THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1957.
SPORTING: SAM
by Reg. Wootton
NATIONAL TRAINER SEES
Good Chance For German
Soccer Team
Team To Enter World
Cup Final
By HANS SCHAEFER
Frankfurt.
National football trainer Sepp Herberger said his team stands a good chance to battle their way into the final of the 1958 World Championships-provided everything runs according to plan.
"We have done some planning," said the 60-year-old coach and nationa) team selector who assumed this responsible job twenty-one years ago.
"And I believe that if my strategic plans work out all right our team should battle their way Into the final of next year's world tournament.”
Sensoara taking!
DOUBLE BRANDIES It Is Harder To Make
ALL ROUND AT LORD'S
By JOHN COTTRELL
It will be double brandies all round in the Tavern of Lord's Cricket Ground on July 29. Old members of the MCC will pinch themselves to make sure they are awake. And Thomas Loril, founder of the ground, may turn in his grave.
For playing at Lord's that day will be fifteen young women. I repeat... WOMEN,
They will be the first Englishwomen to play there since the ground was established 170 years ago and became the headquarters of the Marylebone Cricket Club, premier cricket club of England and governing body of the game. But cricket-lovers need not Lending, the side ડ the despair. These ladies in white versatile Mary Duggan, a pawer- will not be allowed on the pre-ful right-handed batsman and a cious green turf in front of the left-nu medium fast bowler of pavilion. They will be confined inswingers, She has played in to the nets at the Nursery End. ten Test matches and went on Even ro, they will be making the last Australostan tour of history.
1948-0. The ladles, who fre So At the Oval in 1951 she almost privileged to practive at Lord's, dia a Jim Laker, taking nine
members of the English Aussie wickels in one innings. women's ericket team which
All the players are single, leaves on September 27 for n six thanths tour of Australla many cricka-playing wits in England, but as Miss Rheinberg says: "Once Women cricketers get married they so often and so
Tire
and New Zealand and takes in Ave Test matches, These over- Icas lours conie rouid only about once every ten years and the girls are preparing for the Tests in deadly earnest. All of them have given up snicking. During matches they must
expect, however,, But on May 22 of this year,,UX- | netenlly play in Sweden, nobody in trd by 10 p.m. # close lock
the perts hopes that the crisis_was would say here. national squael's unconvincing | Getromme collapsed when Scol- recurd in post-World Champion- | land kommered out, a humilia- rhip games, could not share this or three-ray win over the Ger- optimistle outlook and labelled mine.
favourable iva-
LEAGUE SERIES
TEST RECORD They have an impressive Ten record to maintain. Of the seven- teen Tests so far England have won seven, drawn seven and los: three.
Big Scores Than
It Used To Be
Says DENIS COMPTON
For all the criticism
these days that the Gentlemen-Players game is out- dated, the big moment of my farewell season was when I led out the Players' side at Lord's the other week.
The teams for this match were both very good, with much of the current England bowling at my disposal; and most of the England batting available to Peter May, the Gentlemen's skipper,
some
In the composition of the two sides 1 am reminded of how much times have changed since I first came into big cricket 21 years ago,
Then the cream of England's batting was found in the professional ranks, while a good deal of the beat bowling could be found among the amateurs,
In Players teams of the mid-1 In short, it is harder to make worry of making the grade and thirties for instance, auch fine big scores than it used to be, the money is not batsmen Walter Hammond, and the balance of power
very tempt hasing." Herbert Sutcliffe, Maurice Ley- eller evened up or in
"Others think along the same Jand, Fddle Paynter, Charlie casco switched completely to the lines, and MCC are hard press Barnett and Joe Hardstaff were bowlers.
ed to maintain the ground staf conspicuous.
In these circumstances, fewer at the full complement In the Gentlemen's teams, Ken professional batsmen are receiv-ability. It was different before Farnes, "Hopper" Read, G. O.ing the opportunities to emulate the war when, with the threat of Allen, Waller Robins and Fred- the scoring deeds of their pre- unemployment in industry, a job die Brown, England bowters all, decessors.
on a cricket ground had both were leading lights.
Don't forget that the pro- security and glamour, fessional is always fered with the grim task of producing re-
My own conviction is that the salts under all conditions to
wheel is in the process of turn- hok his job.
