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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1960.
The fastest men
on earth
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ON THE BALL
with Bill Slater
LEAGUE TV WORTH A TRY Friday night screening might
whet fans' appetite
Extra money from League Cup gates; the promise of a welcome windfall from television. Financially, the future looks very much brighter for Yet I the less wealthy members of the Football League family. wonder if there are not dangers as well as benefits in these new sources of income.
Though many small clubs will welecme the additional money,
1 am by nu nicans enrivinced
that the new
We
timing. I feel that if
All this, muy
seem a le must have televised matches. hard-on the smaller clubs, but time has come screening should be confined I feel that the
when we really must turn me
to Friday evenings. “ League Cup and i
the televising of League matches is in the long-term Interests of the gume as a whole.
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fta conceivable tart some attention to the top, and some-
our energies,} viewers might be stimulated to how concentrate attend a Saturday gerne after talent and even our finances on enjoying a Fridav evening of putting that end of the house in
Could be disastrous soccer viewing. But it is essen-order.
tial that we display only the best goods in anccer's shop window. An unattractive match could seriously
Clearly, the new Cup will not help to raise standards of the at the top which most pressing need in British football today. It might even have the reverse effect, giving the fans yet more quantity at the expense of quality,
If the new competition And
leading clubs prevents
frum Jualling engagements overseas teams it could end dis astrously with foreign teams not wishing to visit Beltam
<tr> television dumpen the enthusiasm of sever fans amtemploting a Saturday football outing.
A gomble
League Secretary Alan Ear- daker sees televised League – football as a move to, gerest the decline in gutes by widening the game's popularity is a sportdele. But it is really a gomble.
England's international team-building policy has suffered a further blow now that Mr Waller Win- longer terboltum is no manager of the Foothall League side.
In recent seasons, with greater
between with
co-operation
League selectors. and FA
the League elevent had increasingly beetime an integral part of the interna- licnal plan
The plan to televise League matches ir. particularly momen-
!
In Brazil, we are told that there bus been drinti tous and il astonishes me that decline in the spectator appeal
negtiations couki have been} It Is completed so hurriedly. unfortunate, tcu, that once again about discussions important what is good for the game have taken place without
reference
to the views of the players.
Hostile
do have worthwhile. Players opinions about the game, and it seems to me a great pity that these are not welcomed by those An authority. After all, it is the fuotballers who wear the ploying kit und. perform in front of the television comeras.
!
of Botter
It was often used to try-oul new players and new ideas.
television since cameras moved into grounds. there nine years ago. In West Germany, it is reported that at indances, have increased since a television contract was signed two years ago.
An ervential jirk in the erheme was Walter Winter- bottom, who managed both sides. Now the League team is to bi by different managed in turn club managers. So its value us an aid to building en England Certainly the effects of soccer internation11. side will be ean- television in Britain will have, siderably reduced
to be watched very carefully! This at a time when England over the initial "trial" period.jafready face enough obstacles to For once a spectator is lost to team planning! armchair viewing, he may never return to the terraces
¢vzq! [f TV football is stopped.
There's no dunger of football grounds ever being completely emptied by the effects of tele- .some boxing vision, as' have However, I consider people halls in the United States. for are being unreasonably hostile the fun at the ground has a dis- when they describe the televi- Unet advantage over the tele- sion scheme as "suicidal." Novision viewer. one can be quite certain of the
effects it will have and there is Tough on amateurs
much to be said for giving any experiment a tria! run.
My own strongest doubts about the wisdom of televised Legue matches concern
OLYMPIC QUIZ
the
in
1. A country first entered
and won this tourna ment in 1928-and has repeated its success. all succeeding Olympics. Name: (a) The sport, (b) The country.
2. In which events did the
following set up Olympic records
But it is possible that amateur clubs at least will find their
les adversely affected by TV foobiall. The amateurs already feel that television-even with out soever has lowered at- tendances at their games. With professional soccer available to everyone with a TV s, they bellove that their struggle to survive in, senior leagues will be even
And it is greater. worth remembering that these are the clubs which have de- veloped so many stars for the top teams.
An extra £1,000 from tele- vision w1" obviously mean more to the smaller. profes- sional clubs than i wil to Weir wealthier colleagues. And yet I wonder if it is such a blessing to them.
In view of the boost from from the pools Television, and
D
(£240,000 year to -the new League), many small chabs may to continue ini welt be persuaded
policies which, Twith economic
1956: R. Morrow, Courtney, L. Calhoun?
3. Only one country has twice won the Olympic Which title.
soccer
country?
4. What is the
distance of the thon?
to judge by reports in recent years, are hardly sound.
Without such a boost, they would probably have to make adjustments to their policy, and this would scom much the heal- thier course
jon!- from the term point of view. After all, standard there is little value in putting mara money inte anything which is nol fundamentally paying lis
5. In the 1904 Games, held way.
in St Logis, the United Split fourth division States won every field and track event for men except one. What nationality WES the "outsider"?
(Answers tomorrow)
Answers to yesterday's Olympic Quiz
What kind of adjustments Well, could small clubs make?
they could be grouped in re- glons. If there were regional Fourth Divisions, for example, there would be room in their ranks for sumber of non- League clubs, Now Laces are always Interesting, os Peter- borough hurve already shown this season, in addition, the grouping would reduce homvy travelling expenses and promote keeper local rivalries, Certsin- ly there ere some clubs who now regret the change from re- It's my belief that thero sra
1. Harold Connolly (USA){gional Third Divisions,
married Olga Flkotova
Emil Zatopok and
(Czechoslovakia) and too many full-time professional players in this country. It would his be better at lower level to em- pluy many more players On H of part-time
West basis. The
#hown Germans have cicarly
wife Dann
were
MAN honour."
and matron
beat
What a high standard' can still
2. Ray Ewry of the USA be achieved with part-time
with eight.
