THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1954.
THE CHINA
MAIL'S
SPORTING SAM
ARMY PLAY THE REST TODAY
By "PAK LO”.
This afternoon's mala rugger games take place al Sookunpoo with the greatest interest lying in the second Army, #14 Pentangular game at 4.15 p.m. when the Tournament winners, take on the Rest of the Colony.
Previous to this there will be a game between the Rest of the Civilians and the Rest of the Services al 3.00 p.m. Club "B" are playing this afternoon against RAF Little Saiwan on the Valley ground at 3.30 p.m.
is of much the The game at 415 p.m. should ja team which provide a really get strugglese standard as club "B". The in the test of the Colony side result should be very close. looks a very strong lean, Eden think that RAF Little Satwra be the winners of the who, aluwagh he has only play with
shawn its
THE FIJIANS
ed for the HAP cintple of match. times, has already
And now how been chosen as
for some news of capabilities, full back for the side.
The Fijians. They will arrive Roberta
three
the Colony during the week- their first deserves his position on be play fend, and will play
P
conbine
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Streel, at
well
of late and the other tisees are game against the Welen Begi- It regular stalwarts of their ment at the Police Recreation
Ground Boundary various teams.
Craig and Moldon as balves 4.15 p.m. on Monday, March 8.! wh{]rn
well. provided This shoul
be a game they get enough of the ball. The worth watching--in fact all forwarts also look good, and the their games should be worth
whole has plenty of pack us at
wering, and
and if they play, as they would did here last but the Army weight,
year, they seet to have
a slight edge on swamp the Welch. the Cotony side.
Their scores, down in Malays, It is certain that the Colony have reached fantastic
propor- XV does not have a forward the Hons, and 30 to 40 points seems expatul Eve, and Farthing has to be abort their normal stor-
|kur quota. been playing very well of lute in The lineouts.
ار
result in
even
will
On Wednesday, March they will play a Colony XV on the club Grand, a should again win, but it will be easier to assess the Colony's chances after the match un Finally, on Friday, they
will play & Combined Services team, again at the Club Ground.
The halves and backs are un- changes. and
can be relied up on to become very dangerous in- steed if Riven
This chunee. 1915 should
A very game, but the Army will have the advantage of having player!
hhe!
with regularly together, their slightly Letter pack should threes
DA plenty chanets and that should be the pivot of the game.
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days, then
Monday.
The provisional times for the start of all these games are 4.15 p.m. und you want to SUC BOOK
WEEKEND
LOCAL SPORTS
By Reg. Wootton
Two Good Senior 66 A99
Softball League
Tussles Tomorrow
By
"SNOOPER”
The two Senior "A" tussles between the Braves and the Chinese Athletic Association and the Saints and the Pandas should provide the best softball games at King's Park on Sunday.
The Braves, who benefitled from their outing against the Warriors last Sun- day, winning by 5-3 to stay in the Pennant race, are favoured to beat the Chinese ballplayers for a second time, and this victory must primarily come from the battery of pitcher Jock Brown and catcher Manuel Guterres.
to
repticall
win by a narrow 2-1 margin,
Joe's Brown League
Moundsman
#grounder.
Jackle
bow should the
two teams
The
cans,
the
final
PARADE
SATURDAY SOCCER SPOT
THE SORT OF TALE THAT ONE LONGS TO BE ABLE TO TELL MORE OFTEN...
By I. M. MacTAVISH
This week I want to tell you a story. It is the sort of tale that one longs to be able to tell more often but, in these days of highly competi- tive soccer, the chance far too seldom arises. To my mind this one ranks. among the finest it has ever been my pleasure to tell and I know that it will bring a breath of genuine fresh ness to those who really have the good of the game at heart and who- among all the slog and smog believe that however desperate the competition may become there is still a place for honesty and commonsense in the reckoning of victory or defeat.
When the Secretary of
Dear Sir,
the
HAVE TO HANDLE...
cross-
Tuesday
CAA V.
Club
ot Kitchee
KMB v. Eastern at Caroline Hill, 4.43 p.m.
Wednesday
Thursday
Sing Tao at
Kwong Wah v. Police at Club Stadium, 4.40 p.m.
