THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1931
THE
CUP AGAIN: 32 CLUBS
Arsenal and Cheless, when the teams respectively held the top and bottom peritione in the langue, met at Highbury last month. This picture shows Birkott, the Arsenal left winger, heading at goal.
(Planet News).
WINNOWING STARTERS
FROM NON-STOPPERS
1
LONDONERS TO CHEER WEST
HAM-ARSENAL MATCH
CLUB WHO MAY BE
TO SURVIVE
(By "The Pilgrim").
EXPECTED
Winnowing the starters from the don't think they will survive an- non-stoppers, the English Footballther round. Association Cup goes to the Fourth Round on Saturday when the 32 surviving clubs take the field to decide the participanta In the next oight matches.
Aston Villa meet their bogey team in Sunderland who beat them in the same round last year at Villa Park by three clear goals, and have drawn with them also at the Park In a League match carlier this season.
Arsenal should have little dif ficulty in getting through this round at the expense of Crystal Palace and Huddersfield have a
TO BEAT THE BOOK
(By "Robin")
HOME
Halifax
Arsenal
Huddersfield
AWAY
DRAWS
Newcastle Coventry Derby Bradford C. Plymouth
Chelsea
Stockport
Chester
Jury
Wednesday Liverpool Leicester
Stoke Brighton Birmingham
LEFT IN
TEACHING THE TURKS TO PLAY FOOTBALL
HUMOROUS ANECDOTES RELATED BY
SYDNEY PUDDEFOOT
PLAYERS ARE TREMENDOUSLY KEEN
BUT TOO EXCITABLE ...'
THE STRUGGLE
FIGURES WHICH SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
A USEFUL LEAGUE TABLE
RECORDS GUIDE
The following tabulated league tablo records of all the clubs in the English League and the first division of the Scottish League show their home and away performances up to and 'including yesterday's matches.
ENGLISH LEAGUE.. FIRST DIVISION,
The humours and sometimes trials of teaching the Turks to play Association football as it is under- stood in Britain have been amusingly rerorded by Mr. Sydney Puddefoot, the former West Ham Chesterfield and English international centre forward, who has been Arsenal engaged to train the Galata Serai (Istanbul) Football Derby County.. 25.13 7.5 Luddershold 25 12 94 Club up to "championship" form,
Tottenham
28 18 4 0
1
25
9 8 8 0 7 D
9 0
"The Turks are tremendously "They live some queer rules of Manchester City 25 11 25 13 keen, he anys, "Every Friday their own. Charging is not allow-liddiosbro' (their restday) and Sunday, nearly ed, and yet there is any amount of Blackborn................ all the year round, matches fellow deliberate kicking of one another. West Bromwich. 20 10 7 D 25 10 7 8 each other in the chiof stadium The goalkeeper is not permitted to Portsmouth
28 10 G 10 here from 9 am, until 5 p.m. In be touched when he has the bull. Wednesday the very hottest weather they He may bounce it about up and start at 6 pm, and go on as long down, and no one may go for him. ns it is light. Spectators bring Nevertheless some goalkeepers are their food and it out the whole padded at the shoulders and knee- series.
caps.
A BOUQUET: "Matches begin with the preson- Liverpool
HUFFY REFEREE,
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Homo Away W. D. L.
Total
Goals
P. W. D. L 7 4
W. D. L. F... A... Pt
8 4 0
1 3 4
43
29
8 4 0
5 3 5
48 26
9 3
3 6 3
57 36
8 14
5 3 G
47 *29
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42
2 10
10
46
20 12 4 10
10
46 61
7 3
45 30
32. 29
80 41
51 50
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50 48
7
62 61
40 41
40 42
26 20
24 28
34 36
40 G9
26
27 48
6 C 14
48
6 5 15
5
3
34 72
SECOND DIVISION.
Total
W. D. L
Wolverhampton 25 Sunderland Newcastle Aston Villa Everton Leeds United Birmingham Leicester
"But this keenness makes the players toe oxcitable. There are tation of a bouquet and the club Stoke City always police and an ambulance flag between the teams, hand-Chelsea
on the ground. In the middle of a shakes and club cries' like the Sheffield United match, supposing the referee gives American cries. They sometimes
a penalty or there is some incident, end with players and spectators
a team will auddenly refuse to playoining in a general molce.
any more, walk off the ground and
"Sometimes a player will say to
go to the dressing-room. One has me, 'Mister, I can't pay any more!' Grimsby Lo go and talk them over before or 'Mister, they are calling me an Bolton.. they will come out again. One Arab (this was a rather dark- Port Vale
skinned player).
can never guarantee that a match will end. Sometimes the referee will get offended and refuse to continue.
"Some of the nicknames 'of players I have had to deal with show the style of play that Is liked. There is "Lion," and "Bull," and even one "Hodja" (teacher)-I don't know why the Inst gets his name. Play gets very rough indeed at times.
