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IN THE SOUTHERN HALF

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1955.

One Person In Every Eight Is An Australian Rules Football Fan

Melbourne.

Some 500,000 football fans in the Southern half of Australia äre once again living from Saturday to Saturday to watch teams play Aus tralian Rules football.

The greatest hold on the game is in Victoria, Tasmania, South and West Aus- tralia, where every football club has its "home" ground with amenities varying from the most modern grandstands to mere mounds in the "outer”.

City grounds, with proper Joals and yel their approval a job bringing in at least £A20

seating and

greenkeepers to or, scorn.

water and cut the grass, con- trast sharply with country club fields, where sheep and cattle crop the growth during the week and are driven off to make way for the players at the weekend

Hundreds

a "slaughtered res

have more

of

"AERIAL PING-PUNG"

(£16 sterling) a week, and plenty of time off for football practice.

of a

In addition, they see brilliant

It also incans for many the passing, bullocking runs, kick-

Hollywood ing, and flights Into the air to glamour life "mark" the leather egg-shaped star, with front page stories of in- one of the swiftest, their private lives, their ball in

their big and small, crowd are streamlined,

drawing juries, wordily

from games played anywhere in the home, family, personal opinions mis- matches, and deeds and game disparagingly of Saturday to Saturday, but they world-3

"Uves" than

a eat called "aerial ping-pong" by deeds both on and off the field. New

To be football star enthusiasts in

has its and pop up again to take their Rugby

with few dis- weekly rounds of abuse or ac- South Wales and Queensland, advantages.

in, thrown

FOT claim, according to the feelings but, big enough to boast 83.000 advantages of the watching thousands.

registered players throughout many top-line men it has meant cbs, assured future. Big Australia.

their way.. In

later come

up their own football to take

with the publicans business, trade proving most popular for

Sometimes it is more than

413

an

abuse that the little man inscrambling up their opponents' years, many have retired from

white, with the shrill gets from the crowd.

whistic,

Police line the dressing room alleyways to protect him from feelings get the those, whose better of them when their team loses.

One person in every eight in the southern States is a ready to pay from 2s Bd to 4s 6d to see a match. Whether they

leave the

ground hilariously vocal or silently seething, they feel that they had their money's worth,

They watch the players" lese their tempers, throw punenes, glare at the umpire in mock

surprise at a

decision sec

their Champions kick or miss

"star" names,"

High marking, with players backs to pluck the ball from the oir, and long graceful drop-kicks

with short stab and punts, kicking down the held from

Nowadays, the Beld is limited player to player, are the main features of the game nowadays, to 36 players, 18 side. This is in the first striking contrast to the seams us they were when

of unlimited size allowed when teams took the field in 1858;:

W15 Talent scouts from leading Australian Rules football

up to 80 players clubs roam far afield to "steal" started and

docked after the bal teams or players from other

new Champion To the hundred or so pioneers, discover" a among the smaller country sides. the majority of them frishmen and adherents of other football And a Chempion can make a good living out of this "semi-codes, who established the game, professional" game, where only play in the modem) manner nominal fees are pain each would be bewildering. Position week to moss players,

Being wanted by a major club play is important. All on the usually means a house rent-free ball, as in the old days, is out,

Len Hutton Will Not Play

Test Cricket This Season

London, June 19.

Len Hutton will not play for England in any of the four remaining Tests against the touring South Africans this season, according to an announcement today by the Selection Committee.

recurrence

#

Fulton missed the firs: Test the Selection Committee that because of a

offor reasons of health be dogs lumbago and has now informed not wish to take part in Test

cricket again this searon.

Gunson Hoh's

Last Minute Appeal To 10C

Peter May, who was captain in the first Test, has accepted the captaincy for the remaining four Tests, the announcement said.

is:

BRAWNY RUCKMEN

The four brawny ruckmen follow the ball wherever it goes. With them are nippy overs. one a team to get the ball away to teammate whenever a thrown-in from the boundary of a bounce is made as the umpire interprets the rules,

But the fullback line, the hält backs, centres, half forwards, and full forwards stay in posi ion for the most part and wait Until the ball comes to them. Wingers have more freedom, covering the flanks of the oval, The game itself is hard, fast, and much more mobile than Rugby football. There are no

scrums to hold up play. some ways, it is more like Asso piction football, except that hands as well as feet are used to play.

clubs

The top Melbourne

KEN ROSEWALL

Pare 7:

KEN ROSEWALL SHOULD WIN WIMBLEDON SINGLES IF HE GETS THE BREAKS

Says DENNIS HART

Winning Wimbledon rates as the most difficult job in world sport. But it has a close rival-trying to pick the winner.

