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THE CHINA MAIL," TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1957.
MISSED IT SOCCER NEEDS MORE GOALS AND NOT
The Sheffield Wednesday goal is wide open, bot Tottenham's inside left Stokes misses his shot following a corner kick in the First Division match at White Hart Lane ground, London, on September 21. Centre Is a Sheffield defender and in the background, Dyson, Tottenham's outside left. Tottenham won 4-2. -Keuterphoto.
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At Last A Start Has Been Made To Modernise English League Soccer
Says J. L. MANNING
London.
If you want a nicely drawn-up tenant's agreement to live in a fool's paradise you can do no better than presume reform of the Football League is now accomplished. Even moderate reform lles beyond a vast range of conferences, squabbles, jealousies, and compromise. But the goal will be reached, for clubs know that failure means a further loss of public.confidence and a new wave of unrest by players.
Yet more important than the than 50 per cent in the Third merit of the proposals is the fact Divisions,
that
MORE GIMMICKS
Says TOM FINNEY
-
We have heard a great deal in recent years about planned soccer. We have had the "W" plan, the Revie plan the "H" (for Hungary) plan, and the latest one, Manchester City's "M" Plan. This, of course, has been one of soccer's biggest talking points in recent weeks, and after 16 goals into Manchester City's net in the last two matches every- one wants to know if the plan is to be ditched. Whether or not Mr Leslie McDowall, the City manager, keeps his present team formation I must say this: He deserves praise for his original thinking. But the question young footballers want to know is this: Is it possible to evolve a plan which will guarantee playing success?
think, give the young reserves. ¡ For no matter what the particularly, something to fight League officials may plan for for.
The answer is no. I feel that soccer needs more goals and not more gimmicks; and we need more cing players and not sa many plans. The plain truth in that it is. player, and not plans that win matches.
Tho *uccess of Manchester City's deep-centre Revie plan the was not just a success for plan of having a deep centre- forward; It was a success for Don Revit. Without a player of his
the enlibre to -operate deep-lying centre-forward play the plan would have flopped.
Tactics Essential
Now don't gel file wrong. Every team should have toc- deal talks and vary their the iles from game to game DIC- cording to the opposidon. to play at style or pattern. week
ufter week, is. I feel,
i wrong.
But
After all, the gome at tuot ball should be fald, and the best teams have the best players! and they make up their plans as they go along.
You may have noticed that Preston managed to beat Mott- chester City -1. How was t done? Well, we know what to
as pridicted m expect and this totum pivviously, we felt
to the
"M" pun was to have an attacking wing- half,
the answer
Sure enough, Tommy Docherty of Preston was the Brst mat to torpedo the Mon- chester City two centre-halves pla ile did it by comin: through an attackim is
Nevertheless, these sugges lons by the Management Com mittee of the League are being engerly discussed by League players all over the country, and it these bold new plans are adopted then it is up to the players to give the fans value
for money.
SPORTING SAM
by Reg. Wootton
Eddie Choong Sgt Bruce Wells Hopes To
Wins Another Singles Title
Bombay, Sepi, 30. World Badminton Champion Eddie Choong of Malaya added to his successes by defeating Nandu Naicker, India's No. 2.
the betterment of the game or the players, it still remains as true as ever; YOU CAN ONLY
TAKE OUT OF THE GAME WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT, AND IF WE, THE PLAYERS: DON'T ATTRACT THE CUS in the final of the Combined TOMERS THEN ALL THESE PLANS FALL FLAT.
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DICK FRANCIS SAYS...
Fred So
Winter Modest!
Is
At five o'clock every morning in the Ryan Price stable at Findon the horses have their breakfast... At six o'clock, the doors open, the buckets clank, and the lads whistle as they muck out the boxes and saddle At 6.30, the first lot clatter out of the yard up.'.. and up towards the downs.
Rubbing the steep from Cy#3 one morning last work, Fred Winter, first jockey to the slable, and 1 rode with them.
