COTTISH FOOTBALL GETS BRUSH-OFF
By JAMES ANDERSON
Scottish football has slumped in popularity, at least overseas.
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL
1955.
Not a single top club has received a firm offer to tour abroad this summer. Normally Spring finds leading sides deciding which country would be the attractive. Since the war Scots club teams have played from Belgium to
and everywhere in between.
players at Forex is to be greatly Scotland have bad before about the same gentleman. Last time. was in 1949, and England won that one, too
the present increased. Ekely explanetten is y's poor, showing in the Cup last summer and that the world: wants before they will believe rovement has been made. Who can blazer them? ere is the strange con- Arsenal have had invita-
At present only seven Rangers have no other intarests but foote Three Young (hotel) ball. Waddell (newsagents shop) and Cox (publican) are always available when the club wants them.
Eghter players work at other abrost every football-jobs and the total Ibron strength coummy, including South of 35 is completed by sever
And the Highbury youngsters in the Forces.
ve been plodding along
ject of the English First most of the season.
PETER KEENAN
g of touring, Britain's reight Champion Peter will see a lot of the world Sext few months:
anyone
s just begun an Aus- hunt and plans to go on kok to fight-Chamrern at and plough, his way else in the Petes, "There is no point There ng back home..
othing-doing there until tember!"
in keeping with Peter's but a peaceful New esolution.
7
g anyone under any
has its mags; but tists that boxing is his A that the only place for
the ring
FULL-TIME FOOTBALL
But from now on the emphasis will be on full-time football- particularly for the youngsters.
This lesson has been brought home by the recent successes of Celtic, Hearts, Aberdeen, Hles. and Dundee,
Staging the British Open Golf
St. July Championship Andrews welcomes one of the strangest characters the game has ever knowJoe Kirkwood, the man who can do everything with a golf ball except hit it straight.
To
to see Kirkwood-hitting enormous drives from the top of beer bottles or taking a brassie out of a bunker you would think nothing could stop him being World Champion, the
But when he has to change from trick shots to the straight job of getting the ball into the hole-well something goes wrong. For all that this 35-year-old £ great ger Scot Symon has al-Australian has been tarted working on next gulfer and a wonderful
tainer. - plan to bring the magic the name of Glasgow
past important factor is of full-time
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me Soccer tandings
London, Apr. 2.
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But for the last three yea Irishnen have refereed the big rame
Now it seems the to start alt over again
Boxer Dies In Without Being Hit
Ring
Obernburg, East Germany, Apr. Werner Bopp. 17-year- old Hessian Heavyweight, Junior Boxing Champion, died from collapsed and heart failure in the ring here today without having beez hit once by his opponent,"
A. doctor examined
who
bad
him before a Germen
contest In the
Junior championships and pronounced him dead after Bopp he collapsed. sald
100 probably excited-Reuter,
became
Egypt's English · Channel Swimmers For Canada
to
Cairo, Apr. 3. The Egyptian Swimming Federation has engaged two Di Altogether, this year's feld its crack-long-distance men looks like rivalling the Hogsh compete in the race across Lake Open for colour and international Ontario, Canada, it was an- appeal. Ed Furgol, Open chamnounced here today. pion of America despite ล withered arm, is coming, too..
The Egyptian swimmers to compete in this 44-mile crossing TOP ATTRACTION on September 5 next are Hamed and Abdel Lati Moustapha But the top attraction will be Acou Neif, both veterans of the 24-year-old Gene Littier, 1953 English - Channel American amateur champion. France-Presse, Littler turned professional a year ago and already is hailed as bet- ter than Hogies.
Glasgow Walker Cup тал J'mory Wilson says Littler is the putter he's ever seen- best "Read from: Gift -
The St Andrews greans will
crossing,-
AMPON TO PLAY IP TODAY AT CHATER ROAD
give him plenty of chance to announced this morning that the prove his worth.
Charle Faultless, Scotland's well named referee, will make history when he takes charge of this year's Scottish Cup Final He will be the first Final referee to get a medal, the same as the players.
