CATCHING THE HARE
THE CHINA MAIL,S SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1955.
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Wimbledon Is A
Of
Colour,
Place
Of Women's
Dress And Men's Faces
Says J. P. W. MALLALIEU
So they're at it again. All, that is, except Little Mo, who looks But then, Little Mo is gay and carefree as a young girl should. sitting in the Press Box. She no longer is playing. But Doris Hart still is playing. So is Louise Brough. So are other young girls-"playing" as if the Siberian salt-mines would be happy release.
Most of them have lovely faces. All have graceful bodies. But their faces just now are tense and their bodies taut all because they are playing at Wimbledon and playing there on their nerves.
I'M GLAD YORKSHIRE DEFEATED SURREY
Says DENIS COMPTON
As a Southerner, I never thought I would write these words but-I'm glad Yorkshire defeated Surrey, last week.
My reason, simply, is that if Surrey had won that thrilling match at Headingley, the Championship fight might have been almost over with the season less than half completed. --
Surrey would have been 32 points in front with a game in hand, and, although strange things can happen at cricket, they must have been odds-on favourites to retain their title for the fourth year in successiän.
Surrey still lead the Table. but Yorkshire's revenge for their Oval defeat was worth 24 points to them.
Knowing the determination et Norman Yardley and his team le put their · county on top - again. I appreciate how they will be feeling, now that the Issue has been widened.
This might indicate that the Champlership is ect 3. truly compolitive ar it might be.
Critics of the present system have said that reme, countles never will be good enough to lead the field.
I
A point often overlocked that some counties have neither the population to And sufficient local talest nor the resources to Public interest also has been be able to develop" a Champion- revived, and every match these | ship-wiftzing eleven. two fine sides play will continue to be charged with fascinating prospects undi-if ever-one or other pulls away so much that the race is a foregone concla-
sion.
•
Further.
Occasionally a small county springs a surprise. This can hap- pen especially in wet and un settled weather, when the pitch will reduce teams to a uniform level. Yet, generally, the strong by pulling backcounty triumphs by a consider. Surrey, Yorkshire have enable margin. couraged counties like my own and Lancashire-who, with less Interference from the weather in recent matches, have shot up the tableto strengthen their own challenges.
1
A good deal is heard about people staying away from cricket because it is too slow, and he cause of diversicos such as tele- vision
My beliet is that if worth Whoever wins the title, how-
while matches again looks
are provided prize ever, the
will turn up in likely to go to ene of the bigger peters fish that swim
in the Cham- greater numbers than ever. pionship pool.
The top-of-the-table clashes at The Oval and Leeds gave two ALL TOO INFREQUENT examples. Crowds cannot be attracted by negative cricket, particularly when one side is Every now and again one of slowly but surely being cut the small counties cames alone played from the start.
takes them win a burst that among the top positions, but such occasions are all too in- frequent for the vigorous health, of county cricket.
Won
FAIRER ALL AROUND
A good case man be made qui for a division of the counties into two sections. In time that Sin 1818 enly ene side which might lead to brighter cricket cricket all the way had not
thend fairer Wimbledon is a plac of who neccmpany then, whatever do you see so much intensity previously
competition has Anished as round. colour-of green in the grass, they may be wearing, display and so little zest? of yellows and blues and red- nothing except the early signs I blame, in part, the hot County Champion: Glamorgan,
house
of Wimble 1948. atmosphere don itself, where people
in
the sunshades. of every colour under the sup in the
women's dresses and the men's
faces.
And tenints can be a lively game. R varies from hard to gentle, from glaring hot to shadowy cool; but it can always J be lively and should always be
a game.
But at Wimbledon nowadays tennis is neither. It is a relent- į less, deadly pursuit of perfec- tion, and those who die are not the pursued but the pursuers,
Players at Wimbledon used to laugh. Do you remember the Bounning Basque Borairo, whose enthusiasm, taking him over the laziers in pursuit of a hot return landed him some lady's lap?
