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20 Sport THE OBSERVER, MARCH 20, 1966 DEXTER FOOTBALL ROUND-UP by HARRY WEAVER More goals lift the gloom at Fulham I SAY, I say, I say To start at the bottom of Division I Cor a change instead of at the top. It looks as if Fulham, Hoodints when it comes to escaping from relegation, are at it again. On top of the five goals they scored at Villa Park last week to record their first away win of the season, they popped three more into Sunderland's net yesterday. The blame and the glory go to Hurley (own goal) and Leggat (2). Meanwhile, JJIackbafn, in bottom place with 18 points, entertained Leeds, who kept alive their outside' chance of catching Liverpool with a 32 victory, Lorimer, Bremner and Storrie settling the matter after Harrison "had put.

Blackburn ahead froth a penalty. Itwas a day for the men in the shadows. Haynes looked like his old. self Fulham and as- the saying goes, the architect of their convincing win. For Chelsea, the man of the hour-and-a-half at Newcastle was" transfer-listed Venables, whose winning goal gave his club their, record-breaking tenth away win this season and kept them in with a championship chance.

Goal rush Manchester United are not ont of it either. Arsenal, minus Eastham, never looked like depriving them of their unbeaten home record and a goal by Law after only one mirjnte set them on the way to a 2 1 win in a drab sort of game more usually seen at Highbury these days. For all. that, Liverpool are as regular as All Bran addicts. They adhered to the championship formula two points at home, one away with a goal-less draw in the local derby, at Everton.

They now lead Leeds by eight points- though tbey have played three games more. 'Everyone bored with talk of tactics and defensive football ought to have been at White Hart Lane. "Spurs, .5 1 up in the second half, had to settle for a. 5 -5 draw against Aston Villa. Hateley scored four of Villa's goals, two of, them in two minutes.

City are back on top of Division Two. Goals by 45,000 TOM SMfTH Saul heads third goal for Spurs with Villa goalkeeper Withers stranded flat-out on INTERNATIONAL RUGBY PENTATHLON All so cheerful at the Palace from GEOFFREY NICHOLSON AFTER a day cheerfully running and riding around the grounds of Blenheim Palace, Cambridge University handsomely beat Oxford in their ninth Modern Pentathlon by 20,760 points to 16,559 Cambridge now lead 7-2 in the series. Already on Friday they had beaten Oxford at shooting, swimming and fencing; ihey went on to take both of yesterday's outdoor events and besides pmviding the overall winner. Garforth-Bles, they took the next three places in competiiion. On ford's consolalion was to find individual winners for the running.

Slater, and the riding. J. P. Moir. It' you have to run 4.000 metres across country, there are worse place- to do it than in morning sunlight around Blenheim Lake, a well-guarded wilderness poetically decorated with catkins, ducks, swans and bags of wuhered sedge.

But the paths, were iteep and narrow, and 3f the farm errcf he runners had to wade 20 yards through one of the streams. The ofcr, dashing! cold and spark-hns. an expression of shock a.rnvi their fii-jes. and snaked them with srih-vhes io ihe waist. Most cook it ginijcrh though Garforth-Bles cook a grot-leap lot of water on 0fnrd.

for ihe first time, found An individual winner, R. Slater, a man whoe long red hair and taste 'Kin Revolui ion.1 ry caps no special attention in Oxford stuntfs iMii a hit among the short K-cV and i lJcs and conventional dre ol this nara-rniMtan- sport. The drst.mee uf ihe run cannot he taken too seriouslv for it was mea-sifrecf on a map which did not take account the humps and din. hui Sister'-, time of 14 min. 32 sec.

was evee'len: hy ihe standards of modern penuithlon ai the university, wav nkti 24 seconds faster than of the next man. B. W. "Norris. of Cum bridge, who won Friday 's shooting.

First blues It uas only in modern pentathlon blues were first awarded by either university and only two years ago that Oxford gave them to all siv members of the team, and no' simph to the top three. They talk of trr.s the great breakthrough, though the mood of the whole thing stifl hasn't taken on thai highly organised professionalism of rughy and cricket at ihe university. The Cambridge club has around 30 members, Oxford a score. Some come from schools like Ton bridge and Whitgift, which Utke the decathlon seriouslv; this is pentathlon without the riding, and with rifle instead of pistol shooting They are stiffened bv young officers who are posted to the universities to take degree courses. For the afternoon riding event, 15 low artificial jumps had been built in and out of a paddock and trees instead of the iraditional cross -country course.

