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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1950.

BEATING THE FREEZE

A CURIOUS WEEK-END IN

THE

CRICKET LEAGUE

BY "RECORDER”

It was a curious week-end in the Cricket League, the giants having their day on Saturday with 10-wicket victories against teams that were expected to put up more of a struggle and the surprise coming enough to on Sunday when Royal Navy at King's Park came depriving Scorpions of four very desirable points at this stage of the sea- son and did succeed in depriving them of three.

near

KCC Juniors, defeating the KGVS by four wickets, won the Second Division Championship. The schoolboys" performance was pour indeed, considering that KCC were short of the star of the side, "Tinker". Lee, and were not on paper a helter team than the opposition. With KGVS out for 61, It was ensy enough for the KCC to win though they lost six wickets in renching 63.

The surprise of the week-end was the crushing defeat inflicted on the IRC by the Scorpions, who had the Indians out for 40 at Chater Rond and on Univer- vity by the Army, who had the undergraduates out for 67.

ing right and left except for the Middlecoff Leads

It was quite a different story. Franic Howarth toolt six wic kets for 14 in 10.2 overs, in-attainst the Royal Navy yester cluding A. R. Kitchell, and A. Aday. Navy's wickels were tall- Rumjahn, both of whom were out for a duck as were three fact that H.C. Westeld sloud his IRC round and then in came Len other members of batting side.

the

10

Thus, the Indians who had Lenten

Optimista by the wickats on the same ground, lost by 10 to their clubmates.

Howarth's three wickets the

next day against Royal Navy at King'a Pork brought his total for the season to 21, one short of the post-war record in the First Division and there are quite a few matches sel played.

White nt No. 11 for his best knock of the season and with his bat Wetheld, who carried

for 63, they brought the score to 120.

Houston Open

Houston, Texas, Feb. 25,-

Middleccfl Freckled Cary

three stretched bla lead strokes over the Reld in the US$10,000 Houston Open at the 8-hole mark today, shooting & 69 par for a 16 under par total

Then in went the Scorpion

Len it was very much bis day- found form with the ball.

look six wickets for 33 runs 200 in 10 overs. The bng was Kerr, Weller, Pearce, Cull, O'Driscoll IoT and Howarth, as good a one for ben

bern accom- the enst adi hed this season, and the Scorplans were BD for eight wickets, but time had by then been played out.

Win Jardines

Inter-Hong Match

Came

Jardines delni. Dudwells for na

taler-Flong runs in an Chater Road yesterday after oorlog (30 themselve Sellors et Del- well bapes crashing He took six wickets and caught two other bali men.

One of these was Artby lie was 1 52 when balting condently Sellors caught him in the boundary, and Holdsworth (91) was the only ofler Dodwells bateman to reach double figures,

itawthorn was the day' Top- Loorer. Hu and no 13 fuur before Petvira bowled him.

Artby wa second best bowler with four wickets, and Pervin and Tremleti got three eanh,

The results:

IM. Butchleon, the Pereira

JARDINES

13

... int. e Devian

1,

Arthy.....

13

1. Banquet, b'fold worth

20

J.

. Hawiboch, à Persija 2.

J. V. Sellor, g Devesan, & Hollan

Worth

HD. M. Barton,

Barclay. run out

A. Tremlett, b Arg

A. 4. Howden, Brw Artliy

. . tandele not cut

G. M. Me e Champ An

Extras

Total

Holdsworth

Artist

Carter

t

10

Nowline ABA,

M

It W

DODWELL.9

N. Arty, e Sellers, b Barton

J. Melay, Landale, b Sellons

GG. D. Carter, M.

Sellon

Deveson, bellurs

G. Hok worth, b Sellor

1. Perrira, and b SellorS

10. Hrley, Tiemelt

C. A. Chimp, u Treinieli

E... Larsen, U Sellora

A. King, not aut

Extras

J Tindal, e Sellors, 19 Tremlett

51

n has

11

The 29-year-old Open Chum- from Urmond Field. plon Florida. had

three-stroke margin over Leland Gibson o

Canes City, Missouri, and Red

of York, Penta- Munday United Press.

