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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1959.
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SHOT SHY SOLDIERS
Army Had Most Of The Play But Eastern Got The Goals
By I. M. MacTAVISH
In a scrappy disappointing first division football match played at the Club Stadium yesterday afternoon Eastern defeated the Army by three goals to one,
Fists Went Flying In France-Australia Rugby Test Match
Bordeaux. Dec. 20. Australia best France by 17 wecond polate to 2
in the
Rugby League Tem here today to clinch the series.
There were #number of in-
WEEKEND SOFTBALL
Olmedo Loses
BAKER HUSSAIN PITCHES To Hoad In SEASON'S FIRST JUNIOR Pro Debut
LEAGUE NO-HIT GAME
By OLLY VAS
Sydney, Dec. 20. Alex Olmedo began his pro-
fessional tennis career to- day and suffered a 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 defeat by Lewis Hond of Australia.
Five thousand fans went to
It turned out to be a very quiet weekend at King's
Park for softball fans, with the spotlight the White City Stadium to see falling on the PI Dodgers' Baker Hussain who the professional debut of the Peruvian, hero of the United Australia, who
first won the
tossed a no-hit game against the Cheyennes, Stades Davis Cup team, Text 20-18. today wored three tries, and four
to goals
the first this year in the Junior division. OND France's
Koal. The His team-mates lent him good fielding support in Jock Kramer. Australians Ind 7-2 at half-
time.
cidenia during the match with ƒ It was a hurd, sometimes tirry flere tackling provoking fist- fighte
There was very little between the sides and, taken over the
whole 90 minutes, the soldiers had far more of the play one of than the Chinese boys but the finishing of their forwards was woefully weak.
One aspect of the game which must have caused both sides a Jul concern was the number that went accurately of passes le the feet of an opponent. Chu Wing-wah was Eastern's biggest offender in this respect although he was hard pressed by Cheung Ylu-whi for the honCAT.
doubtful
In the Army side Hamliton surely qualified for the mle passer's brickbal bal Calder, Johns and Raine were all well In the running.
Move after move collapsed when a pass which could have mennt so auch went straight and sure to a waiting opPONIENIL, Eastern collected two valuable points and as they had to take the Aeld without a Ying-dun they were probably delighted with the result even they could take very little satisfaction from the way it was achieved
from under
the bar after his, this was particularly dangerous goalkeeper had been beaten all when his had pass went astray, ends up. was probably the turn-as it so often did.
A goal The Army front rank wer ing point of the game.
disappointment. Hellings to the Army at that particular | biz stage might have changed the had one grand try in the thr
half when he sent russ trg whole situation.
the inches over
bar. There is plenty of promise in: Bellamy. His footwork is good meril marks and he shows the right instinct for the game but like his partner while Kwok Ying-lok, who re- placed Ho Ying-fun at inside-he faded after a bright start.
Raine ran for miles both well into the right, fitted very
and without
the ball scheme of things.
bai in spite of all his the
chasing I cannot recall Tam A KIT-
Nai-hen having to deal with one direct sbos from blonde centre-forward.
Le Kwok-wah, Lam Sheung volley yee and Lee Yuk-tak were the other Exstern players who erened speeni
WLA
On the debit side' of Eastern Recount prisingly shaky display by Tam Nai-hoen roalkeeper who seemed Lo suffer throughout from a severe al- tack of the jlitery. very lucky indred to the final whistle with
with
Groans
the
was reach
If I am any judge of football- only in personalities I think Calder will want to forget about this had, The inside-ieft game. what we used to call, a square ball cuting Nothing came ult no matter how hard he tried.
one zool against him. Chu Wing-wah scored a One Once again veteran Lee Ping gol but, even allowing for chiu was the man of the match. that, this must rank as one of have the porest games he has play- The right-back seems to found a new lease of football feed in years. It is true he got
and one spectacular clearance, when he headed the ball away
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the woral brawls broke out in the 25th minute of the second half as a scrum broke up. Kalf a dozen play- ers from both sides waded Into each other with Unis
firing.
