PROMOTION, AND RELEGATION
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1956.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE HAS
BEEN SET A
TASK
OF VITAL IMPORTANCE
Says I. M.
MacTAVISH
I have heard many strange tales of what goes on in Hongkong's been ав soccer byways but I wonder if the speculative chatter has ever loud as it is at the present time.
The far-reaching decisions made at the HKFA Council meeting earlier in the week have certainly started things moving with a vengeance and the special com- mittee which has been elected to handle the problem of promotion and relegation has been set a task that is of vital importance to the whole future of Hongkong football,
I have studied the proposals as they were tabled by Mr 1, J. Channing
together with the other views expressed and while I believe the principle is sound and that promotion and relega- tion can only benefit our fool- ball, I do mit bellevo that the details of the proposal are the
best that could have been put forward.
The vital point as I sre 15 in that the reserve tums of all First Division clubs must be excluded from any competition which can have
bering whatsover on the application of promotion or relegation.
עתית
A new, and entirely separate, division of the League must be created tu accommodate the
various reserve nidės: any other ATIANKENent is open to abuse no mattor how tightly the legisla- tion on the matter appears is the
on paper.
DID NOT WORK
reserve
The Rica of mixing skles and independent tion-seeking clubs in the re Lengue competition w Ba tried in regional football in Scotland for a few years and it proved to be a most unsatisfactory and unharmomous sort of 10am-
invent.
ney
By creating a
Reserve Division every suspicion would be checked and every possibi-
ty of recrimination would be satisfactorily eliminated.
side well
placed
strengthen a in the lower League rice would In consequence be minimised.
all as their interests would be the vote of fully covered by their First Division side.
There are still snags in that
M proposition as you will see you examine it closely uguins! pd no established background Hongkong football, but it would
1 worst be better than the sit
which might otherwise tion artse.
According to press reports at least one Councillor had this whole matter very much in mind during
the meeting last Monday and we can only hope that when the deliberations of the committee are eventually presented for Gorsliteration at The introduction of promotion
Annual Ccieral Meeting
and relegation must also change they will include a strong re-the attitude to the prosent commendation that will excludo knockout competitions the Ure possibility of reserve tearns Senior Shield and the Junior competing under any conditions Shield. with the very clubs for whore benefit
scheme the being proposed.
the
UNC
if no way exclude would
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thie end to Let us sce now
present restricted entry for the Senior tournament, Give the can be found to season a real kick by putting oll these icams then
Rthe League clubs with the excep that the tion
into the beiter
of the Reserves | promotion and relegation draw and let us make it a really
proposed be shoved back on the representative battle. shelf to gather the dust of time rather than that the 1980-87 Neuson should be the starting point of what could well be à soccer tragedy
INCENTIVE
GREAT LEVELLER
11 is true, of course, that on paper the little clubs have no but chance against the glants somehow or other knockout football is a great leveller and The surprises low as they might be would give a real flip to the game.
Promotion and relegalioa vital to the future progress of Hongkong football. The ambitious Bide clubs must be given an Incentive to try and tion tournament for the smaller early better their status and a fair clubs eliminated
There could also be a consola-
in the
| system of promation and rounds and there could, of mlegation is surely the real way course, be a separate competi to do it
tlon for the teams in the Reserve Longue.
Whigen great pity it would'
If there is going to be a re- This ideation would, if the progressive allitude formation in Hongkong football mean that serve players wall played by Mr Channing let it be u really courÜGEOUS indeed to reserve phiyets, they were prejudiced at the last one. Half measure can only load would be available to muvo into hurdle by a stumbling block to half a success, and now that the senior side when" regular
castly be the lead has been given and the man suffers injury or lowes his whics a could
Temoved.
progressive- spirit of genuine forin.
