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PAGE 22 DAILY MIRROR, Thursday, December 30, 1965 Santana. stirs up tennis i i D. Is cup CH- MA if AIANUEL SANTANA'S 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 15-13 win over Roy Emerson came, of course, too late for Spain to capture the Davis Cup from Australia in the. Challenge Round at Sydney. But it certainly led to some repercussions.

after the tie was over, Emerson, Australian and Wimbledon champion, announced he might not be available to play in next year's challenge round. Said the man who had never previously lost a challenge round singles three preceding years he had, in fact, lost only four sets in six matches: "I have been thinking of retiring from Davis Cup play for some time. I'll be thirty next year and it's getting harder to get into top form. "I think it's about time I stepped down and let the younger ones take over. Today's loss has nothing to do with the way I feel.

"But I am losing my keenness, and it does not matter too much to me now whether I win or lose my matches." Emerson has certainly had a fair old stint of the nonstop globe-girdling which envelopes a top lawn tennis player these days. He first played at Wimbledon in 1954 as a teenager and was a semi-finalist as long ago as 1959. But I should think he would still come over to defend the world's premier amateur title which he has won for the past two years. Ir might well be a matter of pride, because there has been much dispute this year about who is the world's leading or Santana. Santana, jubilant over his success, said that he hoped to play at he missed this yearnext summer depending on Spain's Davis Cup commitments.

Winstone Hurt TT was Boxing Day with tears for one of the best of IT our British champions--Howard Winstone. The British and European featherweight champion, sparring with his six-year -old son, Roy, in the garden of his Merthyr Tydfil home, slipped on the frozen ground and fell on some stakes, Orie of which pierced his shoulder. Four stitches had to be inserted at a local hospital and his European title fight with Andrea Silanos, scheduled for January 19, at Turin, has had to be put back, Eddie Thomas, Winstone's manager, said he had applied for a two to three week postponement, adding: Howard is feeling fine now, but he cannot amove his arm and will need at least a fortnight to be fully fit." Incidentally although we are always moaning about the standard of boxing in this country, Winstone was one of three British scrappets heavyweight Brian London and welterweight Brian Curvis were the as the best Europeans boxers in 1965, at their respective weights, by a panel of forty French boxing correspondents. Impertinence IF I needed any further proof about the essential -I- daftness of that nondescript, self-styled body, the World Boxing Association I surely got: it yesterday in their final ratings for the year. In the heavy-weight division this conglomeration of crackpots has the impertinence to put Karl Mildenberger, the German southpaw who really only achieved the European heavyweight title because Henry Cooper wasn't fit enough to defend it, as fifth challenger to Ernie Cassius Clayand completely omits Brian London.

I'd like to refer you to Mildenberger's last two fights. In his last but one he met the veteran, but still comparatively unknown Philadelphian, Dave Bailey. Mildenberger was knocked down twice in the first round and once for disputed count in the ninth. Subsequently one part of Canada regarded Bailey as an unsuitable. opponent for George ranked sixth by the another part of the Dominion permitted the fight to go on with Chuvalo scoring a three-round knock-out.

In Mildenberger's net fight he met his stable companion, Gerhard Zech and while he was scoring a dreary fifteen-round points win, the crowd yelled Fix and Luxembourg referee Jean Welter warned them three times: "No fight no money The previous month Zech had been knocked out in two rounds by the aforesaid Bailey, who is best known in his native America as a sparring partner to Clay. I wouldn't dignify the A with so much space if it "were not for the fact that I susnect they might try to prevent London; by omitting him from their silly top ten, from getting a crack at Clay. The Spanish flea Who cares if the Aussies have retained the Davis Cup not these chanting, cheering, dancing Spaniards as they acclaim their idol, little Manuel Santana, after his great singles win over Roy Emerson, the Wimbledon champion. All smiles after their tremendous 150-minute Davis Cup challenge round battle in Sydney Australia's Roy Emerson (right) and his conqueror in four sets, Spain's Manuel Santana. Santana won 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 15-13, but Australia retained the trophy 4-1.

