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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 30,

SPORTING - SAM

By Reg. Wootton

Derby County's Relegation The Outstanding Tragedy Of The Football Season

Says ARCHIE QUICK

The outstanding tragedy of this football season, is the descent into the Third Division North of Derby County for the first time in the club's illustrious history. It is sad to reflect that the Baseball Ground, with its Boardroom walls almost entire ly covered with photographs of Derby's International players, will see only the lowest league grade matches.

SPORTS SURVEY

Schoolboys Won 10-11 Despite The Reputation Of The Centre-Forward

By “ALL-ROUNDER”

Centre-forward for Hanley Grammar School Staff in their annual match with the Boys was the maths and games master, Mr D. Wilshaw, MA--and Mr Wilshaw's leam got beaten 10-1. His.previous game was at Wembley Stadium before 100,000 people, for he is the same Dennis Wilshaw who scored four goals against Scotland. It was the first time four goals had been scored by a player in a Cup Final or International at Wembley, he was the first Englishman to score four against Scotland on any ground and only he and Mortensen hare netted a "hat trick" at Wembley.

ONLY ONE CENTURY. Black burn Rovers are the only senior League side in Europe to have scored one hundred goals this season. Their nearest challengers, 游 Hungary, are Ave bahind Tommy Driggs, leading League goalscorer, looks like passing his previous best-35 in a season for Grimsby, Ave years ago.

MAN OF MANY PARTS. -John Crosland, Bournemouth centre-half. started out as

televising she whole of the FA Cup Final £1,500 for the Scottish Cup Final and £1,000 for International games,

WEMBLEY STATISTICS. Did a Cup Final you know that crowd at Wembley Stadium is controlled by 10 policemen, 500

FA Stewards, 400 commission- aires, 500 temporary staff and 250 permanent staff? The 100,000 crow pass through 100 turnstiles and the ground can be chartered accountant Then he won the DSO with the Flect Air emptied in twenty minutes. The Arm. For a

long while after two main towers are 128 feet

tall there professional foot-

are 25,000 tons of

1

forward, doing his National Ser- vice in BAOR, just missed being involved in the BEA. Elizabethan plane crash at Dusseldorf Air- port. He actually boarded the plane, but was then transferred to a later one. He had hoped to play against Hartlepools but arrived home too late.

"A TRUE SCOTSMAN. The official referee of a match in Scotland did not arrive until Just before ball time. A lineman deputised for the

Bret 45 minutes, but

the end of the game the referee demanded his full match fee. The club sald

Derby were never out of the First Division between 1915 and the season before last, and now they have slipped through Division Two in two seasons. Only nine years ago they were proud winners of the FA Cup at Wembley and that season in the Third Round of the competition I saw them trounce Chelsea at Derby. What baller he was Blackpool re-

get and the a contrast that short period has effected in the two clubs fortunes! County due for serve, but he played pool Tek Structural steel in the building you only refere deals of man halt. But the Scottish FA 29 2 last-minute choice in the which cost £750,000.... relegation; Chelsea riding high for "the First Division Championship.

Final

upheld the referee's claim, have and Cup

twice ap"

WINGER PAYING

and the boy who was a neutral the possibility peared for England "B" on the DUCT

After be had turned of injuries and the consequent Continent.

fessionalism in reverse at Taly-mesman and finished up as a An offer from Southwain, South Wales, Freddie first-half referee got as his re- compensation, but the clubs, do down

"of ward a packet af cigarettes. one time member of not seem to mind, and cheerfully America he joined Bournemouth Morgan, consent to their players taking and recently captained the the local Rugby Club, paid the

Southern Section against

usuni part.

admission money Northern Third.

watch as a spectator the side

Derby, whose greatnesS. WAJ founded in the days of the legendary Steve Bloomer, can safely be said to have provided the finest inside forward play since World War Two that this country has seen. Raich Carter and Peter Doherty started it and they were

succeeded by Billy Steel and Johnny Morris. There has not been a club quartette the equal of those four since Charles Buchan, ALEX James, David Jack and Ray Bowden ware with the Arsenal between the wars.

Carter, Howe, Lee, Morris, Mozley, Ward, Steel and Doherty have sal played for their coun- trics since World War I while wath the County, but the club's full gallery of Internationals is over fifty.