ness has been shown to the For the
let it be en- Council Arst time in years HKFA real That 18, #fter all, the
that the 20
"now purpose of a reserve team and there is a real glimmer of hopecouraged
will in for the little clubs
order" in our toolball who are yet under the present arrange-
for the moment out of ment a "reserve" player who has
the fact lead eventually to a higher
International will place made two appeararICES In the limelight: let us hope senior side cannot again
not take
be blocke
the affairs. out by of the reserve part in a junior match until he towering balk has been formally reinstated by teams of the powerful clubs. the
Hongkong Football
Association
With a completely separate competition such
Ituation need
There would
nol trio,
be no great honour attached to wimming the Reserve Division
With the possibility of promo- Hon and relegation now
усгу are other much upon us there relevant points which must also be given a great deal of thought. The first and surely the most important.
is the vexing question of representation; the
and the temptation to "down-second is the arrangements for grade" players merely to the knockout competitions.
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Unless some great personality suddenly' appears on the soccer scene and by mirecio of oratory convinces the present edministrators that a committee of five Independent officinis could run Colony football with real beneßt "ty-the-game, then | representation on a club basis is something of the greatest im- portance to every
team in the competition. but most perlicu- larly to those clubs who own their grounds,
COMPLICATIONS
on
any
As long
the stadium (owners are in the First Division |they have „full represention
the present council and fore have a fair say in [point which is brought up
discussion and which may re- quire a vote. It is easy to envis nge the complications if in the the Hongkong
years' toˆcoinp
soccer
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SPORTS ROUNDABOUT
WILL FRANK TYSON LEAVE NORTHAMPTON WHEN HIS CONTRACT EXPIRES?
By W. CAPEL KIRBY
BILL OF RIGHTS
By HENRY LONGHURST
The essence of a blography is to make the reader feel that he has lived another man's life, sharing his hopes and disappointments and penetrating the workings of his mind, without the trouble and inconvenience of | doing 50.5%
This standard is certainly achieved in the case of Norman von Nidn's "Golf is My Business" (Frederick Muller), which was written in conjunction with an Australian journalist, Muir Maclaren.
The story of a life dedicated to competitive golf opens with a passage characteristic of both the parties concerned, Yon Nida, Agrod 15. undersized, junder weight, but perky as II bantam cock, is to cadillo for the great Hagen at Brisbane. He is about the size of Ha- gea bog. "That's all right. Mr
Hagen," he sayo, "l AYYI the best caddie in Brisbane." "O.K., son," says Hagen, look- lng down at him. "Then you and I are a pair, because I'm the best golfer in BrisbanQ.”
THE HARD WAY
Von Nida came up the hard way. He was flung 69 feet from tho Victoria Bridge into tha shark-ridden Brisbane river, narrowly missing some electric cables, to deter him walking homo with another young gentician's girl and, thereafter, worked tu vartous abattoirs,
up to his knoc entrails and splitting sheep skully with his bare hands a practice to which he attributes the strength of his golf grip and possibly the meaty contenta of
his book.
in
It was golf that rescued him and let him out into the fresh air to a life of travel, good company, and success golf and his passionate, combative do-
termination to win.
What makes this book 50 ro- freshing is lia frankness, not
only about other people but about the incessant "incident in which he has allegedly been involved. One of his principal targets, I have to reveal, is writers for whom it is satulary for once to be on the receiving end.
"Most," ho think, "re honest, but some are prejudiced, some caroless dish meat." and quite a few Leonard Crawley and Henry Longhurst are both round and knowledgeable when they con- edrm themselves with the play" (chl), “but are too often - In- Buenced by the demand for sensationalism which wemns to be the bare of modern port writers,"
to
In
There's a big question mark against Frank Tyson's cricketing future. Northampton there is speculation as to whether "Typhoon" will remain with the county, transfer his affections to Lancashire, or settle down to school-teaching and confine his cricketing activities to Lancashire League cricket.
Doubt about Frank remaining with Northants is based on the fact that his contract expires at the end of this season, and that he has made no attempt to set up a permanent home in the Midlands.
