THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, '1959. ;
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Pro Tennis Hits A New Peak Derby Favourite.
KRAMER'S TROUPE NOW
GIVING THEIR BEST WITH NEW SET-UP
Now York, Mar. 9.
Promater Jack Kramer is convinced he has found the long- sought cure for what ails professional tennis and tho results already are beginning to show.
His 1959 barnstorming troupers-Pancho Gonzales, Australians Lew Hoad, Mal Anderson and Ashley Cooper-are setting an all-time high for competitive fervour in what promises to be the best tour yet.
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And it all came about for a plain everyday reason, namely, money.
"We've dantly made some sense out of this barnstorming business," said Kramer. "This year, the player who wins the most matches wins tho most money. Up to now, we had the only sport on record that paid the challenger anore money than the champlon."
This year all the vaudeville
including Dspects,
frequent suggestions over the years that the lads weren't always playing it on the lovel, have disappear ed. Big money is at stake every night they play and they play It to the hill.
The Set-Up
"Any player who hits a hot streak like Hoad has now can win $3,000 in a week," said Kramer. "How many pro golt- cre can do that?"
The anunciat arrangements continue to be highly compli- cated but for the purposes of the American tour now under- way-the phone of the schedule that really means the big money - simple.
There is $1,500 prize money at alake each night. Winner of Ure
feature match gets $800, the loser $300. Winner of the preliminary match wins $400 and the right to play in the feature at the next stop on the tour. Loser of the preliminary gets $200 and remains a "prelimi boy" at the next stop.
"Even
rich 0
like man Gonzales knocks his brains out
¦
trying to win that $000 feature match," said Kromer, "If he leses, he has to win a prelim before he gels another crack at the bigger money."
In other years, when Kramer had to guarantee his latest amateur convert a huge fee lo turn pro against the reigning champ, the champ (Gonzales for four straight years) dusted off the newcomer with ease,
Out All The Time
Sometimes Punche woult pile up a long lead on the trail and then would coast awhile if he didn't feel too ft.
two of his first three showdowns with Hood.
So Far, Anderson has proved the biggest bargain of the rookles. Kramer had to gua rantee him only $40,000 to lurn pro us against $100,000 guaran- teed to Cooper, who won the Wimbledon, Australian and US In 1958. But amateur Ülles Cooper has won only one of seven matches from Anderson since they turned pro.
All in all, though, there's a difference that's readily appar ent over other years when the 1950 troupers come onto the court Each night they're play- "But they all have to put outing for a cash prize and the All the thre this year,"
said man that wins oftenest grows Kramer. "If they don't their the richest.-U.P.1. pycheques suffer."
Off their first six matches it's apparent that Head is much im- proved over last year end will cause Cionzales far more trouble It's also obvious at the moment that neither of the rookies Cooper or Anderson-will win many matches against the two veterans.
Biggest Bargain
Hord was the biggest winner on the Australian circuit this winter with $8,175 won, though he missed a few matches with a sore elbow. He also grabbed an early lead in the US phase of the tour, winning $3,000 in the first nine days.
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LEW HOAD biggest winner of Australion circuit and most likely to`gire Gonzales the greatest trouble in current tour.
MILWAUKEE GAMES OPEN s. African Golf
WITH ONE NEW RECORD Champion Loses
Milwaukee, Mar. 0. Izellout crowd by winning the 50- Olymple runner Ira Murcht-yard high hurdles in 6.4 seconds. ron of Chicago, making his firat Joel McNulty was recond and Indocr start of the season, wonchard Suliwagon of Purdue the 60-yard dash in near-record (third.
me tonight at the opening of
Charlie Jenkins, unattached the cighth Milwaukee Gamer, speedster from Boston, set the Murchison streaked neross first games record of the night the boards in 6.9 seconds, only in the University 600 yards. He 1:151.6 a full cne tenth of a second over the was clocked in meet record by Abe Woodson second better than the record by of Illinois. Ward Miller or Mal Whitfield in 1950. Blinols was only A shoulder behind him at the finish line.
Big Ten champion Willie May of Indiana University opened
Ron Ellieron of Purdue come home in 1:11.9 and former Big Ten- Great Willie Atterbery of Lansing, Michigan, in
Gonzales, who won an even 50,000 in Australia, picked up $2,700 meze in his first six matches of the US tour but lost the colourful games before a 1:12.20.-U.P.I.
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Johannesburg, Mar. 9. John Наусь, 15-year-old schoolboy from Pretoria, beat South African open golt cham- plon Arthur Stewart by 8 and 4 in the first round of the South African amateur match play championship here today.
Another shock today was the
first round elimination of the tle-holder, Jimmy Boyd, who lost to L. Philips at the 19th- China Mill Special,
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Eye Removed Struck By Hockey Ball
Olympic hockey star Mike Doughty, capped eight times for England, has had his right, eye re moved after being struck by a rising ball in a Lon- don match.
As far as it can be recalled he is the first English Inter- national to suffer auch 1 grievous injury since the wor..
