Manchester U. Still. The Favourites
Landon, Jan. 23.
Manchester United the League Champlons, remained favourites at 3-1 to win the FA Cup at a quiet enllover at the Victoria Club tonight,
Wolverhampton Wanderers were secund favourites at 6-1.
The odds on the third favourites, West Bromwich Albion, were clipped halt a point to 15-2,
Tottenham Hotspur hardened paint to 0-1 from the odds available a week ago,
Notable omong outsiders who 1d their prices reduced were West Ham United, who moved frem 40-1 to 20-1, and Liver- pool, cut to 60-1 from double
flose odds,
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1958.
Sports Diary SPORTSMAN OF THE
THE YEAR What's Best in Kowloon?
JIKABA
TODAY Mating Executive
Committen Meeting. Club Lazeitano, 8.50 p.m.
Motor Bally Entries Close the Armani Combined Autor itally.
Ahooting Far East Firet tie Meeting Stonecutter brad, 8,30 min.
TOMORROW Rugby Bankers XV Club at Hongkong Football Stadium, 0.30 p.m.
Cricket
A Unique Swimming
Contest
Milan, Jan. 13.
A 68-year-old Italian swim- mer and a 13-year-old Dutch girl will hold a unique swim- grades, Happyming contest
Singapore Poller * Combined School Teachers and Boys at CCC, 11.30 am.
Hongkong Inter-schools knock-out
Bc "11" soccer" "A Valley.
TOUR OF EGYPT CYCLING RACE
Cairo, Jan. 13. Hungary'n Gyoyo Torok won the second store of the 18th "International Cycling Tour of Egypt" today.
THE ODDS
kilo- He covered the 115 5-1
Manchester metres from Sohag to Assout in ngainst United; 0-1 Wolverhampton; three hours five minutes even 15-2 West Bromwich; -1 Tot-seconds. tenham; 100-8 Newcastle United and Chelsce: 100-7 Bumley and Bolton: 20-1 Everton; 20-1 Shemeld Wednesday and West Ham; 33-1 and upwards, others.
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Forty-five riders representing nine countries are competing in the 13-stage race over kilometres which Cal cas January Prease.
winch
next June 15 In Milan when they race agains! each other with their feet and hands tied and in a rack.
Italian swimmer Francesco Macca, who last year swam across the Po ver with his hander and feel tied, recently challenged all the swimmers of the world to compete against him in suck with hands and feet tied.
Macca's challenge was taken up by 13-year-old Marianne Heemskerk of Naarden in the Netherlands.
Derek Ibbotson Gets Results In A Way
That's All His Own
By DENNIS HART
London.
It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it. That, so the
song tells us, is what gets results,
And my sportsman of the year, Derek Ibbotson, gets results in a
way that's all his own.
You've heard of Ibbotson. He's the chap who ran the fastest mile in the history of the human race. That was in July, and to return the blistering time of 3 min, 57.2 secs. Ibbotson ran the legs off the greatest mile field ever assembled,
All out
When May went out to take hus second knock in the match, England looked as beaten us any. side can be in cricket. for 186 in the first innings they had seen the West Indies amass 474 and bad last two wickets for 05 In the second Innings,
The Main Source The figures make the position And when look bad enough. you consider that the main cause of England's trouble was the wily bowling of Sonny Ramad- same Ramadhin who ne in the
Hot favourite Ron Deluny,, nol'so much for his own amuse- Ireland's 1,000-metre: Olympic ment, but so that others can bark Her sole question was whe-Champion, was ground into the in the reflected glory of his re-
cords 1,911ther her head should also be in White City dust as he tried to
Too much running had up in the sack so she would know how keep up with the spring-footed already taken the fine edge off Ibbotson, Czech ace Stanislav us performances, So he was 26-France-to trakt for the race--France-
Jungwirth, แ Presse.
machine-like not allowed to make the South runker whom it secmod im~
African trip. possible to wear down, was in the lead with a quarter of mile to go, but he could not hold of Ibbotson's challenge.
Ken Wood, Britain's
dark horse of world athletics, man capable of bealing any miler in the world, pulled out one of his dynamic Jast laps, broke the four-minute barrier, and finish-entered Britain's AAA Cham-had bowled England to defeat plonship and failed to qualify seven years earlier, you don't have to wonder why England for the mile Anal!
and said, had written off the match.
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Winning a race like thot is claim enough to any sporting award. Even if the record his yet to receive the rubber stamp of ratification,
Anyone, of course, can smile GL success. It takes the true sportsman to grin in the face of That's another reason failure. why Ibbetson is at the top of my sporting hil parade.
Two weeks after returning his
mile world record
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Ibbotson grinned "Well, It's my own silly fault, or words 10 Qut effect, and
mile event-in record time.
The England team had can- celled their Monday night hotel
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match would be cleared up with, well over a day to spare,
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That's had not cnber of the party
his reserva-
But Derek Ibbotson has done much more than set up a world record. in a. sporting world
It is easy to get bogged down that can see little further than in records and figures. national prestige and record why one of the best per- tirnes, thus cheaY chunk of formants of the year has not Yorkshire granite has shown got the applause it deserves, that top class sport can still be Nor has the man who made II.
The chap I'm thinking of in And what a fight back he shy fellow with a dimpled smile. made. Monday come and went.
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St Peter May was defying the West Indies' bowling.
The Perfect Way But his determination is iron-Sin England were in the match. Thut is why Ibbotson runs-hard It saved his country on for fun. As he likes quite a lot the field of cricket, not in one of fun, he likes quite a lot of match, but in a whole Test running. He also kes lo sco series.
the world, so when he had an Peter May is his name. He is In the first Africa England's skipper, <ffer to run in South during Britain's close season it Test against the West Indies last seemed the perfect way to spend year he played what can only the British winter,
described as
a captain's innings, in the fullest sense of the phrase.
But many people seem to think that Ibbotson should run
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Current Records
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Fighting off the gastrie trouble, Kuts enjoy his usual run of succERSES. But he showed himself to be en “irco-man," off the track as well as on it. He sluck to his task, and in the last big meeting of the European season added the | world. 5,000-metre record to his
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Football produced such men Alfredo "di̟ · Stefano, the amazing centre-forward, who produced such power and skill In leading Read Madrid, the Spanish club, to victory, in the European Cup.
John Charles, rated by British experts as one of the greatest footballers ever, deserves every praise for living up to hit reputation on going to Italy.
1957 has not been a vintage year for tennis, especially in the amateur sphere. But Low Hond did challe up the quickest Wimbledon final. vietory in 25 years when he smashed Ashley Cooper in under an hour. ILA success in the professional ranks has been limited. Here must give every eredit to Ken Rosewall for the remarkable progress he has made since leaving the amateur ranks.
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world's leading amateur.
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Carmen Basilio may never to a great champion. He gets the highest marks, however, for the toughness ho showed when taking the world's middleweight title from 'Sugar Ray Robinson.
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