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|_ THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1 1950.

MACDONALD BAILEY HOLDS STRONG MAC BAILEY

VIEWS ON SOCCER TRAINING METHODS

By HAROLD MAYES

With most of our sports in which there has been something of a downhill trend someone at some time or other has pointed for a reason either to lack of training, or training on the wrong lines. But few people have really stuck out their necks to suggest that England's foot- ballers, who certainly pat in more hours in pre- paration for their games than people in other spheres, don't go about their training properly.

Well, I've now heard that twice within thres days. First blow came from one of Britain's leading experts on the physical application of the human body to sporting pursuits, and the second. from an athlete who should know as much about conditioning as anyone in the world -coloured sprinter McDonald Bailey.

Mac, who has now left for the New Zealand Centenary Games in Christchurch, has been training with Brentford footballers at Griffin Park, and holds decided views on Soccer get fit methods.

"Don't get me wrong," says next summer. Alterations Mac. "This is no attack on the understand will make it possible Brentford players.« I have to House 20,000 spectators: trained with a lot of footballers at one time or another, and I don't think enough attention is given to scientific sprinting practice or to a studied applica tion on the field of carefully thought-out moves

"I'll go so far as to say that the majority of footballers don't know the first thing about get ting into shape. If they did I'm sure their football would be im mensely improved."

Riders here, of course, are not allowed to be associated with promotion of the sport but the authority of the Auto Cycle Union and the Speedway Control Board does not extend to Eire.. As there are three Williams brothers and three Roger brothers there would well be a big family team to ride on the new track on Sundays.

Waterman is at present in New Zealand and Byford is doing

with Geoff Woodcock, former secretary of the Speedway Riders' Association, who will, I understand, manage the new.

What of the physical culture,most of the preparations along expert? Well, he's a man who deals with all types, and his view of footballers is that they seem to do just as much as they have to, and no more.

track.

"I actually trained with FARR'S NEXT MOVE players of several clubs to study their methods, and found that "It's easy to kick a dog when when the trainer disappeared he's down," was the attitude of for a moment what was no more Tommy Farr when I spoke to than jog-trot lapping slowed him concerning his defeat by instantly to a walk,” he told coloured American Lloyd Mar-

shall.

me

Can this really be the reason why the rest of the Soccer world has caught us up; and raced past? Could be, and that view certainly gets confirmation from way the Austrians, just before playing Scotland at Hampden, set

their about training in London. There

the

But I gathered that Tommy is not nearly so perturbed about the setback as some of his critics, and is intent on erasing the blot from fis come-back record. How? By pressing for a return with Marshall as quickly as he can get it.

was nothing lackadaisical about did go the distance with the only Whatever else happened, Farr any of their work.

TAX-DODGING PLAN

man who holds a knock-out victory over the reigning World Champlon, Ezzard Charles, and Some greyhound track execu-who, incidentally, also has a I decision over the Lightheavy- tives are becoming alarmed at a taxdodging plan which is being weight Champion Joey Maxim, operated by some starting-price so was there such disgrace in

defeat after all? bookmakers and their clients.

As far as S.P..offices are con- cerned it is strictly business, but so much money is by-passing the heavily-licensed betting rings and the totes that track managements are beginning to feel the piach, and the Govern ment's rake-off is talling:

By mutual arrangement a punter opens a credit account with his bookmaker and bets at the track through the account, and as all credit offices are un- taxed, the backer, if he wins, is paid out in full.

This can mean big money over a period, and astute backers who plunge heavily were among the first to divert their investments.

Sixteen

(10 p.c percent Government leny and 6. plc. operation fees for the tracks) is taken from all money passing through the dog totes, while to bet at one meeting can cost # bookie up to £48 in tax, plus track fees. So perhaps it is only following the law of economies to swing credit betting to UD- taxed sources.

Four speedway riders, world champoin Freddie. Williams (Wembley), Split WaterTart (Harringay), Cyril Roger (N Cross) and Howdy Byford (W Ham) are planning to speedway, track at the greyhouti

Chubby Reg King, the Not- tingham promoter with a bid of £3,025, has secured the Ronnie Clayton-Al Phillips fight, for Nottingham Ice Rink for January 29, subject to the British Boxing Board of Control agreeing that Clayton's British and Empire titles shall be on the line.

SHOWS HOW

MacDonald Bailey gets the last ounce of energy out of himself for one of

the upsets of the last athletic season-his victory over American champion

Arthur Bragg.

English Cricket

Is

Back

Temporarily On The Pedestal Of Its Larwood Days

By ARCHIE QUICK

English cricket is temporarily back upon the pedestal of its Larwood days as

a result of having dismissed Australia's phalanx of batting giants in one day on, for Brisbane, a good wicket. It is but a matter of conjecture whether the good work can be continued at Melbourne, Sydey and Adelaide or whether Miller, Morris, Harvey and Co. will wreak dire revenge.

One or other or all of them are sure to get big scores in subsequent Tests, because England's attack is obviously be low Test Match standard, but the moral

upft to Bedser, Bailey, Wright, and their companions must be tremendous.

Referees Can't Be Called "Gooks"

Stuttgart, Germany, Dec, 18.

A player on the Wuer- temberg-Baden soccer team has been suspended for two weeks. He called the referee a "North Korean."-United Press.

BRISTOL ROVERS WIN CUP THE

Despite the idiosyncrases of If a schoolboy shows promise the Melbourne wicket it is not he is coached and nursed to a a "Brisbane" and Freddie Brown first class career. No six-day a will not dare go into the field week cricket for the Aussies, with only four recognised like our county system. bowlers, including himself.. There is always Denis Compton, of course, but a place will have to be found for Close or Warr, and I expect it will be McIntyre who will go.

A DOLEFUL FACT

The basis of their cricket is grade games, a dozen or more of which may be going on at once on first-class enclosures in Sydney alone any week-end. The Test stars take part. in those matches as a matter of course. So an up-and-coming bowler" It is a doleful fact that Eng- gets a chance of testing his land have not won a Test Match | length and guile against the since "Hutton's Game" at the Millers and Morrises. No club

in Oval in 1938. Since then the batsman England gets Australians have won seven and | chance of showing his prowess drawn three of the ten matches and improving his game against played. But it was the same the Bedsers and Wrights. after World War I. England

went from 1912 to 1926 without winning a Test series-and then Larwood arrived.

a

The likelihood of his ever do- ing so is exactly nil, for if county cricket clubs are to survive London, Dec. 18.

Is there another Larwood there must always be six days Bristol Rovers beat Gilling- lurking? What is the reason for a week cricket to bolster their ham 2-1 in a second round re-the Australians supremacy? I finances, Whether the county Big money for Nottingham play of the Football Association think the two questions are system is ever scrapped and perhaps but Reg takes the viewCup competition at Tottenham bound up in the same answer. substituted

with a League that if he gets only fourpence, Hotspurs' ground today.

It is the Australians system | scheme is quite another question out of a show like that and the Ravers are at home to of schools, grade, State and—and one that will never arise customers are happy he's not Aldershot in the third round-Test Matches, each being closely if I know my MCC and county complaining.

Reuter.

interwoven with the other.

clubs aright.

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