Famous Sports Stars I Have Met
Harry Homer
By ARCHIE QUICK
Not many people can calm that they have "intslaid" £40,000 worth
f footbalung
talent Mr Harry Homer can. for he once lost Alex James Di a ferry boat between Denmark and Germany and £40,000
my assesment of what the wee Beot would fetch in the trans- fer market today.
Mr Homer was in charge of the administrative side of an Arsenal Continental four soine twenty
years ago, and wizard of Inske-forward
play
the
nettled himself behind the boat's Aunnel for a luze in the sati. Not unti di party were in the trein Berlin-bound cleverest
of
wan
the 21 fotbalters missed. James had looked after himself with his usual Scottish canniness and was in the Ger
first clasa 712 cupila by travel before the main body of "troops."
The
Mr Hummer is Soccer Fan No. 1, with Die accent almost Entirely
Arsenal. tin
I al 1932 when he was started in
was kina
in the Austekan Tyrol, went into a Vienna bar and t the England team
There wer dive
Arsenal players †፡ነ national side that day, manager
atrange Englishman a drink and that was the beginning of a association be worn Homer and the Arsenal which has become almost religion with Harry--- and his wife Later Eddie Hapgood and Cilft Bastia wolking along the banks of the not-so-blue Danube at Budapest, and since then Arsenol has been. Indelibly written on his heurt, fanatically a
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THE CHINA MAIL, `SATURDAY,' MARCH 24, 1956.
THE HONOURS 'MERRY-GO-ROUND
Can Manchester Claim The Double This Year?
Asks DON REVIE
Have you noticed how the hub of the Soccer world has moved from London to Lancashire? Quite true, of course, be cause fve of the top nine clubs in the First Division come from Lancashire.
In fact Manchester people are already speaking boldly of a city double, with Manchester United as League Champions and Manchester City as Cup winners.
A double honour like this for the same city has not occurred since Everton the League won the Cup in 1906, while their near neighbours, Liverpool, won Championship the same season,
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Before the first World War,
the
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Johnstone is one of the reasons for City's success this year.
Ken Barnes is the Gordon | Pie
football. A rangy Jong-legged type, he does not look partienkirly fast. Bul take
from 1.
when we have n mile ence at Mine Road, Ken in mat on his own.
link-up with brilliant Bobby
the North-East had a great Un Newcastle United played in five Finds
were and Sunderland azulher grent side over the sine perfor
Alter Be WHY it wa York- tda o' turns Hudderspeld Tow. soo the Cup and the League championshipse Then 31 ዓ'' 1 .. Shemed Wednesday's tumm win The League Championship two years in succession
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London took over next as the vestre of Soever with Arsenal either winning the Cup or the Laugar Championship in those fantuate yours prior to 1939.
Then Wolves and West Brom brought honours to the Midlands now it i Manchester's Or at least it looks that
Way
WONDERFUL WOLVES
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All was I have beľu pruis- ing the wonderful Wolves and Mt
Husby's brilliant young
Most of Arsenal's trips abroad! have seen Mr Homer with the party, and for a long while ho was not only an enthusiastle (well official of the exclusive Arsenal Club Enclosure, but he wrote the programme notes,
Now Harry lives deep in the heart of Sussex, and has his lovely chalet bungalow painted
Ive colour. a distinctive
Yes, you have guessed 31-red and while, One room of the house has bee
ment
vudet Trafford. $ 1 HUNT say that my own club. Manchestra Cay, are playing so
at the
that I buyesily think they would have won the League shamponship This season if they huit mode a brighter start
Although every player like? To win a Cup medal from the Manager's point of view, it is much mure encouraging it his
the League 1.0e.
SL...C
To win the Championship o club needs 10 suble 4 good standard of football Fight through the sensom; it calls for stampa, skill and class.
