THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 24, 1937.
CONTINENTAL HERBERT CHAPMAN
HUGO MEISL PASSES
AWAY
SCIENTIFIC FOOTBALL
GENIUS
VIENNA'S WONDERFUL FEAT
(By "SPOT KICK")
London, February 21.
HE STILL WANTS TO
PLAY CRICKET
Sydney Barnes Will Be
64 This Month
London, February 22-The fol lowing advertisement appeared in the columns of a morning paper yesterday: "Engagement wanted for season-1987; matches prefer- red-S. F. Bames, Stafford.”
Sydney Barnes, one of Eng- land's greatest Test bowlers of a past age, will be sixty-four next month!
INTER VARSITY GOLF
Amazing Recovery By Cantabs
London, To-day. The Inter-Varsity Golf Foursomes between Oxford University and Cambridge University was held yes-
CONTINENTAL football has lost its Herbert terday over the Prince's Course, at
Port Vale
Southport
Hugo Meisl is dead - the man New Brighton who made the Austrians a power in Soccer. I had Rochdale known him since 1912 when he was a referee at the Stockport
I Olympic Games at Stockholm, and the more knew, the more I thought of him.
Tranmere
Birmingham Charlton
V Rotherham v Lincoln
y Halifax
v York
y Hall ▼ Barrow MONDAY
First Division
FANCY ONE CITY TURNING OUT AN INTERNATIONAL Derby TEAM TO BEAT SCOTLAND (WHEN BELOW STRENGTH) Everton 5-0 AT VIENNA, AND DRAW WITH THEM AT HAMPDEN Manchester C. PARK; TO LOSE ONLY 4-3 TO ENGLAND AT CHELSEA.Portsmouth AND BEAT US 2—1 (MEISL'S AMBITION REALISED) LAST MAY AT VIENNA!
That's what Meisl achieved in Vienna, and by the most scien- tific football in the world. British coaches helped, but, as the chief of them Jimmy Hogan, how of Aston Villa will tell you, Meisl "made" the Austrians.
Despite these successes Meisl always said British football was supreme. "You have the build and the birthright of football,” he used to say to me. "Why are you letting it drift away from the scientific?”
HOME SOCCER FOR EASTER HOLIDAYS
Big Programme Arranged
Preston Wednesday Stoke
West Bromwich
Wolves
Barnsley Blackburn Bradford C. Fulham
Leicester
Norwich Notts. F.
-v Middlesboro'
Chelsea
v Huddersfield
Manchester U.
→ Liverpool
v Grimsby
v Brentford
Bolton Arsenal
p Leeds v Sunderland
Second Division
Southampton
Tottenham
▼ West Ham
▾ Blackpool
C
+
Chesterfield Doncaster
v. Sheffield U.
▾ Bradford
+ Swansea
▾ Plymouth
y Bury
Third Division (South)
Bournemouth
▼ Newport
Bristol R.
7 Aldershot
Cardiff
A
r Notts. C.
Exeter
Luton
Northampton Reading
Home Southend.
Glas- At the banquet after the gow match he surprised the Scots- men by saying: "You still regard Austria and the Continental coun- tries as newcomers to the game. The following are the But we have been playing for 40 football fixtures for Easter Week or 50 years," and went on to startle with exception of the usual Satur-Watford them with his intimate references day programme. There are no Scot to Bobby Walker, "Napoleon" Mc-tish League fixtures, except next Menemy, and Jimmy Quinn
STAR TRANSFER TALKS
Saturday.
FRIDAY First Division
Secor
He was concerned with Herbert. Chapman in the negotiations that Arsenal
Bolton preceded the effort of the Arsenal Brentford to sign Hiden, the famous Austrian Chelsea goalkeeper, who twice sailed for Grimsby this
country from Ostend but Liverpool
Manchester U. failed
the immigration Middlesboro to pass authorities.
Sunderland He once asked me whether a British club would like Cesta, Austria's in-Blackpool dia-rubber back-"the modern Dicky Burnley
Bury Downs," we called him. I happened Chesterfield to be in Scotland, so discussed, it Doncaster with William Struth, manager of Newcastle the Rangers, who agreed that the Plymouth
Swansea. immigration position was hopeless. West Ham
I told Meisl, too, that if we took jus their star players they would soon Aldershot be taking ours, and that might Brighton mean trouble. "Probably you're Bristol C. right," he replied.
Third
Clapton Crystal P. Gillingham
“MIKE” SURPRISE Wherever England played on the Millwall
Newport
Continent, there was Admirer Meisi,outs. C. the man who really had so little to Queen's Park learn. He turned up once and Walsall- made me jump.
Carlisle
Stoke
v Wednesday ▾ Preston
Charlton
v Portsmouth
Manchester C.
- Everton
Birmingham
* Wolves
Division
v Blackburn
Coventry
+ Tottenham
*
Bradford C.
Fulham
Aston Villa
v Southampton
Notts. F Barnsley
Division (South)
v. Bristol R.
マ
Southend
Exeter
Luton
Torquay
Northampton Swindon
v Bournemouth
Cardiff Reading
v Watford Third Division (North)
v Oldham
Hartie sools Darlington
I was asked by the Swiss folk to Accrington broadcast a half-time commentary on Crewe the Switzerland v. England match Gateshead in 1933 at Berne. "What's the Mansfield use?" I said, "half of them won't know the English language.”
Wrexham
Chester (Continued in next column).
languages--perhaps eight, when he Anyhow, 1 performed. And at died: I hadn't seen him since May the end, with one hand over the A fine friend gone he even to
11
mike, said: “And I hope, bro-me into Austria
sec
thers, you know what it's all about!” an hour before they played Bug-
SEVEN LANGUAGES®
land at Chelsea, and supplied an in-
“That's easy," said a voice, behind
and Meisl proceeded to transmit a terpreter. A great loss to Associa translation?. He could speak.
tion football.
Swindon Torquay
▾ Bristol C.“
v Clapton
Gillingham
▾ Queen's Park
▼ Brighton
v Milwal
Crystal P. Walsall
Sandwich, and resulted in the en counter being. halved. Each team won one and halved three matches.
Lucas and Dixon, of Cambridge, were featured in an amazing re- covery in their match against Mit- chell-Innes, the well-known cricke- ter, and Lawrie, which they eventu ally halved after being 8 down at the 18th hole.
The Oxford pair were 4 up at the 27th, but the Light Blue pair levell ed the scores at the 35th, and squar ed the match with a half at the 35th, and squared the match with a half at the last hole-Reuter.
Barrow
Chester
Third Division (North)
Darlington Halifax Hartlepools Full Lincoln Oldham Rotherham Wrexham York
Tranmere
7
Mansfield
V
Crewe
V Rochdale
▼ Carlisle
Stockport.
v Port Vale v. Accrington
New Brighton Gateshead Southport
JOHNNIE WALKER
WHISKY
"Still Supreme In Every Walk Of Life?
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