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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1958.

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DESMOND HACKETT'S COLUMN END TO A 20-YEAR MONOPOLY?

HERR SEPP SAYS RUSSIA

CAN WIN WORLD CUP

Sepp Herberger, the sturdy, cheerful little man who was team chief when West Germany won the World Cup in the last series, has now announced that the teams he most feared in the 1958 finals in Sweden next June are: 1, Russia; 2, England; 3, France,

It was Herr Herberger who drliled Germany into one of ever scen In the finest soccer machines I have

netion when they beat Hungary in the 1954 final by sheer pace and precision.

Herr Herberger

again To Derek King it is a wholo Germany's Narcot commanuer lot of money. And behind that in-chief. With customary £300 is a story that makes you Teutonte thoroughness he has forget that the present state of made a close survey of the the game could hardly be day- internnilonal Boccer situation cribed us whiter than white. before raming his 1, 2, 3 of countries most Hkely to succeed

guins! Germany.

Derek King was the cockney

the white- kid who idolised shirted heroes of his local club, Tottenham Hotspur. When he went straight from school to the stal he Kround himself the happiest

I respect his opinion when he says: "The Sovies team have an impressive and elegant style. Tottenham They are always in top condi-reckoned Lion,"

I

more

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kid in England.

But

rather and it

He played his first game difficult to agree with this foot-centre half for his beloved Spurs ball fuchrer when he opines; jus August 1051. "England are to be feared bu

cause of their unusual tactles."

I have noticed unusual unless, pernups, it is

the selection of

England line-ups.

some

nothing

of the

he was By March 1953 England prospect. But by 1950 King could not command regular first team place.

He reluctantly move.

an

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asked for

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He become Swansea Town

Individuality player in August 1956. He pick-

knees means

was

I have lamenied in thezo re-ed Swansea because his old cap- cent Boccer years that Engina tala at Tottenham, Ronnie Bur- have picked their tactics straight gess, was the Swansea manager.

Twelve months and have

ngo he from the textbook

condition of your told: "The

never you will again play football,"

"King found himself sweeping up leaves on Hackney Marshes, that soccer testing ground where kids dream of playing for leams like-well, Spurs,

licked off, or even more severe- ly crassed off, those who tried to impress Individuality into the England team,

Before you rise in wrath and condemn me for being anti-

Engiisa let me hustily assert that i think England will be a men- ace among the World Cup fight- em.

Just straighten

out that for-

ward line kink and we can for- zel we ever saw Ireland st Wembley,

Tax Swoop

to for

Swansea wanted Spura a benelli match arrange King Spurs decided that these affairs could be expensive and could even op if the weather was bad. They gave King a pre- sent of £300.

his

The tax mon swooped like_on Bul forward. the

Spurs defended King as stoully 49 King ever defended for Spurs, The result of Spurs v. The Tax Team ended with the incredible result of Spurs winning and King getting his £300.

attacking centre up

Herr Herberger is not content 'to sit back home in Hamburg

into and gaze solemnly soccer crystal ball.

Having

weighed European and Russian opposition, he is preparing to move down South America way to check Un form of the clubs likely to

team be challenging his Sweden.

to hand it

these German planners. They never miss a beat. And all regardless of expense.

You must

In

Whilst debating these fabu

and lous World Cup affairs noting how the Italians failed to rise to the 2800-a-man balt, mention of £300 sounda rather shabby.

bonus

ROME PREPARES FOR 1960 GAMES

Rome prepares for the 1960 Olymple Games and the rebuilding of the Stadium Torino is almost completed. This photo shows also the Palace of Sports in the background-Keystone Photo,

1. Holes

2. Army officers 3. Writer

4. Well-known private

6. Concerning the stage

6. Communist country

7. Fare this

8. Shakespearean

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heroine

9. Pictures

Maybe £300 is, not much wealthy Spurs. But how many clubs would make the gestur and then take time out to see the pinyer got a square deal?

After all, King had not been a Spurs player since August 1936.

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Americans May

May Not Reach Davis Cup Challenge Round.

Says DEREK JOHN

London.

After 20 years, is the American-Australian Davis Cup monopoly

about to ond?..

Australia will defend the Cup in the final. And they should koop it, But, this time, it is not so certain that the United States will be their challengers.

The Americans had an uneasy passage into the 1957 final, and this year there is a possibility that they will be without their No. 1 player and veteran Davis Cup campaigner, Vic Seixas, who is thinking of retiring from first-class tennis.

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in the This

eal it makes the claim of

Australian

They will still have the new 128 wickets, more than twice Shield cricket. But how farci- sensation of world-class lawn as many as the next best.

in the amateurism tennis, oft, 3in. Barry Mackay, Certainly I cannot see Now Zealanders being

erleket. la but probably only Seixas capable of giving him solid sup-écessful as they were

Tests. three-day port. Much will depend, how- 1047 ever, on the progress this year year, there will be five-day Test of such up-and-coming Ameri- matches, and I expect most of Cans 05 Ron Holmberg and Mike them to end well inside that Green.

