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SATURDAY, ́ ́, FEBRUARY 16, · 1957. —
Guthrie Is Wanted As Wisbech Manager
By JACK WOOD
many places Football Players Unlon, will soon be offered a £1,000 a year job as manager of Midland League Club Wisbech Town,
Jimmy Guthrie, sacked, and in lamented, ex-bons of the
with
n
Guthrie wants to stay In ↑ the recruiting und coaching of football. The idea of running players—and, £3,000 house.
He will also a club for the first Une, at the
be offered sulmy he served
the ecntract, He never had one Union, should sppeal to him. with the Union, and when he Wisbech director David Barr was socked recently he received told me: "Mi Cushie had a dis-only a month's pay in lieu of tinguished career an a playe nolice.
and we are desperately need of a new inan, ger,"
*7950
UNITED EFFORT Meanwhile, the
protest at gainst his dismissal grows, and Inannger present Wisbech former Norwich Cityplayers of West Bromwich Al- Foulkes, who then and Birmingham united in centre half. TEEN has told the club he musibele effort to have his caso res return in house he has bought [opened. In Nurwich an soon as possible because of his wife's Hi-health.
GOOD SUPPORT
we are
Wisbech #1 the moment tire struggling at the wrong end of the Miiland League. But we have good support. progressive club. receiving handsome sum theh week from our supporites club," rays Mr Barr,
The
Birmingham skipper Roy Warhurst and left-winger Alex Govan met the Albion plṇyera
SIR STANLEY ROUS on -
Since the recent announcement that the FA were planning a British-Continental get-together to discuss proposals for a European Soccer super-league, everybody has been talking and making wild guesses about it,
Here, for the first time, the man behind this far- sighted and imaginative plan, Sir Stanley Rous, Secretary of the Football Association, answers all questions.
The
This Is
Way To Golden Gates
What exactly lima been mental and emotional strain of proposed?
A restricted floodlight
A. competition, alther
returning from Worthing where.. other night, Unles Com- the millee aan rumy
Hill, of Fulham, had given them his version of Guthrie's sacking.
That
players Birmingham would like to see 11, and, if poble. Guthrie. Lately they
Aston Linbitious aimed to contact
Villa Blackpool, players, who are at to nel support,
Guthrie's comment On the
Bait for Guthrie will be a free trand in
TODAY'S RUGGER
By "Pak Ng Lo Wah"
The Hexangular Rugby Tournament is drawing to a close and today the teams play their penultimate
gumes.
Two of the three malehes are scheduled for the Club ground, Happy Valley, The Royal Air Force not
table top of the Navy at 3.00 pm, followed by the Club's tussle with Army South at 4.15. The Police take on Army North.
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Naturally, the Navy are firm favourite, to wh thank to the help from the Raniere players while Army South and Club will be only too ready to take advantage of uny ship tue Sailors
make, Army North anki RAF
both have fallen away alice the Christuras festivities and the unfortunate Police XV seem doomed to take the "wooden spoon",
The Navy have only to beat the RAF this afternoon to be virtualty
certalu uf winning because they
the Tournament
have a two
Army South
and
lead over
a superior
total points aggregate,
RAF v. NAVY
The Air Force selectors have really
made some sweeplig week, giving the side. a somewhat T:W
changes this
RAF
wing forward
un-
look.
The splendid mid-week per- formances by the Little Sal Wan team have quite justidably lu fluenced the selection of the newrciners-ihreequarters EJ- wards and Phillips, serum-hulf Morgan, and Cody, To complete the familiar
ilne-up Tuton und Cheal move from the back row to be propa for hooker Wildican. Having
Sai Wan seen the team in netlon It is quite possible that This rejuvenated RAF side soutet 'sink' the formidable Navy combination.
CLUB ». AMMY SOUTI. Army South 2 st withou. Sharpe who will be missed as
I viel fu Worthing: "I cán say what he likes, 1 wish he would come into the open and say it.
"How nice it to know that some Union members are ready to fight for me after all hot has happened."
