ARMY SPORTS
PARADE
A very special welcome to the Spot, of Honour at the Top of the Sports Parade this week goes to Rifleman Lulbahadur Limbu of the 2/7 Gurkha Rifles for his fine win in the Annual Khud Race held in the New Territories on Saturday.
The
The winner had the added satisfaction of leading his colleagues to a victory in the team event and once again the tough, fit, sure-footed Gurkhas showed their supe riority over all comers in this traditional running hill climb, although for a time it looked as though the enter prising team of 1 King's Own might cause y real upset.
the draws for
Arst, of the 1 Essex Reg; and Pte rounds of the Major and Minor Joyce of the North Staffs, the Cross Country Unita Football Cups have pro- Land Forces duced so excellent games. The Champion, a fine race seerti draws pre as follows:--
Units Cup: B Major
Coy RASC. v. 27 HAA Regi RA; A Exsex H K Sig Regt; 1 Northampions v. 1 North Staffe; 19 Fd Regt RA v. 1 King's Own. Byes: 7 Hussars, 15 Med Regt FA 24 F Engrs, 74 LAA Roit RA.
V.
pesured,
Invitations have also been sent to Cpl Smith of the King's Own who won the event inst year, Gur Tulloh of 173 Loc Bty RA. and Cmd MAA Bob Pope of the Royal Navy.
disappointment.
Due to a a troublesome Injury Pape will not be taking part. He Minor Units Cup: HKCTU v. points out that the Mile is hard HQ HK & Kin Garrison: 82 Sqay his distance ..... he reckons RE v. 173 Loc Bly RA 1 Int he is not fast enough..... but Wkchps v. 33 Gen Hosp; Transit his mere presence is a big attrac Camp
20 FDS; RE Wks tlon V.
and his absence a big 10 Cay HASC: 3 Services v. Supply Depot v. Q Mov; 8 COD v. BMH; HQ 27 Bde v. Cmd Wishps. Byc-50 Coy. RASC, HQ 48 Bde, 27 Lt Bly RA, RMP, HQRA Μον Lt Tp. Wishps, CPO..
All first round games in both competitions will be played on Wednesday, Feb. 22,
THE “CHINA" MAIL,"
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1956.
J. L. MANNING'S SPORTS DIARY
I TAKE THE BIG STICK TO HEADMASTER ELLIS
It is enough to have football matches abandoned because of snow and ice. It
is altogether too much to have them stopped by referees imagining themselves to be heroes of the Mutiny on the Bounty..
Thus I reflect on the extmordinary action of Mr Arthur Ellis ending the game between Coventry and San Lorenzo because one of the Argentine players refused to go off when ordered and generally went berserk..
So
I will not merely take the stick to Mr Ellis, but also invite him to say publicly that the job of a referee is to control the game and not to abandon it.
tho
rutich. He just popey can't
not
We my hot risking, gny- It was a collective punish-Including the expenses of our ment of the other players and Olympic mission, Inade. up the thing. This other guy in. San all the optelators alike. The remaining few hundreds Francisco can't hurt anyone
Woll, apart from the girl "Why should he philosophy of caning the whole
duck fight of the with. Pompeyt one boy is un-figure-skaters, most class when Kovernable
another Light- 耱 founded on competitors finished way, down weakness and not on strength.
as worth Heavyweight. courer Was Since this Ult of head digging into Olympic funds so worried, and we shall be on our
way to London without fall." master study touchiness, Mr badly needed at Melbourne!
was.
Indeed, 80 Of course it
Mr. Johnston's. ..pist. Ellis has consented to a lot of
We should have spent
twice as testimony on the record, and is our I bellove every word he says. publicity.
where But much.
This will be no new experience Olympic policy?
whereas the I ask
for him. British
Association
and to worke out defend
flu geims, sending
*.. some can rightly
from my fireside more than 40 forlorn-hopers comment
the
farce of to Cortine
they say they can warmth on nol
6-League games on The 30 February more than send' track and held competitors to frozen grounds. It is dedicated
to the Football League: Melbourne, who have
To try to make our Soccer
better of reaching the finais.
This is ridiculous, and the Association must know it. So We've bent out this important
letter: once again I plead with them
Melbourne Floodlights may be very nice of footballers, Mr Ellis de.
doublo the clares: "If footballers children numbers and keep on shouting But we prefer the darke and ice.
way come fofor the money,
if they
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to borrow
from ballers do, they would have sore have botters very often,"
UNESCO.
