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By BRIAN GLANVILLE
THE CHINA MAIL. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1961.
New career for Winterbottom?
The pendulum has swung. Sir Stanley Rous will not, after all, with
draw his nomination for the presidency of the World Soccer body, ́ FIFA, the election for which takes place later this month. Sir Stanley, who was somewhat perturbed by the necessity to give up a well-rewarded job as secretary of the Football Association for an honorary one with pension, was virtually assailed at the recent meeting of the European FA, at Interlaken, by national representa- tives who want him to accept the presidency. Among them, most impres- the late Mr Arthur Drewry sively of at, were several who the last president-will be com- had previously been regarded as pleted. his potential opponents.
IP Sir Stanley docs acept and attalu the presidency, he will not, of course, be able to
Increased stature
contine as the salaried secre. If Rous tary of the FA.
however.
This would not, prevent hai from carrying on for a couple of years in an Honorary capacity. showing the ropes ter in eventual
Ruccessor.
In the meantine, it is not to be
FIFA ruled out that the Congress, when it meets, will decide to postpate election of a president until next year, when the term of allire unfulfiber by
A man for
the big occasion
A man came
Ron Springett....world-class goalkeeper.
Diackheath Rugby Club, re- putedly the oldest in the country, and the Blackheath Golf Club, which has the distinction of though not in Tiritain. being the oldest in England,
Blackheath Rugby Club was in fact founded in 1862, a year after Richmond, who are cele
rating their
ENGLISH RACING REVIEW
Aurelius's win brings Murless,
Piggott closer to trainers jockeys titles
By CLAUDE RICHARDSON
London, Sept. 17.
The victory of Aurelius in the St Leger at Doncaster recently virtually assures Noel Murless of his third Trainers' Championship in succes. sion and his fourth in five years. With only two months of the (and it seemed very likely that instituted to commemorate fat racing season left, and jew he would loke his training title formor
her rich events still to be decided, to fils Newmarket neighbour."
Princ
Aly the 51-year-old Wizard of War-
Khan who thought more of her than of any horse he had pre- viously owned.
awucr.
take his family to the Babamas, The rest of the time he will spend in Los Angeles with his brother studying real estate,
ren Place, Newmarket, Suffolk, Champlon Jockey Lester coaches, would probably be de
Kramer, never the most has won more than £90,000 Piggott's beautifully - Judged reserved barred In consequence of his
of men, hasn't at for his patrons this season, fle handling of Aurelius in the Another disappointment for association with the footballers'
tempted to disguise his deep holds lead of more than classic spotlighted the big part Mirions was the enforced re- revolt; that would make matters
disappointment at Jemine £20,000 over his neprest rival, he has played in the success of tiregions of Pinturischlp, the difficult for him when he was
zales who, at 33, must stiil hayo. Horry Wrigg, whose stable is the Murless horses. Piggott Is bir Tinza colt who was made obliged to deal with those
centenary year. yenra of active tennis bejowej also at Newmarket.
one of the Anest horsemen to favourite for the 2,000 him. League representatives
But The Old Blackheathans,
Many hopes have contri- have ridden on the British turf.
Gulness and Derby before ho whon? FIFA directors whom he has so ably from
Blackheath BIT
at the moment he looks buled to Surless's total, best d
hod ever run a race. descended, were established in
to retain his Jockey's If Fe wins the championship it likely
fle Anished only fourth in the and forcefully been opposing.
The choice, then, might well 1800. Two years later the doors
will be Je to
against a strong Gulness, in which he was prob- the fast Championship the former England of the club were opened to
analysis to
Australian Scobieably not suited by the distance Aurelius's classic challenge by Inside-left. Dennis Wilhaw, those who had not been at the
Breasley. win.
of one mile and the rock-hard Breasicy is also Before the St Leger, Murlesa
on artist at going, and was unable to con- who has been most efficiently school.
trailed Wrags, by nearly £5,000 the game, and it says much for test the Derby or any later race coaching school-boys 1 the
Piggott's ability that he was able because of illness. Midlands,
to dish ahead of the Australian last year, and looks like 'doing
becomes president, who would ulti- mately
him in toll on succeed England? The only passible cholce, in my glow, must be that of Mr Walter Winterbottom, the Eng- land team manager and Director of Coaching, whose stature and scope has been increasing year by year. I understand that he has already done splendid work on the plans for the 1988 World Cup, whose finals will be. held in Englund,
This. In turn, raises BLEI another problem: who would become the next Director of Coaching. In succession 10 Winterbottom?
It unlikely that une man xlune would fill the job. Winter- bottom, in the meantine, might well continue, as FA secretary, to keep an administrative eye
an the scheme.
Several of his favourite dis-
Old Blackheath
Quite
SU year, this, for hockey anniversarics. Blackheath, the oldest club in the country, are celebrating their cen- tenary, the Hockey Ass0- ciation their 75th birth- day, and the Scottish Association their 60th.
