THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1961.
SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT
OF "THE-FOLKS-ON-THE-HILL" AND FOOTBALL AMBASSADORS
By I. M. MacTAVISH
In the full that inevitably follows every storm, soccer has spent a thoughtful week thinking, with disappointment, what the Madureira visit meant on the field and romem. bering with apprehension, what so very nearly happened off it.
The chapter, bleak, dismal and ominous as it was, is over. Its influence and its effects will, however, be feit for a long time to come. We may well ask
Were
Tiest
1. asked
what now?
Behind
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ONE
TWO
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Rusion and of course The Chlua Mall.
The object of the polls first of all to select by popular vote 11 Senior players of the Hongkong Football Associa tion and 11 Junior players of the Hongkong Schools Football Asaccialion.
will then ba There named rubmitted to on adjudicating whose members will conn:litee
Weting will open on Apell 17 and will ecatioue until the end et sun. The speelal Selection i Cenumittee will meet to consider the merits of the various ncminated players possible after close of voting and the two selected players will be eff to England by BOAC jet- liner late in July.
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All in all it is a wonderful project. Let us hope the public
by Rog, Wootton
RIGHT
London Express fervice.
9.30 pm they will be able to hear a brilliant review of the sporting highlights of 1960 as they were seen on the spot by the expert observers and reporters of the British Broadcasting | Corporation.
Varied. «programme: are un enthusiastle
If you
tor slipped from als precarious oflefaktum has a strangely inf: Lssere the different attributes of gives it the support it so richly follower of one of the so called
twit Was seriously in Arch jured or worse,
It is a hypothetical situation
warrants very real con, that sideration.
it will the
get thoroughly ex- concerns view already beer point f Tilbuti has
Police for their situation which would arise it on, but nevertheless, sym- paid to the
Brem quick appraisal of the situation fa a istuent of excitement eflc examination.
exterior cru:ly er trouble--a hillsidir ad their sane resolution of it. they will Maybe V¢l
doing thole jeb. I agree but it is a job they to do again. The sinker are too highs ural it is sheer folly to allow football to be used as an in- cewendence by trament of
little or no -people who have
interest in the game, There is small doubt that a high pro- Saturday's of last portler! carephony came from derin
had not paid n etrators who brass bean to see the Braziliang in action,
Potential danger
For a long time the authori-
beent more Bu huve ties generous to the thousands whe hillsides over- ock to the Haking the Hongkong Stadium. Far be it from me to deny fooi- anyone a free look at a
... but the - watch
hall match
folic who
from - the hill have surely become 411 embarrassinent
to
both the Hongkong Football Asko- elation and the Police
and a serious potential danger to themselven.
The crowd on the high precipitous rocky crags over-
looking the
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in
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deserves,
Jor
all the nominated players
popular sports then you can be From each
that particularly where
there is heart
the two rections.
almost certain one rights and freeding of the in-
will choos eleven they Nu-
in this programme mething eo"cervil. are
Senior and one Junior Ambas-The visit of the Australian
Covered by the cam- dividual
Jor you. Fotball' Hengkong why re have I found any talk of
national swimming cham: mentators are soccer, athletics, doubt ruthless bans ngainst the Lilksdor
have no
harse and, A you
cricket, who
from the hill
plons to the Colony, last boxing,
motor ww.ch
heard, these two lucky indivi-
Jown tennis, motor Muke 110 mistake about love heard only expressions of
duals will
wwing. be swept IT un weckend was an important racing.
motor cyling, towing, racing, Their it. I have no personal decent
individual
event for local swimmers the magic soccer coinct carpet to
Rugby League, Rugby Union, sire to see any man denied his city and for that
England; to the headquarters of
as well as being a most how jumping and swimining. full entertainment. I love fentral pubile around them.
seems to be....
Blackpool Football Club for une
useful occasion for the It is a pretty comprehensive The game and I'm sure many; The theme
review also one warning is worth heeding month's special training with of folks who pack the bill-
team. The famous old seaside
officers of the Hongkong list and, as the
greatest many of the side bold it In the same regard one accident
The two nominated players ean Amateur Swimming Asso- covera without ineing fortunate enough
thritis of the Olympic Games be assured that Blackpool's pre-
ciation. t be able to afford the high
in Rome, it is surely something cent spell of hard-going will
wili no sportsman
want to con of numismánit,
not minimize the warmth of the welcome which will be accorded
miss to them as our represantatives. Method of voting
E
marty.
would be one to
I aw
And just r yru do not get the wrong idea fet me add that Nevertheless people to whom || inco watched an FA Cuptic I spoke this week seemed more at Aktorshot's recreation ound interested in accepting living from the branch of a tee which
ten minutea | dent than awaiting desa proof breker disastrously
that there is in fact a problem, befere the final whistle....
of voting *The method ccasion assther or the making of ont -- UN the bileide,
Gencok Merton play Glasgow simpl.. Every registered player an improvised of the Hongkong Football As- Geltie through spy-hole in the ride of a rail-sociation is a potential candidate way truck which was shunted for the Senior tile and every several times during the game, member player of the football of football getion of the Hongkong Schools Oh....the
Sports Association is eligible strange enthusiasts do makes
for the Junior Ambassactorship. things just to get a glimpse at their favourites in actiera.
know. [ sympathise....
The answer?
The answer?
honestly } don't know but I understand that this very matter has been under searching official con- sideration for some time.
