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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1900.
LEAGUE CUP HAS BROUGHT
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SOCCER CHAOS Clubs are forced to
play too many games
ON THE BALL
with Bill Slater
which this
season altended the match between
Crystal Palace and the amateur cluo How successful is the Foot», Leagge Cup than in the Leagire.
Palace and It happened at Darlington, litchin Town, ball League Cup com-
where 6,427 supporters watched chin, however, were playing petition? In the first week of League match with Crystal in THE CUP-the FA com
Painee and 9,940 turned up for petillon,
Cup nmich. season, 1 attacked
the this
And these figures tend to fatter the Cup contest, Often there is a far greater slump in the Cup matches, especial. ly where First Division clubs. are at home to clubs from lower divisions.
extra tournament — per- haps a little prematurely. Now, with more than 60 League
matches Cup played, it seems fair to make an appraisal of this new attraction. Here are the cold facts
and figures: G0-odd matches which have been played, the majority have attracted less than the average-} the sized. gates of the chibs involved.
of
the
A few successes Witness how Nottinghre
League match Forest's
12 drew November
a below- #verage' gate of 18,570 specta-
DII
110
Statistics can often be walk- leading. But here surely Is overwhelming evidence that the new League Cup has fall- ed to exclle special Interest and that is certainly threat to the FA Cup with 89 years of tradition behind It. Why has It received such a lukewarm reception? One cause must be the piecemeal presente- tion of the programme.
For Leen
100 muddled, matches played
It has with muny
tors Three days Inter. Forest different nights. Motches in one were at home to Bristol City hand, have even been players attendance: Before the previous round has
been completed. 3,890.
.Cup.
The
Drama is missing
I'm
no amateur, admits Sports Diary ace miler Waern
Sweden's Dan Waern, one of the world's greatest athletes, confessed in Stockholm that he is not an amateur, and was not an amateur when he finished fourth in the world record-breaking 1,500 metres final at the Rome Olympics.
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10 Swedish perlodical "Perhaps sport is not intend, he has paid only £1,723 down, Another sad fret about this Waern has written: "I run some|ed for ordinary people. Multi Following his purchase of the competition is that overloading 50 races during the normal sea-millionaire Avery Brundage estate, and rumours about other the domestic programme dora son, so
that international sports stars, the how could I possibly doubtless has not thought DI international support myself and my family there are people who cannot Swedes set up a committee to interests. Top cluths 42 nol it 1 did nol violate amateur afford to sacrifice hundreds of Inquire Into accusations that top encouraged to play against | rules?"
pounds to be able to indulge in athletes were being paid to ruce. sport."!
help
crack overse clubs. And it presents one more obstacle in
Waern-who has six sub-four-
the way of much-needed minute-mile runs to his credit- practice games for the England
team.
Splendid plan
After England's triumph over Spain, there Wia much talk about arranging practice zames #guinst League clubs to bridge the five-month
until wap
{1} England meets Scoliond April. This a splendid plan, Unfortunately, Lingue and two- Cup Axtures now fit many winter
and etubs naturally be reluctant to add to the rirain their players.
dates
may
As usual, we seem to have confusion or priorities. I reminded of this only
was at League
To ta leolutely fair. I have Studied attendancès. tunel Cig: matches involving the
1:21,
the <12
Sam glunds, The gares arena follows:
SOBO
Only one larger
Stockport v Carlisle--8,073 12
And Inst week Brighton had a sate of only 4,050 their smallest crowd since they won prame- tion to the Second Division two years ago. The match: a third round- League Cup against Wrexhtum.
Of course, there have been a Darl. few notable eccenses. ington welcomes a record crowd
Derby
It has lacked the high drama of the FA Cup where the thrill is followed of one "Cup Day
by an exciting draw for the next round.
No doubt this will be adjusted next year. Even so, I cannot i welcome this "new competition 1 which has plunged the fixture
The football season was over-
of 91,123 for their Cup funtehst into greater chans than ever. The Ligue, 7,000 in the Cup: i against Bollon, And Port Vale v QPR-8,802 and enjoyed wa púove-average Rate Lulon-27,339 of 21,884 for their meeting with 6,#19; Liverpool ak 10.502; Shrewsbury Norwich. Swindon--7,330 and 5,343; Pre- But these
exceptional ston v Aston Villa 11.093 and i deures. Only three League 7,577.
Cup matches have topped the 28,000 mark and 21,804 is the highest figure so far.
are
Tean Bil only one case this setton where the same clubs, playing on the rame gound, at- That is only a few hundred tracted larger crowds in the more than The 21.118 crawd
-
rated
Opaline li
England's best two-year-old
London, Nov-28.
of
Jast week when I switched on
the hope television in
the Important Rhelms European
watching
Burnley
Cup tie.
