Old Crud Finds New Tricks
By DICK FRANCIS
Lendon.
down,
he has invented 10 the
new
youthful Thirteen-year-old Crudwell variations
whipping-round tricks which that Grand Old Man of have decanted many att unwary the racecourse — Is being · rider in the past, prepared for his assault When the on a British record thatterly has stood for more than 100 years, both over the jumps and on the Flat.
If he wins seven more raceB he will be placed third in the uffefal all-time list of “Wasters of Most Races,” busting Altee Hawthorn and
Berswin, who
have jointly held that position since 1045, with 51 winners each.
Top of the list is the fabulous Here Catherina who wou TO races between 1833 and 1841, and second Is Fisherman, with 09 wins between 1855 end 1859.
It is unkely that these two will ever be challenged, ehley
because be modern horses, how- ever gozd, are worked as hard
they were, Catherina run 174 reges in her eight seasons, and Fisherman, who ran 11e in four searuns, won 23 races as a reur. year-old: Cut:
his
Crudwell Jump why into this angust, celery- old company? Letieve he can. BACK TO WORK
Tw
cally feel age seems to have on him is to give him 13. bloom he
always lakri
hh youth. I have never seen. him look as well as he does this September.
Frank to Tirroid stable now in full
returned Cundell's Aston recently 14 15 training for his first autum
run at Fontwell on October 17.
Ike
start
brown, dashing, delightrut Codweil to betrave himself, bls, winning days will be over.
Old Cruil has so far won 45 Fint races In 98 starts-seven
35 four hurdles, and ces
been streplechases. He has
elight 22 mes, thirdl Swad
fourth
times, seven mus and unplaced 1 mrs. He bas and three fall, and he was pulled up obes
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1959.
RUSSIAN
Page 7.
SPORT MADE THEIR FORTUNE
DOMINATES Jack Kramer, Ringmaster Of
GYMNASTICS
Moscow, Sept. 21.
Yuri Titov, 23-year-old
student of Kiev Physical
The World's Greatest Circus
Training Institute, Won (This is the sixth and Anal
all
Mall's China
seven mon's gold instalment of medals in the World special sports feature). Students Gymnastics Championships which were concluded hero today.
The champlonships, watched by 12,000 in Moscow's palace of sports today, were dominated by Soviet athlete.
R
22-your-
Lidia Kalinina. old medical student of Muscow, won fuur of the five women's gold incdals. The other was won by Irin Pervushina, 17, from Voronezh,
More
tram
than 100 gymnasts 12 countries including Took part in the
In Fint races he has covereri ¦ Japun,
les. amel 177 National ch.tapionships-Router. Hunt race 212 miles, minking R present high-speed ton of 953 mik ix furlongs, about frum ox for ni
London To Holyhead
What bass this great career (been worth to owner Mr. D. M. "Bunny" Cooper la bord cush
stake winding C'en facell has collected £13,007
in place proximately £2,500,
my
honey
-
He can beat most of the best
type races, but not all of them Together in ong Held. Rough-
end-tumble
his Juste...
horses use at a time in match-
ts
to hot
Yes, Crudwell is a wise old
nad the fellos,
youm goal- laviting 13-your-okt I have ever known. Even his legs ure like
of a three-year-old-and those those big brown eyes still have that inquisitive glint.
Iately arrived in the Cundeil rode Crud | st,dble, after being gold to dise Pam Hope's alve a partnershi The nine-
The other day 1 wedd
M Low "holiday" stable.
'chaser at Faringdon, year-nid lng disionee Berkshire, where horses who Polar Flight.” haylag summered
change of seenery are particularly well,
their preliminary His off fore lyg was struck toughening-up before returning lato when he fell at Newbury to their normal trainers,
Just February and he has not Taking Crudwell up his daily rum since. Now perfectly sound, two-hour journey to the 109 of the awaits better going for his White Horse Bill and back | remesbuck.---Londen Express proved that, far from selling 'Service.
FOUR D. JONES
THERE WE ARE: THATË THE SITE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID, AND GET AN EVEFUL OF THAT EREK DOMD, JUST WHAT INE WANT
YENJA ENT.. BUT... OH!
