1958-10-21 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1958.

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JOHN MICHAEL HAWTHORN Transfer Fees Up To What's Best in Kowloon!

The First British World Champion Racing Driver

By SIMON KAVANAGH

Mike Hawthorn, the first British world champion racing driver, is not the layman's idea of a dare- devil.

He has humorous blue eyes, a boyish face, and re- ceding blond hair. He smokes a pipe, and enjoys an occasional mild-and-bitter.

Where his close rival and friend Stirling Moss is vehe- ment in conversation and utterly dedicated to motor racing. Hawthorn dislikes serious talk, sel- dom trains, and admits to being "bone idle".

He enjoys nothing better than a day's rambling or shooting near his two-bedroomed cottage at Farnham ON the Surrey-Hampshire ("Mother doesn't like border, where he lives with his mother.

me racing. But she doesn't stop me.") Hawthorn's friends know him

and

to

as easy-going, generous, unambitious, but subject short-lived ts of gaiety and anoodiness.

( drivers Peter Collins and Peter, having "butterflies" before

Whitehead, met death this yearLig race and to being frighten- en Continental circolts.

vd after taking u corner too Hawthorn has had his ren fust.

fud Barrow escapes. In seven

The only thing that really him, though, is the racing, he has worries Bensons broum several ribs, punctured thought that he might run lato

beel "Life" in a patch of oil on a track. rol, and concrispevá turning more times than he en re-

But during a race, Hawthorn Js anything but lethargie. He drives with a dexterous ferucity, lps drawn behind the are of his plastic visar, his long body crouched over the wheel. Hebr. scerns to urge his car forward.

All Alone

At 29, he enjoys but does not court female company. "No girls are very worried about me," he snys. "I'm all alone in the great big world."

But he once low to America to propose to Cherry Huggins,

the pretty daughter f Governor of Jamalea, Sir John

ux-

Huggins. She turned him down. she said, because "I won't take second place to a racing car."

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At horne, Hawthorn runs garage and enjoys spare-line fying. Last year, he bought second light aircraft, # ifa

he Percival Gull, and, where. eun, les ta et ce nivelfrister IT. Outboard" motor-bunt racing also interests bin.

Is courage on the circuit is

a byword, even if his strategy

is sometimes at fault. At the wheel. he is determined and wholly bsorbed. He loves "have ago," und, when the occasion demands it, will press his car to the Binit for long periods.

Races For Fun

Huwthorn 15 a professional who rures for the fun of it. He employs no antager or high- powered publicity

organisa-

tion-"Can' be bothered with well clear of What

He steers romanticism. insisting Idiosyncracies like his bow lic have practical meaning "1 wore a shirt and a tle when I first raced. The the sapped in my face, so I wore a bow tie." He says he will race for we more seasons, and then stop. After that he will be done with

neing "1

14 Want don't manage a team. I know what a

endche it is,"

John Michel Hawthorn was eight when he first drove a car. He recalls was an

big left ni Jowell,

father's garage for repair. The furious found hims grinding along in it by engaging the gear and jabbing "the starter,

owner

At 14. Hawthorn got his first motor-blke (bought for 30 shil- ngs). He had owned two more by the time he was 18. and at 22 he was racing two of his father's Rileys.

Introduction To Fame

But Hawthorn's introduction to fame came at Goodwood in 1952 when, driving a borrowed Cooper-Bristol, he swept past such celebrated drivers as Gra- hara Whitehead, Ken Wharton and Juan Fanglo.

Tlawthorn then signed to rece for Enzo Ferrari, Italy's Mister the Motor Racing, but when Italian Arm refused him permis- plen to drive for Jaguars In sports, car races be switched to BRM's for Grands Prix events.

But the BR's were unreliable and Howthorn was "out of the money." So be rejoined Ferrari.

This year, Hawthorn has been driving better than ever, He led the French Grand Prix fro start to finish the only Eng- ishman to have won this race

once. He more than

Was the Crand Prix of placed

Britain, Belgium, Argentina, Portugal and Italy. In France, the Guild of Motoring Writers awarded him the Driver of tho for out- Year trophy-a prize standing skill or courage on the track.

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Pain And Grief

brought

Fast cars iluve Hawthorn fame and fortune. But they have also caused him pain and prlet.

