JOHN MACADAM'S ASCOT STORY
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1956.
INDIA'S SURPRISE PACKET
HOW MR SHEENAN WON A PACKET
Ascot's two and a half centuries of continued royal patronage constitute it not only Very Big Sassiety. They constitute it Very Big Money indeed,
From that humble £50 Plate, for which the handful of hunting men competed back in 1711, the prize money has been swollen steadily until there will be something like £60,000 or £70,000 for the lucky lads, if you can refer to the aristocracy of racing in such a way.
despite that
unfortunate owner Mr Wachman
Incl
wen!
Of that sum £40,000 is put It was lowards the end of the | was unfavourably drawn but, up by the Ascot Authority. The recent long dry spell when real is put up by the owners of called,, but the Authority's the rucehorses, which are agn.n sprinklers were feeding the by way of being the aristocracy thirsty turd on the course and
of their kind,
ine was5,
not possibile precise figure on tendance.
A
to pat " A green and splendid sigth. racecourse at- maybe as green and pleasant as in crickel or the lovely colour of the money Soccer, but, given good weather that will change hands when it 13 safe to say That the al- thus wraithiest, ritziest of vac- jonusher tor this Royal Ascot Ling crowds starts betting. wii top 100,000. Of these somme j The social atmosphere being i 10,000 will be on the stands sile, what it is and a furge propor- and anylatDR
บม to B0,000 netess the course on the Houth
Probably,
fur that
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teamily around the Ring Ke.. thng more and more money on
vi Recording to the suitability the price.
He made
speciucular KIL
two
In-
Bat apart from these years-1939 and 1046--the diviiland-- bet há traded for down at Ascot from £30 to 30%
Nevertheless The Tolalisatur, the ladies,
which accommodates another Ton of the crowd being there lives a tremettious lover Bi
pre-eminently. emphasis at Ascut as on the Love ruther Thun The book- makers.
-
for
lover 12/ and, or horseflesh, The Royal Encionaro at Ascot presenta the best Burgain Jea
In the Facing anywhere today.
LUSCIOUS SWARD
work
know
A Tot
Winnen who about hats and frocks very often
Ittle previous
about betting und the happy
Jurgi
of the bookmakers who incline with their off-hand know-how to scare them out of their wits. The Gent.. for his four-day 10
with good prices Furtherin tenure of the luscious swara. ; paya £10 and, for his Lady,tuling generally for very upon the professional buckers don't want to know much about
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£7. All hands pay straight races. £2 a day for Tatt's, the Grand- ainu. and allowances, and the Silver Ring Chat the Costs 10s, day Heath some 30,300-40,000 ince- gours pay, nad Tamissaris more Just walk 08.
the corse of the four days of the inyal menting.
En 1939 the Tole to nearly £105,000, which was a big jump from the £84,000-dd of 1938 und £97,000-odd of the follow- ing year.
Last year was a bad year, so far as Tote-belting trends went, for the whole meeting was post- oned a month because of, first, the rall and then paper hold-ups.
Ite DWR-
But the year 1854 gives some Andivalen to the welgat of
Strachiy miling money that was kip for Dan belied on de Ascot horses
The bookmakers were caught with sorge beavy bels
11839 whef Phere was a general foul- ang huling going-up, and the same appless in the mediale
V.... 21969 WI, a fed coffeesters
wan banke tension
tired the 140 settings agai
42 very
ig
LLEICH
1
Ascol hear, Money propositioni mired
all of it is plugaveit burek into the
thr hy Course Authenly who, ie 1 content with their new Male and their en lau ked unclosurVING are ass catly talking bathely an hits and esculators and who-knows-w nat besides
othe unlikely which gotT30
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OWN RESERVOIR Incidentally, commodity in thle revenue
invested 15 water. With their private pe servoir out on the Heath now connected by pipeline and pump house
with the lake at Sun- Park nearby they fear
ningh
no drought.
Totul sate
Royal
ttre
e amount nettej
Cha!! a largely with Tode Javestors) was £1325.197, and the year it Sonks like popping even that
Alter
110 13
winning
worth the place for the speciaemag (wner the tied up as
£11,475. and tae Royal Blunt All the Ascot
But itovat Asel
hat by
Twang chup, and if it . why Cup 45270 nobody want, to tag to much print are worth going all t about t
in and eyeshiels kneww: this unki katha trevdly Lerondingly
Thul
1 .t
back + De plom Gep him. H En het alwart his larako or like horse of chip of fals Labeards Thats give even
Dakimakers are the last people to talk about such thing.
