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RECORD

SHARK CATCH

Shown at West Palm Beach, Fla., is, the 845-pound maco shark caught off Bimini, Bahama Islands, by Aksel Wichfeld, left, which establishes an Atlantic coastal re- cord under International Game Fish Association listings. Capt. Ed Moore, right, was at the control when Wich- feld caught the shark which weighs about 100 pounds. more than the previous record catch.

The

"Lively" Ball

Leads To Baseball's

Most Bitter Wrangle

By CORNELIUS RYAN

New York. Baseball, America's national sport, is in the mids! of a bitter wrangle about the "lively" ball, with

that its use will surely ponents of the hall claining

reduce baseball to a minor sport.

op-

The presidents of the two major leagues and the companies which make the baseballs insist that the ball is the name as it has been for several years—but 'the' hitters and pitchers have a different claim, and the statistics support the players.

RECORD PUT

goes

to

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1950.

"Unfair!" Says Goddard

THE WEST INDIES WILL NOT RE-VISIT ENGLAND FOR SEVEN LONG YEARS

BY PETER DITTON

London.

John Goddard, West Indies captain, is indignant and rightly so. He considers that the Imperial Cricket Conference have treated the West Indies unfairly in noi arranging another visit to England for them be- fore 1957. It is indeed a bad slip by the International Committee which arranges all cricket tours.

The South Afrleans and the Australians come to England every four years and even the New Zealanders, who were only accurded three-day Tests, get more frequent opportunities for visiting this country than the West Indies,

Now this, surely, Is a ridiculous state of affairs. The visit of the Australians is an event for which all cricket fans wail with eagerness. But who in all honesty could say that the South Africans or the New Zealanders are, or ever have been, a bigger attraction than the West Trulies have been this summer.

Will Arthur Wint Be

A

The First To Run

Four-Minute Mile?

Bolh the South Africans and the New Zealanders have their for players. Nourse, itowan. McCarthy, Donnelly, Sutclifte oud Halce are a few of the nones which cume to mind.

WEALTH OF TALENT

But Just reflect for one mo- ment what wealth of talent in contained in this West Indies in Worrell, Weeker, Walcott, Marshall, Ramadhin, Valentine. Taeso Sve names to conjure

The four-minute mile. A runner's dream? Friends with-ble names. They have

of Arthur Wint, the 6ft. Gin, Jamaican with the 8ft,ved themselves among stride, don't think so.

"You can do it," they're telling him. And Wint. with his long legs, nightmare length of stride. seems ideally suited to be the first man with four-minute

mile.

the

world.

Wint equalled the AAA half-pay-out. And he has one stern side the point. mile championship record at evitie-Erie Moore. While City with 1min. 51.6seen.

เรีย four quarter mile Inpa each in 60secs, should be well within the reach of those giant lett

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EARLY

BIRDS

Firmly a believer in the early bird story, Mannger Jack Gibbons of Brentford

FC has started the team's training for next season and welcomed many new players. Among the newcomers are: T. Jones, G. Bristow, Peter Broadbent, and R. Hart. The pitch also, has been draked and re-turfed.

"We Cannot

Be Beaten

At Being Good Losers"

Is A

Phoney Line

ވ

I do not think it is funny that Britain appears incapable of holding her own

in international sport. I am unable to conjure up that weary smile and drawl: “After all, old boy, we did teach the rest of the world how to play... and, any- way, it's not the result that matter, it's the game.”

When we get a thrashing from any overseas opponent—America, Australía, West Indies, New Zealand, take your pick-it seems to me as regrettable

as the failure of any of our "export only" goods.

After all, sport is also for ex-port.

Kruntest cricketers in the

Whether they Would bear comparison with Constantine, Sir Donald Bradman, Dempster and Nourse Sur, or any other lants of the past, is completely The fact in That in prezent day cricket there players have few It any TWO CHAMPIONS

equals certainly nat outside The people who gibber about Amateur Athletic Association Australia.

into session to decide (1) the

the rault not mattering tre Lest British athlete

the The Weat

Inelies, wh took the fist to protest bitterly af

ter cach depressing defent. the same time to acclimatize them- championships

(2) JETA Wint hapeal to break that half-

They whine that things are not champion of the year.

aves, play cricket it was

what

to be, that they used "Fut mile record. Heavy almosphere,

Witness favourites are Rolandul to be played.

of five scares

athletes haven't the guts and a rain-drenched track, absence Hardy and Dr Frank Aaron, 30-their record

of of sunshine robbed him of his year-old pathologist from Halt don't let one of their moeit

strmina five hundred in a day.

have. they used To

the Anel, ambition to beat Imin. 50scus. Jax, who won the six miles in

anyway, whnt Government going to do about WILF COMES BACK National, Native

performances-the scor- of 851 in

day against Harley-street specialist tuldchampionship record tiine.

