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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,
1934.
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Opponents Who Were Unlucky Losers: Arsenal Efforts To Land The Double
It is amazing, everything con- sidered, how quiet the prelimin- arles to a cup final can be, writes
a correspondent,
We prepared at Brighton for our Wembley battle with Huddersfield Town. Every effort was made to save our nerves from fraying. The great final battle ahead was seldom
mentioned until our concentrated "Round Table" talk was called.
Up to the last twenty-four hours, I was probably the most worried of the Arsenal team. An ankle injury sustained in the remi-final tle with Hull City had not yielded very quickly to treatment. There was a possibility that I would not be fit.
During our week at Brighton I every morning before was up
my legs in sea breakfast with water, following advice concerning the wonderful healing properties of salt water. The fact that I was was kept as a doubtful starter
quiet as possible, even from my teammates, but the news, sure enough, leaked out.
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Final day at Wembley was, of Course. a great day for Mr. Chap man.. who had beery responsible fof Introducing many of the fam- our players to Huddersfield when he had been manager there.
It was not surprising, therefore. that at our tactical talk most of came the stable information" from "the Boss.”
I remember that roving Alex. -Jackson received special attention, as did Roy Good-all, Tom Wilson, "Aussie" Campbell, Bob Kelly and Billy Smith.
Alex Jackson had a remarkable goal-scoring record in the com- petition up to that point. He had scored nine of the eleven, goals collected by Huddersfield in their cup games against Bury, Shemeid United Bradford City Aston Villa and Sheffield Wednesday. 1.Eddie. Hapgood and Bob John were specially detailed to "trall" Alex. If he showed any inclination for closing in on goal For my part I was given the formidable task of seeing that "Aussie" Camp ben did not form an effective link with the Huddersfield attack. He had a habit of advancing to act the part of a sixth forward.
DRESSING-ROOM SURPRISE.
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second half the Yorkshiremen thrust a dozen dangerous attacks towards our goal. Preedy. Our
was given every young 'keeper, opportunity to win his spurs,
Then come a decisive blow. Again it was Wee Alec who got the Huddersfield fans biting their nails. He pushed down a perfect pass through the middle which gave big-hearted Jack Lambert a clear run through the Hudders- field backs. A shot wide of Turner and we were two goals up.
And so it ended. Not one of the classic matches, perhaps, but s good hard fought affair for all "that.
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Inow had a trio of cup winners' my watch medals to hang chain, and, as it turned out, more football honours were "to come my way in the near future.
LEAGUE RECORDS
The following year we smashed all records in the League competi tion. Look at this for a season's work: Played 42, won 28, drawn 10, lost 4; Goals for 127 Against 59. Points 66.
We literally played like a machine throughout that season. We were all individual links working smoothly together. Our defence was like the Gibraltar Rock The outstanding success
of the attack lay in the fact that we had four goal-scoring forwards and one great initiator -an ideal combination.
was fortunate enough to find my- self with a reasonable opportunity of getting through with an indivi- dual movement. I made no mis- take in snatching that opportunity. and enabling the Arsenal to force a replay.
Naturally, the Villa, though dis- appointed as being robbed of what they thought was their Just de. serts, were very optimistic regard- ing the replay, as they had every right to be.
This was also fought out on a frost-bound
remember pitch. I
taking over the centre-forward position, and Jimmy Brain coming Into my accustomed place at In- side-right. Things seemed to go wrong for both sides-blame the pitch or what you will-and this game can be dismissed in a few words.
"Joe Hulme struck one of those brilliant patches which can be the despair of opposing defences, and had scored a great gool in the first defence to put over a centre which I was able to defect into the net with my head. He follow ed this by darting in to register a third. Altogether a great day for Joe.
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Pongo, Waring did get one compensation, but that was all a sorely-harassed Villa team could
do.
This victory was achieved in such smashing style that we look- ed forward to another successfal cup year. "Alas for our hopes. In the following round Chelsea sur-
Our total of 60 points was six better than the previous beat. We thought that our total of 127 goals was also a record, but Viis, run-prisingly beat ners-up, went one better and their Bridge by two goals to one. 128 still stands.
There was an unusual incident to the last game of the season. The League championship was already ours A huge crowd had turned up to get a view of the League Shield which was to be on view at the end of the game while we were publicly presented with our medals.
My old club, Bolton Wanderers, were our "victims" for this last I was thus match of the season. reunited to a lot of my old friends while I was sharing with the rest of the Arsenal team a great triumph of the football feld.
We certainly let Bolton know that we were champions by beat- Aing them by five goals.
