1949-04-27 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1949.--

A Key In

Man Is Needed

English

Rugby

Here is a sorry rugby story. England has not won un international since March 1947. Of the last seven matches we have lost six and drawn one. Ireland has beaten us four years in succession for the first time in 50 years.

What is the fundamental fault with this country's game today?

It is, in Hylton Cleaver's view, that England has not one outstanding Inntch-winner to inspire the side. Wales hus Hayda Tanner and, indeed, Glyn Davies. Iroland bus Jnek Kyle and his Queen's University partner, Strathdee. Scotland has, as captain, the Australian Doug Keller.

Whatever switcher and bratti- wives emerito frm the delibera- tigris of England's seltetors thin Wook, little good is likely 10 come until we, too, find one ace player to

to compare W. W.

with Wakefield, or W. J. A. Davies as captain and tactictan.

The most likely key-man in the England side lo Clive van Rynefeld, the Norman Yardley

South Atrien,

of

Owen Smith.

second!

He can play any ball game brilliantly, and Is perhaps n greater potential cricketer even than a rugby player. But he like in elder brother, must coon go back to South Africn.

WAIT & SEE

African

tour

Our cricket, to judge from

South the

epresent Test particularly is better than our rugby. But don't be too certain."

*Only thing

really

the proved is

tour has that Alan

Watkins and Roly Jenkins are

ali-rounders

Com

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better thought they were. We already knew that Button, Complon and Washbrook could bat w bit, and Bedser bowi

more

the

Un- 11/14

by were thrashed Australians lust ammer.

discover less' we

be thrashed talent we shnli ptain in the winter of 1950-51. Pessimist, am I? Better tha han a too-ready optimist..

HOUSE OF HIS OWN

Jimmy Adams is now Tiap- lly settled in a house over- Poking the first fairway of the East course at Wentworth, e has his wife and daughter, with hiin.

of

housing

Beenuse

dini- culties at Beaconsheld, where he was professonini, his wife and daughter had to live in Cheshire with doubt

more

relatives. No

settled conditions

will help his play.

II be Adams's year. For

may years one of the best of ot been professionals. Adams has an unlucky Roller. Twice he

has finished second in the Open. losing by one shot to Padgham In 1030 and by two shots to Reg Whitcombe In 1938.

I

never

TOO STRENUOUS

Okl-fashioned, perhaps, but Jike To sch exhausted women running themselves to a standstill for an hour and a half on Wimble- don' centre court. Or for half that time under the

KCC TENNIS.

Today's miniches in the KCC Tennis Tournaments are:

I. S. Capoll & W. A. Nicholas v. R. O. Baker & W. Golding

T. Baker V. Winner of H.

Gabriel or C. H. Picktora.

3. Guest v. Winner of W., Palmer or J. Tattersail.

Miss Lambert Baker v. Ars H. C. Lablans.

SOCCER RESULTS

Results at First Division "League soccer matches played

yesterday were: KMB

10 RAF Klchec

4 Club

Basketball League

10

1

Results of the Colony Basket- ball League matches played at Caroline Hill yesterday were:

A Division-Lau Sing beat Union 48-34,

B Division,Yau Of beat S. C. M. Post 42-21; S.C,A.A. beat Black & White 44-37.

Rugger Results

London, Apr. 20.--The follow- ing were the results of rugger

games played today:..

8.

LUGBY UNION

Bath 25, Penzance & Newlyn Telgnmouth 5, Gloucester 9.

Bradford

RUGBY LEAGUE Keighley-10.

Northern 8.

Dewsbury 28. Rangers

-Reuter.

Belle Vue

!

Sportsman's Diary

EDITED BY

Brice Harr

severer conditions of squash rackels.

Sp

I have some sympathy with h suggestion from the Exspllan Mahmoud Karim, British open champlon, now in London, who says. don't think there is much doubt that the guine is too strenuus for women. My solution would be to make the board movable, so that men could play with the standard height of 19 inches, and women an lower."

