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The Old Men of the IOC
By BRIAN GLANVILLE
London.
The unfathomable old men of the International Olympic Committee are reuniting for two days; days in which they will consider the pro- gramme for Tokyo, in 1964, and reconsider, with all the old futility, all the old, irrelevant criteria, the problem of amateurlsm.
They will probably decide that the programme will include judo, which the Japanese -- who nee good at that, and not very goud (swimming and Kymnastics apart) at anything else are so anxious
to promote. Jude, with its spurious mystique and Its sinister vestments, Is not a sport which 1 and beguilles, but ii no doubt hus as inuich right to an Olympic place na shooting, in the present, and rope-climbing, In the past,
What irritates one is the sug- gestion of Mr Otto Mayer, of the IOC, that it should replace soccer-because soccer has such blatant professional associationst Here, in microcosm, is inid bare the whole, anif-baked altitude of the Committee.
£300 a race
To me, last year's Olymple soccer was so largely and ob- viously professional that there was something endearing aboul It. Athletics, with its star run- ners pocketing as much as £300 a race, on the strength of their gold metals, nust of course be left alone, much as one re- frains from Jabbing a slick into a beehive,
hind to complete, rather than ride for their country in Rome. After all, the Brst prizo wa
£400, the second £250.
a
Amateurs? Of course! By
it's delightful sophistry,
the owner, not the rider, who col- lects. And if the owner is the rider? Clearty one packet doesn't know whind the other one is do- ing.
Yet I do not wish to piltary individual sports. Good luck to the footballers and show jump- ers; it is the Brundages of this world who are the real offend- ers, with their facile drivel about i "keeping the Games pure, clean and honest in accordance with the high ideals of the Olympic
movement.
Wake up, Mr Brundage! Those high leafs are travestled and dragged through the mire every time there's an Olympiad. After all, Prohibition didn't work, either..
Enjoying tennis
clas tennis today; she standa only four feet, 11 Inches. "I enn't compete with the serve and vulley so I have to play from the baseline. Well, I think they (the serve-volley exponents) are
an advantage. definitely, be- cause you con afford to make more mistakes. But then you gel someone like Maureen Con- nolly, who beat them all.
"If you're smaller, you can turn inore quickly, though. You have got that advantage."
Bologna claim
There may be more trouble Dhead for Chelsea; now Bolog
THE CHINA MAIL,
TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1961.
Marley Spearman practising in her garage-gymnaslum.
assembled in all its directorial
Later that handelop. glory, gave the Press the slow evening Alan Hardaker, the League sc- cretary, begged the newspapers to allow League and players to work things out for themselves.
May remind poor, forgetful are threatening to sue. Their Mr Hardaker that things have director, Dr Giorgio Nerl, swears already been worked out, only that they possess an option-con- for the League and its clubs to tract on Greaves which pre-repudiate the apparent agree. dates Milan's.
ment?
in the
Tour
threat of a strike will be with us again soon. It would surve the clubs right I It took place.
too high, and wants to coil the fight off.
When I told Arthur Boggis, Charley's
of these manager, complications, he reacted: "I shall contact the British Boxing Board of Control and ask them to get in touch with the Euro- pean Boxing Union, to find out if these chaps are solid promoters."
Logical prophecy
The little difference
"I've had lots of little ups and downs," said Mrs
Marley Spearman, "and still do have. I think it's because of my little difference."
She meant difference from the prototypál woman golfèr; and the difference is not "little": 1s radical. Mrg Spearman, who won the British Championship for the first time the other day, is a slim, svelte, pretty woman, somewhere in the thirties, who lives in a mews house of the Edgware Road.
For five yours, she was a can- cer not the Windmill; not ever. ever. Repeat: Ver ever" Once, at an early tournament at Worplesdon, Mr Tony Spearman stood next
to a spectator who swore not only that she danced at the Windmill, but, every thing she played, was hypnotised by her husband; "little gimlet eyes and he's got a black beard."
Mr Spearman, who sells cars profitably and is immensely proud of his wife, has neither. He's an ready na she is to tell the story of how she was walking one day through Harrods, saw a notice advertising golf lessons, kicked off her shoes, took one, and decided she had learned to play.
