PLAY AND PLAYERS.
·UNCERTAINTY GONE CRAZY.
By "Wanderer.
THE
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Uncertainty gone positively tunities should be provided for crazy is the conaonsus of opinion to be played side by side with other In regard to English League foot-winter pastimes. bell just now. The freakish natura
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MUSIC RECITAL.
A. HONGKONG. SINGER,
Mr. Harry Oro's first recital of ancient and modern piano piecos; Jon Tuesday next in the City Hall, promises to be of great interest. Aoyole of Chopin items and a Beethoven sonata figure in the first part of the programme. In There are points which appear the second frieg, Balfour- be Gardiner, Debussy, Borodin and of many of the early season scores to my Association should have been accentuated by the weird brought to the notice of your con- Withol, are represented by typic experience of Manchester City ference in support of the request al examples. In addition Mr. a Portu- this week-end. On Saturday they contained in this letter. In the Ore's composition on defeated Burnley by eight goals to first place, Association football is gueso folk-song should prove vory three and by eight goals to three the most widely played of any attractivo. they lost to Sheffield United on outdoor game in this country.But this is not all. Muscianly Monday..
Exact statistics are not available; relief is to be afforded by a group but approximately there are 20,000 of songs sung by Mrs. R. Sanger. amateur clubs, and three quarters Mrs. Sanger is a member of the American community. Sho has of a million of amateur players; a clear, natural and well-trained and 400 clube which engage pro voice, and her powers are to bo fessional players and 5,000 pro-guaged from the songs she will
Three results of few weeks back are interesting: Sept. 2-Sunderland & Blackburn 2 Sept. 6-Newcastle 6 Notts C. 3 Sept. 9.--Newcastle 1 Blackburn
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Wrexham scored five goals be- fessional, players, under the juris sing by Franz, Robert Schumann EBONY BUTTED CUES
HOCKEY MATCH.
fore their own supporters on diction of the Football Association and Moussorgksy, Altogether Saturday and yet lost two points." "In every congested area of the concert should prove an un- In all, as far as I am able to ascer population, there are numerous alloyed delight. Tickets are at Lain on a quick survey, on thirty clubs, the number apparently being Anderson's. The concert com- occasions already have six goals or limited only by the avialable open mences at 5:30 p.m. more been scored by a single tema, spaces on which play is allowed. a performance which at one time There is scarcely a town, village, or Was regarded as sensational but is considerable hamlet in England now becoming far too commonplace, where an Association football club. Players of Association football is not to be found. It is largely are wondering what is going to played in happen next, so great a disturbance has the relaxation of the offside law made. Generally speaking it is felt that the offside alteration has gone too far. Intended to balance play it has instead, thrown balance in favour of the forwards It is felt that forward play if it has
the
not already done so will degenerate
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ARTILLERY, HEAVILY
BEATEN.
in North and South America, In The Royal Artillery heavy, Asiq, and in Africa. It is not an battery), were heavily defouted to exaggeration to say that wherever the tune of seven goals to one, by civilisation exists there is As-the Hongkong Hockey Club's second team at Sookunpoo, last; sociation football.
The Royal Navy and Royal evening. From the time the teams Marines Football Association, the started to play, it was obvious into all rush and recklessness,
Army Football Association; and the that the Artillery would have to The International Board had twe Royal Air Force Football, Asso-exert themselves to a great extent proposals before them and they ciation are in affiliation with the to win, but the superior form of adopted the more drastle of the two,
Football Association, and the the club told, and later on in the Some of us thought that neither hearty support of the three Services game it practically became a scheme had been properly examineda, given in connection with this matter of scoring one goal after
another. and for that reason the introduc effort.
tion of a forty yards line would
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A well balanced and hard- "The Army point of view is the same as that of the two other Ser-working team, the winners show
have been a more cautious change.vices. There is great anxiety that cd capable control of the ball, and] officers should join with the men in all the players were sure with the
It would have been calculated 10
The time for talk of "repeat" however is not yet. Backs. may yet get over their early difficulties and (as in Scotland where pace has not been such a vital factor) the upheavals ..now being witnessed weekly in English football may not be sustained,
case the offside bogey without un their games, and the game, which stick. T. J. Price, at outside-left, 1 duly upsetting the balance of play, has the largest number of ad-was one of the boat players, and and running the risk of excessive herents in the three Services is overal goals were scored through ly free scoring.
