1956-08-17 — Page 7

Not A Penny Pocket Money For Britain's Olympic Contingent

By FRANK RÖSTRON

Not a penny out-of-pocket expenses will be paid to Great Britain's 225 Olympic sportsmen and women to be chosen on August 15 for the long, November air journey to Melbourne.

This news coincides--and clashes with representa- tlons now being made to Lord's to increase the £800 Peter May and other amateur expenses payable to members of the MCC team which leaves by sen for South Africa on October 4,

British

Olymple Association Secretary "Sandy" Duncan told me the other night:

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Even the cricketers—world's above-have a good euse...

"Give us the same as the pro- "We have always been strictly fessionals. The expenditure urnateur and resisted out-of-the same,” pocket allowances. We sha}! continue to do so.

COMPARE THEM

The amuleurs received

the for "After all, everything is pro- £50 vided for our team membres | Indies tour.

and unces have bed uniform, kit, travel, board. Even laundry is paid for, to

"Individuals must expert

meet any private day-10-day expenses themselves."

only West 1047-6 But their allow. increused stendily and they got £328 for The Awtrallon trip-compared with the professionals' £1,000,

This time there are likely to be five amateurs on the tour- Peter

May. Trevor Bailey Peter Richardson, Colin Cowd- Tory and, if he can obtain leave.

the Rev. David Sheppard.

I say that In this increasingly involved world of rominereial. leed amateurism, It is time for a general sporis conference

agreed Jummer out commonsense general rule

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TWILIGHT

This is the twilight เฟ

Previously, when South Africa fooled the bill, the presence of amateurs was halled LLY saving. Now the MCC pay.

But they are to take

amateurism all over the world. share of profits which promise i

I sympathise with harassed, to be julcy. Sandy Duncan in bis efforts to

Call

them all full-Ume

keep Olymple expenditure | ericketers which, except Shep- He tells me that they pard, they are. Sheppard could

£25,000

the decline the want

allowance if send | conselence dictated,

down. still

of £125,000 needed 1) athletes to Melbourne,

But players like Bulley who, But the money will be raised. whether they are playing celeket! And surely £10 a head north or south of the equator 42,250 ill-could be

given

to the team members without

Britain's

breaking the bank or Imperil. ling the honour of representatives?

That works out at lors than

308, week for the thre the

ads and lusses will be away.

still have families to maintain

want and need the money,

すべ

cricket unlike The

not Olymple authorities

em- barrassed by anything but AIS own home-made confusion:nd one more ancient farve.

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BASEBALL

BOSTON RED SOX SCORE

2-1 WIN OVER YANKEES

New York, Aug. 16.

Willard Nixon did not allow a hit for seven innings and then pitched his way out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the ninth inning today to give the Boston Red Sox a 2-1 victory over the New York Yankees.

Jackie Jensen's home run with Mickey Vernon aboard in the sixth provided the Red Sox with their winning margin, but it was the stout-hearted pitching of Nixon, long a Yankee nemesis. That stole the show,

his way to a

carlier this yea kame unti the sixth tiring when he walked McDougald, who ww.

Colavito

In the fourth.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1956.

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Famous Soccer players at the cross-roads of their career speak out on this subject in a brilliant, human series of articles. First in the field is ALF SHERWOOD, captain of Wales, who has left First Division Cardiff City for lowly Newport County. He says......

You Must Have A Job

Outside

It took a lot to prise me away from

Football

Cardiff City. I stayed on despite lots of annoying circumstances. But, believe me, I would have left a long, long time ago if they had said: "You must give up your job outside football."

An outside job is a MUST. You cannot save for your old age on the Football League maximum of £15 per week. I've had a job as a salesman since 1947.

was.

now

all

Don't ask me if it was worth it. I know it

But for fotball! might

ix getting up at dve in the morn ing and trudging from my uld home in Aberaman to the pit. Instead, I can sit here in my house at lovely Dinas Powis with my day's work and my

done, training stint

and look forward to my game of cricket on the common.

If it rains can stay and talk to Robert, nly seven-year-old

the

of son, about

mountains Switzerland, the Adriatic Coast nt Yugoslavia, of Paris (cen- sored), Vienna, Lisbon, Brussels, and all the towns and cities of Britain where

I have stayed--- free! in the best hotels too!

Young

Robert has already a flair for ball games. shown

all Rugby: Last winter I was

| the inomen It's cricket,

he likes Soccer too.

but

Perhaps one day he too will want to take up the game as o I'd rather career. I hope not,

Sherwood fitness

season at Newport)

to

win

No excess smoking or drinking: early to bed with the approach of the season; and never to shirk trataine

Then I think of the good lads who followed those rules to the letter

but had to pack in the game in their prime because of injury.

Here's another tip. I've never and had a club-owned house, what a difference that mode my independence.

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FINISHED?

