1956-07-14 — Page 13

J. L. MANNING'S SPORTS VIARY

THE CHÍNA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1956.

I TALK TO THE RUSSIAN WHO HAS A TENNIS ARMY OF 39.000 PLAYERS

Just what the Russians are doing at Wimbledas, and what they are after, have been the most interesting questions, And I can answer them. For I have met Eugene Korbut of Moscow who, when he is not building sports stadiums, finds time to act as Vice-resident of the All- Union Lawn Tennis section.

He arrived in London recently as a tourist. gld, before returning home, he will have affiliated Russia's 30,000 players with the International Federation. They can then play in tournaments ali over the work, and enter for the Davis Cup.

So Thought that you would like to know what Eugene und

I had to uy 1 each other..... chaffing away with the help of

Russian

whose violinust English had

the cultured cadences of Roelen.

LESSONS FIRST

атыра

So here we go-conversation

The plece with

whoo diplomacy will present to the world before many years the terrifying impact of lawn tennis wrought by the techniques of mutas sport.

Roing to Wimbledon

also

vb erved that his busines; wak nt in thợp which had painted on the window the words:

FRED PERRY

"He's coming to tench you tennis?" I asked

"I have read it in the ENG newspapers, he replied. lish

Pishaps next year it will be

+2 We shall sec. possible.

I liked this tall Russian ex

And I told him I champion. had seen some fine erage players in Kiev last year. But Me: A little bird tells me four parting words

not that at Copenhagen on July 11 about tennis. Kusin will Jin retedd it member

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who Das Pradilly Cireus, Oxford Mireet nal Solo (in that order) asked

of th International Eugene Federalen. itle! VOL will be giva enough vote, to satisfy Your national consetomatiesK"

Korbut: Your little bird as pery kinak

་་

Do усл wenna foreign players. e play in Russla

want Or Russian players to play all over i he world like our footballers. and to have closer contacts

Will Russian men and women) nter for Wimbledon next year? We are not sure. Wimbledon the high school of lawn mist Je curls. We Craons in the primary schools rst

The Davis Cup"

As

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we

orr

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rele behind the batsmen Pum bowlers burl the ball

nick

the two This so far this 36 catches have been beks, and 34 of then! WITC stle

Bauen nee to blan They won us their feet to hit the

They

trom all suffer

that is, new Pall neuroskill, exce Ritchie Benaud. Rrt Burs never cried match in his life, but he hade right words to describe our inorous mockin talsmen: Doch! I backward cast

3 e'e

7h prospects drear.

LAWA

Asd Torwurd, tho' I catina see

Iss un' fear!

Hy was talking, by the way, Ligi mier

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even the Canada Cup- They all for 10 btle gree

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but

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That

eye

erhugs not immediately.

Wni you invile foreign nyers to your National Chain- Jonships... you wouldn't inind. or inanec,

American or

u trallen winning the Russinn

tic

Our championships will bo

eld in Moscow in August. At we shall discurs Copenhagen

nations whether

other

hey would like to sind players.

would be warmly wel

They

bred.

wr huve

Have you

a Russian "Wim- edon" for thee champion- Lips?

There is only one Wimbledon, ut

new sports adium In Moscow where here are 30 hurd courts, and ecommedallen for 15,000 spec- But we have no grass tors

Experiments and re-

ወን going

but 1 hink it would take at least ten cars to reproduce kri 1ke 'imbledon's.

burts.

burch

ALING

Have you invited players to her tournaments in Russl07

Not directly. But

We

IRA TARANOVA-will shar ever be a Russian star at Wimbledou? She in tex years old and one of hua- dreds of youngsters now being coached by Mags- sport methods. J. L Manning took this photo- graph when he was study- ing lawn tennis in Russia

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INCHES

BETWEEN THEM

Mike Rawson (16) of Birchfield Harriors just managed to get in front of Farrell (Smethwick Harriers) in the 1,000 Metres Invitation Race at the Alder.

shot Stadium, during the Army Athletic Championships,

CHAMPIONSHIP IS STILL

ANYBODY'S CHOICE-

I STILL FANCY SURREY

Says BRUCE DOOLAND

The

This is the most open Championship year I can remember, other week-end only 36 points-three wins-separated 14 of the Counties. And that with nearly half the season gone. If anybody can forecast the winner of the contest this summer he is a better man than I.

