THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
7TH RACE MEETING
Saturday 16th and Saturday 23rd January, 1960 (To be held ander the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club)
THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 15 RACES (8 races on the 1st Day and 7 races on the 2nd Day) The First Bell will be ruug at 1.30 p.m, and the Firs! Rucs
run at 2.00 pm. on both days,"
The Secretary's Office' at Alexandra House will close at 11.45 am, on both days.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1980.
Police can strengthen Pentangular Rugby
title bid this afternoon
By PAK LO
No Person without an admission badge, which must be There is only one game of any importanco this afternoon.
prominently displayed throughout the meeting, will be admitted.
Admission Badges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable during office hours from the Club's Cash Sweep Omces, at Queen's Building, Chater Road, b, D'Aguilar Street, King's Road, North Point, and 382, Nathan Road, only on the written introduction of a Member,
ADMISSION BADGES WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE AT THE RACE COURSE ON ILACE DAYS.
Tins will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72011).
NO CHILDREN under the age of reventeen years, Western Standard will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
Ono game that can mean success for the Police such as they have never dreamed of. Ono game of all games this season that must be seen.
In this big match at 3.15 p.m. on the Police ground in Boundary Street the Police are hosts for the second time. to 48 Brigade, whom they have beaten before.
If they enn do it again, und, and good halves but their though this could happen today, i
Atill lack penetration it is unlikely and in all pro- it must be admitted the hopes threes
bability Club "" will win.
And prayers of many spectators and against Garrison who have who are not regular Police sup- the last threes to back up their
the then
Alrtmen this good pack, porters go with
given ittle hope of victory. better chance than any other team of clinching the Pentangu- IRT.
The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable afternoon, then they have a at the Gate.
Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requlidte fee of $3.00 in order to gain re-admission.
MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will be available in the RESTAURANT.
CASH SWEEPS
tho
This, for the Polier, who for year after year have been of "wooden spoonia!" this competition, Is a wonder- ful thing, and fall well will 11 be deseryod.
Through Cash Sweep Tickets at $16.09 euch for the 1st Duy and $14.00 noch for the 2nd Day and $30.00 each for both days may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices at Queen's Building, (Chater Road), 5. D'Agullor Street and 382, Nathan Road, Kow-noon at 3.15 pm at Kal Tak loon, during Office hours.
Tickets Terved and available but not pald for by 10.00 a.m. on Friday, 15 January, 1900, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Meetings.
Special Cash Sweep Tickets at $2.00 each on the Pearce Memorial Cup scheduled to be run on 13th Fromary, 1960 may be obtained from the Club's Cuch Sweep Offers.
The office hours of the Club's Cash Sweep Offices are us follows:-
Queen's Building. (Choler Road) and 6, D'Aguilar Street, Hong Kony
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Week-days, Mondays to Fridays
Saturday, 9th January
Saturday, 16th and
Saturday, 23rd January
$ a.m. to 5 pm.
a.m, to 12.30 am.
9am to 11 a.m.
King's Road, North Point, Hong Kong and 382, Nathan Road,
Kowloon an:-
Week-days, Mondays to Fridays
Saturday, 9th January
Saturday, 16th and
Saturday, 23rd January
Hong Kong. 9th January, 1900.
10 nm. to 4 p.m.
9 am to 11.45 am.
9 a.m. to 11 0,m,
By Order of the Stewards,
A. E. ARNOLD, Secretary.
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Also scheduled for this after
1s another pentangular in which the Airmen are hosts to the Gar- Thon. and lastly in a friendly on the Soolampoe ground at 4.30 p.m. Club "B" take on the
RASC.
Garrison have only to play an open game, as they are stre to do, to win, while the Air- open men, must also play an Kamp to give themselves the falglost hope, so that show the result herd"willot be lo
loot this may well turn
boy the better of the major games from a spectator's point of view,
out two
Rest for Club 'A'
Club Anne having a rest to- day. Incidentally, it is probable that their "friendly" Eamr against the Police next Satur-
Pentan gular match that was postponed the Com- due to the tour of bined Services Singapore,
Very good chances day will become the
What
ore
the Policemen's chances of repeating their pro- vious victory this afternoon?: On the whole more than good, for though still hit by Injuries they are naturally gelding strong team.
They have
+
this
on the ball
with Tom Finney
FAREWELL, NAT LOFTHOUSE He was last in a great line of traditional English centre-forwards
There was thunder in the air and the line to Bolton buzzed and crackled. The voice coming down the telephone. was indistinct, but I didn't need to hear all the words. For Nat Lofthouse was merely confirming what I already knew.
The "Lion of Vienna" had played his last game and soccer was the poorer.
MILESTONES OF SPORT
KELLY'S 'DIAMONDS'
By ARCHIE QUICK
Don't make the mistake of virtually, have thinking th1s merely the re-superiority. firement of another good player. It's a little more than that.
Net some certain to so down into footballing history as the last in a great line of traditional English ontre forwards...a line that runs through the Deans, the Drakes and Lawions, leaders all, who took rival goals BLOTTIL
clinched their
The came began agalost a background of high tension and the Austrians made a quick bi for victory.
