LEARN YOUR CRICKET
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1955.
SATURDAY SOCCER SPOT
HELP THE SMALL CLUBS
Glance This Way THE GOVERNMENT STADIUM Put Top Divisions
the
The ability to "deflect" ball to leg will certainly bring 11 batsman runs, especially against fast bowling or medium- paced bowling on fast wickets.
But it must never be thought substitute for playing
full
of of any the ball on the on-side with the face of the bat, still lewo for hitting it, to jeg for tour when it is possible to do so,
Whether pinyed off the front or the back foot, the leg glance is pinyok with 1 virtually straight but; but Just before it invels the ball the bat in moving lightly neross the line, and the face of it is shutung.
There is, therefore, no room for error and the stroke should never be played to a ball inside the line of the batsman's pais.
Leg Glance of the Front Foot. This is best player to a ball.
Jak lake the which is on or
batsiman's pada and just over a length but not far enough up to be driven.
Unil just before impact the stroke bi the fame as the for
word strokes try my out-sjete ball, excr
The left lest
tha!
brought Just inside the ball's fine,
OFF FRONT FOOT.
OFF BACK FOOT,
The ball should be met almost under the eyes and just in front of the left leg with the weiss turning
face slightly the bat just before inipart.
Leg (ilando off the Back Foot, The ball, again on or just out- safe the tailainen's padzi, will in this take be
Just short of
Brugth
As in
the the back stroke, right foot will move weil bacit and for enough across lo allow Hewn fool, also moving back anel landing nearly level with it, to be just Inside the line of the ball: Qu right foot will potating towards in-off the eff almost straight
1
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230 down
The ball will be met only just front of the Jeft leg A13148 approximately below the eyes.
Ta both the legt glances the
IS IN THE MORE
NEWS FOR
REASONS THAN ONE
By I. M. MacTAVISH
Whatever the outcome of the forthcoming series of games against our footballing visitors from Africa there is no doubt that their short sojourn will go down in Colony history if only because it will always be associated with the official opening of the grand new Hongkong Stadium. The tourists have an impressive record against top class opposition and there is every indication that they will give our various representative sides a hard fight
for the honours.
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1
Im-
In
Early Rounds SANDEMA
Says DON REVIE
The Cup-ties began in earnest kat week when the Third Division, clabs join in with the non-Leaguers. This Is the Cup that thrills; and, like a lot more people, I wonder why the Big Brothers of the First and Second Divisions are not roped in at this early stage.
It would be good for the game if they were. The. amall clubs live in hope from ope year to the next that they will win through until they can draw a big gate against a First Division side.
once
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Thero is this point to bear 11 mind. A top-class variety artist does not overstay his welcom= on the stage lost he gets stalo and the publle see too much at him. Soccer faces the same sort of
problem
With many clubs living near the pubile quantity but not the danger lino, surely the top quality in our football? clubs could help by agreeing to romo Into the earlier Cup rounds. Think what it would mean if Yeovil, or Netherileld, who the Colony a few short werks have
mado considerable Many of the spectators
or Boston or any other gallant attendi the opening gene will ago. The pressing problem con- provement since the early weeks and In recent
little club could feel sure that be having their Arsi real look cerning the premature entry of of the stason
it had got
through the sporto
the forward line has at the new Goverment
promising youngsters into highly games
is not, how-shown that it can get gouls. If
preliminary rounds there was a The other big factor which Like most people who competitive soccer
localised issue
must also be borne in mind is visited it so far, they lever. hurve
continue to play Lee big chance of being drawn and KMB
the or Spurs or that at present
Football readers will doubtless be impressed by
must have been mosi Chun-fat at inside-left they must against Arsenal
Wolves. of at Interested in an article on the be given
League gets no sure of thest the grandeur of all they see.
a good chance
At present only one or two gates. So nothing goca It is a huge stadium. It has subject from Britain which was least sharing the spoils with the
1730 to hope
the League's Provident Fund. thin paper
own pre-nah-Leaguern tremeslots development pusat-published
on League leaders. My
dribble through the parti-
tough bilities and the luscious green Wednesday.
