1958-03-13 — Page 7

DESMOND HACKETT'S COLUMN

THEY WON'T FOOL FOREMAN MURPHY

London, Jimmy Murphy was the eternal, inspired backroom-boy, the superb supporting cast to the football factory they call Manchester United. That was all 46-year-old Jimmy Murphy wanted to be, just the foreman ut the football factory. He was the man in the track

THE CHINA `MAIL," THURSDAY, MARCH 13,TM 1938.*

Nominate YOUR

Hongkong Footballer Of The Year

Members of the public are invited to nominate Hongkong's Footballer of the Year for the current season.

ANOTHER DON

DON BRADMAN?

Leads United Beaten 1-0 By Albion

London, Mar. 12. West Bromwich Albion to- night defented Leeds United 1-0 in a delayed First Division match and kept up hopes of winning the cham- "pionships.

Wolverhampton Wanderers

It is a popularity poll organised by the football China Mail, and nomination

coupons

suit. He turned boys into soccer men, Jimmy Murphy had no time for the posed pleasantries anal diplomacy of the board room, but now, as the man who salvaged the wreckage of a shattered team and moulded them into defiant unbeatables, he has to will be accepted until the closing date to appear in what he calls "the drawing room.” He endures the back-slaps brilliantly, krnio Taylor la des- be announced later.

and the hearty handshakes that are part of the parade of success, but this forthright man Murphy almost hisses as an aside-"Yes, and they would be the first to turn their backs if you flopped." That is Murphy the realist. Murphy, the Welshman with an Irish name and an Irish fight- ing fury to match.

tined to become the Footballer of the Year. Stan Crowther i his bric! appearances hus povor played better in his life,

It was simply that Murphy injected them with a Manches- ter United spirit.

The two qualifications for nomination are:

(1) Footballing prowers.

(2) Sportsmanship on the field of play. Nominations should be addressed to

Murphy fingers a blue and the Editor, China Mail, Wyndham Street.

gold golf club tie and chuckles richly: "Never had time to play the game."

When, West Bromwich were beaten, Jimmy Murphy almost

He is great fun as a com- snarled: "That will teach people (meaning West

Bromwich panion, a handy man with manager Vie Buckingham) to pint, a man who loves to laugh. talk about seven or eight goals. That will show them not to openlients' bench as the follows about predicting."

every move, clating, scolding, occasionally holding his head in

His Fierce Joy Mun-of-the-moment Murphy had taken the comment as a personal Insult to his team, and that team is his life and his Aeroc joy.

It was Jimmy Murphy who stored up the treasury of talent that is keeping Manchester Uniled on the glory way, His chief and his friend. Matt Busby, relied upon Jimmy. Murphy sald "Sign," then a player was signed,

If

And he watched his nursery of

storiela with boocer

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a ser-

After

Ha touchline seat becomes a

ls hunds because he can endure 10 more.

But when Jimny Murphy Loca home he leaves his triumphs and slight foilure out of doors,

her

Mrs Murphy cheerfully admits she knows nothing at all about football, that football husband's business and let him get along with It.

And how gloriously Jimny Murphy does just that.

-(London Express Service).

(COPYRIGHT)

Sergeant SOME PUBLICITY

mother's devotion ond geant major's discipline, ali, he was warlime Murphy of the Royal Artillery.

He can stick out his jaw and; thump his massive fat into a hefty palm and insist:---

"If you play for Manchester NEVER shirk a United you tackle.

"You ALWAYS chase a 1009e ball.

"No game is EVER considered lost, Get It? And never forget it."

When Murphy was compelled to buy ready-made talent to mend the broken team he bought

Best soccer team in the United States how the sum title of the Kulls Undertakers. They are amateurs, backed by a 55- year-old St Louts undertaker named Tom Kutis, He also runs three junior teams, 41 bowling teams, slx basketball teams, and throo women's softball teams. Total, cost £5,000 a year. says his hobby keeps him young, also the "undertaking business does not get much publicity but has heard of bet everyone Katis!"

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

- LEAD THIS IS THE

THAT'S RIGHT,

CHIEF. I'VE GOT THE

FLYING THIEF.

COME RIGHT

OVER.

FERDINAND

NANCY

000

PLACE!

To the Edilior, China Mail,

My nomination for Hongkong's Footballer of the Year, taking Into account his playing ability and his sportsmanship on the field of play is;

of the

.Club,

(Signed)

Russian Woman

Sports Diary Regains World

TODAY

Akiefer

Queen's College Annual Athletics, Caruline 11,

Badminton

Chess Title

Men's "A" Division Play-off: CCC gained

✔ Glasta at CCC, 8 p.FL.

