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WILL SIR GORDON
STILL HAVE TO
GET UP EARLY
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"By ROBIN GOODFELLOW
Sir Gordon Richards, Champión Jockey 26 tiles, is "Good going to train racehorses instead of ride them. luck to him." you may have murmured as you read this
news.
Possibly you reflected that his new job would suit him hicably It probably will, but you may have
missed the point
of his ca****.
Would you
he is about to tackle the toughest job
A good health -,
NOW YOU
can see why
the
at the age of 50, having worked | successful flot-vace jockey's life hard, resched the pinnacle f 1 comparatively worry-free. He The trainer Itzal
koks after Nu 1. your profession, well endowed with the world's outly bar to look after No 1, goods, tackle
Job in- but everything up to No 101. volving just as much burl work.
responsibilit twice as much
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now
and the times the weary"
belakan on tangent by weight troubles)
New back to Sir Gordon un trainer. After he has cicured up the vice he may motor or By off tu some raed meeting where he is running, a horse or two.
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out with the
second wť“ of horses ni exer-
Bri the inckle
THE FACTORN
That's what the switch mucemsful jucherry
from
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horses involvin
a string of Filet-
If the her
morning.
air good you worry
rink of refidents 14%,
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about the
the
An afternoon at home after And ailments lunch (at least he can have two af, helping of everything) may be
£ 150,000 worth
horsesh on the bout.
ir the followed by a short nap-he was
hortes are bad you wonder how up early and Beckhampton alr
you can even
3 in the fut
One
Licent
race. ridu į la strong. Then more office work
Win #
troubles the
trafoinut today
followed by
"evening stables“
when he will visit every hotse wluets in his yurd, looking
that "doubtful" leg here, a sure back
osing to tu reonomy of the there, pay allention to detail. Tirk there as little or no prom questioning, planning and devid- from
Trakmes have
fees
Manying, and at the same time being 10 Let to make | churning to any visiting patro If that Is not 41
In the evening the phone whi worrying Bann tell me what it
ring and ung. Patrons want to
rdzoet Unit horses A Su Gord. in the threshold kno
cotlengu inquantes. oh b
has accepted this friendly 24, U
"Are you going to run your coll fur reveral TEASONS.
at Salisbury next week?" There le could 10 Ele devem FACTOR
are Jockey to engage and there itude belire soar the Turf than
soinetines calls from Windem Churchil Su
Free, which we courteously. answered provided they are ma alter
o'clock trainers eatri the bed as a tale.
shablet
have done from pulltanes Parts E
Another
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Circlesti I've you would be phone at Marlborough
stol, a farm, an
I like my holt-
othes interest
Saa zestand every year, atus Ten
A PLEASURE
Finally, let Lacet of a trainer's
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1984.
My brother Geoff and I practise these tricky but vital pitch shots for haûts. It helps to do the work together. Note my stilish wrist at the start of the back. swing and Geoff's the follow-through with the club-head. That follow-through is
Indeed, in most golf shots. one of the secrets of success in this shot
Recreio
"Blues" No Longer Certain Of The
League Championship
By “TOUCHER”
SENSIN will fireen conditions permitting, the Colony Lawn Bowls League approach closer to its end this afternoon with a farther full programme of matches. With Recreio "Blues" and Indian Recreation Club enjoying a fairly substantial lead in the First and Second Divisions, matches in these divisions will be mainly a matter of consolidation for the league leaders and a fight for survival in the race by the contenders.
YOUR
YOU SHOULD MAKE
PRACTICE SESSIONS MEAN SOMETHING
Says
BERNARD HUNT
Whether you are playing for big money prizes or just to improve your game, you should make your practice sessions mean something. In other words, you should practise with an objective:
You may have tidliced some of the lending professionals-the American boya particularly-making notes on their cards during their practice rounds before big tournaments. And you may have wondered what it has all been about,
If I'll tell you. The pros know right elbow doesn't quite turi as club head still do its work.
