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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY. 2, 14A
KMB
FRENCH TENNIS TOURNEY-
LUCKY LUCKY BUSMEN Nielsen Crowned
Tung Wah Miss Great Chance To Give KMB Their First Defeat
By I. M. MACTAVISH
LUCKY. LUCKY
KMB.
In a bristling bubbling game played before a small crowd of 10,600 fans at the Hongkong Stadium yesterday afternoon the high ranking Busmen came within inches of defeat, They were indeed fortunate footballers to get away with a one-all draw. Tung Wah surprised friend and foe alike by their enterprise and had they taken only a few of the many scoring chances that came their way they would surely have scored 'a handsome victory.
Won
plenty
of enthusiasm and Auf only a tine save by Wong Slu- Pung-lien on the right wing was wou stopped Lau Kal-chu from always in the picture with us opening the scoring for KMB.
Rivemer! of the Back to the other end went intelligent ball, It wilt lake Tam Kam- the play and Kwok Moon-wah
a perfect sitter: im a long time to get lue missed pince back this player can mediately afterwards Lou Kot- continue to play as he did in chu was back in scilon with a slid this game.
flashing grounder which inches outside Tung Wan's right hund past.
Srelu Yu and ils motes have only themselves to blame for the feel that they had to surrender a point to the KMB side. They hard enough opportunities to have
the
times moon match many over......how they missed some ut them it is hard to understand. Nevertheless this game was grand entertainment. Maybe it lugged a bit here and there but over the piece it was good value for money.
Storming Show
Goalkeeper Wobg Sul-wee
another storming It was significant ve
show that with the issue in the balance and his clutching and clearing right up to the that whistle the or the wet ball were of a high
Yiu was spectatory defied the depressing order. Szeto
corely in their worried by weather and stayed
the speed and pices right to the bitter and trietery of Leung Wal-hung Yes. by any standard this but on the opposite side of the held Leu Kwok-wah more than was good entertainment.
held his own with Chow Sblu-
micke line hung. Ti ides good and indiscrete in The players on both
was spoken to mastered the underful comit Chan Fal-hung
times for his tactics
Commendable
tions to commendable degree. severni.
Evoid
גרנט!
very strong
Wal-hung. New- Yre-keung had a game held and willingness
not
The crowd got plenty to shout about and a roar went up in the 32nd minute when Ng Tim-loy almost put the ball into his own
in a moment of panic. Lanky Leung Wal-hung then went cruising down the left Chún wing in brilliant style. Fai-hung, Szeto Yiu and finally Ng Wai-mon all made quite and legal efforts to stop him
had a few strong the referee
Woh words to say to the Tung triumvirate before play was re- sumed.
It is true KMB found their nor-end Ng Walat was mal interpassing a bit more lucky, - to dmcult than usual but Leung reprimand for a titst half fou!
Leung Kit and Chan Chi-kong gain
comer Li dominated the proceedings and contributed a great deal to the very goal general pattern of the Busmen's showed a laudable play.
to work for the ball.
From Strangely enough much of the attraction of this game strong *East Wah foundation even much of its certainty
was laid stil in spite of initivi
The second half was a grand came from mistakes dile
dual displays of cleverness the to the unexpected irtels which forward 1910 never quite pro-ruggle and the crowd shouted งา countés- the wel ball often played as it duces the same vastained effort. encouragement
Encouragement as each side in slithered across the treachero Ying-fum raissed two great surface of the ruin-soazed turscoring chances, and speedy turn enjoyçe superiority. I thought Tung Wah generally Kwa Moon-wab ald tackled this instient problem although he gave beiter than KMB and certainly plenty of trazbie, their more open play was "nore
Heated Up
At this time things got a bit healed up and commonsense Was not restored until Leung KIL was booked in the 43rd minute. I thought he should have
mercy whatsoever.
goal to left-half f got his marching orders and no
who
likewise
A
KMB went into the lend in The 73rd minute when, after
strong attack on the Tung Wah the Busmen sometow The best bul! worker of them goal,
like
He Came, He Ran, He Conquered
Takashi Baba, 22-year-old student in Japan's Nihon University, who came all the way from Japan together with three other Japanese athletes, yesterday won Hongkong's second International 30,000 metres race at the South China Athletic Association Stadium in the time of one hour, 46 minutes, 49.6 seconds. The Japanese athletes made a clean sweep of the ning-man event by tak- ing the first four places.
Photo shows Baba receiving the winner's award from Mrs N. C. Chan, wife of the President of the Hongkong Amateur Athletic Association-China Mail Photo.