WILL MAKE THEM FIGHT
Kitchoo Lavourites afternoon
will be popular to defent Navy this and provided they
Last Sunday in one of the finest games played in the Colony this season the Army scored a dramatic and somewhat unexpected victory over the powerful KMB Hide. The match, which had been fought out at a tremendous pace in a tense atmosphere, finished with a pleasant interchange of congratulations among the players on the field. In far too many games that ball workers and their style of
Sing Tune V. RAF ut Navy would have been the end of the play is fundamentally different ground, 4,30 pan. whole affair. Two points bad from the 'traditional British Against South China last P. C. Wong and catcher Lam, Wildires tomorrow to quality been won or lost according to style. BUT THEY ARE,
but for the Senior "B" Final Play which side you were on
AND RIGHTLY TOO....THE week-end, The Saints advertised Leng-ping.
and batting form
But there can be no doubt that off series,
this story has the sort of ending HEROES OF THE CHINESE their good
fallen Delawares have
that makes many of the now SCHOOL BOYS WHO WILL be given the oppor- both teams will have to figh they will tunity of pushing
procrastinations NO DOUBT FORM A LARGE Stadium, 4.45 p.m. to win this quite a long way short of the popular petty the Pandas tremendously hard
all-important
PART OF THE CLASSES game. For the brilliance they displayed at the seem cheap and unworthy. out of the League Championship
THE COACH WHICH
WILL the League but this return clash. In the Braves it will be a do-or-dietart
will only re-
res hav
are playing just as whole- fest round meeting, the Pandas batlle: the Tribe
The Pennant race on a curtedly males In
alty Army cam arrived at his office unbeatable form
enthusiastically I were in
following the
They will naturally be critical ever they did, but unless on the Tuesday performance and as
South China v. game he found a letter awaiting of any ideas that do not coincide the ther handling is as good as the oul of
Chinese Wildtres' best, their chances of him. I wish I could print the with their natural inculcation Caroline Hill, 4.46 p.m.
context in blazing type for here of soccer ideals and it is there- should be a certain starter for ballplayers topple them in This figuring in the Play-off sertes are
is what it said....
fore imperative that the coach the Braves with entcher Manuel return encounter.
not too bright.
be given the right kind of co- rugger played 10 and EVEN HARDER
Guterres behind the plate. This
WORTHY WINNERS
In the other Senior "B" game, watch this Team In action.
operation on every side so that has improved theso The
battery result
were Bob Suzman's Americans should of the
game Their
Wel's Pandas stamina
May I offer you and cach his work may be beneficial to Ofryss and 3.00 pan. 15
harder even
phenomenal
they
part weeks, although the strength worthy play
widest winners over Jindo sturt_strong_favourites to wallop And
possible and every player of the Army the torecast but oner again 1 m
good clean hard rugger.
und power of the Braves is also | Hussain's Saints the last time a winless University squad to
team my very heartiest cont section of the Colony's young anchard
teamwork 10 to favour the Service
The following week the Ass-
In their outstanding
met. But the necompany Herrick's Pandas Into
gratulations for your magnifi- | players, Life, because the Civilian threes tralian RAF team arrives and
ved
general understanding. Pands will be helding a ball the Play-off series,
cent victory over our players the Warriors Jast teum minus look a little shaky on one wing, they will play rst of all the Against
Thero 19 is a strong possibility There is catcher Raymond
one point which yesterday? Your boys played Roes at outaide hoif is ane of Welch on Merch 17.
of a triple tie among the Pan- then the Sunday, the Braves were guilty To who is out of town.
splendidly and deserved vio- should be made clear in order those players
Is either RAF on March 10 and finally lof only one infield error when who
In an effort
tory.
that Mr Sneddon should not be brilliant
poor. and the Club on March 24.
and predict a
misunderstood There is a big department, shortstop Robert Nunes fumbled into the output more punch das, Delawares and the Ameri- This
We have no "kick" against | difference between a club coach, his of
No news has as yet come to
Wally Mu, regular third base-American victory. weakness hand
the the result:
bailer of the abilities of tais
and like Dat Astley of Djurgarden will be posted at centre man,
OLD RIVALS MEET in the threes
behind will be teams, so it will be a case
fitter team won on the day's for example, and an Association As Individunds, tho CAA | fold while regular centro folder clearly
The "wait and see."
players are quite the equal of S. shown
S. Hsu will endeavour to The Senior Ladies' Play-off
play.