1

inch cr

Tony Zale

Retires

A lower board on the front wall would inake a “dli" ensier and reduce the length of the rallies.

-(London Express -Services.

Final

Callover

On 2,000

Guineas

London, Apr. 26.-There was only a small attendance two at the Victoria Club, Lon- don, tonight at the final

20.-Tony Chicago, Apr.

middle- former world Zile, weight, champion announced to- retirement day his voluntary from the ring. The retirement of Zale, a veferan of 15 years in boxing, will cause the cun- cellation of Als return fight with the new world nldle- weight champlon, Mareci 'Cor. dan, of France, who took the title from him.

This bout was arranged for York the Polo Grounds, New

STARTING HIM YOUNG

Joe Coleman, Philadelphin Athletic's big right- handed pitcher, and his son Joc, Jr., take to the mound during a spring training session at West Dad won 14games last year. Palm Beach, Fla.

callover on the Two Thou- SCOTLAND'S. JIMMY COWAN, A

sand Guineas, which will be run nt Newmarket morrow.

LO-

Most of the bookmakers were af Newmarket and little business was transacted. Abernant, the favourite, hardened from 2 to 1 to 7 to 4, and altogether only Ave horses were quoted.

Star King was unchanged at to 2, but the odds against Peter Flower and Amour Drake were slightly extended.

The prices were: 7 to 4 Abernant,

↑ to Star King,

7

Peter Flower and

Armour Drake,

10 to 1

Nimbus,

03

Juggling Goalkeeper Won Fame in a Day

By STANLEY MATTHEWS

No ordinary goalkeep er is Scotland's Jimmy Cowan, who defied the England forward line at Wembley and did more than anyone to bring victory to his side. Jimmy has made a study of his art as thorough as a university man cramming for r degree.

When he came out of the Army in 1917 he met Harry Rennie, who played for Scotland nearly 50 years ago. Rennie introduced him to the theory of goalkeeping by angles.

him

Kramer Near $200,000 Earned In Professional Tennis

By BILL MACKLIN

London, Apr. 26.--Big Jack Kramer, who says he is well on the way to earning his second $100,000 playing professional tennis, concedes himself four more years in the bigtime.

"When someone comes up who can beat me consistently,” said Jack in un interview in London, “I'll relire from competitive play completely."

Kramer, who will be 28 on August 1, Is acknowledged the best tennis player in the world today. He swept the anteur Triple Crown" in 1947 - winning the Wimbledon Championships, United States title and helping America hold the Davis Cup-and started to cash in-with a professional debat on Decem- ber 26 that your.

How much longer ean he tough matches in a weelt liko |Cup. 3. United Sluter Singles reign?

you have to do at Wimbledon."nt Forest Hills, New York, 4.

If a guy lives a good clean! He," he old, "and has the will

For

to win, I think he could stay on top until he was 32. Bui t takes working at. I have to pot ration my beers highballs."

Paelic Southwest Champion- ships at Los Angeles, with the French and Australian Cham-

POT OF GOLD

one of them there's npionships tied for fifth.-Asso- of gold awaiting if he [clated Press. and loy off can only prove supreme na ko amateur during the next six months.

Kramer brought his touring troupe, including Bobby Rigs Dinny Pails and Pancho Segura, to Europe, in March. From De 1047, through last month, Jack bent Riggs, his regular oppon- ent, at least five out of six times, They have lost track of the exact Agure on purpose,

The act needs to be freshened, with n Почем opponent for Kramer. He hopes that amateur will capture the Tripte Crown this summer and join the Troupe.

of

SHORT LIST

Kramer rates Ted Schroeder on top of this short list amateurs. Ted is a Californian who helped Kramer regain the Davis Cup from Australia a 1946,

"Equal second, "Kramer said." are Panche Gonzalez and John Bromwich, who is coming out of Australia this year with nothing

to lose and everything to gain With no pressure on trim, this might be John's year."

I show him my bank account," said Jack, "and. I don't think I'll have any trouble getting him to turn professional.

made $115,000 the first year."

