1958-07-05 — Page 18

#* THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1958.

GET UP AT EIGHT IN THE MORNING

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GO TO BED AT 9.30 P.M.

FEW PARTIES AND DANCES

Would You Do All These For Fame?

Asks MARY HAMPSON

For you, most likely, tennis is just a game, to be played in odd moments on odd courts - for fun. But at Wimbledon nobody pretends that tennis is a game. It is played passionately and determinedly win.

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Tennis has a way of high-lighting personalities. Take Christine Truman, the 17-year-old British girl who has caught her country's imagina- tion like no other sportswoman for years. She's the real-life heroine of acknowledge it.

She is Marla Esther Bueno, the 13-year-old Brazilian with the the, lovely walk of

a

cat

a schoolgirl's adventure book, She hater what she calls with every little incident steps." And Ittss Is anything and yes which don't recognise

und dramalised, ped up

The which des to pin-point her off "honour of the form id all the court, that" is mnemállect to take in the honour of her country.

"She's a darling," said Teddy Tinting, who has made all her When you moot Christine, the tennis ouits since she began to Illusion is not destroyed: She play, "She's everybody's sweet- is a schoolgirl-Lill, unaffected, heart, and rightly so, too. She's and completely unspoiled by absolutely charming.

A For her, tanke is why of life.

suecer.

nol

Because of terais, parios and

rare there's dances arc

a private le lime for nuch when you get up at 8 o'clock in the morning and go to bed at 9.30 p.m.. to be ready to play Tennis ext day. Would you to all that for fame?"

Who

Is

She doesn't appear to know what temperament is. Perhap that is because a girl part family isn't

ol

an

Mascot Outfit

defeat. There is nothing under- stated and undemanding about Rame Maria Esther. ('1 a you say together. like Mary Am.")

Maria Esther fought to ge into tenals, and she will certainly fight to get to the top. 17 wanted to come to Wimbledon last year," she told me, "but my father said I should walt unti had taken my teaching degree,

"'You need only eight months the credit to the dress, because | lo complete the course,' he sald. she always thinks she's lucky Eight months to study, and the if she whis

rest of your life lo play. At the

"Like nil kids, she has a sort of mascot outnt, and that's ail typical of her. She gives

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"But it can be a bit tricky. į Ilme I was disappointed, but All her clothes have to be made | now-I think he was right.""

Local Soccer Review

A HECTIC BUT COMMONPLACE SEASON

Standard Lowest In Several Years

SOUTH CHINA ENJOYS CLEAR SUPERIORITY

By I M. MACTAVISH-

It is quite an effort to kindle very much enthusiasm for soccer topics in this hot humid weather and that's easy to understand when one remembers that our current season has stretched from early September until now,

That's a lot of soccer by any standards and I know that many of our players are glad that it's all over at, last. Some of the Army players for example have had so much football in recent weeks that they looked almost relieved when they were narrowly beaten by South China in the semi-final of the Stanley Shield and were thus relieved of the necessity of playing another game.

the game Was apparent in game after gamo and it was not difficult to see

should be played. This

rather heelle have been capable of finishing conceptions of how It has been a yet, at the same time, a common in a much better position than place *CAGON, The general they did. Standard play has been the lowest in several years and the mod important cause of this

over the surely been whelming superiosity of South China.

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The Army had a particularly in-and-out season. They started in the most promising style by Ungging a harvest of goals in their first game bựt soon their unprofitable defensive pion told

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goal own story and the harvests began to pile up at the wrong end.

that the ambitious combination of maturo and Inmature

players did not produce point-winning blend. There were too many bosses In the side and even as recently 15 last Sunday there was adequate evidence of this in the Stanley Shield game against Eastern when the Tigers made as in-

In Jerylene, so they enn be Even when she was studying wash! mid Ironed in a couple hard, Moria Esther still playet produce the form to match the iThey were seriously involved in i glorious an exli os any side in,

of hours ready for her to wear ordiary, By again. It gives her

mother a given much score

lot of work, for prima corina Inelles. haps it's just beenuse

the

Per. 3

Christine Truman, who wouldn't

see of it anyway.

Just watching Christine aign autographs is 确 revelation.

She manages to convey

the

champlorship jeunis. "I used to go to school at seven, work unli!

six, have a meal, rest, practice, go to bed at il and get up at Three to study some more.

Another contributing cause has been the disappointing form of KMB when faced with the big occasion... awe of course the total fallure of Kitchee to

names on their teamshout.

Exerpt for the performance of these three teams, the season, in been hollow and empty. South China

frankly won some of them so cuddly the trophies must blush stand on the Caroline Hill side- board.

a domestic sense, has

ce the sense of it plays les impresion that she can t Tireless and Toughton and quite trattily they

why anyone should want her

tu vin. Of court she never outograph. But if they do, ite plays in any gallery.

