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Spring Meeting Opens

At Aintree.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1950.

GOING

SOFT & HEAVY GOING

LIKELY NOW FOR

THE GRAND NATIONAL

a warm Bun come

Liverpool, Mar. 22.-Heavy rain marred the opening of the Spring meeting here today and unless strong winds and along the going for Saturday's big steeplechase, the Grand National, will be soft and heavy.

world famous

This is what the bookmakers are hoping. Under such conditions, a rank outsider invariably wins. The layers face a heavy settling if one of the better- backed candidates comes home, for the, Lincolnshire winner, Dramatic, had been coupled with the leading fancles in Saturday's race in the "Spring Double."

Dramatic has already taken a lot of money out of the books and if one of the "Big Four"-Freebooter, Monaveen, Roimond and Cromwell-wins it is going to be tough on the bookmakers,

Sonic rank outsiders of the Just how_lifeult the Aintree cource can be on a wet day and "jamter” type are sure-to-be with soft coalitions underfoot anong them, Heavy going may to the king of the was shown today when, in the not be

only Itoyat harse, Monavern, who two ble steeplechazes. three out of seven rummers did has yet to prove that he can

only

the distance under last

any not fall in the first and two out of 14 kept up in the conditions. Decond.

So does not look as if more 50-odd than a handful of the starlers will be on their feet at the end of Saturday's gruelling four and a half miles chase.

COLONY TENNIS

Open Singles

Final Today

Princeza Elizabeth slight cold but all are hoping, not least the Princess, herself a keen racing enthusiast, that the will be in the Royal Box at Aintree to watch the horse she the curen owns jointly with

coveted make a bid for this prize. Reuter.

National 'nt Saturday's Grand Aintree, became a clear 100 to second favourite at the VIC- torip Club callover tonight

Public support for the horse, owned jointly by the Queen and her daughter, Princess Elizabeth, lins bren strengthening daily and he is expected to challenge Freebooter as the first market choice before the "off."

Freebooter eased half a point to 15 to 2. Monaveen's stable Cromwell, sharea companion, third place in the betting with last year's runner-up, Roimond. The main hope of the Irish, Shagreen, shed another point to of 100 to 7, while the price Yorkshire-trained Wot No Sun

another three tumbled

points and he is now a firm 25 to 1

MASKED LICHT WINS Liverpool, Mar. 22-Masked Light, the winter favourite for the Two Thot-and Guineas and

chance. the Epsom Derby, made an 11-

shown in Little change was pressive first appearance of tie

although the others quoted, Beaton at the opening of the

Grand National meet-Ruslan Hero, last year's victor, four-day

was well supported, his price ing here today.

Starting a 7 to 4 on favourite being cut two points to 20 to 1.

field of five Fungers, in a won the

Stiker Union Jack

THE BETTING ver one mile by two lengths rom the Aga Khan's Eclat, n

chance, with the 4 to 14 was 100 to 7

favourite, Port of Light, second tho

length three-quarters away third

The final of the Colony Men's Open Singles Cham- pionship between Ip Koon- hung, holder, and Tsui Wai-pul, former Champi which was to have decided yesterday, postponed, owing to rain, and will now be played today on the Stand Court, commencing at 4.30

Mnaked Light, ridilen by

Doug Smith, took up the run ning two and a half furlongs p.m., weather permitting. from home and, striding out Lo

This postponement automn-splendid style, won

day being forward one tically puts the Open Doubles Champion- Reuter, ship final, scheduled for to-day, will be played

and the

mutch

to-morrow.

Con

Considerable Interest has been shown In the

current

tournament and the final clash

seriously

without challenged.-

MONAVEEN MOVES UP London, Mar. 22.-Monaveen. the Royal challenger for next

The full betting Is:

15 to 2 Freebooter, 100 to Monavern.

8

Cromwell

and

100

to Reimond, 100 to 7 Shagreen.

20 to Russian Hero.

5 10 1 Wot No Sun and Castledermet.

28 to 1 Cloncarrig

33 to 1 Fighting Line, Aethon Major and Gallery.

40 to 1 Angel 1, Klaxton, Rowland Roy, Royal Mount, Soda, Inverlochy and Possible.— Reuter.

between Ip and Tru! has been SCOTTISH LEAGUE DOWNED 3-1

looked forward to by the public.

