THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1950.
TWO BRITISH HOPES
'SPURS PLAN IS A MODEL FOR ENGLAND'S REVIVAL IN WORLD SOCCER
SAYS ALAN HOBY
Arsenal. Manchester United, Wolves, Sunderland, Liverpool, Middlesbro, Blackpool, Derby, Sheffield Wednesday, Portsmouth--which team plays the best football?
None of these. My nomination as the side which has the purest, smoothest, most effective style in the country is TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR.
But--and this is the question all football is asking-Can the ex-Second Divi. sion glamour-boys repeat their spectacular successes in the top League?
My auswer? Yes, I selget them as the club most likely to do well, despite a heelie opening alam which includes battles with Binckphol (home),
aur as the crowds pear in 44,the game in falion he fore the 656/936 pegile wairiert League feil. De ride was changed,
"Lucice any pon the whde Camus ket time!
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formation. ---they are happy."
Bel with verkau moving to the 11 Bolton
forwards in 1 fiv
Art ilirendly
(home), and
Wolvesi fermamal
(away).
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TO THE SUMMIT If 'Spur fall, of courses, realize Im Inviting a critical smack on thu chin frem en raged fan: in all corners of the British Isle
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old-Belch short-pus it cams,
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The Pan with metulet jow! sqund like Boone Horge, Alf the money ride thy pay the football Jeron.
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Many Byoutu 1!;"、 1 ' cess formats wil not only make!
con hemded:
or prak 'Spurs to the nut.
the b terades which will Ye.
top of the penn. Enpitel os pul
On the playing rides there h world Soor heap again,
Adtime Hose Arthur, Greatest gide these open kam
Iwan the 11 Argenl. Don't be fool our eve
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to warst World Cup
has the floket
Jame Aic cluding that demacell defeat preying at the trupe
wear Panky Condence borb of hi ipek, Hula, Bastin, Lambert." by
!!ht dreadful.
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ATTACKING FOOTBALL TOO MUCH
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AT THE
EUROPEAN
GAMES
Alan Patterson (above), of the Victoria Park Athlelle Club, winning the high jump ai 6 feet 5 inches during the Triangular Match-at the While City on August Bank Holiday, Patterson has jumped & feel 7 inches in competition this year and is us likely as anyone to win the European Games high jump title at Brussels next week.
John Disley (right), one of the proteges of Geoff Dyson, Chief AAU Conch, will represent Britain in the 3,000 Metres Steeplechase. Disley is the new British record holder in the Steeplechase and though he has only an aulside chance of coming in first, at Brussels he is a coming Olympic Champlon in the event.-Central Press Photos.
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PERSONALITY PARADE
GOING UP....UP
And, just to show their faith
Dur
in tall, Jean, 30-year-oll Eddie, who led the field until the last "Aim high ....seu've a lo
whip- day, they are having a aim high, the theme coach
round to cover his expenses for George Pallett has planted at Shella
more big events. They reckon pupil. his high-Ju
tournamen:l he needs Ken-
to be 21-year-old Alexander, sington secretary. So George sed the training bar at 5ft, s. among Gloucestershire cricket tough to earn a place in
Goddard has passed Grand Oldça-and that's where they alm
2,876 to see him. One of the outstanding features of the English world record if she cleared fans now that spin bowler Tom Ryder Cup side against Amer
Sheila til han to reach that Man Grace's figures of
FINAL FLING cricket scene this summer has been the prowess of Cam
needs 397 more to beat Charlie
Three Leeds United foot- jproduced only a dull, defensive, bridge University hatsmen, John Dewes, George Doggart tantalising height, but she wickets for the county and
and David Sheppard have had Test calls, Dewes has been well on the way to it with Parker's record of 3.474. which ha
of record
Tone in 49. He would need Tien pet sartons
in the women's inter- 6'kins.
and two chosen for the Australian trip and Peter May, for Surrey, Lew British
roughly three more seasons to Lallers had their last Bing at Lounties championships
of them, ball-juggling inside has earned great praise for the promise of his batting-
tu on for ever, was Somerset's
forward Frank Dudley a product of the
Goddard Shell Is
opinion after
International pint-sized Welsh Aylesford, Kent, last Saturday. do it. Three seasons? He could cricketers cine-camera school of coaching taken five for 50 on Saturday.
