1959-10-20 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1959.

Page! 7%

on the

ball

with Tom Finney

IF THE WELSH STAYED HOME WHAT A

TEAM THEY'D MAKE!

I was a long, long way from Ninian Park, Cardiff, last Saturday afternoon (October 17), but already I could picture the scene. the leeks, the singing of "Land of my Fathers" and "Sospan Fach." the packed stands and the Gallic fervour.

As soon as the crowd caught sight of the red jerseys of Wales coming out of the tunnel, the dams would break and no player who has ever received that welcoming roar is likely to forget.

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To eight of last Saturday's ¦ It always

little a The other new arrival being Welsh team, this would be aironical that most of these play- hailed by the Welsh in Swanse

Church. In- welcome home. For Wales has ers left Woles so that they could centre-half Mel

that CITIS for play a figher gradle of foot-evitably become a breeding ground the clubs of the English League, ball whereas if they had all fresh candidate for stardom

stayed they would have prob- compared to John Charles, but ably been members of one of there is good reason liege, the strongest club sides in! Europe.

Since the war, there has bren

stendly stream of falent comlug from the west. The Welsh stars have become exiles from their native land. This I am sure is one of the reasons why Wales, despite its footballing giants, has yet to play a really dominant role

in world football.

Glitter

aur

has had some great mu- It

#ally it but they short-lived and leave a sense of frustration behind them

Wales desperately needs eful powerful enough to keep. ber talent at home. The rise of! Swansa, Cardif or Newport Welsh might well transform fotball. Her rugby side gained its strength by being founded en one or two clubs and the sne

fat could apply to her secre tunes.

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GETTING INTO THE SWING-

CAS

Florain Camathins, of Switzerland, the Continent's top "chalr" driver, swings round a bend at Brands Hatch, Kent track on a 492 BMW, while his passenger, II. Cecco, leans out to keep the balance, in the Three-Wheeler scratch race up to 1,200ce last week.

Camathias came second, beaten by W. G. Boddica (passenger W. Cunning) riding a 499 Norton/Wats. — Reuterphoto.

Biggest loss tu Wales, of Was that of John course. Charles.

Unter

the Juventus banner, John seemed to be play- in fewer and fewer game for joined the same, club and rises again, we will see the high

his country.

They look alike... Mei is a husky six-footer.. went 10 the same school both cap-

Cardif tained the

I still believe that if Welsh Youth team!

ani promise of Welsh soccer fulfilled. were close friends. Nat. naturally Mel, who is the youn-

No tada cin afford to lose him,ger of the two, based his game for he is a match-winner in any

in that of Big Jolni, company.

But perhaps the most strik ing feature of modern-day Welsh Football is that, despite continual drift into the English League, the flow of talent keeps on coming.

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Battle Of Exiles

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The trene Cardut crate- forward Graham Moue is al- ready being describer

in the Ford accessor Charles is of great leaders.

I am told that he is fast and) clusive with

defences.

The problems of the Welsh are, of course, shared by the Scots and the Irish, in fuct it's almost a rarily nowadays for an Irish League player to ap- Dear

the

alde. national Even the glamour of Scottish and clubs Buch as Rangers Celtie seem unable to offset of. advantages the financial English foolball and more and of their internationals more Keem to be heading south.

Is this inevitabic?

hatiles between

And will home the

a real fair toountries eventually be taped spotting the weak links in rival entirely between exiles from the English League? There is a that lack very real possibility of finances cuuld one day bring this about, but for the sake of fobibal: hope

I International

Just imagine the glitter of a club like Swansea. If it funt hevn able to keep top-liners Fuch as Mel and John Charles. Jack Kelsen. hor Allchurch. Arteady several England clubs Terry Medizin. CHA Joncs are interested in him and Ninian Park fons must be. wondering What and Trevor Ford, wonderful basis on which to whether this is one more play- build a national side.

er they will be losing.

FOUR D. JONES

FROM THE WHOOPING AND HOLLERING... GOMES ANOTHER KIND

OF HOOD

MY HOOP!

MY HOOP! COM

THE HOOR OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION ROLLS DOWN TOWARDS THE CANAL WITH FOURD JONER IN HOT PURSANTI

HEY!!

