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DOWN TO EARTH

Ken Rosewall of

Australia gets down to earth during his match against A. Segal of South Africa. It was a terriffe duel and went to four hard fought sets before Russewall triumphed 7-5, 4-6, 8-6, 8-6.~Reuter- photo.

Excelsissimus

By HENRY LONGHURST

THỂ CHÍNH NAM, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1954.

BOB APPLEYARD TO MAKE HIS TEST DEBUT AGAINST PAKISTAN

London, June 27.

Bob Appleyard, the Yorkshire fast medium or offspin bowler, heard today on his 30th birthday that he had been selected to make his first appearance for England next Thursday in the second Test against Pakis- tan at Nottingham.

The team is: D. S. Sheppard (Sussex), captain, T. E. Bailey (Essex), P. B. H. May (Surrey); R. t. Simpson (Nottinghamshire), D. C. 8. Compton (Middlesex), T. Graveney (Gloucestershire), T. G. Evans (Kent), A. V. Bedser (Surrey), J. Wardle (Yorkshirë), B. Statham (Lancashire), R. Appleyard (Yorkshire). The twelfth man is Titmus (Middlesex).

Appleyard's Inclusion

obo At Nottingham: Glamorgan then by driving over the of four changes from the pide; 180 (Dooland, right-arm lug-bowier's head for four. that drew the rain-ruined first break six for $7), Nottingham- Yorkshire ind scored 242 for Test

sshire 133 for four.

at Lord's carlier

but ho is only a new

elp from Sheppard, whose i cholec

as captain instead of the indiaposed "Hutton was ab- noanced Int Thursday Albe Besser und Graverley return to the side. Those amitted ar W.J. Edrich

(Middlesex) and the two offspinners, Laker (Sur- rey) und Tottersålt (Lança- shire)

Appleyards selection for England marks the climax of a magnificent fight against the

ness

which threatened to end his cricket career.

He leaped into the front rarik In 1961, when in his first full season he shattered all records by

taking 200 wickets at a cost of only 14.14 filece

But In 1952 he fell ill with

Jung trouble And fa on Line there were serious doubls about his ever playing gain, After long treatment, however, be returned to the game this Already this season he hns inken €7 wickets 1+1 average cost of 15.20 each. Only

Australians, the ho

At Worcester: Sussex 305 for oight, (Cox 181. Potter 88 veraus Worcestershire. Reuter.

PAKISTAN MATCH

Sheffield, June 28,

aix at toh. Pakistan owned much to their 10-year-old 1:g-break bowler Khali Hassan, who after claiming the wicker of Lawson forced A fale atroke from

riley,

when he was jooklist set. Watson and Yardity

could not smulate tho free Put in to bat, Yorkshire lost scoring of the earlier batsmen, 18-year-old opening bataman The left-handed Watson was 45 Ken Taylor at 10, but recover-minutes uver 12 runs before ed to score 123 for two in two falling at 178. After Yardley's hours before lunch,

dismissal Close and Illingworth stayed together until tea.

and Victor

Frank Lowson Wilson punished the bowling to add 80 runs in 80 minutes for the second wicket. Lowson hit at every opportunity and be fore lunch took three fours off from medium- successive balls

Wazir About packed Khalid 15,000 people watched the play.

In two hours after tea, York-

litre hammered 201 off a tired attack, and were 433 for rane wickets at the close.

Brian Close, the chief obstacio to the Pakisibal bowling, was then 123 not ouk

Close's eighth wicket partner ship with Illingworth realised 04 Lowson and Lester continued only 70 minutes, the left- to force the pace after lunch.hander reached his century i They had added 59 in half an just over two hours and there hour when both fell. Lowson, was never

ir kis who hit five fours in his 70, mnings.

a bad stroke After lingworth had scored in two and a half hours, been bowled by the persistent played on. Lester, at the wicket Khalid Hassati, Wardle arrived a mero 35 minutes for his 37 to play havoc with the bowling.

of his runs came tours he raced to 72 out of 97 in

43 thinutes. There was another lively partnership between Close and Booth before the finish.- Reuter.

runs, was

While nothing will induce nie to indulge in the ever wearisome Grace-Hobbs-Bradman type of argument as relative to golf 1 am prepared to aver that the records proclaim Bobby Jones to hure been the greatest golfer of | (74) arct Tribe (68) have dis-in

all time.

Here are some of the things he did. After his "seven lean years,” during which he was so often the favourite and never the winner, he was for eight successive years either amateur or open champion of the United States: he won the E.S. Open four times, the US. Amateur five Fimes, The British Open three times, and the British Amateur oner,

mised more batsinon.

