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KCC "White"; CCC "Qok!" "Green"
Vecc
Friendly Game: Talkoo v NKPBA,
Boccer
Belibition Boccer Chinese Asian Cup XI v UK Clýnesa Footballers Fraternity "A" at Caroline Hill, 8.30 p.m.
Golf
Ladies Knock-out Foursome semi-
· Rhals (RHKGC),
Open
TOMORROW
Dowie
Triples quarter finale Mathees at KCC, KBGC.
Shooting
Shooling Teany Test for Olympies
at K Gun Club.
Golf
Mixed Foursome 4321 round
Shek.O.
Deep Water Bau
Bemi-finale;
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IN GLOVE
over
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1956.
THE SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR
The Selectors Have Again Done A Good Job Without Fear Or
Says BRUCE
Favour
DOOLAND
It means a tremendous
Let's have no illusions about this tour business. amount to any first-class cricketer. It is an experience which puts him in the hall of fame for ever. If he has a bit of luck on tour he can become an established Test
Look how Colin Cowdrey took his great chance in Australia. player for years. bailed superbly out there and hasn't looked back since.
Не
the
The people who realise all this more than anybody cise, of course, are players. Not only is it a case of opportunity knocking-this touring business is opportunity wrapped in the glamour of tropical sunlight and story book places like Newlands of Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, East London, Kimberley, Salisbury,
Bulawayo and the romantic Victoria Falls,
d
mem bowler-one
IL is the opportunky and ↑ For instancy, I think a wristy ; It
to wouldn't surprise me *ptriner "Stumped" or "caught" Payne, thrill of a Bfetime.
must be included in hear that Denis win go as the "bowied" Gupte is a constant For the millice of amateur the party. By a wristy spinner | 17th player of a party originally entry in the Rishton CC score-selectors all over the country it 1
leg-break | Intended to be 18. I know South goud board. In three
Even is by a mest important line. Lancashire
who really spins | Africa want to see him. Central League
the Seasona
Averages are out, local fervour the ball hard with the flick of on one log he will still be one 'kerpor plus this remarkable leg
Juyaltics are ut
མ་་ their has wrist helping the strength of of the main crowd pullers of the break bowler
accounted sharpest, and the most odd com-
Yet there Is his Angers, have
no party. And he is stil capable for
100 victims. In talks of players come out of candidate anywhere near the tep of a packet of runs. League matches they have com- the fire and fury of argument. brucket of the current averages.
The
One thing I know-these Eng- bined to have 69 stumped
most hely last for this Job seem to be the relatively land Selectors have pleked with- inexperienced Tum Greenhoughout fear or favour. You've only to lock over their fearless of Lancashire. He is showing got excellent promise
much selections of the summer to sum
It the the that. neglected
critics pan them Their game.
they couldn't care less. been selected.
policy is to do what they think right-and Ju Jeck with
21 caught. The others have been in Cup games. Payne set up a League
with 53 victims last season, and Guple helped him on 40 occasions.
Right
any
1 would hate to disturb and
of these theories but I do think Important Or even pinateur electris to remember the task this South African party has to The games they have to Tage. win will be on hard, frit, batting wickets- fer removed from the NOTĮLIOTICS of wet, soft squareS for 10 much of we have had
Jus £).
Club For Recruits
!
By Then I moan it is by no means certains that the boys who
the it
che-
the care coping the a rewarek
wet will necessarily vamating in the hard her of
of the Sume Juliannesburg. sul, it course, because they are class players able to adjust their kinds of virgin- skill to all McNau
But nu all. Ostanets,
Small wonzer that Sunderland Are Interested in Pollok FC in- side left Jack Metingan, When the Roker Park club won
the FA Cup 1937 their two wing halves. Thomson und were both from Pollok.
Grey Satin May Soon
Be At
The Top Of Her Class
Says RICHARD BAERLEIN
London.
So far this season the two-year-old colts appear weit ahead of the lilies. This is a healthy sign, for if there are too many Allies near the top of the Free Handicap it generally means a poor collection all round.
