SATURDAY SOCCER SPOT
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH
SPORTING SAM
The Struggle For Power Is On
Plot-Hatching, Nest-Feathering, Mud-Slinging... And WORSE!
By I. M. MacTAVISH
Wherever one turns these days one hears stories of intrigue, plot- hatching, nest-feathering and worse.... .especially if the subject of dis- cussion happens to be soccer.
There are two possible reactions to such talk. Either one swallows the whole thing and passes it on with suitable embellishment; discounts the story and adopts a convenient ostrich posture; or associates smoke with fire and decides to give each tale just as much credence as its matter and teller warranty,. ...and then go ahead and try to verify it or prove it to be utterly untrue.
In the last week 1 huve beguil so many stories of what is sipe posed to be happening behind the scenes that It is summefutes Jard to decide whether power individund ashl collective wealth, or a spar
of helpful
mess to the game is the one that jarenduste|rizetes in many teles,
a show fr
fusl up 11f Atrengt Interests, From
ment being dished nut to pay-p South China, still very much eis who had not done thugs in the race for the big double, squilt, avcording to the book. i will fod the Royal Air Force a
W
A favour
of the
| term of willing opponents. Even 1290
suspended dur
if Toth is 0t to take his place in period longe than the Total expectation of life, and another, the RAF line-up the odds are
very much was subjected to a huge Ban Caroline Hill boy...but they will have to be careful and, rem°EZIČNOT" the upstr of the season Just a year ago,
cial nne.
Some months ago I suggested There was also, of curse, the that 110 Hongkong Football | public mers against the great Apwciation Wis
Hungarian team because Lay Thing
feel win The World
kip with
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Dat Teport and believe me it is not by any powerful newspaper, The SUA- Hans a one-frezse Fee
day Despatch, has loaded an open challenge to the Foosball A vakom scaling
Several people have suddenly
shown a desire for punver and H only one half of the current
stories are true then no election. will ever have been fought withi
greater will to win at any i cost than the next one for the Chairmanship of the Hongkong Football Association.
Those folks who se the HKFA only as a body sponsor- ing amateur soccer will prob- ably think that what is going on in very strange and on the surface 11 13 .. very much so.
NO MYSTERY
Soccer is the most popular and money- certainly the greatest carming sport in the Colony but the matter
goes very muen It is a sport deeper than that.
a
position to pisdure to the FA conclusive evidence of a colosal Ticket In the British transter market.
The strangest thing about this ( challenge is that die
Witness supreme in the whole uitair is a Калина пытает of a famous
5, 1955.
"WORKING" MENS CLUB
By Reg. Wootton
The Days Of The Successful Cricketer-Footballer
Are Gone For Good
C. B. Fry and - ?
Says DENNIS HART
· Andy Ducat ... ... ... Joe Hulme........Dents Compton.... Arthur Milton
Who will be next in England's great cricketer-footballer tradition? Or will there be a next?
A fortnight ago Arthur Milton, just 27, forsook soccer's highest grade when he left Arsenal for Third Division Bristol City. He will still play football, but cricket will be his No. 1 sport.
His going may mark the end; In leieurely pre-war daya a muster. of Jun era, that of the all-player could it in both games. We now live in the Footbell was played solely in days of the specialist; inter- the winter and nearly always in national sport is a cut-throat Britain. The only regular business, and a full-Ume one. cricket four were the Australian
trips once every four years.
NOL HOW.
Football le virtual-
Furgol Begins Life At 284
By DESMOND HACKETT
outside-right to strengthen their promotion bid. Manager Pat Beasley approached Arsenal- his old playing club.
Arsenal promised to do anything they could, and naked only a token transfer fee. Beasley then per- sunded Arthur to sign.
ly an all-year-round job. The 50 Milton continues iri hame AXISON ends in May International or club tours often days are over.
go on well into June; the end of July B
for training.
ROCKET
But
his International
first
players reporting Lf П born sportsman
Arthur Milton-he is NOMADIC EXISTENCE class tennis and table tennis and within a year of Cricket has become a nomadic | player existence.
Players spend sum-learning golf had a, handicap of mer touring England and most sight-cannot it in both games, winters touring the world.
the
criciteter-
international
can be considered a The last time some England footballer players saw a home winter was relic of the past. 1952. Six of the past nine win- tem havo
cricketors
1?
Deen
steaming for south. Doesn't
This is the story of 37-year-old Ed Furgol, from | sunny Missouri, winner of the American Open Golf Champion-mun tune for football, ship, who is coming to St Andrews in July to challenge for the British Open. Here is the story of a sporting price is specialisation outcast, the man nobody wanted to know until he became price. a Champion.
