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Saturday's Rugger
RAF SHOWED UP RATHER WELL AGAINST CLUB
Says "HANLINCODE”.
The fifth rounds of the Pentangular Rugby Tourna- ment, played off at the Police Ground, Boundary Street, on Saturday afternoon, failed to excite in any way the fans who attended.
A goodly crowd saw the Club beat the RAF by 18 points to 3, and the Police, who entertained the Navy, were beaten by 28 points to nil.
continue.
ON THE RECORD Chance For The Schoolboys
to
Field the
This column owes an apology | and jump longer and no amount the Hongkong Track and of inspiration will take a cham- Association for leaving pion overnight or even over one impression in A recent season. round-up on the Glympic effort Several of our Champions today locally that the Association was Be schoolboys and schoolgiris, but should someone much, better not doing as much as it could.
We have had a letter
fromthan they are at present émerge Mr F. J. Tingay, Joint Hon. in the new season, they would Seerotary with Mr Kwok Ling-be ill-advised to try to hang d
a long and 10 their laurels beyond the kwong, outlining ambitious programme and ex- limits of the speed or stamina plaining
that suggestions are they are at present capable of very welcome. However, Mr showing.. Tingay adds, arranging an
A not very encouraging athletic meci is no easy job anu this fact alone could limit plan- feature of the programme drawn
1+i that the
University, That is only too true. It takes apparently, have not yet taken officials innumerable to make sufficient interest in the coming even one afternoon meet a sus into being of the Association to cess and it must be said for the wish to come inlo an inter- HKATTA that their meets last team meet themselves. season ran without a hitch. The officials innumerable, however. may not be willing to turn out once a fortnight for 1 whole
Bing
In neither of the two games | The forwards are to be con- did the winning teams show up gratuled and it speaks mach to their best advantage. This, of for the enthusiasm of the players course, was due mainly to the and those responsible for train- weak opposition against them. ing them that this improvement Na tean: gives of his best when is taking place. Long way it it is not going full out.
The RAF showed up rather well against the nighty Club. Knowing that they would have to give everything they had got to make a game of it, the plucks Flors really got inte the game,
The forwards, lighter than These two halves certainly their opponents. shone in the played hard and bore the brunt here rushes and showed once of the Club attack time and tinte ja longer roster of available
cleared quite
PROVIOUS
matches.
It is regrettable that in the back division the improvement is not so noticeable. Of all the
the RAF players mention must be made of Harris and his co-partner Bailey.
term,
Harris Improvement on again.
This im-nicely on many occasions and his kicks were extremely well judged and placed and on a occasions he showed a fine football seose
provement is only slight but the oint is that it is definitely there.
INTER-VARSITY RUGGER
Two Slips By Wells Let Oxford In
By PAT MARSHALL Oxford V. 13p1a, Cambridge U.O. Poor Tom Wells. Rarely can one man have lost #1 Varsity Rugby match off his own bat as did cricket blue Wells.
Rarely can une man have
looked so desolate and alone in the midst of a 45,000 crowd as did Cambridge's New Zealand full-back at "No side,"
Wells, the only one of the 30 Varsity men to be chosen for the final English trial, made two mistakes, They cost Cambridge the
cost him match and international cap
His first came when bridge fly-half Ricky under pressure near the passed back
an
game.
SCRBON.
One answer to that would be
a call could be made for volun-
up
One University athlete com- peted last year in the Colony Championships and one other made two appearances in invita tional operi mieets. There is n annual University Sports meet. That is hardly enough to put University athletics properly on the local map.
in
alcals who know their job and
University's participation teers, though, of course, there is open athletics has always In the no guarantee of any really past boer limited for the fact encouraging response.
that these meets have more and a sound knowledge of the The programme os set out is often than not, coincided with (niready more ambitious than weeks immediately preceding The Club missed Nolan at anything attempted in Hongkong examinations.
In the pro stand off half for Camphell, then the last two decades and grammes arranged, due regard substitute, just didn't seem able particularly interesting item is should be given this to set his line going, but taken the quadrangular meet between all round, Campbell played quite tion, the Services,
South China
Athletic Associa- a good game.
Milocarians The stand off position is difficult one to take and Hongkong School Sports Association at Caroline Hill on on and this is the first time this January 20 in aid of the Olympic
Fund.
season that he has done so.
POLICE V. NAYY
The Police--Navy mutch was not as good as the curtain raiser, the The Police did not seem to play well as in their previous games and even the inclusion of pack leader Wright-Nooth did not seem to help at all.
as
Д
NO MORE PROVERBS "The long list of feminine cricket scorers in the Colony is short with the departure of Margarite Diveche for Aus-
the Changetra
one
iralia
Saturday.
was,
of
course, deputy
Margarita 31 is interesting to note that
Association does
Craigengower's not con- only sider schoolboys
too immature scorer to Mrs Irene Souza, but to be pitted against the best she took the job very seriously talent available.
when she had it and her bestt That has always been bled at one "duck" and rejoiced controversial subject, but the at two general outlook on the subject i Margarita always felt sorry in athletic circies throughout that anyone should come out the world today that school-with a "blob." She would want the anxiously for another and then boys should compete with best, but not too often.
think that Martin was missed greatly in the set scrums and Jineouts. Slevin was still an absentee owing to injuries as were two other regular members.
