1957-09-24 — Page 17

IT ANY WONDER THAT COMPLAINTS ABOUT

WIMBLEDON'S LACK

SPORTRAIT

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- Willie ! Come away al once!"

London Express service

One More Milestone

Stanley Matthews completes 27 years in the Football League this month. That is a record” for Englishman. He has two more years to go, however, to equal

throc the

service of Billy 1wo Man-

Meredith with the chester clubs.

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1 Leap

2 On board ship

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Sports Diary Inter-Zone Final

TODAY

Meeting

HKAAA Executive Committee Education Dest 5.30

Tennis

Meeting at p.m.

Club

LNC Tennis Tournament: | Ladieu' Doublen Open, Club Menta Doublea Heap, Club Mixed Doubles I'cap, Club Men's Singles Upen, (Club)" "Men's Finglen Heap.

Swimming

Colony Swimming Championships ļa! BYMCA, 5 path.

Boccer

Ser-

Charity Soccer: Combined vices V Combined Chineme Club Stadium 8.30 p..

Golf

Extraordinary Meeting of Ladies' Section, Deep Water Bay.

TOMORROW

Badminton

Astan Zure Thomas Cup Tie; long kong Pakistan at Take Yew Hall, 7.40 p.m.

Bowl 3rd Division: PTC, v KOC.

swimming Ometal Opening of Victoria Paric Swimming fuol by KE, the Gover now, a pim.

La Salle College Andant Swimmik

Laichikok país, RKGSA Pavilion, 10.30 4.m.

Tennis Malayan RAF Team v RAF 10 st Kal Tak.

NAMESAKES

INSTRUCTIONS: Flit in the spaces apoinst each of the clues below with a word related to my life.. The letters in cireles spell out my name. Who am 17

P

3 Contest

IT

4 Large drinks

D

6 For trams?

DD

And thunder"

7 This stroke

8 With a smile"

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9 Sent up

TB

HE

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10 Not apoplectic

11 Top dog

12 London suburb

13 Accomplice

14 Large meeting

Solution on Page 9

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

KAMMTA PHILWOCE

MANDRAKE AND

YES BY

LOTHAR-PERMUT

THEM TO LEAVE

GAMBITA?

CADER OF

THE KING.

FERDINAND

NANCY

I STILL

WE MUST SEE THE

DON'T KNOW) PHILAPORKING AT ONCE MARDA GAVE

ME A LETTER

HOW YOU

DID THIS.

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For Brisbane

Melbourne, Sept. 23.

The Australian Lawn Teunis Association, organisera of the 1957 Davis Cup competition. lodny withdrew the venue of the second Inter-Zone final from Perth and Eranted. It to Brisbane.

The Association had chosen Perth to give West Australian tennis enthusiasts to chance to see Davis Cup tenols, but they changed .the venue after receiving cables from both the United States anct Belgium reaffirming their obicellon to Perth.

*

The first Inter-Zone final. between the United States and the Philippines, will be played in Adelaide on December 5, 8 and 7. Belgium will meet the winners for the right to play Australia

Challenge I the Round Heater.

BE SPECIFIC

FLY

CATHAY PACIFIC

MANDRAKE AND LOTHAR CROSSED THE BORDER AND ARE NOW IN PHILADOR

BY MANDRAKE

HYPNOTIC COMMAND, THIS MESSAGE BREAKS THE

SPELL.

OF

HIGH LEVEL ATTACK

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Gardner (No. 9), high-flying contre-forward of Leicester City, finds himself the subject of close altention from Arsenal goalkeeper Kelsey (facing camera) and Charlton, Arsenal right-back (No. 2, foreground) during a Leicester altack on the Arsenal goal in the First Division match at Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, London, on September 14.

On left (No. 10) is Rowley, Leicester inside-left. Arsenal won 3-1.-Reuterphoto.

Confusing Trio

OVERLOOKED

Walsall Co-operative Dairy Goalkeepers facing Hinkshay were due to play their opening FC in the Wolverhampton match on their new ground, but League blink with asicoishment when the teams arrived they the three inside forwards found themselves knee-deep in advance upon them. For they grass, and the game had to be are the Bailey brothers-3 pair postponed. Someone forgot the of twins and the other a year mower? No, someone had for- older, all very much alike facla)- Į gotten to turn out the ly.

herd of cattle to crop!

