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Sports Gossip
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1935
By Fair Field SIR S. HOARE'S
A LARGE RANGE MRS. WILLS MOODY PLANS
HER RETURN TO TENNIS
Of
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their men to play to the whistle
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CONVINCED THAT NATIONS WILL CHANGE ATTITUDE
SECRETS FOR SOCCER SUCCESS
SOLVING PROBLEMS OF THE CENTRE
THE CENTRE-HALF BACK'S PLAY (By Ernest Glover) (INTERNATIONAL FORWARD, GRIMSBY TOWN)
"It is good to hear from Helen and abide by the referee's... de- Wills Moody that she hopes to re- turn to international · lawn: tennis.
Sir Samuel Hoare, president of The former American and Wimble
the LT.A., speaking at the March don champion, however, is show- I am with Mr. Allison all the meeting of the L.T.A. Council at Ing her usual caution she is not way. The referee's task could be River · Plate House, London, had planning any ambitious "come made much easier if he were to some pertinent remarks to make back" yet awfifle.
know that he could concentrate with reference to the turning down Very wisely, I think, she will see solely on the game and not have of the proposal to lift the ban on how the back injury which forced to be watching continually for instructional lawn tennis fimating a statement to the effect that the centre-for- her to retire in the American cham- petty fouls and "spoiling" tactics, the recent meeting of the Interward has most dificult Job on the football field. pionship final nearly two years ago
And, let me my, the Arsenal uiätlonal Lawn Tennis Federation- stands the strain.
manager practices whathe in Paris.
It is just as well that every footballer, no matter "If I do play this year," she said, preaches. The Arsenal team arb
The case presented by the what his position, should regard the duties there when interviewed in San Francisco, probably the castest to handle in Czechoslovakian delegates, mid Sir
"It will be "in focal tournaments
AM not going to pick a quarrel with foot- ballers who play in other positions by mak
the country. They do play to the Samuel, had been ably seconded by of as difficult. Obviously, if we think there are You know, you cannot play in ha- whistle; there are no senseless the British representatives. He awkward problems to be solved, we get down to tional tournaments until you are arguments with the referee. usual was convinced that time would those problems.
sure of yourself.
"Next year, if everything goes
[right; I will play."
Can She Equal Record?"
ty they take the official's decision show that the supporters had in the wrong for granted.
no matter how much he may be taken up the right attitude and
Herbert Chapman's Palicy
Mr. Allison, of course, in only change their minds. The rules, in vill certainly be no quarrel with the 。
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One thing is certain. We shall only see the American in action if she thinks she has a good chance in championship tennis.
that, in the not very distant fature, So without trying to make comparisons, let several of the countries which had it be agreed that to make a success of the centre- voted against the proposal would forward's job is a task for a real footballer. There Mrs. Moody, is now 29 years old. If she could return next season carrying out the policy laid down
certain aspects, were indefensible.
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suggestion and win at Wimbledon she would by the late Herbert Chapman, That
that in recent times the work of the man in the equal a long-standing record. famous Arsenal manager would
A particularly satisfactory fea- middle of the attack has been made increasingly Six singles victories stand to her have no arguments on the field that the Brition Empire difficult. This is due to the development of what credit. Another. Wimbledon that was his first instruction to the ed, was that the British
presented a united front, showing is called the third full back. that all Dominions were with Do you recall that scene at Wem- the Mother Country in realising bley when Newcastle United scored the necessity for watching new their prime duty to hold a very close watching brief over the Many centre half-backs, as everybody knows, now consider it Highbury club? a very doubtful goal akainst the developments and altering the opposing centre-forward. These hall-backs stick closer than a
rulea accordingly.
brother.This does not apply merely to first-class football. The ball had gone yard over
The elections, of Capt, VA. the line when the centre was put Cazalet as representative for New occasionally-as I love to do I battle of wits, and the centre- When I watch junior games) centro-forward must be regarded as across from which Allen, the New Zealand and Mr. E. H. Birchall as am always specially interested in forward must always be thinking castle centre, cannoned through an
representative for Oxfordshire centre half-backs and centre hard. equalising goal..
