1959-09-29 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,

1959.

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British Boxing Quartet Reach HOW CAN THE SCOTS

The Top

For The Top Colony Swimming Championships

-BUT THE ODDS ARE AGAINST THEM

By GEORGE WHITING

Apologists for British boxing champions look like having two, possibly three, more opportunities for howling their cyes out between now and the good- will-to-all-men season of Christmas. On October 20, at Wembley, featherweight

Bobby Neill, miracle-man from the accident wards of Edinburgh, fights world champion Davey Moore, pride and joy of Springfield, Ohio.

It is an overweight argument, with Mr Moore's dollar-

I quote Me Sam Burns, munazer of Neill, Downes, and Bundry other knuckle- préserved attract

workers: elawas, but the holo- ONROE WBT be none the Jus

varefully

on that account,

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"Some of these critics

make "As sick" said Mr Burns. Moore. In fact, f'll ask him to In the first week in December, i knock Moore

right Into

your lightweight Dave

Charnier, " the battling boilermaker from Danford, rowa southpaw Arts at world champion Joe Brown in larger-than-life Houston, Texas,

Before the end of time your (says an interested party nuned Jacki Solomons) we may sec "Cowly" MeCormack or Terry Dowlies doing a little better against the iminartal Sugar Roy Hobinson than they didi ustalost each other in a nosy kind of argument al Tulay.

Wembley

Not-So-Hot

in to victorles whatsoever

Jast

for

Meuwhile Mr J. Solomons, į protector of the poor and pro- miner of the middling-to-rich, was being equally pointed about gagment. f the projected Mer Charnley, McCormack and/or Downes:

"You laughed at

Rankolah Turpin, you laughed at Freddie Mis when he fought boyd Marshal, and YALL ighed at hon Cuckell when e fought Freak Bell, accused Mr S. "t Turpin and Mills both won world titles, and Cockell earned a small fortune fighting Rocky Marchunn,

At the risk of being expired!

"Me, I never laugh at any- and piloried

$1 nitwit, aty e perially Dave Charnicy. wet blankel, # prasmist,

Why would I laugh at a boy doubting Thomas, a Jonuh, and

who's getting 20 per cent of a traitor to the cause. I offer the everything when he fights Joe

pinion

All that

the above Brown?" engagements are likely to result

It's all a See what 1 wat? que lion of warh, douch, or the British puellists concerned, emolument. And if the good old

outlook for The

the three boxing public, that never-failing coloured gents from the U.S.Amilch cow of the sporting world, I suggest, is not at all bad.

wants to watch International & Having watched Davey Moore | fights in which the underdee's | chop down a world champion-chance does not look so out-

5lp from Hogan Kid Bassey in well, let 'em.-London Express

Angetes. I hold the View Service.

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that he is very likely indeed to be similarly resourceful against Bobby Nell in London -- esperially if Robert happens to be in the not-so-hot form thal had his backers looking for the exis when he laboured without authority against Terry Spluks. Never having seen lightweight

Brown champion Joe

hay Juure provocative raiment than a dinner jacket, I woukl nut preum to forecast the exact GREGATE of his sareetan against Dave Charnley. But it seemAT reasonable to ruggest that fighting man who has plefended his world litle :ven times with- out defeat in the last three years is likely to start u moderately warm liviare in

title fight No. 8.

And if Charnley. 24 next munt, is paraded as a virile young southpaw storming the citadel of a doddering old man of 33, it could be point- el out that a similarly young and similarly unorthodox stripling, one Kenny Lane. cherished the same Illusion back In 1958, The illusion faded after 16 rounds.

As to the proposition that either "Cowboy" McCormack or Terry Downes has even a remote chance of winning the world middleweight title from Sugar Hay Robinson-well, ask any patron of the McCormack- Downes performance at Wemb ley recently.

No-Hopers

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And now, having expressed un honest if misguided opinion that Neill, Charnley McCormack and Downes are ne-hopers in the immediate world title context. I would like to mention that all four of them seem to me to be fully justified in having a vọ.

We

have

Boxing Board whose job I is to protec! the liver ond Umbs of over- umbitious levnce-holders. Any professional who wins a British champlonstitp la entitled to shoot for the highest honours of his calling. If he gets hurt; he can blame nobody but himself, or possibly, his manager-eelon of a pulsant breed that supplies 05 per cent of the talk for 25 per cent of the, purse-money.

HALF-CENTURY

IN 14 MINUTES

Johnnesburg, Sept. 28. Roy McLean, the South Afrin Tesi batsman, scored one of the fastest half-centuries of his career on Friday when ho reached 32 in 14 minutes.

