THE CHINA MAIL, SÁTURDAY, MARCH 6, 1954.
THE STORY OF ENGLAND'S ACE GOALKEEPER
THE GAME IN THE
During the course of my Career there have been many men who have left an impression on me and I am thinking particularly of forwards, since they are the goalkeeper's chief problem.
And among them, of course, centre forwards are the main danger men. It was a centre.
Newcastle's Jackie forward, Milburn, who scored what rate as the best goal ever against
me.
It was on a skating rank pur- face at St. James's Park. MI- burn got the ball on the half- way ine, turned with it and
for #printed
goal. How moved at much speed in conditions I don't know,
he the
He was on the edge of the penalty box when still moving full out he shot and emeked the
ball into the back of the net.
He was moving so fast that after the shot he couldn't pull and almost up on the surface finished in the crowd, I never saw anything like it.
By GIL
goalkeeper to produce a really outstanding save to stop the ball going in. And quite obviously,
goalkeeper cannot be expect- ed to do that all the thine.
GOLDEN RULE
GOALMOUTH
MERRICK
is the
Shackleton But Lon only player I know who takes a chance of trying either shot in a match. That in itselt shows the confidence of the man, for in actual fact he lays himself wide open to error in attempting, these things.
1 stress the al- The reason
fine is this. One of the Perhaps the yard
most dangerous inside man i have faced as golden rules of goalkeeping Is that anything crossing the six-goal scorer is Arthur Howicy, of yard He or in the goal area in Leicester City. the air is the goalkeeper's ball.
One gets headers, of course. from outside the six-yard box, but it is generally considered that these can be saved without undue effort providing the goal- keeper's positioning is right.
But with John Charles in the middle, his command in the air is so great and the power of his headers is such that
he is 11 potential goal-scorer up to at feast nine yards.
is inert,
And, what
he has everything that is demanded of a good centre forward ball One of Milburn's secrets is his control, speed, strength (how speed on to through ball that dimeuli he is to knock off J reduces the time a goalkeeper | ball), and a terrific shot. has to get to the bali in straight race.
in which he plays The way the game does him great credit. fle appreciates that an apponent, like himself, gels a living from the game and wants to play every week
·
And also
inipressive is the way in which he keeps til hend when the goalkeeper to almost on him and plays the ball with superb control past him
Rela
-
A centre forward who amazing power into his shots Bolton's Nat Lofthouse.
When a Lofthouse shot from 23 yards comes on to the goad keeper it is still going with the speed of AN AYEL[kfzer drive from 15 yards out
IT SPELLS DANGER
The greatest British Inside forward I have ever played i
Is Jimmy aguinal Sheffield United.
Hassan
Anda to be
Inside
nway
One generally men are inclined from the goal lying on passes for their leader or a cutting in winger.
But Rowley has a knack of always being up in the danger chances are going area where and he makes that style of play
worth while breause of his ne curate shooting ability from all angles.
of the int In considering best wingers I have met I am thinking of outside forwards in terms of their danger to a goal-
their shots keeper chiefly with
peer
and crosses.
Stan Matthews, of course, is al-for his the
of them He is most dangerous (TUSSES. of all when he beats the full- back and darts to the by-line, thereby drawing the goalkeeper to the near post.
The two best foreign inside play.
FUN born
but
Kubala,
Now
It
Hungarian naturalised
Ich Perez
t
Bagan gets
But in not only the power | Spanband. that Lofthouse gets lates his Urugua} shots that makes him outstand ing-it is the unexpectedlugas of
Whenever
the
his shooting that makes him shall no mailer where he is, dangerous.
sudden slating In fact bis ability remarkable, for he can take ball with other font un the half-volley or volley and on
the turn.
** +
Curiously enough, though, the hardest shots ; have ever perienced have not come from centre forwards. but from winger and a wing half.
KNOCKED ÖVER
I have enly once been knocked
1 spells danger. He has brought accurate passing down to a fine art, he
" ball rarely wastes 11
ut putting 1 is brilliant all through for a colleague.