Dooland Twenty-eight of the wicket. Smething three sixes and ve

Sheppard, in his first match as England's captain, ht foitr regular opening bowlers but, In the absence of both Laker and ww employ Appleyard in his Tattersall, it Kecmis certain he

offspin role and give the new ball to Statham and Bedser with | Bailey in reserve.

The return of Bedper Was Every schoolboy knows that į petitive goll-only a quarter as generally anticipated He he won all four in 1920, the year; museb,

the great selected originally for the first perhaps, as of hus Girona Stam, and r.fired professionals whom he defeated || Test, 1:1 withdrew through with no turtner worlda to zen- for so long

Abrosius and Tattersall came in quer, Iow many know that he

ne his deputy. was only 20 of the Unie--and 110

that

1922 onwards.

any

amateur ever finished ahead of hun iz

stroke open competition?

Boswell in the

ako

Late

0

13.

of

Atlanta, In 20

they 340153 travelled tens of thousands of Inules

performer

His Journeyings for the cham- plonships were compressed into tive months, and for the rest of the year he got on with his low business and played week-end g: at Atlanta,

Secondly he bad unique power of Inspiring not merely admiration but affection. When he visited Carnoustie with his first tencher, Stewart With born there.

Malden, who together-a

Fogkøler porlienship

that must be almost unique in port.

Now the

Keeleza eteam of writings on Jones have

beg collected by Grantland Rice in the United States ng "The Bobby Junes

and, if the writing! Story," is a little highly coloured by our standards and ir the writer sheds rather frequent tears of emotion, still, it is a great story and makes one hope that some- Fhu |: ean be published in Engund.

Two things about Jones, apart from his record, Impress thein- selves on th mind. Onc 16 that he played so tig

com-

626 miles Grand Prix motor race here today.

an almost

the mayor and half the town were waiting at the ferry welcome him. When, six years after his last public appearance, four-ball he playod a friendly at St. Andrews, several thousand people lined the fairway. all regarding tim

old friend.

They drove a now three-litre | break....."

Ferrari,

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and

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not

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Graveney, who displaces Ed- rich, is in magnificent form at the moment, àhë thita fo his great opportunity to establish himself.--Reuter,

COUNTT CRICKET

boundaries, Yardley and Watson took time settle in and the crowd be, came restive. Yardley quietened

to

Cockell Is The Least Concerned Of All About That Title Fight

British Heavyweight Champion Don Corkell is sitting

on top of a bag of gold, but you would not think so. He ià thể lêast cofkërned man in the world about it. Much more vital to him is how the pigs and chlekens are thriving on his Sussex farm.

London, June 20. Alec Bedser, the England and Surrey fast medium bowler,

Whether he will ever be able to prise open that bag took seven for 38 against Hump- shire in the English County of gold is quite another matter. His manager, John Cricket Championship today--a Simpson, and promoter, Jack Solomons, are working at bread int to England's selec- tors who on Sunday pick Eng- top pressure trying to clinch a fight for the Battersea lant's side for the second Test Blacksmith with Rocky Marciano for the American's world

against Pakistan that inp form.

is

in

More welcome news for the

three overs (two

dens).

tcam mate, player Peter

title, but the possibility gets more remote each day. I think so anyhow, and I feel Don does too,

The last thing the United He is completely absorbed in Statce boxing, authorities

have

MEMORIAL TO A GREAT CRICKETER

B

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A mějšřid) (ồ the Essex and England fast bowler, Kenneth Farnes, was unveiled by formier Elgland captain G. O. (“Gubby”) Allen on the Gallows Ground corner, Romford, Essex, on June 19.

Fürnes had often played for his club, Gidea Park, on this ground before ho was killed while serving with the Royal Air Force in the last war.

With Allen is DF Sherard Faulkuer.Allison, Bishop of Chelmsford, who dedicated the memörkit which is in the form of å lärge modern scoreboard. Allen was Farnes' captain in the England team.—Reuterphoto,

They'll Try

Out Don

To Edge Cockell

Says HAROLD MAYES

Don Cockell's manager, John Simpson, is already taking active steps to try to got the British Heavyweight Champlon an immediate shot at the world title.

After I had told him that there were moves in the States to sidetrack the former Battersea blacksmith, Simpson at once wired the British Boxing Board of Control urging them to press Cockoll's claims.

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How did I know that Cockell | ply is; "Rockey's just bad was not No. 1 favourite is the fight. Why start thinking about September challenger for Rociry the next one?" Märelpho apart from Having Humber of suggested it on a Occasions?