Teaching, plus League cricket, being merged and divided into offers the best financial prospect, Third and Fourth Divisions. but there's
the matter of the MCC tour in South Africa dext winter to lake into serious consideration.
Ken Wood has been unfairly criticised for not turning out at London's White Clly the other
(Oh dear!). Elsewhere I got myself. "what tripe some
But golf writers indulge inf" Crawloy also, I am glad to see, gets a rimllar hon. mention on his own.
Von Nida has gone through life looking for his "rights,” as he calls them--and, one is inclined to suspect,
for
anyone who might be disposed to deprive him of them One of the better examples, not mentioned in-the- stylish fashion book, was his perfectly serious up 100 runs in for Oakham School.
"I should have stuck to Altba," There was a sigh of relief at Sandy Robertoon toid me after Peterborough when 17-year-old
Middianas algned. taking his record wrockding 11 at Bobby
week, the dotted lind last the last hole in the Assistants championship al Hartsbourne Wolves have been trailing this MaDor the previouis week.
most promising nominated
left winger who Sandy, native at Pitlochry, has been
by used to play Soccer for Joan Northants Få to talco the FA I think he showed common-field Swifts, but not under the special
coaching courto at sense. Why should this excellent name of Robertsoni
Lilleshall this month.
Monday.
3. Soldiers Field, September Olympic prospect burn himself!
23, 1020 saw a world cham-out plom dethroned, Who?
Melbourne
while olher
4.
Who has won the Women's Singles title at Wimbledon tho most times Louts Brough or Maureen CCD- nolly?
aspirants column?
dodging
5. With which sport do you connect the teat of a thou- sand in May"?
6. Emil Zatopek brolio the Olymple record each time is winning the 4,000 metros, 10,000 metres and marathon at Helsinki in 1952, Right or wrong?
this
claim during the "Daily
Telegraph" foursomes,' when his partner, J. C. Wilson, iwico left him in a bunker “a man's chil- thod to be got out of a bunker”i
THE WRONG LINE
"I avo nejar shrunk from speaking up for my rights," he says, "or trying to sight what 1 considered wrong." is this, I think, which has been respons
sible for matting name in the papirs for .60 Dany extra- Curricular activities. At
Sun- ningchle he sucks
caddie bús for commenting unfavourably on at St. Andrews for his play and at
him the wrong ling--as
Out of which ho hang.
a
wird
for a caddie from London. At
homa
ROCLISON Saxtazen's manager of cheating him, Oliver of playing the fool and putting him pa, Tommy Bolt of being rude and "bellyaching to Press man,"
Within days of his Ars arrival in America no is rolling
on the ground by the stÖre- board, Tocked in deadly combat with a professional who had palmbly cheated, and is pulled off by a sherift.
He falls out with the PGA in Queensland and may not per- haps endear himself to them here by calling the Ryder Cup "a fasco until Dominión players are admitted.”
NORMAL FACILITIES
All this is good strong stuff and does no ono any
barm Our hero does, however, zo on to say that the 1958 Ryder Cup at Wentworth, at which he was not prosent, was "badly organised
Nothing done to make the spectators comfortable crowds, Marshalling
normal facilities non- this was quite As
toumarpent
-of
in
the Britain, up to
to that time and not Wentworth are determined that the Canada Cup, in which he
shall be 415- playing an apology
of
ha best-
the captain and committee by today's post seems indicated. Its arrival would coincide nicely with the publication of the book.
Nevertheless, this is a brave book. It represents yet another blow by an at-heart likeable little
mon in black beret, constantly misneprocented, mis- reported, misunderstood, labour- ing under the burden not of d chip on one shoulder but tree trunk on both. The only mari, in fact, đợt out of step.