English, usually on the wing. I does no harm to any moved to fy-half and in this schoolboy to rum or jump. It position played an extremely is up to the schoolboys' coaches, good game. Let us hope that however, to insta in them the next week the Police will be up fact that in a race where they to strength once more and back | feel they are beaten they 10 form again.
should
ease up and not strain
T
The first match was handled themselves. by My John Redman and the second by the injured Club Cap- In fact, the same advice is Cam-tain, H. M. G. Forsgate, who re- generally given more mature Bartlett, fereed very well indeed for athletes by the best coaches Line, beginner at this usually thank- and It is a fallacy in athletics
less but essential task.
to talk about anyone's “pluck,' Wells slipped on the frosty The Sookunpoo game, between as this cannot possibly be more
puss, the Army "A' Jurf, failed to hold his
and Royal important than gradual develop- and Oxford's
the hooker Nick Artillery had, unfortunately to ment within the limits of Creese was on him. Wells par- be cancelled. The Club 2nd physical strain on athlete can tially recovered, slipped again, String, however, entertained and and the Oxford skipper Giles defeated the XV from HMAS Bullard (No. 13) was there to "Murchison." touch down 'in the 13th minute.
FOOZLED IT
three
Cambridge battled on points down until the 20th tninute of the second hal. They were getting more of the bal from the serum, while Oxford were ruling the line-out the loose.
'arol
Then Wells came up into his three-quarter tine for an all- short oui attack. He tried kick ahead-and toozled It.
The ball went straight to Ox- ford's international wing. Trevor Brewer, who raced over under the posts for Ballard to con- vert.
That was the end of Cam. again, bridge. Oxford scored
Harry Wydell finished off glorious run by fly-half Doug Baker, and Bullard converted.
Mind you,
Oxford were full
lakke.
18 only through steady training that men can run faster
BOMBAY GETS READY.
30 Nations Will Be In
World Table Tennis
Championships
Bombay, Dec. 18,
More than 250 players from 30 nations plan to take part in the World Table Tennis Championships starting here February 1, 1952,
The Indian Table Tennis Federation announced that 22 countries have confirmed their entries. Among them are Austria, Belgium,, Czechoslovakia, England, East Ger many, France, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, Saarland, West Germany, Rumania, Scotland, the United States and New Zealand.
Margarita
rest happy when there would come another. "quack" and the knowledge that now no pře was alone in his misery,
4
She was very fond of, pros verbs and her favourite one was that "It takes more than duck to make a feast "
One of last season's forgettable moments was the strained look on her face when the last Army batsman svéht f. She was afraid that he would bo the only one not to hit a fem. When he did the Breathad n long sigh of relief.
Her pater, M. J. Divecha of Interport fame, secs no future for women's cricket in Honk kong beyond the scentborike and has sent her town binne
RECORDER
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
value for their win. Their lighter pack, well led by Bul- lard, always had the measure of bigger opponents in the loose. Their halves, Ken Spence and Baker, were vastly superior Other countries expected to Asia's first international cham- Ten special to their counterpants, and the participate are Italy, Switzer-pionship event.
Draft Programmes and were land, Yugoslavia, the Nether- tables will be set up in a new Oxford three-quartera more adept skaters on the ice-lands, Afghanistan, China, Israel, structure seating 6,000 spectatore Entry Forms for the 18th rink surface.
Lebanon, Brazil and Australia. at Brabourne Stadium Race Meeting 1981 and the 1st Saunders; Oxford University T. Brewer: Boobbyer, I. Corts, Baker, K. Spence;
Thomson.
4. Cooper reese, C. Grinth, E. Wimperis, M. Waker, G. Bul- Jard. D. Davies H, Wydell.
Cambridge University Webs;
G. Beven, K. Dalgleish P. Reeve. Jones: R. Bartlett, B. Harrison; Willis, Beringer. M. Massey, J. Jenkins, Leadbotter, B. Woodall, P. Whorler, G. Archer.
Ankarah Beats Bernard Pugh
ASIA'S FIRST
ere Johnny Leach of Eng- Race Meeting 1952 to be held Nineteenth in the series, the title Biores defending their ten-day Championships will be land, men ingles, its A on Saturday 29th December, Rozeanu of Romania, women's
Tuesday Amand
January, 1962, (weather Czechoslovakia,
England's mitting) may be obta Rosalind
INTERNATIONAL ingles, Bohumil Vana and Ivan 1961, "and"
BESOCCER SERIES me
The following will represent Portugal in their International D whober's football match against Scotland India's
p.mpres
and the Secretary's Office issue
phone Housere the Ch b
at Boundary Street on Christs a new set of stamps to com- House, Happy Valley;
M.memorate the eye
the Stables, Shan mas Day at 3.30 Noronhas
From Road, (PEA B (FCA), R. Rocha (Bt Jos); 1. Burma, Nepal by the Con- Entries close at
and East Africa Toledo (St 508), avier rise of The Table NOON (PCA), A. Bantos (St Jon): H.
Thursday, Santos
Dec. 17. Nottingham, Boy Ankarah, of ́ Africa, the coloured holder 61100 the
1-18 24 Embire Feather?
Ton the
ut the ent
(Philce),
Collier Tenis Federation which will (St. Joel, J.
* men at the time of the Chan-
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