This was a concession to some of the riders' inexperience. So, too. was he wem by which ihe team brought their oun horses along with them instead of taking their chance with whatever they oxca from the pool. But the variable quality of the horse, perhaps more lhan their nders. was still the factor that decided things.

Here Oxford were at a greater disadvantage generally. One of their horses was an old neddy that refused any jumps it couldn't amble up to in its own good time. Scotland Calcutta keep Cup neu, malting nis oeDut. ana Young gave them a usetul 2 1 win at Derby. Oh, and the Amateur Cup Hendon, the holders, will meet Wealdstqne, finalists for the first time, at Wembley on April 16.

Hendon survived an almost incessant Whitley Bay onslaught in the second half to win'; 2-1 while Wealdstone crept home against the country cousins, Alvechnrch, before, a crowd of 14,225 at Stamford Bridge. Allen scored the only goal lS minutes from time. Results, Scorers, Tables: Page 19 Pickering injury cripples Everton from ARTHUR HOPCRAFT Everton 0 Liverpool 0 MOST OF the vast, power in this game was in the tackling, along with most of; the purpose. Liverpool may be clear away with the Leagge Championship bonuses as good as in their wallers, but they are "not the side to put a couple of points in jeopardy in the frivolous interests of attractive football. They locked this match up in a tight bundle of limpet marking.

and ferocious tackling. 6 pts England the passing inside quarter to make the wing three- well-timed late extra, and Whyte just squeezed past Kulherford in the corner. Opposite Chisholm. Weston stood without exception just as close, even closer, though Wintle. his scrum-half had been ostensibly picked for length of pass.

Both stand-off halves were therefore drawing no defence and making no ground before passing. So the wing forwards of both sides had a feast to be envied, if only of destruction, and all the centres were doomed to flat passes, standing starts and vulnerability to painful tackles. In these circumstances they played better than we have seen from them before, particularly Henderson, of Scotland, and McFadyean. only England back to break, if only shortly, out of bondage. He scored England's dropped goal after a heel held long enough in front of goal to make it particularly resourceful.

Apart from these odd credits for hard play and improvisation out of broken formations and crowded con- placing his shrewd clearances with telling accuracy. But Everton were crippled by cruel ill luck. Pickering, who has struggled back to somewhere near top quality in recent games, was carried off on a stretcher after 25 minutes, having collapsed in great pain with a pulled Women first and golfers second IT WAS my first visit to a ladies' golf tournament. I feared I might see amazohs at work, and that they would shame the golf of all but the best men and would hit the ball nearly as far. Relax, they are not amazons and they don't hit it that hard.

The ladies were in action at the Berkshire Golf Club contesting the Avia national 72-hole foursomes, a medal event which proved rather too stem a test for most of them so early in the season. Il was won by the French pair, St-Sauveur and Varangot, by nearly as many strokes as Arlcle won lengths at Cheltenham. Even so Ihey showed some feminine frailty. If there is a measure of repressed masculinity in all these ladies which seeks expression through competing at a man's game, it is barely visible to the bystander. Even iss Varan-got, who tries hardest to play the man by dress and mannerism, is given away by her small hands and lack of power by male standards through the ball.

More than anything else il was this lack of physical strength at impact that gave the woman's game away. There was only real control of the ball for the shortest of shots while the rest of the time they swung themselves off their feet trying to gam distance. Extra heave Even the best swinger of all, Lally St-Sauveur, was forced inlo that extra heave of the ball which ruined the pure art of her practice swing. I would like to see them ail play again on a much shorter, much tighter golf course, more in keeping with their physique. It was at the request of the L.G.U.

that the poor ladies played off the men's tees, which even though they were not the very back ones still made the course impossibly long. Three mild days allowed them to complete the 72 holes but just a little wind and rain must have meani torn-up cards and broken hearts way out in the country. Even forward tees would not make up for this lack of length. If anything it would make things worse, since bunkers would come into play for the drives and there would still be long seconds with wood instead of well-controlled irons. Almost every shot was played with hook to get the ball to run, though in the end all the obvious talent and dedication went begging in search of the extra power which they just don't possess.

