1959-09-03 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1959.

THE ELUSIVE CHAMPIONSHIP

Brabham And Brooks Have Best Chances To Win

World Driving

Driving Title

By STIRLING MOSS

Although my run of bad luck onded whon I won the Portuguese Grand Prix last Sunday, I am afaid there is very little hope of my win ning, the World Championship this your.

In fact the total points given in the newspapers (Brabham 27; Brooks 23, Moss 172) are slightly optimistic, from my point of view, because they merely represent the gross total each of us has scored to date.

Wind spotted by

Chinetti, who runs the North American Tucing and team, and given a chance at Le

Mans last year.

For the Cimraplonship only more about a smaller cor. the best Ave results count. I resistance is getting increasing

131 out that if eitherly important design, ro works Brooks or Brubliam won both therefore the frontal area of a remaining races and got the eur must be reduced as much as fastest have 44 points.

possible. laps they would each

The maximum I can hope for, by two wing and fastest laps, is 34 points.

Of course either Brooks or Brabham may fail to Bnish or end low down in the re- maining races, but obviously both the chances of their doing so are remote, and, lo my mind Brooks in the myst

Ilkely winner of the Italian

Grand Prix sext Sunday.

But if there is this absence of real top-grade drivers, prople that mean say to me, don't

motor racing isn't what it was? I don't think so for a moment.

Though AA have just W number of great drivers by death or retirement there is some excellent new talent coming up which only needs more experience.

Impressive

Te had his first Grand Prix drive at Rheims this year and put up a very impressive per- formance. To me he looks ex- tremely fast and very safe. Yet he has had probably less than two dozen major races In the last three years.

The other young driver 1

Promising Youngsters should like to pick out is Chris

1 Häve written before about Bristow,

He is only twenty-

He was given his

The American Grand Prix, the the promising young men from one but has been driving for first ever under our formulu, America Phil Hill,

Carrell some years. said to be definitely taking place, Shelby and Masten

Gregory first big chance his season by but not everyone is absolutely I'd like to mention another

the British Racing Partnership. condent Ut it wilt, ir i

In Chair Comper- doesn't, of course I have no who, I think, may one day beat which is rim by my father and

them all. He is Dan Gurney a manager.

this

be had Borgward chance at all

усат Call. | twenty-seven-year-old

some wonderful succEM.

first in the Formula 2 Was section of the British Grand Prix, and won the John Davy Hatch the nt Brand's Trophy

after fabulous other week, start, beating such old hands Brabham nad Salvadori.

Very

Good Excuse

fornia.

He is very tall, with a crew and locks like a racing He has not yet had very

AUSTRALIA'S RUGBY CAPTAIN WAS A BRITISH CITIZEN !

Sydney, Sept. 3. Until yesterday afternoon Australia's rugby league team Lo tour Britain the "Kangamos" -- had a subject of Great Britain as their cap- Lain.

Then. In 2 swift change-of- citizenship ceremony, full-back Keith Barnes became Australian,

The surprise discovery

came to Australia with his parents 12 years aqu. Barncm, 24, silil relatns « alight

melodious Welsh accent. Passport oficials completed his

transfer of düftenship

10 minutes yesterday,

Just

on the

ball

with Tom Finney

Page 74.

Jimmy Greaves Has A Great Future-If His Fans Don't Destroy

Him

Australian Rugby League Board Spike-haired Jimmy Gredves sprints through the Peruvian

of Control weretary Harold Matthews sald⚫ today?

don't know what England would have thought about 1 with a citizen that

fain as captain of the Kan-

Barnes was not an Australian ellisen came when he applied

of Great Brt-

for Ня Dassport yesterday. "Anyway, Kelih Barnce

Born in Wales, he had not had his citizenship allered when he

now

as Australian."-China Mall Special,

Contractor Gets His

1,000 Runs In Hastings

Festival Match

Hastings, Sept. 3.

Nari Contractor, the Indian opening batsman who has suffered considerably through injury this season, came into his own at the Hastings Festival in making his first 1,000 runs of the

season.

A.E.R.

with Gilligan's XI, West Indians Frank Worrell, and how- Garfield Sobers sill in, ever, finished the day 203 runs ahead with eight secunxi innings wickets in hands for no wicket

Indans, He has his Arst Formula 1

overnight, were all out for 285 race at Oulton Park on Septem- in reply to Gilligans X's frst innings of 375 and Gilligan's XI ber 20 and I shall be very

Some people think it must be cut,

to driver. mu depressing for have been runner-up to the much experience. He was in Watch Champion four times Korea with the 8th U.S. Army from 1957-54 and his first real already. Naturally it ; but It gives me a good excuse to enn-cer was a second-hand Triumph Thue next year, While the T2 which he bought in Cktober, Championship cludes me I sul 1955, with 1,800 miles on the

| clock. have something to Bght for

After some suecers with I suppose the general matorit this he bought a 1,600 Porsche interested to see how he gets on.had scored 113 for two wickets

But before this, he has a zetory Two years must be very muzled by the on be purchase.

the Tourist bought an-drive in a Porsche. continunt trouble have beenago he sold it and having with my gear-box. The other by the sarne method. The Trophy next Saturday.

