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ON THE

SOCCER

INSIDE

(Edited by Marshall Fallows)

THE CHINA MAIL," TUESDAY, DECEMBER

George Raynor, the little Yorkshireman who coaches Sweden's national team, was once transferred for £2-from Elsecar (Barnsley) to Wombwell.

Raynor joined Elsecar as a boy of 15......went through a tough course of training under masseur Laurence Thompson.

1, 1953.

AMERICAN TENNIS LEADERS OPTIMISTIC ON CHANCES OF WINNING DAVIS CUP

on

New York, Nov. 30.

American tennis leaders, admitting they will be 12,000 miles from the scene, still are optimistic that Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas will give Australia a close fight for the Davis Cup and perhaps win it.

"Remember, all I know of the present form of Trabert and Seixas and the Australians is, what I read in the newspapers,” explained Lawrence Baker of New York, Chairman of the US Lawn Tennis Association's Davis Cup Selection Com- mittee.

28-30.

and

Lawrence Baker

also noted

"Actually, it is much too early to 7-5 in the fifth set, and at| to form any real opinion. The one time led two sets to one, a point which had been made Inter-zona) final will be played

earlier by Seixas. December 17

the That indicates we may be

"I believe there is a' great Challenge Round on December much better than we had hoped difference between Cup play

In the doubles. After all. ¡and regular tournaments," mold. But at the moment I will say rated

Hoad-Rosewall are generally Baker. "There is much more na world champions in pressure In the Davis Cup come that close, we may be able to surprise them."

Seixas 100 had wondered Ed Baker, Secretary of the whether or not the great pres- USLTA, noted that the Ameri-sure would affect the 19-year-

were not made over-old Aussies. optimistic by the fact that "It makes a great diferenco

Rosewall bent Trabert beat

and when you step onto the court Seixas beat Hood in the Forest and you know

you represent Hills finals in September. your country," Seixas, had said.

Say Thompson: "George was "We need the cash which the fand we have signed him in face always a glutton for hard work. ¡ FA Cup brings just as much as of opposition from the Southern! I that it is my personal opinion doubles and if our team cap matches." He knows how to train a tean; the professional clubs, We train League club Dartford. I think how to get the little extra and develop unknown players we have backed a winner." Ing

Is 21. speed that makes uil the into sars for the pros. to inke difference."

over for'a nominal "£10 signing- on fee.

run

Derby County players have to two miles to the Sinain-lane ground for a practice match, then un back to the Baseball ground. In the past they did the trip

lp by bus.

New manager Jack Barker also made the players report in. the afternoon-another training innovation

AMATEUR'S VIEWPOINT Walley Barnes, Arsenal and Wales back, thinks amateur clubs should be barred from the FA Cup.

So let Harold Swoon tean manager of Finchley for 27 years, put the amateurs', poln. of view:-

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Referees And. Boots

Sir,

I have followed with

treat Interest the articles by I. M. MucTAVISH In the China Mad and it is obvious to all that in the main he clues kow his subjert und his

points

are Referees

that if Selmas and Tribert are at their best form against the

a very Australians, it will be eloze match and we might well win it.

CLOSE SEASON TOURS Already the close season tour "Sentor amateur football is a plans are taking shape. Burnley, in real bargain-basement for the who have previously taken

Duch far-flung trips as Turkey, League clubs."

the will break new ground by play-Trabert ond from Recent "captures" amaleur ranks Include Georgeing in America. Rabb ('Spurs). Derek Saunders Stroud und Roy (Chelzen), (West Hum)..

Seixas

cons

POINT TO NOTE "As to the New South Wales tourney, where Hond

Ken Rosewall beat Seixas, I think the im- portant point to note was in the "We all realised it silil was Oldham doubles," where McKennan,

Trabert and a long way to Davis Cup time," Peter Athlelic's centre-forward, is ex-

carried. Hoad-Rostwall he said. peeled to move to Crewo Alexandra.. Epsom Jockey George Ing has

tancled to McKennan was part-time pro- signed as fesalonal for Snowdown Colliery, take over as play-manager at the Kent League club managed Workington. by Harry Barrall, the former Coventry Cly player,

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Jack Snowdown chairman Wood says: "George (a winger) has had a trial with Chelsea,

Belgium Is Favoured To Beat India

Perth, Nov. 30.

Belgiumoured to

defeat India in the Davis Cup Inter-Zone Final to be played in Perth on Decem-

sound. However the occasional ber 3, 4 and 5 -- by a narrow are not always, in the eyes of margin.

remarks against the

Genier correct

and

of the

Crewe will be McKennan's seventh club. He has been with Pariick Thistle, West Bromwich, Brentford and Leicester, Middlesbrough.

Len Millard, West Bromwich Albion's veteran left-back, will create a new record for his club on December 5 when he makes his 479th first cam aprcoranca He thus passes the previous record held by Tommy Glidden, former captain and outside right who is now a director.

