THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1952,
Snooker &
The Way To Stop The Soccer Slump
By IVAN SHARPE
Alarming accounts of a Soccer slump are not yet justified, as the Fall in attendances for the first half of the season in the Football League was only two per cent.
Indeed, the Cinderella Third Division (North) can be said to have been visited by two fairy godmothers. The relegated Chesterfield and Grimsby have brought with them bigger-than-average gates to Increase the total attendances,
The Second Division has equalled last year's crowds. One after the other. places like Shefeld, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leicester, Nottingham and Rotherham have headed the promotion queue, and now Leeds, Everton, Blackburn and Brent- ford are lengthening the line.
But for the many clubs no longer vitally Interested in Cup nu League, a testing time is
Dear.
Some have had the oppar- provide tunities to
for the rainy day. Between 1946 and 1950 Manchester United showed profits of £150,000, and ever Burnley pocketed £60,000. In two years, Stoke City were £75,000 up, and the 'Spurs £00,000.
ECONOMY NOW ·
For the great majority, how- ever, economy now becomes es- sential. There should be ex- periments instead of transfers,
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ploughed
and Jack Rowley (Manchester him to play on United) have been changed in-field?
RCOT'S WARNING to international centre-forwards.
of the Into three
In Scattand they are seeing Alan Morton, a right-footer, became Scotland's darling when the red light. So sound a judge George director-manager moved to outside-left; Tom Fin-s ney, Preston international, is a Anderson, of Dundee, strongly left-footer at outside-righ!. urges reorganisation'
Yes, experiments with players Scottish League instead of continual transter divisions of only 12 clubs each. money, money,
talk Thus: money
Dlv. Min. admission Max. WAEG
£20 weekly 21. Gd,
£12 LO
would be a welcome change,
RIGHT WAY
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The biggest slump is
He also proposes suspension proaching the First Division, of promotion and relegation in Why? "Those who have the order to allow players to
are seriously mature. same at beaut perturbed about the standard at play," says William Murray, We need a George Anderson manager of Sunderland.. Un in England to propose a redis- with less something is done,
of thetribution
tho Football
f command to them these sets
Aston Villa have
of transformation:
uz Jutannational contre-lialiame my fail inte irispute " langue clubs into five smaller Con Martin, inte goal. Jimmy Adamson, a forward, has been For years he has advocated turned by Burnley Into a first-suspension of promotion and class half-back.
relegation in order to relieve tension and restore skill.
A switch made Stanley Cul- tis of the Wolves the outstand
ing allocking centre-half of his time. Tom Berry, of Hull City, found his way to centre-hail via outside-forward, wing-half, tri full-back.
Billy Wright, of the Welves, was inside and outside forward before becoming interno tinmal-half-back: likewise, the udinirable Watson of Sunder-
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Outside-forwards like George Camsell (Middlesbrough), Joe- kie Milburn (Newcastle United)
groups, so streamlining the pre- sent over-long
40-match marathon, quickening public Interest, and leaving dates for a Football League Cup. Not as Cetval to the FA Cup: as a sideline guaranteeing a' Axed umber of home and away ties to all competitors, on the sys tem so popular in Scotland..
ALL-IN CUP?
Grounds, like, players, too much wear and tear. Agal the 'Spurs have set the right example. Accused of "rying to be too classy," they reply through
Arthur Rowe; "We will change the pitch, not the beating style. Mud has been us,"
So, like Glasgow Rangers at the Third.
they so back, spending £10,000 on vedraining and returfing their ground.
Money well spent. Why pour out £30,000 on a star and wet
year ar
An FA Cup change is desired by Southend United. They ask Division clubs to are pport a scheme whereby all 92 Football League teams start out in the Cup together,
American Swimming Team At Helsinki Will Be Strongest Ever
The
By TED SMITS
New Haven, Connecticut, Apr. 6.
