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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
9TH (ANNUAL) -RACE MEETING Saturday 28th February, Wednesday, 4th and Saturday 14th March, 1959
(To ba ́hald under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club)
THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 50 RACES. There will be 11 racés on each of the 1st and 2nd days and B races on the 3rd day,
The fret bell will be rung at 11.30 am, and the first race rin at 12.00 Noon on the 1st and 2nd days. On the 3rd day the first bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the first race run at 2:00 pm.
The Uma interval in after the fourth race (1.30 p.m.) on the 1st and 2nd days.
The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will close at 10.00
am, on the 1st and 2nd days and at 1143 am, on the 3rd day.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
NO PERSON WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED. All persons MUST-wear thele badges prominently- displayed throughout the Meeting.
Admission Badges at $10.00 each per day aro obtainable prior. to the Meeting from the Club's Cash Sweep Offices, at Queen's
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 1959.
SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT
Let Youth Have Its Soccer Fling-Now
Sportsman throughout the length and breadth of the Colony will take special pleasure from the current visit of His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh. Our royal visitor has long displayed a deep interest in every aspect of wholesome sport.
both as a participant and as an adviser and helper.
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Building, Chster Road, D'Agullar Street and Nathan Road, His efforts on behalf of youth are known far and wide and
Kowloon, only on the written introduction of a Member, and on production of his Guest Record Card. Members are limited to 6 guests each Rece Day, and will be responsible for all guests introduced by them.
GUEST BADGES WILL NOT DE AVAILABLE. AT THE RACE COURSE ON RACE DAYS.
Tinos will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel, 12811).
The 8th Floor is restricted to Members, and Ladies wearing Lady's Brooches.
NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeling. For this purpose a Child is a person under the age of seventeen years, Western Standard.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payablo at the Gate.
Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisite fee of $100 in order to gain re-admission,
MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will be obtainable in the RESTAURANT,
SERVANTS
Servants must remain in their employers' boxes except for passing through on their duties. They may on no secount use the Betting Booth: or Pay Out Booths in the Enclosures.
CASH SWEEPS
The Third day of the Meeting previously advertised for Saturday 7th March has been postponed to Saturday 14th March, and all Cach Sweep tickets dated! 7th March 1959 will be valid for the Meeting on 14th March, 1959.
Although Through Tickets cannot normally be purchased for cach day of a Meeting unless there is an interval of at least five days between each day an exception is being made for the Annual Race Meeting Through Cash Sweep tickets, therefore, at $22 each per day for the 1st and 2nd days and $10 for the 3rd day, or $60 for the three days of the Meeting may be obtained from the Cash Sweep OMees ai Queen's Building (Chaler Road) and D'Agullar Street during normal office hours and until 10.00 am, on each day of the Meeting.
Particular numbers within the series 1 to 3,000 may be reserved for nil race meetings ns Through Tickets. Such tickets will be issued consecutively only and the right is reserved by the Stewards to cancel any reservation for Through Tickets for particular Meeting if it is found that sales may not reach the number reserved in the series 1 to 2,000.
Tieliels reserved and available but not paid for by 10.00 am. on Friday, 27th February, 1030, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Meetings.
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Tickets over 3,000 will also be issued consecutively but particular numbers cannot be reserved as Through Tickets.
The reservation of any particular number does not confer on the registered holder any rights whatsoever unless the Bicket bearing the appropriate number is issued to and can be produced by the holder.
The Stewardo reserve the right to refuse any subscription also the right to remove any name from Subscription Lists without stating reasons for their action.
Tickels for the Cash Sweep on the last race of the Meeting at $2.00 each und Tickets for the Special Cash Sweep on the Hong Kong Derby scheduled to be run on 2nd May, 1959, at $2.00 each may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Omees at:-
Queen's Building (Chater Road) and B. D'Agullar Street Horg Kong on:-
Week-days, Mondays to Fridays
Saturday 21st February
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
9 am to 12.30 pm.
