· BLIND "MAN'S GOLF
THE CHINA "MAIL, THURSDAY, " AUGUST 26, 1954.
The Brigadier And The Singer Plan To Raise A Championship Team
By MARY HEWAT
On the tenth tee at Stanmore Golf Club a square-built man wearing a yellow jersey put down his ball. He took an iron, stepped back, and drove on to the green.
He hit two more drives, both on the green. But he could not see them. He could not see the club he used, the sun on the fairway, or the flag. For 32-year-old Gerry Brereton is totally blind.
When he had hit the last ball, he picked up a white painted blind man's stick, feli his way off the tee, tapped over a wooden bridge and walked on to the green.
Ken Redford, the Stanmore Club professional, took Brereton's arm, guided Redford showed no surprise him to the first ball, and lined him up with the hole. when Brereton sank the putt. He is used to it.
WDS
Gerry Brereton, ex-Com-a golf club, without, ever touch- mando,
blinded by en ing a ball. Then they started explosion 22 hours after landing playing. in Sicily. Ho came back to St Dunstan's and learned to be a telephone operator.
Jum
moves
There are minor crises. When Brereton gets out on the course at Stanmore, the tractor driver, off In the first round of the Club
Kinghun, George this summer, Championships
three Brereton played eight of the last fast. So far Brereton has hi times. "But he's llls drives But he wanted to be a singer, ten holes in par.
tough, he doesn't seem to mind." Then, average 200 yards. He once sank no he kept on singing.
he part, picked a 16-yard putt from the edge of
The most difficult two years ago, he was
per- the green.
says, is judging the distance for for the Royal Command
He has to rely formance, to sing for the Queen.
"And one Redford laughs when people approach shots,
the on his companion. ubout "That's what got me started cruss-question him
He has given man's 50 yards is another man's Brereton SCOTTS said. "I got ย m golf," he
30." "Nobody believes
in noi the Cunoda
Gerry congratu-up arguing.
Brereton lating me and asking if I was it till they see It," he says.
only blind golfer in the London One of the best is a gulter.
area, Brigadier-General A. C. Critch- financier, ley, the 04-year-old who lost his sight last year after an illness.
letter from
if
"I wrote back that I wasn't but I'd try, and tnd out
You see it's the only could be.
сан game blind man
play, because the ball is stationary."
CHANGED HIS MIND
"Gerry plays better than a lot of people who can see. He hits Rome bad shots, but he's never missed the ball entirely. He breaks only one rule his op ponents usually let him ground his club in a bunker,'
Critchley Won the French Open Mixed Golf Champion- and Brereton gets around remark- ships five times running, with
wife. He telephoned Redford
the
Diana former naked for a lesson the next day ably well. When we were intro-his
001 to Fishwick. -Redford's day off.
naid duced, his hand came "I
quite naturally. 'no',
says Redford, "but when meet I found out Gerry was blind, Later be ill my elgarette, wait- decided I could miss a day off." in that extra moment un
told him For the next 10 weeks Redford murmured "thanks" made Brereton practise swinglog the cigarette was alight.
mine
Worcestershire Dismissed For 25
London, Aug. 25.
0
Surrey, winners of the County Cricket Championship for the past two seasons, made certain today of at least sharing the title this season. Needing only four points to attain this position, they ran through Worcestershire and dismissed them for 25, the lowest county total of the senson and then passed that score to be certain of four points for a first innings lead, whatever else happens in the match.
Chief instrument in the dismissal of the Midlands side, who batted for only 103 minutes, was Tony Lock, the England left-arm spinner, who in 33 balls took five wickets for two runs.
Jim Laker, two for ave, and able total of 268, thanks mainly a fighting innings of 70 by Alec Bedser, two for 12. helped to
Close of Play Scores
their teammate while the all-rounder Ray Smith. brilliant Surrey fielding also played a notable part as there were eight catches and one run uut in the innings.
Five Worcestershire men were out without scoring and the last elght wickets actually fell for only five rina.
Only once have
shiro been
At Jesmond: Northumberland 105 (Trueman, right-arm fast, seven for 35), Yorkshire 206 for five (Wilson, 40, Close 07);
At Lord's: Lancashire 00 for Stare four versus Middlesex. delayed.
