ON THE
SOCCER SIDE
(Edited by Marshall Fallows)
centro-half and
former Joe Kennedy, 26-year-old West Bromwich Albion captain, has asked for a transfer. After losing his place in the first team due to injury, Joe played in the second team. Last Saturday week he was not even cluded in the reserves. Came the request for a move.
in-
With the Cup and League double in their sights, Albion will not be keen to part, but Kennedy wants to join a club that can give him a regular place in their Lengue side.
After jolning Albion
before,
100
his
as Wednesday wing-hnil, Kennedy was awitch-chance so well that Kennedy est to centre-ball and was Im- has been unable to reguh his
He { place. mediately successful. cdeveloped 30 rapidly that he Kennedy joined Abion from was strongly tipped for a cup. Chialize League club Altrincham In 1948, a bargain buy at £750,
Leeds Duglale.
United approached
the about for the Football Brentford
possible Manchester
Wally the transfer vt centre-half
Then he lost his place due to
und Injury,
Jiminy
who played League
al
FOUR-MINUTE MILE
AT IBROX PARK ON JUNE 12?
By "MAC"
The athletic dream of the years has been that some
mile day, somewhere, somebody
in
minutes.
will run
It
four
Now the experts are belting that it will be done this And the place and dale they name summer in Britain. as most likely-Hrox Park, Glasgow, on June 12.
Lany La
This optimism extus ferm the decision of Aushala Prack thege. Jidm Landy. Beer Bannister, on the Antriemus, We. Sutve od Mali Whitdeld, ze likely to Jon in a fte bid at the Ghogea Jolee Sp.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1954,
Bragu. Brentford want £13,000. Thot in too high for Leeds who hoped for an exchange deal.
ialtox Town have granted
scecond
of request the their speedy outside-loft, Derek be placed on the Priestley to transfer list.
FOUR LUMPS The scene is a railway dining- cur....the Torquay players are travelling home from Coventry. Player-nunager Eric Webber listen allentively na two girls adjoining table talk
ut
hockey tactics.
"Just slips of girls." mutters Eric. "but they have a grasp of thetr game that many hulking Soccer men might envy,
F'd like to join only they might question my authority to defame in depth speak after heuring we've lost 0-4. What conch une of them would make.
glances at the girls. Webber "Just look at that," he says as
her one sweetens
coffee with
four lumps of sugar.
"Sugar for energy, She knows her game." Eddie's pursuit of Peter has
Torquay bos And the Gr been unrelenting sutce then carefully drops four lumos into He was willing to bark himself) his own cup. for £500.
NO. 1 UTILITY MAN
George
Then, after the Bght was fixed few weeks ago, Keenan put
£1,000-a-de-stake-and and up a Carson had not a fuznetsi word
BROKE THE SILENCE
Landy, Buster and Sante. | le say. have, hung then, 19m six dif- | 1..ont in la raves in tees then +
the part yun Whitpeld, world half-mille record 400 secs, 18 How Lanna-training with the sule vigert of doing a four- mute mille.
Two week ago for the fel time, he broke lils Bence about seeming attack of cold teet. He told 714!
"Keenan is five weeks too late
Marks, the Reading former Arsenal Inter- must be national goalkeeper, favourite for the tag of Succer's No. I utily man,
He gives coaching lessons to the
players at Elm Park, young playa
third for the
เก Hampshire League tootball, and Reading Rowing Club with their training.
lexan
On Saturday he turned out in scored a goal.
with his money. The side-stake the left wing, Wis offered by my manager
KEN SMITH Show Talking
This
This Louis Fight WILL Be Staged
Joe Louis, the “Brown Bomber," who reigned as World Heavyweight. Cham- pion for longer than any other man, will soon be putting on his boxing gloves again
and in Britain.
Не But he is not planning a ring come back. Joe is going on the stage. signed up to star in The Square Ring, under the auspices of John Wildberg and the American Negro Theatre Guild.
A few weeks aga Louis ap- Mario Lanza in The Student / offer hugo numg for him to Alm proached Wildborg in New York | Prince, is to get a big lift along in Britain.
comedy. becomes
U
BET ON BRANDO
acus
and sold: "If you can make an the road to stardom, actor out of me, I'm your boy."
