THE YEAR IN SPORT:

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28474, 2 January 1958, Page 9

THE YEAR IN SPORT:

JANUARY 1 Ken Rosewall, the Australian tennis player, turned professional after assisting his country to retain the Davis Cup. 10 John Devitt, runner-up in the 100 metres freestyle in the 1956 Olympic Games, set a new world record for this distance of 54.6 sec. 16 In Auckland, New Zealand. Phillipa Gould broke the world records for the 200 metres and 220 yards backstroke with a time of 2min 394}sec. FEBRUARY 8 Australian runner Marlene Matthews recorded the fastestever 100 yards by woman of 10.1 sec in Sydney. The wind assistance was slightly above that permitted. 11 Francisco Segura beat Frank Sedgman in the final of the sponsored professional tennis tournament in Sydney. • A 41-pound pike, the largest ever landed in England, was caught near Norfolk.

MARCH 5 South Africa beat England in the final match of their fivematch cricket test series. Each side won two matches, with one drawn. S Sweden won the world and European ice hockey championships by drawing. 4-all. with Russia in the final game at Moscow. Russia had already had one drawn match in the tournament. 18 Toshiaki Tanaka won the world table tennis title for the second time by beating his countryman, Ichiro Ogimura. in the final at Stockholm. Japan also won the women’s singles when Fuji Eguchi beat Ann Haydon (Britain). 83 Great Britain’s Frank Sando won the international crosscountry title at Waregem, Belgium. Although Britons filled the first three places, Belgium won the teams’ event. 83 The Malayan Eddy Choong won the AH-England badminton title for the fourth time, beating the unseeded Dane Erland Kops in the final. In the women’s singles Judy Devlin regained the title by beating fellow-American Margaret Varner. SO Cambridge won the Boat Race, beating Oxford by two lengths.

APRIL 2° T. Kirk, of Australia, act a world record for single-handed sawing when he cut a 15-inch log in 31.6 sec. 27 V. Smylsov, of Russia, won the world chess championship, beating M. Botvinnik. the defending champibn. MAY 12 Ferrari, took the Brat three places in the Mule Miglla. the winner being the veteran Italian, Piero Taruffi. Three driven were killed, and nine spectators. 20 Juan Fangio won the Monte Carlo Grand Prix, for the second time. 20 The highest-ever race speed of 124.2 mfles an hour was recorded at Mannheim in the final of the European Grand Prix for 500 c.c. motor-cycles. 30 V. Zejda, of Czechoslovakia, set mil^s rld gllding record of 323

JUNE 1 New Zealand’s Rugby representatives confirmed their world supremacy by beating Australia in the second of two interna, tional matches. 14 The American sprinter, Bobby Morrow, equalled the world record for the 100 yards when he returned 9.3 sec at the inter-col-legiate championships. 15 The pole vaulter, Bob Gotowski, set a new world record with 15ft 9iin at a meeting at Austine, Texas. 16 Dick Mayer won the United States open golf championship, beating the title-holder, Cary MiddlecofT, in a play-off. 29 The Australian Rugby League team beat The Rest (chosen from England, New Zealand, and France) at the conclusion of the World Cup series, which was won by Australia. 29 The Austrian mountaineer, Herman Bulh, died on a Kashmir mountain.

JULY j 6 The Australian, Lew. Hoad, beat Ma countryman. Ashley Cooper, to retain Ma AU-England men's singles tennis title at Wimbledon. In the women’s singles, Althea Gibson beat Darlene Hard. An unseeded veteran American pair in Budge Patty (38) and Gardner Mulloy (44) won the men’s doubles. 6 Hoad joins Jack Kramer’s professional troupe. 6 Bobby Locke Won the British open golf title 'for the fourth time. 6 The Australian, Stuart Mackenzie, beat his Olympic conqueror, V. Ivanov, to win the Diamond sculls at Henley. 11 Two Finns, O. Calsola and O. Salonen, broke the world record for the 1500 metres running when they returned 3min 40.2 sec. 12 The Czechoslovakian Stanislav Jungwirth returns 3min 38.1 sec for the same distance. 12 A Russian, Yuri Stepanov, high-

jumped 7ft lin for a new world record. 20 Stirling Moss won the European Grand Prix in a Vanwall, the first British driver in a British car to win this event for 35 years. 20 A Scottish mine manager, J. Love, won the Queen’s Prize for rifle shooting at Bisley. 24 Am Borg, one-time holder of all world swimming records from 300 yards to one mile, now aged 58, beat the 1956 Olympic Games champion, Jon Henricks, over 200 Jards at Stockholm. ans Koster, a Dutch girl, broke the world record for 1500-metres swimming at Hilversum. 29 Floyd Patterson beat Tommy *’Hurricane” Jackson in a challenge for the world professional heavy-weight boxing title.

AUGUST 4 A new world record for the women’s 300 metres breaststroke was set by A. Dan Baag. of Holland, at Rhenen, with Rmin 513 sec. 5 Florence Chadwick broke the Channel swimming record with a time of Bhr Train. 17 L. Proost, of Belgium, won the world’s amateur road race cycling title. J. Derksen, of Holland, won the professional sprint. 17 T. IsMmOto, of Japan, set a new world record for the 100 metres butterfly with Imin l.Osec. 21 Greta Anderson, a Dutch-born American, won the Channel race, the first woman to do so since the race was first held in 19S1. Miss Anderson had won the gold medal for the 100 metres freestyle at the 1948 Olympic Games. 22 Floyd Patterson successfully defended his world professional heavy-weight boxing title by knocking out Pete Rademacher In six rounds. Rademacher, the Olympic champion in 1958, was

having his first professional fight. 24 The cricket series between England the West Indies concluded. England won. The deaf Olympics at Milan and the World Student Games at Moscow were both held during August SEPTEMBER 1 The world championship series for motor-cyclists ended with the Monza Grand Prix. The champions for 1966—260 c.c., C. Standford (Britain): 350 c.c., K. Campbell (Australia); 500 c.c., L. Lieberatl (Italy). 2 The United States amateur golfers won the Walker Cup by beating Britain for the fifteenth time in 16 years. 8 After the Italian Grand Prix, the following world championship order was announqed for car racing: J. Fangio 1, S. Moss 2, L. Musso 3. * 8 M. J. Anderson beat A. J. Cooper in an all-Australian final of the United States men’s singles lawn tennis title. In the women’s singles, Althea Gibson beat Louise Brough. 14 The American swimmer, George ‘ Breen, set a new world record for the mile at New Haven with a time of 19min 22sec. 21 A 22-year-old New Zealander, Barry Briggs, won the world speedway title in London, beating the former champion. Old Fundin, in a run-off.

OCTOBER 1 The Human high jumper, V. Bitkin, cleared 7ft (tin. 5 Britain's profesaloiial golf team won the Rydar Cup, beating the United States by 71i games to at Lindrick, Yorkshire. 10 The Milwaukee Braves won the lart game of the World Series baseball contort against the New York Yankees, to win the aeries by four games to three. 27 The Japanese team won the Canada Cup, for International two-man team professional golf competition, in Tokyo. The Japanese player, T. Nakamura, won the individual championship. 27 The world fencing championships concluded in Paris. The men's foil was won by Fulop (Hungary) and Zabelina (Russia) won the women’s toil. NOVEMBER 12 The worid weight-lifting championships concluded in Teheran. Russia won six of the seven titles, with A. Medvedev winning the heavy-weight section. 29 The American yacht, North Star 111 won the world star class championship at Havana. DECEMBER 28 Australia completed a successful defence of the Davis Cup, by beating the United States in the challenge round in Melbourne.