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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1959.
CAPEL KIRBY
SOCCER ON THE INSIDE
Holton Not Going To Luton After All
What's the mystery concerning Luton and Watford inside-forward Clif Holton? Luton boss Sid Owen dismisses transfer talk by saying that at 32 Holton wouldn't solve his centre-forward problem because they would soon have to start the search all over again.
Watford manager Ronnie Burgess reckons the former Arsenal player is still First Division material, but Owen has not been in communication with him.
These explanations seemed to for a player on the outside took-talent-spotter and make the situation crystal clear jing in... the shadow of Tout The Tottenham-reared Marchi, until i picked up u programine
lad, glad to be back from the and solfed the following in a
"Volce land of lira although he is not a feature uniting the 1tle
regular member of the side. of Walford."
"As supporters will have read Luton Town
walching our
officials, ofler match aguinst Crewe, came along with a firm proposition for Cliff Halton. was unanimously decided
## that
the effer be rejected and it is the beard's present intention NOT to part with any
first-
fam player at this stage of the stan,"
Let Them Go
pilght,
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Laiton's present different from this tiane lust septon when they ari Fulham were the only undefeated clubs in the League has been brought about by disposing of 100 many experienced players and having too few suitable replacements. Players bike George McLeod 1
Cullen to Mike Brentford,
to Sun- Grimsby, teg Pearce derland, and Les Jones to Villa Park where he has since been Joined by Jimmy Adam.
To make matters worke
finished their three key men
Careers at the saITS play big time-Sld Owen, Bed Ahearne and Wally Shanks.
Sid Owen feared sotnething of the kind happening when he was skipering the side. Now as manager he has the job of trying to dif the gaps and with the kind of money Laton have their after due stuckingly bad support he is well up against it in bidding for the kind of players would like.
to
TONI MARCHI.....bo'r
on the outside looking in,
championship - challenging "lem Shadow
vi
today is The
ໄດ Marchl's contribution Tottenham's Kuccesses is his versatility-Use ability to turn in a first-class performance in!
variety of positions which keeps practically every player in the team on his toes,
A
Master Stroke
He has already proved him- self
most capable understudy
at inside-forward, wing half- back and fall-bork, and the rest of the players are fully aware that they could +€ Casily lose their Brst-team places to him.
How does Marcht feel about being
mere host player? heSays Spurs boss Bill Nicholson:
had a chal with him, and like be accepts the situation the ideal clubman he is. Toni Es happy to be back in England; tappier still to be with the eluh of his boyhood ambition,"
Johnny McCole might have been the answer to Luton's goal
hadn't fimine if they
dilly- dallied and los! City marksman to United.
chief con- sultant to Plymouth Argyle.
Ipswich doesn't deserve any- than more attractive thing
Fourth Division football, believe me that's what
Cliff Holton... Is the Watford inside forward wanted at Luton?
and
they'll
Soviet's Popov
be getting in the years ahead unless the club receives better support.
Is there some explanation Wins The Kosice
why good quality Second Divizion Jootball at Portman Road attracts fewer than half the fans Third Division foot- ball pulls in at Norwich?
To say that the football and opposition are more attractive at Carrow Road is nonsense, Sunderland are a useful draw- ing card in any company, get only 14.943 turned up at Ips- wich to see the North-Eastern- ers given their biggest around of the season.
run-
Perhaps Ipswich can be bracketed with Luton as being Britain's least sport-minded Lown with its football grounds half-full und the streets window-gazing crowded with menfolk captive to the handler 好食 Dieir wives' shopping baskets?
An Arsenal
watched scout
Blob Notts County marksman Forrest last Saturday under the impression that the player was one of the youngsters Tommy Lawton had under his wing at Meadow Lane. It wasn't long before he recognised Forrest as the old Leeds United player.
In Line
Colchester have a player in line for Scottish- Under-23's honours against Wales next month. He is 21-year-old Bobby Bill, the inside-forward inter- esting several clubs, including
City.
Shefield the Bradford
Never Again!
Leeds
But Toni Marchi cannot be singled out as the sole reason for Danny Blanchflower's ro markable change from a vital- players | will-be-will-be casual attitude they need in Scottish Second to dedicated dynamic leadership, Division football Luton's Dave Mackay and responsibility
have played their part.
As for finding the
manager
doesn't intend 10 make any further attempts after his experience over the Border recently.
Ele left the first at half-time (I couldn't stand another 45 minules of that stuff)' and motored to another game which was equally as bad.
"I was unbelievable," he told me." There was no method or skill in be found in any of the teams I watched, let alone the players who had been recom- mended to me. They should
the stage have been
not on krorkabout turns foutball field."
