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THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1960.

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Winter Olympics begin today Boss No.9 transforms

850 ATHLETES FROM 30 Man of NATIONS TAKE PART IN OPENING CEREMONY

Squaw Valley, Feb. 18, The 8th Winter Olmpics open today In sparkling ceremony and with the usual acrimonious wrangling, Vice-President Richard M. Nixon will speak the simple. pre- scribed words that set in motion the Games that have drawn 850 athletes from 30 nations to this 6,000-foot high valley in the Sierra mountains. They are: Taiwan, India

refused participation

The

Squaw Valley, Feb. 17.

application by the

Chinese National Amateur

Athletic Federation for a

**I

now

doclare open the and

Taiwon have been celebrating the 8th Winter Olym- The Hockey Federation wants plea."

11 days of competition but has is sharp and settled for ten The woalber

Olymple Cames of Squaw Valley shouldered out of the frames.

power

By JOHN COTTRELL

Watch out for the Australians at Rome this year. Judging by the fabulous times being recorded this season they should feld their strongest- ever Olympic athletics team.

Herb Elliott, Albert Thomas. Mortene Willard, Betty Cuth-

ning 26 miles 385 yards Reme.

in

Cup

shock team

By ALAN HOBY

From the start he was one of the great ones. For 10 minutes of every match his tireless ardour and Celtic enthusiasm fizzled and bubbled like an overturned magnum of champagne. Roving Ronnie the Zotopek of Soccer-they called him in his magnificent and flery hoy- day,

planą

bert....they are just a few of In the style of Jim Peters and And that's exactly what Ronald Burgess was a footballer fantastic whose

the medal prospectors whe have high hopes of striking it rich in Rome,

The Australian whose perfor

Mancos amaze me most of all s 31-year-old Dave Power. le has blocked the phenomenal time of 4 mins 2 sees for a grass track mille -- equivalent lo a sub-four-minute 'mile on ¦ cinders.

clear. Deep snow mantics the And there have already beer Phenomenal? Dave Power in

scene. Around 13,000 spectators 14 are expected scarcely hair the 35,000 first expected. This is an indication that these Games will

be a financial failure even if an

artistic success.

2,645-voice choir

skler from Formosa now Walt Disney

#f

Hollywood

In Squaw Valley to take tame has devised the pageant part in the Eighth Win-within the framework of Olym Ler. Olympics

was today pie tradition.

turned down at a meeting of the council of the In- ternational Ski Federa- tion.

A similar application by a naturalised Indian born in Pe- land and studying at the Univer alty of Denver to take part in the Games was also refused.

A statement by Mr Marc President of FIS. said Hodler,

that the statutes

There will be a choir of 3,045 voleen and the flaming Displc (arch will bo skiled down from Little PapURSO peak by Mrs Andrea Mead Lawrence and turned over to will skalo Ken Henry who the na lap in the main

Both

United Arena,

STO States Winter Olympics gald medal winners.

big

and rules of Olympic archi which burns

FIS did not allow participation throughout the Games.

of competitors representing country not allated to il

Henry will light the

H

Bu!

beneath the brilliant ceremony with its emphasis on

Although, properly, the Chin-peace and sportsmanship there ese NAAF and the Indian Olym- | seethus the inevitable Olympic pic Association should have disputes.

submitted requests for affiliation

to the Congress at Stockholm in The East Germone and the June, they had not done so, he West

said.

Heut.

RUGBY RESULT

London, Feb. 17. Bramley beat Liverpool City

thet by 20 points to zero in Rugby League Cup first replay today.-Reuter.

Germans aren't getting

along. Nobody likes the main

training accidents.

Two

Carol Heiss to

take the Olympic oath

the

Squaw Valley, Feb. 18. America's Carol Erika, the world Appro skating

will replie quden, Olymple oath on behalf of the athletes of wil nailans ocremany at the opening

Winter of tho Eighth Games Ledir.

The pretty blonde from New York. Ozone Park, will be the first woman to have that honour at the Olympic Games.

world

The four-times

is favoured to champion win the Olytople Fold medal that narrowly eluded ter in 1935.-AP.

