THE ROYAL HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
12TH RACE MEETING
Saturday 15th and Saturday 22nd Apell, 1961 (To be held under the Rules of The Rayai Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 17 RACES (There will be races on the 1st Day and O`races on the 2nd Day) On the 1st Day the first maddling bell will be rung al 2.80 p.m. and the first race run at 3.30pm.
On the 2nd Day the first saddling bell will be rang at 1.30 pm. and the first race tim në 2.00 p.m.
The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will closy at 11:45 on, on both days.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
No person without an Admission Dodge will be numitted. Admission Badges must be prominently displayed throughout the meeting.
Admission Badges at $25.00 each per day are obtainable only on the written introduction of a Member. Admission Badges may be obtained during oflee hours from the. Cash Sweep: Omeen of the Club at Prince's Building, Ground Floor (facing Statue Square); 5, D'Aguilar Street; King's Road, North Point and $82, Nathan Road. ADMISSION BADGES WILL NOT BE ON SALE AT THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE AND WILL NOT BE AVAIL ABLE AT THE RACE COURSE ON RACE DAYS.
Tins will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811).
Members, Ladies wearing Ladies Brooches, and their Guests mist enter the Monbers Enclosure by the entrance to the Mem- berg Stand.
Members wishing to proceed to Club Boxes on the 4th and 5th Floors of the now Publie Stand must do so from the 2nd Floor of the Members Stand, using the lift or stalks.
NO CHILDREN under the ore. of seventeen years (Western Standard) will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeting.
of the Fociball Association News referee Livion Bonelik from comes on the Beld with a wig and a mail false beard.
Apart from the foregoing, Members, their Ladles, and Memi After each game he removes
bers Guests are not permitted to enter the Public Enclosure and
the
Stand. the disguise and leaves look forward to seeing
Fround without being recoguis- them in action. No doubt
rd. According to the gentle the members of the Hong-
non's own admision the ruse keng Football Association
Now for a paragraph or twa' has twice helped him to evade will find time to give this
which entitle....Little angry fans. aspect of the visit
things I hear from far, without appearing to wish to and near. thought or two for as
remnereletise the idea I would things are at the moment
mention that there are several With the memory of lust, excellent
In naite-up artists be an entertainer with a fair fer, Sunday's Easter ration of egg-the Colony. they will probably
Come to think of more concerned with other the dramatic and the spectacu-cilement in the Shield
semi-it, several prominent players him with the Anal still very much To saddle
with us might be interested. vítal aspects of this parti- lar.
restricting and robering duties cular series.
it is probably timely to repeat!
Д neither is it
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always the leaders of
have arranged før club mem- bers to have full insurance death by ex- against 'sudtien citement when watching the team play".
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like Law Pak, 1 Kwak-wat Chan Fal-hung. Ko Po-keung,
It is no secret that the pre-of skipper is not a clever stroke the report that Real Madrid Swearing at the rof Lo Kwok-tai, Lam Kam-tong
the highlight of the whols show sale of tickets has fallen short suitable compliment to a young new ideas of football and Yiu Chouk-yin on the one
will be the closing race when of expectations. The fans who side und Leung Kit, Chow
15-year-old Robert Whadje, war again asked to pay high man who should be left as free 0.5 the wind to delight R Shiu-hung, Wong Tak-fook and
1,500 retess prices are still smarting under Luk Mun-wat
other. A tralian
the crowds. or the
will singlehandedly the crashing let-down of
of Berne-Com- The honour ot captaining a there was surely no shortage et Cherpien,
is responsibility much relay of EIGHT Young Boys ,big names,...yet sinnicantly take on
11g swine ve bined Chinese affair... and side
What bitter memories of this kind die more Important than lorsing a championship distange!!!
coin for choice of ends or Intro- aspectele that will be.
The visitors have been in the ducing the other players to the community for nearly a week VIP who meets the teams be and have been seen in training: fore the game.
