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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1959.
Tung Wah ..... 1.
South China .
ONE WÖNG THAT WAS ALL RIGHT
Keenest If Not Best Junior Team Ever
Stardusts Run Up 24-2 Score Over Rookies On Brilliant Pitching By Venpin
By "TIME OUT”
Remember this name "Gabriel Venpin." This unassuming youngster who pitches for the Junior league Stardusts and who has a head full of ball sense, a sturdy right arm and a heart as big as his softball glove is "going places,”
Gabriel inspired his team-mates to a sensational 24-2 victory over the
rookle Overseas.
there were two discouraged. Lee Choc-hong's bape. Willle Zoe boys displayed fine sportsman- came through with a double to ship and never gave up trying. score Dayaram and then woo | All in all a very satisfying to Robert Guterres, ali 3ft dins of hours and 10 minutes of enter him, lifted a high fly to right. tainment. The ball hit Lee Cheung in bad spot the
The opposition was admittedly der and now very pour and some of Len Chee | runners on hong's boys would be better uff Fitting in the stands but this in no way detracts from the fine performance the tiniest team in the Juniors for they were worthy winners by virtue of superiority all around.
The rest of the softball pre- gramme over the week-end pro- duced only polite yawns from The spectators.
The two Junior matches on Saturday were notable only for the fact that à total of 44 field Ing errors were recorded while yesterday's Senior matches also faded to attract much attention.
Undefeated
middle of his
glove and even us it was drop ping to the ground both Lain und Zee were scampering across home plate.
te,
Cheoky
After Miguel Costa was issued with n complimentary ticket to first bure Mahadev Dayaramı to left and the singled sharply cheeky Guterres tried to make home bul WAS: tagged out. Costa saiferod the same fate us bis to strelch Loo, tried The Saluta Mayed undefeated Juck and the inning ended. with a ne 19-8 vlekny over
Pitching magnificently, to La the youthful Cheyennes "whure last-inning rally of five runs encouragement of some equally slands, -scored on six consecutive hits admirers in the
Venpin retired the and Manuel Nunes spectacular Start shoestri: catch of the Salnis Overseas in the first two in- Benny Omer's power-laden hitting. The Stardusts registered
to centrefeld highlighted Rome.
the
The Seminoles scored their mailun win in Live Senior division by beating the US. Navy 10-4 while in the Junior
the Diamonds footion
Just managed to stave off a strong rally by the University before emerging winners by 22 runs to 30.
Before mall but highly Overseas partisan crowd the
four more runs in the top of the acconti frame to enjoy a seven- un lend and it was only in the third inning that the Ŏverseas got the first bit of the day t Venpin
Yeung Wai Sum's live drive; spiled over Stardust shortstop Michael Dayaran's head for a single.
Two walka oft Venpin lended the bases but he rose to The occasion and saved the day SAT the side by getting KEN
and Stardusts game got tinder Hm Chi to pop up for the third
way only five minutes after the scheduled time and belleve me for local softball this in itself
Emil.
The
scoreboard 8001
read Stardusts 18, Overseas 0, for in to quite a foal' considering that the next two innings a series base-stealing the majority of matches always of bunts, during
rnd start half-an-hour late.
Willlo Choa's triple Michaelright field accounted nine more With
uwny onc
worked "Morty" Dayaram
runs to the winners. Overacas pitcher Yeung for
At the bottom of the 5 walk and advanced to second
to get a on Qoorge Lam's infield groun-after having falled
tace-saving run the Overseas decided they had had enough and would have thrown in the towel but plato umpire Bosco Ozoris thought otherwise und the game was carried on.
Six Errors
Take
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
In the top of the sixth
the
Stardust manager Lionel Dayaram
is to be congratulated for having the kernest, if not the best, bunch of Junter players It has ever been my privilege to write about.
HERE'S WONG EXECUTING ONE OF THE MANY
HE MADE DURING SPECTACULAR SAVES YESTERDAY'S GAME.-CHINA MAIL PHOTO.
