LEARN YOUR CRICKET
SWING FOR
drive is the most exhilarating
Turoke in pricket. As he matures in physique and experience, every young butsman should begin to feel that the half-volley is ♫ challenge which he is ready and eager to meet. The technique of the drives, whether straight, on or off, is really the came us that for the forwart defensive stroken except that the bat 1ft is higher and the ball in hill Just beside the left toe rather than met in front of it.
The power of the drive comes from a lengthened and accelerated swing in which Bems, wrists, and hands all take part. The are of this swing must be ng long, singoth, and Got as possible; the left arm and hand must control it; the right hand will rein- force it just before the bat meets the balla, but it inust not come in too early or it will tend in pull the swing arross the line of the Tall
A good principle to aim at in driving is so teen the left arm ar close as possible to the body in the back mwing and the right nrm os close ne possible to
it in the forward swing.
As in the forward stroke. lead with your hend. lelt shoulder and his on to the itue of the ball
Watch the
way: to do
keep
bull
50 You
all the
and balanced
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keep
your head ne level na you
can. Resist the templation
to if your head.
CONTROL
ONTROL
driving
essential, if you try to
hit loo hard, your rody well beente a stig
o heave instead of a swing Think in termin of hit- ting the ball smoothly ant clearly past the In-Belds railer Hàn of carrying the boundary
Provided the ball is far enough up. The trive
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be played with single
:1
stride. It You must also learn to use your feet" to get lo the pitch
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1955.
SATURDAY SOCCER SPOT
POWER CHINESE SOCCER PLAYERS
The start of the straight drive.
In moving out with both fret, move up the right foot behind
slower, higher and shorter ball
the left.
To do that you must learn to glid, putt with your right foot moving to behind your left until the final striile
Only to can you keep sideways with your left shoulder
to the line. Make this glide as smooth and as that as you can and be sure that your head leads,
This ability to use your feet to get to the match of the ball is mvalumble in playing slow bowling, go all the way; it far better to be stumpel by a ward than by six whes.
But emember that the wides the ball as on the offside, the more diffleult it is to move both out and across to it. slow bowler who knows his business will say to temor good driver to chase the wide half-volley.
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youngest
boxer to win the World
heavyweight title?
2
Which
kummies?
3. What
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What is the highest ever
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Anagrams of Wimbledon Champions. Who Bre (a) 1BLI DITNLE (1) LADD NO BEDUG (c) DEF REYRD
TYTAP
GEUDE
With whal sports do you associate the following (a) Sandor Tharos (b) Harvie Ward (e) Eddy Choong (d) Nino Valdes?
A youthful bird? He re cently won a European
boxing title. Who is he? Who is the odd man out in the the following (a) Peter May (b) Emil Zatopek (c)
1 Hudlum (d) Ken Ros
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OWE MUCH TO THE SPECTATORS
By I. M. MacTAVISH
Last Monday evening I had the pleasure of watching part of the Double Tenth Charity game in the company of a recent arrival in the Colony. He is a man of very considerable football experience and possesses a sound and constructive appreciation of the game.
It looks
As we watched the brilliant Chinese inside-forwards cut the Rest's defence to ribbons he was virtually spellbound. Their delightful inter-changing of position, the ancanny ball control, the unerring sense of anticipation and the ability to turn out- field superiority into goals all gave him a thrill that he confessed he had missed badly in his British soccer entertainment these past few years.
The progrCSB of the
game) caset is bla skill with the toolj
as though the best gave us plenty of opportunity of his profession....♫ football games tomorrow will be over, in to consider the relative merits...is houted and shouted out Kowloon when Eastern and the ...not so much of the opposing of his convictions and his in-Royal Air Force get to grips at players....but of the type effentions.
Boundary Survet. Eastern have game the teams played.
He is driven to accepting the had
a couple of indiferent Our visitor arked one dictums of
recently but the spectators and showings
they perfkent question; the sort that is difficult to answer:
but the of his club munogeme: and the should just manage to edge out call *Get rid of it'....has the boys in light blue....but kind, but sets one thinking,
surprise. changed from being a word of don't overlook His question wa: thi Why
casual advice to an ultimatum. The only other top class at- Chinese are these
players so Disobedience is the surest way traction is the meeting of Kitchee superior to the opposition?"
to Legger oblivion for the land Sing Tao on Tuesday. Tho means Tigers are one of the most spec- Obcdice.cc almost exactly the same sort of tacular outfits in the competition Tate for the game itself,
and H they strike form they may well elnim both points. "How different things are in Hongkong-or at least in parts
dividual.
COMPLEX QUERY
to' such Ay answer
# com- plex quers must be largely inatier of opinion and it is per- tain that inuny football folks would offer very different argu-of Hongkong as I found out the ments tu support their OWIT particular polits of view.
