REAL MADRID WIVES SHARE THEIR MEN WITH THEIR CLUB
By ARTHUR WALMSLEY
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1957.
If you were the wife of a Real Madrid footballer you would live a life of comparative luxury-but in return you would have to be prepared to share your man very much with his club.
For, apart from losing him for weeks at a time on 'close-season' tours of foreign countries, you would have to accept his absence from home for three days every week-even when the team was playing a normal League game in Madrid.
After training
But, tell me who Friday (anything. On morninga the Real Madrid do you think will win?
Walmsley: I will answer that players are whisked away to G luxury hotel in Madrid-where one better when I have seen
the your team play arc taboo-or to trives exclusive mountain
of WOULD HAVE "DECLARED" resort
did not El Escorial, 10,000 foot up and
see manager guin. There Villalonga 30 miles from Madrid.
late on Sunday afternoon,
1 will
the fans are the football pools which are now sweeping Spain. They are state supervised, thes
and all profits are lotteries, distributed to charity.
Coupons are obtained in al- most any bar or restaurant,
pour Cost
forecast-line
the team remains until the game answer his question here. With three pesetas, There is just a out false pride or prejudice 1 was in the plush Hotel Buy that had Manchester United araight forecast of 14 results, Felipe 11 at El Escorial that been playing Real Madrid the with £17,000 rated a really big talked to Don Jose Villalonga, day I saw the European Cham-money-prize. manager of the Real Madrid plons
It
team and a Spanish Army.
captain
Valencia, against
Malt have would boyn the Busby's in
'declared before half-time.
before
ONE BETTER
It was pointed out to me in i will go further and say that Madrid that while Britons are Villalonga, a Aill six-foot of any British crowd would have
over Man- good-looking masculinity, has low-bandelapper"
Real setting worked up the
United's chatices chester
of match been Heal Madrid manager for Madrid-Valencia
pulling off the triple crown- five years and is still only, 30. half-Linie, and would certainly, the 'Football Association Cup, When he was first appointed behave walked out on long,
the European Cup, and the was younger than several of his before the Anish
League Championship is players.
The
this I had paid the equivalent of possible for Real Madrid to job of managing. fabulous team rests so lightly 24 shillings for my seat, and go one better by winning the Yet, apart from Spanish Cup, the European Cup, on Villalonga's brond shoulders felt robbed.
derisory whistica, the the Latin Cup (confined to that I just bad to ask hun- fow
watched, "More than 300 English League 100,000 crowd
with managers
been hacked mzing patience and tolerance, clubs from France, Spain, I'aly since the war. Is the ungers the ter end of a punchless and Portugal) and their own which Wos as display
almost League Championship. Spin equally Job uncertain and uleer-producing?" devold of skill and method.
2
have
built
SPORTING SAM
By Reg. Wootton
The MCC, alarmed at the low rate of scoring in first class cricket, in experimenting with
rules in an effort to
the spood up
goma.
THIS
now
ARTICLE IS ABOUT
THE SLOWEST SCORERS IN CRICKET
By HARVEY DAY
On the last day of the MCC game against Kimberley, R. Evans, whose overnight score was 99, very naturally desired to score a century. But his methods did not meet with the approval of the spectators for he received 104 balls without scoring, and it was fifty minutes before he gained the coveted century.
a
One can excuse Evans, for not every batsman has the chance to make century against an English touring team, but generally speaking the rate of scoring
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Good cricket---cricket that is to watch-does not Interesting But I remembered that the demand that every ball shall bo Perhaps it was enough for the Real Madrid pre-maten mom.semed off, or even that the score Villalonga: Well, the manager
Reat Madrid had
Escori hart} alone picks the team and if he as
in pushed along every is not successful he will soon on, yet I couldn't help feeling in hideout of El
Mere slagging would be HYPT. Jose his job, But I have been hat if this form was so very takes its name from the palace
hot as boring as Interminable stonewalling. lucky we have had five good murh below what they normally of that name which was years since I became manager. saw from their favourites surely there in the 10th century atid the remains of
Cricket is an art. It flourishes hey would hupe the luck will continue,
have shown their which houses
sunshine contrast:
and 22 more post-all the kings of Spain since that modest Villalonga dissatisfaction in (Whal
shadow; slow
As an bowling time. ain't tell me was that five tive fashion,
antidote to fast; story play t that years was something of a record
an moment and strokes for a manager in Spanish Rot-
drizzle the next; just when one is ball),
growing a trifle restive, a purple patch or two.
