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WILL SIR GORDON

STILL HAVE TO

GET UP EARLY

In':

2. TOD

"By ROBIN GOODFELLOW

Sir Gordon Richards, Champión Jockey 26 tiles, is "Good going to train racehorses instead of ride them. luck to him." you may have murmured as you read this

news.

Possibly you reflected that his new job would suit him hicably It probably will, but you may have

missed the point

of his ca****.

Would you

he is about to tackle the toughest job

A good health -,

NOW YOU

can see why

the

at the age of 50, having worked | successful flot-vace jockey's life hard, resched the pinnacle f 1 comparatively worry-free. He The trainer Itzal

koks after Nu 1. your profession, well endowed with the world's outly bar to look after No 1, goods, tackle

Job in- but everything up to No 101. volving just as much burl work.

responsibilit twice as much

እኔ

now

and the times the weary"

belakan on tangent by weight troubles)

New back to Sir Gordon un trainer. After he has cicured up the vice he may motor or By off tu some raed meeting where he is running, a horse or two.

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may ko

out with the

second wť“ of horses ni exer-

Bri the inckle

THE FACTORN

That's what the switch mucemsful jucherry

from

mal

horses involvin

a string of Filet-

If the her

morning.

air good you worry

rink of refidents 14%,

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about the

the

An afternoon at home after And ailments lunch (at least he can have two af, helping of everything) may be

£ 150,000 worth

horsesh on the bout.

ir the followed by a short nap-he was

hortes are bad you wonder how up early and Beckhampton alr

you can even

3 in the fut

One

Licent

race. ridu į la strong. Then more office work

Win #

troubles the

trafoinut today

followed by

"evening stables“

when he will visit every hotse wluets in his yurd, looking

that "doubtful" leg here, a sure back

osing to tu reonomy of the there, pay allention to detail. Tirk there as little or no prom questioning, planning and devid- from

Trakmes have

fees

Manying, and at the same time being 10 Let to make | churning to any visiting patro If that Is not 41

In the evening the phone whi worrying Bann tell me what it

ring and ung. Patrons want to

rdzoet Unit horses A Su Gord. in the threshold kno

cotlengu inquantes. oh b

has accepted this friendly 24, U

"Are you going to run your coll fur reveral TEASONS.

at Salisbury next week?" There le could 10 Ele devem FACTOR

are Jockey to engage and there itude belire soar the Turf than

soinetines calls from Windem Churchil Su

Free, which we courteously. answered provided they are ma alter

o'clock trainers eatri the bed as a tale.

shablet

have done from pulltanes Parts E

Another

AGROCE

Ket

111

St

052

The

Circlesti I've you would be phone at Marlborough

stol, a farm, an

I like my holt-

othes interest

Saa zestand every year, atus Ten

A PLEASURE

Finally, let Lacet of a trainer's

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1984.

My brother Geoff and I practise these tricky but vital pitch shots for haûts. It helps to do the work together. Note my stilish wrist at the start of the back. swing and Geoff's the follow-through with the club-head. That follow-through is

Indeed, in most golf shots. one of the secrets of success in this shot

Recreio

"Blues" No Longer Certain Of The

League Championship

By “TOUCHER”

SENSIN will fireen conditions permitting, the Colony Lawn Bowls League approach closer to its end this afternoon with a farther full programme of matches. With Recreio "Blues" and Indian Recreation Club enjoying a fairly substantial lead in the First and Second Divisions, matches in these divisions will be mainly a matter of consolidation for the league leaders and a fight for survival in the race by the contenders.

YOUR

YOU SHOULD MAKE

PRACTICE SESSIONS MEAN SOMETHING

Says

BERNARD HUNT

Whether you are playing for big money prizes or just to improve your game, you should make your practice sessions mean something. In other words, you should practise with an objective:

You may have tidliced some of the lending professionals-the American boya particularly-making notes on their cards during their practice rounds before big tournaments. And you may have wondered what it has all been about,

If I'll tell you. The pros know right elbow doesn't quite turi as club head still do its work.

