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COLUMN WITH A KICK
IS FIRST CLASS CRICKET ON THE WAY OUT?
Asks DAVID JACK
In 10 years' time-perhaps sooner-cricket will no longer be the leading summer sport in England.
It survives now, in the face of competition from athletics, tennis, swimming and golf, only because, at an age when they are too young to know any better, children have cricket thrust upon them at school.
Not until they reach the age of discrimination do those children tumble to the fact that they have been hoodwinked; not until they go out into the world-or join a tennis club-do they discover that, for years, they have been assimilating, quite ridiculously, the most overrated sport in the world.
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see sax play erkeket against porters, That is the 1958 cttekill This "gren!" gume 39 cynng on Somerset, its feel killet by the pers We thought cothing of "quat
Brut on the hard turf after wn efforts of its profesijn..al
hard 30 as mesheners amateur performers
Physical discomfort was Trejoin a matter of time
com-aside with the Arst four Interment ceremonies are
Maurice Nicholls, pleted.
heuds by or | disputelted over our
peerless Harold Gimblett,
Coo
lear the
-1 L "heresy"
from The club-te, bowler-halted, amire|Ba=cally ing characters who sauntering around Lota's mus ing that dve-day
Test the other week.
But if top-ches
not on The
treasurer worry
way
Preker
AHA
should practically every entity hinger wily trying to baloner its hooke with income ever decreasing!
NO FUN NOW
All the fan han
of county *1***l.
Sperrat CONE
cricket, for that makes
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These converts have been won over Iry Davis Cup
lamour the victorien, sportsmen like Frank Sedgman, Rosewall Lew Hoad and Ken sudde
professional swept and the fantastle
from rewards of tennis
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enough. six player is good
Encouragement from schools, Installation on a large scale the of new courts, the modern die satisfaction with the tempo top-clam cricket--all these have contributed to the rise in tennis
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I don't think many young
1956 vintage would rare to vycle two, let alone 20,
of
miles to watch a county cricket support and consequent drop in match Who can binnie thean | ericket's following
It
Wh Wanti to walet ever- Cautions besten seratehling at for 75 100% before but che is to be punable to have 126 1hr board before eating.
IT HAPPENS
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encourage
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must
before long- ปก ericket can get ready to put up "public, the shutters Null 24 102471 That day could be averted. home at the The remedy IS obvious, yet not ont in
su abvious enough! apparently 'do to Such things
Of convince the cricketers England that they are supposed||| chance only
for to be public entertainers. as a major sport aes }
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once a spectator sport censos tu wirkel, u 80-odd
twin the
away.
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full happen.
Cricket's
day"
As a boy i recall cyviing 20 mik
If they don't grasp that fact. survival hot summer day ma
enterprisin in the hands of Test nien Ike‡ and quickly, some Keith Miller. Richie Benaud, promoter will be staging base Peler May, Fred Trueman and ball in St John's Wood in 1966. Tony Lak
It's not a bad game either.
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KING GEORGE VI AND
QUEEN ELIZABETH STAKES
Final Acceptors With Weights
London, Joy 11.
These cricketers play to win, The mese
two
The Ilke Hoy Crnunties
Marshali Dickle
Dodds And
(Hunts) (Basex) abo play to win.
Isn't that the ace of the game? Watch the Arst day of Аргу county match. You be lucky than 250 if you see many more that
batsmen rtig themselves in. dig themselves bail, and generally.
pal- play
Italy's Champion four-y.ar | Cubs scored
old colt Ribot, a strong favourite
tain's
prize.
for the King George VI 2016k Queen Elizabeth Staker, Br ball, jockeying for Best-Innings Australia point Yet in 1948
of pre-wat tight quality to England and spredt 721 at Southend IN ONE DAY!
GAME SUFFERS
richest turf
13 Baal wrong
acceptas declared today fo this year's race at Asent en Saturday, July 21.
