1956-11-20 — Page 7

IT'S NOT A GOAL:

THE CHINA | MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER · 20, 1956.

Sherwood, deputising in the Welsh goal for the injured Kelsey, in heaten by a header from England outside-left Grainger (at right) who seen his shot hit the post during the England-Wales international match at Wembley on Novem-

her 14. England won 3-1.—Reuterphoto.

table

SPORTS VIEWPOINT

Eric Nicholls Looks At Table Tennis And Tells Of The Spongers

Sponge, I was beginning to think, was making its exit from the affairs of tennis 4.4 I watched the youngsters of England and Europe battling for English junior titles last week-end,

Armed with the knowledge that hardly a 'sponger had darkened the doorway during the whole tournament, I went in search of further information.

MIRACLE OF MELBOURNE

DRAMA OF BATTLE TO AVERT OLYMPIC CRISIS

By J.. L. MANNING

The crisis of the Olympic Games is over. This I can write for the first time after some days of bewilderment and tension in Australis,

What a week ago was a slender thread of idealism has been woven frito an opic of sport.

Indeed, what I have is the miracle of Melbourne.

In the past I have done my share of sneering

ut

to chop off his tall,

sceretional Olympic Committee and all, you can't expect a kangaroo

not Mr Brundage. As zoon as the real dimculties started, до Boom as the crisis thundered, hey all stopped talking except say in parting: "We will fer Test defeats, and of aecus, leave it to Australia to handle | ing them of hypoerlay and the lot And Australia did. shamateurism. Maybe they

Australions' squealing alty to

Melbourne

DA

endemic. Gambling here is Yet the law forbids publication of ante-post or forecast betung. Not that that means a thing.

Every night two genteel ola have deserved 1, but now Today

dcars with faded bonnets of the there ia something cbe they peaceful

21.3 the North Pole, Gladstone era sip beers at my have deserved which I doubt not much warmer bu a datı | favourite hotel and work out that *be world yet fully sight

arowded. Why, odda for the following day's even Gorden Pirlo has moved racing. Into the Olymple village to

comprehends.

To Australia, and especially live with his fellow athletes, And when J say they sip

to the elizens of Melbourne, We owe a debt for which they will never 125ix repaymen They have brought together in perce the sportsmen women of nearly 70 nations.

I doubt whether any other country

would ot tha fitne have cared, let alone dared to have undertaken such a task.

ALL THIS IN ONE YEAR

ONE HAPPY FAMILY

beers I must also explain that the last gulp has to go down the spinsters throats dead on six p.m., because that's when the

And that brings me to an- other point. That expensive pubs close. Arroy of United Nations delegates and

That's cot Avery Brundage's professional; peacemongers would have the idea of preventing clots, but the shock of their lives if they Melbourne law speaking with a called at the Olympic village.

Victorian plum in its mouth,

Russians, Yanics, Poles, French, Hungarians, and I have no doubt a few Turn back the clock for just Eskimos and cowboys and

What was happening? Indians, are milling around to- a year. The International Olymple gether,

shaking hands Tubbing nosC3,

up

11m2,

Was

11

were

ALL MIXED UP

Into this world has not only come the mirticle of the Games, but the miracle of tele- vision. But they've got it all and mixed up.

Every bar has a set Installed. But they shut, as I have told you, at six, and the television starts at seven.

or

Commitice

lecturing Melbourne

naughty schoolboy. They were messing: I reckon that if the rest

the

Games.

They

the world can't behave itself bunglers. They Would never

the whole dam lot will stay in complete the arrangements in Australia for good-and then what will happen to the Ashes? Unless they pulled thom.

