HOME SOCCER REVIEW
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1953.
WOLVES AND CHARLTON SCORE BIG WINS TO EMPHASISE CHALLENGE
London, Sept. 26.
Wolverhampton Wanderers and Charlton emphasised their challenge to West Bromwich Albion for the leadership in the First Division of the English Football League today with two of the biggest wins of the season. While West Bromwich Albion were maintaining their winning away recard by healing Sheffield Wednesday by 3-2, Wolverhampton rattled up elght against Chelsea and Charlton, led by South African Stuart Leary, who nelted three times within five minutes in the second half to bring his tally for the day to four, scored six against Liverpool,
Arsenal and Sunderland, two The rinsh drew the biggest jaho refted. Chelsen have never of the mightiest clubs in fool-erowd of the day of $1,900, before concedo elgiil goals.
Excitement wan tense during
this season who Cheriton, pall who have been sharing the bottom berth In the tuule.
Middle- the lost five minutes ut the reared eight against showed Algna to-day of re-
Sundsvatal - Binckpool game,brough, relied on greater speed Covering nome of their jost Centre-haff Ray Daniel dashed at rome brilliant close post- form.
[down the Beld to head horar a lust to overcome Liverpool,
and with GO corner
Other lending reconds
clubs, Huddersfield Villa,
ench fourth successive wins, but
Arsenal, without their newly signed Tommy Lawton, who is injured, became the first team to win nt Cardiff this reason, scoring three times without reply, while Sunderland pulleri up from 2-1 down of half-time to beat Blackpool 3-2 in one of the most thrilling matches of the day.
left, Trevor Ford, who scared twice on his return to the side, drove in the winning goal.
Wolverhampton owel their success over Chelsea to a lively forward line, Tiny winger Johnny Hancocks led the scor- Jug spale with three stools while all the other forwards
"SHAMATEUR" DRIVE IN BILLIARDS
By HAROLD MAYES
For years now I've been looking for a determined drive against shamateurism. Every time the problem has been broached, however, ruling bodies have adopted the "bring-us-the-evidence" altitude rather than seeking it for themselves.
first division and Aston recorded their
Totenham dropped a point in match with Man- their home chester United.
Huddersfield beat Middles- brough,
The who plunged to boltom of the table with six points from games,
Everiou,
two un- of one beaten teams to the four divi. stons, took over the leadership in Division Two with '1-2 win over Derby County before t crowd of 64,090, Doncaster Rovers, the previous leaders, were beaten by the odd goal of three at Bury.
West Ham lost a golden op- portunity of making some ter. way on the leadors by going
their "Duty
team, Birmingham KI concediik
llowin
Brat win of the season after
corest
Applause, then, for one governing body which has seen fit to lead the way. No, it's not the Football Asso-fighting rally ciation, nor the Amuteur Athletic Association,
League cluba salarice, the
Q
The impetus cornes 4:em the Actually, with Billiards Association and Con-paying such big teol Council who, in their entry weaker counties are going to
billiards have
of a whale form for the amateur
time
and
championships, bolstering-up their playing re- snooker
that It's obvious have set out the definition of an sources. amatour so clearly that nobody they are going to sign some of way hat they the men at the figures which are could possibly
being asked it can only lead, didn't understand it,
If
In recent years entrants have the end, to a general up-scaling crept in who, although not earn-of all county cricket pay. ing their living exclusively from billiards and snooker, have had
Inancial
parc.
connection with the
BIG IDEAS
new
FOND FAREWELL
Terry Allen gets a fond farewell and good wishes from his two children, Terry (6) and Annette (4) at London Airport before he left for Tokyo where he will fight Japan's Yoshlo Shirai for the world's flyweight title. Central Press Photo.
The "Spend For Success" Theory Has Taken Its Biggest Knock In Years
London, Sept. 28.
The theory In English League football that success can be bought has taken one of the biggest knocks in years this season.
