1956-04-21 — Page 17

Australians Are Tops At Tennis,

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1956.

Cricket, Swimming . So.... WHY SHOULDN'T THE AUSSIES STAR AT SOCCER TOO?

Says DON REVIE

An Australian businessman has invited me to go on a short summer tour to his country and ever since I have been inundated by questions from people asking: "Are you going to emigrate, Don?**

The answer is NO.

But I am very interested to see how the game is progressing over there. Australians are dops at tennis, cricket, swimming, almost any sport you can mention. They are natural ball players, and as we have seen from their fielding in cricket matches, they have a wonderful eye.

Soccer-and Une that

Famous Sports Stars I Have Met

Billy Lane

By ARCHIE QUICK

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SPORTS ROUNDABOUT

ALL STARS COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER SPAIN'S CHALLENGE FOR TWO MATCHES

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By W. CAPEL KIRBY

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England's crowd-pulling All Stars have started a movement with full FA approval which is gaining ground in other countries and de- veloping on international lines.

All Stars committee will shortly consider a challenge from Spain's old-time internationals anxious to come to England and play them two matches.

Hull

Maximum points from their three Easter matches have kept Brighton and Hove Albion on the heels of Leyton Orten! in the promotion face, but. Second Division for the art time or not for the Sussex club, its manager, Mr Billy Lane, is maintaining his wonderful mc- cord of success since he joined

Hon. pcretary Bob Jackson, red by an appendix operation.nationalr who, I am assured, is) the club five years ago.

former Portsmouth and

This will be an all-round sport-"faster than the racing horse." Immediately prior to his manager, tells me he's keen on ing ovent with surgeon Bobble have some kind officers in their arrival, Brighton, under Mr Don

Nowcastle United the idea, provided two clubs Rutherford, Army because they get so much

Northumber- Welsh-now with Liverpool with ample accommodation and director and, 1947 time off for training In both

will had Anished fourteenth and lost floodlighting

toan their land county amateur goal cham- dustcart football and athletics,

in the two preceding seasons.

plon, doing the removal job. grounds. Some

continental Mr Lane's recordi of these

Is fourth, Chango

here for London.

MATT-CHILESS characters are shepherded

into seventh,

second, sixth-and at Shefeld Dr Manchester to wives the time of writing-second. He stogo compa away from their

and

How about Allenby Chilton as arts and families. And in the case has done it by putting into selences featuring the Matthews, "Manager of the Year asks

they have practice attacking football, with Cartera, of the Hungarians, Hero

Dohertys, Hagans and reader H. Lowthian, of Grimsby, been kept training together for the wing halves well up, not Co.

who adds: "See you in the a month now.

worrying about conceding goals

Second Division next season." so long as they score plenty. As they have done over 100 in Cup and League,

So why shouldn't they star at garian clockwork

who u few

eni doulst Soccer" Who knows, a more year, we may see Eng-Hungurians will be among the

Banlists for the playing

Olymple land Strece teams

fascinule the Aus series of Test matches In Aus- title?-wl!

tralians as much as it has done

thue And

may be only the start, for more and more of mur professionals are getting invita

to Austraila, Less to go int ploneering the game as couches. Australia hes

British Rivea

characters fxribal two grarid Ken Grevis, the Lanenshire cricketer who is still keeping goal for Bolton Wanderers, and Joe Marston, the former Preston North End contre-half,

made himself into Marston bar of the best centre-hulves in this coundy, an inperturbable character, ching stemed

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over

La

old

119.

1 admhe, yet feel sorry for.

footballers, our amateur they are, gully going into the Gaines, all amateurs Olymple In the true sense. of the word. Yet they know they haven't- a chance against the highly geared State sponsored footballers from other lands.

fair; at hrdly gives bat't

a sporting chance yet how British of these lads who Ko ou for the love of the game. Cup Final In the Amateur

them

camp

we had Harry Sharratt, Che upset him on the field. Now he Bishop Auckland goalkeeper, 1 back in Sydney, and, if this | netually preparing for the great

Ut t tour comes off, I am hoping to orvasion at bury

in the see Joe Mardon and his family La District Shurtatt,

Australia to laik

schoolteacher, went to the camp with the boys and spent much of bla tine duing 20 mile hikers; at playing rugby and Soccer. Ut in a grand spirit, ka't 117.