Louis Molne of Spain heckey rink with bits of debriskiers, frozen into the ice and an ex-and. Botusta Portion of Italy, posed end which gets mushy in have bruken legs. bright sunlight,

The athletes don't like to be One- round quartered four to a room.

mon Olympic teams from India

AMIGO, TO MENTION

FOUR D. JONES WORK TO PEASANTS

MADDOCKS

IN OBUVIA 15

ENCLIGH TO RUIN

WHAT'S ALL THIS ABOUT? HOW

DID I RUIN YOUR

REVOLUTION

FERDINAND

NANCY

ANYONE'S REVOLUTION

OVER FOR THIS SEÑOR, IT IS ALL

DICTATOR

But the past is quy pat- tern, the competition will go forward on the keepest level, Today is devoted entirely to

IT IS TIME WE DID AN

LADIOS, AMIGO) {U

ense you have forgotten .......... is the Empire Games MARA THON champion. This superb mile offort is just a minute part of Power's speed- building preparations for run-1

the opening ceremonies for the | 20-million-dollar Games,

The actual competition starts tomorrow with the men 30 kilometre cross country kiding at McKinney Creek, the men's downhill stato at Squaw Peak, the pairs Bựwe skating Onats in the arena, and the start of The lee

round robin hockey play.

Fireworks display

The Garnes conclude on Sun- day, Feb. 28, with the specta- cular special eri jum aff Papoose Peak.

At the main entrance to the orona Nixon will be met by Avery Brundage, President of the International Olympic Com- milier, and Prentis C. Hale, President of the organising committee.

Emil Zatopek he is running 5,000 miles a year in training. He knocks up this mileage on a home-made track near his home In New South Wales,

match-mileage was endless.

He was a lean, leggy genius of a left-helf who, whether he was wearing the shirt of Wales, Great Britain, Spurs or his GRUELLING TRAINING

boyhood local site, Cwm Villa, In addition he walks through played with such panache that beach and sand to strengthen beemed to cover every blade

of grass on the ground. his leg muscles and trampa Today this footballing non- three miles to work every day. parell has vanished from the Only by such gruelling training, big-match playing scene.

sacrificing all his spare time. can any marathan runner The galvanic skipper who, in hope to achieve an Olymple 1050 and 1951, lod Spurs to the gold medal in the toughes: of championships of the Second all athletic events. → London and First Divisions, je now a Express Service.

-12-year-old." thinning - an - top philosopher who, in less than a yean has wrought a heart- all the competing nations with stirring transformation down at the Ang of Grecco first,, and the Watford the only club from as Dlyision Four to reach the Afth United States contingent.

round of the FA Cup. hosts. In taat place.

the

Hot scat

A representative of Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, where luat Winter Olymples were held. When Ronnie, who had been will deliver the Winter Games trainer-coach, was made Wet- flag to Brundage who in turn ford's team boss last March, he will pass on to Governor

found himself in charge of a Edmund G. Brown of Californin, club which was called "the Two thousand "doves of peace" graveyard of managers." will be released.

Olympic prayer

Then

dramatic comes the

lighting of the Olympic torch by Ken Henry followed by the Olymple prayer and the singing

of "God of our Fathers."

Burgess is the minth mana- ger to Decupy this uneasy hot seat since the war.

The others were Bill Findlay, Jack Bray, Eddie Hapgood, Ron Gray, Haydn Green, Len Goul den, Johnny Paton. Mesain.

and Neft

Watford' now chict also found unrest in the dressing-

The flag-bearers of all the room. nations next form a semi-circle while an athlete of the United And he found what he knew There will be a fireworks States team-whose name has already when he took over display of the Winter been kept secret-will raise his that, with no money to splash Olymplex dag. lhe United right hand and on behalf of all around, the way ahead through States flag and the Olymple participants take the oath of the treacherous" Fourth Division flar. Then the flags of the 30 sportsmanship and amateurism,quicksands was beacL competing nailons will

headaches. But programme hazards, bolaled as the Olympic band will be more Breworks, the none of these obstacles detorted play: "The Parade of the release of 20,000 balloons, and Ronnie Burgess,

An Invincible optimist, he told Olymplana,"

the panreh-out of all the com-

me when I talked with him last of petitors.-AP.

It will march the athletes

THE CROWD GROWS INTO AN UGLY MOOD. THEY ARE ALL READY TO DO THEIR LITTLE NUT

WE ARE

ABOUT TO DOOUR

OBLIVIAN NUIS?

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who coat £16,000 when he caniu Meanwhile, whatever happens from Arsenal in 1958; then tho paure, Roni Burgess brainwave which" con= | has aclifeved verted ex Norwich forward ninbition, Sammy Chung from inside- "I always wanted to manage forward to left-half this season: Watford," he told me before And the natural ball-skill of I lart "even when I was play- Ittle inside-left Barry Hartie, ing for Spurs. Now, at last, and you have a few of the we're doing really well — and I reasons for Watford's reaṇark- | am happy...."-London Express able renaissance.

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