At breakfast, before we went out with the second lot. I ask ed Fred the secret of his success.
le has been champion National
un jockey three times,
at
"I ride food horses," he said
once, "At least, betler horses
than most other jockeys."
That great hurdler Clair Soleil is due to appear over the bigger obstacles this season, and so is
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Cricket Club of India and Western Indin Badminton Championship here today,
Pummelling the backband corner of the baseline with deep returns, Choong battered down Natekar's defences and won 15-10, 15-7.
Only he led 6-5 in the Arst game did Natekar look the Malayan's mateb but aftur Choong had levelled scores at there seemed only one player in Rome.
Both players began cautious.
y and the lead changed hands frequently during the first game which Justed 20 minutes. Choong's tactics of tiring out his opponent by concentrating on his backhand paid dividends as Natekar tried to end the rallies with short smashes but could collect only ten points.
12-3
Choong raced into Π lead in the Fecond game but Le Painiin, now at the top of Natekar fought hard to reduce the handicap in hurdle races. Ile the leeway and reached seven already jumping superbly points. Then a keen fight saw ever schooling Cences,
the service change four times Neglecting to mention his own
before the wiry Moldyan led ability as
13-5, good sense" and trainer, Ryan Price gives four
The service again changest reasons for his success.
Ilmes before Choong six
Issue after the clinched the second game had run for 35
He praises the local air on the South Downs-clear and bracing
Become A Coach And Trainer Professionally
'By ARCHIE QUICK
Sergeant Bruce Wells leaves the Royal Air Force next August, and Service boxing will be all the poorer for that. Britain's great light-middle- weight amateur will then have completed seven years Regular service, and he hopes to become a coach and trainer professionally. This handsome 24-year-old, a freak middleweight at six feet four inches, told me that London manager Ted Walker had approached him with a view to his taking over the care of the new lightweight star Johnny Kidd, who was with Wells in the RAF. "There is so much I can teach up and coming youngsters about a straight left, and I think I have a good idea of the difference they will feel, when they turn from the amateur ranks to the professional."
corners
win
Weils conilded that when he Terry, Northampton overcame was out of the country Bghting the psychological effect of that for Great Britain he always Griffin Park hiding by turning endeavoured to do the sporting the tables 3-1.
Lowly Northampton's thing in the ring-stop promptly ut the bell, pat opponents, help long service wingers,
was a triumph for their iwo
Toriy them to their
after- terior Fowler and Jack English. Both wards, etc. "I had an i have been with the club over
The foreign motive though. crowd used to like it, and when ten years and, playing their first
when natch of
at
Vie sensin together, they cheered it helped a lot the two veterans had a hand in when the referee was totting up each of Northampton's three hig Ecore card" Tongible evidence of at least one victory goals.
Northampton are in dire need was a magnificent gold wrist of an inside forward, but 05 wearing manager watch that Wells was
Dave Smith said: lle won that in a place where it "What can we do? Lake us, is most difficult for a Britisher everybody is feeling the behe- 10 win-Chicago. He was vietor there in the Golden Gloves
between
One man very contented with Tournament
Ute on the Northampton ground Empire and USA. THE "H-LINE”
was Arsenal wing half Dive REMARKABLE RECORD
Bowen who lives invtė Mid- Bolton Wanderers League Wells told me that when he lands town. A year ago he told team now...consists of eleven retired a year ago he had had me he was fed up at not.com- first team placę at players each of whom cost only 322 aghts, and had won them all manding a 10
Five of a 10 signing-on fee.
and remarkable Highbury except Bixi
contemplated the Lancashire' sup- them tax
record. Three times he was dis- taking over his father's licensed PUTLUTE!
aspiration-Hopkins qualified, once he was beaten
was beaten on premises. Here he was now not established Arsenal Bartle, Hennin, Higgins and
team man, but newly elected captain of Wales for her World Cup match against East Germany at Cardiff. This
A modest man. He is also the from the sea three miles away; minutes.Reuter.
half.
