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'AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
THE CHINA MAIL,” TUESDAY,~ AUGUST 30, 1955.
AN ANALYSIS OF BRITAIN'S SOCCER SLUMP
Olympic Games FORWARDS UNINSPIRED
Preparation Is Many Sided Task
The tasks that face the organisers of an Olympiad lack nothing in variety or interest, for the tastes, requirements and idiosyncracies of 5,000 athletes from 70 countries pose a thousand problems that must be faced and solved.
The provision of special elongated beds for seven-feet tall basketballers, a community steam-bath for 40 Russian athletes, skilled chefs to concoct the throat. scalding curries which mean so much in the diet of Indian hockey stars are all part of the day's work.
Yet these are only some of in 1949, the then Prime Minis- 170 countries. So far 45 of the a83 countries invited to the the
detailed incidentals of ater, Mr J. B. Chifley, gave
on behalf
of Games have accepted. huge plun which encompasses solemn promise
brand- Australia that the 1950 Games the construction new town for 6,000 people, the would be staged in a magnif- the greatest cent manner. We are going to management of
our national word of ticket selling organisation Aus-keep
General trulla hing
and the honour,"
Bridgeford ever seen, building of the most spectacular said. multi-purpose sports centre in the southern hemisphere,
The
Australian
They are: Afghanistan, Argen- Austria, Baho- na, Australia, mas, Belgium, Burma, Canada, Chile, Communist China, Czecho stovaicla, Denmark, Egypt, Fin- innd, France. West Germany, In the meantime, here is an Great Britain Gr
Greece, Holland,
Japan,
Korea, of Gamesan, Israel, Italy,
up-to-the-minute picture Olympic General Bridgefoni Organising Committee is spend-plans and progress:--
€12 to provide fine a spectacle as has been witnessed in the history of the
in £4,000,000
who will
Dy
SWIMMING
from
AND THE DEFENCE OVER-EMPHASISED
By STANLEY MATTHEWS
Right back on our soccer heels-that's where Britain is after those defeats in Moscow and in Belfast--and I don't blame anyone for wonder- ing what is wrong.
I can tell you what is wrong. Britain is losing her skill-and here are four reasons for the great silde;--/
Sports Diary
TODAY ESOWER
Liberation Shield: KEGC v KCC. 3rd Division League: POC v HKFC
TOMORROW Swimming Colony Swimming Championships heats i EYMCA, §. p.m.
Dowin
Entries clond for "Gutierre Ekleld."
THURSDAY Dowis
Substantial
Prize For Any Plucky Swimmer
London, Aug. 20,
A committee of the Inhabl- tans of the Channel Islands.of Guernsey have offered a “sub-
Colony Open Pairs quarter •Anal stantial" prize to any swimmer who can cover the stretch of sea
at KUGC.
Ladies' Open Hingles_188 round matches at: PRC. KUGC. USRC. between Quernsey and Jersey, HKFC, CCC and KDC.
It was announced to-day.
sjon.
swimming
Colony Swimming Championship" heats at EYMCA, 8 p.m.
The distance la equivalent to Golf
an English Channel crossing bo- Deep Water Bay. Bogey Compatt worn Dover and Cap Gris-Nez, but until now, although several people from the Channel Islande have tried, no one has managed to make the distance.
GERMAN BOXER
KO'D IN FIRST ROUND
The reason is the strong cur-. rents which flow between the islands.
The Continentals have perfected their passing. With us it is a lost art. The scramble for League points is driving artistry out of the game. Too much emphasis on defence has ruined our play ... forwards have lost ranked on the Ring's Continen-free lodging, pilots and training
the spirit of adventure.
Our players will not hold the ball. Right those wrongs and then
back you can sit
and watch British football surge forward.
The Continentals bolleve that possession is nine-tenths of the jaw, so they make sure they keep the ball.
There's nothing haphazard or hopeful in their kicking.
