FRED
PERRY,
GETS TO WORK
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1958.
U.S. Chances For The Davis Cup Are Slim
THE "BREAK" BETWEEN THE USLTA AND AMERICAN PLAYERS HAS WIDENED
Over
Says FRED PERRY
I do not think the United States can win back the Davis Cup now. Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor have retired from Australian lawn tennis.
The reasons: Australia still have the finest young players-but also the attitude of the U.S. players towards their Association is not all it should be..
the years
the "break" Mulloy, Larsen, Fian and had not made the grade, was in. between Association and players | Talbert" were omitted. Vie The team was completed by has widened. It seems so wide Seixas, then No. 2, was Captain. Clark, ranked No. 11.
that the Association
When their leading players are are Tony Trabert, who had been in
and played in two disgruntled, it is high losing control over those who are the Navy. possible or potential Davis Cup tournaments in two years, was associations Investigated. material.
selected above five of the Arst! Let us get away from politics six ranking players.
In tennis and let the best men Hamilton Richardson, who had represent their country, been "bloodod" for two years and
-{London Express Service)
now
Fred Perry at Twickenham with Ceylon's Davis Cup team, whom he is conch- -D. Scharenguivel. D. L. Fonseka, Fred Perry, L. P. ing. From left to right
Ernst and R. W. Ferdinands, — Express Photo,
SCOTTISH SPORTS SUMMARY
With
Death Severs A Link
The Earliest Days Of Scottish Football History
By "MAC"
A link with earliest Scottish football history was severed recently with the death of Willie lzatt. Willie was a star of 70 years ago for Clyde, Third Lanark and Rangers. In later years he used to smile at alleged 'under the counter' payments to players.
Even when I was playing Davis Cup tennis, the Americans always brought over the biggest team and trained the hardest,
They always played "ladder"
tournaments, where everyone played everyone else, to find out who represent them in the mach --but seldom did the two players who finished top ever represent them.
SUSPICIONS
As the years passed the players suspected that the Association's. officials had known who they in- tended to pick before the practice matches.
Some would have liked to ave stayed in Europe after Wimbledon for a few more tournaments. They were ordered back to America to play in all tournaments, starting with the Clay
Courts Championships in Chicago.
་
Doris Hart In
Devastating Form
At Bournemouth
Bournemouth, Apr. 27.
Line
Doris Hart of the United States played a devastating game to win her first round match in defence of her British Hard Courts Lawn Tennis Championship when the fourna. ment opened here today.
Despite cool weather and courts slowed by morning- long rain, the popular American girl soundly beat Britain's Miss Angela Buxton 6-0, 6-0.
They were advised that all Davis Cup team members would be selected from performances during those particular tourna ments, and all ranking of players home country's highly thought marathon men's singles against
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PEKING DUCK
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*Misa Buxton is one of the At 2 p.m. he storied A
the English player, Peter Moys. for the year would be done from of youngsters. the results of those tournaments. Miss Hart completely It lasted two hours and 50 dominated the match with a minutes before Malcolm won When he moved to Everton in the late 1880's if was illegal to receive pay
All the players interested in steady stream of accurately by 8-6, 6-2, 6-8, 6-0, 0-7. ment for football at all. To overcome this he was, "employed" by a brewery the Davis Cup returned Im-placed cross-court drives which
About three-quarters of company. His "job" consisted of coming to the brewery once a week, on a Friday,mediately after the Wimbledon Angela had dimeulty in return-
which Dick Savitt wont.
Ing.
hour later Malcolm was on the to collect his pay and meet his teammates for training.
They later found the Cup team The match was so one-sided court again in a men's doubles been warned against trying to to all members throughout theo tour Australia included Ted that only twice in the 12 games match, which also went to
they have been tour. This Brm would therefore Schroeder, who had not played in did Miles Buxion come within a
Malcolm, partnered by got too many. issued with a form of "behaviour trenucusly caject to the party any of the tournaments. He was point of winning a game.
Attracting a big crowd in to-Derby Junior, Tony Pickard, kes: guide" by the South African FA advertising another brand of ranked around the middle of the
cigarettes."
