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SAINTS PLAY MADCAPS IN THE FEATURE MATCH TOMORROW
By "GRANDSTAND"
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DEĊEMBER 8, ` 1951.
The Madcaps and Saints, who have both toppled favourites in been quite frequently the current "A" Division Softball League, have mentioned in the mumbo-jumbo of the crystal-gazers as potential Cham- pione, and the stage is set for tomorrow afternoon when these two perennial rivals clash once more.
SPORTING SAM
By Reg. Wootton
Challenge Shield Soccer Series Starts Today
By "SPIV"
In the Junior League, the Rex return to the flag chase again with a crucial behind them and tre bolb fussle against the Griffins who are only half a game gunning for this victory which will keep them in pace with the leading Hawks.
Those who believe in statistics will ip The Saints to better Buster Hollands' Var chedules for 2 pm.. for the record book Malespers in tomorrow's fratur show, the Madcups second best when pitted against the Saints during the past four the
Will South Chira repeat their last year's rare feat of winning both the Junior seasons, and this includes the period when they had the late Dale Cramer on
and Senior Challenge Shield titles and the Senior League crown this year or even mound.
bones, la hotel the Grilure Day, International Series, and all-out better that performance?
A Liam wire tied permane askať s high std the ull-'ak stum affen Ghine, si murhe t the Pandas The basement scule between Pro. To and South China in the Leek in onze the surprise
has been Ladies League day week-e andresting side light on the postponed as a result of a re- us le s 11.11 ployer quest receiveil from the former ith trains are keen on making the Pakistan rule to the
The upe-sian fans will! it anx and the wise men wh realise that they neve: had muh at stake but with the Mancappe ww enjoying the league learte Jilp even Though b
they recully that they con untoid beight when the pressies
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This is the question that the majority of soccer enthusiasts will be asking when the 1951-1952 Chalenge Shield series starts this afternoon and South China take on Sing Tao, the 1949-1960 League Champions. in the main attraction of the opening programme of three Senior and three Junior matches this afternoon,
a other capacity the Hay Hil. ruple title by fosing 2-1 in
crowd. Scuth China have the Last year the Caroline Club were narrowly deprived of first Junior League playof
to see that the honour of wi ming a quad- drawing 0-0 in the Fecond play. odds in their favour and i will
be up to them off
will match
not Thirteen Senior and 20 Junor second teams will take part this year in Hongkong's equivalent of the FA Cup competition as of pored to 12 and 20 teams respectively. last year and, based on K formances in League gamit. South China stard strong favourlies to regain both titles again this year, although the op- both position against them in divisions wil be much krener.
THE O'SULLIVAN STORY
It Went On Too Long, But The Little
Champion Packs Up Without Regrets
By GEORGE WHITING
Imagine that you are a boy of 17: That your father has died suddenly in frascio paverly: that you are row the kast male in a family of six brothers
What do you do? and four se tens
1 Hoods Sullivan, perky
the Cogkory with the up sand-attesa Izby ALE
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That ver 11 year . T Danny Selvan made boxing tradities fur tta E lane as the ex-bar.com-weight chan- puf Great Britain He has tought, con- musled, beta renguere ; and Teled
Fighter O'Sullivan grabbed have now
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To finib. d. Fumily-man O'Sullivan his eye.
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doubtful list for
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has more-than-at-does-you look in
the limelight and
The Megs back to suburbia in Fair- sruffle will be a showdown umpiring tasks will be handled neid Road, Southall --tuele by Frank Fwins. Frank Correa and Frankie
call caineidence, call it any thing, but there
"Frankness 15 a lot of there' The The nightcap between fading Canucks and the Jaguars will be be a one-sided til.
appears to the Leagur table
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show. for lately Maple Bill Won has bossnian signing on addition! strength.
and although his stick didn't dr muse, 4 knock-downs in three rooms much damage in their last game, fights: averages will tell
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MAIN THREATS
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Division. In the Senior [Champions main threats will be last year's two semi-finalist-, Army and Kowloon Mo. Bu Army went down by 2-4 that and with a tremendously Time
mproved Team pre avenge tral difen when lucy
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The Bumen last year just la the Chempions in the Anal by he rarrow margin of 2-1, and although theirs
much weakened team this year, they showed in ther as matet against Army that they are sti a force to be reckoned with.
