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Famous Sports Stars I Have Met
BILLY WALKER
By Archie Quick
THE CHINA · MAIŲ,
MY 25 YEARS IN RACING ... .... ....
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1957.
By THE SCOUT
I Make Ribot No. 1
:
No aspect of rucing has had
me more puzzled over the yearn
than the time factor.
automatie.
With
electrical With devices now installed at New- market, Redcar, Ascot, and Bir-
What a remarkable' combina-mingham, this is a subjeel which
than
THE FINEST · HORSE
I'VE EVER SEEN
··
he won the Middle Park Stakes on Pipe of Peace last year, And that is ono reason why 1 predict big future for Sir Gordon Richards's classic entrant in 1957.
E
Whether he will ever match
up to the style and class of a home such as Ribol remains to be seen. Ribot stands out for
should repay closer study In
It was a moonlight night, and call "a class horse") is one abic tion of kotball brains Notts | 1957, even if experience prompis
the traner nad the horses out-o run a quarter-mile in 22 Forest le lortunate enough to
me not to accept the results 100
of the youngster and two old 'une--conds lat, at some period Billy
ilterally. In manager possens! Walker they have the longest-
In theory, there should be not four o'clock in the morning, the race not necessarily at me, as the superlative racehorse the finish. Tals undoubtedly to run in Europe over the past. serving offelat in the sume post better gulde
to winner-finding! "I don't want anyone else to scolds tue of raciner in Ho becamo the League,
Bald he.
have 1030, Eighteen
country, but mannger
tuong-by-furlong Uming ycurs, the jungle that is pro-
41.9 they havo fessional football, is a long time.
England, "H.W." became senior
America. manager through the recent re- trement of Jimmy Seed, of Charlton Athlete.
club
Then there is Forest Secret-
a. ary Noel Watson, He took cretary in over as honorary 1931 and was
appointed paid secretary In 1944--0 ho has had a quarter of the century with the club (forty-three years experience with uile between the two of them,},
The
two
adininistrative chairs, however, are not the be-all und end-all of their Soccer clainis. Mr Noel Watson gained the re- feree's greate prize by con- trolling the 1925 Wembley Cup Final betwetu Sheffield United
and Cardin Cily, after a dis- Lärver with the thgulsdei
considerable work Whistle and fer Nottingham County foot- boll.
DISAPPOINTMENT
Twelve months before Mr Watson stepped on to Wembley's unrivalled
Billy Keensward,
Time this," Bald stop-watch, the gures for English; racing. how- ever, are not easy to interpret or sometimes to understand.
we
вду no
in
25 years..
Finn Ho had "everything.
mud, left-handed or Inground
right-handed tracks he took all without concern. And he could travel hundreds of miles to race without it making a whit of difference.
In this respect,
WOS
superior to Tantleme, Ime record
IT'S 80 STRANGE Why is it, for instance, that an 11-year-old selling-plater called Beludorius should have euptured
the seven-furlung for Brighton? The Lingleid Ilve-furlong recurd was held too, for many years by an even more moderale selling-plater.
work Timing
appears differently and more exactly
with recull Amerten sa Jefaction a secret trial at which I assisted out there, five The object o six years ago, of this trial was to determine
und
lo
lwo-
The intrit of on ungaced your-uld entered for an engage- . ment three days later.
line
He expected to get some line the on his Juvenile through work-horses, and he solved the problem of timing by using two stop-watches, He started, both,
WATCH THESE TIMES checking that they were exactly
That is why the record of synchronised, hundert one to me
mutored over to the finish-race-figures can prove deceptive, ¡except perhupe will two-year- A awo-year-old race over I stopped my watch as the olds. Пус horses went pust the six-furlonglickety-split" all the way, and
six furlongs is or
run marker, and my friend preased blu stop-mechanlam at
there is every reason to pay the
close
the attention to We subtracted my time
timea recorded. no his,
at the and arrived
The should be a comparatively igure of Imin. 11 2-6secs.
"That's OK," said the train-casy matter for the stay-at-home er. "He ought to win all right." backer, whose major difficulty And he certainly did-ot 14-1, will lle in determining the style in which these races have been
The Americans have a theory What a great horse (what wo
Our Own Soccer Lads
Are World's Best
Says BILLY WRIGHT
Captain of England and Wolves
won.
he
whose true brillianco was reserved for racing in his homeland
But i would have no hesito- tion in placing Tantieme num- in front of Windsor ber two, Lad (3), among the best I have seen
In general, I do not agree with the high rating given to Bahram the last triple-crown winner (1935). When Bobsleigh went lame Bahram was left the Derby, and I recollect the without any top-class opponent incully he experiened later in beating a bad horse called Port- follo at Ascot.
in
BENSATIONAL
And style counts for so much. Watch those Australien jockeys (particularly Scoble Biensley, Rae Johnstone, and Edgar Brik) win sometimes by a neck or head-und even the expert spectator
how cannot gauge much they have in reserve.