Mind you, there are quarrels stives together and behaved everywhere and every day, themselves, the Games of 1950, Bitler ones. Such as: " 1911 would have to be taken from you he did a 55 seconds last them for forty minutes, with the ball

And River to another lep. "No, it was not. it was country which could do the job $3," and Prossing the net 97 times for one

before you know polert, the 'st and

horoughly. steand

Ls the world you are hopeless games decided FL

Blinit, on time

10 catastrophi cas, Herr Morhard felt obliged and the third missing the uxe to inform me that the pilin and by_35 seconds, the plop of sponge is more often This happened during the heard than the ping and pong England-Germany Junior Inter- ked to condrin my assumption of pimpled rubber in Europear

nattnai. And the players? that sponge was no longer with | countries, especially in Rumania | Jean Harrower of Middlesex, For in Germany they have ¦ and Yugoslavia. And I had to rated England's best Juntor girl, very definite views

what agree with his observating that who conceded her thing match one didn't need three guesses to in three days to Ursel Ehebrecht, imagine which type of rubber|champion girl of Germany. but the sponge-conscious Jap- | Enough said.

The man i asked w Kaz) jumers huld zml hout Morhard, who comlanes report-de Ard sponge is out. ing for West German ་་ འ་་་

that wish the pagan as a free lance Journalist | destur dizes ing

with the captainey of this all-

enquering German youth, their globe-trolling lous.

Herr Morhard would

ILS

have

Russia A Threat [anese were using.

To Poland

Melbourne, Nov. 19 Hussin has mude glant stride, in fencing and looms as Polsini': top threat in the Olymple events, U.S. competing manager George Worth

to lay. sprich

while America's best ebauces will be In individual folls among

wonien.

of (t

There are points

for and ngainst in the sponge argument, Their worth has been shown by the Japs In winning world filles, But much of the

Fkills of table tennis are

Transfered

from the Individual to the bat when sponge is used. It essentially a weapons attacking 1 layers

for

the the

are.

AND THE FLOPS

To

I ran only hope that there are other equld not make the trip to others who for some reason or

Herne Bay to compete in this If not, there will Durnament. be much verniching of heads in the not so distant future when the European team sejectors, particu-

larly

the English, get down Japs the serious business of nomina- ting their Werld Championship challengers,

The Rumaniarz, Hungarians und Czechs, we are told.

ན,,。 some very promising talented youngsters. But none of these countries was able to enter for the English Open.

far has But player much

than control Aven

Over *ponge ordinary rubbor, and el-sponge battles, apart from reducing e to game's public appeal, tend turn 14 no a surging makh.

"The competition tougher now than ever, though the field is stronger," Worth asserted. The reason is that nobody sends a tram unless they expret to will

Worth and National Cham- plon Jaulee Hemary and Maxine

THE CHISELLENS

is

As far as this tournament concerned Western Germany Mitchell as those with the bol A style of ginie, as opposed was the only team to emerge chances For medula with atu the tools used, which can do with credit, They literally stroll- possible surprise winner in 17-equal harm to the game is thated through five events to win year-old Judly Goodrich,

pat-a-ball negative method all trophies, plus the separate United Press,

which goes under the accurate Kent under-15 boys and description of "Chiselling",

She's Hunting For Dried Fish At Melbourne

singles.

girls

Week after

had week we ericisms and despair, and no one was more difficult to con- vlace that all would be well

la than the American President of the International Olympic Committee, Mr Avery Brundage But Icok who's doing the talking now. Not the Interna-

where committed conflict.

the

It'a a bit hard on the cus- tomers who have to watch the turing signal all day and say "But it will be all right when

the Games start."

And to say all of us. When they do I shall repeat; It will be the miracle of Melboume. But not the only one.

at

The Melboume cricket score- board, which, electronically, will fash Olymple results, still has Meanwhile life in Melbourne

top "Bateman-Dowler- beginning to recover from How Out-Runs."

which politically mess make. In Melbourne newspapers Japanese during the hop, step, minded sports leaders tried to Thy and explain that to

more space is devoted daily to and jump, racing than to Olympics, After

AT MELBOURNE

Wood Predicts

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1,500M

World Record Will

Be

Bettered By 2 Seconds

By DEREK JOHN

London.