Natural swing
Next, she went to Regent's Park, to the aptly named "Pro- fessor Holdright. "I said I'd like (some practice, please. I didn't want tuition; I'd learned!" But her progress was astonishing; a natural swing, a dancer's bal- ance, deep determination, one too deeply camouflaged by a shy and frequent laugh.
This year been returning 9.3 for clubs).
July 21 and 22 they will be running at the White City for America against Great Britain.
"When they come over here Watch Simpson
What now? More tutile meet-next month," said David Jones,
"neither of them will win n Downstairs in the garage ahe Gastone Nencial, winner of ings of the Ministry of Labour,
race." They, more precisely, has her own innor gymnestumi last year's Tour de France, had where Tom Claro has worked so
are Frank Budd and
Stone i trapeze, mirrors (to look at white 10lb to lose, and precious little selflessly, and valaly. But surely Johnson, the American sprinters, she hits the ball), driving-range, time in which to lose it. Victim the players have learned, bitter- who have coolly and regularly punch-bag Catrielly for golf of a heavy fall in the San Remo by now that you can't nego- those who seem to race, the Tuscan cyclist had only late with "To me," said Miss Deirdre just come out of plaster. He is have no will to negotiate. That the 100 and 20.2 for the 220, On Catt, "I don't enjoy my teu competing
of nis, that would be the end." Switzerland. Having thus put herself in a
Meanwhile, he says, he has minority of approximately three been folluwing the evolutions of What, for that matter, of show among today's first-class tennis Anquetil, Gott, Battistini. Mas- Backers at odds
most patricina of players, she pursued: "I think signan and Bohementes via rn- Jumping. sports in Rome the other day, you've got to enjoy it to playdio,television, the newspaper.
When I was in Rome the other I think it's Tominy Fotmondo d'Inze assured me well, you must do.
Simpsont Nencini day, Rino Tommasi, who wants enjoy your doesn't mention him.
to promote a fight between but he that as far as he and his bro-much harder ther, Plero,
you're being would perhaps do well to keep Charnley and Compari, politely concerned, matches when Bre
don't think you enjoy an eye on the Yorkshireman doubted whether the promoters millary service comes first, rld-beaten. ing is a passion. That's why it your matches when you're losing when the Tour de France be- of the Charnley-Noble fight this is so popular with royal fam-
to somebody you shouldn't begins on June 25.
month would be able to raise the losing to. Most people get cross, Ilies."
£0,000 purse money. with themselves, malaly."
I fully accept d'Inzco's attitude In his own case. But at the Ascot show-jumping recently, British internationals stayed be-
Miss Call, winner of the Surbiton singles. conqueror of Buding and Ramirez, fins another characteristic unusual in first-
Strike deserved
He may be right. I understand Infantile but indicative: At that the two chief backers, Ciac- the Football League meeting the elo and Valentini, are at odds, other day, provincial grocerdom. | Valentin| maintains the purse is
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By Mik
Jonca is a modest, unaffected young man, to whom bombast in others is anathema, and his pro- pheey is based on logic. “Over there, the Americans have such Bine tracks and such superb con- ditions: they have no sharp bend on the 220. I don't see them winning the 100 yards, because the White City track is a no- torfously alaw one, and on the 220 Stone Johnson will find the bend too hard. Tom Robinson pulled up after 40 yards last your. saying the bend was too steep for him."
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It's the "difference," one ga- thers, which urged her on "to beat the Betjeman girls at their own game; her husband's own enthusiasm which first Intrigued her by ranelion. "You were all golf, darling, everything was golf; and do you know one afternoon in his office with a gentleman who tried to tell me what a bogey was and what a birdle was, and I've never been so bored in al my life."
spent
Brazilian blow-up
Brazil's prospects of retaining the World Cup next year in Chile are threatened by tension be- tween Luis Bellial, captain and centre-half of the victorious 1958 tuam, and the new manager, Aimore Moreiro.
Bellini was only nóminated as reserve for the recent series againtt Paraguay but casunties allowed
him to play, and play very well. In the subsequent matches against Chile, however, he was again omitted. It seems that either Moreira or Bellini will have to go, unless matters mend.
INTERNATIONAL SOCCER
Brno, June 19. Czechoslovakia and Argentina drew 3-3 in an international foccer match here today. The half-time score WOS 2-2- Rouler.
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