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He is not a great scorer of goals bhrself, but round about
The box and inside it, where a
shot might be saved, it seems he would rather wait and by
his own work make an goal for someone else.
easy
I is his unorthodox switch-
ing of the alluck that can take
a goalkeeper by surprise.
over by a shot in
the man
Arsenal's
Don Roper.
my life, and wito did that Was
who
of
in
with 趄
with
Then he pulls the bull buck at far from the goalkeeper that he
Derby
!bas no chance of getting to it. And even worse, these crosses or
pull backs are low and rarely
above knee height.
away
He obviously doesn't pull the ball in the air unless he can possibly help it because in doing so he increases the goalkeeper's chance of cutting out the cross,
These low pull-back passes of Matthews which move
aro hit from the goalkeeper with more pace than one would think possible, remembering his turning position at the by-time and they flash straight to waiting player, giving the goal- keeper little or no time to get to a new position.
Preston The
winger, Tom Finney, works on very similar hues to Matthews, concentrat Ing on trying to work an open
dangerous ing to ny pull back pass.
on that
But Flaney also has an added asset which makes him as dan- perous us Matthews and per- haps even more 80 when he is moving fairly close in to goal
ALEC BEDSER'S COLUMN
THE SECRET OF THE SOUTH AFRICANS
the
The country destined to make a bold bid for supremacy of the cricket world in the next few years is South Africa. Without question they have made remark- able strides in (eam building since they visited England in 1951 and they must now be accepted as one of the most powerful of the international sides.
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Yet at the end of the 1951 tour the backbone of the eleven rotired from first-class cricket.
batsmen, which, They lost stalwarts like Dudley | hates
endorse as the the of
most bowler I can Nourse, dangerous batsmen I have ever right outlook! bowled against, Eric Howan,
I also hear Cuan McCarthy to return to big cricket always difficult to get out, Athol, plana his younger brother, a magni- and if he can discover his old formidable opening useful form what leent off-spinner and
pair South Africa will have! batsman, and Geoff Chubb, new
It is
bowlers strange how bail bowler and incidentally one
in pairs. There of the most likeable and friend- often appear
ever met. We were Gregory and McDonald, Land- cricketers on or off the field were Grimmett and O'Rolily. desolate when Norman "Tufty" wall and Miller for Australia,
Ramadhin and Valentine for Mann did not survive a serious
the West Indies, Tate and Larwood illness.
have
Half the South African sido were thus unavailable and they were short of both batsmen and bowlers for the Australia tour of 1952-53.
Depending on the angle at which he is coming in, Finney rather than inke it a stage further and try to beat u de- fender to the by-line, will sud- denly goalkeeper with a shot in the far corner. And his goals tally bears witness 10 his success. tralia.
attemp
to
bent
the
TWO How NEXT WEEK FAMOUS PLAYERS SET A NEW FASHION IN CORNER KICKS.
-London Erpress Service.
Favourite Is
A True Stayer
Rowston
A Ilne
no
for
England and many others. Their success as a pair is not always accidental. One can bo the perfect foll to the other and lucky is the country which can And such a combination.
Footnote:- Bet with the bowler sympathy of a fellow that both Freddie Trueman and Brian Statham suffered from
So dark and dismal seemed
of that their prospects
ono Johannesburg's lending
news- papers begged them not to un- dropped catches in England's of Arsi Test rith the West Indies, the tour, deltake
I remember In one of small
first * my thought which had
catches missed in my opening measure of support from Aus- Important matches having two
over, At the end
of it the Jack Cheetham's men arrived skipper, seeing me look down- in Australia with probably the cast and with a twinkle in his dimmest outlook of any in-eye, asked me "Why the heck ternational
don't you bowl at the stumps?” times.
party
of
moder
ASTONISHING TURN-UP
The cricket world knows now; what an astonishing turn-up for the book the tour provided, with South Afrlen holding powerful Australia to a 2-2 draw (one Test drawn) over the series,
How have South Africa
results? What their secret?
has
been
In
Manor has been installed eight-to-one achieved their favourite for this year's Derby, displacing Alpenhorn, Australia they put cotton wool Infatuation and Royal Challenger, which had in turn held into their ears and refused to
on Britain's listen to defentist talk. first place in the winter betting market
Jack Cheetham inspired his premier classic.
men to Beld like demons and
Rowston Manor is a son of Pearl Diver, which won the 1947 Derby Epsom for his French owner, Baron de Waldner. He is out of a Nearco mare. Though he did not do as much as some of his rivals did in his juvenile days last season, for he only won twice, he was a model of consistency, never finishing out of the first three. Moreover, he won like a true stayer.
