THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1951.
WORLD CHAMPIONS
Diane and Rosalind Rowe, the 17-year-old twins who won the Women's Doubles Championship in the World Table Tennis Championships at Vienna, a con- tribution to putting English sport back
on
international map.-Central Press Photo.
the:
A SPECTATOR'S RASH ACT MAY SHAKE THE WHOLE OF SOCCER'S FOUNDATIONS
Says HAROLD
MAYES
Can an irresponsible spectator, running on to the field of play during a League club's game, shake the whole of Soccer's foundations? Seems silly, on the face of it, doesn't it? Yet it could happen.
In fact, right now more than one body of Football League club directors is seriously perturbed as a result of a recent fine of £50 imposed on Liverpool because a spectator did just that,
The man concerned went on to the field, was escorted quietly off, and the police who removed him didn't even see fit to put him outside the ground. They just put him back in the paddock. It was reported to the FA that he went on to the field, "with intent to strike." He struck nobody, so who can say what his inten- tion was?
Yet Liverpool, who pay some-standing order changed; and thing like £65 a home match look for the majority of the for policing their ground, and clubs that exert pressure to see who, incidentally, rank as one that what they consider to be of the finest clubs in the game, ap absolute necessity becomes a are fined and have no redress fact that Football League rea because an FA standing order-presentatives to the FA make a standing order, mark you, not Football League interests their a law says there is no right of prime, pre-occupation. appeal.
As former Liverpool chairman Ronnie Williams points out. "Even a common criminal has the right of appeal." And as he told the assembled League club representatives in London. "The days of Hitler have pass- ed, and we hope the days of Stalin have not yet arrived."
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British Soccer, incidentally, contribution of nearly a quarter has just been responsible for a
of a million pounds to Norwegian sport. That's this year's share of the profits made by Norwegian football pools; run on Football League matches.
of the record profit of around Scientific research gets the rest
£650,000. Sport takes the first So look for strong support | £50,000
then its profit, and from other League clubs. for share degreases until it takes Liverpool's intent, to get the only 20 per cent of anything
England's Private Studs Are Fighting A Losing Battle
By A RACING CORRESPONDENT
London.
Has racing, as a sport, anything to fear from the findings of the Royal Commission on Betting, Lotteries and Gambling? The answer, surely, is No.
Important point about racing is that whatever sectional views may exist, hostile to it or otherwise, we are not an hysterical people, liable to sponsor a violent change in our habits.
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I cannot imagine, for example, circumstances. There is also the that any Government would element which holds strong embark on a policy involving views about the morality of the closing down of racecourses, garbling. as was the case not many years The realistic view, however, ago in America.
is that racing depends on bet- ting, and that our racing is con- ducted decently and affords pleasure to a large number of people.
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M. M. Boussac, probably at present the biggest breeder of thoroughbreds in the world, is not hampered, either by limited resources or by the need to sell.
HUGE STOCK
He is reputed to have about 200 brood, mares; and is in a position to experiment and plan his matingS for two, three or more generations ahead, as, was the
private wings
over £350,000.
Cash, due to sport is used mainly, to build stadia and playing fields, and hundreds of applications for assistance are received every year. Yet British
Soccer Stil turns a blind eye to pools money, in spite of the fact that I know of one pools promoter who is a shareholder of a Football League club-with
Dominee, of course!
PART GIVEN TO CLUBS
Dr C. R. Woodard, friend of many sportsmen--he was Reg. Harris's strongest ally when the great cyclist was in the middle of his 1948 Olympic training rumpus-is an honorary member of the Amateur Athletic Associa- tion..
ಕ.
At the forthcoming annual meeting he intends to ask where in the accounts there is any regard to receipt of money for broadcast and television appear- ances by amateur athletes, and honorary AAA officials, and if no such money has been r2- 'ceived, why not?
received,
are
If they have been then he will suggest that they It would need courage on the
should not have been put into part of members of Parliament
AAA accounts, but that they to support 'an anti racing
should have been given, at least measure, or any measure which
in part, to the clubs of which deprived the electorate of the There is also a point of view,
the broadcasting, athletes members,
that the seeing right to have a bet.
not advanced as frequently as
athletes are not allowed to The majority of private might be, that, though we members are worried over get-call racing a sport-enemies of
receive the money. "Which, seems ting involved in controversies racing call it
Tair enough. an unnecessary
England V India about
women's betting; there are too luxury in serious times like the were clipped by taxation.
hockey match, arranged for many differences of opinions on present-it is at once the ex- This is why he is now in a Twickenham on May 12, is off, the subject in their
consti-perimental laboratory and show-position to compete successfully since India. have decided not to tuencies.
room of the bloodstock breeding in our classic and other great make the trip. Instead there industry.
will be a hockey festival, with an England v Scotland women's
STRONG VIEWS Most of us are aware of the evils of betting in certain
THE GAMBOLS
WHAT WAS IT THAT YOU WERE SAYING - 1 WAS DISTRACTE: BY THE GAME FOR A SECONDA
manner
breeders
of before their
Our
races.