TRIBUTE. TO WIVES Indeed, I feel I ought to dwell upon some of the subjects Mr Ellla has seen at to lecture upon since he was unable to go through with the match at Coventry..
If this is a tribute to foot- ballers wives, may I join the
unruly and, more the pity.
19
SEVEN-A-SIDE RUGBY Jonent with these few lines: He kicks referees, like his dad
who's with City. Inherited
folly his face poles.
mother's
to
Суст
a chrnce
1
MORE PATRIOTISM
་
I am encouraged By what the secretary of the British'
Olymple Association, Mr Sandy Duncan, said at Cortina,
the Не defended Gomes
Winter expenditure by proudly For didn't his grandpa play proclaiming that Britain must "Show the Flag" even if sho Rugby for Wales?
1 have been asked to repeat the following information about the nnual Blarney Stone Seven- Dista-Side Rugby Competition, Units
may enter os
DE many teams as they wish. The entry fee for each TEAM is $15 and entries should
But that is not all forwarded direct to G. D. Carpenter, c/o Shell Company of Hongkong Ltd., Shell House, Hongkong. Entries close en February 29.
INTER-UNIT BOXING The 1958 Inter-Unit Team Boxing Championship has pro- vided some grand bouts and one or two surprises both in context and match
When the results.
draw was originally unnounced
|
-
presented
ne.
4
very scorce
Gelf used to be a regular topic in this column and at one time there were those who felt that a very co-operative local mer- it was a pity that it had pre chant
bottle of cluded the possibility of a North whisky to those soldier golfers Stoffs-King's Own final, This who succeeded in returning a
have been hole in feeling appears to
In recent mes gn the belief that these news of the Army's golfing fro- two units
evenly ternity were very
has been How wrong that indeed and once again I assure notched.
would those concerned that we proved to be in the first round like por: interesting Items and the North Staffs over- from your very popular game. whelmed
their
opponents whe News has just reached us that managed to win. only one bout the FARELE Golf Champion-
will be in eleven, although in fairness, ship
held at Kuala It must be said that one or two Lumpur on May 24 and 25. of the contests were very close Hongkong has a fine record in affairs. But points
what
doubt some and no event patils count and by 21 to 12 North of our players will be making
the trip again this year. Staffs scored a decisive victory ଦୁଃ
moved
on to the next round and to crown every thing Land Forces Champion L/Cpl Meigh scored his third L/Cpl Jones, straight win over pride of the King's Own.
10
arc
In addition to the Champion- ship a Four Ball match will be played against the Selangor
Golf Club on May 20.
The
new Services School, St The other two matches were George's, comes right into the with the on- much elczer and 7th Hussars news this wock
accounted for 1 Northamptons nouncement, that an Inter- by 16 points to 15, while in a School
Thatch against thrilling clash
only King George V School will be that settled
Was
Boxing
in the last bout Com-held at Kowloon Tsal on Friday bined Workshop: REME scraped
through by 17
27
evering
at 7 o'clock. 10 points to
Schoolboy
boxing is a very The refreshing sport and the two HAA Rest HA against 27 feature of this latter match was schools are to be congratulated their combined efforts to rivalry by competition
the
Middle-on of Colony defent
weight Champion Cin Dinning stimulate healthy
by
the Light recommending Gnr Bone in Heavyweight bout. This was no such is this. Championship show by Dinning
hig
Al-conceived current for the big punch is
and
jelish
reducing im
levels.
INTER-11OUSE BOUTS
In addition to the bouts in the Inter-School match there to very ordinary will also be several Inter-Houso bouts between pupils of St of the two semi-George's School will inko place at Sek Both schools have been train- Kong at 8 pm tonight when 7 Ing hard and there will be no Hussars tackle 1 North Staffs lack of support for the particl
The first
Проі
in what should be a terrifle pants.
battle for a place in the final.
The other semi-anal between
It will be
re-assuring for
parents to know that the re-
74 LAA Regt RA and Combined fereeing and judging will be in Workshops REME will take the capable hands of members place at Whitfeld
Barracks of the Army Physical Training
next Wednesday at 8 pm.
IMPORTANT DATES
Corps, and the contestants will
be under the closest supervision
And now come important during the time they are in the news for thosc interested in ring.
team athletics.