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America's Olympic swimming coaches, after review- ing the National AAI performances, declared today the
two
Billiards Champions Jake LaMotta
A. P. "Spotty" Pereira and S. P. Pong, winners of the Colony Open Snooker and Billiards Championship respectively, snapped with the trophies they won at Club Lusitano on Friday night.-China Mall Photo,
American Thomas Cup
Team Faced
With
Malaya Trip Problem
+
Boston, Apr. 6.
Fights Hayes
On Friday
New York, Apr. 6. Former Middleweight Champion Jake LaMotta re- turns to Detroit on Wednes- day to meet Norman Hayes of Boston in the feature hout of an otherwise drab fight card this week:
The bout gives LaMotta a chance to reverse a January 20 split decision which went to Hayes and an opportunity to break a winless streak which began when Sugar Ray Rubin- 800 won the Middleweight crown from him on February 14, 1031.
His last victory, in fact, was a successful title defence in Detroit - against Laurent Dauthuille of France on Sep- tember 13, 1930.
Boston.
Hayes, 20-year-old negro, will have a 10-year
advantage over Jake in age in the bout,
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The Friday night programme at S St. Nicholas. Arena, New York, features Arthur King of Toronto and Del Flanagan of St. Paul, Both are listed as lightweights- British King the former Empire lightweight champion- have welterweight aspirations, and a victory would help, whichever class they decide to fight in.
but they
King has beaten Fitzie Ruden of St. Catherine's, Ontario, twice this year, largely on his stiff left jab, while Flanagan has won only one of three bouts in 1952. ------- The American-Thomas-Cup-badminton-squad, having Their records are almost iden- defeated Canada for the right to go to Singapore, now is tical. King has won 51, lost seven, while Flanagan has won turning its attention to the financial problems of the trip. 53, fought two draws and The Americans will meet the European Zone Cham-five.-Associated Press. plons in Singapore for the right to meet Cup-holding Malaya in the Challenge Round late in May,
"Each of our players will make personal económic sacrifices by going to Singapore," said Donald Richardson of Waban, Mass., president and founder of the American Badminton Association.
the trip," Richardson these economic make "Because of problems, we are not yet able said, "After all, each man hos lu say exactly, which men willä jo5, and some of them have
Jobs which essential
cannot spare them for a whole month. And those whose jobs are not in essential industry will have to consider the loss of a month's
TODAY'S SPORT
Soccer
poy.
lost
France Beats Wales In Rugby League
Bordeaux, Apr. 6. France beat Wales by 20 This means a round of 128 clubs: that is, 84 matches on
points (seven goals, two tries) to 12 (three goals, one date. Too much of a ship- ping order. Besides, the New-
two tries) in the Rugby castles and Aston Villas would
"Also, we must consider the League international match not like
1st Division-Kowloon Motor Bus rounds more
Eastern at Boundary Street; expenses of the long trip. We here today. They led by 9-7 against the giant-killers.
Kwong Wah v Army at Happy have talked with military off- But the Third Division may Valley. Kick-off 5.45 p.m.
cials about the possibility of our at the interval. now receive more votes--eight
tear holding "en route clinics" The game, which produced instead of four. Mr E. J.
of badminton exhibitions In Carter of Reading, chairman
distant American military in- of the Third Division (South),
stallations in return for flight says: "We feel we have served our apprenticeship.
passage to Singapore.
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That's true enough, A com- bination, 30 years of age, and embracing 22 former First and Second Division clubs, no longer a learner.
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men's leans for the Helsinki Games will be the strongest Konno Gains
ever from the United States-but warned there will be no repetition of the clean sweep scored in 1948,
"It's natural it' will be the best team we ever had because performances. are faster, and we have great depth," said Matt Mann, new Olympic head coach,
"We're not goleg to sweep team, and other nations have in- things, however, warned Mike dividual stars, such as France, Peppe of Ohio State, Assistant Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Austra Coach. "Japan, in particular, is lia. Argen very strong with a well balanced maybe
This is the first time in two decades that Yale's famous coach, Bob Kiphuth, is not head of the
THE NEW GUERNICA
Triple Crown
New Haven, Apr. 6, Hawaiian-born Ford Konno has established himself as Ame- rica's brightest hope for the Olympic swimming events, when he completed the "treble" in the Amateur Athletic Union Swim- ming Championships here last night.
