1959-12-29 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1959.

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Surprises In English League Soccer JOHANSSON AGREES TO

SPURS CRASH TO 1-4 HOME

DEFEAT AGAINST LEEDS IN

BIGGEST UPSET OF THE DAY

Referee Sends Both Teams Off The Field

London, Des. 28. Landon traffic pollotman Alf Sturgeon today becaine Bet- controversial poecer referre -- the man who tho ordered both tering off

and feld

Abandoned the match.

London, Dec. 28. English league leaders Tottenham Hotspur crashed to a 14 home defeat against humble Leeds United today to provide the top shock on another day of soccer surprises. Today's matches the late league fixtures of 1959 - were the "returns" of It's the first time such a thing

the games played on Boxing Day, and relegation-threatened Leeds were one of several clubs who succeeded in reversing Saturday's results.

The

four

the

The others included Man- second holiday defeat against Grahamn Barnett scored chester United, 4-1 awny win- | Ipswich, Inside-left Ted Phillips goals. ITS Over Burnley; West Brom- and centre-forward Ray Craw-

teams playing in wich Albion, 2-1 victors on ford, who scored their side's evening to take maximum_points Nottingham Forest's ground; ¦ goals on Saturday, got two each | were "Middlesbrough, . Exeter, and Arsenal, who at last check-in a 4-1 win.

Bolton and Bury. Without à ed their disaster-plunge with a Ipswich, Bristol City, Darling-point over the holiday were 1-0 suceers on Luton's ground, ion and Notts County all took Wolverhampton, Rotherham Ter-

There

wwe again nothing maximum points

Newport

And County from their quay, festive about the weather, and holiday games Brighton, Har Shrewsbury. players struggled ibrough thepoobs, Northampton, Rochdale

Following are the results of deep mud and against chili and Mymouth were the sides all matches played today: winds.

to emerge pointless.

ENGLISH LEAGUE Division I

Over 52,000 people-the biggest crowd of the day--saw Tottenham's Bose-dive against

Evening Games

turnley Fulham

Eighteen matches this evering; Luum

Leeds. Spurs never showed completed the day's League pro-

a hint of the form which carn-gramme.

I M'chester U

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Sheffield W.

0

Arenal

M'chester Notte F

Evertun

Preston Tultenham

West Brom

Leicester City

10-04-15

Snede

J

ed them a 4-2 win in the Box- Of the top four recond divi- ing Day match, Leeds centre-sion sides, Milditsbrough, 3-0 Newcastle U. forward Johnny McCole, who winners over Rotherham, capite

West Ham Weber LaTibton 0 Aston Villa in scored his side's two goals on out the bent Saturday, got two more today.

Over Card£/?

Arsenal Win Tottenham reinin top place

In the League table, but Pres- ton, who were held to a 1-1 drag at home to fast-cýmbing Leicester, narrowed the ጀነኑ

to one point, Leicester's Inside-

crazed their lead

City to four points but lost their Brighton 100 per cent home record. They Bristol C. ctre with the bottom club, Derby Hull City, 1-1.

Bury

aver

from

took Southampton at the top of division three by detrating Shrewsbury Town 2-1, thum completing a double,

Albert Cheesebrough Southampton bad seured after only 15 seconds-match at Newport abandoned the fastest goal of the day. jat half-time because of the Manchester United left atrocious state of the pitch. winger Albert Scanlon scored They were 1:0 goals in the last two time. rainutes in his side's revenge- taking win

Burnley. Centre-forward Dennis Voilet

over

got the other two,

1-0 down

Demonstrated

Huddersfield

newin Swansea

Bingham C. Dalton

Division H

Aston Villa Liverpool Middin,brattli Poruth Shemeld U

1 Ipswich

Plymouth

1 Seunthorpe

Stoke City

• Sunderland

5 Arnol

1 City

2 Chariton A.

3 Rotherham U

↑ Leyton Orient

2 Cardiff City

Division H

7 Grimsby

Bourneinout?: Tranmere

3 Sourßvendt. U.

'Shrewsbury T.

2 Queen's P

Southampton

(Abandoned at halftime

5 Menald T.

their

Bendford C. Swindon

York

at the

Brentfont Bury Colchester

Newport

Norwich C. Port Vale

Division IV'

Chester Darlington Doocasier Northampton Rochdale Southport

3 Barrow

2

Hartlepools

O

Aldershot Crystal Palace Stockport

Afterwards a crowd of more than 500 demonstrated outside

Centre-forward Len Julians the Club offices and clamoured Dar scrambled a goal in the last for the referee to continue the minute of the first half to give

He

smuggled out Arsenal their win over bot-game.

of the

side ground by П

Lum-of-the-table team Luton, showed the

rarely

whe method which earned them

was

Port Vale, 7-0 winners over their 3-0 success on Saturday. Balitax, swept to their biggest Exeter C

win of the season and inside-lett

Arsenal, who had lost their five previous matches made Ave changes for today's game.

