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OLYMPIC ROUNDUP

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1948.

ARCHIE QUICK DISCUSSES

BRITISH COACHES MAY NOT SPORTS FEATURES Glamorgan & The Welsh

SEE THE GAMES

They Will Have To Pay For Their Own Seats

By HYLTON CLEAVER

An Olympic diving conch very niuch doubts whether he will see the Olymple Games, He prefers to spend his money training his divers for the event rather than watch- Ing their performances from a seat at his own expense.

He tells me he puts in two or three hours of his own time gratis every day; that he will go to Blackpool for one week, and to Scarborough for another, and will pay for himself each time. In fact, he has had to find his own accommodation, whereas swiinmers and officials have not.

What he feels is not so much the expenditure but the complete fack of any official recognition. This chief effect is not, perhaps, on the amateur coach, but en the diver who is suddenly deprived of the moral support of the one who has been helping him, ker, for months,

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CANOEING

follow

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One woman and one only will be canoeing for Britain in the Olymple

which

the rowing events at IIenley in August. She is Joyce Richards, school-teacher. of Elstree.

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The selectorn are concentrating on her because women have never be fore been admitted to Olympic canoeing, and In uny Case few Women take canoeing sufficiently seriously in this country to race, They are not even admitted to the lending clubs.

Britain's 300 organised canoeists are, in fact, more Interested In cruising than speed. Of dight clubs; only two go in for racing, the Royal Canoe Club at Teddington, and the Clyde Club in Scotland. The Rich mond Club are likely to start racing when they can buy new bonts.

10,000 METRES RACE SU, there will be 17 countries competing for these Olympic titles in Kayaks, and elght In Canadian The difference? Kayaks have double-bladed paddles and the Canadians single.

canoes.

On the first day, Wednesday. August 11, we shall have the 10,000 metres race, which means covering more than the full Henley Regatta course four and a half times. Time will be about 45 minutes.

In fact,

There will be no heats. the maximum of 17 canoes - the eventa are singles and pairs for bolh men and women-will be sent off at one fime, as in the Derby. As there will be no booms on the course at this time, and the organisers aim at a width of 50 feet, there should be room for all.

WE TAUGHT THEM

Hall, an our hopes for the Olympics have risen sky high.

First Olymple team to be picked was that for folls.

Six have been named; four wil fight in the team event, three in the individuals,

EPEE AND SABRE

Six for the epro aro C. L. de Beaumont, Olymple captain of 1030, M. D. with A. E. Pelling and McCready, who both fered in that Olympiad. The others are P. E. eddard, A. D. E. Craig and Dr Parfitt.

De Beaumont will also lead the abre team. Here he will have the help of Emrys Lloyd, Dr R, F. Tredgold, A. G. Pilbrow, R. E. Brook and Major C. J. C. Moore, a newcomer, who holds the Army championship and has been making a fencing reputation with the Army of Occupation in Austria.

Only three womén will fence; they will use folls; they are Miss E Carnegle Arbuthnott, Mrs Larry Glenhair, the present champion, and Mrs G. Mintan, who was champion bath in 1930 and 1947.

ATHLETICS

By. HAROLD PALMER Coaching for any sport Is Jargely personal, and nothing could be more personal than the work of 74-year- who has been old Bill Thomas, doing the job for 42 years, and has been with Oxford University since 1828.

Erect and well-bulit, Thomas was

just about the best-dressed man on the ground at the Southern Cham- plonships ni Uxbridge. Not for him the casual dress adopted by the majority. He looked the successful city financler.

have What pleasure he must realised from the constant approach

of his "brood," hopping around and looking for guidance all through the meeting.

What pleasure, too, he must have got from their success-Leslie Lewis In the quarter-mite. Harold Parlett In the half, Bill Nankeville in the Next day come the sprints,

and Donald Flatay mile,

in the 500 and 1,000 metres. Here there hurdles.

over

will be hents in the morning' and

Anals in the afternoon,

The countries from which we are

been

DOES NOT MEDDLE

likely to learn most are Sweden. I like his approach to the question -Denmark-and-Belgium, for-ns has of style. He knows all about the the case in other sports, mechanics; but he does not meddie although we introduced canoeing to with a man's natural slyle. Northern Europe when we took Rob Roys there in 1860, these countries have developed their use for general purposes and so far we have not.

