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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1959.

BEATS

Team Puts Up The Poorest Display Ever Against A Foreign XI

By

VERNON MORGAN

London, Oct. 28.

Sweden became the second foreign team to beat England at home when they boat England by three goals to two today after trailing 0-1 at half-time.

It was the Swedes' first visit to Wembley.

The Swedes, World Cup Finalists, could not, however, claim the same prestige as did the other Wembley victors- Hungary, in 1954-as the performance put up by England It did not need much skill to beat today was pathetic.

them.

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FOOTBALLERS EARNS £1,000 A YEAR

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England, playing on a lovely

i pitch softened by overnight rain, had every opportunity to win but they threw wildly away numerous scoring opportunities.

off hi

Their goalkeeper. Eddle Hopkinson (Bolton Wan- derer",} WAN right tame, and his opposite num- ber, Bengt Nyholm, would probably have saved all three goals.

Hero of the game and the only clara player on the field - was Agne Simunsson, the 24- year-old Swedish centre- forward. He go the Recond and third goals of the match, in around 500 at the 53rd and 37th minutes, to

By ROY PESKETT

Nearly one in three footballers

least are earning over £1,000 a year. Yet the Professional Footballers Association is still determined to press for the abolition of the maximum wage when they meet the Football League next month.

ENGLAND

SPORTING SAM

3-2 FIFA Not To Intervene

by Reg. Wootton

lunden Express Service

32ND MEDIUM REGIMENT PROVIDE THE SURPRISE OF YESTERDAY'S RUGBY

By PAK

LO

The 32nd Medium Regiment sprang a major surprise over an unsuspect.

ing RAF XV at Kai Tak in one of yesterday's rugby games. After a series of indifferent matches the soldiers settled down with what will be, with only possible minor, changes, their team for the rest of the 35 points (four season, and ran off the field comfortable winners goals, five tries) to five points (one goal).

in the other gume on thr Kowloon dde

the Sappers "A" XV in a scrappy game in which the forwards

the played par, emerged the vic- major tors over RASC by 14 points (one goal two tries, one penalty goal) to five points (one

other

сап game was

that

their

the Gunners Thereafter

Their were never in trouble. three line attacked sterilly. and had they not been too koen and got ahead of them- BCITTE thus invitlar forward puses, the score would have been higher. This was only fanit Five minutes from halftime a yard scrum was ordered and from certainly

this column's the ball moved out swiftly to the who scored in point of view they can be writ-Meyrick

No conversion, 6-0. ten off as a team, having 'talled corner. to make a single appearance to date.

put Sweden into the lead aller John Connelly, the Burnley Koal). right-winger, had scored for celled by the 1 INF, so England in the eighth minute.

Right On Top

Outside-lef! Bengt Salomons- son made it 3-1 i the 15th

The

On the other side of the har-

weak team, were surprised ty Sai

whose Wan RAF Little threes played such a strong de. the Pollee five game that

I think the players will be unlucky in their demaute with a well-placed shot bour, Police, playing with their converted to make it 11-0.

mands. The League will tell the players that from the wing. while gates have dropped 500,000 this season: "YOU'VE never had it so good."

Oletal guros, known up to January 1, 1959, show that in

£150

benefits (maximum year for Best beneft, $200 for and subergnent bene-

the previous 12 months the total second

of players reviving

from basic earnings.

from 12 to 356,

Con Lats). had risen

The Extras

As that included only the Brut half of the 1958-59 Reasons when the maximum wage was Increased from £ 17 to £20. It can be safely assumed that over 100 are now on the very top money.

money and fees from

Little Chance

The League will tell the PFA whose spokesman Jimmy Hin says: "We never ask for money when it is not coming through The turnstiles," about the dramatic dre

aten,

in

At this meeting. the frst be-

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The Swedes were then right on top, with England giving a diaplay which shocked the 80.000 spectors, but 10 minutes only managed to scrape a wi from the end Bobby Charlton, by eight points (one goal, The Manchester United inside-try) to six points (one try, one The scoring in left kept up his Wembles pexinity goal).

this game was not aided by the not fact that the lines marked properly, and sometimes not at all.