Toge her w these. there arv also the Royal Air Force last year's other stand-finalists.
Kwong Wan,
S Kitchee. Joseph's and Police who might st rny time be capable of creating an upset.
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THE PROGRAMME
TODAY
Senior Division
Sout' Clima ༣་ Sing Ta (Caroline Hill, 8.45 pm)
RAF v. CAA (Boundary S.. 3 45 p.m )
Cub 3.45 p.)
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
TWELFTH RACE MEETING Saturday 8th & Saturday 15th December, 1951. (Hold under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club).
The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the First Race will be run at 2.00 p.m. cucli day.
There are 8 races on the 1st Day and races on the 2nd Day (10 in all).
be obtained at the Through Tickets (at $52.00 each) muy Compradore Office of the Trassurers, 1st Figur. Telephone House, also tickets for the Cash Sweep on the last race of the Meeting s well as the Special Cash Sweep on the "Pearce Memorial Cup" 1952.
Through Tickets reserved for this Meeting but not paid for by 18.00 am, on Friday. 7th December, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future meetings.
To avoid congestion at the Club's Office at Telephone House. non-members are requested to purchase their sweet Tickets ul the Club's Branch Offices at --
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5 D'Aguilar Street Hong Kong
382 Nathan Road, Kowloon TOTALISATOR
The attention of Totalisator investors is drawn to the followme Dividends will be paid on the winnag and placed ponies
BA. KENN
so declared by the Stewards when the All Clear is peron The "All Clear" signal will be indicated by a white light and.or a white sphere at the Totalisator Tower ARE ADVISED NOT TO DESTROY OR THROW AWAY THEIR TICKETS UNTIL AFTER THE "ALL CLEAR" SIGNAL HAS BEEN EXHIBITED.
Totalisator Tickets should be examined and checked before.
of any deserintu leaving the Selling Counters as mistakes cannot be rectified later.
Cash received in respect of Dividends should be checked. before leaving the Pay Out Counters as no claim for show payment of the value of tickets presented can be entertaine i once investors have left the Counters.
All winning tickets and tickets for refunds must be pre- sented for payment at the Race Course on the day to which they refer, but none will be paid later than one hour after the time for which the last race of the day has beet schedule to be run.
In do circumstances will any Dividends be paid or refunds. made unless a ticket is produced. Payment will NOT be made on torn or disfigured tickets.
MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURE Members and guests are reminded that they and their ladies MUST weny their badges prominently displayed throughout N
Meeting.
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSUPE.
possession of Brooches e Badges admitting ladies not in Season tickets and gentlemen, non-members of the Club, to the Army (Saccumpoo.. Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day including tax, for ladies or gentlemen pre pòtainable through the Secretary Junjor Division
at Telephone House, on the wonten or personal introductica of a Member, such metriber to be responsible for all vistors introduced Taikoo v. CMB (Caroline £10. by hun, and the payment of all chits, etc.
Members' limited number of badges admitting Rediffusion i Engle will be r
at the Race Course. sule The Branch Offres and the Treasurers' Compradore Office will The Secretary's Office will close close at 11.00 .m, on both days.
The Treasurers' Compradore Office and 11.45 p.m. each day.
2
Police
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(Boundary St. 2 p.)
RAMC Club (Sunkumpio,
2 pun 1
TOMORROW
Senior Division
St. Joseph's
KMB (Boundary St, 3.45 p.)
Nuvy v Kitchee (Navy Cf..! 3.45 p.m.)
