THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1959.
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Fans Can Solve Swansea's Problems STIRLING MOSS
AND GIVE WALES A
TOP-FLIGHT CLUB
By TOM FINNEY
(Of Preston North End and England)
On a concrete support in the main stand at Votch Field, Swan-
sea, is inscribed the name "John Charles."
John scratched it in wer concrete 10 years ago when he was an amateur, but to me this sums up the sad story of this most westerly of British clubs.
Swansea produces a constant flow of world-class players, yet sets ourned to stay in the soccer wilderness.
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leave for other felds and the crowds trickle steadily back to the rugby grounds.
I have always considered this one of the mysteries of football. By right. Swanson should be one of the truly great clubs.... a nume to compare with Arsenal and Manchester United...
Just consider some of the players who have left the club In the past-ww years.
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THEVON FORD, the Bery lender who left Swansza for Aston Villa and was later bought by Sunderland for
£30.000 1950.
RAY DANIEL who W38 also bought by Sunderland tiri Arsenal) far the same fee,
JOHN CHARLES, snapped up by Leeds and sold 16 Juventus for £85,000. MEL CHARLES,
sakl to
Arsenal for the equivalent of £45,000,
ROY PAUL in his day ne of the finest wing-linlves in
Britain Manchester City bald £25,000 for him when he was 27 and never grelted i
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★IVOR ALLCHURCH, the
corner of Britain where Interest; the major part in In socver Is lukewarm.
three just-war triumphis.
Followers from the Neath and Tawe valleys are anly prepared to travel to the ground when Swansea ore playing well and the town-population 160,000— badly needs outside support
Now all players and all teams. need the backing of u crowd and Welshmen need it more than most, With the roar of the fans behind him, a normally good Welsh player can suddenly be- Come gical,
Problem
At Swansea, the continual transfer story linsn't helped, No club follower likes to see his Tavourite performers leave.
And so perhaps It Isn't sur- prising that players and fans have become ùlmost resigned to Swansen remaining Second Division side,
This is why men ke Mel Charles peek First Division foot- ball and why the directors-- faced by dwindling rules-are willing to let them go.
But the Swensen problem isn't a Incul one. It's international, for Wains desperately need a top-night club,
with
the major part of her team regrutted from the English Leagues, she is very much at the mercy of the Individuel
"Golden Boy" whom New-clubs. castle signed for £30,000. TERRY MEDWIN who went to Spurs for-by these stundurus-the small fee of
£18,000.
And CLIFF JONES, another Spurs sti who at
£33,000-became the expensive footballer Britain
Future Stars
Add these names together and you would have had a world- class attack comprising Terry Medwin, Trevor
Ford, John Charles, Ivor Alchurch, ant Ch Jones, backed up by i middle-line of Roy Paul, Ray Dunkel at Met Charles.
But even the departure of this talented bond didn't endrely lap the resuorees of this re- markable club,
There are still three later- nationals in the aflack and new crop of future stars have junt moved up into the first
team.
One hame worth noting is Herb
Withams. Still in his arly teens, Willams is already benig described as another Ivor Allchurch.
Why has Swansen become a breeding ground for other clubs! And why are its players so wing to TROVE ON?
Chlet reason, I am sure, is that they have been rulsed
Burma Wants Change Of Junior Asian Cup Rule
Burma
Singapore, April 13.
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Wants the Junior Aslan Cup soccer tournament thrown open to all under 20.
Mr Chan Kim-talk, un extru- tive council member of the Burma Amateur Football Federation, and here today he would propose to the Aslanı Football Confederation that the present "schalboys only" rule be abolished.
Mr Chon is taking the Burmese 1eam to the junior cup competition, which is due to start in Kuala Lumpur Saturday.Reuter.
In
Envy
other reat British Breeding
How Swann must ravy "that
d that fles between the Wear and the Tyne. This socce stronghold is famous for Hs fans and both Newcastle and Sunder- lund have
tramendous following.
Jackle Milburn, I know, has Always contended that it was
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the Tyne side fans who played
Newcastle's Final Cup
With that kind of suppori, Swansea would surely have made their mark in British football and, by retaining an almost complete international Bine-up, have made Wales an even more formidable strik- ing-force than she is today.
there
any ready-made | solution to Swansea's problems? The answer to that must rest with its followers. They have the power to make this a great club.
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And they also have the power to destroy li
FOUR D. JONES
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OFF THE CUFF
Expect Spurs and Ireland captain DANNY BLANCH- FLOWER to become part-timer next sexson.
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Luton are currently ex- perimenting in a hill to Kulve their full back problem before Cup Final
day.
1 hear 1)sat Hibernian are interested in Manchen- fer City's transfer-stri Scottish International BOBBY JOHNSTONE.
Arsenal Injured
gual. keeper JACK KELSEY expects to be At in time for Wales' close sesson tour.
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WILDUR LOWERS THE GUNPOWDER INTO THE MINE CHART, AND GETS READV TO LIGHT THE FUSE
"OKAY! COUNT Thres AND START RUNNING OUT OF THIS CANYON!