And
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The notto, hard though lis, shoud tx Don't relax-keep
going for Cup and Leaguet
'On March 19 the 1956 Flat racing season began in England. What can followers of racing expect? JAMES PARK has been touring the stables to find out. ~He has made a thorough study of the horses and has chosen a list of TWELVE TO FOLLOW each time they race. He will name them and give reasons for his choice in next Wednesday's China Mail. In Thursday's China Mail he will assess the chances of the horses in Captain Boyd-Rochfort's stable,
SOME HORSES HAVE FIGURE TROUBLE
Harry Wragg is always looking for new ideas. He had a riding school built so that his horses could be exercised during wintry spells. Now he has a weighing machine-an idea copied from the USA. For the past few years Harry has spent his holiday in California and, as has always been the case, kept his eyes and ears wide open.
He has picked up ħinis, such as clocking gallops, and putting them into practice. I do not know of any other trainer in England who has weighing machine but in many countries it is used extensively.
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be buman if they didn't tend to liler it easy in some matches, with the glittering prize of the
The horses in Cup Final su tanfalisingly near.
Boussac and will once more pay his way, PARBEE, a brown Pardal colt stable are weighed regularly if the handleanpers give him a who failed to make nis reserve Yet Experience shows that it from the time they enter ns, chance to do so,
s yearling. The owner may 13 for better for clubs and yearlings and each has his OT
not regret that. A good topped MILITARY COURT players to carry on strongly in her own chart which is kept up
colt, he levels out well and IMMORTAL were on offer the League. The chap who goca to date throughout the years.
most attractive. It can be valuable. in half-heartedly to a tackle is
I have stallions but remain in training.
Sarissa's half brother, CAR- Euch he been blistered and NATIC. is a ne big chestout always the more liable to at which a horse produces hts is hoped they will stand up to standing about 16 hands already.
been told it indicates the weight hurt. And it can be fatal for a team right on form to relax in best form. Horses are weighed another season's racing. In the Like most of the see's stock, he and the League. It is often too much before and after a race and this ene of humortal it may be the will take time to mature
thought, should of a struggle for highly fit men tells how much has been shred wish is father to the
much og breit into thele
The amount but everything is being done to better than his flying half-sister. by the exertinn. former sanooth rhythm.
can vary according to the in-get the tendons callous again.
Denturius colt DAUNTLESS dividual and provides
bit of There were no more honest GREEN stands over Information for the trainer.
horses in training last year than ground, but he has been lame. Inmortal
There are some smurt-looking ani Miltary Court. When some horses were being
The former made astonishing allies, and an early winner could
the small but improvement in the
sharp As 1 forecast Inst week, sent to California during the the season.
course of bu
SATURNIA, He started off by Harry arranged for his winning the Newbury Cup with TIDE, if only she can get rid of rides has winter,
particularly liked PALES- averted a Players' Union strike. apprentice jockey, Peter Robin-7st, and wound up by winning &
that son, to travel with them. When I'm sure everyone hopes
trouble. Apart from trial with Dst, Cambridgeshire Rot this is the dawn
there he better and Robinson
that she is in every in the saddle.
respect friendlier relations all round, Kranted a licence and had a few That was regarded as
Brand looking filly, with players and administrators Fides.
HYPERION KID has filled out
Wragg Нагту
has plenty to Improve for player to play doing all they can
days which to exploit his skill in the the game itself. every
and will make a good stayer If juvenile department
and Though the American jockeys his (COPYRIGHT)
lot about them are stick at the start, Robinson his legs do not give any trouble. shall hear quite
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the baltering on
hard in the course of the season. was first away in every race.
Hobinson was the find of fast but it is hoped he
ground
last year it its mark
-(London Express Serotes). with get scason and as the saying has through another season's rocing.
(COPYRIGHT) is the "best horse in the stable." If so, he wil make A useful He has put on a few pounds but stayer.
looks altogether wil go to scale at Tst, 4lb. He more robust than at any pre- will be out of his time in
vious time. September.
SHIRASTRIN is a neat little The riding will be shared by colt who looks almost ready to Harry's son-in-law, Manny Mercer, and Robinson.
Amazing to think Bal a few years ago he eat 't command a place In the al Division learn, and he ma Pusly have Hom into lower
football,
THE LONG, LA NG WAIT.