ол
This looks like being a sing
The North Minor Units meet- evenings Antertainment and ing will be staged at Sek Kong many Amy families will be at on February 15 while the South, the ringside to see their boys in Minor Unity will tussie for
action. supremacy at Boundary Street
The continued success of the Thursday Merch 1. Three tcome, from each of these two RAMC soccer team in the Hong- contest the Land kong Football League reflecto groups Forces Minor Units Final at great credit on the piers and Boundary Street on March 10. their officials. The team start-
The Major Units will be held in three
follows:-40 Buc
nt
Petition
at Sek
ed the season in a quiet but con- asfident way and in spite of the Sek Kong on obvious difficultice that confront February 10; 27 Bde at Son Wat a side drawn mainly from two an March 2; and HK & Kin hospitals, they have continued to
Gnr at Boundary Streat an get satisfactory results.
March 3, Two teams from each
group will go forward to
the
Land Forces Major Units Final
3 on March 27.
•
One of the high spots of the
REME athletic meeting the
Belgian Boxers
Should Wear
other day was the exciting Leather Helmets.
Brussels, Feb. 14.
wear
Open Milo which was won by LAC Martin of the Royal Air Force against a vory strong A report recommending that -Neld.
Belgian boxers, shoukt There
were several well loather, helmets, foam rubber known names among those who walat belts and large gloves finished behind the fleet-footed with foam rubber surfaces WIN airman and if all current approved by the lower house arrangements” go according to ❘ Committes on Public Health plan a repetition of the thrills tonight.
will be one of the big attrac
Those mamares on
tions at the Annual RAMC gestod a
svainet: meeting at
at Boundary Street on injuries to the head and body.
stated that February
report/ mrvitation has been ex- The
were seriously. boger fonded to LAC Marlin to take mirt by an Illegal blow, then
• part, and sacceptances have his opponent would be rempori- already been reptived from Liesible under civil law,China Alderton, Burch and Lockstone Mall Special, ***
Headmaster El.
adm
from He hus.
astounded us with this statement
and I quote:
In sportsmanship Russians are the best."
the
This remark makes me sec red. So you can quote me [saying:
as
Kari Marx taught them
bchave, Obediently like a slave.
to
If they
gremlin
which
always
satisfies
Kremlin.
lose they blame
WINTER GAMES
the
As we began with snow and jce, so let us continue. And talk about the Winter Games Just concluded Cortina.
win.
well, what
Jacke
.
sort of Union.
is it if it fles bravely in Italy, but hangs limply at half- mast in the Commonwealth of Australia?
A little more patriotism and
STEWARDS
SHOULD EXTEND WARNING
SOCCER
ON THE
INSIDE
- Edited By Bob Pennington
Two new recruits from Fulham, Charlie Mitten and Ron Green- wood, and one old hand from Highbury, Tommy Lawton, were lined up last week to take over the uneasy seats of soccer managership.
Mitten hng been appointed player-mu nager, of Mansfield. He cost his new club Just over £3,000. He lost his first team place at Fulham to Trevor Chamberlain, the boy who scored three goals against Newcastle in the fourth round Cup tie.
"I'm coming as much with Dave Hickson, who failed us Gravesend and Northfleet," said a goal-scorer with Aston Villa, Logie. "And at Gravesend they is in line for another move-
from centre forward to right winger at Huddersfield, where he has scored once in 13 games..
London Express Service).
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Ron Greenwood, the Fulham centre-half and one of the best coaches to wear the FA Badge of merit, is favourlie for the speak very nearly the samo team manager's job-at Fulham.language"
Fulham have studied applica- Flash-back: Torony Lawlen refused a £40-a-week plus ex- tions from top players all over Britain who want to take over penses offer from Limerick be- the running of their team. from fore going to Keltering. general manager Frank Osborne. Their verdiel:
"Not one has got the quali fications and personality Osborne, is seeking."
Ats.
So
they looked
Reedusg
City
Q move
£6,000 OFFER Short posses, Mr have refused a £0,000 offer for ex-Fulham wingman Wally Ground Hinshelwood by a Division II Craven Cottage and found club now in the promotion race. Greenwood. Experience,
Brian Birch, Lincoln per from the orward wants sonality. respect
Greenwood
will get one if the bla youngsters.
is right.
Leyton Orient. have decided TOP SECRET TERMS on their two now men to boost their promotion drive, how The Fulham job was one the dreams of Tommy Lawton; they are talking money.