There is no cant about this What chance have our private statement; it is a fact. Racing breeders, with their score and could be likened to a mannequin fewer of brood mares, to plan parade, by means of which the ahead as he does? dressmaker displays his wares 10 prospective customers.
GREATER DANGER A far greater danger to racing than the threat of restrictive Legislation is the way in which taxation has led to the reduction in the number of private studs in this country. ·
This state of affairs has in-. directly brought about many of our defeats in the competitive field of ucing,
Owners of public studs who breed for sale are obliged to conform to brevalent standards
of fashion in order to sell their yearlings.
They must maintain a flow of stock which will show a quick return to buyers by winning two-year-old races and other
Arthur Peall says:
SLOW SCREW SHOT TO SET THIS SNOOKER
Who are our privale breeders? The King, Lord Derby, Lord Rosebery, the Macdonald- Buchanans, Lord Astor and his cuis, Miss Paget, Mr Rank, the Duke of Norfolk, the Aga Khan and his son, Major Holliday, Mr Joel, and at most a half-dozen for more who breed on any scale...
These are the people who are Yet they are the only indepen- of existence. being taxed out
dent breeders who race their own horses and who must stand.
the racket of the bad years with their own resources.
The real and ultimate threat
to racing is not in the findings of any coinmission. It is in the ever-increasing pressure of an for new Exchequer seeking sources of revenue. Public studs will continue to carry on.
races up to a mile which suit the The private studs are fighting a
smart types of horses. It does not, as a rule, lead to the pro- duction of classic winners.
losing battle.
(London Express Service)
YUEING over the pocket helps my In-baulk snooker shot. Need is a slow screw to drive green up-tubic and stop white behind WHITE
brown to set a. pretty snooker,
Aim on white mu at be kept low. Space given by the pocket is valuable for proper striking. Play this shot with
three- quarter ball con- tact on green.
With red lying safe and white almost in line
GREEN
BROWN
match sandwiched between Eng- land v Belgium and Holland v. France men's games.
If the games are anything like as good as the recent women's match with Ireland at Wembley, that measures up to a fine after- noon's entertainment, particular- ly when you can see the lot for two bob.
Father Thames
Wins The Queen's Prize
Kempton Park,
London, Mar. 26. Lord Allendale's Father Thames won the Queen's Prize, run over two miles, here this afternoon. Mr R. Earwaker's Coup d'Epee was second and Colonel R. Cur- tis's Winterflax third. A field of 16 ran.
The betting was! 13 to 2 against Father Thames, 100 to 9 against Coup d'Epee, 100 to 6 against Winterfax.
Father Thames won by two lengths, with one ⚫length separating Coup d'Epee Winterfax, Royal Oak did not
run.
and
-were
The King and Queen, with Princess Margaret, among the huge crowd that. watched the race. Father Thames, one of the blackmarkers for most of the journey, came through the field with a power- ful run to master Coup d'Epee and Winterfax, who -were- battling out the lead.
Sportsmaster, last year's win- ner, and Approval, the 5 to 1 joint favourite, were prominent as the field turned into the straight, but both dropped back, beaten, with a furlong to go.- Reuter,
-MANICOU DISAPPOINTS
Kempton Park,
London, Mar 26 The King and Queen, accom- panied by Princess Margaret, watched Manicou, the Queen's steeplechaser, run in the Wal- ter Hyde Handicap Steeplechase. run over three miles here to day.
The Royal Family and the. huge holiday crowd saw hopes of a win for Manicou quickly fade after the small field of six had covered only half the
course.
The Royal steeplechaser took" the jumps stickily and even- tually finished a tired fourth of the five runners to complete the course. Though disappointed at.
crowd Maniçou's failure, the gave a big ovation to Yorkshire.. trained 10-year-old Lockerbie, a 3 to 1 joint favourite, who led fivé throughout to win by with top left lengths from Lord Bicester's
Silver Fame, Striker
pocket at bil
Hards, he bold
diagram run-through white.
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Lord Grimthorpe's Elagrant Top-spin and a fairly full contact Mac was 15 lengths away, third, made the stroke and brought white to mid-table position with cue-ball ja band-for-the-next-shot.-
finishing just in front Manicou.Router."
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