The two stars have big repu- tations in the tennis world and

both have figured in interna- tionint tournaments.

Ip, the defending

champion.

is the China National champion.

He first won the local crown in

ON THE AIR A running commen- tary on today's Singles final at Chater Road in the Colony Open Tennis Championship between Jp Koon-hung, holder of the Singles title, and Tsui Wal-put, former Champion, will be broadcast over Radio Hongkong. This special broadcast will be on the air from 5 p.m.

1047 and again last year when he beat his present challenster in straight sets, He did t take part in local competition

tour of the

Mortensen Leads The

Way To

Victory

Middlesbrough, Mar. 22.—England's International, Stanley Mortensen, laid the foundation of the English Football League's 3-1 win over the Scottish League here today.

SCHOOLS SET TO

THIS AFTERNOON

Hongkong's schools have been working up in the last few weeks to one of their greatest events of the year-the annual Inter-School Sports which will be held this afternoon at the Caroline Hill Stadium.

ON THE RECORD HAIL THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES

ONCE AGAIN!

Hall, once again. the old tennis chould be played to fall familiar faces! Ip Koon-hung.into our grasp.

Tsui Wul-pui, Taul Yun-pul

That came into our hands in

and the others, in the last eight. the early 1930s and the volume. There were three newcomers the only one in a very ancient of n club that wasn't a in the exalted bracket, two library

J. Lt. Col. W. tennis club,

dated some- won Army players, Spence and Capt, A. D. Stowart, where about 1911.

name of tho author the left-hander, Edwin Tant.

his students There Was that surprising escapes us. Into

mw he wished to instil the fact that quarter-final result that

and

The

Spence defeal Tsul Yun-pul, their opponents' court was more

Jass divided

four Into

moving up or has he really?-or to the position of the colony's squares. No. 3.

him.

ago

A

•

con- your

Stewart bead George Chon, The Arst lesson, he wrote, Is was n to learn to return the ball to who two years highly-regarded newcomer but any one of these four squares has done little since to justify you wanted it to go to.

That accomplished, he the excitement of the late 19405.

divido you George lacks mash, but tinued, was on the ngility that makes familiarity with the other side into eight com- him the Army Squash Rackets of the court

By that time, he Champion that Stewart beat|partments.

promised you, you are already n very good club player ond are (or to Wimbledon A post-mortem on how the en route

If you could Jast eight became the last four, were in 1913).

while. manage to visualise 10 different is hardly worth

them all at There are few tennis players squares and find

you were the coming In town who are not familiar wili,

at Wimbledon. A feature of the heats was the extraordinarily large number of entries

with the strong and the weak Champion points of all our tennis "aven". and the large numbers of boys who reached standard in the various events to

been before the They have of these inevitable-same score a point for their school. Next year-it seems

public cye so many years now.

What standards will have to be raised and-a more difficult problem-it is believed

does interest the sports may have to become for the first time a two-day affair.

The picture above, taken by the Telegraph Staff Photographer, shows the

School Sports. hurdlers in action at the Diocesan Boys'

This afternoon, it is predicted, there will be a three-way struggle for the Champlonship between King George V School, the DBS and La Salle College.

May

Survive The Tie With Italy

Britain Davis Cup

Britain's lawn tennis players, if one accepts last season's form as true, will

be "put to sleep" speedily by Italy in the first round of the Davis Cup. But last season's form ought not to be accepted.

Italy's two star players, C. Cucelli and M. Del Bello, have been playing badly of late. So concerned is the Italian captain, Quintavalle, that he refused permis- sion for his players to visit Egypt for the Championships there. Instead, he pre- scribed an intensive practice programme at home.

Although Cucelli and Bello

won the Doubles at the recent

San Remo tournament, neither CHESS TOURNAMENT

reached the Singles final, which was won by the younger Del Dello (Rolando) over Johann-

son, of Sweden.

Our match against the Italians, winners of the Euro- Incan zone last year, will be in England, but whether on grass or "hard" is not yet known,

Nice damp grass would give u

our best chance.

