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The correct stance is vital If you wish to improve your game,

The bridge hand.

Note how close the tip of the cue is to the cue-ball.

NOT JUST BAD LUCK

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1954.

WHEN GOOD TEAMS FAIL

IT IS A COMBINATION OF CIRCUMSTANCES

Says

TOM FINNEY

Every season, as regular as clockwork, a handful of the 92 teams in the Football League run into a slump. Two teams must be relegated from the First Division and two from the Second Division. So, final failure for at least four is absolutely inevitable.

What causes a slump? There are a hundred possible causes but very often the trouble lies with injuries, loss of key men, lack of adequate reserve strength, or just bad luck. But more often than not it is a combination of most of those troubles.

I remember

TAKE YOUR CUE FROM HORACE LINDRUM

In

Big Breaks Start What's best in

With The Stance

Most amateur players suffer from the feeling that many aspects of the game are completely beyond them, and they can only be mastered by the professional.

SUM

fur this series of articles I am going to try to bridge the gap between the amateur and professional player, and for this purpose I must take you way back. Not to the beginning of the game itself, for that would require the help of an archaeologist to find the table Cleopatra herself was reputed to have owned,

No, we will refer back to at all times comfortable of your thumb, is pressed down about 1850 when a curtain | balancə" "must be maintained. on the table. You will notico William Dufton

piring You will so that the trunk in the photograph how the cue billiards. This was not the is bent well down over the cue, reats between the thumb and billiards we know, today: certain the bridge arm in line with the first Anger, and also the close- strokes were played with the shoulders and cus arm, and butt end of the cue striking the chin down with the matchs of the cue tip to the cue-

ball. cue-ball, one hand was placed you can sight right along the Maybe you have been playing on the knee whilst the other

for many years; maybe, you pro held the cue almost at the tip end.

occasional 20 or 30 at ancoker- but think what it would be like to surprise your opponent with a 50 break.

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From, this control your movements and at the same time obtain the correct sighting of the cue and object balis.

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this; so why not check up on your stance and bridge right

We have come a good way since then. We certainly don't use the butt end of the cue for striking, par do we make up our own rules as we go along. Bus apart from the rules, we have given greater study to the game, until today even our Whether you are five-foot now. Next week I will be back stance is different.

nothing or six-foot something, to help you a step further in the the stance should not vary to right direction. any great extent from the post- tion shown in the photograph that is, if you want to start right and play right,

Let us take the stence for a moment. William Dutton played from an almost upright position, but the position of his fest was almost identical to mine As shown in the photograph.

This is the correct stance; the feet apart, with the left fool further forward and perhaps a little more weight on it, although

Scottish Cup Draw

Glasgow, Oct. 11. Draw for the fourth round of the Scottish Football Association Cup to be played on October 23 resulted today as follows:

Gowdenbeath

United,

veraus

Ayr

"PLOUGHERB THROUGH

Pharlap's Great Rival Dead

I have seen players with their feet together wield a 'cue just as though it were a log of wood. Often they are succesful with

Wollington, Oct. 12. Night March, winner of the their poiting and, in an erratic Melbourne Cup and one of the Bort of way, plough through a greatest racehorses New Zealand game of billiards or neck with

died produced, has at a fair amount of good fortune.brooks stud, Christchurch, aged But their game will not im-

20 after 21 seasons at stud. prove,

of

hag

Lad-

The dark brown horse, by Night Raid from Marse, was the greatest rival of the nights Pharinp

Billiards and mosker demand a high standard of accuracy smoothness and delicacy touch, even with the most power him in five of the richest weigh

and finished second to ful of strokes, and if the very for age races in Australia. foundation of your

Kamo is!

After his first season racing in hope

New wrong, how can you

Zealand he was bought for achieve this?

1,000

to

Now let us look at the. or guineas by the late Alfred Loulsson. When Mr Louisson dinary bridge hand. It is not died three months ago he made duficult to make the correct

Berwick or Glacunacuddin bridge, akhough to begin with special provision In his will that

versus Inverness Town,

Arbroath versus Krechin City, Buckle Thistle versus Queen's Park,

versus Forfor

Dundee United Athletic,

Montrose versus Inverness Caledonians or Grors,

It may cause a slight ache until your muscles become accustomed to the position.