Here was a really Interesting match
excellent between two
11 could teams-yet
101 be gereened in full. It would have been enunter-attsvetion ใน
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prawled with fixtures before this new contest was introduced. Now
We have cases of some six League Cup matches
being played that night! clubs playing_three Rames In less than a week. There has!
One advantage League has been been such congestion that the;
forced {p Of course, the League Cup abandon its original plan to basi one great advantage. reach the Len Cup semi- final stage before Christmas,
Moreover, I see no evidence that it provides better quallly football, as was hoped. In- deed reports suggest that some clubs play below their usual Form in the League Cup and certainly they do not always; held their strongest ieam- witness haw Buruley chose '10 reserves In their teant to oppose Brentford: And who can blame They already have
Financially, proves a much- nected extra stared of income for the smaller chiba. 13 I du bat believe that this should
DAN WAERN Under-the-counter mile ace.
A denial
Waern did not reveal how much he has been paid.
He denler that he pair £25,800
cash for the woodert estate he recently bought. In the Article Waern says that the price was actually £34,480, but that
In spite of his confessions, Waern is not considering
immediate relirement.
At
my
"I may
his run next year," article concludes. "But forests will eventually take all my time.
*If things go well perhaps shall carn so much money that can afford to be an amateur." China Mail Special,
THOMPSON: MINE'S O.K.
Olympic gold ain't wot it used t'be
By ROY MOOR
Fings ain't quite what they ought t' be for New Zealand's Olympic champion, Peter Snell. The winner of the 800 metres final in Rome took a look at his hard-won gold medal in Auckland recently and discovered it was peeling.
The medai has seldom left its; 50-kilometre rond-wale winner, case since he Was presented to learn: "Mine seemed all right with it
on the Reme rostrea. when I last took a look at it. I yet bare metal was showing on must have a check at the first the high spots of both sides. He opportunity I knew, of course, the medals are not supposed to was horrified.
be solid gold."
I must check gated at the expense of Puproving top-level soccer with fixtures against strong overseas clubs.
If the Leg Cup is to have ny red lasting value, it coul be as a compersaliwn to smaller club, who might lose # then? through the introduction of a League" and lower heavy "Super
divisions of reduced sizes. Then enough commitments-and sue-
Saturdays, on the lines of
The Aga Khan's French-trained filly, Opaline II, as in the League Cup does not all the matches will be held
is considered to be the best two-year-old towe have run in England this season.
In the weights for the Two- your-old Free Handicap drawn up by Mr Geoffrey Freer, the English Jockey Club handi- expper, Opaline 11, a daughter of Hyperion, has been allotted top weight of 3 st 7 Rs. Tiz filly easily won the Cheveliy Park Stakes at Newmarket in September on her enly appear- unce in Englund,
Trish horses, all trained by Paddy Prendergast, fill second, third and fourth places. They ure Typhoon, with 5 st 6 1 Fluribunda, 9 st 5 ibs Kathy Too, 9 81 4 lbs.
Three-year-olds
anil
In the Free Handicap for three-year-olds, top weight has gone to the Derby and St Leger winner St Paddy, with St 7 Jbs. Next is Profile (0 st us). who WAN DIY of England's Jepresentatives in the Washing- ton International earlier this incnth. Hallon-trained filly Marguerite Vernaut, winner of The Champion Stakes
New- market is third with #sts. -China Mall Special.
Not retiring yet says
46-year-old Scobie Breasley.
Melbourne, Nov. 20.
"There's a good few years left in me yol" 46-year-old
Arthur. ald on his i
Australien Jockey
"Scoble" Breasley
drrival here from England to- day.
He scoffed at the idea of re- tirement.
"I feel no good, as over, and 1 am riding, I think, Just as well us I have ever done," he said.
Breasley, who rode 153 vin- ners in England this year and Binished second to Lester Piggott in the jockeys' championship, plans to return to England in two months to resume as No. 1 lcckey for Sir Gordon Richards nd Mr Norman Bertie-China Mall Species.
CURRIE CUP CRICKET
Port Elizabeth, Nov. 23. Tremsukal "AR side best Eastern Province by Reven wickets in a Curris Cup, cricket match which ended here today before lunch.
Final scores were: Eastern Province: 110 (K. Walter five far 82, D. Siowaru four for '08) and 212 (G. Borman 07, 11. Taylleid four for 78, K. Walter three, for.30)..
„Transvaal A": 230 (3. Walte b) and on for Liree Router.
Four D. Jones
BY MADDOCKS
LIFE
AMONG
WEIRDIES
the summe wlaring Lengas konuts,
JONES HAS PASSED THROUGH: | THE FOURTH DIMENSION
AND ARRIVED SOMEWHERE IN TIME...