Not since the Berlin Games of 1936 has a world track record been broken in the final of an Olympic event. Britain's Mile Champlon Ken Wood thinks that this state of affairs will be altered at Melbourne. He predicts that in the 1,500 Metres the world record of 3 min. 40.6 sec, will be broken by a clear two seconds. Wood forecasts a winning time of 3 min. 38 secs. General opinion in Melbourne is that the race will be won in a time of just under 8 min. 48 Beс. There is nothing worse, In Their toughest bailles were

Why the Ave seconds my opinion, than having to sit against their fellow Germans in

Before the two men meet in crowd melee at the end of an through minutes-long railles, us the Anels and semi-finals, And difference? Most tule

the ring another fight is on-Irish League match. It was "pusher** does his or her the fact that in three events slier the race as a whole. Wood between promoters, Two Landen thought his soccer career was

secena Germany provided forve

the losing looks

man's promoters wish to

the ended and he stage

WDS awarded "pusher" into errors. Chisel finalists, plus all four semi- point of view-Ken Wood's, me bout-Jack Solomons and Harry nearly £4,000 damages. ling

the only

Boys' possible finalists in the

Singles, obviously reckons that he can Levene--and the Swedes are description of this method

But Jimmy fought his way of speaks for itself.

do 3 min. 38. sec. and if anyone Interested In holding it in their

back to fitness. gaining points.

can do better well, good luck to country,

He played Thinking caps, I Imagine, are

soccer again and now leads the being donned in several ·lable

thema.

attack. Ireland

Ho has also tennis headquarters very soon.

become a top-class motor-cyclist of Grand Prix standard.

one

derndes!

to

ja

Melbourne, Nov. 19, Manolita Cinco, 23-year-old It is as negative and as de- Philippines entrant for the feathe as that of a football club womens 80 Metres Hurdles, is chiel where annual motto is, bunting through Melbourn: for "get 35 points and we're sate. a supply of dried Ash which is

15 chaps." the staple diet on the island of

And I award a large Dunce's Cap to the English Association. The nearest it came to a home win was in the Girls' Shogies in

both semi-finalist, The others, boys and girls, were very much It is even lost by the wayalde.

(London Express Service).

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Cebu from which she comes. To watch experienced inter- which It provided a losing Her fellow hurdler, Francisca rationals "chiselling" merrily Sanopal, 25, although, from the away is bad enough. stume island, is quite happy more disturbing when a thirteen with the diet, she is receiving and fourteen-year-old keep the China Mail Special.

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Wood is known as the “lone woir of British rutning. He With centuries in the Arst tmins alone, running miles two first-class games in South

a tour

Now a famous English First every day

average of lonely Africa, and over the Yorkshire moors.

captain Peter May Division Ho doesn't 116, MCC

club have their eyes even have a coach. He works has changed his mind about his on him. out his own training schedules best batting position. and race tactles.

He will certainly have to do a "one wair job to resolve his Olympic prophrey, There will be no one to set a convenient puce at Melbourne. It will be every man for himself.

Less than a year ago May thought that the No. 3 position Ploneering rugby in South may cost Britain suited him best, the absence of America Denis Compton through knee some players, trouble led to the providential

Most of the players who

drop to No. 4 in last season's toured South America with the Tests against the Australians. combined Oxford and Cambridge Now May mya that he University: sido last Sumuther intends staying No. 4 for the have been offered jobs in the

Beries with coming

South Argentine. These" offers: are Africa. This means that being seriously considered. Compton will probably bat

DENT ON DEFIANCE Another Olympic athlete, bent

defying on

tradition is Australian swimmer Murray Rosc.

Doug Insole coming in at No. 3. leaving university. In such become school teachers on Hose doesn't subscribe to the popular idea that athletes need May's duties as captain are posts the. Argentine, offers. Thick juicy steaks to build teased by the switch, "And I practically three times themselves up.

would earn in During his can organise my Innings better salary they

Britain, Olympic training he has caten at No. because generally one

No. B with Alan Dakman of Many of the', players will

no meat. He has been having has a clearer picture of the Brits SPECIAL SERVICE an international vegetarian pattern of events than Darlier diet. His mother has prepared in the order," he mys

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Huskey male athletes "won't'] have to ply a-dainty seedio and flower seeds from Russia, halya "Furthermore, it wa have thread over torn track-suite in from Egypt,

sesame from fielded finit I got a longer rest Melbourne's Olymple Village, Greece, millet and unpolished from captaincy duties than in

padding up and returning to the | A. special “Make and M✨nd". abi fold at the fall of the fint servico-is being organised to "Yet it seems effective,le Rose | wicient. ".-

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