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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1956.

The greatest day of their lives

JAROSLAV DROBNÝ should really be accorded two great days-the day he escaped to freedom, and the day he became Wimbledon champion.

TELEPHONE rang decided to respect Swiss hos

In Prague, and voice said: "Never mind my name. For friend of yours working

pitality

and shall play to the end of the international chan plonships at Gstaad.

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in two hours~ of Argentina, most of whirl I spent fling UNIT Being I might up on hard courts, I had a habit of wildlog into my shots.

one "No

Chu prevent following 022 sporting ansbitionis and with that object we propose to go to the that United States,"

at the Ministry of Interior, from I have seen your cart and woukl adviso you to leave Czechoslovakia as som JAN you can."

"I am afruld there was ille my geme that day lo mutgest win that same would! Wanblog file 16 years later." Great-day suprenney อ! Wimbledon

1 Drobny only at the eleventh hour and The eleventh extempt, after by and

well- Jel more

suffered Sluse Tennis plast known litiga

Brows of any Westward cufzügeous fortune

A Czech attache ripped the

Jown; Pragsi now

As it happened, Jaroslav nolice

Drobny, born to the wife of papers hollered bourgeoise

Tabe murder;

$4

Moravian carpenter in Czech Down near Prague, in we allowed Bradzin,

1921, had already decided that he had had enough of Communism.

Three weeks before that toke- phone tipend in 1949 he had

his belungAND

night--Orst of

Lego utting

Pover motiva Mon a fight that set to b Thude k takers and van aludty Jawn terms up to Switzerlaust

Fascination

the

Wen Jil

BRAND

Drelay and its fellow-contis

BALL Vord cook.

Abend

the 1 bloy ckp all Th

with frets

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In

Czech

celebrating ve

Is Chang obratujaons i

Warbirden A great

Having if beta perspek Stue mail and heavily by anisers

Culant lite

through the rom-linked glas-U

provided by well-alled

bureaux 1 tuen. Tas in Ton of Brody's acright of h campe to less-regatented pil

got oui."

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todd mir from his quiet country home in Surrey, I might have begon Mast of Sport, but ceriaunty 1 vez champlom ot

Wimbledon.”

So we will aevord two days of days to Jaroslav Drobny the square-built. bespeu lielu

dirtied

left-hande Communista Cratten as 1954

Whith

1 1949 oral

the ther

Recalled home

Its all

11

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by * waspush gal

from ht. Potamoey's Jegation:

your bags

"Co. perek

Jake

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3 to Berge and put

une diplomat

Selped the

espasito Pengang

So Brobay,

impuls

wok, prend

has left

bu be good Il Crock and go home two hestead, he and Gays inter

tas

A quiet talk

on

011

a mumman 19, 1 July

my

15, 1949, caused this sigurd an

no

The stars

of sport.

talk to George Whiting

DROBNY

by way of preparation he went shing for tiddlers.

And nobody phoned from the Ministry...

1 de por turn for the next Ove

fave

Janata Bas

1s As th

to get

Free to Divotne reilly practise*f ve good en grass for the best 1hs, late Free to lose at Wimbledon,

Free to what Wimbleesioni ut an age (3) when the know- well and the seeding committee hind is good as written him off

an a hard-fuck has-beeth.

simit Thal Curious

KTR ate apt to We aular Britons Lake lightly om blessing of in- turf. awi I forget

da. Bas, mi ban. 15 They HANA ot the Mightest conception of what a grass awa-trunks court pls like, ut looks like.

Habit of sliding

เ

of Azeclio- "Getting sinki enabled me to fit my zame to the demands of grass, they T considerable," "If

hart wan Drubny told me. I anything on granx

my curly days i would have been

When maddes iny rst

Buke.

To be pariter in trip to Wimbledon, paid for by

dree languages and affixed to a thoe manufacturer in 1938, I

the championship netler-beard.

W WIND to alate in publie that we are Sporleen coin- pletely devoted in lawn tennis TRO WAY connected with and 411

We have, therefore, pondes

htt!

never even seen a gross

court.

"It Jand rained over the week-end, and was beaten on

the first day by Alex Russell,

-They even sang at

the Wimbledon ball

21

Aris

Aburtive

prainst Schroeder and America's Te

Australia's Prosk Sistema, Journs and twenty- minutes marathon agalus! Badge 1953,

julies scle against car was Bunny Audin,

defeat by a surprise Tony Mottram these were the lightly our fruits of Drobny's extemporse when the cilexilea Czech presented himself for the men's singles in 1054.