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The Secretary's Office are situated at 1st Floor, Telephone House.
be obtainable at the Club limite number of tiffins will House provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1. Bay (Tel. 27818)
NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PRE- MISES DURING THE MEETING.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission to the Publir Enclosure is $3.00 each Jay including tax for all persons including ladies, and is payable at the Gate Joiny
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BOOKMAKERS, TIC TAC MEN ETC. WILL NOT BE PER- MITTED TO OPERATE WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
MEALS AND REFRESHMENTS WILL BE OBTAINABLE IN THE RESTAURANT IN THE PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
SERVANTS' PASSES
through on their duties and must remain in their employers' stands. Owing to the congestion in the Members Betting Hall and at Booths adjacent to Boxes in the Coffee Room, Box-holders and Members are requested to ensure that their servants make us. only of the Publie Betting Hall. Military Police will be posted at various points in the enclosure to ensure that this regulation is adhered to.
By Order,
K. MIBA,
ONE OF THE LARGEST WATCH
Secretary.
Junior Division
St. Joseph's "A" v Farm (Boundary St. 2 p.m.)
Kachee y PCA (Navy C... 2 p.)
Dockyard v St. Joseph's "3 (Navy B.V., 2 p.m.)
V RAF Gymnastic The game is knuckle hard
Joseph's. 2 p.m )
Servants' passes will be issued to private box bolders only. 10 ant precarious, but O'Sullivan
bonlam-weight whose 'prentice
Jaguar's v Aces (SL. Joseph's. who are requested to distribute them with discrimination and to punches had been burnished at!
3.45 p.m.)
endorse their names on the passes. Holders of such passes are Не
keer In the Junior Division. under the busmesslike vest na back until the fire in his fist:
Enclosure except for passing the Members' the Laun Club at Hoxton.
367 50 v Tramways (Sookum not permitted in ment of modeel and hard-wo
was spent. The only blemish in the O'Sullivan story is that it
singlet long and close competion will not
pun, 2
2 p.m.) hate that will ensure reason-
went on too long.
Danny should kept his amateur
favourites wanting. Top we his "nough to become champion of
(Duration of matches will be Bitles Treature morts for his
the klichce. d:ughters Pat have ended before
his country, and to be invited to win again
70 minutes, wife. Lily and
Extra 10 minutes Iriends, had suffered the dis-
box in the European champion Champions, and South China.
will be played each in the event (t) and Carol (3).
ships in Dublin.
the runners-up last year. it is not bad for a juckey-sized illusionment of watching
of a draw). He turned professional in April citizen who is still on the right, tempt fortune once or twice tou
Taikco have also shown im-
Byes: Semor Eastern, Police, 1947. He and I celebrated the
pressive form in side of his 29th birthday
League Kwong War. DOWN 40 TIMES
DANNY DIFFERS
switch over a modest lunch in a
Sediciturs Junior-Western, matches and should be anong The boxing
onion. That
my
City pub.
Sing Tar Ant the price?
the last few teams during the Wayfoong, R.N.F.B.. slated vigorously, taken pains to O'Sullivan's,
Shrewdly managed by Hunt- columns hav
stages of the com- CAA, and South China. ກ.
first fight concluding O'Sullivan's emphasise that it has not beer. is very different.
stake i "Please make it quite clear earned
him £60, O'Sullivan's
instantly petition. Apart from hindsmatche: negligible.
Twelve Third Division team, unnatural battle that I have no regrets-nune stowed away as a future down has been an Burros, who has pepped up the
are house
representcd this com- his weight; team a great deal, Ming Lau has with
payment steamy whatever.
Only once was he petition and it is expected that rejuined the outat. A. K. Baker strength-sapping sessions in the turned professional I was living Southall
the three division leaders has also coint out of lubernation Turkish bath. punches on the with my wise and baby in two subsequently paid less (£20).
and
China Motor Bus, 307 SU, and ke won 15 fights before the wearisome. dump. Young Pal had bronchitis. burst boot and a blistered foot RAMC. will give their Second him a verdict against Division opponents some nasty the long undignified business of picking Heaven knows what would have cost
surprises. lumnsell
IT the floor to take happened to her if we'd stayed Lancashire's Stan Rowan.
