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ON THE BALL
with Bill Slater
YOU CAN'T
"It's obvious what man-
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1960.
Japan
can finance 1964 Games with Italian-type Totacalcio lottery
Rome, Sept. 18.
If Japon decides to finance the 1964 Olympic Games with an Italian-type "Totacalció” (All-Soccer Pool) lottery, she could raise enough money in four years for the möst lavish
· sports festival in history..
cost a bit over 30 million U.S. dollars. BUY SUCCESS
ager Bloggs should IN SOCCER
do. He should
How often we hear that
cry from the "know alls" of the terraces.
But is
the manager's course of action 80 obvious?
Is there a
set formula for suc- cess?
Even star-studded Spurs
know that
clubs. Sunderland people. He is genuine to the with other
their cost. tore and judges a player strict- Positions in the First found that out to
merit, Irrespective of indi-Their ble spending spree landed by on
whether he cost £20,000 or the them in the Second Division.
£20 signing-on fee.
Division table
cate "no." Spurs and Wolves (before our
Unjust
have they
so
teni- slars und
cer talent,
Unwieldy
and then making them avall. able for transfer.
1 am sure Spurs realise this. They know from experience the vale of a home-produced team. The side which 10 years ago won promotion to the First Division, became League Cham- plons and were then runners up, all within three seasons, was bulit and moulded by
Rome's 1960 Olympics, the most expensive ever staged so far, Japanese or- ganisers already have set their 1964 sights on a figure closer to 50 million.
Second woman to
swim across
Arthur Rowe. Only one player Lake Windermere
cost a big transfer Lark All Ramsey.
fee-right-
London, Sept. 18. with a blanket of fog cover.
But four years of a sports "Think what they could do in lottery based on Italy's golden Japan with almost twice Italy's) system of Totacalcio tould rtuse
population," one Italian Totaca-
foto enthusiast sald, that much or double,
Tokyo Governor Ryotaro Italf of the weekly million Azuma told Japanese newsmen dollar inke is paid out as prizes. fast week that Japan might try It an allan is alone in pick- Anancing the 1954 Games with ing a 13 games right, he can'
wa nywhere an Italian-type sports pool based retire for life on baseball, instead of soccer in Italy.
Not gambling
Mention of Ramsey brings me to another point. Buying
lle brushed off objectiona the decision, player, especiallying the chilled mountain Jake 18-year-old Miss Dorothy Per
that such a pool or lottery a man to play a key role, s
would be cambling. of Bradford, Yorkshire, Ramsey did for Spurs can often kins
became the second Manchester
more like a weekly guir con- wonders. work
Loka test," he said. United have proved this point, woman to swim aéross
Windermere from one side and and so, I think, have Wolves,
back.
Comforting
taloy
She covered the 21 miles with the water temperature down to 51.8 degrees Fahrenheit in 77 hours 35 minutes.
Miss Jean Adams of has already Southampton who done the trip twice clocked 15 46 minutes during her hours fast swim-AFP.
British football, in fact, wes #lot to Bill Nicholson and his setback at Everton) Bank of England" Totten- One cannot deny the sitccess
boys. For Spurs are helping to sei new standards and bring have achieved and it
It is just as reassuring for n set the early pace, ham
new Ideas into the game.
bank Their policy of collecting club to have a healthy racing neck and neck would be unjust to decry it. But succeeded despite
bring balance as it is comforting 10 would have a steady influx of players uhout something which at the top of the table. the hazards I have outlined. For stars is also helping to
these than in
days. Yet the policies which this, the management must be profitably followed at official from the jailor sites. Nevor
credit for some extremely level--the concentration of soc-more so
when the difference between a govern the running of shrewd- buying.
couple of points gained or lost Tottenham have also avolded these two clubs
are i
can mean the difference bc- two other hazards of the cheque
or missing a vastly different.
book policy-a clash of
Although the Fuotball League tween netting prcaments between
floes not seem disposed to prune fortune.
has An additional factor Suurs have bought. Wolves discontent among reserves, who the divisions, I am certain that
entered football Anance--the have built,
chances the present league system is un- their promotion The better system? Which is
Facing dashed by another wildly. When top players are European Cup. Such enormous are Involved in gate pensive Import. How? Largely concentrated together they help sums Personally I prefer the one we
this that good run in maney operate at Molinux. I think I think, through their success.
more than re- is more satisfying-and safer,
Sucess is a wonderful thing for to raise each other's standards.
Tottenham's international set competition can
Limburg, Sept. 18. About six years ago per enthusing spirit throughout a
is doing Just that. For instance, pay an expensive transfer lay- Wolves' club-first tooked At
team,
Pakistan's Olymple champion ple
reserves, John White, their young Scot-out.
So can friendlies arrangedfeld hockey team blanked the and Brakocels
shook juniors, the lot.
tish international inside-for-
clubs of the heads. Who
stature German Hockey Club of Lin replace was to
The influence of manager ward, has benefited
greatly with
Modriel. Real Madrid
burg 4-0 in a field hockey game Short- Beri Williams B
BI Nicholson is another good from playing in front of Danny Real
seek-and get-awalcheri Ly 4.000 here today house. Roy Swinbourne aad
reason why Spurs are at the Hlauchflower, one of the game's couti
212,000 for At half-time, the Pakistanis fed Huarantee of Billy Wilshaw" Dennis
greatest thinkers. the of their form.