Appropriately, a history of the game is now in progress, its author being Mr B. D. Morgan of 121, Cropthorne-road, Soll- hull, Birmingham.
As for the gulf club. Its foundation day has been claimed to be 1808, though It's now generally accepted that 1787 would be more accurate.
Farewell Pancho
Pancho
Gonzales, the world's
greatest tennis player, the star and pillar of the Kramer Circus, Is "at this moment retiring in October from competi- tive play and travelling."
His appearance in the
Wembley tournament of Septem- her 18-23 ("I'm feeling Bt and confident") will almost certainly be his last in Britain.
to mend my felephone the other day ciples are unavailable, since they He'd be grateful, he tells me, who said he'd known Ron already hold managerial positions for any relevant photographs or As I announced two weeks agɔ, Sprligett when they were with League clubs.
information.
he bas accepted the position of working for Shell. "Mud, Bil Slater, the Wolverhamp-
Tennis Blackheath's celebrations, next Paradise
professional, Wunderers International month, will take the form of an offered to him on Purudise he was; he'd play goal in ton The break and fling him- been an admirable
footballer, who
have ambitious dinner and would
a match Island in the Bahamas. "It's and most against, the Hockey Association really exciting when you see self about all, over the acceptable cholce, has
now who are expected to use it as good players playing it," he rond."
graduated as a lecturer in the trial run for the England nasured me, "they're all over physical education department team, due to meet Holland later the place." Springeti, When I told
of Birmingham University, and
in October. hh, grinned and said it was
is most unlikely to forsake so true; he'd never worried much
promising a career. about injuries. He's a square,
Jimmy Hill, who, besides his tough, bronzed, amiable man, with an Adam Faith haircut activity on behalf of the fool clark, not blond-and he's pro- ctstanding and most intelligent ballers, is one of the country's bably ne of the four best goalkeepers in the world.
A handful of bad moments when playing trial matches for England, the week before the senson started, shouldn't be used in evidence against him: Jie's
very
much player for the big occasion. His philosophy of goalkeeping is simple and practient; "If you gel the saves to do it with, you can do it, can't you? I mean, look at that game with Scotland fost seasont
9-3 and We won they wore the three enslent goals wver, but you couldn't do i anything about it. That's why
like i et a feel of the ball early in the game. You might
have noticed the other
day, when Don Megson (Wednesday's left-back) gut the hall, he gave it back to me. I mean, last reason we had such a good defence i wouldn't touch the ball for 20 minutes, then they'd come away and they'd score,"
"I felt right fool, especially If I've got to pick it out myself. Usually the backs pick it out; I detest pleking the ball out of the net."
Though he plays for Shefeld Wednesday and graduated through Queen's Park Rangers, Springell's Fulham man; but when Fulham gave him a trial. he falled it fur being "tou small.
Scots amnesia
I remarked three weeks ago that Scotland have a per- verse habit of ignoring their laternational fool- ballers once they've been transferred to England.
Now I see that they have left Arsenal's John McLeod out of the list of probables for the declaive World Cup match with Czechoslovakia this month.
This bewildern me. In un era when wingers are timorouz men for the most pert, going forever outskle the back and reluctant to cut in, McLeod is tough, deler- mined, aggressive, with two good feet, an admirable owerve, and a speed in thought and move- ment rare in one so fresh from Scottish League football,
There's all time to recall him; after all, he appeared to be good enough for the leam a few months ngo-when he was
ntill playing for Hiberniant
Sports Diary
TODAY
SOCCER Echiblilen match: For Basi Air Force v South China, Carolino II, 0.30 pin.
TENNIS Colony
Ladles championship singles Onal LNC, 530 pm.
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MADDOCKS BY Four D. Jones
YOU KNOW I ALWAYS KNEW I'D BE AN ACTOR SOME DAY I'VE GOT
SENSITIVE FRET
FERDINAND
He's retiring because it has The primacy and longevity of interfered with my family fe, Blackheath sports clubs is surely we've not been as happy as we
subject a
for some Ph.D. should be, and this I don't like researcher from a Middle West any more than my wife does," hockey University. Apart from the The Paradise Tennis season club, there is the storts in February, when he will
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THERE'S NO HARM
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BRICK ANSWERS THE BASAL LANDING #YSTRUCTIONS ARRI BLINKED CUT, AND BADIDE
Hampshire hero
Roy Marshall, scorer of that
splendid, if unavailing eçntury for Hampshire against Yorkshire recent- ly, hopes to spend a month this winter in East Africa,
Chess News
By LEONARD BARDEN
Freddie Brown, the former England captain, is planning to take a team there, and Marshalle British Chess Federazion has been sent a provisional invitation.
