THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1954,
WEEKEND
LOCAL SPORTS
THE CHINA
MAIL'S
TODAY'S RUGGER
SPORTING SAM
Army Meet Navy Today In
What May
Be The Deciding
Match Of The Pentangular
By “PAK LO”
This afternoon brings what should be one of the most exciting, and interest- ing games in the Pentangular, when the Navy meet the Army at 4.15 p.m. at top honours in the Pentangular Sookunpoo in what is actually the decider for Tournament,
The Navy start the favourites as they are so far unbeaten in the Tourna- ment, but the Army, who were rather a weak team when the Navy beat them in An upset. the first round, are now at full strength and they could easily cause That indeed is today's strong question. Can the Army do it?
2 other teams, The curtain raiser 01
of winning their pm, between the Club "13" games; mainly through stendy and the RAF Kai Tak, und will play. be followet by the Club versus the Pallee in the Penttingulur.
Both thes
Sooktapod,
times ar
In The main
the
The Army have made four
their teamer (WD also at changes in
the forwards and
the two in threequarters, In
threes the Kirbertson and Michle come in kame of after the Navy have made in place of Poyser and Bowen,
change J thei
team. and in the forwards the new- bigbog in Tulip as the wing
comers are Davey and Browning switching and thearter Snoth bark to his more mortal Jeplacing Gilson and Gunton. peition as a half
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This gives the Army forwards a bit more weight, but it is stijl The result As a very strong
not enough to push the Navy of of threes the ball. and fast looking set
It should therefor with pair of halves on whom
become battle royai belweʻz 1814 threes can depend for #
Eve and Owen for possession of The Rood and steady service.
the ball in the set scrums and Pack is us usual heavy
should give a fairly even result and should κίνη
with the Navy probably having worry
at very might advantage,
hard going. The Army plenty 10 phout.
the
The Navy team is on whole a well balanced team and while they never seem to shine
They
the particularly aomnying fmult, or so it seems to
their team
and If only their threes will take a leaf out of their forwards' book and tackle, pars and mark their men better, they can hardly lose. But this, alas, is unlikely.
The Club have switched Ross
the back inta
centre three-
and quarter position
brought Watson three line back
Turville up
as a half. to the
in returns and Arudeli is brought into the second row of the for- wards while the remainder re unchanged from last week.
The Club ness in the due for a meet
pack is the weak- team and they are surprise when they
Police the
who have markedly improved since the beginning of the season, while the reverse is true of the Club.
By Reg. Wootton
SATURDAY SOCCER SPOT
THE TIME HAS COME FOR A SENSIBLE ASSESSMENT
OUR SOCCER STANDARD
to
Says I. M.
MacTAVISH ·
OF
If there is a more thankless task than being a footballer in Hong- When they lose it is because they are kong then I have yet to find it. not good enough, and when they win it's because the opposition isn't good enough.
I believe that the time has come for some sensible assessment of our present standards and I further believe that this assessment should be measured along a modern yardstick.
#
Memories, like some wines, of his life when he realised the
with age.
but when clan of the Hongkong players. mellow
Then ww
visited by WICC taken in large doses they tend
vision when it is Koogo Boltclub and the history log the
and record of the team are too applied to things present. Without doubt the Club threes Let us review our current well known to require repealing tock tive are the faster and better, but it
here. However position soccer
against is doubtful whether the pack can
soccer trouble to have a long talk with of world panorama get the ball back to them loday and let us in the review the Hungarian coach who came to the Colony with the Danes. their take regard only of factors
His obervations were indeed work. This should be a battle of which we know to be firm,
inicinesting. Firet af add the de- the forwards and the Police The 'good-old days' and the minded me that Koege was cur- have the advantage in that. *used-to-be' have their place
in records
in cherished rent the leading sido in Den- mack: he reminded me too that memories, but they can have the Club's record against inter- no place in any material review | nationall oppreflion was very. of our present soccer position. good and that they, life Djur
bad beld
the mighty Dynamos to a single
enough to let them do have
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Draft Programmen and Entry Forms for the 8th Race Meeting 1953/54 to be held on Saturday 27th February and Saturday 6th March, 1954,
weather permitting), may be obtained at the Secretary's Office, Alexandra House; the Club House, Happy Valley; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Rond.
