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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1957.
BOXING GETS A NURSE THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
-ETHEL USHER APPLIES
TO PROMOTE FIGHTS OF THE HKFA IS
By a Boxing Correspondent Mrs Ethel Usher has asked the British Boxing Board of Control for a promoter's licence for her company, who run the Winter Gardens in Banbury, Oxfordshire. And I understand that Mrs Urher's application will be granted.
I am pleased about. this because British boxing is in auch a sickened condition that the gentle touch of a woman's hand is urgently required.
I arrive back from the concrete canyons nud the rain- how.rush of sky signs that make op New York com- missioned to find a British boxer for a World Heavyweight Championship fight with Floyd Patterson.
And so long as Patterson tung be kept busy, his bosses da not mind whether the fight is t Britain or America.
Naturally 1 thirtie along the Ies of chaps with the rugged exterior and the pay-off pura. I mean mat like rough, tout Dick Richardson, 01 15:1 citizen Brian
dynamite-fisted Londen.
Ersidine, whose brief encounter with Nino Valdes we endenyour to forget, culpointed Peter Bates 1st May.
Early this very month. Brien London crused Bates consider- able distrees and knocked him out in two rounds,
But One Relationship
Is Still Unsettled
After All These Years
Says I. M. MacTAVISH
If you are interested in Colany sport in any form you will know I fell only the truth when I say it is quite impossiblo at the present time to escape football as a topic of conversation.
To those who love the game for what it is the current conversations must be disturbing and depressing for on almost get a title light with Erskine if every occasion it is being discussed with a general bitterness that is foreign to all but the most controversial aspects of the
And If I remember rightly it is stated that London would
he best Bates.
OUT IN THE COLD. But 1 anive back in there! I shall not edvite the Nev green and plearent isles to find Yok inllion dollør dheis minu-| that Ricinusbon and Lendions are freturer who wrots to put on the ; left on the sideliness, that Henry world title battle to attend this Cooper is given a crash e Joeļpastienbar championship fight, Erskine's British
But enough of this Gloomy Gus slur. Let iñe send up the breve chole for Peter Weterman,
1
hect
game.
Since the Hongkong Football Association held its rather inglorious Annual General Meeting a couple of weeks ago the subject of Colony soccer has been slashed and gashed on every side.... and it is a matter for some regret that a lot of the slashing is unjustified, and that it is, jelly nice fellows. Barr Brigh Welterweigh: Chanpon being carried out by those who know very little of what they are talking
month
Beth Erskine and Cosper
about.... or, alternatively, have another axe to grind.
under
friends come
the in- fluence of its penal aspect... but stripped of all its conti- based simply on mont it is a fair arrangement the successes Justained by and failures
could be said to carry the who toughens up for another equaliser which is the No. 1 crack GL Enrico Mureeni's weapon in modern,kig warters. Europeen title the real, genuine Ceper, in his previous purruti hard why--in the fight ring -
The most publicized contra. particularly in Hongkong fool of utes, lasted 1 min. 45
very, of ecurre, is that sur-
ball. Wateman completes his inter-unding the question of who Against Empire Heavyweight
The passing of two grand old national promme of three has and who has not the right teams ke S. Joseph's and the Champico Joe Bygraves, and Aghts in a incath, by probably to vote at the Annurl General Royni Navy from the first class four rounds 2 mins. 57 sees taking on German against European
tile con Meeting of the IfKFA. Churplenerder, Ernest Zetzman,
been received with Fae press has been literally very mixed feelings by many club on the field of play. Streethim on Septresler 3 And for no title at all, he lost WHAT A MAN. WATERMAN! side body taking legal, actionable rigret that two clubs who Navy will come again... but tered with stories of an out-pocter lovers. The understand- St. Joseph's and the Royal
Ingemar Johansson.
to Peter Bates of Doncaster in five rounds.
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The Annual General Meeting the HIFA served to under-
wisdom of
against the PA because it whi have rendered quen invaluable let us applaud the Armness of refused the right to vote at the service to Hengkuns! football HKFA In refusing to allow AGM.
choutl
Til themselves sentimen This makes A spicy story | V but...well, let's just say, "relegated to a minor league has common sense of the rule book stirred ກ certain amount ΟΙ and wall and see.
UNDERLINED AGAIN However, it is anost interesting motion sympathy... but, to examlee just how this claim be it to the credit of the HKFA rifects the various members of Councillors, they did not in the claiming organisation, for spite or eloquent pless and self-line once again the up to now it has been mort con- sustained Jestifention-waver in venient and advantageous on the application of the relegation occasion fer the
powerful rule. Chizes clubs and cubsidiary organisations to state that this or that important game or com petition was not" played, under the Jurisdiction of the parent body which, In consequence, galied no financial benefli,
rights on the FA.