I put in a transatlantic tele- phone call to Ai Weill, mander

CHARLES AGAIN

But he stacked that one away on the shelf when I asked him

Cockell would be the next opponent. "I

want a week to

now, for there's no doubt that he came through his toughest con- test agairisi

fit a supremely Charles with flying colours.

the cut eye. That's Forget

He happened to him before. had ten slitches, but the fight he won the title from Jersey Joe Walcott, In Philadelphia, I VDS In

Doctor Vincent

of the fighter who kept his title think that one, over," I replied, faith, what "*"/R the Warwick

1ri that spot of organised mayhem with Ezzard Charles in Yankee Stadium, to oak him | what next.

Now I know from experience that when you normally put that question

former to the Madison Square Garden marca maker, who now controls Maretano empire, his stock re-

the

Hungary Cancels Proposed Soccer

will his farming activites, and, as he Tour Of Brazil

Berne, June 28. Gintar Sebes, the Hun-

no

tween the

Ed sppeared to Bardicilo most had to use a

Since there

definite leaning towards

sewing machine on him. Cockell, I asked whether the winner of the July contest. be- As for the suggestion that the Elant Cuban, Nino fight will have taken so much Valdes, and the new American out of him that he could be

22-year-old Tommy come soft touch his next Turicano" Harrison, was the opponent on, well, you can forget to be preferred as the next that one, too. If ever there's for the chopping-block In been an indestructible heavy- September.

weight in my bdolt it's that so Welll brustied that right aptiy-named Rock himself. aside. As far da, he wás, con- i cattathly think that Charles that pair obviously has taken some of the steam out didn't rate. "What, then," I of him, and that, from Cockell's asked, "is the position?"

point of view, is all to the good. "Well, you know, it was one and strce Charles has had his hell of a fight with Charles, moment, I think that Don should

certathly, hava his. and a return would be a rent draw. It looks as if we'll have to consider that. one Very seriously," said Welli,

NEXT IN SEATTLE

But Well is the last person

do is jeopardise the chance of so rightly says, "the farm is my the most prized crown in boxing hope for a contented future, a slipping from their grasp.

peaceful old age for my wife | What they

they are and myself and for the

in the world to be blustered into oduch determined to hold, and it is n

When I told Simpsons of that | giving him it. He controls a td, and it is a ton of my children, Boxing lgarian Minister of Sport conversation, he said: "If that's million-dollar property, and ink thousand to one

not. am lucky enough to und Ezzard Charles are tied up get a world aght, so well and last night announced the the position, it makes Marelano knows it What's more, 1 tick for a return contest to the exe good, but I shall be quite as cancellation of the Hun- a greater Champidh of New York Marciano will go on being a happy without it." Aid sccipe gatlan football touf of than he was before. The inter-million-dollar property for some

national Boxing Club control time to come.

In the meantime as the wrangling goes on, all ex- pect Cockell's fatet fight to be In Seattle-hometown of his latest victim, Harry Matthews

so would 1.

FORT WILLIAM MARATHON

Becard

"I looks as if they, whrit first,

America American, third an American da Mardand's opponents, and that only when they're forced to take "I should not be at all sur Cockel will they do so, prised if Brazil ware to be "But the more they dodge thrown out of the FIFA (the Cockell the better it will, make

The afers

fact don't

International Football Federn him to fight they

tion) following today's incidents," one FIFA official said.

English FA cits watching

that He is a Better, then

many

sttows

on July 20,

Title fight or no tilla Oght. The Don intends to keep rolling din.

Boxing Promoter's Home BombedTM

Chelsea, Mass., June 26. The home of a bolding promo- ter was ripped early today by

He was not fit to play in the first Test at Lord's here earlier Many of

great this month. figures feature, of course, in the Boliby Jones saga, Joyce selectors was 117 not oul by Wethered, for instance, playing Bedser's County at Atlanta with Charley Yates the fellow Tesi against Jones

Dorothy May. Kirby when Joyce wint round

May, captaining Surrey in the in 71 and was only beaten 2 obsence of

Stuart Surridge and I level by Jonci, and Yates did not "rome in for the first and put. Hampshire in

(knee trouble), won the toss elusion of Cockell.

first. 14 holes.