I am all for new ideas in
new ideas be all-round NH Jockey tid soccer, particularly
(Tim Molony over fences of attacking, but you just can't ing.
At least this and Harry Sprague over hurdles plan for success, is my view. Like I said, you are perhaps his equals.) need players fret for the plan Ryan Price's stable mostly hurdlers. Therefore to work and that brings me to produces the proposed new charter for Fred is usually free to ride for
others in 'chases.
SOFECT,
New Charter Now this, I believe, is going
urgently needs. As
1 last a start hos been So when all-round increases mude to modernise the League, | are given throughout the League The one seemingly insoluble the First Division pay less than to bring the flood of clever problem was that, until a year they can afford and the Third new players that our soccer so ago, the League regarded them- Division very much more.
The selves not merely us administra- | lowest capacity to pay sets the tos but as geniuses.
Now, suddenly released from the blessed Imigevity
of their
stendard for all. Clearly there should be different rates.
But the essence of the maxi- o embers, the Management mura wage philosophy is that the Committee are not so surở. They } public pays to are teams as well are determined to find out
to turn, to watch matches as well as inen, Ashes neat of a sulary exclusively eu how he plays to the gallery and packs en in at the round and giving all but
office is conunercial ahasement calcitrant players a £25-in-the- of the game.
Prowlers
By using the maximum wage
£20 werkly all the
your
TC-
£1,000 commission on transfer fees. the Management Com- milter understandably hnve
yielded principle Lo Industrial relations.
footballer'
box-
A football team isn't skiftle
Troop.
Knockers
Prospects Good
Halloween
and
Sundew (winner of the Grand National last March) rose to fences and fame under his hands.
To become champlon jockey is absolutely essential to ride for a large stable, ond from that point of view alone Fred Winters prospects for the sea- you are good.
I see it, the new pay proposals for pro-it fessional footballers outlined by Mr Joe Richards, the League
Mr and
Allen President, Hardacre, the League Secretary, could bring back a golden era of football. And I don't just necessarily can gold in the players' pockets, either.
When the old timera
any soccer isn't so good as it was, I always reply "Yes, but before the war it was worth while to be professional footballers".
Then lads
Blad
In
were
LU
Ryan Price started to train six horses after the war with and a caravan. Now he is in the front rank under both rules of racing, and last spring he broke all NH records with 19 winners in one season,
has
This season he again About 60 horses in tiis yard, and has chalked up eight Jumping winners already.
Among the newcomers in the yard are Feluma, a nae unrace French horse,
good - louking
come into the game, because at offered them more than they Finally, a waming to clubs would get in an ordinary job. lest they should reject the
post-war years, far too Footballers might complain of proposal to stop officials and
many of our potential coceer stars have been lost simply be- cause they could earn more in
horse This the pils or in other industries.
the changed his It just wasn't worth gamble of turning professional, trainer?
In fact it is a tragedy thal
the nipperditess of only £3 week more when they are pluy ing, but can hardly protest aboul
to
go
proposal to expel offending clubs
this
their lungs, not mud.
To those who think this would
more,
рго-
310
came
hns
. from
Arthur
ns
he pays special attention to good feeding, to build the hurves up and
develop
their stamina;
| he gives an exceptional amouni of trotting exercise to strengthen legs and tendons.
he has an excellent Finally, Bend In, George Winders, who bus cared for, and helped produce, 103 winners in the 12 months he has been with the stable,
(London Express Service).
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Holden.
