THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, * 1959. **
SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT
Of Football. Fisticuffs And Fond Farewells
The not has been cast. The hunt for evidence of profes- sionalism in Hongkong football is now on. The catch is uncertain, But the sea rovers are hopeful.
Many people feel that the open appeal to the public to come. forward with any information they may have is doomed to failure before it even gets started. The press appeal was maybe a necessary gesture but its value is doubtful because it has tended to have the opposite effect to that which was intended.
People who earlier talked about what they knew' have shut up like clams. They have even openly derled statements which they had made previously and they have only one current comment.. "I know nothing
*This is not an unexpected reaction...
but it should not
into
a sunse
of
lead anyone false security for behind shield- ing hands big names are situ being whispered.
Significant
It is igniscent, too, that these are not the names of
made
the Gre
By
I. M. MACTAVISH
which is from 1 to 2 p.m.will be completed at the Masions to Sramen.
st
hockey in Kowloon, but, when the opportunity arose, he could! be identified his familiar red nt large cap acting as starter IL 1% anticipated that there
small athletle meetings will be many more entries be-and
the HKAAA............ for the list finally closes and staged by
he has also and, of Course if you like a night at the ring-
out similar starting site you should make a special carried point of being at the Colony Julies for big community evente They
like the annual walkathon. shamateurs.
be Championships. You can
Thut would seem to be of the people assured. names of some
o? senne Arst cluss
for anyone who
And
Dick was make steuffs and by your prezence pretty full ration
the summer undercover profesionailsin you will be giving
Hongkong Set In
to be found on the side of the possible: the names in fact of Amateur Boxing Association the
swimming pool refereeing water people who are supposed to material support it requires to
polo matches. have provided nome of the carry on its good work. 'mystery noney that is alleged
of By the way, at the time to reach players' pockets with-
writing I understand that Henry out passing through club books. Wong's nume is not Bmong
The situation is steadily be those entries so
for received. coming more Interesting.
Personally I shall miss him from Watch for the blow-up.
If it the
bul nevertheless I ring. comes to a showdown it will be hope, in his own interest, the big
with a capitul 'B'.
old warrior h Anally called It a day.
*
There is a familiar tang of leather and resin in the air. The Colony Boxing Championships are just around the corner and the energetic officials of the Hongkong Amateur Box- ing Association are work- ing overtime to ensure! that the 1959 competi- tions are staged in the efficient manner which has become a characteris tic of ABA promotions. The Colony's potential pugilistic champlons are now living with one eye turned to-
the warda
calendar,
Three dates are uppermost in their
on
minds for they know they may have to be ready to take part in the preliminary bouts Monday the 19th at the Missions to Seamen. They know 100 that semi-finala are scheduled to take place at the Southon Playground on the 21st and that the big night for the Gnals will be na Friday the 23rd at the
8Bine venue.
Even Better
The present Indications are
*
'Thank You'
and
YACHTSMAN OF THE YEAR
A kiss from his wife for Owen Aisher, 57-year- old recipient of the Max Aitken Yachtsman of the Year Trophy,
Mr Aisher, whose yacht Evaine paced the America's Cup challenger Sceptre in ber trials, an nounced at the award ceremony last week that at least four £35,000 yachts are to be built by Britain to take up the America's Cup challenge In 1981- London Express Photo.
Soccer, boxing, hockey, athle ties, and water polo have all had the
benefit of his active he assistance but in addition was also a member of a num- ber of importout committers,
On top of all that he some- to write DIL how found time many sporting subjects urundenst on others.
Elis has indeed been a gen- to our nerous contribution
His whole affairs. sporting hearted endeavour has enriched and different games athletic persults and until an- horse gladly accepts responsi- other equally 'willing bility and discharges his comes along we shall be the various duties with un-poorer for his departure.
From sportsmen throughout failing loyalty.
the colony the salutation must During the past three years be....thank you for a lot of Hongkong sports tos been most hard work.....bon voyage...one heard fortunate in being able to call
There is no greater asset in the length and breadth of amateur sport than the 'willing horse' official who many
on the apparently indefatigable
ut Major support
Dick The news that the Brazilian the Webb of
Royal Army
will not football team In a few days Medical Corps.
now be coming to Hong- Dick will be on his way back
kong is another bitter dis- and to the United Kingdom
appointment for Colony his departure will leave a gap that will take a lot of filling.
soccer fans.
inter-
and i very B
great mistake
if we were to false economy look at the present tough mar- ket through old fashioned rose coloured glasses.
