THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB THIRD RACE MEETING
Saturday, 10th & Saturday, 17th December, 1955. (To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jagkay. Club)`
THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST 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,
The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will close at 11,45 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.
Admlaston Badges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable through the Secretary on the written or personal introduction of a Member, auch member to be responsible for all visitors julev- duced by him.
Tins will be obtainable at the Club House I ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tol. 72011).
NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeting. For this purpose a Child is a person under La age of seventeen years, Western Standard.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable
at the Clate.
Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisite tee of $3.00 in order to gain re-admission.
MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will be obtainable in the RESTAURANT.
SERVANTS
Servants at remain in their employer's boxes except for passing through on their duties. They they on no account use the Betting Booths in the Members' Enclosure.
CASH SWEEPS
Trough Cash Sweep Tickets at $10.00 each per day and $32.00 Le both days may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices ut Queen's Buliding, (Chater Rond), and 5, D'Águilar Street during normal office hours and until 11,00 a.m. on the day of the Race Deciing
Particula numbers within the series.
4,000 may be reserved for all race meetings as Through Tickets. Such tickets will be issued consecutively only and the right is reserved by the Stewards to cancel any reservation for Through Tickets for a particular Meeting if it is found that sales may not reach the number reserved in the series 1 to 4,000.
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In the case of two-day Race Meetings, Through Tickets may be purchased for each day of the Meeting provided that the second duy in on a date not less than five days after the first day. In all other cases Through Tickels will only be sold for the whole Meeting
Tickets reserved and available but not paid for by 10.00 am. on Friday, 9th December, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Meetings.
be issued consecutively but Tickels over 4,000 will also partkular numbers cannot be reserved us Through Ticketa,
The reservation of any particular number does not confer on the registered holder any rights whatsoever unless the ticket bearing the appropriate mimber is issued to and can be produced by the holder.
The Stewards reserve the right to refuse any subscription also the right to remove any name front subscription lats without stating reasons for their action.
Cash Sweep Tickels on the last race of the Meeting at $2.00 each may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices at Queen's Building (Chater Roud), 0, D'Aguilar Street and 382, Nathan Road during normal office hours and until 11.00 am, on both days of the Meeling.
SPECIAL CASH SWEEP
Tickets for the Special Cash Sweep on the Pearce Memorial Cup scheduled to be run on 4th February 1956, at $2.00 each, may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices.
TOTALISATOR
Backers are advised not to destroy or throw away their tickets until after the "all clear" signal has been exhibited.
ALL, WINNING TICKETS AND TICKETS FOR REFUNDS MUST BE PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT AT THE RACE COURSE ON THE DAY TO WHICH THEY REFER, NOT LATER THAN ONE HOUR AFTER THE TIME FOR WHICH THE LAST RACE OF THE DAY HAS BEEN SCHEDULED TO BE RUN.
PAYMENTS WILL NOT BE MADE ON TORN DISFIGURED TICKETS.
OR
Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
By Order of the Stewards,
A. E, ARNOLD,
Secretary.
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THE CHINA MAI, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1955.
SATURDAY SOCCER SPOT
THE CHINESE FANS WANT THRILLS NOT FRILLS AND EXPENSIVE TRIMMINGS
Says I. M. MacTAVISH
"Hoots...man, Stand back there...The MacTavish blood is up! "" I'm sure that is how many folks will expect me to start my column this week, particularly after the criticism that has been showered on my reviews of the opening two games in the recent series with the Clube Ferroviario de Mozambique,
In some ways I am afraid they are going to be disappointed, but, human nature being what it is, I shall have a word or two to say about the critics of the critic later on.
between
KMB
and The first visiting series of the same seat each time, and by tusala Kelas 1a
ot now over and, coln- giving him some financial bonus Eastern
the Hongkong iding as it did with the open- by way of a reduced aggregate Stadium tomorrow. This time ing of the new Hongkong price of eay $25 for three $10 the wures are known qualities, Stadium, It has left our adminis-seats and pro-rata for cheaper and, as the prices are realistle trators with plenty to think scals it might
bo possible to as far as the man in the street about. and, unless 1 om very ersure a good paying crowd for is concerned, there will be few much takery, a headache UT
the second game, It's a very two.
Round suggestion and anything
an expensive
ot (F and elephant. L
If any vnetnt seats.
KMB will start off with the
Is better than being resigned moral advantage of a recent present--to two games vlotory over their opponents but white the gulf between the slog of fighting for two League points and the
precarious sudden death of cup-tie soccer a very
so wide in fact that it destroys any normal yardstick.
The series has once again un- derned Che
of lacuatien
tho average Chinese follower of the He is a man ready and willing to make sacrifices to sen his fivourite players in action,
and now for the critics!! | wide bu!
time he is Firm of a let me assure you the same nobody's blind fool. He knows that 1 do not resent criticism.