Worcester-
At the Oval: Worcestershire 25 diantssed for a #cone - 24 by York- (Lock, left arm slow spin, ave shire 51 years ago and it was for two) and 13 for two, Surrey
smaller
the lowest score in first
cricket since Gloucestershire delayed.
dismissed Somerset
seven years ago.
In fairness
class 92 for three
declared. Start
for 25,
to
Worcestershire.
At Southend:
fut
shire, it must be said that they
When he started re-building his life inst year he designed near his office-bungalow on house, rigged up a clothesline to guide himself from one building to the other, went back to work, and to golf.
He plays at Wentworth with the "around his wife, scores 100 murk, usually over rather
unier." thum
He has noi wooden club learned to use
Bain-"when you feel the ball with a wood, it rolls off the tee"
he drives with an iron. "I've set up practice nets in my garden. But the trouble is I have little time to play. on I've been over to Canada business once this year, and 1 Too ка again in September. busy for golf."
Another blind golfer, in
class, ove
who owns & George Taylor,
confectionery tobacconist
and
#. ROBERTS
EVERTON
BEAT ARSENAL
BEGINNING TODAY
Pare
St. John
The Stanley Matthews Plan Ambulance for British Soccer-and no
one
is better
qualified to
give it than the greatest footballer of his generation
I Blame Arsenal For Starting The Slide Attack-The Style We Must Build Again
West Bromwich Find That It Can Work
By Stande manke &
Team tactics have become the fetish of modern football. We hear of nothing else. Books have been written about them. Managers spend sleepless nights trying to work out new plans. I have known some write pages of notes during a game in an attempt to find ways and means of perfecting and improving team-work.
We hear of blackboards in the dressing-room and table games to perfect moves thought up by students of the game. We are all running round in circles trying to copy someone else's style because it was succesful. If a team wins the World Cup, the FA Cup, or the League championship you can bet that every other team will start a research squad on the job of finding a similar plan to the winning
one.
Some just graft on the winning plan. without any variation. They are all lock- ing for the secret of success.
We have been told that we do not have enough ball practice and Hungarians that
never spend
the other Continentais nc
a day without the ball at their foot....
that
is the integral
part of their training routine.
whether
any
Alex James
Peter Doherty
Billy Walker Batch Carter
I
DCO some
tell his
Orders
Orders issued by Mr Ping fan, C.S. Comm
Commissioner
of St John Ambulance Brigade, Hongkong District, Order. No. 34/84. Dated August 26, 1954.
Ambulance. Dužig - Hongkong 20.8,64-4.0.54, Causeway Bay Amb. DV: 0.9.04-11.9.84. Western Dist., Amb. Div. August 1994: Central New Div. September 1954: Western Dist. NAT. DIV..
Ambulance Dalles Kowloon 30.8.54-5.0.84 Kong Wah de „Tai Po Amb. Diva: 0.0.34-12.0.54, Sham- shulpo Amb. Div. August ... 1004: Mbamahuipe Nag. Div. Beptander 1954: Waterloo Nag. Div.
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Orderly Duties For Mainland AreM / Eigts.8.54. Kowloon Amb.. "Div;' 29,8,60, KYMCA Amb, Div.; 30.8.54SE Waterloo Næg. Div. – 31.8.69, Mong Kox Amb. Div. 1.0.84, Kong Wala Amb, Div. 19.84, Kowloon Amb.. DI: 3,9.54, Sḥamshulpg Amb. DIV. Street Slaspers Shelter Society Duties hamshulpo. -- 26.8.54-49.54. KYMCA Ner. Div.
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NIK.
NOW
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Dench Dailer-Hongkong. —-28,0.54, 2 p.m.