Page 19 1
Henry Longhurst On Golf- MATTER OVER MIND
Where do the great golfers "go" first? It is Henry Cotton's theory, based on observation of others as well as himself, that they "go" first in the legs.
an
have has if you
any "budding Similarly, he drives Speaking as one who
household. ordinary" motor-cerbe- long since "gone" almost every-musicians in the
with tear off this page in case they cante, if 1 read his mind aright, where, 1 cannol argue this theory, and indeed 1 ex-read that violinists get the would hate anyone to think bils that he thought they would pect it is right, but I am sure They can do the delicate that in the purely golfing sense with the arm at full stretch or think more highly of him for what "goes" first Is the short the twiddly bits under the chin, riding about with idiotic great but when it camo to the bills in tali ina. In his clubmaking putting.
tite elbow factory he can do overy job The holing-out putt Is the the middle with
once angled as it is, when you come better than anyone else employ- only shot in golf which,
to think of it, in patững-they | ed ott 11 and has probably turn- missed, cannot be retrieved.
man may continue to play get the twitch and nearly sawed down more clubs for almost as well as ever he did. What the thing in half,
Invisible imperfections thim «ny- demotes him from the top flight The truth is, I fancy, that one in history.
all the where-
to the second eleven, inexor- Hogan's present shortcomings Hogan has ably and without hope of return, have nothing to do with physle-withal a man is likely to need in the five-footer which slips al methods at all, They utten and an enviable reputation for round the hole instead of going any in America that you cannot inflexible straightforwardness in the top in professional business dealing. Life has now In It does not take many of reach them. One per round is enough. golf unless you are "hungry." one further blessing to offer. He
You can, of course, be hungry can settle down and enjoy physically, mentally or finan-game of golf. So long, that is, elally-and. Hogan, though helan he does not recover his put- has known them all In his time, ting. is none of them.
At Long Last Time at long last has now overtaken none other than Ben Hogan in this fashion. I do not wish to be quoted as saying
.
I have always agreed with
Cotton's, theory ol that mind does influ-|
that he has what Americans another call the "ylps" and we the namely, "staggers" or the "fitters," but ence matter, and that, in order into hole a vital short putt, you have got to exert an immense as well
first
It
MINE OWN EXECUTIONER
3
The referee falled to turn up
in
recent tmateur soccer Czechoslovakia be- equally intense ambition. When for a you have had all that the game match this to offer,
ambition tween
Sokol Nymburg and has
Horatev, simply isn't there.
Both sides agreed that the Brazdo, Nymburg centre-half, should take charge, as well as
Perfectionist
the most iron-willed man golf now knows for the time what it is to have the mount of will-power hands no longer obey the im- physical skill. This Intense effort needs the spur of an pulses of the brain when comes to tapping the ball into the hole from a few feet,
He tends, poor fellow, to haul them round to the left and sometimes even fatis to reach the hole. He thought it Was his to do with something method--and who was I to 'dis- bring much happiness Illusion so great a man?
Hogan of a kind which perhaps Double about his impartially So I told him how I had he has never known before. No were swept aside when 410 once written an article on the man ever dedicated himself to awarded a penalty against him- continued doctor core perfection with the same single-self. Afterwards, he * subject and
He became, as refere-trom the touch- spondent had offered to explain minded devotion,
al-re. It all. Everything depended, he and remains, austere and
never most ascetic. You will
He could not remain on the said, on the angle of the right
the fold because, besides awarding for instance, la elbow. There were times, he see him,
of though I cannot, went on,
kizarre clothing affected by so a pennily for his foul, he had Ex- is sent himself off!--London course, conflrm this personally, many American golfers. It
ח!
rafalnya
Nevertheless, its absence may play in the game.
to Ben
a man would actually shots that count, not shirts, press Service. when
difficulty have
hold it at glass, He could arm's length, or close under the chin, but the intervening pass- will end the prevalling footage was fraught with tremor. beli famine then by all means iet us have a bit of each.
My doctor friend then made revelation and, the appalling
MY HAT
Chris Grimes, the 23-year-
BETTER BUY BRAEMAR!
In recent years our official representatives have travelled Short sighted thinking almost all over the globe attending denied Colony fans the chance important international football of seeing Blackpool-and Stan- meetings. They have frequent- airy-fairy ey Matthews-in action on the ly come back with
about the wonderful Hongkong stadium. Later, when stories
had made and the huge financial contacts they harvest which accrued to the the great plans they had laid ok Yank at Oxford who won a the Fuld medal for rowing at the 11 made nice reading at
Inst Olympics, will not be in the all the time but it has produced ab- University eight this year--be- English HKFA from the two games
side played,
It's
abou! cause of the hat he has worn nancial haggling and wrangling solutely nothing.
wo shall for the last ten years. which took place in the week time it did before the visit seemed rather be temples into the belief that
we send the wrong people to driver's cap, only it's bluo and SCOTLAND'S there International BOL shallow and miserly.
togethers. Desperately Needs
the
Hongkong football desperately needs the stimulant the visit of a top class side would give
standard of our
current downward
... or
Looks a bit itke an engine
white pin-stripe. Very fortable,' says Chris.
it.
