1956-12-11 — Page 7

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"We thought it "as a more topical day to announce the resull-- "

Landun Kapiast Service

Race Pony Dies After Morning Training Spin

THE CHINA (MAIL)

MANY ATHLETES OWE BRASHER A DEBT OF GRATITUDE

Says ROGER BANNISTER

At Melbourne, a bespectacled, white-faced Englishman became suddenly and joyously free. As Christopher Brasher sank to the track after running the race of his life a burden as heavy as ever Sinbad carried slipped from his shoulders.

It's taken a long time to get to the top," he said, "I think I ran my fast race that day." Perfection always brings some sort of finality, but Brasher's triumph brings him a new freedom known only to those who have successfully foraged in the no-man's between the possible and the improbable, the borderland of human achievement.

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A week ago Brusher, boyhood adinirer

T. E Lawrence, free Kronned 1 long to be from the body that has im- prisoned me for so long." Now has solved a problem, albeil one, with physical a sporting

tu ramintentione which huve defeated eyelv other British athlete for years, this For 10

yeurs Brasher has the capitivity every morning's training as Anniver- | eyðured

These are yours say 10 collapsed and died al-athlete knows, most instantaneously after a fast interspersed

-Furlong spin with novice-rider Horace Chan astride,

All accident

matred

A greater part of the entries. prepared for this week-end's Fifth Race Meeting were seen

with tantalising glimpses of the perfect race in which the elusive dominance of the mind is Anally achieved,

A FEW ONLY

is given to few 711011 tu nchieve this goal and Brusher

the most outstandinglu,

In action, and some very im- cim never feel quite the same pressive times were clocked in.

Over the weeks, the Among

months, were returned by Jingle Bell,

the years the human Krock-Again, Sky Horse, Silver bondage of playseat things need Wing, Castle

Then never worry him again. Peak, Ambition, Glenshee. Jubilation, Burning there, the little

things no one else would potire-never to Arrow, Invincible, Bonita, Ker- Tern, Tell-Me-Tonight and Obe frightened that a book is too

| Sports Diary

TODAY

Досгел

KFA

Crunel Afecting Sporta Iluath, 545 pro.. Sanitiser League Six Tan v KMB (CH) 676 pin.

Inter-School games, Kowloon Bec- tu.

Badminton

Senlor Mixed Doubles; Wimer Section v Winner Section 3.

TOMORROW

Athletics

Tung Walt Hospitals Free School SCAA Stadlan starting

A1

sporta 4.

Rugby Hexongular Tournament: Army v Ilest (Club) 8.30 p.m.

NOLTRE tv. Navy v Kitchee (Navy)

1: 3 p.m

Inter-School noccer Kowloon Sec- tion 2 p.

Jockey

there are

excitement

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of approuch or training which had made his body give up.

To defent the world's best by 13 yards and then, five minutes Joter, be told you are disqualified would have given a Jesser man than Brasher homicidal ten- dencies.

But Brusher, with the disarming

ing honesty which 1103

universal Minu

affection, when asked by the jury if he had turned his head and Inter- fered with Larsen, commented: "Anyone

who turned his

Von

10

ILC an obstacle in a steeple- chase is looking for trouble and would probably finish flai ils face

Jack Actually, as steeple- chases go, it was one of the cleanest I have been in,

Many alh

athletes owe Brasher a debt of

I am proud of gratitude, lo say I owe him more than any. one. His constant companion- ship and good humour kept me going during the year that led to the st

four-minute mile; Jus unselfish pacemaking gave The the even running I needed during the race Rscif; ho helped Chris Chalaway scort the Kreatest #thletle triumph Briti soll when he defeated Kul in October 1954, and set

Metres up a new 5,000

world

on

gripping, because disturbs an athlete's peaceful JCVT เอ Blirk the problem at work w the day of it rure, beenuse it might tempt him to a cigaretle.

For each spectator one velor becomes symbole of the whole record. Games. For me the Melbourne

Brasher's victory has a signi- Games are Brusher's Olympics, neunce for athletes all over the I never dreamed I could resu

When Kuls won both World happy to see another man win the 5,000 and 10,000 Metres |

said he would sadly Franz Stampi

He was win.

11 - terrifie ing over the hurdles," he said. "When he run two miles before the Games, he showed that no other runner had such flat Skeing

ability, apart from the Hungarian, Chromik, who never competed.

Now Stamp dances through the gland, kis verbal violence Tuore than

usually dubeolt to fallow,

felt Jike

writing an ebituary for the long distance amateurs Kuls cut hardly managh even 40-hour week whers he runs for five hours a day. Could any athele in the future, 1 wondered, do a normal day's work and 60 win un Olymple title?

If he could not then The Olymples would have lost their raison d'etre, but Braster's vic- Feve 23rity athletes have lory gave us all fresh hope. He plumbed the depths of athletic

a full office day, wurks

trains misfortune in the way Brasher

sher hard, and still has the unbound- has done over the years. Sore ed energy for wide

range of Div. 2:

Army "Army "gs, staleness, damaged heels,

hobbles, including moun- (50okumpoo), 2,30 pin.

ipuscle cramps, asthma during taineering. But the Brasher who

infected teeth- races und

considered for ikasher hus known it all. Heimalayun

TVCotisance barely made Britain's Olympepetition has now climbed his lenm. His unpredictable form own personal Everest, He has made rome people regurd him shown the world the self-

THURSDAY

Badminton

Men's "C" DIY Doubles Seet 1: BAF V COUS; KITC v Kowloon Tong. Young and Old v LIK.