Joyce Wethered and Babe Zaharias may have been different but none of these ladies could possibly have shown to full advantage under these conditions. Embarrassed First sight was of Mrs Barclay who, with her partner Miss Ramp-ton, eventually finished eighth. Having completed a fine practice swing with plenty of zip, she made a hash of the actual shot. There was a. cry of "Oh, Mrs Barclay and a peal of merry laughter.

I could only assume that Mrs Barclay either didn't mind a bit or that she didn't do such a thing very often. I had to admire her either way. Then I came across the top pairing, the two French ladies, and the Bonallack Ward sisters. In identical cerise slacks, white sweaters and colourful wool bonnets the English girls confirmed this country's new role in fashion trendsetting. They three-putted and looked quite concerned, but there was still a hint of embarrassment somehow at having to take the game seriouslv at all.

The putting generally was shaky, but greens are never easy before the spring grass gets through, and Ruth Porter showed by holing on the last three greens in the morning that men are not necessarily any better at this part of the game. Playing in the same pairing was Miss Susan Armitage, (he crispest striker of all. They call this course wet and slow," she said You should see my home course, Walsall." In a sentence she had given the reason for the crushing victory of the French pair. Tbey bad come straight from sunshine abroad wilh their swings in full flow, proving that practice in ideal conditions fits yuu best for any others. The West Indian batsmen will prove it again this summer.

Jacklin fourth in golf money Tony Jacklin, 21 -year-old British gol fer, won 903 Oil the Sourh African professinnal circuit lhi. season. This put him fourth in the earnings table. Ahead of him were the South Africans Harold Hcnnins (1.932), Gary Plaer (C1.532J. and Cobie LeGrange Everton, for all the unquestion able revival in their force as an attacking team, simply had not the cutting edge to slice through this sort of thicket.

Nofmany sides imi Europe have. By the middle of the second-half Evertod's wind was clearly shortening from their unflagging chasing, tryina to. run the, ball thrpueh O. Liverpool, from then until the end. were in command, squeezing Everton b'aqk flushed defence, with only Young up ahead waiting for the big.

clearance. But Liverpool now, even if they are as strong as they were back in September when they crashed Everton 5-0, no longer have the.sharpness that brings results like that. Even their attacks had a wary look about them, the ball guarded greedily, no margin allowed in ambitious passing. Fierce tackle The huge crowd, which showed so much rqlish early on for the big tackles' and the all-out. running, turned sour on the game, giving it an, intermittent slow-handclap at the' end, a good- long bo We knew from Gabriel's tackle on St John in the first minut a fierce rush- from behind that sent the ceatre forward spinning aside with his twirlirig: that this would be a fas more resolute Everton than Liverpool had met before.

There were some sudden, -electrifying' outbursts: Thompson tearing through a 30 yards curve that took him clear to the right of the Everton -goal to pull back a centre; Scott, in reply, zig-zagging past Byrne and Stevenson, to be blocked by Yeats. The patches of fine talent glowed brightly in the in-fighting. Wilson, at least, never dropped-below his normal high standard, shutting out Callaghan to the point of demoralising him, and the line. Four-goal Hateley hits back from TONY PAWSON Tottenham 5 Aston Villa THIS WAS a light-hearted epd.of tetm romp with Greaves leading the rag until Hateley with three late goals showed that -Astdn Villa's defence was not the only one that could be made to. look foolish.

A three, goal lead 'is all Spurs need to get' unjustified delusions grandeur and once they were 5-1 ahead they nearly died of conceit. But for an incredible miss by Deafein in the final minutes they would have paid for their lack of effort with a lost game. Yet at the start it was all sunshine and jollity, and Greaves went -rolliCkr ing past his taekters leaving xthem sprawled in confusion behind him. In this mood and given this amount of space, he conjured up a series of unlikely openings. Almost at (price he made a eoal.

a comer- kick back to Mackay, whose half-hit shot was deflected in by Gilzeari; Then he took one himself; switching play with a clever reverse pass; gathering Clayton's return arid running on to beat Withers at the-sec'ond attempt. Soon there were six men' falling over themselves in irielffecfSve efforts to stop him. He fooled fenders again, stepping over a pass as they moved towards Kim and letting the ball run through to Roberts; The centre was headed down by Gilzean and bundled in by Saul as1 Withers groped vainly for the ball. Unchallenged Aston Villa's wild kicking and distracted running was soon matchedJby the Tottenham defence. Jennings, throwing a ball, straight to Deakin, did his best to encourage Villa back into the game.

