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NO MERCY IN THIS SOCCER JUNGLE

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1956.

PROSPECTS FOR THE HURDLES AT MELBOURNE

TOUGHEST JOB

JOB IN SPORT IS RUNNING A BIG, MODERN LEAGUE CLUB

Says ALAN HOBÝ

"I can't take it any more," said Jimmy Seed when he gave up his mannger's Job at Charlton just over a month ago,

The other week that remark became suddenly loaded with new significance when I was told that my old friend Tom Whittaker of Arsenal had died at the early nge of 59-worn out in the service of the game he loved so well.

For, belleve me, there is no tougher or more exacting job in sport than run- ning a big, modern League club-especially the plum job of all like Areenal.

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You need nerves of iron au

#le constitution mirvive in the merciless jungle of professional soccer.

Football is full of men elther

Andy

to

No wonder George Allison, manager described Arsenal manager for 13 yea before Tom took over, has said: dogging

**When 1 gave

season, up I went home and did nothing for six weeks, 1 was so exhausted,"

of

Although

good

who broke their health or fused their nervous systems trying to walk the mental tight-

the which гop

manager's lot.

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average

I think of the silver-haired Jimmy Seed who, before he last September, quit Charlton couldn't sleep at nights.

brilliant Arthur I think of Rown who, after leading Spurs to the highest pinnacle of glory, had two serious breakdowns.

Fortunately. Arthur is now completely restored to fitness

I think of the late, grent

who, in Herbert Chapman Toni Whittaker's

own words, "worked himself Arsenal "

to feast for

SOUL OF KINDNESS Finally, I think of Tom hin- self, bulky, genial, and the soul of kludness: a man who always carried the burden for every- ote; who alrays found time

sisten

older

tu

troubles

fat

Indeed,

BUINS

with the compared

picked up by big business types, the majority of

chlefs carn

a miserable club pillance....

for

As for some of the smaller clubs, outs where the manager is a mixture of trainer, couch, scout,

wel

tame nume, and psychologist, a dustman is bel- ugly

ter off

people's { streak

Even when he was 11 he worried

worked for Arsenal until at last sheer ner- vous exhaustion drove him in- to hospital

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ARMY SPORTS AMERICA OUT ON HER OWN

PARADE

The spot of honour this week is awarded to two grand sportsmen, Craftsman Walter Dinning, REME, and Gunner John McMenami, RA, for, giving a display of boxing skill, courage, and sportsmanship, well above average, when they met at the Hongkong Amateur Boxing Association's first open meeting of the season.

Walter Dinning comes from Rosyth, Scotland, where nine-month he boxed for the Woodside Amateur BC and soon made his mark in the fistic world. The reigning South-East Aajan Champion has boxed for Scotland against Ireland, and represented the Army against both Ireland and London.

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́ ́ By HAROLD ABRAHAMS

On two occasions only has the United States falled to win gold medals in either the 110 Metres or 400 Metres Hurdles, and all four non-American victorles have been by British athletes.

In 1920 at Antwerp the Canadian Earl Thomson (the first man to beat 15 sec. for the 110 Metres hurdles) won, and in 1928 the South African, Syd Atkinson, who had finished second four years earlier, was successful.

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In the 400 Metres Hurdles in The rest of the world really made the previous world 1928, tho Marquees of Exeter, has nothing serious to offer. record of 60.4 seconds set up then Lord Burghley, beat

Australia, United States

the Weinberg of

who by Liver look rather slow, world record- Anished sixth at Helsinki, is Hard in Davia's hools vras holder to give Bellain her ony still competing, and so is the Eddie Southern 2/10 second gold medal ever in this event,

Russian Bulanchik

(who behind. These two seem pretty while four years later Robert finished fourth). A young Gors set for Olymple honours,

Eire, ono of the man, Lauer, was recently timed But who will be third? Only Tisdall from

18.9 seconds a new finest all-round athletes it has to

the Russians Lijin and Utuev ever been my privilege to know, European record.

have beaten 57.0 seconds. They again

beat the American world From Great Britain, Peter both should reach the final. record-holder

Hildreth and Jack Parker, who in the

last

Olympica, represented us last time, will go Lwo the United States have placed of them might reach the final

to Melbourne and I think one the first three in the 110 Metres hurdles, and there seems every

and no mean performance if (likelihood that they will do the

they do.

