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THE CHINAS MAIL,
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1955.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Better Than Hendon?
Sir, Rarely have 1 seen such a piece of unfair und mia leading reporting as 1. M. Mac- Taviah's Lrticle about Ferroviario BOCCIT tcom from Lourenco Marques, Morain-
bique
the
This disturbing report under- scorts the fact that they, the vistom, "wete far Μπονιά from the standard of teams like Grashopper, Admirom AIK or Djurgarden."
I certainly agree with Mr MacTAVISH on this point but I am Mu that the **Kunous critic" will also agree with inc that Ferroviari
4 nuch better side than "Hendon" c **Pegasas,"
MacTAVISH, no doubt, is a good soccer critic but I really why HE DID NOT occupy his Bime to write about movies?
From my perKOTUÁ point of view I really can not understand wint was bitting MacTAVISH when he wrote much **mark- able" und "spiteful"
piece,
-
If there is a NOBLE PRIZE for journalismu I really hope that MacTAVISH
it.
will receive
TAVISHma
Simple Amateurs
Sir. For those who have seen both football
games playesi in Hongkong last week-end between
Hongkong and the Portuguese team from Mozambique,
the urticle
certainly consider written by [
whil
M MacTAVISH
Paths unfair. No doubt the erities have the night to express In words what they think, but let's not forget that the public have the right to appreciate it
To compact the standard
a football teem from a club, es
***The he says:
visilore were nothing more than a VITY
side" to those
clubs
Causshopper. Admira, AIK
Djurgarden, it doesn't sem
or-
Bod
be written by someone who
suppose to have
a full know-
ledge of the matter
'T Mo- zambique players are
simple amateurs and those mentioned are almost professionals. Such comparison could only be made by M. MacTAVISH,
Besides, those paragraphs with so many reticences (oh mammo min) does it make clear 4hc ideas, shouldn't they be finished?
The results of 2-1 and 1-1 by no mean can put faraway the standard of the visitors from the Hongkong football. I am
Sure any honest Joc will consider both levels rather close.
Coming to the point of "ver- diet" I would appreciate to know the "verdict" of I. M. MacTavish if we were on a trial of Hong- kong's second goal In the first Karno. A good judgment will "clear and distinctive off- Bay Aldo". First witness: the lines. man who did wave the fog.
The pulle always likes Q good and neutral press attitude towards everything and not one full of sarvasin and unfinished phrases.
I
un sure I. M. MacTavish forgot that this time Hongkong is playing host.
HONEST JOE.
ARMY SPORTS
PARADE
By inviting the cricketers of Army North and South 'A' teams to fill the Spot of Honour at the Top of the Sports Parade this week wo acknowledge the continued success of two groups of men who have, by their skill and effort, developed a keen sense of team spirit without ever losing the vital sparks of individuality and initin- tive which are so necessary in the short matches they have to play in the Colony League.
cricket and Both teams are producing attractive while they are certainly winning they are doing so with- out even the most nominal infringement of the traditional the code of sportsmanship so closely associated with game.
There is always sono risk in Individuals who are selecting members of successful teana for speedal mention, but with
there are several out a doubt outstanding
permonalities both the Army teams at the present time.
entries for the Colony 10 Miles Road Race.
La This usually one of the most popular events of the winter season and it is | hoped that those who are keen to compete will get their en- tries in as soon as posible.
South, current Lengue leaders) Ariny BOCCET
and players with an enviable 100 per cent officlits are Anding plenty of record, owe a great deal to the interest—and something to argue devastating bowling of speed about-In the new "Whistler's merchant Nash whose f for 13 Wisdom' feature in Rediffusion's At the week.
Was a top "Voice Касти
Sport programmne matter every Saturday. Topical problems Nardi, whoh a local settist are being set was unfortunate to have an in. to test. the listener's knowledge different spell
clases performance
how it is viewed.
гаст
the
im-of the laws of the game. .and medinte pre-Mulugthy period, is it was a surprise to hear that not a great hearted player and a single correct solution Was last week's penalty received dep great asset to the siche
kek teaser which was set around Army players Morris and Chesterman.
OPENING PAIR
The opening pair of Withall and Bertson is always able to set a sound foundation for a big score, and further down the st there are other prolife getters al skipper Peter Chubb's call
run-
North have a couple of grand
hovelers in big Jim Lipscombe
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i
CROSS COUNTRY
at
Saturday next is a big day for soldier athletes for the Colony and Land Forces Cross Country Championships will be run San Wat starting at 3 o'clock.
The final position as regards entries
11 follows:-Colony
und
and Greenhalgh and the pair of Championship only....three en- them made short work
af tries (SCAA, Army and Royal Craigengower CC at the week - | Navy). end when
between thei they Colony
Major Unit captured all 10 wickets. Grea Championships — 10 entries; halgh's 0 for 23 was a very fine Colony
Miner Units - effort indeed.
three, Major Units Champlon- ship only two; Minor Units Championship only 5tx.