This year's Championship begins today. The major issue, with apologies to the ladies, the Men's Singles, is wide open. Any of the World's top ten players is capable of beating the other nine. Indeed, last year the eleventh, Jaroslav Drobny,

beat the other ten.

1.

The All England. Tennis (the title. Never has there been mest improved players. He had In fact been coming to the fore com- a mare popular victory. Championships are now parable to the English Football But seldom can a Champion for a couple of years previously went unnoticed in the Association Cup. To get through. have had such a slim hope of but

his title. Dogged by shadows of Hoad and Rose- a player, like a football team, retaining must stand head and shoulders injury and ill-health he has had wall.

"Now he has established him- - above all others, or he must get little time to reach top form.

ball

the

succeed where self and last Cur. Rosewall and

year won the the run of the

he se narrowly falled last year? Doubles title at Wimbledon in luck of the draw.

TEXT-BOOK ROSEWALL company with Rose and gained Neat, mature beyond his 20 a place, in Australia's Davis

text-book Rosewall years

has Cup team, winning his

matches harder

ARTISTIC ONES

only

Last year, for instance,

No. Drobny though sceded

.11 had what proved the ideal draw: weaknesses where far less gifted match against Vic Seixas.

getting progressively players have strength-in ser- enabling him to reach vice and on the forehand.

As a result he lacks power, of his peak in the final. Opponent

stocky build Hartwig Ken Rosewall, the other is often extended by lesser looks like a Champion boxer! hand, had to pull out all stops players and

expends

much His tennis is punchy too, snappy on the way and was at his best energy before getting to grips powerful strokes rather than

on

in the semi-final against Tony with the big guns.

Trabert.

The cheers echoed round the centre court when "Drob" won

They Turn The Wheel That Tells The Tale

The Men Who Make Cricket Add Up

By RICHARD "LYNTON

the

We hear a great deal in cricket about the men in the middle who make runs, take the wickets and see fair play, but nobody ever mentions the men who make cricket add up the scorers.

Yet, without them, the public could not follow the game, the players would not know where they were half the time, and the story of cricket could not have been written..

all

flowing artistic ones. I do not

class to

"With

Rosowall's chances, i think, think Hartwig has quite the

Wimbledon will depend on the draw.

moro than he has to meet too many big he can upset

fancied player. game specialists, Hoad, Hart-

Left-hander wig, Trabert, Seixas and More class but not perhaps the neces

Rose has

1dcn't think he will survive.

Given the run of the ball

Rosewall is my fancy in take the tile back to Australia.

2

What

Bu

one

the

But should the draw leave the sary fire, although he may be power-plus brigade to spend all the better this year for their time knocking each other coming independently rather cut. then Rosewall is quite than 'member of the officials

Australian team capable of dealing with one or

about America, the.. two of them.

Davis Cup winners? Their in- more than terest will be far

Leading

the US challenge again will be Vie Seixas, and: Tony Trabert Fine players in- and taken all round, are deed,

both better equipped than any of the Australians. Berhaps

Trabert

wor. has matches out of seven against and two weeks ago Seixas

And if the fates go against him?

Australlä can still do it of dark through Lew Hoad horses Rex Hartwig or Mervyn

Rcse.

seven

Hoad of the cannon-ball serve and

has thumping forchand enough power, and some spare, successfully defended his French to win the title. If he could title. But he seems unable to recapture his Davis Cup form produce bis best form on of 18 months ago he could Wimbledon's fast lawns. battle through, luck or no luck. But too much tennis took the

and Seixas, a great fighter oft edge his game. He went fine tactician, may be America's stale, forgot the finer points best bet. But, as with Austra- thought only of power and still lian Rosewall, I doubt it Seixas more power and became erratic. can survive a tough draw. He That is the sad story of one depends a great deal on fighting of the brightest prospects the qualities and for a player past Now hav-thirty these may not be enough. Having seen Middlesex several game has ever seen.

