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Sport 1 5 Ministers, Queens and that Mr. Clay THE WORLD OF SPORT Compiled by NORRIS McWHIRTER THE OBSERVER. JUNE 2. 1963 by HUGH MclLVANNEY Pancho strikes back him about his egotism He coped v. uhout rouble He approaches the con ersat tonal game with the positive indirectness ot good squash piajer, ncer sending the ball straight hack at ou but driving it Again it a w-oiJ to go shooting pLisi ou at a tangent, inviting no return.

The wall is whatever audience happens to be hand and if there in one he still acts a if ihere is He lends lo answer wrrh his face averted or his eyes cat down There no impression of sihrfttness. simpl feeling that he is not Lomrmtted lo the individual questioner but is speaking either to himself or to the world at lajge Thus preoccupied look persuades a lot of people that he is just rvmc mben the scr i pt and a grea deal of hts material clearly is repeated over and over agaj accord -ing to formula. ve ti me he en 1 1 ons Sonny I iston the world champion is described as that big, ugly bear." and he likes to emphasise the contrast hy stroking himself tenderly on the cheek and saving One hundred and ninety -nine fights and still as prettx a.s a girl More spontaneous responses, however, showed him as undeniably quick -willed and at limes quite witty When he va asked when the firrt knock-down would come in the Cooper fight, he said What's with first knock-down, second knock- rainbow-stnped shin he- had gone to training in and was lounging back on his bed. The two (orli were sitting on chairs admiring him. Brother Rudolph, who is slimmer and more handsome than Cassius.

was under the betid othes on another bed and Rudolph us King, who is described as the great man's bodyguard, was sleeping in the darkest corner of the room. King, one of the girls explained, did not like London and thought the best thing to do was lo sleep through it. With no other Pressman about, it seemed a reasonable time to try to get Ciay to be serious about himself and other people. But at the first it was the performance as before. He said he called himself the greatest because he was and had always known and said so.

He was insulted by suggestions that as an amateur he bad been modest. I have always been a bold man," he said, rolling the word bold around in the succulent Louisville accent that caricatures every Kentucky colonel you ever did hear. After each tribute to himself, he shouted over to the giggling girls Ain't 1. queens? Aint though, queens 1 The queens agreed that he looked pretty, smelled pretty and sang pretty. Then at last, quite suddenly, rocking back and forward on the bed hugging a pillow to hts chest.

Clay talked more meaningfully about his talking His brother had just soberly testified that the ftood didn't dry up with the departure of the paid listeners. It went on from morning till night. Vital part 1 Clay whether he would still behave the same way if he won the world title, a development that would enable him to earn the biggest mono without bothering to be boastful He said he would because people expected it and the papers wouldn't let him slop. Then he seemed to -Ms, I "In The less familiar Image Clay (throwing the punch) sweats It out in working Breeding problems by Richard Baerlein SEEKING A CLASSIC SIRE THE complete eclipse of the British bred horses in the Derby and the Ooronation Cup must make people wonder what is happening to our breeding industry both in England and in Ireland. We cannot go on blaming the war.

which was the general attitude when the French horses wore carrying all before them in the early fifties. There has been plenty of time to settle down since then. When Major Macdonajd Buchanan was Senior Steward of the Jockey Club, long-term plans were laid down in an effort to encourage the breeding of middle-distance and staying horses. The complete inconsistency of the horses and our sires is a major disappointment. Before the war.

sires such as Gainsborough, Blandford, Fairway, and then Hyperion and Nearco could be depended upon to supply a large number of Derby runners each year and they could all be termed classic sires. Expensive parents Breeders have been paying fantastic fees for the services of some of our so-called top sires of the moment. In the past four years Crepello, the 1957 Derby winner, has been commanding a fee of 3,000 per mare and the same figure applies to Bally-moss. These two sires between them produced one runner in the Derby and Oaks together, and that was the very moderate Credo by Crepello. Never Say Die, leading sire last season, had one runner in last week's two classics -Neverlone riot the first 16 in the Derby.