The decline in gate receipts since the post-war boom, tax problems and the inflated transfer market have severely hit the financial status of many clubs, but the cry goes out that the "glamour" clubs can buy their way out of trouble,
of too
Ronnie Rooico : much, centre-forward
when they signed Lawton. Rooke joined Arsenal at the The forward life, on paper age of 30 in the 1946-47 season
Big football and high, finance; be a question certainly go together, but large talent. cosh deals for players do not siways bring success,
So far this season, clubs like the best in the country, has and topped, the League scorers West Bromwich Albion. Hud-folled to click, and Trevor Ford, to help the club out of the dersbeld. Wolverhampton and the flery Welsh centre-forward, relegation zono... Chariton, who rely on team has asked for a transfer bthe
work and rarely enter the trans-
enure he feels his style has not fer market for "glare," are Atted in this season. dominating the premier div.on, while some
England' of
Ford's transfer
big
Other prominent clubs with
bank balances and star players on their books who are indifferent spells are Portsmouth and Newcastle, Chelsea.-China Mail Special.
request has having richest clubs are wallowing been refuted, but clubs rarely around the fool of the table..
hold a player against his wishes, yet another signing may
Most outstanding examples of 50 cash spent without success, are have to be made. Arsenal, the League Champlons,
Brd
Sunderland. Both órc
among the wealthiest clubs in
AGE CREPT UP
Arsenal have more or leas
the country and, though each relied on the players who gained hoc approached the Beason's
twice problems in different ways, find them the Championship themselves neighbours "in the and taken them to two Cup
cellar)'
Sunderland have spent some thing like £150,000 on
but their side, strengthening their formidable array' of talent It may has slopped miserably.
Few People Took Much Notice Of
The Bay Colt...
When it was
No one could call the Greensleeves Stakes an important race. run at three o'clock at Hurst Park few people took much notice of a bay colt who was in it.
It was his first race. His owner, millionaire Sir Victor Sassoon, noted that. he seemed edgy at the start and was soon behind. He came nowhere,
The experts were not enthusiastic either. They put down in their notebooks: "Nice colt. Bit backward. Progress at finish."
finals since the war,
But age
has crept up on the majority of the first team men, and the club have run into one of their worst spells.
The
FRED PERRY
BACK IN THE
LIMELIGHT
Bonn, Sept. 27, Britain's one time Wimbledon who Champion and the man Highbury Club, often twice won the United States dubbed the "Bank of England" title, Frederick J. Perry, came. club, have the money to buy back into the limelight here lo- the best players, but have so far day when he won the title in signed only one, Tommy Lawton, the first European Prefessional former England centre-forward. Tennis Championship.
The wisdom of his transfer
has yet to be seen for, though Hana Nvesselein, was forced to The German professional star. still a great forward, Lawton sa abandon the match today with a in the twilight of his playing pulleki muscle, when the score career and, like most footballers
over 30, is prone to injury and stood at 6-4, 0-2 in favour slow in recovering. After one game with Arsenal, Lawton
Perry,
only
The British Champion
of.
has already had to mise matches teamed up with his compatriot through a knock on the ankle.
Arsenal thinking
then
William Ross to win the doubles have may
been title with a score of 7-3, 6-3 and of the success of 6-4.-France-Presse.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
FIRST RACE MEETING
(To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club), Saturday, 10th October and Monday, 12th October, 1953.
THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 22 RACES
their frs: defeat at home this season, West Ham were beaten for the seventh successive time
by the Birmingham club.
