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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1957.
The Near And The Far In The World Of Sport
HAMATEURS ARE NOT QUITE THE SAME TYPE AS SHAMATEURS
But There
There Are Already Far Too Many Of Them
Says I. M. MacTAVISH
"The greatest single problem in the whole length and breadth of the world of sport today is the controversial argu- ment that is raging over the vexing question of amateurism. To me it is a vicious triangle involving amateurs, HAMatours and SHAMateurs!! There are too few of the first, far too many of the second ...... and an ・ever increasing multitude of the third.”
That statement formed part ofa speech made some weeks ago at a private dinner in the United Kingdom and it has come into my possession through the courtesy of the speaker himself who has been kind enough to send me a copy of his notes.
His letter is most timely and it gives me an opportunity to present some points of view on a louchy question which HAB Let me make it quite clear at revealed not only the best, but this stage that I have nothing also the worst, in men, who but the deepest admiration for profer sincerity of purpose those true-blue officials who
work
conservatively and tire
us far as aport is concerned.
Ferene Puskas - A top clase "amateur”,
SPORTS QUIZ
1. Who coptaince the 1948, tho 1033 and the 1938 Austro- lian cricket team, which toured England?
2. Which world title was at different times held by the following Boxers: Ted Ki Lewis, Henry Armstrong and Sugar Ray Robinski?
3, Who the world "cruiser-
weight champion?
4. With which sports dò you Associate Tami Hayward, Tom Newman and Tomany Burak?
5. When did England last læse a cricket, serics, and where?
.6. What have thega athletes in Common Emil Zatopek, Alain Mimoun and Telfe Cabrert?
7. Which batsmen has scored.
most centuries in one season Ls first-class cricket?
8. Who or what to the
Wallabient
9. Only one player has won the men's singles in the Wimbledon, French, Ameri- can and Australian T- pionships in one year, Was 'It
Tony Trabert, Frank Sedgman or Fred Perry?
quietly labelled cranks by their for their amateur service tearn associates and they
have under the Union rules in mid- eathing but nuance value. week and have dashed off to play for their professional team under the Lengue rules nt the week-end. Apparently vencers and stigmas are equally thin when the creation is right. In looking through the paralessly in the best interests of MUDDLED CONCEPTIONS raph which I have quoted sport. They are the lifeblood of
It is hard to see where the amateur activities, obove you will have found a
Without present mutated conceptions of amateurism arc new word which also intrigued them it would not last very topsy-turvy me. It is the word 'HAMateur long. Their honesty of purpose, really leading us. It was seriously
"Shumateur"
have under their understanding of modern suggceled recently by a mentor
and
their selness official of the Football Associa- stood for long time, and I be conditions,
In England that soccer lieve it is one of the aptest cor- contribution to their particular ton
across, sport is in direct contrast to players should be categorised a means little when one remem (who still live hopefully in n ruptions I have come
pleasure they have fanciful land but I would deign to suggest the mysterious meanderings of professionals, non-professionals, bars the
of old-fashioned who that this intest
has and amateurs:!
That is a riak I take one may yet the type of person rival it in
How such a system of do- given to countless thousands of ideas. has now been so cleverly tagged a use...for 1
spectators by their brillant dis- willingly. markation could be logicnilyays to hamateur,
the fact that many apparently been fashioned
I love all sport whether it is under-plays... describe those modern 'paragons"; The ancient and honourable sustained it is hard
world
class
amateur
speeer amateur or professional and I ium convinced that in my life- who have set themselves up as concepts of amateurlam were stand, but the suggestion is one Judge und jury...as well as really ideals. They appled not
significant indication of players, such as the Hungarians
of the inevitable changes that} snooperatọ
protect their only to active competitors but things modern in the befuddled of a few years agu, managed to time I shall see the culmination 10.
surround themselves with the
are being remorselessly enforced} own outdated, outmoded and also to the whole code of ethics world of sport,
are good things or life derived both an amateufism by social and frequently outrageous
Stale-oasisted sportsmen con-which governed the 'out-of-the-
and Indirectly from economic circumstances, eepilons of 1957 amateurism. limelight conduct of all who posing a difficult problem to directly
aspired to be called a sports- officials and opponents from footbah does not change thele
...with the change will dis MEAGRE ACHIEVEMENT
one appear this not enjoy contribution to the game
race of amateurs iman.
Little bit. These characters are uften
who apparently take a delight in Unfortunately true amateur-the benefits of such a system. persons of T30 better than tam of that kind is dying fast It is, however, Impossible to The same sort of situation searching out and revealing tri- nominat abilly and meagre
something that has exits in many, many other vial or technical infringementi achievement who, in a spirit of
this changing world in which criticise frustration and disappointment, we live... and those who are really been born as the result of sports whether the prudes and of the anatour code to their to admit it or particular Olympus. Their dis- have blossomed out as experis willing to face up to the facts the great soclelogical upheavals the purists Biko
and the sooner they do appearance wil be a red letter are going to find themselves in of the last decade.
eximit it the sooner will sport-day for sport... and for the very much the same position, monied sons and daughters of
restored,
code of ethics which unite a certain King Caire, did welthy parenta are fast die ing sanity
appearing and with their de 19 almost certain that much participants and officials into: many centuries ago.
the ECA
true of what I have written will what
enfi wo co to the amateurs and those "Gentlemen of Sport'. amateurs of independent means annoy making their exit."
on the inflexible administration
oldstadioned code of amateurism. The work of such people has done little to bene- ilt sport in any way. They are
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There are those who willparture point to the Olympic Games and attempt to use them as a meane of refuting what I have written, but few keen observers of the affidrs of modern sport or oven The background of soms Olympic competitors will accept that as an argument at all, MATTER-OF-FACT
we
The much
not
the
ST. ANDREWS AWAITS THE
MAN WITH HAY FEVER
.
