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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1900.

England-Ireland match on Halimi goes down and`out Saturday may reveal 1960 international rugby winners

By JOHN COTTRELL

With all due respect to France, the champions, I suggest that the meeting of England and Ireland at Twicken- ham this Saturday will reveal the ultimate winners of the 1960 International Championship and, ground con- ditions permitting, provide the season's most spectacular display of fast, opon rugby,

The recent much-praised four-nation Jubilee match produced, the most thrilling open rugby seen at Twickenham in years, but England versus Ireland, I fancy, will make that look like a kid-glove affair. For this time the result is all-important.

There is no need to dwell on the merits of the England XV who gave the Welshmen their biggest parting since 1024.

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It is enuigh to say that they

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raising hopes among their supporters of "grand repetition of their slam"-International Champion ship, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup-af 1957.

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Ireland's prospects obvious.

ore less

They have not yet opened their international programme.

They are without the inspiration

and leadership of Lions' captain

muscles is a shoulder he injured two years ngo.

It is now a popular theory that the over-long Liens leur Wales made the players stale. have discarded the great Terry Davies, flaydn Morgan and John Faul. Jackson and Hey Risman (tallowing on injury) have been displaced in the England eide.

But 11 La foolish Lo generalise about 30 players of differing temperamenta and disposition."

most exelling thing aren la

words of former. Welsh, skip- Clem Thomas, lu. he per

rugby for years."

Shorp

to do-

cannot expect minate the match as completely as he did on his debut, for the Irish will now make him their chief targot. But if he can again handle the ball so fault- lessly and set his backs in motion so speedily, he could again be England's hero.

The lengendary "uck of the Ireland have seven Lions in Irish" WAG never in evidence and hooker Ronnie Dawson. For their team and some-forwards last season and they were never the first time since 1955 they Millar and Mulcahy for example more unlucky than in losing 9-3 coal) to England take the field without red-headedre playing even better than (n penalty

after their forwards had out- winger Tony O'Reilly, winner of before they went away. And

ptoed the visitors for an hour. 21 successive caps and top scorer Dawson, who has been kept out by a broken ankle, is expected on the Lions' tour.

Will their fuck change on the Moreover, they have wont be back in time for the match

Can they break the only four

against Scotland on February 27.thirteenth? matchen

Twickenham hoodto? Twickenham in 50 years and only one since the war.

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Great year

Yel the majority of Irish followers will tell you that this Is the great year for the Men in Green. For, on the evidence of their high-spirited trials, they appear to have their best side the hey-day of since Mullen, when they Championship and Crown in 1948 and 1849.

There are only three new caps,

compared with seven in the Arst In England's favour

England team of the season. They are full-back Tom Kler- nart, right-winger Wally Bone- mann,and hooker Bart McCalian

I lean slightly in favour of In two reasons. England for ghost-like Sharp they have a by- holf with a range of skills that recall the names of Jackie Kyle and Cliff Morgan. And the fiery forwards, so tast and Irish furlous, have shown a tendency to give away penalities.

Unfortunately, In what

to be Intended primarily Eng-handling game.

couple of

Three new cops The Irish pack looks outstand- lu be seen Karling and it remains

the whether the England forwards, the Triple not fully extended by Wales, can maintain a fast and furlous pace until the final whistle.

won

An Irish revival was indicated when they Dnished last menson by sering the only victory over France. And now the hefty Irish forwards seem to have mastered the Frenchmen's art of inter-passing.

More important, they have an array of talent behind the Bertim which no other home country, except perhaps England, can equal,

Andy Mulligan and Mike Eng- llah both showed scintillating form in the trials behind a mwbito, well-integrated pack.

Centres Flynn and Hewitt ore ns strong us any pair to be found in the home countries. Wingers Pedlow and Bornemann have plenty of Initiative, strength and speed.

The big shock

The big shock, of course, is the dropping of power-sprinter O'Reilly, a move parallel to the discarding of England winger Peter Jackson.

But here I support the selec- tors, O'Reilly has had noly a few matches since returning from Austrolla and New Zealand and recently he has been out of action because of damaged

WORLD INDOOR 100m RECORD BETTERED

Moscow, Feb. 8. Anatoly Mikhailov, 23- year-old aludent at Leningrad Kailway Engineering In- stitute, set a world indoor best time for 100 metres by clocking 10.4 seconds at ni athletics meeting Winter Sladium at Leningrad today.

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Key man behind the Jamil serum will be fly-half penalty kicks can put paid to the Richard Sharp who, in the fondest hopes of rugby glory.

FOUR D. JONES

by MADDOCKS.

ATO

STANDING

BY YOUR BADS! YOUR GENERAL WISHES TO SPEAK TO YOU. YOU POOR SUFFERING SOULS

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Alphonse Halimi of France goes down for the full count in his unsuccessful attempt last week to re- gain the world bantamweight crown which he lost to Jose Becerra of Mexico some time ago, Halimi was leading on points up to the ninth round when he' ran into a powerful left hook by Becerra.-AP Radiophoto.

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

(2794)

Here is a problem specially contributed by E. Boswell (Lan- caster). White to play and force Black to give mate in moves.

London Ispress Seretos.

GENERAL YOUR

WAITING.

WE ARE READY SEÑOR)

OUR EARS ARE READY

TO BE TAKEN IN

ARMY IS

WHY DON'T

YOU DO

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THERE'S AN ICY PATCH ON YOUR SIDEWALK

OH, REALLY?

