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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 14; 1960.
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REAL RELEGATION STUFF
Three second-half goals give Tigers two vital points in their fight against demotion
By 1. M. MacTAVISH
In a game that soldom ever reached anything remotely approaching first division standard at the Hongkong Foot- ball Club yesterday afternoon Sing Tao greatly enhanced their prospects of staying in the first division when they defeated Kwong Wah by three goals to one.
The Tigers deserved to win if only because they kept trying but it is sad to have to report that the unskilful efforts of both sides-and some strange decisions-brought more laughter than cheers or jeers- from the crowd.
queer
The general quality of play they presetuated the fleeting Again the Tigers took up the
Poss episodes with patches of com- attack. They did many was very poor indeed.
soccer folly when dy and foolish things but among after pass was sent right to the pieter foot of an opponent and the virtually threatened to hand them all they still managed to shooting on both sides was wild the precious points to their get in a number of shots al and purely speculative.
opponents. Fortunately for Yung Pul-dor's charge. Tsang their future Kweng Wah were Keng-kong had three good tries too weak to turn their chances and right-winger Lau Woon- Into goals.
ching hast one fine lob from the i touchline which almost allpped in under the bar.....and in keeping with the unpredictable things they came pattern of closer to losing a goal rather than scoring one.
Watching Kwong Wah in action one could only wonder how they managed to collect enough points to reach their present relatively comfortable position in the League iable. They were straggled, strug- gling lot without semblance of a plan except to bang the ball up the field and hope that something would develop,
Fading
I was surprising too, to sce how much experienced players like Poon Kal-hung and Lau
palmy days with KMB.
It was hard to believe that the men who wore the familiar yellow and black hoops of Sing Tao yesterday were the self who played so same players briliantly against Easier only u few weeks ago.
However,
They
After a scrimmige
toy
Sensational victory by Ann Haydon over Maria Bueno
of Australia won | the mon's singles champion- ship by defeating Schmidt of Sweden, 0-2, 0-1. Ming Bueno, who WON the Wimbledon Tennis Champlon-
SCAA TAKE WEEKEND'S LETTERS TO SOFTBALL HONOURS WITH THE EDITOR
WIN OVER CHEYENNES
By OLLY VAS
The strong wind that blew at King's Park yester- day was hardly conducive to good softball but despite outfielders being caught on the wrong foot more than once as the ball went one way and they another, it turned out to be quite an eventful weekend.
To start it all, the Indians bowed to the Cardinals
Soccer commentators
Sir,-How much longer hayo we to listen to these jungle,
ingling, football commentators over the Radio and Rediffusion and their maninosi ravings while describing a football game over the wire?
foreigners and there is very little 1 have listened to Chinese and
difference between them, if any, as they get warmed up when
the ball apparently gets near one
oro suns all in their glory and
7-12 but not before they had sent the wrong of the goal-posts, and then they batters up to the plate twice, in the sixth and how? Raving, munting, honing seventh innings of the game.
Thien in andiber Juniorj
mnich the Stardusts the Cheyennes by 17-2,
League
upset
Didn't show up
beat the Cheyennes 1-0 in the other Senior game scheduled. This puts
a different COM-
for a
Alons.
by their breathing, and can dardly get the words from their cavernous orifices.
It has been 11 marvot to me
comitentator had
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Mar. 13, Ann Haydon of England today scored a sensational 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, upset over world tennis champion Maria Bueno of Brazil to win the women's Mahadev Dayaram tossing a plexion on things, for if the why they have not dropped from singles crown at the Eighth Carib Hilton gathe with the Cheyennes Cheyennes drop their last match exhaustion or some lines like unable to register a single hit against the Saints then the poploxy. Half of the time one Invitational Tournament, here in Puerto Rico. er run in the last three innings. Braves might well earti a chance sainet make hout or tall of
Good show, Mahndey,
championship play-off. the gibberish which comes from Substitute Cheyenne pltcher So far the Cheyennes have lost them, Emerson
Silva issued 13 walks to the one out of fine games and the A few years back I listened in Stardusts,
Braves have dropped two deci- to a local football game in which
The edds are against abstitute Robert Remedios' boys losing to to be found as the usual person the Saints but it could happen, hed been indisposed, and whint a nico, crystal olcur voice this gent provided. His was well modulated and every move on In the first inning SCAA the Beld of play could be dis- plicher Goose Wong struck out
cerned. No 'ollering, or raucous the second and
day third batters, howling itke our present then wont on to toss three Petticoat Lane Dorrer Bhoy's strikes against the next three My Chinese friend remarked Cheyennes in a row in the top to me
thics of the second inning to set a
only last week, tellows act as if they were going protes Ling their innocence. So please try At this stage both Cheyenne and give us & more clear idea of The honours this week pitcher Malle and SCAA ace what's going on, on the field of must, however, go to the lowly Wong, despite being trembled by play, instead of that which we South China AA learn which the wind, were engaged in a have had to listen to in the past,
Light pltching duel. Nelson without any Fuss, Muss Thayer tripled for SCAA and Music. same home on a wild pitch.
