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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1960,

THE PHONE CALL FROM IRELAND TIPPED "ANOTHER DUNCAN EDWARDS OLYMPIC STANDARDS

Boy star is key player in AT WHITE CITY

THE POWER the new Busby plan

SECRET AT

THE TOP

By STANLEY MATTHEWS

vary.

by JAMES · CONNOLLY

"I've just seen another Duncan Edwards.” It was, this urgent telephone call from Belfast to Old Trafford that sent Joe Armstrong, Man- chester United's chief scout, hurrying into manager Matt Busby's

room.

I have played against or seen

The message was from Bob, content that with Nicholson alf the teams challenglog for Harpur, United's chief acout in at left-helf and Maurice Setters the lead at the top of the Northern Ireland a man whose at right-hält, we will get back First Divisions,

our old pre-Munich hali- Judgment" had þem responsible to Their styles

from the for finding many a promising back strength." polished artistry of Spurs to youngster for the Manchester Only a few months ago Peter The 3100 - step dynamie | stub. strength of Wolves, but there And is fine his praise was manager, told me "This bay kune roucane key to their ecstatic,

had found [A] has everything but experience," RUCTION this

"tetural" NENON the

Danny Blunchflower, power of their half-backs.

fle

Madl Birby

Doherty,

Ireland's

Spurs seted quickly, and

town!

"I hope to be back in the. game," he told me, "but not at the £9 a week Fulham terms.”

Ipswich, Swansea, Watford, are some of the clubs who have Brighton, and Crystal Palace

shown Interest In Stokes.

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make Ireland TXPECT Blackpool to skipper, says: another bid for TONI Or went Amistrong to Belfast "Nicholson is going to be one MARCHI, the ' £30,000 Spurg to watch Jimmy Nicholson, a of the besi half-backs for wing half. But, although Marchi tall, dark-haired wing-half years." and Manchester Cy is unhappy with reserve team hell-playinkin

1 schools inter-skipper Ken Barnes describes football, he doesn't want to national.

hin i5 "quite remarkably leave London, brilliant."

indeed fortunate to Spurs are

the venus of Danny Jiny "Blanch lower and the

playing brilliance of Dave Mackay prodding their tack.

Those two never forget her primary defence Job, but they are always there to Join up in a seven-mon forward line.

PHENOMENAL

The ribution of Mackay is ¦

phenomenal. ile makes

all look so simple. 3e just sticks out a toot and the ball goes straight to its target. It

1 so nonchalant, yet deadly lo effort.

This. I think. Is the secret

Spurs. The forwards are never allowed to remain idle,,

Poise, power

Nichulson was only 15 but Armstrong knew at once th. ins Irish seoul's praise had nut bern exaggerated..

The boy had the polse and power, the stamp of genius, that Duncan Edwards had shown at the same age. So when Armstrong back to Manchester, Nicholson

with 1'23

him--signed on amateur forms as player.

Mall Busby

came

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Duacan Edwards was Nichol- son's Soccer hero. " always THAT dreamed of playing for Man- chester United," says Jimmy. QUIGLEY could start big

Forest Nottingham

clearance ine sole. "When the scout asked if I would sign for Manches-

Men

inside

forward

transfer request from

JOHN

like

winger

TONY

ter United I nearly fainted... BARTON, contre-forward TOM "I love it here at Old T-WILSON. "Inside-forward ford, but I never thought COLIN BOOTH and goalkeeper would be in the first team 300R,"

57 JOIN ARMSTRONG may be

offered.

Nicholson went to a Rugby | school in Belfast, but he played United Soccer in the evenings wit ni week-ends for Line Boyland

which Club,

had previously That was two years ago, when producet Jackie Blanchflower

searching Latent to rend By Bingham. is an all-out policy of attack. I desperately for

had with men

like Bobby hulid the great beam that

Mel's comeback andrelled so much on keyman Dun- Smith, Jabn While,

can Edwards.

MEL CHARLES,

CBI Jones in the can you

spearhead wonder that Spurs are the most feared team in the League?

It is Just the same pattern at Wolverhampton Power plus wine halves with the forward thrust that shaiters; rival defences, Eddle; Clamp and Ben Flowers, the Wolvry wing halves, máy not have the dality pattern- wraving style of the Totten- ham pale, but they are just asi enngeraus,

POWER

They suddenly burst lato sellon, ... bore their way through the opposition, and -Troquently re- feuse net-crushing shots

It is his power bekind the at- tack that makes Wolves such dangerous opponents.

