EARLY SEASON LEAGUE 17
LEADERS SELDOM
WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP
By / TOM
FINNEY
When we arrived back in Preston on a Tuesday from London after our 1-0 victory over Chelsea the previous night, there were calls of "Well done?" from porters and others on the station platform and, in fact, there were congratulations all round. Preston North End, for the second. time this season, were on top of the First Division table,
My brother Joe, who lay partner in the plumbing and electricni engineering business, offered a hearty "Good show, Tom" when I arrived at the on Blackburn Rovers shop, or is a great North End supporter and was once books as a player. But he added these well-worn words of caution: "It's easy get to the top, not so easy to stay there."
And that's the point I want to make.
At home that same night, I pulled out my bundle of facta and pures to see, from the lessons. of Soccer history, what chance we had of winning the Championship on the strength of being top of the table after just six matches.
I went back
five scarons and this was what I found in the First Division:
Top after
1040-50
O matches
Wolven
1950-53 Arsenal 1951-32 Bolton
1052-53 Liverpool
1058-04 West Brom.
6 matches
End of
Alter 0
Senson Champions
matches
2nd
Portsmouth
8th
5th
Spurs
9th
5th
Man. Utd.
3rd
17th
Arsenal
8th
2nd
Wolves
4th
similar table for the Second Division:
After 0 matches
And
now a look at a
Top after
End of
Season
Champions
1949-50 Spurs
1st
Spurs
Ist
1050-81 Birmingham
4th
Preston
17th
1961-62 Sheff. Uid.
13th
Sheff Wed.
14th
1902-53 Huddersfield
2nd
Shot. Utd.
11th
1953-34 Doncaster
12th Leicester
7th
SOCCER ON THE INSIDE
If we take serious notice of went back to all the different Rangers those figures, only Spurs give sets of circumstances
that this season Preston
us
in abend of Arsenal,
GOOD LUCK NEEDED
My vid friend, Buchan,
nokl
after
rases, the team that made
good start had a good
and
on
shoudel
Keason
Heason." already
we
д Jong why this
Paterson
to
Lessons Of The World Cup
Hungary Believes Her Team Formidable
By RITCHIE MCEWEN
her
Though Hungary's failure to capture the World Cup has been
Iment, there is no question of any drastic changes in Hungarian foolball ent or lactica.
"surprise" dedent at the hands of Western Germany has been written off as just "one of those things," and the disaster put down to the "mental and physical exhaustion"" of the keyed up players.
be
may
Mrs Ip The Champlon As Mrs Chow Retires In The Third Set
It seems that for Mrs M. Chow to win in que of the inter rounds of a Colony Ladies Singles Championship there is only one course open to her." She must get into top gear as soon as play is callesi, use her speelani strokes and placing of her shots and win in simsight neta, paga
Last evening at the LRC in the final, she lost the first set after having led 4-2, won the second set in very cop-. vincing fashion and was coming along nicely in the third “when, for the third time in similar circumstances in recent years, one of her legs. Just seized up solid on her with an agonising cramp which was so bad that there was no hope for her to resume the match.
She therefore conceded the In another, thure-sel : affair Ip, who la down on Court 8, Pleister Motor for Culated on vet an- and he Sin-od of Royal uitur. Lines Head Offices other careful workmanlike dia occan play. She is unlikely to be managed to survive the awa besten by any resident, lady, in a fifteen per game which
they maton where patience and per had to give C. G. Hobbs and severance, in the ones being Mitchell & Co Pont Marwick
unless is really hard pressed, everything comes back, not very fast, but always well placed and making bar opponent move, for the ball
was the undoing of spilte A and this Mrs Chow.
..
TODAY'S" "MATCHES
Colony." Ladies! Plate - Fishka==Mits M, Pepperall v. Mir M. Ramthand (Court 6).