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Tuesday DIT
16th February. 1964.
By Order of the Stewards,
H. MISA,
The lineouts should niso be fairly evenly split, and so much will depend on the threequarter lines. Here the Navy have the advantage though not by much, but sufficient to let them win us
result, probably only a
by very tamall margin,
Should the Army win, the top place in the Pentangular will then be shared between these two teams as there is nothing to stop them from winning their remaining quota in this round. However, the Navy, with that slight udvantage throughout, should emerge the victory and eventually the Pentangular winners for this season.
CHANCE FOR POLICE
The Police tackling being what it is, once the Club threes get away they will find little to stop them and should have no trouble scoring. Although the Club will probably be the more fancied, either side could win. This will be a very close game with the Club barely winning.
British Athletes
kanden Moscow Fool
interest everybody. Here is the
full programme,
Today Shield Senior
Semi-final: Kitchee vs. Sing Tuo at Club ground. 3.45 pm,
Junior Shield Semi-final: CAA vs. Western at Club
ground, 2 PL
vs. St. Police Joseph's at Boundary Street, 4 p.m.; Navy vs Army'al Navy ground, 4 p.m.
1st Division:
Tourrow
PARADE
LEAGUE CRICKET
ARMY v. SCORPIONS THE MATCH OF AFTERNOON
THE
By THE “ZOMBIE”
Highlight of this week-end's Cricket League matches will be the Senior Division clash between Army and the Scorpions at Sookunpoo this afternoon.
Although this will be the first meeting between the two teams this season, it may well prove to be the deciding one. Both teams are leading contenders for the Sénior League title with Army enjoying, a 10-point, lend over the Scorpions, who were the winners last year.
With only four more fixtures: Their main hope of winning after this afternoon's match, this match will be plined on Army will be well assured of their bowlers, and unless the Championship should they Alexander, Withall
or Weir be able to score a decisive win, strike fcally top form the However, history may repeat Scarpions should come out with itself
in the form of the Scor- full points from this game, pions overtaking the soldiers në they
did last year in the final streich.
this
At Chater Road another good match should be seen between A victory for the Scorpions the Optimists, who stil "have afternoon will not only an outside chance of finishing reduce Army's lead to only six at the top of the League, and points but also put the soldiers | the RAF in a very shaky Best position on the League lable.
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The Scorpions will 111- doubtedly start ng favourites in the return match and draw by Army in any of their other three remaling matches -one
against Optimists and two against KCC will mean the end of all Army's hopes of achieving the "double" this season.
The Optimisis just managed io nverí defeat in their first meeting with the airmen at Kal Tak when they just held on to the last wicket for a meagre total of 62 runs.
Both teams have vastly. Im- provod since then and although the Optimists are expected, to: win on their home ground, the odda they enjoy on the airmen can be easily nullified by Stap- willpard or Horsham putting iri. AT outstanding performance with the ball.
A draw this afternoon be almost as good as a win for Army, but the style of play of both the soldiers and the Scor- plons makes this result extremo ly unlikely.
It should prove to be a grand match between two sides which are concentrating
on attack. With only the exception of Round: Campbell, every one of the Civilians Scorpion team
handed can be the ball.
Memorial
ist Cup, Kowloon Chinese vs.
at Club ground, 3.45 pm.
DID WELL
Recently a somewhat strengthened club side went to Australia and in a lengthy tour achieved a generous degree of AUCCESS against the strongest side that Australia could rülse, If we are to believe contempor- In fact, be impliest in a mubile ory writers there is much that way thai bơ thought this very football fact had had much to do with so it must be granted that our the unsebilled play of the team representatives did well,
who Jrad born ccidently advised that they would have no visitors todifficulty in winning. this season werd club from
He told me that he was eue- playing standard prised at our because it was very mahp.m better than he had been told to expect by those who had been here previously.
the Club and the Police wakes us
The 3.00 p.m. game between down with a bump to the other end of the Pentangular table. The Iron Curtain
Will Go Behind is good in Australian
Naturally enough, having been the RAF, the Secretary. Police have made no changes in
victorious over
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB SEVENTH RACE MEETING Saturday, 13th February 1954. (To be hold under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 8 RACES
The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the First Race rum at 2.00 1.m.
