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Bright Prospects For Manchester United To Win £30,000 Prize
By W. CAPEL KIRBY
THE CHINA MAIL,
Manchester United, with bright prospects of cashing in to the extent of £30,000 by accepting the invitation to compete for the Europa Cup, are eagerly awaiting the result of the draw, due in Paris. My information is that the competition will consist of 16 clubs, but as there are 19 entrants, six will be drawn out of the hat and take part in a qualifying competition in three groups of two clubs.
There is no seeding so Manchester United and Rangers could clash before the competition proper. Real Madrid go into the draw as holders even though they are not champions of Spain.
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All *** being advanced for the cause of Soccer's mi sing millions when, bit fast. There IN only
of the
•hortage of personaliti Rich Carter, Jukuniy Curry and Peter Beherty enthus
It is proved beyond all argu- art by th COLTELLE NAVIĘe de- these off-line Fac to ALT elebrities to netle
Bet Jackson, forster Port aith and Hull City manager, who i looking after the All Stars business uitnies AN hobby. I s me he busy Sorting out 44 applications for the team
Lu provide Boxi][! maleh opposition next They are from all parts, includi-
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Early training in the garden Belfast home gained
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Thelma Hopkins work notoriety record breaking high- Also hoping to much athfelle heights via the backyard is vid Seward, B-your-okt Renting laci who has already BWn
cleared ar
Wolverhampton
dider
their
Fur
have far
Corporation to look
Municipal He was on the
Aldursiy
Stadium bos
premises in the person of Mace- Charles Franklin,
bearer
swimming, boxing and
nasties expert,
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who has been sports organiser with the Army. Home Office Gordonstotina School <! Wrekin College. oclated at the 1948
Charles Olympies
Early estimates inlteates that, given notable werthier, the
Tyst
"Liut will brat the 1953 tir recort
cont of £ 130,000
England&-Australia
The Football Leaggie ways being shot at,
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the
al Sometimes beism is unjust, but TRXONE often it is well vurnet.
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officials. Certam Players' Union, and at least one footballer-author have torn the League to steds for the way it administers Is mammothy Jublice Fund, That's why it
y{:In to hear the criticism Alienced for once..
An athletle young BeHE MAILA two songs, in excellent voice, at the
Longue
Secretaries" Monogers annual dinner
bruned with a grant from the much-abused Juleler Fund
Apparatly if not geraily that footballers can known receive financial assistuper for viwaliotul training. If they ente to take the nouble Tayjor dll- and those two songs must have tade many of the Jubilve Fund kiker. Bunk
"HANDS OFF" Dreaute Roy Jarole has been the gally approached by League clut
-hers Petet bortgle's manager, Gevege Swinde, has Jadeast a "hurt of, or epe
There is only one reaAON for Hoccer's miering millions - shortage of personalities
Hic of
RAICH CARTER calibre, This is proved by the countrywide demand to see All-Stars in action next season, They have received 14 invitations,
Academy of Music were being jullimatra31. To promising young full-back works in Løn- Henelon 13 and trains with us.der the erheal ve of furmer Bagi ad part Armetta, defender Lawre Scult
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Midland lust and the transfer League champions are favourites for his migrature,
SAMMY'S BET
Sammy Crooks hus het Walsall he will be playing for Greeley ROYTH against the Bar manghum ide when he's 30. Te former England and Derby
wil have winger County Rep Roig another two young lo
Tovidentally.
did you know that there are 102 foot- beds 35 years of age kull playing in League Pootball?
WILL
yet
MONDAY,
JULY 2, 1956.
SHE'S NOT A HURDLER
Newengile United may
Linfield *mulskle-right Juny Fill, who was the player
A young girl who is giving all her time to they ally went to see when
training for the 1956 Olympic Games at Melbourne, George Eastham,
Arun
Australia, is seen here leaping over a tree stump in ensed them to produce their cheque book. Raich Carter and Gladstone Park, London, during a training session. Full Shankly tell me that in She is not a hurdlers might be suggested by the isogning young Eastham, New-
picture but is 17-year-old swimmer Judy Grinham. Lelle have secured a player
Miss Grinham, who is national back-stroke all the craft aux man-
holder of the 110 yards, and champion for the of his Bolton-famous
England, Southern Counties and Middlesex back- struke championships, is determined to be at the peak of her form when Great Britain's Olympic swimming representatives are selected. She has set herself a strict training programme which includes an average of 12 miles actual swimming each week, in addition to running and road walking, supplemented by daily exercises.