Ing its full circle and within a few years professional batamen will occupy the same status as they did pre-war,
of
The small representation the professionals in recent Eng- land batting rides is one of the mysteries of the modern game.
cease to piny seriously."
Apari trem using a 5 oz. bull -as opposed to the male 5% 02. bell-the
In the England elde at Birm- wem.n play cricket strictly to the MCC rules. Ingham, for instance, Ave of the one respect, the women bell.ve first six in the their cricket Is belter than monteurs Peler Richardson, that played by men,
Doug Insole, Peter May, Colin Cowdrey, end Trevor Bailey. was the seme en MCC's recent tour of South Africa
Heiberger himself made E
Declares Miss Rheinberg, quite clear when he stated
ecmpany s:cretary with a 98 In that match.
runs Test innings to her credit: which page recently that only those men will morrlearly unvested the stilt put on the "World Cup team"
Their prospects for c 1957-men and reare faster in Teri "We play brighter cricket than existing deficiencb within the who are going
to prove theat- nation stund. none of the relves in the next lengue series 50 tour? Miss Netta Rheinb matches, London
Expresa and cricketer und iti Internationals of the former Test
Scrvice. 1937-50
now manager of the touring whether the man has a big nams | side, gays: think our chances. are very good, although we are or not,
31-man contingen: ***
short 4 lite
alow spin undergoing a first major prac-bowlers." Lee sėstini to July 14-27 in the The team is especially rich In Munie - Gregwald sporting big-hitting batsmen and fast instiliste inder Herberger's bowlers.
it a kind of "pipe dream."
The Germans are to defend their Weld Championship wat in 1954 in Switzerlang when on that rainy July at Berne in players the nal, they licked 1052 presion,
line forstand Olymple Champions Hungary three goals to two to carry home throughout heked hemogeneity the hotly contested "dues Rhine!ed their attacks on fell apart to sporadie individual efforts Cup."
which, however, lacked punch.
But much has happened since these glorious days when the national team was given a her
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ver fanties in this counts the players were gripped by e bis special training sessions Just Of their post-Wärld Chun- Treme at Pyomaness and præetieri- | cannot do the trick alone to bújki pionship outings, the Germany failed to mark their counter-n hard-kicking team for Sweden, were victorious only In snyen, parta ffectively
#ppealed to the trainers of the One match wound up in a fie, There were, however, alsa CX- various clubs to give him o while the remainius 13 well who not only see Her-Lelping hand by taking special Among others, the once high- the reapegoat for this 4-care of the world champion riding national team lost to such pinoshin showing.
heartening post-world relatively weak teams as Mode land and Delgium.
Experts offered many excuses to Explain the midden devline, which has not been overcome as yet.
FRESH BLOOD
cham-ship team prospects,
Rako urged the players to These experts strered that train harder than ever before al "lo justify Herberger eculd achive quile a their home bares
their nomination to the World lot more in zaiting a really com petitive team for next year's Championship team andre. Prac- workt tourney if he had his] tiếng within the clubs is not al- team prempeals ingethee over long you work, the better your play periods of time. Much if not ways as I chould be. The harder everything for their spectaeplar | results will be."—United Press, showing in the 1954 champion-
First of all, they put the blame on Herberger who at their opin-ships was attributed to the team's
ron but heritated to ion to being
wet t-lon togther it
the their Swiss headquarters of Spiez Britain Beaten
knew his team-
fresh blood into D national eleven's maks H. which sulted in their growing perts opined that amon the into a homogeneous uit, where
aore than 1,000,000 active foal-Gvery player ballers ertolica with themales teactions and could tune National Federation, the trainer his play accordingly. should have discovered young talent aplenty to substitute for his tras.. but burn out "old timere," most of whom are more than 30 years of age.
3-2 In Davis Cup
Herberger's plans to "grlil" ble
Brussels, July 22, men in long training sekeluns so
Britain was beaten 3-2 by far have been applied by the Belglum in the European Zone Inet that the first division teams semi-final of the Davis Cup
from which the team cant-here today. ally eruited---
Britain, leading 2-1 at the their star players start of the day, lost both today's
the rolling singles matches.
