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Is Saturday soccer in England out-of-date?
Is Saturday afternoon soccer now another out-moded English tradition? Has the time come for a revolutionary switch to mid-week matches, Friday fixtures, or perhaps even Sunday soccer?
Suddenly, this has become a major talking-point in League football, Some people suggest mid-week matches entirely; some clubs have taken positive action and havé already introduced a number of Fri- day fixtures. A national newspaper has been conducting an opinion poll on all the possibilities.
The argument for crding Saturday soccer serias to be based biefly on the iden that.. we have a new, naent society,
and that Mr Average Speetafor has bis house, car, television,
as well as hl family, to hold his interest
werdends. Surial habits have changed, we are told, and Langue socPer must recognise these changes or face the prospect of ever- decreasing gales,
Wolves' experiment
There may be some truth
In this argument. but before
Gallig's Poll.
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Norman Yardley
bly by having a comprehensive, viston by a warm, cosy reside
or braving the experiment Langua suceer,
Wolves made
elements to s
Summer soccer?
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1961.
UK SOCCER NEWS
PRESTON MAY BID FOR 'YOUNG ENGLAND' STAR JOHNNY BARNWELL
London.
Preston, desperate for a goal striker, may bid for Johnny Barnwell, the Young England inside- right who is out of Arsenal's team.
By:
JAMES CONNOLLY
This follows an unsuccessful attempt to draw Tom Finney out of retirement. The Foot- ball League squashed that idea. Preston were told that when; Finney drew his Providenti Fund cheque last January, he signed away any chance again playing in the League.
Southampton and Norwich are also interested i Durn- well, who 1Wo weeks o
tu put their bid for CJA- turned down a move to Mid-
sideration. dlesbrough, ut a £25,000 fee.
There Swindon youngsters are Southampton could put uplin demand. Newenstle chase on attractive exchange deal | right-wlager Mike Summerbee with another
Forest Young England | and
follow full-back stor, left-winger John Syden- John Trollope. ham.
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Leicester City have
EARLY-FAME
Her 'guns' matched world's biggest battleship!
By DENNIS DREW
Laver, Emerson not turning professional yet
Sydney, Sept. 27. Australian temple murs Rod Laver and Roy Eaterson on their return to Sydney today declared they would not Full+ sider turning professional with- out arm offer.
Bath admitted they had been approached by Tony
Trubart, player-agent for Jack Kramer, in Paris last month.
* Lover said: "But no con- tract was discussed, and wolli a firm offor is made and a guarantee put forward, I cer- tainly will not be seriously considering turning professional. Iost certainly will be trying for inclusion in the next Aus- tralian Davis Cup team."
Laver and Emerson returned after a seven-month private tour which took them to Great Britain, Europe, the United Sintes, South America and the Caribbean-China Mall Special.
Scotland's team for Ireland match
The diminutive honey-blonde was little more than ́a toddler when she first stepped on to the tennis court to help the local tennis 'pro' in her home town of San Diego, California. Her reward for her ball-girl service was a tennis lesson.
Glasgow, Sept. 27. Scotland's Soccer selectors, ing tennis, yet of cour! he pleased with their team's 3-2 was the charming and sensl-World Cup win over Czecha- teenager with all the slovakia here yesterday de- frills and hopes to be found cided to retain the same sidn in any average girt of her for an international match Bgc. She had devoted her against Northern Ireland int He to tennis, to playing it Belfast on Oct. 7, perfectly and practice, more Denis Law has been picked practice and still more prac-again in the hope that Turin tice to aituin ond keep her will release hlm for the perfection.
match. China Mall Special.
any sweeping change is made they may well be right in I am sure the Football League His imperative that elabs their case.
Management Committer are
Little did the pro realise prove to their own satisfac- Now other clubs are begin-willing to allow clubs plenty of
that by the time his young tion that A change from niet to wonder if there might freedom In changing the dates
pupil was 14 she would Saturday afternoon football more mozy in Friday of their fixtures, providing that will be accepted by
have won more than 70 the night football. I only wonder the visiting teams are agreeable. majorly of their supporters. enthusiatic thy will be
But 11 10% conclusively
Swansea have an unfail- tennis trophies and be This can only be achieved by when the
The big bonus system ing fascination for the talent wintry conditions proved that the change will be
ranked 14th among the experimenting with Ustures arrive and fans nee fured with profitable, I can't envisage
a which shoots some top-lina
women tennis stars of the Now it is Horbic over a lengthy perind or pub
seckers. from Satur professionals the choice of walching tele complete switch
Into Burtox
United States. days,
Williams, the starlet Inside-
Three brackets is condemned by forward who has become a Should we have an
years later she was U.S. more revolutionary changeBob Lord, the bluff, down-
star loft-half, who pulls
No 1 leader of the Wight- to kummer noccer, substita- | to-earth chairman of Burn-
them in.
