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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1960.
ATTACK IS KEYNOTE OF THE NEW ENGLAND XV
But Welsh forwards can win the day at Twickenham on Saturday
Says JOHN COTTRELL
This Saturday it will be almost 50 years to the day since Wales kicked off.
against England in the first-ever Twickenham International.
It was the beginning of a great tradition, the end of a decade of Welsh supremacy. England deservedly and surprisingly won the match 11-6 and another 33 years passed before Welshmen finally laid the Twicken- ham Bogey.
Now, after half a century of spirited rivalry, these two bi powers of rugby have becothe ro well balanced that the outcome of their meetings is never obvintis and the element of w certuinty aide to the attraction.
Whereas 18,000 spectatoTE BBW that first Twickenham luter- national, the ground on Saturday will be bulging with something
ke 70,000.
For her
England- Walen clash of even grenier interent than satial owing to some quite sensational team changes.
an
Tremendous controversy rages the Entland tear. For has been it dramatic there
policy reversal of
by selectare since last season.
Ten dropped
į
to
moko An
the Stumped by injuries and
Tigy have admitted their pat the mistakes by bringing back Hob- dearth of top-class centres, selevfors have switched fy-halfbins (the first of four post-war
lett-England caps Mike Weston to partner winger Roberts. He has played England come-back after break- centre only six times before and inga leg) and the gallant Jeeps he is the one slow link in the an skipper. three-quarter line.
Best find
The top-speed combination & on the right wing where Mal- coln Phillips, best centre in reputation and England showing signs of Improvement, partners former International sprinter John Young.
on
There is one there new cap- theaz-year-old Don Itutherford of
Percy Park who stood out in D trials as a complete technician
Ingked and
safer than Hetheringtom: He has been 10 selectors' best ftud so far.
It's been a popular saying Bince the war that it's tougher la
get OUT of the Engined team than to get IN. Not.
any mure.
And they have rought a com- bination which, though 11 may not capture the Champlonship, will at least concentrate on attack and. most important of all, will probably score tries,
The trend
The recent trend has bech for the Welsh to wield greater
forward and power at
for thr to pack the English
heavier punch behind the scrum. The pattern remains the same this year-on paper.
On the field, anything eses." When thaw and heavy 13 turned Cardiff Arms Park into a porridge bowl last January it
the who www
Welt backs whn naverlod their power. And even when the going is frm there is
Unluckiest triaillet has been |
Hlebard Sharp fly-halt members of the last Eng- | partnered Johnny Williams xo land team have been dropped. ogniferntly and even outshone In come six new caps,
Ten
Last susan Peter Robbins and Dickie Jeeps were out of invous with the sidectors. This scupon they return-with Jeeps as the new England captain
Jim right- Kuve bersie displays, and the latter
Last season' full-back Hetherington and
Jackson
winger Peter
was hailed as
the greateni
world. No
winger in the both are dropped.
EUR- Only one section of the land team has the old familiar look. David Marques und Johns Currie reappear together in the cond mow for their 18th suc- ceive international But only after the Big Blx selectors hed -separated them in a determined Boarch for a new combination in the trlaix.
Undoubledly
the selectory have been moved by one fact more than any other in making these sweeping changes. The fact that lart season's England team failed to score a single try. Moreover, rugby fans have not # Try in on International Championship match Twickenham for nearly
nech
years.
at two
į
wing-forwura Not since Alan Ashcroll dived over the line in England's B-0 victory over Irelund
February 8, 1958.
on
Accent on speed
But Ashcroft 13 another casually of the selectors' big axe. The accent is now on speed and attack. No longer is the wing Ay-hal killer GODK
forwarde all the rage.
So out goes John Berbert and
his
in comes Robbins with sturewd "shadowing" and clever
three-quarter over-lapping in
movements.
Jackson is replaced by 20- year-old Jim Hoberts who gains his arst cop five years after his first trial. Greatly admired in Wales (he once guest-played fa Linnelly and has o Weish grand- father), he is superior to Jack- son in one important way. He is faster.
You the selectors have nei voncentrated on youth r their search for speed. Brilliant young hooker Bert Godwin has been replaced by Sam Hodgson, a 31- year-old carpet-wenver with 43 capa for Durham County. He may be veteran on present-day standards but he sill strikes qdcker than any man in Britain,
On his tight-head side noar-velortin of 29 new-cap- Peter Wright of Kent and Blackheath, who lost a finger in a farming accident. On the open side an old-cap is retained- heavy and powerful Larry Webb. The other new cap in TEN to Derek Morgun, a Welsh dental student living in England who had an imbres- Rivo Gual trial in the middle of the back row,
tho
the selectors' choler, Bev | still-the immcosureable writ Risman. This long, slim Cornish of the Welsh to make the affair
unpredictable. man would
the have scented more obvious than to switch into the centre alongside Roberts.