The Busmen hate made il what he want, and he knows?! am quite sincere when I say I
great recovery from an Indiffer- welcome to what he de prepared to pay
the views of those ent start. Eastern on the other for at
who read what I write, and hand have recently tasted defent value what they say, even if it for the first time and there is is ut variance with
my own always the donger that the shock assessment
particular still remains, However, I Some
have game, incident or circumstance.
ance. a strong feeling that Eastern will In spite of this I was rather not lose for I cannot see their At the reaction-experienced players repeating particularly in Macao-to
of 12* **
my the costly mistakes views on the two opening short weeks ago. games
the Ensi African
the other First Round series. I am not a fiction wriler games Kitchee should
NEW STADIUM
& The Beve
that
Uhat
te
of the th age
the kept
crowds away from the new stadium and farme the
Subselous J
fering of having been cheated, so let us look at the economic situation The average supporter of the kame must have seen it.
East African games surprised
the
have
been Were
In the days before the new stadium
bullt the series would have been played at one of the two smaller stadia, but would The prices exurtly
same ota this occasion. charged although the number of seats ai the various prices would prob- obly not have been in the same ratio.
1
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1507% were
to
games
pf
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Jow
be too
dar
and veither will. I write dis strong for the Royal Navy at
simply crted pleasantries
to Caroline Hill this afternoon and satisfy the exo of players, should pass into the next round. officials or spectators. I write what I see, and I try to measure South China make my erlets and my applause gerous trip across the harbour to meet the Pollee at Boundary against a reasoned yardstick.
AB understand the
Street tomorrow. The Caroline these are the only principles
Hill boys seldom give of their best on this particular ground writer udopt. If he does otherwire his criticism becomes but it would be ren upset unreliable and basically. dis-if they failed to win.
Job,
Learn Your Cricket...GET DOWN TO IT
THE position of wicket-keeper
TE of west
the field. Not only does he get more chances of dismissing the bateman than any other folder, but he is the focus of the whole aldo's fielding, and on his agility and tidiness" depentis to n great extent the look of the side in the field.
What a more he can bo Д tremendous support to his bowlers and to his captain.
of
A wicket-kooper must, course, be properly padded but he must realise that his legs are only his second line of de- fence and should never come into play unless his handa have failed him.
He should "Innere"
wear
pale of
down and eyes, just higher than the stumps,
His left foot should be behind the middle utưmp andɣboth?feat should point more ör- laow'downt the wicket. His hands should. be. pointing down and his head must be kept as still se pomible.
He must get doven and stay down unless and until fro · is certain that ho must rise to take the ball.
In taking the ball his foot will mova only so far as is necessary to bring his head armă,body. across behind the line of the boll. He must never move bacle from the wicket.
He should always try to take the ball in his gloves, forming
under his gloves and How far he stands back will relaxed cup with the angers
them he may reinforce
with depend on the pace of the bowl-pointing down,
His hands should "ride" with plastioles along the base of his ing and of the wicket. But when
but will be the ball as they take it, Angers.
standing back his abn His gloves should It him 20 to position himself as to take once securely taken he should it back to the wicket ready for the opportunity of... a comfortably, but not tightly, and the length ball just after it bring should always be pulled right on begins to drop after pitching.
{stump.
within the stalls..
that his fingers are well home
In taking up his stance behind the wicket his weight must be equally balanced between half-way. 'two feet, with his body right. (0%).
He must stand either right up or well, back-never
Bigger Athletes- Better Times
From "Cricket-How To Pl his produced for the M.C.C. and pub- ished by Educatiurial Productions,
The human race is getting taller. So the name John Michael Landy may soon be crossed off the list of world athletic Champions.
Landy, need it be sald, holds the World Mile record, with a time of 3 min 58 secs. But according to the calculations of J. V. Durnin, the famous physiologist, Landy's days as Champion are numbered. Ceorge Smith's Writing in "All Out For The Mile" (Forbes Robertson 15s.) Durnin expands on the boxing maxim of a good big un will always bent a good little 'un, when he declares: "Given equality in all other as peets the taller person will run faster than the smaller."
But what about runners like Sydney Wooderson and the pre- sent day Chris Chataway? They are not glants by any means. Yet Wooderson held the Milo record for dive
and years, The lust
returned under honest, but what is much more
OIL gano
Chataway has the tomorrow may
four minutes. important, his pruise eventually programme becomes as hollow as a termite prove to be the hardest of the
lot and the infested upright.
spectators who make the tripto the Club Stadiwn should be assured of thrills galore and sportsmanship aplenty when the Army and RAF clash in an all Services
Be that as it may was asked han once why the organ- tising The bigger stadium to increase their incume Father then te decrease the
ORDINARY CLUB prices. However, you
look at that point of view it is reason-
The visitors from Lourence able enough and I am sure the Marques were, in my considered poor attendances at the
oplaion, nothing think
more than will compel the FA
very ordinary club side, and about it very deeply before the
that is what I wrote. I thought next visitors arrive.