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"No Trace" is the official re- pant on 54 ex-footballers who appear to have made so much al of Soccer "slavery" al they haven't bothered to put in their claims for Print Fund mcey. Or are they afraid to produce their birth certificates?
Remember Alt
Ranki Derbyshire
Pope,
All- erickoler?
Now playing
in Scotland, he has are average of 122.5 runs for
four Forfarshire
county championship gümsa. He also look lne West Lothian wickels for 33.
Good going for an old-
SOCCER TOWN
We'r
Langue referees and tipesmen out of Southport last Rove week.nl following the annual Third Division conferena e. club directora move in for the Northern Section's annual gathering
dinner. Mayb anci the meeting
will
throw some light on what Southerners efer to as the "North's Fourth Division Double-Cross,"
Bouse Chester
manager
MARIA WAS JUST
TOO LATE TO
PLAY FOR SPAIN
By JOHN ELLISON
A FEW SCRIBBLED NOTES SET A CITY GUESSING AVA WRITES TO SINATRA
By RALPH COOPER
Madrid.
Burning question in this torrid city is: Have Frankle and Ava mel yet? Frankie being Frank Sinatra, and Ava, of course, being Ava Gardner,
When two such well-known people who have spent two years of courtship, two years of marriage, and nearly as long apart, arrive in A romantic spot like Madrid they are bound to meet some time. So the question is not only "Have they mel?" but "Are they reconciling?"
If
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are not "You they are, they
should do that more telling, anyone-yet. But I can often," said the gntekeeper. tell you they are not throwing "You look just fine. bricks at each other! They are Tony grinned. He but just
Down paving notes,
the round-trip to New The temperature in Madrid's York (7,000 miles) and Zumba night club is normally peared on Ed Sullivan's TV high For here are the Buest showmall in 48 hours
lamenco dancers and singers in the world,
and the passionate, ensuous rhythm of their done-ti ing and the staccato clapping of their hands and tapping of their heels are guaranteed to produce an electric atmosphere.
I
one
THE ENCHANTMENT
became electronic about the morning o'clock in when Ava Gardner walked in with 43 party including three handsome young men, and sat down with Antonte, the famed Spanish dancer, at her side.
tomic half became positively
An hour later when Frank Satan and a party which in- cluded three very beautiful girls arrived.
Frank is here Biming "The Prke
the Passion"
nove
version of "The Gun," C. S Forester's late of the
nie Wars. Napoleonie
Wearing the severe riding habit style of dress ntfected by Spanish aristocrats, Ava looked relaxed and happy and stapped
10 fingers time her dancers, while Antonio explain- ed the finer points of the in- tricate steps and movements to her.
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too
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Princess Grace of Monaco is on the MCM payroll in
Hollywood—and that's the way she'll stay until she makes up her mind whether she is going to make any more filma.
"Designing Woman" ; tho pleture the studios are trying to tempt her with, und Jimmy Stewart is among those walling
to hear whether Her Highness | says "yea" or "nay."
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"Public
Enemy" Made James Cagney A Star Overnight
By MICHAEL RUDDY
Hollywood.
He walks like a boxer, he looks like a fighter but off the screen you could not meet a quieter, gentler, more disarming character than James Cagney.
At his form at Martha's Vineyard. far away from Hollywood, you will find the real Cagney - pitching-in with his hands and loving it. As he says himself: "There's the blood of a Killarney farmer in me somewhere,”
say.
"It's so quiet, so green," he against it. We only just made it
"So ke Ireland
back to New York." And that is the key to Cagney His 'break' came in 1930 in play called "Penny Arcade" When he is down OTE the with a girl called-Joan Blon- driving tractor ordell, He was signed by Warner working the harvester,
is Brothers. !! you will
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The lights were low and Avais love of Ireland,
entranced to noties Sinatra's entrance.
But she swung round quickly enough [ ftw minutes later a walter handed her a
when
note,
Donegal tweeds that
find him wearing And he is
member of the
She peered into the dim-always news of the club, but could not Hollywood group who entertain star And for his superb per-
find the face she was looking
For
Dandy"
this Award.
"PUBLIC ENEMY
"Public Enemy" made him a
visiting Trish players and formance In "Yankee Doodle writers.