That generous, offer was spurned but Mullery soon missed a ball he was trying to trap and Baker sped behind him to draw Jennings and hit across a low centre that bounced in off Hateley's knee. A free kick from Mackay sd.baffled the defence that all for-' wards were able to pass the ball around leaving each other to score until Brown strode up to thuifrp the ball home. Early in the second half Tottenham went further ahead as Greaves slipped clear on the left Robertson headed in a centre: that might weH have been intended 'as a shot. Hamilton, who had worked busily throughout, found it ever easier" to find open spaces for Hateley' br Deakin to come thrusting through-Hateley in particular was left almost unchallenged. Tall and purposeful, he won the ball at will whenever it was hit high into the area.

Soon he opened up the goal, for Deakin, who drove home a firm shot. Hateley himself pushed in another when Tottenham were too slow to clear the ball. To complete their confusion, and astonish home fansi. he twice rose high above Brown to head home long centres from Aitken, wlidse incursions down the wing emphasised the complete reversal in the playJs, Tottenham Houpnt Jennings Mullery, Knowle: Clayton. Brown.

L. Roberiwn. Greaves. Saul, Giliean, Possce. Alton VitLw-Wiihers Wright.

Atkcn: Tindall, Sjccuwenliock. Poumncy: MacEwan, Hamilton. Haieley. Baker. ROWING Scullers triumph from DONALD LEGGET Tideway.

March. 19 NO ONE seriously thought that Tideway Scullers would be beaten in the Head of the River race ftom Mortlake to Putney today and they duly won by 22 seconds from-lsis. There was a holding wind until Hammersmith Bridge and provisional times showed the Scullers had beaten the record. However, on re-check ing, a minute was added to all the times. The national crew.

Nautilus, finished fourth and this temporarily at least will silence some of their critics. Quite the most outstanding and notable performance came from Emanuel School, who were unbeaten as a school crew last year. They won the Junior-Senior Pennant with eusc and their form augurs well to heat off the American Schools challenge at Henley. Defaulters from the cnlry list included the famous Barn Cottage Nevertheless many of their veterans apnea red jn Molesey colours, their ruling al 37 equalling veteran Christopher Davidge's age! The other interesting new entry was a combined Thames and Vesta VIII. Tidewa Head of the Rlver 1.

Tideway cullers I. 8: isif, I l-di: I toc-ay St'jllers 11, 18-4 4, Nauulus 1. 18-4. HOCKEY Forward changes help Beckenham from ZULFIKAR GHOSE WITH THE REST of the hockey season taken by international competition. Spencer emerge as the most distinguished of the London clubs, having won 19 of their 23 matches.

Mid-Surrey, who began stunningly with seven wins out of eight games, have won only once more. Beckenham and Dulwich share the next most impressive record after Spencer, and are closely challenged by Scotland A SOLITARY fully-completed move was enough to win the Calcutta Cup for Scotland, but not enough to do justice to the perfect conditions and the occasion. Scotland will now finish second in the table, either alone or bracketed with France or Wales, according to the result of the Wales France match next Saturday. This is only the second time Scotland have beaten England in '6 seasons, both in the last two matches at Murrayfield. England take the bottom place in the championship.

They have only beaten France in three full seasons. Apart from these unimpressive consequences, the traditional tribal vigour which always goes into this match, and the lonely Scottish try, both teams proved only their deficiencies in the two most decisive departments of the game, in the line-outs, and at half-back. Of the 97 line-outs. INTERNATIONAL TABLE France Sciuland rcUnd Lnxland Rcmainm Manh 2. 4 1 I 2 24 '4 I 4 0 3 i I atclr Wales France at Cardiff.

Scotland won. to use a purely relative verb. 43 to England's 29. 25 others being undecided. Until a late England rally, Scotland had a tally of two to one.

