THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1959.
SATURDAY SPORTS
There's Fun And Games SPORTING GAM
Afoot In The Soccer Highways And Byways
The Annual General Mooting of the Hongkong Football As- sociation is almost upon us. The tantalising tranquillity which appears to exist at the moment is fooling very fow careful observers for it serves only to mask the bitter battle that is being waged behind the scenos,
important match on the Hong-
kong Stadium.
Shamamatourism
There is, too, the big question in the of shomamatourism
however, Colony. This is,
The struggle for power which has become such an unworthy, unsavoury, and apparently unavoidable prelude to the annual election of office bearers of the HKFA is again in full swing. situation which is fast comingt Smiles and handshakes are often meaningless, as those who aspire to positions of football eminence, are resorting to every deception to cloud the issue.
One of the most popular pre- and we have just hished a
By
election
practices In men! sess which must rank nr the history. In post-war for interested worst years lins boen
not сусп a hint of about the There is parties to bandy
improvement around the corner names of well-known personall-
things are going ties with the suggestion. chat and the way They are contemplating runuing there is no mying what next reason and thee that follow for office.
will be like.
The dodge of whimpering
While it is true that footba such names in credulous ears In the hope that the story is played on the field it is also will go around is an old as true that it is fashioned in the the hills but it is ill effec- Council Chamber and, as some ilve. It certainly serves to of those divert attention away from
tions to see
themselves
in the soccer llerarchy.
to a head. It may erupt and explode right In the faces of, our administrators without them' doing very much more about and I might not be very
It
I. M. MACTAVISH
demonstrated by the chair. The dealings of the association have hiccome lonas and lux and these hold deßelencies have bean fully
in office have shown themselves | reflected
The continued
who at present
those who are really' ambi-quite incapable ofther of arrest- decline in the standard of fool- of ball produced on the playing uping the current decline or
starting progressive schemes eld. It used to be said there which will restore the game to were no bad soldiers, only bad its former Blandarch, the rponer offeers; tha! nowadays applies they are out of their jobs the ruther aytly to our football. better will it be for football, footballers and football fans.
I heard three familiar names mentioned during this week. In each case I asked the In- dividual concerned if I was Crue he was interested in seek- ing election to sentur oce within the HKFA. In all three cases I was assured there was
of truth in
One is well entitled to ask if there will be important changes in personnel this year. It is a the Justified Inquiry. It is based on Hound enough grounds, but I'm afrold it is doomed io receive a dismally disappointing answer,
The dear, old you scratch- my back and I'll scratch - boys have A Yours' Powerful grip on Good cold cominonsenso
not a vestige story and in fact each gentle man assured
me that, even if approached, he would not allow His name to go forward for election. That could
be bad luck for soccer generally.
Inglorious Record
The current crop of football oficials has ainst Inglorious record. The game has de- teriorated to an alarming ex- fent during the last four years
Answers To Sports Quiz
1. Ice hockey.
as a game.
pretty things.
Worst Feature
The decline in football skills and The almost complete absence of promising newcomers to the
are importa game cymptoms of the alling slate of the game
at the moment but by for the worst feature which we have to face is the worsen-
in Ing malignancy
the very heart of Hongkong's soccer..
far wrong in suggesting that the big blow-up may come Aconer than many folks here
em to think.
SPOT
by Reg. Wootton
London Express Bervice,
fingered staff Bl Happy ture but I am afraid that the Valloy. The
bruised and over-commercialised sward at broken surface where the Caroline H falls long way Junior footballers of Hong short in Its restoration. When kong perform their particular the field should be rested and brand of soccer skills has coaxed back to Brzi class condi- tation for next season it is still once again been restored near perfection. Worn being used for third rate foot- patches have been lifted and ball." Even now it looks дея tarf laid with that though next season Caroline measure of nooo which Hit will once again be a third never fails to annoy
the rate pitch....and don't Ici us amateur but which is really forget that on one occasion last the hallmark of the expETÍ.
Reason the South China officials decided it was not good enough for their own players to use and they transferred a game against the Army to the Hongkong one Stadium.
A Credit
r
at
03
The way things are going. It looks as though they will have
to
do much the same thing again when the next compell- tion gels under way.
Picture
Only the other day gentleman who joined 3 in watching the groundmen work commented that there must be a trick in the whole thing for every time he did a spol of patching it chowed for months while those jobs done on Happy Valley almost disap- pear into a knited emnathness
Football fields desperately of before your eyes. It is course vory true and the play here where they have to stand need an annual rest particularly ing surface on the football, hockey and rugby pitches is up to heavy use in the dry sea- South China would be a standing credit to the green well advised to follow the good fingers of the men who work there.
Yes there is plenty of work for the new Councillors of the Football Association to do. The
Le bla question whether they will have tho courage to tackle the chronic ifls which currently stick out like
Fore a well-splinted
the thumb: will they have determination lo pursue un- pleasant tasks... and above all wil they ret the leader. ship which such endeavours demand?
The ballot for officials of the HKFA has never held greater finportance to the game than it does right now. The result of the election will tell us very I refer of course to The fast-accurately whether we are pro-
chance of growing tendency of our players mised even
ге
or whether we are virtually condemned to another dull,
no longer the criterion, and, to resort to tactical treachery medial netion by those in office
things fall to run if some suggestions are to be Whenever believed, either is football-moothly their way.