Hobby Wilson went down 6-3, 4-0, 4-0, 0-0 to Philippe Washer aut Michael Davies los 6-1, 6-4. 3-0, 4-8, 2-8 to
for
But Bieberger for more than dates are two years did not pay attention badly med to there appeal::. Time and themselves again he pointed out that he longue series.
Thus Herberger in the past needs his "old faithfuls," such ov Fritz and Omar Waiter, Mary had to be ratisdied when he had
Posipal. Morlock, Jupp
and his tea candidates together for whers.
as the team's "strong few days.
Jackie Brichant. Meanwhile, Herberger a few backlone,
days ago and 34 men as the care for the 1958 World Cham pionship quad. This relatively small endre of team prospects is quite different from the 92 men outfit which made up the con- tingent of prospects for the 1959 world curnament.
Occasionally he put few younger mun in the team. But the veterans and the players of the younger generation old no anix well.
Herberger to a large extent selected the cadre on the bands of the players' performance in the final round games of the nationwl league sales.
Belglimm now meet Italy in the Lene fol here on August 2.
had 4.Reuter.
Spanish Style Javelin Throw
Forbidden
Last December 23, Herberger finally bowed to the ever mount ing pressure-apparently he had also realised
that time had already began running out on the Germans and that something
London, July 22. must be done and done quickly
The Internationel Aingur to break the deadlock-when he
fe Experts were of the opinion Athletles Federstion has match a tam against Belgium on which there was not a single that Herberger had good reasons bidden the new so-called "Span
cadre small as 5 riyle"! member of the 1954 World to hold the
posable as thus he can exercise javelin. Championship eleven,
[! "daring" experiment better control over the meu.
worked out all right. The young
throwing the
An official communique pub- With the exception of four shed today said that details of Eckel, Karl Mai, the autherised method of throw-
and ahhlous players battled to men-Horst
a fine four-one win over their Helmut Rahn und Hans Seanefer ing have been incorporated into
Belgian opponents.
Federation's -none of the other members of the
regulations In 1057, the rejuvenated the 1954
World Championship together with the warning that national team scored two other eleven was put on the cadre. "on-orthodox styles" are
Whether these four men will bidden-France-Pressu. wins over Austria and Holland.
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ONLY PROFESSIONAL
I was the only professional among the batsmen-and I of the pre-war school. What is the reason for the apparent dearth of post-war professional batsmen of the top class?
Cricket needs a much heavier now of batamen than bowlers.
IMPORTANT REASONS
more
SUPPORTERS' CLUBS
of
otherwise
The call-up is fading away, There are other important rea- and young cricketers will be sons, social and economic. The able to complete
their appren- ticeship call-up has broken into many
without interruption promising professional career. through National Service, The cash for young cricketers in the nurseries of the county clubs is not good enough.
Moreover, many counties are They can
get much
being encouraged by their money eulside the game, and supporters* clubs to find jobs far with greater opportunities of their professionala vulside cricket security,
so that they do not feel the In- A youngster On n county security they might ground staff is lucky to get £0 suffer. A week in the summer and Д
The supply of young cricket- nominal £1 a week or so re-crs, in short, will be greaten tainer in the winter.
and already there are signs that I know, for example, of one most of the best among the up- boy, reckoned to be among the ard-coining talent are batsmen. most promising On the MCC The next era in cricket could ground staff, who left Lord's well belong to the batsmen. this year to take a job at £10 With players Jike Tom a.week as a van dilver. Graveney and Dick Richardson We have also suffered several i He argued hls Gwn cast as their example, am convinced adampish summers
recent soundly enough, explaining: "In that the young pro botemen in years, pitches have not generally my present job I have a guar- this country will play an increas- been as true and easy for run- anteed wage and can enjoy my ing part in the future making as pre-war-always ex-
cricket at week-ends, cepting Trent Bridgeland field-
cricket.
placings are much tighter.
Part of the answer k. I think, that this reversing of strength is just one of the cycles that affects cricket, and, indeed, most Men's "E Divisha;
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Sydney, July 22. Australian featherweight Rus- sel Sands tonight mutpointed Raymond Rojes in a 12-rounke, 5.30 p.m. bout at Sydney Stadium.
Nojus 135%, said he would press for an Empire tite bout with Willie Towell. - United Press.
Sands, weighing 1341.
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