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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1956.
The greatest day of their lives
JAROSLAV DROBNÝ should really be accorded two great days-the day he escaped to freedom, and the day he became Wimbledon champion.
TELEPHONE rang decided to respect Swiss hos
In Prague, and voice said: "Never mind my name. For friend of yours working
pitality
and shall play to the end of the international chan plonships at Gstaad.
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in two hours~ of Argentina, most of whirl I spent fling UNIT Being I might up on hard courts, I had a habit of wildlog into my shots.
one "No
Chu prevent following 022 sporting ansbitionis and with that object we propose to go to the that United States,"
at the Ministry of Interior, from I have seen your cart and woukl adviso you to leave Czechoslovakia as som JAN you can."
"I am afruld there was ille my geme that day lo mutgest win that same would! Wanblog file 16 years later." Great-day suprenney อ! Wimbledon
1 Drobny only at the eleventh hour and The eleventh extempt, after by and
well- Jel more
suffered Sluse Tennis plast known litiga
Brows of any Westward cufzügeous fortune
A Czech attache ripped the
Jown; Pragsi now
As it happened, Jaroslav nolice
Drobny, born to the wife of papers hollered bourgeoise
Tabe murder;
$4
Moravian carpenter in Czech Down near Prague, in we allowed Bradzin,
1921, had already decided that he had had enough of Communism.
Three weeks before that toke- phone tipend in 1949 he had
his belungAND
night--Orst of
Lego utting
Pover motiva Mon a fight that set to b Thude k takers and van aludty Jawn terms up to Switzerlaust
Fascination
the
Wen Jil
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Having if beta perspek Stue mail and heavily by anisers
Culant lite
through the rom-linked glas-U
provided by well-alled
bureaux 1 tuen. Tas in Ton of Brody's acright of h campe to less-regatented pil
got oui."
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todd mir from his quiet country home in Surrey, I might have begon Mast of Sport, but ceriaunty 1 vez champlom ot
Wimbledon.”
So we will aevord two days of days to Jaroslav Drobny the square-built. bespeu lielu
dirtied
left-hande Communista Cratten as 1954
Whith
1 1949 oral
the ther
Recalled home
Its all
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by * waspush gal
from ht. Potamoey's Jegation:
your bags
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Jake
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3 to Berge and put
une diplomat
Selped the
espasito Pengang
So Brobay,
impuls
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has left
bu be good Il Crock and go home two hestead, he and Gays inter
tas
A quiet talk
on
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a mumman 19, 1 July
my
15, 1949, caused this sigurd an
no
The stars
of sport.
talk to George Whiting
DROBNY
by way of preparation he went shing for tiddlers.
And nobody phoned from the Ministry...
1 de por turn for the next Ove
fave
Janata Bas
1s As th
to get
Free to Divotne reilly practise*f ve good en grass for the best 1hs, late Free to lose at Wimbledon,
Free to what Wimbleesioni ut an age (3) when the know- well and the seeding committee hind is good as written him off
an a hard-fuck has-beeth.
simit Thal Curious
KTR ate apt to We aular Britons Lake lightly om blessing of in- turf. awi I forget
da. Bas, mi ban. 15 They HANA ot the Mightest conception of what a grass awa-trunks court pls like, ut looks like.
Habit of sliding
เ
of Azeclio- "Getting sinki enabled me to fit my zame to the demands of grass, they T considerable," "If
hart wan Drubny told me. I anything on granx
my curly days i would have been
When maddes iny rst
Buke.
To be pariter in trip to Wimbledon, paid for by
dree languages and affixed to a thoe manufacturer in 1938, I
the championship netler-beard.
W WIND to alate in publie that we are Sporleen coin- pletely devoted in lawn tennis TRO WAY connected with and 411
We have, therefore, pondes
htt!
never even seen a gross
court.
"It Jand rained over the week-end, and was beaten on
the first day by Alex Russell,
-They even sang at
the Wimbledon ball
21
Aris
Aburtive
prainst Schroeder and America's Te
Australia's Prosk Sistema, Journs and twenty- minutes marathon agalus! Badge 1953,
julies scle against car was Bunny Audin,
defeat by a surprise Tony Mottram these were the lightly our fruits of Drobny's extemporse when the cilexilea Czech presented himself for the men's singles in 1054.
1 was referred to as the man who could not wh.. who fell at the last Tenen," he buy told us in his autobiography. Drobny was steind No 11, a slomn-with-takit-pres plment interpreted by him as a personal insult.