Fullam handed over the bot
table position to tom of the their West London colleagues, Brentford, by scoring their behind Nottingham Their at half-time.
turned criticism into cheers and pleased their
team manager,
Frank took over from Osborne, who Bill Dodgin during the week. STILL UNBEATEN Unbeaten Third Division Southern
Altogether in five races Pinza leaders. Norwich,
fon) and not letting him get too That was in July last year.
has won £47,401. were again in good form to- Eleven months later the same fat,"
Sir Victor Sasson bought Pinza The colt, a rolling-eyed bay bundle The horse was awkward. He!
checked his the First day, beating Newport County
like Second 2-0.
cow, on a to place went
theory. He Southampton, who wen
of extraordinary acceleration, would get up
decided he had will be con- drew vincingly against
away from the Queen's hindquarters first. Sam Sumner ancestry and Shrewsbury horse Aureole
and thundered personally spent several days inherited staying power, tough- The tif while Ipswich took over third
past the post at Epsom in the teaching him to get up, forelegs ness, and speed from the best place by beating Brighton, who
like all well-mannered Continental and British strains. most spectacular Derby winfrat,
He was tired of horses that dropped to fourth position.
young horses.
no staying but had Plaza, the greatest horso The horse was
common. were fast
knew of several Richards Gordon
has
ever When racing men use this word power. He
lightning-fast horses nervous, ridden, had set the seal on his it means just about the some as
near a which had never been it is applied when
to human Pinza is only three years old beings, except with horses it is race track because of their diff-
cult temperamenta. today. And for the first two only a comment, on their phy- | years of his life he impressed sical characteristics. no one, particularly the short. shrewd racing men who-were born to spot winners.
since the war.
Top wages for county pro-
Port Vale did well in becoming the region of the first team to take two points away from Scunthorpe and so re- Now, in his first year as chair-fessionals are in
£650. Yet outsiders who have cam their four point advantage at man, London businessman Phil
by country the head of the Northern section.
career. Lowly Darrow showed good ipem Fisher has spearheados a deter been approached
Cour in sporing
Urnes against mined effort to prevent recur clubs are demanding as much
as £1,500 a season to join them. Grimsby and were well served by If they get it, the established their new spalkeeper, Ain Coglan, think don't
anyone has
If who is sixteen and a half. men are bound to squeal. ever given the definition of an
Eight of the 10 pensities awarded counties.. ob-to-day resulted in goals. amateur on an entry form in they don't, the
Newcastle, Birmingham, Mwall, the same way before," he told viously won't get them, when
"and this way I am hopeful £1,000 contracts in the leagues Bournemouth and Chester won away and Cardiff, West Ham, Brighim, that we shall get a pure amateur are not exactly the rarity they for home for the first time lo-day Watford. Sounthorpe and York all suffered first defeats on their home grounds.
Suring in the Scottish "A" Divi- sion rope.above themselves and were full value for their 2-0 win over Rangers. On the other side of the picture, Jibernian crored their flist points EDC) first goals by beating Hamilton Academicals, by 4-1.
Queen of the South, after their
me,
entry.
were some years ago.
"Shamatourism has certainly All that for £ four-month been apparent in recent years, scuson. And they say Soccer and now we're making every [players aren't underpaid. Ah, effort to make sure the amateur well! game is for pure amateurz."
Other associations, please
copy.
CRICKET TRANSFERŠT How long before
we have a
transfer system working in county cricket on Soccer lines? the While
daft, sound it may
clause Is special registration being so overworked now that
satisfy a player's wife
and
H
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knew that Pinza Just wouldrut let me down like that," "TOO. COARSE"
he says "He looked ready for It meant that Pinza lacked anything-and he was.”
the fine drawn From the sale ring Pinza was The first man who had any-refinement,
to do with Pinza was frome of the classic racehorse. led away to Green Lodge Stables thing Fred Darling, perhaps the most "I
shared that view, ten minutes away. There Norms
aren't Bertie looked him over. famous
them trainer of
all, says Sam. "I say looks
Short, unassuming Norman who died three days after the always everything."
The horse had a wicked eye. Beslie had been Darling's head horso won this year's Derby, He bought him before he was When he glanced round sudden-mon for years, and now be was ly there was tell-tale flash of trainor of the Newmarket stables. white which often is the clue to
born.