This might have been a death sport hnd not there blow to arisen in their place a new generation of sportsmen who, although of humble birth, have caloyed the progressive couch- ing and training that is now state-provided In thero en- The Truth of the sporting lightened times. changes is that thin la now That is a far-reaching charac- very much a practical matter-teristic which is virtually in of-fuet world, The gentleman separable from our social
They say that when Dr Cary Middlecoff-the doctorate gladiators of old have dis-
changes. The unfortunate thing is in dentistry-is lining up a putt, he addresses the hole uppcared almost completely. is that sume countries, some or“ with "Open a little wider, please, just a little wider." And Unless there was some asela panications, and even some in the good doctor finds the patient cooperating often enough tance avaliable to them our dividual clubs have carried the
Creat
By BOB FERRIER
on
modern sportsmen who are policy to the stage when it is to make him the leading money-earner in American tourna replacing them would be quite
gulle
impossible to decidement golf over the past 10 years. unable to afford-in most cases whether those involved in --to take part in lop class are really amateurs or not.
Middlecoff will make his first; takes him a painful time to kit competition
Surely the
thing diagnosis of St Andrews Inter 11. Many sports have, of course, nowadays is to remember that this month. He is trying for our Middleco! st 38, will be accepted the Inevitable march the interpretation of the word Open Championship (which be making the grand assault of time. Golf and cricket are amateur is inconstant and that glim on July 1) for the very Peter Thomson's title. What ΠΟΥ virtually free of dis it means something
with the new system of sending very first time. crimination in as far as émateurs dif
And the Fife police, with long the leaders off last, Middlecoff different even between the and professionals play together count-les who meet each other memories of Hogan ct Camnoustie had better bring in a first round and against each other without regularly in competitive
in 1983, are already recruiting card in the sixties, and stay out under the auspicies of famous reserve forces to cope with the in front, or they will be saying.
Scols who will clamour international
to see "Hurry, Cary, hurry," amateur bodies, Other great laternational sports More and more an amateur has the man who won the 1956 US
(London Express Service). Like table tennis have.
(COPYRIGHT) Championship, no become whatever one wants alm differentiation of any lind
HIS OUTBURSTS pud to be, having regate of course participants, whatever their to the connellon one happens status, are simply and honestly to have with bith regarded as players.
any sort of complex interfering with their relationship.
sport
Middlecoff suffers from hay fever. Or all the ailments o golfer should be unfortunate to suffer, hay fever must be frat by
good half-dozen shots.
Lawn tenvils, on the other ABILITY COUNTS hand, has roduced the amateur- This is leading us steadily professional controversy to * towards the day....and I don't mockery and the unanswered think it will be a bad one.... accusations and adverse publicity when men and women will be- barsta,
The nearest approach to this is a jockey who is allergic to
of recent years have mede thecome participants in sporé un- This hay fever in the past has claim of amateurism, at least feltered by whatever strings provoked outbursta trem our the International aspect of the there may be to that participa- | man. In th early 1950's, after game, the biggest horse laugh of tion. Ability really what having won the US Open in the age.
counts. If a man is the . best | 1949, he had it really bad.. The bitter barrier that exists tennis player in the world then.
He picked up and stalked off between the two codes in British let us be big enough to honour the course in the 1931 Canadian rugby is also wearing rather him as world champion what Open. He walked out of three thin, The radicals on both sides ever his status may be,
other doprnaments that year. In declare their paths will nover
What a man de A woman the US Open of 1959, after hit- meet yet it is difficult to puts into a sport is really farting a shot into
bunker on his reconcile this stubborn attitude more important than what he third round he belted the ball with the temporary acceptabl
COLEE
consequences.....financial.. Some of the brightest stars in social....or material happen Services rugby in the post-war | be, years bave been professional The fact that famous tennis meczing bug, has exponents of the 13-a-side game stars have "wares fal" by calmer character. They have played brillantly wielding
amateur
racket
a
ity of a Rugby League star inte fakes out of it and if what He right out of the golf coufs into the Union code while he is doing it hardly matters
puts in is good enough then an adjoining highway,
Officials
left and critics' what the his National Service in the
about Middiscoff in no doubt United Kingdom.
pen to their feelings, and this, plus a of injections for the
produced, HOGAN WAS SECOND Middlecoff won his first cham-- ptonship when Ben Hogan was in a hospital bed. But he won his second Open, last year, when Bon was very much in the field. Hogan, typically, finished second. Our man, won hla Brst-ever tourment at the age of 14. After the war, still an amateur, he won the famed North-South Oper with score of 200, afaltert u full professional deld, and Khas decided the doctor.
He circles her 15th, in ʼn dft. Rin, slender Asmo,, and is rated á Boded like player off tho ted:
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When he does get down to
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FEMsumer at the hole, but It
Modern
Included In the Which of these events into Pentathlon In the Olympic Games, fencing, wrtailing, shooting and walking?
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