LBC Lakier'. 'Bingiau Champion- Crofton (Cours 2; Mrs H. Lubosader
TOMORROW
*"sensational" Recently
B. Weak in defence, slack at Clubs wore no longer run "rumour that Gustav Sebes, marking their men and covering independently, or "belanged to Hungary's Vlon-Minister for the areas assigned to thesh." cidos. and towns. Instead, only Sport and architect of the "new Urging Austria's team mona State industrial enterprises and democratic football", was to gers to keep abreast with the the armed forces were allowed latest developments in strategy to start a club and even the resign brought swift reaction.
abroad, Edited By Terence Elliott
and tactics
Walter Secret Police now has a football Mrs Chow is certainly the LC Ladies Singles Handsex strongly advised his club run on a part-professional que as regards stroke pro-negrar katcom Declared the Sports Com- Nausch
If not the superior of Mrs 11. Prooter Ma
Zawald (Court-9); w/o Mrs!), and Sam Leitch)
missar: "I have every Intention hearers to
basis! Introduce a more
duction. Her shots, right up to use M. Teed Cours 10). of leading our national team for elastic system of play into club Willie Woodburn, Glasgow many years to come. As no football:
Four World Cup players, in the and than Mra ip's but the Dr G. Bertand DESCEN
evening, had mare. LRC. Me's "Doubles_Handicap. centre-half, 24 cam, however good, can
particular, bave been singled punch
Y. F. C. Stuckey, and Bỷ 2. Story that, DE times
"I am against following rigidly out as "football capitalista"
answer was that while, Mr IP (Court 2 83 h Scottish Inter. guaranteed against an occasional
can run all day, Mrs Chow just Inter Long-R, W: Wheeler and cannot do it and i must have a New on). VPER AL Chestham muels encouragement contrived to lose to just one point national, received his senereat, and continuous must adopt the be system. We the following quotation shows:
HA. Noronha (National Chronic our fans a best system and
the best tactles suited to gesch "Comrade players Pazicky been very worrying for her and R. Macpherson (ICX) 512 (3) win the League Championship or one vital goata point or a tence last week......banned stream of resounding victories.
us from soccer for life. for the first time since the day's goal that would have put
particular opponent. Therefore Resek, Hemele and Malatinský knowing that, one of her legs "In the forthcoming Inter-our players must be trained in have not yet realsed that the might go at any time and feel
[LBC_ | Ladies' Downies Champion. of the
Invincibles
ship,--Mrs A. D. Kite and MI-A. krrat
Story behind this drama-national Against Rumania, how versatility and able to play a working class has a right to reing that she could tuck a shot up ve Mira Chi Bluckey and 1889-90.
Charlie tle exit features 19-year-old ever, 1 am going to try out à defensive game when the adquire them to give of their best nicely way. If only she dare Mag. Em Abay (Court D1:: përm
HMM. Proplist and Mrs Cantera had Alex Paterson of Stirling few new players, but this will
when playing for their country," "risk" going after the ball. casion arises."
den Freau and dra Simon Court beaten Chelsca "You boys Albion, the boy whose foot no way alter our highly
101 Mrs G. Meißen and -BITE successful style and aggressive, But you will see that, in most played good football, Toyu ball idol was Wille Wood-on getting tactics, which have paid to the training of the many back on, the main tam
Particular attention is to
To put the People's Football he
INTERESTING FACTIOS
P. Bakery. Most 3. A. Scholes LBC Déukien; Handicap. proved time and time again
type of But some people are burn.
to | talented" youngsters 'sula
Socialist sportsman" The taotles employed by the Men (Cour fiets "Walt
third set were in- M. Gowried, and H.zumperj the 1 everyone in Soccer knows
D. P. Korton and 1135) faced Woodburn in be so overwhelmingly superior." soon be called upon to replace must, it appears, be created. two in the saying
Alecs **This 'soccer "şuperman" would teresting There would-be that winning the championship. mud begins to squelch in your his first League match. Seconds Hungarian sports commenta- the standard teams of veterans,
Cops 3X3 De. 1. Graf, addDe of about ten shots backe
ABC Weldon and AV AE alde even more than winning the boots In November then we run time came an incident, tors
claim that Hungary has which have remained: almost 1. Possess now and entleht hand to backhand with each
Nelson and T lot depends a Cup.