Expansion is progress,
This is further emphasized by English the fortunes of Willie Watson.
the In 1950 and 1951 Watson, an Icave outstanding inside forward and docs wing half, was "capped" four times for England at noccer. The As bound left hand bat he dear played against Australia at It lays waste so much Lord's in 1983. It was his first talent.
appearance against the Aussies. Taloe Milton's case. Just after It is a story of bright courage and tremendous heart the war quiet-spoken
REMEMBER IT? Arthur because when Ed Furgol was only 11, he smashed his blossomed into the brightest all- Remember that game? Come left elbow fooling around in a playground. He was
round sporting prospect since the anal day and England, with Denis Compton, In fact bed for two years and came out of that crash with his promised to outshine
Hutton, Kenyon and Graveney left arm withered and seven
even the out, needed over three hundred inches shorter than his illustrious Denia. right. Any other man
to win. It became not a ques- would never have thought of
Like Compton, he went totion of winning but of saving golf.
Arsenal as a winger, and pinged the game, cricket for his native Gloucester- shire, the county of Grace and Hammond.
Two brilliant cancers lay be-Ave fore him.
in
club The only qualifying con- dition of the set-up is that the star witness is ready to give all the fucts only when the FA In its turn gives an asmarance of an amnesty for the hundreds of
Furgol was thoughtlessly tor- to watch and wonder how this players and officials said to be mented by the other kids about crippled man could play
The
such club manager his shattered arm. They stop great golf. Furgol was ahead that he feels theped their jiles when this kid took with 18 holes to go. so widespread
involved.
slated bas racket is
with
tha
is played
u new up
interest....and
with . Such power, wisely maybe even with trepidation.
hands of high official, connected
watched
and well used, can only benet
the sport: misused it can Irreparable damage.
<iu
WEEK-END GAMES
Here
is
the
programme
Wus
ED YOWS
was
Wis
This
That winter he toured the
England did, thanks mainly to Watson, who kept a and three-quarter hours But actually there is no my-the only sane step is to get it tormentors solidly on the nose.
vigil in scoring 100. up boxing und socked ปร Before the afternoon was The year 1951 seemed to con-
Baving that Test paved the stery about the whole thing. cleared up now "beture other
done, the man that nobody drm all he bad
In way for England's Ashes victory, promised. Loven tras desirable grufts attach That
wanted to know
fla debut for Willle Anished third in England's Furgol. He
Open March he made themselves to the far-reaching always taking a swing at
life, Champlon of America. With Arsenal's first teafn. The follow-batting averages. tentacles.
November, He had a chip on his shoulder 284 shots he was headlines, the ing
only clever man the size of a log.
everybody wanted to games lator, he ployed for Wherever football
know. that by reason of its importance this possibility
England against Áustria. In West Indies with the MCC. places a great deal of prestige, aval in British soccer will be
between, during the summer, ho He collected around £2,200 had scored over 1,500 runs for Now, at 34, he is out of Test responsibilty and power in the
He tried to become a
cricket boxer first prize. The firm who made Gloucester.
and plays his football but could not get Д licence his golf ball whipped in
That was an-
Lour yesua ago. for Third Division North
sido because of his shattered arm.
other £2,200 cheque.
Since then Milton has faded Halifax ---London Express Ser- It was then he vowed: "I will Furgol had struck the golden ❘ from the scene, The nearest ha vije. become a golfer-and a cham-streak of golf. The first thing came to further international pton."
ho did was to write out a honours was in
1053 when he was 12th man £200 cheque for his caddie.
in one of the Tests against Australia.
Regularly ho has begun both cricket and football seasons Ante, owing to demands of the other sport. In cricket he has been struggling to find his form while Then he hugged the cup in the others have had a month to get The big names had little time traditional manner and for Ed Furgol. He was just on the big white-tooth smile.
turned their eye in. In football he has
Bt. Josephy's another struggling golfer, a man
been struggling to gain his (CH) Club v Zaster (Clu; Police Aracnal place in perference to CAA (BS). All match at 4.50 who somewhere along the way
the player selected in his *DIF. 1 "A": Kitchee v KB_(CH); had forgotten to write success
absence. behind his name.
Kwong Wah v Club (Club); RAF v CAA (BS). All matches at 3 p.m.
Div. 2B: C & W v Dockyard; CMB v Jørdine; RAMC v Little Bal Wan. All
matches Happy Valley
It is surely significant there-
ol
fore that planning for the Chair-games listed for this week-end: concentrated into putting back!
manship of the Association has started already when the pres sent holder of the position still has almost
half bla
tenure to
Kitches
Today
St V
Joseph's
at
complete....and I agree with Caroline Hill at 4.30 p.m.
those who say that the present
Club V. Eastern
nt
Culb
goings-on are an open Insult to Stadium at 4.30 p.m. that gentleman.
✰ CAA at Boundary
Police
Toworrow
Souch China v. RAF at line Hill at 4.30 p.m.
Sung Tao v. Army at Club Stadium at 4.30 p.m.
When Mr C. S. Wang look up Street at 4.30 pm. his office as successor to Mr Juck Skinner he had no delusiona about the difficulties that lay ahead of him, and I am sure that those folks who have an earnest interest in the advance- ment of football will agree that he has tackled the job with credit to himself and
with on honesty of purpose that is to be admired.
