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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1958,
Saturday Soccer Spot
BLACKPOOL & THE AFTERMATH
Matthews And His Mates Have
-HISTORIES OF THE CLUBS.
Surely Brought New Sense Of STARTED WITH £6
Soccer Values To Hongkong
By I. M. MACTAVISH
It is an old saying that you have to pay for your education. Our footballers have certainly been mode to pay for thoirs but, if they are ready and willing to profit from their most recent lessons, then the price of the lam- boon a bashing they received from Blackpool will have modest one.
Blackpool have come and gone. They have left behind a host of personal friends but they have also left behind a soccer ghost with which our players will have to live for years to
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come. The British professionals showed Hongkong that football can be both entertaining and deadly. They showed too that when circumstances make team remedial impossible it is necessary to' cover weaknesses with strength in the line-up and then fashion the playing plan ac- cordingly.
In spite of an essential easin off in recent weeks the Black- roul players displayed a star- dard of Btness that made our players look lifeless and stless by comparison. Their astonish- Jie buist of speed over the first test yards gave a vitality to the viellors" play which we could never match but the important thing to be remembered is that this power of acceleration seldom if ever a naturali altri- bute.
is
AVAILABLE TO TAKE UP (football was COACHING DUTIES.
The old lden that the Chinese players and their advisers were fully capable of looking after
and in
BUT NEARLY
· Page 17.
THE MILE COULD BE
ANTI-CLIMAX TO
THE EMPIRE GAMES
Says CHARLES STEPHENS
London.
on
Once again the most eagerly-awaited event of the British Empire Games is the milo final, which will be run Saturday, July 26. It is popularly believed that the record will be broken for the sixth time in 'six Empire Games.
WON THE LEAGUE The record, held by Roger Bannister of England, stands at 3 mins. 58.8
On
By TIM GORDON
secs. Since it was set up at Vancouver in 1954, Derek Ibbotson has run the world's fastest mile in 3 mins, 57.2 secs. and Herb Elliott of Australia has achieved 3 mins, 58.7 secs,
At Vancouver the mile pro- Empire mile will primarily be battle between Franz Stampi, April 12, 1894, nineteen men met in a Bristol vided
meeting between a battle between Elliott and Bannister's 'mentor in 1994, and house and formed what they called the Bristol Bannister and John Landy, tien Lincoln, just as the Vancouver Percy Cerully, Landy's coach,
ho unly sub-four-minute milers malo was a duel between Barni- Now, Cerally cooches Elliott, while Slampf is the'mans behind South End Association Football Club. Between in the world. At Cardif there ster and Lordy,
or six four- In a way it will be the same | Lincoln London Express.
So I Inseinatlik tactical battle is guaranteed.
£6 89, 6d.
But not
them they scraped together a capital of should be five
minule men on the track, The first match the club played was against necessarily a record time.
Swindon Town, then hailed as "Champions of believe that the Empire the West,"
--
Here are the prices Bristoltans dropped into the third division paid to watch this attractive south.
Then followed un up-and- game. Admission 3d
down period for the Bristol men. Back Into Division Two. they came the very next reason, but
Enclorure 34 ́extra (NO' DOGS ADMITTED) The team changed its name
it
mile could end the Gomes with a great anti-climax. If no one is could easily be won in a com anger to set a brisk pace,
paratively ordinary time.
'Wonder Man'
It all depends, I believe, on
at the end of it slipped down Australia's "wonder man," Herl again. Thiin me they stayed Elliott, If he is still at penk
1027.
up-
to Bristol City when it decided to turn professional in 1897. two seasons in the third division form in July--and remember he out of BBDO then joined the Southern League, before winning promotion in will be running. Ibelt
after heavy programme at A Mr Sam Hollis was
home and in America-a fast gol
maruger, even pointed
He WPs In 1932, dawn went the City race is assured. handed the princely sum of £30 once more. And this time, they
Elliott, unlike his great rival
fellow-countryman and
Mery and told to do the best he could stayed down-for 23 years.
Lincoln, does not rely on a fast with ft.
polished and ever Hongkong funs got money's worth then they it last Sunday be to measure on Tuesday, their
has now
am sure, wilt own progr
Matthews, 1 been finally- debunked ng an never be forgotten. His display
defled ᏀᏁ Tuesday Boccer
normal example of unjustlärd
mugness. They will havo to description and the thing which follow the progressive ideas of struct ne most was the delight the day and accept expert
which his colleagues took in guidance.
from not
selt-seeing him hit the high spots. ccnfessed or self-appointed ex- perts but from proved men whatever their race or colour.
Today the great football - tions are only too willing to nc-
guidance of "for- eigners" provided they are con- |vinced, it will improve their same, and some of our parochiai minded advisers might like to look down the fat of omcial couches who are at present In Sweden for the World Cup and note how many of them do not belong to the country they are advising.
It has to be developed, by intensive practice and training and the problem of how to in-
it In D player is un indicept the vidual problem which can only be resolved by
That was really the differener between the two tears in both games that Blackpool played here. The visitors left nothing
to chance,
expert.
