THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1960, TI
Page
British coming out at last Sweden rolling in millions
Sport
from its Sunday gloom
By IVOR
YORKE
London, June 29. How do you spend your Sundays — quietly with the family, in the garden, boisterously in pursuit of a favourite, sport or hobby?
Here in England it looks as though we are just on the fringe of thawing out from stuffy, out-dated thinking which for years has made the Sabbath a day of gloom.
Less than a century ago petty laws forbade
even the delivery of milk and cycling.
STIRLING MOSS IN
HOSPITAL
Stirling Moss. Britain's top racing driver, is still one of the more celé- brated patients at St Thomas's Hospital in London, where he is reported to be fast recovering.
Photo shows Moss in hospital taken shortly after his 140-mile-an-hour crash- during practice for the Belgian Grand Prix recently, London Express photo.
We've progressed a little since signed on a Sunday were still then: cinemas open (by mid- invalid. afternoon), public houses fing wide their doors (for limited i Yet for years before, many periods) and ghope continue to players and officials had been render valuable services to the defying the masters, knowing general public (for the sale of that they could be severely dis- certain restricted goods).
ciplined if found out. Two very good friends of mine used to You can play tennis at s turn out each Saturday for club or in a public park just top-class amateur side, and were
Saturday. The same known to have been in opposito ignore. foen for oricket and bowls, tion in a Sunday League fixture Now at last the overfords | the following morning. of the English Football Asso- clation have recognised Sun- day
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Since the war, the popularity
soccer and are setting of the Sunday Football Associa- up a Sunday Football Com❘tion (not under the jurisdication mittee.
of the FA) has grown enormous- ty. Last season it was estimated that the bulk of the players and 3,000 clubs who played on Sundays came under the control of that organisation.
Defying
40,000
In 1955, after considerable pressure, the FA lifted the ban on clubs or players under their
The Football Association has jurisdiction from taking part in Sunday football: but that was had some embarrassing moments all. The ruling body also made on Sunday football. When tours it abundantly clear that they did are arranged abroad the national not intend to organize or con- side has had to play its games trol Seventh-day 9000er. Ac- on the day the host country re- cording to their laws, profes-quires usually a Sunday. And stonal players' registration forms it has been blatantly clear that
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Sooner or later the FA would have to recognise the playing of Sabbath day football by its own members. It was just too big
Still in the wood
does
But this latest move not mean that Britain's Sun-
day sports enthusiasts are out
of the wood.
There is still an antiquated body called the Lord's Day Observance Society
which persists in taking legal action against organisers of charity
football matches.
Yes, in Britain, in 1960, it is an offence to také "gate" money at a sporting event. An FA spokesman told me this week: "This is just one of the hundreds of questions that the Sunday Football Committee now being
I SAY UNLESS YOU WISH TO TERMINATE YOUR BREATHING, MAY SUGGEST YOU RETURN TO WORK
SO SPEAKS THE VOICE OF DOOM
way
the
set up by the FA will have to parallel of their difficulties over answer"
the 1958 tournament when, after Two of the other home Foot-threatening to withdraw, they ball. Associations seem clear one eventually relented and allowed
10 or another. Members of their team
play on the Scottish FA have resigned Sabbath. themselves into allowing clubs under their jurisdiction to play matches in the new "Friendship Cup" in France on Sundays, but
the Northern Ireland FA turned
down
their a suggestion that national eleven be allowed to play on Sundays.
And that's only the start of the problem, for the games la the 1962 World Cup in Chile are scheduled for Sundays.
Upheaval?
Unless there is I sudden change of heart the Ulstermen are going to face something near an upheaval if they qualify for the final stages.
This would be
an
FERDINAND
all
By Mik
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Collin Davis wins
Junior Formula Cars
Grand Prix
Monza, June 29, British racing driver Collin Davis, driving a Fiat Osca won the. "Lottery." second automobile Grand Prix for "Junior" formula cers which took place this after- neon on the Monza circuit,
Switzerland Shenry Grandsire. driving Fiat Singuellini; finished second in front of Denis Hulme of New Zealand who was driving a Cooper-AFP.
