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ESDAY,

1865

CORINTHIANS AND CRICKETERS

ON THE "PUPILS" WHO SURPASS

SOCCER SIDE

I

Edited By Sam Leith & Terence Elliott

Huddersfield Town vice-chairman Mr Harry Rayner, 35 years a director, has quit. Within hours of the appointment of a new chairman, Mr Rayner announced:

"I have finished with Huddersfield Town. I would not return to the board even

but I wish them every success,”

if I was invited

Timetable

New

[ events - Dewber.

chan

No now

has

been announced since Mr Jack Bredon left this season.

From Canada comes u

to

Players' Union officials are hoping to get the word "benefit" of deleted from the contracts footballers,

Instead vi benefit, theru matches cable would be testimonial

with anking Aberdeen if they will and testimonial sensors, sypointed play Moscow Dynamos during subscriptions, These would not NAS Mi J Bernard New-

June. be taxed. That's the Ides, anty- a tour of Canado next

wity! arging And the Scottish League Cham- directos of a ilunderstien Armpions agree, subject to sal

fatory conditions for the trip resignadon of | being arranged. life member Dr Rayne

wi! Uyto24138

touring the West Ni County FA and

Numuner. next early Canada Preke

Aberdeen chair League

William Mitchell wys. "We

been asked Conve Wine resigned of Canada If we would under

take a tour and play series

game with the Dynomos."

of

THEIR "MASTERS"

By

VERNON MORGAN

London.

The story of the Association Football (soccer) player described as "the best centre-forward in the annals of the game", none other than G. O. Smith, of Charterhouse, Keble College, Oxford and England, is at long last told in "Corinthians and Cricketers" (published by the Naldrett Press, London - 21/-) by one of his greatest admirers, Edward Grayson.

are

The foreword to the book, which contains numerous statistics which unique and photos which have never been published before, is written by another famous amateur sportsman, C. B. Fry,

It curtainly tells in a delightful manner of the affinity between Britali's greatest gout, soccer and cricket, and of the giants of these two national sports in days gone by.

NOT-80-YOUNG

་

recapture their Blacy. Fry, Corinthian and Cricketer, Jefübs. It is at the same time an to and two other Directors, in ad- back on, he would not be pro-

pays of this work, which de-entertaining book which will Pegnsis must create their own 1052 M. Hay dat Hatty la suc-dition to Mr Collins, have re-pared to be transferred

·who play [history in a different sort of scribes the Golden Age of soc-appeal to all those ceeded in the chan by Mr Dick signed and four managers have League club. Parkos, with Mr Hayner vice- left the club

In had the good

have fortune to and cricket that it is in the these games, whether they have football world. appointment

nature of a "Pindaric ode Three weeks agʊ M. chairman.

The "different sort of football been of a Public School or not. prose", Parker who joined the bourd with

It will

will certainly appeal to all world" is described in "Soccer (published by Mr Rayner in 1920 asked to be

those who like to read about the Revolution" released from his position but

House-16/-) by the heroes of the pasf when amatour Phoenix

Austrian goalkeeper, shayed on the bourd,

tenns like the Old Elonians and formWER Old Carthusians were winning Willy Mcisi.

the the Cup Final and taking

This book. Joo, has an his honours captured by the big pro-toricul background, telling as it fessional clubs of today.

does of the rise of the "pupils" wunt to see

who have now So muy people

game, Little enough was

known of the

their "masters" from Luton Town play that they just

While it might be sold pri- about that era until Mr Grayson bettered And the citot

room to pack them all it.

But arily to cater How nice!

Indeed, the title refers to the about the and not-so-young in the British stepped in with a book which he Britain.

by of the club is worried

and overthrow

England Public Schools, Universities and describes in his Mamallness of their ground.

cricket being "both biographical

[Hungury two years ago. historical," Now they tackle the problem amoteur

Metal, They alm In the grand manner by the FA

on the job. to spend £70,000 Their present grandstand will

with be replaced docker cantliever sund

That will give them an addi- tonal 1,000 seats and covered sunding accommodation under-

cath for 7,000,

wool texilie manufnekurers. Ther

came the

10

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Yorkshire

'TEN CHANGES

Nu 2

Direcion

Mr

Collina

The Broadford (Park Aventa) Broodford club has now but leb changes its administration chat-

g the post years.

In that te the Prenderal, Chairman,

Russians

Vice-Chairman,

Win

Ice Hockey

Match

28

London, Nov The Russian Tee Hockey wan came back with a stormhing flush in the third period to redre four goals and bet Hurrings, Racers by Ave ads to ter tonight

Russia second It was the

three

AIR Shaechs Park Rangers wol the London Challenge Cup look wash the manager, Jack Taylor took the trophy home mal slowed it under his bed.