Helsinki

one AL safe same this year,

American only reached the final of the Metres hurdles,,

to

Aged 23. he Hus recently a great deal of pleasure married. It must be recent be soccer followers by their grand he quoted to us his displays of football and sports- wedding date, and his wife is amanship, and our good wishes but go

with

then for keen follower of boxing. li most wives she hales Journey home to the UK and a being long and successful continuance watching her husband knocked about, in his case she of their football careers, stoon, Captain Jock known Radio commentator

on all matters sporting, writer

leaving a150

hasn't About.

very

much

from the

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championships during

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THE FIRST TIME

not quite in this class and again Farrell, Kane and Shaw, ard if one of them reaches the final

possibility but not, I fear, probabilityIt will be the first time an Englishman has done so since Los Angries,

A WORLD

RECORD All three of their representa- | Charley Moore, but he beat the Uves, Jack Davis, Lee Calhoon Olympic record by 3/10 second the

have fre and, finished four yards ahead Britain, has Joel Shankle, quently beaten 14 seconds. of the Russian, Litvyer. Davis (who finished second to On June 29 at Los Angeles, Dillard

Glenn Davis won the American at Helsinki) set up a

itte world record of 13,4 seconds.

in 49.5 seconds, which

well and

wad

the

I can think of no one person

FOOTBALL

done

to

Now Is The Time For League

-Internationally

Action

Steeplechasing, though one of

oldest

sports in Great

grown in

popu- larly since World War 11,

The first steeplechase event in the Olympics over the new

distance recognivect

Meires was

of 3,000 won by Percy

Hodge of Great Britain in ten mintiles. For the next 32 years winners

came

from Finland and Sweden, then from the United States, though with a Russian next and John Disley. one of our three competitors at Melbourne, third. For the drs time nine minutes was beaten and by the first six to finish.

Here is an event which seeTAS likely to end

up with/2 European as Olymple chempion Twice this year the record has been bettered. First the Russian Rabistschin

toolc two-fifths of a second off the world record time of Chr.mile

not worrying For if they're

to slave of how

relegation they're thrashing their brains club, pay how to stay on top! salaries, even £3,000

all about Matt Oh, I know year is chleken-feed when you Busby, "maestro" of Manchester consider the

headaches, the United, Joe Staith, long-term worry, and beltind-the-scenes bons of Blackpool, and Bill "niggling" that many managers | Murray who has been 17 years

with Sunderland! have to face-not only from in terfering.

miniai Lurnstile.

But

every Superman directors but from fans too.

there wre 10 reapegoats. Indeed, in the last three seasotia

Worry alone,

40 clubs have changed leaders.

Scotland not only exports Be a manager? I wouldn't be

IL Ls Engineers but, ir one even I

offered WAN

very good millionaire's

and "Chusan". EXPRE

secins, she also produces account For in

sends abroad football'

good воте усту sulary?

the who has done more to put Ser- jungle only

boxers. John McMenami, eerulis count,

the sport on the map in How well remember that other half of this recent battle, vice

when, Saturday

also hails from North of the | Colony, and his shrewd com- amdd howls of Resign" and "Get

Border. A native of Stirling, he menta on the control of many

the are muit,"

has boxed irate

fan

has Fulham

of branches of sport one All round, managers are the

cieven for

Stirling Boys much to raise the standard in the tace whipping boys D

League shook his st

Club, und the Alr Training the present high level. team manager Bill Dodgin as he SAXEST.

was walking down the touch- Corps, and has held the British It is rumoured that he may ATC Championship and Ave one day return to the Colony When

their club is winning the

Scotush But Bill, now with Brentford, they are heroes with haloes.

at disguised as a civilian, We pro- When

recent | mise not to hold this they

To his eternal

against never faltered, tut

losing

welterweight

him and will welcome his return Thaty

he Bas-beens credit

Just walked Kal

years. on.