Never Say Die commands a fee of 1.200 per mare. How lone can breeders justiry paying these tremendous prices for nominations to stallions which do not Protection for the pretty. down lufl there'll onh be but the one When 1 Knock him down he won't get up And to a photographer whose head is a hairless dome as a result of some disease, he said' Which planet you from, man? All mi gotta do is paint it green." Around that point Cla announced thai the world's greatest and prettiest fighter vf, going home, but actually he was'iit He had decided lo visit the Nigerians at their hotel the Negresses who had been at ringside were going along, too. In the end Ihe party 111 led two big cars When 1 caught up with him later al his room tn the Prccadill, l.n was sj wearing the slacks and even prcxkicc runners in our classic races, let alone winners? Perhaps it is the fact that the breeder for sale who requires quick returns is taking over from the old-fashioned owner breeder who has been the mainstay of English racing for a long time now. Undoubtedly, the sale of some of our stallions to America was a disastrous policy as far as the bloodstock breeding industry is concerned.

This was especially true with the late Aga Khan's Nasrullah, who was a very much better racehorse and a very much better sire than be bag generally been given credit for in this country. I vas a bad day's business for the late Aga Khan and for British bloodstock when Nasrullah left for America at a very cheap figure of around 40,000. In addition to the loss of several top-class stallions, the British breeding industry has also had to suffer a steady drain on its best brood mares who have been sold overseas. These sales have included the best in the country and this could have a serious impact on the quality of the horse we produce. It should not, however, affect the consistency of our sires tat all, for the best sires should still serve the best remaining mares.

Unlike father Tanerko, sire of the Derby winner Relko. was beaten eight lengths into third place by the great Ribot in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1956 when Ribot was a four-year-old and Tanerko a three-year-old. Relko made Ribot's sons Ragusa and Corpora look very ordinary last Wednesday. The English-trained Talgo divided Ribot and Tanerko that day in France but Talgo has never got anything approaching a Derby winner and has probably not by GARRY REDMOND something to help themselves a Left Hand Golf Association was formed last year. So far its Leinster branch has had three successful competitions.

In Ulster, where there are over 300 known ieft4ianders, the first meeting recently at Balmoral drew over 60. A branch has also started in Minister. The mainsprings of this swing to the left are two members of Ice Carr's own club, Sutton Des Fleet, a useful player for many years he is the president of the left and John Collier, who plays off six the association's captain. Already they have nearly 100 fellow travellers from various Dublin clubs. Their long-term idea is more and more organised competition for It's been a season of well-fed prejudices large smooth hands eked dehberalcK through a sheaf af pound notes, count ing them with a rhthmic snapping if ringers This is whv I talk, man Thi.

and this and this It wai. of course, the muM predictable and understamlblc explanation of hi behaviour thai awu could have offered. And it is undoubtedly a big part of the truth, tor he would certainly not be vo persistently and arrogantly abusive if be were not being well paid for it That, however, nothing like the whole answer. Even if it all started as nwl commercial operation, a quite different compulsion is now at work The record-breaking gates he brought to heavyweight boxing -a shot in the arm when it own scandals were threatening to give it a suicidal shot in the head might be reason enough for all his talk But an afternoon wuh him convinces that there are belter, more interesting reasons Boxer's body first contact was with tm lets fanv I iar image, that of the vweatirva pro few ona I fi rih ter. vn tfr band ages has hands and a protective box under tin shorts It was in the gvm-nawrni of a Temtr.aS Armv drill hall opposite Wtwle On underground station and he was workina out in front of some casually dressed soid-icrv me uuai phoiogr aprbers anj a few other people, of whom the most conspicuous were two attractive coloured girls and a friendly looking African wearing national robes and an impressive hat with a gold tassd.