TICKETS FOR
SPECIAL
Savitt And Olmedo In
Final of US National
SOCCER GAME Indoor Championship
an
It has been nounced by the Hong- kong Football Associo- tion that pre-sale of tickets at $1.20 for the special soccer match in honour of HRH The
profitable than the over-clabor, was Lo Kwok-tal but when crowded the ball into the net. concerted ate stuff which Lam Chi-tam and rung Wah were in contrul of It lunked
out of the tightly un to the effort but Lam Kam-long tried to produce.
the game he hung
Duke in the goal- Much of the credit for the ball far too long and was re-bunched players mouth Chow entertainment which this gamepeatedly caught in possession...
-Shiu - hung due to
emerged as the recipient of the But in one of his many sallies gave to the fans
congratulations. Referee Lyitie
stamped into the KMB penalty area he ruthlessly on the cheap vlclousus spreadeagled by Lau Ti
got and Leung Kit und had the ocensionally beyond the smouldering stage siisfaction of seeing Ho Ying- At une period in the first half fun whip the ball into the met things looked black but the trom the resting penalty kick black book worked wonders. to chalk up 2 long overdue
einfiser.
Buss
which
Privata War
the Tung
As
this
It all started in Wan side, in a most unexpected place, when Bile Ng Wai- hung decided to wage a private war with Leung KİL, usual from small beginnings bigger things develop and particular episode folshed with: Loung Kit being booked for blatant foul on the Tung Wat:
The Busman whiger. lucky that he did not have to make the emburrassing long walk thick lathe dressing but full marks to Mr Lyttle for his handling of this incident and others which
ROOM.
WILE
Little Ng Wai-hung could have ruined this game by a couple of thoughtless Indisere don the first half ..... and as the consequênce of one of his crude tackles Leung Kit hobbled his way through three quarters 4 the Kane,
from
Tung Wah did not deserve to be behind and justice was done Ho just before the end when Ying-fun equalised
the penalty spot. This encouraged Lo Kwok-tal and his mates and they had several more chances to snatch the winner bofore the final whistle sounded......but
probably through over eagerness obey wisted them, alk
VERDICT; A good game with some interesting talking points which I hope to come back to at later date, KMB were very lucky to salvage a point, while Tung Wah again showed their to pull out something
KMB always tried to play eirver football.
Sometimes their efforts were, in the circum- ability ព
stanges, insguided but there is extra" when they meet the big a wealth of good soccer
side
Over-Elaboration
the names.
The small rain-soaked crowd enjoyed the Lense struggle and they must have left the Wat Eat-kini was again A ground I did thinking what a contradiction. He made several
grand player Chan Chi-kong excellent saves but at lines han become since ho staricd
of Edinburgh between the Combined Hongkong Chinese and Combined Non-Chinese will take
at place the Association's office, the Sports Road, on following days:
Thursday, March 5- 10a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, March 10 am. to 6 p.m.
Saturday, March 7- 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon.
The match will be played at Caroline I ground starting at 3.55 p.m.
6-
No tickets will be sold or obtainable · at Caroline Hill ground on the day of the match..........
Al complimentary passes will not be valid
his match AESE,
enight-bane zona la sana wax kids brillating to brawf
he
five minutes three times failed to handic cleanly. In each case the ball was somehow edged round the
eventually foul and in one period of the There is not a better half-back
getting second half he got lucky breaks anywhere in the Colony today,
when. within
No big game of this im- portance should ever start half- an-hour late. On awet day ke yesterday it was grossly unfair to the fans on the open terracing .. and also to the players who had to finish the match in semi-darkness ... but more of that anon..
Tho players realised
they were nowhere with the strong or stuff and slowly but surely they got back to the main task in hand. In the lap of a wenk referee this gamo, could very casily have deteriorated into the dogfight which some folks hud confidently forecast. fortunately the main culprits on both sides quickly found tings a "Lytle bit different from whatever it was they ex- pected. The resulting exciting, encounter was more of a credi vahing to all concerned,
thus was n
sort
It was
aver-
post. Lo Pak was the better back and on this occasion pivot Law Tim was outshone by its two hard working winghalves,
The Busmen's troni line
the through suffered claboration of Lau Chi-lam and
The Teams Lam Kam-teng who both used the wrong facties for the pre- Tung Wah: Wong Sul-woo,
conditions. Lau Kai Szete
Yi, Lee Kwok-wuh, bord chu, worked, very
and Cuis Fahủng, Ng Wai-man,
Successor
to inst
Unique Sporting Record?
New York, Feb. 22.
Defending titleholder Dick Savitt of New York and Peru's Alex Olmedo today stroked their way into the final round of the U.S. National indoor tennis championship with impressive straight-set victories.
Saviti, sixth-ranking US net- man, gave away 13 years to 13
year-old Earl Buchholz, Jr, but
at hnd the power and steadi- ness to pound out a 0-4, 6-4, 6-3 triumph.
Olmedo, Southern California senior and hero of the Unlled Sintes Davis Cup victory In Australia, eliminated big Barry Mackay, a fellow Davis Cupper 6-2, 6-4, 6-4,
The victory of "The Chief," as Olmedo is known because of his Inca ancestry, was no surprise. He had whipped Mackay in their last three meetings.
