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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1961,
Pancho's farewell to £250,000
tennis jackpot
By ALAN HOBY
He is built like a lean, loping wolf, with all the weight and power in his logs and shoulders. His name is Richard "Pancho" Gonzales, the world's No. 1 tennis player,
And for 10 years his scorching, 112-miles-an-hour service has ranged like a big gun on its target, ruthlessly mowing down every contender for the title.
bitt
champion: "With no wind, no sun, an airless Indoor court, Pancho's colossal service a big advantage.
have
"All sorts of players his
all sorts of strokes yet can't
Gonzales- But clinch ganics, can. That's his greatest stroke, His 'concludor."
But NOW, +1Į 33, "King" TRETINO informing him of his unpredictable future tnment condiments. Parcho- de Marlon Brando of the rourts Suddenly there was an agry.
is retiring as the top attrne- Fevrge-Prich wants 1
October tion and hottest property of curly Work Tennis Hue. This is the employers claim he is contracted trade name for Jack Kramer's to play until the end of the fanious squad of 10 profes- (munth-and the champion sionais,
savagely banged the locker door. After October the crowds Then, i set, dark cyon with
longer 14
this shopping the tur who, as a kid bristling, swarthy genius it regularly skipped school to play ing opponents off the face of tenuis, fenola, tennis in the Lor the earth.
|Angeles pubile parks, talked
out,
Bre
They will no longer laugh, or Jeer, D Conzales ironically hole out his racket to some heekler with a glowering “Set- if-you-can-dreany-better" jank; | or contemptuously alters a pair of imaginary spectacles to Herman who has had the in- pudence to enll "out" Indrad of "in."
So tasty
And that's Richard Gonzales, one of
chlidren of a seven Mexican housepainter and Interior decorator. A chatocter who may clap you on the back jer cut you dead. A champion, who Ja testy, lege:amental, charming, nude, handsome and Yes, the tempestuous Panrho cocky. A huinnn bombshell.
No regrets
Perfection
Says KEN ROSEWALL, who has the best return of service in big tennis: "Pancho doesn't 'choke (pack-in). He can't stand losing. He's hell on two feet to play."
Like everyone in this highly- pald posse of perfectionists, Gonzales is nerer satisfied. He practives 214 to 3 hours a day before an evening match.
Pancho algo hawks around a le k-case. Hammer, tucks, asmali knife, serow-driver, tope,
Armed with these implements,
is retiring. * lim malilig poste | It is also why his exasperated he will, if dissatisfied with his
oppearance I fellow professionals, although
vively my last
• PANCHO GONZALES.
Gonzales, 6ft. 3p. and admiring him as a performer play, rip the grip clean off his, was guaranteed 125.000 doilars,
weep
who succeeds him?
roughly A QUARTER OF A MILLION POUNDS GROSS.
Na ne knows yet who, in The years to come, will take over
crown warn £0 the glittering indisputably by the explosive Air Gonzales.
"When I first turned pro 1
Britai
racket handle before starting (£43,740) in 25 months. I made 138. Dained-in-a-huir mun- [wij
fow
it in exactly 12 months. In the tears witen kerape and impes a new one.
Was on 20 hood.
first six months 1 toll my in Paris
Panchu fully takes plf for
Professionals. Loo, think cently. I asked the champki-millionaire
plus n Buntington Hart-
of nothing
having
per cent of the gate their we were ebatting in the players' ford's paradise iste in the sun.
extra 5 per cent if the crowd Είναι rackets restrung four or
exceclini In the
u specified Stuk dressing-mons
mur:ver. mes a week at 30x, a time
Then I was on 26 per cent of Roland Garros, where Gonzales
to sult the atmosphere and
the gate plus 5 per cent until the Wis playing if he had Bay
of the city. temperature
the end of two years. regrets a finishing in big tennis
town where they are playing. after so lung at the top.
Whether The strings are strung loose or tight can make the difference between victory and defeat,
"Regrets?" he said shortly. "No. None at all. I'm tired of travelling. Nirk of Uving from a suiteuse; of cartwheel- ing around from hotel to hotel. I'm definitely quitting next hanth to become the prafes. sional at Paradise Island in the Bahamas." Pancho paurael,
But WHAT A PLAYER. Every one of the world's top 1 tenul aces Pancho has mel- and he ran Neked the In agree to "s terrife comm- petitor." Perhaps the best of
all time.
Says LEW HOAD, twice Wimbledon champion: "When Pancho Acts 'grooved' in his swing. 7 heve known him 10
second only 15 to 20 ZOTYC services in four days' match Then ambed: ploy. That's fardastic,
"I want to be with my fanity. ; That to me is worth five times the value of any
mowy they eculd pay me to stay."
At this point Pancho, who hast been fishing instle his Inekerj
found a types for some gear,
or
A sophisticated, cosmopolitan, widely travelled bunch, they aro In a different league from the But one thing makės dinateurs, them all mad-from Gonzales downwards: that oft-voice Once in Denver, Colorado, sneer that pro lennis is fixed.. be beat
"Kill this once and for all, m 8-6, 9-7, and e
will you?" sald Ikeable Lew dropped only two first serves the whole match. The balis Hoad to me. "'s nonsense. We I stands to whistled round my ilke all play to win.