.03 most that the ability to play the right easily

people my you can make friends with your shot at the right time means brother Geoff's for „ance- | number 2, you will be on good

So the best of

them

and the flatter type of swing is terms with all your irons. money. carefully note the number of the mill best FOR ME But the up-

i often wish we had some of iron they tuite for their ap-right swing is best FOR GEOFF proach shots to vitious holes os and, quite probably, for you, tou. the American style "golf ranges” over here. Apparently they are they play round the competition

So learn from my experience cropping up all over the place in

have a

problem, the US. You can pop into one when you

listen 10 the million of these ranges, and for a dollar,' don't advisers who love to talk golf get 200 balls to hit down a fairway with and genuinely hy to be help clearly If they

then and as often rul. Go to the man who knows pouts wet up every 50 yards. happens that they have mainly his job your pro-get expert

course.

In the club houso afterwards they go through the cart careialy and analyse their shots.

pinyed, say,

number 7, number advice und act on 11.

tu

gobut to T

fur

idea

inarked

Balla are provided and swept

up afterward by the sweepersaha otten

mechanical think a general many of us shirk practice bo

to cause we hate the job of re- That the fact that inteliigenly

0, or number 3 from shots

clubs }{ you the greens, those are the they go out and use in hourly practice-ground perstores concentrated prac workout, it is a good tice. Τ

It out, it start with your pitching clubs trieving the balls wo nit. think You

and gradually work up to your does not alter makes very sound sense.

always If you plan your own practice woods bit more, it will make just asaway to a specific torgel much sense.

that you I know that many people simply would suggest to you always ish your ression on don't carry a number 2, because the businesa, They are at it the practice-ground with 20 they are afraid to use it But from daybrook to nightfall,

Maybe minutes on the putting green. So you needn't be afraid in prac-

that's why they ad many people think only in terms lier. Give in gand go, let the quite good golfers!

a

hammering

And

golfer.

brity

probably

practice

The

Americans

The first thing I don't duck your mumber 2 iron. «plied, can make you a better

of their driver and their trons, and bang away merrily with these clubs. Yet we all play nearly half our shots on the putting green.

Horton

Smith, the Pecat American golfer, always made a of finishing his practice

point

a long session on the put- Ung green.

And even when t

his best form, he was not above

using his famous "[Wo

50 @ 27 trick.

In

13

I

to these and get edged out at the | Rechein friedi ∙Blues" Recreio make the First Division Charn-tape by any one of the four of KOC

them Bve contending clubs. plonchip certainty for

wh a goo

USRC Recreio scored out Downd when they

Talkoo and #HKCC brilian! Kowloon Cricket Club lust week over

PRC they reproduce the same form, 4-1 last Saturday.

the Indians

may be in for sqund by

KBGC

1-4

2 17

6 41

With

14

80

41

CCC

13

8 0

3372

13

308 272

L+

30 M 17

13

3 0 10 18

Third Division

will give Sir Gordon TRATTATING

By working if pleasure Pas to keep all that up flat

That

LE ADW our Gordon

that

mat

ntert, live, athletic lite man apprentices

JIK

to

لان

As

of this defeat | severe shock this afternoon. result i is still that possibility of there ogr ine tekana

the White this attempt He which

being overtaken by KCC

indians thels

consolidate

their Fr in the Anal count. Two and a

position is on, a desperate fight | IRC half points ahead of the Cricket for survival will be seen at KERC Club bowlers, they are expected Happy Valley between Craigen- KCC to collect maxim points

gower Cricket Club and Talkoo. USRC

PRC from the Police this afternoon.

Whichever team fails to take | HRFC

The Lalnung OL

Apprenticeship

fs

of attractive personality the all told meaning, except that reason why he is doubling his masters are more humane, silli

tter when applies 2

racing

boy responsibilities at

Hence- contemplating signs on by a trainer. many m halving them is that he wants orth he is under the full contrul to be a trainer.

or his master. He lives in, or

boarded vut.

master undertakes to look after him, to [teuch lum to be a good stables man, to ride, and, if he shapes thon | well, to give me every chance

tu be a jockey.

All high- Cotong ha Docu

necepty challenges

Hecause

he hatar but heart and rasi

Le Pin up his streve

the next chup. he wi

Ta bet -1 4 14 1

career in tab.

been.

have

luck to micr

slop; mene

over labore

Colling

1

I

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Thut was how Sir Gordon introduced to the Turfa

ways was

QUAN

You litte

hny with #bright vyo. and curty 1 Juck

hour, and

MOTTY thisrite.