Stagg, standing only two inches short of seven feet, and picked obviously for the line-out alone, actually delivered the ball from only four, and one of these was bv a tap-down from a colleague. His function was to mark Payne, and so bar England from the use of their one line-out asset. Jn tactical terms only it was a complete success, and should teach England at large what our neglect of the line-oul is costing us. But it meant that even Scotland's (ine-out wins were by Campbell-Lamerton at the front, or by Fisher, by far the best forward of the day, at the end. From the front, Haslie's hesitant pass was too short to send Chisholm clear; from the back, too obvious to deceive the England wing forwards.

In any case, on only one occasion did Chisholm stand more than 10 yards away, and that was, of course, the time Scotland scored their try as elementary a lesson as one could imagine from such players. A fast Ihrow-in intended for the long line was deflected from Hastie by Campbell-Lamerton, Chisholm was, for just once, clear of Ihe wing forwards for a run. Grant came into mud and water associated with the English counterpart. Roy Fowler and Gerry North, two of England's most experienced men. consider Ihd.

yfier three miles of shuffling through, the sof surface manv legs will be 1 1 red. The hope is. of course, rh.it our main npponenls. France, including such swift movers as Michel Jay and Guy Tcxereau will suffer in the same wa Buf the French team is far bcricr geared lo i00-mcEre running (which tornorrow race over 1 miles resembles, far more lhan cross- event than the F.ngh'sh fciitn. Of course.

Ihe team best suited lo the conditions and the wcuther is Mi. 1hc i impc'cnt htvn I li n.il conv pi(ur Mtd 1 or c.i 'und -r inii Mil K- n. Hill. I.gl.,nd. I pl.fiC hc- itlunl h.iL-k nnd (ilk- -fn.

ihL- miK lirsl unit: h.i mean; ih.ii Ml1. In I'lir Sp(- he "A sit ih.tt the fvimhh should Hnd a rcim Kjtcinc i is dill ere vKh evenh. hut aiM' rnss-C'ou mrv L'nion diftcrrn1 In clei over me Foolish mudd milt no thi- si; miner cnl on a fl.it 3 fusion, all the good play came from the backs, who alone had room. Abundantly warned that Weston's boots were made for kicking, and thai is all they did, Blaikie stood deep, eoi under everything without hurrying, and returned all with fine precision to touch. Opposite.

Rutherford, under pressure continuously and at much shorter range, played the defensive game of his life, with several superb screw kicks and a good sally or two into the three-quarter line. He tried a drop at goal, but missed. England, though winning the i.oo'i against the put-in by four to two, only got good possession from a mere half-dozen line-outs. Sheriff, playing most energetically in his first international, rounded the end of the line three times, French-style, with some threat, but Wintle, scrum-half, stood too far away from the line-out to make much of the meagre service. Rogers was the best England forward for his covering of the flat attacks of both sides.

Blaikie kicked a penalty goal from an off side by Wintle to score Scotland's other points. Scoltand Blaikie FP); A Hinshrlwnod 'London Scotch). Henderson CEdinburxh Waodercro I Laushland capl (LnnJon SI. i Whyte (Edinburgh W); Chtxholm A Hasue Macdortald (London S), A Laidlau (Melrose). Rollo (Howe or Fite) 'Sal I Campbcll-Lamenon, Fisher (London St.

Trlfer (McJrosc). Graji Haw England Rulhertord (Gloucester) EL Rudd (Liverpool), Heam (Bedford! McFadyean (MoselelfV Savaite tNonhamn-ton) Weston (Durham City) Winlle (Northampton): Judd fCovcmryl W'T Trepdwell tWa.1 A Honon Payne (Harlequins! Owen (Coventry). Greenwood (Waterloo). Rogers fcaot) (Bedford). A (Saracens) Jockeys call meeting BEFORE the 1966 Flat racing season opens at Doncaster tomorrow the newly-formed Jockeys Association will meet to discuss the contents of a letter which the Daily Moil claim to have received from Bill Curling, the Turf Board's P.R.O.