Now China And Korea Enter Golf Battle
By FRED PIGNON.
in
China and Korea have entered the battle for world Opponents will hear a strange If you're inclined towards golf supremacy. They bring the entry for the Inter- the Middlesex, brogus when Jimmy making unfavourable compari- national Championship, to be played at Wentworth,
Touer makes his county golting con between our week-end debut
This Saturday.
sportsmen and State-pampered Surrey, on June 24, 25, and 26, to the record number of
food far 28 countries. Isn't it eough that he saved slimly-built Finchley golfer from full-timers, there's
Ireland
the thought In "Britain in received OUT faces by that brilliant-Northern
county recognition within 24 World of Sport," compiled ly well-judged 1,000 metros
hours of completing his two members of Birmingham victory over Hungary's track years reddential qualification. University physical education stars two days previously?
Не was formerly a Newcastle staff, which includes Wolves' (Co. Down) footballer.
international half-back, Stater.
CONTINUED SUCCESS
by
Bill
Each country is represented by two players, not necessarily professionals. Their aggregate scores over 72 holes count for the team event and the Canada Cup, while individual scores over 72 holes decide the Inter-
national Championship.
This well-balanced, treatise This event brings together the there
leaves us with two vitat ques-greatest international field ever Askod by the club chairmations in this Olymple, your: seen in this country. It is the why he had a bowl of gold da Should for
We withdraw from fourth of a series sponsored by on
his desk, the manager world sport, or make no dis-Canadian millionaire John Jay replied: "I like to watch 'em inciion between amateur and Hopkins. opening their mouthe without professional? criticising my team."
Football Club, South Chino and | the, Police' were singly or colice- tively relegated to a lower division.
Under the present voting systern it would then be possible for clubs who have no grounds
of their own to initiate, pro pose, and carry legislation, do trimental to the beat interests of the ground-owning clubs, pnd when one remembers the enter- prise shown by thà Ciuh, South China and the Police that would marely bo against every secopted principle of justice and sports- Tratandiśp..
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7. Which event did Mrg Zalo-
pok win?
8. What sport does a toxophi-
Hito follow!
B. Two Jamico Ja have won the world heavyweight box- ing title, Surnames please.
10.
One unusual feature marked the Bout Rape of 1912 and 1951 What WES HY (Adawers See Fago, 17).
FOR
Continued success in Scottish junior competitions of Lugar Is delying Dowall Thistle Spurs signing of Jim Collins, | 19-year-old inside-right.
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The story should go down Woll at the League secretar los
and manertief dinner in Londoti,
NERVY
What do you think?
OHELSEA. TRIAL
Jimmy Cartwright, outside
Argentina,
Australia, and United States have won the three pravicu Comida Cup tournaments,, and are all play ing again.
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Player, of South Africa,
Professional” Golfers has selected tha Association British players from the order- of-marit. lat. Harry Weetman and Hen Bousted play for England. Eric Brown and John Parton for Scotland, Horry Bhidshaw and Christy." O'Con- nor for Irelanat, and Dad Reta Football League "Parliament
and Dennis Smalldon for Wales, dnsembles in London iris weck-
Álmost every player in the and and although an inerous ins spootator absenteeism i
Peter Thomson, the British Caradi. Cup certain
will compote in Eric Houston is in Cornwall left, of the Coatbridge team, Open Champlom and to be reported nothing will be
Norman the Open
Championship at done to rellave the boredont of recovering for the effects of Gleimavis, is attroling the at- von Nide represent Austrália, Hoylake the following woek
Vilia's relegation expetention of Enadian soorte. He and for Hopin stud dám Stead except plossing, but equally nerve has already vidiod Burnley and play for US,
PE Be Ha racking, was felding - for Lin, Em now bón invited to šlam-Man
Ho will not make another bid colnshire Gestimen whilst his ford Bridge to show his paces Another intertwing partner for the illo ho wots in 1953 be 10-year-old son, Nell knocked with Cholgen,
ship la Bobby Locks and Gary cause, he says, ho not
bnough for a long," pasion - Df compoluva galt,
the most unwickly, long-drown- out competition in the world of sport. I hear is fouch and go whether the voling devoure the
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