B & S WIN INTER-HONG
1n
CRICKET
cricket 3121 Inter-Hong
Hoad match played at Chater yesterday, Butterfield & Swire Talkoo beat Ewo by 182 runs. One long yawn
Highlight of the game was a their had
near the fine century by E. B. Galloway moments and particularly when sing Tao six yards line the whose 130 enabled Butterfield & Lee Tak-tung was dictating the
ball was swept back Lau Swire Taikoo to declare their pattern of play they appeared
Shu-wah. The inside-left hit innings at 250 for nine wickets. competent though. They
Scores were: it Arst time. Yu Yiu-tak dived,
Butterfield & Swire Talkoo blocked
ball,
J. C. Fenton, Bosanquei lost it, and in a mad scurry of
Barclay..... defenders got a second chance and scrambled the ball to safety,
Shu-wah have faded since their | dalged in bouts of inter-passing amially
white looked good up to the thre
final vital pass of the when the ball was either trans- ferred weakly to an opponent or driver carelessly out of play.
Kwong Wal can be well satisfied that they already have zome polnis to
thelt credit for on this form ther look like getting very few from their remaining games .. In fact, but for a work. manlike display by Yung Pul flor in goal, they would have gone off the field at the end of this game with very red
faces.
The game also went a long towards explaining why way Sing Tao are in their present precarious position among the clubs at the foot the League There were spasme yesterday when the young Tigers did sone very clever things but
Bombay wins India cricket championship
It
Lack a leader From Sing Tho's point of view
the
J. C. Corkhill, e McLeod b
Barclay
The Interval scoreboard read. B. Galloway, b Alonco Kwong
Wah 1, Sing C.. E. Eather, e Pain Tao
0.
ship last year and added a string of National Champion ships to her unofficial world title, broke under Miss Hardon's consistent Aggres elve game. After the second The Cardinals won the second set the Brazilian fought a
game of their double-header hopeless defensive battle and over the weekend when they triumphed over New Asia 6-7 in looked exhausted. Sclanket offered only erralk the Sunday afternoon match.
play in the singles match In the Senior division the which was reduced to
two Pandas failed to show up and sets because Emerson earlier had to forfeit the match to the took part in the mixed U.S. Navy, represented by a new doubles semi-finals and later ship, the USS "Houper" From what I saw of the sailors' pre- tonight paired with Nesle
game practice they are a team Fraser to play the doublies finel
In that match the two Austrn-
Bons defeated Spaniards Luis Arlile and Andres Gimeno 8-6, 7-5,-UPI.
Record
to be reckoned with, although record for five straight strike- to the gallows and
outs,
It is a little late in the season
now.
Soccer revolution
is in the air
in
Britain
London, Mar. 13.
11 Soccer revolution is in the air in Britain.
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136
b
Labrum
B
M. Jones,
Melood b
L. Chadwick-Kew.
Б
the
R. D. A. Woodward, ibw
Newbigging
R. R. Hargreaves, b New-
bigging
0
mlaule when the Tigers Fot the equaliser,
Lec Tuk-tung
did
Edwards
I was very much a case of The second half was one long Edwards hall's well that ends well. They sawn until the 19th got the two points which will probably make certain they will be playing senior football again next season, but from some leading-up work ond lunity where they must And a com- Fung Kee-leung placed the ball randing experienced skipper into the net close to the post, who, when the altuation de The Sing Teo faithful sighed J, Johnstone, e Landale b mands, will grab this talented their reller,
Alonco...... and promising but fickle foot- Kwong. Wah wilted and ImJ. Robson, 201 out balling aide by the scruff of the mediately lost another pal neck and shake it into chapo.
