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THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1981.
Paro 9
BRIAN GLANVILLE Talking Sport
Tennis enigma still unsolved
Christine Truman plays on; the enigma remains with us. Delighted, like everyone else, that so much talent, such potential, so many years of world-class play, will not be lost to us, I find myself wondering how long she will continue to tantalise us all. At what stage will power be matched by performance; when, in a word, will she become predictable?
No one knows, least of all Miss Truman herself, that big, shy, blonde, modest girl. pleasantly astonished by her own celebrity,
a
"I think it's sometimes when I'm winning and I've got lend," she said to me. "I seem to be doing all right, and un- consclously 1 relax before I know where I am I've made a few silly mistakes and I've lost the game."
Honest enough, but how far does it take one? When you have a serve like Miss Truman's a double fault is a hiasuhemy: yet she can feel there off and three In a game, times I'm Bwriter when I'm down," she said. "I realise I've gut to do something and I pull myself round."
Sheer anti-climax
"Some-
Tony O'Reilly and Miss Susan
graphed in London.
Cameron, photo.
laws
Then there's her coach, Mr non-compliance with the
should be placed upon the ruling Jack Collier, whom she met very nice sutlook through friends. "He has $1 bodies of sport rather than upon
the offender, This is akin on
o surfeit of burglars."
tennis
to
TONY O'REILLY ENGAGED.
which like: I agree with his legalising burglary to deal with Tony O'Reilly, the great Irish wing-threequarter, hus
ideas on the game, on how tu play and everything. He doesn't worry too much About the technical side; just get ma to court, hit the ball and don't worry Abolit it. You know, simple."
Never again, she says, will she talk In terms of roitring: "I felt I was wasting time to go on, and I don'l ilke to warte time. I'd rather get on and do something else. I hate having anything on my mind like thai-I never thought that Hʊ many people would be interested, I was flattered.
So
like to have things sorted out in my mind, not nuddled. 1 eouldn't say: one, two, three, these are the reasons. If was p number of things that seemed to come in at the time, I felt after the American trip. I can't finish on a bad note, like that."
She is stilt only 20;
line
lier Wightman Cup defeat by .Kuren Hantze might be explain-
ed on the grounds of sheer enough perhaps for experience anti-climax, after a Wimbledon at which
to bring consistency, concentra- was the moral gre
tion and the results of which victor, deprived of her due by rain and a fail on the Centre
one knows, provokingly, she is capable. Court. "It's amazing, the ten- sion in that two weeks. You
don't feel like doing anything Shamateurism
alter thul."
.
that
This winter, she'll be going again to Geol Dyson for con- The honorary secretary- dition-training. "The great treasurer of the International thing is to keep fit, because, be- Amateur Athletic Federation, ing all, it is important for me MT D. T. P. Pain, takes Issue to get around the court. These with my artleté last week exercises are specialty thought wnateurism. Be carinat he up so they can be done in most writes, "let pass unchallenged pinces."
the impliention that the umis of
MADDOCKS BY
Four D. Jones,
VIR LINES
on
con-
He gaen on to say that the laws on amateurism are framed by the representatives of over 100 countries The Swedes, he enys, have en several occasions failed to persuade theen of the necessity for change They've shown clearly that their cern "was for the hundreds of thousands ut
people young throughout the world who take part in athletes as a recreation and a sport, rather than for the occasional gladiator who siders that his prowess should be rewarded in hard Professional athletics in this and other countries has been
all intents and lu
purpeses Ad- superseded by the sport as ministered by the IAAF and member coun- its constituent
fries."
analy
con-
always been something of a specialist on the blad Hide, but his latest step has been better concealed than most; for over a fortnight, writes my colleague Vivin Jenkins, he has been engaged to a charming and docidedly photogenic Sydney girl, Miss Susan Cameron, whom he met on the British Lions' tour "Down Under" in 1959.
Not long after that tour Miss Comeron set sail for England and met Tony again, a August 31 last year. Their engagement took place on the anniversary of that meeting, and they plan to
marry early next year,
cash Job in
Mr Pain's complacent ques flon-begging in, alas, typical of the rulers of athletics. The
with
burglary 15 amusing. but quite false. Bur- glary is a crime against society; taking money for competing in athletics
technical offence. As for his ingenuous claim that professional athletics has been reolaced by ateur athletics, it is ridiculed by the open or half-concealed profes- siemalisin of innumerable lead- ing athletes.
a
mere
the
The member-countries of the LA.A.F. stick to their miy- begotten compromise with realities because they haven't the moral courage other to accept them or to deal with them,
I COULDN'T LOOK
ANDTHER GINGER THING IN THE FIZZ
TO SAVE A LIFE,
9
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Chess News
By LEONARD BARDEN
unty-two Analists will take part in the British cham planship at Aberystwyth from August 14 to 20. The field is a strong one, even though the Internationals Alexander. Mardie. Muner-Barry and Little wood will all be abcont.
Can Jonathan Penrose win for the fourth successive year? will have a new and formidable challenger in Cenek Kottnauer, the former Czech, who has recently become naturalised.
Penrose and Kattnauer will be expected to fight it out for the
bo first prize.
Boveral other internationals taking part will be the favourites for the third to fifth places. For Harry Colombek, Michael Hay- garth, Peter Clarke, Bob Wade Lend myself, it will be a question of defending our established places in the England team. Tie chailotige is expected to camo from the young players Cafferty, Gibbs, Hirgie and Hollis, all of whom are close to the top in British cheer.
Solution No. 6105: IR-R71, KXR (1 K-B1; Z B-R and 3 Q-R8 mate); 2 B-R8I, land 3 t7 mole.
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Glasgow, Sept. 24. Glasgow Rangers, the holders, of Midol, 10 and Heart lad ng clubs of Glasgow and Edinburgh at the moment, have
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Miss Cameron, the same age n her fance, sharing a Chelsea that with an 28, has been Australian girl-friend and accu- pying herself with a secretarial Job iza Landun. A
talented
Additionally, only he and Reys Willums, the Welsh forward, took part in all ten tests of the tours of 1993 (to South Africa) and 1989 (to Australia and New Zealand). On both tours, too, he was top try-scarer.
Outside Rugby, he has a top- class legal brain having taken u Arst-class honours degree 05 is now personal assistant to Mr. John M. Sutton, chairman biggest merchant houses, As u Suttons Ltd.. One of Ireland's sideline, he lectures in Industrial psychology at Cork University.
planist, she has recently been Post for Dyson?
Geoff Dyson, who recently gave up his job as eklet national coach, moy be Instructing in Canada next
John summer, Disley, the former steeplechover, who recently got back from lec- turing in Canada, under the suspices
Canadian Legion, is responsible for the
of
the
the earthter grappling with involvements of Rugby, and she watched her flance playing in the Richmond Centenary match at Twickenham recently.
Her father, Mr Keith A. Cameron, is a leading Austra Jian Industrialist deputy chairman and managing
Commonwealth director Mining Investment Limited and a director ol Consolidated idea. Goldfelds. Australia, Limited, He wants the Canadians-who and a number of oiber com have just received a five million panies,
dollar sports aubridy from their government-to set up n serioa of miniature "Loughboroughs" under Dyson: and the Canadians, to their credit, are interested.
O'Reilly, one of the great Agures of post-war Rugby, ale ready has 25 cnps for Ireland and has missed half-a-dozen owing 10 injury.
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