Porfect Answer

very nice of them....

and It is

She is sweet and shy completely unapgressive. only on the court that this She's the perfect answer to Illusion is destroyed. There is all the tennage crities who emm-nothing sweet and unuggresive plain that the modern terniger about her game. won't work, won't concentrate. "She's typically British. That's "won't take advice and never what I like about her," said Izstons.

forceful woman in the stands. In the past 12 months, Chris She's

controlled and LT- tine has refuted all those argu-] demonstrative, and she's ments. She has practised every scared by the odds."

day, taken weight-lifting lessons

to give her extra dexterity and strength.

Another Lenglen?

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"11" has made a great differ=" Christine's cool serenity off ener to my game, I think," the courts is offset by that Christine said, with the engag-jolher teenager, who, according ing dimetene: which always to tho experts, Is nearer lo forms out the credit,

Suzanne Lenglen in style and Bhe i gled anti grateful for personality than anyone advice and always willag to Wimbledon has seen for years.

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"I was hard, but I got over it in about a fortuight öfter the vxuma. I graduated, AND I played tennis, which is what I cared about."

That "and" J typical of Maria Eatter. She's as tire- less and tough as a robot, with u dangerously quick mind. She peaks four languages fluently and has no faith in luck.

"I want to see everything, fo and everywhere," she said, there was an unspoken addition that sentence: And win everything."

Beenuse of teenagers like Christine Truman and. Mariu Esther Bueno alorie, Wimbledon is worth

watching.. And it's not only tennis one sees, but We lived out in a game.

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A Kingpin

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It is a good thing to have a klegpin in any competition. gives the others something to alm at and in Britain today every league side dreams of the day it will beat Manchester

·Unlled or Arsenal of Rangers in an important games.

In Hongkong however, the situation is getting out of hard. With their unlimited fucilea South Chim chjoy an important

fundamental advantage but in addition their officials have dis- closed a shrewdness and enter- prise which no other club seems able to equal.

season Al one time in the

relegation worries and only a New good run Just after the

and They Year saved them

Anished in

Enfo nolly

The worst defensive position.

eventually plugged leaks were up by the industrious play of Mendum and Poole and by the arrival on the scene of Ginger Woodcock, but the continued Inability of the forward to get goola persisted right to the end of the season and in the closing

Club

and agalhist

Rames

fordiner it looked as though

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the competition.

For Great Efforts

For the really great efforts this season we have to go to the Second Division the Royal Navy and the RAF

teom from

Ta sallors'

where

success deserves

Sal Won both turned in magnificent efforts. boundless praise. They had to cope with difficulties in team building must have turned many offeinl and selection that

haire to silvery grey yet they rose above the lot and put up some really grand displays.

The Navy proved to all and sundry that relegation is not condemnation.

SPORTRAIT

*I managed to get Gerald to mow the lawn on con- dition let him know immediately anything exclling happened . . .♬

London Express Service

World's Best Soccer XI

By DAVID JACK Back from the World Cup, I've been asked to nominato a World XI from all the great play- ors I saw out there. accopt the challenge. Here's my team to lick the world:

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Gregg (N. Ireland); Do Sordi (Brazil), Santoi (Brazil); Liodholm (Sweden), Wright (Eng- land), Tiaray" (Russia); Garincha (Brazil), Fon. taine (France), Kopa Allchurch (France), (Wales) and Skoglund (Sweden).

How.

they would never score.

In erlie of this the soldiers a great contribution to

The proposal never really had made the season's football.

They

the remotest chance of success and the fact that it died, a rather supplied the bulk of all non- wide

death merely Chinese players for

Neither is it argumentative variety of Colony and com-

the end of a football existence confirmed that opinion. munity representative games;

cra. It la a of a football

ever during the discussion on they

their freely of

and challenge to determination... the subject one vitally important services for charity:

and, although they were descr-point did come to light, would have been

A very dull reason indeed without some of vedly beaten in the final cham- the personalities they produced. pionship play-off with the BAF, Correct Perspectivo

Worst Refereeing

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I shall always maintain they should have beaten South China twice during the season. Long-term planning is cœsen- They were shocked, shattered, tal to tho continued progress of and staggered by what I regard any football team ya it seems

пр the wonst FUOCYssion of that, of the powerful Chinese refereeing decisions I have ever sidos, only South China tackle seen when they went down to the problem ariously enough. the eventual champions by Caroline Thor record down through the three goals to two at

the Hill at a vital stage of years shows very clearly quiel wisdom of their policy. lo que competion.

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nor

Sal

Won, we onn proudly boast The Navy's Here."

To get IL in correct perspectivo It is necessary to Hall, too, to the Champion look at the constitution of the ship winning airmen from Saf Council of the HKFA, Councillors Wan. How this small organisa- of the FA hold their positions tion managed to maintain its solely as REPRESENTATIVES form throughout the season is of clubs, groups of clubs, of a mystery only to those who amilated bodies. They simply have not watched them play. do not exist ar Individuals and I have enjoyed that pleasure therefore everything they do or on several occasions, und I do say is surely heard and debated mean enjoyed, for the boys in in council under the implication light blue always tried to play that it REPRESENTS the views good constructive football and, | of the club or organisation with that essential touch of concerned. I believe now, as I believed frilly craft in the inaldo for- The two Services in the First at the time, that the decisions ward positions, it led to success. Division have been a disappoint which gave South China their

These two service sides have ment at the Royal Air Force second and third goals were done A Kreat Job. They have had their worst season in grave errors of judgment by thoroughly deserve the honours years.

