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THE UHINA MAIE, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1959.
100 Games For England NORRIS TO MAKE ALL-OUT ATTACK
CHAMPION OFF TO S. AFRICA
Miss Heather Ward, the all-England women's singles badminton champion, with her friend and partner Miss Barbara Carpenter, the England and Survey ludminton player, seen at Waterloo station before leaving for South Africa in the "Winchester
Castle" han train-Central Press photo.
BILLY WRIGHT REACHES HIS CENTURY IN INTERNATIONAL SOCCER NEXT. SATURDAY
By RICHARD
BERRY
|He has dined with the Queen at Buckingham Palace; he has been accorded V. I. P. treatment in the Kremlin. He has entertained millions of people in some 25 countries; there is a wax model of him in Madame Tussauds,
He is WILLIAM AMBROSE WRIGHT, captain of Wolves and England, winner of more international soccer caps than any other Englishman.
It is now 14 years since he was first called upon to play for his country. And on April 11, barring untimely injury or illness, he will crown his fabulous career at Wembley by completing Association Football's most remarkable century. The match against Scotland will give him his 100th cap.
Welves to win the FA Cup at Wembley 10 years ago.
breaking Bob Crompton's record of 42, England caps. He was piso elveted "Footballer of the Year."
Great Game
For mocky, 34-year-old Billy any bigger, so we won't be able | with all fluminated address for Wright this will be his proudest, te koop you after this season." moment in football since he led Those words, though spoken sympathetically, seemed to spell the end of the world for Billy Wright Broken-hearted, be walked to the dressing-room and
there alone, just managing
to hold back the lear
His soccer dreams were ended; he tried to resign him selt to the prospect of making his career in engineering
But turn the clock back years and he was the unhappiest youngster in the game. He was then a poccer-crury kid of 15, who had been signed an at Molineux as a groundstaff boy. One day, when he was employed. in the unexciting task of sweep- ing out the grandstand, he was summoned to the office of the Wolves minnaper, the immortal Major Frank Burkley,
Then something happened which changed his whole future and that of Wolves and England. Major Buckley sent
for him again,
"I have changed my mind, the Boss, You can stay." sald
End Of The World
Young Billy hesitated outside the great man's door. Then ho knocked and entered. He stoot before the manager's desk And Billy Wright, son of a fair, curly-haired stripling, only Shropshire iron-founder, aft 2in. tall.
mained with Wolverhampion to become the most prolific cap. winner in soccer history.
Sald Buckley: "I'm afraid you will never be big enough for professional footboll, soning.
You don't seem to be getting
A BRITISH GOLFER CAN WIN
THE OPEN THIS TIME
-AND ALLISS IS THE MAN
Says EDDIE HAMILTON
I say that this year a British golfer will win the British Open Champion-
ship.
You may think this a wild forecast, coming before the tournament season has opened? Perhaps so-but I haven't made it without careful investigation and consideration.
What's more 13 give you two names muy long range fore- cast They are Tric Brown of Scotland and Peler Allies of England, And I wminate the bold Peter as my Number One choice.
that one
Yes krana player hasn't won since Max Fanikner 1961, I brow that Brital has taken the title valy three mes in 13 years.
I knew that by Loek of South Mriza and Peter Thoras
shared of the son of Australia have
Hogan-Sacad era arc mille eight lines in that fading...and that tho "new period. And both will be com- boys" haven't quite got there peting agant. So, doubtless, will yet. sere of the rp Americans.
And rid I say Britain will Won this re.
Time Ripe
The tone is ripe-in mary ways. 1 don't think that either Luke or Thomson has quite the [s me ure to vielery these days,
I believe the great Americans
Is Surrey Cricket So Dominant It Bores Fans?
of
By hoppy contrast, I am con- vinced that Peter Aliss has arrived,...in the biggest way. He always had the golf; now I think he has the mental maturity that was missing.
I watched him in the recent foursomes at Wentworth. I rc- embered that he used to be a Kulfing preyhound. Now he bay slowed down almost to the Locke pace of careful con- centration and study before shot
kking.