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Fencing
Colony Open Championships European YMCA, Kowloon, com
mencing p.m
Meeting
a
Amateur Sports Federation and Olymple Committee of Hongkong at Victoria Recreation Club, 630 p.m.
Snooker
George Younger Colony Cham- planship.-K.C.C. II v Eastern 1; Kowloon T.C. v Lusitano II; Bouth China v C.P.O. Tamar; P.O. Tamar v. Prison Qmpera C.; RA.F. Chargomen's M.
Sam Snead Wins Masters' Golf Tournament
FUND-RAISING DRIVE
Richardson said the ABA has some money left over from the lust Thomas Cup matches at Glasgow in February of 1940, and that 2207 badminton clubs in 20 states now will begin a fund-raising drives.
was
some
rugby. sparkling watched by a 'big crowd in per- fect weather. A feature of the match was the brilliant kicking of the seasoned French fullback, Puig Aubert, who scored 14 points with three dropped goals, two
penalty goals and two con- In the first half France gave the more spectacular display and were only prevented from scoring more frequently by keen Welsh tackling.
versions.
The outcome was in doubt until Ave
minutes from the end, when the French wing three-quarter. Contrastin, crossed for a try and Aubert converted.
"These clubs waited until the results of the Canada-USA matches were available before they began their work, Richardson smiled, "since Cana da was a strong opponent, and Other Natlonalities" at the top The result left France and we barely won, 5 to 3. Now
of the International table each the clubs are really going to
Other work, but of course it is too with four points but
Nationalities have one more game early to know any results." to play-against England on Khoo Teik Ee, President of the Apri 23. Wales have lost all Malayan Badminton Association, their three international games in a recent letter to Richardson this season.-Reuter. guaranteed all expenses paid Konno won the 440 yards free-
after the matches. the usually style in 4 mins, 34.5 secs.
tempestuous "So our financial problems are Australian Girl In He had previously captured Hogan, then the who established the 220 yards and the 1,500. Tommy Balt succumbed to the!
last-nine pressure in the big really not serious," said Richard- swimmers in the three-day meet metres free-style championships tournament, white Snead made son. "Even if the club campaigns Training For The
Olympic staff,
Swimmers
and Sweden and
Augusta, Georgia, Apr. 6. Som Snead, making giddy recoveries on д windblown course, won his second Masters' golf crown with a total of 280
today.
First
cool Ben
4.
and thus took over the "triple it one under par in the pay-off do not produce the full amount ineeded, we have a couple of wealthy badminton fans who are Snead was the only man to willing to underwrite expenses." break the 288 par. His 280 was-United Press. the highest ever to take the iis 10 outings.~~
at Yale were Ford Konno of crown" won last year by John stretch. (Continued from Page 4) Ohio State, the sleek little
Hawaiian who won three dis- Marshall, the Australian Olym-
pic star-Reuter, The Spanish Republle, which
tanico titles: Clark Scholes, had begun to restore Basque Michigan State, winner of the the autonomy, is itself only 0 100 yards and Dick Cleveland, memory, destroyed by General Ohio State, the Franco and his Naz! and Fascist
of
15
runner-up: Fencing Finalists Masters In
Dick Thoman, Yale's backstroke champion, Wayne Moore and Jimmy McLane, together with Yale's new freshman sprint sensation, Kerr Donovan.
allies.
The guitar on which Iparra- guirre, as a wandering exile in London, used to play his Tree of Guernica, the national an- them of his compatriots, is now aslient object of veneration in the museum. A group
18 Basques even now awaiting trial for or- ganising a 48-hour strike last Spring against the cost of liv- ing. Since the very act of striking-a crime in Franco Spain os in the Communist countries-also involves the further crimes of "left asso- cinlion" and "illegal propagan- da, the Public Prosecutor de- mands three separate senten ccs, cach of seven years, be- catise these men, employers as well as employees, idared to last year, protest against high costs and | world record performAJICES. corruption.