As usual, the Americans can

time.

•

•

Ono Melbourne newspaper boa ergued that brilliant amateurs somehow be freed from must Bnancial strain, and given time to practise their spart. "Business patronuge seems

good a way as any of bringing this about," it said.

Quite right. Australian tennis

DB

be expected to reach the inter- Russla has decided to send zone final, but here they will teenis players to Wimbledon meet a strong challenger from this

year. Now Communist amateur" are also China is thinking of doing the by blg Arms. But the European section.

The European challenger could same. They have been oficial-Lhis meaningless be any one of five countries-ly invited to Britain and, pro-and call all aricketers "ployers".

to Belgium, Britain, France, Italy vided their play is up or Sweden. Of these, I fancy standard, they will compete at Britain or Italy.

the All-England Club.

Britain has one great advant- age in the draw. It ties should occur against Belgium, France or Sweden, they will be played in Britain on grass, This should give such stars as Roger Becker, Mike Davies and Dobby Wilson suficient advantage to reach the European Zone Anal,

Performances in the past few years suggest that the Chinese would be quite strong enough to In the compete at Wimbledon. 1956 Asien Championships in Ceylon, one Chinese player beat Nell Gibson, of Australia, and Billy Knight, the British Davis Cup player.

The player WAS 24-year-old | Chu Chen-hua, And

he Wits

then ranked only No 3 in his

Both China and Japan were

In The Fight But in. this Britain would be playing away, probably in country. Italy where, on Blow hard- courts, players like Giuseppe regularly represented at Wimble- Merlo, Nicole

and don before the last war. Japan Championship Orlando Sirola would start as returned to the favourites.

My

Pietrangeli

last year when they sent over Kamo, who player, K. reached the third round only to be beaten in four sets by Vie Seixas, the 1053 Champion.

forecast: Yet another one American-Australian faal, If Vie Seixas stays in the fight. If not, it may well be Australia and Davis Italy who battle for the Cup next Boxing Day.

It is an Olympic sport. It is played in almost every country in the world. And yet the average Briton knows nothing at all about it.

Lucrative Offer

How amateur is the reputedly amateur cricket of Australia? Point is given to this question by the recent financial wrestling match for the services of Nor- It is volleyball, a team game mao O'Nelli, who has acored invented by the Americans over more than 1,000 runs this season 60 years ago and said now to for New South Wales at an be the second most popular sport average of 83.7. in the world.

First O'Neill received Volleyball has become inter- lucrative offer for employment nationally popular only in the in Adelaide. Then firms in past ten years, and it will be Sydney, remembering the loss of included in the Olymple pro- Brodman, made oven bigger offers gramme for the first me at to keep the young man batting Rome in 1980.

for New South Wales. The 20- batsman, who is cisa Was

But unless Britain produces a beiter team by then, she stands be represented in Rome by the London Fire Brigade,

Yes, the London Fire Brigadel Bolleve it or not, they have the only all-British volleyball team f: Britain. The University of

London has an excellent team, but it consists of five Poles and une Greek.-

have since

The London fremen been playing volleyball 1042. But the game still has no national appeal. Now Britain's Volleyball Association is making an all-out effort to popularipo the game before the next Olym- pics by holding exhibitions and film shows all over the country, But it must be many yozia before Britaic eru hope to compete seriously with other countries.

At present. strongest countries Czechoslovaida and Russin. Unlied States, like so teachers of sport, have culstripped by their pupils. Cricket Tour

the

Gre

The

many been

New Zealand will shortly be tour naming 10 cricketers to England next summer. Tac party is expected to include only three of the side which drew all four Testa in England in 1040.

They are John Reid, a feree- who ful 29-year-old batsman recently scured 201 In one innings, and who is tipped to ba explain; Bert Sutcliffe, 34-year- old left-hander who scorod seven ocnturies on the last tour; and Harry Cave, 35, an KIT- proved pace bowler,

Other players may be Noel Harford, a batsman who touned Pakistan and India in 1955-66; Laurie

Miller, Jeft-handed opening bat; Robert Blair, a fost bowler who toured South Africa irr 1053-54; Bruce Morrison Last-medium bowler: and wicket-keeper Ian Colquhoun.

The weakness in the side is likely to be the lack of a slow left-hand bowler of the close of T. B. Burt, who ir 1949 took

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your-old an excellent leg spinner, "bewildered" by the offers, but inally accepted an offer from a Sydney cigarette firm

The anxiety of firms to keep O'Neill in their own State quite understandable. Only Str Donald Bradinan and Bill Pons- Lord had previously scored 1,000 runs in one season of Sheffield

supported let's scrap. amatesir tog

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