D
as the
On the question of Kent worth Road altendances he said: "We had every reason tu expect a big turnout for the visit of our Cup Final rivals Nottinghain Forest when in fact the miser- amic gate of 13,000 causes us to wonder what has happened the other 177,000 regular, sup-
to
porters who applied for Cup Final tickets lost April.
There is hope for Luton if the spirit of the players counts deler- for anything. In their mitation to shake off the regu- tation hoodo they have been turning up for voluntary after noch training sessions.
And No. 2
Troth or action No. 2. Grims- by price-tagored Jimmy Fell at £15,000 when poorly supported Lulen asked "How much?"
Since then several clubs have inquired about the left- winger with Newcastle United. Interested to the extent of isking an air flip to see Fell
Wrexham, in action When I phoned Grimsby ask whether there had a follow-up bid from St James Park on ofcial replied:
to
bcen
"I only know what's in the papers about Newcastle being де Wrexham, and you can't them, you always believe know."
Mackay's wing half-back dis- plays have hogged the write- ups, and Danny knows the value to of publicity
his sideline earnings too well to be content to stand in the wings instead of getting in on the act,
As for responsibility, the re- establishment of Blanchflower as captain was a master stroke. And, belleve me, when Spurs are out there on the Held nobody challenges his right or authority.
Watching Alan
Alan Withers, former Black- pool and Liuenli player attract- ing widespread attention by his left-wing ralding in Nolls County's new-look attack, was duncled by Swansea before the advent of Barry Jones, reckoned by sound judges to be a challenger to the International future of his famous namesake, Cut, of Spurs.
Discoveries
and
West Ham goalkeeper Noel Dwyer and Terry Stacey, Ply- mouth Argyle's former London amateur international full-back, were both Charles Hewilt dis. coveries intended for Sunder- land. In fact,. Mr Hewilt was still on the Roker payroll as Southern representative when he recommended Dwyer to the Hammers,
Disloyalty? No! When ho went to Molineux to Inquire well-bulit about Dwyer the Dublin lad was out with aboulder Injury.
to
·
Meanwhile, Sunderland sign- ed Peter Wakeham from Tor- quay, but Mr Hewilt remember- Ed Dwyer and passed on the tip when he knew Ted Fenton was searching for a successor
nt Erule Gregory.
Where Are They? Stacey was piso earmarked for Bunderland's llhe-up, but by the time Charles Hewitt had Behind the transformation talked him into forgetting his from the rogged relegatlon Romo Olymple, ambitions he haunted Spurs of Jast had severed his connections 10 tho alick-moving with Roker Park and become
My answer to that is simply this. If some managers were more honest with the Press, there would be far less cause for conjecture among football writers,
ACCINA
United and Lincoln
H's claim is being person- ally put forward to Scutiish team manager Andy Beattle by Colchester manager Benny Fen- ton, who was in Scotland this weekend puiting the rule over Bobby Nicol, Hilbs young wing half-back, who has asked for a transfer,
Relegation threatened Birm- ingham had a representative watching Colchester at Norwich Inst week. Thely objective-
Hill?
Nottingham Forest, on the Jook
centre- out for a good forward, played against one who would fill the blit, in Scotland Jasi Wednesday-
Mirren. Baker, of SL
nothing
doing. Nellher St Mirren nor Baker need the dough just now'.
Gerry
Thert's
Bulgaria Beat France At Soccer
Sola, Oct 11. Bulgaria beat France 1-0 in a soccer international here to- day, after a goaliess first half,
Right winger Kolevna scored the wlaning goal three minutes from the end, Fiftly thoatand spectators saw the match. Reuter.
CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
make Not only beginners unjustliably premature queen excursions, Here is a game between two Russian masters, Sherbakov and Taimanov. 1 PKA, F-84; 2 KKB3, KtQEP0, PXP: 4Kx P. K-83; 5 R—QBI, P-QU GB-KK1B, P-K3; 7 Q-Q3, P- QR3; 8 0-0-0, 3-Q2; 9 P B4, P–RS: 10 B-RA, P-KK:4: 11 PXP, K-KK15: 13 Q- Kt37, PxP: 13 KL-B87, PxB: 14 QXKI, P-K4; Resigns. The queen la trapped by 15 Q-Kts. BR3,
Solution No. 8698; 1 Q-RII, PRIS: 2 Q-R7, or 1...P K4; 30-ti, or I...K-08: 2 QxKL, or 3.Q moves; 2 Q- R? or 2 Q-Kti. & neat co-
metric solution,
London Expats Sarotov.
Marathon
HENRY LONGHURST on GOLF Golf,Swimming
ROYAL OCCASION
London.
