J. L. MANNING'S SPORTS VIARY
THE CHÍNA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1956.
I TALK TO THE RUSSIAN WHO HAS A TENNIS ARMY OF 39.000 PLAYERS
Just what the Russians are doing at Wimbledas, and what they are after, have been the most interesting questions, And I can answer them. For I have met Eugene Korbut of Moscow who, when he is not building sports stadiums, finds time to act as Vice-resident of the All- Union Lawn Tennis section.
He arrived in London recently as a tourist. gld, before returning home, he will have affiliated Russia's 30,000 players with the International Federation. They can then play in tournaments ali over the work, and enter for the Davis Cup.
So Thought that you would like to know what Eugene und
I had to uy 1 each other..... chaffing away with the help of
Russian
whose violinust English had
the cultured cadences of Roelen.
LESSONS FIRST
атыра
So here we go-conversation
The plece with
whoo diplomacy will present to the world before many years the terrifying impact of lawn tennis wrought by the techniques of mutas sport.
Roing to Wimbledon
also
vb erved that his busines; wak nt in thợp which had painted on the window the words:
FRED PERRY
"He's coming to tench you tennis?" I asked
"I have read it in the ENG newspapers, he replied. lish
Pishaps next year it will be
+2 We shall sec. possible.
I liked this tall Russian ex
And I told him I champion. had seen some fine erage players in Kiev last year. But Me: A little bird tells me four parting words
not that at Copenhagen on July 11 about tennis. Kusin will Jin retedd it member
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who Das Pradilly Cireus, Oxford Mireet nal Solo (in that order) asked
of th International Eugene Federalen. itle! VOL will be giva enough vote, to satisfy Your national consetomatiesK"
Korbut: Your little bird as pery kinak
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Do усл wenna foreign players. e play in Russla
want Or Russian players to play all over i he world like our footballers. and to have closer contacts
Will Russian men and women) nter for Wimbledon next year? We are not sure. Wimbledon the high school of lawn mist Je curls. We Craons in the primary schools rst
The Davis Cup"
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nick
the two This so far this 36 catches have been beks, and 34 of then! WITC stle
Bauen nee to blan They won us their feet to hit the
They
trom all suffer
that is, new Pall neuroskill, exce Ritchie Benaud. Rrt Burs never cried match in his life, but he hade right words to describe our inorous mockin talsmen: Doch! I backward cast
3 e'e
7h prospects drear.
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Iss un' fear!
Hy was talking, by the way, Ligi mier
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Wni you invile foreign nyers to your National Chain- Jonships... you wouldn't inind. or inanec,
American or
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Our championships will bo
eld in Moscow in August. At we shall discurs Copenhagen
nations whether
other
hey would like to sind players.
would be warmly wel
They
bred.
wr huve
Have you
a Russian "Wim- edon" for thee champion- Lips?
There is only one Wimbledon, ut
new sports adium In Moscow where here are 30 hurd courts, and ecommedallen for 15,000 spec- But we have no grass tors
Experiments and re-
ወን going
but 1 hink it would take at least ten cars to reproduce kri 1ke 'imbledon's.
burts.
burch
ALING
Have you invited players to her tournaments in Russl07
Not directly. But
We
IRA TARANOVA-will shar ever be a Russian star at Wimbledou? She in tex years old and one of hua- dreds of youngsters now being coached by Mags- sport methods. J. L Manning took this photo- graph when he was study- ing lawn tennis in Russia
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INCHES
BETWEEN THEM
Mike Rawson (16) of Birchfield Harriors just managed to get in front of Farrell (Smethwick Harriers) in the 1,000 Metres Invitation Race at the Alder.
shot Stadium, during the Army Athletic Championships,
CHAMPIONSHIP IS STILL
ANYBODY'S CHOICE-
I STILL FANCY SURREY
Says BRUCE DOOLAND
The
This is the most open Championship year I can remember, other week-end only 36 points-three wins-separated 14 of the Counties. And that with nearly half the season gone. If anybody can forecast the winner of the contest this summer he is a better man than I.
I still feel the all-round power and reserve strength of Surrey will pull them through-especially their all-wicket-type attack-but I wouldn't like to wager much money on that feeling. Far too many surprise results are cropping up.
