1961-04-25 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL,

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1961.

West Indians ALEC STOCK'S EYES

may cancel

Indian tour

Port-Of-Spain, Apr. 24. There wero indications to-

day that some

to

members

of the West Indies Cricket Boord of Contro! OTO sccking concel the Indion. Test tour of the Wast Indics, scheduled from January to March,

1962.

West Indian cricket officials wese reluctant to discuss the matter, but some mensbers of the Board apparently feel Unt th, West Indies should get out

tu mert

of a commitment Inew and invite Australla to tour the West Indies instead.

Tronically, one of the reas some onicials put forward for carrellikion of the Indian tour Wust top that several

Contructs

was

have

In an payers In Australia next winter,

PREFERENCE

THE

ARE ON

WHITE CITY

By ARCHIE QUICK

The White City as

London, Apr. 23.

a Football League ground, That is the dream of Alec Stock, manager of the Queen's Park Rangers club just down the road.

With the Rangers locked in a death (r vici pronollen struggle with the despited Wal- For Srecnd Division status, visionary Stock has his nights set on First Division football with The Inge West London stadiurn 45 bis backeluth.

The experiment has been triad. there before, just a few games * was 1 were payed, but failure, principally becaue, QPR were not doing so well on the feld of play. Now, believes Mr Suck, the time is ripe to make the plunge. "We should አነ ዲ Joke one single person item w hard care of loyal fupputers, he teld me, "and I think the would #1- athlitional facilities tract any more. With so many sents under cover we could offer then greater comfort than Chel- cea, Fulhan or Brentford, there would be dozen refreshment bars for them, and the amenities

be pj for the players would preciated by the home and away Inicama allke,"

A Trinidad newspaper com- mented "It is not a question of Sunce that In worrying the Board, but rather one of pre- ference

It is an awkward business, but the Board must taur euider that the Indian will less serve West Indles pur- poses at the moment."

Several prominent West dian cricketers, afraid of the possible aftrunt to India, have threatened to seek removal of the entire West Indian Cricket Board If the Indian Test tour is called off-l

Sports Diary

TODAY Racing

The

Mr Stock went on to pair! out that the Rangers' present enclosure in Ellerslie Road waz u valuable building potentially site, and the club owned frechold. "I is just « run-01- the-mill ground, but will the money we could get for it could branch out and make While City ground the complete football club, a separate entity to the purrounding stadium. We should have Anancial rercurces, 100, to buy the players to inatchi

Entries for Royal Hongkong : it." Jockey

Club 13th Itaco Meeting close at noon.

Golf

Deep Water Bay Ladlar golf sea- aun opens with a Stableford Four. svine, am.

Sorter

1st Division: Kitchee v BAF (CH)

6.30 pu

Jeserve Division; Kitchee v RAF (CT) pm.

TOMORNOW Badraston Presentation of Ladles Recreation Clinton prizes at 7 pm.

Soccer

1st Division: Kwong Was y AVS (Club) 830 pm; Eastern v Caroline

(Police) 0.50 p

Heserve Division: Eastern v Caro- toe (Police) pm.

OBJECTIONS

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WORLD OF SPORT

By JOHN COTTRELL

London.

Mr K. S. "Sandy" Duncan, British secretary of the Olympic Association and the British Empire and Commonwealth Games Federation, sets out this month on a fact-finding mission to the Rhodesinu, South Africa and Aus- fralia.

Rames have been sagrd nt

The purpose: to see how pro Hampden Park,parations are being made for the Weinbley and

1962 Eniolre tiames in Perth and the Continental stadiums are not

ful, and Chelsea have to examine the facilities avall. always

able in Salisbury, Rhodesia. naged to retain First Division status a bigger ground with

Salisbury is one of four cities an encircling dog track,"

iur he bidding

the 1000 Empire repelled,

Gomas and Mr Duncan will present a factual report on foelli- "Nothing wili convince me

ties there when his committee that there is not a great future

meets to choose the host city. for the Rongers at the White

Each member country of the dificulty Federation Our biggest

has ang vote in City.

the choosing the host city. Other would probably be getting

contenders for the honour are League to agree to rescind their greyhound rule. The White Edinburgh, Kingston (Jamaica)

and New Delhi. City authorities, the GRA, are quite willing to talk over the

Federation project."

We were stlli arguing long after I had reminded on that South- end United had found flaws in a similar set-uo and had moved bag and baggage elsewhere.

Chess News

By LEONARD BARDEN

RUSSIA has a new star 11 23-year-old Leonid Stein. who has just tied for turd in the Soviet championship. The tou four in this event qualify for the next stage in die world title eliminating contest, and stein will be accompanied by the new champlon Petrosien. Korchna), and Doller. all experienced grandmasters.

It was a big surprise in such a vital tournament tits Stein succeeded in ousting the world

championship contendera Smyslov, Spassky. Talmanov, Bronstein and Boleslavsky from the coveted four qualifying claecs.

All of them now have their world title hopes postponed unti the next zonal series starts in 1064.

Solution No. 6017: 1 t× Pl. and not if ... Ktx K1; 2 BX P

Voicing objections to Mr Steck's schemes for the future 1 pointed out the League's ruling against greyhound tracks, of the remoteness of the playing pitch tren e spectators, the lost feeling the public would have an ich, or f ... BРXKI; 2 B-K15. a parily led ground-even Mror 1... KPX KI: 2 Rx Ki ch, or Stock did not envisage it being 1...QXEL; 2 Qx Kt mate. The

actually ended f packed-and the adverse effect pame such circumstances would have K-B4: 2 By R?, Bettens, for 2.PB: 3 RXP cl, QXR; on the players' form."