They are
niasters, whether e pasa is three yards or thirty Men like Ocwirk, Puskas, and
Luxembourg, Malign, 2001 Kosels hold the ball until they
New Zealand, Nigerin, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Saar, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad, Turkey the United States and Uruguay.
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The Swimming programme is modern Games—a spectacle to attracting enormours Interest. meet the exacting demands of Thirty countries are expiceled to the sports-runselous spectators send swinuners, but there is a wh
within come from Australia and from overseas admited capacity of 5,500 in the
manticent new stadium now We expect one of the biggest well
the distinguished
Overseas teams of all time from
Russia have not you visitors, among whom will be rapidly being built.
quotas for the swimming, how-although they His Royal Highness the Duke of
officially accepted our invitation Edinburgh, Crown Prince Olaf ever, are not yet full,
But the Russians have already of Norway, and Prince Axel of
entered the Olympic soccer com- Denmark.
petition and the yachting con- tests, so they will undoubtedly be here.
CLIMAX
These immense and compli- eated preparations will rench their climax on November 22, 1956.
On that day while the dags of the competing mafions are fluttering from the must-heads
In
the
I is true that
three of the
nidit sessions are block-booked, But on cach of the other days and nights there still are seats. Bookings at all overseas available now for hockey,
Venues
basketball, No. difficulties.
Over 500 ex-
gymnastics weight-lifting, row-pert interpreters have registered ing, boxing and cycling, though with the Organising Committee. souls are short for
and gymnastics.
can give it right to a colleague. How many times do you see a player scrambling for a bed,
football, in English because the
puses sent to his feet?
simply has not been
It is what we call a 50-50 ball, That's no use at all.
RIGHT NOW
We must start right now to improve the accuracy of passing. Whether it be short or long.
They say that competition is the life blood of football. That may be so but I believe that the battle for points has robbed, the of much of its finer garte features,
Everything is sacrificed for those points.
to
the
"Stop the others from scoring basketballThey speak 42 languages In and hope for the best" seems to
cluding French, German, Rus-be the motto and so the specta sian, Italian, Spanish, Japanese die and skill goes out of the
game. There are three big construc- and three dialects of Chinese, of the Main Stadium, the Mel-
Let us end all this. Why not centres the Melbourne Interpreters will be stationed at lon
rule Cricket Ground, Journe
offside Village.
the at Games alter Duke of Edinburgh will solemn-Cricket Ground, Olympic Park, Olymple
and the Olymple Villages avenues and at central points encourage anappler and more ly open the Games,
adventurous forward play? Heidelberg, eight miles from the throughout the city.
Make it worthwhile to go on double and city. the huge
the attack and keep on triple-deck enetreling stands of
attack. this largest of a)] Olympic
Goals make the game. Nollee Stadiums. will be 110,000
how thrilling a match becomes people. On the five-nere green
when
six gools five or carpet of the MCC the pennants to seat 40,000 people, Whenple Civic Committee promises a Ecored. and pational uniforms of 5,000 this is completed in June, 1956, bed for every visitor. There Well, let us have the goals. athletes from 70 countries will the Melbourne Cricket Ground won't be many luxury suites widen the goal posts if neces complete a picture alike in
I be the largest Olymple but Melbourne's citizens have spirit yet sharp in contrast with Stadium in the world.
already offerat 10,000 beds insury. Let us do anything to bring back that bld magic of British the ancient festiva!
better-class homes for Olympic forward play. classient Greeet,
Over the sixteen days
of
that
follow Olympic fever will grip
ACCOMMODATION At the MCG one old stand has been wrecked and in its You won't have to sleep In place is rising a bulky triple-the streets of Melbourne during deck steel and concrete structure the Games.
Nearby is Olympic Park, which will be an eye-opener to Olympic visitors.
visitors.
