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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1961.
Keio University hockey team off
to good start
DRAW 3-3 WITH HK SELECTION, BEAT COMBINED CIVILIANS 3-2
IRC WIN CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL TOURNAMENT
In the first two matches of their Hongkong and Macão tour the Keio University Hockey Team from Japan drew 3-3 with Hongkong Selection on Saturday and then defeated Com- bined Civilians 3-2 on Sunday.
Both matches were very interesting. I believe this is the first time that a Japanese team has played in the Colony, but if they continue to play as they have so for their visit will be remembered for a long, long time.
They are essentially a young tean, naturally lacking in ex- pertence, but their preparation been very intense. must have
Their pre-match warm-ups and ante-match run-downs must have caused serious thoughts amongst our local players. They give everything they have for the full 70 minutes and are ex- ceptionally clean in their play.
standards with Keto first with- in shooting distance but Mon- teiro blocked Takel's shot. However, Kelo came straight back and Pedruco conceded a shurt corner for obstruction bui this produced no danger. Hong- kong quickly switched to attack and Holmes and Ryan combined to give Paddle a shot but I was just wide.
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The visitors fielded the same Play continued with fast end- team on both days but I under- ¡ to-end exchanges and in the stand we still have to see their 12th minute Kelo took the lead. strongest combination.
Centre-half Yamomoto act Neither the Hongkong Selee-free-hit out to Yanai on the right tion nor the Combined Civilians, wing and the very speedy wing- were at full strength but both ers cut into the circle past goal- teaths acquitted themselves well. keeper Fisher and scored from
The main match of the tour cluse E will of course be next Sunday when All-Hongkong play Kelo and the All Hongkong will be as follows:
They fielded the same team as o the previous day and again displayed excellent team work.
By NUMPERE
Combined Civilians had a Gremlins in a marathon. Inil good chance to regain the lead | which ran to three periods of ex- in the 65th minute when they tra-time and the Ladies' Plate were awarded a penalty-bully went to KGV 'A' whose anal! op- after Dallah had been badly ponents were St Georges. obstructed but Asakawa beat Dallah in the bully.
Once again the Japanese went all out in the closing minutes with practically their whole team up in attack. They forced 8 passage into the circle and Combined Civilians were unable to clear a spinning ball which swerved off first Nery's and ther Felton's stick and finally Oke- wa gained possession and scored from close in to give Kelo their winning goal.
11 was another fine sporting
for encounter and augurs wel! the big match next Sunday.
The teams
Christmas Hockey Festival
Nav Bharat 'A'
vs IRC
The final turned out to be a
2.
fast and furious' encour ter with IRC scoring the winning goal in the last minute: IRC did most of the attacking In the
Nav early stages but Bharat went very close in the fifth minute when a hard re-
COMBINED CIVILIANS: Kadir, verse-stick shot from Farid Felton, Nery, Mr Cash, Singh, Castro, Khan went fist over the bar.
Gardner, The match started In front Carnell, Daliah. Hussain,
¡RC% left-half Razack was Guterres of a large erowd and the Ci-
KĖJO UNIVERSITY: O'Hara.
hurt in the follow-through and vilians' goalkeeper Kadir was layakawa, Asakawa, Okawa, Yamo-
Yana. Sugumura, was off the field for a couple of called on in the first minute to moto Mocoxams.
minutes: save from Karasaki. Kadir was: Takei, Karasaki, Sugimoto.
Just before called on frequently after this
half-time Nav and was in great form. How-
Bharat took the lead when, fol- ever, in the seventh minuts he
Ghafoor lowing a shuft-corner, had no chance with left-half
saved well but could not com- Motoyama's shot from a short j
plete the clearance and Ling corner and Kelo were 1-0 up.
gained. possession and scored.
The second half developed in- with no to a flery encounter quarter given or asked. Santos had a gond chance to put Nav Hockey Fes- Bharat further ahead but shot held at Soo-wide from an easy position.
Then in the 27th minute IRC kunpoo on Boxing Day
awarded a short corner and proved very success were ftal. It started shortly from which Karamdin scored and Dallah Iwo minutes later O.K. after 10 am and kept crowned a good performance by pretty well on schedule scoring from a long corner. throughout.
Winning goal
Four minutes later Combined Civilians
teems with terrific first-time
were back on level The annual tival was ing shot from Guterres after ! Dallah Six minutes later
had made the opening. Hongkong
after they went very line-up Selection
back on level: Shortly were Ryan
when a hard shot obstructed close again
from Carnell hit the post.
terms.
was
Kadir (Prisotit)) Moutetro when going through and from (Recreio), A. Capitule (Macaen- the resultant short-corner Pad- ses, Castro (Recreto). B. Silva die cracked terrific shot inko
Recreio), R. Silva Recreio1; the net. Carnell (KCC), Dallah (IRC), Hyan (RAF)., Gardner Bhural) (Capt), Guterres (Re- crejaj
Reserves;
(Nav
Fisher (RAF), Pe
druen (Recreio). Valoma Mae aensesi. Rahman (IRC), Collaco (Recreio), Hussain (Prisons),
Holmes (Army).
