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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1957.
THE INITIAL TAPE RECORDING HOLDS A
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Miss Christine Truman, of Essex, the holder, beating Miss M. Catt to reach the Anat of the Girls' Singles in the National Junior Tennis Championships at Wimbledon.-Central Press Photo,
CARDIFF CITY MANAGER SAYS
MORE CASUALTIES SINCE THE INCREASE OF THE WINNING BONUS TO £4
1
More Food For I Have Met Yet More Thought?
Asks I. M. MacTAVISH
soccer
of
on
Jack Bloomfield
By ARCHIE QUICK
If you turn of New York's Broadway
down West Forty-
inth Street you are in the heart i of the Damon Runyon Country..., The quaint characters congregato tacre because it is the hub of the world of boxing, Madison Square Garden la close by and there are ny many masogers' afees as there are bookshopa in
call Fistiana's Tin-Pan Alley, Tex Richard started it all. Also there you will and Jack Demp- sey's Resturant where the great ex-heavyweight champion of the world is always "At Homo" to his polyglot throng of oustomera.
The only equivalent there has ever been to Dempsey's place in Great Britain was Jack Bloom- feld's "Sportmen's Corner" in Leicester Square, The former British eruterwoight cham- pion, immaculately dressed, with red carnation buttonhole and huge cigar. held court there, and it will be good news to every branch of sport, the stage and the cosmopolitan world at large that "Sportsmen's Corner" —victim of a direct bomb
built and will open
pin in March.
hit
*JI
ite, doors
*What a wonderful sight! Wonten everywhere à fert not ona of them talking!"
London Expresi Farkton
SPORTS QUIZ
1 Who is the present holder of the United States men's singles lawn tennis title?
2 A batsman hits the ball in the air and it lodges in the wicket-keeperlo pád. Is he out?
3 ALSCORES (a). Thero this are twelve a sido in game.
4 Who was the last boxer la challenge Joz Louis for the world heavyweight crown?
the
5
With which sports do you nasociat--) Bebby Lucke, b) Joe Davis, c) John Bromwich?
G In 1953 the record sum of £250,000 was paid for a borse owned by the Aga Khan. What was the horse's name?
7 What great International sporting event took place at Cortina, Italy, in 19507
LWO West
The Hongkong Football Association Council held a meeting last Tuesday evening and a modern touch was given to the pro- ceedings by the use of a tape recordor to preserve the verbal Charing Cross Blonch You could deliberation of the Councillors. It was surely fitting that the vory first official recording should be something extra special in as much as the initial tape now holds a fighting 'no holds barred' farewell speech by Squadron Leader Reg Britton, the Royal Air Force representative on the HKFA. According to all reports. ... and the tape is an important witness.... this speaker sat down amid loud and sustained applause, but what no one knows really definitely is how much of the applause was an acclama- tion of what had been said, and how much was an indication of relief that an honest straight-from-the-shoulder attack had ended! ! ! During the time he was on This is sporting hypocrisy at j sur football officials to press his fect the quiet-spoken its very lowest level.
for the Investigation which has Squadron Leader held the rapti The constitution of the Hang- now been advocated..and no attention bath of the usually kong Football Associations significant has been the during the biltz-is being cusual councillors and the nor-includes provisions for
silenco pro- volumes speaking mally hard-bitten inembers of fessionalism. These provisions some of the others, the press. His well :imed prods should be invoked immediately. ruffled A few feathers andi
In the latter group there are
OPENING NIGHT foucher A few tender quicks; The outstanding aspect of one or two unexpected por- while raising no little apprehcn» | Squadron Lewior
Britton's sonalities...time will probably opening night! Jack Bloombele,
What hosts will bount Iskon us to how far he would go sptech was surely his willingfell an interesting and reveal after throu major operations
hunco tin doubt about nees to offer geneTOUS praise, the applause.
where it was due and deserved ing tale as far as this acelion
but a shadow of his old gigan- of the
community is
East- without blunting in anyway his
tie self, lives quietly nt. bourne and intends only to sup- The whole question of un-
rapler-like thrusts at the per- concerned.