There is nothing wrong with explanation is this. Last year, monthly instalments were pretty when Rob Walker asked me to high, and he has a wife and twee the sport when there are excit drive his car, we decided that its children; but he survived some ing young drivers

was coming along. and eventually

transmission

then fude-how, was quote for the pimpose. We therefore asked a very clever In called Cololt (who used; to work for Moserati) to design us an entirely new Ave-peed

gen-box

this year.

to go in the Cooper

This he did, but the gear-box

broken We

hps continuously

have been putting it town 8001 season to tature

of the to-

ruce, but we Row feel that the gets may have to be cut again. Last week in Portugal we had not had time to have a new set i cut; so we changed the ball-race for roller-race and hoped for the best.

In Tact held out, but I was extremely anxious-about

it throughout the race.

still

have faith

Colotti'ki design and I am hoping to have new gears cat to s speelfications in time for the Halian Grand Prix.

Tribute

This leads me to pay tribute once again to the phenomenal Climax engine which powers my Couper. With all the trouble I have had this year the Climax engine has never let me down. It has fantastic torque, which gives it tremendous power in the Jower ranges, This characteristic was instrumental in helping me save my gearbox in my last race. I eculd pull away from 3,400 revs In fourth geor-an Al- believable performance from a racing engine.

The staggering success of the Coopers this season has led same people to suggest that they are taking the glamour away from motor-racing. Because they are relatively small, the i argument goes, they don't have the glamour of the big Formala I machines Vonwalls and Ferraris, or to go back further in history, the Mercedes-Benz and Alfa Romeos,

I do see this point of view.

I must Bay I like big cars, but against this, the most in- portant element in motorfar is competition.

There is not much fun in a procession, zuch as we used to the Mercedes-Benz

get when

were so superior that they led all the other

cats by several miles.

Not Inferior ...

The point is that the bigger Formulu I car, like the Ferrari or Vanwall, a very much more diMcult to drive than the Corper. It is rather like the difference between riding a thoroughbred horse and a pany. As it happens there is a dearth of experienced drivers today capable of handling the really big Grand Prix car. But quite a ict of drivers can handle the Cooper, and this gives even and competitive racing which seems to me the heart of the sport.

I don't mean to imply by all this that the Cooper is inferior to the Ferrari or Vanwall, Fer

from it. It is not quite so fast as the Ferrari, but it makes up for this deficiency In nood holding. Another point-even it there was no Cocper wo should be thinking more and

FOUR D. JONES

1J2LP46

SHEENICI STRIPE FOOT OIL, TVE HAD EHOUGH OF 13. 65 T*

ME BACK TO THR

WEST

YIPEGEL HERE

WE SA OMÁN MOOR

DO YOUR BEST, LET US CEE SOME

COWBOYS

FERDINAND

NANCY

like these

Linued cautiously until after lunch when he displayed skill and power in a series of fine strokes.

He hit 19 fours during hits stay of 34 hours before being caught by Don Carr in the clips.

defence, glides the ball into the net and hears the crowd choor as if he were a hometown boy.

That moment of triumph was submerged amid the general

gloom of England's South American tour.

But I believe that this was the beginning of an international career which will write an important page in English and maybe world football.

It is important for England's

sake that he doen. But will his fans give him that chance?

For ID-year-old Jimmy that almost Latin brand of bell Greaves is not just nwther control, promising arrival. If allowed He has, of course, his crilics to mature naturally, he has the Hoven't we att? Criticlan s

If they remember he is all inborn talent to become a great one of the hallmarks of fame. only on the brink of his career player.

The anti-Greaves brigade un don't expect too much, too claim that he doesn't do soon.

I have spoken to his team- males on the summer tour and they all tell the rame story,

Basic Genius

then Jimmy will

choush work, that he allows climb the Soccer heights, the other forwards to do, the work and then pouches the zoals.

This accusation could be The uphill glit, the torrid levelica ngainst nearly nil the heat and the fervent Bouth gwne's opportunists-but It's American fans all combined very seldom true, to fanfie the baala renfus' which lles inside this Chetaes idol.

I had the opportunity at Stamford Bridge recently to form my own opinion of the how Jimmy Greaves when he

An inside-forward of Jimmy's calibre is intelligent enough to realise he can't hope to play full-out for 90 minutes without running himself to a standstill.

Vital Moment

out of

he

the

hit a hat-trick against Preston. Instead he prefers to hold a Although our descence was little tu reserve and wait for watching him closely, he made the vital moment to strike. This the art of goal-scoring look is one of the reasons why tiniple with his first two, thenms so often been fresh enough completed his tally with a long to snatch a match

down there when all seemed lost. almost straight run middle.

This tendency to raise and lower the pace of one's game is a thing shared by nearly all the topliners I've known. How often does опе Blandoy Matthews

Hallmark Of Fame

When we lined up again, the

appinucting.

