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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1951.
HOME FOOTBALL REVIEW
MANCHESTER UNITED BEAT NEWCASTLE TO STAY IN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP RACE
London, Apr. 21.
A fine 2-0 away win over the Football Association Cup finaliste, Newcastle, kept Manchester United in the race for the English Soccer League Championship.
Manchester United are now three points behind the leaders, Tottenham Hots- pur, who were held to a 1-1 draw at Middlesbrough. Both have two more matches to play and Spurs, who now have 56 points need two points more to make certain of the championship.
The other Cup finalists, Blackpool, are lying third with 49 points.
Celtic Win Scottish Cup Final
With Preston already assured of promotion to the First Div)- slon, interest in the Second Division lay In Manchester City and CardiÏT. Both won today, Manchester City scoring their biggest win of the season by beating Barnsley by 6-0. at home, while Cardiff beat Luton 2-1 at homo.
UP ON GOAL AVERAGE Both have 49 points but Manchester City have the superior goal average and have three more games to play to
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SPORTING SAM
“By Réj.Wódffón
Saigon As Happy As Ducks Once The
Thunderstorm Pegasus Win
Amateur Cup At Wembley
Broke
After having lost the Interport Match on Saturday, the Saigon team drew the second match of their visit here yesterday when they shared six goals with a Hong- kong Selection XI at Boundary Street.
A torrential thunderstorm broke over the ground shortly after half time and, before the final whistle, the entire field was under two or three inches of water and constructive football was out of the question.
Coates, normally a half-back, led the Hongkong forward line in the absence of Gardner and played the game of his life. He was well aided by Jones at right wing,
bill well out of the keeper's. hantis.
Wembley, Apr. 21. Pegasus, the combined Oxford and Cambridge Uni- Hongkong had run up three back, were the pick of the cheung and ran on to place the Hampden Park, Glasgow, Cardiff's two.
Notts Forest gained a crush-versity team, won the Eng-all lead by half time. Saigon, others, Apr. 21.
ing 5-0 away win over Exeter land Football Association taking to the new conditions. Celtic won the Scottish to take the lead from Norwich
like ducks would, had caught up Amateur Cup by beating the Southern section Soccer Cup for the 16th time in
after 24 minutes play in the Auckland, Norwich Bishop
from
second half. today by beating Mother- the Third Division. well by one goal to nil here. went down 2-1 at Plymouth County Durham, by 2-1 in
are one point behind Forest with four more matches to play against Forest's five games. Forest need only two more goals to complete a century of goals for the person lead
An all-ticket crowd of 134,000 saw. John McPhall, the Celtic centre-forward, score the winning goal after 12 minutes play.
Motherwell, who have never won the trophy, were making their fourth appearance in the Anal, It
third time won the they had lost to Celtic in inst stage.
the final hero today.
It's Made Of
Man of the match yesterday was Saigon's inside-left, Thach, The teams were drawing who held the visitors forward 0-0 at half-time. The Var-together and then went on to sity men, in the third year score the hat trick Myo, at of the team's existence and inside-right, and Waico, at right- Rotherham strengthened their are novices compared with
at the head of
of the North- ern section by beating Shrews- their opponents, who have, at home. been in 14 finals and have bury Town by 2-0
points won the trophy seven times, They need three more from three games to ensure fully deserved their success. promotion to Division II. Their rivals are Mansfield, who beat Chester 2-1 at home. On the run of play, Mother-They are six points behind with well would probably consider four games remaining.
Carlisle dropped a point at themselves unlucky not to have earned a re-play, but they were home to Stockport and lie third disappointing combination one point behind.-Reuter. Their forwards missed opportunities and there was not the solidity about the half-back line which had been evident in earlier rounds,
the
many
The game was well spent be- fore Celtic Impressed as an al- iceking force, but their hall- becks had a grip that the Motherwell forwards could not loosen.
Before this Celtic's raids were they carried spasmodic, but mol menace than Motherwell attack.