Playing for R11 Invitation Spribat XI

Eric crains! Rywon's Calls, McLeon went on to make 03 in 10 minutes and help his side to win with

Avo minutes to spare,

McLean, who was in a hurry to catch a plane bark lo Durban, hika, six and nine four-

China Mail Special

The five-day Colony Swimming Championships began yesterday at the Victoria Park Pool with heats in three of the junior events. Although none of the standard times set by the HKASA was broken, the best times returned in two of the events bettered those of last year. These were in the Junior Women's 100 metres freestyle (1 min 24 secs by Gladys Su of CYMCA) and the Junior Men's 200 metres breaststroke (3 mins 1.2 secs by Mak Ho-yuen of South China).

the Júnior Men's 200

Photo shows the start of one of the heats in metres breaststroke.-China Mail Photo,

U.S. Olympic Star Arriving Tomorrow

Thr United States In- formation Services 24- nounced this morning that Charles L. Jenkins, winner of the 400 metres event in the 1956 Olympics, WLE arrive in Hongkong to- morrow morning by a PAA plane.

He is on a 6-9 months coaching and demonstration tour of the Far Esat. While in Hongkong he will con- duct a series of coaching lessons, and the programime will be worked out after is arrival,

FOUR D. JONES

YOU TWO NID BACK, TO THE PADDY. PADOY FIELDS

/ DOGS HE MEAN FIELDS, I'LL GET THIS LOT UNLOADED US TO START

WORK?

LOES

STIALIZ

FERDINAND

NANCY

HOLD THE V 'RE,

SLUGGO -- SOMEONE IS AT

THE DOOR

KNOCK

KNOCK

BRICK BRADFORD

U.K. Soccer Results

London, Sept. 28. Results of today's football matches were:

ENGLISH LEAGUE

Division IU

Accrington italifax

Mansel Shrewsbury Newport Trazanere Queen's Park

Steading

1 Brentford

Chester Southampton Bournemoutli Chesterfield Coventry

Division IV

Gateshead Alillwall

4

Barrow

2

Aldershol Northampton Rochdale GLASGOW CUP FINAL

Rangers

2 Portick Thistle i 'layed at Itampden Park)

The remainder of today's fixtures will be played this evening-Reuter,

ÜHINESE ONHARLIE ORGANIC&S THE UNLOADING OF THE SWIPED LOAD OF BRIGNS

" LEYS HAVE THESE

CASHORE, I WANT TO GET CRACKING ON THIS GREAT WALL BUILDING

LARK.

BMX

GREAT VAALL

YHAT WILL THEY THINK OF

NEXT,

GOOD

JUST A MORNING MINUTE,

SLUGGO-DO

MISTER

YOU THINK I'M PRETTY?

SURE

A SPACESHIP LANDS OWN THE MOCWV, / TH ARBA THAT WAS CLEARED BY

PEOPLE...

BRICK HURRIES BACK TO THE TANK

TO AROUSE PAM,

PAM!

The

MISS DAVE MACKAY?

By CAPEL KIRBY

London.

Hearta colleague John Carining being named in bis place tho Irish will have cause to rejoice, and none more so than Dave's club skipper, and deadly golfing rival, Danny Blanchflower.

If "Anti-Anglo" agitators have their way, the names of Dave Mackay (Spurs), Graham Leggat (Fulham), Bobby Collins (Everton), David Herd (Arsenal) and Bob McKinlay (Nottingham Forest) will be miss- ing from the Scottish team to play Ireland in Belfast on October 3. Whatever is in the minds of come South and not be affected the niggling rationalists VET by the extra opeed of English the Border. I say it will be Soccer. shour Insanity II Mackay is

Mackay hos ung those injury- guillotined.

Mackay, the player they said prone charges into the teeth of was too tough and too injury- his critics. There's nobody more nor по to justify the £90,000 fearless in the tackle,

it, Spurs paid for him to Hearts a tough, when they ask for

than the chunky lad from unquestionably bordering being just about the best left mining stock in the Edinburgh half-back in Europe, let alona area. Britain.

As for being fearless. I'll say

prono

ori

to

My advice to Scotland's attice- torn is name the beat regard- less. Do just that and they can't ignore Bob McKinley's claim to the centre-half-back berth any longer. He's the best in the country.

on

In fact, on current form, ho he is after hearing how he

Big-time Soccer is facing a would be a No. 1 selection for tackled a seething wasps' nest

ncer Crisis through an acute which was keeping Bill Brown's shortage of class fullbacks. Time any Football League team

WDE when

len-a- play Italy, France or any other two children cut of the garden.

they were country which lines up in the He had an eye closed by a sting,

penny. Today they are pricelcas proposed

the International but he went round the following end can be counted new inter-league competition.

day and finished the job.

fingers at one hand.