Harry Carr, first president of the Jockeys1 Association, said: Parts of this letter if what am told is true --are a slur on the professional integrity and reputation of every jockey." According to the Daily Mail. Mr Curling sent them a written reply tn a suggestion that there should be an overnight declaration of the draw tthe position a horse is drawn at- the starting gate the jockey who would ride, and whether or not a horse would be wearing blinkers. Mr Curling is reported to have written: "The overnight declaration and the draw, jockeys and blinkers would be bad for the integrity of Racing results Page 19 Richard Baerlein's Best Guesses Page 18 racing bookmakers would have 24 hours to brihe jockeys to interfere WLth fancied Carr, who retired from ridin.g two years ago. sa id "In my 25 years cNperi-ence I never knew a jockey to be bribed lo interfere with fan-cied horses. Jockcvs are extremely well paid, and wouid never stoop to this vri practice.

i am contacting olhcr jockeys and expect so call the first meeting of our association at Doncaster on Mnndav Britons in final Britain's Clraham Stillwcll and Miss Winnie Shaw yesterday won their way into the singles finals at the Cannes International Uun tennis tournament. Assault course Modem pentathlon is. to some extent, a kind of refined assault course, and until the universities' movement began it was the Services which kept alive Excellence in it require an almost unattainable versatility. and the horse-riding the least reconcilable of its elements. Probably the mosi promising recruit u.

ould be a horseman who could either run or swim. How difficult it is for even talented athletes to succeed can be judged by the case of the Cambridge man D. Hooker. He won Friday's swimming and was equal first in the fencing, but he was only fourth at the end of the day. In the shooting he had failed to reach the pass mark score of and so scored no pentathlon points at all.

Individual Result 1 Garf nnh-Bles (Cambridge 7 ms 2. 1 Pactcrsmn CCaui- bndsicj. 1. Norris Cambridge), 2.QM. Running individual) I.

SJaier Mm Zs. )4 pis: 2. Nutti. Mm 1 BriLhi en -Colombo (Cambridiic). 1rr H.

I Runtiinc icitml 1. a hriiJwc 4.233 tw 1. (Jxlnrd. H.h.HI Rkdlne t.n: nu Cnlomh. i Ridine Oif.Td, 2 id I Moir (Oi ford Partmnrt.

Brirtiieri- anirridac. Haynes wonder show from JOHN ARLOTT cioVt knot of supporters bempd srnusKie at me oacK ot nis left knee. Bverton's eoal rmrlH rm, r-cict temptation to show, off their vindictive wit Dead Fred, ha ha ha." they chanted. Pickering had been tugging Yeats out to the wings and dealing deftly with Young's series of pin-pointed passes. If this sort of thing could have been persisted with the whole course of the game could well have been different Wright, coming on as substitute and playing on the forward line, could offer nothing but muscle in replacement, and the game was pushed deeper than ever into its tangle of collisions.

For all the sweat the first half did jiot produce a single shot for Law-re, nee to deal with. And it brought only two bad moments in Everton's goalmouth, first when St John kicked clean over the ball from Hunt's cross, and-then when West just managed to get his fingers to a shot from Smith. The second half was seven minutes old before Lawrence made his first "save, holding comfortably from Harvey. Briefly after that Everton. heads down, elbows pumping, were still winning the ball in mid-field and pushing on hard for Liverpool's goal.

But. 'the -sheer organisation of the LiyerpooVside at last'wore down this Everton Westi Wilson, Brown Gabriel. La Harris; Soou. Voun2. Pickerma.

Sab Jvemoo! LaTvrenoc Lawler. Brne Smith. Yeats. Slcvcnson; Callalthaa. Hunt.

St John, Arrowsmith. Thompson. Sub Graham. Sunderland 0 over Montgomery. HUrley, attempting, to control it, put into his own goal.

FulhamV- lead was preserved by McCtellanbVs superb leaping save from a lashing shot by McNab; and then tbey put themselves clear. Robson took a short ball from Haynes and angled it high for Leggat to head over Montgomery's jump and under the crossbar. Haynes and Barrett made an open goal for Pearson, who missed it and then Leggat. persisting with Barrett's pass after he seemed beaten, shot a third goaJ. Still before half-time.

Earle took a measured pass from Haynes and beat Montgomery with a chip which struck the crossbar. Baxter. Herd, Harvey and Ashurst played their football stylishly and with good heart into the second half. But, conclusively, this game mattered to Fulham and it mattered to Haynes, one of the few men of this or any other generation capable of dictating the shape of a football match. Few attacks Once he sent in his familiar partner Robson to thunder a shot against the crossbar.