This
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Tommy Wood
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Pegasus, playing soccer the old-time Corinthian style, eclipsed their rivals, who were
Silver Rupees
whole
HOW GOALS WERE SCORED
After eight
After 21 minutes, Saigon again found the act when Tal equared the ball neatly to Thach, who had little dificulty in crashing it home from closc
range.
Withern three minutes the same player completed his "hai minutes play, trick" with a long range shot Hongkong opened the scoring which completely deceived the when a move down the right Hongkong keeper and entered saw Au Chi-yin send in a ter the net over his head. rifle drive which Tho stopped but falled to hold. Running on, Au Chi-yin again obtained pos session and shot through a crowd of defenders into the net.
In a rald in the 15th minute Au Chi-yin was brought down heavily when chasing the ball
From the resultant spot kick
Chang Kam-hoi made no mis- take with a flashing shot to the
corner of the net to make the score 2-0.
Rugby's Calcutta Cup is a completely bewildered by their trophy exclusively the preserve mos swinging passed and quick of England and Scotland who movement. The northern team, compete for it annually. Eng. almost on the deadline. on the other hand, played poorly and now has two more wins throughout, their finishing being than Scotland' in the extremely weak.
saries, which gives an idea of the intensity of a rivalry that After B goalless first half,
amounts almost to a foul. Potts, the England Amateur A lovely goal for Pegasus in the 31st minute. The second goal came from the foot of John Tanner, the former England Amateur centre, who completed a lovely forward movement.
Wins Perpignan outside-left, hended
Grand Prix
Perpignan, South-West
France, Apr. 22. Tommy Wood, of Great
Britain, riding.a Velocette, Two minutes from the falsh,
The trophy has strange, romane History. It is an im- posing silver cup with thankles resembling makes and will be among the many great sport- ng trophies which Festival of Britain visitors
to be privileged to see in a spochl "display" this summer.
arc
More than seventy years ago
In the 35th minute Santos put Coates through on a deep pasa and from his perfect centre, Au Chl-yin met the ball first time on the volley and found the back of the net,
was
On resumption, the Hongkong was changed. Tsang line-up Kai-wing
replaced by Cheung Koon-hing owing to an injury received shortly before the interval.
The Arzt fow minutes of the second period saw Hongkong
10 minutes the rain and Salgon took
won the 350-ce event in the Bishop Auckland scored a con- did the Grand Prix motor-cyclingsolation goal when the left-when the Calcutta Rugby Club largely due to the leadership race here today with an holf, J. Nimmins, lobbed a high disbanded the members burn
95.063 dropping shot off a corner into ed a credit balance into silver of McPhail, who gave the op- average speed of
the left hand comer of the net. rupees, had them melted down posing defence several anxious kilometres an hour.
and the silver turned into the moments with his swift dashes,
The results for the 350-ce A record crowd for amateur trophy which perpetuates their event of 35 laps over a total soccer in England of 100,000, memory, At that time only taking the initiative again, but CHANCE SQUANDERED
distance 91 kilometres - paying a record sum of £23,000, Scotland had beaten England within Motherwell were the first to were:
gave and the Calcutta Cup gave poured down Wood Tommy
(Great Pegasus a tremendous reception dem
over. an aditional incentive, settle down and in five minutes
Britain) on 2 Velocellc-57
ne the final whistle blew. forced three corners. From the
This rivalry between the two Pegasus won the toss and bad second, left-half Willle Redpathmins. 20.1 sees. Average speed
95.063 an hour.
countries has an almost equal 2-Werner Gerbes (Switzer-noon behind them.
the sun of x cool spring after-edge to it in football; indeed -shot-strongly for Hunter 19
save brilliantly.
Scottish land) on an AJS-57 mins. 30
players prizo the Bishop Auckland hod the
honour of getting an inter better of the first 15 minutes,
more than any distinction national cap against England the game. To Scots it is the
After 10 minutes Celtic's in- side-right Collins squandered a great chance. shooting wide from six yards, but two minutes later came a characteristic goal by McPhall,
a
sces.
on a Guzzi-58 mins. 30,7 secs.