Indians Go Down Fighting
To Navy In Best Of League Hockey
By TONY MYATT
Games
Some fast and furious hockey was witnessed at Sookumpoo yesterday afternoon, when the second week of the hockey league got underway. There were no startling results, most of the games in both the first and second divisions resulting as expected. Some of the teams however, suffered humiliating defeats.
Goalkeeper's Heroics Inspire Tung Wah To Dramatic Victory
By 1. M. MACTAVISH
WONG SIU WOO !!! That was the name on every pair of lips during yesterday's thrill-packed soccer scorcher at Caroline Hill. Think of every spectacular superlative, be it 'magnificent' 'wonderful', 'brilliant', or 'uncanny', then apply them to 'Wong's display and you get some idea of the glorious contribution which the sure clutching acrobatic goalkeeper made to Tung Wah's dramatic defeat of South China by a solitary goal scored in the opening minute of the game. But this was no one-man victory. The new re-built Tung Wah side fought like demons for their two points. They got a quick goal and then they put into operation a close covering defensive plan that strangled every South China effort to force a way through. Thetr success WAS All the warning that he had the beal- The packed stadium was spilt nore meritorious when ft ising o
Lau Yee... but also with a' resounding cheer realised they had a dangerous for
Tung Wah's
hopes their only a minute of play, South weakness at left-half where Beet-footed centre-forward was China staged a quick attack but Wong Chi-kong started at injured in his moment of glory Lo Kwok-tal, going back to rockbotion and continued in the and was a viriual passenger for naglst the defence, was the man same way for most of the ninety the remainder of the game rainutes.
although from time to time he Truly Magnificent still found enough energy to disturb the equanimity of the Yiu, Lee Kwok-wab, Chan Fal-hung and Ng WalSouth China defence. Imah were truly magnificent. They literally ran themselves
Szeto
Tough And Fair
after
who came out with the ball.
He banged it away upfeld where Lau Yee... apparently in a false sense of security... was much too casual in his effort to clear. Kwok Mon wah beat him to the ball la the alr and then gave him a explo of yards start and a besting in
a lightning dash through the middle.
on the one hand and the glorous nohting spirit-beaten lin,
seem
A Great Goal
the
was
into the ground and the sound Ho Ying-fun had a very of the finst whistle must have dinary game and neither Tam come to them with mixed feel- Kom-mDO. Cur Ng Wal-hung ingy. There must been a achieved very much on the strange conillet between the
the wings. Yet
great things tingling satisfaction of success about,
Tung Wah were their their deter- realisation that at last
As the other defenders closed they mination not te
Ittle centreforward could rest on the other. Rest and the re-assuring fact that dribbled us way round them from the torturous turmoil of even when the excitement was and smashed the ball into he chasing enfallsit football
goal that wns and making certain that at a bubbling over they never rownot for the
sorted to unsavoury tactics.testined to win the game. In costs it did not and a place in They were tough all right the process he was Injured the back of the Tung Wah net but, to their added credit, they although the pain in his right *must hove been n swect
were fair.
ankle was temporarily forgotten thought.
What of South China? in the clation of reeling the ball These Tung Wah
players Frankly they
were a sad dis-tucked away behind the South were absolutely superb. They
They appointment.
were China goalkeeper. It as I have not
team chokingly full of reputa- grent opportunist goal. played Chinese several seasons. Every inch of
players
for play
tions yet strangely empty of From that moment the worthwhile Ideas. They were struggle was really on. South progress made by South China frequently ruthless tri their Chinn had the territorial ad- Both forward lines combined was regarded as a personal theties as they fought bitterly vantage for long periods but
and how these well, but early in the game IRC responsibility
to save their faces......but no they did no more than bring fafted to take advantage of Tung Wah men defended their
stranger visiting Caroline Hill out the couple of grand scoring oppor-
Intent greatness in could
been convinced Wong Slu-woo and his colle- Towering tunites, which might very well
Above everyone, that only a year ago this same
agues in the Tung Wah den however, was goalkeeper Wong South China alde
Chun-woh fence. Mok have turned the gume their way,
Passes were short and mappy Slu-woo. The big fella' played barrassingly superior to Yiu cheuk-yin wasted several and play was the fastest of the as though his very life de-other side in Hongkong soccer. good scoring chances ond Les three games played at Sockum-pended on it.
