1958-02-10 — Page 7

Only Five Of The Sixteen FA Cup Survivors Carry First Division Label

London, Feb. 9.

Down go the soccer giants of the English First

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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, ̄ ̄ 1958.

Sports Diary WORLD

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Cha, 3.30 p.m. Interpart Tennis Combined Chin.

Division, sent tumbling from the Footballese Taiwan, CCC. 3 p. Association Cup competition by the "un- fashionable" of the Third and Second Divi- sions.

British Airman

With the FA Cup no more than four rounds old and 16 Wins 25,000 M

clubs still left on the trail to Wembley and football glory, only five of the survivors carry the First Division label. The other 17 senior division clubs are out-beaten in a form-somersaulting alaughter of the big names which has few parallels in football's history.

But Why?

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Arsenat, Chelsca, Newcastle, and which finally sends them Burnley, and many others with hurtling to defeat

their uskou nemo¦, all have opponents, sensing their weak- David undness, or Like eagles above their been eliminated to Goliath clashes which have pormal Saturday to Saturday ended with the Davids well and form. truly on top.

Mr Eric Houghton, minnagor of Cup-holders Aston Villa, who this year were toppled by the Second Division's Stuke City, pins the blame on something more material than a psycholo- He accused the gleal complex. weather. "Half of the rule," says Mr Houghton, "has been that Cup the days have coincided with weather which elther fro- zo

And throughout England startled football followers are asking why? Why, to exemple, were Darlington the nurther ners from the Third Division, who have not been able to Bght their way from the foot of thote league table able to cripple Chelsea with

a tic-winning three-goal burst in their fourth round replay?

or almost flooded pitches, The result has been that the big clubs have not been able to play their usual brand of foot- ball and have, of lacked condence as sequence.

course,

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Why did Newcastle, best krown of all Cup trailers, and three times winners at Wembley since the war, surrender their

The Reason? profound reputation to little Scunthorpe, one of the two Third

"Muddy or difficult pitches Division North sides now left in always increase the chances of the competition? Why were the smaller clubs, and when this Arsenal, one-time glamour boys advantage is coupled with the of British sport, beaten by low-fact that glant-killers play above Why themselves in Cup tie), you have ly Northampton Town?

did Burnley succumb to Bristol the reason behind most Cup Rovers? Why did Bolton take two games to dispose of York? Thick and fast have come some theories to explain this latest Just floation for the poola punters age-old dry, "You can never tell with football."

shocks." Mr Jack Crayston. manager of Arsenal, agrees that the grounds have favoured the small teams this year, and he adds "I can tell you one thing for sure if the Darlingions, the Stockports and the Northampton Towns played their football each Saturday as they play it in Cup

Donny Blanchflower. Totten- ham Hotspurs maestro wing- halk and skipper of Northernties, they would not still be in Ireland's World Cup Champion- the Third Division."

Let the last word go to a ships tom, belleves that [car has triggered this year's bumper soccer fan who wrote to a British crop of Cup shocks, fear pro-national daily newspaper: "Jolly duced by the knowledge of good luck to the Scunthorpes, May the shame defeat wil bring. Darlingtons and Yorks, fear which makes the big they cry on with their Cup Boys

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which shocks for seasons to come." rubs them of their usual rhythm, China Mail Special.

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P.I. TENNIS

UIF Schmidt

Enters Singles Quarter-Finals

Manila, Feb. 10. Sweden's Ult Schmidt gained the quarter-inals of the Philip pino National Open Tenuis Championships yesterday when he carved out a leisurely 7-5. 6-2 victory ON CT unranked Jesys Hernandez,

meets Philippine Eduardo Dunco

Schmidt Davis Cupper this afternoon.

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HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE

Is Joe Erskine A Worthy Contender? Many Americans Think Not

Champions

The Sominbles won thakk second Junior Softball Cham. plonship on Saturday last when the Cheyennes failed to muster. a nine at game tune and had to Alve a walk-over to Wah Ying. he Seminolce are now in an unassailable position and can aven drop their last game with- out it making any difference to the final League standings. All admes yesterday out.

were rained

International Table Tennis Tournament

Singapore, Feb. 9, A British aleman today won a 25,000-melte walking race organised (Singapore - Johore) by a local paper, the Free Press,

The favourites continued

Brussels, Feb, 0, He is Sat Noel Bullen, 35, of

Austria

and Wegrath of Royal Al Force base, coming through yesterday, de-

champion Raymundo Roirnd of Belgium tonight won Tengah, Singapore,

There were 000 competitors, Deyro whipping Juanito Gavia. the men's doublez in the Bel- 0-2, gan International Table Tennis tho including ene young Chinese and second-seeded Juan girl, whose entry had been ac-eliminating R. Vermono

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Another American monopoly is in danger of being broken this your the staging of World Heavyweight Cham- pionship fights.

