THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1959.
SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT
Some Basic Talent And Lots Of Hard Work Are The Ingredients Of Champions
Says I. M. MacTAVISH
(Writing from Sydney)
The language of sport is indeed universal. No matter whore one travols there is always a common meeting' ground when sportsmen get together.
I have already found this to be so in many parts of the world. Now I know it is as true of Sydney as it is of London, Glasgow, Singapore, Tokyo..........or Hongkong,
large. As thla modern teleprinter in lights unfolded its stories a great crowd of ordinary people watched as I did. Not for them, however, was interest centred in the affairs of state or govern- ment, or in the vitally important International deliberations of the day. They wanted to know how at Australia was progressing in the
Since arriving in this great cily last Friday week I have had a wonderful opportunity to meet tome fine Australian sportsmen end to see some of the country's ordinary exponents, in several different activities, performing
Only a fool would seek to BARK Judgment on the strength of a casual took any country's sport... similarly only a fool. very inexperienced observer, could fall to sense the surging enthusiasm for mort which exista in Australia today.
of
favourability or otherwize to Australia and it was an eye- opener to be a spectator at 'this scene of walionally-mind- ed sportsmen who take their spori very seriously indeed. In the more practical sense have had F11 opportunity seeing some of the present activities in Sydney. In a few appointment-packed days I have | managed to see a First Division Roccer match, a wrestling pro gramme, goke flashing round Sydney's famous harbour and under its equally famous bridge jin a spoedboat ... and watch- ed some professional boxing.
SPORTING SAM
did I hear him express any dip- ¦ APIA from the centre-half berth | approval: always he enaxed the while Len Qucated, who has de- pupil to Try doing it this way' ( lighted Huddersfield and Fulham and never was he reluctant to supporters for many years, cap- offer a word of praise when he i täsned the Auburn'side from the felt it was justified.
inside-left position.
Ambition
The APIA line-up is an effer- "vescent`mbiture of British and mid-Europeanalers who have moved to Australia in recen years and just after this game it was announced that APIA had finalled negotiations for the Egyptiah National centre-for- ward who was flying from Cairo to Sydney to tako part in their vital top-of-the-League match over next weekend."
the
That is one side of the ple- tura. On the other sido are the youngsters themselves. They are sparked with a real feeling of ambition and I watched one
teenage girl tucked away in corner with a racket and ball and over again. I was at club for the best part of an hour and I did not see her do any thing else. She practised
and rested; practised and rested and; then practised some more.
playing the same stroke .but | Davis Cup mnich in Mexica
OF П
I stood at a street corner the other day and watched
Mectrle news shạn, high on the top of building, blazing out the! latest happenings of lise world at
and how nce driver Jack Brab-| ham was faring in the British Grand Prix.
An Eye-Opener
| AN EX-CHAMPION'S GENEROSITY
As each liem of sports news was released It brought a cheer or a groan from the
I have also enjoyed the pri→ watchers necording Lo Itsvilege of talking sport with some of the men behind the progres- alve and ambitious plans which ure making the modern Austra- Hans into race of international greats... Into a race in fact ot International conquerors. Their allitude to sport is simple enough but it just bubbles with a burning enthusiasm to make this a country of champions. I said their attitude is simple and I must explain why I say so.
Let me quote the coach at a tennis club which I visited in the suburbs of Sydney.
HOGAN BASSEY
Bassey Pays £600 For Friend To Be At The Big Fight
By HARRY CARPENTER
London.
17HEN Nigerian featherweight Hogan Kid
W Bassey flew out from Liverpool to Los Angeles
last Tuesday for his world title fight with America's Davey Moore he was accompanied by the man who befriended him when he first stepped on these shores seyen years ago.
"Sport today has reached the pitch when few individuals can
:
A Thriller
Auburn was made up of "Bri- Ush-type" players and they were
I asked the couch about her well coaxed and prompted by and he told me that she had) Quested who scored one brill- -been a strong favourite to winant goal.
recent Junior competition
eccentriclties and hot-blooded trimmings of continental football fully in evidence.
bai had failed badly due to a The game, played on a bumpy weakness in her backhand, plieb, was a thriller with all the He said he had advised her to stop competitive tennis for a bit and get into the alley with a, racket and a bali until she had overcome her weak- ness,
"She is slowly but steadily improving" sold the coach, "and I really admire her persever- picture and she has had to bury ance. She hates being out of the
a lot of her pride to do what she is doing right now... but one day she will probably be to the job in hand. cter. She has the right approach
by Reg. Wootton
London Express Service.
And finally as the Sydney rain lashes down is typical, tropļval style as though to remind us of Hongkong it is time for me to doff the old - MacTavish Topper to the soccer retorees in Hong- kung. Frequently I have erl-' ticised their efforts and I do not retract a word of that--bu after what I saw in Sydney lost Saturday I put a new assessment on their value.
The refereelug I saw in wa games was, lo use a popular phrase, the absolute boltam. How some of the decisions were made I shall never know
and neither will
a lurge slice of the egowd. When a play- er who stops to tie his Jocé aind suddenly finds the ball booted upacid to him in a position which must be every luch ol both backs is allowed to chuse fifteen to twenty yards behind and score a goal... I...
cyen I thingt
have scen
every-
Answers To
The crowd was the noisleat Sports Quiz
I have heard in years. It was also. The most demonstrative. There was one fracas between rival spectators in the Bres surrounding the plich and later there was a minor war when ``APTA star was up- ended near the Auburn goal lae by the visiting defender opposed to him. The home spectators were on the field In a flash and the baille raged for short time until the police made a very neat job
of restoring tranquility, The score fluctunted first That is the sort of enthusiasm one side and then the other got one finds in many places and on lop and, as though to pro- would be a great thing for scored the winning goal with vide the ideal climax, APIA Hongkong sport if we could and what was in fact the last kick Example The Guido some way to kindle a like sense
of endeavour In the younger of the game. They won 5-4.
reach world status on their own. The big names in every game and every sporting pursult have achieved their present position because they had basic ability and a desire to have that ability moulded along the right lines by expert coaches.
