THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1958.
MORE ACCENT ON SKILL US Baseball Round-up
Most
Now
Clubs Are Adopting New Ideas
By TOM FINNEY
(Of Preston North End, and England)
Here we are again, all merry and bright and roady to be off
on the great adventure of another soccer season. There is almost an infectious enthusiasm in gyms and dressing rooms and on the practice pitches. I wonder how many teams will retain it throughout the testing months ahoad? What has football to offer in this the 60th season of the
League? There is
Everyone's lack of interest, that is certain. no yearning to see the big ball back again. But most of them seem to have a bit of Brazilian dazzle in their eyes after having their fill of World Cup football on TV. They're looking for the same thing from us poor mortals-or else! May I remind those who over Remember there's a big dif- thought is being given to laeties ro fond of rumins: us down that i frenet in the conditions the and styles of play. we heard all this four years ago Brazilian are used to, and those when Hungary und Uruguay for our marathon programme ofį were the kingpins They had us all bewildered by their koccer selvnCE. You would have thought poor old England was down and out in a football sense, to say
nothing of Scotland,
reind and Wales.
Well, we surviveđ, Perhaps we even picked up a few tips or pollshed up our own ideas, for We haven't done too badly since then. England's record since
League matches, with the F.A. Cup thrown in when English weather is at its worst,
Competition Is so keen that no club can afford stand still Thus we are getting two things essential for rent progress--mote accent on skill and a spirit of adventure. You saw this in the play of Burnley and Manchester Cily last season.
Individual Skills There is certainly room for in- provement in individual skills
Burnkey used to be a really in this country, but maybe even | dour lat. They are sul hard to the Brazillans would not be no heat but their delightful attack- hot if they had to play week by [ing football, with Jiminy Meliroy week on some of the grounds | scheming the openings, has made we get here in mid-wiriter, In them very attractive to watch.
the previous World Cup spree three successive matches one Manchester City are also carn-
is nothing to be ashamed of. In January I played on a mud-ing a reputation for never being fact, it was good enough for usheng, a bone-hard ground, then | dull, win or lose.
to be given a fair chance in Sweden by critics from near and
for.
Rough Breaks
I know it was a very disap- pointing in the end but we were Don't forget we noi disgraced. had some rough breaks, Every thing considered, Enginna di not come out of it without some credit,
Now we are back in realities with a long, hard season in front of us, and everyone expects us to go all-Continental or South Ameriena in match play and training to win back our stripes, Chaps Bike Bilty Wright and myself have been through all this before.
"It's so
refined"
one like a skating rink with kee
under a thlu topping of snow,
Often it is as much a question of adaptabilly as skill.
Regarding aciux) craft, and in the training we do for extra stamina, you can be sure grealer │efforts will be made by players this season to merit the better Incentives being offered.
There are some very promis- Ing youngsters eaming on and I expect more to take up the game as a career now,
Less Stereotyped
Another encouraging sign is that clubs are becoming less stereotyped in their ways than, say. Ave or six years ago. Now idens are taking shape and more
|
much
bother Many ar* about losing goals as long as shelf non-forwards were bang- Ing 'eni in. Look what happened; City were lap scorers in Division
with 104 goals and finished 9th, despite 100 in the debit column,
SPORTING SAM
by Reg. Wootton
perience which, as we proved i weak link. I was much im- If ever a football community deserved a good leam Tyneside last season, can be a valuable | pressed by them last season!. Drsal,
Bolton, os Cup winners, I reckon the Spurs will also does. They are
Foccer
CRAZY
"" reviving Everton, and, of be up with the leaders. It is a und loyal, and yearn for the real course, Manchester Untied, will pleasure to play nguinst them stuff that made the "Geordies"
bernise they concentrate on of old a legend. creative instead of "spolling" "One Of The Band" football. They enjoy fighting it out on ski but are also well balanced and compact. should be hearing a lot of the
also be teen challengers.
United have a lot of re- building to do after the disaster
Munich, but I'm bucking then
to hold their own. It would be pleasing to see Everlon climb up
once famous for classy football.
the scale again as an old club classy Spurs.
Terrific Enthusiasm
We
It would be good footbah it Newcastle, too, revived their old giories with progressive Charlle Milten in charge
new
CELLAR-RIDDEN CUBS BEAT PHILLIES 5-2
Ernie Banks Pounds His 42nd Home Run
New York, Aug, 27. Ernie Banks pounded his 42nd home run and rookie Bob Anderson hurled a four-hitter to- day to lead the cellar-ridden Chicago Cubs to a 5-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies (in Chicago).
Anderson (1717. (2nd), Neeman, (12th).
Cincinnati at 168 Angeine (starts nl 7 pm. EDT)
Banks is now two home runs behind Babe Ruth's record 1927 pace, when Ruth woundup with 60. This was Banks' 128th game in 128 games, Ruth had 44 homers. As for Arsenal, we have gol
Slimmics, icyer 18) and, Laputa, Anderson, 22, making only | We used to them being "just one of
Hegar (8); R. Anderson (1-61 and the his second slari, iimited
Neeman. the bund" instead of calling the
LF-SOFIN
id-13).. Inst three singles and fone, but there is no doubt that Phillies to
Danka Harry Anderson's bases-empty, an Arsenal revival would be a real spur to every tean. The first-inning homer. He struck
nine. Tho Joss WHE Pittsburgh at St. Louis (night). League needs a powerta; Arsenal out
Milwaukee st Sen Francisco again. Think how we used to charged to Curl Simmons, who
{night) -U.P.1. hate 'en--and how they broke left in the eighth.
