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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB NOTICE TO MEMBERS
TOTALISATOR TRIAL RACE MEETING Saturday, 3rd February, 1951.
There are four races. The First Bell will be rung at 3.15 p.m. and the First Race will be run at 3.45 p.m.
The Electric Totallentor will be in operation. The ticket Issuing machines are of two kinds
High Value machines which issue $50, $100, $150, 5200 and $250 tickets, and
Low Value machines which is $5, $10, $15, $20 and $35 tickets.
and these are clearly marked in the Selling Booths.
Crush barriers have been erected in the Betling Halls at are particularly point and backers each ticket Issuing requested to note that entry to n selling booth is to the left side of a machine, from the backers' viewpoint, and exit from the right and this is elcarly marked on the Selling Bootl Counters.
Each machine is capable of issuing Win and Place uckets on any pony starting in a race and the order in which backers should place their bets is as follows:- state the amount of the bet
FIRST.......
SECOND THIED
WIN or PLACE state the kind of bet state the number of the Pony Thus: $5 WIN Number 4
$10 PLACE Number 12
All winning tickets and tickets for refunds must be presented for payment at the race course on the day to which they refer. Tickets not prescrieti at once, after a race is run and dividends declared, will be paid at the Late Pay Out windows which will be provided, but none will be palu later then one hour after the time for which the last race of the day has been scheduled to be run.
THERE WILL BE NO CASH SWEEPS FOR MEETING.
SOCCER SCHOOL:
Henry Longhurst
On GOLF
Faithful
Servants
Some time next month I propose to hold what may, in these days of matched sets and factory-made golf clubs, be a singular celebra- the It will honour tion. coming-of-age of my three wonden clubs.
And if the fellow who, a few years ago, pinched the fourth member of the family the big- ger of the two spoons-frem the hat of the Vicarage at Apple- dore. should chance to read this, let him, too, honour the casion.
oc-
This battle-scarred and faith- ful trio-the brassie, by a month or two, the senior of the three first saw the light of day in the winter of 1930. The inscrip- len en their heads, long stre undecipherable reads: "J. O. Lovelock, Royal Worlington and
and Nowmarket,"
will. I am haping, "come up" when Fred Robson, who has for many years. been seeking the privilege, stains them for the birthday.
nt.
NOT MUCH TO LOOK AT Like many an aged retainer, they are no longer much to look Their black. unvarnished shafts, Lif
as ramrods, have none of the patent "steps" that fashionable only in 1931 be Their grips, now worn
or
so smooth as to be unholdable
WILLIE WATSON demon-
Birates how to get power for the long throw-in dem stanes; thumbs well behind the Ball: knees bent : shoulders well
E back: romfortably poised tor & smooth follow-through.
you
WING HALVES MUST KNOW
EVERYONE ELSE'S JOB
Fourth Soccer Lesson conducted by DESMOND HACKETT is on wing halfback play. Tutors are JIMMY
DICKSON, of Portsmouth, and WILLIE WATSON, of Notice
Sunderland.
Learn To Kick
Accurately With Both Feet
By JIMMY DICKINSON
When I joined up with Portsmouth six years ago I quickly realised that I could have done with a Soccer school all to myself.
Three League games impressed me that I must know everyone else's job in addition to my own.
I had to have the tackling power and quick-clearing | ability of a back, the slick ideas of an inside forward, and to be as goal-enger as any centre forward. Looked like an outsize job but I found I could learn by watching.
So there you are:
LESSON No. 1: Watch what the other fellow does. Not only do you improve your own col- lection of football moves, but you can work out a way to check those same moves.
will drop at your feet ready for trapping or passing.
TRAINING HINT: you must concentrate on staying power, and speed bursts. My plan is brisk warm up with skipping and case out the muscles, then a 30-minute session of walking at pace and running.
Because of to LESSON No. 2: his position on the field the ball COMES to the half-back most like polished conkers, and Kwkwardly—ekidding along the certainly cannot see your faze ground, knee, chest, and "head in them as you can in the pre-high.
But they Ali right, you can be prepar- sent-day impiemens.
divolmarks. nestle snugly into
ed. First be able to kick ac-
with both fect. No plantain roots and the like, and
could you ask of curately
short cuts here, It is practice, what more
practice, practice. MEMORIES them than that?
What memories we shall hear
Study The Throw-in
By Willie Watson
During this heavy season do no: make the mistake of train- ing with a light dry ball in in wet weather, are of that red. at our coming-of-age! The early
associated ba tism of fire in the Universi sheltered spots. You will find corrugated variety
ly witcombe, match of 1930, where we finished it difficult to accustom yourself and generally a pennant of black with a drive and a brassica to a sudden change to a heavy twine may be seen flying from a pull at the eleventh at Sand-bidl when you get into match can
with the name
the wich (we need not mention below the right trand.
fact that in the Open of 1938 action.
TRAPPING HINTS: A ball They have, of course, never Fadgham, with the gale behind.
in directly has drove the green, 382 those
front yds and dropping ridiculous deemed necessary for the pani- got a two); and a trip a few should be checked with the sole pered modern generation Ef months later to two dozen hos- of the boot, heel close to the ground so that the ball does wooden clubs-which is perhaps pitable clubs in the States.