That's why there would be a wild rush to Yorkshire, headed Wherevor Mackay has played he has been voted' the main-

by London's big three, Chelsco, and apring of Spurs' success,

If Mackay In left out of Scot-Arsenal and. Spurs, if Hudders

steld on much the reason for it is that he is land's team — I'm' told there is

as whispered the only Scot I have known to a distinct possibility of his old their willingness to part with

is rated Ray Wilson who

Priceless

Ringmaster's

Wife

& normal married But I came to realise that Jack just isn't a mine o'clock to Ave man

Aller 14

and load evontful, travel- lled

years,

Ille?' beautiful Mre Gloria Kramer is the world's Irading authority on the plea- sures and trials of being the wife of an international tennis player.

"Sure it's fun," she says. "But draw- belleve me there arr backs. Do you know how much Jack was at home_last year? Just eight weeks." Her husband,

the Jack, is former Wimbledon champion who bosses the Kramer circus of professional players which has been appearing in London this week.

She

used says: "1

to say, "Why can't you stay at home

by MADDOCKS HELLO, THAT YOU AU? GOOKA) KIES VERY NICE DROP OF BRICK

YOU'VE GEMY ME,MATE, CAN YOU DO ME AMOTHER, LORD-118! JACKIE)) THE MERISHERY

BEAUTY

PRODU

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QUITE CO

STE GOING

Father Of Five

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For

"A man is only happy if he is

doing the job he loves. Jack that means tennis, and his kind of tenals means travelling all the time," Kramer,

* dollar- and a father of millionaire five sons, hing a big ranch- house in West Los Angeles with its own private canyon. He is primarily a businesāman these days and In the past the year he has played only occasional stand-in game at

SHEAFFERS

"SNORKEL

HO THUÊ

tr

PENS

By Mik

Skrip

WRITING THRO

Scholars prefer

his tournaments. Yet, at 30,

he is sull among the world's

len best players.

At Wembley last week he built

good judges throughout

by the

country as the perfect answer to England's left-back problem caused by the tragic loss Roger Byrne,

of

of

As there is le hope Huddersfield prejudicing their excellent promotion chances for less than £25,000 clubs seeking fullbacks have now switched their attention to Jim Humble, the 22-year-old Mansfield Town player who hails prolife

North-East

from thic

Soccer

nursery of Ashington.

Mansfield ausager Sam Weaver, of long throw-in fame, tells me that at least half-a- dozen First Division clubs have had Humble under review this cannot feel to season.

the business side of his tennis, Altendonte

up a 3-0 Arsi-sct lead against stylish 24-year-old Ken Rose- wall. Only lack of mobility caused him to be defeated B-6, 7-4. But. Kramer

satisfied with

If it came to a showdown Agures have dropped con- Chelsea would have the edge on elderably at Wembley and one

rivals because Sam Weaver sull reason must be the absence has a soft spot for his old club. of temperamental

"Pancho" Gonzales, stü!

nre per-

Ricardo Meanwhile, Chelsea

the severing with their experiment centre-forward in of converting

lion Tindall to the full-back division,

money-magnet

biggest world tennis.

Still 'Fouding'

Gonzales is still feuding with Kramer, who "suspended"

him for missing the recent Paris tournament. Meanwhile, Kromer could use a

Arsenal have studied Humble in action on several occasions. They might have made a bid last week but for the Mansfeld player having an indifferent

big new name and the only game when George Swindin watched him for the accord amateur worth signing on is

Olmedo

last Alex

cf

against Southend Peru, lime Olmedo, however, is proving, Monday.

of Stoke, Is Tony Allen, to be as lough a businesonan

Gonzales and 113

and another answer to the SOS for he

inquirers Kramer have failed to come full-backs, but to terms,

Ured of getting the brush of -London Express Sarple). from forthright Stoke City boss,

Frank Taylor.

THE OUTSIDER

Members of the softball team of Tolland County Gaol, Connec- ticut, will have to produce docu- ments proving they are convicts when they next play a match against nearby Middlesex County Gool.

sex

This has been announced by Mr Joseph Waist, high sheriff of the Middlesex Gaol, For after their last match--when Middle- were heavily defeated-t was found that Tolland's star player was not a prisoner but a warder.

And that's cheating, say the Middlesex convicts, Express Service,

London

Dre

English clubs hunting players in Scotland can keep away from Ary United,

A blg Newcastle effer for left winger Jim McGhee was turned down fat, Ayr intend to con- solidste in the First Division.

Rugby Defeat For Australians

York, Sept. 28.

Th louring Austrailah rugby league team were beaten by 47 points to 15 by Yorkshire bero today.

Yorkshire led 20-5 at half- time-Reuter.

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