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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1900.

LEAGUE CUP HAS BROUGHT

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SOCCER CHAOS Clubs are forced to

play too many games

ON THE BALL

with Bill Slater

which this

season altended the match between

Crystal Palace and the amateur cluo How successful is the Foot», Leagge Cup than in the Leagire.

Palace and It happened at Darlington, litchin Town, ball League Cup com-

where 6,427 supporters watched chin, however, were playing petition? In the first week of League match with Crystal in THE CUP-the FA com

Painee and 9,940 turned up for petillon,

Cup nmich. season, 1 attacked

the this

And these figures tend to fatter the Cup contest, Often there is a far greater slump in the Cup matches, especial. ly where First Division clubs. are at home to clubs from lower divisions.

extra tournament — per- haps a little prematurely. Now, with more than 60 League

matches Cup played, it seems fair to make an appraisal of this new attraction. Here are the cold facts

and figures: G0-odd matches which have been played, the majority have attracted less than the average-} the sized. gates of the chibs involved.

of

the

A few successes Witness how Nottinghre

League match Forest's

12 drew November

a below- #verage' gate of 18,570 specta-

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110

Statistics can often be walk- leading. But here surely Is overwhelming evidence that the new League Cup has fall- ed to exclle special Interest and that is certainly threat to the FA Cup with 89 years of tradition behind It. Why has It received such a lukewarm reception? One cause must be the piecemeal presente- tion of the programme.

For Leen

100 muddled, matches played

It has with muny

tors Three days Inter. Forest different nights. Motches in one were at home to Bristol City hand, have even been players attendance: Before the previous round has

been completed. 3,890.

.Cup.

The

Drama is missing

I'm

no amateur, admits Sports Diary ace miler Waern

Sweden's Dan Waern, one of the world's greatest athletes, confessed in Stockholm that he is not an amateur, and was not an amateur when he finished fourth in the world record-breaking 1,500 metres final at the Rome Olympics.

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10 Swedish perlodical "Perhaps sport is not intend, he has paid only £1,723 down, Another sad fret about this Waern has written: "I run some|ed for ordinary people. Multi Following his purchase of the competition is that overloading 50 races during the normal sea-millionaire Avery Brundage estate, and rumours about other the domestic programme dora son, so

that international sports stars, the how could I possibly doubtless has not thought DI international support myself and my family there are people who cannot Swedes set up a committee to interests. Top cluths 42 nol it 1 did nol violate amateur afford to sacrifice hundreds of Inquire Into accusations that top encouraged to play against | rules?"

pounds to be able to indulge in athletes were being paid to ruce. sport."!

help

crack overse clubs. And it presents one more obstacle in

Waern-who has six sub-four-

the way of much-needed minute-mile runs to his credit- practice games for the England

team.

Splendid plan

After England's triumph over Spain, there Wia much talk about arranging practice zames #guinst League clubs to bridge the five-month

until wap

{1} England meets Scoliond April. This a splendid plan, Unfortunately, Lingue and two- Cup Axtures now fit many winter

and etubs naturally be reluctant to add to the rirain their players.

dates

may

As usual, we seem to have confusion or priorities. I reminded of this only

was at League

To ta leolutely fair. I have Studied attendancès. tunel Cig: matches involving the

1:21,

the <12

Sam glunds, The gares arena follows:

SOBO

Only one larger

Stockport v Carlisle--8,073 12

And Inst week Brighton had a sate of only 4,050 their smallest crowd since they won prame- tion to the Second Division two years ago. The match: a third round- League Cup against Wrexhtum.

Of course, there have been a Darl. few notable eccenses. ington welcomes a record crowd

Derby

It has lacked the high drama of the FA Cup where the thrill is followed of one "Cup Day

by an exciting draw for the next round.

No doubt this will be adjusted next year. Even so, I cannot i welcome this "new competition 1 which has plunged the fixture

The football season was over-

of 91,123 for their Cup funtehst into greater chans than ever. The Ligue, 7,000 in the Cup: i against Bollon, And Port Vale v QPR-8,802 and enjoyed wa púove-average Rate Lulon-27,339 of 21,884 for their meeting with 6,#19; Liverpool ak 10.502; Shrewsbury Norwich. Swindon--7,330 and 5,343; Pre- But these

exceptional ston v Aston Villa 11.093 and i deures. Only three League 7,577.

Cup matches have topped the 28,000 mark and 21,804 is the highest figure so far.

are

Tean Bil only one case this setton where the same clubs, playing on the rame gound, at- That is only a few hundred tracted larger crowds in the more than The 21.118 crawd

-

rated

Opaline li

England's best two-year-old

London, Nov-28.

of

Jast week when I switched on

the hope television in

the Important Rhelms European

watching

Burnley

Cup tie.

