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ALREADY POSSIBLE TO GET SOME IDEA OF THE SHAPE OF SOCCER THINGS TO COME
There Is Something “Big" In South China's Current Approach To The Game
Says I. M. MacTAVISH
The Colony football season is now two weeks old, yet already it is possible to got some idea of the shape of soccer things to come.
It is ousy of course to be misled by early flashes of good or bad form, but it needs no great imagination to see South China as firm favourites for the premier honours. There is a long way to go to the end of the season but it seems to mo that the Champions will pile up such a lead in the first few months they will be able to coast to another title.
Sports Diary THE WORLD'S
2.43 Colony
4p, the
TODAY
Jugby
Club V 24. XIA v text at Bookungon
Lawn Bowls
Gutierrez Shield India v China: Ireland v Pakistan, Philippines V Malayn. England V· Avestraits, t
Badk shield match; fix Zadlew
* Kawicon Ladies at 1000GC, 3' p.m.
Ladies' Hockey Recreio "Ay Droming CHIPS 2.30 p.m.; KGV v King (89) 2.30 p.m.
Cricket
Division 1: JDCC "Beorpions" v COC: Police v Recreto; KCC Y RA Navy: Army North v HKUS Optimists.
Division 2: Army South. KOV: IRC V RAF; Das y Pelloo, Cen- Lours v Army North University v KCC Wasps.
Traxis
No.1 SPORTS
COLUMNIST
DESMOND HACKETT
No, no, my Lord ... let 'em jump!
Time and energies. I mean young
THE explosive young men of Britain are wasting their'
huskles like 4occer Hongkong v Isoel's spoel Foot 21-year-old Mike Ellis, who put the hammer-hurl into the ball Team at .K. Govt. Stadiure, 5 p.m.
headlines with a world-ranking throw of 211 ft. 9 in.
Chaps like 20-year-old Barnsley miner Arthur Rowe, direndy 'n Last season they collected the crown on the strength of a brilliant for-
Hard Court Tennis: at Cnc. 33 British Empire record breaker with the shot put. Chape like Colin ward line which literally carried a tottering defence on its back. This
Smith the crew-cut engineer's assistant who joined the record round- Club LRC Tennis Tournament: The return of time there is no such lopsidedness about the side.
up with his Javelin throw. Men's Doubles 'eap Final, Men's Singles cap Final at 50 p powerful Lau Yee has restored both strength and mobility to the rear lines and his facile play makes the perfect foil for the cool, calculated soccer sorcery of Tong Sheung.
nud
n very
here
turnert out by coach Gibbons,
Jackle
I mean any athletically minded young man or woman who wants to be the bool in his or her club, county, country, or the whole wide world, is simply wasting Ume.
And it is more in deep borrow than white anger that I record: that this harsh, nay brutal, criticism comics from one of my OW special heroes of spect---Lord Brabazon of "Tara”, master flier, master
Kolfer, master of the Cresta run.
the
Olymple
Whatever the outcome of to- day's game, Hongkong can have have no alibi. The electora
HC wants
splendid ambition It is a simple thing to destroy, “It Is. a stuck rigidly to first principles organisers to erase from the the joy of any sport by asking: aim to be good at something.”
have chosen what on calendar suck events ns the What is the object?
Colony's paper at least is the
so on. He
adds
Answers To Sports Quiz
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3 Two or Four.
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Tennis
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David And Goliath
When Glasgow Rangers play- ed Brechin City in the Scottish Cup semi-Anal at mighty Hand den Park it was computed that the entire 7,000 population of the Angus city could have been' accommódaled' in the South Stand and there would still have been 3,000 vacant seats! Every
Wes to Brechin player
obtained
by the club free of cost and
LIGHTS OUT
After Inst Sunday's game the consistent play that Is things are shaping Bike fool- at this against the Royal Air Force a necessary it titles are to be ball procession, even
who won
they ate early stage. well-known football fan
..or whether cekiem misses
Important going to depend to a great ex- an match gave it to me as his tent on the brillanes of Young international Soccer and
1,000-1 odds. Brechinra average then, In his opinion that Tong Sheung was Wal-to
We cannot all opare the time be those without an eye for they started the competition
ball games, the speed for the rate is 1,500 and their Income jump and
or new short of speed and stamina absence, revert to very ordinary
nor cash for golt, This week-end we have our strongest sido. Not everyone will discus, hammer, hop, step and
the tracks, or the power for the
£70 a week. Rangers average and would find it difficult to keep status. Twice so far The huet sit inte allthat fool-agree about that but the All-solemnly: Discus throwing is a expense of hurling ourselves on field events, wällt and run 40,000 dl their weekly Fan- his place in the present South been missing from the line-up ball for the season. Our visi-Hongkong line-up and players dead port."
highly expensive contraptions along the roads of Britain. ning costs Like
Tim and Lo Pak, Lou
It grieves me to hear, this down the Creata Run. But I ad- They are content that their Rangers have forty profesilon- are over £1,000. and on each occasion the Tigers tors from inrnet have an im- China line-up,
will no have looked
doubt brilllent man own Yeung Wai-to
tha miro and enjoy ordinary pressive record in their,
sugkesung
the efforts of purpose is to be just good at nis, Brechin thirteen. With due respect to such teu
side. yet when he tumed country and the fons will re-find plenty of supporters for any athletic activities con be those who can..
something. It is a fine del. Opinion I am afraid that but against the Army the side member that several of their suggestion that on current form waste of time,
I love my football. I get
Ask the American what he simply could not disagree looked top-class. Is the brit players have already played in they should be in the team. What of his beloved golf? great kick out of watching thinks of cricket, the lads from more, in fact. I would out Colony star going to hold fongkong us members of the.