In the game they were never Luk-takt swept a lightning better than mediocre and, drive wide of the past when ti poo yesterday,
for a couple of brilliant seemed enster to put it into IRC falled to register
his caves by Lau Kin-cheung, they the nat
would have finished with com- two occasions, in the first half sleeve to thwart the opposition plexions as red as their bright rose to a high pitch In the first instance, the ball and all the wiler of South went through Navy goalkeeper China's desperate stars could new shirts, Rulings pads and was cleared not find a loophole in hds
fender. In the second instance, incutie ng It was cfficient
The last game at Seokumpo» At Sockurapoo, Army "A" one each. Macaenais J. Silva 1,
between IRC and Navy, proved subdued the Macaensis "A" by S. Silva 1.
welcome to be the most evenly matched 4-2, but their "B" tearn received Bhagat Bligh made
crushing 7-1 defeat at the return to the Nav Bharat Unc-and best game of the day.
up in his familar position at hands of Nay Bharat "A".
IRC went down aghting. 10 centre-half, and with their de- the Navy by Z-1 in the best fence so-strengthened, the In- game of the afternoon, white indian forwards never hungered
division for the ball. he remaining senior Come, Recrelo "A" beal the Hangrong Hockey Club 7-2.
Perfect Condition
The
ground at Sookumpuo, was in perfect condition and the brand of hockey cerved up by the six teams who fought 11 out there yesterday, was top quality stuff.
Play in all three games was
and Intelligent, snappy
was
As is usual with Army-Nav Bharat tussles, this game
pare played ot
terrifie throughoul, and Pat Gardner's wizardry with the stick had the Army defence goundering on many occasiona.
Failed
goal!
Special Ovation
No matter how the ball came to him he had a trick up on
and
but
have
Was cm-
any
and
In the second half, excitement and although the standard of foot- they ball could never be very good the in such circumstances
team For a champion Jacked Imagination and their for the one by another de guard. His work was as pet top-of-the-bill stars Ho Cheung spectaturs enjoyed avery minute Overseas Infield committed six fensive play
There was some very bus
at. Wahab, who seemed to long before the end it stemed you, Yiu Cheak-yin, Wong Chi- of it. and the forwards ticking errors and this together on most occasions took advan with White Choa's double wastage of the openings affered.
The Army X1, however, ure to be congratulated for their Performance for though hard pressed on many occasions they succeeded in holding those goals hungry Nav Bharat forwards at
have all the time in the world, that the whole stadium was keung, and Mak Chun-wall As the acconds licked away shot wide of the posts.
Navy
2ND RACE MEETING 18th & 20th October, 1958
The following conditions for 1958 Ponica for the above
sufficient for three more Stor-
The first game of the after- for dust runs to be scored. entries meeting,
noon, between Army "A" and which close at NOON OF
the Mackensis was very evenly The initial Oversena run fnul-
with some excellent Tuesday, 7th October, are only came in the bottom half of matched,
defensive play by both sides. nounced:-
this inning. Two successive
forwarth, I would Lam pushed
Po-loungThe Army CLASS B 1st Day BLUE across for a run and after they had the slight edge over
their counterparts POOL PLATE. Winner winner had scored another five $4,000. Sccund $2,250. Third run to mako their total 24, the proved to be the deciding fac $1,760. Weight 117 lbs. best the Overseas could do wastor of the game.
to reply with a solitary tally Higginbottom was once again Winners 7 Ibs. penalty. when Stardust catcher Willle Ponies which have won less tossed the ball to deep centre in top form for the soldiers and than $2,250 in stakes 5 lbs. (field on an attempted pick-off runner and that 85. Play on the Entrance Allowance.
was how it endod.
bits
and
this
hay.