SOMETHING ABOUT IT?

OK.

The previous best was 10.5

Arot peconds,

achieved by Arthur Jonath, Germany, in Nuremberg in 1939 and equal

by

Leonid Bartenyev, Soviet Unions, in Leningrad in 1958.

Jed

Mikhailov was compeling on the opening day of a national meeling. Anatoly Lyubeshkin. of Moscow, was record in 10.5 pecóntis--Reuter,

No, more cut eyes?

Tour acle of air-filled boxing gloves have arrived its Scotiani from Finland-the first of their kirt to be seen in Great Bri- tala.

Will they obylate that bug- bear of modera boxing-tha cul gye?

A special bout was included on the Scotland-Spain amateur tournament, and Heottish ABA Secretary John Henderson 19, ennustastic about the gloves. But would they also spell the end of the knočkavut?----Banews Service.

BRICK BRADFORD.

BRICK!I'M OVER HERE!

HE'LL NEVER OBH ME! I HAVE TO MAKE HIM 562 ME BOXSHOW!

UP THE REBELS

Pender-Robinson

return bout on April 29

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HENRY LONGHURST on GOLF

IN

THE DRINK

Speaking at a dinner the other evening, Mr P. B. Lucas, D.S.O., D.F.C., recalled that he had previously been invited to speak at the dinner of the same Society's swimming club and proceeded to analyse the sur- if not golfers — and water. prisingly close association between golf

It proved to be o fruitful, than, any other hazard. The Australian professional. to dis- theme, with which in a going futility of hitting it into the missed it with the comment that alow he had "got in the drine at the eurees that began. at the age of spend followed by the five he could claim a fairly humillation of having to fish it | Arsi." Varied connection.

out with a who contraption on He mentioned Pine Valley, the end of a pole, or worse still which he visited with the 1830 being able to see it but not reach Walker Cup team, though with-it, certain in the knowledge that out in fact playing in the match. some enterprising small bay will "great "waler have gone in and got by the une what the course," with one short hola morning, gives a complete island except for Americans call tite "slow burn" single narrow footpath and to a degree unmatched by the another with a vasi carry fiercest heather or gorsC, over a lake.

This

Ball in a boat

Here he was so often in words or water that an American paper entitled him the "Southpaw sprayer." I should add per- hips in fairness that another speaker at the dinner referred to lism, and think rightly, as "the enly left-hander who ever looked like a golfer.

In a pro-amateur tournament in Florida, he went on, his pro- fessional partner aliced into a creck at the 18th and found his ball in a flat-bottomed boat, which he solemnly punted to a position level with the green, chipped out ol, and holed the putt for a tour.

Perhaps his most engaging reminiscence W25 01 the ocension when he WAS

Many occasions come to mind.

Ono water hazardi which Look lis place in history al- mosi before it was bulit is the artifletal kidney-shaped pond, already stocked with fish, into which poor Harry Weetman het rennd shot at the jast kolo during the Ryder Cup match at Eldorado.

Greatest fun

cont

This was one of seven or eight I did not see the Oxford

garding the player who flung his cluba sknlar hazard

four greens that border on the into the lake ut Stoke Poges. but I did see a Cambridge club-house and one of the rea Bots for tnsleiling them, instead undergraduate knee-deep In the aircam beside the firth at of sand, was to prevent players Mildenhall, trying to retrieve from "aitmening" shots by mis- hls putter in order to continue take into the assembled

pany on the terrace. playing in the Trials.

Many

the professionals, especially the Americans who ere sa adept at splashing out of sand bunkers, gnashed their teeth at the very sight of them and declared them to be unfair, but

Tragi-comedies

mot a

Furthermore, 1 once

claimed to be the fellow who original of the story of the man who, after an unsuccessful foray

to me they were the greatest of fun and I should like to see golf

In Scotland, lung his clubs into enlivened by more of them. But the Firth of Forth one by one then I wasn't playing in the trom the carriage window, while match. crossing the bridge, followed by the bag,

The Swilcon Burn at St An- "knocked off" by a cannon drewe has been the scene, of shell at 30,000 feet while recours, of innumerablo tragl- turning from exporting an comedics of golf, pone better than that of the man who, play- American tald on Lille.

he WAB contemplating ing it as the 10th, Auffed into it Jumping out of his Spitfire, three times. He threw his clubs loging stroke and distance, the in. so it is said, then threw his Boston, Feb. 8.

The only man really to Paul Pender, who recently white cliffs of Ramsgate have in caddie in, then jumped in him took the world middleweight view, reminding him that he seil. crown (New York and Mason- knew every inch of the course at get the better of the Burn, og I Sandwich--indeed he like to think, was a celebrated {usetts version only) from Prince's, Sugar Ray Robinson will give was born in the clubhouse-and put the machine in could perhaps Robinson return match Boston on April 20, matchmaker down on the first fairway. Sam Silverman announced to-

The 'slow burn' day.

Pendry took

the tile from

He overshot this, and then the Robinson on a close points drei-old sixth, and then the ninth sion on Jan. 22.

tarthest point of the course-and Robinson, whose 39th birthday eventually cume to rest in a diích world in the marsh-out of bounds wet He has agall

it

∙two

is today has been champion five times.

never failed so far to win a Water engenders more violent emotions In the golfer's heart return natch.-AFP.

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