1951-06-16 — Page 13

J. L. MANNING On The

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1951.

FANTASTIC INSIDE STORY OF THE RACKETS BEHIND

AMERICAN SPORT

LTA's Win

Or Go Home

Policy

Take

from the United

I have brought back States a 'little pamphlet issued by the New York City Police and the Department of Education. On the back page it says:

"The following articles, if found in desks, wash- rooms or other places in school buildings, might indicato that some person is using narcotics: teaspoons with bent and burnt handles; hypodermic needles and syringes; eye-droppers; small packages of white powder; empty gelatine capsules.”

What is the value of a big lawn tennis champtonship to an up-and-coming player? John Horn, The UTA sent him

I had come on tragedy amid the triumph of America. to the French championships in

The ex- It is what happens when the freeest, most prosperous and Paris. A good idea. perienca on court should be best-natured people in the world make one little miscalcu- invaluable. The experience off

lation about human nature, court, watching the technique and taotles of the great players. should, one

might think, be

cqu

equally so.

however, the LTA Hotel of Britain's team in

expenses Paris were doled out on a piece- work basis. When Horn no longer remained in any event he was packed back to Londos.

One commends the LTA for not throwing away their money, but why spoil the ship for a fra porth of tar? Horn could have continued learning competitors' stand.

the

from the

I suggest she negotiates with Surrey for the rights of these charts..

SAD ADMISSION

Where have they gone wrong? They have prohlblied gam- bling.

MILLIONS OF DOLLARS In their efforts to deprive Americans of their flutter with bookmaker they have placed fabulous, untaxed sums of money

hands in the

of racketeers of dollars which are millions being invested in crime,

little- fun punters Have' a Inance the coast-to-coast syndl- eatus who flood the country with

bandits"

(slot "one

armed

feed America's machines) and

with schoolchlidren morphine and marijuana leaf.

Out of the ban on betting has come these evils of a new Pro-

hibition era.

cocaine,

The

little men the Americans bet with are only minnows-and honest, too. When you run an illegal bookmaking business you have to trade on a good name.

cannot get

"Yes," I said.

"Swell, I've won a dime from

Olga," she said.

One Sunday afternoon, stroll- Ing through New York's Central Park, I sav

men playing chess at granite-topped tables,

1 joired them and had a game, in eight minutes my opponent had me'so tied up I resigned.

Thanks,

he Limey," said. "That'll cost

a dollur." you The Americans bet even an chess-and on Sunday.

like this It's With e nation impcusible for a bookmaker to make an honest living. But he will always be rich.

On my way to the airport in York we passed huge New blocks of

apartments, the owner is in gaol for bookmaking.

Another New York "book- maker, with a 20,000,000-dollar business, should be in gool but isn't. He has been sentenced, but the police drive him home every night.

The

His

SUSSEX MIST WINS THE FIVE-DAY RACE

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Forget lies

THE GOING

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2. Thistledowo

3. Swan Lake

4. Fastherweight

5. Peach Bloom

6. Miss Elder

Thistledown 3Swan Lake

THE 'OFF

COMMENTATOR WINNING OWNER

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One's down Fruitless finish Mr. Dampdown Jussex Must Sussex Pussex. 1. Mist:

2Thistledown Swan

3Swanlake.

Featherweight 5.Peach Bloom 4

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THE WINNER

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You have a' correct coupon only !? vou siliinated all five Korkea in the correct Lequence Denning last Monday

Speed King Campbell Never Gave In!

By DONALD CAMPBELL

A few years before he died, my father told a friend: "Some people say I am a fool to do these things at my time of life.

All my life I have set "Probably they are right, I am an adventurer. myself certain objectives. I have striven until I got there.

"Some people want money; others want power. With me it is to achieve something that no man has achieved before-and doing the things I have made up

But the Commission Sportive my mind to do."

once more rejected the timing apparatus.

The

Such was the philosophy of my father Sir Malcolm Camp- bull, first man in the

world

to travel at 300 miles an hour on land and the fastest man on water when he died.

to

own

I well remember that in his 42nd year he set out on Lake

beat his Coniston water speed record,

RISK TERRIBLE To his beloved boat, Blue- and bird, he and Leo Villa, the other mechanics, had filted Jot It was ajet engine, which could fly an aeroplane at 600 miles an hour.

Nobody had tried jet pro- pulsion on water before. No- body knew what would hop-

pen.

new of

possible

revolution

Jn

Page 19.

SUMMER LEAGUERS HAVE HAD ENOUGH

OF THE RAIN

Bring on your fastest pitcher with the tightest soft- ball fielders and a safehlt gels by once in a while, but with Pluvius on the mound no concentration of homerun slug- gers will ever get to first base.

