1960-07-08 — Page 9

128 hunched backs heading

By William Hamsher

At 10.16 am, on Sunday, June 26 the Mayor of Lille dropped a flag and, to an enormous "They're off" roar, 128 racing cyclists arched their backs over their drop - handlebars and pedalled away.

for

Notre

Dame!

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The 47th Tour de France, fine dex; a proud term who will France's biggest "off" of do well. Morale is high, so are the year, was on; the all our hopes, Tour that every French-

In previous years, except in man claims is the world's 1855, when British cycle biggest sporting spec- manufacturer entered a team, tacle.

only individual British riders have taken pars But this year England can expact great things, for instance, of Yorkshireman Robinson, 30 next Brian November, who as a lone rider won a one-day stage in 1958 and the 1959 Tours.

For what other event can be seen by anything up to 30,000,000 people? An event they say that is as strenuous as riding six Derby winners a day and keep ing it up for a fortnight.

'Very good'

All France rises to these Tour riders, carrying colours as bright and mixed as any jockey's, as they set off on a ride round the leafy lanes, the broad valleys, and over the high peaks of France, a ride that in 21 daily stages will take them exactly -2,6071⁄2 miles.

It is reputed an easy run this year, almost 200 miles less than last year's distance with its bits of Belgium and Spain thrown in. And over all this ground the winner's average speed was 221 miles an hour,

the

And of 28-year-old Lanca shire-born Norman Shiel, twice world pursuit champion. He is a wizard apparently, in time trials.

Then there is another York shireman, Victor Sutton, who will come into his own hall-way round when the four gela 7,000 feet up into the Alps. For Victor is a 25-year-old cyclist who can fly up hills.

Adviser

Up in old Montmartre I found the

British team's technical director: a Frenchman, 49-year- old 1937 Tour champlon Sauveur Ducazeau, who explained that for expenses and the fun of it he is putting his brains at Bri- tain's disposal.

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JULY

It sends 40 reporters repre- senting one Paris newspaper round and round behind the cyclists and so it goes on uphill at 10 miles an hour, downhill at 50 miles an hour, until July 17, when 128 hunched backs, or as many of them as are still in the race, whizz past Notre Dame, heading for the thin chalk line of victory in Paris,

First man over the line, if not wealthy for life, will be fairly

rich

Spirit

Prize money this year totals £4,798. A winner of a day's ride gets £150 and he gets that plus a bit more if he leads the field for the next day as well

Offbeat time trials can bring a man more cash. There are prizes for "fightingness" for which a rider would qualify if he toppled over a precipice for instance and got up and rode on.

There are even bad-luck- prizes so that the Tour de France cyclists stand

a falr The Tour de France is extra

chance of riding home with a Important this year, for eight

nice washing machine slang young men will be riding in it

Dcross their handlebars and for England, all hopeful that at

plenty to come in the years "Your riders are game, the end. their white shirts de-

all ahead for having made such oprated with black hoops, if not right. When an Englishman gets statements as "If I had had a way up in front will not be too something into his head puncture on the 47th Tour de far behind the Frenchmen reckon his legs just have to France I would have used only favourites for final victory-follow. Some of our boys will so and so's gum solution to and the Italians,

have to look out.”

mend it."

Here is the "They're off!" forecast by the man who will be seeing most of the British riders, their masseur, Bill Shillibeer: "They are good. In fact, they are very good; every muscle in

Politics just does not exist in France when the Bidots and the Gauls have their way. The Tour not only gets motorists off the road, it knocks Algeria oft the front pages.

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Nencini retains Tour De France

overrall lead

Toulouse, July 7 Italian rider Gastone Nencini, who finished sixth in today's twelfth huge," retained the overall lead in the Tour De France eycling (marathon, 2

With a total time of 6 hours one minute 32 secs, he leads from Roger Riviere, of France, 62:03:10. and Jean Adria Fäs- sens, of Belgium 62:03:57.

Jean Graczyk, of France, won today's 176 kilometres stage from Luchon to Toulouse in hours 37 mins 52 sec

Michel Van Aerde (Belgium) was second und Nino De Filippis (Italy) third, both in the same

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Benfor DOG: Garrison CYMCA. Victoria Pool, J. pim.

MCC defied by Australian

chuckers

Sydney.

Army's champion

shot again

Warrant Officer EriaTM chell of the 30%

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He scored 629 out of a pos- sible 759.

The 1961 Test geries between England

and Australia for the Ashes has the Butts Home Condes Bri-

Corporal Brian Robinson of

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man who was making his first statements from controversial Aus-pearance at Bisley. came second with 621 pointe eleven fralian Test bowlers Gorden Rorke peints ahead of Captain H

Melpas, Small Arms School and Jon Meckiffy

· cham- Corpos, the 1947 Army pion.

RORKE: "Most definitely I will not change my style of bowling until an umpire declares

A COMMISSION that I throw. The controversy which has raged since Australia beat England is rot. Warrant Omoer Mitchell was will not bow to the stupidity of English critics, due to leave the Army this reat after a 22-year engagement, "The laws of cricket define the umpire as the sole judge but he lies been granted a com- of fair bowling, I will obey any gapire's ruling, mission as a lieutenant in the

Royal

Army Ordance. Corps.

but I am absolutely certain I-do not throw or chuck the ball. The suggestion that I do is plain stupid.” He also won the Walkin. Cup (Class (A), the Army Hundred individual

MECKIFF: "I don't see why for a ruling on what constitutes and the Coronation

So the cricket world is now split bitterly into two camps.

I should change my style, and I a throw. don't see way anyone in Austra- lis would try to make me. The caly places where I have been accused of throwing are England and the West Indies and I have not visited either..

cup.

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4th Training Battalion REME carried of the Coronation team cup, and

The cricket summit pieeting on Corporal Robinson July 14 MUST find a solution.uccessful in the Manchester otherwise international matches Regiment Cup (Class B)..

"My bowling has been-Aimed are in peril China Mail Special. Banews Service

in slow motion and given every

kind of test you can think of, but there has never been any proof that I throw.

"And from what I have seen on television I don't think Griffin throws either. And that seems to be the general opinion in. Australia."

Challenge

So the stage is now set for the most explosive cricket tour since the Larwood "bodyline" series in Australia in 1932-33, which England won 4----1.

Australian newspapers Mad cricketers interpret the balling of South African Geoff

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Sir Donald Bradman-one of the men who suffered against Larwood-has refused to be pulled into the controversy.T

In Adelaide' he said he had seen no pictures of Grifin in action and could not comment as he was the Australian delegate at the Imperial Cricket Con- ference at Lord's on July 14.

"I am going to have a lot of interesting things to say at the Conference, but I am not pre- pared to say at this stage what they are, or if I am going to talk about throwing" said Sir Donald before he felt for Eng- land last Sunday.

Impossible

Australians consider the ban- ning of Griffin a personal chal- lenge and newspapers have car- ried angry editorials.

In South Africa Alan Melville forher Springbok captain and convenor of, the national selec tion committee said: "A throw is a throw. It is 25 simple as that but I don't see how a definition for the Taw on throwing is going to be worked

out"

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South African Test umpire Jim McMenamin said: "I think the no-bulling law is clear. but it is almost imporible for any umpire to establis when a bow- ler throw"

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