Repulse Bay, HRYMCA A/D; Es Wave Bay,, KCOB, AZ; Shek-O. Causeway Bay A/DJE 20,834,. 9.30 a.m.. Bepulse Bay, Shaukieran A/D: BE Wave Day. Eastern. A/Dİ. Shek-O, Shaukiwan K.F. ND. 29.0.54, 1.39 pm,,, Repulse Bay, Bih Nan A/D; Big Wave Bay, Wanchai "B" A/D: Shak-0, Kennedy Town A/D. 30.8.64, 0,50 kima, Repulse Bay, Central 4/D; Big Wave Bay, Wine chal "A" A/D; Bhek-D, Western Diat. A/D. 30.0.84, 1.30 p.m.; Repulsa Bay, BCAA A/D; DIE Wayo, Bay, Chung Sing' AƒD; SHIK-O, Confucian A/D: 49.54; 2 pm. Repulse Bay. KCOB A/D: Big Wave Bay, Caue- way Bay AƒD; Bhak-Q, HKYMCA A/D. 8.0.84, 0.30 u.m., Repulse Bay, Eastern A/D; Big Wave Bay, Shau wan K.FA/D; Bhek-D, Bisadiciona AFD. 8.0.54, 1.20 p.m. Repulse Bay, Wanchal "3" A/D; Big Wave, Bay, Kennedy Town A/D; Shek-0.; Bib Non A/D. Augat- 1954: HKYMCA Nig. Div. September 1964: Western Dist. Neg. Dly.
Beach "Duties--Kowloon-KYMCA Swimming Pavilion: KYMCA ADD. & Neg. Divx, Civil Servant AK), Swimming Pavilion: Kong Woh Amb. Fasterzs Div. & Waterloo Neg. Div. Athletic Aam, Swimming Pavilon Kowloon Amb, Div. & Shamabutpo Net. Div. Lalchikok Beach: Aug, 28 de 29, Tsimshatsu Amb. Div. 60 KYNCA Nig. Div. Aug. 30, Bept. 4- & 6. Mong Kok Amb. Div. & Shaari shuipo Mpg. Div,
„Taken” Da Bizength,~(a) ‹-Karol= ment King's Collega. Nig. “Dv.j Amb/810. Tam Mee-ling ontrolled w.0.2. 10.8,54. Central Amb. Div.: Ptes. Hong Bing-woon de Leung Shit-th Arh. Div.: Ptes. Sun enrolled w.e.f.: 10.6.64. Wanchal
15ga.). L. Turung, C.St.J.
Deputy Commissioner.
District Headquarters, -
» Bayer's « TONIC
watched the Critics have Hungarians training with the But, looking back, I main is to score more goals than your Cheung & Liu Wing enrolled w.e.% bait on an odd day, so they say: tain that it was the start of our opponents and you can only do 17.6.01 Mong Kok Amb; Diva Pie
That's their secret....p
..plenty
slide in standard. Other teams, that by constantly attacking Ng Mul-kong enrolled w... 20.859. But a 17 or ball practice."
Décrease Of. Birangth, -* (a);Ro». I have
seen the Hun-eager to muscle in on Arsenal's your opponents' goal.
alination-KCOB Amb. "DIV" PIL. triumphs, rushed in to copy their If we develop our youngsters Ng Hon-choung 64 Chu Hit-tong London, Aug. 25. Cartons do a full week's train-
style.
into ball players and reintro- resigned wie f. 18.0.54.0 Goale were plentiful in a ing-I doubt
We soon lost all sight of the duce the old-time inside forward. the large Football League pro-English critic or omelat has scon attacking centre half. We be- who can bring the ball through
them--but I am certain they do came a nation of defending foot- and keep the attuck going 38-year-old gramme this evening, not NOT have ball practice every ballers--it was the old backs- men like Raich L9
Carter, Willie ably in the First and Second any day.
Hall, Alex James, Billy Walker, We have our ball practice, just to-the-wall spirit once again.
Peter Doherty
and Divisions, where a total of
Wut Everything was secrificed to Mannior-we can get back a 13 games averaged just over as they do, and we also have
our mid-week trist games. But blocking up the goal with "What defence-smashing machine. four goals a game.
In our tense, hectic League we have we hold" as the general West Bromwich tried this all- First Division crowds were struggle 1 am positive that it motle throughout the League. out attacking plan last season
Jargo with more would be a major error to givo
This particularly
defensive style is the and they came within an ace of than
09.000 seeing promoted seasoned players too much ball reason for our poor shewing since bringing
first
off the League and Everton best Arsenal by a practice during the week.
the war in international football. Cup double. half goal scored by Eglinton,
A player would soon lose his We have lost the old-time ball- There were $2,000 at the New-snap by the time Saturday and playing inside forwards.
THE LINK castle versus West Bromwich the match came.
The game has become more Albion game in which Newmatie
mart
moro klek-and-rush in an
to would like the
by Cup-holders
LIMBER-UP FIRST crushed
attempt to overcome the all-in enterprising manager three clear goals.