FENCING

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Graziano Goes Down First Time In Third Round

In the early seconds of the third round of his middleweight championship bout against Tony Zale at Newark, NJ., Rocky Grazlane walked into a left hook to his head—and this is the result. Rocky got up after this knockdown to lose his title to Zale by a kayo a minute Inter-AP Wirephoto.

Great Britain has drawn a bye into the first round of the Olympic Games Soccer knock-out competition, while China is set a stiff preliminary round hurdle in drawing Turkey as opponents.

Two of the strongest competing countries, Sweden and Austria, meet in a pre- liminary round match. Italy, holder of the Olymple Soccer Crown-the Italians won It at Berlin in 1936--drew a bye into the first round in which she is to meet Hungary.

CHINESE WILL HAVE

HAVE TO ADAPT THEIR

GAME TO TURKEY'S ROBUST TACKLING

The

SAYS "SEE TEE"

Olympic Football Draw

Although_at_the time of writing the exact venues of the carlier rounds of the Olympic Games Soccer knock-out tournament are not known, the stage is set for the semi-finals and the final round. Semi-finals and final are to be played at the Empire Stadium, Wembley, while other matches have been assigned to the grounds of league and leading amateur clubs in the London area.

Semi-finals are to be played on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 10 and 11: the finni is scheduled for Friday August 13. Because of the warm weather, which on occasions has been experienced in England in late July and early August, kick-offs have been fixed... for 6.30 p.m.

The

will

Cricket Revival

"An Enthusiasm Is Growing In The Valleys The Like Of Which Has Never Been Known Before".

Cardiff City have in the past won the so-called English Cup. Dal Rees has more than held his own with our golfers. Boxers like Wildo Welsh Petersen and Farr Driscoll have been Lonsdale Belt holders but one sport at which "Welsh Wales has Inngulshed has always been cricket.

Glamorgan, their sole representatives, have produced prominent players liko Turnbull; Clay, Whittington, Riches. Dai and Emrys Davies but as a county they havu never done better than their fourth position Inat scnson.

But that rise in the table would and Hever at the moment is top of Бест to Indicate that a Welsh the bowling averages.

cricket revival is on the way. Their

not been known before.

TWO

present team has had infused Into If it were not for Godfrey Evans, it considerable youthful talent and Haydn Davien would ho A Test they are creating an enthusiasm in Match possibility as wicketkeeper the valleys the like of which has while stendiness is supplied by

long-service Emyra Davies. newcomers from Middlesex, Englo- And their admirable 440 for coven stone and Muncer, have stendled In one day and a double century by the middle batting and altogether

addl Willin Jones will

to their they look the most useful popularity. They are led by an Wales has ever had. able and popular skipper, Wilfred

side

Wooller, one of the greatest Rugby The players have a grand team football players of all time and hospirit and all wonder they have tells me he has great hopes of been touring South Wales, lceturing,

diances challenging for the championship coaching, attending

and before next season is out.

whist drives and generally whipping up interest,

Peter Clift, opening batsman from Usk, Wooller says is going to develop into best Welsh batsman ever.

The County Club also hopes to open school in Cardiff this coming winter and I understand George Peter Davis will be appointed in charge After serving in REME, was struck down by tuberculosis of it. and spent two years in à sanitarium,

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but he is recovered fully now und I believe that it is the luten- ls making all shots. Strangely tion to take over swimming baths small though Usk is, it provides in the centre of the city where Glamorgan with Arthur Walkins. Jack Petersen used to train under Jones. Welsh International stand-his father's direction for all his big off half, playing for Gloucester, is fights. It would be a big asset to sure to make a name for himself the Glamorgan club.

NEW ZEALAND'S BOXING HOPE

By GEORGE WHITING

Our Games boxers, most of whom are throwing punches

at Wembley, may like to play spot-the-apy between bouts. It should not be difficult to find the stranger sitting ring- side and casting a speculative eye on British bantamweight form.

nake All they have to look, for in a years

this chunky Now stumpy, tow-haired young man in Zealander appear a novice

A

com-

black and white blazer empared with our own Comes men, broldered with the silver fern of New many of whom have been treadingTM

resin since they were in short pants.