The
Franch refcrce and touch judge were unable to separate them, but other players even- tually pulled them apart.
match in which the forwards were outstanding for Austra Ita,
Iları Well ran 60 yards for a
Brst-half
"It was a tarife first pro- fessional match," ald promuter
the Dodgers' 11-1 victory, the solitary run for the Cheyennes being scored by Carlos frat match with in." Guterres on an infield error.
"Alex did really well for his
Olmedo, smiling at the start of A professional stream of dollars, said he felt fino.
"I could have played better," he said, "but it was striking out
ibe first big game I played for three
has
the In other Junior league games
ticing TUN.
routine accounted infield out on the next balter try for Australia the Indiane easily
Stewart's and Johnny Raper and Brian for New Asia by 21-8, the and
Pandas came from behind to ended the Pandas' inning. in the Carlson wen)" over'
The Stardusts made 11 3-1 in months." Stardusts - and the Keith second half.
Barnes.nip the
the Austers the second inning when the
Kramer who was very sound at fult- Giants trounced
guaraniced Pandas' pitcher issued four suc- back, kicked Australia's four 28-5.
In the only Senior game of cessive walks. An unearned run Olmedo $35,000 over one year, goals, including a penalty.
proved rassed the plate and then with Claude Maniottlin had openen the week, the. Pandas
Today he played in what twa outs registered Moti U.S. the scoring for France with a
too good, for the New
fional mateti between the Navy team from the "Renville Dasarm's fly ball to lott feld Kramer billed as an interna- penalty goal.---Reuier.
drove in another jun which replaced the "Bauer" at
Australia. States and The Pandas replied with three United the last moment. The
word runs to take the lead, nts 4-3.
Olmedo's teammato is Panebo Gonzales and was 7-1.
Hond's ir Ken Arthur Olaes homered to centre- Seld to pave the way for the Rosewalt. comeback. The 'Stardust infeld appeared a bit straken up after Olace' blow and the Pandas capitalised on some shodriy field- ag by the opposition to tally twice and to forge ahead.
W. Indies Making Bold Attempt To Avoid
Umpire Disagreements
Grenada, Dec. 20.
The West Indies are making a bold attempt to avoid one of cricket's most controversial problems- disagreements over umpire rulings.
For t Arst time In West
A risty knock on the side ef 1.knock but but before that the face did not help things at Pappened he bed been com- Full
and of course he was pletely out of touch.
often cramped in his efforts by Jotuns who kept moving inside Indies cricket history, laul
ing umpires are travelling to en top of his partner.
other slend Previously, Teof leg before. umpires were cho in only from the; the territory in which the match
was being played,
Army's Trouble Wing-halves Fong
There was a good crowd hand to see the start of
оп
Chi-chol and Ma Marn-hung were never able la reproduce the fine form they showed against Tung Wahmatch. They had to wait a only a week ago and it was quarter of an hour for their fortunate for both of them that first big till and even then i the nien immediately behind ended in loud mans when Chu were in tiptop form. The same
Wing-wah missed # great Apply to wingers
ebance to put his side ahead, comments Szeto Sun-who seldom sug- Eastern eventually look the Read he really knew how to lead after 23 minutes in rather
Higginbottom-and beat
little fortunate fashion. Wright wa Cheung qu-wal who fussed penalised apparently for shout- and Aurriex but achieved very inger maybe it was carrying
in the penalty area. The in-
Little,
The memo says there is an accepted attitude in the minds of English umpires
Small Crowd There was only 4 handful of fans present probably be cause of the early hour when the Pandas and the Stardusts took the feld yesterday morning.
Bailing first the Stardusts' Willie Choa
soon opened the Booring when he made first on a bad throw from pitcher stole first base. We second
third in quick order and stayed at the hot
to
corner.
and
The
It was a short-lived lead for the Stardusts fought back to register five runs to make the scoreboard read Stardusts 8. Pandan 4.
The Pandas failed to lower the margin in the bottom of the
third,
will get
The winning side A£1,500 and the losers A £500.
In the second ringles Gonzales beat Roeowall 0-2, 6-4
The United States look the International match when Gonzales and Olmedo beat Roerwall and Hoad 0-4, 0-4.
