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EDINBURGH'S CLAIMS FOR OLYMPIC GAMES

But 1946 Empire Games May Meet Demand (By AIR MAIL)

Edinburgh.

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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 18, 1999.

Our LondonINU Mail Sports News

Jimmy Vaughan Toot The plan o

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Danahar had appeared at the weigh-

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Captain Erich Schoenborn captain of the Gor- man. Tennis League, is to reduce the number of countries competing in the European Zone to eight. Four of the eight would be the four pountries doing four would be the survivors in a pre- best in the previous year. The other liminary among the remaining nations.

eliminating competition

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Tote's Record Profit

If on the other hand, it was deż cided that the Empire Games of 1946 are enough to be going with, Edinburgh will no doubt bej quite content. After all, we are putising for Arthur Danahar, light

Jimmy Vaughan, of Becontree de- among the depressed arcas of the weight champion contender, who was There is much virtue in try-athletic world, and the minor fes-unable to box owing to influenza, out- ing, and it may be that the In-tival would in almost every way be pointed Robert Disch, Dutch light- ternational Olympic Committee more fitted to our resources, besides at the National Sporting Club, Earls weight title-holder, over eight rounds will, in their wisdom and in the being vastly more popular with the Court, London. fullness of time, hearken to Edin- mass of our visitors.. burgh's prospective appeals, and. One can

in, but the doctor declared him unfit totalisator during 1938, although A record profit was made by the imagine the Scottish award the 1944 Olympic Games capital being so popular with the with a first-class chance of pursuing the proportion as compared with..

to fight. Vaughan was thus presented to the capital of Scotland. But Empire's, athletes as to be, a first his own claim to a British title fight turnover was less than in 1937. The... somehow one does not think so." and natural choice for the 1946 in preference to Danahar,

London lets little of this sort celebration, and

He won aggregate bets exceeded £9,000,000, one can also very easily-in fact, Disch did not take of thing past herand, at the imagine a very happy little gather-tain, would have finished

a round-but Danahar, it sa cer or more than a million pounds more risk of being charged with a ing

the fight than was received the previous year.' assembling at Sighthill for quicker than Vaughan. lamentable lack of civic patrio- Scotland's first staging of the Em-

Disch, a tall, slimly built boxer, re-Board are thus in a position to make

The Racecourse Betting Control: tism, one must. confess that the pire athletic festival.

vealed an almost, astounding.toughness, natural venue for an enterprise

increased grants for the benefit of of Olympic status and dimensions

horse racing, and it is hoped that: is London.

duce admission charges at÷many " as a result it will be possible to re-

racecourses. Mangnall Re-Signs For Millwall

But if there is no gain to be had by getting the Games, there is by asking for them, and might as well be in London or. Detroit.

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Dave Mangnall, the former Millwall captain, who left football at the end. club. of last season, has re-signed for the Mangnall refused the terms offered him by Millwall for this(season, and went into business near Birming Fham. He was approached during the

but if Vaughan had had a really da Naturalists, say that Wimbledon um have lasted.

maging punch the Dutchman could not pires and linesmen after three seasons' the time and relying mostly on left jabs, Retreating nearly all Centre Court exposure grow a kind of Disch covered up the way to his jaw, the slings and arrows protective. rhinoceros hide off which but afterwards, when Vaughan con-

of outrageous centrated on the body, he absorbed Edinburgh competitors bounce without unduly agi- considerable amount of punishment. the news astating the browsing victim. What I Vaughan was fast enough to get, to This sort of am now able to reveal is that they also close quarters, despite his opponent's civic enterprise is exceedingly po- have not forgotten the public humilia-throughout the cight rounds did Disch grow elephant memories, and that they quickness about the ring, but not once nular at the moment, and no sooner tion of the man who dared foot-faul look like being knocked out. Vaughan has the responsible Government Mme. Mathieu in her match with the also displayed a lack of variety in. his Department finished listening to a bledon, last June. The Frenchwoman advantage of Disch's tiredness towards Australian girl, Nancy Wynne, at Wim- attacks, and failed completely to take deputation from Balwhinnie asking demanded the judge's dismissal and the end. that an armaments factory be es-the umpire refused. The chief referee tablished there, than it has to go was summoned and off the foot-fault into consultation with another

judge had to go. That was intolerable. Germany And Davis Cup week-end by Mr. Charles Hewitt, the urging the matchless claims in this and file members of the Umpires' As

and am glad to know that the rank direction of Burdiehouse.

sociation have not accepted as final-the. It is all rather Lilliputian, but it suave assurance of their own Executive A new German plan, for the reform seems to be the thing to do, and do about it. There was a development because of the extra strain involved, that there is nothing the L.T.A. will of the Davis Cup, which at present, there is no reason why the Edin at the recent umpires' annual meeting puts European countries at a disad- burgh M.P.8 should not be pressed which tells me that the Wimbledon vantage with those competing in the into Olympic service on behalf of worm has turned at last, and will be American Zono, is to be laid before the city. Even the ordinary, citi-something isn't done about it.-L. V. tion when it meets in Paris on March

snapping angrily at its hunters if the International Lawn Tennis Federa zens might do their part, and to the Manning.

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Reform

Millwall manager, with a view to re=" signing and, after fully discussing the mutter, decided to return...

Much of Millwall's success in League seasons could be attributed to Man and Cup games during the past two gnall's influence, the club to reach the semi-final of the In, 1937 he assisted English Cup competition while they the following season Mangnall led them were a Third Division team, and in

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