The weather may be a popular topic of conversation these days but to the enthusiastic Summer Leaguera this is a soro point indeed, for the experimental loop has not been able to figure out a solution to this angle,

re

for this circle of

With only three of the thirty- Playing under..Collegian: Old game schedule completed to date Boys' colours, a large number of most people would have given fans will probably flock back up trying long ago, but our bat into the/fold, even if it is for and ball artists are made of sentimental reasons, sterner stuff and will see this Old Man Time is,

of course, serlen through at all casts.

responsible Postponed games will be scheduled next week when access and then fallure. In spite of attempts to inject younger the first round fixtures come to blood

pod into this whirlwind out- an end.

ilt, efforts have proved The desire to remain active successful in the past for once- during the summer despite un- the Saints hit the skids they favourable weather elements is t to be commended, and more so could not afford to drop a decision while trying out as the games are virtually recruits.

alls. To get into the colour- played in privacy, fans having ful lineup a rookie has to make dexerted the diamond for the the

the grade at the first chance.

Although the sands of time are running out with the

Inviting benches.

OLD BOYS GET TOGETHER

Running across Arturo veterans, they are far from Ordrie, cagy mentor of the being Saints during the last flug son they will be out again in

learnt

washed. up, and this sea-.

campaign, your scribe that there may be a slight full force, for old soldiers never change in the organisation diel

The present lineup has not this popular outfit for the com- been termed veteran merely be-

season.

of

effect of all this was toer since leaving HB Club cause of the number of years

make Dad

more

HI | which in itself is quite consider. than ever.

St. Joseph's nine have been

able, but because they. ́ ́ were He went doggedly through

turning out for the College already matured on the baseball scveral more disappointments their own as an appreciation of field years before the new sport

their alma mater, but it

introduced. understood that the Old Boys'

early back in Way

the Association has

como forward

thirties, even before some of with a proposal to sponsor the present day atars wero

until September, 1024, when he averaged 140.10 m.ph. and this time the commission comilmed the record.

Though elated, Dad was not satisfied, and the next усат, in. tho

same Sunbeam, he pushed the record to 150.706 m.p.h.

Overnight this achievement became page news.

British front-

But this was not the end.

Already Dad was building, at his own expense, a new cur with a 450-h.p. Napier "Lion" engine.

their activities in the future,

fans

for

а

A team is only as good as the born, this outfit was in its hey-day, and their record of it, perhaps make

blazing through a whole secson reasons, but

defeat altherin Psychological

truc nevertheless

In the first without

or exhibition gamen League postwar year when the Saints has gone down in local: base- enjoyed a tremendous following, ball

In CISO anyone ball fore. the clamour of the faithful for wishes to look up the records,

the UB banner.

a pennant was made good, but you'll find the full team listed after a string of near-misses, affection has gradually switched Although softball has now to more promising teams, anti

baseball in player baseball spectator

there la no doubt that the twice paced it has not yet, over-

champion

Braves

RECORD BURST

enjoy the taken the Parry Thoming and Segrave largest spectator support today, mark, but with the present rate successively raised the record, closely followed by their nearest of rapid progress, the day is not for off. GRANDSTAND". but again and again Dad (now rivals, the Jolting Jaguars.

with Ал 075-1.p Napier) eclipsed them.

ODD HOBBY Miss Margaret Hughes, 30, of odd Bexley (Kent), has an trobby. She keeps a chart of the strokes made by all the players of note in the country.

At Lord's, she showed me the various

Denis strokes that

in making his Compton used highest score of season, 172. She has more than 2,500 of these charts and knows exactly But behind them are the real

Even Dad's closest friends what strokes Bill Edrich and racketeers, the men who con-

ter- thought he was taking a Denis Compton will play to Alce trol the wire services without

PAID HUSH MONEY Middlesex Bedser

and which bookmakers when

rible risk. Surrey ment. "They are the their vital up-to-the-minute

But to him it was a After his conviction he told same strokes that they have news from the tracks.

the District Attorney hów he adventure, with prospects is they who can extort what always played against Bedser,"

price they like from the little spent a million dollars a year great achievement and -- most she says.

In hush money.

story of important of all-the

Sir Malcolm Campbell of a beginning men who break the law,

police crack bribery implicated 72 policemen.

Next day he learned Why don't the

that Thoroughbred States,

Racing water-transport.

Bonneville AL

Salt Flats, down

the

100th the timing had not been ap- 011

I asked him for the racing wire

Association of the

Senate

Com-

uroved services?

by away

the Commission Utah, in 1935, he became the do you do it?" time,

international body drst man in the world to So the Football League clubs I went to New York Police reporting to the

mitice to investigate gam-

He answered then, as he al-Sportive,

travel af 300 m.p.h. with governing motor-racing. blame the BBC's "live" broad-Headquarters, the lobby walks of

bling

organised and

crime, ways did, patiently and

Ho memorial

determined

During the first run of this have casts for dwindling gates. What which are covered with

stified racing in a

land which

pale blue a twinkle in his WHICH

He asked Louis successful record-bid

one nt a sad admission by English soc- tablets recording the names of

gambling by saying sport eyes: "For the joy of achieve another go.

