Rain spoils Wimbledon HUNGARY'S BRIGHTEST SOCCER
DARLENE HARD AND SANDRA REYNOLDS SLITHER INTO LAST 16 OF WOMEN'S SINGLES Mackay, Fraser through in men's singles
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London, June 23. Heatwave conditions which marked the first three days of the
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships gave way to inter mittent showers today, forcing three hold-ups in the first two and a half hours.
It was a
The courts became more slippery at each stoppage and players
slithered and floundered on the sodden grass. frustrating day for players, apart from the crowd, which was probably the largest so far this week.
confidently advantage, Rain caused two more stop-this pages, making five in four hours.serving out the match to love Top-seeded Neale Fraser, of in the ninth game. Australia, was on and off court for most of that time in defeat-
Both the men's and women's third rounds were scheduled today, to reduce the field in each event to 16. But the chances of the programme being compleled appeared slim as thundery raining Tomas Lejus, 19-year-old. fell spasmodically.
Russian, 6-4, 0-1, 6-3, 6-3.
Darlene Hard, of California, and Sandra Reynolds, of South Africa, were the first among the seeded women players to enter the last 15.
Embarrassing
Miss Hard, 24-year-old run- ner-up last year, beat 16-year- old English schoolgirl Frances Walton 0-1, 0-0, and Miss Rey. nolds, semi-finalist a year ago, scored a surprisingly easy 0-1, 6-2, victory over British Wight- man Cup player Mrs Shirley Brasher, wite
Olympic of steeplechaser Chris Brasher.
When the first interruption though the rain occurred, Miss Hard misunderstood a public announcement about resumption of play, and could have been in danger of fortelling the match. She went off to the players' restaurant, arriving back 90 court
15 minutes after match should have restarted.
the
young OP-
Miss Hard's ponent, who arrived at Win bledon with copies of Macbeth and Chaucer under her arm she got permission from her school to play only on coudl tion that she would not neglect her studies had one of those embarrasing mo ments on court which every girl dreads.
Big-service match
Fraser, the leading player of the world's champion nation, was meeting a man from the. world's youngest tennis mation, and the Russian hush the dis- tinction of being the first to taku a set of the fonuidable luft-hander.
It match
Unhappy
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Results
Results at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships today Included.
WOMEN'S BINGLES Third round
M. B. Heliyor (Australia) beat Mrs H. G. MacIntosh (GB) 6-0, 6-2.
S. Reynolds (South Africa) beat Mrs C. Drasher (GB) 6-1, 6-2.
A. S. Haydon (GB) beat Mrs
S. I. Shenton (GB) 0-2, 6-0.
A. Dmitrieva (USSR)
beat
ANNA DMITRIEVA... to play Darlene Hard today.
MEN'S SINGLES Third round
most unhappy S. Lazzarino (Italy) 6-4, 6-4., WILE
for the brawny
V. Puzepeva beat L. Pericol Australian. He had difficulty [6-1, 6-4.
N. Pietrangel (Italy) beat! in keeping his feet,
R. H. Bentley (GB) beal S.
4-6, 6-3, R. K. Wilson (GB) 6-2, 4-6, Lejus cleverly exploited this M. Armstrong (GB)
13-11, 6-8, 6-3. by keeping him well suppued 6-2.
R. Lover (Australia) beat M. with drop abots and stop
Santana (Spain) 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, volleys.
6-4,
M: E. Bueno (Brazil) best T. Schirmer (Norway) 6-2, 6-1.
D. R. Ward (USA) beat F. E. The court was scurred by walton (GB) 6-1, 6-0, Fraser's skid marks, make
J. S. Hopps (USA) beat F. De when trying to reach them.
La Courtie (France) 6-4, 6-1. The frequent visits the K. Hanize (USA) beat Mrs dressing-room played havoc A. Nenot (France) 6-2, 6-1 with Fraser's concentration! He R. Schuurman (South Africa} many backhands, and beat Y. Ramirez (Mexico) 6-2, once admonished himself with a 16-2. shout of "rubbish" as his shot
M. Hutchings (South
to
J. W. Frost (USA) beat 1. Gulyas (Hungary): 7-5, 6-4, 6-4, B. Mackay (USA) beat U. Schmidt (Sweden) 6-4, 6-3,
11-9.
I. Krishnan (India) beat W. Stuck (Germany) 6-0, 6-1, 6-1. L. Ayala (Chile) beat A. R. Mills (GB) 8-7 retired'
J. W. Candy (Austraila) beat G. Mulloy (USA) 6-4, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2:
P. Darmon
(France) beat M. J. Sangster (GB) 6-1, 8-6, 6-2.
