ALL HIS OWN WORK
By HENRY LONGHURST
Thomas Henry Cotton, MBE, reached his half century-a notable milestone in the life of the most notable British golfer since the days of the great triumvirate, Vardon, Taylor, and Braid-
and in common, I am sure, with every golfer in the land and many who have never touched a club, I hereby send him my felicitations.
In the last 30 years no individual has made a stronger personal mark on a game so widely played. No one comes remotely near to taking his place today,
THE LAST ROUND
It is customary on these as good as ever 23 years later. Occasions to send forth un-1 wunder if they make them qualified pacans of praise, but I like that today, chali not Insult Colton's intelligence by doing any such thing fe
He bus had his ups and downs and has been frequently erfflelsed—often, though by no icons always, with justifestión, but generally because, reeing his desired object so clearly in view, he has marched directly Lawards
sight When diversion would have avoided the trending on sensitive lees. If you live a full, competitive, many-sided
highly publicised life, you are bound. as P were, to hit an ecostal one of the socket,
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Cotton's firs
and
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set
Anything he did at Sandwich, however, when, to be truthful, there were no Americans to beat and his lost round of 70 Was
anti pre
climax, was
When, eclipsed
πτ totally Carnoustie in 1037, he beat the full
American flower of the
Cup len. He knew Ryder what he had to do in the last round and his 71. played in a could not hear the typewriters downpour so strong that you
In the Press tent, remains the Aarst single round I ever saw,
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1957.
SPORTING SAM
by Reg. Wootton
Jimmy Guthrie Goes
Out
Without
A Voice Or A Vote
By DON HARDISTY
The Players' Union sacked, Jimmy Guthrie, its champion, on January 28-11} not a voice was raised against his departure.
The other afternoon the dapper, burly 45-year-old Scot entered a Manchester hotel for the annual meeting as the union's full-time, paid chairman, the man who had battered his way into the headlines for more than ten years as spokesman for "Soccer's Slaves."
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moment of triumph came at Såndwiena 1934, when his opening 67 cond
They often say you cant be TJ peat golfer-or perhaps n 65, 19 may nothing of 66 in the
great anything else in this life qualifying cound" at Deul,
entirely new
-unless it really hurts you to wandord of championship golt
play imperfectly and I am sure It was
11 This has triumph
always been
Is unemployed (for it|business man has seized control think shrel, htat°° zell the
Nouady suffered more meant loss of s estimated and exercises it ruthlessly. picture, of
from golf, him etasping the culeg
£1,000-a-yene job), and com-
Take a count of those trophy show him in a hard-the extent
Three-and-a-half hours later he left the meeting, having failed to receive single nomination for re-election to the committee from the 65 club representatives present.
Souw
in which
camel-haired overeat of sharply on aluminiums which he had borrowed for the occasion. Inclver, h
mine
in the room with me as I write,
Tulloh 31st
In Inter-County
Cross Country
Bruce Tulloh, who was in Hongkong for two yours with 173 Locating Battery, Royal Artillery, finished 31st in the Jubilee County
Athletic Union Cross C'uan- try Championship at the Coton House Grounds of the British Thomson Company
January 19 out of
runners,
teams.
comprising
Tulloh. represtating Devon-
true of
even
10
the head with his toe he does not even
putter-fortunately member's card).
in the days when he wear a pork-ple hat.
Wed 10
nien
played
out a chance of redress. Here Is the three-point plan on which I have worked in my 11 years. it is a plan almed at wresting extrol from the butchers
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of striking himself | pletely severe from the union and you will find that less than
hold af 20 per cent have ever
the game. Yet they claim ull | bakers and furniture makers the glory when it's around, and who have landed this game in
the sorry mess it Bm itself.
Foot- No velling on wages, bali la the only branch of enter- tainment or industry which pegs the earnings of its workers.
It may explain, perhaps, ipo, his successes in other spheres. His book of reminiscencVS-CIM- instruction, This Ginme Gol"
remains, in my opinion, Farzissed. When he went on to the variety stage at the tahani, amid Krave fore bodings, you could hear a pin drot during his 16-minule act and he was retained for further
week. JIN general zest for golf, his shrewd anel highly constieni probings
mind lato Bre
the handicapped
player and his Imitations thereof make him one of the few people with whom 1 half the night talking golf.