ALL SET

Ice-yacht skippers prepare for a race across the ice of Gouw Sed

as a cold spell freezes the waters of Holland's canals and inland scas,

Egyptians Want To Stage A Tennis Tournament On A Wimbledon Scale

BE EDWARD POLLAK

WEST INDIES TEAM RANKS WITH THE STRONGEST

EVER

London, Feb. 26,-The team chosen by the West Indies to tour England next summer should prove ono of the strongest that has visited this country from any part of the Commonwealth.

Of the 10 players chosen, five already enjoy ex- perience of English conditions. They are Jell Stoll- meyer, Gerry Gomez, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes and Alan Rac, and providing the weather is suitable, most of the others should nettle down quickly.

Jockeys Have A Problem

Staying Slim

Apart from a k specialista the team la well-equipped with all-rounders, type English cricket so badly lacká,

THREE FAST BOWLERS The strength of the aldo seems to be in its batting pad fast bowling. Warrell, Weckes, Stolimeyer and Gomez aro fine batsmen with a ricia vocabulary They are well sup-

of strokes.

London, Feb. 26. With ported by Kem Testrail, Robert Christioni and Clive Walcott the who is also the wicketkeeper only three weeks to opening of the flat racing There is a battery of threo season in England on March genuine fast bowlers in lines Johnson, Prior Jones and Lance 16, jockeys are tackling the Pierre. Johnson cianda six

of shedding problem

thefect, four inches and is 30. Ilo extra weight which has ac-will, no doubt, be kept back as cumulated during their the "shock man for the Tests.

In the only Test for which period of inactivity.

Johnson could spare the time to Gordon Richards, who will be play against English two years attempting to become. the chum-ego, in Jamaica, he took pion jockey for the 23rd line, wickets for 98 runs. is 11 pounds over the mark he

has set himself.

Stepping on several weeks

10

FINE LEADER John Goddard, the captain, is

of winter sports in Switzerlant a fine leader as well as greal

the scales after

Richards turned the pointer to eight stone, 12 pounds.

shail be down to eight stone, one pound in time for the

Cairo, Feb. 26. Gorgeous Gussie's recent romance and her lace panties-if she wears them will add-to-the excitement-of-Egypt's 1950-tennis-scason_Beauti-Lincolnshire sald--the cham- ful Gertrude Moran Iteads a team of Tour American girls in Egypt's Interna- tional Championships due to start on March 3 at the Gezira Sporting Club, Todd, Barbara Scofield and Gloria Butler are the others.

The Egyptian Lawn Tennis Association (ELTA) has claims the forthcoming Championships will rank behind Forest Hills.

Pat

ambitions

year. It only Wimbledon and

"We are confident we can do better than Roland Garros (where France's International Championship is played," said Habib Sursock. ELTA secretary gen- eral, recently.

Anal

from answer

Billy

ericketer. He is a hard-hitting left-handed balsman and right-arm modium-paced off- break bowler.

The sile toughened by the minty of its mem- will be hard to get out and English cricket is

another testing time.

Indles team will match against

plen, who added that he would experience of rely on plenty of rondwork and bers In India, gymnasium exercises.

Play

in for ant The West

a one-day the Indian Gymkhana Osterley Park, Middlesex, on May & and two days later will

t

play Worcester In their Arsi match against the Counties. Reuter.

Richards, like most fat race jockeys, prefers strenuous exer- cises to Turkish batts for re- ducing weight. The "hot" room meilini

is used only when

to get off twa on jockey wants three pounds quickly and ten porarily. Most of them find that weight lost quickly in a Turkish Surrock, addressing a news Singles semi-finals because of i Surrock said he was expecting both returns it as rapidly.

Incrensing weight was a star-lumbago. conference, read out

entry list for studded

the It was reported at the time-Talbert of USA, John Bromwich worry to the former Rayal Joc- tourney which Frankie Parker and the report proved true à and Geoff Brown of Australia, key, Joe Childs, towards the end

Cucelli The few months later-that Drobny Glauni (USA) won last year.

of Italy and of his carver. It was his prac- Ampon of Women's 1949

been ordered out of the Felicissima

the tice to walk the last few miles Champion_wa had

meetings,

Guatemala, wearing heavy

Feb. 30. The Madame Nelly Adamson (an-

tournament

Czech Philippines. Other "probables," to by the

Central American aud ary) of France.