were confirmed,
As a part of the thinking forwards, and I note that the there must be the effort to get into The mixed doubles match be-tendency in these Junior games) a good position for receiving a pass, tween England and Ireland will be is for the centre-half to act There is one thing better than beat- I should think 90,000 people played at Scarborough. on Monday mainly on the defensive. realised that Arsenal should have and Tuesday, Aug. 26 and 27
ing an opponent or at any rate, Permission was given to the All had a goal-kick. What happened?
ensler-after pleking up a pass, and The Arsenal players took the re-England Club to arrange a tour to the centre-forward is how to shake the pass is made. The centre-for- So the first problem which faces that is to beat the opponent before a matter of fact he has scored more feree's decision very quietly. There Germany and Foland for the pur off the attentions of his opponent ward must always be thinking points this season than in, any` WAS
no wild clamouring around pose of playing against the Rot who has made up his mind to be about his position; getting into the other in his long rugger life. This, Mr. Harper, who was in charge of Weiss Club of Berlin and the Legia ever-present so far as the centre- right place for a pass from one of I am told, is mainly due to a be- the game.
Club of Warsaw towards the end forward is concerned. One thing his colleagues. A centre-forward tated discovery of his powers aa That was, perhaps, the most try-
of April. ja place-kicker.
ing. test of Arsenal's play-to-the-
of real importance, as, it seems to always on the move, this way and me, must be said to all those who that, le likely to upset the other whistle policy. To the overlasting
would make a success of the centre. fellows; get them wondering where faltered.
forward's job. It is no use grumbl they shall go for the best the opposing centre-half. He. ja too, the centre-forward must regard doing his duty."
himself as a player who is a con-
Leicester Rugby's Loss After many years in Rugby, Ralph Buckingham, who has been captain of both Leicester club and county sides, is to retire at the end of the season.
Buckingham goes out of the game with a splendid record.
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Nor is it any use merely for the tinual nuisance to the opposition. centre-forward to complain that he There are some people who seem to Isn't given a chance. Rather must think that the chief requirementa he put his brains to steep and think in centre-forward is a strong body out ways and means of dodging the and a hefty pair of shoulders, so
opposition.
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New York, to-day.peliceman. Merely leaning up that he, can. biff and bang the Owing to rain only two baseball against him won't do, pionship, at Aldershot next week, decided upon.
Centre Forward Methods there should be plenty of interest- Actually, the weight put is the Boston Braves, and Boston Red Sox centre-forward to disturb and un-
day, Pittsburgh Pirates defeating One of the best ways for
The Speed Test ing fights.
only event in which Oxford and The Army, holders of the cham-Cambridge were likely to be weak nosing out Cleveland Indians, the settle the centre-half, is for the assets to a centre-forward, but the Well, these things are useful, pionship, have a mising team. Apart from Lt. C African standards. Howland holds results as cabled by Reuter:
centre-forward to wander from his leader of the attack who relies sole- young and pro-at least in relation to South American League leaders.
The following were yesterday's usual route. This is what is called, ly on biffing them and banging W. S. Belas, the officers' feather- the English record with 47ft 10in.
in popular football phrasing, "tak-them won't live very long in foot- weight titic-holder, they have in The Empire Games winner in 1982
ing the centre-half for a walk." If ball. Pte. L. G. Payne one of the best and 1984, H. B. Hart, is the only
Hard knocks have, to be the centre-forward goes wandering given and taken, especially by the heavy-weights the Services have man in South Africs likely to beat
off from his usual position down leader of the attack, and I agree produced for some time:
him at this event, so that gap is Pittsburgh
HE the centre, the half-back whose job that he must always be ready to do B 12 2 is to watch him must then do some some hustling, with a view to put- 69 2 thinking. Shall he follow the ting backs and even goalkeepers off centre-forward on his walk, or shall their clearances. The continual he stick to his "in the middle" de- barging, however, has its penalties fensive position?
for the centre-forward, and there Hythe centre-half follows the are many other qualifications centre-forward about when the lat necessary in addition to ter takes it into his head to wan-frame: The following" games were post- der, there is a vacant place left in
a big
poned owing to rain:
I hear, too, Lt. G. B. Courtneywell filled for the tour. (Territorial Army), brother of the
well-known Navy boxer, is expect- ENGLISH RUNNER'S
ed to do well in the craiser-weight event.