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But, although on the verge of tears, he said: "1 shall conilur tight for the Union with ail the mentis al my emanand.
things
have had an eventful tra stara as chairman of the union, and there are many should have liked thing for. But wish of the members should go, that's that. in the game.'
it is
the
that
It's all
the
NO SUCCESSOR
Cluthrie's x 1 leaves layers' Union without a tender. A new committee was elected, but no chairman was named,
Secretary Cliff Lloyd, in his official statement after the meet. ing, said: "The committee will meet within the next 14 days
te elect an unpaid chairman from
themselves, Binong
and will then into the
go
question of Arll-time pointing a Maestro.
THE MAESTRO
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At
paid
organiser
The committee has a new look. Previously it contained only two playing and six non- playing members,
1
one
(Oldham)
and
SIX PLAYERS
Now there are
Blx playing
Hill Jimmy
Stanley Matthews members Juckle Campbell kick the poor
open
This has in the past led, to These under-counter payment allegations about which the Football League are 50 rerned.
DISCARDED
ron-
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A RETURN TO OLD-STYLE
CENTRE-HALVES
Accent Should Be On Attack
Says DON REVIE
Bernard Joy, one of the greatest stopper centre-halves in his playing days with Arsenal, has set the ball rolling by suggesting that soon most English League clubs will go back to the old style attacking centre-half,
Bernard is too big a character in the game to dismiss his ideas without a second thought. But I think in this case he is way wide of the mark.
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Frankly 1 believe the answer to this problem of the stopper centre-half can be overcome by a number of strategies.
Most people know that the must have someone to stay back slapper center-half was brought | to cover the middle of the Held, In by Arsenal when the offside Inw was changed. What they centre-half, who is like a block
George Young, the Rangers don't know is that the stopper of granite and just about centre-half was virtually forced
impregnable
when on the Arsenal offer they had
he plays Against England, says: "No mai- lost their first seven matches at
ter what happens on the wings, the start of the 1925-20 season,
most goals are scored in or around the penalty urca. and 11 became obvious to
the usually in the centre of
the players that with the new off-
goals. That's why I try to block ske law, you just couldn't afford
this vulnerable way to goal." to have an attacking centre- half, because there was a wide gap through the middle, and It was making goal scoring cusy for the alert centre-forward.
So, at a special meeting of the Arsenal
in players
which Charlie Buchan played a big part, the Arsenal club decided to iry the idea of keeping their centre-half
policeman, patrolling a restricted territory in the centre of the field. In other words he was is stick as close to
centre- the opposing forward as a höir shiri,
That style of play introduced 30 years
ago is as imperative us the day when it was (3) By having great wingmen brought into
the Best of the calibre of Slan Matthews use for ilme.
The plain truth is you and Tom Finney. Here again, by must have someone,
On whether using the open spaces
the you call him centre-half or a loughlines л vide сал create centre back, holding the middle
openings in the centre of the Лeld. of the field.
now
had an
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LOOSE FORWARD
(1) By playing the withdrawn centre-forward game, first made famous by the Itungarians and Inter adopted by City,
Manchester
Cuff Bastin did for Arsenal in the 1930s, not even a stopper centre-balt can prevent goals.
most
The position today is that teams have perketed a cover and this, closa defensive plus the stopper centre-half, see it, this is a challenge to the makes
goal scoring hard. As I craftsmen in the game. If you have enough ball players: fast striking wingmen and fuld forward formation (and in
sent
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day football Manch United, Spurs, Arsenal, Burnley and Blackpool are well worth watching in this respect), then you can solve the problem of by-passing the | half,
stopper centre-
for too played you
The trouble. is that long wo
have
It stereotyped football. have players who are truly the (2) By having dwo great
master of the ball, plus fine Inside-forwards of the calibre of
tactical idens put over by man- Raich Carter and Peter Doherty. agers Ike Stan Cullis, Raich With two great inside-forwards Carter, Peter Doherty and Matt any side should be able to pull, Busby, there is no reason why
the a stopper centre-half
defensive styled stopper the middle.
centre-half should not
bo mastered,
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out
GOALS FROM WINGERS
The Austrians at one time I'll leave the last word on this topic to the grund old-time, attacking centre-half,
Meredith, Dewirk. He was their loose toBilly
the Weish 2. Players' contracts,
The ward,
all over the with
Wizard who made his wandering
name the game
and
Manchester City men who play
feld, although he wore a No 5
und bring in the crowds should be
in his shirt,
Manchester United. Despite the Nevertheless, the able to
fact that he is nearing 80 Billy negotiate their own con- Austrians still employed a player tracts, which should be of nt to
still has a to potice the centre of the field.
a young approach to least three yours.
the gume, moved the right They merely
He sald recently: "People
At present I often happens back over to the centre-half that a man uproots his family to berth (and called him a centre think that in my playing days move, only to be told at the ond back). The right-half played I used to head straight for the of the season that he 13 not right full-back, and the inside-corner flag, and then
wanted.
