1961-05-22 — Page 9

England's

team

of the season

THE HOPE NOW IS THAT ITALY DOESN'T RUIN IT

With this article BILL SLATER concludes his special series on British soccer, but will be back again with us when the

next season begins.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1961.

The 1960-61 season has been one of the most important in English soccer history. Right from the start, it was clear that there would be many vital issues. Not all of them have been resolved, but the son has,

ne which nevertheless, been a highly successful and satisfactory promises much for the future.

success

ON THE BALL

story

with Bill Slater

be-t individual players currently Bul évailable in this country,

3F handing cut beuguels, I hepe I will not be considered immodest if I commend the per- formance of Wolves. By finish

achieved

they de blend and it is hearten- ing that they have been allowed t develop as a leem and haveing third,

bad some vita; training stins

together.

Tem munager Walter Winter- I bottem has been able to establiri:

plan based tactical

an the 4-2-4 system and, just as In-

spirit

On the field of play, the two teams to make most impact have been Eng-an, has been able to foster

land and Tottenham.

We expreted big things from Spurs. Manuger Bill Nichol- sote's shrewd buying had brought i together D fine collection of players. It was obvisats. That ence ther, but developed. the Kruip undesstauudio: which We w admire so mech, the bean was Hola! win came of the hot- AKTI

The group not

tir

count on the leader inpof Danny Danny Blanchflower.

bas, perhaps, more than any- one else guided and inspired Tottenham to their eple dress. and he fully deserves his Be of "Footballer of the Year."

Aid

Italy's lurc

was to impart the "magle” of overseas players.

There lol much to be done for the World In preparation

¦ Cua in Chile next year, and it Is tube hoped that the team will be permitted many more clubs seemaining sessions together next cater to persuade British players reason. to journy In the other direction.

Now the wheel has turned folt circle and Italian

This reason England has won all five of her international games, scoring 32 goals against , and one has a team to chal- Aenate the world's best,

understanding is

what of England?

Self-appoint Other | yea

were holling its ES highly priced | Putasters voll-etics players have [requently filed on the death of English scheper, 20 far as to ! Some even went Lend.

Apart from shrewd buybig, surest that the only way f however, Spurs were able to braging the corpse back to life

SWIMMING INTERNATIONAL

Russia

beat Britain

after thrilling win in last

event

Moscow, May 21.

The Soviet Union won the final event, the men's freestyle relay, to beat Britain by 93 points to 92 in their two-day swimming international, which ended here today.

Everything deponded on the Jost event after Britain had led

the meeting. for most of

The

Russian team won the 4 x 200

anettes race

their 196-75

easily tu avenge

defeat at Black-

without

Has England thra suddenly dacovered eleven super faut- balera! Of course nul.

fact Was

The

Is that English soccer not dead. The national feam was alling not berate there was anything organleally wrong, but simply because was

not getting proper care! and attention.

World Cup hopes

But The first slep has been, taken. The team is a young the and it may well function successfully for several more seasons, unless it is broken up by the acture of Greaves nad possible others, to foreign clubs.

Walsall's leap

Planning and careful thought there have been behind many the season's success stories. They Fave shown up in the! achi.vements of England and Spurs, and also in the triumphs of trans

like, Peterborough. And whet a tanie Peterborough hove provided for Langue seceer

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League

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while many took clubs all have in 1961. The players have emerged from the dispute with consider

and increnserl

have Tiney

Flown strengin. themselves to be a responsible given the oppor- group who

unily, could contribute enorm- ously to the future development of the game.

bly we have the distinction of being in the first three in eight of the past 1:2910

And we have S:E:19, ored 103 gonia this sencon. It means that we have secret

a hundred goals in more than each of the past four years.

Not every team can sucered and I am especially sorry to sco Portsmouth drop into the Third Division. It is sad, too. to think that there will be no First Divialan football in the North Enst next season.

Feudal outlook

This season

there has again Leen the inevitable and renalar Fucking anci resigning of managers, It Feens such waste of talent.

quitte a few managers, it is frue, get pasts elsewhere. They take over from other managers who have been sacked, and their own jobs frequently are then led by nsen regarded ከፍ failures by other clubs!

This roundabout act serves ly to underling how illogical is the whole business, When a manager leaves, there is an un- ling effect on the whole club. Playing ideas have to be revised and confidence is undermined.

¦

They have won sume treedoms and with these will come added esponsibilites. I am sure the players will not shifrk them.

congratulations

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Special due to Jimmy Hill, Chairman of the Players Asscelation, far the dignified way he has handled no extremely difficult situation.

Congratulations are also due to another player who has been prepared to fight for minciples George Eastka. At the be-

of the season Bastham was out of sureer, having refused to re-sign for Newcastle.

Risked carcer

He risked his whole sorcer career and a very promising one at that because he would not be led by a ridiculous contract which bound him to one club for life or for as long as the club thought

ગા ક!ngel u one-man strike and was prepared if necessary to light his cuso in the highes courts in the land.

won

The tentst was constantly being changed and little oppelte tunity was granted it for group

Another of the season's un- training.

players The

were ! By

Fourth the wire. A

He

re- through and in their first season. happy moles have been the dis- 11:e more than strangers 10. Division each other when they met for Peterborough have shown that Bule over players' contracts established himself in succer to uppeared com- the extent of gaining a place in International games.