BRAZMAR
com-
FINEST
KNITWEAR
"But Group Captain Jumbo' When I realised his tenure
* * * Nowadays football is
coach, Oxford Edwards, the here was almost at is end national in nature that progress
Anally A back over his
"tale- threw me out of the practice Marted looking
can only be achieved by meet-i many activities while he has
THE quote squad when he saw me wearing ing the star players from other
wagger" With the an ab us. It was been with
trend. In the and I found countries and, with Brazil cur-
"He said: 'No one who dresses of the week "Our present sorbing probe
rently holding the coveted myself wondering if here WDS
soccer we need the uplift more poor standard of football is in such a manner will be in World Cup, there was a very
now than ever before.
due to the fact that the the Blues crew this year--not a sportsman who had found the
to the problem of special hope that this projected
It the expenditure of lule players are worried because as long as I am coach." solution
Says 'Jumbo' Edwards: "I can- clastle time....or one who had visit would materialise,
more money on the one hand,
being net
comment."-London on unconventional watch which We are not having very much
closer Unison with our their Hvelihood is in success extra hours
inducing visiting and Kave him
presa Servico. a few
Aslan neighbours on the other, investigated!!!" (anen). teams to come to our part of each day.
the world and it seems that
will have
to develop a sti closer liaison in order that European and Latin- American teams can be offered a Far East itinerary which is both practical and financially attractive.
that the 1959 Championships Outstanding Referee Asian countries
will be even better than those that have gone before and with 30 entries already received there is obviously no lack of com- petitor Interest,
Many prominent names have so
During his tline here Dick has been a leading soccer re- ferce....and I say that even if and the orange throwers- haven't always agreed with his decisions. He was certainly the far been registered and when his time and whenever he was
outstanding boxing referce of Expensive Business one finds boxers like Fong Kec-third man in
Moving a football party about the ring the kong, Don Bryan, Rex Williams boxers
knew they would be the world is an expensive bust- and Tsang Chun-wah among the
expertly handled and intelllness and it is certainly not be- with the elvillan entries and Heywood. gently protected if the occasion coming any cheaper
passing of me. so demanded.
While that is true it is also
with our pic- fact that,
we
SOUTH AMERICANS PLAN
WORLD CLUB SOCCER
·CHAMPIONSHIP
Ashbrook, Dol Jordan and
By DEREK JOHN Innes among those from the But these were only two of Army the standard is fe many Interests. He was
Plate of Argentine-such are Arsenal versus Botafogo of obviously going to be good. mich sought after as a hockey sent studia facilities The entry list will
Brazil remain umpire and he also found time better able than ever before to
matches are and Manchester
the exciting
opea
2 umti
o'clock
offer worthwhile inducements on to take a very active part in
It would be United versus The River
prospect opened up by a Monday when the weigh-in the organisation of six-a-side to touring teams.
THE
VEREND
GAMBOLS .
CAN I HAVE THIS DRESS
BOUGHT YESTERDAY?
BUT YOU ALREADY HAVE BOUGHT IT
TRIPE
EXIT
Why do all women slip off their shoes thi the einemg
by Barry Applely
SO WHY ASK ME IF YOU CAN BUY IT ?
BECAUSE IT'S ONLY RIGHT THAT I SHOULD ASK YOU, WHEN I GUY ANYTHING
(BUT I DIDN'T TAKE "OFF MY SHOER)
EXIT
ROME
GAS IS TOPS
SAYS MR. THERM
Ex-
world
move to launch a club soccer championship.
It would link up with the European Cup, which has proved to be the greatest money spinner soccer has yet devised
Jose Ramos
do Freitas, President of the South American Confederation, has already secured sup- port for the-project from Brazil, the World Cup holders. Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, and Chile, The South Americans start their own club champion- ships this year along the lines of the European Cup, and the proposal is that the winners from each Continent should play off in a final, one year in South America and the next in Europe,
The world title could come, Into being in 1960. Mean- while, the European cham- pions are to be invited to play against the Braziliani champions next summer," Jet flights across the Atlan
tic in six or seven hours have solved the transport problem, and there are ng financial difficulties."
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