3. Managers and trainers to join forces with the players in the fight for better cond!lons and contracts,
whip ove
right played right-half. The a high centre into the goalmouth whole team was shuffled around į for the centre
inside- and to let the centre-half, Qewirk, forwards to cod it home. Look play as the schemer, of the side, { at the gocls- scored 476 in
my time. Proot
that enough I honestly believe that if Eng-wingers should make and lake lish teams adopted the attacking goals," centre-half role, they would have to switch their players about in the same way as the Austrians, I hope to stay in the game,This view is not only my own, for close to it. But for a while
The regular sucking of both managers and trainers in recent years would not hive been lolerated in any other sport or industry.
I latey it was I who first Houston bibed bin the 011 Saturday, | any rate the fact that the name 311 has stuck for so long seems to
I do justified. 35 prove
at know
anyone, Hogan
and Hagen included, whose shols gave the purist-crllie quite the
nesthetle satisfaction. BAMO
JIMMY GUTHRIE . . .
I'll have a rest and get over the Peter Doherty, the Doncaster shire, was the first Devon run always felt him to be
Rovers'
"The to any proposition now.
manager says: shock of being pitched out of ner to Arish He WIS
77 those people, ke Jack Hobbs.
the job to which had given matter what is tried, I believe game needs now ideas, but no seconds behind the winner, Ken | Bobe Ruth. Norris of Middlesex, over i
old players and everything. Dayls, of whom the
tried to get an explanation that every team must block that course of seven or eight miles, nervice spectator
not vital down-the-middle route to would in- (Fulham), re-elected, and Jeff managers when things go wrong.
My plan was to extend the from the delegates. I did clocking 39 minutes 19 seconds.stinctively say. "I may
Hall (Birmingham), Bill Roost scope of the union and make it get a
single vote, and all
any goal. (Bristol Rovers), Harry Hough a body embracing all those who much about
of them would any was: "We He Anishad ahead of such but that one
(Barnsley),
Ian and
Dargle cart their living at the game. don't want you any more. British ranking
IN than the others."
(Brentford) and one non- In recent weeks good men
take I hope those who Colin Gray. Denis Cavak, Frank
playing member, Frank Walton like George Poyser and Freddie know where they are going. Salvat, Tom Harwood, Georg“
Leyton und Steele have left their jobs with-.}
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Southend). Kelly, Morrison, S. R Langtids Albert Ingles. K. Rickhuss, John Thorpe, Michael Barralt, Alan
Roger Bine, Darchambaud, Jacks Heywood David Pumble 3. McDonald and P. C. Perry, helping bring Devonshire into 14th place of the 35 counties taking part.
runners
Following Norris into first 10 positions were Alan Perkins, Michael Firth, D. Healley, A. Chorlton, Bill Boaks, Dennis O'Gorman, Joon Wild, Hugh
Foord
Tony Llewellyn, the 19th man Anish- Ing within 41 seconds of the winner.
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must
be
not this game, boller
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What lies ahead for Guthrie? have no future plans. But of "It was each 03 surprise 1 course I'm open to any proposi- ten-yes, even managership,"
I and myself wriling in the past tenre, but that is erriainly wrony. The Macstro is no spent force. He did try feiring after his third Open in 1948-It was 14 years after his first and when the late King came watch, he laid on a 08 for his benefit retirement was one of his failures. He came back don't In 1953. finished seventh at years Hoylake last year, and proposes Players' Union I'm out of a jou to continue indefinitely. Mean without a word of explanation while, he keeps by congling from those who did the axeing.