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the

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Staff Ingly n fork PervMIDI, and Belfas Balery. To name le, have accomplished

switch remarkably well

the

He

Although Guth as

"re- fired," his new job will mean Just the same early rising will motor the few made From Marlborough ILA Beckhampton to superv

early mortung work in all wenthers. Then to breakfast Next a quick

of his horses

perusal of the

morning mail

with the secretary, followed by

Since then he uns performed Brush service tu

his crown

an anuzing

He could career not by training scores of classle winners, althougr I hope the he dow, but, from among (segrés et scrapping, noisy, high-

blighters spirited youn

wbo will pass through his hands the next ten years, producing us 'The Just Die mare Sir Gordon sonnet the belter.

have

in their other three romain-four points in this match might (CCC ing matches they are likely to as well say goodbye to whatever

frown slender four points

hoper they Kather Recreio Whites, but anything overtaking the Indians. may yet happen in their Gutstanding

matches

two

aguhist the unpredictable Kowloon Bowling Green Club, who have already to their credit one vic- tory over the KCC.

TO # 0 2 3514

0 70 234

10 7 0 3 33

became

bit"

Over here, at course, it

The "two-sixpences" trick. The whole thing Wus designed to help

him take the

putter back and push it through straight.

TRICK WORTH COPYING

He used to put one sixpence alout: a foot behind his practice 7 264 ball and another about a foot in

6 0 4 29 50

10

12

10 3 0

0 1 0 5 20

7 20

front both in line with the putt to the hole, ife then made his

aro

the best practisers in

Britain Finds A

New

Motor

Cycling Star

British motor cycling has found the new young race rider to fill the gap left in turn by Geoff Duke, Dickle Dale, Fergus Anderson and Reg Armstrong, all of whom now ride Italian machines.

He is John Surtees, 20-year-old from Addington,

13 2011 14% putter head go over the one at Surrey, To Surtees goes the distinction of being one of

of

MR BROWN'S

Talkoo. after a stretch brilliant wins, seemed to meet some difficulty in their with

There was quite a line-ups, great deal of reshuffling in their rinks Inat week and the same difficulty may put them out of the running for Second Division honours this afternoon.

In the Third Division, India.

the Jesque-

GRAND PRIX CHALLENGE

Thờ back

and carry through the few men to lend World Champion Duke round a race after hitting the bally to pass

A

Con

yoner

truck.

or drop un to, the one in Horton, of course, was

He first did it when both he) Championships, with riders' four beautiful putior, and his trick and Duke were riding standard best scores counting, from a is well worth adopting. If you motorcycles.

Recently, in the total of eight races, putter head 500 e.e. keep

BMCRC Championship Mingels, reigning Champion, straight in line for a foot before at Silverstone, he did it again. has 27 polms (three firsts und a the ball and a foot after it you Again he had standard ma- fourth), Leloup has 20 (two will sink many more putts than chine, Duke rode the latest four-seconds and two thirds), and you misa.

cylinder Italian Gilera.

Smith and another Belgian, who have each scored a first and a Then, well in the lead, Surtees second place, come next with 14 was halted by a wrecked engine, cach,

To find a motor cycle fast

You

team.

For the Kowloons Cricket Club it will not merely be a matter of hopeful expertation that the

On the practice ground itself Blues will drop one match bul

Apart from his tractor the golden rule is to have a action also of

ไ tring

Club Beertation to

who are only interests, Mr David Brown, definite objective like the point behlad collect as many points as they one

pros have when they concentrate cun in their remaining matches, jeung Filipino Club, will be the Yorkshire industrialist, the clubs they are likely to enough and reliable enough to There are still two meetings,

afforded 11

skill, Surtees good opportunity is head of the Aston Martin need most in a particular tourna match his They will have to get at least

016

trking the and Lagonda motor-car con- ment. our points from Recreio Whites us afternoon of

It is no use just banging next season ride for a this afternoon to remain within lead in this division. They are cerns, and his ambitious away blindly at 100 balls.