Zealand.

By these tokens of nature and needlework they will recognise Bob (christened Colin) Goslin-here from Wellington on a five shilling a day allowance as his country's sole representative in the punching part of the Olymples.

A

very frank and forthright young person is revealed if you can get 20-year-old, non-talker Goglia to loosen up.

SHORT ROUTE

ON THE WAY

Colin-called-Bob has been putting It would appear, however, that

on a multum In parvo act these last three years. Two New Zealand championships have fallen to his prentice punches; 10 of his 23 wins have been achleved without fo tot their bothering the judges tailles.

South Africa, the country that gave the Olympics Laurie Stevens,. Dave Carstens and Willie Smith, will have a full team of eight at Wembley-all from the Transvaal.

Arrangements have been made for whose team is likely to be led by Nevertheless, not only will they action. "Nothing much wrong with to train and practise on

Somebody criticised Lewis's arm the various national football teams Gunnar, Nordahl, a centre forward have to speed up their game enor

"Me? I can't box I know nothing about it," he told me as we chatted grounds of almost world-wide reputation. A man's style," says Bill, "when he which may be used for competition

mously to get the better · of the | quick, wiry Turks, but they does 48.5 sec. I don't worry about matches.

in a Kensington hotel. "I just like Aracnal, Fuitam, Nordahl is a big hefly fellow,

a fight. Let me slug it out and I'm

Stors are light-weight Gerald A man's action as long as he's got Crystal Palace, Tottenham Hotspur but as quick as a kitten. He scored have to adopt their game to their

happy."

Dreyer, a · 19-year-old clerk, and rhythm. So he puts Lewis at his and Chelsea are league clubs

Goslin an who the Rest of Europe's only. Foal in opponents' robust tackling.

apprentlee cabinet- 20-year-old. Victor Trowcel, whoso case with a "Don't you worry, my have been asked to accommodate the gala match, Great Britain V. Should they fail in this, the Turks maker, and a recruit to boxing via off-duty hours as a wood carver The Olympic Games will last

boy."

for training, etc.,

etc., the Rest of Europe, competing teams fortnight, and only one sport will

have been occupied in winning the at Hampden may pass into the first round simply soccer baseball, cricket and table- Oll Saturday go on every day-fencing.

through aweeping aside their oppon- tennis has made Olympic grade bantam-weight championships Lewis probably and to make their grounds available Park In May, 1947..

of ents' neat, on-the-carpet football, after astonishingly few fights. His South Africa, Transvaal und East This world test of swordsmanship established himself in a position for Olymple Games matchies. Ilford,

A lot of people think that Sweden | China will be held in the Palace of En-

from which I think he will not be Walthamstow Amateurs and Dulwich

may spring a surprise, but 27 appearances in just over three Rand. gineering at Wembley, and our shaken- !} Britain's best quarter-Hamlet (where Sing Tao's tourists will dispose of Hungary fairly easily. football forin clearly indicates a

an unhappy victory for the star and crescent. tearns have just been named,

fol- miler.

played their first game in England but the Swedes have

failing. Often they are unable to lowing Inst

Much more than usual interest Saturday's triangular-

lost August) will also stage matches. Derek Pugh, generally reputed to

cope with the crisp, lighting, short-centred on last Sunday's amateur International at Portland Flail be-

be our No. 1, had a recurrence of

NO DISCRACE

passing play of countries which international match at Amsterdam, tween France, Belgium and England, muscle trouble down his right leg.

continental play the more typical This match was concerned only I struck him 100 yards from the

round Most first with foils; It was followed by an

matches are football. The Swedes favour the individual tournament at the Duke effort, Just as it did n

finish as he was going to make his scheduled for the period commencing British pattern.

the AAA Saturday, July 31, by which time all of York's barracks In Chelsea 3 Sunday, where swordsmen from

Championships last year. It worries preliminary games should be played him and he may see an osteopath. off. the same three countries fought out Individual challenges,

PICKED FOR BELFAST

enjoy an advantage Professional

THE TURKS

Turkey, against whom China 15 There need be no disgrace in being knocked out before the first round drawn in the preliminary round, On Saturday evening both France

which may Lewis gets reward in the trip to of this year's games. Several of the and Belgium defeated Britain by Belfast this week. He takes the strongest European countries may be well prove decisive. narrow margina. France, anyway,

first coaches, both from British league place of Arthur Wist, who has among those to fall at the are world champions, and Belgium pulled a musele, in a strong team hurdle.