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Sandown Increase 'Eclipse' To £5000
By RICHARD BAERLEIN
Sponsored races will br appearing In numbers during the coming your, and, us it is clear that betting legislation is still some hoping for inare and more of years away. uwners will be
In assist in meeting
expenses,
on
the League or Cup principle, will be discussed, We have sug- gested a two-yen: trial period.
If
proves successtul during
the trial perlod, then the way
could be clear for a full-scale
tie-up with the Continent,
Q.
Could sin iad lo a 70- consinccllon of the Foot- ball League competition?
Yes, I think so, not only in A.
Britalo bul #350 in Euro- pean countries where clubs are gummibed to extensive League dxtures. But must emphasise thal thila is entirely a matter for the Football League clubs.
2) se thay it is not the intention of any one of
playing before foreign crowds, Happily, many more of our players pro because of (loud- light games finding 1 euster to piny two hard games a week. INTERVIEWER.
ROY PESKETT
Q.
TAKINGS HIGHER ABROAD
that
Would This
Fran clubs wonid neret mate players?
Leugues Involved to cause hard- | M. the A.
I would do, at least until i
the various Leapuca are:
ship to any of these members. agreeable to reducing the num-
It is a constructive scheme, and ber of clubs per division.
will benefit,
u
Q
New clubs
Will many, or any, of the
Q.
present clubs in the Fool-A
ball League be wiped out?
know
Industrial areas admitted,
A good
export trade is al- ways based on a thriving home market You
must have domestle League and also the home-bred excitement of the FA Cup.
Fruits
Would such a League ben
• financially
wurth
Of course, 30
Echelle?
long
there are not too many game to drag on the public Definitely 101,
pocket. The success of Man- there is a feeling that the chester United, both in the play- divisions should be streamlined, Ling and money sense, is a goiKI
example. Increasing and possibly a number of non-
If they reach the leogue clubs from the busy new Anal of
of the European Cup they will clear. around £40,000.
Further,
the taktogs Irum! matches abroad are often mueti | higher than in this country Recently the home and away games In the European Cup b
ween Heal Madrid and Vienna it seems that at the begin tators.
Rapid attracted 166,000 spee-
A
replay was necessary, ning only the star clubs in
and Hapid accepted an offer off country would compete. £8,000 compensation to play in Would that mean only the Madrid. Ninety housand people would benefit financially?
turned up? No ut all, I know that ¿t Football League's altitude is "One for All." Net takings could go into a pool on the lines of the FA Cup pool. We would undertake to ud- minister is for the clubs,
In an article the other day suggested Sandown Park had
Micha Ane course that it would Q.
cach
be in their interests to promule more big raves Themselves.
In addition 10 The £6,000 Whitbread Gold Cup so gener
by 1 said that Sandown Whitbread, 1 add unly £1,500 to the Eclipse | Stakes, which was worth £8,544 to the winning owner in 1950. and £1.000 to the Nation: 1 Breeders Produce Stakes worth
£0.721 to the winning
owner
Qualy presented Colonel A.
In 1956.
BIGGER TOTAL In fact, Sandown add £3.000 und not
£1,500 to the Eclipse Stakes and therefore they add a Jotal of £4,000 and not
£2,500 us
1 Fuggested to the three most valuable races run there during the year. I a sorry for this mistake,
In addition Sandown Park Executive look steps in 1955 10 Increase the
added to money The Eclipse Stokes to £5,000 from 1958 onwards.
Entries for this race close when the horses ore only yearlings, so any change in the conditions bas to be made three years before it takes effect. Sundown have
It would mean for a while
that the big clubs would subsidise the smaller DREJ. Would it eventually operate at all levels?
A.
Bir
As I sold over the the other Saturday night, any plan must provide lor the Readings, Swindons, Ext.crs, and Plymouths; The Barrows, Workingtons, and Bradfords; us well as for the First and Second Division clubs,
Q.
Would this mean the end of the European Cup, the Inter-Cities Cup, and stoodlighti friendiles between home and foreign clubs?