Is there no one, with the Denising had a rest from tennis Hoad think times lately, I

former exception of Drobny, Baldry, Don Bennett and Fred can come back with

challenge the Americans and Titmus are as good as any three zest.

This year he is something of Australians? young players of their age (21

unknown but, I suggest, to 23) and experience southern counties, and probably most definite quantity.

Last Jkaz Rex Hartwig in the country.

-(London Express Service} encaged as one of the game's

and the senior member.

for the Without the scorebooks to Yorkshire, May and Constable and Denis. Comptan

are Emmett present, the bowlers prove it, the greatness of Grace of Surrey, Crapp and and Hobbs, Hammond and of Gloucester. Clay and Hard-young, John Warr at 28 being Woolley. Larwood and Voce staff of Nottinghamshire, would have no mere substance Langridge and Cox of Sussex.

DIVIDED tále. Even thar an old-time the memory of contemporary Middlesex are sharply divided masters, like Hutton and Comp at the moment between the old ton, would begin to fade as soon hands and the new boys, the was latter forming the larger if not innings

the better part by six to Ave. Though the batting leans rather Robertson, Edrich heavily on

IS

their

.over.

last

*INVISIBLE The team for the second. Test

Strange that men who do so

to the great a service

game taken so much for P.B.H. May (Surrey) Cap-clairn between 10,000 and 12,000

members, each paying £A1/5/should be tain, T.E.B. Bailey (Essex),

granted, as though they were K. Barrington (Surrey), D.C.Ss, a year for membership tickets.

part of the furniture, like the 1938 League final at Mel- The

the Compton (Middlesex), T. G.

Cricket Ground, drew

stumps and

sightscreens. But

is. so it Taipei, June 19. Evans (Kent), T. W, Graveney bourne 96.834. D. Kenyon

Members and the older later im- Health authorities The Chairman of the Chinese (Gloucestershire), Nationalist Olympic Committee (Worcestershire), J. B.

generation apart, how many of posed an attendance limit of IOC (International ham (Lancashire), F. J. Titmus 90,000 which means that many those who go to see Middlesex said today

Lord's know that the man Tyson Olympic Committee) sessions (Middlesex), F. H.

cannot get into semi-final and

who sits, almost invisible, Hral matches. wiil

iclo "dirty (Northamptonshire), be turned

the feet of Father Time, saying politica! propaganda gather Wardle (Yorkshire).

the word that turns the wheel ings" if China is allowed 10

Twelfth man for the first twu

that tells the tale of how the participate in next year's Games daysD. Morgan (Derbyshire). at Melbourne,

Gunson Hoh said that

Twelfth man for the Germany, North Korea and fourth and fifth days. Ber

Fast

3.

Communist Vietnam, who have nett (Middlesex).—Reuter, not ye been invited to the Games, would be herded" into

and

In a last minute, appeal

Chairman Avery Brundage

to

scheduled to end early this the week, Hot asked that

"Olympic spirit of justice" be upheld.

France-Presse

reports

Stat-

third

Five full days of Test cricke: at the same ground could not attract these gates,

radio

pre

at

at

game is going, is the one and only Palsy Hendren, who made more runs in his day and highly Individual way than anyone in the game, except Hobbs

THE ANSWERS

and

in

the an

15-Year-Old New Zealand Girl

Jumps Into World Class

Mary Donaghy, a 15-year-old New Zealand girl who is now being hailed as one of the Dominion's brightest prospects for the Olympic Games to be held in Melbourne next year, was just an unknown schoolgirl five months ago.

It all began when she entered for the high jump at a school's athletic meet- ing. Her hopes of success were not high, but there were only two other competi- tors and, she explained, "If I come third, it means a point for the school."