champion Either Sweden or Austria clubs and the almost as good.

been used tinentals, bove that will represent the AAA in in- go out at this preliminary

for Turkish football clubs Emrys Llcyd,ternational events at a meeting on Denmark will have a tough battle captain of our team. WON three Wednesday.

with

Rypt,

while Polah, who years. Aghis out of fou against the

knocked Great Britain oul in the French, and three out of three ngainst the Belgians. This was beyond praise.

For Britain, J.

FOUGHT OFF TWICE

He did not fence in the individual tournament, but here R. Paul, also of Britain, lied for Arst place with R. Bru, of Belgium, and II. Noct, of France.

The three fought off, and still tledi.

They fought off again. Bru won, and Paul came second. This was just about as magnificent as Emrys Lloyd's swordsmanship at Portland

SPORTING SAM

stage:

con-

by

many

Our sprinters will be John Archer 1936 tournament at Berlin, will and The Turks are quick to learn, and and K. Anderson; four men for the that there are many very good football quickly captured the Imagi- 400 metres and 4 x 400 relay will be amateur footballers Lowia, E. Holderness, Bill Roberts States, and the New Zealand, Doug Harris.

Then there will be Parlett for the

80 metres: R. A. Morley for the 1,500.

sporting in the United nation of their

public. There is no professional football in Turkey, but the game is well or- China, in being drawn against Tur-ganised. Matches have been played key in the preliminary round have a with clubs from nearby countries sporting chance of qualifying to during the season just ended. meet the winner of the Sweden v.

By the way, I learned on Satur-Hungary tie. If the Chinese should

In "World Sperts," Adil Girny,

Arthur Peall soyq:

maxso nooker pot, not netris auficult as it appears, in arten binned by amateurn.

They use the make to get out of A Anooker. but olten avoid 15 na a

HELLOW

Birates.

troke, t

cause of the deck- Pato crie- manship domanded. There is

margin of

thes This again discourages the average player, why then discarda wiint could be good scoring kits,

The right approach is to sit the butt of cuo, ohalk the tip. and ora Lisa until you have accurate com mand of maAAO atroxca.

Bhot on right of dipuram 19 zina In-pit red. It can be played many times from land without incr In the object bali appreciably,

day that Surrey won the inter- spring a surprise on the Turks they a prominent Turkish referee, writes: county championships on May 10. can hope for little more than a good gorks follow the British style where a Dutch national eleven beat The news is not so late on it sounds. rousing game against the Swedes It means that the Mittellesex ab-

so far as hard tackling is concerned. Britain's Olympic hopes 2-1, or the Austrians. Jection to M. J. Dalrymple repre-

In fact, their tackling is often too.

Three days earlier the Olympic senting Cambridgeshire had been

They love a hard, keen! Sweden are favourites for the robust,

with over-ruled, and the original result Olymple soccer crown. There is no me and air very

place, in or Soccer stands-Surrey 91, Middlesex 9015. professional

without the ball Their stamina which Great Britain (with a byc football in Sweden,

leaves nothing to ba desired, but into the first round) was drawn to they are not yet first-class dribblers, meet the winner of the preliminary

round match, Eire v. Holland. and their team work is far from ideal."

By Reg. Woortes'

fast

The Turks learned soccer in the frst place from the British. Tho some is true of many of the players who may represunt China In Games.

CHINA'S CHANCE

the

draw had taken

IRISH HOPES

The Dutch will be optimistic about their match with Elre, while Inst Sunday's victory over Britain-it

seems to have been anybody's game-makes the possible-first round match a very open affair. Holland, Ecored the winning goal on Sunday only five inlautes from time, follow- Several of China's Olympic ing a period of strong British football team havo falely vorled pressure. experience. Sing Too's. 1047 tour,} The result will have been noted coupled with that gained during with Interest and optimism across the last two months of touring, the Irish Sea, where the view will should give the Chinese players aḥ be laken “If we can beat the Dutch, lot of confidence.

we should beat the British."

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