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Melbourne's Olym-
Nothing like Councillor Maurice A. Nathan, this multi-purpose sports centre who heads the Olympic Civic the sporting world as the Cham- has been seen in Australia b-Committee says that most of the plons rise and fall. But today fore. With the unique swim- accommodation offered is even the keynoto is hard grind, as ming pool dominating the 25- better than visitors would get the massive Olympic machine acre site, the area will provide in hotels. gains momentum for the nake
Blum Bridgeford, spirited, inkTM cisive Chief Executive Officer of the
modern facilities for soccer,
Melbourne
are
And when will players begin to hold the ball again? We have beca criticised since the war for holding on. We are told we are holding up the game.
Rubbish, just watch the Con- unentals and see how brilliant they are at holding the ball.
CROWDS AT FAULT great concentrated burst which hockey, cycling, athletles, swim- All rooms offered are graded will ensure success
The crowds are at dault here. seventeen
ming and diving. Facilities for by experts, and visitors will be
Like many club officiole 100, inantha' hence.
soccer, athletles and hockey are sure of reasonable standards,
hawl when They
will pay
they see a from £1
to they The mon
with the Olymple julmost completed now,
£1/10/-per person daily on a
player trying to play thought- answers is Lieut-General Wil-
AMATEUR ATIILETICS
bed and breakfast basis. Inful, ball-holding football. They is following the want him to boot it first ume. After the Games, Olympic
You
cannot play football by during the 1952 Olymple Organising Park will be the State's focal lead of Helsinki
Every Committee. Formerly Com-
point for amateur athletics. Fo: Olympics, London during the the book all the time, mander-in-Chief of the British the first time Australia will be Coronation and Edinburgh dur player has a different make-up, Personality players like Raich Forces in Commonwealth
These able 10 invite world-class ing the Festival
Hughie Gallacher and found Carter, Korea, General Bridgeford athletes to perform
believes iri
under top-cities, like to passionately
the line conditions.
their hotels unable to cope with Wilf Mannion did not learn from the book. They used their worth of the Games, is truly Olympic Village at Heidelberg a sudden influx of people and
brains and their natural skill. restorted very successfully to convinced that
Twill give us the biggest hipwie-
You
cannot make keeping job in the world. We private accommodation.
player. You can coach him, have to feed and house will
But if you are coming to the help him, give the right form of training, but after all that, tralia on the mup", he Sald, about 8,000 athletes and officials Games, apply now for accom
dividual. We are short of good it is entirely up to the in "they will bring us stige, nereuseti migration, vestments and trade.
class players. So let's not ruin those few we find.
Melbourne will
'make a fine showing
"These Games, will put Aus-
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new pre- from more than 70 countries for modalion. The Olympic Civic
in about five weeks.
Committee cannot give promises We are building about 700 to
arrive visitors who homes to necommodate the heralded
a day or two before athletes and more than 300 are the Games, on the way
Athletes up now. from all over the world will
"Melbourne's facilitios will excite the admiration
of the work. There has never been a Moin Stadium as big or as good as the Melbourne Cricket Ground, No Olympic city hos ever had a multi-purpose sports centre to rival Olympic Park, and certainly no Olympic city has ever had its sports contres
parklands within distance of the city.
in
walking
SOLEMN PROMISE "When we were awarded the the International Games by
in Rome. Olymple Committee
Egyptian Wins Marathon Swim
St Nazaire, Aug. 28.
-
live here Australians and A special information bureau Argentines, Canadians and Chi- wil probably be established in cse, Norwegians and Nigerians the basement of the Melbourne will all be in together.
At Helsink, the Russians for instance wore reparted from the rest of the athletes. This will not happen in Melbourne. We believe our idea in more in keeping with the Olympic tradi- ton of international friendship.
Town Hall, according to Coun- elllor Nathan, This will have city
guides, Olympic Games entertainmente and travel in- formation, interpreter services and exhibitions af Australian life and industry.
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star
League Soccer
Results
London, Aug. 20.
Association Football results.