winter Harold Williams, inade the most of it. All three play Lay is of her in action taken Her faults have been corrected
for Lects Co-op In the Leeds by her coach.
hearLeague.
in attacking lavishly "Span: heljevo Que on for this decline Fil fotbolt" by me Mit werk. Amenade
in county critical-t a way we have reverted fo the same a We have a set of Soccer,
The new ea extends, from|** Aug 1 to May 5--ely t mouths of tremendous fort.
the ture Then
Wil he
maleter Britai ++! Festival with England taking on crack foreign shle.
Excers of Buy rort is bad, and this is far too much even of a good thing.
But although the evidence is there, staring them right in the etub chiefs many of our
cyc
They are like inen who day consult a broken barometer which,
can't-or wati'l-ser_it.
all weathers, la constantly
fer and warm
BIG BUSINESS
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back to Footbal Muri R relentine
attack-as Spurs are doing. Then we will | recover our had gery.
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FRAGILE SWIMMERS
1s competitive swimming un occupational sheasy or is 11 a apore This question is raised by a prominent swimming nu- thority who, after watching the National Swimming Champion ships at Lancaster, remarked:- "It seems to me we are breed. ing a race of collon-woo? cham- pions."
I cannot recall three members of the Light Blue team-or the Dark Blues, for that matter-getting into the select England circle in any one season before, despite the great Varsity players of the past-and, morcover, Sheppard is a Freshman.
nection, people Atle
unscar
HAND ME A No. 5,
SAYS LOCKE
Having recently crassed the Atlantic Ocean and,
interested indeed, the Equator. we were
or more.
i
stranger mani One of the Testation of British sporta sup- port is the habit of decrying our!
this con- own performers. In
said of Jinve but the yours Dewe; "Oh lads have made most of their wickets at cany run the Fenn.rs:"
of
When the Anateur Swimming
How untrue
is. The: that Association appointed a medical Indviser for the championships it
Cautab batsmen have alamin.d was a wise slep which met with the cream-er is the skim general approval.
County profesional But,ays my Informant, bowlers 451 their pre-Varsity i hasi I who has
Sh.ppard a background of 50
match leur. "arrangements ins twa centuries for Sussex years in sport,
and down." for dealing with physical and rince he came
has done for in the bathink what Dewes mental collaques were not only far too elaborate, Middle ex.
to akimi they were exirulated
parents
the hundred or more who' were present. LOOKING FOR SHORT CUT
scores
AVERAGE OF 77
were
not mate
nt
to hear of a Transatlantic ceremony that had nothing to do with
Sine: the Just Te his He has 77. trans-Equatorial certificates and fantastic shavings,
atten-average is ovT "Uniformed Arst-aid Mr Robby
48 past the The story goes back a year
danis anet stretcher-bearers stored and
and 56 Surrey. Locke is on his way to Windsor, Ontario, which any of
were on duly as well as unst- Players 17
v Leicster and you who had accompanied us to Montrend in the early formed nurses, alt in full view 115 and 59
hundred in coch imings against 101. Those thirties would recognise as being the Canadian opposite of the atulience.
**I 2471 not criticising the Susrex, 128 and to Detroit, In the USA.
mrses or orderlies in any way. Mr Locke, who I by way of Teke took the club sintly in They were simply doing their | Fmers.
But reverd times compe-
He la vored 2.175 runs his being the greatest bore in the band and breen the highest-job.
from the
for an write, I season, world that, the best golferuitud 1 leton of all time, tltors were dragged
And we had The dis-
He and lie Hour after luur it went on water was then on his way to play in
other wiprers of the Light Blue a Canadian tournament.
beween spells of Jock's att treating spectacle of these swim average of 68.
the Ex- edged Ite had achieved ertain in to duty in the crew-cabin. mers being streicher-carried, or
put or' perienced professionals supremacy in the art of getting; I must have been an odd sight assisted, along the bath-side to caps, have
the top places in the balling a regular one-or-two, siroke lead 25,00ft, above the level of the the first-aid room.