1 was referred to as the man who could not wh.. who fell at the last Tenen," he buy told us in his autobiography. Drobny was steind No 11, a slomn-with-takit-pres plment interpreted by him as a personal insult.

The

Neltled by what be consider- ed a star on his fighting spirit, Drobny shot his way to the Anal via Messrs. Arkinstull (Aus-

Bergelin tralia),

(Sweden). (Denmark), Washer (Belgium). Houd (Australia) id "taue-teat" r.vol.

tach Patty

Only young Ken Rosewall, that slim and slightly satur- nine back-of-the-rourt" expert from Australis, stood between Drobny and the ambition he had been sweating at for nearly 20 years.

JV

J

battle

of a Rosewall passing shot. ball-boy

the was joined.

13-11,

"Three times Rosewall mak wonderful passing shots and he As the ball- the game. boys threw the bulls down the other end of the court I turned To the Royal Box end and look- ed at Rita, my disappointment apparent to her, In my heart I was feeling as if, onge again, my luck was just not there.

"Rita signallexi 'Come on! You must de',' Ant, my luck had descried me at that moment, it come my way 311 ful measure a tow games later when I got a net-cord that gave Rosewall no chance and me the break-through for 8-7.

**This

Miraculous

tune.

"Our Arst crisis," recalls Drobny, "game when Rosewall Bul had a sol point at 11-10. I won the set at with it I

moral tremendous

with the makh advantage against so young an almost in my grasp, I served opponent."

my damnedest, but again Rose- woll producci those miraculous Rustwall took the second set

passing shots and was down Band after Droboy had iDar

10-10. I could not help smil- lima pulled him back to douce

Ing at the Irony of it all. My One ket in the tenth

third Anal. My last final? Lacu a mund.ed red minutes of tevered time gone by.

Break-through

at

Third the man

net 10 Drobny 8-2. leading

in 4-3

the fourth set.. neurer and nearer to the victory that would repny in brimming measure the dis appointments of a decade. Let Drobny himself tell of those last dramatic stages.

coni-

wiky 21 f preparation Drobny went Ashing for fiddlers, watched Rosewall on television, vollteted his in-laws, and in no time at all was out there on the Centre Court, bowing to King But for his Ealing-born wife,

Gustav of Sweden, Process former Ritu Jarvis, he

DX Margaret and the Duchess would have withdrawn from Kent.

there and the championships

then,

Thus The All-England

began the best and bravest Wimbledon Anal seen record would have been denied one of its most historic chapters. for many years. Row nerves

in the sunshine Said Mrs Drobny; "Fight for

sizzled every point and when you have Drobny twice double-faulted. won the ie you can laugh at Rosewall missed two sinashes.

and nesman differed all the committees."

umpire over the exact point of arrival

#<

And it was so.

FRANCO HOTS

UP COLD

"I served like fury for 3-3. thew away Itosewall's service banked all un my game and

This uwn next service game, nearly lost me the match. of serving really fast,

three-quarter sunt down spted serves, following them to the net and hoping the pressure

furce

into Rosewall night errora,

Inste.d

WAR

AGAINST "THE ROCK"

Gibraltar

N tense, troubled

Madrid, where student rioting flared the massive

From Tom Pocock

ps it

of

Gibral- I talked to the top

40-year-old tarian spokesman, Joshua Hassan, leader of the elected members of the Legisia- tive Counell and Mayor for nine

dark Hassan,

and years. ebullient, looks Like Napoleon, and comes from a family which centuries.

"An Bed saved me one gume point. After a rally I dived and just reached one of Rose- wall's passing shots, a desper- ate counter on my part to what looked

like a winning shot, That made it deuce, He ro- turned my service on the next point, but gave me a lob which Match killed stone dead. point,

I

Broke precedent

“I heard nothing, saw nothing. except little Rosewall stand- ink there waiting for my service...I gave him a slice to his backhand that swung away, and, when it hit the ground, backe the same way.

Itosewall miss-hit it into the net. happiest shot I have ever seen. It gave me the set at 9-7.... and the match...and the cham- plonship."

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tain--Franco will hot up the have sellled in Spain and have Sparuards working in Ulbraltar. annoyance.

Here in Gibraltar they feel

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concrete-and-steel employed by the Colonial Gov- single Spanish workman, that gateway

shuts 11 away crament, the City Council and has before. last month, seasoned

from Gibraltar,

the three Services.

