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THE CHINA MAII; SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE SEASON REACHES ITS PENULTIMATE STAGE
By “TOUCHER”
The 1954 Colony Lawn Bowls League season reaches its penultimate stage with this afternoon's matches. Both the First and Second Division Champions have been practically decided though there still remains a re- mote possibility of their being overtaken at the finishing line.
In the First Division, Recreio “Blues", who have no match this week-end, have only to take 21⁄2 points from Kowloon Bowling Green Club in their last League Axture to retain the League title for the third year in succession,
the Bowling Club the ludingų against Hongkong; bowls wil furnish a #pocial nt the bowlers repeat their 3-2 victory Football Club. The number of attraction tomorrow
team Kowloon Bowling Green Club over the "Blues" in this game, points gained by either Kowloon Cricket Club will be the afternoon will have an im- when one of the semi-Goals of slender chance portant bearing on the destins the Colony Txiples Champion- lon of the League title, which 1 ship is due to be played off, an inclined to belleve wijl starting at 4 p.m. Bratly go to the Indians.
afforded
1
treing with the holders, but will have to collect maximuun points
not only their match again Kowloon Deck today but hiso In then wemaining match against Titan Recreation Club,
In the Second Division, ding Recreation Clubs need only remaining ux prints Lex their Two matches aguunat KROC and KOT, La be out of range of any
f the other tennis.
The only threat will 6-137778 from (rogeogower Cricket Club who, with tener matches still lo
go fan-although it's very - Itkcly-
Now
Division
This will
be
It is learned that the postpon- the other of quarter-final in brackot of this event between Joc
Luz, Johnny Lux, Raoul Ribeiro and Joo Meyer, W. Mc- Call and A. Ramsey will also be played off at the KCC green on the same day.
tho between An Interesting feature of this current holders, Jack Chubb, year's League spason is the ex-Tommy Baker and Bull Hong tremely close compeition among Silag and D. B. Sequeira, D. C. In the different First
League rinks for top honours in Symons and F. R. Kermani the skip table,
No fewer than four rinks are
tled
for the top position and the will: 015 points cach up and downs of these
Finks skippet by T. E. Baker, Johnny Bui Hong Bing, and Ribeiro, Joe Landolt in their remaining out, matches will provide added in- should the Sookumpoo tenni falterest to the remaining fixtures. One feat worthy of mention pointed twin two matches, is that of skip C. Roza Pereira, Only the Bord Division title who originally skipped a rink seems to be still open and here in the Recreio "Whites"
winters. ifte
elther be and was then transferred to the or Indium Reerra, Recreio "Blues." Filipisse Col tion Club The Filipino bowlers] Roza Pereira has won all his now enjoy a 22-point land over | eight matches to attain the only their rivan, who, however, havej 100 per cent record this sesZON one put in hand
Both these top tantenders w. and with only one match to go be in betion this afternoon-ems likely to be able Fulpine Club against KCC a
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TODAY'S GAMES First Division CCC v Recreio Whites PRC FC KDC. KCC KBGC v. IRC
Recreio Blues (byv)
Second Division Recreio v. USRC
TC v. HKCC
HKFC v. KCC
PRC v. CCC
KBGC v. IRC (Postponedj Third Division
KCC v FC
1C v. HKFC
Clubs Will Release
England
Men
For Training
By
BOB PENNINGTON
Top League clubs have agreed to release players for Walter special training under England team manager Winterbottom when they are chosen for internationals. They will travel to the training centre on Sunday and spend Monday and Tuesday being tuned up with each other.
The agreement marks the biggest step forward so far in the FA's effort to build an England team to regnin our lost soccer prestige.
The FA clings to a hush-hush, policy, but I was given details in
dateline The rald-September
Winterbottom's schedule.
1954.
ARTHUR ELLIS, the World's greatest referee, has told the story of his career in a new book "Refereeing Round the World"..
But a factual, humorous and readable volume. in this review, Brian Uridge says...
OH! DEAR, MR ELLIS
YOU'VE
BLUNDERED
Arthur Ellis, the world famous referee, readily admits that every body can make a mistake. Since he took charge of his first football match as a lad of 16, he must have given a few wrong decisions himself. But now, Halifax-born Mr Ellis has made his biggest mistake, More than that--it's a colossal blunder. He has accused present-day English League soccer. players of being “soft.”
Here is what he says:
a It is this same third-back "The injury bogey is so great
system, be maintains, which has these days that it a player ru-
"crippled" the English game by ceiver the sugliest bump ho
putting the accent on defence. asks for the trainor. The player is ubviously worried about in- Jura
"But aurely that does nul SOLOD Of the babyish
excuse antics
A
*
lic
little
fact
squealing. In trainer coming on the field is a rarity on the continent."