Solo Effort
registered first,
30
were nothing willing him on to success.
The crowd stayed in their shadows of their old selves,
right up to the anal and the worst of the lot was pinces
Ho Cheung-yau. whistle and although they gave the victorious Tung Wah side a
moro
than
Nav Bharat betted four times) minutes through the irst half, in the first half. The first goal when Chadwick slammed home came through a solo effort by the spliere. Then, a classy piece Gardner. Mohinder Singh was of inter-passing by Dallah and their the next to splinter the Army Samy gave the Indians board and Gardner followed up lone gaol when Dallah sent in a with his second solo effort. Be- Sizzler. Tore the breather Farid Khan nelled to put the soldiers four goals in arrears.
#
the fana began for the first alne to
great sense that drama was taking place before their eyes. They cheered_and applauded every incident? as the game progressed to its
of both sides stood rooted to the spot as a loose shot skidded Just wide of the Tung. Wah past with no onʊ. near enough to divert it the vital inch or two thai would have
given South China a point they did not really deserve.
Great Weakness great hand they reserved a the
South China's great weak-closing climax when the players very special ovation for goalkeeper as he made his wayness, however, was at wingbalf to the dressing room.
where Lo Cheung-kwong and No ovation has ever been Ho Chi-kwan were never able to even With the scores
after more deservedly won. It was a control the pace of the gune, resumption both teams made an true-life case of an unknown fact, Ho Chi-kwan is fast all out bid to gain mastery of moving into star class in one becoming a big boot merchant With their backs against the the game and it was the Navy magnificent swing of the fickle who seems imbued with a de- was responsible for two of the
wall the soldiers fought back who succeeded. Their goal football pendulum.. and on stre to kick the ball as far and
VERDICT: li vista a case of goals. He combined well with
off the stick of VecverTA, ☐ personal note I confess I have as hard as he can, How the
sceoer skill at a minimum but a fine never seen a more entertaining team cried out for the calculal- Green on the left wing and al-gamely and a neat bit of post-enme
football thrills at a maximura, though the Army tried hard to Lional play by Kerr and Lewis who Incidentally played
display by a man between the fed culture of ph artist like For the Stardusts tiny Robert swing the ball around as much rewarded them with their first Game for the Navy.
All honour to Tung Wah for a aticks. This Was one WONG Tong Sheng and how it Guterres at left-field caught as possible there was a ten- and only goal.
The following are the results that was very definitely ALL creaked at its rusty
grand - fighling diiplay which CLASS C 1st Day BROAD- the eye with some opportunist dency to "starve"
joints for brouklit them two vitai painis. the right-
Some fine constructivo play of matches played yesterday:
RIGHT.
well-conceived! the thoughtful by Nav Bharat, howover, WOOD PLATE. Winner base-running and a very non-winger.
South China should heed this the ball placed in the centre Yesterday's Results
ground passes that would have warning....they lack $4,000, Second $2,250. Thárd chalant approach to the game.
Senior
fleeting key pusitions and an undi Ho lbs. The
Cheyennes, could
Tung Was also got grand achieved more $1,760. Weight 147
lbs. easily learn from Robert just
sarvien from tireless Lo Kwok-tat few seconds than did all the Cheung-yau is not an asset.... Stakes winners
produced by how to relax completely when
who worked harder than I have bang-crash stuff penalty. Entrance 35. ONE striding up to the platel MILE.
ONE MILE.
By Order of the Stewards,
A. E. ARNOLD,
Secretary.
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Programmes
Impressive
Evenly Matched
Saw
FIRST DIVISION
2
ever.
Grand Service
seen
а in
sthan In
Deither is beef a substitute for braino.