We wish to remain Wilf Waters, 27-year-old South Last ran to hold both awards Leicestershire-pars noticed.

There West Indians are ob. Kenuine amateur in a world London engineer, at the end of for the same performance-the

the second greatest at-

where ble sport has become big "Ease lust

season,

off the peerless Sydney Wooderson for vinusly

in cricket today and business, well and good. cycling for a year or so, do you good."

It's 3 miles in 13mins. 53.2ares.|truction

clon't let us In that case, sympathise with God- In 1946.

to challenge nations he says dard when

that his attempt So Wilf now takes his eyeling LUCKY PUNCTURE

country has been treated un-

who long ago decided that In- ternational port is indissolubly tied up with national prestige.

Above all, don't let us play this phoney, hypocritical line that we cannot be beaten at being good losers.

over

AAA reent

one CAN

TOO MUCH CRICKET

in small doses, but he entered Twenty-three-year-old Roland fairly. British amateur sprint Hardy. of Chesterfield, Wa championship and finished eyeling to work when, darn it, second to Alan Bannister, now

he got a puncture. three times holder of the title.

Will hopes that second puts hit into the British team for

His eyes

So he walked-and liked it se much he kept on walking for business or pleasure.

Lawrence

him home.

Allen

How about being good winners for a change?

PETER WILSON INTRODUCES

naturalised their

HIMSELF

In the

toss

Esqunling hare on the bleak marshes of Altear and Lydiate, where boulles onul tweedy "eports" assemble for coursing.

They tell

me there is skill in the way the greyhounds turn

the twisting, "forlured

beant, whose

out of

Illto eyes are bulging its head like organ slops nud whose cries come those of a senlded child,

like

I

say there is cruelty in a contest where the quarry, even It seems to escape, may yet ile, outside the course, of a heart ruptured by the panic which the slavering fangs havo Iraised in its furry belly.

HOW I PITY...

pathetic

And sport's most spectacle? That's easy. Almost jany woman athlete trying to

shine in sports which designed for men.

How I

were

1

We probably are playing too much cricket in Engkind. It probably in a very good idea to The ball is much "livelier"— | the

world championship: 1л That was two years ago, And have one free season every four that is, it

faster and Belgium next month.

Roland knocked or five yeaTS. recently

But why lake it

ni

toit of the men

pity those women farther when hit, even if not are on blister prizes

Imps of the British alleomer out on the West Indians.

HIS INSULT

world's toughest game, profes- Kolfers, with their billiards hit very solidly-and the dif-

MODEST ERIC

native, and ^^^ They may be the national.

At Wimbledon, an American Isional boxing, youngest of

They're known table legs, their leathery faces, ference cau be pictured by

tho balding little seven Slightly built,

miles returtda with the the cricketing colonies and do-

described newspaperman.

F "licensed pickpockets."

and their clumsy great paws! imagining the change in soccer fellow who sit out of the golf † fastest-ever time of 50mins. minions but they

play of one of if the ball should begin

Is there They are the under-scum of hist to become the are bidding disappointing

und said: compatriots, ballyhoo - 28 year-old Eric 11.0rees.

anything more un- bounce faster and farther from Moore, from Johannesburg -- is Club-mate

The "Gee!

think those fight managers who

feminine than the one final wordt.

Anyone would

amite of a boxers into easy passes off the head or fect. | among the

Amazon after she hos Empire "invaders" followed

the pit of tennis tact Inperial Cricket Conference by the'd become a

| punishment with who are aller

the cynical been beaten-n smile as phoney our titles and which inspired that great their action have deprived the Englishwoman!" Statistically, the picure

i3cash.

walker Harold Whitlock,

of now young people of England

But phrase: "Go in and wh-he as a glass cyst An insult, of course. an this: for the week-end of June "Serious-minded, modest Eric secretary of the floud Walking Opportunity to see some of

or the

how could you resent it when (can't hurt us."