BARCELONA
CLUB
Europe's Finest
Wood Player On
Paris, Feb. 22. Denmark's Kurt Nielsen won the men's singles title of the French International Covered Courts Tennis Championships here today when he defeated France's Jean-Claude Molinari 10-8, 3-6, 6-3, 6-9,
Making less mistakes than her opponent in a mis- take-filled final, Britain's number one player Miss Angela Mortimer defeated France's num ber one player Melle Florence De La Courtle 6-2, 6-1, to win the women's singles titles. Surprised by the- highNielsen, $ modest talker, standard of Motinarl's rapented declined to accept the title "Best attacks, Nielsen made several European player on wood" which early -mistakes Games see-he was told goes with the cham- 4 saved up to eight-all with the plonship.
Frenchman delighting the 4,000 Nielsen said, "No, I can't call French fans with his spectacul myself Europe's number one on wood, because I am not forget- But on his Kervice Dieting I was beaten by (Sweden) Frenchman sent the ball Davidson in the Scandinavian sirnight into the net and two International. But 1 am willing requins outside of court to lose to regard-myself as among the the Arst set 8-10.
top five." France-Presse.
returns.
Rapid Rhythm - Molinari held the Dane's Topid rhythm throughout the second set. He took Nielsen's service. In the sixth game to lead 5-2 and then, win the set 6-3
The Dane changed his tactics In the third by putting more power into his services and pincing sharply angled shots. Molinari fought back But Was unable to match his opponent's play and lost the third set 3-8.
After the rest, game went to three-all and In the seventh set Molinari tried to check the speed of the game. But Nielsen poured on the pressure with censational returns which left the Frenchman standing.
Losing Grip
Week-End Softball OVERSEAS. GET
A THRASHING
BY UNIVERSITY
By OLLY VAS
The Junior League Univer
sity squad, enjoying one of their best seasons. ever, chalked up their sixth victory on Saturday when they thrashed the rookie Oversens by the ever-convincing score of 14 runs to three. In the ladies' lengue, the and a backhand return into the Toreros broke into net to lose the service, the set column when
the ; wịn Lee Chee-hong's ' and the title against Europe's Overseas falled to make an ap finest player on wood.
The tired Molinari Was now losing his grip on the game and on his service ho sent two straight drives- out of court
Nielsen, winner for the third pearance at King's Park.
All games sélieduled for time, sal; "I am very pleased
yesterday, Sunday were posl. about winning the French
to the unfitness of Championship, but I am sorry itponed dug
against Jean
Claude the ground. Molinari, who has become
DOUBLE-PLAY lop-flight player."
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The lads from Pukfulam hid
bail when they creased bats
with
the Overseas, From the
He added, I had to make a real effort and it 1 smiled dur of the match it was because I moment the umpire called play falt highly pleased with the ball, the Undergrades were made by Molinari, sitting right on top of the op- progress who is my friend.
position, Nielsen wald he did not have it) The Overseas scored their In tomorrow's fil, Savitt vary in the "cat and mouse" three runs in the third, sixth
because even
Though end seventh.
To make things will be
Molinari made some mistakes he worse, they were the victims of "often got the jump on men
the fourth a double-play in when
I anticipated his inning.
Top buiting honours for the 'professors' go to Frank Weng with a perfect three-in-three, Leung, with two-in-two
third name secking his Ulonel indoor crown. He went
boards in
all the way on the 1952 as well as last year. This is Olmedo's first indoor effort.
A new titleholder is assured In the senior singles. The 1958
velcron winner,
ven shots."
Gardner Norman O'Neill. II. Tang with two-in-
Mulloy, defaulted after an argument with tourney officials. So tomorrow's senior finalists will be Dr Reginald Weir, who won by default. from Mulloy, vietor and Marris Adelsberg, over Harry Hoffman, 6-3, 6-8, 0-2.
Defaulted
voluntarily relin- Mullay
his
singles quished
senior crown and wilt appear only in tomorrow's doubles final.
Mulloy, holder of all four US senior lies, requested at his singles semi-final he skirted to the last event on 13- day's.progamma...He foliii. would glve him and Bud Robineau, his boss and doubles partner, a better opportunity in the doubles competition.
