THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1957.
Israel Wins Mixed Sports Diary RUTHLESS GONZALES
Athletic Contest
Tel Aviv, Sept. 19. Israel today won the mixed athletics contest of the Mac coblades (Jewish Olymples) which ended today, with a points lead of 220 to 197 over: the United States, who were runners-up.
The United States easily wen the men's events with 107 points (The United Stater did not send any women altes). while Israel won the women's events with UT points,
In the mixed athletics points; crder, Britain Murished thind with 123 points, South Africa
fourth with 53 Wat
points, Australia was th with 35 points and Canadh sixth with 24 points.
Americn'a Mike
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the Decathlon high Jump event with a leap of 1.85 metres.- France-Presse.
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TODAY Tennis
11C Tournament: Club 32611's Doubles Open: Club Mixed Doubles Open: Inter-long Handicap malcher Club Ladies Doubles Handleap: Club Men's Bingles Handicap.
Badminton
Executive Committee Meeting of UKDA
5.30 mi Alexandra House p.m.
Bwimming
Annual Army Individual Swin
at Victory ning Championships Po 2.45 p.m.
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The game's the thing? Sport for sport's sako?
Spectators can forget all suck, noble thoughts and "hl-pi plati. tudes, when swarthy Richard (Pancho) Gonzales walks acowl- ing on to Wembley's professional i tennis court on September 25 to start wiping Meats Hoad, Rose- wall, Segura, Krümmer and Co. off the face of the earth.
Aud fnnybody fanelen Bir- mingham's one-time British pro- feusional champion, Bill Moss, against Gonzoles In the preli minary round, such an optimist should have no dificulty anding Inccommodation nt Invourable
odds-about a million to one, I'dį
Say.
Keep quiet, when Big Panelo Landiles Singles l'eap, Club Men's. 3. 13-stone-plus-starts Handicap Doubles, Chib Mixed shooting his 112 miles-per-hour Doubles Heap,
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Three brothers keeping goal for League clubs Jim McLaren (Carliste), Roy McLaren (Bury) ut Dave McLaren (Leicester).
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Senor Gonzales is here for the money, and his fosh-point Latin temperament docs not Lake kindly to nitwits whose unttering might conceivably interfere with
such a laudable objective.
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Gofor
GESTURES IMYPNOTICALLY
FERDINAND
NANCY
THIS HEAT IS AWFUL
I'VE-
LOST
--MY-
VOICE!
DID YOU CALL, YOUR MAJESTY?
CAN I HAVE THE OLD POSTERS FROM YOUR
HORROR
MOVIES ?
SURE
TODAY
World's
No 1 Brings
Power
Tennis
by
George Whiting
To Wembley
Occasionally he clowns, but more often than not he will offer his racket to crowd-critics with frowning gesture that plainly invites them belter.
smushed
to come and do
ENDEARING
For that kind of reward, who wouldn't sport a temperament? without being tough and Richard
Nobody ever
got to the top
Gonzales is the world's No. 1 at lebis-bar none.
Currently driving a battered 1940 Ford with a £1,000 Cadiline engine, Gonzales dreams not of unrotustable tennis chole but of bot-rod racing. Says his ambi- on to lick the world on the Indianapolis car track.
The dark Gonzales never won at Wimbledon, but he swabbed she decks of a destroyer, and, at Kramer 91, he hid pocketed n contract Baltening -Wimble- don champion Ted Schroeder in aq explosive US singles Anal at Forest Hill..
They claim that Gonzales turned professional ino soon for his own financial good, and is true that a BB-27 thrashing by Kramer k his first Inter- national tour
great augury for a glant with a burn- ing eye on the cash register.
Was
по
KEPT PUNCHING
In Boston this year during
What started it all? An seci- touch-and-go third set against
But Pancho kept punching roller-skates box- a Australia's Ke Roswell, he dent on
put with the ast that occe elenched Et a heckler's scouter when he was seven a ball head and stalked off in what scar. on Pancho's left check that Father Christmas rocket. women novelists used to call the and a chip on his shoulder. They For the past four years he ha kot Saota Claus to buy him a
been unbeaten In big-show highest possible dudgeon.
where the real 13-ounce tennis racket to keep ouaments him home. How were Pappa and
cash is on the line. Mamma to know they were | sending him round the world?
No rule-of-thumb lessons title Another endearing
carly remove shaped the Gonzales giminick Is to imaginary spectacles and hand Richard Gonzales. Never had
In his life. Instead he them to any linesman he con- lesson siders to be confused on to the skipped school, got his Latin cars boxed, and fought his way to a exact difference between "in' and "out."
fortune. In the Loxing game they would call him a natural.
Dogmatie, cocky, touchy, temperatacital, ruthless, relent less, argumentative. fol. Straight of the harbecue.
Icanis
of
Not since July 1933. when Australia's brilliant volleyer Frank Sedgman took him over the coals in a Wembley Dual, as Gonzales bowed the knee.
Not even Kramer has escaped the with of his mcket. Traberi, Segura, Sedgman, Rosewall, and the latest £45,000 proposition, Lew Hoad, have all swallowed One would hardly call the same medleine. Gonzales dedicated to the game. Coming to London mly after a series of well-publicised contract squabbles with boss-man Jack The only soft thing about Kramer and come urgent carly- California's 29-year-old Richard hours telephoning across the Gonzales, one of seven children Allanile by Wembley
MARATHON
One year ago, Gonzales hnd half of Britain welded to their authorl TV sets while he pounded out a
at a poor Mexican house-painter ties, Pancho has less lofty marathon singles win evor Sedg- aut a seamstress, are the non-ideais. alcoholic drinks they have to stack
dressing-rooTTI his on before a big match.
And why not? Professional tennis is a spectacle, not a sport, and has no place for the after- you-sir. Jolly-good-show-chops type of tiddler.
mon by 4-0, 110, 11-9, 0-7. "When I was a kid I thought
st Pundits
describe that tennis a 'cissle' gume.I played match as one of the most exclt- because I always won," he saiding tennis displays of all time- from his Los Angeles home the on calc that occupied three other week,
HOT-RED DREAM
Only big men and bard men
"once tried to run a tunis grab the. top money, and shop, but didn't even know
Pancho's
vredibly
£70,000
butanice Bank
is enough to string a racket. The reporte: 15 around good thing about being
celebrity is the money."
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It lakes a giant and a genius wrenk that kind of havoc with our British way of life. And if Pancho Gonzales, both giant and gonlus, likes to throw a Latin tantrum or two, what of it? I only wish he'd been born in Brixion.
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