....the followers of the game stayed away.
3%
to
Questions pul to various football personalities why e attendance had besit so small ellher had them prend their arms and shrug their shoulders in resignation or give a knowing ned and say nothing.
How correct!
fact is the fant falted to put in an ap·
Nevertheless the
pearance. One
entitied tch
ar why. Did they feel it was
an uneven feel they
notch....did they
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Remember Albert Mendum, the Army's tough-as-teak right-half and skipper. | whose brilliant play against Blackpool when they visited the Colony a couple of years ago, won the unstinted praise of the Tangerines' players and officials?
Blackpool were very inter-. might not get valugested It is future Lut the
for their money....or was player himself seemed little ing simply a case
that they could
not afford 11?
elined towards career.
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Frankly think It was a bit
professlerat
But he has not been lost to
of all of them and it was the game and in a few weeks" anaybe another good example, time he will have the honour
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of enthusiasts expressing their of wearing West Auteland's distrust
a must practicat colours in the Amateur Cap
final at Wembley Stadium. wonderful moment in the career. for the second game on Easter of a young man who clearly
way.
How different
were
things
'eloce
Monday. From seven
in the morning there was a lon quene in front of the stadium full Bags were 'house aru! Aying long before South China i and
Happy Valley took the field.
correct!
wonderfully How the fans were in their judg- ment, They raz
a magni-
cent game.
There are the facts. Four star-studded teams engaged in two equally Important encoun- ters under exortly similar con-
ditions on the same ground. One nitracis 28,300 paying customera and probably another 10,000 on the surrounding hillsides while the other falls to attract une- fifth of that number,
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asked why....you have may wish to do the same.... the full answer would make very interesting reading, don't you think?
had all the qualifications to become a great player.
Best wishes
Heen followers of the zanse will remember Mendum's con- troversial beginning in long- kong football when rather in the manner of Wong Man-wal the he seemed imbued with Iden that he had to lit every upponent over the maon to prove how good he was, Fortunately good advice con- soun tuol
COMINIOMANTIS and showed bh the fallacy of his ways wish I could say the
the community.
hard,
• St John's Youth Club. church-sponsored sheet team of Bilborough, has been suspended for the remainder of the season by the Notting ham Football Association for awearing at the refcres. In typical modern style the carried their Spaniards have
The decision of the Associa- project one step forward, policy, as well as covering fansion to back the game-stopping action of 17-year-old referee, Stuart Buck. was -unanimous
The
that
The man who finds
Eton tag harrowing
By IAN WOOLDRIDGE
and the young whistler has stated
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission will be $10.00 each per day payable at the Cate, Admission Badger will be frsued and they must be prominently displayed throughout the Meeting.
Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisite tee of $10.00, in order to gain re-admission
MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will be available in the RESTAURANT.
CASH SWEEPS
Through Cash Sweep Tickets at $34.00 rách for both days, or $10.50 each for the lit Day and $18.00 each for the 2nd Day may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offlees at Prince's Build- ing. Cround Floor (facing Statue Square): 5, D'Agullar Street ant 382, Nathan Road, Kowloon, during office hours.
Tickets reserved and available but not paid for by 10.00 a.m. on Friday, 14th April, 1001, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Meetings.
Special Cash Sweep Tickets on the Hong Kong Derby scheduled to be run on oth May, 1901, at $2.00 czch may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices of the Club.
The office hours of the Cash Sweep Ofices of the Club are
Prince's Building, Ground Floor (facing Statue Square) and
that the incident wifi as follows:- nol stop hun refereeing.
If you are one of these 5, D'Aguilar Street, Hong Kong:-
blood thirsty characters who be Heves that bull ghting is sper- or maybe even more so, if you nee not-you may like to hear the delightful Httle story of the bulls that got blotto,
It happened' } Seria In North East Spain where two bulls in preparation creped and made their from a ranch
Scorning the traditional
the thin sky-blue china dealers, they smached
He is 23 years old. His accent, his unconscious charm, and his instinc-zather devastating way into the
tive courtesy when a bumbling drunk stumbles into him at the barwn betray his background even before you notice stripe that slants across his neatly knotted tie. He is, inevitably, ou Old ! Eunian.