Shefeld

AL HIJRsborough the

Wednesday fans will tell you that inside forward Johnny

Fugikom is the key man of the attack; that his mercuriar genfus is electrifying his col- leagues.

But for my money is QUES again the half-buck power

story, Tony Kay-in the

Detectors' notebooks A future England possible - And Jimmy McAnearney ure two brilliant wing halves playing superb stuff bebind elever attack,

So when you cheer the glamour.

grabbing forwards, just spare,

a thought for the men be-

hind, the players who

dn

all the donkey work and keep the game going.

Sports Diary

TODAY Bowls All Cup matches at KRGC, KCC. Recreo, PRC, IKPC, IRC at 5.15

Tepills

pini.

LRC champicap matelies At 5.30 pm.

Cup at

Golf

Ladies Section: Chinese Deep Water Day, 1.45 am,

TOMORROW Yachting Annual meeting of Royal Kong- kong Yacht Club Kellet Island, 0 DIA,

Swimming

HK Life Guard Club annual gala

al Victoria Park Pool, 7pm.

Bow!

» Colony Ladies' Open Singles sent!- finals, 5.30 pm.

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

i

Arsenal's £40,000-plus wing half, make his comeback in

Nicholson played

for twitt Ireland "B" last season. but it will

that was only this season

by about three weeks.. was picked for the Manchester third team. United League team for the first time.

in the

"He is in full training," says United have made a shocking manager George Swindin, but she has got to get back to match start this season, but Busty baciding

For the fitness after his cartilage opera- hunch. second time be nims

to make lon." Manchester United great with u trenge star at wing-half.

"If ever there is going to be FULHAM'S

this "B" leader, ALF STOKES, mother' Dunean Edwards.

is the boy," says Mutt.

"I know we have disappointed our supporters so far, but I am

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former

* England

West Ham target

AURIE LESLIE

(Airdric),

the Scottish League goal-

keeper, is the new West Ham target. They have watched him

twice.

Wo

Hls price is likely to rocket because he is now the big rival the to Blil Brown (Spurs) for full Scottish side."

$3 **

* WOLVES scouts are scouring the Midlands, looking for now young stars. Under review last week were Notts County winger PETER BIRCUMSHAW team-mate goalkeeper and his GEORGE SMITH.

** NORDON HUGHES,

moving 21-year-old

પ

Jimmy

Nicftalsan-

"I nearly falnied when

I was asked to sign for

Manchester United, always dreamed

playing for them."

London.

Since the heyday of Roger Bannister, Chris Chat- away, Derek Ibbotson and Gordon Piric the public has lost its chthusiasm for athletic meetings, but they came back in their thou- sands over 30,000 of them-to see the "Little Rome" tournament staged at the White City.

It was an Olymple Games in miniature. and went to prove that if you give the people good entertainment, no matter in which sport ur on the singa or screen, they will support it.

There has never been such galaxy of stars gathered in Eng- land before, not even after the post-war Olympics in Europe at Wembley and Helsinki, and re- cords crushed like ninepints. Two workd records went by the bart, United Kingdom All- Comers' records were beaten aight times and equalled twice, and the English girl Olympic silver medallists, Dorothy Ity- inan and Carol Quinton duly won the 220 yards and 80 metres huidics,

Greater feat

Yet il was not a world record run which Imprinted Itself on the memory, It was the 3 mins 58.6 secs-mile of that Prince of middle distance Herb runners.

Australian

Elliott.

amous sports stars

I have met

By

ARCHIE

QUICK

Above all others the football professional who became a legend in his life-

time was wee Alex James, the fun-loving maestro in the baggy pants.

He burst upon the English, Preston North End at Ports- cene with the brillance of a mouth in September 1926.

It is

retrospect, 11

Now, In was indeed meteor, and it

ORE of those hallowed privliege and an honour to be

we! when he made his

about which present he is quitting being dropped, has asked for a Engilsh debut in the colours of

with almost

bated transfer.

still has not re-signed but that castle right winger, does not mean football.

Four D. Jones RUSHES TO

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Just the weather for Rowntree's JELLIES

As always-

ILFORD

It was the first time the tour, minute barrier had been cracked in Grent Britain since this wunder men accompushed the fent on the same track, two years ago. Yet this was a greater achievement, for it was done in a drenching downpour of rain, on a sodden track, and Eillott made it look like a training spin.

