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THE CHINA MAIL. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1961.

GOLD, GLAMOUR, `GLEAMING, CARS

SELF-DENIAL, DRUDGERY, IRON DISCIPLINE

IT'S NOT ALL LIRA IN ITALIAN SOCCER

Wives, smokes, wine- it's all in the little red book.

From IAN WOOLDRIDGE: Milan

If you can remember quaking fearfully at the feet of a brow- beating bullying sergeant-major, you will know what it is like really like to be a professional footballer in Italy, It is a life of gold, glamour, and gleaming cars. It is also a life

of self-denial, drudgery, and iron discipline.

Sports

survey

By ALL-ROUNDER WEMBLEY MEMORIES, --- Opening match of this season between Third Division Torquay United and Crystal Palace must have brough! lack Wembley inemories to Torquay right win- ger Gordon Asall and Pance I back Boy Little. Fry in the Fittal, Little then 1950 Cup Manchester Chy's back, marked Astail, then Birmingham City's winter.

One of Europe'r crack express mally asked permission to Join 200 his wife and children, tres flashed me forth and back

two days UCICES

distant, for the

of

mites (high

Italy to bring you this se from after a Sunday match. Inside the once-famous Torinu Santos stored coldly back for Cl Turin:

ten reconds. He then said: "No." The player, idolfsed wherever he goes in Turin, mockly about and walked out.

A star player stood to at tention in front of the enach, Beniamino Santos, and for-

CHESS

By LEONARD BARDEN

Has any reader ever dreamed about a chess game? The_Rus- sian grandmaster David Bron- stein

to did, and managed remember one which was com- plete and original. Here it is; hot bad for a nightmare!

Firad

turned

Tering the club which pati about 172,000 10 buy Denis Law and Joe Baker from Britain this cumtner. Law showed me the small red rule book which

vern every moment of his lite between now and the last match of the season next May.

Every top Malas club has Comply, play Similar codes, well...and all Soccer wil

Def. line your pocket for life.

.and play

tive p

honey- tagare much who hired you will fire you without so much as a randtluske at the end of your

TOO SOON. It took a lot of persuasion 091 the part of the Shroxbury Pewn and Port Vale players to convince Lengte Re- Tour Ken

.contmet, Steddom, of South- port, that he had blown the for Ilftung thirteen minutes Too out. It was not unl they had got him to sulla linesmen that he realised his error and

carruti on.----Banews Service,

UK soccer results

Results

London, Aug. 31. of tonight's British

- Focely matches were:

ENGLISH LEAGUE

Hull City

Division III

Port Vale

Notts County D Crystal Pal

1

IRISH LEAGUE

Elster Cup

Derry City

1 Ballymena

--Bruter.

2

(Brunstein v. Bronstein: 1 P-04 KI-KB3; 2 P-Q84, PK3: 3 HI-QB3, B-KI5; 4 R-KIS, P-XR3; 5 B-R4, Q-K2; 6 KL-03, P-Q3 (appar- ently losing a piece); 7 U-R4 ch. Ki-B3; 8 P-Q5, PXP: 9 PXP, Q-K51; 10-Q, QXB; 11 PXRI, D-~0; 12 P-QR (11ow the bishop is definitely lost, but Black gets a unod attack in return), kt KIS 13 P-KKI, Q-B3; 14 PXB QXP ch 15 K-01. P-OKIA (Black's idea is to defret either the queen or the knight from protection of QUI: 15 Q-K13, B-K3; 17 Q-R3. K-KG ch 18 K-BI, Q-K8 th; 19 R!–Q1, OxKt zole.

Solution No. 6002: 1 B-Kts (watting), KI-KI; 2 PX KU{Q} male, or i... KI-B3; 2 B-B4. or 1...any: 2 R-Q5, or 1

KLB7: 2 R-Q5, or 1.. K-K3: 2 Kt(Q8)-B7, or t ...Ki-B4; 2 KURE)-87.

London Express Sevelca,

Four D. Jones SIR, I WISH TO

BY MADDOCKS

FERD'NAND

KNOCK

COMPLAIN, OK DEAR ME, YES

I WISH TO COMPLAIN

HE'S COMPLAINING】

YOU WILL

OBSERVE THE

If Torino are tough, Milan are reputed to be tougher.

from

THESE ARE

THE RULES

Bo in bad avery night (except Mon day) by 10 pm.

• Sleep ovary after- noon from 2 pm to 3.30.

• Drink

no

alcohol

other then the watered wine or ot- casional weak bear

provided by tho club at meal-times. Smoko no more than two cigarettes * day.

• A player will be tined if he arriven

a minute fate for training.

Frank instructions to married men.

have all knuckled down to make the best of a good job

1 Turin I talked to low, late of Manchester City, and Baker, from Hibernian. In the air- conditioned luxury of the hotel room they temporarily share.

In Milan

Gerry I talked to Hachens, Cornwely

Aston uľ Ville, in the 7th-door suite of a palatial hotel which at present, her himself, his wife, his son. his daughter, and his mother-in- jaw.

Rigid

All three admitted they did nut know such tough training methods, such rigid discipline. Their players, disciplined by a fearsome fellow named Nereu existed anywhore in Soccer.