Germans he added, were Lennart Bergelin lathes and gloves, whatever the sixth

This exercise helped | Caribbean "Olymple" Games The women's event,

were playing of Sweden, Robert Abdesetom weather,

were opened here by the Pre- dition to the four Americaus, Drobny's partner, Vladimir of France and Jacques Peten of to keep him slim-Reuter,

sident of Guatemala, Senor Juan will comprise Britain's Jean Czernik, also self-exiled, is ex- Belgium.

Jose Arevalo, Quertier, Italy's Annalisa Bossi, and Airs Heraldo Argentina.

authorities, because in ad-and Spanları

Weiss

REIGNING STARS

In the men's tourney, most of the reigning stars of the world's amat:ur tennis will be

action:

Jaroslav exiled

but

CABIN

Ave sets by

Collegiate

In

Mile Record

Bettered

Weins of

These

tomorrow.

roundh Ptart

Schoolboy Wins Sporting Club, Sursock said.

A Set From Senora Weiss

The last of the exhibition ten-

matches

visiting by the

tends

reat Caribbean Games

Declared Open

Noor Beats rembling that

Citation

It a ceremony closely ro- world of the Olympics, about 2,000 athletes from 14 countries and islands including Curacao, Jamaica

and

n

Inta

pected to come with hin

these klars of mare Against Senndinavia will be repre-

12 nations, Egypt will scuted by a strong team com-than

its champions, Ally and Kurt match prising Einer Ulrich Nietsen of Denmark, and Tors-Shafei and Marcel Coen.

More than 100 entries of local ten Johanssen of Sweden.

Trinidad marched Other stars whose entry has players are expected. Sursock

Guatemala's newly-completed been confirmed are Pedro Masiprald.

will play in a

Arcadia, Feb. 26-Noor, "Stadium of the Revolution." Drobny, the self- and

Bartoli, Jaime

Spain, qualifying round as the tourna

The Games were formally de- Czech,

Argentina, ment proper will start with 33 who raced in England in the renched Wim-Heraldo bledon's final In 1949 to be Jack Harper of Australis, Philip, players in the Men's Single and ownership of the Aga Khan,clared open when a runner with

of Helgium, Patty 16 pairs in the Men's Doubles scored a startling triumph Stadium. Every Ted pe Washer

symbolic torch arrived at the beaten 112

zent of the qualifying U.S., Heuri Cochel of The Schroeder (USA). He played in of the

Was over Citation to win the 50,000-capacity Stadium last year's Championships here France and Germany's Gottfried

retired from the ten's Con Cramm.

$100,000 (£35,700) Santaotled-Reuter. A new centre court. with Anita Handicap by a length seating capacity of 6,000, in

DUNCAN CLARK'S being

the built t

Gertra and a quarter.

BEST EVER The

Noor was ridden by Johnny of the event, sceno

Timaru, New Zealand, Feb. 20. Cairo's leading sports club, ex-Longden, and his tune of 2

over several acres on ins. for the mile and a quar--British and Canadian Empire beautiful Gezira, an island in ter race was a new track record. athletes put up some fine per- the Nile, in the heart of Cairo-The previous best was 2 mins. formances and received a grand'

1-1/5 secs.

reception from the spectators at Associated Press.

Timaru Lea finished third with Pon- the

sports meeting ITALIANS SWEEP UP der fourth. Noor is now owned yesterday.

Scot Duncan Clark put up by Mr Charles S. Howard. The

best performance rat by New York, Feb. 26.-Bill nis

San Remo, Feb, 26-Rolando second, third and fourth were his

throwing the hammer 181 feet Mack of Michigan State players took place at the Chi-

the Men's Singles in an inter- Mr Howard bought Noar from 31⁄2 inches-Associated Press. College stashed the inter-nese Recreation Club yesterday del Hello. of Italy, today won all from the Calumet Stables.

afternoon.

national lawn tennis tournament the Aga Khan in England in collegiate Amateur Athletic

Champion here. He defeated Torston Tho Schoolboy

1018 for an undisclosed sum. Asanciation of America re- Benzin Saw shares honours with Johansson, of Sweden, by 8-6. Citation was the favourite, with Bad- Chinese-born

run to- Mrs Weiss, winning the first sel 6-2, 1-6, 7-5 in the final...