He will be fifty-three
There are streaks year. grey in his reddish hair, wrinkles are beginning show in his rugged free,
The Attest $3-year-old
I know, and I would hate take in on in a 'bronngon or a rough-house. from
came
at
AFILT a hurried consultation Ava with fer cavaliers, borrowed a pencil and scribbled, Frank She called the waiter.
and back his hend threw
he is her Ypr read laughed when
Eti reply and Ava hud
the note louter laugh when
next
her way Frank.
THE EXIT The stream of communications by the show was interrupta
even
coming to an end and the lights coing up.
door.
Ava dashed for the
Antonio, before he left,
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Maria Weiss, former top Argentine tennis player and friend of the late Eva Peron, told me that she acquired Spanish nationality just too late to represent Spain Wimbledon.
She claims it was political motives which made the
her from Association bun
their Argentine Tennis Harris feels Tomuny John Gardner
Wimbledon team. I too well versed in football craft to be spending all
The other day at the reception tus tine rolling, cutting and
ມາ Hurlingham Club, marking out pitches he is put-
London, for Wimbledon players ng 11 f<
Villa inter-
"I am from overseas she said: national half-back in charge of
heartbroken. This is the first Senland youngsters
Wimbledon I have missed for six years."
Swindin, who doesht let an small thing like any ebom for League status upset his team- Lunding plans, is hoping to
Harry
Top-scoring the sign Manheld Town Feserve malde-Romf forward
Chel
Interesting point here i To
Petr- Lee
wan wanted the surprise of the geltering
inst March, but he was later announced that the borough
Field Mili: singer was Jeff Taylor, Brent would not leave ford centre-forward on that
Low this former Derby County Mansfield his
The Royal player
studies
at
the
on
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Here's a great opportunity for Lancashire, the North-East, Widlands and London to sec Soccer outstanding Europ's alfraction. Real Madrid-they hould change the name to Ri cut of respect for their great goal-scoring
inside-left aro noxious to cash in on their Europa Cup final triumph over Rheims which thrilled millions of televiewers in Britain.
Hubs
nexi
willing to bring Spain fxvm them over SKILSON. But I understand ho Spaniards would not make the Trip
four guaranteed murtches.
unless
Cheapest Golf
In The World
Bruggen, West Germany. Royal Air Force personnel stationed in Western Germany
the of
world's GONIC
enjoy cheapest golf on an 18-hole golf
course here.
The club, which lies near the German-Dutch border, is cele brating its first anniversary this
summer.
Golfing airmen can hire a bag of clubs for one and sixpence sterling and golf all day for four and sixpence,
Air Marshalls, aircraftsmen and their wives shore the same facilities at the 19th hole, which Is situated half-way
at
FOUR DAYS EARLIER Senora Weiss flew to London from Barcelona where she was granted Spanish citizenship four days earlier.
She told how she had been
from suspended
Argentina's Wimbledon team.
"The first time I realised that sonicthing was going wrong,"
she said. "was in Barcelona last October when the Argentine consul-general called at my at demanded my diploinetic
und
pasport.
"Thert, in April, when I was the in Berlin. a letter from Argentine Tennis Association said that an 1 had not applied in writing to play at Wimbledon I was suspended.
DELIGHT IN SPAIN
"I have won tournaments all over the world for Argentina, I cannot believe I have been suspended just because I falled apply in writing when they know all the time that I was planning to go to Wimbledon again.
to
"I at once decided to change my nationality and flow to Barcelona, In-Spain they were: delighted and did all they could. to hurry through the proceed- Ings.
"But when the Spanish Tennis Association put me up
mound the figure-of-cight golf Japan To Build
course.
The club's professional is a
former German medical student,
Herr Joachim Niovert. Ho was trained by Flight Loutenant
MARIA WEISS
the Wimbledon authorities said It was too late for my entry to be accepted."
Auxiliary Fire Service Orders
No. 24.
Orders by Mr Peter Cheung, Acting Superintendent, Auxiliary Fire Service of June 30, 1948.
Training Allowance; Instruction Allowances for the month of May, during usual training nights unti 1050 are now ready for collection
July 16, 1950.
(581.) K. A. BAKER,
Atz. D/Supt., A.FS,
Notice
Olympic Stadium July 2, 1930 the Victoria
Lloyd, now the professional at For Asian
megate, Kent,
manager of the club is Herr Willi Aldag, a former forestry student who has been employed by the Royal Air Force since 1940.
Meet
Tokyo.