His father, Leslie, a veteran engineer and driver, was killed

1084. Two in a road crash in

of Hawthorn'S closest friends, I

He has heated death many tumes A Ferrari he was driving once caught fire at 180 m.p.h.. a B.13. somersaulted at 100

nt Goodwood, a wre math.

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He was near collapse after the 1955 Le Mans disaster, in which H2 spectators were killed.

Hawthorn, leading t the time, braked pits and, as following car

Lovegh

to pull into the be turned in, a swung out into

in

The Le Mans disaster was one. Another was the question of his delayed

cancelled) (later call-up for National Service, an Issue raised in the House of Commons and

referred to angry letters to the press.

Memories of that episode sill rankic with Hawthorn. With Justice, he protests: "But surely, walking round in uniform is an easy life compared with racing fal-out day after day."

Extra Dimension Hawthorn's career has parsi-

f his Jugar a 100 the path of the French drive5+ \led that of Stirling Moss. They

Lotus turned m.ph., a three times with him at Challen Park (Cheshire),

'Sick With Horror'

Hawthorn seldum talks about himself and steers conversation away front the risks of his profession,

are the best friends, Hawthorn says, "but the personal battle be- tween us adds an extra dimen- alon to the tense atmosphere in which we race."

Levegh's Mercedes ricochetted off the other car and soured in fames into a public enclosure.

Hwthoff, recalls he

was He broke Recently, Hawthorn was asked "sick with horror." down and said he would never in a television Interview if he But he was per-know of any promising young race again. suaded to takeu ver from his drivers. co-driver for the Anal stages of the race, and went,

He replied: "There is a chap called S. Moss who has been In his briet but spectacular garing in the results lately, und lawthorn has take believe he may do quite well

knocks. if he sticks at fi," bud publicity Bu 2014

ile le mait like to watch metor racing, protesting that a "armerves" Tem Tie says h Monte Carl Rally is "far too career,

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Almost Astronomical Figures In Europe

By ARCHIE QUICK

Continental transfer fees have become so astro- nomical that the £45,000 cost of Albert Quixall seems of little account.

Spain is attempting to corner the market. Nothing came of Real-Madrid's plan to get wonder inside-left Pele from Brazil for £70,000, but it has gone unnoticed that Vava has left South America for Athletico-Madrid for probably £50,000, while his colleague Mazzola has joined Milan for £45,000.

hands!

Next move will be transfer not more than five players of World Cup topscorer Fon-trom n club in a lower Division faitic from Rheims to Espagnoi-can be affected. No money can Barcelons

Any infringe- at the end of the change season, and the man who cost ment can mean suspension sine his present club £7,000 when die for pinyers and ofeluls con- he left Nice and who helped cerned! France to prominence with 13 Корія in Sweden is priced ni £55,000.

£28,000 Gift

Still talking high finance the Stale of Monaco has recently been able to afford £28,000 as o gift to its locnl football club..

They have a good idea in Austria to increase the rate of The National FA outscoring.

£700 lo the club will present which nets mest goals this sea- son, £400 to the runners-up and £280 to the third highest- scoring team.

Hungary, loo, has something new to offer, in this case to do with

tronsters. For the first time for 14 years players can now be transferred but only on five days in midsummer. No transfers are allowed between elubs in the First Division, and

ENGLISH SOCCER RESULTS

London, Del. 20.

war

In Germany

The march of Soccer in post- is vin- West Germany phasised by the steady increase in inter-country matches being played In August last, alone, 120 "International friendlies" were played nt club level-34 of them against Dutch sides, eleven against English and teams. It is notoworthy, too, that more than 200 clubs in West Germany celebrate their 50th annivesary in 1958.

In Berlin a new league system has also been invented whereby clubs

play each other home home and away, and also meet In a third match on neutral ground.

Famous Pair

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Che country 13 trying Ferenc Puskas, the greatest

two

the great Hungarians, is now a nilurailsed Spaniard with Real-Madrid, and there is ap- parently little doubt that others Stateless Hungarians, English the famous pair Koscis end

will also Cziber,

be Spanlards. Add lo them D Stefano, and the cream of the Division IIX Newport C. 3 Queen's Park world's football talent la almost

thered i exclusively Southend U. Stockport C. O

-Reuter, Iberian Peninsula.

Results of tonight's football matches were:

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

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