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WHAT THE WORLD THINKS OF OPEN TENNIS
N. AMERICA
21 FOR
S. AMERICA
28 UNDECIDED
5 AGAINST
→ FOR
Is the 1981 Wimbledon the last all-amateur Wimbledon? Are Gonzales and Sedgman, ́Hload and Rosewall still to be dented the opportunity of competing against the world's best amateurs In open fawn
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| SCANDINAVIA
5 UNDECIDED
17 AGAINST
BRITISH ISLES
12 FOR
3 AGAINST
REST OF EUROPE |
32 UNDECIDED
36 FOR
37 AGAINST
tennis tournaments?
RUSSIA UNDECIDED
INDIA AND MIDDLE EAST
17. UNDECIDED
AFRICA
12 AGAINST
1 UNDECIDED
10 FOR
Or will legislators of the amateur game at last amend their rules to allow amateurs and professionals te play each other In certain tourna- nurnts
These burning questions, vital to the future of the game, will be answered in Stockholm on July 12, when representatives of the 57 voting nations
in
the International Lawn Ten- nis Federation meet to resolve them.
A year ago, by five votes, they rejected a proposal that an experiment should be made
with open tournaments. A two-thirds majority (130) was needed to carry the proposal:
FOR
UNDECIDED
AGAINST
only 134 votes were cast support.
In
Now Britain Is sponsoring another proposal 10 permit major open championships as an experiment. The above map indicates the trend of world opinion as the meeting draws
Bear.
of Representatives
the many undecided nations have been enthusiastically tabbled when they gathered in London dur- Ing the past fortnight to see the Wimbledon champion- ships.
Several of them, as last time, will abstain from voting at the Stockholm meeting. Australia and Italy, two of the
Four D. Jones DUR HERO IS WANDERING AROUND ENTER A SQUAD OF MARCHING BY MADDOCKS
UNDER AN EVIL SPELL CAUSING CHAOS WITH A PAINTER'S LADDER
WHY
CAN'T I BE LIKE RUPERT
THAT
DEED TURNED
SOUR
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ONE EVIL
DEED HAS PUT THE MOCKERSON
AJ EVIL-DOER
BANGER-CARRIERS...
AUSTRALASIA
9 FOR 12 AGAINST
countries with the strongest voting power have changed their minile in the past year and will now oppose open ten- nis. Germany, worried about Lax dieulltex, is likely to go in with them.
On
other side, Mexico, though less influential, la cx- pected to cross over the fence and back the British plan. Hu may some other small nations after they have heard what has to be said in support of
the Stockholm it at terence.
Co-
The various nations have from 12 lo que votes, according to their
back- and prestige ground in lawn tennis.
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The
FAR EAST
7 UNDECIDED
FOR
most powerful, with 1% voles cach, ace France, Great Bel- lain, the U.S. (ail in favour of open tournaments), and Ans- tralla (against),
seven
Next, with Alan votes each, come Canada (for), Carcho- slovakia (against). New Zea land (for), Italy (ngainat). and South Africa (for).
votra each are With
Austria (for), Belgium (for), Denmark (against), Germany Japan (probably ngainat), (tor).
(for), Netherlands › Peland (against), Bwitzerland (against), and the V.B.S.I. (undecided).
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Headingley—a ground of history
Headingley, where the third Test has just ended, is a ground of history-and the most brilliant pages of that history were written by the fantastic Australian batting machine, Sir Donald Bradman. In his first Test there in 1930, Bradman hit 334 in one of the most aston- Ishing innings ever played. In 1934, he scored 304. In 1938, he hit a modest 102 and 16. Ard in 1948, when he bade his farewell to the scene, he made 33 and 173 not out.
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That gave him a Test aggre- gato on this ground of 962 Tuna at an average of 192.40. What characteri
In fact Headingley has been a much happier hunt- sround for Australia than for England.
In
Not one win
When
England I captainet there against. Bradman's team of 1040, I was frequently ro- minded that, although Australin had been playing at Heading- ley since 1000, England had hot yot won a Test there and it was timo somebody dld something about it.
I can now confess that on the 1th morning of that match I thought I was the captain about to do that someibing!