Kramer thinks English fane aro the most enthusiastic In the world, and he's played on

leur continents.

From a world point of view, Kramer ranks tournaments in this order of importance:

Chile's Team

For The Davis Cup

Santiago, Chile, Apr. 26. The veteran Marcelo Taverne and young Ricardo 1.. Wimbledon, 2. The Davis Balbiers make up Chile's tennis team which will play Ireland at Dublin in the first

India Anxious

round of the European Zono

Davis Cup Elimination Tournament on April 30,

About Hockey May 2 and 3.

Latina

Tavorne, 32-year-old, Calcutta. Apr. 26.--Tho

100 been 11 member of Chile's Indian Hockey Federation National Championship Doubles has sent a letter to the In-Team four mics.

In Singles, ternational Hockey Federn-he has

defeated such tion urging that hockey will American stars as the Argentine not be excluded from the champion, Enrique Moren.

Since 1936, Tavorne has been next Olympic Games.

a member of Chile's team in the Mitre Cup Tournament which corresponds to American tennis

the. South

pionship.

The Indian Federation states that if no place is available in Helsinki, then only the semi- finale and finals should be play- ed Helsink and the rest of the tournament held elsewhere in Europe.

team chani-

and

Gonzalez is the 21-year-old Yank who holds the three U.5. national illes--grass, hant courts and indoors.

20 to the rest.

In the

The tall and lanky Balblers, next group down,

23. years old, has been showing PROBABLE STARTERS

Kramer places Bob

Falken-

its on June 21. Zale, who will be

burit, the American who won

promise

an international of probable The revised list

If Europe is unwilling to hold player 30 next month, was champion

the 1948 Wimbledon

since he went to the Crown; the runners and jockeys for the Two

the tournament, the letter sug-United States last year 49. from 1942 to 1948, with

Cowan is not an exceptionally Veteran Frankie Parker

and Guincas, to be run

That is how his "guide-line" exemption of a brief period in Thousand

gests that it be hold in India, student at Rollins College, Win- for his Job-just Jaroslav Drobny, the Czech left fellow over one mile at Newmarket at

came about. It is the line which big

which "has the world's best ter 1947, when he lost the erowa

Park, Florida. 2.55

13 tomorrow, p.m. He has to Rocky Graziano.

he marks out with the toe of ft. 11lns,and he has to make hander,

hockey grounds." The Indian He has defeated the American follows:

his boot from the penalty spot the most of his reach. Makapura (M. Benry)

"Drobny is the greatest Federation keen boxing since 1934, except follo

would be only too players, Gardnar, Mulloy to the 18-yard line at right Rennic

here player helped

of the lot on any one pleased to arrange the tourna- Herbert Behrens, in tournaments for four years of wartime ser. Grani (T. Burn), Nimbus (E. C. Star King (Douglas

angles D

again. He showed him how, day" Kramer said, "but un-ments, the message concluded. in the United States and Nassau. to the line of the goal. Eillott) vice in the Navy,

He can see that line

trom by

right slipping the

foot fortunately he can't play three Associated Press.

-Associated Press, Zale is now chief boxing in-Smith), Bear Dance (C. Spares), Barnes (E. Britt),

anywhere inside the penalty behind the left, he could add structor for the Catholic Youth Hindustan

(W. Cook).

Abernant box and so knows his position about 20 inches to his leftward spring (left foot behind for a comes out to narrow the angle sprint to the right).

And

every for an approaching forward.

training day he REBOUND PRACTICE

spends a

a few mutes at "side- Rennie told Cowan how heways running" while the others used to throw a ball against nare doing their extra laps.

This

way he can the shores of

help to rock-face Loch Long so that the rebounds ensure that he covers every possible like shots from every ball with as much as

of his body.

-(London Express Service).

Organisation In Chicago, "This Park

(Gordon Richards). Decorum in relation to the goal when he

Was dificult decision for me to make," Zale said.