Saturday 28th February and Wed-
9 am to 10 á.m. a.m. to 11 am.
nerday 4th March
Saturday 14th March
King's Robd, North Point, Hong Kong and 382 Nathan Road, Kowloon on:--
Weok-daya, Mondays to Fridays .. Saturday 21st February
Saturday 14th March
TOTALISATOR
10 a. fo *.m.
a.m. to 11.45 am. a.m. to 11 a.m.
MUST BE PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT AT THE RACE COURSE ON THE DAY TO WHICH THEY REFER, NOT LATER THAN ONE HOUR AFTER THE TIME FOR WHICH THE LAST RACE OF THE DAY HAS BEEN SCHEDULED TO BE RUN.
whatever else happens while he is here there is little doubt that he will derive real enjoyment from seeing the younger generations of Hongkong in action on our various sports fields.
The learners of today, are of course the experts of tomorrow and it is indeed striking paradox that at the very mo- ment when we have one of the mast distinguished of all cham- plons of youth in our midst the administrators of the Hongkong Football Association should find themselves at wide variance
tho. Issue of sending
over
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Of coures my real handicap is a wife who nags and naps and naps, when I take a day of. for DOK! --
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young Hongkong soccer team to take part in the Youth Com- petition which is being organised in Malaya,"
of
It is strange how some our football folks 'change their spots". The Chairman of the HIFA Went to Malaya at the beginning of this sensori and it number of his colleagues have since been under the impression that he had Indiented to the Malayan authorities that fong
would back
a Youth Competition such as la being organised now.
Excuses
In fact more than one of our councillors are still under the umpression that we are morally obligated to porteipate even if we have not said to in black and white,
Superficially it is being sug- gested as an excuse for not en- tering that Hongkong football galns liitle from fostering young- sters: that the schoolboy soccerite seldom achieves very much in senior football: that the money which would be required: to finance the tour - about. $15,000 I understand — would bu money wrated.
It is quite fantastic to believe that any established football official could talk like that. But It is absolutely true,
The standard of longkong football has declined al an alarming rate these past few seasons not because youth has falled to take its chance bul be- cause the dollar ring which holds the local clubs together has pre- vented youth from having the chance it needed. Players with big names have been kept in the game solely for their box office value long after their wanlar. ability has been all too obvious to the intelligent observer.
By
than
whose
SPORTING SAM-
by Reg.
do not even comply with the current rules of internatiopal competitions like the Asian or Olympic Games have twen whisked out of our control
London Erpress Servion. ].
a team of young Hongkong foot- ballers to Malays it can only hinder the development of tho
game in this Colony. Tomorrow's Yu Chuck-yin's, Ho Cheung- yau's, Wong Chi-keung's and all the athere are somewhere tuck- ed away in the ranks of the. present day schoolboys.
ninety per cent of the all that concerned, the Youth cases were born here....!
tournament in Maliya. parenta never saw the
The answer is very simple skica over Talwan ... and who
was told, "Interests with our football are
afraid that, once the best of our young players ara solected to represent Hong- kung in any international com petition, be it Youth or School- boy, they will have committed Footballers are certainly not themselves to Hongkong repro born at 18 or 10 years of age. sentation in the future if of Unless the youngsters are glyen course they maintain their early | the right chance they can never promise, and are good enough | mature ...... and it is the for serilor honours,
I. M. MACTAVISH
nothing to do with either dance; or ability. It is very simply another facet of the divided loyally which exists within the game in the Colony.
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"In recent years Hongkong football has been bled dry to provide football fodder for Talwan
"Players who earn their
whenever international com- petition comes along.•
"Now let us make it clear that there is nothing hypothetical in these sintaments. They are n fact whether folks here or elsewherd | like to admit them or not..
end possession of a particular postport' has no bearing on the argument whatsoever."