Dirty, crude play has in creased to * astonishing extent. Wednesday night produced another painful re- minder. The players are ob- viously the principle culprits In the public eye but
Far too many folks are much more interested in the glamour of being in the public eye than they uro about hnproving the Reccer which is played on the Colony's pitcher.
Desperate Need
it is probably too much hope that there will be
way
fily
in
racetrack is also The | beautiful condition, displaying a that could Juscious deep bue very well tempt the poles to istop and munch rather than strive to win. Indeed, it looks good enough to eat,
The pitch at the Hongkong- Football Club also looks a pic-
son.
example set by other organisa- tions and place their playing pitch completely out of bounds for several months each year.
Nevertheless,
you feel of & spol
like admiring natural beauty round Happy
a perfect ploture.
to
take a waliz
Valley. It'
A sight t
cladden the heart of a .a skipper....a star ..or a Dean.
King.
TENNIS OCTOGENARIAN
By DEREK JOHN
drab season in which the de- wager that you have never cline of the last few years will
'heard of Mr Ted Johnson, Yet continue unchecked in the some
he has trained a long succes- old pattern.
sion of world champions and was once awarded the world
Let us hope that those who have the right to vote will of thinking the real exercise their judgment against devils of the piece are fratia background of pressing of all the club oficials who necessity rather than against permit, and in some cases the familiar and currently con-.
encourage, their ventional appreciation of the apparently players to adopt win-at-all- 'Dear Old Pals' Act. any
cant tactics, but no team rea-
the ponsible are
nela and coultel officials of the HKFA the pre- who have.watched
to
significant swing in the voting This
certainly, if year enikavoor can assure a return
of
to offer, then many our
2. Henry Armstrong, Feather-metals are as good as back in weight, lightweight and wel- the jobs which they have done terweight champion,
so Indifferently in recent years,
3. Notts County. Founded inj
1062.
4. (a) By touching raised knee with the open, bund, (b) By extending one arh horizontally.
5. Ken Gravenes,
4. Louise Brough. Four times
Wimbledon champlon.
7. (a) Tilden, (b) Vines, (c) Connolly (or Mrs Brinker),
. Court Fleet,
1
The HKFA desperately needs a strong progressive Chairman, One who has the confidence and the backing of his colleagues: une Who is capable of seating a positive pattern in handling the affaire of the Association: one who complete command the respect of legislators both in- side and outside of the game,
cart
wont state of affalis develop without taking adequate steps to arrest its progress,
Lenient
مین
If you would like a spot of reassurance that things natural still mean a great deal in this very material day and age, take my tip and have a look round the Colony's playing fields,
Me
title himself.
Johnson's
'real ts game tennis", otherwise known as royal tennis-the game play-
Sports Diary
TODAY
Howis
3rd Divtelen: Ine v CCC,
HERC. KBGC KFC. KDC.
CC SC Y
1st Division: CCC v Reerele "A"; TV when players have been
KBGC v TC. INC "D" y KDC. KCC, Recreta "B" VIRË ordered off the field-and
this
2nd Division: KCC V PRC "B",
HKPSA FC has surely been done far 100
Rest, rain an:1 the skilledPRC "A" CCC,
HKFC V KEC. seldom-the punishment alshed never been suvere
care of expert groundsmen have out las
worked combined wonders. The enough to net as a deterrent to
players
similar dry, dand,
dusty and patchy other tendencies, Some of the so-end-of-season appearance has
Ladies 1st Division: KROC V and called sentences were lenient in dimppeared completely
even took instead one can
look with deKDC, CCC "" PRC, USRC v TC. the extreme and it
Division: KCCV the light at an unbroken carpet of public outcry to correct
to URTE, Tecreto calculated Association shocking situation which arose
green a sight demands Brength and CON- when goalkeeper Wal Fat-kim bring a deop sigh of approval fidence, Drumon and tact, was virtually taken on a two- from sportsmen.
Being a nice fellow' is simply not enough. The Chairmanship of the Football
a. (u) Iligh jump, (b) 1,000 crice and drive: since Jack week holiday in Muslin as his
metres, (c) Marathon,
Skinner's departure these 'reward' for making a vicious
an opponent in qualities have been inadequately attack on
10. Luls Angel Firpo.
THE
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Golf
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"Te introduce Maggio, we'll be teeing you regularly, we're off now-around the world on The Magic Carpat"
GAS IS TOPS
SAYS MR. THERM
ed by Kings of England 500 years ago. He has been play- | Ing it for 60 years.
Rocently. Mr Johnson played a doubles match and won it-in celebration of his 80th birth-
Next year,
his day.
like father before him, he will have been a professional for 55 years.
Ted Johnson has trained every world tenn's champion-and every challenger for the part 30 years. Last year he sew hir son, Albert, win the world Uitle,
Yet the remarkable Mr Jatson has never been world champion himself. The reason: he was too fine a sportsman to take it,
Just before World War I, he challenged world champion Convey. But Convey never played tie match and later Johnson Was awarded the title.
He retised t-because, he in- sisted on winning it in match play. The war prevented him from achieving his ambition.
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