from there
He But boxing
best a West Hartlepool; the homiul further
punishment
publican. Teddy Gardner for the who can really be classified as a stronger, less attenuated rivals, of it,
"Now I'm packing up--but not British championship, and was Highlight this afternoon's slugger having bitted srotand
Maling the weight demanded
be- the 400 mark for several years by the Marquess of Queensberry because of other people's advice. consoled to the extent of £3,500 matches will be the clash
his highest purse-when between South China and Sing Tao before and after the War.
is or of the major discomforts I picked my own line.
comfortable
you really want to know- lost the title to Scotland's Peter at Carolina Hill, starting at Frank Barrus Jaguars are in the never very
3.45 p.. Keenan.
With the return of iny retirement dates from abou among the quartet of teams with business of professional boxing.
Weakened by weight reduction Chu Wing-keung to the Sing two losses against them, and can There is rather more to it than midnight last Tuesday.
O'Sullivan took a haminering in Tao XI,
Clubs will be my wif
wife, my manager this one if standing on one's head. it afford to drop
myself
a European championship fightfelding their full teams, and they are to remain in threaten- Not the least of the abiding Huntman.
→ door- with Luis Romero, of Spain; grand tussle is expected. ing distance of the leaders. consolations Danny O'Sullivan talking things over
Hall--long another, even more way of the Albert
painful Vie Pedruco will probably loc can reap from retirement is an
i In their first League match when he sought world honours the rubber in this tilt and the extra cup of tea when he fancies after these who watched me lose
had gone against South Ronnie Clayton
Africa's Vic this season, the champions had the better of Sing Tao by the return from Camp of most of it-with no guilty ese on the te
home. That was the end." from
Toweel; a third from Keenan. their players should give mentor scales:
O'Sullivan best 38 of his 43 close score of 2-1, and rn cur- The beginning was in a back- to field his trainer chance
with this-hurts-me- Barros a
rent form South China should yard at Islington
where ropes opponents. His friendliness and
better that performance by one Strongest side.
and
timber had
been roughly his scrupulous sportsmanship more goal, especially ar they fashioned into aring for the kept him clear of the whispered had a number of their players boys of his brood by O'Sullivan's enmitles that cloud the fight well rested during the matches
game.
His taxes are paid, and between power car. He is worth, by my
01 he whole it will be estimate, hout £5,000.
Never again will they wrap battle between South China's artistic fast and formidable forward line the leather
round
Sing Tao's slightly knuckles of Danny O'Sullivan, against
run.
Baker is one [
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GIANT-KILLERS
I'layer for player, the Jolting Jaguars have the edge on the Canucks, but theu the Maple Leafers have always been giant- killers, and didn't get their name etched on the Molther Shield a few seasons ago, just on good looks.
arc
The Wildfires
too far down in the League ladder ta have hopes of the coveted flag, but just like all the other teumis who are matched ugainst the Hawks, they want to be the first to spoil the clean record of an eight-game winging strekk,
The Rexes, who are
behind schedule with several postpong- ments, catch up with their rivals when
they reappear
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both
the All-Indla
man had had to be eked out by he drives his own ien-horse Hoogkong teams.
a primitive kind of pugilism al
ve shillings por flight.
I've heard Dad tell how he used to fight twice a night, and then come running home with
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and
the rent money," says Dunny. the Islington sparrow who tried above the average defence and
so hard to become an eagle in Sing Tao's slightly above SPRING-HEELED Orphaned, and bombed out profession where many finish up four times at Islington, as dead duck. O'Sullivan's first contribution to
the
forward line against China's
week rother
South average
defence. Odd ounces made him miss by inches the hall-mark of boxing
Much will depend on the form the family exchequer was op an
Now, he plans greatness.
shown by the South China de- electrician's mate. Then Burma.
second career in the running of fence, particularly cow that Hu and Sumatra India, Malaya
an Industrial canteen. And Ying-tan is back
term. with the RAF Regiment.
Sing Tho will fight overy Inch We knew O'Sullivan in those remember-no regrets.
of the way to a draw if they! days as a spring-heeled and World Copyright Reserved-London
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