Both these lads will be here to the fold. smiling. who've had it)

for the full season and boxing *MENTAL FLOGGING

It was this sume Bill Dodgin

fans can

at look forward to who was forced to transfer his

least two further clashes bc-

With the publication of the Either way they can never

own 600 from Fulham

in League lists, a large crowd can tween these talented Inds, entirely iberale themselves Arsenal-"because some of the

the Army

Colony Cham- [be expected to watch the present whit Huddersfield crowd were making his lite

plonships.

| leaders of the Major Units Foot- miserable trying to get al me

Their boul opened quictly ball League, 24th Field Engineer

of Poland (5min., 10.200.) made through him," he suit after-

with both trying to weigh Medium Rgt. RA, on the latter's up Rgt. RE, citah with 15th

last year. Within a week or two, the

European champion the other, but by mid-round

Dinning ground at Gun Club on Wed- they had opened up.

Rozsnyol (Hungary) reinoved was perhaps the more polishednesday at 2.30 pm. The result of

another nine sec

Bocor da Between the wars the Scots, time to regionalise some of the with McMenami this match may well resolve on and scientific,

Three of the athletes who were fundamentally beiter, their lesser clubs who exist in finan-falshed in the first alxat rugged and a shade the harder whether the Engineers can find

a class player to replace McInnes linctive technique of smooth, clal vacuums. Now is the time Helsinki-Ashenfelter of USA, puncher.

sieck-patterned play being us for a supreme division, with Rinteenpaa Finland, wal Round two produced another in the half back line,

In Zone

of the Minor Units lined by such 03 Morton, creased awards for the top hard hitting

John Disley of Great Britain, tactical battle, Leppus, the pick of this week's James, Gallacher and Tommy players. Tevere punishment being extures would

Walker. stem to be the

Now is the time to think and will it Malouma, bileyda and taken, whilst round

be partnered by Eric of 137 Battery

Since the war, the FA have ACT with followed the same course, with Command Pay Offer at Stanley, swept away much of the parish naflenal league football.

There appears to be nothing pump approach to the game by. quently to the body and slow-to touch the clever Command plunging into full international Lrig

ing down

Workshops team in Zone II al- competition. But there sull The verdict with a mixed though 23 (Gib) Battery are as

xemmains a mastive reactionary reception, but the majority ap yet undefeated, and may be redoubt. peared to

agree with the menace. However, as they are Judges. Such was the standard of playing at the moment. sitill and sportsmanship that all REME boys would not be dis- the referce had to do in this graced by many of the Senior contest was to check the score League clubs, cards.

A very good game is pro Whilst the spotlight was on mised at Sek Kong this after- the main bout, every praise noon when League leaders 27 must be given to the Service Light Battery meet tough op- were position from 20 Field Dressing boxers taking part, Ail very fit, and had obviously put Station in Zone III. It is prob- of this a lot of work into their train-able that the wimmers

game will end the season as the League Champions.

from

LOOKING AT SPORT

Boxing Can't Survive

With Half Fit Performers

Says DENNIS HART

Sad thing for British boxing when, at London's Albert Hall the other week, lightweight champion Joe Lucy went down to the power- punching of Frenchman Guy Gracia,

Sorrier still was Lucy's after-fight pronouncement: "I pulled a tendon in my right fool in my last fight. I couldn't do any road work or skipping for this fight."

putting | but don't intend to be. that up as an excuse. I believe | haul themselves inlo him. He's not that sort of guy.