FERDINAND

NANCY

NANCY--- WHERE'S MY SEWING BASKET ?

BRICK BRADFORD

THE TRIAL OPENS... THE CHARGES AGAINST BRICK ARE 2BAD...THE KEY WITNESSES AGAINST BRICK ARE CALLED TO THE STAND..

AND THAT 18 YOUR STORY, CAPTAIN?

YES,GIR

not,

BUT ALL TOO LATE...

IT'S UP THERE

ON THE MANTLE

OH MY GOSH! MY HOOPS GONE INTO THE RUDDY

ADUA

YOU SHOULDN'T POINT --- IT'S NOT

LADY-LIKE

THE PUBLIC DEFENDER POES NOT CROSB-EXAMINE THE CAPTAIN, THEN

THE LIEUTENANT ENTERS THE WITNESS BOX NOT ONLY DID HE

KILL OUR PEOPLE ON THE MOON..BUT EN ROUTE

HERB HE TRIED TO

KILL ME!·

OFF THE CUFF

Don't be surprised if Arsenal goalkeeper JACK KELSEY eventually re- turns to his native Swan- вед

one

* * * Middlesbrough and Eng- land centre-forward BRIAN CLOUGH is young player with no with to buy a car. He is worried that would make him lazy.

* *

**

I hear that Bolton Rre top-flight looking for centre-forward to under- study their famous leader NAT LOFTHOUSE.

(All Rights Reserved)

by MADDOCKS

HONESTLY, THE

THINGS I HAYE

TO DO IN THIS DERN STRIP.

By Mik

F

By Ernie Bushrailler

BUT I WAS POINTING WITH MY LADY-FINGER

DON'T YOU EVER THINK OF OBJECTING TO ANYTHING? HE 16 STATING HIS OPINION,

NOT FACT!

By Paul Norris

"THE THOUGHT HAS OCCURRED TO ME!

HOWEVER, THIS WITNUBE IS EO ARTICULATE IT WOULD BEOM A SHAME TO INTERRUPT HIM) ·

FAMOUS SPORTS STARS

I HAVE MET

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By ARCHIE QUICK

Tony Fat's

Fat's Boxing

Bandits Face The

Clean-Up

K.O.

By DESMOND HACKETT

The New York State Athletic Commission has issued the latest blast in their gang-busting boxing probe when they ordered Cus D'Amato to show cause why he should not be sacked from the fight game.

manager

Gravel-voiced, gabby D'Amato, of ex-world heavy- weight champlan Floyd Patter- son, faces chörges of misconduct along with Rosensohn Enter- prises

Inc., And Wililom Rosensohn who promoted the Patterson - Ingemar Johansson | fight in New York last June.

The three ate demanded to show causes why their Beences should not be revoked,

body out of Salerno's-hearing distance. Tony la sensitive about his 5ft Gin which pand over 17st....

Laat week's

ex-

repori puts tho

finger on Chorles Antenucci. He has been borned from all boxing,

right down to attending nighis.,

This was the little old man I knew CG Charley Black. He beamed through his thick-

rimmed glasses, never removed grey triby

A the commisalon relent- | his brosd-brimmed

lessly unfolded ita report we as he moved zanably round zol a horrific story that makes the fight parishes of America. gangster novels and TV horror shows kid stuff, at only for Juvenile consump- tion.

The

tough

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Cheerful

He could afford to be chcorful any-

Charley Black. because where there was light cosh you would find his podgy hands deep

commission, la terms, criticised the part in the promotion played by Толу Salerno, the man the Com In the box-office. mission described as "a widely known racketeer and under-beating-up, or a mob take-cver world figure."

This was the mysterious Mr X who was the gun law behind the championship buttle. This. Is the flabby-jowled, cold-eyed little barrel-shaped citizen who Is No. 4817058 in the Fredra dossier on gangsters.

This ruthless, thin-lipped, top) mobster rose to be bassman from the ranks of the notorious

East

It is a long haul from a coffee house in Oxford's 102nd Street gang from

High Street to the House of Commons, butį Chris Chataway has made it in record time-- as one would expect from such a runner!

krs! met the flame-headed j Chris when he was Secretary of the Oxford University Athletic Union, post which called upon

hlm to

There is a gangster, a gun, a

in almost every other paragraph in the 3,000 solemn words Issued Athletic Com- by the Sinte mission.