Band Concerti · The A.F.8. Band will give public performance on
Park from 11 a.m. lp. 1 p.m. - All members, thole families, relatives
and/or friends are cordially invited
10 present
A... Club News
Launch Pichler The Club is are ranging a lausen plesje to, Mul Wor A stadium will be bulit at the Jon Baturday, July 30:1830, and the Meiji Shrine Park In Tokyo forunch hired from the Hongkong se the 1039 Asian Athletic Xaumati Ferry Co. Ltd, will leave the King Sham Pler, opposite the Sincere Co, at 2.30 pm, and· rotura from Mui Wor at 850 p.m.
meeting.
It
According to Herr Aldag. Bruggen Goft Club is one of the Japanete Athletic Association best In the world, Officers payameinis and the stadium will be guineon for a year's built to Olymple standard. membership, non-commissioned will cost 1,242,500,000 yen offlors tour guineas and other (£1,242,000 stenting). ranks threo guiness, Leonora pay four shillings an hour for tuition.
The field will have a ground space of 342,000 square foot and Because of the large patron-the land will accommodato ago, the club Is Anancially I 70,000 spectators coording to retaiChina, Mail Special, the plan,China Mall Special.
Tipkola ''which are 'available · for mie, to all member of the A.FB. and their relatives/friende at 91 esch are oblamabio at the Club Louis. Arensa Verd, (8in. Diff Luk Tal hony of Big Leung Kel·lul (0) Only 580 falcate will be said;
tren will be charged at the wee
Son;” Deoretary:
HM. Auxiliary Fire Service. Walderase écreation Clu).
t and
he won the Academy
This was 33 Alms after "Pub-
indie Enemy" and proved that fa Cagney was one of Hollywood's But most talented stars.
When he entertains Irish
to visitors, he gives a barbecue at his ranch. There is beer by the barrel and Guinness for the connoisseurs. There are songs
Lucky that in contrast to the roles he has played on the and poems, readings from Sean screen, he has such a tremen-O'Casey and dos liking for people!
HIS LAST PICTURE
with lunched
Cagney during the aiming of his lust picture, "Somewhere I'll Find
the story
of a man's
exchanged a few friendly words with Frank and then disappear- | Him,"
ed into the velvet night with search for the son he has not
seen for twenty years. Ava.
"It is just on quarter of century since I came to Holly
Frankie and Avu mot Have
1 ask that You can yc17
Maybe they did that wood," he said quietly, "A lot question
Who
But the old faces knows? Anthing of changes. night
"
of his start
can happen in Madrid-and the are still around. Spencer Tracy
Pat O'Brien. it was only night was young.
We talked o'clock! When fame is three yours, privacy is the most prized pictures and his grand partner that Is what and wife, Frances Vernon, whom posession, tr Frankie and Ava want, or if he married in 1922. they
they
them.
want to pick up where
Kft off-good Juck
sey There is dancing and merri- ment, and it doesn't take much to to persuade James Cagney do his famous soft-shoe danco from "Yankee Doodle Dandy." He has only one complaint: "There isn't time to do all the things I want to do..."
And he guys:
"I want to spend a few months in ireland, seeing old friends.
"But l'a time. time there's never enough time!"
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"I always wanted to to farmer, said Cagney. "And In-
stead I became a chorus boy in
music-hall." Originally
his parents wanted
Ava decided Madrid was. the place for her some months ago, and bought villa there. She him to be a lawyer. So young
carcer
1
was tired of wondering around, James went to Columbia Uni and openly admitted that she versity and worked at night to would
end the film pay his fees. ilke to
died, When my father which, though it has brought her fame and fortune, left college and became a junior Not for long | hឍន
much draughtsman, not brought her
fold me about Another, Junior happiness.
an opening in the chorus, always
Gina Lollobrigida speaks the
"I've
Job.
danced-soft-
last words from The Madrid shoe-tap, y'know-so I got the nim Front re Sophia Loren,
Says La Lollo: "Let her huve ઢા! the good publicity-al I want is all the good parts!"
BUSY TONY
My pies round up the rest of the news. Like this
Tony Curtis checked in for works one Monday morning and the man on the gate said: "Have a good week-end?"
"Just lazed around the pool," replied Tony.
THREE
vau
trouped round with vaudeville shows and landed on Broadway in a revue called Pilier Patter, Greatest thing [for me about 'Pitter Patter' was We married, meeting Frances. ran a school of dancing in New Jersey for a while,'
I recalled that he had once in Los Angeles been stranded after missing of job.
time there WIL "That luck of the Irish for me," said Cagney, "Frances and I were up
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