CORRESPONDENCE.
LOCAL SOCCER
[To the Editor, "China Mail.")
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Sir-In your yesterday's editions "W.G.B.'s endeavour to point out Arsenal
(Results On Page 1).
the little discrepancies which had obviously not taken into e-Manchester
I | Sunderland
Stoke
Everton
count" was both pitiful and Wednesday
amusing.
...
1.am glad, however, that WG,B.rpool
was of the opinion that Gosano, on his displays as a right-half, was But I stil!
Jucky to be seleçicil.
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West Brom. Grimsby
Aston Villa
maintain that it is an insult to play Portsmouth such an outstanding, centre-for- Wolves ward or full-back like him in the
Preston
Chelsea Chelsea right-half berth. It makes on Leeds feel that he was included in the Blackburn team out of respect for his reputa-Middlesbro'
Tottenham tion. :
To hope that Gusano's football Birmingham Huddersfield
versatality would adapt his play Leicester with his new position is an abso lute gamble. His 'Inst pearances have convinced us of
two ap
that. Why not face facts, live on
reality and not on mere hope.
Goals
Pts P.WDL F 26 14 7 5 78 23 13 7 5 58 26 14 4. 6 47 38 24 F4 4 8 52 30 27 12
28.12 6 8 58 50
27 12 6 9 52 43
25 13 8 3.9
27 12 4 11 27. 12 4 MA
K 10 6
47 36
72579 48
25 9 6 10.47 45 26-10 4 12 54
6 11
26 9. 6.
25 10 3
13 39
#28 10 25 7 8
27 7...A
7 A-12 37 256 9 10 45
8 5 14 39 58 29 50 25 8 4 25 7.4 14 13 53 26.7 15 34 48 18
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W.G.B. agreed that Leung Wing Bolton Chiu played a good game on Sun-Brentford day, but it is the opinion of many, Manchester U.
West Ham
GOAT
P W D L F A Pts 26 19 07 72 33 38" 26 15 65 60.33 36 10 52 40 34 26 17 1 8 56 34 35
26 16 26. 13
including some of our officials, that Blackpool Leung played a magnificent game Newcastle and was the outstanding half-back. Notts Forest What does W.G.B. know of Leung's Plymouth 25 11 current forin. How many times Burnley
Fulham
Norwich
this season has he seen this player Bury in action. If he thinks that sheffield U. Leung's form during the whole of Hull the present season does not justify Southampton ble rightful place in the right-Bradford C. half position, then I strongly ad-Barnsley vige W.G.B. to spend his time at n Bradford cinema instead of wasting his pre Port Vale cious moments watching a football Swansea
Notts County Oldham
game.
To say Tae Kwal Shing was it- cluded because of his Interpart, re- cord is indeed childish, and if that! is one of the real reasons advanced for the election of some of the
26 11
26 9
26 11
26 9
26 9
27 7 10
25
61 38 32 60 48 32 48 36 30
9.4
21 8.6
26
7 7 12
26
4 13 9
26 6 7 13 32 43.
26 5 5 16 27 58 15
23 6.7 12.31.42
25 53 17 30 61 13
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other members of our team then 1 de Charlton not hald much for the mentality of Reading the responsible parties..
That B. Gosano has figured in
Watford Coventry Crystal Pal
Luton
more Interport matches and has a Brighton far better interport record than
The above Torquay Tao is undisputed. argument, therefore, does not hold.
"
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Goala
P W D L F A Pts
2K16 4 6 84 33 36
25 14 6 5 55 27 33
25 13 6 6 50,25 32
25 14
14 4 7 61 30 32 26 12
12 6 6.54 33 32 25 12 8 41 28 29 24 11 8 7 61 38 28
25 12 3 10 54.46
25 115 35 35 24 10 5
38
24
49
28 9 7
28
8 7
26 9 5 12
25 -9
5
+24 9 5
Millwall Bristol C. As regards Tac's understanding Bristol R. with Tam, Gosano could adapt Cardin himself to Tam's play or vice Queen's P.R. versa, for this was proved last Exeter
Northampton вее по Clapton O. year at Shanghai and I
24 7 7 10 44 reason why they should not do the Swindon ..
