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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1959.

Wolves Back

BUT MANAGER STAN CULLIS WILL NOT BE SATISFIED WITH WINNING THE LEAGUE By TOM FINNEY

(Of Preston North End and England) ·

The lines of worry are fading from the face of Stan Cullis; his

beloved Wolves are once more on the rampage. After a disappointing start to the season, they are now heading Division 1, and it would be a bold man who'd bot against them winning the championship for the second successive усат.

But I believe that this is only the first step manager Cullis, and that he won't rest Wolves re-enter the European Cup and defeat by the German club Schalke.

birst clubs and must managers · overwhelming · enthusiaan. for would probably have forgotten, his club and" players. that deter by now, but then! Wolveg are not just another club

cor Cullis, just mother manager.

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He has a fierce passion for Wolves and any player, pre- pared to give everything for the club, can do no wrong In Such manager Cullis' eyes. Труду. of Fuurse, breeds

Since the w., Wolves have; berme the sourite of Con- tis ref..

plate. Under the

They have!

loyalty. The bittest Hots of il

.. Spartak, Stoned and even the mighty Real Madrid.

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Under his command, Wolves have frente a power team with few equals, During the past five years, no team in the world hes felt confident about ventur-

Behind the story of those triumphs stands Stan Cullis, one of the proudest men Ing into Molineux. know and possibly one of the mast misunderstood.

I first met Stan in Iudy during the war when we were both zerving with: the Eighth Army. Along with Aoly. Beulty, wn were put in chargé of a Services Cuachiur course and 1 began to reader and what football ment tu Stan.

Determination

Evin in the midd of a war, bis enthusiasm for the game was al-com:amazing In kuck-abuk. practice matches, he displayed

1 determination that Characterised his international performanera,

Yet in the early weeks of this Feason, it seemed as though they | had lost their life. The defenwi was as round as "ver, but the attack wasn't moving with ita old rhythm

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They had no settled leader and Iven experimented with Peter Broadbeat

deep-lying centre-forward...an innovation in a eiub renowned for raiders Dennis Westcott, Jesse

ye ati Itoy Swinbourne.

But Judging by their recent climb back to the top, The problem has been solved,

Wolves, free of Cup worries,

I retumber one particular n-are now striding forth to League cident which, I think, -uns up championship bonotirsd

is attitude to football.

Stan Cuills can offord to smile.

Working with us on the course was an Army physical training instructor whose chief claim to tame lay in the ton of beer he downed each day

Night after ought, be returned

to cump the wore for drink und blan Cuffis watched with Krowing impatience. Eventually he could bear it no longer.

'My Profession'

Striding over to the P.T.I., he told his in no uncertain terms

coaching 12:470 young players had no sight to behave in this fobion.

it

"Football," he said, "is my profession, and don't like to see its reputation damaged by bad behaviour on or off the field,"

Soon after the wor, I met Ston again when we played to- Bether in an international trial Inatch ar Nottingham,

My international days were Just beginning and his were Ending. There was no sentiment, however, in the crowd that ofternoon. They burracked him unmercifully.

Loves A Fight

Why, I'll never know. Per haps it was just the penalty of fame, but if the barrackers hoped to unsettle him their efforts were wasted,

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He merely seemed to regard It as a challenge and his play ening marn dominalng than lver. That was typient of Stan Cullis, a man who loves a fight. Before long, he'd taken over as mationer at Molineux of the team in which he'd played such

' commanding rule.

The switch From player to manager is never easy. When

It occurs at your own club, the problems are trebled,

There were backstage rum- blings that ex-Sergeant Major Cullia had forgiken he had ex- changed his uniform for mufti, and these startes have persisted In the newspapers through to the present day.

Disciplinarian

I Stan Cullis really n slave drivert

He is certainly a disciplinarian, bt then so are most of the best managers: No, I think to really understand him one has to vlait Molineux and talk to the ginyers.

fo a tan.

they are behind him. Few managers have been. able to inspire a greater loyalty.

Why is this?

Fremember Billy Wright tell- Ing me once that Slan has no favourites. Every member of his staff whether established international or young hope- ful is treated exactly the

samme.

But I think the real stres of Stan Cullia success le his own

FOUR D. JONES

in the ambitions of until he has seen redeem their shock

OFF THE CUFF

I hear that Wales may have in cancel matches with Spain and Portugal in May, as English League Clubs on close-season tours are refusing to release Welsh interna- tionals....Linfield sup- porters have started a campaign' to keep their popular player-manager JACKIE MILBURN— former Newcastle and England centre-forward in Ireland....There's 1 strong backstage that the players' contract will be taken before the courts in a test case... At least six clubs are ready to make a bid for TREVOR FORD, if the former Welsh centre- forward can obtain League sanction to re- British foot- turn to ball.

rumour

On

Rampages best in Kowloon ?

VANWALLS MAY RACE AGAIN

There is new hope this week for Stirling Cranford Moss, whose greatest ambition is to become the first British motor-racing driver to win the World Championship in a British car.

The Vanwall, in which he team in British Racing Green Rob Warm, who er Kimomcing won several classic Grand Prix not to mention the quarter of a the project plant to rare tha events in 1958, may race again million pounds he has spent in Cooper Bob in the vezorer's Cars 00 them world champuteship race A month ago, 40-year-old Mr putting British Vandervell bullder of the Grand Prix map.

"yond the Bouest = Kata Vanwall, announced his with- drawrl from motor racing because of ill-health.

Now he says: "The doctors have given me new hope. My Blness may not be as bad as we first thought, and if I get the

New Hybrid

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when a

year's Ketzer Grand Prax. Meanwhile, experiments are If we are no m being made with a BR31 engine available. Sang Kon and or

n Copper chassis. Alfred at owen, militonaire patron of the hound. It was tu não me put a BRA team. has loaned two BRM enpne z a Coopeo sinna ezgincs for this purpose one) to give La sped up wwwth s for practice runs, one for rae- exceCent Bandating

London Expoma Semine

all-cler I shall carry un with the Vanwalls where I left off. ling.

***The cars are not being will remain

broken up. They

In my garage."

Modifications New Zealand Chooses

In fact, Vandervell is carry- ing out modifications to Ave Vanwalls. Scores of requests lo |buy his world-beating machines --mast of them from Ameri- cans have been turned down,

Ir it ia physically [00- sule, it belleved Van- Servell will race his car's again. He gets

triemen- dous thru out of running

English Soccer Results

IN

Landon, Feb. 16. Results of tonight's English Foutball League matches were:-

West Ham

Stoke City

Division I

{ Blackpool Division II

1 Ipswich Town & -Reuter.

CHESS NEWS

by LEONARD BARDEN Solution No. 5564: 1R-KS

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London Exprem Service.

Team For First Test

Against England

Wellington, Feb. 16.

Six players who toured England last year

the New Zealand 12 from whom the team will be easem to meet England in the first Test beginning 21 Christchurch on February 27.

They arc John Reid, the, Jack Dearch sie were 3 captain, Bert Sutclife, A. Moit, the inter-clamaume anatusted, R. W. Blair. E. C. Petrie and Es Sami bet gan 3. T. Sparling The rest o

MGare Ban Beem tened the tena is B. A. Bolton, J. W. Test endlat before, ind des Guy, R. Harris, K. W. Hurry acted at J. Legati and S. N. McGregor Twelfth man will be named later.

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Harris: who, opens for Auck- land, has been moderately suc- cssful in Plunket Shield games,, but had a poor game in the inter-island match which det today. He scored zero and 28- and must be considered fortunate to rain selection ahead of time for Canterbury's talented youngster, Sycoal.

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