Olmedo's prize money was US$1,000 for hio first 120 minutes of professional play,
He was on the court 75 minutes for the singles and 45
A The Stardusts had bad minutes for the doubles.—AP. fourth inning when they gen- erously decided to repay thood ilverung to the Pandas. Mahadey
Dayaram just could not put those strikes over the plate in the bottom of this game-changing fourth frame. He Inced 10 batters and when the dust had settled down over the held it was the Pandas 9, and the Stardusis B.
Fateful Seventh
Both sides failed to add to the
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Moll Dayaram hit a long fly This is in keeping with the | Indies fool the original low is to centrefield for the first out obvious destre it both sides to clear enougİL
then Oliveira got on base via a prevent trouble un the present Buy English umpires, general- ht past the Fundas shortstop MCC tour.
by regarded as the best in the pnd Chua came home to make world on an overall basis, comel 1-0 for the Stardusts, in for criticism on interpretailon next two batters were retired
on pop ups.
The Pandas tied the score in With one their turn at bat. that a batsman is not out when nway, Harold Kew tripled to playing forward and the ball right fleld. David Wu's
is the front foot-China Mali grounder was badly fielded by score in the Ah and sixth Special.
Georgie Viera and Kew scored Innings and the seventh opened
Jon n dismal note for the losers. Str,-In my previous letter Before they know it two outs (Thursday) I made a logical were registored against them but analysis ot the mini-soCKET it was not yet over. Pitcher situation as worked out by the Mahadev Dayaram blasted 2 ASF & OC, but clearly it was beautiful hit to right-fold and too condensed for *FIFA Fan', ran all the way to third base. He so I shall try to explain it at a represented the icing run and level more suited to his capacity there was Johnny Souza coming for understanding. The up to bat,
Now, there is a panel of six consisting of the best WI umpires.
Memorandum
Gerry Gomez, former Text player, trying to standardise tricky umpiring points in his capelly as the umpires' laison
han officer,
prepared An interesting memorandum, 11 is hard to pin-point just direct tros-kick resulted in a
This states that during the what is wrong with this Army seremble and when the ballast few Test series in the West side. In this gemo they tried reached Lee Yuk-tak he drove Indies, there has been adverse
that powerfully desperately hard. Maybe
of into the
comment on net,
the standard the no was
trouble
cases the ..maybe although there was more than umpiring. In most
comment just a suspicion of offside about
Wis unjustified, the his position.
memorandum goes on, but there wore instances when the nc- cusing finger could reasonably
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they were trying too hard.
The team is crying out for :ome sort of guiding hand. There is energy, enthusiasm and talent in the lineup yet it is not producing the results it deserves.
f
Almost as a sort of crampensa- tion the soldiers collected two indirect free-kicks at the other
end but on both occasions the hard hitting Eastern defenders managed to clear the ball out of danger.
the course of yesterday's game the same errors were made over and over again and no one wened capable of spotting them and coaxing. cajoling or com- manding the offenders towards gool. new ideas.
to
The side was all too often
• "collection of whiting units striving oh, so hard... bal siriving without a plan .......... and against the very experi enced Chinese players there is Public Stand Enclosure
Ittle reward in that Parking facilities are avail-
Wright had surprisingly
He had no chance with the Public Stand to dɔ.
that beat goals between
the the
although some folks he should have got to the belt before the incident which led to a penalty-kick and Easter's second goal,
able in Enclosure
hours
hlm... thought
Useful Man
6.00 a.m.
9.00 a.m. 12.00 Noon 2.30 p.m. 4.30 p.m.9.30 p.m. and in the small trianguler section marked by white
With the departurn of Tipper lines at the entrance of the the Army moved Ritchie into Public Stand.
the right-back position and he The above Arrangements down he will be a useful man Mo.-have- Around....if he
showed that when he settles
At the halfway stage Eastern were still ahead by a solitary
The Equaliser
be pointed at acts of ignorance, negligence, lack of proper ap- plication and concentration.