TIME WE WON

An odd fact about the English Open Table Tennis Champion-

that no

native-bor

Playing at centre-forward, Mortensen touched his peak form, scoring both the goals which gave the Eng-ships, In lish League a 2-0 interval lead. The score had nothing Englishman has won the singles

since 1923. to compare with the speed and precision with which

Richard

ALL THE FIGHT

NOW IS FOR THIRD PLACE

By "GAMBIT”

With H. Klinghardt

efe.

There is, of course, very much more to tennis than being people able to do that. There are much more is how good we are as a primary requirements as having two good services being able to tennis-playing community

to the world at vary them, having a "feel" for

comparison

Only

In

large. recently, Hongkong the ball

when the eye is not

f variety beat Salgon in a match played quick enough, having

of strokes and being physically 11te on Davis Cup llues and મૈં

Bt. further back our Champion, Ip

annexed the But the Iden of treating the Koon hung, Championship of Malaya, There other side of the court itke a of course, no Kho Sin- chessboard in based on the fact moment of that at any given kies around.

the game there are anywhere

were,

•

be

Se our Hongkong players are from one to five of 16 squares may not be apparently the

Championa fur that your opponent fact, it

cover, able to on the north an area bounded

physically and by the Arctic Circle and on the

for impossible about/cally south-we can be safe

him to reach in time. that by the southernmost him

Senor last sums up This Indonesian Masin's of

11 blunt statement. A line Coin

stage have reached the of you the longitude through

these find You can Calcutta is the western border where

squares quickly and can judge of our domain. The Thullanders,

how you are nicely exactly would not be going to hit or touch that ball I dare say,

Islands Archipelago.

the

challenge, nor the Burmese.

The eastern boundary tour domination in lawn tennis is the China Sca.

•

For much of this, a recent visitar, Senor Pedro' Masip, is

Senora

to send it there, you are better than any player in Hongkong.

Watching the exhibitions in which Pedro Masip, Heraldo

Maria and

Wein met our

Cham-

our authority. In our interview players and beat them at will. with him, he was assisted by one was struck by the fact that

of our the retrieving who Maria Weiss, understands English but pre-plens was not inferior to that Zerred to reply in Spanish of our visitors. through Senor Masip an an in- terpreter.

our

·

did

caught our

It could be, as Weiss. do- monstrated when he felt uke

In fact, Senora

Wels coit. that they could pile on the dominated the conversation in pace and score easily on a hard

driving gnme AS Weiss the two or three minutes of a

against Spence. running interview we had with

visitors, that the opinions There was another depart- a piece up in his adjourned expressed may well be hers. We game from Tuesday night against V. Zicinsky and in a venture to say that no shorthand ment of the game in which

wriler, however well versed in our visitors often more favourable position, all interest in the remaining Smalls, could take her down Champions napping. That was the dynamic Blackpool player carried out his shooting. World Champion, is thrice a five rounds of the tournament for the Championship of verbatim.

though the Kowloon Chess Club is in who will finish third. is Polish by

To sum up these opinions: It is now most unlikely that Klinghardt and his

There are only three good principal challenger, R. W. Borsodi, will finish with a pinyers in Asta, all of whom the opposition

Interna- score anything worse than 13-2. A play-off seems are up to secondary

tional standard and may yet go further. inevitable.

BADMINTON

C.K. Lee In

The Final

were a

Berginann, present

to Senor

In the fact that off their rackets the ball, on landing, was not inclined to do what if would Mannion and Bailey, the in-holder, but Bergmann, side-forwards, gave Mortensen now naturalised,

normally do off the rackets of to be found spendid

whoreus birth. support,

locally. Brules, of Hearts the lender of

We can claim two native- 100 attack, was

There was a variety of spin the Scottish

winners of the worldl

and check in their drives and often left to piny a lone hand born

Singles title-Fred Perry in 1929 as marksman.

and Johnny Leach in 1940.

They are Felleissimo Ampont was curious to see Ip or the Truls stop dead what looked SCOTS BACKS BETTER

When the tournament started Tuskin. Schure is drawn against There is a good chance that the

of the Philippines, Sumant

like

return or a very easy The Scottish backs, Young 1951 World Championships will there were hopes that a struggle M. Feldman and Biriulcuft re- Misra and Dills Bose of India.

bounce it off the edge of their According

Masip, and Cox, of Rangers,

Where better pair of back than Raniseye played In London. Austria would be put up by the better rives his walkover from E. M.