When the question was put to deliberately avoided any answer but swung it back to tat Interrogator with the comment
Cha
other day,
VOCAL SUPPORT
"When the brilliant Chinese player note off on a spectacular dribble the crową joins in with vocal support and the ball artist is encouraged to perfect his art,
raw more football in the Com bined Chinese side tonight than 1 have seen from three seDSONS
English
League football with felt ration of representative
and
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a
that as the endoker is supposed to see most of The game, would be interesting to hear what he had found different about our set-up in Hongkong and how ||1|9f might bave Influenced development of our local players. games thrown in.
Am certain that f the His considered comments on
home took most spectators back this matter should make
from their counterparts interesting reading for all who lead
football in out here we should soon be back are corected with
with the modern greats on top the Colony.
of the football world. Here, as accurately as can recall it, is what he had to say.
"My impressions
bused re
at only on what I have roun four Senior and several Junior in ENK is
Kimes and I would like you
not make it clear that I am suggesting that this is an expert Ifow- analysis of the sitution. ever, I must confess that I have most impressed by the play
of the Chinese teams and one who tries to understand the finer points of the game, I have thought about it quite a lot during the short time I Maybe the visitor sees most have been in Hongkong.
of the game
after all, but I feel "If I was to be allowed
clever play must be hazırd
al the
must matched with clever play: big A guess important single factor in the bootball will never replace good whole set-up, I would say that football and crowd encourage- the Chinese player has become ment is a vital factor in the play
of the Chinese star. great because the spectatura have allowed and have even encouraged him to do so.
Which is the correct speli- ing (B) Lords" {b} Lords or (c) Lord's?
bren
(Answers See Page 17)
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Lawn Bowls Season
The Comes
To Its
Conclusion
This
Week-End
By
“TOUCHER”
* cannot pay the same com- pliment to sume of the people who support the European sides
the Colony. 1
I sat couple of games in proximity to some of them revertly was shocked to hear that they are blind adherents to the 'Get Rid Of It doctrine. As soon as a player got a foot to a ball he This year is likely to be nojodds slightly, in favour of the way the recipient of such uncless exception and the Shield will Kowloon Dock pair. morsels of advice as 'Belt it......probably go again to the Kow- No fewer than three social
Get it up the field......" and of foon bowlers for the fourth year competitive matches will course the inevitable 'Get Rid in succession, The Kowloon team brighten the concluding week of of L.
will have, however, only the season with that type of slight edge in the First Divi- bowls where everyone will be sion rinks, and in the Second out to get the most enjoyment Division
the balance will be out of the game,
It is in the Third fairly oven. Division that Kowloon will col- leet most of their points.
The Colony Lawn Bowls season officially comes to its conclusion during the coming week with a series of competitive and social matches.
Heading the programme is the annual Aitkenhead Shield match this afternoon between Hongkong and Kowloon. The Mainland has always, had the edge over the Island team, having won the series 14 times out of the 22 years that the Shield was competed for.
to that
BRITISH SET-UP "The brillianer of the two incide-forwards who played for the Combined Chinese tonight would never be permitted in the desperations of the present Brush set-up. These two boys are footballers of the kind I used to see many years ago.
They can work the ball, they can beat a man in-the-space- of-a-sixpence'
to say, and they are never afraid to try and do something diever with the ball.
from
club
Well there is what П tem- porary visitor thinks about our football. The more one thinks
about his Intelligent comments the more does it seem that the close bond between the Chinese player and his supporters may in fact be the spur that has encouraged him to become the accomplished player he is to-
day.
V.
St
GUTIERREZ SHIELD
Tomorrow the Gutierrez Shield International Series comes to its close with the final
LIBERATION SHIELD
✓
Craigengower need somewhere
In the region of 100 shots to re- cover the Trophy presented by one of their members—a well- nigh impossible task.
They are, however, puting their full team into this game and are resolved to give the Footballers a good run before allowing them to retain the Trophy for another year.
WEEK-END
CRICKET
Both Kowloon Cricket Club and Cralgengower Cricket Club will figure as hosts in these matches. The former club will have almost an open-door party match between England on Sunday when in addition to entertaining the Hancock Shield and England "B" starting at cricketers from Hongkong Cric 3.30 p.m. al the Kowloon
ket Club, it will also have the Bowling Green Club.
Kowloon Bowling Green Club Liberation Shield bowlers as its
The only interesting First the third and Test Division Cricket League match today is that be- A 40-shot win by the cric- tween Indian Recreation and the reigning India last week was expected, keters in the second match has Club but it was the "B" team that put them covered themselves with glory on seems to be in stone for the Cricket Club, at Sookunpoo. position and a double celebra League Champions, Kowloon when they outplayed the highly-hosts by the time the match is favoured Hongkong "" four contluded.