Brst 10.
day's matches was the "David Don Butler and Don Black When the team got to Aus- and Gollath". Stating that prominent flens
clasti in which the count for two hours before like to make gifts to players in
are signs at last that tralie, There
they discovered that tiny Felicisimo Ampon of the losing 6-4, 6-4, 2-8, 3-7, 8-U.
without return for the right to publish Scotland is to tacide the prob-Schroeder,
maich Philippines beat Britain's 6 ft.
At 7.30 p.m. Malcolm Imped of the team, the lems of the enormous amount of practice, was to play in singles ins. Teddy Tinling 6-1, 0-1 off the court, having played for photographs
"As talent that is wasted when players and doubles.
0-1 in a second round encounter. nearly Ave hours out of Ave and guide adds this comment: an example, one of the mostetep up from minor to senior foot-
United Press.
a half-Reuter. of ball-it has been estimated that prominent
hundred do not make cigarettes will want to make gifts 97 out of
From Everton, Willle moved on to Spala, then to America, where he worked as a blackamith, and player Gaelic football for an irish fem at the Chicago World Fair of 1895.
"BEHAVIOUR GUIDE"
I will be free cigarettes all round for Dundee on their tour this summer. of South Africa They will be given by advertisers, But the Dens Park players have
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NEARULA HARDENS TO 7-4 FAVOURITE FOR 2,000 GUINEAS
London, Apr. 27.
Nearula was supported to win nearly £7,000 at 10- night's callover on the Guineas at the Victoria Club.
As a result he hardened to seven to four favourite for Wednesday's big race, his price at the first callover last Wednesday being nine to four.
King of the Tudors became xcond favourlie at eight to one with the French col! Tosco
next. nt nine to one. Masai King, Avo to one last Wednes. day, has not impressed in his latest gallops and eared to 10 tol,
support A surprise was the for the Ally Bebe Grande, who backed to win £15,000 and finished at 100 to 8.
WAS
Nearia was backed to win £6,000 for the Derby, and hardened half a point to 13 to The biggest 2 in the betting.
by advance was made
Pre- mortition, a 25 to 1 chance at the provious callover bul now, 10 to 1 second favourite after his Epsom win last Thursday.
CLOSING OFFERS
Closing offers avere:
Two Thousand Guineas (1 anlle, Newmarket,
Wednesday)
7 to 4 Neorula,
810 1 King of the Tudoro, 9 to 1 Tosco,
40 to 1 Masai King,
Home Rugger Results
100 to 8 Babe Grande,
100 to G Aureole,
i
"TACKLING A PROBLEM
REPORTS OF TROUBLE
Reports of trouble came from Frank Shields, non-
the grade, and are often ket to Australia.
SOREST FEET Bournemouth, Apr. 27,
football altogether unnecessarily playing captain, and Dick Savitt, The sorest feet at Bourne-
50.
have
come
remedying the situation. Celtie's left Australia atter the Keith Malcolm
From Callic and St Mirren who had been fett off the team mouth tonight belong to the South African for by Shields, were in it, Schroeder 17-year-old suggestions
Cup Junior Lawn Tennis Champion, plan is to prohibit players from matches; the others stayed.
On the first day of the British beecing Junior until they have
The USLTA did the same last Hard Courts Championship 11 been in Juvenile football for at winter. They-picked-a-team was Malcolm's misfortune to Teast one season, and Juniors from Joining the Senior ranks against Australla including only have to play ten sets of tennis until they have had two reasons' one of the first six ranking two five-set
quick succession. experience in the Junior građ...
St Mirren
manager Bobby Rankine egrees in principle with the Celle plan. He said that the best method might be to allow
players.
matches — in
on
MAC BAILEY SUSPENDED
London, Apr. 27, McDonald Bailey, the Bri- tish Olympic sprinter from Trinidad, was officially noti- fled today that he had been suspended sine die by the
British Amateur Athletic Association.
the different grades to legislate ★ ★ ★ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★ ★ Southern Committee of the
for their own members.
He listed the cause of the trou»
ble as too many players being grabbed too quickly; not because they are wanted, but to proven: some other club getting the
A RECORD AFTER A David Handerson, of Madras College, St Andrews, may be one
20 to 1 Oleandrin and Star of answer to Britain's problem of
the Forest,
25 to 1 March Past, Boxwood
and Prince Charlemagne,
40
a lack of top-class field athletes.