FIVE MINUTES FOOTBALL:
VALUE OF QUICK BURST
Brentford
"The cleverness and speed of Blackpool Turkish players, however, added Bury... to the English-style teaching I Preston N.E. am giving them, will, I think, Plymouth make them into great players. West Ham They are certainly 300 per cent. Bradford City
Fulham better than when I first saw
Bradford them on the Continent five years)
Burnley ago.
Oldham
"Even in the six months aince IIIull City Jave been training the Galata] Southampton oral Club-once the champion Notts Forest club of Turkey, but, when I came, Notts County right down, dispirited and divided Millwall, I have got it up to the point of Swansea losing by one goal only against the Manchester U.
firat Lincoln present champions in the Jeaguo match we have played.
"HE'S CLEVER!"
(By "Saracen").
"It is extraordinary how keen a leading they are on Recently in talking to
English football. Norwich
queen's Park follow Scottish international about present They
tho ail
League day fotball he n.1 "Every tean, matches in the papers and know cading
Loventry indido forward all the principal players by name. Charlton who has a quick burst to take the
ctill caster task at home to North-Sought in have ung ampton.
Grimsby, who scraped through tho inst round by sneaking in a quiet goal while Clapton Orient Wore playing Ring-o-roses round club they the reforce, moet the defeated in the second round taat year. Plymouth have an advan- tage this season in being drawn
League engagements take a back on their own ground.
The Spurs-Hammers engage-seat of course and there are only. ment at White Hart Lane shoulda-few-in-the-First-and-Second. provide a record gate and some Bonsallonal football. Both teams are capable of producing brilliant if erratic football as I remember thom when they shared points on the samo
ground in the Lengua last season,
Manchester City, the runners-up have a moderate task before them in their visit to Hull. It will be rememberod
Divisions,
With the fixtures as they are, 1 cannot see any change taking place among the leaders of the Southern Section though if Coventry repeat their performance of last week, they will seriously. jeopardise their promotion chancea.
Our Forecast
(By "The Pilgrim”) - Appended is the special Tele- graph forecast of the English and Scottish senior football programmes If Luton win away on Saturday for Saturday. Where
a team is
'He's
ball through in the penalty area and "Their chief defect is that they Bristol Rovers it is better if both of them have this won't shoot. They are all out for Excier qualification. He should also be big exhibition.
he's Luton clever, and strong enough to withstand a beaten six men!' and that sort of Swindon challenge.
[thing."""They are extremely fast; AldershotTM: There are few players who play in out they never take a chance or Crystal Palace this style to-day. The last survivor hoot from a distance. It is still Northampton .. I think is David Jack. One, however, almost impossible for them to kick Brighton who may wear his mantle is Luke, a ball the first time. They have Clapton Orient
Southend to stop it, and then kick. the young Huddersfield inside
Bournemouth and I shall be surprised if he is not tried preparatory to the selection of the team to oppose Scotland.
Jack has been one of the greatest the players of his time and worth every
I think they will have to be re-marked in capitals it is expected to
coat that Everton, the garded as strong contenders also, win, and where no such indication
for they have their good spell tola given, a draw is anticipated. come in my opinion,
holders, had the misfortune to be eclipsed by Spurs recently on the latter'a venue,
Again Derby County entertain the Wolven and again I imagino the Rama will carry off the hon- It was in the third round of the cup last season that the Volves were vanquished by 6-3 at Derby.
ours.
With the remembrance of a 4-1 win over Swansen a few weeks ago at home, Bury will almost welcome the club to their ground on Satur day but form has changed since
tell then, and you never ean However, I have decided to favour the home team again though
..
F. A. CUP. FOURTH ROUND.
Chesterfield I feel, are good for
draw at Millwall nothing better than a Rochdale of all places, but they SPURS can just afford. to case up for a Tranmere brief spell before the final spurt. Workington They always run things fine at ull
PORTSMOUTH Salter Lane and they will pro- ARSENAL bably gain their promotion on the last match as I witnessed them win BINGHAM it two seasons ago.
If Rangers can keep up their smashing form in the Scottish senior Lengue they may yet snatch the laurels from Motherwell who have found difculty lately in test- ing the net.
SPORTING CHATTER BY
"THE PILGRIM"
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM THE VARIOUS CAMPS
AINES, former York City contre BA
forward, want to Sheffield United for £600 primarily as reservo centro and substitute for Dunne' in an emer -geary. Yot United supporters expect him to play as skilfully as Dunne, and ho doesn't got much oncouragement.
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allco of the Danno transfor foo has gone in delayed bonefit awards to Gillespie and Gooney,
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CHEFFIELD United would not be Avorno to making an offer for Ronald Dix, who started the season badly, but la now rocovering his form with Aston Villa Reserves.
CHEFFIELD United supporters will welcome the retura cf George Green in his old position of left half, whero ho won international honours.