Jack Solomons, who i Clay's right with Henrv Cooper on June 18. sa)d The Afncan was Minister Johnson of the iceman Government. Solomons said the man was Minister for Sport and added a string of other nesponsfbiktaes that suggested he was very much a West African Hailsham As Gay finished sparring and went on to some shadow boxing and u-orV with the speed-baW the coloured girls muttered ecstatically and looked rf they might swoon awa C'lav too, was obviously pretty happ with foaX he saw of himself tn frequent glances aa a full-length mirror propped against the wall At 21 his physique, like that of most good heavyweights, is devoid of the dramatic definition and flashy ripples of the bod y-bu riders. The muscles are mostly sunk deep under the brown skin, as Louis's were, and show strifcimgiy only in the slabs curving from the neck along the shoulders It it a body designed to do a job. and if it might not have excited Michelangelo it docs suit Angel Dundee, who is Oays trainer.

Come all Physically his head ts hig. uh vnaU, well-shaped ears and a round, her fleshy face i leel a rc superb, which is. of course, fortunate, (or they are seldom hidden When he was ready to go back to the dressing -room he began his ntual and that is what it is, in an almost medieval sense. Walking through the watchers to get out into the corridor -where two men were dnnktng half-pints of bitter- he chanted his rhyme about Cooper falling in five There was something truly strange about the public proclaiming of identity and intention in this way, a kind of pleasant equivalent of the leper and his bell In the dressang-room Clay shouted to his helpers to let everyone who wanted to come. He sat precisely in the middle of the room and stripped naked while his brother Rudolph and the middleweight Jimmy Ellis who had been working with him.

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pr, ni 1 A 1 nf Ill Dcpar inrni THF flick li a Left-handers in a new light PANCHO GONZALEZ wffl make his first post-reliTccnent debut by appearing in the United States Professional Grass Court Championship at Forest Hills at the end of this month (June 27-30). The tennis world will be agog to see whether the 35-year -old Gonzalez can beat Australia's little master," Ken RosewaU, who has inherited his crown. Other entries are Lew Hoad. who has also been temporarily retired, Pancho Segura. Alex OJrnedo.

Rod Laver, Eari Buchholz and Tony Tra-bert. Gonzalez's world doxntnataon of the game is usually regarded as hav ing lasted from 1954 to 1961. TWO long-standing tennis records were surpassed last week at Belfast during the second round of the Nestles Tournament. William Moore, aed 17, beat Francis O'ReiUy. 15, by 3028, 1921.

2018. This score surpasses by 36 games the record singles total of 100 tames set by the Wimhrledon singles champions, laro-slav Drobny and Budge Patty, at Lyons on 20th February 1955: and by one game the neatest number ever played in any match, surpassing the 135 of 15th May, 1949 when Ted Schroeder and Bob Fatkenburg beat Pancho Gonzalez and Hugh Stewart at Los Angeles. The longest previous match was the six hours taken hy F. G. (later Sir Gordon) Lowe (G.B.) to beat A.

J. Zeriench (Greece) in an Olympic Games secoctd-round at Antwerp in 1920. Moore took 8i hours in the course of three days to beat O'Reitty. Purists will correctly point out that in this Belfast marathon the play shaB be continuous" rule could not be followed. But in any event Nestles are giving a prize to both players.

WEIGHT LIFTING TART correspondence continues to fly between the Russian weight-lifting Secretary, Mr. V. Kuzin, and Mr. Oscar State, the Twickenham schoolmaster who is General Secretary of the International Weight Lifting Federation. The Russians' reply to Mr.

State's accusation that they were breaking the International Constitution by inviting Red Chinese lifters to their recent Moscow Tournament by saying, We consider your claims to btj unsound and decline them." Mr. State poults out convancinrgly that the Russians did in fact break both tfie letter and spirit of the international rule and ended his reply the fallowing terms, "Therefore my accusation of your unconstitutional behaviour still stands and will still be considered by the I.W.F. Bureau at their next meeting, and I shalt ask them what punitive action shall be taken against you. "It is most unfortunate that I should have to adopt such an attitude towards one of our most important federations whom we would have exjpected to set an example of correct behaviour to ali our other LONG JUMP THE Negro domination of the world long-jump record Jesse Owens 1935-1960 and Ralph Boston 1960-1962 was further undermined last w-cV-end. The first knock was last year when Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan cleared 27 ft.

