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made others great too
-But off the field ovan 'the groatost foot- baller that over was had his failures-for instance, thoro wore his pigs and his shop...
LEXANDER JAMES end up by giving the pigs away."
can believe that. was - nlways, "nows."
It was typical of him. Ilo was R national For a considerable time, ho figure and, indeed, an in- was a football demonstrator at ternational one too.
West End store and both before
a
a regular newspaper writer on
His services were wanted and after the inst war he was not only in Britain, and football. just before the war ho ne-
спа quiet
in
cepted a post ga coach to moment his GEORGE the Polish national side.
exciting capper he hit the X
shillings for ex- being fined 30
hour an
ceeding the 12 ex-Arsonal manager, ends the story miles speed limit.
Shades of the pid re
red flag, and the steam rolier. Way back in consternation
of my big-hearted little friend'
Spical of the quick thinking of 1931 there was the tle Scot.
Highbury.
How ho surmounted the headlines" b ALLISON, language difficulty I do not know, but he was happy to leave Warsaw just as the hordes of Hiller stepped in.
Apart from football, his favourite game was golf. He was a great admiror of the late Hurry Vartion, whom he num bered among his closest friends. For years he was a member of Vardon's club, South Heris, and 1 would quote you a brief sign for Arsonal. note which appeared in the Hendon and Finchley Times.
"News of the death of Alex ames come as a shock to those of us who knew him so well in Finchley and Friern Barne
at
At the end of the 1030-31 season the football idol refused to re-
It was rumoured that he cori- an hotel. Loss of summer wages templated becoming manager of seemed to be the least of the whimsical little man's worries.
"He was small in stature but Then in August 1031, with his personality was great. So that devil-may-care smile on his much so that when he left face, he signed. To this day I Finchley Golf Club to jolu the have not the faintest idea why South Herts Club at Totteridge he kept us in suspense. many of us went with him."
Could any finer tribute be paid to any mun?
Many Ventures
HIS
IS excursions into commerical life were varied and not al-
re-
a free-kick to Arsenal and Huddersfield momentarily, laxod as they took up their de fensive positions.
Quickly James realised the situation.
Before the sound of the re- feree's whistle had died away. Alex grabbed the boll, placed it and drove it along the ground to Bastin, simultaneously shouting: "Cliff, back to me."
The pupil's return pass was perfect. The Huddersfield de- fence was caught napping and
I feel there is one young man, from the edge of the penalty now retired from football, whó area Alex erëshed the ball into would wish me to pay his tribute the back of the net, to the genius of James and to express his appreciation of what Alex dil to help him to the top rung of the football ladder.
Good friend
ways sucecraful. When he hung I refer to that grand player ALEX not only did wonderful
up his football boots in 1037 he "Boy"
Bastin, James
things himself, he helped his was a colleagues to greatness.
became a director of a newly genius, who was quick to detect formed football pool at a splury genius and admire it. reported to be £10 a week.
tion,
to Alex I was with two of his
Joe Hulme,
Their emotion told me more than words can express how they felt about the passing of their good friend.
ALEX
.. with piga
ALEX
with shop
THOMAS WILSON answers the question: What do two mon do on the vory top of the world?
SO THEN YOU DANCE
DMUND HILLARY Goddess Mother of the Endwa-
has written hik ac- chocolate, biscuits, follipops.
thing for deading to the top; but Hillary may be forgiven any- Frank. Smythe, on nearing the
count of how Everest's summit was reached, and it
goes straight into the list top of Kamet at 25,447ft.; made of climbing classics.
1 gosture that might have These include Whymper's had repeated 1,
stopped Д lot of gossip if Hulary
With a few yards of easy snow shead, mumbling, wheezing Darjeeling Smythe thrust hls
Sirdar Löwn aboud of jum. wa. gesture that made non- ace of discussion reached the top first, but who Tensing was in beltor shape, anu Malary better stul. But he wits so intent on carving out steps that his
It
first ascent of the Matterhorn, the French story of Annapurne, Frank Smythe's
"Kamet Con- quered." (These last two are in the Himalayas, and were in their time the highest
mountaing climbed by man),
Like
these storles, R answers once again why men go through the torture of climbing mountains.