Eighteen-your-old David is a Javelin thrower, and has already
He
to 1 Prince Christian. cleared over 189 feet. Windsor Star and Propitiation, been practising six days a week
50 to 1 Chatsworth,
on the school playing flelds and,
Empire Honey was not called.
THE DERBY
(14 miles, Epsom, on June G)
13 to 2 Nearuin,
10 to Premonition,
100 to 7 Empire Honey
100 to 8 Novarullah,
rez | Prince Canarine,
and
20 to 1 Shikampur, Northern Light, Mountain Aureole,
in addition, attended recently intensive four-day
Carronvale,
course at
The Horror Is Laid On
With A Pitchfork
Says SUE DAWSON
The action was taken for an alleged breach of the amateur ruies in an advertisement in the. programme of the Oxford versus Cambridge athletic meeting last March The advertisement re- inted to starting blocks "made to the requirements of E. Mc- Donald Bailey Limited." Bailey is managing director of the firm. Balley, who is 32, wan the Olympic Brouzo Medal for third
final.
Not a trowel but a giant-sized pitchfork is used to place in the 100-metre Anal in lay on the horror in the latest 3-D Depthie, and it must at Helsinki last July and once be admitted that "The House of Wax" is quite the fourth in the 200-metre creepiest picture I have ever acen-"The Hunchback ofHe is joint holder of the world
100-metro record Notre Dame" included. But it was not so much the seconds,
Ho
appeared
of 10.3
before
last
week-end
This of course, one might say, lifted a great weight from his mind. Practice had been getting
horror as its three dimensional technics which left one's eyes falling out of their sockets and feeling rather worse Southern sub-committee If the than those of the terrifying monster looked. Added to British AAA this, "The House of Wax" is productionally most die. and the full committee con- sidered the report at the week- appointing.
end. Under BA MAA ruling, One kept thinking how much story is that the professor him- an active athlete is forbidden to better it would have been if self can no longer model from allow his name to be used in the the whole thing were filmed in photographs with his claw-like selling of a commodity. the now pedestrian two dimen- hands; he must have the actual lon-with more plausible clr features of the person' whose cumstances for the impressive likeners he wishes to reproduce
and ILic. King
22 to 1 Tosco, 25 to 1'Neemah, 33 to 1 King of the Tudors, Pharel, Janitor and Masal King
40 to 1 Good Brandy.
im nowhere until coach Hugh Chapman spotted David's two faults in his technique. He was releasing the javelin too steeply, and his rear leg setion was too Chapman thinks that when David masters this difficulty he will not only beat the British schoolboy record of 194 feet, but achieve his ambition of clearing 200 feet before he leaves school In July. Londen Depress scena
50 10 1 Prince Charlemagne.
The
final callover on the Service, 2,000 Guineas will be Et the Victoria Club tomorrow, manda Rouler.
BILL JOHNSTON WILL MISS
of arson and some less (choppy sequences and fantastic! rocoveries in the hurried ending.
· FORGOTTEN,
One thing all concerned forgo;
Balley said today that he sion. "I have not exploited my would appeal against the deci- athdelle ability. I am using my knowledge of something that I knew a lot about. I am the
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IBC SIGNS PADDY YOUNG TO FIGHT OLSON FOR MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE
New York, Apr. 27.
The International Boxing Club today announced it had signed New York's Paddy Young for a June 19 bout. in Madison Square Garden with Carl (Bobo) Olson for the American Middleweight Championship. Now the IBC has to get Olson's signature on a contract.
"Young has signed for 30 per cent of the not gate and the same percentage of radio-television money," said Harry Markson, Managing Director of IBC. "We've offered Olson the same and expect to hear from manager Sid Flaherty in a day or so.
it, and this all sounds double- the 'distortion line that. 3-D pany."
