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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1958.

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NEWS FROM BRITAIN. Press Blood

I show hattelem

SHALL, now shatter a

by telling you a negative: story.

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No one nominated Mr An- thony Milward for the Chalfmanship of the Lon- don Press Club this week.

Mr. Milward, let me explain, In the Chief Executive of British European Airways, une of Britain's two late-run' birlines,

He is also the scion of A reedic-making family. And needlec is precisely what Mr Anthony Milward has done to the bulk of newspapermen Around Fleet Street.

Before the victims of the Munich air crash (several of them newspapermen travelling with the Manchester United team) had been buried, Mr Milward rushed into the corres- pondence columns of The Times to lath Fleet Streat photogra- phers with charges of Intrusion and obstruction (the German -hopital where Survivors were

beling treated.

The picture conjured up, by his complaint was of cametu- tuting louis gate-etosling a Biospital and haressing the medical staff while they were engaged in life-and-death work, Against every principle of

"Hore wo are, litter bugs."

British Justice, this letter was FROM RAGS TO RICHES:

taken as both charge and con- Vicion.

The result was a wholesale cruelation of plous, prejudiced pip-squeakery direct- ed against the British Press,

The protests of pressmen with first-hand knowledge of the affair were lost among the utulations of the holy willies demanding newspaper blood,

Nothing would do but that the matter go before the Press Council, the toothless Inquisi- tion of taller day journalism, (I can pronounce on Press ethics, but cannot enforce its opinions).

Well, the Press Council did take up the case. It heard the witnesses, including Mr Mil- word. And

It completely exonerated the British Press.

Milward, I sold, "was -not aware of all the facts" when he made is complaint and "has given a wrong impression,"

Signifcantly, too, the Press Council deplored the fact that "Ep many people assumed that Mr Milward's complaint In The Times was unanswerable and Joined at once in blaming the Press, making na distincion be- tween dadlemment and convle-

Naturally enough, the Press expected an apology from Mr Milward,They waited in vain. Milward refused to apologise and insisted that be slood by what he had charged in his letter to The Times.

Which is why, as we said at nominated the outset, no one

My AnthonyMilward for the

He battled his way

to

the

top - TWICE

IN 1924, a skinny 12-year-old boy went to a golf course deep in the driving wat, buried to find work as a caddy and raise a few pennies to seat. help pay the bills at home. Intending to ward off this bruised in the meeldent, Ben fresh competition, the other caddles attacked him with was at first thought to be dead. sticks, challenged him to fight the biggest of their gang- and rolled him down a steep stony hill in à barrel.

The barrel smashed against rocks, and the boy's riba were severely bruised. But he climb ed back up the slope, won Ms fight and the job" he wanted, That was the first of many golf-course victories for William Benjamin Hogan, In less than 30 years, he was to become one of the greatest golfers of all timezone say the greatest pald as much as $250 just for playing an afternoon exhibition round."

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every

Back at Fort Worth he would

four hours practise for

morning. He carned extra money by selling golf balls, and as soon as he had saved enough dollars he would be off on another tour, always im- proving — but niver winning. ↑

In 1937, the year he married, Hogen suved 825 dollars for a big tour of the golf circuits. To make the money he worked 15 4 Karage attendant, as a croupler, and in verious other

Of all the mez who have odd jobs. wade their way from rags to 10 was sure he would shirt courage and determination than

By JOHN COTTRELL

has man. He

weren't actually teaching there," hours entration or the of

course. is, sound Mrs. Hogan was only badly Golf could do with more movie cameras, which remind players like this grey, deler him of the rattlesnakes he tear- mined

never ed as a boy. thrown a l

temperament, never The other is mere significant. mashed a club, hover behaved- It is the sound of pennies clink- a spectator's pocket. other than with extreme courtesy ing in

Perhaps it reminds Ben of the in a tournament,

There are Just two things days when he did not have two which can upset Ben Hogan's pennies to rub together.

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For eight weeks he lay in hospital with a fractured pelvis and ankle, a broken tollar-bone and several smashed ribs. He was encased in plaster from, his chest to his knees.

Doctors said he would 'never play golf again. Later, when a blood clot moved up from his left leg and reached his lungs, they doubted whether he would even walk again,

But "Battling Ben" had other ideas. As soon as he could sit up in bed, he was practising his putting and exercising his fingers to strengthen his grip,

Soffering terrible pain, he

Chairmanship of the London riches, none has displayed more will now, Yet still success spent many weeks learning to

Press Club this week.

Interpretation

CUPPOSE, you are a military You Intelligence

vinicer. Journ-that your hard-pressed enemy is evacuating a highly valued unit from a tough front line position to place I safely.

safe don't have to be a Moni- to deduce that the Romery. enemy has doubts about his ablity to hold that front lloc post and is moving out his crock

avoid capture troops to "worse!

or

han. His savings quick walk again. Hogan, There Wils no luck ly dwindled to less than one about his success. He had to dollar. Ho decided to try hús fight every inch of thu way Juck i just one more fouran from poverty to prosperity. ment,

And when he had won his fortune, he had to fight an even greater battle-to save himself from becoming a permanent in- vaitid.