Recent games have shown that there is an abundance of runs in the ride and several potential
confitent and handling of the team tributed much to its
high scorers among the batsmen,
In the Colony Individual Championship six runners (ono Major Pat Howard Dobson is civilian and five Army) who are having a good mason both an
not 'members of a team will be captain and with the bat, and
competing: two individuals will Judicicua | compete for both the Colony has con- and Land Forces Champion- continued
ships: and 11 will be running in the Land Forces event only. These individuals ure, of course, in addition to the members the various teams who will bo
fur reckoned
team and In- dividual (NCTIÍS.
P
Success.
Thc position as far As the two teuns
concernest is South have most intriguing. 100 per cent
while སྒྲt»t°»r*¢L
at Nord's only defeat was the hands of their
oldier
This looks like being a great season. colleagues early in the
la rife
the Da lu
day and with 270 runners in the Speculation
feld it will also be a most im- their second Glcome cď
the League and 6pressive sight. mee.ing 1 strong are both sides that it is quite impossible for even the most expert of cricketers > forecast with any accuracy how the game will end.
This is all for the good of Vote Of Confidence cricket, both in the Army and in the League, and is one more Sir-Re your Dec. $ article justifiention of the decision "This Insipid Soccer Was Quite
enter two teams in the Sentor Unworthy Of The Great New | competition, Stadium" I would like cast
a vote of confidence for I. M. Boxing comes back into the MacTAVISH.
1
we
sincerely believe that he is
he honest....outspoken....I
15
what
find sider him critle
I felt not lo ean- 03 Krezi soccer
JOHNNY GUITAR (These lettera arr selected from quite a large number that have been received from Traders in Macao un the subject of the MacTAVISH report on the two matches of the Clube Ferroviario de Mozambique in Hongkong-Sparts Ed.)
Espinosa Is Still Leading Contender For Flyweight Title
New York, Dec. 6. Leo Espinosa (Philippines) remains as leading contender for the World Flyweight title held by Pascual Perez (Argen- tina), according to the month- ly world boxing ratings of “The Ring" magazine.
For Rocky Murciano's Heavy-
tille Archie weight
Moore United
States), the last beaten challenger, retains first place. Bob Baker (United States) and Nino
(Cuba) are to
Jo Valdes
fight in Cleveland
general news this week with the BILNINCement that the
Elaborate arrangements have been made for the control and recordingt of the proceedings and if you want to go out into the country to see what is hap- pening suitable trains will leave Kowloon at
11.25 nm, 12.35 and 2.17 p.m. Trains
will leave Fanling after the race at 4.34 and 5.49 p.m.
TONIGHT'S RUGGER
Army rugby enthusiasts are living in cager anticipation of boys the
at the Club big matchi from 74 LAA Regt RA will be Stadium tonight when the all- in action against strong opposi- tion at the Missions to Seamen conquering Gunners tackle the on Friday evening at 8 o'clock.Rest of the Army,
The Gunners, are
sul very
The match which is due to and which much an unknown quantity in start at 6.30 p.m. the Colony ring. but there is will of course be played under every reason believe that Boodlights, has caught the fancy they are well able to take over whre their fighting predecessors
72 LAA Regt. left oft.
to
A FINE GOAL
of those who follow the game,
who
and while the spectators turn up may not be considered n big crowd by soccer
ceer standards, it is certain that they will get the chance to make themselves Army soccer players McInnes, heard, and imowing rugby fans Morris and White have the
from previous games I am car. honour of being the first servico tain they will make the most of players to play football at the the opportunity.
ney
All Hongkong Stadium,
three were in the Hongkong Admission to the game is $2,40 Selection against the Lourenco but service personnel will be Marques sido on Sunday and admitted for $1.20 on proof of White had the additional plea-Identity. sure of scoring a fine goal.
B
of
Melmes had a particularly good The next in the series game but Morris and White, Sunday morning athletic meet- who had both played well in the Ings at. Caroline Hill will take first half, suffered in the general place on Sunday next at 10 am. decline that hit the play after The events at this session will the interval.
•
•
be 100 Metres, 800 Metres, 6,000 Metres and Discus Throw for men ond 100 Matres and High Jump for Indies.
As is usual in these micetings there will be no entry fee and 20 prizes. It is expected that
MY BOXING SECRETS
CONTINUING THE STORY NEVER TOLD BEFORE
THE NIGHT JOCK MCAVOY ASKED US: WHO IS THIS NEW MAN MILLS?