(London Express Service}

CINEMASCOPE

"You

By DILYS POWELL

us

W

WILL IMPROVE

To come back to Baxter, he said, "We realise that Hoad and Rosewall, home and rested after

tour, are their long

better players now than they were at Forest Hills and we do not know if they will continue to improve right up to Davis Cup time. And, of course, we in New York ore too far away to make any accurate appraisal of that possibility."

Eddie Choong In complete film to be made in Caligula, the Villuin of the piece. Round yet. But on one thing the

Danish Final

Copenhagen, Nov. 30. Eddle Choong, Malayan holder qualified emelis, quite Belgium is expected to win of the All-England tile, entered and the article on by three matches to two. If the final of the Danish Badminton

are divided it is Championships here tonight. Saturday, November, 28, does, the singles

He, defeated Larsen ef Den- for D few probable that he greater ex- think, come

the Belgians will mark by 15-7, 15-8 to reach the perience of remarks.

to win the vital Men's Singles Final, and with his The statement is made that enable them

defeated P. brother, David, in the UK and in many dieubles match. big footballing contrite, it is a Much is likely to depend on Ronhund and Poulsen Nielsen of Indian leam Denmark to reach the last stage pre-match duly of the referee to the form

Sumant Misra, and of the doubles, explain, visit the dressing rooms

In the Singles Bnal Choong Inspect the boots of every player whether he can beat Philippe will meet-Finn Kobberoe (Den- In the game. test In my 26 Washer, Belgium's No. 1 player.

mark), winner over Ranlund years experience as a Referes On the forin shown in practice 15-11, 15-8 in the other semi-

is favoured to beat instructions Misra hay; never ed any

Anal. from either the FA, County FA Belgion No. 2, Jacques Brichant. The other doubles finalists are

out this Both the Belgian and Indian or Army FA to carry

THAT teams' have been Inspection however I cannot Davis Cup

practising strenuously for the vouch for the Scatllah FA.

We are governed by the past few days. Today, for the "Referees Chart" and LAW 4. Brst time, they used the centre equipment, court which will be used for the players dealing with deals with the point. In

match. the column

today

cgainst "Advlee to Referees"

professionals both distinctly rays asked to de Australian so, examine the players boots Washer and Brichant looked im and other equipment before the pressive. The Belgian captain, match or during the interval. Pierre Geethard, said he hoped If you have

reason for Brichont would reach top form doubt you may require to as a result of additional practice

on Wednesday. examine a player's beois etc., at tomorrow and France-Presse. any time.

עמם

As far as the Army FA Re- ferees are concerned, they will NOT be instructed to exarning

Ти

In

practice

any boots before the game Floodlit Soccer

unless asked to do so or have doubt themselves.

My congratulations to I.-M. MaTAVISH on his fine articles but let him be sure of his facts before publiention.

Yours faithfully, A. C. A. WALKER,

London, Nov. 30.

football Results of friendly matches played under flood- lights tonight were:

Bury 3, Admira FC (Austria)

1.

Major.

Portsmouth 1, United 1-Reuter.

Newcastle

Ole aand

Poul Holm (Decmark)-Router.

Jensen

BRIAN EDRICH SIGNS UP FOR GLAMORGAN.

of

London, Nav. 30. Brian. Edrich, youngest

cricket England's well-known family, who was not re-engaged by Kent for next season, has signed

#two-year contract with Glamorgan,

Edrich, who is 31, is a left- hand bateman and a keen field. Glamorgan have also signed 17-year-old D. Ritton, a slow left-arm bowler from Sidmouth, Devon-China Mail. Special,

HOME RUGGER

London, Nov. 30. Trinity College (Dublin)_drew- 3-all with Blackheath in a Rugby Union match today--Reuter.

TWO ERRORS LED TO

BILLY STEEL'S TRANSFER REQUEST

By TOMMY MUIRHEAD

Billy Steel wants a transfer from Dundee, I am not surprised. I have been expecting such a request for some time. And as he lles awake these nights won. dering what is in the future, Billy must keep saying to himself: "If only I had gone to Arsenal."

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YOU see it without the Douglas's novel, it is about

use of glasses"-for, Roman who superintends the

Crucifixion, who casts lots for Australian observers also re- onco advertisement relies on Christ's Robe, wins and is fused to claim any premature understatement. You almost see "The Robe" with becomes a Christian.

Can tormented by remorse until he victories they remember that in 1948 America's Jack Kramer and It is thus ab to use a good Company played unimpressively your eyes shut.