Whoever wins the Cup semi- finala la going to have that long weary wait for the great day Wembley. 1 don't knony anyone in footbri, who relishes the
5.X weelte gap between sem-l not Final
It is far too long. Tepeleney sales they look after minor injury; and they wouldn't
There
wisdom
on
both
SPORTS ROUND-UP
DON COCKELL TO DEFEND
BRITISH HEAVYWEIGHT
TITLE IN MAY
Dan Cockel) will defend
converted into a red and white bar, and Its name “Gunner's Arnis." In one corner there in a museum of aporting memories -foreign club pennants, pro- grammes ele. and ele, ad lib. While in the front lawn there the Manager of a Championship has been planted a snd of the winning chib-without getting sacred Highbury tuff! Yes, lover confident--can feel fairly Harry certainly worships his satisfied that his club should be football in general and Arsenal safe for a few seasons. lis, negotialing for the contract. In particular.
matches,
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Groundsman With
A Difference
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Tow
At the moment it Is Π
his British Heavyweight tille against Jack Gardner in Leicester or Birmingham at the end of May. The fight was originally planned for the White City as a Jack Solomons promotion. But it has been postponed several times. Now Joe Jacobs Leicester ant Alec Griffiths of Birmingham
of
are
Hogan Bassey, Nigerian holder of the British Empire of Featherweight Championship, meets Louis Cabo Belgium over teu rounds at Liverpool Stadium on March 22, in a non-title bout.
cricket's
Was
nothing more than experience. since his three-year-old
Fun. He was model of con- from sistency last season and
The stable will have three
the line he found his form was runners in the Lincolnshire
never out of the first three. Handicap a week today-Ken Apart from a walk-over ho more Bedser and Clao, They four fees and was three times Were kept
going in the riding second. That is the kind I like. school when the weather was
LOMBARDŮ only managed to severe, with the result that they
win one race last year and his strong were ready to go into work as
chance to Improve on that record 013 conditions
will depend on how he is treated improved.
in handicaps.
FOON
They were galloped at New-
There are no classic three- market this morning and, as # year-old colts but several gave result, Manny Mercer elected to promise of something better to ride Kenmore. His brother, Joe, come,
will be on Bedser, and Robinson takes the mount on Ciao,
If the trio run up to the home form, KENMORE should prove the best but the draw can often upset preconceived ideaa at Lincoln.
be
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LUCERO had a light scason
of his but was placed in each three races. He was retired for the scason DICT running at Newmarket in July and that has given him an opportunity to develop. That
may prove paying policy as he is now
stylish colt.
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Answers To Sports Quiz
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1. America. Tony Trabert,
Vic Scixas and Richardson who didn't play,
2. Golf, cricket, weight- lifting and rugby unton,
3. Fred Perry, thrice Wimble-
don champion.
4. Ferenc Puskas and Kitione
Lave,
6. Max Schmeling.
6. Rocky Marciano.
7. Wolverhampton Wanderers,
Arenal and
Wednesday.
Sheffield
South African, Australian and English,
6. Danish,
9. Louise Brough.
10. Feather, Light and Welter.
Remarkable Goalkeeping
heartening sign in Bri.ish foot. ) to agree in which case play will {—as a referee. He recently took able to take up a good positioni old days and gives the impres- against Old Johnlans. Nothing Every night 61-year-old Tean backs jostling for international stumps drawn at 8.35 p.m.
ball to see so many Ane half-
start around 2-30
und his p...
fnel, tribute to his team build- ing plans, whereas us everyone. Living in Spain he has made knows,
it Cap winning icum many sporting contacts there,needs a fairly large slice of luck and he it was who arranged the on the way to Wembley. 1-fated visit of Bilbu Wolverhampton Wanderers-
weeks, in- cancelled because of the terms will be hotting up for the
Northamptonshire are rapidly Palace meeting. where he Kenmore's joints have always Players' Union ban on floodlight | international betweón Scotlandt
been troublesome. He has been becoming
most pro-scored his early triumphs. Cant Englank" at Hampden Pork.
blistered and so far has got In a physical sense he hax recent "Their And it with the interesting is fixessive county.
lines Harold Hassall, former Bolton | through his preparation safely.
on excellent progressed that evening cricket jiroposal nil if England ninke
England many should be allowed on the second and
International
1 If he is benten, it will not be and should not long remain
Don Careless, goalkeeper of changes from the site which day of county matches, has been inside-forward, whose playing for lack of condition and, as he maiden.
