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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1957.
EVEN COTTON TAKES A DEFEATIST
ATTITUDE ON THIS But Britain's Team For The Ryder Cup Match Hopes Weetman Is Right
By JOHN COTTRELL
London.
THOMAS CUP
POINT Sports Diary Thailand Tipped
STAN MATTHEWS FOR MALAYA?
Singapore, Oet, 1. British soccer stora Stanley Matthews or Billy Wright will be asked to tour Malaya ncx1 year the newspaper Straits Times reported today.
The paper sold the British Counell was making arrange- ments
of them to for either come to Malaya on a lecture and demonstration tour.
A request for either to visit Malaya was made last year but was available iben...
Reuter,
Henry Cotton, Britain's greatest golfer ever, is a lion-hearted fighter. He neither
never gives up until the last ball is sunk at the eighteenth hole. Yet even Cotton takes a defeatist attitude when it comes to Anglo-American golfing
contests. Says The Old Master: "It's no good kidding ourselves--we'll never Is Ho Coming Back? beat an American team. Give up the matches against America for a few years until we have now blood in the game."
to Ryder
Cup
this
is altitude is hardly sur! This year his team is not the only newcomer prising. Since the Walker Cup | gume--there are four changes gol? contest for amateurs was but it is a good strong work. As in the United Stoles, started in 1922, Britoin has won manilke side of proved golfers.team has been chosen by the it only once-in 1938 Riner With an average age of just points system. If you are in the Ryder Cup professional under 34, h is also one of the the top ten of the averages over contest wa started in 1927, youngest Ryder Cup teams. two seasons' play, you the Britain has won it only twice-
automatically chosen. in 1329 und 1933.
excluded
One of the brightest stars is This system has Apart from the Wightman the determined Scottish Chion such a fine player as Scotilah- Cup I cannot think of any plon. Erie Brown, Britain's Pro-born Tom Haliburton, who is in International contexts which fessional Golfer of the Year.great form at present. So next have been ro ene-aldel fer solo is the master top money time it is planned to select only Winner, with over 2,000. He was the leading Brilon In
taking third place to Locke and Thomson. And he has won the Vardon Trophy for tournament consistency.
Jung.
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Should these blennial Open, slaughters he allowed to go on" Many golf followers want to ree a team chosen not just from Britain but from the Common- wealth,
The Ryder Cuo contest #{ Lindre en- October 4 and 5 may provide the answer. Ir Britain wire to svin-und for this is noj ab absuril Ruppoon-it would give wonderfu; silmulus to the game und please both British and American supportera.
Britain's chances?
the
A Hard Fight Others elule young Peter Alliss, who hus given Brown a hard light for the honours is year: Bernard Hunt, a model of consisterfey, concentration ard care, and still imperturbable de. spite having. been struck by lightning this season; and Harry Weetmen, who this season won his first open gulf lille
What are On paper they seem to be about cerman 50-50. And members of the Cologne. Dirilish team
unually optimistic.
Ate
Uncrowned King
Athletic Mux Faulkner, un- crowned king of the Kol! entertainers, says: "Certainly we can win. We'll beat them all right if they don't go and water the greens specially for the Americana."
His theory: Leave the greONS hard and firm and American style wedge shot, pilched right up to the day, simply won' work.
Declares big-hitting Harry Weetmun, who recently returned from an American tour; "If we don't win this tline we never Ball." He points Cul that most of the Americans hove Bever been to Brital for 1 and that they may be troubled by the small British ball.
This view is even supported by the American star, Cary Middlecoff. Following his ex- periences at St Andrews the year, he is convinced that no US team, cars be in top form with only a low days of pre- paration
British courses with the smaller ball.
The Americons are withou star players Sam Snead, Cary Middlecoff, Jimmy Demaret and Ben Hogan. Snead has been eft form this year, Middlecoff. 1050 American Open Champion and runner-up this year, und Demaret inlased the qualifying matches. Hogun is now in semi-retirement and wasn't considered.
But the US team is stR! а powerful one.