(NEVER MINDE
FERDINAND
NANCY
7.0.24
SPANISH
SOCCER
Madrid, Sept. 21. Results of the cight first division league matches played In Spain yesterday were:
Atletico of Madrid 3, Sepiles
2.
Elehe 2. Barcelona 1.
Espanol 4. Real Sociedad San Sebastion 2.
of
Belle 2. Tas Palmas t. Osasuna 4, Oviedo 3 Valencia 2, Real Madrld 1. Zaragoza 6. Granada 2. Atletico of Blibao 4, Val- Incalla 3-China Mall Special.
Jump Record
London. John Albert Kramer won the kay to o million-dollar fortuno in forty-five miniutes.
He received it from the late King George VI on American Independence Day, 1947 after stemming the American Tom Brown B-1, 0-3, 6-2 In one of the fastest ver Wimbledon men's singles Annls.
His prize tax held for one year only was the large, double-handled silver Challenge Cup. Before parting with It. Kramer used it to open the golden gates in professional kown tenis,
Other Wimbledon champlona have done the same. But noue with such startling success as Kramer. He promptly berima world professional champion. monopolised the biggest pureest ала then turned Impresario
of the world' ringmaster greatest tennis circus,
By JOHN MELVIN
Jock Kramer was born in Las
Vegas, where fortunes are won and lost at the turn of a wheel. But there is no element of luck in his own success story. Every step in his sporing career has been carefully premeditated.
Kramer, six feel one, the and long-legged, is a tennis machine designed by nature and built by man, From the age of 14, his life was geared to the one aim of making him Into A world-beating tennis
star,
His father, a locomotive en- gineer on the Union Pacifie Railroad, had supported himself from the age of 12 and so misant youth. He resolved that his son the sporting activities of normal
should have all the opportunities he has been denied.
first, choles for nomination by jgiving champlon Conzales his The USLTA. and he arrived | toughest-ever
Ict
everyone
for tho
a
Kramer drives his men hard, playing one-night stands at nerve-rocking pace all over the
lakes world. But he also
Interest in their wel- fatherly fare. And he pays' them, well, This year he is aging his first European Grand Prix of lowIY tennis with the inrgest-ever prizes at stake.
in England June, 1947, arined world title.
of stenk, klx with 65 pounde
boxca of | Sheen. At 15, he defeated the racquets and three hard-hitting Alice Marble, and home-made blacuits. won the national boys' singles
Kramer meant business and and doubles championships.
know It. He Jones gulded his tournament started hot favourite for the career, arranged for the great title and took it in casy style Ellsworth Vines, 1932 Wirable (the first man to win Wimble
wearing don champion, to play with him don
shorts). tirce times a weck for
The following day he captured meaths. Later Kramer won a the double crown with Bob tennis cholarship to a callege Falkenburg. Then he returned in Florida, 'ani, at 18, was home and successfully dotended
elected for the US. Davis Cup his American tille, squed.
five
Lonnis
Jake is also a tough business- o hard bar- man, who drives gain and usually gets what he wants. Last year, when he was banned from using amateur courts in Australla, he bullt an 8,000 portable court and went on his dollar-spinning way.
Now Jake was ready to cushi Never was a tenais pradigy Kiven more encouragement in on those years of dedicatori practice and match play. · In and opportunity to develop.
he signed o And Kramer fully merited it. | November, 1947.
contract tour He had the perfect physique | 50,000-dollar and temperament for the with world professional for amateur ideas," he explains.
"I have the greatest respect
game. He was quick to learn. champion Bobby Riggs. At 20,
"But progress is progress, and And he trained fanalically. As he had won the biggest salary that's what I represent in ten-
young man he neither ever offered to a lawn tennisnis." smoked nor drank, and he star cut out late-night social acti- vtiles.
FIRST SIGNS
By the beginning of 1942. At first his son
Jock Kramer had covered up was baseball crazy. So Pop Kramer laid out
the last chink in his armour- Kramer Jack to the fans a trasball court in the backyard a weak backhand. He won ten and Jake to his friends 15, and organised regular practice tournaments in a row; then now a dollar-millionaire, And sessions,
first-class playing Then came the first continued the unchallenged King of Ten-sign that young Jack might tennis as Able Seaman Kramer Count nis.
have a greater future in tennis, in the wartime U.3.