Three years ago Fred Darling, man."
NO TENNIS AT run at falures in the then aged 66, was a sick
LRC TODAY
trained seven
never
that he
Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. on the 1st Day and ce run at 2.00 p.m. On the 2nd Day the First Beil. at 11.30 a.m. and the First Race run at 12.00 noon. interval is after the Fourth Race (1,30 p.m.).
The Secretary's office at Alexandra House will close at 11.45 am. on the 1st day and at 10.00 a.m. on the 2nd day.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
NO PERSON WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED." All persons MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the meeting.
Admission Badges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable the written or personal introduction of through the Secretary a Member, such memi to be responsible for ali visitors intro- duced by him.
Tiffins will be obtainable at the Club House If ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811).
NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's premises during the meeting. For this purpose a Child is a person under the age of seventeen years, Westem standard.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable at the Gate.
Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisite fee of $3.00 in order to gain re-admission.
MEALS, & REFRESHMENTS will RESTAURANT.
be obtainable
In
the
Pinza looked more like a police a mean. unreliable temper.
Sir Victor Sassoon, the 70-horse than a Derby winner League Lup, continued to the
He had to leave the Beck-
"Hm," said Bertie doubtfully, bachelor who is year-old the "A" pace in
which keer on borses win over Park Thirtie hampton rucing stabits
goes and called stable lad Tom Mar 2-1 away
been his
and maintains their hundred per cent, had
round horse sales in a bath shall. "He's all yours." he said. record and already they hold a two
he had where
Since
20-year-old that day chair, took an immediate fancy points lead over Saint Mirren
winners, and go to "the to the wild-eyed colts But Fred Tom Marshall has hardly Derby warmer climate of Kenya.
Darling was upset when he left him. He has exercised him, heard of Sir Victor's interest." groomed him, and most im-l
"He's too coarse, Sir Victor," portant item fed him. Be passing through on their duties. They may on no account use he insisted. "He is no: your cause Pinza has never lost his the Betting Booths in the Members Betting Hall.
In Division "B" Motherwell suffer- od their first defeat at the hands of Ayr United-Reuter,
All tennis matches scheduled at the It's becoming tantamount to it. for today. (Monday)
heard football You've
club Ladies Recreation Club have WIN FOR NORWAY maringera
Oslo, Sept. 27. Day they have to been cancelled and will now be (Tuesday), before played
Norway beat Holland by four tomorrow,
All other goals to nil in a soccer inter- you weather permitting.
scheduled for this national match 'o-day. the housing matches
All the goals were scored after problem has become a part of week have been moved forward the Soccer buy-and-sell market one day.
Well,
they can sign him,
know how much
Someract
CCC Sup portern' Club are now going into house purchase to help attract new players to the West. It is obviously felt that this is the way to lure the additional first- clase players who are so badly needett by the county which held up all the others in the season just finished.
With them in the talent quest are Kent, who finished in last- but-one spot, but some of the players, they have approached seem to want the hop-delds aa well.
NO PLAY AT
the interval-Reuter.
American Racing Methods Could Be Copied More In Britain
London, Sept. 27.
American racing methods and systems have recently įcome in for considerable praise in Britain.
The Jockey Club is continually being accused of being behind the times.
British Turf writers are pointing to the American methode already adopted by the Jockey Club, and saying Owing to the flooded condithoy should take up many other United States systems tion of the Golf Course at Fan- ogarded as being of benefit to the race-goer.
FANLING
on
|
MOTHER SOLD
WHILE in Africa he followed
a mare called Pasqua. He class. Leave him alone." knew a lot about her breed. Her
But Sassoon was determined to
him.
He offered 1,500 father was the famous Manna, have. Derby winner in 1925.
guineas for him.
The average price paid for a yearling which is likely to win big race is about £10,000, So Darling did not feel Sir Victor was being cheated.
