THE CHINA MAIL,
TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1960.
SPORTSMEN IN THE NEWS
Tommy cycles to the top - and £200 a week
By RICHARD BERRY
Long before it is finished the Tour de France cycle race
has already brought fame to one man.
He is tall, thin, elegant Tommy Simpson who, at 22, is being acclaimed as one of the top English athletes of the year and a potential world-beater.
Simpson has shown that an Englishman can compete on level terms in the French national sport. This has surprised
and a little shocked-the French; it is rather as if a team of French cricketers had come to England and held the MCC to a draw.
The English team in the Tour De France, which began on June 25 and lasts for three weeks, is only the second to compete in the race and Simpson is the "baby," He was pleked after being a professional cyclist for only nine months-the most successful "baptism" any cyclist ever had.
Resigned
Durham-born Simpson started cycling as an amateur when he was 16. He did so well in National Champion- ships that at 18 he competed in the Olympic Games at Melbourne and won a bronze medal in the 4,000 metres, Last year he threw up his job as an engineering draughtsman and went on the Continent as an
"independent" an amateur who
Sports Diary
Colony
Open
TO-DAY Bowi Championship Bingles second round matches at HKCC, HKFC, KBGC, Restelo, KCC,
RC. FRC KDC. PRC,
Water-Polo
Much the same revolution can compete for professional prizes. He had £100 savings in happened in sport when England by' Con- his pocket. "When his money ran was beaten at soccer. out he would have to return timental teams, and when Aus- Landy and home. But it never did run out.tralians such as
Competing in France, he won Elliott proved they could take on prizes in the first two races he European athletes. entered. One of the big French teams snapped him up and sign ed him on for two years on regular salary. Simpson was now a professional.
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This year he has been in the front rank of riders in France, even shallenging such French "greats" as Riviere and Geminiani.
At present he is making about a week from salary, £100 bonuses, prize-money and spon- soring cycling goods. But at the
end of the Tour his market
value may well be doubled.
Taste for living
This suits Simpson very well. He has a taste for good living, wears elegant hand-tailored suits, silk ties and Italian-style shoes and has his hair close
pleasant cropped. He shares a flat in Paris with veteran British rider Eric Robinson, who has Senior Division; HK Regt v Hodgiven Simpson many tips about Tin, Victoria Pool, 7 p.m.
Junior Division: Brigade y Chung Bing. Victoria Pool, & p.m.
Tennis
Ladies' "B" Division: 13C (3) v CRC, Urban C. v LRC (1).
TO-MORROW Bowl
Colony Championship: Open Bingles second round matches" at LRC, FRC, CCc.
Tennis Mixed "A" Division; LRC v CCC, BCAA V CRC.
Continental tracks.
To win the Tour de France is worth up to 240,000 a year and Simpson is convinced he will win. There are many peo- ple who agree with him: largely because for the first time Simpson has killed the idea that the French are beatable.
Four D. Jones THE FEMALE BY MADDOCKS
WOMAN HAS GIVEN EACH IDIOT AN APPLE
TO EAT...
OH YOU POOR DARLINGS. MEN ARE |SUCH FOOLS
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"All we need is confidence in ourselves," says Simpson. And this young cyclist certainly has plenty of that commodity.
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TOMMY SIMPSON
MARIA BUENO AND DARLENE HARD NOT ON TALKING TERMS
London, July 4.
An angry Maria Bueno was quoted today as saying she will never play as
partner with Darlene Hard again.
together went on. But Miss Bueno's con- centration had gone. She drop ped her service and Miss Hart and her partner pulled the match round end won the set 8-6.
The Brazilian tennis star, and Dariene Won Wimbledon Queen for the earlier in the day. second straight year, was re- ported.
still furious over Darlene's walk-off in the mixed doubles final which appeared to cost Maria the coveted triple- crown.
"I'll never play with Darlene again," she reportedly said.
Snubbed
While tennis fans still argued over whether Darlene had resorted to gamesmanship to win the mixed doubles title. the Daily Mirror reported that Maria snubbed the U.S. star at the End-of-Tournament Ball on Saturday night,
It quoted Maria as saying she would not defend the women's doubles title which she
I HOPE YOU ARE VERY PLEASED WITH
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OH DEAR.