AUSTRALIAN HOPE Australia, however, presented a possible Olympic winner in John Davies, of Michigan, who won two breast stroke cham- plonships here.
The coast road from Guern)-
Jerry Hola of Ohio State Is our best hope against him,” said Peppe.
"Bowen Stazsc of Iowa, and Bob Brawner, Princeton, are possibilities, Ger many has Herbert Klein, who has the best time of all.”
John Marshall, the Australian who goes to Yale and, who wan three National Championships was far below his
Here in Peppe's rundown on the Olymples:
"We are stronger than Japan in sprints, with Scholes, and towards wo are strong In the middle
ca towards Son Sebastian is, I think, a beautiful as the coast road from Capetown the Cape,
But I drove, unhappy bewildered, through its Aching ports and wine-darit sea.
above
Unhappy to think how customed "we have become
much tragic crimes
and long distances, We have and the best divers in the world. little Davies looks like the winner in its the breast stroke, but we should be on tap in the back Catroke and the relay."
to
Ав the
The final Olympic swimming bombing + a peaceful Hitle tryouts will be held in New town. Bewildered by the dim York on July 3-5. The Olympic
culty of finding a reply to the bully, the tyrant and the de- nagogue, Nine out of ten of
Games are in Helsinki, July 10-August 3.
The Now Haven Swim Club,
ue," said a Basque to me in composed
of all varieties of
Bilbao, "hato Franco, Ten out Yale swimmers, won the team of ten of us prefer Franco lo championship here with 113 another civil war."
Tomorrow: Gibralfar
points compared to 97 for Ohio
Btato,Associated Press.
The following finalists will take part in the Open Colony Cham- pionship at the European YMCA
On Wednesday evening:
Folls Bdy Perry, Fid, TA; Q. Ozeria. RHKDF: 51 Hudson, APTC: J. Tong, Chinese YMCA; J. Ozorio, YMCA; Major Cowley, RNF: SSI Coady, APTC Cpl J. de Couto Marcal, RHKDF.
Sabres Docherty, APTC: Major Cowley, NF: QMSI Day, AFTC; Li Dantes, RNF; F/LA Teinpling, RAF: Strange. RASC; SSI Coody, APTC; Cpl J. de Couto Marcal, RIIKDF..
ROVERS FC DIVSEI
ABELAHAN MANAGEM
United Press.
Hashim Khan In Squash Final
London, Apr. 5.
Hashim Khan of Pakistan-
Hockey Results
The following are the results
terday:
of hockey matches played yes-
Channel Race
Sydney, Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Jill Campbell, In training for the next English Channel swim ming race, recently broke the Australian women's record for a mile.
Sho covered the distance In
Tho
25 mins. 15.1 secs. In the fourth ot five mile swim,
Д previous record was set in 1934 1st Division,--Thunderbolts 4,by Edna Davey,
Miss Campbell will be the HKU 1.
first Australian woman to com- 2nd Division.-Argonauts "B" pete in the Channel swim
Reuter.
and Mahmoud Karim of Egypt,7, Nomads 0.
a
former holder, will contest
the final of the Open Squash Rackels Championship at the Lansdowne Club, Lindon, on Monday.
In the semi-finials to-day, the Pakistan player beat G. Miidick
NOTICE
Smith of South Africa, the THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
amateur champion, by 9-2, 9-0 and 9-2, while the Egyptian won 9-2, 0-4 and 9-3 against Brian Philips, a Kent amateur.
Router,
BELGIUM BEATS HOLLAND 4-2
Antwerp, Apr. 0. Belgium beat Holland by four goals to two in an international Boccer match before a crowd of 65,000 here tottay. The score was 2-1 at half-time,
Steady rain and a strong wind mada.conditions difficult. Centre- forward Coppens word
and goals
from Belgium Anout and Lamborechts . ORO each, Van Dortuyn and Van Melis scored for Holland. Router,
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