of chance strong striking distance of the League-conceded

must have a point of alm--a dag the plans for the future in re or post-and you must hit to- fve points taktira leading Blues.

his Pofler, while the Filipino Club gard to mot racing wards il. After all, golf is more truy

two activities are considerable. than just making contact with the ball. You must command There never has been a Grond|both direction and distance, to Prix car from the Aston Martinį be any good. So see to it that or Lagonda works, but Mr you are specific next time you Brown intends to alter all that, go out to practise. Noted

war before the

the

#1

what I can best call by the old The "Bishop" Of

Army term "Orders

said The head lnd--I almost RSM---comes in n ut dres tions and

Dhen brings In Any stable man who seeks an inter- view with us "CO." Incidental- ly, morale & all-important in a stable yard as it is in a fighting force. Vielories are the best recipe for this,

DAILY PROBLEMS

Sir Gurdan will

Old Trafford

Retires

Affectionately known

JLM

Harry Wil-

ATTRACTIVE

from

drop one OT even points nginst the Hongkong! Though having no bearing on Football Club.

Championship title, the

match between the two Valley rival clubs, Cralgengower omat Indian Recreation Club, will be another attractive match in the First Division this afternoon:

In their first encounter of Scorumpuo, the itens gained convincing 4-1 win, It s coubtful if the Craigengower buwiers can turn the table their rivals this afternon, the Indians should be given closer fight than they were the first match.

on

but

In

Interest jix the Second

matches the "Bishop","

will Division

focused principally liams, chief roundaman at match between Recreio

Recreation Club Old Trafford, is to retire at

Indian

the end of the cricket sen-King's Park.

Hon after 57 years' devoted

25

TODAY'S GÀMÉS

First Division Recreio "Blues" v. PRC KCC v. Recreto Whites CCC v. IRC KDC v. FC KBOC (bye)

Second Division CCC v. TC KCC v. USRC Recreio v. IRC HKFC v. HRCC PRC v. KBGC

Thira División

IRC V. PRC

HKERC v. CCC

02

be the and at

USRC v. KCC

FC v HKFC

LATEST STANDINGS

First Division

Although the Indians are now oventumlly

service to the game, 20 of enjoying a 6%-point lead over

PWbLPs employ bolween 30 and 40 men

fol- their nearest

Fivals, Talkoo Recreio "Blues" 12 10 0 2 44 That will mean a score of daily them at Manchester. problems, to say nothing of a lowing

12 DB 3 4114 years with Club, they are by no means out KCC hefty weekly

10 7 0 4 33 wage bill, Then Derbyshire and nine with of the woods as yet, Alt their IRC

12 7 0 5 33 tough ones-against Recreio this Recreio afternoon and against HKFC, Taikoo and

RCC in the other KBGC three games.

PRC FC

there is the rent and a monthly his native Worcestershire. four remaining matches are CCC

ford bill which will Jun into hundreds of pounds.

SPORTRAIT.

sliter

ation.

Through the years he has come to be looked upon by experts as one of the finest groundɛmèn in the country, with an expert knowledge he has always been ready to pass on to others of his craft for the beneft of the game.

Although he affected little knowledge of cricket itself, ns befits a very busy man anxious to ward off time-wasting gossips, he knew more about it than many so-called experts.

His fund of cricket stories unrivalled and would entrance lovers of the sport were they to bo published.

The badge on his blazer-two brooms crossed with OT: between--Was his own desigo, Achong the several cricket caps he wears in turn is the treďkuréd one by, received from Wash- brook, then, on the verge of his } great career,

Harry de retiring to a house, (mils, from the "lovely

hiro

It is well within the realins of possibility that they may atop one or even more games out of

Another May

13 0 0 7 30 11 0 0 5 29-

07 20% 09 20 0 11 12

KDC

Second Division

IRC

Talkoo HKFC

a 48% 06-42 14 0 0 0 1

of

POP

Poter May, vice-captain MCC's fortheening four team, about will soon be thinking packing his bags for Australia, Just about the sime ibmne, younger brother Johm will stow his cricket gear away for other year,

Berkshire. He is my fall right- John, wifi ja 21. phiyo for hand bat and useful bowler,

This all-rounk! ablišty is one rocon for Berkshire's domina tibi of

Centralbear £hild, Miracle Chairiplobably.

accountancy with

fleth and is also a soccer play

---(London Express Service 3

SORRY SIR- BUT YOU CANT PARK IT HERE.

at

his

must in Sweden and France, to be run, factory and It Smith won both of these.

he could break the Moto-Cross Without monopoly maintained by Belgian

"-(Loudon Express Serated).

