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Till now the Jockey Club in dope cases has acted under two old rules which give them wide powers of there will be no discretion. Now, trainers are saying, discretion and warning off will automatically follow an analyst's positive report, even if the trainer was on the other side of the world when the alleged offence committed.
was
MCC FORCED
TO A DRAW
By NSW
Sydney, Jan. 3.
On the eve of the third Teat, the M.C.C. to-day made a gallant but vain bid to beat New South Wales, the Sheffield Shield cham- plons, Tho match ended in
a draw.
The State were then still 90 runs in arrears with only four second innings wickets remaini-
ing.
Freddie Brown declared the M.C.C. Innings closed an hour before tea at 553 runs for eight wickets, the highest total of the tour, thanks to a splendid dou- blé century by Reg Simpson,
Rucing circles as a whole are inclined to think the new rule too harsh. Over the past couple of months the Nottinghamshire amateur. three trainers have lost their livelihoods even under the old rules.
Was
The State Jont five wickets,
of the Including those
Test Morris and Miller, for stars, only 31 runs in 40 minutes
But then
came
a
spirited
Take the case of M. A. Col-(not above putting it across the lins, the Blewbury trainer. His book-makers with the aid of a ily. Quizzical Miss run second doped horse? Such owners do at Doncaster and was then or- exist and they have been lest dered to be examined. The uncommon in English racing sixth, wicket partnership of 90 runs between Jim Burite and analyst's report stated the sam- since the war. pio
is another dif- Jack Moroney. ut the
Ally's saliva
Then there Rogative. But one-thousandth of floulty. What is "done"? At
Simpson, who began his a grain of caffeine was found in the moment interesting experl- the
Sample of sweat.
ments are going on here with marathon innings on Monday
batted evening. courses of glandular injections
nearly the condition improve
of to racehorses, and therefore pre-hours for 250 runs and hit 23
No one boundaries. sumably their speed. knows whether this would come under the rule.
on the day in ques- tion, was at Newbury, 200 miles away from Doncaster. Suppose the analyst had made a mistake in the
of such detection minute quantity of a drug! The FOR MALAYA-Young trainer had no chance at all, of mub lving an independent analysis energetic
galak conducted in his defence; even editor. able and willing, worker. Bound knowledge makeup, good grounding in sport, capable of he had been on the course at been taking charge of production. Good Doncaster, it would have
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Racegoers have the uncom- fortable feeling that there have been injustices in punishments for doping in the past and there
Club now Jockey
FOLLOW AMERICA
HIGHEST SCORE
nine
It was the highest individual These few points among the score by an M.C.C. player in many being debated here--show | Australia since the war. The how this whole subject of dog previous best was Walter Harn- ing bristles with dimeulties. My one view is that the American mond's 208 runs against West. should be adopted era Australia in 1946. system whereby the first three or four in a race are automatically examined after the
race
The Nottinghamshire amateur,
WAS
HUTTON OUT?
IS THIS THE
The doubtful decision that cost Len Hutton his wicket In the second Test Match between England and
Australla. Iverson, the Australian spin bowler, turns and appeals to. the Umpire for a catch by wicket keeper Talion. Tho appeal was allowed although many, experts claim that Hut top's bat did not touch the ball as he had held it high to let the ball go through, Hutton himself, is thought to have coIL- sidered it a wrong decision, and by this picture appears to be walling-Central Press Photo.
John Macadam's Column
Give Us More Men Like Holden
END
OF THE MIGHTY ARSENAL?
By ARCHIE QUICK
Topic of conversation) wherever sporting folle fore-
gather is not the surprising con-
The Sports
founding of the critice by The
ater in Australla but the rloo
of Sunderland and the fall of Arsenal.
Are we witnessing the end of Not one
an era at Highbury?
point or goal did the mighty
Roundabout
Gunners gain during the Christ- By W. Capel Kirby
mas holidays and although they
are still fourth in Division One And David Jack
table they have now gone six matches without a victory-a post war record for them. this the break up? Are the veterans on the way out?
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It is difficult to place the blame for their decline,
for it
re-
Watching Bangor City cently a QP.R. scout made inquiries about Corr, United's winger, and was told: "He's on Everton's tranfer list for a cool £8,000."