.. NO

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SPORTS ROUNDABOUT

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Clubs Want £192,200 For TV Soccer

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By W. CAPEL KIRBY

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If the BBC or FTV still want to televise League Soccer they are likely to have to pay out £192,200. That's the take-it-or-leave-it figure, suggested by the clubs.

The clubs would each get £2,000 of this 184,000 guineas with the remaining £9,200 going into the Football League kitty.

Is it asking too much? "Not replies Ivowire Portsmouth director Vernen Sitolata

"True £2,050 tree of entor- tainment tix is equivalent to a £2,500 gate but that would only tide the average First Division club over utile more than a month," he explained

NOT SO DEAR

Portsmouth have

pect cash

Cause

to

They

values. have spent upwards of £30,000 oh under-cover comfort for 11,000 cash customers.

When I inspected the build- ing site last week I was assured the new stand will be ready for the visit of Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday, August 28.

£30,000 may sound a lot of

how money but

te it is compared with the £34,000 Wednesday paid Notts County for Jackle Sewell,

•

the Wolves' free- porty winger, may Ma Coumy player

poste

Clubs galore have been sounding Stan Cull's about little Johnny

"The best Hancocks future, but Plymouth Argyle. поку bet

the free-scoring came up against lest reason," Ford's verdiet on right or left winger will link was Trevor

shapes 18-year-old who former chief the up with Wolves'

the

and confidence scout, George Poyser, at Notts with

fearlessness of a veteran. County.

Instead of dallying with Tỵ matters the League would be beller employed tackling the question of air travel,

By my reckoning Newcastle United, for instance. are faced with the fatigue and expense of travelling 2,500 miles by road and rail in the first five and a half weeks of the season,

Chelsea might be interested in view of their failure to get Rog Matthews from Coventry.

Sheffield paint salesman Ken Wood will have his stiffest mile test of the Cason nl the Edinburgh Highland Games on Saturday, August 18, when his rivals will Include Olymple Champion Josy Luxembourg. trock star Hon

Ris ridiculous that whereas 1,300 Metres Newcastle or any other club Barthel, or

Irish Continent they the can fly to the are barred from travelling by Delancy plane to and from metches ot home

"We're all for journeying by air," says Newcastle managing director Sian Seymour.

First

and

Dione Leather will also have to be in form to beat Baborawna, of Poland, over the half mile.

NO TRUTH

news@gent's, tabacconist's Ord hairdressing business he stil has in Blackpool.

•

•

Scunthorpe were bitterlyTM disappointed over Derek King's · transter to Swansea Town.

They were interested to the extent of conakdering Totten- haan's £2,500 request for the centra half-back's signature, Now Ronnie Buart may have to look for his man in Scotland ito week-end. How Scunthorpe wish they had never parted with Dick White to Liverpool!

Over

Profcasional lown

benria

veteran "Pancho Segura has'a score to sottie at the Empire Pool,

Wembley,

September 24 and 28.

Incensed at

being

between

dropaxd from the world travelling circus, he is out to prove to Tony Trabert, Frank Sedgman Rex Hartwig and the rest that' he is far from being a back number,

NO COMMENT Cryplic phong conversation- with Walter Galbraith ran like inle

Me

What's your position in Preston

to the

relation managership?"

Walter: "What's the westhor like in London!"

Am

in 1 right Accrington's wish to discuss Decpdate affairs?.

manager

·

assuming doesn't

We have not heard the last of amateur Pat Nell leaving Portsmouth for Wolves. Even accepting his complaint about

treatment from the Fratton

crowds, why does this Swind

prefer 400-odd miles journeys to and from Molineux when he would have been welcome at Chelsea, Arsenal. or any London clubs less than two hours' easy travelling from. his houtre?

TOM TO MOVE

Inside-forward

I thought I would start and Anish with Cardiff-but then Don't be surprised if a Reading manager Harry came our difference of opinion. Northern

Division club Johnston was in Blackpool last Lots of things have happened { bids £25,000 for 庭 Second weekend, but you can discount Port Vale and lots of hot words have been Division centre half-back in the rumours that he is sounding his Tom Conway is likely to join spoken, but they all stemmed Midlands.

old boss, Joe Smith, about the | non-League Oswestry Town. from one fact. They thought

would transfer posiion regarding Erndte Tom

have signed for was finished, while believed 1

Tayler and Alan Brown, Crewe had they been able to merited first-team place. Even my form when I cap-

Harry was helping out în the rulo £1,000 for his transfer. tained the

side could not Weish

egg outsize alter Cardiff's view-but I think

point.

si

my

was called!" might have knuckled down,

all my 41 caps

MY OWN RULES

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und

ROTTEN EGOS

Anglers!

Have

you

tried

and bacon for catching cels? Reader Brian 41b, 402. cei Jordon, entered a

in the Empiro News Fair

good

Mason tells me mtion eggs are ground balt for ecls.

he had w good job and stayed up to the Fleet Air Arm. That The Boston right-hander, who

(I'm Angling contest which he lured htt his Best Major in a position where

at but I had my own house could gave me a first-team place he

Cardiff. and another piece of bullding a new one which should

but of Newtown Lake, Somer- came close to a no-hit, no-ran League grand-slammer in the always enjoy his game, to play good fortune led 1 my switch, be ready by next month) and ret, using bacon rind for bait.

erformance against the Yankees opening inning and then Rosen only when he felt like it.