—BUT QUICK.
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NANCY
AUNT FRITZI --- I'M A PRETTY SMART
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ENGLAND'S SOCCER TEAM
Shown here are the England soccer team who defeated Scotland 1-0 at Wembley last Saturday,
Left to right they are:
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Back row Ron Clayton (Blackburn), Billy Wright (Wolves, Captain), Don Howe (West Bromwich), Eddie Hopkinson (Bolton-goalkeeper), Graham Shaw (Sheffield United), Ron Flowers (Wolves). Joe Shuw (Sheffleld United--
reserve).
Broadbent
(Wolves), Front row-Bryan Douglas (Blackburn), Peter Bobby Charlton (Manchester United), Johnnie Haynes (Fulham), · und Doug Holden (Bolton)-Reuterphoto.
Europe's Best Long-Jump Of
*The
The Season
Moscow, April 13. Russian long-jumper Igor Terovanestiin jumped 7.19 metres (25 ft 11ins) at an In Yolla to- athletes mecting
performance in ety, the ben E rope this season.
tudent, Valery Russian Brumel, cleared 2 metres (Uft Jump to @kins) in the high equal the Russian junior record, -France-Presse.
TAKE TO THE HILLS!!
KOFF
IRMA SOLD ME HER SKIS FOR ONLY A DIME
-FRIE BUSHMILLER.
SOUNDS LIKE A REAL BARGAIN
Sports Diary
TODAY
ifockey
Jet Division: Nav Bhoral Av Army 'A' [9KP) 6.30 p.m.
Hoccer
1st
Division: KMB # Caroline
1 (119, 5.43 p.m. Meeting
ASF & DC Council meeting, SCM Post Board Room. B. p.m.
Golf
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RUGBY RESULTS
London, April 13. Results of tonight's Rugby Union
matches and League were.
RUGBY LEAGUE
Featherstone Rovers 21, Tull Kingsca Rovers 22.
RUGBY UNION
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V
Routh
Llanelly 8, Swansea 8. Penryn 0, Maesteg 3. Redruth 0, Cross Keys 8.
Ladies' Captain "Driving Ceremony. Fanting, 103 a.,
TO-SIGEROW Босске Division: Police China (39) 0.45 p.m.
Ilockey Halland Cup: Quarter-final; Mocaenda v w/o Recreio "B"/KCC "B" (KP) 5.30 p.m.
by MADDOCKS
POUR DONES AND THE BOYS SCRAMOLE OUT OF THE CANYON AS THE PISE GIFTS AYDETER
GET SURS!
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THEY'RE A LITTLE WARPED
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AT THE CROSSROADS
By DEREK JOHN
Stirling Moss, Britain's 29-year-old champion racing driver, is at the trickiest crossroads in his career. He faces the choice of four dif. ferent ways of attempting to win this season's World Grand Prix Championship. Acknowledged by most people as the world's fastest driver, Moss is being courted by four British stables and has this choice of cars:-
The B.R.M
been It has rebuilt thoroughly
and Mers has recently lapped Good- wood of a record 100 m.p.h, in the machine.
TALY
The Vanunil. *
Vanderwell, ricovered iron His less, has n new and re- built car which he hopes w{[1 be racing con.
The Cooper. Reb Walker wania Mess to drive At least in the Grand Prix races which sult this new D.B.M.- engined cor-evosta with many corners and few straights,
The Aston Martin. David Brown has spent thousands to produce his now car and it is also available to Mess. But it still needs a lot of development.
'All Very Difficult
very
But, above all, he is looking for reliability, Too often his been reeing ambitions have tinwaried by mechanical trouble, and most recently he has been shadowed by a ́sterring Jinx- a mysterious falling of his cors sterring mechonlari,
Twice within a year he has run into this frightening trouble -on both ocenione when ha who travelling at more then 100 miles in our.
Narrowest Escape.
At.Menza, Italy, last year, his Maserall's neering column came adrift in his hands when he was high on the banking, travelling at 150 mph. His car tere Inio the concrete barriera
the top of the circuit, then slid down and stopped.
Stirling was shakes but un- jurt. "I think that
was my narrowest escape," he says.
Then, at Goodwood recently, the steering column of his 214- litre Cooper-Climax came adṛlík
wattle He hit some
fencing, damaging the front of his car. Again, he was unhurt.
Sagre Moss: "It is all difBeult. Rob Walker has mult hly cars for me. and I will certainly drive 3 Cooper at Menace. But he does not ask me to drive hi fanter races,
"I am determined to win the world championship in « British
So Moss will have more pro- car. Now I have to decide."
longed wests before deciding My bet is that Moss will which car he will drive decide on the BRA for the arn son. But be is not over- more orthodox
about Prix optimistic
his world he rates ces. He considers that it is a championship bid, for far beller prospect thun the the Ferrari team of drivers as machine he turned down alker a the most powerful they have Is three years agʊ.
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