What in the object of this athletes ko Gordon Pirie, Headingley, the Oval, and Old to far as to say that nlready
the key to Sing Too success or very disappointing Israel na Current Reputations come, of which It has been Vladimir Kuts, Derek Ibbotson, Trafford their views on boge- Yiu Cheuk-ylu und Mok Chun-
failure? 11 is a most interest- tional ride which came
and John Disley, whose opony ball.
Circumstances alter epson. wah' look more like the bril
just a little over a year ago.
Such on attitude is prevalent sold: All golfers are mad? bag question.
Yet more money, pain, and of effort deserves something Why do the amateurs of the Last season when Roy Middle- Hant players of twn or three
whenever a representative side)
"put into more than a cynical-What on fight ring try to beat the livington, former Chesterfeld- and Censons ago than they did
The present tour of the Far is selected, but I am on the side suffering have been
daylights out of each other? Derby goalkeeper, was manager Dily time during the 1036-57
of the Interport Committee. I this one sport than any other earth are you doing? the East which the Hapoel side has
torment form of self-inflicted
be may thinic the men they have picked ever invented.
It all adds up to the rame of Boston United, the Midland competition....and the revival
out has not been an carried due of the Terrible Telus is
away the answer, my Lord Brabazon cf. League club, he was anxious to te talent or the team spirit unqualified
to maintain Success and after} are good enough
"faluous." Torn: It is a splendid ambition fix up floodlighting. Now he is to keep them in a challenging their several defeats along the our football prestige and, judg-) What is the purpose of this hammer-throw as
soccer in which end the hop, step and jump as to aim to be good at somethink. manager of Hartlepools United experienced way they can hardly hope torg puroly on current repula-thing called
So don't be discouraged. Just in the Third Division North he Milion altough
Ko much success here. The payers like Ke Po-keung,
Allions, I cannot see any of the grown men got half stripped in an "apora bouffe."
you carry on, jumping, throw refuses to play away. matches being the most desperate weather and A Fine Ideal Ying-fun
Ching-to Hongkong side is just about the thres and Hau
Hongkong teams
ing, pushing pulling. kicking, under the gils as Hartlepools zay
10 guide them enough strangest side in this part of besten by
distanco kick a ball around? our long hts to maintain a respectable the world,
But I would draw his Lord-Kitting, er "whatever. It is in the themselves are without them, allowing for And why should millions pay ship's attention to the words of splendid world, of sports that end not used to playing the Position in the League,
It is difficult to see how this the fact that they have some to see this weekly repetition of Jim Peters, who for years hrings you athletic joy.
"artificial" game,: Middleton: is club side can hope to succeed clever and experienced players sporting strip-tease?
marlyred hanselt over the
alay preacher and a Justice of where the national side folled in their rather restricted" play-
article by Lord Marathon courses of the world:
the Peace... ....but of courte There maying staff.
World Sporis, wall be much more team work For my money. It's Hong- Brabazon in and understanding In this kong all the way. ..anything oficial magazine of the British clever than in the various sides else would be a major upset.
Olymple Association.
at
inore
of to the long stream defence destroying DASSCA olainating in Turut Sheung's educated boots than thing else.
to
any
Current Approach
p from these four lestns Little else in Anning. Eastern have
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neither
Services Sides
Quite apart from personalities South China have an 'air' about them. There is something "big"
The Two Services sides the In their current approach to the Army and the Royal Air Force now that there has have both made disappointing game and been a curbing of the rashness starts to scason. Eliner teum and crudeness in the tackling has collected
only two points of their defenders they look a wholesome side free from the from three games and, us far as weaknesses which existed last Goals go, the point-gathering has been an expensive business. season; a side that is going to he soldiers have had to collect set the pace for
for all would-be |
the ball out of their net on honours hunters.
seventeen occasions while the Airmen's goalkeeper
has made the zame journey eleven times.
Such a weight of 'goals against' hardly suggests that either term possesses the kind of defence on which a championship side could be built. The way things are going et present it looks ns though the Army new team manager-Captain Wally Akler will have to get stripped himself and turn back the clock to the
KMB and Kitchee have the Lalent
to prevent the League from becoming a one horse race and there is still a feeling of confidence in Kowloon that the Busmen will make South China night every inch of the way for the season's prizes.. and they could very well be right. The potentini of the fickle Kitchee sides less certain. In fact all the qualities of soccer uncertainty are present in their days when he. brilliantly resources and a lot will depend defended the goal of The Army... or whether the different tem- and Alderatiot Town...and col pernments of their star players lected a shoal of honours into'
Their prove to be compatible.
the bargain. Carly showing against Tung Wah was nothing to shout about No....the more I look at ii and unless there is come the indre it seems at, the tightening of their defence they moment that the cnly real may lose too many goals to keep | soccer argument revolves themselves in the forefront of pround who are going to finish the Lengue competition,
in the runners-up position be off with a 'hind South China,
Sing Too started
bant against the Army
but Much may happen to change
their last cuting against the the present picture, and in the Club made one wonder if they interests of more entertaining are going to be able to produce football I hope t doce, for
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