THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1961.
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Threatened British Bobby Neill AAA force me to
soccer strike is called off
London, Jan. 18.
The threatened British footballers strike which was reaching the proportion of on industrial crisis was called off after 'eleventh hour talks” at the Ministry of Labour here today. But it necded the direct last minute intervention of Britain's Minister of Labour, John Hare, during the talks which lasted more than five hours between the Professional Footballers Association, for the players and the directors of the Football League, the players bosses, before a settlement could be reached.
If today's talks had ended In a deadlock ne 2,500 prates sional foetallers would have refused
play Saturday's to league games and the pulse of ten million Britons who bet on the featball pools and the mil- lion of football Jans would have slopped.
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The footballers themselves, consent would have been on the dole and Their bosses in Anancial dieties.
Apart favora the WD This would have stopped the chart- Lionclik for the first inte.
T mala stumbling block wat the Fein-and-transfer rysten, The etballers wanted In bc free tu negotiate their Dwn contracts while the Lague wanted to keep the old ystem which once a player had lined, his contract he would be lied to the olan for shit jest of his fe
CONCESSIONS The terms of the new aurer- ment on the retalo-and-transfer
revealed that system Langue bosses had made eldersble concessions to the players,
Bie
con-
Lual week. League Secretary Alan Hardaker, sald that the icague would not make the Flightest concession to the players but it is now evident that the direct intervention of he Labour Minister had forced the League to go back on their previous decision.
of the club and player" word the lust sentence reads: The player wil lo retain the right to appeal to the management committee". AFP.
Funeral of speed boat ace
San Diego, Jan, 18. Funeral service will be hold on Friday for Lou Fagcol, winner of ovary major award in spoed boat rac- ing including the limited hydroplane inter- national gold cup.
un-
Fageol, 54. died On Monday night shortly after entering Sharp Memorial Hospital for treatment of a heart allment.
honoured
Smiling happily Scottish boxer Bobby Neill (left) receives an inscribed aliver casket from film producer Irvine Allen –who personally donated It—at a sports celebrities' Juncheon held by the Variety Club of Great Britain in London's Saros Hotel recently. The casket was presented as a tribute to the courage, both in and out of the ring, of Bobby Neill, who recently underwent an operation following his knock-out by Terry Spinks when defending his British” featherweight fitte Mr Allen was making his first official appearance na 1961 Chief Barker (President) of the Variety, Clab-Neuter Photo.
BASEBALL Sports Diary
CONTRACTS
He was vice president and director of a foreign car service in nearby La Mesa and was no- The new agreement gives the tive
Los Angeles, Jan. 18. in research at Fageol
Duke Snider and Gil Hodges,; security and Marine Engine Co. here. player for move
racing two aging stars of n baseball! from 1928 to dynasty. Today signed contracts
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more to say in the question of his | Fageal's speed boat possible transfer. The Airst sen-carcer extended {ience of the new terms states; 1833 when he was seriously In- with the Los Angeles Dodgers
"No transfer 10 take place jured in a crash when his boat-admittedly taking a cut from [ during the term of a players the Slo-Mo-Shun V flipped over. 1980 Wages of about $31,000! Royal Hi Jockey Club paddock 3.30 contract except by the mutual-UPI.
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quit Britain COACHES SUFFER
INSULTS, SNUBS
By JIM ALFORD
Wales and West of England National Coach, in an interview with SYDNEY HULLS
London, Jan. 18.
In March I fly to Northern Rhodesia to take up a two- year coaching post for £2,500 a year because 1 am fod up to the tooth with the attitude of Amateur Athletic Association officials to national coachos.
With me will travel two more British coaches who will act as my assistants in finding and training the athletle talent in the 8,000,000 population of the Rhodeslas and Nyasaland.
It is a grand job and the pay is £1,050, more than the AAA. pay me, but I did not want to Jenve Britain just when I was beginning to see the fruits of 12 years hard work.
I am leaving Britain because the Amateur Athletic Associu- tion: I, look down On นะ coaches because we are pro- fessionals; 2. distrust our work and our motives; 3, insult us by sending us lo important international events only us observers who are not allowed to help our own athletes.
ADVICE RESENTED
When the Americans. the Russians and the Finns Rond coaches they send them all to take care of the team. Why can't we?
In Wales I found that as a professional my advice was re- sented, not welcomed, offelals.
haven't any passes to issue to you." I had been sent there only to observe, not to coach;
Go team coach Dyson helped me. to evade guards, to climb over fences and to sneak into: the Village like a thief just so I could do a real job, ist so I could help Bellain's teaDL There was more trouble in 1950. Dyson and I were so weary of lengthy negotiations for a rise that we threatened to resign unless..
The rise came with a promise of back-dated pay, a promise that was never kept.
my holidays. I drove to Bome
my own experiet..
I would like to do the fond- ly thing and give my guvnor Sale warning that he is going to
jase few more poaches unless this attitude changes,
But it is
very difficult to know just who the real guv'nor is. We coaches have to many guv'nors these days!
-London Express Service.
Again I had to threaten to resign before I was appointed official coach to the Weigh team THE just 36 hours before the E- pire Games began a Cardiff ! in 1958.