coach like Mr Sneddon, Civilians' pack, on the other
THE TEAMS
the Braves: In some departments give pitcher Juckle Wei ample second round game will bring hand, #pens very
much Rest of Civilians in White) they may be a little stronger. support behind the plate. old rivals to the scene-Terry stronger than their opponents', Brearley, Ingles, Brown, Cele. Whereas the Braves can rely Johnny Wei, who will be mak- Noronha's charupion Wahoos and should get a plentiful share | Morrison, Ross, Lelliot, Lam-
their heavy ro
batters like ing his debut for the Pandas at and Dully Norman's of the ball, but
whether their bert. V. Russell, Barker, Ansdell, Calau Yvanovich, Junior Re-this very late stage of the sea-shirted Colleens-in
1s Shelley, E. threes can do the necessary
Russell, Farquhar, melfos. Buji Dhabber. Hank on, will be assigned to thire. grudge bottle.
Greatness in victory is always Kllvert
Killeen, and Spikey Gutlerres Whether this move will be a Although the Wahoos were threes are fust
Rest of Services: From Hunt to all pitcher P. Č. Wong, the success remains to be seen but unlucky to drop a decision in
easy but greatness, like this, in AA ballplayers have revealed Johnny Wel has reverted him-
defeat, to the sort of thing that the first round game pitcher ifta the game away above the considerable intelligence in the sifa
Noronha a potential star in the Terry
sustained A
lesser lights employed the third position.
fractured finger, it must be said threaten its good name, way they have
The Saints had soveral hit-bunt strategy to great effect,
that the Colleens have
made carly In the considerable
In Improvemen The Chinese Athletic Assocla-cellent victories
What was already
great four season and I wm Inclined to be- their game through Then
consistent
become greater game has now depend Roberts, Davis, Smith, McNiven.
lieve they
out aro
Park. to make practice at King's
the still through ex-South Craft,
China softballer's to
generous Mildon, Perry, Owen.
round This was ilustrated in their sporting action of the writer of help them collect a much-needed amends for their first Griffiths. Hargroves, Prescutt.
defeat by the Pandas,
let outing against Pearl Chan's a letter which I Davidsons, Brightwell Bryan, point tomorrow. They are first
Old reliables in the Saints' Pandas whom they whipped in highly prized by the Army Army:
Collins, Mlelle, baseman C. M. Tsang. third cutfit are second baseman Arturo no uncertain manner. The Col- players and officials alike, Dangerfield, Kirbetson, Bowen, baseman Seldon Ma, shortstop Ozorio, third baseman Benny leens' prominent batters--Bunny Brentford, Argyle, Bell, Eve, K.
"Rabbit" Leung T
and Omar, shortstop Dave Leonard Itemedios, Atda Oliveira, Sheila Trore, Farthing. Ferry, Davey, centrefielder
Leo The CAA battery will be pitcher left fielder Meme Xavier Sally Sun-will try to go
Poon-hong. and
Bernal-Silva, Dlune Pires and
Thousands of young players in Whitebeari, Hill
Though
forceful deliveries
this Colony can benefit from the luivo shaken most opposition, out to hit pitcher Terry Noronha
The pitcher
Pedruco is
recent announcement work of a good coach. Mr Sned- Vic
not in this key match. A win for the that the
don with his wide experience Hongkong Football always comfortable when facing Collcens will assure them of Association
can make a significant contribu- had decided to
tion to the eventual betterment engage a professional coach another excellent plece of news. of our football... let us make There is an urgent need for sure he gets the right sort of soccer specialist in the chance... and his puplis the P W L Avg Colony and, provided the pupils right sort of encouragement.
800 are put in the right frame of
a rather doubtful quantity,
The Service
ot
and should be able to score if Parker, Poyser, Bateman, Rigg.
The opportunity.
Purkinson, They Taylor given
Moorhouse, are bound to get one sooner or
Parsley しい The Civilian buck line filson, Bowrlag, Dalton, Davis. does not look strong enough to Jarnes.
Eastwood. Barris
"Colony: Eden,
T
stop them before they cross the line.
a good game
"On the while this should be and the Services wil, I think, only win by slight margin.
The game should be quite Interesting as there are one of two new faces in the team this week, and Little Saiwan have
Every aspect Colo
now
can
оп
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по
the Pandas' batters who revel the Pennant this season. in his
kind of
pitching.
