THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1959.
SATURDAY SPORTS
SPORTS SPOT
Here Is News
The
Is News To Gladden
Younger Hearts
And Some Older Ones, Too
Hongkong enjoys a wide variety of sporting activities.
It
could very well claim to have something for everyone yet somehow we go on adding now events and now ideas to our calendar.
In recent years we have introduced the walkathon and the international marathon to our already packed schedule of major attractions and, if a group of prominent local business folks have their way, we are going to have another great new spectacle in the very near future.
This time, however, it will | etcment In our community was met be an event made nitrne having a party at his house. tive by the bit warnes involved, The strange thing was that for, although the planners he hnd netually beer in Manila envisage something on a lavish i when the Soap Box Derby look sende, the actual competitors; lace und, while he had been will really be tinknowns. They impressed by the enthusiasm will In fact be the youngster which it obviously aroused, ho of the Colony
and he did not quite appreciate the new event will be the HONG- | full potential of s attraction KONG SOAP BOX DERBY, unif he had had a second look
at it on television.
Idea Born
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During Sports Box on Televi tion Inst Friday there was pictorial report on the Soup Box Derby in Manila and I happened that a gentleman who takes a special interest In
the welfare of the younger
From that moment things moved fast. The Hongkong Sou Box version of the Derby breame the sole tople of the party and immediate plans were started to I- liere. gurate wach An event Preliminary discussions were
By
SPORTING SAM
which will lead to great things on the big day.
Watch out Mother... when Tem, and Dad, say they are go- ing to get on their soap box it will no longer mean they are going to make a boring speech.
There has been much speculation in Far East
I. M. MACTAVISH
with the Idea being enthusias- tically received on all sides, there seems to doubt that we shall soon be able 10 boast another Lop Ino occasion in our midat,
by Reg. Wootten
London Express Servica Soo and Charlesworth should why don't you join in this make an excellent combination. healthy exchange of opinion ind They will have plenty in flet the present administration
about. common to talk
and the that the public is not in- I'm sure the tall blond goal- different to what is going on? keeper will do a lot to make Soo's first managerial appoint- ment a happy and successful
one.
There have been
Interesting reactions to my article last week in which I wrote about a reader's suggestion for a star rationing system in Colony football.
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Southern
HARRY CARPENTER SEES THE OTHER SIDE OF OLMEDO HIS VERDICT
The Profile Is A Shy,
Early To Bed Type
Tekni
and night clubbing| don't mix," sizħéd Alex (The Proite) Olmetto, "Plenty of training, balty to bed "that's mé."" I'm afraid he thoânt it. The handsome young man from Peru, now burdened -with-- Wimbledon favourfilsa, exprèssed soft-spoken amazC» ment that I should have got
impression ho liked women, wine and tennis in that order. Mind you, 23-year-old Olmedo was sitting in a lighted stove at the tune. Perhaps he was trying to keep his allegedly hot Inca blood on the boll- it's hot dusy - to live up to a Latin-lover reputation on a rainy day in so-respectable whoro Beckenham
ho playing reberilly, When It's cold like this," said Olmedo, "I take a long time
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was
to warm up. I think he was
referring to tennis.
Bone-Warmer
́fact, I'm a very shy boy, 'ana If I'm to be friendly), with, a girl, she must take the lattia-
ve."
Had any English girls get laken the initiative? "Hey, hold on," said Olthed, "I've only been here 24 hours, I'm not that fast a worker,"
Anita Sets
Sights On World Title
By PAT BESFORD
for Empire NEXT target
champion Anita Lansbrough, who broke her own British 200 yurda bronst siroke record in Liverpool last week is a world Luis
Alejandro Olmedo, Rodri-record. gucz has certainly warned the That to what her coach, Ray cold bones of dinateur tènnis Scholey, told me after Anita since he left Arequipa, Peru's had knocked; one fifth of a second-largest elty, in 1954: to secund off her time of last July, a ball and further his clocking 2min. 86,0sec., to help education in California,
England (38pts.) relain the Laat winter, in three weeks' inter-country speed swimming superb effort, he retrieved the contest for, the Bologna trophy Davis Cup for America (for against Scotland (29) and Wales whom he plays under realden-| (17). tial qualification) and rubbed
"She'll do it in, July," fore- Australia's nose deeper in the cast Scholey, "ether at the singles Grand Prix de Paris on the 12th or against Holland at Waalwijk about that lady-diles on the 25th." reputation? Should I icil the
Anita's time in the 33, 1/9 British public he is not inter-yard Doycot Baths, Liverpool, estel in our girls?
better than the is equivalently "No, no," said Olmedo, teeth 2min, 51.38cc, 200 metre world gleaming in the dark face. record of Holland's Ada den
That might put them off. In Hoon.
Finally, to provide a suitable 'talepiece to this week's Sports Spot, here is in- portant news about two, sportsmen who not some
very long ngo were delighting different sec tlons of the Hongkong public. First
comes the report that former Army and Colony ten- treforward Roly Morris may re- football circles about the
One active offield summarily turn to League football. It will future
chase the former dismissed the proposal un rubbe recalled that Morris algned of
bish and gave it as his opinion for Hereford in the England International that it could never work while League after having a difference slar Frank Soo. The another gentleman, from the of opinion with Aston Villa, the brilliant Chinese foot- same club incidentally, saw it as club he joined when he went
home from the Colony. butler has had a long and could go a long way to really constructive suggestion distinguished career in he the game in which started out alongside Stanley Matthews in the race for soap boxes on wheels.
ranks of Stoke City. Today, however, It is very
According to the stories which much a case of 'time marches on' and the current crop of young-have been circulating in the sters are no longer content with Coleny for some time, Frank the simplicity of a square bux on
@boul to was
return to tiia a sentor four wheels. They have stream- part of the world in ined their 'machines' in accord- | conching enpaelly. ance with modern trends. They have also rigged themselves out
Just in case some of you au nut know what a Soup Box Derby is let me explain briefly that nowadays the tiilo 19 rather misleading although in
held almost right away and, the beginning it was in fact a
BATTING IN AGONY
overy
A winco
with stroke. That was the 90 minutes agony andured by India's Nari Con- tractor at Lord's during the second Test match last week. Ho started
TUE
his innings with " cracked rib, thon was hit on the left hand by ono of Freddie True-
faster man's
balts,
Sporms of pain "kick- ed" his left hand after every shot.