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A surprise awaited us in the dressing-room at Wembley. member of the Arsenal training staff had arrived before us com- plete with a portable gramo- phone and a prodigious selection The live- of "popular" records. llest jazz ditties from the collec- tion were
while played changed. Thus did Mr. Chap- minds man seek to keep our from the ordeal which lay be. fore.
a welcome The King, made appearance on this day of days. health for He had been in bad some time and this was his first an important reappearance at sporting event. Tom Wilson Huddersfield captain and centre half, was another whose appear- ance was delayed unt:1 practically the last minute. Tom had had distinction of unenviable the
for incidents being suspended which occurred in the League game with Derby County. The Discl
of the F.A., plinary Committee
the
Towards the end of the game the referee blew his whistle for an i infringement. The crowd, on their toes to get a good view of the League Shield and presentations, Immediately burst through the barriers.on to the field under the impression that they had heard the final whistle.
Knowing that the game was not at an end we stood our ground and many of us were boisterously handled by our supporters before they were made aware of their mistake. It is not an easy matter to clear thousands of people off a pitch under such conditions but it had to be done.
After that everything went off without a bitch.
SHOCK FOR VILLA We had been travelling along very smoothly and at one part of the senson had high hopes of bringing off the coveted double of however, took an ardently, sympa-winning both cup and League thetic view and arranged that the suspension should end in time for him to take his place in the Cup Final team.
honours, In the third round we were drawn against the Villa at Highbury. It was indeed a sensa
Mist hung about tional day. Highbury all day and the ground was in the tenacious grip of Jack Frost. When we arrived from Brighton half an hour before che kick-off the gates had not been+ opened and a tremendous crowd"
Our play, did not rise to any great heights. I thought Arsenal were the more definite in their tactics. Each man, at least, knew what was expected of him. Fast teethy" tackling on our left de- fensive flank kept Alex. Jackson of would be spectators were hang- and Bob Kelly quiet. The Fluding about the ground waiting for dersneld forward line was not held definite word as to whether or not cleverly the match would be played at all together, strongly or enough to make an impression on our cast-iron defence.
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Alec James drove the first nail in the Huddersfield coffin when a quickly-taken free kick: from Chin Bastin, so quickly taken as bring forth protests from the Huddersfield people found him in position to beat A favourable. "Türner all ends up with a well- directed drive into the corner of the net. A shock for Huddersfield
The treacherous surface nega- tived any benent gained by a home draw and though we were prime favourites general prophecies seemed to well on the way to going wrong, when By Walker and his men gained a two goals lead We managed to reduce the margin by a goal but the Vila were clinging very tenaciously to their advan tage with only a bare minute or two to go and it looked a hopeless
and almost as great & shock for proposition from our point of view, the Alec James fans who thought
Then came tragedy for the Villa. our inside left hadn't a shot!
Huddersfield were bring means a An Arsenal forward movement
beaten Best, though the first goal
is always ahammer blow
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FANCIED THE DOUBLE In the following season we had the inspiration of being cham- plans to urge us on to grester deeds. While we prepared for the strenuous battles ahead wo talked of nothing else but our chance of bringing off what no taam in 'mmo- dern times had accomplished-the double. Our chance had never been brighter. We did not go round shouting the odds about it but at least we felt that there was at least the possibility.
We came
exasperatingly near making modern football history in that we got into the final of the FA Cup and were beaten into second place in the League table by Everton. It was, at one and the same time a great and a dia- appointing season.
CHINESE A. A. GALA
Exhibition By Interporters
A very large crowd of spectators were present at the Chinese Athle tic Association's Bathing Pavilion at North Point last night, when a gala in honour of the selection of two of the Club's members for the forthcoming Interport swimming against Shanghai, was held.
The races were keenly contested and perhaps the best was the 400 Metres exhibition swim by Inter- porters which was won by A. A. de Roza, who received 7 seconds from Lionel Roza Pereira who was nar As regards the League cham-rawly beaten W. T. Campbell who plonship, it was something of a went for a try-out was a "xood tragedy for us that we dropped a few "easy" points at home which, in the ordinary way. would have been "gifts."
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In the Cup competition we were drawn against Darwen at Highbury in the Third Round, I received innumerable letters from Lanca- shire lads who appeared to be "in the know," warning me that if we took the Lancashire Combination club too lightly they would create a sensation. They did! They lost by 11 goals to 1!
third.
The Results
50 Metres Free Style:-1, Kwok Fung Sang: 2. Yeung, Man Kit; 3. Ng Kwan Ping.
200 Metres Handicap for Chil dren:-1, Lau Po Yiu; 2, Chan.Yok Kin: 3. Lao Po Leung,
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75 Metres Medley (Open to Colony): 1, Kwok Chun Hang (8.CA.A.): 3, Chan Chung 3. Chan
Fook (S.C.A.A.); (C.B.C.).