Since then Irish in-
is nat nging defenders like Joernational Peter Corr has been Mercer, Leslie Compten, George joined at Bangor by "Borola" Swindin and Wally Barnes who Billy Higgins, and if stories of two-year contracts plus guaran- are letting the side down. It is
teed outside employment are the forwards who are not ring-
not surprised that true, we're ing
stil going outside players are the League to earn a living.
the bell attackers like Goring, Lishman, Logle McPher son and Roper who previously had gathered all the praise.
Speaking before the event, I forecast the early return to first team duty of Reg Lewis who has actually not played for the premier eleven since he scored the winning cup final gont against Liverpool at Wembley last April. Even so It looks as though Arsenal will have to buy -a thing they have not done for a long while.
SUNDERLAND'S FEAT
In direct contrast, Sunderland took all six points they played for over the holidays, twice best- ing Manchester United and also Roker defeating Liverpool at Tark. Manager B Murray вогод has had to submit to ridicule for his spending spree which poured out £30,000 for centre forward Trevor Ford and five figure transfer fees for other Len Shackleton. Now his faith In his judgement is beginning to bear fruit.
Liverpool's
telegraphule
zd-
dress being "Goalkeeper" some- body should have given them the wire about Arthur Johnson, local glant who bas graduated Only 17 this to Blackburn promising goalkeeper stands oft.
1in. and weighs 1st.
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Finance crippled Gravesend F. C. lost a chance of clearing off some of their overdraft when centreforward Bort Hawkins re- fused A move to Torquay United.
After some of the hidings Gil- linghard have talcon, we wonder if manager Archle Clark really meant what he said about the Third Division South being in- ferior to the Southern League?
In Lancashire last week we board a remarkable story con- coming a quiz featuring a local referees society and
School-leaving Certificate required. will be greatly increased chancesave samples taken for analysis. the tour with Hutton yesterday runner, on his attitude in particular and the British | forwards like Ivor Broadls and professional footballers.
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DOPING ON INCREASE
All the same, one can see the Jocicoy Club's point of view. have at your service Doping has been on the increase wer and quite clearly this is to be a determined effort to stamp
all specialized unerations for Helcuc on English racecourses since the
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Not nearly enough has been made, it appears to us, and who figured in the top stand of of the recent adumbration by Jack Holden, the marathon Then it is the same for every-236 run--Was
and no shur is attached
con-attitude in general towards the whol business of sporting the examination of every win-cerned in a double century part- endeavour. ner and every placed horse is nership to-day, taken for granted.
onc,
But there is still the problem
there is still the difficulty that horses are doped to lose as well as to win.
of apportioning the binele
again
He and Gilbert Parkhouse
put on 228 runs for the fourth
feu
wicket before the latter when only eight runs short of His century.
Bob
Perhaps all this excitement
Madden, a 21-year-old over doping will come as some- thing of a shock to racing folk all-rounder in his first your of overseas, who may have re-rst-class cricket, bowled Park- paratively clean and free from he claimed In a ane spell of the doping evil so prevalent in seven balls. some other countries.
It was just one more dinner to honour this sporting
celebrity and that, and things were eddying along in the normal way through the pleasant courses and the pleasant speeches.
Moderate rates, reliable work. Our pens to horses in his charge. 1garded English racing as com- | house, the first of three victims 5clf-belief as reputation is your Kuafontet, Phone anything goes wrong, he takes It may be rough and ready justice-but what other to deal sleps would you take with the increase in doping?
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NOTICE
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PRESS HAMSTRUNG
I am not saying it is prevalent here but it is certainly increas ing. Rucing correspondents of newspapers come across a cer- tain number of costc every
season when it is 1,000 to 1 cer- tain that a horse has been dop- cd. But, the law of libel being what it is, they cannot say a
Most doping cases cannot be proved and any owner or trainer could be practically certain of enormous damages against any which printed its newspaper
Urgent notices will be suspicions, however well-found- accepted up to 12 noon on cd." the day of issue.