LEAGUE DIVISION I
Aston Villa. Blackpool Chelsea
1 Sunderland
1 Burnicy
o Huddersfield To "LEAGUE DIVISION #
1 Fulham
z Lincoln City
Onna oo
Special tours are being orga-
Blackburh nised to show visitors something
Hull City The Games will cost perhaps of Victoria Extra efforts are
Stoke City 1 Bristol Rovers West Ham U 0 Port Vale CA5,000,000. So far £A4,000,- being made by city restaurants
LEAGUE IN (SOUTH) 000 has been allocated by the and hotels, and, many church
authorities the groups, social organisations and Coventry City a Watford contributing
Shrewsbury T 6 Norwich City Federal Government, the State private citizens
are organising
LEAGUE MI" (NORTH) Government and the Melbourne temporary cating placess for
Bradford
3 Barrow Hartlepools U 1 Workington City Council. A submission is Games visitors.
Rochdale
Accrington 9 now being prepared for addi-
York City
1: 1 Crowe A.
cuter.
tional Juance. Of the £4,000, in more detall later in the year. This question will be examined 000 about £2,000,000 ing Latif Abou Helff of EYP spent on the Olymple Village, The Olympic Organising Com- Channel about £1,250,000 on the committee 13 supervising cating race, to-day won the Marathonstruction of stadia, including arrangements at all the Games de la Loire long distance swim-Olymple Park, and about £750,-venues. ming event here.
former winner of
F1
.. He covered the 40-kms course
in the time of 9 hours, 32 minutes.
Denmark's
000 on promotion,
GENERAL TEMPO
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Two Horses Give Moore An Idea North Adams, Mass., Aug. 29. Besides the Games, visitors Archie Moore asked to-day: will have the choice of special | "It Swaps and Nashyo can race Good things have resulted open-air and indoor symphony on a winner-take-all-Jasis Jennon placed from the vidt of Mr Avery concerts, chamber music recitals, Wednesday, why can't Rocky of the opera, drama and stayga show, Marciano and I fight on the @econd, 10 minutes behind the Brundage, President
International Olymple Commit- art, sculpture and literature ex- samo ipsis September 207" winner.
tec. Sinco his visit the
Melbourne is plan- Challenger Archio sald he The third to finish was Inas Olymple
was favoured its own version of the understood Rocky ning
at 3-1 to beat him.in: Yankee Hald of Egypt, winner of the Gusarelle Pranisation has beenbition.
ovent. She had an tempo sharpened the eneral Edinburgh, Festival.
Stadium. "If that's the case." Fargous artists now oversca 10 Recently in Paris, Mr Brunde
he declared, Rocky
certainly unofficial time of 9 hours, 58 minutes for 84 kilometres as age and the International Olym-are being invited to return to can't object to aghting winner the women's course was shor-ple Committee gave Molbuano's Australia for the occasion The inho-elle. I'd gr
Ал tened by six kilometres.
preparations other Egyptian girl, Claby Vegni, of confidence, so everybody is illuminated and decorated with Anlabed fourth, 10 minutes later, happy now. and, was placed second in the - special women's event. - United
women's
a unanimous vote city itself will be brilliantly | tract for that town? SPZ3m !
Despite a chilly 59 degrees, a single Olymple molit tighe | Moors spurred outdoors-les- Renting this greatest sports Glover Bowl mal to We expect about 6,000/6,000 restival, avee heid, south of the He worked four rounds. athletes and officials from shout Equator,
Press,
Cut out all this defensive play, too. We must get back on the attack, bring back the
forward play, old-style
and
never forget that passing in one of foolball's fundamentais.
(London Express Service).
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Gothebury, Sweden, Aug. 28.
Ingemar Johansson. fourth
The committee has offered
tal list. to-night knocked out facilities to, any would-be prize- third-ranked former European winner. Champion Hein Ten Hoff, Ger-
The crossing from Jersey to many, after Bu sterady in the first round.
Guernsey, that is, in the opposite The fight was scheduled for direction, has been done several
times.France-Presse, ... leight rounds-United Press.
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