Joe said he wasn't

In short, he wen! Into

wards

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And while we're on the sub- wear-and- jest of managerial

what tear,

about 100 per center Stan Cullis, of Wolves, who literally lives every second of every game?

It was only last August at Luton, after Wolves had been beaten by

disputed goal, that Ston was involved in an angry scene with Luton director Tom Hodgson Fortunately, tempers soon cooled, and every- one shook hands.

Flery Stan-not that I blame him-has also had a rumpus or

two with referees. During a particularly heelie Cup tie tast year he was rebuked by referee w. Hunt for conching from

the_line."

Managers,

it seems, never supposed to be humen or have feelings,...

EXTRAORDINARY CASE

But

and

three

McMenami scoring more fre-

Ing. perhaps the most ex- They traordinary

case the ring.

concerns Fulham's Duggie Livingstone, formerly full-bork with Glas Κοιν

Celtic, Everton, and

of

Four

lumber about obviously out The fact remains, his faulty | condition and when the inevit- footwork was obvious and be able happens and they lose they lacited pace

suddenly discover some

Aberdeen. obscure inusele that has been pulled or the pushed

days after Newcastle some time previously and has hampered their training had won the Cup at Wembley In 1955, Livingstone, then the "Geordies" manager, was told that cam selection had been taken out of his hands!

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ring unit and only part-trained,

Joe wasn't trying to pull Inst one. And I like his "show must go on" spirit.

DISGUSTED ROAR

Half a dozen times in as many But is the privilege of walch- ing that spirit worth up to five months recently I have beard

Afterwards he was gradually Ume?

the disgusted roar of "big" fight kulness a

Ask the dis- gruntled fans-10,000 of them--- fama who feel they have been relieved of all his duties, "unul who dug deep to watch Lucy chen od out of

their admission there was nothing left for me money because paterntly unft to do,"

under not-too- should boxers folded

In the end, he agreed to heavy pressure.

cancer his £1,500 a year con- tract although I still had two

football professional

stumble around the ring. For them the show have gone on only it h พร going to be a show and not a farce.

FIRST DUTY

A boxer's first duty is to the public. It's the fan who dips his hand into his pocket for ticket money who keeps boxing and champions going.

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From the Lucy affair it's short step to a far less pleasant trend in boxing: that of the fighters and we use the word

broadly-who not only aren't At]

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TION

1 Airliners?

2. Urban district?

3 Great dogs

4 Teutonic

6 Order:

6 Not curls

7 European stole

8. Straight edge

"Royal' wont

10 Royal

If a shopkeeper consistently short-weighted his customers years to run.

Today

mixture

of

big

he would not stay long in busi- nesa. Promoters and managers in is not only the nation's largest the fight game have got to re-entertainment industry: it is alise that the public wants its mammoth

business and show business in money's worth.

whitch the manager is judged solely on the crowds and cash he pulls through the box-ofice. And yet what do they say? It's all in the GAME....

With fewer top class men and

many fewer spectators boxing is already having a job to Aght for survival.

It can't do it with half fll men.

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What a trand display the

By BOB FERRIER

It is my heretical bellef that in the past 36 years

the only time England had a team worthy to challenge the soccer world was in the period 1939-47 — and they were never allowed to prove it.

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The Football League sits in its provincial ensile in proud Preston and thunders with docadient

"The Victorianism: League has lasted this way for

will 78 years it

go on this way."

to Bees

ISOLATIONISM

At

nothing.

Nowhere has their isolation- 1am been more blatant than last season, when Chelsea were banned from taking part in the A crowd pleaser between Pte. Combined Services put up

European Champions Cup. on

clubs and Rodgers and Gor, Greenham | Sunday last. Against all the time when most nearly brought down the house, pre-match forecasts they man-

the sport's entire public see the Greenham, although outclassed aged to snatch victory from va

need for more stimulating and In the later stages of their very good Combined. Chinese different competition, the League bout, simply refused to go down ride. It would be madness

nothing, hears and stay down, and the crowd, try to select individual players does nothing.