Expert John in an emergency, to full-back-my job, I could say with sincer- appeared!

How well I remembering sign- on provided the eventual winning

that ity that I was prepared to drop run with his bases-empty poke ing for Cardiff City 15 years the position where I went

for out of football altogether rather ago. said: "What about my Wales.

than be in a position where I The Tigers kept pecldng away 10 signing fee?" I was told:

did not even know if I would promptly erased on a double-

at Herb Score and finally chased "Oh, don't worry, that will come

be chosen for the second team. play. Then, with his no-hliter the Cleveland southpaw in the after the war!"

I saved my pride, and to me stilt in bulance, You Borr

I refused to put pen to paper seventh, With the lying and opened the eighth with an-

winning runs on bases, early until I had the promise of the

that was important

gle to centre field

Wynu cune out of the bull pen fee in black and white. W relire Bill Tuttle and pre- Derve Score's 13th victory. Billy Left took the loss,

In the Ninth, Nixon ran inte real trouble when the Yankees loaded the bases on a single by pinch-hitter Mickey McDermot and errors by Boston inleiders Mikt Ballink and Bill Goodman Nixon Ianned Hank Bauer for one out, got Billy Martin on u force-out that scored the Yan- kee's lone run and then wrapped up his third victory over New York this

season when Mickey Mantle flied out to left fielder Gene Stephens.

HIS 16th HOMER

Don Larsen

Minnie

Minoso's

They knew the game from A

I WAS LUCKY What luck it was for me to play in an Aberaman team with men like Dal Astley, Bryn Jones, mely Horace Cumner, Leslie Jones. Hanford. γιν Wood. hitting cnabled the Chicago Harry White Sox to dump the Kansas ward. Ronnic Williams, and City Athletes 8-5. Minoso Reuben Simons. singled horne the lying run in to Z and were willing to pass the fifth inning and knocked in

on that knowledge, Playing the winnig run with a triple in

behind Bryn Jones right half the seventh,

was easy, He MADE me play In the only National Longue | well. game, Sam Jones truck out 13 But then I remember Am- men unt allowed only seven brose Thomas, a Merthyr lad, hile as the Clubs walloped the who used to play left half for Redlegs 4-2. Brooks Lawrence us. He was a better wing-half was racked for 12 hits in than I was at the time, but the abrorbing his sixth loos.

day we played at Cardiff, Am- brore was kept out of the aide That was the match in which

AMERICAN LEAGUE

almost matched Nixon's two-hitter by holding the Red Sox to four hits. But he lost the game in the sixth when Jensen followed a walk to Vernon by plunking

his 10th homer into the left field seats,

Home runs by Rocky Colavito New York

AJ Rosen and

tho carried

Boston

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Nixon (7-5) and Daley. Lat. Cleveland Indians to a 6-4 vic-| sen (7-4) and Berra, HR-Jensen

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by amateur cap Tom Williams.

I was spotted." and how easily it could have been me who stood on the touchline.

Another slice of luck

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So I got to the top and man- ged to stay there. Here I must say I helped luck along a litle,

Next Article:--Eric I realised how much easier it la to fall down D ladder than who has refused, so far, to re- I made these rules: 'sign for Blackpool. climb

up.

Taylor,

THIS YORK CLASH SHOULD BE A GREAT RACE

Says RICHARD BAERLEIN

At the beginning of the season, there was no prospect of any real excitement in the races for the sprint championship this season: Pappa Fourway stood head and shoulders above his rivals, with no immediate signs. of any worthy challengers.

Then Pappa Fourway was sold to America and the position appeared even worse.

Yet such is racing that, with As Palariva has nothing but the English blood in her velns and rather moro than half season, geme, the sprinting posi-wad bred by the Aga Khan at tion has never been stronger or his Trish stud, the fact that she more interesting.

keeps on winning races in Eng land is not so sonoying as it

and

As Zntopek's

.pupil successor in the Czechoslovakian

much team,

expected Inom Ivan Ullapërgërat the White City match. Bul

don't

was

expect too much. My informa- tion is that Ivan is unlikely to reach

world record-breaking peak until 1958, which is be tween

Olympic years. Sid Wooderson had the same mis- fortune.

FOR CHELSEA? Young goalkeeper interesting senior clube is Peter Dyer, of

Bacup's Monopoly

Bacup looks like sweeping the

trophy board in the Central

Lancashire Cricket League. They have already won the Wood Cup, and the Aggregate Cup and League Championship look cer- tainties for, them. Both their Arst and second teams are un- beaten this season. They have four times won the Wood Cup in the last five seasons; eight times since 1922.

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