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THREE WOMEN WIMBLEDON CHAMPIONS IN THE MAKING

By JOHN DEREK

London.

Mark this name Senorita Maria Ester Bueno. This 18-year-old Brazilian from San Paulo will, I predict, one day be a Wimbledon champlon.

In the Italian Championships at the Foro Italico, Rome, this dark-haired, dark-eyed girl revealed a brand of power tennis no woman has shown since Louise Brough's heyday.

She has a service of rhythen fold daughter of the British lex- and masculine strength that isie tycoon, Cyril Lord. matched today.only by Wimble Miss Tennant, resident coach don champion Althea Gibson at a Californian school, believer Her compact volleying and con- "Margot" Lord could become fident overhead smashing make | Wimbledon other top-class tennis giëls look years, -well, girlish.

Marla is the daughter of u veterinary surgeon and the sin- ter of Pedro Bueno, who har played for Brazil in the Davis Cup. She has been coached by Armando Vieira.

I bracket her with

champion In five

Excellent Doublos

"She is one of my most pro- and fortunately mising pupils.

Jet her father has agreed to her stay out here at school. The weather In England makes Britain's championship training practic- Christine Truman og he most ally impossible, but here she can promising young gli in world ply 205 days a year, This year, tennia today. But Maria, 10 in 11 enter her for fourteen tour- October, has the advantage ofnaments in Californis. I won't being 16 months older than expore her to England tennis

she for three years and then Christine. And I believe

might make an excellent dou- bles combination with Christine Truman.

will be Wimbledon that much Booner,

champion

Another Name

Ahe

Miss Tennant, who coached such great champions as Alice "Little Maureen and Maria Bueno

Christine Marble and Truman are my favourites for Mo" Connolly, recently successfu 饅 the Wimbledon tille in a few derwent

un-

eye

she is

years' time. But Eleandr "Teach" operation. Now, ul 02, Tennant, the famous American) working as hard as ever to pro- world champion, termis coach, offers unother dice another name-Margaret Lord, 15-year--London Exrpess.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

14TH (WHITSUN) RACE MEETING, Saturday 24th and Monday 26th May, 1958

(To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 19 RACES,

The First Bell will be rung at 2.00 pm, and the First Race run

at 2.30 p.m. on the 1st Day.

On the 2nd Day the First Bell will be rung at 12.00 Noon and the First Race run at 12.30 p.m. The Tin interval is after the Phird-Race-(1,30 p.m.),

The Secretary's Office at Alexurdu House will close at 12.00 Noon on the let Doy and at 10.00 am. on the 2nd Day.

All persons MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the meeting.

Admission Badges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable prior to the Meeting from the Club's Cash Sweep Offices, at Queen's Building, Chafer Road and Nathan Road, Kowloon, only on the written introduction of a Member, and on production of his Guest Record Card Members are limited to 6 guests each Race Day, and will be responsible for all guests introduced by them.

Tins will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72011),

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NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeting. For this purpose a Child is a person under the age of seventeen years, Western Standard.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable

The Gate.

THE CHINA "MAIL,

SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1959.

1. M. MacTavish Asks:

WILL THERE BE TROUBLE AT TOKYO? Will The Whispering Campaign Against Taiwan Footballers Be Presented Officially?

Autographs From Denis

Former England and Middlesex cricketer Denis Compton, who last week published a book which had aroused controversy in Britain because of his critics isms of Sir Leonard Hutton, his caplain in several Test Matches, is pictured here:

signing copies of his book for admirers, London Express Photo. HISTORIES OF THE CLUBS

Northerners Founded London's Glamour Club

-Secrets Of Arsenal's Success

By TIM GORDON

Arsenal! The very name sends a shudder of apprehension through the hearts of thousands of Northern soccer fans, when they recall the great feats of the famous London

team. But whisper it softly.

This glamour club, with its gallery of great names, was actually founded by a group of exiled Midlanders and North Countrymen-youths who made the trek to London, way back in the 1880's, to work at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich,'

Is it to be " for Tokyo, Turmoil and Trouble?