On
Cochet would, sometimes use his duct instead of his racket to
as
retrieve a passing shot. It was not tennis; but it was fun, and Coche. laughte
as much anyone. Even when Suzanne Lenglen cried she at least was being human,
UNHAPPILY
.
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ола
But today so che laughs
No cries at Wimbledon, shows any sign of being human. 1/20 except Mr Teddy Tinling. Bentlemen who has made him- reif That ecuturier Jo tennis girls and who shows wholly admirable temperament when ne of them appears in a pa of panties not designed by him. But Mr Tinling, huppily, does not display his femperapent on the Centre Court.
of nervous breakdowill
They ar: whitefaced, tigh lipped mechanics running their machines to death.
who
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Famous
Sports Stars:
I Have Met
Tom Whittaker
By ARCHIE QUICK Man with D load of trouble is Tom Whittaker, manager of famous Arsenal. One of those solid yeoman characters who never wears his heart on his siceve Tom has spent a lite time with the Highbury club in a variety of roles, but not unti
these past two seasons has worry been on his agenda..
unci a
Truc, after 11 deplorable start for the second year in succession. Arsenal have climbed to a respectable tenth position, but the fact must be faced that the tried stars are on the wane transition period is upon the club. The coming
summer will probably sce changes of personnel, an the playing staff both directions. Mr Whittaker's concern is who to buy, who to sell or let go on a free transfer.
staff
.
Tom told me the other day that he was going to place his
on youth reliance chiefly
young players represented by Hike Bloomfield, Tapscott, Clap- ton and Fotheringham, all of whom have forced their into the arst eleven.
way
"It is a great burden steering
a club of such traditions," sald Mr Whittaker, "greater than any other club for Arsenal to
Widespread interest would be created by this arrangement. Hampshire, Essex, LeicestÈI- In a season in which the may have queued for hours, and shire, Northamptonshire, Worets-Championship is a one-horse overseas clubs, players and fans have certainly pressed against
looked to be this is the yardstick of English Somerset race as it
season, until Yorkshire's re- | football.” covery-the two-division plan would still keep the spotlight focused on promotion and re- legation issues.
Now I Think that games cach other for more than half shire, Sussex and should be taken seriously. Play the day, ecocrate on hysterical have never won them as well as you can or excitement which don't bother to play them at all is a fair moto.
LAST MAN
Ꭸ
Came
When Wilfrid Rhodes down the Pavilion. steps last man in with 14 wanted in that 902 Test match everyons| capected would
him to be serious.
have been. horrified if he had giggled and run down the pitch at the first ball he received saying to any one who could hear him: "This is only a game, after all."
Everyone,
except supportars
more
makes the behaviour of Johnnie Ray fans scem calm and tallected,
Even
blame the women. competitors. Anyone who has played mixed hockey will know that women have difficulty in Playing the Game-- as men understand that phrase.
FUN TO WIN
But at least we might expect them to have the same reaction to victory or defeat as we do that it is usually fun to win and usually annoying to lose.
But for women competitors
i of Bolton Wanderers, would at Wimbledon victory or defeat have been horrified it, in that seems to produce the same famous Cup Final, with Black- result expressionless acceptance pool trailing 1-3 and twenty on the Court and aspiring off it, minutes
to
Stanley
Mat-
These women competitors are this had decided that to sucktike moths unhappy when they
fine afternoon supreme cort
are away from, the fame and was out of place.
no less unhappy when they are in it: and they are affecting the men with their diseise wretchedness.
Bus in cricket or football, or any other game, except tennis
Answers To
Sports Quiz
1... 577 by Vijay Hazare and Gul Magomed for Baroda versus Holkar 1946.
2.
in
(a) Vio Seixas (b) Angcia Mortimer, both beaten the sccend round. Austria, America, Argentia,
For a time counties In the Second Division might suffer financially through being de- prives of Championship games with the teams placed in the First Division.