.03 most that the ability to play the right easily
people my you can make friends with your shot at the right time means brother Geoff's for „ance- | number 2, you will be on good
So the best of
them
and the flatter type of swing is terms with all your irons. money. carefully note the number of the mill best FOR ME But the up-
i often wish we had some of iron they tuite for their ap-right swing is best FOR GEOFF proach shots to vitious holes os and, quite probably, for you, tou. the American style "golf ranges” over here. Apparently they are they play round the competition
So learn from my experience cropping up all over the place in
have a
problem, the US. You can pop into one when you
listen 10 the million of these ranges, and for a dollar,' don't advisers who love to talk golf get 200 balls to hit down a fairway with and genuinely hy to be help clearly If they
then and as often rul. Go to the man who knows pouts wet up every 50 yards. happens that they have mainly his job your pro-get expert
course.
In the club houso afterwards they go through the cart careialy and analyse their shots.
pinyed, say,
number 7, number advice und act on 11.
tu
gobut to T
fur
idea
inarked
Balla are provided and swept
up afterward by the sweepersaha otten
mechanical think a general many of us shirk practice bo
to cause we hate the job of re- That the fact that inteliigenly
0, or number 3 from shots
clubs }{ you the greens, those are the they go out and use in hourly practice-ground perstores concentrated prac workout, it is a good tice. Τ
It out, it start with your pitching clubs trieving the balls wo nit. think You
and gradually work up to your does not alter makes very sound sense.
always If you plan your own practice woods bit more, it will make just asaway to a specific torgel much sense.
that you I know that many people simply would suggest to you always ish your ression on don't carry a number 2, because the businesa, They are at it the practice-ground with 20 they are afraid to use it But from daybrook to nightfall,
Maybe minutes on the putting green. So you needn't be afraid in prac-
that's why they ad many people think only in terms lier. Give in gand go, let the quite good golfers!
a
hammering
And
golfer.
brity
probably
practice
The
Americans
The first thing I don't duck your mumber 2 iron. «plied, can make you a better
of their driver and their trons, and bang away merrily with these clubs. Yet we all play nearly half our shots on the putting green.
Horton
Smith, the Pecat American golfer, always made a of finishing his practice
point
a long session on the put- Ung green.
And even when t
his best form, he was not above
using his famous "[Wo
50 @ 27 trick.
In
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to these and get edged out at the | Rechein friedi ∙Blues" Recreio make the First Division Charn-tape by any one of the four of KOC
them Bve contending clubs. plonchip certainty for
wh a goo
USRC Recreio scored out Downd when they
Talkoo and #HKCC brilian! Kowloon Cricket Club lust week over
PRC they reproduce the same form, 4-1 last Saturday.
the Indians
may be in for sqund by
KBGC
1-4
2 17
6 41
With
14
80
41
CCC
13
8 0
3372
13
308 272
L+
30 M 17
13
3 0 10 18
Third Division
will give Sir Gordon TRATTATING
By working if pleasure Pas to keep all that up flat
That
LE ADW our Gordon
that
mat
ntert, live, athletic lite man apprentices
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to
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As
of this defeat | severe shock this afternoon. result i is still that possibility of there ogr ine tekana
the White this attempt He which
being overtaken by KCC
indians thels
consolidate
their Fr in the Anal count. Two and a
position is on, a desperate fight | IRC half points ahead of the Cricket for survival will be seen at KERC Club bowlers, they are expected Happy Valley between Craigen- KCC to collect maxim points
gower Cricket Club and Talkoo. USRC
PRC from the Police this afternoon.
Whichever team fails to take | HRFC
The Lalnung OL
Apprenticeship
fs
of attractive personality the all told meaning, except that reason why he is doubling his masters are more humane, silli
tter when applies 2
racing
boy responsibilities at
Hence- contemplating signs on by a trainer. many m halving them is that he wants orth he is under the full contrul to be a trainer.
or his master. He lives in, or
boarded vut.
master undertakes to look after him, to [teuch lum to be a good stables man, to ride, and, if he shapes thon | well, to give me every chance
tu be a jockey.
