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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1960.
Thursday's double championship THE NOVICE WHO BEAT, THE WORLD
fight programme likely to produce record
gate
Los Angeles, Feb. 1,
The biggest gute in California boxing history appeared in the making to- day as the four principals on Thursday night's double championship- fight programme neared the end of their hard training.
The chief attraction on the card to be staged outdoors in the vast Memorial: Coliseum is the rematch between bantamweight champion Jose Becerra of Mexico and ex-champion Alphonce Halimi of France.
They met last July in the lu- door Sports Archa and Becerra scored an eighth round knock- out,
total $150,000 and he expect ed a rate of around $300,000 with a crowd expected execed 30.000.
to
in
was
Backing up that night is The biggest previous gate match that could have been the California boxing history
drawn by Carmen headliner on most boxing pro- $236,521 Bremmes, a bout between Junior
Basilio and Art Aragon wites welterweight champion Carto:they mot In September, 1938, at
Wrigley Field.
Ortiz of New York and un- (Battling) defeated Raymundo TOITES
Mexico. Both are of 15-reund bouls,
Expected gate
For the boxing show the Coliseum is being converted Into | on arena ikat could handle ai crowd of 50,000. The Beeerra- Hallmi Aglst goes on fired, with the Orliz-Torres Night following.
Matchmaker George Par- hassis of the aponsoring Olymple Boxing Club report- ed that advance
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Becerra favoured
With
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Influx of
heavy: Mexican whuering money, Becerro was a 10-8 favourite lo retain his ille, The 23-year- ol Giachipton
Guadalu- Iron jara, Mexico, since winning the Utle moved a ninth-round non- title knockout win over Walter Ingram who later died us a result of injuries in the bout held at Godalajara,
out with Becerra to slug it after piling up a lead in the through superior Carly rounds boxing. The Halimi
cp has nu disclosed Ita strategy" but the French man probably will try to box Becerra
more this time.
Unbeaten
BRAVO BERYL BURTON
By ALAN PETERS
The girt cycling novice who took on the world-and won is the sport's out standing performer.
She is Beryl Burion, 23-year- old Morley, Yorkshire, mother, who in her first international competition won the track women's 3,000-metre world pur- Ault championship in Belgium lost summer,
And laat wedit she was named to receive the coveted F. T. Bidlake Memorial Plaque for her world championship" success. She is only the third woman rider to win the award; Mar- (1930) ANU guerite Wilson Elleen Sheridan (1060) wero both plaque winniers for their British road record successes,
Unruffled
The Ortiz-Torres bout also is
himself one of the best men in nn attractive anc. Ortiz proved
the lightweight ranks but moved up to the recently revived junior welterweight division be- cause he claimed lightweight champlan for Brown refused to meet him. He won the title ty scoring a second-round knock= |which won Beryl her world' out over Kenny Lane last June tille,.. Including a terrific semi- in New York. He is 23 and has 'Anal
against the Russian been fighting five years.
favourite, Galina Jogina and then the neck-and-neck, final against the work road cham
Jacob's płon, Eldo
(Lxlxem- bourg).
Torres is only 18 years old and to unbeaten in 31 pro fights, winning 24 of them by knockouts. Its blægent win was a second round knoskoai of Johnny Busso here last October.
I saw the rides in Dolgitun
Although she had never rated on the track abroad before, she was completely unruffled
The Ortiz-Torres night is quoted at 6-5 (take your plete), But it is not only on the track despite the champion's claims abroad that Beryl Burton has that he will win by superior ex-stormed to victory. Last season heperience, a statement back up aho won every British time trial by many Aght experts.-UPI championship - 25 miles, 50 mtles, and 100 miles-breaking
ot competition records
those three distances and also_setting up national figures for the twelve hours ride with 250%
Although Becerra was badly shaken by Ingram's death, rame back six weeks later December at Nogles. Mexico, to decision Frenkie Duran in a 10- round non-title Sght.
Becerra has a record of
35
wins, two lowes and one draw, with 22 of his fights eading In knockouts,
Halimi's only light since 10- ing the title was a 10-round de- cision over Robert Meunier December 12 at Paris.
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TO-MORROW
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All Hongkong v Pravians ni H.H.
Tuo 27-year-old French Stadium, & p.m. Algerian has worked harder training for the current Ashl
THORNDAY
Motoring
miles,
And for good measure she also race took the national rami | championship!