Place your hand flat on the table spreading your fingers fon- wise, draw your Angers up and

raise your thumb against the first Onger. The thick part of Alloa Athletic versus Fraser-your hand, treluding the base burgh,

Peebles versus Lossiemouth - or Forres Mechanics.

SIMPSON AND

· EASTMAN WIN

·PAIRS FINAL

Night March was not to be sold but was to be kept in comfort for the rest of his days-China Mali Special.

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Eight Scottish "B" Division clubs came into the draw for

run over six furlongs at 1613 Peaceful Surrounding the first time. The remaining

GMT at Newmarket tomorrow eight were exempted, and will

are: enter the draw with the "A" Division clubs

fifth

Tophius for the

(no jockey yet), Played before a large gallery

Marwari round, which will be played on which remained despite

Cracknell), the

Eubulides (E. Britt), Royal Palm February 6. Chinu

intermittent rain which started (W. Snaith), Noble Chieftain (F. Special.

to fall during the 13th head, (Barlow), State Trumpeter (E. and continued until the end, Joe Eastman and Big Bill

Alterations in Jockey Club Classification

Mail

The following are the altera tions to the Classification List issued by the Hongkong Jockey.

Gibson, Chilton, Cockburn: To Class 1-Strathian, from Berry, Pearson, Rowley, Downie, | Class 2. McShane.

To Class 2.-Charleroi, from Class 5,

Maga

To Class 3. Squadron Leader, from Class 2.

To Class - 4/Same Again,

Attractive

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when Preston | selves last Saturday night next team: Allen; Carey, Redman; | Club yesterday:---- were relegated from the First | to bottom in the table. Division In season 1948-40 we had setback after setback, none

It is not for me as a League of which seemed possible when player alongside them to make

tho the season opened

They finished eighth in with such criticisms or to suggest what

and should be done to repair the following season

fourth high promise.

position, but it is always in last season. Now they're good Perhaps we were not as major difficulty in a great team enough to be strong runners for from Class 3. strong as we might have been to replace, as the years go on, the Championship and the Cup. To Class in reserves. Perhaps the injury outstanding men on whom both | And yet their team-Wood; to Jimmy Gooch, OUT goal-the style and performance have Foulkes, Burne; Whitefoot, Chil-Power, from Class 8; Probabi

ton, Edwards; Berry, Blanch-lity, from Class G.

To Class -Roue d'Or, from Rower, Taylor, Viollet, Rowley Class ; Rowangten, from Class players practically new.

Ron

now

.

keeper, after two or three games so much depended. when he had been in such brilliant form, had its effect on

Burgess, some results. Maybe my own coach at Swansea, and Bill absence through injury for 23 Nicholson.

now coaching ot You may ask what causes an the individual slump — a player's games didn't help. Perhaps we Tottenham, were probably

best pair club wing haif-personal loss of formi? In my

of

were out of luck and lost points backs we have seen since the experience, It is almost alwayn against the run of the play. war-the. backbone of the team. an injury-trying to play when

But in truth, it was a com-

nn

8.

PROFESSIONAL TENNIS

yeu era mat completely ft.

Tokyo, Oct. 12. bination of those circumstances The club manager, Mr Arthur

Resulta of international pro- COACHING HINT abundance of that pushed us into the Second Rowe has Division,

talent at his disposal. He also

fessional tennis matches played has behind him

briliant Sometimes you sto a goal- Indoors at Yokohama yesterday

from were: If you look at the League pattern of play that is a habit keeper let the ball slip tables today you will be able to and a tradition will his club. his hands. It is an elementary Single: Pancho Gonzales de- associate one or more of such So

cannot imagine the mistake, As

first-class feated Panch Segura 0-3, 0-4 avery circumstanceS with the teams Spurs remaining long in their goalkeeper will tell you, pull the and Frank Sedgman defeated that at the moment are absorbed present precarious state-unless ball into your body, for safe Jack Krarer 0-4, 7-5,

Doubles: Segura, and Sedgman awful problem of all th990 circumstances that hit protection at once whether you avalding relegation or, in the Preston in 1948-9 now foin catch the ball in the air or grab it defeated Gonzales and Kramer

of Third Division' clubs, forces to strike them down. on to the ground.