And wh:ther It is over Dai R.es, and he was not, Atlantic. for from unitnown to the sports pages. perience we knew how odd it is
Fenners, Hove, Manchester or Northamptons their felding re- The
plane to be 25,000. uhove Transatlantic
high mains
the of winged on, and when course of the Atlantic, anyhow,
standard. It in't cost Juck a penny, and all wa: well in was st
was
recent ex-
Sonnt the
find
CONUNDRUM
averagea.
I
sare
Some Secrets
Of Success
1
FAME AHEAD
TANNER RETURNS
had.
recently
and
Fast bowler Dudley took three Carlton wickets for 47. Then,
Waring impatiently to
Tanner, belt, Alian Chat first
British 26-year-old
Gulana who is coming when his side had last five for featherweight
four 50, he partnered Soccer club- back to the ring after
mate Williams in a ctand which months' absence.
Dudley hit doubled the score. 40 (two G's).
(London Erpress Servicz)
the faster than Run a bit other girls and see the world, That's the possibility opening schoolgiri up for 10-year-old
Allan arrived in England right hs ago and began a y June Foulds, Women's AAA 100
months ago
But it was an unlucky day anetres champion.
tematle mopping up of our lead-
for the third member of the br Then introduction to June gets an
ing light-weights.
ofrio, forward Jackie Mons. He the sort of future awaiting top-found that
combination
was out for, a duck... class athletes later this month British clinate and heavier op- when she competes in the Euro- pean champion: hips in Brussels. Penents was too much for him.
So Allan wi-ely decided She will run it the 100 metres
a ret. Now acclimatised fake and the 4 x 100 metres relry.
he is on the warpath again and And when the thrill of racing the first scalp he hopes to col- against the cream of Europe's leet is Johnny Molloy's at West
June women athletes is over,
back to being a schoolgirl: #CC3 again.
She will be in the London to meet school rehorls' team
Athletes from all over the work have revealed the secret of their success Lo teams from towns all over the Kenneth Vale, editing the Continent at Frankfort on Sep Bulletin of the Grafton Lember 2. Athletic Club, with head- quarters in Mile End Road, E. They say:
of
JOHN J. BARRY (Eire), miler-Cross-country running.
work, plenty light road physical exercises,
ROGER BANNISTER (miler). Just running and plenty of it! 11. XI. ABRAHAMIS.--Being: born with long legs, being lucky enough to have a line coach, and to be at the top of my form at five minutes past seven on July 7, 1924, coupled with hard work.
JOHN ARCHER (sprinter), 100 metres European champion, 1946-Lean the fundamental then principles of your event, follow with hard work in train- ing and the intelligent applica- tion of the principles to suit the individual thiele,
E. McDONALD BAILEY.—— Progressive and planted founda- tion work, Jogging exercises, etc. Economy of effort and thinking Never be of the e's in speed. satisfied and always believe you can do biter. Consistency and
"All this over-publicited or- ganisation gave the impression the level that competitive swimming is a
rusky exercise."
Year in and year out theorists the crew-cabin, the first officer und 11 passed away some of the appear on the swimming scene
I would like to see inare of came aft and had a look at borint hour for Locke, who propounding extraordinary ideas.
the them going to the Antipodes, not only the passenger 1st, but must have been in the condition All are designed to
the same as I would like to see in which we found ourselves on short cut to world supremacy. also the passengers.
Lancashire There is no short cut. Work the set of young, Easily entillable
the the way to th-having sung
with this bawlers.
Tattersall, Statham, In the repertoire, champlons are inn who always every tong Same Mr Lockte.
and Gre Wood; straight formula-90 percent training and Derry, Hilton looks if he has just done a read
picked to Australia too, to blood: and
to
discussed him through,
everything 10 percent stroke. birdie three.
them for the future. Glasgow from Korea to Bogota, slept, Canadian-born. descended Fink Officer Jock caten, and still trying to fill in
Last, spin, There is 1t only the time. Weir made a golfer's beline.