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STAR IS A SHY YOUNGSTER WHEN OFF THE FIELD
By Robin Mannock
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Budapest, June 23. Florian Albert, centre-forward for Hungary at 18 years of age, described by British sporting journalists as "world-class" player, and regarded as the brightest of Hungary's bright football players, is modest, soft-spoken and shy.
He calls his trainer "Bacsi" ("Uncle"), a term of friendly respect which Hungarian children bestow upon their elders, and the courage and self-confidence which carried him through England's defence to crash home two goals in Budapest on May 22, seems to desert him once he takes off his football boots,
of Albert has watched films
Nor does he and it difficult Brilliant solo breakthroughs worthy of a "classical" centre- this team at work and tries toto reconcile the fact that in the forward are Albert's stock in mould himself to their style of News Agency's offices the idol football trade. Often his opponents seem play. He wanted very much to of Hungary's fanatical
film of England's great fans is just another Insignificant mesmerised by his guile as he see a
into the footballers like Blackpool's apprentice, earning 1,000 Forints flashes past them penalty area,
Stanley Matthews. But when it (about £15) a month. was shown in Budapest, he could not get a ticket.
Then the stadium echoes with the cry "Flori, Flori", as the crowd urges their favourite on. Once inside the scoring zone, he seldom misses the net.
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But off the fleid, Albert looks hardly capable fighting his way out of a soKEY
an enemy goal single-handed,
'Baby' of team
.
He is z superb trickster of the possession ball. He believes that he was
when in
born with a talent for foollag opposing defenders.
When
The 100 of 4 factory machinist, Albert lives, with his family in Pest. He has two older
brothers, both foot- ballers, and a baby sister aged two, who, as he says, “kloks me around like a football,"
Fiercest critics
to
not playing football. paper bag let alone stormingAlbert has spent the last year since he left school with MTI,
On Sundays all the family go the Hungarian News Agency,
watch him training to be a sports reporter to the stadium
play, and his brothers, who play Mc The head of the Agency,
for minor teams, are his fiercest Sandor Bares, who is also precritics when he gets home from Hun-sident of the Hungarian Foot- Albert, "baby" of the
the match garian team, who will not be ball Association, is proud off MTK a rival team) beat 19 until next September, Arst Albert's work as donned Hungary's red football journalist. shirt in 1959, two months before his 18th birthday,
in Rome.
The recent match against England was his seventh inter- national and today he is a firm fixture in the Hungary XI and in the young team which hopes M. Llamas (Mexico) beat to bring back a gold medal from Becker (GB) 6-2, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0. this summer's Olympic Games
W. Gaertner (South
leading J. N. His football horo is Nandor Africa) was
centrt-forward Grinda (France) 6-3, 3-6, 8-6, Hidegkuti,
team beat R. - when bad light stopped the Hungarian
which wrute a new chapter in football found the bottom of the net. Africa) beat H. M. Morrison H. Oguna (Mexico) 9-7, 7-5, play. To add to his troubles, he was (New Zealand) 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.
E. Buchholz (USA) led R. history by beating England 6-2 (Australia) 0-4, 15-13. at Wembley in 1953. the first fool-faulted several times.
A. Mortimer (GB) beat Mrs N. A. Fraser (Australia) bent Mark IV. Vukovich (South Africa) T. Lejus (USSR) 0-4, 6-1, 6-8, when bad light stopped play-foreign team to defeat England
at home. 18-3,
netted
L.
Lejus saved two match points 6-2, 6-3. in the tenth game of the third. set, but. Fraser's greater power proved decisive in the fourth.
game, even longer spread over five hours on the centre court Italy's Nicola Pietrangelt, seeded fifth, just
In an
The match had just started steadied Great Britain's R. when Miss Walton's shoulder-Wilson to win 6-2, 4-8, 13-11, strap broke. Miss Hard rushed 6-8, 6-3.
up to her blushing opponent, and to good-natured giggles from the crowd on an outside court, produced a safety pin and helped to effect swift repairs.
The early men's singles matches, being the best of five sets, each took at least three hours to complete because of rain,
Big Borry Mackay, the 6. 3in. Dayton, Ohio; player, who is second favourite for the title, tremendous service- won governed match against Ulf Schmidt, one of Europe's best players.
the genial American as he came off cour the win- ner by 6-4, 0-3, 11-9, "Oh boy. I was happy to win that one." Schmidt, whose fierce service was developed pn Sweden's covered courts, held his own in the marathon third set until Mackay got the vital break in the 19th game, aided by some glorious backhand shois.
