THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1959. 77

Weekend League Lawn Bowls WHAT MAKES A MAN

THIRD DIVISION GAMES HOLD SPOTLIGHT AS SEASON APPROACHES ITS CLOSE

IRC 'A', HKFC Assured Of Titles

By ROBERT TAY

The Colony lawn bowls loaguo enters its fourth last work of the season this afternoon, with two titles practically decided. IRC_"A," who are 81⁄2 points ahead of closest rivals, Kowloon Dock Club are almost assured of the first division honours and Hongkong Football Club are well ahead of the other teams in the second division.

Interport Swimmer

At 13

Included in the Hong- kong Chinese Interport swimming tenni to nicel Taiwan in Talpel next week, I a 13-year-old schoolgirl. Margaret Chan Sin-yce. She is the youn gest and most promising breast stroke swimmer in

are

To be played tomorrow. The only close fuish in the fengu will be seen in the third also the three remaining division where not only current quarter-final matches in the Anders Hongkong Electric Re-triples event. At KBGC, A. G creation Club and second-placed Skech, A. W. Lopulry and A. E, Indian Recreaties Club but also Elliott are given a slight edge Stanley Club and Hongkong of H. Lapsley, D. L. Edwards Footbak Club pre well hi the and J. Hoosen. At CCC, A. H. Seemin, M. B. Hassan and O. R. runnlag for the title.

Main Interest today will Sadick seem on paper to be

Buperior therefore

to be centred on the slightly

W. S. third division programme Collier, F. C. Planck and H. where HERC will take on Ridsdale and at HKFC, the dark- Talkoo Club at Taikoo and horse combination of G. Jeffries, Hongkong Football Club will A. Gray and S. Bicheno with be at home to HCC.

alrendy two exceptionally the wins to their credit will play CCC's W. C. Young, F. Lee and C. C. Ma.

+

Equal Points

The Electric Club have at the moment the same number of 43 points with IRC who enjoy bye this afternoon, but have one game in hand, and their ability 16 take as many points as they can from their match this after- noon will put thein in good stund In their bid for the title.

In the other two divisions, interest during the remainder of the season will be focussed on whether inc "A" or long- kong Football Club would drop any of their remaining matches. This afternoon, the Indians will be opposed to Talkoo and un their present form are ex- period to take at least

How- points from the match. ever, understand the Talkoo green is quite difficult one. and if the Taikou squad can i

muke full use of their green ad

vantage, an upset may not he

unlikely,

The Hongkong Football Club will beguts of Kowloon Cricket Club and should account for their opponents by fortable margin.

com-

the team, which will leave Open Championships for Taipei hy the SS Szechuen today.

Against

skin disease and itching

Mitigal

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Tomorrow the spoillth! shifts to the Colony Open Champloushlo events. and particularly the Open rinks semi-nals.

At Kowloon Bowling Green Club, G. A. Guterres, G. A. Norocha, C. P. Basto and C. F. Raza-Pereira of Recreio will Start as slight favourites of Tal- koo's W. C. Boovird, W. Bolton, J. McCaffrey and C. McLennan and at Hongkong Football Club, G. A. Souza, seeking his second final this year will lead his front-men F. Manson, A. M. L Soares and A. E. Coates In what will probably be an uphill fight against RCC's W. Baker, C. A Coelho, W. Hong Sling and T. E. Baker.

YES -

POP-Industrial Dispute

SRWT

FOR ME, SIR?

ANY

IDEAS

AS TO

WHY?

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this event are Talkoo's G. Clay- Already in the semi-final In ten, B. Douglas and N. Fraser who lost Thursday beat A. M. Omar, It. Tay and P. K. Lau by 17-11.

SPORTS QUIZ

1. Which

3.

Inown Clout"?

baseball stör

was

ne the "King of

In what sport other than lawn tennis has Fred Perry held the world title?

3. Who is the odd man out:

John Mortimore, Jim Laker, Hugh

Tayfield, Richle Benaud and Ian Johnson? 4. Who has recently stored a century for India in his first Test match?

5.

What remarkable feat WAS achieved by Don Clarke as Dunedin, New Zealand,

July 18 of this year?

6. When, id against

ntl

did England suffer her B soccer defeat abroad?

7. With which sports do You Basociate these great - ministrators; (a) "Danio" Craven, (b) "Gubby" Allen. (c) Sir Stanky Rous?

8. Who won both the men's 100 metres and 200 meires at

10.

the 1936 Olymplé Games?

. How many times has Great Britain won the Olympic Gimen Soccer Tournamen!? On which racecourses (1) Becher's Brook, (b) Tattenham Corner?

(Answers on Page 17)

YOU SEE

KFC!

Cooper Gets Ready

Henry Cooper, British heavyweight champion, who recently, left hospital after an operation on his ear, went direct 'to his usual training venue, to start a light work-out for his defence of the Empire title against the South African, De Klerk, which takes place at Porthcawl on August 20. Photo shows Cooper getting down to work. — Central Press Photo.