Windsor Lad had the heart of Our English jockeys are often n lion, the speed to win over superior to use "Aussies" in a the Hunt Cup course at Ascot
finish. tough, all-out
but the (giving lumps of weight away) Arth boys from the
and stomina for the Doncaster contineit finesso, Walker was there Bghting for
have a genius loc
St. LegeT. ABON
Villa against Newcastle
Charlie Smirke's mount won, heritage from the days Unite!. Ho was doomed to
Frank Bullock, Wully Sibbritt, too, that sensational 1934 Derby
Carsloke and for Harris and dbappointment
from Easton and Colombo and "How much did you have in the following year, on only Seymour goals gave Newcastle
British clubs are chasing the Hungarian soccer a 2-0 victory.
Brownie?" I naked three sound legs and after an Billy, however,
er's gold exiles. In many cases the famous internationals would hund,
Carslako one. had a winter's
beat day after seeing interrupted preparation, already
be tremendous assets to any Football League club. But him win by
a head on the Theft and medal on his watch chain, for
Fair Trial for the lesser-
Stakes brillant black sprinter Rose Eclipse
1 Sandown let's get this into proper perspective.....many he had been in the successful Villa side in 1820 when
Huducts.
known Hungarians have been tried out by League clubs mary's Pet, owned by the late Park
J. B. Joel.
The time record
for the field were defeated 1-0.
is still held by Mahmoud Derby Mr Walker also look Sheffield and they were just not good enough,
thisnty, Clive," he answered, arrives in Wednesday
the fractional flicker of an-2min. 33 4-5sec. In 1930, The Cup Final Every Hungarian footballer who triumph as
as manager in 1935 prior country is not a Puskas or a Koseis. And I'll agree that eyelid. "But I've hod a row spindly little grey colt had the "light, daisy-cutting action which to joining
Pares a sinler all the British players who settle abroad are not in the with Joel," he explained.
bet heavily On enabled him to skim cupaelly Under his guidance
class of a Shackleton or a Stan Matthews, Wednesday also had the unusual
the horse, and I decided to let brick-hard going that day.
there on the And yet it could not fairly experience of frushing third in
Yet we should not overlook When I saw that Johnny ask-him suffer up
be claimed for Mahmoud that stands for a while, until I won the First Division during fotur
that the young footballers of ed to play in the Spurs' resorveg
he was, the best. Derby CASUS •
winner Prior
money for him." to that
Country have, these past to regain his touch 1 felt proud
Rosemary's Pel could have over the past 20-odd years. Walker also won Championship montis, proved themselves to know him and had great res-
taken that race by two or three Which brings us back to the medals with Wednesday in the
among the world's greatest. All pect for his action. Second Division in the 1925-20
Lut the impression meny difficulties entalled in the praise we lavish on the most players shared my feelings, lengths,
time-figures for season and in the First Division
players other countries should
It is one
of the tragedies of prevalent of the time was that evaluating
the owed lite victory solety to racehorses, In the MICCessive seasons
not be allowed to obscure that modern Soccer that too few 1928-29 and 1929-30.
the riding genius of Carslake. Tavt.
people realise that the pro-
THAT ACCELERATION Iessional footballer, although he enough to say
plays for his living, loves the That burse had "class" he game and his club.
ability to turn
that 10 time seconds-u-furlong type of ac- Brooks, at a Johnny
celeration. A matter of which when the good viul> man
the elegant, Imperturbable sin crves boost, has done a
was fully aware, "Brownie" mendcus job for Soccer
Breasley rode the same sort -(London Express Service).
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of seemingly checky finish when
Mr
The tall fur-headed Billy, still youthful physically and facially, played Jor Englan 1
kow
I'll be bold that cur Inds in and around aga Young Englund clusa are the Irelandi on live occasions, best in the world. Let's have four times
Wales
modesty. Let's well no fake and Scotland, as well as getting
eye all about them.
each against
four "caps" against Continental sides. His total bag of medals, therefore, was 17. one Cup Final, one Cup
DRC
Interna666/33*
Twice
Youth Hungurtans. Second Division allowances
TWO Fest Division Championships—not at all a bact
record For man whose play, the crities said, did not fit in with the others. remember thrm once saying that about Stanley Matthews, toot
Answers To Sports Quiz
Were
1. Boxing. The rules
drawn up by John Drough-
ton.
size,
2. There IN no lixed
Rules state the ring should
be twenty feet long or as
near as is practicable.
3, 1950.
4. Preston.
Lord's. Oval, Trent Bridge, Headingley,
Old Trafford
and Edgbaston.
5. Scorer, boundary, skating,
7. Juan Fangio,
H. tul athletles-sprint races
(b) speedway.
1. Show Jumping, boxing, and
golf.
10. Squash, Hashim Khan beat
his cousin Roshan Khan,
THE
WEEK-END
recently the England lean hus defeated the While making full for the worry the Inds from Hungary must have in their hearts, we must not forget to praise our own young inen
1 ul
On the subject of praise, ict me add that siney being beaten (-3 by The Hungarians Wembley que a number people have hit hard at the efforts of the full Bugland *.42....any excuse will do.
Now I think the time has arrived To give our youngsters credit for the way they have trained and worked to
put England back on the Soccer map. Credit that goes to youth inter- nationala such as Johnny Haynes and Duncan Edwards, who have now established themselves the full Englani team.
A PLEASURE
think
knew he had
his
on
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