Parasites
It was not unlil 1955 that, sprint of the finish. it is in his Hollis must have been F under the managership of Pat Interests to have a fast pace his men were Beurley, who resigned the job from the start and tre will take Henlus, for Southem League runners-up recently, Bristol City emerged the lead early on if necessary.
rot on top three times in the next four from the bottom class yet again. But if Elliott is
be Let us hope the great West- form, no other runner may seasons!
And, I Country club will go on to win eager to take the lead. back the Arst division place it include Derek Ibbotson, who can run equally well in front of the. lost nearly half.a century ago.
field or from behind.
Won Promotion
i was rather amused to hear spectators asking why e Kwok Kam-hung, Lau Yee and Szeto Yiu did not get into the teckle instead of standing In 1991, City entered what was then the second division of back and watching Matthews with the ball at his feet.
the English League, and in 1900 The question has a most fami- |....won promotion by heading It has been asked in the division with 00 points from. liur ring. a hundred languages ..but 38 matches, The only second. La division club. ever to earn more the really significant thing
season has been that it has been asked by some points in one week in and week out for Tottenham Hotspur, who piled 25 years when he plays in the up 70 In 1919-20; but then Spurs
played 42 games. English First Division.
Bristol
His leam mates, who have In these modern times football been playing alongside him for
are ready and part
the same.
City ended its very first season in the top division That is the earcat to the League Champlon- ship the club has ever got,
in second place. in hundreds of practice to accept the expert games with him yet. he beats
men no them with exactly of suitable matter from where they may methods in game after game...
and that in spite of the fact that these practice matches are irken very seriously.
come.
Hongkong-lp it 1. really (la International serious about aspirations must do the same,
Greatest Proof
Their team discipline, on and off the field, was a model on which we could well build for has become truly international years, told me they have taken the future. The players accept and countries discipling with fair grace be willing cause. It is a requirement of their guidance trade: the fact is of course they work at football so that they can play it better... and until we do the same, we shall-for all the briant individual skill of men like Ylu Cheuk-yin, Ho Cheung-you and Mok Chun-wah -remain fifth raters in an International sense.
The truth of the matter is that far too many people are trying too hard to take as much as they can out of Hongkong
consideration to the fact that
a
Since the Blackpool-Combined Chinese guine on Tuesday great deal has been talked about the merits or demerits of Hong- kong football and it seems to me that the overwhelming defeat of the Jocul side has upset the
better judgment of many people,
one
remembers the strength of the wo had every feel sallshed.
of
At that time, City boasted' at centre-hulf Billy Wedlock, one of the greatest players England has ever had. He was on the short alde for a pivot but many old-timers claim that he was the finest footballer ever to wear a Bristol City shirt.
Answers To Sports Quiz
1. Long jump. Jesse 25ft 8 in 1935.
Oyrens,
2. Maria Bueno of Brazů. 3. Wrestling.
Ibbotson was the most talk- ed-about athlete in Britain last year; his fantàstic performances won him the title of Sportsman of the Year. He is still the mast talked-about athlete in Britain but because of his unimpres- sive performFINNGEA.......
World's Fastest
14
The world's fastest miler showing no sign of returning to his brilliant form of last sea“. son and many experts belleve
4. All are winners of Olymple he will never regain that form
Marathons,
5., 2880..
6. Uruguay won and organised
the competition.
7. Formosa (1000); Scepire (1902). 2,000 Guineas, 1,000 Gulneas, Oaks and St Leger, 6, 2001.
9. Althea
Louise -Gibson Brough, Dorothy Knode and Darlene Hard.
The greatest proof of Ston-
15 surely to ley's status found in the fact that the other men In Blackpool's team feel Wedlock was capped 20 times
and in Internationals ugainst} no Jealousy towards him.
One Internationalist in the Scotland, Ireland and Wales, he ride told me that he has always made 18 consecutive appearances 10. James Braid.
between February 1908 and regarded it
મ personal
March 1912. privilege to play with him: an- other told me that at the end
Imagine the number of capa would have of the famous 1933 final of that great player Wembley he just couldn't sup won had he lived in modern press an emotional tear, not times, when there are as many because Blackpoot had won the
or seven international Cup but because he suddenly matches in a season.
ot last Stanley realised that. had won the precious medal on which he had set his heart,
football without giving any Fickle Spectators they are pulling little into IL Our boys put up a very Ac long as that self-centred crediable performance in the
when gume and attitude persists, as long as the first Came is sucked dry by
parasites who
more visiting side pre interested in gains than goals, reason lo we shall be unable to progress course we were well beaten but along the path which Blackpool that did not justify the ill-timed and thoughtless remarks made have so clearly pointed out
Ackle spectators gainst the Hongkong players.