01
Under
British Soccer May
Be Played
Floodlights Soon
London, Dec. 20.
The husky outfelder just was not destined to play the role of hero this time. His weak hit ended up in the astfeld for, an casy out to bring the game to a close.
Mini-Soccer Controversy
Aret
thing is to provide him with some facts of which he I Lonwart,
When the mini-soccer people asked to come into ASF & OC
The Stardusts were beaten buts a completely separate body,
by no means disgraced in this the HKFA made no objection
British soccer, gradually declining over the past game of Bluctuating fortunes.a tacit admission that they
►
few years in both standards and finance, may They will live to fight another did not consider mini-soccer to
get a new look in the very near future with day, have no fear of that. the possibility of all 92 English League clubs being able to play matches under floodlights.
Simpson Scores
The memorandum said: "Tco mary of our umpires fuil to impress with their bearing the field, thereby creating an atlitude of no confidence in the minuts of visiting teams. j Only 23 English clube will The latcct announcement that DiTerona
interpretation of the be without adequate lighting by the Crand National, Britain's Double Centuries
next season and thesu laws resulting in difference of Army just one
have minute of the second half to doclainns even nuder similar hopes of falling into line within get the equaliser for when crcumstances, are most dis- a season or two providing the the Chinese defence beslisted concerting to visiting sides anri jenpitol is available. for a fraction of s second could lead to the so-called in- Calder was right on the spot cidents which are so prevalent
It took the
to trundle the ball home,
Eastern In the 50th mlaule went ahead again when Lee scored -from the Yuk-tak penalty spot after he had ap parently been fouled by both Travers and Wright,
today."
Criticism
The memo deals with throw- ing, dead hall, no bail, wides, leg byes, hit wicket, ler before and appealing.
Umpires have been told lo chook drag and have no fears in no-bailing a bowler after a warning..
The Anny continued to have
the most of
play but
they were unable, to get the ball into the net and just when it seem- ed they might snatch the cqualiser they lost another goal the meme states that the West instead,
Chu Wing-wah, who hart
moved out to the left touching
It
The lump in attendances
*
most speentacular steeplechase, will be televised, has already brought rumblings of protest from football officials. Some clubs are seeking permission to
has worried officials, but the switch their matches to the Football League recently received
much-needed shot
arm * with In the the revenue from pools Arms by copyrighting their fixtures,
evenings but many are unable to consider this because they have no lights.
New Era
Clubs without lights estimate losses of up to 5,000 spectators In the dark mid-winter months because they cannot kick off later in the day. They may Some of this incore, expected hold their own in the autumn to be around £300,000 a year, and spring, but the televising
On the question of throwine. Is sure to find its way to the of the Grand National in March further in- clubs, and the poorer ones may is likely to make
Surprise Defeat For Brazil
int long last have the opportuni- roads in their slender resources.
ty to tempt back their lost apChina Mall Special. porters with the lure of attrac». Eve floodlight matches
Sports Diary
TO-DAY
Meeting Interport_Sub-Committee meeting at Sports Road, 8 p.m."
do not apply to race days, survives the missed heartbeats to nurse an injury, swept into when the present arrange- occasioned by big John the penalty area, got a lucky re-
Compulsory floodlighting for ments wih
bound, beat two men and sent bo continued ligginbottom's much too casual
all League grounds could open up the ball into the net os Wright under Police control,
Higgin- approach to the game,
Bogota, Dec. '20. a new era for British soccer, bottom is a natural ball player plunged towards him. This con!
The Colombian soccer selection caine in the 23rd minute.
Saturday afternoon attendances A. E. ARNOLD, and he does some delightful
a 3-1 lead and team today scored a surprising fall off badly in mid-winter at SECRETARY. things with just enough of the save Eastern
without too much imuble they 2-0 victory over the Brazilian grounds where lack of lighting
tearn.
prevent late kick-offs. The tele- naive to make you tingle or Secretary.
maintained their position untli shiver as the case may be,
At the end of the first half the¡vising of more sporting events the end.
on Saturday afternoons has also When it comes off it is fine.