6-4, 6-8-Reuter. 'the' need to apply for re-

with

tho

election.

SPURS ONCE ON TOP

wa

REBUILDING PROBLEMS.

Another team to give most of the score of bad luck, us a bit of a shock this season'

Forest. Halifax seem to lead the way. are Nottingham

At the time of writing they're thought, that, after finishing in at the foot of the North Section a most challenging fourth of the Third Division. They don last May, Billly Walker's have lost seven matches by the men would be in the vanguard odd goal. That's the wort of of promotion from the Second thing that relegated Preston-Division this season. But, no- chance missed here, a penalty here they are at the moment therband a defensive slip at very close, to the bottom. fatol moment.ge

Russians To Attack Relay Record

London, Oct. 12.

Russian officials have made a special request for a four times 400 Metres Relay event to be put on in the Middlesbrough's slump la floodlit athletics match between London and Moscow to- Tottenham Hotspur, whom we more understandable. They meet at White Hart Lane on were struggling hard for inmorrow, during which they will attack the world record of October 22, have, dropped into season or two botere they three minutes 3.0 seconds set up by a Jamaican team in their worst patch for years oventually dropped into the 1952.

they won the Second Division last May and

new « they're.. Championship,

Division

Giri, the

„Art-2-1980-51, they were First bottom of that the

Divided champions, 2-1951-52 act of rebuilding & D the were second in 1952-53° 4°

ome

Jack Crump, the British manager, told the Russians could field'

ot being

The

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son of Bowling Green atomith), Tamerlane (A. Breas

ley), Our Babu (D. Smith), Row- Veland Ward (W. Rickaby), and off a strong anat challenge by Hugh Lupus (C. Smirke). All the IRC pair, A. H. A. Rehmani and U. A. Rumjahn, to triumph carry 120 pounds.—China Mall

Special. 23-21, Acoring the winning head

ahots in the very lasts after the losers had tied at 21 all on the 20th head.

Hardcourt Tennis

Tournament

Lu Po-yin beat Lea Ping- choung 6-4, 9-7, in the only match of the Schoolboy's Hard- court Tennis Championships, at the Chinese Recreation Club yesterday.

Hardcourt Colony Today's Championship matches are as follows.

Men's Siurios

Ho Cheong-po v F. G. Lonne; Edwin Tsal v V. M. Warren; C. 3. Chong H, C. Wong: Jimmy Kuy F. M. Ribeiro; Yune Chak- kim v VT. Wang,

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NEW MANAGER FOR RED SOX

Boston, Oct. 11. Lou Boudreau was fired as Manager of the fourth-placo Boston Red Sox today and Mike (Pinky) Higging was named as

Compton Flying On October 20

London, Oct. 11. The Marylebone Cricket Club announced today that Deals Compton will fly to Australia on Wednesday, October 20.

He remained behind for treat- ment to his knee when the MCC party sailed on September 15. Last week the MCC reported that Compton was now oughly fit, the knee having responded well, to treatment.. Reuter.

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Should The Cambridge Crew Commit Hara-kiri?

By GEORGE WHITING

If you are or were a Cambridge man, especially a Cambridge rowing man, you would assuredly resent any accusation that you had let the side down. But that is precisely what is being remarked, with no restrictions : whatsoever on language, about the Cambridge crew back from a series of howling failures in Japan. For the record....the young gentlemen of Cambridge were left standing (floating?) on four separate occasions, Hokkaido University removed them with exquisite politeness from the Japanese Championships, an event in which, on the same day, the Cambridge men distinguished themselves by finishing last in the consolation heat for eliminated crews,

Red Sox General Manager Joo Cromin said that Higgins, who headed the Sox Louisville Farm Club, will mannge the Red Sox for, the next two years

They

next arrived fourth out| British eight, camu fourth out all sports, There is alro some Boudreau, who once managed of four in a University regatie of ve Analists in the 1952 support for the theary that is the Cleveland Indiane signed Then, by way of icunding, off Olymples at Helsinki.. two-year contract with the Red their not-co-folly-spod shows This year, efter losing the the occasion, however

better to have tried and lost than Solat year. His contract had hey trailed along two leog.hr

nover to have tried at all; On Tthink ona mora veze to ko-United

over Boat Race, the Cam behind Krois Univerally over

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