The Secretary's office at Alexandra House will close at 11.45
2.01.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
British
side.
feam
26.
Jack Crump, manager, said that the party of athletes going to Kracow would
be a
oup
were
By
great 2
the heart
disappointed Frankly I was with the play of Koege and I was also disappointed with the
Bour
was
10
HOWARTH BACK
Wednesday Memorial Cup, 1st Round! Hongkong Chinéso vs. Combined
With Frank Howarth back in Services at Club ground, 3.45 the team in this crucial match, veteran Leach in top form with and Stanton, Knight Kitchee should climb over the the ball latest hurdle on their way to the and Woller making a strong final of the Senior Shield, Sing will
Sing second-line trio, the Scorplans Tao have done nothing in recent
take the feld with works to suggest that they can attacking line than Army's van- strong if not a stronger an W** hold the
men who conquered South China, but if Hau Yung- Pakenham, Walsh,
guard of Alexander, Bally, Weir and Fang can abdue the clover Ho Withall, Ching-tro then he might give the Tigers a possible chance to The absence of Dowling and pull off the unexpected,
also of Pargetter among the soldiers this afternoon will enhance
Scorpions ad-
consistent batting line-up with Peor
Stanton, Knight, Loach and Stokes all capable of passing the half- century mark.
It is very unlikely that Army
outbat their
opponents.
In the two League games down for decision it seems that Police
Cup
can
the
Cralgengower will not have too easy a task in their match against Navy on the King's Park pitch, short of bowlers as arc this afternoon. A they draw is the likely result..
Kowloon Cricket Club, "who will be guests of the University XX at Pokfulum, ebould back with full points and Re- crolo should experience little difficulty in forcing a win over the Indians at Sookunpoo.
TODAY'S GAMES Flest Division
Army v. Scorpions. Optimists v. RAF. Navy v, CCC. University v. KCC. IRC v. Recreio.
1
1- lagi ja
Second Division KGV v. Navy, DBS v. IRC.
Recreio v. University.
TOMORROW Second Division
Dockyard v. Army,' RAF v. Police.
Friendly match
KCC v. PWD.
MY BEST GOLF SHOT
This Gave Haliburton
A Record Round Of 61
First of Last week the Police won their frat game, and if their forwards
the Colony British athletes are to go the Djurgarden gan repeat their second half per- formance for the whole game | behind the Iron Curtain for Sweden. This team was rated they will upset the Club without the first time. They will among the best sides in Europe displays put up by Pegasus... and Army should collect further vantage of a steadier and more | much difrulty and shove them-
in a
and just previously had held selves a bit further up the table. compete
match at the Moscow Dynamos to a tight but I firmly believe that
at the
St factor points Kracow, Poland, on July 26 2-1 game before 80,000 specta-
expense of important predisposing and another at Bucharest, tors
these in
displays
the Joseph's and Navy respectively. ira Moscow.
Tomorrow's game in the first any strength of
the opposition put they Rumania, on September 24- standards
up by our representatives and 1 round of the Memorial believe too that both Pegasus between the Kowloon Chinese In their first game here our and Koege would have run riot and Civilians looks a good thing have the and nail toke Djurgarden if they had got for the Chinese who boys fought tooth
powerful KMB side to provide peg the visitors back to 2 goals-just half a chance.