DERBY BURY
LEICESTER
V West Ham
V Liverpool
PRESTON
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penny of the £10,000 he Arsenal. First of all he was a con- piete contrast to James, one going up to take a hand in the scoring and the other, lying back to create the opan- inga.
"It is expected that a Turkish | Watford national team will enter for the Newport world cup next year, and I am Torquay match will be against Egypt. Cardiff. being asked to coach it. Its first Gillingham
Bristol City
"But I shall have to teach the forwards not to shout to the opposing goalkeeper, "You're not going to save this!' and when
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THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH).
• Total
Home
Away Goale
P.
W. D. L. W. D. L. W. D. L.
F. A. Fts.
25 16. 6 6 10
11
6 4 4
56 34.
36
21
14 4 6 10
11
4 3 5
46
24
13 5 6 11
1 0
2 4 0
62 29
02 31
25 12 7 6 9
2 2
3 6 4
62 36
23 14.2 7-0
0 1
53 33
81 30
28 12 4 7
31 28
35
28
43 28
40 27
29. 26.
2:3
44
26. 12 4 9
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6 G 18
6.4 3
1
1 10
247
8 14
4 5 3
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4 8 11
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32 58
Total
. Home .Away
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he doesn't save it, go and shake Chesterfield
Stockport hands with him!
Barnsley "When the Turks learn more Walsall
P. 26
23 12 6, 6
W. D. L. 18 2 5 11 0 2
68 7 2 8 4 4 4 24 14 6 4 10 2 0
10 16 3 7 26
1 0 5 2 7 25. 15 2 8 11
9 1 2
W. D. L. W. D. L.
F.
Pts.
20. 38
67 28
84
4 17
49 28
83 110
8 4 4
49
27 20
24 13 20
44
26 11 6 9
41
26 9 8 8
57 54
24 10 4 10
40
20 10 3 10
43 41
26
0 3 11
36 62
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24
8 6 10
49 50
Southport
25
5 12
43 63
York City
24
8
5 11
38
Crewe Alex.
25
8 5 12
42
Chostor
24
8 4 12
2 0 9
56
Carliale
24
7 G 11
1.10
23
42
New Brighton .. 24
2 4
20 48
Rochdale
I S
32
Darlington
30
61
Mansfield
18
Rotherham
23
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Jack possessed every attribute of play MANCHESTER C. the inside forward. His bail
pass was splendid. He collected with Buro touch and brought the bail under control to move forward self-control in the game and know Tranmere
wonderful speed. There
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Wolves
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been players who could give him a and obey the rules better, there is Hall start in a hundred yards' sprint but no doubt that they will form first- Doncaster none who could equal him in getting rate teams. Association, football Barrow
s the one national sport they are Hartlepools really interested in."
off the mark and for the first ten or Aftcen yards.
SCOTTISH FAILING.
ENGLISH LEAGUE
At Huddersfield they Бау that Luke, for ten yards is liko, a streak FIRST DIVISION. NEWCASTLE (3) ▼
West Brom (0) of lightening and this trait alone
will make him outstanding among SECOND DIVISION.
lot of very ordinary inside forwards, BRADFORD C. (7) v Port Vale (0) Manch'str U. (—) ▼ Brentford (-) Scottish authorities and players PLYM'THI (4) Burnley (0) have always had a high admirationi THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH), for Jack. Once on the eve of al
match with England an Anglo in the Scottish alde was asked to describe him and he said. "He is one of un, but he moves atraighter and faster."
I have always thought that the Scottish forward would be a dangerous player if he acquired tho burst of a Jack. Having beaton au opponent, however, ho is inclined in- atantly to slow down as if to give himself time in which to decide what to do next. He does not get away Ta quickly with the ball; indeed ho often in danger of allowing the man; he has beaton to recover, and como again and make a second attempt to tackle.
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THIRD DIVISION (NORTH),
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DONCASTER HALIFAX HARTLEP'LS MANSFIELD Rockdnie
BLACKPOOL, who are still looking Chester
for backs, must regret allewing Laurie Barnett to go to Manchester City with a free transfer, for he is proving an outstanding defender st Maino-road.
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SCOTTISH LEAGUE FIRST DIVISION.
KILMARNOCK Falkirk.
BLACKPOOL have dropped the iden Dof gotting Hall, the Sunderland Airdrie reserve back, because the fee (£3,000) AYR
CELTIC in considered too high.
Cowdenb'th Dundee
•
PRENTFORD players are wanted by HIBERN'NS Dether cluba, Shefeld United and MOTHERW'LL
BOLTON Wanderors wilt shortly be Bolton Wanderers put through trunk Partike
giving a trial to Jamen Winning, on inaldo forward from Canada,
calls to Manager Harry Curtis during 8. Mirren T. Lanark the past wook.
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30 11 1 2 11
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47
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80 81
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28 14
55 38
69 58
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