Guard. In 1943, he beat the Senior Jik not immortal Don Budge. He uprooted the
WAR SERVICE
Initial
on
to
There have been suggestions tarned quickly
What Kromer has boosted profits went by guarantee and
fixing matches. But the rako in more than facts show otherwise. In one 100.000 dollars in his first tour
won 60 out at 89 year as a professional. Al matches and one-sided tours
are bad for the box-office,
wom their first two matches, brit
OVER- Kramer steadily hauled him to become M- cognised 民廊 the greatest player in the world, Their
attracted meetings
record galen all over the Slates.
Is cheque book is on H- Kramer bonb to the amateur tennis | hesitate. world. With it he has reduced family homestead and shifted,
But Kramer was never con- lock and The amateur game to second-lock,
barrel, to
ient with making moncy as a suburb closs status,
of stripped countries Montebello,
All the player.
time he wbs Los Angeles, of their international store,
home of the
The following year,
"mition from saving for hia greatest tennis players and after his marriage to a Monle-tenate
wanted collies, He reckoned that if bello girl, Kramer was ordered
launch his son had ony natural talent to the South Pacific, where he h
globe.
POWER
Such is his power thht he has been able to boast; "I could destroy the entire Davis Cup the structure bye aming up world's leading amateurs." Bucharest, Sept. 21. Iolanda Bala of Rumania Fortunalely for amateur beat her own world high jump ¦ tenais, Kramer is not destructive record by clearing 1.84 metres by nature. Every sweep of his (6 feet 0-1⁄4 inches) here today racquet, every stroke of his
during the Balkan games.
pen, has some constructive pur poré. And he is shrewd enough Her previou best Was
to, realize that his future profita meires (0 feet 0
depend largely on the health of Reuler.
the amateur game.
I'M A GUIDE. THESE ARE TOURISTS. MAY WE LOOK AROUND
HAW, HAW ---THAT'S
THE WAY
THE BALL.
WHAT'S YOUR
.COOKIE
NAME?
BOUNCES
BRICK BRADFORD
1.83 Inches).-
by MADDOCKS
YES MATE, BUT KEEP YER "TIKEVIN'SLANDS OFF
OUR BRIGEN
RIGHT
FOLLOW ME LET'S TAKE
A CHUSTY AROUND
WHAT'S HS
UP TO?
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
AND THAT'S THE WAY THE COOKIE CRUMBLES
BUSHMILJER
By Paul Norrla
BRICK BECOMES CONCERNED ABOUT
PAM AND LIDA AND SETS OUT TO FIND
THEM
ITS EASY TO TRACK THEM IN THIS POWDERY DIRT... PAM MUST'VE SCUFFED HER FEET TO
MAKG BURE OF A
TRAIL!
A FEW MINUTES LATER.....
THERE'S PAMİ SHE'S LYING VERY STILL!!
woon
for the game here was the place commanded a tank landing craft to develop it,
in five Invasions, Including those
Junior
pines.
Dis-
Ho plan.
to monty
circus on
star-studded trotting tours.
GLITTERING OFFERS
he
ALL-TIME GREAT
In 1957, Hood appeared as a professional at Wembley only A few months ufler winning Wimbledon. Fans
were enger io Fe the ex-amateur king, He but Kramer didn't cash in. knocked out Hoad in his first match.
Kramer,
the greatest
mon
who ranks
Among tennis players of ali time, is primarily a business- now. He has a lush Los Angeles home, three automo- bile, a golf course, sports ik equipment outdt, racehorses, share in an oll well, wife, Gloria, and five sons.
a
a pretty,
He judged right. At 14, his of New Guinea and the Philip- Fon was brought into the Junior Development Programme. And His tennis was unimpaired he showed such promise that by
In two years he had pleked the long lay-off. the programme director, Perry charged in January. 1946, with up some 300,000 dellors on the T. Jones,
sacred him
We rank of lieutenant (junior tennis clrcuits. He and Riggs membership of the exclusive grade), ho took only four went Into busines together, Los Angeles Tennis Club.