AMERICAN league No doubt he and my old the crowd records!
The Cubs went ahead, 2-1, Kansas City .. 700-210-310-11-18-0 friends Ron Suarl-Joe Smith's Lastly, a thought for Sunder-in The opening
New York. 021-000-300--7-11-1 inning on
Terry, Gorman (3). Tomanek (7), successor of Blockpool and land, whose envled record of singles by Al Dark and Banks, Herbert (0) and Chiti: Kuseks, Maan George Swindin, now in the never being out of Division, 1, followed by Bobby Thompson's (2), Trucka Widduren 191 and chair at Highbury, will flad has gone at last. 1 Junow how
single.
The Phillies led it in Toward. WP-Gorman
| Kucks (6-7). HES-Des (2018). West Bromwich are my own there is a big difference in the they feel, having been in a re the fourth when Ed Bouchee Kantle (371) fazicy to give Wolves a close top class of the League, and legaled side. My advice is to Id off with a single, and went
(1st Day) run, Here is a grand football that much depends on the talent pin their faith on football in around on a wild pitch, an In-Detrelt team, combining polisk And at their disposal, I wish them i nebling back: It is the only way. held grounder, and a sacrifice Borton 000-102-00-naŭ Bunnlag. Cicotte (3) and Wilson: directness and with hardly a good luck in their new sphere. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)
(0-10) and Wilto. LP- Bunning 19.9)
Detroit at Boston, 2nd (night. Cleveland al baillmoro (nSER
Lancashire have manager Johnny Carey's team,
in the fold. The enthusiasm there is terrific and he has a nice blend of youth, skill and ex- perience.
proud Blackburn Rovers, back
manager.
Ella Zeller Among Them
PURGE OF LEADING SPORTS FIGURES IN RUMANIA
Belgrade, Aug. 27.
Was
17.
Went Ahead
The Cubs went ahead for good in the sixth on a walk to Dark and Banks' hunc run over the left field wall. They udded another in the seventh when Cal Neeman homered.
The Kanras Cily Athletics scored seven runs in the first Inning and went on to whip the
York New
Yankees. T-T in an American League game (nt New York) despite home runs by Yog! Berra and Mickey
Mantle,
(4-4) P
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Sports Diary
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four hits in pching the Chieng Deep Water Bay.
Go!! Chainpintalups.
Badminton
TODAY Dinner IKASA Chinese Dinnze in of Alist coitar Swimmers, Wing On Rumania has purged several leading sporting figures, including the
Mem, Wing Oa Building, top hoor, 8 p.m.
Tenni women's world table-tennis champion Ella Zeller, because of "ideolo
In the other American League
Presentation of League aliields by gical deviations," according to Yugoslav press reports from Bucharest. day gumnes. Billy Pierce limited | Mr H. J. Annetrong, HKCC ↑ p.m.
the
Gall Washington Senators to
Children's Matel Cantner, national table The reports said the Govern- tensionalian," nient's committee for physical The Yugoslav press said wide-tennis champion,
also White Sox in a 2-1 victory (at
and Tommy JL.K, Badminton Artcelation culture and sports had punish-spread "purges" were being eur-punishes, as well as members of Wesringien)
Mening. SL. ed and barred from further
seam. Brewer's six-hit pitching paced Executive Committee,
George's Building, Suite 33, 2nd Sux lo a 3-2 floor at 0.30 .. various Rumialun spor's OT-
the women's national baskel- | the Boston Red sports activities die athletes les rently made at the meeting of the nacional Kymnastie
throughout theball team, and referves, trainers decision over the Detroit Tigers cluding about 50 footballers, ganizations
and sports workers, the news
(nt Boston) in the first half of several in the national team, for country. "spreading bourgeois Ideology The official Yugoslav news
a day-night double-header. #gency said. small in religion,
bourgeois agency, Tangig, reported tha!
All were accused of accepi- The Results I look to these two clubs tollberalism, and of weakening the Government committee had
ús spirit" ng well punished Ella Zeller and ring money from various "black but the forefront of another patriotic
"gerlous mistakes in chens ileved her of the title "Master | unds," ideological mistakes and Lancashire bid for honours.
"CLEonders.ltcuter. obligations, corruption and pro- iuf Sports”
Man Of Ideas Manager Les McDowall was always a man of ideas, and it's not a bad one, for crowd pulling, to aim at a 6-4 win rather than bale through by 1-0.
Blackpool and my own club, Preston, depend a lot on ex-
MANDRAKE THE
ER--IT SEEMS
PREGULAR, MR.COX.) THE CASH TRAYS HADN'T BEEN CHECKED, BY THE AUDITOR.
WHAT
CASH
TRAYS 7
MAGICIAN
THE CASH TRAYS.
YOU GAVE THEM
TO SOME MANJIN A
ACAR OUTSIDE
THE BANK.
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
I DID NO SUCH THING!
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Philadelphia
Chicago
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
BUT, MR.COX-
WE ALL-
-SAW Yout
TOMORROW
BOLEST
HKFA Management. Committed Merting.
Sport Road, 545 pm. for first round of league fixtures lo be made
Draw
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Police Sports Acciation Gala at Victoria Pool, 1 pun,
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NANCY
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