I still feel the all-round power and reserve strength of Surrey will pull them through-especially their all-wicket-type attack-but I wouldn't like to wager much money on that feeling. Far too many surprise results are cropping up.

Talking with Solbe sil The hike-provided they do not In Atwste players recently a was terlere with batsman's stroke of nteresting to note that the ld

who had ixen a Brit.

noticed

UP- TRI

scotch that short pop shot fil . Oported

But i doubt whether the move ill work agar. I am quite sure that the tower-Beanies Cowdrey

Li

on production, Y the holder

a day's

sight of the ball, NM Pub

BLITY CATE Monday to Friday).

In any case it is not a quCH- No of the many thousands d

tion for the bowler or captain strong pretty whad claimed their round levelling

levelling

to decide whether this sort f

will not have any inhibitis DOWN-umoE the Counties,

thing

is fair or unfair. The ad- Peter Burge appears again unave fot Kalf, so l'an fold. But what Even in the four years I have

Judicators of fair 01 utatr Din 1990, I reckon he will move ritient nation we aref

In the County game I've cricket are the umpires. The him, fast; and if Petvr takes a April the courts found noticed the same thing.

Laws Jay it down perfectly sty cruck in the pavcess, woli, park where a motor- The smaller countles, as they clearly-Law 46 it is that the that will be just too bad. I know scramble was held on

are sometimes called, are not Umpires are the sole judges of a hut i do when anybody tries to Wis disorderly small in their punch as they any situation like that.

crowd me when I'm biting i how says you can pay to tie to be better an tions to Umpics make

used

The sides in What more, the instruc-shift him just as soon as i can i per- by cracking thro ball is hard us MELSCUM, cinema, awful hiding these days from Joctly clear that

their can in his direction zuo or botanical garden teams like Sussex, Essex. Hemp duty to interfere, WITHOUT Punday, Lut you're

ashire, Glamorgan and dear old ANY APPEAL FROM THE fertimpal if it's sports.

Somerset who used to be con-PLAYERS, wherever they think sidered easy meat for big shots there is unfair play. ilke Yorkshire, Lancashire and There has been a great deal of I find that the players talk suggesting that Peter May protested to Ian Johnson about the job more seriously, they Burge's position,

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on

Leaplein, is so near to winning Huck's award that I gladly

to

It is

BATSMEN IN FORM Still, it is all very well for we amateur selectors 10 suggest that, so-and-so will have to be

aruppen and that so-and-so won't do. The question is who should

picked to strengthen the

I Johnson, Australia's TestSurrey are getting down [stretch a point in his favour, are fighting harder, and there is think that was so. If any pro- England betting? When the field

must

more team spirit right through, (dest had been

but I don't

made all

Like

11 reason being that, after

1 belleve opea

the men in the15 BO two Ponths, he has compelled It could be that more players | Australian captain would have carm are the men to pick and its secept his sensible pro- are realising that Ørst

done would be to refer the that means that batsmen clus cricket these days can provide matter directly to the umpires Insule of Essex all stand a jolly pelj that Australia's dim la

Alan Oakman of Sussex, Doug to n the Ashes from 1 attractive living and that Was the posting of player

made I not the County Cham-more effort is being

10 so near ETHICALLY the right good chance of selection. from Surrey.

reach the top. Whatever

the

thing the

What we must all wait to dis- then? According to a great Ardingly. It

reason it is producing better, If many people be

was not. They cover is which of them will bra pcht for him to reflect that not always more exciting, county argue

that

Cowdrey was

so able to make the jump, in class water his players do

and temperament, scared of inflicting bodily harm

which is 20 boericket.

SILLY twee Dests, nine of them were

to Burge that he was restricted important to tum a good county Sull rocketing round the in his play. That cou

could be so. player into a good Test Match me if I would take him and his hough to draw the first

pavillons is the problem of the But, in my view, there was player. I can assure you it isn't comrades tu

fairness or unfairness of Ian nothing ethically or technically half as easy as many people Johnson's decision to post Peter wrong in the Australian tactles, think. Burge right under Colin Cow- Both Johnson and Burge appre drey's nose during the Lord's clated and accepted the risk two or three yards from Test. He was positioned only every close-to-the-wicket felds-

the man accepts, at silly mid-on. At first he

orking 011 dates. Perhaps he added. same would like to play in the

Inat satumi,

hat could win the second FI cricke

It has told Miller and Co. match and greyhound racing. to be a good time before the

We have neither in Rusia."

| third] Test it is only because be kws he can get a lot of outh of Russia where in Sep-know how lucky he was. Any And this gentle philosophy

he didn't

para "Work from them at Leeds, mber and October the eather is warm.

way, if we can trænge it, took out Lord's and Wembley. We'll Be a sound judgment,

bal him tzt

The rame little bird tells me be on our way,

at Lew Hoad and his wife

hd Don Candy of Australia

I cannot confirm that

e

Esia this year?

con idering playing

e making plans especially for xt year.