The captain La 34-year-old Jack Burke who has not lost one game in the pust three Ryder. Cup matches. A hand- some New Yorker-ho is now 34 and looks no more ihan 23. Burke way fur many years described as "the most promis Ing of American golfers And last year he finally fulfilled this promise by winning the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia,
To win he had to get down In two trom, a bunker beside
the last green.
Other members ure Dong Ford, TI Kroll, El Furgol. Lionel Heberi, Dick Mayer, Fred Hawkins, Art Wall, Tommy Boll and Don Finster- wald.
Compared with the last team. which won at Palm Springs, Callfornia, by eight points to four, only Bolt, Burke, Ford and Kroll remain. Kroll, like Burke, also played in 1953 at Wentworth when America won by 6% to 5%.
Captain again of the British team is Dal Rees. As a player In the middle forties, he has aarned his place. And a cap- tain in Palm Springs, two years ago, hé proved that the man of personality was best at the hend of affairs. Ho was a magnificent lcdder,
Champloryhip
the
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Max Faulkner announced over a year ago that he would play Himself back into the Ryder Cup team on sheer gott ability. And he has done just that,
seven British players by over- nges. The rest will be chosen un curent form.
Neverthless, this year's Bri- tish team Includes at least each of the best players in the country, and it is only eight-4- side in the actual match.
vantages and the smaller bail, With her home ground ach
Britul's team looks equal the Americans', Fait can they play their best on the day?
The Americans have i tre- mendous sychological advant- "ge. Their Ryder Cup
Remember Ken "Shunter" Roberts, the 20 year old railway porter who made good with Aston Vilis, and then had his
career ended
three
irst closa years ago with a knee injury? He has been playing with success for Sutton 'Town, and Walsall are trying to persuade him to make a League come-bock.
TODAY
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LAC Tennis Tournaments: Ladlea Doubles Open, Club Men's Doubles Reap, Club Mixed Doublei 'cau, Clubs Men's Singles ореть, Club Men's Singles Heap.
TOMORROW Rugby
To Enter Zone Semi-Finals
Singapore, - Sept. 30,
The sports columnist of the Singapore Free Preas today tipped Thailand to emerge to First oficla Colony Rugby trial the Zone Semi-finals of the
at HKFC 0.30 p.m. -
Neeting
Meeting, ASP and OC Counell SCM Port Boardroom 8.30 pm
Tehnis
Singles
LRC Tennis Tournament: Inter long 'cap, Club Met?** Open, Club Ladies Bingles Open,
Chun Ladier. Doubics Welp.
HOME RUGGER
London, Sept. 30. In Results
tho evening's Rugby matches were:
RUGBY UNION Falmouth 3, Pontypridd 18. Pontypool 12, Neath 5. Rugby 17, Roanne (France) 0,
RUGBY LEAGUE Bradford Northern 2, York 2. -Reuter.
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of nine wins 11L of eleven the matches has earned them. "unbeatable" label in Britain.
But as golf ace Peter Thom- son puts it: Britain's boys can do I providing that they go out there thinking they are equals of the Americans."
This ding I believe the ex- perienced British team has the confidence and skill to break The other members ol Bethe American menopoly of the ten are larry Bradshaw, Ken Ryder Cup. Bousfield, Christy O'Connor, and --Landon Express Service). Peter Mills who, at 20.
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In 1955, when Britain lost by four points In Americothe || finest performance on US sgil by any visiting British team. Reen:sold on his return that he was sure the side could win the next match on a British COLLERS.
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Thomas Cup badminton compe- tition,
The sports welter of the Eng- Ish language afternoon news- paper made the forecast after the Pakistan national team had gone down by five games to nil to a Singapore side in a friendly match fist night.
The Pakistan team had just
benten Hongkong by seven to two in a first round match It is scheduled to play Burma at Rungoon un Oct. 0.
Thailand plays Japan about the same time and the win- ners of the Pakistan-Burma and the Thailand Japan matches will meet for the right to appear the Zone Semi- Anal In Singapore next Junë, -United Press.
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