Now Louis
He is to be teamed with Jane coming to London next month to rehearse Powell in a romantic
Mister Roberts, which has been on the verge of sailing the with an all-negro cast-prob- Athens, then he
-ever since 1948, The cinema ably most of the members of dashing highwayman in
of King's Thief, originally planned now seems on the verge the present Anna Lueasta com-
the London
for fellow-Englishman Stewart being founched. Hippo- pany at
Latest news is that in May Granger. drome.
or Jung the World War II naval
Will NO comedy-drtına he ɔrn the Warner cameras.
My bet is that, Marion Brando will get up off kls psychiatrist's couch in time to play the har- ried Heutenant of the title.
GIRLS ARE INCLUDED
When Ralph Peterson's boxing | play
presented was originally at the Lyrie, Hammersmith, two years ago, it was an al-male production. Then Ealing Studlus mode A Alm version which In- troduced a female element.
of
Now Peterson, an Australian, and Joel Riordan, husband skating-star Belita, have re- written the play to include female parts.
Present plan Is lo co-star beautiful negress Isabelle Cooley
Anna now portraying Lucasta, RA the feminino in- terest to ex-Champion Louis.
The play will have a vincial tour before coming 10 the West End.
After this he co-siars with Ava Gardner in the Biblical drama The Prodigal.
After which, I presume, Bri- 1ish studios, who ignored him in the past, will be ready to
Dead Or Alive
By HENRY LONGHURST
to
Having recently emerged, like sundry thousands of other golfers, from an enforced hibernation, I come pro-
the conclusion that golf is really a remarkably ensy game. All you have to do is to leave it alone for a couple of months and you cannot go wrong.
But it is the "If" in foc Louis's remarks to Wildberg that holds the key to "when" you will see the play.
For Jce is
a notoriously shy character, and not given to talk ing much. The idea of learning J long Alage part rather frightens him,
Says Wildberg: "I make on actor out of him whether I have to wait a month, six months or a year."
I wish you luck, Mr Wildber, but a year is an awfully long ilme-as well as being ab expensive wait.
EVEREST AGAIN
A
The first drive-at Porthcawl and in a stifflsh wind at that flew like an arrow up the middle, the second was tossed nonchalantly up within a few feet of the flag, and the only surprise was that the occupants of the club house did not immediately dash out under the impression that it was Cotton.
The sull small voice, ever to do myself, justice, how I present to prick the balloon of thought the great golfers played the temporarily inflated gelfer, golf,
As an alibi (and will purists whispers that surely this has happened before. It has, often-please not write to the Editor as and never with more pathetic claim the word to have now results than when, in an in-passed into the language in this terval from being taught to erroneous sense). I started the
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CARELESS RAPTURE.. ning an
Everest eple of their
own.
UWIL moved to rentre-forward, then
Whitfeld would probably be pate-seller for the first hell Tony Vairo, when we were trykhed the game at left back. male (1 m. 59 sees ). Landying to get n match with Keenan. would had to the three-quarter mark (2.59). and the four of "We had London backing to Cyril Trigg, Birmingham City
them would that out for a 69 find the money. But Keenan
That adds lodged his lad quarter.
THE MOMENT
promoter.
•
full back Oi centre-forward, cheque only last who joined the club in 1935, s up to a mile in 3 mins, 38 acts. week-end-and thim with the due for his third benefit next
It should have gone to the Boxing Board of Control. We are too busy after all this
were avaliable
year.
The moment Eddie Carson has raising funds which to join the
bera wargine since he was
who
season,
Stratford-on-Avon,
sim Birmingham Com- bination next
hiave Keenca ha offered Trigg the job player- of 29 atives on enly spoken up sooner." youngster Wednesday, Feb. 24, Buinewhere
m:nager. around nine in the evening, in
But Trigg is waiting till the Carson--who will be 33 this the Kelva Hall, Glasgow,
rear has been using quietly end of the season before decid-
Defeat could
end
means
The he meets Peter Kreman for the most important bout of ing.,
Chances are that he will com- in the ring for the first time- his career. with the Carson Bantamweight the
of his career as plete 20 sensens with Bliming- Championship of Scotland of topliner in Scotland. Victory hun. stake. And it is all but three would make him leading con- since Eddle of Edinburgh tender for the British and Euro-
Keenan first dared
Sare
crown.