They finished up in the the referee and cost the Army they have won. most inglorious fashion at the much more than the lows of bottom of the league table and two points. They cost them their future is

from their confidence. now far rosy The sad thing about this, Tragedy is that, the team. Ist many vital points at the begin- ning of the season which they should have wom..

Lack Guidance

They had the talent but their newcomers tacked enlightened guidance as far as local con- ditions were concerned and, as defeat followed defeat, the vital spirit-so much a part of the airmen's play in the previous season dwindled and died. The | chango was most marked and it was almost impossible to reconcile

of the key players as the same men who hed done

wali

in the chullient crowd-pleasing side of

some

EO

a few months earlier,

Young Service players who' come to Hongkong generelly do 10 with AL sadly distorted appreciation of their own worth In relation to tho Chinako players and, unless they can Be well adviauch and "enjditioned for-what is ahead of them, they meet exactly the sort of pain- lom death the airmen have suffered this sonson,

The soldiers' new-found team spirit was blasted to bite and

CLSSON.

Clubs and

blindly ot, of course, choose

generally their represcuta

the live is nominated because sponsoring body feel he is a man capable of using good judgment on a particula, Issue affecting their affairs.

organisations clo

SPORTS

QUIZ

1. The man who cxplained England during the "Body- line Tesla" ogainat Australia recently died at the age of 07. Nome please.

2. What British and American

teams have been captained- this year by Mrs Mary Hal- ford and Mrs Margaret da Pont respectively?

3. Who was the oldest world heavyweight boxing cham- pion?

4. What sport would you sco al Monza and Indianapolis?

5. With which athletic events do you associate (a) Robert Gutowski, (b) Nina Ponem- aryeva, (c) Cheng Feng-, Jung?

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6. Who holds the Olympic re- cord for (n) 1,500 metres, (b) high-jump Jump?

(c) long-

7. Who was the last American to win the British Open Golf Championship?,

8. The MV team recently set up a record of the Isle of Man. What is the MV team?:

D. For which countries did these footballers play in the 1958 World Cup (6) Nilton Santas, (b) Igor Netto?

10. What's the name: "Born initials CT.... 1041 left school at 13 to concen- trate on tennis.... been o Wimbledon

semi-finalist Althea

hus beaten Gibson."

(Answers on, Page 13)

The King of Whiskies

But, as I understand the This week moeting of the articles of the FA, individualiam Solo Arezis: DODWELL A CO, LTD. I believe that it they had won Council of the HKFA certainly starts and stops there. It is that day they would have gone produced one or two discussion irreconeliable that a vital point on to a run of imposing suc-polats. Everyone who has theef principle-such as the pro

nuine welfare of Colony fool-

to extend oposal

the First bail at heart must have been Division to seventeen

clubs- Later when they were again shocked by the announcement can be put forward by two edpod out by a solitary goal in that Jardine's wero severing | Individual councillors, almost na the Senior Stucld, in what will their connection with the FA a private bill, and later the same always be recalled as 'McNicol's though

their

there have been men eponly state that Day, ther were desperately rumours about this for some respective clubs had no say in South

lose. It is true time. untucky to

making such A far-reaching China enjoyed The greater share of the play but anyone to add to the reasons make administrative senso.

It would be presumptuous of proposal. That simply doesn't there was for once a threat in

given by Jardine's representa- | alternatively, if it does, it mid that came every Army

tive but I know that many opens up some very interesting very close to carrying them to

people victory

that the club's possiblities. feel and even when resignation is the they looked certain to fance of

day present draw it was a footing-but tribulations in trying to compete unpardonable indiscretion by qual terms wth, those left-back Lamb that cost his highly commercialised organton-

running First Division piece.

side the game.

tions texmma.

culmination trials and

...and finally a little tail

That was really in and of

The English Association of the Army as a top lino, attrac-

Football Referees and Linesmen tion and they had to fight very I understand that Jarding's held its Annual General Meeting hard indeed to ensure thelf | decision is final and that they at Weston-Super-Mare on June continuance In the First will definitely not be playing in 21. In bis address to tho Division,

competitive soccer next season.mcollag Mr Alan Hardaker, the Another bilder «disappolats | It is a comapustous inova. It dia- Secretary of the Football ment this season was the complies an honesty of conscience League said "We are very con- Plate failure of the star that deserves nothing but praise, carned about the looman who studded Sing Tao side to pro-

A lively point of issue at the wants to ba boss. His fols. is to duce even a semblance of their | Comell meeting Was tha | haby the man in the middle and The RAF had a fair ention of Jets' form of a couple of years' question of whether of not two take a din view of the talent and, while it is izuo thạt

@go.

would be a good thing to in-line who lets the reforme the avaliablo' strength fluctuated

The foam was

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