Slapdash Approach
I asked him the pointblank question: Have you grown upi
He told me: "I think so. Now L.cun ret in in the morning, and start concentrating right away. Really concentrating. Thinking of all the factors, right down to the slight wind shifts that can
You Shot making watched him carefully
I believe him because I have And I uve not forgotten that he took Itere after another at the
end of last season.
- BY HARRY GARPENTER SURREY, the most successful side in the history county cricket, gaze ruefully at the championship pennant fluttering over the Oval. has flown there for seven successive seasons and it has driven them into the red.
In 1955 this wealthy club, Peter May & Co crush the upending £83,000 in six years to || counity opposition year after
nake the Oval a worthy home year.
Jor champions. welcome d Extra £9,000 through the turnstiles for county games a season's total of 227,000
Three Continental Open
tilles
back
Peter used to infuriate me by his slapash approach, his | all-out" faith in the big bash. And for a long time I thought he was past curing.
Now ot 28 years of age ho can iralch any golfer in the world In physique, In worse Last year Was
even technique. And in intelligent
use of his advantages. • customers, and shaved a pronting it looks on paper.
"We introduced an associate- I am wrong about Peter, or £2,440.
three bellove it will be. Eric Browni All seemed rosy. with the membership scheme, at
guineas а
explained who will beat him. year," 114-year-old club, waxing fat as
Eric has all the Allis potential This practically absorbed the with perhaps on added touch of Why do I make In 1950, the picture changed. waiting list of 2,000 for fuit napration.
and brought in hun quly second choloo? Attendance for county matches membership,
additional revenue I nearly Lick The World slumped by almost a half to
the famous gasholder looming Babb
over, the terraces.
loss of £4,249.
Loss: £3,703.
In 1957, 120,000 turned
up
£9,000."
One
being
They Pleaded
re-
It seems that Buckley way impressed when other members of the staff pleaded on Billy's behalf and explained how hard he had always worked and what a fine example he was to the other groundstart boys. Buckley was not too big a man to admit that he might have been wrong In his judgment.
But Wright's greatest per- formance In that memorable year was again at Wembley-in the first International thetu against Wales. The big attrac tion of the game was to be the duel between England's centre- half Jack Froggurt and the dashing Welsh centre, Trevor Ford.
But early on, Froggart was Injured and became a passenger Another right wing. on the man was needed to mark the nery Ford, then the most dan gerous centre in Britain,"
Wright switched himself to centre-half-and played the great Welshman out of the game. England won that match 5-2.
That day, Billy, Wright first revealed himself as England's greatest centre-half. He was a
with "stopper"
a touch of gealus and a single-mindedness of purpose which was to blight the life of many an opposing centre.
Glutton For Work
Yel the selectors look nearly Now, millions of fone, from
another two years 10 realise Molineux to Moscow, know
worker Billy Wright's proper place on the just how hard a
He Anally convinced Wright can be, It is his great field. industry and fighting spirit them that he was a born centre- which have made
him one of half in the 1054 World Cup
the greatest football captains scries. of all time.
Ho Jy or
What is the accret of Wright's
fighting; success? stops often on the field he has seen. ed to do the work of ten men. And
as England skipper, he has been a shining example the other players, just as he 10 was wonderful example the other boys at Molineux.
to
Quick Justification
Wright was quick to justify Buckley's decision. He started continued at centre-forward,
then
on the right-wing. performed creditably in all the other forward positions, switched to right-half. He scored two goals in his first League match,
And all the time litto. Billy grew, finally reaching 5ft. ain. and 12 stone. But he stil looked hardly robust enough
fer Lop soccer when he rat played for England-against Belgium at Wembley in 1945.
He is a champlon ball-player and glutton for work. He can flash lightning inter- mako ceptions and he can süll make amazing spring-heeled leaps to beat forwards four inches taller than himself in the air.
His
and tackling is crisp perfectly timed. And if he does not turn quite as quickly now as unce he did, he is still no slower than his young rivals.
Lucky In His Boss
Of course, Billy Wright has had his sharo of luck. In particular, he has been fortunale In having a footballing genius like. Stan Cuills as his boss at Molineux.