The whole affair, of course, is just one more typical example
the cheap bittems that! permeates local footbali.
of
will
the onlcial proposal made some years ago, and since yepented at regular Intervals that Colony football should be administered by a small Committee of Five rather
than by the unwieldy To have done otherwire would rath
gathering that diis in power at have made an ulter mockery of the present time,
IRRATIONAL
why
On
OVER WATERMAN ENGAGED
SPORTS QUIZ
1. Who has run a nub-four- minule mile the most limest John Landy. Derek Ibbet- son, Ken Wood or Ruger Bannister?
2. Only four
countries húve held the Davis Cup. Naine please?
3. What is the longest reign of а World Heavyweight Champion?
And who
achieved it?
4. What is the longest record-
ed cricket match?
do you
5. With what sports
associato: a. a Jack-knife, b. a stymie, c. a puck, d, a "chukker"?
0. The British Empire Games
have been held-ve times, ten times or fifteen times?
7. In 1950, Jim Laker took:
ail ten wickets in one inn- ings of a Test match. How many runs were scored off hk bowling?
. Only two men have Won the World Championship for rocing drivers since
1050. Who are they?
9. Who carried the Olympic torch into The Melbourne Main Stadium 1st Novem». ber?
10. When is a golf ball oficially
Jost?
(Answers Seo Page 17)
Peter Waterman, a 22-year-old British Welter- weight Champion, and Miss Gillian Davies, 19, ple- tured in London after the announcement of their engagement, Gillian, a model Hves at Stoke Newington, North London-Reuterphoto.
PITY THESE
HOT
FIVE-ON THE SEATS' OF SOCCER
By ALAN HOBY
Even at £3,000 a year and a five-year contract is there anyone who envier Sunderland's new manager, ALAN BROWN? I'd say NO. He is on the hottest
hot seat" In football.
Park.
For a towering task faces the quiet, 43-year-old ex-Burnley boss at Roker
Not only has he got to produce a winning football team; he must also wipe out the bitter memories of a year which plummeted famous Sunderland to the depths. with its scandals, suspensions, and internal strife.
·
I fear he may be in for another Harrassing time,
Finally, don't forget ARCHIE MACAULAY at Norwich. The star takes red-haired Scottish over from Tom Parker and Norman Low before him.
Neither found the manager's chair particularly comfortablo in post-war years,
some head on a charger!
From Nottingham to Cardiff where throwd, aftable TREVOR MORRIS occupies what has described as the worri been "hot seat" in Wales,
Thousands of disgusted Welsh fans are stili smouldering at the way Cordif Cily fell out of the First Division kisi April.
I feel, however, indeed Trevor himself has no talented Macaulay may be illusions about the way abend... | luckder-especially if he reMEM“ a doublo-quick return to the bars Alan Brown's wise words top table or more ticuble.
when he arrived at Sunderland He told ine: "I'm aiming at last week:-
Attent-ever Cardiff team.
"Don't look back. It makes you oka"
last stason's competition and t The proposers of the Com.. would have been as irrational tomittee of Five implied that the if they win their latest point have decided to deprive South members would be men without and are given full voting rights | China of the Championship às to club ties who cally knew their it will be difficult for them ever have denied Jardine's their well-Hongkong football....and when to offer this argument ugein In won promotion to the Senior one looks around at the prefent Finod £5,000 for making | tans will want Lawton's hand- the tutte...and for that very Division of the League. reason their are somNO
cleST-
I feel that the pro-time it is not dificult to under-under the counter payment is Sixlarly
stand are all for notion
they made their pro- players...ülreciois suspend- Taking folks who
of third-placed Tgposals at all.
ed for life the unhappy giving the CAAF full voting Wah was another logical step. The yast Council idea is target of everyone who wanted Little Sai Wan, who Arished in vulnerable to the 'safety in to shy mud at football-this has their poultion before last season second place, were well aware of
numbers doctrine
and
been Sunderland's shedly fale started and there is certainly no occasion it can shelter members in recent men his,
whose personal knowledge of
NOT ALONE in be oplnion of my Food bitterness In Hoyal Air Force vital aspects
circles regarding the treatment vital
of THE GAME Mr Brown, however, will not Judges
the cauldron eventually destroy it 2a a public spectacle, of this grand band of servics OF FOOTBALL is not as con- blister alone in
prehensive as one might expect which is professional football, sportsmen.
I can give you oiber names The Saints and The Sailors from those holding down such
important positions in Coleny whose winter wardrobes should testing face
include asbestos trousers,
There is my old friend Tommy be possible to make some sened portunity to prove that they
The danger in this, of course,
County of the premi argument, but should never have been out of is that these members keen Lawton, who at Nolls
the both of them have now been the First Division
As they may be are eligible now occupies and they functioning ride by side for can do it by overcoming their for election to important sub warmest managerial chairs in years l as one well known ex-new opponents
is the Midlands, to such good committees and the view Interporter said to me the other purpose that they will regain being widely and openly ex- I have been with Tommy, of
Chinese day, "If they don't know their old status on sheer merit, prested in both
and the gistening black head, in official: relationship! between co not on the sympathy votes European circles that something many lands and places. themselves by now, I doubt very of their soccer colleagues.
of the sort has happened this In a Chelsea cafe as he wait muth if they ever will."
