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in The Sydory Morning Theredey, July 0, 1961 27 'Even the Yorkshire Ripper got a fair trial' Geoff Boycott LONDON. A imposed by England's cricket rulers preventa, me from conveying private thoughts of Boycott on the subject of why lie did not go pinto his 100th Test match at "Lord's last Thursday as Captain Geoffrey Boycott. ambition to lead England has consumed him since he walked out of his back back birthplace in the mining village of Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire. to burnish his talent for batsmanship into a career salmost unequalled in the history of the game. On grounds of experience, tal.

hardness, strategic perception, self-discipline and the fact that he is the best of only three world -class players in the England side, he is, of course, the only man remotely equipped to whip rather than cajole England out of their present slump. Yet to the mystery of millions he remains in the ranks, rejected not only as captain but vice-captain. I propose to ignore the censorship just once and quote Boycott on a single remark he made recently which at first says little but ultimately says it all. Referring to a not-too-distant. neighbour, he.

said: "Even athe Yorkshire Ripper got a fair trial in the dock, but I've never been given a single chance." In fact the years of truculence, when he believed wrongly that he. was the victim of a class system which insisted that the first denitials for the England captaincy' were an expensive accent and casy, social grace, have mellowed into resignation. He is, as those who have heard him on His rare appearances as a TV. commentator, a gifted and articulate talker. He also dresses beautifully, studiously avoids public punch ups, scandalous liaisons and late nights when there is a Test match on the morrow.

He The WOOLDRIDGE of the Daily Mail, London avoids even' mild social commitments when there is a major job on hand, as do Bjorn Borg and Jack Nicklaus whom he regards as the ultimate professionals in He can understand why such a puritanical attitude during the demanding five or six days that span a Test may be unpopular with players, but he cannot comprehend why they cannot submit themselves to a personal discipline that at least provides them with a living commensurate with their unusual talents. Boycott, in short, almost walks alone. He is the first to agree, as any sane man must, that he has what he calls "personality minuses" but does not enumerate them. In fact they begin and almost end with his self-centred determination to score more runs than any man who lived, an obsession which England could live with at the moment without too much argument, However, it has not endeared him to the occasional batting ner who has found himself stranded mid-wicket in a run-out catastrophe with Boycott safely home at Time to revise Pennant rules After their shocking treatment by the Royal NSW LAWN BOWLS Association on June 25, the first duty of the new By JIM match committee, to be elect- McMENAMIN ed on August 27, must surely be to revise the conditions of play for Pennants. 1979 and the international pairs -Paragraph 17 "Determination tournament O'Connell's at record Newcastle recently.

to of winners" should be cannot begin headed "Determination of section compare with Jackson's. and post sectional and It is good to see the international the method calculating "margin Bob- -King, Australia's best singles of shots up" should be spelt out in tion player, in receiving rightful recogniunequivocal, terms and illustrated the State team. with a specific example. The next match in the Mazda The State team to play Queens. Motors Jack High series on Chanland in Brisbane on July 29, 30 and nel 2 next Wednesday is between the 31 is: World Bowls silver medallist John Robbie Dobbins (Kahibah), Bob Snell (Victoria) and the Hong Kong Bartlett (Illawarra Cessnock), Leagues), Clar- Games gold medallist Dallah.

Thomson Bob champion and Commonwealth rie Watkins (Rosehill); Ken If you miss this game on (Campbelltown City), John Hollier Wednesday, July you can still see it on (Eariwood), John O'Connell Channel Saturday, 2. 18, at noon on (Toongabbie), Ken Metham (Rosehill): Alex Matthews Head), Laurie Hopley (Gosford)," Bob The semi-final of the James Wall (Hamilton), George Shield of the NSW Women's Dawes (Queanbeyan); Bill Taylor Bowling Association will be played (Bomaderry), Terry Harmer (Alex- at Henley tomorrow, but the date. andria-Erskineville), Joe Amos (W and venue. of the final depends on Subs Leagues), Maurie Bonney the availability of the. State presi(Lindfield): Bob King (Bomader- dent Dorothy Ogle, who' is fully ry).

Ron Fowler (Tamworth Work- occupied presenting flags and men's), Ron Dennis (Francis badges to Pennant winners. Drake), Ken Neave (Corrimal). The new white pockets are: Ron Fowler, Laurie Hopley, John Nominations for State selectors O'Connell and Bob Thomson. close on July 30. Keen observers are puzzled that For the sake of lawn bowls in O'Connell could be preferred to NSW, it is hoped that some new such a well-performed bowler as blood will be introduced into the Reg: Jackson (Asquith), who won State selection committee at the the State pairs with Bob King in election on August 27.

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commended and maximum price only. man left in either end. He did it once to Bob Barber in a Test in Sydney and 1 thought for a moment, as Barber passed him on his passage to the pavilion, that he was going to kill him. That degree of self- preservation is not an attractive trait unless you are very, very good. The point these days is that Boycott is very, very, very good, but the egalitarians of' the modern dressing room leave no room for altruistic self sacrifice.

"Boyks" the dreadful diminutive inflicted on him years is expected to walk like everybody else and his reluctance to do so has lost him many allies. I saw in him cry minor once match after in getting the out a Australian outback when his score didn't even count in the first -class averages. His every dismissal now is still a desperate physical pain and, when he no longer feels that, he told me, he will quit the game for good. Geoffrey Boycott was not born a Corinthian. He was born in a miner's with an end-ofgarden lavatory in a part of Yorkshire where they don't shoot grouse, the son of a pit face worker who died of silicosis and a marvellous mother who washed his socks until the week she died at the very time her son was sacked from the Yorkshire captaincy.

