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£70,000 TRANSFER AGREEMENT

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1957.

John Charles, star of Britain's Leeds United professional soccer team, has signed on with Italy's Juventus team for next season - at a reported fee of around £70,000. Charles himself receives £10,000 of this sum. He will also receive a weekly playing fee of £60, a flat in Turin and a car. He joins the club after Leeds United tour Holland this month. Picture shows John Charles, left, shaking hands with negotiator Gini Peronace after the transfer agreement had

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IN THE TEST SERIES

Peter May Must. Aim To Play Attractive Cricket To Silence The Critics

Says DENNIS HART

London.

Peter May, the young man who has already led England through many a cricket crisis, faces the toughest season of his career.

In the Tests he will meet what could prove the strongest opposition England have come

up against since the West Indies paid their last visit seven years ago and cantered to a three-one victory, And May must not only win the series, to silence the critics he must aim to win by playing attractive cricket.

cost them so much playing time they might well have Surrey closer.

run

For

And in the County Cham- | burdened with sunshine and

May pionship

has the un-hard wickets this summner. enviable task in taking over the In that event matches would leadership of Champlons Sur- be declded more on runs scored rey

the from

taken. fantastically than on wickets successful Stuart Surridge.

there would be lots of runs would be Surridge Orst became skipper about and Surrey of Surrey in 1952. Ile led the pressed to lead the field. county for five years until he retired at the end of last sea- son. In those five years Surrey won the County Championship

five times-a record,

May has the job of maintain- ing this one hundred per cent standard.

And already crickel is full of falk on why Surrey will not be in the title again.

This is ro reflection on the England skipper. But people point out that all good things must come to an end, and thal goos for Surrey's success on the cricket acid.

Then there is the manner of this success. No doubt about it

· that for a long me Surrey have been "getting away with it". Matches which, by al cricket justice, should have been: lost, have been somehow been

won.

· THE HONE SIDE

This looks like being the story in the Tests, too. The West Indies seem to be England's masters in the art of scoring suns, but the home side mhy exige In taking

the

have wickels.

If the wickets get their re- gular summer soakings and runs are thus difcult to come by, Surrey like England may scrape up enough to get by..

Dears

In fact Surrey's betting up- to be gaining strength Mike Stewart Is settling down

and well as un opener

must surely come up for Test reckon- Tom Clarke ing this summer. and Ken Barrington can the score along,

push

Up in Yorkshire cricket feel- ing runs higher than ever. It's bad enough that these upstarls from the South keep winning, but when Yorkshire keep los- ing. and through their own fault-well, that's

times ten worse.

Last season

traditional the grit and determination that is

much part

Yorkshire of cricket, Was missing. The chairman of the committee had to publicly call the players to task.

Now the side which, in play- ers like Wardle, Trueman, Wat- son, Close, Appleyard, Lowson and Taylor pack SO much talent, is in fighting mood.

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himself. Top U.S. Jockey

Then there is May Last year he could not find his form with Surrey, neither could he in the recent Test series That somehow has invariably against South Africa. But his been the efforts of the wicket-touch must return. When it does hungry Surrey attack, Left by both Surrey's and England's their batsmen with a dangerous- chances will be all the brighter. ly small total to aim et Messrs. But if Surrey do slip, watch Laker, Lock, Louder und Bedser out for Lancashire or Yorkshire have contrived to get the op- to snap up the title. position out for a full smaller Total:

Suspended For Fifteen Days

Louisville, Kentucity, May 6. Jockey Willie Shoemaker to- day drew a 16-day suspension at Churchill from the stewards The cricket types ot the north are more red than any Downs for his fantastic error in They have followed, or rather one else about the Surrey

misjudging the finish line on so the pattern of England's domination. They are planning Gallant Man in the Kentucky Teat victories.

Derby last Saturday, an all-out assault this season,

The stewards Issued a terse So with each succeeding sca-

This year is the centenary of statement saying Shoemaker was son, bringing each succeeding the Lancashire club. They see a success, the critics have cau- county championship victory as suspended for 15 days "for gross tioned: "Just wait, their ains a Atting way to celebrate the samt of anish in luc race

will find them out."

havo

gene on

But Surrey their merry winning way.

And I think they will do so again with one proviso.

occasion.

A WET SUMMEN.

Last season they were second. is that England is not over- And it a wet summer had not

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FORMER CHILD STAR CAN'T GET EXCITED OVER ROCK 'N' ROLL

By RON BURTON

Hollywood.

Luana Patten, 18-year-old former child star whose present appearance makes it hard to believe the term "awkward age" ever could have applied to her, can't get excited about Elvis Presley. Likewise for rock 'n' roll.

"I realise that at my age I'm supposed to go into mptures if even his name is mentioned, but I just don't," she said. "The funny part about it is that most of my friends seem to feel the same way."

Lunha's opinions on teen-before we were married, but we shirt" he said. "And, at $20.25 age tastes certainly will stand never could get Mr and Mrs or $80 per working day, I hope against those of any other teen-roles on the screen after wo I stay that way." tiger. In private life she lives in were married." Long Beach, Calif., where, she saya, her pals are unenthusiastic about Elvis. Professionally, her thoughts on Mr Sideburns and rock roli are conditioned by her latest appearance in a alm about teen-agers, "Rock, Pretty Baby."

