THE CHINA. MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1959.
Pago 7:
Brabham Has One Race To Go THE CANNONBALL TENNIS
To Win World Drivers Title
By SIMON KAVANAUGH
London. -
Startling as the hot crackle of a racer's exhaust, a mild, round-faced Australian has crashed the headlines as the biggest of the big names in the high-tension sport of Grand Prix motor racing.
Jack Brabham has never before been a top-liner; his small (12 ft), low-slung Cooper-Climax is run on a shoestring and a
fervent prayer.
wife tells Trke "Everything's 1 organised there. We both like quiet lives."
Yel this threadbare, com- bination has shown a fast dis- appearing
most uil pipe to
Brabham was, born in Horst- in the ultimate contest comers 'between The speed machines
ville, a Sydney suburb, on April that make rubber smoke ini 2, 1928. the only son of Tom DI Brabham owner of a sumi) squealing turns and hurtle nearly 200 m.p.h. along the i green-grocery chain. The tally straw-banked straights of the world's Grand Prix coursen.,
moved to Penshurst, one sto down the suburban line, when Jack was ten,
Now, within two months of
He went to both primary and this season's laat Grand Prix meeling (expected to be held high schools at Hurstville and left at 10 to take a garage job at Sebring. Floridia, B
a apprentice mechante. Unut December 12). Australbart Brabhain
he was called up at 18 into the leads the world's top frie by the droop snoot of Royal Australian Air Force, be his Cooper,
52 Points Ahead
With his 31 penis from Ave events, he is 512 points ahead of
autonded the local technical college's night classes in +- gineering.
Flight Mechanic Brabhamn was released from the RAAF at
h
What puts the word "ace" before delver? Brabham is no dare-devil. "ife'■ the safest driver I've ever seen," says his wife. “I never really get worried."
Hunched low (the despair of photographers) in his Cooper. he drives with his precise en- kineer's mind which cam vulnus late to the meanest fraction what the car can stand.
"He always has everything welched up," says John Cooper. "He knows where everybody In the race is and goes him as nover fast as he has to. We have to order him to de why- thing from the pits. Ife knows
all."
Main Interest
Brabham is fairly ember- TROXI about his sudden fame. "My main interest, he says, "is in the business of đu- veloping a car, getting it up to scratch and showing it off to its his best."
20. Immediat 'y, he contacted a young friend and the two stried Britain's Stirling Moss (25% pla¦ a backyard engineering bust- trom four events) and Tyness. 11 dopped. Brooks (23 pls from three After that small disaster, events).
wheedled some capitul from his father utvi opened an engizwer- still backyard"-in fact an out- ing business, of his own. It was size garage built grandmother's garden.
11
In
If, on the day. he can fend
or a Brooks wit oft a MosK eight points and a Moss or Brooks record lap-one point he will be able to place on his Bilting-room mantlepiece Dorking, Surrey, the giant cup which goes with being cham- plo racing driver of the world. Brabham's sudden zoom: from the rear of the old has Juft ald concepts and dogged pred.c- Tims tumbling confusedly in the acrld, shimmerng waise of l
* exhaust.
First, he is an Australian le a field regarded as the sule pro
o? pety for years ahead crack British and Continental
drivers.
Ue!
star
the
Leros
Wife
OLI
Betty Byres:
ቡ
This Brabham caught the spect
nuisance. bug from ex-American racing championship's
for There's too much tension Johnny Schonberg. In
too both
liking. Jack's summer of 1946, Schon-
this easy-going to enjoy all berr took him to a Brisbane
strain and
TITL expectancy. speedway meeting to show
are no definite plans, but him what it was all about. SAYN Brabham:
can't see this going on for more "E
WIS
than a couple of years," frightened to death.”
But despite, this Schonberg: detected glimmer of interest. He plugged the rport all the way home Sydney Brabham was relictantly agree
ng to build a midget car which Schonberg would drive.
It was of
can
Second, he has proved beyond doubt that personal study engineering as a science coax enough extra lean speed from his 1,100 1b, 240 bhp Goup: r-Climax to pip the heav- ler (1,500 lb), langer and more (200 blip) powerful
Ferraris wherever the course is tight or twisting
His Vehicle
Soon
Brabham, However, who ended up racing the £400, JA.P.-engined midget bitscr." And within a year he had won the New South Wales speedway title. He luck
Fra speedways altogether, for six years, adding to a 19-growing zilverware: enflection the cups that went with the South Australian and then Australian championships.