At the moment task of A loader is the big deficiency in the side. Collectively they have wealth of football potential, individually they
have a fair ration of skill
but somehow there Eti
a missing factor and I think the problem could
be with scheming brain and crafty boots, Veteran
Yiu-tak Was
sticks
solved by 2 man
Yu
The Tigers, now with their fails up, forced a corner on the left-wing. Tsang Keng-
N. 1. Mettan, not out
Extras
1
Total (for D wickets deci) 250
Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-106,
In the top of the third inning the Cheyennes pulled off a triple play to kill a scoring threat by the Caroliners, Not be out- donc, SCAA retaliated with a double play against the opposi- tion in the bottom half of this same inning and clung on to their silm 1-0 lead through Thayer's scoring in the preceding innling.
Sparkling
ELYSIUM.
Two Egyptian tennis titles for Pietrangeli
ΟΣ
Cairo, Mar. 13. From then
the onwards
Nicola Pietrangeli of Italy to- | Billy Wright, veteran of 105 international matches
scorer had the easiest of tasks
night won the men's singles AS
both sides and former captain of England's national
put up a
crown at the Egyptian Tennis sparking exhibliion of soft-
Championship for the third team, is the latest to call for reforms in a na-
ball with batters galóg down
consecutive Fear by defeating tion wide campaign for better ́soccer.
swinging in succession.
his countryman Gluseppe There were no further runs
Merlo 5-7, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 in the Wright wants to see three scored and SCAA emerged win-
final. controversial changes:
ners with all credit going to
Pietrangel and.. Merlo, then "Goose" Wong who limited the teamed up to beat New Zen- Cheyennes to three measly hits. landers Lew Gerrard and Mark He struck out nine batters and Otway 6-3, 6-7, 6-2, 7-9, 6-1 In walked none while his counter the men's doubles final. The part mulig also had a good game match had been interrupted by in the mound, giving up only darkness last night. four hils, striking out six and
A couple from East Germany walking three batters.
-H. Stablbert and Eva It's been a long time since we Johannes - won
the mixed have had such an exciting pitch-doubles crown by defeating Aus- ng show in the Senior or any traliens John Hillerbrand and other league. Let's hope we'll Margaret Helleyer 0-4, D-11, 6-2.
-UPI,
BRITAIN WINS PRE-OLYMPIC
A Premier League with 10 to 18 teams the cream of the country's players. SOCCER MATCH Arab in the maximum
wage to attract the right type of youngsters,
A charge in the season, * in a pre-Olympic soccer W
He wants to last from match here today and en. August to May with
kong sent over a right-footed Inswinger and Fung Kee-leung 3-187, 4-100, 5-181, B-224, made good use of his height | 7-224, 8-245, 9-215.
Lo bead the ball just under
the cross bár and thto tie fiet.
Bad errors
Bowling AnaÖY BÖB
OMR
IC.
A
A good opportunist goal ..... but oh, the defensive cover- Ing!!
C. Barclay... 10 1 40
0
K. G. Labrum
B
1 31
1
D. Edwards ..
13
59 2
A. Alonco....
3
0.10
2
L. K. New-
bigging
8
0 37
2
EWO
McLeod
Dublin, Mar. 13. Britain defeated Ireland 3-1
D 1970-
hanced its prospects of month break in the muddy, see more next year.
qualifying for the Inst 16 miserable months of December in the Rome Games this and January. summer.
Wright is the latest to call Ireland, beaten 3-2 by Britain for re-thinking following Wanderers'
last November in the first leg Wolverhampton 0 51,
Flombny, Mur. 13. Bombay today won the Ranji Trophy indian Cricket Cham- planship, defeating Mysore by.
It seemed the Sing Tho Cilen- an innings and 2 runs here.
for ders were dotermini t. give | D. D. B, back between the was the eleventh time Sing Tao. He did not look to be away what their forwards had Bombay have won the trophy fully fit. It look him a long just won and within minutes both since its inception in 1934.
