1960-07-22 — Page 9

SINANAL TRAY ULY 100

HENRY LONGHURST on GOLF Britain must take the lead

REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE OF TENNIS

CENTENARY 'OPEN'

No one who saw the Open Championship, either in person, dr of the tele-

vision, is likely ever to forget it.

As the years go on and senility approaches, I find that I forget, of postwar championship whether it was a "Thomson Year" or a "Locke Year" but I shall remember the Centenary Open to my dying day as the "Nagle-nearly-Palmer-Year

Old friend

I should like to pay a personal, paper asked if they could take mg extending the championship tribute to ach

a photograph of him, in bed. to four days, as the Americans Within a few minutes of his Everyone hoped that we should do and finishing with a vast traumph I recorried a scarers, de poé him and his charming wife crowd on the Saturday.' It Wo eight-minute talk with Nagle for again. transmission on Australian telo- vision. He held the trophy in ] one hand and the, decal Cen- tenary replica a most beautiful work of art in the other, and was HIS championship. Yet he spent most of the pay ing tribute to Peter Thomson nd the help he had given him over the years, how he ploted him round the Old Course; and how he had won four cham- is, Nagle's plonships against ode. One's heart warmed towards him,

enable the arts dore to wit- DėŠS the champions to Sty nothing of helping to fill the £5195 } coffèrs. Another old friend who pro mised to come back was Grene Satzen. His 68 in the first qual tying round marked, the first occasion on which he had broken

Unassuming

Of Painiër 'one can daly say that, he must be not only the world's leading golfer, with unfold miceries ahead, but also one of the most up- proachable and unseraming of merk

He said just the right things shout the Old Codese (whatever be may have thought!) and did not even revolt when a news.

Sports Diary

TO-DAY

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V. COC EXPSA v USRC, INC

about the Old Course-but, in a Polimer, as I say, was polite way, he did not really see Americans, it is sald play go 70 at St. Andrews and has total of the air that is to say they 141 was head even of Palmer.reckon to pitch on the fairwax What an achievement at the age and stop, and then pitch on the

green and stop. of '58!

interesting to say whom

Sarazen, always has something to say he is one of the few would willingly sit up half the night talking goland it was in conversation with him that we evolved a simple solution to an admittedly unsatisfactory feature of the championship.

By the present rules the limit to qualify is 100. It so happened this year that 74 were. "In" and 28 tied for the repling 20 places, All 28, therefore, were “Out," This, though unavoidable, was ex- tremely hard.

It occurred to us that a 100 should quality every year and those, who, by tieing, made it more than 100 should ballot for the available places, immediate ly after the close of play,

This with the greens watered and rained upon, he was able to

IS AT STAKE

By ROY MCKELVIE

Those men and nations interested

fown tennis tournaments open to amdtéuts and professionals must not take their defeat by the International: Federation meeting in Paris lying down.

New campaigns, new arguments and new facts must be produced to convince the wayerers that the Federation's rejection of open tournaments is wrong!

In this Britain, with the sup Even the LTA in Britim are port af en dinami diminis by no means thefimele 26ld trator, like Mr 3. Eatod Grinths on open tennis. If that is and the backing of Wimbledon how can you countri the world's mber successful like Turkey Ahund, terpl

tournament, must and get of others fegy mature amateur take a leading part before the in the game to be in frivolit? next Federation meeting in July

`Yet the vote ififunt up at 1981;

the conference table

Personality

So. too. must France and Italy.

With an alme complete absence of wind, players of his length and strength were reducing no fewer than 1% of the per-four holes, dancing An 2) Aimes even the Host Hof,

sent

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Complaints

Jock Hutchison, who, won thera

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in 1921 and can remember evi shot he played in his wonderful final round of 70,

Many of his seconit als na turry were placed with wooden club Now 76, he had an 82 the Arst, qualifying round. is set another adbere bellet

that a shorter, bållew of course, shorter tees

fy is the only more bumble

answer.

I conclude with two plants.

Finest finale This principle could apply equally well for the limited 50 who can quality for the final FC day. This would, I am con- vinced, be admitted us fair by ell concerned.

