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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1956.

· by CUMMINGS

CPA-

WHERE WILL THEY TURN UP NEXT?

ENGLISHMEN AND-

RUSSIANS

ARE BROTHENS

ILENTLY,

The

respect-

fully, uncomfortably, and with a steely- eyed Russian sentry

out

38

staring

of countenance over his bayonel, we filed past the embalmed bodies of Messrs Lenin and Stalin in the black marble mausoleum under Moscow's Red Square, hard by the onion tops of the Kremlin.

A chilly, uncanny CX-

perience, I assure you.

And it struck me as more

thus 26 little incongruous when my immediate neigh. bour in the sombre croco- dile it fair-haired Bitle รายง in a black blazer touched me on the shoukler and whispered: "Drop in for eup of teu if ever you Wolverhampton

il are up

way.

H

"...and our interpreters Comrades Maclean and—er-Burgess,”

Cummings

London Express. Service

greatest day of their lives

Introducing

a new

in which the stars series of sport talk to GEORGE WHITING. Today's star is Billy Wright, England's soccer captain.

The England Captain nearly got the sack

tu

OII.

from

"If

were

among the lot of them. Then for a tackle. They opened right up like a book, waiting for him on the night before the final. I to gathered the boys together to pasa, I suppose. But Sammy listers to our manager, Stan was evidently very fond of that Cullis,

ball. He refused to part with of it until ho got to the edge the box. Then he banged 11 home fer 3-1 lead and the lads played like heroes to keep It that way until the whistle. T nearly went crazy,

had

"But if anybody belleves we one of those famous tactical campaign talks we hear so much about they are wrong. Stan just eat on the arm of my chair, went through the Leice ster team man by man, and decided that all we had to do to win the Cup was to play our natural game.

"And so Wolves won the Cup. Hundreds of people have asked me what the Queen (Princess Elizabeth then) sald to me when she shook bands and handed me the trophy, but was in too much of a dither to

remember. 1

"Our lads were tickled pink to hear that we had drawn the lucky North dressing room at Wembley, and certainly did not remind them that, only two weeks earlier. 1 had led an England team out of that same dressing room to be beaten by Scotland.

"I recall the Princess smiling saying "Congratulations,"

"It's the opening 10 minutes that count when you are play- and

some- But what I was

ing in a vast place like Wembley and I know she added for the first time, especially if thing else. It's a Cup Final. Get the lifters honestly cannot remember.

wish could." then and you've had it.

and

ant between us

we Christmas dinner.

1

I know I spent as hated football," much time calling encourage....

"This

she ment as I did playing the ball

declared. La it." "The ball that won the Cup for in the first 10 minutes..

Wolves. And

All It's mine, "1 remember Prince Philip mine."

'You must be getting to drawn at home four times saying

On that triumphant eue, 1. know this place by now,' when. running. But up here in we were presented to him be- lifelong supporter of Chelsea,

it is

-took my departure,

pro- adore the kick-off, Wolverhampton

mised

my host not to boo too standing joke that the real

when the Wolves meet reason was

my bad luck with the toss.

វា

Daffodils in the sitting tributions to the football

1 forget everything room hinted at spring to entertainment of literally else, I shall always remem-

ber come. Trophies, team photo- millions

uf people

the Saturday I led

At this terminal point in the "Fortunately, our keeper, Bert Wolverhampton Wanderers graphs, pennants and red. Molineux to Moscow.

Williams; our centre-forward, Wright reminiscences. Mrs to win the Cup at Wembley Jesse Pye, and our wingers, Colley left us, rummaged up- letter certificates proclaimed

Billy Wright, at 31, is

in 1949," Baid Wright, Johnny Hancocks

Jimmy stairs, and returned like The speaker was William football achievements pre-

still in great measure the caressing a monster bruise Mullen, had all played there beaming Mrs Cratchit with the soccer sent and past. Ambrose

Only instead Wright,

awe-struck boy whose first implanted on his right knee before,

helped to keep the rest of the of a pudding she bore › de- captain of England, taking

us job in football was the re by robust Argentinian inds calm.

# Mrs Colley, known an afternoon off between

from spells of half-back duty for Mum to England's bachelor moval of grass mowings und from San Lorenzo recently.