PIONEERING TOUR
Big blu, bale and hearty Tom went to Arsenal soon after World War I from his native North of England where he played only for junior club. He was (00 of the Football Association party which made a pioneering lour of Australia in 1924 and visited South Africa with the FA again, the following
of
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Wherever you are
Choose
BOOTH'S
FINEST
DRY GIN
Yet there might be mere than those
wear. ample compensation for clubs fighting their
way into
Sale Distributora: “ the promotion zone,
These
do games
not course, count as Internationals. CALOBECK. Spectators might well prefer The trip to the Union of South to sec their side striving for "Africa was fated to alter the promotion in a Second Division entire course of Whittaker's life. than being outplayed by one of He broke his deg. But for that
powerful ithe more
counties
he may have returned, carried under the present system
on as an Arsenal player for a I should not be surprised if, year or two and then disappear. Erdean, in the near future, the Advisory ed from the scene, Keith Rear Miller, Raymond Cricket Committee discuss the Russell Lindwall,
3.
America.
4,
Archie Moore, Jean Borotra.
5... William Russell
o!
6.
at Wimbledon, it seems possible for players to play hard and to the utmost of their ability and I can only suggest that for 7. spirit, and yet enjoy themselves the future these Championships Both Tyson and Truerman should be played at Wembley, played with all their might. Yet where. away from the stifling 8. they obviously relish
every Centre Court, some fresh air minite of the game.
MARIONETTES
might sweeter the deadly virus which seema
every tennis
with ¡ centre.
in to be laten'!
woman's nerve
What then is wrong tennis, especially at Wimbledon,
And even if i did not, at that it should burn such least,
31 that distance we nice young men and should be spared from obviously
seeing The girls who do appear
women into marionettes acti- how unwomanly tennis makes there,
whether wesring Mis vated only by their
nerves them look. panties
and the men' Why or not,
at Wimbledon nowadays¦
-(London Express Service;
THE
WEEK-END
GAMBOLS
GAYE, HARRY CANT BO TO: WIMBLEDON ON SATURDAY AND WANTS TO KNOW 19 WPC UKE HIS TICKETS
OH! HOW LOVELY
I'LL SAY 'Yes' THEN Y
NO, NO, I HAVEN'T:
A THING TO WEAR
Jaroslav Droboy.
(a) never (b) when played. from.water.
9.3 seconds set up by Mel Patton of America in 1942 and equalled by Hes Hogze of Australia in 1954.
G...Henry Armstrong
10. (a) Newcastle United (b)
Instead, with the determina- icked of two coctions. I wonder whether they will also reapention which is characteristic of talks on a knock-ut compell him, he set about learning the trainer's art. massage and physiotherapy and mastered it Plans for a Cup tournament all with such skill that he was
war soon agristant were drawn up the
trainer at
tion.
but they were shelved later Highbury under Mr Herbert
Mr
Two sections of the
Cham-Chapman's managerchip.
With the advent of pianship would give scope for a Cup (ournament to run along George Allison he was appoint- ed trainer and later was in c1 side.
harge of the England team. America who was reigning
In a changing world, cricketNext step in his progress was feather, light, and walter cannot stand still or aloof. Every automatic the managership weight champion.
Idea for its progress should be when M: Allison resigned
through ill-health, explored to the full,
**IL haj
*been ä happy 'association," Toin says, but admits that his job has been a ecamparative ted" of roses until recent times when the hard cure of his great side suddenly all became old at once, has a los
his hands ip rebuilding tructure which world over as
Chelsea.
Barry Appleby
BALL RIGHT "THEN
SAY "NO")
UNLESS I WORE IN SILK SHANTUNG DRESS
ER....NO... ( GOT A MARK ON. THAT DRESS THE LAST DA
THERE TIME I WORE IT ENT TIME TO HAVE TES
CLEANED
(WHAT SHALL
TELL HIM →
-(London Express Service)
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