JOCKEY CLUB MUST TACKLE THIS PROBLEM
By RICHARD BAERLEIN
Plans for the future of racing are being jeopardised by various factions which desire the same end but are at a slanging present Indulging in what is little short of match.
One writer has reduced the Issue 10 д simple matter of bookmaker v. tout, and The goes on to prove to his own entire afaction that Tace- horse owners and racecoursC companies need no help and the bookmaker must bo supported.
It was this same writer who wanted to know why Sir Gordon Richards could Ivat produco winners us a trainer and then gave a list of uncomplimentary and fallacious reasons,
At that time Sir Gordon had turned out exactly 12 runners and I hope the writer will look up his arifele again, The book- makers have therefore a dubious ally heve
The survival of the SP book- maker may one day become a pressing question, but there are far more important things to Acttle before that, and for the time being we must accept the fact that the bookmaker is going to remain.
TOO EXPENSIVE
Racing Is Car 10 expensive for owners toxlay. J is far too pnsive for the paying public in relation to other forms of entertainment.
The catering axl amenities of our racecourses satisfy only the most blaged persons, and
companies course
beyond reason.
are
-2012
Laxed
These arc some of the problems which have to be solved and
there is no doubt
that the most important step to be taken to belp to solve these matters is some form of betting Jegislation.
In the meantime all parties can help to improve the position
ou our PURECOURSES,
SURVIVAL
Never mind about the people who quote that there are more horses running today than ever before and that the dividends of some of the racecourse com. The only thing the panies are directors of those companies are interested in.
trade slump and to survive the posible arrival of a Government whh is not particularly dis-
Ix
he
br
towards the sport,
o whole idea at the back of e-racing is to improve the d of the thoroughbred. If the prizes offered to English owners and breeders are such that the minute a horse or mare of Buy merit peara
It is immediately
to the Americans, there must be some. thing wrong somewhere.
Yet that is exactly the posi tion of the sport in recent years.
How is England to maintain her export trade in thorough- breds which, in spite of Board of Trade figures, amounts to considerable
sum
each year, Britain remains unless Great the thoroughbrąd stockyard of the world?
PROBLEMB
เ
Whatever sido one is on whatever
means are necessary | to improve matters, few people will deny that these problems require solving.
It is necessary, however, for in racing to aim at everyone the samo target in the first instance.
And that target is to raise all for the sport without money that inoney first going through Government honds.
The Jockey Club have a great responsibility hore and so for it does not appear that they have been able to make much progress.
(CO, ZRIGHT) --(London Express Service).
LAUNDRY BLUES
There havo been many extapes by football clubs why they could not fulfil a fixture, A new one has been made by Bearsden (Glasgow) FC. Their laundry falled to arrive in time time for their match with Thornlle-
bank, and without shirts and jerseys they called the match off.
They were fined ono shilling and forfelled the points in the Scottish Amateur League. The whole idea of future 1 was the first time Thomlic- planning for racing is to enable bank had "won" a match this the sport to survive a possible leeuson!
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ON TO YOUR MARKS
Over a hundred young athletes —a record — wait on their marks as Geoff Dyson coaches them with the aid of a loud hailer at the opening of the Amateur Athletic Association's national course at Motspur Park, Surrey, on January 2. The course, for youngsters from ali paris of England and Wales; is under the direction of Mr Dyson, the AAA's Chief National Coach-Reuterphoto.
WHO ARE THE SPORTSWOMEN LIKELY TO SHINE IN 1957?
Just Watch Those
Wonderful Poppets!
What price the poppets? With the gold of those Olympic medals still gleaming in the hazel eyes of fencer GILLIAN SHEEN and swimmer JUDY GRINHAM, I beg leave to boast that pretty Britannia's young ladies are a sprightly bevy-and that every prospect pleases as we contemplate their sporting chances this year.
Or
course, Some
and
of you old-fashioned fuddy-duddles still do not take too kindly, to the spectacle of your womenfolk running and riding and jumping and swimming
about. whacking with rackets, clubs silcks instead and of getting on with their peti polm. But this is the age age
of athletic eman-
By GEORGE WHITING
cipation, gronddad. Didn't they
JAN WHITE...a Pat Smythe of the future?
tell you that Jill is pretty nearly by registering the third fastest tands champion, English cham- as good as her master in these free-style 110 yards ever swum pion, German champlon,
by a British mise-er mrs. enlightened days?
Peak performers? Well, hav- ing sat in far-from-silent won- der
18-year-old Miss Grinham (with MARGARET opinion
In
Did she not swim the fastest free-style leg to put our young women into the Olympic relay finai?
"Could be the best, we have £ seen,"
Marshal on Anne
ever
the
her from those tonsils,
a
AROUND HOLLYWOOD
Page
LIKE DEAN, PERKINS IS REGARDED AS A MOVIE "FIND" NOW
Says RON BURTON
Hollywood.