Early in March, she won the Mary's training is now being

from Championship Captain Frank National supervised by

2 with 5 feet Sharpley, a Loughborough, Eng- Miss Swinton trained Army physical inches. and, education officer and former hurdles national sprint and

Mary won with a barefoot scissors leap of 4, feet 10 inches. Her training had consisted of a few practice jumps in the back Yard of her country home. months Three

later. after

ft enough to take by-brawl commentary, China Hoskin, who can tell you; feet 3 inches who is only 5 one of only two athletes to win literally Ian; into world class

Ernie

With the building of the new stand at the Mel- Olympic bourne Cricket Ground and ac- increased commodation being

football clubs still Woolley. that to 120,000,

Lans an overflow of also said expect the world sports organisation Selection. Committee

Final the 1956

comes after Red China's admission. that M. C. Cowdrey has not when

Filling the same office at the Invitations have already been played sufficient cricket so far round.

For those who cannot attend Oval is another famous name.

METEORIC extended to both Red China this season to be considered for

China. Red selection

games, there Herbert Strudwick (Surrey and second Test the League Nationalist

for the

Mary capped her meteoric rise China bas accepted the in-match and that owing to a leg the regular

broadcasts, England), the greatest wicket-

y adopting the Western roll style champion. Captain Sharpley is to athletic prominence when she keeper of all to me injury, Bob Appleyard was not giving a kick-by-kick, brawl-ked vitation.

of jumping Mary, generation Kent have smiling!

became the three national titles on the same on March 23 by clearing 5 feet 10 considered

tall, bec Mali Special. atm

5-day.

44 inches at an inter-secondary nationa! without looking at the book

record-holder with feet 4 inches, having beaten

was he

who advised his schools meeting. This jump has Sending the 10C Paris session part in a five-day Test match

how many catches Godfrey

rescgmised Evans has taken this season, and the existing record of 5 feet 3young pupil to adopt the Western now been officially when Douglas Wright last did inches set up by Mrs Dorothy foll style. But he thought it as the New Zealand record.

Tyler. of Britain, when she won would take a year for her wo the hat-trick.

the 1930 British Empire Games master it. Georga In Sussex,

Washer

title at Auckland and knows all the

At her next competitive out-high jump. She has a 17 feet 10. FIRST EVER nowadays that means a great

Long Jump to her believed Mary is

be the ing a week or two later. how-inches to

and has done

11.5 Cap- credit, deal more than being able

in the world to ever, Mary cleared 5 feet.

for the 100 Yards tell the last man out whether first woman

Thave jumped

owntain Sharpley was content, and sends over her he was caught, stumped or run

height. No winner of the Olym-concentrated on improving her sprint.

how to Captain Sharpley is out.

and

badly teaching her the hitch kick in Every player wants to know pic Games Women's High Jump style and teaching her avoid the has ever managed that, and land

suffering. his average, and

Long Jump and improving arm Women's High Jump

jumping Mary,

sprinting-China record.

again, really hit the headlines action soom after this when.

Mall Special. children's championship meet-. ing, she exceeded Mrs Dorothy The MCC Mayer's teet

all-comery record by Grow Bigger

He said the TOC should now make a clear-cut decision

on

the "state amateurism" problem and have the "guis" to dele- mine right from wrong.

wad

Hoh said the future Olympic Games would turn into "political physical "battlefield where and no sportsmanship can prevail"

the Olympic Com- He mittee falled to stand up for principles of right the Games in the future would be controlled by the Soviet Russia, the Com- munist Satellites and their sym- pathisers. "This is the beginning of it," he said.-United Press.

Swiss Beaten 3-0 At Soccer

New Zealand Grand Prix

Attracts Considerable Overseas Interest

answers,

to

the captain

Mary Donaghy's athletic" ability

مما

does not stop at the

The third New Zealand Grand Prix motor-car race, wants to know them all. Mccnelther has any holder of the bruised knees she was "barsfot j ker rhythm of leg and

to be field at Ardmore, 25 miles from Auckland, on January 7 next, promises to be the most thrilling yet.

Overseas interest in the event is growing rapidly and the executive of the Auckland International Grand Prix has received letters from several "name" drivers anxious to compete next year.

to

....

the

world

3 inches

at

New

one eighth of an inch and the resident record of Nocline Swinton by half an inch.

want to know the number of overs bowled in the hour..