But, here's the rub. the two British factories which support road racing, he may be forced-like

Duke, Anderson and company to go to Italy, or perhaps Germany.

considerable development by riders

All Depends On The Chancellor Of

Exchequer

0

the

....AND ANOTHER

Another fast improving molur Another thing-it is no good Shelsley Walsh meetings,

a fault cyclist, this time in the trials The cars have met with considerable going out to practise

been going class, la Jeffrey Smith, also 20, It something has succcas In

sports post-war

to of Birmingham. wrong and you are trying racing, but he is not content.

get it right, surely the best

Without losing interest in TO- Don Gockell, 25-year-old His latest venture is to tackle

have a word with Hability competitions, he has British Heavyweight Chant- thing la to the glarita uf world inator-¦ your pro and let him tell you turned to Moto-Cross-cross plan will fight world title racing by producing his own what to concentrate OIL. An- country racing on motorcycles. Grand Prix car.

other thing-don't listen to too to such good effect that ho la holder Rocky Marciano next many people telling you to du seriously rivalling the Bolglans, June. But wherë? This is a task of considerable this, that or the other thing. Auguste Mingėle and Victor magnitude, when one considers Golf clubs are full of people | Leloup.

Hin New York," stys, Cockell's how much money and work dying to help other people. But

The

John-Simpson!" "I? European

Moto-Cross manager," goes behind such cars as the they aren't full of good advice, Championship is run on similar can see no possible way of Ferrari and Mercedes-Benz, not

Briish lines to the World Road Racing

paying promoter to mention the BRM.

Even with I should know,

purses required." Mr Brown's challenge is my hand upbringing in the game,

"In London," says New York to friendly .succumbed eagerly awaited in ricing cir- I've

promoter Jim Norris, "if Mor- cles, with obvious admiration advice this season. After a few best

cinno

Estard wiis.tigminst for a courageous sportsman who boor rounds, some of my

Charles on September 15, the le not content to permit his pals began to urge me to alter

'Cockèll match will be made and fellow industrialisis, Mr Alfred my style this way, or hit the

that

Get way.

it will take place in Landon, L Owen, of BRM fame and Mr Dafi a bit more

Jack Solomans wants it there?" Tony Vandervell, builder of the more upright; in your swing,"

Roger Bannister, Empire, Mić Vanwell car, to dominate the they said. Foolishly, I tried

Perhope the key to the whole the one thing and them British scene.

the Championi and Josy Barthel; other, and merely fell between Luxembourg's

1,500 Metres problem lies in a statement by Possibly his grenitat admirer the two stools,

Olymple gold medallist will Solomonis Everything now, de- is his 21-year-old daughter

clad in the European Athletic pends on the Chancellor of the Undaunted Angela.

ho makes by

Championships which begin at out in the entertainment serious car accident earlier this

drastic year in which she was involved

I have Anally come to the Berne, Switzerland, on August

tax axt April. I will guarantee to put on the fight in London In as a posserige, she, Has Been potht where I should have begun,

BarmisterAnidied fourth to urb racing cars this season and has and consulted the best coach in shared the wheel of one of her the business, the man who Barthel in the 1952 Olympics No tat oufiant tho, night rõệs father's works biselic team taught me all my golf-my dad at Helsinki. At Berne Barthel Whore Manager Simpson thinks cars wifi Sir Jeremy Boles and I am now practising hard under will also run in the 850 Metres now...for Now York.

his direction, Apparently, my ~(Landon Express Berylce), Tony Everard.,

SURELY THBRE

a

CAN BE KIOS DINJECTIONÉ This is A CUL-DE-SA

.

TAKE ADVICE

A CUE-DE-Séb

I DONT cant

# ITS A

MERCEDES:

29.

BANNISTER v. JOSY BARTHEL NEXT WEEK

Nosey Parker

(London Expreki Karolóesi

Don't risk