Burcer

Sumineer League: SCAA v Kwong Wol (CH) 6:30 pm

Was

once

ild athletic Joke, but conquest that can be achieved whenever he falled he always through rutining. searched himself for the error

BREAK WITH

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TRADITION

Oxford have broken with tradition, and instead of racing over the 'Thames nearer home have brought trial eights to get in practice over the actual Boat Race course from Putney to Mortlake.

Practice began the other morning under the new President, Roderick Carnegle-an Australian. Pleture shows crews on the river.-Central Press Photo.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1956.

"NEW ITALIAN RACE RECORDS

Veteran Italian racing driver Pierò Turuf is, pictured on the Monz track

at the wheel of his 500 c.c. class "double torpedo" Gilera, setting up new record times for the 50 kilometres (14 min. 11 sec.) and the 100 kilometres (28 min.

12 sec.)—Express Photo.

LOOKING AT SPORT

Smashed Up In

Road Accident-Now World Title Hope

Bruised, broken and bleeding they found him, an unconscious mangled heap. Nearby Jay the twisted frame-work which had once been his bicycle. That was after a carcerlng motor-bike had roared tragically into the picture.

The hospital examination revealed a smashed left thigh, and many other A silver plate was put round the broken bone and his broken body was injuries. walled up in plaster from his feet almost up to his chin.

Bobby Neill stayed that Wayf for eighteen months,

That was six years ago, Turn the clock on to 1950, Tuesday, Dicember 4,

the

But he took up boxing and come proficient at mathematics, after ton

E fights had won French and art, Scottish amateur championship.

And he does a full-Uma job. Ho lives in London and works THE ROAD SMASH

in the fashionable West End, We scr sturdy 23-year-old

Alter the road smash, how-Every morning with sult neatly Bobby Nelli climb through

ever, and the eighteen months pressed bowler hat set just at repes

of London's Harringay

umbrella the right angle and Arena. Now he is a professional in which he barely moved

muscle when

infurled to the exact final crease, imprisoned boxer, only of a dozen fights,

ho sets off to attend to mat- plaster, even the courageous It's true. But in that me he

he era of dnance for a large chain has become Scotland's Feather Bobby Nelli thought that

could forget his weight Champion.

schoolboy of garages.

That is when his fists dreams of being champion of

have not got a date with someone's the world.

chin.

Сотпет

is

In the oppoalle British Champion Charlie Hill With the first punch of the for fight Neill puls Hill down tour. Two minutes and four rounts later champion Hill is a beaten man,

BRIGHTEST HOPE Bobby Nelli will still have to go through the formality of lighting Hill for the title, that was

for

He couldn't stand being idlo even though one leg, thin and stiffened, was in a steel caliper. He took up golf, took off his

and leg iron against ord:Ts

was after a couple of years playing two rounds a day with a handicap of twelve.

He reported back to his old a non-championship gymnasium and "went through with his old in bout Yet the crown must be the moves"

structor, George Shaw. Soon he his for the taking Looking

was back in amateur boxing. He further shead Bobby Nelli 13

for lost his first return light Britain's brightest hope

points. Three fights later found world honours.

him boxing for Scotland.

Not bad going for a one-time stretcher case.

It's an achievement that needs determination that goes beyond the limits of normal human capacity, And that

up Bobby Neill,

come

sums

on

Now Bobby, who studies the fight game as methodically as did Gene Tunney, has turned his accident to certain advantage.

-(London Express Service),

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They Know Their Business

Four officials of the Darwen

Chairman

Football League (Lancs) should know their business. Len Holden plays for Green. way Street FC, Secretary Ken Shorrock is a referee, Treasurer Ronnie Brown turns out for Holts FC, and Registrations Secretary Wright Shaw al30 plays for Holts.

As he can't get around AS

GOALS GALORE quick as some he has shortened his stance and has become a fast

Bellhouse FC are leading the Before he was twelve he had hooker in American style,

Sheffield Amateur League. Not through two spells

It was a battery of hooks that surprising. for of

their centre- rheumatic fever, which caused, two months ago · sent the great him to be bed-ridden for five Ray Famechon to defeat in five forward, Bert Short, has scored G5 goals in the 11 · League matches they have played with- the out

Jim. Bates and Harry Siddons defeat. Right wing pair have got the club's other 30 goals between them.

months.

At 14 he broke his right wrist attempting the school high jump record at, Edinburgh's Trinity Academy. Result: Six weeks in plaster.

A hacked right knee during a rugby scrum a year later again found young Bobby plastered up. This time for eight weeks.

Japanese Will Play In English Table Tennis Ch'ships

London, Dev. 10, Japan's team of four men and four women, due to play in the 1937 World Table Tennis Cham- pionships In Stockholm from March 7 to March 15, will com pete hero inter in the English Op Championships, it was announced today.

The English Championship pre- liminaries will begin on April 2, with the finals, taking place on April 5 and 6 at the Empire: Pool, Wembley.

The Japanese, holders of the Swaything Cup, the World

Men's Team Championship," for the last three years, will also play representative matches dýr. ing, their stay.-euter

NO STRANGER

Glasgow-born

wborn Bobby Br Clydos inildo-forward, hans"Just minusdfg Lor

Rollathamiz

moved his home 1000)

But hé la noi Bizangor Jánd.: forbó heg aplike with, Ehemif

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rounds,

Even that is not all of

Bobby Neill mory. In between getting smashed up and patched up he has studied hard and be

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