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But this much can be sald. Dope has been administered in this country since the war, not
only to horses running in smal
ler races but also to contenders for the elareles
When I was at Sunderland re- England-Wales cently for the International Mr Murray said to I have got
me:
the
"Players like
it it wasn't thohet It will indeed be in
as from the
team of
the
"What is the privilege enjoyed by મ goalkeeper?" was question. A League footballer of some eminence, scratched his head, and after much humming and hawing, replied; "He can
cap."
wear a
in
petilenats
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Brazilian Soccer club Mineiro want a fixture with a London, Birmingham or Manchester side. Their manager, at present in Berlin, put in frantic calls to Arsenal and the F. A. without success.
cannot stay round the bottom of Standardisation of table ten- Then the little Tipton Smasher he had finished with legs cover- the League table for long. We
nis dress is overdue. In our got to his feet and. glint-eyed, ed in blood.
shall not win the Championship viow athletic males in shorts of dead pan. wiped the compla
"I did, right enough," he said this time but we will rise before pastel shades look like elephants
looks as cency off every face with as
New Year." It
he has proved a sound forthright a declaration of lusty the other night.
heard from dog bites. It we have
blisters I had to purst on the teresting if Sunderland continue since Walt Whitman,
soles of my feet all the way
Issue and join to improve "Why do I run the marathon?" along the route."
with their North East coast
and United It was an amazing contrast to he demanded in blunt Midland
rivals, Newcastle yesterday, when only one wic-voice-"Just because I like to
Middlesbrough. ket fel all day, and the period think I'm as fit as my neigh- before lunch to-day, when Simp-bour. I don't do it because I like son and Parkhouse added 09 it, and I don't do it for Holden. runs in 10 minutes, to see 10I do it for my country." wickets Ave M.C.C. and ve
Wales--crash 107 There wasn't a line of that New South ten-Reuter. 104 runs between lunch and fatuous false modesty that has become so repellently common when British athletes get on to the "Oh, it was nothing" line.
The
MATCH DRAWN
Calcutta, Jan. 3.
the between
tourists and
match
Commonwealth India was drawn, India scoring 39 runs for the loss of one wicket in their second innings to-day, Reuter.
RIGHT TYPE
There was a punch in every word of it, and the sooner we and, can build athletic teams, indeed, teams of any sort that go out to represent this country. with
tho fighters of
Holden calibre, the better it will be for everybody.
Something, he want on, was wrong with British sport. It was
I could name three big race Maxim Wants To not ruthless enough... "when I
been
when tests,
The
Fight
Charles
got these running shoes on my best friend becomes my worst enemy. We've got to be ruth- less,"
Detroit, Jan. 3.
Maybe the two of the stocky, title A heavyweight
fight medium-sized gardener's listen
ers who looked most impressed between
Ezzard champion
as he thumped out his theory of
cribed his distance running.
As normal training, he runs 70
The boxes palod visibly.
ko
He explained, too, how lost out in the Olympic run to Wembley,
After months
I cannot remember an occa-
season.
of slon when all three of them were patient preparation he had to aghting for leading honours and quite candidly I do not think fall out with blisters.
will happen this "It was all a pure mistake of Sunderland are too far behind "I'd been and somehow I cannot rid my- judgment," he said.
New will crack sooner pickling my feet religiously in self of the feeling that permanganate of potash, and by castle
Neither bears. the stamp the time I got moving in the later. marathon the skin of the soles of Middlesbrough.
couldn't hard that I burst the blisters, no matter how hard I banged them down on the road.
was 60
The fighters paled again-and again as he would say, laconi- cally: "So, at about 17 miles-" or, "Well, about 22 miles...." They're sticking to fighting.
-(London Express, Service)
Victoria Wins
CT
Guarantee desired by Mineiro adds up to pin money, or shall we say, a mere 7,000 American dollars.
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Although in our opinion Bul Eckersley has yet to blot his copy book here or claewhere in the International understand influential will push the claims of Ronnie
(Middlesbrough) when
the
Dicks
Wh
Sources
it and
for
A. arrange
or repre-
any international sentative games us rehearsals
to bridge the gap between new and April 14 when England play
Sheffield Game Scotland at Wembley. On
Melbourne, Jan. 3. Victoria beat South Australia by nine wickets in their Sheffield Shield match to-day.