HIGHBURY HEIGHTS
Wayfoong names cricket team
have The following
been selected to
Way- represent Loong in a cricket match against Jardines on Sunday, January 17, at the HKCC ground starting at 11.30 a.m.:
Wales have five new caps today. Their pack, led by new who skipper Rhys Williama This, then, is the **new
gain his 23rd esp, looks much Iook** England team which
superior, Ko under the Twickenham
Outside the scrum they look J. G. Cuningham, J. Dilworth, microscope on Saturday. If it
defence but less J. R. Hancock, P. E. Hutson, falls expect many stones to be Bound in
cizngerous in tack thun Eng-J. R. M. Lewis, W. M. H. cast at the selectors who have
It was the same Innd. already horrified fans by re
Bet-up Lewis, A. J. Macgeorge, 1. N.
A. M. Nolan, S. on Wales's last visit to Twicken- Macleod, moving the eiudire, stonewall Jackson. idol of Twickenham.bern when the lille general Chat Robertson, E. M. Scott, 12th Mun:
Moran brilliantly kept the T. L. Hooper. game forward.
But for once I side with the electors. Apart from the dropping
Jackson--which astninds me--I have nothing but praise for the Big Six.
FOUR D. JONES:
MADDOCKS
I'VE MADE IT/ FIRST MAN ON
MADE
L'VE
THE MONITORY
FERDINAND
NANCY
RING-G
The result was a 3-3 draw, This time, if Clif Ashton Can fly-half. kick squally well at there will be a Welsh victory.
TOO RUGHT YOU SAVE MATE!
STANDING THERE ALL TOGGED UP IN YOUR
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Scorer, M. J. Uuley.
Umpire:-F.
khall.
"Peanut" Mar-
EARTHMEN/
900
USA
BUT, BUT, HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HERE?, AND YOU'RE A RUSSIAN! OUR PRESIDENT V
ENT WILL BE SHATTERED AND SHOCKED!
I ALWAYS
LIKE
TO GET UP EARLY THE DAY AFTER
ELECTION
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
BRICK BRADFORD
HANG THE MARTIANS/ Ihelen FIGHT MY WAY BACK TO BRICK!
NO, PAM),
Here is a position from neturi play: Black to more and gain
material
London diprens deryson
PEACE!
THIRE 18 NO
NED FOR WEAPONS! WE ARE NOT ARMED!
OH, I FORSCIT ABOUT THE "PRACE GAB”! · THE MARTIANS HAVE AWAKENED AND ARE
IN A STATE OF TRANQUILLITY!
Like gymnista on an in- Are Leve visible trampoline
high-Jumping players in the First
Leagu
Division
msich
English
between
Arsenal
Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers Stadium, Kighbury, London, recently.
Soaring abere rest to bead the ball after a corner-kick taken by Wolves' outside- right Deeley is their Inside- left, Boadbent (extreme left), Next to him is Wolves' Martwy centre forward, {background), and. Jumping 1s foreground right Barnwell, the Arsenal right-balt. In extrezoo right background
WELLS. 14
the Arsenal jeff-half.
In
The match ended in a 6-4 draw. Reuterphoto.
HAHAR! YOU AIN'T
BREN NOTHIN' YET MY COMICAL COMRADE
NO SIR! NOTHIN
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
- AND SEE
STICK TO YOUR GUN ANYWAY! THE EFFECTS ON „THE (HAS MIGHT
WEAR OFF!
ALL THE ELECTION
BETS
By Paul Norris -
WHAT IS THE OTHER) I THINK ITS MEMBER OF YOUR JOBYK
PARTY DOING IN
THE DANSENİ
AREA?
WHY
SOCCER on the INSIDE
by CAPEL KIRBY
London.
Look back in anger over the post ten years, but hall the
sixties as starting off with the finest crop of talented youngsters the game has ever known,
These old eyes-charged by The younger net with being Jaundiced and focused too much
on a blurry past as they come
p to the fortieth year of world sports reporting foresee future for British football.
a
It should allenos the TV armchair rifles who wo cently made the remarkable discovery thai Brazli produced something siber than mute and lots of coffee.
They visuale a return to the days when the come was choc-s- blóc with big-time personalities; when 8 future sol selector England team manager has the einddy of all headaches trying
Hail the
roaring
sixties!
ito perm a team from many at Chelsea, looked so meriure as
as three
position
or four players per ja kehobiboy of 14' that his name went down in the notebooks of every club
in the country.
Big Future
And these old eyes vistulon In the very near future a lad
Ven by the name of Terry ables horging the bir Soccer headunes. This
manager
Today, at the ripe old age of 16 he how skippered England's youth side endi is ready to be plunged into Lengue football.
I don't wonder West Ham Exal-hder, young getting the West End treatment officials go widte-hot under the
FAMOUS SPORTS STARS
-I HAVE MET-
By ARCHIE QUICK
The news that Pastor Henry Armstrong has been installed in a new church in Los Angeles to continue his preaching and evangelism brings back a vivid memory of a chunky negro sitting with his wife and piccaninny in a Regent Street hotel over twenty years ago and devouring an abnormal number of fried eggs and rashers of bacon for his breakfast.
SHEAFFERS
"SNORKEL
“Skrip
PENS
Skrip
MEETING FLUED
Champions prefer
SWISSAIR
THE AIRLINE OF SWITZERLAND
ROWNTREE'S
THE
AERO
MILK CHOCOLATE THAT'S DIFFERENT!