Professor Henri Chretien's deal of, the material with which in the preliminary tourneys, then recent Biblical films have made | won a 6-0 tweep" in the Davis invention Cinemascope was only too famillar: market-Cup matches. privately demonstrated in scene, palace-scene, torture, London some months ago. Imperial dementia, suggestions the USLTA cannot make any All factors taken into account, But "The Robe" is the first of orgy.

of want defend of the the process, and perhaps All the same I am sorry to see believe that the USA will beat Americans seemed agreed they ought to remind you that an yet another films fostering the Belgium's Philippe Washer end anamorphic lens is used, popular notion that great Rome and that the compressed was just a collection of Nazis Jacques Brichant in the Inter-

Belgium zone final, after

has image so recorded is ex-in short rkkis.

eliminated India in Inter-zone The scene of the Cruciixion, match. panded and rectified when

Imercifully, is handled with

It is taken for granted that projected.

restraint broken caly by a bit of Trebert and Seixas are too good By this means it is possible atrocious

1rom BENEZ

Vietor for the Belgians-United Press. single camera and

Mature, who as a Christian slave with a

a is called on to display emotions single projector to produce

outside his usual manly range, Comfortable, Safe, Invisible wide picture, not so wide that of Cinerama with its three And introduction of the

the and three projectors, @gure of Christ, geen first in the cameras

distance but goodness knows wide enough.

"The Robe" is shown on and later

be obscured screen roughly two-and-a-half burden of the Cross, though times as wide as it is high. The perso

The personally found it distasteful, screen is slightly concave; the seemed to cause no offence to an curve and the width together audience presumably containing may give a tiny

feeling

depth of

a fair proportion of Christians. in the pleture, but this three- dimensional quality is no

"The Robe," I suppose, might noticeable than in many four- be a good deal worse, and prob- by-three flat films, for instance ably would be were it not for In the extract from "Moulin the playing of the Roman con- together with vert by Richard Burton, who Rouge" which,

debased other snippets, is shown at the brings to the most

an air of morose good Odeon before the main piece.

"The Robe" is not stereo-braco. scople, and it is remarkable I will except the final shot, in

for not its acreage,

Its knife- which, accompanied

Jean by throwing. IL is. however, Simmons in,

apparently, Court stereophonic, voices coming not dress, he goes to martyrdoma from a fixed point but from the scene which, had I not under- appropriate side of the screen-gone the rest. of the film, an effect which I and distract hould have taken for the last ing or merely carsplitting. entrance of Prince and, Princess

Charming in the pantomime.

more more

RELUCTANTLY I have to say.

that it is remarkable for little else. Based on Lloyd C.

MR BRUNDAGE RETIRES FROM USOA

riding into tha!

•

by

to

ugun) THE Alm, taco, is the

vulgarising stuff; and judre Cinemascope on this evidence would be unfair. The weaknesses of the bystem are obvious. The difficulites of com- the position in ribbon-space: tendency of figures in close shot Washington, Nov. 30. to Inok squat at first sight the Mr Avery Brundage retired film would seem to have thrown today as president of the United away such advantages as it has States Olymple Association. Mr won over the stage. Kenneth L. Wilson of Chicago A cinema which can take in so was chosen his successor.

much at time may well neglect Mr Brundage, head of the to build its scenes with shots USOA for 25 years, remains from varying angite and President of the International tances, and in any case on the Olymple Committee. He was new-shaped screen the old use elected to that post last year of detall in close-up is almost for an eight-year term.

impossible.

Mr Brundage said the Inter- national job is enough to keep

dis.

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"The Robe" when Cinemascope Ladies: Cold Wave

Yet there are cecasions in BEAUTY PARLOUR six men bury and I thought serves the composition: in the Machineless Wave should retire from the US. Committee."

"United Press.

SEEDED TEAMS FOR THE

WORLD CUP

in

grouping at the Crucifixion, in a Shampoo & Set chase with four Gents: Hair Cut harnessed white horses galloping

senscape,

1

abreast and the pursuers strung

across a

wood,

a dork

out what I

I cannot understand is why the proportions of the should always remain

Zurich, Nov. 30. rigid. Years ago Griffith in The olit sedcd teams for "Intolerance created splendid next r's World Football effects of height or width 'by. Championship in Switzerland

land masking the screen vertically or were named tonight as follows: horizontally.

Hun

Why not mask it today? For Uruguay (ths holders),

England, Italy, I believe that there" aro posal- gay, Austria, France, Spain and the winners bilities in the wide frame; but to of the South American "group, insist that it must servo for which consists of Benall, Faru" every scene may mean the death

of the cinema as an art.

Yes, Billy Steel could have gone to Arsenal three years ago. But there la a' Imit wage in England-not in Scotland.

hini Dundee went to the final of the The team was still not play. Arsenal could only pay

and won

the ing well, and I know Steel was £10 signing feo, £14 a week Scottish Cup

unhappy. It must have been-a playing,

close season. League Cup two years running

Steel played a major port in shock, however, to be told just Dundee could pay him £20 signing fecand дум amount these achievements. And per- before the match against Stirling they cared to as wages. Billy's sonality Half-back Alfie Boyd Albion that he had been guy and Chile-Reuter.

could dropped. who motto then was: "A bird in the was a captain

restrain the temperamental. Dundee should agree to trans- hand."

was 0 football fer him, but they will probably When Billy aligned, for Dundee genius. Steel

find that the player for whom will now fetch Utle

ho was opening a sports business genius,

in Glasgow, and one of the Unfortunately, Alle Boyd they paid £23,000 three years

more

condiilons of bis signing was emigrated to South Africa in a third of that sum,

Steel had gone

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