By Lee Folk and Phil Davis

POOLT IDIOTY/

YOU LET THEM GO!

BUT--YOUR \HIGHNESS~YOU TOLD ME TO!

By Mik

Dairy's

MIXES LIKE MAGIC

LUZCO

ICE CREAM SIMPLY MIX.

CHILLS

WHIP

GLAMOUR GROW?

Admission To Wembley Is Being Sought In Vain

By DEREK JOHN

London.

The Wimbledon Champlonships are, long over-and yel the world's best fenais

players have only just arrived in London. They will be on viewIndoors when the International Professional Lawn Tennis Championships open al Wembley on September 25.

All tickets were sold long ago and hundreds of fans have sought seats in vain, For this tournament provides the most entertaining display of first class tennis in the world.

Is it any wonder then that complaints about Wimbledon's lack of glamour are

growing?

the

oc

£7 or more organisers

expences are They are given nominai

All the big names in tennis What is the answer? I can allowances-of turn professional as soon as see only one: scrap altogether day-by they get to the top.

distinction Since the the

between fournaments. war, five Wimbledon Champions | amateurs and professionals-a Their travel --Sedgman, Kramer and Road distinction which has long been paid. among them-have deserted meaningless and hypocritical. jobs by sport equipment firms, the amateur game for the very

in return for which they are boost their high rewards of the professionel

expected tennis cireus..

products,

1:0

The fact is there are amateur players left in the top flight of the game-not if the word "amateur has any malt- ing left.

micons

to

SMALL BEER

But the amateurs are not the only ones to suffer through the

How could there be? Nowa- Of course, this is small boor policy of apartheld which for- bids theen lo

play in the same days there are just not enough compared with the large duris tournament as the professionals. People 1 with the private professionals can rake in. All So do the professionals then-tournament to tournament. And

Flobe-trot from the same, I think it is silly to

pretend that there is any dit- selves.

it is just not possible to com- ference in principle. The only bino à jou with the match distinction now is the scale of practice and training necessary payments. to keep in the Championshi A special committeo of the class,

Unitexi Stales LaXTI Tennis Many expedients are tried to Association has recently com preserve the amateur myth. pleled a study of the possibili. And Players are given lavish expense)tles of open tournaments,

It has now reported In favour of them.

TOD FEW OF THEM

There are too few of them. The same small group of players meet each other all the time, the results become predictable, the Interest killed.

The committee of five found, without reservation, that "open the

These Two-Year-Old Races competition, would to for

Are No Guide To Classics

Says PETER SCOTT

Form shown in the season's major two-year-old events, next month's Middle Park and Dewhurst Stakes excepted, seems to have less and less bearing on the following year's classics as' time goes on. Were it otherwise there would be cause for considerable worry over the astonishing result of last Tuesday week's Champagne Stakes.

Here almost everybody's pre- useful winners, includkig, the conrrived ideas about the status long distance handicapper, of the leading juveniles was į Souvrillus, Guersillus was mak- tumed topsy Turvy by Kelly's ing his first appearance on the hard fought BUCCC69 over the course and did extremely well Queen's luckless Pall Mall with to give Alplas Bloom such a the 0-4 on chance, Promulgation, į close fight. a moderale third and Cool De-

good of tennis."

They advocated

"open com. petition as the start of a long- range programme Lo cathet obuses in amateur tennis on the international lovel" because "conditions have reached a state to warrant serious concern.

And what hRg happened? the report was published it was Just one hour after Nothing. rejected by the United States LTA Executive Committee by a vote of 10 to 12, So the situation is just as before,

GAINING GROUND

Nevertheless, support for open tournaments la lowly gaining ground throughout the world, and if the United States will not take the fad some other country will.

France and Australia

bate who, at York, had looked LIGHTWEIGHT PROSPECT tournaments,

a possible Derby horse, a traf- Ing fourth.

crop.