All high- Cotong ha Docu
necepty challenges
Hecause
he hatar but heart and rasi
Le Pin up his streve
the next chup. he wi
Ta bet -1 4 14 1
career in tab.
been.
have
luck to micr
slop; mene
over labore
Colling
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Thut was how Sir Gordon introduced to the Turfa
ways was
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You litte
hny with #bright vyo. and curty 1 Juck
hour, and
MOTTY thisrite.
thon
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the
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Staff Ingly n fork PervMIDI, and Belfas Balery. To name le, have accomplished
switch remarkably well
the
He
Although Guth as
"re- fired," his new job will mean Just the same early rising will motor the few made From Marlborough ILA Beckhampton to superv
early mortung work in all wenthers. Then to breakfast Next a quick
of his horses
perusal of the
morning mail
with the secretary, followed by
Since then he uns performed Brush service tu
his crown
an anuzing
He could career not by training scores of classle winners, althougr I hope the he dow, but, from among (segrés et scrapping, noisy, high-
blighters spirited youn
wbo will pass through his hands the next ten years, producing us 'The Just Die mare Sir Gordon sonnet the belter.
have
in their other three romain-four points in this match might (CCC ing matches they are likely to as well say goodbye to whatever
frown slender four points
hoper they Kather Recreio Whites, but anything overtaking the Indians. may yet happen in their Gutstanding
matches
two
aguhist the unpredictable Kowloon Bowling Green Club, who have already to their credit one vic- tory over the KCC.
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10 7 0 3 33
became
bit"
Over here, at course, it
The "two-sixpences" trick. The whole thing Wus designed to help
him take the
putter back and push it through straight.
TRICK WORTH COPYING
He used to put one sixpence alout: a foot behind his practice 7 264 ball and another about a foot in
6 0 4 29 50
10
12
10 3 0
0 1 0 5 20
7 20
front both in line with the putt to the hole, ife then made his
aro
the best practisers in
Britain Finds A
New
Motor
Cycling Star
British motor cycling has found the new young race rider to fill the gap left in turn by Geoff Duke, Dickle Dale, Fergus Anderson and Reg Armstrong, all of whom now ride Italian machines.
He is John Surtees, 20-year-old from Addington,
13 2011 14% putter head go over the one at Surrey, To Surtees goes the distinction of being one of
of
MR BROWN'S
Talkoo. after a stretch brilliant wins, seemed to meet some difficulty in their with
There was quite a line-ups, great deal of reshuffling in their rinks Inat week and the same difficulty may put them out of the running for Second Division honours this afternoon.
In the Third Division, India.
the Jesque-
GRAND PRIX CHALLENGE
Thờ back
and carry through the few men to lend World Champion Duke round a race after hitting the bally to pass
A
Con
yoner
truck.
or drop un to, the one in Horton, of course, was
He first did it when both he) Championships, with riders' four beautiful putior, and his trick and Duke were riding standard best scores counting, from a is well worth adopting. If you motorcycles.
Recently, in the total of eight races, putter head 500 e.e. keep
BMCRC Championship Mingels, reigning Champion, straight in line for a foot before at Silverstone, he did it again. has 27 polms (three firsts und a the ball and a foot after it you Again he had standard ma- fourth), Leloup has 20 (two will sink many more putts than chine, Duke rode the latest four-seconds and two thirds), and you misa.
cylinder Italian Gilera.
Smith and another Belgian, who have each scored a first and a Then, well in the lead, Surtees second place, come next with 14 was halted by a wrecked engine, cach,
To find a motor cycle fast
You
team.
For the Kowloons Cricket Club it will not merely be a matter of hopeful expertation that the
On the practice ground itself Blues will drop one match bul
Apart from his tractor the golden rule is to have a action also of
ไ tring
Club Beertation to
who are only interests, Mr David Brown, definite objective like the point behlad collect as many points as they one
pros have when they concentrate cun in their remaining matches, jeung Filipino Club, will be the Yorkshire industrialist, the clubs they are likely to enough and reliable enough to There are still two meetings,
afforded 11
skill, Surtees good opportunity is head of the Aston Martin need most in a particular tourna match his They will have to get at least
016
trking the and Lagonda motor-car con- ment. our points from Recreio Whites us afternoon of
It is no use just banging next season ride for a this afternoon to remain within lead in this division. They are cerns, and his ambitious away blindly at 100 balls.
of chance strong striking distance of the League-conceded
must have a point of alm--a dag the plans for the future in re or post-and you must hit to- fve points taktira leading Blues.