How infinitely unattractive 23-24-25, there were 1 kome has no time for Horgeous poffer Association, to prophesy: "Hardy greatest batsmen in the world. you'd just seen our girls win runs in 37 games; the Yankees

They have the in the wholo

equally are most of the Eirls who, red hearly running and Allen witt finish first and cutfits, or the

By the time these youngsters only 38 games and Detroit Tigers tie a record commentary of wisecracks. He recond in the European Games re old enough

come and perspiring, heave weights, to appreciate even matches of the Wightmannical knowledge that with 1 home

ben

Over barriers, or high water, blindness, struggle 趋 one bertan saving for his British trip 18,000 metres walk in Brussels cricket and the next West Indies Cup?

next month,"

team is due to visit England It How would you answer ir paralysis, punch-drunken knock-knced or splay-footed at stil draw their 25 the athletic meetings, or, moet probable

as I was, more than

you were shown,

il ness they

stupid of all, epe men on tho PUBLICAN-JOCKEY Weekes, Worrell, Walcott and letter from a anar who arranges percent,

Conumental Soccer tours and And now something quite cricket field. It is not often that a retired their like will have retired from

who says, bluntly, that the apart. It astonishes and in- Before the season is out Ericpublican rides the will be edging up shyly for a

winner of the game.

There has been only one Sir English and Scottish team are furiates me that managers arenany of them are unhappy, bicer share in

Gue of the biggest two-year-old Donald Bradman. There may not worth a the hal day races of the year.

fraction of the allowed ไป run "Stables"

of frustrated beings. who find be another Everton

money they ask? future to unlimited size. is going to try out teams from

How in

the name of sport Austrin and Yugoslavia instead.

ond sanity can Yugoslavia forcosti!

TunS

gume; Boston's Red Sox set a 16 years ago, and says: "I came modern record with 20 runs in here to get myself a few polting one game; the home run figures lessons and hoped I would be for the first GB games of 1950, able to pay my way." compared with 1849, showed that the American has 144 homers this year and 314 last year; the National League 449 this to 246 last year. The general increuso is some 35 percent,

"JACKRABBIT" DALL

"This jackrabbit baff i mak- ing a joke of the game," sald Bill Dickey, 20 all-tine great and

catcher with the Yankees now their coach.

Burt Shotton. Brooklyn manager, said the same thing.

"Let's burn up the record books," he said. "They'll mako a Joke of them before the gea- son is half over if the ball lon't changed."

Branch Rickey, Brooklyn president and perhaps the shrewdest of the businessmen con- in baseball, was equally cerned. On June 24

Brooklyn and Pittsburgh played a 10-to-12 midnight game halted by the

George L. Ker is shown heaving a junior record 16- pound shot-put during the National AAU outdoor curfew,

track and field champion- "Don't tell me the public whip at College Park, liker that sort of thing," sported Md. His record throw Hickey, was 53 feet, 74 inches. Ker, an ex-College of Pacific star, is not a junior in the English AAA American "juniors", are all competitors who have never AAU senior title.

Won

an

Arthur Peall says: TRY THIS POSTMAN'S KNOCK' CANNON

her championship at furwal 1 Hall billards amateurs NATO shown drt-rate all at must pljunen of thin Game.

is

Weckes!

វាឆ្ម an

that

Shortly after the war 37. never year-old George Younger, lind-

no aptronage as a jockey. -(London Express Service)

licence took out a Innkeeper in Hampshire. He has ridden extensively in Den- and Norway, Sweden, mark,

India,

S0011

saddic,

to the relumed

and however,

rode mode! race on Belle of Prolite scoring at the top-of-the All to beat Charlie Smirke on table tan clinched many centur Royal Serenade by a neck. In knock

I breaks with my diagram “paginanu's

cannon as the ident kez April, for the rame

stable, ho

This shot's name comes from won at Newmarket on another

BLUEO

YELLO

martap-tau,"

Hke Yea!' Kock, given to

outsider Stoltes, at 25-1.

TOURISTS WANTED

Barge Race

I hear that the Festival of the South Blain

authorities have ap-

AND BOXING...