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on

a big scale. It has been concerned drawing large crowds in Lon den and Brighton, and has es ablished itself as an entertain- most for next season.

as

Charlton, Fulham, West Ham, Arsenal and Spurs took part in The Harringay show was a the Harringay tournament and charity affair, but the ones at Fulham emerged winners, Brighton have not been, and the thanks mostly to the superb players have received fees and forward play of Robson, Arsenal their expenses. The remuner

won tion, however, has not and Chelsea. have both

been

at Brighten and the organisa-liberal enough to please the tions at both these vores are Players' Union and a fixed scale planning ambitious

schemes of charges is to be laid down for for next winter.

next season. The promotors, I understand, are willing.

1948

the

WOLYES FOR MOSCOW. Wolverhampton Wanderers may make the trip to Moscow to play Spartak after all. They refused the trip carlier on because they nad a tour on their hands, but now that is off and they would be able to take their full team Discussions are going on.

ABANDONED AFTER PEN-

Pro-

play, Sengheryad--and finished up playing on the wing,

ROYAL MARINES TO THE FORE, Winners of the 125 mailes

Camoe ico Aroan Devizes to Westminster Bridge were Lieu-

tenant David Mitchell and Lieu- tenant S

Short Syrad, both of the

the arduous course in 26 hours Royal Marines. who completed

Car 32 minutes. Second were poral Gilbert Howe and Corporal Marines, who took six and three- James Clark, also of the Royal

quarter minutes longer,

.OL The winners were also home

BUAIDH AGUS PISEACHL That was the wording of a cle gram which worried the Post Office officials at Wembley, but it good wishes to Partick Thistle was only a. Gaelic greeting of

winger

Johnny McKenzie, play- for Scotland ing

against England, the Gaelic

ALTY TROUBLE. Only three "Mac" in Society me first last year. The course is via

PLAY SWITCH MARSDEN.

Chesterfield's

Kelth

young

The Avena-side indoor game

wooden boards calls for a Down in Brighton for one of minutes were left and the "score

as anyone brought up in the the rivers Avon and Kennet and new technique. There are offside the shows was Billy Kiernan, 2-2 in the Burnley "B" versus and penalty rules to trap the Charltor, Athletic's outside-lett, Barnoldswick match when the Western Isles and will always the boats have then to be carried Burnley all second from last place when a considerable distance by the the opinion referee awarded wary," but generally is a and he expressed

such an his team runs on to the field, competitors themselves on to the Thames. A strong wind during What a pity it all is that the game played without restric- that the Football League was penalty. There was

tion. Soft canvas shoes are worn | f00 unwieldy and therefore

efore argument that the kick was

SAVED the night made the water rough. tida has obed so low. "Gates' and the goalkeeper has to take detrimental to good football. never taken and the players left

Marsden, several capsized and only ten of have never been big because the risks of personal injury when "If there were fewer League the field with the match aban

centre- the 18. starters finished. ground has not the capacity, but diving full length ca to wood sides" he said, "the competition doned under the wise chairmanship of

for places in the elevens would Mr Ben Robshaw and the No one revelled in this bazard necessarily be greater, and the

than Ted standard of play would rise,” management or Mr Stuart Mc- at Harringay more Millars the most attractive Ditchbum, of the Spurs. "He

Kiernan was stationed with fotbal in the country was pro took more chances than I ever! vided.

would," said ginger-headed Sam the Army in Hongkong after the Bartram after Spurs had de- War when he wrote to his boy feated Charlton and Bartram hood

favourites,

Charlton, end asking for a trial. Manager

Jimmy Seed

gave him

had

stood at the other

"UNLUCKY NUGENT, CHA the Cardiff City Nugent, forward, has had ive stitches inserted in his head in the side's last three games. When he was

playing against Sheffield Wednes- Behind-the-scenes hospitality

day he received an injury and was lavish and the players were

stitches had to go into a wound a happy family. All is gone. A watching his daredevil opposite chance when he came home and week's match against Bolton his he had sustained in the previous set of Directors, new razier acticz management, new players reign

has never regretted his signing Wanderer's, -and the result is Division

It was in Hongkong, too, that Kiernan met his present wife.

*

Three.

Yet two new

and good ideas have come out of the Basepadi Ground. Secretary Billy Annaore, on a visit in London, suggested to me that clubs issue season tickets for E WITRCES, It would ensure a hard core of actenuance, provide money in ad- vance and gave the clubs a good pointer as to which supporters deserve Cup Final Or interna- Munal tickets. The other sug- gestion was that on Wembley Days a Separate enclosure should be provided for old Internationals so what they may have annual ..re-unions.