They were all out for 07 in In fact,

it has already been what Marciano did to Charlés, Brazil following incidents in tako had chasiet and it's Hawthorn Wins And Harry Vardon, then past

three hours.

mooted in the New York preas

yesterday'a World Cup quite obvious that, they don't 00, losing the 1920 U.S. Open

Brian Statham, with bis fast that Don should fight yet an- Cockell says that he thinks His quarter-final between Hun- intend to have anyone fight for through the high wind in the

modlum bowling, and offbreaker other final eliminator with their weight has become stabilised at gary and Brazil. Grand Prix With

the title who lift under their final round. What better

Roy Tattersall, who may also No, 1 contender hap

after, Charles afteen stone, but he cannot take i

control

if they can possibly been written of the old master

be considered for the next Test or the Argentinian Valdes when any chances and he stays in con- Many Football Italian At Monza then Keeler's

ser which begins at Nottingham on those

Federation help it.. "Vardon's

have settled their Unuous training. Thus he is delegates assembled here feol face Thursday, were both prominent little argument. was the most patient I had ever

gaining compulsory benefit. It that the main fault lay with the

IF THEY DODGE....... seemed seen. It

for Lancashire against the playin

In other words Cocken is still truc rather

that he is rotund, very Brazilians for Sunday's frucas Monza, Italy, June 27.

face of some quics, placid old

Derbyshire.

two fights away from the World much so, but it is hard muscle and that they, Boro thờ main Mike Hawthorn of Britain minister, resigned to the

Statham took four for 28 and Championship bout.

and not fat, and he je a super-responsibility for the battle in and his Italian co-driver, too kindly usage of this world

Tattersall four for 39 to help

14 STITCHES

latively fine boxer and light on the corridors on the way to the Umberto Maglioli, won the Never a flicker of resent

diamiss Derbyshire for. 180.

his feet for such a heavy and dressing rooms, face, the natural resentful feel-the close. Edwin ment crossed Harry Varxion's

Lancashire were 32 for six by Add to that

the fact that short mah. Smith, Der-Charles was ED badly beaten ing What follows

bystfire's young offspinner, took and battered by Rocky and that bad

three wickets for two runs in Marciano is in no great shope Or Ted Ray, leaving his first

of them mat- fhliselt with fourteen sütches in Hawthorn arrived in Monza pult four foot short en the last

the face. from England only just in tinte green and then learning that he

At the second Test venue They could not possibly meet Bruce to take part in the race..

Dooland, Nottingham for, another six months, so the had "that to win? The big shire Australian legbreak, bown earliest Cockell could hope for

Fort William, Scotland, Driving spectacularly

dodging, I shall Oxheyman" delicious phrase

Juho 27:

No one was injured in the catablished the lead of the car he "promptly handed his club back who took six for 57, Glamorgan, alt at the title is next summer. shared with Maglioll in the fifth to his caddle; removed the habl-shire, the championship leaders,

Twenty-four runners bolted the dressing room incidents must vak the Board of Control 60 who yesterday boat Warwicks-

through a snow storm near the alarma, the fact that they were else to fight for the World Cham neighbourhood.

have regarded with something of nofinute Cockell and somcore blists, which shook the entire Cockell, most philosophical of top of the 4,400-feet Ben Nevis due to tour Brazil in two years plotiship; if he isn't accepted for lap and kept it almost through- tuol out the 180-lap ivca.

trolled ut, lighted it, puft-

from his mouth; calm-woro all out for 180, Reuter. creatures, takes all that into ac-Britain's highest mountain time.

The explosions were set off Second place was taken by took back his putter from the

Marciano, That is the only way under ed away cd

count without the bat of an eye in the hirtual 14-mkó marathon two or three times, CLOSE OF PLAY SCORES

the bedroom, of sports out he added lid or any show of emotion, and from here today. another of the new 750 Scaddie, and without any more

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thers goes on to tell you, that he Tho winner

I'm a long way from going rometer Sam Silverman, but he Ferraris driven by Frollan Gon-

was Brian ing aflat what happenel today.

and his family were out of zales of Argentina and Maurice to-do sent down the put that Cricket close of

has two hundred, more chickeris Kenney, 21, local bricklayer if the English FA omitted Brzone with Simpson in rating on. Inventators Tooked into Trintignant,

A texto play score and afty more ples on Diamond whose time was one hour 37 from any toth they might make wakidney dhly, is champion, of the motive of the straps on made him champion." Third was a three-litre 250

(Stathom right-arm fast medium arm, Horam, Gian this time minutes, four seconds. China in the near future of South New York. Frankly, I think that Silverman's life the third pafort M.M. Ferrari driven by the on both sides of

Some of the young gentlemen, for 20, Tattersall, right-em

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the Atlantic, or-break four for 39), Lain- Gerino Gerini,

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