He
and
wineshop window .. effected and drank one and
entry
a half gallons of claret from a bottle Bling trough.
(of In mellowed Fatisfaction they Ingleby-Mackenzie
'old pals brigade Eton and Hampshire) had not joined the done much to dynamite some and their recapture and return enthusiasm back into a spart to the, ranch that provides many professionals Buil-y for two. with a career,
He challenges locals and gen if he suggested that. Ted Dexter erally wins. When his oppon- ftof Lloyd's and Sussex)
Colin ents are la play he keeps up s Yet this. In fact, is almost
fast running commentary in a
American all the world docs know about tou
accent. Tom Pugh-- young mon, › tin- raises them all to international burdered by chips
on the significance "a great night shoulder or axes to grind, who here in the Ship stadium ladies Ands himself caught in the and gennunen as Camilo, an crossfire of county cricket's old-timer from the Spanish pin latest sordid squabble,
etreult, challenges Black Hawk Old Etonian Tom Pugh. The from Chleago. And away they two-word description is dangled almost accusingly in front of his name every time it appears in the newspapers,
Neutral corner
Bo....
The locals love 11. They clearly see him as a gennulman with a delightful streak of in- sanity in his soul. He is dressed In a conservative suit and black shoes. They do not know he Fung in By implication it is as damn-lass season hit 1,011
Brst-class cricket, and is about suceced Test hero Tom Graveney as captain of Glouces
at
fer.
same about Wong Man-wai -- ing us a ball art chain. It hints and he developed into one of darkly, though not directly, that the most attractive players in an upper-class cartel has again the manly been meddling in fa e senson
Tom sport. That
At this moment. In fact, here he collected a very healthy affairs
Pugh seemed far pronder of share of representative honours Graveney, idol of a decade ni
the fact that his once shot # and the fans who thrilled to his young cricketers, has been de
3,954,000 from the profesalonal
Voore on this pin prised uxplosive long range shooting
of Gloucestershire
table than that he scored 137 captainry will join with us in sending hum
off Derbyshire's bowlers lant simply because an amateur and our best wishes for a success-
a gentleman has happened across ul day at Wimbley.
the horizon in their direction. Inoidentally Mendum is not The first Any footballer from Hongkong read Wembley's Len Tiger near stered turf. Casey, who later joined Chelsea, Plymouth Argyle and I now
City. played with Bristol
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summer.
Minority of one
Graveney, I regret, has not
Tom Puth is quite crazy discouraged this view. Gloupes tershire's committee have done
about sport. He In the top little to dispel it. And pour Pugh, guided by commendable iflght of world racquets players with the He caution and common sense, sits and toured Aunerica
British team last winter. corner of on infernal triangle to plays football for Old Etonians, is notical abcul Arsenal and ride it out.
inglais he would have preferred to excel at Soccer than at any other game.
It is surely something of a sporting tragedy that the visit of the Brazilian foot- ball team, Madureira, should coincide with the left-half in Leylastone's silently back in the neutral appearance at the Victoria Amateur Cup anal side of a few Park Swimming Pool this, stars ago.
The Army could make good evening of the Australian national swimming cham-es of a couple like Candy ari Mendium just about now........ plons who are stopping but then there are few clubs who over here on their way couldn't home after a most in- pressive and successful tour in Japan.
The highlight
We have very rich memories of the last contingent frons 'down under" and this would have been a wonderful oppor- tunity for many enthusiasts in have a clore look at mare of Australia's up and cemily per- sonalities. The party ja made co of four national champions and
lady ene young
where achievements suggest that It will not be very long before she tro is able to say 'I am a champion'.
