1957-08-03 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST -3, 1957.

SPORTING SAM

by Reg. Wootton

THERE SHOULD BE AN AGE LIMIT FOR TENNIS UMPIRES AND LINESMEN

Says DEREK JOHN

Shocking line decisions robbed Britain's Me Davles of vital points in the last match of the Davis Cup tie with Belgium. And in another recent Davis Cup tie Swedish players were so incensed by a line decision that they refused to meet the Italians in the last match.

Moans and groans are the usual thing when the excitement of a Cup tie whips up the frenzy of the fans. But this time the grumbles seem to have some founda. tion.

not worried.

far."

soon.

WHAM!-REFEREE WAS NOT NEEDED TO TOLL THE TEN SECONDS

By HAROLD MAYES

He bore none of the marks of his trade. He certainly looked for too youthful to be a former world boxing champion. And in his sports coat and slacks the fair- haired, close-cropped "youngster" might have been just another spectator in Chicago Stadium last November, the night young Floyd Patterson whipped "Ancient Archie"

Moore into a five-round defent to become Heavyweight Champion of the World.

"How old are you now, Tony?" I asked him. "Aw, forty-three," he replied.

"Did you say twenty?" 1 queried.

He tried to bỏx, and Zale hit him with everything except tho ring-posts and the bucketi

"I wish you were right," came the quick rejoinder. And I'll bet he did For I "Somebody - Up-There - Likes- anyono ever lover a fight it was Me" boy boat bell out of Tony. that man-Anthony Fiorian Zalo took it all, and knocked Zalcaki, a rough, tough Polish-out Graziano in the sixth. town

Tough

te that was, it was American from the steel of Gary, Indiana, not far from Sunday School party stuff con- Lake Michigan's eastern shore, parod to their second meeting in a man the fight world knew as Chicago Stadium in July, 1047. Tony Zale, twice Middleweight

Ilocky urged the tables by dealing out a vicious beating to Champion of the World.

Zalo in the arth. He dropped Gary

and surroundings him for three counts in the sixth couldn't have been more and stripped the Gary man of Are you kidding?" sumbolic of the fighting | his tile in that round, having says Stan, "I haven't give it character of the man It provided him draped halt out, halt in the a thought."

for the

ring when the ruleres decided it the ring game, This will be his 20th casOT

The found heat of miles of was time to call a halt. but not his last,

steel mills gives place to oli So, with the scoro one all, | relineries over a long stretch of they came to Rupert Stadium, a road where the air hangs 50 bail park in Newark, New heavily with petrol vapour that Jersey, across the Hudson River it seems that the whole lot will from New York on June 10, disappear in one blinging flash 1946.

any visitor is foolish enough

"Rotiref

After the Brussels battle, even

I'll get it fixed the Belgian press were com"

It has not stopped me so menting on "dubious line de cisions". And The linesmon Here are the facts: involved was Belgiu.

Ibbotson's right knee was about four Now no one would accuse the cracked in a fail Jawn tennis umpires and lines. year ago and sometimes he gets men of negligence or partisina pain in it and cannot bend it ship. They have a difficult job well. It has not and doubtless do it to the best him greally this season.

His right big toe was broken of their ability.

in two places at both joints But I still think something playing soccer three years ago, can be done to avoid much of ffe did not have it set because--Collie Smith, this unpleasant bickering Over he did not realise it was broken. Judges' decisions.

troubled

hus

Firstly, International Jawn Norman Smithy Newcastle tennis matches could be con- United's football trainer, irolled by neutral officials in the told Ibbotson that if he does not saine way

International get treatment he will eventual soccer milches. Then umpirely get arthritis in bis toe, might not so often be accused The too needs breaking and me selfing and then it will be OK," says Derek. "But I can do nothing about my knee. It Just gols a bit of synovitis (in- flammation) pccasionally."

of favourism.

Secondly, there should be an age limit for umpires and line officials in first-class tennis.

ELDERLY MEN

of

the

BMC

nrich

My advice: Take it easy, Derek, until that toe is really axed.

ANOTHER MEMBER The Lancashire League have their eyes on another member of the West Indies touring team. The man they have chosen is tailor-made for League cricket

that

cheerful

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w light a cigarotta,

ODDS ON They made Graziano, three days past his 20th birthday, a 12 to 5 ca favourite to whip Zulo again that night. The folk who had seen the two previous explosions had decided than

come through because at that time no man of

succeeded

Yes, Gary is like sitting on a hitter of sixes, off-break bowl-keg of dynamite, and in his ring er and electric felder.

explokis the world champion it Garfield Sobera has already produced was that kind of landed signed a two-year League con puncher every time he tract, and application has been in a vulnerable spot. made by Smith

Weal to the

DEAD-END KID Indies Board of Control which, through bitter experience,

Small wonder, then, that his h

34 had Gre likely to insist upon n'olause rootings with the dead that will release Smith did from New York's Fast

pro

Auto

youth would

in

winning the world middleweight

crown for a second time,

YET I SAW IT HAPPEN, IN JUST BIX MINUTES AND 08 SECONDS OF CALCULATED DESTRUCTION

WHICH HAS SELDOM BEEN EXCEEDED FOR ITS FURY.

|

A

'FULL TREATMENT

Regardless of Graziano's dead- ly punching power, Zalo gave -him the full treatment in

scoond round which

was do.. that the signed to make sure third didn't last long.

It didn't, either. A murderous righ! to the body dumped Graziano on the canvas once more. He was up at six, but, for all his willingness to try to tu this into quother socsaw battle, Zale was having none of it.

Measuring another right, ho switched the play by throwing a switche copy of the loft book

which had put Graziano down for the first imo in the conicat.