Referee Dalgetty handled fough and tense game with courage and understanding and
spot another four times before the final whistle came. These Werv scared by Farid In the Macaensis squad, the goals
Jose
and Khan, Ebrahim, Yakub Khan Army "A" 4 Mucaensis Capitule brothers
him work before. Ho Chi-kwan. Army "3" 1 Nov Bhart "A" 8 Kwok Moon-vah scored the At one stage in the second half Antonio were particularly im- and Bhagat Singh. Willie Choa caught до
vital goal in a thrilling opening Tung Wah were reduced to nine garae, Nothing went past himpressive. Jose was the spear- head of the Maciensis attack.
bural which sent South China players and as one of these was South China were and his triple, double and A
His sudden bursts and Bashing
staggering back on their heels hobbling, Deat bun! put him in a class stickwork had the Army defence
Nav Thorat can be well
not so much at the fact actually faced with a depleted en Xiu Chenk-yin's bored fook of nocence foofed neither the by himself In the batting de-
occasions, proud of their displaying in
6 they had lost a gori... Schoolboy's
but eight-mon opposition yet they worried on
man with
the whlelie nor the partment.
and if they KCC ""B" The 4-2 victory, for the Army yesterday's game,
6 rather by the manner in which were unable to find a path to fans who were watching closcat. Dutch
The blame for this "Morty" Dayaram handled
il up, they Nay Bharat 1 KCC "A" was a fitting result to this game. are able to keep tho shortstop chores with
2 in the running Demons
0 Goalscorers were: Army-Hig- might well be
HAF conndence.
ginbottom, Green and Ralph, for the championship.
Recrelo 'B' 1. Macacoes 'B' 0 Moon-wah sounded
In fact, the whole tear___DE= celves honourable maation They exploited every opening
and Entry and showed an understanding of Fams for the End Race the game that puta, some of our Meeting 1958/59 to be held on Senför sides to shame.
Saturday 18th and. Monday
20th October, 1988 (weather
permitting) may be obtained
Grost Future
As for Venpin I predict a
at the Secretary's Ofice, great future in the game for Alexandra House; the Club this youngster. Fitching the Heuse, Happy Valley; and the Senior "A" distance of 48 ft. he Stables, Bhan Kwong Road.
showed great control, a tricky change of pace and a variety of Fitrias glose at 12 o'clock pitches which had the opposing ROON 03 Tusiday. 7th battera swinging' humily but
October, 1968.
By Order of the Stewards,
A. E. ARNOLD,
Becretary,
tely. He gave up only four hits.
As for the losers they too get a pat in the back, albeit only a Ught tap. They were completely qutclassed in all departments of the game but they should not be
several
THE GAMBOLS
I'M AFRAID YOU GAVE MY WIFE,
THE WRONG.
COAT
CLOAKS,
YES, THIS IS ¿{THE ONEƑ
CLOAKS
TRC
I Navy Вестаю "Д"" ЕКНС
SECOND DIVISION
inc
I
16 they lost it.
Finnily. The MaơTavish
In notching the goat Kwok deficiency must be shouldered Topper is doffed in a swooping
by Barry Appleby
CLOAKS
GAYE, ABREG] | OH DEAR, SHES IN YOUR COAT... SOME KIND OF
GAYE..
A TRANCE
goal.
B
Bolemn by the wing halves.
BANGKOK
AIR INDIA
salute to goalkeeper Wong Blu- woo whose magnificent display will long be recalled by those who saw i His was a brave perforumnce and he deserved the favours of fortune which wend with his punching, chrich- ing, diving, and the inspiration which he savo to his side. A good rohult for Colony football.
..
The Teams
Tung Wah: Wong Siu-woo, Szefa Yiù, Len Kwok-wah, Chai Tal-hung, Ng Wal-rman, Wong Chi-kong, Tan Kam-moon, Ho Ying-Run, Kwok Moon-wah, Lo Kwok-tal, Ng Wai-hong.
Solih China: Lau Hin-chtung, Lak Dakshiny, Kwok Kam-tang. Lo Cheung-kwong, Lau Yes; Ho Chi-kwan, Wong Chi-keng-To Cheung rau, Lee Yugstain," "ZIU Cena, hon GIAO TIẾ