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lady bowler of the year by winning all three open competitions. Eight players were selected to represent the Association at the Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth in November.

Two athletes, Ken Peters and P. M. Field, were chosen to represent Hong Kong at the Empire and Commonwealth Games. At the Hong Kong Amateur Athletic Association's open champion- ships in March, Peters set new records for the 400 metres, 200 metres and the 400 metres medium hurdles. A school teacher, Miss Ng Shuit-kwai, was the woman athlete of the year for the fifth time.

In tennis the established players, Ip Koon-hung, Edwin Tsai and Tsui Wai-pui, continued to dominate Colony championships. Ip won the grass court singles title for the fourth year in succession and the thirteenth time in the last 16 years. During the year New Zealand, Philippine and Indian Davis Cup players appeared in exhibition matches before large crowds.

The annual walkathon organized in July by the Standard - Sing Tao group of newspapers was won by So Kam-tong, a 25-year-old park attendant employed by the Urban Services Department. So covered the 40 miles in six hours 45 minutes and 53 seconds, finishing 12 minutes and 13 seconds ahead of Tam King-tim. The winner of the ladies' section was Miss Tse Suk-king, a 16-year-old student from the Eastern Government Hospital School, who finished in nine hours nine minutes and 10 seconds. Out of a field of 490, 118 men and five women completed the course.

Six new records were established in Colony swimming champion- ships. In the annual cross-harbour race the six-time winner, Wan Shiu-ming, was defeated by Ng Key-kwong. Juliet Sheldon, of St George's School, finished first in the ladies section for the second year in succession.

There are several hundred keen yachtsmen in Hong Kong and the inauguration of a China Sea Race from Hong Kong to Manila in April caused considerable interest. Three Hong Kong yachts took part and one of these Reverie-was the winner. Other competitors were from Japan and the Philippines. In recent years there has been an increased interest in boxing and at the eighth Colony championships organized by the Hong Kong Amateur Boxing Association every seat was sold out and every vantage point on surrounding rooftops was filled. Interest in badminton

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