THE CHINA MAIL
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1959.
SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT
There Will Be Many A Battered Ex-Champion Player Switches For
New Soccer Season
in our
The now football season is less than a month away. What
does it hold? Will there be a marked revival soccer fortunes or will the decline in playing standards .... and in the field conduct of the players.... continuo unchecked?
It's an intriguing situation.
There is every indication of a certain hardening of attitude on the part of the Hongkong Football Association's new office-bearers towards both aspects of the decline. There is therefore some degree of hope that at last we may see a real concerted effort to restore Colony football to its previous high pinnacle.
If this proves to be so, we dini roon in the crowels Blocking back To the Just
rounds
as they did o few short
years go,
15 variety is indeed the spice; of life, then it seems that the Jocal football fans are going to be well ratinßed, for the current news shows that several of the better known sittes in the First Division will have a new look' as far as playing arùngth goes.
Not So Far-Reaching
By
I. M. MACTAVISH
the movements of South China] avold an early return to A players but, as has happened lower division
'The Jets'
regularly in reeeni years, i The Army is nowadays the SOCIA that the Caroline sole survivor of the non-Chinesu Hillers are strong enough and sides in the senior competition. attractive enough to hold the In recent years the task con- flekle loyalty of
officials has even the fronting the team modern soccer staro,
Krown steadily more and more But that does not mean there will be bright new faces fichting In the early weeks of the new difficult. Top class players are for a place in the limelight, season many eyes will be cast in turd to come by and frequently the direction of the games In-the new arrival Ands it hard tu means why that the annuai player shule, skuffle or tussle solving the vigorous, young Sing appreciate the still and prowess like has Tao side which did so well in the fof the Chinese footballers. I -colli what you
Ir cloning slages of the last league fiskes tune to Indoctrinate young been
drustic then more
competition. The Tigers Allen British players into the style and recent years
certainly Ani
Eastern and KMB, Kehee,
musual place in Hongkang foot- tackles of the star local teams two or three very real and in the last felding hall. They enjoy a be Tung Wan will much changed teams, but even popularity and when they are years the soldiers have lost 50 doing well the crowds flock to
their many valuable points in at that the musical-chairs act
see them.
curly games tid they have will not be as far-reaching as
never been in with a real cham- many at one time belleved f
picnship winning chance. was going to be.
the mala Tule is
problem A few years ago they flushed The team switching has of
which, faces the Army officials, course. been accompanied by into the limelight with a brilliant
If they can get a reasonable ali the usual rumours of In-mixture of youthful enthusiasın Their and veteran guidance.
start in the fixture list they ducement' and 'reward' and
quicksilver displays carned them
may be able to stabilise the according to some sports ca-
the fille of 'The Jets' and meny effort. A few cary confid- thualasts "thè vernacular press
ence-giving points would work has been pretty pointed in its local fans still like to epreulate on the side's potential if it had
wonders. comments on the subject,
not been mereflerly dissected in
.There 15 in spite There is a regulne touch of
the annual curve-up. The fine everything
subtle alr the cocklnil spiril about our old club has survived Is tribula-
hove about the in- soccer, We get the same old thus and there is a quiet hope
It seems
that Ingredients shaken together in that this season their youngsters ing kason.
arrangemens have different combination. Some will again win a high place for much better
been made for visits from over themselves.
seas teams und if our players There are rumours abroad
live up to their rent reputations, of certain rhvivalist, move-
Father thair down to their re- both .ments in
Kwong The
but, cent dismal achievements, Woh and
CAA camps
years ago when Maker Micky surely be expected can have a very interesting and with the big-name players already obligated to the entertaining time.
times they prove to be success
·full ..
sometimes they ure quite incompatible,
Probably the most fekle item
been In recent years has
the Time after Kitchee cocktail.
time the club oMelots have gone out and collected big-name “in- gredients, They have tossed them together more enthusiastically
has
than skilfully and year after усят the soccer mixture turned out to be pretty puerile pollon,
This season they arc ener again credited with a big list of: successful star-signing but, appreciating thint a mixture of whisky, rum, hrundy, and gin, with a dash of this or that might
L
fashionable sides, 11 difficult to see where they are: going to find the Lalent to improve their position and 11 may well be that It will again: be te to the Police to provide the healthy surprise element the chase towards the championship.
There were times last your i when the boys in blue WETC O worthy match for any side in the competillon and I agree
add up to no more than an une; with those who still feel that attractive concoction, we shall watch the new Kilchec as art ment with an open mind.
Chief Sufferers According to the intest rows Home→ Eastern have also done thing towards recapturing the former high place they once hekt in Hungkang soccer and unless there and some late sur-
the
turning point In their forlunes came when they fell bond to switch a vital fixture from their compact ground at Boundary Street to the wide open and unifimiliar spaces of The Hongkong: Stadium,
The argument concerning this point is of course purely hypothetical and no one will ever know what might have happened had the fxture been
but,
prises it seems that Tung Wab, who had such a good time last pinyed at Kowloon year, are the chief sufferers in and it is surely a fact beyond ilte scramble for
talent. A dispute,
Pollee the
always number of the star men who played their best featball on wore their colours Inst reason their own excellent piece of will be trolling out in a new į turf. svinner outfit when the kick-
off whistle blows.
