THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1961.
England continues quest for
forwards
BYRNE, CRAWFORD
TRIED AGAINST N. IRELAND TODAY
London, Nov. 22.
England's soccer selectors try out two new for-
wards against Northern Ireland at Wembley ! Studium today in a bid to find a goal-scoring team for the World Cup finals in Chile next year.
England is one of the 12 teams through to the
16-team finals. The others through to the tinals are defending champions Brazil, host country Chile, West Germany, Hungary, Russia, Switzerland, Italy. Argentina, Uru guay, Mexico and Colombia.
Leam. apparently jalan ang on tap form last season. zurkens was devastated by the depart are hajs of goal-scot - trade-forward Jimmy Kireasca
ard the loss of form of cetare-loyward! Bobby Smith Smitt.
Greaves between them score of England's goals last seasone
World Cup chances
vos trg centre-forward (1 Ipswich, gets his chance to win a1p to Chile.
These changes were made after England's disappointing 2-0 victory
Portugal a victory that sent Englund water the World Cup finals but left crites forecasting that unless The Englant tean showed
So England manager Waller chances Winterbolloin and his seter- hope. ! tors have decided to experi-
ment.
Bryan
ward
That
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improvenient the Chile were unty
SPORTING SAM
WORLD OF SPORT
WOMEN FIGHT-MANAGERS
NOT UNIQUE NOWADAYS
By DEREK JOHN
A rare event in boxing this month has been the
by Rag. Wootton
London Express Bervice.
28 GASC win
Garrison
Cross-country
Runners from
the 28th
Co.
Gurkha Army Service Corps
ON THE BALL
with Stan Cullis
Contrasting style of England Under-23's
MORE WORLD CUP TRIALS NEEDED
made o clean sweep in the an- Seven years ago, the Football Association introduced one of the
nual Garrison Cross-country race held at Hebe Hiil, Kowloon, yesterday.
They took Arst, second and third places
to win the team lille. Second were the Z Co. 1 RNF.
recognition of a woman fight manager: Mrs The Individual winner WIS
Driver Balakrishna Ran who it Diane Holt, wife of South African cruiser- covered the 4%-mile course in weight Mike Holt. She has been given official Driver Indrabahabur and third 28 mins 25 secs. Second was permission to manage her husband's boxing L/Cpi Chhatrabahabur
career.
This is not unique in modern Lines Another woman who acted as boxing manager for her 14. husband
with
England plans to send They tried winger players to Chile together
---- Winterbottom, a teath Trainer Doublas at inside-for.
place of Greaves, al two officials
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Burnley al
Again thal appointing. Englund
Again!
Net wil
Lindbination!
the 22-pear-old
greal sur CTAN, Ray Pointer
rentre-forward
wax
Rove
dix-
Ireland,
ye miler
Johnny Byrne.
asante fet waned
playing waler Third D PROK Crysk Polace, wing his hist pice in Engin tirs feat
Ray Crawford, the goal-
World Cup referees
Geneva. Nov
21
ly
The 30 reterers who wi
change of the match by the first phase of the 1802
World Football Cup in Chile will b selected by the Referees Com- mittee of FFA which meets in
this weekendi, Paris
the FIFA offers at Berne announced to- they
Before the final phase starts
Carle the selected eferees: will attend a special course the standard interpaketetara 19o|ball rules. —AFF.
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The Football Association News pointed out in its current naga- Team has "The England bees beaten only auce since the summer of 1959-in Vienna last May the Austria, who did enter the World Cup this Everything
depends
players on the Beld.
European Cup
!
any Pr
The form places remaining in
World Cup finals wil
be
by France or Bulgaria,
UI Czechoslovakia, Morocco. and Yugu
slavia or South Korea
Once the 1 are known then Tips will start flying it from all
world ver the
with the South American teams probably the must fancient
In the meantime another cup-the European Cup of National champions—is reach- ing the quarter-final stage.
This is the way the quarter thals draw in Mila:: worked out: Standard Liege of Belgium vs winners of the Glasgow Rangers- Vorwaerts <if East Germany match; Juventus of Italy vs Real Madrid of Spain; Benfica of Lix-
defending champions,
Nuremberg of Germany-Bener Fache of Turkey match: Tottenham Hotspur of England vs winner of the Ser- vette, Switzerland vs Czechoslovakia match --AP
Wiener
of the
Vs
way Suzi vai Dam, whte of Dae van Dam, the Dutch middleweight champion of the
4
#1 1940's. She proved shrewd Tage
17709 despite sdded bution of bringing up three mall midren.
Two Frenchwomen have also played a big part 11x organising their husbands' affairs without actually being manager-Michelene Fame
Ipswich knock
out League Cup champions
London, Nov. 21. Aston Villa, who became the first side to win the Football Ivague Cup only 10 weeks ago. were knocked
oul by loswich
in third round match tonight. The seare was Aston Villa 2, Ipswich Town 3.