The
Neltled by what be consider- ed a star on his fighting spirit, Drobny shot his way to the Anal via Messrs. Arkinstull (Aus-
Bergelin tralia),
(Sweden). (Denmark), Washer (Belgium). Houd (Australia) id "taue-teat" r.vol.
tach Patty
Only young Ken Rosewall, that slim and slightly satur- nine back-of-the-rourt" expert from Australis, stood between Drobny and the ambition he had been sweating at for nearly 20 years.
JV
J
battle
of a Rosewall passing shot. ball-boy
the was joined.
13-11,
"Three times Rosewall mak wonderful passing shots and he As the ball- the game. boys threw the bulls down the other end of the court I turned To the Royal Box end and look- ed at Rita, my disappointment apparent to her, In my heart I was feeling as if, onge again, my luck was just not there.
"Rita signallexi 'Come on! You must de',' Ant, my luck had descried me at that moment, it come my way 311 ful measure a tow games later when I got a net-cord that gave Rosewall no chance and me the break-through for 8-7.
**This
Miraculous
tune.
"Our Arst crisis," recalls Drobny, "game when Rosewall Bul had a sol point at 11-10. I won the set at with it I
moral tremendous
with the makh advantage against so young an almost in my grasp, I served opponent."
my damnedest, but again Rose- woll producci those miraculous Rustwall took the second set
passing shots and was down Band after Droboy had iDar
10-10. I could not help smil- lima pulled him back to douce
Ing at the Irony of it all. My One ket in the tenth
third Anal. My last final? Lacu a mund.ed red minutes of tevered time gone by.
Break-through
at
Third the man
net 10 Drobny 8-2. leading
in 4-3
the fourth set.. neurer and nearer to the victory that would repny in brimming measure the dis appointments of a decade. Let Drobny himself tell of those last dramatic stages.
coni-
wiky 21 f preparation Drobny went Ashing for fiddlers, watched Rosewall on television, vollteted his in-laws, and in no time at all was out there on the Centre Court, bowing to King But for his Ealing-born wife,
Gustav of Sweden, Process former Ritu Jarvis, he
DX Margaret and the Duchess would have withdrawn from Kent.
there and the championships
then,
Thus The All-England
began the best and bravest Wimbledon Anal seen record would have been denied one of its most historic chapters. for many years. Row nerves
in the sunshine Said Mrs Drobny; "Fight for
sizzled every point and when you have Drobny twice double-faulted. won the ie you can laugh at Rosewall missed two sinashes.
and nesman differed all the committees."
umpire over the exact point of arrival
#<
And it was so.
FRANCO HOTS
UP COLD
"I served like fury for 3-3. thew away Itosewall's service banked all un my game and
This uwn next service game, nearly lost me the match. of serving really fast,
three-quarter sunt down spted serves, following them to the net and hoping the pressure
furce
into Rosewall night errora,
Inste.d
WAR
AGAINST "THE ROCK"
Gibraltar
N tense, troubled
Madrid, where student rioting flared the massive
From Tom Pocock
ps it
of
Gibral- I talked to the top
40-year-old tarian spokesman, Joshua Hassan, leader of the elected members of the Legisia- tive Counell and Mayor for nine
dark Hassan,
and years. ebullient, looks Like Napoleon, and comes from a family which centuries.
"An Bed saved me one gume point. After a rally I dived and just reached one of Rose- wall's passing shots, a desper- ate counter on my part to what looked
like a winning shot, That made it deuce, He ro- turned my service on the next point, but gave me a lob which Match killed stone dead. point,
I
Broke precedent
“I heard nothing, saw nothing. except little Rosewall stand- ink there waiting for my service...I gave him a slice to his backhand that swung away, and, when it hit the ground, backe the same way.
Itosewall miss-hit it into the net. happiest shot I have ever seen. It gave me the set at 9-7.... and the match...and the cham- plonship."
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to has lived on The Rock for two The greatest day in the life SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.
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tain--Franco will hot up the have sellled in Spain and have Sparuards working in Ulbraltar. annoyance.
Here in Gibraltar they feel
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concrete-and-steel employed by the Colonial Gov- single Spanish workman, that gateway
shuts 11 away crament, the City Council and has before. last month, seasoned
from Gibraltar,
the three Services.