The sidecar
watched the match and
3-Fernando Aranda (Spain) in which play on both sides was event was won scrappy. Edwards, Bishop Auck- by Rene Tetemps, of France, land's outside-left, had on a Triumph.
opportunities of scoring, but The Italian favourite, Milani, finished weakly.
The Cellle leader, with on a Gilera, abandoned the smart snick of the boot, rounded race after developing engine in
two
In the 25th minute, Potts put thest good shot for
match of the year.
in
centre-half Paton and ran on to trouble in the third lap-Reu-Pegasus, but his Serce thrive Finch To Fight As
place the ball past the advanie- ter.
ing goal-keeper.
Motherwell pressed strongly and nearly drew level when their inse-right Forest headed out of Hunter's reach, bul Evans kicked clear on the goal- line,
WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.
a grip on the game and twice Collins severely tested John-the stone in the Motherwell goal,.. Reuler.
game
from the wing shaved the cross- bar.
and
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A Heavyweight
London, Apr. 22. Albert Finch, former British Middleweight Boxing Champion, who has been fighting as cruiserweight recently, will box as a heavyweight at the Em- press Hall on April 30 when he moets Paddy Slavin, the Irish Champion-Reuter,
PEGASUS OPEN SCORING
Just before the interval ho came near to scoring again when the goalkeeper beat him to the ball and later when he London, Apr. 21. The 16th game of the world hit the cross-bar after a per- chess championship between the feetly taken corner. Motherwell continued to title holder, Mikhall Botvinnik,
On resumption, Pegasus went
the attack tritter owly chances in the and the challenger, David Brens- straight into
over fein, ended in a draw to-day, a might have scored twice in the second half by their
four minutes. Many elaborato manoeuvring for post-Tase, Soviet news agency, mes first
a header from Lloth Once, the right-winger, sage received in London stated. thought that
The score is now eight and a Saunders, which Farrar, the Humphries, brought out a
kicked door, had splendid savo by the Celtic goal-half points to seven and a half, left-back.
Arthur Peall says: in Botvinnik's favour.
crossed the line. It was keeper from close range.
The 10th game had been ad-surprise when, after six minutes
THIS CANNON HEEDS Towards the end Celtic took journed from yesterday.
of this half, that Pegamis open- Botvinnike will play white ined the scoring with Potts' per- tomorrow. feet hender..
LUCK AND SKILL 17th
Bishop Auckland-tried-hard-MY diagram double balix billiarde to draw level, but their finishing Jacked the finer touches-Jack Holden To Open
Varsily defence bustled the Festival Stadium north countrymen off the ball before they could use it to good London, Apr. 22 Jack Holden, the Empire advantage.
Ten minutes were left for Wolves Insured Games and European Marathon
the Champion, will open the new play when Tanner scored Festival Stadium at Cannock, second--Pegasus-goal-after a For £280,000
for Staffordshire, on Whit-Tuesday, movement by the whole
ward line. May will bo a triangular Bishop Auckland did not giva London, Apr. 22.
Amateur up and shortly before the final Wolverhampton Wanderers are meeting between the reported to have been insured Athlete Amociation, the Mid- whistle they had their reward for £260,000 for their close land Counties "Athletic Asso when, after a comer, Nimimina season tour the most valuable ciatoin and the Northern Coussent the ball over the heads of cargo of sportemen ever to visit Ulos Athletic Amociation-Reu- the defence into the top corner South Africa-Reuter.
of the not. - Router.
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cus treels. Gauge the cuenjana DOTY rectly and the cagnon is there.
This shot, in nais" "tuck, half eküli,
good leave to follow.
Saigon's first goal came in the 15th minuto when Thach capitalised on a defensive error between Santos and Ng Kee
THE TEAMS
Hongkong:-Trang Kal-wing (replaced by Cheung Koon- Etheridge, hing at half me)
irland, Tong Sum, Ng-Kee- heung, Santos, Jones,
Chang Kam-hol, Coates, Au Chi-yin, Lee Tai-foi
Saigon Tho, Walco,
Ven, Hieu, Thành Tu Thach, Tai
Myo, Duc,
Spectators Were
Speechless.