Nurmi's Next Move So Paavo Nurmi, the "Flying Finu," whose iceord-breaking feats on the track seemed to be carried out to a schedule, is thinking of definitely embracing profession- alism.
INTERNATIONAL
VICTORY IN PARIS
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1, J. T. Holden (Tipton B, England), Chicago Nurmi has made further efforts Darlington H... Scotland), 48-12) 3, W. Cincinnati!
47min. 52 1-6sec.; 2, W. C. Wylie St. Louis to get reinstated as an amateur, E. Eaton (Saiford H., England), 48-14; but without success. Now, with 4 F. Close (Reading A.C., England). little hope of being allowed to com-20; 6, G. Van Rumst (Belgium), New York pete in the 1986 Olympic Games In 8-25; 6, F. Marsland (Manchester H Berlin, he le turning his thoughts (Wakefield Trinity H, England), 48-28 Philadelphia
England), 18-26
8.5;
7. R. Walker Washington" v St. Louis to the money side of running.
Detroit 8-5; 8, H Gallivan (Cumbran H, The Finn realises, apparently, Wales), 48-38 3-5; 0, J. A. Burns
Tables To Date that he cannot go on much longer. Dow (Kirkaldy H., Scotland), 49-4.
(Elswick H., England), 48-55; 10, A. Thus he hopes to make his last daya on the track as profitable as pos- Bible
Two-Referee Controversy Perhaps the most interesting con- tribution to the controversy over
the two-referee system in: Soccer) has been supplied by Mr. George Allison, the Arsenal manager.
"Fundamentally, I do not believa in divided authority in anything," said Mr. Allison: "The trouble in present-day football is not entire
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the middle of the field, and a. col- league of the centre-half, going into the middle, may have a chance to slip through.
Positional Play This duel between the would-be goalscorer and the stopper of the
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Speed off the mark is very neces- sary. Three is a lot of confused thinking on this question of speed in football. The real test of the speed of a footballer is not a ques do a fity or a hundred yards tion of the time in which he can sprint. How quickly can he do the firat six yards of a sprint? That is where the speed test común In especially for the centre-forward. It is in the first six yarda, not in a long race, that the speed of a centre-forward tells. By getting quickly off the mark, the centre- forward may be able to elude hle Immediate
and *opponent,
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My Advice To Young Player
to practise the art of getting off the I would advise all young players
mark quickly. On your toes all the time, and off like a shot when the chance to dart through comes..
ly with the referoes. A good deal fell from his ear and bruised his pittsburgh can be ascribed to the way inside--and in his place George Daly Cincinnati!
Even when all has been said that which the players play the game, fought Jules Steyaert of Belgium St. Louis
can be said about the centre for “If there is a genuine desire to and won on points. This was a Boston
ward outwitting his immediate improve the standard of referee Kood fight; yet it was heartily
opponent, it still remains true ing, very material help can be booed all the way through for some
no centre-forward can be a réal forthcoming from the boardroom reason! The verdict wAB BO UN
It is also proposed that Ireland success without help from and the dressing-room,”
and Wales should meet on one of leagues. Those colleagues mu Popular that 10 minutes; went by The fortnightly meeting of the Re-the Liverpool grounds, but this has hold the ball,, make the sit This is straight-from-the-shoul, before the next announcement des Association will be held in the not yet been officially fixed, and draw an opponent before 1
speaking What Mr
Ilison could be made. I thought Daly asciation, Sports Club, King & Building, Soccers contribution to the Jubilee along to the middle
offices of the Hong Kong Football As means is that clubs the Fruct tride lucky to get the verdict third door, to-morrow at 7.45p.may celebrations looks like falling fat: help him to dodge the policeman.
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