ference is for Easter
testing
carly rounds for graga provides the sort of sur-
cularly Ko Po-keung is at
chance at the Big Shots, farm 不
which footballers should be able to produce their
and back in the side, but much
on the touchline would make the Cup more de will depend
Kar-sau and
It would make it mocratic; I predket best form, although
barder for the eventual Cup tunes Szeto Man.
winners because they would Tomorrow's outstanding game | have more matches to play; will again be at Caroline Hit and I can well imagine many RAF faneled teams going out in the Improving sido will make a bold attempt First round. to revenge the heavy defcat they muttered earlier in the
The slimen are
soccer but,
that many of our players will be very
leg weary tired and aflet 90 minutes <f bard endeavour on the thick velvety surface
RII
enough
when
inte
Strangely spoke about it the other day to gentleman who gives serious and considered thought to such matters, he rather surprised me by saying that he felt it was
problem without an answer.
"It's
of question ย The stadium has much to re- circumstances," he said..."It is no doubt the wrong and impossible to make cumunend it, and
an in Rexible rule for or agains! bitter controversy that has stir-
>t buys Its management sout the warly entry administration will be forgotten League football without
There with the passing of time, but somebody.
10 pomis wald wang. unhelpful, and many in huny ways facetious to pre-individu
physique tend than it
personal health
toa ans yet an iteal
are surely construction.
obvious to require much ex- planation: factors of educational ability and family circumstances Eniust also be weighed in
the balance; whlie the reputation of the club with boys must also be given a lot of thought
DEFICIENCIES
Several important deficiencies | inu hove been spalted and com- mented upon by visiting sports Celebrities,
sherwd and other
by have been raised Junit folks in our midst who are well qualified to aet
No dicht these several issues have already been noted by the appropriate Goverment officials and
one would imagine that left hand should keep uptrol of they will be dealt with at
an the bat as long as possible.
early date. To adopt any other
From "Cricket How to Play,” procured for the M.C.C. and published by Educational Pro- clotrons, Lud
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
SECOND RACE MEETING
Saturday 19th & Saturday 26th November, 1955. (To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONBIST OF 18 RACES. The First Bell will be rung at 1,30 p.m. and the First Race run at 2.00 p.m. on both days.
at Alexandra House will door at
The Secretary's Ufice
11.40 am, on both days,
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
NO PERSON WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED. All persons MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the meeting.
Admission Badges at $10.00 cuch per day are obtainable through the Secretary on the written or personal introduction of a Member, such member to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him.
Tiina will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered In advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811).
NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeting. For this purpose a Child is a person under the ago of seventeen years, Western Standard.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable at the Gale.
Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisite feo of $3.00 in order to gain re-admission.
MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will be obtainable in the RESTAURANT.
SERVANTS
Servants must remain in their employer's boxes except for passing through on their duties. They may on no account use the Betting Booths in the Members' Enclosure,
CASH SWEEPS
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Always with the possibility of an upset in mind, I tip South China to win.
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Under the present set-up with First and Second Division clube excused until the Thind round, it is virtually impossible a Third Division team to get through to Wembley.
for
SCOTCH WHISKY
The King Whiskies
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WHISK
It may well be that the drop Avaliable everywhere $15 per Bottle in League gates can attributed to the fact that som people prefer to pay to watch these mid-week floodlit games.
be Sols Agentes DoDWELL & CO., LTD,
LACK OF SUPPORT Obviously League Soccer cannot be allowed to die in this country through lack of sup- 46 port. That's why so many tur- Arc carefully sighted people studying the effect these mid- week matches have on Saturday League football.
Having said that, I think the Wolves deserve a vote of thanks for the way they so successfully uphold the prestige of England against the foreign
to me that It seems Star Calls and his players have a zest for the big match
cension congratulations
Wright and his
fine show
SMALLER CLUBS Yes, I know York Cily almost did the trick last season when they reached the last four; find in 1984 Port Vale reached the
But usually thes semi-finals.
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boys
to
for another "gainst the Dynamos.