REGAINS SPANISH SOCCER senior
LEADERSHIP
Madrid, Feb. 22. The Barcelona football chub had Uttle disculty in inflict- ing a crushing four goals to nil victory over bottom of the
rivals Wellington, Feb. 22.
table Gijon but arch
crashed to a 2-1 Mr W. T. Tindill, of Welling- Real Madrid ten, an aumpire now to later-defeat at the hands of Atletico natlonul cricket. had been ap- Madrid. poined to stand in the frst Test between New Zealand and
which begins England, Christchurch next Friday.
ut
This brings, Barcelona once ngain to supremacy-with that narrow one point lead which feature of the has been the
Puts Baby's Birth Before
Yankees Offer
Adelaide, Feb. 22. Norman O'Neill, Australia's brilliant young Test bals-
Iwo,
Chinese Soccer XI Draw With Rumanians
Paris, Feb. 22.
man, said today he would The Rumanian Army Cen- go.to.the United States to train with the New York Yankees Baseball Glabmifmbtondate-could-be
postponed March.
until
mid-
tral Club football team. drew with the Chinese Army "August First toun 2:2, before a cheer- ing crowd of 30,000 at the newly renovated Peking Stadlum this afternoon, He said the Yankees wanted } him at their training camp In Radio Peking reported.
the Florida by the end of
Chinese Premier, Mr Chou En- Australien Cricket season-lal and Rumanian Ambassador March 4.
Barbu Zaharescu were present siny into watch the game. Australia until his first baby
O'Neill
to wants
born about mid-March.
.
However, the tourney chair man. refused. to grant Mulloy's So the 40-year-old request. Floridian defaulted in the senior
Centre-forward Hsien TI- singles after winning a 6-2 zet
hetung put the home team опе Mulloy and flobineau then from Dr Reginald Weir.
He said he had received ajup in the tenth minute. He advanced to the senior doubles cable from the Yankees repeat-stored from close range after conquering Berkeley | ing the offer to train with, them evading Rumanian bal-back in by
Alexandru Apolzan. Bell and Ed Nye, the defending for four weeks.
"I discussed it with my family Ion Alexandrescu, the champions, 6-4, 6-4. In 10-1 morrow's title round they will and cabled acceptance on con- Rumunian centre, equalised in Hoffman and dilon that I went after the the next minute from a commer oppose, Harry Hugh Quim
baby is born." O'Neill said, “I klek. Σπ the doubles semi-finals, I asked for the earliest possible The match was televised and Olmedo and Mackay defeated reply and expect an answer to broadcast on Real headed the table during
nation-wide the past week following. a Myron Franke and Hugh W. FDOTTOW."
hook-up today, but there was He added that if the Yankees still a hugo crowd milling out- brilliant 1-0 victory aver Stewart, 4-0, 6-3, 7-5,
in a needia match Grant Golden and Mulloy de were impressed with his form side the stadium long after the featur Sovitt and William they would offer him a contract. play started and the stands. Talbert, 1-6, 8-0, 17-15~~U.PL/ --China Mall Special,
packed with standing room spéclators-France-Presse.
Now don't get the idea that Leung Wai-hung again showed Lau Yee-keung. Au Pang-les. Mr Tindil, 48, played for tussle between the two glubs
that as far os representative Ho Ying-fun, Kwok Moon-wab, |New Zealand at rugby. and for months past. five-star display of the soccer skills. It was nothing football is concerned we have a La Kwok-tal, Ng Wal-hung. cricket, and has refereed In
KMB: Wat Fat-kim, Lo Pak, international rugby. of the
whole-ady-made
Ng Tim-loy, Leung Kit, Lau hearted heman tussie in which fading Mok Chun-wah,
Now to the nglual run of play, Tim, Chan Chi-kong,
His latest appointment pro- The game started more than Shlu-hung, Lau Chi-lam, Laubably gives him a unique Barcelone then all the intricacies and half an hour late and this Kat-chữ, Lam Kam-tong, Leung Importing record.—China Mall between the two clube pattern-weaving which we naze showed the HKFA As a very Wai-hung.
Special mally associato" with our Chi- nezo footballers.
hard endeavour meant, mora
Door organising light. The Junior Shield ruatch which
In this enforced.. departare preceded the KB-Tung Wah from the usual run of things encounter ran into extra time Teng Wah did better than their
...and then we had an un- more fancied opponents, They expected--but excellent -- per- moved
with formance by the Drums and Buglo Team of the United States Marines,
the bail about
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The players found it diffcult to control the ball in the open- wait
ing stages. We had to
Lo
until the 14th minute for the first real thrill and it came in the form of a crashing drive by Loung Kit which carried just over the Tung Wah crossbar. --A few minutos later Kwok-tai went off on a' grand run and Wei Fat-kim had to throw himself across his goal to pish the inside left's finishing shot round the post. The game whe now brightening up and
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Bulgarian Volleyballers In Shanghai
Paris, Feb. 24. The visiting Soņa men's and Iwomen's volleyball... thians of “Bulgatia played their frat matches in Shanghai today, Radio Peking reported.
fithe, Sofa"wordt's team won [in] thrée sati, 10-7/-16-10-10-0.
The Gods, men's, tamm, istoto. Shanghai by two-byte for things) 9-15, 15-10, 11-10, 9213; 11-18! France-Press