PLAY AND PLAYERS.
THE NEW OFFSIDE LAW. By "Wanderer.""
THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1925,
HEAVY WEATHER,
BOAT PUTS BACK.
Honvy sons and rough winds are reported by vessels arriving ia port during the wook-end, and] tho .s. Halvard which left you
It would bá Interesting to know enough preoccupied with their own tarday was obliged to return how many local footballers have contemporary cricket and inclined to port after encountering very grasped the significance of the to regard the events of last winter severe weather...
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change in the offside law now that in Australia as already slipping into The British vessels Toucer, it has become an accomplished fact. the realms of oblivion. If England Tyndarous, Phoumponh, Tanda, In future a player needs to have is wise they will be re-organising City of Madrid and Lienshing but two players between him and forces against the renewal of arrived in port, the total number the goal-line when the ball is last hostilites next May when English of British ships now in Harbour played as against three, hitherto, cricket will be on its trial more being fifty out of a total of 85. We also wonder how many clubs, rigorously than ever before. In the The arrivale and departures for the twenty-four hours anding 9 though it is as yet early, are pre- last thirty years we have seen a paring plans to cope with the new lead of ten victories. In Test o'clock this morning wors eleven situation which is bound to arise. matches converted into a deficit of and nine respectively. So far Httle has been said about six: we have lost twelve out of the the effect of the change here, last Afteen games and there is though the feeling appears to be one of agreement with the change on the grounds that there will be less stoppages and more goals will result. These calculations are however based on what happened under the old rule and are opon to question,
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a good deal to support the fear ST. JOHN AMBULANCE recently expressed by a leading authority that if we cannot regain the "Ashes" on our own mitten next season it will be many years before our shattered prestige. ig restored. So, in effect, says a London writer commenting on a At an examination, rocently Are the McCrackens of old likely book just published from the pen hold by Dr. Gawlor, the following members of the Indian Division to play into the hands of the of Mr. M. A. Noble."
Ambulance Mr. Noble was not only the of the St. John opposing forwards by carrying on in the sweet old way? Of course greatest all-rounder that Australia Brigade wore passed as qualified they are not. Whatever may result has yet produced but he was alto render "First Aid to the In from the alteration insofar as goals wonderful captain. In his book jured "M. O. Hoosen, S. M. Rumjahn. A. O Wahab, N. and stoppagos are concerned, one
Neman, Y. A. Wahab, A. Bushir. thing is very certain, and that is
The Surgeon Instructor waS that the game of the future will
Dr. Milward. differ considerably from the game of the past.
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he sets out to tell the story of our last tour and even as a pure narra- tive it, is most absorbing. As one might expect Mr. Noble has a highly-developed critical faculty Theory does not always work out and to this he has given full play In practice, and it is anyhow very throughout and-with-absolute-im- difficult to visualise thus early, what partiality. He considers that a made in the exact result of the change in serious mistake was the rule will be. There are many sending out as many as seventeen' who express confidence that the players and suggests that it is
We are informed by Messrs. new rule will abolish offside -fair to take a player 12,000 miles together, but they are of course to bat but 10 innings or bowl but Ellis and Co., that, according to taking for granted that backs will 120 overs, and when four or five cable advices from Shanghai to- cover each other as in past seasons,
men are in a similar case, the day, the following quotations More likely however is a new appiness of the side must suffer. prevail:-Langkats (combined) formation of the eleven. There Our fielding Mr. Noble says, was Tis. 26: Ewos, Tis. 814 Shanghai will be five full-hacks or in other magnificent and in Hendren, Sand-Dooks. Tle. 8; New Engineeringe, words the half-backs will join the ham and Sutcliffe we had the best Tis: 8; Urientals, Tle. 2.25; and backs and face the five forwards trio of outfielders we have ever Shanghai Cottons, Tls. 50. in a line. This of course will mean sent overseas. As to the bowling that any opponent on a level with Mr. Noble emphasises the absolute the five defenders will be offside truth that it was lack of proper because the only defender between support to Tate that really settled him and the goal-line will be the the issue. Great however as his goalkeeper. If this formation is admiration for Tate he does not adopted and I feel sure there will place him on such a high level as have to be radical changes in foot-he does Sidney Barnes, partly for ball formation, the half-backs will lack of vorsatility, and partly upon not be in a position to follow up the general considerations which the forwards and the two inside make him prefer the spin bowler to forwards may have to drop back.the "seam ́ swerver."
