1959-10-27 — Page 7

May Tells Tour Men

'Get Fit'

By FRANK ROSTRON Peter May, England's cricket captain, has written per- sonal "get fit, please" let- ters to each of the 14: members of his MCC team fa tour the West Indies this winter.

And May is selling them Jath example by running sound the full at the back

his of

now Crmligh (Surey) home every night.

ju

of

The

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“Up to now I've not full up to training becouse weakening effects operation." Muy told me. "I am adding the team to keep in training with a view to stepping

บ tour preparations month."

next

Tout manager Walter Robin, himself a great toess exposent England in his Middlesex and caplaincy days, said:-

"Peter wist to round this has warning because this tour extra problem, especially for the fast bowlers.

"We trugl be match Bt as soon as we arrive.

seat her.

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1959.

DOHERTY, DOUBLE-CRISIS MANAGER, ISN'T WORRIED

'My Players Have Been Bitten By A Bug'

It was one of the most extraordinary spectacles have seen in sport. . . .As the referee's whistle shrilled, the and of the game, a hordo of Irish supporters roced wildly across Wembley's sacred turf. Shouting and cheering, the Celtic wave reached Danny Blanch- flower and his men....then, picking them up like green feathers, the half-hysterical fans chaired their heroes off the field..:.

That

was Iwo усата when, for the Arst time in 30 years, Northern Irrland beal England 3-2,

Balamid all the uproar

By

ALAN HOBY

that flamed through Wembley dent? A Doherty fearful of the Stadium that #flernoon

man parked unnoticed.

unc

future?

NOT AT ALL. Rover, a

sage-looking, nine- fox terrier from

Down

"That was the grand architect year-old

of it all, the fiery tribal leader Doherty's native Co. who had made this sensational | Peter was born in the village of victory „possible–P E TER Magherafelt, son of an Irish DOHERTY.

saddler-wogged his tall polite-

By whatever yard-stick you fly, judge him, Deherly is a giant- "You cou talk in front of

01/

Li personality plus) in triplicate. As a clarsle inside forward he was Doherty the Dazzler — copper-haired genius who won 17 cape, a Cup medal and League Championship medal.

As leam manager Northern

nist Trash, he pep-talked them into beating: England, but he piloted them to champion- the home countries ship, as well as the World Cup quarter-finals last year.

The only

Champion Of Youth

AAIKYTOS S

Į

him." Doherty went on. "He's

my best pal. He often watches

City's games with me."

I looked at Rover. Unwaver. ingly Rover stared right back- and I switched to hin master.

What's Wrong?

"What exactly La TETONA. Pere I asked.

"The

have been players bitten by the bug." replied this Irishman who

was a bus con-

ductor working for his uncle at 15.

Finally, as club manager of

"The bug?" 1 repeated, "What Doncaster and now Bristol City, | bug?" ~~~ Peter Doherty has never ceased.

"Lack 11f crndence," to be an inspirational champion said, "It's a dipense. A tex "We face not only the proof youth--young men like Alick fatures and creeps and Tem of going from mudwinter to | Jeffrey unu kre se tragically spreads through a club until t

broke a leg.

is a nightmare. Today, however,

"You can have all the ability. suddenly seems to have turned but if

you lose your con- sour in Peter. Suddenly, he la fldener. "Doherty shrugged In trouble-double trouble, his shoulders expressively,

"It's the human element. It's unpredictable. You can plot and plom, but it's as Stan Cullis said recently, You can't turn this game on and off like

HANDICAP

There is also the handicap of playing our Arst match Argairast Windward Islanda in Grenada on matting and then

reverting to grass for only six xlayır cricket before. the first of the

Test ca Jo- six-day

ry C In Barbados.

We have vin had to take into account hurricane and

cyclone seasuns.

"For instance, because of persible weather disturbances, the nates Bed for the Fourth Test in British Golana and the Trindad are inter- Ik in changeable.

The only answer is to arrive fit beforehand and, as Peter lalis sugarsted, start Krutly

To the rumour-mongers who nay Muy will be too I to tour.

and may even retire soon, I ADY!

Puler very plainly is back on 110 kh m wants

England's Jirst WINNING cricket leader in the Caribbean.

FA-League

Feud Will

Come To

A

Head

Ha club huddles nervously near the foot of Division 11.