Equally fantastic was the new world record lime set up by the Commonwealth half milers, Aus- tralian Tony Blue, Jamaican

Korr, George

Britain's Tom: Farrell and New Zealand gold medalist Peter Snell, in the relay. Their V ming 18 secs, however, will not go down in the record bookta, because it was set up by a composite" team, The losing American side's 7 mina 19.4 gers, however, will stand.

Shell showed his class like Elliott, and so did two-mlier Murray Halberg, also from gal- lant Bitle New Zealand. but the United States beat the Common- wealth in all the other events to win the match by fourteen races - to three. In terrible conditions, there

was phenomenal John Thomas clearing the high jump at seven feet for the first time in this country and there were four Americans beating world time in the four times 440 yurtis. relay. There is however, faster time awalling ratification.

An amazing thing

most

Yet one of the amazing things'of all was the after-race commans of Ellioti who id: "I thought the mile was to be a team event.

I had not attuned myself mentally for an individual' FITETM*

Elliott will be in this country broath,

very much, I up for three years, studying for pose, as they did the select a science degree at Cambridge few who were with. Henry | Universily. “Study must come at Agincourt.

before athletics,” he said, "but, of course, shall have to take Within a month of that first part in University meetings, pearance James won his first International "cap" for Scot- land, and he did much to lay foundation of the ino Preston side of a few years later which reached the Cup Final and finished third in the First Division. He made Pres- ton poud again, but he did not share in their near triumph for he moved on to

greater fame with the Arsenal in 1930.

the

Sensational bid

That game at Fratton I shall always remember. It was o

"One thing that must not hap-. pen is for me to be constantly called upon to race.. My future and my family's future must come first, I looks as "though I shall get back to Australiu just in time to train for the Tokyo Olympics. That is if I am good enough in 1964."Banews Ser vice.

Date and venue

Third Round Cup tie in Forts for Davis Cup

mouth's promotion, scBaon 10 the First Division, James had gone to Preston only a week earlier from Raith Rovers where he had been a member of the Storks Park forward fine for which Millwall made a sensational £10,000 bid for the live of them.

inter-zone final

Melbourne, Sept. 18. The Devis Cup Inter-zone final between the European zone champions and the winners of the Eastern and American pone Manager Major Tom Logan cloth, will be played at Perth, told me not so long ago in his Western Australia, frorn Decem cafe in Great Missenden in ber 9 to 11. This was decided Buckinghamshire that he sold by the Australian Lawn Tennis James, Collier, and Jennings Association at its meeting here separately and got more for the tonight. three than Millwall's offer for the entire line.

James was not a man of the Klaxon of Fife, however, for Je hailed from Bellshit, near Glasgow and the hometown also of the great Hughle Gallacher. He played brilliantly at Ports- mouth and led North End to a shack 4-1 victory.

The victorian and New South Wales Association will meet to decide the venue of the Eastern- American zone match..

The Australian Association also decided to invite Wimble don champion Maria Bueno, of Brazil, and another top woman player-either Bandra Reynolds, Herbert of South Africa or Darlene Hard, for of the United States to compete for the Victorian and New South Wales title.-Reuter.

When Manager Chapman bought

him Arsenal it was as successor 10 Charilo Buchan, but James was

of no known style.

Ho

role

was a genius and bla war to lie deep initiato the attacks for

and

the

fast wing raids of Cliff Hastin and Joe Hulmo.

Master-mind

The Janice mould has been kroken and will never be made

World Equestrian

Championships

Venice, Sept. 19. Defending world champion Raimondo Dinzes tonight woh the San Marco prizo, first event

again. He mew no rules, but of the Fifth. World Equestrian

Wog the master-mind of, Championships, Arsenal in their succession of

hie

Cap

Dinzco, who also won a gold Final appearances and medal in the Rome Olympics, League Championship successes rode Cowran Girl

and it is not too much to say The Premio Ban Mares was that he was the controlling | the first qualification event for force behind Beotland's greatest liña championships-UPI

over team ther: Wembley Blue Devils of 1928.

The tales told of this tiny to belie the slander on Boots

Alex was zonerous to 'à fault Brot. are endless. He knew nomen, he was a hopeless bu rules off the 'floki alther, and

although he was a friend of easier, but there were thou princes and beggars he was no ends at his North London respecter of persons. He was the funeral when he died seco paratively carly, aco uffer scrufflest sokiler I ever saw, yeon painful and uncomplaining he would converse with generals

filness. completely at no.

My favourite anbedota

Ho shocked tillary poling him? When, he turned to me at Hiibt when, as an.... IA gunnet, Jah, Inter-Command gamt he produced A, KIDEM, IAVILAM pointer to flg wartime,

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