Cars
reason. Everyone of us is on a bullets."
fix marantee against a per- centage of the gate.
Says TONY TRABERT, ex- Wimbledon, French, and U.S.
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"At the inlah I had picked op 138,000 dollars (2·18,000), less taxes and living expenses. We pay all hotel bills ourselves. Often, when cur wives are with tis, it runs out to between 300 and 400 dollars £105 to £140) a week."
ot
It may be Head. It may be new Spanish sensation Andrews Gimeno, It may be
but who knows? Al I do know is that, as far as Richard Puncho Gonzales is concerned, he is still the tops.
"It is harder," he told me, to live more "but you learn intelligently as you grow older, You cut out the late nights, relax more.
Yes, be prided with 1 satisfed smile. "I can sill telch the youngsters a trick or
two."
And then he
WEEKEND SOFTBALL
Paro 9
Two Services teams again open League programme
By OLLY VAS
Softball history repeats itself this Saturday when two Services teams. the Austers of Shatin and the Antelopes of Fanling open the 1981-62 League programme with a Junior Division match. The luck of the draw pits Craig Cunningham's nine against Barry May-
field's less experienced side and though, neither team has yet been seen in action one can expect to witness the usual intense inter- Services rivalry from the British Servicemen.
This gomo
is scheduled for in watching the youngsters at D Massey of the Bombers, 2.00 pm and it will be followed work. What a pity L games
at 4.00 sm by another claiti be- tw, ea Lo
the Junior tea,
Brian Pandas and
Holden's Surity Nino, which is making
d:but. Notball
Sonity Azevedo has been conching the Steu.ily Nine sld; and the fans from- whit able to 103 f
H
a workd champion softballing Aldo from Clearwater, Florida last only five short Inningsi
And
threw a softbnli almost 19 now to selije ati
a distance of 40 ft argument between a Little mph over Leaguer and a Junior Kort white the Baltimore Orioles' the reputedly baller, accidentally overheard Steve Barber, by the wriler at fast week's fastest pitcher in big league opening of the new ground.
baseball today, tossed a base- ball at 95.55 mph over its 00- Which travels faster, p_soft-foot-plus distanėn. The spoed ball er a baseball tossed by a Caméra did rat He. Incidon- 1. Pandaa taka the Ovid is "lop" pitcher? The informally, Massey's pitching record
I dug up was
the # that
20 strikeouts per softball came!
In June If the newer ines have
earned anything.
Invourites by viruetion
pro-gum! of having the more experi nced | sufthal won! players in the line-up.
Reliable pitcher
The Sunday morning open- Ing gane at 10.00 am features New Anta and the Overseas and here the result could go either way.
The 11.30 am match finds the Cheyennes coming up against the Glants. Ed Carvülhö's Cheyennes showed their prowess in no cer~ lain manner last week when practically the entire side re- presented Portugal In un exhi- the Rest ltion contoh nghinst of the Senior League and WER 2-1. The Cheyennes have bal
is more ting power and what Important, a pitcher who can be relied upon-Yle Pedruce. Unless Ray Cordeiro spring zurprise
the Cheyennes by soquiring the or- vives of an equally reliable hur- ler the Giants will have to play second Addle to the Cheyen- nes, Ray was having a word unly with an "intermediary" last week about persuading a to sign the pitcher. topriolch registration form and faris can only wish him 'good luck'.
And the Maestro, Pancho Gonzales? What has. he groseed during his deende unparalleled triumph?
I estimate
BCAA. that the world champion haa averaged less than £25,000 a year for 10 years, which works out at
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The Sax, lung before to begin, had already scored psychological victuries over the rest of Junior league by virtue of having signed up some of the softballers. with 90 many players of Senior calibre in the line-up it is hard to foresee an upsol by SCAA or for that matter by any other team except perhaps the Saints whose players are easily identified by their distinctive head gear.
This game will be followed by a ladies' match between the hot favourites for the tile again, the defending champions SCAA "A", and the Pirates. Pauline Lo manages the Caroline Hill team of all- stars while Cheyenne Manuel Xavier is in charge of the Pirates.
Upset possible
Xavier will have to rely on either Anne Tiu or Frances da Sliva, a double MVP oward winner, lo toss the strikes. Henrietta Yip will էր the catcher and the rest of the In- feld will be plcked from Peggy Wong. Ena Remedios, Francisen Andrade and Evelyn Cotton. The last-named enjoys the re- putation of being one of the best hitters in ladies' softball to- day and with SCAA's Yim Lal-sheung out of the team (I was told it was because uf family reasoris) Evelyn should Ond Kwan Yick-ching's pitch- Ing very much to her liking.
If the Pirates con grob An early lead there is the possibl- MED |lity of an upset being recorded, The Little Lenguers bring the day to a close of 5.15 pm when the Lions ploy the Rebels. Lionel Dayaram and that wily old-timer, Bill Sliva, will be matching wits in what should turn out to be an entertaining tall-ender, Good baseball ja in the offing for those who delight
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