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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1960,
Club, Police meet for first time today in Pentangular Rugby
By PAK LO
This afternoon on the Club ground at 4.30 p.m., the Club and the Polico meet for the first time in a postponed Pentangular Tournament match.
Originally this game was scheduled as a "friendly" but the HKRU has ruled that, as the fixture list is full, this game is to be considertd as the Pentangular. Both teams are well down ferueful pack, though Roberts the Table at the moment, but a doubtful storier, and fast attacking threes. Their halves will have a chance to hit 1.00. ng Club's back row contains two more doubiful starters in Pen- man and Hall.
win for either could still make a difference in the nai result of the tournament.
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though a draw, would not be out of place,
In the game between 32nd Medium and 49th Field the Gunners have gone from with In the first game of the
strength to strength and afternoon on the Club ground,
their foster pack, and better Club "B" are at home to A
bandling threes should have mixed RAF olde at 3.15 p.m..
But, even allowing for this. | Hittle trouble in winning..... while on the ather side of the Pulice cannot afford any min- In the Whitfeld-Tanks game,
have the much the harbour on the Army ground takes, Club in Boundary Street at 3.15 stronger halten, and though p.m. 32nd Medium face 49th their three line is weaker than Field Regiment in the semi-usual, with McTavish, who final of the Army Inter-Unit was scheduled to make a come Knockout Competition,
buck bestde newcomer Moore having to call of due to a mid- week injury in a practice game, wings are fast and dan-
Army Plate
Following this at 4.30 p.m. vn Tanka the same round the take on thu Whitfield Wan- derers.
At San Wai at 3.15 pm. the 6th Field Regiment face the 1st RNF in a first-round match of the Army Plate competition.
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in the Police-Club match, the Police wer not particularly keen on playing this game the Pentangular as they have a good crop of injuries with Hobbs, Lloyd, and Boyes being on the list. This naturally pre- cludes the Police fielding their strongest team.
However, the one they intend to play has the usual strong
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The Club pack should able to equal the Police in all departments except hooking, to where Kell should prove be superior to King, and with his equally the game should be open, as neither team has anything to gain from a tight
капис.
This is hard came to forecast, but if Police con- tinne to tackle the way they hayd been doing of tale, the Club defence could orumible and let them through, and Poller,
Wanderers have the far superior pack, and their threes, though weakened by calls from other units, are much too fast for the Tanks. The Tank try hard but handle weakly and the Wanderers should chalk up an- other victory.
Favourites
In the Plate Cup competition the 5th Field take the field the favourites, for although the 1st NF threes are strengthened by he Whitfield the inclusion of rehires. It is extremely doubtful if the Fusillers can get the ball back sufficiently to give them a chance to show their worth,
With their pack superior in inost respects the 49th Field are expected to obtain a clear-cut victory and in the opinion of most experts are expected to
go on to win the Plate Com-
with just a little petition, for there is little more of the ball should win,' opposition left facing them.
Wanted: A sporting world
of equal
opportunities
By DEREK JOHN
London.
"The important thing is not to win, but to take part. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought weli."
For more than 60 years that's been the high-sounding maxim of the Olympic Games. And they are still splendid senti- ments today.
But times have changed since his noble ideals. The laurel moustachloed, sports-mad Baron wreath has turned to gold and Plerre de Couberin propounded the prospector's fever has spread like prairie fre among athletes the world over,
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
7TH RACE MEETING
Saturday 16th and Saturday 23rd January, 1960 (To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 15 RACES (8 races on the let Day and 7 races on the 2nd Day) The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the First Race run at 2.00 p.m. on both days.
The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will close at 11,45 a.m. on both days.
So when an Olymple official attacks would-be gold medal- lists for planning Intensive training I can only conclude
been has
that he
in
a deep slumber, dreaming of the glory that was Greece.
Rip Van Winkle
camps for longer than 14 days. Two wrongs don't make a right in sport or anything else."
Now I admire Mr Tanner for sticking firmly to what he belleves are Olymple prin- ciples. But by what authority does the 100 diciale that specialised training la not ta accord with the ideals?
CARIBBEAN CAPERS
Relaxing on a West Indian beach are members of the MCU team currently touring the Islands. After last week's drawn Test, they beat Trinidad in their nexi match by six wickets. They are now playing their second maleh against Trinidad and will start the second Test in Trinidad on Thursday.
