THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1960,
FOOTBALL LEAGUE Bobby Smith can solve 10-year
CUP BEGINS
Bristol Rovers beat Fulham in one of two opening matches
London, Sept. 26. The English Football League Cup, which was inaugurated this
evening, met with a mixed reception.
www
puzzle
for English
London.
For 10 years England, the ailing problem-team of international Soccer, have been searching with frantle futility for the perfect centre for- ward for a latterday Tommy Lawton or Dixie Dean. The selectors have tried tough guys and brainy guys. They have picked big ones and little ones.
Only 12,000 spectators about half the normal League gate
turned up to see first division West Ham beat second division side Chorlton Athletic 3-1 in the first of tonight's They have had leaders.
But
two first-round encounters.
Eastville, pecond division Bristol Rovers had one of their best crowds of the sen- 50 20,000-10 see them beat in division Fulham 2-1 ! in the other first-round the.
In Lonight's
matches, the
Cirimsby rcieved one of these druws way to Newport County, and now head the division by
we elvar pohits,
Results
League
Results ut British football honours went matches played today were:
Peterborough to newcomers
ENGLISH LEAGUE CUP United, who swamped Dan-
First round 6-2 in their Bristol Rovers 2 Falium
Weat. Ham fourth division match,
caster Rovers
Move up
zarilen ENGLISH LEAGUE
Division III
Walsed
U
Bry
3
J'ort Vale
7
Grimsby
Southend
Peterborough move up
Chesterfeld second place in the table beltind Colchester Stockport
displing talifax
have Now
County,
Northropion, who now
one game in hand and the third. TrueL Stockpurt
Peterborough Rul have 19
eigh
Hirawabury
*DAKARY
Division IV
12 Exeter City Points from 1,835, with Stockport having Millwall
while Peterborough
the better goal average,
Northampton have 18 from matches,
Stockport
11
York City
Accrington
Celtte
None of the six third division matches ended in a hole win, fuur
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being, drawn.
Russia's first touring table tennis team
Scotland.
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• BOBBY SMITH.. power and #pood put him in the
of one
Lawton
class
Dreserve In goal, that cocentrics, there is only riominee-Wednesday's SORT-
Ing and
who looked like cart- By ALAN HOBY horses
leaders he firsl came to London ten The full backs-Huddersteld's who charged the op- yours ago is a really dangerous Ray Wilson is on the injured surely be chosen position like a berserk challenger to young Baker from list-must
Blackpool's Jimmy Arm- fold.
Mick Middlesbrough's and leaders Yet it is only a few tank
of a MoNeli, and Spurs' Ron Henry, unhappy around the field doing back when Bobby son
the most improved young left miner, was 35
the ganie, everything but score eat in water; when he was the back
butt of the Tottenham booboys; goals.
seemed. when he could not, it
since Altogether,
Lawton pit à foot or even a big too
spectacular Ran at unented
centre right. his throne, 15
Springett is the best we have, Man-forwards, some good, some bad
nationai Finally, if ever the and some frankly awful have
"It was thin." Bobby told team-the side which should be striven to inject punch and fre
me last week, "1 remembered the proud showcase of English
but power into England's attack.
RO seldom 1s- father football, were Nat that time when Among
intelligent, virile Lofthouse,
Mortensen, brought me all the way back to needed an
home skipper it is NOW. Juckle
Lee. London after I had gone Milburn, Jack
Allen, Ronnie
Bedford to Yorkshire because of home- Great captains such as Danny Jezzard. Tommy Taylor, Roy sickness. Derek Kovan, (Tom Bentley, Finney. Bobby Charlton, Brian Clough, and the current of Baker tenant, Joe Hibernian.
The first-ever Russian table tennis team Is to tour England
play matches and will
Bristol, Birmingham, chester, Greenwich and Sun- derland.
The top girls in Birmingham
played In the have always
10 20.03 greater This was disap-
men's league experience.
proved by the women offeinis,
star
Pam Mortimer volunteered to take part in the
2 Hartepools
Bu
.
Parigion
Donder
2
women's league.
Wrexham
Glinghu
D
Now the secretary
Barrow
♫
organisation
says she
of that would
Partick Thimle 2
ruln competition because
she
would be 80 overwhelmingly superior.Bonews Service,
GLASGOW CUP FINAL
(Plaxed at Hampden Park).
-Reuter,
Famous sports stars
I have
met
By ARCHIE QUICK
their oli ground,
Market
Fields
London.
Not fit
the
them Stan
. Back on list But now Tottenham's BOBBY SMITII, after many ego-bruik- fund 10 ing disappointments rugged und rumbustious years in League footbull, re-enters the England lists.
(Tso years ago Bobby flew to Sweden as a desperately
chulee futr
for England's World Cup squad, but never played.)
With England's first match against Ireland in Belfast, less than
Advice
my
" had just foined Chelada, and I was only a kid from the North in a strange city.”
