinnear in the National 100

event

(time yards buck-stroke 05sec.), Robert Wardrop, of Mother- and well, National Junior champlon Kent School and Princeton Uni- twin brother of John, an

Olympic free-style versity, who are coming to row for team

entrant, Roger the Thames Cup, are not of course Franks, of London Univercity, and affected by this point, because Southern Counties champion, and neither can row in the Olympic Brian Manley, of Bromley, Kent. Games anyway. Theirs is a second- class event.

It probably applies also to Victoria which we hold, opposition is coming

South from Belgium and Australia. Lake Rowing Club, from Africa, who have entered for the Wyfold Oars, which is also a Class "43" event.

tional match which was played at would have been glad of two

Most significant fact is, however, Highbury on Wednesday, November three more Queen's Park men to

that no overseas cight has entered 19, last year England felded her steady his hesitant team, Be bod

for the Grand Challenge Cup, which strongest available professional only one, J. Crawford.

In the Henley Stewards' Cup, gives our Olymple selectors the eleven: only Stanley Matthews, who Nevertheless, most of the English however, which does correspond opportunity to use this classle event It is quile a different story now. had to cry off at twenty-four hours' men in the side will have had recent

with the Olympic Fours, we shall as the Olymple trial race. In the last quarter of century notice, was absent.

ence of International matches have the See Club, from Zurich, experience most of the continent of Europe, and

Whether they will do so or not is The come ended with Mortensen with continental team. A triangular who were baten here last season by much of South America too, have scoring a magalileent last minute tournament,

unknown, and only this week Bert in which England,

Thames,

workmen's made great strides

Barry, who is conching In improving goal for England after a 40-yard Luxemburg and the Netherlands their football.

individual burst, right through the took part, was held on the Dulwich There is also expected a Czecho-eight, told me he cannot get in- Volumes could be written on the Swedish ranks.

This made

the Hamlet Ground during the Easter slovakin four, whilst in the double formation as to when his crew will story of how the various foreign result 4-2 in England's favour. week-end.

} sculls, the only Olymple rowing; title will be asked to race. pupils, learning little by little at England might have won E

The following week-end England first, then more and more from their easier but reduced their efforts as had a visit from a French amateur

half time approached,

The fact remains, however,

that team.

England Just beat Luxom- these Swedish amateur footballers, bourg 2-1, to winning goal coming FTER a tie on a black "ball game,

whose

Gundar caplain,

Nordahl, from a penalty kick late in"

England were beaten A black is reapotted, and players

Rest played for the

of Europe game. decide frat shot on the apin of a coin.

Great 'There

Britain's best against are numerous interesting

pro- by the Netherlands and strokes that can be played from

fessionals thirteen months ago, were France. Hand, T0

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Dutch national eleven and Great During one period of the second Britain will be the first real try-out

the

two

countries' Olympic half of this Highbury game

they of

team Britain's

wili following include the

actually had England back on their probables. to

heels. Without exaggerating the probably width of the gap between profes-players- slonal and amateur football craft at home, this suggests that few national

will amateur elevens

hold the Swedes,

Line on right of diagram indicates track of black when doubled off top mushion into baulk pocket. A stroke that requires luck perhaps, but then a near miss will bump black sales of the pocket law to the baulk Filahlon.

„Vannan illustrated in rently aimple, Play thin on red and canson, and leave pot red to follow.

the

the

CHALLENGE

won

POLISHING UP

Simpson (Queen's Park); Nenle (Walton and Hersham), Carmichae! (Queen's Park); Hardistey (Bishop Auckland), Ross (Queen's Park), Fright (Bromley); Donovan (Wales), Hopper (Bromley), Mellvenny (Yorkshire Amateurs), Kelleher But soccer Is

(Reading). of (N. Ireland) and Amor hazards Britain's beat soccer ex-Mellvenny is an English amateur in- perts are concentrating on framlug ternational. and polishing up the British team.

have

á krme

full

Al

robin tournament could be over in L. Schure, Ray Danenberg, Johnny British masters, are now better than Matt Busby, manager of Manchester there are, Carvalho and P.K. Protopov, who their teachers in many departments United and ex-Scottish international,

This article, how-

He may not under two hours.

is in general charge, with the say, 24 entries, the four groups will proved good enough to qualify for of the game.