Always he was working. Baxter could do more beautiful things with the ball: but he lacked the baW-hunger of Haynes the factor which kept the ball so much wilh Fulham that the Sunderland advances grew fewer and more thinly manned. Whether Fulham escape or not. this match was a great and susiained gesture by a great player. Sunderland were unfortunate to encounter it.

They have talent enough for success on other days. Kolhain McCleJland Cohen. NicholK Robson. Dcmpscy. Brown.

Enrlc. LceSH, Hdvnc. Pearson, barren. Sunrlerland MoniBomcrv Parke. Ashiirsi Harvey- Hurley.

Baiter. Campbell, Herd. O'Hatc, MtNjb, Gaudco. CROSS COUNTRY from ROGER PURFLEET England cut costs All these clubs were in good form yesterday and Beckenham had particularly good reason to be pleased with themselves. They beat the Army by 3 2 despite being short of three of their regular players.

The Army took the lead through Bailey early in the match and, before the keenly-contested first half ended. Haslam scored the equaliser, following up a hit from a short comer. Page shuRTled hi; forward line for the second half, and Beckenham's performance gained in smoothness and speed. PI ay ins an open, imaginative game. Beckenham scored twice more, first through ScrivenorT who converted a free hit by Dunn, and then through Haslam, who finished a movement in which all the forwards had been engaged.

Shortly before the end. Bailey scored Ihe Army's second goal. Richmond win Strong in defence and clever in attack, Richmond defeated Hamp-siead by 1 0. A bumpy pilch made for inaccurate play, and Lyall's goal, coming from a scuffle in the circle after a quarter of an hour, decided Ihe match. At Bushey Park, the Old King- stonians lost 2 3 to Dulwich.

The visitors began in devastating style wilh three goals in the first half, scored by Barham 2 nnd Flecker. The Old Boys made the defeat less painful by scoring 'h rough Sharpley and Carl-ing in the second half. Surhiton, who have he finest pitch in I ondon. eaitv bent Teddington rn Cinlfi Whit nd Peter Crofl enrinfi the fom l-s Snc vw ririy Ihe goals the lirsl 211 id Southgjtc hKo the formrr win- Hank 2 1 1 ulsc Hill Fulham 3 ARE THE arch-escapologists about to do it Year after year Fulham have suffered James-Bond'-like ecstasies of suffering, to the very brink of destruction. This season, it seemed, even they bad played the suspense past the point of return.

Now. however, they are winning matches with spirit and poise of their best days. As in those times, most of the credit for this highly professional wjn over Sunderland must go to Haynes. Only a few weeks ago he was dropped. Nqw here he was, working as hard and as well as he has ever done in his life.

Above all, he was perpetually available. A Fulham player in possession and under pressure had only to look up and there was Haynes, waiting 10 take the ball and use it with all his old thought. Around him. voung men are blossoming and Leggat is rediscovering himself in the warmth of this encouragement. Fulham are good enough, if they are not too late, so save themselves yet again.

This was no easy Sunderland team to beat, if only because Baxter, that old master of Ihe art of football, stroked the midfield with lordly and imaginative skill So there were times when McClelland in his mounting confidence, the budding Nicholls and the impressively cool Dempsey and his busy henchman Brown, saved the Fulham goal at the end of some brightly creative Sunderland rrmvemenls. Fulham had early encouragemenl when everyone on the ground gave up a forward pass from Robson as too strong, except Earte, who chased it to the goal-line and hooked it back RFUT, March 19 BRITISH inlernaiicmaS sport on a sb' j-vlnng gels anoihei" tile lor ihe fat dt.ss.ie- Mr Den is Howell. Minisc- lor Spoil, from ihe warm co.il of m-oexo ngl.ind a'rivexi. ruling just incurr-ir. wlmiv lo defend inei n.iion.il championships al the Hi ppod rumc du Suisse, to-ni(U r.tii 1 "1 i c-K v.m inp hey flew tri Ciihr, i took a hoa! tc s'M'ru to I'ang tT a live hour On lop o' h.o hecii loUi 11 Citi Lv or.inai.- is I -j.

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