FERDINAND
NANCY
NNI
POOR' SLUGGO---
I THINK I'LL FORGIVE HIM AND BE FRIENDS AGAIN
HOW WIIERE THE BLAZES AMI?
GUESS
WHO?
BRICK BRADFORD
WHAT DO YOU "THINK CAUSED
ALL THIS
THE GOVERNMENT PROBABLY_DISCOVERED THE CONSPIRACY DEVELOPING HERA, AND STRUCK BEFORE IT
WAS TOO LATIS!
p
as! un
FA
Cup the FA Cup
ER-- LET'S SEE --- WHO COULD
IT BE--
WELL, AT
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LEAST I'M ALL
IN ONE PIECE
J. 1236
Joc
went en: "If I had followed the
They have not been solid gold amateur rules to the letter, I
So was
McManemin, since 1912, because of the cost. tu should not have been able
Snell's team manager at the Mr Otto Mayer, scerclary of i compete in the Games at Roms.
Games, Joe decided to ahow the International Olymple com- the ruies the
medal at the annual mice, told me from Lausanne, "According to
New Zealand's Switzerland yesterday: "The meeting of which Olympic super-god
AAA and press for a protest Rome medals should not start Avery Brundage (President of
peeling. against the poor quality. International- Olympic the
The gold film on the surface, ¦ Committee) so warmly ad-
he claims, is 10 more than vocates I am not an amateur. Nor, for that matter, is any Issue thick. other athlete in this country. schoolchildren.-accord- Even
ing to these rules, are profes-
lunais.
NOW THEN, I'LL MEER"/ TAKE A LOOK AROUND AND SEE IF THE
PLACE IS
CIVILIZED
BANG
By Mik
WELL, I KNOW IT ISN'T NANCY---SHE'S TOO MULE-HEADED
TO GIVE IN
HAYİ FLASH YOUR
LIGHT OVER HER
IT'S A TRACTOR! MAYBE IT HAS LIGHTS. WE CAN TURN ONE
By Ernie Bushmiller
„ERNIE"
BUSHMILke littus
VRAH,
WHAT, I
THAT'O
WAS
! "THINKING]
By Paul Norris
IT'S A MINS AUCER IS USED *TO DIR SHAPTE
AND TUNNELS 18)
"If this is happening, I hope the champions will let me know nt onee, and I'll see that the unmediately meduis are changed." went to Britain's precious Gold Medals-all two of them?
My thoughts
I located Don Thompson, the
| SWINGAR
Sheaffer's
BUT I ALWAYS
TRAVEL
SWISSAIR
The Aftiine of
Awitzerland
Now...
PEM
Fen For Ven
THE BOLD NEW PEN DESIGHED EXCLUSIVELY FOR HEN
AERO
Delicious
PEPPERMINT
blavour
As always
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TODAY Becerr
1st Diviaross: Rih v sing TEO Boundary-atreel) 9.30 pm.
Nesting
IK Badm Executive Com millor meeting, 31, St George's Bldg, 5.30 pm.
at H
TOMORROW
Roccer Combined Chinese v Corla Alcane
by Jack Kramer's troupe at Chinese Recrea-
lon Club, A
Kxhibitalum, & pm.
Pakistan
draw with
West Zone
Abmedabad, Nov. 28.
wicket 'stand of 95 by Mustaq Mohammed *and Wall Mathias ateered the Pakistan cricket tourista
An unbeaten 5th
to s draw against West Zone here today after they had lost four second
for 66 runs.
Innings wickets
West Zone declared their first innings at 852 for nine for a leaxt of 158 runs and had the visitors la trouille when they 60 captured four wickets for with two hours left for ploy. But Mustou and Mathias mas- tered the leg-spin of Baloo Guple, who caused the collapse and held of the fire Innings. cut until the close.
SCORES
Firal scores were: Pakistan: First Innings-194
(Imtiaz Ahmed 80 Gupte Bve er 56), Second innings-161 for four (Mustaq Mohumaned 09 not out, Waldia Machais 40 not out).
West Zone: First Mainge-353 for nine declared (P. G. Joshi 85. A. Wadekar 79: Hasán stx for 80),--Reuter.
Alterations to UK soccer fixtures
football
London, Nov. 28.
British the
Alterations to
December 3 are:
fixtures for Saturday,
ENGLISH LEAGUE Division II Swansea Town vs Rotherham -to be played on December 1 instead.
The award costs about £4,
Division III Thompson has insured his for Coventry City vs Brentford- £40 "to cover all the incon- to be played on December venience of replacing any loss." Umstead-Reuter.
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