Our Soccer defeat by the USA and slow left-arm bowling skill Transatlantic flying is one of
but perhaps there, but boundless enthusiasm. can have is ancient history the things anybody
wit explain the and it is someone known to instead of ourselves, With a gesture
It is a revolutionary idea, of taking on following conundrum to me. every golfer in the world. Jock easy to see Lecke
It Elite Mellvenny, after get-course, and for that reason can- And favour at crooked the forefinger of his interest in the golf lesson. right hand and said: "They all It is easy to see how hh eye ting a free transfer from Wrex-not possibly
uble to captain Lords, but wit will say that
because simply
JERSE Jie these keen noweomers, whose
OWENS me you don't grip the club just must have light:ned and his -ham, was like this..."
|terest quickenet when he step- America
club,gures for this season are there Well, that is fighting talk to pra aboard a trans-Canadian played for an American
Ideally built, never smokes or than the men any golfer, and at the drop of aeroplane to pick up some £2,000 what was to prevent England for all to see, would do worse Olymple triple champlon, 1936-
drinks, trains hard, the hat Locke was on his feet in worth of golfing dollars In Chl-calling on Alex Forbes or Billy "Down under"
who have tried and failed in Steel of Scotland? the gangway of the plane, and cago.,
Sounds ridlenious, t know, the past. Firal man to greet him won
an svat before anybody knew whei, he
Mcllvenny Weir, who but
nil Bedsor
Wright, for was, First Oncer Jock Weir was Firal Offer Jocks
cloakroom and aid, "I'm standing to this American citizen. Indeed, he has
for Manchester instance, were on the losing side foraging in the
signed beamed and now way...." Locke
the last tour. Are they better emerged with a No. 5 iron,
United.... reached for a Number Five.
bowlers now? -(Londos Express Service} -(London Express Semice}
LIKE THIS
"
"This is the way
standing to it," he
I've been fald, and
K. O. CANNON
• HATO HUMI.. I CHALL
LAUGH TO CEE
BIONOR CANNON
SQUIRMI...
THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS
DUON GIORNO I PUT UP VOUS
HANDS AND COME IN.
MY FRIENDS!..
TUARTIZ
Mi
UGHT
YOU DEVILS)..
common sense.
PAAVO NURMI (Finland), Iron iscipline.
(U.S.A.),
HOW CAN THEY KNOW?
In an address at Maidstone, crickel recretary county Neville Christopherson, referring to the retirement from Kent cricket in mid-acason of year-old Lesllo Todd, said:
44-
"I personally, with the captain, persiaded Todd that it would be in his interests to retire. 1 make no apology for 11. It he had just failed out there would have bean a little paragraph in the papers later on to say that! Kent had not re-engaged Todd for next season.
'SCRAP-HEAP STAR
Hartlepool on August 21.
to
GOOD LITTLE 'UN Small, trim Eileen Sheridan, Coventry housewife and mother son, looks of a four-year-old anything but the tough athletic type.
But Eileen, whose only other! interest apart from looking after
Soccer Boys Wait For
Autographs
By Harold Palmor
The English soccer
From speedway "scrap-heap" to stardom rockets Lob Oakley, her home and family is cycling, Season and Arsenal face the Wembley rider whom two Lun- went out on to the Berkshire new season with much the don tracks turned down.
the same men as lust-only a
mads recently
10 win
100
Bob came out of the Army Head Time Trial Counell' 10 1018 with determination his mifes women's championship in year older.
one 4hrs. of only set towards making him the
recard. time
There is but David signing. the Howen, 22-year-old wing-
adviser,
or outside-left from
"One for. Northampton. the future." says manager Tom Whittaker.
a star. He built a speed bike 37mnius. 53secs.-beating from odd parts he found in previous record by more than half Junk heup,
atve minutes. and practised Wimbleton. But, after navice
Elleen's manager, trials at New Cross, Wimbledon nor New Cross and biggest fan in her husband ......and he takes no part in So on to Southanuton in 1917] the spert himself!
Third Division
would consider him.
Mothe
neilher
match-race championship in
10400 transfer to Wein- bley for £1,500 last monly.