Well, considering that Mr El has offlelated in no fewer than 21 different countries-he makes it 22 next month when
he goes to Russia-he should know what he's talking about. But does he?
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No Touring Rugby Team In Britain This Season
London.
The curtain roso en a new home Rugby Union asGIÒN on September 1; but, as always with the amateur handling code, it will be some weeks before all clubs get down to it in real earnest.
By September 4 all the big guns in Wales, the West Country, the Midlands and Yorkshire, will have joined in Most Lancashire clubs take the field on the 11th a week before the majority of the London sides though. Wasps, exceptionally, have a star-studded fixture with an Inter national aide selected by Mr W. P. C. Ramsay on the 4th, and Blackheath and Metropolitan Police are making short tours in Dovon and Cornwall.
Scottish clubs are late-comers; it isn't limited to the English as usual; they do not start until Channel.only. the last Saturday in September, Cambridge University abier and they also hang up their tain the Racing Club de France, boots cariler than anybody clen the Dark Blues moot the Blade the end of March. London Francais, another leading Paris virtually closes, down carly in club, and the
Services Combined April, though soveral of the will make their new elastaniny metropolitan aides then yo on
to France to play twe Pulling no punches, ho adds tour, but the rest of the country matches at the turn of the year "We are pushing the individual
goes on playing until the end of
Newport, Northampton and ball-player out of the game and
Waterloo are all travelling: 1D burning him on the altar of April.
Many competent judges do Southern Ireland early in Colo speed and points team with the not believe it does the game any ber The ·Welshmeit^*, meet convinced that a courage to work out an attacking good to start so early and go Lansdowne Dublin), and Dal
for
The phin (Cork), Fight
the Midlanders months. Bystem and then use It In on
hard inko are usually too would reap
on Bectivo Rangers and Its grounds Leoguo games
be Cork
Consillution, early In September--It may
tho and true reward."
tacklo an exception this year with the Lancashire -London Express Service).
very wet summer we have had¦ Dublin Wanderers.
and players either do not gu
County Championship which may put them out of the kicks off
1.am
oll referees see. More than once a player has asked
In his own book he gives me to bring on the trainer just wonderful example of this so- breawee 40
Liicia.
called Continental toughness, Often
will player
Ho tells how an Italian goal- ground when Writing on the
penalty in keeper saved he could quite easily hobble to international match with France. the touch-line and go
The off for Referee Ellis ordered the kick Denis Compton Says full out, or risk serious injures attention....
without holding to be retaken, France scored, up the game."
BABYISH ANTICS
GROSSLY UNFAIR
An
And then..."the goalkeeper Mr Ells makes these com-
beat his head arid hands on the ments in his book "Refereeing
howled. ground, he kicked, he Round The World, which
he cried, he did everything. He published in Britain this monun by Hutchinson
Co. His was finally consoled by all his and
who collengues
lined up and raised howls of Opinions have
ono by one." indignation from British soccer kissed him
I'd call it "babylat e-Toughness? followers. And rightly sp. Be- cause, just for once, Mr Ellis is unties".
Sun I
Elus supposed Mr being grossly unfair.
that would attribute that goalkeeper's
course, it is true
there are some who try to waste acilor to "temperament."
cule,
Bul
They give bard knocks and
without
the
saite
I Still Bank
On That Pace
by feigning injury.
Despite Pakistan's Test they are in the minority....the take hard knocks and there is
still odd black sheep. As a generat Ittle squealing" says Mr Ellis. Victory at the Oval I
Well.
making believe the emphasis on a profession take the bard knocks in the right spirit.
generalisations and thus fast attack to be the right How often bay
badly.
Inta
trap policy for the tour in Aus- injured player limped back onto as Mr Ellis muroly he must tralia. the field and saved the day" for have heard of the occasions when his side? That happens time a Continental player goes off the and again. Remember the clele field, with little sign Bolton v. Blackpool Cup Finalso that a substitute can take his of 19837 Bell, the Bolton fuil
place back, was injured. But he re-
in making his attack on turned on the wing and headed "soft players in England When day. Mr Ells has rather his side's third goal.
English comes to guis,
players wisely
overboard his
carried
his
pre
But the
thrown
rest of
of
injury,
the to-
humorous and enter-
have got what it takes.
But Mr Ells argument a stage further. After reterring to the "babyish antics“,
ter he goes on: "You nover
come taining. across that sort of nonsense with
TO KEEP IN THE GAME Continentals. They the
why he decided to He tells
"A much more temperamental than become a referee in 1931. our players but they
always kech on much tougher.
When I left school "They ve bard knocks and
I joined a
foune teom but I take hard knocks, and there
myself permanent reserve.