Another Reversal

Sheffield Wednesday, scourge team of London's first division clubs against whom they have an unbeaten record scored n 2-1 win at Fulham and have now taken 12 points from their last seven games. Wednesday": akipper, left-winger Alan Finney, scored after 40 seconds. Left-winger Derek Hogg was the master-mind behind West Bromwich Albion's win over Nottingham Forest, He scored

his side's first goal

Another reversal had Man- chester City scoring 11 4-0 home win over Everton- despite having half-back Bay Cheetham a passenger for most of the game. The City's Zoals

FOUR D. JONES

MADDOCKA

LOOK SOMEON HAS BEEN HER BEFORE US

TYRE MARKS

KUBADIO

Watford

Notte County Bradford

Crewe Aler

1 Gillingham Torquay Xwmd

THEY MUST BE MOON

FERDINAND

■ 20-minute

Blitz in the second half.

In the second division,

Brighton slumped to their

SPORTRAIT

NANCY

PET SHO

SALLY--- LET ME GIVE YOU A HOME

PERMANENT

WAR CAR

BRICK BRADFORD

"Yet you ought to hear the fuss when i ask him to it up the garden --,"

Landon Kaperia, Aperter

WI Test Captain

Injured

Bridgetown, Dec. 03. Went Indice Test captain Gerry Alexander had Deven titcher inserted in a mouth in- jury today just no days before the start of the drai Tost against England.

Alexander was struck in the mouth by a fast bowler's do- livery while' widet - koeping during a net practice. Tho ball, which was defected into his face from his gloves, split open his upper lip and knocked out one of his front tooth,

Alexander, muid

MČIAU WELTIIN

that he expected to be able to play in the first, Terkwikhina All Special.

THERE ARE MORE OR THEM

OVER HERS

ILL GET

-Reuter.

FIRST TIME

happened

British

Sturgeon blew long and loud on hit whistle. The 2,000 fans thought the referce had mis- exiculated on the time.

Then Blurgeon waved his hande In the sir, fold all 22 players that they had been ordered

off and abandoned the match. “When one player was mocked In the stomach by another player after a lot of roogh play, I thought "that's enough" and off they went," be said.

the

set the soccer, And leaders of the game in this | Officials of both Gravesend and

Dartford described country one of their biggest-

eldent, one of the most re- Precedent

markablo to posible

in Brita #OCCET history, as "amazing."

beadaches. Do guide

ever rives selon

The bir send-off CAMA 10 minutes before the end of the Dartford-Gravesend match. In Southern Lesque

the

Kaineday.

On

Today Sturgeon, 42 years adi and regarded aN a future big-time referee, has sen; his full report om the Incident to the English Football As-

sociation, The FA rules soccer in England. He's been

FIGHT PATTERSON

IN NY NEXT JUNE

Stockholm, Dec. 28.

World heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson agreed today to meet Floyd Patterson in New York next June.

referee for 12 years The agreement was reached at a meeting with a

and a Inesman in the English Football League for six years. He was a lineman At the Czechoslovakia-Italy match in Prague last month, He refereed

curtain-ralver before that match between under-23 teams from Czecho- slovakia and East GerMANY.

"TOOK COURAGE' Sam Leitch of the Dally Herald, discussing Sturgeon's action, commented that "if we are to clean up the private brawling which is called football in some leagues. Alf Blargeon's way is the ons "What he did could finish his carrer. But I took poursge." -AP.

Olmedo Loses Mackay Out Of Asian

To Rosewall Tennis Doubles Event

Calcutta, Dec. 28.

Melbourne, Dec. 28. Australia's Ken Rosewall

American Barry Mackay and S. Akhtar Ali, India, were showed up weaknesses In

eliminated from the men's doubles of the Asian lawn Alex Olmedo's game

tennis championships today after being two sets up. when he defeated the

Peruvian in Jack! N. Netic, Awstralia, and A, ¡ victory over Indiana big

Premit Kramer's US$13,000 Koo- Bey, Rhodenia, won 3-6, 4-6, Lall and Jaideep Mukherjea,

8-6 to reach 12-10, 6-2, yong tournament tonight. semi-finals.

Rosewall had little difficulty wlaning 6-3, 6-3.

MAIN FACTOR

the

Later the erratic Mackay almost lost to Russiang T, Lejus and Irina Rusanova when he teamed with Mini Arnold in the armi-final match of the mixi doubles, Fading light halted play with the BET-

the score favouring Russians 6-2, 10-10,

Main factor in the victory was Rosewall's return of vice. He frequently hit winners off Olmedo's first services and undermined Olmedo's fidence to the extent that

he began to serve double faulis on vital points.

in

singles

con-

1

Miss Arnold propped up the

Mackay, who listless

marir

many errOTS,

Sweden's Ulf Schmidt entered | the

singles

#cani-final other

matches with a 3-8, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2 triumph Frank Sedgman defeated Mal over Indian Davis Cup captain Anderson 6-4, D-7 and in the Naresh Kumar, doubles

and Mervyn Rose Pancho Segura defeated Hoad and Ashley Cooper 3-8. 6-1-AP.