Ireland-the team he built recently crashed 4-0 to the Scots.

instead of the sumbit. Peleg | tap.*") now occupies a crisis spol and last week I went to Bristol 10 And out why.

What die Bed? A Doherty depressed, dismayed, despon-

FOUR

D

WELL, I MUST SAY ITS NICE TO HAVE COMPANY... SIT DOWN,ILL MAKE YOU A CUP OF

TEA...

FERD'NAND

H

2

1 said; ' “You've had fabulous career, Peter. As a footballer you turned out for 14 clubs, either as a regular player or a guest. You also

JONES

... NOW, TELL ME WHAT BRINGS YOU ON THIS LONELY MOUNTAIN TOR?

you

know all about the pitfalls of mutogement. Would you say

time this is the worst have ever had?” "No," said

Doherty

Doherty. "When

I first cume here, Bristol City were in just as bad a position. Naturally we are anxious, but we shall rise again-just as Ire- land will."

leaned forward: "You've got to remember a manager is only as surecsiful us his last game. In the old days & team could take a bid- Int and it would not be branded a disaster.

"But

today

success

that

1s everything. The public and Press-re far more critical. I'm not complaining. It's the natural Law of change.

Peter Doherty, of course, is a player's man. As a star who, in his own words, was once transferred "lke a bale merchandise," he always been and always will be,

For, despite his many gliter ing triumphs, Peter hos an

I'VE JUSṬARRIVED. I'M AFRAID YOU (WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND

TOLD

YOU...

WHAT ARE You Pell

UP HERE?

WHAT?

known bitter disappointment.

The ending of Alick Jeffrey's career upset him far more that people will ever know....

TALKING RUGBY

ROY MCKELVIE seans the brilliant array of British Rugby talent playing in the recent Twickenham Jubilee match... and from the thirty names picks his

FOUR IMMORTALS

The score, six all. Time was up, except for those few seconds a referee can add to make up for injury stoppages. England, the British chain- pions, had been without their fly-half, Horrocks - Taylor, for three quarters of the match. They had moved Butterfield up to fly-half and taken Robbins out of the pack to play centre.

A line-out 25 yards from the Australian goal-line offered the barest of chances and those in the West Stand, better than any other spectators in the ground, saw that pasty-faced, often brittle, and always tem- peramentally artistic England wing, Peter Jackson,

Jackson, virtually shut in by his own side as much as by

e opponents, set off on Hyrating course. He jinked and ide-stepped past Lenchan full-back Curley, and Bnally past his despairing but very laugh opposite number, Phelps,

to score in the coincs.

Memorable

be

Thus England had won by the skin of their teeth, and whle nearly 10,000 spectators were still roaring their heads off there was hardly time for the kick. Time was up. Remember this match? Played on February 1, 1957, be tween England and Australiu. 11 Then there was that fare-up produced, in my opinion, the scored ni at Doncaster which ended in most memorable try Doherty-no yepphut yes-man Twickenham since the war and

musi

one of the for What leaving the club angrily

greatest ever. good.

Peter Jackson, now 30 and unrecognised as a possible in- Peter was also upset by the ternational until he was pret 23, barsh life ban which the Foot-is to me one of the men on the ball League slapped on John field! at Twickenham when Crossan Inst

and season-after the England

Wales played Bristol City boss had signed Scotlend and Ireland in the Cruesno from Coleraine,

be He Jubilee match, who will unother was furious, but what could he talked about in do?

years. Just now they star But the bounding, 46-year-old folk about Adrian Steep. Doherty has brushed aside all these setbacks like the fighter i Not His Fault

For his supreme quality when is that he never knows the battle is lost.

he is.

Furious

...

50

In picking an all-time' Eng- lend XV a good many, would AND THAT'S WHY I BE-give the right-wing position to LIEVE HIM WHEN HE SAYS: Jacitson, who can run through DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME the eye of a needle and has that OR BRISTOL. WE'LI. BE phenomenal knack of being cble BACK."

|to wrong-feet elme:t Jieem.

--/London Extreur Service).

by MADDOCKS

I'M AM ASTRONOMER..

I AM STUDYING THE MOON IT'S BEEN ACTING RATHER STRANGELY THESE DAST

FEW WOONCE.