The Chinese spretators form Hongkong were little
421741 1 said that too. I 190€ all but vely small minority someone
the has dug of the crowd at big games and Pegasus ghost: I hope they also they have now shown in the took the trouble to dig up what most pructical way possible I wrote about them t the that they are unwilling to take time. the risk of paying Oul bard cured dollars for football of uncertain quality.
earned
u
have
up
It wasn't very complimentary, and as a matter of passing in-
Test 1 rate the Lourenco Marques boys a better side than Pegasus on the strength of their respective showings in the
There is however one point that I would like to make re- garding the suggestion that clubą ike Grasshopper,. Koge
And Adinira are almost profession- als
whatever
tever that ambiguous rm might mean. Such a commen! is unjustt- fcd. Grasshopper is one of the true amateur clubs of the world, and football is but one of many of the club's activities. It is very unfair to a fine collection of genulue sportsmen to suggest that they are other than true- blue amateurs.
On the basis of nance and enviroment it would surely have been better to have filled the stadium at popular prices Colony rather than to
thousands of tickets left unsold for each of the three games.
Another important point that came out of the series was the
realistic utterly
contract con dition that insists on all game: of this nature being played at the Hongkong Sto
Stadium. Such an unimaginative clause could only accrue from the financial and administrative minds of people whose interest is direct- el to channels other
than
the actual playing of the game.
The HKFA. would do well to use the evidence of this series to convince the Stadium governor that blind adherance to the clause can only work to the direct detriment of the game... on the deld and at the gate,
EMPTY ARENA
Those of us who had the pleasure of meeting the Koge players when they were here, know the sacrifices somo them had to make to come on the tour. The Admira set-up ‘is very much along the lines of our own KMB and Sing Tao for most, if not all, of the playma are employed together on the.
The folly of playing the Hongkong Selection match in a rast empty arena did the game lub is one of the leading mem- railway, and as the Djurgarden and all associated with it no good
whatsoever, There 1sbers of the Swedish FA Got the shadow of a doubt that very
and strong
principled amateur body the hollowness of the suggestion of near pro- fessionalism is shown to be in accurate and fil-founded.
Let me say, no more than this.
the
critic's crilles are to be and the East Afrian were indeed a better
If the game had taken pince at the more intimate Club Ground both the play And the aunosphere-and maybe Riso the crowd-would have greatly improved.
been
During n conversation with
II believed visitors
a group of spectators after the team than I stated, then I can second game I heard a sug gestion that
the
that the mystery
MORAL ADVANTAGE
be well only suggest might worth serious consideration by of the aggregato 40,000, of 80
HKFA
It was this. At mpty state at the three games
wants a bit of explaining: present separsto tickets are Issued for each game, and the new proposal is that the FA should offer the paying public This week-end we plunge into "through tiekot for all three the thrills of knock-out football games. This would give and overshadowing all else will | person the chance to have the | bo-the. titanic Senior Shield
11
Reel tough
I WANTED AN
SHE WANTED
WAS IT AS
TO GO TO
FILM?
THE CINEMA
EVENING AT HOME
match.
may well re-
MODERATE HEIGHT
"Some record-holders," admits Durnin, "are of quite moderate height
but the majority are taller and, more significant, re- cords are being broken by in- creasingly taller and taller
This is a most interesting | people." gaine for both sides have run into their best form all the right time and quire another meeting before a decision is reached as to whe
•hat for the will pass into the next round.
All Senior Shield games will start at 3.30 pm,
I.
SPORTS QUIZ
Who was the great sport- ing Prince of British - Rugby?
2. Can a golfer sland outside the limits of the teeing ground to play a ball teed within the limits?
3.. Complete the pames of the following fmous cricketers: (a) D. G. → (b) W. G. - (c) W. R. —, (†) L. E. G. -
4. A Nigerian boxer recentiy became the first of his countrymen, to win ал Empire boxing title. Name please.
1 ་
3. With what sport do you bag a pair of spectacles"?
6. What is the longest in
in dividumă înnings first
class erfeket?,
7. Who aims a wood at a
jacit?. ***
8. Three countries have won the world SOCKET Cup since its inception in 1928, Who are they?...
9. He has just broken his own world, recorda re- cord once hold by his father: Who is he?
ara
10. How many players
there, in a (6) Hockey team (b) Rugbar | Lengé team?
(Answers' Ses. Page:17)
CIOUS DROPS
And this, says Durile, is at a time when less than a dozen athletes in a hundred top six feet.
"It Étems Inevitable," ho adds "that zooner or later healthy men of exceptional stature with the appropriate physical attributes will shatter existing athletic records,
A
This may well occur on quite large scale because there is a very great amount of evidence from many countries through- out the world that the average height of the
steadily increasing.”ulation is
How
long will it be before the records tumble?
Not as long, perhaps, as many A common be- people think Jief is that the amount by which records
are being broken is diminishing.
This la not so. At the end of "All Out For The Mile" is an analysis of the World's Mile re- cords. It shows that after the first offfelal record of 4 min. 14.4 secs, set up by John Paul Jones in 1913, it took 29 years for 8.2 seconds to be knocked
of.
That was when Gundar Haegg returned 4 mins, 8.2 secs.
The Hoxt 8.2 secs. took just twelve years to remove.
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