Yankees Hope To Solve Injury Problems While Awaiting Braves
New York, Sept. 30,
A
the
of Entertainment Tax re- lief, and they will not cell."
poinis, once by a knockout and only an once the referee stopped the Brst fight in his opponent's favour. The only man to put him down for the full count was Bemar Fuster, the Birmingham butcher Bruce won the European
in 1953, Championship in Oslo in
and
£1,000
Macater man replaces £45,000 John Charles. THE TRUTH Northampton folk, inordinate-
ly mod of having finished it is only recently our
Cricket years later that he receiver his second in the County
for the first certificate
cale from the European Championship
time, are quick to refute the Board of Control. He was RAF
that Cust bowler In' succes- buggestion Champion aive years sion, doubling those bucketsts Frank Tyson is about to return
with
native Lancashire or Austraile with hin bride. The is that
the Imperial Services to hfg He won two National settle in ADA Championships and had Sydney blue bult aluself o six years of international boxi house in the town and he how during which time he appeared
The champion New York Yankees hoped to solve their Injury problems today while awaiting the arrival of the Milwaukee Braves and what could be the richest overall World Series in history,
Manuger Casey Stengel of the been on the sidelines for nearly Yankees, shooting for his elghth
face
Leo Espinosa Stakes Crown
For Charity
con-
for his country over afty times, several years before in
It fa
lo a pity that the likeable act expires with the County
job In the town. mom with a painful back Bruce cannot be retained by the Club Also he has a well paid enough for the show ring, and Series Championship in h injury.
Amateur Boxing Association as players exploiting ghosted
brown four-year-old, Chief irtes, wondered whather Juls notoriety
The chatices appeared to be National Coach. The excuse for personal gain by
Horker.
alling stars, Mickey Mantle and thai Mantle would play for he is that they could not afford to umbrageous contributions to
this recently Bill (Moost) Skowron, would reported
leg rise of 20 a week when they press and radio,
"Meeling pay him what he is worth. So name und his be able to play in Wednesday's better." together are not,
with a fing Or course, the "wide boys"
opening game at Yankee Inducement
But it didn't look as though Wells is to move into pro- fessional surroundings although ant play must be stopped dragging down
make would Stadium,
a love on Skowron
pull he will never happily for some other club ny- the League os clubs struggle to-
So he called for a Monday Stengel had hoped to get all
again to HAD TO
u contest. waly.
wards happier and more honest many of our best players ac-Budgett's yard, where as Polar
workout KL the the Hght-handed hitting power morning tually preferred part-time foot- Much more impressive is the ways! They went fresh air in bell in a non-League team be. Lodge he had some success
possible in his line-up to
of an Amateur Time table a two and three-year-old colt. Stadium.
Braves' cause they could earn
"Maybe after it's over I'll be the
garna opening This year, however, he became and to detect them by the use
International. Terry Hobinson, London schoolmaster,
Manila, Oct... 1. of prowling accountants.
This is quite true, and I feel stubborn and sulky at home, able to tell you whether Mickey pitcher, the gifted left-hunder, husky Such intringe freedom by imposing that if these new pay is the quality of men in football censorship, I say this:
Philippine Featherweight played for England in Finland. and only once, when he was and Bill will start on Wednes. Warren Spahi Are re- that
"On the Stengel soid, posals are adopted It will be the second in the Free Handicap, day,"
Missed the after-match festiv!- Champion Leo Espinosa, con citter porters promises
nud commentators ai
third World Spahn, a 21-game winner, is dromatic results or an infuriating liberty to declare their employers
death of part-timers in soccer. showed anything approaching other hand, I'll work them out
oppose Whitey dies and went to bed early. currently ranked
Dawn That can do nothing but good his old form in races,
again on Tuesday morning for I Expected to
Might from flop.
Bantamweight contender, stakes Helsinki, to be Guilly Mea?
Ford, a Yankee cripple for most for the game. There is no
want to make sure."
and his local crown: tonight against For ny part I oris in no doubl
A gelding operation
of the senson,
who finished touch-downs at Hamburg that the root of all the League's
doubt at all that the era of the
new identify in new surround- Just what he would do if
with total of 11 Amblerdam for re-fuelling and the Philippine bantamweight £1,000 2 troubles is that cheats have done
year footballer sings have done him good. Ho they couldn't play, he
so to London Airport by 2.45 titlist Alfredo Asuncion, and didn't trong reveal. But the chances are he rather better out of the game
upon us. I have no doubt that looks now or if he will make a
p.m. Fast car the 100 odd miles world-rated bantamweight, how than agitators. Even a reversal of
many will object to these new useful chaser.
would put his prize rookie, Tony While the Yankoo were or so to Northampton where he No 7 in the Ring Magazine" this fortune would
Idea pay suggestions and the
Kubek, in contre to replace working out, the Braves were had halt an hour to spare to listings, Mantle #nd that players should get 2 per
his old club, wholesome progress.
