THE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1961.
SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT
The "final" chips may Iranian wins British title
be down to-morrow -but what then?
By I. M. MacTAVISH
Tomorrow is Senior Shield final day. But maybe it is much
more.
- even
Maybe it is judgment
FINAL judgment-
day for Hongkong football as we know it at the present time.
If the game which is played tomorrow produces an affair as degrading, cither in spectacle or principle, as the final of a year ago the repercus- sions-following on top of recent happenings could be powerful enough to rock the game to its very foundations . and beyond.
Moke ro mistake about it. When South Chine and Tung Wah run outo the lush greca turf at the Hongkong StadRim they may very well have in their kelping
the
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registered
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peas, are no mare tolerant. You may recall that out of and certainly no less Indignant, eight goals ofeinlly about what is happening in that game Bve were around and behind football by players against their own thin anyone else.
sides, and even the unofficial in arms They ure hating every minute bookmakers were up future of Colony soccer. it of it and as has bern shown about the result. there is the slightest suspicion lately they have now been pro- of anything untoward or un-¦voked ta the stage when they zavoury .. it there is anmay rebel violently against both then adverso public outery the individual instances of trek ...or if there
is another fullon and. the whole overall Proverative shaibles like the system which is making then Kitchee Tung Wah fual last possible. year it will surely be impossible for ofeiaklum to remain either or Indifferent An3"
toletant
Jon Dr.
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get the Impression that there comments are born unly it The confervative columns of the English language Slashing, accusing
Again this reason the Tung Wah eleven has failed badly to. win public favour and recently quite apart from the dropping of several of their stars
underlined SO MUCH DEPENDS
It is often said that nt present it is only the love of a gamble that is putting in the fans, There may be
a great deal si truth in that assertion .... but, Just
offended perion as the
cenets In militon: hodility ta cheat 10 a ganze of cards so almost inevitably will the Colony football fares hit back at those who have had them on the wrong end of a bad bet. *****
artielta have dominated theventually
spordi pagka of the vernacular sinve lusi Sunday's fantastic touthall puntomime when Happy Valley and Tung Wall shared six goals in what zurety canland as the season's mt brutally blatant example
lite recnes whe
There is no doubt that for a time big names and called
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from
the Colony side-their standing with the fans wo graphically when Arat their
match Sentor Shield semi-final with KMB and then belr teagre gume with Happy Valley coaxed only small crowds to the stadium.
PRESTIGE
If there is a good crowd to- morrow-and I feel confident there will be- will be a ribute to the prestige in which South China are held.
The champion retain the affections of the fans in a way that most be the envy of every, other Chinese side in the com munity. There have been times when I have
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T. Drahanbakhte of Iran, who won the British middleweight wrestling championship al Manor Place Baths, Lendan, keeps a firm hold on his inverted opponent D. Ickringi
Manchester. Dgabanbakkie, who is studying in England, is a former world lightweight chatuplon.
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The game and the fans who Earlier this week you no support it not, accept another Insult.
will cannot, and
im-
soccer.