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THE CHINA MAIL. THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1961.

YES, SPURS CAN DO THE Peter May's Test Sports

DOUBLE AGAIN!

But this time have to fight

they'll harder

Which team is going to hit the headlines in the coming months now that the new season has burst into action? Will there be no change, with Spurs again dominating and even repoat- ing the double?

Every year at this time, managers are asked to make forecasts, especial- ly about how their respective teams will fure in the eight-month programme that lies ahead. Some are optimistic; tious. Others fall into the "don't know" category forecast at all.

1 find towards The third Kroup. Simply because have Jong since learned that football forecasting at the start of the season is a dangerons tion.

verupa-

Tat it worth mentioning that the first four teams in the

SOCCER NEWS

FROM OTHER LANDS

By IVOR YORKE

Odds are that the might of

we

some are cau- and make no

of calusion.

last segson — level, First Division Spurs, Sheffield Wednesday. Wolves and Burnter — wore among the leaders in previous years. That indicates the con- sistency needed to win cham- plonstips.

UN-

to the Second Division, I port a strong effort from Sun- orland and Liverpool tu return to the First Division.

Drastic changes

have seen such

Safer to build

n

At Molineux, we prefer tu build rather than to buy. It is the surer-and more satisfying- approach.

At the start of the 1958-59 season, when we relained the

1.

ON THE

BA BALL

with Stan Cullis

them to perform somewhere But near the peak of their ability

you at post have the satisfuc tion of doing a useful job.

Have to fight

Д

I would not care to venture a forecast at this stage. But considering that my own olub, Wolves, won le League two years running (1957-58 and 1958-59) mad lost the cham- pionship the next season by only one point while whining The FA Cup, it is surely quite possible for Spurs to pull off League-Cap double In succesive years.

L

I would hosien to add that their League games will be

almost like Cup-ties this sen.

59.

We discovered that the eager- ness of the opposition helped to keep our players on their toys. Indirectly, It was a great com- pliment which served as further encouragement,

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career at an end?

By ARCHIE QUICK

survey

By ALL-ROUNDER

HE LEFT IT LATE.-A son- sational test "over "hut icick" by fast bowler Albert Everoll CC to beat Henry Hopes in the Bir- Cricket League. With only ten mingham Business Houses

enabled Solihull Rover

Were we witnessing the end of an era in English batsmanship when Norman O'Neill held a catel at Kennington Oval just after five o'clock in the afternoon of August 21 and minutes to go Hopes, requiring Peter May walked meditatively hack to the 105 to win, were 18 for six and Surrey Pavilion having scored 33 runs? Was it the swan-song of the English captain's

Test career?

I bellovo so.

Ήσο

and

Into

Unwise?

A

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draw seemed inevitable, Then Everall, brought back for

Anat spell, look a wicket in

his first over and i ho next, the last of the day, came his "hat trick" with fine short leg taking two catches. Everull Aulshed, with six for 24.

League

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Rugby cost of took the

Every First Division team 1 am quite certain that a good will be especially enger la sink start to the season is a tremen-

the champions and Cup-holders. They will all regard their meet-

He is not going glory, but in just ten years he dos boast to a team's murale. und that is why I consider pre-challenge.

ings with Spurs as a special to India this winter and a year, has packed in es

Test ap almost comparabile ale when the MCC sequon training so vital for

re-visit¦pwarances without ever auch a with the pre-war games against Australia and New Zealand he barren season as the present. team's progress. There is no ux-

Arsenal.

will

hk pax

thirty-second Born at Reading, he was euse for any player being

birthday. Combine that with schooled in his formative years physically unfit because of Inet

RUGBY LEAGUE RAIDS of training at the season's stort. his men will have to fight hard will come

So Danny Blanchtower and his frality of health und you by Bob Roll and George Geary

to the same conclu- (and

Wales' best playero was a boy prodigy who our of er than ever this season. But the slon as I do,

mado good. He served two have been lured North within a By the reculls of the next few