Wils sucked Wolverhampton Wanderers captain these 17 years, put who

my host Wolves almost before. he

"Some people say we won against Spartak and Moscow the kettle

stoked the fire; and I got had had his first glimpse of the Cup because we Dynamo.

down

business the u bali. business of finding out just

At the pop-eyed age of Wright which day Billy

14, and entrusted with the considered to be the moAL

essential but ignoble task outstanding in his many of clearing up the grand This week I called to see splendour'd career

stand, England's captain-to- whether he remembered his hemispheres.

bo Was handed 11 by proffered hospitality-and if win- Wolverhampton on a

No small order, especial- ceremonial dismissal

manager Frank Buckley, the ay when your target is a ter's afternoon looks pretty passable imitation of character like Wright-full immortal Major.

und ange- "Sonny," said Buckley, long as I kept losing the Siberian Steppes: at of enthusiasm

no dotes about his team mates "I'm afraid you will never toss they reckoned least there could be

and

be big enough for profes could keep winning doubting the warmth of the of Wolverhampton

sional football. You don't games. welcome that awaited me England, but as coy as

it comes to

I'm seem to grow up, so in the snug

suburb of curate when

talking about his own con- sending you home." Aldersley.

in two

LOOKING AHEAD TO AUTUMN

a

New fashion for men that will be on ' malo dext salumn in this shock overcoat in belge heavywolzhi onvalry, twill, Designed by an American, it was shown as the third National Men Trade Fall at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

in- And then, with the fant Wright exchanging football dreams for the hor- rible nightmare of a career in engineering, Buckley sent for him again.

once.

loudly them.

{COPYRIGHT)

and

NEXT SATURDAY:

"I called wrongly in every "Everything, or nearly every- Never won thing went well for the Wolves blinking tie.

It got to be almost that wonderful day. After about

minutes So 1

litule Johnny a fetish with the lads.

Hancocks dropped one in from George. Whiting tells of the the the right wing. and Jesse Pye greatest day in the life of the they headed it home. We all took-

the that as a lucky sign, for Jesse marathon runner Jim Peters,

rarely headed the ball.

'If you win the toss, we talk won't even

to you,"

they said.

"Ten minutes later he pounced like a cat on a on a rebound mouse to put us two up. I told the lads at half-time that we should want one more goal to maka certain and my words a 6-0 came true not more than two "We began with win over Chesterfield, beat minutes after the restart, when Leicester popped one in after Sheffield United 3-0, and the ball had cannoned off a Jimmy Mullen, our outside post. I can still see our left- left, got in a surprise right back, Terry Springthorpe, try- foot shot to start us off on ing to stop it like a suicide case

going in off a bridge. น 3-1 win over Liverpool, Then Jimmy fired off att that everybody needs to win "I have changed my mind. other 'special' to give us Cup Final. Ken Chisholm scored You can stay,” Buid the our first Cup win over West for Leicester-or we thought he Boss. So William Ambrose Bromwich and put us in the had until Wright, son of Shropshire semi-final against the hold him iron-founder, remained to ers, Manchester United, at quite a thing about

Hillsborough. make history.

"Then we had the bit of luck

од

A

0 linesman flagged for offside. The news- papers, you'll remember, made

that side goal.

"But you get no time for "I wouldn't say we had

the inquests International matches?

in the out there bul I have never middle. While the crowd were He has played 1 record wind up,

known the Inds 30 serious still arguing. Sammy Smyth, number of 72 gumes for nd not without causa. With our Irish international inside. England since 1946, but still the score 1-1, both our crosses his fingers against backs, Pritchard the awful possibility that wetch our boys all over

were injured,

full-

il right, got the ball in our half and Kelly, and made straight for Gordon and we had to Bradley in the Leicester goal. the "Funny thing.

he might one day not be place. I had only 4. few Leicester man went

picked.

minutes in my proper position

of left-half, and spent the resi

Travel? The Billy Wright of the game at, first, left-back

passport began its career in Luxembourg 10 years ngo and has since been examined in 23 countries from U.S.A. in the West to Russia in the Last, from Scandinavia in the North to Chile and South Africa in the South.

and then right-back.

"But we held out with nine men, and a goal by Sammy Smyth, our inside-tight, enTM abled us to win the replay at Everton,

"And

Ile has been accorded VIP treatment in the Krem-

BO we found ourselves lin, had oranges thrown at in the final against Leicester Jim in the Argentine, City, Quile a coincidence really, dodged fire-crackers in Rio, for they are the only other club I was with 1 ever played for.

eaten preheated airplane them as a guest during the war. moals by the hundred-

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weight, been acknowledged "My first job was to see by royalty and kow-towed got a Wembley ticket for Mm to by more diplomats than Colley, who has looked after me since I first joined Wolves many a major potentate. straight from school

Incidents by the book. "We made our HQ -al-Way- ful. And yet it is on no bridge, where we played god, foreign field that Billy and where one of my respondi Wright's memory

would ties Captain was to look ourt for any slang of perveN wander for his day of days, among the indi?) 24ayor-a merve

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near him

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