The
On the strength of that one natch would be foolish to denounce Real Madrid 15 Walemicy: Does the thought grossly,, over-publicised team of losing your job worry you but I do feel justified in giving did lose it would winnchester United an unusual end if you
look for another job in warming. you football?
Villalong
the
It could be that after meeting with Manchester United the ΕΙ Escoriat mausoleum would make a filting resting pince for the dead European Cup hopes of Real Madrid,
For "Real" means "Royal" and, win or lose in Spanish, I do not worry: "Never underrate the
against Manchester United, Real If I have to leave Real Madrid uon," To Manchester United Madrid will still be, in every I will probably anish with foot-
It overrate Real sense, a very rogat club. ball, I will just concentrate on
Do not be overawed) has set an example which others being a captain in the Spanish by big money transfer players in the football world would do Army
regard them as miracle well to follow. Walmator: Have special plan to beat Manchester men. United?
Villalonga;
Traditional sporting advice is:
opposi
say:
"Do not
Madrid.
and
you any
"Real Madrid may be capable of great football-that I do not That they can perform know. Yes, we have a
I have CETI We pathetically plan-it is a simple one. just try to score more goals myself.
But with
ihan Manchester United. from whal
for
Regard Heal Madrid
the same respect
Division
you
competent English
side...but
no
I sincerely believe you
would any we rend in your wou! papers we are beaten already, First эго calling Manchester more United the team of the century are a better all-round side and and say they are going to win. because of that I believe you
You
Who are the present Chom pions of Europe, we Manchester United or Real
wonder
He
was
the
will win."
Fullmer's Style Puzzles "Sugar Ray"
on
CAN BE INTERESTING
Somo batsmen, however, make one groan as they emerge from the pavilion, so stodgy are their methods.
REAL STONEWALLER
The first real stonewaller of whom there is any record was M. Earle, who in 1846 made 11 runs in four hours, a consider able feat, for to remain at the
wickets for four hours In the
when pltches were days rough as corrugated iron 100 sume doing. In 1885
gentle man named Wilsher also stayed in for four hours, though he scored twenty.
in the Notts ade, committed suicide,
But the king of them all was Richard Gordon Barlow, of Lancashire, who in 1882 went in first against Notts and after 24 hours carried his bat with
only five runs to his credit.
He always went in first with
would score Homby and white Hornby Once for 80 minutes he resisted got a hundred.
all efforts to make him score, Francis Thompson spoke truly when he wrote:
"As the run stealers Bicker to and fro, to and fro,
O my Hornby And towards the end of the low long ago." nineteenth century there emerg-
Stealing runs
and my Bar-
In the past there have been some consistently slow scorers, but they have been accepted as ed four stonewallers the like of what Barlow did. He abstracted part of the game because others whom we have not peen: Louis
scorers
when
tries
an
But Evans
valuable Was
there
The best of the reputed stone-day,
The
of
THE MOST GROANS
"No,"
is precisely
one was looking;
un-
in the side have made ruis at a Hall. W. Scotton, A.C. Banner one when no
till the crowd fell brisk pace. And
have man, the Australian, and R.G. he waited
Aiched their asleep before he been occasions when even repld Barlow, who throughout
and other. And so on. were redliced" "lo""a canears averaged 17,16,15
Barlow was stationmaster of small's pace, and at such times 14 runs an hour respectively.