Photo shows leg-spinner Tommy Greenhough grinning as it to say "this is better
runs." Gravediggers (from than being buried under another avalanche of West Indian left) are Ken Barrington, Ray Illingworth, Keith Andrew--and some local volunteers.— London Express photo.
Massie is
a hidden
star
By STANLEY MATTHEWS
Sports Diary
TO-DAY
Rating
Bacond Day of Seventh Rica Meele Ing. Happy Valley, 8 pm.
Boxing
IDKABA CRrity Boxing Tourna- ment in aid of World Hefugee Year Fund, Bouthern Playground; § p.m. Cricket
Les Division: HAP v Brigade, Re- crelo v CCC, Garrison y HCC, Beor
plant pilaleur: Drigado y NAF.
IRC, Police Optimiste.
Univerzity v Heerela, Centaue V DÁS, INC V KGV, KCC v äureliors. Bocate
1st Divtalon: Extern ✔ Kwong Wal (B3) 345 P.m;
Heserve Division: Eastern v Kwang
(C) 16 pm KMB v Polles and Divizion: RAF 8a 19an 'v Club
n'v (Navy) 200 p.m.; RAF Kal Tak v Hoe Ying (Navy) 4 pm, Prisons v READ (Btanley) 4 pang Talkoo RIEL (HIV) 2.30 pm: AV8 V Gyms sarito (TV) 4 pm.
sed Division: "Sik Ying v. Mercan- tile, 8.00 pm, Dortwell v C&W. 1000 1.0.1 16 3 2 Unverity. 4 pm.i Fit Chan ve Kận dedown. Happy Val- foy, « p.m.; Yuen Long v.8t Joseph's (54k Kong), 4pm.
Bolton's distinction
Bolton is the only town or city to have supplled three Cup Final referees. They were the rcat J. T. Howcroft in 1920, A. B. Fogg in 1935 and J. H. Clough last season, Mr Howeroft now 82 years of ago, is Howcroft, now 82 years of age, is still fit and well, flving in retirement In Southport. - Banewo Service,
HENRY LONGHURST on. GOLF
DOING A CURLEW
"There is something indescribably moving about the launching of a great
ship, especially when it is done personally."
une under
La some
Such was the reminiscence of Lady Maud Warrender of the time when early in the century, she was invited by Mr Winston Churchill to launch HMS Resolution, and I confess that I have often smiled at it. Last week I came to appreciate more fully her emotions.
there bogey was known ; "After all, The occasion was the launch- DENIS LAW, Soccer's
Д birdle, followed by | reason to do a good score if you £40,000 golden boy, nnding of the HP tanker "British 35
Lady Heathcoat Eagle Curlew" by
albatross, don't practice." most sought-after Amory in the Clyde shipyard of there
orthono- the player in the game, gets Alexander Stephen and Co, who logfeal expression for a hole in the headlines for Hadders- have been building ships for 200 one and that after her morning field, but, almost over years and incidentally, but effort this surely should be a
HIMS Amethyst, of Yangise "Curlew." shadowed by his bril-tama, Hance, another young Scot
He
and the
an And Was ne
She took to steel irons only after the war then gave them to her brother on his losing his and went back to hickory. Later,
on his asking, a litije uncharit-
"Second shot first'
I will always think that de-ably perhaps, "When are you Amory Lady Heathcont
1. spite her four championships, going to give up that firewood?"
most the Lady Heathcoat Amory's is helping to turn the Law should add, lest some of
she took to a set of Hogon irons, Ill remarkable golfing performance but still prefers hickory on and genius into goals.
younger generation ure so brought up as not to know it was to win the Worplesdon four- around the greens.
somes. eight (mes with seven Leslie was Mies Joyce Wethered is 24-year-old
different male partners! These unquestionably Massic, who scored twice in remains Huddersfield's Cup rout of West. greatest woman amateur golfer were her brother Roger, Cyril Tolley (twice), J. S. F. Morri- son (this must have been before 1 started playing with him in the Halford Hewitt), the Hon. Michael Scolt, ft. Oppenheimer, B. Darwin and the Hon. T Coke.
Ham,
Massie was Huddersfield's leading goal-scorer last cemon, and now he is quietly carving tls way to a new club record. Another Ave gools will mako him Huddersfield's top-scoring post-war inside forward. Harold
assall hit 18. in 1950-31.