Firetanks FC. ปี Portsmouth through showed plenty of speed as Th cat Spain,
adopted by the Advisory County career was cut short
GOD PERSIAN
side, saved Sunday Federation much Committee. Both clubs will have injury, is making a comeback three-year-old, he should
the match stronger than in his two-year- two penalties in second class refereeing from the start.
sion be has made good progress, remarkable about that, for this examination.
BEDSER looks a picture and He has not had a lot of racing. 'keeper's club has had sixteen
penalties aw
them against awarded is to be given a chance to show On both sides of his
pedigree this season-and he has saved what he can do as a miller. He he is bred to train on. He only
Careless rapture. In had previously been regarded as wants to show the right attitude every one!
the a middle-distance performer,
same League, Bill Jenkins, of towards racing,
Havant, has scored in every DUTTON' has not so for dona match played this season-cup as well as some of the others of and league, | his age and gave me the impres- |sion he may not feel happy until |
he gets some sun on his back.
TALGO ran second occasion in moderate company but I fancy he was never in possession of his full strength as a two-year-old. He has made up into a fine big colt, and would only have to be as good as he looks.
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younger Parker is the last man to leave school we have Eddie Coleman
ground
and Duncan Edwards of Man chester United;
doors
CLOSE CONTACT
Gordon Bradley. Notts County goalkeeper, who played for John Surtees, brilliant young Leicester City in the 1949 Cup Jim Hey of the water has been turned off. Sheffield United Stan Abderan British motor cyclist who is Final, has been appointed all lights are out, the
FUS of Sunderland; Aud Trevor rated second only to Geoff oflolak coach to the Irish Lawn pecurely locked ete--and then
*** Smith of Birmingham. But Duke, likes to maintain a close Tennis Association. Bradley, the he walks smartly home. Nothing I think
the the finest half-buck contact with
places end only League footballer who is a remarkable about that, except playing today is Ken Barnes, folk he knew before he became professional tennis player, will that Tem lost his sight lust
famous, So John, n South take up his duties in May. Ho before the last war. He has been Mchester City's right half.
Londoner, will make his first will continue to play for Notte United's groundsman since 1927 I stars to be accused of pre- publie appearance on his County. and has served
under seven Judice, of course, but Ken has Italian MV-Augusta minchine at monagers.
come to form at the right time, the Easter Monday Crystal
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CIAO is rather small but can plek up a race or two in his own class.
GOLOVINE has grown into a grand looking horse and he loves to show himself off in his box He is at home at distances from a mile and a half to two miles
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ELLWOOD is no beauty, but, hops along a bit. He may not soar above plating class, but is quite useful in that company,
SEMINOLE has not TOWN. quite as much as I had hoped, but after a disappointing first season he should be favourably handicapped.
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There is a lot to like about GARDEN STATE. Sho theived to such an extent that sho is now an elegant Ally, rother
tall but with ample scope. If sho has improved as much in ability as she has done in locks she should prove money-spinner.
WILLA is small, but will be on asset at the stud onơ đây, It was with that end in view that she was bought by Mrs J. Dewar at the sale of her late husband's horses.
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There is BOMO promising material among the two-year olds. MILAN is a strongly built Migoli colt with sufficient sizo to," muggest ha will make a three-year-old.
There is plenty of scope about the Palestine colt, GAZA TIME, and I liked another by the same siro in `SOLITO, who is now beginning to grow and All out. Solito looks all over a racehorse and I shall be surprised if he・・ does not prove to have good apood.
There is not a better looking two-year-old in the yard than
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