With $2-0. nl Tottenham. Even Wright could not go on for
$0. the Tottenham friendly
involved, ever, nor could Juhany fan-
polley of buying success is a that sort of money
transfer fees may go higher On Saturday Pakistan had cocks and Ammy Mullen.
stop-gap one. They won't al-
tied 1-1 with the West German ways be able to rely on other yet. Satisfied
national teom-AP. clubs producing class players
Yo thday we can claim
at
Wolves that we have not done
so badly, and I think everyone
at the club has the right to a terling of satisfaction.
that stress I would Here antisfaction does not mean com- The very placency,
fact that young reserve players are com- ing on all the time prevents any first-team player becoming complacent. And it is tremend- Only reassurlig for a club to feel that there is, a constant supply of new talent.
to to
The transfer market, on the other hand,'iš a fickle thing. For teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona who have the whole soccer world from which choose and fabulous sum tempt the best, the cheque book becomes almost all-powerful.
But in a limited market, restricted by financial wulations, British clubs often find that money is not every- thing.
TC-
The
manager who uses th cheque book to strengthen his i team may well discover that the sort of man he wants is not available. Manchester United Bre reported to be experiencing this very difficulty.
The club which develops ite own uinvers, on the other hand, conches them in the club's own style of play. This is much more dimeult in the case of players
who have developed
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from 250,000 to 350,000 dollars.
The rest of the half million is tistributed
who among those
pick games right.
Usually the top prize also la split among several co-win-
негу. "It is
Azuma suggested the sale of 50 yen lickets to guess the re- sults of Japanese professional baseball games, with prizes of up to US$20,000.
Compared with the Italian Totacalcio lottery, that would be a small amount of money,
Here's how it works in Italy: Totacalcio is run by Coni, the Italian National Olympic Com- miller.
13 Guess aktets based on top League soccer gamer per week sell for 100, lire. Almost
lo overy Italian old enough know a soccer ball is round buys his weekly ticket -- BF two, of three, or more.
US$1m a week
Some even play systems -- with 1,000 or more tickets every week covering a vast assortment of possible combinations,
more
In country with a le than 50 milion popula- tion. Cenf's take from Telacalcio a million US. runs close to dollars a week for the 36 weeks of the seccer championship
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Committee pockets the other Puissant Chef
half million each week.
In 30 weeks of soccer per sea- son that amounts to 18 million collars. In four years it would
ex-
toini 72 milion dollars-a lump which considerably sum reeds Japan's most extravagant eslimates for the cost of the Tokyo Games—AP.
The Aga Khan buys up late father's
racing empire
London, Sept. 19. The Aga Khan tonight ur- nounced he has bought the fabulous race horse em- pire owned, in Europe by his father, the late Aly Khan,
મગ wish 10 maintain the
`wins French St Leger
new
Parle Sept. 18. M. Henri Aubers Puissant
-Chef won the 100,000 francs (211,500) Prix Royal Oak; the French St Leger, fun over one mite seven fur- longs here totay.
Puissant Chef, ridden by Maxine Garcia, took the lead from Wordpar, the favourite, a furlong from home and run on strongly to win comfortably by two and a half lengths. Or Du Rhin was third in the field of 11,
similar distance away.
The winner,
期
colt Djelou-La Sirene, paid
by 8.80
new francs, on the part-mutuel of one new trane. tur a stuke
Place dividends, were 2,40, 1.60
and 40 new francs.
Puissant Cher's victory paid
a compliment to the merit of
who beat him soundly in the French Derby, the Grand Prix' De Paris and the Prix Lupin,
family tradition of horse rac-the Aga Khan's Charlottesville, ing and breeding and will be taking a definite interest my racing establishment from today," the Aga said in a cominunique,
in
45
Aly Khan's world-wide rac- ing establishment
Wordpar owned by Mme Andre Moriotti, won the Grand has been Prix De Deauville three weeks estimated be worth over 100-Reuter. million U.S. dollars. Tho
European branch, with stables and stud
farms in Ireland, Canadian Tennis ·
France and England, comprises around 300 horses.
Among them are some of the Indist famous racers on the turf, like the four-year-old Petite Etoile who has been rated the Ally of the century.
Champion
Ladislav
Toronto, Sept. 18.
Legenstein, the former Yugoslavian, now on The Age's communique did Austrian citizen, won the men's not disclose what he paid for singles tile in the Canadian the horses.-AP.
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Oslo, Sept. 18. Norway beat Sweden 3-1, after leiding 2-1 at half-time, in
International football match here today-Reuter.
Lawn Tennis Championships here today.
He beat Warren Woodcock, of Australin 0-2, 0-2, 7-8 In the Anal
The men's doubles tje was won by Legenstein and Ger- many's Peter Scholl, who 'beat Woodcock and Whitney Reed (United States) 6-3, 6-3, 6-3,- Reuter.
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