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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1959.
SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT Mother's Note
It Looks Like Being A ONE THAT TOTTENHAM DIDN'T GET
Cheerless Start To
ジ
The New Soccer Season
RUMBLE
MUMBLE
JUMBLE!!! Instead of the traditional three hearty cheers these are the salutes boing accorded to dear old King Soccar as ho takos his place in sporting prominence for another season.
Let me predict here and now that there are some mighty interesting weeks ahead and I don't mean just on the field of play.
Down the highways, byways,
in the blackest back ally- ways of Hongkeng'a soccerduin there RIC ominious
Lin-
bles and grumbles which may yet provide the vital
clue that
w lens to the unwinding of
the present jumble of football afTalr. Bitterness, bom in the
tark realation that no-hul
By
I. M. MACTAVISH
barred is now the order of there and it could be that the better to
day, hus givett some of our foolball folks n new driving determination to beat the drum in the Aut interrete. The Dutcome might be more than just a le surprising.
During the past few days a
well-known local personality
Current Stories
wait for the state- probing poker of the individual inent of decounts on the tour whom I have mentioned above before carrying the discussion to Just Inglesi conclusion will see it burst into the sort of its fame that will throw some real how money
ean
the have light on the subject.
slightest influence on the rights or wrongs of what happened in Malayn it is very difficult indeed to see. Could be that the two extra games will be ae- claimed if it is found that the favourable tour resulted in o Anuncial report but that they will be decrled if the statement happens to have a sanguinary countenance.
has been craging himself with Nevertheless, quite apart from the sports pages of vernaculat the actions of any Individual, be newspapers I understand that he an official of the IKFA he is having approved transit, there is surely a direct chai
of ge to the Amodation in many tions prépared of a number articles dealing with the inter- of the current stories which are in circulation and to the rumour- Leam movements of some of
mongers usually prettx their Hongkong's top soccer names,
stories with the remark "C cording to the Chinese press.... livere would seem to be an avenue of exploration that might be worth following. It moy, of
Club Loyalties
He apparently feels that this tenure, produce very little but ime he's on the right path and, the mere fact that it has been if he can encourage the HKFA checked could do nothing
to show the camo jealousy
of good.
reputation as it has done in
other matters, he might yet
render the game a very valuable servlet.
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The switching of club loyal-Congratulations to
ties has reached strangely ligh properlions this year
and the
Souza
but
Irene
man in the street may well bo pardoned, if lie is wondering why established big name stars should and it advantageous of
Hongkong's new First Lady of necessary to leave a big mue- cessful club for a place in the the Greens is indeed a worthy
champion. With a fine appre ranks of another team whose football fortunes the in-clation of the spirit of the game
in
Bui nuclei affairs and allegations of mismanagemtat are no more than corollaries to the main issue which is surely the miserable - and controversial efforts of the players we sent out to an International competition to do! battle in Colony colours,
Malaya Games
The agency reports of rough and dirty play in some of the
this
Defiant Dwyer, of West Ham, flings himself at the feet of the Spurs' leader Bobby Smith in a recent match. The Spurs won 2-1-Express Photo,
themselves far too much that is surely the ONLY con- with what they can get out of sideration which can be allowed what to influence the deliberations of the gatio rather than
our parent association. they can pul lalo it, For a few golden years in the post-, a thin superficial layer of real fril class taleni Eave the Colony a reputation which, under that top layer, was never justified.
war era
as a first
a common
sease
kinder then it was last Sunday ceremony should the opening be a colourful one.
Hi en over the fence, bays
#
$
In-
Colony football Is currently It will re- at a very low ebb. quire courage and determina- blun
"Talc-wagger" und a lot of plain speaking, to put it back on its cidentally
the current fet. The new council has al- catch phrase in Colony footbad ready shown a lively spark that says, rather cryptically,.. has been absent in recent horses and carriages have bever years and I will be interesting been so expensive...!! to see if the present members are willing to tackle the prob. lem with the Impersonal sourcefulness which La Bow necessary if our aling gume is not to become a chronic help- less invalid.
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*
Big name yeterans who would al- pul in the crowds have
JUST- ways been much more portant than bringing on pro- mising youngsters under pro- gressive club or even associa
couching system. Tom ton
was frustrated at Sneddon winning the earlier games and the allega every turn and, of course, the
divide tussle Colony Ladies Lawn tons of "txing" In the final constani
Hongkong and Bowls Singles Champion- match against Malaya are being talent between
Talwon has had a most dis ship.
waved aside, as unreliable, un-
While turbing effecl Onl the locul worthy and unfounded, it is true there must be a shado game. If the Colony is to sur
This Finnily. class soccer
this week.. In this part of the let us any a very special wel of the writer's opinion in what vive
come to a new softball season, he reports, it is stretching things power
un-arrangement must be arrived at The swipe and swat boys and a bit for to believe that neutral world then
launch their new and a hly developed repertoire reporters invented coming season nust be very of its skills dre has made a moet savoury version of what they on this question of representa- girls will
campaign at King's Parke is to the saw. understand that the tion.