♣ FREEZE

MODERATE

Lynch 19

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The segregation of amateur and professional tennis players And

said to be in favour of open and the English Apart from the St Leger and LTA hos a committee investi- the two-year-olds, most interest gating the question. at Doncaster was entred on the

The controversy over open

hug now Junning

tournaments

bcen of the numerous Inconsistent

But never running! mong Cesarewitch

raging for 20 years. and Cambridge- the leaders of any generation shire horses that

before has the need for action always up- usubily betokens → moderate pear at this meeting.

been to apparent. Moongate, whom Although Kelly is a handsome kely to ride in the Cesare- colt-and in improving one-switch, was a close third in the should be ended now. glance at his pedigree (Sire Roughard Abbey Handicap and

the only qualification for thoac Fanorama), together with those could be a

who want to enter the Wimble- lightweight pros-don and other inator champion- of Pall Mall and Promulgation,

peet for the big race, suggests that they may not be

ships should be the quality of front-runk

Cash and Courage,

thetr.game. the Scarborough The same goes for Gimcrack slay the exire furlong of the winner Pheidippides and the Cambridgeshire Allies Liberal Lady, Abeliu and

Camber. fastest of their sex as regards the Oaks.

next June.

7-28

THE BEST IN THE AIR

Fligh

By Ernie Bushmiller

WOW--- THIS

HEAT IS AWFUL

WHAT ARE YOU SNOOPING

AT ?

I'M NOT SNOOPING

THERE'S A TINY BIT OF COOL ·AIR COMING THROUGH THIS KEYHOLE

JOHNNY HAZARD

1-LET ME GO, MISS IOTTY! NO NEED FOR YOU TO BE PUNISHED FOR MY SINS/

I-IT'S NOT RIGHT, GIZMO! MAYBE IF I BRACE MYSELF...

WHILE JOHNNY VAINLY TRIES TO REACH THEM IN TIME, ABOVE...

IF THERE WERE ONLY SOME WAY

WE COULD SAVE WM, HEE-HA!! |

BUT I HAVE TO PLOT THIS

CHOPPER...

HEG HAI GETS. KING-SITE BRAINSTORM! YOU LOWERS ME ON RESCUE

CABLE...

FILTER THAT IDEA DOWN, LI'L ONE! YOU'RE NOT BIG ENOUGH TO LATCH

ONTO THAT HULK...:

THIS STORE IS

AIR CONDITIONED

By Frank Robbins.

ME IS KNOW, BUT... BIST NEE-HAI'S GIMMICK MAVSE

·SAVE HIM AND SAME TIME GIVE MUCH SATISFACTION!

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Derby candidates

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the

at

The two-year-old races Doncaster most likely to have

shown us classic prospects for 1058. were tie scven-furlong Tattersall Sale, Slakes and the furlong shorter Doncaster Pro- duce Stakes.

Nami, u 4,200 guineas year- ling, won the Tattersall Sale Stakes. His only previous start was the Ginterack Stakes when he was unable to go the pace sel by the Elsey trio, Vestal King. Bookkeeper and Pheidippides. He butiled on well

over the

Не

extended distance, however, jast Wednesday week.

Nagami is a son of the 3040 Derby winner, Nimbus, most of whose stock are tough and stay well. The coll's dam, Jennifer, Was a disappointment in her short racing career but she too I is bred for stamina and Nagami is definitely a horse to watch..

Another in the same race to TUR well was the Newcomer Black Perfume, a Sayani ally from Noel Murless's stable. Black Perfume is unlikely to be raced much more this season but could be a prospect for the 1,000 Guineas To May,

HIGH ESTEEM

her

Alpine Bloom, winner of the Doncaster Produca Stakes, is held in high esteem by trainer Jack Jarvis and since, she was giving about a stone toj many of her opponents it was a good performance.

Her sire in Chamossalre who has already got one classic! winner in Cambremor, and Alpine Bloom looks as it sho too may stay reasonably well. The Oaks has always been Jack | Jarvis" unlucky classic bat Alpine Bloom could be a strong hope for him next June,

Second to the Ally last Friday wool was Mr Cyril Bull's Quer- allium, a half-brother to four

fifth in Stakes, will

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