Talking with Solbe sil The hike-provided they do not In Atwste players recently a was terlere with batsman's stroke of nteresting to note that the ld
who had ixen a Brit.
noticed
UP- TRI
scotch that short pop shot fil . Oported
But i doubt whether the move ill work agar. I am quite sure that the tower-Beanies Cowdrey
Li
on production, Y the holder
a day's
sight of the ball, NM Pub
BLITY CATE Monday to Friday).
In any case it is not a quCH- No of the many thousands d
tion for the bowler or captain strong pretty whad claimed their round levelling
levelling
to decide whether this sort f
will not have any inhibitis DOWN-umoE the Counties,
thing
is fair or unfair. The ad- Peter Burge appears again unave fot Kalf, so l'an fold. But what Even in the four years I have
Judicators of fair 01 utatr Din 1990, I reckon he will move ritient nation we aref
In the County game I've cricket are the umpires. The him, fast; and if Petvr takes a April the courts found noticed the same thing.
Laws Jay it down perfectly sty cruck in the pavcess, woli, park where a motor- The smaller countles, as they clearly-Law 46 it is that the that will be just too bad. I know scramble was held on
are sometimes called, are not Umpires are the sole judges of a hut i do when anybody tries to Wis disorderly small in their punch as they any situation like that.
crowd me when I'm biting i how says you can pay to tie to be better an tions to Umpics make
used
The sides in What more, the instruc-shift him just as soon as i can i per- by cracking thro ball is hard us MELSCUM, cinema, awful hiding these days from Joctly clear that
their can in his direction zuo or botanical garden teams like Sussex, Essex. Hemp duty to interfere, WITHOUT Punday, Lut you're
ashire, Glamorgan and dear old ANY APPEAL FROM THE fertimpal if it's sports.
Somerset who used to be con-PLAYERS, wherever they think sidered easy meat for big shots there is unfair play. ilke Yorkshire, Lancashire and There has been a great deal of I find that the players talk suggesting that Peter May protested to Ian Johnson about the job more seriously, they Burge's position,
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on
Leaplein, is so near to winning Huck's award that I gladly
to
It is
BATSMEN IN FORM Still, it is all very well for we amateur selectors 10 suggest that, so-and-so will have to be
aruppen and that so-and-so won't do. The question is who should
picked to strengthen the
I Johnson, Australia's TestSurrey are getting down [stretch a point in his favour, are fighting harder, and there is think that was so. If any pro- England betting? When the field
must
more team spirit right through, (dest had been
but I don't
made all
Like
11 reason being that, after
1 belleve opea
the men in the15 BO two Ponths, he has compelled It could be that more players | Australian captain would have carm are the men to pick and its secept his sensible pro- are realising that Ørst
done would be to refer the that means that batsmen clus cricket these days can provide matter directly to the umpires Insule of Essex all stand a jolly pelj that Australia's dim la
Alan Oakman of Sussex, Doug to n the Ashes from 1 attractive living and that Was the posting of player
made I not the County Cham-more effort is being
10 so near ETHICALLY the right good chance of selection. from Surrey.
reach the top. Whatever
the
thing the
What we must all wait to dis- then? According to a great Ardingly. It
reason it is producing better, If many people be
was not. They cover is which of them will bra pcht for him to reflect that not always more exciting, county argue
that
Cowdrey was
so able to make the jump, in class water his players do
and temperament, scared of inflicting bodily harm
which is 20 boericket.
SILLY twee Dests, nine of them were
to Burge that he was restricted important to tum a good county Sull rocketing round the in his play. That cou
could be so. player into a good Test Match me if I would take him and his hough to draw the first
pavillons is the problem of the But, in my view, there was player. I can assure you it isn't comrades tu
fairness or unfairness of Ian nothing ethically or technically half as easy as many people Johnson's decision to post Peter wrong in the Australian tactles, think. Burge right under Colin Cow- Both Johnson and Burge appre drey's nose during the Lord's clated and accepted the risk two or three yards from Test. He was positioned only every close-to-the-wicket felds-
the man accepts, at silly mid-on. At first he
orking 011 dates. Perhaps he added. same would like to play in the
Inat satumi,
hat could win the second FI cricke
It has told Miller and Co. match and greyhound racing. to be a good time before the
We have neither in Rusia."
| third] Test it is only because be kws he can get a lot of outh of Russia where in Sep-know how lucky he was. Any And this gentle philosophy
he didn't
para "Work from them at Leeds, mber and October the eather is warm.
way, if we can trænge it, took out Lord's and Wembley. We'll Be a sound judgment,
bal him tzt
The rame little bird tells me be on our way,
at Lew Hoad and his wife
hd Don Candy of Australia
I cannot confirm that
e
Esia this year?
con idering playing
e making plans especially for xt year.