I important contribution
afternoon and if the weather is Melais fortuitously If the players were
pro-family Cup Collecting Compala team
George has already brought back from Malaya B fessionals, such a move would Husband
ki ha rink to the Colony couple of English language re- be easy to understand for they would almost certainly out with M. B. Hesan for the would have been much more. title and tomorrow he will fight poris, but I've heard that it
let u player be making their shift because Singles crown. In his present interesting if they had brought with dual qualifications be free It was financially adysta form he must be regarded as 'in bnek a tape recording of some to decide which International
cous to do so
but for with a real chunice even against of the on-the-spot comments colours he wants to wear. Thal amateurs to do the Bare such an accomplished sportsman made by
party or is a fundamentul of Individual 1 Indian thing
very different as Hassan but, if he manages to
of some freedom and liberty. No one produced translations instter.
pull it off, there will be high of their reports.
it removed old-nks in the Souza household
but once a of tomorrow night.
These things apart, the truth even restricted
his decision is that
everyone in Far East player has made
it should be binding for all re- football now knows. what we
games in which have known only too well but Presentative which we have managed to dis- Hongkong is Involved. guise from prying eyes.
· uncertain Indeed.
It is quite impossible. course, le report many of the stories which are at present go- ing the rounds, Everyone Οι
them probably has the touch of truth or the, vital crumb of
*
Low Ebb
By all meonis
wanis
to see
credulity but one always henra THREE ROUSING RA hot we are on the skids and In other words
them from
whose man
brother's amal's sister's boy- friend knows for a fact that a certain happening actually look place because someone at tho end of another and similar un- reliable chain of communica- tions had got the information trem a reliable source,
Unfortunately thin thing is hardly fuel for the fact finding fire but, on the other
port
of
or
to
it a player
RAH..
freely and willingly decides he RAH'S
we are travelling downhill at an wisites to represent a community for those members alarming rote,
olker than this Colony, then he of the Council of the
Colony footboll standards of should not be considered for gumes against HKFA who have mode 50 play and conduct have nosedived selection for very clear their dissatis in the past three or four years visiting teams which come
At the moment faction with the affairs of and under weak leadership play here.
n : ht done to halt Hongkong migh: suffer the recent Hongkong visit nothing has been
but that is a purely temporary the decline. to Malaya.
situation and in the long run it The truth of the matter is would contribute to an overall that for ten many people....improvement in Hongkong's do. players 104 elab officialsmestic and International re alike... have cuncerned presentation. and after all
By Exactly the same token a hand, it is also true that general resounding brickbat to those
ly where there's smoke there's Couucillurs who decided it was
THE
GAMBOLS
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WONDERFUL)
ITS BEEN HARD WORK FOR YOU,,
DARWING
by Barry Applely
AND THEYRE A GREAT
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BUT I DO BOMETIMES WIGH WE HAD SOME FLOWERS COULD PICK
Answers To Sports Quiz
1. 10.4 secs,
2. 1948 they shared the title with Middlesex in 1940,
3, 1957.
4. Andrew and Dexter,
5. Avery Brundage,
6. (0) Austrailan, (b) Swedish, (c) Jamatean, (d) Polish,
7. Shot-putting.
4. Ingemar Johansson,
9. Jaines J. Corbell,
10. Lindsay Hassett.
AIR-INDIA
Moss For U.S. Grand Prix
Los Angeles, Sept. 18. Stirling Moss of England, rated the world's greatest sports car driver, yester day signed to compete in the U.S. Grand Prix at Riverside Raceway, Moss whe made a flying visit to Los Angeles today, said he
would drive a 4.2 Aston-Martin in the Oct 10 and 11 event. The Engman kos won his last three European races and in the thick of the battle for the driving championship of the world-UPI,
Did The Trick
For Edwin
BY ROY PESKETT
London.
If Mrs Holliday, of Royston, near Barnsley, had not scèn an advertisement in the Daily Mail, hor 19-year-old son, Edwin, might novot have been chosen for Eng-. land's Under-23 team to miöst Hunguty at Goodlton Paik, Everton, next Wednesday.
1
(Fulham):
Macedo Four years ago, when Edwin
Cohen was leaving school, and Mun (Fulham), Allen (Stoke); Selters didn't quite know what to do (W. Broni.) (cnpt:), Seali (Chel- wila him, the read that Middles-son), dieGuinness (Manchester brough manager Bob Dennison U.); Brabrook (Chelsea). Greaves was holding a trial for young (Chelsea), Pointer (Burndey), players,
Chaillon Manchester U.).
Dennison told me: "I got a Holliday (Middleskto). Jetter from MIS Holliday. I Réserves: Knubp (Leicester), wondered, at first, why aho Mella (Liverpool)-Daily Mall.
didn't apply to Barnsley. Then
I thought if she has taken this trouble, I'll have a look at the
lad.
HIS BUSINESS
"It took only a few minutes to size him up. Before the end of the trial I had offered him. A place on the ground staff,"
The tall, the left winger made his debut for Middles- broth at West Ham in Decem- bor 1957, and is a member of s Hne which has scored 23 goals this season.
nowbomer
In
Holliday should know t business, for he is a nephew of Colin Grainger, Sunder- Land and England outside George Cohen, the 19-year-old Fulham right back, is the other the Young England team. O him, skipper Johnny Haynes, first hit stardom in the Under 23's, says:
"He is dedicated to winning He flies his an England cap, football very seriously, trains
hard,
Anc aralin very
pungster to have on your side."
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