THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1958.
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JOHN CHARLES MAY RETURN This Football By Numbers
TO ENGLISH SOCCER IN
MANCHESTER UNITED'S COLOURS SAYS BROTHER MEL
By ARCHIE QUICK
One of the most explosive sports statements for a long while has been printed in a South Wales newspaper under the name of Mel Charles. The versatile Swansea International says, without frills: "My brother John will be home from Italy next season", and adds further pieces of intelligence that John is "homesick" and that he, Mel, "believes John will join Manchester United".
slckness is n funny another Ave-ligure signing-om thing, and in this case it would fe into his pocket, ban expensive one. John has everything In the land of the Lotto a huge salary and bonuses, a mallsfactory contract, public adulation, sunny skies, money in the bank, great c
the field of play, a CC33 001 mansion, a car
and his family around him he so wishes. his contract will certainly be extended, and that would mean
Sports Diary
him a game of snooker in a Northern Ireland hotel and 110 What can Manchester Unitex hade a remark which, if I had oner in exchange? A £10 slening it into print, would have caused a sensation. It was very on tee, £20 a week, 24 for a win £2 for a draw in
much on the lines of "My And
extra
briller Jolin will be home again- bonus-, snuyt a club house,
but Mel is im- and there would probably be a next season", Job outside football. Be would
petuous, inellied to speak before change Mediterranean Blue for he thinks, and I could be that
way this me. Anyhow, Master Murk, for there
shall see. would be no question DE His living in South Wales with his own folk.
It can happen, of course, mid Mel's pronouncement must carry some weight, but it would be a trementiota Bnancial stert- Bee for a young man not yet thirty years of age. A big factor which might induce John is Jimmy Murphy, manager of the Welafi International side and Desistant manager of Manchester The link is there, and Colony Ladies' Tehri Chupkin- | United. clip:
Doubles, Mixed
Ladies' the
TODAY
Tennis
United Revival?
We
Ginny Jolm, of course, could be the nrchitect of a Manchester United revival. He likes the centre-half position best of all. alld from there Mat Busby cout! weld round him a team as gral as ony Old Trafford has had in the past.
We had private conversa Yuri Stepanov
Single, Club Open Mixed oubles, ions together in Sweden during Club Mons Open Single, Club Mixed Doubles Ircup, "Club Men's the World Cup series. It any- Singles Heap at LUCI
one can bring John home it is Jimmy
swimming
Hents of Annual Chinese Cham-
D.NL
Veluita Park Altruistic Enough
TOMORROW
Howls
3rd Division: KUGU Club, 8.30 p.m.
Tennis
ና Stanley
Charies 1 know these two brothers well from their Army- playing days. John is altruistic nough to give up luxury, riches and success lo come home, if nis wife and children are not happy and if he misses the Welsh Valleys and the British way of
Changdonships: life,
Culony Mixed Dumbles, Ladle Doubles, Inter-long Невр. Club Mixeri Doubles. Chib Men's Open Singles, Chu Men's Singles Hemp at LHU
Swimming
Third Annual Swimming 1 Post Offer, at EYMCA. 7.20 pik
Wins High Jump Event
Sweden, Sopt, 1.
Yuri Slepanov, Soviet world record holder in the high jump, tonkthi kaped 2.05 metres (01 住 /L) atel beat Sweden's medallist in the bronze European track and field cham- pionships, Stig Pettersson, who reached the same height.
In the last attempt Birgir More likely, i would say, is Asplund again beltered his own
in words have
record that
nc Swedish besi
hammer to which he throwing
63.12 to Melvyn
metres credited did not
They exactly mean.
(207.08ft) His old record was may have been taken out of 02.17 metres (203.8ft) but it has eurilex. I remember playing not yet been recognised.-U.P..
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
MANDRAKE
SLEEP
HYPNOTIZES
SLECP-
THE BANKER--
HMM--
FERDINAND
NANCY
THINK OF THE
TIME WHEN YOU GAVE THE MONEY AWAY--THINK-
I CAN'T REMEMBER--
IRMA ---CAN I
BORROW AN OLD
DRESS ?--- I'M GOING
TO A COSTUME
PARTY
SURE
IT'S LUCKY
I'VE GOT
THIS OLD FOOTBALL HELMET
JOHNNY HAZARD
LONG-SHOT, IF YOU LOSE THAT PARLAYA, YOU ALSO LOSE EXACTLY #1,024.000!
RELAX, BRAINY
DENNY! YOU KNOW IT'S A SUCKER BET LET'S ENJOY THE
BALL GAME!
DON'T REMEMBER--
GULLET O'HARA'S PERFORMANCE ON OPENING DAY IS HOTHING SHORT OF SENSATIONAL L
*RRA POUT:
PEYA* y*
FIRST GOAL OF THE SEASON The English soccer season is just 15 seconds old as Robertson scoring (Stoke City) fails to stop Haynes for Fulham at Craven Coltage.
Fulham beat Stoke City in this, their opening match on August 23 by 6-1.
Ruins The Game
PERSONALITY PLAYERS NEEDED TO GIVE IT ZIP AND GLAMOUR
Says STANLEY MATTHEWS
LET'S start this season with a new outlook. Bring back the personality footballer.....take the muzzle off the ball player got back some of the old zip and glamour into the game.