By JOHNNY BEST
They still talk about that little theatre in the West End of London -the one that never closed. Well, Liverpool Stadium never closed either, although many a time I despaired of ever keeping the fight game alive during the war.
We carried one fight though in the open air at ground, while all he was being let loose over Liverpool. hit on the stadlum itself.
about that Let me tell you Anfield fight. Eric Boon, the Chatteris blacksmith, was Light- weight Champion and Ernie Roderick was king of the Wel- ters at the the this was 1940 --and I had the idea of a battle
Champions. The match was
Bgreed.
Roderick well won a hard. punishing fight-you will recull what a puncher Boon was at his best but the actual contest in the ring was not the only Item on the programme
ENEMY ABOVE
The night had hardly
stren when the "alert" and
the
puts
started
went,
Aung
of
immediately Started to lay their black smoke around 18:4 uny thiel were sky specks in the
enemy
my aircraft.
eona
JOHNNY BEST
Anfield, the Liverpool FC And we survived a direct
throwing punchen unt!! ho
knocked Basil spark-mut in the third round.
from
Name of Al Phillips Nobody outside a yard or two Aldgate Pump had ever heard of him. Ho get a pound or two for that job. Yot he was to go on to fight Ronnie Clay- ton, under my banner, for Featherweight title and the big- gest purse that has ever beeti put up for feathers anywhere..... £5,000.
Boxing's
in
I
a blitz.
the
funny karne, eveil
in the weather
0311 th three-title (British, Empire, and Europe) fight between Phillips and Clay- ton at Anfeld in 1947 midst of
perfect speil; but a couple of hours be- foro the start the heavens crater, shattered every piece of opened. We dropped £2,800.
doors, Kluss in the roof and
For the record, Clayton sur- to the There were
two and, probably as some kind ofvived a terrific punch anxious lookn
overhead from judgment, blew the Press seats chin carly on and won on points. among the 5,000-odd spectators up on to the top of the girders. Carter, but all that stopped when a loud
My manager. Benny sounded out, and 1 got as many of the boxing Liverpool voice even above the constant bark-
boys as we could find, and, with "Ach, ignore shovels and wheelbarrows-you ing of the guns:
Jock McAvoy Wis Middle- labour for theml"
couldn't get hired
Champion at the time, wus; love or money-we worked all
weight duya, night and through the next but he had had a long lay-off, and it seemed to me that this whu daya
himself a with corporal, who's got
bit of a local reputation, míghi give him a good fight
a
both
who Jack Solomons, handling Boon in those
Eugene Henderson,
We replaced the glass was handling the fight,
all questioned should we stop it. I shects of tin that lasted us
the the war-and direct
through said: "Yes, if we get hi The fight went on.
Thursday night show went on us the know, So far as
only usual. No, we never closed one of the 5,000 who left ground was a middle-aged lady, and she probably had a train to catch.
Best Johnny minixently and
andi make
tho
This is said not so much on
a note of self-congratulation but rather in tribute to the loyalty of the boxing fans he believes sincerely to be the best in world. He goes on
the
There was another one who came, literally, out of the blue - corporal in the RAF f'd heard tell of
NEVER WORRIED
Jock McAvoy never was one
were
to worry very much about who and what his opponents and he ran true to form in this Outside the stadium be- fore the fight he asked casually of the boys: "Do you
case.
smiles To delves deeper into his war-time memorica
How these people came along of one It's bad enough trying to find to the stadium in these condi-know anything about this geezer fighters
matches tions was about as fantastic as I'm going to meet? What cort nowadays, when I have my one my job in arranging fights for of a fighter is he?" around me to help,
but
you them. How they found their "Oh, he's a good, willing boy, must remember that in those way up here, always in black- and very strong," he was told daya of the war all three of out and sometimes la almost- them were away and I had to impassable do most of the myself.
organising cease to astonish mc.
times only a handful of would make it--but there always a handful at least.
snow,
wiki
never Some
them Win
DIRECT HIT Transport was very difficult, Bnd]
mest days I had to walk the stadium the Ave miles to offee, and then find when I got overnight bltz there that the had put not only my telephones but all the telephones
the order. out
area
in
When there was no telephone available, I'd raise any sort of transport and travel around the Army and RAF camps in the boya who BTCD seeking would make up my Thursday night buls, for, no matter what these Thursday night happened, shows had to go on!
1
out
WE TOOK £17
One night we took 171 But that didn't kill our determina- on to keep the game going in Liverpool.
Strangely enough, out of all queueing and this chaos and
and chuwing wheelbarrowing camefighters.
Nel Tarleton was in the RAF. but his brother, George, had a
Basi called
McChoo. I'd boy matched McGhee for one of my Thursday night shows, but just before the off it was apparent travel that, because of all the dimeulties,
his opponent wasn't dieute going to make it.