Pasqua was in foal to Chan- ieur II when Darling bought her through his agents for £2,- 100. When he returned from Kenya he did not like the look of his purchase at all.
Sir Victor Sassoon still chuckies She was dawn and dispirited. when he thinks of it.
"Fred was most distressed," he She looked like the mother of a CL3-horse. He decided to sell said. "He wanted me to buy a horse called Caftan. It was her. But, before he did so, on
February 2, 1950, she gave birth better
a very attractive porse, much
looking than Pinza. foal. This feat was Inter to a
Someone else bought Caftan, called Pinza after the Italian tenor, because his father's name but it has won only one race in
£407 In Its life-and was Chanteur.
money,"
J
Pasqua and her foal went to Drling's Bloklands Stud, just
off the Bath Road near Caine, in Wiltshire.
His mother was sold to an
Argentine owner for 500 guineas,
and Pinza took his place in a big barn with four other foals. aftor him ilko an Looking affectionate aunt was 44-year
prizo
DROBNY BEATS BERGELIN
appetite.
CVCT
In addition to his ordinary
SERVANTS
Servants must remain in their employer's boxes except for
CASH SWEEPS
The cost of a Through Ticket is $44.00. Through Tickets meals he will cat 12 lb. of reserved for this meeting but not paid for by 10.00 a.m. on Friday, carrots. But he really prefers 9th October, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future 12b. of apples.
There were none of those de-
iracles to begin with, First tho wild, and possibly wicked, colt had to be broken to the saddle. -London Express Service.)
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t
Kwangtung Handicap Baturday, 10th October, 1953 Tickets in the above at Baden-Baden, Germany.
$2.00 each may be obtained Sept. 27. at the Cash Sweep! Offices of Jaroslav Drobny (Egypt) won the Club at:- the Men's Singles title in the
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Over 710,000 tickets sold to
H. MISA,
Secretary.
ling yesterday, the Competition From the United States comes Apparently, when Yorkshire-ager.
ment which ended here today. for the Chinese Cup has had, to,
In the final he beat Lennart be postponed to next Sunday, the photo finish, now part and horn Jockey Johnny Longden, British now one of America's leading
inter- ¡parcel of most of the
Bergelin, tall, Swedish October 4.
courses. Indeed raco-goers riders, was over in England re-
But many people who saw national, by 6-4, 4-3, 0-0. astonished that The Cup will be played for
the colt in his first two years invariably moan at the lacic or contly he was
The women's title went to that day in conjunction with the much cameras when they
And the draw should play such an decided four things about him, Britain's Mrs Joy Mottram, | date. October quailers, for the Cap their fancy awarded second or important part in British racing none of them in his favour.
who defeated Mrs Dorothy lala's Cup. Partners and start fourth place by
His suggestion was that the The horse was greedy, Ho Head, a.runking American By Order of the Stewards, the judges
American racing stall Idea Ing times will as fet as possible
naked eye.
should be adopted, and that it began to take more than his fair player, by 9-7, 1-0, 10-8 in a remalo
same il as the
niready
With the ploture, they know there were too many runners share of the food in the barn marathon Anal--Router. published contestant and where their horse is finished, for
Says Sam: "I had to hold him this, the race should be Should any
away from the manger for ten himself unable to take part in with the naked eye, they are divided.
minutes while the other foals the Competition next Sunday he sure it has beaten the other one!
If the stall system wore to be and yearlings got off to a good WHEELOCK MARDEN & STEWART LTD. why does the Jockey used in Britain, this could be start. Td let Pinza have requested to contact the fuKGC Office Tel 32340 before Club not consider the start of placed in such a position as to a go.”
Any the race as well as the end and Wedijesday, on.
the bullify
draw advantago Fred Darling, wrote rearrangement found necessary copy the American method in which at present exists on Africa as though he had second in the draw will be made at this, British pressmen are, tak several courses. China Mati, sight, and said: "I know you are noon on that' dată!
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