Somebody else wants the number of runs, scored

per 100 balls, and ditto the number of wickets. Only the other day, I heard the captain of

Hampshire, Desmond Eagar, ask his scorer Suggestions for a more varied. The first New Zealander to

check up on a pet theory programme and a much faster finish will get £150 and the that the last ball of the over

one that got most bone Cricket Club is at present Membership of the Maryle- course made by the competitions Leonard Lord Trophy, presented was the

limited manager of the Royal Auto- by Sir Leonard Lord, Chairman wickets, perhaps because

There are 201 FT. HAMMER to 8,000. was laclined to relax mobile Club, Mr D. H, Dela- of the British Motor Corpora- batsman

thousands of applicants on the concentration then.

THROW BY mont, who raw this year's race, tion, for annual competition.

to find out waiting list and it takes up to I did not stay There will be no heats in next

25 years before membership is have been adopted,

whether

the

found theory

ritained.. Spain beat Switzerland by As a result, the 1958 race will year's race,

This year's race, which was any support in figures, but three goals to nit in an inter-be run clockwise and some

around." long cough Pavilion accommodation is the

Quincy, Mass., June 18. national

Boston match bere corners of the two and one. watched by 70,000 people, made

the Hampshire cap-limiting factor and it is, there- Harold Connolly, a a profit of 27,259. It is pro- circult altered, Leath

evidence tain provide

for fore, heartening news, that University graduate student with today.

making the 100-lap 210-mile posed within a few years in use Halftime score was 1-0.

his theory "at his own ex- plans have been drawn up for a a withered left arm, last right

that would None of the Spanish scores Grand Prix five to seven miles the race profits to send New

sense he was bowled by the pavilion extension that Zealanders abroad to compete

last ball of an over.

allow the membership figure In today's match played for an hour faster. Spain when they drew 1-1 with

The programme will consist of against the world's best drivers. This is one of the aims of the England in Madrid last month.

""serious". races five

non-profit-making body which controls the Auckland race,

Geneva, June 19.

soccer

Collar put Spain ahead after

mile

and

✡

I

£1,500 IN PRIZES

only two minutes but the Swiss vintage car contest,

W19

to

to

AMERICAN

won the New England A.AU. be increased by a further 3,000, championship with a throw of There is a way to jump the 201 feet 54 inches in the 18- A bowler with a remarkable 25-year queue but very few can pound hammer event.com

FINE RECORDI

of it, By The recognised American re

to also beatert by Connolly last

record this season is Brian take adv949 cricket cord. of 195 feet 4 inches was i cident of halfback Willy Kerpen Total prize money - for the last New Zealand. Grand Prix where he was in competition playing member admittance April with a throw of 202 foot | or achieved: fre about four years;/3-2/8 the first ) attacks for the remainder of the top money, which will be anot know of a better-run TaceDoor Pritches of but the cricketing standard is "Amer

Mr Delamont described the Lobb, who left Warwickshire becoming a

Bannister, Kelther full membership may be testing the less

climate where he has had a Somerset regular place in the county side.

now

to

UD-

World standards have doubtedly risen, sufficiently to previde upsets, through players like Sweden's Sven Davidson or Enrique Mcrea of Argentina, but perhaps not enough to pro-

Wimbedon vide a

Champion from outside the two top countries.

the ladies Maureen

- absence should let in Doris Hart to regain the title she won before "Little Mo" took But Louise Brough will make things difficult, so too, will Britain's Angela Mortimer.

over.

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defence, though handicapped by the absence through a car...ac-.

to beat 200 "managed to fight off the Spanish Grand Prix will be 21,500, plus as a wonderful event" do wit

The anywhere," he added. minimum of 25. a lap. first half

Founded in 1787 as a private The world record for this Eight minutes after the inter- winner will receive £600 and The 1956 race, thanks largely

Mr Delamont's interest in a very short time he has non-profit-making club the event is 210 feet 1 inches set val, Arleta gave the Spaniards the New Zealand Motor Cup. to

acquird a distinguisad bag of MCC today the supreme by Stanislav Nenasher, Soviet SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. senior batsmen, including Hut authority on cricket in the Unica in Baka last year

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