We are having plenty of City laughs in the Manchester dressing room these days. When Wales beat England at Cardiit our captain, Roy Paul, pulled
English the logs of the "It's Wales for the Champlon
hip." he kept saying.
GREAT FRIENDS Scolland
In the other week-end games, Kitchce should be too good for Kwong Wah; CAA will find the Army a very different team une they humbled 5-1 ut dhe start of the season. strain of so marry Cup-ties tells skipper Billy concerned in dealing in the last game on the schedule against the smaller clubs.
I'd like to see everyone in Police and Saints may share the
basla free-for-all
once the Boundary at over honours
preliminary rounds were over. Street.
Soccer needs a shot in the arm to give the spectators some- thing to look forward to Thi innovation would do the trick
The visit of Moscow Dynamos has captured the imagination of It is nice Soccer public.
Kom these visitors 500 abroad showing us their Soccer skills. But there is a growing beaten Wales at Hampden Park tur. body of opinion among officials it is Bobby Johnstone's and players, that if we are not The elever little Sept who had at Kape careful, we are going to satiate such the pubile with
Park keeps Hampton these
asking Roy Paul; What about Scor Land
For those reasons I am very glad to hear that the HKFA is going to consider each applica- tion on its merits. I hope the will appropriate committeemen be strict and searching in their enquiries and never allow such applications to become mure pen and ink affairs'',
A NEW RULE
wisdom of the HoDUR_FA's | schoolboys
doubts
deciston to play all
Rugger Quiz Answers
warned.
the to
games,
This
show
10
(1) Well you were The minimum number in a loose scrum is two players, one The from each side, Law 15. maximum number in any scrum
applies not only Law is thirty.
15. And the
Overseas teams, maximum number int a
set games against
of floodlit but also the rash Law serum is three per side,
ixtures up and down the coun-
Professional iry.
footballers sqw have about twice as many games to play in a consun #1 they did 20 years ago. It gets that one tougher to maintain
Are edge of physical fitness. we not in fact approaching the we may be gavus stage where
subject of in League football 15 (B).
that has been
there is a point
the progressive policy that has produced the stadium and would of coarse inevitably give rise to
The gentleman who mode that that might statement is a prominent figure nigeling criticism impule the overall usefulness of in our sporting life and while this fine new Colony amenity. I confess I am not in complete
also The stadium has
come agreement with what he says, 1 to a different kind of discus-reel it is a point of view worthy
weck, Some of the widest consideration. sion during the
declared have openly people
While ou the the about
games of the fathering series at the
base new grond They
Their negimen on the experience of pust visits from
Learna. touring point out that They
it is well football known in
that circles the All-Hongkong and Combined It is well known, however, games are established that prior to the introduction of Chinese crowd-pullers, and they declare this rule schoolboys were not that, by the same token of ex-permitted to Juke part in pertence, it is generally accepted League matches, and that the Hongkong Selection course equally well known that appeal, some clubs closed their eyes to game lacks equal
popular The critics
thut argue
the ruling and played school- crowd in
of UNE
the
boys in vital League games. meagre
cnough uther grounds is badh
number 10 see the game
Kitchee got a great deal of scattered
about the adverse publicity and after due sparsely vast new amphitheatre will be investigation the registration of
ال الزا
(2) Joo haa no right to bo well chewed over by socour folks indignant. Since the goal posts recently. A new rule was in- are erected in the goal line, and HKFA a few the goal line itself is in-goal, troduced by the weeks ago permitting duly ap- the goal posts are also in in- proved schoolboys to play for goal, and therefore a try eat be League clubs.
obtained if the ball is in contact with the ground and the goal past. Law 1 and 3.
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11.
Joc
Num
a
that
men'
bavu
International
Gre
the for Championship now?" Roy and Bobby triends off
great the field, and I sup- pose we won't hear the end of little feud until his private
played
against England have Scotland next April.
It is remarkable even in in- ternational matches just how much ground advantage means. The Welshmen at Cardiff wrride; the Scols at Hampden ara equally tenacious Ighters.
