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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1961.
By
SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT I. M. MacTAVISH
Meet
our quests A SWEDISH FAREWELL
LOVE from Yugoslavia
JEWELLERY
of
This weekend we have the honour to wel-
come the national football team Yugoslavia to our midst.
li is seldom indeed that we enjoy the pleasure of seeing It seems one of the world's greatest sides in action. almost soccer sacrilege that the HKFA has seen fit to field a representative eleven which by any reckon- ing. is no better than a makeshift 'reserve'
The rather against this world class opposition. pitiful revised line-up is even more "reserved' than the original one.
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And men, delectabile pen, waiting...
What did she need with the time?
It was a horrid, precise and completely unnecessary
detail
I won't feminine...
But one bo.
Who had the superbly maniške ability.
To culeylate, sometimes, that the shiing a woman says she doesn't won) is the one thing she does. Brought her a Rolax watch.
Yugoslavs
Дя
hallon footballing 遁 Yugoslavia staked its first real claim to international recogni- tion with a good showing in te 1938 World Cup and since climbed steadily ten it has up the precarious ladder to ating fame with a series of eatstanding post-war achieve- ments.
4.
in
to
1948 they reached the of the Olympic compet- in London and two years
I ter they bit the highspots ring the World Cup in South Agerkes until beaten by Brazil, the losing finalists.
Olympic champions
West Germany,
the winners
..
if the World Cup in 1954, beat the young Yugoslavian side in the quarter-finals and by a strange coincidence the same country also knocked them oui of the 1958 competition and again it was in the quarter- finals
But it was not all a case of disappointment 10T the mid- European footballers.
They gained second place in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and went one better last
year in Rome
men
Through the constantly changing scene of our sporting community there passes an apparent- ly endless parade of personalities.
Many bring us real pleasure derived from the game and, in
add
something to our view of the Swedish decision to and knowledge: others are quickly withdow from the Olympic relegated to the *gone and Games, is reasonable to quickly forgotten" class
assume that such rewards have and finally there is still a third In fact, been esmed by some of the top Scandinavian soccer
Category.
side
tak
Contribution
A well-known councilor of the Hongkong Football Asso- clation made the comment not very long ago that he sup- parted the policy of bringing as many visiting aides to the Colony
possible.
"be cause that is how we learn and how we improve our foot- ball."
These are the sportsmen who | boys, arrive, do the job in hand and, without causing any particular nthusiasm. or rubbing any fenthers the
wrong way, they their leave almost un- notired.
footballers of The visiting the Norrkoping and Gothen- berg clubs of Sweden fit very neally into this final category. They were a very pleasant group of young men and if they were far from inspired pec- formers at least they tried to play their football honestly and with a wholesome regard for the laws of the game,
A pleasure
IL was
04
On this basis the Swedes made only a nominal contribution to
in fact most of our education. their players could have taken a lesson in the finer arts of the of our own game from many Chinese footballers.
Pare 15
THE ROYAL HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
4TH RACE MEETING
Saturday, 25th November and Saturday, 2nd December, 1961.
(To be held under the Rules of The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club)
THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 16 RACES
(There will be 8 races on the 1st-Day and 8 races on the 2nd Day)
The First Bell will be rung at 130 pan. and the First Bace- run at 2.00 pm on both days.
The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will close at 11.45 a.m. on both days.
"
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
No person without an Admission Budge will be admitted. Admission Badges at $25.00 each per day are obtainable only on the written introduction of a Member. Admission Badges may be obtained during office hours from the Cash Sweep Offices of the Club at Prince's Building, Ground Floor (facing Statue Square) 5, D'Aguilar Street; King's Road, North Point and 382, 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.
Admission to the Members' Enclosure can be gained only by the entrance to the Members Stand and upon production of Badges and Brooches, which must be worn throughout the duration of the meeting in such a manner as to be readily identified. Members wishing to proceed to Club Boxes on the 4th and 5th Floors of the Public Stand must do so from the 2nd Floor of the Members Stand, using the lift or stairs.
Apart from the foregoing, Members, their Ladies and Members Guests are not permitted to enter the Public Enclosure and Stand.
NO CHILDREN under the age of seventeen years (Western
heurd of
like Beara, Captovski, Mitic, Vukas, Botek. even Milu- Horvat, Zebec and
in tinovitch while,
the im- numeg such as mediate past, Boskov, Sekularac and Kostic the cable have flashed along lines of the world.
Nowadays Yugoslavian fool- ball is organised on
a national basis with seven regional
pleasure, for the
However, unlike the babbling Standard) will be admitted to the Club's premises during the governing associations
example, to see players accept | Brazilians. domestic affairs of the gaming even the most doubtful de-Young Boys...and even and providing 2,000 entries for
cisions without protest or de- last in of Scandinaviaus they advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 76-2011). the National Cup Competition.
monstration and if their quick did nothing to hinder our pro- bandshake
Bet after a physicalress and for that we say thank . u with an opponent eventually you". wore a bit thin at least it made an acceptable spectacle for the fans on the terracing even if it didn't always immediately con- sole the opponent who had been involved.
Record
Red Star of Belgrade has been the country's most consistently successful side with four league titles in the last six years but Partizan of Belgrade are the present champions.
To give you Mttle back- ground on our illustrious visitors here
part of their recent record.