Here was a really Interesting match

excellent between two

11 could teams-yet

101 be gereened in full. It would have been enunter-attsvetion ใน

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prawled with fixtures before this new contest was introduced. Now

We have cases of some six League Cup matches

being played that night! clubs playing_three Rames In less than a week. There has!

One advantage League has been been such congestion that the;

forced {p Of course, the League Cup abandon its original plan to basi one great advantage. reach the Len Cup semi- final stage before Christmas,

Moreover, I see no evidence that it provides better quallly football, as was hoped. In- deed reports suggest that some clubs play below their usual Form in the League Cup and certainly they do not always; held their strongest ieam- witness haw Buruley chose '10 reserves In their teant to oppose Brentford: And who can blame They already have

Financially, proves a much- nected extra stared of income for the smaller chiba. 13 I du bat believe that this should

DAN WAERN Under-the-counter mile ace.

A denial

Waern did not reveal how much he has been paid.

He denler that he pair £25,800

cash for the woodert estate he recently bought. In the Article Waern says that the price was actually £34,480, but that

In spite of his confessions, Waern is not considering

immediate relirement.

At

my

"I may

his run next year," article concludes. "But forests will eventually take all my time.

*If things go well perhaps shall carn so much money that can afford to be an amateur." China Mail Special,

THOMPSON: MINE'S O.K.

Olympic gold ain't wot it used t'be

By ROY MOOR

Fings ain't quite what they ought t' be for New Zealand's Olympic champion, Peter Snell. The winner of the 800 metres final in Rome took a look at his hard-won gold medal in Auckland recently and discovered it was peeling.

The medai has seldom left its; 50-kilometre rond-wale winner, case since he Was presented to learn: "Mine seemed all right with it

on the Reme rostrea. when I last took a look at it. I yet bare metal was showing on must have a check at the first the high spots of both sides. He opportunity I knew, of course, the medals are not supposed to was horrified.

be solid gold."

I must check gated at the expense of Puproving top-level soccer with fixtures against strong overseas clubs.

If the Leg Cup is to have ny red lasting value, it coul be as a compersaliwn to smaller club, who might lose # then? through the introduction of a League" and lower heavy "Super

divisions of reduced sizes. Then enough commitments-and sue-

Saturdays, on the lines of

The Aga Khan's French-trained filly, Opaline II, as in the League Cup does not all the matches will be held

is considered to be the best two-year-old towe have run in England this season.

In the weights for the Two- your-old Free Handicap drawn up by Mr Geoffrey Freer, the English Jockey Club handi- expper, Opaline 11, a daughter of Hyperion, has been allotted top weight of 3 st 7 Rs. Tiz filly easily won the Cheveliy Park Stakes at Newmarket in September on her enly appear- unce in Englund,

Trish horses, all trained by Paddy Prendergast, fill second, third and fourth places. They ure Typhoon, with 5 st 6 1 Fluribunda, 9 st 5 ibs Kathy Too, 9 81 4 lbs.

Three-year-olds

anil

In the Free Handicap for three-year-olds, top weight has gone to the Derby and St Leger winner St Paddy, with St 7 Jbs. Next is Profile (0 st us). who WAN DIY of England's Jepresentatives in the Washing- ton International earlier this incnth. Hallon-trained filly Marguerite Vernaut, winner of The Champion Stakes

New- market is third with #sts. -China Mall Special.

Not retiring yet says

46-year-old Scobie Breasley.

Melbourne, Nov. 20.

"There's a good few years left in me yol" 46-year-old

Arthur. ald on his i

Australien Jockey

"Scoble" Breasley

drrival here from England to- day.

He scoffed at the idea of re- tirement.

"I feel no good, as over, and 1 am riding, I think, Just as well us I have ever done," he said.

Breasley, who rode 153 vin- ners in England this year and Binished second to Lester Piggott in the jockeys' championship, plans to return to England in two months to resume as No. 1 lcckey for Sir Gordon Richards nd Mr Norman Bertie-China Mall Species.

CURRIE CUP CRICKET

Port Elizabeth, Nov. 23. Tremsukal "AR side best Eastern Province by Reven wickets in a Curris Cup, cricket match which ended here today before lunch.

Final scores were: Eastern Province: 110 (K. Walter five far 82, D. Siowaru four for '08) and 212 (G. Borman 07, 11. Taylleid four for 78, K. Walter three, for.30)..

„Transvaal A": 230 (3. Walte b) and on for Liree Router.

Four D. Jones

BY MADDOCKS

LIFE

AMONG

WEIRDIES

the summe wlaring Lengas konuts,

JONES HAS PASSED THROUGH: | THE FOURTH DIMENSION

AND ARRIVED SOMEWHERE IN TIME...