Progressive,

Alec K-87 ch. ambitious would have none of it. "Good

Four D. Jones THE SKYMAN, HAVING BEEN

EMBOUND IN CANDYFLOSS IS NOW BY MADDOCKS. SHOT SKYWARDS FROM A LARGE

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THINKS...

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Arthur Porrill, surgeon to the Queen and former Olympic sprinter, his already visited Kingston nod New Delhi to pre- pare his report.

During his good-wilt trip. Mr Duncan will also be spending one day in Johannesburg, meet- ing South African Olymple and It will Empire Games offelais, partly be a farewell meeting under the prordat eenstitution, South Africa will soon be ex cluded from the Empire Games.

RECORD BREAK

While other sports stars fade away, billiards and snooker players seem to go on for ever.

a

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ON THE BALL

with Bill Slater

LET'S HAVE A UNITED KINGDOM

As the 1962 World Cup looms large on the horizon, British ranks are again divided. Separate contingents from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales will cach be fighting for their own places in the final stages of the tournament,

How much better if they joined forces to launch And how much one grand-scale offensive. more logical,

Our country has the title: the United Kingdom, True, it is made up of smaller units, but so are other countries. America and Russia are composed of units for larger than ours and with as much of their own traditions and independence as ours. Yet they lo net enter separate tens in combeti- International surting tions.

LESS CHANCES

The fact

that each home country has its own Football Association is merely a technical detail As far as the rest of the

For this month, challenging for world is concerned, Britain la one country. And surely we aru Britain's

amateur women's

one nation in our own eyes. 15 billiards championship, player who makes veterna Joe

Speaking personally. I would Davis secra like a prodigy.

welcome the chance to plux She is 77-year-old Mrs Evelyn under the Union Jack, even Morland-Smith, a former county though it would obviously lesen hockey pinyer and county gelfer,my chances of selection. who won the women's snooker title 23 years ago.

And anyone who regards her challenge as something of a joke would be well advised to rote that silver-haired

Mrs Morland-Smith has won the mational title four times sinde the war.

It would certainly not be set- ting a sporting precedent. When British teams compete in the Olympic Games, they do so as Great Britain-runners, hockey players, boxers. swimmers and footballers alike.

that serious problems

ad- would

It is Bold She lost won the champion-ministrative ship in 1959-at the age of 75.crop up if a British soccer team

JONES WATCHES INNOCENTLY FROM HIS STALL

GOOD GRIEF! WHAT WAS THAT

SHEAFFERS

Sheaffer quality features

mobirats

prices

ME

were formed that there might, for example, be arginments about team selection and preparations and about choosing a manager.

D

bring some

-and bring

sense into

soccer

Although little note was taken she must withdraw. Half mea- of it at the time in this country, sures are just not worthwhile. However, I would seem frem I can't help feeling tus if the situations were reversed in 1962, the general British attitude to

able to have wards international seccer com- and Russia was

femins from herpetition, that a ecmbined British tour separate many Republies, we would com- team is not a thing of the Im-

{mediate tuture, pluti cqually bitterly,

HALF STRENGTH

for the

club Bangu

I feel strongly that their de- cision is wholly wrong one. What I Bref most incomprehen- is that had the playera Bible ¡been English there would have been no question cf them play-

for their club.

Only this week; Everton re- fused to release Ireland winger 11 was, of course, an excep. Billy Bingham and Welsh inside

Roy Vernon outstanding forward and quite But nolle, surely, would be tonal insurmountable. 12 tbe achievement for all four British Ireland-Wales International. The pmateur bodies involved in enms to win through in 1968. club felt that a friendly match Olymple tournaments are able We could not count ca this hap with the Brazilian

came first, to solve them, then the re-

pening regularly. Bources available

proj Normally, only one or two of fessional level should see them our teams would win through, *ottled.

with Britain thus being re- presented by only half of her soccer forces and

even that half not pulling together.

It is for that reason that I suggest that, in general, the entry Into the World of four teams

CAP IN HAND reduces tournament Cup Britain's chances of wimming H.,

England have opposition to all on the services of players in the The biggest

would combined team

come English league. The Scottish, from within Britain-particul- Welsh and Irish International arly, I feel, from Ireland, Scot-muthorities must go cap in hond land and Wales where national and humbly beg for a player's feeling seems to run for higher release, than in England.

In the Important matter of team selection, things could even be essed by having a Great Britain alde. With players from the whole of Britain avaliable, H would be possible to select them. full a pair of In groups--say bucits from one club, u com- plete flank or perhaps an inside forward pair from another.

WELCOMED ABROAD

Such a cystem of selection is often impossible when four Reparate Dational terms are chosen simply because many club partnerships comprise players trom different home countries. You need took no further than Tottenham for examples of this.

A move to umile Britain in soccer would be strongly wet- comed abromi. There, Tronical- ly, it is felt that Britain gains an unfair advantage by enter- ing separate teams.

That feeling grow, particularly during the 1958 World Cup when ell four British teams won through to the final stakes.

But local feeling should not sland in the way of national effort. It must be remember- ed that national prestige today is closely bound up with BBC- cess in International sport. Some people like to pretend that it is not, but they cannot have bad direct experience of top-level international spori,

automatic call

to

The extent of the problem has been lessened by the new

club to rule which allows a postpone a league match if two or more of their players are on International duty.

But the basic Injustice re- maios, especially when a club arranges a friendly match clash

international. with an Happily, a solution now pre- WRONG DECISION sents itself. Soon players will My own view is that a coun- be signing individual contracts. try must now recognise the They should refuse to sign un- less there is a clause speel- prestige Implications of inter- national sport and must strivefieally stating that they will for all interna- to the limit and in every possible be beleased way for succOSS. Alternatively, ' tionals.

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