In a third round replay. Wat ford again tied with York City 2-2 after extra-time.
The Football League Cup. open to teams in any of the four English Divisions was instituted last season with the aim of re- iving spectator interest in the final match to de- game. The Dukla of cide ast season's winners was decided only 16 weeks ago -AP
Liston-Patterson fight next spring
if both win on December 4
New York, Nov. 21. Heavyweight champion
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Floyd Patterson will de- fend his title late next spring against Sonny Lis- ton if both come through their tests on Dec. 4, spokesman for Champion- ship Sports said today. Championship Sports is pro- moting the doubleheader which Petterson meets Tomi MoNeeley of Boston. Toronto,
in
and Lisfon, the standout chal- lenger from Philadelphia, faces Albert Westphal of Germany in Philadelphia.
'No doubt'
LISTON....I'll be surprised If I get in with hha.
"There is no doubt in my mind that Patterson will meet Liston in the late spring if both come through their tights." said Tom Bolan of Championship at a New Sports.
"We have worked very close! with Patterson. He thinks of one fight at a time."
Bolan's statement was made
THE GAMBOLS
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WILL YOU DRY WHILE
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Brigadier W. F. L. Lawson, HK and Kowloon Garrison Com- chan, wife of former French mander, presented the prizes Hy weight champion Emile after the race. Famechon, and Denise Ville- main, wife of French welter- weight champion, Robert Villemain.
But most remarkable of all Wornen
fight managers was American Mrs "Leaping Lena" Levy, who trained and managol her brother King Levinsity. She seresmed encouragement to him at the ringside, gained him nights with Joe Louis and Max Baer and enabled him to earn a quarter of a million dollars.
Then she returned to being a | housewife.
Blanchflower's half-century
Footballer of the Year, Danny Blanchflower, will earn another rare distine tion when he leads Ireland out against England at Wembley today.
I will bring a record total of 50 Irish international caps for the skipper of Spurs. who learned his football in the back streets of Belfast and whose inuther
Олсе played for 1 ladies' soccer team.
coll-
The Irish FA are now sidering how the occasion should | be marked. I understand that will be a special presentation made to Danny to celebrate the half-century.
Quote of the week
"I always leave a ball that's going to hit a post, otherwise I might deflect it into the net." -- England goalkeeper Ron Springett.
Australian Open prize money increased
TODAY'S RUGBY
By LANCASTRIAN
Rugby matches today include the meeting of two second XV's, RAF 'B' and 14th Regi- meni RA B' at Kai Tak at 3.00 pm, and the clash between two more-fancted sides, the Club Dragons and Police at the Club at 7.15 pm.
Dragons and Police have al- ready met this season and the Dragons narrowly won. Win again they could tonight, but their selection is not known at the time of writing; if they play the same combination outside the serum as they did on Satur- day they will find the Police a hard side to score tries against.
most progressive schemes ever to influence international football the under-23 representative matches. Since that first fixture against Italy, in Bologna, the idea has been adopted by countries throughout the world.
has enabled scores of outstanding young players between 18 and 23, who were not full internationals, to gain further ex- perience in representative matches and become familiar with each other's style of play.
Through the Under-23 games They used two direct wingers there has emerged a steady now and two inside-forwards well af full internationals players up in attack, both looking for like Johnny Haynes, Jimmy goals. Both wing-halves played Greaves, Bobby Charlton, Run an attacking role and shot at Flowers, Peter Broadbent, Eddie goal. Hopkinson, Joe Baker and Derek Kevan
I have talked with a number have of club managers who
1 players in the England team, learn that some have had cause to complain of players "saving themselves" 1 League games international is Im- when in
pending. Would they fit?
From their palut of view, it will be a welnome
move if selectors take more notice of club form as opposed to judg- ing players by their last inter- national performance.
Trials
The value of these matokes Nowhere was there any can hardly be stressed too evidence of England's 4-2-4 strongly. They have become a system which team manager vital part of international Walter Winterbottom introduced team-building, just as League 18 months ago. clubs rely on Junior and re- serve teams to develop their Mr Winterbottom has explain- young players and prepare ed to me that the dimculty of them to fit into the tactical playing 4-2-4 at all levels is the scheme of their first team.
lack of experienced players who At the same time, however,. 1.
operate this complicated feel it would be worthwhile to system efficiently.
examine players in extra matches this season by bringing back But this startling contrast the Probables vs Possibles games poses the question: what kind we had before the war.
Special interest
can
pro-
So the latest England Under- 23 outing, against Israel, was of
of form would these players special interest. It was the last
produce if they were
I played in several of these of these games before England
moted to the full international trial games and they were really play in the World Cup Anals in
side and had to fit into the hard-fought affairs which six months me.