Fulham's directors have told player-manager of Brentford
West Bromwich: "Forget Bobby before he moved to Arsenal,
Robson,. if we sell Robson we Last week 30-year-old Law-
Bedford as well Bell might for Kettering ton signed
Jezzard and Johnny Haynes and player-manager. His top-secret shut up shop." terms
the
of
ELS
of
the
will certainly make him top-pay man Southern League.
Stanley Matthews celebrated. his 41st birthday quietly in week.. aiot Blackpool last
one managerial offer to trouble the world's greatest footballer.
a little less parsimony whip By Richard Baerlein Everyone knows better busin
women to
our sportsme, think they are wanted.
Now let us tum to the fine sport of professional boxing, In which there is no lack of monty so long as promoters like Jock Solomons
refuse to cut their. losses..
The trouble spot is occupies by Archie Moore, who with a ine contempt for all and sundry, fights an unknown boxer in San Francisco only three week
he is due to defend in
the temptation super-weight Championship against Beidl comment. That would Yolande Pompey.
of
before
Acid
or
usk! A postcard from a boy in
a shop Poland was among good wishes.
of
PI TENNIS
JAPANESE PAIR
ELIMINATED BY
FILIPINOS
At once, I furn aside from London his World Light-Heavy-regor the
not always an easy C. and Wacker (Austria), 0-2 mutch at the Rizal Memo
Nice and
•The Catcombina~ |
tion'
SHEFFIELD SHIELD
Another Good
Bowling Spell By
Ian Johnson
Melbourne, Feb, M. Jan Johnson, Australia's Test captain who is
tra to lead on their tour of Australluns England this summer, had an- other good bowling spell today
Victoria when
Beat
West Australia by an immings ind” 192 runs in the final Sheffield Shield game of the season.
Ha took three wickets for 23 to give him match figures of 7 for 52.
Final scores were: Victoria 625 (R. N. Harvey 142, Dick Mad- docks 98, C: McDonald 02, S. Loxton 67, L. Maddocks 54, A. Green six for 97).
Australia
162
(K.
• Jeman.48, Ian Johnson four.
for 20, J. Hill four for 37) and 191 (A. Edwards 42, Ian John- son three for 23).
Victoria's win puts them in second place in the final Shef- field Shield table-two points
behind New South Wales, who
were National Hunt trainers
began told before the season that severe measures would be
clubs, Thirteen top overseas
Manila, Feb. 15. taken by the stewards against
from Paraguay to
The Japanese doubles team of who deliberately ranging trainer Any
and Kurjo gave horse a school in public. Yugoslavia, want to tour Eng Juil Takayama
Occasionally the stewards land. whatever the South Watanabe were ousted yesterday have won the title for the third.
by have acted
Americans may kay warning
about our from the Philippine National year in succession.
Final positions in Shield Tablo fining trainers for this par referees.
Open Championships by the ticular offence. It has often Now lining up for an English Filipino team of former Davis are:
New South Wales 22 points been trainer who has rúna visit are: Liberiad (Paraguay), Cupper Cesar Carmona and F. completo novice round
Helmsted at the
20 points 57.1 por (Sweden),
Victoria Vienna Deyre after a thrilling 7-5, 6-2, 62.8 per cent. Karlsruhe (Germany), Snorrin Tennis
St we and at, often prove
brucken (Saur),
too much museland 14 points 40 per proved too the horse, being school- Eilenne (France), Sevilla,
Western Austraila B'polnis 25 so Espanol de Barcelona, Valencia, Japanese pair who fought
gamely in the first set. per cent. Filipinos and Athleitico Madrid (Spain). After deusing at 5-5 the Fill-
South Australia 8 points 22.8 and Spartak (Yugoslavia).
Soon there'll be only Liberia plnos, however, went on to win per cent.-Reuter.
the first
sand taking advantage left for en away-from-it-all
weakness at of the Japanese | holiday!
cross-court play took the next two sets in an easy fashion,
Takayama maces a tough
in the
Vina del Mar, Feb. 14. assignment
Singles
Chile's..Oscar Alvarado set a Championship today when he collides this afternoon with tho now South American, record for third ranking Filipino player the 200 metres butterfly when and Davis Cupper Johnny Joso, he won one of today's series in
2:43.5.-United "Press. -France-Presse.
no one loses any money and no rent harm has been done, "
At the same time, this is a law which can be interpreted
many different ways.