But ervise his new enterprise. of cancerous disguised xofessionalism among sistent rumours
A Icw weeks ago I pro- when the doors open next Morch the big names in Colony foutvils that are eating the vitals mised you thut we were
the old-timers there will think ball is one which must be out of the game.
the fringe of what might prove of Alex Jemes and Alex Jock- tackled resolutely, and that very It one reviews the speech to be the most momentus scaseri son, these two "Blue Devils" of soon. The modus operandum is
carefully he will
of Hongkong Scotland who were its habitues find that the in the history open to speculation but it is really significant theme is that football. I'm sure you'll agree and are with us no more. interesting to note that RC the players are
exactly what that we've got off to the right Tom Webster, the cartoonist, Britton has Stain suggested
of start to make that says he would not miss the in- come of the methods of investi- the officials have made them... kind
augural function for to say, promise a reality.
worlds. Kation which hava been or maybe, it is fairer
what they have allowed to be
Jimmy Wilde, greniest of all advocated in this column several made.
The early battle of voting flyweights, will going along- times during the Inst four yeara,
rights between the HKFA and | even if he has been -n lifelong Want these investigations would In recent wocks the vernacular the Chinese FA got is qff to a teetotaller-so will the Houston uncover it is difficult to say but
will des- newspapers have carried dozens termy beginning: Reg Brit Sisters. Fleet Strost there are several points worthy of sploy stories about the preston's outspoken honesty carried cend upon its old meeting place
for players, things an important step for- --and there will doubtless recapitulation, now that the season tug-of-war
be matter has and under various simple quises word; the players
now jockeys,
footballers, boxers, the 'terms offered and accopted showing that reluctance to be cricketers, snooker players and or refused have been quoted. pushed around by clubs which stage stars galore.
of they would at the Bloomfield is a governor Many of those reports Are forecgct
of last reason. doubtless based on the personal end
and eleven hospitals and once stood inquiries carried out by the all in the soccer pot is bolling as a candidate for Parliament particular writer and it would up to as fine an explosive brew for Jus native Islington. He also
started the Boxers therefore be difficult to tender we have known so far,
Jockeys annual football matchi "I have seen more dangerous tackling this season than
them in evidence at any investi-
Let us hope that when it does
end tells me that he personally ever before in a lifetime of soccer," he continued,
Either Hongkong's footballers, ration
come It is a really big bang has raised over £100,000 for Newton Heath Locomotive "and the abnormal casualty list is the answer. Players who are registered as amateufs,
charities.
FC. wle play
the In Press reports and indiscreet that will elcar the air ones and are after the money:are receiving payments in co-conversations are not evidence for all.
Bloomfeld was the one Eng. Manchester League, had got a ishman who looked like becom- satisfactory team together for managers are after the travention of their status,
or of Irregularities. rather are
they 'clues' and starting points If that is so, then this will be
ing world heavyweight cham-the start of the now season. points to serumble to they are not. If they are in tact
receiving
rewards for monolary
*Boule.
one match of
and, Britton plan That dream faded when l They played the safety, and play in directly or indirectly from their such as were suggested to the
trained investigators another
week we shall have cause to knocked out Bombardier Billy hey presto, there were only some of the dog-fight football ability then
remember with gratitude and Wells and ruptured himself four
Rochdalo the payer meeting... and the sooner the
players left. Blackburn Rovers spotits Third Division games it he is a soccer official is as probe starts the
carrying the fallen champion taand warmer the satisfaction for a long, long time trail will be.
had signed the rest! I have seen so far has much in default as the payee, been positively frigh- If the allegations are true - Incidentally, I have been tening."
