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✅ THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1958,

ON SHEILA WILLCOX

She Is Quite Prepared To

Inquiry Into Munich Air Crash

Munich, May 1.

The official inquiry into the Manchester United air crash horo last February whon eight players and 15 other passengers killed declared today that further scientific evidence.

necessary

WIN

WETD

Risk A Broken Arm

By CHARLES STEPHEN

A sportswoman who has good reason to resent the inequality. of the sexes is Shella Willcox, the 22-year-old European Trials Champion and clear winner of this month's. Badminton Throo-Day Trials.

Two years ago Miss Willcox was already one of Britain's most brilliant horsewomen. She had won international trials. She had beaten many of the greatest riders-men and women-in Europe.

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was told she could, Three-Day Event, she would be winning Cambridge before a final judgmento compete against her old less likely to Anish then a man. 1949 and 1950 and the Oxford

rivals in the Equestrian And finish she must-otherwise crew of 1051. could be reached,

Olympics because she was the whole team

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of three Is

woman.

eliminated.

ublatived.

The plane-a Brilish Euro- pean Airways Elizabethan- crushed shortly after taking off I was bringing the crack English leam home after European Cup match in Bel- grade.

The hearing would continue

Then came an even more when such opinions had been bitter blow. Though she could

Quite Prepared British Olymple : 1:01 Join the

Miss Willcox would be quite leim, she was toid that the prepared to take the risks. team would like to borrow her "What's a broken arm," she has wonder horse. High and Mighty. said, "wlies an Olympic medal for the Games.

is at stako?" It was

to nak. a big thing Mis Willcox had bought the hurse with her own savings, nursed him through iliness, fullowing possible dragged him out of quicksand cause of the accident could be with a tractor, and in eighteen ruled st 4 press statement months had trained him to be one of the best trial horses in the world.

But the

nuid:

1. Engine failure;

A

2. Other defects in the tech- nical equipment of the aircraft:

3. Condition of the fuel;

A Clean Break

After many family conferences she agreed to let her horse go. But he could not bear the thought of someone else riding 4. Loafing and trim of the it while she was is owner. So aircraft;

she sold it and made a clean break.

5. Flight catety control and meteorological services,

But High and Mighly. never

competed in the Olympics. He

6. The airport and its equip went lume in training and was

ment.

(2) Sportsmanship on the field of play. Nominations should be addressed to the Editor, China Mail, Wyndham Street at the buildings which

To the Editor, Chinn Mall.

My nomination for Hongkong's. Footballer of the Year, taking into account his playing ability and his sportemanship on the field of play 10:

of the

(Signed)

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

Club,

The hearing of the Commis- sion of Inquiry was adjourned nfler its two and

day "halt Filling

the

But this need not happen. The Olympic Three-Day Event could be run on the same lines as the European Trial, where there can be four in a team and the three best totals are scored,

These two angry experts go straight into the attack, In the frak chapter they slate: "Probably al, no ilme in the history of

more nowing have people rowed worse than today. It is sad to see so much wasled effort and so much material un

exploited."

English

They emphasise that crews are regularly beaten major contests at home and have difficulty in beating any foreign crews In the Olympic Games.

Not Satisfiad They are not satisfied with

of by

"Three Days Running" is the Drst book ever to be written bout These grueling harse trials. It

Cambridge crOW 2 fascinating the great account of how courage,

1951, which was unbeaten determipation and hard work American universities, including They had can take a sportswoman to the Harvard and Yale..

"an unsatisfactory style."

тор

Miss Willcox and High and Mighty ("to whom I owe it all!') have only one major honour to achieve an Olymple medat. Given the chance, I'll wager They will get one. And most

likely it will be made of gold. Stormy Waters

former wuB In

The authors also attack the late Steve Fairbairn, whose new style swamped the rowing world

between the war and whose books have had a wide influence on rowing methods.

They describe his style as "mechanically and physiological- ly unsound," and say that "It was irresponsible for a conch of this immerse prestige' to embody his bold and often unsound ex- periments in the form of books.

eventually sold belt to Mias Willcox. Since then their

England's peaceful rowing It had also been determined | partnership has become

waters have been disturbed by Jay most famous of its kind.

literary hydrogen bomb, and

"Those books have been outside the airport ground be

Sheila Willcox no longer feels the fall-out is likely to affect all

accorded the sanctity of Holy yond the end of the runway,

the world whore writ and the result has been the which the aircraft bitter about her exclusion from parts of and into crashed after breaking through the Olympic Games-only dis- English rowing methods are ruin of all that English rowing

And in her story, practised. the airport fence, were per-appointed.

has achieved in ninety years of For the authors of "The development." missible in this area, according Three Days Running" (Collins:

hope English Style of In 15s), she expresses the

Rowing" Fierce criticism, indeed. But to the valid national and

that by 1960 the rule barring (Faber and Faber: 16%)—Peter after diagnosing the trouble, ternational regulations."

woman from the Olympic Haig-Thomas and Archie they do prescribe a remedy: a

will have Nicholson-speak with un- Three-Day Event

return to the principles of "the questionable authority. been changed.

English

**WOTD Style" which The Why should there be this sex

the developed and perfected in the when discrimination

women winning crew of three of the 10th century.

conalder compete against men in other four University boat races in that this technique is "in- international house trials?

which he rowed and he hoa comparably superlar to Kall

Buccessful crews, others. than any Englishman alive to Certainly, it would seem to be day. The latter coached the time for such a change. When Cambridge crews won In the United States and gained the European Championship. In 1831, no Europran or American was Impressed enough by their style to copy it. And Oxford have hud-no" success in the past two- years by imitaling the American style of rowing,

The Commission is at pre- I sent but yet in position to give

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--Paris, May. 1. Patly (USA) and Jaroslav Drobny (Egypt), both former Wimbledon Champions, reached the Men's Singles sommi- Anals of the Paris International Lawn Tennis Championships at Roland Garros Stadium today. Quarter-final results were; Patly beat Paul Jalaberi, France, 8-4, 0-0, 7-5.

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Andres Gimeno, Spain beat Robert Hallies, France 0-3, 6-2, 1-0, 0-Y.

Paut Remy, France, beat Bab Perry (USA) 0-0, 0-1, 4-6, 8-5

Among the 8,000 short-sleeved spectators was Frange's outgoing Prime Minister, M. Felix Gail- lord.--Reuter.

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THE U-BOAT

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FOR BRITAIN

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A German submarine surrenders to a lone British aeroplane-the only U-boat' to fall into our hands intact during the . Its priceless secrets revealed, Churchill orders it to sea again—a ghost U-Boat returning to the heart of the German wolf-pack-manned by British sailor's

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