THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 19, 1988
FEDERATION OUTCLASS ASSOCIATION
Charity Soccer Match Draws Large Crowd
CHINESE HALVES AND FORWARDS IN SPLENDID DISPLAY
(By "REFEREE”)
HE family of the late Shui Chak-wing, Kit Chee footballer, who
T died recently following un injury received one who,
must have benefitted substantially as a result of yesterday's large gate at the charity soccer match at Caroline Hill, where the Hong Kong Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation hopelessly outclassed Hong Kong Football Association by four clear goals after leading by a solitary goal at the interval.
Failure of the Association's halves, particularly Dixon, who gave Lee Wai-tong an almost free hand, led to their downfall, al- though it must be admitted that the Chinese were much the better team all round and should have left the field a good half-dozen goals ahead of their opponents.
Association's forward line, led by F. Fowler, could not get going) and failure of their right-wing-| er, Thorburn, to cross the ball into the centre although he was literally "plastered with the ball" must have had its effect on the inside forwards.
D. Leonard worked very hard, but all to no purposé, as he was robbed before his parting shot by the quick tackling Chinese wing- halves.
SPLENDID FORAGER
Hunt, of the Navy, at inside-left, played a splendid foraging game and did his hardest to send Fowler ahead, but his lack of inches severely handicapped him. Fowler was too closely marked by Lau Hing-choi
and the two Chinese backs to be effective, although he had very bad luck in the closing minutes with a header with had Pau Ka-ping beaten all the way to strike the cross-bar. Bickford worked hard on the left-wing.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS AND
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Federation
GOAL SCORERS
CHARITY MATCH
4 Association
(Lee Wai-tong (2),
Tang Kwang sum and Hau Ching-to).
FIRST DIVISION
(Wong King- Kwong Wah
cheung and Chin Chi-fun).
2 South China 'B' 2 (Yeung Shiu-yick (2)).
SECOND DIVISION 5 Engineers
Kwong Wah (Lau Fook-chuen,
(3), Lan Win- kui und Chow Wing-nung).
THIRD DIVISION “A” Royal Scots 4 Engineers (C.) (Bailey (2) Gar- (Lee Muk-hon).
rie and Gibbs). 5th A.A. Egt.
R.A. (Mergan and
Barby).
0
2
Service Corps (Martin).
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Two excellent impressions from the Ladies' Open Doubles Lawn Tennis Championship semi-final tie at the U.S.R.C. last Wednesday Mrs. Skinner and Mrs. Tracey beat Mrs. Burnett and Miss V. Bradbury in three sets. Photo shows Miss V. Bradbury (left serving and Mrs. Skinner (right) about to drive on the forehand. ("China Mail" photo).
RECREIO RUN RIOT AGAINST K.I.T.C.
Recreio 'caused a small sensa-
ion at King's Park yesterday morning, when they trounced Kowloon Indians Tennis Club by five clear goals in a Hong Kong 1 Hockey Association Tournament | match after leading by four goals at the interval:
Recreio's splendid half-back trio comprising R. Marques, W. A. Reed and A. M. Alves completely domin- ated the Indians attack, and to such an extent that they were able to play (Middlesex); Honeywill (Navy),
for- Di-a feeding game to their own E. Strange wards as well of whom Dr. A. M. xon, Capt. (Navy) and (Club); Thorburn, Leonard (St. Jo- seph's), Fowler (Club), Hunt (Navy) Rodrigues, at inside-right, gave a and B. I. Bickford (Club).
superb exhibition, securing the "hat-trick.' H.K.C.A.A.F.: Pau Ka-ping; Mak son, tackling hard and distributing | Shui-hon and Lee Ting-sang; Soong Rodrigues (2) and N. Beltrao (2) Ling-sing, Lau Hing-choy and Hsu scored in the first half and Rodri- King-seng, Tang Kwong-sum,
Funggués completed Recreio's tally in King-cheung, Lee Wai-tong, Lai Shui-
Association's defence was erratic at the start, Hussain, who de- putised for Watson, who could not play, often miskicking, although Sheehan later improved to give one of his best performances this sea-
the ball soundly.
LEE SHINES
The Federation have their splen-wing and Hau Ching-to, did half-back trio to thank for their E victory. They broke up practically every opposing movement before it reached the danger stage, and their wing-halves did great work in mak- ing the necessary openings for the forwards, of whom Lee Wai-tong was in great form, scoring two grand goals.
GATE REALISES $2,100
The Charity Football game yes- terday resulted in a gross gate of $2,100.
Fung King-cheong and Lai Shiu- wing, the inside right and left, res- pectively, were at their best al- though the latter missed three "sitters" in the opening 10 minutes, of the game. His approach work and the manner he worked for, his open- ings, however, compensated for any lack of marksmanship..
FEDERATION LEAD Both Tang Kwong-sum and Hau Ching-to were dangerous when in possession and each scored a goal. Federation went ahead after 15 minutes play when Lee. Wai-tong banged in a free kick for Mac- Allister to push the ball to Tang Kwong-sum, whose return shot found the top of the net. In the sec- ond half further goals were scored by Lee Wai-tong (2) and Hau Ching-to.
Mr. D. Kossick ably controlled the game and the teams we.e:~~
H.K.F.A.: McAllister (Navy); A. J. Hussain (St. Joseph's) and Shchan
the second half,
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"REVIEWER'S" SPORTS COMMENTARY
Lawn Tennis Heredity
Eighteen years ago Andre Gobert and J. C. Parke, both famous in in- ternational lawn tennis; made a pact. This was that their respective newborn sons should meet on court in 1940,
when both were 20.
The form of young Parke, so far as
I am aware, has not been tested, but
Olivier Gobert, partnered by Borotra, has now won the International Club of France doubles cup, which is restricted to a combination of young and old. In spite of the reputation of the senior partner, however, the pair es- caped defeat in the first round only by the narrowest margin.
At
game
present young Gobert's lacks polish, and his academic studies allow him to play only
one hour a week. But heredity comes out in a classical backhand, a good smash and a penchant for the net attack.
Like his father, he always moves for- ward after the first low volley. That is one of the reasons why Andre Gobert, before he took up golf to win the amateur championship of France, was the best covered court player in the world.
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Alterations Made At St. Andrews
Open St
The arrangements for the Championship, to be played at Andrews next July, are already well in hand. A number of important al- terations have been made on the Old Course, where two new teeing grounds have been constructed, with a view to lengthening the course. At the fifth, a teeing ground has been constructed near the rough on the New Course, ad- ding about 60 yards to the hole.
Another new tee has been made at the seventh, and a new road has been cut through the whing for the con- venience of spectators. A new tee has also been constructed at the fourteenth, close to the whins adjoining the fourth hole of the Eden Course.
A number of minor alterations have been carried out on the New Course including the levelling off of some of the hilly ground on the fairways.
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