very tiny, remote villago be. cricket can be breathlessly ox-
J.W.H.T. Douglas of Essex, fore he took to professional
scorer, When good batting is coun- reputedly a slow
was cricket. Only one or two trains like a Derby winner compared stopped there each day; so Bar- tered
bowling or with the cart horse, Barlow, for low and bis by superb
assistant cut a beaten apparently
he pushed his score along at an wicket in, the team is struggling
feld behind the to play out
*** average of 22 runs an hour. who
station and played cricket all time, everyone
under- stands the game la interested and excited
Lancashire no matter how slow wallers to watch was Banner-
secretary the scoring.
man, who though a pain-in-the- often travelled on the line and neck to bowlers, was a
stroke whenever he looked out, Barlow Godfrey Evans, the England
Louis player.
Hall's main was batting. So one day he wicketkeeper, is A men who strokes were edges and snicks, travelled to the station and PERFECT ILLUSTRATION
to score Greenwood Lake, Apr, 15.
fast and often and Scotton and Barlow, never, Barlow was, as usual, at the "Sugar I regard the
Ray"
sacrifices his wicket in doing except Robinson,
by Looking back,
accident, touched wicket. "D'you always bat?” Madrid? It BELITIS
have you
so. Against India at Lord's hejanything outside the off-stump, asked the Secretary. tolerance of that 100,000 crowd former world middleweight box- *already decided that no team
once missed his hundred before Bannerman played for Aus- beat this wonderful Man-at the drab Real Madrid matching champion, is worried more
sald Barlow, "we take tralia, and as Australian bats- it in turns." lunch by two runs. do as the perfect illustration of the about getting his title back than chester United But we
up the money it could bring when
will admit Spanlards ever-growing
that men are usually intent on push- "When last did he bat?" ask- not werry too much. We re- petite for football which 5she meels World Champion
the most exciting Innings he ing the score along, he gave the ed the Secretary. member the story of the famous pushing the traditional bullfight Gene Fullmer for their return has played and easily the most illusion
being normally "Three weeks ago," answer- Spanish bullfighter, Espartero.
In the background.
bout in Chicago on May 1,
that during the human.
ed Barlow. bull- The bulls
Adelalde in and the mutadors grentest
Fourth Test The "black wizard of boxing," fighter of his time. One day are still very much allye and who lost his
"Then we'd better give you title
1948-7 when he joined Comp- cr a points
And Espartero faces a new young kicking, but because of the cost defeat by Cyclone" Fullmer, ton and batted for 97 minutes
Louis Hall produced the most a trial for Lancashire." and bull which should be easy for of staging
the limited
without breaking his duck, in groans from the crowd, He was that's how Barlow played for him,
capacity the biggest aid at his training camp here But the young bull kilis
a gaunt fellow with high cheek the county. crowd
an effort to overt defeat. Espartero il bod never seen stadium in Spain (Le, bullfight today that he was square with
Those who were present said bones, and a bushy handle bzr him before. You understand? ing stadium) holds only 20,000 the tax collector and he was in
it was the most thrilling piece moustache which weighed him nsive a healthy financial condition.
of cricket provided by either down so that he looked like an
Both he and Hornby were Wulmsley; Yes, but I think spectators' sport with a price
undertaker attending a funeral very fast on their feet, Hornby MAIN AIM
team during the tour, and a you are being a Uttle unfair. In
of five shillings to £4,
wet day. range
Going through the most number of women were so cn a
Was rugger international and England we regard Real Madrid and is losing the race to soccer, serious training of his carcer, worked up that they fainted.