But they had reckoned with- out Nat. Playing the game of his life, to repeatedly down the home defeneca,
Many things Inspire him. by
Now the pattern of interna- tional football is changing and we are told there will be no place for this breed In the world of tomorrow.
Another Lawton
toro
to I
combined One factor. ain sure, we the sight of British troops-some of whom had travelled 200 miles for the match-packed in a tight wedge along the front of the main stand,
Have the father and brother of a famous Princess ever won the same great sporting event in England? That is a question good enough for any quiz programme and the answer is "Yes." Princess Grace of Monaco was not only a film star but she was the daughter of husky millionaire sportsman Fred Kelly and sister of another giant John Kelly, "F.S." won the Diamond Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1902, 1903 and 1905 and "B" won the same event in 1947mination, speed and raw your-showed his metile and 1949.
Certainly Not made their jour- ney worthwhile. Although in- Be that as it may, I am sure jured, he scored the two goals Nat will be remembered long and that performance alone was which ensured our 3-2 victory after many of the current giants enough to give him a per have been forgotten heroco are made of. There was of fourte colour and played with a mixture of deter- and he
The 1040 race was probably
The Club "" team afternoon has an a result plenty of players to choose from, anit the RASC will find themselves against a very strong pack and heavy pack
fairly fast threes and should which proved capable of not
lose by quite a considerable
Kelly's father and sister Sw only holding the Brigade pack margin to theory, though Club the greatest amateur seuiling his wielory and I remember how In their
but was who have been known to first Kame
event this country has ever oceni. Broud Mr Kelly senior was at hammering through to smash
stronx Jolin Kelly, after his succtu in an after-the-race succeed against very
gel-together the Brigade attacks. If the
teams have also been known to 1947, did not defend the follow- at his riverside hotel.
I re- Police once more adopt tiesa
fall against wrak wams, Al-Ing
and the your
prized number loo that in the com~ Lacties they will win, for they
"Diamonds" went to that huge piny was the Erica! Harold have the threes capable of
who Australian and Olympic cham- nelestaffe,
The xoring, especially on the wing
pian Mervyn Woods,
"Djamunds" 'in 1900, and the where Pade are weaker.
Olympic title in 1003, as well as Kelly announced that he the Wingfield Szalonomisally would be back in 1949 to the Amateur Championship of challenge Woods dominance, Great Britain-on five occasions and in due course on a sunny between 1897 and 1908, F.S. Saturday afternoon-in July Kelly, by the way, won this race they paddled down from the in 1903. Boathouses to Tempio Island
Given a chance the Brigade pack with their usual forward play and their touch kicking halves could win this game, but the Police, still on fire from their victory over Garrison a fortnight ago, should give them no chance. The Brigade threes are still all too often used defensively, and while strong do not feed their wings enough, are inclined to crowd their wingers,
In the pocket
All in all, if the rollos once more tackle like demons they have the game in their Docket, and 舞 wonderful i chance of making history leaping, from bottom ts of the Tournament Tablo in Dhe seasoIL
by
100
In the other game at Kai Tak, RAF have a strong pack,
SWISSAIR
SERVICE
SPORTS QUIZ
1. Who was Britain's captain In the recent Ryder Cup match?
2. What great sporting dis- unction is shared by these Alm stars: Sonja Hento, Jcanny Weismuller Tony Sall?
and
WOT
-two magnificent speelmensi Golden model - of manhood each dedicated to
W1107.
of himself
He was from
the stuff that
drama in almost
did everything he
manent placo in football's tall
Gavo up his pub ·
Another
OCCAFION when
he was during age that was hard to match.
an inter-League match against My DW21 career has been the Scottish at Huisborough, linked very closely with Nat's Shefield Wednesday's ground. and invariably we were room- mates on forcim tours,
I
Ho had been hammered by the erities in the wreks before I frst saw him in 1942. the Emo.ER attack which the confl- was home on leave at the time would havo ahaicom and guesting for Bolton against dence of many players. But Burnley, Nat. 16-year-old not Nat hopeful, was leading the line.
תי
OR
hotel room We shared Even at that aɛɛ, he looked the night before the match and ruzzed, tough und noom-I remember him saying, “I promising. Twics he Food shall make some of those boys through to score, and I know cat then that I'd be bearing a lot Tom."
Lo come.
their
words tomorrow,
more about him in the years There was a glint in his eye and already I felt a little ROTTY Once the war was over, this for the Scots. Sure enough, he belief wa
quickly confirmed hit top form, acuring two goala good and Lancashire began to boast and giving the alli that it had discovered another case to think again
So much for Nat as a player. But what is he like as a man?
challenge the other's supre: As a result of that meeting- | Tominy Lawton,
and the great Ernest Harry was
hlm In 1950, I was with Woods wore the green and flere too-1 went to Mr Black- when he made a dream debut time later against Yugoslavia at Highbury Commonwealth staffe's house some yellow of the of Australia, and a peaked cap and he showed me a yard long and in the seasons that followed
seated in a with the Melbourne Club badge model
I watched him grow in stature had been on I Kelly was in bluzing red meing shell which
until only Lawton, among post- presenter to him by admirers. 3. Name the girl from Harlem shorts and singlet, with a hand it was made in its entirety from
war players, compared with him knotted round his
83 a header of the ball, who has algned up to go kerchief on tour with the Harlem! brow. He was just the slighter melted down golden sovereigns two thousand of them! That Globetrotters.
was in 1903, What must it have been worth in 1949 saw it? A fortime.