"Tite protection of my own health and the Interests of my family prompted me to decide upon a retirement"

Zale is married and has two daughters. Beuter,

(T. Weston), Peter Tower (W. Rickaby), China Verdict (W. T. Evans). Beverly (3, Doyusbere), Drake (W. John- and Amour stene).

The list includes two French horses. Reuter,

Bookmakers To League Bowls

Be "Caged"

Epsom. Apr. 26.-Epsom Racecourse..is to care its bookmakers.

But it is not to keep them from getting away if they can't make the payout. The reason,

The Lawn Bowls League sea son will commence on May 14 und the draw for the first batch of matches was made at a meeting of the Hongkong Lawn Bowls Association-yesterday: There are nine teams in the

were

on

arc

anille.

There

rock-Inces no handy to Cowan's home in Paisley or to the Morton ground, so he uses the ground terracing instead. He throws or shoots the ball. from the pitch against the steps-from which the re turns can be

varied

Benefit Soccer Match For

surprisingly Yangtse Victims

Harry Rennie has another"

It was decided at a sub- wrinkle to co-ordinate eye and First Division, eight in the hand. Juggling," he told Cowan, committee meeting of the second and eight in the third. will quicken your reflexes." Hongkong FA yesterday to

It was decided that catrics

Crown keeps a box of table-play a benefit match for for the Colony championshpis tennis balls at home and hours victims of the Yangtse shell- singles, pairs, iriples and

of practice previous rinks-will close on May 23

and the entrance

fee will be made him

Juggler-though $5 per head.

explained an official, is to give horse players more room.

Bookmakers meetings gradually moved their pitches towards the foot of the stands until it became impos- sible for the visitors to pass along." the official said.---A550-

every

qulic a proficient ing last week.

he

week have

The match can't will be between the Com- The following were elected manage with more than three bined Services and the Rest to the League Management at a time so far, Committee: U. M. Omar, C. P

An improvement of his own of the Colony and will be

to do the Juggling while played on May 26. Basto, C. Pupe, T. A. Madur and J. Tindall.

performing a tight-rope" walk

the dividing wall be-hot ARMY ATHLETICS | will це по registration of tween pitch and terracing at matches

League players this season and Cappielow. That helps balance, FINALS TODAY

essential for the good matches will commence at 4 another 'keeper.

ted Press.

It was also decided that there along

p.m. The Land Forces Hongkong The programme for May 14 Athletic Team Championships | is as follows:

will be held at Sookupoo this First Division: CCC v KCC; afternoon with full teams enter-K. Docky v PRC; KBGC v Re- ed by the RASC, 1 Buffs, 2/10 | erein "B" IRC v. Recrelo "A":{ Gurkhas and 25 Field Regiment 11KCC, bye.

RA. The Hongkong Chinese Second Division: Recreio V Training Unit and the Field HKFC; Takkoo v Filipino Club; Security Section are also enter-IRC y KBGC; v CCC. ed In some events.

The point-scoring will be on the basis of six for first placa In one for sixth place, ensuring strong competition for the places, Two Chinese runners will re- present the RASC in the mile run.

At the concluiston of the sports, the prizes will be pre- sented by Mes de Burgh Morris, wife of Brigadier A. de Burgh Morris,

CDE.

Third Division: PRC V POC; Recrelo v HKCC; KCC v K. Docks: KBGC v HIKERC.

KCC TEAM

The following will represent the Kowloon Cricket Club in the return match against the Sports Club on Saturday, April 30, at 3.30 p.m. at the K.C.C.;

C. I. Russelet, J. Drem, C. Thome- en, W. Baker, A. C, Tribbie, F.

Goodwin, H. S. Canell, W. J. Kenton,

5. A. Gray, T. A. Madar, A. EP Guest. d. it. Evan E. it. Forrest, F. E. Skimmer, T. Lack, W. E. Daker, W. A. Palmer. F. E. Lawrence,

H.

The Bond of he Bulls Regi- ment will be in attendance, by leind perniles on, of the Omeerzy Wey! Cowie Arrent Commanding the 1st Battallon, W. Ruiterworfi. it. Gitting, C. S. Col Rosatet. W. Hong Sing, Gen. Leo, the Buffs Regiment, Lt.