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SWISSAIR
THE MUN NÉERLAND
of crowns from V-5 Pool betting
Stockholm, June 29, - Millions of crowns are rolling in Sweden just now on weekly gambling on the horses, though mostly the betting is not done by hard-headed followers of turf fórm or race-track frequenters.
"
The big gamble here just now is a new form of pools, similar to football pools, but organised by the totalisators of a number of horse-racing and trotting tracks in various parts of Sweden.
gamblers can place advance
The dimerence between the tipping the correct dive winners, | Lieutenant-Colonel Hagel werk- Fusual roce track betting as the so that outsiders who beat the ed out a pools coupon by which new “V-5" Pool, as it is called | favourites mean fewer pool hundreds of thousands of [here, is that the plinter does winners and bigger prizes.
not have to attend the races and can in fact bet on races taking lace in a number of districts on the same day.
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He... dits in his bets on coupon similar to a football gool coupon and hands it in to a totalisator branch office or posts it to the race track one or two days before the event.
Five forecasts
At the beginning of March, bets on the V-5 races with one lucky prize winner received authorised tote again in many 638,000 crowns (£44,600) on different parts of the country. The V-5 events at the Aby On each coupon, otherwise track, near Gothenburg,
Other big prizes have been noted from other tracks, in- cluding one of over 800,000 crowns recently, but in this case two winning coupons were fold, each punter getting just Over 400,000 crowns,
Before the advent the V-6 betting system race courses in Sweden, both for trolting and horse-racing. were facing 3 crisis.
similar to a football pools coupon, there is a column for a "reserve horse" which automat- cally counts on the coupon in the event of the backed horse being unexpectedly scratched at : the last minute.
First introduced
The new V-5 Pool was first started last autumn in connec- tion with the horse-racing at the Aby race
course in West Sweden.
Within a few weeks the money staked on' the V-5 at Aby went up from 37,000 crowns per race day to over 100,000 crowns.
As the name implies, bets on the V-5 are laid on horses to win in five different races, and systems with alternative horses may be used as in the football
Attendance at the races was pools, each separate row of five falling off and betting on the forecasts costing one Swedish tote-bookmakers are not per- Crown (about 18. 4d.). The mined. to operate on Swedish
in the "V-3" stands for race courses was decreasing. "Vad", which is Swedish for bet or wager.
Started in Norwaying tracks were caught up in
The trotting tracks then took up the idea, and as winter ap-. proached more and more troti
that It is estimated
the
the popular new betting system. It was the secretary of the And more and more people, Swedish nation (the population
Swedish is about 7,000,000) spent be- West
Horse racing many bf whoh had never been oween 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 Society, 60-year-old Lieutenant to the races, began to have their crowns (£344,500-£630,000) Colonel Gosta Hagelin himself little, or big, weekly flying on each week through the winter a former Olympic horseman and V-5. on the big "V-5" gamble. And lifelong turf enthusiast, who got this was in addition to the the idea of reviving the declin- normal winner and place betsing Swedish interest in the turi. fle picked up and developed a scheme which had been started in Norway and Den- mark. There, punters could place bels on horses to win in five sepurate races.
made at the race coursés,
Of this sum, a state tax of
25 per cent is first deducted,
after
which about three- quarters is paid out in prizes to the lucky winners, while the remaining quarter is devoted to expenses and further invest- ment in the sport and the lacks.
£44,600 prize
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thos:
The system was, thos who successfully picked the winner of the first race could use their tole tickets to bet in the next race, the number of The popularity of this new participants being gradually re- form of belling has been duced until there were only a largely built up on a number handful who, by backing four of high prizes paid out) winners, were entitled to try during the winter on trotting their luck for the big prize in
the fifth race of the series.
races.
The newspaper sports pages are now filled with tips for V-5 punters. In other columns, too, readers arc articles about the lucky winners, encouraged by
Tax raise
There have been plenty of forecasts, too, that the treasury would soon raise the tax on V-5 revenue,
For a time during the winter, the state football pools organisation began to be con- crned about a certain fall-off of interest, as many small foot- ball poolers were attracted away by the high prizes of the 7 V-5 "horse pools"-sometimes more than ten times as valuable as the prizes available for the
The size of the winnings de-I This scheme meant, however, pends, of course, on the num-that the punters must attend the football pools.-China Mall ber of punters who succeed in aces in person. Sa then Special.
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