There remain men of vision in ever ready to demonstrate their for mention and to do so would

an inter- the game. appreciation of courage and do- probably precipitate termination, gave him a greater service slanging match, so to all

Cullis at Wolverhampton a sincere and hearty ovation than that afforded the players

well done" Now you have wants to try Saturday evening winner,

little shown us

30 1T with football, the way to do let's The Smith-O'Connor heavy- have a few more similar results.

success

Matt Busby, of Man- weight clash did not produce

defied the United, The draw for the first round chester much boxing skill but held the of the Senior League knock-out League and accepted the Europe interest, and the crowd were competition to be played

Cup Invitation and already not disappointed. Smith brought tween November 12 and 16 has two home matches, bo has

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be-

In

played to 120,000 spectators! Bushy knowu what hist customers want.

QVCT a lovely

cross in the been made and is: second round to reb

O'Connor

7th Hussars" V. 1/10 PMO of any further interest in the Gurkha Rifles. proceedings.

Coy RASC v. 24 Fd. Engr. ΤΗΣ

Sir Stanley Rous sits in his Smyth, Plo. Scott,

Gale and HAA Rgh v. 1st Northamp-cyrie in Lancaster Gnr. Hadley all lost narrowly, to

visualises an, England-Scotland Chinese opponents, and with tome.

and Httie ist Green Howards v. 15th exhibition match in New York, this experience,

with players flying from their it is probablo Med. Rgt. RA moro training. that these results will be The remaining teams having Saturday League games, play- ing Sunday, returning in ample veraed.

a bye.

time for their club commit-

•

re-

to

and

A very big "Thank You". all boxers, the organisers, officials for an excellent even-

ments.

Still on the subject of boxing ¡November 12, and 16, the An | comfortable

the latter date.

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TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS

MILLIONS WATCHE The Army Tennis Champion- ing's sport, and I am sure many ships of 1956 will be held at the are already looking forward to United Services Recreation Club, Ho Bocs only some 08,000 at a but next month's bill,

Cup King's Park, Kowloon, between Wembley

Final, million, watching the match in the let Northamptonshire Rezi bingomis, war are well up to direct televised films. He knows cinemas showing The mont hela a successful novices

60 com- that a European League of some touriament during inst wock at average, there being

which it seemed the Jargo

in the singles, and thirty kind la inevitable,

One thing is sure. It will be majority of the Battalion took painel the doubles, while the

・with without the

For part. The standard was very ladies' singles and mixed doubles march, above average, was by are better uber bod to started

So now is the time for the previous years, Vy Interested, mut he hopeful of

put a raising a very good side for the details of the draw will Football Longue to

berfamed In the very near house In order. Now Championships later in the Team

later in the future, but all entrants are in- * finals, held by kind per food that the date doubles

The

Der the men's singles and does handicap, difference, starting at mission of the Commanding will take place on the opening 1,30 pm. You mere males ar Offer Lieut. Colonoi EM day reminded that in the lost similar Goodale, DSO before a large and appreciative audience, pro-

duced real *boxing

in the

ro-Enthusiasts of table tennis are struggle the charmers were only three-quarters of a point bo- kilt in many, reminded that the Colony hind do to it, chaps.

Championships of how vill bo held at the Kow- YMCA, starting on Novem- 12 and progressing to the and finals on, November 21, 2

of the contests. In what was the best bout of the evening a Pic Littlemore

points: victory over plo en

the Lightweight: An

in the I Willy? not be forth"

boxings glabl

of those

Tommy Atkins Mark I. In this columus last week, gave you, now of ille75 dismissal, after threa years on parade" y SALTENSAMERA FII version, lopes. 100% that Nela, attoria mwill be as well Kecilvedkaud (hak, his stay with

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