DOWN GOES THE
CHAMPION
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1958.
I Deplore The Jeers-But They Are The Penalty Of Glory TEST OF AN IDOL-HE FIGHTS BACK
WHEN HE SLIPS
by ALÁN HOBY
IT is not often that I disagree with my old friend
Stanley Cullis.
But when the forthright Wolves boss lashes out-as he did recently because his white-haired star, Billy Wright, was booed and criticised after being given the run- around by an 18-year-old boy, then I think he is talking
nonsense.
What manager Cullis forgets is that Billy Wright is a PUBLIC IDOL and public idols are there to be shot at, as well as praised....
محمد
Set on dizzy pedestals, fawned over, breathed on, they are the gods of the twentieth century. As such, whether false gods or not, they cannot afford a slip either on or off the field.
backslapped Randolph Turpin, British light-heavy weight champion, and once conqueror of world middleweight champion, Sugar Ray Robinson, was knocked out by Trinidad's Yolande Pompey last Tuesday in the second round of their non- title fight at Birmingham.
Photo shows Turpin crashing to the canvas after being at the receiving end of a short right from Pompey.-Keystone Photo,
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And here, with hlumu, in Billy
Wright, the man
who was eriti.
olsed-and who fought back.
Success
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enough
win the British eluter-weight title.
The answer is simple: if you've "got ik,” na ‘amount of criticism, right or wrong, will turn you from your contre, Al the mument two of Britain's best-known athletes are In partial eclipse. They are DEREK IBBOTSON and GORDON PIRJE.
It was not so long ago that the long loan Pirie held the work record for 5,000 metres. Now they are saying ha, is "finished" 1.6 # world-class
Tiner
Inbalson, Sportsman of the Year, con the world's fustest mile-last year. In race after race Derek won-gloriously.
But today Derek seldom wins anything important, although he still clocked four minutes last week when coming fourth lo Australia's fabulous Herb Milloli In that wonder While City mile.
Like Men
Will Ibbotson and Pirke regain Only their former greatness? they can answer that question, All I will say, at this point, is that both have been heavily and rightly eriticised, And both have taken it like men....
That's why, although I admire Stan Cultis's loyally to pawas Billy Wright, I think he was
ban the rack."
He refused to be rattled, carried and, whether lucky or not, made inrge scores,
Disappointing
And there is no doubt at all that William Ambrose did lapse Wright, one of England's World Cup heroes, against Jimmy Greaves in that match at Chelsea.
Despite his
When the title, baggy-panted į BRADMAN. acknowledged He has made countless left- know-how and 96 caps he was bucks dizzy. Ife has turned them Scottish gentus first went to vy and Bradman was labeled wrong to say Billy was put "on
He Arsenal from Preston he didn't rutiless, unsociable, baffled and beaten to a degree inside-out und rufelde-in,
"Drop
," was the loser.
Those bous, however unfair, not normally associated with a has mesmerised them, hypno-click.
them, stake-charmed weekly Soccer dirge of 50,000 great England captain-and, un- tised
Yet, even when they said he were just what Billy needed to was "Anished" in 1947, Bradna spur him back to the top. He has even had them frustrated fans. happily, a glating minority of them. terrace apes hooed him for it. standing aside like a fraffle cop
muted outwardly unaffected. But much deplore the who has lost his nerve, and Jeering of Wright, I would alse waving him on. kuman nature point out that being what it is, this is precisely the highly-personalised penally a sports top-liner is forced in
Yet throughout his carerr pay-when things go wrong.
Stanley has been sniped at and They Come Back sneered al...He has been told Criticism, too, is a priceless he holds on lou long and For in slows up the attack...." He lest of character...
from the modern sport,
shows been dropped business, the really great unes Englund team, brought back, Miceessfully shrug off these stopped again.... attacks. They don't care. They carry on-deadpan, the The 1.1. Panhard of French team of Henri Aboudara Chavarot was Francois and completely burned out, follow
Of French Auto
Reims, Sept. 15.
Only 93 cars out of the 113 starters which left Nico yesterday on the first leg of
the automobile Tour of Franco, arrived bore today.
The British pair. Robert Hicks the speed test over the Heims; a big end during their "kiunung and Steve Rousseata, were among those who
dropped out when their Lotus Mark 1X, entered In the Grand Tourist category, Geveloped mechanient trouble.
FIRST TEST
Before the drivers push un to Le Tout later today for the rst leg of the 6,560 kilometre Tour, they will have to cover
track.
tun around the track.
