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THE CHINA MAIL- SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1961.
SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT
Hongkong cricketers make hay in the hop country
It was a grand game. The players had the time of their sport
ing lives....and as though to ondorse the occasion suitably for posterity they scored 447 runs in exactly 225 minutos. Who said a run a minute was beyond the modern cricketer?
..English Test stars always excepted of course.
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By I. M. MacTAVISH
promises... changes of mind for their excellent and suregos tomatoes, 6 lbs; sausages, 2 lbs; and spectacular captures, ful-efforts to tako First pickles, 'ten" jors; ....and 0·1bi
Divialon In the past there have been
football Into the fol chocojaleni!! Territories - und what-
Quite a snack! if and when many pointed comments on the New
the circumstances it Arthur Rowe does break situation.
the and again ever
almost be a betrayal of world record--and the experts finance and not fickle loyalties with
the club has stood seem condeni he will-don't have been very openly stated to everything
now utzert the forget what goes behind the be the reason for the migration for if they
I'm glad I'm not re- which is nowadays as regular northern township whose nume effort.
bear and beconte Just sponsible for paying his bills.... the wallows... but as long as they
Football "A another suburban siện,
Yuen Long have 80 tar sociation continues to prove la
the Hongkong
shanteurisin-
its own satisfaction-it to few born the proud lenders of the others that there is no gam- plan to widen the football see professionalism or and, even if they are having any local soccer some ground difficullies,
bo. better wo girl have to accipt the arrangement would
a complete capitulation pre-season courtships as 'Just than
means which
deverling The another of these things.
enthusiastic country for the Two ermmins during the Indifferent city....wher: in- weak are worth recording. The eldentally there is already far find came from an exceptionally too much football
Thi is the tougheal season yet. De mands and terms are up by about a third all round!”
The team contesting the 12-a-side game which produced the rich harvest of quick runs may not have been meeting under Test conditions but the players of one of them had certainly tra-utive official who raid: velled almost as far as the Australians to take part.
The occasion wor the host at the 'Star'. was actually, the grownups and the members 'Brenchley Flower Show malety enpped for Kent on the same of the home team. This was, of!
course, in the Star'. which was played recently at day as Alec... but that was Matileld, Kert, between a team away bok! of Hongkong cricketers and the members of Brenchley Cricket Chub I resulted in Colony victory. The Hongkong KEN sentatives, skinpered by Alce Fearec. baited first and the innings was eventually dentaresi closed at 231 for seven wiekota
Delighted
The Hongkong openers were Roy Kingsford, who captained the Royal Air Force and the Combined Services when he was in the Colony tn, 1052-53, and John Leader who delight- the gathering with rd glorious knock of 68 during which he scored 50 runs in 25 minutes.
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Ivor Stunton (17) and Pat Howard-Dobson (24) pushed the score along merrily and then Bli Vowler hit a scintillat- ing 51 during spell at the wicket which was described as
Joy to watch',
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Elea In
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There was apparently a lot el Incidentally, in case you are discussion about making this an wondering abou! a familier unnual rame and I hope to have 'leave' name missing from the more rave about the Hongkong teain fet ine add very the near future, quickly im, so gond wet fler
Intimated The support for
ganic, the Campion for there "selectors' were able to let Guy what was obvizesły Pritchard play for Brenchley for fearing occasion. whom he has turned cut fairly regularly since he arrived in England. Ther former Colony skipper claimed three Hangkang? wickets for 05 runs in eleven, overs!
10 sixes!
When Brenchley took their Turn at the włokel runs came «lowly at the start but later the men of Kent opened their shoulders and when the lust wicket fell with 216 runs on ibe hard they had actually chalked up 10 sixes!! At oue time small boys were search- ing simultaneously for three lost halls in adjoining felis. Mike Guildford caught the Ivor Stanton was the Clony's spirit of thing with 29 poort | must svertesful bowler with an runs and Harry Owen-Hughes analysis of ave wirket for 107 was on 5, when K.G. Siluk runs although he was hit for (15) was bowled an Aleerte sixes during one oVLT in Pearce declared.
which he also took a wicket,"
was
Refreshments were taken in! The happy ccension the delightful hospitality or something of a family holiday the 'Star' where the Hongkong for the Hongkong contingent, folks were umused to find many ¡The chlidren had wonderful team pletures including a very time at the one-day fair which youthful looking Aleg Pearce, is a feature of the Brenchley This was hardly unexpected, Flower Show. Later came a however, for Alim Watts, mine must enjoyable get-together for
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* * The annual scramble for the signatures of the Colony's football personalities has once again produced the thought-provoking specta- cle which not so long ago was referred to as 'Hong- kong's most inglorious rat-race'. It is indeed a degrading spectacle.