T
Ribot, undefeated in 13 1.r. can be opposent by six Betelt challengers, Ave from Betion stables wnd the frish volt Rob at in his bid for the £23,927 wie Der's purse the serond ligar prize in British tur fundors record purse of 425 372 w.. won by Supreme Court wa this event was restitutest in 1951 The 13 Deceptors. with
Karun weights, are
NOK, I Hafiz 11. Daemon and Rhee all nine stone four pounds, fp
#for. Void, Torras. Chen.elmis star, Mongol Warrior, Cish anal Courage and Patras. all right stone tra pounds, and Apollonta eight alone one pound Kette
Aussies Now, of course, the pack their four party with Ha
I must not Ket
vogs" brigade, and the
after acrovingly
Let ceket hond the warning Afready in Austrai teras h Kamer honistutes of young spen
British Heavyweight
Title Vacant
Australia's Richie Benaud bits out. He is one of only a handful of cricketers who slili make the game interesting. These players enjoy their cricket, others enjoy watching them. But there are not enough like them that's why support is dropping so alarm-
ingly, says David Jack.
FANTASTIC PIRIE
STRAIN AND STRESS NEVER
SEEM TO BOTHER THIS
REMARKABLE ATHLETE
Says ARCHIE QUICK
Pirie the Fantastic. Just a day in the life of the amazing distance runner makes interesting reading. July 4th, Independence Day for example. He was up at first light at his South London home and off to Croydon to train on the track where Lap he contemplated an attack on the world 10,000 Metres record that evening. after lap he reeled off before breakfast interspersed with a series of springs, all for stamina and speed.
Lanky Gordon Was not over-impressed with the truck, so he helped the groundsmen level off the loose surface with rakes. Not many world class men Just for a change, would do anything so menial, but then Pirie is a perfectionist.
in the afternoon he went to the RAF Athletic Championships at Uxbridge where AAA Champions Roy Sandstrom and Mark Pharoah were sensationally beaten in the 100 yards and weight.
Back to Croydon and that
still has a sly fancy body was thrfiled, except Pirie
for the 10,000 Motre's race, Alus, who said he had judged the magic 1,500 Metres athiollz (itle Gordon had no pacemaker of race budly and the athletic title
Australia next November. sufficient merit and he ran the
minule would be won in half
Strain and stress never seen! first half much too quickly. He quicker Ume Melbourne
In
to bother this remarkable dut the opening
6,000 Metres Pirie
obviously, athlete. but it is really amazing WDS in 14 niltes 20.4
that I half expected that he can return these world ashamed Ceylon To Attendent by the site-holder. Don was 7.2 ccs whead of Emil to see this unpredictable young class performances while Cockell, of his retirement from Zatopeit's world time, but he man set off on another attempt
travelling such distances Ду Youth Games netive boxing.
took 14 mins 50.8 secs OVET or at least do a spot o, Norway, Holland and England the second half and that left training for next time.
In the-course of a fewn.days im 23 sees mulside the Czech'a world record,
Russia Invites
Lorylon, July 11 The British Boxing Board of today declare! the Control Heavyweight Championship va- is a result of the announce-
Colombo, July 11. The Board also withdrew the The Russian Olymple Com-lleener of Tho former British mlitee and the Sports Fettera- | Heavyweigh! Champion, Jock tion of Russia have invited Gardner, Ceylon to participate in the Third International Friendly The Bonsel IMINALDEES their Sports Games for Youth, to be agreement that the foricheonting held in Moscow July 20
Joe Erskine ani lobout beiwven August 10.
Jhony Williams should be for
title, provided the vacant was fought at 15 rounds.
Travelling expenses from the Russian border to Moscow and back will be paid for by the Soviet Olymple Committee, as will board and lodging in Mos- cow-United Press.
POLISH
The bout previously had been the final eliminator bilitazi for the tie-United Press.
DIAMOND
POLSKA
|
Let's
ANOTHER ATTEMPT Gordan was disgusted with himself and told the crowd so over the microphone, although, he had run the incidentally, fastest 10,000 Metres ever corded
Creat Britain, equalled his best time for the distance, and set up a new English Native record for the
re-
So ended one of the greatest fortnights in athletic history In that period, Pirie broke the world's 6,000 Metres record at Bergen, equalled the world's 3,000 Metres time at Trond- heim und sat up a new personal best for the 1,500 Metres Amsterdam. Gordon, you know,
Kurt Nielsen
5 miles, This in a rain-swept Beats Fraser in
10 mile-an-hour wind!