THREESOME
Macsic doesn't mind tho He is Olymple Glamour given to Law,
Tals witch-hunt agairai semi- professionalism is being carried
a firm friend of his 19-year-old colleague. In fact, it is a three- some. For also from Aberdeen like Law and Massie is young
to s extremes that they're wing half Gordon Low. now making it a crime to b fazer-sharp keen.
now
manager
of all time.
Did everything well
She has been put forward
British an "Sponsor" of the Curlew by her bachelor brother-in-law the Chancellor the Exchequer, од the ground that she "did overy- thing well."
of
Whether this should apply to the christening of a ship was still in doubt, as it transpired that she had endeavoured to during christen a minesweeper
the war and had twice failed break the bottle, the ship-
of had
the
She made one observation which, to the connoisseur, would automatically stamp her as a great player. Mentioning that at her best she never hit the ball
as far as Jean Donald in recent · years, she added, "But then I She recalled thai, on winning was never the longest in my day an carly round at the 23rd | and, of course, that was a Bernard Darwin had flung away } great advantage. I was always his putter and throughout the playing the second shot first," rest of the tournament putted
Nowadays it is a case of gardening before golf, though. with a mashle,
I remember this well-and occasionally the two are com- his report next morning of her bined on the putting green “dragging her partner through | designed for her and her hus
Tom Simpson by the scruff of his venerable band by neck."
wedding present. They spend world most of their time preparing gand their garden for Inspection by the public and um assured, though not by her, that in this activity, too, she is rapidly op proaching scratch,
Golfers all Over the
· Joined Hudderslekt builder having to do this him will wish to send their Massic
wiches to Mr Darwin who is in This Rip Van Winkle chara
August self at the last moment as Art. He arrived in
a Hove nursing home following ter is one Edgar Tanner, secre-
And ideals spurt, Mr Tanner's, 1953, and was followed four vessel began to slide down the
an operation. I had the pleasur tary of the Australian Osmple Federation. He reckons that attitude is quite unrealistic in a years later by Law and Low, slip.
It was suggested that as she of seeing him yesterday and can Australian swimmers and water sport which is dominated by They were all signed by Andy
report him to be in excellent heart. polo players are not adhering to youngsters. Most of the leading Beattie, the request or the International Olympic hopes are water-bakdes Carlisle United. Olymple Committee in prepare who can have Intensive training No Person without an admission badge, which must betons for the Rome Olympia on their own during months. prominently displayed throughout the meeting, will be admitted. Admission Badges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable during office hours from the Club'a Cash Sweep Offices, at Queen's Building, Chater Road, 5, D'Agullar Street, King's Road, North Point, and 382, Nathan Road, only on the willten introduction of a Member.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
ADMISSION BADGES WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE AT THE RACE COURSE ON RACE DAYS,
Tiffins will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811).
NO CHILDREN under, the age of eventeen years, Western Standard will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeling
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable of the Gate
Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requlate fee of $3,00 in order to gain re-admission.
MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will be available in RESTAURANT.
~ CASH SWEEPS
the
Theagh Cash Sweep Tickets at $18.00 each for the 1st Day and $14.00 each for the 2nd Day and $30.00 each for both days may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices at Queen's Building. (Chater Noad); 5, D'Agullar Street and 382, Nathan Road, Kow- loun, during Office hours,
pičkata reserved and available but not paid for by 10.00 a.m. on Friday, 16th January, 1800, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Meetings.
Special Cash Sweep Tickets at $3.00 each on the Pearce Menorial Cup scheduled to be run on 13th February, 1900 may bb obtained from the Club's Cash Sweep Offices.
The affice hours of the Club's Cash Sweep Offices are as Follows
Quech's Building, (Chater Road) and 5, D'Aguilar Street, Hong Kong one
* Week-duyu, Mondays to Fridays ...........
Saturday, 9th Janušcy .........
Saturday, 10th and
Saturday, 23rd January
9 am to 5 pm.
am. to 13.30 am.
9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
King's Road, North Point,, Hong Kong and 302, Nathan Road,
Kowloon
Wock-day, Mondays to Fridays .....
Saturday, ous January
Saturday, 10th Ok
Saturday, 23rd Jamiary
Hong Kong, 9th January, 1900,
10 bh. to 4 p.m.