There has of course been
the usual
THE
RING
speculation about
WICELAND
There is a hard struggle ahead
for the two newly promoted site:
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Photo shows why Bassey could not come out for the 11th round of his featherweight world title fight against Davey Moore recently. Five months carlier, as world champion, he had lost his crown to Moore when he had to give up because of blood pouring down his face from cuts above his eyes. This time, he lost in a similar fashion, after being re- peatedly hit in the region of the eyes.
luctance of locally domiciled whistlers to step forward and take their rightful place on the administration side of their own association... far too much, it was claimed, was expected from the Services referees.
It is often said that confession-is- good for the soul and as a consequence I have no second thoughts] about confessing that 1 was both astonished... and surprised... to read he
Upside Down
I well remember present at a meeting
Walker of the
The trend of the election of afer-benters at the 1950 Annual General Meeting of the Henkeng Football Referees Association was no doubt in- rpired to somno extent by A letter from a Services Referce and the fact that a number of important offices were even- whistlers can give
being tually Alfed fow demielled la
by the Colony to Army better continuity to Hongkong's Physical Training, Corps and refereeing both on and off the one of the most knowledge-feld, able and competent referees
It han over been my pleasure In Best Interests
to meet-stood ca the
Despite what a few people platform and told the may
choose to say I sul be- gathering that be felt thelieve that this is very definitely whole thing was upside down a case where home-rulu' can Pointing to the local whistlers only be in the best interests of
srid
It is you civilian | football,
Why such a healthy state of
Now Gilchrist
Wants To Become
A Pakistani
The world's fastes! bowler, and naughty boy of West Indian cricket, Roy Gil. christ, may quit England- and the Weal Indics— for Pakistan,
10
It depends on two things
wife, and whether or not
ho can get Pakistan nationality. Ho said Inst week: "It is Moll n Wtle undecided, The first problem is my wife. She weuld like to go back to the Went Indios.
"Also I have to wait uk next month to find out what happens about my application for Pakistan nationality."
Why does the 25-year-old fast bowler who was sent home from the West Indles tour of India after a scrips of clashes on and off the field with four captain Gerry Alexander seek Pakistan nationality?
Because he wants to get back into Test cricket, Outlawed by h's own countrymen, Gilchrist cannot forget Test cricket.
Answers To Sports Quiz
1. Vasily Kuznetsov,,
2. (a) South Africa, (b) New
Zealand, (c) Australia.
3. Rocker Marelano. It
was
the name of his knock-out juch.
4. Snooker.
5. (a) Robert Tyre Jones, (b) Lewis Alan Iford, (c) Peer Barker Howard May.
€.. Quarter-mile.
7. (a) American. (b) Argen-
tian, (c) Canadian.
runs.
B. Waller Hammond - 7,240
1. Bob Fitzsimmons. 10. America.
Sports Diary
1st
TO-DAY
Bowls
Recreio
Division! KBGC V FC CCC, Recreio "B" IRC "D", IC "A"
2nd Division: CCC & KCC, REC
JKFC
v HKPSA
3rd Division: · HRCC = CCC, RDC | Y INC, HERC V HKVC, TC V к
Endles I Division: KCDC v XBGC.
the letter in Wednesday's trees who live in Hongkong
who should beup od this affairs, and my acclamation of PRCV CCC "Pa2 TO V USKE
China Mail which peared above the joint signatures of three mem- bers of the Army Fool ball Referees Association. own association with the some for the valuable contribution I will go as far as to say that willingness as you accept dates which Services the letter was not representative to referee a game or run the made
I-and ap- platform,
the other It should disturb anyone, let me alone a group of Army referees, Services ofcula beside should be down in the body of I cannot guess,
the hall. It is important that There has never been, any- you should accept offlec in your thing but general appreciation
referees have
toever.
to Hongkong
we might tre- of points of view frequendy Hae.. Until you show n willing Without them
been in trouble. to do that you canno! quently, have stated in publie by other sentorness Services referees who
any have renity claim that this is YOUR I just cannot believe that
referee who comes out here as spent two or three years in this association." Colony....and,
That sentiment has been ex-a member of the Services could from telephone
and Main calls have received since the pressed
again. And other than satisfaction in letter was published I know that Generally It has fallen on story becoming a member of a strong. is not by any means indicative ground but by every principle well organised Referees As-
..sociation... of the opinions of other Services of commonsense it is right
and how better a the
by referees who are here - at this absolutely right
can that be achieved than
and very moment.
Services referees have been the established, sensible During the last five or six strengest advocates of the logical continuity of offee- years has frequently been necessity for Hongkong's ro-bearers?
more than sold that the weakness of foot- ferees to take
.. and
and they will have to fight every | ball refereeing in Hongkong was passive interest in their inch of the way if they are to due in large measure to the re-affning.
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