BRITAIN AND THE SHANGHAI SHOOTING.
ENOUGH EVIDENCE
AVAILABLE.
London, August B-Sir Edwin Of Hobbs Stockton, writing in the Times,i Into the old half-back line making and Sutcliffe he speaks with the questions the wisdom of holding a the formation, goalkeeper, five utmost admiration, but with one judicial enquiry into the recent backs, two half-backs. and three qualification as a defensive com- Shanghai troubles and in view of forwards. In team-building under bination he thinks they have never time already elapsed he thinks the new ruling one of the first been equalled but he cannot put there ought to be enough evidence essentials will be a goalkeeper not them in quite the same class as at the Government's disposal to afraid to run out, two very speedy Trumper or Duff or Hayward and enable it to decide on the merits and hard-kicking full-backs, three Maclaren in ability to assert their of the occurrence which started the trouble. An effort should be made fast forwards who can shoot and superiority over the bowlers.
Mr. Noble records his convictions to reach adjustment on the infor- two, Inside forwards who are
He docs not prepared to keep going for the that had we won the toss in two mation available. whole ninety minutes,
of the first three Tests we might imagine the Chinese Government Admittedly this is all theory but well have won the Rubber, and he will be reluctant to clear up matters so too was the one-back game until is most emphatic in saying that without delay so far aa the Shang- McCracken put it into practice. It what luck there was about went hai shooting episode is concerned. may be that there is a far better against us. For instance, in the-Reuter.
way of coping with the new position first innings of the third Test, crested, In fact, the views herein Whysall and A.P.F. Chapman were
set forth are, I suspect, somewhat rapidly making us secure when The Rosta News Agency issues be each was out to a marvellous catch the following-Moscow, July revolutionary. They may
Tobacco entirely wrong. I merely traced a off a splendid hit, and again at 27.-The Leningrad line of thought which perhaps has the very end, it was probably only Trust has despatched the first occurred to many but to which no the call of time which prevented consignment of Soviet cigarettes one within a limited sphere, of A. E. Gilligan and Freeman from to Japan. To which we might observation has yet given voice. knocking off those very necessary add that we suppose this brand
of cigarettes is intended to draw| The clubs who recognise that a 27 runs.
well. now position has been created in the football world and prepare plans to cope with it, should be the clubs to secure a flying start when the football season opens in October.
INTERNATIONAL CRICKET. With Hobbs hard on the heels of .W.G." and a desperate fight pro mised for championship honours, Homo cricketers дте naturally
NO BASEBALL, Jupiter P. stepped into the box against the plural joust arranged to be played on the Happy Valley diamond on Saturday, and con- tinual bla-bla failed to upset his style with the resull that both games had to be cancelled. Eilipino-South China game was also anlled off.
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The journalistio diamond jubi lee of Mr. W. Dallas Rose, who, during his 60 years of newspaper life, has played an important part in Flast-street, notably in connec tion with golfing publications, was celebrated by a luncheon in his honour at the Savoy Hotel recently.
Mr. Ronald McNeill, M.P., who presided, said Mr. Ross possossod what in the journalistic world was the greatest quality of all. He was a Scotsman. (Laughter.) Scotland bad given to England two great gifts — successful journaliste and the Royal gamo of golf. In Mr. Ross, who had become a journalist of golf, both gifts were nobly combined.
Mr. MoNoill then presented to Mr. osa a silver salvar Be memento of his jubiloo.
"I am the only journalist who started bis career in a kilt," said Mr. Dallas Ross.
His first quarrel with his frat offico at Potorboad, he said;-arono out of the fact that he charged fourponce exponses for a whole day's work in the country. (Laughter))
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