50 Metres Free Style (For Novice Swimmers): 1, Ma Yat Kwong: 2. Yung Fan; 3, Cheung Yat Seng
100 Metres Handleap (For Girls): Wong King Kam; 2, Chan Yuk King: 3. Tse Tuk Kwai.
The star forward of the Darwen at this time was Patsy team Quigley. Patsy and myself were no strangers. We had met many years before at Buncrana, in Ire-1, land, when, in my navy days, I was stationed there, and Patsy held a post as a Civil Servant in the post omce department.
Most of the Darwen team. like Quigley, were in employment in the district, football being only a part-time recreation or employ-
ment.
In beating the "unknowns" by 11 goals to 1 we came in for a lot of criticism from certain quarters. But I can honestly say that this total just mounted, up without our trying in any way. to rub it in.
Forecast For Saturday's Matches
"Left Out's" selection for this Saturday's games are follows:-
Birmingham DERBY Grimsby Leeds U.
Leicester LIVERPOOL PRESTON
FIRST DIVISION
V.
Manchester C.
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Stoke
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Everton
ARSENAL
YZ-DA, VILLA
Plymouth Hudderdeld
Middlebro'
WEDNESDAY
SUNDERLAND TOTTENHAM
V.
7.
Chelsea Wolves Blackburn
W. Brom.
BOLTON BRADFORD BRADFORD Burnley FULHAM
HULL MANCHESTER U, Notts F. OLDHAM PORT VALE Swansea
SECOND DIVISION
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Southampton Norwich
W. Ham
Bradford C.
N'castle, Bury
Harrisley
7.
B'pool Notts. C.
Flymouth
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*THIRD
ACCRINGTON Crewe
Dar'ton G'head
SHEFFIELD U.
DIVISION (NORTH)
Sputhport CHESFIELD
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Aquatic Horse Racing-1, Lo Wal Kuen and Hau Yuen Eing; 2. Lam Yau King and Pang Yuk Pul; 3, Li Kam Bing and Yuen Siu Ching.
400 Metres Free Style (Exhibition by Interporters):—1. A. A. Roza; 2, L. Roza Pereira; 3, W. Campbell.
Searching In Blindfold: 1, Chan Tse Lai: 3. Tae Yuk Kwai; 3, Tam Yuk Chin.
Diving For Plates: 1, Kwok Fung Sang: 2. sol Ping Fan; 3, Lu Kyan Lat.
Water Polo: Interportera best G.A.A by five goals to two.
LEAGUE TENNIS
Civil Service Beat The Army 5 Sets To 3.
The Army Tennis Club enter- tained the Civil Service team on the Valley grounds on Wednesday,
grounds the Sookunpoo
closed. The scores were:-
and W. H Gillow Blackler (Army). ·
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and E. L. E. Shute 6-6.
beat J. A. Bendall and
Fowler 6-2.
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lost to Bendall and Fowler 1-6.
drew with Fisher and Ross 6-6.. R. V. Manley and R. Wood (Army)..
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TRAINING GALLOPS
Particulars Of Yesterday's Tryouts
(BY "MORNING DEW ")
The times "clocked" as the course yesterday will be found below. "It will be seen that Soldier of Germany, Ribble, Copper Idol. High Speed, and Soldier of China all wont very well.
In the Australian class, Racing Heart is doing much so con- firm the good things hitherto written of him. His mile yester- day was on the slow side, but th: last half mile was particularly impressive."
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CRICKET "RECORDS"
(Special Air Hall Service)
London, Aug. 18. This cricket season will probab- ly go down to history for two un- enviable records disputations and injuries.
Here are a few of the leading cricketers of the day who have been kept out of the game for a short or long period:
Hammond, strained back. K. Farnes, strained leg.
"Wimbledon Don Bradman.
throat and strained leg.
G. O Allen, after-effects of ope- ration....
Nichols, internal trouble,
T. Wall; strained leg.
A. F. Kippax; influenza.
4. G. Chipperfield, throat and influeris.
• One cause of the innumerable strains suffered is doubtless the
R. E. B. Wyatt, Injured thumb hardness of the grounds during a
lavery dry summer.
(twice),
Sutcliffe. strained leg. Clark, strained back.
Larwood, foot trouble, Voce, bruised shins and heel.
Another is probably the fact. that cricketera, unlike most other sportsmen, take violent exercise without any physical training.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
FOOTBALL
Glasgow Rangers
Win
London, Sept. &
glamoy Rangers, vent to the Head of the first division of the Football League to-day upon their defeat of
US TENNIS PLAY
HELD UP
More Rain Interference
Forest Hills, Sept. 4 Programs in the United States national singles tennis champion- ship is very slow. To-day's pro- gramma was completely ruined by rain, and it was not possible to play a single match Reuter
BRITISH OPEN
SPALDING
KRO-
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GOLF BALL
Lasts till it's
Lost!
CHAMPIONSHIP ICAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP
OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP TRALIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP
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