Costelen to sell him the car, Bluebird's tyres burst. ver that a commentary on ore policemen killed on duty, to find pre-dated Christianity by 2,000 ment, my boy."

On not out

a record attempt the re- match-probably half of a

why Continental Press, one

Winston Churchill

permission was refused. That attempt with jet-pro- services,

peiled Bluebird brought

Again and again Dad tried turn run must be made within from to

who an hour, but the heat persuade business

new record but in that sense

was adamant.

the burst tyne was so terrific only was it a failure. A great

not get the that we

we could deal was learned, and 1 recall

news that Then

Her came

to change it. enough the story to show that almost Danes were organising an in-

Using fire extinguishers and competition until his death Dad lived international speed

went to ignoring, the burns the spirit of adventure which at Fanoe. Dad again

sell, hand we finally managed time and again Contelen, begged him to. has meant

replace it. and finally Contelen gave in. that Britain DID IT FIRST!

Dad.

world broke more

The Sunbeam was delivered records than any of his con- the Monday at Horley temporaries.

(Surrey), where we lived. On the Saturday It had to be en- first

trained for. Harwich, and was over

Monday to be in time for the 1o-sal-for-Dentaaric_on_the

competition.

away,

The BBC, who are to protest to the Football League over Sunderland's "ban soccer- broadcasts" proposal, which was carrled at the League's unnual

mecting. claim general

that broadcasts do not affect match attendances,

Press is

to

their own-can keep the crowd of these after many exposures.

At in years, and Was in owned and raced thoroughbreds. But if there is blindness, there in occasional bits of is little hypocrisy. They put in

American legitimate news, and in America newspapers publish the names of the Freedom of the

Irish Sweepslake winners. told. inalienable," I was

the It is left to

British Broad- Furthermore, racing wire

casting Corporation

ban service kings have their fingers

references to betting, yet an- on the political machines. Social

foolball racing and nounce reformers, State racing

results at dictation speed.

This story of a country that cannot bet with a bookmaker bogan innocently enough during my tour on Trans-World Air- lines, 1-went-to-a-film-studio luncheon at Hollywood.

com-

On that I reserve, judgment, missions and racecourse owners, but what I do say is that soccer who all have reasons for keep clubs need have no fear

the bookmaker

ing

law- a dwindling gales if they provide breaker, play right into their the goods better-football-andr

hands improved facilities for specta-

tors.

I

offers a grim lesson

as she debutes Britain

for the

A-BOMB SWEEP

Then off we went to see Miss

The British soccer fan is the recommendations of the Royal keenest sports supporter in the Commission on Gambling and world. No amount of broadcast-hositates over betting-shops....Russell at work on her new alm. Ing will keep him away from a game if these two essentials are given top priority by the clubs.

RELIGIOUS STREAK

uphold the The Americans TENNIS TALLY

Inws they will not observe know- joom large Finances

at the ing full well the consequences and French lawn tennis champion-of murder, terrorisation

streak, of late corruption, because ships. That is why in the

runs side by side stages of the Paris fixture some Puritanism

with the need for a gamble. top-dine players may be seen working out accounts with penell 11's better to do the right

Paper.

and

in the

if it works out thing even wrong." I was told by a priest whose brother runs a bookie's business behind a candy store in Kansas City, Missouri,

The reason-and it makes the French championships more popular with some players than (Wimbledon is the legend printed over the draw programme.

It will always be so: Every first, night I walked down Broadway This records that the second and third prize vouchers to Jack Dempsey's bar and saw in the men's singles are £60, the Salvation Army parading £20 and £10 respectively. This amid the nylon shops under the puts the £20 first prize voucher neon signs. for the Wimbledon men's singles My favourite preacher was the

It is all about gambling. It is called. Las Vegas Story: Las Vegas is in Nevada, the state which legalises gambling and is the roulette town where they run a sweepstake on the atom-bomb time of the next

test

for

Jour

but

.no

to

A

On Land he was 150 m.ph. average messired mile; first to us

miles a minute; and first to reach the coveted 300 miles an hour (five miles a minute). On Water he smashed the record four times with speeds 040.1 m.pan. and 141.74 m.ph.

129 of 128 mph.,

m.ph.,

unk

UP

It

his

on

Coalelen,

no

Then came

neur

Ол our

to

more trouble. Tho engine would not start. ANTI-CLIMAX

the mechanics Feverishly

against got to work, racing time. Anxiously they watched pre- the clock licking away clo's seconds.

