THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1954.
This is the first of a weekly series by TOMMY LAWTON, Arsenal and former England centre-forward. One of the greatest players Britain ever produced he presents the view of the man on the job.
Heavier Grounds May Have A Lot To Do With The Slump In Ideas
The heavy grounds have arrived and inevitably the quick, short-passing game is not being played to the extent it was when the dry, grass-clad grounds were 'with The ball plays a great many tricks on heavy grounds. It stops dead when a player is expecting it to come through, and it takes a great deal of moving in the thick, heavy mud.
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slightest
Consequently the more open game is being played by the majority of British teams, which means more of the long ball. In my opinion the long ball can only be used on rare occasions.
The majority of learns 1 have afford to make the seen and played against this lust mistake in clearing his lines in new weeks are playing the ball mui-covered penalty uru forward too much, generally by means of an aimless kick upfeld the hope that the forward In
will get it
This is à natural course, for a defender
The result, however, s Thut the short ball to his wing half or st-forward is not being used as often as it was at the
of beginning of the scuson, 311
FANLING GOLF
The Qualifying Round Tea in Mitchell Plate was played uver 18 holes on the Old Course, at Fanling on Monday and issulised In a victory for Mes 1 Goldman
with melt 73
To my mind English football is not as good er it was in the st six weeks of the season. STRAIN BEING FELT
The reason, I think, is that we are now almost huif-way through JUASSUM, the
fit
SOON
" and the strain of the 4.
relegation promotion farhet struggle is being felt lay a num
er of League mides
Idol wer: buing put lo
'THE ⠀⠀ AVA · GARDNER STORY
SHE MILKED COWS AND PICKED COTTON, BUT WITHOUT ENTHUSIASM
By J. M. RUDDY'
North Carolina is one of those South-Eastern States in America that has been romanticised in song and legend.
For thousands of simple people there is nothing particularly romantic about North Carolina, either in the morning or the evening, in winter or summer, expecially summer. To them it is just a place where hard, sweated labour some-
times brings scant reward.
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It's doubtful whether Smith- being 1 tenant farmer's "I sald to her dockly; ield, North Carolina, is known daughter,"
'Brother Jonas,' ja this your to you, or for that matter, to
wig old baby?' 'Yes, sir, she is,” he millions of Americans.
enough to walk and Lisc my says, 'Well,' says I, 'If she was Το Avu Lovinia Gardner hands, there were chores I did my child, I'd get right on a train bruises such as you get the Smithfield
very
familiar, and willingly. We went through and take her to Hollywood.” light grands.
It's practically home. She was the fields planted with tobacco There is nu quest'on either born on a tobacco farm near and we picked the worms that
the what
AVASTREE fon Boon Hill, eight miles from the tobacco loaves, wants to see is goals.
Smithfield.
"See these hands?" Where is Smithfield, popula- Take the Chelsea and Mun-on about 6,5007
She extended graceful, chester United game at Stun-
about manicured hands. United won ford Bridge when
"They've been block with by the odd goal in eleven, Some
Bolf and dust and dead worms of my friends said was the
at the end of a day many best game in years even though
time. After the leaves their team had lost.
VERY GOOD AVERAGE
An Interesting goal point that in the First Division the 20 goals scored by November We 730 from 398 shade less the two per gune and a very good on average - average indeed.
grants-
In the Second Division it is practer at the start of the slightly less-700 goals in 393 son are gradually going by the gumes, bat is it pretty good gurd mainly through this t-Tfor all-round average, me and quest for points
1 cannot let this occasion pass We always sny a point before | without mentioning Wolves' Christmas is worth
Two offer great victory over Spartak and to say "well done" for a magni- fcent performance.
The 18 kwest wooter en Whis
14 rond quality fot
motel- play stage of Thi qusmpetition, Christmas These were as follows
Mr. 1. culomo
Mix & Hayes
MM Backe
Mr Van det Tous
Mes E. Brookes
Mrs DL, Anderson
Mrs G. Exten
Mr Jiltows.
Mrs WN. Gruy
Mt Dawson-Gove
Mis FG Varebon
Min Blitz
Mr. Mackie
DỤ
Heaver grund- may have a lot to do with the slang 11
ideas.