But Bobby's father, Alt Smlih, thought differently,
"Bon" be said. "You' play football if it kill you. It's your fe. Now go out and do your best, Remember you Come from Yorkshire and don't give way to anybody "I have never forgotten that advice", Bobby added, "It has kept me going through all my setbacks, And nothing can worry me now,"
T
The he-man Smith-in his teens he worked as a blacksmith for £2 10s. a week-will, of course, be up against the just-
two weeks away heeled Baker; who, in every great Wembley duel with Spain thing but the accident of birth, and maestro Alfredo di Stefano
is as Scottish 115 Highland follows 18 days later-Bobby heather.
like a man Smith is playing
Baker led England's vastly Under-23 cleven 10ft. tall.
husky! Prounising
Danish eleven the against a
Manchester, Maine-road.
of stone and muscle from
Thirteen power
little iron-stone mining village week. of Lingdae, near Middesbrough, this mighty Smith of Spurs is, on present performance,
next centre forward in the country.
the
The problem
al
last
close
Sure and begorrah, there is more to Limerick these days than just the Lakes of Killarney and Shannon Airport. For have they not got Limerick City Football Club and are not City champions of Eire?
any kind, in telephones. Visit By winning the League title something they Linerlek got
ing teams use a local hotel for
to in drive If over you e a picture of changing did not bargain for automatic
I am told that he has now entry into the European Cup Harry Johnston being "chaired” ground by couch.
recovered that Zor cutting their ground by his teammates after Stanley competition-and
vantshed without all edge which Not only has he set an won the 1953 inadequate for Matthews hud was woefully
club record by scoring trace during England's Cup rochxture. It was the first Wembley
So Final against
the Football Association time
more than 140 League and Cup season tour of Spain and Hun- time u non-Dublin club had Walton' Wanderers one of the ni Eire derided it was not
goals for Spurs-the old record giry: ever won the Championship or supporting shoulders will be
ht place for so important
also bo Bobby Smith will of 130 goals was held by George Ewin Fenton, competed in the Big Compel that of
who match.
the Says
Hunt-but he is leading Totten-confronted by another challenge right-half
that
Funton. who. unlike some
United's Com -from Manchester memorable match,
who. National Service professional am's subtle and vastly lengthy service with footballers, always gave ninety plex attack with a Tawionesque sly jinking genius, Denis Viollet And here the problem which The draw gave then the ter
slicks in the worried selectors season with minutes to the Army in their end of maturity and robust Blat koool, hadl Young Boys of Berne FC.
!Wrexham tosl
matches, representative before
nettic prickly Indeed, there is no doubt at flesh like champlons of Switzerland, Lo
Market Fluids pitch is So all in my mind, that this 27 Englund won exactly one out of the first round, and what a moving on to Eire
that
Yorkshireman we might have year-old
who seven internationals last season This Dundes-born land i emme bumpy headache What was for City's
beates Berne there."
wanted "to chuck it all” when-is; 'Do we plump for to know well on three overseas
spear- New young player-manager
trips with 1115 Ewon Kenton.
Army side to the Islands, and un the
tion.
Headache
play
Jas and
a
year
Germany Hactually made his debut Austria, for the club in this first "leg" Channel game which
the Swiss won last two tours he skippered the
by 3-0 before 7.000 speeta-sid with success,
torn. That was a feat in k- self for the Limerick club, 22 years old, are lucky if| they get 2,000 to their games
Big score by Commonwealth.
cricket XI
''Lucky start'
In a letter from Limerick he tells me that consideration was given to the possibility of taking The Berne match to Dublin 120 miles away, but it was greed it would be untair to the club's hard core of loyal supporters. So the venue was moved, to the local Rugby Union ground at Thomond Park where Limerick and Munster play their big Minimum admission money was seven shillings and
Johannesburg, Sept. 26. Bobby Simpson, the Australian unes.
Test batsman, took his score sixpence to stand on uncovered
to 153 not out by lunch on terraces--which 25 more that the second day of the match double what Wolverhampton between the Comanonwealth Wanderers cricketers and Transvaal here
today.
At the interval, the Tourists, who resumed at 180 for three, had made 275 for four in reply 10 Transvaal's first innings total of 10%,
Simpson, 77 nct our on Satur
duy, reached 150 in four hours
25 minutes with 21 (mars.
charge for them. European Cup iles for the same accommodation!
Anyhow. 7,000 eltizens of Elre willingly paid up, and with a return "leg" tu played in Berne, Limerick City Are Bnancially better o than they have been for long while,
"I have made a lucky start",
+
The Commonwealth innings says Fenton, "May it contiue ended
at 420, when ten was in this my first managerial taken. Simpson bad carlter taken venture.
We were tempted to
hit score to 178 before being go to Dubiln where Dalymount bowled off his boot by a bell Park takes 55,000, and we pro- from Banyard.
bably would have done if the Freddie Trueman hils up 59, apponents hnel been Real including nine fours and a six, Madrid, Eintracht, Barcelona in 88 minutes, and to and Tomor
Burnley, but I hope the Graveney added 79 in an hour people here appreciate that we for the eighth wicket.