IT CAME OFF!
neay tali; I ke best
1st E ah Bac like about Awni the story of 4 My Sherman, of Wood Green, London, who set off to huve a toyni duy's racing with CO hus pocket. Mr S better 5s on the Tote treble on each The horse and had a single bet
In
May be the biggest post-war win again the book wid 1946 when Charlie Smirke Tris Bug safely 4421 Wokaigizam Sakey,
Rowdy Fans And Rough
Play Cost Italian Soccer Clubs Huge Fines
Rome.
The ardour of lialian soccer fans and the roughness
rack
WIN Come
|! we nugh the card to £200 Bid, with the Treble collected 14.307 175,
only the
You say It west
and the kings – even
at Royal Ascot,
Another endearing picture
have is of the late Land Howned
de Walden as his Zinfandel won the Gold Cup,
kord-
ship was sitting out helding the slund working on the core of an opera!
B
And you want u al ple- ture. There were hard-bliten
3 women with
of play on the field cost Italian football clubs and profes-racing men slonal players 15,000,000 Lire (£8,625 sterling) in fines totalgle tears streaming down In the 1955-56 season, which has just ended.
First Division clubs fund to p
totalling
(£3,059 sterling)
(£675 sterling?
raron that was the assay for 3,320,000 1. the extra tuilli jaħdel by club:
1.000.000 1.14 1.1.5 La LaViur showed Etter than appreciable change from previous
the 1054-55 season-beate then
fans were to rowdy.
Under Italian Football League rules, if the tuns pelt the players or try to lynch the referee, home team henvlly These lines were inervasec
JAUNOUS.
INDISCIPLINE
Nepic / Poolball Club zoud the
their faces as dear old Brown | Jack
his last rice and parted from Steve Donoghue for
ever.
won
Next Article; The Parade of Fashion
her to 1.11 977 500.00 Remarkable Feat
tre
the
fined.
Just
NAUGHTY BOY
11
The
X 28A sorlunga ground was based Ir a month (hair games) (kcause
f the - scipling of its fans
Twice during the season, the Laut started riots in Nuples
Į stadium atul the police had lo Use revolvers and tear-gas tu
var the stands.
S. wickets without conecting at rou' That is the remarkable feat achieved by a Turves Green Intermediate Schoolboy
the King's Norton (Birming- nam) Schools League. And his name is Gerald Faultless. Fault- less Indeed. Hi colleague.
R. Krishnan of India shows the concentration which helped him beat former champion Jaroslav Drobny and spring the biggest surprise
on the opening day of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Krishnan, playing in the first round of the Men's Singles on the Centre Court, beat Drobny 6-1, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.Reuterphoto.
Ryder Cup Golf School
Christy O'Connor} The Long Irons
is the teacher is the subject
My success secret...
WH
By CHRISTY O'CONNOR
HEN Dai Rees, our Ryder Cup captain, first spoke to me about this series, he said: You tell them about the long runs, Christy. You are one of the masters of that part of the game."
Well, I suppose I do get good results with those ling iron shots up to the fag that are 50 valuable on แ Course. It set me thinking back to how I obtained com- mand of those shots.
'There is not much of a secret to 1. To become a goed frun player, my advice is to start on the lower clubs-my a No, or 7 iron-and work up to the higher ones,
Anyway, that is how I developed my iron play. Practice first with the short trons ga
Li me my
which in All- important.
Grip-stance
Now for a few hints to brush up your No. 3 iron state.
First make sure of A good. firm grip, use the
conven clonej overlapping grip. ไปเล gives control of the club without being tenned, for
The very first ball of Denton (Lanes) Innings against
Italian First Division players George Tongue, took the other Swinton,
who had
paid previously
A total of 2,044,000 Lire four wickets for two runs and made 180, was a cracking drive
(£1,178 sterlingi for being the position. Stirchley,
were rough on the #teki that was a boundary alt the way
or shougall out for a total of three! until smail boy,
at the referee. spectator
Faulticas's feat was equalled by stopped it. In his rights. the
The other 7,500,000 1re were Uriah Phillips, bowling timpire allowed only the three
paid by Second and Third Divi-Jenner and Gm CC against that had been run. Did not seem
ston Clubs and players, whose Billesley in the Birmingham very important until
Baes are smaller than those of Parks League. He Denton
sent down heir big brothers in the First seven overs, did not give away Division. -Ching Mall Special, a run and claimed six victims!
failed by just that one run get level.