In the World Cup, with the wonderful play of the Brazilians, people saw how football can be played and they won't be satisfied with kick-and-rush stuff again.
We must show them that the British footballer can and will serve up the same kind of play. Our football has deteriorated since the war. The third-back
Fame, a soul-destroying defen- Personality Players capable of beating the best in sive
system, and the creation of football automators are slow- ly strangling League Soccer,
Modern coaching is idling the natural player. He is now being turned out off the assembly lines like a mass-produced machine. Every boy is being taught the same tricks, and any desire to
frowned show individuality is
on.
Ibbotson To Train With
Elliott Under Percy Cerutty's Coaching
by
Derek Ibbotson was the world's fastest miter until Herb Elliott came
along. Now Ibbotson hopes to regain his form and position training with Elliott.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
CAN'T REMEMBER-
THINK-AT
THE TIME OF THE ROBBERIES' --THEY WERE ALL HYPNOTIZED T
CH FIDDLESTICKS
HOW?
By Mik
By Ernie Bushuniller
I'M GOING AS
YOU
-ERNIE BUSHMILLORU
By Frank Robbins
'OʻKARA JUST THREW
A J-HT SHUTOST, LONG-SHOT! SOMETHING TELLS ME WE COULD BE IN FOR TROUBLE!
NOT LONG-SHOT LODIE!ONE THING ABOUT ME YOU SHOULD KNOW BY NOW, BRAINY BENNY
104NATE TO
LOSE!
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drilled class International eleven, Ball-playing skill is out of the youngster on the they can't they should not call parade grounds of our Loogue themselves internationals. clubs.
A week together should make them a real fighting machine,
the world. But when they are When I was young in the roached into one set style, how game before the wor every club can you expect them to outwit in the country had its share of musters of the game like personality players. They were Swedes and Brazilian? box-office aftructions who drew the big crowds like a magact
A
the
New Ideas Needed
What have we today? You ean count about six top stars
idesp We must remodel our and then you begin to struggle.
Now I hope for some manager The really great names of brave enough to say: "Let's cut defensive football trained themselves. out this third-bock
title ball on waste ground be- came a game of football at every opportunity. They lived the game all their lives-hat's how They became great. There was conching schools no need for then.
How ifferent it w BOW. Players do things by numbers in this era of the blackboard and plane by the score.
I know that team spirit is essential and successful in the League, These tactics have won so I suppose championships, there is some reason in going nt out for them.
When We Suffer
Ibbotson plans to toke up an
But I maintain they are ruin- cosch, offer made by Elliott's Percy Cerutty, to spend a coupla ing British football. They don't of months at his training comp make great international players near MelboLL TIC.
and as a country we are suffer Cerally will have about a ing when we meet other world dozen athletes with him., in- teams.
mile
If you get 11 top-class, ball- cluding world
champlon Elliott und Albert Thomas, playing footballers, you can ex- holder of the world's two and pect them to mould' into a first- three miles records.
Says Derek: "All I have to du now is to raise the fares and get permission for time off from my employers."
Aussies Prepare
The Aussies, themselves, have been making training plans lor
the 1900 Olymples.
plan. Let's go out and attock. Let's give our young player the right to develop their natural ability. Let's play football,"
fool- Only then wil British bull start on the road back, Then We It will be worth watching. would see again the thrill of soccer artist bringing the crown to its toes with the mogle of his feet.
For a start, I would like every boy to be allowed to develop on his own natural lines. Remom-
ber, there's more than one way to trap a ball--and more than one way to make a footballer.
Rugby Results
London, Sept. 1. Results
Rugby of today's Union matches were:
Penryn 0, Northampton 13. Pontypool 14, Llanelly 9. Redruth 17, Welsh Acad. 10. -Reuter
KAISER
Their athletes will return to RESTAURANT & COCKTAIL LOUNGE
the Santry track in Dublin for two weeks before the Olymple Games n Rome to tune up. It was on this track that Elliott achieved his phenomenal 3 min. 54.3 sec mile, and Thomas set up new work figures for the two and three miles.
In reply to the Australlen re- quest, athletes' promoter Billy Morton told Australian team- manager B Young: "Everything will be put at your disposal. Dublin is only four hours from Rome by plane. The weather condllions here, and the track, should be perfect for Д Anal tuning-up," London Expicsa Service,
Russians May Make Motor-Racing Debut Next Year
Milas, Sept. 1. Sovjet motor racing drivers and cars will probably make their international debut next May in England at Silversione, according to the Vice-President of the Soviet Automobile Club, Leonide Atanasiey, quoted by tils week's edition of the Milon Blustrated weekly. Tempo,
"They will not try to win at all cusis, but rather to establish friendly relations and gain ex- Perlence" Mr Afonaslev told the magazine in an interview.
He sold Russian sports author!- ties also plan to organise circuit und road races in Russia in years to come which would figure in the international racing calendar-Reuter,
FIRST OF THE MANY
Firal of the cricket invaders
to Australia this winter is Az- thur Gilligan, the former Sussex and England captain and
all-
grounder.
He has left, travelling via Amories, Honolulu and Now Zeok for the Test Match series Down Under, but will res turn early in March to be cloct- ed Chairman of the English Golf Union
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