3 in. and now Phil Shinnick of Washington has cleared 27 ft. 4 in. Confusion about the operation of the wind gauge at Modesto, California, will probably disallow Shinnick's mark but rt was highly significant that he beat Boston who recorded a personal best performance of 27 ft. 2i in.

Shinnick, who was studying in Paris last year, is little known despite an earlier best leap of 25 ft. 5 in. CHESS TIORAN PETROSYAN, the newly crowned world champion, has agreed to appear at the international tournament at Los Angeles next month. He will be supported by Paul Keres, another Russian Grand Master. Bobby Fischer, the great American player, is on record as saying that it is not worth trying to wrest the world title from the Russians because of their method of secretly nominating the winner of the challenging candidates' tournament and allowing him to win matches, whenever confronted by fellow Russians.

Petrosyan in an interview in Moscow ascribed his victory largely to physical stamina which be built up ski-ing in the winter months. TABLE TENNIS THE European Table Tennis championships, which were scheduled to be played in this country next year, are in great jeopardy. Because the Allied Travd Commission in Berlin will certainly refuse East German competitors any visas until their Government demolishes the Wall, all the Communist countries have threatened to boycott the event. Without, particularly, Hungarians. Rumanians and Czechs a European championship would become a complete farce.

for Clark ference We'd all been given a briefing in the drivers' room the day before the race and Uie finaj word was that as soon as a drop of oil showed on the tack, a driver would be flagged out of the race The race officials were in a difficult position and I'm Jad I didn't have liiear lobs We plan no formal comrptairus. but will just try to do better next year Mr l.ee A looocca. a vice-prest-dent of che Ford Motor Company, said We went there to wnn and we learned a lot, enough to make us think we wtl do better next vear We had a rooVie car and a rookie dnver. and scared hell out of them this year. We'll do bettor Photograph by GERRY CRASH AM dress.

Thexrream on top of the milk by GEOFFREY NICHOLSON LIFEBOAT stations from South-pent to Barrow-in-Furness have been warned that at 10.20 tomorrow morning a maroon will be fired from the Princess Parade, Blackpool, to start that great show-biz event of amateur sport, the Tour of Britain. It is the eleventh tour, and the sixth to be sponsored by the Milk Marketing Board, a nice, rather PooCerish organisation which at times seems dazed try the vulgar success of the publicity machine it has created. Each year the race grows. This time it will be richer by 500, with prizes of over 4,000 in value In fact, anyone who set bis mind to it could win six spin-dryers at the stage towns seven if he really put himself out and became King of the Mountains, too. It will also be more exotic, with six foreign teams compared with last year's five, and one from the Commonwealth.

The progress of the last will have particular interest fpr Commonwealth citizens north of the border. With the non-arrival indeed the non-departure and non-apology for that matter of tbe two New Zealanders, it consists of four Scots, two Australians and a Welshman from Torquay. The only shrinkage is in the length of the course: 1,375 miles, 25 less than last year. This is some small comfort to riders who have argued that long stages discourage good tactical racina. Billy Holmes, last year's runner-up, made this point at the dinner after the race though only to be met by the Wand reply from Eugen Pokomy, the Polish winner, that even if the race had been shorter he would still have won.

Almost certainly this is true. Pokomy. broad-chested and im mensely strong, often gave the impression that he was drawing the rest of the held along like a sledge. With his great reserves, and as the only past winner competing, he must be taken as the favourite this year. It is more difficult to identify hut challengers.