Sports Diary

TODAY

Bowls

1st Division: Recreio "A" Y FL, KDC V10 K3 GE THE "D", CÁC v Recreio "5", "TC v ie "A

Bet vision: Кос HRPSA

BKFC,

PCC, FC v CCC, USRC

3rd Division: CCC v KDC, KBCC v SC, ingre v BROC, TC V HERG.

Ladies' 1st Division: CCC "ACY

C,

VSRC V CCc "B".

KDC.

Tennis

LRC Tournament; Mixed Doubles Heap Men's Doules cap. Men's Singles 'cap.

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By Gog

YOU DON'T REMEMBER WHAT YOU DİD AT THE

WORKS OUTING

LIKE PIRIE RUN?

of reid fast week that

By MERRICK WINN When a man runs two miles in Smt. 3bsec.—as you

Gordon Pirie had done he crowds, Into that time wealth of emotion....Here Pirie talks about the motives that spur him....

fin

Acted

I asked Gordon Piric: "What There's some sort of inferior- think excessive." But his doctor makes you tun?” “aid he cald:

Many people are talking now And be overcomes it by run-of. Gordon Pito's victory

"I suppose IV's fear of a sori," y corribiék behind this. Thetoys he is, at 28. "perfect."

Then he thought a bit and add be in every sportsman. ed: "When I'm training 1 some nink, the quicker race or climb- Monday as "come-back," but times get an extra spurt By ing the Higher mountain. The won't have this at all. "I've imagining I'm being chased by a bull or a man with a knife." All right, fear, And guts. takes that to rui, quicker than anyone else; and to know your self, and talk about it as Gordon Pirje talked to me.

"I never found out where never Been away-athletically"," mine, came from. Perhaps at spoutding" he said.

Ho Lives th Norway with his school; where I was, a thin kid,

with Shirley because in Britain alwyd in a class of older boys.

"Or perhaps I got it being the he would get caught up in toa youngest in the,, family and so many competitive races (In usually the loser. I lost a lot, 1953 he ran 8,000 miles in He had slept badly, only running, when I was young and Britali), And He wants to

once I got beaten by a girl of train for the 1080 Olympies.

hours instead of is usual 10

breakfast. Grapefruit, porridge,

working when his body stopped, after both together had won the two-mile invitation race at the While City in the world's fastest

time this year.

And he had run right round Hydo Park and then a bit more for half an hour, in long trousers

alt. } didn': like that,”

His Love

After that he and his wife will o

back to New Zealand-

they have already been twice--

and he will get a job in a bank

He does not feel, the fear, or and they will start a family. menacing, | And thốt, he said, will probably

A Socrat

somme-

He had his normal heavy the inferiority, o breakfast. Grapefrull porridge, active things, He even believes be the last we shall see of him. poached egg, marmalade, four you have got to lose a bit when alices of toast. And vitamin you are young in order to want

he loves I drove Gordon Pitle to Vle- pls. The multi-kind,

win later. And sume- to thing of everything.

running. He loves the rhythm toria to catch, d train to his and the freedom, and he can Coulsdon, Surrey, hame, and he fell sick because of the traffic dure the pain of it. There is paid. It is not the fumes, but he told me kind you and i suffer when we thing I had always wanted to run for a bus, then crumple, know about myself: Why I got with the fire gone from our beaten in the only race I ever bellies up into our chesta.

was 13, running the 100 Gordon Pirke hover gots and he stretched his 34in. legs stitch or short of breath, and right in front until a yard from yards for Red House, and I was

the tape, then. someone passed

"because warm legs mean supple

muscles,"

in

Concentration

Now he

was feeling

belter

happy sort of way and he

talked, happily, about fear.

You can sometimes ear

ran.

I asked, "Did you have the breathing 100 yards away-demo uau, got there first.

mad bull or the man with a

in fact, you can-"It's not be

knife behind you at the White cause I'm short of breath but City? He said: No. There's because I'm breathing strongly

except in training. "During a race

no need for devices like that different. "It

I think or nothing. I sec. only a pair of heels or the track, flashing by. It's pure concentration."

All the same there was fear, deep down, Gordon Pile, whosa 6ft 2in. Includes brain, quick brain too, said:

CAPEL KIRBY pinpoints the trouble

with English Soccer

legs,

Said Gordon Pirie: You lost

because, being out in front, you were Latisfied. You shouldn't have been sailshed."

path, the runner's pain, Hig

heav

I asked: "Are you never then in the ness in this a

that earlier Then I recalledt tms. When it gels to my head satisfied?" He said, "Never." I'm reaching exhaustion point.

He trains, two or three hours had spoken of a secret for

success, every day, almost fanatically, he would not tell ine because He said: "My secret has always he wanted no one to know.. been cuisedness in sucking to

Perhaps this was it. a training routine tiny people

Players Have It Too Easy

JIMMY HOGAN has retired from football after 55 years' association with

the game..

The celebrated coach responsible for a football being kicked intelli- gently all around the globe left Villa Park last week with a pension from the directors and a suitably-inscribed gold watch from the players.