Ben Hogan

born

Was

Persuaded

"On the day of; that toon- In ment, Ben went to fetch his

Eight months after lids crash, Hogan travelled to England es non-playing captain of the US. Ryder Cup team. A year after the accident, he played In lying major tournament,

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for first place with Sam Snead,

Ben was much too weak tú

the American Open Champion-

the

1912, in the mall cattle-town dilapidated car which he had win the dedding reploy. But of Dublin, Texas, Is father, parked in & side street. He five months later, still in the town blacksmith and junk found it, resting on the rims of with leg cramp, np. recuptured dealer, died nine years later its wheels. Someone had stolen

in near the tyres overnight,

ship, and went on to win every leaving his family

Thio harassed Hogan was pre- major golf tournament In poverty.

For two years the boy sold pared to admit defent. But his States newspapers after school, often wife, Valerie, would have none working on the streets until- of it. She persuaded him 10

play in the tournament Something like this propost-after midnight,

Then, on hearing that' caddies planned. tion prevailed in British politics

round, this week, The Conservatives could earn 65 centa a

memorable Arsi let it be known that the of their he made his

Harry M.P.s. Sir

Hylton-visit to a golf course near Fort Foster, who is also the Solicitor- Worth, General was transferring from his marginal York constituency (majority 1,104) to shug Cities Westminster

of London 18,044).

and

Castles

You can still and idealists who will assure you that "an Englishman's home is his castle. Even if his drawbridge is no more than synthetic wood mass-produced door, once

he slams it behind him, they

say, he is monarch of what he Burveys.

The above, thought is inspired about, of soul-searching in the coast town als Harwich, where the local council is divid- ed over a citizen's right to want a bit of privacy.

One of their tenants has asked permission to erect a higher- than-standard garden fence for prlyDay's sake. The request was rejected, one wathan coun

cillor snapping, " people want more privacy they should buy a house of their own,"

The tenant had the decision reversed on appeal, but now the whole nitale has gone back to the counell for reconsideration. This spot of parish-imposed egalitarianian is highlighted by plans float in the new town of Stevendte There, a bid is being made to stamp out house- wifely gossip-not always as Wish tables me, it should bo-by creating blah, hot-chat Ignees between the

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Back On Top

He did-und woh 380 dollars, With slavish practice and the His greatest triumphs came constant encouragement of his in 3053, when he won the U.S. Hogan's game gradually Open for the fourth time and *Buttling Ben", the other Improved unul, 188 became the first American to caddies called him, and he has came the top money-earner In win the British Open Champion- lived up to that nickname ever American golf, ending the year shy at his first attempt. He to since.

also became the first man. with $10,000 in prize-money.

His

Scotland's most astonishing

400-year-old per play At that time the caddies

that year was

Carnoustie course in under 70 played a game called "shog" in formance which they lined up and hit Asheville, North Carolina, where strokes and he did it with his golf balls as for as possible. he won the "Land of Sig" Open first round.

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The one with the shortest drive Championship. Incredibly, Hogan That was the climax to the had to retrieve all the balls.

playod 218 holes in 34 under He broke 70 no less than par. Collecting balls often took up les times in twelve rounds, valuable time which could be averaging a little better than 1 spent caddying. Ben just couldn't under par,

afford to drive short. So in the In the next two years, the evenings he would practise for former caddy earned well over hours, hitting golf balls with a $33,000 In tournaments. Ho rusty left-handed driver,

Grocery Green

to the United States, he was Ben Hogan story. On relúming paraded through New York tend congratulated by President Eisenhower in person.

But it was not by any mean the end of his fabulous success, became known as "Mr Golf?. In 1943, he tied for first plača After war service in the Army in the Amerlean. Open, losing Air Corb, Hogan regained that the play-off, and in 1955, at the title by winning $42,555 1040. age of 44, partnered by Sam In 1947 he won the All- Snead, he won the world's most Eventually, the club profess American Tournament of Cham coveted golang

trophy, the sional gave Ben some coaching and made him change plans and led the United States Canada Cup to a right-handed club, From Ryder Cup team agaitist Bri- then on, he was a golf addict. tain.

In 1948 he won no less than He would practise his 'strokes eight Open Championships, in

Hogan, does not play so often nowadays. He has abrositly fr the shoulder, a legacy of that terrible car crash. Some people

go so far as to say that,

for

on the lawn at home until there cluding, for the first time, the was scarcely any lawn lett. American Open. His gross in Whenever his mother sent him come that year was more than the first time in his life, he has to the nearby grocery store, he $32,000,- would play folt there and back,

He never

lost interest in the gume.

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The blacksmith's son had when Hogan doen decide t pometimes chipping from one made his fortime. Jawn to the next sometimes needed to worry about money rotire permanently, he will do hiting a powerful tron shot again; Yet his troubles were 50 as a very rich man. Apart

for from being over,.

from the forturie he has made over several lawni..

In 1940, triumph was followed out of gulf, it has been e- At 14, Ben tied for first place by tragedy. Ben Hogan was timated that he well receive in a caddies tournament, and at driving at 10 miles an hour altogether about 60,000 19, although lie had never won through heavy fog when his compensatch for bi inurled

He could have, belu: laven an amateur uile, he became a beautiful new Catiline was hit

head-on by a tension bus richer, bub for kit isigid code Dona 1981 and 1939, inrelling at weed on the wrong of honesty. Once files turned Tr Between Hogan won only one tourne side of the road.

on, about half-f-million ment dany times he found Hogan, threw himself in front dollars by rejecting proposi- hummocks without mouri enoti de his wife, who was mazed ton, that Ben Hogin Schools he had to wire a friend for next to him. It was move of Golf should be opened all Sáld afish a goir match, life. When the cut was found Bens it wouldn't be finit lo

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