"Even when one of the team clat dropped out,
someone vas found and 1 was still the reserve. The committee
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To Play Against They told me
Australians
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Test pitches in Australia will be covered completely through- out the match.
The
a
the
season.
Cardiff,
club
season
the
and
on October big matches after Christmas, reaches the semi-final stage two
Also,
a good deal of stalenessmonths later, and France and appears in the last six weeks of Scotland open the International at for In Championship
ཐ་ in Paris on stance, are scheduled to play 40 Colombes stadium gamos, and many clubs in the January 8. France shared the
with their honours
England and 40 on West have over
Wales last year, while Scotland Axture list.
This
domestic to be
have not won a game since 1951. senson, without a Dominion in England go, to Cardiff a week vedon to put us on our mettle, later, to Dubin on February 13,
France entertain
and but there will be a good deal ond
Cross-Channel trafic, and Scotland at Twickenham.
of
£
LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE STANDINGS
FIRST DIVISION
P W D L F
3 1.038
U
871
700 276
D Pts.
722 191 -- 47%
803 68 - 42
- 47
A
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14 10
4 913
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381
126 16
SECOND DIVISION
P
W D L F A
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$15, 172
D Pts.
15501, AD
D - 7
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878 109
10
7 1,007
913 04
- 47
KCC
10
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- 46
Talkoo
10
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800 30
10
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877 163 424
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6 717
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HKCC
7 1,020
THIRD DIVISION
F
That means, unless the ground
Recrelo (Blues) becomes
submerged during rain-storm so flerce that the KCC water cannot get away and the IRC covers are rendered useless, the CCC
hard KBGC customary Yorkshire caution.games will be played on
Refereeing urf, usually a good deal faster Recreio (Whites)
PRC that any found in England. Rojind the World" is in charac-
As a
a batsman I favour fast KDC wickets for stroke-making, but bowlors of real pace prefer them as well, and "I am sure Frank Tyson, Brian Statham, and Peter Loader, especially IRC the last two are going to make Recreio the ball whip off the turf in HKFC AustrallLLY SUITED soft Oval plich
WAS USRC ideally suited for a medium- pace bowler like Fazal Mah-
PRC bers were quite frank about it. mood, who has command of the C
bluntly that outswinger, Inswinger, off-cutter was no good, so, just to keep in and leg-cutter.
His accuracy of length and the game, I took up refereeing."
are remarkable enough During his thousands of miles direction am
FC Clyde Walcott, jovial 80 of travel throughout Britain and in the ordinary way but, when
bateman finds the ball IRC the world, Referee Ellis, who tho
HIKERC with Ireland in Belfast on Oc-year-old West Indies cricket served in the RAF during the turning in either direction from
KCC 2 and the home "B"
all-rounder, has
met to war,
most of the the turf, like a fast off-break or PRC come to carry out the fober
Winterbottom, internall Walter
with international
Yugoslavia
the plan is
leg-breaks, he must have con- USRC personalities terms with the West Indies famous England
siderable skill and a good deal HKFC team
who on October 4, manager,
luck Cricket Board and will play came. Foolball There are also two
to keep his wicket CCC recently given
greater
He has a great respect for for the West Indies against Stanley powers in training the England League games with the
Matthews, whom he Intact. team
ball League of Ireland (Sep Australia next year.
A watched training for the World pitch in the same condition Selectors will now go where tember 22 in Dublin) and the
Clyde and his attractive Cup matches in South America us that at the Oval is ideal for irish Football League (October
1950
"He Says Ells: they are told, even though
young wife were in London for In
who modium-paced bowler their means not seeing
own 20 in England,
Just 24 hours last week so that always did a lot of training cuts the ball-that is, drags his teams in action.
across the scam at the named) before the match that Clyde could "talk over" with alone, not through any snobbish- Angers matters-with Germany, the officials of Booker Brothers the nes
of By moving them around, In-ima
delivery--as do T. E. Baker (KCC) ... ness or any lack of friendship,
Mahmood and Alte J. F. V. Ribeiro (Rec.) new coaching job he is to under- but because Matthews as his Fazal stead of allowing one selector World Champions, at Wembley to study
take in British Guiana in Octo- a player in consecu- on December 1.
own secret methods of reaching Bedser, but of lesser use tive gumes, errors of judgment England will field the second ber.
that
J. S, Landolt (CCC) fantastic peak of
of perfection. anyone else. aro minimised.
best team
the country,
Ho leaves England in Septem- "He was wonderful to watch,
cutter For some reason the
J. N. Wong (KCC) advice of experienced irrespective of age, for the "B"
ber and, after spending a fort doing his thirty-yard sprints, not only grips the soft turf J. F. da Luz (Rec.) Longue manager, will also be match with Yugoslavia.
night in Barbados, flies on to his dribbling and his ball-sufficiently for the ball to turn, (X) C. Roza Pereira (Rec.) sought where reports are incon- Gone are the days when ex-
Georgetown where he intends control exercise. Here he was, but it skids on at what seems, A. M. Omar (IRC) clusive.
periments came before prestige
"to settle for the rest of my probably the greatest artist with but probably is not increased A. E. Elliott (KDC) In "B" games. Now the only
days".
a football in the world, but pace.