"In that case," said McAvoy, who never had any illusions about anything, "he'll probably win. I'm not feeling so good tonight."
as
CRTC
It was Jock said. The unknown corporal took every.
McAvoy could hand out thing in the early rounds--and that was always plenty-arid boring, crowding in for more. Не never stopped throwing of Jock'a nnut nono punches, great guile could keep him away. The corporal sightly got the decision on points.
Name of Freddie Mills But it will show you the way things were in those dark war- time years when I tell you that ho got £50 for that fight. A little Inter of course he was an favourite with our immckilate
little band of fans and had Loyal spare boys to be brought back he fought We always had overhanging around the stadium and Jack Hyams on a percentage of
and,
we
I arrived one morning for a moment, feit that at last the break had come the break
which in a continuity of were so proud. In the night raid the stadium had been hii direct.
Luckily, the bomb passed be em tween our girders and bedded itself in the deep earth of the old graveyard before exploded Otherwise it would have blown the whole place to smithereens.
do,"
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But on a star attraction, Freddie Mills was made.
There were, other troubles as
靄
Ho
some-
pointed out three of them to the gate. That amounted McGhee and told him; Tick one of these lacs. They're all willing to have a go."
McGhee looked them over and sailor in then indicated on he said, well. On the afternoon of Net uniform.
sallor to got Tarleton's feathers title bout and I told the
got stripped.. He climbed into the with Johnny Cusick I
from Eugene As it was, it tore up about 20 ring and ect about Basil from telephone call tong
out of a 10ft. the first bell, and never stopped Henderson, of Edinburgh, who of corth
was to roferce the light. train
snowbound was where around the Bardier, and he couldn't possibly make it..
Up to almost the moment they. should have gone into tho ringt I tried in vain to get, a sub- my stituto referee and then eye fell on Barrington, Dalby at the ride, all set to broad- cast. That's the quickest etich of jobs Burrey-and the BBC- ever likely to make.
I was in no mood to have a
talking.
Two Former Hongkong Army Athletes In Training For
The Olympic Winter Games
Two Army athletes well known to followers of athletics in Hongkong are in a party of 21 Army athletes good referee wasting his time In training at Lillehammer, Norway, for the British Olympic Langlauf beam that has been entered for the Seventh Winter Olympic Games at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, in January.
Bob
The following paragraph from Joe Hulme's column in the
They are Capt..R. A.F., Reep 'People' of November 27 will be
of the Dorset Regiment and Lt. Aubrey Fielder, late of the 14 of interest to many Army and Colony soccer followers
Field Regiment, RA "It was day and night treat-
Roep was well known in Hong- ment for Southampton Inside- severul spiders will take part, keng es a high and low hurdler loft Derek Reeves to
to get him
and pole
and vaullor ready for replay within Whe two hockey matches Colony Champion in the 400 Crystal Palace and 1 do mean played ot Mecan on Sunday Metres Hurdles, in: 1954 Lb. day and night. But Derek mys were, according to an eye wit-Fielder often competed in
effort
Heness, first rate affairs." Anny | Hongkong in the Half Milo and was worth for Archie banged in the goal which helped 2 had enough chances to win
tomorrow
second and third respectively.
Yolando Pompey (Trinidad)
is third contender
itle.
the
the
•
.
WILE
British Ice
Hockey Teamı Beaten 9-2
Stockholm, Dec. 8.
Tho Runsiansnational fee side beat. Harringay
Moore's Light-heavyweight Floyd Patterson and Willie Incidentally Derek's old boss, go down by the only good scored. have boon picked on their per Racers, the British clady team,
his wide into the next round, and wore a shade unlucky to The trainees at Lillehammer, hockey
Chelsco chdef Ted Drake, was
havlog Southampton
B look
Pastrano are second and third Young Martin). (Spain)" listed accond and Danny (Philippince) third in the. Fly-
Derok was of course one of weight Division. Danny Campo the star members of the brilliant (Philippines) in
Frosh Elorde (Philippines)
Army team of two years ago and drops one place to tenth among played in the All-Hongkong alda
tho Featherweights, zink
Hitoshi Misoko (Japan). Is replaced by Guy Beliaté' (France)
Heuter.
on aoveral, big goonstone,))))
DISAPPOINTMENT
formances sizico 1943 - In the The A team played quite Amul Army Langlauf Cham by nine goals to two well but in the end they wore, plonchies,
Alvedane Cup còmpetitḥ! „They outclassed and the score of 5-1/ mined by a Norweg
navode of the home ChrM Ewello. wide did not faltor the winners, rendemere, Engine
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The trip, and the games, were wider enjoyed, for all who, made the joureny and the now, trudi (da)
the
hero
-Next Article: The fabulous Freddie. Miller.
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