I think that Arsenal's efforts "softened the week previously different | them up," and 1's a fact that game from the played we made more scoring chances 16 on the light graund
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Mr WP Birlwhistle 1810 Mrs RL 1xtens 114 **
Following is the Brass for the First Roue!:
Mrs
t Goldman
RR MIN E
Men Coombs, Mrs Dawam-rove WP Birtwhistle; Mra E. Brooks v Mr FG. Harrison; Mr. Backe v Mrs J.D. Mackie: Mrs AM Brown
y Mrs J Bitz; Mrs WN Gray Y Mrs G
Exlar; Mre 3 Van der Tous
D L Mr. deman; Mis Anderson v Mrs C Haves
First Round to be played on or before Dereinber 16, Saxmud by December 30, Semi-final by and the Final Is January 11 scheduled to take ploce
betove January 20.
Mis Dawson-Grove
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won
the
November Eclectic over the Old
Course with 72-4-nett 68. Mrg;
J. Wai being
71-2
nett 09.
runner-up
with
A "string" competition WIR played on Tuesday. November 30 and this was won by Mrs E. Bronks
with
Dawson-Grove
BTUSA and
16.
Mrs
Mrs J.B.
Mackie Lied fur second place with grow 79.
Mrs Dawson- Grove being declared the win- ner by virtue of her beller score over the last six holes.
to make the game scrappy and hard tackling wing-halves more mt eie rat best often then against ball-playing Inside for wards, because they can lack with the knowledge of getting
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WEEK-END
SOFTBALL
The following are the Axtures The Ladies' Section Annual for the week-end Softball General Meeting is being held matches to be played at King's
Muy In Paris. today at the Helena
stitu'e, Garden Road, Proceed- ings commUTISTICE
at 5.30 p.m. and it is hoped that all who are able to attend will make every endeavour to do so.
SATURDAY
If you think that these 50- called
players arc super-i fitter than qur much
League have seen players, you should them in the dressing-room after the Highbury game as I did. They were all in, Just as they were in the last ten minutes al Wolverhampton. —(London press Service),
Treble
Ex-❘
It's on the highway, 25 miles south-east of Raleigh, tobacco centre of the South,
Seventh child of Jonas und Mary Elizabeth Gardner, nick- named Molly, Ava arrived early on Christmas Eve, 1922, in the 21st year of her parents' marri- age.
40.
Jonas was 44. His wife was Together they had raised
of
a family of four girls and two boys, despite the hardships crop failures and low prices.
Once he had owned his own tobacco
and
farm. cotton When Ava was born, Pop WBS a shape cropper. He rented the land and paid for it by giving the owner a share of his tobacco and cotton.
If tobacco and cotton prices were down,
If the crops were thousands poor, other tenant farmers in the South, went into debt.
1:0
open
The Gardners Ilved frame house with ទេព porch around it, for shade and
for the breeze hoped for Isultry summers,
weil-
B
for
Ava went to the consolidated school at Brogen, a small town near the farm, and it's recalled that Mrs Gardner
once was matron at the "teacherage," sort of boarding house teachers.
Her oldest a
sister runs the county store in the town, speaks affectionately of Avu. "She was A Christmas baby and wo were all grown up when she comic ulong. She was B lively kid, real cute.
were
picked we kids used to hand
10
the crop out of the lorries the grown-ups could grade it.
"We helped
hong out the The tied leaves to dry, ther dried leaves into bundles.
"The black gum or sap would they stick to my hands until were covered with a thick layer, like gloves.
"The only thing thot would take off that black gum was ye soap,
"North Carolina? Fields of cotton Plantations of tobacco. Banjos strumming and mole, fa-hummin' in the felds
cotton, my eyel It was hard, sweaty work.
When Ava was about
one of her sisters years old, pocidentally struck her under the right eye with a hoe while they were working in the flelds.
scur is covered with makeup for the cameras. At school Ava was a good student. Walking
The
one
home which also took off the skin at times."
day, she realised" she had left Ava laughed.
her books behind.
She
ran back. The little schoolhouse WIKI locked up. That didn'
had stop Ava. One side door a broken pane.
She squeezed through the opening and her leg badly on a plece glass.
She didn't have
Joln clubs and school organisations. She didn't take part in school athletics. not even when she went to a
"I went onto the field bare- footed because I didn't shoes to wear. other kids. "Believe
In
COWN
Ava shared a room with two of her sisters.
Like them, she helped in the house and on the form.
I've me.
I was like the
milked
cut of
and pleked cotton, butler schicol in Newport News, not with any enthusiasm.
of
"I didn't like that kind hard work,
never have. Who would like to work in the binz-
Virginia.
where the Gardners Inloved for about three years when farming became too dift- cult.
Her
first beau, Hugh C.
store, reccalls that Ava had a sense of humour.