good shall see how far this on-the-Woodbur whe changed with now built up an almost un- unchanged for five, or six oned ideas on the art of foot trying to work the other right houdt Wiegand fortune.
striking young Paterson.
| | 2xposeder (Costes 8); GALIMA Pleister ground Soccer gets you."
ilmited __reservoir of first class years in some cases. For Aus-bali. -" And
over to
the backhand corner and H. and Hek v P41. Injuries, the quality of
Nevertheless, If Preston can't found guilty by the Scottish FA. young players, any one of whom irian club football is facing a
was a question of who Finion and Loone (court (0)1 and it Said reserves, the weather win the Championship by play-
34-your-old Woodburn, might merit a place on the "A" serious anancial crisis.
2. Apropiate the full value would try for the winner first, Who And C. Q. Hobby K and hundred lesser things haveing the brand of Soccer that is facing the fourth and final
and "B" national teams
This
of physical fitness: Many of the big Lengue clubs
Mrs Ip with a short one to the Hallelungsod ye, B. Kite (Couri tremendous
9. Become a model, pupil of forehand or Mrs Chow with a influence on a long tradition with the club, suspension of his
"This Lecason, it is prophesied, the career:
'SUNDAY, BEFTEMBER' 20' success and failure.
there will be no complaints at is a shameful way to go out of Hungarians will be more formid-are on the brink of bankruptcy. the
the regular echa derstand
"glorious" Soviet football
IRC Man's Flambies, Handicap, vory deep one, also to the M. OBLE Deepdale, We shall not begin football. I will
Attendances able than ever. We mized the Championship to kick the ball hard and often
Hachman and LAN DEZEL Referee
Landhood. R. H Young's
With a few first cluss op-Sunday League matches
thoroughly In 1962-53 on goal average and,
because there is mud evidencxx "Paterson, lying on
ponents on their side of the falling and urgent appeals for the wider gulf between Coolball
It was a great pity the game when it was all over, our minds just
underfoot.
the ground, grasped Woodburn's Iron Curtalo (the Soviet Union tax rellef have met no responses practised under cantalla" unished as it did because, des Logs, Ashe Loss Woodburn is the only nation non regarded Club officials see as their one
and the new fequle's football ip Whithe is distinctly arm. struck him with his fat,"
na "second class" by Hungrian chance becoming
of
Panther Shese two ladies were i solvent the Democracies sports writers) more attention again is to export as many club talent scouts have been tennis and, no matter which
these "supermen",
perving up some very good 1s to be paid to increasing the their big name" players' os number of international matches possible to the highest bidder.
ordered
to comb the factories way the match might have gone with leading West European teams.
There are certainly no lack of and farms for suitable young at the full distance, either aworthy Apart from the bi-yearly offers, particularly from French pren or the new age "to replace would have been
wlimer. clubs, but up to now, the Aus- the old guard who are tainted with their traditional trian FA
the with bourgeois capitalist tradi- banned rivals, their Austrian neighbours export" of all players under 30 tion
The policy adopted by the (usually very close games, pro
The favarich activities of Karl Handicapping Committee for the viding the highlights of both the years of age. Hungarian and Austrian Coot- Under a new rule, the age Liberec Stale undertaking on sens to be paving a dividend in Rubes, director of the Slavol Club and Inter-Hong events baller)
the Magyara are limit has been reduced to 28. manager of the firm's football die number of close fishes, dooking forward to An carly which means that 30 por cont of team, are a good example of but it is setting the programme "revenge" against Western Gor-Austria's best known inter the current frantic search for arrangers some nice problems. many.
nationale will "be able to “mipormen””!..
A Strong players have been peg- the first whisper that mantbs.
he new god back from scratch Lostend This "expory policy would type: of Socialist sportsman" of the weaker ones being placed sut many of the players, too, was to be found in a village A on the receive #de who are eager to cash in on hundred miles away. Comride makes for tone matched." their reputations before they Rubes would hail a taxi
team's
51
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
and
Draft Programmes Entry Forms for the 1st Race Meeling 195-1/55 to be hold on Saturday 9th and Monday 11th October, 1954, (weather per mitting), may be obtained at the Secretary's Осе Alexanden House; the Club House, Happy Valley; and the Stables, Shan Kiong Road.