Despite the interruptions, this clash between two'stroke artista produced some delight- ful tennis, with flashing pass. ing shots by both men.
Stroke artists
Wilson,
quarter-finalist
here for the past two years, seemed likely to give Britain's flagging tennis prestige a boost when omid the tremendous
the applause from
packed gallery, he rallied from 2-4 to win the fourth set and force a decider.
In this. he was matching Pietrangell stroke for stroke when suddenly, in the fourth game, he cracked, serving two double-faults.
The burly Italian holder of the French title was through for a vital 3-1 lead, and he clung to
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Highlights today's games
London, June 24.
Among today's interesting matches at Wimbledon will be the meeting between Anna Dmitrieva, daughter of a Moscow actress, and experienced Californian Darlene Hard, for a quarter-final place in the women's singles.
Australian Margaret
Miss Dritieva, who is 19, is meet the first Russian to reach the Hellyer in the fourth round, fourth round of the world's which will also bring together toughest amateur lawn tennis two teenagers playing in their. chempionships. She gained arst Wimbledon, Karen Hanize,
champion, junior
and fine win yesterday over Italy's U.S.
South Lynne Hutchings, of top player, Sylvana Lazzarino.
She cannot be expected to Africa, and two English inter- check the aggressive Miss Hard, nationals, seeded Ann Haydon last year's runner-up, but the and Mrs Rita Bentley, 24-year-old American might have to pull out a bit extry to
subdue the
hander.
accurate
Two teenagers
The two fourth round men's left-pairings today will be Austra–. Han Rod Laver, seeded. No. 3, against Pierre Darmen France, and India's Ramanathan Krishnan, 'seeded No. 6 against Ian Vermaak, red-haired-South....
Four of the last eight in the African Davis Cup captain, women's event and two quarter-
finalists in the men's singles Tho third round. will be known by tonight, matches which weather permitting.
of
singles were, either postponed or unfinished be-
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"He works very hard tries very hard," Mr Barcs said recently, "He wants to have a good job waiting for him when he is too old to play football." World Cup hopes
"One told me that
Ferencvaros (Albert's club), be would give up coming to watch me in disgust," he told me with a laugh.
He joined Ferencvaros, leading Budapest club, in 1953. Like a aspiring young Hun-
garian footballers, he moves
steadily up from a "PinCE="
But the prospect of retiring team for 12 to 14-year-olds, to team. from football is a long way off place in the senior
hardly old Ferencvaros fields four "Pion- for Albert, sil enough to shave. He insists eer" teams, three youth XI's, a
C
team, a "B" team and a that he still has a lot to learn before he can considor himself senio XI. a really polished player.
He won
a place EXT the Albert hopes to be fully pre-
the pared as a footballer in time Ferencvaros "A team in
goals in his first match. With for the 1962 World Cup contest autumn of 1958, scoring two part of this season still to be completed, he had scored 22 goals in Hungarian leagu foot- ball in 1959-60 and was second in goal-scoring, behind Lajos Tichy, a brilliant, forward from. Budapest's Honved club whom Albert described as "2 very great goal scorer."
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On his 16th birthday, Albert took the field for Hamgary's youth team and played in 18 youth internationals before present moving direct to his place in Hungary's senior team last year.
In his seven full Interna- tional matches, he has scored seven goals, and a further flye goals in four Olympio elimina- tion round matches.
Teetotaller
Albert's special friends in the Hungarian lexm are
Grila Rakasi, a 22-year-old Ferenc- varos forward, who won his first international cap this year against England by filling Hun- gary's problem spot at outside- left, and 21-year-old Jozset Gotrees, the inside-right from the
rival
Ujpesti Dozsa club, the current Hungarian league champions.
Football is now Albert's only sport. Before he left school last year he also played handball and basketball, but has since given up these games.
He trains three or four Umes
a week, except before an inter- national
match when the training programme is increased. Like all first class Hungarian footballers, he gets plenty of time off from work to train.
To relax, he enjoys going to the cinema or listening to music especially
But dance music. dancing ilsett is a rare luxury
for him, he says,
He likes girls, but has no steady girl friend,
**I have several girl friends,”? he said. Then he added bash- fully, lest anyone should think him à Don Juan, “I met moet
of them at schipal”, He neither drinks nor smokes, but enjoys good food. His great est feal, off the football field, was to eat 14 cream puffs et a sitting for a bet-when his trainer was safely out of sight, -China Mall Special.
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