The Koy?
members of our community.
"Here in Australia' we have
Maybe a remark made to me managed to make progress in swimming, athletics and tennis by another sporting official sup- because we have instilled û spirit plies the key
to the whole
o determination into the youth situation. As we watched some
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It was exclling stuff alright but considering the big names involved the standard was astonishingly low."
Maybe Ute poor playing sur being coached in face had something to do with
of the country. The youngsters youngsters have now had the chance to see rugby on a piece of open com-1, or maybe it was the cather what can be done internationallymon this comment
was made: small pitch, but Australla
will
in
by urdinary players or porform is becoming more and more not become a world power
a championship soccer with this sort of stuff. ers like themselves... provided difficult to win
most Only the are willing to dedicate Australia.
talented, workers have any real every moment of their spare time hope of major success."
they
to hard work,
The
Maybe winning championships in Hongkong is too easy and in consequence the flue of 'Chem- plon has lost its glamour and Its appeal.
Australia youth of knows how our champions of today reached the top. They know that because people like me, never stop telling them. Example Is great guldo and If every youngster who picks up a tennis racket sces him- nelf a future Lew load, or every schoolboy runner Imagined he is burning up the track üks Herb Elliott, or every swimmer i Henricks, every batsmanri is 'a Bradman then · Australia will'
От етед
Jincs
just
What Refereeing!
Nevertheless there is tremen- dous potential in the game. The top clubs, who enjoy consider-i able Bnancial backing, are not afraid to go after overseas stars To which now to a sport and one official gave it to IIU which has not grown up, so to his opinion that in another five speak, from the localised years Australia will be well endeavours of Australians able to hold her own with under the guidance of Aus- but the ellto of the game tralians let me mention brief-a representative sense of course. ly something about the - fool- ball match I saw on Saturday. One interesting point worth
ם
in
noting is that although Chinese
It was a vital Firat Division play a very important part in
1. Aeroplane racing. 2. In, golf.
An albatrosa Is three under par; an eagle is two under par.
3. A sword used in fencing. 4. Lawn Tennis,
6. Joe Beecara of Mexico.
0. Four: Gluseppe Forina, Alberto Asrar!, Juan Fanglo, Mike Hawthorn.
7. The International Cross-
Channel Swimming Race- from France to England.
. (a) Argention, (b) Uruguay,
(e) United States.
4. Max Schrncing. When he boat Jack Sharkey in the 4th round in New York 1930.
10. In hockey there must be three players, including the gosikeeper, between the goal lino and the player receiving the bars; in aceer there need be only two in- cluding the goalkeeper.
Sports Diary
TODAY
Bowl
me "Recrolo "B", KCC C
1st Division: Recreio "A" v_TC, KBGC v KDC, FC vinc "A".
and Division: PRC "A" v KCC. PRC "D" V HRCC, CCE V HKPSA, ince V USBC.
RC, JKCC V KBGC, KDC V
3rd Division: OCC Y HERC. &C V
Division: KDC v
Ledlce 2nd Division: TC v Recreio,
Swimming
go on making the world head game between APIA and Auburn many Australian sporting eli "A de PRC, once co
the and each side had the services vities there is only one Chinese it did Da other day when Jack Brab-of a former British Internation- player in First Division football PRO KOC. JOC V USNC. bam put himself in the post-alist. Joe Marston, the old in this part of the country. He favourite for the Preston North End skipper, per-is Johnny Wong who plays oul- World Driving Championship formed a similar service for side-left for North Side United. by winning the British Grand Frix.
tion of
"Success for their country Is the finest encouragement youth can have."
These words came from a
Bassey is paying between! Manager Biddles and trainer £000 and £700 out of his own Churley Fox were also among pockel so that Israel Boyle, n | those who accompanied Bassey man who spends many hours Nigerian wollerweight now to
Angeles when Log
he every week puiting young tennis
working in the Liverpool. docks, flew vin New York, on hopefuls on the way to what can be at his side on August 19, Tuesday for this vitally im -when Bassy attempts to re-portant Right in which he and Boin the crown that Moore look | Moore caufs get 30-p.c. of the from him last March.
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gate, TV, radio, and film fees.
Lit could amount to £20,000.
This great-fearied gesture, apicce.
typical of the generous
little ex-champion, la, la re- turn for Boyle's enaching and companionship over the years.
Looked Affer Me
Help To Fighters
At
This return with Moore, negro son of a Springfield, Ohto, pastor," "will be held in Boyle, nearing 40, was one of Sports Arena, which seats 24,000 the newly opental Las Angeles the first Nigerians to come here and is believed to be the largest
in the great post-war invasion Indoor boxing stadium in the
of British rings by Common world.
wealth, fightors.
He had a successful career
It
bas axnelly twice the
and in 1952 twice beat the then capacity of Wembley's indoor up-and-coming Bristol young-pool, sler, Terry Rateliffe
1 landed
Bassoy, told me "foraci mot The mushroom-shaped arona į meoft the beat when is air-conditioned (a help to tho
· Liverpool In fighters in Los Angelesa, muna- 1982, Jooked after me, shared mer host) and every wat is the dia with me, helped me with cushioned, tip-up type, my boxing, and has been the a
father to ine aver since.”.
It shares a. car park (with
space for 20,000 enre) with the
• What Bassey didn't tell me, adjoining 100,000 capacity but which NES MANAæer Memorial Coliseum, alto of the
could be International fame. I watched. him at work. He was irm but friendly. Never once
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