Noor second in the betting*** Wong Peng-soon, 31-year-old

cord for the mile

Italian players also won the

Colombo, Feb. 26.-Ceylon 93mington Champion of Malaya, arriving at London Air night, winning easily in the 6-2 and losing the next 3-6.

of four Harold Welas beat Teui Wal-Women's Singles and the Men's

were 47 run for four wickets at port for the forthcoming All-England Badmington Cham-sparkling time

pui 6-3, 7-5 and Pedro Masip Doubles. Mrs A. Borsi tonl: the

Women's Singles, with a 2-6, Pierre Jodot Wins lunch on the second day of the unofficial Toot pionships (March 1) at the Empress Hall, relinquished minutes 11 seconds.

beat Ip Koon-hung 7-5, 8-7.

three days'

Commonwealth. Paris, Feb. 20-Pierre Jadet, against Mrs Welas did not appear to 8-2, 0-1 win over a compatriot, by David Freeman of America. He brought to London

Miss Niela. Mack won by 15 yards, look- with him four racquets-but no food.

ing over his shoulder at Thomas be at home on the hardcourt un-

Martello del Bello and Ginni of Paris, today won the Frenca touring team here.

bal dr- Cham- The Commonwealth A. Kirwin of Pennsylvania. De-til the second set and Saw had

covering the 21-clared their first innings closed Zending champlon George Wade no trouble taking the first. He Cucelli won the Men's Doubles, Cross-country Cycling

and Jack plonship, of Yale University led for the played well to take the Arst defeating Johannson

mins. 30 aces-Reuter.

five wickels-Reuter, irst half, but then Muck forged three games with ease placing Harper (Australia) by 6-2, 6-3 ilometres (14 miles) in 1 hr. at the overnight total of 355 for ahead and stayed there.

his shots with great accuracy and and 0-1 in the final-Reuter. good-net work. Mes Weiss won the fourth and fifth games, but was unable to make further pro- no apparent effort to fight back in the eighth and gave the game away.

However, she took the Brst three games of the next set even though she opened badly with 10 Camo two double faults. rc-

far from impressive and Sew began to have trouble in keeping up with the cross-court shots of Mire Welas.

Total

Bowling Analyst,

It

W

Farely

Sellers

llarton

Trembit

League Cricket Averages American

BATTING:

T. Grant (R. Navy)

N. E. Arthy (Optimize)

D. A. Oakley (Commandos)

A H. Madar (IRC)

A. R. Kilchell (IRC)

W.

M. Holme

(Army)

Darbyshire (Army)

1. Darbyshire

(Craigengower)

H. A. Rumjalin (Crafgengower)

K

G. N. Gosano (Recreio)

D.

Ε. Ν.

(Optimists)

Cambrill

T: A. Pearce

A. D. Panton

O. J. Kerr (Scorpions)

K. C. A. Ball (RAF)

(KCC)

A. Moorhouse (RAF)

E. J.

F. Stokes (Scorpions)

G. II. Cunnington (RAF)

F. A. Weller (Scorpions)

Inns. N.O. Iluns 11. S. Aver.

9

301

81 37.02 497 70 35.50

11

273 75* 34.12

а

220 67 32.57

343

14

330

203

55 40.

204

30.00 29.00 28.10

27.16

Springs

A Surprise On

The former meet record for the mile was four minutes 12 seconds, set by Leslie MacMit-

European Skiers thell of New York University in 53. She made

1941.

Dick Church, Syracuse new meet re- Banff (Alberta), Feb. 26. University, set a

cord for the two-mile run at

29:

77+ 31.30 The United States pro-inutes 7 and 2/10 seconds.

State CollegeT Michigan duced a surprise win in the North American Downhill tained its AAA title by a mat

here in of one point, 361 DG 20,00 Ski Championships

Michigan State tcored when the usually invincible Seton Hall, 20; Manhattan, 19, European skiers bowed to Yale, 10; Army 16, New York Miss Janette Burr in the Univerally, 14; and Penn State, women's event.

The final event of the meet, the broad jump, determined the Erika Mahringer, of Austria, outcome.

Fred Johnson of was second and Dagmar Rom,: also of Austria, who won both State leaped 24 feet 8

stalom beat Andy Stanfield the giant slalom and world titles last week, was Hall by threo inches. fourth, behind Canada's Sandra Tomlinson.