A. Gralism, C. Stapleton, E. C. Fincher, D. O. MineDonald,

B. Parry

Mister Conquest

WHAT. NEXT,"

CH, STRIDAY,

NICOLA IS HONG

SOMETHING FROM US

•WE DONT KNOW ENOUGH

ABOUT HER

ASE YOU

THE ADMIRAL

CHAGNS BUTTERFLIES, CH?

THATS WHAT I SEEMİ TO BE DONG

“WAY UP ON

THE ROCK BA

A STRANGE COVE

CALLED. THE ADMIRAL

-HO KNOWGIMOST THINGS, BA **.

WHY BLEGS YOU, NO!

HE'S A QUEER LOOKING COVE`

› JUST FOLLOW THE FIRST

BUTTERFLY KGT-

AND THEN-Duck!

As from today, owing to the weather, Junior Lengue

will

commence nt

p.m. and senior matches at

6 p.m.

to

The following were selected

represent -the Colony in Interport match against Macao at Boundary Street ground on 75 Yu Yuc-tak; Hau

Hockey Fixtures Yung-sang, Tozer: Cheng Kam-

The following are the fixtures hol, Yau Wah-hing.

V

Pakistan,

INTERNATIONAL Sunday: Portugal King's Park (RNICH) 10 am. Um pires, C. T. Palmer-A, E. P. Guest. International table to date: Ho land. Indin and heland have all

Craig-

and

of the Hongkong Hockey Asso-head; Xavier (Capt.), Mullen.

Tang

Yec-kit, Kiernan ciation:

Wong King-chung: Reserves: Cheung Koon hing. Rocha, Chung Siu-hing. Rollins, Tso Kam-hung, Castilho, Lee Toi-fai, Kwok Ying-kee. Howlett, Yu Cheuk-yu and B. Omar; Team manager Mr A. McAlpine, Ad- Inissian charges will be $2.40 badd 3..25.

visit The Army request to Macao on May 2 was granted.

CHAMPIONS v. REST

won once.

HAF have Fiven a walk over to the Police in the League.

LEAGUE TABLE

Final Standings

WDLY APIs. Club du Recrela 22 1 2 1.77 640 Army

.... 22 15 4 3 72 23 34 72. 10 2 4 24 10'34 Nový Khalsa

213

40 23 30 22 10 B.I. Pollee

7 34 34 25 Civil Service 27 11 1 10 53 47 23 RAF

22 0 2 11 42 40 20 University Dutch 1.2 Cable &

Wiraless

****** 0.2 14 310 it Dackyard R.C.-23 4 1 17 21 71. B YMCA ..

22.2 1 10 15 92

***ilsbuit

BOCÊN - YOU

45 13 13 20 45 15

London Express ervice.

The Champions of the League will meet the Rest at Caroline

on May B. at 5 pm, and the Rest will be represented by: Anderson; Rocha, Tozer; Weller, Craighead (Capt). Santos, West, Chuu Man-chi, Tang · Yee - kit, Kiernan and Omar Reserves: Cheung Koon-hing, Kwok Yu- wah, Ho Sing, Castilho, You Wah-hing, F/O Wilson, Ko Po- ching.

Au Chi-yin,

Kwok Ying-kee, Yu Chouk-yin. Leung; Wing-kwong: Team manager, Mr A. J. Hussain.

AL' the conclusion of the match the presentation of tro- philes will be inade by Mrs Alexander, wife of Col HT Alexander, Vice-President of the ILKEA.

If the runners-up position be Iwenri KMB, and CIA.A., is not) decided by then, the match will

Bo'pinyed a curtain-raiser.

The senson has been extended to May 22 and the following are the remaining fixtures:

May 11: Victory Shield match second round;

May 14: Boong Ling-sing benent match;

May 18: Final of Victory Shield;

May 25: Benent match for victims of Yangtse shelling,

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