This time it had been neither high or low, but flush on the chi). Referto Paul | Cavalier cedn't have bothered to tell the ten seconds. They were no more than a formality.

NEXT WEEK: The second when Robinson-Turpin fight,

the world Sugar Ray regained middleweight title he had lost only 64 days earlier.

Best Wicketkeeper

at no extra cost to thematues. Side, Rocky Graziano, resulted

Previous West Indian

in fistic fireworks which just fessionals had been in the post- had to end in one man or the tion to charge for their services other

punched being when invited to tour either Most top-class officials have

at insensibility. immense knowledge

home or away.

Only once between 1941 and

George Milla is just about the 1940 did he game. But far too many

I'LL SHOW THEM

engage in ring

Since anything but all-out best wicketkeeper in the Birai- Yachting elderly men who do not always

authorities are combat, then to go 12 rounds to

aggression Was completely ingham League, The Stour- have very keen eye-sight

with they a losing points declaton Gordon Pirie, world's 5,000 worried by a new trend

foreign to Zale's nature, the ¦ bridge man is also the Icusing quick reactions, requirements metres record-holder, is staying think might be dangerous. The Billy Conn

for his club. When essential if they are to do their with friends In Sweden for a

Warent comes from stiff sails of And although he had won the tempo was cet from the first batsman

bell. Two pawing lefta tromi | they were in trouble the other which world middleweight tille in 1941, Graziano, and three light Jelts work really well.

couple of months. "Perhaps synthetle material-salle

day he took off his pada nni imperfect eye-sight is the there I will get away from all cannot be rolled down" quick-it wasn't until he was past 33 that the world really began to

a somewhat half-liearted promptly took three wickets only reasonablé explanation for this Piric is finished tale," he fly if the weather blows up.

Zale two overs for four runs. Now some of this year's amazing lloc pays.

sit up and take notice of Zale, right-hand punch from One expert who is expert-

made His first meeting with Graziano, was all the 25,000 crowd saw in Stourbridge, have decisions.

tim Is New York in September, 1948, the nature of preliminaries. captain, Recently he had to get was a punching sproe few who

Tho-bang! A peach of a left | 17 in the last over to win, and witnessed it are ever likely to hook from Zale, and Graziano this former Fleet Air Arm pilot

was grovelling in the resin-dust. hit 4.0.2.4.1. just like that?

And slow reactions Continues confident Piric:menting with the now sails is by an official enn often disturb "I'll show them I'm not finish-Olympic yachtsman Bruce a player's concentration.

Led. In about a month I expect Bantu. Britain's champion small- A recent example occurred at to be breaking world recorde boat helmsman. Wimbledon when Low Hoad again.

refused to serve at one stage of "Don't be so "surprised. I Says Banks: "Reinforced plas5- ☐ match because the linesman was often late in shouting "out". I can do it. It is not just tie salls will be here within

wishful thinking. It is all down year, They have tremendous ad-

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in my book. I bave kept a re-vantages in light airs, but all That august guardian of the cond of my training times for yachtsmen should consider what lows and spirit of cricket, the the last Ιουν years, Those their attitude is going to be to MCC, is under fire. The captimus tell me I will be smash- wards these stiffer one-piece toin of cricket at Wellington, &ing world records again within sails." famous English public school, a month." nocuses It of "gamesananship" What records? because, Π 3 recent match

"Oh, three miles, perhaps the against the school, a member of

mile, Yes, Ibbotson's time can the MCC team bowled Jobs that is underhand.

Is it unfair to bowl jobs? "Certainly not," says'a spokesman

of the MCC. "It couldn't be

war.

be benien, you know,"

The Royal Yachting Associa- Lion, controlling body of the part, is shory cxpected to discuss the new trend.

And what about his future? Remember the Nawab "After Sweden I don't know Pataudi? Well, the 18-year-old what we will do. We may go son of the former Oxford Uni-

more legitimate. There have back to New Zealand. We have varsity, Worcestershire and both some great lob bowlers in the tickets. It's great coun- India Test player will be piny- the past like G. H. Simpson-try Plenty of room. Not Go ing for Sussex "soon. Hayward, who bowled them in many people"

Ho makes his first appear- Test cricket before the 1914-18

ance in the Sussex Second XI Only a few more weeks to against Suskix Martiota "But in the last 30 years the soccer in Britain and there August 9, and if he shows good lob has fallen into distise. It is once more to illuminate the form he is likely to play for the practically a lost art. We only scene with his own particular Sussex First XI in a friendly wish more people would learn brand of genuls will bo Mr match against Somerset later in to do it. It is terribly effective." Soccer

himself-Stanicy Mat the month. The man who bowled the lobs thew3. against Wellington was Jack Wonder man Stan is now

The young Nawab, who lives Mayer, former captain of back in training following his in Sussex out of term, is now Somerset. "It is one of the strenuous six-week tour of being coached by former county noble bowling arts,” he says, South Africa and Ghana. Very cricketer. George Cox nt Win

"There are any number of Inch 42 years young, is back chester College. He has made variations of pace and trajectory to 100 per cent finess and several fine centuries in school you can use. They are almost awaits the start of the season cricket this season. impossible to play, Anyone on August 24 as eagerly as he

with a brain and a good wrist {did way back in 1931. could go into first-class cricket today and táke hundreds of wickets if he really learned how to lob."

ONLY HIS TOE

What is the truth about the condition of Derek Ibbotson, the world's wonder mller? It is being said that he has arthritis, that he may be crippled if he continues running so frequently. But Ibbotson himself felis a rather different story, "overy- one has got it all wrong," he says. "I haven't got arthritis, and it's time people know."

"This is what's wrong my too. And get it streight. I am

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