Williams actress-wife blamed It isn't easy to fit a galli

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"I guess that I analyse It, I just don't care too much for him," she said. "Don't mis unders and, please don't dis- liko him at all. It's just that he doesn't appeal to Juic very much. And as far as rock 'n' | roll is concerned, I think some- one has overrated its popularity with team-agers,

"Most of my friends in Long Beach seen to share these feel- Ings. Lot of them prefer ballads, and some are on calypso music now, But not rock 'n'

Zoll,"

the situation on circumstances.

"We couldn't make it on Bill's galli for a motion picture role. ste While the role was brief, it was Kit Carson TV series,"

important to the plot, and pro- said. "Each time there'd be a role open for me, I'd be workeducera of "Legend of the Lost" ing on something else and wanted authenticity. couldn't take it. And it î wasn't Now that they've found just working, there would always be the right galll galli, they're something Uke an all-male enst wandering whether it was worla In the current Kit Carson' pro» | 38, ductions."

The search began when some

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They'd sull be wondering it one noted that the script of the they would ever play husband Baljac-Panama production called and wife if it hadn't been for for a child galli galli, Location their good friend, Joel was In Libya. An investiga- Mahoney, who stars as "ilm tion disclosed that a galli Carler,""" "according Williams. is a very special type of mag-

clan, generally found in Egypt.

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"He mentioned the roles to us ong evening, and that was it," Williams said. "In the picture I play a movie cameraman, and Barbara Jis a former actress who gave up her career in front of. the camera for one behind it.

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Bill those of actors like Peter Law him entrance to Libya, and Williams are going to realise ford, Steve Crane and the usual fourth to read all the small print an ambition of considerable crowd.

In his contract which is writ- In fact, standing when they play roles

ten in English, French and As a married couple in Uni- in, he'd have to admit that Arabic: known, versal International's "Slim

the not only is present at a The Alm company's produc Carter"

great number of parties but also tion office in Tripell is anxious-

for by awaiting the arrival of the "It's strange, I know, but we is a very attentive escont

And he even young gall galli. who already have never had the opportunity many actresses.

checks at fashionable has been since our marriage until now to Pays

dubbed "Abe" for short. It's obvious that he al- appear in Alm as husband and wife," Williams said. "We The champion is little-known ready has rated more attention and his than any star in the picture will were in a couple of flims at RKO Froderick Snodgrass,

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INTERNATIONAL TENNIS

Mexican Upsets Fourth Seeded Neal Fraser

nightclubs.

if the truth

were

a single motion picture party

19 60 and he didn't even "Tip on a Dead Jockey," an

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wobble. Of course, that's bo- MGM Dim scheduled for future cause the drinies were primarily release, Tooks a Bille Biko water, and the party was strict-horse race, and a fixed race al that because Robert Taylor can ly for scenes in a film.

Snodgrass is known tradewise only win

as a movie "dress extra" In

Taylor, who has been estab-

the last five years he figures he ished in the motion picture as a hero has attended at least 400 big fan mind for years

and usually the pursuer, winds of movies--and parties as part of

cures Hollywood'sture.

up as the pursued in this pic- in many

Actually he's the prize, "400" Roane, May 6,

were present,

and five beautiful women are Twenty-one-year-old Antonion For example, in one mouth

International sweepstakes for him. This is Palafox or Mexico created the he has danced with Eva Gabor, competing in an retenuatio of the tre dite of the shared cocktails with Katharine why the competition may seem International Tennis Champion-Hepburn, artfully pushed hors axed, since Taylor obviously ships of Italy here tonight when d'oeuvres at Mitzi Gaynor and can't lose as he will win one of

polita he upset fourth-seeded Neal traded

conversational the five beauties, Fraser of Australia, 6-3, 2-0, 6-4, Hiibits with Lizabeth Scott, 7-5.

Abnormally cold weather marred the opening day of the nine-day tourney,

The

The field la led by Dorothy Malone, Academy Award win- BIGGEST STUFFED SHIRT

per as best supporting actress Snodgrass' two latest pals are in 1950. She has the inside rall June Allyson and Mamba Hyer wile in v dim. Miss Maloney because her role is that of his

student young

from along with David Niven, who the favourite, does a lot of Mexico City, on his first major serves him cocktails as he swaps pursuing and even travels from world

tennis tour, played the gosp

Allyson. California to Spain after Taylor. best teants of his eight-your old This activity including done-

defeat Freser, career to

Hyer, is dis un with Miss

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Other results today included: frey Stefano Rodriguez, Chiles, "I BUCKS I have more formal boat Peter Thodomacopulus, clothes than any other kind Greco 0-1, 6-1, 0×2,

he said. "For all I know, I may Robert Howe (Australia) beat be the first guy who ever word Jean Claude Molnarl (France) out sub of tails.” 6-3, 6-1, 6-2.

Women's Singles first round: Nicla Miglior (Italy) beat Kay Newcombe (Austriin) 6-8, 6-3.-United Fres

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FLAMENCO DANCERS

Post position number *wo went to an Italian entry, Gila Scela Studio experis checked her form and quoted her at 2-1. The dark horse of the field is raven-haired La Chunga, a flamenco dancer who is cur- rently enjoying great popularity Snodgrass pay for a partying in Madrid. Her fans made her or night-clubbing stint is $20.20 8-3, She speaks no English in. per day. If he has lines, this pay the picture but still managed to jumps to $80, the minimum forgot her message seroes. speaking parts.

Milvan Chauvin, another "I stopped

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