Promotion and relegation is year in fact one, who mighted to be transferred to his pre- Tiit just abou; sums it up a fair system aimed at reward- well be termed an expert, s'aled sent club in 1047-a £20,000 and proves once.
In public the other day that iff deal which anah how Jog
Chelsea had the penalising closely connected tragedy and failure. It sometimes scems
each Council member had to faithful spluttering with comedy can sometimes be
Job by sitting a simple examino-
SUMS, IT UP
If the HKFA and the CAAF | now " wert new organisations i; might They have
Season). The correct op
and success
soccer.
one
of
heartless and harsh when oin prove his worthiness for the AEC. Turin the following year
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In
tion on the applleation of the where, on a baking May night, laws
of the game.... there he hit the ball so hard it nearly inigist be some rather interes decapitated the Italian goal- ing withdrawals cr by keeper 25
it hurtled into the elections.
net, England won 4-0. That is a matter of conjec-
And, of course, en countless ture, of course, and may well
othe
Occasions when Tommy have been bora In the dis stamped, himself as the greatest appointment which this parti- cular person fel: at his own header of the ball I have seen. inability to gain a seat in the Today, however, Tommy he led England 28 times tackles cherished circle. But it makes you think....particularly when the hardest job of his life: with one is told about the earlier club where his appointment proclamations of "an ignorance of all things football" by one
of the わぐw bearers,
1937-06
ofce
Believe It Or Not
manager Just Moy was strongly opposed by a minority of fans and directors.
This group plumped for the
man who
had savedi
the
TOMMY LAWTON-he is in
"perfect harnE15.”
Today the boys are put lumber- Notts jacking at a farm by the sea. County from relegation-fanh. It builds up Frength as well as relieving the inatotony of alg––
ful Framl: Broome,
37-
CRIM BATTLE
But, Jed by chairman Longing training routine." Machin, the en.husiastic, The Darbys, Bert and Ted, year-old Lawton was installed are bowlers for Blakeley Hall with a wealth of new ideas and Cricket Club in the Smethwick | drive. (Birmingharu) Cricket League. The other week I telephoned The other day they had bowling Tommy to ask him about thear
and plans. analyses four" for two respectively to "Mr. Lawton is out training the boys. Call back damiss their opponents for ten with
no extras Believe it or not later," was the laconie reply.
I-did. the opposing team's titie
"Ms Lawton is out training Joner. Cricket Club,
with..."
of six for two
was not Joangi
A now anglo
I'M STANDING
NO WONDER I COULONT. FIND
RIGHT IKI FRONT OF
IT!
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Was
Pity
PRECIOUS DROPS FOR PRECIOUS MOMENTS.
CHERRY HEERING
„JARDONE," "MATISION & CO, BÁIN,
to
and
West
that the
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trim and
THIN
Morris, recalling how his lope Pioneer elded attack became the scorn of the valleys, has bought three gori-scoring forwards Johny Nicholls, Englood Brunwich inside-left; Ron | At Howitt, Wroxham's high-scoring insidu-right; and Collis Hudson, dashay left winger freari New port,
Even so, I think "ry-agak*** Trevor is going to have a grim battle getting Cardiff beck lato the top division,
"Yes, I know,” I cut in, "Ting later
Eventually I managed to prise Mr Lawton away from the Another hot smat" specialist) "boys" sufflelently long for him is EDDIE. LEVER, - of Ports- say: Wonderful bupch. mouth. Pompoy supporters gave Train like mad. Biprnings and | Eddie a rough ride_inct season afternoons. Can't stop em."! when Portsmouth escaped the "What about your relations tulegation trap-door only by n with Frank Broome?" I asked. miracle.
"All 100 per cent happy.
With the Big Kick-off Icky' Here, apeak to Frank yourself then two weeks away, everyone
will wish "Yes, Tommy and I are in
delightful Pompey SUCCESS. perfect harness"
Unfortunately, they Basistent
will still be fleiding substanti- manager Broome told me.
Well, it is my sincere hope ally the sand team as last pen- that Moser · Lawton, Broome, 120102 and the "baya" pull off promo Lever needs, urgently, i
In my view, what Eddio 1on na the first attempt. They wherping maktor-mind, who will Bob if they DON'T "Nots | serum of the neck and wizing re- i sciro blaguiledhy attack by the flop then watak out The aults out of them.· ̈ Ollerwize,
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