THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1937.
BIGGER GROUND FOR CUP FINAL
HAMPDEN PARK'S
EXAMPLE
PROBLEM MUST BE FACED BY F.A.
BUT WEMBLEY WILL BE VENUE UNTIL 1944 SEASON
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London, April 21.
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HE lesson for England of the Scottish inter- national match at Glasgow last Saturday stands out clearly. How much longer are we going to be satisfied with a 93,000 maximum attendance at Wembley for our Soccer football festivals when Glasgow can house a crowd of 150,000?
WHY BE LIMITED TO 93,000 IN LONDON WHEN THE F.A. CUP FINALS OF 20 AND 30 YEARS AGO HAD SIX-FIGURE GATES? AS FAR BACK AS 1901 THE ATTENDANCE FOR THE SPURS MATCH WITH SHEFFIELD UNITED AT THE OLD CRYSTAL PALACE GROUND WAS. 110,000, WHILE ASTON VILLA PLAYED BEFORE CROWDS OF 101,000 AND 120,000 THERE IN THE FINALS AGAINST NEWCASTLE AND SUNDERLAND RESPECTIVELY IN 1905 AND 1913.
H. Gittins, above, former First Division lawn bowler of the Kow- loon Cricket Club; is now playing for the Kowloon Tong Club in the Third Division.
NAVY GOLF CHAMPIONS NARROW ESCAPE Ulyat Bunkered, But Wins Last Hole
BAYLDON'S BOLD ATTEMPT
The annual meeting of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines G. S. was begun yesterday at Wentworth with the first two rounds in the senior and junior knock-out tournaments in the East and West courses.
Rev. E. S. Ulyat, the Navy cham- pion and back-marker at handicap one, was among the 16 who survived from the second round of the Benior tournament. Ulyat beat Candr. K. J. T. Southgate (5) by 5. and 3 in the first round, and then won on the success in the
R. C. remaining four home green against Cmdr. matches.
Bayldon (5)..../ FINE PERFORMANCE
Ulyat and Bayldon were add Still, the Lerpoolians have every square with one to play and the reason to be proud of their achieve-champion: was bunkered from his ment, especially Ivor Thomas, their second shot. Ulyat, however, made captain, who proved himself an in- a fine recovery to place the ball two spired leader. It was a fine per- yards from the pin and he holed formance to reach the final of this the putt for a 4. ·
the only one of its Bayldon, who was on the edge of tournament, kind in the world, at the first atthe green in three, made a bold at- tempt to hole the ball, but it stop- tempt.
One of the finest left-handers ped on the lip, and Ulyat thus won in the game, Thomas had the su- the match. The limit to 93,000 and tickets, ing in London on. Cup Final eve, as preme satisfaction of assisting ma- only system followed, but that a suggestion has been made to re-terially to win the one match of the was 14 years ago, and the posi-lieve the difficulties of finding suit-five which his side captured from tion to-day is absurdly inade-able semi-final venues by playing the Carthusians., His partner was quate. The demand for tickets both these games at Wembley. de Winter, a young player who slightly the better of it to the turn, now approaches 500,000, and no This semi-finals scheme has small proved just as keen and enthusias-where they were one up, but from this point their opponents, playing ground could be built for all chance of success, as the provinces tic as his captain.
has
remarkable DISTINGUISHED VICTIMŠ
golf, took charge of: these people to gather at a say London already match and see the play.
enough, but the discussion
To claim two such distinguished (the game. sure to turn to the bigger and pres- six- sing problem of a substantial figure festival ground.
The F.A. were disturbed by the events of 1923, when Wembley Stadium was opened for its first Cup Final, and, the public saying. "At last we can see the Final in comfort," 200,000 swarmed there and the pitch was overrun.
F.A. ASKED TO BEAR COST
But something should be done to provide England with an adequate national ground or to make Wem- bley rank at least with the propor- tions of Hampden Park.
"plums"
seems
CARTHUSIANS AGAIN WIN OLD
A few years ago this problem was considered by the F.A., and BOYS' TROPHY
plans were prepared for enlarging Wembley, but the scheme fell
through. I was told that one rea- son was that the F.A. would have to bear all the cost. But when the Final tie and the Scottish match there (every second season) each brings in a gross £20,000 gate, and there is now a fat Continental in- ternational in London each winter, surely cost is not holding up the
UNTIL 1944
Fourth Successive Triumph
·HALFORD-HEWITT
CUP
victims as Beck and Hooman was no mean feat. The Carthusians had
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Deal, April 20. For the fourth year in succes- sion, and the sixth time... în all the Carthusians won the] Public Schools Old Boys › tourna» Wembley, by arrangement, has the Final until 1944, and League ment for the Halford-Hewitt Cup clubs are asking whether the F.A on the Royal Cinque Ports course propose to wait so long before tak- here to-day...In the final they won ing steps to remedy the position. by 4-1 against the Old Lerpoolians Club officials are wondering what (Liverpool College), who were mak- will be done. They feel that the ing their first appearance in an problem should now be tackled and, event which embraces 50 public to move with the times, accommoda- schools, represented by 500 players. tion provided even greater than As I expected, the experienced Hampden Park's 150,000.
Carthusian players were not to be There is no desire to leave Wem-stampeded by a surprise team from bley, which provides a wonderful the North, who, in atriumphant atmosphere and frame for the march to the final, had beaten Final, but it is felt that, if the several illustrious sides. Even the problems there are responsible for fact that the Carthusians". leading the hold-up, a club ground in Lon-pair, John Beck and C. V. L. Hoo- don might be enlarged, and the pos- man, both former Walker Cup golf- sibilities of using the Crystal Pa-ers and steeped in the art of the lace-F.C. enclosure at Selhurst Park foursome game, were in distress, are freely mentioned.
did not disturb the equanimity of the rest of the side.
BOTH AT WEMBLEY,
Rather did the knowledge of their The League clubs probably will defeat stir the others to a greater discuss the question at their meet-l'effort, which produced unqualified
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