THE CHINA · MAIL,
MONDAY, AUGUST 17; · 1959.
Pago 7
Weekend Bowls Highlights Billy Wright Tells Why He Retires
GEORGE SOUZA TAKES HIS
FOUR INTO OPEN RINKS FINAL ALMOST SINGLEHANDEDLY
By ROBERT TAY
With first division and second division potential champions Indian Recreation Club “A” and Hongkong Football Club further stretching their lead with 4-1 wins over Taikoo Club and Kowloon Cricket Club, the weekend league matches in these two divisions became more or less routine affairs. However, three fine victories were recorded, although they bore no bearing on the race for the championship titles.
In the first division, Recreio || The best of these five matches him, he sprung the fuck back-) "B" scored a creditable 4-1 win was won at Hongkong Football wards and followed it up by
| Ekib. where Openi Singles drawing the Arst shot to leke | analist George Souza swept the gaine Into an extra head everything in front of him in a at 22-22.
over Cralgengower at the CCC green to take fourth position in the league table in place of the Valley Club.
In the second division. VYRE, playing clalmet
The Turning Point
The KCC pruetically one-inal show in the!
four were again a few barb, to lead is for lying the shot ou this head, home into the final of the Open vinks but Souza's heavy draw sprung 4-1 decision-vent.
the Jack almost two yards back over second-placed PRC "A"
count of one about and placed themselves well in
Jack-high. yard
Baker was about four feet De running for the runner-
through with ttp berth,
First Patted again Kowloon Crie- his
Wood. Souza drew Hongkong Cricket Club also ket Ch W. Baker, C. A The first shot within a foot, and
Barough with another, W. Long Sling and T.
Baker was rather unlucky with great performance of the menden M Baker, the CCC four af P. he last wood when: lie Just when: they gaiz alefetto
the Juck
of Manyon, A. M.
Instead 1. Sutres, A. sterd Hongkong Police Sports Asst. Coates and G. Souza were taking it clean back, to leave PATTY ENTERS
3-2 actually trailing troughout the Srst 2) heads and only took the led after the thai estra 22nd Javraci
came
etation, this time by margin.
Four-Point Lead
The third division games saw Hongkong Meetpie Chula establishi a four-point lead over 110 ani the same number of 12 matches! result at their 4-1 win over i Taik."
!
Display log all-round
his opponents with the match- winning count.
Results
1. Mat-4, A. ES.ures. Ai N. Cetes mit G. A. Bouza ferti: out. Bakey, (A. Coelu. V. Home Big and T. B. Baker (RCC) 25-29.
Superiarity, the KCC tour Iesults of the Open Rinks swere Trading by 22-12 at the and Open Triples championship
end at the 16th head when
games played yesterday are: The turning point catrır.
OPEN KINES (Semi-Int) With opponents lying a cla two chil lp Maker ebo n Making themselves felt in the fat tacking line of ping Tare for the title were Hongkong Foothet: Club whose when i direfor his men to 5-0 victory ove: HKCC on Saturday fur backyand twory draw blorker, instead of day new puts therm 11 a pain! | 32le behind the Indians. The Fouthall lepting safety draws from the Club bavy, however, pityed our forehan match more than the HEROIs mised leaving the CCC
femur cut of fair The Indipas.
Encouraged by Main highlights of The skip Souza then struck abril- bowls during the weekend and patch at almost single
handedly won the game for his
were furnished by the two
G. A Gatteries, G. A. Nurvake, c. P. Baste and C. E. Roza-Peruten sterreini bent W. Dovnird, W. Bel- McCalfrey and C. Mekonana (Takao 2-15
ton, J All their at-
This sareess
Colony Open Kinks side. He drew a single and
als and the three remaining two won the Open Telples
yesterday.
quarter-finals
heads. On this with
3 count
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AUSTRIAN
TENNIS FINAL
player
Poland's
Today
Kitzbuehel, Aug. 10. American tennis Budge Patty and Ladislaw Legersten
in the qualified for the final International men's singles leanis championship of Austria.
In the semi-finals Legenstein beating upset forecasts by South African favourite, Ian Vermaak 7-5, 6-4, and Budge
Is
Phew!
.... Middlesex - mid-on Peter Parfiti sinks to the ground, and be- hind him whistles paat a hefty drive from Surrey's. Tom Clark, Clark went on to score a century but the match ended in a draw.