Another referee in the news in Scotland just now is Welsh- an Mervyn Griffiths. He is in change of the England-Scotland Wembley clash on April 2
And
the Scottish Football Association makes no secret that they con- sented to Mr Griffiths only to end a deadlook.
The Lawn Tennis Association first exhibition matches between. the Philippines. Davis Cup team and Hongkong will be held at Club this Hongkong Cricket afternoon.
The programme is as follows: JJosey Ng Man-cheung (4.15 p.m.)
R. Deyro v K, C. Das (3 p.m.) F. Ampon v K. E ip (6 p.m.)
INTERNATIONAL SOCCER
day.
Amsterdam, Apr. 3. Halland beat Belgium 1-0 a There is no objection whatever Football International here to- to Mr. Griffiths personally,
But the SFA say that, Welsh- man or not, he is an English League, referee.
It is an argument England and
The Dutch outside soared the winning goal in the first half. A crowd of 65,000 saw the match in the Olympic Stadium-Reuter
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The two qualifications for nomination are: (1) Footballing prowess.
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of the
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Club.
MILITARY COURT WINS LINCOLNSHIRE
An exciting finish to the Lincolnshire Handicap as the Begum Aga Khan's Mercer (nearest camera) races home ahead of Mr Military Court, ridden by
M. Kingsley's Harry Lime, with K. Gethin up (next to him) and Mr G. P. Graham's
Reuterphoto. Three Star II, ridden by D. W. Morris, who was third.
HORSES TO BACK IN 1955
Seven Furlongs Or The
Mile Will Suit Chivalry
Says JAMES PARK
Page
Brian Harper A New Star With An Old Familiar Name
A new star, with an old familiar name, exploded onto the boxing scene last week. He is Brian Harper, alias London, son of former British and Empire Heavyweight Champion Jack London.
Harper's professional debut was short and sweet. Under the glare of the Royal Albert Hall art lights he knocked out Dennis Lockton within two minutes of the first round..
ม
During his brief stay Mr the determined glint in his eye Lockton, specially brought down and a pair of well muscled erms.
which often fail like a wind from Marichester for the oc- casion, found time for county mill of 7 and 9 before the final right éroes put him down for good.
This sort of treatment is nothing newhere, Harper weight hopes will fade suddenly conpercled.
before the unceremonious Har per
Express Asts (London
He has been exploding in and ti rys ever since he laced on his first pair of boxing gloves as a determined schoolboy,
KNOCKOUT WINS
But people get hurt. if they argue with a windmill. And one thing is certain. Many Heavy-
Service)...
Sports Diary
Few of his fights have lasted the distance. Mary were the amateurs who heaved a sigh of relief when Harper tuned pro. Knockout wins he had by the dozen, a couple of opponents Davis Cup Team, and HK (KC)
Meetings being dumped into ringside:
XKASA Executive Committee
sents.
TODAY Tempis Exhibition matches Eetween **
4.13 p..
Harper's Meeting S.C.M., Fast Board Boom.
HKFA Council Meeting 5.45 pm
5.30 -pum
TOMORROW.
has Only aggressive spirit misfired. That was in Milan last October. Sports Read Boxing in the amateur Inter~" national against Italy, Harper had 2,000 Italians thirsting for blood after he bed thrust gloved thumbs to his opponent's eyes. Police escorted him from the Ting
Soccer
Div 1: Eastern v, Army (CF); RAF Sing Tao (Club); Poller chub (B5). All matches at 5 pm
Div. 2. “A”: St Joseph'a v South China (Navy) 8 pm
Tennis Exhibition matches between Fi Efe has been on the receiving Davis Cup team and HK (HKCC) ead of doubtful tactics, boo. 4.19 p.m. When he first fought for Eng-
land, for instance
was against Scotland and is the last fight to clinch victory.
The main problem in selecting 12 horses to follow throughout the season is to try to make sure that they will clash as little as possible,d, leading but had to wit Therefore my list is made up of six three-year-olds and six older horses. It includes sprinters, milers, middle-distance performers and slayers. I have seen them in the past few weeks and can vouch for their well-being.