All very nice and touching, but I cannot get it out of my mind that English football would not today be sulking in the international dog-house it, say, 40 years ago somebody on the FA had been far-sighted enough to offer him $2,000 a year and a free hand to take over as national coach.

Instead, "Uncle Shimmy," as he is affectionately known all over the Continent, was forced to seek an outlet for his teaching talents in Holland, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland and France.... prophet save in his own country,

Our loss is the rest of the world's gain. Jimmy's former pupils, conching Soccer the Hogan way in ult parts of the globe have, been responsible for those humillations which England's footballers have suffered since the sad but enlightening afternoon Hun- gary's ball-jugglers toyed with thom at Wembley.

Tough

eyes

too

rubnlile

Д

secret

London Express Service),

IMMY HOGAN

ho

was, forced to sook an out- lot for his teaching talants In Holland, Austria, Hún- gary, Switzerland and France.

always sald gave him the most One of the biggest troubles pride and Joy to coach.

with current football is that I shall never

forget their whereas there was a time when deep-ret

and hollowyoungsters wero. only cheeks, the hang-over, from anxious to work hard at. the privations DI the Addtriari game to get irway from, slavo- post-war depression. These wage jobs, today the economic players had broken down Insituation is such that footballers training one by one, until in threaten to go back to tho lega than a week their coach mines and factories it their to, them and that it is not f was the only member of the managers get too tough with sufficient profusion to party lt for the day's work, } them.

creato inter-

keen, compeition for hotional team places, la due to

out.

It was all the aftermath of Jimmy Hogan

Changod leaves the English Soccer scene at a time unemployment and want, with

vegetables and.

Moreover, there are so few the win-at-all-costs demands of Occasional

a League football programmo when our footballers have never

minute helpings

really outstanding players of sausage had it so good, and it must make him think back to those meat for food. They became circulation that some of the which is far too long drawn- because they were unable to stare are allowed to do very

In other words, so long as days when the players under

as they pleaso by stumuch the wholesome meals much

whining two points is his control bad little to keep they were given in the special managers

valued not allowed to above technical stall-by body and soul together,

How many manage.

club which, I mean kick, rush and training camp. When I go round the League

managers go by the bama of club parish and séc players

"boss" when in fact they have the devil-take-the-hindmost rolling up for training in their

I remember seeing them that very little, more say in the action, as opposed to methodical sicek four-Aguro Himousines,

couraged from mastering the which look as if they have just fateful day Mr Fred Rinder ruhining of the club, than the football players will be dis-

elementary · arts-and-érafts had talked Jimmy Into desert players?

of been delivered off the motoring Austria and algning on the

This then to the atmosphere their profession, which Jimmy show stands, I am reminded of dotted line to take over at Villa

so many youngster, enter Togan has always described in the Austriars team I saw play Park. And I thought then, ad

when they become profession two wordball control. in the final *of the Berlin

how,

als. They sco the criabllaffed that players will give Olympics-tho toam Jummy

everything they have, and more,

"atura" report late for train. it X is a means of

1

in Scandinavia

they say "ol

I Hong Kong thay suy

Carlsberg

Complacent

Fram start to finish of his

it

Ing or lock-of before sima, ambeing coaching career escaping from having to tighten their

and say, to themselves: "If it could never be mid that Jimmy belts.

good enough for them, it'sogan ever asked a player to

do anything he was

not pre- good enough for me."

In fact, pared to tla himicit. It is not coincidence, that only, two years ago at the age

THÈ MORAL, 1. THINK. 18 THAT ONLY AN ECONOMIQ ORIBIS IS Lakers To Wolverhampton Wanderer start of, 10 he could - etlil inaku A SILARE OUR FOOTBALLERS next season, i candidates for a footbill do everything except sit OUT OF THEIR SMUO COM League championship, hat-trick up and beg, to the amazement

in Stan: Cuilli PLACENUT AND SO HELP It's because, BRITISH FOOTBALL BACK they have a stern disciplinariod of Blayers young enough to be

this grandsons, Dy boss, INTO THE TOP BANK. Compare the Ict of those lads,

Latitude

Ball control, exemplified by Hideyuti na he, syaited to kick-off for Hungary it. Womb- There are others; kes him fey and so noon after when he

uha others the Hungarians and the rest, coached, by Hogan

with that of the average But generally speaking us pulled, the ball back to crack League club player, many of footballers are given too much home, the first mal wants the them clothed and fed by their lolitude and because of it 1 aux hidin lessons in fidgan's teaching clubs in addition, to Knocking the guilty men of Kakushoot-manual.

up £1,000 or more, a year and boli arv.". NCYP tha, mallgood Boccer fani · can"; contriliuto given ample opportunities to officials of the Ads thatty towards better football, by not sot 'themselves up for the days would, hava ei taina.

yelling "Get rid of it! AS MOON amet ully Alna 18 latê thé as a player shows day, Kids, of bert (or, dis matolls). (kvaliable. Chapisying.A, 10ES) Indfy Kum

won their playing career 1

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