Fantastic scenes followed Santana's triumph as. over 100 Spanish fans rushed to carry him off. In yesterday's other singles, Fred Stolle beat Juan Gisbert 6-2, 6-4, 8-6. Quiz tf.ig.,J.--- 4: 1: .1 v.ii.........:::....::,..,...4•• 44.:.: eiki A 1 1 01 ..........:::4....... iii i i 11 ill ot aii il H4lk 1 5.,..:,..

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Tapering piece of cake. for instance (5). 10. One of the chemical elements (4). 12.

The horologist knows a lot about them (6). 14. Rumanian king who abdicated in favour of his son. Michael (5). 15.

A native sailor (6). 16. Aurora was the Roman goddess of it (4). 19. Nuzzled (5).

21. Oliver Cromwell's daughter who married Ireton (7) 22. Collection of 100 tales by Boccaccio (3. 9). DOWN 1.

Of or like glass (8). 2. Small freshwater fish of the carp family (5). 3. Composer of a very wellknown piano concerto in A minor (5).

4. He is famous as the biographer of Samuel Johnson (7). word 5. Insert what you need to get it calmly completed: (PL----LY) (4). 6.

Australian state: capital, Brisbane (10). 7. Palace was the birthplace of Queen Victoria (10). 11. A loom can mean the shaft of one (3).

12. Male swan (3). 13. War-horses (8). 14.

Drama by George Bernard Shaw (7). 17. What word is missing from the brackets FLOWER (AROSE) SPELL (ABOUT) DEFENSIVE PLAYER (5). 18. Banky was leading lady to Rudolph Valentino and to Ronald Colman (5).

20. Cosmopolitan Quarter of London (4). Yesterday's Solution Saul; 5, Brandy; 10, Unsafe; 11, Wees; 12, Poem; 13, Splice; 14, Indent; 16, Sir; 17, Desired; 19, Eft; 22, Sea; 24, Rattles; 27, Bin; 28, Eskimo; 31, Innate; 33, Idea; 34, Aged; 35, Collar; 36, Seraph; 37, Lend. Supine; 2, Anon; 3, PLATYS TRIES AGAIN IN SOUTH AFRICA By 808 LIONEL PLAITS British Ryder Cup golfer who swore he would never return to South Africa, flies to Jghannest3s urg, today. After a disditrous tour there last winter, Platts said: "That's it.

I'm never going back." But yesterday ne told me: I'm determined to do better this time. Last year my best placing in a tournament was I did win something in the proamateur events." Assistants' champion Tony Jacklin and Tommy Horton, who narrowly missed a Ryder Cup place this year, go with Platts. who did even worse than Lionel in South Africa last season, has the icy determination of a forthcoming champion. He says: I wouldn't be going RODNEY back if I didn't think I could do much better." The eight tournaments the three will play are small by British standards, with first prizes averaging £4OO. BIG CHANCE FOR YOUNG KARENZA KARENZA SMITH, 16- 11 31 -year-old junior international from Middlesex, steps up to partner Mrs.

Mary Wright (Surrey) in the women's doubles in the English table tennis championships at the Crystal Palace starting on January 6. Miss Smith replaces Diane Rowe, who marries German player Eberhard Scholer, on Monday il II 11 ill 111 6 11111111111 111111 7 8 9 Elm 10 il 15 II 16 111 17 18 19 I 21 ll II II a 111 111 11 1 II 1111 a 111 111 Used; 4, Lamed; 5, Bests; 6, Awl; ner; 23, Aboard; 25, Leech 26, 7, Noises; 8, Decide; 9, Yser; 15, I Skill; 27, Bias; 29, Idle; 30, Mean; Next; 18, Ices; 20, Fringe; 21, Tan- 32, Ada..