We

Kame

GLOBE-TROTTERS?

He now puts hanself on to baw infrequently and go

(MID-ON) TALK

JUSTIFIED?

an over or

Of so he was moved would suggest that

COACHING HINT

To most batsmen the late cut 15 one of the most attractive awokes in cricket. And most of us like to try our hands at it from time to time. I am all for

But pleasu

remember the essential feature of the stroke.

cross and into position with

down

шуть оть nly your feet and pity

the ball. Don't shuffle ocross.

.it was

play

was nearly on the wicket. After Taking the matter further slightly more square but kept Colin's peculiar style of After ull. nothing is eastern to Pat so unobtrusively that just as near. And there seems which prompted the move. Colin in than explaining cricket to you Ay think he wants

very

little doubl that this always plays his shots, mainly Russian iwn tennis

players

to Plum Warner's 1011-12 strategy disturbed Cowdrey and forward, with pad and but But how do I get round this record as non-playing captain, helped to got his wicket. Australian business In Thad

l's Johnson's one shining

The point is--was it

his dead-bat technique, in well? He'll think guy which I admire he is

thing to do? Frankly, I think ty play, pops the ball

up that England is

100 T mere satellie.

proof ngainst it was

A perfectly fair. a couple of yards in front of the am wondering, however, if shock

bowler who depends 3 great wicket or just on the leg side deal on the catches taken off As Colin was clearly intent on my bowling I consider that 1. steying put rather than scoring

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cent

So conversation went on. ought to explain 10 ine Hing hastily forecast that the back of my mind was Russians that cricket is now he w win the Ashes, I wish

exist nee of an embarnicket,

sing situation.

All we see in Test

Globe-trot-natches these days is eight men

players might be unxlous

out the discretion od the stans when it came to ex- mas. Would they have the

now-how" and the sophisti- itida not to "put their foot

Guardedly I said to Mr Kor- "You appreciate there is Breat

at:

difference between amateurs

estern lawn tennis

d those of Risala?"

He smiled...and

smiled...

ad smiled. "We wish these sits to be upon a reciprocal sis," he replied. It was an swer worthy of Kruschev, if doesn't mind me saying so. Yet the Russians will be

dek to leam, Maybe they e learning right now.

But

na careful to observe protocol, And when I drove Mr Kor- at to keep an important ap- otalment da Golden Square, ondon, the other day before

What A Shower! Four youngsters of Worcester wing Club were dubbed "The hower" by their seniors when ay formed thereclven into a ow and started with a "ersh

two. But The Shower?

ve had the lost lau

at laugh. They

achod, the final in their first ur „malden” races, and than

their next "at

Biralford

rgalta. Promoted to "Juniory""" kog, ngmin: wow their fratiraco Stourport and have also had Locomo ab Worcester, Evesham id! BhrewsbXY,

THE

WEEK-END

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weet too!

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GAMBOLS

AND THEN SHE HAD THE AND CHEEK TO TELL ME THAT I WASN HAD COPIED HER DRESS,

DON'T BE SILLY, DEAR, OF COURSE YOU MUS”) [COME INTO THE SHOR

WITH ME

On

a fair bias twins. And very often most occasions one easy move-

safe

and my captala, have the right runs Ian Johnson's idea was to to place my félders whore I move a man in close and try to

by Barry Appleby

MRG LEAF SAID IT : AS IF IT WAS NEW.....

IWIN

GEORGE! THAT'S CHEATING | YOU DELIBERATELY

IT WON'T TAKE MORE

'GOING TO BUY PANTIES AND A BRA | THAN A FEW MINUTES,

DISTRACTED MY ATTENTION: BY LETTING ME GO ON CHATTERING

the right foot towards ment of the off stump and carry

the body across to perfect position. Then avoid the slashing moverrunt and stroke down on the ball. the main thing into position.

But is-get across

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