Our footballers have proved ... I repent... PROVED ... their ability against some strong opposition and let it not be forgotten that only a couple of votion weeks ago our divided strength made was good enough to beat the
as six
In The Final
Such spontanceus adoration Wedlock failed to realise hi and admiration is given only to greatest ambition,
Sports Diary
TODAY
Jet Dictator! CCC "A" v IRC Y KBGC, KOC v Recreio "A" Костю
2nd Division: FC "D" Cup-KOC V HKP9A KCC v
PRO
a few, in Stanley Matthews winner's medal by a whisker, KDC v HKFC, Recreto v IRC. Is not misplaced for his modesty Manchester United beat tho 3rd Division: CCC v HERC
PRC. HKPC▾ TC, SC v KBGC. USRC V INC.
and his principles....and above Bristolians 1-0 at Crystal Palace all his slavish service and de- when the Cily reached the Final to the Kamio.... have in 1909. The West Country side him football's
K:catest
has never again been so close to attraction wherever it is played, having its name engraved on the
He has travelled far and wide Cup.
In rite of ntt this let me by many make cas thing clear. I still belleve there is a great deal en fortball and tremendous potentiality in our Chinese players. The trouble is they ure not being given an op- portunity to develop it along the right lines and against the
tt kind of opposition.
When one thinks of the good money that has been expended in recent years on the visits of in the World Cup. That to fact: roor 12ms Bike Hapoel, Wiener, 11 is not mere speculation. Lorenzo Marques, and the like Say, if you like, that it mere= } to return to Hongkong ever reached the Cup semi-finals In ne gets some idea of why waly makes Israel a poor sitic arose he would feel that he 1020, but Huddersteld won 2-1. rre lacking the class which was say, you like, that one was coming back to meet old Two years
Individuntly by the game proves little ...... and Ij friends, Blackpool players and collee- can only reply that football s Muy Soccer's Strolung tively by the Blackpool team as indeed a funny game. A whole.
Plenty Of Talent
Israeli National team by exactly the same score on the identical | Isratli sido went under to Wales
in pursuit of his profession and
before he stopped on to the In 1911, City slipped back Brittarita at Kal Tak on Wednes-into Division II. Came a fleet day he said that if the chance (ing hour of glory when the team
Minstrel return. There may The Chinese footballers will never be another like him. come again and regain
their
Jimmy Hagan had a wonder- place in public favour: they will ruj second game and demons- doubtless win many important trated the Fer too often we have been games in the Far East but it we fashioned
power of good old British inside-for- every bit as good as the visitors want them to do better than ward play. His six goals were end often we have been vastly that, if we want them to amass richly deserved and served on superior to them. It makes the power of even a great club terve reminder of the wealth nice reading of course to build side ke Blackpool, then we of talent England had when up an impressive record against must go out and seek the right he, Carter and Mannion were vlelting sides, - but If we are kind of guidance. ever going to gain any. Tesling The truth of the matter le ward berths.
all available for the inside for
material return from our enter
prise than I would suggest that future our administrators
in
that. Blackpool were not, only
capable of assessing our, wesk- Shall Romember
nessox and our shortcomings But we shall remember too the
select our overseas opponents they were also competent enough compact defence of Farm, Arm
to exploit then to the maximum, field, and Mariin; the magni-
with much" greater tare"" and with an eye to the benefits we can derive from their visit.
Our players have plenty of greatness
talent. We need someone within the kind of greatness that being performances
present available
a Arm, hand, and, the necessary one at
That is the hall mark of soccer foent, middle line of Fenton, ..............and I repeat, 14 Gratrix and Kelly, the promis, of young Chamioy
and of couTED
what the score might have been if brilliant Bill Parry had been fit for the second game.
Yes. Blackpool have left the
anithority to apply it to harness Hongkong is capable of im- we shall go on over wondering that talent into the purposeful parting to our players. football so well typified by A New Senso Blackpool
SUCH A PERSON IS NOT given a new senso of apprecia- behind many friends
Blackpool bust surely have AVAILABLE, HERE IN HONG-ton to Colony fans They do host they have felt in our KONG BUT SOME ARE
monstrated all the arts. and Toolball cupboard can only be AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE
bool and with killed by: our players them AND NOW THAT THE EGO skills in the
original brilsts ke Stanley even 4
¡ OF OUR PLAYERS HAB Matthews and Jimmy Hagan In Finally there must be a special
BEEN DEFLATED
thede, they produced a few word of congratulations to the REALISTIC LIMITS THEY that have found no place in officials of the Hongkong : Foots MAY BE WILLING TO AD- even the most comprèmensive ball Association for their deter
·MIT · THAT THEY STILL Volume.
mination and epiterpriad HAVE A LOT TO LEARN
In the second game-when making tho Blackpool; visii
In
- AND THEY - MAY BE WILL | steeled to meet the alleged possible.
ING TO ACCEPT GUIDANCE strongest opposition wo could They have, by their efforts, FROM SOME. OF THE offer-Bizarpool WITO magni- rendered, u servico to Hunghong VETERAN PROFESSIONALS ficent Their conduct on that football greater than anything WHO ARR BECOMING. Į dala was as exemplary. their, they, have ever donu, before,
THE
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