NOTHING ROMANTIC "Dkt I work?" she ochoed, ing heat and come back home| Taiton, manager of a general "Everyone worked, if you to a house like a furnace?" didn't work, you didn't eat There's nothing romantic about
Chance
By HENRY LONGHURST
The death of Sir Frank Fletcher, Headmaster of Charterhouse for the best part of a quarter of a century, from 1911 onwards, will have revived memories for 4 whole generation of Carthusians, including almost Al who played in the vintage Halford-Hewitt golf teams immediately before the war,
How many of them will have supported his dictum that the right attitude of boys to their headmaster is "awe tempered with amusement," I should not prepared to say.
be
"Once," he says, "we got old the caught in a storm in my
roadster with the top down. And I couldn't get it up. We both got soaked to the skin and Ava, she just laughed."
Did Ava show any acting ability during her bigh school days?
I thought of the way Holly- wood has plctured the South. The
of stately
mansions owners of plantations; the vast, airy rooms with the fragrance of "magnolles watled in on the afternoon breeze; the frou-frou of tafeta and the soft swish of lace and silk as lovely women dance with handsome blades at a ball 1t
of by hundreds candles In Georgian silver hold- ers and the chorus of bull-frogs calling to their mates by the slow-flowing river beyond the vast lawns,
BACK TO EARTH
me.
MUCH TOO SHY
"Once, just once," she told "I tried out for a school play.
They
practically threw me out. I was much too shy. I couldn't walk and 1 couldn't
talk
"Ava Gardner's forthright "When I was at clementary comments brought me back to school nothing bothered me. earth, the earth Ave knew as a I took
in the little part child.
operettas. I loved to. But when She had eased her feet out I became 11 I got shy and of her shoes and was wiggling ; awkwmtt and never again gove her toes.
a thought to acting."
Just about the same time her My own
attitude by this More than 50 years of age at "One of my sisters was hair become darker and the standard was far from correct. to time, would stand
and at already married
away beauty destined to make her a sisters
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AVA GARDNER — she was born on Christmas Day on a tobacco farm in North Carolina.
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE
ORDERS
BRIGADE
Orders issued by Mr Fung duty: 12.13.54, Dentist 1.F. Blugida, C/O Lucy Tang A Shaukiwan KF, Ping-tan, C.St.J., Commissioner N. Div of St. John Ambulance Brigade, Hongkong District, Order No. 48/54.
Dated December 2, 1984. Ambulanco Dulles-Iong Kong. — 5.1254-11.264, Enstern Amb. DW: 12.12.54-18.12 5. Causeway Bay Amb Day.; December 1994 Shaukiven K F. Nag. Div
Ambulance Duties — Kowloon. - 6.12.04-12.12.54, Kowloon Amb. Div.j 13.12.64-19.12.ne. Taishataul Amb. Div.; December 1034: Waterloo Nr.
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Penetration sqund Deflex~8.13.04, Annual Inspection & Parade, cancel
Yoshio
Shirai
Orderly Duties for Meinland Aron
ls-2.12.64. KYMCA Amb. D¡Y. 3,12.04. Tematsu! Amb. Div. 413.64. Kowloon Amb. Div.: 0.17.64. 0.12.04. Mong Kok Amb. Div. KYSICA Nag. Div.: 7.12.54, Mong Kole Amb. Div., 8.12.54. Shamaulpo Amb, Div,
Race Duties—li, 13.54 At Rape Course Chung Sing Ardo, Div.: At Headquarters Kennedy Town_Amb. Div. 27.12.04.- AV Rico, Gourgo Causeway Bay Amb, Div.: AX Headquarters Shaukiwen K,F. Amb, DIV.
Football Duties,-14, 12.04. 1 pm. Club Ground: Estorn Amb. Div. 5.12.54. 2 p.m. Club Ground; Con nedy Town "Amb. Div; 8.12.04, 145 Ground: Boundary Street P.to. KYMCA Amb. Dly,
Street
Reported To Be 2.10.04 412.5
Extremely III
Sleepers Shelter Shanshulpo Nag. Div.; 4.13.54-11.1254. KYMCA Nøg. Div.
Street Sleepers Shelter Society Fution-Western Dist. - December 1054: Central Nag, Div
Tokyo: Dec, 1 Yoshlo Shiral, of Japan, who puttes, 3, 12.54-4.12.04.
Mongkok KP.WA, 'Asth.
Clinic КУМСА
8,12.04.-9.12.04.” Sham-
lost the world flyweight boxing Nig. Div., 6.12.G-7.13.01. Waterfoo title to Argentina's Pascual NL. DIY: Perez by a décision last week, shulpo Nag. Div. is "extranely 1," his Ameri- can trainer manager. Dr Alvin Cohn, sold today.