Hongkong Selection vs Keio University
In their first match in Hongkong at King's Park on Saturday the Kelo University after being 1-3 down with only nine minutes left for play, fought back very strong-
Reverse-stick shot
in the 24th minute the Com- forged ahead. bined Civilians Nery
shot hard from a short
IRC were the eventual winners corner and goalkeeper O'Hara saved well but Carnell followed of the tournament beating Nav and netted from close range. Bharat A' 2-1 in a very exciting There was no further score as a Bnal. IRC had a bye in the first balt ended round and reached the final with very
exciting first
Army 'A' and leading by 2-1. with the Combined
Civilians victories
Army 'C'.
Nav Bharat 'A' defeated KCC 'A' in the first round, their own team in the second and Pri- sons in the semi-final.
The second half continued at
over
Five minutes before the inter-
took val Hongkong
the lead Holmes, taking a free hit just outside the circle, saw Ryan wandering away to the left and unmarked, and quickly pushed the ball through for Ryan to beat two defenders and then goal. the same terrific pace with little choose between the two keeper O'Hara with good a re- ta
minute verse-stick shot,
teams and in the 53rd Therr
was no further score Keio were awarded a short-cor- From this before the Interval.
ner for obstruction.
beating Combined On the resumption of play Takei's shot struck Singh on the petition
shart corner Schools in the semi-final and Hongkong were first to attack chest for another through right-winger Ling but which Kelo finally forced into the Army B in the Anal.
three forwards missed his cen- tre and a chance went begging.
The match continued at an extremely fast pace with Kelo doing the majority of the at- facking and it seemed that t would only be a matter of time before they equalised. However, in the 61st minute Hongkong went further ahead. Collaco broke away on the left ly to force a 3-3 draw wing and then slipped the ball
against Hongkong
tion.
inside to Ryan who took it al-
Selec-most to the goal line before send- ing a beautiful reverse-stick shot into the net.
There is no doubt that it was
From then on Kelo really their supreme fitness that saw stepped up the pace and in the them through. Their coaching 68th minute Sugimura accepted from M. Oshima has obviously Yanui's pass and worked his way been very thorough, their only into the circle before passing in- weaknesses being on the back-side for Takei to scure with a stick and on short-corners. Per- hard shut. haps playing against the local sides will help them in this res- фест
To single out any of them for special praise would be eontrary to the fact that they are essentially a team, in fact one of the fastest and keenest teams I have had the pleasure of seeing in a long time.
Experimental side
The Hongkong Selection was essentially an experimental side. Few had played in previous re- presentative games but some will certainly do so in the future.
Pedruco and Monteiro the two full-backs from Recrelo proved themselves just as fast as the op- position and their covering each other under pressure was excellent. Behind them
RAF'S
of
With time running out Keio pulled out all they had and just before the final whistle left- winger Sugimoto put Sugimara through and he scored from a very narrow angle to earn Kelo a throroughly deserved 3-3 draw.
HK SELECTION: Fisher, Pedruco, Monteiro, McCosh, Rahman, Tait, Ling, Paddle, Ryan, Holmes, Col- Jaco
KEIO UNIVERSITY: O'fara, Na- yakawa, Asakawa, Okawa, Yamónotu, Motoyama, Yana Sugimura, Takel, Karavakl, Sugimoto,
2.
Fisher played well and had lit-On tle chance with the ones that went past him. At centre-half Rahman certainly justified his choice, with able support. from McCosh and Tait
Up in the forward ide Holmes worked exceptionally hard but the other Army in- side-forward Paddle had a quiet game apart from scoring onc humdinger from a short corner. Ling
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Combined Civilians
vs Keio University
Sunday at Sookunboo Keio University scored a narrow 3-2 win over Combined Civilians. Once again they came from be- hind after trailing 1-2 at Half-time, with the win- ning goal, coming three minutes from time.
the right wing was not. It was another very fast and
a success being too disinclined | exciting match with the Japanese
to go after the ball but his op-again displaying their fitness.
posite number, Colleco, after a
quiet start, weighing up the op- position was well to the fore. Ryan at centre-forward scored two excellent goals, both", withi the back-stick and this proved to me the essential difference between the two teams. In top class hockey the back-stick is an essential part of the game.
The match opened in front of a large crowd by Hongkong.
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net after a mad scramble on the goal-line, to level the scores.
Army A won the Plate Com-
So IRC won the competition for the first time and just about deserved it.
NAV DHABAT 'A': Rahman, Dil- lon, Y. Khan, McCosk B. Bingh, Dooley, Ang, Hanif, F. Khan, Gard- Der, Santos.