TOMORROW

Athletics

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For Eastern Air Force IKAAA (SCAA Stadium) 730 pm.

Heats of K Other Ranks" ports at Army Ground, Boundary St.

Dadminton

Ladies

Finals of Colony Junior Cham- Men's ont lard Doubles commencing 1:30 pm.

Footbru Chinese P.A. Council Sports Road 0 ..

WHAT IN

BLAZES

PERNIZ BUSHMILLEFR-

Meeting,

her

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have piled matches

up 80 points in 32 so far, while Preston

For Australian

Sports Fans

O'Neill Is A

New Breath Of Life

By RICHARD VOUMARD

Sydney.

Is 21-year-old Norman O'Neill (1005 in 14 innings) a new

Bradman?

Northend second in The critics will have it, and the facts soom to support it. Tho

championship table with 43 points for 33 matches,

West Bromwich Albion has now totalled 42 points after 32 United, matches, Manchester

he reigning champions, are

Elxth with 37 points from 30

matches.

Other results in First Division matches played tonight were: Birmingham City beat Shef- held Wednesday 1-0.

furore over his job and the state for which he will play next season have a touch of the pomp and splendour of the Don.

For Australian sports fans, who watch with dismay the annual export of tennis stars to the US professional round, who wave goodbye to swimmers off to snatch an American education, and whose cricketers have been sadly in the doldrums, O'Neill is a new breath of life. A new idol--the major necessity of Aussie sports arenas--has arrived.

to controversy "I'm glad Norm decided For days the Tottenham

O'Neill has already achieved a Hotspurs, beat

stay. I hope to see him play for Bolton Wanderers 4-1.

distinction grown rare these lean raged furiously.

Commented NSW Cricket Australia before the end of the Germany beat England 2-1 cricketing years he's brimmed

president Syd year." international

junior over the sports pages onto the Association

Smith: "We are naturally sorry ratch played at Bolton tonight, front pages.

While the -Franco-Preze

la going. It is very garrulous tabloids O'Neill hall O'Neill as the "New Brad difficult to get people to provide "Another boy-from-suitable positions for cricketers,

association hos home The NSW (Bradmans town), and a new model run-means providing positions

utting machine, more cautious for anybody,

in

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Tanny Campo To Tour Australia

In June

man" Bowral"

JIM LAKER SAYS

no

Amateurs Make

Onc writer laconically re- observers want to see more,

Some

remember marked "It all adds up to the

observers

"The msociation La doing

Contral Figure

Jim

Professionals

another year, snother double at the NSWCA is not an on- More Money Than century on which the then 17-ployment agency.” year-old Ian Craig swept over- night to dizzy Test ranks, Craig nothing to keep him here," the The adminis- rattled up 50 in as many minutes critics charged,

tration was accused of laxity,

London, Mar, 12 Paris, Mar. 12. in his first Test against the

and Surrey indiferenco,

Laker, abort-sightedness, FElpino featherwolight boxer South Africans, then spent two

and ineptitude.

off-spin England professional Tammy Campo and three French bleak bitter seasonS (one of

bowler,

MCC criticised the boxers are to leave Paris for them in England) trying to

on special committee's report Australia in June for a three gure out where he lost con-

The central gure, with his amateurs at a Crikket Society months tour, it was learned Adence. Don't let it happen to

wedding date set and anxious meeting in London tonight.. here tonight. The Moscow, Mnr. 12.

tour was O'Neill, say the cautious ones, for the future, admitted "I'm uli "A cricketer who cannot decided

afle: Melbourne But O'Neill's stroke play, his mixed up." Elizabeta Aycova today re-

afford to play as an amateur Jacques Warner

and Women's World matchmaker

his record confidence,

Offers of jobs began to roll in.ather should not play, or should had contacted several French justify lavish praise. by

Rumours and Chess Championship title

reports of become A

professional" said holder, defeating the

Olga managers in Paris with a view In

offers" his first full season of "mystery

flooded the Laher. Ruboizova,

Tass news agency to getting French-based boxers Shemeld Shield cricket, the St sports pages.

Commenting on "broken time" to come to Australia. reported.