But what is the attitude diplomats are saying: "One Inhabitants of The Rock, who Without them Gibraltar could

Brush Government the not function as a fortress, & port the thing IN

for once moved freely across certain

allowed or a tovi. unless alternative Franco's threats and abuse? All

I asked him: "Is there any Franco's regime this is the border, we no longer

lo do so. Red tape and visa re- labour was drafted in. And this too often there is a fixed.

feeling beginning of the end." Here strictions have all but cut them is Franco's trump card.

gratiating smile on the face of put-with-the-British

in

has John Bull, only occasionally re- here? Is there an Enosis move- Gibraltar, they are off from Spain.

So the Spanish dictator Hundreds

ment for union with Spain?" ut placed by a petulant pout of Britons saying: "One thing is cer-

who begun to limit the number

Hassan hooted with derision. "We are 04 British 02 residents'

dents' portits can only visit But he dare not stop them al-

for a showdown Cornish or the Welsh!" he said. cold war for The Rock,

Gibraltar by going first to Tan- together. At least, not yet. An- that the time

"We combine the imaginative Spanish datusin te too poor to stand the has come. But before this can Latin outlook with the commen- More than likely. For gier or producing

Unmarried Bri- sudden unemployment this happen, the world must regard

tho Englishman yeurs Gibraltar has been worker's vish.

Gibraltar not as a quaint histori- We are proud to be Gibral- cal and Franco's most faithful redish soldiers and anllors are not would involve.

unless allowed Into La Linen

geographiesi Albert

tarlans, but we herring at times of trouble they have passports or come in WANT SHOWDOWN Memorial, but as a country in

Its Own right.

hundred percent loyal to Crown," in his 17-year-old police specially conducted parties.

There are minor restrictions Franco's hold upon Spain 13 The constant shifting of the state,

has thrown on trade, on the passage of cars too shaky to withstand such a world's population

A PLEBISCITE ? Many Spaniards are humlli- and on tourism..

shock.

and up a new notion on Gibraltar. But near Cadiz Meanwhile, across the bay, Seville,

Americans

On The Rock Itve 25,000 people. ated by air and navol bases the

There, in a nutshell, is a the Americans are

bullding Algeciras is being developed as building

ar bases, Of these, 4,000 me Servicemen, possible solution to the Gibrollar now

naval and

from the problem. Let Spain, as a mem- across their country. They care a rival port. Already, an Ameri- and these, with other Americnti 1,000 are residents

the Unton Jack is can shipping line is landing projects, muy BOON that

provide United Kingdom, and nearly ber of the United Nations, de- Gibraltar. Lei Billain foreigners, mand But, all, passengers there Instead flying on The Rock Franico and the Falange Party Gibraltar. They travel on to morning flow across the frontier All the others are Gibraltarians, give the Gibraltarians the right

The Gibraltarians arc not of self-determination--there can whip up some anti-British Madrid in 17 hours by Spanish may stop

dispute They came originally no explosive minority, feeling among young people. train Instead of flying from The Gibraltar could survive even Spanish.

ihis. Regard The Rock-with its from Portugni. Genoa, Malta, hore as in Cyprus-and let UNO RED TAPE

But these

to be im- Sicily and hall-a-dozen other supervise a plebiscite. Let both pinpricks, fine harbour (now arc irritating out to be borne.

or at a cost nearly Mediterranean countries. Their Britain and Spain agres proved

formed, abide by the decision

of the Gibraltar was occupied by Every moran, bere dawn, £2,000,000) His articld and its community is already

power La vast underground

ata and only 100 certificates pour through the Spaniards for 212 years-com- there

* Gibraltarians themselves, tuel tanks, naturalisation have been grant- And while they're at it, they pared with 761 by the Moors Lines gates some 10,000 Spant- tions, workshops,

aed here in the past five years, might extend thò piebiscite to by and 231

the British-but ards

work In Gibraltar, magazines and barracks-as an claiming: rostly Franco

labourers, fortren and it can survive any. Circumstances, have made them the Campo area of Spain, just manual

but, across the border. They might but a nation of shopkeepers. expensively *War. dockyard workers and servants, cold "Gibraltar Spanish!"

of they are emerging as a emoll and a very surprising number of Draft a brigade Since the Queen's visit to They must have special Spanish simply.

and Pioneers to nation In their own right, no Spaniards who want to be Gibraltar in 1954, Franco's cold visas and, tiko Cinderalla, must Sappers

and it can perform longer always dependant upon Gibraltarians under the Crown. War front has been the little be back home by midnight, Just Gibraltar,

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