A

goal-scoring record with nice goal from a ground shot, All credit went to the Swedes for their win and for taking their chances. But they had nothing to beat today, for Eng- and put up what many socce writers said was the poorest dls- play ever against a foreign side. Former England captain, Billy Wright, watching hig first

tween the Management Com-Wembley International Instead

the

This total includes the week- tentive mud the plagers repre- Jy salory. bonuses, talentsentatives for 18 months,

friendly players will also ask for the and abolition of the retain transfer clause, and the freedom to make their own contracts.

Aumes,

It

does not ink inter- national fees, or money cared from F.A. matches, the £100 added per year to a player's oc- count in the Provident Fund, or the money set aside for future

UP

There cannot be much chance of these demands being recom- mended to the club at next AGM,

GOES. THE

MONEY

This is how the players' wages have risen:

Up to January 1, 1958:

700-800

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£500-GW 600-700

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of playing+ wus sorely missed will Not one English player want to remember October 28, 1858.

Some of them may member it as the last time they

England. played for

ever

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32nd Medium v. RAF Kai Tak

The Airmen had to play with 14 men throughout, and this gave the Gunners a slight advantage in the forward play which they were quick to grasp.

The Aimien oddly enough clearly authooked the Gunners but the two RAF halves very quickly became demoralised

Dewhurst Stakes under the strong pressure from

Probables

London, Oct. 28. There arc 12 probables for the Dewhurst Stakes to be run

furlongs over seven

at New- market tomorrow (1500 GMT). They are, with jockeys:

Intervener (W. Snaith), Wes- tern Sky (D. Smight), Tooth and Nail (W. H. Carr), Ancient Purim (P. Lights (E. Smith),

Tulki, Midsummer Night (1. G. Lewis), Radiation

(no

the Gunners' wing forwards, and Williams, the best forward on the feld, gave the halves and threes no rest in the loose.

With the Gunners putling on pressure the Airmen made things wolen for themselves by tackling around the neck, and with Meehen making fa spectacular breaks the centre of the threes and selling dummies left, right

Bome

and centre the Airmen were outelaed.

Only in the second half did Jockey the Airmen shine, and then only yet). Trurus (S. Clayton), Sor- with their long kicks ahead. bus (no jockey yet), Aspirante thus making (A. Breasley), Off Key

jockey yet), Sunny

Piggott).-Reuter.

Centre Of Attraction

舞作

Way

the exception of Pollard, that is also a good description of Noundered their play. They

to place around from place the field. In the first minute the Sap- pers scored when Walkers got the ball from a loom maul and sent Poland away down the wing, and then round to score under the posta The kick was charged down. 3-0.

In Affairs Of The

League Federation

Zurich, Oct. 28.

The International Federation of Football Associa- tions (FIFA) announced today that it would not intervene in affairs of the newly formed International Federation of Football Leagues as long as the leagues obeyed the rules of their respective national Federations and of FIFA, The League Federation was formed during a two- day meeting in London involving the English, Scottish, Italian, French, Irish, Northern Irish and Swiss leagues, which ended yesterday.

FIFA expects the Lengue Federation to respect it as the sole and superior organisation for the regulation of interna- tional football relations.

The meeting of FIFA also)

the ended yesterday, though

to disclose

| delegates refused

their decisions 16 the press until today-probably because they were

awaiting the results

of the concurrenst. league's meeting.

Davies Out Of Morocco Tennis Tournament

Casablanco, Oct. 28. France's Gerard Pilet de- fented Mike Davies, the British favourite of, the Morocco luter- England's M. A Drewry national tennis championships preside! at the FIFA meeting, after a 37-game battle in tho altended by M.E.B. Thommen (men's singles quarter-finals here (Switzerland), บ. Granaiking today. (Soviet Union), I. Salom (Peru), Pilet, the only Frenchman I. Park

0. (Scotland), DT left in the championships, won Barassi (Italy), Prof Dr Andre-3-5, 0-0, 6-4, 0-3. jevic (Yugoslavia), M. Maduro Other results were; (Curacao), R. Floer (Norway), F. Meer (Belgium), De A. Meri- doza (Paraguay), Dr S. Inchids (Japan), Dr A Hanil (Sudan) and Secretary-General munn (Switzerland).