Brabham then swung his Mat the most astounded midget into road racing, mostly at hill climbs, but found it in- mutterings are directed Brabham's vehicle-a direct adequate and bought an early
Mark IV Cooper. developed
In 1853, he descendant, privately and cheaply, of the sold the veteran and bought for £3,000 blick Cooper-Bristol minute 500 cc
which cars
which he called, in deference to whined around Britain's post-
his sponsors, the "Redex powered by Special war racetracks motor-cycle englutes. Brabham's Cooper-Climax is made by surprisingly small!. Surbiton, Surrey, company that¦ grew out of a garage begun in 1019 by Charles Newton Cooper. After the Second World War, Cupper and his engineer-design- er son John turned to speed and soon their tiny products evolved
to 110 bhp cars using four cylinder engines originally de- signed to drive water-pumps for Brenton,
By 1958, Cooper cors were first-class Grand Prix racer. And this year, with a special 2.5-litre, rear-positioned engine, extra-ligil magnesium castings and low gravity centre, the Jight and tow Cooper has caught and passed anything where the going is tortuous.
Brabham himself has full confidence in his car. "I think It is capable of great things," he saya serlously in his Australian twan. "ami it's a car that's very safe and easy to race."
Teetotaller How much is car and how delver in the gruelling marathon of Grand Prix racing?
mach
Left Australia
The "Redex Special" zipped Brabham to Australasian fume and into the class of Whitehead and Bira After Anishing | fourth in the New Zealand Grand Prix at Ardmore (near Auckland), he decided to lest his ability in Britain and in February, 1955, left his family- they were to follow later,-to try the new Aek for pro- visionul eight months.
·
Leaving his "Redes Speetal" behind on the advloe of his supporters, Brautm admits ruefully, was the big- gest mistake he ever made. Good cars in England in 1955 were as scared -as top-notch drivers Maseratis, the only new models available, cost between £3,000 and £4,000, and the others on the market were well worn.
were
numerous.
After trying Peter White- head'a Cooper Alta with little success, he built his own car. fitting a Bristol engine in Cooper-type body, but soon ran slap-bang into weight distribu- tion trouble. He took it back Australia, sold it after
to
Retired champion Juan Fangio winning the Australian Grand Bays: "Seventy per cent good Prix, returned to England and cars and a lot of luck." But as others see it, sidl! behind the after a hunt bought a Maserati wheel counts for a good 40 used by Hawthorn
per cent.
The driver whose skill to day
has him nudging the World
championship is 112 medium height (5ft 101⁄2). quiet abstemious 33-year-old why doesn't drink or smoke and doesn't like partica. Nothing pleases him more than to tinker around his roon- to-be-opened Chessington (Sur- rey) gurage, to take his Aus-
lian
wife Holly and Geoffrey. John, 7, on a country apin in one of their three cars - German Borgward, an Aus- tralian Holden, a new Sunbeam Alpine-or to pore slavishly over engineering books and bke-prints at their two-storey home on the outskirts of Darking.
son
Argentine.
in
the
But bad luck still him. An engine fitting sent back dogged
to be righted took two months longer than he expected, and nd offers came. "It was a lean perlod," he says.
Joined Cooper Team
WAS
It
then that John Copper, the interne, flack- the haired designing genius of Cooper work, offered hitu Jim To's place in the werks Loom for the 1956 season. Ilo has been Uure since,
In 1957, he was third in the Formula Two championshipe bohird Tony March and Roy Salvadori and last year he be cama.. Formula Two champion. This year, da leading driver in Brabham's cauy-going nature is the Formula One Cooper worka 'wall known among his friends | town, họ hna won at" Monaco,
and his more brittle colleagues, i finlshed second in Holland, first "He wouldn't go to Ferrari," hts | kai Bellaín mod tiled of Monan, "
we
She might be wrong at that. While
talked Brabham Junior was shuffling round the manoeuvring carpel-carefully his collection of miniature racing
cars,
I
JACK BRABHAM
Maria Bueno
Drops Out Of Tournament
Berkeley, Sept. 30. Brazil's Maria Bileno dropped
Sports Diary
LRC
TO-DAY
Tennis
Inter-Hong Championship final, 3.30 p.m.