his Pofler, while the Filipino Club gard to mot racing wards il. After all, golf is more truy
two activities are considerable. than just making contact with the ball. You must command There never has been a Grond|both direction and distance, to Prix car from the Aston Martinį be any good. So see to it that or Lagonda works, but Mr you are specific next time you Brown intends to alter all that, go out to practise. Noted
war before the
the
#1
what I can best call by the old The "Bishop" Of
Army term "Orders
said The head lnd--I almost RSM---comes in n ut dres tions and
Dhen brings In Any stable man who seeks an inter- view with us "CO." Incidental- ly, morale & all-important in a stable yard as it is in a fighting force. Vielories are the best recipe for this,
DAILY PROBLEMS
Sir Gurdan will
Old Trafford
Retires
Affectionately known
JLM
Harry Wil-
ATTRACTIVE
from
drop one OT even points nginst the Hongkong! Though having no bearing on Football Club.
Championship title, the
match between the two Valley rival clubs, Cralgengower omat Indian Recreation Club, will be another attractive match in the First Division this afternoon:
In their first encounter of Scorumpuo, the itens gained convincing 4-1 win, It s coubtful if the Craigengower buwiers can turn the table their rivals this afternon, the Indians should be given closer fight than they were the first match.
on
but
In
Interest jix the Second
matches the "Bishop","
will Division
focused principally liams, chief roundaman at match between Recreio
Recreation Club Old Trafford, is to retire at
Indian
the end of the cricket sen-King's Park.
Hon after 57 years' devoted
25
TODAY'S GÀMÉS
First Division Recreio "Blues" v. PRC KCC v. Recreto Whites CCC v. IRC KDC v. FC KBOC (bye)
Second Division CCC v. TC KCC v. USRC Recreio v. IRC HKFC v. HRCC PRC v. KBGC
Thira División
IRC V. PRC
HKERC v. CCC
02
be the and at
USRC v. KCC
FC v HKFC
LATEST STANDINGS
First Division
Although the Indians are now oventumlly
service to the game, 20 of enjoying a 6%-point lead over
PWbLPs employ bolween 30 and 40 men
fol- their nearest
Fivals, Talkoo Recreio "Blues" 12 10 0 2 44 That will mean a score of daily them at Manchester. problems, to say nothing of a lowing
12 DB 3 4114 years with Club, they are by no means out KCC hefty weekly
10 7 0 4 33 wage bill, Then Derbyshire and nine with of the woods as yet, Alt their IRC
12 7 0 5 33 tough ones-against Recreio this Recreio afternoon and against HKFC, Taikoo and
RCC in the other KBGC three games.
PRC FC
there is the rent and a monthly his native Worcestershire. four remaining matches are CCC
ford bill which will Jun into hundreds of pounds.
SPORTRAIT.
sliter
ation.
Through the years he has come to be looked upon by experts as one of the finest groundɛmèn in the country, with an expert knowledge he has always been ready to pass on to others of his craft for the beneft of the game.
Although he affected little knowledge of cricket itself, ns befits a very busy man anxious to ward off time-wasting gossips, he knew more about it than many so-called experts.
His fund of cricket stories unrivalled and would entrance lovers of the sport were they to bo published.
The badge on his blazer-two brooms crossed with OT: between--Was his own desigo, Achong the several cricket caps he wears in turn is the treďkuréd one by, received from Wash- brook, then, on the verge of his } great career,
Harry de retiring to a house, (mils, from the "lovely
hiro
It is well within the realins of possibility that they may atop one or even more games out of
Another May
13 0 0 7 30 11 0 0 5 29-
07 20% 09 20 0 11 12
KDC
Second Division
IRC
Talkoo HKFC
a 48% 06-42 14 0 0 0 1
of
POP
Poter May, vice-captain MCC's fortheening four team, about will soon be thinking packing his bags for Australia, Just about the sime ibmne, younger brother Johm will stow his cricket gear away for other year,
Berkshire. He is my fall right- John, wifi ja 21. phiyo for hand bat and useful bowler,
This all-rounk! ablišty is one rocon for Berkshire's domina tibi of
Centralbear £hild, Miracle Chairiplobably.
accountancy with
fleth and is also a soccer play
---(London Express Service 3
SORRY SIR- BUT YOU CANT PARK IT HERE.
at
his
must in Sweden and France, to be run, factory and It Smith won both of these.
he could break the Moto-Cross Without monopoly maintained by Belgian
"-(Loudon Express Serated).