FINAL INSULT
NOTICE
ROYAL HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB
7th Race. Meeting 1900/61
Owners are reminded that Declarations of starters and Why did they not want to riders for the First Day
"They wouldn't close appoint me?
ut 1bu Secretary's like professionals in the Em-Office, Happy Valloy, I was allowed only to sit, on piro Village, man!” a sekction committee
that The
by
final insult came this 10.00 a.m. ou :-~ NEVER met and a champion-year when the AAA graciously skilp committee with met once decided that, almost as a special the day before the champion-favour, coaches who wished to slups.
attend the Rome Olymple Games could do so in the drmi's ilme.
And how those officials dis- trust our work and motives!
Last year our area received £250 from the Amateur Athle the Association Supporters' Fund to help pay athletes' travelling
Friday, 20th January, 1961
By Order of the Stewards,
A. E. ARNOLD,
::
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Secretary.
I was so disgusted I told the AAA they could keep their favours and that the Hong Kong, 18th Jan., 1961.
could consider I was Laking
expenses and lo buy fresh THE ROYAL HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
equipment.
Our sea-and-sand camp at Merthyr Mawr in South Wales and the athletes who aftend it have not yet received one penny, plece.
The athletes
canoot Even obtala a form to apply for sid from this fund.
There is not one first-class Javelin in all Wales. But dus- pite many applications I have made, no money has been allot- ted to buy a good, new javelis.
And the thing that really makes my blood boil is when i hear oficials accuse iny chief, Goof Dyson, of idleness, Dyson, the dynamo, Idle? Ridiculous!!! In Helsinki, during the 1932 Games, I applied for a pass to the Olympic Village to see it 1 could help some of our athletes. Chief oficial' Sandy Duncan Kave me u
"Sorry, old boy, I
Baseball award
for Mazeroski
Now York, Jan. 18. Bill Mazeroski of the Pitts- burgh Piratos today was
· named winner of the Now York Baseball Writers' Babe Ruth award as the outstanding player of the 1960 world series.
Casey Stengel, ousted manager of the New York Yankees, was sejected for the Den Epstein "Good Guy" award, initiated in 1959 in memory of the late New Yoric Dally Mirror baschal! writer,
The awards will be presented at the writers annual dinner, on January 29.
It was Materoski, of course, who hit the bluth jghing home rùm that gaứu the Pirates a 10-0 victory over the Yankees in the decisivo, seventh game of Iont October's woria scrisa.
'In 'citing stengel, the writers salt kia plways wka "most co- Purrative With the PABEL
| griendly and dýmilable in good
7TH RACE MEETING
Saturday 21st and Saturday 28th January, 1961.
(To be held under the Rules of The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONBIST OF 10 RACES (There will be 8 races on the 1st Day and I races on the 2nd Day)
The First Ball will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the First Roco run at 2.00 p.m. on both days.
The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will close at 11.45 a.m. on both days.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
No person without an Admission Badge will be admitted. Admission Badges must be prominently displayed throughout the meeting.
Admission Badges at $25.00 each per day are obtainable only on the written introduction of a Member. Admission Badges may be obtained during offlee hours from the Cash Sweep Offices of the Club at Prince's Buliding. Ground Floor (facing Statue Square); 5, D'Aguliar Street; King's Road, North Point and 3az Nathan Road. ADMISSION BADGES WILL NOT BE ON SALE AT THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE AND WILL NOT BE AVAIL- ABLE AT THE RACE COURSE ON RACE DAYS.
Timing will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72011).
Members, Ladies wearing Ladies Brooches, and their Guests must enter the Members Enclosure by the entrance to the Members Stand.
Members wishing to proceed to Club Boxes on the 4th and 5th Floors of the new Pubile Stand must do so from the 2nd Floor of the Members Stand, using the lift or stairs.
Apart from the foregoing. Members, their Ladies,, and Members Guests are not permitted to enter the Public Enclosure and Stand.
NO CHILDREN under the age of seventeen years (Western Standard) will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission will be $10.00 each per day payable at the Gate. Admission Badges will be issued and they must be prominently displayed throughout the Medling.
Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requishe too of $1000 in order to gain re-admission.
MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will be available tri tho RESTAURANT.
CASH SWEEPS
Through Cash, Sweep Tickets at $16.00 each per day, deli $32.00 each for both daya may be obtained from the Chah Bwedp Offices at Prince's Building Ground Floor (facing Statue Squary); D'Agullar Street and 302 Nathan Road, Kowloon, during offis
hours.
Tickets reserved and available but not paid for by 10,00. on Friday, 20th January, 1981, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Meetings.
Special Cash Sweep Tickets on the Peurco Memorial Cup Sweep. Tickets at $2.00 each for the last race of this meeting may scheduled to be run on 4th Kareli, 1901, at 12.00 each and Cann
be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices of the Club.
The office hours of the Cash Sweep Offers of the Club mo as followi
Prince's Baking, Ground Floor (fosing Statue Square) and 5, D'Aguilar Stroet, Hong Kong
Mondays, to Fridaya
Saturday 14th famuary
Saturday 21st and
Saturday 29th January
ath to 12.30 dim.
King's Road Nerth Point Hong Kong and in Halinh trong Kowloons
Mondays to Frider
Saturday 14th January Saturday 21st and
Saturday 20th Jungary
...
times or bad, and frank' [and] Hong Kong,-1ettr- Januniy, 1961. honest in his remarks,”—T.
10 am to 4 pm
9-6m, to 31,35-0,73,
9 am to li am..
Dy. Order ut, the Sterorordi,
PWE. ARNOLD, NE
Beuretaty.