VERDICT: A scrappy big-score was 1-0. When it
is sometimes falls it
It was the first game of the segously affected gates. kick zame la never very misty- and
elimination round Army almost Ing and this one was no exeep-
to docide paid dearly for one or two of | tion. The players were not which of the two countries will This inluires yesterday,
helped in their efforts by a light take part in the next Olympic tournament in Rome. The second Travers had a good game a lively ball and a bumpy, uneven, game will be played in Rio De ball overlords must learn to Divis the centre-haif position. big fellow has found his feet showing little sign of recovering Janeiro, Brazli-AP
19th December, 1959.
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By Order of the Stewards,
A. E. ARNOLD,
m'nutes.
the
The badly
rearred pitch that
Iis
daring the visit of the "Holiday
and he has the strength and from the punishment it received stamina to keep golag for 90
an Iơp show. One end of the The Army's wing-half prob- field is in very poor condition lens still persists although in and the strange behaviour of the possession both Mastersari and | ball makes control vary dificult Hamilton were · competent | Indeed. Eastern deserved the enough. Too often, however, two points if only, because their they were beaten TO the ball defendors tuado fowor mistakos and too often their distribu- | than their army counterparts. tion was faully.
and the forwards grabbed thi Masterson is a hard tackling few chances that came their
Way! chance to at in be will let middlemen and if he is given i few opponents know they have been in a game.
The Teams Army: Wright, Ritchie, Hig- On the opposito Rank Hamil-ginbottom, Masterton, Travers, Bellamy, ton does aq many clever things Hamlilon, Hellings, and so obviously has talent that Raina, Calder, Johns,
it is rather disappointing that he Eastern: Tam „Nai-huan, Leo is not achieving more. In the Ping-chiu, Lee Kwok-wah, Tong spcond half he muddenly devo Chi-choy, Lam Sheung-yme, Mi loped the argo to do away up Mang-hung, Sato Bum, Kwok
Yuk-lak, Boorstary. Bok. In so doing be left a big Ying-lok, Lave
hole in the Army left tank and Wing-wah, Cheung Yul-wal
Chu
Television is regarded aWR threat to League soccer, but it is here to say and the fool-
live with it.
THE GAMBOLS
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In Successive
Shield Matches
be the same sa the game which they control,
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Later the mini-soccer people decided that they wanted be affiliated to the HKFA (and I believe that they still do); so they asked for this.
But the HKFA, passing the matter to FIFA for a decision, were ordered to reject the re quest! What could be clearer? The ruling body of Association football does not class mini- Boccer as Association football; therefore it must be cnother game altogether. And if it is another game, then FIFA rules can have no effect upon it. You cannot have it both ways.
Perth, Dec. 19. Bob Simpson today became the first Western Aus- tralian batsman to make double centuries in suc- I am sure that reasonable Shield people can see how unfair it is cessive Sheffield
that FIFA will not accept mini- matches.
|500ety as part of its code on the A week ago the 23-year-old one hand, and on the other hand former New South Wales play-tries to discriminate against it. er hit 235 not out against his | Certainly no Association has former slate, Today he scored any legal or moral right to forbid 205 not out against Queensland. those people who play its game So in consecutive innings bere from playing a game which is he has totalled 441 runs without controlled by any other Asse- ciation which is in good stand- being dismissed.
Due largely to Simpson's fog with its loent Olymple body. Cricket cannot be touched by great knock, Western Australia
at the close had made 437 for the FA, nor can basicotball nor elght in reply to Queensland's swimming-and, by the some Brst innings total of 117.
token, nor cas mind-soccer, Simpson, who began the day UNLESS FIFA WILL ALLOW with 93 on the board, took nearly IT TO AFFILIATE!
hours to complete his second double century.
Goozes were Queensland 117.
seven
the I cannot imagine that Lawn Tennis Association would evor try to stop is registered members from playing com- forpetitivo tablo-tenaits.-The situa- eight (R. Simpson 205 not out;tion with regard to the prosent Freeman four for 993-China controversy is exactly parallel. Mail Special.
SPORTS FAN.
Western Australia 437
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