What do men do on reaching those last few an unclimbed summit? By lapse of mountain manners may plainsmen's standards they go be orgiven.
slightly mad. Whymper and hig In the night
party raced about, the Matter-
and indulged
sport of
horn's summit ridge shouting TN many ways Everest and the like boys. Than they spotted early expeditions had been their Italian rivals far below kind to Hillary and Tonsing. In the homicidal Attempts from the north had rocks on them. hurling
been carried out on rocks that The French stayed on Anna- overlay each other like roofing puron
(20,502(t)
they tiles. They had shown that en nearly froze to death, to take in the south side the rocks would the grandeur of the moment. be correspondingly easier pro- Jacques Balmat, reaching Mont viding a multitude of toe holds Blanc's summit
alone, held instead of
none;
until
gether in his exhaustion "only
They had the sâme difficulty
by my breeches," whirled his as other expeditions in finding
hat round on a stlek.
Hillary and Tensing were true a site for the last camp on those slopes. Eventually plunging to type. For a few moments they spe ไมก hours hacking Hilary feit only overwhelming out two small platforms, one relief, Then his Anglo-Saxon above the other. reserve permitted a handshake
As they lay, waiting for, tho Hillary may have thought of a night 31 years before when Professor G. 1. Finch, the pioneer of oxygen UT suddenly it was
climbing, lay on the other side of the mountain at 26,000ft. ase, the years of their na-
Then the wind rose to # hood felt away,
the peril of hurricane and tore off the flap
as they grinned at each other Himalayan night, through their masks,
BUT
His offering
swept
The
their position forgotten, and like fastenings.
noise of the two three-year-old children they tem's topping resembled danced and hugged and pounded machine-gun fire and the ahrick- cach other on the back.
ing of the wind drowned his This was exaltation, an un- voice. All night, dll the next repeatable moment in the world's day, and throughout the follow- Jong
story.
ing night it went on, When the Best emotion is uver
what does one do? Whymper's Ah! The sun
side lore of his shirt to show. HILLARY and Tensing had no the waiting villagers below. such ordeal. But at about Judge Wills's party hoisted 21
When we paid our last tribute three children, the eldest, Alex, The venture was not a success. lle "fathered" Bastin and old colleagues, David Jack and attached to the police force, Pat, Even Alex's name and popularity found him a worthy pupil.
Berving in the Royal Army Nurs- could not withstand the oppost-
ing Service, and Andrew, aged 13. They can be, and are, proud
Hillary and Tensing hd of the outstanding chapter
place for a flagpole. But in that "Dad" has contributed to foot-summit cone Tensing buried his ball history.
-thankoffering to Chemolungna,
Some of you will remember Soon after coming to High- that great Cup Final in 1930, bury he took over a sweet and when Arsenal beat Huddersfield tobacco
by two goals to mil. business which eventually sold. On the front
The vital goal was scored early
ho
to his
May I offer my heartfelt widow and
of the shop his name still remains in the game by James. It was sympathy as a reminder of his great days at the neighbouring stadium.
Later we were
intrigued to
at
learn
that he had opened a women's outfitting shop Aylesbury, This he eventually disposed of. He certainly found variety was the spice of
what
In postwar days, he took an interest in a pig farm. When he relinquished his interest in this rather weird enterprise he told his friends: "I don't mind hard work but I would not make any money out of it because I would
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The glamorous Doria chalks
up a victory
by ARTHUR COOK
DORIA SHAFIK, the most feminine feminist of all time and leader
of Egypt's Bint el Nil-Daughters of the Nile-has just won her greatest fight.
After five years of badgering, backbiting, threats, and pleading by the women, Egypt's Government makes its firat step in recognising equal rights for women-a decision which will soon be taking Mme. Shank into the limelight
ns. Egypt's Woman No. 1, Ings which led to the Black For women can now Join the Britons in Cairo last year, Dorin Saturday and massacre of army as nurses.
was in the forefront.