IRC: Ghafoor, Dallah Kitchell, Omar, tahmas Razack, Karamdin O.K. Dallab, AU. Wahab, si
Results
ON THE
BA BALL
with Stan Cullis SOCCER'S NEW DEAL A FLOP? Crowds aren't bigger and
play_isn't better
were raised
by the
The 1961-62 season opened four months ago in an atmosphere of eager
anticipation. Hopes of great improvements abolition of the maximum wage.
Now, as we enter the New Year and the second part of the season, this
seems an appropriate time to make a half-term report.
How is English soccer faring serves might result in a return
of the so to their old standard. in this first season called New Deal? Haye play- ing standards improved as many promised? And has the state of the Football League become any healthier?
I regret that I cannot give | especially favourable answers 10 any of these questions.
At the start of the season, I sala I saw no reason why the new wage structure should re- higher sult in an immediate standard of soccer. I have seen nothing to make me change that view.
Out of form
I don't suggest that the over- all standard has fallen. But one notable feature of the sea- son has been the large number of team changes made by First Division clubs.
of
That seems to indicate a lack of consistency in the form some established players to get a settled Results of matches during Use Managers like
no consolation' team, and it is weekend were:
Representative Matches
for them to have to permutate 3 Kelo University 3
players. Section Combined Civi-
Hans
2. Kalo University 3 MEN'S LEAGUE Third Divisiob
The Ladies' Tournament was Nav Bharat PE &
defeated ECC 'C' by KCC who
won
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FERDINAND
THE HUNTERS
WOOLLY MAMMOTH FOR SUPPER....
THE FLUTTERS
KNOW SOMETHIN'?. THAT FLIPPIN' MASTORMAN'S GOT A LUMP O' CONCRETE
UP HIS SHIRT INSTEAD
OF A HEARTIES
BRICK BRADFORD
YOKA DOKA
AN' THIS TIME WE CAN'T MISS... COP HOLD OʻTHIS ANETRY TO LOOK LIKE A BLONDE AGIO
18 WITH A 39 INCH
BUST
AND LATER.
Combined
Schorls IRC B
STRIKE NOW, NIGEL,
I'VE GOT. HIRA ANCHORED
YOU'VE GO
bad
At the same time, it is policy to keep in the first team lost form players who have
TO- when a few games in the
PUT THE KETTLE ON, JEREMY SUPPER'S AS GOOD
AS READY
One manager has gone so far as to blame the New Deal for the poor form of his play- ers, arguing that the pay re- volution Has Increased first team tension and robbed play- ers of their cool approach, Bul I do not subscribe to that view at all.
In the red
the
Financially, of course; New Deal has only made mat- ters worse for clubs. The aboli- tion of the maximum wage led to a heavy, all-round increase in wages yet clubs have not attracted the bigger crowds that many people forecast, Attendances have
that the drastically League has instigated a national survey into the missing millions. with few It is clear that, exceptions, there will be a vast number of balance sheets in the end of the season. Some clubs be forced out of
even
fallen so Football
may business.
When the unrestricted wage the polley was introduced at end of last season it was ob- vious, that there couldn't ́have been a worse time in the bis- tory of the game for clubs to
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be involved in higher wages and overhead expenses. Un- ilke Italy, we don't have mail- lionaires prepared to subsidise clubs out of their own pockels. It is an unpalatable fact that more and more clubs are hav- ing to seek outside revenue from football pools and the like to balance their budgets. Sup- porters clubs; too, are playing an important part in keeping many clubs out of the red. Neck and neck
What has been the most re- of the first markable feature
season? To my half of the mind, it is the extraordinary close contest for the champion- ship.
No club is running away with
mone the title;
stands clearly as did Spurs above the others
In fact,
a season where
much of last season. I cannot recall there has been such a levelling out of standards among First Division clubs.
the
Spurs have not achieved the consistently high standard of Last season, and it may be that preoccupation with the Euro- pean Cup kas at times affected their League form,
Again, contrary to
many
forecasts, the New Deal has not resulted in a handful of big- name clubs dominating the First Division. For example, it 18 many years since neither Wolves nor Manchester United were strong championship chal lengers by this stage of the
season.
Year's success team
Burnley have stayed longest- at the top of the table, but there have always been rivals in a bandy position to snatch the leadership.
Clubs
are
narrowly divided on points that even at this stage every point remains vital for teams in the lower half of the division.
Dont dooms also
were
have con
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At the end of last season, many people believed that wich were doomed for immediatë relegation from the First Divi slon, Now they founded their critics, and their success is a good lustration of how straightforward, attacking football bring
Simplicity scoring goals with the falnimum of elaboration has so often been the keynote of play by great club sides.
Hopeful sign порет
I have not been impressed by any notable tablical changes so this season, although öne few does occasionally see a clubs adopting
the retreating
deletice polley
We must hope such don't beccire
tactics
a popular trend; they can kill soccer as a spectacle, reducing matches to a battle of dour defences. I am sure the public would not. tolerate this Italien method for very longe
term report of an aphidiatio note. It is perhaps *peral aign for the future that bolt Cambridge soccer fie
University to become
footballers
that the pew
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