I have boon asked on several occasions this week if there is any truth in the current rumour that a move is afoot to discredit the Taiwan soccer team at the forthcoming Asian Games. Maybe you too have heard the many different versions of the present wave of gossip....but what impresses me most of all is the fact that I have heard it from men who do not usually indulge in loose talk. In varying forms that story is that an effort is going to be made to prove that the Hongkong players who are to represent. Taiwan are not eligible in accordance with the rules of the competition.

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the tle. com- than ours is ut the present time According to one version, the the fact that

numerical and, remembering the relative Submission to the Asian Ganies munity With authorities is being made from Umitation, has to watch. Its merits of the game in the two Australla.

usals Soccer

being great communities, that . another has richest

rather distressing. that Malaya is the source of the divided. 'plot,'

I On Thursday WDG

clrcumstances porrilted

I also put the same question told it would almost certainly us to select one side I do not

on refereeing rather bluntly to belleve we would have · very come from Ceylon.

I have always tried to keep much difficulty in Troving our one of our leading football Aslan football. administrators. I asked him for superiurity In

views this column strielly on sporting We would be able to pick. both his

the present his reply topies and I have left the a Arst class team and an almost standard. pertinent pollileal controversies equally powerful bevy of te short but cloquent. He said "It..

In disappointing .. very dis to those who are more highly serves. qualified to dubble in them...

appointing". What a plly 16 cannot be so. but I find that this time there

It is

of course is a lot of people who now be

The two Asian Gomes equada criticise, and there lieve that if such a campaigns have now had a couple of pro-doubt that the referee's task is started it might very well be

end on the often a thankless ope sustained, in spite of the fact Tokyo encounters that some of the present players basis of results it could appear neither criticism nor sympathy. Hongkong repre- will solve the problem. And by have already represented Taiwan that the

have the edge sentatives

on the sama tokeń I do not believe In previous Asian Games.

their opposite numbern in that the short term polution es Talwan colours. It would be in

the promotion of officials Basic Eligibility wrong, and dangerously mis- from the lower divisions.

leading, to place undue signi. fleance on that.. ,the rent test will come if and when the two teams moet in Tokyo,

are

CARY 10 La ti

..but

If what I have seen, in several junior games

recently is on indication of the general standard there

Gomo whistlers who have reached their limit where they arɑ now. On the other, hand I saw Mr Middleton of the Royal Navy During the present season give a first first class display

The argument seems to be that le many custa neither the players nor their familles have ever been domicile Formosa and in consequence they cannot comply with the basic eligibility conditions laid down by the Asian Games organisation..

Let me make it plain that I offer no opinion on the merits there

Star Whistlers

has been

considerable

with the whistle in a recent

at gamo

the Club

or demerits of the argument. I criticism of the standard of w Junior do know that Conch Lee Wal-refereeing in Colony football. It stadium and I also Baw long and l colleagues have true of course that referees Mr Prattlet handling A very

wero

put in a tremendous amount of ato "fair-gamo" whether soccer hard work in preparing their is played and those who read tousy game with great tacland but these are ex- team for the Asian Games and the papers which arrive in the uccess...

ceptions. week from the it would be a great hic to Colony each

Last Sunday afternoon at. players and officials alike if toted Kingdom will know Mar Boundary Street I saw andiher anything happened at this stage too well that even the

have had whistlers there

to control a official trying to prevent their participation...

protty hectic Reserve See Hon

from and, in spite of all the talk, I pretty sticky time this season:

an almost statle In fact the man who handled mo don't think it will.

of the It seems to me that the im- the plum assignment of the sea. position in the middle partant thing about the whole on The Cup Final has pitch. At times he was a long You can imagine them, those been sixth in the Second Divi- wards in a "W" formation, with

cloth slon and Chelsea second to hot- the two inside men playing be-set-up is not be much whether been harshly criticised in sec-way from the centre of activity In the game and in consequence young chaps with their

iom in the First. Tottenham, hind two swift raiding wingers the Hongkong players are eligi- tions of the national press.

many of his decisions caps and, broad accents, eager to form their own amusement in bottom of the First Division, had and; a fost, forceful centre blo to represent Tolwan, but

I do not believe that what | pretty strange and that is the capital, gathering together to go down.

forward.

happens elsewhere should worry as generous as I can be. It is an chill winter nights to talk Arsenal's fantastic rise 10 Thus was Arsenal's success

us too much, but I do feel that true it was a hot humid day but about the game which had greatness. Toally began when, In..buflt on a solid rock-like defence swept the part of Britain they June 1925,

the late Herbert and o fast mobile attack · rendy came from.

was persuaded to to match goals. That's how the leave his manager's chair altag "Lucky Arsenal" was "born, Huddersfield Town and take The "Cunbera" were prepared over the London club,

to defend for long periods; then One of soccer's all-time greats suddenly the forwards would was Chapman, who had trans-race away to steal a goal. But it

Huddersfield was intention, not luck. formed struggling Town taking them to three From League Championship wins be- tween 1923 and 1920.

