ON THE BALL
with Bill Slater
THE CHINA MAIL,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1961.
CLAMP DOWN ON TIME-WASTING - AS
PART OF SOCCER
CLEAN-UP
Congratulations to the Professional Footballers' Association on their new
""Clean Up Soccer” campaign.
At hest a well-organised effort, offences and to exploit the laws, sporting and
Is to be made to rare the stan- dard of conduct In football - and what could be more appro- priate than that the Orst move should cunt from the players themselves?
Here is further evidence that the Mayers' Union is highly responsible body with the good
of the game very much at heart, The campaign will be all the more effective because A contes from the union, and by launch- Ing the representative asso- clation has added to its stchure,
Pressure on players
Irt
bo
nity the ulos buok weld to become a kind of legal encyc lopaedia as has happened in reme other games.
ray this not just because if matcus the game unnecessarily complicated, but also because it ecerna that the more rules * Aame has, the more do players naturnity look for loopholes in them. In the end, the réferee's tusk Ixcomes
complex than ever.
moru
well-disciplined an emergency. Winning side. Excellent. A club should winning really proud of means so much to them that they are prepared on cecasions such a trophy.
But this alone will not bring to step a short way across the
results. Much more may he line separating talr and unfair.
achieved by the meetings be-
In general, I like the rules as they stand, especially the tween players, managers and
safety clause regarding "un- referees which are proposed
Players and gentlemanly conduct" which by the P.F.A.
offences to referees, especially.
leaves undefined might
the discretion of the referee, their benefit by talking over
This covers a mulitude of respective problems.
sins and makes the need for extra rules, unutcessary.
One can understand, though no condone, the actions of a de- lender who, outside the penalty area, cbstructs an attacker who would otherwise seem certain to score. I can recall
occasion
In an international game when I was guilly myself of such an
offence in a desperate moment. Keep soccer simple
s
But even this kind of minor infringement must be deall with firmly and promptly by the referee. The trouble that minor fouls can build up Into a major incident as
op- ponents retallate and fil-feet- ing increasen.
Is there much diriy play In British socerr? I am certain that many people have an exaggerated idea of the amount of bad sportsmanship What's the answer?
that occurs on the soccer field. It takes only one ugly In- cident in one Saturday match to produce extra large head- laes and the kind of sensa- Honal story
which gives readers the impression that every game is just as bad. Veterans who played meny years atto always tell me that the game was considerably dirtler and rouzher in their day. Certainly the number of present- day players who would deliber ser ately foul in a dangerous man ner is very, very small indeed, At the same time, the com pelilive
pressure in League sancer is so great that there is a natural tendency on the part of some players to commit miner
Most disturbing is the fact that youngsters look to the top level for example. Ideas of fair play which may have been Impressed on them over a long period of time at school can be wiped out in just a few seconds at a Saturday afternoon League match in which players resort to doubtful tactics.
I believe that this "clearer soccer" campaign is well worth while. Everyone can2 play it | part-players, managers and referee. But _In the Anal analysis, the responsibility for improving condric! musi, #1 enurse, Ite with the players.
What can be done? One idea is that trophy should be
awarded annually to the most
Four D. Jones OUR HEROES HAVE BY MADDOCKS
ARRIVED AT THE TREE- HOUSE OF STRIPED JACK, COUSIN OF JIM- SON OF STRIPED FRED
CUT THAT ROW, MAN, LIKE I MEAN BACK OFF OF
ME WITH THAT BONGO RIG.
BELT UP!
FERDINAND
NANCY
I HAVE TO
GUARD OUR
CAMP TONIGHT
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Referees have a very difficult job, and by and large they do it remarkably well. Indeed, believe the general stendard of our refereeing Is as high that world,
of any country In
AS A
is
their team
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the
Sill they do suffer criticisin It unjustified. }} seems to me, for example, very significant that ene only hear's players and spectators describ-
a referee
home g when
pinying away.
Would the referees be able to combat unfair play more effectively it the rules
Personally, lightened up? om opposed to the idea tampering with the rules Loccer, except for the Introduc- ton of a clause outlawing the charging of goalkeepers in their
aren.
were
of
|
But perhaps this clause could De more fruity applied at Unes. It would not harm the game, for example. It greater restriction were placed on the unsporting but not uncommon preclice of time-wisting,
Form of cheating
One cannot
after a of play when
of 3 Bey
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Stage set for Peking World Table Tennis Championships
ENTRIES, SEEDINGS ANNOUNCED
Peking, Feb. 27. Thirty-two National Table Tennis Associations will enter a total of 260 players for the Twenty-sixth World Table Tennis Champion- ships according to the Organisation Com- mittee in Peking today, Peking Radio re- ported.
Teams from 20 countries wil, (Hungary), 4—Mrs Tomi Okada take part in the Swaythiing Cup (tounerly Miss Tomi Okawa of fen's team) event, while 22 Japan), 5 Chiu Chung-hul teams have entered for the (China), -Sun Mei-ying Marcel Corbillon Cup (women's (Cluna), 7-Diane Rowe (Eng- team) event.