•You can be SURE
if it's...
• TERRY VENABLES.....
West he's getting the End treatment at Chel-
sca.
collar at the very mention of this boy's name.
Since he was being coached at Upton Park by West Ham players holding FÁ certificaton, they had every reason to anticl- pale he would automatically frustend. become a "Hommer." he was spirited away.
Consolation for
West Ham
is that at least they managed to keep another international
In the making, Bobby Moore. England who was also en youth team captain with a re- cord number of appearances to his crediL
Now, if it is correct to assume that struggle of a team is
at half-back. I predict that our harassed 1960 World Cup team names of Venables, Teng Kay
manager will first pencil in the Moore and the Sheffield Wed-
nesday teenager,
Then
It's Healthy
for permutation pur- poses, he will add to his list Alan Mallery, already en estab- ished First Division player with HayFulham, and Alan Williams. the
m
Hls real Bame was Jackon, but he will be
Bristol City pivot who has been readily recognied "
Jeny knocking At LS does
of Armstrong, the only boxer ev England's Under-23 team.
to hold three world champon- "Au these, with Ronnic ships at the same time.
Clayton and Ron Flowers still The feat of thila coloured in their prime, add up to man from · the Deep South healthy competition lack of will never be equalled, for which has been the main post- new ruling decktes that war trouble with British foot- boxer must relinquish *ball too few getting it too world title if he ever wins good too costly. second one. Bo Armstrong
the At inside-forward it's will have for ever this niche same story. If
4 moro In fistic history.
promising vullook, with George Eastham, of Newcastle, ready jand_willing to take over the role
of Johnny Haynes.
Life of poverty
After a hard fe of poverty Rad work around fields. Henry.
not
I can see Eastham laying on a the cotton help-yourself service for Jo
ten Baker und Jimmy Greaves. By ane of ch'furen, reached the top, with that time the Baker boy will be speed of a meteor and starring in First Division foot- stayed there. The only trouble ball South of the Border, und will have figured in was that his manager was an Greaves
Deepdale per- inveterate
The
the many another gambler and more money Armstrong earned formeneck.
The Chelsea kid couldn't have the quicker Mr Mead spent it in
than **playing
up and picked a better place
of the Preston to stage his recent ve
goal act.
Lined up la break into this select teso will be David Burnside,
the horses" down the race tracks United States.
a non-
to bell lille by
"Homicide" Номгу rop battler from bell won his first world taking the featherweight crown from Peter Sarron In August 1036. He captured the lit
Am- weight crown from Lou bers in August 1937 and then fted the welterweight cham- pionship Frem the brilliant Barney Ross in May 1935. The trio
who is now intro- declar some of his bell trickery into his general play
for West Bromwich Albion, and David Cliss, another who became 1 Kar
overnight through television.
Another Harmer
So far Cilas has has nat erlab- of successes came as bed himself as Chelsea Telt of nor--clop aggrcssion, reguler. When he does, the Artrose eventually lost slightly-built youngster will be his weller and lightweight hailed as а second Tommy uitles to Fritzle Zivio and Hermer.
Lou Ambers in October 1949 Further competition will come And August 1939 repec-from
tively, but he was pover beaten Hey
A featherweight.
ww
relinquished that itle,
centre-forward
Burnley Pointer. and Inside-left Ife Jimmy Robson... from Bobby Mason, a better player than per- When I met the Armstrong heps Wolves give him credit, was in and Barnet's Bobby Brown, who May 1939 and Henry was over will be a reguler live-wire loader En England to defend his of Fulham's estack when he has welterweight championship bren on the Olympic pilgrimage
uitleholder, to Rome next September. against the British the clever Ernie Roderick, of
family,
| Liverpool,
No
plun Mead, it
Jailed
then
Unfortunately, Olt Moore Kirby's crystal ball doesn't Elve. a very clear picture of the wing-forward and full- back altuation,
Unlice acro, I think Tony msan exponent
Allen, will make the grade, but Roderick, but he never had the Bioke player will be hard chance against 'Armstrong at
Herringay,
England place
for the heavily-promod for his muscled negro just over by Ray Wilsem, of Huddersfeld. whelmed him
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Likely Cap
Here le another
One of the
Taking a long shot, I name "grosis", Henry till spen eril Mick Till is a likely cap of the times, and li wao asbook le
future.
Wort Ham me to learn that the quiet man devoted to his wife süd allowed to slip through their akija had been jailed for Argoen. "Lili was turned away drunkenbows in the Bowery in from Upton Park (os not being the only "forties, It was the tuning point of tu mandard, and willo he b not eierently Hving up to his Amarong's life. He turnes to early Zorn with Wolves. I have the obarva, began preaching bigch be will yet make the and earned for himself the big-time grade.
respect of all the now people wire on the osrdn thai Lai will he same lato contact with In his return to London; - If he does, fresh
sphere It is good to don't be surprised if he settles learn that
the boxer who at Highing, where Darmy. a team me reached the pinnacle of tame, Clapton is having then turned to the bright lights, following sstetason's form is still a 'revores man: of the which mained him, England pulpit
honours.
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