That was strong talk and I cut
living here, who in mors in just long enough to ask how
A Pledged Duty
pledged duty of the Hongkong Football Association to give them that chance in the furtherance of the best interests of Hongkong football,
"Everything I have said to you will be denied over and over again by the people con-
Such a polley requires strength, cerned. I don't ask you to be foresight and impartiality
eve me...all ask you to vital offices and it is a de la to examine recent history matter for regret that in cer- ....check current facts....and Lain pieces we apparently lack watch the tufure like a hawk.
such qualities. It will bear watching I can tell you'.***
Whatever stands behind the obvious reluctance of some folks to support the proposal to send
BOXING'S ODD MAN OUT
SPILLS THE BEANS
Sure, I'm Are The Rackets
By CHRISTOPHER LUCAS
AT
a
are
time when British and American heavy-weights tangled in the fight business, the Arst-ever Test Match beYouth Hasn't Failed man who holds the key to the pizzle
1. Where are tho "Ashes"? 2. Which country
the won
tween England and Austra-
Kat
3. Who holds, the record for the highest score in a Test Match by an England cricket captain?
4. Where was it originally in
tended to hold the 1040 Olymple Ganics which were Andeinitely postponed" be - cause of the war?
One has only to look through the ranks of the Chinese clubs at this very moment to see how true that is,
Youth has not failed Colony football: it is very much the other way round
Today there is an ever in éreasing emphhele on the early baptism of youthful sportener Dundee,
First the Scottish Division Club, recently In- troduced a 15-year-old player into their senior team: teenagers
ought to be known,
He is Cus D'Amato, manager of world champion Floyd Patterson.
Broke – So
the International Boxing Club This is not surprising. As a their global buy, Cus was bull-whipped by virtually broken stranglehold on world cham- his father, and battled with pionship bouts.
can
considerably
The failure of the much- publicised Earl Haig Box- ing Tournament to attract a worthwhile crowd in the MacPherson Stadium last Friday must have been as big a disappointment to ibe British Legion as it surely was to the Hong- kong Amateur Boxing Association.
class
Why should this top annual event suddenly lose its popularity: why should it dwin- die in crowd appeal! why, in a
short comparatively
ume, should the Colony fight foms change their loyallies?.
were
The show had everything to commend it. It was enthusias Lealign and imaginatively adver tised throughout the Colony 'kujt the prices for the popular seats. most' reasonable...there was on paper at least first class card and above all there was a most worthy cause to supported, yet, Judged @gainst any reasonable expecta- tions. It failed.
be
The ringside seats were fairly wall filled but tho gallertes resembled Mother Hubbard'a cupboard--they were bare.**
The Reason Why
reasona
CUS D'AMATO with his bottle-axe; Floyd Patterson. sulled stands to D'Amato, the hard-boiled egg-( jagzed, rasping phrases head of boxing, has single- to cauliflower ears, and the lack more than the £70,000 airoads
compromise La complete. in his bank account,
I have heard many banded taken on the monopolis- of
D'Amato hinted that there being given for the absence of was a definite possibility that spectators and I am sure that from men who Patterson would carn himself as they came
BIT talking zome extra pocket money with know what they
either about there is a lot of value In a warm-up bout with Henry Cooper or Brian Londen them....but it becomes more before Bghting Johanssen later and more obvious they alt this year.
agree that something will have greater to be done to inspire Chinese interest in the tobio art if it is ever going to be a real crowd puller and a mancye
In his first full interview with a British newspaper, D'Amato told me, "Once I bought a
5. Which famous South African cricketer played at centre three-quarter for England are holding regular places in paper-back edition of Freud but
In Rugby internationals?
In
of
Facts
street gangs,
Ruined The Runyonesque gentlemon some the greatest longue 1 quit after the first 100 pages with the pugnacious chin sat up
Warning sides in the United Kingdom because boxing-wise he wasn't and shook his head: "They say 6. Who finished second in the and
me anything I didn't I'm nuts. Don't you think 1 Europe... and even telling first four-minute mile race?
know thai the dear old Chelsea staggered the already know."
IBC boys But he warped, "British
7. Which len
passed the word around that managers better not twist may spinner. won the soccer world a week or so ago 33
a whole forward
I'm crazy? Why, they've put toll. "I'm facing à bull market. American men's Binckers are advised not to destroy or throw away their tickets
singles by fielding
every kind of pressure on me, and can choose who I want. The Honglong ABA has long · .until after the "all clear" signal has been exhibited
11tle seven times and was line of under 21'.