For the most part the horses who turns his holes out well will be running in handicaps and knows how to place them. That gives a better chance of athensha
BUSY SEASON good price than in condition races. I have fought shy of the champloos, whom anyone can Criticism pick out for themselves
There
are no two-year-olds I have admired many in my tour of the stables, but whether good as they look will not be known until they
they are as
appear on the racecourse.
I suggest no method of stak- Irig. In the past results have
always been calculated an the
basis of a level stake.
The Twelve to follow are for occasional, those who ke an
bet.
wer fear races with last year, and the gelding stood up to a busy season without coming to any
werkman, and he seems to be her, I like him as an honest at home on any sort of going. So long as he is kept to his own should have a few
class he
mere victories.
not think he will be troubled to stay a mile and a half. He may even get further.
There is no better trainer of stayers than George Todd and it can be left to him to make the most of Double Red.
WIDE CHOICE
DRACKENFELS (3)
years;
browns gelding by Falls of Clyde-On Wings). There was such a wide choice among the three-year-old sprinters that it took me a long time to decide on two.
His opponent began by plent ing his head. firmly between Harper's eyebrows. Not satisfied.. the leaned on him, rushed him to ropes and half-smothered him with punches known to no book of rules,
This was kindergarten stuff compared to the second round.
The Scotsman swung palpably low purch: Harper, doubled up with pain, took a count of eight.
Then he entered into the spirit
'WEDNESDAY
Soccer
Div. 1: South China v KMB (CI) Div. 2: "A": Police RAF (BS) Div": CMB
Telephone (Navy): Little Sat Wor (Skpl. Both matches at 6 pm.
Hockey Div. 2 A RAT "B" v SOCKLITY
V Prions
pots A (Kai Tak) 343 pm
TABLE TENNIS SCORING FOR COURT GAME
Cleveland, Apr. 3. Table tennis scoring, with
of the thing, half-punched, half-points constituting a set, was Professional Indoor Lawn Tennis threw his opponent to the floor used in the final of the Annual
the third. After receiving the verdict he championships here yesterday, joined his opponent at supper.
MILLION DOLLAR PRIZE
Drackenfels became my first choice. Though winning three of his four races last year, he
not seem to have gained his did
way
DOUBLE RED (3 years: bay colt by Signal Light Lady Fell) was much impressed with the way, this colt won at
Since then be has battered Newana last nutumn. It was
to more headlines nät until he was put over, a
statching the ABA and Empire mile that he showed anything his full strength.
If he has done as well as I Games titles on the way. in the way of farm, but he anished the Rowley Mile course hoge, he could be a stronger dollar prize the World Harvy
Now he looks to the million proposition
second season. He is quick to find his weight crown. stride and goes a good gallop
"
The first four in my list ap. They are given pear below. in alphabetical order.
like a stayer, CHIVALRY (8 years; bay Nothing had the slightest horse by
Prince Chevalier chance with him up the hill, Ann of Austria) This horse, and he looked as if he would owned by Mr P. Hatvany and train on into a useful three trained by Tom Rimell, father year-old. He is not bred to be
in his
Can he make it? It is too early
for six furlongs. I think he will to say. make a pretty good sprinter.
of the National Hunt trainer in cut-and-out stayer, but I cae, is trained by Ken Cundell.
Fred;
has paid his way since.
his two-year-old days.
He made much progress läst yeason.
ONE DOUBT
As a result of the victory in the Payal Hunt. Cup the horse not too high in the handicap. That was the one doubt I had Before deciding to take the risk 'I hope it will be adjusted in due. course. Chivalry is honest and does not need a lot of works. His right distance is from seven furlongs to a mile.
CRITICISM (6 years; chest- nut geiding by Orthodox- Superior),This horse is happy at anything from a mile to a mile and a quarter, but there is not much fear of him clash ing with Chivalry.