Bwimming
First Day of Colony Swimming Cup. "Victoria Boot, & p.m.
out of the Pacific Coast tennis Six Probables For
championships today on doctor's orders.
the South1 Doctors advised American Jenis champion lo return to Sao Paulo for rest and of a back injury, examination suffered three weets ago at Forest Hills.. Miss Bueno will leave night,
Premjit Lall, of Indin, turned his ankle during the second round of play today and was to Hugh Ste- forced to forfcil wart n Pasadena. Lali suffer- ed the injury as he was winding up a 6-3 first set win with, Smash shot.-UTI.
FOUR D. JONES
•
THE EGYPTINH FLEET (PINCHED OF COURSE) SET SAIL FOR CHINA.....
FERDINAND
NANCY
BRICK BRADFORD,
TRIAL? WHY SHOULD WE BE HELD FOR TRIALT WE AREN'T GULTY
OF MURDER!)
REMEMBER
TORN SHARP
LEFTAT AVEN
VERAVE GOOD REASON TO BUSPECT YOU!!
EXIT
-ERNIE- BUSHNULLER
LETS HOLD TRIAL HERE, AND NOW! THEY MURDERED LIKAN, LIDA AND
HER FATHOR
A
Jockey Club Stakes
London, Sept. 30. There are six probable run- ners for the Jockey Club Stakes, mile, six to be run over one
Low Newmarket furlongs at morrow (1430 GMT).
They are, with jockeys: Restoration
Carr), (W. H. Court Prince (L. Piggott), Prime Value (S. Clayton), Colchicum (E. Smith), Ram Lamb (P. Tuk), Duplex. (D. Smith) ---- China Mail Special.
!SHALL CLEAN UP A FORTUNG ON |
THIS LARK, AND MAKE HISTORY
100.
BRIX.
THATE TRUE! BUT IF WE TAKE THEM HOME FOR TRIAL, THINK OF THE ACCLAIM WE'LL'
·GET!.
SERVICE CAN BE TAMED
SAYS AMERICAN COACH By STEVE SNIDER ·
Forest Hills, Sept. 30,
Mercer Beasley, the 77-year-old tutor of tennis stars, is being highly mysterious these days about research on a new "secret weapon' 10 revolutionise his beloved game.
“Science, Is crackard the crack ator," nich Beasley, "It's three- fore reasonable to assume
We
those cannonball SET- vers and give the paying cust tomers a run for their money,“ ako can crack those cannonball | A coach who makes his server that are ruining tennis, Living
thaching Ey
Unnis, The only way we can keep the Becsley would reveal no Inore customers from becoming bored
for reasons obviously financial. completely aliff is to crack the rervice as
SERVE, BANG. STUFF
thoroughly as the alem was cracked."
The basic concept behind Beas- ley's research is top secret stuff known only to a few sworn to serice those few being too | inexpert to employ his methods,
anyway,
EXHAUSTIVE STUDY
Beasley has, however, made an exhaustive study of certain players who, over the have shown exceptional talent at returning service.
years
Tancho Gonzales Is in that class,” nald Beasley, "Artrong the amateurs the leaders are Vio Seixai, Barry Mackay and Gardnar Mulloy, "I've got the figures on court position, the types of shots they hit and where they hit. There's definite pattern on successful service returns
"And now," he said in the best cloak-and-dagger trillion, "I think I've found a way re give every player a chance to
RUGBY RESULTS
London, Sept. 30. Results of tonight's Rugby Union and League matches
were:
Union Aberavon 14, Bridgend 6, Maesteg 6 Lanelly 0, Penarth 9. Cardiff 16. Pontypool 26, Gloucester 6. League
Yorkshire Cop Semi-final Featherstone 14, Leeds 7.
Lancashire Cup Semi-final Whitehaven 2, St Heltas 18. -Rower.
by MADDOCKS
AND POOR JONES, MEANWHILE, JE HAVING TO CLEAN UP A PADØY FIELD TO FEED A COW...
FOFALL THE NOSOTRO
BUT THE LOT
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
I'M SORRY I FORGOT
TO FILL YOUR WATER
PAN THIS MORNING
YES, THE PUBLIC WOULD EAT IT UP!