CONVINCING
be to say that this is hardly So we telephoned New Yorked is at an outside price, Lho time to blame the lack manager, Charley Johnston for
and snow in Britain for our
asked an explanation succession of failures,
whether Moore was trying to No, I am concerned with duck the London Tight-he other
of our Olympic | already aspecta
had it postponed. "for policy. อก informed that
reasons
found we
passing we sent 45 competitors at a strange.
Jimmy Logle is still laugh- cost of about £4,000 to the
THIS OTHER, GUY
an Irish League club difference ing.. British
Is there any real Olympic Association, and distributed as follows: This is what Johnston had between a public performer of have offered the ex-Arsenal and
to say reassuringly about his known ability who is down the Scotland Inside-right £15 Champion:
course three times before And-week and expenses to play in "Moore wanted
form in most Ireland, upped to £25 a week a fight toing his real
and the if he moves there. uniforms and tune up as he has not, had on convincing fashion,
September. So I novice who goes round at the for the parade cost since last and other incidentals, said: 'OK, fix one up yourself." tail end of the 'fëld?
Sklers (25) £900; Skaters (1) £000; Boba (9) £700.
In addition, clothing £1,000,
*
•
WORLD TRIP TO BOOST GAMES
Novel method of publicising the forthcoming. Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, has been hit upon by Mr Paut Morawetz, a Czech-born Australian. He is currently travelling round the world' enfrying with him an Olymple flag--and in every city he visits he prevails upon the mayor to sign the flag. day he was received by London's Lord Mayor, Akler man Cuthbert Ackroyd, who is pictured algning the dag, while Mi Mlowswein watches.
As far as the backer is con- cerned, the second case is the less serious, It is almost sure has concern a horse he never heard of.
to
per-
Well-known public formers are backed every time they run and Invariably have a the strong
following-with
possible exception of their first appearance in any one season
Horses are not machines and
сарпо
be expected to run con- sistently all the time,
But the public do not want the wool pulled over their eyes by the excuses of some train- Crs, whore horses take a seem- Ingly long time to get back to form when there is no appar- why they should ent reason ever have lost,
RIGHT TIME
feature The worst
of the whole business is that we are apt to congratulate the train- er as a genius who coaxes back a Champion to his best form year after year at the right time,"
more
profession. .accurate
27 HAA Regt. Wins Inter-Unit Squash Tourney
27 HAA Regiment RA became Squash the Army Inter-Unit Champions when they defeated the British Miltary, Hospital by four games to one at the Vic- toria Squash Courts yesterday.
At the conclusion of the games, Mr Cholmeley, wife of Briga- dler Cholmeley,
Commun MBE
and Kowloon Hongkong and
der, one Garrisons,
presented the tros phics, and was in turn presented with a bouquet of flowers by the captain of the
Watson.
winning team,
The following are the results: -Watson (27 HAA) lost to Sul- 6-0, 6-3, 6-9, livan (BMH) Smith (27 HAA) beat Biggart (DMH) 10-8, 9-7, -7; Rowe (27 HAA) beat Wood (BMH) 9-0, 6-9, 9-6, 0-1; Car (27 HAA) beat Allen (BMH) 9-3, 9-3, 3-0, 9-2; Owen-Smith (27 HAA) beat Tym (BMH) 9-5,
Mainland Win?
A master, of his might be description, for there is no 4-4, D-5. reason for supposing that it was necessary to Jet the horse that he down to the extent could not show his true form in publle for, auch a long time. There are plenty of trainers who find it quite unnecessary to let their Champions down for more than a short period; and this is done at home and
public.
handicappers
like
The Island' V Mainland cricket match at Chater Road, which was to have been a two-, day
yesterday morning owing to the affair, was abandoned bitter cold and rain that greeted in the Year of the Monkey. The sterope
twice winner of the Mainlanders word 24 June Cambridgeshire, urid.
shead at close of play on the first day and must have won on carrying Det. 1215. to victory red Innings, or was le a draw?
1m-
peccable, who ended up by
In the Chesterfield Cup
Goodwood, would never have reached their respective. "bril- llance. If they had not been consistently run out for their races so that they were con-
on the upgrade In my opinion schooling Pubile can be
and, in overdone, the' clise of the top-class per formers it in the backer, wit
the pounity?
Warning to the trainers of in- experienced, hores, Why not sxlend this to ciber, spherest
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