Every waking moment WILS
strength into a crippled arm,
Furgol, the man who know hunger as a too constant com- panion when a kid, murmured: the gay hos a large
In 1945 he had become a pro- "Heard Tessional golfer. But Ed re- family," mained a lonely man.
ED SMILES...
TOUCH DECISION
Sports Diary
TODAY
Воссег
V Div. 1: Kitche
p.m.
inke ME, Prisons; Telephone v
(BS)
But behind it all there was a touch of a smile in his eyes He was just a crippled golfer which seemed to say: "Yes, this But I know what would Caro-who hung around the million-is fine.
So one sport had to dollar golf trail lucky to break havo happened if the score had second place. oven over the seasons.
been 294 Instead of 284."
Dairy Farm; Tramways v Solicitors. Feeling, no doubt, that cricket All matches at Happy Valley 4.30 He plane a world tour with offers flye or so more pinying p.. Briush Open Champion Peter venre than soccer, Malon de-
Ladies' Hockey Thomson, and Bobby Locke.
Victorians v Dorians "B" cided to concentrate on the man- 3.50 p.m.; Doriona “A“. v Berviers
(KP) D.. tomer game,
Men's Hockey, DIY 3: RAT "B" KIC (KP) 2.20 p.m.
Cricket Div, 1: Beorplans y CCC; Polles v Recreio: KCC v Univarsity; RAF y Navy: Army v Optimista.
Fencing Junior Championships, Sabre Final, EYMICA,
Athistler
They could not recognise the stout heart that made Furgol This afternoon the fans will keep anying: "I WILL become make the trip to Caroline Hul to Champ. .. I WILL become see the League leaders in notion Champ."
There are people who say that against St Joseph's, The Saints he has not been strong enough have lost something of their
in making his decisions...thot carly season
dash but Kitches
ED LONELY
he has lacked determination....would be very wrong to think would
Maybe had they known they And
that he has
have laughed
as on Occasion
that this is going to be an easy years before the kids in the allowed himself to be swayed points collecting task. against his better judgment by
street laughed at the boy with the sheer weight of forceful
a withored orm. argument.
The virile Saints are just the
And now Ed Furgol is make the pilgrimage" dear every golfer the Open at Andrews.
to He was going to give up foot- Sa ball. But Bristol City, his home town team, needed a class
aman wants
Maybe this Furgol does not have
the flamboyant demand
a thing for attention that Walter who badly enough and hard enough comes after me7 Hagan he will get it,"
H.K. Univerzity Athletic Club An- brought to the Open,
He will not add the touch of to knowing you. Everybody at St KGV Sports Argyle St, Commenting
Ed Furgol, we look forward mai Sports Pokfulam sort of sigo to fun the veteran Ed Furgal was a lonely guy immortality of Bobby Jones, Andrews likes to know a golfer, 2 p.m.
Combined Services School Sporta. These things may have come Kilchce players into ground when he left his club, the West-cannot match the lovable but they will stand up and the current 'platforms' of some but it may well be that at the head for the Open at lush Bal-qualites of Gene Sarazen or the cheer for a golfer with a fight- substance to them. Judging by once they get the upper hand wood at Clayton, Missouri, to
would-be successors such things end the sides will have to share tusrol in New Jersey. certainly
would not hapen if the issue.
they were in the chair....but,
Club,
But
glory of Ben Hogan.
he will write boldlying heart... His funds were really low. across the history pages of golf His wife had had, to stay away
without stalwarts
from the Open/for the first time |
be that as it may, Mr Wang has Falconer and Faton, will be in nine years. done his job well. He has al- ways displayed courtesy and hard put to it to save a poin!
good manners; an ability to against Eastern, but after their The crowd, left Ed severely avold recriminations or pubile good showing against Sing Tao alone. Not even a first round scenes, and an honest desire not Police will start favourites to of 71 to tie him in second place to intrude
with fabulous Bon Ifogan beat CAA at Boundary Street. unduly or un-
him a gallery or a mention. recessarily in the work of the
Worl
Hogan after his second round
various committees that function The clash of the brilliant He was still lovel second with within the Association. In short young Tigers and the Army will he has shown a dignity that is draw the crowd to the Club of 70. not always present in the con- Stadium tomorrow and whatever duct of some of the self-elso happens the fans will be confessed candidates for his job. assured of an encounter tought
out in good sporting fashion.
INTERESTING
man with nobody
But it was still the same...
had time to walch-
crippled left prm playing golf,
ED WEEPS...
The Soldiers are one' of the very few teams to best Sing Tao With all these stories of in- this season and this will no The night before the final ́30 trigue going around it is in doubt make the Tigers kenner, holas, that nerve-ripping test teresting to hear how unusual than ever, to come out on top, which makes mats out of glants, happenings aro
4 wept in his loneliness... other countride.
recovered frima Faas ? work'z] Thin; the magic word "gac Trom the continent of Europe injuries they will probably start com/?/wan) beginning to be mult we have had the receno storim | Envourļjag bub, there: WILLEKEN DUE.
dealt with its If the Sing Tao players have
-(London Express Barvica)
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