4-2-4 schemeŤ
brought greater efficiency in The result was Police for their part will be
an encourag-
team work. desperate for a win. Their first ing 3-1 victory. But one fact Soine critics hailed the Under- Pentangular match is now only a about this performance
Such trials would also enable struck 23 team's performance as a week away and they will have me as being very unusual: the lesson to the full England team the selectors to try out those to show better form then style of play by England's which, under the title of the players, not in the full England they have been doing if they are Under-23s was in complete con- Football League XI. had lost to team, who are ineligible for the to do at all well in that com- trast with that of the full Eng-the Italian League in Manches. Under-23 matches because of petition,
ter a few days earlier.
land team.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN
By CHARLES STEPHEN
Why do men climb mountains?
their age.
After all, there must be some
who were not born after 1938.
Changes not jústified candidates for England honours
But with such opposing styles, 10hd it difficult to make com- parlsons.
It assessing the Under-23 players one must also allow for the standard of the opposition. the With all due respect to Israelis, 1 cannot put them in the same class ay the leading Continental countries.
Although there шаб much
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SOCIETIES LAWN BOWLS MATCH
land Under-23 side this clear-bowls match between St An-
Every mountaineer knows the answer in his heart; promising material in the Eng- This year's annual lawn
few are able to communicate adequately in cut victory did not convince me drew's and St George's Socie words the mysterious ecstasy that grips them that wholesale changes in the ties has been arranged for 2.30 on the hard-won heights.
England team would be pm German Gunter Hauser can, and does in "White
Mountain and Tawny Plain" (Allen and Football League team's failure Unwin, 288).
mountain
the
Gunter Hauser had the best of few feet to the summit as if reasons for wanting to conquer taking part in some ceremonial the virgin peak of Alpamayo, rite, and it seemed to me that high in the lonely Peruvian the whole world must be sharing Andes. This, he was told, was my feeling of awe at this solemn no ordinary mountain. It was moment, I was proud, I was a "White Cathedral", "the most happy, I was elated,... beautiful world"
It had been virtually un- known until 25 years before. A Swiss expedition
launched against its awesome peak in 1949 had roared down to failure Melbourne, Nov. 21.
when a projecting rock broke The Australian Golf Union and fell 650 feet with them on has decided to increase prize it A Franco-Belgian team in money for the Australian Open 1051 had thought they con- Golt Champlotiship from
A £1,000 to £2,000 at its anquered it, but missed the real nual meeting here.
The 1962 Open will be held
at Royal Adelaide course and. the Australian Amateur Cham- pionship at Kooyonga, Dates for the events will be from August. 18 to September
1. It was also decided
1963 Australian
peak
'Hearts of men'
"When I am asked what it is that I seek in
the vast and empty solitude of the moun- tains I reply the hearts of men." And to the puzzled, supple- mentary question that invaria- bly follows, why in the moun- tains? I reply:
"Because in the big cities one is zo alone: it is on the mcurtain that I And com- panionship"
Justifled.
on Saturday, December 9, 1961, at the Kowloon Bowling Green Club.
Much has been made of the
Members wishing to take to penetrate the Itailans
part, but who have not already treating defence-a system forwarded their names to the which Winterbottom has sald respective convenors, are in- we inust expect and learn to vited to get in touch with Mr beat if we are to have any suc-W.B. Brown, c/o Talkoo Dock- cess in Chile.
&
.of Engineering Co yard yaru
Lid, Quarry Bay. North Point, Hongkong, fot Andrew's Society and Mr.J. the Kowloon Here I believe the size of the Tindall, c/o football pitch can directly affect Bowling Green Club, Austin the issue.
road, Kowloon, for St George's.
Wembley helps
It always seems to me that there is less scope for overseas
teasis to adopt the retreating
defence systemi endeessfully si Wembley, while at Old Traf-
Sheffield Shield
ford we saw the Italian League match abandoned
present a really compact wall of defenders.
Most
League pitches
are
Brisbane Nov: 41 Heavy rain prevented
play
for international which was abandoned
draw.
Gunter Hauser found much more besides among the people smaller than the one at Wembley here today in the Queensland Hauser's small team had their of the Peruvian plateaus, His which is 120 yards long and 80 versus Western Australia Shef- moments and their agoriles. accounts of Indian fiestas and yards wide the maximum field Shield cricket There were frustrating, selbacks hair-raising rides in ramshackle allowed among breathtaking caverns of trucks, and his compelling pho-matches. shimmering blue ice; sleepless tographs, add up to an effective It is amazing what a difference lost through rain in the ipur frostbitten nights; a terrifying Asked about # possible shot telbourne bus tule ja subject to crawl ilongridge of mantidole for mountain dizziness, those few exin yards can make day match. Scores were t at Patterson, Liston said: "the Commonwealth matches be-ice the breadth of a man's hand. But he is at his best in the in giving players room to ern Australia-179. Queensland be surprised if I get in withing played in Sydney that year.
Bul at last the beautiful peak heights. him."-AP.
was theirs, - "I climbed the last
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Following Under-28 game
today's game against treland, only four-ster
matches will be loft England play in the
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