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as heavy as £700 were reported, League to take the seemingly impossible cricket in Lancashire will
catch,
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1 was discussing fleiding with be Keith Miller during a lull in colourful as ever this sea-
"Was the South African one of the 1953 Tests and I asked son. him: fielding as good as we were led to believe?" "Tisten."
"IL Keith replied,
world. I Wor Test and
His price has accordingly gone was out of this
sky The
There is a glittering array of noted professionals to draw the crowds
the Lancashire to Lengue games, notably the sign- Ing by Burnley of Wally Long- don, the Western Australian captain.
year and
He and his compatriots, Jack Manning, who begins a two- Colne, engagement with Alan
for Walker, pro Rawtenstall, are the only non- Test men among the 14 pro- fessionals in this League.
The chestnut coit is trained in Yorkshire by a member of the
up to 12 to one. This Epsom- batting one day in a trained horse has not been en-bit the ball in the meat of the As got a ball player as any famous Peacock family, Harry.
A batsman knows in- And competitors
the He is owned by a Lincolnshiro tered for the 2.000 Guineas and bat.
when a six is in greatest naster ut trick shots farmer, Mr Frank Dennis.
It is thought that ho may not stinctively knocked me backwards off my
turned prospect.
to the the
be ready for the Derby. Sunderland's La Kame feet with a simply terrine shot
wicket-keeper and said *there A
ike price
eight-to-one tantalising Len Shackleton. and from 18 yards out, tou
ile was slow in coming to she seems ridiculous so long before
The goes,'
next thing I The
footballers majority of to ever! And the unly man
Jumping the Derby (to be run on June hand last year and might prove knew was the crowd alike to practise wind me
shot was
trick shots
with even before the dul- is better prospect for the Stup
amazed delight 21, und former club-mate, Neil Dougall, during training apells to Villy
Russeli Endean on the Leger,
picke is had shot his
and now with Plymouth Argyle, who the routine and sometimes in racing senson has opened, but
hand up mid-week practice games, but I
clearly someone has been taking 1 sickened me
and clutched Challenger
the all the odds available at longer! Both Rayal alinost
the ball out of
Colne are looking for much have never come across another 20-yard snorler,
prices about the colt, and the Infatuation are on the 14 to 1
from Manning, a slow left-arm with Shackleton's
son of The former, a con bookmakers have dropped his mark.
lessons of felding to a goalkeeper's player
are bowler, whom many Austrailans A menace
successful sire Royal reputation is the Welsh inter-dence and audacity to try these price to safeguard themselves the
always being drummed home | thought his inclusion in the at stud in
the by Charger, now
successful sidca. Surrey team ne against heavy liabilities.
that toured Britain last national firebrand, Trevor Ford. tricks in actual League matches. I shall never forget the first
Unlied States, 339, however, have had Боте wonderful
have improved He is
year would always chasing
time 1 ever played against him, Rowston Manor is likely to
been backed fur
2,000 catchers the goalkeeper
the Aussies chance of holding und never gives because he beat me with A miss the 2,000 Guineas, the first Guiness, for which
Stuart Surridge, who is the
the Ashes. He hopes to join moments rest. And per- swerved shot that moved away of hirn
the season's classics, a1 clear 7 to favourite. He niso only man I know at short leg Livingston and Tribe in the haps more than
other any
at least two yards from me late Newmarket in April. He is is trained in Yorkshire. So who actually moves in
closer
Northamptonshire side after centre forward playing he tries in ite light.
of the noted to the bat as the ball is bowled, wintering well and the present the broad neres
completing his residential quali to make a goalkeeper lose his
He is, too, a pust-master at plans are for him to have & racing country have at present and Tony Lock. It is sold with Alcations. concentration.
the dip shot, in which, as its public reco course gallop be- the distinction of possessing the some degree of truth Glamor.
favourite for both races,
gan
English Cham- description implies, the ball dips fore running in his first race of towards the ground from its the season, which is likely to
plonship on felding alone in Derby Trial
1947. original line when it is almost be the
Once he
has succeeded
the
ເຄ
doing that there must be goals about for Ford and his side.