Norris with the “Sportsman of the Year” trophy —the “Jim Peters" trophy-awarded to him in 1956.
SPORTS QUIZ
course,
or 九
1. Which is largest-the Boat!
Race course, the Grand National
lurev-mile running track? 2. Who won the Wimbledon men's singles title in 1955 without losing a pot?
3. Who was England's leading racehorse owner in 1954? 4. Which sport is played on a Reld referred to as "The Grid-Iron"?
3. Who was the first crickcier to score a Test century? 0. Who has recently become the first cricketer to take twelve
Teat wickets in against four differen! countries?
ON OLYMPIC MARATHON
Twenty-four hours after winning the International cross-country champion- ship at Lisbon last week, Bolton mine-worker Fred Norris, 37, announced his retirement from CTORS country running. Next year he la to
trate on an all-out attack on the Olympic marathon.
concen⭑
Hold that getting
it
as early in the season as this, next year, would ruin his chances at Rome,
At 97, Norris is the oldest man ever to win the in- ternational championship, and last week's win made him the third. Briton in 30 years to win the national and international. championships
THE HONG KONG
tho
same season. One of the other two, Frank Bando, was in second placo behind him as the English team Alled four out of the first live places for a crushing victory in the team cham pionships. — London Ex. press News.
JOCKEY CLUB 11TH RACE MEETING.. Saturday 11th and Saturday 18th April, 1959. (To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 20 RACES The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m, and the First Race run at 2.00 p.m. on both days,
The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will close at 11.45 7,5, on both days.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
No person without an admission badge which must be prominently displayed throughout the meeting will be admitted,
Admission Badges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable from the Club's Cash Sweep Offices, at Queen's Building, Chater Road, D'Agullar Street and 382 Nathan Road only on the written introduction of
Member.
ADMISSION BADGES WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE AT THE RACE COURSE ON RACE DAYS,
Tiffins will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811).
NO CHILDREN, under the age of seventeen years, Western Standard will be admitted to the Club's premises during the
7. Which. English soccer club
has won the League Cham-Mecung. pionship the most times?
B. With which sports, do you associate (a) Julius Baros, (b) Don Jordan, (c) Eddle Arciro?
9.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable at the Gate.
Which of these boxers have Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the fought for the world heavy-requisite fee of $3.00 in order to gain re-admission.
MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will be available in the weight title-Billy Conn,
Carl Olson, Freddie MI, RESTAURANT. Roland LaStarza?
10.
The Olympic men's long jump has always been won by an American. True or file?
(Answers on page 17)
Long And Short Of Soccer
Lincoln City, the English League soccer club, has just halt signed a oft. 3in. centre called Ray Long.
Cullis has often said; "There is no mere fatal palley than to persist with a player who has temporarily lost form." But ho hrake that rule in 1031,. fr Wright was the Army Wright was then off form, then a corporal the Ghrop yet Cullis kept him in the års thire Light Infantry and the team. He felt that in the long Tech WosuficialVic-run his star player might have And that just about balances been psychologically upset to be Lincoln's books....because they tory" game. In the same sea- son he played in another "un-dropped into the reserves for have a 5ft 2in, outside left | . officiat international, at right- the first time in his career. named Joey Short.
Says Lincoln manager Bilt half again Seiland In It was coon, proved that Calls Glasgow, with Nell Brankier lind made a wise exception to Anderson reckon. I'vo-gol and Joe Mercer completing the his own rule. And it happened the longest and shortest players middle-line,
again last September when with any League club.”—London Wright
struck another bad Express Service. Patch.
Captain At 24
His first "full" esp came in the
7-2 victory against Northern Ireland in Belfast In 1947, he was made captain of Wolves A year later, at the age of 24, he became cap- tin of England.
Critics Howled Crities began howling for him to be dropped. But he stayed on-and now Wolves seem to be heading for yet another League Championship.
Sports Diary
TODAY
Of course, Wright cannot have many more years in the black- and-geld shirt of Wolves or in the white of England. But ho will carry on playing as long as he can. After 30 years an
professional, he looks forward and Divion: Gym to each match as eagerly an
pps.