When I declared England's innings closed, leaving Australia a possible target of 404 in 345 minutes, I thought we had them. After all, no ide in history had ever scored as many as that on a last innings. and work
But when Bradman was About nobody could make normal esiculations. He went In to make his 173 not ont: Arthur Morris madė, 162 and Australia
with minutes and seven wickejs to spare!
WOR
Missed catches They shouldn't have won, of course. But they did. We mias- ed a whole spate of catches.
Norman Yardley
Test 1f Laker could have been mainly used for ordinary club' brought out of relirement and gomes. The extra zeal which the same old combination
goes into the preparation of a thrown into action?
bitel that will last five days But it England can complain does not
the always achieve of limited success, she can't
planned results. dispute the fact that Heading-
My own experience has been ley has always managed to pro- that it usually talica spin on the last day of a county match and on the last two days of a ve- day Test.
duce action and incident,
Ten-wicket win
In 1847, for instance, when WAS skipper Agabist South Africa, we had that fantastic over in which Ken Cranston, the Lancashiro amateur, took four wickets in one over.
He had Fullerton lbw with the flest ball of his over. Munn was caught by Evans off
the
third. And Tuckett and Smith
were clean bowled with the Arth and sixth. We won by sen wickets.
Incidentally, although Head- gley is the youngest of the six grounds now in match
the Test
the
rola, its copacity for 38,000 people makes. It biggest, Old Trafford and Trent Bridge hold about 35,000, Lord's 34.500, the Oval 31,000, and Edgbaston just over 30,000.
Champions slip
Many people have been nak I think the only hat-trick evering me this week what has come taken in
Test at Headingley over Yorkshire. Why have they Godfrey Evans should have was that by J. T. Hearne who bean feltoring, suddenly, in the stumped Bradmen, off Comp-dismissed M. A. Noble, S. E. Championship race? ton, by yards. Jack Cropp Gregory and C. Hill in three should have held him off a deliveries in the battle of 1899. gitter at slip. Morris was put That
the was down, at 24 and 54.
in
But why go on? It was. great, victory for Australia and a great game of cricket.
Jim Laker was playing the match, but it wasn't until 1990. that he found the magic that
the really mesmerised Australians, Then, with the help of Tony Lock, he : finálly brought that long-overdue first England win to Headingley.
In that 1950 battle, a century by May and DB by Washbrook formed the back-bong of Eng- land'o 324 Lakor and Lock (5 for 50 and 4 for 41 respective- ly) then had Australia all out for 143.
match, in- eldentally, when great names like Jessop, Tydesley, Mead and Rhodes were dropped from sido. Selectors, the England evidently, did odd things in those days too!
:
Extra zeal
The answer to that is simple. The halamon just can't click into any scoring consistency And
the bowlers can't keep clear of injury: Cowan is out with appendiciile, Pintt Was off for several games, Don
bone Wilson Has s broken. It is true that aland-in men like left-hander Gilihoulay have team Bradman's 309 (out of his done splendidly. But a 334) on the Orst day of the that Is chopped and changed 1930 match, his 304 in 1934, about is never the same fighting and the fall scoring which has unit. Instead of finding con- characterised many other Adence, it spends too much time matches' suggests that Head- trying to find itself. ingley in feather-bed for batsmen. But the records also show that it can be a spin- ners' delight...
Yorkshire had a tean spell a little fater than this last year, but they got through it and finished well enough to hold the I have already recalled the Championship. I think they success of Laker and Lockt in have the power to do it again.
In 1038 It was Australia's I admit, however, that they 1950. big Bill O'Reilly who called the won't have to dither for long.
Laker's haul When the Australians follow- ed-on, they were all out again for 149 and England got home tune, With his leg-breaks and Middlesex and Hampshire are by an innings and 42 runs.googlies, he took 5 for 60 and likely challengers capable of Laker had six for 05 and Lock 5 for 56 to hustle England to a taking advantage of any slips. three for 40 in that second inn-Ave wickets defeat.
My money, however, it still on Headingly is usually an un-Yorkshire. ings.
I wonder what would hayo predictable pitch. That could
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