THE
FRIDAY
WEEK-END
ta
'GAMBOLS
I'VE LOST MY PEN -CAN I BORROW YOURS GEORGE ?
SURE
SEE HOW HE TAPS THE GROUND THREE TIMES, WITH HIS BAT
YESTERDAYİ I'VE BOUGHT
YOU A NEV' PEN OF YOUR OWN, GAY
See that your stance la nether too wide nor too narrow. Tou wide will cause a tendency to way. Too narrow wilt mean either sliding of the hipe or falling on the ball,
My stance is approximately the
by Barry Appleby
TO-DAY CAN I BORROW I'VE LOST IT
YOUR PEN, OGAR ?HINA, S
{sure...ER .BUT WHERE'S YOUR OWN?
TO FLATTEN
A BUMP
DONT BE GILLY ** MY 1001) MAGAZINE INTERVIEWED HIS WIFE AND SHE TOLD) HIS.BECRUTE
246
Ta HIS MESSAGE TO HER
TO SAY * I LOVE You'
DO YOU KNOW WHAT - THAT'S FOR?
width of my shoulders. This gives and a maniactory hip movement. start the viul pick with the arnis and wrists and an easy lip mayernt, it futal to be mer anxious at the start of the lnck- nina.
Slowly back MIPRIA д boller backswink movement.
It
the swing
belps to keep the hond stendy sentch in just important. Lidrelly. A PUD Une body. I A better position at the wp of and you get better striking power. From the top of the backawing always try to klart down with a pullugi movement of the club, This sets the arma ląŝo the right position, prevenia hitting Too koan and turning the shoulder Luo early.
Turning The shoulder 100 Mon C cause three faults- coming werom the ball und so silcing reducing the pivot. turlig the head,
Notice in the platures of 17 awing that i get well over on my left mide. This in Aured by the pulling movement with the arms from the top of the swing, The result in think it makes më hit correctly down and through the ball.
NEVER all to complete a ful follow through
ALWAYS Keep the head steady until the ball Box gone well ot ite way.
So Tender
and Tasty
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MY NERVES WENT TO PIECES ON CENTRE COURT
Beaten Drobny: I May Quit Wimbledon
By JOHN
ELLISON
Jaroslav Drobny, lion-hearted Tennis Singles Chumpion of 1954, said after his surprise defeat nt Wimbledon the other day by 19-year-old Indian student, Ramanathan Krishnan, "I may never play at Wimbledon again."
"The Old Fox," now 34, was outmatched and outpointed, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, 61, in a first-round fje.
From the Centre Court, a harassed "Drob" slipped away to watch an away- from-the-crowds game on Court 14.
Co
He told me: "I do not reel 1 Centre Court I shall not play at culty, and can enbor for Wimbledon next Wimbledon nxt summer,
play.
year.
Wen!
*
K
I do not through an experience like this again.
1
thu affected my
Drobny's wife, RHA, who He made these objections; watched his detent, said: **it 1. "Six times we clunged balls. makes me mud when people say On four occasions we chonged he's tou uk. "If only I could play my first never been in better shope. His
Physically he has at the wrong line." round here"--he indicated trouble Is
2. "In the second set . I was mentat and loubou to serve Palm and A. R. Mills playing
a second ball a Agony for me to watch him go Indy in the stands shouted. before 20 spectators on the outer tourl" should be happ
n like that," It
Krishnan, * stiklent from 1 Jove Wimbledon.
"In making no excuses. simpty puryed badly. Bul to play the Arst match on that Centre Court with thousands of people watching you and all of then saying, Heie is old Dish, he's sure to win,' and everybody expecting you to be a finailst ob, mentally, that is too much
for me.
Cown
"lot the ball drop and the Madras, said. "When I went un umpire gave the point against The court
was me. I said 1 had not tried lo hit the better player. But i was the ball, but he said I slipped."