FERDINAND

NANCY

NNI

POOR' SLUGGO---

I THINK I'LL FORGIVE HIM AND BE FRIENDS AGAIN

HOW WIIERE THE BLAZES AMI?

GUESS

WHO?

BRICK BRADFORD

WHAT DO YOU "THINK CAUSED

ALL THIS

THE GOVERNMENT PROBABLY_DISCOVERED THE CONSPIRACY DEVELOPING HERA, AND STRUCK BEFORE IT

WAS TOO LATIS!

p

as! un

FA

Cup the FA Cup

ER-- LET'S SEE --- WHO COULD

IT BE--

WELL, AT

(All rights reserved)

LEAST I'M ALL

IN ONE PIECE

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Joc

went en: "If I had followed the

They have not been solid gold amateur rules to the letter, I

So was

McManemin, since 1912, because of the cost. tu should not have been able

Snell's team manager at the Mr Otto Mayer, scerclary of i compete in the Games at Roms.

Games, Joe decided to ahow the International Olymple com- the ruies the

medal at the annual mice, told me from Lausanne, "According to

New Zealand's Switzerland yesterday: "The meeting of which Olympic super-god

AAA and press for a protest Rome medals should not start Avery Brundage (President of

peeling. against the poor quality. International- Olympic the

The gold film on the surface, ¦ Committee) so warmly ad-

he claims, is 10 more than vocates I am not an amateur. Nor, for that matter, is any Issue thick. other athlete in this country. schoolchildren.-accord- Even

ing to these rules, are profes-

lunais.

NOW THEN, I'LL MEER"/ TAKE A LOOK AROUND AND SEE IF THE

PLACE IS

CIVILIZED

BANG

By Mik

WELL, I KNOW IT ISN'T NANCY---SHE'S TOO MULE-HEADED

TO GIVE IN

HAYİ FLASH YOUR

LIGHT OVER HER

IT'S A TRACTOR! MAYBE IT HAS LIGHTS. WE CAN TURN ONE

By Ernie Bushmiller

„ERNIE"

BUSHMILke littus

VRAH,

WHAT, I

THAT'O

WAS

! "THINKING]

By Paul Norris

IT'S A MINS AUCER IS USED *TO DIR SHAPTE

AND TUNNELS 18)

"If this is happening, I hope the champions will let me know nt onee, and I'll see that the unmediately meduis are changed." went to Britain's precious Gold Medals-all two of them?

My thoughts

I located Don Thompson, the

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Sheaffer's

BUT I ALWAYS

TRAVEL

SWISSAIR

The Aftiine of

Awitzerland

Now...

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Fen For Ven

THE BOLD NEW PEN DESIGHED EXCLUSIVELY FOR HEN

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Delicious

PEPPERMINT

blavour

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TODAY Becerr

1st Diviaross: Rih v sing TEO Boundary-atreel) 9.30 pm.

Nesting

IK Badm Executive Com millor meeting, 31, St George's Bldg, 5.30 pm.

at H

TOMORROW

Roccer Combined Chinese v Corla Alcane

by Jack Kramer's troupe at Chinese Recrea-

lon Club, A

Kxhibitalum, & pm.

Pakistan

draw with

West Zone

Abmedabad, Nov. 28.

wicket 'stand of 95 by Mustaq Mohammed *and Wall Mathias ateered the Pakistan cricket tourista

An unbeaten 5th

to s draw against West Zone here today after they had lost four second

for 66 runs.

Innings wickets

West Zone declared their first innings at 852 for nine for a leaxt of 158 runs and had the visitors la trouille when they 60 captured four wickets for with two hours left for ploy. But Mustou and Mathias mas- tered the leg-spin of Baloo Guple, who caused the collapse and held of the fire Innings. cut until the close.

SCORES

Firal scores were: Pakistan: First Innings-194

(Imtiaz Ahmed 80 Gupte Bve er 56), Second innings-161 for four (Mustaq Mohumaned 09 not out, Waldia Machais 40 not out).

West Zone: First Mainge-353 for nine declared (P. G. Joshi 85. A. Wadekar 79: Hasán stx for 80),--Reuter.

Alterations to UK soccer fixtures

football

London, Nov. 28.

British the

Alterations to

December 3 are:

fixtures for Saturday,

ENGLISH LEAGUE Division II Swansea Town vs Rotherham -to be played on December 1 instead.

The award costs about £4,

Division III Thompson has insured his for Coventry City vs Brentford- £40 "to cover all the incon- to be played on December venience of replacing any loss." Umstead-Reuter.

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