:
a.m. to 1146 am.
9am. to 11 am.
:
By Order of the Btowards,""
A E ARNOLD, Дестергу
nexi August.
long school holidays.
Old ideals dead
Personally, I would prefer to ace semi-professionalism accept- ed in the Olymples rather than driven underground as at pre- cont.
"not yet completed a round" she could not yet be said to possess a handicap. Last When the Law signing was week, however, a flawless per- to be going
Huddersfield formance showed hor through. Said Tunner: "The 10C has
thought he might be lonely on clearly u seruteh player. Exactly his own, So they signed Low, 0s the beribboned bottle (con- stated that teams which attend
Massic Joined Huddersfield tents unknown) broke against camps of more than two weeks
as an outside-jeft. Manager Elil the bow, the great ship that had for specialised training are not in accord with the ideals of the
Shankly saw possibilities in bron towering above us began him, tried him at centre-forward to move and a few seconds later Olymple Games."
Australia's swimming team
and then inside-left. And that amid much cheering and hoot- not a fow emotional plans to train for at least six
is where te has made his mark. Ing and
tearn, was floating sedately In weeks before the Games, and The old Ideals are as dendi as
"He's a great player. I always the Clyde. the
polo team will the dodo, for it is imposible to probably have about five control some country's training knew he would get among the
schemes. What's wanted is goals," says Shankly. weeks collective traluing..
sporting world of equal oppor Maybe Massic will grab some tunity in which no countries of that Law glitter before he have a head start before the is much older....and win a ometal fires his gun-London | Scottish cap.
-(London Express Service), Express Service.
Water
Points out、
Mr Tanner points out that if any nation protested about these camps it would create an im barrassing situation. He added: "At the 1956 Came in Mel- bourne, Mr Avery Brundage (president of the IOC) drew my |attention to the prolonged train- swim- ing camps of Australian mers and horsemen.
"It is no good saying that some other mations also hold training
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB Programmes and Entry Forms for the 8th Race Meeting 1069/00 to be held on Saturday 6th and Saturday | 18th February, 1900, (weather permitting) may be obtained at the Secretary's Office, Alexandra Houso; the Club House, Happy Valley; and the Stables, Bhan Kwong Road.
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on Tuesday, 26th Jabruary, 1000.
By Order of the Sigwards,
A. E. ARNOLD,
Secretary,
Besides Jaunching a ship, Lady Heathooal Amory may have put a new word into the language of golf.
At the celebratory luncheon it, was observed that, while
GLAD YOU CAME, ZECCHI, BALLYGDULT IS SVARMITE
WITH SILVER'S ADS.
LOR THE „PORTUINÉ ZAS
·LIVELLING WITH YOU, HOYTS, MY BOYE WALL,
¿ TO WH.
I DON'T WANT TO ELVAINATI YOU, BUT YOU GOT TO WIN
OUR DET AND BAY ME DEF
CAME UP
SIGMA THERE'S
TWO DAAL FORTUNES AUTH ON M SIDE. VEDOT "YOU A MAR
ĮŠAMUSE WHAT
'That firewood'
I
King of the marchers?
ds, a
How much and how well, does Lady Heathcoat Amory play
time when record- now? The answer to the first is very little-a few rounds a year brakding "marching" is a craze at Tiverton in Devonshire, a
ji is well to remember the feats of Bert Couzens 13 years ago. week's golf in September ot North Berwick, followed by a
In 1940 Couzens walked 8,000 week's walking in the Highlande and same more golf at Blair miles in 48 days, and there was gowrie, rather stiff in the joints a total of only 20 hours t Couzens from the walking. Many good during that period. shots, especially drives-always lost 31 pounds in weight and the easiest part of the game wore out six pairs of shoca He (would that be the general view, smoked 40 cigarettes a day and wonder?)-many good holes, completed his Anni milo of the but few good rounds and pleased | marathon effort in 12 minutes, enough with the occasiorial 70.-Banews Service,
I
WE FOUND HIM JUST MYDE THE
YARD, SOMEONE TARDY
HUP?
DHAY-THAT'S IT! I WANT THOSE STABLES GUARDED
LIKE FORT KNOX.
SHOULD
HAIG'S
SCOTCH WHISKY
GANDI