There are of course those people who all believe it is all due to the fact that our players merely like a seasonable change of colours and company but few know anything about local coccer affairs even frouble to pretend that that is so,
Money the reason
Year after усаг players switch from one club to an- others all good amateurs are entitled to do-but one has only to have half an ear to the ground to hear the stories of
... backers... approaches haggling negotiations
I wonder what he meant by the 1
Disturbing feature
statement
or two
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The second made in distinguished pany the other evening by 0:10 of the Colony's private iny stigniers. He al mouths and Gentle assignment any our Experts could collect the true facts about gambling and to the hands professionalism and place them
of the Hongkong Football Association. These may or may not be confirmation of all the rumours and tions but they would be con- clusive...and the whole thing wouldn't cost $25,000!!"
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When one remembers the thousands and thousands of dollars that wero lost fast when disgusted and disillusioned fans slayed away from the majority of big Kamus such an investigation Krems cheap at the price.
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You may have noticed
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Although Europe is
far away from Hongkong' it' is quite astonishing how much interest there is here in the European Cup competition.
In the mail bag last week. camo a letter from a well-
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known local Portuguese sports- man adding for information on which teams will be contesting the trophy this scazen. short paragraph in the Strangely Crough local newspapers recently difficult to get full and com- which suggested that pirtely accurate information on Arthur Rowe, the British subject, but according lu the most recent reports Uie shot put champion, might ollowing teams will participate well be on the verge of Benfica (holders) (Puriigal), (Scotland), Врика breaking the world rocord Rangere
(England), Linfield (No:thern for the 16 lb shui,
Ireland). Drumcondra (Eire), Whatever the future 114
Real Madrid (Spain), Juventus for-from- hold for Britain's conventional athletic ginni there (laly), Sporting Club of Lisbon (Perluga)), Standard Ligo Is no hiding the tart thut he is
(Belguim),
(Hol- Feyenoord of a most currently the centre
land), Servetic (Swlizerland), unusual controversy.
ed in
In an article which appear- Spora (Luxembourg), Odense
(Denmark), F.K. the mass
(Austria),. circulation
CDNA Daily Mirror delalis wore Monaco (France),
Dulgka Prague given of the amazing amount (Bulgaria),
of food it takes to sustain à (Czechoslovakia),
Germany), blz powerful heavyweight (East
depends to A
(West Germany). hia physical
whose success great exfent on strength.
The intake
Since the article appeared Rowe has been the subject of. shower of correspondence which has poured into the newspaper seunge
In spite of the apparent significe all on the subject
of this controversial of the amount of food he ents aspect of Hongkong football 1 Now don't cheat....before think the most disturbing you read the next paragraph feature of all the pre-season try and estimate just how inuch gossip is the widely discussed it takes to keep big Arthur' in suggestion that Yuen Long, new-peal condition. comers to the First Division, Here is Rowe's own siate
ment on how much he eats in a week: 10 lbs of steak: broad, seven loaves; pork chops, two bacon, 6 lbs; ham. 3 lbs milk,
may seek
an arrangement allow them to play their home games in Kowloon.
I hope there is not a ward of 60 pints; potatoes, 21 lbs; apples, truth in the story. Yun Lòng 15 lbs; oranges. nine; mixed very rightly. won high praise vegetables, & lbs; eggs, 4 dozens
JAPANESE BUSINESS FIRMS ENCOURAGING RUGBY Yawata team to tour Australia next year
Tokyo, Aug. 24.
Big industrial firms are helping to improve the quality of Rugby Union
football in Japan.
Several years ago the Tawata Iron and Steel Company, one of Japan's biggest steel producers, formed a Rugby club anong members of its staff. Today, it is the country's best team.
Last year, Yawats travelled to, under a post-war edugational land is scurce. To try to over Canada where it came out about spotem, have had less time to come this, the rules have been even in matches won and lost play together wid develop slightly altered, There were with club sides uver there. tennwork.
no serums and no tacking, just Next. year,
touch wckles.
hopes to lour
Western Australia and. it When Japanese yʊşihs go to finances permit, other areas of the Univerity, their knowledge Australia. And Japanese of and ability for, Rugby
A Rugby Union oficial admits limited
that if there is any possibility
of visiting New Zealand, the Yawata team would like to in- clude the All Black territory In fis Itinerary.