HAHA HAW

BOY THAT'S A LAUGH. SO MUCH FOR YOUR

GLORY-MAKING CEN, COMRADEJŲ,

NOT UNTIL I'VE SEEN A SAMPLE

OF YOUR

WORK

IMPUDENT CAPITAUSLY

SWINE

COME INTO MY KITCHEN

NEEEAAH!

Warren Woodcock, AuKWalio, Lew and Billy Knight, Britain, 6-4, reached the doubles semi-final [with a 4-6, 3-0, 6-0, 0-3, 0-7

LOCK, WE'RE BEING.

WATCHED

OH MY GOSH

GREAT HAIRY

MOON BEAST,

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

DID YOU EVER SEE

A PRETTIER MOP ?

-ERNI

THEM, BRICK!

THE MARTIANS COLISH BLIGHTLY, AND SLOWLY SINK TO THE

GROUND...

THAT DID IT! THEY'LL GLEEP IT OFF IN ABOUT AN HOUR, AND THEN

THEY'LL BE IN A PEACEFUL SPITE

OF MUND!

By Paul Norris

FOLLOW ME! LETO PUT

OUT OF BUSINEEG THE

RADIO TRANSMITTER THAT

19. BLASTING 'BARTH)

Schmidt and J. Lundquist beat M.V.G. Appario and Balasub

the serpi- ramanyan to reach finals-AT.

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group of New York promoters. Roy Cohn was the head of the New York group which flew here.

Kunbert Fugazy, veteran pro- that the moler, told newsmer fight should yield a gate of at least one and a quarter million dollars.

Edwin Ahlqvist, raid "We are In Cohn and Johansson's adviser,

agreement in principle.”

New Fork Kround January 10 to further finalise additional detali such radio and Gim right,

The Cohn group sald It would not be necessary to sign a new contract and both Johansson and Aliquis!

The agreed, group

bought out the Rosen- held sohn Enterprises which

contract for a rematch the

Cohn added that his group would ow apply to the New York State Athletic Commals- sion for permission

to hold the world title fight, Ahlqvist between the Swedish champion said that once this permission is granted the remainder of the problem is only a detail.

'Impressed'

and the man he knocked out.

Colin, a lawyer, was legal ad- viser to the Senate Investiga- don Subcommittee headed by the late Senator Joe Mac-

Johansson nodded his ap- Carthy.-AP. proval. The champion and Ahiqvist lunched in the Grund Hotel al nearby Salts Jocbaden with Cohn, Fugazy and Tommy

Loughran,

former a

light heavyweight champion, who is part of the new promoting Kroup.

Johansson told the clated Prexx that

MCC Draw With Barbados Colts

two-day

game

Over a three-hour Smorgaqs- Lord the deal was wrapped

Barbados, Dec. 28. cp. The New York group will The Barbados Colls drew return early Tuesday to move their immediately

ogainst for u licence to England's MCC here today conduct the fight,

scoring 222 all out seven minutes Anna-before the close of play in re- he was; ply to the MCC's weekend score "Impressed" with the honesty of 323 for seven declared, and character of the Cohn The wickets were evenly dis- group. He

he would tributed between Moss (2 for

12 58), Barrington

for 31), Subba Row 12 for B). Allen (1 for 24) and Illingworth (1 for 25),

wald

CHESS

Casiling into an opponent's attack is rarely justted. and the following German game (Schmell-Mertins) shows the type of combination witch results, 1 P-K4, P-K3; 2 P-QI. | P-Q4: 3_KL-QB3, B-KÍS: 4 Ki- K2, PXP: 5 P-QRJ, B-K2; 0 KtxP. Kt-KB3; 7 Kt(K2)-BJ. meet-KB3; 0 B-K3, KixK; Ktx

World!

ILFORD

ILFORD

KY, P-B4: 10 Kt-3, B-B3: 11 B-QK15, 0-0: 12 B ỵ Kt, Py B: 13 P-B4 (trying to alog P-KA, but 0-0 is better), E-R3; 14 Q- Q2, R-Kti; 15 0-0-0 (castling Into it instead of chasing the black bishop off a dominant diagonal bý Kt-R4-B5). Q-Q3 threatening 16...RxP!; 17 KXR, H-Ku ch): 16 Kt-R4, EXP 17 KɩxR. QxRP: 18 P-BR-KU; 19 Q-QB2, R- Kta: 20 B-QZ. B-Q#1; white resigns,

Solution No. 5742: 1 PXP e.p. (threat 2 P-K71, PXP ch; 2 Kix P. or 1...BPXP: 2 B-KIG Black's last move must have deen...P-K4

London Express Settee

five

There were two runouts. Between lunch and ten Barbados Colts wickets tell for 26 runs but the inil end bats- men rallied.

The MCC open a game against Barbados on Wednesday--AP.

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