The catering in the The postponement on the ment tents, now, so Friday which caused 忽 cer-proved 16 England. tat

"bind still eaves much to by, some who Were Secondly, some not present at the club house to geant major should see what it was like, gave us in to deal with the they end the finest finale to a autograph pest championship that I have ever the five upwar seem. So much so, in fact, that vaxded the It must surely be worth consider- Royal ander

2nd Dertsion; HRIC 1 KDC, HRC VRKCC, USRC V PRC, nd

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personanty and prowess of its chagions.

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SPORTRAIT

U.S. team wins

Royal Horse

LANCASHIRE'S CRICKET CHAMPIONSHIP HOPES Barber may captain MCC on New Zealand tour

By ARCHIE QUICK

The War of the Rowes has broken out again. York- shire and Lancashire are at each other's throats fighting for the County Cricket Championship which the Tykes won last summer for the first time since 1949 then only shared with Middle sex-and which the County Palatine has not wort since 1950 when they shared it with Surrey.

success.

One has to go back to 1946 | but it is hard luck in Lanca- for an outright, White Rose vic- } shire when I am going spare and tory and to 1934 för a Red Rose Statham and Pullar are also' Qway. As for my living in a This season, however, Lanca- separate hotel from the rest of shire seem likely to be the one the team, it is the policy of the cointy most likely to wrest the County Comittee, I do not mind honour, from their near and one way or the other, and I feel dear rivals from across the that in some ways the protės- Pentines, and what is more. cionats prefer not to have me apart from Middlesex the two hanging around with them. all

youngest clevens in the compe- titions.

Show top event counties are leading the the title

London, July 21, The United States "Olympic team today won the Prince of Wales Cup, the major team event in the Royal International Horse Show at the White City

They had only 27 fault for two rounds over á tříčký 14- Sebe, obstacle course by four riders,

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: CLEAR ROUNDS Only three clear rounds were accomplished. They were by A koc the Amarians, Hugh, Wiley, on sappointing." Master William ard Bilt tuna Stelpaus on White Riviera, dd, David Broome, of Britain, on Sunsalve.

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Led by the 24-year-old Cambridge Blue Bob' Kårder, Lancashire are convinced that this is the year, despite the Test calls on Brian Statham, Geoff Pailar and Harber him- self, plus an abnormal number of injuries.

Top leg-spinner

Tails up

Ken Grieves, the big Aura- Ban who has also kept goal for Bolton Wanderers and Bury, said the team started playing really well after beating York- shire at Headingley "That made us cockahoop and we have had our tails up ever since. All we want to do now is complete the 'double' in the return match at Old Trafford.”-

Barber, from Ruthin School, played for the Light Blues in 1958 and 1957, and made his Grieves thought Lancashire England debut in the first Test had a fine batsman of the match against South Africa last

future in young Jack Bond month. In the second and third who has recently found his Tests be was relegated to form after being given his twelfth man because three- first extended senior-run, pronged fast attack was pre- Added Grieves: "Tommy ferred and Alan Moss got the Greenhough has ironed out his last place. Strangely enough, action troubles and we are Barber is now England's No. 1 lucky to have two such bowlers for the leg spinner's job_rather as him and the skipper. It is his teammate. Tommy the best attack of its kind in the than. Greenhough who went on the country. And Higgs is going West Indian trip last winter. to make Statham a good fast Barber paid a tribute to his partner too. There is not a predecessor in the Lancashire better wickelsener in the caplakacy Cyril Washbrook, championship than Clayton, but when I met him at Hastings, we are patchy at times in our "Cyril Jid the foundation of batting after the openers have this fine young side" he said, gome." #ank be came along to Old The Japanese riders were Trafford before the sort of the omdicernate. In the they h serson and gave us a lot of

sapien comh- advice.

rain, of "I naturally feel honoured at Römer. | getting to the Test twelve,

B finished scent with it dries need scrietaling to revive 40 faults, Argentina third with 6241⁄2 the Republic of Ireland fourth with 72 and Japan att and last with 1324 faults.

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I understand that Barber is being considered by the MCC as a ponsible explain for the short tour of New Zealand this win- ber, although I believe that Ted Dexter 19 still first favourite.

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