Kernnoss weeks' matches

of opponents; As he walked up the Pavi- years in the Royal Navy and week by professional can go a long extra

steps

the then went to Cambridge, unish-

clubs at policy result in a hopeless lack way to providing the answer to not work entirely against! tin, Spurs, as the Wolves found the 04,000 dollar questiun: can

sfactows of the Long Room I Ing as captain in 1952. This £12,000. Those who when they were Spurs repeat the double?

retaining the was forcibly reminded of a was a prelude to one of the plunge were schoolmasters Ken League Championship in 1858- similar occasion about

shegreatest modern batting careers Richards Brigend's International same time go the afternoon which is unhappily threatened ble vlio cost Salford of August 18, 1948 when the with a premature end.

24,380 and Danny Harris, Cardin and Wales incomparable Don Bradman

forward, Ied his victorious team back

who has moved to Leigh for up those self same Kennlag-

£4,000; pelleeman Miko Bird, Lon Kleps and Into the

Ash He missed the first two Tests Mountain

10 left wing shindows-for good.

for this summer against the Aus-Oldham

£2,000, and In Australia's only innings wallons, and there is a con- Mervyn Hicks, Cross Keys' half is Fire to Digland was on census of opinion that he was back, to Doncaster for another ignominious "duck" eleat perhaps unviso to make £2,000. The players, of course, bowled by Erle

Hollies but eme-back so quickly after his keep all the money for them- Australia won by an innings liness,

thoroughselves as thele former clubs aro despith the and 149 runs thanks to Arthur preparation he gave himself at amateur. Morris's batting and the bowling Alf Gaver's Indoor school of Ray Lindwall, Keith Milter Wandsworth all winter. nra Jchosen.

Not only has his bailing suffered by comparison.

TEST STAR NO LONGER. — hos been criticism of his in the winter of 1950 two Now it was May's turn. and, handling pl hla bowlers Lancashire bowlers were flown although his Test retirement has and of his timing of de-out to Australia as replace- not been announced, I feel it clarutions, but, In retrospecments in Freddie Brown's sadly was an equivalent occasion-tive, whatever the future holda depicted MCC party. Ono. and, strengely enough, from the for "F.B.H.", one can look back Brian Statham, is stli the 1048 teams there were Miller, on heart-warming innings mainstay of England's Tost al Lindwall, Kasvett, Harvey, fcwing from lis immaculate hat lack eleven years later; Comptom-itytton, Edrich, Evans, with a Buency of technique other, spinner Roy Tattersall, Young. Yardley and Bedser which

well nigh one after appearing in sixteen Tesla there to watch

hundred per cent perfect.

haa not made the grade in the May's batting, dogged by tils He disdained the defence of Birmingham Leagué and is not ill-health, is but a pale Immita- Hutton and eschewed the unlikely to be retained by of the spendid thing it orthodoxy of Compton, for he Kidderminster next summer. was then, after a record-break- was brought up in the correct He has taken only 28 wickets

Charterhouse, hemanner, ing career at

the best English all season at a cost of over 600 came down from Cambridge style of batsmanship which now, runs! Yet he topped the 100 University in 1952 and into the afus, seems to have departed. mark eight times for his county. Surrey cricketer.

For he had played twice AN an undergraduate apalast South Africa the pre- vlous year and got a century in his debut at Leeds, So it has been a short, sirerp blaze of

League Champlonship, Wolves had 44 professionals of which I suppose that hupe springs only three were bought from eternal

manager's witer professional every

clubs--Mal- breast at the

the pening of the colm Finlayson, Jack Henderson sus. But no

เมL Con ant! and Peter Broadbent. Today elpate how far a team will have we have 20 professionals -unty The run of the bail or enjoy two of then bought from oiber comparative freedom from

in clubs, juries.