4. What
theso do
of the
1WO,
for
even
his
famous utmendous physique could not match Wood's massive choulders,
rugby internationals have in common: W. W. Wakefield, J. MacD. Bannerman, J. W. Kyle, E. J. Jones and J. Pratt
5. Name the Freat horse which won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in the years 1032-30 inclusive. 6. Who was record scorer in the 1054 World Cup of
Herculean spurt-
when 1
Sports Diary
TO-DAY
Macios: First Day of Seventh Race Meet-
In the Press Box at the finishing end of that wonderful stretch of the Thames we could see the wisp of smoke that heralded the "Of and in a solli second heard
the gun. The gladiators were locked. Downing. p.m. the coure they came with the malden loud speaker ure the
giving out the under which these positions. players achieved lawn At Remenham Barrier. the tennis
(a) fame:
Mrs crucial point of any Healey Norman Brinker, (b) Mrs race, Woods was a "canvas" Johnny Fieltz. (c) Mrs F. ahead. He had been there all C. Shoemaker?
BOCCLT?
7. What
names
the way.
Cricket
1st Division: Brigade v Garrison, Pollon v CCC. KOC V HAP, MC V Recreio, Optimüts y Scorpions.
2nd Division: Carrison v. Brigade, University y D39, RAF V ̧KCC, Bo-
v ContouZH,
celo Y IBC. HET
1st Division: CME KUIN (CHO) 9:30 pana Happy Valley y Eastera (Club) 3.30 v.m.
and Division: ATS v Koun Wun (201) 2 p.m. Nil v Club (Club) z
v Prisons
8. Which of these athletes re- | Then came Kelly's Herculean
Lained titles in the 1958 suurt to win by a half length.m.; Hos Ying v Taikoo (Navy) Olymple Games: Bob the same distance he had beaten 230 o.m Richards, Shirley Strick- the Norwegian Fronsdal, two land, Parry O'Brien, A years previously,
Ferreiro Da Silva?
D. Which of the following bowi left-handed: Tony Lock, George Tribe, Freddle
Benaud, Trueman, Richle
Tommy Greenhough?
10. Name the racing driver who won the 1959 World Cham- pionship.
(Answers on Pare 15)
Was
v Caro
(Navy) 40.m.; ine BV) 230 pm.
Brd Division: Mercantile v B & (KV) 2.30 pm; Post Office v Uni- versity (V) 4 p.m.; Ki Godown
Five-One-Seven (HV) – 4 pmą Yuen Long y Sik Ying (Sek Kong) 1pm: Rodiffusion Dodwel] Vi 2.30 p.m.
So the great question was
v answered:
the Kelly Master, and Hi saya much for when his carsmanship that he retired from blz time rac- ing after that day. Woods proved unbeatable for the next four years and went on to win a second Olympio Wils in 1952.
Ladier Hockey Victoria V KGV “É p.m.; KGY "Av Recreo (KP)
.m.; St George's v Gremlins (KP) yim.
Kiisley Colony Bisley Meeting at Kai Tar
rangok
Famous game
He is expentially & family man who lete nothing ofme between him and his ~ child- ren's welfare,
Typical was the way he re- ently gave up his pub, feeling it was a bad environment in which to bring up a family.
Ho has a very day Northern ponso of humour, a host of Even more important was friends and no regrets at having his ability to fight back when built his life around football
I contentment is the ball- the going was toughest.
Typical of this won his famous mark of success, then Nat 19 game against Austria in Vienna to success.
in 1052. Here was a vital game for England. Our Continental want supremacy was on the and the cities were ready to bury .
We had begun our European tour disappointingly against Italy and we reached Vienna to find the city in the grip of big-match fever. Austria nd already drawn at Wembley and would victory in this match
Key to success
Team spirit is one of the fac- lors behind Rotherharn's bid for promotion to the First Division,
The playerS should know cach other well enough, for Morgan, Bambridge, Webater, Williams, Lambert and Sliman have cach played for the first
than mone occasions, while Kittleborough is past the ninety mark and Madden in The soyenlieg Banews Servico.
-100
OFF THE CUFF
I hear that Waien may consider playing
MEL CHARLES As an inside. Is leaving forward, brother JOHN at centro- half and GRAHAM MOORE as leader of the attack.
BILLY
WEIGHT stil trains as seriously as ever, although his only football nowadays is played with the Showbusitions XI.
Real Madrid centre- forward DI STEFANO has 1 new tan-film actress Ava Gardner.
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