C. C. L. Blott, lbw Robson he full-backs had made bad etreY time to and his feet and Scores were:
which nearly led to goals, A. A. Aloneo, e Woodward Bombay 594 (M. S. Hardikar gave hir colleagues one or two
was b Robson 145, G. S. Ramchand 188, P. R. early frights by failing to clear Fortunately Yu Yo-tak Umrigar 68; D. Gupta 4 for 77. the ball with his usual conf- now showing something like his D. D. B. McLeod, e Heffen
b Jones still be true form with a couple of good Mysore-221. K. Viswanath dece....and he mur
saves and when play swept to D. K. Newbigging. b Jones 51, S. Krishnamurthi 48. G. wondering about the freak goal
end Chow KLC. Barclay, Chadwicic- Guard 5 for 66) and 201 (V. he lost in the third minute of the
his appreciation Kew Jones Subramaniam 103: Guard for the game. 09).-Reuter,
From the kick-off, Sing Tao by taking a pass from the right, D. Edwards, b Jones" took command and within three calmly dribbling round the goal. D. 1. Bosanquet, b Robson
keeper and banging the ball R. Labrum, b Eather minutes Fung Kee-leung. Tsank into the not. The the wis J. Pain, e Galloway b Jones Keng-kong, and Cheung Chi- man all had good tries at the over as a berious contest i at only D.. W. N. Landale, e John-
a good save by Yung Fui-dor stone b, Robson
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Kwong Wah goal... but as so eften happens the opening goal preverted Fung Kee-loung from J, W. Baird, not out
enatching his hat-trick, came at the other end.
Made no effort to
VERDICT: Sing Tao deserved win. The game produced
The forward
of the
Kivong Wah centre- precious little classy soccer and
Extras
Total
of the contest, needed to win to humbling defeat by Barcelona stay in the race for Rome,
But superior stamina
and
in the European Cup. Barcelona Awon an aggregate of 9-3 after 1 tougher defence by the British home and away matches.
wore the Irish down and they
1
2
faded in the closing 15 minutes.
Coates, Brown
and Lewis
scored for Britain and McGrath
got Ireland's only goal.
17 Britain still has to meet the
23 Netherlands twice in its quality-
AN OF¤ con18
7}ing group.—AP.,
5
1-10, 2-11,
Fall of wickets: In fact we saw more raced on to a long rockbottom variety than any-2-11. 4-11, 5-20, 6-33, 7-01, through phes, outran the
Ching else.. at a football match B-04, 9-08. defence Tigers spread-engled and hit the ball low towards Yu It is always a clear indication of Yiu-tak's right hand post. The sub-standard play when there is
in. laughter
the goalkeeper, apparently under persistent
J. Robson .... the Impression that the ball stands
go outside, made no kind of laughter we heard yes B., Galloway would
to save and to the as- terday. effort tonlshirient of the whole de-
Bowling Analyse
M Jones .....
15.2 4 37 5
⚫ particularly
the
14 8 11
4
1 7
0
R.
Woodward
2 0 6
0
¡J. Cockhill
1 0
2
✡
C. Eather
1
Brian Statham is still undecided
Georgetown, Mar. 12. Brian Statham, the Eng.
More Finesse
Barcelona
showed
more
football Onesse than is nor. |
mally seen in, s whole season
Olympic year swim row breaks 'AMATEURISM FINISHED'
By PAT BESFORD
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London.
by English teams. It was just Another row on amateur laws-in Olympic, year
another example that English soccer is falling behind the limes.
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Then the national team failed In the 1954 and 1958 World Cup. More defeats came England'a tour of South and Central America lust ammer,
money,
--blew up last week.
NZ's team for the fourth unoffical Test
Wellington, Ilfár, 13.
the Tony MacGibbon,
New Zealand all-rounder whờ last played in a. Teat two years tao thanh Earland, mấy Fa- turn to the New Zealand ide for the fourth unofficlaj Text against the todring Aus- tralian XI, starting at Auck- Laid on Friday.
The Amateur Swimming As-1 Way
back in 1053. Hungary sociation council, meeting at slammed England 0-3 at Wem-Scarborough, heard Mr Norman bley Stadium-England's first Sarsfield, if Durham, sdy: defeat at home by a foreign *The time is fast p team.
proaching when England might have to ponalder with- wo-anlied drawing............ from International amateur sport, "East
Germany's top divers are students, nta Leipzig physical education college. land fast bowler. agala But it took Wolves' defeat to They do nothing but dive and month pocket spoke to his wife in Man-ram the point home to British get £13 13s a chester by telephone lovers of soccer.