Introduced BvA. and 2) No.
ucw
flat races of £1,000 or more since the wor
MAXIMUM
I also staled that Sandown Park add only £200 to the Sandown Park Slud Produce place-kicker as well as an ex- Sukes for two-year-olds, worth cellent three-quarter. The Amy shot: £2,000 the winner, bring in Beri at full back, And so they do. But it must with Owen-Smith and Hardy be understood that, as this race Joining the threes.
un in April, they are pre-
were
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the
The are existing, Euccessful com positions. No effort will be made 10 interfere with them. (3) They won't be banned, but curely competitive games will be more benencial.
Q.
The A.
Last Saturday the soldiers cluded from increasing the prize
a luke lethargic egalist under a the Air Force, and even if they wal
Jockey Club ruling fbx; £200 as pull themselves together 1
MXMUN hal Can ba given nol e them stopping
10: Lay (wo-year-old sweep- greatly improved Club team.
POLICE v. ARMY NORTH The Army team will be strengthened by the return or Seventh Husses hell-backs Date
At
Dad Turnbull to the side. the time of writing it is not
Omission
That tax
Will expenses for a Euro- pean League be high?
I don't Ser why they should Air transport is available and airfields more numerous, Farks are not pro- Financlat restrictions on foreign exchange have been "eased."
staken run betore the Epsomhibitive, Summer Meziing.
Sandown Park do not intend
to curail their prize money in
finance, is there a chance
that on April 27. the day. On the question of future
the new sponsored Whit- brend Cup is to be run, despite That race earrying a £4,000
known whether Green Cr prize for the winner and about gard will be playing.
of these two back row forwards will allow the Polico backs some room to move.
£6,000 in all.
of the Chancellor of the Ex-| chequer lifting, or easing Enter- tainment Tax on professional! football at the next Budget?
A Chancellor, advise any-
I have never known A
one of his Intentions bofore- hand.....but we just hope!
on ach a conference as What else will you learn
Also on the card that day will be the Coronation Stakes. I expect the Policemen to hold for which
the prize money their opponents during the first £1,000, and the Royal Suakes, half but after the interval, if
where it is £1,500. Both these they maintain the pressure, the are new post-war races. In soldiers should and as winner addition that day there is the Esher Cup (£1,000), and the tolal prize money given by
that day alone is We hope to and out the There
should be
existing relations between the Associations and Leagues of my mind Sandown is the the Continental countries. After
London Facecourse on
all, they did copy the adminis
set-up started Entries are now being called which to produce racing of trative
Ascot standard, because the England.
"SEVENS" NEWS
year's
This
Seven-a-side Knockout Competition for the Blamey Stone Shield has been put back to the 12th, 13th, 14th record crowd. and 16th of March at the Club Ground,
idea!
'a
for and should be sent to Mir public gets such a fine view of Leslie Willams, c/o Dodwell &
Co. Ltd., to arrive not later than the racing from all enclosures.
February 36. The entrance
Loe in $15 per side of not more
than eight players.
There is no course where the turnstiles click faster ́ when
top-class raCO ja presented, which is why I feel sure that
Service units, ships, etc. will it would be in the Interests of have first call on players' ser- all concerned If a big handicap
vlees, ao persona Intending to
you propose?
Q.
Strain
In
Will the players be able
to stand up to the extra
gamēs involved?
form teams should ensure that list.
were added to the Sandown A That
problem. There is extra
their prospective players are
available.
most urgent,
-London Express Service). Iang distance travelling in-
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volved, and the physical effort,
Swimming up; The Football League clubs will give close consideration to this rehvine at their meeting Laadun next month. Anything of a progrés- sive nature will be most banc- fetal to them and to the game. (COPYRIGHT)
Answers To Sports Quiz
1. Lawn tennis, association
Tootball and rugby union.
2. Fifteen hundred metres,
marathon and high jump,
3. Marylebone Cricket Club, National Boxing Club and Tourist Trophy.
tennis
the
4. The annual lawn
tournament be.ween women's terms of Britain and America, und soteer
world ship
the
champlon-
5. Laszlo Papp, of Hungary. 6. James J. Jeffries.
7. Only to defend his wicket,
not to score a run.
8. Is scored as two strokes, D. 'Nine.
10. Ireland,
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