Welsh
on to the goalkeeper and when Lingfield Park.
ON THE VOLLEY
this
Stakes al
very
he Is ค
Second favourite for both the Derby and the 2,000 Guineas ot the present time is the Queen's and this is not coll, Landau, merely out of loyal allegiance to the Crown.
This
He can hit a ball extremely hard and to dive at his feet in fact he is all set to gather The race is over the full Derby distance of one and a half miles and
gradients on similar to those at Epsom. The
handsome three-year- the big long old cok is bred for the highest In bringing off
shot way in which Shackleton hits the bail sharply striding colt tackles the downhill honours, for Dante, his aire, won on the volley with his knee well run into the straight at 2 india of the Derby, and Sun Charlot, his over the ball.
will
ability to negotiate Tatten- thing ngai st this perfect breed- can execute both the swerve and her Corner.
ing is that a matching of Derby and Oaks winners has yet to the
Alpenhorn, an upstanding son dip shot-pre-match train- ing spells with the England team of the Ascot Gold Cup winner, produce a winner
in the "Blue Riband" China have provided me with a good Alycidon, may not run
Derby, it is now being whispered. Special. deal of experience of this.
la desperate business, Ife Is the ball. most dangerous as he comes in when the goalkeeper is at full stretch, grasping a high ball.
But there is another leader more effective thus Ford that is the enormous John Charles of Leeds United, whom I rate the most dangerous centre forward I have faced.
Charles haz The ability make a header from outside the six-yard line that forces the
THE
WEEK-END
to
i know a lot of players who him sive backers a good idea of dam, won the Oaks. The only
GAMBOLS
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE SOME OF PERSONALLY | THINK THE SHOPS:
by Barry Appleby
new
won the
the bot like
NEW FAST BOWLER
год-
Everton Clyde Walcott and Weekes will again be playing for Enfeld and Насир pectively, but the third member South Africa having achieved of the West Indies noted
rio,
Frank Worrell, is not ro- miracles in team building out turning to Hadcliffe, the Central have unearthed
Lancashire League bowler in John Adcock, a
club. youngster from
Mohammad, Johannesburg. Pakistan and one-time Somerect who
has played against the Zealanders
вете
fast toll
Khan
the
New
with some fast-medium bowler, has signed Success.
up for the season with Lower- Denis Compton, who had a house, even though his country'e holiday In the Union before side is lourlog England, this going on to the West Indles, saw year, It is quite on the cards of Epsom's Adcock. in action and I
that Khan, like Mankad two Mail assure you he was very Im-years ago,
will be granted told mo be special permission to play in
the Tests,
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Other notables in Lancashire League cricket are K. Archer (Australia) at Accrington; E. Weeks (West Indies),
Bacup: W. Langdon (Australia); Burnley; C. McCool (Australia), East Lancashire: V. Mankad (India), Haslingden; D. Phadkar (India); Nelson; Gul Mohammad (India), Ramsbottom; S. Guptle (India), Rushton; and J. Burke (Australia), Todmorden.
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Second Day
Saturday 6th March, 1954, (To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club)
The Programme will consist of 10 races, including the First Race of the First Day of the 0th Race Meeting held on 27th February, 1954, the Windy Gap Handicap (1st Section), which has been declared vold by the Stewards and which will be run as Race 1(A) on Saturday, 8th March, 1954, at 1.30 p.m.
The First Bell will be rung at 1.00 p.m. and the First Race run at 1.30 pm.
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Through Tickets for both days of the Meeting and for which Vouchers have been issued up to the Number 3850, will partici pate in Race (A), the Windy Gap Handicap (1st Section) to be run on 6th March, 1954, at 1.80 p.m.
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