2 14 33 47 20 25 9 Bournemouth same if played together again.
not Newport 26 8 8.15 392 63 19 Of course, W. G. B. was
Gillingham
25 5 7 13 34.55 17 #thrilled" with Gosano's play, and,
Aldershot for that matter, neither was, he Southend "thrilled" with any of the other
players The miserable state of
the ground was not conducive to
good football and considering the
wretched conditions which pre- valled, the standard served up was
25 65 14 26 38 17
24 45 15 33 57.13
CHRIS PILE CUSTODIAN
(Continued from Page 4)
THE CHINA KAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1):1935.
A plea for mercy on behalf of Violette Nozaire, aged 19, who, was condemned to the guillotine for murdering her father, is being made to the French President, by. the girl's mother, whom she also tried to kill." The picture shows Violette as she waO / NON- tenced to dle.
"Don't marry! is the
advice
now offered to girls by Virginia Cogswell, who Overshiner Eic.
was "Miss Georgia" In 1922.
She
Is seeking legal separation in New York from her weventh, husband. Arthur J. Cogswell, a commercial artist.
B. I. BICKFORD
(Continued from Page 4)
Miss Dora Milleent Miles (above), of Los Angeles, travelled to Bouton to plead with the par- don board to release George E. Gilbert, her sweetheart, who was captured in Los Angeles foar Nor. years after escaping from
She folk, Mans,, ' prison camp. wants to marry him, although he has a wife and four children:
School students at Miami Beach, Fix, elected Miss Margaret Hun- 1er, a Florida native, as the 1934- 75 "Sunshine Queen."
DULLNESS ON WALL ST.
(Continued From Page 6)
HOLDS ON TOO
LONG
(Continued, from Page 1)
Li Tin-hang and Chris Pile make
ROVER'S FORECAST
Three Second Division and two Third Division League postponed
a very sound pair of backs, al fixtures are down for decision to-
morrow afternoon.
"Stocks: Trendless markets may be expected, pending the decision on the Gold Clause case, but we suggest though I would liked to have seen investment buying on the scale A. V. Gosano All one of these two The following is the re-arranged giving Raver's down. We positions rather than at right ball soccer programme
Gosano has twice played in the Forecast with the favoured teams ' "Grains: Wheat was quiet with a
firm undertone. Inflation talk trials at right-half and on both oc-in capitals: brought buying and short-covering casions has proved that his talent by commission house and cash in-le wasted there
SECOND DIVISION
บ S. China
(Caroline Hill, 2.45 p.m.)
v. Athletic (Causeway Bay, 4.15 p.m.):
vEastern (Causeway Bay, 2.45 p.m.) THIRD DIVISIÓN.
terests. Therd were light offerings Pardoe can be relied on to keep UNIVERSITY In corn with local shorts and com- his end up in the pivot position, mission houses buying on the large while Parker is one of the beat left. NAVY exportable Argentine surplus. The halves we have had for two seasons. FUSILIERS market is somewhat bearlsh.
Tao Kwai-shing and Tam Kong- "Cotton: Mr. Price believes that pak, having played together for there is a good chance of the Gov. South China "A".: make an ideal ernment winning the private con-pair for the right-wing combina-" tract in the Gold cases, but losing tion, while Howe in the leader's Recreio the public contract cases. He be-position has already demonstrated lieves that the Administration is his abilities to score, providing he prepared to act immediately, if the gets the right type of pass and sup
port. decision is an adverso one.
Ridley has not been quite as good. "Rubber: The market ruled steady and prices moved within a this year as he was last, and wil} narrow range. Trading was mixed have the very responsible job of with
were
FUSILIERS
v Police
(Sookumpoo, 2.45 p.m.)
R.A.F.
V
(King's Park, 4.16 p.)
J. PARKER
(Continued from Page 4)
no predominant. interest spoon-feeding Howe.