But, here's the rub. the two British factories which support road racing, he may be forced-like
Duke, Anderson and company to go to Italy, or perhaps Germany.
considerable development by riders
All Depends On The Chancellor Of
Exchequer
0
the
....AND ANOTHER
Another fast improving molur Another thing-it is no good Shelsley Walsh meetings,
a fault cyclist, this time in the trials The cars have met with considerable going out to practise
been going class, la Jeffrey Smith, also 20, It something has succcas In
sports post-war
to of Birmingham. wrong and you are trying racing, but he is not content.
get it right, surely the best
Without losing interest in TO- Don Gockell, 25-year-old His latest venture is to tackle
have a word with Hability competitions, he has British Heavyweight Chant- thing la to the glarita uf world inator-¦ your pro and let him tell you turned to Moto-Cross-cross plan will fight world title racing by producing his own what to concentrate OIL. An- country racing on motorcycles. Grand Prix car.
other thing-don't listen to too to such good effect that ho la holder Rocky Marciano next many people telling you to du seriously rivalling the Bolglans, June. But wherë? This is a task of considerable this, that or the other thing. Auguste Mingėle and Victor magnitude, when one considers Golf clubs are full of people | Leloup.
Hin New York," stys, Cockell's how much money and work dying to help other people. But
The
John-Simpson!" "I? European
Moto-Cross manager," goes behind such cars as the they aren't full of good advice, Championship is run on similar can see no possible way of Ferrari and Mercedes-Benz, not
Briish lines to the World Road Racing
paying promoter to mention the BRM.
Even with I should know,
purses required." Mr Brown's challenge is my hand upbringing in the game,
"In London," says New York to friendly .succumbed eagerly awaited in ricing cir- I've
promoter Jim Norris, "if Mor- cles, with obvious admiration advice this season. After a few best
cinno
Estard wiis.tigminst for a courageous sportsman who boor rounds, some of my
Charles on September 15, the le not content to permit his pals began to urge me to alter
'Cockèll match will be made and fellow industrialisis, Mr Alfred my style this way, or hit the
that
Get way.
it will take place in Landon, L Owen, of BRM fame and Mr Dafi a bit more
Jack Solomans wants it there?" Tony Vandervell, builder of the more upright; in your swing,"
Roger Bannister, Empire, Mić Vanwell car, to dominate the they said. Foolishly, I tried
Perhope the key to the whole the one thing and them British scene.
the Championi and Josy Barthel; other, and merely fell between Luxembourg's
1,500 Metres problem lies in a statement by Possibly his grenitat admirer the two stools,
Olymple gold medallist will Solomonis Everything now, de- is his 21-year-old daughter
clad in the European Athletic pends on the Chancellor of the Undaunted Angela.
ho makes by
Championships which begin at out in the entertainment serious car accident earlier this
drastic year in which she was involved
I have Anally come to the Berne, Switzerland, on August
tax axt April. I will guarantee to put on the fight in London In as a posserige, she, Has Been potht where I should have begun,
BarmisterAnidied fourth to urb racing cars this season and has and consulted the best coach in shared the wheel of one of her the business, the man who Barthel in the 1952 Olympics No tat oufiant tho, night rõệs father's works biselic team taught me all my golf-my dad at Helsinki. At Berne Barthel Whore Manager Simpson thinks cars wifi Sir Jeremy Boles and I am now practising hard under will also run in the 850 Metres now...for Now York.
his direction, Apparently, my ~(Landon Express Berylce), Tony Everard.,
SURELY THBRE
a
CAN BE KIOS DINJECTIONÉ This is A CUL-DE-SA
.
TAKE ADVICE
A CUE-DE-Séb
I DONT cant
# ITS A
MERCEDES:
29.
BANNISTER v. JOSY BARTHEL NEXT WEEK
Nosey Parker
(London Expreki Karolóesi
Don't risk