Ronnie's form in the best game we ever saw him play the ex- Hamlet winger could well take care
of England's right-half position.
Semi-luminous material used South Australia's remaining
no successfully for Inesmen's three wickets fell to-day for fags is likely to be made into the addition of 60 runs to the Soccer shirts by overnight score of 190 runs for seven wickets,
Colin Pisch was undefeated with 146 runs,
Victoria knocked off the 82
ALGIERS-CAPE MOTOK RALLY
Paris, Jan. 3, The Italian group talding part
left one wicket. Was reported
Jan Mascara this morning. Gielsper, the tone South African
to
have
Midlands club,
& progressive
Still searching for the young- est referee in football, we hear that 15-year-old Stan Millard, tion, Some of the players he of Oldbury, claims the distinc
fore Stan was born. controls were in the game de-
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Normal methods of detection, Charles and light heavyweight offence were the fighters Eddie usually started as the result of Joey Maxim was given serious Thomins and Danny O'Sullivan, Information received, have pot
effective.
racing consideration by the Interna- who almost flinched as he des- in the Algiers-Cape motor raily runs for victory with the loss of world is well-schooled in keep- tional Boxing Club today. ing its secrets. For every be- hind-the-scene probe that has
Manager Jack Kearns, who miles a week-this at the age ofder, was penalised for having 1271 and 82 for one; South Au-seid signing in the near future. lod to any action being taken, guides Maxim's ring destiny, 43 and as he comes close to a
reported. a dozen have come to a
ng-up appeared confident that Maxim major event he ups this mileage arrived late in Ain-Setra south stralia 03 and 258,—Reuter. Hence this tightening-up | would eTnd.
get a title shot, after to 100, accompanied often by hit of Oman. it pas by the Jockey Club.
meeting with
promoter Jim favourite Staffordshire bull ter- had to make lengthy repairs to Norris of the IBC
for three rier, who isn't always the win- a leaky radiator on New Year's hours.
ner and doesn't appear to anish Day. the atter of the two.
Other competitors ported as running over good roads. faces will become difficult after may not be avaliable. Benlabes and El Golca, whos
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The final scores were-Victoria
Be prepared for a Chester-
Bob Manager
Marshall and director Harold Shentall, who is one
MAY CANCEL TOUR
of England's much- committee, Melbourne, Jan. 3. maligned selection The West Indies cricketers have been playing away from
home a great deal lately. may not tour Australia next
noticed were To season because star players, in- Incidentally, we've
hos now to schedule cluding Everton Weckes, Frank that Gordon Dale But the cur- Worrell and Sonny Ramadhin, developed that hitherto
which lacking self-confidence This was stated to-day by the makes the difference between a mediocre and a class player. Some of his evasive moves are as smooth as velvet.
English racing are down and As a balt-getter for Charles, the quality of the horses engag-Kearns issued a challenge
to meet the cu is likely to go down too, it Maxim's behalf
night's winner of Wednesday
In his great Empire Games There is no doubt about it, 'n
between Joe win in New Zealand, he was re-
the the financial
ahead. Louis and Freddie Beshore- ported bitten by a dog en crisis looms
that United Press. Thls means, of course, British bloodstock is in danger.
I doubt whether the Labour Government has been very im- aginative over the taxation side of horse racing, though the Dotical difficulties of making any exception are understood, 48 percent But approximately in entertainment tax is a bur- cannot be borno for den that long.
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Don't be surprised if one of the most tomous centro- forwards in Soccer asks for a trander before long. Move to present club was just a convenience so he could build up a "name." He's done that now and is just biding his time before seeing the boss.
Ireland have decided to re- commend only one referee for the F.I.F.A. list of international officials--and he's an ex-player. The namo Pat Morris, former Newry Town and Coleraino full- back
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Watch for the departure of full-back Drako from Halifax
Wrexham fancy him and Town
need the cash,
Stoke Soccer refervo Geofrey Salmon has realgned fromm
the. Football League list following a of
feit operation. Resignation Mr Salmon, who was the only official to referçe in every re- gion of the war-timo" League, Icavon Staffordshire without representative on the "Footwi League That.
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