Inseparable
BERYL BURTON... both
blondo, and vivacious,
Records seem to fall whenever Beryl Burton turns the pedals; she can outpace men with case, leaving them minutes behind in 50 and 100 miles events.
on the ball
with Tom Finney
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THEY CALL ARSENAL THE 'HAS-BEEN CLUB But I think there may be a comeback
:
Have the golden days of Arsenal gone for ever? Have the marble halls of
Highbury seen the end of an era?
For six seasons now Arsenal has been away from the place in the sun that
once seemed to be their natural right.
At the end of every campaign, the soccer world walled con- fidently for them to rise again. It reomed Inconceivable that this club could stay in the shadows for long.
But now at long last, I find many players convinced that the greatness of Arsenal Low only in the past. They can see reason why it should re-
no
tura.
This club, which was
for a decade the most famous in the world, they say, has had its day and will be pushed further and further into the background.
Tomorrow belongs to Wolves, Manchester United and Spurs the teams which are already dominating the post-war years.
I don't they are right, but just the same I can see the logic be- hind their orgument.
The great danger
Arsenal have not hit such a bad patch for over 30 years. The linn among clubs has had its tail twisted in Cup campaigns by Northampton, Bed- unfancied ford, a non-League side, and more recently by Rotherhafts,
Great
and players
great icains. managers make great Now that the men who made Arsenal's name ring around the
But there is one ambition
this small, yet Important to cycling Amazon which she has still to achievė, Beryl Burton Bcryl says that she has only has never managed to last the reached her peak iness through course in her own club's 100 world have gone, why should at tham
any time in bis
the help of her husband, Charlie.mites in eight hours reliability the club rise again? has vowed
Motor Sports Club social evening. She was Lo career. He
only 17 mett, Gloucester Rond, 7,30
when they trial, held to open the reason. regain the title and is in the BAT
married, but
ay she best shape in years,
showed promize as a cyclist, Sho has tried three times and Charlie gave up racing to train falled. Yet, her competition. 100 miles times is 4 hr 20 min + scc!
Most boxing men sald Halimi's I undoing came when he elected
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The answer, 1 am sure, tradition-an asset which should never be underestimated.
Even now, I faste exolte- ment whenever I walk up those seven steps into High- bury's, marble hallway and
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certain no young player could ever fail to be insured when he puts on that red shirt which is known all the way from Rio to Moscow.
Just the same, memories don't linger. for ever. They have to be rekindled from time to time by fresh successes.
And here lies the great dan- ger, It Arsenal are to retread the starry heights, they cannot offord to stay In the shadows much longer.
They need succoss and they need it fast,
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Where, you might ask, did Arsenal lose the magle touch. What happened to the club that In the 10 seasons between 1930 and 1939 carried off the League championship five times, won the Cup.twice and were only kept out of the top three League positions three times. The club
that once had seven men in the same England team? The club that seemed to be setting off to search of further glory in the post-war years?
Iron defence
The eritles, of course, will eny that it's merely a case of luck changing. That "lucky" og dies hard. During Arsenal's palmy days, it hovered over the club to such an extent that it seemed to have some almost magical touch, But it was only an illusion, of the teapa's born bonusD style of play. 'WICK' their famous "Iron Defense" they. were quite content to stay in their own half for much of the Kame and then score from, sudden breakaways,
Not surprisingly, rivals who had lost after having as much ins 70 per cent of the play some- times put it down to bad luck.
Today, the only kind of luck they seem to have is bad,:
Injuries this season to key players such na Dockertý, Bloomdeld, Evans, Henderson, Groves, Clapton, Kelsey and Charles have hit them hard.
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Presumably i was their plan in play him at centre-half-in-the true. Arenal tradition of bl pivota such as Herbio floberts and Leste Compton.
But since then he has played at wing-half-which I personal- ly consider hla best position- and, also centrn-forward.
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This is interesting, for there; itself, they have, been a la s revolution taking place at clow to move with the tinies, Highbory. The old methods And that no-doubt, la ... why are going and, if Arsenal de- | manager George Swirlin . ap- aldes not to consider centro- | painted Ron Greenwood" ILS half the all-important position couch. Ron is regarded as one in the team, the final blow
of the most "modern" men would have been struck..
the game today,
Already the stern, rather rigid defensive
dates system which back to Roberts has given way to a more fluent style. Today. the accent at Highbury, la on more aggressive football.
For I think lës truo to say that the style that made Ar- senal great also helped to pull them down.
Like England
Once Charles unui Docherty are match-ft again, I expect to we some signs of on Arsenal revival.
But if they want to recapture the days of Hapgood, they will have to hurry. The mands of time are running out,,
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