Ridley's main fault at present is Police at the end of last season, he However, outside marketa active, while prices ruled steady, that he hangs on to the ball much played for them in the Senior Divi- The London market closed steady. too long and this against the sion at left-half, where he has play "Sugar: Actuals were steady. Shanghai defence will prove fatal. ed ever since. This will be his There was general buying by in- A long sweeping ground pass on first Interport. He was also chosen terests at 2.76, while the lowest the lines demonstrated this season for the Interport Trial for the Hoc offering was at 2.80. Futures by Tay Quee-liang should bring key, but as both football and hoe. ruled dull and Refined prices re-out the best in Bickford who is a key trials were on the same day he was unable to turn out for the hoc- mained unchanged. The market is deadly shot with his left foot.
key.
waiting for the decision on the Gold
the
| cases.
"Flash: The Governors of Stock Exchange have under active
TSO KWAI SHING
(Continued From Page: 1)
twice played for China at the Far Eastern Olympic Gmes, in Tokyo
discussion the possibility of closing accuracy. In 1927 he travelled in 1930, and in Manila last year. the Exchange at the time when the with the Chinese team which tour-He represented Hong Kong In the Supreme Court hands down its deed Australia, and Malaya. He has 1927. Interport.
cision concerning the validity of thei
Gold Clause. The matter has been taken up with the Security Exchange Commission, but no decision has been reached."--Reuter.
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(Continued from Page 4) was seen on the left-wing for their
He played in the Shanghai Lea-Amer Smelting
Auburn team for two years. While still studying at school he was invited gue for three years until 1930 Case to play for the Kowloon jualer team, when he was capped for Shanghai Elec Bond & Share
against Tientsin. In the same year General Motors and two years later "was promoted
he was transferred to Tientsin and Int Tel & Tel really good. Let us look at facts with B. Gosano, his form, won the to the senior than 1 Kong Club there played for the Tientsin Foot Montgomery
After transferred to the Hong Kong
ball Club, again. At the first trial all the inter-class football cup.
In early 1981 Howe was trans-US. Steel sports writers were of the opinion leaving school he joined the Kow-where he played again on the left that B. Gosano played a rauch bet-loon Football Club where he played wing. He was chosen to play for ter game than TRO. Then why for their third: eleven in 1926, but the Civilians in the Lai Wah Cup ferred to Hong Kong where he has didn't the Committee base their was promoted through the second Competition in both-1983 and 1984, since played for the Hong Kong selection on that day's game.
eleven to the first within the next and also represented England in the Football Club. He was awarded his GOSANO'S RECORD In-
While playing for local International Tournament in first Interpors "cap" for the Colony
(Continued from Page 4.1 stead, they selected a player who two seasons.
Shanghai at Shanghai, and netted has a sprained ankle, who did not Kowloon he played on the right 1983. This is his first Interport. in November of 1982, against
the winning goal to give Hong Kong season, when he played right-back take part in the final trial and whowing. Joining the Police in 1928,
their only victory on northern soil. and centre-forward for the Recreio happened to have the good for-he played left-back from then on.
On his return from the Interport, in the Second Division. In the tune to be in the same league team In 1929 he was chosen to play for
Howe left the Colony on Home following year he again played for as Tam Kong Pak. Perhaps W.G.B. England in the local. International
Tournament, at left-back.
leave. In England he joined Nun-the Recreio juniors when they were head; and played at centre forward the runners-up of the Junior Cham- In the 1928-27 season. in the Isthmian League. He came pionship.
Ever was "brilled". by Tao's swollen since 1929 he has played for the ankle.
Civilians in the Lai Wah Cup Com
would be wasted in the right-half 1988 he was reserve back for the
BRIXTON BACK WITH R.A.F.