I knew Drobny
cermined and he didn't play well But he is a great sport."
UMPIRE SOENE
3. "I was wrongly foot-muited
In the 18th set when I served
an Rev.
"
4. "In the last set we ran out of balls. It was the last straw."
HEARD NO YELL
Kurt Nielsen, 26-year-old Danish engineering student and twice a Wimbledon finallt-onco
Nielsen last year-strode of No. 2 Court |
said: **There were a beaten and very angry man. other cocamples of bod nes- I moustacho bristled withmanship. Ayala scored off A indignation, after losing against serve that was so for out that I Luis Ayala 3-7, 6-4, 6-4. 5-7, could not belleve my ears."
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"That was my trouble on that day. My nerves were in pieces. Not one could I let myself R and make a return to any shot. "Physically { im toe-1 evuld
Mr Bramley sold later: "I have Later, with umpire Mr Peter play that moteh again. But Be mley, or Brighton, Xurt saw umplied 200 matches in about a mentally 1 think I do not want the refèice, Colonel John Legg, your and have been umpiring at to go through and this next year. The tuve talked for 15 minutes,
Wimbledon for ten years on and off It is too soon to make a definite | Nielsen was shown the rules of
I have never had a decision ecision, but it it means being tennis. Then he called a Pressqueried in this way.
starting 11 the conference.
"1 certainly did not hear any
seeded
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Famous Sports Stars I Have Met
"JOKER" OAKES
By Archie Quick
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Sunnex County
have played cricket
the 200-year-old Horsham ground since 1908
years,
1
those
Torty-eight
reventy matches have taken pree, and "Joker" Oakes tus not only en <very Ont ut them, but as watched every hall bowled *t
wonderful record
I will never be sur- because the powers- that-be in their widom have decreed that there shall be no BRON County gumes on Eug- land's ansl
plcture que closure because of Juck of sup- port.
PKW
with
(1)-
"Joker," 1 must explain, 15 Alfred Oakes who has been groundsman all those 48 years
two sons und
or whose big tamlly have played for Suratx --Charles, now with Ayr, Juck,
Durham "Joker" is a forthright, rugged character of the Weald, who cutis a spade a spade and who called the Sussex Committee that something mor than when they tried to gain pos:6s- sion of his beloved cottage on the ground when he retired last season. Alfred is still under he old roof and I have eɔ doubt that he will live ond die there!
Alfred Is hensed at the action of the Committes in lak- ing the Horsham "Week's' two matches to Hove next season and thenceforward. "The renson for the so-called lack of support," he says, "is that the 'Week' hus bi recent years always been given to us too the season, and the op- Early
has not been too at- Give us Surrey in June, and I guarantee there will be no lack of support. "
position
tellve
So the glorious clays of Horsham are over, and so is the sight of Alfred going out with the roller to tend that
licate strip of grass In the Alfred is sad, although he says cricket is
not what it was. Why, in the old days," no con tinued, "the teams used to stick together in the evenings
and
that made for team spirit. And there were the dances and the bunting and the carnivals and fairs. Thom
days
arog
The players are off the and gone separate ways before you can look round, And Maurloc Tate, Harold Larwood and Blil Voce were no worSU for bowling on a pint of beer or two. Gave them more stamina than the present-day ilme juice and milic dialer:"
I told you "Joker" called ¤ spade a spude, He thinks the closure at Horsham will knock a lot of the enthusiasm for the County game out of the towns and villages of Sursex north of the South Downs. "Why," he
"do you
that
know
m and district has sup-|
I more players to Sussex than other area? Think of the
o, Coxca, Caloo Dr Heygate Killick,
A. K.
D. 8., Sheppard, Peared. Col. Watson, H, P. Chapin, C.L.A. Smlük, Etheridgo, 1, 0, Hunt, D. A. Dow and D. Wockes. They all came from, borm,“
He said: "I shall not lodge an yell from anyone in the crowd official objection, i don' lice I thought Nielsen's foot slipped. coing things that way.
"E
KEPT HIS TEMPER
"He was right about the balls. At the time I thought he was wrong. but I discovered later
was afraid of losing my that we did not change at the tempar but I kept it with diff- right time."
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