Entries clone at 12 o'clcok NOON ол Tuesday, 28th September, 1954.
By Order of the Stewards,
H. MISA,
Secretary.
Headaches
Toothaches Colds
BAYER
are quickly overcome by
CAFASPIN
HARRY
ODELL
laught
•
Is the hardest
appeal."
£3,000 FOR..
FEAR OF DEFEAT
Our Lenguo Soccer competition in the world. Even If luck is with you Nine thousand pounds. Enough in regard to injuries, and the to change the cuticols of meny reserves when they are brought club today, enough to buy that in come off, there is always a oh mich needed inside for
méntal Brent
strain
the ward, wing half, or goalkeeper, season wears away. A success- Nine thousand pounds. ful team, with a row of victories Arsenal paid that the other behind it, finds that confidence day. Not for an inside forward, bulit up from victory soon wing half or gonkeeper. Just acquires a new companion-the to paint the Highbury stands. fear of defeat.
LTBL
I shall never forget our own wonderful but anxious run 1950-51. The figures I've Riven you show that we. - were 17th six game. Soon afterwards we won match after match unul we had gone, 21 games without
West Ham's reserve outside right Ken Tucker broke a bone in his right hand during a matela
games
hùs
ane
12
emigrate during the next likely candidate for the
DOUBLES FINAL OFF THIS EVENING
Mrs Mary Chow „Mise 7 Ulan
to
Ladles Berrostion this evening.
who had to retire
this
AUSTRIAN PLANS last week.. the sixth break on this hand in two years.
Although Austria gained
and well deserved Manager Alte Stock of Leyton respectable Orient has received on offer from third place in the World Cup Nowport for Welsh international Games, there are certainly no
nly grow old and it is too late, for away, how do or pro single such a game was to be seen Billy
signs of complacency ROFT West Ham ended that run by
those responsible for the fatture have little hope of earning more
newspaper report on Court 3 behind the stands M. W. H. Calvert and beating sa 1-0. We also just
Robes oly Liang of Wheelock Marden Out for two months. Ipswich fortunes of Austrian football.
Earlier
than £B a
week which the Imanagers month,
Ltd. Edl Fruchwirth, for the past
defeat.
10
*
this
hear Walter Nausch, Liveteran
Austria, even the best players as seventy | A.......
spend as pounds.
đnyin' the third set of the Ladies' Bingles fupi ngalant
cramp, is sizable sp, play,
Porthcawl, North Wales,
foiled to beat the League recoga Inside-løft John Elsworthy. The and trainers from all clube in i.eading clubs. at 14 wins in row-Soul Br. 3ins. forward has a serious the "A" and "B" Leagues held Ave years the successful trainer of
England ampton broke that run with amoo injury.
in every game It may only be a coincidence, owe thirty trying to
Hong Doublos. match Homie 3-3 draw at The Dell but it gave
course, but eddly enough their an extraordinary meeting to to Wacker club and the Austrinn, Czechoslovak Meriorate at just C. Howen the point we wanted for
football form against Dr C: Barry and R. J
of the to
Colonial Golf Tournament promotion.
Biggest Soccer laugh of their international and Austria's national side, bas left to Join started.
Secretariata I'm afraid most of my notes moment concerns the Midlands Cho Man Football", unfold his the famous German club about the same time as the here have hoon about Preston. Club Chairman who decided he
Schalko But they inny, give you some and not his manager, would reaching plans to rejuvenate Austria arald be ruled in State fun football pools were How is a strong player
The powerful""" English team Austrian football. Ave-Agure, He began by listing the "un abuse would be ang asabolished eighteen months ago who kills the ball refher mord 197, of the thoughts that run carry through
on the grounds that this type has amily and, if he was 4 daniable deficiencies" shown up players, a new trainee fresh propssive Dermocracy and de-tainly be under-handicapped at amateur International golf At the moment then, new of betting is unworthy of a bit stendier, he would per continued to dominate the home by the World Cup Games Austria's top-line
scrated in this p players, he tactics and more drive are the moralises the playe
order of the day, ty
By the time the light wond the match," "absoda at Kieren two In favpair of Weslogics "in the set and the battle, ly to be resumed this evening?
kea
when his team gets do the top
through the inind of a skipper transfer deal with a neighbouring
club.