Let the youngster of 15 to 19 defensive
plan
The crowds centre half that his job is to Last season's League Cham have the ball as often as pos- now howl at the player who link up defence and attack and
Wolverhampton Wansible-ho cannot get too much piens,
courage would be rewarded in derers, were also humbled, losing of it but the older player needs to hold the ball and take to stop being a traffic light.
it through.
time and a near 45,000 crowd at less of the ball and more fitness before
then
other clubs Tottenham by the odd goal of exercises.
would
I feel annoyed when I see a five, David Dunmore, signed from
netted all theOne thing I did notice when
ball ti York last guale for Truth
have a pre-match Another 45,000 crowd at Cardiff
the saw crushed by Preston North-End, will find them
Cup early waste ground runners-up for the this year. Preston led 2-1-at kicking away at a ball in their half-time and dominated the track suits. This is a good plan before the war. Then the great lesson here. Once thos for limbering up and one, that winger's job was to start attacks get rid of the ball they are away keep on the attack. It was like a flash to find the right match afterwards,
Notable result in Division II we could well copy.
Some years
Arsenal's no part of his job to chase back position for the return pass. Aga
They are always angling for and was the away win of Ispwich
guiding
Herbert Chap-and become a defender. genius
open quest for League points
space, always looking Middlesbrough, Pro- against ninst moted from Division III last man thought up a new plan-the
took is the root of all this evil. Can for the ball. That is why they TYPHOON third-back
Не game. season, Ipswich scored goals through Tom Garneys in Herbie Roberts, their centre half, you blame a manager for telling look so much quicker then y The Germans play almost an and then second half and Middles and developed him into a foot-his team to concentrate on de- fellows, the
identical game better a
to the one wo brough, who dropped from the ball truffle cop and built up the fence..
whole Arsenal
strategy around consolidat
played before the war, but they, First Division as a result of last
draw than season's play, were never able him.
heard responsible too, have quickened up the It was an unqualified suCOZIL, to level matters.
for Arsenal became the greatest people in the game say it is bet-tempo by rating into position
ber to win by bad football than at the drop of a hat. machine in football
must learn that the man lose by good football
GERRY BRERETON
Once, a 15-yard putt.
Leicester- At Bournemouth: shire 82 for five versus Derby-
Start delayed.
208 shop. He started playing after were sent in to bat after losing (Smith 70, Tremiet, right-arm an argument with Mr
for 55). Ridley, chairman of the greens fore lunch and the warm sup Somerset no runs for one wicket. / committee at Mill Hill
Club.
the toss, there was no play be,
sodden pitch on a previously
ideally a surfaco made for suited to Lock's bowling.
Bidding perhaps to win in a day, Surrey declared nad got two cheap second innings wicket! to indicate that by tomorrow evening they can
be acclaimed
outright Champions for the third successive year.
medium, six
Essex
Birmingham: Warwick-
144 for Live VETSUS
Laurie
Golf
PRICE OF CAKE
about Mr Ridley complained Glamorgan, Start delayed.taking five putts in one green. "Sounds like a piece of cake,"
shire
Kater,
PAKISTAN TOUR
on 3
SOCCER 'CRIME'
His
go cliasing after his plan. THE "POST"
It is a common sight nowadays player pass the watching the Continentals. They
5 kick-about for a winger to chase back to colleague and then stand admir home side before they take the field. You tackle his opposite number. Hefing the scenery or the perfec-
three
THE RESULTS
London, Aug. 25. Association Football
results today were:
DIVISION I
0
2
GORONNE
near
do by his tion of his pass on a pleco ofis instructed to
the pitch manager.
That was
a football "crime"
BAD WEATHER COSTS CRICKET £70,000
and
The
havo
0
on
The Continentals can teach us
the
That is the wrong policy inorous
the end, because I always main-
tain that good football pays off. possession.
the ball is often mort than the man, in
TYPHOON MAP
-Mounted-$5.00 Unmounted $4,00
TABLE
- Giving
-bearing-distance and time.distance for typhoons likely to affect Hong Kong. A utaful adjunct to the "Past": Typhoon Map.