A. E, Contes (CCC) Ineligible "B" men will be those
J. McKelvio (KBGC) training harder than ever, never who have two "caps".
(X) Note 100%. Wina.
SECOND DIVISION
of determined. no-nonsense gives the FA time to decide on plan in which even the selectors leams for England's first match will do as they are told.
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Experiments with promising youngsters will be confined to the FA representative matches with the bright boys of the RAF (October 20) and the Army (November 3)
Docs this make Walter Winterbottom - England's Soccer dictator? No. His powers have been increased, but England's guilty men, the selectors, have the last word.
team
Winterbottom will pick his Chairman Harold with Shentall. But the selectors re-
right of veto.
the
ber.
Seven
has
of
one
stopping his practice for Brothers
In One Team
Tho latest instalment of footballing brothers is that
of the
Bannisters, eight
two Wilcoxes
Swann all and relations--who make up a team
(Birming from Kingstanding ham) in the local Forks Leople, appropriate club
minute.
of
a
moment
--London Express Service).
CHEAPEST-RUN LEAGUE CLUB IN BRITAIN Brechin City, who have into the Scottish League
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TABLES
F
SKIPS
FIRST DIVISION
P
W DL
14
9 1 4
A U 933 240 93
-Pis,
15
9 1 5 330
268 02
9
14
9 1 4 278
227 51
14
91 4 209
8 14
8 -
to W. Hong Sling (KCC)
P
A. A. dos Remedios (Rec.) M. J. Divecha (KCC)
T
second South
R1
Toy
W. J. Howard (KCC) . C. Butler (HKFC) J. H. Kinniburgh (TC) L. F. Cosgrove (USRC)
DIET OF PRACTICE "The Matthews magle is not luck. It is the result of just
planned training carefully
B. L. Bickford (HKFC) routine and a diet of practice,
got D. L. Edwards (USRC) "B" J. M. A, Rumjahn (IRC) practice and still more practice.
had a Arthur Ells
cona Division at the expertsc of J. B. Baxter (TC) at the chance to look American
footballers In 1951 Dumbarton, are the cheapest un League Club in the land. when he
travelled with the
Their total wage bill is only and what more
touring Portsmouth club
£40 a week and they have only neme than "Bancox.
English referee. Fred, Charles, Harry
twelve professional players. Air,
"Make no mistake about It, Charler
The trainer gels 108, a week, F. Marshall (HKCC) son Ronnie, Horace,
South Americans are bril-
res. the groundsman 20s, and the A. B. Razack (IRC) Stanley and Ronele supply the
Kant
he players,"
declares have no manager.
S. L. Leonard (CCC) Bannliter element There are They are fast and extremely
Gatesmen get 3s a match, a Rome and Leslie Wilcox and tricky, but they · should learn
free and the
out, Charles how to shoot. They would be local cuts the gre So many of our top mon are
accused of fidilling in this coun- gets a season ticket given him V: A. Naves (Fc) engaged in lucrative part-time The Wilcoxes and Mr Swann
J. S. Ackber (IRC) he lob of secretory. does the
'and H.A. V. Ribeiro '(FC) une job treasurer. inesses And what of Eng- are brothers-in-law to the Batry, and they use the cross-field and a commiteeman honorarily land's two schoolmasters, George nistors. The Bannisters weigh "But they know how to move
W. Stoker (HKERC). Not one of their players trains A, G Gardner (HKERC). Robb ('Spurs) and Dennis over 100 stone, have Br #g-into the open space, and they Wilshaw (Wolves)?
gregato height or fitty feet and will have nothing to do with the in Brechin, who lost. £15 every A H Abbas (IRC) aro alao anglers swimmers third-bock system. Their centre match last season and had it C. Champolovier (KCC) bowls, billiards, diaria, cheer and half moves up in attack, leaving made up to them by their Bup R. Read (USRC)...
plagers having won the full. hacks to control the porters Club. Ground record is H. A. Triggs (RCC) prizes at each of those sportat centre of the field in defence." 3,000 for a Cuptle with Celtic. C. Pile (PRC)
POP
taln
One prominent English League manager described the England Iraining plans as "hopeful, but difficult to realise".
-(London Express Berolos)
McCarthy To Fight Belgian
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