Our boys did not give them the backbone of their team, small one-the Empira all, I, in common with many that chance and for that they Games will be taking place in I have been the anal score but are duc all the credit that can others, frei that that would
Actually it looks very much Vancouver at the end of July for the now
Our teams like being an all-Chinese Final but there would be a big team
famous offside be given to them.
are better-much better-than for it would a real surprise of men
And women visiting goal that knocked
many
for everyone if the Combined would have us believe. Bucharest,
out of our team....and changed The past is the past, and for Services managed to overcome the whole outlook of our better or for worse, it must the Hongkong Chinese next The British Amateur Board players to the other games of remain 50, The present, as for Wednesday, says that because of the Empire the series.
Zoccer affairs are con- The duration of all games in Gomes in Vancouver (July 31-
Next came Pegasus, A same cerned, is not without is the Senior Shield and in the August 7) and the European that stands for everything that
moments of both
satisfaction Memorial Cup will be 90 minutes Championships at Berne (August
best in Amateur football in and success, but like others and an extra 10 minutes each 25-29) no fuliscale international England..... club with a re- feel some concern for the way will be played in any of match for men will be under-cord that is almost without future.
the games that end in a draw, .Tom Haliburton, Wentworth golf professional, look- taken by the Board this year. equal in all the history of the Our football is crying out for
ing back on his second last stroke in his British tourna game. Before coming to Hong-
Week's Talking Points: expert coaching of our younger This International matches
for kong Pegasus had been playing players, and for common sense
(1) I suggest that our foot ment record round of 61 at Worthing, says "that must have been my greatest shot." women, however,
ballers should now be given a are being well and since their return they from the fans. negotiated with Yugoslavia, have again shown all the class
chance to pit their skill against Hungary and Czechoslovakla to and akili that has made them
It is useless on one hand to teams in
The round was followed by a other parts of the
"This was the shot I accOER- take place on September 12, a household name in England.
say that we have no youngsters world, and I suggest that the 65 for a world record of 126. plished. My, ball October 3 and 4, and October G
-pitched. be ready to all the places of our local Football Association "My drive," he went on, "had youd the bunker, near specta- and 7 respectively.
Who they
ageing stars, and on the other should give serious consideration been cut. The ball was in semi-tors on the back, then sweetly chemy to stay away from games that to a pian to send a fully pre rough on the crest of a hill, on rolled down to did not cath the heights thus
within tares do not feature the we had expected from them.
old,sentative side on a well organised the wrong side for the approach yards of the pin. familiar and They failed to show the fighting faces.
Justly popular
30. the tour. After our success agating the green on the right-hand
green. A bunker guard
I sand the butt for a three. spirit that had twice taken them
Bock to Wembley and in this failure
corner was on the line of play There is an old saying 'What Pegasus and Koogo our
spectators "Some s
thought that we have to learn to do, we learn abroad has rise to altogether an awkward angie, the shot was an accident. I was we took account of their long by doing,. Our
cover should not be impossible, youngsters
"I could not pitch straight at fully aware, however, of i what Journey, the hand grounds, this iight ball and even the strange
must learn the rudiments (2) Is the deliberate missing the green because the chances had to be done. I wanted to
skulis but
that Sucroundings
lend how and
12 of a pernity kick really good were that the ball would not be certain of staying on the Qittle
of tho
credit for these stardom......and then they sportsmanship..... and is it fair stay on
green and getting down in two verty ordinary! dispinya was must learn how to use them into the other members of a
a team
putts, given to the ability of our the correct environment...that for one man to pass bla own
JUST RIGHT
"It so happened that I holed players to play the opposition is in big time football.
judgment on an award given to "My experience in playing the th one. If the ball hd hot off their rinČLIVER BORITIC.
Als ride? We saw this happen hole was that. If one pitched. the finished near the pib twice last week and I know that ball on to the right bank, past not have set there are many who oppose the the bunker it would kicks down record." view that such a gesture is a to the basin keen. But the mark of sportsmanship
strength of the shot had to be what do you think about it? Just right,
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SURPRISE OF HIS LIFE
WEEK-END GAMES Football fans have a very In a thic I had with one of mixed bag for their entertain tire Pegtimis players he tour, moment this week-end and it seeme that he haut got the surprise of that there will be something to
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