JUST 18
SCOTTISH LEAGUE SOCCER TO-DAY
"SKIP'S" FORECAST FOR TO-DAY
(-)
(~)
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...(76)
FIRST DIVISION
Craigengower C.C. Kowloon Dock R.C.
.(→) v †Indian Recreation Club
..(-)
(50)
SECOND
v Civil Service C.C.
(56)
DIVISION
†Civil Service C.C. *Football Club “A” Football Club “B”
v Police Recreation Club
v Craigengower ›C.C.
(38)
v Taikoo Dock R.C.
H.K. Electric R.C.
THIRD
(65) V
DIVISION
Kowloon Football Club
Kowloon Tong G.C.A. ................(70)
V
Craigengower C.C.
R.H.K. Yacht Club
(63) V
Football Club
* Denotés promoted team.
+ Denotes relegated team.
. (47)
.(47)
(54)
Figures in brackets denote scores in corresponding match last year.
To-day's Lawn Bowls Programme
for both clubs.
Should the home team
(By "SKIP")
reverse
RANGERS
CONFESS
BUT FANS STILL HAVE GROUSE
[The First and Second Division of the Scottish Assciavion Foot- ball League commence this after- noon and the ac: spinzing articië on the Rangers, Scottish Leaguo champions for many seasons, who had a bad season last year, should prove interesting]
"REVIEWER'S" SPORTS COMMENTARY
N.B.A.'s Unusual Step
Small Montana, the Filipino boxer, the title, will chosen by National Boxing Association, it was
RANGERS have come into the and former holder of the wild ty
by With a frankness we're not ac-announced in New York on July 30,
to meet an opponent designated customed to from the closely-the N.B.A. for the vacant fly-weight The contest is to be guarded Ibrox portals, manager championship.
his staged in Australia. Willie Struth has made club's "confession."
Experts consider this step unusual, inasmuch as the N.B.A. was represent- We've all heard a lot about the ed at the recent Rome conference, at so-called "decline of Rangers." which an attempt was made to secure We've all had our stab at tracing uniformity in the matter of its cause.
Now hear the manager's
world's champions. As regards the fly- weight title, which was made vacant own through the inability of Benny Lynch, the then reigning champion, to make
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a curtailed Lawn Bowls League programme comprising only explanation, given in his report the weight in his fight with Jackie ac- Control, following the usual custom eight games, the most interesting one this afternoon promises for the season ending last April. Jurich, the British Boxing Board of of bodies who have declared a title to be that between the Kowloon Dock Recreation Club and the Civil Writing of the Light Blues'
nationals, Servants. The game takes place at Hung Hom, and is a vital one complishments of the past year, vacant through weight failure on the
he says "From the Rangers part of one of their own There are three matches of im-something more is expected, and reserve the right to select boxers to last week's result, when they lost portance in the Second Division. it was the lack of that 'some-compete for that title.
The most vital one is between the thing' which is causing some dis- at the Valley, then their adver- Football Club “A” and Craigengow-quiet amongst Rangers followers. saries of this afternoon will be re-er, on the former's green. legated to the Second Division.
If the Civil Servants, however, clear of relegation, even if it might beat the Dock team, they will be mean "passing the buck" to their clear of the bogey, and the Dock "B" outfit, whilst to Craigengower, team will need to beat the Police a victory is of vital necessity to re- in the last match of the season, to tain their interest in the promotion be played next Saturday to avoid question. A needle match indicat- ed, and I have no hesitation in fore- relegation.
The Hung Hom team have a very representative team out and the re- turn of Joe Fraser, as third man "Jock" to McKelvie, should strengthen that rink considerably.
The other match in this division is, between Craigengower and the Indians, at the Valley, and the home team are not likely to be caught napping again.
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The home need to win to steer
casting a useful win for the visitors.
Sensation
"The truth is that our first eleven is Australian Ice-Skating in a state of transition--a period when changes have to be made, and the re- things. cruits have hardly had time to pro-
Because he would be almost certain that a perly fit into the scheme of
pre- to take the trophy out of Australia, Freddie Tomlin, the English Olympic The march of time makes parations must be made.
skater, who was placed fifth in the periodical event against which
"But not all the preparations in the last world's figure-skating champion- fects of the rebuilding. We are con- the Australian championships, which
lean period take place this month. world can overcome completely the of-ship, was banned from competing in Little interest remains in the fident that the present
.as successfully Third Division, as Kowloon Foot-will be bridged as ball Club, have already won pro- others in the past." motion: Kowloon Tong can obtain the runners-up position by beating Craigengower, which I think should prove an easy task for them in view of their handsome victory over this same club last week.
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Interesting if you like-this direct But how promise of a new Rangers. much hope can we allow ourselves to take out of it?
HARDLY HAD TIME "Recruits have hardly had time to fit into the scheme of things," says Mr. Struth.
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Surely they're being given extra good chanco. Look at the backbone of the Ibrox Alliance side -Fiddes (signed August 1934), Galloway (October 1935), Turnbull (December 1935), Reid (June 1936), Ross (November 1936), Thornton (March 1937). Men who should, by all that's right, be ready to step up for first team action whenever they're called.
This extraordinary excuse was given by the secretary of the Victoria Ice Hockey Association, and it naturally aroused public indignation, The Aus- luged with letters of protest, yielded to public clamour, and revoked the tralian Association, after being de-
ban, but Tomlin, to avoid further un- pleasantness, said that he would not compete in the championships.
He intends to place the matter be- fore the National Ice Skating Asso- ciation when he returns to England. "The suggestion that I might have taken trophies out of Australia' is laughable," said Tomlin. "If I had won a race I should have returned the trophy.
"If England had taken the same view, the Australians, Jimmy Brown have and Les Kennedy, would not been able to compete in the British championships. Fortunately, a broader view Was
Kennedy taken, and has held the British championship for three years." the
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They've been waiting, as you see, for spells varying between eigh- teen months and four years for chance to prove themselves worthy re- gulars. Yet all the management has to say of them is they've "hardly had time to fit into the scheme of things." Then, I fancy, it's the scheme that's gone agley,
Changes have to be made, says Mr Struth. What changes? They've taken the whole of the close season to sign three new players-Munro from Inverness Clachnacuddin: Duncanson and from Dumoon Milton Rovers; Shaw, from Airdrie.. All three have still to prove they're honest-to-good- ness Rangers quality men.
MORE “DISQUIET"
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tom themselves to Ibrox methods and styles, and have the country's only Board of Directors composed entirely of ex-International players,
Last and probably most important of all-they've enjoyed a close season that brought them close on £8000 of an Exhibition-tourney nest-egg.
HOW LONG?
It boils down to this-Rangers are still without a team to uphold the lofty standard.they've set themselves these many YOSTS. · They've got all the equipment that goes to the obtain
of such a team.
Which means to say the Coplanding Road enthusiasts may have to forward to more of what Mr. Struth calls "disquiet."
Last season's only notable signing was Bertle Harrison, of Hamiltona top-notcher amongst the country's in- side men, but one who lacked the M'Phail-like quality of dominating power that Rangers have been looking for this long time back.
The Ibox club have had best part of a couple of seasons now to see what's wrong with their team, had tline for their younger men to accus-
Question is-How long is the transition period to be allowed to last. Is it to be shortened by the purchase of seeded players, or lengthened by the signing and training of youngsters?su Mr. Struth gives us a hint in the following paragraph--"In the now season the reserve eleven will be re- ceiving quite a number of recruits young chaps setting out en what both they and the club hope will be ́s suc- cossful career."
Ibrox promises to provide Interesting season.
most