But what is the attitude diplomats are saying: "One Inhabitants of The Rock, who Without them Gibraltar could
Brush Government the not function as a fortress, & port the thing IN
for once moved freely across certain
allowed or a tovi. unless alternative Franco's threats and abuse? All
I asked him: "Is there any Franco's regime this is the border, we no longer
lo do so. Red tape and visa re- labour was drafted in. And this too often there is a fixed.
feeling beginning of the end." Here strictions have all but cut them is Franco's trump card.
gratiating smile on the face of put-with-the-British
in
has John Bull, only occasionally re- here? Is there an Enosis move- Gibraltar, they are off from Spain.
So the Spanish dictator Hundreds
ment for union with Spain?" ut placed by a petulant pout of Britons saying: "One thing is cer-
who begun to limit the number
Hassan hooted with derision. "We are 04 British 02 residents'
dents' portits can only visit But he dare not stop them al-
for a showdown Cornish or the Welsh!" he said. cold war for The Rock,
Gibraltar by going first to Tan- together. At least, not yet. An- that the time
"We combine the imaginative Spanish datusin te too poor to stand the has come. But before this can Latin outlook with the commen- More than likely. For gier or producing
Unmarried Bri- sudden unemployment this happen, the world must regard
tho Englishman yeurs Gibraltar has been worker's vish.
Gibraltar not as a quaint histori- We are proud to be Gibral- cal and Franco's most faithful redish soldiers and anllors are not would involve.
unless allowed Into La Linen
geographiesi Albert
tarlans, but we herring at times of trouble they have passports or come in WANT SHOWDOWN Memorial, but as a country in
Its Own right.
hundred percent loyal to Crown," in his 17-year-old police specially conducted parties.
There are minor restrictions Franco's hold upon Spain 13 The constant shifting of the state,
has thrown on trade, on the passage of cars too shaky to withstand such a world's population
A PLEBISCITE ? Many Spaniards are humlli- and on tourism..
shock.
and up a new notion on Gibraltar. But near Cadiz Meanwhile, across the bay, Seville,
Americans
On The Rock Itve 25,000 people. ated by air and navol bases the
There, in a nutshell, is a the Americans are
bullding Algeciras is being developed as building
ar bases, Of these, 4,000 me Servicemen, possible solution to the Gibrollar now
naval and
from the problem. Let Spain, as a mem- across their country. They care a rival port. Already, an Ameri- and these, with other Americnti 1,000 are residents
the Unton Jack is can shipping line is landing projects, muy BOON that
provide United Kingdom, and nearly ber of the United Nations, de- Gibraltar. Lei Billain foreigners, mand But, all, passengers there Instead flying on The Rock Franico and the Falange Party Gibraltar. They travel on to morning flow across the frontier All the others are Gibraltarians, give the Gibraltarians the right
The Gibraltarians arc not of self-determination--there can whip up some anti-British Madrid in 17 hours by Spanish may stop
dispute They came originally no explosive minority, feeling among young people. train Instead of flying from The Gibraltar could survive even Spanish.
ihis. Regard The Rock-with its from Portugni. Genoa, Malta, hore as in Cyprus-and let UNO RED TAPE
But these
to be im- Sicily and hall-a-dozen other supervise a plebiscite. Let both pinpricks, fine harbour (now arc irritating out to be borne.
or at a cost nearly Mediterranean countries. Their Britain and Spain agres proved
formed, abide by the decision
of the Gibraltar was occupied by Every moran, bere dawn, £2,000,000) His articld and its community is already
power La vast underground
ata and only 100 certificates pour through the Spaniards for 212 years-com- there
* Gibraltarians themselves, tuel tanks, naturalisation have been grant- And while they're at it, they pared with 761 by the Moors Lines gates some 10,000 Spant- tions, workshops,
aed here in the past five years, might extend thò piebiscite to by and 231
the British-but ards
work In Gibraltar, magazines and barracks-as an claiming: rostly Franco
labourers, fortren and it can survive any. Circumstances, have made them the Campo area of Spain, just manual
but, across the border. They might but a nation of shopkeepers. expensively *War. dockyard workers and servants, cold "Gibraltar Spanish!"
of they are emerging as a emoll and a very surprising number of Draft a brigade Since the Queen's visit to They must have special Spanish simply.
and Pioneers to nation In their own right, no Spaniards who want to be Gibraltar in 1954, Franco's cold visas and, tiko Cinderalla, must Sappers
and it can perform longer always dependant upon Gibraltarians under the Crown. War front has been the little be back home by midnight, Just Gibraltar,
the patronage of the garrison.
(OUFTRIGHT) border town of Im Linea and over 4,000 of these workers are its strategie aunotion without
goes
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