D'Amato, scratched his bald-overtyhing except for physical "One of the ways I buffalo recognised the importance of ALLWINNING TICKETS AND TICKETS YON REFUNDS up three dist
HitsThuggestion that longtongyors and led Sare, violenes. These people bisight people by being ample this problem, and dies wwled
Lowards its Foo 8. Which country provided is somehow different' is just so I'm broke.
"I made a study of the 15C constantly, I awa £13,000 ruin my business. rubbish and Everybody knows that.
tion. It is slow hard work and the first Rugby Union team much convenient
This "Buddenly I realised that I'd the way they think and act, in act the reasons which and to tour the British Isles?
has been on expensive fight, be driven out of businem com- discovered that their weakest unless a new local personality. being tendered as support for Jim Norris (the one-time L.B.C.; plotely unless someone did point was their strongest their ko. Henry Wong pops up mon 9. How many F.A. Cup finals the no-youth-team-for-Mainya president) had a personal for something. I decided the only power and money. They never to provide the necessary inspira- at Wembley have ended inį movement are Gabsurd they tune of £67,000,000. You can't way I could help myself was got round to developing their tion It is going to be a long a draw?
are forcing thirsding men into oppose Intimidation Ilice that to help everybody else.
Intelligence. With my spy net disheartening job. consideration of why they successfully without spending. deop
D'Amato's battle-axof The work I nipped their every plot 10. How many times have should ever have been made.
world champion himself.
f the bud."
The Chinese fans want to 'BOG France. been outright
"Look at the facts: my "Floyd is a champion who is "I have only one objective: Chinese boxers in action. They winners of the International Fodder For Taiwan' monthly phone. bilin run
to not only intelligent, but honest to bring back competition into are not particularly, fraternelo more thum £500. For years and loyal as well," he explained boxing Firstly, this will pro-in seeing Inter-Caucasino bouts I've been forced to support all seriously. "He was intelligent vide better Aghts for the public, however hacile they may be iny fighters who work. Also I've had to
couldn't get enough to
realise there was Secondly, it will bring better That however, doesn't fully ex- keep paying out for my world-wide something wrong. He has done rewards for boxers And third plain the vacant seats at the
everything in his power to pre- ly, it will develop better 1959 Earl Halg Show for intelligence set-up. And then I vond the IBC driving a wedge | fighters,"
that occasion oven-
the usual -run a gymhaslum where day between us."
hard core of tape from the hava kid can get a work-out-för
Cus. Services failed to turn tipsk free. But I have many triends.
PAYMENT, WILL NOT BE. MADE ON TORN OR DISFIGURED TICKETS.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
By Order of the Stawards,
A. E. ARNOLD,
Hong Kong, 21st February, 1950.
Secretary.
Rugby Union Champlony-
ship?
(Answers on page 19)
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is so simple
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MIL-IN LIFE TIME BATTERY...
MAN & CO.LTD.
Here is as accurately as I can
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Already the cynics
turning towards Just two years after Patterson started
The rents of these delibera- tions make most interesting rnaterial for thought and I will tell you of one of them which should give you some- thing to chew over. remember it being explained to | When I need help they help | won the title, the Supreme Some of them perhaps, have they did in the past. One can me. The IBC have made me Court brushquely ordered the noticed a booklet, sandwiched only wonder wher. Is the dif The reason behind the every kind of offer over
and fighting spirit dissolution of the immediate
the among the fight histories
fading reluctance to send a Hongkong years. I could have retired notorious IBC. which had detective stories in the D'Amato the gloved gindiators on their Youth team to Malaya has rich man, if I'd wanted to." monepollsed world, boxing for library. Its title: "Think and way out
** or saw we simply With ring-side 'help from the ·D'Amato, non éf an impover - || two decades. And, tronically Grow Rich" Mout of them living dn an age of physki
agully? M: AN US Bupreme Court, dought ished Italian Iceman, talks in enough, the champion this year hope it will happen yet.
mc,
POP-Wrestling selfli his lob
KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL.
RIVER, TREE
PUT YOUR SHOULDER TO THE WHEEL
KEEP YOUR NOSE
} TO THE GRINDSTONE
MORIC LUOR IT, MISS GLAMPE
Whatever your sport
you cairt beat
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