After waiting. six years for not skid underneath. why, inured in their travels to
USE THE SIDE of altitude and tem- another tilt at Pine Valley, the extremes
For a ball coming in from perature, they have never caught driver-I can see the shot now!-
use the side of the cold.
laid the foundations of a two at the side, the fifth. And if we blew up on foot, getting a maximum breadth
Way
home, well, who of foot to the ball, body lean. the
at big slightly towards wouldn't, after going out
direction from which the ball Pine Valley in 347
is coming.
the ball, a simple
nine Beside the
glittering Flash-Alee American Irons they look as incongruously shabby as my 14-year-old 8 hp. car against the latest push-button Cadillac but, like the car, they have one supreme virtue, rare enough in planning and
Chesting
The stock question when
meet ambitious players is: How
you mix football and
cricket?
I rate the mixiure as ideal, for a half-back. especially Cricket
helps you to an for the ball, make split-second dealstons Bating, and helps my footwork and balance, and the supple muscles gives you that aid a throw-in.
I rate the throw in as the most neglected part of football. A well-rehearsed throw-in move the can be tremendously successful.
You can signal the inside for- ward
und to go running on throw the ball over the line of. acfenders that usually gather
And the moment when, after poking cautiously together for four days along the forest-lined looking move, is most difficult. fairways of Wannsee, like play- you take the ball too high ing in blinkers, we were crown-
you lose possession, it you ed with oak-leaves and unine Lake it too low you will prob-
ably be knocked out.
speeches 05 Hitler's
in "Golf-Melster."
these days of theory. They work.
They always have worked. They were designed to fit the lible small British ball cringing the close ties of Mildenhall aud the seaside. Their heads are small, their faces the depth only of a penny. They may not look declising years through together. ball You
What friends these three have been! They shall never be pen-
will sc sioned off; we
גים
Try to tole the ball just below the breast bone, bending hom the hips well Over the will find the ball
Terries & Wahoos Meet In Crucial Tilt Today
By "GRANDSTAND”
The Ladies' Softball League pennant race reaches a climax this after- noon at 3.30 p.m. when the title-holding Wahoos tangle with challenging St Teresa's in a second round encounter which may well decide the new holders of
supremacy on the diamond among the China Mail Trophy, symblematic of fairer sex.
the
A trio of exhibition tussles are also carded for tomorrow with the Shanghai Pandas making their debut against the Madcaps at 11.00 a.m. in the first of their
round a throw-in
and
Talk over your defence plans with your inside forwards full-backs.
Be ready to interchange in an}
cover in attack, and quick to defence.
The most dangerous attacking
that which brings in! move is the opposition wing-ball and in- side forward.
Delay the challenge as long as you can, so your inside for- ware can get back to help out.. Always try to position yourself between the man in possessiun and your own goal.
FOLLOW HIM
To deal with that
forward menace the wandering inside forward the Mannion and Doherty types--you either ar- range to follow him round or
Just leave him to the team-mate switch of these wandering who happens to be faced by the
wizards.
The policy I recommend for a half-back attack is; Make a
winger or general rule to pass the ball to
your
your centre
five-game series against local sides, while the Club de Recreio will be the venue in 10mally you will find your
Evar
оп
Inside forward facing his own goal, or too near, and when your wingers and centre forward se the half-back with the ball they knows they can move into posi- tion,
Do not neglect to send that long raking shot square across the field to the for winger. This winger pass usually finds the uncovered and has the defence all on the wrong foot.
the afternoon of two benefit tussles between well-matched outfits.
These tilts are sponsored by The junior circuit all-star | mainstay and guiding spirit, will
opposing the Portuguese Refugee Rellet series between the Blues and the toe the rubber with
Association with the approval Golds, staged at the popular re-furler Shella Silva on the slab. quest of fans, will see rivalry The battery mates will be Hilda of the Softball Association and, Remedios although admission is free to all, charitable settled with a scuffle scheduled Soares and Bernie
to this for Tuesday.
respectively, bath capable hind-donations
will be cause, however small, snatchers. since their first meeting is understood
the appreciated by the organisers.
THE INVADERS the Opening Day, the Wahoos and St Teresa's have been burning
We have had visitors in the rc- up the League at a steady gait,
in this crucial past and Hongkong has always
Try to find out how your and the day has dawned when a gular players THIS
single game would be the pay-game as Elva Lee will be busy held its own against the invaders,
do we have the centro forward and wing men keeping a
seldom date in church while but
and to receive
the ball entertaining as like Elsie Thompson, as a bridesmaid, privilege
move will not be available. The res famed Pandas of Shanghai, who] with them.
distinguished
gulshed a gathering as the practise their favourite ponsibility
May 1 impress these points: Owls have the power-drives to the outflcid will reign supreme in their realm. Always tackle strongly.
MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE SETS OF MEMBERS AND LADIES' BADGES WILL RACING SEASON NOT BE ISSUED FOR THE 1951
1950 SETS ARE VALID UNTIL UNTIL 18T APRIL, 1951. THEN.
Members and guests are reminded that they and their Indies MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the Meeting.
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED ALL BADGES ISSUED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. FOR PREVIOUS TRIAL MEETINGS ARE CANCELLED. Badges admitting ladies not in possession of Broochen or Season tickets and gentlemen, non-members of the Club, $10.00 Enclosure and Club Rooms at to the Members' including tax, for ludles or gentlemen are obininable through the Secretary on the written or personal introduction of a member, such member to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him, and for payment of all chits etc.
Badges admitting to Members Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the RACE COURSE,
The Secretary's Office at 1st Floor, Telephone House, will close at 1.00 p.m.
A limited number of tifins will be obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 27810).
NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PREMISES DURING THE MEETING.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of allmission to the Public Enclosure is $3.00 including tax for all persons including ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
BOOKMAKERS, TIC TAC MEN ETC., WILL NOT BE FERMITTED TO OPERATE WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB DURING THE RACE MEETING.
MEALS AND REFRESHMENTS WILL BE OBTAIN-
THE
IN ABLE
RESTAURANT
THE PUBLIC IN ENCLOSURE.
SERVANTS' PASSES Bervante passes will be issued to private box holders only, who are requested to distribute them with discrimina- tion and to entfórsa''thair names on the passen, Holders of such panca aro not permitted in the Members Enclosure except for passing through on their duties and must remain Ip their employers' standa
BY ORDER,
7
8. ́A. SLSAP,
Secretary.
that Wuhoos will be without of their services of two
around
On the other hand, St Teresa's Madcaps. may just pull that upset to end the race in a photo finish which would require another game to decide the issue. It is perhaps Atting that these two squads who Gwen have drawn way ahead of the (nee
should meet | Ribeiro, rest of the pack
former
the
of
off to a season of hopes and am- bition.
OWLS HAVE THE EDGE
of freezing The Green
Try to Headed by Grandpa Leung.
Master the edge in the coming encounter, as be in the hands of the utilities. they are one full game above The Terries have been scout-who should be known to most of keep on your feet.
the Pandas art of heading. Concentrate on additional the dichard fans, for the challengers in the League ing slandings, and a victory
this strength in their first senior title touched our shores yesterday, perfecting the accurate pass
-(London Express Service) up- will make their first and afternoon will cinch the cham-bid and have signed on Melvic
before the softball pionship for them, to leave only Soares,
slugging pearance gardener for the Merry publle tomorrow when they take a pipe dream for the Terries.
a.m' The infield positions are still 11.00ster Hollands' Madcaps at
bus
Arrangements have also been uncertain in this vital gume,
made for this touring outfit to good guess would be:
Navy, Braves, WAHOOS:
Brown, meet the U.S. Dolly Dragon, Irene Stachey. Jaguars and South China.
and Castlino),
Helen For the convenience of fans creeted grandstand has been with the wire looming ahead. ST TERESA'S: Doreen Ozorio, and although admission will not be charged, it is hoped that ap- Reliable Terry Noronha, who Gloria Silva, Girlie Gaan and
preciative spectators will offer Owl pitching Lella Gaan. been the
bome voluntary contribution ALL ROADS TO RECREIO towards the erection and maint- All roads lend to the Club de tenance costs. Recrelo diamond tomorrow With the regular Leagues afternoon as the cosmopolitan running into the waning weeks, softball fraternity gathers to it is understood that the Inter- wliness exhibition tussles be-Hong series will be organised tween rival factions among the soon to cater to the players from Colony's sporting
ting circles.
teams eliminated from the
has
NOTICE
HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB 1951 Colony Tennis Championships
aro
tho
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Mr Ren Silva, President of playoffs. the Club de Recreio, will toss This loop, which has always the first ball to set off the been popular, was won by the Entries
invited
Ladies for Portuguese
versus the Civil Servants last year, with Rost บ the Colony's
Oil Companies close femmes, the three the Colony
Court Grass
while Chisa and Portugal, runners-up. Judging from ac- Singles and Doubles Tennis powerful contenders for Inter- tivities, everything points to a Championships to be played national honours among the men, more successful season. during
Hong
will lock horns in a nine inning Kong
The peculiar terminology of tracas, complete with rooting softball, which has been found Cricket Club Annual Tennis sections
and Andy Hidalgo's sizango to the average Chinese Tournament commencing Tonnachy Ball Room Band to fan, seems to be an accepted February, 19th, 1951.
lend colour to the attractive pro- condition of the game and it was grammo.
an encouraging thing to see the There is ano
Chinero fans thing about
out-number the In sports, and that is international on Chinese at recent games.
"crude" calousios are forgotten off the malto of the au-called playing field, and although the melifties, spectators are increas coming gamos bristle wlihing in number, nad "oncé a poli-. rivality, the effort is, for ball fan, always a fạn,” is q charitable cause.
saying
Entry forma are obtainable from all Clubs and Sports Shops. Entzies will close at 6 pm on February 11th, 1951.
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