It will be remembered that in
the
the first round clash, Panday'
batters scored quite a number
of direct hits, and
puts
bright- return
HOW THEY STAND Senior "A"
unless Vie Pedruco
more punch into Saints his efforts, it will be most dim- CAA cult for the Saints to push
the Pandas Braves Pandas out of the Pennant race.
US Navy Two factors lend an unusual
Warriors Interest to this return meeting, One is the determined Pandas SCAA Rexes bid to beat the Saints for a second time and enhance their prospects for the Pennant and Pandas
Delawares the other is the attempt of the Saints to avenge their previous Americans defeat and make certain that WildBres titeir great chance of regaining PI Dodgers the Pennant this season is not EKU thrown overboard.
NEW TASK
Manager BW Silva
CAA (1), Pandas PI Dodgers will be Maumatis
faced with a, now task. He did Comets
the
all
Yours very sincerely,
such a
Walter Hanging Chen,
(Becy. K.M.B. Co. Ltd.)
who
50
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often
am told 13
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A coach in the first category 'drills' his team to play to a definite plan and his teaching and coaching of youngsters | designed to make them at lato that plan in due course,
have got over their tough tusslo with the Army they should come out on top, but the sailors will make them fight, the car je
The altructive Army side will
entice Д probably
reasonable crowd Lo the Club Stadium where they should account for Eastern. The best game of the гапу well be tho afternoon meeting o Club and Polke which will take place in the of the comparative isolation An. Association coach Ike Mr
This should bo Sneddon will be free from club1 Navy Ground, plans and tactics, and his work an all action affair and, provid- can keep a tight will be aimed at the general ed Falconer soccer education of the young grip on Moss, I think the Club players... the question of atting will come out on top. them into particular team plan
and KMB will South China will come if and when they sign be expected to win their games. for one of the local teams and against St. Joseph's and Kwong then it will be the responsibility Wah respectively, but as the of the team officials to fit thern Saints and Kwong Wah have into their own plan.
both achieved surprise results in recent wecks neither topm notcher can afford to take their opponents lightly.
WEEK-END GAMES
After
Last
Once again the best match of
taking. :: the afternoon may be place at the Navy ground and
for Slag Tuo will not be able to
granted... tho take anything
RAF who against capable of giving the best of them a tough fight for the points.
aro
The Tigers slipped up badly and they, week's glut of against Kwong Wah glittering attractions the football must win to keep among the teams. Looks like close Whatever the terms of his bill or fare for this week-end top engagement may be, Mr Sned- Is rather ordinary. However game with the honours probably, don will not be faced with an there is a possibility that some going to Sing Tao.
3 .700 easy task and local fans should of the games will turn out to be Next Wednesday's meeling of
867 not expect to see immediate or excellent entertainment and, as
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a magnificent job when he built CAA (2)
Delawares into a fighting 26 Gunners
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Sendor the League, going down three Colleens times in a row to trail Jimmy Wahoos "A" Herrick's Parking by a game.
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The real job of a coach is to Ersist a youngster to develop the basic skills of the game, To assist him to see the theory of
a con- to
the game according to structive plan, and then
encourage him to combine the skills and knowledge in actual play,
there will be no lack of interest, brings back Here is the full programme:→→
Today
memories of the none too pleasant last tussio between them. It was a game that was marred by unsavoury incidents and rough play, and it is to be hoped that there will Kitchee v. Navy at Caroline bo no repetition of this in this
Important return match. Hill, 4.30 p.m.
Club
V. Police at Navy ground, 4,30 p.m.,
Tomorrow.
THIS WEEK'S TALKING POINT: I hear that thero has been some dissatisfaction among
for rodent
Now all thin is diMcult Eastern y. Army at Club players about the standard of enough when the coach is free Stadium, 4.80 p.m. of language dificultles and when ho is working In a community, where his pupils have already mado some natural progress along the lines St Joseph's v. South China at which ho himself will follow. Club Stadium, 4,20 p.m.; A
The Chinese football stars in KMB v. Kwong Wah at Caro- Hengkong
aro. brillant close line Hill, 4.30p.m.
Class distinction
balls produced games. I understand also that in a First Divialon game tha referee rejected the match ball produced by the game teams The ball is the most important 'tool' in the game and a second class ball can often ruin's first. class gamo,
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THE HAPPIEST
DAYS
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