In the absence of Holmes and Bradley, now independents. England look strong but have no indisputable leader. One will no doubt show himself after the first few days: most likely from among Keith Butter, the national champion, Jim Hinds, who was third last year, or the maturing Peter Chisman. It will then depend upon the others backing him with the kind of discipline that the Poles have shown. Of the other foreign teams, much is expected of Rumania, led by Ion Cosmo, who won their national tour Switzerland include the first four men in their national championship; and Spam look to Jesus Isasi.

a rider who has already been picked for the 1964 Olympic team. But at this time last year no one gave much thought to Pokomy And it wasn't until the Friday of the first week that he moved with calm deliberation from the field and rode alone into Bournemouth to take the leader's yellow jersey. There are 77 riders in the race, nearly half of them here for the first time. You can no more pick the winner than predict a puncture, or the closing of a level crossing, or a sudden fit of depression. And in 13 days' racing form could be upset by any one of these small thuuts.

The 10 teams are Poland. Britannia, Commonwealth. Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England. Regions, Rumania. Spain and Switzerland.

Free meat Indianapolis. June 1 JIM CLARK, the Scottish driver who finished second a Ford-ensined Lotus in Thursday's 500-miie Indianapolis race, will receive a year's supply of free meat and 140 as prize for being voted Rookie of the Year." He also won the 178 Pengeot prize as the out-standing foreign driver and about 20.000 place money. Drivers lodged strong protests as to why the winner. PameUi Jones, whose share of the purse was 53,000 as not eliminated when his car began to spray oil on to the track. Mr.

Colin Chapman, designer of the Lotjis-Ford. told a news con been given the same quality mares as Tanerko. There is no doubt that if Paddy Prendergast had been able to train Khalkis, the English colt Merchant Venturer would have had to be satisfied with third place. Merchant Venturer is the type of horse whom the old-timers would have trained for the Cesarewitch after a good display in the St. Leger, but he could not be claimed to be a Derby type.

Of those unplaced in the Derby I still think Fighting Ship will pay to follow. He was perfectly placed at the top of the hill but as they began the descent, horse after horse passed him, for he could not come down the hill. Century's greatest No mention of last week's racing would be complete without reference to Noblesse, whose Oaks victory was the most impressive performance I have seen in 30 years' experience of the turf. Her opponents included Spree, who had run the unbeaten Hula Dancer to a length in the 1,000 Guineas; Sunsurt, who is considered the equal of the fevourite for the French Oaks; Amicable, flve-4ensdhs winner of the LingfieM Oaks Trial; Elite Royale, three lengths winner of the Cheshire Oaks; and Pouponne, eigbt-lcneths winner of her last race. Tbe critics cannot say therefore that Noblesse beat nothing.

This was not only a triumph for British breed-ins but a personal triumph for Paddy Prendergast. He selected and bought the filly and then resisted the automatic temptation to run her in the 1,000 Guineas when short of her best, a temptation which few owners and trainers in England could have resisted. This undoubtedly helped to make Noblesse into the greatest fiHy of the century left-handers over and above the normal dub and tournament curriculum. Tbe pooling of knowledge and experience gained ki competitive play, they feel, can help left-handers and thus the whole game Already (hey have had hints that matches with cross-Channel and American aides may develop. In fact, American lefthanders have a national association nearly a million strong.

The first Irish left-handers championship has been fixed for next September at the Hermitage Club near Lucan. The big aim, says John Collier, is eventual affiliation to the Golfing Union of Ireland. They should be certain of encouragement from above, for Bill Mentoo, present secretary of the G.U.I., is himself a left-hander. wheel in place came out and jammed the motor solid, so again the Swede rode on to victory. It was at this meeting that the only other real contender for the title turned out for the first time this year.

Czech champion Vtastimil Valek, leadinz a very strong CXZ. team which included the surprise packet of the season. Russian laor Ongonev. wno reached fame a week later by taking second place in the Swiss Grand Pnx. In the West German event at the village of Bielstein, in the Rhineland, no fewer than six British riders turned out.

from three different factories, yet all failed to finish bar Bickers, but even he was in trouble. Lean years ahead The only other Grand Prix held so far this year was last Sunday's event in tbe Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and it was again the same sad and depressing tale. For this event, the luckless Bickers checked and re checked his machine only to come to a sudden stop just after the start of the second race with sparking plug trouble. Some Continental observers think it may be a long time before Bickers or any other English rider is out at the top again, for regardless of riding skill Bickers is restricted by the quality of his machine. While the Villiers-based unit was good -enough for Bickers to win the title two years running, the motor has reached its limit of development and any effort now of stepping up its power to match the speed of the Husqvarna and C.Z.