All three admitted the pangs Rocco, are snatched from the

that come i temporal temptations of town of loneliness

you can't rend life three days before every country where match and Incarcerated in 11 the menu, join your pals for a

pint, training camp 30 miles

even understand what the city.

Gregory Peck is talking about if you go to the pictures.

But all three though they would never say a word against amate in trouble-secretly be lieve that Greaves is of his rocker to look such a golden gift horse several times in the mouth.

was there with Jimmy He Greaves earlier this week.

JA cigarette furtivety and glanced repeatedly OVER shoulder as we talked.

"

hated it then. He clearly Perhaps he will get like Three years is a long time. Yet, the three other British

who footballers

pitinged into this whirlpool world this summer

† AM RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS BUILDING, ER

GOODNEGA GRACIOUS

ME, YES I AM

HOLE IN THIS VERY, VERY VALUABLE PAINTING-1 NEED AN EXPLANATION SIR OM INDEED

YES

SILENCE

YOU DRIVELLING DIOT. I HAVE JUST LOST THE DEVIL

DURING TRAINING

10

Greaves crouchos to listen to cloth-capped Noreo Rocco, the "sergeant- major" giant who cracks the whip at Miion.

ordered a set of Italian lingus- phone records to be flown out from London,

SOCCER NEWS FROM OTHER LANDS

By ARCHIE QUICK

The great rise of football in huly is shown by the fact that a season's aggregate "gate" hos risen in the past soven years by seventy per cent to over £3,000,000. The transfer fee of the Argentinian star forward Angelito from Internazionale. Milan to Roma FC WAS £106,000, and now Roma has an all-Argentinian inside irio. A clause in Angellilo's contract unabled his girlfriend to obtain an engagement as a singer in a Rone night club owned by the Chairman of Roma FC.

Roxt Star of Paris who wore expelled trom the French Longso far one year have hern permitted to rejoin as a Secund Division club.

Santos FC of Bruzil recently A tour of completed

France, playing 18 matches in 49 Gaya

unbeaten in

Paris Tourname.st

and remaining

big

Included such

Batofogo,

which

strong clubs as

Servette, Bendica

Anderlecht and Haenig Lijo aj Paris.

A remarkable pointer to the pabularity

The of Soccer in Netherlurida is the fact that the provincial club of Feyenoord in winning the Championship at- | Tracted" 800,000 spectators to its wvenlecu home matches--an He had 14 new silk ties hang, execpt on small personal re-average of over 47,000 exceeded la Europe only by Real-Madrid ing in his wardrobe and was quirements. wearing the anazzlest brown The entire Hilchens family is and Tottenham Hotspur. Not and black check suit you ever basking in a five-star hotel en- even Barcelona or the big Italian tirely at the expense of Inter-clubs were as well supported as painting nazionale. In two weeks they Fey-noord!

Into an

apartment people lived with three bedrooms, two bath-

rous and a balcony,

"Five years ago," he said, was working down a mine in DW.

luck."

Shropshire. I can't believe my houses," he said. "My old man will move

"I started Ilfe

So kind

Law, 21, is gay and garrulous. littchens, now with the He said he had a Teach Your

But United Nations club of Inter- self Italian in his sultease.

should nazionale, is 26, mature, and he thought the "Ities"

has already learn to speak Scots. intelligent. He

I HAD THE BEAST IN THE

PALM OF MY HAND AND

I LOST HIM, BY GOLLY,

I LOST THE DEVIL

I DO NOT COMPREHEND YOUR EXPLANATION, GIR,

DEAR ME NO

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Darker, also 21, is shy, thought will pay no rent,

Hille ful. He would be a embarrassed, 1 suspected, to try the Halian plizases he un- on real live btedly knows Halion prople.

ut everyone Is kind," he said, "and where else could you make this kind of money?"

Z

Hilchens is happily married, I aw

happily

unmarried. Bake: je rolemnly single, All Three made more money simply by signing for their present clubs than a schoolmaster could save in a lifetime.

They have money in the bank, more money pouring in monthly, big money banuKDA of up to £200 a match if they can bring their teams startling Buccess.

They

The unexpected strength of Africati football

has

been emphasised by Moracen leading Yugoslavia 2-0 l Belgrade

No rent

halftime in and losing unluckily Law and Boker move out of by 3-2 in the end. Even more Weir hotel soon into aurprising was the 2-1 victory de vil overiceking one of of Ghana in Moscow against the

Club And Charia Europ's lovelient valleys, They, Dyno los, will pay no rent,

were climinated from the World This is the two-faced picture Cup competition by Morocco. of Italian football. You surviva

* and grow rich if you accept the Players in Sweden are pro- rules and play well when Sun-testing against the day comes round.

how

rule which forces 41 would-be

It is then, for 90 murderous emigrating player to wait one year after signing his contract rainutes, that you earn your before he can play for his new inoner before the fanatical, club. one-eyed, abusive, treacherous and totally-inhuman mouster that oven the mildest Italian becomes when be is watching a football match.

pretect the home market against This has been done to

Italian agents but the players say it is undemocratic, an in- fringement of human rights as it prevents a player from choos- It's a great life if you don't ing his occupation."--Banewa penny, weaken,

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