There was: but it took only

many of their points The only ather game on theThey are up to our standard racket behind them." Left-hander C. K. Lee, and Aston on the English side, the first claim, but it is con- players in the rest of the field. Marchetti, who has resigned. İsidered likely the will stand

and

we are pot the best players Johnny in the world."

however, was in programme SCCE

were scored, in which two points off Borsod, who lost holder of the Colony Singles but even with the stout assist-down in our favour,

those blind squares. to Eugene Trusz the meeting will the up Birlukoff, and

and

pitied A. Carvalho

against A.

Asin's United States that

As to

women, their title, reached the final of burn, they could not cope with nicely with the Festival of Bri-hardt, who lost to the defending

one off Kling- Archangelsky,

standard is very low. In fact, say-die retriever like Tout Wal- could still reach these of the tain.

HOW THEY STAND

Senora Welss assured me, our pul Tail first came into the Bime-this year's Singles Badmin-the

Champlon, L. Schure, Borsodi

W D L Pta local Champion, Mrs Ip Koon-squares in time now and again, beat Kinghardt to even

but the next return would leave UPR. W. Borsodi

bung. would have

good matters between the two.

H. Klinghardt 8 - 2 4 chance of being Champion of him standing or catch him on

foot SIX IN IT

the wrong Asta.

The public attending tho The limitations of our players? Colony Open Tennis Champion- Senor Masip hedged on this and ships at Chater Road look 15 6% and the best that we could and little time to discover the set of

with what Mr out empared Wolf Lyberg. manager of the

in 1948, being away on a tenuls

unce of the centre-half, Wood-

swift

light in 1934 when he annexed ton Championship when he English t

and 1948.

Mortenson opened the scoring

HIS

-BRUCE HARRIS

-London Express Servics.

the local title, He won it again edged out the University after five minutes play, head- in 1930, 1938, 1930 He was also the local slogies and former Malaya Doubles ng home a clever lob from the

Hancocks. in right-winger, hard court champlon in 1937, Champion, K. S. Low, 1038 and 1047.

his two thrilling sets, 18-13 and recond cane' just before the in- younger brother, Yan-pul, are 16-13, at Recreio last night. tervn, following a fine Englizh Karim To Defend us and Schure, all of whom . urter the present doubles champions An all-Chinese YMCA final and have held this crown since

He

ond

movement,

is therefore assured, Robert for in 1030, 1038, Tay being the other finalist.

Another feature of last night's excellent dis- games was the

tennis

the re-occupation. Prewar they were champions 1930 and 1941. Wal-pul also took part in interport tennis.

Both Ip and Tsui participated in exhibition games in Salgon

recently.

IP FAVOURED Although Ip is favoured to "retain the title, it will not be

play of the schoolboy champion, Benzin

Having created a

carlier in the ECt;

when

he eliminated seeded player C. M. Quini in the

Junior Men's Singles event, he created

as easy as one might expect, os even n greater surprise Inst

Dalley scored the third goal English Lengue 10 minutes from

two time, and minute later the Scottia League were awarded a penalty and Young made no mistake with the kick.

Forty thousand spectators saw the match-Reuter,

His Title

92 D

P. K. Prokopov.. 0 2 3 7 The struggle for third place E. Tausz

2 3 7 will be between P.K. L. Schure

- 4 7

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10

nover-

that Tour-decker "stands

C. Dauenberg 3 4 5 Swedish Halsingborg team that provide a good part of the

5 2 3 0

5 2 5 0

4 1 5 4

That they

our

local soccer.

don't use as court

the

showed us how to play football, seating accommodation at

tournament. said about

nre the property of the These

Lawn Hongkong

Tennis Association and were con- structed at a cost of $4,500,

who become hey have been subscribed to y seven clubs,

with two more joint owners, being willing to chip in once their Committees approve it.

have now lost four games, In A. Birinkoff

there is an addition

outside V. Zivinsky chance for Biriukoff, Zirinsky R

P. de Carvalho 4 London, Mar 22-Mahmoud and R, W. Carter, all of whom +

not far behind.