The two best colts to date are undoubtedly Military Law and Red God, while the two best fillies are Major Holliday's Pharsalin and Lord Derby's Wake Up!
department of but be has net
is
It isn't just fogy that makes | everybody. a teg-piniver necessary. Ex- perience is the teacher in these
As for me, I admire them, things. Roly Jenkitas teok most And i wouldn't have their job wie
Unk the MCC toured South Africa anki LA Wilkinson hud met The tour
wickets
kasvi
for all the tea in Chino,
I think it was a
grand idea on the part of whoever thought before thust. For the up-country of a speelul collection for Jim matches especially a "legger" is Laker at the Oval Test. And I Essential
off. hope it tony
Backstage Jun
pinching 1 Laker--stil
there is know
tremendous himself occasionally to see
if he
sympathy with the iden. Every and that the body really is awake
wants to recognise the trally did tuke 19 wickets hat Manchester Test-Will look realest bowling performance of after this with Tony Lock. Jimal time. proved his ability to adjust him- seit
10 trial pitches
Lords of Control are constant Intes end
has actually ly under a burtage of requests useful experience on each for collections at Best matches.
Unic41 ing trips to the
worthy ones like those for the As for Lock he deliberately Cancer Fund and other fine riskel his repulation In Pakistan | cau
causes but they have resolutely last winter le prove that he tou said "No" to all.
Maybe Jim's (could make the necessary tran-
good cause will fall by the 3181044
aid spin and same wayside. I hope not. of puce fight to beat top class players in these conditions.
W,
:
1002.
Just the same I agree York- shire's Johnny Wardle should go too. His slower flighty stuff will be invaluable especially if he is persunded to concentrate on
The trouble 1- that the two
COACHING HINT:
One gentleman writes lo sny that he has dropped six catches easy ones in a row-why? would like to tet all I've set hy has been taking his eye off the
his wristysun Chinaman. Heball. la catching you must follow bowls it very well indeed and the ball right into your hands. should be chvuraged to expuolt Concentrate on the loca,
it very much more.
Tha fact that I have conecti- trated on spin up to the moment should not be taken to indicate that I think that the spinners will be The top cards of this At Goodwood, Grey Salin tan | trip. { think Whertas pinions differ con-
they will Red in whelizer
very much siderably s
race and, after | be another se
pro- than God
many Imagine, the early duetive Military being mukpaced Them Litter Law, it i generally conceded stages, she was making good but the real danger inan will be
heatwav
the block-busters led by Brian The 1st furloug In that armati is the best ally
she certainly Gity Al Gooownod
Safir
be Stathain will never
and Frank Tyson. put up her best performance to more than a sprinter, but she used sparingly as they were in supported by date and physically she is im- will not have to improve very Australia and
much on her present form to be Peter Loader. proving the time.
in the top class,
13
A
She Is bred on the best sprint yes, by Panortuna from mare by Court Martial, and remains unbeaten.
her
STAMINA
In the batting department I think the think
firyt four places dropped mio line automatically Incidentally, do not be con-Peter May. Colin Cowdrey, Richardson and Alan However, the record of Wake fused by the name of Red God's Putor
dam-Spring Run,
Ookman. The next two depend- Upt is almost as good.
His AT HIS BEST
dans is not the British ed on availability. I understand
both Doug
Insole and Wake Up! has won four ruces mare, daughter of Winterhalter, that
un American mare by David Sheppard were asked if and
only defeat was at but
Menow. Д Ascot, where she ran against
top-cinss sprinter, they would be free. the colts on fairly soft going,
Menow, however, produced off-
And what of Dennis Campion? The cells who nished spring who could get a mile and front
I know that Denis is not as fast of her
more Fuller, were
be in the Crepello Lod Military Law,
Moreover, Spring Run's breedte he would like to There is no doubt that Fulfer was at his very best that day. while Crepello and Law wire both
In
Military
having
their
COMPTON TO GO?
consideration
ing on the dam side is strong, field yet and, strictly speaking. I as regards stamina, going back suppose he shouldn't really come to the famous
Plucky mere, Llige, who has been responsible
in Europe.
first outings. Military Law, .n for many of the Volterra hories
particuler, has made enormous headway
then since At the same me, Wake Up!, who had to race on the for side of the course, was beaten only i
a length by Military Law and the fist three were rucing to- geher on the stand side.