WILL BE GRATEFUL
MORE SETTLED
duo to
start
Thus-Harry Vardon: "I am convinced that there is no such thing as a straight left arm............ Alfred Padgham: "Neither at the address, nor at the top of Here, with six borrowed clubs the swing, is my left arm with- To bo tled Sabre Tooth, 20th and attired in collarless Army out a slight curve..."
Bobby Century-Fox plan D Cinema-shirt and the kind of plimsolls Jones. "I play a straight left Scope picture with Sherpain which manufacturers of golf arm on all full shots from the Tensing in the cast.
shoes could prove it Impossible time the club has started back to play at all, 1 sailed round in until after the ball hns Production is
.." Gene Sarazen: "With- 34, against a par of 30-and at gone. once sent for my own clubs,
The very sight of them dig-out the straight left arm it is
well-nigh inpossible, etc...." pelled the first careless rapture
Out of all the confusion 'there and filled the mind with all the
and other emerged one conclusion which hints, tips, secrets, mental bric-a-bruc by which has hardened into a certainty- one's game had been cluttered or had until just the other day
namely that for all the great in more leisured days. up
I never again did better than golfers of all time the hands are 41, and it was almost a relief to what Vardon called the "chief
barrack point of concentration." be posted to a frozen square at Saighton, near Chester -perhaps the most admirably named camp in the second world
mę 18
after the monsoon period this autumn.
Background footage la already being shot from planes flying over Everest,
Described to
"an unusual love story with a sort of science-fiction background--it is about a wealthy woman in search
of a
the a molar from extinct sabre-toothed tiger, and her professional guide will probably have Gregory Peck playing the guide and Susan Hayward as the women.
Any Abominable Snowmen?
STARDOM AHEAD
war.
finger-nall, but the only link
You may
do this with your left hip or that with your 'right,
between your mind, which Onec, years and years ago as initiates the business, and the Edmund Purdom, the young it seems, I ventured to write club head, which finishes it off,
Actor who supplanted book on how to play golf-ors is your hands.
lo trade pean titles, with the possibilty Sunderland will nol let punches for the title-just after of a match with Australian centre-half Ray Daniel go until the Glasgow boy had beaten World Champion Jimmy they have signed a successor. English Danny O'Sullivan for the British Carruthers.
Daniel asked for a transfer last month.
Another Sunderland man, Francis Gallet, Scottish gol! Inside-forward Len Shackleton, He has now professional
been 30 is more settled. years at the Blue Mound club, two businesses in Sunderland,
and his mother and father are Wisconsin, U.S., invented a new
the town, having putter. He moving into
sen-bought a house.
TEAMS FOR GEORGETOWN TEST MATCH
Georgetown, Feb. 23. John Wardle, 31-year-old Yorkshire glow left-arm bowler will make his first Test appearance of the tour
who has
type of moulded
sent one to President Eisen- hower. Ike's secretary replied: "I am sure he will try it, and I knew he will be grateful it The can get his game down In
the 70s."
-(London Express Service)
for England in the third Yankees Test against the West In- dies which begins here to-
morrow,
The inclusion of Wardle, whọ replaces Charles Palmer, is the only change from the side which played in the first Test. The team is fulton (captain), Balley. Graveney, Lock, Compton, Evans, Statham, May, Trueman and Wardle,
Wardle took nine wickets for 150 rund In the MCC match
Watson,
Vic
Sell
Raschi
Following in father's foot- steps-Tony Boyes, 18-year-old son of Wally Boyes, the former England International (Dow
Redford manager of
Town), who played for Albion in the 1935 Cup Final. Tony is to have a month's trial at the Hawthorns,
Remember Sammy Weaver, the wing-halt with the pro- digious throw-in who played for Hull City, Newcastle United, and Chelsea?