Dr Cabn told Reuter Shiral was suffering from "cerebral contusion" caused by a shorp head clash in the ninth round of the 15-round bout.
He said Shiral was under the care of two doctors, sleeping 22 hours a day and being fed in- travenously.
Dr Cahn hoped, however, Shirai would recover after two or three weeks' "complete rest." -Reuter.
DINE
WINE
AT
Karol-
Taken on strength-{a}] meat-KYMCA Neg. Div.: Amb/81 Lee Wing-qizen.' ‚de' Chan Zal-minut enrolled w.e.f. 24.11.54. Un Long Amb. Div.: Ptes. Cheung Bing-fook, to Shou-chu. Fung Satug-tong Ho Ka-mint, Woo Shing-yee, & Cheng Cheo-key enrolled w.orf. 20.154.
Decrease of · strengths) Dis charge-The following members have been discharged from the Brigade w.e.t. 0.10.54, under Brigade Regula- tion No. 16-Bhamshulpo Nir. Dir.: D/S E. Morrison, D/S Home Kay, Amb/sia's Wong Lal-hop, Wong Joel on To Kit-Fong, Ng Shlu-mul, Wong Kit-fong, Ng Yulc-ping, Mak Wai-poo, Lam duk-hing, Long Ping- sin, Tong Wad-hing & Li KP-lin.
(Sgd.) F. L. Takonu, C.BL.J.
Deputy Commissioner. District leadquarters.
Awe certainly-tempered with the net provoking the opposition from home by the time I was alm star began to be revealed. GOLDEN EAGLE RESTAURANT
the
a
chalantly
DIN
saki
but my other
With the idea of getting #
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like job as a secretory and helping
let
the out in the family, Ava Livinia
Courses Gardner, took shorthand, typing, business Eng- lish and bookkeeping.
my
2 deep respect, occasional ull eventually some lusty youth seven, bouts K neute
apprehension would drive one
hard n
my two brothers and I. but never, so far as recollection | possible straight at his person.. we all had chores to do, serves, with amusement.
He would then chop it non all farm kids, and being Frank Fletcher was fooled, I
down. a few inches baby at the family didn't Lancy, by no single boy during from the net, and observe dryly, me out of any of them," Ava
five years of my
own "run up, boy. You don't run!""
masingly attendance. He was past-
"One thing I hated Wod Junior Division:
master at that withering type of
washing TOLERATED GOLF
dishes. With
"I learned to type 85 words Pandas y Overseas at 2 pni. satire, which is one of the few
# minute sister Myra-she's noxt young-
and 10 take 125 Umpires: Y. F. Chan, K. C.
In shorthanh, weapons against which
Golf he tolerated, but did notest daughter to ine-I used to words a minute Wong, H. K. Chan,
schoolboy has no reply, and the encourage. It was rather' on battle over doing the dishes.
but looking back I think i P.L. Dodgers v Lynx at 2 p.m. very thought sends my
should hava studied something Army mind the Hires of the
that would have broadened my
players.
out- horridly la the memory,
mirid and improved my look" Ava said when talking about her year pt Atlantic Christian College,
the
Blok
you'll
Two Japanese Net Umpires: Paul Tiu and 2 C.A.A. back to a moment crystallised parade. If you don't make
Stars To Compete
In P.1. Tourney
The
Seventeeners v Blackhawks ni
3.30 p.m. Umpires: J. F. Yee, Johnson Shen, Alen Owen,
M.
Manila, Dec. 1. Initial matches for tho South China v C.A.A. ni 3.30 third Philippine Tennis Assup.m. Umpires: F. Diesta.
tournament will Farras, J. Cheng. visiting Japaness stars to be played on December
ciation
open
feature two
at Rizal tennis courts,
Ladies:
SUNDAY
The visiting players, Atsushi South China v Wahoos B at Miyagi and Juji Takayama, 10 a.m. Umpires: J. Chaves and first and third ranking Japanoo 2 Dukes players.
players in Japan, will arrive in Colleena B v Collcens A af 10 Manila tomorrow which willa.m. Umpires: M. E. Nunes and give them five days to acclima- 2 Blackhawks players, 1ise themselves.
Senior A:
BACK-BENCHER
be in Attica, but believed at the
in Godalming and trust to, a capacity time,
erroneously as it proved, tow
was last attending to them.