AND WED BE HEROES FOR HAVING CAPTURBO THESE MURDERSNS!
By Paul Norrla
LETS GOT THEM ABOARD THE SKIPI ILL SHOOT BOME PICTURES OF THE AREA!
"But we can't let tennis get out of hand any more than it As he warned, "Tho paying public is getting tired of this serve, bang, bang stuff every- one's playing today,
"My stop-watch shows the average point, from serve to
thrro the end, lunta only
seconds. You don't see any of Those Bae tactical rallies any more. Even the
RTO Tirls
playing. It slam-bang.”,
As the game is played toring, even among high-rankers, the acrve is the chief wrapon and all other strokes etlice are
recndary or ignored.
We'll never see greal shot- makers in this
Kame opaln unt we find a way to cracks the service," sald Beasley. "Some people have urged new rule allowing only one survice instead of two to solve j'uur problem. And ciners want
to reduce the size of the service court.
"But I think if we can stick a satellite up in space we ought lo be able to lick the cannon- ball service without tinkering with the rules,”~~~UPI.
Natekar Beats Kops In Bombay Badminton Final
Bombay, Sept. 30. Indian badminton ace, Nandu Natekar, scltled an old score with Denmark's Erland Kops when he outplayed his rival in the final of the Cricket Club of India open badminton championships and retained his men's singles title here today.
The local stor's brilliant net play put the Dane completely off and Natekar won 15-4 and 18-13 after leading 12-5 in the second game,
servicus
shir
distuled the pace and ventrolled the shuttle o web portestina thut Kops was made to chase, the bird. Eqpt in the late sleges of the ne vod game, when he mis- adiged and lauEed, the defend- eping champion called the tune.
Natekar made girnilar short
The Indian maestro who always
a picture of Sdence on his home court was beaten twice by Kops werk < Thailand's Charoen two months ago in Malaya. Waltonosia in last year's fidal
to have Natekar went on to share Today he appeared sturdled his
the mixed doubles title and opponent's weak
once again Kopa was on the spots and baffled him.
king aide. In a tree-game
·Netolklor with his crocsional
Natekar and fusale,
Mrs Sabri Sule (India) beat Kops and Mrs Sushita Kapidio (India) 15-7, 7-15 and 15-9. The wamea's single final was confined to Indian players, Mrs From Prasher bealing Mrs Kapadia 11-12, 11-7 and 31-8-- AFP.
SHEAFFER'S "SNORKEL"
Professors prefer
SWISSAIR
THE AIRLINE OF SWITZERLAND
ROWNTREE'S
AERO
THE
MILK CHOCOLATE
THAT'S DIFFERENT!
Keep in Circulation
with
San Miguel
Braves Coach
Resigns
Milwaukee, Sept. 30. Billy Herman, one of the National League's best- known players and strategists, resigned, un- expectedly today oach of the Milwaukee Braves,
Σ
Herman gave no reason for his action, and neither did the Braves, who lost the National League pennant to the Los Angeles Dodgers yesterday in a dramalle 12-inning playoff game. The Braves sald Herman will accept another position in base- ball,
Hermon, 50, had been a Braves coach two seasons. Before that he WAS a coach with the Brooklyn Dodgers for six years and managed the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1017 after ending bla career as a player.—UPI,
WOLVES LOSE EUROPEAN CUP MATCH
Berlin, Sept. 30. Vorwacris, the East German Army Spurls Club football team;" beat Wolverhampton Wanderers, the English league, champlons, by two goaly to one in the first Icg of their Arst round European, Cup match here today.
All the goals were scored in the first half.
tz0
tie,
goal
at
The second leg of this which is decided Dggregate, wil be played Wolverhampton on December 7. The winners meet Rod Star, the Yugoslav championa, in the second round.—Reuter,
Today's Hockey Matches PostponedTMTM
Owing to the stand-by four hockey league matches reheduled for today have been postponed. No new dates have been fixed for the gameh between Macaensis "A" and Nav Bharat "A" and between KCC. "B" and Rangers.
yel
Nav Bharat "D", however, will now play Recreio "B" on Friday at Recreio at 0.30 pan. and the IRC “B”, verbus Dutch maich will be played tomorrow at Bookunpoo at 6.30 p.m.