The year of Arsenal's birth was 1080-but then, the side was known by the Ibag-sound

ot. Woolwich Arsenal ing title Football Club. They shortened it atto "The Arsenal" in 1914, and

to "Arsenal" in 1922.

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ALE. ARNOLD,

الان

Becretary.

In 11s very first season. the team gave a hint of the great years which lay ahead by win- onc and ning seven, drawing losing enly two of Ita ten matched. One of Woolwich Ar- senal's first games was played

Its nainst

near-neighbours, "The Dockers"--betier known in the football world as Mil- wall.

Cold-Shouldered

Chapman

He

Bolton Wanderers, Chapman bought, the graceful- moving Duvid Jack-the deal went through in a confectioner's

shop for his inside-right post-

tion. From Preston, he bought that great schemer Alex James

for his inside-left berth. "James,

the little Boot with baggy pants was both a goal-maker and a with goal-getter

North End.

the

More Remarkable His success with Arsenal was

remarkable. even more

acted big. thought big and he One of his first big deals was to buy the great Charlle Buchan from Sunderland for £2,000.

A strange feature of this deal With Arsenal, he became. was that Arsenal agreed to pay with long

man who didn't want to score, Sunderland an additional £100

pants and jersey he wan the the for every goal Buchan secred in Elcoves flapping, Although, at the time,

his ral season as a "Gunner" director-general of Arsenal's at North and Midlands were swept Charlie scored 19 League goals by professionalism, in the South and 2 cup goals; so Sunderland the idea that men should be

Daro-Devil Drake altogether £4,100ma was collected paid for playing football

On the wings were those two lewes in many quarters with big fee in these days.

CUT But it was Chapman's plan of fliers,

Bustin and Joo harrer. Thus, in 1891-92, when

to be joined later the daro-devil centre-

tuck.

Arsenal decided to embrace pro-action when the offside law was Hulme fessionalism the club was cold-changed that showed his genius. by

In serson forward, Ted Drake, now Chel- shouldered. Most of the South-Bufore the change,

it is

1

SPORTS QUIZ

1. Played 30 matches; won 30. Whith national rugby team had this remarkable record on their 1924-25 tour of Britain and France?

we should give serious examina

tion to clrcumstances here,

when twenty-two players - are sweating their hearts out the referce has to work hard too.

It would seem that our foot ball authorities must step back a bli ond take a comprehensive view of the problem.

They cri- must decide whether the telem is justified or not or whether

ન the situation merely being exaggerated the shortcomings of a few less capable officials,

Great Pleasure.

It is a great pleasure to wel- como Jacks Skinner back to our midst.

a pleasure. tinged by only by the sad realisation that

it is but a fleeting visit.

So tightly packed in his schedule It is almost

his impossible to wedge him in

in

A

The other day I asked one of social 2. Name three world heavy our leading players for

weight boxing. champions views on the matter and he said corner long enough to get lu

talk international footbull.. who were not "American, that the thing that worried him to

As the Far East representa- 3. Which one of these golfers most was the difference

has never won the Ameri-interpretation of the rules which live on the Executive Council. can Open Championship-exita from official to official, of FIFA he is well qualifled, to Sam Snead, Ed Furgol, Ben The player concerned has a fine CXPRESS Hogan and Lloyd Mingrum? reputation for, his good conduct comment.

on the fleld yet, he was most on the utter paucity of play. in. recent England Portugal 4. Who opened the 1930

critical of the fact that in Hong- the

and Rame at Wembley made very Olymple Games?

kong players have to try D. How many Wimbledon remember the particular likes interesting listening..

men's singles champions

have successfully defended and disilies of various referees. their title since 19387

6. Which was the first Con- tinental country to be un- defeated in England in o

full international БОСССР match?

opinions and offer

and his views

ticularly after all the build-up- that has been given to „Eng- land's prospects of emerging. World Cup winners at Sweden.