The probe goes on. There will be Slate legislature to control teences to operate in the Fold rush regions of cinema, television, and cost- to-coast commercial aloti,

televi-

Harlem.

Sensitive

This is where the gonsters battle for the million-dollar pick- ings which go with every big fight.

ilis

ever loving

buddies

Respectable citizens and sports stepped from the Debrett of heroes have been produced as OUAU, but, in a short yearSing Sing and Meatraz.

front men. Now it looks as or two on the same

Imex

They included Frankie Carbo, though the police will land a Road track he and Chataway whose dark record Includes mere knock-out against these fight were destined to make world make the

athletic history. catering arrangements after the Varsity AAA match at Iley Road. So it was in a tear-room up an alley off Oxford's picturesque "High" that originally came into con- tact with the cheerful character. So contrasting was the atald. tbouzlífα) President of

SHEAFFERS

"SNORKEL"

Skrip

PENS

Skrip

WRITING FUND

Bachelors prefer

SWISSAIR

THE AIRLINE OF SWITZERLAND

the

Four-Minute Mile

than one indictment for murder, racketeers. "Trigger" Mike Coppola, Jimany "Blue Eyes Alo and hoods like Joe Massey and Joe "Scarface" Bommarllo who are reled

But there is still a bloody I and rugged battle ahead. know these grafting gangsters

soft-shoo out of the trade and leave it whiter than white.

-{London Express Servier).

For he was none other than villains even in the skulduggery 100 well to be kidded they will Roger Bannister, who, with the of rogues. help of Chris and two other Dark Blues, crashed through the As the commission dug deeper barrier of the Four Minute Mile | into this vesspit of boxing ban- -the Everest of athletic schleve- ditry, arrests were made ment which made global front Carbo, his servite sidekick page news,

Before that, however, Chris had to do his National Service, and he did it in the Gunners. On a rain-soaked track at Aldershot, ay сп RA second lieutenant, he

the Army Win mile championship in record Ume, and later, müd-bespattered at Uxbridge, he set up new Agures for the Inter-Services mile.

His ret venture into com- merce was with a stcut brewery, but, with polities as his goal, he

pr

Blinky Palermo, Q strong-arm man Joe Siea, and Lou Dragna, top ranmor should it be low an underworld Lis Ange- les.

But no one has yet caught up with Mr X. Salerno, who ly known as Tony Fat by any-

Sports Diary

Interport

TO-DAY

Gall

Golf: 11ongkak

Tennis

soon drifted into a new voention | Singapors at Faniing, 9.15 alin. -Television commentating-and made a roaring success of it.

Colony Hard Court Championship at CRC, 8.30 p.m.

TO-MORROW

Soccer

Il Division: Potles v Kitchee at RK Bledum, 5 p.m.

Tennis

CHESS

By LEONARD BARDEN

י;

& MAM

Here is # position from actual play: White to move and

Ile travelled the world getting facts and interviews, and I often wonder if, when he visited the Sudan, be thought back upon the first steps he took upon the athle Colony Hard Court Championship wins tic ladder of fame in Kharat CRC. 6.30 p.m. toum. For it W there, where his father was station- ed, that he began training in earnest for distance races by encircling Gordon Square.

No Cross-Bencher

Now he is in the House of Commons as Conservative Mem- ber of Parliament for the Lon- don Borough of North Lewisham whore he turned # Labour majority of 1,110 at the 1957 by-election into Tory gain with majority of 4,613.

Educated at Sherborno and Magdalen he is still only 20 years old-so there may be more records still ahead for him. cannot imagine him being con- tent to be a cross-bencher and

the more vote in Divisions. He has imprinted his Hvely personally into every- thing he has attempted, so there should be more nyörids for Im

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Surrey Draw With Rhodesia

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Replying to Rhodesia's frat fanings total of 321, the English county side, dinsized for 75 in the first Innings, took their övernight fotal of 120 for no wicket to 800 all out today. 1. Lett. 90 minutes' in which to score: 135 for victory, Rhodesia haď míode "68, for thres- when play ended-China Mall Specialı,

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