Every-
SCULLS CHAMPION
Poland's T. Kögerka 1955 Diamond Sculls Champlon with his traine
Kobylinekt at Henley Royal Regatta, Express Photo,
Spaniard Wins French Open Golf Championship
Deauville, France, July 11. Angel Miguel, of Spuẩn, brat a fleld of 49 to win the Fren
Open Golf Championship and
Quarter-Finals first prize of £350 sterling with
There's Always A Crisis In The British Cinema
Says DILYS POWELL
In the South Coast town where I was brought up it was a family beano for us to go to the cinema. Only on special occasions, only for some special film would the expedition be planned; to see the new Charlie Chaplin, perhaps or the new “Last. Days of Pompeil"; for in the teens and twenties of the century the cinema already intimate with the ancient world, and as a household we spoke respectfully of Bulwer Lytton.
Was
There were no Odeons where we lived. Off we trooped, my father, my mother, and the four younger members of the family, to some small, hot, elongated cinema called, probably, the Electric Theatre.
There, with the senso of a port his Gims, must stili. be thing beyond the reach of the great festival, we experienced helped; with quotas, with loans domestic screen: a new techni- the extremnes of comedy and from the Government through que, a gimmick. After 3-D came tragedy. Harold Lloyd reduced the National Film Finance the large screen, Cinerama, us to a laughter almost painful; | Corporation, with the levy we gasped for breath as it we coxhibitors' receipta known as had been punched in the solar the Eady Pian. plexus.
on
Todd-AO, Vista Vision, Cinema... Scope: especially CinemaScope. New sound systems were in- troduced; the proportions 01 tha At the sune time, the in-screen, which for sixty the dustry contributes handsomely, had remained constant, audden The serious drama, L other band, embarrassed un п one might almost Jay extra-ly changed. The exhibitor had littic, and after "Way Down vagantly, to the Exchequer; to re-equip his theatre, buy new Bust" my brother, who was of about one-third of the money screens, new projecting ap- en oge for personal experiment, taken at the box office goes in paralus, If he refrained he was
barred from showing many remarked ironically that it was Entertainments Tax.
the current flims, and at a time an object-lesson for men. Once, misled by an advertisement, we
being went to see a film called
"He Who Gets Slapped"; but it was not the riot we had been led to expect, and my father, I recall, thought very Andreley's work.
poorly
BIG BUSINESS
I will not recount the
which British through
have passed
since the
crises when the number
Almsduced was falling. Firet
of
pro-
World War; to do that would My acquaintance has bought be tedious to those in the know his CinemaScope screen; it cost He will buy the and more lodious still to those him £1300.
projection equipment There always is
in time, but it will cost him between British cinesia. £500 and £600, and that is a lot of money for a little theatre hos ப் whose highest price is 25, 7d.
3
of
in
out of it crisia
the
But loduy the crisis
It is not
many
A contain
in cinemas cannot
The im has grown out of its different character. age of provincialism and family only the film-maker who is in Again,
the exhibitor to fun. Even at that time, I sup-danger;
particular the small exhibitor, ChemaScope. pose, it was already big business: American big business. Looking and with him the whole indua-re back, one can see the offspring try, tears for the future,
The
of the marriage between selence situation has been changed by some film whose composition,
and
the
of a
that
have
The new screens squeezed Into unsuitablo premises; and
correspondents write to me to complain but first colour fairground moving a number of factors,
and clarity steadily. decade after decade, by the appearance
new praised, looked when they saw into the world in which enter- competitor. I mean, of course, fit like a tape-measure. The new tainment turns from a job into television. un industry and money is called finance. And one can see the cinema becoming national problem,
techniques blessing.
talking
The other day I wa: the owner of an independent cinema in a little town in the Home Countles, His business la he knows a personal concern;
Con
be a doubtful
FRESH TROUBLE
Aid
now there is fresh **trouble. Within the last few W menths several major produc- of the twenties that defensive his puble and can enjole theming companies in America have
The ordinary
member
that a fixed proportion of the pendent Television; some day arly significant
exhibited on British screens against colour television. Still To the cinema exhibitor
films distributed in Britain and be added, he would be
he is far from despondent.