Jack took no chances becau the last time Rangers won the the war-t tup just before

was stolen from their ground and I has never been recovered,

plinth was left behind The club #til have thla

tl

now

they

A

for the

восчест AIKI

young

doubleClub Meet RASC

Newport, unly six points be- hind the leaders in the South-

In Floodlit

Rugger

By "PAK LO"

This

evening again

unsier

foreword

remarkable

£1 now

naturaliped will The name Corinthians be known to the initiated. Englishman, brings to light some tacts of The past, "Good wine needs no bush" as Shakespeare said. But to the such as how frst British saltors the and then the Corinthians brought uminitiated amateur club formed in 1882 the game to Brazil, now one of

raise

and the leading nations of the world the prestige

of Association interna.in the sphere standards of English clonal football against Seat-Footboil.

to

land.

of

igrists

as

they

Wie

SOVIET AMAZON IN ACTION

Twenty-three-year-old Soviet woman athlete Galina Zybina is pictured during her recent record-breaking shot putt, when she set up a new World record of 54 ft. 8 in. Occasion was the 36th Light Athletics Championships of the Soviet Union-Express Photo,

The 3.50 Will Be

Miler Tall

By ROBERT FINDLAY.

The mile in 3 min. 50 sec. ....is it possible? Quite possible, and almost a certainty one day, according to the theories of Dr J. V. G. A. Durnin, of the University of Glasgow.

SOCCER MASTERS SPURS INSIST

The club lost iLs identity when. In 1939, it merged with Entertaining and illuminating Spurs elals have watched

the its

detalls, brother

Bs are these historical ches/st

younger wing-half Scotland's

Doug Cowie of Dundee, and

Casuals, against the wishes of the book will probably be more avidly read for its criticism of know thol Cast-

The Club Arany, including G.O. Smitir.

Brilishi

it la played soccer as consclos Dunder will self for

playing

and the author's con- Tuid 422,804,

Since then, a new Corinthian today floodlights. This time it will Spurs'

inalst by the way,

RASC starting glory has arisen in the shape structive suggestions as to how

the bo against the

Pegasus club named the

Kingdom tenma United that they turned down Tommy

at 6.90

Arrangements after the

of could rise again to become oned winged horse McDonald

Wolves and it of

have now been made for the classical

Today more the soccer masters of the was not Tommy who had the

Club to continue to play tool Pegasus is

regarded world, Lowt way.

Wednesday rugge:

the leading amateur club In

Frank and crition), Melal hits with a gine being charged, England, But, as one football

While this will not cover the writer

hard, straight from the shoulder, has sald. comparisons

and none receives a harder blow

"The physical abilities of Bannister and Landy (four- between

and Pegasus

the ern section of the Third Divi-Custs of the floodlighung it will

help

than keep

them

within Corinthians are perhaps rather the British sporting press, minute milers) are probably just about maximal for and the large gale too reason,

might be

the

Cup people of fairly normal height and bulld," he says. reports of an Dec. 7misleading. wilch is expected when fist the Clubs play 74

matches and

"Some record-holders are of "Now neither Bannister, nor the chapter on

Ban- "The Bungurlan Lessons". They quite moderate height, but the Landy are exceptional from the LAA followed by the Gunners THEIR OWN HISTORY

will also devote more than a majority are taller than averago, point of view of height: versus the Rest of the Army

Though the title lingers on, passing glance to the many fino and the records are being broken will help to reduce the deflet.

the real Corinthians have gone. | photographs, China Mail Spe- by increasingly taller and tallor

people, Not very

much is awwn of It is 1101 for Pegasus to. attempt cial. the Club's

opponents tonight except that they are not u very strong sido. To compensate this the Club naturally intended fairly weak side, to put out a

CAN'T TURN PRO.

Frank Mc- More clubs wat Ke skilful amateur outside- (North aight of North Shields

Doncaster Eastern Leugue) Rovers gave Shields seven days' notier

recently. approach Bat Frank wasn't interested

slon, have decided Dy FA rule, Frank can't turn

he has two of their professional

UM

Tom Johnston, Service centre-forward Bulshe

Notional next March, A the moment and Inside-teft Harry Harria

is the chant "Promotion" 1-1, 4-0 Sevres Hapi gay plans are to become a paid Glennie

Thrasher. player with Shields as soon as Newport_now. Rusula: Tregubov (three) Babich he is out of the RAF and as ar Pantykov-Reuter

he has trade-joinery--to fall

ki

Over the Racer

They won ulevat one on Saturday

"Perind sure, tonight were 0-3.

(three)

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but in this they have been foll- ed, for the switch of tonight's game tras Kanal many Club players with an engagement for tonight.

As a result the fifteen the Club is gelding instead of being fairly weak is fairly strong, and they should be able to beat the RASC, especially as the Club: are used to the effect of flood- lighting, while the Army team

DTE DOL

On the whole this should be a good run out for the Club, and there is always the chance that they will and the opposition stronger than they expected.