"THERE'S NOTHING QUITE
SO PATHETIC AS A ONCE GREAT PLAYER
...
By MONTY COURT
Billy Wright, veteran of 105 internationals and golden-shirted king of Wolverhampton's 40,000 Soccer subjects, quit football because he would not face the mid-season nightmare of having to struggle for his place in Wolves' first team.
As the 35-year-old ex-captain of England relaxed on a razor-trimmed lawn of a North Wales villa last week-24 hours after he had trotted off the pitch at Wolverhampton with the Molineux roar ringing in his ears for the last time-he talked of the decision that has shaken football.
"I got out of football while was on top. That's how I hope everyone will remember me.”
"I found training was. get-i the best thing to do was to give ling harder, and harder, and, up. harder. And believe me we do train hard at Wolves.
"Then I realised that as the season progressed things would get harder still. I did not want to be faced with a desperate fight for my place halfway through the seuson.
"I was a possibility I had foreseen. But last week I rea- lized that I had to mako the decision. And I decided that
I Hope Freddie Trueman Is Not Overworked
Says DENIS COMPTON
Freddie Trueman being overworked? He is a great fast bowler, a great personality, and a key man in the England team, but he was not at his best in the Test at Old Trafford,
Patty disposed of Austria's best He seems to be running on his reserves of power
player, Fronz Zalko 4-6, 6-3,
and 11.-1.
and . B. Sc Planck 5. Coltter. Risksdale KFC) 14-15.
W. C. Yeang, Y. 180, 1, 0, c) beter A. Cr Pichen (KBGC) 10-14.
THE OSNECTION Gris ThS AND MARCH OFF IN
WELL IT LOOK
AS IF WE'VE GOT THIS BLACKMAILING BUSINESS IN HAND
NOW CHIEF
THE
SORRY--- YOU'RE
NOT TALL ENOUGH
BRICK BRADFORD
YOU? BETTER STAY WITH THE SHIP PAW! M JONG TO INVESTIGATE THAT MAN-MADE OBJECT!
IT IGN'T TOO FAR!
ERNIE BUSHMILLER_
ARE YOU KIPPINST IN WITH YOU KATER, EVERY FOOT OF
THE WAY! I DONT WANT TO BE ALONG
HERE!
OMFE BY ITSELF!
OKAY! I GUESS
THE DIHAR' IS
"Thes...
YES, BUT WE STILL HAVENT GOT ANY FOOT OIL, NI THAT'S THE MOST
IMPORTANT
KNOCK
KNOCK
I WOULD HAVE TASSED ALONG REGARDLEGG!
LOCK, BRICK, THIS WAS
A LAVA FLOY CENTURIES
AGO! NOW DRY AND SUN-BAKER IT'S LIKE AN
OLD LAKE BED!
The final will be played on Monday-AFP.
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By Ernie Bushmiller
STILL THINK I'M
NOT TALL ENOUGH?
Å SKORT TILE LATER...
HARE IT IS
PAM! THE OBJECT THAT COULD BE SEEN FROM EARTH
By Paul Norris
I DON'T GET IT! IT'S LIKE A TRENCH THAT : MISHT HAVE BEEN MADE) BY A BULLDOZERİ SEE,
THERE ARE TRACTOR:: TREAD MARKS ALL ALONG THE BOTTON);
und accuracy.
Was there a behind-the-scenes row at Wolves which prompted the sudden announcement of his retirement?
"They are the greatest club in the world. In every way they have treated me more than 100 por cent. I have been completely happy there, and have no cam- plaint about anything at all.
"No," said Wright. "Absolute norscrise, I can honestly say He thought for a moment and that I have never had any kind added, with a shrug: "There's of row with Wolves over any- nothing quite se pathetic as
a thing. once top-class playor being beaten by men he could Have eaten for breakfast in his hey- day. I was determined that that would never happen with me.
"I made up my mind about that when I started playingi football and I am sticking to li." "There is no chance at all
of me playing in it was a key weekend for
ony other club's colouro-anywhere. And Wright. In addition to marking there is certainty no change, as the end of his playing days I have seen suggested, of me was busy planning the future becoming a full-time edviser 10 with his wife Joy-one-third of the singing Beverley Sisters who have rented a 08-3-week villa at Llandudno for their summer season there.