This first test of the Arst leg the first two tests were 1 ellmbs on the way from Nlee to here Is over 99 kilometres in 12 laps. Rain was threatening | ing a back-fire. to fall from an overcast sky. this start of Just before the
was, further re- test, the field
when dures in 91 enught fire and the second ran
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And soon, because they have the right stuff in then, they come back-as that good troupes Billy Wright seems to have done.
Undismayed
But that Soccer Cochran, the late Herbert Chapman, love better. The Arsenal manager and Alex stuck it out.
And Alex became the "greatest footballer in the world,'
There were other crises Soccer stars got a skinfint
weck-in-those days, and the rentes! "Cunner" of nil thought he should draw what he was worth.
In revolt, Alex once did not sign on until a week after the season had started. And all the the Tumours-anu! the
crificism-grew,
And how has the 44-year-time old Master reacted? Unrufsted 'and undismayed he has gone his majestic way, secure in his name and fame, which, in their own sphere, are as Immortal as
the initials "W.G." in cricket. The same critical stones were
Take the case of Mr Football Imselt-STANLEY
Fantastic have thrown at ALEX JAMES in the been the feats of this man. bail-playing "thirties,
MATTHEWS.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
WHAT AN
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CAN IT WORK? WONDER WHO
SENTITY OF COURSE) --MANDRAKE~! MUST CALL HIM.
YES, NARDA --GO!
Here's the gift... Sheaffer's
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He Obliged The little inside-left was neve- going to sign. He was "letting
the side down....He was high-head....He was going in America....to the East Indies ....lo Timbuktu, to a Monas- tery,"
Then, one evening, as twl. light was falling over High- bury, a little figure lugging a large maltease was seen walk- ing up the road, King James had returned.
i hoppence to HIN LEN HUTTON, evitably he was preled at by the diehards when, in 1982, he became the first professional cricket captain of -England---
Cautions Timid
They said he was cautious, timid, although, under his leader- ship, England won back the Ashes, Hution had to battle ill- health, as well as mud-slinging, but never once did his natural dignity desert him.
It happened to thul wonderful golfer HENRY COTTON. Beenuse Henry drove to tourna- ments in a Rolls-Royce and was inclined to keep to himself, he was accused of being lofty, aloof, a lone wolf.
He alo aroused jealously because his colourful person- ality and instinctive panache were made for headlines.... It happened to RANDOLPH TURPIN after he had lost the world middle-weight title Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951.
Turpin,
sometimes foolish,
to
Ending To Kiwis Tour
DRAWN GAME WITH MINOR COUNTIES
Newcastle, Sept. 15. The New Zealanders' Cricket topk ended in disappointing here today with bad fashion light stopping play at yo gelock after rain had delayed until mid- afternoon. the resumption
Yet the New Zealanders must have been glad when the game Drainst the Minor Counties was given up as a draw for in the hour and a quarter possible they lost five wickets for the addition of 28 runs.
Final Ecore were: Minor Counties 305 for seven declared, New Zealanders 109 for seven. The tourists had an unhappy
"Lot's be 'coring from you, Alex," cried the fans in his first match-and, like a true cham- was beset by personal troubles, me against the pace of Ryan second cleven. plon, Alex James duly obliged, Later he retired after a bumili- of Yorkshire's
hiding by Canadian who took four for 28, and The same pattern threads ating through sport. Sooner or later, Gordon Wallace, Here truly was Davidson, of Bedfordshire, two in one way or another, the a fallen idol.
for 33. Noel Harford, falling to publie idol must prove whether But there is a slubborn streak add to his Saturday total of 30, was the first to leave and from he is the real McCoy or a clay-la Turpin and he came back.
onwards the foot,
Tre he was never again to ten It happened to
run-scale the peaks tending to a 'batted dourly and that making machine SIR DONALD world title, but he was still good -Reuter,
Tourists desperately,
FERDINAND
NANCY
DON'T
WALK
STAGE
DOOR
So FAST
GABBO THE VENTRILOQUIST
NOW PL
JOHNNY HAZARD
UN UH, SNAP, THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT! OUR JOB IS TO GET AI, LI TO SULLET IN LOS ANGELES...
NOTHING ELSE!
I CATCH, JOHNNY
ALL THIS JUG UP AGAIN, NAVAJO!
THIS ONE'S ON THE
HOUSE, BOYS. L DON'T WANT ANY TROUBLE IN MY WWE PLACE!
JUST BECAUSE IT'S FOR FREE, JOLLYA SHOULDN' LEAVE OUT THE SEASONING!
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