Then, exactly three minutes before the dead-line, the on- zine reared into life and Dad

FOOTNOTE: The present jand speed record is held by English- man John Cobb, who averaged 394.169 mph, 'at Utah on Sep- tember 16, 1947.

FEVERISHLY From the moment de livery at Horley checking and ly all week. overhauling continued feverish-was off.

At the end of the roturn One evening DOGGED SPIRIT

Dad returned run came an anti-climax. The signalled 299.90 Umekeepers Every attempt meant months from a short visit to London.

preparation. Leo Villa, Leech and Webster, mp.h. Dad had failed for So of planning and

met him

In he thought) to reach his 300 There were weeks when Dad his mechanics,

hardly m.ph. They seemed glum sllonce. mechanics

dared break the news!!

Just as we were all feeling The same day I read in a Las never to leave the garage.

that the Cali-

They had discovered Bitler disappointments, un-

that depressed, however, the time- Angeles paper

hitches (some was expected fornian State Logislature

of teeth in the gear-box were keepers cancelled their signal. A mistake had been made; debating a bill to outlaw poker.

them seemingly insuperable) stripped-and there were

301 the official figure A San Francisco senator moved were overcome by determina- spares

was amendment Lon

include tion.

The Sunbeam company prom.ph. 10 Canasta.

"That will do," he said, "I the more hopeless mised every help, but a special In fact the The day I left New York a

make more deter steel block was required from shall not

at- outlook the

another mined was Dad not to

tampt be a Shefeld firm.

unless # foreigner. House of Representatives' Com-

at. mittee recommended that ali

Webster Bot off

once, threatens to take the record." beaten. He would, never give |

the bookmakers should be licensed

drove all night, collected their unlawful

Sun- profits was this dogged spirit block, and dashed to and

mado

11 him the beam's, reaching there at taxed. The logical administrators alone which of paradise were seeking to

to travel the mea- a.m. on Saturday. first nam sured mile at 150 m.ph. The Meanwhile, at Horley, the schedule their own devil.

feat made the world sit up car, minus its vital part, was his and take notice of the perfog- entrained. Webster bit mance of British cars.

nails at tho Wolverhampton factory MORE SET-BACKS

all Saturday night, and Sunday night Motor-racing at

while the work went on. 10,000-mile journey I carefully had to travel several hundred was Dad's hobby before not On Monday *morning Dad,

a week's 1914-18 war, but it was stiff collars miles, at a cost of

Villa and Leech

ech drove to and put them in a drawer. (They wages, to queue at the pari- until two years after "demob"

In -1021 that Liverpool Street station, Lon- cannot launder stiff collars in mutuel windows in ole Kentucky. from the RAF Wittlest speech

the last train at Spurs'

takė interest don, to taich to And every time I But America.)

could ask the almond- he began celebration dinner came from

them to which would enable ain world records.-

There took make the the Marquess of Londonderry, opened a drawer, I found a Bible. eyed elevator boy at my £30-a-

boat,

was Five out of six familles who week hotel (pay for all men his eye. He decided that this if no Webster.

A 350-hp. Sunbeam meals He complained that there were invited me to dinner said Grace separately) to run a bet. Or amore stocer devotses on the before meats,

could ask Sambo in the cleak- was the car for him. He per- The guard blew his whistle,

Louis Contelem Socialist benches in the-House of

aboard. The party chimbed Lords than on the Tory side.

Sometimes the mixing for the room (ninepence for the use of, sunded

director of Sunbeam, to jend The train began to move out. "So," he said, "if ever you spiritual and sporting emotions plus ninepence tip) to run it.

plat- And then, down the would him the car, my dollar bet

AI that a peer of the name of result in odd happenings,

Sallburn, in June, form ran Webster, He clnm- Londonderry has crossed the As I sat awaiting an interview soon be on its way to the room

ronch, House, he has not joined the a stenographer sold to me: "I've above the grocery stores, sately 1022, he averaged 138 m.p.h. bered into the last Labour Party but has gone to never spoken to en Englishman delivered by the youngster too in the best of six runs, despite hugging the precious parcel!

tho wet At Fanoe the car beat all talk football with some of its before. Do ministers partake of smart to leave a bent spoon or wheel-slipping in

an empty capsule in his school sand. The world record was others, and the world's record bread and wire at your com- members."

way raised again.... desk. munion services?"

his or so he thought..

in the

shade.

hatless, blonde girl who ended Indeed, a triple winner in her address: "And that, folks, France can claim a prize voucher is the Gospel In a nutshell.”

п Worth £80. woman. £53.

And let it be whispered, the voucher need not necessarily be exchanged for a marble.

hear"

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