"Jim Norris (President of the plon crowned good
soon, so that the dutch, let me "elue you in involves, here used to
In their lotter dated April 25 IBC) says we'll get at least titlist could meet the winner of. Vincent Price is a somewhat effect, the control of 'conver 3 MATCHES * eccentric professor who is in- gence point and other technical notifying Bailey of the suspen- $50,000 for the radio-TV and the June 9 London fight between
Uned
elieve that all his and spectacular joys of photo-stated: "After consideration, the
slon, the Southern Committee maybe more," added Markson, England's Randy Turpin, and the
France's Charles Humez for the new dimension, London, Apr. 27.
waxwork sculptures have real graphy in
Young and Olson of San world titic. Professor Jarrod when Southern Committee have de- Bill Johnston, the Australian life. teft-arm fast bowler, who broke His criminally-minded part- he becomes the monster must cided that you have infringed Francisco are the finalists in the
uely tho amateur definition set out in middleweight tournament set up However, in San Francisco, down with leg trouble in vesner wants the insurance money,
PROBABLE STARTERS
London, Apr. 27. There are 20 probable starters for the Two Thousing Guineas, the year, first classic race of being run over the Rowley mile at Newmarket London, Apr. 27.
on Wednesday They are, with jockeys;
Aureola (W. II. Carr); Windsor Muley, may miss the first fessor's
Following were the results of
rugby matches played today:
* RUGBY UNION
Ebbw Vale 8, Aberavon 0.
Newlyn Pentance and
Gloucester 14.
in that
17
terday's, one-day game at East and suddenly burns all the pro- one, les in a grotesquely A ́ LAW 2 (1) and have, by the Joint Board of the NBA | Flaherty said he earlier in the Atar Fisgott), Proplilation (R. | three matcher of site irunah Joyez, which is too much for the out of him, the cripple rises therefore, lost your amateur. and the New York’Staqa Athletic`{ day,`signed Olson to a fight
Christian (D..Smith), King of the
wood
status. The Committee further Commission, decided to suspend you from competing in amateur athletics under "ÄÄA ; lawa`as · from the date of this letter."""
OLSON WARNED'
in
conspicuous imp. Towards creations before his end of the
wheel-chair and walks
the California city with Young on June 6, each of the boxers Breasley), Tosco tho Jockey), Fringe cricket team's tour Asperament. Not only is his na miracle healing.
which indicates already strained actielle tem- in a way
to get a percentage of the 'gate' 3, Tudors (C Spares) Chatsworth (5
Lindsay
Hassett, the :
plus; $15,000 each for television Clayton) Smith)
Ferrule (E. Brill) Box tralian captain, sald today that lure warped for. Ilir but he is
The Joint Board warned Olson Kyne,
rights from promoter William P. Pontypool 10. Neath 5.
wodson). Ibinehart to Jockey). Johnston had strained a tendon caught in the fire-filled building A distressing thing about last
Bailey's rolisiter, after dis and Flaherty last week that it Bv0 Bridgwater and Ring Smirka), prince behind 118. right lace as well and hideously disfigured. night showing was, the num
ber of young children who were Albion 3
Charistagna. · 435. • <39thin) Zimpoze
"Kyne made us a better offer. Roy Robertsaithe brought to res a alm enough to cussing the suspension with the they don's eigu for a fight with
in- Josey W. Huckaby Victory Roll as jarring the knee and would Torquay Athletic 0, Swansea 6. 120 Barlow), Marche Millaire (6 remain in a London clinic for condary is enjoying the money give any stolid-minded adult printer, stated that Bailey had Young zoon, Olson would be than the IBC" Flaherty said. Moyal Navyill, France "B" 20. Smith The Jockey) are further two or three days, when he murdered by the the most excruciating night bem legally advised that the dropped from, the tourney and "We're waiting now, to hear from L RUGBY LEAGUE
"At the moment he la getting partner he believes doad. Käfer
advertkoment did not infringe another opponent would be Young's manager. It's a matter Featherstone Hovers 2, Brad
about with the aid of sticks and hill body appears, 10 real so to
mag the law of the Amateur Athletic, substituted.
of what the fight ✅ la `worth--I'm ford Northern 12and Fontetbe
it will be at least work to 10 be alive, in the masked cripple's "The House of Wax" does, Association. It was, therefore,
pied not, going to take a second best Warrington 7, Barrow 25- All our dog days before I can riak huu in a new waxworks What is the incidentally contain a mort not a ground for suspension, he⠀⠀⠀ The Board said it was desirous offer for the American tille." Iteirter
pivot" of the whole "horriblo i effettivo Can-
Associated Press. match," said Harett Brutar,
Plus
Garant NEW("Jolmalana) Grande (W. Brain),
1 Athinehart and Plots are doubtful
opt the Grandis (eight
#totze and shine pounds)pettanter.
mares.
| added---Beutor.
of having an American Cham-
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