The Gleneagles Hotel professional-amateur foursomes tournament, always one of the most enjoyable events in the golfing calendar, was this year which a made notable by the fact that it was the first occasion on reigning monarch has played in an open tournament in this country. King Baudouin, whose father, King Leopold, is an extremely accomplished golfer and was once, I believe, going to play for Eton in the Harold Hewitt, proved himself more than worthy of his handicap of three and at once became a most popular figure.
Though he could hardly have hoped to be regarded merely 15 Mr B. de Rethy, under which name he played, his desire to be looked upon simply as one of the players was, with proper mixture of respect, conceded and there is no doubt that he thoroughly enjoyed himself.
Indeed, with the magnal ficent scenery and the two courses in mont beautiful order-Yar greener than any- thing we see at the moment
England would An
have bee dimeult to do otherwise.
Third Course
be
to
In Singapore Will Be Costly
Singapore, Oct. 11.
It may soon cost more lo play golf or swim in this newly self-government stato.
Affected in the City Coun-
it's big raise in assessment of properties are golf and swien-
ming clubs.
per
The worse affected in this
were raised Chub, whose rates books, which drew from my to the scene could scarcely tell Category is the Singapore Golf Eaddio' the comment that he which of the two was due
from M$0,166 (HK$12,312) to "threein'
the stroke. the play
I hold the might
M$36,936 (HK$73,672) view that breathing down your hammer,”
atinum. Never mind. What matters in partner's neck is an unforgiv-
nable sin in foursome piny. the position of the hammer foot before it reaches the ball | and a foot afterwards and it is clear that Mr Igoc's more often than not is in just the right place.
Useless
RATES DOUBLED The rates for the two biggest swimining clubs Chinese Swim- Aming Club and Singapore Swim- (European) were
umuse
Another is apologising. man's job is to hit his own shot ming Club to the best of his rility and lo, doubled.
The Singapore Turf Club has After all, James Bruen's club the full extent of his powers of at one point in the backswing concentration. If I put you in to pay nearly 200 per cent more, was pointing over the tee box, a bunker, it is your job to get while the city's three
observation ment
parks Great World, and he was one of the great me out and any
I from me that "I am sorry; amateurs of all time.
Happy World and New World Mr Igoe, who is in the late thought I could get up with a have their rates raised to nearly
ball-game 3-Iron" is both useless and dis-loubir the old charges.
A tracting.
It all comes back to Mr John Book's excellent dictum.
goling
At this time last year 1 was forties, is a natural
player and, suys Haliburton, writing of the possibility of a
exceptional player of third course at Gleneagles Botetourage, in whom the missing
one has to add the word hotel of a very short pult inspires assume that my partner in try- since the original Clen of the only a desire to proceed at once ing unul proved to the con- UPI.
Eagles is come distance
away
A
Advice
and the laird, I gather, is a little to the next tee and get to grips trary,"
with the enemy again. touchy on the subject. The new course would be laid out on a 300-acre grouse moor which
On peeing him address the hidden from the others by thick belt of Ors and of whose ball from somewhere behind his existence few visitors are aware, right fool, Haliburton suggested Thing more slowly In the that he really must have it Prague, Oct. 11.
uficial world but I am glad to least midway between the two the Soviet roport that an option is been and then look at the ball and, Sergei Popov,
un the land and the hit it as hard as you can."
I reminded me of the axiom European marathon cham-secured
oki Kosice project is still very much alive.
partner of mine, pion,
the
The hotel. the Clubhouse and of un
in "When in doubt, eye on the ball Czecho-the two courses are ench, in marathon
and press." dividually, showing profits. slovakia today.
This was the only plece at Courses pro packed, and this year the number of visitors advice offered by Haliburton, in who doubtless could have said throughout the staying one night or more
ensed by nearly ten thousand, much In these circumstances there week.
doubl seems little
that they could carry a third course and the terrain cures that it might be made a truly great one.
Won
According to preliminary re- suits. Popov covered the 42,195 2 hours 17 minutes metres in 45.2 seconds.
Denis O'Gorman, of Britain,
is in his first who
Season of marathon running, took second place in 2:23:00,
Popov's team-mate, Ivan Filin, winner of the event in 1957, finished third in 2:23:55.4.
The fourth place went to Bri- tish champlon Chris Fleming- Emith in 2:27:40.
Twenty runners from 12 coun- tries competed-Reuter.
FOUR D. JONES
The
Contrast
The winners, Mr W. A. K.
who play off Leoe.
six at Wentworth, and Tom Hallbur- ton, provided an entertaining encouraging-contrast: --and the
the professional model of orthodoxy, the amateur employing a method not to be found in the text
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