Fourth Division soccer need not dispute which

that it pletely settled at one time but the England party to make a ith a bind olley and

tour of Portugal, really can lead to better things, which later, sadly, was shown close-season

italy and Austria.

This triumph of character and of playing skill is perhaps the

sigruneant

very Now, the emphasis is much more on the team as a team The selectors have dr- The message has been under- monstrated that there is more lined by Walsall, who have shot to selecting a successful national from the Fourth to the second elevin Division In two seasons. Then choosing side

there is the triumph of Ipswich the League it:st players for eleven positions.

sure, who entered the present before the war and are now in i would argue that team does not contain the eleven the First Division.

Chin

Many people,

Four D. Jones FLYING AT GREAT SPEED FOR

BY MADDOCKS

pool last year.

Britain's girls proved Mir

Lupremacy by taking maxi-

points in all but

MUZZ

rren, but the men,

triple European champion lanj Black, were almost complete- ly eclipsed.

reconis Two Soviet Union

today. Gennady Wert Androsoy, 22, wam a tremen- lcus race to better his own re cerd by 5.3 secunds in wining the 1500 metres fremtyle in 18 mimtes 12.2 recundis, He bent last year's winner of this even, Richard Campion, of Britain, into second place by 45 metres.

In the men's 200 metres but- icily, Valente Kuzmin, of the Soviet Union, bettered hir own Soviet Union record by 0.8 of

by clocking second

il

minutes 17.3.--Reuter.

two

FERDINAND

SPY ZA FROM RUSSIA IS LONDON TO RESCUE,

am

FOUR D. JONES. THAT WELL-KNOWN COMMUNIST SPY

not to be.

There has been much criticism of Football League behaviour-some of it in very high places-and one is bound to admit that the root cause all the trouble is the thorough- ly old-fashioned, feudal out-

THE CAPITALIST SPY IS UNAWARE THAT Z3, BRITISH AGENT IS HEADING HIS WAY, RESCUE WISE....

AND IN RUSSIA...

By Mik

most

ANTI-RACKETEERING BOXING BILL UP BEFORE U.S. SENATE

'

Washington, May 21.

Former heavyweight boxing champions Jack Dempsey and Geno Tunney will testify at Senate hearings starting on May 31 on a bill designed to drive racketeers out of profes- sional boxing.

The bill would place the sport promoters, stato boxing offcials, under Federal regulation, creat-law enforcement ocials, the and 10g a Federal Boxing Commla-NBA and sportavriters

for their views powers to editors, asking ioner with broad iecavy or ban boxers, managers, about his bill. He added some

and matchmakers. of them will become witness.- promoters

Commissioner would AP. The

erate from the Justice De- parinent, an idea which hos ra-

velved a coul reception_from ROUND THE COUNTIES Attorney General Kennedy,

Senator

Robert F.

Exica

Kefauver, Temocrat-Tennessee, the bull's

Author.

heads the Sebale Antirust and Monopoly Bub- commitice which will conduct the three-day bearinga.

Othors

The measure. is an outgrowth of an investigation in which the sub-committee heard testimony that mobsters wielded vast con- trol over matchmaking, anch wore cutting ta on the fighters' purses.

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Kefauver said the sub- committee also will hear Gene Fullmer, recognised by the Na- Anal Boxing Association,

champion, the middleweight and Senator Clair Engle (De- mocrat-California)}

#as who agreed to go-sponsor the bill.

Kefauver said in a statement others on the witness list in- clude Marvin G. Jenson of West 3ndan, Utah, Fullmer's mant- ger, nud Nat Felscher, editor of Ring magazine and the Ring Record book.

Northants batting looks good

Northamptonshiro

should

be in the forefront in the move towards more entertaining cricket, for their captain, Raman Subba Ro, spends the winter working in Den- mark Street, W.1, for a

that firm

sponsors theatrical stars, publishes en- popular music, and

most gages mightily in sides of the entertain- ment business.

i doubt whether even they, however, could conjure much allurement out of the millstone of a wicket that hangs around

arek

The Senator said he has sent letters to other past and present Northampton's rl champions, managers, fight county's home ground.

Sports Diary

5 ym.

TODAY Elavrla

CONFIDENT

on

the

Last ACRSON.

Northampton- shire nudged their way from 11th to luth in the champion- ship table. Subba Row sounded confident that the shuffle up-

1st Division: Talkoo Club v KCC, ward could this year become stride in the same direction."

Without Tyson and Larter - who

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There is a competent look about much of Northampton's Norman, Barrick and batting. Reynolds passed the 1000 mark last year, and when the West Indian,

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Toronto, May 21 The new Eastern Profesional Soveer League kicked off to an qurple'ons start last night when Turonto Italia beat Torento

City 3-2 in the opening match. night crowd of An opening

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Is the

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