GAMBOLS
in
it One story had that he uniforms which often give would be offered and would them the appearance of pint-accepi-the job as coach to the Taiwan national side while sized editions of Stirling Moss... and let me add that the farnous another, and I understand much more accurate report, sugrested British driver has nothing over the young hopefuls when that he would take over comes to doring, determination, national coach In Malaya. enthusinsm for speed and the sheer thrill of racing.
Basic Feature
In spite of the modern fouches the basic feature of gravity power still holds away and the skill in getting to the winning line ahead of the opposition les in the driver's ability to handle his 'machine' with dexterity and animness.
I am certain a Hongkong Soap Box Derby wil be a great public attraction as well as a feast of enjoyment for
US
These were no more than good stories inspired maybe by a bit of wishful thinking for. In spite of his oriental countellons, Frank Boo is part and parcel of Hellish football and he be frequently madc Il quite clear that he wanted to stay in it in one capacity or another.
'Glad To Be Back'
Nevertheless Sou has always been progressive individual. and when a top level coachlong the budding speedsters who appointment was offered to him are in the 11 to 15 age group. ¦ in Sweden he snapped it up. He The people behind the venture aged in that jets for five years but his heart was still in ara citizens of the highest in-England. tegrity. They are interested for
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making the
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First Division worthwhile competition instead of a one-horse race.
Divided Opinion
Opinion was as widely divided as that. There were those folks who lead the policy of basic numerical equality behind the idea, and there were those who dismissed it, usually
on the rounds that it would be 100 hard to make it work
Brilliant Season
Ebly has just complated briiifant season and Coventry City are anxious to havo him In their side for the new competition In Aurust, Al- though playing
Non- in League football Morris is still, of course, an Aston Villa player and the Coventry City management have been told they can have himi... in ex- change for £4,000 or 5(1K)04.000. Negotiations o on,
second Tac
of sportsman That I believe is where they pleasant memory is that master are very wrong for, as has jót the marathon, Dobs Pape. In a been pointed out to mo by letter this week Mojor Dick a prominent member of the Webb tells me he went along to Hoarkong Police Sports Assosce Bob running in a Kent race ciation, Iden las fact recently but was disappointed to been in use for tong time and the famous anilor reduced In bath miniature football and to half speed due to a nasty spot Summer League competitions of muscle trouble which is re-
fusing to respond to treatment.
It works in these compell
tions simply because the officials ure strong enough to make it work. Rationing of star per- formers is a rule of the com- petition. It is accepted by the clubs involved and the keenness of the competition is increased accordingly.
Another Letter
Let mo now quote without comment from a short concise letter I received during the week. "I do not know it whal your correspondent suggests is the answer to Hongkong's uiling football but I do hope the Hong- cause kong which will
Football Association realises how low it has dropped In recent years.
New
comes the
no reason other than the satis- faction and pleasure the ever.tnouncement
official en-.
will inspire....and let me tell many regrets in Sweden and all hopeful entrants that their much shaicing of heads in the eyes will goggle when they see Far East. Frank Soo bas the proposed prize list.
been appointed manager of Scunthorpe
In the
The scheme is still very much in the embryo stage. The Ince
and the enthusiasm are Live present in generous measure but a great deal of planning must 'still be done official sanction must be sought; and a full or- ganising committee must be built up.
That means time....timo for Johnny Willle
..Alberto ....and alt, their pals of all the nationalities. represented, in this great cosmopolitan community of ours to get down to the job of building The' model and gel- ting in the necessary practice
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steand Division of the English League...and to use his own wards....he's glad to be back.
When Frank takes over his new club he will still have an important connection with Hongkong. One of his goal- koopers is Terry Charleswortu who played so many brilliant goal for the Army games and the Colony and whose thrilling diapiny against the Yugoslavian National team earned him high and unakunted pralse from the ising ofcists.
by Barry Appleby.
"Another two or three seasona like the one that has just finish- ed and
our local competitions will be written off completely if only because they will no longer be worth watching. Some- thing has to be done,
"If the rationing of slurs is the answer then let us have it! If it isn't let us set about find- ing something that is. I uke my football and I hate to bee it dying on its feet for lack of the right 'treatment.""
Well, I am pleased to coo that any reader's thoughtful sugges- tion has encouraged others to do some urgent thinking too
GAS FOR JOY
Handloapped as he was Bab tan a poor race but finished with enoughi sirength for send his best wishes to Bil bie formar friends and sporting colleagues in Hongkong.
Answers To Sports Quiz
1. Sir John Alcock and Six
William Brown.
2. A googly.
3. None.
4. None.
D. (a) The marathon, Shot-put, (c) Mile.
(b)
JARA d. (a) Sam, Snead, (b)
Tango, (e) Louise Brough. 7. The Wimbledon men's
singles. The Renshaw Cup ig the official first prize.
8. (a) Badminton, (b) Bowls,
(c) Billiards and snacker, 9. 22.
10. Hogan Boisey, McDonald Belley, Fausto Coppi, Stanley Mortenstri.
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