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ASIAN GAMES
Japanese And P.I. Swimmers Will Dominate The Rivalry
Manita, Mar. 18. Japan and the Philippines will domínata the rivalry in the coming Aslan Games swimming competition, conch Marcinno Natividad of the Philippine twimming feam predicted yesterday,
He forecast that Fredklie
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1958.
THE BATTLE OF SWEDEN What's Best in Kowloon?
Nominale YOUR
Hongkong Footballer Of The Year
Members of the public are invited to Elizalde, butterfly strcko per-nominate Hongkong's Footballer of the
Year for the current season.
former, would place first
sccund in the 200-metre event.
or
Ba Salloni and Amapito Lozada, he added, would finish Rmong the first three in the long
It is a popularity poll organised by the distance swims while 100-metre China Mail, and nomination coupons free-styler Dakula Arabani will be accepted until the closing date to
be announced later.
"may pull a surprise."
Among the women swimmers, Gerturdes Lozada, Haydee Coloso-Espino and Jocelyn Vor Glese will be the top contenders In Tokyo, Naůvklad said.
Espino and Von Giest defeated Japan's best in the Second
Asian Gamen here in 1954,—— Franco-Presse.
Softball Junior League Final Standings
The following are the HR- kong Softball Association Junior League final standings
Seminoles
I. Dodgers
Comets
The two qualifications for nomination are:
(1) Footballing prowers.
(2) Sportsmanship on the field of play. Nominations should be addressed to the Editor, China Mail, Wyndham Street.
To the Editor, China Mail,
My nomination for Hongkong's Footballer of the Year, taking into account his playing obulty and his sportsmanship on the fold of play la:
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DRAWN TEST
Lagos, Mar. 17, Nigeria and Ghuna drew their three-day erleket "test" which
ended here today.
With their last pair together, Nigeria were 10 runs short of stumps were
victory, when
drawn.
Final scores: Nigeria 123 and
Glana
222 for nine;
Sports Diary
TODAY
Meeting
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Senior Lisampionships: Ladies
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Tax Reductions For Illegal
Bookmakers
Ill-Advised Criticism
Could Harm
Harm Our World
Cup Hopes
Says TOM FINNEY
If you read sports pagos closely you will have noticed recently an increasing number of paragraphs showing just how seriously our rivals for the World Cup are preparing for the or even if you are only a casual reader, you must have seen the
Battle of Sweden.
increasing criticism of our own methods.
"Our men aren't playing or training together enough....we're hardly
making any attempt to get them together for any length of time... we just shan't stand a chance"....and so on. That's how the criticism goes. You've read it. I've heard it. And I welcome this opportunity of hitting back and saying: it's NONSENSE.
I
agree right uway that, What, meanwhile, is ENG- addition to their existing com→ unless you are familiar with the LAND doing? We, apparently, milments, I can tell you what respective soccer cet-ups in are carrying on with our League would happen! they would rival countries, It might be and Cup programmes as if the crack, worrying to hear this sort of World Cup were three усати, information::
not three months, away.
AUSTRIA are gathering their players together for weeks of rehearsing the Hungarian system of play.
BRAZIL will reach the climax of their team's preparations
But,
The Business
They would quite certainly. arrive in Sweden so stule thus they'd feel sick as soon as they
saw a football,
Only the future can tell how we will fare in Sweden. even from this distance, I would say that if we don't win, or cren do as well as you hoped, You may nsk: well, why will not be because of in- don't we insist that the English competent training schedules, League clubs release these So many of England's trilles players and let them band to- CZECHOSLOVAKIA have been have completely overlooked the gether In ona World Cup pre-
three sending
representative vital point: that no other inter-paration squad NOW.
no nationals in the world play as teams abroad to make suro
with six international matches.
possible World Cup player is much football during a season
as British internationals.
averlooked.
GERMANY arc calling to- gether teams of "probables" and "possibles" every fortnight for special training.
Sixty Times
I agree that this sounds the perfect solution. But in my view it would be quite morally wrong. Remember that football clubs are run as a business. If they do not succeed as such, they go out
For our leading players-men HUNGARY gathered their who, for example, have been of existence. Internationals together for mid- engaged in the League. FA Cup,
The clubs Workington
and International Wrexham winter training and will wreck European Cup.
as much 1.3 just representative games, Wolves and their DWR late-in-the-season matches,
West Bromwich plus Additional league programme by miling
engagements Albion-are the • businesses dway from their in-like floodlight Oxture it is by
no means unusual to make well provide them
which ind players, The United States Supreme | dividual clubs again. Court ruled today that book- And very much the same kind over 60 appearances a season, makers could deduct expenses of stories come from such wide-
livelihood. from their income tax, even if their business was illegal.
Washington, Mar. 17.
them
spread countries ITALY
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And, contrary to the opinions of quite a section of our non- sports-playing public, the phy- sical and mental strain of such a programme is tremendous.
MEXICO (where transfers of It upheld a decision by a court players to foreign clubs have that three local been banned), RUSSIA, YUGO Cued, at Grantham Training College, Chicago
bookmakers should be allowed SLAVIA and SWEDEN (who,
If the English FA were reut 1x reductions for
And despite the fact that no one bul
gives fellow Swedes
insist that between thom
20 and 30 wuges.
in chance,
are building up their of our top players met for mid- the stamina with long week practices with all courses of winter sports).
entail-in travelling it would
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They do it so that they may win success in the League the Cup, And if they can't this they at least strive to
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Imagine these last vital wecka of the season without 20 or 30 star players. Promotion struggles would become a force; dozens of matches would become colour- less and you could · hardly blame clubs if prospective Eng- land players suddenly became "off colour" when an Interna~ tional selector was watching.
Imagine Fulham and Black- burn battling for the possibility of an all-Second Division Wem- bley Anal without Johnny Haynes and Bryan Dougias. Ila | stupid, isn't it?
This, of course, doesn't mean I believe we should straggle over to Sweden looking though we've just arrived for a holiday
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But I do feel that, in view of all the difficulties, our pre- sent ideas of preparation are based on commonsense,
The tragic Munich affair gave England problems they never thought would exist. But We shall have chances to iron out the major probics before the season ends. ·
Then we have three intema- tional matches during May in which to try out what will olmost certainly bo our Anal team: one match at Wembley (most probably against Portugal). another against Yugoslavia in Belgrade and finally a vital ene against Russle in Moscow.
This, plus practice sessions and the chance for the team to settle down together as both friends, and footballers, is quite sufficient
This is not a Finnoy forecast that England will win the World Cup. But it is a plea to stop throwing panners into the works with criticism that Just isn't based on reason,
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