No Row
He is faced with three offers 1. As a couch with Wolves 2, A job with the Football Assocla- tion but I can't tell you any- thing about 1"); 3, A B.B.C. TV offer,
When he reports at Molineux his decision-and will announce on Tuesday he will have made
It.
won't
be
SPOR
I hope that in the remaining | chorpionship-he four weeks of the season-oven | asiced to do too much, with Yorkshire fighting for the We want a Trueman at his Attest and best for the West Indies tour this winter.
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I am delighted that Peter May has accepted the M.C.C. invita- tion to captain the side and I wish him a speedy recovery from his illness.
Who will be chosen with May and Trueman from the other 27 players naked by M.C.C. if they will be available to go to the West Indies?
Colin Cowdrey, of course, will be included in the team. In my view he showed himself able deputy to May at Old Trafford.
very
Brian Statiam is another "must." Has there ever been a bowler of such phenomenal accuracy, consistency, and ro silience?
Harold Rhodes should have serious consideration sa the third fast bowler, though he must be very firmly told that the bouncer is not his greatest weapon
But Rhodes has lots of pace and in the West Indies he could be very difficult indeed to play. Ray Illingworth I regard as a certainly. He is full of promise of effective performances in the West Indies and his batting is quite formidable.
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there were complaints about wicket being cut up - "
London Expreza Service.
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
in this game from Germany Böhringer v. Teutel), Black's queen is trapped in the middle As for Tom Greenhough, his of the board. 1 P-K4, P-QB4; netion, Gubby Allen tells me, hos 2 Kt KB3, E-QB3; 3 PLQI, been currected and, he is now PXP: 4 KtXP, KL-B3; 5 K-
really spinning his leg break. 1983. P-K3: 0 R-K2, P-Q3: 7 is no longer a mere top spinner. He should be on that boat,
Two Must Go
Two wickel-keepers must go but which two out of Godfrey: Evans, Roy Swetman, John Murray and Keith Andrew?
Godfrey Evans-in my view still our best wicket-keeper-and Swetman would be my choice..
Geoff Pullar and Subba Row should be the openers, despite that second innings of Inexplic- able dullness which Pullar play- ed against the Indians.
Ted Dexter is my all-rounder choice. He was disappointing in the last game against the Indians but I feel ho WAS Just temporarily off form.
Ken Barrington is the most Improved player in England and must be a cortainty for the final selection. Colin Cowdrey gave) him the opportunity against the Indians of showing that he is n really good leg-break bowler.
Mike Smith
B-K3, B-K2: 80-00-00 K-RI, R-K1: 10 PBI P Q3: 11 P-QR1. Q-D2: 12 Q-Q2, 12-Q1: 13 3-B3. Ktx Kt: 14 DxKt Kt-KI: 16 Q- B2. R-Q3; 10 QR-Q1, B-BJ: 17 B-Kt, Q-85: 18 P-KB1, D-K2; 19 R—Q. Resigns.
Solution No. 5680: 1 KL-RI. R-B6 ch: 2 Kix R, or ! ... ....R— 37: 2 Q-R5, or 1... RжKt, 2 *-03
London Expreza Service.
a Government sports scheme." pinded at his home last night
Manager Stan
Cullis ex-
when told of rumours of a row with Wright:
"Billy is far more than a ployer to me," he said. "He in a great friend very
STOAL friend. And my dearest with is for him to stay on de a coach and work with us for the rest of his life. In the 21 years I have known him, we have never had a cross word.
Relieved
"I think I can say that Blily would have been Wolves' contre- half for the first few matches of the season. But whether he would have been fit enough to hold his place is another ques- Lion.
"His decision to retire has saved me from what might have been a very nasty and hurtful experience—having to drop him.
"Billy realised this. He said that it was not faft that George Showell should go on being bis understudy for ever-and that he did not want to play fool- balt if he couldn't enjoy 1"
lie added: "Billy's decision to retire is his own. I think it is a wise one, a decision that Stanley Matthews should have made some time ago, for Stanley is not even a shadow of his former self. And that's a very sad thing,"
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has definitely Shek-O arrived and he should be very good in the West Indies.
11is technique is almost frightening because he plays so much scross the line of the ball. But he doesn't miss. · His vye and timing are quits magnificent addition, he la a great flelder clown to the .wicket.
Ken Taylor is also a great felder. In the covers and skirt ing the boundaries he is superb. His should be in the tour party.
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