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

YOU SAID THE BLONDE NEXT DOOR HAD BLACK ROOTS

SHEAFFER'S "SNORKEL

Gardeners prefer

an entire

SWISSAIR

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ROWNTREE'S

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The

By ROY PESKETT

bitter FA Football League feud, growing every day, is likely to come to o head whon represen- tatives of the two bodies who make up the joint committee meet later thin month.

The clash will come over a blunt demand by the League that in future all international matches shall take place in mid-work-and Saturday be left open for League guntes.

The FA will light this, wi only for themselves but behalf of the FA's of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

WELSH PLEA

DI

atte

In the CRSC of Wales Ireland particularly the mujor portion of their Incomes comu from International gamics.

A change from "Saturday, to mid-week would slash inter- national match takings.

This is what was behind the plea mudo on Saturday at the pre-international lunch

In

Cardiff by Mr Milwyn Jenkins, chainnan of the Welsh FÁ.

Sports Diary

TO-DAY Stating

Entries For Third, Race Meeting oluso at noon.

Dadminton

Men's "C" Doubler: St Stephen's Y CCC. Recreto v India Club,

v St Stephen's, Nav Bharat v СУМСА

Colony Hard Court Walla st CAC, $30 p.m.

'TO-MORROW

Teanis

Fresentation of prizes

Recreation Club 7.30 p/m.

Calony Schoolboys C'èsip at CRC,

1.20 p.m.

VANCY

BRICK BRADFORD

ILL SUBMIT TO THE LIE DETECTOR IF YOU AGREE TO

FRES PAM!

CHE WON'T BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL.

THE STATE HAB BROUGHT CHARONES AGAINST YOU, NOT,

HER]

NOT A BIT DIFFERENT FROM OUR

TREE

YOU'RE WRONG, AUNT FRITZI---

THEY'RE BROWN

BRICK IS TAKEN TO THE HALL. OF JUSTICE WHERE HE IS PLACED IN THE LIE DETECTOR C

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By Paul Norris

THE

MILK CHOCOLATE THAT'S DIFFERENT!

TAN NO ANATOKAN

but Munan qarainen on

San Miguel

What of the other 29 young and his country have not scored men in this Jubilee showplace? a polni against England since

become he has been on the leam. How many will

That has not been his fault, immortals?

Surely Tony O'Reilly must attain this status.

Mike Departed

But in January 1950, in a

Only 23. "Red" O'Reilly, CYL Zin. and a bit, with red, match, to celebrate Dublin's new crinkly, girly hair and a mag-Lansdogos - mad ground, nificent physique, has played O'Reilly scored two tries and made third for Ireland and 21 lmes for Irelan

Scotland against England and Wales.

JACKSON...can wrong-

foot almost an entire team

O'REILLY... prolific scorer of tries

RHYS WILLIAMS

master in the line-out

JEEPS... indestructiblo opportunist

He gave a superb performance of determined

thio running.

Then there Is l great Welsh forward, Rhys Willams,

time as a centre.

holder of 22 Welsh caps and a

captain

Ilkely

усог.

of Wales this

Twickenham: knows Rhys Williams, to the cost of its partiens. He $t wis who, with Russell Robins, in Janu- ary 1938, mode such a mess of the England forwards In the lines-out thot The England halves, Jeeps and M. J. K. Smith, were swamped.

Jeeps, the fourth and last of survived that my immortals, tousing. Mike Smith departed. from the England side.

Most recently Rhym WI- Kam. sandy-haired and fos- ing rome of it, helped the British Lions to win the last Test against New Zealand. The Lions were leading 9–0 and under tremendous pres-

sure,

Rhya Williams won the fast six-lines-out and New Zealand were held at bay.

They have always argued About Dickie Jeeps at Twicken- iam. Those who did not see him on lour in South Africa (before he was capped by Eng- land) or recently in New Zea- land have claimed that this in- destructible Htle fruil farmer from Cambridge was purely de- fensive.

Desperate

Yet without Jeep3 surely England would not have won the championship In 1857 and 1950? And when, in Dublin Just year. Jeep had to replace Stephen, Smith, his successor. who got flu, the Irish freely ad- mitted they had lost the match even before it began

My own great memory

of Jeeps will always be the Jehannesburg Test between the Lions and Springboks in 1055.

When seven Lions forwards I faced eight glant Springboks In

the final desperzic moments | Jeeps did his shure, and on one octision went straight between the legs of Chris Koch and

| Salty du Rand with the ball.

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