And this season, forecasting the Soviet Union 180,000 is all the more hazardous, Many soccer teams) will over-Nrst teams are being drastically como tiny Turkey (2,400 reshaped following a record out- of-season spending spree which teams! in European has brought transfer deals to Graup Five of the World, talling arou £1 million. Cup-but the manner in which they do it may be of important significance.

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All the signs are that Turks soccer power creasing, and may well be that they will come into their, own for the next World Cup in England in 1860.

Sfont football fans will have learned At some time that buying expensive players pro- vides no guarantee of success. And while

big spending

Or

course, there is often justification for buying on uut- standing pinyur. Maxi elub Hup- porters are only too ready to tell their favourite team's man- ager which position in the team should be strengthened and which player should be sought to 1.

Morale booster

But it is not so easy to get brought together the great the player in question, and it Spurs players of last season. serves no purpose for the man- I consider this to be the ex. nger to sit down and

bemoan ception rather than the rule. the feet he can't buy the man he wants. lie has just to carry un making the best of the mea at his disposal.

Here was a rare case of a Certahily the performances | coltellon of outstanding in- of some of their top club sides i dividunis being Assembled and noticeably Besiktas, Galatsaray runde to blend remarkably well and Fenerbahce) have shown as a leam, But so often, at in- that the potential is there.

Ruskib, having beaten Turkey 1-0 in Moscow and completed a double over Norway, now need only to draw_in" Turkey qualify for the finals.

Staying put

to

Brilliant Ladislav KUBALA, the ex-Hungarian inter- national is to stay in Spain after all, following · rumours that he would be joining the Argentine club River Plate this sea-

BON,

Kubala, 34, has been capped by Czechoslovakka us well us Hungary and Spain the fook out Spanish naturalisation ten years ago).

As inside-right for the Rest of the World against England in j

October 1959, Kubalu ruiled a first-mbute penalty kick past goalkeeper Gilbert MERRICK.

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Merrick. now manager English First Division side Birmingham City, has since struck up a friendship with the Hungarian exile. He has been to Barcelona and Kubain has paid a return visit to Birming- bam.

Lights up

be

One of the most expensive sels of Bloodlights in Europe will probably switched on in the late autumn over one of the most glamorous interna tionul matches to be staged on the continent.

ternational ay well as t

The lights (cvat £10,000) aroja to be switched on al 150,000- capacity Hampden Park, Glas- gow, home of amateurs Queen's Park and venue of Scottish Cup Fint and representative matches.

There is talk of a Scottish

A

League side entertaining European Select eleven to mark the ocession. The Scots orc already scheduled to meet the Italian League on November 1 -which seems to be an ideal opportunity for the big switch

on,

Sung is that the Italians meet Isract in a World Cup qualifying game three days later-so could not expect to put their top men into the field for a friendly.

But this could be a blessing in disguise there are enough foreign Internationais playing Italian Lengud football to fteld

Kormidable side.

Four D. Jones BY MADDOCKS

JLB

FERDINAND

NANCY

TUIN

club

There will be varying de grees of ability in the players ¦ themselves. But if you can get

I WILL RETURN TO HADES AND SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES IN COMPLEJE

GOLITUDE, BESIDES-

IT'S WARMER

YOU HEARD ME, SLUGGO---YOU'RE

A BONEHEAD

BRICK BRADFORD

My Alle READY FOLLOW

MEI

WHAT

KIND

OF A HEAD ?

HIPS ON OUR SPL

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By LEONARD BARDEN

Her. is a problem by Dr. D. Elekes (Good

Companions, 1924). White to play and mate in two mOVES.

Solution No. G091 1... R-Kist 2 Qx, KIXP CA; K-KI. QxKi and wins,

London Express Setpice,

CURSES!

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WE'VE LOST THE

DEVIL

I SAY THIB FELLOW 15 HOPPING

MAD ABOUT

SOMETHIN

THE RATIN LEADS THEM TO ANOTHER MONDIAL CAR... LANNOTICED THEY ROAR

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GRACIOUS ME 'SOMETHING,

HE SAYS

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ZANIE BUENAME, EX

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