However, the clash of pr rangements ... which, with closer ilaison could surely bave been avoided
thai sporte folks will have to
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But what is be like this Londoner called in to captain a county with which his only family connection is an unele Ilves four who by chance anties from Cheltenham?
But ericket claimed nim.
If his credentials for a county captakiey were no more than that one of his uncles played At first glance site hos for Warwickshire and that sne followed a predictable pattern:other, Peter
ond
the
Eckersley, skip.
then Royal could perhaps understand
gripings of the ungracious Graveney,
The Madureira footballers Aprivate school at Hemel pered Lancashire,
from Brazil are now with Hempstead. Eton, the and academically we Navy, and Lloyds,
Us
Sports Diary
TODAY
Swimming KABA Swimming Carnival Victoria Park Paol. 80 pz.
Cricket
loon Cricket Club, 2 pm.
In Division: FRC_V Opilmists,
Noccer
ni
They love it
But farally influence or old- school-tie falk had nothing to do with it. As a batsman his In teet the pattern collapses frst full season's 1,000-run haut as soon as you meet him. In confirmed his talent. To meet informs you that his naval him, even five months away carcer Anished where it started: from the championship season, On the lower drek. He then in enough to convince you that says: Jump in," and hoods his this is the kind of captain to Rover towards' Lenton's East infect'character and colour back End, parks with dashing etc into the stiffening corpsont
Interport Two-day Trini et Kow-ency outside the sawdust har | embly erléket.
of a Victorian pub, calls the barmaid. "Mins, Kelly da orders two beets and takes con- trol of the pin table.
Sterilans Madureira P. Club
All Hongkong (k Bladium) 3 pm. 2nd Division; Kean Wun v Tätko (CH) pm.
ari Divtolon: #11C Aiterall
choose between the ble fool-untrersity (Club) 3 pm.
ball match at the stadium and The Planing caraival at
Victoris Poot.
Alhjetty, 12 A
European YMGA Open Meeting Boundary-street, ..
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ho1 by no means subscribe. La the wind alley, Boiler that amateurs, unburdened by, kuch a sordid necessity as Riming their keep, always make the. best lenders. Some have proved unqualled m
He plays with teatrome to tensity. He croucher low over the crazily ashing lights of the i gaudy, table, tilting 14, fogging
It, coaxing it, hopkring 11,
But Toin raveney, would have loan in a minority of one
Finest tidings
Tom Pugh (of Lloyd's and Eton) can spread this gospel to Gloucestershire.
For him the nest tidings of good will and joy he could re- ceive would be telephone call from Gloucestershire's greatest contemporary batsman.
A telephone call which would Graveney simply say: "Tom here...I'll be proud to play
for your team next summer."
was uneventful.
The scene..
Ipswich Ipswich Town The result
Stoke City The speaker Tony Waddington, Stoke's, manater: "11 aitly we could do without refs! T haven't met a good one yet."
Waddington's
outburst was
mude just after the referee had changed gil-kick decision to a correr-kiek on the strength of a tresnan's flag and Ipswich had ceared the whining goal ... in the 91st minute of the
mame!
Mondays to Fridays
Saturday 8th April
Saturday 15th, April
Saturday 22nd April
a.m. to .p.m. Pam to 13.30 p.m.
9 am to 11.30 a.m. 9 a.m. to 11 am,
King's Road, North Point, Hong Kong and 332 Nathan Road, Kowloon
Mondays to Fridays
Saturday 6th April Saturday 15th April Saturday 22nd April
Hong Kong, 8th April, 1901.
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
9am to 11.45- a.m. 8 pm to 11.30 a.m. 9 a.m. to 13 0.m.
By-Order of the Stewards, A. E. ARNOLD, Secretary;
SWIMMING
AT VICTORIA PARK POOL To-day at 6.30 p.m.
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
will take part
Tickets at $6 (incl. Tax) Will be on sale at the Gote
there comfortably.
Fly there
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