Barlow
successful sprinter as a tremendous test for Man- There is still big money in it,
together can be paid meant by Providence to be and
they snatched chester United, and I'm sure however, for the matador. Top 36-year-old Robinson, who will No greater tribute
to the batanan than to say stonewaller. He always went in
Arst and altogether carried his low's rate of scoring might have Matt Busby and the team will bullfighter Lift can earn any-be 37 two days after his fight,
a single-otherwise Bar- take be satisfied if they can keep the thing up to £5,000 for an after-sald his main aim was to that the bar was empty!
bat thirteen times for York- from Madrid so that noon's work and is reckoned to the middleweight crown
been much slower. shire, made several centuries MONUMENTAL £250,000 in the Fallmer and then meet Carmen they will not start the return have grossed
To say he was a difficult man How last four
and during the greater part of far behind.
meeting game too
years and Liiril is Basilio at an open alr
Almost as many goals would you like to still only 24.
exciting certainly his carder scored at only 10-11 to dislodge would be on under- In New York this summer.
He carried his bat statement, the runs an hour. have in hand after the first
exasperating to But atories of the shaving of Unable to digest his defeat at equally
of
career, before twelve times through completed game to feel safe for the return bull's horns to make them less the hands
bowlers was the forty runs Early in his Fullmer, the
Lancashire innings and is the game in Manchester?
painfully compiled by H. L. the blight descended on him, he and of matadors challenger said he had studied dangerous,
man to Collins,
Australian
only vice- was
have opened comparatively brisk # Villalonga: I do not under-paying big "grease" money to the film of his fight several times
captain, in the Fourth Test at scorer-one reason why his all- England's balling and bowling sland this business of why it is press agents for finttering write but could not
Manchester in 1921, on a sticky time rate is so much higher. But in the same innings. He was o wicket.
accurate cousured necessary to get a big ups, are making the Spaniards things Fullmer had done or not
medium-paced ha produced more slow clapping very favourite done. of their goal-lead at home. When teams 3 fond
It was not only an athibition
from crowds than any man, and bowler, with a break from the He summed up Fullmer es a are as good as Real Madrid and blood-sport.
of monumental patience, but it is probable that Louis Hall off. Manchester United, ground ad- Helping to tip the scales in good and powerful boxer with a
batting of a very high order, for
was the originator of funereal Barlow had one real stroke vantage should
hot count for soccer's favour in this fight for queer style-France-Presse,
the ball was turning and flying
lay in Yorkshire v. play in
Lancashire
forward stroke-not A and he was facing Cecil Parkin
matches. " and Charlie Parker, who could W. Scotton
prod. He put his weight - be- of Notts washind it and the ball travelled make the ball talk on such a another vialtation almost as bad fast, but Burface, as well as Woolley, as Pharaoh's plagues. One of his poner
unfortunately his op- Douging and the crafty Fender.
ponents kchow
his limitations most sparkling efforts was 123 and blocked the stroke. Even would have mo mistake meant his dismissal and the runs in 8 hours. It was quite |60,
he was an extremely useful to bat for an man to have for collapse of the
he probably side, which even common for him
he contribution could hour without scoring, and broke hia with
bowlers broke the heart of many only 175,
score down in
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SINGLE SNATCHERS
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hearts
throw
a than anyone else.
But the discredit
of playing and experience could have The usefulness of such a man the slowest innings in the his know which balls to leave and must be apparent. In 1888 tory of first class cricket cannot which
the to play and when he against the Australians at be claimed by any one of this came off the field his thighs and Oval he and W. G. Graco, go- quartet. torso were binck and blue from an hours, of which his share Job-liko patience, named Yardo, in first, put on 170 runo - In It belongs to a gentleman of balls that had hit him.
Collins played many bigger was 34, and at one ́ime his | who' In 1033-34. played for irmings throughout his long total remained stationary for Central India against the MCC career, but none
There greater 67 minutes!
wia no at Indore, Almost as soon as he, vatuo,
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During fast bowler meni hitter, once re-
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curious thing about Scotton
After 200 minutes, he crawled a forcing bat, failed to break his | 1k
minutes added another pains duck during a 45-minute stay was a fast scorer and a
when taking two later, He flashed out every stroke nised ditert Only
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