Club: Martin, Dyr, Stone, Penmon, Spencer Roberts Steward, Rankin, Knight, Clarke, Ellott, Hargroves, Carpenter, Armstrong - Wright,

Turkey Enters Winter Games For The First Time

Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy,

obvious,

und

World

Only A Chapman Can

Stop Britain's Soccer Slide

Says ALAN HOBY

rister is tall (8ft. 12in.), but by

no means unusually so. They are both exceptional men from within their own height range. but that range is, reasonably, commonplaco.

that

stems inevitable

sooner or later healthy men of exceptional stature, with the appropriate physient attributes, will shatter existing athletic re- cords, including theprésent Mile record

UP.

AND UP -:

are now very few authorities who do not believe that the average height of Liq population is ingressing Stand

Since this is almost certainly It follows that there will be FIL Increasing number of men of much more than average height und the likelihood

00

of

a new record-breaker

becomes greater every year."

George Sraith, assistant secré tary to the Amateur Athletic

What CAN be done about the dismial dreariness which damps so With the Cup ties upon us and the much of England's Saturday soccer? season nudging the halfway mark, I have done some stocktaking:

And I say: oh, for a little imagination! Oh, for a modern Herbert Chapman to blow away the cobwebs and rid us of the dust of years!

at Anuther alump symptom is keeper, and young Ronnie Clay the inter-Varsity mile for Cam

ita

Association, includes Dr Durnin's theory in his engrossing new book, "All Out For The Mile:

Mr Smith races mile running. from 1804 when a low-cusch. nained Charles B. Lawes won' I realise that England has

bridgo

four

minutes 68 too few footballers; that we live shown in the large numbers of ton of Blackburn.

seconda in a soccer age of gnomes not "ode-footers in the game.

A THEN TRICKLE It's about time these kile

On ho sweeps through the recognise, too, that only three fellows realised that every time giants.

But this is still a thin trickie, cavalcade of giants from Joha

• Bannister, Narmijā. happened to Albert Paul Jones to men today have the personality the ball goes to their wrong foot at this

vital split seconds

Quixail of Sheffield Wednesday, to Landy Riddell to Hargs. Lovelock to Hewson, Chataway stars Billy Weight, now enjoy-"tecing-it-up" for a pass or shot. halled not so long ago as to Pirie, LaeveryoDa

and crowd-pull of the old-time they waster

and

Today, however, more and more potential Wrights Clarks droppear trom game when they quit school.

...the.

by the author

whole

his duest Son John They don't kill and move the world-beaterf Nov. 28.

Charles, and Stanley Matthews, ball in a fleah.

In the old days football was mille meant anything.

Fascinating #tories Five countries entered naEK ?

Am 1 painting too sombre a an escape from the mine and authenticated by startles which Olympic Winter Games But I also say what a pily it

hard labour.

would make "All Out For The today

only 48 hours before

is that no one has the courage picture?

Milo" the last word on the 24lle deadline of national entries

at Leeda to set an example to Let's look at the future, at the

were 跟 pos

for thi

als prediction applications, the Organising British football and play Charles bold boys we all fervently pray Committer announced here to superb ball-player as an are going to make English and altacking pivot wild the rest England football a force in the e new national entries were of the side built round him. world again Spala

Holland, Turkey, Bulgaria

But no, smug and insular, wo and HumanILE.

the mena plod steadily downhill entered downhill slalom and

glant sjalom, two- and ...foth-man

of

-

Other take up the port of Gordon Pirie, Wesley Bante

brillent football, soma

ofit azonteur, one or more of the bril

Bendor Tharon Hungarians where they can earn money

Tabori, and Istvan without Hale thestani Romanyolari, pikk with

Murray travelling, or cut-throat com

Hewson and Peter Driver of prostor. petition encountered in becoming Halberg of New Zealand, Bria of Mid-20th century duractions Great Britain,

There is Johny Haynes Fulham who la clearly hovering on the brink of grouinéss,

·SLUMP` SYMPTOM

There are Duncan Edwards, Out of approximately 20 Manchester United's lefthalf who AKALID

Officials pointed out La

games I have watched threatens to become a burlier Joa it wa

was the first ilmes Spain

#CHON, only three Mercer Trevor Smith tereihe bob conteste.

bobsleigh and the men's Agure

Bonnie Belazey the America

Portsmouth Walyós, Luido y | Birminghaoh a great constrehalt } #port, what is needed today 15 pe "why-geoman

City's vraking....

more work with the ball studies

attendance !!!

“All Out Doi ws/pubilakeð

Aukey entered the Olympic Blackpool and the second half in the making: John Aly better cash incentives to epur Winter Games for the first time of Arsenal v Portantove Bristol Cit to compete in men's downhill provided the champagne enter- forward; possibly Harry Hooper, young players to become stars.

draws the West Ham swinger, feg

(London Kayrone Karelse) alalom, niki giant slalom-United tainment which

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