horizontal bar in his nest in Eulon
from a well-feathered Square,
I'm out on my neck,
know
[ and why. Afler Chairman of the
Could it be that I have talked too often, በትረ too bluntly? Could it be that, in the fle- Aidel-one might even Say gates eyes, I have been Loo prodded-by
wife, the harsh on the little dictators who redoublable "Tools" who run this game? Middlesex Won the Inter- believe is the perpetual cham- County Championship with 120 pien of Czechoslovakia, unless Frothall in England Is con- points, followey by Essex with that title has been played for trolled by successful 147, Yorkshire with 158. Langain since the war, he is pr-wool merchants, and manufac cashire with 101. Surrey with ably the mest preset cous turers who, because they have 214, Cheshire with 284, Derby-business no21 golfer in the many and position in a city or shire with 335, Warwickshire | game's history
Brita town. Imagine they, and They with 383. Northumberland and and deserves to be. If venly, know how to run a club. Durham with 428, Sussex with man kept his eye on the ball, it This is an age of dictatorship 441 and Kent with 175,
is our Henry,
in football, an age when the big
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Joe Smith, the Blackpool manager says: "I played in the game when every side had at- lacking centre-halves, but in
modern football I think yout
Soccer Needs A Violent
Shake-Up-Kick Out
These Boardroom Bores
Says ALAN HOBY
Soccer needs a violent shake-up. Instead of sacking managers wholesale I would throw out all those interfering club directors who make the manager's life a misery.
Many of these Boardroom Bores can't distinguish a footballer from a floor- walker. They couldn't kick a ball properly if they tried. They are all self-importance and pouter-pigeon pomposity.
But though they may know other week because of a split in nothing about football, there is the board-recalls how before one game they can play to per- the war the Burnley
directors fection. It is called "SACK THE paid the players' summer wages MANAGER.
out of their own pockets. In this "game" the manager Burnley, of course, have seldom wins, He is on a hiding always been a good club.
practically
Like Matt Busby (Manchester
manage...But how can they in the present set-up?
What is urgently needed is n union for managers as well as Footballers... A wilon which will demand:-
Docent wages and working conditions,
2. A minimum three-year
to nothing. Told from the start how to run the team, he knows that sooner or United), Stan Cullis (Wolves), contract for all managers, later he will wind up the scape- Bert Tann (Bristol Rovers), 3. An end to the farce where- Sam Bartram (York), Alec Stock by some managers are paid less
roat,
Time and again. I have seen these men treated in the most contemptible way.
Often they have no guarantees,
(Leyton Orient), Ted Drake than their players.
(Chelsea), Arthur Turner (Birmingham), and' Bill Ander- son (Lincoln), Burnley manager
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ADMIRABLE WORK
appreciate that there is a no long-term contracts, no Abon Brown has always been | Secretary-Managers' Association,
PACIFIC security safeguards for the master in his own house,
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future.
They are expected to be little more than glorified yes-men and olce slaves; to have no more Impact than a doormat.
but for all its admirable work What I would like to see is body can't stop the spate of managerial sackings which more clubs following the pro- is giving the game such a bod gressive line adopted by Notts name, County Chairman Les Mochin,
Which brings me back to the who wants в sirong-man Boardroom Horts.
* In fiel, I know of no other manager to take charge of his business in the world-and don't | team-although I still do not Many of them become Giree-
tell me professional soccer is ülke the "on-trial" deal theyors because they think it will
Buch vile offered Frank Broome, sport-where working conditions exist.
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their business not only boost but will also help them lo
the But these with others—are climb the rung on
social Don't misunderstand me. I'm
ladder. not saying that all managers are the exceptions.
So kick them all out,I say. halotd saints. Nor am I sug-
The list of managers who gesting that ALL football club have quit
How? By bringing the whole been sacked moral force of public opinion to directors are bores and bullica, Curing the post-war period bear on clubs which behave
reads like a dossier of doom. badly.
I know businessmen-director whose hard-earned "braza" has Raved
many
from # club extinction.
SUMMER WAGES
It is Snay to argue, of course, In short, by staying away. By that before they accept a job hitting them at the box office. managers should stato their Most of all by attracting a demande and refuse cut-price different type of director. Only | then will managers get a dair
Wages.
Ex - England centre-forward It is even more facile to omert deal, Tommy Lawton, he turned that the trouble with many down the Notte County job the 'managers today is they don't
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I agree with Meredith. the modern game the way Lo make openings is
along the touchlines. It you have fast striking wingers capable Df using the ball and also cutting In for goal as Joe Hulme and
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