But

this with the compare way

that the Hungarians und Russians truku. The Hungarians, who thrashed Our professioni!

I11 Umre.

Final details Juve still to be settled, but I am very grateful to my club, Ma

Manchester City, for agreeing 10 Jet with certain provisos.

travel-

A BIG BOOST Although the game is in 15 Infaney m Airdrail. I shoul Imagine that the Soccer mate

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Team 6-3 and 7-1, are amateurs

--DEIL they 12 remarkably

In the Olymple Gummi wil bel Turky beenuse so many of them

a big boot to the sport. Bun-

au'o

in the Army,

Nominate YOUR

They must

Hongkong Footballer

Of The Year

Members of the public are invited to nominate Hongkong's Footballer. of the Year for the current

season,

It is a popularity poll organised by the China Mail, and nomination coupons will be accepted until the closing date to be announced later.

The two qualifications for nomination are: (1) Footballing prowess

(2) Sportsmanship on the field of play Nominations should be addressed to the Editor, China Mail, Wyndham Street.

To the Editor, China Mail.

My nomination for Hongkong's Footballer of the Year, taking into regard his playing ability and his sportsmanship on the field of play is

of the..

THE

(Signed).

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the

This

type of team which can enter the Olymples because the

don't playera actually receive payment for playing football. But who can deny that a benevolent State helps them so much that they are as highly trained as any prules- sional tenuma aver here?

the

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Soccer

·

boss.

Brigg Town Horsted has rejoined Scunthorpe. old

Fine, but what about Allenby's product, Berry

Manchester United He's shaping well

centre- Matt Busby? έννοι of halfback following

years overseas with the RAF.

Mr Lane, with his head thick black hair, does not look to be in the middle fiftles, but ho Is eminently qualified direct a football club, for he had

sixteen nective sonsons League. Tottenham,

in

to

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Pity the poor Presa telephonist when Sportak (Yugoslavia) play North-East tennis tournament Hull on Wednesday, Lincoln on

of ambitions glamorous Pat April 23, and Fulham three days

former the Symons,

backstroke Inter. Sample : BRANISAVL-

one three with his native swimming champion, are defer- 'JEVICS,

of two with Lelvester three I City, one with Reading.

with Brentford, four with Wai- ford, two with Bristol City and one with Clapton Orient.

Yet

stil WE

our cling to ideas of amateur status. watched the Amateur

Cup Float and was #truck by the Anal quality of the play. When the gune went into extra time, the lads were yards slower than the professionals; many went down with cramp. It was the oki, old story of keen young wmateurs playing for the love of the gaine, yet not quite fit enough for the supreme tests.

BUSBY'S BOYS

Although I am in the rival camp,

everyone at Manchester Chuy's headquarters at Maine Hond is delighted that Matt Busty's

United Manchester youngsters have pulled of the League Championship.

Pace

Since then he served three

Brentford years on the

staff. City

been also the

was manager of Guildford for three years and HD8 with Brighton five. He played football while in Army, and appeared in the same team na Frank Swift, Tommy Lawton ete when he was years of age.

STILL UNIQUE FEAT

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He scored over 250 League goals from centre-forward, 300 of them for Brentford, and in tho 1920-30 season when Brentford accomplished the still unique feat of winning every one of their 21 home League matches. He still holds

the Watford goal scoring record, and a claim to fame is that he did the "hat trick" in three minutes against, of all people, His present deadly Orient rivals.

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There was a time when i was wondering whether their own cracking

might tell on lads who have not had enough big match experience to be rt- But the luxed in tight games, Husby methods tave paid off, Astonishing

to think that the

Mr Lane has garnered in average age of this team lot of money for Brighton by

ช only 22 and that Ian Greaves

selling Jack Mansell (now with came into the first team and Portsmouth). to Cardiff City, ha won n League Champion- Johnny McNichol to Chelsea ship medal after about ten

Reed and Billy

to Ipswich games, Yet Ston Matthews, Town. He has with great after 25 years in football, hus

success switchert, in his present still to win a League Champlon- | team, Whitfeld from forward ship medal.

to centre half. Bisweit from for- ward to full back. Langley from wing to full back, Tennant from full back to half and so on.

hear

Nice

Roger Byrne, United's explain, wen up to Ston after that game with Blackpool which clinched the Championship. Lo say: "I'm sorry we had to pip you of all proply, Stan-maybe next year it will be your turn."