J. Ramler El Karim, of Egypt. will defend are not his title in the British Open

Two

only were played A D. Tuskla gomes

4 - 04 on Tuesday rught. Klinghardt, E. M. Marchetti 2 1 0° 2 Squash Rackets Championship

imuen "Club

black to Queen's V. V. Kolatchoff.. 2 8 2 playing

of the available here Gambit against the Lansdowne

Zirinsky, had M. Feldman ..... 1. 1 from April 13 to 17.

5 1 pace as they should. This is reeded only the finishing touches to put A. Archangelsky

to ponder over Karim

1914 tricky thing is the top

*Defaulted to Tautz & Schure when we recollect the way the player. Abdul Bari, the Indian on to another point when the nfter 37

elder Tsul particularly can be Champlon,

here, there and everywhere. Dark Blues Row

Apparently, tennis 03 IL Full Course should be played in top grade The Hon. Secretary of the

Ho Ka-inu, circles demande familiarity with HKLTA, Mr Fast Time every square foot of the court,plained that the slands

following which the top-grader constructed largely because of develops a feel to his stroke the high cost of hiring chairs, London, Mar. 22.--The that assures him it will Land the for tent

tennis, exhibitions. Chairs

is seeded No. 2, and game was adjourned Quarter-Finals the other two seeds among the move Tsut has improved ousted Univer

ved his game night, when he used vete At Alexandria the British Professional Cham-until Tuesday night for third

when he lost to Ip in the final. for the tile in three.sets.

tremendously Eince

Bath players have powerful

strokes. Ip, however, is

Uic

more aggressive; he Ls also

#reat retriever and Tsui will

not find it easy to win points outright.

TONIGHT'S GAMES

Semi-Finals

Ai Kowloon Cricket Club 7.30 pm. Schools' Doubles:

16 competitors are James Dear,

Birjukoff, in a nice position

Mar. 22-Gott plon, and Gordon Watson, for valuable point to Schure. The Alexandria,

title holder tatter, who had black, won on fried Von Cramm, former Germer Australian man Davis Cup star, today Reuter,,

the 43rd move in

QOD reached

the semi-finals of the

Neimtso-Indian. Birluke Iost Men's

Singles in the Egyptian

npawn on the 30th move to Lawn Tennla International

He, beat Kurt Nielsen, the

Danish young

International, 6-4, 0-1 and 0-1 in the

quarter-final

K, Y. Tso (St Pauls) and B. Championships here.

Ip

and

Trul sport a variety of Saw (Asia) v E. C, Y. Hai und strokes and both are powerful S. Hsi (Wah Klu). wielders of the racket. Ip pos

0.00 p.m, Junior Men's Dou by sesses a cannonball service and bles:-S. K. Cheong and S. F. quarter-finals.

Lam (University) v N.K. Chin

his second delivery in solid. Os

the other hand, Tsui's first de- and K. K. Loke (University).

livery, although not as devas

weak. WEAK.

The The

Other were:

Torsten

beat

of

which was to have started to-

of the

pressure, queening a win.

meets

In

The

stands

CX-

were

400

RAIN HOLDS UP have his opponent pile on the Oxford University boat race ball there or near enough when cost 50

cost 50 centa a plece to hire. pawn to crew today put up a splen-he so desires from every other

can hold TEST MATCH

did performance in rowing square foot of the court on the people at an estimated cost of

other side of the net.

20 cents a sitting. They are TONIGHT'S GAMES Lahore, Mar. 22. The four-

a flood tide full-course trial Few, we dare say, have so available for hire to any club day unoffelal Test match be results tween

from Putney to Mortlake in developed their me that they for Kinghardt tonight

any sporting event, the and Pakistan, Jacob Ramier, the Ceylon

man whose the time of 19 mins. 31 secs. can place the wall anywhere original subscribers, of course,

This is the best time so far they want it to. The precision having first call on their use. 8.30 p.m. Senior Men's Dou- Jaroslav Drolny, self-exiled | tating is comparatively strong, bles-C. K. Lee and W. F. Foo Czech beat Philip Washer, of morrow morning, had been post-night it was last Thursday when

poned owing to the unplayable he played two games against recorded in the four trials which artist is not a match winner on

of that quality The stands are collapsible and won 11 the two crews have undertaken the strength but his second ball is notoriously (Chinese YMCA) v G. Lum and Belgium, by 6-2, 6-0 and 3-0

good opposition ground following points. state

and may Johansson, of Swe- recent heavy rain.

be transported from On their two previous J. Koo (Shailanders).

trials alone.

tho

centre of town to the "I was a good player in 1913," Oxford took 20 mins. 50 secs. two champlon have 0.00

Heraldo Weiss, p.m. Ladies Singles—den,

The match will now begin on Jacob Ramier fold me the other on the food tide and 20 mins.