Contractor was the fourth Indian, not counting Abbas Al Baig, to reach 1,000 tuns this season. He was given fine sup- in their second innings between

still a fourth-wicket stand crowd were tea and the close on the second port in

Borde I was well-deserved applause of 05 by Chandrakant day

The match ends tomorrow.

Contractor, who had made 24 in an hour yesterday, con-

FOUR D. JONISCHE NOT CHINESE SUMMER DAY...

CREEPOUT

MAKES HIS IDEST FROM

TIBET, IN HOPE THAT HR WILL RETURN TO

HIS HOMETOWN

BUZZARDS CREEK...

IT ALL BEGAN ONE

DAY. WHEN, AS SHERIFF

OF THIS TOWN, JONES

WAS LAZILY WATCHING

THE FULL SCALPSE OF THE SUN, WHEN THE BLACK SPOT THAT COVERS TH

SUN SLIPPED FROM POSITION AND TELL DOWN TO EARTH AND CAME TO RESTS ON THE BRIN OF THE COWBOYS HAT THIS IS THE HOOP OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION

I HAVE

PRALE, PINER, PERFECT PENS

WHAT THE CHINESS. BLAZEŃ 15 GOING DHE

(36) and in a nith wicket stand and I was particularly im by Jaysing Ghorpade, who luftpressed with his ability to con 43 out of 88 in an hour.-Reuter. vert half-chances into goals and

by MADDOCKS

LIVE ARRIVER

IM BACK IN THE

WEST, I CAN

„SVELL IT_IN

THE AIR

OPEL

By Mik

A NEW

HOBBY---I'M

COLLECTING ANTIQUES

WHAT ANTIQUES HAVE YOU COLLECTED

SO FAR?

By Ernie Bushmiller

A HULA HOOP AND A

DAVEY

BRICK BRADFORD

PAH TREATS THE ORL'S INJURYLA

HER NAME IS LIDA, PAMI SHE ACCOMPANIED HER FATHER AND LIKAN TO ESTABLISH

A BASE ON THE MOON!

WHERE'S HEX FATHERS

MY FATHER WAS KILLED BY LIKAN! LIKAN

WOUNDED ME IN A

BATTLE OVER THE

RATIONS! BUT I LOCKED MYSELF IN THE TANKI

LIDA, HOW DID } YOU GET HERE? WHERE YOUR

SPACESHIP

CROCKETT,

CAP

WE CRASHED IN

THE MOUNTAINS NEAR AN OLD CRATERI WE GOT THE TANK AND SUPPLIES CUT THEN THE SHP BLEWDP/

By Paul Norris

THAT MUST HAVIS BEEN THIS ACTIVITY NEAR

ALPHONSUS CRATER THAT

WAB GEEN ON EARTHÌ WHAT ABOUT THE BIG DITCH YOU DUS OUT

*THERE1

SHEAFFER'S SNORKEL

FLY

WISSAIR

THE AIRUNE OF SWITZERLAND

ZA

AND

Follow

the leader.

ROWNTREE'S

DELICIOUS

SMARTIES

MILK CHOCOLATE BEANS

San Miguel

is out of this

World.

BCO

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clase had pass over the by-line? Di Stefano run an in- nccessary yardî

Or

To be of fult value to your side, you have to learn to pre- serve your strength.

Another reason, I've heurd suggested, why Jimmy Greaves won't stay at the top is the he's too small for the hurly- burly of international football.

Yet I am sure no one ever caid that for long about Scottish inside-forwards

Ilke Alex

James, Jimny Dunn or Billy Steele.

Real Threat

I am no ghnt myself, but I have never found luck of weight any real disadvantage in inter- national gamÇI, If you're un- ofraid, determined and good enough, you can survive in any company

No, the real threat to Jimmy Greaves' golden future doesn't came from his critica... but from his admirers.

He is, after all, only 19 and the age of soccer maturity les between 28 and 32. He is a topline performer, but his pesk Hes for ahead and he should continue improving for years.

Big Handicap

If they begin, however, to capeet wanders every time he kleks the ball, they will be helping to destroy him.

a

It's a big handicap for player of any age to know that his good games will be taken for granted and

his that only motivere performaner will raiso communi. At 19 1 cali Do crippling.

has a manager who understands Fortunately in Tel Druke he

your players better than most,

Perhaps the best guarantee for Jimmy Greaves' futura ilea He is rather within hielt, shy, very likenble and desperate- ly keen to learn.

It won't be his fault, it ho

falls.

OFF THE CUFF

Bir talking-point to Welsh football is whether DAVE BOWEN, manager of Fourth Division Northampton, will chosen to lend the national side against England,

I

hear that

international LIDDELL

Scoilish BILLY Liverpool

player for 21 years t

be rewarded with another benefit £1.000

whicht

will give him B

record total for Brillab football of £2,500,

Cardiff's tenaga centre- forward GRAHAM MOORE—a possible suc- cessor in the Trevor Ford- John Charles ine of in- ternational Bentor - kệ being closely watched by at least six clubs.

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