The rules of that environment are that Lord's the slightly, different. Boycott broke, them when he won a place to grammar school, wore a collar and tie to his clerk's job in the Inland Revenue offices in Bradford and then extraordinary talent for Unlike contemporary gods. like Cowdrey, May and Dexter, all the products of public schools, beautiful. flat pitches and obsequious coaches, Boycott had nothing but a paranoid determination to succeed, desperate hampered, in shyness the in early social days, by situa- a tions to which he was unaccustomed. 'Few helped him and from time to time Boycott would burst with resentment at what he saw as' the in-born arrogance of Unlikely story In a terrible outburst of invective one evening in Yorkshire he accused me of being part of "the Lord's mafia" dedicated to keeping him out of the captaincy.

It was as unlikely a story then as now and, in any case, Boycott at the time was still too gauche and inexperienced to handle a murderously demanding job as Ian Botham was subsequently to discover. Over the next five years, however, the plot was to thicken. Boycott emerged from his blue period to become the world's finest lurch opening batsman, a hardened strategist and, amazingly, a diplomat. He curbed his temper, held his tongue, taught himself to chat up vice-consuls wives at the boring diplomatic parties cricketers are still subjected to, went on Desert Island Discs and the Parkinson Show, and dressed conspicuously better than the present Leader of the Opposition. It was too late.

The knives were out for him. Player after player was appointed England captain over him and the final, stunning insultwas inflicted in the West Indies last winter when atheadmar appointed vice-captain him could. not even command a place in the Test side. Boycott gave up. He denies bitterness, explaining, that to be consumed by destroy his own game which is back where it.

started: accumulating runs. At a guess I would say he does not respect Botham's performances on the field or his conduct off it. He. just remains mystified at what you have to do these days to become England captain. He says, for the record, that his refusal to tour India in the early 1970s was probably the error which scuppered his chances, but he says it without conviction and, anyway, I don't believe him.

My belief is that if Boycott were appointed England captain now he would rock the boat to capsizing point by re establishing a discipline that would be unpopular with the players. He would demand of them what he has demanded of himself to raise his weekly income from cricket from £12 to £1,400, which is total dedication. Officially, therefore, the mystery of how Geoffrey Boycott was never appointed England captain remains unsolved. The the nation's choice; for he fights for. the nation every time he bats.

He fights for himself as well, course, tends to be a helpful characteristic in professional sport. Such wealth as he has, has come only in recent years since the Packer Affair liberated wages for cricketers across the world. What he really wants to crown a remarkable career, however, has no purchase price. The England captaincy, now as then, is not up for sale. Geoffrey Boycott's career remains the enigma of our sporting times and at Lord's this week there may have been a small band of men who had it on their consciences.

Boycott captained England four times early in 1978 after Mike Brearley had broken an arm. Under Boycott's leadership, England drew one Test in Pakistan, and won one. lost one and drew one in New Zealand. Coach's scrummaging plans bite the dust By RAY GATT The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Just ask Bob Templeton, the Australian Rugby Union coach.

Templeton was forced to abandon plans to put the Test team through a scrummaging workout yesterday when extra hands he had organised were forced to pull out at the last minute. a little disappointing," Templeton said. "Although our scrummaging was good last Sunday, I wanted this session to keep the boys up to scratch. "Hopefully we will be able to get some scrummaging practice at our next session in the morning." Templeton, despite the minor Paul McLean setback, put the team through a rigorous two-hour training session at the Sydney Cricket Ground No 2. Australia lead the series 1-0, and it was obvious that Temple- Mark Ella ton was leaving nothing to chance.

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4 nuD trainbim The Boycott highlights Boycott has hit 20 Test six against five against West Indies, three each against India and Pakistan, two against New Zealand and one against South Afric. 1967 191 Australia, 1977 155. India, 1979 Australia, 1970-71 Zealand, 1978 1980 128 West Indies, 1969 125 India, 1979 1971. Australia. Africa, 1970-71 1964-65 West Indies.

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they must protect the ball if were are to give our backs continuity." A significant feature of the session was that Mark Ella ran at five-eighth and Paul McLean at fullback. If Roger Gould's injury fails to improve, Ella will be brought into the team at the expense of Geoff Richards, who deputised for Gould last Sunday. Gould restricted, himself to a light run and several. warm-up routines. A decison on his fitness will be made later this week.

He is hopeful of being fit. The Australians trained well, although three players grin trying to shrug off the effects influenza. Brendan Moon, Tony D'Arcy and Michael Hawker were offcolour yesterday, but are expected to be right by Saturday. backline, but overall: the Frenchmen looked out of condition and disorganised. Young second-rower Chris Walsh looked a player of promise with several rampaging bursts, while Rugg and Topper were always in the action.

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Big Jim Armstrong played in the front-row for Australia against England in 1946 and then quit the game when selected in, the Olympic wrestling team. He won the bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 1948 Games in London. The funeral service will be held at St Mary's Cathedral at 10 am tomorrow. YACHTING: Early Berry, of New Zealand, took overall. lead after three heats of the World OK championships at Hyeres, southern France.

Fine weather enabled two heats to be raced Berry won the third heat- attend finishing third in the second, won Hakan Jonson, of Sweden. Second overall was Australian Peter Tuesday's Takle, races. seventh Stefan in Jaaruud. both of Sweden, fourth in the third heat, was third overall." TENNIS: Wimbledon champion John McEnroe became the first player to simultaneously hold the No 1 ranking in both singles and doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals. This week's computer rankings reflect McEnroe's singles and doubles victories at Wimbledon.

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