Not since Primo Carnera outpointed Paulíno Uzcudun at Rome in 1933 has the United States failed to stage the most important of world title fights. Since then there all in the have been 49 world heavweight title fights- US.. But now there is some hope of a change, for the London promoter, Harry Levene, and American manager Cus D'Amato have reached an "agreement in principle" for World Champion Floyd Patterson to defend his title against Joe Erskine, the British and Empire Cham-. pion, in London next June.

American yachtsmen have no intention of losing it ne September when they defend it for the 18th lime against the British challenge

This would be the first world; seven dollars to nyo dollars a heavyweight title night seen"in day. Britain since. Tomany Burna They bramediately had earnest about thair knocked out Jack Palmer in second thoughts

"availability" for odiefal tauta, London in 1908.

But if the night is to be held, Promptly, the sparte goods Erskine must first

the win arms who employ Couper, Neale European Dight from Ingemar Fraser, Mal Anderson and Roy

that the built. announced Johanson of Sweden at Gothon-Emerson burg on February 21. If he pleyers would be fired if they Ipacs, he can forget all about opted out of their international Patterson.

teanda engagements,

Is Erskine a worthy Lender for the world heavy- Not Enforced weight title? Many American thing not. They clalin fighters like Eddio Machen Willle Pastrana and Zore Folloy should be given a crack at the title first.

But Patterson's

Cooper's contract with his frm is due to expire shortly, so the order against him was not enforced. The others are

to manager, reparted

D'Amato, claims these three threw away their chances last year. "They each turned down the offer to fight Floyd," he says

In my view, Erskine deserves the fight if he can prove he is the best hodvyweight in Europe. Certainly he has a much stronger claim than Pete Rademacher, the Champion, who ex-Olympic

fought for the world title in his firal professional contest,

Ryder Cup Golfer Remember Anchie Competon, the former Ryder Cup golfer who taught the Duke of Windsor how to play the game? I talked with him in London the other week. bor ten years he has been pro fessional at the luxurious Mid- Ocean Golf Club in Bermuda.

"I suppedo it is one of the best places in the world to be," he mid "There is no income dax, no death duty, no frost, no mow, it never gote too hot and there is a first-class golf course. What more do you want?!"

Leaving nothing to chance, three American syndicates are having new 12-metre yachts

Tacso yachts several others will compete in trials during July, August, and September, and the defender will not be named unill the last moment,

other hand Britain, on the. has to give the nama, and par- ticulars of her challenger" "10 months

before tho conteri. Sbo in the 12-metre Sceptre, have agreed which reluctantly" to toe the line.

But one fect emerges from these negotiations the shallow. ness of the pretence that tennis amateurs are any such thing.

None of the players involved is paid to play tennis. But one probably would hold the jobs they do if they were denied the contacts, publicity and travel which their games as "ordatours" provide.

Australion

is being bullt · by a syndicate of nine Royal Yacht Squadron members at Sand- bank in Argyllshire, Scotland.

The Sceptre la due to be launched at the end of March, probably by

Prince Phillip. Then a

series of trials take place before the yacht leaves. for the Cup races off Newport, Rhode Island.

Best Of Seven The series will consist of the beat four of seven rages and it

it will be re-mailed.

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Most Leading tennis players are employed by sporta arms and are valued in

yachtsmen believe their capacity as players rather they have an excellent chance of than businessTION, The Arms

wresting the trophy from the pay them an average salary of United States, The Sceptre la £1,000 a year.

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He since the contest began the successfully in previous Ameri- Elsonhower was there. smacked at practice balls for United States has monopoilsed ca's Cup races.

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A record total of £32,000 in prize money can be won by tournament golfers in Britain this year. Peanuts, perhaps, in comparison with prizes in the United States, but sill enough to attract many of the world's top players.

One of the richest events will ba, the Open at Lytham, Lancashire, in

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