machines means throwing away the little margin of reliability it now possesses and while a brand-new special competition engine was brought out last winter, bad teething troubles have put back any hope of success tn this class of competition for at least a year. admit that ail this and even the great convincing motive of commercialism did not add up to an adequate explanation of his public character. For a mtiment he was more senous I really like it. I like walking into a town and telling people what I am going to do and then doing it. love the feeling it gives me.

It's part of me I thought of words from another poet What I do is me: for that I came. 1 say more the just man justices. And the talker talks. Cassius Clay talks because he was bom to do it and those who may believe they thought up the gimmick for him are kidding themselves, for he had it already Perhaps it is this natural zest for it all that makes his nonsense delightfully entertaining when you encounter it at first hand. That and a record that shows he has kept a fair balance between the talking and the other thing he does best.

He is after all. as Henry Cooper will find on June 18. not rust a fighting talker but a talk mg lighter SILVER attendances has been no more than marginal. For the optimists there has been the intensified competition induced by two divisions, proffering a challenge to the better dubs and giving heart lo the weaker ones, whose brave efforts to play attractive football have so often in the past been savaged by stronger opponents. Aain on the credit side there was the excellent Cup Final, which convinced many tele-v ision viewers that Rugby League was anything but a game for hooligans plaved by hooligans.

Even if we had not been committed to two divisions for at least two more seasons, the long winter would have ruled out any verdict on the experiment- So many matches were postponed that the campaign had to be extended. As a result, the climactic contests for promotion, relegation and the Championship had to fisht for limited newspaper space against county cricket, flat racing and the ballyhoo of the FA Cup Final. Positive decision Teams were pdaying two and three matches a week on hard grounds. As well as the inevitable hazards of stateness and injury, players were denied the incentive of winning pay, since most of them felt that the inland Revenue was making more out of the game than they were. Little wonder, therefore, that Wakefield and Wigan concentrated on the Cup when there was no longer a play-off for the First Division ntie.

But in more normal circumstances clubs may yet be per suaded to attempt the double One positive decision has already been taken which is likely to facilitate this prospect. The matches in the regional championships, which sal vaged the poorer teams' more lucrative fixtures and replaced the Yorkshire and Lancashire Leagues, are now to be scattered throughout the season. Two-divisional football will thus start in August instead of October, which will relieve the pressure in the spring. When ihe debate over the structure of the game has been forgotten, perhaps the most heartening development of l)h2-63 will be seen as Swinton's from the unluckiest tc.im in ihe Rugh League to its champions Under the direction of lift tv.ins, their coach, and Albert Blan. heir captain, Swinton have al List demonstrated lhat fast, adventurous rugby, for all its physical risks, can eld profit --even the new.

more toinpolitnc contest. Lucky find Ol the more illustrious recruits from Rugrn Union. R.iy Glastonbury (Workington Town! has been the I lmbiic's rnovt prolific lr -scorer, ind Kclun Oislctt ISt Hclensl Us Ic.iding goal-kicker But the I ic-st discoverv of the season was Gen Coctzer, whom Wakefield reluctantly accepted tn exchange tor Jan Pnnsloo. who returned to Soutih Africa. Within KL-eLt 1m jrrval.

Coetzer, barely mjlch-ri: and a irjh little knowledge ol eirrtcr Ruehv I ciirue or of the ngliiri UnKuaxc forced his jy into Ihe first team and scored two firs in the up final. JINX ON BICKERS by CHRISTOPHER LA VERY by ERIC TLG GBY LEAGUE'S season of experiment has meandered a close this holiday week end in a haze of indifference. Everybody's prejudices have been fed. but nothing has been proved. For the pessimists there was the early failure of the regional championships, the reluctance later of Wakefield Trinity and Wiga'n, the game's most accomplished clubs, to take the First Division seriously once they were in sight of Wembley; and the likelihood that any increase in R.R.E.