The point, it seems, Is to Happy Valley and Causeway tough drives both fore and Ming U. Khoo (Chinese YMCA) Argentina, by 0-3, 4-0, 0-4 and March 25-Reuter.

night. He is just short of 70 10 secs. on the ebb tide.

develop the ability to make Bay region for about $60 for backhand and their overhead v Mrs M. Rozario (ecreto). B-4.

whole lot. The rental is reliable. Their volleying is

and it will be a sensation in the Quist, of Australia, Adrian 9.30 p.m. Senior Men's Dou-

Cambridge in their trial took one's opponent run 10 feet one the unsurpassed and their timing is bleg-P. H. Wong and R. Tay beat Vladimir Cernik, another

local chess world if he comes Rugger Results of with another point against tide.

19 mins. 40 sees, on the flood way and be in a position to re-charge is $5 a stand..

turn the next bail to the point A Kowloon club will find the (Chinese YMCA) v B Funk self-exiled Czech, by 0-0, 1-8,

where he originally

transport started

more expensive, Conditions were fdeat at the from. If you are that 0-1 and 0-2.-Router.

London, Mor.. 22. The

good, because It results of chance to catch up on Borsodi, air, and Oxford reached the that's a winner for your oppon- long distance. It has not yet following were the

who is a point ahead and has rowing for a further 3 mins on the

In 4 mins post

After ent will have lost a foot or two been decided where the stands rugger games played today:

RUGBY LEAGUE

turn and at best will will be kept permanently, but bye, and also to get ahead of they met a strong head wind send a haphazard ball over that

And ls probable he

they will Wigan 10, Swinton 5.

completes

and rough water. Nevertheless, is easy to kill.

their home at the CRC, Mr Ho estimates it will cost about $200 The struggle for third

Senor Masip did not tell us to get them across the harbour, sees the meeting of Tausz and good racing crews and only once Zirinsky,

in three the best match on the did their rate of stroking drop that

minutes. He though he believes it may be fertfordshire 11, Eastern programme. Those in the below 30- when they took a takomto stand for further dons less expensively. "TIRIN. 0 Counties Wanderers 13-Reu-| struggle, Prokopov has the next breather at 28 for a short spell. dan we have to go back to one BADE "RECORDER".

hardest battle

is promised for to-day. But the odds are

almost faultless.

A grand game

and S. KC. Howe (Shullanders).

Other resulls were:

on Ip who has a slightly bolter matchi temperament.

Schoolboys Doubles.-J. Pomeroy

He

is

also the younger man

and

it

and P. Allazo best M. Nolasco and Q. Pomeroy 18-8, 10-13 and 15-2.

Junior Men'

Singles.--Denzin

the

game should go the full Saw beat 3. T. Hool 15-5, 0-15 and

ein, it is more likely that he 15-4.

Yesterday's Football

3'. SCAA..

Club, "Junter Men's Doubler. K. F. Navy

a Kwong Wah emerge on top. However,

Mi Chiu and Austin Hu beat D. Chow

: KMB

2 Police Tsui must not be underrated and C. Ngan 10-11, 13-15 and

BECOND DIVISION as he is noted for springing 18-19.

Ladis Doublestise M. Slaver surprises and óà mány 'pravious

2 Talkoo Solleitors occasions have confounded the and Mes H. l. Consales best at Yard Police 1 Navy

L. Ribeiro and MM. Rozario

Prisons

SCAA

~orttics

Leeds 19, Hull 4.

RUGBY UNION

Falmouth, -6, Devonport Serv

vices 11,

ter.

D

tonight has

mile

adtourned game with Zakterly, they dealt effectively with three |

against A. D.-Reuter.

.

of the earliest accoutils on how t

Involves return a