THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1957.
TODAY'S LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS ARE NOT "SOFT" Home Soccer
Class
Fifty First Matches A Season
Takes Some
Doing
Says TOM FINNEY
Results
London, Sept. 10. Results in tonight's Football League matches were:
Wolves
First Division
1 Aston Villa Second Divialon Bristol Rovers Blake City Sheffield Un. West H
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Third Division (South)
Mlilwoll
Northampton
Plymouth
Port Vale
Exter
Brentford Brighton Bothampton
Q. P. Rangers 2 Swindon
--Router.
Ken Birch of Everton is stretchered off playing against Chelsea Grenville Hair is carried off at Old Trafford.....Jackie Blanchflower gets concussion at Goodison Park.....Gil Merrick is taken off at Stamford Bridge. These sporting KO From Halimi headlines road like a hopital report.
Paris, Sept. 18. Alphonse Halimi, France's World Bantamweight Boxing Champion, knocked out Chick Brogan, the Scottish
We all appreciate these accidents are unavoidable, particularly in this hectic two-matches-a-week start to the season. But I must say I was more than annoyed with the famous international footballer who played for England many years ago when he said: "TROUBLE Foler, in the second round of WITH THE PLAYERS THESE DAYS, TOM, IS THAT THEY ARE SOFT. PLAYERS IN MY TIME WERE MUCH FITTER AND STRONGER THAN THE LADS, OF TODAY."
Now this, I ruggent, is not the wlog-half mariding him will only wishful thinking, but just be flat out to stop him from plain piffe. Every age thinks pulling off cll his tricks. they produced the finest foot- ballers and the best teams. Bul no one has yet suggested any good logical reason
why mnen who played the game 30 or 40 years ago should be any atter or tougher than the players of today.
Training schedules have been tightened up in my time, The speed of the game is faster than li was. There might not be so (I wouldn'l much dirty play want to argue about that any- in my opinion you way) but need to be a lot faster and fitter to last the 90 minutes than was the case years ago,
Now don't Kel mo wrong. Everyone appreciates that the great cums of the past, like Arsenal, Sunderland, Astor Villa, Newcastle, and Hudders- fleld Town, were tops at their
particular time.
Bul selence has come Into freining schedules so much these days that it would be remark- able if modern footballers were not fiter than their fathers and grandfathers before them. May be you don't agree... but bellove it to be true.
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After all, in the old days a footballer might play ro than 35 or. Cup and League games. In modern times, players like Roger Byrne, Billy Wright and Duncan Edwards may notch
50 10 60 first class matches-- and that takes some doing.
GIVE HIM A BREAK Jimmy Greaved, at the tender age of 17, has become London's latest
The sikker scotation. football work is virtually at his talented feel.
BUT 1 APPEAL TO THE CROWDS WHO WILL WATCH JIMMY GREAVES THIS SEA- SON: GIVE THE BOY A BREAK, DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH OF THE LAD. FOR MORE PLAYERS ARE RUINED BY THAT THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
This is the era of the bright young men of soccer. i think that's fair enough. Particularly in o side like Manchester United, where they are continu- ally bringing and nursing the youngsters along in a set pat- iern,
But Greaves burst into the headlines like an atom bomb. And I am sure that grand soccer. character Ted Drake who man ages Chelsea will have pointed out to Chelsea's latest shooting stur how nickle fame can be. When a youngster comos the game with a "Bang" Greaves has done, there is 1 tendency for football fans to ex- pect wonders from the boy week after week. Soccer is not as easy as that,
into Ilke
Every time that Greaves goes on to the field
be will be a heavily marked man. Yes, even
though he is only 17.
Because
Sports Diary
CAAT
TODAY
Boccar
Cup! Eastern
V
Bouth
China. 8.30 p. (CH). НКТА Couna! Meeting. at Sports Дови
DAO p.m.
Menta
Diving Springboard taney
An LRC, 4.30 p.m.
Tennis
diving
LRC Tennis Championship: Colony
Bingle Open Club
Club Men's
Ladies Singtes Finn's Singles
'cap. Inter-Hoog H'cap.
Meeting
IKTA Council Meeting at Sports Hor, 40 p.m..
TOMORROW
Swimming
RAF Annual Qwimming Gala, of Il Tak, 3. p.m.
fater-Unit Swim- ming Champlonialilpe, Victoria Pool,
Annual Aray
2.40 p.m.
Tesis
Tennis:
LUC
Championshipai Coloby Ladies Doubled Final, Inter HOUR JECAP Club Men's Singles Eyes, Club Men's Singles Arcop.
ZİKTA Interport Sub-Commlifiqu Meeting at Bports Itoad, 5.6 p.m.
As a younger 1 was prob ably lucky in making my debut in wartime when crowds only too glad to ate any foot-
I had ball at all. Then
were
the
in
rough edges, rubbed off me Service football, where I came Across many top rank stars like and Andy Beatlle, Matt Busby Co., go that when I came into League football I had served, a tuirly varied apprenticeship, at the game.
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Jimmy It Isn't the fault of Greaves that he has won so inuch publicity and popularity so soon. I've seen play In five-a alde football and he shuwed splendid ball control. Many my friends tell ale he is soccer star of the future. That's why I hope the crowds don't spell him (and the young play- ers like him) by expecting to much TOO SOONI
THAT BACKCHAT
idea
*There seem: 10 be an galaing ground that a foolbult ntalch should be played in desd
silence so far as the players and referce are concerned. Well, we all know It Is fatal to talk back to reforces at the wrong time. But fcotball would be a poor zame without a little give and, take.
Sometimes the backchat be- iwecu players and referee re- stores order by bringing laugh- ter to situation ready to boll over,
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One of the funniest scenes ever between a player and feree concerned our old friend Len Shackleton and his fellow Yorkshireman Arthur Ellis, was a muddy and windy day. and when Sunderland were awarded
a non-title fight here tonight. -Reuter.
SAM SNEAD WINS FIRST MONEY IN DALLAS OPEN
Dallas, Texas, Sept. 10. Blammin' Sammy Snead, playing without a worry in the world as he coasted along with an insurmountable lead. 'slacked up the $8,000 first money in the $40,000 Dallas Open Golf Tournament today with a three-under-par 35-33-08 that gave him a 204 for the 72-hole grind.
The veteran, West Virginian hillbilly, who has won more tournaments than any pro player in his 21 years an 'a pro, Anished 10 strokes in front of the field and left most of the gallery Interest on today's final round concentrated on a bitter struggle for the $1,000 second moncy.
CRUISING AROUND
was
Laken
Sul, mont of the crowd of 6,500 could not keep from drifting back to the final threesome whers Snead cruising around the 6,209.yard, par 56-35-71 Glen Country Club layout with Earl Stewart Jr., and Fred (lawkins, whom he had left far behind yesterday when he built up an eight-stroke cushion to carry into today's final round.
But neither of his partners managed to get Into a alaro of the runner-up społ
deadlocked for second money Three playera
with 10-under-par 274s and they won $3,060.67 each for their fents of finishing so far behind the free-swinging Bread. They were Billy Maxwell, Bob Inman and Cary Middlecoff- United Fress.
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