and
St. Petersburg, He has been appointed head
Florida, Feb, 23.
groundsman to a firm with a The New York Yankees today sports ground In South London. Since his playing days ended sold Vie Raselil, a star right-
has been assistant handed pitcher of their five Weaver consecutive. World Champion- trainer to Leeds United ships, to the St. Louis Cardinals trainer-coach to Millwall. in a surprise. "waiver” deal, 15
Weaver still plays cricket-he Raschi, who had been holding was once on Derbyshire's ground against British Guiana here out for a higher salary, was sold staff, and played two games for for a sum. estimated at more Somerset before the war finishes last week.
than $100,000 and some minor first-class cricket and expects The pltch at the Bourda league players to be determined to turn out, for the team whose Oval here is one of the best in later.
ground he tends. the world. It does not wear at
SIR GORDON'S SON
TO BE ASSISTANT
TO NOEL MURLESS
By A Racing Correspondent
Sarazen, to my mind the Ideal model of golfing simplicity, con- firmed this. The great player plays golf with his hands," I remember him saying.
The average player tries to play with his head. He is thinking His 50 different things. brain bothers him. It is con- gested with ideas."
of
Con anyone, on watching Cotton, doubt that his hands lead and the rest follows? Or, to quote the redoubtable Sam Snead, on some of his pupils, "I can't help but think that, if
fork up to their mouth the
Sir Gordon Richards' son, Peter, who has just com-some of them tried to bring a pleted three years learning to train racehorses with way they try to take a club on Paddy Prendergast at the Curragh in Ireland, has been the back swing, they would given the important post of assistant trainer to Noel starve to death." Murless at Newmarket,
Murless; who trains for the Queen, has the most powerful stable in the country for the coming season, with 80 horses of the highest grade,
look after
NORMAL MEDIOCRITY
This simple theme is surely the answer to why you scintillate after a long abscrico and then, as the brain begins to intrude, Sir Gordon is first jockey to gast assures me he has makings sink invariably back to the the stable and Peter will come of a really great trainer,
normal mediocrity.. have Into close
his contact with
Poter Richards would
Your
the father in all his work.
preferred to wait until the ban However, Feter has often on the Prendergast horses Ingrip (how many knuckles show- Not the slightest idea), "leg-up" England hud been Hfted before ing? given his father the
your hands look after the stance before, for Sir Gordon rides the making a change.
"You're getting in your own Prendergast horses. whenever he
But this tyde of offers does way again, Mr Longhurst," can,
not come often on the threshold seem to hear dear old Fred During his time in Ireland, of one's career, and when it Robson saying-your hands, f HIS METHOD
Peter has learned an immenso comes there is no time for delay you let them, look after every- all so the only real advantage In order to complete the deal,
amount about the business from Prendergast, at great personal thing. In winning the tass is psycho- Raschi had to be waived out of
When Millwall right back every angle. He rides out bolli | Mar, has" adviseri,
nay almost 10) logical,
the American League. National
scared bis fth lots in the moming and leads forced, Peter Richards to accept Or so I thought, unthi I read League clubs which finished Alux Jardine
the season last the two-year-olds in Fairaudeau was dropped from lower than the Cardinals in the penalty of
may never be repeated, Peter taking a lesson from "A man of today 1983 pennant race also had to Saturday week he became joint the Worlds Ja most of this golden opportunity which of an American professional
second in his club's ." list of ⠀ ⠀ He has become, one of the has fgyrod.
such • thundering power, and sterling scoring ability that ap Longue scorers
A leading' amateur riders;
ing I have leamed is ranked near the all-time Jardine has missed only one
land ́änd÷his' wron
top. And what was the greet apot lick in the last two years.
Shan mand, secrétt (// His method: Hit them hard two relenting
the West Indies (aldo. because of a damaged hand. waive on him-United Press.
His Absence means that Robert
Christian, captain of British Guiana, will make his first ap-
pearance in the series,
The West Indies team
Stollmeyer (captain) Worrell,
ridden in En
to the right t
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won the first ein tha Ave-match-
28.
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the spot
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