Sydney.
Mrs Daisy Meakin sliced a ball into trees lining the fairway on the Cumberland Course. It lodged in the fork of a trec. As the "lio" was impossible, she decided to play another ball from the tree.
Spectators' testified, after recovering from speechlessness, that the second ball knocked the first on to the fairway- Reuter.
Rifle Association Championships
CPL. ATTFIELD WINS THE GOVERNOR'S SHIELD AND CUP
A very high standard of shooting marked the Hong kong Rifle Association's Championships at Stonecutter's Island yesterday. The Governor's Shield and Cap were won by Cpl. Attfield of the Royal Air Force with 846 points out of a possible 400.
Lady Grantham, who was accompanied by His Ex- Grantham, pre- cellency the Governor, Sir Alexander sented the prizes at the conclusion of the two-day meet- ing.
K. C. Hoo, with only one point behind the winner, took the Governor's cup awarded to | the runner-up.
In the revolver shoot, O. R. Sadick became the Colony's champion, scoring 91 out of a posable 100, He beat Major J. Bromhcad by only one polat L-Cdr Ridgeway came third with 87.
(Roval Martines) 102 points out of 100. The National Rifle Association Medal-Captain Death."
ER (b) Winer, K, V. Hoo.
(RAP).
·BI ----{=}~~Winner, Op4——~~Attfield 1.K. Rifle Anu Handicap.-W nec, 8QMS Crosbie (Sigs).
Ladies---Wanner, Mhm 37, 22 Kong [NKWVR)
Zamara
Cash Prize winners.-. ($15), RI. Sequeire, and H. Mc- Adam (810), K. G. sava S. P. Ares, Set Bonnett and P. E. Char
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In-the-Ladies Section, Miss
E. Kong (HKDF") N.
cap Cash Prize winnene Ledios-Mies tured all the four first prizes P. M. Ozosto (916)
Brown and M. Brux (810). in the two-day shoot.
Bản 1 Groundede Win Y, là đ Horton, May 1. Golevnky Yesterday's handicap event Ara E. Ruddoch (3). was interruptód by the rain.
Event
1000
yardo)--Wioner,
sit (b)-winner, K. C. too.
Shooting conditions yester- CPO Hades (IIN). In you plenty of both and those of Saturday. There was Lemay .K.R.).
day were much better than
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE TO MEMBERS
FIFTH RACE MEETING
Saturday, 28th April, 1951
The First Bell will be rung at 1,30 p.m. and the first race will be run at 2.00 p.m.
Through Tickets (10 Race-$20.00) may be obtained at the Compradoro Office of the Treasurers, 1st floor, Telephone House, also tickets at $2.00 each for the Special Cash Sweep on the "Hong Kong Derby" scheduled to be run on Saturday, 12th May,
THERE WILL BE NO SPECIAL CASH SWEEP ON THE LAST RACE OF THIS MEETING.
Through Tickets reserved for this Mooting but not paid for by 10.00 am. on Friday, 27th April, will be sold and the reserva- tion cancelled for future meetings.
To avoid congestion at the Club's Offices at Telephone House, Club's Branch Offloes at-
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th
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Members and guests are reminded that they and their ladies MUST, wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the Meeting.
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Badges admitting Indies not in possession of Brooches or Season tickets and gentlemen, non-mambers of the Club, to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 including tax, for Ladies or gentlemen are obtainable 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 chils etc.
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the RACE COURSE.
The Treasurers' Compradore Office will close at 11.00 a.m. -and-the-Secretary's-Office-ut-11.45-gm-Both offces at 1st floor,
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Col JG. Fisher of the
SUNDAY'S EVENTS
WRECT. Colony Championship (Governor's Astreld By: Tunger-up, IL. C. 100. Event 3200, 500, and 100 yards)---- Winner,
K. Xu. Bronze Donegal *no, W.'Y, K. E.
RAFI
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