Cars-

Other Decisions

FIFA in ita annosukeements recalled that a football federa- tion affiliated with the parent Rroup should not maintain sports relations will amated country.

Men's Singles quarter-finala Coudry (Spain) beat Laheen (Morocco) S-4, 6-0, 6-3.

Santana (Spain) beat Merlo Italy 6-3, 0-4, 6-2.

Fietrongeli (Italy)

Cindy

0-4.

best

(Australia) 7-5. 0-3.

Women's Singles quarter-finals

Miss De La Courtie (France) beat Mios Gibson (Britain) 6-1, G-2.

Miso Porales (Microcco) beat Airs Davis (Britain) 6-3, 0-2.

Miss an un-

Paterdy (Stateless) Lent Miss Bassi (Italy) 0-0, $-0.

Miss Lazarino (Italy) beat Mrs Lindhulise (Morocco) 0-3, 6-2. —— AFP.

Ten minutes later a long kick Just on time a lovely three ahead by the Corps found touch move from the 25 sent Parry one yard from Sappers' line and the Uneout

In over under the posts, and Card Farthing got It in

FIFA's next meeting it and crashed over with Brown

will discuss the possible reorga well out 10nisation

of the 100 (Inter- The second half after a short converting from

make 15-3 for the Corps. Inational burs by the RAF became a

Olymple Committee) Late in the second half the brought up at meeting be- steady succession of geores by

After ten minutes | Sappers

to to sprang the Gunners.

and tween the International Feders- a perfectly combined handling using the long kick alcadtions and the IOC at Munich on move by threes and forwards spreadeagled the defence but May 22 and 23.

Meehen bis chance and missed chance after chance until gave över he went, well out. No con-

finally fantastic series of version. 14-0.

funbles by the Corps threes Classic Fumble sent the bail to Pollard who Soon

after the

and scored kick-off the made no mistake Gunners were awarded a penal-

well cut. No conversion, 6-5. fy, and taking a short one started The Sappers went further a- another combined pussing move head with a peualty conversion with this me Lee crossing in by Qualtrough, and finally an- the comer. No conversion. 17-0, ¦ offer long kick ahead saw the also decide on the candidacies Next came Williams with #bull go over the line and Pollard of the West German, Spanish nice try under the posts, scared get to it as Corps once more

from

a

were

The foolball federations of Kenya and Sierra Leone admitted as provisional racı- bers of FIFA which will decide on their full admission in the FIFA Congress at Rome August 22 and 23, 1980.

on

At the congress FIFA will

and English Federations as $I= loose maul. Gurd fumbled an easy touch down.ganisers of the Jules Rimel converted to bring the score to Qualtrough converted 14-9. World Cup in 1965-AFP. 22-0, This was followed by Jerry again scoring after a three

this was after move, though three forward passes when the Gard referes was unsighted, converted from halfway out. 27-0.

The RAF handed the next one over with a classic fumble that gave Clark a chance to score under the posts

with Gard again converting, 32-0. Finally Williams again scored with a lovely solo run from a lincout on the RAF 25, by simply working his way through the new nominal defence.

In the last second the Airmen gol same consolation when e long kick sent play a to a 5-yard scrum near the Gunners' posts. Ahern got the ball on the open side and dived over near the posts, and then converted to make the final tally 35-5.

RE "A" v. RASC

The Corps pletely the

use of the wind, but Hervey at full back was al- (RO (Lways perfectly positioned and the Gunners' line was seldom in

dominated com- danger. Hervey, in fact, was so

scrums and shared steady that his own threes nuver even bothered to look and see if the lineouts, and Brown for the he had gathered the ball instead Corps got the ball away nicely. it squandered by they began to move upheld for only to see the next attack, which invariably poor three moves. developed.