305 326 -101*

GG* 57.79

27.72

22 18

232

60

213 GI

23.00

212

3-1

23.35

277

GB*

25.00

20.00

273

05 25

53

22.76

-286

40

22.00

24.90

210

21.00 60

247 03* 20.50 214 G4

20.33

262 52 20,15

Not Out. Qualification: 200 runs for an average over 20,00.

BOWLING:

F. Howarth (Scorpions)

F. A. Weller (Scorpions)

R.

E.Lec

(KCC)

L. While

. T.

:

نبال نمایه

Harold Weiss played a beller game on the hardcourt and bis first services were very accurate to Face Teal many times.

Teal had every opportunity to win the second set but he was He Michigan just not able to make it. inches to look the first three games, font of Seton the next and then took the DOORO to 5-1 in his favour. Weiss fought back very strongly and outplayed Tsal all over the court to take the next six cames.

Ip was well in the

Fred Will won the special two-mile event in the excellent ime of 8 minutes 55 and 2/10 Trinde Zeise-Jochum, of Aus- seconds beating his arch-rival, tria, who won world's downhill Ireland's John Joe Barry by 10 7.00 crown at Aspen, tore a muscle yards-Associated Press. 15 201 30

in her leg on Friday while train- 8.70

New York, Feb. 25-Gilbert Brown Univeraly 283 31

ing over the men's course and 0.12

Borjesen of 394 40 0.05 203 20 10,15

21 10.42

barle

throughout both sets, but he too was unable to make the grade

With score at 5-3 in Ip's fa- your in the first set he allowed Masip to overtake him and win. In recovered in the last sel and took the first three rames Charles R. Moore of Cornell and the fifth and then the bat-

could not compete.-Reuter. won the 35 pound weight throw

Dagmar Rom, 21-year-old at 50 feet 1% Inches. 11.03 Austrian, today won the North

two runs of 54,3

11.11 American Women's Slalom title broke an Intercollegiate amateur Lie really started. Manip caught

Overs Maldens Runs Wkts. Aver.

235

M

501 71.

104.4

G.

N. Goanne (Recreio)

112

23

120.4

03.1

10.42

113

30

169

43

420

1001.2

#13

11.29

198

with

A

down the half-mile course.

149.1

125.1

306

31

132.1

132.1

433

VG 12.0

128

118.4

708

nk 12:0

12.07

.138.2

303

30

13.10

100

21

308

23 13,3"

|Tanner-Up,

alse of Austria.

K. C, A. Ball (RAF)

.102.5 121

13

410

30 13.6

300 20

14.35

A. It. Abbas (IRC) ...

100,4

18. 330

2+1 145

Qualification: 20 wickets for an average under 15.00.

A. R. Minu (IRC).

L. G. Gosano (Recreio)

J. C. Kah (University)

(B. Navy)

Mahon P.

(Optimists)

R. S. Cull (Scorpions)

G. N. Graves (Commandos)

Corfield

1.

C.

(Army)

(RAF)

J. C. Tyre (University)

T. H. Lean

N. Gambrill (RAF)

W. M. Mitchell (Army)

6300

1er uneel fime was 4.2 yards event seco.

Mahringer, Erika

Athletic Union indoor record of up tad they played. game for 10 years' standing by running game.

heat in the 800 qualifyin

Madp, who plays the game in one minute 11 with a carefree air. tupk the baseline judge to task over one faster than that of the seconds former mark was one shot.

1wo Ho then served The

seconds ect by double faults, but won the game minute 11.2 James B. Herbert of New York from love 40.

The in- World University in 1940. the Miss Rom won

14 one world record Slalom and Slalom Champion-door

10.2 seconds--13 (Colorado) minute ships

at Aspen

sociated Press. last month-Reuter.

In the fourteenth garne Ip hnd sot point three times, but could not tol

Reuter.

Ceylon 47 For 4

the

Rex Slaughter, 5, gets the know-how in batting from his famous Cardinal father, Enos. An interested onlooker is 18-months-old Patricia Mary, who does not seem frightened by the bat swinging right over her head. The Cardinals' slugging outfielder has his duties cul oul for him during the off-season.