There's something a little weird and not right about the current James Dean cultism in the opinion of actor Anthony Perkins, who is unhappy about being dubbed a "now James Dean,”
Perkins feels complimented when he is compared to the late youthful actor who was killed more than a year ago in a car crash, but he doesn't want to be regarded as a replacement for Dean.
bocause the author of the starty
The Alm is based on Schul- "I greatly admired Jimmy
short story, "Your Dean, but the whole Dean story is still around for the shooting.berg's is now so wrapped up in Untally by the time a script | Arkansar Traveller." He worked morbid cultism that I'm sure he'd reaches the shooting stage, the previously in the same manner
Kazan in the Oactr the strat to condemn it," author is busy on some other with bc Perkins said. "I'm not sure I story, Oc perhaps he isn't winning "On the Waterfront" in understand the hysteria over around because the director | 1954. him, but I suppose certain doesn't want him hovering over We keep rewriting the script, people mood something like this every changed word or phrase, writing new dialogue, sometimes to stimulate them,”
However, it's different with from lucas that just come up on the spot," Schulberg daich, "I Perions made his major film | producer-director Ella Kozanke the method. Why, do you debut in "Friendly Persuasion" and the author, Budd Schulberg know that Kazan, as director, in Parn- Schulberg has been with the frequently asks me, the author, mount's "The Lonely Man and project since its script work for my Ideas about shooting a "Fear Strikes Out." The latter began some two years ago.
sen07" two have not yet been released.
JUST HIMSELF
d has had
roles
"Kazan has an odd idea that an author knows as well as any- one what he had in mind," Like Dean, Perkins is regard-Schulberg said. "We've worked cd as a movie "And."
Many together on this from the start crities noted similarities be tween him and Dean. However here were also other compari sons, none of which really helped Perkins' digestion.
Some critics who saw "Friend- ly Persuasion" referred to the dark-haired, lanky son of the late stage star, Osgood Perkins, as a young James Stewart. Other said he reminded them of Gary Cooper,
nro
These comparisons
not good for him, Perkins thinks. He would much rather establish his own identity,
"I really
want to be known as Anthony Perkins and not as a 'now' omything," he said. "There's another point, too, which I think is important. um not competing with these other actors. I'm the Arst 10 admit that there is only on Stewart, only one Cooper and
so on.
"And I hope that will som.cone
+
be
Audie Murphy, a real hero in World War II and since then a hero in films, is going to be one of the most vicious badmen of the screen. This switch to "heavy" is being made despite much advice against It.
Frail? Tiny? Timid? Forget
some Are The blonde day
that those femininities. Miss Jackson is a frank
say and there's only onc Anthony friendly "outsize" of some 1 Perkins.
Wouldn't that terrile?" Agreed, provided they separate stone, hits the enemy with al- EDWARDS
atten- close
most 11 professional punch; dance) splashed into Olympic
swings like a/man-and, unlike trillier con- buck-stroke glory in Australia, Of the athletic lasses I saw so many of her I now like to think that Judy is sprint with silver-medial distinc- temporaries, does not wrap the
neck like about to perform similar aquatletion on Melbourne's relay track club round her miracles as a free-styler.
-second only to the incredible lariat. Australians would pick ANNE PASHLEY,
Tho
hoteller's Won the girls' championship daughter from Great Yarmouth, In 1954, and beat Mrs Ferguson, and JEAN SCHIVENS. the Manchester, in a gale-swept transport clerk from Brixton, as English final at Hunstanton this
Still has something the likellest hot-timers of 1957. learn about playing through a With Fearne Ewari, There are in all our lives employed on the screen; here,
wind, but is my banker for books which remain obstinately perhaps, was the chance.
record-holder,
Anne and Jean, however, are top honours in 1957-and a couple of years unread: "Clarissu Harlowe," it is true that
three Ceylon for these
and with
Imunediate ageing old ladies of 21. If it is Curtis Cup Inclusion in America no and perhaps, "Old Mortality." "The talented performers now
Tractatus then succeed
in 1958. Olympics in dragging, a
to worry about-the burgeoning youth you seek, the Alom,"
uncovered brown head of selection Is Earlsfield's MADE- Logico-Philosophicus."
in iny guffaw from under the wet Judy Grinham could
be way LINE WESTON, that frali-but- farpaulin and the fragments of
out ahead of all those colour- fast clip of a schoolgirl with 10 But they the riverside plenle
ful free-style
next sweet summers behind her and do it by working like blacks;
the whole -wide world bummer. and that we should be aware of
athletics before her. their struggle is surely
case
↑ shall
By DILYS POWELL
must odd Three Men in Boat," I doubt whether now over do more than I have just done: flip over the pages in the hope of discovering what it was in Jerome K. Jerome's amiable observations which gave someone the idea of . making the film.
it
wrong.
We
are
And
nil
British departed to
""bonnets"
OPERATION
that
year.
to
There's such a thing as change of pace, to be sure, but this is a mighty radical me, A Alm hero frequently will chargo from conventional roles to some- thing like westerns, but for
Finally, I suggest we koop 2 strictly sporting eye on any show-jumping horse ridden by a
brunette of pretty
called JAN fort- WHITE-now within a night of her 17th birthday down ROME BUSINESS
at Godalming in Surrey. Madeline only just missed the
A Pat Smythe of the future? Olympics-possibly because to could be.