Colony qualify the three top scorers for the the

Champlorahip, are ever, must deal briefly

be able to make another Manchester United of his amateur material, but new first Belgium were semi-final, and the semi-finals the qualified for the Club Championship. amateur's viewpoint.

out of a If they are, then another question

champlona after he should get the very best out

band of keen, robust tool watches arises-what about Eugene Tausz, Olymple Soccer

World War. 1. The Belgians

Three ahead of Prokopov, who finished

important trial the crown in

1920 Olympic

The first Schure and Johmy Carvalho in this

Games which were held at Antwerp Fratton Park Portsmouth, took the

ve been played. year's Premier Reserves,

SOUTH AMERICAN

form of an England v. Scotland en- The solution, I think, would be to

counter. An English A. F. A. side all

Club play. The

Queen's them

beat the famous Scottish The challenge of South America Park Club 1-0.

the single-round affair.

[wo next was strongest in

Outstanding Scots who seem ture on Games: Uruguay were victors

the British Olymple both occasions, first at Paris in 1924 of places in be

team, are the goal-keeper, Simpson back, Carmichael. and then at Amsterdam in 1928.

Italy won the Olympic football and the left

No asso- Amor, England's out-side left, scored crown

at Berlin in 1030. of the total points after next year's clation football tournament was in three of his side's four goals. tournament go down to the Premter cluded in the arrangements for the

On May 8, a second trial was held Reserves and all those finishing with 1932 Games which were held at Los

at Blackpool, and the same lack of per cent of the points in Angeles. 60 or 70 Colony Reserves: L. Karpovich, the Premier Reserves go up to the Although the South American speed on the ball and general hes!- Karel Weiss or A. Biriuko, Club Championship.

challenge is expected to be as keen lancy were still manifest. R.W. Carter, Jacob Roliner and For next year tho Premier as ever, there are strong indications were the chief faults with the 1930 At Hampden Park, Reserves would be much weaker that Sweden may be the football team at Berlin. than usual if this system is adopted, champions of this year's Olympic Glasgow, the final trial was held on

Saturday, May 29, with will be strengthened again | Games,

In but it

football o'clock kick-off.

were Binckpool and Glasgow matches; players from Wales and Ireland took pact.

considerablo # There was Improvement in the form shown at Hampden.

Standard Oil has appeared ns શ team. In 1940, with the late C. M.

A new system is needed and, 1 Sequeira playing on top board, they think, it is time that a promotion beat the

-Chess Club Kowloon

rule should relegation and 31⁄2-11

instituted. This could work well if probable line-ups will be: Standard Oil Company: F. X. Sequeira, R. C. Danenberg. Arthur Gomes, L. A. da Costa and J. H.

d'Almeidn.

all those Gnishing below 40 per cent

A. Archangelsky.

THE SEASON

On the whole, the season has not been a bad one players entered

50 far with 22 the Colony in

the following year by the tall-end There is no professional

in Sweden. of the Senior Tournament.

Tho Swedes

SPORTING SAM

Reg. Wootton

These

น Scven both

the

trial matches 3 In these two Welshmen, 6 Irishmen, 8 Scots and 14 Englishmen took part.

Queen's

famous Park, the Scottish amateur club, whose head- quarters are the mammoth Hampden Park ground, may conndently, expect be three or four of its players to chosen for the British team.

Queen's Park men have alle big advantage of being Actualomed bin crowds and bl. grounds. match nerves and a general over- awd at the gigantic arrangements at Berlin probably had a lot to do with Britain's 1930-falluro...

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