1860 OLYMPIC GAMES Yugclavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoflavin
Ø VAR
4
Turkey
3 Bulgaria
2 Italy
Won on the toss of a coin) Yugoslavia 3 Denmark
1
I
the
The Yugoslavia line-up la Olympic final was: Vidinie, Rogano- vic, Jusuf, Zanatic. Durkovic, Per- sude. Ankovic, Matus, Galic Knez, Kostic.
Yugoslavia
1958 WORLD CUP
گی
Scotland
OTHER INTERNATIONALS
Yugoslavia
when they crowned their great | Yugoslavia ambitions by winning the coveted Olympic Championship.
One of the most Interesting features to the development of football in Yugoslavia is not merely that the
country has produced a wonderful crop of fie players but that it has also turned out a succession of brilliant coaches who are now scattered over the world.
alt However, football fana gener- ally know more about players than they do about coaches and many the Yugoslavian stars glittering interna- Keen ial reputations. Few followers of the game have not
Lave
it wasn't feminine to know the time -until she had a Rolex
He was different from all the others.
He came out of cloud of admirers win all looked
the same,
With something new,
A Rolex watch
And suddenly it was a better idea jħan auy the
others had had
It was more personal than mink--and very beautifu)·
Ti was more famiglie than cara-eyen though it -
was provision præfekt,
I was completely kira
And she loved it
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buy only from Authorizad Hutülleen Sa
Russia
(July 1860
A lot in fact much too much has been made of the 'amateur' status of the Swedish
players.
Forms
the
old-fashioned
NOTICE
ihe
THE ROYAL HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Programmes and Entry
5th for the
Race In the eyes of the Olymple authorities, their own association Meeting 1961/62 to be held on and in fact their own
Saturday 16th December, 1961, country they are not in fact 'pure'
weather permitting) may be amateurs.
That
is not anbtained at the Secretary's accusation....
it is a statement Office, Alexandra House; the of fact based on the voluntary withdrawal of the Swedish foot- Club House, Happy Valley; bellers from the
last Olympic and the Stables, Shan Kwong Games on the grounds that the Road. Swedish administrators
openly admitted
Entries close at 12 o'clock their
players could not satisfy the Olympic NOON
Tuenday dellnition of an amateur,
December, 1961.
By Order of the Stewards, F. D. ANGUS,
that
Yugoslavia
3 France
Yugoslavia
Paraguay
Yugoslavia
+
West Germany
6 France
4
(July 1990)
2
No doubt the Swedish
Yugoslavia
1 Hungery
Ž
(Oct, 1960)
Yugoslavia
3 England
3
(May 1996)
foot- ballers are not professionals in the sense that British, Spanish or Italian toolballers are pro- fessionals but rewards can be
Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia
5 South Korea
3
[Sept. 1961)
2 Austria
3
(Oct. 1961)
3 South Korea
3
Nov 10811
+
same
AB Japon (Nov. 1961)
And finally here are vital statialics cd Yugoslavian Squiball. The game is governed the Futbalski Sulez Jugoslavije which was founded in 1919 and was aflisted to the international tody in 1923, At present in the country there are 1,426 clubs, 2,879 teams, 800 rofessionals, 64,000 amateurs, 12.000 juniors and 1,416 re gistered referees. The national team's colours are blue shirts. white shorts and red stockings.
With such a magnificent ré- cord our visitors have every right to enter the arena 88. proud top-of-the-bill perfor-
mers.
We still remember the won- derful display by the previous Yugoslavian side which played on the Hongkong Stadium six years ago. The big question now i will the Lattered sort of tcom we are helding tonight be good enough to provide a real Lest for the tourists?
Let us hope cur players rise above themselves and make this a memorable milestone in our football progress.
DOCTOR GETS WRONG 'SYMPTOMS'
Courageous Dr Paul Laven, the famous German sports commentator who in 1936 braved political wrath to say his piece about falr play in sport for men of all creeds and colours, was most impressed by much of what he heard and saw in Hongkong,
I had the pleasure of neveral conversations with the good doctor during the latter part. of his stay and frankly I was surprised at some of the rather distorted Information about⠀⠀ HONGKONG sport which Dr. Laven had collected from various sources. ------ Fortunately on the final day of his stay he had a hurriedly arranged meeting with Mr A. de O. Sales, chairman of the Olympic Committee and Amateur Sports Federation of Hongkong Who was able tu
the miscon correct many othe
which Dr Laven Fathered artist
raises
public
relations' faste and it would serve Hongkong /sport well if those people. Who are esponsible for the itinerary Visitors" from the interna tional sphere were to ensure that they get a bhkhoe to inket the omalais regpörkible for the acmelslation.ppy. Colony
Sylt the responsibility for la
કસ્તાન અને 18
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5th
Mecting.
Lunches will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The gates will open ai f1.80 s.m, on both days,
The price of admission will be $10.00 each per day payable at the Gate Admission Badges will be issued and they must be prominently displayed throughout the Meeting. Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisite fee of $10,00 in order to gain re-admission.
Meals and Refreshinents will be available in the Restaurant.
CASH SWEEPS
Through Cush Sweep Tickets at $32.00 each for both days or $10.00 each per day may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices at Prince's Building, Ground Floor (facing State Square); hours. 5. D'Aguilar Street and 382, Nathan Road, Kowloon, during office
Tickets reserved and available but not paid for by 10.00 a.m. on Friday, 24th November, 1961, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Meetings.
Cash Sweep Tickets at $2.00 each for the last race of this meeting may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices of the Club.
By Order of the Stewards, F. D. Angus, <^** Secretary.
Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th November, 1961.
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