(Continued from Page 4)
The China Mail's well-known petition, in the same position. He With Harris and Reed keeping
won the First sports writer "Rover", in his com first travelled to Shanghai in 1980 Walsh company on the sick list, and back to the Colony in July of 1983 he was promoted to the Recreto ments on the team, said that Gosano where he played at left-back. In Evison figuring on the list of those and later took part in the Interport seniors and they
necessary leave to visit Shanghai so This was the year in which Gosano berth, and I have the words of an- Interport team. And again in 1994 not eligible to play, it has not been trial, but could not obtain, the Division championship. other equally well-known sports home to represent the smooth going in the attempt to dropped out before the final trial at the age of 17, was awarded his first writer who told me after Sunday's Colony, this time playing at left. pick a winning side. trial that it "was an insult to try half. -- A. V. Gosano at right-half." You
TAM KONG-PAK
Interport "eap" for the Colony against Shanghai,T DE TER SUN
In all, Gosano had played for the Recreio from 1923 until 1982, when he joined the St. Joseph's Football Club. He remained with them for two seasons and has now. returned a member of the team that visited to the Recreio.
(Continued from Page 4):
Beacham, however, will have the services of Brixton at his disposal see I am not the only one who has the football field surpasses Howe at again, so for Saturday's match it the same opinion.
centre and Pila at left-back. As an is probable that Gregory will move having to centre-forward to take the place Interporter, Putting aside all sense of fa-experienced vouritiam let us ponder on, the fol-won his first, cap at the early age of Walsh, and Brixton will come
Goiano bas been the Interport lowing team and I would gladly of 17, also having represented the into the side at inside-left, Alling Java, and played for China twice in welcome W.G.B.'s frank opinion of Colony since, surely "A. V should the place vacated by Gregory. The the Far Eastern Olympic Games, in centre-forward on every occasion same:-Wong Wing; Li Tin Sang be given a position more creditable player to fill Evison's place at Shanghai in 1927, and in Tokyo in he has played for the Colony with and C. Pfle; Leung Wing Chiu, and more responsible than a mere right-half has not yet been de 1030. This is his second selection the exception of 1980, when he play- Pardoe and Parker: B. Gosano, Tam right-half. Kong Pak, A. V. Gozano, Ridley and Bickford,
Perlaps he will differ over the
ZELITA.
cided on
cutride-right position, but could be H.K. Rifle Club Wound-Up
#NUFF SAID.”:
he
R. Ridley
for the Hong Kong Interport team, ed-inside-right to Lolly Goldman. having played last year. He is in Gosano has been selected to repre- the Canton Police Force at present. sent the Portuguese Colony of Hong Kong against the Portuguese Colony of Shanghai on the four occasions the series have taken place," In choose a better team otherwise? The Annual General Meeting of Club's Range was not suitably
Corporal R. Ridley, the Lincolns 1981, A. V. Gogano, and his brother the Hong Kong Rifle Club was held located. With such a small muem-
bership, it was also found that the and Interport inside-left, com-Bertie Gosano toured Java and last evening in the Board Room of
revenue position was becoming In-mented his football career, soon Singapore with the victorious South Penlisting with the Lincoln-China Athletle feam, and early the South China Morning Post Ltd. creasingly difficult, The Freeldent, Mr. B. Wylie, occu In view of the above It was un- saire Regiment, and was almost im last year, A, V, GoBane toured the To the Editor, “China-Mall2];
animbusly decided that the Club bo med! selected to represent the Philippine Telande with the St Sir, I heartily agree with "Nuff (pled the chair,
He was given a trid) for Joseph's Football Club at the ing After the Accounts had been wound-up Baid" re the Interport team. Or
nited in 1927 and was vitation of the Manila - Carnival course, 'a varvone, and especially passed, the Chairman reviewed the At the conclusion of the meetin
ring in Gibraltar Committee, In the third game of every football enthusiast, will con activities of the Club during the it was stated that in all pro
unde.
Soccer Selection
that the Selection Committee past year. There had been a arrangements for future
very foolish error in placedwindling membership with the re Shield Matches and Interport
Gosano in the right-half sult that there had been only an would be undertaken by the Hong and at the same time ex average of seven present at the Kong Volunteer: Defence Cor
brother-
an the series, he was badly Injured
trial in the Colony in and was enfried off the Elzal of last weir! While
ertle on the monthly competitioun helds during It was also decided to hand over Luban" Army, und The United Fist Indeed s the year. The opinion had again to the Government all property, and
and again been expressed that the buildings Belonging to the Club.
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