The same applied to the Sap- pers to a large extent though they had Follard in the centre of their threes and he made the difference.

Bost Game

The Gunnors' halves played a nice steady game, and behind them the threes turned in what

Both packs played well in

was easily their best gaine to the loose, but as the game pro- date.

gressed they became more and The first score came from a more scrappy. penalty award about 15 yards

The Corps tackled well which trom the RAF line, and the was largely why the Sappers Gunners' short kick went to who should have won caslly Williams who led the forward failed to make any great im- rush before touching down. pression. Gard hit the upright with his Both acle of threes lay as kick and saw it bounce out 3-0. flat sa flounders and,

THE GAMBOLS

I'LL SUIVE

GITRAK DIANS

THEN I'LL HAVE CHICKEN A LA CREAME

FATTENING

Rugby Union Results

London, Oct. 28. Results of today's Rugby Union matches were:

County Championship Surrey 17, East counties 11.

N. Midlands 5, Warwick 16. Kent 9. Harmpshire fi. Sussex 3, Dorset and Wilts 3. Berkshire 8, Hertfordshire 0.

Other Matches Cambridge 18. Cambridge U. "Sixty Club" 11.

Cardiff 9, Penath 8-Reuter,

Top European Clubs To

Be

A

Invited To U.S. For

Soccer Tournament

London, Oct. 28.

Top European soccer clubs will be invited to play a 1960 summer season

at New York, it was announced today.

The season will start in May and take place at the 33,000 capacity Tri

Bord Stadium.

First

the two sections will meet in the final,

Mr Cox said that he did not foresee any objections to the new tournament by the Inter- national Federation of Football Associations,

04

division championship clubs of Sweden, England, Scoi land, Ireland, Northern Ireland, The tournament will be split Austria, France, Hungary, West into two sections in order Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland allow certain participating clubs and Canada are expected to par--

Anish

their own seasons,

"It takes place in the European ticipate in the new type season. William D. Cox, New York closed season and there is no Soccer Club president and one

difference in friendly ganes If a country's championship of the patrons

between for the tourna~

Europcar clubs, club is unavailable invitation ment, said tonight,

have been played in the last will be addressed to the second

The matches will take place on

seven years, and a tournament place learn

Saturday and Wednesday nights.

between the same teams," he

"In any

the case, The first section will include explained. The players will have their clubs "from England, Scotland, different leagues have already return trip to New York paid Northern Ireland, France, West Given their approval and it by the organisers of the summer

Germany and New York. The there were any objections on season as well as their expenses section will also include clubs the part of FIFA the leagues while in the United States. Each

from Sweden, Austria, Hungary, would know already." club will receive a lump sum for

Ireland, New York or Italy. A The New York team will be each match played,

team from Spain, Portugal

recruited mainly from the best Poland or Canada will all out socver players in the United the second section.

States, bul Cox revealed that he Sweden will be represented could also engage foreign by IFK Goteborg or IFK players. The American organiser Norrkping, while Austria will declared he or course could not send the Rapid Chib of Vienna buy erzck European footballers and Hungary the MKV X1. The but that nothing prevented him other teams will be designated from signing a European star for by their countries' leagues after the duration of the tournament,

---AFP. their respective seasons.

Two Sections

The season will be divided into two sections, the first sec- tion to be played from May 25 to June 28 and the second from June 20 to August 3, A few with days later the winning clubs of

RUTENING

by

Barry App-lelge

TOURNEDOS

ON TOAST

FATTENING

I'LL HAVR,

葉 雞

BALAO

GAS IS TOPS

The bull is the centre of attraction in this study in concentration, as Spurs outside-right Terry Medwin heads the ball and Notts Forest goalkeeper Thomson, makes a dive for it, in the English Arst divlalon match at White Hart Lane, London, last Saturday Spurs won 2-1, ---- Reuterphoto...

SAYS MR. THERM