Obtainable from
$2.00 mounted
But it illustrates my orgument I recall one Incident in the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.
with Hungary. Hidegkuti game
that points are everything.
pushed the bal through to Directors and fans cro soon Puskas, who swing over to the shouting the odda It a team right wing, taking with him: a Bad weather in England this fails to reap in a regular supply, couple of defenders. 21 summer has cost first-class
The Continentals don't go all Then like a flash he flicked cricket about £70,000. Club
and that is the the bail through the middle and for defence, ihardest-hit by the rain
there was Hidegkut, standing secret of their success. 4Lancashire, who are about £11,-
Look at the Hungarians. Their ready and quite alone.-15 whip 1000 down on home matches.
Ai ensy had their two inside forwards lle right up the ball into the net. 1 Derbyshire have
the field, with the centre-forward as that. a most successful County
plonship senson since the war, doing most of the fetching and aBut they show a loss of between carrying, but always right up NEXT
4hire when the is needed. £9,000 and £4,000,
said Mr Taylor, "Reckon Cardiff City 2 Preston NES
1 Arsenal could do better than that." Mr Everion
Manchester C 5 Sheffield U Canterbury, Aug. 25. Ridley challenged him to try.
3 West Brom, Kent, displaying the quixotic They went out on the pulling Newcastle
2 4 Huddersfield Portsmouth form which has alternately de-green, and Grogo Taylor won lighted and dismayed their sup- on three of his tries. So they Tottenham 3 Wolves
DIVISION Derbyshire, who alone can tie porters this summer, began by went on to the driving tee. with Surrey if Surrey do not batting
Birmingham, 2 Britol R. with assurance
3 Fulham get another
The only way Mr Ridley could Derby point this season dificult wicket against Pakistan and Derbyshire win outright
here today and then collapsed keep Taylor's head down was by Lincoln City 0 Hull City
They Middlesbro 0 Ipswich Town their two remaining games, were precipitously when conditions holding Taylor's nose.
practised for weeks that way.
0 Stoke City not helped by the weather and were much easier.
Notta Forest One evening it got so dark a short day's play with Leices
DIV. III (SOUTH) A saturated pitch provented a that Mr Ridley could not see the tershire tosing half their wickets
Bournemouth 4 Aldershot after lunch. Fazal balls. "George kept right on may leave Derbyshire too iltilo start until
Brighton time to gain an outright win. Mahmood, who copiained Pakl- playing," he said. "I had to jell
& H stan in A. H. Kardar's abspace, him that was okay for him. He Exter, City Olhor counties are struggling took a justifiable gamble in put can see in the dark. I can't." Gillingham for a place in the first 10 toting Kent in to bat. Arthur Phe- give them a right to a repre- bey (37) and J. B. Allen (41) up- Brigadier-General Critchley sentative on the MCC's County peared to have defeated the and Brereton: plan a business Torquay
DIV., III (NORTH). gambit with an openly, were a team to play in the Inter-Crewe Alox 2 Advisory Committee.
stand of meeting soon to discuss raising
Chester 76, but ... when”...
followed
national Blind Champlóitahilps, In separated, collapses
Halifax Canada, next year.
Bussex, ut present ninth, would have been in a sorY plight against, Hampshire but
Town
At the close of play. Kented four other Rochdale for an innings of 65 by all were 181 for eight, Zulfiqar They wi rounder Alan Oakman after Ave Ahmed and Fazal Mahmood qualified players bind wickets had fallen for 20, two having routed the middle bat, who can break double par
through run outs.
The two bottom teama,
and Somerset are involved
tiniz.
O-pinner Zulfiqar, re- a standard 16-hela "Course) vealing yet again how muc cho, penger have been)
|han-proŭted from, hlap
Portones has farita
Walsall
2. Colchester
1 Southamp
2 Bristol City
1
Cham-
In contrast the Pakistan tour- Ing team hope to take home, nearly £10,000-thanke mainly to the last Test at the Oval, London Express Service.
RUGBY LEAGUE RESULTS
STICK, TO JOB
are left to The defenders am themselves. You * can almost čatar: Pusicaa and Kocsis saying: "Your Job is to stop the other team from scoring...our job is to score goals. You look after your end, and we'll do the rest.” They have the right outbox that the more you attack the less time you give to the oрPO-
My
WEEK training plan for young stars
—(London: Express Service),
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