Dr

run

I feel sympathy for them;

their bodies become lumpy and their values distorted.

a

man living, Sport can have the artistic say, in the Midlands look after perfection of a balet or

score or more lighters spread symphony. But it is a mascu- from Scotland to Cornwall? line world. and I hate to see

устел

1 hate the men-and Look now at our boxers. We have the By-weight champton-who bet on death. The death

is true, but that of the world, it

what of the restr

our

Our bantamweight kin smashed by a Spaniards; feather-weight outclassed by Frenchman: our light-weight bealen by a Canadian

Է

Netro;

our welter-weight halted by a middleweight Finn; qur humbled by a Dutchment our light-heavy weight knocked out by an American.

cue ball by the Mr R. B. Hagari, Johannes- And longburg gold mining chief white. Hed Is driven over former president of comer pocket for African Lawn Tennis Union, is proached the trustees of the

candidates for a fenry Dodd Trust with a suganother American

spot to follow

at correct searching for

* cents for a luxury winter lour to South gallon

other “puntivali's

knuck after that

Canitul

theory

spol) i in ping- tico

Africa.

And our heavy-weight ("T"} ay him alive")" humiliated by who should be close to barce-meat.

year as

the age of retiro-

What IS

With our wroug sport? I cannot give you all the answers. But I can tell you

of the

that the sailing burge for professional

held next It will be a mixed side, under masters be Blinda for the title of "International Club port of the Festival of Britain

thel th of Great Britain." But it is celebrations. muYmkely to be British in litle only,; This race used to be an an- Slight deviations for the first four names suggest-nun event, and

a magalleent some of the things I hate in it. 1000 et are Jaroslav Drobny, Glann! Thames Estuary or

spectacle, be-

NO PICNIC everybody would be Cucelli, Budge Pulty, and Mar-tere the war. Now it would be

I hate the attitude cel Barnard.

wholly dependent on the sup-

footballers who go on out-of- not and others

part from a very few promin-

season overseas tours and re- Fard Uso whole thing as delightful plenie. I scort, too, the attitudo of the legislators who send them on such tours, and then have to explain how we get beaten by America-at Soccer.

breaks for cominan.

Yet it is very nierative and can de

Snooker player will end T

Many players and managers seriously fear that a player may the backbone of the preann.

With Patty be killed during a game.

baulk-end shot unetita. Blue was on keen to go so far it seems there eat barge owners, such as F.T. "The ball cones off le battapot and yellow ball "puny sense.

Is a sunshine trip on offer for Everard and Sons and the Lon- so fast you can't defend your- touching to aide cushion.

and Rochester Truding self" said former catcher, now that out yellow to the top con and pull in the gate receipts. Company,

Striker played a slow hair-bali hut anybody who can flash a racket don coach, Tony Cuccinello-United and left white almost tofthing

The Henry Dodd Trust exists, Press.

-London Express Service) blue, a lorety sooler,

the and is responsible, for necessary organisation and allo- cation of prizes, championship binoculars, cups, flags, money, ele, among the various classes.

K. O. CANNON

HE'S DOWIZ MUST HAVE MISSED

HIM BY SECONDS),. THERE'S NO TIME TO LOSE!...

THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS

WHAT DOES IT

IT MEANS WE'VE

GOT TO WORK

MEAN, K.D.?..

IS PETER

HUNT?

› FAST ..... WE'LL START FROM PETER'S FLAT! YOU KNOW THE

WAY....

CONFOUND THESE CROWDS!... MUST BE A FIESTA... BUT JUST A MINUTE.. THIS IS

NO OMDINARY CAQWD?

TODD SEEKS JOB

Leslie Todd, rounder

- Kent

M

There in something rotten in the whole Soccer set-up.

Too much rigid legislation and too Uttle

by humanity high-upy.

To le freedom of con- opportunity for the tract and retirement from county cricket, players.

who

announced his

in the running for the position

Too lle consideration for keep the game

of professional to the Dudley the fans who

(Birmingham League) club.

of

Mr H. Winchurch, secretary

the

Dudley club, Buld

hlive,

Too many directors who ED

into the gamo

for the socini

Wo are looking for a profes- prestige involved,

and who

slonal to take the place of W.E. insist on bedevilling the unfor-

Merritt,

who does

ro-engaged

Zealander. the New

not

tunato managers whose job it wish to be is to produce a winning sido.

Nothing will convince me that We

not worth a slar player la Professionals and Todd one star salary.

nat have been in touch with several

who is being considered."

a

My biggest hater There a name for the me

comes la

the screaming.

women in it.

-(London Express Service)

WHAT

DID WILSON

SAY?

What's all that Peter Wilson nonsense about women in sport about? Cpl Rosemary Slade of the 14th Bat- talion, WRAC, HQ, BAOR adjust her pads before going in to bat at the WRAC cricket trials, held recentlyyike

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