FIVE-A-SIDE

One of the sporting successes ct the winter bas been laumening of Ave-a-side Soccer

THE STRIKE

KO'D MILLS

the

Freddie Mills, former British, European and World Light. Heavyweight Champion

го

mained on his feet after most bouts in his fight carcer. But as promoter Mills, he has been KO'd by the English newspaper strike

Freddie had to cancel his show of April 19 through Incic of advanca publicity. Now the newspapers are back On the abreens in time for his next pro- motion on May 10.London Express Service).

THE

WEEKEND

It's a bill for ao

fur coat.

GAYE!

CONCERNED

The Football Association and the Football League are a little

Re-

TELEVISING FEES She was stationed there as a commendations have been made to Instructress to the National Association Physical Training

ask the BBC to pay £2,000 for in the ATS.

COCKELL POUNDS AWAY

Don Cockell, Britain's heavyweight hope, pounds away at a punchbag.

He is training for his forthcoming attack on American Rocky Marciano's world title on May 16. Reuterphoto,

GAMBOLS

WE CAN'T AFFORD FUR COAT ---- THIS THE LAST STRAW 1 WILL NOT FOR

STAN

||NOT A WORD, GAYE

YOU'VE-DRIVEN ME TOO FAR THIS TIME

SLAM

Barry Appleby

LATER SORRY

LOST do I tell him the bill

MY TEMPER DARLING was addressed to me

WE'LL PAY

SOMEHOW

by mistake...or as y hes got over the

shock do buy

myself a fur coat

Professional Footballers

Are Apt To Hide Their Ages

Professional footballers are wily birds about reveal- ing their ages, but if they also happen to be all-round sportsmen enough to have played county cricket, then "Wisdens" Annual automatically discloses their secrets."

Joe Hulme, for instance. As a footballer for York City, Blackburn Rovers, Arsenal, Huddersfield Town. and England his age was a closed book. But as a player for Middlesex, County Cricket Club there is his age in black and white "born August 26, 1904.”

Hulme, like Denis Compton, for Arsenal and fitted him into had that great gift that all ball that great forwarţi line of games came alike to him, and Hulme, Jack, Lambert, James he played them well

Every

and Bastin, body knows him as an out- standing outside right in

Arsenal's

Actually, of course, Mr Chap- mightiest days and as man fitted the other four round

a useful right arm bowler and him,, for he was the first to n a No. 5 or so bat with Middle-rive at Highbury and was the sex. In addition he could make only one of them to appear in his century break at billiards Arsenal's, first-ever

Cup Finial

and he still has a single handy at Wembley in 1827. The forward cap at golf Darts, table tennis line-up

was Hulme, Buchan, they are all the same to Brain, Blyth, Hear. A Gagle bim, games to be played with mistake by goalkeeper Lewis allowed Hughle Ferguson to

distinction.

IKREPRESSIBLE HELME

| score, the only goal for Cardif If you ask anyone the county and thus take the trophy out of of Joc's birth, they will say York-England for the first time. shire, because of his early a sociation and first prominence with York City, Thers, perhaps they will change their mind

Joe was back at Wembley two and say Lancashire because of years later and this time he got his early, fame with Blackburn

a winner's medal, for Hudders- Hovera Yet

Yet they would

befeld were beaten 2-0. A lage wrong in both cases. For Hulme of only one season and he was Blackburn County man, there again with the left wing io a

born in Stafford and with Staf-sltered to Bastin and John be ford Rangers as his first pro cause of James injury fessonal club. He reached his hey-day, however, when Mr Herbert Chapman bought him

GOLDEN CHURN

better

butter

AIRE LTD”

This occasion Newcastle were 2-1 winners, but the evergreen and irrepressible Hulme was not to be denied, and he made's fourth Wembley appearance tour years after and got.

Seccack

winners' medal, thanks to a Drake

be was not goal,

with only and

done with

season between, de bobbed up in Huddersfeld colours for his flíta Final, only to be on the losing side to a Preston last- minute penalty.

This genial humorist, in his rame remarkable Cup Find period).

Interna

astrat the other home countries:

twice against Contimental His wing dashes at great

†slomal den England

to

Ewera)

lish Soccer scene of the late 201 and only 30s but you won never believe ith todayloc at his rotund artery elas

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