Park
(3) Miracles will never cease! Answers To Sports Quiz all events na ong can steny
the
was quite right. Law 18 (c), states "The tackled player, ir lying on IMMEDIATELY ball
ground must release
tho roll away from it, and get up before playing it with his foot and Law 10 (4) (111) covers Joe who must get up first away from the ball before he
a depressing sight, of benent jone of their players are actually can play it with his foot, but need not wait on another Belther to the players who are cancelled, although the cancella-he
subsequently stayed player not in the tackle to come laking part nor to the spectators tion
pending further consideration. up and touch the ball first, who turn up to watch them.
SMALLER CROWD
It has been suggested that it would have been more realistic to have staged the second game a1 the Club Stadium where even with a smaller crowd a better atmosphere would have been created.
are
WIN
The HKFA later changed lis rules and clubs were permitted to apply for permission to play schoolboys in League and Shield games.
The position in the matter of schoolboys is now clear, but many folks are wondering what has happened about the various clubs who wifully infringed These well reasoned points the old rule while it was still basically sound but the in force, Has the whole thing
remember that been should
hts critics
an forgotten..
declared the switching of games from amnesty been
to another increases does the FA still lntend to take office hours and until 11,00 am. on the day of the Race Meeting. one ground
the already
complicated ad- action against the offenders? ministrative dimpulties to
WEEK-END GAMES marked degree. There is always
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'.·
Tickets over 4,000 will also be issued consecutively but particular numbers cannot be reserved as Through Tickets.
The reservation of any particular number does not conter on. the registered holder any rights whatsoever unless the ticket bearing the appropriate number is issued to and can, bo produced by the holder.
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TOTALISATOR
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ALL WINNING TICKETS AND TICKETS FOR REFUNDS MUST BE PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT. AT ATHE HACE COURSE ON THE DAY TO WHICH THEY LETTER NOT LATER THAN ONE HOUR AFTER THE TIME FON WHICH THE LAST. RACE OF THE DAY HAS BEEN SCHEDULED TO BE RUN.. PAYMENTS WILL NOT BE MADE ON TORN OR DISFIGURED TICKETS.
the possibility, of course, that There is an interesting pro- the novelty of the new ground will be strong enough to engramme of League games down decision this week-end. courage more spectators than for
Here are the particulars: umual to attend the second Today: KMB v. Enstorm at
Caroline Hill
Komo.
Tomorrow South China v. "Schoolboys - In-league-foot- ball" was a red hot topic in RAF at Caroline Hill; Kitcheo v. Kwong Wah at Club; CAA v. Army at Causeway Bay; Polico
V. St. Joseph's at Boundary Street. All games
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
The Programme and Entry Forms for the 3rd Raco Most ing 1955/56 to be held on Saturday 10th and Saturday 17th December,
1955, (weather permitting) may be obtained at the Secretary's Office, Alexandra House; the Club House, Happy Valley; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Rond.
Entries, close at 12 o'clock MINOON
on Tussday, 29th November | 19555;
Bookmakers Tie Tac men, etc. will not be permitted to operate withát the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey: club.
By: Order of the Stáwards),
By Order of the Stewards,
start at 3.43 p.m.
Chief Interest today will be in the big Chinese clash between KMB and unbeaten Enstern and there will be plenty of baciding The Busmen for both skies.
POP
YOU'RE OLD
ENOUGH Now Is (CHILDREN.
TO MAKE
US
TEA.
1.
Joo Louis..
2.
(a) Boxing (b) Judo.
3.
No.
4.
Jack Hobbs-197,
5.
Jack Johnson.
6.
(n) Cricket
(b) Rugby
Union
(c) Athletics (d)
Baseball
7.
B. (a) Cricket (b) Golf.
9. Greyhound.
10.
Gus Lesnevitch.
that
this season's home Interna- tional tournament is wide open
won
A
with
As all four possibilities.
countries have home game aplece and lost one, the
will be interest
maintained until the end of the season.
Scotland did so well on their oumuner tour of the Continent
Bobby Jones in 1926-27-30. | nnd I gather against Wales
they recaptured their form and confidence.
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