1957-08-19 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1957.

ENGLAND SELECTORS NAME TWELVE

HERE'S A CHALLENGE TO MANCHESTER UNITED

BACK TO GLAMOUR IS THE CULLIS PLAN FOR WOLVES

By ALAN HOBY

What has happened to the great Wolverhampton Empire managed by that ruthless realist, Stan Cullis? Three years ago Wolves were the Manchester United of the Midlands-the boss side of British Football with wonderful wins crack club teams of Russia and Hungary.

over

FOR FIFTH TEST

London, Aug. 18.

England's cricket solectors today announced the follow- ing 12 players from whom England's team to play the West Indies in the final Test match at the Oval, com- mencing on Thursday, will be chosen.

P.. B. H. May (Captain, Surrey), T. E. Bailey (Essex), M. C. Cowdrey (Kent), T. G. Evans (Kent), T. W. Graveney (Goucestershire), J. C. Laker (Surrey), P. J. Loader (Surrey), G. A. R. Lock (Surrey), J. M. Parks (Sussex), P. E. Richardson (Worcestershire), the Rev. D. S. Shep- pard (Sussex), F. S. Trueman (Yorkshire).

frem Blurred vision.

There are two changes from South Africa last winter. but prise. The final selection will the side that won at Leeds when | had to return home suffering depend on the weather. Dick Richardson was 12th man. He and Den Smith have been dropped in favour of Trevor Balley and Jim Parks:-

IN BRILLIANT FORM

He has fully recovered and 19 Jim Parks, the Sussex bats in brilliant form this the

Person man, will make his stcoted with already 1817 runs to his appearance for England if he credit. plays at the Oval.

Remember how, under the blazing Molineux floodlights, Billy Wright and his boys, in their spectacular, fluorescent black-and-gold shirts, humbled first Spartak and then Honved, captained by the mighty Puskas himself?.

Remember, too, how millions looked-in on television and marvelled at the pace, punch, and power of 100 per cent Wolverhampton?

Sheppard most probably will open with Peter Richardson in place of Don Smith and Jim Fortis

may be brought in to sirengthen the batting to the exclusion of 1 scam bowler. This would give England a strong batting side with the The recall of Trevor Balley, attack in the hands of Leader, who had to withdraw from the Bailey or Truzman with the original twelve chosen for the famous Surrey pair, Laker and fourth Test match because of an Lock, providing the apin.- ac | injured finger, cousei no sur- United Press.

His only appearance so for in Test cricket was in the third ma'ch against Paldslam at Man |

He was "Our new lights chester in 1954. but here, in my view, are the will make us second only 10 men who can make Wolves the Wembley," says Cullis proudly. side of the season:-

Sure, they have weskenesses,, floodlighting.

First, Ron Flowors, Now 23, this powerful, blond left-half was the star of Wolves' einze season African tour. He stood out like a bushi fre.

MOVES PLOTTED

And remember how Tough Guy Cullis-olded by the bril lant graphs of Wing-Command- er Reeps, who plotted every Wolves move during a moich supply was hailed as the new Napolean of football?

But look at Wolverhampton

today......

old-time

Sharn of their glamour, fleeced of much of their grandeur, Wolves are no longer the powerhose side of soccer. They have slipped-like a man on à banana skin.

'True, they finished sixth in the First Division last season:

but when I saw them in April they were just another team.

Not only had dangerous flaws appeared in defence and attack, but Wolves were beginning to crcak....

They were lopsided from the loss through Injury of the best uncapped centre-forward in the game-Royston Swinbourne- headline hero of those two elec trifying

baltler with The Mustuviles and Magyars.

Since then four-storex- England goalkeeper Bert Wi- Ilams has gone-to manage his thriving sports goods business.

Tough left-back But Short- house has gone he is now one of the club trainers-and Wing- Commander Reeps has retired.

Again, the smart boys parroting that the famous Billy Wright reflexes are no longer as razor-sharp as a year ago, and that he may not be England's captain much longer....

STILL THERE

arc

Truc or false? I put the question to that ultra-per- Tectionist Stan Culils, who Baid:

"Billy Wright anished at 347 They've been saying that for four years, but he's still there, right at the top."

I had to agree. Time and again the dash-lightning inter- ceptions and spring-heeled leaps of Billy Wright have saved Wolves-and England.

Time and again he has made fools of us all. I particularly

Temember one occasion when met Billy in Glasgow hotel after England had beaten Scot- land.

Immediately he SAW

ma

Wright, who had played with uncanny skl. shook his head- sedly.

shook my head sadly too- but at my own blindness, for it As I who and written before the match! "I have doubts bont Billy Wright...

OLD GLORIES

Can Wolves

recapture ther

old glories this season or will

they continue to skale down-

hu

I say they are going to have

a grest year.

