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Hobbling Zatopek faces

Europe’s best runners

Two pulled thigh
teduce Emil Zatopek, the

When he defends his European

this week. :
Zatopek, who injured

#ged the corresponding muscle in

the right leg 10 days ago. Both

injuries were sustained in train-
ing,

For the past week he has hob-
bled through his track work in
Steat pain, had physiotherapy
daily and slept each night with
an electric pad on the injured
Mhuscle.

All the daily nightmare . mile-
48es that built him up to his in-
redible world record form at 5,000
@nd 10,000 metres and six miles
arly this year have had to go
°Verboard.

He has been literally crawling
around the track in training. Only
‘is indomitable will has kept him
S0ing. But no one will know what
the effort has cost him in sheer
Nervous energy.

Everything has gone wrong for
u€ previously unchecked Czech
Since his world record-smashing
appearances in Paris and Brussels.
On July 3 came the shock of
his defeat by the vastly improved
Ungarian, Josef Kovacs, over
10,000 metres.

. Two days later Zatopek, over-

Indulging in improperly washed

fruit, was struck down with a bad
ut of dysentry.

Four days indoors, three of them
Tunning a temperature, sapped: his
Strength more than he realized.
90 hasty resumption of training
May have been his downfall.

Resuming his training in a lath-
€r of anxiety to make up lost
Sround, he had his first pulled
Earle within four days, on July

Six days after the accident he

Maybe she’s no rival for D
Atkins of Pacific Palisades, ©
strongest youngsters on the West Coast.
of 665 pounds with no apparent strain.

By ARMOUR MILNE

5,000 and 10,000 metres

PRAGUE

muscles in a month, the second less than a week ago, may
Czechoslovak wonder runner, to the level of his challengers

titles in Berne, Switzerland,

a muscle on the inside of his left thigh on July 13, dam-

was back again into the relentless
non-stop training grind. Zatopek
worked as no other runner can
work, crowding in 20 miles a day
of feverish activity.

Last weekend he left for Berne.
If Zatopek succeeds after all. he
has been through, he will have

accomplished something even more
praiseworthy than the feat of win-
ning three Olympic gold medals
.in Helsinki two years ago.

Should he lose, it will be a
tragedy, for no runner in the world
would want to beat a Zatopek
other than a Zatopek at his peak.

British fans await |
international matches

By ERIC BUTLER

So, another football season is with us.
The Football Association has some secret

ch, it is hoped, will help put right those limitations shown

World Cup competition.
have stepped up their training schedules. Some

season it promises to be!
plans whi
up in the
Clubs, generally,
have even ‘had their players going
over miniature assault courses.
All this, in the interests of put-
ting British soecer back on top of

the world.

The kick-off question is: will
there be sufficient changes in train
ing methods and, team tactics to
raise our soccer prestige? Will

this need be answered dramatical-|

ly by a widespread improvement in
the standard of play?
On the international front this
vital season, England meet Worid
Cup champions West Germany at
Wembley and Scotland play the
great Hungarians at Hampden
Park. Both games take place in
¢ er.
orcs plum is Arsenal’s trip

to Moseow in October with a re-

joug Hepburn, but 12-year-old April
alifornia, is certainly one of the

Here she hoists a total

LONDON
And what an exciting

turn game at Highbury in Novem-
ber.

And Hungary are to send two of
their top club sides, Red Banner
and Honved.

Red Banner, the Hungarian
champions, include among their
players internationals in Hidegkuii,
Zakarias and Lantos.

In the Honved side will be seven
of the men who played for Hun-
gary against England at Wembley
last November. They are Puskas,
Koesis, Bozsik, Grosics, Lorarit,
Czibor and Budai.

They will play First Division
clubs in the first matches fixed in
Britain since it became known that
Hungarian club teams were keen
to play games in any part of the
world.

Other fixtures here will follow,
of that I am sure. Both teams are
fing examples of Hungarian fcot-
ball and they will win many more
friends with their open, fast and
attractive game.

As club teams, they will open
the eyes of all those misguided
people who think that the only top
class Hungarian players are those
in the national team.

On a visit to Hungary this year,
I’ was fortunate enough to see a
number of club games. In fact I
made a point of doing so.