Aight tonight is pro Elsion being fated in a civic ceremony turn out against vent of any transfer tee.
The Brentford). I saw Fred giving both these Howard, a baseball jack-of-all- and parade in Milwaukee.
moted by the Philippine Sports- who.. will These ideas won't go through
Braves were scheduled to leave England's trainer Jack "Jen-writers Association
the Northampton's turn over
proceeds to Milwaukee by plane at 2 p.m. ninos also unchallenged, but I think these horses a school, and they were trades, to first for Skowron. are only the first few faltering jumping very well for novices,
Three of last
Triple Crown season's top
Robinson alpable or crippled Filipino: ex- EDT and native in New York trainer. was with steps to a better deat all round juvenile hurdlers, the four-year-
some three hours later.
all the way, and he said: "Terry boxers, for soccer players. For In-
Mantle, whose bid to retain Mannger Fred Hancy, an- just had to play in this game In the supporting main éveilt, a little olds Fare Time, St Stephen and
week's 1-7 ranking stance, I think it is
avenge Inst
Philippine Feather- Doxford, have developed con- batting's triple crown was toll-nouncing definitely that Spahn to
I thought weight challenger Jet Bally optimistic to expect
clubs like
ed by shin splints in his left would be his first game starter, beating at Brentford. Arsenal to pay £20 a week and siderably during the summer.
I shall be surprised if they leg, sut out the last three gorgs scheduled a workout for Yankee he was the best back also expect Gateshead to pay don't carry off half a dozen races of the season, while Skowron, a Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. field for all our long and tiring weight Champion Sarika Von- the same.
between them before Christmas.heavy-hitting right hander, has-United Press.
Toilers
So, these last few words on sport commend to all the efforta of the Management Committee and remind the press, with some immodesty, that in foot- make for bull the sword is still mightier
than the pen.
Home Soccer
Nor am 1 in any doubt that the Management Committee are right not to surender the principle of a maximum wage. Differentials exist even within this pay structure because the top rate will still have to be Accrington carned.
Barrow
Results of today's Football League matches were:
DIV. II (NORTH)
A further differential should Hull City be mado on a divisional basis. York City At present First Division work-
DIV.
ing income is £2,3 millions more Colchester than the combined income of the Milwell two Third Divisions. Wages and Plymouth bonents are 38 per cent of First Port Vale Division expenditure, but more
Colds
Even the slightest cold
Is to be Yeared
Do not let it spread. Defeat it from the start
by taking 2 'ÇAFASPINS"
CAFASPIN
HI (SOUTH)
1
Chester
3 Hartlepools
1. Mansfield
1
3 Bradford
0
I Northampton 0
3 Q. P. Rangers i
Router.
4 Southampton 0
2 Newport
Money For Value
Nevertheless,
I
personally
or
would like (1) abolition of the maximum wage → sooner
will have to later beveer stars be paid what, they are worth; (2) rewards for the one-club man by giving him the chante of a really bumper benefit for his loyalty; (3) sppearance money for EAMES in the first team.
I think this letter stop would i be a great boon, to the gaine. After all, you may fină a chap as understudy to a real world beater like Stanley Matthewk, who ih bay other side may þér- naps
ba on automatio first chodov. He la obviously worth top molky, and the, altraction of extra money for the frate teamappenratices would
and
Three To Watch
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victories.
Journey!"
The
on the locks horns with Thai Feather.
And, happily for trakit-France-Presse,
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