8-Sarolla Joud),
Mathe One handred Raid nifty Lukuese (Hungary), 9-Imrone eight players from 30 nations Kercices (Hungary), 16-Musako will be contending for the Scld (Japan), 11-Hu Ke-ming men's singles title while 90 (China), 12—Maria Alexandru women from 22 Associations (Rumania ), 13. Vandulka will fight it out for the Svartsova (Czech), 14-Jutta women's singles crown,
Kruse (West Germany), 15 Seventy-two pairs have en-Sigrun Kunz (East Germony), fered for the men's doubles, 42 18-Niele Ramanauskaite (Soviet for the women's doubles and 68 Union). for the mixed doubles.
MEN'S DOUBLES 1-Ogimura
The United States, a member ' of the ITTF, is not entering the
Murakami tournament since the State De- |(Japan), 2-Jaroslav Stanek and pariment has refused American!Viliam Pelakovle (Czech), team permission to travel to Chuang Tse-lung und Li Fu- Peking
jung (China), 4-Berezik and The now indoor stadium: Sido (Hungary), 5-Hoshino t specially designed and built for Koji Kimum (Japan), 6-Alser the Championships has just and Larsson (Sweden), 7-Wing. been completed."
|Chuang-yao and Hsu Yin-sitng
(China), &-Negulescu
Seedings
Following were the seedings for the individual events:
Adalbert Re (Romsain).
WOMEN'S DOVELES 1-Matsuzaki and
and
Geta Pitica (Rumania), 0—Rowe and Jean
Itoh (Japan), 2-Okada and Sekti MEN'S SINGLES
(Japan), 3-Kocian and Mathe I-Yung Kuo-luan (China),
Berczik (Hungary) and Sun Mel-ying (China), 5-
(Hungary), 4-Hiu 3-Zulten
Chung-hui expect a protes- sixtal player to chase eagerly Nobuys Hosing (Japan) Alexandru and
5 team is Jending by an odd goal Teruo Murakami (Japan), Harrower (England), 7-Hu Ke Forene Sido (Hungary). 7-
uning and Wang Chien (China), in the closing stages match. But Brin action should
Hung Tse-tung (Chino), 8-Kunz-Christa Bannach (Enst Vojislav Murkovic (Yugoslavia), Germany). be taken by referees
against Wang Chuan-yan players who follow a calculated
(China), time-wasting polles kicking-Canny
10--Tony Larsson (Sweden), 11
MIXED DOUBLES Freundorfer (West the ball away when a throw-in
J-Ogimura Germany), 12~~~Hsu Yin-sheng
Matsuzaki and or Iree-kick is due to be taken, (China).
Alser (Japan), 2-Murakami and Itoh 13-Hans or trying to steal extra yards on1
Chuan-yao a throw-in, enly to be moved (Rumania), 15-Laszlo
(Sweden). 14-Radu Negulescu (Japan). Weng back by the referee.
Fold and Sun Mel-ying (China), 4-- (Hungary), Melis Sido and Koczian (Hungary), 16-Bjorne
6 Gheorghe Cabirzan and Alex- trom (Sweden).
andru (Rumania), 6-Hoshino and Seki (Japan), Tse-tung and Chu Chunz hai (China), &-Berczik and Kerckca (Hungary)
Same people may politely das cribe such blatant time-wasting as gamesinunship. In fact, it is The great attraction of soccer resuly a form of cheating. Per- is Its basic simplicity, enabling haps it needs a referee to set a youngsters to grasp the essen-precedent by sending of a per- tials of the game at a very sistert offender after a. proper early age. It would be a great caution has been given
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BRICK BRADFORD
WE MAY BI ABLE TO FIND SHADY THIS WAY... BUT WE WON'T BE MUCH
HELPI
HOW WILL Wa EVER BE ABLE TO STAND UP AGAINST THESE INVISIBLI PEOPLE?
THERE?
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By Ernie Bushmiller
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HELP!
PASS, FRIEND
By Paul Norris
WWWB-BEING HELD) AKE THESE WOMEN GUARDING YOUR
WOMEN'S SINGLES
1-Kimiyo Matsuzaki (Japan) 2-Mrs Kazuko Itoh (formerly Miss Kazua Yamaizumi ot Japun), 3-Eva Koczian Foldi
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Swaythling Cup
The 28 teams taking part in The Swaything Cup (men's team) event are
Bulgaria, Australia, Brazil, Burma, China, Cuba, Czechos- lövakia, Denmark, England, East Germany, West Germany, Ghuga, Hungary, India, Japan. North Korea, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal Rumania, Singapore, Sweden, Soviet Union, Nort Vietnam and Yugoslavia.
Corbillon Cup
The 22 teams taking part in the Corbillon Cup (women's team) event are:
Austraila, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakio, England, France, East Germany, Wesl Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Japan, North Korea, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Sweden, Soviet Union North Vietnam-AFP.
UK soccer results
and
London, Feb. 27. Results of tonight's British football matches were follows:
as
2
ENGLISH LEAQUE Diviniosi ILI Tranmere 3 Bristol City
(Postponed from January 7) SCOTTISH LEAGUE Division I
Clyde Airdrieonians 3 (Both matches postponed fron February 23),
Celtic Hibernian
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