inter ron inonths to recuplure top tourno-but
separate tennis form. In
he troupes. Inevit
June, Each lay Jack took a DO-
in Britain Reeded arrived minute trolley ride to Beverly second to Dinny Pails of Aus
Kramer, the Barnum of the Hills for lesson.p from Dick train in the Wimbledon Cham Baselines, stean-rollered his rival out of big business with
all-year, money-no-object Anh hoaill wins
So Kramer keeps on playing. thousands of pounds in prize-money in
Here's the gift.. Sheaffers
SNORKEL port
WORLD'S ONLY PEN
WITIC "NO-DUNK" FILLINOI
FA
Newlyweds prefer
SWISSAIR
THE AIRLINE OF SWITZERLAND
ROWNTREE'S
ALRO
THE
MILK CHOCOLATE THAT'S DIFFERENT!
ANGRAN QUORAANS, IN
an Miquel
racquet hand. He won three rounds alded by bandages, tape and a speeint glove, then fell
He
W15
But tennis in not merely a business to him. It is a way of life. "I'm lucky to be one of those people whose job is also their play," he says.
seen before. would addition to taking a lion's share
terest in the amateur
He also takes a genuine in-
game
pionships.
Critics agreed that Kramer outfi such as the world had
the was
player with the never greatest mastery of strokes in certain that the public
But the Champlonihip. the pay good money to see the best of the gate receipts, American was handicapped by tennis, and he was not afraid to painful chronic blisters, on his back his belief with hard cash.
Few amateurs could resist the which made his fabulous carcer
dollar-priza The possible, and gives time glittering
to encourage dangled before them, He signed money. up the two Panchos, double- coming youngsters. listed Segura ond dyname Gonzales. Then, in 1953, ho flest shook the amateur world sta amateur ployers la by capturing Australia's world-they are too easy about losina. beating Davis Cup pair. Frank used to cry my eyes out in ¡Sedgman and Ken McGregor, the dressing room when any even though they had lucrative the guy around until I'd licked body best me, Then I'd follow
him."
gruel.
to Jaroslav Drobny in ling two-and-a-quarter-hour marathon,
IMMACULATE
Blisters healed, Kramer proceeded to crush all the lead- ¡Incentives to remain amateurs. ing amoleurs with his Imma-
culate power tennis. In In 1955 he signed Rex September he became Amerl-Hartwig for over £10,000 and can champion, In December, Tony Trabert for about £28,000. with Tai Schrueder
and 1950 he captured Ken Rose Gardnar Mulky, he brought wall with a £20.000 guarantee back the Davis Cup from Aus- for a year. In 1957, he finally tralia. The score: 6-0,
caught up with
Low Hoad, Wimbledon champion twice world-record
Kramer wAS
in the big running. with s
time and he loved every bid of £44,000 for 25 months.
moment cf IL Articulate, self-confident, le mixed canity in society, appeared on television, spoke at banquets
in his honour.
But he never
BEST FIVE
This year, ho dccimated Australia's Davis Cup team for took success the third ume by signing up for granted, never allowed Ashley
Coopar and Mal coclal life to interfere with his Anderson. And now King tennis. Heferring to his VIP Kramer can fairly boast that friends, he once said will re he has at least the best ave
candour: freshing
"Sure, J
players in the world. know they wouldn't be sprak- ing to me it I couldn't hit a tennis ball."
Kramer now had a family of three children and was eager to turn his tennis talent 10
But financial gain.
frat he wanted to win the top amstour title. Ho announced: "I'll play ut Wimbledon if I have to skin my bank roll and mortgage
my house."
No such drastic mensures WETO necessary. Kramer
CHESS
The secret of Jake Kramer's success? He has a gonule for organization. He understands the needs and problems of the modern tennis player. Above all, he is a man of decision.
Plenty of Dundila said that Hoad would never justify Kramer's generous gusranice. He was inconsistent, tempera- mental and injury-prone, Yo, despite E lay-off with back trouble, Lew hos proved a box-office attraction, playing consistently well and
was terrifle
by LEONARD BARDEN
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(29,6667)
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up-ind-
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That's Jake Kramer all, over. An Indomitable fighter. A man who hates to lose. A champion of championa
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