Every one of them impressed
me. Defenders and forwards alike
had been taught to keep the ball
on the ground, to make it-do the
work.

Arsenal’s opponents have not
been decided on yet, but my guess
is that it will be Moscow Dynamo.

back at the head of affairs in the
Soviet League A and must be con-
sidered hot favorites to win it.

One things is certain — Arsenal
will not field anything like the side
they did on the last occasion the
teams met. There were so many
guests in the team that some poor
individuals mistook it for an Eng-
land line-up.

The news that the Hungarian
National team is to play Scotland
at Hampden on December 8 has

‘| been received among Scottish tvot-

ball fans as something like a dream
come true.

Not since the Moscow Dynamos
visited Ibrox nearly ten years ago
has there been such tremendous
interest shown in the visit of an
international team to Glasgow.

How to get a ticket for the match
is already top priority problem
for fans eager to know the Scot-

tish Football Association’s plans
for the occasion.

After a lean period, Dynamo are.

Gert Whyte's

D¢ those typewriter squares on
the commercial dailies, all
falling in with the bosses’ line
and spitting venom at the CBC
for its TV coverage of the BEG.

Now I was at the Games near-
ly every day and only watched
some of the swimming events on
television. But scores of friends
‘told me that the TV coverage was

excellent, and superior to similar
coverage by Yankee stations on
sports events south of the 49th.

Just because private radio sta-
tions and capitalist
editors have been snapping and
snarling at the CBC, every little
louse pounding a typewriter felt

lit necessary to get into the act.

CBC’s snap decision to show
only long-range shots of Jim
Peters’ pitiful entrance to the
‘Empire Stadium at the tonclusion
of his 26-mile run aroused the
most wrath among the scribblers
and hack announcers.

In my opinion, the CBC boys
made the right decision. Peters’
last hundred yards’ effort wasn’t
sport; it was sheer cruelty to a
human being, which should have
been stopped by the medicos.

oger Bannister, who wanted
the British team manager to take
Peters out before he suffered ir-
reparable damage to his heart,
was heard to murmur: “It’s like
throwing Christians to the lions.”

Good taste prevented the CBC

tragic episode on thousands of
TV screens. Decision of their
men on the spot to take long-
range shots was a senSible one,
deserving of praise, not censure.

Fact is, the newspapers and
commercial station radio an-
nouncers simply used the BEG
as, another political excuse for
throwing mud at the CBC. Seen
in this light, their sniping is de-
serving of nothing but contempt.

\ * x *

When old Archie Moore polish-
ed off his number ‘on challenger,
Harold Johnson, after trailing on
points for most of the fight, many
a boxing fan felt a warm glow.

For Archie is a link. with the

past. He was in his prime when

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 27, 1954 — PAGE 11

SPOR

newspaper .

from showing close-ups of this -

ies

Marilyn Bell of New Toronto
(left) the 16-year-old girl who
finished seventh in the Around

‘ Abescon Island centennial swim

off Atlantic City recently, wants
to compete with Florence Chad-
wick (above) when the U.S. champ
attempts to swim across Lake On-
tario. But Flo says no, she’s
swimming for cash and intends
to have the lake to herself. To-
ronto sports fans are demanding
that -CNE officials let Marilyn
compete.

TLIGHT

Joe Louis was king of the heavies
and when Joe DeMaggio was just
a coming slugger in baseball. -
Yet Archie had to win the light
heavyweight title — at 36, an age
when most fighters are retired—
before he got a main bout in
Madison Square Garden. And the
fans didn’t want to see him. beat-
en his first time out, just when

the title. is beginning to bring

him some money. ;
The night Moore lifted -his
crown from Joey Maxim’s brow,
he had to borrow money to pay
his hotel bill. Now Archie is
eating steaks, and enjoying them.
He has ambitions to become a
band leader when he quite the
ring — but before that he’d like

to salt away a few shekels.

* * bee

I caught a $73 oneto at Lans- ©

downe last week. Looks like I'll
hang onto my piece of “lucky
cork” for a while longer. With
holidays coming up, I'll probabiy
need it.

ARCHIE MOORE

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