must be British-mode.
the
the
It was during the second half
political action was first taken. | But
But, he said, no sooner had he In 1927 the carliest of the made up the ground lost to the cen selling their old Blms. To to help BC television than he had public it may not seem particu- quota regulations care
of the the native producer by insisting meet the competiiton of Inde-tar?
thal Warner Brothers, say, strould part with up the Alms they made up to 1948. news is alarming. It means that perhaps 800 Aims may be made And he is lucky; tipcrestling available to television; in fact,
a thinly populated country the spectator.
instead of going districl. he is exempl from to the cinema, may be able to Entertainments Tox. Cincino-sit at home and see the pleca Gwners with tax to pay are lesson his domestic screen. fortunale. With costy increasing
Rotes going and customers decreasing.
`and up
alten- In every ten cinemas, it is sakt, dance going down, new expenses,
new competition-all this is running at a loss. Every week
and small houses are closing down. | Entertainments Tax too; no And in their anxfely many In wander the exhibitor, and es- to stop their pay- hibiter, feels hardly used. Per-
In
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Nearly thirty years later British producer, struggling, in an expensive medium, with smal home market and the reluctance of America to im-
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dependent exhibitors have been threatening
ments to the Eady Fund.
FRESH DIFFICULTIES
pecinily
I not
the independent ex-
hops Entertainments Tax beginning to defeat itself. 1 am
13
is
among those who think that the small screen of television con destroy the cinema with its hase
large screen and its sense of mensjon, But I begin to won
the small,
local.
if I say that televisim of St
brought a new crists 1 must not be taken to mean that this is der whether the result entirely of direct family cinema which for many competition. In fact, the films, of us has attch fond memories is
their place. not doomed to extinction.
Diy
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Waterloo Nig. Div. Western Dist. here today. Baastad, Sweden, July 11.
HEYMOA N«g, Div. Bongkok"KIWA He had rounds of 71, 98 68
Asen Citate Denmark's Kurt Nielsen today
four stroltes Bulles-July 1956: Shamatulpo Nsg. defeated Neale Fraser of Aus- and 72 to finish
of his nearest rivals. MR, Bociety for the Protection of tralia 4-6, 6-0, 6-1, 6-3 in one ahead
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holes
of the Men's Singles quarter-Second place was shared joint- Anats here in the internationally by Flory Van Donck, Belgian tennis tournament.
runner-up in the recent British Nielsen became the favourite Open, Antonio Cerda (Argen- of the onlookers, showing territina) and Trevor Wilkes (South tle play; his serves were like Africa), at the 201
Van Donck bullets and his volley play best
had Young
'of 00, Gut Wilkes 72, 71, 08, 70.
72; Cerda 08, 72, 75, 08, John Jacobs (Britain) with rounds of 68, 70, 73, 70 and Carlo Celles (Spain), were next with 202.
| of all.
Herb Flam, of the US beat UM Schmidt of Sweden 0-3, 6-4, 6-4 United Press,
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Heart De Lamoze, seveh
Gibson Girl Gets times winner of the French
Civic Welcome
In New York
4
New York, July, 11.
Althea Gibson, coloured tennis
ACC
Amateur Championship, took seventh place with 283, Ho was the only amateur. omang the 37 qualifiers for the final 30
hotos-Reuter,
England Wins who partnered Britain's
Angela Buxton to win
the.
Women's Doubles at Wimbledon, Was given a civic welcome by New York today after her re
from 16 world turn
homo
Speedway Match
- Bradford, England, July 11,
England beat Australzela by 65 points to B3 in an Incriu Lourinmonte,
tional
any Speedway match here to-,{ Milne – Gibson. told Mayor night Crutcher was top scorer Robert Wagner that she hoped Brian to make good her defect in the for England with 18 points and Wimbledon Women's Singles New Zealander Barry Briggs ltd by taking the American Bingles the Australasian scores with next month-Router, jär
17.Heuter.
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Deputy Commentatorer,
fighting
to hold have created fresh difficulties for themselves.
Next article: Miss Powell will The cinema's first reaction to discuss the problems of the television was to offer some-makers of British films.
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