My answer
to
ότι
Ilvered coals to the clubhouse,
to create
something
Ava
a
Probably because she was fairly uncomfortable,
the youngest, Ava, noticed that have everybody on it.
being married and having a family was the happiest thing Opportunities were rare and in the world for a girl. It is Thucydides and one of meant, when they came, a four
Her mother was a wonderful his inumerable ware is being mile bicycle ride and the big woman,
Hor sister, Beatrice, sparried affectionate, -desply conducted at a placo called gamble of the day-whether to warm, kind, with a remark to Larry Tarr, a commercial Decalaca, which I now gather to walt at Le bottom of the hill able endurance and a great photographer who was specialis
ing in theatrical portraits, was Boatrico living in New York, or out of very little.. to be in Sicily, where hostilities whether to pedal on regardless.
a passing lorry
Invited Ave to stay with them. Through her chillilipod, Ava Perhaps Ava had been in progress when
might do some of life, modelling. Oh, Beatrice, know I once brought off, as it were, learned the realities
important | quite well that Ava wasn't in- the treble chance, which I like the values that are the sudden to think unique in the history whether you are the wife of a terested in modelling or acting. question "Decalaca-yes, where's of the event. Not only did I picie struggling tobacco former or the But she did know that that? Err.
Longhurst"
up a lorry; not only did it turn wife of a world-famous singer.
had blossomed into a. rare brought a momentary silence, off the Portsmouth road at the
by broken only
Friends of Aya have told mo | beauty, end that if she wanted treacherous right moment: it actually do- whistles of incredulity from
that her family could not have there were Jobs for her.
For Until she got married. frontbench sycophants.
been much poorer. Yet despito
happy marriage and "Where did you say it was? After being pulled along at 20 the viclasliudes and the poverty, a Pandas Warriors at 11.30 Sietly? Speak up, boy, I can't miles an hour for the best part there was love in the Gardner femity was Ava's ambition, a.m. Umpires: A. J. Hussain, Ed hear a word he's saying. Can of four miles, hanging on with home.
On a weekend excursion train Hard-working, idealistic, hope- Carvalho and one Braves player. anybody hear what he's saying? one hand, steering with the
And mer: Ava went to New York. C.A.A. v US. Navy at 2 p.m. I thought he and Sielly.
children You other, and carrying a bag of ful for hi
Jonas Card her brother-in-law said: I'd Umpires: H. Winglee, H. Bord- did my Stelly...?
clubs over one's back, it never than for himself, occurred to any of us to offer non prayed for better times.like to take some photographs
nim of you" He did. I mention this trifling episode this as an excuse for indifferent His good wife sustained Senior B: Americans v Black-in one's contact with so groat a hawks at 3.30 p.m. Umpires: W. man only because it led to play though today, at least one through the hardships.
eminent professional will not Woo, Y. S. Liang, A. Oliveira, limerick in a school magazine delve himself even a few miles HAIR LIKE BUNSHINE
which I could wish to have to the course for fear of affect Juniors: Wah Ying v 25 Pour-written myself:
At the age of "sovén, Ava un dors at 3.30 p.m. Umpires: threa
ing the sensillity of his handel was a merry cheerful child, An unwisely courageous back-
|with, sparkling, green eyes, and Perhaps it was these early hair, that was like sunshine and asked, drew a bow at a rigours the general discourage, naturally wavy. venturo,
mont, the hazardous. Journey, One of SmithBeld's, veteran “Decalsen?" "Um-er,
the appelling pant up the hill tobacco auctioneers)-N.L. It's in Sicily, sir.”
to, bo, in time for look-up that Parking, - recalled. Ava", thus: Moral, Bilence is better than bred the race of work-k-day|| "Why i l'és known (Ava Gard-
consure!
KEREKES Kolfers, ever! Inspired" byl hd, ner singe ahe, was knee-high ~ to Some boys, I believe, played varsity who used
ducks. I remember going out three in a Rugby Union, match soit, with Frank. Fletcher. More How
to/Eme. daddy's fum: lobe: day.
All tho ranking Philippias. tennis players except Felicis- simo Ampon are entered in the tournament.--France-Presso,
TWO SHILLINGS TO COME IN
Melbourne, Dec, 1. Two lads, finding an
well, J. Carvalho.
attended turnstile at the Mel-CAA, players,
bourne Cricket Ground, ad- mitted 20 people for two shii).
ings each to watch a match,
A ground official noticed the HOME RUGGER
stream of people walkinig. 10-
swords, on empty pavilion and told them thoro
because of rain,
waa no play.
London, Dec. 16, Guys Hospital beat London University by nine
Whencher
1
to
of whom I was one played iambre Fạo” third other la tannis: with him oh what WRN /WERNE
They could not : "get" thoir | played hero today,. money back because the "gaben keepers”. had. fjed—China (Mail The Hospital jed 9-0 në halt- | reputed to be the finest privaón. Special.
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