BRED TO STAY
Wake Up! is a daughter of Persian Gulf from a mare by Faltway and is therefore brod lo stay and to train en.
lightly.
She Is only
furnished fly but can ceriainly. goljop I doubt if there is a great deal between her and Pharsalin
Judging by the way Pharsalia rant on at Goodwood, she will gett six furlongs this season in the best company.
But I do not think it would be any good thing for her 10 brat Wake Up! at this distance, insppite of the fact that some unofficial handicappers have placed Pharsala woll nbove Wake Up!
EXCEPTIONAL Apart from these two filles, the best so für seen out” are probably: Riff - and “Grey: Salin. #Rida is exceptionally smart over flyb furlongs and has Won her Ipat three-races.
drey Satin won first time out, way then beston by
Ascot and
Ascot,
fhewy, going and zwei
Tthe lead only, clões höme,
-London Express Service).
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THE
WEEK-END
so sure.
Into
But I'm not
graces of this game of cricket, even up at the top level, la the fact that sentimentality has not completely disappeared.
One of the saving
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Famous Soccer players at critical stages in their careers speak frankly on subject in a most human series of articles. Today ERNIE TAYLOR explains why he delayed re-signing for Blackpool. He says....
I FEAR SOCCER'S
SCRAP-HEAP
a
I have been criticised for refusing to re-sign for Blackpool. I have been told to remember that I am professional footballer, and to get on with the job I am paid to do.
My reply to that is-I'll be only too glad to get on with it. I did NOT want to leave Blackpool, and, as proof of that, I am training regularly at Bloomfield Road like any other member of the playing staff, and I will re-sign today.
I tud nel fallen out with the club over the ney they are I was not trying offering me. to get something out of them that I'm not supposed to have.
All I wanted was a promise of to enable scurity, something
to go on playing football happily, and to the best of my ability, until the time comes for
boots. me to hang up my
mo
ARMY CYCLING
are
I
the leaders with
in the The present lenders Inter-Unit Challenge Cup com- Army Cycling petition of the Union
1st Training Regt. Royal Signals, with 1010 points. 3rd Training Battalion, RAOC, 2nd are second with 1584, and Training Battalion, RASC, third with 1572, 4th and 9th Training Battalions, REME, can overhaul two events to come-Road Race Championship and Eastern Command 50 Miles Road Time Trial.
BURY'S NEW PLAN
ON
Most football teams 1:0 tour overseas after 4 scasun ends. Bury has thought up some- thing new. They have gone pre- of training acoson as a means and worming-up, and are play- ing
matches three
in West Germany.
some
assurance that wanted when I'm finished with the game I shan't be a candidato for the Soccer scrap-heap,
Other men can and security in a acody job, which lasta until they retire at 85 or so job that lasts a lifetime
Ea footballer can't do that: when his playing career ends he is in his 30's or 40's, a diMcult age for starting afresh.
NO COMPLAINTS
I've no complaints about that, IL
man comes to every
who makes football his living. But surely after yours of service, he should not be cast adrift jusb because the job he has chosen to do, and is best fitted to do, is not a job for life
Surely, too, ho will be a bel- ter footballer if he can get on future of his family is not being with his job knowing that the
ignored.
Now I had no doubt that the scrap-trap of Soccer is not what Blackpool have in mind for me, or for any of their players. have served two Football League
United clubs, Nowcastle
ond Blackpool, both known for the attention they pay to pinyers' welfare. The romarks that follow do not apply to them.
WRONG WAY
But during my professional footballing
have
career
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watched many players leave the game the wrong way-famous one day, nobodies the next.
treated
And I have known clubs who their players like so much merchandise, looking after them while they were bright and useful, throwing them out when they began to wear out or lost their value.
Don't think I regret becoming a footballer. It was my ambi- tion from the age of six. Most footballers will tell you the same thing: they're doing a job they love.