We
Kame
GLOBE-TROTTERS?
He now puts hanself on to baw infrequently and go
(MID-ON) TALK
JUSTIFIED?
an over or
Of so he was moved would suggest that
COACHING HINT
To most batsmen the late cut 15 one of the most attractive awokes in cricket. And most of us like to try our hands at it from time to time. I am all for
But pleasu
remember the essential feature of the stroke.
cross and into position with
down
шуть оть nly your feet and pity
the ball. Don't shuffle ocross.
.it was
play
was nearly on the wicket. After Taking the matter further slightly more square but kept Colin's peculiar style of After ull. nothing is eastern to Pat so unobtrusively that just as near. And there seems which prompted the move. Colin in than explaining cricket to you Ay think he wants
very
little doubl that this always plays his shots, mainly Russian iwn tennis
players
to Plum Warner's 1011-12 strategy disturbed Cowdrey and forward, with pad and but But how do I get round this record as non-playing captain, helped to got his wicket. Australian business In Thad
l's Johnson's one shining
The point is--was it
his dead-bat technique, in well? He'll think guy which I admire he is
thing to do? Frankly, I think ty play, pops the ball
up that England is
100 T mere satellie.
proof ngainst it was
A perfectly fair. a couple of yards in front of the am wondering, however, if shock
bowler who depends 3 great wicket or just on the leg side deal on the catches taken off As Colin was clearly intent on my bowling I consider that 1. steying put rather than scoring
I
cent
So conversation went on. ought to explain 10 ine Hing hastily forecast that the back of my mind was Russians that cricket is now he w win the Ashes, I wish
exist nee of an embarnicket,
sing situation.
All we see in Test
Globe-trot-natches these days is eight men
players might be unxlous
out the discretion od the stans when it came to ex- mas. Would they have the
now-how" and the sophisti- itida not to "put their foot
Guardedly I said to Mr Kor- "You appreciate there is Breat
at:
difference between amateurs
estern lawn tennis
d those of Risala?"
He smiled...and
smiled...
ad smiled. "We wish these sits to be upon a reciprocal sis," he replied. It was an swer worthy of Kruschev, if doesn't mind me saying so. Yet the Russians will be
dek to leam, Maybe they e learning right now.
But
na careful to observe protocol, And when I drove Mr Kor- at to keep an important ap- otalment da Golden Square, ondon, the other day before
What A Shower! Four youngsters of Worcester wing Club were dubbed "The hower" by their seniors when ay formed thereclven into a ow and started with a "ersh
two. But The Shower?
ve had the lost lau
at laugh. They
achod, the final in their first ur „malden” races, and than
their next "at
Biralford
rgalta. Promoted to "Juniory""" kog, ngmin: wow their fratiraco Stourport and have also had Locomo ab Worcester, Evesham id! BhrewsbXY,
THE
WEEK-END
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weet too!
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GAMBOLS
AND THEN SHE HAD THE AND CHEEK TO TELL ME THAT I WASN HAD COPIED HER DRESS,
DON'T BE SILLY, DEAR, OF COURSE YOU MUS”) [COME INTO THE SHOR
WITH ME
On
a fair bias twins. And very often most occasions one easy move-
safe
and my captala, have the right runs Ian Johnson's idea was to to place my félders whore I move a man in close and try to
by Barry Appleby
MRG LEAF SAID IT : AS IF IT WAS NEW.....
IWIN
GEORGE! THAT'S CHEATING | YOU DELIBERATELY
IT WON'T TAKE MORE
'GOING TO BUY PANTIES AND A BRA | THAN A FEW MINUTES,
DISTRACTED MY ATTENTION: BY LETTING ME GO ON CHATTERING
the right foot towards ment of the off stump and carry
the body across to perfect position. Then avoid the slashing moverrunt and stroke down on the ball. the main thing into position.
But is-get across
So Tender
and Tasty
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