"Universities of the United about his son's health be
Now the need for a reorgani-States give sports scholarships, fore
org play resumed in the sation of the League pro- | and Australia's swimmers got 5s a day pocket money during Yu Yh-tak, Lee Hat-trick
Ing methods, training, wages training Are these people true. As though to underline the Lui-kong, Lak Ping-yłu, Cheung
amateurs?" tiäiculous side of the picture | Mun-chl, Fung Kee-wan,
Statham heard that the pool and strategy has developed into
Mr Ernest Scott, secretary-of incentive
Mon 1
the international Water Polol be pelected.; Sing Teo talk took charge Cheung Chi-man, Laut Woon-
unchanged and that national" inquest, ... and hearty lust another ching, Chow
Kcc- Kit, Fung
A Larne
Terence, (Northern Ireland) even-year-old
An editorial in the Football Bourd, said: "We have been un- The New Zeelandi guat
leung. Tuang Keng-kong, Lee businessman has promised a elder son, who Is in hospital Association News hid in itsbelievable amateurs in our time, They hammered away at the | Tak-tung.
new hat to every player of after a tonsils operation, which recent leste, "Many perceptive but we can't be sticklers much shown three changes from that Kwong Wah ghal with more Kwong Wah! Yung Pul-dor, Larne and Newington Rangers was followed by chicken-pox thinkers who are tricride of longer. Real amateurism has which lost the third unofficial hope than
Test by eight wickets, method and when Ngai Satsing, Cheung Wing, who, obtains a hat-trick before has not improved.
football ballova that the time gone. It's over." Lee Kent-wal, the end of this reason.
has now come when the entire Chung Fof-
MacGibbon, B. A. Bolton and they slepped back to take u
The spur must have worköd,
ructure of football thin Unity plan J. T. Ward replace G. T. Dowi- breather Kwong, Wah motle an Poon Kai-hung, Hung Fat-hel, other swift attack and just miss Loung Yuk-choy, Lo Sui-lum, for in the first month on "hat
country mould be completely Mr Sarsfield's proposal that Petrie and K... Hough
Dog who is injured, E. C. zd by inches in chalkirie, up A
broken dowry, and rebuilt alongFINA should be asked to Lau Shiu-wah, Cheung Shi- | tricks”
registered. were Banews Service..
pounder ductural Ines."-AP.vestigate amateur laws was lost from: J. R. Teld (Captain), B. second, hit-and-run dodli
chu.
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fourth Test match here today.
gramme, transfer system, conch-
his
Statham will continue in the current match; which ends Tuesday, but whether he will then dy home, is still undecided.
China Mell Special;
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in-
He is among the 12 named the team today from whom
World swim record.
team
The council unanimously Sutcliffe, B. A. Bolton, BW. agreed to attempt to unite Eng-Sinclair, 8. N. McGregor, J. T. land with Scotland and Wales in Sparting, J. W. Guy, A. Mac- one British swimming asdein-Gibbon, G. A. Bartlett, R. C. tion. Early takes are planned. Moiz, J. C. Alabaster, J. T.
Graham Sykes. Britain's topol Ward-Peuter. captain, proposing the toast of the Amateur Swimming Asso- elation at the banquet following the 'council meeting, sald;
"It's imo that all sporting bodies hodľa sarco that sportsmen скл troni-dietr spórt has full-lime sodupa- kón. Wa mart follow Ilie reat Germany set a new world record of the world It ́ we kroto | for the women's best-strofoo artanoceed, vendar ne event inst night in the 30 metro "I should like to be able to pool at the Hallenbad lege, kruin harder and longer, but I'va | covering the 100 metres in one got to earn, my living.
'minute 19.1 seconds.
Zurich, Mar. 13. Wiltrud Urselmann, 10.
of
"I get up at 5.80, s.m.; and amn). The old maricof, 1 mib. 10.0 In the balik.. by 040 before nece was held by Bust Germany's hetlig otto Work."
· Karin Beyer-UPI.