Sho started hor own illegal
And who is this Sylvin Park- hurst of Cairoy Aged 30, one women's army, picktated British of the smartest women in the business houses, and clamoured Middle East Dorin designs all to get into the fight against the her own startling fashions-Mimą Shafik forsook tho
British
Moslem Army in the Canal Zone, Coyly she admitted that some traditional "background for of her women were armed, but
women"
gotting herself
by eduraled in Parts.
in luxury
explained that
the gun wero not loaded "in caso any of my strla hurt themselves."
Darla, violently enti-British
at that time, confessed after-
CHE married, while still in wards to me that she "loves
D Paris, lawyer Dr Ragat, now the British really, we cannot do one of Cairo's leading advocates; without them,"
will
has two daughters, aged 11 and
Any bandwagon which nine, and lives in millionaire givo prominence to her women's luxury in Cairo's smartest spot, mavement is Doria's bandwagon.
tho Nilo Island of Zamalek.
When Nagulb grabbed power Unlike most of the better she jumped on his bandwagon. known women in Egypt, Doria "Liberate women" loves publicity. She seeks It not.
Now urnen" was her cry.
1 comes her
NO.
DORIA SHAFIK leads
feminist
procession
in Cairo.
no
young tree on the Swiss Weller t-minute intervals raging gusts
tore at their tent. horn
Then Hilary, hult sitting, if lying, braced himsalt against the shaking tont to reinforce its parlous hold.
Finch believed ho and his party were dying when, on the second night, they began using охудел.
1.740-
Hillary and enough oxygen
Tensing had
to give them four hours' sound sleep. At 4 a. they emerged from their tent to the sublime sight of the sun- gilded peaks.
Sixtoon
thousand
fect below Tensing could discern the Thyangbocha
Monastery, wrapped in the sleep
of the valleys.
Finch and his
their o
but
party, after ordeal, bado...food-left
went on to dimb
another
2,000ft. with oxygen. Hillary and Tensing, batter prepared, breakfasted on sardines and bis-
and sweet
lemonade.
Jonnade drunk
helped to
of This nt intervals.
prevent exhaustion. In the old days the Alpe were climbed on wina; but Everest was climbed on lemonade.
Hillary led practically through- out the climb. It is not at all certain that Tonsing, for all his courage,
good
ond humour, and Loughness, the judgment or
ned
the skill to lead.
Having
faced the
roached the top they danger of relaxation
and over-confidence. It was this that sent four of Whymper's party
from the Matter- hurtling horn's upper
Glogies.
Hilary led the way carefully down. Nearing exhaustion an the last show slope leading to the South Col and safety, he let Tensing go in front and kick
steps in the snow. There Everest loosed his last bolt. Strengthen- Ing winds nearly tore their fired bodles from the snow...
Then,
sleep
NEXT to the astalament of the summit climbers have always placed the satisfaction of reach- ing home.
Home, In this case, was the welcoming party and tents on the South Col. It must have been satisfaction Indeed when
in
only in her own country but all way -- women in the armed over the world. And with her forces and subject to military Will she succeed? Most of so often full of "unattractive Hillary and Tenging, oblivious to
What will the beautiful the wives of Egypt's leading and dull women." fall, sleek, raven-haired beauty, law.
the Jubilation around them, sunk she has no difficulty. In
ba - con- Doria -- bo... wanting-now-the men are backing her, on money-Peace at home, for the hus back in their slcoping manding the necessary publicity, abolition of polygamy, equal obtained from their husbands, bands of Egypt, depends on the gale-battered tents while the When the Wald Government rights under Moslem law In Doria's husband bocks her loo; their views towards the Bint el news sped to the cheering crowds was stirring up Egyptian fent- divorce, and voles for women? only complains that his fint lé Nil and the exotic Doria Shafik. in Plecadilly, w
JOHNNY HAZARD
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