Transvant reached $8 for one stayed at home and lost money that they could see the
Market Fields has no cover,
senting accommodation
in their second Innings by the
close, A, Taylor and D. Várnals put on 82 for the first wicket before Simpson trapped Taylor leg before-Reuter.
World title bout postponed
New York, Sept. 20. The world welterweight ( box- ing championship bout be- tween Cuban title-holder Benny Parel and Argentina's Federico Thompson scheduled for October 15 was today postponed to Oc- tober 29. Paret was suffering from tonsils.
The title bout was to be re- placed at Madison Square Gar den bere by a wellerweight marich Between Argentina's Jorge Fernandes and Amerlem Denny Moyer, Moyer boat Paret last summer in a non-litla boul,
Kume."
no
of
kenble
"the
skill.
LRC finalists
Mrs D. Cooper and Mrs P. Rawlings, who will
be seen in action this afternoon against Mrs Whittel and Miss Mackenzie in the final of the Ladies' Re- creation Club women's doubles event at the Ladies' Recreation Club.-China Mail photo.
THE GAMBOLS
THEY WOULD SIT
GAYE NEXT TO THEM
THEY'RE NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS
FKNOW
d
hend or schemer? Do we go for stealth and subtlety in the Viollet mould; or strength, speed, and electrifying shooling as exemplided by Messrs Smith and Baker?"
Much sa I admire the whip- lash young Sool and the classy Viollet, this time I would pick
Smlib
With his height and speed he can carry oni to perfection the key role he performs for £200,000 Tottenham: that of flicking or nodding down the ball to his two inside-mon Es they come up behind or beside him.
At this point, ruthless honesty compels me to reaffirm that one small hackney carriage would recommodate the few real Eng- land-class footballers playing today,
Kay is ready
But as no Great Britain team -the obvious solution-is likely to be launched this side of A.D. 2000, I would build the follow- ing attack around Bobby Smith: John Connelly (Burnley), Poter Jimmy Dobing (Blackburn) or "Greaver"
Johnny (Chelsea), Haynes (Fulham), and Bobby Charlton (Manchester United),
With all their faults as wing- men, I would put Chariton and Connelly in front of their
Blanchflower
great are-like referees vanishing breed."
But if Fulham's John Haynes can control his sudden Imperious gusts of anger at inevitable Imperfection on the field-as he seems to be doing is the only choice,
THE DAI REES GOLF SCHOOL
HOW TO PLAY
OUT OF THE
ROUGH
THAT four second to the green has gone astruYumm and you are in thick graĀS 1n the rough.
The rat thing to consider h whether to go for the green, or to play safe and find a short 'out back to the fairway
If your opponent is sitting pretty with an easy shot off the airway then the answer is lo Eb für it, taking one elab more lofted than you would nood for the same dlitance had you not been in trouble.
In the address you automatio- ally open the club, face to counteract the dragging of the gra on the clubhead. This can make your club face roll which is why so many shola are left in the rough. Thus you take no club more than you need.
Caught up
A normal backswing in the rough runs the risk of resting Vie clubhead caught up. So Take It up a Hilo more sleeply by cocking your wrists alightly faster in the backswing.
Note how in playing this shot I have not allowed my right hand to roll over (1). My Tett band is in a very rizung position (2), and the clubhead bas travelled same feet past where the ball was (3).
I
have deliberately exaggerated the position to emphatiar the need to keep the clubface open _ (4). Keep your head sill, and your eyes fixed on the spot where the "ball was (5t, derpite the force you pai into the shot.
nearest rivals. Norman Deeley Pakistan hockey XI
(Wolves) and Brian Pilkington (Burnley),
The spine of the side? Hero is threesomet my hard-toelding Maurios Bettora (Manchester
held to a draw
Lyon, Sept. 20, - United), Teter Bwan (Sheffield --Paidetan and France battled Wednesday), Roa Plowers to a draw, ono to one, in a (Wolves) with Wednesday's hockey match held here today. red-haired Tony Kay ready to
Pakistan won the gold medal Inch out Flowers at the slightest for hockey in the Home Olymple lapse of form.
Games.—AFF.
Barry Appleby
HOPE YOU TRIED TO LOOK INTELLIGENT
WITH ALL THAT SCIENCE TALK
I DID
{ER..... GEORGE, WHAT
"ONE,DOWN AT THE SEVENTEENTHA
MEAN?
Cooking Problems Solved
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• How NOT.20%pei out of the rough la shown on the last where, the player in deep frouble well still be there after playing a shot like fifa,
He has failed to open the face of the club in the down swing, and the ball is forced even deeper into the gruan.
His wrists have posta to pieres, the necessary strong left hand len't there, and the right hand has rolled. . The force of the that has ruined, his stance.
e has iffted his head and shoulders and is trying to scoop the ball out instead of letting the loft on the club do the work.
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