Marshall's admirable con- sistency as an opening batsman probably had more to do with Hampshire's Championship
than anything except the dynamic castalucy of Ingleby. Mackensie.
bades planter-he'd like to go He's 31, the son of Bar- back for a visit, but sees little hope unless he wins the pools - tall, icon, rimless spectacled man of dry, intelligent humour, the quintessence of the fessional.
pro-
He looked player when, he came here with
a pretty
good the victorious West Indian team of 1950, but Worrell, Stollmeyer and Rae kept him out of the Test team. The following year he played four Teats, but cut short his career by coming to England to play league cricket eight seasons ago. "I went into it with my eyes open." he says. "ve no regrets about If at all."
FIRST, WE WILL HAVE WORDS WITH JIM THE GREEK,
HE'S A REAL COOL AGENT,`MAN
-I HAVE THE INFORMATION RE CERT AND FUTTER
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VIBES POYN THEY CERTAININ HAVE THIS PLACE. WELL LIGHTED];
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LET ME HAVE A
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IN THE GILE 4/HI3/NOS
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By Paul Norrla
BAILAKONNA DIE LIGHTS}"
THING, BAZISTAN ALL
ISN'T A LIVINE MOVE
adjudicators will have the final 487. this your in the desti- nation of the two major nations! team tilles. Whenever
thu happens, complaints occur about the › whole) system of adjudicat- ing unünished games. However. the alternative of a faster time limit for important matches la also unsatisfactory.
The county championship final is deadlocked at verwickâhire 7. Yorkshire, with six games unfinished.
As I expected, the outcome should be uzceptionally | close, possibly ending in a 10-10 16 with Warwickshire then wiping on ellminstion of the bottom board.
The national dish fina), where Button Coldfield lend Liverpool 14-1 with tour, unonished, may nies" be a tle; but in this case the ruled would gire a win to
verpool because of their belter spore on the higher boards, Liverpool put up a fine perform. ance against Button Coldfeld's International stars.
Solution No. 6101; 1 B-RG: 2 RX, #XB ch; 3 K-KII, BXP mate. I 2 BXB. EXP ch or 2 R-EKt, RX B. London Eps arcice.
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hit the best three-year-old in heavier, From eight stone upwards, a tow the pack, and it is virtually cor- tain he would have picked up pounds in a Jockey's weight con make a tremendous difference Soine good prices if he could in the number of promising have continued racing. rides he can take.
Top wins, failures
Muricss'a resources are 50 powerful that he has been able to forge ahead in the trainers' table In spite of the loss of Apart from Aurelius' Lerer Pinturischio's services. win, 'the
With biggest Murless £62,210 contributed by to Platul triumphs this season powerful trio of Aurclips, St and two of the most dia- Paddy and Petite Eloile, he is appointing failures were as- sot fair for another spot in the St Paddy and record books. China Mall
Special.
soclated with Pettle Etelle.
St Paddy won three races, in- cluding the Eclipse Stakes st Sundown Park, worth a total of £20,572 and Petite Etolle had Jour victories, including the Coronation Cup ot Epsom, which brought in .£7,004
Narrow SE Asia Basketball win
for Manila team
Singapore, Sept. 17,
On the debit side, St Paddy was bumbled by the great French three-year-old Royal, fifth in the £23,000 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot in July, for which Murless's four-year-old Manila's Black and White started an odds on favourite, basketball team tonight narrow- Petite Elotle, also al odds on, ly bout the Haadyol was defeated by Sir Winston Thailand, 70-78 in a group B Churchill'a Vienna in the encounter in the Southeast Asia £11,010 Aly Khan International Basketball Championships here. Memorial Gold Cup at Kempton Six thousand fans watched Fark a fortnight carller.
this
team of
nil out struggle fu This was only Pelite Elolle's supremacy, with the
Manila second defeat in the last three side winning the match on their stasons. It was a pity it came calm temperament and to the Grat running of a race stamina.
extra
After eight minutes in the Arst half Manila were tralling
RALPH BOSTON by 24-17, But with ng team
SURPRISES
play, they crept up to hold a narrow half-time lead of 39- 30.
Turku, Sept. 17. After half time both teams Ralph Boston, the American went all out for victory, and in holder of the world long jump the last 10 minutes the game be- record, surprised the crowd by came very scrappy..
Top scorers for the Manlin squad were Jarnes Yap with 20
only finishing sixth with a leap of 7.17 metres (23 fect Inches) in the event at a meet-points and Narelal Tan with 18. ing here tonight."
South Thailand's skipper, and Boston, the first man in the forward, Yew Fong-keng was world
ever
to clear 27 feet top scorer for Huddyal' with 27 (8.23 metres), won a 200 thetres points. hurdles race in 234 seconds, at
the same meeting.
Jorma Valkainą.
In FO
Group "A" Men's of Finland, Section match Thailand's Wel
won the long Jump with 7.50 Sin beat Sarawak 88-17 after a metres (4 foot 10 Inches), half-time score of $7-34
John Thomas, of the United
Malaya trounced Thailand's States, won the high jump with a Sunge Golok 29-42 In the leap of 2.06 metres (0 feet women's section after leading inches),--Reutër,
37-20 at half-time--AFF
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