his initiative. D. Lyon, ai centro- that so many of the officers pass with accuracy and judgment, feed- Association, football. The fact forward, distributed his passen into the Army through schools ing his wings to the best effect. A where only Rugby is played is a great disadvantage when they are two sure backsC. L. R. Becher, formidable trio of half-backs", and posted to units, and these the great and J. Wedlake, made up a win- code of football is played. majority, where only the dribbling ning team, whilst A. J. Frank in goal saved some promising "While it would not be true to Shots. describe Association football as exclusively the game of the work very well, C. F. Holland, contro- ing-classes, it is true that hun-forward, often running too far dreds of thousands who come ahead of the other forwards, and within that category play it, and thus weakening the attack.
Tactics count for much aid adaptability may be considered the finest asset a team could have at present. A type of football which succeeds one day may fail miser ably the next. Much of course depends on the centre-half and if he is also the captain so much the better. He will have to come to an early decision in regard to the opporing centre-forward. Is he to act the policeman or follow the old adage "Attack is the best da fence" and leave the task of check- ing the centre-forward to the backs. To lay down a definite policy is hopeless, and neither is it of usa taking the field hoping for the best, trusting to luck and paring no heed to the tactics of your opponents.
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THE FA AND THE AMATEUR.
The soldiers did not combine
the question should be seriously Lucock, centre-half, put in 'some faced whether it is not the duty Bound play, but his work was not of those who have had the advan-sufficiently constructive to get tage of a public school education the attack well away, Beamiss. to louven the game with the public and Harriss at back were any- school atmosphere.
thing but strong, and both made
It is merely stating a fact to a number of mistakes. Horton in say that the public school tradi-goal put in some vigorous if un- tion in sport is the embodiment graceful work, and towards the of the highest ideal of British end continually ran out of goal sportsmanship, and if the public to clear. school boy from merely selfish Price scored first for the Club, motives, or from lack of oppor- and Vallack added a second. Be- tunity to learn the game when at fore the interyal, the same player school, boycotts Association foot-increased the load.
ball when his scholastic career is) Half-time canio, with the scOTO: finished, it is arguable that he fails-Club, 3; Artillery, 0.
On resuming Bolland reduced
in a duty that he owes to the com-the lead, but before the end the Mr. F. J. Wall, the secretary of munity. The greater the public Club brought their score up to seven through Garrod, Lyon,
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the Football Association has ad-school atmosphere in our sports] dressed an interesting letter to the the better for the game, the better Price, and Vallack. Secretary of the Headmasters As for those who play them, and "eer- sociation. He desires sympathetictainly the better for the com- consideration of Association foot-munity, because the best type of ball in a request that it be intre-sportsman makes the best citizen. duced into the Public Schools, a "For these and other considera- very controversial subject.
tions my Association is most an-1 Mr. Wall states that Association | xious to secure, the co-operation, football is the national game and and enlist the sympathies, of the argues that access should be possi-Headmasters' Conference in an en-i ble for all classes. He says inter deavour to introduce the pastime larger seaplanes belonging to alia:
into all public schools that those H.M.S. Hermes attracted consid- who pass through them may learn orable attention this morning, by. to play it as it should be played."carrying out, over the city and "Yours faithfully, barbour, a lengthy sorios of for- mation flights. The machines were aloft for a long time and performed all mannor of forma- tions in line, in somi-circle, ini eschelon and in other formations!
The Football Association is ao- xious to obtain the co-operation of the headmasters in an effort to r introduce Association football to those schools where it has been discontinued, and to bring about its "introduction to those schools where hitherto it has not been played, so that it may be placed on a similar footing to the other great outdoor athletic sports of the country;
"It is singular that Association
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