What will be done is a mat- and even ter for conjecture
preutation but the Sookunpea
Buch a natural re-entrant E
that
would *
studium has inghititestre
era steadily and sipificantly, almost be parling racrilege not
In the last year and, although
I have no proof that it is, I have been people who
ale
told by
various claim to know. that the choicest vantage points Highly organised....and commercialised,
Maybe is another local rumour but it is snld that inspection would prove that the same persons occupy the
spots same
Hame after gaine.
There is surely little
that the b ment
utilise it for the
fess ustuste teaters of the com- Durity who with harm to couple only a www bed heur entertainment.
of
mean Maybe there is some whereby
welfare' The social crowd control, individual safety, of football promotion
I
VIEW
I
BUT....
of
opens
JAPANESE STEP UP TT BID
from their per- Quite apart sanat achievements the young Australians provided an object letron en dedication to supreme succes in their chosen sport. The Hongkong swimmers watch-
11 with cd their methods
and appreciation concealed approval. Our cffcials observed their advanced techniques and modern stylea with expert eyes ...... and the two carnivals made a big contribution to the sport this community. As Mr Hon. Winglee, the Haruld Sceretary of the HKASA put it "our swimmers and our officials alike derived much benefit from, The
visiting the efforts of the Australians,"
It was surely a case of enter- prise being well repaid.
By MICK WESLLETT The cork, or more correolly
Yamaha Japanese the crown cap, from a bottle of Runkial counts as one vole
motorcycle factory are to and the public are free to
send a team of 12 riders tender as many votes. as they
thiz tako to
part in like for any player provided
year's Isle of Man cach vote is backed with a kollle
races. сар. Hengkong Batllers
This latest development turns the the Japanese challenge started very happy, about menning special voting contres Skipper Findlay must on the ground Boor of Redi-
Honda and backed up in
talented band of cricby Gloucester- House ffusion
Redillusion at the
road and
will ba
showroom in Nathan-road on the Kowloon side.
The voting campaign for Hongkong's Ambassadors
Football Monday when the biggest, and certainly the most ambitious public poll in Colony sporting history will get underway,
The pubile will be kept fully Informed of the progress of. the You have already had a pre-
o the project in this poil every day, Votes will be column and you will lehow that counted and registered as they are received and a daily state it is being backed and launched
the rol will be by these enthusiastle supporters of
The information lotal
Hongkong around noon. sport, of Boutiers, through the medium of will be published in the China Mail, Wah Klu Yat Po, as well their Sunkist products. In is
aver Abeing
broadcast creening competition they
vi Rediffusion's thres networks, co-operation having the DOAC, Wah Kiu Yat Po, Ru
points be can
reconelted.
the heprd it being suggested other
evening that hillside view
should be banned as peper 20 as there argu-
are empty seats in the Stadium. At first glance 'Aberdeen
if u like a good idea. When there venue to the Hongkong Foot-you examine it farther
quile naviou-lv serious are
horterings in it..... But at least it is a thought. The prob- les deserve..nd I am sure
Bute
represents a loss of ru
baft Association and its nem- ber lob: but to my mind
LOCA certainly
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important, and more far-reaching,
DON'T LET SCURF
AND
DANDRUFF
PLAY HAVOC WITH YOUR HAIR
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issued
Sports Diary
First
TODAY Racing day uf Royal Jockey Clob 12th Race pin.
Hongkong Merting. 2
Boccer
Tau Y AF 1st Division: Sing (Club), Army v Careline H (Poller)
לדות 5 at
Reserve Division: Sing Tao V RAF lubi, Army v Carvilne 20121 (Police) 3.30 pm.
2nd Olvision:
(Stanley) & pin.
Prisons
CAA
3rd Division: HK Aircraft v Unl versity (South Chino) 1.30 pm.
3rd Division runners-up play-off second match: Post Omce v Sik Yine (CH) 5 pm,
Cricket Practice match at Kowloon Cricket Club, 130 pin.
Athleites HKAAA Pentathlon Championship, University ground, Pokfulam.
ba
TT
by
keters he is taking to Suzuki into a full-scale Invasion | for if the plans of these three Malaya next month,
factories work out nearly half It is a powerful side with a the starters in both the 125 and runs 250 cc. lightweight TTs will be potential of plenty of backed by a versatile attack astride Japanese built racing which will have the assistance motorcycles, of burly Buddy Carnell
their travels off on
ARRIVE IN MAY ·
A elde like this will not let
The Yamaha racing machines the Colony down and when they are similar to the Suzuki models, st
the using twin-cylinder two-stroke engines. The riders will arrive will players will take with them the good wishes of all sportsmen in England in May, and who find much that is reassuring spend several weeks in the Isle In the grand old game of of Man learning, the tricky 37- cricket.
.mile mountain circuit.
..
For this unoffelal practising they will use normal roadster
Old friends are always wel-machines and the racing muunis come and this is particularly so will follow in time for the official training in early June. Their when we are extending it to them leader will be Fumio Ito, Macao footballers who are with
a good impression us this weekend for the Annual who made Interport. We look forward to riding a 500 cc. BMW in Europe
last year en entertaining game
end may the better side win. The match is being played at
BRITISH CHALLENGER What are British manufat-
the Club Stadium at 5 pm tourers doing to counter this bid
morrow.
A
* * *
of
in lightweight racing? Unforiu- nately, tle-but thanks to the
de Havilland Engine Company of Lehvesdon, near Watford, a the British-built machine will chal programme greatest Interest to lunge the Japs, East Germans and Ifalibris to the 125 cc. class. Colony portament will be De Havilland are, sponsoring racing two-stroke EMC broadcast on Rediffusion's the Blue Network next Friday machine, developed by engineer
Joe Ehrlich, evening when from 8.30 to
(London Express Serples)...............
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