and nowadays only the most making a few Inquiries mycell charitable souls or the
most in order to get some idea of the Mr Morris, who turned down credulou, minds belleve they general reactions to the forth- the attractive Burnley manager- are not -- then the money very right challenge which Reg Brit- ship because "I should not have obviously comes from some-ton's speech has thrown down. had complete control there" where
and that, I suggest, says that after last season's dolc- Is where the first investigation ful experience he sold players, should be directed. It's there some folks who are anything Jel players go free, bought ex- that the whele rotten business but happy about the whole perienced players and signeti on starts. It is there that it can be thing, but that is probably ne promising local youths, but
and maybecause they are interested partlez "there 16 no definite road to through a significance that has Generally, however, the TC- succes in football," he adds, nothing to do with football, "The ones I have let go may
By ARCHIE QUICK
"The increase of the winning bonus to £4 is not doing foot. ball any good. It is making for over-robustness." Cardiff City manager Trevor Morris said that. Relegated Cardiff sit unhappily in the twentieth position of the Second Division with only four points from seven games and an adverse goal average of
Mr Morrly speaks with feeling!
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SIMPLEST FORM
Let us reduce the problem to Its simplest form.
ended
turn out trumpa; the ones I have If anyone cares to examine bought or found may be fatlures, the local scene carefully he will On the other hand. It may be find that many of the Colony's Just the revITSU,
star footballers do not have any regular everyday employment. In spite of this they obviously live very well and are able to annually in the persult travel many thousands of miles
soccer engagements,
50 PER CENT 'LUCKY
management
"Football. more than fifty per cent hielt. You may have the good fortune to permutate a winning com- bination, but nothing la cerialn either way. You can go into
or
Now let me make it clear the transfer market and spend that I have absolutely nothing
thal.
Not unexpectedly, I
found
eetlon has been one of uncon cealed satisfaction.
PRESENT SITUATION
Many people who have Te luctantly tolerated the present have grabbed the situation chance and joined forces with those who have always expressed their disapproval of what goes on behind the scenes in the hope that at last someono han tossed. in a guastiet that cannot possibly be rejected.
Stace Tuesday Mr Britton has bren stopped in public places by complete strangers who have congratulated him on his enior-
a mint of money, and slili keep against a man earning his living losing Sunderland did just by exploiting his aporting
talents for 1 believe there is great place for professionalism talent and it comes or, Wolves I abhor is the possibility of theprise: his telephones havé hardly in every sphere of sport, What
"Or you may cultivate home
and Manchester United havo done that, although I think Bailon Wanderers", "eloven inen at £19 siguing-on fee each may prove the best of the lot one day or Ted Drake's Chelsen.
stopped ringing as people trom blatant exploitation of pro- all sections of the community salonalism under the cloak of called to comment on the text of amateurism... and, above all, his speech....and thay have 'deprecute the willingness of been wholeheartedly in favour officials to guarantee the bona of his suggestions. fide amateur status of these sane players when they particl. Much more important thop pate in International amateur all that, however, has beco the * agoli you may
pay competitions,
nvowed intentions of some of Out for stars aid meet with meccas while 啡 your local team-building is blown sky high. I have tried both and know."
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Cardiff, said Mr Merris, made several uitoniats after Christmas to buy players to improve their attack, but they were unobtainable. This time he. la. going to stick to the players he has got for the time being at any ralet
Mr Morris added that loss of John Charles to Italy and Trevor Ford to Hollind menps that the Welsh Inter nationals have gol to start team-building from scratch, and | they will do it around Ivor | · Allchurch.
the
POP
I STILL SAY WERE
LOST,/.
to come.
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10
About which Indian cricketers was calypso written?
Nama
What are the Christian of professional tennis stars "Pancho" Gon- zales and "Pancho" Seguro? - Who takes part in a penalty bully in hockey?
(Answers on Parn 17)
Versus The Vultures Strike
his corner,
CRICKETER WEDS
Michael Stewart, the Surrey cricketer and Charlton Athletic footballer, recently wed. Misa Sheila, MacCormick at Dulwich College Chapel. This picture shows Alec Bedser, watched by Eric, congratulating the bride and groom after the ceremony.-Central Press Photo
Bár -3 KNOW THIS
BHT WERE
NOT GOINCE
·BAGIEWAR
As the fly crows
PREGIQUE
DROPS
FOR
PRECIQUE
MOMENTS.
CHERRY HEERING