Good advertisement
Other Industrial firms here. seeing the success of the Yawnta team, and zware that Its telp пустель advertise the company's name, are now
ing teams.
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Que omletai explained tiist It takes severni "réarn for a pidyez to develop and by the time they have reached high standard the students į· graduate. They bave thus been leaving the University at the peak of their Rugby career and with Utile chance to continue the sport uniesi at “old” boys! clubs”.
He said that this
was one
According Lo the offlalais, about. ten private primary schools in Japan have adopted Rugby football, and of the country's 8,140 high schools, about 20 per cent play Rugby part of their sporta activiiles. The number increasing. of the 190 Universities and colleg surveyed. $1 per cont have Rugby teams.
Height handicap
Several foreign teams have
becoming faterested in formaton why firma With Rugby visited Jepan In recent years Icans are achieving a higher and only proved that Japanese standard of play
than Uni-players need more hoight. They According to 1ltu official, versity Icama.
already have speed, ' Atness and Univeralty studenta
a system of backing up and handling which mont inter- national teams would envy. The Dvar- height problem will be come in time..
who are good at Rugby are being offered
positions la these firms,
Big problem One
num, Indeed, is slowly building
If Rugby, could be developed up a team so that in a year or two i will be able to challenge anong High schools
Yawata for
kle.
In Japan,
Univer- the championship ccntinue through the
Rugby officials say that it was sites and then en to competi- the 1950 tour of the Now. Lion funct tmn irom Zealand funior All Blacks which The official mild the players' ¦Industrial firma, Japan, In ten changed the Japanesa approach ømateur status is not affectel or 20 years, might be able to to the spori; Until then, teis by accepting a pond with such meet the British Lioni,
had followed the British-tutored firms. The mast effect is that South African Springboks of principle of "play" the "game", the Bring Hicrest in the sport | the New Zealand All Blacken on This they had learnt with the wit develop. Hugby here, Lovin terpe.
Introduction of the sport here and had retained il, while
In spite of a long tradition of Attempts are both inade le changes took pinco In interna- Rugby, Japan's teams are still do just this, The Japancettonal compellitons overseas. hampered by the mail size of Rugby Union halda coaching
their players. The game won classes for schoolttachers excit The offoláis eddod that in the Introduced, I 1899, to Kelo year and Rugby has loven put pas, vlakik University, teatris University. Over the years, It on the list of sports for High Find shown be sanin, spielf, buć bes remained principally a Uni-school children, ki te bestante All Blacks were different. versity sport. In this category, ling more popular.
Thale dumna wie' to, with "al áll Out This was ...... JUDANN LITE "old timers think, that the Officials of the Ministry of roul taula, et asi shternational standard and spectator Interest Education say that one of the thatch, and plazers and enclate | has delitied in Pecent years, | biggest" - proŭlarisa"? In (Inok of when útartled by the differenõe
One reason given is that in playing fleide. Most · schoolt, in the approach to the game.. the lifes," ""the"
areas where fleutör,
"it has won great popularity, búi
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The other sides which It is understood have also wan place in the competition are: Újpest (Hungary).
Partizan (Yugoslavia), "CAA Bucharest (Humania),
and Pan- athinaikos (Greece).
Pity the poor reporters who and their country pitted against the last named one on that list.
The records indicate that 23 clubs who hold their national championships are eligible for this money spinning competition so obviously some of thom are destined to get a free trip into the second round.
What a wonderful achieve- ment it would be if the Spurs could pul the seal on their
treble exploits by
adding the European Cup to the sparkling collection on the sideboard AL White Hart Lanet
A tale-wagger or two? According to the grupo- | vino the familiar name of Au Chi-yin' will be missing from the soccer reports this
EQUION...
Mok Chun-wah on tho, move? Local fans recall with amusement when once bo- fore the winger loft South China, for KMB. Six weeks was enough, Ho couldn't got back fast enough...
Remember fock" Hunter the brilliant contro-half who
made a big hit in the Police side four years ago before going to Tasmania? I had á letter from him the other day and it could be good nows for some club that ha now wishes to return to the Cotony...
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