Protege of Joe much was sought of her straight Dudgeon,
Irish Olympic young legs and her stout young coach, and with a lively per- heart. Covered 100 yards of rain- conality of her own, Jan White similar operation
sodden track in 11 seconds
am- that o
other young water-divider, become the
is already British juvenile chom- ever youngest ANNE MARSHALL Southern Countles 15-year-old
ion plon, champion of Europe both Champion Kingston-on- and gave a lady's forewell
and as a leading individunt slender the Thames schoolgirl who swam the "chopen"
by winning that member of the British team at places the high
after
Spo-junior champion at White
You knew, of course,
swiping really began Judy decimals off the awim-clocica after having her tonsils removed,
awaits
ΠΟΥ
ما
to
凹
the
incined in this country to think that Hollywood lays everything on too thick, There was a dream. I daresay,
After "Three Men in a Boat" i of
light-hunched
I mention it again because English have come to the opposite con- who the good-Ealing clusion; we are the ones comedy in style. What has in fact resull-
cverdo it. A few years ago, ed is a slice of genteel Mack the British cinema bad happy Sennett.
period of comedy. •Now we Nothing against the plan in are sinking back into the old,
outdated manner; slapstick care into theory. It was a good idea, to
fully have Jimmy Edwards in they detached from the back spending the first seven years of i Pre-Olympics 100 Metres sprint City. South of England cham
ground, outlined,
outlined, and repeated her life in a wheel chair and at Brighton. Edwards' plum-cake film; Mr
three times, I admit that the suffering volec is one of the treasures of
passages given this special complaint. the ear, and one longs to see
swimming treatment are often, so far us 1 "Put her in a
IIBI him rightly cast in the cinema.
the doctors told her can Judge from my hurried look bath," David Tomlinson I have nd-
at the original, Jeroine's own. Father. mired
for years as the inter-
Unfortunately the good. Freter of discomfiture. As for
tempered
He did So, eight years later, absurdities of print
vocational under Laurence Harvey, he is a player
the almost Brougher look when whose gift for debonair comedy take on
CinemaScope, coaching of Roy Judd, the one-
In golf, I give you (of course) | cake. become girls yet been properly translated into
colour and the pitiless clarity time invalid häd
BRIDGET JACK of the screen,
free-style champion of Surrey 19-year-old
Mid- In a dizzy BON of Birmingham ... and put timekeepers
has never
Tour Of Egypt Cycling Race
A thread of aldry (the free adaptation in by Hubert Gregg and Vernon Harris) allows the Introduction of three agreeable JA Ireland. Shitley Eaton and Lisa Gastoni; and a trio
of experienced and im perturbable
nctors, Ernest Yugoslavia's Jug Aniel today The
and won the third stage of the Tour, Miles Malleson
Asalout, Jan. 14.
E. Mathews, get some fun of Egypt Cycling Race when he out of a cricket match, It
add that the covered the 110 kilometres from only fair to Sohag lo Arsiout in three hours 20 minuter and 23 seconds..
Farouk Hassib (Egypt) was second and Gustav Schur (East Germany) third, Franco- Prensa.
Sports Diary
TODAY
Boccer
audience amongst whom I watched the film manifested throughout an almost painful enjoyment,
Jacks Of All Trades
their
They believe in General Post at the New Mills Football Club. Manchester League Champions, a month ago they switched their two full-backs, Holder
and McCulloch, to the forward line, first game they Inter-School Chalangs Chip How and in loon Section, 4.10 p.m.
each scored twice in a 6-1 win, good Fanling Radiant Cup final They have kept up the
work since, Proom New Mille ronikopper Tidrey used to be
Inside-left, and onor the centre-bait,
TOMORROW
leading
Inter-Bohool Challenge cup. (Stin) { #ebrer, inside-right Doyle was
Rings Park, 619 p.m.
from 2
heart
What a sower does?
2 American town'
3 Little William's
A
change from hero to villain in
unusual, Some who have. shunned this are John Wayne, Alan Ladd and Gary Cooper,
war's mont Murphy, the decorated horo, is matter-of- I'm fact about his decision. understandnble that he'd risk his career when every day he wan risking his life for quite a period in war.
"I don't like to see a cliche, but variety is the spice of life." "I've been in a rut. he said. Too much sweetness and light, In Night Passage' I'm a heavy,
and I love it.
of the script nearly two years ago. I went on a trip in
1955 to get a location in Arkansas, and I've been on the set every
day since shooting began in August,"
Schulberg said Kazan's theory is not without prior occurrence. He said it's standard praçilce in the theatre,
ADVICE ON SHOOTING
"Kazan was trained in the theatre," the author said, "and this is the way plays are made. The author is present all through rehearsals, and the director fre- quently even gives in to him on vital points on which they consult.
on
"In fact, they make revisions out-of-town Tryouts right down to the opening night on Broadway. I may be prejudiced because I'm a writer, but I think, this is the only proper
clationship between an author and a director."
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