3. 17th.
4. 68 countries.
6. Helinkt in 1952 when
69 countries compried."
players.
The full-llige profesionals
of clubs in the lower division must worry 'Orf
shatit (bair security, but A they had mypjémentary kolm quinide the game they would have no need Yőrtünk wółry.
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THARY
RADFORD
NORTON
BUDD
FIGUEROLA
Above: How they finished in the Olympic Games 100 matres at Rome last Thursday A. Hory, Germany, 10.2 secs fequals own Olympic record); D. Sime, USA, 10.2 secs; P. Radford, Britain, 10.3 secs; E. Figuerola, Cuba, 10.3 secs; F. Budd, USA, 10.3 secs; R. Norton, USA, 10.4 seci.
centre.
Below: On the rostrum Radford shakes hands with Simo. Hory is in the
Four D. Jones THAT FAKE JONES MUST FICABOO TIRED OF WAITING
BY MADDOCKS
FERDINAND
NANCY
HAVE BEEN HERE AND A FINE MESS HE'S
LET ME IN FOR, TOO
HM ---AN OLD
GAS MASK
CITY [DUMP
BRICK BRADFORD
THE TIME LEAVINO, BRICK
FOR EARTH HOAIDES ON
FOR JONES-PEERS INTO
THE KITCHEN
"GOOD GRIEF. WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THERE ?
IT'S A SHAME TO LET IT GO
TO WASTE
THE TIME-TOP
IS OUT OF SIGHT!
·GURE GIVES YOU
REAT BRITAI
I'VE BEEN LUMBERED] NOW GET ME OUT OF HERE
WITH WORKING ORE
YOUR MATE'S UNPAID
BOOM
BUSHMILLJ
I SUGGEST THAT
YOU MEN DINE ON SOME
A STRANGE FEELING/CONCENTRATES
TO LOOK AT THE
EARTH FROM (WAY)
OUT HERE!!
AND THEN TRY
TO GET SOME NEEDED REST
BILLS, MATE
WELL THERE'S ONLY ONE THING
CAN DO
By Mik
By Ernie Buslumiller
ONION AND
GARLIC FARM
By Paul Norris
MEANWHILE, AT GREERSON AVIATION ON EARTH
MR, GROERSON, THERE ARE MANY } NEWSMEN WAITING
TO 655 YOU!
THE TIME-TOP IS RETURNING! WHEN BRADFORD ARRIVES MAY HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE
US WE'VE JUST THAY HEARD BRICK
LSN'T ON THE TOP/HSS AFRAID TO FACE THE MUSIC)
SIME
Magnificent century by Dennis Silk in Gentlemen-Players game
London, Sept. 5.
Dennis Silk, the Marlborough schoolmaster who is to captain the MCC's team to tour New Zea- land this winter, hit a magnificent 100 for the Gentlemen against the Players at Scarborough today.
After a handful of matches Į
Slik cracked two {j}! st$ts,
12 fours in bis 119 three hours after he had reel or hour over the first
jobs and made in
Ten Tuns.
Special award
A
181
replied to the Sussex with 134. The special award for wicket- keepers—although nat reces- sarily decided by the number of be will probably victions decided at Worcester where Middlesex John Murray, the "keeper, at present leads the held with 102 victims from his
Sussex had to thank open-county's 28 matches.
ing baisman Lesile Lenksm For their first innings lead of 27
against Glamorgan at Margam where he was un-
defeated for $1. Glamorzan
Sheaffer's
DAWISHAMP
i
PIM
Few for en THE BOLD NEW PEN DESIGNED EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEN
him are Closely following Yorkshire's Jimmy Binks with 101 and Worcestershire's Roy Booth, who made two stumpings ind a catch in Yorkshire's first innings to total 101 as well.
Scores
Close of play sences in today's cricket match were:
At Scarborough Players 350 for n'mé declared and 41 for three. Gentlemen 294 (D. Silk 119, M. Smith 03).
At Hastings: England XI 203 (D Mürgan 55) and four for no wicket. Commonwealth XI 232 (P. Wight 59, W. Alley (0),
At Dublin; Ireland 105 and 71 for seven. MCC 183 (L. Hutton 89).
A1 Margan: Sussex 101 (L. Lenham 61 not out), and seven for no wicket. Glamorgan 134 (B. Hedges 41, W. Wooller 42). At Worcester: Yorkshire 125 (D. Wilson 45). Worcestershire 81 for four-Reuter
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Just the weather for Rowntree's
JELLIES
As always-
ILFORD
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Here is a position from actual play: how does Black (to move) save the game ?
Solution No. 6883; 1 P-R3 (threat 2 PXQP), BPXP 2 #—Kts, or 1 1. ;_QPXP: 2_P 94, or £.... P-QU; 2 PXP, or .
KL (HT) any: 2 Ki-Q3. or 1. Pekt; 2 Q×R, or t
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NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
1st Race Meeting 1968/01
Int Race Meeting scheduled to be held on Wed- nesday, 8th October, will now be hold on Saturday, 15th and Monday, 17th October, 1960. By Order of the Stewards,
A. E, ARNOLD,
Becretary. Hong Kong, Bth Sept., 1990.