The selling manager repented his counterpart
tempod. He decided to raise 1.
ut the table. Even if it is only
a five-minute wonder
COACHING HINT
Try to keep on the alert p all times during the game, even if play is going on outside your own territory for
some
Lime. Use any respite to sum up how the game has been going and
in the opposing team.
it.
ard:
being side-chors ar too slow,
AND THE CZECHS
maghan
the price by: £2,000 and got 8. Enck' proper training and
all terrain for Insuficient ideological train-Mr Teddy Walthamn Which proves that business the ball.
ing in the changing come is Sees Bright Future 3. Obscased: with
Moying blamed for the poor showing of brains don't always count.
with the ball" instead of using the Czech football team- 8t the. For Thai Boxers overy:possible chance to go all World Cup Games, out for a goal.
The
Full weight of official 4. Incapable of exploiting
displeasure the gosi oren."
FRIGHTENED OFF
Brian Leach, Redding wing
HKFC TEAM
The “following have been
series at Royal Porthcawl to-
with a well,eamed, victory over Scotland, by oven comes to the older two
halved, England » are now the. only unbeaten country in the competition and are for the placed to win the Championstilp
Brst time since 1949
how to exploit, the dows, if any, half still on strike after refusing; sudden" opportunities Inside thewitzerland ̈ has been placed of Contral, veturned to London selected, to represent; JKXCA in and the singled):
Baseball Umpire's Decision Uphold
By HKSA
£14-2-week League team perms, has left for Burnley.
This 21-your-old, priced at £8,000 by Reading, will have a
trial before bis Z xaining.
Then he will return to the First Divinicer side for a further trial.
11 be more than happy to
decision in bewarding a run to with me," said: Leach,
A protest against the umpire's join them they are pleased
the Braves in the second inning of their play or against the Pandas for the Baseball League pennant for 1954. was rejected the Council of the Hongkong by the Softball Amoclulion at á
a mont ing yesterday
1 The meeting
London, Sept. 23. Mr Teddy Waltham, - Sacre- Board [in:] tary of the British Boxing squarely on the shoulders of by air today from Bangkok, the unfortunate "honorary off- where he referend dialy
who are now attached to bantamweight title all Czech soccer clubs to Instruct
- that!
stand twice a
week
anger to): get British-boxer The final match of the Libera- throughout the fear and every lat
during the season tion Shield Match Series between
Liberation Shield
Match on Sunday player and club oficials alike in
10
the
stevere but
men of the a
Second Divi
| Kowloon : Bowling Green - andi). Since March 1983, when ---- by}'welchisia
Bowloon Cricket Club will be Government dears the People's saw But on £8,000 buying price placed on Funday: October 17 Football was reorganised on the welterweight
Waltham for another wing half has pt/KBGC at 3 p.m. Members of Soviet model, frightened Reading off. If Leach these Clubs who wish to para abare in the control of the provided
ideologists" have had a farge bright future for Burden of Leeds as a replace wooey's possible. goes they wantedTommy patere requested to sign-up
cluba. ment. When Leeda manager button sulakier Reich Carter quoted an- £8,000 fee, however, Reading fald No
two in upholding the Umpires deal" doa!!!
docialon "The umpire wos, 155 F. A. Ewine
World
Cup referee. Meryýn
of Grifiths has been invi by the
ybe, game, was, played Sópterober 12 and she balled off in the first half of the nunta nging, due/tp' darknew wit
score 8-5 (As favour of the.
10.
CA
They won the fou
ifred,
Country
four
Ived.