This is remarkable fact, for hockey is especially dan- gerous in Britain owing to the poor state of pitches, even
mong the top clubs.
Hockey is the most amateur of all sports, and there is not enough cash to provide many Arst-cins grounds. But the real bug-bear Is the English weather.
Does Well
By PETER SCOTT
"Do you think he has done well this winter?" The question came from Chantilly's dark-haired little dynamo, Alec Head as we stood In. specting the 8-1 Derby favourite - Aly Khan's Saint Crespin. III.
The answer was an emphatic "yes," and it coincides with the trainer's own quietly-expressed satis- 'faction.
It is little more than a decade | 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on since Alec Head left atcoplo- | April 29. "Do not rule out the chase riding to set up his own chance of his coming for that
Within half that time either" warns Head. stable, he had established BA inter- national reputation.
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Too many classic. and stakes winners have passed through his hands for Head to start bullding dresm castles about any well-bred horse his yard, but his faith in once- roved Saint Crespin III is firm,
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If Saint Cruspin III has a Guineus deputy it may bo Taboun, a tall, strapping bay who won France's 'frat big two- year-old race, the: Prix Robert Papin after running second in the Coventry Etakes at Ascot
Well-Balanced
Good Progress
As a classic prospect, I prefer Princillon, a strong well- There can be no question of balanced bay by Prince Blo. the physical progress of this Princillon vet a new time-recond coll.
for seven 'furlongs at Longchamp Ho has strengthened and in the autumn and looks like developed into horse of perfect staying well. proportions. Some veins sland out through his bright chestnut coat. He is "Fur Sanga
blue blood.
Vimy's half-brother Mascaret, by Doncaster Cup winner Fast Fox, has been a Derby Byhis- per" for some time, but he has set to run.
THE BUG-BEAR
Many think that the same should be ployed In
the KUMMET. Then the ball could only be led by, intentional under-cutting, which is against the rules, or by flicking,
Boint Crespin III's Kempton More important, It would ent. First prize of 27,944 115, Cheveley Park Stakes, le none
victory impressed all who saw
Paraguana, a good third in the uble British players to employ real ball-control and adopt the
made the Imperial Produce
worse for her rece in the
conditions of that Ekilful techniques of the Indians, Stakes the richest two-year-old the
race ever run In England, and *ppalling
afternoon and bis charming In the field of 16 jockey Garcially could be a real threat in our was baulked when he wanted 1,000 Guineas end Oaks.
undisputed world champions.
Under present conditions,
British club players find it far to start his effort:
more profliable to concentrat? on speed and power than skilful stickwork and clever inter passing movements.
The basic skills of the game are becoming lost, and without them Britain cannot hope to régain her position ns the greatest hockey power in the world.
-{London Express Service).
Soccer Clubs Hard Hit By Television
London, Mar. 9. Television of Saturday spart in England is hitting the smaller soccer clubs so badly that the English Football Lesguo ...... – la. considering banning It.
"We have got to safeguard the interests of the smaller clubs because we have cyl. dence that they are, suffering from Saturday afternoon tele- vision," said Mr Joe Richards, presidon! of the Football League, after a meeting of the chairmen of Football League clubs today in London.
"It might well be that on approach will be made to other sporting organisations to pre- vent It," he added.
The subject is to be con- sidered further by the manage- ment committee of the Football League and at the annual
general meeting of the league in June-China Mall Special.
Oxford, Cambridge Start Final Boat Race Training
London, March 0. Both the Oxford and Cam- made bridge University crews their first appearances on the Putney stretch of the river Thomes here - today” to begin their final preparallon for the 105th boat race on March 28,
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The crews who have been training since the beginning of the year, paddled over the full boat raze coured of four miles 374 yards from Putney to Mort- Joke:
Oxford will row their first full course trial on Wednesday, and Cambridge will have theirý on Thursday.
Cambridge have won the last four races and load'in' the series, with 58 wins, to Oxford's 45. There has been one dead-, hest-China Mall Special.
BRICK BRADFORD
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IT, CASBY? MAYBE
THE OXYGEN WILL
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THE TIME-TOP! IF TB HIT WE'LL NEVER GET OUT OF KERB!
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! I'LL TAKE A GARE OF DR.EASTLAND
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TONIC
Once he got clear the French colt gobbled up the ground.
Undecided
Just what will Saint Crespin III accomplish now that he has developed this zirength?
It is
an exciting thought, Both his sire Aureole and half-brother Tulyar made immense improve ment with maturity.
Saint Crespin III is in both the English and French classics. but it is too early for the stable to choose their Derby,"
TKO WIN FOR
AMERICAN
Sydney, March 9.. Willle Vaughn of the US stop- (ped Freddie Cross of Wales in the 10th round of their scheduled 12-round bout tonight at Sydney Stadium. Each weighed 100
pounds.
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The referee stopped the fight when Cross appeared too tired to continue the bout, Vaughn It is in Solat Crespin III's chased Cross in every round favour that he stood the sero-leeping at close runge so the plane trip to Kempton welt Wefahaman 'could not use his best The colt is also entered for the punch, a strong right-U.P.I.
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