тал Сир team and ting soccer in May and Jane Joy. for that in January and
Wimbledon champion. Around February? 1 bave always ad-
10 she £50,000 to spend on new play-At
was Undisputed Mr Lard is not against bilders, and I am told that they are vocated this change and free wages
women's champion of the Burnley players pro- main convinced that it would bably get the best standard fate ready to pay £25,000' plus for
tennis world, Moureen Con- be in the best interests of in football but he feels that
Williams.
nolly had arrived. Fame had the game.
Indeed come to this young Even here, however, I wouldy some clubs can hit players' the bonus inducentents dangled
woman, sometimes called the advocale change
"tennis robot," at an before pockets.
carly Spurs are still dls-there is concrete evidence that
age. Yet by her 20th birth- checking on the size of It would favoured by the crowds
"Wages based on
Bradle.d
with Cily
day she had finished outside-right may be high at this paying publir. And this remains time of year,"
Trever Hockey. . Leeds Will
big-time tennis. he says, "but
ask £8,000 for centre-forward very much in doubt,
what happens in the winter Johnny McCole....Brendan Me- Public opinion nonths?
'Nally (Luton) is a Brigton full- "Attendances fall then, no back target....Colchester may
team 19 but the playing, so the players will go for wing-hall Dave Cockell "British way of life" orgament, 27,179 faris turn out to watch atiendance figure-a disauDolo suffer through no fault of the (Queen's Park Rangers).
with Manchester United not a long agy when, we held the match Do Saturday evening in- stead of the afternoon, Ait- dance Egures did not suggest to! me that this was a preferable ; tlines, but then the evidence of i one game is hardly enough for one to draw Brim corerlusions.
Those in favour of Sunday soccer point to its success on the Continent. Ilut I simply don't believe that the majority i of supporters would welcome such set-up in England.
While Coventry have made the switch with considerable sheress, there is no reason to believe it would suit all clubs. For example, how would! It affect cales at those clubs
wblch draw much of their not
outlying Hupport from tricts?
Consider also the fact that
only 10,565 fans watched the Wednesday night local duel be- Park Rangers tween Queen's
Those wintry nights! Crystal Palace this season, glorious, sunny weather for the matter how well the
Early this month, Wolves had
Although people spolf at the
the lact remains that tradition dies hard in this country. And aport trenn the objections that! would be raised by the various
when the previous Saturday saw visit to Blackburn, the same teamy meet in ✡ Le6gve match.
ting 15,2000 hardly offered sup- own. port for summer soccer. I would not like to say whe-
"We don't believe in thi Again, we need to investigate stunt at Burnley.
Newport manager Bobby ther this was indicative of dis-public opinion much more, care-
We have Evans snapped up a close- interest in the League Cup or of fully, and here I welcome the wage-us much as we con pos- given our players a good bante
sooson snip when he got preference for Saturday after-
proposed new international sibly afford. They seem happy former
Chelsea wing-half nem football.
forward by the Football League, and the League sunumer tournament, as pu and contented with our scheme. Andy Bowman on a free
resilis excellen proving it."
are transfor from Hoorts. This would be one
Everlon have watched Bow- When Arsenal made o recent man three times. They like him. inquiry
for Swindon left-hall But the bargain sales are over. Bobby Woodruff, they were told He will coat 42,000.
rellious bodies, ther, would be pubile transport problēng to be considerett,
Friday ur mid-week soccer! The fact is that we know we Yes, this might works happily for fully little about the tastes some cluir, Coventry Chy, 25. the paying public, even though pecially, are convincert that it is the customers who must way of testing public reaction Friday evenlyg I prefirable | eventually decide whether we to "shirtsleeve" soccer. for some of Thele fixtures and abolish Salurday soccer.
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bie
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nt 18,
It was her other love of horse- riding that brought her bril- lant career to a premature end.
Little Mo they called her that because they said her tennis "guns" were matched unly by those of the work's į biggest battleship, the Mighty Mo had recently married Olympic horseman Normian Brinker when she injured her leg in riding accident. I was the end of Little Mo as a fennis star.
Peak years
Little Mo was stül a schoolgirl when she was coached by the one and only "Teach" Ten- nant. Hour after hour of practice followed school-line and occupied her holidays. Twelve months after lenving school she was the youngest- ever US tennis champion. She was still a teenager when she was in the victorious Wightman Cup team and when she stepped on to the sacred turf at Wimbledon to win the women's singles final al 17. Although Little Mo won three Wimbledons in 1952, 153 and 54, 1953 was perhaps the peak of her championship-winning run. In that year Blic was wingles champlon of Australia, United States, France and Wimbledon.
She became the first women ever to hold the four major titles in one year.
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