Channel Swim Final

Preparations

Dover, Aug. 10. Holiday como king BLY Butlin und 28 husky swimmers from 16 countries buckecd un- favourable weather reporta 10- day to make finul preparations for the annual Cross Channel * Swimming Race,

Organiser Buttin bustled through the streets of Dover to round up contestants In the 21-mile ruce and ship them to the starting point in France by plano, Competitors, who have been gathering here for the past week, had a hasty final practice zession.

race,

Air Ministry weather fore- casters in London were gloomy, about the prospecta of good conditiona for the aheduks to start around mid- night GMT. But Butlin, who stortned away from last year's ruco vowing he would never go near the Enell Channel again, did not goin ̈ warriekin United Prens

Second, Jimmy Murray. Si only 21. Murray is my choice lu the fight and bite at centre-forward which has been lacking since Swinbourne | forced to quit.

WILS

Wisely. he and the Wolver directore remember that I was

the televising of their two foodlit eples with the Russians and Hungarians which mede Wolves national idols.

Now Culls and Company are planning fresh Axtures under the lights with the top teams of the Continent.

zec

Why am I so keen to Third, Noel Dwyer, dashing, glamour-teams like Wolves do As I see it, sport 22-year-old goalkeeper from well again?

Scotland's today is dominated by power- Ireland although Malcolm Finlayson (20) willful monopolies - Manchester particular forecast, strive

this United in football, England in to make me cat

Test cricket, Surrey at county level, Fourth, Joe Harris, Short- house's successor at left-back. shapes like a potential England

sler.

Don't forget right-winger Harry Hooper, either. At his best the unpredictable. Hooper has the pace and fire to become the best right-winger In the country.

But he must work, work, work-from start to finish.

1

NEW LIGHTS..

Finally, Wolves are spending £25,000 to £30,000 04 new

I 'Abstain

2 European State

3 Not in company

4 Leader of the Band

5 Tone of volce

Here are the gianta of sporting English

scene- and righilly so.

the

G Making up

7 Frent

* Go with

9 Occurs in June

But it adds spice If the giants can be overthrown. There are no

cricketing sides, at the moment, to knock Surrey and England from their dizzy pedestals. But

love to I would dearly someone topple Manchester from their proud perch.

10 Opening

11 Relates to sound

12 Scottish Islands

13 Correct tofal?

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14 Musical work

15 Band

So why not Wolves?

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GLIDING CHAMPION

The lates) adventure in the thrill-prokod Kig ́of Lieutenant- Colonel Anthony Deane-Drummond. 18, of Church Crookham in the English county of Hampshire, osentsid recently — 2nd brought him the British Glang Chimpionship.

Colonel Drummond won the national title after seven days' intensive compelitlen at Laufman, Hampshire. Crewing for him were his wife, a former Women's Glding Champion, and two daughters.

Life has never been dull for the colonel; in 1961 he was captured in the first parachute raid on Italy, but later escaped; he was dropped at Arnhem, was esptured. Infor escaped, alding for 13 days in a cupboard II, high and aft. wide in a Dutch house; last year, in Cyprus, he was in the middle of a rfol and his skull was fraptured by stones thrown by terrorists.

His more recent work has been relatively peaceful -- with Britain's War Office, planning a defence against nuclear aliaoks. Now he is to lead the British team at the World Gliding Championships next year at Lesznan, Poland. Russia will be a keen competitor. London Express Phote.

The Ring Game Is Certainly Productive Of Cash Returns

Says HAROLD MAYES

There are many dangerous ways of earning a living. Boxing is one of them-but certainly far from being the most dangerous.

If a man can get anywhere near the top of his busi- ness, the ring game is certainly the most productive in terms of cash return for effort.

I make the point because

To eliminate whom? Certain= there, has been a lot ofly not Mr Machen. squcamisli nonsense talked and Erskine lasted no more than wrliten since Tommy Jackson two minutes with Valdes. chose to tangle with World Cooper has been beaten three Heavyweight Champion Floyd times on the trot that doesn't Patterson, and got a hiding to make either of them a world go with the £20,000 plus he contender. collected for his night's work.

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Meanwhile, give credit to the forgetting the fact that Jackson22-year-old negro, Patterson"," Is unable to read or write--can I sold last December that think in terms of that kind of Patterson la going to be one of money for a lifetime of labour? the all-time greats. I still say

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It's too bad it happened to Jackson, but it does not rate us an excuse for further suggea- tions of boxing brutality,

Jackson was probably not the best challenger around Indeed the man who-really should have been in with Patterson was the Cuban glant, Nino Valdes,

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Few people will need remind- Ing of the fire power of Valdes. That's what Jackson lucks and take them to every concert that what the British Champion,

Cardiff's Joe Erskine, and” his I promote: It will be, for all of next challenger, Henry Cooper, you, an unforgetable experience. Jacked.

TI-KWEI SZE (bass-baritone) Yet the winner of this contest is being suggested as

Is my next artist at the Empire an op- ponent for coloured Californian | Theatre on Monday, 9th Eddie Machen, in a "world title September, at 9.30 p.m. of him

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