Aplates RAY annual athletics champion- shilpe, Kai Tak, 7.30 p.m.
Cricket 2nd Division: Nécrolo V KCC V KOV.
Soccer Lace National Tom v Police XL Boundary Street. 5p.m
Gymnastic v (NAVY), 5 PM.;” Tajkoo, v Bi. 3rd Division: Rediffusion y Mor- And he counts himself lucky cantile, 1. veraly velephone. DW Dodwell to have been abló to make ́n 5.30 pm. living out of the game he loves an) v k dodown.M
130 ping 1H GMV HIL $ 170.; most of all,
all matches, at Happy Valley.
Blace then he has caplained England more times than any other man. In the last 11 YERTH he has missed only three of England's 00-add full those InternationaŬ — and Because
Through injury. In 1952, a few hours after ever. England had beaten Delglum 5-0 at Wembley, he was guest of-honour at a Football Assocla, tion banquet and was presented
121,000. The books, showed Q The situation demands emere chances in recent years to win-
Becrise de fms had tho
gency mensures, considered is the formation of a and has somehow just failed to take them. And this business of fund-raising supporters' asso-nishing on the winner's tall, clation.
Surrey, Yorkshire, and Middie. can be a tough habit to break.
But I anybody lick the jinx,
Down To 117,000
our conditions.
under
Which brings me to my final causes of argument. This year's Open is
In a few weeks' thing, mamE- sex are the only counties white Erie. And together I'll take bern who pay 5gns, a year to have so far been able to realat him and Peter to lick the world wear the chocolats
white this alight lowering of de- this year....in Britain and Surrey tie will look with gloomi mennour in the quest for cash, - on the 1950 attendance Agures: The puzzled commander Ur of 117,000, and a loss of almost | casily lists possible certainly around £4,000.
the lump-TV, weather, a car of Mulenald And this magni- Commander Robert Babb, owning, democracy who dash 10 foent Lothians corse has been Surrey's slight, hawk-like secre- the coast instead of squatting on the rota for 68 years. In all tary, wrestles with the problemj in the stands,
that line poly one foreigver haa.
of champions, playing virilo There are two others harder | wen on Open there the cricket, who cannot make it pay, to face.
fabulous' Waller Hogon
"Yet when we play Dway," Is it that Seven-Year, Surrey, Last: Muirfield" winner says Babb, "we still draw big the unbeatable champions. crowds.
have become too good for their
It seems the Surrey man in ein good? Or is county ericket the streat is tired of seeing dựng?"
was
Henry Cotton... at over 40 years of age. Before Quat, Air Parry, Next {imez - Well, you know what I thinkci
POP-Retaining the 'Ashes
HALLO! WE SHOULD') GET ON #INE.
1 HEAR YOUke İPIRET-CLASS CRICKETER.
I HATE CRICKET
THAT'S FUNNY ME
I HEARD POP SAY:
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CASH SWEEPS
Through Cash Sweep Tickets at $20.00 each per day and $40.00 for both days may be obtained from the Cash Swoop Ofees at Queen's Building, (Chater Road), and 5, D'Agullar Street during office hours,
Tickets reserved and avaliable but not paid for by 10.00 a.m. on Felday, 10th April, 1959, will be sold and the reservation · cancelled for future Meetings.
Special Cash Sweep Tickets on the Hong Kong Derby scheduled to be run on 2nd May, 1859, at $2.00 each may be obtained from the Club's Cash Sweep Offices at:-
Queen's Building (Chater Road) und 8, D'Agullar Street, Hong Kong Q
9 a.m. to 8 pm.
.. to 12.30 pm.
9am. to 11 am.. and 381 Nathan Road,
100m 10pm
Week-days, Mondays to Fridays Saturday 4th April Saturday 11th and Saturday 18th
April
King's Road, North Point, Hong Kong Kowloon om:→
Week-days Mondays to Friday Saturday 4th April .............................. Saturday 11th and Saturday 18th
April
I
0 am to 11:45 0.22.
9am to 11 asm.
IMPLABY CONdar of the Btsaward kee
A. E. ARNOLD,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 4th April, 1850.
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