The this Manchester United Team

But his greatest triumph has Deen Jim Langley, who has won an Englund

"Cap" this

and is off to South Afrien with

INTERNATIONAL SOCCER

Eternal Problem

Inter-

Of

A Satisfactory Attack Remains Unsolved

English football faces two grim facts. Professional- ly, the eternal problem of a satisfactory International attack remains, with games against Germany, Brazil, Sweden and Finland only a month away. In the amateur ranks, no settled team has been found to face Bulgaria in the second “leg” of the Olympic Games qualifying tle at Wembley-all in Moy.

The Humpden International blew sky high the Selectors' hopes that their worries are over. The de- fence passed the test against Scotland; the forwards Johnny Haynes excepted failed dismally,

The game proved that Tommy clude the Mother Country, the Having Taylor is a centre-forward first, founder of the game. last and all the time; not an been beaten 2-0 în Bulgaris, the If a right-winger return match must be won by inside-right,

It looks of the ball playing type is to a three-goal margin. be preferred to a fast raider an impassibility.

It then

must be Stanley

The team will be drawn from Matthews and nut Tom Finney, England although lab:lled

only And the fact must be accepted | Gréat Britain. No Scottish that Not Lofthouse Is passed players will be included Bi- his peak,

though the Queen's Park club Who then? Matthews, I have practically won promotion

must would say,

come back from "B" Division against all-

That once more; if the Selectors shy professional

opposition. at the Iden, then speedy, gual- season, toured the West Indies scoring Peter Harris, of Ports-ist the reason for the Olym- ple omission. of their players. mouth, is the man. Taylor, The Games come in November think, is the man for the and the Glasgow club want their centre-forward job. Albert playstry for their "A" Division Quixail, of Wednesday, played campaign. well in conjunction with Haynes Wales been excluded from

But why have Ireland and

tional against Scotland. So my reckoning? Intants centre. front line against Brazil would forward Pat Hasty and

Welsh be:-Matthews, Qalxall, Taylor, Phil Woosnam (the Leyton Haynes and Perry,

Orient and Army player) are good enough for any Olympic

Up to now the

ali- I do not expect any defensive conquering

team.

Bishop Auckland changes, and here Reg Matthews, players have been ignored and the first Third Division player | so too have the

Chetsen pair, to get a "all cap for thirty Jim Lewis and Seamus O'Con years, made a wonderful debut. well. These four should form The Coventry City mon can be the nucleus of any Engilsh ama- England's goalkeeper for years. tur side. Australia expects us The bost since the heyday of to be therel Bert Williams.

fasstastic kg about the FA.

Mr Lane has signed Langley is thot, with luck and barring YOUR times! Once as a Ylows- accidents, they should pick up ley amateur for Brentford, once a few more Longue tiles in the us an eighteen-year-old soldier next ten years. I have always in the RAMC for Guildford, martained that in three years once as a professional for Gulid- time they will be at their peak. ford, and once for Brighton

And right now, I can't see after Langley had been which team is going to shake ferred by Guildford to Leeds them.

United, His faith in his original 15-year-old has been justliled up to the hill.

Still football can be a funny game so we'll wait and see.

Congratulations, too, to Bert Trautmann, for being voted

Footballer of the Year. Natur- ally,

wo at Maine Road who know Bert intimately, feel that It could not have gone

to Ainor sportsman, I wonder what

trans-

GOALSCORING

RECORD

in the Sheffield "B" Interna-

DEFENSIVE CHANGES

The amateur situation is stri- ous. It looks 019 though the

Bob Price plays centre- those poison pen letter writers forward for St James's Athletic think now-I hope they are in the Sutton (Birmingham) competition proper, being play- heartily ashamed of themselves! Youth League. He has

scored matches-81 goals in 29 matches!

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build a depot to Middlesex cricket school with | provision for flye Indoor pitches.

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adjoining Finchley's ground, where Arsenal skipper Cliff Holton gets his Middlesex County trial on April 28-28.

Disappointment at Bridgwater. there will Football followers miss seeing the Matthews magic

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Bristol City would like to play their Youth Cup semi-inoi second leg in midweek by flood- | light but this would seriously handicap Chesterfield, whose players are working lads with difficulty, in getting time off for Soccer.

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