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ordiug in ane guaiitiifti ion and FSM nroi.on and fhild Mloarrce liinher par- ma lie ohtzrncd Irnm RFjISIRR Si IKH 1B1 of hinu, 'Hear- lerra.c upon wuh whom apnli, ati.mt nhree erhcr riti jhe nine; and addrete ol ihrre i.ni hom ma he made he lodirrd later -hip 15th inne, ll. SCIENTIFIC analysis can pretty well tell why some neoole have red hair. In turn synthesis and the rinse can produce almost any colour you like. Yet science has limits. So far, it has not devised a formula for the perfect golf swing.

For most of us, golf is so much a matter of hit or miss that a definitive scientific system to replace the theories would save trouble all round. Of course it's probably too late for most of us to change. Worse, the scientists might demonstrate irrefutably that most of us are not golfers at all a proposition no handicapper, however frustrated, is prepared to admit. Not like cricket Still, an electronic computer may yet be devised which, if fed the right information, could straighten a lot of us out. it might even solve one of golfs perennial puzzles: why some players are left-handed.

One is familiar with left-handed cricketers, mainly because so many of them have been so good, and of course they have an obvious tactical value. Think of Neil Harvey and Arthur Moms, or Maurice Leyland and Frank Woolley. It's not so easy though to name off-hand left-handers who have made the top Sight in competitive golf. The only two who come to mind are Bob Charles, the current New Zealand professional, and P. B.

Laddie Lucas, the distinguished English amateur of pre-war. Charles's big tournament victory last season has eventually brought the left-hander as a class out into the light of day. It has stimulated one manufacturer into increased production of left-handed clubs, always a problem for beginners as well as for practitioners. Indeed, one wonders how the average left-hander ever gets going Outsiders A friend's experience last year was topical of the problem of "kithogues" as anyone left-handed is called in Ireland. He had lo wait months for delivery of a new matched loft-handed set.

But even when the quesuon of gear has been solved, the left-hander's chronic problem is coaching. The club pro will do his best lor the wrong-way-round merchants but he can't show properly what jou're doing wrong. To imitate his orthodox ritfht-handed method means virtually standing on our head. Then there's the literature and all those bar room mqueMs F.ven if the left-hander perseveres, there remains an odd feeling of being an outsider, tor sou Mill have to go it alone, whereas the rufht-hander can leiirn from piece rl and example Irish left-handers, a surprisingly numerous lot, have started in do N' EXT Sunday, at Schijndel Holland, the Dutcn Mote-Cross Grand Pnx will mark the half-way stage in this year World Motorcycle Scrambling Championship, this being the seventh of the 14 events making up the title. But alas for British hopes, it seems all over bar the shouting.

The present champion, 24-year-old Swedish engineering student Torsten Hall-man, on an ultra lightweight, Swedish-built Husqvama. has won the last five Grands Prix straight off and needs only three more victories in eight events to retain his title. Britain's hopes were pinned on the 1961-62 champion. Dave Bickers, riding a Villiers-based two-stroke-engined reeves machine. Not competing last year.

Bickers turned out only for the British Grand Prix and proceeded to lead Hallman over the line. Then, in the opening event this year, in Barcelona, when he retained his record of never having been beaten by the Swede, it looked as if the Ipswich boy was going to the top for a third year. Up and out But fortunes changed just seven days later on the hilly circuit at Gallarate. home of the Italian Grand Prix. After a slow start.

Bickers took three laps to work up to sixth place. Then, descending a steep hill, the hack wheel hit an awkward bump, shot high into the air and threw Bickers over the handlebars. He suffered a badly sprained wrist. The next race, the French G.P., saw Hallman mark up another win after Bickers had led in the first race for seven of the T6 laps Hallman then took the lead and with only five larts left machine trouble hit Bickers. One of the screws holding the fly.