I FEAR THE APPLE IS STUCK IN MY THROAT
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Cord Dancer
The diabetic who became a great tennis player
By CHARLES STEPHEN
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First Landing, the 1968 cham-
He could not endure great physical effort without Area ride uma levermel
injecting himself with insulin. He was inside the fnat sixteenth of t graded unfit for military service. Once he fell mile and won by halt a length. into a coma and a doctor said: "A few more plon 2-year-old, was length hours and I don't think we'd have been able to and a half in front at W. Argold in the held of save him."
The Bald
Pals Hoy's Yet William F. Talberta diabetic from the age of Ele top-weighted at 193 ten-became a top-ranking American lawn pounds in this 74th running of tennis player, one of the greatest doubles ex- Suburban was fourth. 11 perts of all time, and captain of the U.S. Davis lengths behind Waltzi
Sword Dancer: beaten by Cup team from 1953-57.
Other diabetics H. G. Wells, So William Talbert tried the Puccini, Cezanne and Clemen-game...and he never stopped ceau among them have trying. He became the first achieved fame in artistic fields tennis player who always packed and politics. But until Bill Tal- a hypodermic needle in his kit bert came on to the scene, nene bag and gave himself a shot" had reached the top of such a before a big match. gruelling sport as lawn tennis,
Sheer guts
Sheer guts took Talbert, the boy from Cházínnsit : (Ohio), along the road to tennis fame. In his youth it was still the general medical opinion that rest was an essential part of treatment for diabetics.
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Bald Eagle in the $100,000 Metropolitan, Handicap here on. US, Memorial Day earlier in the your, covered the li dutance in 2:01-3/5 to wipe. CL4 the 2:04 track record established on May 18 by Tudor Ampiral-AP.
AXELROD WINS U.S. FOIL TITLE
There
exte were many barrassing moments for a player who for 25 years relied on injections to keep him in top tennis. Once a policeman arrested him as a drug addict.
Staggering
Another time he was
seen
New York, July 4.
Albert Axelrod, of New York, won the United States Foil
staggering down a street and the Championship early today when
At first, Billy boy abandoned next day Gardnar Mulloy told he defeated the holder,
JOB
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his dream of becoming a base-him: "Stay away from liquor If Paletta, in a fence off after the ball star, playing nothing more you want to get anywhere in this two men had fled with five wins and two defeats in the Anal strenuous than marbles. Four game." years passed....and he grew Later Mulloy and Talbert pool.
Axelrod, who reached a legendary bennig weaker, more restless and dis-formed
partnership, wimming Davis Cup semi-finals of the 1036 Olympic pirited.
Finally his father decided to matches and the U.S. doubles Games, clinched the tile at 2.30 am. local time, 10 hours after take a chance. He gave his boy title four times. a tennis racquet and said: "See
How battling Billy became a the competition started. He pre- Maria had won the women's
what you can do with this, son." giant of the tennis courts. with viously won the title in 1954 singles and the women's doubles.
Billy's mother thought it no weakness in his aggressive 1958. Wouldn't talk would kill him.
Third place went to Hal She needed the mixed doubles
He himself all-court game, is now told in his "There's no fun in life-story "Playing For Life" Goldsmith, who has twice won title for the triple crown, last
Neither girl would talk to grumbled:
21s) a book to the Pan-American Games title. But Talbert senior (Gollancz, won by Dorls Hart in 1951.
Immediately reporters
after tennis." Maria and her Australianwards. But the referee, Col. insisted that he try the game. fascinate tennis enthusiasts and Gene Glazer was fourth. partner, Bob Howe, were leading John Legg, sald Miss Hard had "Its better than just sitting inspire anyone
handicap. 5-2 in the deciding set of the acted under Rule 30, which around. final against Darlene and Aus-allows a player to retire to ad- tralia's Rod Laver.
Then Darlene, without a word to anyone, walked off the court, The other three players waited for seven minutes.
Darlene returned, again with- out saying anything. The match
| A STRANGE LOOK COMES
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BEGINNING TO THINK!
just her dress.
He admitted that Darlene had committed a technical breach of the rules by failing to ask the umpire's permission. But allowed the match to continue.— AP.
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