George club youngster (born Jim Mathers, most caustic of payments for amateurs on tour, team Feb. 19, 1937) played 14 innings, all Australian sports Besides Campo, the

writers, Laker said: "This is the biggest Bykova of the Soviet Union

highest score 233, Lotal 1005 for described claims by employers fot of poppycock I have heard. Include middleweight won the world women's chess will

that they wanted to keep O'Neill The general public does not Anewy, flyweight an average of 83.7. (Hle for the first time in 1953 Francois

in NSW "for cricket's sake" Da realise that

сад an emater Menard, and

His Record the boat her compatriot Mohammed

"moonshine."

make more money "on the side" "The fantastic offers Ludmilla Rudenko by 1-0. Inghtweight to be selected later.

being than a professioral," for NSW this made to O'Neill arise from the

A. C. D. Ingleby-Mackenzie, 1950, she lost her tilic to an-Philippe Menard, who will ac

hope that his cricket entertain-the Hampshire amateur lett-hand other Russian woman, Rublzova, company and manage the team, but today she regained her title also hopes to stage bouts with

ment value will help sell cigur-batsman, said: "I think the term from the

opponent. his boxers in Manila, Bangkok

ettes, matches, sardines, and cricketers" for all players is and TokyoFrance-Presse, France-PressÛ,

toothpaste," Mathers cracked. the casiest way out of the whole

Some offers were said to be affair-France-Presse. in the region of £100 per week. Finally, петрарег posters and bannera rejoiced "O'Neill will stay here, in headlines normally reserved for moments of national crisis,

when

same

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

THERE'S THE FLYING CARPET, THE FLYING HORSE-ANDA FEW OTHER GADGETS

HE DIDN'T GET AROUND TO,

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Hla record season reads:

Va Queensland 4, 1). Vs West, Aust. 33. 48no Va West Aust, 50, 65. Va South Aust, 114-*** Vs Victoria 11, 175

of

Va Queensland 74, 49 Vs South Aust, 125, 22no Vs Victoria 233 - The feat of 1000 runs in on Australian season is comparable to 1000 in May, in county

The general manager cricket. The honour has fallen Rothman's (Aust) Lid, Mr D.V. to only two others: Bill Ponsford Engelu, formally aonounced. (twice) and Bradman (many "Neti has been engaged on a times).

Bradman holds

ten-year contract. His salary is the highest not extravagant, es has been tally for an Australian season, said. He can play in any state scoring 1000 runs in 1928/29, but he likes. If he wishes he can the English touring team gave give up cricket altogether. We him added opportunilles.

do not propose to use O'Neill as Bradmon was the most recent an advertising gimmick arly performer of the feat, in for whatsoever, We believe he 1939-40, with 10 innings for has the quality to become an 1002. for South Australia.

executive in a fairly short while, Best effort alnce the war depending on his studies And before O'Neill's onslaught, was his application to his job." Arthur Morris's 13 innings for 858 in 1948-49.

runs

O'Neill, wasting no time bo- fore starting his new job, which O'Nelli swept past his 1000 will deal with all phases of the at the Sydney cricket tobacco industry, described his ground on January 23, when he feelings] "very relieved." studied, played disected, and Fiancee Gwen Wallace (now Mrs then murdered the Victorian at- O'Neill) said she was "gind it's tack to the tune of 233 in 244 all over, It has been exciting minutes (35 fours).

but worrying." The critics, the crowd, the eclectors, and brin went with The following day, downcast Viclbring bowlers John Edwards and John Salmon watched the Australian tennis titles In an attempt to forget their woes-and their aching backa. "Just don't mention his

Salmon, moaned

"it Bame," gives me more blisters."

Cricket association president team-mates Syd Smith gave English.crick- ciers some food for thought:

O'Neill employs delicate cuta flashing drives, and confident oumide" play for most of his sung. Hii confidence may be asossed by the fact that instead

· of becoming careful when century comes in sight, he leape towards it with relish. Againt Victoria, he jumped from 83 to 100 with ivo xcentive balls.. 4, 4, 4, 4, 1.

A Necessity

But even

Was

while the wizard walking elated from the wickets, that afternoon, O'Neill struggled with the problem which tragoes many first class cricketers in Australie--Pro- fessional cricket, on such, not exist. A benevolent ployer becomes as much necessity to

conatumlly travelling Shield players, as bet and gloves.

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In search of multablo employ. ment to allow him playing time, mol announced he would transfer fro Sydney to Adelaide, and offer hin servicea to the South Australian tcam Bradman Bad done the same thing, 20 years before, and NSW lost thousands of pounds - in potential gato receipts. With O'Neill announcement, NEW stood to lose the groatost drew- card since Keith Miller, and one who could develop

the magnetic lines of a Bradmen.

NEW portswritersTM the most causile la Australia, zubbed their hands, unscrewed their vitriol bottles, and filled their

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