Both teams
have done
42-
tremely well in making it a St. guests in George's final.
The "A" team's win over
to the tune of 20-13.
match of the series.
At the
in a
commanding
The Indians last week showed
WEEK'S GAMES This afternoon all roads will Hill where Caroline as we used lead to
South China and Kitchee have their first meeling of the season. This game is the highlight of a **When I say that their
varied
programm In which brilliance would not be per-
there should be plenty of good initled back home I want to
entertainment for all. The full nake it clear that I am not programme is as follows:-
Today suggesting that opponents would deliberately obstruct them. The South China v, Kichcent
Navy stoppage would come first of all Caroline Hill;
Causeway Bay, managements who Joseph's at have become slaves to safety-
Tomorrow first football and
KMB v. CAA at Caroline Hill; Sing Tao v. Kwong Wah at Club: Speed
seed crazy, tactics.
If you think this is far fetched Club v. Army at Causeway Bay: Eastern al Boundary just recall that the man who is RAF v. considered by many to be the Street. cleverest footballer in England Games listed for today and to- at the present time... Tommy morrow will start at 5.15 p.m. Hamer of the Spurs... cannot
Tuesday got a gune in the Club's First Kitchee v. Sing Tao at Caroline Eleven simply because neither Hill; Poilee v. KMB at Boundary
LADIES' DOUBLES management nor the crowd Sirect. will allow him to play his na- South Chinn will start favour event of the season, with the
last official competitive over. tural game and exploit his ne- tural ability.
ites against Kitchee this, after-
exception of the
Inter-Hong noon but they would be well "The second great obstacle to advised
are to be played On Monday, the Valley bye, like Yiu and Ho in England lightly for they
not to take Kitchen pairs which
are quite
the Colony Ladies Open Pairs cluded with the match between
that their batting can stand up "ATT" SHIELD ARhough it is an all-Englaná
to a good bowling side: Carmeli, affair, the game should be worth
Lee, Bell and Fairhall are about watching as both fours seem to Valley will undoubtedly echo had last week at
same time, Happy as strong an attack as Recreio Sookunpoo be very evenly
it matched.
some recognisable and. loud with
possibly anything, it will be the Eng voices when
strong with, the Annual A Carnell in form.. land "B" team who will enjoy Shield between the Filipina clight odds
the
men
As being a more Club and Craigengower Club This should be a very even balanced side. Arst-time,
gets under way.
game with either side capable B. W. Bradbury, skip of the
Among the safety precautions of winning and the result will England "A" four, however, is taken is the omission of the have some bearing on the Cham- playing some very good bowls ladies' rink in this match. This plonship race. at the moment and, given goou promises to be quite a battle not rupport by his front-men, is yet only with woods but also be the first Division should have The other leading teams in capable of leading his rink to tween glaseės with the Issut victory,
likely to be still undecided unill no difficulty in leading all the the wee hours of the morning the Navy at King's Park, Recreio points. Craigengower take on when the supper and dance art | 10
are at home to Army North, Optimists to
Air the Royal Force and Scorpions to the Police. Army South have
The
VALLEY TROPHY
la that as soon as they started | ablo of causing a big upset p-/ during the winter months, is Trophy competition will be con-
¿
annual
On Sunday and Monday, KCC their ball jugglery the spectators but I cannot see the Caroline that which is scheduled to be Craigengower Cricket Club are at home to the Hongkong would sel
up the Iniquitous Hill boys being beaten.
played. ' off at the Kowloon and the Hongkong Football Cricket Club to the first of the crowd
has brought call that
two
Hancock Shield One of the most refreshing Bowling Green Club on Tues-Club. British soccer to its current low features of the stason is
matches, The HKCC will be out the day. cbb
'Get rid of it.
revival of the Royal Navy who
Holders of the Trophy which | in alrength, but this is no League The idea that it is impossible caine so near to deserting senior
Contestants are Mrs Sequelea was presented last year, Hong-match and KCC have bocn to play football in the style and football at the end of lost sen- and Mis Gaffney of Kowloon kong Football Club now enjoy known to win in the past despite tempo of a few years ago 1s at son. Now they are playing fast Cricket Club and Mrs Campbell commanding load as a result their inferiority on paper. This the root of many of the ills of attractive football and will give and Mza Riley of Kowloon of their 85-shot win over Police time Pat Dodge is in the HKCU British football. The brilliant the Saints a hard run for their Dock Club. This should be a Recreation Club about a week XI and, of course, that will ball - player, whose greatest money j
keenly-fought match with the ago.
make a difference.
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