Difference Of Opinion

4

AA

1

Jack looking extremely at and well, is nowadays poultry He pointed out that there is a farming in Keni but, as he putst

7. Only one European has ever great

difference

ot

opinion

Malon a modest stillë a

won an Olympic gold medal among our whistlers on shoulder tant le doesn't the me slown foo

'',! :,,- !, " much!

In

spriat event. Who is charging on-harassing tha goalkeeper..... on what is and the athlete and what was what is not regarded as obstruc-In spite of his obvioils col" 8. What were the

ern clubs cancelled their axtures 1925-28, most clubs had an at sea's manager.

See how Chapman's new style with Arschal, the pariahs, the tacklog centre-half. Under the

new law, such a player was ‚a } of "soever' brought"; "the-- honours untouchables.

a cocluxury, because often he left the crowding to Highbury. Look at Today, when arest to be connected with the middle of the field unprotected. Arsenal's enviable record!

First Division The idea After a precarious start to the

Champions: mighty London Club,

1927-28 season, Chapman de-1931, 1933, 1934, 1035, 1038, 1048 seems fantastic.

with 3 and 1953. With the South against it, the cided to experiment

Runners-up: 1026 and 1932. the "stopper" centre-balfa player, Arsenal turned to eyes to

F.A: Cup-Winners; 1930, 1930. Midlands and North, and began who would patrol, ike a police-

In 1927, a long association with clubs in an, a restricted beat" along 1650 and. xumers-up

1932 and 1053.'- The Chapman plan: worked- What great players have wom A limited ability company

and worked well. This bastion the red and white shirts of Ar-10. with capital of £4,000 Wus formed and, by 1883, the club of the "stop" centre-half cenall Male, Hapgood, Crayston, had moved to Manor Ground, personified to perfection by the Copping, Buchan, James, Jacis Baaiin, Hulme and Drake (who Plumstead, which was its home late Herbert Roberts-was

main foundation of Arsenal's holds two club scoring records—

the soccer seven goals in one match, against |

Aston Villa, December ·, · 11, 1035, and 43.gaaja in, one, pea- son, 1934-95).

these areas.

the centre of the field.

for many years. Arrenal's pre-glamorous rise to cent palatial ground at Highbury was opened in 1913.

1. In 1903-04, Arsenal Anished

runner-up

bad

and.

heights.

POP.

the

The second part of the Chap to Preston North man plan was to play his for End and so moved into the First Division, where the club man- aged to hold its place until the 1012-13 season. That was season for the "Gunners” they were relegated. But after one season: in the second divi- on, the club had a miraculous reprieve, without which its won- dorful run of successen in the 1630's might well have been do- layed

First

It happened this way. class soccer · wen, àbandoned at the end of the 1914-15 season and after World War I, the Firal

· Division-as, extended from -20 clubs to zis: Arsenal' and Chaises were pinetod to fill the vacent placed, although at the end of ibe, 1914-10.denson, Arsenal had

COME AND LOOK AT. THIS

CHAD IM WORRIED Top

the event?

9. In what sports are

results at tionnd, in passing, he tentment it is easy to sense tho the four Test matches be- also mentioned that the players feeling of nostalgia which his New have built up a pretty accurate brief return to, Hongkong - has tween England and

assensment of those officials who, inspired. Ho meeting again Zealand in 19407

these when they are running the line friends made it a neur lifetime a) deuce, b) ate weak in deciding when the in the Colonys lleume overthrow, et tambour. long through pass to the winger which contributed much to the 2 What's the name?

"Keer puts him in an offside position progress and betterment

Honkong sporty golfer and. profesional

The player concerned was a „cricketer ... Inst year made

of the party member 2,301 runs, took 35 catches, recently went to Bingapore and warmth of your reception and had batting average of

which

"Welenme bark, slačke

118 In Testa against West gave it as his experience the most eloquent exper

that the standard of match of the Colony's feellups Indies."...

control by the leading oficials sight is definitely NOT out

was very much better mind "d

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