Criticism will not be running
in top class handicaps! He is trained in Yorkshire by ex- speedway rider Jack Ormston
Test Series
South Africa Confident Of
(Londen Express Service)
Professionally he has yet to
brown haired 20-year-old, with be tested We have only seen a
Magnetic Attraction
By HENRY
LONGHURST
It has been said that there are two kinds of golf golf and tournament golf. The former is the mainstay of the game and goes on, we hope, for ever, but there is much fun to be had from reading about, occasionally watching, and even more pccasionally participating in the latter. The fun depends, though, not so much on low scores
as on the people who make them.
Richard Gonzales of the Uni- ted States won the title, beating Pancho Segura, of Ecuador, 21- 16, 19-21, 21-8 20-22, 21-19.
In the championship, only and de service, was allowed the service changed every Ave
best of five sets. Reuter. points,
Matches were decided on the
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Many months ago, having got A modest private tour-ball was range of some thousands of and friend to send me from arranged and when they got miles, that I don't think the the States a copy of "The Bobby on the first tee several thousand great Hagen has it, mighty as. onan his personal and public achieve- Jones Story," a compilation of people had turned up,
Cotton certainly had it and the writings of his lifelong friend equally sentimental pilgrimage, ments have been.
their idol play."Jonts, and biographer, the late O. B. to see Keeler, I registered the hope. I believe, said it was the mest retains it now, for people stil prefer to watch him taking 7 that some enterprising publisher moving experience of his life. would take it up in England. Yet he of all people ever than the winner doing a 68, 1: I ever went so far as to say sought to be the "star turn.".
George Dunnan had it. So did cught to be made compulsory He never looked for limelight or reading for the young. It is from put on an act. His clothes Joyce Wethered and, in a way, and two less browsing through the British were crthodox, his demcancur Abe Mitchell. edition which I am happy to that of a men sincerely modest. ostentatious persons you could Hagen, the other great "star," hardly imagine. What the an say resulted and is; published by Foulsham at 18s four was precisely the reverse: There swer do I do not know. All IPEAT, MARWICK and a half golf balls that my are no "Joces stories," innumer-ihow is that we could do with a thoughts have been running on able "Hogan stories." These, too, few who have get it today. the "personalities that run so are due for publication soch,
Beating England prolideally through its pages though relays of writers have
Johannesburg, Apr. 3. Ken Viljoen, manager of the tour England this year is con- fident they can beat the side thas retained the Artes against Austrälla; -,
South African cricket team to
а
and on the comparative lack of been exhausted in the process,
Hagen lives in a cottage at them today.
constant Neither sixty sixes nor bizarre Pilgrim Village, up in the lakes clothing or occasional bouts of of Michigan and his
per- insistence that it is just the club throwing make
omalty, though all have been weather for fishing or just the tried. Jones himself probably moment for another tray of re- shared with Walter Hagen the freshment has delayed the work distinction of being the greatest by several years, magnet of them all
WILLINGLY PAID UF
If the opening batsmen could deal with Tyson and Statham and so give the Springboks at-
People Blocked to see him
Hager tacking players a chance, South throughout the even lean years
wore gay clothing: Africa should win the series, he
te was always the bridesmaid ferent colour at lunchtime, -kept said in an interview in the as they came to be known, when changed his trousers for a dif Johannesburg Sunday Express, but never the blushing bride. people waiting till the limelight was securely focused for his own "Why should our batsmen not They watched him when
fast eight successive years he was entrance, wise-cracked with the stand up, to the English bowlers? They stood up to either Open or Amateur Cham-company as he walked along, Lindwall and Miller of Aus- pica of the United Statesand and went on the self-confessed In Neil Adbowl four times one or the other in principle of "making the easy shots Tools difficult." He sodicom- and Peter Britain as well, tralia ell right
ed, the world owed him a dict eine South Atries had a
af champagne, and the world penetration and hostility in their RETIRED AT bowling, which they did not
He retired, as I trust every willingly paid up." have in Australia two years schoolboy knows, in 1930 at the The temptation to finish, my He also believed that the fantastic age of 28, having won humble space with anecdates of all four in one year, and passed Hagen is almost irresistible, but would South African deldings
completely from the golfing I seek the secret of the be better than England's. Test stage. Six years later, on his way magnetism exerted equally by
former
ugo.
* Mr. Viljoen, a
29
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