Mr Whittaker knows Arsenal uced new blood; but the men be would like are nut for sale. OF two, like There are une 'BIG SHOT' LEON
Johnny Hancocks, of Wolves. Newcomer to the All-England who would Interest Arsenal of
And on Saturday a week ago own tenals championships at their clubs would let them go.. be For the time being Mr Wimbledon next year will the man from flie scrap-heap
dashing Leen Norgarb of Pre-Whittaker concentrates more on made good. With Wembley's
his biggest making Africa's torin, South ace riders taking a licking a hitter and fastest server. Birmingham
National
In # Trophy match, Bob came along
own players contested. For Instance, there Logle. their clever Husky, handsome Norgarb is Jimmy with 10 points to save his new like tile Springbok golfer Eric Scottich inside-right whe has South fancied an engagement with an Moore, who says: "I'm side from complete humillu-Africa's big shot
Mr Whittaker is when Bobby Italian club. Locke is away." Well, Norgarh trying to help Logle supplement when his income by storting a snack Is the tennis big thot
bar comewhere In the ligh Sturgess is away..
jbury district.
tion.
PETER PAN GODDARD
Will "eld Tom” have n smacki at ? That's talking point No.
Arthur Peall says:
When to break an old snooker rule
Norgarh lacks Sturgess's pre- cise ground shots but ironically that ane thing possesses the would make Sturgess Wimble- don champlon-the big servo. CARR'S PROBLEM
To the King's fuckey
WILL NOT PART "Something must be done," "to keep Mr Whitaker,
min here. We could afford to
lys these
pay three times the money we pay now; but wo
cott-must, of course, abide by the
H.League regulations." W.
And so the argument leads to (Harry) Carr, cheice of mounis
reasons why
Aanooker
N old snooker up eays "Never spoken, 34-year-old
towards a pocket." meaning that object-ball should not be stopped near a pocket, because in the St. Leger on September considering the state of English If the BADOKor falls the opponent
wifi laro as coay will be particularly impor-soccer today, the
or stars hold their places to a later lunt. Elher Prince Simon
his age, why they are so few that Exception
Double Eclipse can
with them clubs will not pari "classic" luck.
For Westmorland-born Harry of any price.
the was
theory has niched second in the Two
and Whittaker expounded to Thousand Guineas, Derby,
across his massive Highbury
to that advice occurs when a pinyer needs ong JA anooker to
in Xnow be
BLACK
A
c. pot that My snooker.
break
Thi
Mr
Mo
diagram fives a Oaks, and third in the St. Icave of this sort. Leger, but has never achieved desk. "Footballers are made in the backyards and open spaces," Striker migtic a first is an English classic.
Over Into mid-
Jin Xock Cu pink and
there,"
"You see those kids
Mr Whittaker pointest out some young boys who were Elling the wall in front of the ground. the houses facing In the old days
they would have been kicking a ball around. Now they just sit there waiting to get autographs.
On Brown Rover he won the he said. bed Irish St. Leger, and on Lane Katient, but 10 Eagle the £8,000 Queen Eliza- hant further and right into beth Stakes at Ascot. the bulk carner,
Can you blame him for de- where lo couli
Inying his Leger decision until enally put it next time.
White stopped almost joying the last moment? black, Opponent milesed pink, DHE "We gave him a chance to get the rosul a n win for unorthodox another job. He is being paid play. by the clubs up to next April but when the
he has a perfect right to get an
other job, and, in fact, he has
got another job.
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anion is valusblo
•siowledge of the half-ball shot object-ball 4 tight from lords. Disgram catmon hand gires a simple oce
PUs, drag on the clueball to
it and contact red westly,
of this troke Hours other paully cannons dad tient
"Todd's jument was. this: steadies on the 200-bat
How
does Kent know I
not recover my form!!!!
could
London Exprats -Bervice).
the
FAITH IN EDDIE "Edule for Britain" is. slogon of Tyrrells Wood, Sur rey, golf club members follow ing the good show of their pro- fessional, Eddie Ward, in week's £2,000 tournament Royal Mid-Surrey, Richmond,
Jast of
"It is between the ages of 10 and 12 that a boy learns to kick bell about," he went on. "I am not hitting at the FA conch ing scheme “That's first class. But the supply, is not there.", 45,
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